HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB Minutes 2023-07-31MEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
July 31, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
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AGENDA
1. Consider resolutions endorsing the proposed dissolution plans for the following Lighting
Districts and setting public hearings for same:
a. Burleigh Dr
b. Forest Home
c. Glenside
d. Renwick Heights
e. Eastwood Commons
f. Clover Lane
g. Winner's Circle
h. West Haven Road
i. Coddington Rd
2. Consider authorization to apply for funding through the 2023 Environmental Protection
Fund Grants Program for Parks, Preservation and Heritage to purchase approximately
135 acres of land on South Hill (Attachment 1)
a. SEQR b. Approval
3. Consider award of Forest Home Pump Station Improvements Project— Alternate #1
4. Consider setting a public hearing regarding a proposed Sewer Improvement — IAWWTF
— Public Interest Order
5. Consent Agenda
a. Approval of Town Board Minutes
b. Approval of Town of Ithaca Abstract
c. Set public hearing regarding SCLIWC 2023 Budget
d. Acknowledge receipt of Independent Audit — Town of Ithaca YE 2022
e. Appointment of Der Rosenmeister Nursery (Lee Ginethal) — Ag Committee
£ Appointment of Planning Board Chair
g. Appoint Zoning Board of Appeals Alternate Member
Adjourn
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
July 31, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Minutes
Board Members Present: Rod Howe, Supervisor; Rich DePaolo, Deputy Supervisor; Members
Bill Goodman, Rob Rosen, Margaret Jonson
Absent: Pamela Bleiwas and Eric Levine
Present: Donna Shaw, Marty Moseley, Ashley Colbert, Joe Slater, Dan Thaete
Mr. Howe opened the meeting at 12:30 p.m.
1. Consider resolutions endorsing the proposed dissolution plans for the following
Lighting Districts and setting public hearings on same:
TB Resolution 2023 - 112: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Burleigh Drive
Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the seven (7) streetlights in the
Burleigh Drive Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED lights;
and
Whereas, there are thirty-three (33) tax parcels located within the Burleigh Drive Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around Five Hundred Dollars ($500) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the Burleigh
Drive Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the Town
Board of the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the Burleigh Drive
Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Burleigh Drive Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the
Burleigh Drive Lighting District:
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 1
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Burleigh Drive Lighting
District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the November 7, 1991,
resolution and order of the Town Board establishing the entity was filed in the Tompkins County
Clerk's office on November 14, 1991; the territorial boundaries have not changed and are
described in said resolution and order as follows:
Commencing at the intersection of the center line of Burleigh Drive with the easterly boundary
line of the Village of Cayuga Heights, which point is just north of the northwest corner of Town
of Ithaca tax parcel No . 72-1-1.99; running thence south along the Cayuga Heights boundary
line and in part along the west line of tax parcel 72-1-1.199 to a point 200 feet south of the center
line of Burleigh Drive; running thence easterly, northeasterly, and northerly on a line parallel to
the center line of Burleigh Drive and 200 feet distant therefrom to the north line of the Town of
Ithaca; running thence westerly along the north line of the Town of Ithaca and the north line of
tax parcel 72-1-1.185 200 feet to the center line of Burleigh Drive; continuing thence westerly
along the north line of the Town of Ithaca 200 feet to a point; running thence southerly
southwesterly and westerly on a line parallel with the center line of Burleigh Drive and 200 feet
distant therefrom to the center line of the westerly portion of the loop road known as Lexington
Drive, which point is westerly from premises reputedly owned by the Church of Latter Day
Saints being Town of Ithaca tax parcel 72-1-1.1.70; thence southerly along the center line of
Lexington Drive 200 feet to the center line of Burleigh Drive; thence westerly along the center
line of Burleigh Drive a distance of approximately 60 feet to the east line of the Village of
Cayuga Heights and the point or place of beginning.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
72.-1-1.1.69
72.-1-1.170
72.-1-1.1.71
72.-1-1.172
72.-1-1.1.73
72.-1-1.174
72.-1-1.1.75
72.-1-1.176
72.-1-1.1.77
72.-1-1.179
72.-1-1.1.80
72.-1-1.181
72.-1-1.1.82
72.-1-1.183
72.-1-1.1.84
72.-1-1.185
72.-1-1.186
72.-1-1.187
72.-1-1.188
72.-1-1.189
72.-1-1.1.90
72.-1-1.191
72.-1-1.1.92
72.-1-1.193
72.-1-1.1.94
72.-1-1.195
72.-1-1.1.96
72.-1-1.197
72.-1-1.1.99
72.-1-1.200
72.-1-1.201
72.-1-1.202
72.-1-1.203
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to Town Law Article 12-A;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Burleigh Drive Lighting District
is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the publication
cost of legal notices;
(e) The Burleigh Drive Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to provide
any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 2
(f) The Burleigh Drive Lighting District's assets are as follows: Seven (7) streetlights purchased
from NYSEG in 2021 for Two Thousand Sixty -Nine Dollars ($2,069). The streetlights were
upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Two Thousand Seven Hundred One
Dollars ($2,701). The fair value thereof in current money of the United States is Four Thousand
Seven Hundred Seventy Dollars ($4,770). On December 31, 2022, the Burleigh Drive Lighting
District had an available fund balance of Two Thousand Three Hundred Ninety -Eight Dollars
($2,398). The Town assessed property tax of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) to thirty-three (33)
parcels within the Lighting District in 2023, proportionately allocated based on road frontage.
The estimated expenses for 2023 (including the cost of conversion to LED lights, eight (8)
months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity) are Three Thousand Two Hundred Seventy -
Five Dollars ($3,275). Any residual funds (estimated to be One Hundred Twenty -Three Dollars
($123)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the Town's General Fund to offset future costs;
(g) The Burleigh Drive Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness, bonded
or otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York Power
Authority and/or its contractors Five Thousand Fifty -One Dollars ($5,051) for LED conversions.
This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town anticipates rebates of Two
Thousand Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($2,350), which results in a net indebtedness of Two
Thousand Seven Hundred One Dollars ($2,701);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Burleigh Drive Lighting District and the
Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Burleigh Drive Lighting District, the residents of the Burleigh
Drive Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting services by the
Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant
to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023, as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules, or regulations of the Burleigh Drive Lighting
District which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 3
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish, and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution.
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Burleigh
Drive Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 113: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Forest Home
Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the twenty (20) streetlights in the
Forest Home Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED lights;
and
Whereas, there are one hundred ten (11.0) tax parcels located within the Forest Home Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around Two Thousand Six Hundred Seventy Dollars ($2,670) in current
dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the Forest
Home Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the Town
Board of the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the Forest Home
Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Forest Home Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the Forest
Home Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Forest Home Lighting District;
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 4
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
May 11, 1929 resolution establishing the entity.
The current tax parcels included in the Forest Home Lighting District are as follows:
66.-1-3
66.-1-4
66.-1-5
66.-1-6
66.-1-7
66.-1-8
66.-1-9
66.-1-10
66.-1-11
66.-1-12
66.-1-13
66.-2-1
66.-2-2
66.-2-3
66.-2-4
66.-2-5
66.-2-6
66.-2-7
66.-2-9
66.-2-10.2
66.-2-11
66.-2-13
66.-2-14
66.-3-1
66.-3-2
66.-3-3.4
66.-3-3.7
66.-3-3.11
66.-3-3.1.2
66.-3-3.13
66.-3-3.1.4
66.-3-3.1.5
66.-3-3.22
66.-3-3.211
66.-3-3.511
66.-3-3.512
66.-3-3.513
66.-3-3.514
66.-3-3.515
66.-3-3.516
66.-3-3.51.7
66.-3-3.518
66.-3-3.51.9
66.-3-3.521
66.-3-3.522
66.-3-3.523
66.-3-3.524
66.-3-4.1
66.-3-4.2
66.-3-5
66.-3-7.1
66.-3-7.2
66.-3-8
66.-3-9
66.-3-10
66.-3-11
66.-3-12
66.-3-13
66.-3-15
66.-3-16
66.-3-18
66.-3-19
66.-3-20
66.-3-21
66.-3-22.1
66.-3-22.2
66.-3-23
66.-3-24
66.-3-25
66.-3-26
66.-3-27
66.-3-28
66.-3-29
66.-3-30
66.4-1
66.4-5
66.4-6
66.4-9
66.4-10
66.4-11
66.4-12
66.4-15
66.4-16
66.4-17
66.4-18
66.4-19
66.4-20.1
66.4-21
66.4-22
66.4-23
66.4-24
66.-5-1
66.-5-2
66.-5-3
66.-5-4
66.-5-6
66.-5-7
66.-5-9.1
66.-5-9.2
66.-5-10
66.-5-11.2
66.-5-12
66.-5-13
66.-5-14
66.-5-15
66.-6-1
66.-6-2
66.-6-3
66.-6-4
66.-6-5
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to its May H , 1929.resolution;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Forest Home Lighting District is
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the publication
cost of legal notices;
(e) The Forest Home Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to provide
any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Forest Home Lighting District's assets are as follows: Twenty (20) streetlights purchased
from NYSEG in 2021 for Five Thousand Nine Hundred Twelve Dollars ($5,912). The
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 5
streetlights were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Seven Thousand Seven
Hundred Nineteen dollars ($7,719). The fair value thereof in current money of the United States
is Thirteen Thousand Six Hundred Thirty -One Dollars ($13,631). On December 31, 2022, the
Forest Home Lighting District had an available fund balance of Nine Thousand Nine Hundred
Fifty -Nine Dollars ($9,959). The Town assessed property tax of Four Hundred Dollars ($400) to
one hundred ten (110) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023, proportionately allocated
based on assessed value. The estimated expenses for 2023 (including the cost of conversion to
LED lights, eight (8) months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity) are Ten Thousand Four
Hundred Thirty -Three Dollars ($10,433). Any residual funds (estimated to be Seventy -Four
Dollars ($74)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the Town's General Fund to offset future
costs;
(g) The Forest Home Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness, bonded or
otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York Power
Authority and/or its contractors Fourteen Thousand Four Hundred Thirty -Three ($14,433) for
LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town anticipates
rebates of Six Thousand Seven Hundred Fourteen ($6,71.4), which results in an estimated net
indebtedness of Seven Thousand Seven Hundred Nineteen Dollar ($7,719);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Forest Home Lighting District and the
Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Forest Home Lighting District, the residents of the Forest
Home Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting services by the
Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant
to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to the New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as
described in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is
adequate to pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General
Fund. There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for
the entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Forest Home Lighting District
which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 6
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Forest
Home Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 114: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Glenside
Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the eight (8) streetlights in the
Glenside Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED lights; and
Whereas, there are twenty-seven (27) tax parcels located within the Glenside Lighting District in
2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance are
estimated to be around Six Hundred Sixty -Eight Dollars ($668) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the Glenside
Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the Town Board of
the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the Glenside Lighting District and
paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved, through real estate taxes
raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327; and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Glenside Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the
Glenside Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Glenside Lighting District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
July 10, 1947 resolution and order establishing the entity; the territorial boundaries have not
changed and are described in said resolution and order as follows:
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 7
Commencing at the point of intersection of the center line of Floral Avenue with the south line of
the City of Ithaca, thence westerly along the south line of the City of Ithaca, 207', more or less,
to the southwest corner of the City of Ithaca, 1480' to the north line of the Glenside Subdivision;
thence north 81 degrees 30' west along the said line of the Glenside Subdivision 1.407', thence
south 15 degrees 20' west to the center line of the Coy Glen Road; to the center line of the Floral
Avenue; and, thence across Floral Avenue including all property abutting on Floral Avenue on
the east side to a distance of 100' (one hundred feet) back from Floral Avenue, from this point
northerly to the city line the place of beginning.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
30.-1-2
30.-1-4
30.-1-5
30.-1-6
30.-1-7
30.-1-8
30.-1-9
30.-1-10
30.-1-11
30.-1-12
30.-1-13
30.-1-14
30.-2-1
30.-2-2
30.-2-3
30.-2-5
30.-2-6
30.-2-7
30.-2-8
30.-2-9
30.-2-11
30.-2-12
30.-2-14.1
30.2-14.2
30.-2-15.1
30.-2-15.2
30.-2-17
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to Town Law Article 12;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Glenside Lighting District is
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the publication
cost of legal notices;
(e) The Glenside Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to provide any
plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Glenside Lighting District's assets are as follows: Eight (8) streetlights purchased from
NYSEG in 2021 for Two Thousand Three Hundred Sixty -Five Dollars ($2,365). The streetlights
were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Three Thousand Eighty -Seven
Dollars ($3,087). The fair value thereof in current money of the United States is Five Thousand
Four Hundred Fifty -Two Dollars ($5,452). On December 31, 2022, the Glenside Lighting
District had an available fund balance of Two Thousand Three Hundred Thirty -Two Dollars
($2,332). The Town assessed property tax of One Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($1,700) to
twenty-seven (27) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023, proportionately allocated based
on assessed value. The estimated expenses for 2023 (including the cost of conversion to LED
lights, eight (8) months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity) are Three Thousand Seven
Hundred Twenty -Eight Dollars ($3,728). Any residual funds (estimated to be Three Hundred
Four Dollars ($304)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the Town's General Fund to offset
future costs;
(g) The Glenside Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness, bonded or
otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York Power
Authority and/or its contractors Five Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy -Three Dollars ($5,773)
for LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town anticipates
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rebates of Two Thousand Six Hundred Eighty -Six Dollars ($2,686), which results in a net
indebtedness of Three Thousand Eighty -Seven Dollars ($3,087);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Glenside Lighting District and the Town of
Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Glenside Lighting District, the residents of the Glenside
Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting services by the Town of
Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New
York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Glenside Lighting District
which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and, be it
further
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and, be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and, be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Glenside
Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 9
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 115 : Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Renwick
Heights Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the eleven (11) streetlights in the
Renwick Heights Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED
lights; and
Whereas, there are fifty-one (51) tax parcels located within the Renwick Heights Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around Eight Hundred Dollars ($800) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the Renwick
Heights Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the Town
Board of the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the Renwick Heights
Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Renwick Heights Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the
Renwick Heights Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Renwick Heights Lighting
District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
February 5, 1927 resolution creating and establishing the entity; the territorial boundaries have
not changed and are described in said resolution as follows:
In that part of said Town of Ithaca, known as Renwick Heights, and extending on the east side of
the State Highway, known as Lake Road, passing through the unincorporated village of Renwick
Heights in said Town and including the lots or parcels of land abutting thereon from and
including the property of W.C. Ballard shown as lot #3, thence northwesterly to the junction of
said Lake Road and Remington Road and Renwick Place Road, also extending on both sides of
the latter and including the lots and parcel abutting thereon throughout the entire length of said
Renwick Place Road, also extending on both sides of Renwick Heights Road and including the
lots and parcels abutting thereon from the junction of said Renwick Heights Road, and Lake
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Road, northerly to and including the property of E.L. Palmer shown as lot #25, also the property
shown as lot #45, also the property shown as lot #44, also extending on both sides of Renwick
Drive and including the lots or parcels abutting thereon from the junction of said Renwick Drive
and Renwick Heights Road, southeasterly to and including the property of W.O. Kerr shown as
lot #1, thence continuing on both sides of said Renwick Drive and including the lots or parcels
abutting thereon northeasterly to the eastern boundary line of the unincorporated Village of
Renwick Heights or the western boundary line of the Village of Cayuga Heights.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
16.-2-1
16.-2-2
16.-2-3
16.-2-4
16.-2-6
16.-2-7
16.-2-8
17.-2-1
17.-2-2
17.-2-3
17.-3-1
17.-3-2
17.-3-3
17.-3-4
17.-3-5
17.-3-6.2
17.-3-7
17.-3-8
17.-3-9
17.-3-10
17.-3-11
17.-3-12
17.-3-13
17.-3-14
17.-3-16.1
17.-3-18.21
17.-3-18.22
17.-3-19
17.-3-20
17.-3-21
17.-3-22
17.-3-23
17.-3-24
17.-3-25.12
17.-3-26
17.-3-27
17.-3-28
17.-3-29
17.-3-30
17.-3-31
17.-3-32
17.-3-33
17.-3-34
17.-3-35
17.-3-36
17.-3-37
17.4-11
17.4-12
17.4-13
17.4-14
17.4-15
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to former Town Law §§ 260, 261, 262 and 263;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Renwick Heights Lighting
District is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the
publication cost of legal notices;
(e) The Renwick Heights Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to
provide any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Renwick Heights Lighting District's assets are as follows: Eleven (11) streetlights
purchased from NYSEG in 2021 for Three Thousand Two Hundred Fifty -One Dollars ($3,251).
The streetlights were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Four Thousand
Two Hundred Forty -Five Dollars ($4,245). The fair value thereof in current money of the United
States is Seven Thousand Four Hundred Ninety -Six Dollars ($7,496). On December 31, 2022,
the Renwick Heights Lighting District had an available fund balance of Three Thousand One
Hundred Fifty -Four Dollars ($3,154). The Town assessed property tax of Two Thousand Two
Hundred Dollars ($2,200) to fifty-one (51) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023,
proportionately allocated based on assessed value. The estimated expenses for 2023 (including
the cost of conversion to LED lights, eight (8) months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity)
are Five Thousand Thirty -Nine Dollars ($5,039). Any residual funds (estimated to be Three
Hundred Fifteen Dollars ($315)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the Town's General Fund to
offset future costs;
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 11
(g) The Renwick Heights Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness,
bonded or otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York
Power Authority and/or its contractors Seven Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty -Eight Dollars
($7,938) for LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town
anticipates rebates of Three Thousand Six Hundred Ninety -Three Dollars ($3,693), which results
in a net indebtedness of Four Thousand Two Hundred Forty -Five Dollars ($4,245);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Renwick Heights Lighting District and the
Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Renwick Heights Lighting District, the residents of the
Renwick Heights Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting
services by the Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide
basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Renwick Heights Lighting
District which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 12
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Renwick
Heights Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 116: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Eastwood
Commons Lij!htinj! District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the nine (9) streetlights in the
Eastwood Commons Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED
lights; and
Whereas, there are eighty-eight (88) tax parcels located within the Eastwood Commons Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around Five Hundred Seventy Dollars ($570) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the
Eastwood Commons Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs,
the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca is considering dissolution of the Eastwood Commons
Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board of the
Town of Ithaca may commence a dissolution proceeding for the Eastwood Commons Lighting
District, which is a local government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now,
therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca
endorses the following proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution
proceedings for the Eastwood Commons Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Eastwood Commons Lighting
District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the July 9, 1973 resolution and
order of the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca establishing the entity was made final; the
territorial boundaries have not changed and are described in said resolution and order as follows:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situated in the Town of Ithaca, County of
Tompkins and State of New York, being located on Honness Lane, being bounded and described
as follows: Beginning at a point in the northerly right of way of Honness Lane, said point being
the southeast corner of lands of Roberts as recorded in the Tompkins County Clerk's office in
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 13
Liber 315 at page 273; thence running N — 06°— 18' — 04" -E along said Roberts, a distance of
325.37' to a point; thence running N- 83' — 31' — 21' — W, a distance of 354.21' to a point;
thence running N- 07' — 25' — 30" — E, a distance of 966.12' to a point in the center line of a
creek; thence running easterly along the center line of said creek having a chord bearing of 5-81 °
— 45' — 22" — E for a distance of 248.30' to a point in said center line of the creek; thence
running S — 07' — 25'— 30" — W, a distance of 145.0' to a point; thence running N — 81 ° — 34' —
02" — E, a distance of 342.82' to a point; thence running S — 18' — 00' — 06" — E, a distance of
130.0' to a point; thence running N-71 ° — 59' - 54"- E, a distance of 150.00' to a point on the
former right of way of E. C. & W. Railroad; thence running S — 18 ° — 00' — 06" — E along said
right of way, a distance of 666.12' to a point; thence running S — 68' — 18' — 25" — W, a distance
of 120.40' to a point; thence running S — 67' — 09' — 45" - W, a distance of 345.20' to a point;
thence running S — 60' — 00' — 58" — W, a distance of 122.33' to a point; thence running N — 84'
— 00' — 29" — W, a distance of 150.00' to a point; thence running S — 06' — 18' — 04" — W, a
distance of 264.00' to a point in the above mentioned right of way of Honness Lane; thence
running N — 84' — 19' — 02' — W along said right of way of Honness Lane, a distance of 50.0' -to
the place of beginning and containing 18.9 acres of land more or less.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
60.1-1-1.1
60.1-1-1.2
60.1-1-1.3
60.1-1-1.4
60.1-1-2.1
60.1-1-2.2
60.1-1-2.3
60.1-1-2.4
60.1-1-3.1
60.1-1.3.2
60.1-1-3.3
60.1-1-3.4
60.1-1-4.1
60.1-1-4.2
60.1-1-4.3
60.1-1-4.4
60.1-1-5.1
60.1-1-5.2
60.1-1-5.3
60.1-1-5.4
60.1-1-6.1
60.1-1-6.2
60.1-1-6.3
60.1-1-6.4
60.1-1-7.1
60.1-1-7.2
60.1-1-7.3
60.1-1-7.4
60.1-1-8.1
60.1-1-8.2
60.1-1-8.3
60.1-1-8.4
60.1-1-9.1
60.1-1-9.2
60.1-9.3
60.1-9.4
60.1-1-10.1
60.1-1-10.2
60.1-1-10.3
60.1-1-10.4
60.1-1-11.1
60.1-1-11.2
60.1-1-11.3
60.1-1-12.1
60.1-1-12.2
60.1-1-12.3
60.1-1-14.1
60.1-1-14.2
60.1-1-14.3
60.1-1-15.1
60.1-1-15.2
60.1-1-15.3
60.1-1-16.1
60.1-1-16.2
60.1-1-16.3
60.1-1-17.1.
60.1-1-17.2
60.1-1-17.3
60.1-1-18.1
60.1-1-18.2
60.1-1-18.3
60.1-1-19.1
60.1-1-19.2
60.1-1-19.3
60.1-1-20.1
60.1-1-20.2
60.1-1-20.3
60.1-1-21.1.
60.1-1-21.2
60.1-1-21.3
60.1-1-22.1
60.1-1-22.2
60.1-1-22.3
60.1-1-30.1
60.1-1-30.2
60.1-1-30.3
60.1-1-30.4
60.1-1-30.5
60.1-1-30.6
60.1-1-31.1
60.1-1-31.2
60.1-1-31.3
60.1-1-31.4
60.1-1-33.1.
60.1-1-33.2
60.1-1-33.3
60.1-1-45
60.1-1-47
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board of the Town of
Ithaca formed pursuant to Town Law Article 12-A;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Eastwood Commons Lighting
District is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the
publication cost of legal notices;
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 14
(e) The Eastwood Commons Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to
provide any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Eastwood Commons Lighting District's assets are as follows: Nine (9) streetlights
purchased from NYSEG in 2021 for Two Thousand Six Hundred Sixty dollars ($2,660). The
streetlights were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Three Thousand Four
Hundred Seventy -Four dollars ($3,474). The fair value thereof in current money of the United
States is Six Thousand One Hundred Thirty -Four Dollars ($6,134). On December 31, 2022, the
Eastwood Commons Lighting District had an available fund balance of Four Thousand One
Hundred Eighty -Seven Dollars ($4,187). The Town assessed property tax of Seven Hundred
Fifty Dollars ($750) to eighty-eight (88) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023,
proportionately allocated based on assessed value. The estimated expenses for 2023 (including
the cost of conversion to LED lights, eight (8) months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity)
are Four Thousand One Hundred Thirty -Two Dollars ($4,132). Any residual funds (estimated to
be Eight Hundred Five Dollars ($805)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the Town's General
Fund to offset future costs;
(g) The Eastwood Commons Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness,
bonded or otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York
Power Authority and/or its contractors Six Thousand Four Hundred Ninety -Five Dollars ($6,495)
for LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town anticipates
rebates of Three Thousand Twenty -One Dollars ($3,021), which results in a net indebtedness of
Three Thousand Four Hundred Seventy -Four Dollars ($3,474);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Eastwood Commons Lighting District and
the Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Eastwood Commons Lighting District, the residents of the
Eastwood Commons Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting
services by the Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide
basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Eastwood Commons Lighting
District which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 15
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board for the Town of Ithaca shall hold a public hearing on the
proposed dissolution plan on September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town
Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in
the proposed dissolution plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Eastwood
Commons Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 117: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Clover Lane
Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the two (2) streetlights in the
Clover Lane Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED lights; and
Whereas, there are eleven (11) tax parcels located within the Clover Lane Lighting District in
2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance are
estimated to be around One Hundred and Thirty -One Dollars ($131) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the Clover
Lane Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the Town
Board of the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the Clover Lane
Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Clover Lane Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 16
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the Clover
Lane Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Clover Lane Lighting District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
March 9, 1981 resolution and order establishing the entity; the territorial boundaries have not
changed and are described in said resolution and order as follows:
All tracks or parcels of land situated in the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York
consisting of several parcels of land lying on either side of Clover Lane, shown on Ithaca Tax
Map No. 59 on block 2 thereof, and comprising lots 5 to 10 inclusive, the westerly side of Clover
Lane bound on the north line 200 feet south of the south line of Mitchell Street, on the west line
51 feet east from the division between the City and Town of Ithaca, on the south by Parcel 19
and on the east by the west line of Clover Lane; also comprising of Parcels 11 to 18 inclusive;
bounded on the west by Clover Lane, on the north by said line which is 120 feet south of and
parallel of Mitchell Street, on the south by Parcel 19 and on the east by the east line of Parcels 18
and 17.2 and said line projected northwest as shown on said map.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
59-2-5
59-2-6.1
59.-2-7
59.-2-8
59.-2-9
59.-2-10
59.-2-11
59.-2-12.2
59.-2-13
59.-2-14
59.-2-18
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to its March 9, 1981 resolution and order;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Clover Lane Lighting District is
One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the publication
cost of legal notices;
(e) The Clover Lane Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to provide
any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Clover Lane Lighting District's assets are as follows: Two (2) streetlights purchased from
NYSEG in 2021 for Five Hundred Ninety -One Dollars ($591). The streetlights were upgraded
to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Seven Hundred Seventy -Two Dollars ($772). The
fair value thereof in current money of the United States is One Thousand Three Hundred Sixty -
Three Dollars ($1,363). On December 31, 2022, the Clover Lane Lighting District had an
available fund balance of Six Hundred Thirty -Nine Dollars ($639). The Town assessed property
tax of Three Hundred Seventy -Five Dollars ($375) to eleven (11) parcels within the Lighting
District in 2023, proportionately allocated based on assessed value. The estimated expenses for
2023 (including the cost of conversion to LED lights, eight (8) months of streetlight
maintenance, and electricity) are Nine Hundred Seven Dollars ($907). Any residual funds
(estimated to be One Hundred Seven Dollars ($107)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the
Town's General Fund to offset future costs;
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 17
(g) The Clover Lane Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness, bonded or
otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York Power
Authority and/or its contractors One Thousand Four Hundred Forty -Three Dollars ($1,443) for
LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town anticipates
rebates of Six Hundred Seventy -One Dollars ($671), which results in a net indebtedness of
Seven Hundred Seventy -Two Dollars ($772);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Clover Lane Lighting District and the
Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Clover Lane Lighting District, the residents of the Clover
Lane Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting services by the
Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant
to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Clover Lane Lighting District
which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 18
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Clover
Lane Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 118: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Winners Circle
Subdivision Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the three (3) streetlights in the
Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to
LED lights; and
Whereas, there are seven (7) tax parcels located within the Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around Two Hundred Thirty Dollars ($230) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the Winners
Circle Subdivision Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs,
the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the Winners
Circle Subdivision Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts,
once dissolved, through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York
Highway Law §327; and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District, which
is a local government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the
Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Winners Circle Subdivision
Lighting District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
June 12, 1989 resolution and order establishing the entity; the territorial boundaries have not
changed and are described in said resolution and order as follows:
ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Ithaca, County of
Tompkins, State of New York, and being the subdivision known as the "Winners Circle
Subdivision" as shown on the subdivision map entitled "FRANCIS J. PAOLANGELI —
DEVELOPER — WINNERS CIRCLE SUBDIVISION, FINAL PLAT, SLATERVILLE ROAD,
NYS ROUTE 79, TOWN OF ITHACA, TOMPKINS CO., N.Y.," dated February 7, 1989, by T.
G. Miller Associates, P.C., Engineers & Surveyors, a copy of which map was filed March 24,
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 19
1989 in the Tompkins County Clerk's Office in Drawer M of Maps, 100 and 1.01, and being
more particularly bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the centerline of the Slaterville Road (New York State Route 79) in
said Town, which point is at the most easterly corner of Lot 1 as shown on said subdivision map;
thence South 64 degrees 42 minutes West (all bearings magnetic 1988), passing through iron.
pipes at 33.4 feet, 228.9 feet, 431.9 feet, and 497.1 feet, a total distance of 512.4 feet to an iron
pipe; thence North 35 degrees 33 minutes West, passing through an iron pipe at 191.0 feet, a
total distance of 199.7 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 35 degrees 02 minutes West, passing
through iron pipes at 238.0 feet and at 290.0 feet, a total distance of 510.0 feet to an iron pipe set
in the apparent center of a creek; thence easterly along the centerline of a creek, a chord bearing
North 73 degrees 31 minutes East, a chord distance of 361.1 feet, a distance of 363 feet more or
less, to a point marked by an iron pipe; thence South 33 degrees 10 minutes East a distance of
166.0 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 56 degrees 56 minutes West a distance of 41.7 feet to an
iron pipe; thence South 34 degrees 24 minutes East, passing through an iron pipe at 24.5 feet , a
total distance of 48.5 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 89 degrees 37 minutes East a distance of
5 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 30 degrees 07 minutes East a distance of 119.7 feet to an iron
pipe; thence North 72 degrees 45 minutes East a distance of 8.6 feet to an iron pipe; thence South
34 degrees 03 minutes East a distance of 100.0 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 72 degrees 44
minutes East a distance of 127.0 feet to an iron pipe; thence North 54 degrees 29 minutes
East, passing through an iron pipe at 61.5 feet, a total distance of 94.5 feet to the centerline of
Slaterville Road; thence South 34 degrees 01 minutes East along the centerline of Slaterville
Road a distance of 205.8 feet to the point or place of beginning.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
58.-1-8.1
58.-1-8.2
58.-1-8.3
58.-1-8.4
58.-1-8.5
58.-1-8.6
58.-1-8.7
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to Town Law Article 12;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Winners Circle Subdivision
Lighting District is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and
the publication cost of legal notices;
(e) The Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not
need to provide any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District's assets are as follows: Three (3)
streetlights purchased from NYSEG in 2021 for Eight Hundred Eighty -Seven dollars ($887).
The streetlights were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of One Thousand One
Hundred Fifty -Seven dollars ($1,157). The fair value thereof in current money of the United
States is Two Thousand Forty -Four Dollars ($2,044). On December 31, 2022, the Winners Circle
Subdivision Lighting District had an available fund balance of One Thousand Five Hundred
Thirty -Three Dollars ($1,533). The Town assessed property tax of Two Hundred Dollars ($200)
to seven (7) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023, proportionately allocated based on
assessed value. The estimated expenses for 2023 (including the cost of conversion to LED
lights, eight (8) months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity) are One Thousand Three
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Hundred Eighty Dollars ($1,380). Any residual funds (estimated to be Three Hundred Fifty -
Three Dollars ($353)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to the Town's General Fund to offset
future costs;
(g) The Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District does not have any liabilities and
indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes
the New York Power Authority and/or its contractors Two Thousand One Hundred Sixty -Four
Dollars ($2,164) for LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The
Town anticipates rebates of One Thousand Seven Dollars ($1,007), which results in a net
indebtedness of One Thousand One Hundred Fifty -Seven Dollars ($1,1.57);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting
District and the Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District, the residents of
the Winners Circle Subdivision Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street
lighting services by the Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a
townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Winners Circle Subdivision
Lighting District which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
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Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the Winners
Circle Subdivision Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 119: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the West Raven
Road Lighting District and Setting a Public Hearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the nineteen (19) streetlights in
the West Haven Road Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED
lights; and
Whereas, there are seventy-nine (79) tax parcels located within the West Haven Road Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around One Thousand Four Hundred Forty -Six Dollars ($1,446) in current
dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the West
Haven Road Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the
Town Board of the Town of Ithaca (Town Board) is considering dissolution of the West Haven
Road Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the West Haven Road Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the West
Haven Road Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the West Haven Road Lighting
District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
November 5, 1992 resolution and order establishing the entity; the territorial boundaries of the
entity have not changed and are described in said resolution and order as follows:
COMMENCING at a point in the south line of Mecklenburg Road, which point is located 175
feet easterly along the south line of Mecklenburg Road from its intersection with the east line of
West Haven Road, and which point is in the easterly line of tax parcel 28-2-6.302 (as shown on
the tax maps revised through May 1, 1980) and running along the boundary line between said tax
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parcel 6.302 and tax parcel 28-2-13 through 8, crossing another strip of land associated with tax
parcel 28-2-6.302 and along the easterly boundary line of said tax parcel with tax parcel 28-2-7 a
distance of approximately 1,680 feet to a point in the north line of tax parcel 28-2-6.21; running
thence easterly approximately 40 feet along the north line of said tax parcel 6.21 to the northeast
comer of same; running thence southerly along the easterly line of tax parcels 28-2-6.21 and 6.22
a distance of approximately 900 feet to a point in the southeast comer of tax parcel 28-2-6.22
reputedly owned by Deborah C. Mitchell; running thence easterly along the southerly line of said
tax parcel 28-2-6.22 a distance of approximately 83 feet to the northeast comer of tax parcel No.
29-6-32.2 reputedly owned by the Axtell Estate; running thence southerly along the easterly line
of said tax parcel 29-6-32.2 and tax parcel 29-6-32.1 and across another strip of land connected
to tax parcel 28-2-6.1 a total distance of approximately 250 feet to the north line of tax parcel 29-
6-31 reputedly owned by Endo and Bone; running thence easterly along the north line of said
Endo-Boue parcel a distance of approximately 33 feet to the north line of said Endo-Boue parcel;
running thence southerly along the easterly line of tax parcels 29-6-29, 28, 27,26 and 25 and
continuing across a strip of land connected to tax parcel 29-6-24.1 and further along the east
lines of tax parcels 29-6-23,22,21,20 and a portion of 19 a total distance of approximately 1,152
feet to a point in the north line of tax parcel 29-6-13.1 which point is also in a southerly line and
comer of tax parcel No. 29-6-19 reputedly owned by Edward and Jane Strite; running thence
westerly along said Strite parcel a distance of approximately 65 feet to a comer in the Strite
parcel; running thence southerly along an easterly line of the Strite parcel a distance of
approximately 100 feet to a point in the southerly line of said Strite parcel; continuing southerly
along the easterly line of tax parcels 29-6-18.1 and 18.2 a distance of approximately 240 feet to a
comer in tax parcel 29-6-18.2 reputedly owned by Larry Burdge; running thence easterly along a
portion of the Burdge line a distance of approximately 25 feet to a comer; running thence
southerly along an easterly line of the Burdge parcel a distance of 40 feet to the southeast comer
of said Burdge parcel; running thence westerly along the south line of said Burdge parcel a
distance of 100 feet to the northeast corner of tax parcel 29-6-16.1 reputedly owned by James
and Mary Robertson; running thence southerly along the easterly line of said Robertson parcel a
distance of approximately 145 feet to the north line of Elm. Street Extension; running thence
westerly along the north line of Elm Street Extension and across West Haven Road and
continuing along the north line of Elm Street Extension a total distance of approximately 360
feet to a west line of tax parcel 29-4-8 reputedly owned by John and Tammy Wilcox; running
thence northerly along the west line of said Wilcox parcel a distance of approximately 175 feet to
the south line of tax parcel 29-4-7 reputedly owned by Richard and Margaret Coutre; running
thence westerly along said Coutre parcel a distance of approximately 134 feet to the southwest
comer of said Coutre parcel; running thence northerly along the west line of said Coutre parcel
and the west line of tax parcels 29-4-6, 5,4,3,2 and 1, and continuing across tax parcel 28-1-28.2
and along the west line of tax parcel 29-5-7, 6, and 5 to the northwest comer of said tax parcel
29-5-5 reputedly owned by Harold and Doris VanAllen; running thence easterly along the north
line of said VanAllen premises a distance of approximately 157 feet to the southwest comer of
tax parcel 29-5-4.1 reputedly owned by Isadora Becker; running thence northerly along the west
line of said Becker property and the west line of tax parcel 29-5-4.2 a distance of approximately
197 feet to the south line of tax parcel 29-5-3 reputedly owned by Michael and Lisa Lofgren;
running thence westerly along the southerly line of said Lofgren parcel a distance of
approximately 162 feet to the southwest comer of said Lofgren parcel; running thence northerly
along the west line of said Lofgren parcel, the west line of tax parcel 29-5-2,across a portion of
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tax parcel 28-1-28,2,and along the west line of tax parcel 29-5-1.2 reputedly owned by Donald
and Jenevieve Henry a total distance of approximately 250 feet to the northwest comer of said
Henry parcel; running thence northerly along the east line of tax parcel 28-1-26.3 reputedly
owned by Frank and Rose Flacco a distance of approximately 590 feet to the northwest comer of
said Flacco parcel; running thence easterly along the north line of said Flacco parcel a distance of
approximately 200 feet to the southwest comer of tax parcel 28-1-26.1; running thence northerly
along the westerly line of said tax parcel 28-1-26.1 a distance of approximately 1.60 feet to the
northwest comer of said tax parcel 28-1-26;1; continuing northerly on the extended west line of
said tax parcel an additional distance of 1.50 feet to a point; running thence westerly a distance of
approximately 50 feet to a point which intersects with the westerly line of tax parcel 28-1-26.5
reputedly owned by Robert and Elizabeth Hesson extended 1.50-feet to the south; running thence
northerly along said extended west line and the west line of said Hesson parcel a distance of
approximately 300 feet to the northwest comer of said Hesson parcel; and continuing northerly
along an extended west line of said Hesson parcel a distance of approximately 1260 feet to the
south line of Mecklenburg Road; running thence easterly along the south line of Mecklenburg
Road a distance of approximately 400 feet to the point or place of beginning.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
28.-1-26.1
28.-1-26.3
28.-1-26.5
28.-1-26.22
28.-1-26.23
28.-1-26.24
28.-1-26.85
28.-1-26.85/1
28.-1-26.85/2
28.-1-26.85/4
28.-1-26.221
28.-1-26.222
28.-1-26.223
28.-1-26.224
28.-1-26.225
28.-1-26.226
28.-1-26.227
28.-1-26.228
28.-1-26.229
28.-1-27
28.-1-28.227
28.-2-1
28.-2-6.21
28.-2-6.22
28.-2-6.302
28.-2-7
28.-2-8
28.-2-9
28.-2-10
28.-2-11
28.-2-12
28.-2-13
28.1-1-18
28.1-1-18./2
28.1-1-18./4
28.1-1-18./5
28.1-1-18./6
28.1-1-18./7
28.1-1-18./8
28.1-1-18./9
28.1-1-18./201
29.4-1
29.4-2
29.4-3
29.4-4
29.-4-5
29.-4-6
29.4-7
29.4-8
29.-5-1.2
29.-5-2
29.-5-3
29.-5-4.1
29.-5-5
29.-5-6
29.-5-7
29.-5-8
29.-6-13.1
29.-6-13.5
29.-6-13.6
29.-6-16.1
29.-6-18.1
29.-6-18.2
29.-6-19
29.-6-20
29.-6-21
29.-6-22
29.-6-23
29.-6-24.1
29.-6-24.5
29.-6-25
29.-6-26
29.-6-27
29.-6-28
29.-6-29
29.-6-30
29.-6-31
29.-6-32.1
29.-6-32.2
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to Town Law Article 12;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the West Haven Road Lighting
District is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the
publication cost of legal notices;
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(e) The West Haven Road Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to
provide any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The West Haven Road Lighting District's assets are as follows: Nineteen (19) streetlights
purchased from NYSEG in 2021 for Five Thousand Six Hundred Sixteen Dollars ($5,616). The
streetlights were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Seven Thousand Three
Hundred Thirty -Three dollars ($7,333). The fair value thereof in current money of the United
States is Twelve Thousand Nine Hundred Forty -Nine Dollars ($12,949). On December 31, 2022,
the West Haven Road Lighting District had an available fund balance of Six Thousand One
Hundred Four Dollars ($6,104). The Town assessed property tax of Three Thousand Nine
Hundred Fifty Dollars ($3,950) to sixty-seven (67) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023,
proportionately allocated based on road frontage. The estimated expenses for 2023 (including
the cost of conversion to LED lights, eight (8) months of streetlight maintenance, and electricity)
are Eight Thousand Nine Hundred Forty -Seven Dollars ($8,947). Any residual funds (estimated
to be One Thousand One Hundred Seven Dollars ($1,1.07)) left at 12/31/2023 will be moved to
the Town's General Fund to offset future costs;
(g) The West Haven Road Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness,
bonded or otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York
Power Authority and/or its contractors Thirteen Thousand Seven Hundred Eleven Dollars
($13,711) for LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town
anticipates rebates of Six Thousand Three Hundred Seventy -Eight Dollars ($6,378), which
results in a net indebtedness of Seven Thousand Three Hundred Thirty -Three Dollars ($7,333);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the West Haven Road Lighting District and the
Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the West Haven Road Lighting District, the residents of the West
Haven Road Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting services by
the Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis
pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the West Haven Road Lighting
District which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
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(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the West
Haven Road Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 120: Endorsing this Proposed Dissolution Plan for the Coddington
Road Lighting District and Setting a Public Bearing on Same
Whereas, in 2021, the Town of Ithaca purchased from NYSEG the twelve (12) streetlights in the
Coddington Road Lighting District, and in 2023 the Town upgraded the streetlights to LED
lights; and
Whereas, there are sixty-two (62) tax parcels located within the Coddington Road Lighting
District in 2023, and future annual costs for the District's electricity and streetlight maintenance
are estimated to be around One Thousand Dollars ($1,000) in current dollars; and
Whereas, because the Town's bookkeeping burden and administrative expenses for the
Coddington Road Lighting District are disproportionate to the District's minimal future costs, the
Town Board of the Town of Ithaca (town Board) is considering dissolution of the Coddington
Road Lighting District and paying for the costs of the Town's lighting districts, once dissolved,
through real estate taxes raised on a townwide basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
and
Whereas, New York General Municipal Law §773(2)(a) provides that the Town Board may
commence a dissolution proceeding for the Coddington Road Lighting District, which is a local
government entity, by endorsing a proposed dissolution plan; now, therefore be it
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Resolved, pursuant to General Municipal Law § 774, the Town Board endorses the following
proposed dissolution plan for the purpose of commencing dissolution proceedings for the
Coddington Road Lighting District:
(a) The name of the local government entity to be dissolved is the Coddington Road Lighting
District;
(b) The territorial boundaries of the entity were established when the Town Board adopted its
April 12, 1993 resolution and order establishing the entity; the territorial boundaries have not
changed and are described in said resolution and order as follows:
COMMENCING at the intersection of the center lines of Coddington Road and Northview Road
West; running thence southwesterly along the center line of Northview Road West 175 feet;
running thence northwesterly on a line parallel with and 175 feet southwesterly from the center
line of Coddington Road a distance of approximately 4,700 feet to the boundary line between the
City of Ithaca and the Town of Ithaca, which line is also the northwest line of Town of Ithaca tax
parcel No. 41-1-13; running thence northeasterly along said City -Town line to the center line of
Coddington Road; running thence southeasterly along the center line of Coddington Road
(excluding the portion of Coddington Road which lies outside the normal 60 foot right of way
along the east side of Coddington Road) a distance of approximately 530 feet to a point; running
thence northeasterly a distance of approximately 95 feet in part along the northwest line of Town
of Ithaca tax parcel No. 54-7-49 to a point in the former railroad right of way; running thence
southeasterly along the southwesterly line of said former railroad right of way and along the rear
line of tax parcels No. 54-7-49, 48, 47, 46, and 45.2 a distance of approximately 400 feet to a
point where the southwesterly line of said former railroad right of way is 175 feet from the center
line of Coddington Road; running thence on a line parallel with and 175 feet northeasterly of the
center line of Coddington Road a total distance of approximately 3,710 feet to the center line of
Northview Road; running thence southwesterly along the center line of Northview Road to the
center line of Coddington Road; running thence -southeasterly along the center line of
Coddington Road approximately 20 feet to the intersection of said center line with the center line
of Northview Road West and the point of beginning.
The current tax parcel numbers that are within said territorial boundaries are:
41.-1-15
41.-1-16
41.-1-19
41.-1-21
41.-1-28
41.-1-29
41.-1-30.2
42.-1-1.1.
42.-1-1.2
42.-1-2.3
42.-1-2.4
42.-1-4.1
42.-1-4.2
42.-1-5
42.-1-6
42.-1-7.1.
42.-1-7.2
42.-1.8
42.-1-9.5
42.-1-9.8
42.-1-9.12
42.-1-9.41
42.-1-9.42
42.-1-9.43
42.-1-9.44
42.-1-9.1.41
42.-1-9.1.42
52.-1-1
52.-1-2
52.-1-3
53.-1-1
53.-1-2
53.-1-3
53.-1-14.1
53.-1-14.221
53.-1-14.222
53.-1-15.1
53.-1-15.2
53.-1-15.3
53.-1-15.4
53.-1-15.5
53.-1-15.6
53.-1-16.1
53.-1-16.2
53.-1-19
53.-1-20
53.-1-21
53.-1-24.1.
53.-1-24.2
53.-1-24.3
53.-1-24.4
54.-7-40
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54.-7-42
54.-7-43
54.-7-44
54.-7-45.1.
54.-7-45.2
54.-7-46
54.-7-47
54.-7-48
54.-7-49
54.-7-50
(c) The type and/or class of the entity is a lighting district that the Town Board formed pursuant
to Town Law Article 12-A;
(d) The Town Board estimates that the cost of dissolution of the Coddington Road Lighting
District is One Thousand Dollars ($1,000), which is the cost of associated legal fees and the
publication cost of legal notices;
(e) The Coddington Road Lighting District has no public employees, so it does not need to
provide any plan for the transfer or elimination of public employees;
(f) The Coddington Road Lighting District's assets are as follows: Twelve (12) streetlights
purchased from NYSEG in 2021 for Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty -Seven dollars
($3,547). The streetlights were upgraded to LED lights in 2023 for an estimated cost of Four
Thousand Six Hundred Thirty -One dollars ($4,631). The fair value thereof in current money of
the United States is Eight Thousand One Hundred Seventy -Eight Dollars ($8,178). On December
31, 2022, the Coddington Road Lighting District had an available fund balance of Four
Thousand Seventeen Dollars ($4,017)). The Town assessed property tax of Two Thousand
Eighty Dollars ($2,080) to sixty-two (62) parcels within the Lighting District in 2023,
proportionately allocated based on road frontage on Coddington Road. The estimated expenses
for 2023 (including the cost of conversion to LED lights, eight (8) months of streetlight
maintenance, and electricity) are Five Thousand Seven Hundred Dollars ($5,700). Any residual
funds (estimated to be Three Hundred Ninety -Seven Dollars ($397)) left at 12/31/2023 will be
moved to the Town's General Fund to offset future costs;
(g) The Coddington Road Lighting District does not have any liabilities and indebtedness,
bonded or otherwise, except as follows: The Town, on behalf of the District, owes the New York
Power Authority and/or its contractors Eight Thousand Six Hundred Fifty -Nine Dollars ($8,659)
for LED conversions. This amount has not yet been billed to the Town. The Town anticipates
rebates of Four Thousand Twenty -Eight Dollars ($4,028), which results in a net indebtedness of
Four Thousand Six Hundred Thirty -One Dollars ($4,631);
(h) There are no agreements entered into between the Coddington Road Lighting District and the
Town of Ithaca in order to carry out the dissolution;
(i) following the dissolution of the Coddington Road Lighting District, the residents of the
Coddington Road Lighting District will continue to be furnished municipal street lighting
services by the Town of Ithaca, which will be paid for by real estate taxes raised on a townwide
basis pursuant to New York Highway Law §327;
0) The entity's assets shall become assets of the Town of Ithaca. The terms for the disposition of
the entity's liabilities and indebtedness are as follows: The amount of the entity's indebtedness (if
any) to New York Power Authority and/or its contractors as of December 31, 2023 as described
in subsection g above shall be paid by moving the entity's fund balance (which is adequate to
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 28
pay its indebtedness) to the Town's General Fund and paying them from the General Fund.
There will be no need for the levy and collection of additional taxes and assessments for the
entity's outstanding liabilities and indebtedness as of December 31, 2023;
(k) There are no local laws, ordinances, rules or regulations of the Coddington Road Lighting
District which shall remain in effect after the effective date of the dissolution;
(1) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2023;
(m) The time and place for a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan pursuant to New
York General Municipal Law § 776 is September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room,
Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street, Ithaca, NY 14850;
(n) There are no other matters desirable or necessary to carry out the dissolution; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Clerk for the Town of Ithaca shall post, publish and display the
proposed dissolution plan and provide notice to the public as required by New York General
Municipal Law § 775; and be it further
Resolved, that the Town Board shall hold a public hearing on the proposed dissolution plan on
September 11, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in the Board Room, Ithaca Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga Street,
Ithaca, NY 14850, and at such time and place all persons interested in the proposed dissolution
plan may be heard concerning the same; and be it further
Resolved, that following the conclusion of the public hearing, the Town Board shall meet to take
such other and further action on the part of said Board with relation thereto as may be authorized
and prescribed by law, which may include a resolution approving a final version of the
Coddington Road Lighting District dissolution plan.
Moved: Bill Goodman Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
2. Consider authorization to apply for funding through the 2023 Environmental
Protection Fund Grants Program for Parks, Preservation and Heritage to purchase
approximately 135 acres of land on South Hill
TB Resolution 2023 - 121: SEAR Acquisition of Approximately 135 Acres on South Hill
(located off King Road East, Chase Lane, Ridgecrest Road, and Schickel Road) for a New
Preserve
Whereas, this action is the acquisition of approximately 135 acres on South Hill (located off
King Road East, Chase Lane, Ridgecrest Road, and Schickel Road) in the Town of Ithaca, and
Whereas, the landowner has offered to sell these undeveloped lands to the Town of Ithaca at
80% of the appraised value, and
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 29
Whereas, the property will be acquired in order to add to the Town's existing preserves and to
provide residents with additional recreational opportunities for passive enjoyment of the forested
habitats, and
Whereas, the Town of Ithaca is applying for funding from NYS Office of Parks, Recreation &
Historic Preservation (OPRHP) under the 2023 Environmental Protection Fund Grants Program
for Parks, Preservation and Heritage to assist in the acquisition costs, and
Whereas, it has been determined that the above -described action is an Unlisted Action,
pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act, 6 NYCRR Part 61.7, and Town
of Ithaca Code, Chapter 148 — Environmental Quality Review, for which the Town of
Ithaca Town Board is acting as Lead Agency in an environmental review with respect to
the property acquisition; and
Whereas, the Town Board, on July 24, 2023, has reviewed and accepted as adequate the Short
Environmental Assessment Form, Parts 1, 2 and 3 prepared by Town staff for this action; now
therefore be it
Resolved, that the Ithaca Town Board hereby makes a negative determination of
environmental significance based on the information in the Short EAF Part 1 and for the
reasons set forth in the Short EAF Parts 2 and 3 in accordance with the New York State
Environmental Quality Review Act and Chapter 148 of the Town of Ithaca Code for the
above referenced action as proposed and, therefore, neither a Full Environmental
Assessment Form, nor an Environmental Impact Statement will be required.
Moved: Rob Rosen Seconded: Rich DePaolo
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023 - 122: Authorization to Apply for Funding through the 2023
Environmental Protection Fund Grants Program for Parks, Preservation and Heritage to
Purchase Approximately 135 Acres of Land on South Hill
Whereas, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation (OPRHP) has
announced the availability of funding under the 2023 Environmental Protection Fund Grants
Program for Parks, Recreation and Heritage, which includes a category for the acquisition of
parks or other recreational facilities to preserve it for recreation or conservation purposes, and
Whereas, the maximum assistance allowed toward the cost of the project is $500,000, with a
25% local match required, and
Whereas, the Town of Ithaca is seeking to purchase approximately 135 acres on South Hill
(located off King Road East, Chase Lane, Ridgecrest Road, and Schickel Road), to be included
as a Town preserve, and
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 30
Whereas, the Town estimates the total cost to be approximately $674,000 for the acquisition of
the property, outlined further in the application for this acquisition grant, and
Whereas, the landowner has offer to sell the approximately 135 acres to the Town at 80% of the
appraised value, which reduces the overall cost to $543,000, and
Whereas, grant applications are due by July 28, 2023
Resolved, that the Supervisor of the Town of Ithaca, or designated representative, is hereby
authorized and directed to file an application for the acquisition of the approximately 135 acre
property on South Hill under the 2023 Environmental Protection Fund Grants Program for Parks,
Recreation and Heritage in an amount not to exceed $443,000 (Town of Ithaca local share is
$100,000), and upon approval of said request to enter into and execute a project agreement with
OPRHP for such financial assistance to the Town of Ithaca.
Moved: Rich DePaolo Seconded: Rod Howe
Vote: ayes — Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
3. Consider award of Forest Home Pump Station Improvements Project — Alternate #1
TB Resolution 2023 —123: Authorization to award and execute contract for the Town of
Ithaca Forest Home #1 Pump Station Improvements Construction Contract Project -
Alternate #1
Whereas on. May 01, 2023, the Director of Engineering (Director) received bids for the Town of
Ithaca Forest Home #1 Pump Station Improvements Construction Contract Project
(Improvement), for the installation of a forcemain, manholes, associated appurtenances, and
restoration of disturbed areas. An alternate containing additional work includes replacement of
submersible sewage pumps, piping, guide -rail system, controls, valve vault, installation of a new
emergency generator, transfer switch, associated electric and gas services, and associated site
restoration, along with other work specified and indicated in the Contract Documents, and
Whereas the project was bid with a Base Bid A or B option for the installation of the forcemain
within Pleasant Grove Rd and an Alternate 1 for work associated with the Pump Station itself, and
Whereas the Director has reviewed the bids and qualifications of the bidders and has determined
that the lowest responsive bid for Base Bid A of $384,000.00 and Alternate I of $610,000.00, with
a total bid price of $994,000.00 for the project, was made by the lowest responsive bidder, Vacri
Construction Corporation, One Brick Avenue, Binghamton, NY, and
Whereas at their meeting on. May 08, 2023 (TB 2023-077) the Town Board authorized the award
and execution of the Contract for the Base Bid A portion of the project.
Whereas the Director has reviewed bids and now recommends the award of Alternate #1 with a
total bid price of $610,000 to Vacri Construction Corporation, and
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 31
Whereas at their meeting on June 12, 2023, the Town Board adopted a Public Interest Order (TB
2023-088) establishing the Improvement and authorizing a maximum amount of $1,089,445.00 to
be expended on this Improvement, now, therefore be it
Resolved that the Town Board authorizes the Town Supervisor to award and execute the
construction contract for the Alternate #1 portion of the Town of Ithaca Forest Home Pump Station
#1 Improvements project to Vacri Construction Corporation, subject to final approval of the
contract by the Director and review by the Attorney for the Town, and be it further
Resolved that the Director is authorized to approve change orders to the contract, without further
authorization of this Board, provided that the maximum amount of such change orders does not
exceed $10,000.00 in aggregate and the total project cost, including the contract, engineering, legal
and other expenses, does not exceed the maximum authorized cost of the project of $1,089,445.00.
Moved: Rich DePaolo Seconded: Margaret Johnson
Vote: ayes- Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
5. Consent Agenda
TB Resolution 2023 - 125: Approval of Consent Agenda
Resolved that the Town Board approves and/or adopts the following Consent Agenda items:
a. Approval of Town Board Minutes
b. Approval of Town of Ithaca Abstract
c. Set public hearing regarding SCLIWC 2023 Budget
d. Acknowledge receipt of Independent Audit — Town of Ithaca YE 2022
e. Appointment of Der Rosenmeister Nursery (Lee Ginethal) — Ag Committee
f. Appointment of Planning Board Chair
g. Appointment of Zoning Board of Appeals Alternate Member
Moved: Rich DePaolo Seconded: Bill Goodman
Vote: Howe, DePaolo, Rosen, Goodman, & Johnson
TB Resolution 2023-125a: Approval of Town Board Minutes
Resolved that the Town Board approves the minutes of June 26, and July 10, 2023 as submitted
with non -substantive changes made.
TB Resolution 2023 - 125b: Town of Ithaca Abstract No. 1.4 for FY-2023
Resolved that the Town Board authorizes the payment of the following audited vouchers in total
for the amounts indicated.
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 32
VOUCHER NOS. 585 - 623
General Fund Town Wide
11,688.09
General Fund Part -Town
525.00
Highway Fund Town Wide DA
2,293.47
Highway Fund Part Town DB
11,444.85
Water Fund
3,152.31.
Sewer Fund
4,505.02
Fire Protection. Fund
331,351.36
Trust and Agency
481.25
TOTAL
365,441.35
TB Resolution 2023 — 125c: Setting a public hearing regarding the SCLIWC Preliminary
Budget
Resolved that the Town Board sets a public hearing at their meeting held on. Monday, August 14,
2023, beginning at 5:30 p.m., at Town Hall, 215 N. Tioga St and via ZOOM regarding the
preliminary budget for the SCLIWC (Bolton Point) at which time all persons interested in speaking
will be heard.
TB Resolution 2023 - 125d: Acknowledge receipt of 2022 Town of Ithaca Independent
Audit
Resolved that the Town Board acknowledges receipt of the 2022 Town of Ithaca Independent
Audit, which was presented at the Town Board meeting on July 1.0, 2023.
TB Resolution 2023 - 125e: Appointment of Der Rosenmeister Nursery (Lee Ginenthal) to
the Agriculture Committee
Whereas, the Agriculture Committee has received an application from Der Rosenmeister Nursery
(Lee Ginenthal) to become a member of the Committee, and
Whereas, DerRosenmeister Nursery has been operating in the Town since 2003 and Lee
Ginenthal has attended multiple Town Agriculture Committee meetings over the past year, now
therefore be it
Resolved, that the Town Board appoints Der Rosenmeister Nursery (Lee Ginenthal) to the
Agriculture Committee as requested.
TB Resolution 2023 - 125f: Appointment of Planning Board Chair
Whereas the Planning Board has a vacant chair position and have recommended that Fred T.
Wilcox III be appointed as Chair for the remainder of year ending December 31, 2023, and he has
indicated he would accept the role of Chair; now, therefore, be it
TB 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 33
Resolved that the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca does hereby appoint Fred T. Wilcox III as
Planning Board Chair, effective July 19, 2023, for the remainder of year 2023.
��I- =-Mr.-Ummmar. in, 17-M
Whereas the interview committee interviewed a candidate for the open Alternate position and
recommends appointing Matthew Mining, 144 Snyder Hill Road, as an alternate member
completing a term ending December 31, 2023; now, therefore, be it
Resolved that the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca does hereby appoint Matthew Mining, as an
alternate Zoning Board of Appeals member for a term of July 24, 2023, through December 3 1,
2023.
Motion made at 12:38 p.m. by Mr. DePaolo to enter executive session to discuss the possibl,;
acquisition of real property where disclosure could affect the outcome, seconded by Mr.
Goodman, unanimous.
Motion made at 12:50 p.m. by Mr. DePaolo to reenter open session and adjourn the meeting,
seconded by Mr. Goodman, unanimous.
9 E E 0=1 I
Ashley Colbert
Deputy Town Clerk
T13 2023-07-31 (Filed 8/11) Pg. 34
Attachment 1
Short Environmental Assessment Form—
Part.1 - Project Informatiott
Instructions foLComplefing
Part I Project Information. The applicant or 1project sponsor is responsible for the completion of Part 1. Responses become part of the
application for approval or funding, are subject to public review, and may be subject to further verification. Complete Part I based on
information currently available. If additional research or investigation would be needed to fully respond to any item, please answer as
thoroughly as possible based on current information.
Complete all items in Part I" You may also provide any additional information which you believe will be needed by or useful to the
lead agency; attach additional pages as necessary to supplernunt any ilem,
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Part I - Project and Sponsnr Information
Name of Action or Project:
Acquisition of approximately 135 acres (Sage Preserve)
Project Location (describe, and attach a location rnap):
Located off King Road East, Chase Lane, Ridgecrest Road, and Schickel Road
— — ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - - Brief Description of'Proposed Action:
The proposed action is the acquisition of approximately 135 acres of undeveloped land on South Hill (located off King Road East, Chase Lane,
Ridgecrest Road, and Schirkel Road) in the Town of Ithaca. The property to be acquired by the Town will be used for passive recreation such as
walking, hiking, dog walking,, nature observation, cross country skiing, etc The acquisition will add to the Town's existing preserves and be the first
preserve on South Hill, providing additional opportunities for passive enjoyment of these forested habitats.
The proposal is consistent with both the Town's Park, Recreation and Open Space Plan and Comprehensive Plan
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me of Applicant or Sponsor: Telephone! 607-273-1721
Town of Ithaca L-Mail: rhowe@town Ithaca ny.us
Address:
215 North'floga Street
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City/PO: State: Zip Code:
Ithaca 114Y 14850
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1. Does the proposed action only involve the legislative adoption of a plan, local law, ordinance, NO YES
administrative rule, or regulation? —
If Yes, attach a narrative description of the intent oaf the proposed action and (lie environmental resources that Z
may be affected in the municipality and proceed to Part 2. If no, continue to question 2. 21 1:1
2. Does the proposed action require a permit, approval or funding from any oti:;7(r government Agency? NO YES
If Yes, list agency(s) name and permit or approval: seeking funding 'from NYS Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic
Preservation
3. a. Total acreage ofthe site of the proposed action'? +1 135 acres
b. Total acreage to be physically disturbed? 0 acres
c. Total acreage (project site and any contiguous properties) owned
or controlled by the applicant or project sponsor? 4-/-,135 acres
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4. Check all land uses that occur on, are adjon-Ong or near the proposed action:
S. [:1 Urban Rural (non -agriculture) Industrial E] Cornmer-cial 0 Residential (suburban)
21 Forest Agriculture Aquatic 0 Other(Specify):
21 Parkland
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5. Is the proposed action, ..... 7-Nd"', YES WA
a, A permitted use tinder the zoning regulations?
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b. Consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan?
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6. Is the proposed action consistent with the predominant character of the existing built or natural landscape? [I-
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7. c proposed action located in, or does it adjoin, a state listed Critical Environmental Area?
Is the site ' NO YES
If Yes, identify:
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NO YES
8. a. Will the proposed action result in a substantial increase in traffic above present levels?
b. Are public transportation services available at or near the site of the proposed action?
Fv-1 F]
c. Are any pedestrian accommodations or bicycle routes available on or near the site of the proposed F] nol
action?
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9. Does the proposed action meet or exceed the state energy code requirements'? NO YES
If the proposed action will exceed requirements, describe design features and technologies:
MA- ri W ia nn ed . . . .......❑ ................ . . .... . ........ .. . . ......
l0 Will(he'propos'� �.connect to an existing public/private water supply? NO 4 YES
If No, describe method for providing potable water:
N/A - no construction planned F-1
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11. Will the proposed action connect to existing wastewater utilities? NO YES
If No, describe method for providing wastewater treatment:
N/A - no construction planned Rl M
ii—a'. Does the project site contain, or is it substantially contiguous to, a building, archaeological site, or district NO YES
which is listed on the National or State Register of Historic Places, or that has been determined by the
Commissioner of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation to be eligible for listing on the Fv� El
State Register of Historic Places?
b. Is the project site, or any portion of it, located in or adjacent to an area designated as sensitive for
archaeological sites on the NY State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) archaeological site inventory?
13. a. Does any portion of the site of the proposed action, or lands adjoining the proposed action, contain NO YES
wetlands or other waterbodies regulated by a federal, state or local agency? R Fv]
b, Would the proposed action physically alter, or encroach into, any existing wetland or waterbody? El
If Yes, identify the wetland or waterbody and extent of alterations in square feet or acres:
The prop" contains several small wetlands and streams. No alterations are planned to any wetland or waterbody.
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14. Identify the typical habitat types that occur on, or are likely to be found on (fie project site. Cheek all that apply�
ElShoreline 2] Forest E:] AgriCUltural/grasslands 21 Early mid -successional
R]Wetland El Urban El Suburban
15. Does the site of the proposed action contain any species ofammal, or associated habitats, listed by the State or
NO
YES
Federal government as threatened or endangered?
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16. Is the project site located in the 100-year flood plan?
N 0
YES
17. Will the proposed action create storm water discharge, either from point or non -point sources?
NO
........
YES
If Yes,
a. Will storm water discharges flow to adjacent properties?
El
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b, Will storm water discharges be directed to established conveyance systems (runoff and storm drains)?
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If Yes, briefly describe:
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18. Does the proposed action include construction or other activities that would result in the impoundment ofwater
NO
YES
or other liquids (e.g., retention pond, waste lagoon, dam)?
If Yes, explain the purpose and size of the impoundment: .......... ......
19. Has the site of the proposed action or an adjoining property been the location of an active or closed solid waste
NO
YES
management facility?
If Yes, describe:
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20.1-fas the site of the proposed action or an adjoining property been the subject of remediation (ongoing or
NO
YES
completed) for hazardous waste?
If Yes, describe:
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I CERTIFY THAT THE IN'Fi—ORMATION PROVIDED ABOVE IS TRUE AND ACCURATE TO THE BEST
OF
MY KNOWLEDGE
I /spon Rod Howe
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project sponsors and reviewing agencies in preparing an environmental
assessment form (EAF) Not all questions asked in the EAF are
answered by the EAF Mapper. Additional information on any EAF
question ran be obtained by consulting the EAF Workbooks Although
the EAF Mapper provides the most up-to-date dijgital data available to
DEC,, you may also need to contact local or other data sources in order
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Part i / Question 7 [Critical Environmental
Area]
Part I / Question 12a [National or State
Register of Historic Places or State Eligible
Sites]
Part 1 / Question 12b [Archeological Sites]
Part 1 / Question 13a [Wetlands or Other
Regulated Waterbodies]
Part 1 / Question 15 [Threatened or
Endangered Animal]
Part 1 / Question 16 [100 Year Flood Plain]
Part 1 / Question 20 [Remediation Site]
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waterbodies is known to be incomplete. Refer to EAF Workbook.
No
Digital mapping data are not available or are incomplete. Refer to EAF
Workbook.
No
Short Environmental Assessment Form - EAF Mapper Summary Report I
Agency Use Only [if applicable]
Project: [LS Acre Acquisition
Date:
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Part 2 - Impact Assessment
Part 2 is to be completed by the Lead Agency.
Answer all of the following questions in Part 2 using the information contained in Part I and other matefials submitted by
the project sponsor or otherwise available to the reviewer. When answering the questions the reviewer should be guided by
the concept "Flave my responses been reasonable considering the scale and context of the proposed action?"
. . . ... .......
No, or
Moderate
small
to large
impact
impact
may
may
occur
occur
1.
Will the proposed action create a material conflict with an adopted land use plan or zoning
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regulations?
2.
Will the proposed action result in a change in the use or intensity of use of land'?
3.
Will the proposed action impair the character or quality of the existing community?
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4,
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Will the proposed action have an impact on the environmental characteristics that caused the
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establishment of a Critical Environmental Area (CEA)?
S.
Will the proposed action result in an adverse change in the existing level of traffic or
affect existing infrastructure for mass transit, biking or walkway?
6.
Will the proposed action cause an increase in the use of energy and it fails to incorporate
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reasonably available energy conservation or renewable energy opportunities'?
7.
Will the proposed action impact existing:
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a. public I private water supplies?
b. public private wastewater treatment utilities?
8.
Will the proposed action impair the character or quality of important historic, archaeological,
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architectural or aesthetic resources?
9.
Will the proposed action result in an adverse change to natural resources (e.g., wetlands,
waterbodies, groundwater, air quality, flora and fauna)?
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Will the proposed action result in an increase in the potential for erosion, flooding or drainage
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problems?
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Will the proposed action create a hazard to environmental resources or human health?
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Age cy Use Only [If applicable]
Project: 135 Acre Acquisition
Date: July 24, 2023
Short Environmental Assessment Form
Part 3 Determination of Significance
For every question in Part 2 that was answered "moderate to large impact may occur", or if there is a need to explain why a
particular element of the proposed action may or will not result in a significant adverse environmental impact, please
complete Part 3. Part 3 should, in sufficient detail, identify the impact, including any measures or design elements that
have been included by the project sponsor to avoid or reduce impacts. Part 3 should also explain how the lead agency
determined that the impact may or will not be significant. Each potential impact should be assessed considering its setting,
probability of occurring, duration, irreversibility, geographic scope and magnitude. Also consider the potential for short-
term, long-term and cumulative impacts.
There are no anticipated negative environmental impacts related to the acquisition of approximately 135
acres of undeveloped land on South Hill by the Town of Ithaca. The purpose of the acquisition by the Town
is to protect the land for conservation purposes and to provide Town residents with additional land for
passive recreational opportunities.
The parcels are a mix of established wooded areas, successional growth, and woody invasive plants, and
contains several small wetlands and streams. There are also cleared areas on portions of the property for
large overhead power lines and a gas line that crosses the property. The property currently contains
several mowed paths that the current landowner maintains, and allows neighbors to walk. The Town would
initially plan to maintain the existing mowed path system, and hopefully expand the paths and connections
around the property in the future.
As a Town preserve, it would be open to the public as a passive recreation area (walking, dog walking, bird
watching, cross country skiing, nature observation, picnicking, etc.), similar to the other existing Town
preserves.
The parcels are zoned Low Density Residential Zone and Medium Density Residential Zone and the Future
Land Use Map from the 2014 Comprehensive Plan designates the area primarily as "Natural/Open" and
"Semi -Rural Neighborhood". The proposed Town acquisition of this land for a preserve is consistent with
the Town's Park, Recreation and Open Space Plan and Comprehensive Plan.
Regarding Part 1, 13a, the 135 acres to be acquired do contain several small wetlands scattered around the
property and a couple streams. This project is not proposing any construction and the Town acquisition as
a preserve will help to protect these water resources.
Check this box if you have determined, based on the information and analysis above, and any supporting documentation,
that the proposed action may result in one or more potentially large or significant adverse impacts and an
environmental impact statement is required.
Check this box if you have determined, based on the information and analysis above, and any supporting documentation,
that the proposed action will not result in any significant adverse environmental impacts.
Town of Ithaca Town Board
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Name of Lead Agency Date
Rod Howe Town Supervisor
Print or Type Njw-n$�,o , rRespoMl, �le Of*er in Lead Agency Title of Responsible Officer
Signature of ResponsAle officer in Lead Agency Signature of Preparer (i6fffferent from Responsible Officer)
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