WHEREAS, Act 179 of 1947, being MCL 123.301 et. seq. (“Act”), enables the incorporation of any two (2) or more cities, villages or townships for the collective management of garbage and rubbish; and

WHEREAS, Pittsfield Charter Township participated with other local municipalities in discussing and creating an authority and the required Articles of Incorporation; and

WHEREAS, the Pittsfield Charter Township Board of Trustees adopted a resolution joining the Washtenaw Regional Resource Management Authority (“WRRMA”); and

WHEREAS, the Articles state in Article VII, that “the Board of Trustees (“Board”) which shall be comprised of one designated representative from each Constituent Member, who shall be appointed by the applicable governing body of each Constituent Member on or before the fifteenth day of December each year, and shall serve during the next fiscal year and until his/her successor is appointed by the Constituent Member.”; and 

WHEREAS, the Articles further state in Article VII that “The governing body of each Constituent Member shall at the time of appointing its regular representative on the Board also appoint an alternate representative who shall have the right to act in the place of the regular representative in the event of the latter’s absence from at such meeting of the Board, but his/her authority shall be limited to the actual business conducted at such meeting whether set forth on the agenda or not.”;