REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING SEPTEMBER 15,2003 CALL
TOWN OF GREENWICH
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 September 15, 2003
at 8:00 P.M.(E.D.T.) for the following purposes:
l. To consider and act upon the following resolution, postponed from the June 2003
meeting.
(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.
(Additions in bold).
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
2. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
PAMELA M. FREDERICK
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
3. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
MARTIN KAGAN
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
4. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Parks and Recreation and approved by the First Selectman.
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
5. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman.
ARTICLE 5.
TAX ABATEMENT FOR SURVIVING SPOUSESOF POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS
The Representative Town Meeting ("RTM") of the Town of Greenwich ("the Town") finds and determines as follows:
(1) The Greenwich police officers and firefighters provide a valuable service to the Town.
(2) The Town wishes to honor those police officers and firefighters employed by the Town who die while performing their duties as police officers or firefighters during their scheduled working hours. Scheduled working hours shall include overtime.
(3) Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes Section 12-81x, the Town is authorized to provide for an abatement of real property taxes with respect to real property owned by the surviving spouse of a police officer or firefighter employed by the Town who dies while performing his duties for the Town during his scheduled working hours, which real property is occupied by the surviving spouse as his principal residence at the time of the police officer’s or firefighter’s death.
to reflect the fractional portion of such qualifying spouse or, if such property is a multiple family dwelling, such relief may be prorated to reflect the fractional portion of such property occupied by the qualifying spouse.
(h) Persons qualifying in accordance with this Section shall be eligible if they are unit owners and occupiers of a cooperative. The amount of annual property tax relief in accordance with this Section to any such person shall be determined in relation to an assumed amount of property tax liability applicable to the assessed value for the dwelling unit which such person owns and occupies as determined by the assessor which may be based on the number of cooperative shares attributable to the unit compared to the total number of shares in the cooperative. For purposes of this Section, the assessor shall determine the assumed value for the dwelling unit of each such person who is otherwise eligible under this Section, but such determination shall not constitute a tax bill for purposes of
property taxation of such cooperative or any individual dwelling unit thereof. Annually not later than the 1st day of June, the assessor, upon receipt of an application for such relief, shall determine, with respect to the assessment list of the assessment year commencing October first immediately preceding, the portion of the assessed value of the entire cooperative, as included in such assessment list, attributable to the dwelling unit occupied by such person. The assumed property tax liability for purposes of determining the amount of such relief shall be the product of such assessed value and the mill rate in such municipality as determined for purposes of property tax imposed on said assessment list for the assessment year commencing October first immediately preceding. The amount of relief to which such person shall be equivalent to the amount of tax reduction for which such person would qualify, considering such assumed property tax liability to be
the actual property tax application to such person’s dwelling unit and such person as liable for the payment of such tax.
(i) The tax collector and tax assessor shall prescribe with regard to their respective duties under this Section, such forms and procedures as may be necessary to implement this Section. The assessor,Section 12-17 Tax Abatement for Surviving Spouse of Police Officers and Firefighters.
(a) In accordance with Connecticut General Statutes Section 12-81x, there is hereby established effective October 1, 2003, an abatement of 100% of municipal real property taxes due with respect to real property owned by the qualifying surviving spouse of a police officer or firefighter employed by the Town who dies on or after the date of approval of this Resolution by the RTM, while performing his duties for the Town during his scheduled working hours, which real property is occupied by the surviving spouse as his principal residence at the time of the death.
(b) This tax abatement will remain in effect until the surviving spouse remarries or until the spouse conveys his interest in the subject residence.
(c) A "qualifying surviving spouse" means the person who was married to the police officer or firefighter employed by the Town at the time of his death and who owns and occupies as his principal residence at the time of the police officer’s or firefighter’s death.
(d) The Chiefs of the Greenwich Police Department and Greenwich Fire Department shall compile a list of all qualifying surviving spouses and submit this list to the Greenwich Tax Assessor no later than April 1 of each year.
(e) Upon the death of any person entitled to tax relief pursuant to this Section, the tax relief hereunder shall end the following June 30.
(f) If any person is entitled to a tax abatement hereunder conveys the property with respect to which the tax abatement hereunder has been granted, the tax relief shall be suspended as of the date of conveyance and the non-qualifying purchaser of such property shall pay the Town a prorated share of taxes thereby due and owing as provided by Connecticut General Statutes Section 12-81a.
(g) The property tax relief provided for in this Section may, in any case where title to real property is recorded in the name of the qualifying surviving spouse and any other person or persons, be prorated in addition, shall take such steps necessary to satisfactorily establish the facts as to the qualifying surviving spouse’s interest in the property, by requesting such documents as the assessor deems necessary. This documentation shall not be open to the public inspection.
(j) The tax collector of the Town shall maintain a record of all taxes abated in accordance with this Article.
(k) This Article shall take effect and be applicable to taxes owing beginning with taxes on the Grand List of October 1, 2003.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
6. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen.
Referred to Education Committee
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
7. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
8. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Health.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
Dated at Greenwich,Ct THOMAS J. BYRNE
September 1, 2003 MODERATOR
CARMELLA C. BUDKINS
TOWN CLERK
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