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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReg Mtg. Minutes 1/18/1988D -0 n 3 C+ 0 (A < z N cc zm nm z a (ri (D 0 C) -h a C+ av m o uh -s .�- =r( (D �l 00 0 CL ._. w -I• Y CD 3 L N -S 7 ((D . n n C (D c =r w C+ Z a -s .. me to s to E —I O O w 7r G (D N (D U:) (D O co fD N O rn o a r+ 0 0 -1 r. f1 V CL rD (D (D Z W O lD to O -h -S O r 7 wo —i O C Co n O 7 0.(D (O 7 (D "O 0 S c+ C+ Ln ((D -Oh 'O C7 C c+ o a -• (D CD w e (D�. rt (D C-) =r m (D 0) as g a (CD rD (D N -h 7 U3 0 c -h a a 1 . MINUTES of a Regular Meeting - 1/18/88 33 ABSENT: Trustee Pimentel, Fire Chief Miller. OTHERS PRESENT: Mary Call, City Fire Chief Olmstead, Bill Scott, Gordon Wheeler, ® Helen Searle, Kay Newman, Carol Schmitt, Builders Euvard and Cima. Mary Call talked briefly on the topic of recycling and specifically the Village of Cayuga Heights running a pilot program for recycling in the County. She referred to future meetings with Villagers to determine the feasibility of such a program. She stated that answers to such questions as possible expense to the Village, the structuring of such a program to ensure success, incineration, etc., can be found in the orange folder which she has made available to Trustees. In her closing remark, she pointed out that although the Board is currently addressing issues of a more immediate nature, it will, at some point soon, need to work on the issue of recycling. Bill Scott, Village resident, appeared before the Board, hoping, eventually, to get some explanation as to why the Town /County tax issued to Villagers is at a rate much higher than the tax issued to Townspeople (outside Village), inasmuch as the Town provides few services to Villagers. The Board agreed to invite Noel Desch, Town Supervisor, to the February meeting to give him an opportunity to speak to the above. City of Ithaca Fire Chief Olmstead called to the Board's attention the fact that the City has answered 9 false alarm calls to the sewer plant in the past 2'/= months resulting from the sighting, by passers -by, of the flame from the excess methane gas burner. He asked if corrective measures can be taken by the Village to avoid such calls in the future. Engineer Rogers stated that a shield might possibly be installed and will look into it. Motion by Trustee Fleming, seconded by Trustee Camp: VOTED to approve the minutes of a regular meeting held December 21, 1987 as pre- viously furnished Trustees in photocopy form. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Motion by Trustee Anderson, seconded by Trustee Bennett: VOTED to approve the Abstract of Audited Vouchers dated 1/18/88 with the deletion from the list of the FLC bill in the amount of $5,253.61 in the following amounts: General Fund - $16,286.88; Sewer Fund - $18,763.16. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Mayor Marcham read his report which has been filed in the Village Office. The Mayor informed the Board of an upcoming meeting on January 20 of officers of municipalities who use the Village's sewage disposal plant. The Mayor presented to the Board, the budget of the Water Commission as requested by the Board at the December meeting. The central issue of discussion concerned 951 MINUTES of Regular Meeting- 1/18/88 one of the reasons cited by the Commission for requesting a water rate increase, to wit, the increase in employee health insurance (SCLIWC pays 100 %). The Mayor was instructed to write Noel Desch, at the Treasurer's recommendation, to advise him that it is the Board's opinion, given the uncontrollable increase in annual premiums and the anticipated effect on premiums of health care costs associated with AIDS treatment, that this is not an appropriate policy decision and it there- fore rejects the proposed rate increase and related increase in appropriations. Motion by Trustee Anderson, seconded by Trustee Bennett: RESOLUTION 3881 - REJECT RATE INCREASE AS PROPOSED BY SCLIWC VOTED to isntruct the Mayor to write Noel Desch to inform him that the Board rejects the proposed rate increase based on the reasons as stated above. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Moved by Trustee Bennett, seconded by Trustee Kira: RESOLUTION 3882 - APPOINT KATHERINE NEWMAN TO .SERVE ON LOCAL ADVISORY BOARD VOTED to approve the Mayor's appointment of Katherine Newman to serve on the Local I Advisory Board of Review which is scheduled to meet from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on February 9, 1988 in the Village Hall. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Moved by Trustee Bennett, seconded by Trustee Kira: RESOLUTION 3883 - INSPECTORS OF ELECTION VOTED to approve Inspectors of Election as follows: Ann Antil, Chairperson and Lori Chase for the upcoming Village Election. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Motion by Trustee Camp, seconded by Trustee Kira: RESOLUTION 3884 - REGISTRATION AND ELECTION TIMES AND DATES VOTED to hold REgistration on Election March 15, 1988 from Saturday, March 5, 1988 from 12 noon to 9 p.m, and on noon to 9 p.m. in the Village Hall. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes 35 MINUTES of Regular Meeting- 1/18/88 The Annual Residents' Meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 16, 1988 at 7:30 p.m. Trustee Kira filed the report of the Community Association with the Clerk. The monthly report of the Fire Chief was presented in his absence by Trustee Anderson and placed on file in the Clerk's office. Treasurer Walker distributed the December budget statement. He informed the Board that the computer system has been installed in the Clerk's office. There was no report from the Attorney. Police Chief Wall presented his monthly report which is on file. Motion by Trustee Camp, seconded by Trustee Fleming: RESOLUTION 3885 - AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF POLICE CAR VOTED to authorize the Chief of Police to order a 1988 Chevrolet Caprice as a re- placement for the unmarked police car not to exceed $12,000. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Engineer Rogers reported that he and Gary Gleason had visited the Borg - Warner Auto- motive Plant on January 15 and found that they were not, as yet, on line with their pretreatment operation. Motion by Trustee Camp, seconded by Trustee Kira: RESOLUTION 3886 - APPROVE PRIOR PURCHASE BY DPW VOTED to approve, after the fact, the purchase of the truck with spreader and snow- plow from the County for the bid price of $10,100, and to charge it against the DPW Reserve Account funds. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes In reference to the article in a recent issue of ITHACA TIMES featuring the Chabad House at 902 Triphammer Rd., the Zoning Officer raised a question as to its proper use. He will discuss the matter with Attorney Oesterle before pursuing the issue. Trustee Anderson reported on the meeting of Friday, January 15 between Trustees Kira and Camp, Engineer Rogers, Gary Gleason, Engineers from S &W and himself. He commented that Borg - Warner was still not on line with their pretreatment operation and in connection with this, suggested the installation of a permanent monitoring station outside the Borg - Warner Plant to be under Village control. The Engineer, along with the Attorney, was asked to investigate costs and also the possibility of acquiring land, perhaps in the form of an esement from the Town of Lansing. There was discussion regarding allocations for sewer permits to be given to municipalities connected to the Village's treatment plant, for the ensuing 6 months, after Borg - Warner goes on line. 36 MINUTES of Regular Meeting - 1/18/88 Moved by Trustee Kira, seconded by Trustee Camp: RESOLUTION 3887 - BOARD ACCEPTANCE OF FINAL REPORT BY S &W VOTED to accept the final report submitted by S &W, dated January 1988, and used as the basis for the action taken concerning allocation of sewer units to municipalities connected and also, to authorize payment to S &W for the study and their recommendations.. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes Moved by Trustee Camp, seconded by Trustee Kira: RESOLUTION 3888 - ESTABLISH PERMANENT MONITORING STATION TO COLLECT DATA FROM BORG - WATNER AUTOMOTIVE PLANT VOTED to instruct the Engineer and Attorney to move ahead toward establishing a permanent monitoring station outside Borg - Warner Automotive Plant in order to start to gather data which will prove to the Village whether their pretreatment is effective, and the cost of same to be borne by Borg - Warner. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes , Trustee Kira Voting Yes Motion by Trustee Camp, seconded by Trustee Bennett: RESOLUTION 3889 - ALLOCATE SEWER UNITS TO MUNICIPALITIES CONNECTED TO SEWER PLANT VOTED that, contingent upon Borg - Warner Automotive coming treatment and the Village has a clear indication over a 2 working, the following municipalities will be notified.of Town of Ithaca - 15 units, Town of Dryden - 5 units, Town Village of Lansing - 40 units, these to be allocated by t during the ensuing six months. Unanimously passed. on to th of iem line with their pre - 3 days' run that it is air allocation: Lansing - 15 units, as they see fit, Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes It was agreed that before the Town of Lansing is issued their allocation of 15 sewer units, a preliminarysewer agreement must be drawn up and signed by both parties. Trustee.Camp asked Engineer Rogers to pursue with the Town of Ithaca the question of using their engineering services relative to the storm water flow situation throughout the Village. Mayor Marcham turned the meeting over to Deputy Mayor Anderson at 9 p.m. The letter from Ross MacIntyre informing the Board of his sabbatical leave from L. 37 MINUTES of Regular Meeting - 1/18/88 January 15 through May 15, 1988 was discussed and it was agreed to grant him a leave of absence for that period. Mr. MacIntyre will be so informed. The Board agreed to enter Executive Session at 9:20 p.m. The Engineer, Treasurer, Attorney and Minutes of Executive Session: Clerk were ex Lsed from 'h mee ing. Anne Krohto Clerk Discussion centered on options available to the $card while waiting for procedural processes to fill the position of Supt. of Public Works; one requirement is that each applicant be a Village resident. It appears that it could be another year before a test is given and a list of eligible applicants is received from Civil Service. Motion by Trustee Camp, second by Trustee Bennett: RESOLUTION 3890 -OFFER APPOINTMENT TO ROGERS ON PROVISIONAL BASIS VOTED that Jack Rogers be offered appointment as Supt. of Public Works on a provis- ional basis as of January 1, 1988 with perquisites of: health insurance as offered to other full -time employees, vacation allowance of three weeks annually and accrued sick leave equivalent to that earned by 10 years of employment. Duties shall be those in the job description as approved by the Board and County Personnel, and subject to stipulations as outlined in the letter of May 5, 1987. Unanimously passed. Trustee Anderson Voting Yes Trustee Bennett Voting Yes Trustee Camp Voting Yes Trustee Fleming Voting Yes Trustee Kira Voting Yes The Board returned to regular meeting status and promptly adjourned. Adjourned 10:25 p.m. Ronald Anderson Deputy Mayor MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING - FEBRUARY 15, 1988 Minutes of a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cayuga Heights held February 15, 1988, 7:30 p.m. in the Village Hall. PRESENT: Mayor F.G.Marcham: Trustees Anderson, Camp, Kira, Pimentel: Attorney Oesterle, Treasurer Walker, Supt. of Public Works Rogers; Police Chief Wall; Fire Chief Miller. ABSENT: Trustees Bennett, Fleming. OTHERS PRESENT: Supt. Gordon Bruno, John Majeroni, Helen Searle; Kay Newman, Carol Schmitt, Tibby McLafferty, Alan Wheeler, Alan Euvard, Bea Szekely, Karen Zwart. Mayor Marcham called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.