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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6-20-2000 TOWN OF GROTON MINUTES OF TOWN BOARD MEETING – JUNE 20, 2000, AT 7:30 PM Those present: Glenn E. Morey, Supervisor Ellard E. Sovocool, Councilman Donald F. Scheffler, Councilman Sheldon C. Clark, Councilman Duane T. Randall II, Councilman Francis Casullo, Town Attorney Also present: Colleen D. Pierson, Richard Case, Liz Brennan, Margaret Palmer MOVED by Councilman Randall, seconded by Councilman Sovocool, to approve the minutes of the meeting as presented. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. General Fund Claim Numbers 144 – 181 of the in the amount of $8,918.06 were presented for audit. MOVED by Councilman Scheffler, seconded by Councilman Clark, to approve the General Bills for payment. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Highway Fund Claim Numbers 73 - 91 of the in the amount of $5,905.09 were presented for audit. MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to approve the Highway Bills for payment. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Special Grant (HUD) Fund Claim Numbers 184 - 185 of the in the amount of $2,656.63 were presented for audit. MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Randall, to approve the HUD bills for payment. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Monthly Reports: Liz Brennan, Bookkeeper – You’ve got the reports in front of you and a listing of the st expenditures, and I have a listing of all the revenues to date, as of the end of May 31. Other than that, there’s no transfers or anything. Do you have any questions? Town Board Meeting Page 2 June 20, 2000 No Board Members had questions. Richard C. Case, Jr., Highway Superintendent – At the present time the Highway Department continues to work under Spring-like conditions. Washed out shoulders, ditches, gravel roadways have been addressed almost on a daily basis. Roadway mowing has started and it’s our goal to th cover every road within the Town by July 4. The bridge project on Old Stage Road was started th on May 30. The cooperation and effort made by our employees and the Tompkins County employees have made this project move forward even with the adverse weather conditions we’ve th experienced. It’s my hopes to have this section of roadway opened ahead of our July 24 opening date. Anybody had a chance, I’m sure, Sheldon, you’ve had a chance to see it. Any questions you are getting from constituents or anything I can help you answer on that? Councilman Clark – What are you going to do with the road? Richard Case – We’ve cut the shoulders and cleaned underneath the guardrails. We started a true and leveling course today. As a matter of fact, since I’ve written this, the paving portion of the bridge is completed. Russ DeMond needs to get on the west side of that bridge to do some chopping, so I’m going to turn that portion over to him, probably tomorrow night. So that part is done, but we are going to true and level the rest of the road from the intersection of Groton City to Champlin Road, and if time allows, we may go back through and lay another final coat on it. I am trying to work within the County’s timeframe with their paver and that hasn’t been, we had a window today, that’s why we were hustling to get the paving down when we did. Other than that, there will still be guardrail that will have to go up and we plan on ……………. New York State DOT has notified me that we have $53,513.07 which has been approved for capitol highway projects within the Town of Groton ……..( not using microphone). th On June 5 the position of laborer that was approved last month at the Board Meeting, was filled by Mark Kirchgraber. That’s worked out real well. We got into that project with the bridge and he’s worked out real well thus far. I appreciate having an extra set of hands right now. I have received applications for the Summer Youth Program and we will be making selections soon. Other than that, for the record, tomorrow is the first day of summer and I hope it brings a little sunshine so we can move along. Any questions on any of those projects? Supervisor Morey – I just want to point out that the bridge is one month early. These guys have really been hustling. And the Highway Funds are the CHIPS funds. Also, tell me a little bit about our gas budget, is that killing us? Richard Case – Well right now a lot of what we’ve been doing is labor work. We haven’t started moving a lot of the aggregate and stuff that we use for our paving program. Prices have not gone down. Bob and I monitor them and we still call for price checks when we order, and I haven’t ordered in a long time. We’ve just been holding out as long as we can. Other than that, I don’t know what to tell you. When it comes to November, we’ll have a little better idea where Town Board Meeting Page 3 June 20, 2000 we stand on that. If we come in under budget with this bridge, and what we encumbered to put in, I think we’re going to be in good shape. Mark D. Gunn, Code Enforcement Officer - Building permits for June, I was real busy this year compared to last year. I had 17 permits total for this year and I only had 6 last year. I had no houses last year and one mobile home. This year I had two new houses and four mobile homes. Right now, excuse me that was for May. For June, this month, I have so many permits in: pools, houses, mobile homes, doublewides, it’s swamped. The LSI’s are current for May. I am still battling with Ed McKane with the whole situation up on Smith Road. It is now back in the Court’s hands. I’ve written a letter to the Court saying that I did my last inspection and it was that no, he was not done and yes, he is putting up a fence to hide his current problems instead of getting them out of there. So, I don’t know where that stands. I’ll be finding out from the Court, hopefully, this week or next week. I’ve also been working with Bernie Douka, which used to be the Dick Clark property, up on Pleasant Valley Road. He had numerous, probably between 50 and 100 vehicles up there on his property, and he’s been getting them out by the droves. He asked for a 90-day extension and I gave it to him because he is doing such a good job getting them out of there. I’m trying to keep that out of Court and maybe we can have it taken care of by the end of summer without going to Court over it. I did write a letter to Sherry O’Brien on Sharpsteen Road. I’ve been getting a lot of complaints in the office about the upkeep of his property. And I did write him a letter and asked him to straighten up his little car lot down by the road, and I have yet to go over and see how he’s doing. Sherry is a pretty good guy and I think he’ll work with me. Other, than that, business as usual. Supervisor Morey – When I stopped to talk to you this afternoon, did I talk to you about George Totman? Mark Gunn – No. Supervisor Morey – Okay. He resigned from the Planning Board. He’s got too many irons in the fire and he’s decided to cut back on everything. So, we’re going to discuss that later. Mark Gunn – Oh, okay. Councilman Randall – Where are we with the swimming pool issue? We’re getting into that season again. Is there something we could put in the Shopper that states the State regulations? I still get questions all the time. Mark Gunn – Yeah, I’ve really contemplated running an ad in the Shopper with a basic message to the public that inexpensive pools, under 42 inches in height require a fence. Town Board Meeting Page 4 June 20, 2000 Supervisor Morey – Under 42 inches? Mark Gunn – Under 42 inches in height. If they’re over 2 foot they need a fence. What the problem is that most of them are coming up to about 36 inches high and I shutter when I go through Wal-Mart and see people with them in their carts. But there is nothing I can do. My hands are tied. I wrote letters to Marty Luster and he pushed it up further into somebody else’s hands. I’m not sure how the chain of command works there, but basically it’s not a big issue for them. They would see what they could do, but it’s not a top priority. Everything that I’ve had going in this year have been full sized pools or in ground. I did notice on the way to work this morning that there was one person who had snuck one in over the weekend that I’ll have to stop and go round and round with them about it. But anyways, that’s the same thing I was thinking, to run an ad in the Shopper. I didn’t know how well it would do, but it’s a start. Councilman Randall – I think we have an obligation to do that. A lot of people don’t know. I found out the hard way because I bought one of those a year ago. I went to get sand and the guy who was going to bring it told me about it. Otherwise I wouldn’t have known. Luckily, I hadn’t taken it out of the box and I took it back. But I saw a lot of them that same weekend that people bought and there’s of them that still don’t have fences around them right near me. Mark Gunn – Basically, a building permit, right now, runs for a year. When I went up to the people, like last summer, I’d say, well the pool is up, they’re upset, they’ve got more money invested in a fence, if they put one up than they would in the entire pool and water. So, basically, I’d give them a year to comply, and if by the end of the building permit, they don’t have it done, then it’s time for a citation. Most of the people have been pretty good about it. I’ve got one that’s coming up that I think is going to give me a hard time. Supervisor Morey – Okay, if we could put something in the Shopper that says that the Building Codes state that anything less that 42 inches, or whatever, needs a fence, to please call you for information. Something nice, and just a reminder. Mark Gunn – Okay. That might work. I did call a couple of stores last year, Wal-Mart and Kmart, and talked with the managers. They in turn gave me to their district managers. They were helpful. They said they’d put signs up in the store. Although we don’t have a Wal-Mart here in the Town of Groton, there’s nobody going to police the signs in the store that are made out of construction paper. You know it’s going to end up on the floor and swept up by the janitor the first day they put it up. So, I didn’t really push that subject, but they were willing to help. Supervisor Morey – Well you can only take some actions to educate the public. By taking it into the stores, they have a four county sales area and it might just confuse the issues. Mark Gunn – That’s why I didn’t pursue that too much. But the Assembly was actually going to talk about having something put on the package. They were going to keep me abreast of the situation, but I haven’t heard anything else. Councilman Clark – The Coit property? Mark Gunn – Nothing yet. Town Board Meeting Page 5 June 20, 2000 Attorney Casullo – We’re still on it. We’re working on it. I think, to be honest with you, Sheldon, I think we are going to take a little different tactic on these things. We’re going to go full speed ahead with the Court on some of these. The Coit property is going to be a little bit more cumbersome, but I just wanted to get our ducks in order, so to speak, with the Code Enforcement thing and start moving. Supervisor Morey – And the property on 222? Attorney Casullo – Same thing. That’s what I just told Mark. Councilman Clark – And what will that be? Attorney Casullo – Well, we’re not going to deal with the property on 222. I want them cited. I want a court date. I’ll be here. To me, letter writing does nothing. It does absolutely nothing. Mr. McKane, I’m going to write Judge Heffron asking that we get him back into court. I’ll be here. There’s got to be some movement. Letter writing or telling him to do this just doesn’t do it. I’ll be involved. I’ll be here at court. The letter writing or telling them to do this or do that just doesn’t cut it. Supervisor Morey – Anything else for Mark? Thanks Mark. Colleen D. Pierson, Town Clerk/Tax Collector – Presented her monthly Town Clerk’s report and final Tax Collector’s Report for the Board’s review. I have a couple of things I just wanted to mention to you. Time Warner Cable, for the record, we receive our 1999 franchise fee which is $916.61. I turned that over to Glenn. Of course, our franchise has been expired since 1994 and they keep renewing it under a temporary basis. They th renewed that until December 5. They are pleading for a person from Groton to represent Groton. Supervisor Morey – Dennis Butts is. Clerk Pierson – But has he been there? Supervisor Morey – Yeah, he said he had a meeting next week. Clerk Pierson – He’s going to report to us? Supervisor Morey – He can. But I don’t think we’ve had a Commission meeting in a long time, maybe a couple of months. Clerk Pierson – That could be true. The other thing was, we received a thank you from Chuck and Nancy Peacock, from the Elm Tree. “Thank you so much for the beautiful plant and all of your support with our venture. You better stop in to see us. Thanks again, Chuck and Nancy Peacock.” Supervisor Morey – April and Colleen picked out a beautiful plant. I hope everybody saw it. Town Board Meeting Page 6 June 20, 2000 Councilman Scheffler – Thanks for doing that. Clerk Pierson – Well, I just thought we should do something. And she loved it. The other thing is the Town Hall inspection. George Senter did the inspection and found one light out in front of the Justice Court Office. I have ordered that out of Excite Battery in Syracuse. That’s where we got them before. Supervisor Morey – These are the emergency lights? Margaret Palmer – Yeah, the lights went out a week ago Thursday night and it was dark in here. The light didn’t work. Arland Heffron and Arthur Dawson, Town Justices – Monthly reports were submitted for the Board’s review. Supervisor Morey – Peggy do you want to talk for the Town Court? Nothing? Arland was going to come tonight but he couldn’t make it. So, we’ll skip to Sheldon. Councilman Clark – I have a little proposal I would like to bring before the Board. I guess you all know that there are forty acres of timber up back of the gravel pit. I’d like to propose that a DEC Forester, Bob Demeree, he’s also a consulting forester, retired, cruise the property, establish the boundary lines, and give us an estimate of how much, if any, is in there for a possible sale. It’s been quite some number of years and I’m quite deep into forestry on my own property and there comes a time when a property like that needs to be taken care of either by being culled or harvested. I think there’s some pretty good potential there. This appraisal would not cost us anything except if we did have a sale, he would like a chance at being the broker for it at a certain percentage, which is usually a set fee in the marketplace. That would include doing marking, taking bids on the product and following the scaling and receiving the check and everything. Of course, that’s a little premature until we do get the appraisal back, if we do. I would propose that. Is there any questions? Supervisor Morey – Yeah, Rick, what do you think? Richard Case – Where’s the money going to go? Supervisor Morey – General Fund. Councilman Clark – If there was a sale, I would also like to propose if there was some, I could see quite a potential there, but I hate to stick any figures out off of the cuff because experience tells me that you could get in trouble. But I’ve been watching the equipment for some time now and the excavator is in terrible shape and there is so much need for it. And I would like this as a project to start on going towards doing something about that if it came to that. So, I don’t know, that would be my second proposal. My first proposal would be to have this search done, and until that is done, it’s premature to… Town Board Meeting Page 7 June 20, 2000 Richard Case – I fully support what Sheldon’s saying, but to do this study, if and when we do get to that point because there is a mining permit involved with these forest acres. We’ve got to make real sure that we have clearance from those people. The Town was in litigation a few years ago, and we are watched very closely. As far as doing the study, there isn’t any problem, but it’s just something that has to be looked forward to if something like this goes through. Councilman Sovocool – Well, logging that off shouldn’t have anything to do with the mining, had it? Richard Case – Shouldn’t be, but they’ve written some, I can’t remember the engineer who drew up our plans for that, but they’ve written some operation conditions and we’d certainly have to go and talk to Joe Moskiewicz, the State mining permit person before we ever got to the harvesting point. Councilman Clark – My theory would be that it would be a sylva-culture practice. It’s something that’s needed to maintain the forest properly. I’m not talking about going in there; I don’t want any idea of going in there and cutting that woodlot and destroying it. I’m just saying 21 inches, which is this big, nothing below that. So another 15 years, this same thing can be done again. That would be my proposal, to go to this guy. That would be the difference in taking everything off of there and opening that property all up for erosion or.. And that’s why this forester, if it ever got to that, even the logging roads would be designed properly. I mean, they wouldn’t just drag them down off, which would look terrible for the Town to see. Richard Case – I believe this has been harvested, but it was quite a few years ago. It does need to be looked at. Supervisor Morey – Sheldon, this gentleman is going to survey this for free. Does he just want the opportunity to bid for the brokerage or does he demand that the brokerage be part of the deal? Councilman Clark – Just the opportunity. Attorney Casullo – I think that’s the key. If he just wants the opportunity to be able to get the brokerage fee, that’s fine. I think it’s a good idea, Sheldon, but I think you can’t guarantee him that he’s going to be the broker. You could say that he would be given every opportunity to, but you can’t guarantee it. Councilman Clark – He would know that. He does it all…… Councilman Sovocool – It’s a good idea. Councilman Scheffler – I think it’s a good idea as far as doing the study and doing the marking. I’m not sure where the money goes, whether we earmark it for… it’s kind of premature to earmark it right now. You may buy a used loader, or who knows what’s going to happen. I think it’s a good idea to get started on it. Councilman Randall – It’s an excellent idea. Town Board Meeting Page 8 June 20, 2000 RESOLUTION #42 - RETAIN SERVICES OF ROBERT DEMEREE - FORESTRY CONSULTANT MOVED by Councilman Clark, seconded by Councilman Scheffler. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board desires to retain services of Robert Demeree, professional forestry consultant, at no charge, to survey the Town’s woodlot, mark the boundaries and cruise the timber for possible harvest. Supervisor Morey – Tyke, a little bit about EMC? Councilman Randall – Yes, we had a meeting last week. I just wanted to bring everybody up to date with what they are working on. The big issue right now is the Unique Natural Areas. They are getting ready to do municipal presentations last week. I think they started with Dryden last week. They have been in contact with Glenn, I think Bruce Johnson, too, maybe set up a joint presentation to the Zoning, Planning and Town Boards. The way it looks right now, I will probably be one of the ones doing the presentation. They want municipal reps to do that. Tony “Z” will probably be helping me on that. Another issue they brought up to think about is this new thing with the towers. Some information came forward that the State already has something in the works, a plan, that addresses this tower issue that’s statewide. They have no interest in renting space on our tower, so it could be a duplication of services when we get done with this thing. They’re proposing 700 MHz instead of 800. There was quite a few articles from Pennsylvania on 800 MHz systems that are in place now that were put in place for the same reasons that Tompkins County wants to do it, that aren’t doing what they are supposed to do. A lot of it is to do with our terrain, and Pennsylvania is very similar. We thought maybe we ought to be thinking about number one, if the State does have a plan in place, when it may be implementing it and if maybe we are jumping the gun a little bit; number two, whether by them going ahead, if they do have a plan in putting towers in, are we going to duplicate this. Are we going to end up with twice as many towers if the State won’t lease off the towers that we put in? Just things that I wasn’t aware of before that I think we all should be thinking about. What my understanding from the testimony that was brought forth is that a lot of the dense, Pyramid Mall was used as an example of some place they couldn’t reach. Pennsylvania had a similar thing. They still couldn’t reach those kinds of places, any dense buildings like that. I am not sure that that money is well spent. I guess that is about it, as far as the EMC is doing. Supervisor Morey – Any questions? Don Scheffler would like to talk about Farm City Day. th Councilman Scheffler – Farm City Day is August 12 at the Carey Farms on Lick Street, and I think it would be a missed opportunity if we didn’t promote it as a Town. It’s a great opportunity to promote agriculture in our area. If anybody has any ideas or if there anything we can do to help out, we should be doing it. Maybe ads in the paper or a notice to the GBA so that the business are prepared for a lot of people that day. Maybe let the neighbors know. Town Board Meeting Page 9 June 20, 2000 Stonehedges, it’s going to affect their traffic, I’m sure. If there is anything we could do, like with the highways….. Councilman Clark – Is there anything we could do for traffic control or…. Councilman Scheffler – Well, I talked to Dan a month or two ago and he said maybe cones or barricades or something. I talked to Rick and he said anything he can do. I don’t know how far we can go with it or if we should check with the County or Dan. But I think we should actively promote this as best we can. Supervisor Morey – I agree. I think a couple advertisements in the Shopper a couple weeks before hand. Dan has a big, huge committee that’s working on parking and traffic control and land use and land availability, and they’re really on top of this. If you’ve ever been to a Farm City Days, they really have their act together. It’s surprising the amount of volunteers that they do have. Clerk Pierson – I will be attending the GBA meeting tomorrow, and I can let them know. Supervisor Morey – You’re sitting on the Board, aren’t you? We have a Board Member of the GBA right here. Councilman Scheffler – It’s a great opportunity to promote Groton and I think we should do the best we can at it. Richard Case – We were doing some grader work on Stevens Road, and I had an opportunity to talk to Dan about it. He said it’s the Cornell Extension Office and he said if there was any questions that we talk about……….he said to talk to them. Apparently they are right on top of that. Supervisor Morey – I talked to him last week and the committee was coming up there to his place to go over the layout. Mark Gunn – I wanted to mention, I wasn’t sure if the Board was aware that we have a new business that is going to be opening up. They are going through the site plan review process right now. The old Bancroft farm up on Route 222 is going to become a fairly large animal clinic, animal hospital. They have the building permits approved for a 40 by 40 animal hospital up there. They are putting on a big shing-dig up there next month, and I can get the dates later, but they are going to have the radio station, a picnic, Baker Miller will be there, and Best Way Lumber. They are going to be doing all kinds of stuff up there and trying to promote the business and that sort of thing. So, that’s another business coming into town. Supervisor Morey – What is her name? Mark Gunn – Scott Baxendell is the owner of the land. Kathy Baxendell. They were trying last year to get some help from the Town. I’m not sure if they ended up doing that or not. But they have bought the property, had the closing yesterday and are breaking ground this weekend. Town Board Meeting Page 10 June 20, 2000 Supervisor Morey - Number six, resolution to create a Joint Recreation Committee. It’s not a commission, it’s a committee. We don’t have to go through the law to create just a joint committee for the Village and Town. I talked to Fran about this. Attorney Casullo – What you are doing, originally we were going to go through Article 13 of General Municipal Law. By creating this position, I guess the way the Village wants to do this is to go through Article 5g of General Municipal Law. I guess the Village never had a recreation commission, per say, and they don’t want to form one and do this other thing. I guess, the Town, already has it’s own Youth Commission. So, what I think what we want to do now, and I’ll talk to Peter Grossman about it, is form this joint committee to start working out what we want to do and then we can get the ball going. I think you need a resolution to do that. I don’t know how many members you need to have but it should be an equal amount between the Town and Village. Supervisor Morey – It’s going to be one Village Board Member, one Town Board Member, one Town at large, on Village at large, and a representative from the school. RESOLUTION #43 - FORM JOINT RECREATION COMMITTEE WITH VILLAGE MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town of Groton does hereby approve the formation of a Joint Recreation Committee between the Town of Groton and the Village of Groton, to be made up of one Village Board member, one Town Board member, one Town at large member, one Village at large member, and one representative from the school. RESOLUTION #44 - APPOINT DON SCHEFFLER AS TOWN REPRESENTATIVE TO JOINT RECREATION COMMITTEE MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby appoint Donald F. Scheffler as representative for the Town of Groton to the Joint Recreation Committee with the Village. Town Board Meeting Page 11 June 20, 2000 RESOLUTION #45 – PEG PALMER TO ATTEND JUDICIAL/COURT CLERK EDUCATION PROGRAM MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Randall. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby authorize Court Clerk, Peg Palmer, to attend the Judicial/Court Clerk Education Program in Potsdam, NY, July 23 – 26, 2000. Supervisor Morey – Number eight, resolution to hire summer youth employees for Highway Department and Clerk’s Office. Colleen, have you decided who you’re going to hire? Clerk Pierson – Yes, I have. Supervisor Morey – Rick, you have two employees. Have you decided who you’re going to hire? Richard Case – No. ……(not using microphone)…probably three…. Supervisor Morey – But two on the summer youth program and one on the payroll. Okay, do you know who those people are? Richard Case – No. Bill Cassolara will be coming back and I haven’t contacted the other two yet. Supervisor Morey – But you know the two people you would like to hire. Richard Case – Yes. RESOLUTION #46 - HIRE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYEES MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Scheffler. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby authorize the hiring of Summer Youth Employees for the Town Clerk’s Office and the Highway Department Town Board Meeting Page 12 June 20, 2000 RESOLUTION #47 - APPROVE THIRD PARTY CUSTODIAN AGREEMENT MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby approve the Third Party Custodian Agreement between the Town of Groton, County of Tompkins, State of New York, the First National Bank of Groton, Groton, New York, and Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (M&T Bank) Buffalo, New York. Supervisor Morey – Does everybody know what that is? Okay, we have a certain amount of money in the bank. In most banks in FDIC, they only guarantee $100,000. What the third party custodian contract does is guarantee all our money in the bank. We take it out from a securities company and we get the amount of securities to guarantee all the funds. So, you have a copy of that RESOLUTIION #48 - APPROVE HUMAN SERVICES PLANNING COORDINATION SERVICES MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Randall. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby approve the Year 2000 agreement between the Town of Groton and the Human Services Coalition effective January 1, 2000 and terminating on December 31, 2000, with the Town of Groton allocating $700.00 for said services. RESOLUTION #49 - APPROVE STATE AID & MUNICIPAL JOB FUND AMOUNTS FOR 2000 MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Clark. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board has reviewed the amounts for aid for State Aid for Recreation, State Aid for Youth Services, County Youth Service Funds, and Municipal Jobs Funds, and has hereby approved the contract with the Tompkins County Youth Bureau and the Town of Groton for distribution of said funds. Town Board Meeting Page 13 June 20, 2000 RESOLUTIION #50 - APPROVE TOMPKINS COUNTY DRUG & ALCOHOL CONSORTIUM AGREEMENT MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Scheffler. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby approve the Tompkins County Drug & Alcohol Consortium Agreement for the Year 2000 for the purposes of Drug and Alcohol Testing for commercial motor vehicle drivers and at a cost to the Town of Groton of $57.00 per drug test and $32.00 per alcohol test. Supervisor Morey – I would like to go into executive session for a couple of minutes. Fran, I want you in there too. Colleen, I’d like you in there too. Attorney Casullo – You’ve got to go on record….. Supervisor Morey – On personnel. MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Randall, to go into Executive Session for purposes of personnel. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool, to reconvene Regular Session. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLUTION #52 - SET STANDARD WORK DAY FOR DEPUTY TOWN CLERK MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Sovocool. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby authorize 35 hours as full time status for April Scheffler, and that it us further RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby designate the Deputy Town Clerk as a standard work day of 7 hours per day or 35 hours per week. Supervisor Morey – Now, Colleen said that we should make it retroactive from the time she started, or should we do it from the time the budget took effect? Town Board Meeting Page 14 June 20, 2000 Clerk Pierson – Well, we shorted her pay for her sick time and holidays. Supervisor Morey – You older guys, you’ve got to help me, because I don’t remember. Did it start at the budget time this year, or was it retroactive to when she started here as an employee? Clerk Pierson – Can I just say one thing? We were doing our budget for the year 2000 in 1999. We sat there and I told them about not getting paid for that hour. That was the previous year that we were talking about. That’s when we should have taken care of it but nothing was done. You correct me if I’m wrong. That’s when we discussed it. Councilman Sovocool – That’s when we did discuss it, yes. And that’s when I thought we had corrected it for this year. Supervisor Morey – Alright, so, is it going to be starting from the January time period or is a year ago January? Councilman Sovocool – What we discussed was from January of this year, I believe. Clerk Pierson – Well, I told you how much it was and it seems like it was about $180 - $190. And you said at that time, well that’s not an awful lot of money. Councilman Sovocool – That’s right. Clerk Pierson – And it isn’t, but it’s hers. She has it coming. The Town owes it to her. Supervisor Morey – This should have been in executive session. Councilman Scheffler - $185 for the two year’s? Councilman Sovocool – For the previous year, not counting this year. Councilman Scheffler – 99 to 2000. Councilman Sovocool – She didn’t work all of… Clerk Pierson – She started in November of 98…. Attorney Casullo – So she’s been here all of ’99….. Clerk Pierson – No, she started in November of ’97. Attorney Casullo – So, all of ’98, all of ’99…. Clerk Pierson – And it was always put on the timesheet, but it was taken off. Councilman Sovocool – I would go for ’99 and this year. You’re talking vacation and sick… Clerk Pierson – Holidays, vacation and sick time. Town Board Meeting Page 15 June 20, 2000 Supervisor Morey – Is that a motion? Councilman Sovocool – I would motion it, yes. Supervisor Morey – Second? I’ll second it. Any discussion? Councilman Randall – So we would be voting on what now, exactly? Councilman Sovocool – From January ’99 to present. Clerk Pierson – So you’re going to short her the year? Councilman Sovocool – Yes, because I’m not sure we discussed it before. I know we discussed it before the ’99 budget. Councilman Scheffler – I don’t know if we discussed it before that time either. Councilman Sovocool – Previous to that, I don’t know. Clerk Pierson – No, we discussed at the time of the’99 budget that she hadn’t been paid only 6 hours for the previous year. Councilman Sovocool – My motion is from ’99 to present. RESOLUTION #53 - AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF WAGES OWED TO APRIL SCHEFFLER MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Supervisor Morey. Ayes – Sovocool, Scheffler, Morey. Nays – Randall, Clark. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby authorize payment to April Scheffler of wages owed to her by the Town of Groton from January 1999 to present. Said wages represent holiday, vacation and sick time, which was based on a 6-hour day and should have based on a 7-hour day, which represents her customary workday. Each hour short for the 1999 will be paid at $9.00 per hour and for 2000 will be paid at $9.27 per hour. ANNOUNCEMENTS: rdth Town of Groton July Vacation Schedule – Town Clerks Office closed July 3 to July 7 and the rdth Highway Department closed July 3 to July 14. th Municipal Official’s Association Dinner – June 27, 6:00 PM April did pass her Notary test in May. Congratulations to her. Town Board Meeting Page 16 June 20, 2000 We did discuss an advertisement for the Ladies’ Auxiliary. Do you have any feelings on that? Anybody? We’ve done it for the last two years. It would be $100.00. Councilman Clark – Could somebody explain that to me? Supervisor Morey – Norma Neville is the president of the Ladies Auxiliary and they put out a little pamphlet and people buy advertisements in. The last couple of years, you have a copy of that in your folder, it was a $100.00. We’ve done it for the last couple of years and I don’t know whether it’s necessary or not and that’s why I wanted to ask your comments. Councilman Sovocool – Well, this is her last year. Clerk Pierson – We paid for her two years’ ads. You were here originally, when it happened and the Board decided to go with $100 for an ad to support Norma. Well, we did that the second year also. And she will be out now as president, or will be at the end of the year. The only thing, you have other organizations that people are president of, like State Clerk’s or whatever; are you going to get into all those things? Councilman Sovocool – We have the option of going to a smaller ad, right? Clerk Pierson – Yeah, true. It’s up to the Board. Councilman Scheffler – But she’s not even going to be president… Councilman Sovocool – If she’s not even going to be president I would save the money. Councilman Clark – I think it’s time that we didn’t. Supervisor Morey – Okay. Jeff Snyder rescinded his permit for the junk yard. McLean road construction is going to be postponed until 2001. You have an announcement there. Liz’s treatments are finished. She’s still recovering a little bit there. RESOLUTION #54 - ACCEPT RESIGNATION FROM GEORGE TOTMAN MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Clark. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby accept with regret the resignation of George Totman from the Town of Groton Planning Board. Town Board Meeting Page 17 June 20, 2000 Attorney Casullo – I think we should put in the minutes that Tyke spoke with me subsequent to the resolution that we had regarding the summer youth employment and since his daughter is an applicant, he would like to change his vote from a yes to an abstention. MOVED There being no further business it was by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to adjourn at 8:50 PM. Unanimous. Colleen D. Pierson Town Clerk