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.
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.
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.
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.
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.