Authority
to Manage Town Property and Affairs. The town manager shall have authority
to sell or otherwise dispose of personal property and any real estate
of which the town has possession or title by following the procedures
established in Chapter 30B of the General Laws.
Whenever a town agency to which any land, easement, or other
right or interest in land has been assigned determines that the land,
easement, or other right or interest in land is no longer required
by the agency it shall, forthwith, notify the town manager of such
determination and shall identify, with specificity, the land, easement,
or other right or interest in land which it has deemed to be no longer
needed by the town agency.
The town manager upon receipt of any such determination may
refer the matter to the planning board for a report and recommendation.
If the matter is so referred, the planning board shall, after study
and analysis, file a report containing its recommendations and the
reasons for such recommendations, with the town manager.
Whenever any owned land, easement, or other right or interest
in land is to be sold the town manager shall file a request to authorize
such sale with the town council. The town council may, by a two-thirds
vote, authorize the conveyance of such land, or a portion thereof,
or the abandonment of an easement or other right or interest in the
land. The town council may specify a minimum sum to be paid to the
town for such conveyance or abandonment.
The town manager shall advertise and otherwise give notice of
the offer to convey or abandon the land, easement, or other right
or interest in land in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 30B
of the General Laws and any other provisions of law as may be applicable.
If the town council has specified a minimum amount, the town manager
may, for such amount or any larger amount and on such other terms
and conditions as the town manager may deem to be proper, convey said
land, or part thereof, by deed, or declare such easement, or right,
or other interest, or part thereof, be abandoned.