[0:00] according to

[0:04] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:08] republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[0:12] justice for all. Okay, everyone's having a nice summer

[0:21] so far. Just got back from Philadelphia. Spent the 4th of July right downtown

[0:27] Independence Hall. It's pretty cool. Yeah,

[0:31] it was it was >> it was over the top America. It was

[0:35] crazy. >> I couldn't believe the things they were

[0:38] doing. They had all the revolutionary people. They had flyovers. They had

[0:43] bands. I mean, it was just everywhere you go. It was like,

[0:47] » it was great. It was great. >> Saw the fireworks where we went to the

[0:51] Delaware where Washington crossed with his army and they had a barge out there

[0:55] with the fireworks going off. So, we watched it right at the I was like,

[0:59] "Wow, history is slow." Anyway, >> okay. Has everyone looked at the bills?

[1:04] You need a minute still, Bernardet? Any questions?

[1:06] » I've been asking questions. >> You got you got any more?

[1:09] » No. >> Okay. I'll approve of the bills.

[1:13] » I'll make a motion to approve the bills. >> I'll second it.

[1:16] » Okay. All in favor? I oppose. All right. Pass.

[1:23] » Okay. Um, approval of the June 10th meeting minutes.

[1:28] » I'll make a motion to approve the June 10th meeting minutes.

[1:31] » I'll second in favor. >> Opposed?

[1:34] » Passed. Okay. Reports. Um, my report. Lots

[1:39] happened. Lots gone. So, um, I'll just kind of go through the highlights. The

[1:45] grants, pretty much all of those are still in, uh, there isn't really any

[1:48] moving, right, Courtney? >> That's right. you know. So,

[1:53] um Joe and Courtney have been meeting uh regularly on electric. So, I'll let them

[1:58] kind of update when it gets to Courtney as to how that's going for our

[2:03] substation. Um so, after the North Terra emergency,

[2:08] I and I called a meeting with the J County Emergency Management. um invited

[2:14] uh Virgin Town Supervisor Ernie Haywood uh Virgin Fire Department's uh deputy

[2:22] chief Gary and um Courtney of course was here as well. We

[2:29] just discussed the emergency. We kind of talked about like just the timeline of

[2:34] events, what occurred, what [clears throat] happened over at Nortra,

[2:38] you know, who in the county declares an emergency, just kind of getting some

[2:43] real good knowledge about how this all works. Um, when an emergency is

[2:47] declared, how do we get notified? How does the town get notified? How do our

[2:51] residents get notified? There was a lot of concern from various residents in our

[2:56] community and business owners that they weren't notified of a stay in place

[2:59] order. um that was issued by the Jennese County Emergency Management actually was

[3:05] issued by the fire department and then of course at the advice of Jennese

[3:10] County Emergency Management. So we talked about that whole thing. Um

[3:16] what happened up at North Terra was simply a ammonia leak that was quickly

[3:21] contained. There was a dispersement of ammonia in the village. Um it was

[3:26] evidence of people who were out. You could smell it. It was pretty

[3:29] overwhelming for a few moments. There wasn't any um damage or or injuries to

[3:37] anybody, you know, at at the site, the fire, first responders, any of those

[3:42] folks, any of our community residents. Nobody nobody reported injuries or

[3:47] damage or anything. So, that's a great thing. Um

[3:51] the stay in place order was issued and basically

[3:57] um sent over social media. There wasn't like a phone notification or an amler

[4:03] not notification, anything like that. It was simply

[4:07] uh social media. Jennese County Emergency Management has their web page

[4:12] and they issued it there. Um, Courtney uh was alerted by the Burgeon Fire

[4:17] Department and our team here quickly uh notified on our Facebook page and our

[4:23] website page and uh that's kind of and then from

[4:28] there it was word of mouth really. Um they came and they shut down a few areas

[4:34] of streets. They put up some you know some fire department workers and I don't

[4:40] what do they call them? police or the count fire

[4:43] » who closed off you know mostly on the you know church street and those places

[4:48] over here going up towards North Terra >> and just blocked off the area that was

[4:53] you know for safety. The you know their big thing was making sure that something

[4:58] small like a release of gas can turn into like a huge you know combustible

[5:05] because they have big tanks up there a lot of a lot of ammonia and it could be

[5:08] very dangerous. So, we talked about all that, what the

[5:12] response is. So, for notifications, I've got that on my um on our agenda. I'll

[5:18] I'll kind of go into that as we get down that a little bit.

[5:23] But the good news is there's some plans in [snorts] the works. Um the next steps

[5:28] are for us to meet with Nortra. Uh we believe that they have a piece to play

[5:34] in this that they should have some notification of some type. They did have

[5:37] a little slight alarm system, some light systems, but we're going to talk about

[5:42] how they can enhance that and what they can do to help us if they're having

[5:47] emergencies like that. They did things really well up there. Um Carlos and his

[5:51] team evacuated the the guys out of there, the workers quickly. Um that was

[5:56] their first priority, which is really nice. They did a great job. Um so

[6:01] overall um you know despite the communication errors I think every went

[6:08] pretty well you know from the communication from the town the village

[6:13] Jennese County Emergency Management Fire Department staging areas that they set

[6:18] up the police departments that were here state and local uh law enforcement. The

[6:22] communication was at least good overall on our part. We wish there was a little

[6:28] more communication with our office which lacked

[6:31] » so we talked about that makes sense about right

[6:37] » anything to add okay >> whatever we talk about with no for

[6:44] » notification or change or whatever it ends up being would that also apply to

[6:50] » the industrial park so >> or any other

[6:53] » so what we were told is that Norta is the only plant that has the chemicals

[6:58] that would cause a community endangerment.

[7:02] » Okay. The other facilities, it would be internal like a fire within their

[7:05] facilities. Nothing could be released into the community.

[7:09] » So, Nortra, because their ammonia is used to quickly freeze vegetables.

[7:14] That's what it's used for. It's it's chemical gas and in high doses, it can

[7:18] cause a lot of damage. Um, and uh no other facility has those types of

[7:25] chemicals. That's what the county told us.

[7:28] » So, us and is it Oakfield or Elbow that have Oakfield?

[7:32] » Oak Oakfield. >> So, there's two plants in the county and

[7:35] they're looking at now the county is looking at notification systems for our

[7:39] areas >> um for those and other areas outside of

[7:43] Burchin that might have, you know, other facilities that are have those types of

[7:48] chemicals, but those are the two that they're aware of.

[7:51] So, we wouldn't have to have a notification system or a stay in place

[7:54] or anything like that for any of the other facilities up there.

[8:00] So, that was a good question and I made sure that was asked because we I was

[8:03] also concerned about that. Make sense?

[8:07] » Yeah. >> Okay. The one thing that was in our

[8:09] favor that day was the fact that the wind was coming from the east,

[8:12] » right? That's exactly what they said. >> It prevented it from blowing into the

[8:16] village. >> Right.

[8:18] So there were other out of that came other questions too like um

[8:23] what happens if a train blows through [laughter]

[8:25] you know who's notifying CSX you know that there's a huge ammonia leak and if

[8:29] you bring a train it's just going to >> just whip it around

[8:32] » whip it around you know so it's like you know

[8:35] » were there no trains during that time >> there weren't there weren't but um so we

[8:39] talked about the chain of command on all of those issues

[8:43] » you know that is so an event a declared emergency other than me declaring ing an

[8:48] emergency, which I have the authority to do. Um, we defer to the state and local

[8:54] officials. We defer to Jes County Emergency Management. We defer to the

[8:57] fire department. If there was an evacuation, the fire department and all

[9:00] of the other surrounding areas with their assistance would come through

[9:04] doortodoor and do what they needed to do, right? Um, that's extreme, you know,

[9:09] but it could possibly be something and they're planning for it. You know, the

[9:14] other good thing is that the fire department actually did um an exercise

[9:18] up at North Terra that Monday night. So that that Monday night they did an

[9:23] exercise up with North Terra and then Wednesday the emergency happened. So

[9:27] their folks were already like they just been there. So they were it was it was

[9:32] it was awesome. [laughter] >> So and they say they do that every year.

[9:35] they go up and they do like a um just a a practice a drill, you know, go through

[9:41] their facilities, see where everything is, you know, so it it just worked out

[9:45] really well. >> So, I have reached out to uh Carlos and

[9:49] I I can't pronounce the other guy's name, but and just send him an email

[9:52] say, "Hey, we'd like to just meet and they they're going to get some times

[9:55] back together for me." >> Um and we I'll have another discussion

[9:59] with them and just kind of go through the same questions and things like that.

[10:03] And and Ernie's on board with us. He They have a part to play as well. The

[10:08] town >> Mike, what about the CSX trains?

[10:13] » Yes, >> I remember years ago we had a chlorine

[10:15] leak, I believe. We had to evacuate the village.

[10:19] » Yeah, we talked about that as well. So, um

[10:23] » we we discussed it, Joe, but we didn't finalize it. So, what they did say is

[10:27] that it's it's Jennese County Emergency Management would notify CSX of anything

[10:32] that they needed to shut down trains for.

[10:35] » Okay. >> But that's always the biggest fear is

[10:37] some type of derailment here, you know, um what would occur, you know, because

[10:41] there's oil and gas and all those kinds of things on those things,

[10:46] » you know. So, um >> that's like a different kind of

[10:50] » that's a different kind of emergency. That's extreme. um you know and in in

[10:55] the event of that I'm assuming they would we would add all state resources

[10:58] would be here you know and that type of a thing but you know I don't

[11:03] » you still need a call system >> yeah yeah so and I'll get to that there

[11:06] is we have a plan

[11:10] um I did I spoke with a lot of residents about it um some of the businesses here

[11:15] locally sent and I want to thank the village office staff because they were

[11:20] fielding calls and people walking in although is a stay in place order. We

[11:25] still had folks, you know, wandering around and coming in and trying to get

[11:28] their information, but the office did take some calls that were not so

[11:33] friendly. Um, and they handled it with professionalism and Renee and Barb and

[11:37] Courtney did a great job. Fielded about 20 25 calls, 30 calls. Um, I actually

[11:42] kept the office open till 8:00 that night.

[11:45] » Um, I staffed it. I was here. Um, I took several calls and met with people as

[11:50] they came in if they came in. Uh the sheriffs were right out front um

[11:54] directing people away. So that was just something that I felt was necessary for

[11:58] that night. Um >> you can call us if you need help.

[12:02] » Yeah. Yeah. It was one of those things I just you know it was just learning you

[12:06] know. >> Oh yeah.

[12:07] » Um and and that is basically I did talk to Bob as well. I said in in these types

[12:13] of situations as elected officials, it would be very nice if you folks could

[12:18] reach out and just say how can I help? what can I do?

[12:22] » Um, we had a situation where there were people calling complaining instead of

[12:26] offering assistance >> and that doesn't make it easy,

[12:30] especially when they either work for us, you know, or they're part of our

[12:33] governmental system. Um, really, please just offer your assistance and see what

[12:39] you can do. Reach out and you might not even get to notice. You know, I don't

[12:43] know if either of you were noticed other than social media.

[12:45] » I was at work, right? And I got a text from my neighbor at like right

[12:49] » 5:30 p.m. >> Right. Yeah. I didn't know anything

[12:52] about it. >> So, I just stayed at work

[12:54] » for another hour or two before I came home.

[12:56] » And my wife called me at 37, can I come home now? I said, "Sure."

[13:00] I said, "Come home on Friday." [laughter] No.

[13:05] Um, so anyway, we're working on a plan. Uh, once I meet with North Terra, I'm

[13:10] planning to just do a little write up. You know, this is all the events. This

[13:13] is all we did. This is what occurred. This is kind of where we're at. um

[13:16] that'll be sent out. Um summer concert series, you guys all

[13:21] know that. Um I've also met with the village office

[13:26] staff to discuss our social media applications. Um

[13:31] just looking at what we post after this incident, what we use and uh other

[13:37] possibilities out there. We just talked overall about, you know, where we're

[13:40] posting, how we're posting, who's posting, what our policies are, what our

[13:45] legalities are. There are a lot of legalities, believe it or not. Some of

[13:49] them like, do you keep comments on? Do you keep comments off?

[13:52] » Um, is that restricting free speech? Is that not, you know what I mean? All of

[13:55] that stuff has to be discussed with the municipality, right? We're not just

[13:58] someone, you know, guy in our basement posting stuff. We're we are legally

[14:03] responsible for our speech, right? So, we're we've reached out to some

[14:08] attorneys. We've got policy books. We're looking at it all. But the bottom line

[14:12] is I want to have an improved social media presence in the village of Burge.

[14:17] I think our systems are archaic. Um, and our office staff are now empowered to do

[14:23] a lot more, especially with our summer concert series, our our, you know,

[14:28] farmers market, all the things we're doing. I want to get this out to the to

[14:33] the public and get people invested and get likes and follows and all that good

[14:36] stuff. And Rene's taken that bull by the horn and she's on it and she's creating

[14:42] things and doing things and it's looking great. So, if you aren't following the

[14:45] village Facebook page or the website, please do so. We're linking Facebook

[14:51] also to Instagram. Um, we've had younger people ask for that. Um, and we're

[14:56] looking at perhaps other ways, social media, that we can capture some of the

[15:00] younger, [clears throat] excuse me, generations because they don't use

[15:04] those, they don't use the babies we use. >> So, [clears throat] that's all in the

[15:10] works as well. In addition, uh, my last comment there, I there was some power

[15:15] outages in the in the village um over a long weekend. You guys experienced them.

[15:20] There were probably two, if not three after that high wind event on a

[15:26] Thursday. Um, and I was unable to post on our social media. So, that kind of

[15:31] got me. I was wanting to put things out pretty much immediately like, hey, this

[15:35] is going on. It's like night, you know, we're aware, you know, we contacted, you

[15:39] know, our electrical crew. They were coming in, they were working, they were

[15:42] looking for it, but I want the folks to know because, you know, if you have

[15:45] cellular data, you can still follow and that's where everybody goes, right? So,

[15:49] I wanted posts to say, "Hey, we're working on it. We're aware, you know,

[15:52] because I'm seeing complaints, you know, on social media. Why? Why does this keep

[15:56] happening on me?" So, um, that's another reason we allowed all of us to have

[16:02] access to be able to post. I would only post in an extreme emergency, that type

[16:07] of a thing, you know, to get a quick quick message out. Luckily, that night

[16:11] Barb reached out to me and like, "Hey, do you want me to post anything?" And

[16:14] she did. You know, she was posting for me, she was setting it all. So, it

[16:17] worked out really nice. So, um, but I don't expect the office staff to be, you

[16:21] know, at night back in call 24/7 if things are going on. So, um, as a result

[16:27] of that electrical thing, you know, we've enhanced some of our ability to

[16:32] let the community know what's going on, just so you're all aware. And if you

[16:35] ever need something posted as well, you're welcome to reach out and, you

[16:39] know, clarify us and we'll get things out there or if you think something

[16:42] should be posted, you know, or you want something to be more posted or something

[16:46] like that. Courtney, that phone number that we hear for electrical outages, is

[16:50] that that a waste of money now at this point? Is it being utilized?

[16:55] » Well, Joe, I guess I would say that um you know, the lineman

[17:01] can post information there if they want to. They can post it, you know, but it's

[17:07] hard when you know they're, you know, how long it takes them from to get from

[17:11] their house to here, right? So, if it takes them, if they're even if they're

[17:15] home sitting there and they're ready to walk out the door, it's going to take

[17:18] them 20 minutes to get here, >> right? And in that 20 minutes, they've

[17:21] already received 20, 30 phone calls. >> So, they don't even know what's wrong.

[17:25] So, do we want them to stop what they're doing and make a recording and say, "We

[17:30] don't know what's wrong, but we'll let you know when there is, you know, or go

[17:34] out and find out what's wrong." So, they takes 20 minutes to get here. And how

[17:37] long is going to take them to assess the problem and find the problem?

[17:40] » Yeah. Another at least 20 minutes, right? So they are 40 45 minutes in

[17:45] before they know it's the problem is to put it on there to let everybody know

[17:50] what they think that it's going to be. And then you know then they you know

[17:54] they got to fix it and who knows how long time it's going to take. So I I

[17:59] guess it to me that number should be for times where we're going to be out for an

[18:06] extended period of time. If it's like a a normal outage where oh crap a broker

[18:12] breaker flipped over here we got to go whatever and send your out without power

[18:17] for an hour I don't really think that's what the number is meant for because

[18:20] there's no way we can utilize it in that time period. Um so you know if something

[18:26] happens with grid or we have a big ice storm where we need to keep the people

[18:30] informed for you know a whole day or two days of the power out. I think that's

[18:35] what that number is really best used for.

[18:37] » Okay. >> Um you know a lot of people say well I

[18:39] call the emergency number first. But again you know their their first their

[18:44] first responsibility is to get in here and assess the problem get it up and

[18:48] running first. I think the residents would appreciate that but

[18:54] And this is a phone number that's listed on the website or something.

[18:56] » Found the electric bill, I believe. >> We do have it advertised in different

[19:00] places. And some people do know about and call, but normally they just go

[19:04] right to the the personal number that's listed and call directly.

[19:09] » Um, but you know, if that's something we would want the lineman to do to just put

[19:14] every time, you know, before they leave home be like, you know, we realize

[19:17] there's a power outage and we're assessing the issue. Um, that will, you

[19:22] know, put put that into a you know policy where it's case but again you

[19:27] know you don't know if power is going to be out for an hour 15 minutes or 6 hours

[19:32] » and it was years and years before the power like hadn't gone out

[19:36] » right >> now

[19:38] » yeah I mean it seems to be a little more frequent lately um this incident here

[19:43] seemed to be after the high winds a branch or so what happens is a branch or

[19:47] a tree whacks that wire and it can trip a breaker right and then uh they go

[19:52] » Oh they go reset the breaker and then they may never know where that tree was

[19:56] because it's on the ground by then. You know what I mean? Like it literally

[19:59] fell, hit the wire, then fell to the ground and that trip once that wire gets

[20:03] whacked, it gets tripped. And we think that happened two times in the village.

[20:07] So Eric or not Eric Nick went through >> they literally did a visual of every

[20:13] line, you know, all weekend they were here um and could not literally find

[20:19] anything that physically looked broken or wrong.

[20:23] » So that was the result of that at this moment, you know,

[20:26] » but there's some there's some way that you guys know the power's out before

[20:30] someone calls, right? There's an alarm out

[20:34] » goes out [laughter] and then one >> power goes out.

[20:37] » Yeah. They get a notice. >> When the power goes out in the

[20:40] substation, it it's got an auto dialer on it.

[20:43] » Oh. >> And u as long as it kicks out. Um

[20:51] but in that situation, the power to that section didn't go out.

[20:57] Just the residential section went out. North Terra stayed on because they're on

[21:02] two separate feeders, se two separate main transformers.

[21:07] So they they didn't go out. So that thing never called out. So that I called

[21:12] I called Nick and he got a hold of Matt >> cuz he wouldn't know that. He wouldn't

[21:18] know it was out. >> The

[21:21] residents are almost as fast as the auto dialer.

[21:24] » That's wonder. Yeah. >> Yeah.

[21:26] » I've got calls at 2 three in the morning. the power's out.

[21:29] » I get >> call you directly.

[21:31] » Oh yeah. >> I get I get call I get texts within

[21:34] minutes of the outage saying >> you know what's wrong when this power

[21:38] couldn't come on like how how is it even if we had people stationed here 24 hours

[21:44] a day sitting at the station. They couldn't assess what's wrong that

[21:48] quickly. >> Right.

[21:49] » Right. So it's just it's just what's what happened when it come back on. Well

[21:54] it's been 10 minutes. Um, >> yeah,

[21:57] » they had it on within hours. I mean, it was it was pretty quick and then, you

[22:01] know, then it went off again on Sunday, I think it was for an hour, maybe.

[22:06] » Something interesting. Courtney knows about this. Akan is a municipal electric

[22:11] also. And Tom, the uh the leader there, the foreman, he called and talked to

[22:18] Nick, okay? >> He heard about us on the news and he

[22:21] said, "You know what, Nick? We had that happen a few years back. We had an

[22:26] ammonia leak and it knocked our electric out.

[22:29] » Oh, >> something about

[22:31] » ammonia. >> It's heavy and it gets around the

[22:33] insulators and >> that was that weekend after.

[22:37] » That's interesting. >> Well, that's when it went out. And we

[22:39] couldn't we we >> and for it to go out how it did, it had

[22:43] to be a section from the from the street to here and there was nothing no dead

[22:48] bird. No, >> but that's where that ammonia was mainly

[22:53] going down because Huh? >> My wife was walking down Gibson. She got

[22:57] a full width width of it going down Gibson and that's where that station is,

[23:00] that section of line is that would kick >> and he claims that it knocked their

[23:05] electric out. >> Okay.

[23:07] » So, >> that could have been that.

[23:09] » As crazy as that sounds, um they couldn't find anything. So,

[23:14] » all right. >> That's interesting.

[23:15] » Yep. >> And it was it just hap I mean it's an

[23:19] odd thing that happened immediately after

[23:22] » league. So, >> yeah. and unexplainable at that.

[23:25] » This was like three days later. >> It was. Yeah, it was that. Well,

[23:28] Thursday was >> It wasn't that Thursday was the

[23:30] windtorm, was it? >> So, one week later,

[23:35] right? Because the emergency was on Wednesday. Was the windstorm on

[23:38] Thursday?

[23:41] » I don't know. I don't remember. Was it Did it windtorm?

[23:45] » I think it did. It coincided with the windstorm because we had people I had

[23:49] people asking me. I'm like, "We just had a major windstorm on Thursday, guys." I

[23:52] mean, kind of shake, >> you know. I know. We don't know exactly

[23:55] what it is, but you got to expect there's something maybe possibly

[24:00] loosening up. We're getting 80 mph winds or

[24:03] » we don't have We do a really good job of tree trimming here.

[24:06] » Yeah. The infrastructure is great. >> So, we keep a lot of stuff away from it,

[24:09] right? >> But I can tell you from, you know, being

[24:12] where I live, there's so many dead ash trees everywhere

[24:15] » that they're they're just going to keep on falling. There's millions of these

[24:18] dead ash trees. There's one been sitting on the wire up by the train tracks for

[24:23] like a year up in the town. The past trees have been laying on it for a year.

[24:27] » They're still going to keep falling for quite a long time and taking power out.

[24:31] » Not here in a village. We take care of those, but outside of the village, it

[24:34] can affect our feeder lines and definitely everybody else around the

[24:37] area. >> Well, that's the first question. Is it

[24:39] us or is it somewhere outside of us? So, that's the first thing we always ask,

[24:44] you know, and if it's and that's what we'll post. Look, it's not it's not

[24:47] within the village. outside, you know, so we'll get that information out there.

[24:51] We're talking about all those ways to notify during those emergencies. So,

[24:55] it's good. You know, we're updating. We're getting it brought up to 2026,

[24:59] we'll get our information out there better. Um, and going back to the phone

[25:03] number thing, Joe, I I don't know if it's I don't I don't think it really

[25:07] cost us anything. So to have it just in case down the road something happens but

[25:12] you know in the f it might be you know it might be outdated because of social

[25:17] media because that's what people look >> and do people who know about it other

[25:20] than it being >> there's a handful of people who do

[25:23] » I think if you're the type of person that wants to do that you would look I

[25:27] would I never thought to look there because I'm not

[25:29] » the numbers list >> it's on electric bill it's on the

[25:32] website um years ago we did magnets and we gave to everybody with important

[25:37] contact information and that number's on there as well. So people who have those

[25:43] still on their on their on their refrigerators have that there too. So

[25:48] there's there's maybe a handful of people

[25:54] always fun people.

[26:01] » Would it make any sense to put on the bill extended outages that number rather

[26:05] than >> let's update that.

[26:07] » I think doesn't already said emergency though.

[26:09] » Yeah. >> Yeah. I mean

[26:11] » power going out it's not necessarily emergency, right? So I guess we could

[26:14] word it differently. rooms here. Extended holiday

[26:19] » extended extended. Yeah, >> we'll look at that.

[26:23] » Uh farmers market kicked off really good success. Um again, thanks to the office

[26:28] staff and park committee from planning, coordination, hard work. Um the the

[26:33] Tavian was here. They put a nice article in today.

[26:37] » So if you give a moment, read it. It's really nice. Great pictures. Um lot of

[26:42] nice PR for farmers market. Nice picture of Renee front and center. So, um, it's

[26:49] wonderful. Uh, I met with Joe, Courtney, and Paul Osborne from Jennese County to

[26:54] discuss possible housing grants in the village of Virgin and about an hour

[26:58] meeting about uh, state grant money that's being released by the governor

[27:02] for improved housing throughout the state. So, we talked about the reality

[27:07] of what that would look like and how to access that and those types of things.

[27:13] Um Joe and Courtney, thank you for meeting with the county of the sheriff's

[27:17] department. Um it's kind of a yearly thing that's been going on in the

[27:21] village. Meeting with the sheriff's talking about extra road patrols, our

[27:24] concerns in the village this year. It's ebikes, um minibikes, kind of all over

[27:31] the place. Uh speed through the village. Um

[27:38] » pretty much this. >> Yeah, I did stress uh right tickets.

[27:42] Yeah, >> you know, you don't want more tickets.

[27:46] » We want folks saying, "No, you're going to be blue virgin, you're going to get

[27:49] that ticket." You want people to see I was coming down from

[27:56] I call it Sugar Creek, but the 7-Eleven coming down the village and I'm doing 34

[28:02] and there's two ebikes following me right the whole way. Kids, no helmets,

[28:06] just the whole way down right into the village. I turned, they kept going. I

[28:10] was like, "What do you do?" And literally on the

[28:14] street right behind me. If I hit my brakes, they probably ran into me. They

[28:18] followed me the whole way about 30. >> They're everywhere.

[28:22] » Did you receive the uh info from the sheriff? Not yet. About the bikes and

[28:27] the rules and regulations and what we have to do to get it on our

[28:31] » Yeah. So, we can make some ordinances and things like that. So we just ask

[28:36] them to if they see them talk to the kids and people

[28:41] confiscate one if you have to you know that word will spread so fast

[28:46] you know I think that's why we need the we need

[28:50] » information so they can confiscate. >> Yeah.

[28:53] » So we'll look at um

[28:58] other than that that's it was it's been a busy time. Any

[29:04] questions on my reporting?

[29:08] » Yeah, you've all read my report. So, things roof repair the roof repair

[29:16] plant uh there. Um roof's in good shape besides the the

[29:22] uh machines that blew off putting the ventilation on it wasn't

[29:28] enough ventilation. So a lot of the problem was moisture. We had some boards

[29:35] and back space.

[29:40] Now there's six of those spinning on there.

[29:56] Off the agent was here this week. We got really good turnout.

[30:02] Farmers market will also be out next Tuesday. The farmer markets

[30:09] you know we got our farm market

[30:16] things like that. So I would go to so

[30:23] well if I come there

[30:33] um should be in my course for quite some time

[30:37] ended on May 31st. So uh work on to get closed and all that

[30:46] there programs began. Uh it's going really

[30:49] well. Um Natalie Hudson is the leader

[30:55] going well. I'm not getting anything done.

[30:58] No work. No news. Just everything goes on and every day I go get the lunches to

[31:05] school and drop them off to her. Great. Well, so we got an average of 20 25 kids

[31:14] every day.

[31:18] The grant writers um Jesse County has once again has the money for grant

[31:24] writing. Um

[31:30] side money on last year we used it for joint comprehensive plan going forward

[31:38] that again

[31:46] was break down with us in town's paying for it this year because we paid

[31:52] for it last year or if we're splitting We we split the cost to have it

[31:58] resubmitted already because we we submitted the grant

[32:03] application. It got turned down [clears throat] and then we went half

[32:07] and half. I think 1,500 each. >> Was that last year?

[32:11] » It was so they could resubmit it. >> So that would be this.

[32:17] » So that's a different that's this grant not the following grant which was these

[32:22] » for the comprehensive plan. Okay. So, I guess that money is that's $5,000 to do

[32:28] other grants. If there's other grants that um you guys can think of,

[32:33] » they do come through your emails every once in a while. Other we'll see them

[32:36] out there. So, if you guys browse them, see anything that you think is even

[32:39] interesting. Um send them my way. We'll review them and if we think it's, you

[32:44] know, worth it, we'll propose it to you guys.

[32:46] » We get a hold like Eric Weiss. >> Okay.

[32:49] » See if there's any. >> Right. Well, Eric White, Labella,

[32:53] » Jeff Smith, too. I know you know he's been working on a grant for the match

[32:57] for the million dollar infrastructure bicycle infrastructure

[33:02] grant. So, that might be easier. >> Yeah, you guys streets are joining

[33:08] through >> and I just I I just popped in my head

[33:11] just to you guys know we still haven't got the bill for the project back here.

[33:16] » So, I don't know what's going on. I mean, if they don't if they want to do

[33:19] it for free and never built it, then hunky dory. Um, but uh time I talked to

[33:25] uh Eric Weiss about it, they just they don't they haven't come to terms with

[33:31] the people, I guess. >> Wow. Do you crew for stuff like that or

[33:35] you just wait? [clears throat] >> Yeah, we have to come

[33:40] on,

[33:44] but >> we get a purchase order.

[33:50] » I don't know. No, I don't I don't if we did a purchase to

[33:53] » that was kind of an emergency, >> right? Because we didn't expect to have

[33:57] to do all the well drilling and stuff. But as part of the EFC funding, too, and

[34:03] changes things >> part of the whole project. So I don't

[34:07] think we do numbers for a large project like that

[34:11] [clears throat] >> budget for last year or this year

[34:14] because now we crossed over. >> Yeah. And so I think we were always

[34:17] going to take that money out appropriate fund balance because there wasn't any

[34:21] budget um and it would have had to come out of the sewer budget and there's no

[34:25] money in the sewer budget to pay that extra what $70,000 they quoted us. Um,

[34:30] so that was going to come out the general budget. So we talked about

[34:35] unappropriated fund balance paying that, but then they inflated it well over 70

[34:40] because they underestimated, you know, how bad it was, even though we told them

[34:45] before they touched the ground that that's what they were going to run into.

[34:48] Um, and suffering that first. Um, they just didn't believe us and um, and what

[34:55] six balls around it, something like that.

[34:59] So they were overund what 25,000 they wanted something like that

[35:04] » to GPS all the coordinates now where all the casings are. So

[35:09] 30 40 years from now when they got to do it again

[35:15] [laughter] >> cuz I remember they did it some 40 years

[35:18] back. I don't that's how we knew what they were going to run into.

[35:24] » So that's just opinion on that. I'm going to blame it on the old

[35:28] administration. >> No news is good news on that one. Uh the

[35:32] other thing is the uh the u this building the HBAC is uh 18 years old. Um

[35:42] really right now it's just the air conditioning has been a problem. The

[35:45] furnace has seen okay. Um the air exchangers out back. Um so um they've

[35:52] been twice this year they've came out to fix it. Haven't been major things. um

[35:56] what they want to do maintenance on it. Um clean things up, some of the

[36:01] connections that's 16, a little over $1,600. Um so I guess the question is,

[36:06] do we want to just kind of do the maintenance and see how long it takes us

[36:10] or do we want to get some quotes on what it takes to replace that?

[36:15] » Is there some people find a grapple? >> I doubt that.

[36:20] » Can we use beep funds? >> Possibly. Some

[36:24] » some of them. I mean, you know, the beef funds for that for rebate for a

[36:30] commercial or residential business is like a thousand,000

[36:34] something. >> I would personally I'd get the

[36:36] maintenance done and then start digging into where where we can go from there

[36:42] long >> term.

[36:45] » Are you recommending some some quotes done?

[36:47] » Oh, yeah. I'm definitely, you know, get the get the maintenance done and then

[36:50] start seeking quotes to, you know, replace it, move forward. I agree.

[36:55] » Doesn't mean we have to replace it immediately.

[36:58] » No, but at least you know where you're going.

[36:59] » Yeah, >> it's 18 years old. Probably a life what

[37:03] 20 years. >> Yeah, it's got to be done with soon. But

[37:05] I mean, at least we can get some quotes and some ideas.

[37:08] » Yeah. Get some quotes. >> That's for this whole building or just

[37:11] the office space? >> Uh these two spaces, the office and the

[37:14] boardroom space. the one there's two furnaces and two air

[37:19] handlers that the lobby the boardroom and then the back is done by one and

[37:24] then the other one is for the office and all the offices is the second one.

[37:29] » How how soon does the maintenance have to be done? It's just routine

[37:33] maintenance is what it is. >> It's all working right now. Um so there

[37:37] are some things they recommend because they feel like the last problems that

[37:43] were caused by the connectors and things back there.

[37:47] » I just hate spending $1,600 if you get some quotes and we're going to replace

[37:51] it if it's not something that needs to be addressed immediately.

[37:56] » Who do we use? >> Who do we use?

[37:58] » Triple O, but in a case of um three.

[38:04] » Okay. >> Yeah. You mean just to assess how bad or

[38:08] the necessity for the maintenance is to begin with and then go from there? Do

[38:12] they recommend a full replacement or do they say like

[38:16] » Loki did that you got another five years on it or something like that?

[38:19] » Do we have routine maintenance done every year?

[38:22] » We don't have yearly but it turns out to be yearly that

[38:27] something goes breaks down the fix. >> What budget would that come out of?

[38:33] » All three. >> All three. Yeah.

[38:35] » All three. This this space has every bill for this space has a percentage

[38:40] breakdown based on what it's being used for.

[38:48] » What do you all want? >> How long does it take to get quotes?

[38:59] » Let's do that. Yeah, let's get some quotes

[39:03] » for a replacement and then we're going to have to do the maintenance, but you

[39:06] know, if the if the cost is 4,000, >> then we're going to spend 1,600 for

[39:11] maintenance. >> Let's do the 4,000.

[39:15] » I'm sure it'll be much more just I know. You never know.

[39:21] » So, that's okay. >> That's what I got for now.

[39:24] » Um, do you guys mind updating where we are in the substation?

[39:27] » Yeah, Joe. Uh we we meet every two weeks. Uh we have a [snorts]

[39:33] webinar at national every two weeks. >> Um the last meeting uh two big things

[39:40] that came out of or uh they looked at the increase of the oxbow load

[39:46] u the projected load and uh they were okay with that.

[39:50] » Okay. >> So that was huge. Um,

[39:53] and u they're looking at the uh they said they're uh going to be able to

[39:59] tweak their settings a little bit which is what we need.

[40:04] » Okay. >> Um our engineers been trying to get them

[40:08] to tweak it so it's not the so the coordination isn't so tight

[40:12] » and they said there is room to do that. So, they're hoping by this next phone

[40:17] call that we have with them that uh they would have their their engineer would

[40:22] have the uh where they're at with that. >> Okay.

[40:25] » Um and he said that uh the other thing the third thing here is the uh

[40:33] um switching from the steel structure there 345 feed coming in is currently

[40:40] connected onto our steel structure. the sub. We need to get that off there and

[40:44] move it over to our new structure uh which is a wood pole wood pole line. And

[40:50] they're uh they're okay with that, but they're thinking that they're probably

[40:54] going to have to set a new pole because they don't like the idea of their pole

[40:58] being as close as it is right now to our pole. So, they've got their

[41:04] their end looking at that for engineering how they want to where they

[41:07] want to set that new pole. So, we're hoping by this this meeting coming up

[41:12] Thursday that uh >> have an answer.

[41:15] » We'll have the answers and uh that's the hold up right now. Uh we can't start any

[41:20] work inside that substation >> until that power

[41:23] » site work until we get that power off off the station and moved over. So, it

[41:27] completely kills that station so the contractor can get in there and demolish

[41:32] everything in there. It's going to take uh a substantial

[41:37] outage. um I would think on a Sunday uh probably like 8 8 in the morning. Uh

[41:44] when this does happen, we don't have a date yet when it's going to happen.

[41:47] We're still waiting for, like I said, the coordination study

[41:52] um from National Grid. >> We can't get into cold weather. So,

[41:55] » no, no, it should be. >> Yeah,

[41:58] » it should be I'm thinking probably maybe even in August.

[42:03] » Okay. >> Late August, maybe. Okay. Uh but it's

[42:08] it's got to be coordinated with National Grid uh and the New York Power Authority

[42:12] to make when when the systems all when it's switched over, they have to come in

[42:17] and power authority that is and and hook up all their new metering because right

[42:22] now it's going through the old state old station. So they to get we've got all

[42:27] the new all the new equipment in place and

[42:31] they've already come out and looked at it all and it's set to go, but they have

[42:34] to tie it into the control house so that when they switch the lines over, they

[42:39] can start metering, you know, the village's usage. So it's it's going to

[42:43] be a coordinated effort here. Uh but uh it's definitely probably be an eight

[42:48] hour outage. I would think things I would doubt it. It's not

[42:52] » eight eight hours anyway. I'm just >> Okay.

[42:55] » But uh again, that date has not been set yet.

[42:58] » Okay. >> And as soon as it is, we'll get that

[43:00] out. >> Yeah.

[43:02] » Customers. >> Okay.

[43:04] » So hopefully after our [clears throat] next phone

[43:09] meeting with them, we'll have some more answers for you.

[43:13] » Okay. Thanks, Joe. >> Uh new cameras are up in the park.

[43:18] » Okay. How's the new system working? >> Great. It's a very good system.

[43:24] better clear pictures and we can zoom in pretty good back there compared to the

[43:28] old big foot cameras we had. So most of the part is covered good

[43:36] cameras and the cellular system was installed.

[43:41] So we should be able get on and see live footage and review

[43:47] great pass footage without going up to the bar standing in the back the

[43:52] bathroom. So I just sit there my computer do it.

[43:55] » Nice. Very nice. >> [clears throat]

[44:00] » Sounds good. We've actually diverted a few vandalism attempts through the

[44:04] cameras. So >> Oh, why didn't you talk through those?

[44:06] » Yeah, we found some people who did some things and I went and talked to them and

[44:10] Courtney talked to them. So used but >> we were able we were able to find the

[44:15] building. >> Yeah, we were able to divert something.

[44:17] So >> Courtney, do you have just a question on

[44:20] yours on the roof repairs? We got the money in the budget to handle that or

[44:26] » I mean fix it or ruin the the >> Well, I know it's got to be fixed, but

[44:32] I'm saying where's the money? Are we have to take it out of our fund balance

[44:37] or >> There's no fund balance in there. So,

[44:39] we'll have to do we'll put it in the budget line and um do a budget transfer

[44:43] or something like that to cover it.

[44:47] » I thought we had money in the store that we could tap into.

[44:49] » There's there's a there's a little bit of

[44:52] Yeah, we can

[44:55] » put under buildings and then do a budget transfer from contingency of that line.

[45:01] » Okay.

[45:04] » Okay. Any other questions for Courtney or I

[45:09] busy month? >> Yeah. I don't know the other roof that's

[45:12] on top of the office in the garage and that's a like a tar rubber roof with

[45:19] flat with a stone on it. When that starts to go,

[45:23] which it hadn't been repaired a number of times in the last couple years,

[45:28] how do we go about that with all that gravel on top of the road?

[45:34] And that just like shoveling all

[45:39] that's pretty old, too. >> I'm trying to think what year that was

[45:42] put on. >> Upstate roofing put that on. Okay. When

[45:45] » I was superintendent, >> that's a long time.

[45:51] 12, 15, I don't know, 20 years ago. >> That's up here. It's It's part of the

[45:59] sewer plan. >> Oh, where the office and his office and

[46:03] the garage door is. >> Let's shut that off and put the new

[46:08] rubber me down and put the stone back on it.

[46:11] » Yeah.

[46:14] Okay. Any other questions? Okay. CO report. Take a peek if you have any

[46:21] questions.

[46:26] » No questions.

[46:31] » Yep. >> Make a motion to approve the officer's

[46:34] reports. >> Second. Anybody?

[46:37] » Second. >> Okay. All in favor?

[46:40] » I opposed. Okay. Passed. Okay. Uh plaque presentation

[46:49] of concerns. >> Oh, where? Oh, trustee concerns. Sorry,

[46:52] I it doesn't have something written on it.

[46:56] » Okay, we'll start with Bernardet. Anything on trustee concerns?

[46:59] » Uh no, I was just going to um ask questions about the electric, but we

[47:03] talked about it. >> Great.

[47:06] » Sure. >> Um no concerns. I just want to say how

[47:10] beautiful downtown looks, the flags, the flowers.

[47:13] » [clears throat] >> Courtney

[47:15] may thank you. >> All the guys. Yeah. Outstanding. Looks

[47:20] beautiful. Todd,

[47:24] » um just u you know, I know we talked about the ebike thing and I I I sent you

[47:28] that list of regulations you put on the village website there. It's just I think

[47:33] we need more awareness for the parents um of what's going on with these ebikes

[47:38] and all racing down the street doing wheelies and obstructing traffic. It's

[47:43] it's it's got to come to a stop. >> Yeah, I'll put a lot I'll put them in my

[47:46] newsletter for sure. >> So, it was interesting to see some of

[47:51] there were some comments on the that notice and a lot of them were

[47:55] » Yeah. >> Yeah.

[47:56] » were >> not were were negative, I guess.

[48:01] best way to say it. There were a lot of >> on what notice the social media?

[48:03] » So, we sent up we sent out uh basically a standard New York State ebike policy.

[48:10] » Um that just warned, you know, just you got to be 16 to ride them, wear helmets,

[48:15] follow the rules of the road, you know, anyone under 16, it's illegal to ride

[48:19] them on the road. You know, they could be confiscated. those kinds of things,

[48:24] you know, just the rules, you know, just awareness and, you know, there was

[48:30] just with that awareness, people were like, you know, mind your own business

[48:34] and, you know, um, don't tell us what to do or freedom, you know, the whole

[48:39] thing, you know. So, >> there were some good comments, but, you

[48:42] know, >> it's just it's just very interesting,

[48:46] you know, but you're right. It is parents responsibility for 16 and under.

[48:49] Um, >> you know, they're the ones buying these

[48:52] ebikes for the kids. >> Yeah.

[48:54] » Yeah. >> So, I'll put another I'll put a notice

[48:57] out there and we'll we'll rescend it. We'll resend more updated ones. And that

[49:02] was another thing, you know, about meeting with the sheriff's about that

[49:05] policy. >> There's

[49:08] the the sheriff's um

[49:13] the sheriff's hands are tied a little bit because there's no real standard.

[49:16] There's no law per se. It's policies that are out there and each municipality

[49:21] can make their make their own policies, right? So, we don't right now have any

[49:26] and that's what Joe was asking Courtney about is that

[49:29] » the sheriffs were supposed to send us some information about guidance of maybe

[49:35] setting standards or policies for the village and what we would want to do and

[49:39] how far do we want to go with it and things like that. You know what I mean?

[49:42] I'm not trying to restrict, you know, people. I just want people to be safe,

[49:46] you know, >> be aware.

[49:48] » Yeah. And when me and Joe met with them, you know, this is something that's

[49:50] happening in every it's everywhere. >> And, you know, and it's very hard for

[49:54] them, like you said, it's very hard for them to do it because there's

[49:57] regulations, but also the reg state regulations are, you know, based on

[50:01] speed and design and and these different things. So, how can a police officer in

[50:06] a car look at a bike and be like, he can't do that because that one is over

[50:10] this amperage. And so, but this one's less than that amperage. So, it's you

[50:15] know, so he's so they have to try to keep up with different models so they

[50:18] can like having how can you possibly >> become an ebike expert to enforce the

[50:24] law >> down the road. I see the state

[50:27] » having some [snorts] laws. I mean, it's it's across the state and as they get

[50:32] bigger and more fast and I mean these things go 40, 50, 60 miles an hour, you

[50:37] know, >> you go through the tape there

[50:39] everywhere. You know what I mean? So, it's it's just not unique here. It to me

[50:43] it's making parents and people aware of >> What about adding a bike?

[50:49] » Oh, jeez. Well, we cut down into the main roads.

[50:53] » So, the main roads are owned by the state. So, 19 Buffalo are owned by the

[50:56] state. We couldn't do it in 237. They're not our roads. We can only do it within

[51:02] » the side streets. And I don't wide enough.

[51:04] » That's not That's not the problem, [snorts]

[51:06] you know. The problem is, >> you know, the main roads here.

[51:11] And just a side note is I've been here 16 years, which is

[51:15] » long, but not terribly long, but it's long enough to have seen a half dozen of

[51:20] these type of situations with different things,

[51:22] » right? And they all come and go, whether it's ebikes, dirt bikes, dirt bikes, or

[51:28] just regular bicycles or skateboards or, >> you know, there's always these things.

[51:34] There's always something new. It's >> kind of fad

[51:36] » and then, you know, then we react to it and pass a legislation and five years

[51:40] down it like, >> you know, it's it's a it's a reactive

[51:44] kind of thing to a problem. But >> in the end, it just kind of fad dies

[51:49] out. We're on to something else like that.

[51:52] » And I do chat with the kids out there. A lot of them congregate up by my house,

[51:56] guys. Just don't be drying them on the streets, you know. I'll look out for

[51:59] you. Look out for me. Okay. Okay. You know, so I mean, we're having

[52:02] conversations with them up there. I do go up to the park, chat with the kids up

[52:05] there as well, you know, just take it easy through the streets, keep my senior

[52:10] residents happy, you know, and they're good. They're

[52:13] good. But they have questions. Well, can we ride them on the road or sidewalk?

[52:17] And I'm like, I don't know. [laughter] I don't know, you know. So, just things

[52:22] like that. I don't even know, you know. >> I don't know where the parents are. And

[52:25] I'm, you know, I'm going up and down Buffalo Street at 1:30 in the morning.

[52:28] » Yeah. >> Up and down. Up and down. 1:30 in the

[52:31] morning. We're the parents of these kids.

[52:33] » Yeah. >> They're not that quiet.

[52:34] » Oh, they're not that quiet. >> Well, the the day I sent that thing to

[52:37] Mike, a friend of mine had sent it to me. I watching these two guys. I was in

[52:41] my front yard. They came off a Buffalo Road down Rochester Street right down

[52:45] the middle of the road and there's this one of those speed sensors right in

[52:48] front of my house and they they they stop at 40 miles an hour and these guys

[52:52] went past that thing and it wouldn't even go off.

[52:55] » They go right down the middle of the road. No helmets, just going like a you

[52:59] know, going to bed out of hell. >> Yeah. Well, that's the thing. Some

[53:02] getting hurt will be will be, you know, the next

[53:06] » electric, but they're still they're noisy. They're still noisy.

[53:09] » You can hear them when they're going down the street.

[53:11] » Yeah. >> Especially at night when everything's

[53:13] quiet, trying to sleeping. A window open >> up and down and all that.

[53:19] » Okay. Any other trustee concerns? Okay.

[53:24] All right. Now, new business, right? All right. First thing first, uh I have a

[53:29] plaque presentation for Joe. This is for his service as mayor.

[53:36] Um and how many years of service in the village, Joe?

[53:42] » 32. >> I don't Well, I started in 1990.

[53:47] » 1990 >> and I retired 2018.

[53:52] Yeah. So 28 years been on the board as a

[53:57] trustee and then mayor. So >> trustee

[54:00] » 28 30 34 35 years

[54:04] » 35 years I invited his wife and kids and they all wanted to come but you were

[54:08] totally said I don't want you here. This is grandson over to the library for

[54:14] some. Yeah, this [laughter] >> believe me I I do appreciate.

[54:19] » So either way, here you go, Joe. >> That's beautiful.

[54:22] » Presented to Joe M. What's the M? >> Martin.

[54:25] » Martin uh Shenino in recognition of his dedication, dedicated service, and

[54:30] outstanding leadership to the village of Virgin. Your commitment and vision have

[54:34] made a lasting impact on the entire community. With gratitude and best wish,

[54:37] best wishes 2026. Stand up in front of the

[54:45] » side. >> Did you guys match on purpose, too?

[54:47] You're out. >> I maybe Yeah. [laughter]

[54:55] » Tilt it down just the hair. Joe, >> good.

[54:59] » Have a glare. >> Yep.

[55:00] » All right. Good job. [applause] >> Thank you very much.

[55:06] Let me just say it was an honor to serve as mayor. It really was. And uh

[55:13] to serve with the board members. Thank you for all your support. And uh I can't

[55:20] thank Courtney enough. >> Right.

[55:22] » Um Mike, you'll find out how valuable this guy this guy is.

[55:25] » And uh I couldn't have done what I did without Courtney. So and uh and the

[55:30] office staff and the employees. Courtney was always memory in here.

[55:37] I just want to say thank you. >> Nice.

[55:38] » Thank you, John. >> Oh, thank you.

[55:40] » Thank you, John. That's a long service. Still going. So,

[55:43] » very nice. Thank you. I'm glad I can continue to serve.

[55:47] » Yeah, that's very thankful for that. >> I gave you the box if you wanted it. If

[55:52] not, we can toss it. But there you go. >> Beautiful. Thank you so much.

[56:00] » Okay.

[56:03] So notification system, I I pretty much updated you on where we are, but just

[56:08] the the outcome of notifications. The county emergency management system off

[56:13] or services also had uh questions posed to them about notifications like when

[56:19] emergencies are declared, how are how's the community notified, especially if

[56:23] it's a stay in place or how people know, you know? So they use all the tools they

[56:29] can. They ask their partners like us, the village and the town to also use all

[56:34] the tools we can. Um we talked about where the failures were in the

[56:38] notifications. Um you know it was a little delayed the information getting

[56:43] to our village staff, a little delayed getting over to the town. Um it was

[56:48] declared but nobody knew what that meant other than just stay you know. So we're

[56:53] like okay what does all that mean? So people were concerned. And they were

[56:57] like, you know, I'm out in the yard with my kids and I nobody told me, you know,

[57:01] and I could that was dangerous, you know. Yeah, you're right. So, we talked

[57:06] about an alert system at Noera, a noise, a light, but there were also negative.

[57:14] There's pros and cons of all of that. You know, if an alarm goes out over

[57:17] there, is it a evacuate? Is it stay in place? Is it a fire? You know, we don't

[57:24] know. So, we're talking about ways to enhance all of those notifications. The

[57:28] county does have a a plan. It's called uh phase one and it is a

[57:37] localized uh notification system to cell phones.

[57:42] It's it pings a specific area. So, it could ping a onem radius around the

[57:49] village of Virgin or perhaps include part of the town or wherever they wanted

[57:53] to. they could go two miles, five miles, however long or big they needed to go.

[57:57] » Um, they've been working with phase one for a while on developing the system.

[58:02] Uh, Tim Jagger is reaching out to them and uh getting phase one into place and

[58:10] we're going to do a test um in the village and possibly the town um in

[58:17] either what they say September, October, right? So there's first responders month

[58:22] month or something like that or what is it called? Something like that.

[58:25] » Yeah. Yeah. >> It's it's like a first responders month

[58:28] or so we're going to do it during that. It's awareness month basically for you

[58:32] know change your batteries all those kind of things in you. So, we're gonna

[58:35] we're gonna target uh with in coordination with them to, you know, set

[58:40] up train to set up a radius and we'll put

[58:46] alerts out to the village and it's going to come across as an Amber alert or

[58:50] something like that. It would be a loud there's a

[58:53] » there's an emergency declared in your area, please go to social media.

[58:56] Basically, something like that. >> That' be great.

[58:58] » I would suggest that they use a different tone than the Amber Alert

[59:01] because when I hear that, I just dismiss it. That's crazy,

[59:05] » right? So, whatever phase one uses, that's what we'll use. I we'll we'll try

[59:09] it, test it, um and go from there. So, then

[59:14] » then we'll have that uh then we'll have discussions about how that went. Um

[59:19] we'll alert the community, ask for feedback. Um the problem with that whole

[59:23] thing, everything will have a problem is that if you're at work in Rochester,

[59:26] you're not in the pain area, you know. So,

[59:29] » Oh, so it's only with the location of the phone at that time.

[59:31] » Correct. >> Oh, yeah. Interesting. He did say though

[59:33] that if if people travel into the zone then they get

[59:37] » you would get it as well. Right. So it's it's zone located.

[59:41] » So it's you know your phone your phone entering in and out type thing.

[59:45] » It's not based on your home address where that phone is.

[59:47] » No. >> So we talked about that as well. Is

[59:50] there maybe a notification system where people can register you know like I want

[59:54] even if I'm vacation Florida I want the notification that there's an emergency

[59:58] in my home you know. So that also is being proposed to phase one. So, it

[1:00:02] might be an option that we can also even though we're not home or in that ping

[1:00:08] area because we live in that ping area, we'll get a notice somewhere else. But

[1:00:11] you would have to actually register physically as a resident or a person of

[1:00:15] interest, right? Makes sense, you know, and I would want to know

[1:00:19] » about traveling. Hey, >> 14.

[1:00:23] [laughter] >> Yeah. They also said too is the downside

[1:00:26] to is not, you know, people turn off their notifications,

[1:00:29] » right? you turn on. Yeah. >> And if all the notifications are turned

[1:00:32] off, then you're not great. You're not going to get it.

[1:00:34] » But I mean, whose >> But we would put out aformational

[1:00:39] letter, you know, with that information. If you turn your noises off, it's not

[1:00:42] going to work. If you're outside the area, it's not going to work. You have

[1:00:45] to personally register to get them, you know, that whole thing. We'll give them

[1:00:48] instructions. We'll try it. Um, but that will solve, uh, I think the notification

[1:00:54] issue. Um, we did discuss getting our own yearly subscription to a

[1:00:59] notification system that would have to go to the tax base basically, but we're

[1:01:03] we're letting the county take the lead right now.

[1:01:06] » Um, so we're going to wait on their

[1:01:12] » um assistance and participation. >> Make sense?

[1:01:15] » Yeah. >> Do we still do like a like new resident

[1:01:20] packets or whatever we used to do or get out?

[1:01:22] » Uh, we have a little card, but it doesn't have

[1:01:25] like everything on it. We talked about doing some sort of

[1:01:29] » um glad >> there used to be new resident little bag

[1:01:33] of stuff. Anyways, that would be something. We

[1:01:37] could have that in there. Yeah. >> Or for them to see about the

[1:01:40] notification system too, >> right?

[1:01:43] » I think it would be great if if we can get it working properly and we can use

[1:01:46] it because they're they're also, like I said, concerned about Oldfield. So,

[1:01:49] they're going to we're going to kind of do it in conjunction.

[1:01:54] Um, so there'll be a lot of information even by Jennese County Emergency

[1:01:58] Management to the community. This is going on. This is happening, you know,

[1:02:01] so >> everybody will be fully aware and

[1:02:03] they're taking the lead. We are we'll be a partner. So,

[1:02:07] » makes sense. >> Sounds good.

[1:02:09] » Okay. Um, resolution Courtney. >> Uh, so this is a resolution for the

[1:02:16] uh joint comprehensive plan grant application.

[1:02:23] requires a 15% match half of which below the village

[1:02:31] 7 7.5% match

[1:02:37] we did not get it last year but that the conversation uh we met with staff from

[1:02:43] um not sure what the it was called but the

[1:02:48] » New York state >> yeah New York the the department who uh

[1:02:54] graded the grants pointswise. They they were saying we're we were like so close

[1:03:01] and they couldn't they couldn't say it they couldn't say it say it but they

[1:03:04] were emphasizing just how close we were. >> It was just just

[1:03:10] very and so >> Were they emphasizing that because

[1:03:12] there's something you can do to make the next one go through? Yeah, there's a

[1:03:15] couple little things that they feedbackwise that um do different um and

[1:03:21] they'll put us over and but they just kept on saying I think we should I think

[1:03:26] we think you should reapply. You don't need a lot of different change just need

[1:03:29] to reply. So there's a few little tweaks in there that they're going to do. Um

[1:03:33] but besides that we have a really good chance

[1:03:37] but it's something we need. Um it'll take it'll be a long process.

[1:03:41] Comprehensive plan is not um like simple and easy.

[1:03:46] » The [clears throat] last done under Hannah

[1:03:49] back quite a while. >> Yeah.

[1:03:55] » 2013 to update the >> 2016. There's been so much change and so

[1:04:01] much, you know, movement that it's outdated. And uh that's really supposed

[1:04:06] to be the world guide decision making of >> what we do. And

[1:04:11] » having an updated one gives us a better chance of getting grants for our future

[1:04:16] building progress and things like that. So

[1:04:20] » all right, I'll accept a motion of approval.

[1:04:24] » Okay. >> Board questions. Make a motion that we

[1:04:26] uh accept resolution number 10 of 2026 support the submission of smart growth

[1:04:33] planning grant application by version.

[1:04:39] Um all in favor I >> opposed.

[1:04:46] Now we have a fire department um member Emily Hod

[1:04:54] who's just outside the village at Johnson

[1:05:02] and would like to be um accepted. >> What is the rule for where you have to

[1:05:08] live? Is there any rule? >> Not

[1:05:14] » no. But you just have to be they want you there in in an emergency.

[1:05:19] » So if you're >> She literally lives just over the

[1:05:22] expressway >> in it's considered church, but it's like

[1:05:26] right off the cut road there. So >> but is you know comes to all the

[1:05:33] » departmental. I'll make a motion that we uh approve uh Emily Hog uh as a member

[1:05:40] of the Virgin Fire Department. >> I'll second that. Okay. All all in

[1:05:45] favor? >> Any opposed?

[1:05:47] » Congratulations, Emily. >> Thank you, Emily.

[1:05:50] » Yeah, Emily. It's nice to see that we get the

[1:05:55] Deon sister. He's like the most like basically he got um he got the award for

[1:06:00] like service most called fire department of the year most like he got like three

[1:06:04] awards at the banquet >> um and he lives

[1:06:08] » that is where she lives. >> Yes [laughter]

[1:06:11] basically. Yeah. He lives Yeah. They're just up that way.

[1:06:16] So yeah, >> they're dedicated and so they probably

[1:06:21] want to go to these calls together. >> Yeah, that'll be good.

[1:06:24] » Nice. >> Okay. No old business, no privilege of

[1:06:26] the floor. So, we are Any other comments, questions, concerns?

[1:06:32] » No. >> Okay. Next month, folks, we are at the

[1:06:35] town. We are doing our joint meeting. But I know you're on vacation.

[1:06:39] » Oh, yeah. That's on the 18th. >> 18th. Yeah. So, we will not have our

[1:06:42] Wednesday meeting. It's a Tuesday meeting over at the town.

[1:06:46] » Tuesday. August 18th. >> August 18th at the town. We're doing a

[1:06:50] joint meeting. >> What time is it at? It's

[1:06:53] » I believe it's seven. I believe it's still made the farmers market until

[1:06:58] » Yes. >> Dumb. We got We were out of here at

[1:07:02] 6:30. >> Yeah. So,

[1:07:04] » so it'll be the town is going to do their board meeting. We're going to do

[1:07:09] our board meeting, but there will be opening presentations by both the fire

[1:07:12] department and uh county legislator >> uh Christian.

[1:07:20] He's gonna just going to both do updates of current status um of county and fire

[1:07:26] department >> and it'll be recorded if I want to watch

[1:07:29] it >> so I don't know if there

[1:07:34] » I will ask her >> and

[1:07:38] » yeah we keep the our small yeah our agenda I don't anticipate a ton for next

[1:07:44] month I'm really hoping for an easy month and no talking to the news this

[1:07:48] month is [laughter] not right. >> Okay. Um, accept the motion.

[1:07:54] » I'll make a motion that we adjourn. >> I'll second. All in favor? I accept.

[1:08:01] Yeah, we've had a busy time. >> It's been busy.

Village of Bergen, NY Board of Trustees Meeting 07.08.26

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