2018.06.18 Organizational Meeting Item 1 (j)

In previous years, the Council would appoint two representatives to the General Assembly and then select one to serve on the Executive Committee of GPCOG. The GPCOG Bylaws were amended on June 18, 2014 to change the size of the Executive Committee from one representative per member municipality to 9-11 members. Those members will include a mix of elected municipal officers and senior municipal staff reflecting the geographic balance and diversity of the GPCOG membership and will be elected by the General Assembly at their annual meeting.  

GPCOG BYLAWS, as amended June, 2014

ARTICLE V: General Assembly

Section 2. Representatives.
Member municipalities with less than 10,000 population, as determined by the last Decennial Census, shall have two (2) representatives. Municipalities with populations greater than 10,000, as determined by the last Decennial Census, shall have an additional representative for each 10,000 increment in population. At least one (1) representative for each municipality shall be a municipal officer. The other representative(s) shall be either a municipal officer or a designee elected by a majority vote of the municipal officers. “Municipal officer” is defined as the selectmen or members of the town council for a town, or the mayor and city councilors of a city. Member counties shall have no more than two (2) representatives, at least one of which must be an elected commissioner. Each associate member shall be entitled to one (1) non-voting representative.

Section 3. Alternate Representatives.
The member's governing body shall appoint an alternate representative who may vote only in the official representative's absence.