STATE OF CONNECTICUT
TOWN OF GREENWICH
A regular Representative Town Meeting of the Town of Greenwich will be held in the Moderator’s Hall of Central Middle School on Monday June 9, 2003 at 7:00 P.M. (E.D.T.) for the following purposes:
1. To consider and act upon the following resolution, postponed from the March 2003 meeting.
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
2. To consider and act upon the following resolution, postponed from the April 2003 meeting.
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
3. To consider and act upon the following resolution, postponed from the April 2003 meeting.
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
4. To consider and act upon the following proposal for home rule action requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Sec. 21. Annual Budget [reports]s and Operations Plans.
(a) By Departments, Divisions and Officers. The head[s] of [all] each department department[s, officers or] and division[s] under the supervision and control of the Board of Education, the Board of Health, the Board of Social Services, [and] the Board of Estimate and Taxation and the First Selectman and all other officers and boards of the Town shall annually prepare and submit to their supervising authority [such boards, respectively,] a proposed budget report and an operations plan presenting the proposed financial and operational plans [of such departments, officers or divisions] for the ensuing fiscal year[, including detailed estimates]. The proposed budgets shall be presented at such time, in such form and with such content as shall be prescribed by the Board of Estimate and Taxation and shall contain such additional information as is requested by the First Selectman or the Board of Estimate and Taxation. Such proposed budgets shall include a detailed estimate of the amount of money which will be required to meet the obligations of the Town [in] for for such board,such board, department[s], office[rs] or division[s or office and] to provide for for [their] its expenses for the ensuing fiscal year, shall list capital requests separately from operating expenses and shall identify capital items that are anticipated to be requested within at least the next five fiscal years but are not being requested at the present time. The operations plans shall set forth in such form as shall be prescribed by the First Selectman, a concise and comprehensive report of the administrative activities of the board, department, division or office showing services, activities and work accomplished during the current year and to be accomplished in the ensuing fiscal year. Such operations plans shall contain a table of organization for the agency preparing it and shall list any changes in personnel proposed in the budget request for the ensuing fiscal year. [The heads of all departments under the supervision and control of the First Selectman shall annually prepare the submit such reports to the First Selectman for review and revision by him. Such budget reports shall be made at the time and in the form prescribed by the Board of Estimate and Taxation.]
(b) Review and Revision by First Selectman. Upon completion of their review, and at such time as shall be prescribed by the First Selectman, such boards, departments, divisions and officers of the Town, shall submit such proposed budgets and operations plans to the First Selectman. The First Selectman shall review all proposed budgets received and shall make such revisions and modifications in such proposed budgets as the First Selectman deems necessary or appropriate, except for the operations budget submitted by the Board of Education, and, unless requested by the Board of Estimate and Taxation, except with respect to fixed charges as proposed by the Board of Estimate and Taxation. The First Selectman shall review all operations plans received and shall make such revisions and modifications in such operations plans as the First Selectman deems necessary or appropriate, except for those submitted by the Board of Education and the Board of Estimate and Taxation and, with respect to those plans submitted by departments, boards or officers not under the supervision and control of the First Selectman, only after consultation with such department, board or officer affected. Revisions and modifications to such proposed budgets or operations plans by the First Selectman shall not be such as to prevent any Town officer or board from performing or exercising any power, duty or obligation specified or mandated by Town Charter or state statute. In connection with such reviews, the First Selectman shall (1) develop goals and objectives and establish priorities for spending for the ensuing fiscal year; (2) establish priorities with respect to recommended capital spending for all Town agencies; and (3) develop a long range capital spending plan.
[(b)] [c] Submission to the Board of Estimate. On or before December 1 in each year, or at such other time as the Board of Estimate and Taxation shall prescribe, the First Selectman, for and on behalf of said boards, departments, divisions and offices [and the Board of Selectmen, the Board of Education, the Board of Health, the Board of Social Services, and all other officers and boards of the Town,] and the Board of Education, shall [prepare and] submit to the Board of Estimate and Taxation [a budget report] such proposed budgets, as revised, with such comments as are appropriate, presenting [their] the proposed financial plans for [the] said boards, departments [under their supervision and control], divisions and offices for the ensuing fiscal year, including detailed estimates of the amount of money which [the Town] will [require] be required to [meet its obligations in such departments and] provide for [the] anticipated operating and capital expenses [of such departments] for the ensuing fiscal year[; provided, for good cause shown, the Board of Estimate and Taxation may extend the above submission date for the Board of Education for a period not to exceed thirty days. Such budget report shall be made in the form prescribed by the Board of Estimate and Taxation].. Such proposed budgets shall be in such form as the Board of Estimate and Taxation shall prescribe. Nothing in this section shall be construed as preventing any board or officer from submitting a request for addition to, or reinstatement of, any item omitted from, or deleted from its budget directly to the Board of Estimate and Taxation in accordance with procedures prescribed by said board.
[(c)](d) Publication of Estimates. The Board of Estimate and Taxation shall, on or before April 10 in each year, cause to be published in a newspaper published in the Town, a summary of such estimates.
(S.A. 347 § 13, 1921; as amended by S.A. 343 § 2, 1937; S.A. 444 § 16, 1939; S.A. 172 § 3, 1953; S.A. 71 § 8, 1955; RTM, 5/8/61; RTM, 1/8/62, 3/13/72; Char. Rev. 11/4/75, eff. 1/1/78; RTM, 10/14/80.)
On or before December 1 in each year, or at such other time as the Board of Estimate shall prescribe, the Commission shall prepare and submit [to the Board of Estimate and Taxation] a budget request presenting its requirements for the ensuing fiscal year in accordance with Section 21. [Such budget request shall be made in the form prescribed by the Board of Estimate and Taxation.] The Commission may accept gifts for its purposes, but all of its expenditures, exclusive of such gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for its purposes. (S.A. 469 § 9, 1951; as amended by RTM, 1/8/62.)
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The foregoing proposal for home rule action requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the entire membership of the Representative Town Meeting and approval at a referendum.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
5. To consider and act upon the following proposal for home rule action requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen .
Sec. 217. First Selectman[; power and duties] and Board of Selectmen.
(a) Departments and offices under supervision and control of First Selectman. All administrative functions relative to police, fire, highways, sewers and other public works, building inspection, parks, recreation, law, personnel and human resources, fleet management and purchasing for such [purposes] functions, shall be divided, under the supervision and control of the First Selectman, among administrative departments which shall include [the Department of] Police, Fire, Public Works, Parks and Recreation, Law, Human Resources and Fleet Maintenance. The First Selectman shall have supervision and control, and shall be responsible for the administration, of all the affairs of the Town in respect to such departments, and may fix and determine the internal organization of such departments, the number and kinds of offices and positions, the methods of procedure and, subject to appropriation as otherwise provided by law, the rates of compensation.
(c) Board of Selectmen. The two selectmen other than the First Selectman who are elected as provided in this Charter shall, together with the First Selectman, constitute the board of selectmen. The First Selectman shall chair the board of selectmen. The First Selectman shall hold at least one meeting each month with the other selectmen for the purpose of keeping them generally informed of the business of the town. Upon five days’ written notice to the First Selectman, either of the two selectmen may place an item on the agenda of a meeting, which item shall be germane to the duties and responsibilities of the board of selectmen. Minutes of such meetings shall be taken and made available for public inspection. The First Selectman shall designate one of the other selectmen to act in [his] the place and stead of the First Selectman during [his] the absence or disability of the First Selectman. Such selectman when so acting shall have all of the powers and duties of the First Selectman.
[(c)] [d] Compensation of First Selectman and selectmen. The First Selectman shall be paid a salary appropriate for the chief executive officer and town agent, and the other two selectmen shall be paid salaries commensurate with their duties and responsibilities, but the salary of each of the two selectmen shall be no less than ten percent of the salary of the First Selectman, subject to the approval of appropriations by the Representative Town Meeting pursuant to Section 23 of the Charter. Provision for such salaries shall be included in the budget report submitted annually by the First Selectman to the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
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The foregoing proposal for home rule action requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the entire membership of the Representative Town Meeting and approval at a referendum.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
6. To consider and act upon the following proposal for home rule action requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen.
Sec. 38. Elective officers; terms.
(a) There shall be an election in the Town of Greenwich on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in odd-numbered years. At each such election[s only] the following officers shall be elected: members of the Representative Town Meeting, [a First Selectman, two (2) Selectmen,] five (5) members of the Board of [Tax Review] Assessment Appeals, a Tax Collector, a Town Clerk, seven (7) Constables, twelve (12) members of the Board of Estimate and Taxation and members of the Board of Education. At the election scheduled in November of 2005 and at the election scheduled for each four years thereafter, there shall be elected a First Selectman and two (2) Selectmen.
(b) The First Selectman and the Selectmen shall hold office for four (4) years from the first day of December following their election and until their successors shall be elected and shall have qualified. All other officers elected under the provisions of this act shall hold office for two (2) years from January 1 following their election and until their successors shall be elected and shall have qualified, except members of the Board of Education, whose terms shall be as prescribed by law and who shall serve until their successors shall be elected and shall have qualified [and except the First Selectman and Selectmen who shall hold office for two (2) years from the first day of December following their election and until their successors shall be elected and shall have qualified. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the terms of office of the First Selectman and Selectmen elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1977 shall commence January 1, 1978 and shall expire November 30, 1979, or at such later date as the successors shall be elected and shall have qualified].
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The foregoing proposal for home rule action requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the entire membership of the Representative Town Meeting and approval at a referendum.
(S.A. 444 § 5, 1939; as amended by S.A. 235 § 1, 1947; RTM, 6/13/1966.) (Char. Rev. 11/4/1975, eff. 11/8/1977; as amended by RTM, 5/11/1992; RTM, 6/14/1993.)
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Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
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7. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
EDMOND A. KAVOUNAS
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
8. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
RICHARD MAITLAND
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
9. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
MARTIN KAGAN
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
10. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
GREG ALTZNAUER
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
11. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
JOHN R. CONTE
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committe
12. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
JAY M. HAVERSON
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
13. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
Sec. 2. Membership; qualification.
(a) The Board of Estimate and Taxation shall consist of twelve (12) electors nominated and elected at large. Members shall be sworn, and shall hold office for two (2) years from January 1 following their election and until their successors shall be elected and shall have qualified.
(b) They shall be taxpayers, shall hold no other elective office in the Town government, and shall serve without pay.
(c) Members of the Board of Selectmen shall be ex-officio members, without vote, of the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
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The foregoing proposal for home rule action requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the entire membership of the Representative Town Meeting and approval at a referendum.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
14. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen.
Sec. 7-25. Pets.
No owners, keeper or person having charge of a dog or other animal shall permit or allow or be responsible for permitting or allowing such dog or animal to run loose or roam at large at any time upon any park, with the exception of off-leash dog park areas as designated by the Director, or to injure, chase, harass or otherwise disturb any person or any species of wildlife. Nothing herein shall prevent the Director from prohibiting dogs or other animals from specific parks, recreational places or facilities, buildings or structures or any part thereof.
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Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
15. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
16. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Fleet Director and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
380-51100 Payments for Overtime Services $30,000
Referred to Public Works Committee
17. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Fire Chief and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Z 206-59120-23051 Automotive - Haz Mat/Command Post $107,000
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
18. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Fire Chief and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Z 206-59120-23050 Automotive – Pierce Pumper $21,000
Referred to Town Services Committee
19. To consider and act upon the following proposal for home rule action requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen and the Board of Estimate and Taxation .
Sec. 125. Determination of allotments; notice; amounts.
(a) All allotments by the Board of Estimate and Taxation from funds appropriated for the acquisition of improvements of public parking areas shall be allotted by seven (7) affirmative votes of the Board of Estimate and Taxation. In making any such allotment, the Board of Estimate and Taxation shall by seven (7) affirmative votes determine:
(1) What portion, if any, of such cost shall be reimbursed to the Town by the assessment of benefits in the manner hereinafter provided and the parking district to be benefited by such acquisition or improvement, and to be assessed for such benefits. In its determination of the area or areas of benefit, the Board of Estimate and Taxation may divide the same into benefit zones or sub-areas of benefit and may determine what portion in percentage of the total amount to be assessed as benefits shall be made a charge upon and apportioned by the Condemnation Commission over and upon each benefit zone or sub-area of benefit in proportion to the benefit received; and
(2) What portion, if any, of such cost shall be reimbursed to the Town by the laying and levying of taxes in the manner hereinafter provided and the parking district to be served by such acquisition or improvement, and to be taxed therefore.[;and]
[(3) What portion, if any, of net revenues to be derived from parking meters on the highways or public parking areas within any such parking district shall be applied on account of the portion of the cost determined to be reimbursed by the laying and levying of taxes as aforesaid.]
(b) Public notice of the meeting at which any such allotment and determinations are to be considered shall be given at least ten (10) days before the meeting by publishing a copy thereof in a newspaper having circulation in the Town.
( c) No appropriation or allotment of more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) for the acquisition or improvement of any parking area shall become effective until it and such determinations of the Board of Estimate and Taxation shall be approved by the Representative Town Meeting. The Town Meeting shall have power to increase but may not decrease the portion of cost to be reimbursed. [and may decrease, but not increase, the portion of such meter revenues to be so applied.] The approval of the Representative Town Meeting shall not be required for any appropriation or allotment of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) or less nor for such determinations of the Board of estimate and taxation with respect thereto.
(d) All determinations made under this Section may be revised from time to time in the same manner in which the original determinations are to be made hereunder.
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Sec. 142. Parking Fund; use.
(a) A separate fund shall be established and maintained by the Town to account for:
(1) All amounts appropriated by the Town for the operation and maintenance of public parking areas, for the payment of principal of and interest on any notes and bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this Article, and all amounts allotted by the Town for the acquisition and improvement of public parking areas;
(2) All amounts collected as parking assessments, including interest;
(3) All taxes levied under the provisions of this Article, including interest;
(4) The balance of a[A]ll parking revenues, including meter revenues, collected prior to July 1, 2004;
(5) The proceeds of all notes and bonds issued under this Article, and,
(6) All interest received on moneys in this Fund.
(b) The amounts received shall be used:
(1) For the acquisition or improvement of public parking areas;
(2) To reimburse the Town for any amounts advanced from the general fund for such purposes to the extent of funds not contributed by the Town for such purposes;
(3) To pay the capital expenses [of operation and maintenance] of the public parking areas; and
(4) To pay the principal of and interest on any notes and bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of this Article.
(c) An allotment for any such acquisition or improvement shall continue in force until the cost thereof has been certified by the Comptroller. At that time the unencumbered balance of any such allotment shall be returned to the unappropriated surplus of the Parking Fund.
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Sec. 145. Parking meters; revenues.
(a) For purposes of traffic control and to provide adequate parking both on and off street, the Board of Selectmen shall have authority to acquire parking meters by purchase or lease, upon such terms as to the Board shall seem best, and to install, maintain, repair and operate such parking meters on such public highways within the Town and parking lots and other areas owned by the Town which to the Board shall seem necessary, and to establish such rates in the operation of any such meters in furtherance of the purposes above set forth which to the Board shall seem proper.
(b) Parking meter revenues collected commencing July 1,2004 shall [first] be placed in the general fund of the Town to be used, with the other general receipts of the Town, to fund appropriations [used] to pay the cost of acquiring, operating, maintaining and repairing the parking meters and [and any surplus shall be used to pay] other expenses in aid of traffic control, including the acquisition and operation of other parking and traffic control devices, and the acquisition, improvement and maintenance of parking lots or other off-street parking areas.
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The foregoing proposal for home rule action requires an affirmative vote of a majority of the entire membership of the Representative Town Meeting and approval at a referendum.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Transportation Committee
20. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Commissioner of Public Works and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation,
Referred to Public Works Committee
21. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Commissioner of Public Works and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Public Works Committee
22. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Commissioner of Public Works and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Public Works Committee
23. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Town Attorney and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
24. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Perrot Library and approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Referred to Education Committee
25. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the acting director of Nathaniel Witherell and approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
51000 Salary & Fees Expense $773,300
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
26. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the acting director of Nathaniel Witherell and approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
52000 Service Expense $73,800
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
27. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the acting director of Nathaniel Witherell and approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
53000 Supplies Expense $32,300
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
28. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
RONALD B. DRESKIN
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
29. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Representative Town Meeting of the Town of Greenwich hereby approves such provisions of the labor settlement, if any, which may be in conflict with any charter provision, special act, ordinance, rule or regulation of the Town of Greenwich within the meaning of Connecticut General Statutes, Section 7-474 ( c).
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
Referred to Labor Contracts Committee
30. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Moderator.
FURTHER RESOLVED, that (a) the First Selectman of the Town of Greenwich be hereby authorized to accept receipts resulting from the activities of the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course; (b) these receipts to become appropriations upon recommendation of the First Selectman and approval of the Board of Estimate and Taxation and be added to the appropriate accounts within the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course Revolving Fund; (c) that for establishing funding for the appropriation accounts the Representative Town Meeting endorses the Department of Parks and Recreation Policy for the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course Revolving Fund.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
Dated at Greenwich, Ct THOMAS J. BYRNE
May 26, 2003 MODERATOR
CARMELLA C. BUDKINS
TOWN CLERK
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