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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1995-05-09TOWN BOARD MEETING MAY 91 1995 • Supv Schug called the meeting to order at 7930PM Members and guests participated in a moment of silent mediation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll call was by Town Clerk Lloyd: Present: Supv Schug, Clm Baker, Clm T. Hatfield, Clm C. Hatfield, Clm Roberts, Atty Perkins and Z.O. Slater Approval of the minutes: Motion was made by Clm Roberts and 2nd by Clm Baker that the minutes of town board meeting on 1 -27 -95 and 3 -14 -95 be approved. Carried COUNTY BRIEFING Co. Rep. Lane - reported they had an intergovernmental affairs meeting with the town supervisors and village mayors which was very productive. There is the potential of incorporating the solid waste fee on the town and county tax bill. The data processing department is working with a vendor to come up with a new program that will incorporate changes, having to do with the changes in state law for collection of delinquent taxes. Since the software is being written it will enable them to put the • solid waste fee on in such a way I believe would be not a burden on the tax collectors. I would hope that once the program is written in the next month or so to get some input on this from the town clerks. It would allow payment of the fee or the tax and provide an additional number of reports. It would require an upgrade of some of the computers for some of the computer stations. They are looking at the cost of this. Co. Rep. Lane - they also discussed problems with illegal dumping. The biggest problem and one they are going to address is getting better reports from the towns and villages on what kind of illegal dumping there is, what kind of response is coming from the county and what kind of correction is happening. Supv Schug - is getting information together regarding election voting machines so this can be shared with the committee. There is more behind the comments that were made. Co. Rep. Lane - the county wants to work this out and is looking at differential tax rates depending on different counties and the rate that is charged. Supv Schug - it may be a little more work, but in looking at it and what we get now is a good breakdown of what Dryden costs are I ncurred and so on. If that is all buried back in the county tax. • It should be important to know what each department is doing. g/ TB5 -9 -95 Page 2 Co. Rep. Lane - there will have to be a breakdown so that every town will understand why their rate is different then the next town, because of election expenses or whatever else. Co. Rep. Evans - reported the sanitary code is ready for public hearing. Supv Schug - has a copy and sent this information to Henry and our engineers to see how it would affect the town. Z.O. Slater - felt it was a duplication of services. Co. Rep. Evans - if you have a concern you should come to the public hearing. Co. the Most that year Rep. Evans - the GIS budget will be coming up next couple of weeks. It has a capital budget of that is grant money, not tax dollars. The it will probably cost between $175,000.00 to after it is put together, and this would be for a of $560,000.00. down $200,000.00 county vote in side is a tax dollars. DEC to resolve the leachate problem at the Caswell Road landfill site. diagram that she had drawn up Co. Rep. Evans - a request has been made to DEC to resolve the leachate problem at the Caswell Road landfill site. Clm C. Hatfield - wanted to know about the cat licensing. Co. Rep. Evans - it will never come to a vote. The SPCA requested that it be withdrawn from the committee. CITIZEN PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR Jean Ryan - had stated that if she had any problems she would come to the town board. She has now run into a problem with the additional village court work load now. She has put in a lot of overtime and is asking if she needs help can she get it. Even if it is 2 days a week or if one of them should get ill or vacation time. Mainly at this time it would only be if someone is sick. Last month they reported $9,000.00 and will be $14,000.00 next month. Her report normally left the office between the 3rd and 5th of every month and she is still working on it which means she is already 10 days late this month with her current things. This is the one year that she had not requested extra money in her budget for extra help. Rachel Davis, Nottingham Drive - I would like to park my car in the town owned turn around on Nottingham Drive where I have parked it for the last two summers. She showed board members a diagram that she had drawn up of the location where she would like to park. The reason for her not wanting to park in her own driveway was she could not see her flowers she had planted along the edge of the driveway. She had an agreement with the highway - superintendent that she could park there as long as the car was in the very back of the turn around and the car was gone by the time snow came. Those were the only two conditions. R C� Z TBS -9 -95 Page 3 •Rachel Davis - she has a neighbor who is complaining that this is not legal. This neighbor did not complain last year, but she is this year. My feeling and the highway superintendent feeling is that it is perfectly all right to park there in the non snow months. Some how I would like to make this legal. Showed board members pictures of her flower garden and that is the reason she did not want to park her car there. I was wondering if the ordinance could be changed so that it would be no parking in the turn around during the snow months. This could be made general to all snow plow turn arounds or in the case of Nottingham Drive, or one could give me as an individual permission as the highway superintendent did or maybe just park off the road in the turn around. The last option I find rather silly since there is no one who uses the turn around. Hwy Supt Gilbert - suggested she move her flower garden. Rachel Davis - said that would not be possible, since I have gone to enormous work to put the flower garden on both sides of the driveway. Supv Schug - asked if she had talked to her neighbor to solve it I nstead of coming to the town board. Rachel Davis - she has lived there for 12 years and her neighbor will not talk to her. ® Supv Schug - this should be worked out with the highway superintendent to solve this problem. COUNCILMAN PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR Audit of 1994 books - Clm Baker and Clm C. Hatfield reviewed the books from July to December 1994 and found them to be in order. Clm Roberts - reported there were 3 agencies interested in biding on insurance that have connection with the town. They were Becker /Wells, Bailey Agency and Cotterill Agency. Becker /Wells only had one company and they were unable to give a quote because of Pen Co our current policy holder being related to Harper. There were 3 bids from the Bailey Agency and Cotterill Agency. The low bid is with Selective Insurance, Bailey Agency at $47,159.78 which is roughly $18,000.00 lower than our current premium. Clm C. Hatfield and Clm Roberts recommended that the town board accept the low bid with Bailey Agency. William Bailey - wanted the town board to know before the resolution was passed that they have a new updated schedule of equipment and vehicles. These are changes that have taken place .and need to be changed on the policy so .you may see a slight variation on what is there because some of the equipment on the policy is no longer here. Some of it has been added so there will be some changes, but very little. • r1 L 0 NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION BY TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF DRYDEN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the provisions of New York Town Law section 90 that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden, County of Tompkins, New York, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 9th day of May, 1995, duly adopted a resolution, an abstract of which is as follows: A resolution declaring certain portions of South Knoll Drive not needed for Town purposes and being of no value to the Town and authorizing the transfer of approximately 3535 square feet of land to Dale E. Cotterill and Jean W. Cotterill on the condition that all expenses in connection with such transfer be paid by the transferees. Said resolution was adopted as provided in Article 7 of the subject to a permissive referendum Town Law. By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Dryden, New York Susanne • • • TB5 -9 -95 Page 4 ATTORNEY Howser VS Lok & Lim - no change Cortland Paving - Z.O. Slater - has had no communication and the 30 days are all most up for the application to be made. Atty Perkins - the last time the issue came up they were engaging an engineer to do a plan for the site and they wanted additional time. RESOLUTION #140 PROPOSED LOCAL LAW #2 1995 Clm T. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this introduce Local Law #2 - 1995 repealing Local Law #1 - 1977 and schedule a public hearing on June 13, 1995 at 7:30PM. Clm Roberts Roll call vote - all voting Yes RESOLUTION #141 ZONING ORDINANCE CHANGE Clm C. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: amount the RESOLVED, that this Town Board accept a request for a zoning ordinance change regarding bed & breakfast. A public hearing to be held on June 13, 1995 at 7:45 PM. Yes 2nd Clm Roberts Roll call vote - all voting Yes Culvert under Mott Road - no change Recreation Partnership review - no change RESOLUTION #142 SOUTH KNOLL DRIVE - Dale Cotterill Clm T. Hatfield offered the following its adoption: WHEREAS no road was ever built on the therefore the requirements of highway applicable and resolution and asked for parcel in question and law Section 205 are not WHEREAS the property is not needed for any town purpose reference is made to a letter from Highway Superintendent Donald Gilbert dated 7 -20 -1994 and WHEREAS the town will receive fair and adequate consideration ie the same amount the town paid to acquire the property and the property having no value is NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Town of Dryden will convey the parcel in parcel B as shown question on to Dale E. and the survey map and Jean W. Cotterill constituting being approximately subject to a 3,535 permissive square feet. This referendum. resolution adopted is 2nd Clm C. Hatfield Roll call vote - all voting Yes K3 i TB5 -9 -95 Page 5 •Town Clerk Lloyd - would Zerilli as Deputy Town C 1st to December 31st sin RESOLUTION Clm C. Hatfield offered its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Clerk appoint Tax Collector from 2nd Clm Roberts • is Z.O. Slater time person vacation. would to help like a resolution appointing Stephanie lerk and Deputy Tax Collector from April ce Barbara Ensign is unable to work. #143 APPOINT DEPUTY TOWN CLERK the following resolution and asked for Town Board upon the recommendation of the Stephanie Zerilli Deputy Town Clerk and Deputy April 1st to December 31st 1995. Roll call vote - all voting Yes also like to have Stephanie Zerilli as a part cover his office in case of sickness or RESOLUTION #144 INCREASE PAY RATE FOR DEPUTY TOWN CLERK DEPUTY TAX COLLECTOR & ZONING OFFICE Clm C. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board raise the pay Town Clerks, Deputy Tax Collectors and Zoning per hour to $9.60 per hour effective May 1st. 2nd Clm Roberts Roll call vote - rate of the Deputy Office from $7.50 all voting Yes Clm C. Hatfield - wanted to know if Jean had anyone in mind for part time help. Jean Ryan - had told Kathy Perkins that if she needed help she would hire her since they have closed the village court and she needs time for her retirement. At the present time she does not need help except she wants to be able to cover her office in case of sickness or vacation time. ENGINEERING. Dave Putnam - Turkey Hill water and sewer district - the water system is in and tested and ready for use. The sewer needs work at the manholes and 1000 feet of sewer left to be tested. It should be completed by June. r Date: 'fo: From Sub. • • ft May 3rd9 1995 James Schug, Dryden Town Supervisor Henry M. Slater, Zoning & Building Code Enforcement Off. E5 East Main Street, Dryden, NY 13053 April 195 Building & Zoning Activity Report Dear Jim: Building Permits. During the month of April, 10 Building Permits were issued. The high light of the month was an application to install a new Double -wide mobile home. As of this date, there has not been a single application for a site built house. In fact, the only new homes this year, has been two Double -wide home. A description of the ten April permits issued are listed as follows. A -1 Single Family homes, new starts: A -1 Double -wide mobile home (1) A -1 Renovation, Expansion & Repair on existing home (4) A -1 Replace non- conforming mobile home with a conforming single wide mobile home (1) C -4.1 Erect a Private Home Garage Structure (2) C -4.1 Erect Storage Structure for Commercial Business(1) C -7 Erect an Above Ground Private Swimming Pool (1) Certificates of Occupancy and Compliance. Certificate of Occupancy (20) Temp / Conditional Certificates of Occupancy (1) Certificate of Compliance (12) Public Inspections, Fire Safety Multiple Residence Facilities (2) Business Facilities (4) Home Day Care Facilities (0) Commercial Day Care (1) Fire Investigations for the Month of April (4) During April (3) Fire Reports were received. One destroyed a home on Hunt Hill Road. A second Hunt Hill response was for a careless trash fire which got out of control, burned a few acres, however, quick and aggressive well coordinated effort by Dryden Fire Station extinguished the rampaging ground fire before it caused any structural or personal injury. The third fire was a kitchen range malfuntion which resulted in a Natural gas leak causing No damage. a • April 195 Activity Report Page Two Since there has been little new construction, our office has used this opportunity to aggressively attack unregistered motor- vehicles, junk and trash that spring time conditions reveal. The Zoning Board and the Planning Board did not meet during the month of April. Very truly yours, ;4'� -a , /&- Henry M. Slater cc: All Dryden Town Board Members Susanne Lloyd, Dryden Town Clerk Mahlon R. Perkins, Dryden Town Attorney i • TB5 -9 -95 Page 6 • ZONING OFFICER Monthly report - given to board members Z.O. Slater - reported on the Ted Marchell drainage study. It is complete and Dave Putnam has reviewed it. The answer is although there is some increased drainage created by the project along Hall Road and Marchell Monument property it is minimal and insignificant to the overall existing drainage patterns and can be handled adequately. Therefore, I recommend you release the project so the site plan review is in compliance now. There is some administrative work left to be done and the landscaping has to be finalized. Z.O. Slater - Signage on North Road (Dedrick Fruit Stand) - would like a resolution from the Town Board to the County Dept. of Public Works requesting they place no parking signs on North Road from the intersection of North Road and Route #13 to Mott Road on both sides to facilitate a problem at Dedrick's fruit stand. People are parking on the road and blocking driveways to other businesses and private homes and blockage to mail boxes for mail delivery. Ward Hungerford will be more than happy to place the signs there, but the county needs a resolution from the town board. John Dedrick has made arrangements to use Little's Basket Shop for extra parking spaces. • RESOLUTION #145 REQUEST FOR SIGNS ON NORTH ROAD Clm C. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Dryden Town Board request Tompkins County Highway Department install no parking signs along the north and south bound shoulders of North Road from the intersection of Route #13 and North Road ending at the Mott Road and North Road intersection. 2nd Clm Baker Roll call vote - all voting Yes Z.O. Slater - unsafe structures - there are 2 structures, one across from the Spring Water Motel and the other one is on Route #13 just past TC3. He has notified both of these owners 45 days ago that as of May 15th if they did not resolve the problem then the town would begin the process to resolve it for them. HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT Yellow Barn Road, Caswell Road, & Hile School Road - on hold Chipping Day - May 20th at Johnson Road site • 9 TB5 -9 -95 Page 7 RESOLUTION #146 AUTHORIZE its adoption HWY SUPT TO SIGN 0 AGREEMENT FOR MAXIGRIND Hwy. for Supt. Gilbert to the rental of a MACHINE to be from $5,100.00 Roll call vote - Clm T. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption RESOLVED, that this Town sign an agreement with Board authorize Superior Disposal Hwy. for Supt. Gilbert to the rental of a Maxigrind machine. Cost 2nd Clm Baker to be from $5,100.00 Roll call vote - all to $5,500.00. voting Yes RESOLUTION #147 EXCAVATOR PAYMENT Clm C. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board upon the recommendation of Hwy. Supt. Gilbert to make a partial payment ($100,000.00 of the $166,000.00) on the excavator. The balance is paid upon the satisfaction of Hwy. Supt. Gilbert. 2nd Clm Baker Roll call vote - all voting Yes RESOLUTION #148 STARR STANTON SURVEY INCREASE Clm T. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board approve the increase of $1,040.00 to T. G. Miller's Engineers for survey work done on Starr Stanton Road. 2nd Clm Baker Roll call vote - all voting Yes RESOLUTION #149 HIRE SUMMER TEMPORARY PART TIME HELP Clm T. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board authorize Hwy. Supt. Gilbert to hire 3 part time summer help people. 2nd Clm C. Hatfield Roll call vote - all voting Yes RESOLUTION #150 AUTHORIZE HWY SUPT TO BID NOVA CHIP Clm C. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board authorize Hwy. Supt. Gilbert to bid for NOVA CHIP. 2nd Clm Roberts Roll call vote - all voting Yes CORRESPONDENCE Dryden Lake Police report M61 TB5 -9 -95 Page 8 0 DISCUSSION Dairy Day participation - June 10th at 10:30AM Bicentennial committee meeting - June 6th at 4:OOPM Stevens - T. G. sewer has been approved. SCWLIC Commission benefit levy - board members have a copy. RESOLUTION #151 APPLICATION FOR NEW YORK SMALL CITIES the year 1995/1996. DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM Clm T. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: WHEREAS, the Town of Dryden, in partnership with Tompkins County Planning Department, generated the necessary application for a New York Small Cities Development Grant Program and WHEREAS, the Town of Dryden with the assistance of the Tompkins County Planning Department has received a $400,000.00 New York Small Cities Development Grant and WHEREAS, this grant would not have been accomplished without the •support of the Tompkins County Board of Representatives and their foresight to fund the Tompkins County Planning Department sufficiently to allow this grant to happen THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Dryden Town Board and the people of the Town of Dryden wish to thank the County legislatures for their insight and support. 2nd Clm Baker Roll call vote - all voting Yes Clm Baker adoption: RESOLVED, Agency in 2nd Clm T. 0 RESOLUTION #152 ACCEPT LOW BID FOR INSURANCE offered the following resolution and asked for its that this Town Board accept the low bid from Bailey the amount of $47,159.78 for the year 1995/1996. Hatfield Roll call vote - all voting Yes TB5 -9 -95 Page 9 7 RESOLUTION #153 SIGN AGREEMENT TO SHARE COST OF SHOULDER WIDENING MACHINE (24 %) is $39,120.00. The increase the budget by all voting Yes Clm Roberts offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption: RESOLVED, that this Town Board authorize Supv. Schug to sign an agreement with Tompkins County, Town of Lansing and Town of Dryden to share in the cost of a shoulder widening machine. Tompkins County has bid out the machine and received a bid of $163,000.00. Town has THEREFORE, $9,120.00 2nd Clm Baker The Town of Dryden's budgeted $30,000.00; this Town Board resolves from unexpended fund balance. Roll call share to vote - (24 %) is $39,120.00. The increase the budget by all voting Yes FINANCIAL REPORT - available to board members JUSTICE REPORT - $13,913.00 for the month of April RESOLUTION #154 APPROVE ABSTRACT #105 Clm T. Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adopt RESOLVED, exception •56431362. 2nd Clm C 40 ion: that this of voucher 35. Hatfield Town Board approve abstract #105 with the #388. Voucher #322 to #417 for a total of Roll call vote - all voting Yes Board recessed at 9:35PM for executive session. No action was taken. Adjourned: 9:35PM 04 � Susanne Lloyd Dryden Town Clerk d S/