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PUBLIC HEARING
JULY 10, 2007
Present : Supervisor Douglas Austic ; Town Council Roxanne Marino , Don Ellis, Rod
Ferrentino and Lucia Tyler; Town Clerk Marsha L . Georgia; Deputy Supervisor Richard
Coogan .
Others Present : Michael Cirri, Stacey Silliman, Geoffrey Hart and Martha Ullberg.
Supervisor Austic called the Public Hearing to order at 7 PM.
Proof of publication was furnished .
Mr. Carri asked clarification on the regulation that states "Racing and other events that
utilize motorized self-propelled vehicles are not allowed during weekdays when school is
in session and during school events . "
Mr. Austic said that is for the zone A2 which is the fair grounds and the intent was not to
have demolition derbies or that type of thing during school hours .
Ms . Marino said that in the Zoning Law there are other noise levels which are time
sensitive .
Mr. Austic said that it is 90dBa between the hours of 7am to 1 1pm and 55dBa between
the hours of 1 1pm till 7am .
The Board discussed this further and decided that it is in the Design Standards Section
17 . 2 . 2 so therefore it would apply to any zone .
Mr. Cirri said that he is the person that emailed the Board members about his intentions
down the road to buy the property on Rt . 96 and have a miniature golf course and
possibly a go cart track.
The Board discussed the property on Rt . 96 as being in a PUD and what possibly could
happen if that property was divided and how Mr. Cirri would have to apply for what his
intended use is to be .
Mr. Cirri said that even though the intention of that part of the zoning is to protect the
school from noise because it is written in the section it is the entire Town is not allowed
to have, if there was a permitted use in the future for example go carts that would not
permitted regardless of how far away from the school because of this standard. Mr. Cirri
said because if I used electric go carts it would not be about noise but because of the way
it is written it would not be permitted because it is any kind of racing activity.
Mr. Austic said it would determine how it was written in the application and what the
Planning Board, Zoning Board or Town Board determined would be permitted.
Mr. Austic asked if there were any more comments on the purposed amendments to the
Zoning Law.
Hearing no further questions Mr. Ellis moved, seconded by Mr. Ferrentino to close the
Public Hearing.
Mr. Austic aye
Mr. Ferrentino aye
Ms . Tyler aye
Mr. Ellis aye
Ms . Marino aye
Adopted.
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Public Hearing closed at 7 : 20 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Marsha L . Georgia
Ulysses Town Clerk
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TOWN OF ULYSSES
TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING
JULY 10, 2007
Present : Supervisor Douglas Austic ; Town Council Roxanne Marino, Don Ellis, Rod
Ferrentino and Lucia Tyler; Town Clerk Marsha L . Georgia; Deputy Supervisor Richard
Coogan; Town Highway Superintendent James Meeker; and Town Attorney Mariette
Geldenhuys
Others Present : Michael Cirri, Geoffrey Hart, Martha Ullberg, Stacey Sillman, Scott
Sherwood and Heather Hartwell .
Supervisor Austic called the meeting to order at 7 : 30 PM and led those assembled in the
pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES RTB 6/12, STB 5/21 STB 6/25 PH 6/12
The minutes of the Regular Town Board Meeting of June 12 , 2007 and the Special Town
Board Meeting of June 25th , 2007 were tabled.
Mr. Ferrentino moved, seconded by Ms . Tyler the following :
BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses approve the
minutes of June 12, 2007 Public Hearing and the Special Town Board Meeting of
May 25th , 2007 as corrected .
Mr. Austic aye
Mr. Ferrentino aye
Ms . Tyler aye
Mr. Ellis aye
Ms . Marino aye
Adopted.
APPROVAL OF CLAIMS
Mr. Ellis moved, seconded by Ms . Tyler the following :
BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses approve the
previous examined vouchers #246 through #290 excluding voucher #258 for a
total of $20,215 . 31 .
Mr. Austic aye
Mr. Ferrentino aye
Ms . Tyler aye
Mr. Ellis aye
Ms . Marino aye
Adopted.
REPORT OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tompkins County Representative Jim Dennis — absent .
Trumansburg Fire Department Ms . Tyler reported that the Fire Depaitinent got FEMA
grant money and with that they purchased air compressors and a new exhaust system to
be installed next month. A new ambulance is being purchased to replace the 1994
ambulance and it is not larger. On July 14 at the Fire Hall there will be an information
meeting on bidding for work on the workshop .
Ms . Tyler announced that Sue Robertson, Tammy McMillen and Jason Fulton met and
has nearly pulled together the preliminary figures for the fire budget.
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PLANNING BOARD REPORT
Mr. Coogan reported that the Planning Board has not met and they are scheduled to meet
on July 17th
OTHER
Mr. Durand, Co Chair of the Ulysses Youth Committee stated that the Youth
Committee gathered tonight to come to a consensus about their recommendation
concerning the Town participation in the Recreation Partnership . The consensus is that
the Committee feels that it is a good idea to continue participation in the Recreation
Partnership as long as a few concerns are addressed before the signing of the contract.
Those concerns are that people outside the County should not be allowed to participate,
the Recreation Partnership keep a cap on costs and give everyone an opportunity to
review the costs, and in the review of the participation there should be more for the dollar
and possibly the Recreation Partnership could advertise more to get full participation
from the Town as possible .
PUBLIC PRIVILEDGE OF THE FLOOR no one spoke from the audience.
TOWN REPORTS
HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT James Meeker reported the following:
• Mowed all roadsides
• Patched where needed
• Trimming brush and limbs around the signs for sight visibility
• Ditch and driveway pipe installed for Tutton on Glenwood Heights Road
• Built headwall on road crossing pipe on Curry Road (North end)
• Helped County haul gravel to Halseyville Road bridge project
• Halseyville Road bridge tentatively scheduled to open on August 2nd
• Shoulder work on Rabbit Run Road and North end of Curry Road
CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER Alex Rachun was absent and Mr. Coogan
reported that there has been very little activity and Mr. Rachun has just started to receive
building plans .
TOWN CLERK Marsha L. Georgia reported that a total of $ 1 , 149 . 50 was collected in
June for fees and of that $487 went to the Supervisor along with her monthly report and
also $ 125 taken in for a plumbing permit.
BOARD MEMBER AND COMMITTEES
Ms . Marino reported on the Comprehensive Plan Committee and said that she spoke
with the Chair of the Committee, Sue Poelvoorde who reported that they had mailed out
2,220 surveys and now have back over 700 . SRI will do it through (tabulation) the ones
received by June 30th so all the ones received after that date will be added using an excel
worksheet . Ms . Marino said that she has heard from a couple of people that they never
received a copy of the survey so those are being allowed to fill one out and return to the
Town directly. The other thing the Committee is looking into is getting a consultant to
help with the further development of the Comprehensive Plan. So far they have
requested list of qualifications to start gathering letters of interest from firms . They do
not plan on doing the hiring that will be done by the Town Board. The Committee has
interviewed two firms and will possibly interview one more.
Ms . Marino asked Mr. Austic if he could make up a summary for Sue of the total spent
on the survey.
SUPERVISOR Austic previously submitted the financial report for the Boards review.
There were a couple of questions on the balances that Mr. Austie cleared up .
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DEPUTY SUPERVISOR RICHARD COOGAN reported the following :
Planning Report - There have been approximately 700 surveys returned to SRI, no word
as to when we will see a tabulation of the data.
Comprehensive Planning Committee will be conducting the last Consultant interviews
this week . Sue Poelvoorde would like clarification on how to proceed with retaining the
consultant they select. Comp Plan Committee will not be meeting in July and the next
scheduled meeting is August 28th
Applications for the Ag grant have been delayed until August. Comp Plan Committee
would like to begin working on the Ag Grant with Monika Roth of CCETC .
City of Ithaca is planning on closing Cliff Street from the beginning of August through
September. Because of some legal work remaining, only the top portion of Cliff Street
will be repaved this year and Cliff street will tentatively be closed again next year to
complete the road work.
The last details are being worked out for the Corridor study.
Stormwater - The flyover took place in May and the first pass analysis completed .
Project is on schedule for completion in September.
OLD BUSINESS
ANNEXATION
The decision on annexation has to be made by the Board by September 4th, 2007 . Mr.
Austic said that the Board should try and make a decision by the last week in August.
The Board discussed their schedules as to when they would be available for a meeting.
Mr. Austic asked they Board if they had any questions for the attorney or any other
questions on any other information.
Ms . Geldenhuys distributed a memorandum that she had prepared with some examples of
case law .
Ms . Austic said that the Board should make up some findings in advance.
Ms . Geldenhuys said that would be wise so a proposed resolution could be prepared and
also the Village assuming they are lead agency will have to pass their SEQR resolution.
Mr. Austic will check with the Village of Trumansburg on the status of the SEQR
application.
Ms . Tyler said that she would like to have something from the Fire Department.
Mr. Ferrentino said the Village has asked the Fire Department for some information and
may be the Town could get a copy of that .
Ms . Marino said she wanted to be clear on if there is a yes decision from both parties is
there a mandatory referendum and is it the landowners who votes or the registered
voters?
Ms . Geldenhuys said yes it would be a mandatory referendum if both parties voted yes
for the annexation. Ms . Geldenhuys said she would check further into who would vote.
Ms . Marino would also like clarification on who would vote for a water district, because
her understanding was registered voters for the annexation vote and property owners for
water district vote.
Mr. Austic asked Ms . Geldenhuys to make sure of this .
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Ms . Marino ' s other question for Ms . Geldenhuys or understanding is that it is obvious
that Water District #5 is intertwined in this decision for consideration of this action for
annexation and so the Board needs to make a set of findings based on what the attorney
outlined, Ms. Marino would like a clear understanding as to whether the Board can or can
not use as a finding a reason for their vote either the ability or non ability having the
water district happen in relationship to finances . Because Mr. Austic has raised that if the
Board is suppose to consider the overall public interest that one could interpret .
Ms . Geldenhuys said that there is something that touches on that in the memo she
distributed. Ms . Geldenhuys said that basically in the overall public interest criteria look
at services such as water, sewer, police and fire protection and things of that nature. Ms .
Geldenhuys said she found a case from the 80ty' s of the Town and Village of Lansing
and the court considered many factors but one of the factors that was considered that if
the Town was allowed to annex a portion of the Village of Lansing then the Village
would lose funding for a sewer project they had planned so that tells Ms . Geldenhuys that
water district could be a factor. Ms . Geldenhuys said in her opinion it is one of the things
to be considered in the Board ' s findings because you are suppose to be looking at
services and the Board needs to weigh all these different kinds of considerations because
a potential loss of funding for an improvement is services and is a factor in conjunction to
any other factors .
The Board discussed time frame again for meetings . The following was scheduled :
• August 22 , 2007 at 7PM (working session of annexation)
• August 27th, 2007 at 7PM (vote on resolution for annexation)
OTHER
Supervisor Austic said that he is requesting quotes for the house number signs from a
couple of different suppliers . When he receives them he will contact the Board to review
and make a decision.
NEW BUSINESS
REC . PARTNERSHIP DISCUSSION AND VOTE
Mr. Austic had distributed comments from Mr. Barber on the Recreation Partnership .
Mr. Austic said that the Board may want to hold off on a decision tonight on the
Partnership . Ms . Marino said that most of the things that Mr. Barber wrote were not
substantial changes in what the Partnership is proposing and Ms . Marino is certainly not
advocating on voting on a draft document that the Board does not know the final wording
on but she thinks the reason that the RP was asking if municipalities were going to adopt
the document by August 10th is so they could get a handle on their budget. Ms. Marino
would like to purpose that the Board takes a vote on just the sense of the Board giving
contingent approval on the final document being acceptable and the budget not to exceed
some increase the Board would decide on.
Ms . Marino moved, seconded by Mr. Austic the following :
BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Board of the Town of Ulysses would continue
in the Recreation Partnership provided we are satisfied with the final agreement
and the final budget does not exceed a Town of Ulysses payment to the
Recreation Partnership of $7000 .
Mr. Austic aye
Mr. Ferrentino aye
Ms. Tyler aye
Mr. Ellis aye
Ms . Marino aye
Adopted.
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The Board agreed that Mr. Austic and Ms . Marino will go to the outside municipalities
that participate in the Partnership and ask for some monetary contribution towards the RP
contract.
OTHER
Mr. Ellis asked if anything was going to be said about the Water District.
Mr. Ellis recalls a motion that Ms . Tyler brought to the last Regular Meeting , which the
Board . According to the rules, this resolution should have come up at the next meeting
which was the special meeting.
Ms . Marino said she thought that the resolution was withdrawn to be worked on, Ms .
Tyler agreed.
Mr. Ellis said he just did not want to go past another month without saying that we need
to have planning work done relative to a water district being approved.
Mr. Austic said that he has said several times that he has had several planners willing to
do this in the past no Board member has said for him to go forward and he does not know
why. Mr. Austic said that Tompkins County Planning said they could work on it; Tom
Niederkorn would have done it .
Mr. Ellis said that the Town Board meets and discussed things like this ; the Town
administration is here to do them, if the Town administration does not do them it won ' t
get done .
Mr. Austic said are you saying I should just go ahead and hire a planner without Board
approval .
Mr. Ellis said no but he would like to see the process go ahead in a normal way so that
planners can be qualified and engaged to valuate the development impact of the water
district . One of the three things the Board members have wanted in the sixteen months
we have talked about this .
Mr. Austic said he has brought the planners up several times and he has arranged several
times for planners to do it and when he has brought it up at meetings it has not gone
anywhere ' s from there.
The Board discussed this further.
Ms . Marino asked if Tompkins County, in some targeted way could give the Town
recommendations because she thought the Board could not engage them when they were
asking about them doing or helping with the Comprehensive Plan.
Mr. Austic said for the Board could authorize him to call and make arrangements with
Tompkins County Planning to do it .
Ms . Tyler said no she thinks the Board needs to have a proposal .
Ms . Marino said if they can review certain things about it; it is going to have to be very
short and targeted; perhaps we can have some targeted set of things that they could give
us recommendations on. Ms . Marino looked for an outline that she had previously made
up .
Mr. Austic said to give him a list of what the Board wanted to see and he would see to it
that it gets done .
Ms . Marino highlighted what she would like to see provided as follows :
• Concrete information on land uses currently in Water District #5
• Possible changes associated with a water district including property value
assessment changes
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• Documentation of the current uses on parcels and maybe some kind of scenario of
some sort of build out that could occur with the current zoning that the Town has
on these parcels
• Impact on agriculture — see a clear summary of the Ag & Market rules that govern
water infrastructure and district formation
• Brief summary of the capability of the Town ' s proposed infrastructure .with the
County' s Comprehensive Plan in that area using the criteria that they develop for
a 2391 & m review
Ms. Tyler added that the effect on Natural areas should be in there also .
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Mr. Austic said he could ask the County if they could do it if the Board says to go ahead.
Mr. Austic asked again if the criteria Mr. Marino set and Ms . Tyler set would satisfy the
Board.
Mr. Ellis said. the Board should ask Mr. Austic to do what he can with the County
Planning Department and if that is going nowhere we could say what we would do next.
Mr. Austic will try and get an answer by the middle of next week if the County can do it
or not.
Mr. Ellis said that he has come up with a few names of planners .
Ms . Tyler said that the County would have an advantage because they' re already
involved in looking at a lot of this.
Ms . Marino said to her it does not make sense to hire a planner to look at a completely
isolated district when we are already looking to hire a planner to look at the bigger
picture .
Mr. Austic said his question is would this ease the concern of the Board.
Ms . Tyler said she thinks it would if they could answer these concerns .
Mr. Ellis said that there were three things that were asked for and the first one was that
technical aspects be evaluated further and that was done pretty well and never any delay,
secondly is the memorandum between the Town and the. Village resolving revenue issues
and a lot of homework was done on that and why can ' t we get to a memorandum on that.
Mr. Austic said that the Village has not gotten back on that.
Ms . Marino said the Town still has from May 8th a standing request with regard to water
acquisition proposal report that we need to get and one the pieces of information is that .
Mr. Ellis said that we have a Deputy Supervisor and a Supervisor and why can ' t we get
something as simple as this done.
Mr. Austin said because you can not go over to the Village and talk to them when they
are not there.
Mr. Austic said he would have pursued the planner months ago if the Board had said to
go ahead and do it, but every time he brought it up no one said to go ahead .
Mr. Ellis asked where we are with the memorandum is that the Town has asked to engage
in conversation about that and the Village is just not coming back to us .
Mr. Austic said yes .
Mr. Ellis said he would make an effort to find out what is going on with the Village .
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Ms . Marino said she would like to have as a piece of information before she votes on the
water district and that is if the Village stands by their October 23 , 2006 resolution they
passed where they did not support Water District #5 going forward. Ms . Marino said she
thinks the Town should give a date and say that they are going to vote on the water
district on this date and the Town needs to have answers from the Village before that
date.
Ms . Tyler said she thought that Mr. Austic was going to get a letter from the Ithaca Board
regarding the alternate plan that he had developed for paying for the water.
Ms . Marino said that is part of the May 8th resolution.
Mr. Ellis said he feels that the Town should insist that the Village provide the information
but give them a reason why we are insisting on it .
Ms . Marino would like Mr. Austic to get together with Eric Pond to complete the report
asked for in the May 8th resolution.
Mr. Austic said he does not understand what Ms . Marino wants nor does he think that
Mr. Pond understands it.
Ms . Marino pointed out that the full Board voted and approve the May 8th resolution.
Mr. Austic said them he is going to contact the County Planning and see if they can do
this planning and if he can not get an answer by next week we will have to figure
something else out.
Mr. Austic said that Mr. Coogan can try and find out what the Village is going to do .
Mr. Austic asked if a resolution was going to be introduced as to the proposed purchase
of water from the Village of Trumansburg; are they interested or is it possible to purchase
water and the Town still wants to know if there has been a change in their support of
water.
Ms . Marino said that the Town wants a formal resolution from the Village on there
position as to whether they support the water district .
Mr. Ellis said better yet why we don ' t ask them when they can engage with the Town in
writing this memorandum; that answers the question . We don ' t need what they think we
need the memorandum.
Ms . Marino said that they could say they can not provide the water but say yes they are
changing their position and are in favor of the water district.
Mr. Austic asked the Board them to make a resolution that he could send to the Village.
No resolution was presented and Mr. Austic said he could come up with something
tomorrow; email it to the Board for their approval .
Mr. Ellis said he is trying to write something down .
Ms . Tyler said if the request is vague then you will not get an answer.
Mr. Ellis said that the Town has already requested information on May 8th and have not
heard anything back. Mr. Ellis said we can ask all of it ; ask for resolution to clarify their
position of water district #5 , the Town can tell them that we have a schedule in which we
need to have a response to the questions presented in the Town ' s resolution of May 8th,
2007 and also ask the Village to enter before a particular date into a discussion with the
goal to create a memorandum resolving equitable revenues between the two
municipalities .
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Mr. Ellis said that he understands that their may be questions that hang out for awhile but
if you get the frame work of the thing together in a draft then it is clear where it is going.
Mr. Austic said what date; tell them that the Town needs to get this thing going by the
middle of July.
Ms. Marino said she thinks you should just say to the Village that the Town Board is
going to vote on the MPR on this date and we would like this information by this date .
But also we need a statement as to if they are in support of Water District #5 .
Mr. Austic said he is still either waiting for a resolution or authorization on what the
Board wants him to do .
Mr. Ellis said he thinks dates need to be set and say by this date we this Board need to
take action and need to vote.
Mr. Austic said he would say that the Board needs to vote on the MPR at the next
Regular Town Board meeting which is August 14th, 2007 . Assuming that would take 30
days to do it would be middle of September, then gather information for SEQR, you have
to consult with Ag & Markets, you have to secure the supply of water and in order to get
all this done before the 2nd week in December you have to move fast .
Mr. Ellis said he thinks what the Town needs to do is say we need to have a vote on the
MPR on August 14th and prior to that there are things that need to be resolved that
include the Village and the Village needs to respond to the May 8th request and that is
simple. The Town needs that information to make their decision and as sort of a (b) part
of that is that by some date the Town and Village needs to set a meeting before that in
which the mathematical information related to the revenue issues can be put on the table
so that the work can begin to make a memorandum relative to that.
Mr. Austic said do we need something formal or does the Board just want him to contact
the Village.
Mr. Ellis said the Board has the resolution of May 8th and now Mr. Austic can just go
ahead and do these things .
Mr. Austic said them he will try and see what is going on with the Village.
Mr. Austic moved for executive session of the mater of land purchase, seconded by Mr.
Ellis .
Mr. Austic aye
Mr. Ferrentino aye
Ms . Tyler aye
Mr. Ellis aye
Ms . Marino aye
Adopted.
Board adjourned to executive session at 9 : 15 pm .
Mr. Ellis moved, seconded by Mr. Ferrentino to come out of executive session and
reconvene the Regular Town Board meeting.
Mr. Austic aye
Mr. Ferrentino aye
Ms . Tyler aye
Mr. Ellis aye
Ms . Marino aye
Adopted .
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Meeting reconvened at 9 : 45 PM
PUBLIC COMMENTS
Mr. Austic asked if any comments would like to be made .
Mr. Geoffrey Hart said he wanted to say a few things about the annexation issue and
water district. Mr. Hart wanted to thank this Board ; several members have taken the time
to get him informed and bring him up to speed on technical issues with the water district,
financial issues and also with their view points . Mr. Hart said he had also listened to
what the Village Board has had to say so he thinks that he is in a position to form an
opinion on his own and if you don ' t have enough information you can not even have an
opinion. Mr. Hart said he does have an opinion and he just would like to share that with
the Town Board and hope that they will take it into consideration. Mr. Hart said that most
municipal issues are in his observation and not necessarily humanitarian issues but he
thinks this whole water district situation is very much a humanitarian issue. Mr. Hart
said he lives in the Village and he could just say that it is someone else ' s problem but the
fact is there are a couple of hundred people who are neighbors, friends some work in the
Village a lot of them come and do business in the Village and they have a very bad
problem and Mr. Hart thinks this is a humanitarian issue and Mr. Hart said he knows the
Board will consider that but the question is how much weight do each of us give to it, it is
a function of our personalities, how much does a particular technical problem or financial
inequity hold our attention or how much are we saying; these our are friends, these our
are neighbors and they something and we are going to do something about it. Mr. Hart
said he is not really emotional but he wanted to express his passion for this issue and
what he believes needs to happen if we really are going to give the humanitarian aspect
the weight that he gives it in his gut is annexation must be stopped, this Board can stop it
by a vote, the Village Board could stop it and they are holding a meeting tomorrow night
and he plans on telling them something like this if they are willing to listen . MR. Hart
said that if the annexation is stopped, remember how it started, it started with the
previous Village Board approaching Mr. Auble and inviting him to apply for annexation
when they knew annexation would scrub the water district at this time, but now there are
three new members of the Village Board, three out of five are different members from the
members that initiated that process so he thinks they may be persuadable but Mr. Hart
said he thinks the will has to come from somewhere, it either has to come from the
Village Board or this Town Board to say "we ' ve got to do something" either or both
boards vote against annexation and then say okay let ' s lock ourselves in a room and work
out something that all can live with because Mr. Hart has a very bad feeling that turning
our backs on the needs of a couple of hundred people is just a very wrong thing to do .
Mr. Hart said he was glad he could share this and thanked the Board for listening.
Mr. Ferrentino pointed out a map that shows 600 to 700 people that will benefit from
water.
Ms. Marino disagreed with this figure and said she and Mr. Austic had discussed it that
morning.
Mr. Austic said it was 500 to 600 individuals .
Mr. Hart said it comes down to that each of us has a certain emotional response and how
much weight we give to humanitarian issues and how much weight to technical problems.
Mr. Hart said he understands there are problems but for him he is saying "let ' s do
something for these people" .
Mr. Ellis said he does not think anyone is opposed to the water district; good process is
what he wants and if you talk about humanitarian issues you have to look at the whole
picture . Mr. Ellis said that he assists an elder person in the Village who ' s second largest
bill is her water/sewer bill and she can not afford a newspaper so this plan as it was
brought forward before it was carefully questioned by this whole Board would have
increased her water bill by a huge amount so the humanitarian thing is more broad then
just the humanitarian thing that applies to particular individuals with bad water. Mr. Ellis
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said he has nothing but sympathy for them to get by that problem but we have to look at
the whole picture .
Mr. Austic said you have to realize that the Village has increased water rates by the same
amount that the Villager said would increase because of Water District #5 and Water
District #5 has not happened.
Ms . Marino said that she would like to look into the costs and the outline that Mr. Ellis
spoke about and she thinks the Town can do a ballpark envelope the number of people .
Ms. Marino said one other thing she had forgotten about that she would like to get and
perhaps can be requested from Mr. Pond and that is the data that Mr. Pond used to assess
how many people have public health water concerns and what they are because there are
people writing from all over the Town that have these concerns also .
ADJOURNMENT
Hearing no further business Mr. Ferrentino moved, seconded by Mr. Ellis to adjourn the
meeting. Unanimously approved, meeting adjourned at 9 : 55 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Marsha L. Georgia
Ulysses Town"Clerk
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