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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-12-2002 TOWN OF GROTON MINUTES OF TOWN BOARD MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED PARKING ORDINANCE MARCH 12, 2002 AT 7:30 PM Those present: Glenn E. Morey, Supervisor Ellard L. 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, George R. Senter, Sr., Liz Brennan, Joe Graham, Julie Graham MOVED by Councilman Randall, seconded by Councilman Clark, to approve the minutes of the February 12, 2002 meeting as presented. Ayes – Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. MOVED by Councilman Scheffler, seconded by Councilman Sovocool, to approve the minutes of the February 19, 2002 meeting as presented. Ayes – Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. Highway Fund Claim Numbers 27-48 of the in the amount of $20,547.24 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. General Fund Claim Numbers 45-82 of the in the amount of $182,054.13 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. Town Board Meeting Page 2 of 13 March 12, 2002 Special Grant (HUD) Fund Claim Numbers 229-230 of the in the amount of $3,244.99 were presented for audit. MOVED by Councilman Randall, seconded by Councilman Sovocool, to approve the HUD bills for payment. Ayes – Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to enter into Executive Session, at 7:34 PM, for the purpose of discussing the Anderson situation and pending litigation with Diversified Technologies. Ayes – Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. MOVED by Councilman Scheffler, seconded by Councilman Sovocool, to resume regular session at 7:45. Ayes – Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. No decisions were made in Executive Session. It was just informational. Monthly Reports: Elizabeth Brennan, Bookkeeper – I just want to report that the Annual Report is done; it’s been filed. Glenn has a copy and hopefully he’s given it to Colleen by now. And now I’m starting to catch up with the 2002 books. Next month you should have an up to date report. Supervisor Morey – And what I did, Liz, I made two copies of the Annual Report and distributed to Don and Tyke and when they get finished with it they will be distributing to the rest of them. But it is well over 63 pages. Very nice reading. Liz Brennan – Yeah, took over a week to load the software, but other than that……….. Supervisor Morey – Okay, any questions for Liz? George R. Senter, Sr., Code Enforcement Officer – Well, we were going to discuss that John Anderson thing, but it’s been done. The NFPA books came. I brought the old set over here so we have access to them at both places. Buildings permits issued in February were 8 – 1 house, 1 mobile home, and 6 others. And 2 Certificates of Occupancy. The Life Safety Inspections are current through February and I’m working through March. I have a couple messes cleaned up. One on Davis Road, that’s cleaned up, all the trash bags along with the dumpster. And Ethel Jensen out on Chipman Corners had cars all over the place. That’s cleaned up. Town Board Meeting Page 3 of 13 March 12, 2002 Supervisor Morey – And everybody should have received the 2001 Annual Report from George. Councilman Randall – George, I was wondering if I could get you to maybe go back 5 years and give, for the Comprehensive Plan. I’d kind of like to see, have a comparison. I mean, I realize, like your annual report, if you could do something like that for the last 5 years. I could come down and help you gather that information but it would be nice for the Comprehensive Plan to have that as a benchmark, where we’re going. George Senter – Hopefully that information is in there and I can dig it up. Supervisor Morey – I just wanted you to know that the ZBA is meeting tonight to discuss ECHO housing. It’s a larger square footage that’s allowed by Codes, so that’s why they’re meeting tonight. Councilman Scheffler – Last year we coordinated the Spring Clean-up, you inspect ahead of the Town clean-up day. So that when you write somebody up for a washing machine, they have a place to take it and things get done. George Senter – When is it? Councilman Scheffler – Well, that’s something that Rick organizes. I was just making a suggestion that maybe we could do that again this year, if it’s possible. There was some discussion with Rick Case about the possibility of the first week in May as being a possible time to schedule the clean-up day. PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSE PARKING ORDINANCE The public hearing on the proposed ordinance relative to regulating parking on highways in the Town of Groton was opened at 8:00 PM. The Town Clerk read the Public Notice as it had appeared in the Groton Independent on Wednesday, February 27, 2002. Supervisor Morey read the Proposed Ordinance: Town Board Meeting Page 4 of 13 March 12, 2002 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING PARKING ON HIGHWAYS IN THE TOWN OF GROTON For the purpose of enhancing vehicular safety and to facilitate the removal of snow and ice with regard to highways within the Town of Groton, the Town Board does ordain as follows: Section 1: Definitions: The words and phrases used in this Ordinance shall for the purpose of this Ordinance have the meanings respectively given to them by Article 1 of the Vehicle and Traffic Law of the State of New York. Section 2: Prohibited Parking: The parking of vehicles is hereby prohibited on all town highways within the Town of Groton between the hours of 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. from November 1 to May 1 of each year. Section 3: Removal of Vehicles: When any vehicle is parked or abandoned on any town highway within the Town during the dates and hours prohibited by this Ordinance, said vehicle may be removed by or at the discretion of the Town Highway Superintendent, his or her designee, or any law enforcement agency. Section 4: Storage and Related Charges: Upon the removal of any vehicle in violation of this Ordinance, the Town Highway Superintendent may make arrangements to store such vehicle at the expense of the owner. The owner may redeem the vehicle upon payment of all expenses related to the removal and storage of the vehicle. Section 5: Notice of Removal: The Town Highway Superintendent shall report the removal and storage location of any vehicle removed, as provided for in this Ordinance, to the Tompkins County Sheriff and it shall be the duty of the Town Highway Superintendent to ascertain, to the extent possible, the owner of the vehicle and notify him/her of the removal and storage location and the amount to redeem the vehicle. Section 6: Penalties: The owner of any vehicle parked in violation of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a violation and subject to a fine of not more than $50.00 for a first offense and a fine of not more than $100.00 for any second or subsequent offense. Section 7: McLean Parking Ordinance: This Ordinance shall not in anyway repeal or amend the Parking Ordinance adopted by the Town of Groton on February 15, 1971 relative to the parking of vehicles on certain streets in the Hamlet of McLean. However, all other town highways within the Hamlet of McLean not mentioned in the 1971 Parking Ordinance are subject to this Ordinance. Section 8: Effective Date: This Ordinance shall take effect after its adoption and upon its publication as required by the Town Law. Town Board Meeting Page 5 of 13 March 12, 2002 Supervisor Morey – Do we have any public comments about the ordinance? If not we will move to the Board. Any discussion? Rick, are you going to do the penalties or will the police officers do the penalties? Richard Case – I believe it would have to be a police officer. MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, to close the Public Hearing. Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey. RESOLUTION #39 – ADOPT PARKING ORDINANCE MOVED by Councilman Scheffler, seconded by Councilman Sovocool Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED, that the Town Board does hereby adopt the Ordinance Relative to Regulating Parking on Highways in the Town of Groton. Monthly Reports, Continued: Richard C. Case, Jr . – At the present time the Highway Department’s equipment is dedicated to snow and ice removal. Preventive maintenance and repairs are taking place daily. Trees and brush are being cut when weather and manpower are available. Champlin Road, between Stevens Road and Davis Road, has received a concentrated effort on brush and tree removal. This effort has been supported by the excavator with the brush hog attachment. If you have a chance, drive by and take a look. With the mild weather it has allowed us time to continue working on the Mining Requirement and Reclamation. We continue to use the County’s D-7 Bulldozer, which is greatly appreciated. Tentatively, on March 26, the Deferred Compensation Representative will hold a general information meeting for both the Town and Village employees at the Groton Fire Station. ADT sent a technician to address the alarm problems we were having. There have been a couple of changes in the phone listing as far as contacting the Town Building. The main problem has been in the Court Room and the second call will be going to the Court Room so maybe it will keep us from being called in at 3 o’clock in the morning. To the best of Colleen’s and my knowledge, the alarm checking system will be done on an 800 number. We really won’t know if this is truly in effect until we get the next phone bill. But the fellow who did the work told us that he made the changes. Dennis Toolan stopped in today. He couldn’t be here tonight to present what he’s put together for this generator project that we’ve been tossing around. He kind of laid the plan out to me and certainly there will be more discussion on it. I’ll just give you the rough outline. They want to Town Board Meeting Page 6 of 13 March 12, 2002 build a building next to the pump house. There will be 2 switches, one for the Village municipal building and one for our municipal building. These will be manual switches so if there’s a problem we fire the generator and we’d switch manually at the poles. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell: powering it with natural gas and those switches and housing next to the pump. This generator also will power the pumps for the water system. So, if we had a disaster we would still have fire hydrants, we’d have water throughout the Village, as I understand it. That’s just what they’ve put together. They’ve got two prices, one with a manual switch. Jim is more interested in an automatic switch so if the power went out it would automatically kick in. The ballpark price on that is $30,048.00. Supervisor Morey – He went from $6,500 to $30,000? Richard Case – Well that $6,500 was the generator. Mr. Case explained that there were many other charges including pole top connectors, wire, connectors, labor, changing wiring in buildings, the switches, gas service from NYSEG, the building, generator set-up and the generator itself which added up to the $30,000. This cost would be shared with the Village. Supervisor Morey – The trouble is with emergency preparedness, if something happens to the Town there is absolutely no community center to go to. Our emergency preparedness plan right now says that we are going to man our phones 24 hours a day. With no power, there’s no phones here. So there’s no way we can carry out our preparedness plan. So, when we first started talking about this it was my concern about the Village too. If NYSEG turns off the lines even though everybody else has electricity we don’t have to have it because we have interruptible power sources coming into the Village. So, we had to have something along those lines if there was a disaster that happened in the Town and Village. That’s why we got involved in this. But my estimates were a lot lower than what they had. More discussion was held on the subject. The Board requested copies of the information and it was hoped that they would come back next month with more questions and information on the subject. Colleen D. Pierson, Town Clerk/Tax Collector – Presented monthly Town Clerk’s and Tax Collector’s Reports. This Historical Society contract, do you have that Glenn? Supervisor Morey – No. Clerk Pierson – I spoke with Fran and he said he sent it to you. Supervisor Morey – I didn’t get it yet. I’ll find out. Clerk Pierson – He doesn’t have my Dog Enumerator’s contract ready yet either. We have a request from Bob Walpole on the Commercial Center Revitalization Program. He would like a letter of support from the Town since he is applying for a grant through the program. Town Board Meeting Page 7 of 13 March 12, 2002 Board concurred that they were in support of Mr. Walpole receiving the grant and Supervisor Morey said that he would write a letter in support of this. Councilman Sovocool – This is a Village grant, isn’t it? Councilman Randall – He’s just asking for a letter of support. Supervisor Morey – Yeah, that’s all he’s doing is asking for a letter of support. Remember the Village is in the Town? Councilman Sovocool – Yeah, I think so. Supervisor Morey – I’m sure he’s going to get a letter from the Village too. Clerk Pierson – The more letters you get, the better. Supervisor Morey – Anything else, Colleen? Clerk Pierson – A question about indemnification of Town officers and employees. Are we ever going to do anything with that law? Supervisor Morey – Doesn’t really matter to me. I don’t really think that we need it. What does everybody else think? Councilman Scheffler – Helps to keep us honest if we don’t have it. Clerk Pierson – Do you remember what it is? We had Fran draw it up. Councilman Scheffler – Yeah, it covers us after we’re convicted of something? Clerk Pierson – Why don’t I get you another copy for your next meeting and you can read it through and decide then. It’s been on the back burner for quite awhile. Supervisor Morey – Any questions for Colleen? Town Court is not here. Don Scheffler, Recreation Coordinator? Councilman Don Scheffler, Recreation Coordinator – We have hired a Recreation Coordinator, Christy Moore. She started yesterday. She’s going to be shadowing Steve Colton (?) from Lansing for few days to get some pointers and then she’s going to start in with our Recreation Program. She has an office in the school and as soon as I get phone numbers and email numbers I’ll get those out so people can use them. We have copies for everybody of our survey that we sent out in January on what people are interested in doing. There are some comments on the back from different people and I think a lot of good ideas. Also there is a copy of the Village’s proposed budget because this program will be going through the Village books and they will be billing the Town. So the Village does the budget and this is just their first-draft proposal that they’ve worked up. I think it’s going to be pretty close to that, around the $20,000 a year range all together. Town Board Meeting Page 8 of 13 March 12, 2002 Supervisor Morey – It’s $20,000 with benefits, right? Councilman Scheffler – Yes, Social Security and like that. No health benefits. Anybody have any questions? I may or may not have an answer. We’re all new at this so we’re kind of feeling our way through. We feel that there are going to be some good points and some mistakes, but we’re going to make it work. Supervisor Morey – I think you have some great ideas there. Councilman Clark – Thanks for all your work. Supervisor Morey – Tyke, you wanted to discuss about the scholarship in Public Entity Risk thth Institute in San Antonio, Texas on May 14 – 17 and also you wanted to talk a little bit about how you completed New York Disaster Paramedics Certificate. Councilman Randall – I just wanted to bring the Board up to date, that Colleen had given me a newsletter from PERI, which is the Public Entity Risk Institute, awhile ago and I applied for scholarship and I got it. I was notified last week that I got it. That’s to San Antonio, Texas for a 3-day conference. Basically what it is is it’s for small municipalities, non-profits, those kinds of things, to actually take a real look at what risk is involved in day-to-day operations, not only from natural disasters and things but from within, you know the day-to-day things. Rather than relying totally on insurance companies to sell those items to us it’s a way of us internally being able to take a real look at where we are and how we fit liability-wise and do something about it. It kind of fits in not only with the Town here but it also fits in with my direction for a career in the end is that I am kind of heading this way. And it’s a way to give back to the community. I th think especially after September 11 we see that we need to be prepared and I think that this is just another way of doing that. At this time I honestly don’t know if I am going to need any extra money or not but I will figure that out. I don’t think so. The other thing that I did recently was Dryden had an Incident Command System orientation which basically fit in really well with where I was going with the Emergency Preparedness Certificate Program but the next tiers are more based towards firemen and police chiefs and those kinds of things. I think the two sessions that I go to will give me enough data that we can bring back and incorporate in our Emergency Preparedness Plan and make it more effective so that, you know, when we do have an emergency that the County and us, we’re on the same page, so we have a system in place that we all recognize and know how to work with, so that’s it. Supervisor Morey – I want to tell the Board I did suggest that the Town should find some money for Tyke to go there. First of all, it’s a very unique opportunity that we can have national coverage and national information for a plan that basically could be state-of-the-art instead of always backing down or backing up and taking a couple of extra steps. So, Tyke said he wanted to make a presentation next month and meanwhile I’ll look and see what we’ve got and what we can do. So, that’s going to be with the Board’s approval too, so. Any other questions for Tyke? Councilman Scheffler – We have our training allowance that we could us some of. Supervisor Morey – Yeah, well, I’m not going anywhere this year and nobody else is going so this is a perfect year for that. Town Board Meeting Page 9 of 13 March 12, 2002 RESOLUTION #40 - APPOINT JANICE HAINES TO PLANNING BOARD MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Clark Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby appoint Janice Haines to the Planning Board to fill the vacant position left by the resignation of George VanSlyke on October 18, 2001. Said term to expire December 31, 2007. RESOLUTION #41 – APPRECIATION OF MARTIN A. LUSTER MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Scheffler Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey Let it be known that Martin A. Luster has served the Town of Groton as our representative for th the 125 District to the State Assembly with honesty, integrity and dedication for the past 14 years. We appreciate the support you have provided to the Town through your assistance in economic development, agricultural support and as a friend to our community. We thank you for your distinguished service. RESOLUTION #42 – SET PUBLIC HEARING DATE FOR INCOME LIMITS FOR SENIOR CITIZEN REAL PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION MOVED by Supervisor Morey, seconded by Councilman Randall Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey th RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby set a Public Hearing date for April 9, 2002 at 8 PM for the purpose of reviewing a local law pertaining to income limits for senior citizen real property tax exemptions. Supervisor Morey – A little discussion though, everybody got the information from the County Assessment. Everybody should have the ranges that we’re going for, is that correct? Is there any questions now about it? I had the letter from the Assessment Office just telling exactly what the effect would be. I also notice one of the questions there at the end about the recreation coordinator that we should do something about the Veterans and things like that and maybe we could look into that afterwards in the next couple of months, so. We don’t have one now, right Colleen? Clerk Pierson – You have some Veteran’s. You don’t have any disability at all. Supervisor Morey – Do we have a Veteran’s exemption? Town Board Meeting Page 10 of 13 March 12, 2002 Clerk Pierson – A very small amount, the Town does. The County has one. I would suggest that you do that all at the same time. You’re amending a local law that you have on the books now. You ought to know what you’re going do or else you’re going to amend it again for the disabled and again for the Veterans. Supervisor Morey – So, it’s all one law? Clerk Pierson – I would suggest putting it all together. Supervisor Morey – What does the Board think? Councilman Sovocool – I think it should be all together. Supervisor Morey – So, would it be the ranges for the Veterans and……..? Clerk Pierson – Well that’s what you figure out, what you want. Do you want to start your Veterans at 50% or 30% or whatever. There are probably 3 or 4 Towns who have the larger amount for Veterans and there’s also a couple towns who have it for disabled and those are the people who really ask about it too. They have no means to work and have an income. Supervisor Morey – Does the range have to be the same for everybody? Clerk Pierson – I don’t think so, no. Start out with a 50%, like your senior citizens, say it’s $16,500 right now and the max is $23,000 that we went with and in between is your 40, 30, 20, 10 percent discount that they get, based on their income. It’s a graduated scale. You’d do the same thing for the disabled. Supervisor Morey – Would a disabled senior citizen get a dual? Clerk Pierson – They could get both. Not only would they get ours, but they can get County also. Supervisor Morey – This isn’t going to take effect until 2004, so we’ve got plenty of time. Do you want to table this public hearing then until we get some more information? Councilman Sovocool – I think it would be a good idea. Supervisor Morey – All right, is it a consensus of the Board that we should do everything at once? Board indicated their agreement. Town Board Meeting Page 11 of 13 March 12, 2002 RESOLUTION #43 – RESCIND RESOLUTION #42 MOVED by Councilman Sovocool, seconded by Councilman Scheffler Ayes - Sovocool, Scheffler, Randall, Clark, Morey RESOLVED , that the Town Board does hereby rescind resolution #41 – Set Hearing Date for Income Limits for Senior Citizens Real Property Tax Exemption pending more research and information gathering. Supervisor Morey – I have a question. Joe, this is for you. Is there an exemption for firemen in the Town? Councilman Sovocool – No. Supervisor Morey – Okay, I know they have one in the Village. Councilman Sovocool – The Village has one but nobody else. Supervisor Morey – Everybody received in their packet a letter from Patricia Archambault. She’s the Superintendent of Dryden Central School, referencing the Dryden Central School District Board of Education establishing a lead agency pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act. Joe Graham and Julie Graham are here. Joe is the chairman of the McLean Community Council as well as Julie is the secretary, right? Julie Graham – Treasurer. Supervisor Morey – So, she’s the most important because she handles all the money, right? Joe and the Board, I read the SEQRA on everything and environmentally it’s fine. I couldn’t see anything other than it does not have checks all the way down through. It does not have an archeology study whether you have to do that or not. I think they have to. At least they have made us do that on all the projects we have. And there’s a section here on Section B, Project Description, about reclaimed land and how they’re going to reclaim the playground but also put a larger parking lot back there in the playground area. So, I didn’t understand that. I understand they’re going to be putting a new parking lot where the playground is. Joe Graham – I think what they plan on doing is moving the playground back to the old football field…………. I need to give you a little background on this, of what’s happening here. What they are doing here, I spoke with Tom Lyson tonight, the mayor of the Village of Freeville, and he has contacted people from the State Education Department, the DEC, and everybody else. And what is happening here is legal but it’s highly unethical. What the school board has done is name themselves lead agency in a process to investigate what they want to do and that is a beginning. They can name involved agencies, which would mean, as I spoke to you a few months ago, would mean that you would have to sign off on this project to make it go. They have listed us as “interested” agencies, which any individual in the district could be an interested agency. I think what we’re dealing with, the only thing mentioned in this whole SEQRA is the fact that the McLean and Freeville schools are used as recreational areas, which could be the Town Board Meeting Page 12 of 13 March 12, 2002 Town of Groton’s objection that you are taking away a recreational area if you close the school. But they don’t even say in here that they are definitely going to close it. And that’s how they are end-running this thing around. And after what came out tonight in the paper, maybe we don’t have to worry about it. Supervisor Morey – What Joe’s talking about is the Ithaca Journal article about school expansion figures double, Dryden School Board’s committee meets shock by revised estimates. And basically, it has to do with a gentleman by the name of Todd Martin who’s the project manager of Christy Court (?) Construction of Victor, located near Rochester, that their three options range from $7.2 million to nearly $14 million to build an expansion of the school. None of these options included options on what it would cost to renovate and execute the sight work and infrastructure overhaul at the school. It says this additional piece could cost as much $10 million or $15 million more than the original estimates. And it says in 2000 overall projected estimates were sighted at around $12 million for renovations and additions of $3 million for infrastructure work. Mondays figures nearly doubled the original estimate of renovating all three schools. Mr. Morey explained that an architect was going to look into renovating all three schools and what it would cost. Joe Graham – When I went to the meeting last night, they presented this on a screen through their computer and they showed $14 million, $10 million, $7 million with a little disclaimer at the bottom “does not include site work or renovations.” This was strictly new construction. I think they hoped people would look at that and walk out of there thinking they can get the best option for $14 million until Jeff Bradley said wait a minute I’m confused, what are the sight infrastructure other costs? And that’s when they came up with the $15 million to put it at $28 million for the one that the people want. Supervisor Morey - Do you feel if somebody didn’t ask that question they would never have said anything? Joe Graham – I think they hoped that would go right through. And our illustrious superintendent made the statement that 80% of this project will be state funded. I don’t know how she can make that statement after 9-11. I think that was probably the case when they originally started to think about this, but I don’t think they have any firm figures on that either. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Board for looking at this and letting me know and Glenn for giving me a copy of this to look at. Hopefully, because as interested agency all you get is an update of what’s going on and you can write a letter back opposing, giving your concerns, which I intend to work with Glenn on to get something to them saying this is ridiculous, don’t do it. I really appreciate the Board’s time considering this. Supervisor Morey – I am going to write a letter of concern to the Dryden Board and I’ll make sure that Joe knows about it and everybody on the Board will be able to know about it before we send it. So, you can approve it before I do it. I did get letters from Thomas Lyson, Mayor of Freeville, of what he wrote too. So, we’ll get some information out to everybody. Town Board Meeting Page 13 of 13 March 12, 2002 Announcements: th GBA Spring Banquet, April 13 at the Groton Fire Station, 6-12 PM, $18.50 th Fiscal Management Training, April 16, Binghamton th ZBA Hearing March 12 for Elder Cottage th Municipal Official’s dinner March 25, 6PM, Lehigh Valley House Noise Report – Mr. Snyder did talk to Randy Howse (?) as well as I did and it seems to be taken care of and I haven’t heard anything since. We do have the attention of the Sheriff and things have been working out satisfactory to Mr. Snyder. McLean Community Meeting tomorrow night, 7:30 PM Road project in McLean is postponed for one year. There being no further business, Councilman Sovocool moved to adjourn, seconded by Councilman Scheffler, at 8:55 PM. Unanimous. Colleen D. Pierson Town Clerk