[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.
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:
A. Registered professional engineer;
B. 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
C. 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.
A. 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.
B. 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:
A. 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.
B. Payments of interest on the loans and bonds of the division and all
payments of principal shall follow the usual course of City indebtedness.
C. 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.
A. 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.
B. 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.