MINUTES of a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lansing held on Wednesday, May 12, 1999, in the Village Office.

Present: Mayor, Don Hartill, Trustees John Caren, Larry Fresinski, Lynn Leopold; Ben Curtis, Jodi Dake, Carol Willard and Dennis Reinhart.

Mayor Donald Hartill called the meeting to order at 12:10pm and went around the table to hear everyone’s comments.

Ben Curtis stated that he and members of the Planning Board went to Victor yesterday to meet with the planning director to discuss the process of hiring a consultant. Ben received a copy of Victor’s plan. Then they went on to Rochester to tour the plant which is the prefabrication sight for Marriott Hotels. EJ Delmonte is the owner. The Planning Board came away thinking it’s a state of the art operation. Ben stated that the building permit for the Marriott Hotel will be $15,000. Housing is strong in the Village. Old Navy is going in in the Pyramid Mall. Pyramid is still looking at ways to upgrade. The Youth Bureau kids did a great job planting around the village office this weekend. Tonight is the cable meeting. Larry asked Ben if there was a charge for I-Net. Ben doesn’t know of a charge. Larry understood that there was a $5,000 charge. There was a lengthy discussion regarding the Tompkins County Intermunicipal Cable Commission. Ben would like to do video conferencing from the boardroom. Ben asked the Mayor if he could get Greg Bronson of Cornell to come in and give an estimate. The Mayor told Ben he could go ahead and get an estimate but that doesn’t mean we will go ahead with this. John Caren has philosophical issues with this. He would rather have people physically come to our meetings.

Lynn Leopold commented that the flowers around the Village Office look great.

Larry Fresinski asked Lynn if she had the platforms for each elected official so that he may update them on the website. The Mayor told Larry where he might find them.

Mayor Hartill has a Monday phone appointment with Mr. Homik regarding the sidewalk. Ben has some issues with Mr. Homik, which he will e-mail to the Mayor. The next issue to take care of was to pass a resolution to move the money in the budget for the Repair Fund into the Capital Reserve Fund. Originally he and Sylvia had decided to set up a Repair Fund which was never done. After some research it was found that we don’t need a Repair Fund, that we can just use the Capital Reserve Fund.

Be it RESOLVED, to transfer $120,000 from Interfund Transfer, Transf. Repair

Fund, A9990.9 to Interfund Transfer, Transf. Capital Reserve Fund, A9950.9

Trustee John Caren moved that this resolution be adopted and Trustee Lynn Leopold

seconded the motion. A vote was taken:

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski-Aye Trustee John Caren-Aye

The next issue that needs addressed is health insurance. Three of our staff has health insurance through their spouse and the Village reimburses them $1400 and 50% of the remaining premium which is paid by the spouse. The problem is in calculating the amount. Two of the three are taking the Family premium subtracting the cost for single coverage then calculating what they get paid on that amount. Jodi has researched this back 6 years and it’s always been done differently by Carol. Jodi also called Sylvia to ask her the correct way to figure the insurance. Sylvia stated that Ben and Rick are doing it correctly and she had assumed that Carol had also done it that way in the past. The written policy is unclear. The Mayor feels we should be consistent and do it the same for everyone. He is inclined to do it the way the majority has done it. It was decided that we would go ahead and pay the vouchers as is and discuss this topic at the Monday, May 17^th meeting.

Trustee John Caren moved that this resolution be adopted and Trustee Larry Fresinski

seconded the motion. A vote was taken:

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski-Aye Trustee John Caren-Aye

Jodi reported that she went to the Using SARA Retention Schedules Workshop. There is still not a clear-cut answer as to what to keep and discard but she has received a number and contact person who will deal with each individual case. There is also a website where she can download the Schedule MU-1 and edit it to only have the information that is applicable to the Village. This information is also in the process of being updated and the new verse should be out at the end of 1999. There are also two printers in the office, which we need to surplus. This will be done at the Monday meeting.

Dennis has had five applicants for the temporary part-time laborer position. None of the applicants had any previous municipal experience. He would like to recommend to the Board Mike Jay Newport. He is just finishing his junior year at SUNY Brockport, he is an Emergency Medical Technician and can start tomorrow. Rick has also met the applicants and agrees that Mike Jay would be the best candidate.

Trustee John Caren moved that this resolution be adopted and Trustee Larry Fresinski

seconded the motion. A vote was taken:

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski-Aye Trustee John Caren-Aye

The temporary part-time laborer will not receive benefits only the two paid holidays.

Carol stated she was sorry for the confusion about the printer. The computer and printer were both donated to BOCES but she went back and got the printer. She also asked the Mayor if the Employee Handbook is revised, could she please see it before it was approved. The Mayor stated that all the employees would get a chance to see it.

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski-Aye

The Board adjourned at 1:20pm.

Jodi Dake

Village Clerk/Treasurer