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MEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
June 25, 2012
TB RESOLUTION NO.: 2012- 126: Public Interest Order — North Triphammer
Road Water Main Water Improvement Area of the Town of Ithaca
At a study session of the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County,
New York, held at the Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, in Ithaca, New York, in said
Town, on the 25th day of June, 2012, beginning at 4:30 P.M., Prevailing Time.
PRESENT: Herb Engman, Bill Goodman, Pat Leary, Eric Levine, Tee -Ann Hunter, Rich
DePaolo and Nahmin Horwitz
Moved by Eric Levine; seconded by Pat Leary
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 North Triphammer Road Tank Water
Main Water Improvement Area of the Town of Ithaca.
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New
York, in conjunction with the Village of Lansing and the Village of Cayuga Heights, and
the Towns of Lansing and Dryden, has determined and agreed to participate in the
provision of a joint water project construction of a new water transmission main at North
Triphammer Road and to contract joint indebtedness therefor in accordance with Section
15.00 of the Local Finance Law pursuant to an Agreement of Municipal Cooperation for
Construction, Financing and Operation of an Inter -Municipal Water Supply and
Transmission System (the "Intermunicipal Agreement'); and
WHEREAS, a map, report and plan, 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
construction of a new water transmission main at North Triphammer Road; to serve a
benefitted area in said Town to be known as North Triphammer Road Water Main Water
Improvement Area (the "Water Improvement Area") of the Town of Ithaca; and
WHEREAS, said map, plan and report, including estimate of cost, were prepared
by a competent engineer, duly licensed by the State of New York and have been filed in
the office of the Town Clerk of said Town, where the same are available during regular
office hours for examination by any person or persons interested in the subject matter
thereof; and
WHEREAS, the area of said Town determined to be benefited by said North
Triphammer Road Water Main Water Improvement Area of the Town of Ithaca consists
of the entire area of said Town excepting therefrom the area contained within the Village
of Cayuga Heights; and
WHEREAS, the capital improvements proposed in connection with the
establishment of the Water Improvement Area consist of construction of a new water
transmission main at North Triphammer Road at an initially determined maximum
estimated cost to said Water Improvement Area of $422,560, it being determined that (1)
the additional $377,440 of the $800,000 aggregate maximum estimated cost shall be
initially apportioned and allocated to the Villages of Lansing and Cayuga Heights and
water districts in the Towns of Lansing and Dryden and that (2) joint indebtedness shall
be issued therefor and that (3) the ultimate share of the cost to be allocated to the Town of
Ithaca pursuant to Intermunicipal Agreement shall be determined on the basis of benefits
received or conferred or to be received or conferred from the aforesaid improvement; and
WHEREAS, said $800,000 maximum estimated cost, which is the cost of the
project, shall be authorized to be financed by the joint issuance by the Town of Ithaca,
with the Towns of Dryden and Lansing and the Villages of Cayuga Heights and Lansing,
of joint serial bonds with a maximum maturity not in excess of the forty year period
prescribed by the Local Finance Law; and
WHEREAS, said maximum estimated cost, as to the Town of Ithaca of $422,560
is not greater than one -tenth of one per centum of the full valuation of taxable real
property in the area of the Town of Ithaca outside of any villages; and
WHEREAS, it is proposed that the cost of the aforesaid improvements shall be
borne by the real property in said North Triphammer Road Water Main Water
Improvement Area of the Town of Ithaca by assessing, levying upon and collecting from
the several lots and parcels of land within such Water Improvement Area, outside of any
village, which the Town Board shall determine and specify to be especially benefited by
the improvements, an amount sufficient to pay the principal and interest on serial bonds
and bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of serial bonds, as the
same become due and payable; 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 June 11, 2012, 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 25th day of June, 2012 at 4:30 o'clock P.M., Prevailing Time, for the purposes of
conducting a public hearing on such proposal to provide 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, at its study session on June 25, 2012, the Town Board determined
approval, construction and implementation of the Improvement, which is an Unlisted
Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental
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Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, will
not result in any significant adverse environmental effects; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board now desires to authorize the Improvement to be
known as the North Triphammer Road Water Main Water Improvement Area of the
Town of Ithaca based on the evidence offered at such time and place;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Town Board of the Town of
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, as follows:
Section 1. It is hereby determined that it is in the public interest to establish
said North Triphammer Road Water Main Water Improvement Area of the Town of
Ithaca and to make the water improvement hereinafter described and such water
improvement is hereby authorized. The proposed area hereby determined to be
benefitted by said Water Improvement Area is all of that portion of the Town of Ithaca
outside of the Village of Cayuga Heights.
Section 2. The proposed improvement shall consist of the Water
Improvement Area's allocable share of the construction of a new water transmission main
at North Triphammer Road at an initially determined maximum estimated cost to said
Improvement Area of $422,560, it being determined that (1) the additional $377,440 of
the $800,000 aggregate maximum estimated cost shall be initially apportioned and
allocated to the Villages of Lansing and Cayuga Heights and water districts in the Towns
of Lansing and Dryden and that (2) joint indebtedness shall be issued therefor and that (3)
the ultimate share of the cost to be allocated to the. Town of Ithaca pursuant to the
aforedescribed Intermunicipal Agreement shall be determined on the basis of benefits
received or conferred or to be received or conferred from the aforesaid improvement. The
method of financing of said cost shall be by the issuance of joint serial bonds of said
Town of Ithaca together with the Towns of Lansing and Dryden and the Villages of
Lansing and Cayuga Heights to mature in annual installments over a period not
exceeding forty years, and by the issuance of joint bond anticipation notes issued in
anticipation of the issuance of joint serial bonds. The Town of Ithaca's allocable share of
such bonds and bond anticipation notes shall be payable from assessments levied upon
and collected from the, several lots and parcels of land deemed benefited from said
improvement and located in said Water Improvement Area, 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.
Section3. 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 any villages and, therefore, in
accordance with the provisions of subdivision 13 of Section 209-q of the Town Law, the
permission of the State Comptroller is not required for such improvement.
Section 4. 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 resolution
to be duly recorded within ten days of the date of adoption in the Office of the Clerk of
the County of Tompkins, 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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Section 5. It is hereby further determined that all of the allocable cost of the
aforesaid improvement shall be borne wholly by property within the Water Improvement
Area, being the entire area of the Town of Ithaca outside of any village.
Section 6. This Order is adopted subject to a permissive referendum in the
manner provided in Town Law Article 7 and Town Law Section 209-q.
The question of the adoption of the foregoing Order was duly put to a vote on roll call,
which resulted as follows:
Vote: Ayes —Herb Engman, Bill Goodman, Pat Leary, Eric Levine, Tee -Ann
Hunter, Rich DePaolo and Nahmin Horwitz
The Order was thereupon declared duly adopted.
STATE OF NEW YORK)
COUNTY OF TOMPKINS) SS:
TOWN OF ITHACA:
I, Paulette Terwilliger Town Clerk of the Town of Ithaca, New York, do hereby
certify that the above resolution is an exact copy of the same adopted by the Town Board
of the Town of Ithaca at a Meeting on the 25th day of June, 2
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Paulette Terwi iger, Town Clerk
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