[0:00] We had a
couple.
[0:02] » Okay.
>> Wednesday, August 26th, morning to
[0:08] order.
[0:11] » I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, to the
[0:16] republic for it stands, one nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:22] justice for all.
>> The girl just remain standing for one
[0:25] minute. I'd like to have a moment of
silence for Ron Kates, who's a long time
[0:31] member of our community who passed away
today.
[0:39] Okay, thank you.
[0:49] » All right, so uh for the supervisor's
report, I really don't have much
[0:53] tonight. Um,
so season's ending. The town is going to
[1:00] get a lot quieter. Uh, we have some
exciting events coming up. Uh, we have
[1:05] our Morning Side Fourth of July
celebration that got postponed due to
[1:09] the weather coming up this Sunday.
>> Next Sunday, September 6th.
[1:13] » September 6th.
>> 12 to 8:30.
[1:15] » 12 to 8:30. And then we also have the
bridge opening coming up in September on
[1:20] » September 17th.
>> 17th. But we do have our food pantry on
[1:23] Monday.
>> And we have our food pantry
[1:25] » and music in the park uh this Sunday.
>> So community.
[1:29] » Do you know what time it is? The the
bridge or 4:00 on the 17th.
[1:33] » And then this weekend, this Sunday with
music in the park. What are they?
[1:38] » Uh local band.
>> What time does that start?
[1:41] » Uh
[1:45] thank you.
>> We should have that one.
[1:48] » We're going to have food. The
concessions are going to be on
[1:51] » special guest star.
>> Best bakery in South Wallsburg.
[1:57] » How are you guys?
>> Good.
[1:59] » Nice to see you
>> all together.
[2:03] » Music in the park is this Saturday from
7 to 9.
[2:06] » Nice. Saturday.
>> Saturday.
[2:09] » Oh, 7 to 9.
>> Okay. Probably
[2:12] » next Saturday.
>> Okay. Next Saturday was Saturday.
[2:17] » Okay.
Citizens comments. Do we have anybody
[2:20] signed up? Anybody online?
>> Stan Wagner.
[2:26] » All righty.
[2:31] » Stan, you need to unmute.
>> Okay. Hear me?
[2:36] » Yep.
>> Okay. Hi. Good evening, everyone. I come
[2:40] to these meetings because I care about
this town. And I think that's why many
[2:44] of us living up here come to all the
town's meetings.
[2:48] I would like to talk about the community
round table. It was proposed back in
[2:53] January as a way for residents and town
officials to actually work together.
[2:58] Eight months later, there's still no
members, no criteria, and no start date.
[3:04] That is a substantial amount of time for
something the town called a priority. At
[3:10] the last meeting, Christine asked a fair
question, whether outreach has gone
[3:14] beyond Facebook. The answer was vague.
Nathan, you said you expected 30 to 40
[3:19] applications, but only got about seven.
This does not match with what I'm
[3:23] hearing. I know people, some of them
very involved in this town, will want to
[3:28] serve and help find a way to make Fsburg
better. What concerns me is how that
[3:34] shortfall was explained. You said you
were ensure everybody who applied was a
[3:39] suitable candidate and described some of
them as having personal personalities
[3:44] that don't mesh with others and as very
opinionated. These are your
[3:49] [clears throat] neighbors who wish to
volunteer their time for this town.
[3:53] Dismissing concerned citizens in this
manner in public based on your own
[3:57] personal judgment with no standards
anyone knew of ahead of time shouldn't
[4:01] sit well with any of the town's
residents. and and excuse me, an elected
[4:06] official should not disparage the people
he serves. I would also like this round
[4:11] table to actually look like the town is
supposed to represent reflecting the
[4:15] full range of communities and viewpoints
that make up false. So everyone has a
[4:19] real seat at the table. If suitability
is being decided by one person with no
[4:24] criteria anyone can point to, it's fair
to ask whether that standard ends up
[4:29] leaving people out. This town deserves a
round table that's real and open to
[4:33] everyone who lives here. Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[4:41] » Anybody else?
>> Can I speak?
[4:45] » Absolutely. Come on up.
>> Can I just have you right name, please?
[4:54] » Looks like we have another speaker.
>> Sign up. Yes, you should.
[5:01] » Oh, yeah.
>> Thank you.
[5:05] » Do you remember S and everyone here
tonight? I'm not I'm standing here
[5:10] tonight not to ask for anything and not
to say anything, just simply to say
[5:15] thank you.
For many of us in Jewish community, F is
[5:19] much more than a place where we spend
the summer. become a place where our
[5:22] families memories and where our children
growing up knowing our community where
[5:26] grandparents spend time with the
grandchildren. Every summer we see the
[5:30] Jewish family filling the streets, the
stores, the synagogues, the camp, the
[5:33] neighborhoods and and children playing
around together enjoying a peaceful
[5:38] summer. All behind this is the town and
work very hard make everything
[5:41] functional. So what I recognize that
tonight you know that having such a live
[5:46] community here during the summer summer
summer [snorts] months with many
[5:49] challenges
with our on schedule holiday school and
[5:53] camps our way of life what means so much
to us the town work with us you don't
[5:58] have to understand everything about our
community
[6:02] but we feel it and we respect it
I would like also to say something about
[6:08] the water that the town came out and and
dealt with it and we feel about our our
[6:15] end that the town did the right thing to
it. Um so tonight I want to say thank
[6:20] you for the town board for the
leadership. Thank you for your patience.
[6:23] Thank you for listening to our concerns.
Thank you for answering our phone calls
[6:27] and thank you for working with our
community.
[6:31] And I would like to thank you also the
police officers and the town secretaries
[6:35] and the towns and everybody's involved
behind spending hours of hours when
[6:40] nobody even sees that they're sitting at
home and working from home and and
[6:45] trying to make everything peaceful for
the entire town. Thank you for your
[6:48] friendship. Thank you for your
partnership. Thank Thank you for
[6:51] understanding us. Thank you for this
wonderful summer of 2026.
[6:56] Thank you for calling special for the
Jewish community. We feel we feel that
[7:02] we are like a part of South Walbury
from all of us. Thank you. We may
[7:07] continue to have more peaceful, healthy,
happy and successful summers together.
[7:10] Thank you very much.
>> Thank you.
[7:14] » 26 years I never being in this town. I
never had something like it.
[7:19] » Well, you get up and say something.
>> Continue it.
[7:26] I I never spoke in my life in the
public. It's the first time.
[7:31] » Thank you.
>> I really felt I watched I was on every
[7:36] Zoom call, not even not here, I was on
Zoom and I I must say that between all
[7:42] the talents that I'm involved in, Town
of Fig has I'm proud of.
[7:46] » Thank you.
>> We think we're the best, too. But
[7:48] [laughter]
>> yeah,
[7:49] » that's cuz we are all
>> Yeah, of course.
[7:52] » Anybody else?
No
[7:56] » thought.
>> I don't have any.
[7:58] » Okay. All right. So, with that, we have
one of our hardest working department
[8:04] heads. We have Winnie Forch here from
the town assessor's office.
[8:10] » Hi, everybody.
[8:28] I don't have enough.
[8:37] » No, you guys will get one. You're not
getting one though.
[8:39] » What do you mean?
[8:46] » Okay.
Um so we are entering our next season
[8:53] which will be our school tax roles. So
our assessment role that ends in July or
[8:59] actually begins in July is actually what
creates four school tax roles. We have
[9:03] Monty Tri Valley and Bford Bford of
course being the biggest one but it's
[9:08] our it's our information that goes to
them that creates their tax bills for
[9:11] the parcels that are in the township
for another time. Uh one thing that
[9:18] everybody and the public is uh
exemptions. So if you are a new owner
[9:24] star exemption enhanced exemption you
need to call New York State. Do not call
[9:28] the office. We cannot do it anymore. It
is all New York state driven. There are
[9:32] many many letters that are going out to
our seniors. Please, if you're confused,
[9:36] come into the office. We'll help you
with it. Uh the state is just confirming
[9:40] income, confirming
just everything. They're just they just
[9:45] want to make sure they have the
information right, but a lot of people
[9:48] get concerned. Come in the office. We'll
help you with that. Um,
[9:54] with the summer being over, Wesley, our
data collector, will now go out and, um,
[10:01] collect any improvements that have been
done in any of the condo developments,
[10:04] any private housing. Uh, at this point,
I already have seven foregoing acts of
[10:09] assessed value to do for 2027.
>> How will we do that?
[10:13] » How will we do that?
>> He actually goes out.
[10:15] » No, looking for what?
>> Like, how does he know what? Oh, maybe.
[10:19] So what he had well we have it's it's
more percentage of completion out of
[10:22] anything. So we have permits that we get
from the department. So all the permits
[10:27] that building department processes all
goes to one person and that is Wesley.
[10:31] Wesley has to go out to every single one
of those properties and he will get the
[10:37] update. So measurements, pictures,
percentage completion. Um
[10:41] » does he does he see anything else when
we use that?
[10:44] » Sometimes he does. Yep. If he sees
anything that we don't have a permit
[10:46] for, he's not sure he'll come back.
he'll check and then we share the
[10:50] information between departments. Um, and
it's vice versa too if something's going
[10:54] on that the building department finds
that we don't have. And so we we work
[10:59] hand in hand. It's very important uh
that we have good relationship between
[11:02] the two offices. Um,
my staffing right now is good. We have
[11:08] Olivia in the office kind of filling in
where Dallas was. Dallas left detailed
[11:14] instructions on all her excels. Dallas
has all the excels of every permit in
[11:18] the town and she's the one who keeps
track of that to keep Wesley on track to
[11:22] make sure he gets out and he's able to
look at everything that needs to be done
[11:25] by March 1st. So our deadline is March
1st of 2027 and March 1st is around the
[11:30] corner for us. Time goes by very
quickly, especially with the amount of
[11:34] information that we have to process. So
Olivia fit right in. She's got building
[11:39] department knowledge of course now she's
knows what we do. So she's just right in
[11:44] there and she's just taking off with it
which is great because without that we
[11:49] kind of flounder a little bit because
hard to keep all that data straight
[11:53] between just the three of us there and
Wesley's my eyes without Wesley I don't
[11:58] know what's going on out in the field
just you know too big
[12:02] uh the lists. So Wesley did update these
lists. Um
[12:08] it's pretty self-explanatory. We pretty
much go through this every time we have
[12:12] a meeting. Uh the open permits again
that number there in there that is fluid
[12:18] that is constantly going to change
depending on what permits being closed
[12:22] out when new permits being gotten. So
please when you look at these just
[12:25] realize that it is constantly moving. Uh
Village Woodidge same thing um in and
[12:32] out in and outs get closed out new
permits get get and we have to go to the
[12:36] village of Woodidge to get most of our
information. They'll email us and
[12:40] things, but for the most part, any big
maps or anything, Wesley has to go down
[12:43] and get them so he we can make uh copies
of all of that. So, Woodridge is also
[12:48] constantly moving. Decount that never
changes. We're always quite high with
[12:53] the deeds.
Uh upcoming development. So, we kind of
[12:57] changed this around a little bit. Wesley
updated anything if it's in planning.
[13:02] and he's going into the uh building
department system and looking to see
[13:06] where all these developments are. So
we've got you'll see planning well
[13:11] permit timber harvesting. So that's kind
of giving you an idea
[13:16] are at the ones that are upcoming.
Two pages of those at the bottom of that
[13:23] second page just a reminder that is our
percentage of completion.
[13:27] what we uh when we do our assessed value
based on percentages where everything is
[13:33] and then current development projects
some of these are at 100% they probably
[13:39] will be coming off once Wesley goes and
just make sure everything is set once a
[13:43] development is 100% complete it's done
and then we just do individual permits
[13:49] decks basement whatever they may be
doing that just gets added on so that I
[13:55] can do it
[14:00] question
>> back. Yeah, back to Wesley.
[14:03] » Wesley.
>> Yeah. So, he's going to a development uh
[14:08] and if it was proposed 100 units, he's
seeing how many were done and
[14:12] » Right. Right.
>> Who would So, let's say I had a house
[14:19] and he came and measured me and I had a
three-bedroom house
[14:24] » and I finished my basement.
>> Uh, who who would was that code or is
[14:30] that on the set?
>> So, just a regular single family
[14:33] drawing.
>> Yeah.
[14:35] » Yeah. Because it's different. So, so
condos are a little different because
[14:38] they have to go through so many
different approvals.
[14:41] » [clears throat]
>> you know, the building department, but
[14:43] they also have to give the attorney
general information. So, you're giving
[14:46] them, you know, a declaration, you're
basing what you're going to put in your
[14:51] condo. That that's in that declaration,
your offering plan, how much you're
[14:55] going to offer these condos for on the
market. All of that is in there, and
[14:58] that is very important for the AG
because they're going to approve that
[15:00] development. I have to do a letter for
the AG, give an estimate of taxes. So,
[15:04] that's all a package that goes. Once
they once they approve that, that whole
[15:09] thing goes to Chris now at the county.
He's really the nuts and bolts to close
[15:12] it together. He's going to do the maps.
He's going to do the SPL numbers. And if
[15:17] anything changes in the beginning stages
of the condo, he needs to know. So if
[15:23] they say they're going to have four
bedrooms and all of a sudden now there's
[15:26] six bedrooms or we have to let him know
that because
[15:29] » we know.
>> So that is going out and and visually
[15:33] seeing as
>> that can't go in.
[15:35] » No. So some of them they can see this is
where we now with the building
[15:38] department we lean on them on that
because they can go in because they have
[15:42] to do inspections. So if they go in and
they see a basement is finished and we
[15:46] don't have it or you know Wesley's
always in their program looking at
[15:50] pictures see what they pictures are so
important in our business right so then
[15:54] when we see if if the numbers aren't
driving what's what's in the declaration
[15:59] then we'll call Chris like hey look we
have a few units that went ahead and
[16:02] finished basement you know are you going
to want them? he'll get in contact with
[16:05] whoever his person is and then they have
to go back to the AG get so there's this
[16:10] whole it's a whole thing pretty much
once account development is finished
[16:14] once they start finishing basement
that's really just between the locals so
[16:17] that's between them department and us
and you know are they allowed to do it
[16:21] things HOA I mean then there's all those
little things that you have to do that's
[16:25] once it's over if it's you and me and we
finish a basement with a permit we know
[16:29] there's a permit we said we were going
to do it Wesley goes out and does
[16:32] updates if he happens to be there for
another reason and he notices that it
[16:39] looks like, you know, the basement's I
mean, there are ways to know that the
[16:41] basement's finished. It's just, let's
just be real. Um, we send out inventory
[16:45] letters. Hey, we're not sure about
inventory. Um, sales are a big thing. If
[16:51] if we get a sale that just seems so
extraordinarily large compared to the
[16:55] assessed value, we send an inventory
letter. Hey, look, we need to double
[16:58] check inventory. There was a recent
sale. We want to make sure we had the
[17:01] right inventory. We do that periodically
anyway.
[17:04] » But I don't have to answer you.
>> No, you do not. You do not have to
[17:08] answer me.
>> So So you send the letter out.
[17:10] » So we send the letter out. We'll send it
out regular mail. We don't care back.
[17:13] We'll send it certified. This way at
least we have the proof that we did try
[17:16] to attempt and we you know and who knows
down the line the building department
[17:21] may find something out later on about it
and we already have information. But no,
[17:24] for us, my department specifically, no
building department. Yes.
[17:29] » Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[17:33] when you have it says in here waiting
info from Woodriidge is that like their
[17:37] planning board
[17:40] » right yeah so Deb's really good with
that Steph Jacobson have planned she's
[17:44] really actually wonderful she will come
in the office with maps and things that
[17:47] they're looking at like even projects
that are just in the talks we have a box
[17:51] so we have them so we always can look
back at them so yeah if we're just
[17:55] waiting for things to go through
approvals waiting for permits to come
[17:59] through we just you just constantly are
looking at Woodidge and trying to catch
[18:04] up to what they
>> and Woodidge comes to us with
[18:06] information.
>> So, um so yep. So, one of the young
[18:09] ladies there will email us permits, but
if there's certain things that we see,
[18:12] like right now, there's a specific
driveway with the parking lot that I do
[18:16] not see any permits for. So, we're
calling them saying, "Hey, you see it's
[18:20] done. It's there. We haven't gotten any
permits for it. So, what's what's there?
[18:24] What's going on there?" So, it again,
it's it's that give and take. It's like
[18:28] you drive around, you see something,
you're going to give them a call and
[18:30] say, "Hey, you didn't get a permit on
that. What's up?"
[18:36] » Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[18:37] » Good.
[18:42] » Let's get to our agenda.
>> Item one, motion to approve town board
[18:47] minutes dated 8:19.
>> Second.
[18:50] » All in favor? Right.
Item two. Um, a lot of our staff that
[18:58] are in school that work seasonal [cough]
golf courses are now headed back to
[19:02] college. So, most of these, uh,
positions are to fill the vacancies. So,
[19:09] um, motion to approve employment at
Lockmore Golf for Mary Androish Barren
[19:15] as a cashier with a pay rate of 16 an
hour effective 81726.
[19:20] Landon Rainer as a card attendant with a
pay rate of $16 an hour 81726.
[19:26] Jaden Van Hassel as a card attendant
with a pay rate of $16 an hour effective
[19:31] 81726.
Connor Kiligore as a card attendant with
[19:36] a pay rate of $16 an hour effective
8726.
[19:41] And that is that for that one.
>> Motion.
[19:45] » Second.
>> U just want to mention something before
[19:48] we vote. Yes.
>> Uh don't know any of those people on
[19:53] there, but
I think it's imperative
[19:57] that we send a signal that [cough]
should be Fsburg people. I know it's not
[20:02] always easy to find, but uh
>> just making mistakes.
[20:08] » No, I I agree. And we our connection to
this school, one of the guidance
[20:13] counselors that we all know is now
retired. So [cough] I completely agree
[20:17] and I will look into that to make sure
that that communication is a job.
[20:20] » Thank you.
>> All in favor?
[20:23] » I.
>> Item three, motion to approve an
[20:27] engagement of Whiteitman Oyster and
Hannah LLP to approve legal services and
[20:34] con connection with litigation defending
the town of Fallsburg in an article 78
[20:39] proceeding.
>> Motion second. [clears throat]
[20:40] » All in favor?
>> I. Item four, resolution number 59 of
[20:45] 2026, approving a fall cleanup for
October 16th, 17th, and 18th located at
[20:52] 11 Morningside Park Road, Purleyville,
New York.
[20:56] » Motion second. All in favor?
We uh do have an employment executive
[21:03] session matter. I don't um believe that
we will be coming back to conduct any
[21:08] business whatsoever executive session to
discuss matters related to specific
[21:12] person.
>> All in favor? All right. Thank you
[21:16] everyone.
[21:21] » Come on.
[21:24] » Hi guys. Uh the just came over here to
say thank you for everything.
[21:31] Yeah, very good.
Should be publications.
[21:36] Let me see.