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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB Minutes 1971-05-1025 TOW OF ITHACA TOW 30OARD MEETING MAY 10, 1971 At the Regular Meeting of the Town joard of this Town of Ithaca, Tompltins County, New Yorfc, held at the Town Offices at 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, NOW York, on the" 10th day of May,.1971 at 6:30 p.m,, there were: i j PRESENT: Walter J, Schwsthy Supervisor M Noel IDesch, Councilman . Andrew w, McElwee^ Councilman " ^ . . Robert N« Powefs, Councilman Victor Del Rosso, Councilman ALSO 'v PRESENT: James V* Buyoucos, Town Attorney ' Peter K. Francese, Planning Consultant Supervisor Schwan called the meeting to order at 6:3Q p«m« After a brief discussion of the forthcoming public hearing on the dissolution of all the special water and sewer improvement districts in the Town of Ithaca scheduled for 7:00 ]^^m«, the Board members reconvened in the Common Council Chambers of the City of Ithaca, Proof of posting and publication having been presented, Supervisor Schwan declared the public hearing open at 7:00 p.m. In addition to the presons listed above as present, there were also present members of the presa, radio and television, as well as some eighty townspeople. (List of townspeople appended) n Attorney James v. Buyoucos opened the discussion with the following1 statement: n • n j ! n ' Buyoucos, Up to 1966 if a town wantSd tb construct a water or sewer improvement it could do so in one of two wayS: (1) It could do it be petition or (2) could do it by a resolution, subject to a permissive referendum. In each case, what''was formed was a special improvement district — a special water"district, a special sewer- district, and the like. '' f ' • There were very rigid rules which governed the formation of any of these special improvement districts. Each special improve ment district was a unit unto itself. It had special covenants, its own special financing, its own special and private separate way. of making repairs, for construction, and for improvements, its own special assessment, its own special way of collecting funds. This 'is the way districts were forSed. This was the only way that the / Legislature thought they should be formed, and it worked at a time . when there was not the pressure for water and sewer facilities, and it was working very satisfactorily at a time when costs were rela tively low. ! In 1966 the. Legislature passed a law which said that there was a third way of making these improvements. The two ways which _ I have already described still continue. The third way is pursuant j ! to an article of Tqwn Law, Article 12-c. Under this Article you no j j longer have special improvement districts. If you want to construct sewer, improvements or water improvements, they are called town func tions | they are no longer districts5 they are not called that any more. They are formed, again, pursuant to certain rules which must be strictly adhered to, a special resolution subject to permissive referendum, and there is an opportunity, once a resolution has been adopted for any aggrieved party .to atteck the resolution as it was passed as it affects him. There is orie big difference in this new procedure. Under Article 12-c, if a town improvement is formed, the town now has the authority to do several things. The cost of the improvement can be charged as a tbwri-wide' charge and. Incidentally, when I refer to the Town, the Village of Cayuga Heights is not ^6 - 2 . May 10, 1971 included — if any improvement is put in, it can be charged as a town—wide charge, a tax*. It has no relation at all to anything except assessed valuation* The Town has the option of doing things that way* Obviously in a community such as ours where a large per centage of the users are tax exempt organizations, this would not be a feasible way* I should say it would be a feasible way, but not the most Just, not the most equitable way of raising funds* But this is what the law says* Another way is to charge the cost of the improve ment on a benefit basis, as now* Or the Town can charge the improve ments partly, pn a benefit basis and partly on a tax basis« I am giv ing you this; background as a prelude to the dissolution* What the Legislature is beginning to recognize now is that the old ways of ^ establishing districts were too rigid for present conditions, and they no longer can rely on those procedures as being viable, effec tive procedures to bring about the necessary improvements* ^ Having told you this, we come to another section, 209-r,and 209-q under Article 12-c* That is why we are proceeding and that is the Section under which we are proceeding tonight so that 5?®.commence proceedings as they have here now to dissolvedistricts* They can dissolve some districts or all districts* This as under Section 209-r* In order to do that you have to have certain features, and I will talk to you about that in Just a minute, but the purpose of this resolution tonight is to take advantage of 209-r and the mandate it gives to the Town Board to say that the Town of Ithaca's best interests will be served by the dissolution of all the water and sewer districts that have heretofore been established* Before we could get to this meeting tonight a resolution had to be adopted, and that resolution had to be published and posted, a resolution to hold holding the hearing tonight* Following this hearing the Town Board can either decide to dissolve all the districts or it can decide not to* If it decides to dissolve all the | districts, and the resolution is passed on that basis, then the reso- lution does not become effective until thirty days have elapsed from the date of its adoption* In ^l^ar '^rds, if the resolu'^on Is adopted tonight the resolution would not become effective until thirty days have passed, unless within thirty days petitions are filed as required by law requesting a referendum* If these petitions are filed within thirty days, then a referendum must be had* Those petitions must be sighed by whom? By 10^ of the voters qualified to vote who case their vote for Governor in the last general election for State officials.*^ If the petition requesting a referendum is not filed within thirty'days after the adoption of any resolution con sidered tonight, that resolution "becomes effective* !Ihe law also requires something else — this may be a bit confusing* The law requires that the costs of the operation, maintenance, and repair which are the ordinary year to year operational costs, those costs must be charged as a general town-wide charge. In other words, as a tax, which means that if it were to cost the Town of Ithaca $30>000 or $10,000 a year to pay for the cost of maintaining and repairing the sewer and water facilities, then those would have to be raised as a tax* However, even though the law says you must put this provision in it, all water and sewer charges may be provided by sewer rents and water rates* This means that the cost of operation and repair would be borne only by the people who are the consumers of water* Those are the general legal points you should consider or have in mind at first before the discussion begins* Qjagetion* Is this 10^ of the voters in any one district or of the Whole town? Schwan* The existing districts will be dissolved with the boundaries of the whole town of Ithaca as the benefitting area, ex cluding the Village of Cayuga Heights* Question, I mean the 10^ of the voters required, is that for any given district or the whole town? V "i1971DISTRICTSWaterir"tWATERSEWERWaterSewerTOTALNew (197J>ProposalSewerMaint. &RepairsPrinc. &InterestRepairsPrinc. &InterestBen.Chg.Ben.Chg.Ben.Chg.New EastIthacaEllisHollow !|^ 715.003,800.00100.007,537.00186.4268.63255.0573.00 *East StateStreetSlater-ville Rd.3,500.004,741.00600.0038,000.0049.4071.68121.0873.00 *SnyderHillSlater-ville Rd.2,200.0014,560.00tltf100.2071.68171.8873.00 *NortheastHanshawRoad11,57^.0018,930.00400.004,184.0039.6024.2063.8073.00 *NortheastNortheasttttl550.0036,703.0039.6039.5479.1473.00 *RenwickHeightsRenwickHeights325.002,924.00600.^7,234.0069.40120.16189.5673iOO *South HillSouth Hill11,500.008,886.00100.0078,650.0020.0082.60102.6073.00 *2ncl SouthHillSouth Hill3,775.0034,905.00tltt115.3582.60197.9573.00 *2nd SouthHill Ext. 1South HillExt. 1.650.004,607.0050.008,665.00123.8575.09 :198.9473.00 *2nd SouthHill Ext. 2South HillExt. 21,600.001,660.0050.0010,930.00110.1088.02198.12' 73.00 *Old EastIthacaEllisHollow325.005.6968.6374.3273.00 *Glenside200.006.60No6.6023.00 *T*hurg Rd.2,058.009.200.009.2023.00 *Willow Pt.350.0010.10No.10.1023.00 *Forest Home1,195.000.00No0.0023.00 *TOTAL39,967.0094,913.002,450.00191,9031972 BUDGET:Water $88,000.00 ¨Sewer $177,000.003,820 units =3,5^0 units == $23.00 per= $50.00 perunit,unit.*A11 benefit charges based or$20,000 assessed house on100 ft. lot. 27 • 3 • May 10, 1971 - ^ The total Town. The, resolution states that theTown ^ Ithaca is the .benefitted ar^a and, therefore, requires that the 1055 must be I09& of ail the Voters of the Town, excluding the VJLXx9rg0« P-T| Ceracche, You mean "qualified" voters? ' ' n , Schwan^ Yes, the qualification being that they voted in the- last election. It is "qualified" voters. Question, Is it possible to charge the costs of all main- tenance ana operation as an overall Town charge, without dissolving the districts? Schw^. We must dissolve the districts first. There is no way to lump the operating costs together if all the districts remain if* could charge the operating costs back to the water usersIn the different districts, but you would have so many different rates• Question. Can you legally do exactly the S€une thing as youare without dissolving the districts? Schwan, Legally it is possible, but the operating costs vary so widely you couldn't establish a flat surcharge. There would be no way, for instance, to lump the operating costs of the Northeast with Snyder Hill Road. n n Question. Would someone coming newly into a district be eligible to vote? T. don't want to represent to you at this time whoa qualified voter is. Everywhere there are big arguments as to who is a qualified voter. If you have any questions on that, you can go to the election officials. voter? Question. Then you don't know right now who is a qualified Buyoucos. Not for certain. Schwan. By stipulating a qualified voter, that rules out anybody who moved into the area within 30 or 60 days. I believe the property qualification is no longer in effects I would like to ex plain a few things which might answer some of the questions you are going to ask and explain better what we are talking about here. In the first place, I would like to stipulate that this does not affect the Village of Cayuga Heights, The Village is in no way involved whether this resolution is adopted or fails, There has been some confusion in that some people are confusing this proposal with a possible Town of Ithaca system which would supply water from our own sources. The two proposals are not related. To be more explicit, were we to build a Town water system we would have a source of water at Bolton Point with the Town of Lansing and a source from the Inlet Valley wells. These two sources would be treated and pumped through mains which we would lay in the ground and we would put it all to gether, the cost of.operation on a yearly basis, which cost would be borne by the water rate the Town of Ithaca would charge. The Cilty of Ithaca sends water and sewer bills quarterly to all water users in the City of Ithaca. This metered consumption of water is then used to figure the sewer rate every three months in the City. These charges, water and sewer together, pay for the total City of Ithaca system from the time the water is pumped from the dam at Six Mile Creek to the standpipes and pays for all the appurtenances that go with it, including any debt the City has which has not been amortized; it pays for the workers, all the cost-of maintenance and operation, the complete system is paid for-by the City water user when he pays his quarterly water and sewer biil..» 28 - ^ - May 10, 1971 S^upervisor Schwan (using the chart reproduced here below) showed comparison of present .water and.sewer benefit charges in the various water and sewer' ^stricts with^water and sewer rates under the proposed dissolution (all figures being based on a house with 100 feet frontage and an assessed valuation of $20,000). n (SKE CHART ON NEXT PAGE) Ques'fclon. Uha't aboot; houses with neither' ■wa'ber nor sewer? Schwan. They will pay either a nominal sum of $1.00 a or a nicfcel. a thousand• ^ Question# (Bundy Road) Why do we have to pay for something we don't have? Schw^# you come into the category of a benefitting districtwith no benefit, and we must cl:^ge you a minimum charge of $1.00,but we can discuss that later .the amount of money is not that big* Charlotte Stone. (1314 Hianshaw Road) Why isn't Cayuga Heights includea in the area? Schwan. The Village is not involved in anything you see herb'on this Chart. The Village was first sewered in 1958. The Villageof Cayuga Heights is a sepst^ate entity; they are part of the Town of ' ; Ithaca, but in this case they are a separate municipality because thelaw says so. In the case of the Village, for example, their bonded indebtedness is part of their Village tax rate. 29 - 5 - May 10, 197I .. . Wha:t.ai;g the restrictions ift ibhe current»;^is trie tingthat Jim Buyoucos spblce of? Jim said the ciirrent method of district ing xs too restrictive; what is so restrictive about it? ^ Because, we have 19 water districts and 40 sewerdistricts, it is impossible to build a capital' reserve in any one of_ them that is meaningful• We are Still growing as a Town and the day i ! ioo far distant that we are going to have a pump station toI 1 replace; the station can no longer handle the volume of water. We are talKiQg about expenses in the. area of $15,000 to $20,000. and most of these districts have maybe $1,800 or $2,500 if they have that much. Most of the benefit charges have been high enough so that ^y reduction in the obligation of the district"was use4 by the Town benefit charge. You can't lower the benefit charge and ^ resale at the same time. We, as a Board, acting as com-missioners for these districts have to work out long range capital m example, painting standpipes — eight standpipes r»o4 $7^000 each. Some of these haven't beenpainted in 13 to 14 years on the average. We have old districts and we have new districts. Glenside, for example, was built in the 30»s. ®'fford any repairs- in the district by themselves. I^ not talking only about today — but 20 years from now. I don't continue with this hodge-podge of districts and - ^2 xfu analogy: it would be the same thing as the Cityhaving 19 water and 10 sewer departments. They have one yiu 1 ^ and sewer department. It builds all improvements and runs thewhole system. We are trying to do the same thing. water? doesn't everybody in the City of Ithaca have n V. -SsSiSil* Good question! I understand there are a few homesI here and there without water, but here agaiinv if I understand the — iDipilcation of the last question: there will be no assessment to anybody in "^^f^Qwn of Ithaca who does not presently have a water or sewer benefit, we are making this a wftttav* giiyo>iia>»g«a xni^fcTtwas^fair to assess anybody who didn't have water. This is true here. This is based on benefit z^tes billed to people with a water and sewer benefit. • ' -- . . Sj^one. In that set-up and for this rate, does-!this takeinto con^deratiori existing indebtedness in some areas? Schwan. It takes into consideration all the existing indebt edness because we would add up the principal and interest costs and project them for 1972. •' Stone. There is quite a drastic decrease for some, arid an increase forothers. What is the status right now of that $185,000 matter? SchT^\un. There is no legal basis for going to court on it. That is the advice we have had. Question. That $39>000# who do we pay that to? n Schwan. $13,000 of it is hydrant charge to the City of I j Ithaca aT"$7i57000 per hydrant per year; the"^ balance of $26,000 is probably evenly split between hiring the City of Ithaca to operate the pump station and standpipes and telephone lines and electric i power♦ Question. You don^t contemplate having our own repair system? ..Schwan. We wouldn't consider doing our own maintenance and repairs unless we built our own water system. ' Q'^cstion. This $73.00 —^ does that include the 155^ surcharge on the waiter rate? m - 6 . May 10, 1971 Schwan. That $73-00 is the benefit charge. The sur charge would be on the water bill. If,, for example, your water con sumption was $40.00 a. year, it would go'up $6.00 a year. Question. You were talking of connecting up to wells with ' Lansing. That means large mains, pun^ stations, etc. If things go through, how are you going to pro-rate those costs? j— Schwan. That has nothing to do with the $73.00. Question. These wells could very well benefit South Hill^ ^ McElwee. This is retirement of capital improvements already made, on pumps, etc. Question. But ryou are also making capital inmrovements build ing the wells? .... McElwee. That has no relationship to the water rate. . . were to build our own system, we would all paywater bins to the Town of Ith€tca. All you people who have water would pay. There would be no capital charge by virtue of borrowing* money to build a system to tie these districts together. Question. The wells would be part of that? Schwan. It would be part of the water rate. 4. 4^ ^^yQucos. Your question is valid in terms of future activity>out it h^ nothing to do with this resolution tonight which is merely ^ to dissolve the existing districts. As paii; of that process the post is absorbed by the benefitted area because the cost of constructing the improvement so far has nothing-to do with any future actii^ty, any future water or sewef facility. , Question. I understand that, but a year from now we would connect to mains from these wells, how is that going to affect our rate? o o /14 4. means if we were to build a Town water system, ? 4.U ^ rehaca would not be in the water business. We ^uld be .in the water business for ourselves, supplying our own water. - „ Charlotte (StepO), in reference to why the Village ^£4. is not included in this, the law says we can'taffect the Village; the Village is governed by Village law. They are governed by one law. This is town law which applies to water and ?=?ewer improvements outside the Village. Arthur L. Berkev ri28 Christopher Circle). At the present ' time thex-e is a given assessment for the Northeast and so we pay to :r:tire benefit. Bills we pay for any additional repairs we are guaranteed with only the variable of additional repairs to pay only that amount. Right now we lump everything together and some people pay $198.00 and will now pay $73-00, Some, people witli. everything " mm. already paid off will pay $73^00. That^s fine for the^^xisting j indebtedness and if we stay as we are. I am not wori^ed about any | additional districts with :the exception of additional repairs. Sup pose we extend water or sewer, that will be added into that part at the bottom /of the char^ and our $73-00 will go up accordingly, isn't that "^rue? Schwan. It could if we didn't use our heads. Berkey. Where is the money to come from? For . example. South Hill costs $198.00. Everybody was charged according to spine formula €tnd you came up with $198.00^ Suppose we have another South Hill. 31 - 7 - May 10, I97I Schjjan. Alright, suppose, for example, we pay $200,000 for a sewer i^rwement, the first thing to do is to amortize $100,000 have to pay $8,000 per year, or, for $200,000, ?lo,000 per year, !Phat would he what we would have to add-to. the existing budget in 1972 were we to build the improvement that quickly, ^d the following year we would have to add $16,000 into the seWer budget in order to pay it off. Let's assume we gain 100 new. units for this $200,000 we will spend. One hundred units times -$50^00. (sewer j equals $5^000. That's what they paid the first year. We have picked up lOO new customers. We will assume our sewage plant ^ is large enough. Berkey. I thought you were adding the use charge^into that. Schwan. No. That's why I made the big- speech in the begin ning, and the yoU are talking about "is covered by the $50.00 X ^ saying we have now built a new construction for$200,000 and by virtue of that expenditure we have picked up 100 new ^its.^ 100 X $50,00 is $5jOOO in the kitty. To get an engineer to do a study and come back with a feasibility study that shows what this can be done for to the point.where the Town Board would pass a resolution providing the benefit. It would take, if it is carefully studied, resolved, put out to bid, contracted for and built, a mini- mum of wo years. During that same two year period I am assuming 50 units of growth each year — ah apartment here and there. —. .SSfSSSL* Wouldn't we have that same growth under the present~ system in the existing districts aiid our rates come down accordingly? I You can't add those 50 units., Schw^. If we assume 30 ixnits and put it in as 50 new units we have another $5jOOO. In two years with $705000 of principal paid off per year, that means thattthat indebtedness drops $3,500 a year. In two years that is $7,000 more. At the end of two years' time, if the benefit charge was not lowered, you would now have $17,000 of available income that could be used to amortize that note, and every body still pays $50,00. If you have enough of these in 20 years you will do well. Suppose a district was bonded in 1968, does it really matter whether it runs 27 years or 35 years? I am. talking about the Town of Ithaca for the future. Berkey. Aren't property values enhanced in the "areas that are alreadjTpaid off? Scl^n^apo ;;oll, if :you will look at the ones that ar% paid off, you*p."Q''"'see they have all sorts of pro'oloms. ^Trumansburg, for if^ paid off, but they have three hydrants and they,should h.ivo eicdit uincj, Berkey. This proposal of yours will riot iricrease or decrease the total water or sewer dosts in the Town of Ithaca one iota. We |i^ will have the same total costs next year whether we pass this resolu tion this year or not. Schwan. Sure, dxactly the same. But in 1972 it will drop to $177,000. Berkey. We are not saving any money. You say some people will pay more and many people who will pay less will pay longer. Desch. We are creating incentive for growth. We will effec-^ tively be decreasing the anniial unit cost. 32 - 8 • May 10, 1971 Berkey« Maybe we live in Ithaca bec^se we prefer a lower population density. You are assuming all this growth is going to be good. Npr do you have any hard data to show this ,100 unit growth. _ Schwferi. Even in this bad year we had 35 houses built in the r*Town of Ithaca. You say the gi^wth may be bad. You: are inferring that we can't say it is going to happen or that if it does happen it good. If you look at the record of the Town of Ithaca you will note that we have increased roughly by 7>000 people in 10 years time and the tax rate has been cut by one-third. Berkey. On the one hand you say we will have growth. Now now do we know we will have practically the same amount of growth? Is the administrative load of all these districts so heavy that if this plan does not go through or if it does go through you will let somebody go or have to hire somebody. Schwan. Nobody is going to be hired or fired either way. 4.W Berkey. Then the administration of these districts is notthat great a problem. - Schwan. You are saying this is not a. good idea. You saypeople are going to have to pay longer. Let's take, some specific examples. Let's look at East State Street, Slatervllle Road. The standpipe was painted in 19^3; they have no money to re-paint it and 22''^ ? lower their rates we may even have to raise it. Let's Took tnjj they have two standpipes that need painting —q>i4,ooo therefore, the water rate in the Northeast will have to - ^ go up. ^chwan cited several other examples.7 These different dis tricts cannot do these things by themselves When we are all in one these things piecemeal and still not raisethe $50.00 and the $23.00. But the other way, the rates Just have to Trumansburg Road district was built by the State of New York back in the 30's; the State gave it to the County and-;,the County ga.ve It to the Town, The standpipe was painted in 1964. . • Question. We bought and paid for our installation. We stillpay a hydrant , tax: we pay a rate and a half. for water, so why do you raise our tax to $73.00? Schwan. If you have water and sewer both you pay $73#^00* If you have water only you pay $23.00. I* Crriffln (1215 Trumansburg Road). If I have 19 unitson my last bin what will I have on the new one? I have 38 acres. Schwan. You will still have 19 units — $73.00 x 19* Question. (Old East Ithaca) What will it cost us? Schwan. It is $74.32 now. We are asking $73.00. You might go up a couple of dollars as a result of^the surcharges Stone. Do the figures on your chart include grouping the existing indebtedness? 1971 • Schwan. Yes, I have added them up to show whistt it cost in Stone. The increase in the population takes care of of it — some people go down $150 to $170, but others only go up $10.00. Schwan, Yes, everybody is not going down. Another factor in this — these units are computed on the existing districts. Another thing — by virtue of a change in the formula, apartments ^ ^ being assessed at 1/2 unit, the Town Board believes they should be^ one unit. That brings in a few more dollars. We have two Junior 33 - 9 - May 10, 1971 Ithaca, One will pay sewer and «r!?+o jirt i pay water anteSewer both. They represent 160 more lo^o V 2' f®"®*" $38;20 for water. This is based on a M+I i ^ haven'tivfud^ed any figures. I am saying the2: ^?,t5°*00 sewer and $23,00 for water and that's it. 1 1-n stalce my life on it. There has been no attemptto make this look better than it is. «•!» *v..> Lucente. 1 don't think the people have been properly informedor tne true costs. " 4 4.S252SB® You are well aware that we mailed ouljl to every per-2^Ithaca who has water and sewer benefit five pages explanatory matter,.. including questions and answers 5^® I'thaca Journal, tpti say they hiS.»en't had enoughinformation. How far do we have to carry this? . ^^£!i£®SLE®- ,.2?^® $255.05 they ar^;.paying in Ellis Hollow whichonly $73*00 under the new plan, in thirty years these f save $5>000. They can put this money in the bankand at interest can have $10,000. In this case, interesliiii^y enough, .Ellis Hollowsewer ana New East Ithaca water represent about 12 property owners. iz IS strictly concerned with a comer of the Judd Palls Road: there are about 35 or 4o units. $121.08,pointing to chart/, these people willsave $l,!poo and put it in the tiank. • n - rn are assuming that by virtue of multiplyingnumbers, if this resolution does not pass, and if that rate were - I n zo remain the same for the nekt thirty years, you will come up with tnose figures. The Northeast sewer started, out at $52.50 per unit, xt IS now down to $39*54. You cannot multiply these figures 30 times, fl o brought this up, we have built the benefit districtsas outlined heres we computed a fowaula to assess the benefit to the town pei;^le in the district who built their improvement within the of that district. Then additional growth occurred and units. All those'new units became unit members of the ^ aistrict at no cost to the district; they added more units by virtue fixed amount of the unit cost and it started to go ^ down. That benefit rate does not stay put. n SAITA ?®9Pl® P®yi®S $171.88, they, are going tosave $2,500. ^ese people peyii?g $189.56, they will have $3,000 interest 2)6,000. These pSople paying $102.60 in thirty years will have about $3,5O0r. Spij^bpdy has to pay for all this. Governor Rocfcefellerttried to maJce Sh^ figures come out and they Just wouldn*tknow I can/t do th'i"S\"in my biisinoss.. ,1. cah*t lower every body's charges. Under this pr6]^sai,' a lot Of^ these people are going A? least thirty- years/ so that other ppopXe pf^ have $5yQoo,r^) $6,000 or $10.^000 in the bank. Thos,e = people are'goi^lng to be paying more. BuyoucoS^ feu-are quite right in that some people are going , to pay more and somS are goirig to pay less. Bit let me tell you this, Rocco: You:mayaye if this proposal does not go through, but it is going to l#' paid for. You and some of the other biggest property owners in the Town of Ithaca, I have no-doubt, will save some money -- at least'on the surfaces .But many others will have to pay.- Desch. Yes, everybody, who lives in the Townv Buyoucos. Remember, too, you have had the benefit of low assessments. Lucente. We paid off our debt: why shouldn't other people pay off theirs? 34 - 10 - May 10, 1971 . Buyoueosa. You may come out alright, Rocco, ^but other peoplh 5^® people in this town are not going to be able to bearthe unit costs.V one of the pui^osee here, as I understand it, was to maKe it possible to have some equality and uniformity of rates, rather than all the variations we have. 'naxr^y^cT You can*t talk equality when some people have been f—i tomorrow Is-st ten years and somebody else only starts to pay here on trying for equality and uniformity from i Question. That's the same thing aa^ sayingy "Let's average ^ out our house mortgages so everybody pays fequal" — that kind of thing. Are you in favor of that kind of thing? Buyoueos. I am not in favor of that; I don't think it is ^ position ~ Which is good fromyour point of view. thing you need to look at is the fact's and look position I am in and why I am in that position. I have no ri^t Schwan's in thinking you are doing the For one thing, if you look at some of those benefit Charges, there is a big deterrent to any further growth; they are set there; they aren't going to come down. Maybe our growth will go to Lansing. n have no data to show that our growth won't con- ^ thing I am saying is everybody should pay his own district. If they are paying $188.00 and don't out there by themselves, they can go where the charges are ^ro.oo. Maybe the growth won't continue and maybe growth is not necessarily good. , Schwan. Based on the census, we have increased by 7,000 ! years. The census indicates also that Ithaca is the i 5 S®£®?^ growing town in the State of New York. It is true that ;3,500 of thxs growth came with Ithaca College. ?®f^®'^* subsidize, for example, car prices? Whypick on this one item to subsidize? The only reason I can see to equalize charges is that as new people come in they will have a lower rate to start with. I don't see the rationale for this. ^ •*. > ^ Peter K. Francese (Planning Consultant, Town of Ithaca). ■:There are going to be large costs incurred in repairing the existingsystem, in finding a source of water. The City of Ithaca has servednotice to the Town of Ithaca that it will?not have any water. Therewill be charges and expenses in the future in terms of maintenance ofthe existing system. If you find certain inequalities in the present ' proposal, the inequalities will be greater and more frequent and therates are going to vary up and down under the present system. We areattempting to equalize matters for this year and for^ the next t^nty | years. Berfcey. I am willing to pay my own shot. Let the otherspay theirs. iTf it costs me $103.00 two years from now, I am willingto pay my fair share to amortize the expenses. Desch. And suppose it goes to $350, for example. Voice. And there are a lot of people on SouthrHill paying high, and they have no voice. 35 - 11 - May 10, 1971 Lucente, You are talking about growth. You need growth, but you have discouraged builders. I have been discouraged. Why does the Twon dliscourage builders? y . • Schwan. I don*t see how we are^discouraging growth." F-i Lucente. I am talking about past policies to discourage builders from buildings That is why you have those high charges up there on South Hill. * Schwan. Those high charges have nothing to do with any builder. They were the result of terrain and other factors — arid had nothing to do with buiilders. »r Desch. Another big advantage of adopting this resolution is that it creates stable ,^fowth because in the great majority of areas in the Town it will be much more economical and uniform for not only the large developer, but the individual person. Why should we stamp out growth? Lucente. I argued against it wheii you adopted new testric- tionb which would reiise houses out of the reach of the people. Schwan. I think we-are getting off the subject. We were considering one thing only — dissolution. Jon Baskerville (520 Coddington Road). I speak on behalf of the new South Hill district. I was hoping tnere would be some others here from the district. I want to say something for that area. I moved into that district a couple of years ago after the decision had been made to extend, so I didn't have anything to say about it. ^ Last year my taxes went up to $400, and I am not one of these people that Mr. Lucente is talking about who will be putting a couple of- hundred dollars Into the bank every'year. I'm a graduate student. I think in my position this proposal is very fair. I can't even afford to have the water and sewer hooked up now. I think this is a very equitable proposal. I. think it looks ahead to the future. X - think that the people who are objecting to this proposal are object ing because they are going to have to pay $20 or $30 dolla.rs a year - more; they are being quite unreasonable. 1 am going to have to con tinue to pay this $500 if this plan is defeated. Yengo. Being in one of the newest districts, I am No. 8 low (only seven assessments higher) and this surpirises me. I believe I paid taxes one year and escaped a year. I don't know if I will be able to afford these new rates and if I can't do it and I am 8th low, I feel sorry for the ones on top. Qostan Gostanian (IO58 Danby Road). Let's get back to th^: chart. Are you going to carry on all the expenses separately? Schwan. The bonded districts you can't change. We have to pay those off the way they were bonded. But the bond anijicipation t notes at the Torapkins County Trust Company, that's something else. The individual district has to be paid off as part ofthat resolution ^ specified. Question. This $177>000, that's based on the aid rates, is that right? Schwan. The $191,000 was based on a bond anticipation note at 5^5^. The new figure is based on 5^. And it went to A bond anticipation note is a note issued in anticipation of getting a bond. The old ones are at whatever rate they were at the time they were sold. The total is all of'these added together. In other words. East State Street water is bonded. Northeast water is bonded, Hanshaw Road sewer is bonded. Renwick" Heights water and sewer are bonded. Biere are very few new onies bonded. South Hill water was bonded in 1954 and East State StrCet water was bonded in 1954. 36 - 12 ~May 10, 1971 Herbeyt Mglir {103 Judd Falls Road) i Forest Home is one of • the districts that will have to pay more. It goes from zero to $23»00. There is a difference between what the average home owner gets into and what a big landowner, gets into. They are different questions. From my point of view, I have to pay $23#00 for a couple of years. That is unjustified. We have a serious problem. On the other hand,^^ as you know, we are losing more and more of what water sources we have. ^ It is more difficult to go swimming anyplace that is safe^ One of the worst places is Fall Creek. So we have in a system like the one pro- i posed where we get to build sewers in Forest Home an opportunity. Some of you, like the gentleman over thiere^ mi^t have to pay a little more than he would have to under the present system. Maybe that's unjustified if he never went to Fall Creek or never used Cayuga Lake. The average homeowner, however, will be using these facilities. We might not consider some of these things Important at the moment. They might not have occurred to us. Some things may not seem fair, like $1.00 per tax parcel where we are getting nothing, but, again, this is a funny thing. Who has paid off that water district? Somebody a long time ago created that district and paid for it. Take Social Security, for example. We have accepted such things, rather th^ everybody on his own. We have accepted that the Social Security we pay now will benefit somebody in the future and those who paid in the past are benefltting us. We are subsidizing others through Social Security and they are subsidizing us. There are many things a community can do better together than anybody on his own. As I look into the future it might be a better thing for all of up. to work together. ^PLAUS^ Question. . Why not bring in the Village of Cayuga Heights? . There is County law and there is Town law. They areseparate and qistinct entities. There is no way the Town of Ithaca can assess thp Village of Cayuga Heights anything since they built their own system and they are paying for it themselves. Question. About growth in the Town, 3,500 of these 7,000 increeuse in populaition are Ithaca College. Schwan. You're exactly right. Question, Some more of it is up in Cayuga Heights. What have we nad there? Has Rocco built there or anybody else? Schwan. The Town of Ithaca increased by 7,000 — 3,500 be cause of xthaca College. Cornell University does not figure in it. Cayuga Heights population has declined in the last ten years time. Voice. We have only a few places with open spaces. The Northeast ispretty well built up. The only way you can talk growth, is in the open areas. - Schwan. There is still a lot bt open area for growth.f' T^ is open area in Ellis Hollow, Snyder Hill' Roaid', and Siaterville Road- ^ We are not looking at only one area. There are still 75 to 8o acres (^ in the Northeast. Voice. But when you start talking growth rate, the Town of Ithaca is not going to grow that fast. Schwy. Increase in housing units and apartments has averaged in the last four or five years.between 70 and 100 units a year. Thip year, I admit, was a bad year, and last year wasn't that great either.;-! Part of that is the credit crunch, interest on mortgages, and the fact- that the City told us they were out of Water. There have been several developers who wanted to build, but nobody could guarantee the water Desch* It is remarkable we had the growth we did in spite^of these adversities. If we had no problems insofar as our .felatjions with the City, the growth would have been far in excess of what it has been in spite of the credit situation. n 37 -• n - 13 - • more growth on South Hill^ ^ ^ -once this proposal is adopted. The rate there then becomes sensible. A- gg"phez (13'»1 Slaterville Hoad); It seems to me if you have19 water ana xu sewer districts, this is a mess. If you have got it in one it seems to me you will save something in the Town Super- visor's and the Town Board's time. - It goes beyond that, though. We can under the new i We. non out for the next ten years and project some costs.start to do the things that-have to be done as the capital becomes available or will take care Of those things. If we reach a corrected some problems and have brought in someadditional money, we will build a capi-f^ST reserve fund. Maybe in 7 or H years from now we can have $25,000 in' the bank in both water and sewer. We could do things without raising anybody's rate -- paint a standpipe, build a pungi station. .. 5i2S2.« ^^® in the'ju'ticle in the. paper, itould sound as if the existing indebtednei^b would be lumped into this Schwan. Yes, but bookkeeplng-wlse it is separated* ' i \ How with all the existing indebtedness can we come up with therate you end up with? ^ Schwan* Because this is what we budgeted for 1971 to meet ^191; 000* Th^-budget for 1972 for sewer we will have to rdi^e in 1972* Part of the vJ? 9v?^^971 is due to a declinp of $3,500 in principal n M ?/oS • ®i?^intefest anticipation noteso 4.^^' ($177,OOOf r^^ients a realistic estimate.2,,4. V jctual ^ount to be raised for 1972 to meet these seWer costs*terms of bookkeeping we will have to. keep track of jfchese dis-* trtcts separately for budget purposes /©it the benefit rate will be ' all one — $50.00 for sewer and $23*00 for Water." \ Stone* 1 understand. 1.14 4.U 4.U 9^®^tion* (Glenside) It appeairs as thou^ ail these districts, -With the exception of the Northeast benefit considerably from your they will receive a $23.00 or $73*00 tax, with theexception of Glenside, Trutoansfourg Road, Willow Point, and Forest --- Home -- those four areas. Schwan* That^s true* If you only have'water, it is $23*00. £ sewer both it is $73* 00. But you have to lookat the individual rate* In the case of watpr there are six that go up. In the ease of sewer where we are talking $50.00 under the new ^ there are two that ^ up ^ but when ' you combine the total ofthe two, because most have water and sewer, in most instances there is a decline, although in some cases.the decrease is very little. X 1 have difficulty in understanding how it can go„ from $190*00 to $73.00* r Schwan. Take, for example, the $255*05 in New East Ithaca • and Ellis Hollow Road, there are less than 40 units in this district* That's one reason why the-rate is high there*. But when you lump 4o units into the whole pot they become' insignificant as part of the - total. The same thing is true in second South Hill, Extension 1 and 2, where the total number of units does not exceed 200. Again, it is part of the total, insignificant^^ they are a ¥pry small fraction of the whole. In averaging these out wa were, pleasantly surprised at what we could do by lumping them together. 38 - - May 10, 1971 i Qixestion. You mentioned hydrant tax. Is there a hydrant charge in^^ddltion to the wa/ter^ Sohwan. Yes. For example, go back to Glenside, this is one hydrant ^r-|757Q0. McElwee. It isn't a charge against the water rate. Schwan. a.^e hydrant charge of $75.00 is over in the water maintenance and fepa^-rs budget which in the past has been raised as part of the benefit charge. The hydr^t charge is billed on the tax bill, and i^:Glenside you are paying 33 oehtSi -per thousand. Question. So you have the hydrant charge in this figure, water maintenance and repairs. Does the $23.CO..include the hydrant charge? Schwan. No. The $50.00 or $23.00 covers only principal and interest because the repairs under sewer districts will be a IJ^ sur charge. The water repairs will be taken care of by a 155^ surcharge on the charge for water consumption. That's another reason why the unit rate goes down. Question. Then there is still a hydi^t charge in addition to the $23.00? Schwan. Yes. ' Queistion. The 1^ sewer surcharge — does that apply where sewer is not available? . , Schw^p.. The 1% sewer surcharge and 15^ water surcharge will f"be paid only by those people, who are presently paying the City a water hLll or sewer bill, or both. I Question. One more.thing, there is appc^ently some reserve in each one of these small water districts of une^ended sums of money set up for repairs and maintenance. What do you do with the surplus? . ^ ^ Schwan. We have these variable surpluses because you can'tbudget to bpe penny. Buyoucos. I'm not sure how the surpluses should be handled. Question. The surcharge will be a maximum of 155^. Will your resolution be worded so that it will never exceed the 15^? 4 could put such a limitation on it, but I thinkthe point to be made here is that on that nasis, if we were to guarantee that the surcharge would only be 155^> then were expanses to exceed that amount, they would then have to become a total Town charge. The surcharge could be 20^ or 2^ tyot we don't envision dt. - Question. What is the $39^000 figure on the chart? ($39>022) Schwan. $13>000 of it is the hydrant charge. That is by F" virtue of a contract with the City of Ithaca. The rest is simply j what we have spent to operate those systems. Question. You canltput in a safeguard against a higher surcharge? , ^ ^ ' nn * . .-v- Buyoucos. I would be against putting that into this resolu tion before a rate is adopted by the Town Board. There will be a-v hearing on that as well. That is the time to come down. The point is at that time it may be deemed by the Town Board that we should hot increase the cost to the consumers but have the expanse, say, paid by general tax. I doubt that this will be the case, but it could be con- j sidered then. You do have a hearing when the rate is established, but I would strenuously ob;Ject right now, without doing some checking, to having that limitation in this resolution. 39 - 15 - /Schwan> Tpwn Law gives the Town the right to establish water rates, we <ao this by virtue of signing contracts with the City at a rate and a half. All we are saying is that were thiS" proposal to be adopted, the water rate would have to be sufficient to cover that figure. In my wilflest dreams, though, I can't see how it would fluc tuate more than a percentage point"or two. Remember, this is to cover repairs and malnten.^ce of an easting system.. If y'oa build a new water system, you will also have new water customers who will also be paying a 15% surcharge. Were we to build an improvement like that, $50.00 and $23.00 — what I showed youwith my arithmetic was that If a proposal was brought in to build a new Improvement after this resolution was adopted, if "you sat down and worked it out so the new improvement was completed at a point when you had accumulated enough surplus, plus new units, you could do it and still keep the rate at $50,00 and $23,00. . ^ this proposal didn't go throu^, how would youhandle this situation in the "problem areas"? Schw^. There would be nothing we could* do. This districts ? inaiWdual, all foxmed by resolution of the Town Board, Theyexist as separate entities. If this proposal should fail they stay Just like they are, n SiSSS* ^ understand there Was an appeal to the State torelieve.SodtH Hill. . • .>. Schwan. The South Etll rates reflect the expenses involved there. There is no way by virtue of what is here worked out that we can shift into Town tax, except that if we should lose a suit in would have to do is to give relief in a given area; the pod faith and credit of the Town of Ithaca stands behind all of this indebtedness, whether it be bonds or bond anticipation notes which were budgeted for; should there be a court mandate, the Town Board would hpe no alternative but to issue tax ahticipatfon notes to meet the obligation and then budigeb it in the^Town budget .^d everybody would pay his fair shiure, ' That is what -Wte^Sbuld fiaW to do if this situation should arise. Stone. You. gentlejien feel pretty strongly in favor of this proposal, and that there is ho "bedrook" /^laughterT^hat it will be expensive in a few years to get through? . Schwan, Yes, we believe this proposal is good for the Town, . Elmer S, Phillips, 131 Pine Tree Road. As avformer member ofthe Planning Board, I Know there is never any right time to do anything. X have argued with some supervisors in the past that we have never had any ability for any capital investment, and this proposal, at least, does offer some opportunity to be able to take care of things like that. 1 am sincere ih saying that we have not had many other Towns who have had a Supervisor who could field as many questions as well as Walt has tonight. - .(Mr, Phillips raised questions with regard to the diffi culties experienced in assessing comer lots and un developed acreage.) • " n , . - ■. -f;.":'^ - . ■ ' -.jSchwan. Thank ^ou, Elmer, We are-.-leaving the 1/2 unit peracre as-.it is because ^^e rate is only $73-^,00, However, we would take a look at it. Suppose you had water available cuid no sewer. Now, do you get the same benefit from the water as if you hfiid water and sewer? It was our feeling, since this land is heavy clay soil,even with water fronting on your property, you didn't have as much benefit as with water and sewer both. We discussed this in coconittee and decided we would make it 1/6 of an acre where there is only water. The problem on comer lots is very real and it has always bothered me. And we will be studying that. - l6 - Question, I have^00 feet frontage; what would that be? Sch.wan, It would be 2 x $73,00, . , ?• ^ P"* ^ lady objected to being assessed for water andjewer with no benefit. If this thing goes through^ will these mar* ^ glnal districts be able to force the Town to.develop water and sewer systems in areas where the cost would be prohibitive?. . 525255L* _ niade this point earlier,) Any proposal yScA AA j in the ropihion of the Town Board affect these two numbersfand $23,00) iti any way would not be accepted. We don't have to hupd one because Somebody wants one, if lye were to turn the man down in terms of an improvement he could still go back to the Town Law and use the petition method to build his own district and to pick up the costs in his own disti^ict. Question, Would he have to pay in both places? Schwan, No, . Question, Is it in Town Law that you can refuse to an improvement? ^ would not be refusing absolutely. There arethree different ways districts could be formed In the future. One is the old benefit method which I think would happen In a case like tniLS,': 11 t-t e«tlonY^°"^*°* cannot force the Town to extend them, by , .• * i-. • • v; • ••' • u- - n n ■Schwan, No,'"' ■' ■ /'•' i 'I ' . .... -r; T^a+fer ' 300 Forsst Homc Drive, We have water only,sewers and the State comes in and says BbrestHome needs sewers^ is this going to be absorbed by the entire Town? i^rovement.that would be built after this pro- f k?? J Virtue of a public heai'ing, a Townmandated it and this is a newimprovement for the purpose of cleaning up Beebe Lake « , • said we ^^'do^thls!^^*^*^ haVe to form a new district then? You Desch, It would depend oh the cost of the improvement, Le«s say Ithappened in 1972, Are we going to have to form it ourselves? tfS., . . a. 5SS2ilr may have to. It depends on how it does or uoes ^not benerit the Town. ~ . Si^SXi' Suppose* %h'ey tell us it will be $500,000 and thenyou get into the same problems in terms of how to put a couple of ]hundred thousand dollars more (like the $185,000 on South Hill)?You stated at one meeting that this thing this action againstengineers on the over-run of $185,000 on South Hill must be pursued.You said we must get our money, Th® suit has never been prosecuted,'^ Schwan, We pursued .it,and the best advice we had was thatlegally we didn't have a leg'to .stand oh, Ril^w Here's bother one, " What about that $41,000 used for water? How - old we-slake but oh "that? .t- : • : .. .v;;. . - . • ^ : Schwan, We found 2^ MOD, 41 • - 17 - Riley. Do we have to spend any more money to. get this working for the Town? • . Schwan. As I mentioned earlier, any Town water.system, were it to bevbuilt, using these wells and Bplton.Point, would be paid for out of the water rate the Town of Ithaca would collect from everybody in the Town using water, , . . r ■- Rlley* Building a water system would c!6st a lot of money. Schwan. Building a Town water system has no bearing whatsoever on this proposal. If we build a Town water system and we waterthe whole Town of Ithaca, that number ($73.00) is not affected. Thereis no connection between a Town water system and this proposal. Riley, And if the State mandates something in Forest Home? Buyoucos, The State cannot force the Town of Ithaca to adopt any sewer xmprovement. They just can't do it. Riley. What would we do? Buyoucos, Follow 209-q of the Town Law. Riley. We would have to form our own benefit district? Desch. The first thing you would try to do would-be to increase your area by going to an adjacent Municipality or municipalities who had the same problems. You would thereby increase the num ber of units So you would benefit in that way. Maybe the Forest Home area, plus Varna, Etna, and Freeville could do it. Then the Statewould likely mandate those together to cles^ up Pall Creek and CayugaLake. It all ties together. You would have, to bargain hard to formit on a large area basis and this Board would have to bargain on your behalf. Humph, 549 Old Spencer Road. I was requested to .come tonight and check on something you said in one.of the pieces you sent out: .. "Under the luaified concept we rcan begin to extend the pipes a little each year \intil we reach the point where we can extend service and reduce the benefit charge simultaneously." Does that answer any of the questions being asked? If you are going to reduce the benefit charge, how are you going to build your capital reserve? Schwan. We are going to build the reserve first and then reduce the charge. Edward R, Ostrander, l460 Hanshaw Road. The bexieflt charges are not taxes or are not called taxes? ■ 5clyflan. The benefit charge:appears on your tax bill in January. : You can call it a tajc. ^ There is a figure and after ita "W" standing for water or an "S" standing for sewer. The surchargewould b^ a 15% increase in the water-rate you are paying the City, which surcharge the City would rebate to the Town. Ostrander. These, benefit charges are not taxes? Schwan. They are special benefit district charges. Ostrander. The landowner can-'t take, those as,a tax deduc tion? Schwan. He can deduct the part that is interest; that is a deductible item, the interest portion. 42 exempts? - 18 - Ostrander, How will the $73.00 unit charge affect the t^ age? ness« . S^nran* $73*00 is a benefit charge* The. tax exempts i paying benefit charges now :and under the Th?ft continue to pay as they have in the past. f ^ we are proposing the surcharge on the water rate to coverpairs and maintenance, rather than making it a Town tax. and if it to^nav a^thi say, |l.00 a thousand, and they would not haveo pay anything. But by making it part of. the water rate, they pay. Ostrander. These tax exempts, what do they pay on the aver-^ Schwan. Ithaca College is paying half the district indebted- .V. Ostrander. Did you say it costs $7,000 Just to paint oneof those -cowers — that distresses me. Schwan. Yes, They have to be painted inside and out. ^*1? seen silos with baked enamel covers.^ tnere any innovations in this water business? that la metallize the inside of these standpipes andis^^oodfor 50 years, but it costs $20,000 to $30,000 a stand- thev'ffo^n build any more, we metallize them whenp^ted present time they are all steel and they are all of ao Ithaca College going to be charged on the basisof so mucn a unit? How do you count the dorms? Schwan^ Yes. Five beds equals one unit. ftMo S'PP®"' 'that new al-eas are going to befuture because the Town Is going to-be very ?? ? some past mistakes, when the cost is unreasonable.^®,eolng to have to be a fairly lifge project that theTownjii'^golng to really beinterested in approving ajny water extensions, McElwee« There could be short ones (extensions), ^puld be an engineering study and /the results cr the. study would have to be favorable. , Ceracche. In the case of South Hill, how much did thosepeople expect to pay? Schwan. It was proposed at $130.00 per unit. , . .. Cgracche. Well, why don't we make it $130.00 for them andWt the ower people make up the difference? In other words, the Town could lower their cost, give them a discount, to mflyo up for — What they expected to pay and what, in fact, they are paying. If tney M a^ee, maybe we would only have isd lower theirs to what the Town / ' tho\^t they would have to pay," and you wouldn't have a laiisuit. That might have solved the problem. If all of these balances were only identical at the moment that would be a good thing. We could start with all the rates being identical and from here on in make it on an equal basis. ...r. 41 Schwan. As I'm sure you can see, if you go back and look atthe individual water and sewer charges, when they are ail equal is^ 30 or 40 years from now. - 19 - .* • / Ceracche* If they build low income housing, will they pay the same rate? Maybe we should build.a few. .thousand units. Schwan» Were this proposal to be adopted, anything built in the Town of Ithaca — they would pay their benefit share. If this is not adopted they can use existing pipe that somebody else built; ^ they won't be paying anything, i Ceracche, Will there be benefit if more houses are built? In already existing areas people have been against it, some cases there has been opposition to certain . projectsT TOE by and large everything proposed has been bxiilt. You can run into these things in different areas, but it isn't that bad. ' . .'t '' ' Mrs, Roger Livesay (14? Snyder Hill Road), I wanted to say there is nothing sacro<»sanct about these, districts. They were built at a time when it would have been impossible for an individual to provide water and sewer for himself. Alright, my property has nice porous soil, so I've got sewer, that's fine; the rest of you are on rock; that's tough, The districts were set up in. the first place so that people could help each other out land have a district. Now the Town has become more populated and I think.we now need to work to combine these districts and make one district, rather than thinking if you want a low rate you buy Ih a low rate district. Naturally, everybody wants the loweiBt rate they can get. But there is more in volved in where you build your home than whether your rates are high or low and what is available at any given, time. For many years it w^ very difficult to build in the Town of Ithaca at all because the existing areas were being built up at a great rate and there was little to choose from, I think it' was a real hardship to even find a lot you could build on. So now we have water and sewer available, and the i charges are high, I think that as human beings, as we get well situ ated, it is just to\i^ about the rest of the world. I think we have to help each other. We don't know when we may be called upon to move to a different area. And then we hope somebo^.will look at things ' in our favor*.. . I would like to .commend Walt' for all the work he has put intd this, Schwan, Thsuik you^ Beverly, I think what we are proposing makes sense. We are no longer a rural Town, We are Ithaca's "bed room," The ecology situation as it exists today mandates that there won't be many more septic fields unless the person has exceptional drainage. Water and sewer are almost a "must". If this were to be adopted and we have level charges across the Town, we have also made South Hill; just as attractive to build on as other areas. The bene fit rate is not the only question, Ih a sense we have taken the pressure off the Northeast because it is the only area in the Town that has the low rate, Lucente. I think this should be up to popular vote, I ^ think it should be up to the people to decide, , Schwan, Thank you, Rocco. Voice. I think you should take a look at the number of ! ' houses for sale oh South Hill, Schweui, South Hill, true, is very expensive. It's a fact of life, ^ Question. What is the unit rate for undeveloped land? Schwan, One-half unit per acre, Jf water only is available, one-sixth or a unit per acre, ~ ' 20 - Voice. Three real estate people said South Hill would not be developed because of the hi^ rate. Schwan. I'm sure there are other problems on South Hill besides ^ the hl^ rate. Based on interest on .the part of three developers, there is interest in building houses on South Hill. Thesticker wasn*t the benefit charge so much, but the fact that we could p| not guarantee water. Voice. I bought my way in, I don't mind helping people out a bit, I paid to get on the sewer and I don't think it's fair to pay for somebody else,; _ Schwan. There isn't much I can say to that, T Voles* l.live on Hanshaw Road and I agree with'that gentle- man, Livesa^,* There is never anything entirely fair about all of this. We built a. home on Snyder Hill Road^ust before the sewer went in. We had to^provide our own sewer. When they.extended the sewer up, then we had to pay the water and sewer rates to put the pipe in front of our house even though we had already paid. Now, that's not fair. Ther^ is no way that life is going to be entirely fair. We have to do the best we can auid try to work together, " (^styiian. I didn't have to have water and sewer, I have abeautiful well. The water quality is better than the quality of the City water and my drainage field was alright, but I'm still paying these high rates. But I suppose some people up there need water and sewer. ^ \ SStilSil* ^sre are people up in the Northeast with beautifuli^lls stlTl using them. But some people were only getting sand. There are other people who don't need it today, but because a neigh bor across the road needed it they felt it was worth $32»50 a year. I would have to go along with Beverly that nothing is ever uniformly X Six # Lucente, We have to go by what the majority wisuits* .^chwan. We are trying to make a reasonable proposal. Qstrander. It.seems to me if the Board decides to go ahead With the re-grouping, that is independent of us. The dissolution is an ind.ependent exercise from this money package. mu Schwan. Grouping them together produces the 'feney pkttern.There two issues. One is dissolving the districts and p^dducingJ benefit district charges to cover principal and interest only; the other is the surcharge to cover madlntenance and operating charges. We don't want the tax exempts to get away, so by making the operation and maintenance costs part of the water use charge paid to the City, ^ ^ they pay their share, and this leaves only principal and interest to be covered by the $50,00 and $23,00, Qstrander, You have the legal right to dissolve the distripts. whether we like"rt or not, ' Schwan. The Town Board can pass a resolution to dissolve the ' districts, but it is subject to a permissive referendum. Should there be no•referendum by virtue of no petition, this resolution would become Town of Ithaca law within 30 days. If there is a refer endum and .the proposition fails by a simple majority of just one v6;fce, then this whole thing goes in the ashcan, and the districts stdy:^":-': they are — except that then we will all pay $1.00 a thousand extra. 45 n - - 21.- Ostrsinder. I would "bet of money, tjiatj there will Q-,; petition for a referendum- What--.does it coat f(>r,.a refafendum? . .Ahd ;; how does it come about? .. i \ . Schwan. The cost is not a big factor. Today is the 10th of May, In 30 days the petition must be here. ¥e meet the next day and decide what day in June or July to hold the referendum. All we have to do is have all the legal steps over by August 1« Ostrander, I would like to have a show of hands to see if people think there will be a referendiam. Stone. I don»t think you would get a ti-ue indication by^ show of hands. Schwan. As far as the cost of a referendum is concerned, the Town of Ithaca owns its own voting machines. We will have to hire election inspectors and someorie to take care of the election premises but I don^t think we will have to pay much for that. We are not talking about a lot of money — not more than $1,000. Jones. (Willow Point) We don*t have sewer on Willow Point. If we go into this system — we are almost paid off «— we will have to pay $23*00 for 30 years. Schwan. It is proposed at $23.00 now. If we get growth it will go down, Jones. /Our $10^^ 10'payment Wbuld be gone in a couple of years. With the ecology problem something will be Said about putting a sewer along the Lake. Does that mean we would automatically come back into this district, but if the cost was too much we would have to form a separate district? . ^ Schwan. Right. There are three ways, as I understand it,: that an improvement could be built if the dissolution goes through: the old benefit method; define the area to be benefitted (Willow Point, for example); have an engiheeriftg study done of that. We would find out by way of the study what; the estimate of the cost would. be and the number of units would give us some idea of the unit price. If it was $75*00, we would say, alright, you pay $50.00, The other $25*00 could be put on the Town tax rate, A third method is to say, for the sewering of Willow Point, for example, that that is the area that benefits, but; in effect, the whole town benefits. We have to : clean up the ecology,. Therefore, it is a Town wide benefit and on that basis we think it could be lumped, into this total thing. We can't make guarantees. - We have no idea in terms of money what it would cost to sewer Willow Point or to sewer Forest Home. All I can say is thet the Board is going to have to take a long hard look at each water or sewer expansion arid see how it will affect the ^50-00 or the $23*00 which we think we can sustain. We don't want something that would adversely affect those two numbers. If it did, I would have to sell it all over again. Johes. You are selling that to us now because our water will be paid offrih two years, except for the hydrant tax, and we are coming in on that to help out everybody; We miay riot be able to. help our selves; ±t\ will be too expensive. It must be pumped up here. Schwan. Fortunately it can be pumped ri^t up to the . Village sewerage treatment plant. Jones. We might not be able to afford it. Will it be our sole respolnsibility to sewer the area? SCfhwaufx. . We are trying to find a method where it won't be everybody on his own. v A' 46 " 22 ; McElwee. Perhaps this g^ntlem^n has a little'6n the plus .. side; his water has been paid for, if you want to call It a gift. In other words, he isn't retiring any capital improvements in his particular district. SchwaH. And you carl say at a^pubiid heiirin^, ^ "We need your help on sewer." ' ^ Riley. You stated that you were not going to raise the rate, that these rates would remain stable. Schwan. If something happened we didn't figure on • . . Since you have almost 4,000 units at $1.00 a unit you have brought in $4,000. And this is a tremendous advantage against the old method. Voice. Whenever the water and sewer go behind your property, it increases;your lot value. You haven't lost completely. It's the. same when someone buys a house; the cost of that lot is proportionate ly greater than a lot which does not have that even if you don't hook on. \ Berkey. I am a little bit concerned ahout the kind of guar antee. You are saying the $73.00 will remain the same. This does not mean a thing. You gentlemen may not be on the Board later. You are not legally bound. Schwan. We are not legally bound to guarantee anything. But the only way these numbers can go up is if we have ,a big repair bill. The highest rate now is $198. .''i- Berkey. You gentlemen are responsible for that. Schwan. Only one man on this Board was here at that time. 1 Berkey. That's my point, they are not here now to take - responsibility. McElwee. I was on the Boiard at that time — and at that time the people in that community — a majbrity of them, more than 50^ of the pebpie — and they voted for that sewer and water? district. We are agents for these people. Desch. ^e problem won't go away; the problem is there; the people of South Hill are going to have to live with it in the present form. Then the burden will be put on the entire Town, regardless. We are trying to apportion the burden tp the benefitted areas• If the people on South Hill don't pay their assessment bills, the property will be Sold for taxes. If this proposal does not ^ass this year, the pressure on this Board to go throu^ the same thing the following year will be great because there will be a lot more parcels in the same predicament. I Lucente. We will buy the property for the taxes. ^ Stpne. Ctoing back to my original question, I want ^o know if this new proposal, does not go through, will it ultimately come ^back to everyone in the Town of Ithaca in one form or another? ' j j Schwan. Well, what do you do with a piece of property on South Hill Where there is a $9,000 water and sewer assessment? Here's the way it works: Taxes are collected by the Town C'lerk, Mr.' Bergen, here,^ in the Town office during January. All taxes unpaid after June 1 are turned over to the County Treasurer; the following-... October the property will be offered for the taxes, and if $till unpaid the fp.^lowing year, they are sold for taxes. The nerct thing is the County will look up the law and discover that they don't th^Wk they should be holding the bag for the impaid assessments that have come to them as part of unpaid taxes. And eventually it will come right back in the Town's lap. And the only way the Town can raise the money is through tax anticipation notes which are a lien on the Town which everybody here pays and no tax exempts pay at all. 47 ! i ! ( I ! - 23 - Desch. Plus you create an aura in the entire area of the Town to discourage peop?.e from want^g,to live in it,. -Stone, I think that is the point I was trying to bring up before. It is your considered opinion in view of existing problems and the,dollars involved that this is,the lesser of the evils, rather than ha^ng it In a tax? McElwee, The other way ddesi ifpt; ^ problems. Phillips. Two persons have raised questions about area in ^ which sewers will be necessary in the future5 do the Federal and State governments have assistance programs? Could we get some help from them? Schwan. No^ Only for expahsibn of treatment plants, new facilities, and interceptor sewers. I wish it were so, but it isn't. There is no Federal or State aid available except were we to build a Town water system. There is Urban Development money available for transmission main which is part of an inter-municipal development, meaning more than one municipality involved. We have four municipali ties — the Town of Ithaca, Lansing, Dryden, and the Village of Cayuga Heights. As far as what we are talking about — expansions of ser vices to individual areas in the Town, water or sewer, there is no Federal or State aid. We have been to Albany and they say it is our baby. They approved everything we are doing. Interestingly enough, this problem of ours has/produced some very interesting literature out of the Office of Local Government and the Department of Audit and Control for Town Supervisors and other people to read. Nancy Krook. (113 Pine Tree Road). If this does not pass and we have a referendum and it loses, everybody in the Town is going to be charged a surcharge. Obviously,, if the South.Hill people can't 1 pay, the money has to oome from somewhere.. Let'a assume the money does not come from South Hill, isnH it'more fair for the money to come from the whole Town than just those on water and sewer? If they are going to tax the people who are lucky if it didn't pass and we didn't consolidate these districts, everybody would pick up the tax, people on the sewer and people not on the sewer. ' Schwan. There are over 1,000 units in water and sewer being paid by tsbc exempts. If you; leave this alone or get it defeated by referendum, it soes on the tax rate. It is $44,000,000 of assessed valuation — 75t cents per thousand for fire protection outside the Village of Cayuga Heights. $70,000,000 exempt is getting fire benefit for free. How much father do you want to take them off the hook? They are in the water rate, the sewer rate, and the benefit charge. Let it go down and the Court will decide. Krook. Have you checked that it is legal to dissolve all these districts? And throw it all in one? Schwan. Yes, ifs legal. Krook. Does this make us all members of the lawsuit? fmm Schwan. Should this proposal go through, there might not be a law suil^T jSny thing here on the chart which shows principal or in terest charge arises by virtue of money borrowed. The indebtedness is already there. Riley. Cayuga Heights wouldn't hayef to put in any part? Schwan. They are paying their own shot for their own improve ments, They simply don't enter in. It would still be the Town out side the Village. The Town cannot tax the Village. 48 — 24 - Question. What percenteige of the Town benefits from water and sewerl 7^"of it is tax exempts Are we spreading it out over more units? SQhwan> We are keeping the tax exempta.in the units. Question^ There are a certain number of people living in • the Town of Ithaca. Somehow, as I understand it, these people will have to pay for South Hill anyway. If you don*t do it this way, how will you do it? Schwan. Let * s suppose this does, not go throiigh. somehow, and by virtue of the lawsuit we end up having to raise $44,000 a year. ^ That*s $1.00 a thousand — and this hits everybody, those who don*t have water and sewer and those who do. Question. What would happen if ,the Town lost the lawsuit? Schwan^ There is a possibility the judge would decide what the assessment should be. You have no way of knowing what the out come of changing the formula or rate would be. Question. And if you needed $44,000 to relieve the district? Schwan. We don*t know; it.might be $80,000 a year. If we lost and it resulted in an unbalanced budget and less money is raised than the district needs, the Town of Ithaca will pay the difference and it will be on the tax rate. Were it $44,000 it would cost every body $1.00 a thousand. Desch. South Hill, even with all these big principal and interest items, is only part of the administrative nightmare. Even || if we had no South Hill, we would still have to take a hard look at . i dissolving these districts. ' Stone. About this administrative nightmare, who handles the billing to the people? i"' - Schwan. In the past the Town Assessor. But oh January 1, 1970y the County took over the assessment function for all towns, and told us that as part of that deal at that time they would do our special benefit rolls, but that it would cost $50 or $100 a roll. We had quite an argument about it but got no place, so we did them ourselves. They printed the sheets with the names of the benefitting owners, but we figured out all of the rates and did ail the paper work. We were talking about an expense of $2,500 which we hadn't budgeted for, so we did them ourselves. They said recently they will now do. : them for us. Under this unified concept there would be one benefit roll for water and sewer, based on the same formula. After the first year it is just a matter of adding an apartoent here and there, or any new property. It would not be anywhere near the job it is now^ But if we have to do it again, we would have to budget for it, if the aeseso- ^ ment department doesn't do it for us. Ceracche. This is very confusing — all these lines you are showing. How many of these districts are unhappy with the present } rates? Why should we reduce it for people paying more than $73*00 1 | when they are going along with it? I can see reducing it for South Hill because they are being charged more than they were told. There are other people who may want services in the Town where they are willing to pay more than $73•00, Schwan. They can still build them. Ceracche. But they won't get the same benefit. ... Schwan, If they want the services, it will cost them. - 25 - Ceracche^ Let*s say somebody says they want extension of services. It may be that eirea is willing to, pay $100.00. Schwan. They can pay $100,00. ' Ceracche^ Meanwhile the one$ paying $100.00 are being reduced to $73•00. They are content. Whfen that is paid, it's paid. On South,;Hill, if the amount had been two thir4s, you wouldnH be having the trouble there. ! i n Desch. Why do you say they are cohtent? Schwh. Tony, you are ignoring the fact that there are standpipesT^o^e painted. We simply can't let some of these things go any lortger. Ceracche. You are reducing rates and raising rates. Schwan. With these small surpluses in individual districts, what happens if we paint a standpipe? You have l80 units to spread it over. It makes your $9.20 (Trumansburg Road) look sick. It just won't hold up. Even $20.00 a unit won't be enough. Ceracche. Maybe you should put your rate up to $100.00. Maybe the $73.00 is too low. What it amounts to, if there are districts that are being treated unfairly, we should subsidize them. Schwan. Who is "we"? Ceracche. I guess you have to make the Sbuth Hill rate low enough so you don't have a lawsuit. Schwan. How low? Ceracche. Whatever is reauired to avoid the lawsuit. ^aughte^T— ' Voice. Could we have the resolution read? Buyoucos. All the resolution does is dissolve the listed districts Which are all the water and sewer districts in the Town of Ithaca, nothing more than that. Voice. Actually your resolution has been passed already; we have nothing to say'about that. Schwan. We have riot passed the resolution yet. We willi go . back into Town Board meeting at the close of the hearing to consider it^ ■- Voice. You can bet it will be passed. (Supervisor Schwan called for any fuirther questions, ^ particularly from- those people who had not yet been heard. No further questions being forthcoming, the hearing was terminated at 10:00 p.m. and the Town Board immi reconvened in the Town Board room of the Town offices toI consider the^resolutions). Mr. Harold Huntley and Mr. ! Arthur L. Berkey were^ln attendance at the reconvened Board meeting. Attorney James V. Buyoucos read the resolution with respect to dissolution of the water districts. On motion by Councilman Del Rosso; seconded by Councilman Powers, the resolution was duly adopted. The Board was duly polledby the Town Clerk €ind all responded "aye." (Copy of the resolutionis attached hereto.) 50 - 26 - to Bup^cjos read the resolution with respeei- . of Ithaca" speclal aewer 'inqprovement districts in the Town the resol^tior^rdnL®"?®^^^^ Schwan; seconded by Councilman Desch,m ^ adopted, all members of the Board having beenpolled by the Town Clerk and h^vini responded "aye". oeen . The meeting was adjourned at 10:4o p.m. Edward L. Bergen Town Clerk n k L iiii m At a meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, held at the Town Offices in the City of Ithaca, New York, on the day of May , 1971, at 6:30 o'clock P .M., Eastern Daylight Saving Time. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor SChWatl ; , and upon roll being called, the following were PRESENT:Supervisor Walter J. Schwan Councilman Andrew W. McElwee Councilman Noel Desch Councilman Victor DelRosso Councilman Robert N# Powers ABSENT: The following resolution was offered by" Councilman DelRosso , who moved its adoption, seconded by Councilman Powers , to wit: RESOLUTION DATED MAY 10 , 1971- A RESOLUTION DISSOLVING ALL OF THE SPECIAL WATER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN THE TOWN OF ITHACA, TOMPKINS COUNTY, NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO SECTION 209-r OF THE TOWN LAW. WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Section 209-1 of the Town Law, it has been proposed that the public interest will be served by dissolving all of the Special Water Improvement Districts wholely located in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York; and WHEREAS, a public hearing was duly called, held and conducted by the Town Board of said Town at the Common Council Room, City Hall, 108 East Green Street, in the City of Ithaca, New York, on the 10thday of May , 1971, at 7ilO o'clock ' P -M., Eastern Daylight Saving Time, in connection with the dissolution of said Water Districts; and WHEREAS, all persons interested in the subject matter thereof were afforded the opportunity to be heard; NOW, THEREFORE , BE IT ^ / RESOLVED, by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, as follows: Section l. it is hereby determined that it is in the publi<b interest to manage, maintain, operate and repair as a Town functioiji all of the improvements and services provided or authorized to be provided by all of the Special Water Improvement Districts in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, which have been heretofore established in the said Town of Ithaca, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following enumerated Districts: Trumansburg Road Water District Triimansburg Road Water District Extension Renwick Heights Water District Northeast Water District Forest Home Water District East Ithaca Water District East Ithaca Water District - Extension No. 1 East State Street Extension Water District Extension of East State Street Extension Water District Extension of East State Street Extension Water District, Extension No. 1 Snyder Hill Water District South Hill Water District South Hill Water District, Extension No. 1 South Hill Water District, Extension No. 2 Second South Hill Water District (1966) Second South Hill Water District (1966), Extension No. 1 Second South Hill Water District (1966), Extension No. 2 Elm Street Extension Water District Glenside Water District Willow Point, Lake Road Water District All of Section 2. /The aforesaid Districts are hereby dissolved pursuant to Section 209-r of the Town Law. Section 3. It is hereby further determined that the costs of any improvement provided or authorized to be provided by said Districts including the principal of and interest on any bonds or other obligations authorized to be issued for the purposes of such Districts or which have been issued for the purposes of such urn m m dtVi -2- U Lm la PA(i£ Districts and are outstanding and unpaid as of the date of such dissolution, shall be borne by the entire area of the Town of Ithaca, all of the lands within such area being determined to be the lands benefited by such improvements and such costs shall be assessed, levied and collected from the several lots or parcels of land within said Town of Ithaca in just proportion to the amount of benefit which the improvements shall confer upon such lots or parcels. Section 4. It is hereby further determined that the cost of management, maintenance, operation and repair of all improvemen or services in the aforesaid Districts shall, after such dissoluticj) be a charge upon the area of the Town of Ithaca and shall be leviect and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other Town charges, provided that it is the intention of the Town Board that such costs will be raised in the first instance from water rates, charges and fees. Section" 5. The aforesaid Districts shall be dissolved as of the first day of January, 1972. Section 6. This resolution is adopted siibject to permissiv4 referendum in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 2 of Section 209-r of the Town Law. The question of the adoption of the foregoing resolution was t to>a vote on roll call, which resulted as follows: .Walter J. Schwan : . voting Aye voting " Aye voting Aye Andrew W. McElwee Noel Desch: Victor DelRosso ^^^r^^Robert . Nw Powers voting Aye voting Aye The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted. s n. STATE OF NEW YORK SS COUNTY OP TOMPKINS I, Edward L. Bergen, Town Clerk of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing resolution with the original thereof filed in my office at 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, on the 10th day of May, 1971, and that the same is a true and correct copy of said original sind of the whole thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Town this 11th day of May, 1971. Town Clerk Town of Ithaca, N. Y. j' o -vv V. f*V" n n \ •1?, '• ~ i i, C ./•' / ^ C y c ng£R 1.8 PAGE 373 '■'ii ' t. ., it. r T- ■, : ■ ..• • j. ;'■■ :i !■ ■I* . "V ■ rt -.ij- 1' -■ V .1 ,♦ '■ • ? * *v-, At a meeting o£ the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, held at the Town Offices in the City of Ithaca, New York, on the' day of May ' , 1971,^ at 6i30 o'clock P .M>, Eastern Daylight Saving Time. ' The meeting was called to order by Supervisor Schwan ^ .and upon roll being called, the following wares PRESENTS Supervisor Walter J. Schwan Councilman Andrew W. McElwee Councilman Noel Desch Councilman Victor DelRosso Councilman Robert N* Powers ABSENT: The following resolution was offered by ; Councilman •DelRosso g who moved its adoption, seconded by Councilman Powers to wit: RESOLUTION DATED MAY 10 , 1971. v . . • A RESOLUTION DISSOLVING ALL OF THE SPECIAL WATER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN THE TOWN OP ITHACA, TOMPKINS COUNTY, NEW YOJUC, PURSUANT TO SECTION 209-r OF THE TOWN LAW. WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Section 20"9'*5' of the Town Law, it has been proposed that the public interest will be served by dissolving all of the Special Water Improvement Districts wholely located in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New Yorki and . WHEREAS, a public hearing was duly called, held and conducted by the Town Board of said Town at the Common Council .Room, City Hall, .108 East Green Street, in the City of Ithaca, Hew York,, on the 10thday of May , .1971, at 7110 o'clock .: • P , Eastern Daylight Saving Time, in connection with the ' dissolution of said Water Districts; and ' WHEREAS, all persons interested in the subject matter . thereof were afforded the opportunity to be heard; THEREFORE beit''^-" r, .V-f• * < ' ' t ■ ' ' 'I ' ^. • • ' . . ;• .. • ■. .. ' ... .. .. '■ ■Ma • V ' *■ '■[ ' ■ • i I fimsi, /•V ;■ •• ■ RESOLVED, by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, as followsi 1 Section 1.' It is hereby determined that it is in the publld interest to manage, maintain, operate and repair as a Town functipi, • • all of the improvements and services provided or authorized to bo provided by all of the Special Water Improvement Districts in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, which have been heretofore established in the said'Town of Ithaca, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following enumerated Districts: I Trumansburg Road Water District Trumansburg Road Water District Extension Renwick Heights Water District Northeast Water District Forest Home Water District East Ithaca Water District East Ithaca Water District - Extension No. 1 East State Street Extension Water District Extension of East State Street Extension Water, District Extension of East State Street Extension Water . District, Extension No. 1 Snyder Hill Water District South Hill Water District * . South Hill Water District, Extension No. 1 South Hill Water District,' Extension No. 2 Second South Hill Water District (1966), Second South Hill Water District (1966), • Extension No. 1 Second South Hill Water District (1966), Extension No. 2 Elm Street Extension Water District Glenside Water District * * Willow Point, Lake Road Water District All of Section 2. /The aforesaid Districts are hereby dissolved pursuant to Section 209-r of the Town Law. / •Section 3. It is hereby further determined that the costs of any improvement provided or authorized to be provided by said Districts including the principal of and interest on any bonds - or other obligations authorized to be issued for the purposes of such Districts or which have been issued for the purposes of such 18 iiVi -2- 18a la PM£ Districts and are outstanding and unpaid as of the date of such n ) dissolutionr shall be borne by the entire area of the Town of ' I Ithaca, all of the lands within such area being determined to be the lands benefited by such improvements and such costs shall be assessed, levied and collected from the several lots or parcels of land within said Town of Ithaca in just proportion to the amount of benefit which the improvements shall confer upon such lots or parcels. Section 4. It is hereby further determined that the coat of management, maintenance, operation and repair of all improvements or services in the aforesaid Districts shall, after such dissolution, be a charge upon the area of the Town of Ithaca and shall be levie^ and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other Town charges, provided that it is the intention of the Town Board that such costs will be raised in the first instance from water rates, charges and fees. Section 5.. The aforesaid Districts shall be dissolved as of the first day of January, 1972, Section 6. This resolution is adopted subject to permissive! referendum in accordance with the provisions of. subdivision 2 of Section 209-r of the Town Law. The question of the adoption of the foregoing resolution war duj).y p^t %o ^ vote on roll call, which resulted as follows t .Walter J. Schwan voting • Aye Andrew W. McElv/ee ' voting ' ' Aye • Noel Deoch' • • voting Aye Victor DelRosao Robert Wi Powers ^voting Aye voting Aye The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted. ' 'f I • V * K V:-\[ ^ ¨ · f ./,*. ''.S ■f'*'.'' i'- •; -.f, \, .-. '.I \l ' \y ifi' (■ •''i.t •■-' i •^-I ^ ■!■" .1 'i : ' < i ••.., •1, . • c ,• • ' V" ■"•jlO rI /I... '*. . : ; ? .; • •..« k\i '»■ • '\ ) • I .« > i'.v I <■ »• . ..••• »• » I " • " ■ * l' •*' f . »'•!• V • I • * ' •; ,'.*■/■ /.ii 'i*' < ■•I STATE OP NEW YORK ss« ; t. COUNTY OP TOMPKINS ] • • / I, Edward L* Bergen, Town Clerk of the Town, of Ithaca, • Tompkins County, New York, do hereby, certify that I have conipared the foregoing resolution with the original thereof filed in iny oi4ice at 108 East Qreen Street, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, on the 10th day of May, 1971> &nd that the same is a true . and correct copy of said original and of the whole thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. X havo hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of s€dd Town this 11th day of May, 1971* .. • < vv ■> %r.A ToWik Oloirk Town of Ithaca, N. Y. , /I', < '"MiimHW*; • t ^ 1 ■. ■ . 1 • ' V . ■ • . . ■ . ..I. • *. •' • ■ »■' • 1 • V" . >1 . • • ■ ■ . ' ... ' • '■ ■■ >' t'V •'*''• Vt-, '(i, i " .. • 'V'} , ?V. . p'-'V. *- . • • ; ^ • . • • I % J- • i '*'**• ' » ^ * ' ■ \* t • • • , • I ♦ . . \ \ ..... . . . .!> < im < •, i\ ]■ i' ,i -V.V •■ ■' ' ■" . J ,1 ,*«••> / 18 mi 4 -f .■ -.1 .••;■ ^ Mi-' ij r * .' f' * ' »*•.' ; ' » *• , .V*. i- ''s*''' ^ '•; . 1 » • . • 0 »> ^ • 1 » . I ' '■ 1 '• ■ •'■ ' i<', ?«'■ *'■ ■■ ..1 .. ■ • • I •' I' • ' • "'•i' '•■■ / • '■ -t."-'..-" =. ■•• ,v." ■ \ • y f <'' -'"'u'- . / • vr'. •■• ' ■ • ■' '■ ■ ■ - ^ V- I"'.-. ••••'•".}• r-; -..v ' ,£iV:!y .. '•'I . •' . •.. * , •••■. ■■■%' ••' I ' I'li'-Vv'', ' ' . ■.•}*. I *• i: .• t:! «.v. !•«*<*'. "'.f'' . ■ _ —.j ' 11 » —1»; iif'ii! .V- * ' • ' ' y .1 ,C 'i ■* i • . ' t. ■ i •-) I ' .U "Iir» .. ! , '-I;;' V . '' H'';. ••. V . LIBtR 374 •? STATS 0? HSH TOBK COUNTt 07 TOMFXIKS 83.~ r, • Lo ""(.i' •T \ -I i 4.^ths Tb^p^ 'i ;«•.£ ?!»n A^i ^ "U Z. Sbward L. Bersonf Totm Clerk of ^ • . -■ •' 1 .XthaoAtt Tompltino County^ How York, oortify that tho.Yoro- ' n soixiR rooolution io a corroot and truo copy o^. t^o rooplutl^ •.*: v I • . . adopted by tho Town Board oY tho Town of Ithaca on>toy r ,•> *; ' 'X97X« Bald rodoXution waa eubjoct to a porxaioaiyo roforond\w« 'OBuch pon&isoXvo roforondua waa hoXd on JuXy X3, X^T'x In tho^ ... ■ . '/ ""6 Tov^ of Ithaca and the oforosaid roaoXutlon was approved byw-n ^ thOj affirmative voto of a majority of tho quaXifiod oXoctbro «o ? •^ voiins thoroon*^ > ■IH T3SSTIK023ir HHERSOF I have hereunto set my hand and afflHod tho fi ooX of ooid Town this X9th day of JuXy, X97X« ti L Iiniijl l __ c»«i—— T Vjvl'il• ■ •* ^ i '' ■..«•••. ■ »>, i«i-' own CXork Town of Ithaca^ Bow York •f I ...itDjii-'"! ', ' i • i * asavocopyodsSioofflsUMiSrecofrdodoo^'• ^UAj I'^'T/ .'/? y«fe(!^A,^«K0ialiiaA • ■'.. BBa5aiio»a.ci«k ot c«.3.'Couri of sail] County, rrnd c-i '-i d- Iv b' ca-hI -' ' Wmg Cowii ol Rccoid h-.'im o fomn-rn - v/„h;fta, I hav3 compared tho annexed copy d Oioor ' I n >} n ] in this citire. snd •; Vrto Ofis'insl Ijn'crcd. I / ' ' ' 7 ,ho y/hcia ot' : that Iho snmc is a correct Uansoipt thereol and or . said orijina!r CXork „'T«."Z wi.3> 3-. I ^ave he.eu„o sc. m , "Aik.V /-Compkins County Gofk ■ '.• '-f?' ;■• ;V ; nn ft ' • vl- • 1 ■: i: —— t i ! t j.-i 11 ■ •v'!:♦ va r/.*/:, ■ \t '■ i i 'I'r 4. --MA': •r/V. '. •-.v ■ •J>V' ■ ■ *■ /'• /' /■ •; i ^/V; <■ . r. < 'i ' . •• V *1 **.'v.,iI. ■' •Yf I ' » *• r f.k ■ ■ p- \ , r ■ "• I.. v.i' • i: :r / ' V ■i/* • 1 . ^ • * . ■ "t '■■A'' J J I • ?• . -k-*• ^ - ■ t r t t 1 ' * 1f j k / ■ ' » "i ,■^ '-I t, ■■ ■V • * * \ 5 .4 . -4 f . . J,f'Vv--A t y : . *s t ' t . I ''V» 1 , V.; \ ■ v. - •« . 'i/• .' • * *■:'» ••;" ■ • . •7 k . • t.. . . fVv" V,. ' I ■ .V " '■" 'aO ^ . ;n ■■ ■ V .■ u ■ " ' ' J \ • I,.M-,; k .• I k' ••'< f/) 6''^y ■' Y At a meeting of the Town Board o£ the Town of Zthaca# iTompkins County, New York, held at the Town Offices in the City ofjlthaca. New York, on the 10th day of • • • May • ^- • •■ , 1971, at o'clock JP.M#, Eastern Daylight Saving Time. , The mooing was called to ordor by fl uporviflor Schwan ^ And upon roll being called, the follow- |ing were PRBSENTi Supervisor Walter J, Schwan Councilman Andrew W, McElwee Councilman Noel Desch Councilman Victor DelRosso Counollman Robert N* Powers ABSENTI 'V r.\; A The following resolution w«o offered by )^<jp«irvlnor fl ohwan who imwad ita adoption, aeoondad by Ooancilman Deach to Witt RESOLUTION DATED MAY 10 1971. A RESOLUTION DISSOLVING ALL OP THE SPECIAL SEWERIMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS IN THE TOWN OF ITHACA, TOMPKINSCOUNTY, NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO SECTION 209-r OF THE TOWN LAW. . . WHEREAS, in accordance with the provisions of Section 209«r of the Town Law, .it has been proposed that the public interest served by dissolving all of. the Special Sewer Zn^rovement . ' I .wholely located in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins Couni^,,, New Yorky and . ' ' WHEREAS, a public hearing was duly called/ held and conducted by the Town Board of said Town at the' Common Council ' Room, City Hall, 108 East Green Street, in the City of Ithaca, New York, on the' 10th day of May ••.•••• ^ .1971, at '7800 • : o'clock ,JP.«M., Eastern Daylight Saving Time, in connection with■ the disBOlution of said Sewer Distridts; and WHEREAS, all persons interested in the subject matter [thereof were afforded the opportunity to be heard, NOW THEREFORE, IBB' IT' '■ • -...'-Y TT" r "tr v|; .v^ t « ,' li m V. ' ■' •< •.: , -. . irt ;.. ,. •. '!;V •' •• ' »• ::¥W^':Xr--■' "'iX. 'if/ V ■*.: '.'.f ■ ■ r.-.' 'i- . •■..*. I ^ ' •. / ' , V.>..' , ,1 '.-I •■•/: '' i ', .1' ■ . • • ■ i •■ i'; : im Met t:-;i ■.,'a '■■ RESOLVED, by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca; .Tompkino County, New York, as follows: ;v;;; Section 1, It is hereby determined that it is in the publiw interest to manage, maintain, operate and repair as a Town -■ function, .all of the improvements and services provided bt'" autliQr** ized to be provided by all of. the Special Sewer Improvement:;!; Districts in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New*York, ^ , Which have been heretofore established in the said Town of Ithaca, including, .without limiting the ge^ierality of the foarcgpingV' the following enumerated districts: riot^ ■•':•• i. -ifV'v-''.': ■ •M ' Trumansburg Road Sewer District Renwick Heights Sewer District Hanohaw Road Sewer District Northeast Sewer District Ellis Hollow Road Sewer District . - Slaterville Road Sewer District ^ Ithaca College Sewer District ,^ South Hill Sewer-District ; . ■ i :'' South Hill Sewer District, Extension No# X South Hill Sewer District, Extension No* 2 East Shore Sewer District Eastwood Sewer District -. it;"./-.' 'X y .! V 'U '" ' All ofSection 2. /The aforesaid Districts are hereby dissolved pursuant to Section 209-r of the Town Law* Section 3* It is hereby further determined that the costp.c any improvement provided or authorized to be provided by said * ;'! Districts including the principal of and interest on any bonds or^ other obligations authorized:to be issued for the purposes of ... such Districts or which have been issued for the purposes of such ' Districts and ^ are outstanding and unpaid as of the datO' bf^ such I. dissolution, ..shall be borne by, the. entire area of: the: Town''of Ithaca, all of ^e lands within such area being determined; to be*. the lands benefited by such improvements and such costs shall b0 .1; Assessed, .levied and collected from the several lots or parcels-of' ■ • • ■ ..i" Z ' ■ ' - .'y. : ■ .. : f!-; .••v -2- I |i I } • t I ' r ■i - 1- t ' ! i : i ■ fy ■ ' i.. 1- » ' '■< 'y..V^.V .■I v ' • i .I ' • • 'O'• -y '^S)i I ■ V •. » %'i '^. •*i^i • > j Is B-M i.'} '1 V . 4^i;f -• ; ... I '' .. » . ¨· .Tt; > •• J'. t V . . ^ • ttfcwarwvT* "v^'j'l '. ''1; 'V;' ■■•■ . \ ■• r j »• '■" ■. <' '?■,i!.. ,-.■•• Y.*; *r-- ff I ■rfe • •i 'i' KGV • \ >■ 'V ••;■". ..f *■J •■ >. ^ J ' 'ir'S .* 'i ■1tIV, .k" ■ :■v". , ; i ■ ,V :'\>\7;p '■:j'r '^- .••l i;. . *' '''4 s .' ■•■ ":,V.V'iV; .-. V . ■ .»',■ ^Vj.' • *, .-'.^ '■•.""■*'■ > 1 *.•.'- i "yl: -f* *;/i ' - •■• ' . •*.*.'*•" * '' * • '* '•^'•• . / '»■'. ••"'•*•!■;'''►^ ••* Vjii I '* .' . . •■• »' ,' V ; ■ ■.' :• • ■ -v ' '' '■ ■ :'v^'V ■'v-^ ; v' v'^ ■'•1 .' • ' ■ ' J ' . ■ ' •■•■'■' V - ^ I ' '■ '"'■ '•■ •'^ ' ■! • ' ■ '; > ■ • i ■ '■ i •' ' " ' 'i >■ '..'\''''-''*'/T T,'V/; !'•'••■' ■ ' • •■ .'■ '■•'■■ .', ' ■' . .■; '■' \ : i ■:..• I ■• . ■ ..••s'' .■• ■"• .; i.:' •■ i- •'. . ' • .. . ■ •■., i<l V--..'' •i I ■ M ■ V'*' ' ■•*' ' V-.^.'-.v'* '■ . ♦' t ; , ■ .' ■■,•'■ '■'*'* ' i'-^*., i\'"\ , ■ ■> ■■ V ■V • ■.■•■■• r.-'.l. ■•; ..kv' land within oaid Town of Ithaca in just proportion to tha amount of benefit which, the improvements ahall confer ^upon ouch>J,o^? > parcels (-j' .r. ; •, . ■, J.* / •■ 4,^ ■ 1 ^ Section 4> It is hereby further determined that the cost of management, maintenance, operation and repair of all improyemenbs.;^| | or services in the aforesaid Districts shall, after such dissolutd be a charge , upon the area of tlfiie Town of Ithaca, and shall be ' levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as ' ., • • . • • • * I ■ ; * * .other Town charges,' provided that it is the intention of the' Tov^; Board that such costs will be raised in the first instance from ; sewer rents, charges and fees. y Section 5» The aforesaid Districts shall be dissolved as ' Seotion 6, This resolution is adopted subject to permiso.ivja'",,j referendum in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 2 of' Section 209-r of the Town Law* The question of the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly put to a vote on. roll call, which resulted as foliow.oi ' VS". SVi; ■ .■ I i T , J y V. j »V **"./' • • «r . . r'k: •Wv Walter i* Schwan voting ' ••M • ; • if .*. **«;>, .4, : . '* r ■• Andrew W» McEIwee • ■ •■ yptingv : Aye Noel Desch • =' • voting; Victor DelRosso voting • ■• . •» ;. y ' Robert Powers • .■ •. • ••. voting .•.■ Aye The resolution was ^thereupon declared duly:.adopted«- !: ;-v- . v.:-vV. - ■!' 18 m 377 = -ftV.* nInV': ' -'JiL■ < .V-' V ■• ■■.; .• • ' •. ; .• 7 •. ; . . ,,•••■€ •.. .• .. ■y\rK'• ■ • ■ .• ■ •■■ V'-.'v' .■ .• .V . .. -'i ■- ■ ■ ■■ ' ^ •• . .. - ■ ■ U-i. ■■■■ , u '' :'"V ..■ ' J • . H.Vilji 5"»' • 'u»-v7 » I'v ■.•v *.*' *"1^ '" .! !'r; •i'.. y •?*■•■■ ' ■•• • » * 'in- ' .'i mk-.\ ? . »[k\7iVV<■ 'f ■/ y^-: .VHrl 'ir-K 7^: Ck"!'c. -"}. "5 •• :*■'• .V ' '"l ' '/i •,t :'y ;! 5 ' if ■;r 1 ''k 5f1 v: r«^- mmI, STATE OP NEW YORK COUNTY OP TOMPKINS SS» I, Edward L* Bergen, Town Clerk of the Town of Ithaca, ; Tompkins County, New York, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing resolution with the original thereof filed in my oi4ice at 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, on the 10th day of May, 1971, and tha't the same is a true . and correct copy of said original and of the whole thereof* IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Town this 11th day of May, 1971# Or 7,-'V n" o" ."' V * -XV. '''"'Mnini***'' ' '• V Town Clerk Town of Ithaca, N« Y* /.I, " v *v i( n V K. . ■„i ■" ■ : / - v., • ' . ••••«»; ' v / % f $'■ •'.* - V ' •• V t/;.':; 'v IS pMt 373 , ■ } * * 1 . ^ yc" r I "'.I''"' '' '■[. f ' ' •' . ■■ ■ T-"' 'P I \ ■>. y ■ J ■ ■ • '^ .1 .(• I i. . I'.;. ■nW'iM *1^1 i V , i" . {• n • V :-v'' :/•: I -. n ••■•■ :.■ ^ oy sew york . . oomss. o? mmsm ' UBK 18 PACE 378 ^.; • " . ' -i, ''•;•» > ■ vv. .-<' "•, ..V' •» 8S»" 14WJJ ' ' ■ . ' ■"■■'•5 V '' ''A*; r*>■». •• •.'-?.V*' ''; |v ; ^Sdwaffd Lo Bss^n^ ®own Clor^iof v-'s •;»/ . <", r » If-''. '> . • •.v..' •.•■• ■; f. •y -V .•«■- '.vsvv-';4iV'; y--: County« Ilow,'yorlc« oem^ .tii&t <b«. J*- l.%f • >"11 > / * * - . ■■• '.' . . • • J \ • .• *• ,jf-v s . . ''■-f ;A'.. '■li.. • . lo a oonroot and trup^copy, pf'jfcJw.^ip^jflylutioa ''• .. -i ■ . , I '.!• '/• I •« I• 1 , '.v>•.*';,- •, .1- (Bdbptad. by 4h«. Town Board ot iho Town ot lihaca.'di May' lOp Sfldd rooolubion was subjoct a poWdo^y© ^i^ondua®> > . ,4 9 . bold on-^uly'l^® - - • ■ ->'■ ^ ■ i'r.. fi' :a i •: >1 ■ ■ •, _ * vj5 _ ,t tho I Q '•"■ ' '•• I .. *» ''! ^4.'' 'V. /j-Towa .,of Sth^a and tb© afdjposaid ffoaolution^wiSto approvod^* V- I e ^ ; . ^^VAWWl vlP4 db WllbiWB Whid^. a^ddW liWWW wwieww »1 . •-; n •^" : • • • ■ *=^^d:a^]mabiV9 vobo a aajority oi" ^ quaimod olootesro•r* . ■* ■•f,- ■ .■ i ,;<i,.-i, . • • 'SsVT V-:rf i:rX, ■, .J. .-■.f.V'-Vl- _ ■«■••; : ■ ,< :• ■ ■ ./]•>rf- . ; . ■ ^ '. •• • >V -i ■^•. 1 Vl' if .Xr'- X S3 Vdiittd ^OffOOn®SS I A- •i t:Vy.'*'"-^'V'V',; .1, •4 . !■ • Ir.f/v , ■»..' • -J 'r ■! ■ A ri.. I .' rv- l--v:-..^M'.'■ L' ".r'*-' ■ S3 TEST2M06f"tJIEBB09 -$ bav© boroun^' oob.-ay band and aj^i^od oi^T aaid Town' *61110 196b day of July^ 1971« '•A-'xA pfiAr ''/ ? " I •• H i I '. i'ii#».-1 If^r. >ti • . Town Clork Town ojT Itbaoa^ Wow Toirk ni) V • ■' . A'..." r|l 'yr ' i' !' , • I* »• • . /■AA V , 1 -. ; A ■ ■ ,t'.! . i ■ ■ ' 'i j •,.!■' vt !r. { .. ••. :".;• . • y -i >'. / lU ^ * ■ '* 1/^7 •,I. ' .1 !,• L' vl. ' 'I A',! •,.•}. !'Ah-AA"'' ■ .%:.\y ■' .» .. \ r • •,.'" V A <i: ;i:-K ■ i^vi.|v i 'i ■■■ ? ,; ^■''^!.A'A••'.A I Jl?^K ;; ■■ • 1..' ':K v" >'^" ■• p' -w^sIjivp *:v^- • T'^' P/** ^i "''^ I \'V'N*''•■•,V''V ' • ■ S.': -v. ■Ji H x'' ■" V-' .'■■■ .i ■t. "r - ;:-a oSfy'eJ sis eiistosl leeeriii as fta eJ ' , . ■■. V,.-,, t- , :i^';.. A'- ;',"!'"j'?';v ■" .'yy ■ ■■ f. • ■■'•■ ■ ■ "pv i v •' p. A " .! • :■•'■'■ • '■ . "•■. /' ■ ' .V ''-A • •■ '■ U ' Ai iiid; tlerkWlhe CounlK of Tompkm^^^ .'7' ''• - •,:" 'A' :.A' / 777,. . ' "A.' ■ • X^urpof s^d "Couniy/an of jhij .Siiprcmo 'Court, both CpUrls , \ ' •'! bttin^ Courlj 6f Record fihvinfj a 4o(nw0n real, do liorcby_ cPrlify . • . ' . . ,.' thdl J.liave ciiJfDpriKtd the snrie^od"copy of Ordof-Judomont ,with •• p.:. • , I.-: ■. J • ■ / . ' /-_/ ^ ■ p..■ .'ilhd Oti(^isii|l' "^ftlerocf I..../J1 10 this olfico, and r'.y,4 ■ ". tlicft jlh'J 'r.prfiq i» "o cofrdct , ^\.|ri hav®^<vj#e.vftJp my haixi. end'affixed • .', . thvt 'vwf c^;ipi^ Co'jn'.y. and Courtj, el libffciiN.Y.^ ^ ■ i'.xr ' t-: ^ : »r, ; \y,\ ■ 'A^j.i- •. ■Hi fn6^'f:-rw^j<*tn9naaiaabi ^ * '• ■ • V v.; r • ' "• '. • ' '•■•. ' . • r;.■' '■ ''" ". Ayj'': h • •> 7.'-•■•'•77 ■ 77 I ■:>■', "-A ' '. '• - •- l A •' v • v'A A ■'. A. A^p^:A'-'■;y^V'''Vr,; .••.A7'.■• ■' ■ • •;: ■ ' '■ : ■• .' ' • C,' ' : .::Ai £.r. = PRESENT AT HEARING A. A. Petito Anthony Ceracche Rocco Lucente Anthony Leonardo Clara.Leonardo Evan Monkemeyer ^ Herbert Monkemeyer Vincent R, Franciamone Donald J, Lucente Lawrence W. Siany Stephen A, Lucas Larry Roscioli Tony Chiesa Thomas Jones Thomas S, Jones Donald C. Riker Prank Hornbrook Donald P. Layton James A# Lacy Mary A. Raponi Ann Sanchez Joseph T. Scaglione Florence Rumph Mr. and Mrs. John 0• Hull Raymond V. Hemming Harold S. Huntley Chester Lane Glenn I Griffin Gordon Madison Harris A. Sanders Leo P. Davis C. R. LaRocque Norman Howell Dr, John Lowe William Rinkcas Robert M. Garcia 1137 Trumansburg Road 53 Woodcrest Avenue 506 Warren Road 1132 Danby Road 1132 Danby Road 1059 Danby Road 1059 Danby Road 108 Ridgecrest Road 701 Mitchell Street 250 Renwick Drive 154 Bundy Road 152 Bundy Road 159 Bundy Road 115 Crescent Place 122 West Buffalo St. 1385 Mecklenburg Road i42 Troy Road 1029 Danby Road 122 Troy Road 341 Coddington Road 1341 Slaterville Road 1223 Trumansburg Road 549 Spencer Road 389 Stone Quarry Road 807 Mitchell Street Extension 124 Glenside Road 1123 Danby Road 1215 Trumansburg Road 1213 Trumansburg Road 1201 Trumansburg Road 1221 Trumansburg Road 522 Coddington Road 120 Clover Lane 136 Snyder Hill Road 110 Clover Lane 116 Homestead Circle f ■' n Josephine Richards Barbara J» Kimple David Powers Jon Baskerville John J. Yengo Frank J, Howe11 Edward R. Ostrander E. W. Foss Booth E. Mapes Dick Perry Elmer S. Phillips Lagrand E, Chase Richard K. Blatchley Louis Lauretti Richard R. Knight Alice P. Walsh B. McElwee Virginia Powers Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Miller C. H. Tei?williger Herbert Mahr M. H. Ericson Charlotte Stone Margaret Stout Lena R. Cratsley A. P. Cratsley Rose Gostanian Costan Gostanian E. P. Riley V. T. Wakula Savino Ferrara Jane Harris Monty Harris Anne - Marie Garcia Roger B. Sovocool William Meiczinger Nancy Krook i42 Bundy Road 160 Bundy Road 106 W. Buttermilk Palls Road 520 Coddington Road 114? Danby Road 166 Ridgecrest Road l46o Hanshaw Road 103 Pinewood Drive 120 Kay Street 1138 Trumansburg Road 131 Pine Tree Road 5 Sandra Place 131 Honness Lane ll4 Clover Lane 113 Clover Lane 504 Stewart Avenue Forest Home 106 The Parkway 101 Northview Road 122 Ridgecrest Road 103 Judd Palls Road 1311 Hanshaw Road 1314 Hanshaw Road 1312 Hanshaw Road 105 W. Remington Road 105 W. Remington Road 1058 Danby Road 1058 Danby Road 300 Forest Home Drive Pine Tree Road 979 Danby Road 312 Salem Drive 312 Salem Drive 116 Homestead Circle 110 Renwick Drive 1375 Mecklenburg Road 113 Pine Tree Road /