[Amended 6-18-1996 by Ord. No. 1996-19; 5-9-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-10; 7-15-2008 by Ord. No. 2008-40; 8-14-2012 by Ord. No. 2012-27; 5-29-2018 by Ord. No. 2018-21; 9-27-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-21; 10-11-2022 by Ord. No. 2022-25]
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall have charge of the construction and maintenance of public buildings and related duties.
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall superintend the construction of all buildings erected by the City and shall perform all repairs, alterations or additions to all City buildings, including all buildings under the jurisdiction of the Board of Assessors, such repairs, alterations and additions to be performed in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this Code and state law.
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall have the care and custody of all City buildings used by the Fire Chief, the Board of Library Trustees, the war veterans or their auxiliaries, and all other City buildings, except where other provision is made by law, and shall keep informed of their condition.
It shall be the duty of the Division of Facilities Maintenance to superintend the construction of all new buildings erected for the use of other departments, but no such new construction shall be started without first obtaining the approval of the appropriate board, commission or department head to the plans and specifications relating to such proposed new building.
No repairs, alterations or additions to any public building in the care or custody of the Division of Facilities Maintenance shall be made without first advertising for competitive bids for the work to be done, as required by the ordinances of the City and as required by MGL c. 30B.[1]
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Editor's Note: See Art. VII, Purchasing and Contracts.
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall employ such architectural and engineering services necessary to perform the duties of the department as requested by the Divisional Director of Facilities Maintenance, the Mayor, the City Council or the School Committee, or by any board or officer in charge of a department of the City government.
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall employ carpenters, custodians, mechanics and subordinates, who shall render such services as may be required in the performance of the duties of the division.
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall keep an accurate record of all buildings belonging to the City which are in its charge and shall annually, on or before the first Monday of February, submit to the City Administrator a written report showing their condition and the nature and amount of expenditures in detail made upon them for the year ending with December 31 preceding. It shall also prepare a statement of the repairs which may be needed upon each building in the next 12 months and the probable cost thereof.
The Mayor shall appoint the Director of City Operations, who shall be responsible for the operation of the Department of City Operations.
The qualifications for the position of the Director of City Operations shall be six years' progressively responsible management experience in state or local government with at least three years' experience in a supervisory or management capacity and at least three years' experience in a municipal public works area, and either:
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Registered professional engineer;
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Bachelor's degree in civil engineering, a natural science, business/public administration, or a closely related field from an accredited institution of higher education; or
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Equivalent qualifications.
The Director of City Operations shall have and exercise all the powers, rights and privileges required and appropriate to the discharge of the duties of administering the Department of City Operations, under the provisions of applicable sections of the state general laws and the ordinances of the City.
The Director of City Operations shall keep an exact account of the receipts and expenditures of the Department of City Operations and each division thereof, and present the account to the Mayor and City Council for their examination at such times as they may request.
The Streets and Highways Division shall have the general care and charge of the public streets and places, highways and lanes, sidewalks and bridges of the City. It shall attend to the construction, grading, amending and alteration thereof, and cause them to be kept in good repair so as to be safe and convenient for travel, and shall see that all nuisances and obstructions therein are forthwith removed, or give notice thereof to the Mayor or Chief of Police. It shall make all necessary arrangements for cleaning the streets, disposing of manure and removing house dirt and offal. It shall have the general care and control of the vehicles and implements appertaining to the service of the division, and shall perform such other services in connection with the streets and ways as may be required of it.
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The Sanitation Division shall collect all residential solid waste and all refuse generally accumulated in the City and shall convey such solid waste to an appropriate disposal area.
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All places used as dumps, disposal sites or solid waste processing facilities for the disposition of such materials as are set out in Subsection A of this section, whether the dumps, sites or facilities shall be on land owned by the City or on private land, shall be under the control of the Sanitation Division. The City landfill and incinerator are specifically included under this subsection. No nuisance by reason of any action of the City shall be permitted to exist in or near any such dump or disposal site.
The Sanitation Division shall be funded solely by revenue generated from fees which shall be collected directly from individuals, corporations, municipalities or other entities which use the City's facilities for the disposal of solid waste. The general fund of the City shall provide money only in an amount consistent with the fee schedule as payment to the division for the disposal of solid waste which is picked up by the Streets and Highways Division. The budget for the Sanitation Division shall be submitted separately from the rest of the department budget.
The fees for solid waste disposal shall be proposed by the Director of City Operations and the Mayor, and shall be subject to City Council approval. The fees shall be adequate to cover all capital, operating and maintenance needs of the division.
The Sanitation Division shall have authority, after approval by the Mayor and City Council as provided by law, to issue revenue bonds for capital projects consistent with its purposes.
Fees shall be collected by the Sanitation Division as provided in § 62-6.
The receipts paid into the treasury from fees charged by the Sanitation Division shall be appropriated as follows:
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Specific sums shall be appropriated by the City Council for the necessary repairs and improvements to the solid waste disposal facilities, and for operating and managing expenses, and for payment of all agents of the division.
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Payments of interest on the loans and bonds of the division and all payments of principal shall follow the usual course of City indebtedness.
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The balance, if any, after the requirements in Subsections A and B of this section are met, shall be maintained as surplus in the division fund to the extent that it does not exceed 25% of the total division budget. Any surplus in excess of 25% of the budget shall be used to reduce the fees charged for waste disposal.
The Director of City Operations shall post signs at all dumps, notifying the public that dumping of combustible material in or around the dumps is not allowed. Dumping of such combustible material in violation of this section shall be punishable in accordance with the provisions of § 1-15 of the City Code.
The Director of City Operations may make agreements with the owners thereof for the use of private property as dumps. All such agreements shall be in writing and shall not be valid until approved and countersigned by the Mayor. Each such agreement shall state that the owner allows the City to direct and control the dump in consideration of the benefit received from the filling in of his land.
The Division of Facilities Maintenance shall employ custodians, painters, plumbers, pipefitters and subordinates, who shall render such services as may be required in the performance of the duties of the division.
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The Division of Engineering shall perform such services as properly come under the care of a surveyor and civil engineer. It shall be charged with the superintendence of the construction of all bridges, structures and public works, under the general control and direction of the Director of Community Maintenance or of the division or department having charge of such construction, and shall prepare all plans and specifications for such structures and works. The division shall also make all surveys and plans relative to the laying out, widening, altering or grading of streets, and shall also make all surveys, estimates and descriptions required by the Mayor or the City Council.
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The City Engineer shall provide professional civil engineering advice and assistance to other municipal departments as requested and approved by the Director of Community Maintenance.