[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Hadley 5-22-2006 ATM by Art.
21. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Select Board shall establish and appoint a committee known
as the "Capital Planning Committee." The Committee shall consist of
seven members, which shall be comprised of one member of the Select
Board, one member of the Finance Committee, one member of the School
Committee, one member of the Board of Assessors, one at-large member
representing the townspeople, the Town Treasurer (as a nonvoting member)
and the Town Administrator (as a nonvoting member). Terms for appointment
may be three years.
A.
The Committee
shall study proposed capital projects and public improvements involving
major, nonrecurring tangible assets and projects which involve:
B.
All officers,
department heads, boards, committees, commissions, or agents shall,
by December 1 of each year, give to the Committee, on forms prepared
by it, information concerning all anticipated capital needs and projects
requiring Town Meeting action for the ensuing five years. The Committee
shall evaluate the relative need, impact, timing, and cost of these
proposed expenditures and the effect each will have on the financial
position of the Town. No appropriation shall be voted at a Town Meeting
for a capital improvement requested, excepting non-special-article
School Department capital items which are subject to the provisions
of MGL c. 71, § 34, unless the proposed capital improvement
is considered in the Committee's report or the Committee shall
first have submitted a report to the Select Board explaining the omission.
In the case of emergency capital expenditures, the Committee shall
present an oral report as soon as possible.
A.
It shall
be the duty of the Committee annually to prepare a capital budget
report showing, for each of the five years next following, a list
of those public improvements and nonrecurring major equipment needs
which, in its opinion, represent the most necessary and urgent projects
or purchases to be undertaken by the Town during each such year. The
report shall include the probable costs of each such improvement or
purchase and the Committee's recommendations as to the method
of financing them.
B.
The capital
budget report shall be distributed annually with the copies of the
warrant provided by the Select Board. Additional copies of said report
shall be available in the Town Clerk's office for distribution
to the public. The report shall also be included in the Annual Town
Report.
