HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-04-03 WDWD Meeting Minutes West Danby Water Meeting Minutes
April 3, 2024
Meeting called to order at 5:00 pm by Ben Coakley
Attending: Ben Coakley, Marrell Cortright, Skip Fairchild, Peter McDonald, Scott Wendt,
Shawn Wendt, Leslie Connor, Joel Gagnon, Town Code Officer - Steve Cortright
Everyone was emailed the minutes. Skip made the motion to accept the minutes as
sent out. Peter seconded this. All were in favor.
The MOU with the Fire District was rejected by their lawyer, so we need to discuss
options for office space. Long discussions and many options thrown around. We feel
that to serve our needs we need a 12' x 14' building. It was the general feeling that a
prebuilt shed could be the best option money wise. Marrell will visit some places to get
an idea of what the cost might be. A couple of key points - it will have to be wired by a
licensed electrician and the door needs to open out, the floor needs to be insulated.
Steve provided a map of our property lines to show that we could put this up by our
pump house and have the electricity come from there.
Operator Report -
Scott - The leak at 500 Brown rd has been fixed. The pump is now only running once
every three days.
Had to mark Hillview rd again for road work. Scott and Shawn attended the WHO
workshop on Friday, March 29th. They both got 6 hours credit.
Old Business -
Fire Hydrant replacement - it's looking like each hydrant could cost around $10,000
each. Peter makes the motion that we approach the town board to request that some of
the ARPA money held by the town be used to replace the three hydrants. Skip
seconded this motion and all were in favor. On a side note, an alternative solution may
be to look for grants to fund the replacement. We should attend the May 6th town board
meeting to convey our request.
The town is not going forward with the GIS project soon, but they will still be doing so at
some point in the future. So we need to keep viewing the current GIS system through
RCAP like we have been.
Peter handed out a write up of the employee structure of the water district.
New Business - There's water quality grants available that we could be applying for. If
we want to the first deadline this year is June 14. Another side note, if we want to apply
to grants, we will need an engineering study conducted on our system to apply with.
We will be flushing hydrants on May 4th and 5th.
Skip made the motion to adjourn, Peter seconded this and all were in favor.
Meeting adjourned at 6:45pm
Respectfully Submitted,
Marrell Cortright
Additions:
Vouchers - The Board members all signed these after the meeting so here they are as
an addition to the monthly minutes.
Yaws - $50 - monthly water test plus the annual Nitrate Test - $55
Ace Hardware - Misc. needfuls - marking paint, light bulbs, fittings, couplers - $43.28
Badger Hosting for 10/2021 and 12/2021 - $390.00
Badger Hosting for 8/2022 - $133.20
Badger Hosting for 3/2024 - $154.00
The bills for Badger from 2021 and 2022 were recently found in the past town clerk
office and have not ever been submitted.
Marrell Cortright
Secretary