Title 24APPENDIX, Title 24APPENDIX: Municipal Charters

§ 101. Creation Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. chapter 121, subchapter 3, there is hereby created a union municipal district that shall be known as Rutland County Solid Waste District (the District) and that shall be a body politic and corporate. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, …

§ 102. Purpose The District is created and shall exist for the purpose of providing solid waste disposal services for its member municipalities and the residents of member municipalities through the collection, removal, transportation, disposal, recovery, recycling, or any combin…

§ 103. Composition The District is composed of and includes all of the lands and residents within the municipalities in the State of Vermont that vote to approve this charter at the time of its creation and other municipalities that are subsequently admitted to or withdraw from t…

§ 104. Duration The District shall continue as a body politic and corporate unless and until dissolved pursuant to the procedures of section 603 of this charter. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 105. Powers Except as otherwise provided or limited by this charter, the District shall have the following powers: (1) to operate, cause to be operated, and contract for the operation of any and all facilities for the collection, transportation, resource recovery, recycling, an…

§ 201. Authority The legislative power and authority of the Rutland County Solid Waste District and the administration and general supervision of all fiscal, prudential, and governmental affairs thereof shall be vested in a governing body known as the Board of Supervisors, except…

§ 202. Composition The Board of Supervisors shall be composed of three representatives from the City of Rutland and one representative from each of the other member municipalities. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 203. Appointment Annually on or before the last Monday in March, each member municipality shall appoint its representative to the Board of Supervisors. The selectboard of each member municipality shall appoint a representative who shall be a member of the selectboard or a desig…

§ 204. Organizational meeting Annually, on the second Monday in April, the Board of Supervisors shall hold its organizational meeting. At the meeting, the Board shall elect from among its membership a Chair and Vice Chair, each of whom shall hold office for one year and until his…

§ 205. Regular meetings Regular meetings of the Board of Supervisors shall be held periodically with the time and place to be determined by the Board. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 206. Special meetings Special meetings of the Board of Supervisors may be called at any time by the Chair or shall be called by the Clerk upon written request of a majority of the members of the Board. Except in case of emergency, each member of the Board shall be given at leas…

§ 207. Quorum For the purposes of transacting business, the presence of members whose accumulated votes represent more than 50 percent of the total number of possible votes shall constitute a quorum. However, a smaller number may adjourn to another date. Any action adopted by a m…

§ 208. Weighted voting Each member of the Board of Supervisors shall be entitled to cast one vote for every 100 registered voters, rounded to the nearest hundred, in the municipality that the member represents. The number of votes entitled to be cast on behalf of the City of Rutl…

§ 209. 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. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 210. 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 ter…

§ 211. Rules of procedure Except as otherwise provided in this charter, Robert’s Rules of Order shall govern at all meetings. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 212. Compensation of members of Board of Supervisors Each member municipality shall pay to its representatives to the Board of Supervisors a compensation that it shall deem reasonable. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 301. 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 a time. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 302. Bond Prior to assuming their offices, all officers shall post bond in amounts that shall be determined by resolution of the Board of Supervisors. The District shall bear the cost of the bond. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 303. 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 and shall make and sign all contracts on behalf of the District upon approval by the Board of Supervisors of the District.…

§ 304. 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 r…

§ 305. 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…

§ 306. Clerk (a) 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. (b) The Clerk shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the public records of the District and the seal of the Dist…

§ 307. Treasurer (a) 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. (b) The Treasurer shall have the exclusive charge and custody of the funds of the District and shall be the disb…

§ 308. Records All records, books, and accounts of the District shall at all times be open to inspection by persons interested. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 309. Audit The Board of Supervisors shall cause an audit to be performed by an independent professional accounting firm annually. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 310. Executive Board The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish an Executive Board and grant powers that it may deem necessary. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 311. Committees The Board of Supervisors shall have the authority to establish any and all committees as it may deem necessary. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 312. Compensation of officers Officers of the District shall be paid compensation that shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 401. Fiscal year The fiscal year of the District shall commence on January 1 of each year. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 19, 2019.)

§ 402. Proposed budget (a) 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 activities, including a proposed budget of the dist…

§ 403. Budget adoption, appropriation, and assessment Annually on or before January 15, the Board of Supervisors shall adopt the budget, appropriate any sums that it deems necessary to operate and carry out the District’s functions for the fiscal year, assess a tax upon each memb…

§ 404. Budget, appropriation, and assessment; apportionment of taxes (a) Taxes shall be apportioned among the member municipalities on the basis of relative tonnage or volume of solid waste loads generated by or within each of the member municipalities such that each member munic…

§ 405. Initial budget and appropriation (a) Within 30 days after the initial organizational meeting, the Board of Supervisors shall prepare and adopt an operating budget for the remainder of the then fiscal year and shall appropriate monies and assess a tax upon each member munic…

§ 406. Collection (a) 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 municipality requiring that the amount of the tax to be paid to him or her in accordance with the schedule…

§ 407. Limitations of appropriations (a) 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…

§ 408. Indebtedness; short-term borrowing (a) 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. However, the notes must mature within the fiscal year in which they were issued. (b) T…

§ 409. Indebtedness; long-term indebtedness and long-term contracts (a) Submission to voters. (1)(A) On a petition signed by at least 10 percent of the voters of the District, the proposition of incurring a bonded debt or other indebtedness to pay for public improvements or of au…

§ 410. Sinking fund (a) 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 that purpose, may establish and provide for a sinking fund that shall serve and be used exclusively as a debt ser…

§ 411. Capital reserve fund (a) 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 such purpose, may establish and provide for a capital reserve fund to pay for public improvements in furt…

§ 412. Disposal of fees The Board of Supervisors may from time to time establish and adjust a disposal fee structure (tipping fees) for the purpose of generating revenues from sources other than assessments to member municipalities, particularly concerning the operation and maint…

§ 413. Transportation and collection sites (a) The costs and responsibility assigned under this charter to member municipalities for the transportation of the solid waste generated within each municipality to any District solid waste disposal or resource recovery facility and for…

§ 501. Special meeting (a)(1) 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 charter or applicabl…

§ 502. Places of meetings At any special meeting of the District, voters of each municipality within the District shall cast their ballots at the polling places within the municipality of their residence as shall be determined by the Board of Supervisors of the District in cooper…

§ 503. Warnings The original warning for any district meeting shall be signed by a number of the Board of Supervisors equal to a majority of the total votes entitled to be cast and shall be filed with the District Clerk before being posted. (Added 2019, No. M-2, § 2, eff. April 1…

§ 504. 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 the additional public places as may be required …