HomeMy WebLinkAboutSpec Mtg. Minutes 6/14/2001Minutes of Special Meeting of the Board June 14, 2001 at 4:00 PM
Village of Cayuga Heights
Board of Trustees
Present: Mayor Anderson, Trustees Fleming, Lynn, Kusse, Collyer and Dunning, and
Antil, Attorney Tyler, Supt. Cross, Treasurer Silber
Others: Noel Desch, Bud Shattuck, Susan Brock, Frank Moore, Elaine Quaroni, Cathy
Valentino, Mayor Don Hartill and Mayor Alan Cohen.
Mayor Anderson called the meeting to order at 4:10 PM. Supt. Cross explained that the
purpose of this meeting was to educate the Board by reviewing the history of the NYS
Clean Water Bond Act. Supt. Cross handed out a 3 pages of information which included
a description of the NYS Clean Water Bond Act, information on the Proposed
Partnership Agreement and a spreadsheet of Permitted Capacity Ownership vs. Current
Capacity Usage and a Schematic Diagram of Transmission as of 12/31/00. A copy of this
handout is attached as part of these minutes. Attorney Tyler asked Supt. Cross to review
the history of the Village before 1997 as it pertains to the Sewage Treatment Plant (which
is not part of the handout).
Before 1953, the Village was much smaller than it is today, the part that is known
as the Old Village. Up until the early 1950's, sewage from the Old Village
flowed down Kline Road into the City of Ithaca WWTP. As the Northeast Ithaca
area developed in the early 1950's, the Village built a new 1.0 -MGD WWTP to
serve the NE Ithaca as well as its own residents. This is when the Village grew to
the current size. By the 1970's, the NE Ithaca had grown beyond the 1.0 -MGD
capacity, so the Village expanded the WWTP to 2.0 MGD. In the mid 1980's the
city of Ithaca built the new 10.0 MGD IA WWTP at its current location, in which
the Town of Ithaca and Town of Dryden became "Jr. Partners ". Since the VCH
WWTP expansion to 2.0 MGD, the flows into the plant reached capacity, which
necessitated the moratorium, imposed in the late 1980's by the Village.
Discussion ensued. Mayor Hartill gave the Board a copy of the Response to Draft Joint
Sewer Agreement from the Village of Lansing and the Town of Lansing. A copy of that
memo is attached as part of these minutes.
Mayor Anderson told the Board that there was much information presented to them to
think about. The Board would be addressing the Partnership Agreement soon at an
upcoming regular Board meeting.
Motion by Trustee Antil, Seconded by Trustee Dunning
VOTED to adjourn the meeting at 5:55 PM.
Trustee Fleming, Lynn, Kusse, Collyer and Dunning and Antil voted YES
Norma Manning
Clerk