The Mayor shall prepare an executive organization plan which, consistent with law
and this Charter, sets forth all agencies of the executive branch and assigns authorized
programs, services and activities to each agency.
The plan as proposed by the Mayor shall be filed with the City Council and made public.
The City Council shall study and conduct hearings on the plan and may request the
Mayor to make modifications in it. Sixty (60) business days after the filing of the
plan with the City Council, it shall become effective, with such modifications as
are accepted by the Mayor, unless disapproved by a resolution adopted by a two-thirds
(
2/3
) majority of City Council members serving. All amendments to the plan must originate
with the Mayor and are subject to the same procedure in taking effect.
The plan shall include the office of Mayor, the five departments created by Article 6, and all departments or functions created by Article 7 or continued by section 7-101. However, the plan may not provide for more than thirty-six (36) departments, exclusive
of any department organized under specific statutory authority, unless authority for
a greater number is granted under section 7-104.
The Mayor may not reassign or combine the functions of staff departments, but may,
except as to departments created under Chapters 3, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 13 of this Article,
assign any of the functions of an operating department to a staff department, reassign
the functions of one (1) operating department to another operating department or combine
operating departments.
