MINUTES
of a meeting of the Board of
PRESENT:
Mayor Don Hartill;
Village Attorney Randy
Marcus arrived after concurrently scheduled Zoning
Board
meeting had finished.
Mayor
Don Hartill called the meeting to order at 7:33P.M.
The
Mayor opened the public comment period. There were no comments.
Motion- To Close Public Comment Period
Trustee
Trustee Lynn Leopold seconded the motion. A vote was
taken:
Mayor
Donald Hartill - Aye Trustee
Frank Moore- Aye
Trustee
John
Bailey handed out an insurance premium summary to each Board member. His
proposal was from Selective Insurance Company for $588 less than last year. He
did a brief summary of our coverage.
Commercial
Property ($1,006)- Covers all of the Village’s buildings and contents. It
covers everything but exclusions
General
Liability ($3,847)- Protects Village operations against bodily injury and
property
damage. Tangible things.
Business
Auto($2,018)- Covers physical damage to automobiles and to others in an
accident.
Inland
Marine ($484)- It covers mobile equipment such as the backhoe, skidster
and
mowing tractors.
Commercial
Crime ($100)- If someone breaks in and steals money or if an employee is
dishonest and steals money this
covers the Village. It only covers money.
Owners
& Contractors Protective ($150)- This is a mandatory insurance the Village
buys
on behalf of New York State.
Commercial
Umbrella ($2,776)- This excess liability coverage provides an additional $3
million per occurrence. Each of the
above items has a $1 million limit but with this
umbrella it ups that coverage to $4
million per occurrence. In 1999 the limit was
increased from $1,000,000 to
$3,000,000 for additional cost of $1,062.
In
September the Village’s Public Official Policy renews. This covers wrongful
acts. The money is used for judgments, defense is provided. When the policy is
renewed in September the Board would like to have it come due at the same time
as our other policies.
John
Bailey stated that the industry has been decreasing premiums over the years but
they are on the way back up. John also had a copy of a proposal from Jeff
Wright for the Employee’s Long-Term Disability. He suggested we have Jeff come
in and explain it to the Board.
Resolution
#3682-To Adopt The Bailey Insurance Proposal as our
Insurance for the Next Year.
Trustee Lynn Leopold moved to accept this proposal
and Trustee
Mayor Donald Hartill-
Aye Trustee Frank Moore-
Aye
Trustee
Next
on the agenda was the Engineer’s Report. The bid date for Uptown Road has been
postponed until July 11th. Traffic signals have been added to this
project at Warren Road along with the drainage improvements at the intersection
of Warren and Arrowwood. Attorney Marcus and Dave Putnam are working on
securing the necessary easements to install the signal.
Dave
had a meeting with Ward Hungerford of the County to discuss Warren Road.
Don
asked Dave to get the contract for demolition of the airport elevated tank
completed. Having NEXTEL remove it and put up a tower is no longer an option
since we do not own the land. Originally the Town of Lansing secured an
easement from Cornell to us the site for water only. Don stated that we needed
to make sure we secure things with CBord and Cornell and check with Randy since
we don’t own the land.
Dave
has had no contact in the last month with the Lake Source Cooling people
concerning the agreement to allow the emergency sewer connection to the Village
sewer transmission main.
Next
on the agenda was the walkway discussion. Don asked the Board how to treat
surfaces of walkways and what their vision was. Dennis and Rick want to pave
everything. The walkway from Cayuga Mall to Dart Drive is easy to maintain but
the trails are difficult. Don prefers shale or compacted gravel but he wanted
guidance from the Board. The problems we face are erosion, low spots and no
edging on paths. Frank mentioned that Cornell had beautiful trails of Bark and
compacted gravel. East Hill’s recreation way is cinders. A concern was that
smooth surfaces would encourage skateboarders. Lynn stated that we need to
determine what mode of transportation we would like to encourage on our
walkways and that will determine what surface we use. We don’t want to encourage raceways in our
neighborhoods.
Frank
was in favor of a natural gravel base. When planning walkways we should make
sure we have adequate width to make it easier to maintain. Cornell has all kinds of sidewalks. Frank
will contact Cornell and find out whom there experts on trails are and see if
he can get some input from them.
Doris
Brown stated that the Planning Board thinks of walkways as a general term.
Walkways and sidewalks should all work together. They are trying to coordinate
these together.
Randy
entered the meeting and Don asked him if there were legal requirements for
walkway widths to make the walkways wheelchair accessible. Randy stated that
the ADA doesn’t make an absolute requirement. The Village should do the best it
can do. It all depends on the location and cost. Randy will look into the
state. Even though we have a tradition of maintaining our sidewalks through the
winter, there is no requirement to maintain walkways year round.
Don
asked what was the Planning Board’s final position was on Bolton Point Road.
Will we be able to identify the steeper (lower) section as a seasonal road? Has
there been any progress on getting an agreement from the railroad? Accepting
dedication from the water company would mean upgrading the upper portion of the
road to current Village specifications. Next month we have to do something
about it because Bolton Point has water capital projects money to use.
Don
asked Randy how the surveys for N. Triphammer Rd. were coming. Randy stated
that a number of them were complete, it’s going well and thinks that by mid
July we should have all of them, in order to complete the offers.
Resolution #3683-To Authorize the Mayor to Sign
Offer Letters for the Agreed
Upon Prices
Trustee
Mayor Donald Hartill-
Aye Trustee Frank Moore-
Aye
Trustee
Rick
Beckwith has asked Jodi if he could receive his paycheck early since he was
going on vacation. He has enough PTBA time to cover the time he will be out.
Jodi asked the Board if she could do this.
Resolution #3684-Approved Rick Beckwith Getting His
Paycheck Early If He
Meets the
Condition of Having Enough PTBA Time
Accumulated To
Cover This Period.
Trustee
Mayor Donald Hartill-
Aye Trustee Frank Moore-
Aye
Trustee
Don
stated that a tentative date for mid July has been set for a sewer meeting.
Randy stated that he has had three calls for sewer units. If we had units,
there would be 3 new single family homes built in the Village.
The
Village Diner Closed. Larry has a cable meeting tomorrow. Time Warner was here
to do a survey as to what would be needed to get roadrunner hooked up. Larry
has not heard back from him yet. Though we couldn’t host our website, road
runner would give us reliability without phone lines.
Frank
will go to the IO Water meeting next Wednesday. Lynn and the Planning Board
have completed assigning the 15 points on the priority issues, which Frank will
take to the meeting.
Lynn
stated that Sorel was concerned with the Recreation Planning Group Proposal.
The cost sharing proposal is scheduled to go into affect January 1, 2001. The
Village needs to start looking for someone to replace Phil Dankert on this
Board. Since the Village does not have a recreation program we can either use
the Town of Lansing Recreation or the City & County Youth Bureau programs.
The Village buys services from the city. The City of Ithaca is concerned with funding
infrastructure and this has generated a concern.
Jodi
will ask Dennis if the playground surface in our park is still compliant with
regulations. The mulch under the structures has probably compacted so we’ll
need to add more.
Motion- To Adjourn
Trustee
Before
adjourning the board discussed the schedule for July. Lynn and Larry will both
be gone for the July 12 & 17th meetings. Since there will not be
a quorum it was decided to change these meeting dates.
Resolution #3685-To Reschedule the Wednesday July
12th Noon Meeting to
Tuesday
July 11th at 12:00PM.
Trustee Frank Moore moved to reschedule the meeting
from July 12th to July 11th at noon. Trustee
Mayor Donald Hartill-
Aye Trustee Frank Moore-
Aye
Trustee
Resolution #3686-To Reschedule the Monday July 17th
Meeting at 7:30 to
Monday July 24th
at 7:30PM.
Trustee Lynn Leopold moved to reschedule the meeting
from July 17th to July 24th at 7:30. Trustee
Mayor Donald Hartill-
Aye Trustee Frank Moore-
Aye
Trustee
The
Mayor asked if there was any more discussion. A vote to adjourn was taken:
Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Frank Moore- Aye
Trustee
The
meeting adjourned at 9:30 P.M.
Village
Clerk