TOWN OF CATHARINE
TOWN BOARD MEETING
MAY 18, 2010
The meeting was called to order at 7:35 p.m. with the pledge to the flag.
PUBLIC BE HEARD:
Roxanne reported that the cleanup of the boat launch went well with lots of help. It is considered by those in attendance a hugh success! They needs some help getting the big sluce pipes out that couldn’t be moved without equipment. John said the site looks really nice!
Roxanne would like to request that the Town do a dumpster day in Catharine. She would also like to have the contact information for the snowmobile club and request that they remove their signs at the end of the season and clean up their trail head that looks like a big frat party site.
RESOLUTION 26-2010
RESOLVE that the minutes of the April meeting be accepted with the following corrections:Landfill report—the $100,000 should refer to the “yearly budget”, not the “project”
The conversation about the building requires that the section about the removal of the deck increasing the price should be removed as that is not the case.A correction of a previous correction—the percentage in resolution 20-2010 should read 190%
The reference to the boat launch should reference DEC’s state boat launch on the North end of Cayuta Lake.
RESOLUTION by C. Michael Learn, seconded by Wayne Chapman
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
RESOLUTION 27-2010
RESOLVE that the Clerk’s report be accepted as presented to the board
RESOLUTION by Wayne Chapman, seconded by George Tanner
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
RESOLVE that the minimized Supervisor’s report be accepted as presented to the board.
RESOLUTION by Ronald Hoffman, seconded by C. Micheal Learn
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
Highway superintendents: The main project right now is to get the roads ready for oil. The hope is to get the oiling done before the long weekend. Suit Kote is scheduled to do it tomorrow and Thursday, but holding to see what the weather does. The men have to have all the grading work done before the oiling, which required some hauling back of the shoulders. The next thing is that the machinery is starting to show wear. The oldest truck is 21yrs old. The 16 yr, 14yr old trucks have wear and then we have a 6 yr. Old truck. Rust is the biggest enemy. The on the 14yr. Old truck the body broke off when loaded up because of rust. So that truck box is disabled. We have a 16yr old body that also has a rusted box. He proposes that we take the box that looks good outside and buy a new body and transfer it to the 16yr old truck and buy a new box for the 14 yr. Old truck. The 16 yr. Old truck will still be the first to leave. The new box would cost $9800. John and Larry are going to do a time schedule of replacement for the vehicles. The unfortunate part is that what used to cost $50 or $60,000 now costs $200,000. Need to figure out how to fund the new box. Actually need about $13,000 plus we have a truck at Beam Mack. John said that we need to plot what we have and the probable replacement timing. Roxanne asked about buying used instead of new. Larry explained that it is not feasible as our equipment is “custom made”.
RESOLUTION 29-2010
RESOLVE to allow Larry to spend up to $10,000 out of capital reserve line for equipment.
RESOLUTION by Ronald Hoffman, seconded by George Tanner
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
Landfill report: Tom reported to Carmella that the Landfill Commission is currently getting the Request for Proposals for work at the site.
RESOLUTION 30-2010
RESOLVE that the following vouchers be paid within funds according to the totals: G73-88 in the sum of $28411.56 and H54-69 in the sum of $13206.83
RESOLUTION by Wayne Chapman, seconded by C. Michael Learn
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
Status of town building: At this date, the removal is all done and demo is complete. 90% of the studding is up and 85% of the dry wall is done and they are probably 50% through the process. There is no masonry is done yet. The electrician has to finish, the plumber has to finish and there is some minor changes that need to be made in the supervisor’s office before the floor can be done. The supervisor’s office has a ¾” rise that is a mistake The biggest hangup is the the electrical “up charges” as there are 13 items that need to be looked at. The up charge is $4322. We are not at a complete standstill as some things are still moving ahead. John and Larry will meet with Lynn Tucker tomorrow to discuss the changes. The front entrance door is going to be changed—it will be a 42” commercial glass door with a 12” kickplate with panic hardware and will be more like a commercial door. It will also give the clerk’s a visual of people as they come up to the door. One of the things that they noticed when they did a walkthrough, was that the bathroom won’t be compliant with the sink where it was planned. They will need to do some moving of the window and some of the plumbing for the sink. That will result in up charges also.
DELTA: The engineering firm that has put out a single price proposal to any town who wants to survey their roads and do a plan for laws for any major users of the roads. The county is interested in seeing the towns do something uniform for this. Hector has already approved it, and Montour is discussing it at their next board meeting. The plan is a 3 phase plan. The town would pay for the first 2 phases and the third phase is the “enforcement” phase. John thinks that it’s a pretty good fix for the town. We would have to decide if it comes out of Highway or general fund. Larry thinks it would come out of DB 5110.4 or out of savings if needed.
RESOLUTION 31-2010
RESOLVE that the Town of Catharine pursue DELTA Engineering for up to $8500
RESOLUTION by Ronald Hoffman, seconded by C. Michael Learn
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
Tim Hicks: Tim came to talk to the board about the planning board doing a comprehensive plan for the Town. The Town Planning board is looking at aspects of the town zoning ordinances. All good land use plans use a comprehensive plan for guidance. It gets as many people as possible involved. With the comingled sense with the Village, it only makes sense to join forces with them. He has already asked for approval of the village board to join forces. The only stipulation would be that the chair of both planning boards would have to be members of the sub-committee working on the comprehensive plan. He is asking for a resolution from this board to go ahead with the sub-committee to begin working on the comprehensive plan. There will be status updates to both municipalities as time goes along. The boards have to approve the final plan. The sub-committee can have other people involved that are not on the planning board. This will be a multi-year project—it’s not something that will be knocked out in 6 months. John asked what the control of the sub-committee would be like. Questions like: who would appoint the members of the committee, etc. Tim would like to see complete participation by both boards. John is not entirely clear what a comprehensive plan is, but has been told by those who know, that it is a good place to start. We could use Montour’s as a guide—but they have things we don’t have, and we have things they don’t have. Montour had an engineer facilitate their meetings.
RESOLUTION 32-2010
RESOLVE that the Town Board authorize the Planning Board to begin the process of establishing a sub-committee to start working on a comprehensive plan along with the Village of Odessa planning board.
RESOLUTION by Ronald Hoffman, seconded by C. Michael Learn
VOTE 5 ayes, no noes
New Business:
Dumpster day: what is involved, how is it run, etc. Tim said that his wife is the coordinator of the recycling in the county and could give us information about the costs, etc. We will contact Jenna Hicks for that information. John asked if the board thought it was a good idea—Ron said yes he did.
Jerry Verigini: approached John that he has money to build a composting toilet at the DEC boat launch and wondered if we would take responsibility , John indicated he didn’t’ think so. It is thought that if DEC wants it, they should responsible for the maintenance of it.
There are some questions about planning/zoning. Are businesses grandfathered in, and when do they need to comply with some of the things. John called the town attorney about having a meeting so that John, Larry and Tim could sit down and talk about goods and bads of the zoning .
Jeanne Fudala: has information about economics of drilling that she handed out..