REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING DECEMBER 2002 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 December 9,2002 at 8:00 P.M.(E.S.T.) for the following purposes:
RESOLVED, the Representative Town Meeting approves and authorizes the expenditure of $1,250,000 in Account Code M-824-984 for irrigation improvements to the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course as approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation. Funding is appropriated as a non-interest bearing loan of $1,100,000 from the Unreserved Fund Balance of the Reserve Fund for Capital and Non-Recurring Expenditures and an appropriation of $150,000 from the Unreserved Fund Balance of the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course Revolving Fund. Said loan of $1,100,000 will repaid to the Reserve Fund for Capital and Non-Recurring Expenditures from the Griffith E. Harris Golf Course Revolving Fund over a five-year fiscal period, 2003-04 through 2007-08. The annual loan payment shall be made to the Reserve Fund for Capital
Non-Recurring Expenditures prior to the close of the fiscal year on June 30.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Parks & Recreation Committee
RESOLVED, that the 1998 Plan of Conservation and Development, approved by the RTM in 1998, is hereby amended by adding thereto the Open Space Plan, Greenwich Connecticut dated September 27, 2002 as adopted by the Planning and Zoning Commission on November 12,2002 and on file in the office of the Town Clerk.
Referred to Land Use Committee
3. To consider and act upon the following petition requested by twenty registered voters.
RESOLVED, that given the importance of the character of our Town to the RTM and it’s constituents, it is the Sense of the Meeting that the RTM recommends that the Planning and Zoning Commission define the problem that led to the passage of the 1998 FAR regulation, evaluate it’s effectiveness and consider the concerns of Greenwich residents in developing an equitable regulation, through analysis of several alternatives, that protects the property values of all homeowners and minimizes the degree of nonconformity created prior to the enactment of any proposal through appropriate statutory procedures and in a fiscally conservative manner.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
4. To consider and act upon the following resolution requested by the Town Planner.
RESOLVED, that the Planning and Zoning Commission be authorized on behalf of the Town of Greenwich to accept 2 Coastal grants totaling $45,965.00 administered by the Department of Environmental Protection-Office of Long Island Sound and funded by NOAA’s Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management for studies of 1) design specifications for public access to the waterfront, and 2) Upstream Storm Water Pollution sources in Watersheds leading to Long Island Sound,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the sum of $45,965.000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to be added to the Planning and Zoning Account A171-51440 Consulting Research and Surveys.
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
Referred to Land Use Committee
5. 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.
RESOLVED,
(a) That a THREE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND DOLLAR ($3,202,000) increase in the SIXTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR ($16,585,000) appropriation approved by resolution of the Representative Town Meeting at meeting held June 11, 2001 for the design and construction of sanitary sewer lines and related pump stations and appurtenances and related work to service the North Mianus section of the Town, which increase has been approved by the Board of Estimate and Taxation, is hereby approved, for an aggregate appropriation of NINETEEN MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($19,787,000). The appropriation shall be added to Public Works’ Account No. K361-59650-20004, Sewer Improvement Fund, known as “North Mianus Sewer Line
Design/Construction.”
(b) That the SIXTEEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR ($16,585,000) bonds and notes authorized for the project be increased by THREE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS ($3,202,000), for a total aggregate bond or note authorization of NINETEEN MILLION SEVEN HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($19787,000), including any bonds already issued for the project.
(c) That the Town hereby declares its official intent under Federal Income Tax Regulation Section 1.150_2 that project costs may be paid from temporary advances of available funds and that the Town reasonably expects to reimburse any such advances from the proceeds of borrowings in an aggregate principal amount not in excess of the amount of borrowing authorized above for the project. The Comptroller is authorized to amend such declaration of official intent as the Comptroller deems necessary or advisable and to bind the Town pursuant to such representations and covenants as the Comptroller deems necessary or advisable in order to maintain the continued exemption from federal income taxation of interest on the bonds or notes authorized by this resolution, if issued on
a tax-exempt basis, including covenants to pay rebates of investment earnings to the United States in future years.
(d) That the area to be benefited by the sewer project is described in Section (a) of the aforesaid resolution, and that the determination of the Board of Estimate and Taxation that the net cost of the sewer project shall be reimbursed 100% from assessments to be levied against properties in the area to be benefited and –0-% from the Town’s General Fund is hereby approved. Pending the collection of assessments, such reimbursement from assessments may be paid from the Sewer Improvement Fund.
(e) That the time for issuing any bonds or notes hereunder shall not be limited and this resolution shall not lapse, but shall remain in full force and effect until the project is completed, all payments made and all borrowings completed.
Referred to Finance Committee
Referred to Public Works Committee
Dated at Greenwich Ct THOMAS J. BYRNE
November 25,2002 MODERATOR
CARMELLA C. BUDKINS
TOWN CLERK
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