Capital Planning Bylaw
- Risks to public safety or health
- Deterioration of Town facilities
- Coordination with other Capital requests
- Requirement of state or federal law or regulation
- Improvement of operating efficiency
- Systematic replacement
- Equitable provision of services and facilities
- Protection and conservation of resource
Each year (60) sixty days prior to the Annual Town Meeting the Capital Planning Committee shall submit the Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) to the Board of Selectmen as the recommended Capital Budget. The Board of Selectmen, in coordination with the Town Administrator shall finalize the Capital Budget and submit it to the Finance Committee for funding recommendation and consideration at a Town Meeting.
No appropriation shall be voted for a capital improvement requested by a department, board or commission unless the proposed capital improvement is considered in the Committee’s report or determined by the Board of Selectmen, upon recommendation of the Town Administrator, to be of an emergency nature.
The Committee may amend, add to, or delete from any Capital Budget recommendation, items previously adopted by the Town, if it finds reasonable cause why such information was not submitted for consideration at the Annual Town Meeting, and must be acted upon before the next Annual Town Meeting. Any such amendment, addition or deletion must be submitted to the Board of Selectmen for its consideration and approval and reported to the next Special Town Meeting for adoption.