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12/18/72
First to money matters. The Village has received a check for $6,670 under the
Revenue Sharing program as payment covering the first 6 months of 1972. Another check,
amount not certain, will arrive early in January 1973 to cover the last 6 months of 1972.
The County informs us that our estimated share of the Sales.Tax, to be paid during
the coming calendar year, will be $130,577. Payment will be quarterly, the first
payment in April and therefore within the present fiscal year of the Village.
Work comes today from the Tompkins County Board of Representatives that the documents
necessary to authorize the creation of Tompkins County Sewer Distrivt No. 1 are
ready for submission to the Attorney General of the State.
I hive received word from the Army Corps of Engineers that they are ready to grant
us a permit, con certain conditions, to lay a seaondootitfdllppipe in Cayuga Lake.
I need a resolution the Corps sgys, to state formally that I am authorized to sign
the docmments for the Village. I shall be grateful for a resolution as follows:
I will take up with the attorney the question of the conditions and if they prove
acceptable to him and the Engineer I will sign the documents; otherwise I will come
back to you to disuass the conditions.
The question of water for the four municipalities and for:the City of I$aca.has
had considerable discussion since out last meeting. I do not know what policies are
being considered by the City of Ithaca or what time may elapse before the City
has an official policy. How that policy,when agreed on, will affect the three
towns and the Village, I do no know. I have not attended meetings between Walter
Schwan and others and the City officials,because I had insuggicient notice of the
meetings - in one instances, a few minutes.
I have attended three or four productive meetings among officials of the Town of
Ithaca, Lansing and Dryden and thdir attorneys. We went to work to draw up the
basic information necessary for drafing a contract among the municipalities; a
difficult task, full of detail. In some 6 or 7 hours we did alm6st all of the
preliminary ground work, and, thanks to Walter Schwan we had mastered most of the
financial items, with the variants that arise from working with a grant and with-
out one and so forth. Our plan was to draft a contract in such a way that if
the City of Ithaca wished to join with us the contract could be adopted to
the occaaion with a minimum of alteration. As far as I know, this part of the
planning has been set aside for the present and the towns have become entangled
in the various plans the City is considering.
I have had a further call from Mr. Schickel about his condominium proposal. I
reminded him that the first question for us to decide is whether we wish to re-
consider our former action, which rejected his request. I have had calls from
persons who thought that we inteded to decide the larger question of a permit
tonight and who wished to speak against it. I told them that in my Oudgment
the Board would do no more tonight than decide whether it wished to reconsider.
I shall be glad to have your views on the matter.
Er have worked out a definition of duties between the Police department and the pu
Public Works department concerning procedure to be followed in snow and ice
emmergencies. This new code replaces and makes more clear the areas of
responsibility for the two departments.