[Adopted 5-8-1997 by Ord. No. 97-1]
The Board of Selectmen may appoint two persons to serve as alternate members of any appointed Town board designated in or created pursuant to § 606 of the Town Charter whenever in the Board's opinion the same is deemed necessary.[1]
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Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted by the Board of Selectmen on 12-5-2024 provided: "The Board of Selectmen may appoint three (3) alternate members to the Board of Assessment Appeals in accordance with Conn. Gen. Stat. § 9-199(b). Each alternate member shall be an elector of the municipality and shall be appointed up to a four-year term. When seated, an alternate member shall have all the powers and duties of a member of the Board of Assessment Appeals."
Each person so appointed shall be otherwise qualified to sit as a regular member of the appointed board to which such person is named as an alternate. At least one of the persons so appointed shall not be a member of the same political party to which a majority of the regular members of the appointed board belong. The term of appointment as an alternate shall be coincident in length with the term of the regular members of the appointed board, unless the Board of Selectmen earlier determines that a necessity for alternates for the particular appointed board no longer exists.
The chairman of each appointed board for which alternates have been appointed shall designate one of the alternates to sit in lieu of any regular member who is absent, unable to sit or disqualified on any particular matter; provided, however, that the alternate so designated and the then sitting regular members of the same political party do not exceed in number those prescribed in General Statutes § 9-167a, and provided, further, that the failure to designate any alternate to sit shall not invalidate any action of such appointed board, a quorum otherwise being present.
Any alternate so designated to sit shall have all the powers of voice and vote as a regular member at the meeting or on the issue for which such alternate is designated.