[0:06] I'll need to order to start out with the
pledge
[0:14] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America.
[0:18] To the republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with
[0:23] liberty and justice for all.
[0:28] Remember roll call, please, Nicole.
>> Trustee Bedell?
[0:30] » Here.
>> Trustee Clark?
[0:32] » Here.
>> Trustee Kessinger?
[0:33] » Here.
>> Trustee Sellers?
[0:34] » Here.
[0:37] » Fire Chief is excused tonight.
We need a motion to approve minutes of
[0:41] regular meeting July 1st and special
meeting on July 8th.
[0:46] » I'll make it.
>> All those in favor?
[0:49] » Aye.
>> Opposed?
[0:52] Just to note on the follow-up on the
July 8th meeting, we do have a couple
[0:55] things that we got to follow up on the
drug and alcohol testing policy
[0:59] and the dress being a public employer,
health emergency plan.
[1:04] » I did mention in the book we're sending
that drug and alcohol 1995 version over.
[1:10] We're definitely going to update that.
>> I told you it was outdated. I wasn't
[1:13] exaggerating.
[1:17] » Okay.
Um
[1:19] specific requests, we have none. Board
finances, we have none. Are there any
[1:23] public comments on the agenda items only
tonight?
[1:34] Okay.
Then we'll move ahead and go to uh
[1:38] department reports.
Nicole, clerk treasurer report, please.
[1:43] » I need a motion to approve abstract
number three in the amount of payroll,
[1:47] $51,555.21,
[1:50] general, $105,638.96,
[1:55] water, $6,546.78,
[2:00] sewer, $11,322.18,
[2:03] and capital projects, $3,020.
[2:10] » All those in favor?
Opposed?
[2:15] » I did have a question for the board. The
new website seems
[2:20] probably about 90% good to go.
And I am able to go in and do updates on
[2:27] certain things. I posted the minutes on
there. We've been trying to keep both
[2:30] sites updated. So, I was going to
request if
[2:35] I can get that
first week of August if I can make that
[2:39] live so that we're no longer doing both
sides.
[2:42] » I got a list and four pictures I want to
upload onto it.
[2:46] » Okay.
>> One of the pictures is
[2:48] corn fields
>> Yes, that was kind of a placeholder.
[2:53] » Yeah, so
Um yeah, so
[2:57] Yeah, I went through I'm going to matter
of fact, I'll send it to the whole
[3:00] board.
And then you can go through it.
[3:05] It is a lot
more user-friendly than the old version
[3:08] that we have now.
[3:11] But yes, I'm okay with that.
Perfect.
[3:14] Okay, we've got to start somewhere, all
right?
[3:16] » It is so much easier to update also. I
don't have to try to write code anymore
[3:20] when I'm
pretending to know what I'm doing.
[3:23] Um
And the rest of my report is for your
[3:25] information. If you have any questions,
I'd be happy to answer them.
[3:29] » I Go ahead. I have one.
>> Um I just wanted to call attention to
[3:33] the
FOIL request from a Cameron Ship that
[3:37] PRC Company.
He is a wealth of knowledge and
[3:40] curiosity and he is
providing the LinkedIn
[3:44] uh consulting and transaction advisory
services to PRC Company.
[3:50] And uh PRC
uh, be talking
[3:53] construction management services.
and they're interested in feedback and
[3:59] the builders by
the United Nations.
[4:04] What he's requesting environmental
records for the property.
[4:10] » Yeah, I just had a question on the Jacob
Ellis surety bonds and the sheriff and
[4:14] public officials.
[4:18] » We don't have surety bonds, but I sent
the insurance for public officials
[4:22] insurance we have.
>> Okay.
[4:29] Okay.
[4:32] Anything you want to add tonight, Arty?
>> We have that old sewer lateral at 13
[4:37] Sherman Avenue with the primary cut and
cap. And then after that, we'll be doing
[4:40] blacktop blacktop patching next week.
We'll install that pull out stop next
[4:44] week and then after that, we're going to
hit all letters and we'll be getting
[4:47] done after 27th of July and we'll be
done. We'll be up there for most of the
[4:51] project.
Okay.
[4:58] » Um, the only thing you want to bring up
tonight, building inspector?
[5:02] » No, I'm all good.
>> Okay.
[5:05] All right.
Um, under old business, review language
[5:10] of potential moratorium on battery
storage and data center applications.
[5:14] Um,
I know I reviewed it many, many times.
[5:19] » You know, I did send you a question,
Carlo, about 12 months versus six.
[5:24] Um,
what's you thought email?
[5:27] » I didn't, but you can do it long term.
>> Well, the the question I had was um,
[5:32] one,
does it hurt us the potential of getting
[5:36] the moratorium and who's the decision
maker that really approves it?
[5:40] » You are.
>> Okay.
[5:41] » This board is
>> Right.
[5:43] » The county just tells you, yes, this is,
you know, there's no usually they'll say
[5:47] no county impact or um if there is a
county impact, if the planning board the
[5:51] county planning board says, "No, we
don't agree you should do this." This
[5:55] board just needs a supermajority to
overrule that.
[6:00] But you can do 12 months. I mean, and
actually to uh Mr. Kitzman's um
[6:05] point earlier today, since the data
center moratorium from the state is 12
[6:10] months, it might make sense to have this
one be 12 months with the additional,
[6:14] you know, time to renew it.
>> So, we don't have to do that.
[6:23] So, that's that's one comment I had on
it. How about the rest of the board?
[6:28] What are the discussions around the
whole plan?
[6:30] I didn't see anything wrong with it.
So, I would be in agreement with the 12
[6:34] months.
[6:53] And I don't think we really need to do a
size after reading what we have there.
[6:58] If we're just saying this
>> Correct.
[7:01] The size has to do with what the state
is doing, but if we have it general,
[7:05] that'll cover it.
[7:08] » Okay.
So, with that, it sounds like the board
[7:11] is okay with the
draft that
[7:15] you did
um or that Carl did, except for going to
[7:19] 12 months.
Okay.
[7:21] » Can I ask one question? Um
There's a extension in there right now
[7:27] to extend it for two additional 6-month
periods. Do you want to do two
[7:32] additional 12-month periods?
>> Oh, why not?
[7:42] That's my opinion.
>> This one?
[7:44] » Okay.
[7:53] » So the next step is you would refer this
to the
[7:58] village planning board for their review.
[8:03] recommendation. So you would make a
motion for that.
[8:06] » I'll make it.
All those in favor?
[8:10] Opposed?
>> Okay.
[8:12] » I will send this to village planning
board. I will also give county planning
[8:18] a heads-up on this. I do want to let you
know that
[8:21] Saratoga County has so many of these
right now and there's a lot of other
[8:26] zoning codes that Jason Kemper
was indicating that they're a little
[8:31] behind. So this may not be as
done quickly as we had hoped. Just to
[8:37] let you know.
>> So what does that do if someone
[8:41] is going to
[8:44] » Right now this isn't on the book.
[8:48] I mean if they met any other if you know
if they met everything within the
[8:51] current zoning code
I don't know how they meet within the
[8:55] current zoning code but
you never know what projects would come
[8:59] in.
[9:01] » I see Albany's got one pending.
[9:11] Okay.
We're good on that? Good vote.
[9:14] » [clears throat]
>> Okay.
[9:17] We'll go to new business. Consider
mayor's signature on contract with the
[9:20] individuals for fire department
administrative duties.
[9:23] » Um we have this out in the past and it
was just
[9:26] approval for you to sign the contracts
with the officers
[9:30] for the business.
[9:33] doing the doing the station work and
it's going back to the officers now.
[9:37] Okay. Same thing we did when we had the
monthly
[9:42] » It's still
>> It's a list that
[9:43] » Same office. It's the chief and the four
assistants plus the two station keepers.
[9:49] So
>> Do we know who the individuals are
[9:51] because we have to mention it?
>> Hollingsworth and senior.
[9:54] » Okay, perfect.
Same amount?
[9:56] » Same amount of money as last year.
[10:03] » Who is paying?
>> The fire district.
[10:07] » Who is he working for?
>> Yep, he's working.
[10:09] » Okay.
[10:13] So we need a
motion for that?
[10:16] » Yes.
>> I'll make it.
[10:18] » I'll make it.
>> All those in favor?
[10:20] » Aye.
>> Opposed?
[10:23] Okay.
[10:25] The next item is a seek of resolution
for lead survey line inventory grant
[10:31] application.
Um
[10:34] Basically
it's uh
[10:37] what we're talking about here is
the uh the village board of trustees
[10:43] hereby determine that the lead service
line inventory project as described
[10:46] above is a type two action pursuant to
seek route
[10:50] and six
NYCRR
[10:55] 617
and several different
[10:59] uh
bullet points and therefore not subject
[11:02] to further environmental review under
seek route.
[11:05] And the second point is no environmental
assessment form, negative declaration,
[11:09] positive declaration, or environmental
impact statement required.
[11:13] The third point is the mayor, village
clerk, treasurer, and village staff are
[11:18] authorized to take such further action
as they be necessary to document this
[11:21] determination in connection with the WEA
lead service line inventory grant.
[11:28] So basically it's telling us we don't
have to do anything environmental to be
[11:31] able to
apply for this one image or grant that's
[11:34] going to help the village.
Corning
[11:38] and uh
[11:41] the verge is uh
the same meaning of that.
[11:45] Any questions or discussions around
that?
[11:49] Okay.
So
[11:52] are we going to be a roll call on this?
>> We probably should be a roll call on
[11:55] this.
>> Okay.
[11:58] » So someone needs to make a motion.
>> Are we better off doing
[12:04] Huh? Are we better off doing it so that
it stays as a environmental impact?
[12:08] » This is a
>> No, it's a type two action.
[12:10] » Yeah, it's a suspenders and a belt thing
because since it's a type two you don't
[12:15] need to do anything, but Don Rhodes felt
it'd be better to have it documented
[12:19] that it's a type two and you don't need
to do anything for the application
[12:22] process.
>> Right.
[12:25] How many How many did
>> Second.
[12:28] » All those in favor?
>> I.
[12:30] » I.
>> Opposed?
[12:32] Okay.
Thank you.
[12:35] » Do you want me to do a roll call now?
>> I think
[12:39] We don't
>> Right.
[12:44] Okay.
Meeting adjourned, right?
[12:49] Sorry, I had to.
[12:52] You too. How you doing, bud?
The next bullet is discuss proposed IMA
[12:58] with the town of Corinth. Inter-
inter-municipality agreement.
[13:03] Um
[13:06] Carla drafted one. It's uh pretty
comprehensive, quite honestly.
[13:11] Very good job. Um
We've had some uh stickiness with the
[13:15] town
um
[13:18] recently with some uh agreements that
have been verbal and courtesy
[13:24] um
back and forth on using equipment,
[13:29] um services.
[13:32] » [clears throat]
>> And uh
[13:34] I think it stems from the
prior contract amount that we sent to
[13:38] them,
but honestly
[13:40] and
so
[13:43] looking at this agreement
uh my personal view right now tonight
[13:48] is I don't want to make a decision on
it, but it's a board decision. I want to
[13:52] spend some time talking to Arty about
it, get some more information about it,
[13:56] what's going to be the biggest impact of
him and his crew.
[13:59] Um
and uh
[14:04] I got I guess that's where it stands
right now. Basically, what it will say
[14:07] is that um we would set rates for work
we did for them, they would set rates
[14:12] that
um
[14:14] they did work for us.
Borrowing equipment.
[14:21] Back and forth.
So on and so forth. So
[14:26] once we get one through this agreement,
then it's going to be
[14:30] My concern about it is the only concern
I have is um
[14:35] making a hardship for Arty and his crew.
The doubles. That's my only concern.
[14:41] So
I personally would like to
[14:44] back this out a little bit more before
we make a decision on
[14:50] » Arty, do you think
Arty can track with everything?
[14:53] » So whatever you guys and your guys are
calling things for them, they're renting
[14:57] out equipment and everything with
equipment doing. That's all ready done.
[15:01] So it's not going to be very hard for
you to get
[15:04] It's probably easier going to talk. So
So for cost cost purposes, it won't be
[15:09] very hard to You know, put that right
there. You're already getting that
[15:12] stuff.
>> All right.
[15:14] Um
[15:17] Would it incur any extra work on your
end for anything?
[15:19] » Not on my end.
>> No?
[15:21] Only
Just money.
[15:23] » Yeah.
>> In the grand scheme of things, what is
[15:26] it really going to cost?
[15:29] » I don't I I didn't get a chance to look
look at that at all.
[15:35] I think it's exactly that amount.
[15:43] » A little lot that is. So, maybe we'll
get it through.
[15:47] » Yeah.
[15:51] » My personal view is we'll shut it down.
[15:57] » Council, do you think that it might
something that we should have some kind
[16:01] of agreement?
>> Yeah, yeah. I don't disagree with that.
[16:03] I just think we need to There's a couple
things I want to dig into. What honestly
[16:07] is what the village taxpayers pay for in
the town. I know there's two different
[16:12] budgets for the town.
Town and
[16:17] out of town.
Basically. And so, they split it up. So,
[16:21] I I started digging into their
equipment, but honestly to find out if
[16:24] it's um
But it's actually three different
[16:27] buckets that they can go through. So,
I just want to make sure that we know
[16:32] because if village taxpayers are paying
a share of equipment
[16:37] for the town, I mean, we pay town taxes
even in the village.
[16:41] Right? So,
I want to I just want to dig into
[16:45] exactly what that is. And
I I didn't have time enough today to do
[16:49] it, but I I did
[16:56] Right.
That's why I
[16:58] I don't disagree with that, but
but honestly, I care about the village
[17:02] and and Ardsley.
That's what I care about. So, I want to
[17:06] make sure before we sign anything, we
dig in a hole that
[17:10] could be worse for us. And I think we
just need to
[17:13] temper ourselves and take the It's to do
do our due diligence on that.
[17:18] » I think at the very least we should work
towards an I M A, even if there's not
[17:22] going to be any cost incurred for the
for the agreement that we'll share our
[17:25] equipment.
>> Yeah, I agree with that. I think I think
[17:28] there should be Yeah, I think
>> gentleman's agreement than it's actually
[17:31] something documented. It'll either be
shared or
[17:34] it won't be shared and then charge for
the usage if you do it.
[17:37] » No, that's a good point. And the other
thing is too, right?
[17:41] None of us are going to be here forever.
So, you don't know what relationships
[17:46] superintendents are going to have with
each other or
[17:50] boards and whatever. So, if it's in
writing then that's what you
[17:54] reference and that's what you go with.
Not that uh you
[17:59] Right, John said that
you need to do this and
[18:04] 1995
[18:08] Should I continue
Should I continue to fill in for
[18:12] Albert when he's
>> Yeah, I think I think business as usual.
[18:15] » And but honestly, you you know,
interesting enough to stem from the that
[18:20] or also we just got a letter saying that
we're going to be charged $1,500 a day
[18:25] for the paver. That's what they charge
other municipalities for
[18:29] consumables on the paver but I don't
know what that is but
[18:33] um
So,
[18:36] I say business as usual for the village
and if we have to incur I told Eric that
[18:40] we will pay that. It'll be part of the
project that Hardy works on, not to hold
[18:44] up what we plan to do for the village
cuz if we went outside to have to do it,
[18:48] it'd be a lot more than that.
So, business as usual I'd say.
[18:56] You got to let me know that though.
Yep.
[18:59] Yep.
You know whatever it was you had.
[19:03] So, is everybody okay with right now
tabling this and doing more
[19:06] investigation?
>> Yeah.
[19:08] » Yes.
>> One of the board members agreed
[19:10] » Okay.
>> We'll look into it more.
[19:12] » Good.
>> So, have you
[19:13] put questions have you spoke
>> with
[19:17] the town attorney?
>> Yes, I have.
[19:19] » And how is What is his feeling about it?
>> We had a short
[19:24] interlude last night at the
concert.
[19:36] Yes.
It It stems from the fire contract,
[19:39] right?
[19:42] Which is interesting because the fire
contract has been
[19:45] um
contentious for years.
[19:48] Right?
[19:51] So, anyway. Okay, so we're going to
we're going to hold that.
[19:59] less than the average of 10 years.
[20:03] Okay.
Um
[20:07] The next item I wanted to put back on
the agenda. I did quite a bit of
[20:11] research on
age restrictions at beaches in New York
[20:14] State. I told you the last meeting that
I started digging into it. So,
[20:22] quite honestly,
15 was the age we determined, right?
[20:29] That's quite honestly with lifeguards,
that's a little bit old compared to the
[20:33] average of New York State beaches. Um at
beaches that don't have lifeguards, they
[20:39] recommend anybody 16
and under has to have parental or adult
[20:45] supervision.
The majority of people have, but I just
[20:48] wanted to bring it up and discuss it.
What our thoughts were moving ahead
[20:52] because we're going to order signs to
put down there, and I want to make sure
[20:56] in the the clock's ticking here.
It's mid-July already.
[20:59] But,
what what the what everybody thinks
[21:03] what that number should be.
>> I think it should be 15 things the group
[21:07] of kids you have a problem with are
there for the parking
[21:13] Okay.
>> What did you find out when you were
[21:15] doing that? For for future reference
with life guards, what would be
[21:18] happening
>> Well, the first thing
[21:32] I would say it worked out.
If you give me
[21:36] paper with the numbers on
in case you got to change it already.
[21:39] Throw them in the freezer.
They'll last a long time when you throw
[21:42] them in the freezer.
Really at the end of the day, if they're
[21:45] down there not causing problems,
nobody's going to ask you to
[21:49] If they're down there causing problems,
[21:56] » I also covered something like that.
Somebody pulled up with a car.
[22:00] Kids don't pick you up until after work.
>> Yeah.
[22:07] Okay. I'll give you that answer. We're
not going to need to beat a dead horse.
[22:10] Okay. Great.
All right.
[22:15] With that, we'll move on to public
comment.
[22:17] Uh questions or concerns from the public
on anything.
[22:22] Jim?
>> Yeah.
[22:23] » Come right up to the Can you put that
mic right up on the thing now?
[22:29] Hopefully uh
we're going to get
[22:33] Wi-Fi here from Mr. Bill.
[22:39] » Uh Jim Murray, 411 Center Street
Village.
[22:43] Um
are you still moving forward you talked
[22:46] that two three meetings or more about
having a
[22:51] extra attendant between Pack and Satcher
and
[22:55] » Yes. Yes. Yes. I I've interviewed two
people already.
[22:58] » Yeah.
[23:00] » I'm going to continue that. this.
>> Yeah.
[23:03] I I think that's that's the right way to
go. I really do.
[23:07] And from what I understand, I guess a
lot of the other beaches do the same
[23:12] thing.
You know, beaches and parks and like
[23:16] that. They have somebody to assist the
lifeguard and the parking attendant.
[23:21] Okay.
>> Yeah, we're looking and we just did hire
[23:24] a a new lifeguard.
She's a nice young lady.
[23:35] I think we did put an ad quite a while
ago, didn't we?
[23:39] » We had put an ad a
couple of months ago, so I just gave you
[23:42] all the applications.
>> Yeah, and that's
[23:46] Yeah.
And I and I interviewed two.
[23:58] That's a good point.
I will say though,
[24:01] I I talked to the lifeguards every day
and the park attendants every day, maybe
[24:05] every other day, park attendants, and
it's a lot calmer with someone so far.
[24:13] At both places.
It's good to hear.
[24:18] And I I see it
too. I don't see any many
[24:22] motorized vehicles on the road.
[24:36] Any other public comments tonight?
[24:42] » Got a few things on my chest want to get
off. Um,
[24:46] John Tanguay, 16 Wall Street. Um,
had a fire at my neighbor's house today,
[24:53] burned down.
People are all okay. They lost a cat.
[24:58] But it really uh you know it was about
5:00 in the morning. It opens your eyes
[25:03] up when you see all those
fire companies. It wasn't just Corinth,
[25:06] it was Greenfield, it was
Hadley. I mean there was there was tons
[25:10] of trucks. And um
So, I want to just talk a little bit
[25:15] about you know public safety and um
you know
[25:20] our budget. You know what our what our
plan is.
[25:23] Um
Couple meetings ago comment was made
[25:27] that some big cuts something something
big had to happen.
[25:31] Some changes. So, um I don't know if
if you have any of those to announce or
[25:37] any any plans uh or you know ideas.
Um I have a few. Um
[25:44] » [clears throat]
>> First thing is
[25:48] it seems like now 4th of July was great.
Our downtown looks great. Um
[25:53] I'm going to some
zoning board meetings.
[25:58] Um
The plan for Jack's uh to be made into a
[26:04] nine-unit building
and a couple storefronts. Um
[26:08] They'd have to change the actual zoning
in order for the first floor to be made
[26:14] apartments in the business business
district. That's on the books.
[26:19] Um
I'm all for this this gentleman.
[26:24] Um
We listened to him talk by phone.
[26:28] He's spent uh quite a bit of money here.
He owns over 60 units. Um
[26:34] Now I know which ones they are. I think
it's great. Um I'd love to see these
[26:39] properties fixed up. I don't want to be
against him.
[26:43] Um
I just feel this is a really bad idea
[26:46] and I'm I'm going to reach out to him
and
[26:49] you know as a fellow you know landlord
in in in the business of real estate. Um
[26:54] we don't want to discourage
him from coming or spending his money
[26:58] here. But um
you know,
[27:02] if you change that,
that means every storefront
[27:07] downtown
can do the same thing.
[27:10] Okay, so
I felt this board and the mayor should
[27:13] know that.
That if you open that door
[27:17] and they and you guys they formed this
committee 16 17 years ago.
[27:21] Louise Kirkpatrick was on it. I wish she
was here and could have explained it a
[27:24] little better than me, but I'm just
going off of the people who spoke.
[27:29] Um
I I just think that, you know,
[27:33] we are financially
you know, we're it's tight as you know.
[27:37] Um you know, you lost money with Indeck.
You lost money with IP.
[27:43] We've never replaced any of that money.
I don't see how we're going to. Maybe
[27:50] I don't know. In a year
you'll do some studies and the battery
[27:54] plant will be not a bad thing. Maybe
it'll make us money.
[27:57] Um but I want to know what's good for
the community. I don't want just the
[28:00] money.
So um
[28:04] some of the things,
you know, that I've seen
[28:08] just recently.
This same gentleman who's bought all
[28:13] these buildings
for
[28:16] I don't know, 3 months
at the end of Walmart
[28:20] and Fit. He bought the two, the four
unit. Did a nice job on it. It's a gray
[28:25] one.
I don't think he completed it. There's
[28:28] still some broken steps that should be
fixed, but um and then the white one on
[28:33] the corner.
And he put a new roof on it, did quite a
[28:36] bit of work. Um
but for 3 months
[28:41] a trailer
sat there
[28:44] on that lot.
There was never a trailer there and I
[28:48] believe the ordinance is
you can't have a trailer
[28:53] or even replace if you replace it, it
had to be from an existing trailer that
[28:57] was on that spot.
Now, I don't know if I'm correct, and
[29:00] maybe Neil can answer that after if he
wants, or he can do it now, but
[29:05] that was there.
So,
[29:08] I said something. I know Go ahead.
>> Was it a mobile home or
[29:11] » No, no, it was a a
>> camper?
[29:13] » No, no, it was it was a trailer. It was
an actual trailer that you that you
[29:19] mount on the ground and you hook up like
we have on on Ash some parts of Ash
[29:24] Street. We have trailers there, okay? Um
they were working on this trailer.
[29:31] So, I don't know how
when we're
[29:34] you know, getting a
huge makeover on that building
[29:37] and the one on the end
how that got away. How did that happen?
[29:42] How did that not get How did he not get
a fine? How did he not get a warning?
[29:48] Okay? How come it took us
that to call the village and say, "Hey,
[29:53] what the heck is going on?"
So, then what the guy did
[29:57] in the middle of the night
he moved that trailer.
[30:01] Pulled it down Palmer. No light, no
nothing. Just pulled it down Palmer
[30:06] backed it down by the
credit union
[30:09] and squeezed it into that little corner
and then popped up fences in a matter of
[30:14] hours
to block it in there. I don't I don't
[30:16] know if it's there still.
It shouldn't be. It was never there
[30:21] before.
My point to all this is
[30:27] we've cut the fire department.
We've cut DPW.
[30:33] I don't really feel like we cut
anything. We just didn't have the money
[30:36] anymore. So, we didn't give them
$250,000 a year
[30:40] in the to buy equipment or to to have in
their slush funds.
[30:44] Um
We need to move
[30:48] the way we do business.
Okay? I mean, we had
[30:53] in the last 14 years, I think we
probably spent $30 million on
[30:56] infrastructure.
Sidewalks, curbs, um sewer, water. We
[31:02] did all that. We had to do it. It's the
right thing to do. We had a lot of
[31:06] money.
We had a lot of money coming in. A lot
[31:09] of that was, you know, grant money.
I'm asking this board. Now, I've gone
[31:16] through it. There's a couple of
$15,000 contingencies in there and a
[31:21] couple of accounts.
I think we need to move positions,
[31:27] whether it's change your job duty,
change the position.
[31:33] You know, where maybe somebody in DPW
goes out. And again, this comes back
[31:40] full circle to where I'm going with the
with the stuff that we're doing with not
[31:43] being
not being productive. Okay? When you're
[31:46] not getting productivity
out of your areas like and I'm going to
[31:50] just use Art as an example because in
DPW,
[31:54] you know how many guys it takes to plow
plow the streets,
[31:57] to snow blow. You know how long it
should take.
[32:01] Been doing it long enough. They they
know, but I mean, it's it's it's done.
[32:06] There has to be a handbook
to say this is what the job is. This is
[32:10] what the clerk treasurer does. This is
what the guy who runs the sewer plant
[32:16] does. This is what he does. He's
scheduled this many hours. He's a
[32:21] salaried person.
Well, how many hours is that? In my
[32:25] past, in my background, in the
restaurant business, a manager worked 55
[32:30] hours. A GM worked whatever it took.
It all fell on your feet. You wanted to
[32:36] make bonus, to make sure you were
running tight numbers. Okay?
[32:42] We went the other way.
We We cut hours.
[32:47] Now that You can't cut them out of DPW.
You have to have it. It's public safety.
[32:52] You can't cut the firehouse.
I'm asking you to look. I know where I
[32:58] looked.
I know where I would move stuff.
[33:01] But you might have to change jobs.
You might have to move. You might have
[33:06] to say goodbye to some people and say,
"Listen, it's not going to be 32 hours.
[33:11] We're not going to be open 4 days a
week.
[33:14] We're going to do five
and one Saturday a month.
[33:18] And you're going to get 8 hours of I
mean, that's literally
[33:22] what? 60 hours?
I mean, 72 I I don't know how many. It's
[33:26] not a lot of hours of overtime.
We You guys are in place to
[33:34] get the best for the community.
I don't think
[33:39] that we are being
spending our money in the right places.
[33:44] I'm asking you all to look at this.
I I'm a businessman.
[33:48] I've gone through it.
I You don't keep You don't keep your
[33:52] plant open
when your company tells you you got to
[33:55] go down to 40 guys. You don't keep it at
62. You go down to 40.
[34:01] Because if you don't, your company's
going to go out of business, and you're
[34:03] no longer going to have a job, and
nobody else is going to have a job.
[34:07] Well,
right now we're
[34:10] you know, I have discussed to you and
said, "Listen, the The only place you
[34:13] can actually pull money out of a
department
[34:17] is you have to
talk to the town and become a district
[34:22] firehouse.
Then your contribution, which 350,
[34:26] 400,000, whatever you're going to say,
you can use that money.
[34:31] The biggest problem in this community
right now
[34:34] is code enforcement. Is our buildings.
We haven't been on the news for for, you
[34:40] know, great things.
We had a 3-year-old die
[34:44] who got eaten by bugs.
And her blood I mean, that was on Then
[34:48] you had another and then we condemn.
Why do we have to wait that long to
[34:53] condemn?
I mean,
[34:56] I'm
I'm in the real estate business.
[35:00] Want to make money? Go ahead. Put it on.
Albany does it. Everybody does it. You
[35:04] got to inspect your house once a year.
You can't just do it to landlords.
[35:09] There's a lot of single family homes
that are rented out here.
[35:12] Saratoga does it. You can't just rent
your house out at the track anymore.
[35:16] You've got to have exit signs. You've
got to have a whole plan.
[35:19] And Saratoga Springs gets 150 bucks.
I'm My point of view is we need to spend
[35:27] more money on code enforcement and
building inspector. And we need to get
[35:32] documentation
so that every time there's a call, a
[35:36] police call,
we know that it went to
[35:41] 1 Pine Street. Well, at the end of the
month we had 30 calls.
[35:47] Again, there's a nuisance ordinance. All
All I'm saying is
[35:50] start looking at moving
something cuz you can't just keep
[35:55] raising taxes.
You can't I mean, that's I mean, this is
[35:59] where it starts.
If you want to fix things,
[36:03] fix the buildings.
Hold people accountable so that when the
[36:08] next assessment comes through or when
the house gets bought
[36:12] and goes on the market and gets sold for
280,000 and now that that new property
[36:16] owner is paying taxes on that and not on
the 120
[36:21] that it was actually being assessed at
because it was boarded up for 3 years.
[36:26] That's I'm just asking you to put your
your business hat on.
[36:31] » John, okay, we
we get the point and appreciate it.
[36:34] » I told you I've been holding it in.
>> No, that's okay. We let you run.
[36:37] » And I thank and I thank you, Terry, for
letting me talk.
[36:40] » Okay. Thank you.
>> Thank you all.
[36:42] » You're good.
[36:44] Anybody else in the public have anything
to say?
[36:50] » Jason Petrovic, 33 Bonnie Street. I just
had a question for Carla. Um with regard
[36:54] to the um
>> You need to address the board, Jason.
[36:57] » Oh, I need to address the board. Okay.
Um
[36:59] the um
moratorium being submitted to the the
[37:02] planning board. Was Is there a time
frame for a response from them or is is
[37:06] it open-ended?
>> Actually, can I address that, Mayor?
[37:10] » Will you address that, Carla?
>> Yeah, because actually I needed to bring
[37:12] that up. Um I
Your code is one of the
[37:16] very few I've seen that doesn't require
you to go to the village planning board.
[37:20] I was working under the assumption and
this is on me that it did because every
[37:25] other village I know does.
Looking at this now, it doesn't. So, you
[37:30] can actually rescind your prior Like
what's it up? You can rescind your
[37:34] resolution. You can You can still keep
them and have them look at it and give
[37:38] you comment, but you're not required to.
Your law doesn't require you to.
[37:42] » Okay.
>> So, it's up to you. I I just Again, and
[37:46] that's on me and I I own that, but I
went under the quick assumption that
[37:50] that's how it works. So, your code
doesn't require that and under the state
[37:55] law you're not required to unless your
local law tells you to.
[37:58] » Okay.
>> So,
[37:59] it's up to you what you want to do. If
you don't want the planning board to
[38:02] look at it, then you would just tell me
to send it to county planning right now.
[38:07] » Send it to county planning.
>> So, you don't want the village planning
[38:10] board to look at it. So, you would want
to rescind that resolution.
[38:13] » Okay.
[38:15] Hold on. Thank you, Jason.
That's a good answer.
[38:18] It's going to be quick, by the way.
>> So, you don't have to do anything.
[38:24] » Okay.
All those in favor of sending that
[38:27] motion?
>> Actually, sorry. We need a second. We
[38:29] have to first and then we can
>> All those in favor of sending that
[38:33] motion?
>> Yes.
[38:34] » I.
>> Opposed?
[38:36] Okay. Thank you.
Okay.
[38:40] » So then you then need to make a motion
to send it to the county.
[38:43] » I'll make the motion.
[38:46] All those in favor?
>> I.
[38:48] » Opposed?
Okay. Thank you.
[38:51] » That might be something you want to
think about if you amend your zoning
[38:54] code that you should send it to your
village planning board.
[38:57] » We still can, though, right?
>> You can, but I'm saying when you amend
[39:00] your zoning code,
>> Right.
[39:02] » I would recommend putting that in there.
Cuz they're the ones that are going to
[39:04] have to deal with.
>> Right.
[39:06] » Thank you very
[39:11] » Okay. Anybody else in the public got any
questions?
[39:15] Comments? Okay.
We're going to go to uh
[39:19] more comments. We'll start out with Mr.
Mike.
[39:22] » John,
do you remember
[46:04] » Mhm.
[51:49] » Mhm.
[53:44] » Mhm.
[55:39] » Mhm.
[1:05:49] » Mhm.