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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-10-2002 TOWN OF GROTON - MINUTES OF TOWN BOARD MEETING TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2002, AT 7:30 PM Those present: Glenn E. Morey, Supervisor Ellard L. Sovocool, Councilman Donald F. Scheffler, Councilman Sheldon C. Clark, Councilman Duane T. Randall II, Councilman Absent: James Baranello, Town Attorney Also present: Richard Case, George Senter, Liz Brennan, Alton Alexander, Monica Carey, Bob Walpole, April Scheffler MOVED by Councilman Clark, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to approve the minutes of the November 2002 meeting as presented. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Clark, Morey. Abstain - Randall General Fund Claim Numbers 358-391of the in the amount of $22,655.59 were presented for audit. MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to approve the General Bills for payment. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Highway Fund Claim Numbers 217-240 of the in the amount of $25,100.28 were presented for audit. MOVED by Councilman Randall, seconded by Councilman Clark, to approve the Highway Bills for payment. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Special Grant (HUD) Fund Claim Numbers 269-272 of the in the amount of $12,416.51 were presented for audit. MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to approve the HUD bills for payment. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Town Board Meeting Page 2 December 10, 2002 Monthly Reports: Elizabeth Brennan, Bookkeeper – You have your revenues and expenditures and the bank balances to date. We do have a couple of transfers, this being December. We will probably be transferring money into the Health Insurance till the end of the year because it’s cleaned out right now. We finally did get our notices on the health insurance. It went up on the average of 14 ½ % So it’s quite a jump. The employees, with their paychecks, will have a notice on what the rates st are. We are all ready taking them out of this month’s pay for January 1. RESOLUTION #110 – TRANSFER OF GENERAL FUNDS MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby approve the following transfer of funds: General Fund – Town Wide: From: Contingency A1990.4………………………..$130.91 To: Highway Clerk, Personal Serv. A5010.12…….130.91 RESOLUTION #111 – TRANSFER OF HIGHWAY FUNDS MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Scheffler Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby approve the following transfer of funds: Highway Fund – Town Wide: From: Workers’ Comp. DA9040.8………………….$550.63 To: Health Insurance Da9060.8……………………550.63 George R. Senter, Sr., Code Enforcement Officer – Building permits issued in November were 7; 4 Certificates of Occupancy were issued; and Life Safety Inspections are current through November. I sent a letter to Mr. Muka. He’s the person who bought the Coit property on Lick Street and I th gave him to December 13 to make a decision one way or another on the property, what he’s going to do with it. I haven’t heard from him yet. I sent it first class and registered and he has signed for it so I know he has the letter. That’s going to come up Friday. I’ll have to discuss that with Jim and see what he wants to do. Supervisor Morey – Just call him and let him know. Town Board Meeting Page 3 December 10, 2002 George Senter – We’re going to discuss the boundary line clarification. Is there anything you need from me? Supervisor Morey – Basically, what we’re going to do is we’re going to have a public meeting for that later on. Monica is here tonight to talk a little bit about it. The Board has papers in front of them about it. We’ll probably do it in January. Do you have any comments on it? George Senter – No, we discussed it for a few months. I don’t think people should have come in here for a boundary line change and go through the whole process of subdivision approval. Subdivision approval is a little more complicated than just changing a boundary line, as long as you don’t make one or both of the lots nonconforming. A lot of times it makes a nonconforming lot a conforming lot. Supervisor Morey – But it still has to come before you to notify you. George Senter – Somebody should know what they’re doing. Supervisor Morey – Does the homeowner still have to go to the County Clerk to change it. George Senter – Yes. Supervisor Morey – Okay, so it’s their responsibility. That’s not going to change. George Senter – No. Supervisor Morey – So, basically, you don’t what to have a public meeting just to have a boundary change as long as the two lots or three lots or whatever it is is legal property. George Senter – I started the Motor Vehicle Repair Shop inspections today too. That may run into January. Supervisor Morey – Also, I got a letter from you about the safety inspection for this building. How was the inspection? George Senter – Well, Rick got a copy of the letter. There were a few things. Nothing too bad. Richard C. Case, Jr., Highway Superintendent – At the present time, the Highway Department is dedicated to winter roadway maintenance. The shop has been busy with the changeover of equipment as well as keeping up with the preventive maintenance program. I would like to compliment the highway employees with starting out the winter season in a very efficient manner. The first few runs were made without any mechanical problems. This doesn’t happen by accident and they are to be commended. As you can see by the change in the weather, we have a long winter season in front of us. Glenn and I have signed the snow-ice agreement with Tompkins County. It is my recommendation that we stay with the present centerline method of payment. I checked with others who were doing it as cost and materials and we made out better. I’m still not happy. I think they should be putting a little more towards the pot as far as maintaining the building and administration. It shouldn’t Town Board Meeting Page 4 December 10, 2002 just be materials and time. I have started negotiating with Pete so maybe at the next contract we can put something more on the table. The plumber has been in and installed the emergency eye-wash system in the main garage and addressed some of the plumbing problems that we had. The locksmith came in and fixed the locksets that were giving us problems. The electrician hooked up the overhead doors and will work at some of our outdoor lighting problems. I think before we go too far on that, if we end up changing fixtures, I’d also like to change the one out back by April’s door. These on the outside walls are either on timers or photo sensors, I think sensors. I think that’s part of the problem with these, maybe there are too many on one sensor. Supervisor Morey – April, do you feel safe going out at night to your car? April Scheffler – Yeah, I thought you changed that one. Richard Case – We changed the bulb and made it a little brighter, but he’s going to look into something that might give us a little more illumination. April Scheffler – It’s dark out beyond there. I would think you might better put something out by your tanks or something. Richard Case – Well we wanted to put something up out there for the fuel but explosive proof lights is a whole ball of wax. We hashed that all out once before and didn’t get anywhere. But the lights we have in the garage we found that they are gas lights and they have a life of about four years. I don’t know if you were ever down through there at night but it looked like 15 watt light bulbs. You couldn’t see anything. So, when one of them blew we started changing them and it has certainly helped that part of the shop. April L. Scheffler, Town Clerk/Tax Collector – Submitted her monthly report for the Board’s review. Some of the problems still existing with the DECALS system, which I described last month, have smoothed out a little bit. Our account notices for November are due within a few days and I have had a message from Albany that there were some problems with that, but they are being taken care of. I attended the meeting in Ithaca where the Town Clerks met with Nathan Winograd from the SPCA to discuss problems we are all experiencing with the SPCA’s service. Most of us had the same complaints about problems with reminder notices and tickets being issued correctly and on a timely basis. We discussed the possibility of sending our own reminder notices and I suggested that we could also fill out the tickets ourselves and just have the SPCA deliver them. Many clerks felt that this might be a workable idea. When asked if the SPCA would lower the fees requested in their contracts if we were willing to do this work ourselves, Mr. Winograd said, no, the fees would not be lowered. Mr. Winograd is scheduled to meet with Kris, Peg, Glenn and myself tomorrow at 3:00 to discuss where we want to go from here and our contract. If some of the rest of you would like to come too, that would be great. Kris has already started to send out reminders from our office rather than through the SPCA and the initial response is very promising, it appears that we will be much better organized, and we are sure that we can get Town Board Meeting Page 5 December 10, 2002 things done and keep things up to date. I think one of our biggest goals tomorrow will be to get the SPCA to agree to deliver the tickets when we want it done and in the way we want it done. Also on the subject of dogs, I have received notice of changes in the NYS Dog Licensing Law. The law now states that dogs must be licensed at 4 months of age rather than the previous 6 months. Since our dog ordinance specifies 6 months of age, we should probably look at updating our ordinance so that it matches the State law. Extra keys have been ordered. A few weeks ago I began to have some problems with our main computer and had to have the rd hard drive replaced. Our three-year warranty was up on December 3 and since we were just a couple weeks short of that deadline, Compaq replaced the hard drive at no charge. We did have to pay for the labor. Luckily, none of the data was lost. The technician who worked on the computer suggested that we look into a backup system that would backup the whole hard drive to prevent a real disaster in the event that this happens again and we cannot retrieve the data. Without this main computer in our network the other computers will not run the Town Clerk’s or Tax programs. The Computer Center can get us a system that will back up everything on the hard drive for around $250.00. I was just looking at the Quill catalog before I came in here and they have pretty much the same thing for $200.00. Brian Achley, who works with Bill Cassolara and actually set up or network, is coming in and going to so some work on our network because there are a few things that aren’t working right. I thought I would ask him for some advice on it too. I would like to request that I use some of the software money budgeted for this year to buy this system or a comparable system. Supervisor Morey – That’s fine. What you’re talking about is a Zip Drive or something like that? April Scheffler – It’s actually an external hard drive. We have a Zip Drive. A Zip Drive will hold 100 MB and the external hard drive will hold 20 GB. It will do the whole hard drive and has disaster recovery software. So, basically, if this happens again, I could probably pull out the old hard drive, stick in a new one, and hook this up to it and be up and running again. Supervisor Morey – Sounds like a good idea, go ahead. One question though, I would go to the Computing Center, not Quill. Even though you will be saving $50.00, the maintenance and time going over to Ithaca or coming here is a lot better. Talk to the systems guy that you know and see what he says and see if he has any other suggestions. Councilman Randall – Is this just one computer that we had replaced or all at the same time. April Scheffler – We bought all three of them at the same time. But my computer is the main computer that everything is loaded on. Councilman Randall – That’s a trait of Compaq though. I had one and just before the warranty ran out the hard drive went. Supervisor Morey – The state ordinance, when do you want to do that? April Scheffler – I think you have to write it up and present it at a public meeting and then you have to have a Public Hearing. Town Board Meeting Page 6 December 10, 2002 Supervisor Morey – All right. And the keys go to the front door and the Planning Room door and one key goes to the Board. Also, a couple of months ago I did ask April and Kris to look into the health insurance and I understand that the health insurance wasn’t as great is it? April Scheffler – She’s not finding a whole lot of difference between the different companies. Supervisor Morey – Maybe Kris could come next month and tell us a little about it. Would that be okay? Because what happened at the consortium with the towns they found out that if they tried something the benefits would be lost. That’s kind of crazy. Attorneys were not present. Alton I. Alexander, Town Justice – Presented the Town Justices’ reports. That’s just the report for last month. At the end of this month you’ll get the quarterly report that will look a little more favorable. It was a short month last month. Supervisor Morey – When do you close down the Court in December? th Justice Alexander – The 18 will be the last Court date in December. I just want to make a suggestion to the Town Board if I could. On the wall out here we have pictures of two dedicated Town servants who served for a long time. I think it would be very fitting to have a picture of Arland Heffron out there of the same size so people coming through here will glance at it and remember that he spent 26 years as a servant for the Town. Supervisor Morey – Actually, that’s been my little project that I’ve done. You also see that Colleen Pierson’s picture is not there because the only picture I’ve got is horizontal and it’s got to be vertical. It’s home in the computer and I haven’t had time to do that. There will be a picture of Arland too. It will be the same frames and everything and a little plaque with the time that he served as town judge. Justice Alexander – I’m glad to hear that. Anybody want to ask me any questions? No one did. Councilman Donald Scheffler, as Recreation Coordinator – We’ve hired a Recreation Director for the Town and Village. Her name is Marcia Larsen. And I’d like to ask the Board to approve her as our Joint Recreation Director. Town Board Meeting Page 7 December 10, 2002 RESOLUTION #112 – APPROVE MARCIA LARSEN AS JOINT RECREATION DIRECTOR MOVED by Councilman Scheffler, seconded by Supervisor Morey Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby approve the appointment of Marcia Larsen as the Town and Village Joint Recreation Director. st Councilman Scheffler – She starts January 1. The salary is $15,600. Supervisor Morey – We’ll move on. Discussion on Town Judge replacement. This is replacement for Arland Heffron who passed away a couple of weeks ago. This replacement will stst serve from January 1 to December 31 of 2003. Any other discussion? RESOLUTION #113 – APPOINT ALTON ALEXANDER AS TOWN JUSTICE MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Clark Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby appoint Alton I. Alexander, 774 Peru Road, Groton, NY, as Town Justice to fill out the term left vacant by the death of Arland Heffron. Said term to begin January 1, 2003 and expire December 31, 2003. RESOLUTION #114 – SET SALARY FOR ALTON ALEXANDER MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby set the salary for Alton I. Alexander at $10,000 per year beginning January 1, 2003. Supervisor Morey – We’ll move on to boundary line clarification, Monica? Monica Carey, Planning Board Chair – I had Kris send everybody a letter here with what the boundary line definition is in the code right now and if you look at what the Board came up with and decided on, it really defined a boundary change a lot better than what we’ve been working with. We’ve had quite a few boundary changes come before us this year. Some of them have been kind of controversial and we’ve discussed them through and everything. I just thought that we needed something that was a little bit more defined than what we have right now in the code. Supervisor Morey – I agree. Any other questions for Monica? Do you see anything else you need to be changed, I mean, you’d like to…? Town Board Meeting Page 8 December 10, 2002 Ms. Carey – We’re working on changing the applications for the site plan review and for the subdivision review if someone comes in for an application. It will be a little bit more user friendly and we had Kris type it up a little cleaner than what it was. At the next board meeting we’re going to discuss that and work on that a little more also. Other than that, not as of right now. I don’t see a lot of definition changes or anything taking place. Clerk Scheffler – As I understand this you are changing this so that not all boundary changes are going to need subdivision approval, right? Ms. Carey – Right. Clerk Scheffler – There is another, under the page where it says what needs subdivision approval, there’s a line in there that says all boundary changes. So, that line would have to be changed to like, some boundary changes. I don’t know how you would do that. Ms. Carey – Well, I think that the definition that we’ve come up with “the Planning Board may waive the procedural requirements of major or minor subdivision and allow the boundary line adjustment without further review” that would cover it all. Clerk Scheffler – But that other line is going to contradict this definition. Ms. Carey – Then it would probably need to be taken out. Supervisor Morey – That’s why we set a public meeting, so we can get Jim involved beforehand. So, maybe we’ll send this on to him and you can make a special little note on that for him, check that one line, so by the time we have a public meeting everything will be taken care of. Clerk Scheffler – I think that is really the only other place that boundary change is mentioned. Ms. Carey – Right, because I went through the book one night because we had a controversial one come in and I really couldn’t find anything in the Code that defined how we were going to handle this one. And so I discussed it with the Board and this is what we came up with. Clerk Scheffler – It’s pretty vague. Ms. Carey – Yes, very vague. RESOLUTION #115 – SET PUBLIC HEARING DATE TO AMEND CODE MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Randall Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey WHEREAS, the Planning Board for the Town of Groton has recommended that the definition of a boundary change be clarified in the Town of Groton Land Use & Development Code BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board sets a Public Hearing date of February 11, 2003, at 8:00 PM, for the review of a local law to amend the Town of Groton Land Use & Development Code as recommended. Town Board Meeting Page 9 December 10, 2002 Robert Walpole (Discussing planned Motorcycle Weekend – I think everyone received a copy of this. Basically, it’s just to give you an idea and we’d like to have your thoughts on stuff. The program progressed even further today. We’ve had, the State Police have assigned…..?….. and he’s been at two of our committee meetings and is well versed on big weekends with activities and stuff for public safety. They’ve also assigned Senior Investigator Koekebacker to the committee. So, they have both been to meetings. We have met with the Village Police Department and working it out with their budget and concerns. We’re meeting with the Fire Department tomorrow night and meeting with the Village Board and then we will have an over- all meeting to get some of the general comments back as this thing progresses. We’ve had a very good response today from outside organizations that would like to come in and set up. We’re working very close with Rick in reference to the Town property. We’ll keep you abreast of this. I think one of the reasons I’m here tonight is more for informational purposes so you hear it from the duck’s mouth instead of hearing it another place. Mr. Walpole discussed the planned Motorcycle Weekend further. He said that the State Police had been very positive about the plans and were planning on sending their motorcycle squad along with any manpower needed. Much of the planned activities would be held at that Rod & Gun Club. Supervisor Morey – Bob, who’s going to sponsor this? Mr. Walpole – We’re meeting with the Fire Department. Supervisor Morey – So, it will be a fundraiser for them? Mr. Walpole – It will be a fundraiser for them. There may be some spin-offs. We’ve got some major sponsors at this point. We’re working on a budget. Working with Gary Watrous on it. We’ve got a feel for it and we’re discussing it with the Fire Department tomorrow night because they are showing some interest. 25% may go to the Department, possibly 25% to each company, it depends on what the overall feel is. I may not have a total answer tomorrow night from the Fire Department. There’s some big sponsors that have come in and they do want to set up. We’ve had some calls today. Mr. Walpole explained that there might be some other nonprofit organizations involved. He said that the motorcycle riders seem to turn out in large numbers if they feel it is for a good benefit. He has talked to other people who have run these kinds of weekends, including the organizers of the Lake George weekend. Councilman Clark – One factor is you got kind of two groups of cyclists: you’ve got the couples or the older generation and then you’ve got the ones that park here on Main Street that make everything look bad. So, if you have a big enough group that are busy……… Mr. Walpole – I think this is the perception we have to produce because 95 % of the general public thinks that because they see a row of motorcycles that we’ve got problems. I have found out even though this is the third year of our cycle show, that this is not true. I think that most of these people that come in after visiting with them I think that’s the perception we have to solve and we have to convince the public. I think that’s the purpose, the type of organization that we have to have. Town Board Meeting Page 10 December 10, 2002 Councilman Clark – Now, the Gold Wingers come to Cortland there in the fall. Have you ever talked to any of those? They don’t even need security at all, that group. Mr. Walpole – No. Why we’re concerned on security is strictly for traffic, intersections and stuff. I think a lot of times when the trooper with the motorcycle out of Sidney was here, he parked his bike out front and walked up through and talked to every one who was in that cycle show. There was some more discussion on the subject and Mr. Walpole said that he would be keeping the Board posted as plans progressed. nd Supervisor Morey – On December 2 Don Barber, the Supervisor of the Town of Caroline, contacted me about a consortium to look into hazard mitigation plan to see if we’d like to join the consortium and the cost of $3,000. Supposedly the State laws have changed that instead of the State writing hazard mitigation plans, the individual communities have to. The total bill for the plan will be $50,000 but it will be split between several towns and villages. A couple of things that I wanted to know was first of all who was going to write the proposal and what their qualifications were and what kind of experience they have in this and whether the plan is going to be a general plan or would it be specific to Groton. I think in the past, in the comprehensive plans that we’ve had in the past and emergency preparedness plans, they’ve always been a general plan. They’ve never really been specific to Groton. The total cost would be somewhere around $3,000. The estimate is $2,000, but the maximum will be $3,000. I also asked whether this $3,000 is going to be a reimbursable cost and what the Town Board’s time commitment would be in writing this plan. I also asked what is the difference between an emergency preparedness plan and a disaster mitigation plan and what average risk assessment for Caroline and other towns are in the County versus Groton. What are some of Caroline’s projects are that are coming up and also whether someone could come and talk to the Board before we did it. Some of the answers that came back was the qualifications for the person who was going to do it was a George Frantz and he wrote a multi-jurisdictional plan for Waverly and the surrounding communities, so he is very knowledgeable about what is going to happen. But I also understand that Matt Shuman wrote the mitigation plan for the Town of Dryden, so I wondered why something like that couldn’t happen. He did have experience. There were two possibilities for the specific plan for Groton. If the County gets involved the Town could by resolution allow the County develop their plan. I don’t think we want to do something like that but that’s up to the Board. If this is not a County plan then the template would be the same for each town because hazards like snowstorms and flooding don’t know municipal boundaries. Then the template would be adjusted for each town. That’s where I get involved with the emergency preparedness and the hazard mitigation plan are pretty close to being parallel. With the total cost being $3,000 for Groton, George Frantz did a multi-jurisdictional plan at the cost of developing the plan at approximately $60,000. If we secured a grant to develop the plan the grant would be funded 75%. The remaining $15,000 would need to be split between the 7 or 8 communities so that’s where we’d get the money from. And whether the $3,000 is reimbursable, we’ve gone for grants that were reimbursable, HUD, Small Cities, is one good example. But in this situation it would not be reimbursable but it could be minimized by in-kind efforts. So, also, what the Town of Groton commitment would be is the balance of willing to spend time with in-kind services versus the cash outlay. So, I guess out in-kind services would be our time spent in writing the plan. Town Board Meeting Page 11 December 10, 2002 My question also was what was the difference between emergency preparedness program and a disaster mitigation program. He said you should see the Dryden hazard mitigation plan and the County emergency preparedness plan to form your own options. When Dryden did the hazard mitigation plan I think it was specifically written for the dam that they did a couple years ago. So, I still don’t know the difference to tell you the truth. Caroline’s going to be trying to do flooding mitigation and that was it. So, what do you guys think? Councilman Sovocool – I can’t see having all of these plans if they’re duplicate, pretty near. Nothing but a lot of paperwork that don’t amount to much. Councilman Scheffler – I think we’d be further ahead putting our efforts into something here in Groton and taking care of the problems instead of creating paperwork. Councilman Randall – To be honest, the plan that I had been working on is specific to Groton. I think we had no money involved so why spend more on it, I guess. I don’t think it’s money that’s going to be well spent. Once we finish up what I have I think we’ll be fine. Supervisor Morey – So, you don’t think we should table this discussion, we should just say no? Councilman Randall – That’s my feeling. It’s just my opinion. Supervisor Morey – No, it sounded good. Councilman Clark – Well, I really don’t see any sense in getting into something more than we can do right here. It’s like Louie says, we’ll be shuffling papers and working on plans that don’t involve us in many ways. Councilman Sovocool – You’ve got a disaster relief plan, or going to have one. I can’t see all this getting involved with the County. Supervisor Morey – Can you think of any mitigation plans that should be on the table some place? The only thing that I’ve heard talked about in the Town would be put a dam up beyond Erma Lyon’s house, where the beaver dam is. Councilman Sovocool – They’ve got one back there. Supervisor Morey – Man-made I mean. Councilman Sovocool – That’s beaver-made. Supervisor Morey – The thing is that was a topic before we put the holding ponds by Memorial Park and Sykes Street and also for the Senior Citizens Housing. The Senior Citizens Housing also put check valves on the drainage pipes and that’s where the flooding often came in. We’ve had rainstorms too in the last couple of years that equaled the water we had when it did flood. Councilman Sovocool – We haven’t had any to equal that. Supervisor Morey – Sure we did. Anyways, the pond works. Town Board Meeting Page 12 December 10, 2002 Councilman Scheffler – There was a lot of ice backing up then too, wasn’t there? If they cleaned the Inlet out, that would help wouldn’t it? Councilman Sovocool – Very much so. Supervisor Morey – They’ve tried that but the DEC will only let them in at a certain time. I don’t know why. Can anyone else think of any projects that would have come up? Councilman Clark – That would have come up? What do you mean? Supervisor Morey – That should come up. Councilman Randall – I talked to Rick a little bit. Flooding definitely affects roads things and that. Of course there are some roads that flood out every time, Stevens Road. But there are some things that you just have to deal with and we’ve always been able to deal with it. There’s too many strings attached to that type of money sometimes. Councilman Scheffler - I think a generator……… Councilman Randall – Would be better money spent. ouncilman Clark C– I think that’s the biggest thing…….. Councilman Scheffler - ……..a generator on Conger Boulevard and maybe go over our evacuation plan. Supervisor Morey – All right. I’ll write him a note and tell him we’re not interested at this time. Announcements: M&T Investment Report Old Peruville Road speed limit request has gone to the State Transportation from Tompkins County Highway. Study is going forward. th Holiday Luncheon – December 19, Groton Hotel, 11:30 AM th Tompkins County GIS meeting with ZBA, December 17, 7:00 PM. Everyone invited. th GBA Christmas Cocktail Party, December 18, 5-7 PM at the Groton Hotel. McLean Roads Report – targeted start of construction March 2003 Applications available for Association of Towns Conference in NYC Open House for Barbara Lifton was a success Town Board Meeting Page 13 December 10, 2002 Supervisor Morey – Alton, I want to thank you for coming forward once again to help your community out in a time of need. We want to thank you. Justice Alexander – Thank you. There being no further business, Councilman Sovocool moved to adjourn, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, at 8:25 PM. Unanimous. April L. Scheffler Town Clerk