Mendocino County Municipal Code Ch. 2.56 Department of Transportation

There is hereby created in the County of Mendocino a County Department of Transportation.

(Ord. No. 664, adopted 1970; Ord. No. 3980, adopted 1997; Ord. No. 3999, adopted 1998.)

(A) The executive officer of the department shall be the Director of Transportation. The Director of Transportation shall be the ex-officio County Engineer-Surveyor, Road Commissioner, and ex-officio Hydraulics Engineer for the Mendocino County Flood Control and Water Conservation District.

(B) The Director of Transportation, hereinafter referred to as Director:

(1) Shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure and will of the County Chief Executive Officer, and shall perform those duties and responsibilities assigned by the Board of Supervisors acting through the County Chief Executive Officer;

(2) Shall be registered as a civil engineer in the State and shall have such other qualifications as may be established by the Board of Supervisors;

(3) Shall have sole supervision and jurisdiction over personnel and over the assignments of personnel engaged in department work;

(4) May purchase, lease, or hire such persons and equipment as may be necessary to perform the functions of the department, in conformity with the budget and policies of the County with respect to purchase and rentals and subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors as to price or rental costs;

(5) Shall report directly to the County Chief Executive Officer in all administrative matters other than those falling under the jurisdiction of the Road Commissioner and the County Surveyor.

(Ord. No. 664, adopted 1970; Ord. No. 3980, adopted 1997; Ord. No. 3999, adopted 1998; Ord. No. 4084 § 1, adopted 2002; Ord. No. 4154, adopted 2005.)

The Director's duties shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(A) Shall assume all of the duties and responsibilities of the abolished office of Road Commissioner and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed by State law and ordinances and directives of the Board of Supervisors.

(1) Direction and control over all work on construction, maintenance, and repair of roads, their appurtenant structures, highways, tunnels, viaducts, conduits, subways, and the bridges in the County road system, or otherwise in the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors;

(2) Control and management of all County-owned or leased vehicles and equipment, purchased or leased from highway users' tax moneys, rock quarries and gravel pits, stores and maintenance shops, and all other materials, property, and instrumentalities necessary for and directly connected with the construction, maintenance, and repair of roads and their appurtenant structures, highways, tunnels, viaducts, conduits, subways, and bridges in the County road system, or otherwise as within the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors;

(3) Preparing a tentative road budget covering all proposed expenditures for the ensuing fiscal year for County road purposes pursuant to the provisions of State law;

(4) Make inspections of County highways and report to the Sheriff and the Health Officer any unauthorized dumping or any other violation of the Mendocino County waste disposal ordinance.

(B) May act as the County Surveyor and perform such duties as prescribed by State law and ordinance. Should the Director not have registration as a registered civil engineer or licensed land surveyor, the duties of County Surveyor shall be performed by a licensed land surveyor or registered civil engineer acting under the authority of the Director.

(C) Business Management.

(1) Providing appropriate, cost revenue, and related accounting services and reports for fiscal control and management purposes for the department;

(2) Compiling and integrating budget requests of the department divisions;

(3) Maintaining and inventorying of capital property of the department;

(4) Providing data for budgetary control for the department;

(5) Making studies and reports pertaining to organization, procedures, and administrative matters of the department;

(6) Keeping payroll and personnel records of all department employees in accordance with the provisions of State law, County civil service, and the personnel ordinances. The Board of Supervisors, upon the recommendation of the County Administrator, may provide for the consolidation, segregation, addition, or deletion of operating divisions.

(Ord. No. 664, adopted 1970; Ord. No. 3980, adopted 1997.)

The department shall be organized into such operating divisions as are necessary to carry out the functions of the department. The Director shall have the power to assign and reassign duties and powers to heads of divisions, officers, and employees in accordance with the provisions of State law, the County civil service, and the personnel ordinances. The Board of Supervisors, upon the recommendation of the County Administrator, may provide for the consolidation, segregation, addition, or deletion of operating divisions.

(Ord. No. 664, adopted 1970; Ord. No. 3980, adopted 1997.)

The Director shall also have responsibility for:

(A) Maintenance and operation of all County airports;

(B) Operation of the County Solid Waste Division.

(Ord. No. 664, adopted 1970; Ord. No. 3980, adopted 1997; Ord. No. 4084 § 2, adopted 2002.)

If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this Chapter is held by a court to be invalid or unconstitutional such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of the remaining portions of this Chapter, it being herein expressly declared that the Board would have passed the ordinance codified in this Chapter irrespective of the invalidity of the provision held to be unconstitutional or invalid. Such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall therefore not affect the remaining provisions of this Chapter, and to that end the provisions of this Chapter are severable.

(Ord. No. 664, adopted 1970; Ord. No. 3980, adopted 1997.)