[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.
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.
