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Minutes of Meeting
December 30, 2015
In Attendence:
Commissioners: Gene Beavers, Skip Fairchild, Carl Seamon, Tod Sukontarak
The Meeting commenced at 7:05pm
Agenda
filling commissioner positions,
setting meeting schedules,
keeping and posting minutes of meetings,
signing vouchers to be presented to Town Board
developing infrastructure improvement plans
setting an organizational meeting
Minutes
Tod distributed the list of current commissioners and open positions prepared by Marge Seamon.
Gene Beavers’ appt. started in January of 2012 and runs until end of Dec 2016. Jack Hobbie’s appt.
began Jan 2013 and runs until the end of 2017 (Jack moved in Sept of 2015 and his position has yet to
be filled). John Sill’s appt. began Jan 2014 and runs until the end of 2018 (John was seriously injured
in an accident in Sept of 2015 and wishes to be replaced). Skip Fairchild’s appt. began Jan 2015 and
runs until the end of 2019. Tod Sukontarak’s appt. began in Jan 2011 and ends Dec 31 2015 (we need
to replace him).
We discussed courting District residents Denise Ryder and Marrell Cortright to see about their
willingness to take Jack position and the new appt. that will run until Dec 31 2020. We determined
that if either or both is interested, we would recommend to Town Board to approve their applications.
As the business of the Water District does not normally require monthly meetings, we decided to
schedule our meeting to occur on a quarterly basis on the second Wed on the months of March, June,
September and December. We will schedule additional meeting on an as-need basis. Minutes will be
taken and posted on the Town website within two weeks of the meeting. There was some discussion
as to where we are required to notify meeting schedules but we plan to determine that and meet the
requirements. At minimum, we are going to post on the Town website and the Danby Area News.
We briefly discussed addressing our billing structure. This is a topic we’ve talked about in the
past but determined should be put off until we completed our new meter installation. The issue is im-
plementing a billing structure that encourages water conservation. Our current billing structure re-
duces the cost of a gallon of water the more is used. This was based on a more agricultural use com-
munity that we no longer have. Billing is a topic that we will address in more detail at a later meeting.
Other new business to be addressed is developing a longer term plan for replacing or repairing
infrastructure. There is some plumbing in the pump house that could be included in this. We also
talked about finding a way to isolate the chlorine gas that causes pipe deterioration. Tod is going to
research this and put the results on the agenda of a future meeting.
We set the date of Jan 13, 7pm at the West Danby Fire Station for our next meeting to discuss
these longer term plans and projects.
Adjournment
We adjourned the meeting at 7:35pm
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