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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2011-08-31TOWN OF DRYDE SPECIAL TOW BOARD IWF TING August 31, 2011 Present: Supervisor Mar,} Ann Sumner, Cl Stephen Stelick, Cl Jason Leifer, Cl David Makar Other Town Staff; Patricia C- Millard, Deputy Town Clerk Dan Kwasnowski, Director of Planning Mahlon Perkins, To%." AUorr,ey Jeff Kirby, Town Engineer upv Surrmer opened the meeting at 7 :00 p.m, PUBLIC HEARING CLARITY CONNECT FEE WAIVER APPLICATION IN DONNE TION WITH TOWER WORK DONE AS PART OF A STATE GRANT The public hearing for Clarity Cnnrnect waiver of fees was oprmed at 7:02 p.rn- The reading of the notice was waived. There was a discussion regarding what was included in the $5,800 for which the waiver was requested, PUBLIC HEARING CLARITY CONNECT SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION TO MOUNT ANTENNAE ON AN EXISTING TOWER AT 608 MT PLEASANT ROAD The public hearing for Clarity onnect's Special Use Permit Application opened at 7007 p -M- The roading of the notice was waived. The application is for co- location on an existing tower (County Tower). The footprint is not changing. They will be adding relatively small antennas on an existing tower and the tower can hold this addition, The board reviewed the prepared SSQR for the Mt, Pleasant Road site. i RESOLUTION #138 (2011) - NEG SEAR DEC - APPLICATION OF CLARITY CONNECT, INC., FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO MOUNT l ANTENNAE ON AN EXISTING TOWER AT 608 MT PLEASANT ROAD � Cl Makar offered the following resolution and asked for ih: adoption: WHEREAS, A. The proposed action involves r~pnsideration of the applioation of Clarity Connect, Inc., for a Special Use Permit to mount antennas on an existing tower at 608 Mt- Pleasant Road- F3. The proposed action is an Unlisted Action for which the Town Board of the, To%&•n of Dryden is the lead agency for the purpo%Rs of uncoordinated environmental review in connection with approval by I'he 7`oLLrn. TB 08 -31 -11 Page 2 of 4 C. The Town Board of the Town of Dryden, in performing the lead agency function for its independent and uncoordinated environmental review in accordance with Article 8 of the New York State Environmental Conservation Law - the State Environmental Quality Review Act "(SEQR), (i) thoroughly reviewed the Long Environmental Assessment Form (the "Full EAF"), Part: 1., and any and all other documents prepared and submitted with respect to this proposed action and its environmental review, (ii) thoroughly analyzed the potential relevant areas of environmental concern to determine if the proposed action may have a significant adverse impact on the environment by reviewing and completing Part 2 of the Full EAF, including the criteria identified in 6 NYCRR §6173(c), NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS: 1, The Town Board of the Town of Dryden, based upon (i) its thorough review of the Full EAF, Parts 1. and 2, and any and all other documents prepared and submitted with respect to this proposed action and its environmental review, (ii) its thorough review of the potential relevant areas of environmental concern to determine if the proposed action may have a significant adverse impact on the environment, including the criteria identified in 6 NYCRR §617.7(c), hereby makes a negative determination of environmental significance ( "Negative Declaration") in accordance with SEQR for the above referenced proposed action, and determines that an Environmental Impact Statement will be required, and 2. The responsible officer of the Town Board of the Town of Dryden is hereby authorized and directed to complete and sign as required the determination of significance, confirming the foregoing Negative Declaration, which fully completed and signed Full EAF and determination of significance are incorporated by reference in this resolution. 2rul Cl heifer Roll Call Vote Cl Stelick Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Malcar Yes Cl beifer Yes The public hearing for the fees waiver was closed at 7:16 p.m. RESOLUTION NO. #139 (2011) - Waiver of Fees Agreement Councilperson Stelick offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden authorizes the Town Supervisor to enter into an agreement with Clarity Connect, Inc. (Clarity) for a waiver of application fees and reimbursable expenses in connection with Clarity's application for a special use permit to co- locate its antennae on the Mt. Pleasant Road telecommunications tower owned by Tompkins County and situated on the lands of Cornell University. The outline of the agreement is that Clarity will live up to its obligations in the December 2010 agreement with respect to restriction on the monthly ® fees to be charged, will provide the free wireless hotspots set forth in that agreement and in the grant application, and will provide at least one public forum online streaming TB 08 -3141 Page 3 of 4 ® video per year. This will be structured as a five -year agreement with one -fifth of the total amount of fees to be waived each year (after an annual performance review). The total amount: of fees and reimbursable expenses requested to be waived is $5,800.00. Seconded: Councilperson Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Stelick Yes Supv Sumner Yes C1 Makar Yes Cl Leifer Yes The public hearing for the Special Use Permit application was closed at 7 :23. RESOLUTION NO. # 140 (2011) - CLARITY CONNECT SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION TO MOUNT ANTENNAE ON AN EXISTING TOWER AT 608 MT PLEASANT ROAD Cl Stelick offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVF.D, that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden approves the Special Use Permit application for Clarity Connect to co- locate its antennae on the Mt. Pleasant Road telecommunications tower owned by Tompkins County and situated ont eh lands of Cornell University. The fee waiver agreement must be executed prior to the Special ® Use Permit being issued. Standard conditions of approval will apply. No additional conditions of approval are required. Seconded by Cl Makar. Roll Call Vote CI Stelick Yes Supv Sumner Yes C1 Makar Yes Cl Leifer Yes FINANCE COMMITTEE - Supv Sumner received a notice from the Court Office requesting a copy of this year's internal audit. This needs to be scheduled. A Comptroller's Risk Assessment: was performed recently. The results have not yet been received. The person performing the assessment still needs to speak to the Highway Superintendent. ATTORNEY'S REPORT Attorney Perkins researched the Sale of Refuse topic. There will be a resolution on the next: agenda. There was a question about where the proceeds of the sale of scrap metal from the Highway Department should go. Attorney Perkins handed out Article 111 of the draft Zoning Law. There are 14 pages of definitions. No substantive changes were intended. Where there seemed to be a definition missing, it was added. Where a definition matched a state item, the term was changed to match State Law for consistency. If definitions were not used in the 0 ordinance, they were deleted. Mobile Home definition being kept, adding to use table as not allowed in any district. The current Manufactured Home Park Ordinance will stay in TB 08 -31 -11 Page 4 of 4 effect once the new Law is adopted for the time being. This should be made consistent with multiple family dwellings. There is a rationalization for having increased density on public water and sewer. A definition for Green Space needs to be added (as opposed to open space). Discussion of non - native species of plants and invasive plants (there was a list titled Invasive Species from Tompkins County). The fee schedule needs to be discussed as well at some point. D Kwasnowski has been updating that and will share with the Town Board once it is ready for review. Discussion of lot size and density requirements. Two versions of the proposed law were found to have a discrepancy between 1 acre minimum and 2 acre minimum. This was corrected. Dan is going to write up a summary of the discussion and the changes proposed and get it to the Town Board. September 8(h Planning Board meeting — they were emailed the copy sent to the Town Board for tonight and asked for feedback. They will be sent a copy of the definitions as well. RFP FOR IT SERVICES An RFP was sent to the Technology Committee. If we are to get proposals back in time for budget purposes, it needs to go out soon. It has been reviewed and it will be sent out Friday, September 2 »d with a return deadline of September 1.6Lh. The Town Board asked how the search was going for laptops for Town Board members. Netbooks are not sufficient. They can't handle Windows 7 Professional, and that's needed to log in to the domain. The laptops need to run Windows 7 Professional, Office 2007 Standard, and not cost more than $300. The licensing requirements were emailed to the Board last week. They asked the Deputy Clerk to look in to refurbished machines since the most recent quote was for $500 -$600 per machine plus licensing costs of $288 if Win 7 Pro is already installed. An upgrade to Win 7 Pro is $1.17. There being no further business, on motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was adjourned at 8:50 p.m. Respectfully Submitted, r Patty illard