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 March 12, 2007 at 8:00 P.M.(E.D.S.T.) for the following purposes:
l. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by Superintendent of Schools and approved by the Board of Education and the Board of Estimate and Taxation.
Referred to Education Committee
Referred to Finance Committee
2. 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.
380-53500 Motor Fuel and Lubricants $120,000
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Public Works Committee
3. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
VICTORIA deBARY
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
4. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
PAUL TORETTA
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
5. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
SUSAN RICHARDSON
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
6. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
ROBERT F. GRELE
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
7. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
DAVID AYRES
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
8. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
DONALD G. FRITZ
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
9. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
DONALD HELLER
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
10. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Appointments Committee.
JOHN A. SHULMAN
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
11. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
FREDERIC H. BROOKS, JR.
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
12. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
STEVEN C. FRANCIS
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
13. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
KRISTEN N. GREENE
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
14. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
RAYMOND J. HEIMBUCH
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
15. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
JEFFREY S. RAMER
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
16. 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
17. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Conservation.
7-24. Fish and Wildlife
(a) No person shall maliciously harm, frighten or harass any animal, reptile or bird; nor shall he remove, collect, or have in his possession the young of any wild animal or the eggs or nest of any reptile or bird.
(b) No person shall give or offer or attempt to give any animal, reptile or bird any poison or any other known noxious substance.
(c) Fishing, including the use of nets or seines, shall be permitted with proper licenses only in those waters designated by the Director or his authorized agents,
(d) No person shall hunt, trap or pursue wildlife at any time, and no person shall use, firearms, air rifles, spring guns, bows and arrows, slings or any kind of trapping device or any other weapons or explosives to frighten, injure or kill wildlife, except for the purpose of wildlife management as authorized by the Director or his authorized agents.
(e) Nothing herein shall prevent the Director or his authorized agents from taking measures which the Director deems to be in the interest of wildlife management, research, monitoring or education.
(f) The foregoing provisions of this Section 7-24 shall apply only in Parks, as defined in section 7-22 (b).
(g) Section 7-22 (b) reads as follows: Park is a town owned park, parkland, playground, beach, boating facility, recreation place or facility, open space or any other area, place, buildings or structure in the town owned or used by the town and devoted to active or passive recreation.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
18. To consider and act upon the following sense of the meeting resolution, requested by the Education Committee.
Whereas the RTM has voted on three occasions to support the Glenville School Project by (i) including $860,000 for architectural and engineering expenses in the Town of Greenwich 2005/2006 budget, (ii) appointing the Glenville School Building Committee in December of 2005, and (iii) including $1,400,000 for the pre-construction phase of the Glenville School Project in the Town of Greenwich 2006/2007 budget, and
Whereas the Board of Education in January of 2007, after two public meetings, approved a charge to the RISE Committee which states that it shall be “assume[d] that the Glenville School renovation will proceed as planned,” and
Whereas any delay in commencing the renovation phase of the Glenville School Project as currently planned will compromise the 14 month building schedule that has been carefully drafted by the Glenville School Building Committee, increase construction costs associated with the Glenville School Project, and render more problematic the use of the modular classrooms currently scheduled for the occupation by Glenville School students as of September 2007.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that it is the sense of the RTM that the funds for the Glenville School Project be appropriated without condition or stipulation of any kind, concerning the findings of the RISE Committee or otherwise, in the Town of Greenwich 2007/2008 capital budget.
Referred to Education Committee
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Public Works Committee
19. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by District 10.
D-6 COMMUNICATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS WITH CONSTITUENTS
A. Shortly after the district Organizational Meeting, the Chairman may consider ways to inform district residents of the composition of the RTM district organization. One method is to post a notice in a community library, supermarket, civic center, etc., listing the officers and the members, with addresses, telephone numbers, and committee assignments. Such information may be presented to the media for dissemination.
B. All district members should be alert to any problem or threat facing the district, whether or not it is something that could be dealt with by any branch of town government.
C. Occasionally a controversial matter comes before the RTM, with cogent arguments on both sides. Members face the question of whether to vote their best judgment, or to represent their constituencies. Rarely will they receive enough calls or letters to consider them the people’s voice, but they may reveal informed opinions. Those members who feel that the matter is such that the constituency should be represented can find their own ways of getting that feel – sidewalk or supermarket encounters, neighbors, random phone calls, etc.
D. Members of the RTM have a responsibility to the community to maintain a high sense of ethics as the legislative body of the town. Members will properly abstain from voting upon or advocating any measure in which they have a substantial conflict of interest. [e.g. a close family member having a direct financial interest.] It is the responsibility of individual members to advise their district Chairman of any substantial conflict of interest, potential conflict of interest, or possibility thereof. A member who has a substantial conflict should disclose the nature of the conflict to the district,
committee and/or body prior to participation in any discussion. He should not try to influence (as opposed to inform) others on the relevant matter, and he may not vote on it.
Referred to All Committees
20. To consider and act upon the following resolution requested by District 10.
D-7 DISTRICT DELEGATE APPOINTMENTS TO STANDING COMMITTEES
A. GENERAL
Election of delegates and alternates takes place at the district’s Organization Meeting, held during December in a town election year. This can immediately precede or follow the district’s regular December meeting, with new members participating and retiring members abstaining. It is essential that a district have both a delegate and an alternate to each standing committee.
Seniority is a well established practice at all levels of government.
Experience adds to a committee’s strength. But this does not necessarily mean that everyone wants to repeat the prior term’s assignment. Furthermore, the delegation may wish to replace a delegate if the incumbent has not been satisfactory. Likewise,rotation among the various committees may result in members becoming more knowledgeable about all aspects of the Town’s operation. Therefore, just because one member has served two or more terms on a committee, other members should not feel deterred from expressing their own interest in that committee.
A. Suggested Procedure
1. In some districts, the incumbent Chairman or Secretary sends a questionnaire to all persons elected for the coming two-year term. Each member is asked to indicate a first, second and third preference for committee assignments. Some persons may prefer to serve as alternates and may so indicate. Some Chairmen telephone everyone to develop a preliminary committee roster. If applicable, each member should simultaneously disclose any substantial conflict of interest, potential conflict of interest, or possibility thereof which would arise from his serving on each committee requested and should also inform the Chairman of the applicable employment, business interest, or other
affiliation which gives rise to the apparent conflict. The Chairman should review the matter with the member and provide the member guidance as to an appropriate assignment in light of the nature of the apparent conflict, the interest of the district in having delegates and alternates who need not recuse themselves frequently in voting on committee issues, and the need to insure integrity in the conduct of the people’s business.
2. Ballot paper should be provided at the meeting. If a blackboard or an easel is available, candidates for all committees may be listed. This may be especially helpful to new members.
3. Districts should allow members a minute or two to describe their backgrounds and specific interest in committee assignments. In the event a member has raised with the Chairman an apparent conflict and is not satisfied with the Chairman’s guidance,the member and the Chairman may present their views on the matter to the district.
Normal election procedures then follow. A sole candidate for any post may be declared elected. Contested slots are determined by written ballot, with election requiring a majority of votes cast. For the procedure to be followed when there are more than two candidates, see RTM Rules III A 3 and IVC. In the event a member believes he has been denied a desired committee assignment because, for example, the possibility of a conflict of interest has been misconstrued as a substantial conflict of interest, the member may refer the matter to the Board of Ethics for an advisory opinion, in light of which the district may wish, but it is not obliged, to reconsider its vote on the member’s
committee assignment.
4. When a Delegate post becomes vacant for any reason, committee assignments may be re-assigned. The Alternate may succeed to the Delegate post, but this is not automatic. Any action should be accomplished at a district meeting, with other members eligible to be candidates.
B. Attendance at Committee Meetings
It is the District Chairman’s responsibility to see that the District is represented at all standing committee meetings. In the event of a delegate’s planned absence the delegate must advise the alternate so that the alternate will attend. If the delegate cannot obtain a firm commitment from the alternate to attend, the delegate is to so notify the District Chairman. It then becomes the District Chairman’s responsibility to arrange for some other member of the district delegation to attend, votes, and report.
Referred to All Committees
21. To consider and act upon the following sense of the meeting resolution, requested by twenty registered voters.
"WHEREAS, the Representative Town Meeting, at its October, 2006 meeting, adopted a "sense of the meeting" resolution by a vote of 120 in favor, 60 opposed with 4 abstentions to the effect that the Plan of Conservation and Development ("POCD") currently being prepared by the Planning and Zoning Commission describe all capital improvement projects required to achieve its goals, that it be revised and updated with appropriate citizen input at periodic intervals and that the Moderator set up a special committee to consider how best to ensure that the Capital Plan prepared annually in connection with the Town’s annual budget be consistent with the POCD, as revised and updated from time to time; and
"WHEREAS, the Moderator has formed the special committee referred to in the foregoing 'whereas' clause.
"NOW, THEREFORE, be it
"RESOLVED, that it is the sense of the Representative Town Meeting (1) that capital improvement projects and/or plans for the Central Business District ("CBD") be included in the new POCD currently being prepared by the Planning and Zoning Commission, and (2) that no capital appropriations for capital improvement projects and/or plans within the CBD be included in the Town’s annual budget until the new POCD has been adopted by the RTM, with the exception of appropriations for the public safety complex and for the maintenance and repair of existing town facilities within the CBD."
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
22. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Legislative and Rules Committee.
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Dated at Greenwich,Ct CARMELLA C. BUDKINS
February 26,2007 TOWN CLERK
THOMAS J. BYRNE
MODERATOR
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