There is hereby established authorization to appoint a Municipal Building Commission, whose duties shall be to oversee the construction and/or renovations of all municipal buildings erected under contract by the City of Chicopee. This section shall not apply to school building projects which shall be governed by §
16-112 through §
16-118.
[Amended 4-2-2024 by Ord. No. 24-1]
All municipal buildings constructed for use by the City of Chicopee
or any of its departments or residents as well as any renovations
to existing City-owned buildings or municipal construction projects
where the total contract price totals $5,000,000 or more shall require
the appointment of a Municipal Building Commission formed and empowered
to act under the provisions of this article. Each such municipal project
shall have a separate Municipal Building Commission.
[Amended 10-2-2018 by Ord. No. 18-52]
A. No less than one month prior to the solicitation of request for proposal in connection with a bid for construction of any project requiring a Commission in accordance with §
16-43, the Mayor shall appoint a total of nine members, all of whom shall be subject to confirmation upon the affirmative vote of nine Councilors. The nine members shall be selected as follows:
(1) Seven members shall be selected by the City Council; and
(2) Two members shall be selected by the Mayor.
B. Nothing herein shall prevent a department head, elected or appointed
official or employee of the City from serving on the Commission as
one of the nine members, except that no members of the City Council
shall, during the term of which he/she is elected, hold any other
office in or under City government.
The Commission shall have the power to act from the time of
its appointment and shall cease to exist, or any member shall be removed,
upon one of the following conditions:
A. When the building or project is finally accepted by the City; or
B. Upon a direction or order of the Mayor, who shall then transmit the termination notice to the City Council. The procedure for termination under this section shall be held in accordance with §
16-47 of this article.
A person shall cease to be a member of the Municipal Building Commission upon removing his or her residence from the City of Chicopee or for any of the reasons specified in §
16-46. In the event that a person is to be removed, he or she shall be notified, in writing, by the Mayor and given the reasons for such removal. The person will, upon a request in writing, not later than seven days after receipt of such notice of removal, be given a hearing upon such reasons for removal, said hearing to be held by the City Council within 15 days from the request for said hearing. An affirmative vote of nine shall be required before the removal becomes final.
Each member of the Municipal Building Commission shall, upon
appointment, be given a copy of this article and also a copy of MGL
c. 30A, §§ 11A and 11A 1/2, and MGL c. 39, §§ 23A
and 23B (Open Meetings Law).