Vermont § 402 - Budget appropriation and assessment

§ 402. Budget appropriation and assessment

• (a) Proposed budget. Annually on or before November 1, the Board shall approve and cause to be distributed
  to the legislative body of each member municipality for review and comment an annual
  report of its activities, including a financial statement, and a proposed budget of
  the District for the next fiscal year. The Board shall hold a public hearing on or
  before December 1 of each year to receive comments from the legislative bodies of
  the members and hear all other interested persons regarding the proposed budget.
  Additional public hearings may be held if the Board deems it appropriate to do so.
  Notice of such hearing(s) shall be the same as that specified under section 503 of
  subchapter 5 of this chapter, except that for additional public hearings, the time
  requirements of that section shall be reduced by 15 days, and notice(s) need only
  be published once. The Board shall give consideration to all comments received and
  make such changes to the proposed budget as it deems advisable. (b) Budget adoption, appropriations, and assessment. Annually on or before January 1, the Board shall adopt the budget, appropriate the
  sums that it deems necessary to operate and carry out the District’s functions for
  the next ensuing fiscal year, assess each member for its proportionate share of the
  sums so appropriated, less revenues anticipated from the member through tipping fees,
  and adopt a schedule designating when such assessments are due and payable by the
  members. (c) Apportionment of assessments. Assessments shall be apportioned among the members on the basis of relative tonnage
  or volume of solid waste generated by or within each of the members. Each member
  shall be assessed a percentage of the sum appropriated equal to the ratio that the
  solid waste generated by or within the member in the prior year bears to the total
  solid waste generated by or within the District. If the Board determines in any year
  that the assessments for the previous year were substantially inequitable, it shall
  retroactively adjust the prior year’s assessment such that any overcharged member
  is given a proportionate credit against future assessments, and any undercharged member
  is assessed a proportionate surcharge payable over a period that the Board determines
  will be reasonable. The foregoing notwithstanding, the Board may levy special assessments
  for waste that require special or disproportionately expensive treatment not reflected
  by tonnage or volume.