2005 Minnesota Statutes

     375.49 County coordinator duties; considered department 
  head. 

    Subdivision 1.    County board to prescribe.  (a) The 
 county board shall prescribe the duties of the county 
 coordinator.  

    (b) Insofar as required by the county board, the county 
 coordinator is responsible to the board for the proper 
 administration and management of any assigned duty and for these 
 purposes is considered the head of a department.  

    Subd. 2.    Possible duties and responsibilities.  (a) 
 The county coordinator may be assigned any of the following 
 duties and responsibilities: 

    (1) to manage any or all of the affairs of the county which 
 the county board has authority to control; 

    (2) to examine regularly the books, papers and accounts of 
 each department, office, and agency of the county under the 
 control of the county board and to report to the board the 
 condition in which the county coordinator finds them and other 
 information as the board directs; 

    (3) to submit to the board recommendations concerning the 
 affairs of the county, its future financial needs, and its 
 offices, departments and agencies as the county coordinator 
 considers proper; 

    (4) to see that all orders, resolutions and regulations of 
 the county board are faithfully executed; 

    (5) to initiate and present a proposed annual budget to the 
 county board for its review and consideration; and 

    (6) to serve as clerk of the county board. 

    (c) When a resolution is adopted directing the county 
 coordinator to assume the responsibilities of clerk of the 
 board, the county auditor shall no longer be held responsible 
 for the duties as clerk to the board imposed by section 384.09. 

    Subd. 3.    Except Hennepin County.  This section does 
 not apply to Hennepin County. 

    HIST: 1967 c 585 s 2; 1973 c 542 s 14; 1979 c 198 art 4 s 13; 
 1984 c 629 s 2; 1985 c 109 s 7