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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReg Mtg. Minutes 7/19/1999Minutes of the Regular Meeting July 19, 1999 VILLAGE OF CAYUGA HEIGHTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Minutes of a Public Hearing held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cayuga Heights held July 19, 1999, at 7:00 PM in the Village Hall. Present: James Larounis, Mayor Anderson, Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning, Attorney Tyler, Supt, of PW Cross, Clerk Kord. The Public Hearing was called to order at 7:00 PM by the Mayor. There were no members of the public present. Supt, of PW Brent Cross gave an overview of the project proposed by Mr. Larounis, owner of the Heights Cafe at the Corners Community Center at 903 Hanshaw Rd. Mr. Larounis would like to expand his restaurant into an adjacent space currently occupied by Pak - Mail. Mr. Cross noted that this expansion meets the requirements of the Village Zoning Ordinances, but that any new, addition or change of use must be examined by Public Hearing. The additional need for parking for the enlarged restaurant was discussed and Mr. Larounis and Mr. Ciaschi, owner of the Comers Community Center, will meet on Friday, July 23, in order to resolve the situation. There was also a discussion of the added waste being dumped by the restaurant into the dumpster. It was noted that it would probably only increase by one additional pail and that the bulk of the material in the dumpster is being dumped illegally by people other than those at the Center. Supt. Cross noted that this project would fall under Type 2 SEQRA classification, which does not require formal review. The Public Hearing was closed at 7:15 PM. Motion by Trustee Fleming, seconded by Trustee Bisogni, RESOLUTION 5024 — Authorize a Building Permit for the expansion of the Heights CaM Voted to approve the authorization of a Building Permit to James Larounis, owner of the Heights Cafd, 903 Hanshaw Rd., to enlarge his restaurant into the space now occupied by Pak Mail. Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. Minutes of a Public Hearing held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cayuga Heights held July 19, 1999, at 7:15 PM in the Village Hall. , Present: Mayor Anderson, Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning, Attorney Tyler, Supt. of PW Cross, Clerk Kord. The Public Hearing was called to order at 7:15 PM by the Mayor. There were no members of the public present. Attorney Tyler explained the proposed changes in the Village of Cayuga Heights Firearms Ordinance; deleting Section 3 which reads: "This ordinance shall be interpreted to permit the owners of property in the Village to use a gun to kill vermin providing such person does so on his own property and providing the discharge from the gun does not go beyond the boundaries of his property, and also providing such owner first obtains a permit from the Village Police Department." And furthermore renumbering the old Section 4, new Section 3. It was felt that the old Section 3 was at variance with State Environmental Conservation Law 11- 0931(4) concerning discharging firearms within 500 feet of dwellings. The Public Hearing closed at 7:20 PM. Motion by Trustee Kira, seconded by Trustee Fleming, IIiC RESOLUTION 5025 — Amend Firearms Ordinance VOTED to amend the Village of Cayuga Heights firearms ordinance by deleting Section 3 and making the old section 4, new Section 3. Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. This resolution will become Local Law #2 of 1999. Minutes of the Regular Meeting held by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Cayuga Heights held July 19, 1999, at 7:30 PM in the Village Hall. Present: Mayor Anderson, Trustees Fleming, Kim, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning, Attorney Tyler, Supt. of PW Cross, Clerk Kord, Treasurer Silber. Absent: Fire Chief Day, Police Chief Lansing The Meeting was called to order by the Mayor at 7:30 PM and opened to the privilege of the floor, but there were no speakers. Trustee Kira noted three changes in the minutes of the Regular meeting of June 21, 1999: Page 3, Fire Chief Lansing should be Police Chief Lansing. Page 5, the word accept should be added in the line "Voted to accept the Abstract of Vouchers ". Page 6, the d'Ambrosi address is 624 Cayuga Heights Road. Motion by Trustee Kira, seconded by Trustee Dunning, VOTED to approve the minutes of the meeting of June 21, 1999, previously furnished to Trustees in copy form, as amended. Trustee, Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. Mayor Anderson reported on the following: The Village was invited to participate in NYSEG Solutions Tompkins -Tioga County alliance. Participation would result in savings from $200 to $400 for the 5 Village Gas Accounts and approx. $1,850 for the Sewer Plant. RESOLUTION #5026 - AUTHORIZATION TO PARTICIPATE IN COOPERATIVE PURCHASING OF NATURAL GAS Motion by Trustee Fleming, seconded by Trustee Bisogni, WHEREAS, the County of Tompkins and the County of Tioga entered into an agreement with NYSEG Solutions, Inc., for the purchase of natural gas and WHEREAS, the contract stipulates that political subdivisions within the counties may obtain natural gas under the contract, and WHEREAS, the Tompkins County Board of Representatives has adopted a resolution providing that political subdivisions within the county shall be included in such cooperative purchasing agreement upon the submission of a resolution approved by its governing body to the County Department of Finance, now therefore be it RESOLVED, That the Village of Cayuga Heights shall participate in the cooperative purchase agreement and may, thereby, purchase natural gas under the contract with NYSEG Solutions, Inc., RESOLVED, further that a copy of this resolution shall be sent to the Tompkins County Board of Representatives and the Tompkins County Department of Finance. Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. 111 - Mayor Anderson reported that he has had complaints about the daycare facility at 105 Highgate Rd., at premises owned by Daniel Ripoll. There was a discussion as to whether the facility met both the daycare regulations and also fit under the Cayuga Heights Zoning Ordinances as to number of children and caregivers. Both the Mayor and Attorney Tyler will look further into the matter and report at the next meeting. - There was a request by Fred Falck of 111 The Parkway to be assigned a second postal address for his property in order to handle business mail. The Board felt that this posed a safety issue with 911 and denied the request. - Eric Pritz of 106 Brook Lane has complained again that the dumpster at the Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority at 435 Wyckoff Ave, is'unsightly. Supt of PW Cross found that it also encroaches on the Village ROW and will send a letter to Elizabeth Davenport, House Manager of the sorority asking for a plan within 10 days to remedy the situation. If no plan is presented then penalties will be applied as are set forth in the Zoning Ordinances. The Deer committee has requested that a questionnaire be sent out with the Village Newsletter re- polling the residents as to their altitudes on lethal methods of controlling the Village deer. After a brief discussion, the Board denied their request. No new development on the negotiations with the PBA on overtime payments. Bolton Point would like to put up a memorial plaque for Tom Putnam at the meter building at the comer of North Triphammer Rd. and Spruce Lane. - - Bolton Point— Intermunicipal Water Commission is still meeting. Paul Tunison is • currently the Acting Manager in charge of Bolton Point. - Tompkins County Assessment will be doing fieldwork in the neighborhoods of Cayuga Heights over several months, and wanted Village Residents to have advance notice of their activity. - There was a summons served on the Village from State Farnr Insurance concerning the ' Amanda Nalevanko lawsuit. It has been referred to the Ithaca Agency. - There will be a final joint meeting of the working committee and the client committee of the Northeast Subarea Transit Study on July 29h at 5:30 PM. - The Board members received a letter from Mr. d'Ambrosie concerning a continuing dispute with his neighbor, Mr. Kalter in response to a recent letter from Superintendent Cross about removing encroachments onto the Village Street right of way. Mr. Cross will continue to take care of the matter. Report of the Supt. of Public Works Cross: A bid for a new back -up power supply generator was advertised for bid opening on 7/12/99, however no bids were received. The date was extended until 7 /19/99, however only one bid arrived by opening time. Supt. Cross did not open the bid. The Board felt that it is important to have more than one bid for comparison purposes, the bidding period should be extended. RESOLUTION 5027 — Bidding term extended to Wed. 7/28/99 Motion by Trustee Meinhardt, seconded by Trustee Fleming, Voted to extend the bidding term for the back -up power supply generator for the sewer plant to Wed. 7/28/99. Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. A Special Meeting of the Board was set for August 2, 1999 at 4:30 PM in the Village Hall to review all bids in hand at that time. There has been little progress on the Clean Water Bond Act project. Supt. Cross received a letter from Attorney Susan Brock, representing the Special Joint Sewer Committee (SJS) requesting that the Village sign an intermunicipal agreement to participate in the contract with Stearns & Wheler to provide the joint engineering report to the New York 3 Stale DEC. After a discussion of the issue the Board felt that it was important to participate in order to have input, however they had several stipulations. RESOLUTION 5028 — To participate in Intermunicipal Agreement Motion by Trustee Mcinhardt, seconded by Trustee Kusse, VOTED to authorize and to direct Mayor Anderson to execute the Cost Sharing Agreement for Stearns & Wheler, LLC to provide engineering services as described in the AMENDMENT NO.2 TO AGREEMENT BETWEEN ITHACA AREA WASTEWATER TREATMENT— SJS AND STERNS & WHELER, LLC, with the following changes and other such changes therein the Mayor, with advice of the Village Attorney and Village Engineer deems necessary or appropriate. The Cost Sharing Agreement is to be amended as follows: Now Therefore: 1) All participating municipalities shall have full and immediate access to any /all engineering data and reports. 2) Each municipality's engineering staff shall review and coordinate input and recommendations with the other municipal staff engineers. 3) A regularly scheduled meeting (ie. 1 /week) shall be held to continue open communication on this project until the completion of the contract items. Meetings to be include (1) elected official and (1) municipal engineer /consultant per municipality. 4) All participating municipalities shall concur and approve the final draft of the Unified Engineering report prior to submittal to NYSDEC. A consensus approval will be required to take formal action on such submittal. Trustees Fleming, Kim, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. Pyramid Mall has submitted an application to the Village of Lansing to enlarge the present facility. There has been an exchange of letters between Supt. Cross and the General Manager of Pyramid Mall Ithaca, James Tull about the addition of new sewer units. As a result of this correspondence the additional number of sewer units needed for the addition has been reduced from 63 to between 13 to 16 units. The Board agreed to allow these additional units. Supt. Cross was directed to write a letter to Pyramid Co. to state the Villages position on this issue, and that concurrence with estimate does not prohibit further review in the future. Supt. Cross has become concerned that the Village does not own trench shoring required. by OSHA. The Village has depended on using shoring from other municipalities in the past. Supt. Cross will get estimates from suppliers for both equipment and training and report at the next meeting. ....... ...... ...... ........ ........ ........... Nunn ......... ........ .... .s The Report of Fire Chief Day is on file. The Report of Police Chief Lansing is on file. Mayor Anderson reported that Chief Lansing has passed his Chiefs exam. Congratulations were expressed by all. Attorney Tyler Reported: The first step in the process of identifying problem properties without proper fire access is being conducted by Fire Chief Day, Police Chief Lansing and Supt. Cross. 4 112 11 No response on the PBA wage and hour issue has been received to date from the PBA attorney.. There was a hearing on 7/14/99 for the Putnam wrongful death case. The Village was represented by Attorney Galbraith In the Potts wrongful death case, Ithaca Agency has confirmed that the Trustees are covered under the Fire Department Insurance Policy. Treasurer Silber made his report, which is on file, and reported on the following: - The year -end report has been completed and the Annual Report has been filed with New York State. - The new accounting system should be in place by next week. - Payroll entries will soon be reported on -line to ADP, our payroll service rather than via telephone. - Treasurer Silber noted the need to ratify the actions taken by the Board at the May 27, 1999 meeting. There was not a quorum present at that meeting. RESOLUTION 5029 — Ratify Board actions at meeting of 5/27/99 Motion by Trustee Bisogni, seconded by Trustee Kusse, Voted to ratify the Board actions on 5/27/99. Trustees, Fleming, Kim, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. From Workers comp and liability insurance should be shown in writing by all contractors employed by the Village (cleaners, plumbers, etc) and kept on file. . Treasurer Silber pointed out that it would be advantageous to renew the fire contract with the Town of Ithaca before further decisions are made on the new firehouse. RESOLUTION 5030 — Approve Transfers Motion by Trustee Fleming, seconded by Trustee Kira, To Amount FY1999 A1990.4 Contingency A3120.11 Police Personnel -Sworn $2075 At 640.42 Contingency A1640.42 Village Hall — Su lies 2,525 A3410.2 Fire Dept Eqpt. A3410.41 Fire Dept, Contr Ex p. 6,000 A1110.2 Justice Eqpt. At 110.41 Justice Contr. Ex p. 400 F1990.4 Water Contingency F9710.6 Bond Principal 4 700 F1990.4 Water Contingency F9710.7 Bond Interest 300 FY2000 At 990.4 Contingency A9040.7 Workers Compensation 2 G00 VOTED to approve the transfers as listed in the Treasurer's report, Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. There were three corrections to the Abstract of Warrants: Page 2, Dell Marketing, Account code should be A3410.2, Add — Sean MacKay, A1440.41, Mileage, $18.29. Page 3, Westbume Syracuse, Account Code G8130.2. Motion by Trustee Kusse seconded by Trustee Fleming VOTED to accept the Abstract of Warrants, dated July 18, 1999, as amended in the following amounts. General Fund, $27877.11; Water fund, $1,191.26; Sewer Fund, $27,683.06. Trustees, Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. 1 1 L Clerk Kord asked that the Board consider hiring a consultant on an as needed basis to assist with computer problems. Treasurer Silber will look into the matter and report back to the Board by the August meeting. Motion by Trustee Fleming, seconded by Trustee Meinhardt, VOTED to adjourn at 10:20 PM. Trustees Fleming, Kira, Bisogni, Kusse, Meinhardt and Dunning voted YES. Betty Kord Clerk 974