HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-04-13 Common Council Meeting AgendaOFFICIAL NOTICE OF MEETING
A Regular meeting of the Common Council will be held on Wednesday, September 4, 2013, at
6:00 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers at City Hall, 108 East Green Street, Ithaca, New
York. Your attendance is requested.
AGENDA
1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
2. ADDITIONS TO OR DELETIONS FROM THE AGENDA:
3. PROCLAMATIONS/AWARDS:
4. SPECIAL ORDER OF BUSINESS:
5. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS BEFORE COUNCIL:
6. PETITIONS AND HEARINGS OF PERSONS BEFORE COUNCIL:
7. PRIVILEGE OF THE FLOOR – COMMON COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR:
8. CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS:
City Clerk’s Office:
8.1 Request of Downtown Ithaca Alliance to Permit Wine, Beer, and Hard Cider Tasting and
Sale of Bottled Wine, Beer, and Hard Cider at the 2013 Apple Harvest Festival –
Resolution
City Administration Committee:
8.2 Youth Bureau – Request to Amend 2013 Roster - Resolution
8.3 GIAC – Request to Amend Budget for Grant - Resolution
9. GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY COMMITTEE:
9.1 A Local Law entitled “City of Ithaca Local Law Concerning Sidewalk Improvement
Districts”
9.2 Update on last meeting from Committee Chair Mohlenhoff
10. CITY ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE:
10.1 An Ordinance to Amend the City of Ithaca Municipal Code Chapter 342 entitled
“Streets and Sidewalks”, Section 342-18 entitled “Duty to Construct and Maintain
Sidewalks”
10.2 Clerk’s Office - Amendment to Capital Project #783 – E-mail System Replacement
Project - Resolution
10.3 DPW - Lake Street Bridge Rehabilitation Project - Resolution
10.4 DPW - Request for Funding for Historic Gravestone Conservation Workshop at Ithaca
City Cemetery - Resolution
10.5 City Controller’s Report
Common Council Meeting Agenda
September 4, 2013 – Page 2
11. PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE:
11.1 Environmental Review for the Allocation of Funds for the 2013 Ithaca Urban Renewal
Agency (IURA) Action Plan - Resolutions
A) City of Ithaca 2013 Entitlement Grant Action Plan –Environmental Review -
Resolution
B) Environmental Review of the 2013 Action Plan - Resolution
11.2 Approval of Property Disposition to Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. –
402 South Cayuga Street and 203 Third Street – Authorize Sale To Ithaca
Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. – Resolution
11.3 Approval to Change Previously Approved Terms of Disposition for 213-215 West Spencer
Street and 701 Cliff Street - Resolution
11.4 Resolution Directing the City of Ithaca Engineering Division to Analyze and
Recommend Potential Improvements to the Spencer/Stone Quarry Road Intersection &
Pedestrian Connections to the City Sidewalk Network
12. REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES:
13. NEW BUSINESS:
14. INDIVIDUAL MEMBER – FILED RESOLUTIONS:
14.1 Alderperson Proulx - Resolution Reopening Section 384-d of the Retirement and Social
Security law for James Crowley as set forth in Chapter 206, Laws of 2013
15. MAYOR’S APPOINTMENTS:
15.1 Appointments to Various City Boards and Committees – Resolution
16. REPORTS OF COMMON COUNCIL LIAISONS:
17. REPORT OF CITY CLERK:
18. REPORT OF CITY ATTORNEY:
19. MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETINGS:
19.1 Approval of the July 17, 2013 Special Common Council Meeting Minutes -
Resolution
19.2 Approval of the July 31, 2013 Special Common Council Meeting Minutes –
Resolution
19.3 Approval of the August 7, 2013 Regular Common Council Meeting Minutes –
Resolution
20. ADJOURNMENT:
If you have a disability that will require special arrangements to be made in order for you to fully
participate in the meeting, please contact the City Clerk at 274-6570 at least 48 hours before the
meeting.
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Julie Conley Holcomb, CMC
Date: August 29, 2013 City Clerk
14. INDIVIDUAL MEMBER FILED RESOLUTIONS:
14.1 Alderperson Proulx - Resolution Reopening Section 384-d of the
Retirement and Social Security law for James Crowley as set forth in Chapter 206,
Laws of 2013
WHEREAS, Common Council has previously enacted resolutions on March 6, 2013 and
May 1, 2013 (the “Prior Resolutions”) authorizing the City to seek state legislation
authorizing Firefighter James Crowley to convert his retirement plan to the § 384-d Plan
under the Retirement and Social Security Law in order to enable Firefighter Crowley's
prompt retirement this year; and
WHEREAS, the required state legislation authorizing such conversion was signed by
Governor Cuomo on July 31, 2013, and is set forth in Chapter 206 of the Laws of 2013;
and
WHEREAS, the Police and Fire Retirement System requires that the Common Council
enact an additional resolution subsequent to the enactment of the legislation affirming
that the City will assume the additional cost of such conversion; and
WHEREAS, the Prior Resolutions and the Settlement Agreement between the City and
Firefighter Crowley dated February 1, 2013 set forth the cost-sharing plan between the
parties, in which the City pays such additional cost and Firefighter Crowley reimburses
the City for $78,640 of such additional cost by relinquishing accrued time; now,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, That the governing board of the City of Ithaca does hereby assume the
additional cost required to provide the reopening of Section 384-d of the Retirement and
Social Security Law, pursuant to Chapter 206 of the Laws of 2013; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the additional cost shall be apportioned between the City and
Firefighter Crowley as set forth in the Settlement Agreement and the Prior Resolutions.