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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 17, 2007 at 8:00 P.M.(E.D.T.) for the following purposes:
1. To consider and act upon the following resolution, postponed from the June 11, 2007 meeting.
NOBLE WELCH
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
2. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the 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
3. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by twenty registered voters.
WHEREAS, The Representative Town Meeting (the "RTM") of the Town in its responsibility as the representatives of the electorate of the Town needs to be apprised of all activities of Town departments, boards, commissions, councils, and committees, including all school building committees and building project committees.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the following Public Notification Ordinance be enacted by the Representative Town Meeting.
PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF MEETINGS AND HEARINGS
(a) The Town's Building Construction and Maintenance Department and the Town Clerk's Office together shall provide and maintain a publicly viewable display case in the lobby of the Town Hall for the posting of all upcoming meeting notices and agendas in accordance with §7-3 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
(b) All Town departments, boards, commissions, councils, and committees, including all school building committees and building project committees, will provide meeting notices and agendas in accordance with §1-225(c) and (d) of the Connecticut General Statutes and these notices shall be posted in the publicly viewable display case set forth in (a).
(c) All updates, modifications, and changes to meeting notices or agendas posted in accordance with (b) shall be made available within one hour.
(d) The Town's Information Technology Department shall institute and maintain a single page on the Town's web site that consists of a listing of the public notices and agendas as set forth in (b) with links to electronic versions of the notices and agendas. The implementation of these notices and agendas shall:
(1) Use a read only, portable document format that is available at no expense across all computing platforms; and
(2) Be electronically syndicated using an open, standard electronic syndication format for dissemination to any interested party; and
(3) Allow an interested party to subscribe to these notices and agendas, and receive the notices and agendas via electronic mail; and
(4) Be updated in accordance with (c); and
(5) Have the formats described in (d)(1) and (d)(2) approved by the Representative Town Meeting or a Special Committee of the Representative Town Meeting.
(e) All the Town's local government access television channels provide the information set forth in (d)(2) during scheduled times in the course of its broadcast day.
(f) This section shall take effect sixty days after enactment.
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
4. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
RICK CAPOZZA
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
5. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Parks and Recreation and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Parks & Recreation.
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
6. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Parks & Recreation and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Parks and Recreation.
Referred to Parks and Recreation Committee
7. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Director of Parks and Recreation and approved by the First Selectman and the Board of Parks and Recreation.
Referred to Parks and Recreation Committee
8. To consider and act upon the following resolution.
HEATHER PARKINSON WEBB
Referred to Appointments Committee
Referred to Town Services Committee
9. To consider and act up the following resolution, which was referred to the Legislative & Rules Committee at the March 2007 meeting.
7-24. Fish and Wildlife
(a) No person shall maliciously harm, frighten or harass any fish or wildlife; nor shall he remove, collect, or have in his possession any wildlife or the eggs or nest of any wildlife.
(b) No person shall give or offer or attempt to give any fish or wildlife 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, in consultation with the Conservation Director, and approved by the Board of Selectmen.
(e) Nothing herein shall prevent the Director or his authorized agents from taking measures that the Director, in consultation with the Conservation Director, and approved by the Board of Selectmen, 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).
Referred to Health & Human Services
Referred to Land Use Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
10. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by twenty registered voters.
Be it Ordained and Enacted by the Representative Town Meeting that:
Sec. 2-35. Sale, purchase, acquisition or lease of property; public notice; sale price.
(a) The Selectmen are authorized, subject to the approval of the Board of Estimate and Taxation and the Representative Town Meeting, to take the following actions regarding property, defined herein as the realty of land, buildings and improvements thereon:
(1) Sell any property acquired by the Town by virtue of judgments in tax lien foreclosure proceedings or by conveyance in lieu thereof, either at public auction or private sale; [and] or,
(2) Sell any Town owned property; or,
(3) Purchase any property; or,
(4) Acquire any property other than by purchase, including, but not limited to, a gift or a grant of property to the Town; or,
(5) Lease,~as~lessor~any Town owned property or buildings~of 2,000 square feet or greater for a period of one year or greater; or,
(6) Lease, as lessee, any space in non-Town owned property or buildings~of 2,000 square feet or greater for~one year or greater.
(b) Any such sale, purchase, acquisition or lease of property shall be subject to municipal improvement approval by the Town Planning and Zoning Commission in accordance with the Town Charter provisions.
[(b)] (d)~ No~such~property~shall be sold at private sale or leased for greater than one year unless previously advertised~in~the~local~newspapers for bids thereon. No private sale shall be made of [such property shall be made of] any property for a price less than the highest bid so received.
(Ords. & Reg., § 18-1, 10/21/46.
Additions are in bold, deletions in [brackets]
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
11. 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
12. 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
13. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the Commissioner of Public Works and approved by the First Selectman.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Public Works Committee
14. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen.
WHEREAS, the Town of Greenwich (the “Town”) desires to amend the attendance requirements of the members of the Representative Town Meeting at district meetings,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE FOLLOWING AMENDMENT SHALL BE MADE,
Section 40 of the Town Charter shall be amended as follows:
(a) Nominations of candidates for Representative Town Meeting members to be elected under this Article shall be made by petition, which shall bear no political designation, shall be signed by not less that twenty-five (25) voters of the district in which the candidate resides and shall be filed with the Town Clerk not later than September 15, immediately preceding election. Any Representative Town Meeting member, who by August 15 immediately preceding the election, shall have attended at least [one-half (1/2)] two-thirds (2/3) of all Representative Town Meetings and at least [one-half (1/2)] two-thirds (2/3) of all district meetings,
held during the current term of office, may become a candidate for reelection by giving written notice thereof to the Town Clerk not later than September 15, immediately preceding election.
Delections in brackets
Changes in bold
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
15. To consider and act upon the following resolution, requested by the First Selectman and approved by the Board of Selectmen.
Referred to Land Use Committee
Referred to Legislative & Rules Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
Dated at Greenwich,Ct THOMAS J. BYRNE
September 3, 2007 MODERATOR
CARMELLA C. BUDKINS
TOWN CLERK
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