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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2004-06-29 - TB TOWN OF ULYSSES SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING JUNE 29, 2004 PRESENT : Supervisor Doug Austic, Town Councilpeople Lee Scott, Robert Weatherby; Roxanne Marino and Don Ellis ; Town Clerk Marsha Georgia; Deputy Supervisor Richard Coogan Others Present : John Wertis, Chairman Planning Board; Rose Hilbert, Planning Board Member; Justice Roger Rector, Ithaca Journal Reporter; Trumansburg Free Press Reporter; Radio Reporter (I apologize the names were not available.) ; Dan Smith; other Ulysses Residents not identified. Supervisor Austic called the Special Town Board Meeting to order at 7 : 30 PM and reviewed the tentative agenda for the special meeting as follows : • Schedule Meetings for review of Draft Zoning Ordinance • Schedule Meetings for review of Land Subdivision Regulations • Planning board Appointment • Establish committee for MS4 Laws • Water District #3 issue Draft Zoning Ordinance Supervisor Austic stated that after his initial review of the ordinance he has notice many technical things that don' t make a lot of sense and he feels that will be found throughout. Ms . Marino stated that it was sort of implied at the last meeting this ordinance would be edited for consistency. Mr. Austic stated that is correct we may have to check this as we go . Mr. Frantz had to attend a meeting in Waverly and that is why he cannot be here tonight. Mr. Austic's thought is that we schedule a series of meetings and plan to review 25 to 30 pages per meeting. If we can keep this schedule we should be able to get it done in four to five weeks . Also if the Regular Board meeting finished on time, say by 8 : 30/9 : 00 PM we may also be able to review some at that time. Mr. Ellis stated lets look a little more on procedure; we are going to sit down and mark up 25 or so pages? Mr. Austic stated that he would hope everyone would previously review the pages to be discussed at the meetings and come with changes. Mr. Ellis stated that he has done about four hours of editing and he likes the spirit of what is being proposed, he is a little concerned about how well it will work. Mr. Scott stated it makes sense to make a schedule and stand by it and by the same token we do not want to go back and re-write the whole thing. Meetings Scheduled • July 20th, 2004 6PM • August 3rd, 2004 6PM • August 24th, 2004 6PM • September 7th, 2004 6PM Mr. Frantz may have the SEQR done in a few days. If no major changes are done when the ordinance is reviewed this SEQR could be used. Special Town Board Meeting 2 06/28/2004 Chairman Wertis of the Planning Board distributed copies of the last Planning Board meeting at which the Board passed a resolution in support of the 30/70 in Al District. Mr. Ellis stated that the work on the 30/70 has not ceased; it is on the schedule to be discussed at the October Regular Town Board Meeting. Mr. Wertis will ask the Planning Board at the next meeting on how they want to review the ordinance and submit corrections and/or changes to the Town Board. From his minimum experience with the Planning Board there are not a lot of Planning Board members who would be very excited about doing this . Ms . Marino felt from her discussions with Planning Board members that at least some of them would feel it important that the Planning Board be involved in the review . Ms. Marino was just wondering what the most constructive, if the Planning Board is going to do it, (should they work on the same twenty-five pages as the Town Board and give it to them before their meeting. Mr. Wertis said the next meeting is July 8th and he will discuss this at that time . Appointment to Planning Board Mr. Ellis and Mr. Weatherby met and interviewed the residents interested for the Planning Board. Ms . Marino commented that the Town was fortunate to have several very qualified, residents interested in the position; other Board members agreed with this . It was decided that we would keep the names of the interested residents on a list so they could be notified when other seats came up . Mr. Ellis moved, seconded by Mr. Austic to appoint David Means to the Planning Board to fill the unexpired term of George Kennedy until December 2008 . Mr. Austic aye Mr. Scott aye Mr. Weatherby aye Ms . Marino aye Mr. Ellis aye Adopted . Subdivision I Revision Mr. Austic stated that the Board also has the subdivision to review and maybe if we can make extra time at the Regular Board Meetings we can discuss it there. Mr. Ellis feels that this needs to be done at the same time as the ordinance . He also has the question as to if the Subdivision should be a local law. Mr. Austic stated that in talking with Attorney Wilson both the zoning and subdivision regulations should be a local law. We may have to extend the meeting schedule. MS4 / Local Laws Committee Mr. Austic stated that Mr. Coogan and Mr. Wertis would be on the committee. Ms . Marino would like to suggest two people and also she would like to work, as an ad hoc representative on this committee because she is interested in this . Ms . Marino suggests Rebecca Schneider who is a resident and has expressed several times her interest on working on this storm water project. Rebecca is a hydrologist who works with Cooperative Ext at Cornell and she is currently funded to work on a lot of these issues, streams, roadside ditches and related water quality protection issues . She also has worked with Sharon Anderson of the IO and several other people . The other interested Special Town Board Meeting 3 06/28/2004 person is Liz Thomas who applied for the Planning Board position and she asked recently what other projects she could get involved in She is very interested in water quality protection and water quality issues at the lake. She would also be interested in being the representative to the Cayuga Water Intermunicipal Organization. Ms . Marino moved seconded by Mr. Ellis the following : BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses appoints Richard Coogan, Deputy Supervisor, John Wertis Planning Board Chairman, and Rebecca Schneider and Elizabeth Thomas Ulysses residents to be on the committee to work with the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Council on local laws for MS4 . Mr. Austic aye Mr. Scott aye Mr. Weatherby aye Ms . Marino . aye Mr. Ellis aye Adopted. Ms. Marino brought up that the Genesee Finger Lakes Regional Planning council local laws project is focused more broadly than just on laws for compliance with MS4 requirements, though this is clearly one important area for the Town. Since we have a committee membership with broad interest and expertise in storm water and water quality issues, we should not limit the committee to considering only local laws for MS4 . Mr. Austic asked Ms . Marino to have Ms . Thomas sent him a letter of interest to serve as the IO representative for Ulysses and this appointment will be taken up at the Jult Regular Town Board Meeting, as it cannot be at this meeting since it was not on the agenda. Water District Local Law Mr. Austic stated there was an oversight in the Public Water Local Law section 10. 3 Delinquent Payments ; the interest rate to be charged when an account is past due is per month and not per annum. To correct this we will need to hold a public hearing. Mr. Austic will have Attorney Wilson write something up . We can schedule a public hearing at the July regular meeting. In addition Mr. Austic said water is being wasted when we have to open up hydrants to get the water moving. He has contacted an independent NYS approved water hauler about purchasing water and he would be willing to purchase from us . Also , DOT and others sometimes want water and the Town can sell it to them . To do that the Town will need to purchase a portable water meter with a backflow prevention device that will hook to a hydrant. Mr. Austic stated that he is purchasing such a meter and valve system, for a cost of approximately $ 1 , 000 . Ms . Marino asked the selling price for water. The price has not been established for resale ; the Town of Ithaca still needs to establish the price they are selling water to the Town. Mr. Ellis stated that sometime in the future the Town Board might want a public informational meeting about the overall water situation. He has been approached several times and residents do not understand the rational of the water districts from their points of view . Mr. Austic stated that he had a meeting today with the Village about District 5 and more was included in the district that the Village agreed to . These may answer some questions people have out there. This will be discussed at the next Town Board meeting (July 13) . Hearing no further business Mr. Ellis moved, seconded by Mr. Scott to adjourn the meeting. Meeting adjourned at 8 : 21 PM . Special Town Board Meeting 4 06/28/2004 Respectfully submitted, Marsha L. Georgia Ulysses Town Clerk MLG : mlg