[HISTORY: Adopted 12-21-2010 by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Somers, effective 1-14-2011. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Solid waste — See Ch. 166.
Pursuant to § 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 §§ 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
chapter is to create such a regional authority to be known as the
Central Connecticut Solid Waste Authority (CCSWA). Upon adoption of
this chapter 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 Somers (the Municipality) 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 Chapter, 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 member of CCSWA shall be the municipalities, including the
Municipality, which adopts this Chapter. Each member municipality
shall be assigned to one of four subregions of CCSWA:
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 1%
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 1%, but less than 2%, of the total population of all
CCSWA municipal members shall have two votes;
C.
Each municipal members whose individual population is equal to or
greater than 2%, but less than 5%, of the total population of all
CCSWA municipal members shall have three votes;
D.
Each municipal members whose individual population is equal to or
greater than 5%, but less than 10%, 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 10% 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 chapter. 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 § 61-7 of this chapter 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 § 61-7 of this chapter for meetings of the authority's full membership, and shall also be determined by considerations of geographical representation based on the four sub-regions established under § 61-6 of this chapter, 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.
