[HISTORY: Adopted by the Municipal Council of the City of
Taunton as Rev. Ords. 1964, §§ 2-21 to 2-23 (Ch. 2,
Art. II, of the 2010 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Municipal Council Rules and Orders — See Ch. A501.
[Added 11-30-1982]
Whenever a hearing before the Municipal Council has been scheduled
and a party to such hearing intends to request a postponement of the
same, the party seeking such postponement shall, at his cost, immediately
notify all parties in interest, including, in appropriate cases, abutters,
and shall when requesting such postponement present written evidence
of said notice. The Municipal Council, in determining whether or not
to grant such postponement, shall take into consideration the inconvenience
to abutters and other parties in interest, whether or not said other
parties and abutters were notified in advance, as well as other matters
of fairness and due process. Compliance with the notice requirements
of this section shall not entitle anyone to a continuance, nor shall
the failure of compliance with this section preclude the Council in
its discretion from granting a continuance if the Council finds that
the request is reasonable.
A.
Duties generally.
The Committee on Public Property shall have the care and supervision
of all schoolhouses, public buildings and other property of the City,
and of the erection, alteration and repair thereof, except as otherwise
provided, and subject to such rules, orders and regulations as the
Municipal Council shall adopt. The amount of expenditures for the
foregoing purposes in any one year shall not exceed the appropriations
made therefor by the Municipal Council, and no expenditure in excess
of the appropriation shall be made in reference thereto unless the
same is considered in Committee and agreed to by a major part thereof,
excepting in case of emergency when necessary repairs may be made
by the Superintendent of Public Buildings, who shall forthwith report
to the Committee the nature and extent of such repairs with such other
information as the Committee may require.
[Amended 5-23-2000]
B.
Records;
schedule of property. The Committee on Public Property shall cause
to be kept in a book furnished by the City complete records of its
doings. This book shall also contain a schedule of the several parcels
of real property in charge of the Committee with a brief description
thereof and of all leasehold interest of the City, if any.
C.
Permitting
use of City buildings. The Committee on Public Property may permit
the use of the City buildings whenever the same does not interfere
with their public uses, but no such use of any schoolhouses shall
be permitted without the consent of the School Committee.
[Added 2-18-1986]
Other than as may otherwise be mandated for by general laws
of the commonwealth, no real estate owned by or in which the City
of Taunton claims an interest may be sold, conveyed, gifted, disposed
of, leased or otherwise encumbered without approval of the Municipal
Council after recommendation of the Council's Public Property Committee
and the Mayor.[1]
All properties leased or rented by the City of Taunton or any
of its agencies, departments, commissions, boards, and committees
shall be accessible to the handicapped and shall comply with the provisions
of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
