[Amended 6-3-2014 by Ord.
No. 100-2014]
There shall be a Capital Improvement Commission
consisting of the City Auditor, ex officio, four citizens of the City
to be appointed by the Mayor with City Council confirmation and two
members of the City Council (the President and the Chair of the City
Property Committee).
The citizen members shall be designated in their
initial appointments to serve in the following manner: two for three
years and two for two years. Upon the expiration of the term of office
of an appointed member, his successor shall be appointed in the aforesaid
manner for three years.
[Amended 6-3-2014 by Ord.
No. 100-2014]
The members of the Commission shall annually
choose from their own membership a Chair and a Secretary.
The Commission shall conduct research into capital
improvements, including the replacement of presently owned equipment,
and shall seek to coordinate the establishment of a long-range program,
and for said purposes may engage professional consultants with the
approval of the Mayor and City Council.
The Commission may recommend that an appropriation
for the purpose of creating a stabilization fund as provided for in
MGL c. 40, § 5B, be included in the annual City budget.
No funds appropriated under said section shall be expended without
the recommendation of a majority of said Commission.
All requests for motor vehicles or requests
for capital improvements and equipment by any City department, the
cost of which is estimated to exceed $3,000, shall be submitted by
the Mayor to the Commission, and the Commission shall make a recommendation
as to whether or not the funds shall be expended and such recommendation
shall be made to the Mayor and the City Council. This recommendation
shall not be binding on the Mayor or the City Council.
No member of the Commission shall receive compensation
for his services, but the necessary expenses of the Commission shall
be paid by the City.
Any expenditures for capital improvements or
equipment declared to be in the nature of an emergency by vote of
the City Council, at the request of the Mayor, shall be exempt from
the provisions of this chapter.