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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-08-13 - PH TOWN OF ULYSSES PUBLIC HEARING August 13 , 1996 Present : Supervisor Doug Austic ; Councilpeople Carolyn Duddieston , Catherine Stover , Peter. Penniman., Robert. Weatherby ; Town Clerk , Marsha Georgia . Others Present : Alex Rachunr Tom- Reitz . Purpose : To hear public comment on Local Law # 2 for 19-96 [ retirement incentive program ] . Supervisor Austic opened the Public Hearing at 7 :0-0-pm and- asked for public comment . Mr . Tom- Reitz supported the- passage- of this Local Law . Hearing no further comments the Public Hearing was closed- at 7 : 30pm . Respectfully submitted , Marsha Georgia Town Clerk pm R1 i Town of Ulysses Regular Town Board Meeting 8-13-96 TOWN OF ULYSSES REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING August 13, 1996 Present: Supervisor Doug Austic ; Councilpeople Catherine Stover, Carolyn Duddleston, Robert Weatherby, Peter Penniman ; Highway Superintendent Jim Meeker; Code • Enforce. Officer Alex Rachun ; Town Clerk Marsha Georgia. Others Present : Tom Reitz Supervisor Austic called the meeting of the Town Board, Town of Ulysses to order at 7 : 30pm and led those assembled in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America. Mr. Austic entertained a motion to approve minutes of July 9, 1996 and July 23, 1996. Moved by Mrs. Duddleston, seconded by Mrs. Stover and unanimously approved . CLAIMS Mr. Austic entertained a motion to approve Claims #271-312 in the amount of $21 ,427. 86 [less $276. for Demjanecfwill consider on the Aug. 27th meeting] . Moved by Mrs. Stover, seconded by Mrs. Duddleston. Unanimously approved. REPORTS Highway Superintendent, Jim Meeker reported mowing grass and weeds and trimmed around signs. Picked up a load of culvert pipe. Paved Wilkens Rd. Clutch went out on 1989 truck. Have a municipal auction coming up Sept. 14th in Lansing, if I can get a resolution for surplus equipment I would like it to be advertised in magazines or flyers ; have our 1982 one-ton, 4-6 tires, couple of V plows, 10 foot plow, cab guard, set of wheel chains, gasboy pump and misc. items. Mrs. Stover moved, seconded by Mrs. Duddleston the following : RESOLVED : that the Town Board, Town of Ulysses authorize Highway Superintendent James Meeker to advertise the following surplus equipment for the municipal auction in Lansing on September 14, 1996. 1982 One-ton, misc. tires, couple of V plows, 10' plow, cab guard, set of wheel chains, gasboy pump and misc. items. Mr. Austic Aye Mrs. Stover Aye • Mr. Weatherby Aye Mrs. Duddleston Aye Mr. Penniman Aye Adopted. Mr. Meeker said that the County has an old mower; same as we use on our Ford tractor; also has quite a surplus of new parts; also have one complete mower. The County asked if I would be interested and if so would take it off the mower bill. Mr. Meeker asked if anyone had a problem with that. Mr. Meeker will make an offer, if they don't accept then can bid on it at the auction. Mr. Penniman mentioned ditch work on Curry Road . He felt it looked pretty good , but has had a question from a Curry Rd. resident. Mr. Austic asked if Meeker had seen Town of Ulysses 2 Regular Town Board Meeting 8-13-96 letters; do we need to make our ditches bigger to meet County work? Mr. Meeker said need to send copies of those letters to the County. Mr. Austic suggested in the near future for Mr. Meeker to see the resident. Code Enforcement Officer, Alex Rachun reported nine permits issued. No ZBA meeting held ; two coming up. Met with architect for the Cayuga Motel ; lot of energy going into it. Have some zoning violations; Ledger coming to Court, new sign at the Nice & Easy Gas Station is too high, sign on Curry Road that is too large and needs to be changed. Town Clerk, Marsha Georgia reported $2 ,097. 84 collected for the month of July of • which $1,171.29 was turned over to the Supervisor. Monday started the sale of Conservation Licenses and have been extremely busy. Attended the Town Clerks meeting; the new County Assessor attended and announced to us that the charge to us for printing the bills is going to be increased from eight cents per bill to twenty-five cents per bill. Marsha asked that it be put in writing. He is suggesting that if the Town feels this should be a County charge and not a Town charge that we do a resolution that can be sent to the Government Operations Administration Committee urging them not to charge this back to the Towns. He is also asking the County to increase Budget/Finance by $26,000. to up-date the Clerk's tax packages, which sounds a little steep. The Clerk's will also be collecting the Solid Waste fee this next year. If you would like to, at this time, pass a resolution urging the County to pay the printing and mailing costs. Suggested that this be passed on to our County Representative. Mrs. Stover moved that the Town of Ulysses write Tompkins County voicing concern over the twenty-five cent charge per bill plus the concern of 526,000. they want to spend on software for tax collection. The Town requests justification. Seconded by Mrs. Duddleston. Will send a copy to all other Towns. Mr. Austic said we are saying that we don 't support the request to cover the municipal share for printing tax bills ; saying we have some concerns for spending the money for this computer up-date. Mr. Penniman suggesting adding that we would like justification. Mr. Austic Aye Mrs. Stover Aye Mr. Weatherby Aye Mrs. Duddleston Aye Mr. Penniman Aye Adopted. Board Members : Mrs. Stover said it appears that the Justice Dept. has been very busy this past month. Mrs. Duddleston will attend a meeting for the Ithaca Youth Bureau on Thursday night . • Mr. Austic said this year it was $2 ,500., in 1997 they wanted $3,500. and in 1998 it was about $4,300. providing the County maintains their current funding. Supervisor's Financial Report : Mr. Austic read the report to the Board and will copy for the Board. CHIPS for 96-97; indicated that we should expect slightly smaller payments because of the budget delay at the State level. Also the electric company is changing their billing for street lighting; will not affect current charges unless repairs are made. Retirement system : looks like they have increased rate for Tier 1 & 2 . Town of Ulysses 3 Regular Town Board Meeting 8-13-96 OLD BUSINESS Building . Project/Bid Opening Bid opening last Tuesday and they appeared to be what we anticipated. One low one and had a complaint so had to write the clarifications for that individual for general contracting, and hasn 't responded yet. Didn ' t get bids on heating or plumbing so decided to re-bid that section and will be opening bids for that on August 29. If we don 't get bids on that we can go up to $20,004. We have 45 days to accept the bid which would give us a week or so after the heating/plumbing bids. Need to think about how far we want to go on this thing ; could almost do it [basic building] for what we originally thought. Need to discuss this, different ways to do it; Doug will get figures together. Meet at 7: 30 pm August 27, 1996. Alpha House Mr. Penniman indicated that not much has happened ; did get a copy of the two resolutions of 1986 from the minute book. Mr. Austic can get a copy of the contract. Send to Bruce Wilson for review and have it resigned [cannot find a signed copy of the contract]. Other There will be a meeting of the Ulysses Home Page at 5: 30pm on Thursday, August 22 , 1996. Mr. Austic asked Mr. Meeker his thoughts on the tower. Mr. Meeker said he would need height, lights, etc. Would need to have a public hearing ; how close to neighbors. Mr. Austic will contact Frontier. Mrs. Stover indicated the need of a representative to the Waterfront Oversight Committee. Mr. Penniman said he would go the next time. Mr. Austic will contact County Planning and let them know Mr. Penniman is interested. NEW BUSINESS Local Law #2/Early Retirement Mrs. Duddleston moved, seconded by Mr. Penniman the following : A LOCAL LAW electing a retirement incentive program as authorized by Chapter 30, Laws of 1996 for the eligible employees of the Town of Ulysses. BE IT ENACTED by the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses, as follows: 1. The Town of Ulysses hereby elects to provide all of its eligible employees with a retirement incentive program authorized by Chapter 30, Laws of 1996. 2 . The commencement date of the retirement incentive program shall be September 1, 1996. 3. The open period during which eligible employees may retire- and receive the additional retirement benefit, shall be ninety (90) days in length . 4. The actuarial present value of the additional retirement benefits payable pursuant to the provisions of this local law shall be paid as one l , ,, ,p s o in five annual installments. The amount of the annual payment shay 4-144, 40mined by the Actuary of the New York State and Local Employees ' Retirement* tem, Town of Ulysses 4 Regular Town Board Meeting 8- 13-96 and it shall be paid by the Town of Ulysses for each employee who receives the retirement benefits payable under this local law. 5. This act shall take effect immediately upon tiling with the Secretary of State. Mr. Austic Aye Mrs. Stover Aye Mr. Weatherby Aye Mrs. Duddleston Aye Mr. Penniman Aye Adopted Budget Requests Mr. Austic will be sending a letter this week that budget requests will be due by the 15th of September. Penn . Ave. Water Request Mrs. Robertson on Penn. Ave: called.. They are half-way between the Church and Paula Horrigan. He wants water. Mr. Austic suggested that he go to the Village. Wasn 't at - the meeting of the Village last night . Really don 't know what is happening. Meeting Schedule . August 27th at 7 : 30pm to discuss Master Plan ; August 29th 2 : 00pm to open bids; August 29th 2 : 15pm discuss bids ; September 10th Regular Town Board Meeting [need - to request use of Village]. Other Mr. Penniman said he is planning to attend the National Assoc. of Towns annual meeting in Washington , DC on September 3, 1996. Requesting the Town pay for the registration and one meeting for a total of $ 130: Mrs. Duddleston moved, seconded by Mrs. Stover to pay $130. for Mr . Penniman to attend this meeting. Mr. Austic Aye Mrs. Stover Aye Mr. Weatherby Aye • Mrs. Duddleston Aye Mr. Penniman Aye • Approved. 4 Mr. Reitz reported on the Transportation Council Meeting. Correspondence Mr. Austic reviewed correspondence. j Hearing no further business, Mrs. Stover moved to adjourn, seconded by Mr. Weatherby. Unanimously approved the meeting adjourned at 9: 10pm. Respectfully submitted , Marsha L. Georgia, Town Clerk pm