5-1.10 City Documents.

   (A)   The Purchasing Agent shall number and print as City Documents copies of the Mayor’s Inaugural or Annual Address, the Department Reports and such other matter as may be ordered to be printed in the form of a city document by the Boston City Council or by the Mayor. The number of copies of each document to be printed shall, unless specified by the Boston City Council, be determined by the Mayor; provided, however, that the minimum shall be 100, of which 50 copies shall be bound in sets of volumes containing all such city documents with an alphabetical index. All city documents and sets of volumes shall be delivered to the City Messenger and distributed in such manner as the Boston City Council may direct. The fee chargeable for any available printed city documents provided by the Boston City Council to persons other than City Departments shall be:

      (1)   Fifty cents for documents measuring 6 inches by 9 inches or less and numbering fewer than 25 pages;

      (2)   One dollar for documents measuring 6 inches by 9 inches or less and numbering between 25 and 100 pages;

      (3)   Two dollars for documents measuring 6 inches by 9 inches or less and numbering more than 100 pages;

      (4)   Two dollars and fifty cents for documents 8½ inches by 11 inches and numbering fewer than 100 pages;

      (5)   Three dollars and fifty cents for documents 8½ inches by 11 inches and numbering more than 100 pages; and

      (6)   Fifteen dollars for a copy of the book entitled “Boston’s Streets” and $15 for a copy of the book entitled “City of Boston, Municipal Register”.

   (B)   The fees shall be collected by the Staff Director or the Librarian of the Boston City Council and used to defray the cost of obtaining printed documents.

   (C)   Special publications shall, from time to time, be printed on the order of the Boston City Council approved by the Mayor to which the provisions of this Section, except as to distribution shall not apply.

(Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 4 § 7; CBC 1975 Ord. T5 § 9; Ord. 1978 c. 3; CBC 1985 5-1.10; Ord. 1990 c. 11; Ord. 1999 c. 1)

5-1.11 Office of Participatory Budgeting.

5-1.11.1 Establishment.

   There shall be within the Finance Cabinet an office, known as the Office of Participatory Budgeting (the “Office”). The Office shall consist of a Director, appointed by the Mayor pursuant to Subsection 5-1.11.3, and an External Oversight Board (the “Board”), appointed by the Mayor pursuant to Subsection 5-1.11.5.

(Ord. 2023 c. 2)