[Adopted 6-29-2010]
Pursuant to Section 7-273aa of the Connecticut General Statutes
Annotated, which provides that any two or more Connecticut municipalities
may, by concurrent ordinances of their legislative bodies, create
a regional solid waste authority under the provisions of Sections
7-273aa to 7-273oo, inclusive (Chapter 103b), to jointly manage solid
waste and recycling services on behalf of its members, the purpose
of this article is to create such a regional authority to be known
as the "Central Connecticut Solid Waste Authority (CCSWA)." Upon adoption
of this article by two or more municipalities, CCSWA shall be created.
CCSWA is hereby created as a regional authority under the provisions
of Chapter 103b and shall have all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations of a regional authority pursuant to Chapter 103b and Chapters
446d and 446e of the Connecticut General Statutes Annotated.
The Town of Farmington hereby designates CCSWA as its regional
solid waste authority, including its regional resource recovery authority,
and adopts the provisions of Chapter 103b in connection with this
election to become a member of CCSWA; provided, however, that this
designation and membership election shall not constitute a commitment
of the Municipality's solid waste or recycling streams, and provided
further that the Municipality agrees that it shall take no action,
now or in the future, contrary to its currently existing legal obligations
and commitments, including, without limitation, making any pledge
of its municipal solid waste or recycling streams to a disposal or
recycling option chosen through CCSWA which has an effective date
commencing prior to the expiration date of any currently existing
waste stream commitment to another disposal or recycling arrangement.
By adopting this article, the Municipality shall not be obligated
now or in the future to make any such commitment of its solid waste
or recycling streams, or to commit any funding toward CCSWA, without
further express authorization by its legislative body.
The purpose of CCSWA shall be to solicit and jointly manage
solid waste and recycling services on behalf of its members.
The principal address of CCSWA shall be 241 Main Street, Hartford,
Connecticut 06106, c/o the Capitol Region Council of Governments.
The members of CCSWA shall be the municipalities, including
the Municipality, which adopt this article. Each member municipality
shall be assigned to one of four subregions of CCSWA: (1) the Northwest
Sub-Region, (2) the Naugatuck Valley Sub-Region, (3) the Greater Capitol
Sub-Region or (4) the Shoreline Sub-Region.
The number of votes to be cast by each municipal member of CCSWA
at any meeting of the Authority's full membership shall be determined
in accordance with the following five-tiered voting system based on
the individual population of each municipal member compared to the
total population of all CCSWA municipal members (all such population
figures to be derived from the most recent annual data published by
the Connecticut Department of Public Health):
A.
Each municipal member whose individual population is less than one
percent of the total population of all CCSWA municipal members shall
have one vote;
B.
Each municipal member whose individual population is equal to or
greater than one percent, but less than two percent, of the total
population of all CCSWA municipal members shall have two votes;
C.
Each municipal member whose individual population is equal to or
greater than two percent, but less than five percent, of the total
population of all CCSWA municipal members shall have three votes;
D.
Each municipal member whose individual population is equal to or
greater than five percent, but less than ten percent, of the total
population of all CCSWA municipal members shall have four votes; and
E.
Each municipal member whose individual population is equal to or
greater than ten percent of the total population of all CCSWA municipal
members shall have five votes.
Each municipal member shall appoint one representative to CCSWA,
which shall be the current chief elected official of the municipality
or that official's designee, and that representative shall exercise
the voting powers established for that municipal member as set forth
in this article. As long as the method of appointment and removal
and the term of office of each municipal member representative shall
be consistent with the first sentence of this section, the details
of such appointment, removal and term of office shall be as determined
by the appointing municipality; provided, however, that not more than
half of the terms of all such municipal representatives shall expire
within any one fiscal year.
There shall be at least one annual meeting of all municipal
members of CCSWA, to elect the members of the Executive Committee
and enact such other business as shall be deemed advisable at such
meeting, all as provided in the bylaws of CCSWA to be adopted after
its formation. It shall require the affirmative vote of a majority
of all CCSWA municipal members to enact the Authority bylaws or adopt
any amendments thereto, such vote to take place at a duly called meeting
of the full membership of CCSWA, with proxy voting to be permitted
at such meeting.
The members and member representatives of CCSWA shall receive
no monetary compensation solely for their service as members and member
representatives of CCSWA; provided, however, that the ability of CCSWA,
if it chooses to do so in its sole discretion, to pay host community
compensation to municipal members which agree to host facilities owned
or used by CCSWA within their municipal borders shall not be affected
by this prohibition.
The full membership of CCSWA shall elect an Executive Committee to manage the operations of CCSWA; provided, however, that the specific division of responsibilities for such management between the Executive Committee, the full membership of CCSWA and any other body or officer of CCSWA shall be consistent with the bylaws of CCSWA to be adopted after its formation. No member of CCSWA shall have more than one representative on the Executive Committee, and each member of the Executive Committee shall have one vote, without regard to the voting system established by § 165-30 of this article for meetings of the Authority's full membership. The members of such Executive Committee shall constitute an odd number, shall include at least one representative of each of the five voting tiers established pursuant to § 165-30 of this article for meetings of the Authority's full membership, and shall also be determined by considerations of geographical representation based on the four subregions established under § 165-29 of this article, all such matters and the terms of office and appointment of such Executive Committee members and other matters pertaining thereto to be specifically determined in a manner consistent with the bylaws of CCSWA to be adopted after its formation.
This article is hereby adopted pursuant to and in compliance
with all laws governing the Municipality's adoption of ordinances.
