The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-17
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an ordinance providing for the estab
lishment of a board of public works, but
the Common Council laid the matter on
the table for one week because some
of the members wanted to look into the
question. The ordinance in full is as
follows:
Be 1t ordained by the City Council of
Worcester as follows:
Section There is hereby established
a Board of Public Works to consist of
the city engineer the superintendent of
sewers, the street commissioner and
the water commissioner.
The city engineer shall be chairman
of said Board of Public Works. and in
all cases of tie his vote shall count for
two. Said Board of Public Works
shall meet regularly at least as often
as once in each week and shall have
authority to hold hearings upon all
matters within it's jurisdiction, and it
shall be the duty of all heads of de-
partments and subordinates therein to
furnish all information required by
said Board of Public Works. The clerk
of committees shall be clerk of said
Board of Public Works and shall keep
a record of it's proceedings and meet
ings, The members of said Board Of
Public Works and its clerk shall serve
without extra compensation.
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Works shall have the direction, con-
troll, charge. care and superintendent
Of the construction, alteration, extern
sion, maintenance and repair of the
highways, streets. sidewalks, sewers
and drains Of all kinds, street lighting,
of wires municipal signal system, of
street watering, of constructions, ex-
tensions, Improvements maintenance
of and connections with the water
MO
proYements, including all dams, re-
serYoirs and pipe lines, of the collec-
ton of water rates and the determine
ton of-the same under such schedule
OF rates and regulations as the City
council may from time to time adopt;
the control of connections with sewers
and the use thereof and the discharge
INTO the same of wastes and surface
and other waters, under such rules and
regulations as it may from time to
time adopt; the supervision and control
of electric light, railway, telephone and
telegraph wires and poles, and of gas
pipes and Of the erection and removal
thereof; and shall have the general SUI
perViston and direction of the city en-
gineer, the superintendent of sewers,
the superintendent Of lighting streets,
the supervisor of wires, the street COM
missioner, the water commissioner and
IAC NdIel rec ar anu snail nave the
general control Of the purchase of all
materials and supplies, and shall ap-
prove the making Of all contracts in
connection with the works of the city
committee to its charge involving an
expenditure of over one hundred dol
lars, and shall have the power of ini-
tiatiVe as to all the aforesaid matters
and things, and may report to the City
Council or either branch thereof from
time to time, with accompanying petit
tions, orders, DEGREES and resolves re-
lating thereto.
After the annual appropriations are
made in each year, said board shall
nave the entire right in the several de-
partments to eXpend the same upon
each of the aforesaid public works as
IT may vote from time to time, and
shall perform all it's duties, subject to
the charter powers and under the gen
eral direction of the mayor. who shall
have the right to attend all its meet
ings and participate in it's delibera-
tions, but without the power to vote.
Sec. 3. All orders, DEGREES, petitions
and resolves relating to any of the
matters described in section two hereof,
ana for the laying out, locating anew,
disseminating, or making
Speclhc repairs upon any street or
way, shall, upon presentation to the
city Council or either branch thereof.
be Immediately referred to the Board
of Public Works, which shall consider
the same and within four weeks after
such order, decree, petition or resolve
shall have been presented to it, report
upon the same thereof from which such
the branches thereof from which such
reference is made, with such recon-
as it deems wise, and no
decree, order or resolve shall be passed.
or petition granted, without such refer
ence, and when an unfaVorable report
is made thereon by said Board of Pub
lie Works, it shall not be passed.
adopted or granted by the City Coun-
Gil or either branch thereof EXCEPT by
a vote of two-thirds of all the mem
bers of the City Council or either
branch thereof, until the same has been
upon the table in each branch voting
thereon for at least two meetings. Said
Board of Public Works shall prepare
In the first instance all assessments for
street betterments, sewers. sidewalks.
street sprinkling and all other special
OF local assessments required or per-
mitted by law and submit the same to
the proper board for final action.
Section 4. No department of the citv
ana incorporation, co-partnership or
person shall at any time dig I'D. omen
or otherwise Obstruct any street, high
way or sidewalk in the city. or Law
pipes or erect or maintain poles or anv
other structures within the location of
any street, highway or sidewalk with
out the consent of said Board of Pub
lie Works in writing previously OBJ
tanned
Section 5. It shall be the duty of said
Board of Public Works to consider in
Nestigate and study the future extern
sion, development and Improvement Of
all public works under its general
supervision, and to make report there
of from time to time to the CITY Conn
Gil, which reports shall be forthwith
to the proper committees for
action. -''
Section 6. Said Board shall make an.
nually to the City Council in the
month Of December, a detailed renort
of the work done and Of the money ex-
pended during the preceding financial
year, specifying the same in such mn
ness as to give an adequate idea of the
nature and extent of the work ne
formed under its charge, which shan
comprise the reports of the heads Of
the several departments mentioned in
section two hereof now REQUIRED nv
law, together with such general recon-.
mendations as it nay deem wis. -
gether with an estimate of the expense
II recommends IN such detail as To
snow the extent uf work proposed for
the ensuing year, and shall also ON or
before the tenth Gay of Januorv in
each year submit such estimate TO tba
mayor. 'iiS
Section I All ordinances and parts of
ordinances inconsistent herewith are
hereby repealed.
Section 8. This ordinance shall +al,a