HomeMy WebLinkAboutClerks rpt Sept 2011.pdfVillage of Cayuga Heights
836 Hanshaw Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
Phone: 607-257-1238
Fax: 607-257-4910
Date: October 5, 2011
To: Mayor Supron
Board of Trustees
Dept. Heads
From: Mary Mills, Clerk
RE: September 2011 Report
An update on the Tax bill collection shows $15,353.10 as outstanding balances.
There were no FOIL requests for the month of September.
Michael Salm, Sherpa, continues to modify and improve our server. Along with that are
the email issues that many of you have experienced. He is striving to eliminate those
problems as well. There have been broad band over charges due to the downloads and
patches required for the new server.
I initially provided the information from the Finger Lakes Technologies Group as a cost
saving measure. Our biggest cost is our internet provider. Sherpa has made a
suggestion to look at Time Warner Cable as another alternative. I will contact them
regarding a comparison quote during October and send this information to you once it is
received.
I would like to put this information back on the table – a new Roth 457 offered by the
Deferred Comp Plan available to employees. If you decided to offer this plan (no cost to
the Village; it would be a payroll deduction), it would be to provide information to all
employees the month of October with a target date of January 1st to begin the program.
The Village office took many calls regarding the confusing dates of collection for the
Tompkins County recycling program and I put a revised schedule in the latest Courier.
This has shown me that most everyone in the Village actually reads this green
brochure. The other visits that to the office were to purchase garbage tags, pay tax and
water bills, or to have documents notarized.
Finally, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to attend the NYCOM conference in
Saratoga Springs. The week long conference was amazing and intense. I learned a
lot, took lots of notes; which I will share with you if you are interested. I may be making
“suggestions” based on the information from this conference.