[MC 2002-29 § 17:7-1, December 2, 2002]
A.
The City Council may authorize the Planning Board from time to time
to prepare a program of municipal capital improvement projects projected
over a term of six (6) years, and amendments thereto. Such program
may encompass major projects being currently undertaken or future
projects to be undertaken, with Federal, State, County and other public
funds or under Federal, State or County supervision.
1.
The first year of such program shall, upon adoption by the City Council,
constitute the capital budget of the City as required by N.J.S.A.
40A:4-43 et seq. The program shall classify projects in regard to
the urgency and need for realization, and shall recommend a time sequence
for their implementation. The program may also contain the estimated
cost of each project and indicate probable operating and maintenance
costs, the source and amount of probable revenues, if any, as well
as existing sources of funds or the need for additional sources and
amounts of funds for the implementation and operation of each project.
The program shall, as far as possible, be based on existing information
in the possession of the departments and agencies of the City and
shall take into account public facility needs indicated by the prospective
development shown in the master plan of the City as permitted by other
municipal land use controls.
2.
In preparing the program, the Planning Board shall confer, in a manner
deemed appropriate by the Board, with the Mayor, the Chief Fiscal
Officer, other municipal officials and agencies, and the school Board
or other appropriate Boards or commissions.
3.
Any such program shall include an estimate of the displacement of
persons and establishments caused by each recommended project.
B.
In addition to any of the requirements in subsection A of this section,
whenever the Planning Board is authorized and directed to prepare
a capital improvements program, every municipal department, authority
or agency shall, upon request of the Planning Board, transmit to said
Board a statement of all capital projects proposed to be undertaken
by such City department, authority or agency, during the term of the
program, for study, advice and recommendation by the Planning Board.
[MC 2002-29 § 17:7-2, December 2, 2002]
Whenever the Planning Board has prepared a capital improvement
program pursuant to the above section, it shall recommend such program
to the City Council. The City Council may adopt such program with
any modification approved by affirmative vote of a majority of the
full authorized membership of the City Council and with the reasons
for said modification recorded in the minutes and forwarded to the
Planning Board for review.
[MC 2002-29 § 17:7-3, December 2, 2002]
Any public agency proposing a capital project shall refer the
action to the Planning Board before taking action necessitating the
expenditure of any public funds for the project. The Planning Board
shall have the right to review the location, character or extent of
the project for recommendation in conjunction with the master plan.
The public agency shall not act on the project without the Planning
Board's review and recommendations. The Planning Board shall have
forty-five (45) days from the date of the referral to conduct its
review and make its recommendations. This requirement shall apply
to action by any housing, parking, highway, special district, or other
authority, redevelopment agency, school board of other similar public
agency, State, County or Municipal.
