[Amended 4-4-1973 ATM by Art. 83; 4-8-1974 ATM by Art. 70; 5-3-1982 ATM by Art.
48; 3-21-2011 ATM by Art. 29]
The Town shall have a Permanent Building Committee
consisting of seven full members and two associate members, who shall
be registered voters of the Town appointed for terms of three years
each, the terms of no more than three of which shall expire in any
one year. No full or associate member of the Committee shall be a
Town officer or Town employee. The Chairman shall designate an associate
member to sit on the Committee for specific projects, in case of the
absence, inability to act, conflict of interest, or at the request
of a full member. When designated by the Chair to sit on the Committee
for a specific project, the associate member shall have the same voting
rights as a full member.
A. On or before the first day of July in each year the
Town Manager shall appoint to the Committee two full members and one
associate member, or three full members (as the case may be) to serve
until June 30 in the third year thereafter and until his successor
is appointed and qualified. The adoption of this by-law shall not
affect the term of any member of the Permanent Building Committee
as constituted and existing on the effective date of this by-law.
Any vacancy in the Committee shall be filled by appointment by the
manager and the member so appointed shall serve for the unexpired
term of his predecessor. If any regular member of the Committee ceases
to be a resident of the Town, or accepts any position that would have
made him ineligible for appointment to the Committee, he shall forthwith
cease to be a member of the Committee. The Committee shall choose
its own officers.
B. The board or committee for which a structure, recreational
facility, or building is being planned or constructed shall appoint
not more than two representatives to the Committee who shall be entitled
to participate in the activities of the Committee and vote on matters
affecting the particular project for which they are so appointed.
Such appointed members shall be voters of the Town and shall serve
only for the time during which the Committee is exercising its function
with respect to such project. No such appointed member of the Committee
shall be a Town employee.
When authorized by the Town, the Permanent Building
Committee shall have general supervision over the design and construction
of public structures, recreational facilities and buildings including
the authority to employ professional assistants, to obtain bids, and
to enter into contracts on behalf of the Town for preparation of plans
and specifications, and for the construction, remodeling, alteration
or renovation, including equipping and furnishing, of buildings and
other structures and recreational facilities. The plans and specifications
for all such construction, equipping and furnishing shall in each
instance be subject to the approval of the board or committee for
which such building or recreational facility is being planned or constructed.
The Committee may make recommendations and reports to the Town from
time to time and shall make an annual report of its activities and
recommendations to be published in the Annual Town Report.