[Adopted 7-2-2001 (Title 2, Ch. 2.96, of the 1986 Code)]
A. 
There shall be established in the City a committee to be known as the "Capital Improvement Planning Committee," hereinafter the "Committee."
B. 
The Committee shall be composed of five members, one of whom shall be the President of the City Council or his/her designee; one of whom shall be the Planning Director or his/her designee; one of whom shall be the Commissioner of the Community Development Department or his/her designee; one of whom shall be a member of the City Council Finance Committee or his/her designee; and one of whom shall be the Superintendent of Schools or his/her designee. The City Auditor and the Chief Financial Officer or their designees shall be ex officio Committee staff members without a right of vote. The Committee shall choose its own Chairman.
A. 
The Committee shall study proposed capital projects and improvements involving major nonrecurring tangible assets and projects which:
(1) 
Are purchased or undertaken at intervals of not less than five years;
(2) 
Have a useful life of at least five years; and
(3) 
Cost over $10,000.
B. 
All department heads, boards, commissions and committees, including the Mayor and the School Committee, shall by March 1 of each year give the Committee, on a form prepared by it, information concerning all anticipated projects requiring City Council action during the ensuing six years.
C. 
The Committee shall consider the relative need, impact, timing and cost of these expenditures and the effect each will have on the financial position of the City. No appropriation shall be voted for a capital improvement unless the proposed capital improvement is considered in the Committee's report, or the Committee shall first have submitted a report to the Mayor and the City Council explaining the omission.
A. 
The Committee shall prepare an annual report recommending a capital improvement budget for the next fiscal year and a capital improvement program including recommended capital improvements for the following five fiscal years. The report shall be submitted to the Mayor for his consideration and approval. The Mayor shall submit the capital budget to the City Council for approval.
B. 
Such capital improvement program, after its approval, shall permit the expenditure on projects included therein of sums from departmental budgets for survey, architectural or engineering advice, options or appraisals; but no such expenditure shall be incurred on projects which have not been so approved by the City Council through the appropriation of sums in the current year or in prior years, or for preliminary planning for projects to be undertaken more than five years in the future.
C. 
The Committee's report and the Mayor's recommended capital budget shall be filed with the City Clerk as a public record.