[Adopted 3-9-1970 ATM by Art. 20]
A.
The Superintendents of the Sewer, Water, Recreation
and Park, Municipal Light, and Cemetery Departments, the Surveyor
of Highways, the Health Director, the Town Engineer, the Wire Inspector,
the Tree Warden and the Building Commissioner shall constitute a Public
Works Committee for the Town. The Committee shall appoint one of the
members of the Committee to be Chair and may from time to time remove
and replace the individual and appoint someone to act in the individual's
place during that individual's absence. It shall be the Chair's duty
to call and preside at the meetings of the Committee and it shall
file a written report to be included in the Town Report upon the activities,
accomplishments and proposals of the Committee. The Committee shall
from time to time elect or designate a Secretary who shall keep minutes
of the meetings and give notice of all regular and special meetings.
The Committee shall meet at least once each month at a time and place
designated by the Chair.
[Amended 5-2-1989 STM by Art. 6]
B.
It shall be the duty of the Committee:
(1)
To coordinate the work of the several departments
engaged in public works for the purpose of obtaining the most efficient
use of equipment and manpower;
(2)
To devise uniform recordkeeping forms and procedures
with reference to the use of manpower and personnel which will record
the hours worked by each employee, the nature of the work done and
for what department;
(3)
To devise uniform recordkeeping forms designed to
show with respect to each vehicle or piece of equipment its utilization
from day to day in terms of hours, location, project worked on, department
for which used, and also to record mileage, maintenance, repairs,
etc.;
(4)
To devise and implement so far as possible uniform
personnel policies and procedures in all departments;
(5)
To take such steps as may be possible to bring about
pooling and centralized housing, maintenance and repair of vehicles
and equipment;
(6)
To review and implement communication procedures to
the end that citizens' needs and requests may always be known and
attended to promptly;
(7)
To continuously explore opportunities for joint purchasing,
both among the departments engaged in public works and also with other
Town departments;
(8)
To coordinate requests for capital equipment appropriations
and purchases and to develop joint manpower forecasts for planning
and budgeting purposes;
(9)
To make recommendations to appropriate Town officials
respecting the combining or elimination of departments, the transfer
of functions from one department to another or other modifications
in the structure of the Town government which may lead to greater
efficiency or economy in the carrying out of the public works.
