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Home My WebLink About1997-06-04 242 TOWN OF ENFIELD TOWN BOARD MEETING MINUTES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1997 The regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Enfield was held Wednesday,June 4th, 1997 at the Enfield Community Building, 182 Enfield Main Road, Ithaca,NY, 14850 at 6:30 p.m.. Supervisor Mather presiding. Present: Supervisor, William Mather;Town Councilmen, Garry Achilles, Lanny Clark, Gary Fisher. Town Councilman, Donald Lovelace,absent. Others present Highway Superintendent,Ron Updike; Alice Laue,Town Clerk. Pledge of Allegiance - Supervisor Mather led the assemblage in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Approval of May 7th, 1997 Town Board Meeting Minutes- Motion made by Councilman Achilles and seconded by Councilman Clark that the Town Board of the Town of Enfield approve for adoption the minutes of the regular Town Board meeting held May 7, 1997. Carried Unanimously Tompkins County_Board Representative -Peter Meskill Board of Representatives voted on process regarding budget and giving directions as to increases, if any, in target. This year's directions same as last three years- no increase in target, if you need an increase you apply for special request. Hines Road bridge- County Highway meeting June 5, 1997 will try to get something that works with Enfield Highway department. Public Safety Committee working on a proposal for jail medical services Committees. Community Council -Joe Scheher Met with fire department concerning small park Community Council wants to put in by community building with Youth Corp. After School program requesting additional money. Summer program moving ahead. Commemorative Committee- Gary Fisher Working on completing cookbook. Have a copy of everything to go to company for printing. Town Board Meeting Minutes 6-4-97 2 Cemetery Committee - Peggy Hubbell Met with Clarke Marshall, made a proposal for him to do a small section of Christian Cemetery,to see how it's going to work out lifting the stones out, leveling the ground underneath them, putting in new foundations and putting stones back. For Memorial Day weekend Donald Lovelace mowed and raked Budd cemetery. Jack Hubbell mowed Presbyterian and Rolfe cemeteries. Jack Meek trimmed Rolfe Peggy Hubbell placed 41 flags on veterans graves. County working on honoring Tompkins County war dead. Infrastructure Committee - Supervisor Mather No May meeting Fire Department- Roy Barriere. Fire department Explorer program has 14 active members. Seventeen calls during the month of May. 2 fire calls, 10 rescue calls,and 5 mutual aid calls. Old Business- Site Plan Review Law There is no legal way Site Plan Review law can be a legal ballot referendum. Some Town Board members mot comfortable in how town's people feel. Do we need another survey. Need to have a joint meeting with Planning Board members. Decency Law Town attorney not comfortable with law. Town attorney suggests a law be created that charges a legitimate fee,monitors and licenses activities. Decide at July meeting what Town Board is going to do. Highway Classification Program Information given to Town Board members, back to July meeting for discussion. TV Franchise - Negotiating a TV franchise coming up. Drug and Alcohol - Supervisor to contact Enfield school about making school a drug free school area, like Trumansburg school has done. Indexing Minutes -Councilman Fisher Diane Nelson willing to index minutes on a verbal contract. Written contract to be written up and signed. 243 Town Board Meeting Minutes 6-4-97 3 Highway Department- Highway Superintendent Ron Updike January FEMA work done. FEMA work being done now- Rumsey Hill Road, big project, digging ditches, putting in fabric and rift-raft, increasing driveway pipe sizes, etc. Still need to lay rift-raft on bridge abutments on Bostwick Road bridge. Need to change pipe at bottom of lower Butternut Creek Road. Road is a seasonal road but FEMA gave town money to do work. Dug 400 ft. of ditch along Rothermich Road under FEMA project to deepen ditch. Project started this year with was finishing last project of January 19th disaster money which was rebuilding 6/10's of a mile of VanOstrand Road. Project is now done. Old Loader- Old loader taken to Palmyra for auction sold for$10,000.00. Town Highway received $9,000.00 - 10%($1,000.00) commission charged. Spreader Box If town goes ahead and gets another truck to replace the three trucks,highway department will only have two spreaders and need three spreaders to cover town with plow and spreader combination. Thinking about putting a 13 foot spreader box on truck#18,which would allow plowing and spreading cinders in one operation which would save time, make roads safer for town's residents to travel on. Money from loader might cover expense of spreader box for truck#18. In"spec's" for new truck, spreader for truck included. We already have a truck with spreader and this would give us three trucks with spreaders. Highway Superintendent to bring numbers for spreader box back to July meeting. Bids for truck out for opening at July Board Meeting. Monthly Bills - Motion made by Councilman Achilles and seconded by Councilman Clark that the Town Board of the Town of Enfield approve for payment.General Fund warrants 94-110 in the amount of$36,739.24 and Highway Fund warrants 90-110 in the amount of$35,570.41. Vote: - Councilman Achilles, Clark, and Supervisor Mather,aye. Councilman Fisher-abstained- Councilman Lovelace-absent. Adjournment- Motion made by Councilman Achilles and seconded by Councilman Clark that the regular monthly meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Enfield be adjourned. Carried Unanimously Meeting adjourned at 8:45 p.m. Respectfully bmitted 01 ice aue Town Clerk