[0:02] I'd like to call the order of the Town
Board meeting for August 12th, 2026.
[0:06] Would everyone please rise, join us with
the invocation and pledge of allegiance.
[0:11] » Heavenly Father, we come before you with
gratitude for the blessings you have
[0:15] bestowed upon this nation.
Thank you for the freedoms we enjoy as
[0:18] Americans and for the privilege of
gathering here this evening. We humbly
[0:22] ask for your wisdom and guidance to rest
upon all who are present. May our
[0:26] discussions be marked by clarity and
fairness. We lift up to you the needs of
[0:30] our agricultural community.
Those who labor, whose labor sustains
[0:35] our food supply. We pray for favorable
weather, protection for the crops and a
[0:38] bountiful harvest. We also ask your
blessings upon those who are traveling
[0:42] for rest and renewal. Grant them safety
in their journeys and refreshment for
[0:46] their minds and bodies. We thank you for
the beauty of this land and the
[0:49] countless opportunities it offers to
witness and enjoy your creation. Amen.
[0:55] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, and to the
[1:00] republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[1:06] justice for all.
[1:09] » Roll call, please.
>> Councilwoman De Florio.
[1:12] » Here.
>> You're fine.
[1:14] » Councilman De Corato.
>> Here.
[1:16] » Councilwoman Valerius absent. Councilman
Slattery.
[1:20] » Here.
>> And Supervisor Donegan.
[1:21] » Here.
>> Other officials present and advisors
[1:24] present this evening to my far right,
Town Clerk Jean Kmetz also to my right,
[1:28] Deputy Town Supervisor Councilman
Michael Slattery. To my far left is
[1:33] counsel for the town, Jared Hutt. At the
side table we have Commissioner of
[1:37] Public Works, Superintendent of
Highways, David Lindsey.
[1:40] To Director of Finance, Dan Knapp, and
from my office, Don Forte.
[1:44] Our stenographer is Sandy Hewitt. And at
the event of emergency, if you would
[1:48] please use the exits at the corner of
the rooms.
[1:51] And anyone with a cell phone, if you
please either turn it off or set it to
[1:54] vibrate, we'd appreciate it.
We don't have
[1:57] or public hearings this evening, but
there is a public forum. Anyone wishing
[2:01] to address the town board, please step
up to the podium, state your name and
[2:05] address for the record, and you shall be
heard.
[2:09] Okay, seeing none, I will close the
public forum, and we'll move along
[2:13] matters of the supervisor. Now, in our
last meeting, if you recall, there was a
[2:18] a group and a couple of people that were
put some emphasis on the bicycle and
[2:21] pedestrian study and wanted to know
where we stood with that bicycle and
[2:25] pedestrian study. The There were two,
and I'm going to apologize cuz I don't
[2:30] remember exactly the names, Dan and
Dave. Um and they provided their uh
[2:36] email addresses uh for me to uh get back
to them on that. I said I would uh I
[2:41] would uh put together a report um for uh
where we stood with the the uh bicycle
[2:47] and pedestrian study. I did share this
directly with those people that left an
[2:51] email address, and I also did share this
with the town board. Um
[2:56] and I'm going to uh I'm actually going
to have this posted on our website at
[3:00] the conclusion of the meeting um so that
anybody that wants to see the what was
[3:05] put here. It's not not huge, but I'm I'm
basically going to summarize uh a couple
[3:09] of different things from uh what I did
uh put in this report. Um on the report
[3:15] um I did talk a little bit about our
limited ability um especially as it
[3:20] relates to bicycles.
Um more so because most of our roads and
[3:24] major roads are either owned by the
county or the state, and unless we get
[3:28] cooperation from the the state or or and
or county, um it's also very limited to
[3:35] what the town can do to provide anything
more as far as bicycles. But my also my
[3:40] understanding that um
most of a lot of our roads are not
[3:44] terribly bad, um but there are roads
that there are definitely challenges
[3:48] that were identified in the bicycle and
pedestrian study
[3:51] um um, that are areas that should be
looked at. Um, the town, and I know Mr.
[3:55] Lindsey,
uh, when he knows and we find out that
[3:58] there's roads that are being done, we do
always always advocate, um, to try and
[4:02] get the state and or county to consider,
um, wider lanes in in appropriate areas
[4:09] for, uh, safe bicycle travel.
There were several, um, areas of the,
[4:14] uh, bicycle and pedestrian study that
identified problem areas and problem
[4:18] areas. Um, I don't disagree with them,
um,
[4:22] and most of those, quite frankly, have
not been addressed. Again, it's not for
[4:27] our lack of advocating for them. It's
just the lack we don't have control over
[4:32] those particular roads.
Um, where we have done very very well, I
[4:36] think, um, over the since the plan was,
uh, originated in 2015,
[4:40] um,
in this report I've identified the areas
[4:43] where we have put in sidewalks, uh, for
the pedestrian portion of this.
[4:47] Um, over since 2015, we've put in 25,080
linear feet of new sidewalks
[4:53] at a cost of about 2.06 million dollars.
Um, some of that was done in in the
[4:58] areas, um,
that were identified in the in the child
[5:02] life, uh, the bicycle and pedestrian
master plan
[5:05] that, um, were problem areas, trying to
get areas and places for,
[5:11] um,
people to get back and forth from
[5:13] residential areas to shopping centers,
uh, areas of, uh, interest. So, we've
[5:18] done a lot of that. Um, some of that
actually was, uh, quite a bit of this
[5:22] was done, uh,
most of this actually was done through
[5:25] grants,
um, that were received, a partial grant
[5:28] from Monroe County, um, that allowed us
to do the Paul Road sidewalk that still
[5:32] has some work to be done out there, but,
um, that sidewalk, which went, uh, quite
[5:36] a quite a ways, um, that Paul Road
sidewalk is 500 linear 580 linear feet.
[5:42] So, that's a that's a that's a pretty
big sidewalk over there, right?
[5:46] » That's the shorter section. The longer
one is like 5,000.
[5:48] » I'm sorry. I'm sorry, 6,000. 580 is the
little one in front of M&T. Um
[5:53] 6,000 linear feet over there. Um it had
a cost of 1.3 million dollars alone for
[5:58] that sidewalk. So Um with that again,
this report will be there. I wanted to
[6:02] give a brief kind of summary of what
what this says, but the report will be
[6:06] out on the website. Uh we'll get it on
there tomorrow. Um I'll provide this to
[6:11] uh our staff to get this out on the
town's website. It's a tidy It's not
[6:15] huge, but I think I've summarized pretty
much what I've said in this. Um it might
[6:18] just say it a little bit different.
It'll be a little bit more verbose. So
[6:22] um
I'll leave it at that for now under um
[6:27] pending matters nothing matters the
council.
[6:30] Anyone have anything?
>> Supervisor yes, if I could, please. Um
[6:35] go to Mr. Lindsey. Any update on that
double arch stone bridge uh that's over
[6:40] at the the Pringle property?
Child at Scott's Hill Road at the road.
[6:44] Um I know there was talk about some
There was a report that uh
[6:49] Pete uh sent over to us.
Mr.
[6:53] Wilson
>> Oh, excuse me. Um I think shortly after
[6:56] that I made a site visit there and
provided a kind of a summary back to the
[6:59] I maybe to you and the full board I
think on on some of that. Um
[7:03] We've been a little busy with some of
our road work, so Adam hasn't had a
[7:06] chance to get over there and kind of um
review my findings, but we'll do that
[7:09] shortly and I'll provide that back to
the board. So
[7:11] » Not a problem. Just wondered if there
was any update on it.
[7:13] Um and then also
we discussed in the past at Davis Park
[7:18] uh at the
the south parking area down by the
[7:22] concession building um there's no ADA
access going to the trail. Um we have a
[7:28] gate that's there, but the for somebody
in a wheelchair or walker, they would
[7:31] have to try to maneuver through rock and
dirt and and uh there's so there's
[7:35] nothing paved for somebody to to go from
access from that parking lot out to the
[7:39] trail.
>> Where was that again? I'm sorry.
[7:41] » Down at at Davis Park
uh by the concession building.
[7:44] » Yep. Um there's a tr- there's a paved
area that would lead them from the
[7:49] parking lot to the bathroom.
>> Okay.
[7:51] » But getting to the parking lot to the
paved trail, there is there is not
[7:55] anything any update any information on
that.
[7:58] » Uh not at the moment, but I can provide
something back to you when I talk to you
[8:01] uh parks foreman. We uh just recently
finished doing some um roof work over
[8:05] there, redoing the roof at the uh the
building there, and um so uh I'm
[8:09] managing that other projects on our list
and then just I'll get an update for you
[8:12] on that and get back to you.
>> Thank you. And that's one of the other
[8:14] things I was going to say ask any update
on the structure
[8:18] uh improvements repairs for the open-air
pavilions or the building.
[8:23] » Just the most recent re-roofing project
that we did there, so.
[8:25] » On the concession building?
>> Yeah.
[8:27] » And then also um
Memorial Park.
[8:32] Uh so took a look at the scoreboards. Uh
I know we did uh you know with the Keith
[8:36] Youngblood uh you know for the
scoreboard, but some of the scoreboards
[8:40] are in a little rough shape. Uh if
there's any We just we're going to be
[8:43] getting our budgets tonight, so I was
going to look in there um and see if any
[8:48] money is being allocated for next year
for any of these type of improvements.
[8:53] » For specific scoreboard improvement?
>> Yeah.
[8:55] » Yeah, we have a parks maintenance uh
line item in there a couple of those
[8:58] that we can utilize for some of those if
um
[9:00] And I
when you say they're need of
[9:03] improvement, are you worried about like
um their functionality or their
[9:06] structural or structural
>> Rotten wood.
[9:10] » So, okay.
>> Yeah, cuz I know when the Councilman
[9:12] DeCory and I painted at uh
Davis Park on the open one of the
[9:16] open-air pavilions that the actual the
parks department guys came out they had
[9:20] to remove some of the rotted wood that
was up there and so forth, and taking a
[9:24] look at some of the other structures uh
they have some of the same needs.
[9:29] » We'll definitely take a look at those.
Um I wasn't aware of anything pressing
[9:32] immediately, but yeah certainly if
there's a concern there we'll take a
[9:35] closer look at that uh
the wood structure there and see if
[9:38] something's got to be replaced,
particularly members or whatnot. We were
[9:40] focused
on improving couple of the dugouts there
[9:44] around the field that was dedicated. We
did some concrete work there and we
[9:48] placed some cladding and stuff there,
but certainly if there's a concern about
[9:51] any of the scoreboard structure, we'll
take a look at those.
[9:53] » And are the dugouts and so I think now
is the time since we're going to going
[9:58] talking about budgets and that's going
to be coming up that there's money
[10:01] allocated cuz what I don't want to do is
now come into the budget season and then
[10:05] you will bring up these issues and say,
well, we didn't allocate any money.
[10:09] Well, if we're going to do it, now's the
time to do it and I think as a board
[10:12] that's something that we should be
looking
[10:13] » We'll make sure we take a look at those
before our September meetings.
[10:15] » Oh, good. And then
Maranti Field, I know it's been talked
[10:20] about for a few years now, the press box
and the how uh
[10:25] I I'll say and maybe insecure, not
structurally sound at the top. And we
[10:31] had talked about taking off the upper
level. Any update on that?
[10:35] » Uh
well, we haven't gotten into that part
[10:37] of the project. We have restricted
access to it just because we do have
[10:39] some concerns about the structural
adequacy of that area there. So, we can
[10:42] again take a look at that prior to our
September meeting. I'll have some more
[10:45] information for you then, so.
>> Okay. And then the parking area, I see
[10:48] that now
that we've done some improvements. We
[10:52] brought in some stone for parking on the
north side of the Memorial Drive access
[10:58] by the old dog kennel area. So, we've
done some work there.
[11:03] » That was mainly centered around shifting
working to shift that parking lot about
[11:07] 50 ft to the east so that it didn't
conflict with any possible future
[11:12] roadway that might go through there
should that property be developed in the
[11:15] future, so.
>> Okay. All right. Thank you.
[11:18] » The goal there would be to you know,
finalize the grading there with the
[11:20] stone, kind of let it sit for the
winter, settle down and pave it next
[11:25] year, so.
>> Beautiful. Thank you. Appreciate it,
[11:27] Dave.
>> Anything else?
[11:30] Okay, moving along, we have the minutes
from the
[11:33] July 15th meeting. Also, several reports
have been submitted. Moving on to the
[11:38] resolutions, resolution 171, use of
assessment reserve software
[11:42] subscriptions. Moved by Councilman
Slattery, seconded by Councilman DeCory.
[11:46] Questions or comments?
Roll call, please.
[11:49] » Councilwoman DeFlorio.
>> Aye.
[11:51] » Councilman DeCory.
>> Aye.
[11:53] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[11:54] » Supervisor Donahue.
>> Aye. Passes 5-0. Resolution 1740, sorry.
[11:59] Resolution 172, amendment to state snow
and ice agreement.
[12:03] » Move.
>> Second.
[12:04] » By Councilwoman DeFlorio, seconded by
Councilman DeCory. Questions or
[12:07] comments?
Roll call, please.
[12:09] » Councilwoman DeFlorio.
>> Aye.
[12:11] » Councilman DeCory.
>> Aye.
[12:12] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[12:14] » Supervisor Donahue.
>> Aye. Passes 4-0. Resolution 173,
[12:18] community center slider.
>> Move.
[12:21] » Second.
>> Moved by Councilman DeCory, seconded by
[12:23] Councilman Slattery. Questions or
comments?
[12:25] » Supervisor, yes. I know we're going to
be I mean I know it's just August, but
[12:29] we're going to be coming into the winter
season.
[12:32] Any update on the front door entrance
for uh
[12:35] Go ahead.
>> Yes, there is. We actually
[12:39] because the cost came in below
what we what we need to do,
[12:45] it's well within the purchase limits of
Mr. Lindsey. So, the curtain
[12:50] the heat curtain that we're intending to
put in
[12:52] falls within his
his uh
[12:56] ability to just go ahead and do it. So,
it will be done.
[12:59] It's still on the books, we just don't
need to go through a formal process for
[13:03] it.
>> Okay, cuz I know that you also did did
[13:06] you do diligence and you looked at
possibly relocating the entrance to the
[13:11] north and south sides of the main
entrance coming in the community center,
[13:14] but unfortunately, it's not wide enough
and from a
[13:17] from opening standpoint.
>> Correct. Yeah, the the uh
[13:22] the
amount of revisions that are um the that
[13:25] would have to take place to incorporate
uh a couple of air curtains there just
[13:29] seemed rather excessive for what we were
trying to achieve. So,
[13:32] um
we did just uh issue a purchase order
[13:34] for that air curtain. There's about a 3
to 4 week lag on delivery. And then once
[13:38] that's in, we'll have the contractor out
there to put that in and have the
[13:41] electrician wire it all up. So,
>> Beautiful. Thank you.
[13:45] » Yeah. Supervisor um Dunning, um there's
a quick question. Was
[13:51] this ADA access um
something that hadn't been I don't
[13:57] thought about or uh included or
discussed as part of the um initial
[14:03] design of the building?
>> It actually was. They had They had a way
[14:07] to open the door. The problem is is the
button's way over here and the door
[14:10] handle's over here.
>> Got you.
[14:11] » So, it made more sense you put the
slider in so the door come open on its
[14:15] own and slide open and there's right
without having to go across the room to
[14:19] do it.
>> Thank you.
[14:19] » Yeah, I know in during the design
process we'd also discussed because of a
[14:23] security aspect. We don't have staffing
on the second level. So, that was the
[14:27] concern as well. So, you want to try to
make things more secure and so
[14:32] » Yeah, there was all considerations for
all any ADA
[14:36] accessibility for that building. We've
just found over time like you buy
[14:40] something, you do something, you find a
better you know, better way to do it and
[14:44] this is one of those situations.
Um there's other things where we put the
[14:48] hand swipes on some of the bathrooms,
you know, that just a it those those
[14:51] were added later. They weren't a part of
the original cuz it's some [music]
[14:54] things you just like you learn about
later.
[14:57] » I understand. Thank you.
>> Control alt delete.
[15:01] This is Just a reminder, anyone with a
cell phone, if you please either turn
[15:05] [laughter] it off or set it to vibrate,
we'd appreciate it. Um
[15:08] Any other questions or comments?
>> Unless he has a good song.
[15:11] » Roll call, please.
>> Councilwoman DeFlorio?
[15:14] » Hi.
>> Councilman DeCory?
[15:15] » Hi.
>> Councilman Slattery?
[15:16] » Hi.
>> Supervisor Dunning?
[15:17] » Hi.
>> Passes 4-0. Resolution 174 establish
[15:21] letter uh letter of credit for AFS
courtesy.
[15:24] » Move.
>> Moved by Councilman Slattery.
[15:26] » Second.
>> Seconded by Councilman De Corey.
[15:28] Questions or comments?
Roll call, please.
[15:31] » Councilwoman De Florio.
>> Aye.
[15:32] » Councilman De Corey.
>> Aye.
[15:34] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[15:36] » Supervisor Dunning.
>> Aye.
[15:37] » Passes 4-0. Resolution 175, support of
the New York State Association of Towns
[15:42] Bill of Rights. Moved by Councilwoman De
Florio.
[15:45] » Second.
>> Seconded by Councilman De Corey.
[15:47] Questions or comments?
Roll call, please.
[15:50] » Councilwoman De Florio.
>> Aye.
[15:52] » Councilman De Corey.
>> Aye.
[15:53] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[15:54] » Supervisor Dunning.
>> Aye.
[15:55] » Passes 4-0. Resolution 176, 2026 budget
amendments.
[16:00] » Move.
>> Second.
[16:01] » Moved by Councilman De Corey, seconded
by Councilman Slattery. Questions or
[16:04] comments?
Roll call, please.
[16:07] » Councilwoman De Florio.
>> Aye.
[16:08] » Councilman De Corey.
>> Aye.
[16:10] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[16:11] » Supervisor Dunning.
>> Aye.
[16:12] » Passes 4-0. Resolution 177, New York
State New York Association of Towns
[16:17] legislative meeting delegation.
>> Move. Second.
[16:21] » Moved by Councilman De Corey, seconded
by Councilman Slattery. Questions or
[16:25] comments?
Roll call, please.
[16:27] » Councilwoman De Florio.
>> Aye.
[16:29] » Councilman De Corey.
>> Aye.
[16:30] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[16:31] » Supervisor Dunning.
>> Aye. Passes 4-0. Resolution 178,
[16:35] amendment with Monroe County Community
Development agreement.
[16:39] » Move.
>> Moved by Councilwoman De Florio.
[16:41] » Second.
>> Seconded by Councilman De Corey.
[16:42] Questions or comments?
Roll call, please.
[16:45] » Councilwoman De Florio.
>> Aye.
[16:47] » Councilman De Corey.
>> Aye.
[16:48] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[16:50] » Supervisor Dunning.
>> Aye. Passes 4-0. Resolution 179, Chili
[16:54] Fire Department active list.
>> Supervisor, I'll move resolution 179 as
[16:57] well as 180. Chili Fire Department
active list restricted active members.
[17:02] 181, Chili Fire Department remove from
active list. And 182, Chili Fire
[17:07] Department junior member list
non-active.
[17:10] » Second.
>> Resolutions 179, 180, 181, and 182 were
[17:15] moved by Councilman Slattery, seconded
by Councilwoman DeFlorio. Questions or
[17:19] comments?
Roll call, please.
[17:21] » Councilwoman DeFlorio.
>> Aye.
[17:23] » Councilman DeCory.
>> Aye.
[17:24] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[17:26] » Supervisor Donohue.
>> Aye.
[17:27] » Passes 4-0. Resolution 183, dog shelter
donations.
[17:31] » Move.
>> Moved by Councilman DeCory.
[17:34] » Second.
>> Seconded by Councilwoman DeFlorio.
[17:35] Questions or comments?
>> I think just when you
[17:40] are
dog control officer part-time code
[17:43] enforcement, I think it's she does a
great job when there's a missing dog
[17:48] sending out an email update putting
social media trying to help people you
[17:52] know just look for somebody's lost loved
ones there. So.
[17:57] » Anything else?
Roll call, please.
[18:00] » Councilwoman DeFlorio.
>> Aye.
[18:02] » Councilman DeCory.
>> Aye.
[18:03] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[18:04] » Supervisor Donohue.
>> Aye.
[18:06] » Passes 4-0. Resolution 184, August 5th,
2026 abstract.
[18:11] » Move.
>> Moved by Councilwoman DeFlorio.
[18:13] » Second.
>> Seconded by Councilman DeCory. Questions
[18:15] or comments?
Roll call, please.
[18:18] » Councilwoman DeFlorio.
>> Aye.
[18:20] » Councilman DeCory.
>> Aye.
[18:21] » Councilman Slattery.
>> Aye.
[18:23] » Supervisor Donohue.
>> Aye.
[18:25] » Passes 4-0.
I will apologize for those who may have
[18:29] an agenda out there that may not have
this. We do have a late
[18:33] resolution. It is resolution 185,
Architectural Advisory Committee.
[18:37] » Move.
>> Moved by Councilman DeCory.
[18:39] » Second.
>> Seconded by Councilwoman DeFlorio. Any
[18:41] questions or comments?
Roll call, please.
[18:45] » Supervisor Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Did
you want to just read this at all and
[18:50] since they don't have it or we okay?
Okay. Okay. Sorry, sir.
[18:53] » [laughter]
>> Councilwoman DeFlorio.
[18:55] » Aye.
>> Councilman DeCory.
[18:57] » Aye.
>> Councilman Slattery.
[18:58] » Aye. [clears throat]
>> Supervisor Donohue.
[18:59] » Aye.
>> Passes 4-0. Um
[19:03] The donation, we got that. We got that.
We got that. Yeah, on that particular
[19:06] resolution just for the benefit of the
audience and you you all already know.
[19:11] Um we had an opening on the
architectural advisory committee for
[19:14] quite some time. We've done some
interviews.
[19:16] Uh, and quite frankly, we've interviewed
Dylan now twice.
[19:19] Um, and uh, he's uh, accepted the
appointment to uh,
[19:24] be part of our architectural advisory
committee. So, Dylan, if you'd just like
[19:28] to stand up and say hello to the people
here.
[19:31] » [laughter]
>> Let them know who you are. Thank you for
[19:34] Thank you for uh, volunteering to to be
a part of this and uh, we greatly
[19:38] appreciate the service you're about to
embark on. So, thank you.
[19:42] » Welcome. [clears throat]
>> Uh, the next town the meeting next
[19:45] meeting of the uh, Charlton Board will
actually be our budget workshop, which
[19:48] is on September 2nd. And that will be in
this room at 5:00 p.m. The next regular
[19:54] meeting of the Charlton Board will be
September 16th at 7:00 p.m. This meeting
[19:58] is adjourned.