[0:04] Yep. >> We being broadcast to the entire world

[0:07] right now. >> Okay.

[0:11] Almost. >> I actually can move over this way.

[0:17] It's not connected. Come on.

[0:25] » Well, I can tap in tap into Joe McCann's iPhone. Good luck. Password's like 17

[0:31] letters long. >> Ready?

[0:34] » One, two, three, four. >> Welcome everyone to the January 12th,

[0:39] 2026 town board meeting. Would you please join me in the pledge?

[0:44] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:49] republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[0:54] justice for all. >> [clears throat]

[1:02] » Okay, the first item on our agenda is the organiz organizational

[1:08] um agenda and as far as I know there are only two

[1:15] things uh on this document that are not detailed as we want them. One is the

[1:19] grant administrator previously done by Martha and a typo.

[1:25] So, first of all, I would like to uh appoint Kathleen Moffett as our grant

[1:32] administrator for a term of one year, January 1st to December 31st of this

[1:37] year. So, can I have a motion to approve Kathleen Moffett to be our grant

[1:41] administrator and receive the $6,000 stipen as was budgeted in the 2026

[1:47] budget line A1220.108.

[1:51] » So moved. >> Motion by Joe. Can I have a second?

[1:54] Second, >> second by Luke. Comments or discussion?

[1:59] » All in favor? I opposed. >> Motion carried.

[2:04] » And the other is a typo on section 16. Thank you, Jess, for bringing this to my

[2:09] attention. The mileage reimbursement is actually

[2:13] 725 cents per mile. Uh it is stated in the mileage reimbursement is stated two

[2:19] places on this, but uh we'll fix that other one

[2:23] » soon. Good. I

[2:26] » happy to help him. >> With that, can I have a motion to

[2:30] approve and adopt the 2026 organiz organizational chart as detailed?

[2:36] » So moved. >> Motion by Jess. Can I have a second?

[2:39] » Second. Second by Ray. Comments or discussion?

[2:44] All in favor? I opposed. >> Motion carried.

[2:52] Next is the consent agenda. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes for the

[2:57] town board meeting of December 22nd, 2025

[3:01] and the abstract of claims for January 12th, 2026

[3:06] along with the January 12th, 2022-2025 uncovered.

[3:12] » So moved. >> Motion by Luke. Can I have a second?

[3:15] » Second. >> Second by Joe. Comments or discussion?

[3:19] » All in favor? I >> I opposed. Motion carried.

[3:25] » Next is audience one. If anyone would like to address the board, please step

[3:28] up to the mic. Seeing no one,

[3:33] we'll move on to unfinished business.

[3:38] Uh first of all before we get into this uh little clarification this the uh I

[3:44] have mentioned and asked that this be listed as a payment to Azar which Jeie

[3:49] did. Thank you very much. But however it's actually a payment to Oakrove. I

[3:53] was going through the paperwork in the back of it and and I just that just kind

[3:57] of popped out. No.

[4:01] » Can I have a motion to approve a payment of invoice number 87-004

[4:07] to Oak Grove Construction in the amount of $70,46827

[4:13] for work on the Church Street Bridge. >> So moved.

[4:16] » Motion by Ray. Can I have a second? >> Second.

[4:19] » Second by Jess. Comments or discussion? [clears throat]

[4:23] » All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried.

[4:30] and another payment to Oakrove. Can I have a motion to approve payment number

[4:34] five to Oakrove Construction in the amount of $42,541.39

[4:41] for the work on the East Fillmore Bridge?

[4:44] » So moved. >> Motion by Joe. Can I have a second?

[4:46] » Second. >> Second by Luke. Comments or discussion?

[4:51] » All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried.

[5:00] Under new business, we have a temporary use permit.

[5:06] Can I have a motion to approve the temporary use permit for the Lancaster

[5:10] Dew Soccer Club for the events to be held on Jan July 24th, 25th, and 26th,

[5:17] 2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.

[5:22] » Motion? Motion by Jess. Can I have a second?

[5:26] » Second. >> Second by Ray. Comments or discussion?

[5:29] » Same question as always, Chris. All good with uh Arsenals is Yeah, they like

[5:34] this. So, they don't have to run the tournament. So,

[5:36] » there you go. Perfect. >> Yeah, it's a great event for this area.

[5:40] Really is [clears throat] well attended, wellrun, good soccer. It's good. Yeah.

[5:46] » Good. Good. Good. >> All in favor? I I opposed. Motion

[5:52] carried.

[5:56] and another temporary use permit. Can I have a motion to approve the

[6:00] temporary use permit for Borderland to hold an event on September 18th, 19th,

[6:06] and 20th uh as detailed herein? >> So moved.

[6:10] » Motion by Luke. Can I have a second? >> Second.

[6:12] » Second by Joe. Comments or discussion? >> We're all set on this one too, aren't

[6:17] we, Chris? >> Yep. We're all set,

[6:19] » thankfully. >> All in favor? I

[6:23] » I >> opposed. Motion carried.

[6:32] » Next [clears throat] is a agreement with GHD. Can I have a motion to authorize a

[6:38] supervisor to sign this agreement with GHD to perform the work as specified for

[6:43] a project at 600 OAN Road? Funds will be reimbursed by the property owner.

[6:51] » So moved. Motion by Jess. I have a second.

[6:54] » Second. >> Second by Ray. Comments or discussion?

[6:57] This is the barn, by the way. >> Oh, okay.

[6:59] » So, everybody knows. >> That's helpful.

[7:03] » No further comments. All in favor? >> I

[7:07] » opposed. Motion carried.

[7:15] » Next is a roll over from Liz. Can I have a motion to roll over 12 hours of

[7:21] vacation time for Liz Cassidy and 24 hours of vacation time for Rich Mega to

[7:27] be used on in January of 2026? >> So moved.

[7:32] » Motion by Joe. Can I have a second? >> Second.

[7:34] » Second by Luke. Comments or discussion? >> Don't go running out the door, Rich.

[7:40] » I feel like I should [laughter] right now. [snorts]

[7:44] » All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carried.

[7:53] Uh, some code updates. Can I have a motion to refer the attached modifi code

[7:59] modifications for solar systems, subdivision of land, ponds, sewers,

[8:05] alarms, and our site view site plan review chapter to the planning board for

[8:10] review and comments. >> So moved.

[8:12] » Motion by Ray. Can I have a second? >> Second.

[8:14] » Second by Jess. comments or in discussion.

[8:20] All in favor? >> I

[8:22] » opposed. Motion carried.

[8:26] [clears throat]

[8:30] Request from Kathleen. [clears throat] Can I have a motion to approve a town

[8:34] credit card for our newly elected town clerk Jeannie Bier and as has been done

[8:41] in the past? >> So moved. Motion by was that Joe or

[8:45] Motion by Luke? >> Can I have a second?

[8:48] » Second. >> Second by Joel. Comments or discussion?

[8:51] » All in favor? Your head there? >> I I

[8:54] » I >> Did you have a comment, Luke?

[8:57] » Said don't let it go to your head. [laughter]

[9:00] » It's only for 20 bucks,

[9:04] » so don't go crazy. [laughter]

[9:10] Next. Excuse me. There's another request from

[9:14] Kathleen. Can I have a motion to approve replacing budget line DB 5110.410.1

[9:23] fuel to others agencies with budget line DB5110.411

[9:29] fuel to other agencies and transfer the budgeted $30,000 to the

[9:35] new line. >> So move motion by Jess. Can I have a

[9:39] second? Second by Ray. comments or discussion.

[9:44] All in favor? >> I I opposed. Motion carried.

[9:52] This is a budget transfer from Judge Marillo.

[9:57] Can I have a motion to transfer $1,680 from line A1110.416

[10:05] court security officer to line A110.415 415 Court annual school.

[10:13] » So moved. >> Motion by Joe. Can I have a second?

[10:15] » Second. >> Second by Luke. Comments or discussion.

[10:19] » All in favor? >> I I

[10:22] » opposed. Motion carried. >> Uh if I may, Chuck.

[10:26] » Yes. Would you uh take care of this for me, Joe, please? I would like to ask for

[10:30] a motion um authorizing the supervisor to sign a temporary uh service agreement

[10:36] uh between the town and Martha Librock to return uh on a temporary basis uh at

[10:42] a rate of $30 an hour not to exceed a total of $3,000 uh to assist in the uh

[10:49] town clerk's office. Can I have that motion?

[10:52] » I'll make that motion. >> Make a second.

[10:56] » And can I have a second? >> Second.

[10:58] » Second. Thank you, Ray. It was uh made by Chuck, seconded by uh Ray. And I

[11:03] would like to thank uh Martha for re agreeing to return uh as a contract

[11:08] employee to uh help get the uh town clerk off off to a good start, which I

[11:12] think it already is, but you can only help. So

[11:16] » and uh got to get a vote. All in favor? I I

[11:20] » All opposed. Really?

[11:22] » Motion carried. >> What's that?

[11:25] » Thank you, Joe. >> Thank you.

[11:29] Next,

[11:32] as [clears throat] a temporary ZBA clerical clerk, can I have a motion to

[11:36] approve Liz Cassidy to attemp to temporarily provide the duties of the

[11:40] zoning board secretary on behalf of the town clerk as required in our code on an

[11:46] hourly basis uh payments coming from line B8010.10

[11:53] 1000 zoning secretary not to exceed $3,000.

[11:58] So move motion by Luke. Can I have a second?

[12:02] » Second. >> Second by Jess. Comments or discussion?

[12:06] » Thank you, Liz. All in favor?

[12:10] » I >> opposed. Motion carried.

[12:16] And under communications and reports, all of these are from December of 2025.

[12:22] We have the town clerk, town clerk water, town clerk tax, dog control,

[12:29] senior center, building department, and work requisitions.

[12:35] Next is business from board members. We'll start with

[12:39] Greg. >> Um, I really don't have anything

[12:42] concrete, so um, I have nothing for today's meeting, but uh, hope to reclaim

[12:48] that time in our next board meeting. Thank you.

[12:53] » Banking time. All right. >> Yeah, Jess.

[12:56] » Uh, I attended planning board training webinar um this past week. It was very

[13:02] informative. >> Where was that?

[13:03] » It was online. >> Oh,

[13:05] » so part of the required training for planning board members, but open to all

[13:09] town officials. So, I took advantage of it. Um uh to that end, I'm looking

[13:14] forward to going to training next week for New York Association of Towns along

[13:19] with Jeie. And to that end, I will be absent from next week's work session

[13:24] because I'm going to be train at training.

[13:26] » Okay, >> that's all I got.

[13:27] » Thank you for that. >> Thank you,

[13:29] » Luke. Nothing to report. >> Joe,

[13:33] » I would like to welcome Jeie to the DS. Thank you. As I said in my uh motion

[13:40] last time, I think the clerk's office is doing very well and it's it's nice down

[13:44] there and thanks for all that you're doing.

[13:46] » Uh also, uh Luke and I had a meeting with Code Red. They had some sort of uh

[13:52] I don't know intrusion or something where they had to make a fundamental

[13:55] changes to their program. They have a new website now. So, we were both

[13:59] brought up to speed on how to send out code reds, which is different than it

[14:04] was. >> But we are up and running. Luckily, we

[14:06] didn't have any serious uh weather events during that interim, but we

[14:10] didn't. And we'll also get uh the chief squared away and somebody in dispatch

[14:15] two with his approval, but I believe we talked about that before.

[14:18] » So, >> well, we did we sent one.

[14:20] [clears throat] >> Yes,

[14:21] » one message did go out. Yeah, >> there was an error that it actually sent

[14:25] due to the new default with my name on it,

[14:28] » which is not part of our policy. So, >> that was because that was fault. we were

[14:33] able to change that setting so that doesn't happen ever again.

[14:36] » Mhm. >> Um and then uh yeah, we'll get uh you

[14:41] guys up and running. >> I don't know. I thought it was weird

[14:44] that it said your name and then benevolent overlord.

[14:47] » No, no. I wanted it coming from benevolent overlord and it added my

[14:51] name. >> Oh, that makes

[14:51] » I just thought people would assume that they knew who it was.

[14:54] » Okay. Yeah. All right. That makes sense. That's all I have.

[14:57] » Never going. [laughter]

[15:01] I was going to say I'm looking forward for things getting back to normal, but

[15:04] I'm going to [laughter] retract that statement.

[15:08] » Staff reports. We'll start with how about

[15:11] » Rod

[15:17] Liz assigned to CBA. >> You want to come up? I forgot business

[15:23] too from the audience. Does anybody have anything they want to say? Okay. Well,

[15:28] » same thing. >> Any event, so Liz is going to be the

[15:31] recording secretary >> uh

[15:34] » for the CBA meeting. >> Yes.

[15:38] » And is she going to be the >> Yes.

[15:41] » building department representative also. So, she's going to wear two hats.

[15:45] » Yes. >> At that meeting?

[15:47] » Okay. Understand. Thank you. >> You're welcome.

[15:51] guys, something to to think about maybe is that, you know, with the new system

[15:56] and how we're able to record our meetings. Um, it's very very easy to do.

[16:01] So, uh, we could show Liz or really anybody on the ZBA, but if you're

[16:06] interested in having those recordings to be able to refer to later, um, it's just

[16:10] a push of a button now with the new system, well, newish system, it's been

[16:13] there for a while. Um, so you just go back there, turn it on, and then the

[16:17] camera comes from there, just like with the board meeting. So, if that is

[16:20] something the ZBA is interested in doing, it's a possibility

[16:23] » Zoom meeting. >> Wouldn't be a Zoom meeting. It would

[16:25] just be a a video recording of the ZBA that you would then have

[16:30] » access >> access to. Yeah.

[16:32] » We could >> we could either have it be it could be

[16:37] public >> or it could be closed and then foilable

[16:41] because all things are, you know, open. >> That's up to you. But it is easy to do

[16:46] that recording so that you know you you've got that and can back go back and

[16:50] refer. >> Okay.

[16:53] » We'll talk about it. [clears throat] >> Yeah. Thank you.

[16:58] » Thank you, Rod. Paul, >> no. This is today that we talked through

[17:03] a little bit. Get some questions. I hope I answer your answers. So, we'll see.

[17:08] » And you guys don't have anything in January, right?

[17:10] » Right. We have a meeting right now. I think there's two cases possibly. for

[17:15] for February. >> Yeah.

[17:19] » Thank you, Paul. Chris, >> nothing to report.

[17:22] » Mitch, some vacation time. [laughter]

[17:28] » Chief, so we're in the quiet time of year as far as special events go. So,

[17:35] nothing to report in that department. Um I am happy to announce uh just after

[17:42] Christmas uh legislator Ligo uh gave me a call and surprised me surprised us

[17:47] with some additional funding that she had already offered earlier in the fall.

[17:52] So it's it's up to about 20,000 and that's going to go towards updating our

[17:56] dispatch center. As you're all aware, our dispatch center does EMS for six

[18:00] towns and uh police for the town and village and uh there's definitely some

[18:05] upgrades there that need to be done. Some computer stuff and some furniture

[18:10] and just all around upgrades. So, that's where that uh is headed and uh that's

[18:15] all I have. Okay,

[18:18] » Dave. >> Uh nothing nothing tonight.

[18:22] » Okay.

[18:25] And um we will be holding an executive session. So I I will make a motion to

[18:31] enter in to into executive session to discuss a litigation matter. No action

[18:36] will be taken. Uh and about five minutes or so to give everybody time to get out

[18:41] of here. >> So move

[18:43] second and head off to vacation. >> Yeah, it's got five minutes.

[18:48] » We got a we got a we got a vote on that. >> Oh, can I have a motion?

[18:52] » No, we had the motion. >> So moved. Second by Joe and then

[18:55] » all in favor >> I

[18:56] » approve. [clears throat]

[18:59] » Did we adjourn? >> Uh no we

[19:03] didn't >> do we do we return only for the purpose

[19:06] of adjourning? >> Yeah we return

[19:08] » but only to adjurnn. >> All right.

[19:11] » Yes.

[19:14] » You're more than

[19:18] off anytime. >> Hey Jess. I didn't see you. I snuck in

[19:23] just before. Hello.

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