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TOWN OF ITHACA Tompkins County Clerk
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Ithaca, NY 14850
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RECORDING CERTIFICATE
STATE OF NEW YORK
SS:
COUNTY OF TOMPKINS
I the undersigned Town Clerk of the Town of Ithaca,Tompkins County New York
Do hereby certify
That on the January 12, 2016, 1 caused a certified copy of TB Resolution 2015-140 a Public
Interest Order dated December 7, 2015, a true and exact copy attached hereto, to be duly recorded in
the office of the Clerk of Tompkins County New York as provided by Town Law.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Town on this 12`h day of
January, 2016
Paulette Terwilliger, Town Clerk
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AFFIDAVIT THAT NO PETITION REQUESTING A REFERENDUM WAS RECEIVED
STATE OF NEW YORK )
COUNTY OF TOMPKINS ) ss.:
Paulette Terwilliger, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
1. 1 am the duly appointed and acting Town Clerk of the Town of Ithaca, New York (the
"Town").
2. On the 7`" day of December, 2015 the Town Board of the Town adopted TB
Resolution 2015-140: PUBLIC INTEREST ORDER In the Matter of a Proposed
Water Improvement in the Town of Ithaca,Tompkins County,New York, pursuant to
Article 12-C of the Town Law, to be known as the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg
Water Tank Water Improvement and Establish the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg
Water Tank Water Improvement Area.
3. Said resolution was subject to permissive referendum.
4. Within 10 days after the adoption of the resolutions aforesaid, I did, in the same
manner as provided for a notice of special election, post and publish notices setting forth
the date of the adoption of the aforesaid resolutions together with an abstract of such
resolutions, concisely stating the purpose and effect thereof and that said resolutions were
adopted subject to a permissive referendum. (12-11-2015)
5. More than 30 days have elapsed since the adoption of said resolutions and the posting
and publication of the aforesaid notices and no petition protesting against such
resolutions and requesting that it be submitted to the qualified electors of the Town for
their approval or disapproval has been filed with the deponen own Clerk.
Paulette Terwilliger
Town Clerk
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MEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY, Tompkins County
December 7, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. EST
TB Resolution 2015-140: PUBLIC INTEREST ORDER In the Matter of a Proposed Water
Improvement in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, pursuant to Article 12-C
of the Town Law, to be known as the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg Water Tank Water
Improvement and Establish the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg Water Tank Water
Improvement Area.
Present: Bill Goodman, Pat Leary, Eric Levine, Rich DePaolo, Tee Ann Hunter and Rod Howe;
Herb Engman- absent.
Motion made by Tee Ann Hunter, seconded by Pat Leary
WHEREAS, a plan, report and map, including an estimate of cost, have been duly
prepared in such manner and in such detail as has heretofore been determined by the Town
Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, relating to the creation and
construction, pursuant to Article 12-C of the Town Law, of water system improvements to be
known and identified as the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg Water Tank Water Improvement, and
hereinafter also referred to as the "Improvement," to provide such water Improvement including
extensions, to the present Town water improvement, such water system Improvement to be
constructed and owned by the Town of Ithaca, to serve a benefitted area in said Town to be
known as the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg Water Tank Water Improvement Area, and
hereinafter also referred to as the "Water Improvement Area", and
WHEREAS, after said plan, report and map, including estimate of cost, were prepared by
a competent engineer, duly licensed by the state of New York, and filed in the office of the Town
Clerk, the said Town Board did, on November 9, 2015, duly adopt an Order reciting the
proposed Improvement, a description of the boundaries of the proposed benefited area, the
maximum amount proposed to be expended for the Improvement, the proposed method of
apportioning the costs of such Improvement, the proposed method of financing to be employed,
the fact that a plan, map and report describing the same are on file in the Town Clerk's office for
public inspection, and specifying that said Town Board shall meet at the Town Hall, 215 North
Tioga Street, in Ithaca, New York, in said Town, on the 7th day of December, 2015 at 5:30 PM
Prevailing Time, for the purposes of conducting a public hearing on such proposal to provide
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said Improvement, and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same,
and
WHEREAS, copies of said Order were duly published and posted according to law, and
said Town Board did, at the time and place specified in said Order, duly meet and consider such
proposal and held a public hearing in which it heard all persons interested in the subject thereof,
who appeared at such time and place, concerning the same, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board now desires to authorize the Improvement based on the
evidence offered at such time and place, and
WHEREAS, at its regular meeting on December 7, 2015, the Town Board has determined
approval, construction and implementation of the Improvement are a Type II Action pursuant to
the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation promulgated
pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, because the Action constitutes
"replacement, rehabilitation or reconstruction of a structure or facility, in kind, on the same site,"
and thus approval, construction and implementation of the Improvement are not subject to
review under SEQRA; and now therefore be it
RESOLVED, by the Town Board that it be and hereby is determined as follows:
(1) The notice of hearing was published and posted as required by law and is otherwise
sufficient.
(2) That all of the property within the proposed benefited area is benefited by the
proposed Improvement.
(3) That all of the property benefited is included within the proposed benefited area.
(4) That the proposed method of apportioning the costs of the Improvement should not
be changed.
(5) It is in the public interest to authorize, establish, and make the Town of Ithaca
Trumansburg Water Tank Water Improvement as hereinafter described, and be it further
RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby approve, authorize and establish the
Town of Ithaca Trumansburg Water Tank Water Improvement in the area of the Town described
as follows and as more particularly shown and described in said plan, report and map presently
on file in the office of the Town Clerk: The Improvement proposed in connection with the
establishment of the Water Improvement Area consists of replacing an existing 500,000 gallon
steel water tank with a 500,000 gallon water tank, on the same site located on Trumansburg
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Road, valve and all other related ancillary facilities, at an initially determined maximum
estimated cost to said Water Improvement Area of$900,000; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the area hereby determined to be benefited by said Town of Ithaca
Trumansburg Water Tank Water Improvement Area is in all of that portion of the Town outside
of the Village of Cayuga Heights, and be it further
RESOLVED, that all of the allocable costs of said Improvement shall be borne wholly by
property within the Town of Ithaca Trumansburg Water Tank Water Improvement Area, being
the entire area of the Town outside of the Village of Cayuga Heights, and be it further
RESOLVED, that the maximum proposed to be expended by the Town of Ithaca for the
Improvement, including costs of rights of way, construction costs, legal fees and other expenses,
is $900,000, which shall be financed as follows: temporary financing under a bond anticipation
note, and upon maturity of the bond anticipation note, the issuance of serial bonds of said Town
of Ithaca to mature in annual installments over a period not to exceed 40 years, such bonds to be
paid from assessments levied upon and collected from the several lots and parcels of land in said
Water Improvement Area benefited area which are deemed benefited by said Improvement, so
much upon and from each as shall be in just proportion to the amount of the benefit which the
Improvement shall confer upon the same, and be it further
RESOLVED, that this Order is subject to a permissive referendum in the manner
provided in Town Law Article 7 and Town Law Section 209-q, and be it further
FURTHER RESOLVED, it is hereby determined that the estimated expense of the
aforesaid Improvement does not exceed one-tenth of one per cent of the full valuation of the
taxable real property in the area of said Town outside of villages and, therefore, in accordance
with the provisions of subdivision 13(a) of Section 209-q of the Town Law, the permission of the
State Comptroller is not required for such Improvement, and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that pursuant to subdivision 6(d) of Section 209-q of the Town
Law, the Town Clerk is hereby directed and ordered to cause a certified copy of this Order to be
duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Tompkins within ten days of the date
this Order becomes effective pursuant to Town Law Section 91, which when so recorded, shall
be presumptive evidence of the regularity of the proceedings and action taken by the Town
Board in relation to the aforesaid Improvement.
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The question of the adoption of the foregoing Order was duly put to a vote on roll call,
which resulted as follows: Rod Howe, aye; Pat Leary, aye; Bill Goodman, aye; Tee Ann Hunter,
aye; Bill Goodman, aye; and Eric Levine, aye.
The Order was thereupon declared duly adopted.
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