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Article 109. Presented by Allen Lee Whitman, Jr.
MOTION: To amend the General By-laws by adding a new
section numbered XXX to read as follows:
PERMANENT BUILDING COMMITTEE
Section 1. The Town shall have a Permanent Building
Committee consisting of five voters of the Town
appointed for terms of three years each, the terms of
no more than two of which shall expire in any one year.
No regular member of the committee shall be a town
officer or town employee.
On or before the first day of May in each year the
Town Manager shall appoint to the committee one or two
members (as the case may be) to serve until April 30 in
the third year thereafter and until his successor is
appointed and qualified. The adoption of this by-law
shall not effect the term of any member of the Permanent
(Approved Building Committee as constituted and existing on the
by effective date of this by-law. Any vacancy in the
Attorney committee shall be filled by appointment by the manager
General, and the member so appointed shall serve for the unexpired
Robert H. term of his predecessor. If any regular member of the
Quinn, committee ceases to be a resident of the Town, or
July 7, accepts any position that would have made him ineligible
1970) for appointment to the committee, he shall forthwith
cease to be a member of the committee. The committee
shall choose its own officers.
The board or committee for which a structure,
recreational facility, or building is being planned or
constructed shall appoint two non-voting representatives
to the committee who shall be entitled to participate
in the activities of the committee only with respect
to the particular project for which they are so appointed
and only for the time during which the committee is
exercising its function with respect to such project.
Section 2. When authorized by the Town, the Permanent
Building Committee shall have general supervision over
the design and construction of public structures,
recreational facilities and building including the
authority to employ professional assistants, to obtain
bids, and to enter into contracts on behalf of the Town
for preparation of plans and specifications, and for the
construction, remodeling, alteration or renovation,
including equipping and furnishing, of buildings and
other structures and recreational facilities. The plans
and specifications for all such construction, equipping
and furnishing shallIn each instance be subject to the
approval of the board or committee for which such
building or recreational facility is being planned or
constructed. The committee may make recommendations
and reports to the Town from time to time and shall
make an annual report of its activities and recommenda-
tions to be published in the Annual Town Report.
12:07 A. M.
Robert Cataldo states that the Board of Selectmen are
opposed to the passage of this article. 12:12 A. M.
Robert V. Whitman states that the Permanent Building
Committee has no objections to the passage of this by-
law amendment. 12:13 A. M.
The main motion, as offered by Allen Lee Whitman, Jr. ,
declared carried by voice vote.
12:14 A. M.