Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAbout2014-11-20TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 1 of 12 TOWN OF DRYDEN TOWN BOARD MEETING November 20, 2014 Present: Supervisor Mary Ann Sumner, Cl Gregory Sloan, Cl Joseph Solomon, Cl Jason Leifer, Cl Linda Lavine Elected Officials: Bambi L. Avery, Town Clerk Other Town Staff: Mahlon Perkins, Town Attorney Jane Nicholson, Director of Planning Supv Sumner opened the meeting at 7:05 p.m. and board members and guests participated in the pledge of allegiance. PUBLIC HEARING SCLIWC ACQUIRING INTEREST IN FACILITIES TO BE CONSTRUCTED BY THE VILLAGE OF LANSING Supv Sumner explained that though it has been determined that this public hearing is no longer necessary, she opened the hearing at 7:07 p.m. in the event there were any comments. There were none. The hearing was closed. Special Use Permit Applications – Jane Nicholson reviewed them briefly last week with the board. Michael Moore said he is planning to build a storage operation between Laser Brewer and Upscale Remodeling on Route 13. It will be a 12,000 square foot stora ge building with climate controlled storage units. He is asking f or two buildings, and will build one in the spring and one a few years later. The Board scheduled the public hearing for December 18, 2014 at 7:10 p.m. Supv Sumner said she does not anticipate anything unusual. Rick Page of Incodema3D said they are requesting another special use permit for storage and warehousing of nonhazardous material in the building. Their landscape plan has been filed with the Planning Department to satisfy a condition of the existing special use permit. J Nicholson shared that plan with the board for informational purposes. The public hearing was set for December 18, 2014 at 7:25 p.m. CITIZENS PRIVILEGE Hugh Edwards, 713 West Dryden Road, said he owns property on the south side of West Dryden Road, where NYSEG proposes to install a 10” pipeline. They have been presented with an easement document. There are no specifications in the document with respect to the pipeline. It is difficult to evaluate this easement and make any decision about it. It does indicate that the pipeline can be either a distribution or a transmission line. A transmission line is a high pressure, high volume gas line, and he is not enthusiastic about having that running through his property for safety reasons. That is a higher risk than a distribution line. This transmission line could decrease his property value, especially if they install service facilities. A few weeks ago two NYSEG reps visited them. When he mentioned that he wanted to have an attorney look at it, they immediately discouraged that. They could not produce maps, TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 2 of 12 plans or other technical documentation. The NYSEG rep also indicated that if they didn’t sign the easement, NYSEG would obtain access by other means. He assumed they meant eminent domain. He is concerned with the tactics being used. He is hoping that the board will look at this easement thing along the entire road. Supv Sumner said they have been very forthright with information wit h her. She will talk with them about the approach with the easements. She understands they are working with a subcontractor to obtain the easements and they should know that it is not being represented honestly. Supv Sumner said she knows their plans. If she were a property owner she would negotiate the easement. This property is technically not subject to eminent domain, but she understands that if they have all but some small amount of the easements they need, then the PSE may let them use for the remainder. Cl Lavine would like to have NYSEG representatives come to a board meeting and address everyone. Supv Sumner said she may be able to get them here in December. Cl Sloan thanked him for coming and telling his first hand experience. He had heard similar stories second hand and this is helpful. Supv Sumner said they don’t want to be committed to something today that will bind them in the future. They may change their minds at some point. Cl Sloan said they are looking for people to sign easements (in perpetuity). He believes they have to go on the record with what they actually plan to do. Sue Stein, 983 W Dryden Rd, said she is trying to unravel what the easement and pipeline is all about and is having trouble getting any answers. This easement is dangerous to the entire community because it is so open ended. There are people on the road already who have signed it and it has legal language that gives away your whole property. She has had an attorney look at it. It says gas pipeline with no mention of psi, pressure, size, nothing. It doesn’t say distribution it says transmission, and it talks about gas lines. It gives them the right to take up the line and replace it at any time with whatever they want. It states 15 feet, “the centerline of said easement and right of way to be located in, through, under and to the extent necessary upon and over grantor’s land”. It actually never says anything about the roadway, the shoulder, or the stuff they were told verbally. The language in the easement on location is not clear. There is no legal document showing exactly where the right of way is. They give you a sketch. What makes it frightening is that the easement says “together with ingress and egress over the easement and right of way and other lands of the grantor for all of the above purposes and the right now and from time to time to trim, cut, burn, treat and/or remove by manual, mechanical and chemical means trees, roots, brush, structures and other obstructions within said easement and right of way.” There are no limits to what NYSEG can do with this. If this turns into a transmission line in the future, it could have compressors on any one of the properties of the people who have signed. This because the landsmen com and say you don’t need a lawyer, we can get this the easy way or the hard way, or we can get access to your property by other means. It seems that NYSEG can use eminent domain. A lot of the easements have been signed. There are no protections for property owners. She would like to know what this is. They had a conversation with Kathy Miller who told them it is connected to the Cayuga Power Plant. Supv Sumner said to the extent that all gas delivery systems are connected, yes. But it is not sufficient in any way to meet the Cayuga Plant’s needs. S Stein said she feels it is a bigger issue than just the residents on West Dryden Road. TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 3 of 12 Atty Perkins said this is really not a town function. It is between NYSEG and property owners. This has nothing to do with the franchise agreement signed years ago. Cl Sloan said we should remember that NYSEG is a subsidiary of Iberdrola, a foreign company. S Stein is worried that this could be something bigger. She wondered if people who have already signed not knowing what they signed have any recourse. She thinks they need help from the town. Some people think this is just about getting gas hooked up to their house. Supv Sumner she will get any information we have together, and have them come to a meeting. Cl Sloan said construction is scheduled for spring. He reminded people thinking of not signing the easement to seriously ponder what the neighbor across the street is up to. Deborah Cipolla Dennis, 964 W Dryden Road, said if Supv Sumner has a lot of information they are not aware of, they would like her to meet and share it with residents. Supv Sumner will do that. D Cipolla Dennis said they have been trying very hard to get information and it is impossible. Iberdrola does not answer questions and when they do, they give different answers to different people. She is very worried. She lives on the north side of the road and has not been faced with easement. But is worried about her neighbors, the road and what is going to happen. She spoke at a county legislature meeting. This pipeline is bigger than just a pipeline that she doesn’t want in her yard or her neighbor’s yard. It is about climate change. We have to stop use of fossil fuels. We have to say no to infrastructure build out. We need to stop it in Tompkins County and the Town of Dryden. She encouraged the board to explore what can be done at the legal level using home rule to stop this kind of project. We stopped fracking and she wants to stop the foss il fuel infrastructure build out. The seven feet of snow being dumped on Buffalo is climate change and that could be Ithaca. Can you imagine how much worse it will get if we continue to do this? Let’s get together as a community. Let’s be leaders and say no more fossil fuel infrastructure. We don’t want to saddle the next generations with 40 more years of infrastructure that will continue to destroy the planet. Joe Wilson, 75 Hunt Hill Road, said there is a group of local experts on pipelines who are preparing an alternative proposal to the way we provide energy to the corridor from Freeville to Lansing and including the Lucente properties and the other development and the local businesses. He hopes that the board will invite them as soon as they have their program together. It should be available in December. He distributed the attached statement and information, and read portions for the board and audience. Marie McRae, Irish Settlement Road, said she owns property in Freeville that could be within what could be a blast zone of a ten inch pipeline. Most of her participation in this has been as observer. She only hears questions and no solid answers. The easement is terrible. It seems that NYSEG is going full steam ahead with this project. She asked if the board can help them hit the pause button on this. They really need solid answers. People’s property rights are being taken away from them in the worst way. Joanne Cipolla Dennis, 964 W Dryden Road, a lot of her neighbors are here concerned about the pipeline. They had a meeting with two attorneys who said it is a very bad idea to sign the easement as it is and advised them to seek a competent attorney familiar with the risks and threats of this type of pipeline. She talked with a representative from Tompkins Trust who says the easement as it is violates their mortgage agreement. The insurance company has said they won’t cancel the mortgage insurance or home insurance, but they can TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 4 of 12 choose not to renew it. All the risk is on the homeowner and on the neighbor across the street from them. There is a risk of loss of life for all. She won’t take the risk to have a wealthy foreign energy giant put their thumb on her community again. She has been under threat for seven years. It is taking a toll on her health. She is sick and tired of worrying and not sleeping, tired of thinking about this every day. She should have finished her house by now and built six others self powered just like hers that don’t require gas because gas is not a necessity. NYSEG now owes her money because she put solar panels in her yard and she doesn’t use gas anymore. Responsible builders will not build with fossil fuel or an explosive fuel that can cost someone their life. They would not build a building heated with radon-laced methane gas from the Marcellus Shale formation that we know is killing us. She asked for the town’s leadership to take a courageous stance and b an new infrastructure. If not, she will leave because she will not continue to live under this kind of stress. To leave here would devastate them, but it would be better than living under this type of stress. She asked Supv Sumner to come forward with any information she has so they can fight this. Inshik Lee, 879 W Dryden Rd, said she just realized that her property has the longest frontage on the south side, half a mile. They bought the property to live lightly on the land and feel insulted that Iberdrola can come in and go counter to her beliefs and take whatever they want and impact her life. It is also about what right do they have to come in and run across their land so that they can help another municipality and their tax base. She pays a lot of taxes on her land. They are worried and ask the board to be worried as well. Cl Lavine asked whether the County has any say in this because it is a county road. M Lane said it has to issue a permit to use the road with the same criteria as anyone else. He will provide a copy of a letter concerning this from the highway manager or county attorney. Bill Lowe, 450 Wood Road, owns property on W Dryden Road and was asked to sign an easement. He would not because it was not clear and they re-wrote it with no significant change. He is aggravated that Doris Lobdell was told by the representative that he had signed and she should sign too. Cl Lavine said presumably they have lied about a number of things. Why would they sign anything for a dollar if there is no promise for something. She would expect they would negotiate for more money. S Stein said people assume they have no power. J Cipolla Dennis said people sign because they don’t understand the liability or risk. Supv Sumner will email board members and try to put something together for a meeting to address this. She understands the urgency in the community. She just came back from a conference on state preemption of local authority, which gave her other things to worry about. She is still processing what she learned and will share it at another time. J Wilson said he heard at a conference that municipalities have authority over unregulated pipelines. This is an unregulated pipeline because the PSI that NYSEG is quoting is one pound below PSC limit. The length of the proposed line is below the eight or nine miles that PSC regulates and as an alleged distribution line it is not PSC regulated. But it was stated that in New York State municipalities can have authority over unregulated pipelines, meaning ones that don’t fall under PSC or FERC jurisdiction, and this appears to be one. Cl Sloan said if we are going to do anything about this we can’t waste more time. He would like to have enough information to choose a course of action at the next town board meeting. Cl Sloan would like to figure out a way to put them on the record with respect to TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 5 of 12 what they are going to do. He would like to know what legal rights the town has. Can the board ask for site plan review, regulate them, or determine size of pipelines in the town? Atty Perkins will look into those questions. The expense is within the retainer, if he doesn’t have to spend a lot of time on it. Cl Lavine said she agrees with the heinous nature of feeling as if rights were totally trampled, and takes responsibility to say that as the public’s representatives the board needs to do everything possible to find out what is going on. Members of the audience thanked the board. J Cipolla Dennis encouraged them to talk with Dr Ingraffia who knows about the size of the pipeline. He did say that it can go above 124 psi to repower Cayuga. Supv Sumner will forward the email she received about the number of easements that have been obtained. TOWN CLERK RESOLUTION #171 (2014) – APPROVE MINUTES Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves the meeting minutes of October 9 and October 16, 2014. 2nd Cl Solomon Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Abstain Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes COUNTY BRIEFING Mike Lane reported that the County Legislature passed its budget Tuesday night. They are below the tax cap. Property owners will receive a check from the state. For an average home in the county it will be about $8.50. There will be a reduction to $4 per unit on the solid waste fee. The reason is the county has paid off some of the original bonds and the savings has been passed on in this reduction. He is not optimistic about meeting the tax cap next year and show the 1% reduction on the levy county wide by working with other municipalities. It is hard to be able to come up with that reduction because they will not take into account what has been done in the past in consolidation of services in the County. The Health Insurance Consortium has provided a great deal of savings, but will not count because was it formed in 2011. You are only allowed to look back to 2012 for those savings. Supv Sumner explained that in June municipalities are required to submit a report to the State Comptrollers Office demonstrating how we plan to cut 1% of our levy each year for three years through shared services. There is a task force working on this, but it seems there’s no reason for hope. It’s a lot of hard work and to some degree the analysis of the services we already share is a worthwhile endeavor, the prospect of another 1% seems unreachable. M Lane said the Pine Tree Road project (the part near Route 366 to improve the trail and walkability, remove the old railroad bridge and install a new footbridge) has stalled. They were about to go to bid and discovered that the potential cost had gone way out of sight. There is now a gap of about $400,000. They will look at it again in about six months. The Town of Ithaca wants the trail to be paved because they will plow it in the winter. A cinder surface is TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 6 of 12 not good for plowing. The embankment that has to be shored up adds to the cost. They would eventually like a network of trails. Perhaps they will find new funding. The district 9 seat on the County Legislature has been vacated by Brian Robison effective December 1. He will be the new Under Sheriff as soon as the current one retires. Under the County Charter, there will be a special election in District 9. The resolution will be adopted December 2 and the election will take place about mid February. UNFINISHED BUSINESS Health Insurance – With respect to health insurance benefits for the justices, Atty Perkins has reviewed case law and the town does not have the authority to increase their contribution to health insurance premiums or essentially decrease their compensation. The 2015 preliminary budget will need to be adjusted to reflect that. Supv Sumner distributed a budget that includes the amendments that were made last week and the special districts. By law, the budget must be passed by tonight. If not passed, the preliminary budget as advertised will become the official budget. Supv Sumner said she is not satisfied with this budget. She was not thrilled with the preliminary budget as brought to hearing, and is less pleased with this one. The board discussed health insurance premium contributions for part time elected officials. Under the existing policy the town pays 100% of premiums for individual coverage for part time elected officials. In 2004 a resolution was passed stating that the Highway Superintendent and Town Clerk are considered the same as full time employees for the sake health insurance (100% paid for individual or family coverage if they were elected prior to 2011 and 90% paid if they were elected after 2011). RESOLUTION #172 (2014) – HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR BOARD MEMBERS Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby revises the Town’s policy with respect to health insurance coverage to provide that effective July 1, 2015, town board members may choose individual coverage with 45% of the premium paid by the town and 55% paid by the board member, and may purchase family coverage at entirely their own expense. 2nd Cl Sloan Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes RESOLUTION #173 (2014) – HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR TOWN SUPERVISOR Cl Solomon offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby determines that for the current Supervisor’s current term, the Town will continue to pay 100% of individual coverage. 2nd Cl Sloan Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 7 of 12 Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes Because of the changes made in health insurance contributions, the board needs to restore funds to budget line A9060.8. RESOLUTION #174 (2014) – AMEND 2015 PRELIMINARY BUDGET Cl Sloan offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby amends the 2015 preliminary budget by increasing A9060.8 by $6,000 by increasing the levy amount. 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes This change has increased the rate by less than one penny, to $1.6098 per thousand from $1.6033 and will not put us over the tax levy cap. RESOLUTION #175 (2014) – ADOPT 2015 ASSESSMENT AND SPECIAL DISTRICT ROLLS Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby adopts the Special District and Assessment Rolls for the Town of Dryden for 2015. 2nd Cl Solomon Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes Supv Sumner introduced the following resolution and said she thought the goal of this budget was to reduce spending, reduce the use of fund balance and control the tax rate. It seems to her that this budget which increases spending, does not decrease use of fund balance and increases the tax rate, is contrary to all three of those goals. Cl Sloan said it’s all in the minutes, but three out of the four members present at last week’s meeting felt that the DA highway budget needed to be increased by $100,000. If you looked at 2010 to 2013, the average DA plus DB together was 3.235 million dollars. In 2014 the budget dropped to 2.96 million, so that was a significant drop. With the $100,000 that was added back, the 2015 budget for those two funds is 3.06 million dollars, still less than the average for 2010 to 2013. Given that we had a pretty brutal winter last year and given that so far this year doesn’t look promising and given that the single most important thing we do as town board is ensure that people do not drive though wicked potholes, with all these things, $100,000 back in the highway budget seemed reasonable and the vote was 3 to 1 to make it so. Because of the issues about fund balance, we also voted that that money would not come out of fund balance, but would come out of new tax revenues. He calculates that the increase TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 8 of 12 amounts to $6.73 per person, less than the price of a movie ticket. He thinks it will make a significant difference for the margins that the highway department has to deal with this year. Supv Sumner said she disagrees that the most important thing the board has to deal with is potholes. Cl Sloan was disappointed by the headline in The Cortland Standard because they did not clarify 11% of what was increased and he is still not clear. The key point is a percentage of what. The amount the budget was increased amounts to less than $7.00 per person. Cl Leifer added that there were comments at the public hearing about increasing the highway budget. The contingency for the fire departments is in a different fund and is a $.03 increase on a different tax levy. If it isn’t spent, it will be added to the fund balance. The board will need to vote to appropriate that contingency. Cl Sloan noted that the board also responded to the community in restoring funding to youth services and community grants. Supv Sumner said she doesn’t recall ever hearing a specific amount or a specific reason for restoring the highway department funds. Cl Leifer and Cl Solomon said snow removal was a reason. RESOLUTION #176 (2014) – ADOPT 2015 BUDGET AND SPECIAL DISTRICTS BUDGETS Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby adopts the preliminary general budget, as amended, as the Town of Dryden’s general budget for 2015, and it is further RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby adopts the preliminary special districts budgets as Town of Dryden special districts budget for 2015. 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner No Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes RESOLUTION #177 (2014) – AUTHORIZE FIRE AND AMBULANCE CONTRACTS Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves the following fire and ambulance contracts and authorizes the Supervisor to execute the same: Neptune Hose Company No. 1 of Dryden, Inc. $258,777 Varna Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. 243,543 W.B. Strong Fire Company of Freeville, Inc. 169,575 Etna Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. 136,000 Brooktondale Fire Department 25,324 Dryden Ambulance, Inc. 384,451 TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 9 of 12 Slaterville Ambulance 3,500 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes Supv Sumner explained that Dryden Ambulance, Inc. has proposed rate changes for 2015 and 2016. These need to be approved by the board. RESOLUTION #178 (2014) – APPROVE AMBULANCE RATES RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves the following rates for Dryden Ambulance, Inc. for 2015 and 2016: Basic Life Support Sign-Off $ 115.50 Advanced Life Support Sign-Off $ 315.00 Basic Life Support Emergency $ 735.00 Advanced Life Support I $ 840.00 Advanced Life Support II $ 892.50 Paramedic Intercept $ 561.75 2016 Basic Life Support Sign-Off $ 120.00 Advanced Life Support Sign-Off $ 330.00 Basic Life Support Emergency $ 755.00 Advanced Life Support I $ 882.00 Advanced Life Support II $ 882.00 Paramedic Intercept $ 575.00 Mileage for all per loaded mile $15.75 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes The Dryden Recreation and Youth Commission has recommended that the Town Board appoint David Bravo-Cullen to the Commission to fill a vacancy. RESOLUTION #179 (2014) – APPOINT DRYC MEMBER – BRAVO-CULLEN Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, at this Town Board hereby appoints David Bravo-Cullen as a member of the Dryden Recreation and Youth Commission for a term to expire December 31, 2016. TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 10 of 12 2nd Cl Solomon Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes RESOLUTION #180 (2014 - AUTHORIZING SUPERVISOR TO SIGN JOINT PETITION WITH YELLOW BARN WATER COMPANY, INC. TO PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Cl Sloan offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: WHEREAS, this Town Board previously authorized in Resolution No. 43 (2014) the Town Supervisor to execute a Joint Petition with the Yellow Barn Water Company, Inc. requesting the Public Service Commission authorize the transfer of assets from the Yellow Barn Water Company to the Town on behalf of the Yellow Barn Water Dist rict, and WHEREAS, due to the necessity to increase the maximum amount proposed to be expended for the construction of the original improvements in the Yellow Barn Water District, a second Joint Petition to the Public Service Commission is necessary to reflect such increased amounts, now, therefore be it RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby authorizes the Town Supervisor to execute a second Joint Petition with the Yellow Barn Water Company requesting the Public Service Commission authorize the transfer of assets from the Yellow Barn Water Company to the Town of Dryden on behalf of the Yellow Barn Water District. 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes Supv Sumner said the town has already approved Bolton Point’s water rates for 2015 ($4.35/1,000 gallons) and it is necessary to approve a rate for the town. She recommends a town rate of $.58/1000 gallons for a total rate to the customer of $4.93/1,000 gallons. She said we have often used the town portion of the rate to cushion the increase from Bolton Point. Last year the town portion was only $.50 so this is taking it back to the norm. RESOLUTION #181 (2014) – APPROVE WATER RATES Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: WHEREAS, the Bolton Point water rate is $4.35 per thousand gallons, RESOLVED, that the Town Board establishes the town water at $.58 per thousand gallons, bringing the total for water customers in SW1 through SW6 to $4.93 per thousand gallons. 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 11 of 12 Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes RESOLUTION #182 (2014) – APPROVE SEWER RATES Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby approves the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility sewer rate of $1.90 per 1,000 gallons, and set the town rate at $.25 per 1,000 gallons, for a total of $2.15, which is the same as the local law pass ed last year, and further RESOLVED, the SS1 Sapsucker Woods customers and SS6 Peregrine Way customers shall be charged a $.06 per thousand gallons for a total of $2.21 per thousand gallons in those districts. 2nd Cl Sloan Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes Cl Leifer said he had received a call from the Highway Superintendent who told him that they have been working on an infrastructure problem at the intersection of Route 366 and Game Farm Road. R Young also informed him that the Office of Emergency Management, Division of Homeland Security has contacted him requesting assistance in Buffalo. He was wondering about use of a town credit card to use for lodging. Cl Solomon said that s hould be set up through FEMA or SEMO. He can talk with Supv Sumner tomorrow. It is necessary for the board to approve a Joint Intermunicipal Water Main Agreement in connection with the work being done on water mains in the Village of Lansing. RESOLUTION #183 (2014) - APPROVING THE “VILLAGE OF LANSING SOUTHERN CAYUGA LAKE INTERMUNICIPAL WATER COMMISSION & ITS MEMBER MUNICIPALITIES – JOINT INTERMUNICIPAL WATER MAIN AGREEMENT” Supv Sumner offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Dryden, pursuant to Town Law 202 - b, adopted a Public Interest Order on July 17, 2014 wherein it determined that it was in the public interest to make the join increase and improvement of the facilities of Water District No. 1, Snyder Hill Water District, Monkey Run Water District, Hall Road Water District, Turkey Hill Water District and the Royal Road Water District in the Town of Dryden consisting of the ability pursuant to a proposed use agreement to interconnect with a Route 13 water main crossing proposed to be constructed by the Village of Lansing, and WHEREAS, such proposed use agreement has been negotiated by the SCLIWC members with the Village of Lansing and is now embodied in an agreement captioned in the heading of this resolution, and TB 11-20-14 D R A F T Page 12 of 12 WHEREAS, Town Law 198(3) and General Municipal Law 119-o authorize a Town Board to enter into such an agreement as is captioned in the heading of this resolution, now, therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York hereby approve the “Village of Lansing Southern Cayuga Lake Intermunicipal Water Commission & Its Member Municipalities – Joint Intermunicipal Water Main Agreement,” and, be it further RESOLVED, that such approval shall be indicated and proved by the execution of such agreement by at least a majority of this Town Board’s members. 2nd Cl Leifer Roll Call Vote Cl Sloan Yes Cl Solomon Yes Supv Sumner Yes Cl Leifer Yes Cl Lavine Yes There being no further business, on motion made, seconded, and unanimously carried, the meeting was adjourned at 9:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Bambi L. Avery