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TOWN OF DRYDEN
TOWN BOARD MEETING
NOVEMBER 10, 1998
Supv Schug opened the Town Board meeting at 8:10 p.m. Board members and guests
participated in a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance.
Roll call by Town Clerk Bambi L. Hollenbeck showed the following in attendance: Cl
Ronald Beck, Cl Thomas Hatfield, Cl Charles Hatfield, Cl Deb Grantham, Supervisor James F.
Schug and Attorney Perkins.
Upon motion of
Cl T
Hatfield, seconded
by Cl C Hatfield and unanimously carried, the
minutes of the October
13,
1998 meeting were
approved.
CITIZENS PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR
David Weinstein - Wanted to compliment the Board and the persons responsible for
putting the agenda on the worldwide web. It brings one part of the town business into the
modern age. He requested that the minutes also be put on.
Supv Schug explained that the agenda is put on the Thursday preceding the meeting
and that is what goes on the web, but there are always changes between then and the meeting.
We're glad you appreciate it.
is Marshall Taylor, 61 Turkey Hill Road - Regarding the County's Resources Technical
Committee and on going activity with watershed planning, he wanted to make the board and
audience aware that this coming Saturday at the Cayuga Nature Center there will be a second
annual Neighbors Around Cayuga Lake mini conference. It is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is
sponsored by the Cayuga Nature Center Cayuga. He feels it will be an interesting meeting. In
addition, there is an ongoing effort to produce what is called the Cayuga Lake Watershed
Management Plan. He offered to let anyone who is interested know where to get further
information regarding that management plan. There has been a presentation of this plan to
produce such a plan to the County Water Resources Council and the technical committee on
October 19. Questions were raised regarding roles of various organizations, municipalities,
agencies, etc. will be.
The County Water Resources Technical Committee is helping the Department of Health
put together information for a program called the Source Water Assessment Program. This is a
federally mandated program that essentially looks at current and future sources of drinking
water (in Tompkins County) and assesses what are current or future threats to those sources.
In connection with this, the Technical Committee will gather information about the aquifers in
the County that serve or may serve as public drinking water supplies (defined as serving as few
as five residences). The Technical Committee is asking the Town, Villages, and anyone who
can help, to provide information regarding these aquifers. He asked the Town to provide help
with delineation of the aquifers, delineation of recharge areas, threats to those aquifers in
terms of recharge or quality.
There was a proposal brought to the technical committee at its last meetinzvery briefly
that the technical committee take a look at the biological control of milfoil project, research
project, that has been going on and see if it would be to the County's benefit to essentially
reassign that money to other areas. A very small contribution of county money has gone into
that (in the neighborhood of $7,000) and some of the proposed areas they are looking at are
erosion control demonstration projects and so forth. The biological control of milfoil is of
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particular interest to the Town of Dryden and he would appreciate it if the board members
would give him some feedback on what the Town's interests are in this research or if they agree
that other items like erosion control demonstration projects could take a lead over that effort.
Supv Schug - There are two
things that are happening with
that milfoil
control. It has
been done in Cayuga Lake and is now being done in Dryden Lake.
Upstream from Dryden
Lake is Cornell Farms which have a
great amount of animal waste.
They have
monitoring wells
all over to see if the nitrogen that is
being loaded into that lake is coming from
there and /or
what
they
can do
to control
it.
M Taylor - The part that I am speaking of specifically would not impact that research.
It is only the research that is going into biological controls in the lake. It is only dealing with a
fairly small piece of money that comes from the Great Lakes Program, The Technical
Committee has been asked to look at recommending that that money be reallocated.
Supv Schug - The Town would like to see it stay where it is.
M Taylor - There is some argument that work that has been done would be wasted if we
do not complete a study. Next year will wrap up this phase of it and there is a concern that if
you cut it off now, the effort will be wasted. On the other hand, there are major concerns in
this Town and elsewhere about erosion control and there has been good argument that can be
made for some good demonstration projects, along with the fact that there would be leverage in
dollars.
Supv Schug - Okay, thank you.
Supv Schug inquired if there were any other citizens who would like to speak and there
were none. 40
COUNTY BRIEFING
Supv
Schug
- They are
in
the middle of budget hearings at the County Board so Mike
Lane and the
other
reps called
to
apologize for not being
here.
We did hear from the County regarding the celebration funds. They approved the Ellis
Hollow Fair and the Dryden Dam Project for celebration funds. They rejected the other three
we had and I would like a resolution to approve those two. I will write the others and let them
know that they didn't qualify under the information given us. The three not approved were
Sturgess, the fair at Freeville and the microd track.
RESOLUTION #235 - AWARDS OF CELEBRATION FUNDS
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board authorizes payment to the Ellis Hollow Fair
Committee in the amount of $300.00 and to the Town of Dryden Dr. Crispell Flood Control
Project in the amount of $1,687.65, said sums to be paid from the celebration funds designated
by Tompkins County for that purpose.
2nd Cl C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
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• COUNCIL PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR
Cl Grantham - With respect to the Cayuga Lake Watershed, we've had two meetings of
this intermunicipal organization. The first one wasn't the first meeting, it's called the other
meeting and the second one is the first meeting and that was last night. There are a number of
municipalities attending the meetings, but there are 43 municipalities in the Cayuga Lake
Watershed and there are no where near 43 showing up yet. We have been asked to talk to
other municipalities and get them involved. The whole point of this watershed management
plan is first of all to develop some ways to protect drinking water sources and other natural
resources in the Cayuga Lake Watershed and secondly, if we have a plan in place we are
eligible for state and federal funding that we wouldn't otherwise be eligible for to do that
protection. Most of the money is available through municipalities rather than agencies so
hence the intermunicipal organization. At some point we will end up having to sign an MOU
(Memorandum of Understanding). We are being sent copies of sample MOUs from other
watersheds that have those kinds of arrangements in place already and then Ill pass them on
to Mahlon. I can comment on them at meetings, but not from a whole lot of expertise. Our
next meeting is December 2 and we should have sample MOUs before then and talk about
them at the next meeting and the structure of the intermunicipal organization.
Supv Schug commented that the town will help in any way it can and Cl Grantham said
she did not believe a watershed management plan would call for any additional local laws of
any kind.
M Taylor - The real motivation at the beginning of the Cayuga Lake Watershed Plan is
really a grassroots thing. People from Tompkins, Seneca, Cortland Counties, etc are getting
together and seeing what could be done. The Department of State got involved because the
18. Department of State has the money to allocate to support this kind of thing. The real
opportunity that this intermunicipal organization offers is for towns like the Town of Dryden to
talk to the other municipalities and essentially reach a common consensus of what are the
goals, objectives and limitations that we all face. Additionally, it is an opening somewhat of
funding for real concrete things that the towns want to get done. The Environmental Bond Act
money is for that kind of thing. If the Town of Dryden was to go today with a terrific proposal
for doing something, you would lose points in the review process because there is no Cayuga
Lake Watershed Plan. Cayuga Lake is last on board and will receive a lower priority. We are a
year behind the next closest to us and three years or more behind others.
Cl Grantham - With respect to the personal safety program, we 've had two sessions
with not much attendance. Three people the first night and one person last night. There is
one session left. I don't know what to recommend about it at this point. We'll see what
happens next week.
Cl Grantham thanked Supv Schug for getting Cayuga Press to donate the invitations to
the dam dedication ceremony.
ATTORNEY
Atty Perkins -
The lettuce water agreement is being
signed
now by
the Board members.
You approved this at
the last meeting. The Supervisor has
signed
it and
NYSEG has signed it.
Supv Schug - I noticed today that they are ditching along the open field. Hopefully
that is for water.
D
Putnam - It
is. They found
the existing water
pipe under the
road and
couldn't use
• it. It was
either black
iron or cast iron
and not copper.
It comes up in
the sewer
treatment
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building as copper, but under the road on the south side is either cast iron or black iron. They •
are looking for the sewer pipe now.
Atty Perkins - The SPCA Contract is ready for signature by the town supervisor and you
should consider a resolution authorizing him to sign it on behalf of the town. The SPCA has
signed it.
RESOLUTION #236 - SIGN SPCA CONTRACT
Cl Beck offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby authorizes the supervisor to sign the contract
with the Tompkins County SPCA for dog control services, said contract being for a five year
term and providing for payment increases of three percent per year.
2nd Cl Grantham
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
Atty Perkins - I have distributed to you a copy of an E -mail I got from Bob Penna today
regarding our adult entertainment local law. Bob was commenting on the current
developments in New York City and the approach that some of the adult entertainment
establishments are using by allowing minors to be present as long as they are accompanied by
a parent, trying to get around a definition. We didn't follow that path and I think we're still •
fine.
Cl Grantham - While Marshall is here would you mind explaining the reasoning behind
the distances that we approved in the adult entertainment law. Marshall is the one who
wanted greater distances.
Atty Perkins - I consulted with our consultant and he was of the same opinion that I
was. That is, that if we increase the distances any more we would so decrease the amount of
available land that it would make our regulations meaningless. What that would mean is that
you would have to make the whole zone bigger in order to end up with a reasonable enough
area to meet constitutional muster. The only items that are to be protected within the 500 feet
distances right now are residences and obviously any further residences would be protected
unless something happened to be built first. As more residences are built, or schools or
churches or other establishments, those distances will continue to apply and protect them. I
think its about as far as we can go. If you allow an area that is reasonable in size at the
present time with a 500 foot restriction, I'm not sure we could make it any smaller.
Supv Schug - So you know Marshall since you missed the last meeting, Henry will
notify anyone who applies for a building permit in that area of the existence of the M -AA Zone.
This will protect the people.
Zone?
M Taylor - I am correct that there is zoned residential land directly bordering the M -AA
ZO Slater - Correct.
M Taylor - So someone who has purchased that land for future construction of a home
will be notified. 0
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• Supv Schug -
Will be notified when they
come for a building
permit.
M Taylor - So
current landowners in the
area have not been
notified.
Supv Schug - 991/o of the current landowners is one person - Cornell University, and
Cornell doesn't let anything go.
M Taylor - Thank you.
Atty Perkins - One of the things distributed tonight is a copy of a preliminary survey of
the end of Snyder Hill Court. The survey was prepared after consulting with the highway
department and the owners Carroll and Skipper at the end of Snyder Hill Court. On the survey
you will see a circle at the end of the road. That is what was originally conveyed to the Town.
Unfortunately, when the road was installed it was installed beyond the end of that and back in
1982 Lutton conveyed to the town the nearly retangular piece you'll see at the top right hand
portion of what is now at the end of Snyder Hill Court. The town owns that nearly retangular
piece and in 1982 or 1983 conveyed to Lutton part of the circular portion of the turnaround,
it's kind of formed by a semi- circle and is labelled "This parcel conveyed by Town of Dryden to
Lutton". The proposal now is on the other side to acquire from Carroll and Skipper that
portion which is in the dark line, irregular shaped, just north of the existing arc of the circle.
In exchange the town will convey to them nearly a semi- circle. It is labelled "To be Conveyed to
Carroll and Skipper 1293 square feet" and at the very end of that you will see a very small
irregular piece to be conveyed to Kraft. The end result of all this is to straighten out the road
there and to provide an easier way for town highway equipment, including snow plows, to turn
around at the end. We don't accept roads anymore with circle turnarounds. We now require
T's or L's. This is an attempt to make do with what we can up there. What I'd like you to do is
consider scheduling a public hearing on the conveyance by the town of those two portions
shown on the map, to be held on December 8 at whatever time you select. At that time,
depending on the public hearing, of course, you could approve a conveyance of those parcels
and the appropriate instruments could be prepared so that Skipper and Carroll can convey to
the town and the town can convey back to them and to Kraft.
RESOLUTION #237 - SET PUBLIC HEARING FOR SNYDER
HILL COURT CONVEYANCE
Cl Grantham offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board set a public hearing for December 8, 1998, at 7:30
p.m. to consider the conveyance of portions of property owned by the town at Snyder Hill Court
to Carroll, Skipper and Kraft, and to accept a conveyance from Carroll and Skipper, and the
town attorney is directed to prepare the appropriate documents to effect such transactions.
2nd Cl T Hatfield
Roll Call Vote
TOWN CLERK
Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
B Hollenbeck - Reminded the Board that the Time Warner exhibition of the Road
Runner internet service is tomorrow night at the Tompkins County Public Library. Mary at
Time Warner would like to know how many will be there. Supv Schug, Cl T Hatfield, Cl C
Hatfield and Cl Grantham indicated they would attend.
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The Clerk reminded the Board that she had given them information concerning the fees
paid to election inspectors and custodians. If we are going to change those, we should do it
during or prior to the organizational meeting.
ENGINEERING
Atty Perkins - There are some technical details that need to be worked out with the
contract and the payment and performance bonds for the Manhole # 17 replacement. I don't
see any reason why they won't be straightened out in a couple of days and I would ask the
board to consider passing a resolution authorizing the supervisor to sign those contracts as
soon as those things are satisfactorily worked out.
RESOLUTION #238 - AUTHORIZE SUPERVISOR TO SIGN MANHOLE # 17 CONTRACT
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that the Supervisor is hereby authorized to sign the contract for repairing
Manhole # 17 after it has been approved by the town attorney and the appropriate performance
bond has been secured.
2nd Cl C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
Dave Putnam distributed a report regarding the Yellow Barn Drainage District to the
board for their review. is
D Putnam - Has nothing to report on the Varna Community Center.
ZO Slater - Has received a letter from Janet Morgan of the VCA. She states that they
agreed all along that Bells could put the northeast planter in, which they started and never
filled and that as far as she could see, it was a good idea to share a common driveway. This
should not inhibit Bell from putting his other planter in.
Janet
Morgan
- They put a
planter out on Sunday. It is not, however, where they drew
it on the map
that the
VCA agreed
to.
ZO Slater - I have not been asked to look at it, so I can't comment on it.
Supv Schug - Would you in the near future?
ZO Slater - I11 do it tomorrow.
Supv Schug - The
other
thing
about the VCA was
the
possibility of numbers for the
driveway, but you are not
going
to do
anything with that
this
year?
Janet Morgan
- Yes, we
are going to do
that this year, but we are doing that with a
private contractor, so
we don't
need to involve
you.
D Putnam -
On the
change order
for the town highway garage
roof, when they took the
angle off when they
moved
the sidewalls
they discovered that the trim
angle on at least the
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back half of the building only came over onto the building side about 1/4" so they had to get a
longer angle to put back up. It was $1,012.
RESOLUTION #239 - APPROVE CHANGE ORDER FOR HIGHWAY GARAGE ROOF
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves a change order in connection with
the highway roof repair in the amount of $1,012.00 to cover the cost of longer angles.
2nd C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
D Putnam - Game Farm Road and Cortland Road Water - I have no updates tonight.
Supv Schug - You didn't get a Game Farm price for us?
D
Putnam -
I want to check the
price, I don't like the price. I haven't had a chance to
do that.
III have a
report next month on
Cortland Road Water,
Supv Schug - Are we at a point in the
Yellow Barn
Drainage District where we can
schedule a public hearing,
or vote. I wish we'd
had this a
little bit before the meeting.
• D Putnam - What you have is a draft for you to scrutinize and ask questions of me.
Cl Grantham - I need to read this. Is the process that we read it, maybe make changes
in it, then it goes to public hearing, then to a referendum?
Atty Perkins - It goes to public hearing first then weM have a vote.
Supv Schug - We'll discuss it on December 8,
D Putnam
- The
other
thing we
talked about is the Park park, and I still haven't got the
draft of the letter
out to
you.
Henry is
in the same boat.
Cl Grantham - What about the storm sewer thing at Peregrine Hollow?
ZO Slater - The one that didn't have a cover on it, that had plywood on it for a long
time?
Cl Grantham - And it has a big hole around it. The one that I keep asking you about.
D Putnam - I wrote you a letter and hand delivered it to you and that is a town
decision. They need to make a decision. I explained it all. I don't have it with me tonight.
Cl Grantham - So we need to decide to spend money on that.
D Putnam - Well, why don't you re -read the letter and give me a call.
Cl Grantham - I'll do that.
• Supv Schug - Drop off a copy of the letter to me also.
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ZONING OFFICER •
ZO Slater - Our SEQR workshop is next Thursday night at the Ramada Inn. I have
eleven people committed to attend the workshop from the Town of Dryden, roughly half of the
personnel who would have been eligible. All three boards are represented.
You have our monthly report. You also have a report from the Planning Board. On the
1 Sth of October the Planning Board met and they did the SEQR analysis of the Lucente Part 1
long form SEQR document. They used the Part 2 form to complete the analysis and after
completion, having identified several items that would have a moderate to large impact of the
project they then completed the Part 3 analysis for each of those items identified. Parts 1, 2,
and 3 are in your package from me tonight marked draft" because they have not been
approved as part of the minutes of the Planning Board. At this point, the SEQR portion now
becomes your responsibility as you are the lead agency and the Planning Board would have no
authority to make any decisions other than as asked. The original becomes part of the project
file and these are all copies. I assume you want to study those for a while before you actually
hold a SEQR hearing.
Supv Schug - Well get a notice off and thank the Planning Board for a job well done.
Erica Evans - It wasn't well done.
Supv Schug - But you voted for what you did do?
Erica Evans - The majority did.
Supv Schug - Well, well take a look at it. •
ZO Slater - With respect to the Park Foundation, several of us met last week at Forest
Home Drive and we walked the entire length of the roadway and identified issues that need to
have attention specifically by the Town of Dryden, mostly because of the fact that particular
items of construction such as new abutments, road paths, etc. would be on the Town right of
way. Dave and myself have assignments to complete and at this time neither one of us is
prepared to give you that. I believe that once we have come up with our assignments, the next
step would be to meet with the project sponsors, Trowbridge and Wolfe, and go over what the
Town feels is necessary for this project to go off as they would like to see it done. Also cutting
of trees and cleaning up the town easement in different areas where heavy brush and
unhealthy trees would also be part of those issues. Next month we should have some
recommendations.
Supv Schug - They only want us to do a portion of it but Dave is going to recommend
that we do the whole thing. I think the Highway Department agrees. Fred Noteboom, Ithaca
Highway Superintendent, has said that he would also take a look at it. Their section is really
open, although they haven't paved it.
ZO Slater - With respect to the Bell buffer, I haven't been called to look at it and I have
not been by there. III go tomorrow. I did write to Mr. Bell advising him that the Board last
month granted him an additional 30 days and he needed to be done by today. I did talk to him
about it and he said that he would. I also wrote to the VCA as directed. You have a copy of
their response.
Janet Morgan - There are two things. The planter that is sitting there now is not in the
approved position. Also, when I came to this meeting tonight, there were 14 cars parked on the is
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property. There are seven spaces on the approved plan. Seven or eight of those cars were
parked in the right of way. That is soon going to be a problem.
Supv Schug - If they are going to share the driveway, that could present a problem.
ZO Slater - We did talk about parking at our previous meeting. Part of Mr. Bell's
response was the reason the cars were parked back was to accommodate the VCA's
construction project so that the delivery trucks could get in or out. He said he was asked to do
that as a matter of fact.
Erica Evans - I brought that up at the last board meeting, that there were always too
many cars parked down there.
Supv Schug - Based on what was approved, and if there is, we need to do something
about it.
Supv Schug asked ZO Slater to check what was going on at the Ottenschot property on
Freese Road. One of Ottenschot's employees told D Putnam that he was working there
installing a culvert.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
R Riker - The town barn roof is 95% done. We are waiting on some roof jacks. We got
the repeater for the radio upgrade but the accessories haven't arrived yet. As soon as they do,
well be able to install it.
HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT
• Supv Schug - We had a request from a gentlemen on George Road near Route 13 to
remove trees in front of his house. Randy and I looked at them. There are three huge
cottonwoods and a couple of other trees in our right of way. Randy got a quote from Cascadilla
Tree Service and is going to talk to the City about some in -kind service swap. Cascadilla's fee
is $2,500. I'd like a motion not to exceed $2,500, then if we get a cheaper price well go with
that. That price covers taking them down and grinding the stumps out.
RESOLUTION #240 - REMOVE TREES ON GEORGE ROAD
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board approve a sum not to exceed $2,500 for removal of
three cottonwood trees on George Road.
2nd Cl C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
R Riker - Inquired whether any action needed to be taken with respect to Yellow Barn
Road and it no longer is a seasonal use road. Atty Perkins informed him that if it was not
listed on the roads designated as seasonal use road this year, and it wasn't, then we needed to
do nothing. The road will be plowed end to end this year.
• R Riker -
He would
like to bid out
four trucks this year. He would like to start
the
process because
if they are
to be ordered
it needs to be done right after the first of the
year
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because it takes almost a year to get them. Information was distributed to board members
regarding present trucks and which ones he would like to replace, including the maintenance
records for each truck. There are four that are becoming quite costly. There are funds 0
budgeted for this expense.
The Highway Committee will meet with Randy to discuss this and make a
recommendation at the next board meeting.
DISCUSSION / RESOLUTIONS
Supv Schug - The celebration funds we have talked about. I'l1 get the letters out on
that and take care of sending some information to the County and it is up to them to approve
some time next month.
RESOLUTION #241 - APPOINT REPRESENTATIVE TO RECREATION PARTNERSHIP
BOARD
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby appoints Bambi L. Hollenbeck as its
representative to the Recreation Partnership Board.
2nd Cl C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
Supv Schug - In connection with the Dryden Youth Sports Program, and I need to set
up an appointment with Mahlon to come and discuss this. What has happened is they are
charging for youth recreation programs. Sertoma runs the soccer program and charges a buck
or two for a shirt or whatever. Some of the other programs like Kiwanis do also and the kids
get a shirt and hat. Some time ago we had a situation where a lady was putting on aerobics for
years and years and the money was collected by the Town and turned over to her for doing the
material and that way she was able to use the school at no charge. What happened was three
or four other people decided that. was a good deal, and wanted to use the school at no charge
but charge people. As a result, and well look it up so you have the history on it, there was a
vote and this board determined that this or any program put on for the town should not be
charged for. When they used to charge a buck for a pizza party, that was fine, but now they
are asking kids to pay $12 for basketball, $12 for wrestling, extra money for travel teams. The
problem is that money is solicited from the parents under the Town of Dryden Youth Program,
but the checks are made out to Dryden Youth Sports Program. Somebody may have opened an
account to that effect at the bank and none of that money comes to the Town. Part of our
recreation money goes to the youth footbQ, and Mahlon is going to take a look, but I don't
think its legal for us to intermix funds like that. We don't know what they are doing with the
money. They probably are not stealing it, they are probably doing it all for the kids' benefit, but
if you have no control, you can't prove it.
Cl Grantham - So which part may be illegal, that they have this other account or that
they are charging for it, or both?
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Supv Schug - Well they shouldn't be charging anything and then collecting state and
• federal money.
Atty Perkins - I don't know what the conditions are for the grant, or attached to the
grant.
Supv Schug - If the money was collected, and came through the town, as it used to with
the aerobics class, we could track it. There is no accounting of what happens to this money.
How many kids are on a basketball team, ten?
R Riker - About 6 this year. They are having a little problem over here between the
town and a couple of individuals who have started their own team. There were tryouts for this
team, by invitation only. I think that stems from the way they felt the program was being run,
football, basketball and everything. It wasn't to their liking. The one individual happens to be
the physical education teacher and she's taken up a number of kids to join her.
did.
Atty Perkins - Who sponsors them?
R Riker - I think right now they sponsor themselves pretty much like the soccer club
Supv Schug - This group is not under the town.
Atty Perkins - I understand that, but I want to know who...
Supv Schug - There is another program?
Atty Perkins - The school lets them use the facility?
R Riker - She's using it as a travel team. She's going to travel to Binghamton and stuff.
Its not just at the school here, an in -house team.
Supv Schug - She doesn't like the people that are collecting this money, so she's doing
something else and collecting other money?
Atty Perkins - Who's the she?
R Riker - Michelle Minnis.
Atty Perkins - She took it upon herself to establish a private recreational....
R Riker - Pretty much like the soccer club.
Cl Beck - They have to use the school facilities and transportation and stuff.
B Hollenbeck - Well, the parents support it and do the transportation.
R Riker - They need to get together and get along.
Supv Schug - So there are two separate travel teams?
R Riker - Now there is, yes. There used to be one. Now Michell Minns' kids are coming
up through at that age and she decided that she didn't want to go through this with them
. running the program so she took it upon herself to initiate this new team.
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Supv Schug - That's kind of sad because I think the ones that are going to suffer are
the kids. 0
R Riker feels that if things continue as they are that by the time present kindergartners
are ready to play there will be no program available to them. It's important that something be
done.
Supv Schug feels that we should speak to the school about the independent group and
make sure they are paying for the use of the school. With respect to the other group, if they
are going to collect money, we should run it through the Town. Supv Schug will get a meeting
together with the Stelicks about what is going on, because he feels that they should not be
collecting money in the name of the Town by using the town recreation program. We give
them money (matching money that we get from the County) for balls, etc. We don't know how
much money they are collecting or what they are doing with it. We really don't want to keep
books on them, but we don't understand why they are charging.
B Hollenbeck - They
did have to pay
referees this year
for football. Dryden and the
other communities involved
sold T- shirts to
help raise money
to cover that.
Cl T Hatfield - Feels that funds collected in the name of the Town should go through
Town coffers.
Supv Schug - It could be considered an impropriety if it is not. Mom and Dad are going
to turn around and say "I paid in all this money, and my kid is not getting to play". So well
talk to them and well discuss it again in December. If anybody has any other information,
please bring it forward.
Cl Grantham -
questioned a voucher and
was informed that it was
Local Government
Leaders Round Table.
We belong to it and we go
every couple of months.
It is Cornell and the
Towns that surround
Cornell and each Town and Cornell University takes
a turn paying for it.
Hiring of full and part time paramedics was discussed.
RESOLUTION #242 - HIRE FULL TIME PARAMEDIC
Cl Beck offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby appoints Kathy Perkins to serve as full time
paramedic clerk, effective November 15, 1998, at an hourly rate of $10.00 per hour.
2nd Cl Grantham
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
RESOLUTION #243 - HIRE PART TIME PARAMEDICS
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby appoints Thomas Tracy and Daniel Karn as
part time paramedic clerks at an hourly rate of $9.65 per hour.
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
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Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
Supv Schug - Under Federal Law any CDL operator must submit to drug and alcohol
testing. Our guys are in a pool with everybody in the County that belongs. That results in a
lower rate in the cost of this. Names are pulled at random and tested. We get notified on
Wednesday afternoon of who the people are, we notify them and they are tested Thursday
morning. Some guys have never been called, and some have been tested three times or more.
If we were not a part of the consortium it would cost us probably three times as much.
RESOLUTION # 244 - COUNTY DRUG & ALCOHOL CONSORTIUM
Cl C Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that the Town of Dryden continue as part of the County Drug and Alcohol
Consortium for purposes of testing employees for drug and alcohol abuse.
2nd Cl T Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
Supv Schug explained that the board has a list of delinquent water and sewer bills and
a list of delinquent engineering fees. We need resolutions to add these to the appropriate real
property tax bills for 1999.
RESOLUTION #245 - ADD DELINQUENT WATER AND SEWER BILLS TO
1999 REAL PROPERTY TAX BILLS
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that the following delinquent water and /or sewer bills be added to the
1999 real property tax bills if not paid by November 16, 1998, and that the budget officer shall
so notify the Tompkins County Division of Assessment:
Name Acct# Parcel # Amount
Richards
L3422
56 -5 -7
$ 45.54
Reed
K4353
55 -1 -15.2
682.38
Kimball
L3446
53 -1 -7
560.72
Lucente
L3451
43 -1 -19.3
70.87
Castrenze
L3456
43 -1 -19.20
98.54
Lucente
L3458
43 -1 -19.11
116.07
Koehler
L3459
43 -1 -19.6
127.65
Lucente
L3464
43 -1 -19.19
119.10
Tyler
L3485
43 -1 -8
280.77
Perkins
L3492
56 -3 -9
66.20
Gambrell
L4027
69 -2 -11
212.94
Nemeck
K5245
54 -2 -9
376.82
Varn
L5341
69 -2 -16.4
209.09
• Vanderbilt
L5547
55 -1 -15.1
121.89
Peregrine Partners
L5553
69 -2 -23.43
176.10
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Rancich 100598 37- 1- 10.111 5,070.00
Sopp 100604 38 -1 -32 217.13
Conklin 100606 37 -1 -10.2 186.88
2nd Cl C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
RESOLUTION #245 - ADD DELINQUENT ENGINEERING FEES TO
1999 REAL PROPERTY TAX BILLS
Cl Beck offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that the following delinquent engineering fees be added to the 1999 real
property tax bills if not paid by November 16, 1998, and that the budget officer shall so notify
the Tompkins County Division of Assessment:
Ottenschot
Parcel
#53 -1
-3.4
Chen (Barter Bob)
Parcel
#56 -3
-16.1
2nd Cl T Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
$338.50
27.50
Supv Schug explained that in executive session there was discussion concerning the
PERB decision and he would like a vote on that.
RESOLUTION #247 - APPEAL PERB
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board will appeal the recent PERB decision and the special
town attorney, Twining, Nemia & Steflik, Esqs. is authorized to take whatever steps are
necessary to effect such an appeal.
2nd Cl C Hatfield
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham No
Supv Schug would like to send an informational letter to the Highway Department and
Public Works employees concerning the Town's negotiations with the union. 0
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0 RESOLUTION #248 - SEND INFORMATIONAL LETTER TO EMPLOYEES
REGARDING UNION NEGOTIATIONS
Cl T Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that Town Supervisor is hereby authorized to prepare a letter to employees
of the Highway Department and Public Works Department informing them of the Town's
negotiations with the Union, said letter to be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested.
2nd Cl Beck
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
RESOLUTION #249 - APPROVE ABSTRACT # 111
Cl C Hatfield offered the following resolution and asked for its adoption:
RESOLVED, that this Town Board hereby approves Abstract # 111, Vouchers #984
through #1126, as audited, totalling $293,396.34.
2nd Cl Grantham
Roll Call Vote Cl Beck Yes
Cl T Hatfield Yes
Cl C Hatfield Yes
Cl Grantham Yes
Supv Schug asked if there was any further business to come before the Board and
noted that members of the Etna Fire Department were present. They explained that they were
here to answer any questions concerning the fire department if necessary. Supv Schug told
them that he would like to get together with the accountant, Atty Perkins, and the fire
department board and go over what their plans are. The Fire Department is meeting tomorrow
night and there is another meeting on the 17th. Atty Perkins explained that they are still in the
process of selecting an accountant. The Fire Department will let the Town know when they are
ready for a meeting.
Doris Lobdell thanked the Board for helping them to get things settled and Atty Perkins
for becoming their lawyer again.
Cl T Hatfield commented that there has been a lot of information being circulated in the
community and the Fire Department should be aware of that and keep the process open and
get the books audited as quickly as they can and get these issues behind them. The main
concern should be the health, safety and welfare of the community. Faith needs to be restored,
it seems to have been shaken.
The Fire Department is amending their By -laws to make sure that some of the things
that have happened in the past will not happen in the future.
Supv Schug - I'm proud of you and the job you did and staying together in the face of a
lot of adversity. I know there were people who were down on your company pretty bad, but
everybody that understood the situation then changed their tune and was willing to, and did,
work and help to support the Etna Fire Company. I look to smooth sailing down the road.
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Remember, you guys and gals could end up with a lot of fires other than just those in your first
call response area. We need the people and equipment no matter where the fire is. I have
asked the chiefs to get together and talk with Jack about some standard protocol to be agreed
on by all the chiefs. Thank you for coming.
Cl Grantham
- Mahlon,
could you write up something
about conflict of interests for the
staff and the board?
We've had
a couple of conflict
of interest
issues.
Atty Perkins - We have a Town Code of Ethics. Maybe we need to get that out and
distribute it to everyone.
Cl Grantham - That would be useful to see.
Supv Schug - That needs to be resurrected. If there are any questions, we need some
guidelines.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:45 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Bambi L. Hollenbeck
Town Clerk
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