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HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-1994MINUTES OF TOWN BOARD MEETING MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1994, AT 7:30 P.M. Those present: Teresa M. Robinson, Supervisor Ellard L. Sovocool, Councilman Gordon C. VanBenschoten, Councilman Carl E. Haynes, Councilman Francis Casullo, Attorney Absent: Donald E. Cummings, Councilman Also present: Leland Cornelius, Liz Brennan, Bob Bernhardt, Abe Congden, Betty Sperger, Elsie DeCamp, Bob Walpole, Chris Dempsey. Supervisor Robinson called for action on minutes of March 14th meeting. Mr. Cornelius, you had something? L. Cornelius: Yes. I wasn't here at the last meeting but this says what Bob Bernhardt says about the gravel bank. Christ, last summer that gravel banks got to be reclaimed by reclamation by the DEC. We're filling it in with old gravel and dirt since the 1950's. You can't just take a dozer and scrape around up there and say it's done. It sounds like I'm not doing my god darn job. B. Bernhardt: No, that's not what I said. L. Cornelius: Well, that's what you said. It's right here... T. Robinson: Let him finish his statement first. L. Cornelius: It sounds like you can just take a dozer and go up there and scrape it off. Read the minutes. Well, last summer we had to reclaim this. We hauled the dirt from the bank and any other clean fill, and we had ten foot in one place that we had to come up. We had another place that had to come up ten feet. Before the DEC will release that old gravel bank, they don't even say it's yours until they get the 2:1 slope. I just don't like you saying that we're not doing our job. B. Bernhardt: Where did it say that? L. Cornelius: Well, you might as well say it. You can take a dozer up there and scrape around a bit...... B. Bernhardt: That wasn't really what I said. Is it all right for me to talk, Teresa? T. Robinson: Just as long as it's in the minutes what Mr. Cornelius has been saying. B. Bernhardt: I said the place is an eye sore. Any resident in this Town who has a piece of property that looks like that would be cited by George Senter for having a junk yard. It looks terrible. Every time something happens, even the material from the pole barn, gets dumped right in the driveway and anybody going up and down that hill can look right in there and see the mess. L. Cornelius: Where else am I going to put it? B. Bernhardt: What are you going to do after you close it up? What does George say to Breezy out there? I don't object to you having this stuff, but pile it up in a neat row. I mean this stuff is just thrown all over the place. My only comment was a constructive comment, don't get paranoid at me. I'm not saying you're not doing your job. I'm saying that things are an eye sore. It is an eye sore. 1 L. Cornelius: Who in the heck sees it. You've got to be looking ......... B. Bernhardt: Everybody traveling up and down the road, especially going down the road. I travel that road all the time. L. Cornelius: You've got to be looking over there. B. Bernhardt: The only reason it came up was because we were talking about a permit. Rather they should apply for a mining permit for that property and they said it had been completed two years ago and I said maybe it's time they should clean it up now. L. Cornelius: You can't clean it up until you get the fill in there. The banks ..... B. Bernhardt: The thing that I am objecting to is not the hole in the ground, not the banks. Every time we dig up a piece of pipe it gets thrown in that area. It looks terrible. L. Cornelius: Where else am I going to put it? B. Bernhardt: Put it in rows or something. Put in a piles or several piles or something. I don't care what you do, you're in charge. I'm just commenting. I have a right to make a comment. It's an eye sore. L. Cornelius: What have you done so great for this community that you can go around and you can pick all this stuff up like this. I mean, what have you done so great... B. Bernhardt: Are you saying that I, as a taxpayer, don't have the right to make a comment about a piece of property that the Town owns? L. Cornelius: But, you've had so many comments about every thing. B. Bernhardt: Are you objecting to the fact that I commented on other things too? What are you objecting to? L. Cornelius: There's a lot of things.... B. Bernhardt: If any other person had a piece of property that looked like that they would be cited. L. Cornelius: Well let me tell you another thing, if you want to get funny about this. You've got old machinery, you've got an old payloader that the motor has been setting there for three or four years, you've got a lot of stuff out there too. That's kind of an eye sore too when you drive by there. B. Bernhardt: Have George go up and inspect it if you feel that way. You know, when you were up there two years ago with your loader and got stuck and pushed all those fences down along that road I never said a word about it.......... L. Cornelius: Look what we did for you last fall. We took the hedge row out..... B. Bernhardt: You didn't do it for me, you did it for yourself. You did it so you could get your big truck up that road. That's the only reason I let you do it. L. Cornelius: You wanted to put a new fence up. We talked it over and we did it. B. Bernhardt: I said, if you want to take the hedge row out, take the hedge row out. I'll let you do it. There was a whole section of pasture, 37 acres, I couldn't use. Part of those woods and everything else I couldn't use for a whole year because all my fences were torn down. I never said anything about it. I understood what you went through. You had all that snow to get rid of. 2 L. Cornelius: Well, anyway the gravel bank has got to have another extension on the permit. T. Robinson: Any other changes on the minutes? If not, ... L. Cornelius: Another thing. All I went up front for that time was to show them the specs on the pickup truck. You knew we were going to buy a pickup truck. You made a big deal out of that too. Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten, that the minutes of March 14th be approved as mailed. Ayes - Sovocool, Haynes, VanBenschoten, Robinson. Claim Nos. 40 to 60 of the Highway Fund in the amount of $17,408.93 and Claim Nos. 62 to 84 of the General Fund in the amount of $14,001.94 were presented for audit. Moved by Mr. Sovocool, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten, that the bills be approved for payment. ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson. LIZ BRENNAN - BOOKKEEPER - Handed out report on cash receipts. Revenues and expenditures are up to date. We need a resolution to amend budget Highway Townwide for an additional $15,000. Last month when we amended the budget for the $15,000 for $38,919.72, I forgot about the $15,000 for the encumbrance for the pickup truck. We need an additional $15,000 C. Haynes: The $15,000 is what was budgeted in last years budget and you're just transferring. L. Brennan: No, this is $15,000 from the appropriated fund balance. Remember last month we talked about having to take and appropriate fund balances. But what we needed was $53,919 and we moved over $38,919 so we needed another $15,000. C. Haynes: What's the connection between the $15,000 and the pickup truck? L. Brennan: Explained fund balance from last year and how we intended to use to lower taxes this year. Pickup has nothing to do with it. Other than that, I haven't seen the bills so I don't know if we need any transfers. We're running low on the snow removal account. It's down to 340 left. RESOLUTION NO. 19 - AMEND 1994 BUDGET - HIGHWAY - TOWNWIDE Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby authorize that the budget be amended as follows: Highway - Townwide: Take additional $15,000 from Appropriated Fund Balance (Credit DA599) and decrease Machinery, Equipment (Debit DA5130.2) for $15,000. GEORGE SENTER - CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER - Building Permits issued: 1993 5 misc. 1994 5 misc. Life safety inspections are all current except one and I'm working with him on scheduling. I'm going to be do the junk automobiles before the end of the month. I get calls about Mark Baxendalls, Elsie is one of them and Zimney is another. I've been up to see Mark several times. They suspect that maybe he is burning shingles or some type of old construction debris. I've never yet to find anything up there. I went up there Friday after a call from Elsie. E. DeCamp: It was black. It was so black you couldn't see down the road. That's not wood. G. Senter: I went up and it was all white. All I saw around the furnace was cut wood and wood pallets. There was no truck with shingles in it or 3 anything. Mark denies that is happening. I don't know where to go from here. I've had Paul Cowles of the Solid Waste Division and the DEC involved. Nothing yet. B. Sperger: If you come up tonight between 5 and 6 o'clock, it will be so bad that you all most gag when you drive by. I know wood, because we burn wood, and it's not wood smell.... C. Pierson: I came by there one Sunday morning and it was so black you could hardly see Zimney's house. F. Casullo, Atty: I know Mark and I would be glad to talk to him about it. LELAND CORNELIUS - HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT - Nothing more COLLEEN D. PIERSON - TOWN CLERK - You have my monthly Town Clerks and Tax Collectors reports. We have received notification that the Stonehedges County Club intends to renew its summer liquor license for the period April thru October of 1994. Does the Board have any objections? No objections. TOWN JUSTICES - Monthly reports were reviewed by Board. ROBERT WALPOLE - E -911 TASK FORCE - Have been meeting for about four years. Are now down to the point that all public safety in the County will come to an agreement of how to enhance the 911 system. One of the purposes I am here to night is that we are addressing the County Reps tomorrow night at 5:30 and we have resolutions from all the Fire Departments and from the Village and thought that it would be nice if the Town wanted to go on record supporting the system. All enhanced 911 calls will be answered by Fire Central on Green Street in Ithaca. Mr. Walpole explained how calls would be handled. He also addressed some of the additional costs that will be incurred. He stressed that the E911 is strictly for emergencies. Much of the equipment is already on line. He would like to know whether the Town supports the concept. The final decision will be up to the Board of Reps. There will not be a problem with duplicate road names as long as they are not in the same telephone exchange such as 898 or 838. A major County expense will be personnel. ROBERT WALPOLE - CORNELIUS PROPERTY - Handed out maps of subdivisions in the Town of Genoa of Route 90 adjacent to lake. They have a flag lot theory. The first page basically shows you what a flag lot theory would be in reference to a large piece of property. This has a road through it. The second sheet shows some property that you can see the lake, some does not. Where it says S it means that those properties have been sold at those prices, just bare regular farm land. I think that sometimes there has been a theory that the flag lot brings in a lot of junk. The last map I gave you, I went to the Town Planning Board with a rough diagram of what we're going to do with the Cornelius property which would meet the criteria with 200' road frontage of trying to divide some of this property up. We can certainly do it. As long as we meet the 200' frontage and in reference to one acre, it's fine. But, as you can see meeting the 200' frontage, it narrows back down and goes into a 15 acre lot so they can use up the balance of property that goes up in back is where the flag lot theory would really work out here. They are beautiful lots up there and not to land lock anything up there. We have a couple people looking at lots up there. I realize the Town is working on the comprehensive plan, but there is a piece of property with 220 acres that there is no way of building new roads in there. It isn't feasible, the cost is prohibitive. With that amount of road frontage, 2400' and 1800', if we had the flag lot theory we could use up the rest of that land and develope lots. I only ask you to give consideration, I think you are still a year away, is possibly to give some thought to give the Planning Board maybe a policy to let them work on a flag lot theory that you would adopt and put it in an overall zoning changes. It makes a cleaner looking development. These are flag lots but we're using 200' frontage. C. Haynes: Bob, the one over around King Ferry. I assume that was all done as a part of an approved subdivision. It seems to me that's at least one direction. As a matter of fact, the comments that I made at that meeting that we had a year or two ago, the objections I was hearing from some of the 4 farmers up in the West Groton area were the danger that if you open this up without some kind of a restriction that all of a sudden you could would wind up with a whole mini development out in somebodies back forty that creates problems for farmers. Okay, now they want to spread manure and now all of a sudden they have eight or ten families out there that start raising a rukas and so on. It seems to me that when you take a chunk of land like this and you come to a Planning Board and go through your normal development process and get an approved development, that I think makes a lot of sense and I certainly wouldn't be opposed to that. I think this open ended flag lot thing, however you want to do it just figure it out because you've got some very crafty people that will abuse it. That's my concern. I don't want to have a flag lot policy that's going to open itself up for abuse. If it's under a controlled circumstance like a planned development and every body buys into it, and you've got a concentration of housing there, then it makes a lot of sense to me. R. Walpole: Explained to the Board how the Town of Lansing subdivided Karl Dates' lake property using only 60 foot road frontage leading to lake front property. His main purpose of being here was to ask the Town Board to at least consider that part of the zoning. T. Robinson: I believe that's what they are working on in our comprehensive plan. R. Walpole: All I am asking is that the Town Board give the flag lots more consideration and maybe call the Planning Board back in and let them control it up until the final plan. RESOLUTION NO. 20 - SUPPORT FINAL RECOMMENDATION OF THE E -911 TASK FORCE Moved by Mr. VanBenschoten, seconded by Mr. Haynes Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson WHEREAS, the County Board of Representatives expressed its desire for 911 service in Tompkins County three years ago and appointed a task force to study and make recommendations for the purchase and installation of such an enhanced system in Tompkins County, and WHEREAS, the Task Force included several representatives of the Fire and EMS Service, and affected police agencies that serve the County of Tompkins, and WHEREAS, the Town Board, of the Town of Groton believes that the Task Force proposal, as passed, will enhance the delivery of emergency services to the people of the Town of Groton, as well as all of the residents of Tompkins County, and as resolved, will not jeopardize the excellent services currently provided through the Tompkins County Fire and EMS Dispatch Center, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Groton, New York, does hereby endorse the recommendations of the Tompkins County E -911 Task Force and recommend to the Public Safety Committee and the entire County Board of Representatives that such recommendations be approved and implemented by that body as soon as possible, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Board does also advise the Board of Representatives that the long term commitments for the provision of human and financial resources, including those necessary for communications equipment and radio maintenance, must be made by the Board of Representatives if the system is to succeed. ABE CONGDON - Teresa, I'm setting here and I'm wondering why the secretary that we pay about $15,000 a year for, why it is when she comes in and hands all you guys out sheets and she's up there talking for four minutes, she's k, been here 24 minutes, and we can't hear nothing. The only thing I saw was a secretary and Haynes exchange, that's all I saw. I heard one word, truck, and that's all I heard. If that's a meeting, forget it. I don't see why the rest of us aren't entitled to those sheets. We're part of the public, taxpayers. Every time she comes down she does that. She's up there about three or four minutes then out the door she's gone. I don't know how long it takes her to type that stuff up. T. Robinson: She's been here all day working on it. A. Congdon: Well good! Then the rest of us should have something to look at then. T. Robinson: I believe that this is supposed to go to the Board first. We haven't seen it until this time too. A. Congdon: Well all right, aren't we entitled to see it too? T. Robinson: We have to take some action on it. Would you like to come up and see it? A. Congdon: Yes, I would. I'd like to have a copy of it. T. Robinson: I said come up and see it, I didn't say I'd give you my copy. C. Haynes: They can have copies of it. We just don't have them right now. There isn't any reason why anybody can't have copies, it's public information. A. Congdon: Well, why not do it for another meeting. It's been going on like this every since I've been coming down here. Consensus of the Board was to have eight or ten copies available for the public at the next meeting. BETTY SPERGER - Teresa, is this the sound system that we are going to have? T. Robinson - No B. Sperger - Well, I was just asking. T. Robinson: I was just telling you. No. B. Sperger: Okay, the other thing, I just wondered if you and the Board have ever considered doing preventative maintenance so that we wouldn't have the pole barn that collapsed -- I'm sure that just by shoveling off the snow we wouldn't have had that accident. I know that lots of people that never shoveled snow before on their roofs had to this year. Maybe that should have been checked on. I don't know how many times I've been down here and come in the double doors and the ice was built up so bad and now I see all the gutters are down and I see you have some leaks. Wouldn't that be better to take care of that before it gets to that stage? Have some one to take the snow and ice off, maybe clean the gutters so there is a place for the water to run. T. Robinson: That's possible, yes. B. Sperger: I just wondered if it wouldn't be cheaper in the long run to hire someone to do some thing like that. T. Robinson: It probably would. A. Congdon: Teresa, I have one other thing. When are we supposed to get this sound system? When we first brought this up over a year ago, you mentioned that we had to have three bids on it or something. T. Robinson: That's right. A. Congdon: Well, how long is it going to take to get that? T. Robinson: Well, right now I have one bid in and I've been investigating n some other things. A. Congdon: When did you get that bid there? The bid you've got, how long ago? T. Robinson: Oh, I don't know, its been quite awhile. Another thing is we decided to expand on some of this so we'll have to check on some other things. It's not going to be.... A. Congdon: Do you have a ball park figure time on this? It's been over a year now since I went and got the other information. I got one price. You said we had to have three. Don't you put out bids for stuff like this like you did for the electric? T. Robinson: I had a specific thing in mind that we were looking at and it's taking a little more time to look this up. A. Congdon: How long does it take you? T. Robinson: I have been looking into it and we were going to ask for extra things and it's taking a little more time than I had planned. And I've been busy with other things right now. A. Congdon: Well, it's been over a year. T. Robinson: You've mentioned it every time so don't worry about that. A. Congdon: Well, I'd say it's about time to act then. FRAN CASULLO - ATTORNEY - I sent Diversified Technologies a letter about two weeks ago. The day after I sent the letter I got a phone call from the Secretary of one of the individuals that owns the operation indicating that they could not make the meeting tonight because they had already been scheduled to be out of town. Based on that I said fine but I would like some information sent to the Town as to how they proposed to start becoming current or what type of payment plan they wanted to make to you. I also told them that you would like them to be at the May Town Board Meeting with no excuses. I will send a follow up letter on that. B. Bernhardt: We're not talking about a great deal of money. Weren't they supposed to only pay the interest for the first year? What kind of interest are they paying, three percent. Possibly $3000 a year. It's kind of hard to believe that they had $107,000 for over two years and haven't paid us. My question is what's motivating them not to do it? T. Robinson: They've been making very small payments into the bank, very small. F. Casullo: I intend to follow up on this. CHRIS DEMPSEY - DEMPSEY INSURANCE AGENCY - I'm here to talk about the collapse of the building in the back. Basically we put forward a settlement for the Town on the building. The way it works is we give you an actual cash value amount. In other words, we're offering up an actual cash value amount of $49,165 for the building it self. That's what the town will get regardless of whether they rebuild it or whatever they do. We also are giving cleanup costs in the amount of $10,000. The Town took down the building on their own. That amount is a changeable amount. If the Town so determines by the use of their equipment, time employees put in and what we have to do with materials, that could be changed. The estimated replacement cost for the building is $62,000. Basically, what we are talking about is we can give you $49,000 and upon receiving any kind of an estimate, there would be another $13,000 available. The problem with this whole thing is that we have to prove back to them within 180 days that we would need more that $49,000. You can have the $49,000 plus the $10,000 cleanup but for the other $13,000 we're going to have to prove we're out something. 7 This does not include equipment, just the building. This is on the basis of what was there, the same size building, etc. When we know the cost of the building, we should get this signed. (Board, Chris, Leland and Public discussed different buildings and costs.) Leland Cornelius has received quotations from Morton Buildings. They will prepare specs, drawings, etc., a complete package that is ready to go to bidders for a fee of $400. RESOLUTION NO. 21 - AUTHORIZE MORTON BUILDINGS TO PREPARE STORAGE BUILDING SPECS FOR BIDDING PURPOSES Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby authorize the Highway Superintendent to work with Morton Buildings in preparing the storage building bid specifications for a fee of $400.00 and have in order by the next Board Meeting. Board review auditor's report of the Justice Court. RESOLUTION NO. 22 - ACCEPT 1993 TOWN JUSTICE AUDIT REPORT Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. Sovocool Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Groton does here by accept the audit report of the Town of Groton Justice Court for the period beginning January 1, 1993, and ended December 31, 1993, as reported by Ciaschi - Dietershagen- Little and Mickelson. Moved by Mr. VanBenschoten, seconded by Mr. Sovocool, to authorize Colleen Pierson, Town Clerk, to attend the Annual New York State Town Clerk's Association Conference in Albany on April 24 thru 27. Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson. RESOLUTION NO 23 - CONTRACT WITH COUNTY OF TOMPKINS PLANNING DEPARTMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded buy Mr. VanBenschoten Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Groton does hereby approve the Contract of the County Circuit Rider Program not to exceed an amount of $3000 to assist the Town Planning Board in completing the Comprehensive Plan for the Town. Discussed the proposed formation of an intermunicipal commission to deal with issues of municipal cable television franchising in Tompkins County. The original Tompkins County Cable Commission was formed in 1977. RESOLUTION NO. 24 - AUTHORIZE PLANNING OF A TOMPKINS COUNTY CABLE TV COMMISSION Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson. WHEREAS the municipalities of Tompkins County have formed a committee to 8 explore cooperation in administering cable TV franchises in the county, and that committee proposes to start discussion based on a possible revival of the structure of a county cable commission formed in 1977; The Town of Groton agrees to take part in the formation of an intermunicipal commission to deal with issues of municipal cable television franchising in Tompkins County; To that end appoints Colleen D. Pierson to represent it in drawing up an agreement to form such a commission; and Directs that a copy of this resolution be sent to Mayor Ted Wixom of the Village of Lansing, convener of the commission study group. RESOLUTION NO. 25 - DESIGNATE POLLING PLACES FOR 1994 Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. Sovocool Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson. RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Groton does hereby designate the following Polling Places for 1994: District No. 1 - West Groton Church District No. 2 and 3 - Groton Town Hall District No. 4 - McLean Fire Station Discussed Tompkins County Sidewalk -Snow Removal procedures for Towns. This came up because of the snow that was on the sidewalk between the Square and School in McLean and who was to clean it up. Because it is a County Road, the County Attorney wrote a letter to George Totman and it ended up that the Town should be handling it. According to Highway Law, Section 140, General Powers and Duties of Town Superintendent, paragraph 18, the Town Superintendent shall "maintain all sidewalks in the Town constructed by the State adjacent to State highways and all sidewalks in the Town constructed by the County adjacent to County roads and, when authorized by the Town Board, cause the removal of snow therefrom, and the cost thereof shall be paid from the miscellaneous or other Town funds." Walpole Road bridge is in bad shape. It's premature to state that the bridge will be replaced this year. Consensus of Board was to keep pressure on the county since there is only one means of ingress and egress. The school should also keep pressure on the county. Discussed cat licensing in Tompkins County. Do we really want to get into licensing cats. The cost of $20,000 sounds cheap right now but what is involved. How do they intend to license. RESOLUTION NO. 26 - CAT LICENSING IN TOMPKINS COUNTY Moved by Mr. Haynes, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Groton go on record and authorize the Supervisor to submit a letter to our County Representative as well as the SPCA that we stand opposed to cat licensing and that we feel the cost of administering such a program would far exceed the $20,000 cost of controlling this problem the way it is. Robert Walpole complained that he has not seen the SPCA picking up dogs in Groton. Does the Groton Police take calls and pick up dogs in the Village of Groton. Clerk will give Mr. Walpole a copy of the Town's Contract with the SPCA. 1 Supervisor Robinson had an irate citizen in her office demanding to know why we don't have a trash pick up. The last time we inquired about it the County said no. In investigating into it we found out that we can have a trash pick up at the time the county specifies and that we will have so many days. The way it is set up now, this possibly will be happening in September. The Town will have to set up the rules in the Town. We will be allowed to go in specified days at no charge. Last time it was very costly for the Town and we had to pay per ton at the dump. The Tompkins County Municipal Officials' Association will meet on April 27th at 6:OOPM at Lucatelli's Ristorante in Ithaca. There will be an AEA Seminar on May 4th -- George Senter will attend. The Groton Business Association will have their Annual Summer Banquet on April 23rd at Stonehedges. The annual road tour was scheduled for May 6th at 9:OOAM. There will be a reception in McLean School this Sunday afternoon for Fred and Veronica Billard. They are being honored by the area for all the work they have done for the community and area -- Schools, Hamlet of McLean, Town of Groton, etc. I thought it would be nice if we had a resolution thanking them for there many years of service to the community and to the area of McLean and to the Town of Groton. RESOLUTION NO. 27 - RECOGNITION OF FRED & VERONICA BILLARD Moved by Mr. VanBenschoten, seconded by Mr. Sovocool Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Groton does hereby express its thanks and appreciation to Frederick & Veronica Billard for their many contributions to the Community. RESOLUTION NO. 28 - APPOINTMENT OF PLANNING BOARD MEMBER Moved by Mr. Sovocool, seconded by Mr. VanBenshoten Ayes - Sovocool, VanBenschoten, Haynes, Robinson RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby appoint JEFFERY LEWIS to fill a vacancy on the Planning Board which term expires December 31, 1995. Discussed continuing education and attendance law for Planning Board and Appeals Board Members. Attorney Casullo felt that this should be a Local Law rather than a resolution. He will draft up a local law for Board Members to review at the next meeting. Supervisor Robinson was favored with the invitation to the airport. The invitations were very very official looking, very very very good. They said, you are cordially invited to attend the grand opening of the new Tompkins County Airport Terminal on Friday the 1st of April, 1994, 3:OOPM - Program - New Terminal Building, 4:OOPM Reception - Bryon's Landing. Ross Perot Speaker. RSVP by March 28, 1994. Frank P. Proto, Chairman, Terrace Hill, Ithaca, NY 14850. Then it gives his number and then a fax number. But, believe it or not, the number is his, the address is not Proto's and the fax number is one of the Board of Reps. It's a hoax. Mr. Haynes wanted to bring the other Board Members up to date on the Groton Pool Ad Hoc Meeting that was held last week. The pool has been cited by the health department for various problems particularly relating to the pipes and drainage, the inflows and outflows and what have you, and they've been given an extension of a year or two to try to get the problem taken care of. We're looking at roughly about $150,000 to do the repairs. The status of the pool, while it was originally built by fund raising and a group of people called the Groton Municipal Pool Association, that pool has since been taken over by the 10 Village with the Town of course helps provide the maintenance and costs of operating the pool over the summer and they are going to try to do some fund raising to raise some monies but it appeals the amount of monies to be raised is way beyond what can be done with chicken barbecues and what have you. So probably within the next year they will be looking to the Town and Village for some financial support and so on. In the mean time, they have put in a request through the Legislative Initiative Program, which is basically pork barrel money the State Representatives get. This is a good year for that because the Governor is running for re- election. They are also looking at some other possibilities. If they can get some of the monies from either the State or the Parks Commission or other places they could reduce that amount substantially in terms of what would have to be raised locally. I just brought that up because I think probably in the next several months or year we probably ought to be setting some money aside maybe to help out with that. Bob Walpole elaborated on Village Pool but mic did not pick up. Supervisor Robinson attended a meeting on elderly cottages and alternate living in the Town. This is something I think the Planning Board will be looking into. They also have reverse mortgages for older people. She has the papers if anyone is interested. There being no further business, Mr. Sovocool moved to adjourn meeting, seconded by Mr. VanBenschoten, at 10:10 P.M. Unanimous. Colleen D. Pierson Town Clerk 11