(a) The board of directors of the authority shall adopt written procedures, in accordance with subsections (b) and (c) of this section, for: (1) Adopting an annual budget and plan of operations, which shall include a requirement of board approval before the budget or plan may take effect; (2) hiring, dismissing, promoting and compensating employees of the authority, which shall include an affirmative action policy and a requirement of board approval before a position may be created or a vacancy filled; (3) acquiring real and personal property and personal services, which shall include a requirement of board approval for any nonbudgeted expenditure in excess of five thousand dollars; (4) contracting for financial, legal, bond underwriting and other professional services which shall include a requirement that the authority solicit proposals at least once every three years for each such service which it uses; (5) issuing and retiring bonds, notes and other obligations of the authority; (6) awarding loans, grants and other financial assistance, which shall include eligibility criteria, the application process and the role played by the authority's staff and board of directors; and (7) the use of surplus funds.

(b) Before adopting a proposed procedure, the authority shall give at least thirty days' notice by publication in the Connecticut Law Journal of its intended action. The notice shall include (1) either a statement of the terms or of the substance of the proposed procedure or a description sufficiently detailed so as to apprise persons likely to be affected of the issues and subjects involved in the proposed procedure, (2) a statement of the purposes for which the procedure is proposed and (3) when, where and how interested persons may present their views on the proposed procedure. The authority may only adopt a proposed procedure by a two-thirds vote of the full membership of its board of directors.

(c) If the authority finds that an imminent peril to the public health, safety or welfare requires adoption of a proposed procedure upon fewer than thirty days' notice and states in writing its reasons for such finding and the authority's board of directors, by a three-fourths vote of the statutory membership, approves the finding in writing, the authority may proceed without prior notice or hearing or upon any abbreviated notice and hearing that it finds practicable, to adopt an emergency proposed procedure not later than ten days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, prior to the proposed effective date of the proposed procedure. An approved emergency procedure may be effective for a period of not more than one hundred twenty days and renewable once for a period of not more than sixty days. If the necessary steps to adopt a permanent procedure, including publication of notice of intent to adopt, are not completed prior to the expiration date of an emergency procedure, the emergency procedure shall cease to be effective on that date.

(P.A. 97-271, S. 5, 10; P.A. 00-196, S. 14.)

History: P.A. 97-271 effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 00-196 made a technical change.