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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-04-12April 12, 2000 The Lansing Town Board met in Special Session at the Lansing Town Hall Board Room at 12:00 noon with Supervisor Farkas presiding. Stephen Farkas Herbert Beckwith Katrina Greenly Meg Overstrom Francis Shattuck Bonita Boles Richard John VISITORS: None ROLL CALL Supervisor Present Councilperson Present Councilperson Present Councilperson Absent Councilperson Absent Town Clerk Present Town Attorney Present The Supervisor called the meeting to order and had the clerk take the Roll Call. RESOLUTION, offered by Mr. Beckwith and seconded by Mrs. Greenly: WHEREAS, planning is a necessary step to providing for the future quality of life in Tompkins County, and WHEREAS, there has been an on -going intermunicipal effort by County, City, Town and Village governments to work cooperatively to address mutual planning concerns, and WHEREAS, the New York State Department of State Quality Communities Demonstration Program, 1999 - 2000, provides aid to municipalities to enter into collaborative and cooperative agreements to accomplish effective planning for long term community and regional vitality, and WHEREAS, the Tompkins County Department of Planning and the City of Ithaca Department of Planning and Economic Development have been working together to develop an application to develop intermunicipal planning strategies, and WHEREAS, this application will support the County's Vital Communities Initiative, now therefore be it RESOLVED, that the Town of Lansing supports the application for Quality Communities Demonstration Program funding for development strategies to facilitate cooperative multi jurisdictional land use planning, RESOLVED, further, that the Town of Lansing, Town Board encourages its counterparts in the County's local governments to join them in passing similar resolutions supporting this effort. Vote of Town Board ... (Aye) Herbert Beckwith, Councilperson Vote of Town Board ... (Aye) Katrina Greenly, Councilperson Vote of Town Board ... (Aye) Stephen Farkas, Supervisor On motion, meeting adjourned at the call of the Supervisor at 12:10 p.m. raw 10445]