§ 2-341. Statement of purpose.  


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  • The City has heretofore been a designated member municipality of the Housatonic Valley Planning Region, and is a member of the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials ("HVCEO"), a regional council of elected officials and regional planning agency serving the Housatonic Valley Planning Region. Pursuant to C.G.S. § 16a-4c(b) (as amended by Public Act 13-247, § 249), the member municipalities of HVCEO and of the South Western Regional Planning Agency ("SWRPA") have agreed to consolidate the Housatonic Valley Planning Region and the South Western Planning Region into a single planning region. On or about December 6, 2013, the Office of Policy and Management of the State of Connecticut ("OPM") redesignated the Housatonic Valley Planning Region and the South Western Planning Region as the Western Connecticut Planning Region. Pursuant to Public Act 13-247, § 250, each regional planning agency and regional council of elected officials within a planning region must restructure as a single regional council of governments on or before January 1, 2015. HVCEO and SWRPA have determined to restructure themselves as the Western Connecticut Council of Governments. The City desires to join the Western Connecticut Council of Governments by and through approval of this ordinance.

(Ord. No. 15, § 2-6, 12-2-2014)