HomeMy WebLinkAboutSpec Mtg. Minutes 3/3/1969• Village of Cayuga Heights
MINUTES of a Special Meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cayuga
Heights held March 3, 1969 in the Village Office, 194 Pleasant Grove Road.
PRESENT: Mayor F. G. Marcham; Trustees Harold R. Fisher, Verne A. Fogg,
Mary T. Freeman, Carl H. Nelson and Rase F. Randolph; Police Chief Jack W. McGraw,Sr.
Treasurer Gordon B. Wheeler.
OTHERS PRESENT: Representative of WTKO; Mr. Frank Liguori, Sanitary Engineer of
the Tompkins County Health Department; Superviso:s Harris Dates from Town of
Lansing, and Gary Lee from Town of Dryden; Mr. Ralph Jones.
The Village Police Chief discussed the problem of part time labor to meet the
problems caused by the death of Police Officers Reynolds and Mace. The Trustees
made the following resolution:
RESOLUTION #1404 - APPOINT PART TIME PATROLMEN
VOTED resolved to approve the appointment of James Blow, John Dundas and David Wall
as part time Police Patrolmen at a salary of $2.50 per hour. The appointments to
take effect on March 3, 1969. Also to approve the appointment of William A. Tuttle
as part time Police Patrolman at a salary of $3.00 per hour effective as of
February 25, 1969.
The Trustees considered the alternatives presented to them for remodelling and
expanding the Village Sewer Plant by Messrs. Teetor and Dobbins. They made the
following resolution:
RESOLUTION # 1405 - SEWER PLANT EXPANSION
VOTED to authorize the Engineers to plan for a plant that will serve the drainage
area (Project Area No. 1) as defined in the O'Brien & Gere report of February 1965
and will treat an estimated two million gallons of sewage a day.
Trustee Fisher recommended that in presenting this resolution to the Engineers
the Mayor inform them that insofar as possible they should plan for installation
of equipment only as it became necessary.
In later discussion the Board, Mr. Liguori and the Supervisors agreed to reactivate
the County Sewer Agency program, begun in 1965, with a view to establishing a
County Sewer District if that is agreeable to the parties involved. Those taking
part expressed the hope that the District might come into being at such a time
that it could take over the financing of the Sewer Project.
Meeting adjourned at 5:30 P.M.
• F. G. Marcham
Mayor