Responsibilities

The Mayor shall be responsible to the Council for the following– (a) ensuring that proper arrangements are made for the safekeeping of all Council monies, securities and valuable documents; (b) exercising supervision over the officers of the Council and maintaining efficient checks on officers entrusted with the Council’s money including surprise inspections against the occurrence of fraud, embezzlement or carelessness; (c) exercising general supervision of the work of the Town Administrator, in particular seeing that the cash book and daily abstract are written up daily, and seeing that the monthly accounts are rendered to the Ministry of Local Government within 10 days of the end of month; 148 Town Councils (d) authorizing all expenditure from the votes or funds of the Council subject to such conditions as maybe laid down in writing by the Council; (e) ensuring that the policy of the Council is carried out; (f) ensuring that the work of the Council is carried out without waste. Town