MINUTES
of a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
Present:
Deputy Mayor
Deputy
Mayor
Larry
Bieri a resident on
Motion-To Close the Public
Comment Period
Trustee Leopold moved to close the public comment period. Trustee O’Neill seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
Motion-To Open the Public
Hearing on Proposed Local Law A to Amend the
Sewer Law
Trustee Leopold moved to open the public hearing. Trustee O’Neill seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
David Dubow explained that this proposed local law to
amend the Sewer Law is to increase the sewer rent chargeable to owners of
property who are not provided with water service by the
Joe Gainie, Facilities Manager for Borg Warner, was present to ask if this proposed local law could be reconsidered. He explained that they are large water users but most of their water does not find its way back to the sewer. The reason the water doesn’t make it into the sewer system is because it’s used in cooling towers so it evaporates. They also have a swimming pool and they remove the chlorine from the water before distributing it into a local stream. Finally, the water from the washers used in their manufacturing process is cleaned and recycled with the removed agents hauled away. Frank asked if we had a policy to measure the sewage that comes from Borg Warner. The Board discussed measuring the outflow of sewage. Further research needs to be done on this issue. Joe is willing to sit down and discuss this with the Board. Jodi thinks that the Village of Cayuga Heights also needs to be included in this discussion since they are also affected. Joe agreed to write the Village a letter explaining his calculations and other supporting evidence.
Borg Warner currently pays $.50 per 1,000 gallons of water
consumption. To bring them to the same rate as what everyone else in the
Motion-To Close the Public
Hearing
Trustee O’Neill moved to close the public hearing. Trustee Leopold seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
The Board decided not to act on this proposed law
until they had a full Board and a chance to review Joe’s letter. Frank feels
this is a simple matter of being fair.
The next item on the agenda was to set the election
place, date and compensation. The Village election is always the fourth Tuesday
of April from noon to 9pm. In this years budget we allotted for compensation of
$65 per inspector. Larry proposed the following resolution:
Resolution #
Be it RESOLVED, that the annual election for the
Trustee O’Neill moved that this resolution be adopted and Trustee Leopold seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
The next item on the agenda was the approval of the
minutes for February 7th and 16th. The Trustees had sent
their edits to Jodi via email but John had not so he gave a couple of minor
changes in wording. The February 7th changes included adding Trisha
Whitney’s last name to the minutes, changing the Highway Department to the
Public Works Department, and clarifying the design efforts to be engineering
design efforts. There was a spelling error corrected in the February 16th
minutes.
Motion-Approval of Minutes for February 7th
& 16th, 2005
Trustee O’Neill moved that the draft meeting notes, as reviewed and revised by the Clerk/Treasurer and the Board, are hereby adopted as the official minutes. Trustee Leopold seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
The Planning Board has completed their revision of the Comprehensive Plan and the Board all received a final copy. The next step in the process is for the Board of Trustees to set a public hearing on the revised plan.
Motion-To Set a Public Hearing for the Comprehensive
Plan for April 4, 2005 at 7:35pm.
Trustee Leopold moved that the public hearing be set and Trustee O’Neill seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
All
employees were entered at their current rate where the Mayor had left them
blank. Last years SS# & Medicare # were used.
A1001-Real
Property Taxes at a $1.65 rate has been entered $541,098
F1030-Special
Assessment-Changed to reflect actual cost of BAN-$19,114
F9730.6-BAN
Principal-Changed to reflect actual cost-$18,744
F9730.7-BAN
Interest-Changed to reflect actual cost-$370
G0962.2-Budgetary Provisions for Other Uses-adjusted to account for G1030 change.
Jodi had written in notes on the budget to help the Board better understand some of the items. The following were additional questions raised at the meeting:
A1560-Electrical Inspection Fees-Floyd and Ben had come up with a new fee schedule and after review, the Trustees would like to have Floyd attend our noon meeting to discuss them. Jodi will call Floyd and ask him to attend.
A2590-Building
Permits the Mayor increased up to $40,000 but Jodi spoke with Ben and he would
be more comfortable having it remain the same at $25,000. No big commercial
projects that he knows of. Consider changing.
A2655-Minor
sales are only high this year because people bought plans for N. Triphammer Rd.
Project. Jodi suggests leaving at $200.
A3620.4-Code
Enforcement Contractual- consider increasing from $3,000 to $4,000 to account
for Carol & Floyd’s mileage allowance.
A8020.1-The
Planning Board salary is a question because it doesn’t equal the 15% increase
Don stated in his email. At 15% it should be $17,250 not $18,500.
A5110.2-Equipment-This line item is for a tractor but John stated that the estimates he received from Rick were closer to $25,000 rather than $20,000. Was the estimate that Dennis gave the Mayor different?
A5110.13-Summer Laborer Salary- Rick had suggested to John that some temporary labor would be useful in late April- early May which is prior to the typical start date for our summer hire. John suggested adding $1,000 to this line item to allow for approximately 10 days of temporary labor at $100 a day. Consider increasing this line item to $6,000.
A8020.45-Planning Consultant-A Trustee asked why it went from $5,000 last year to $500 this year. Last year we hired a consultant to do our Open Space Plan.
A0962.21-Budgetary Provisions for other Uses-Parks- John ask what this item was. It is a transfer to General Capital Reserve for future park capital improvements or parkland purchases.
F8340.2-Transmission & Distribution Equipment/Capital Outlay-The Board wondered what this item was for since it increased from $25,000 to $85,000.
John asked if the Village
wanted to begin to comply with the NYS guidance regarding street signs, we will
need to replace the existing wooden signs with the standard metal ones. John
stated that Rick says that we would need about 45-50 signs at a cost of
approximately $50.00 each for materials. This process could be phased in over a
period of 2-3 years if necessary. Larry stated that with the
During General Discussion David Dubow reported that Randy Marcus would have a proposed local law for the April meeting so that a public hearing on the Codification can be set. Larry stated that the draft version of the Codification is on the WebPages. It will be nice to have the official Codification on the WebPages because it is searchable. Once it is approved we will have to set a price for the document. If people would rather, they can just look at it online or print it themselves.
There is a parcel of
approximately seven acres by Kensington that the Edelmans would like to
dedicate to the
David Dubow also informed
the Trustees that the documentation to accept
Larry stated that the
Ithaca Journal has published two articles on the N. Triphammer Road Project
from his email broadcast. People are contacting Larry to have him add them to
his email list. Larry has put a place at the top of our website to let you
access all previous
There was an issue of a pothole at the end of the road where you come out of TOPS onto N. Triphammer. The hole was in the State right of way but the Mayor had our Public Works Department fill it anyway so as to protect vehicles.
Frank stated that the Town
Sewer Committee was waiting on the
The Board discussed the proposed change in the way the Village of Cayuga Heights would charge outside users for sewer. It was concluded that this may have significant effects on the amounts payable by Village property owners and will have to be followed carefully.
Someone approached
Motion- To Go into Executive Session to Discuss Personnel Issues
Trustee
Trustee
The Board went into executive session at 9:00pm.
Motion- To Come Out of Executive Session
Trustee O’Neill moved to come out of executive
session. Trustee
Trustee
The Board came out of executive session at 10:45pm.
Resolution #4116 -To
Authorize the Deputy Mayor to Offer the Position of
Working Supervisor of
Public Works to the Primary Candidate
Trustee Leopold moved this resolution. Trustee
O’Neill seconded the motion. A vote was taken:
Trustee
Motion- To Adjourn
Trustee O’Neill moved for adjournment. Trustee
Trustee
The
meeting adjourned at 10:50 PM.