Title 24APPENDIX, Municipal Charters

§ 13. Voting Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be entitled to cast one vote for the municipality. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 14. Term All representatives to the Board of Supervisors shall hold office for one year and until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Any representative may be reappointed to successive terms without limit. Any member may be removed at any time by a majority vote…

§ 15. Vacancy Any vacancy on the Board of Supervisors shall be filled within 30 days after the vacancy occurs by appointment of the authority that appointed the representative whose position has become vacant. An appointee to a vacancy shall serve until the expiration of the term…

§ 16. Rules of procedure The Board of Supervisors may adopt rules that shall govern at all meetings. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 17. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors Each member municipality shall pay to its representative to the Board of Supervisors compensation as it shall determine reasonable, if any. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 18. Absence rule Any supervisor who fails to attend three consecutive Board meetings without notice to the alternate of the municipality may result in the Board of Supervisors requesting the municipality to replace that supervisor. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 19. Telephone participation If approved by the Board of Supervisors, any member of the Board may participate in any meeting of the Board by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear ea…

§ 2. Purpose The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of strengthening local governments by promoting more efficient and economical operation of recreation services within the participating municipalities by developing a regional recreation community center and oth…

§ 20. Officers The officers of the District shall be the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Board of Supervisors, the Clerk of the District, and the Treasurer of the District. No person may hold more than one office at one time. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 21. Bond Prior to assuming their offices, all officers shall post bond in amounts as shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The cost of the bonds shall be borne by the District. The Board of Supervisors shall determine when this requirement becomes effec…

§ 22. Chair The Chair of the Board of Supervisors shall be the chief executive officer of the District. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Supervisors and shall make and sign all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors of…

§ 23. Vice Chair During the absence or inability of the Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the same shall be performed and exercised by the Vice Chair and, when so acting, the Vice Chair shall have all the powers and be subject to all the …

§ 24. Vacancy During the absence or inability of either the Chair or Vice Chair to render or perform his or her duties or exercise his or her powers, the Board of Supervisors shall elect from among its membership an acting Chair or Vice Chair who shall have all the powers and be …

§ 25. Clerk The Clerk of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall not be a member of the Board, and shall serve at its pleasure. The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District. The Clerk shall record all votes…

§ 26. Treasurer The Treasurer of the District shall be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, shall not be a member of the Board, and shall serve at its pleasure. The Treasurer shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the funds of the District and shall be the receiving and…

§ 27. Records All records, books, and accounts of the District shall be open to inspection by persons interested during reasonable office hours. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 28. Audit The Board of Supervisors shall cause an audit to be performed annually by an independent professional accounting firm. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 29. Executive Board The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish an Executive Board and grant it powers as the Board of Supervisors may deem necessary. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 3. Composition The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within those municipalities in the State of Vermont that vote to approve and enter into this District at the time of its creation and other municipalities as are subsequently admitted to the …

§ 30. Committees The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish any and all committees as it may deem necessary. Membership of committees may include persons not on the Board of Supervisors. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 31. Compensation of officers Officers of the District shall be paid compensation as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 32. Fiscal year The fiscal year of the District shall commence on January 1 and end on December 31 of each year. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 33. Budget, appropriation, and assessment (a)(1) Proposed budget. Annually, on or before the first day of December, the Board of Supervisors shall prepare and distribute to the legislative body of each member municipality for review and comment an annual report of its activitie…

§ 34. Collection Annually on or before the first day of February, the Treasurer of the District shall issue and present a warrant to the legislative body of each member of municipality, requiring that the amount of the tax be paid to him or her in accordance with the schedule for…

§ 35. Limitations of appropriations Actions or resolutions of the Board of Supervisors for the annual appropriations in any year shall not cease to be operative at the end of the fiscal year for which they were adopted, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Ver…

§ 36. Indebtedness (a) Short-term borrowing. The Board of Supervisors may borrow money through the issuance of notes of the District for the purpose of paying current expenses of the District. These notes, however, must mature within the fiscal year in which they were issued. The…

§ 37. Sinking fund The Board of Supervisors, with the approval of a majority of the voters present and voting at a special District meeting called and warned for the purpose, may establish and provide for a sinking fund that shall serve and be used exclusively as a debt service r…

§ 38. Capital reserve fund The Board of Supervisors, with the approval of a majority of the voters present and voting at a special District meeting called and warned for the purpose, may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements in furtheranc…

§ 39. Fees The Board of Supervisors may from time to time establish and adjust a fee structure for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities, particularly concerning the operation and maintenance of any facility. (Added 2005, …

§ 4. Duration The District shall continue as a body politic and corporate unless and until dissolved according to the procedures set forth in this chapter. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 40. Special meetings The Board of Supervisors may call a special meeting of the District when it deems it necessary or prudent to do so and shall call a special meeting of the District when action by the voters of the District is necessary under this chapter or under any applic…

§ 41. Places of meetings At any special meeting of the District, voters of each municipality within the District shall cast their ballots at polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by each member municipality. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 42. Warnings The original warning for any District meeting shall be signed by a majority of the Board of Supervisors and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 43. Warnings required The Board of Supervisors of the District shall warn a District meeting by filing a notice with the town or city clerk of each member municipality and by posting a notice in at least three public places, and additional public places as may be required by la…

§ 44. Warning contents The posted notification shall include the date, time, place, and nature of the meeting. It shall, by separate articles, specifically indicate the business to be transacted and the questions to be voted upon. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 45. Australian ballot The Australian ballot system shall be used at all special meetings of the District when voting is to take place. (Added 2005, No. M-8, § 2.)

§ 46. Qualifications and registration of voters All legal voters of the municipalities within the District shall be legal voters of the District. The municipalities within the District shall post and revise checklists in the same manner as for municipal meetings prior to any Dist…

§ 47. Conduct of meetings At all special meetings of the District, the provisions of 17 V.S.A. chapter 55 regarding election officials, voting machines, polling places, absent voters, process of voting, count and return of votes, recounts and contest of elections, and jurisdictio…

§ 48. Reconsideration or rescission of vote (a) A question considered or voted on at any special meeting of the District shall not be submitted to the voters for reconsideration or rescission except at a subsequent special meeting duly warned for the purpose and called by the Boa…

§ 49. Validation of District meetings When any of the requirements as to notice or warning of a special meeting of the District have been omitted or not complied with and the meeting and the business transacted at the meeting are otherwise legal and within the scope of the Distri…

§ 5. Powers Except as otherwise provided or limited by this chapter, the District shall have the following powers: (1) to operate, cause to be operated, or contract for the operation of any and all facilities to fulfill the purposes set forth in Article 1, section 2 of this chapt…

§ 50. Priority When a special meeting of the District is called to act upon a proposition to incur bonded or other indebtedness or a long-term contract, the special meeting procedures outlined in Article 4 of this chapter shall control over the meeting procedures outlined in this…

§ 51. Withdrawal of member municipality A member municipality may vote to withdraw from the District if one year has elapsed since the District became a body politic and corporate, and if the District has not voted to bond for construction and improvements or to authorize a long-…

§ 52. Approval to bond No proposal to the voters of the District for the approval of a bond or bonds to raise money for the District or to authorize a long-term contract as provided in Article 4 of this chapter shall be made until the District has been in existence for at least o…

§ 53. Admission of new member municipalities The Board of Supervisors may authorize the inclusion of additional member municipalities in the District upon terms and conditions as it in its sole discretion shall deem to be fair, reasonable, and in the best interest of the District…

§ 54. Dissolution of District; procedure If the Board of Supervisors by resolution approved by two-thirds of all the votes entitled to be cast determines that it is in the best interest of the public, the member municipalities, and the District that the District be dissolved, and…