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Please rise for the pledge, pledge allegiance to the power of the

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Constitution.

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Please be seated.

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Present.

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Council Member Ustman.

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Present.

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Supervisor Albro.

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Here.

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Council Member Foreman.

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Here.

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Council Member Rye.

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Here.

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We got a couple items for special consideration.

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Before we adopt the agenda, we need to ask items for special consideration.

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There are several.

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Let me read them out.

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One would be a resolution to authorize solicitation of bids for demolition of unsafe building on Van Lake Road.

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Resolution to accept resignation of a police assistant.

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Discussion and resolution to accept the resignation of a justice court clerk.

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Discussion, I'm going too fast.

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Discussion and resolution to accept resignation of Greg Dutino, my confidential secretary.

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And appoint him as a legislative aide.

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Discussion and resolution to appoint Michael Nutrell at the position of confidential secretary to myself.

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And discussion and resolution to accept the resignation of police officer

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from the town official police department.

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I present that as a motion.

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Can I have a second?

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Second.

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Second.

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Foreman, all in favor?

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Aye.

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Any minutes?

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OK, privilege of the floor for general town items.

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Anybody has anything to speak about the town?

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Is it time to do it?

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OK.

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We got any new employees here today?

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Michael, would you just get up and say who you are

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and what your interest is in the town of Fishkill is?

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My name is Michael Nattrella.

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I am a recent graduate from Bingham University.

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I am a lifelong resident of Fishkill

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and originally East Fish Killed.

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I've been involved in community since I was a student at John Jay.

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And after finishing my degree in legislation

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and undergrad degree with a specialty in law,

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I decided to pursue a career in public service

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which is what brought me to this position.

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And I am hoping throughout my time,

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If confirmed, I can prove myself to both you and the residents of this town, county and state.

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That is all that I have to say as of this moment. So if you have any questions, I would be happy to answer.

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So you're taking Greg's position. That's the position you'll be taking.

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Big Inton Bearcats go.

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What was that?

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Big Inton Bearcats.

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Okay, your kid isn't there, right?

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He's got his child as a little knife.

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Anybody over here with a question?

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No, good luck.

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Thank you.

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Good luck.

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Next up, Lay's on reports.

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Well, I have no comments as of now.

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None?

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None.

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Okay.

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Next up is Lay's on report.

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We'll start with Louise.

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For the Rec Center I got a report from Mary Ann. On September 14th the seniors

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enjoyed a concert in the park with homemade pizza and they sang along to

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some oldies music. Today they had the second showing of the new Elvis movie

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on our inflatable movie screen which was inside the Rec Center and they

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enjoyed chicken parm and salad for lunch. On the 27th they will be going to

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the Wine Creek Casino which is already sold out. On October 6th they will

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to have a harvest festival where line dancing

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will be taught along with a luncheon.

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On October 18th, they will be headed

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to the Villaroma and the Catskills

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to see Michael Buble tribute along with a full luncheon.

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The senior holiday party has been announced

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and that date is December 15th

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with a snow date of the 16th.

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It's $16 for lunch and entertainments

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and sign up, start November 1st

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for fiscal residents and the second for non-residents.

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You can just stop by the rec center

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and pick up a flyer.

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Jay advised me that from September 14th to the 18th the rec center had the Bee Green consignment sale,

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which is a huge consignment sale that had toys, clothes, furniture and approximately 3,500 people attended throughout the four-day event.

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September 19th, fall hoops began, approximately 265 participants for upcoming events.

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Winter Hoops registrations begin shortly.

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The tentative date for the Fall Festival is October 15th.

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He has two other items on the agenda that I'll talk about later.

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The village official had no meeting this week. They changed it to next week.

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The planning board, I'll discuss the agenda item later if that's on there.

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And for human resources, Suzanne has been very busy.

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I didn't mention at the last meeting all of the items she's been working on,

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including hiring a latest account clerk who I've met

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and seems to be very nice.

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She's been actively working on numerous positions

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that are open, including groundskeeper, court attendant,

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police assistant, motor equipment operator,

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and police officers.

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We hired two after school counselors at the last meeting

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and she continues to work at updating

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all of the county paperwork that goes along

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with all of the recent raises that the board gave out

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as well as numerous administrative items.

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She's also met with a new historian

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and welcomed him aboard.

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Good evening. A couple of things to talk about is our sensory park. The equipment has been

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ordered and hopefully should be here soon. If anybody's not aware of that, it's an equipment

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that can you guess, and Councilman, can you guess, and Luis Danielle, you've been working

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on it last year. I helped Luis try to finalize the order on the equipment, so it's on

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So if you notice that Doug Phillips Park also, we milled the whole tennis courts that are there and that's where the sensory park is going to be.

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And also we're going to be working on putting additional fences all around the park there and also on many other parks that we're going to upgrade.

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Also put a new little league fence in over there and some drainage work.

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If you look out front of the town hall right here, you'll see that we have two signs that shrubs have been cleared around and new Belgian block has been put around.

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Now you can read the sign where it says town of Fishgill. Supervisor had the grounds crew, Brian, Brandon and the rest of the crew had to take out all the shrubs and put a nice Belgian block curving around it.

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So it looks really good. I just want to tell the guys good job with that.

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Um, zoning board, there's no meeting, um, no action on the zoning board.

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I'll talk about the, um, the water access at the, the Phillips Park.

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Yeah, so, um, Brandon and, um, Brian and...

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And the crews, they put, they used the millings from the tennis court and used the millings for a nice little ramp going down so you can bring your canoe a little boat down there until the creek.

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And now you have a little access and a little landing. They did a really good job with that.

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Thank you, John.

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Okay, so we had a meeting with some of our fire districts with Councilman Rye.

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I'll let Councilman Rye talk about some of the things we're working on with the fire districts.

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I helped organize a safety presentation for our seniors.

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Thank you to Mayor Martin, Supervisor Albra, Chief Dwork and Lieutenant Wood,

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and most of all, Eddie Cologne for putting this together.

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I thought it was a very productive couple hours that we spent with the seniors, attended

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the 9-11 ceremonies in the town and the village, volunteered at the shop right for a fundraiser

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to help raise funds for the Fish Go Food Pantry, attended a meeting at the Blodgett Library.

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They are looking for people to serve on their friends of the Blodgett Library group and

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we had our comprehensive committee meeting on September 14th.

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Yes, I attended the same event at ShopRite.

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Bagging to stop food hunger, whatever, it was just a good little emphasis.

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ShopRite does, through the years, has done millions of dollars to help fight food issues and insecurity issues,

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and I have to commend them for their work.

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The fire district meeting, we're rolling into, I think, a number of items that the next meeting we will have, we will be able to then present specifics to the town board.

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And there are going to be some issues at the county level and also the state level.

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But the most important thing is that we did get a list of the web pages, right Greg?

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And we're going to be posting those on our web page and our Facebook.

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And this is a part of why we engage with them is to help get the information out there from

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the districts to help with the next generation of volunteers, which is extremely critical.

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What's the status on that, please?

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Well, that is something which is on our to-do list for this week.

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We're going to be including information on that in our weekly eGov, which goes out

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on Friday.

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And they will be posted to our social media page and our town website in the next

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couple of days, a project that I intend to include my successor in.

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So part of the process of getting him up to speed.

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Pay attention, success art.

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All right, this is important.

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And I will tell you, I'm going to bring this up right now.

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We're going to have to have a discussion in the future

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about using the rec sign on 52 at appropriate times

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to help the fire districts when

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it comes to recruitment and other important announcements.

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It's a little too exclusive, and I think we can share,

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but we'll talk about that as a board.

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I think that'll be important to do.

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We had a meeting with the highway department just

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recently and getting ready for the budget time and I think we've got things

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pretty much leveled out and we'll talk about that a later time. Yes we had a

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comp-plant meeting and I think it's going to be great we'll be wrapping that up at

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the end of the year and yes we had a nice little ceremony for 9-11 here and

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in the village was happy to be there as well. Last night Vets committee will

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be wrapping up that mailing very soon so we can send that out and we're

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going to need to do a banner for them when we have certain events such

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which is the one that's coming up in December.

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Thank you.

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So what do you wanna do with this?

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You wanna use a recruiting for the recreation sign?

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Is that a discussion that we're gonna have?

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Well, at some point I want to, you know,

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cause it's important to keep bringing up

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and I think we should be able to share for

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what time they're doing recruitment.

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But it's the rec center sign

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that they use for the rec center.

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So I think we do need to discuss it more

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cause I think it should be for the rec center.

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I'll teach you to put that on the agenda

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for the next meeting.

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Yeah.

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Sir, at the door.

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You're a new employee?

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No, I'm just saying hi to my brother.

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Okay.

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Just checking.

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Welcome.

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Next up is a presentation, New York State Drinking Water Source Protection Program.

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Greg, can you give the residents official on the town board a little brief synapses of the great things that we're doing?

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Absolutely.

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Good evening, Supervisor, Council Members.

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I currently serve as the Secretary to Supervisor Albra and for more than a year I've also served as a representative on behalf of the town for a state-run initiative called the Drinking Water Source Protection Program, also known as DWSP2.

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As the name implies, DWSB2 is a program designed to help municipalities assess their drinking water systems,

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identify source water areas and potential risks and threats to water quality,

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and then devise and implement strategies to mitigate risk, protect and improve the quality of drinking water provided to residents.

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The town chose to do this because water quality is a concern for any conscientious municipality.

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The town of Fishgill has more than 3,600 municipal water connections providing service to more than 11,000 residents.

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The town has various water quality concerns, chief among them is high chloride levels in water in our well areas due to road salt.

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According to our water operators, these high levels could, if not addressed, potentially lead to the future need to purchase expensive equipment that would be very costly to town taxpayers.

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And the town very wisely chose to do everything in its power to protect our drinking water sources before widespread remedial actions are necessary.

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Well, as you can imagine, this is a very extensive process.

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It requires considerable study and engineering review by experts,

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as well as a number of meetings with stakeholders to ensure that the resulting plan is prepared

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and most accurately reflects the current condition of town water systems

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and the best practices needed to meet our goal of a sustainable supply

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of affordable, high-quality drinking water for the residents of Fishkill.

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So for the past year, myself, Supervisor Albra,

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Paul Bozek, one of our town project managers, and our water system operator, Mike Trempert

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from Camo Pollution Control, have been meeting and working on this program with technical

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assistance providers supplied by New York State through Barton and LaJudice, namely

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through Ecologic and H2M Architects and Engineers.

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I'm sure that what I've just described to you all sounds very expensive, so here's

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the first piece of good news.

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DWSP2 is free for participating municipalities, means that all of the technical assistance

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that we've received so far for this program has been at absolutely no cost to fish-kill

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taxpayers. Based on the scope of the work performed and the man hours involved by more

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than a dozen different engineers across a variety of disciplines, the town has received

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in excess of $140,000 of engineering services entirely free of charge. Here's the second

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piece of good news. The program is now, largely, complete. More than a year of meetings,

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GIS data review, stakeholder discussions, risk analysis, and strategizing have culminated

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in a completed DWSP-2, which has been submitted to the state for their review.

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We're not expecting much from the state by way of feedback and anticipate that confirmation

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of their approval of our plan should be submitted to us around the end of the month, meaning

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that as early as next month, the Town Board can vote to accept this DWSP-2 report and

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further codify it in our Town Comprehensive Plan.

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Doing so will bring to completion a lengthy and thorough process designed to protect

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and improve water quality in the town of Fishkill.

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This process includes revisions to Town Code adopted last year, the adoption of an aquifer protection overlay district last fall,

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and the ongoing comprehensive plan update which council members Foreman and Ry are involved in.

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By carefully ensuring each of these actions reference and build on the others, we create a strong network of protections

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which will be very difficult to undo in the future.

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And by engaging in public information and outreach initiatives, we can also make sure that residents know about the importance of water quality protection

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and understand best practices for themselves when it comes to water source protection.

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And here is the final piece of good news.

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Being a DWSP2 community gives the town a fish kill and edge in the future when we apply for grant funding.

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Fewer than 50 municipalities in the state of New York are DWSP2 communities, including less than half a dozen in Duchess County.

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If the town board adopts this plan and incorporates its goals into our comprehensive plan as we continue updates to that document,

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The town can demonstrate that future water system and water quality projects are consistent

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with the goals outlined in DWSB2.

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This will result in a higher assessed score by New York State reviewers when they go through

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the process of reviewing applications for grant funding, and that will put us at the

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front of the line, so to speak, when it comes to obtaining grant funds for water

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protection and municipal water projects.

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Now I've given you a general summary of the drinking water source protection program,

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program, why the town has taken part in the program, and the benefits that DWSP2 offers

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the town.

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But as for the specifics of the program, I defer to the experts, so please allow me

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to introduce Lisa Rickmers of H2M and Liz Moran of Ecologic.

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They are two of the technical assistance providers through New York State.

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They've been instrumental in completing this program, and they will give you a more

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detailed summary of the town of Fishkill, DWSP2.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Ladies?

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Good

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evening, and thank you for having us to introduce you to the program.

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discuss our DWSP2 plan with you tonight. I'm Liz Moran. I'm the one from Ecologic.

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And we have a brief presentation. We might be mindful of your packed agenda.

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And Greg gave a really great introduction about what the program is and its goals.

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So let's walk through the program that you have in front of you.

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This is tonight's agenda, so I'm going to talk about the process for the drinking water source protection plan as we developed it.

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So New York State, as they unrolled this program for participating municipalities, they're calling it a pilot program.

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And so municipal water providers such as your town of Fishkill that were awarded this funding,

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part of the obligation is to report back to the state on what works well

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and what needs to be tweaked because towards the end of this year,

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the state agencies who have collaborated on this framework,

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which includes DEC, Department of Health, Ag and Markets, Office of General Services, for example,

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They're going to revise that draft framework based on all of the knowledge that they gained from the various participating municipalities.

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So there's a mixture of people with surface water supplies, reservoirs, streams, lakes, as well as groundwater such as the town of Fishkill.

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So that's been the feedback.

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So our role as the technical service providers is to work with various municipalities,

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guide them through this framework process and then report back to the state on

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kind of any issues or challenges that arise. So we're going to talk about that

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framework and but basically we're going to focus more on what did we learn

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about your system and what does that mean. So what did we learn and then

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And what is that, how are we going to focus efforts on protection?

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As Greg said, this focus of the DWSB2 is really on preventing further contamination or future

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contamination of the water supply as conditions change.

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So we had a lot of hydrogeologists looking at the aquifer and doing some modeling of

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of how water flows towards the wells

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and how that's affected by the overlying landscape

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and land use and such.

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So we're gonna talk about that kind of what we learned,

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what we found out,

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and then basically what are the recommendations?

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So because this is a planning document

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that fortunately you're already poised

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to integrate this into your comprehensive plan,

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we wanna make sure that there's a lot of

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institutional knowledge to carry this forward.

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So we have a plan management team and then a brief discussion of next steps for you.

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So here's an overview of the water supply.

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Of course these are drinking water wells.

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They're in two areas. Let's see if this cursor will work. Yes.

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Okay, so we have what we call the Brinkerhof Wells and the Merritt Wells.

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Yes, thank you. Now you'll see on this map that there are various lines that are important to kind of think about.

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Some of them are municipal boundaries, so we have the town of Fishkill boundary,

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and here we have the major transportation corridors,

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but these lines around the wells are important too.

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This is based on the kind of the hydrogeologic analysis

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of how the water moves toward the wells

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and the time it takes.

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So these circles, the purple circle

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is like a time of travel of about one year.

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So water that infiltrates into the ground

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in this purple area moves toward the water supply wells at that time frame.

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But then water from this larger orange circle also makes its way into the wells.

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So you'll see as we go through the actual draft plan that there are some recommendations for

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potential protective and preventative measures within these areas

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that reflect the reality of, you know, how vulnerable is the well to land cover or land use decisions and such that have happened within these two areas.

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Can I ask you, how did they determine how the water was flowing? Were people in the field?

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No, these were based on geological mapping that has been done in the past.

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The data that we got from the water suppliers about the depth of the well,

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the depth at which the well is screened, you know, how deep below the ground

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the water actually enters the supply well, and also the nature of the aquifers.

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We're going to talk about self, the porosity, which is the space between the particles, where's

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the bedrock, where's the sand, that kind of thing. So it's mostly based on modeling. But

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the modeling tools that were used are ones that are used by EPA and others as part of

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the drinking water assessments. And that was one issue that as we were working through

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the framework, we actually had a little bit of a pause in Fishkill because we wanted to

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make sure that these delineations, which are really critical, were correct.

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So we went back and worked a little bit more closely with the hydrogeologists from the

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New York State agencies to make sure that kind of the assumptions that were used

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in these models were reasonable because, of course, you want your model to predict

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current conditions, it builds your confidence that it will help you predict future conditions, right?

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So, good question. Sounds very thorough. It was.

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Okay, so the DWSB-2 is not the first stab, obviously,

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at kind of thinking about the water supply for fish kill and how to protect its quality into the future.

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This is a brief timeline that shows that the town of Fishgills water supply has been online since the 1930s.

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In the early part of the 20th century, Department of Health had issued kind of blanket regulations for what happens adjacent to water supply wells,

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you know, setback requirements where you can store or dispose of things like

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chlorides which we know are an issue. Recreation is not so much an issue for

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aquifer supplies as it is for surface water supplies, but an annual

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inspection of you know what is happening within the source water area, what are

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trends in development, land cover, land use, transportation, and reporting back to Department

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of Health. Then in the early 2000s, the Department of Health and the regional planning agencies

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went through for municipal water supplies and did what they call SWAP, which stands

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is for source water assessment programs.

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And that was kind of a, okay, let's take a snapshot

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and think about what are potential sources of contamination

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for each of our municipal water supplies,

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which was a really good exercise.

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But those swap plans were done

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and they didn't have any provision for being updated

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or integrated into planning efforts

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or zoning and land use decision making.

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So that's changed with the DWSP2 and that's really been the focus of this new generation of planning.

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And fortunately for Fishkill, it's coming at a perfect time to integrate, as we've been saying, into your comprehensive plan.

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So the idea is that it's more of a living document.

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It's not just a snapshot in time, it's something that will be some people tasked with making

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sure that these recommendations are implemented into the future.

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So we've been talking about the framework, the draft framework has four steps and various

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tasks within those and as you look at the draft report, you'll see that the reports

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are organized in the same outline.

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So first up, you have to bring people together with local knowledge, the stakeholder group,

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get them to articulate goals and vision for their future water supply because ultimately that helps guide the decisions

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and also the metrics or things that we measure over time to see if we're making progress.

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And then take a deep look at the source assessment itself.

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So, look at the water system, as we said, you know, do the mapping of the aquifer,

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do the analysis, do the modeling to show how the water flows subsurface,

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and also do what we call a potential contaminant source inventory.

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So, kind of similar to what was done in the swap plans in 2003,

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but look at, okay, what might we worry about?

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about either past spills or current land cover or transportation, salt storage things.

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Given what we know about the map of the contributing area, what are potential contaminants that

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we want future plan management team members to be aware of.

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There may be some recommendations related to monitoring, assessment and reporting,

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reporting, checking back with industries, you know, local. It's all, you know, it's

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tailored to the specific municipality what the actual actions are. But it all flows from

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your specific situation and data understanding. So then step three is the protection and

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implementation strategies. That's okay. Knowing what we know, what are we going to do

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about it? You know, how can we protect this into the future? What are the steps?

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and then step four is the progression and maintenance.

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How are we gonna measure it, monitor it?

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Who's gonna be part of this long-term effort?

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So the first task was to form the stakeholder group.

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We had a really good group, as Greg I think was on all

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of our, what do we have, 14 monthly meetings

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or something over the course of the last year or so.

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So we had representatives of the town.

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We also had some local conservation organizations interested in helping us.

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Dutchess County, the health department, was of course very important and key in providing

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information and the people who run the water system, all that local knowledge was captured

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in our stakeholder group and we worked together to establish a goal and formulate a vision

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and Greg with his excellent skills in actual word smithing I think takes major responsibility

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for how the vision statement came out but it has a focus on collaboration, you know kind

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of regional agencies and neighboring municipalities, that our vision is that we've done it right,

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that we have protections in place that are going to ensure that the town continues to

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be able to provide high quality drinking water to its current and future residents.

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So the goals that flow from that are listed on here as well as you can see it's also

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in your handout.

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So land cover, public health, public knowledge of where does the water come from and how

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how the activities on the landscape potentially affect that, increasing reliability, and then

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also keeping an eye on the future about potential contaminants, changes in regulations, things

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that what we call e-merging contaminants.

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So I'm going to turn this over to Lisa who's going to talk us through steps two and three

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of the framework.

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What's your name and where are you from?

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My name is Lisa Rickmers. I'm from H2M Architects and Engineers.

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We're based out of Melville, Long Island.

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So it's important to just reiterate here that the goal of the plan is to protect the source water into the future

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by identifying current and future areas of vulnerability.

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This map helps us understand the land uses on top of the watershed areas.

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It's a little tricky to see at a distance.

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I don't know how your printouts are, but these are maps that are included in the plan itself.

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But here we can see this is the Merritt Well area, and that very dark red is high-intensity

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development.

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The lighter reds are medium, and then the more pinkish is like a lower-density development.

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The green spaces are deciduous forests.

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And then very importantly here in the Merritt Wells, this is Route 84 coming across that area right through, and it's hard to see at a distance, I know, but there's the purple which indicates the critical area.

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That's the part of the watershed where the water is expected to move within about a year into the wells.

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up here where the Brinkerov wells are there's similar line a little tricky to

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see and the critical area is here in purple and we can also see a wide mix

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of uses up here I actually just went to the next slide that include some some

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high and density development but more medium density development and low

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density development as well as forests and water that are part of the land use conditions

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on top of those watersheds.

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From there, we were able to also, looking through databases and looking at the land

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uses, identify a series of potential contaminant sources.

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These are things that were identified that have already impacted the watershed or have

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the potential to in the future.

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The report for the Merritt Wells identified 39 potential contaminant sources and 19 of

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those were closed spills, which is one of the main ways we were able to gather information

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was from the database on spills.

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Three were in the critical area and one of those in the critical area was closed spill.

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In addition, the transportation corridors are identified as potential contaminant source and those are represented just by the roads themselves rather than a point because they encompass a larger area and can't really just be pinpointed but you see the road passing through those source water areas.

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Similarly, we identified 71 potential contaminant sources within the source water area for the

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Brinker-Hoffwells and nine in the critical area, as well as transportation corridors up

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in that area as well that pose a risk to the critical and source water areas.

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So now that the understanding of how the water flows into the watershed and what uses

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are on top of the watershed and what potential contaminant sources exist, the stakeholder

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group work to identify the priority issues for what the plan management team should focus

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on going forward to protect the source water area.

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And the first identified priority issue is transportation runoff.

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As I've heard multiple times already, I believe chloride is a key concern.

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salt from de-icing the roads, runs into, can run into the watershed, spills also

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from the highway pose a risk to the watershed. So the goal is to reduce the

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amount of de-icing materials entering the groundwater and there's multiple

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solutions and strategies identified in the report including things like mapping

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roadway maintenance, salt management, and operations facilities in the

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source water area, intermeasurable collaboration

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around best management practices and monitoring

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of the source water area and the highways,

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and promoting the use of non-chloride deisers

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in the critical area, and best management practice

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when using chloride deisers.

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A second goal identified by the plan.

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Can I ask you a question?

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So if, let's just say in a perfect world

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there's no more salt spread on the roads anywhere.

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does this you know salt that's in the wells everywhere with it I'm assuming it

458
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:05,740
will eventually flush its way out and levels will reduce yeah it will be

459
00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:10,940
diluted over time as well from more water without the salts entering the

460
00:43:10,940 --> 00:43:19,160
watershed so yeah the that is but what's the alternative to salt they are

461
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,420
there are a series of non-deicers it's also could be done by identifying

462
00:43:23,420 --> 00:43:26,720
find proper strategies and trying to limit the use

463
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:30,800
within the critical area, to the extent possible.

464
00:43:31,860 --> 00:43:34,240
Also things like if there's salt sheds

465
00:43:34,240 --> 00:43:37,580
or maintenance facilities that are within the critical area,

466
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,320
possibly relocating or checking and ensuring that,

467
00:43:41,500 --> 00:43:43,000
monitoring and making sure that they're not

468
00:43:45,980 --> 00:43:49,360
inadvertently contaminating the watershed are solutions.

469
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:54,060
This is the de-icing issue is one that many communities are dealing with.

470
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:59,360
I would say that every single one of the communities we've done a drinking source water protection plan for

471
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:03,020
this has been somewhere on their list of priorities.

472
00:44:04,060 --> 00:44:08,400
So I do expect that there'll be a lot of resources for figuring out the best practices

473
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,580
and each community is going to be different in how to manage that.

474
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:17,720
A second goal that was identified is to reduce risks of existing

475
00:44:17,720 --> 00:44:19,680
and future high-intensity land uses.

476
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:25,720
I want to make sure that the stakeholder group identified

477
00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:28,940
incorporating source water protection in land use decisions.

478
00:44:30,060 --> 00:44:34,060
In terms of existing high-intensity land uses,

479
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,290
some risks of existing residential communities could be

480
00:44:39,580 --> 00:44:44,720
the failing septic systems, unregulated commercial

481
00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:47,300
and residential development, composed risks to the

482
00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:54,000
watershed and all these risks can be exacerbated by climate change, the increasing instances

483
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:59,600
of drought and severe rain can increase runoff into the watershed and pose more risks.

484
00:45:04,910 --> 00:45:11,390
A third identified priority issue is intramusible awareness and collaboration.

485
00:45:12,170 --> 00:45:20,630
The source water area, which Liz identified in that first map, extends across municipal boundaries and incorporates a state road.

486
00:45:21,330 --> 00:45:29,710
So communication and coordination through across these communities is essential to managing impacts in the watershed.

487
00:45:31,470 --> 00:45:39,490
And then a fourth priority issue on this slide is source water monitoring to track emerging contaminants.

488
00:45:39,790 --> 00:45:53,550
Emerging contaminants such as PFOAs and PFOs are things that we expect to be requirements to be coming out in the next several years from either the federal government or the state.

489
00:45:54,290 --> 00:46:04,930
And tracking and monitoring the development of those in the watershed so that you can take appropriate action and recognize if there's a threat that maybe needs to be mitigated will help you stay ahead of those.

490
00:46:06,170 --> 00:46:13,010
A fifth priority issue was enhanced management of regulated potential contaminant sources in the critical area.

491
00:46:13,010 --> 00:46:15,790
This addresses sources that we know exist,

492
00:46:16,130 --> 00:46:21,050
large chemical storage and containers for instance,

493
00:46:21,490 --> 00:46:25,650
where regulations exist to protect the watershed,

494
00:46:26,010 --> 00:46:29,550
but increased monitoring and compliance may be necessary

495
00:46:31,270 --> 00:46:34,870
to deal with existing fuel and chemical bulk storage tanks.

496
00:46:36,250 --> 00:46:38,890
And finally, the final priority issue identified,

497
00:46:38,890 --> 00:46:42,890
which really weaves throughout all of them is outreach and education.

498
00:46:43,890 --> 00:46:50,210
Personal choices impact water quality decisions people make at their businesses and their homes

499
00:46:51,110 --> 00:46:57,330
can impact water quality and oftentimes residents and business owners are unaware of the impacts they may be having.

500
00:46:57,930 --> 00:47:03,830
Sceptics programs to educate about sceptics and system maintenance, the potential harm of pesticides and fertilizer,

501
00:47:04,950 --> 00:47:13,010
the potential harm they can pose to the water supply by empowering by educating

502
00:47:13,870 --> 00:47:17,410
homeowners and business owners you can empower them to embrace the behaviors

503
00:47:17,410 --> 00:47:23,650
that will protect their own watershed and while it's kind of tacked here at

504
00:47:23,650 --> 00:47:28,950
the end I think ends up being one of a very important one of the priority

505
00:47:28,950 --> 00:47:35,330
issues. We're going to invite Liz back up because with the priority issues defined

506
00:47:35,330 --> 00:47:39,310
and implementation timelines that are included in the plan, the next stage is

507
00:47:39,310 --> 00:47:43,390
to is what we're moving into now which is to define the plan management team.

508
00:47:46,900 --> 00:47:52,120
Thanks. So now you've heard kind of the what's the whole framework what did we

509
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:57,080
find out specifically about Fishkill and then the issue is you know looking

510
00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:07,000
So that is part four of the framework and the first step in the kind of looking ahead part is the plan management team.

511
00:48:07,460 --> 00:48:17,520
So we've had people raise their hands that were part of the stakeholder group to be part of the plan management team.

512
00:48:17,820 --> 00:48:25,420
Notice that we have positions here and not people, not names in this chart.

513
00:48:25,420 --> 00:48:32,600
And that is this concept of institutional knowledge and making sure that we have good transition

514
00:48:32,600 --> 00:48:42,340
as time goes by for the DWSB2 so that as people change jobs or new people are elected

515
00:48:42,340 --> 00:48:49,600
or appointed to key boards, there's some knowledge brought forward about what is in

516
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:55,400
the DWSB2, what are the recommendations, and what does that mean in terms of setting

517
00:48:55,400 --> 00:49:04,040
our priorities. So, the responsibilities of the plan management team, in addition to kind

518
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:08,620
of developing an annual work plan to say, okay, you know, let's talk about what we're

519
00:49:08,620 --> 00:49:12,500
going to do this year, you know, here are our priorities, what are our actions and

520
00:49:12,500 --> 00:49:19,620
who's going to do them. Also, to prepare an annual report. So, the New York State

521
00:49:19,620 --> 00:49:29,080
agencies, the Department of Health in particular, are going to be asking for status of the DWSP2

522
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:34,560
progress plans that will probably be rolled into the annual water quality report that's

523
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:42,700
already required from the water providers as well that talk about, you know, contaminant

524
00:49:42,700 --> 00:49:45,780
issues and volume used, quality used.

525
00:49:45,980 --> 00:49:49,140
So there will be a section in that on DWSP2.

526
00:49:49,140 --> 00:49:56,680
So the plan management team will be helping with that and also as part of the responsibility,

527
00:49:57,440 --> 00:50:01,340
similar to the water quality report, is to share that with the community.

528
00:50:01,980 --> 00:50:09,260
So that's part of the awareness, education and awareness that Lisa spoke about as being really key

529
00:50:09,260 --> 00:50:14,900
and one of the recommendations that threads through all of the kind of future actions.

530
00:50:14,900 --> 00:50:15,720
So

531
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:28,820
what happens next? You've heard that the New York state agencies are reviewing your draft plan.

532
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:37,360
We expect to get their comments back because we've been working with them all along and, you know,

533
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:43,620
revising our submittals based on their comments from other plans.

534
00:50:43,620 --> 00:50:47,840
were not anticipating a fairly smooth approval process.

535
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:52,040
Once their final comments have been made and addressed,

536
00:50:52,740 --> 00:50:57,840
the state will issue a letter of approval to the town.

537
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:04,380
And at that point, you should consider a legislative resolution to adopt.

538
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:09,440
And then after that's adopted, you know, convene the plan management team

539
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:12,040
and start to think about the strategy.

540
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:22,820
Now the technical service providers will continue over a six month or so period of transition

541
00:51:22,820 --> 00:51:29,660
to make sure that all of these data files and maps and modeling outputs and inventories

542
00:51:29,660 --> 00:51:38,860
are transferred appropriately to the town so that it will be easy to maintain and update.

543
00:51:38,860 --> 00:51:44,880
So we're not just leaving you alone, you know, once you get your letter from the state.

544
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:56,300
And then on an ongoing basis, the New York State Department of Health has created four staff positions statewide, specifically dedicated to DWSB2.

545
00:51:56,720 --> 00:52:07,780
So they'll be there as an ongoing resource to communities as you're developing your annual reports and, you know, questions and kind of thinking through what the priorities are.

546
00:52:07,780 --> 00:52:11,780
and keeping an eye on what the funding opportunities are for implementation.

547
00:52:13,660 --> 00:52:19,260
So looking ahead, we always end with this slide about adaptive management.

548
00:52:19,720 --> 00:52:23,920
You've heard some of the challenges that we know are on the horizon.

549
00:52:24,380 --> 00:52:30,340
You know, changes in water quality regulations,

550
00:52:30,340 --> 00:52:37,960
either the state or the and or federal standards for substances like PFOAs and etc.

551
00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:44,420
Land use and development, you know, there's a lot of movement going on.

552
00:52:44,740 --> 00:52:49,260
This part of New York, a lot of changes, demographic changes, population changes.

553
00:52:49,900 --> 00:52:56,060
So keeping an eye on that and how that affects the protected areas.

554
00:52:56,060 --> 00:53:00,360
So that, of course, that will be incorporated in your comprehensive plan as well.

555
00:53:01,020 --> 00:53:08,620
Invasive species, just in terms of how they can affect the landscape, that's probably

556
00:53:08,620 --> 00:53:15,680
more critical for surface water supplies, but it also applies to the aquifers as well.

557
00:53:16,500 --> 00:53:18,400
And then climate impacts.

558
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:24,880
So we know that all those challenges are out there, and it gives us a sense of

559
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:30,980
why this needs to be a living document, and that was my last slide, so thank you.

560
00:53:31,140 --> 00:53:32,380
Do you have any other questions?

561
00:53:33,140 --> 00:53:33,920
Oh, Louise, any questions?

562
00:53:34,420 --> 00:53:35,380
No, I'm good, thank you.

563
00:53:36,380 --> 00:53:44,520
Yeah, I believe I do snow removal for living, and I think regulating some type of the sodium.

564
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:50,740
We have pretty much four types, sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, chloride that's put down on walkways, roadways,

565
00:53:50,740 --> 00:53:52,560
And I think there's many ways.

566
00:53:52,700 --> 00:53:57,760
HOAs, apartment complexes, highways can minimize their salt,

567
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,920
and it comes from the county to the state to even local.

568
00:54:02,660 --> 00:54:04,860
And just regulation using less salt.

569
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,600
You know, a lot of the deicing companies are all about pre-treating roads.

570
00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:14,480
Sometimes pre-treating roads, if you're having a 12-inch snowstorm, doesn't make sense.

571
00:54:14,820 --> 00:54:17,460
It's about managing when you put down the materials,

572
00:54:17,460 --> 00:54:22,740
materials because also the salt companies and the DA's companies want you to buy that

573
00:54:22,740 --> 00:54:29,200
material so they always promote a pre-treating. I always tell my customers pre-treating when

574
00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:34,920
done right is acceptable, but sometimes it's not. And you got to know when to use it. Temperatures

575
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:40,580
make a big difference. And late March, if you're putting down any salt, calcium, any

576
00:54:40,580 --> 00:54:44,880
of those materials, that's when the plants are now starting to absorb those materials.

577
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:52,180
materials. The salt is being absorbed through the plants. So late winter is the worst time

578
00:54:52,180 --> 00:54:57,580
to put down salt materials. So it starts with not just local municipalities, it starts with

579
00:54:57,580 --> 00:55:03,440
the HOAs, home associations, department complexes, and citizens. If they're putting down straight

580
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:08,340
salt all the time, that's not good. Use solutions like a magic salt, it's a brine,

581
00:55:08,340 --> 00:55:10,760
liquid beet juice that really helps.

582
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,900
It stops the breakdown of the salt, slower.

583
00:55:14,660 --> 00:55:16,040
So it's about educating the residents

584
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:17,700
and educating the apartment complexes

585
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:19,480
and the HOAs that are in our town.

586
00:55:21,900 --> 00:55:24,800
Exactly, those are really good examples.

587
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,060
And I know that the state is working on

588
00:55:27,060 --> 00:55:29,080
some kind of guideline.

589
00:55:29,300 --> 00:55:31,100
There's a task force that developed

590
00:55:31,100 --> 00:55:32,580
from kind of the Adirondacks

591
00:55:32,580 --> 00:55:34,740
where they're seeing a lot of issues

592
00:55:34,740 --> 00:55:37,680
with salt contamination of groundwater,

593
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,080
water, surface water, and vegetation.

594
00:55:42,420 --> 00:55:45,340
So expect a lot more movement on that.

595
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:49,620
Yes, and something that I was talking to the county, DPW,

596
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:53,440
they're also looking at ways to now instead of selling

597
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,460
straight rock salt as a state bid,

598
00:55:56,900 --> 00:55:58,700
they're going to actually start now trying

599
00:55:58,700 --> 00:56:03,280
to promote salt that has been treated with magic,

600
00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:05,200
like a brine.

601
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,740
so it actually slows down, breaks down slower, so it lasts long on the roads, so you have

602
00:56:09,740 --> 00:56:10,600
to use less product.

603
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:18,700
There's also systems that you can put in your vehicles in the trucks, and companies or even

604
00:56:18,700 --> 00:56:23,080
in the town municipalities can ask you to regulate how much salt you put down and can

605
00:56:23,080 --> 00:56:26,820
monitor how much salt the individual is putting down so you're not putting too much based

606
00:56:26,820 --> 00:56:27,620
on the road temperature.

607
00:56:28,780 --> 00:56:33,920
Is that something that Fishkill has, what do they call it, Dickie John's something?

608
00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:46,960
I mean there are opportunities to really work on that but you're right, you have state, you have local.

609
00:56:47,940 --> 00:56:57,140
And you have the ability to, you know, with the plan management team kind of hone in on what the priorities are going to be for your town in order to address this.

610
00:56:57,300 --> 00:57:01,960
And it may be large initiatives like refitting vehicles with different technology

611
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:08,080
or it might be smaller educational initiatives to try to make some headway in terms of how

612
00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:12,020
HOAs and other, you know, households being used throughout the community.

613
00:57:12,380 --> 00:57:15,940
With some of the grants, like for instance, I know there are systems that I just mentioned

614
00:57:15,940 --> 00:57:17,460
that we can put in each truck.

615
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,400
Some of the grants, will they help some of the initiatives?

616
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:24,840
Maybe we can get a grant that would outfit a couple of the trucks with the system because

617
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:27,980
it's just like the water meter, how we monitor it.

618
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:29,060
It's a system.

619
00:57:29,220 --> 00:57:31,660
It's an app where we sit there or be on a computer.

620
00:57:31,660 --> 00:57:37,120
you could tell how much salt is being applied on each vehicle and how much it's putting

621
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:42,060
down if they're bursting it when they're turning or when they're turning and unloading

622
00:57:42,060 --> 00:57:48,860
or tilting. It gives you all the information. It's a very good app. So I wonder something

623
00:57:48,860 --> 00:57:52,060
like that. Would that be something they would potential grants?

624
00:57:52,820 --> 00:57:58,860
I would think so. I mean I think or just as part of your kind of long term highway

625
00:57:58,860 --> 00:58:05,700
department budgeting to start to move for that type of technology is another

626
00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:12,400
option you know as as you look for grant support to help but to kind of that's

627
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:17,780
why the kind of the long-term planning focus of the protection is so

628
00:58:17,780 --> 00:58:21,520
important because you can you know figure out all right if we have to

629
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:26,900
upgrade to plot trucks a year you know here's what the impact is on our

630
00:58:26,900 --> 00:58:28,480
our annual budget, for example.

631
00:58:29,220 --> 00:58:34,120
And the plan does have its project profiles towards the end,

632
00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:36,780
does give suggestions as to the actual grants

633
00:58:36,780 --> 00:58:39,360
and funding sources for different priorities.

634
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,800
So, you know, well, when you look at the plan itself,

635
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:45,740
there's a little bit more specific guidance

636
00:58:45,740 --> 00:58:49,040
in terms of, well, as you're addressing these issues,

637
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:50,740
which places to look for the funding.

638
00:58:52,580 --> 00:58:54,320
You're interested in joining the stakeholders group,

639
00:58:54,380 --> 00:58:54,560
Corwin?

640
00:58:56,140 --> 00:58:57,780
Sure. Thank you for volunteering.

641
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:02,440
John. Brian. Good. Any resident has any

642
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:03,400
comments or questions?

643
00:59:06,300 --> 00:59:07,500
Nobody has anything else to say?

644
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:10,720
Well I'll tell you what I think, one lady came from Syracuse and the other

645
00:59:11,260 --> 00:59:14,620
Steve. Well yeah, if you'd allow me to. I apologize, I didn't see

646
00:59:14,620 --> 00:59:18,660
your hand go off. That's quite all right. So call on your attention to 4.1

647
00:59:18,660 --> 00:59:21,580
the designated plan management team.

648
00:59:21,580 --> 00:59:28,480
It says the role of the plan management team is to prepare an annual progress report to

649
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,840
share with the community and the ECBLH.

650
00:59:31,460 --> 00:59:36,720
It also says it's to be responsible for managing the implementation of the plan.

651
00:59:37,420 --> 00:59:38,280
What does that mean?

652
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:46,460
That means that the plan itself, the document has a set of priorities and recommended actions.

653
00:59:46,460 --> 00:59:53,460
And so the idea is that the plan management team will convene and decide, okay, this is

654
00:59:53,460 --> 00:59:58,340
what we want to work on this year, you know, by consensus or whatever, you know.

655
00:59:58,340 --> 00:59:59,080
and

656
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:06,720
Probably influenced by funding opportunities and regional partnerships and regional initiatives.

657
01:00:07,660 --> 01:00:13,120
So, just being responsible for saying, okay, we said we were going to do this.

658
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,280
You know, how are we going to phase that?

659
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:21,240
Well, the plan management team doesn't have authority to do anything, really.

660
01:00:21,400 --> 01:00:24,500
I mean, they're not a legislative body. They can't spend money for the town.

661
01:00:24,780 --> 01:00:25,280
That's correct.

662
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:27,500
So, they're going to make suggestions. Is that the idea?

663
01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:37,740
Yes. This plan is not a regulatory document. It does not commit any of the parties or participants to taking a specific action.

664
01:00:37,940 --> 01:00:42,820
You want the town to adopt it by resolution and add it to the comprehensive plan, though. Isn't that what we're doing?

665
01:00:43,540 --> 01:00:49,060
Yes, that's what we're doing. I have no problem with them being an advisory board making suggestions. That's just fine.

666
01:00:49,060 --> 01:00:57,240
It's just the board can't delegate its power to another body that's the town board can't so I mean as long as we're not saying that

667
01:00:57,240 --> 01:01:01,740
I'm okay with it. I just want to make sure that's not what we're saying. It also says that

668
01:01:03,220 --> 01:01:07,320
The mid-plan management team can revise the plan on a regular basis

669
01:01:08,640 --> 01:01:10,060
that is one of the

670
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,100
Requirements suggestions of the

671
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:23,500
agencies working on this, that it just gets updated, you know, based on the emerging issues or...

672
01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:42,880
Well, so the assumption is that there is going to need to be a local stakeholder group that is carrying the torch of this project, so it doesn't just end up on a shell.

673
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:46,980
It's true that they don't have legislative authority, but the idea is that they would

674
01:01:46,980 --> 01:01:53,240
have the ear of the board, hopefully, and that then, if there was a legislative action

675
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:57,660
to be taken, it would still happen to meet the proper channels within your town government.

676
01:01:58,100 --> 01:02:04,460
So if there's a recommendation for zoning code changes, you know, the plan management

677
01:02:04,460 --> 01:02:08,840
team may recommend those to be taken up as a prior year, that's something we looked

678
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:09,020
at.

679
01:02:09,020 --> 01:02:11,840
but obviously they can't change the zoning code

680
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,840
for the town of Fish Hill and it's meant to keep,

681
01:02:16,020 --> 01:02:18,600
and ideally that the way the plan management team

682
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,660
is set up is it's intended to have members

683
01:02:20,660 --> 01:02:23,960
of the board on it so that it is still connected

684
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:28,740
to the government of the town of Fish Hill

685
01:02:28,740 --> 01:02:31,800
but brings together a broader coalition

686
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,480
to really address specific MVs, water quality issues

687
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:36,100
and to bring them to the proper channels

688
01:02:36,100 --> 01:02:38,540
for then taking action.

689
01:02:39,100 --> 01:02:41,880
Okay, so if I understand you and I want the words in your mouth,

690
01:02:41,980 --> 01:02:44,900
sort of what you're saying is that the plan management team

691
01:02:45,380 --> 01:02:47,860
would say, if they find it's appropriate,

692
01:02:48,980 --> 01:02:51,320
that we want to revise the plan

693
01:02:51,780 --> 01:02:53,600
and we're going to bring it to the town board

694
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,280
with our suggested revisions

695
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:56,980
and the town board would then adopt it.

696
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:57,840
Yes, okay.

697
01:02:58,240 --> 01:02:59,880
And the assumption is that this needs to be

698
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:01,620
a living dog unit for it to be useful.

699
01:03:01,820 --> 01:03:04,460
So if there's recommendations in the document

700
01:03:04,460 --> 01:03:07,220
that don't matter in five years because, you know,

701
01:03:07,240 --> 01:03:10,380
that Solchette doesn't exist anymore or whatever

702
01:03:10,380 --> 01:03:12,820
that this recommendation is, well,

703
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:14,900
it's revised to reflect the new challenges.

704
01:03:15,160 --> 01:03:16,660
If suddenly we realize that there's a threat

705
01:03:16,660 --> 01:03:19,540
that wasn't identified here, that can be added to the plan.

706
01:03:19,820 --> 01:03:21,720
All right, as long as that's what that means,

707
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:22,780
then that's fine.

708
01:03:23,860 --> 01:03:25,300
So basically, Steve, what you're saying is

709
01:03:25,300 --> 01:03:26,280
that there's gonna be a change to it,

710
01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:27,420
it's gotta be a town board resolution.

711
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:27,960
Absolutely.

712
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:28,620
No problem.

713
01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:30,580
You can't adopt a resolution, I'm good with that.

714
01:03:30,980 --> 01:03:33,340
So if I understand, Mr. Gava,

715
01:03:33,340 --> 01:03:36,260
But so it's like we used to have an environmental board.

716
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:37,800
I was part of it in a town official.

717
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:41,560
Just volunteers, just petered it out.

718
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:43,580
I served on that board for a year.

719
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:45,240
I think Brian, you're on it for several years, right?

720
01:03:45,520 --> 01:03:46,020
About four.

721
01:03:46,260 --> 01:03:46,960
Four years, okay.

722
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:48,820
So it's very similar.

723
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:54,000
I see to this, but this focuses on water quality.

724
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:58,640
So it's a board that's just volunteers

725
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,040
doing recommendation to the town board.

726
01:04:03,820 --> 01:04:10,880
more like stakeholders. The stakeholders drive this. There you're going to be a stakeholder.

727
01:04:11,500 --> 01:04:19,200
So a stakeholder would be considered a volunteer? Yeah. That's making a recommendation on behalf

728
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:19,700
of the town.

729
01:04:19,900 --> 01:04:23,320
Somebody who's connected to the community, you know, the idea from New York State was

730
01:04:23,320 --> 01:04:28,700
it wasn't going to come down as every community has to do this, this, or this. It should

731
01:04:28,700 --> 01:04:32,000
be driven by the people in the community to identify what their priorities are and

732
01:04:32,560 --> 01:04:35,700
you know what their resources are what what the best avenues for protecting

733
01:04:35,700 --> 01:04:41,780
their source water is. Anything else guys? Listen one lady came from

734
01:04:41,780 --> 01:04:45,460
Syracuse the other one from Long Island right? Can you take a picture with us

735
01:04:45,460 --> 01:04:49,160
because I appreciate all the hard work you've done. Is it okay with that? Right?

736
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:52,020
Members please these ladies have done a lot of work.

737
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:20,840
I'm sorry.

738
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:23,160
Oh, you said see you in a minute.

739
01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:25,120
Okay, great.

740
01:05:25,820 --> 01:05:26,480
Okay, great.

741
01:05:28,890 --> 01:05:29,270
No.

742
01:05:29,810 --> 01:05:29,990
You

743
01:05:35,530 --> 01:05:36,150
just passed by.

744
01:05:37,410 --> 01:05:37,910
Okay.

745
01:05:47,050 --> 01:05:48,730
Thank you very much for coming.

746
01:05:48,930 --> 01:05:49,490
Thank you very much.

747
01:05:50,010 --> 01:05:51,930
I appreciate it.

748
01:05:52,830 --> 01:05:53,650
Thank you very much.

749
01:05:54,170 --> 01:05:55,930
Okay, we appreciate it.

750
01:05:56,050 --> 01:05:56,430
Thank you.

751
01:05:56,590 --> 01:05:57,970
Thank you.

752
01:06:14,910 --> 01:06:20,430
Okay, our next presentation will be our Fishkill Business Association, gentlemen.

753
01:06:23,770 --> 01:06:24,430
Hello, guys.

754
01:06:24,950 --> 01:06:25,090
Hello.

755
01:06:25,750 --> 01:06:26,050
Good evening.

756
01:06:26,230 --> 01:06:26,970
Thank you for having us.

757
01:06:27,470 --> 01:06:28,710
My name is Anthony Leprosky.

758
01:06:28,710 --> 01:06:30,390
I'm the president of the Fishkill Association,

759
01:06:30,770 --> 01:06:33,490
accompanied by Johnny Khan, who is our events coordinator.

760
01:06:34,430 --> 01:06:35,870
I'll start with our mission statements.

761
01:06:35,990 --> 01:06:40,050
Our mission statement through the Fishkill Business Association is to support the vitality of the businesses,

762
01:06:40,050 --> 01:06:41,750
is both in the village and the town.

763
01:06:42,370 --> 01:06:44,590
We believe in bringing businesses together

764
01:06:44,590 --> 01:06:47,250
in a collaborative manner, only strengthens our community.

765
01:06:48,070 --> 01:06:51,450
So our main objectives through that

766
01:06:51,450 --> 01:06:55,170
is through event planning, supporting the community

767
01:06:55,170 --> 01:06:56,990
in their events, but housing our own events.

768
01:06:57,210 --> 01:06:59,290
We've done that through events this year,

769
01:06:59,410 --> 01:07:00,970
such as quarterly networking events,

770
01:07:01,110 --> 01:07:01,950
which some of you have attended,

771
01:07:02,090 --> 01:07:02,890
so thank you for doing that.

772
01:07:03,530 --> 01:07:06,010
And also, we had the fish fill car show

773
01:07:06,010 --> 01:07:07,970
back in July, which was heavily attended

774
01:07:07,970 --> 01:07:13,750
and went very well and then we have our upcoming event on October 1st which is the

775
01:07:13,750 --> 01:07:18,230
Fishkill Block Party. So again hopefully we'll see everybody there. Our main

776
01:07:18,230 --> 01:07:24,130
objective here today is to integrate and collaborate with the town. Historically

777
01:07:24,130 --> 01:07:29,070
the Fishkill Business Association has kind of remained steadfast in the

778
01:07:29,070 --> 01:07:37,950
village. We do have some representatives from the town but not as many as we

779
01:07:37,950 --> 01:07:43,530
town to expand hopefully with your support in you know using parks and rec

780
01:07:43,530 --> 01:07:48,630
other facilities as well as gaining support for from individuals from the

781
01:07:48,630 --> 01:07:51,870
town and strengthening our board I think that's something that we need to

782
01:07:51,870 --> 01:07:55,930
look at doing here in the near future as well but again overall just a

783
01:07:55,930 --> 01:08:00,130
collaborative manner between what we do and bringing you know the village and

784
01:08:00,130 --> 01:08:03,830
the town together is something that we're looking to accomplish you know

785
01:08:03,830 --> 01:08:07,770
if we've done a lot this year coming out of COVID to rework the way that

786
01:08:07,770 --> 01:08:09,970
we're kind of facilitating the things that we do.

787
01:08:10,510 --> 01:08:11,890
One of which is our website.

788
01:08:12,050 --> 01:08:14,110
We tried to make it a little bit easier,

789
01:08:14,230 --> 01:08:15,290
a little bit more user friendly

790
01:08:15,770 --> 01:08:19,330
in terms of gaining members exclusively through that,

791
01:08:19,590 --> 01:08:22,690
putting members on things such as auto renewals

792
01:08:23,090 --> 01:08:25,090
to help facilitate that year after year.

793
01:08:25,670 --> 01:08:28,010
And again, it's going very well so far.

794
01:08:28,270 --> 01:08:30,210
And again, our events this year

795
01:08:30,590 --> 01:08:32,390
have seemingly been pretty well attended.

796
01:08:32,970 --> 01:08:36,270
But again, I think this is a good time

797
01:08:36,270 --> 01:08:41,210
to again collaborate with the town we're in a growing metric you know and I think

798
01:08:41,210 --> 01:08:44,050
that's something that if we were able to again work with you and gain your

799
01:08:44,050 --> 01:08:48,650
support through again in the near future would take off even further. So

800
01:08:48,650 --> 01:08:51,330
again that's our main objective to speak with you today to see if there's a

801
01:08:51,330 --> 01:08:53,910
collaborative manner in which we can come together. John?

802
01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:56,820
No questions?

803
01:09:00,100 --> 01:09:02,760
Well I think it's great that you're here and I appreciate it because

804
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:07,200
anything we can do to strengthen business and the vitality of business

805
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:12,080
in our community is great. Yes, there's two different governing bodies in the village and

806
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:18,440
the town, but there's real no separation in commerce. We're all really in this together

807
01:09:19,100 --> 01:09:24,340
in every regard. So I'm really glad to see you here and I absolutely support you and

808
01:09:24,340 --> 01:09:28,600
I'm sure there'll be a number of things we can do to help promote this. So thanks for

809
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:29,000
being here.

810
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:30,340
Thank you. We appreciate it, John.

811
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:33,900
What are the dues per year?

812
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:36,900
Currently, it's $50 for a membership dip.

813
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:40,820
Do you know if the town of Vishigal is a member of the Vishigal Business Association?

814
01:09:41,140 --> 01:09:42,140
As of right now, they are not.

815
01:09:42,440 --> 01:09:42,580
Okay.

816
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,140
Are we allowed to be a member, Mr. Gabel?

817
01:09:44,980 --> 01:09:46,760
Oh, a business association.

818
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:48,140
I don't believe Ms. Palady can join.

819
01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:49,040
Yes, or no?

820
01:09:49,500 --> 01:09:50,560
I do not believe you can.

821
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:51,480
Oh, no?

822
01:09:52,160 --> 01:09:54,860
I don't believe that Ms. Palady can join a business association.

823
01:09:55,500 --> 01:09:56,240
Ms. Palady, okay.

824
01:09:57,180 --> 01:09:57,480
Who am I?

825
01:09:58,200 --> 01:09:58,980
When can I join?

826
01:10:00,500 --> 01:10:01,480
Go to the website.

827
01:10:01,480 --> 01:10:09,820
So it was very interesting. I have a whopping address. My kids go to Beacon City Schools and all these years I've been a fiscal business

828
01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:18,520
20 plus years and I never joined the fiscal business association because the entity was always Village of Fishgill.

829
01:10:18,780 --> 01:10:27,120
That's how we always looked at it. But John, when I saw you at the car show, we discussed this and I said it would be a great idea for you to come here

830
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:31,480
and talked to us. And I'm glad you guys came. There's something that John and I talked about.

831
01:10:32,020 --> 01:10:38,880
We went to school since middle school, right, John? So I think it's a great idea. I think it's fantastic.

832
01:10:39,460 --> 01:10:44,140
Anything we can do to help promote you guys, I'm all for it. Anything.

833
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,120
Because being a local business myself, I think it's important.

834
01:10:47,420 --> 01:10:50,720
It's really not promoting this. It's really just getting a collaboration.

835
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:51,460
Introduce yourself.

836
01:10:51,460 --> 01:10:52,600
Yeah, that's true to yourself.

837
01:10:53,300 --> 01:10:55,260
I'm Johnny Kahn, I'm the events coordinator.

838
01:10:56,180 --> 01:11:01,060
It's really just getting everybody aware of the local businesses in the town of Fishville as well.

839
01:11:01,540 --> 01:11:03,700
They have no idea that there's a business association.

840
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:09,260
So I think putting that on our website, expanding it to your website, letting them know that there is an organization.

841
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:15,680
We can do events, we can get feedback, we can get some participation from the general public as well.

842
01:11:15,820 --> 01:11:18,020
Residents, local residents, something they'd like to see.

843
01:11:18,020 --> 01:11:24,060
Again, it's really for the community, not just supporting us, it's us as a whole person.

844
01:11:25,740 --> 01:11:29,720
Something Supervisor, when we were doing budgets, we were talking about doing a town guide.

845
01:11:32,420 --> 01:11:37,040
We're trying to start a town guide similar to what Wappagers does, and we want to do

846
01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:41,800
something like that to help promote something like the Fiscal Business Association, local

847
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:43,520
businesses, and get them involved.

848
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:47,300
If you recall not too long ago, maybe 10, 12 years ago, we used to have the Southern

849
01:11:47,300 --> 01:11:48,260
in Dutch's Chamber of Commerce.

850
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:49,880
They dissolved that.

851
01:11:50,260 --> 01:11:52,040
Well, maybe we can start our own little entity here

852
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:56,240
and make it really pop and have some representative down here

853
01:11:56,240 --> 01:11:58,480
in southern part of the county.

854
01:11:58,860 --> 01:12:01,280
Yeah, because it's really not subjected to the village.

855
01:12:01,620 --> 01:12:03,860
And our problem was it says, fish kill.

856
01:12:04,260 --> 01:12:05,980
Not the village of fish kill.

857
01:12:07,100 --> 01:12:09,460
And that it's been stagnant so long in the town,

858
01:12:09,540 --> 01:12:10,940
we feel that we'd like to gain,

859
01:12:11,320 --> 01:12:13,100
as Anthony was saying, momentum support.

860
01:12:13,700 --> 01:12:15,940
Have some members join to really expand

861
01:12:15,940 --> 01:12:17,100
on this organization.

862
01:12:18,220 --> 01:12:19,500
Yes, thank you guys, Louise.

863
01:12:19,800 --> 01:12:22,560
So what is the website for everybody at home to know?

864
01:12:24,640 --> 01:12:25,520
FishkillBusinessAssociation.org.

865
01:12:26,500 --> 01:12:27,140
Dot com, dot com.

866
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:30,700
So fishkillbusinessassociation.com for the people at home.

867
01:12:31,740 --> 01:12:33,660
So and what else do you think that we can do

868
01:12:33,660 --> 01:12:34,780
to help you network?

869
01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,140
So are you looking for us to like maybe put it out

870
01:12:37,140 --> 01:12:39,460
on an EGov or say something like that?

871
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,060
If we can spread it right through the town as well

872
01:12:42,060 --> 01:12:45,520
and then just utilize some of the facilities we have

873
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:49,320
like Anthony was saying, for some of the events we want to do, we can get, you know, maybe

874
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:54,340
use the rec center, do some of the, you know, three or four parks that we have. Just to get

875
01:12:54,340 --> 01:12:59,980
events, you know, we have a lot of different events we want to put together, but now we're

876
01:12:59,980 --> 01:13:03,480
limited because everybody thinks it's the village of fish go, but it's really the

877
01:13:03,480 --> 01:13:07,160
technical, you know, the fish association. So we'd like to, you know, be able to utilize

878
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:11,760
some of the spaces that you have, or we have per se, anything we can do. Yeah,

879
01:13:11,900 --> 01:13:15,420
I think it's a good idea. Yeah. All right. Listen, can we take a picture

880
01:13:15,420 --> 01:13:18,620
Make sure you guys, like we did before, this way we can put it on our ego that you guys

881
01:13:18,620 --> 01:13:18,800
came.

882
01:13:19,620 --> 01:13:20,240
Come on, guys.

883
01:13:21,420 --> 01:13:22,800
That's just a good way to have a nice day.

884
01:13:23,060 --> 01:13:23,460
Right here.

885
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:24,420
Right here.

886
01:13:24,740 --> 01:13:25,360
Right here.

887
01:13:25,360 --> 01:13:25,600
Right here.

888
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:37,120
One gathering.

889
01:13:37,580 --> 01:13:37,680
Yes.

890
01:13:37,960 --> 01:13:39,140
I think the town has this.

891
01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:39,940
So we've got that.

892
01:13:40,380 --> 01:13:41,100
I know.

893
01:13:41,300 --> 01:13:41,840
I know.

894
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:42,540
I want to leave.

895
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:44,600
I think they're right here.

896
01:13:55,500 --> 01:13:55,660
Good.

897
01:13:55,940 --> 01:13:56,620
Thank you.

898
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:57,080
Thank you.

899
01:13:57,100 --> 01:13:57,360
Thank you.

900
01:13:57,380 --> 01:13:57,940
Appreciate it.

901
01:13:58,380 --> 01:13:59,300
Thank you, sir.

902
01:13:59,460 --> 01:14:00,920
Good to see you again.

903
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:02,060
Thank you, sir.

904
01:14:02,220 --> 01:14:02,760
Thank you, brother.

905
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,120
Thank you so much.

906
01:14:21,100 --> 01:14:30,060
So we're going to discussions, the first discussion will be psychological evaluations for police department and that will segue into number two the testing.

907
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:34,040
We agree to anybody that hasn't taken a test is going to take a test.

908
01:14:34,340 --> 01:14:35,380
Everybody okay with those two?

909
01:14:35,700 --> 01:14:35,880
Yep.

910
01:14:36,600 --> 01:14:37,120
Any questions?

911
01:14:40,900 --> 01:14:42,240
Is there a resolution consent?

912
01:14:42,240 --> 01:14:42,320
That

913
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:51,320
number three discussion or resolution to set the tenant of the 2023 town board meeting schedule.

914
01:14:52,380 --> 01:14:53,940
We made John asked for a change.

915
01:14:54,100 --> 01:14:54,520
We made it.

916
01:14:55,100 --> 01:14:56,360
Any other questions from anybody else?

917
01:14:56,740 --> 01:14:58,280
No, we switched to summer ones as well.

918
01:14:58,520 --> 01:14:59,820
We did, but we switched to summer.

919
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,320
Okay. Number four. What did you say? What did we do? We made the summer meetings one per month and second two. Number four, discussion of resolution modifying the 2022 adopted budget for the HR director. Everybody okay with that? Next step is discussion of resolution to waive the application for the Roundabout Fire Company. They want to build a sign like we have in front of the rec center.

920
01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:34,120
at the new firehouse, and they asked us to waive the fee for that, the application fee.

921
01:15:34,580 --> 01:15:36,580
That's what that's about. Everybody okay with that?

922
01:15:37,060 --> 01:15:39,340
That's just for the application, not for the consultants, right?

923
01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:39,780
Correct.

924
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:44,680
Is that the same type of sign that they have, you know, for the LED kind of sign?

925
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:50,700
Next up, a discussion to authorize a grant application for the court.

926
01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:52,240
Everybody okay with that?

927
01:15:52,740 --> 01:15:53,080
Yes.

928
01:15:53,540 --> 01:15:53,840
Yes.

929
01:15:54,060 --> 01:15:54,440
Okay.

930
01:15:54,440 --> 01:15:56,940
Okay, number seven discussion of resolution for

931
01:15:56,940 --> 01:16:00,820
that just counting intermissible agreement of snow removal and ice control services.

932
01:16:01,140 --> 01:16:03,680
Carmen can you give us a little update on how this happened?

933
01:16:05,340 --> 01:16:12,140
So we didn't have a supervisor made a motion to accept the contract and

934
01:16:12,140 --> 01:16:14,140
no one made a second on the motion.

935
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:19,460
So it was defeated because we felt that the price was too low.

936
01:16:19,460 --> 01:16:27,700
We were getting $5,200 per mile to maintain county roads that are within our surrounding

937
01:16:27,700 --> 01:16:33,460
area of our areas that we actually plow. So it makes sense for our municipality to actually

938
01:16:33,460 --> 01:16:42,600
plow those areas. I thought it was low. I talked to highway members thought that was low

939
01:16:43,380 --> 01:16:47,980
So the county agreed to bring it up to $5,600 a mile.

940
01:16:48,580 --> 01:16:51,380
So it gives us a little bit more money, which is more agreeable.

941
01:16:52,220 --> 01:16:58,840
And not only did that, we fighting them to go to $5,200 to $5,600 a mile, they did it across the whole county.

942
01:16:59,460 --> 01:17:03,920
So us fighting and rejecting that actually set precedent throughout the whole county.

943
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:06,200
So the other municipalities can thank us later.

944
01:17:06,620 --> 01:17:07,580
Okay, thank you, Cormorant.

945
01:17:07,660 --> 01:17:08,720
Thank you, John, for working on that.

946
01:17:08,940 --> 01:17:10,980
Thank you, Brian, for working out with the Highway Department.

947
01:17:10,980 --> 01:17:23,860
I just want to say thank you to Carmine, too, because if it wasn't for your negotiating skills, I don't think it would have happened when you're making the town, making the county pay the town for what they should.

948
01:17:24,800 --> 01:17:25,320
Good job.

949
01:17:25,340 --> 01:17:25,640
Great job.

950
01:17:25,980 --> 01:17:26,040
Yeah.

951
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:27,220
Very good job.

952
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:31,180
Number eight, discussion and modification of the rect budget for basketball.

953
01:17:31,420 --> 01:17:31,820
Everybody okay?

954
01:17:32,200 --> 01:17:33,520
Yeah, I have just one thing that Jay said.

955
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:33,860
Sure.

956
01:17:34,460 --> 01:17:44,460
Let's see, basketball budget amendment, they increased registration this year which led to increased expenses and salary supplies and referees.

957
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:53,120
We also brought in about $43,000 plus more than are usually planned so we have the quote extra revenue to justify the increase in the expenditure lines.

958
01:17:53,440 --> 01:17:53,820
That's good.

959
01:17:54,060 --> 01:17:54,360
That's what you said.

960
01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:55,480
Everybody okay?

961
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:56,340
Sure.

962
01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:01,220
Next one, number nine, discussion of levion paid water and sewer district charges and fees.

963
01:18:01,220 --> 01:18:04,740
So this happens every year. People will pay their water bills.

964
01:18:05,240 --> 01:18:08,960
We got to put this on the town website. And if they don't pay it, it goes on their

965
01:18:09,620 --> 01:18:13,200
private tax bill. And that has been posted to the town

966
01:18:13,200 --> 01:18:16,860
website. You can access it from the home page. It's under latest news. Yes.

967
01:18:17,060 --> 01:18:19,760
And lots of people just don't pay it. They just pay it with their tax bill.

968
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:23,340
So, are we okay with it? Yeah, sure.

969
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:27,040
Number 10, discussion.

970
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:27,800
Yeah,

971
01:18:37,330 --> 01:18:39,290
discussion. So close it.

972
01:18:42,100 --> 01:18:45,920
Next one up is Discussion of Resolution of Authorized Grant Application or Creation Department.

973
01:18:46,500 --> 01:18:47,640
I have one more from Jay.

974
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:48,060
Sure.

975
01:18:48,380 --> 01:18:55,820
So Jay advised me that the Workforce Grant, Lauren came across another grant offered through the New York State Office of Family and Children Services.

976
01:18:56,360 --> 01:19:06,060
The grant is used specifically for the workforce. 75% of it needs to be applied to workforce at our after school programs while the other 25% can be used towards supplies and special vendors.

977
01:19:06,060 --> 01:19:10,960
A vast majority of the grant we received at the end of last year is being spent on staff

978
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:12,480
salary and retention bonuses.

979
01:19:12,820 --> 01:19:17,900
Our plan is to use all or most of this workforce grant, if awarded to us, towards the salary

980
01:19:17,900 --> 01:19:19,020
and retention bonuses.

981
01:19:19,460 --> 01:19:23,900
This will free up some of the money from the first grant to continue to offer the

982
01:19:23,900 --> 01:19:26,800
program at a reduced rate through the rest of the school year.

983
01:19:26,980 --> 01:19:31,160
It also allows us to hire more special vendors, i.e., balloon artists, martial

984
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:35,880
arts, music, theater, artists, reptile man, and purchase for upgraded supplies.

985
01:19:36,140 --> 01:19:40,500
We do not know how much money we will receive if we get anything, but they're giving it a try.

986
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:45,640
I think it's great, because like I said, I personally know people who have benefited from this,

987
01:19:45,700 --> 01:19:49,800
and to be able to continue it and have the people save money is an outstanding job.

988
01:19:50,480 --> 01:19:51,200
Everybody okay with that?

989
01:19:51,780 --> 01:19:52,000
Yes.

990
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,240
All right, since that, go on there.

991
01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:04,020
The next one up is a discussion of affordable housing for disabled veterans and volunteer firefighters.

992
01:20:04,020 --> 01:20:09,740
years. So I keep thinking and everybody watching for the last two and a half years, I'm trying

993
01:20:09,740 --> 01:20:14,800
to figure out what to do with this affordable trust money. And one of our things with our

994
01:20:14,800 --> 01:20:19,880
stimulus money is that we're going to knock down the old water tower across the land

995
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:26,160
on 9D. That's going to give us a nice acre of land. Anybody interested in maybe building

996
01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:29,000
some affordable apartments for veterans or volunteer firemen?

997
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:31,360
Mr. Gaba?

998
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,420
Mr. Gaba, he says we can't do that other.

999
01:20:34,660 --> 01:20:35,860
Well, we probably can't do it.

1000
01:20:35,880 --> 01:20:39,260
What if we build some for some volunteer firemen and rent it to them?

1001
01:20:39,360 --> 01:20:39,800
Can we do that?

1002
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,720
Well, what you'd have to do, I've researched the issue further

1003
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:44,840
and I've contacted the Association of Towns

1004
01:20:44,840 --> 01:20:47,380
to discuss what it is a municipality can do

1005
01:20:47,380 --> 01:20:49,700
in terms of housing particular classes of people,

1006
01:20:49,820 --> 01:20:52,840
such as first responders, volunteer firemen, veterans.

1007
01:20:53,700 --> 01:20:55,700
And the answer that I've gotten back

1008
01:20:55,700 --> 01:20:59,480
is that if you want to establish affordable housing,

1009
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:01,680
it has to be offered across the board.

1010
01:21:02,100 --> 01:21:04,780
You can prioritize who gets the affordable housing

1011
01:21:04,780 --> 01:21:05,820
by the point systems,

1012
01:21:05,900 --> 01:21:07,100
such as you already have in your code,

1013
01:21:07,540 --> 01:21:09,020
but you can't say we're going to,

1014
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,280
even if you graded the town housing authority,

1015
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:14,480
we're going to build housing just for the veterans,

1016
01:21:14,800 --> 01:21:17,120
just for volunteer firefighters.

1017
01:21:18,180 --> 01:21:19,480
It just can't be done.

1018
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:24,380
Now they've provided me with a number of citations

1019
01:21:24,380 --> 01:21:29,300
to materials on what can be done, it may not be exactly what you want, but it may be

1020
01:21:29,300 --> 01:21:32,700
closer on preparing a memo that I'll submit to the board, maybe that'll give you some

1021
01:21:32,700 --> 01:21:36,820
ideas as to how to proceed, but you are not going to be able to, whether you incentivize

1022
01:21:36,820 --> 01:21:43,200
it through private development or you undertake a housing authority and offer it through

1023
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:48,060
the town to provide housing just for veterans or volunteer firemen.

1024
01:21:49,100 --> 01:21:49,500
Great.

1025
01:21:49,660 --> 01:21:50,900
Thank you for continuing to look into that.

1026
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:51,880
I appreciate that.

1027
01:21:51,880 --> 01:21:56,860
the dollar amount that we have is one point it's got it's over a million maybe

1028
01:21:56,860 --> 01:22:01,080
one point one yeah that could be one point two soon so I mean that could be

1029
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:05,780
observed so fast in building something right well if we got one acre of land we

1030
01:22:05,780 --> 01:22:09,080
take down the water tower it's relatively flat and there's water and sewer

1031
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:13,440
right next to it so I'm not saying we build anything elaborate maybe like

1032
01:22:13,440 --> 01:22:17,720
you know some studio apartments and every so often we add to it we probably

1033
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:19,040
or maybe 10, 15 in there?

1034
01:22:19,740 --> 01:22:23,380
So Mr. Supervisor, if I may, I think-

1035
01:22:23,380 --> 01:22:24,020
This is brainstorming.

1036
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:26,440
I like your enthusiasm.

1037
01:22:26,760 --> 01:22:29,420
I think it's a great idea, but conceptually,

1038
01:22:30,160 --> 01:22:32,980
us being landlords as a town,

1039
01:22:33,340 --> 01:22:34,720
it's just not gonna work out.

1040
01:22:35,620 --> 01:22:38,220
I've been the landlord, it's very hard work.

1041
01:22:38,880 --> 01:22:41,320
People don't pay the rent, turn over and not pay.

1042
01:22:41,700 --> 01:22:44,100
It's a whole thing who maintains the property

1043
01:22:44,100 --> 01:22:46,740
and we have to, there's a whole slew of issues

1044
01:22:46,740 --> 01:22:51,800
But I think what you're thinking is going in the right direction, but I disagree with us being a landlord.

1045
01:22:52,260 --> 01:22:52,520
Okay.

1046
01:22:53,100 --> 01:22:53,440
Fair enough.

1047
01:22:54,920 --> 01:22:57,440
So we'll wait for Mr. Gabba's memo to see what we can do.

1048
01:22:57,880 --> 01:22:58,000
Yeah.

1049
01:22:59,620 --> 01:23:03,360
Very frustrating. We have money to do some good things and we just can't do it.

1050
01:23:04,020 --> 01:23:04,900
That's what frustrates me.

1051
01:23:05,180 --> 01:23:07,140
We have $1.2 million in there.

1052
01:23:07,140 --> 01:23:07,580
Close, yeah.

1053
01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:09,520
Yeah, and we got to spend it on that.

1054
01:23:10,340 --> 01:23:11,280
Just close it.

1055
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:14,440
If you're going to talk about it again, we should close it.

1056
01:23:14,440 --> 01:23:15,940
Oh, Mr. Gabba's going to give us-

1057
01:23:15,940 --> 01:23:17,300
It wouldn't be similar to these two things.

1058
01:23:17,380 --> 01:23:19,280
What I'd suggest is wait until I give you the memo

1059
01:23:19,280 --> 01:23:21,720
and then you can add it on for discussion item again.

1060
01:23:22,140 --> 01:23:23,160
Okay, so give it two months.

1061
01:23:23,820 --> 01:23:26,280
Okay, we got it, thank you so appreciate it.

1062
01:23:27,340 --> 01:23:29,260
All right, next up is the signs,

1063
01:23:29,980 --> 01:23:30,960
to make the signs bigger,

1064
01:23:31,360 --> 01:23:33,320
this is just linger in here,

1065
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:34,220
we gotta do something with this.

1066
01:23:34,420 --> 01:23:36,060
So I spoke to Mr. Cantor,

1067
01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:37,440
who's the chairman of the planning board.

1068
01:23:38,020 --> 01:23:39,860
He finally got a chance to speak to the people

1069
01:23:39,860 --> 01:23:41,940
on his board because they've had really busy meetings

1070
01:23:42,420 --> 01:23:45,100
and he said they didn't really have strong feelings

1071
01:23:45,100 --> 01:23:49,620
one way or another about it. They thought it would be difficult to make the lettering bigger.

1072
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:54,280
They think it's a good idea, but it's not anything that they're jumping up and down for,

1073
01:23:54,440 --> 01:23:55,860
so I would just say close it for now.

1074
01:23:56,140 --> 01:23:57,760
Close it, Becky. Thank you.

1075
01:23:58,620 --> 01:24:00,560
Next up is approvals of the floor for agenda items.

1076
01:24:00,700 --> 01:24:02,520
Anything that was on the agenda, you can speak about the agenda.

1077
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:05,660
Anybody want to speak? Nothing? Speak about anything.

1078
01:24:07,120 --> 01:24:09,960
Anything. If my time, anything.

1079
01:24:11,020 --> 01:24:18,320
I just want to, since I saw Anne here, we're up to 31 as of today.

1080
01:24:18,540 --> 01:24:19,660
Explain it.

1081
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:20,300
Explain it.

1082
01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:20,600
Oh.

1083
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:23,440
The cat spay neuter program voucher.

1084
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:24,080
Yeah.

1085
01:24:24,100 --> 01:24:25,640
So why don't you give a little presentation.

1086
01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:26,880
What do you mean?

1087
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:28,340
Go out there and say what's going on.

1088
01:24:28,780 --> 01:24:29,220
No.

1089
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:29,900
No?

1090
01:24:31,860 --> 01:24:32,300
31.

1091
01:24:32,700 --> 01:24:33,080
How much money?

1092
01:24:33,440 --> 01:24:34,200
That was it.

1093
01:24:34,300 --> 01:24:34,800
That was the presentation.

1094
01:24:35,260 --> 01:24:36,080
That was the presentation.

1095
01:24:36,580 --> 01:24:37,820
That was a good one.

1096
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:42,100
All right. How many work can we do?

1097
01:24:42,700 --> 01:24:43,380
Nine more.

1098
01:24:43,620 --> 01:24:43,740
Nine.

1099
01:24:44,020 --> 01:24:45,140
Oh, 40 was the total. Okay.

1100
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:49,340
We were allowed 40, $500 at 25 apiece.

1101
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:53,880
And so far I've sold 31 through the end of the year.

1102
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:59,840
But you, I'm hopeful in the budget we passed to do another $500 for 2023.

1103
01:25:00,420 --> 01:25:00,880
I remember.

1104
01:25:01,380 --> 01:25:03,080
So people are loving it.

1105
01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:04,380
Great.

1106
01:25:04,780 --> 01:25:05,200
We got it.

1107
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:06,020
It'll be in the budget.

1108
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:06,880
Yeah.

1109
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:08,720
Yeah, yeah, come on up, Ann.

1110
01:25:12,100 --> 01:25:12,980
Thank you.

1111
01:25:13,700 --> 01:25:17,820
Yeah, you know, Ann Legoy, I run Stray Help

1112
01:25:17,820 --> 01:25:21,940
and advocated, obviously, for the Spaniard program.

1113
01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:26,820
So I am happy to hear that it was voted in again

1114
01:25:26,820 --> 01:25:27,740
for next year.

1115
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:30,940
I thought it was actually $1,000,

1116
01:25:31,440 --> 01:25:32,760
but maybe it says it's $1,000.

1117
01:25:32,760 --> 01:25:34,180
I thought it was, but I haven't realized it.

1118
01:25:34,180 --> 01:25:34,920
Where did we start this year?

1119
01:25:35,440 --> 01:25:36,200
What did we do this year?

1120
01:25:38,480 --> 01:25:43,660
So this year it was $500 and I think it was up for next year.

1121
01:25:44,220 --> 01:25:54,540
So this year the $500 was matched by $500 from an organization over in Orange County.

1122
01:25:55,640 --> 01:26:02,640
It was more of a professional courtesy to me really and a desire for her to expand

1123
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:06,800
this program and kind of light a fire under some of the municipalities to get

1124
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:14,100
this program going so you know in my mind I'm thinking okay now that you have

1125
01:26:14,100 --> 01:26:21,720
allotted another thousand dollars which is amazing and thank you the question of

1126
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:27,880
course comes up who's going to match that thousand dollars I'm talking about

1127
01:26:27,880 --> 01:26:35,860
next year. So it's $500 and not $1,000. What did we discuss? We discussed

1128
01:26:35,860 --> 01:26:42,500
doubling it. Well, regardless of what it is, you know, what comes to mind for me is,

1129
01:26:42,580 --> 01:26:47,440
okay, well now who's going to match that? And you know, it was actually the

1130
01:26:47,440 --> 01:26:52,940
question came up to me that maybe Stray Health would match that. And I did

1131
01:26:52,940 --> 01:26:59,760
take it to my board and it was a resounding no and this is why. We already dedicate thousands

1132
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:08,560
of dollars for Fishkill and in fact just several weeks ago we discovered a horrific situation

1133
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:13,460
where there was a hoarder that sold their property right here in Fishkill, sold their

1134
01:27:13,460 --> 01:27:19,460
property and the new property owner essentially just let these animals outside. So now

1135
01:27:19,460 --> 01:27:24,720
we're trying to backtrack and meanwhile cats will migrate and you know they

1136
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:29,720
need to find food so we're trying to essentially train these cats to come so

1137
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:33,740
we can trap them and spay and neuter them so that we can get this under

1138
01:27:33,740 --> 01:27:39,980
control so stray help is footing that bill you know that's not the town

1139
01:27:39,980 --> 01:27:46,400
that's footing that bill so I how many how many cats were there in that

1140
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:53,220
I'm told upwards of 30 so I just discovered actually two kittens from

1141
01:27:53,220 --> 01:27:58,780
one of them one of the cats that we spayed was newly lactating so she's got

1142
01:27:58,780 --> 01:28:03,080
a litter someplace so we had to return her you know I mean it's it just

1143
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:10,460
exponentially can grow so these 30 cats can become 100 cats within a year so

1144
01:28:10,460 --> 01:28:17,940
So that being said, Stray Help volunteers serve this community and we do not plan on

1145
01:28:17,940 --> 01:28:28,860
matching, you know, the funds that the town would put in because we certainly give more

1146
01:28:28,860 --> 01:28:30,400
money than the town gives.

1147
01:28:31,180 --> 01:28:36,300
So to add, to match that, I think it would, our board said no.

1148
01:28:36,300 --> 01:28:39,240
So you have suggested any suggestions of people?

1149
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:44,900
So, yeah, actually, you know, if you want to keep the...

1150
01:28:44,900 --> 01:28:48,440
So the town's portion per cat is $12.50.

1151
01:28:50,060 --> 01:28:52,780
So at the end of the month, let's say, you know,

1152
01:28:52,940 --> 01:28:56,860
one certificate is, Tara, gets paid $50.

1153
01:28:57,920 --> 01:29:01,820
The town puts in $12.50, and this other organization

1154
01:29:01,820 --> 01:29:05,440
also puts in $12.50, and then the resident

1155
01:29:05,440 --> 01:29:14,100
then pays 25. So if the town wants to continue to pay $12.50, then you could certainly up

1156
01:29:14,100 --> 01:29:21,360
the cost of the voucher to the residents to $37.50. That way you're still staying within

1157
01:29:21,360 --> 01:29:31,120
your benchmark. You know, I don't think that you can do fundraisers per se. So I don't

1158
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:37,700
know that that would be, although I have zero doubt that this community, if you were to say,

1159
01:29:37,820 --> 01:29:42,520
hey, we're going to pitch in $1,000, can the community also pitch in $1,000, you would

1160
01:29:42,520 --> 01:29:44,040
have that in about five minutes.

1161
01:29:45,540 --> 01:29:51,480
But you know, so there's, I'm not really sure what the legalities are of Mr. Gobbishing.

1162
01:29:51,840 --> 01:29:52,000
Right.

1163
01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:53,880
So, I mean, we talked about this.

1164
01:29:54,220 --> 01:29:54,580
So I understand.

1165
01:29:54,580 --> 01:29:55,640
It's a contractual arrangement.

1166
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:59,720
The town can't solicit for payment of profits contract that's soliciting donations.

1167
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,720
So I think the idea that you had was that $1250 and expand the other amount to the $237.

1168
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:12,280
Yeah, or you can just do the 25. I mean, you know, it's, it's, we're talking about $500.

1169
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:21,740
I mean, like I just said, we pay thousands of dollars just for fish kill every year.

1170
01:30:22,420 --> 01:30:29,060
And, you know, I've been coming to these meetings a long time and we have an animal control officer

1171
01:30:29,060 --> 01:30:34,120
who is a dog catcher, and there's nothing against this individual.

1172
01:30:34,740 --> 01:30:41,700
This is how the town has it designated and what they have, you know, the outline of what

1173
01:30:41,700 --> 01:30:42,720
this role is.

1174
01:30:45,060 --> 01:30:53,180
The situation with cats is years behind, and, you know, I cannot express enough to you

1175
01:30:53,180 --> 01:30:59,020
the mess just as an example of what that hoarder's house would have been if stray

1176
01:30:59,020 --> 01:31:06,540
health volunteers did not happen upon this situation and work our butts off to try and

1177
01:31:06,540 --> 01:31:14,200
mitigate this situation. So, you know, I mean, I see and agree with a lot of some of your

1178
01:31:14,200 --> 01:31:15,980
expenditures, but,

1179
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:22,700
you know, I would like to see a little bit more support for animals

1180
01:31:22,700 --> 01:31:24,460
in this town, specifically cats.

1181
01:31:24,460 --> 01:31:25,800
And can I ask you a couple of questions?

1182
01:31:26,080 --> 01:31:26,180
Sure.

1183
01:31:27,060 --> 01:31:31,120
How many other towns are actually helping out?

1184
01:31:31,240 --> 01:31:32,760
Are they participating in this at all?

1185
01:31:32,840 --> 01:31:33,960
You are leading the way.

1186
01:31:34,220 --> 01:31:34,440
OK.

1187
01:31:34,940 --> 01:31:35,020
Monday.

1188
01:31:35,020 --> 01:31:35,620
How you make it out?

1189
01:31:35,780 --> 01:31:38,940
Are you actually going to other towns to try to?

1190
01:31:38,940 --> 01:31:41,060
On Monday, I'm scheduled to go to Wappendurbs.

1191
01:31:42,600 --> 01:31:43,900
We presented to the county.

1192
01:31:44,340 --> 01:31:45,800
And like I've said before in meetings,

1193
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:47,140
I hope they catch up.

1194
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:53,660
The program that I have arranged with that I

1195
01:31:53,660 --> 01:32:01,380
coordinated with the town is specific to pet parents, some colony caretakers, what

1196
01:32:01,380 --> 01:32:05,320
I'm hoping the county comes up with is really specifically for the TNR which

1197
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:08,680
you and I have talked about that length. You see a lot of these

1198
01:32:08,680 --> 01:32:12,980
colonies that we've handled so those are free roaming community cats and

1199
01:32:12,980 --> 01:32:17,160
that's kind of a different you know it's hard to it's not quite apples

1200
01:32:17,160 --> 01:32:21,020
and oranges, but maybe grapefruit and oranges.

1201
01:32:22,420 --> 01:32:28,480
So what we're doing is we're actually leading, helping this out, which is fantastic, which

1202
01:32:28,480 --> 01:32:34,480
in your local resident who lives here in the town, you're also a local business, so we're

1203
01:32:34,480 --> 01:32:35,420
here about promoting it.

1204
01:32:35,500 --> 01:32:40,580
I don't see no problem in the town continue participating in this and making it worthwhile.

1205
01:32:41,100 --> 01:32:43,200
We did 31 out of 40 so far.

1206
01:32:43,500 --> 01:32:44,600
I see why not.

1207
01:32:44,740 --> 01:32:44,900
That's amazing.

1208
01:32:45,380 --> 01:32:45,840
That's amazing.

1209
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:48,080
and I can do another 40 for the same price.

1210
01:32:48,900 --> 01:32:49,360
So.

1211
01:32:49,900 --> 01:32:51,320
But that's important so you know that,

1212
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:56,020
we feel proud that we are ahead of this initiative

1213
01:32:56,020 --> 01:32:57,580
and we're here to support that.

1214
01:32:58,060 --> 01:32:58,680
It's a good thing.

1215
01:32:59,580 --> 01:33:03,160
It did, it did, I have been kind of thinking about

1216
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,740
I don't have access to municipal grants

1217
01:33:05,740 --> 01:33:08,440
or researching municipal grants, I don't think.

1218
01:33:08,760 --> 01:33:10,940
I can double check that with Adrienne's library.

1219
01:33:11,660 --> 01:33:14,420
But I do write grants and I'm in process,

1220
01:33:14,420 --> 01:33:15,940
as I'm in grant deadline, actually.

1221
01:33:16,140 --> 01:33:17,740
I have two of them due at the end of next week.

1222
01:33:17,840 --> 01:33:19,480
I have another one due in another two weeks.

1223
01:33:21,160 --> 01:33:27,100
But I think that really to allow this program to thrive,

1224
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:29,660
grants are where it's at.

1225
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,620
I mean, that's really, and there are grants available.

1226
01:33:33,260 --> 01:33:35,740
The ASPCA, which is a national organization,

1227
01:33:36,340 --> 01:33:37,760
does offer some grants.

1228
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:40,500
Not a lot, but some.

1229
01:33:40,860 --> 01:33:42,340
So there is money out there.

1230
01:33:43,460 --> 01:33:44,340
There's money out there.

1231
01:33:44,660 --> 01:33:45,200
Thanks, Ann.

1232
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:46,300
Thank you.

1233
01:33:46,520 --> 01:33:46,780
Thank you.

1234
01:33:46,780 --> 01:33:47,640
Appreciate it.

1235
01:33:47,640 --> 01:33:48,000
All right.

1236
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:49,300
Next up is a consent agenda.

1237
01:33:49,480 --> 01:33:50,220
I present that as a motion.

1238
01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:50,840
Can I get a second?

1239
01:33:51,380 --> 01:33:51,560
Wait.

1240
01:33:51,740 --> 01:33:51,980
Second.

1241
01:33:52,300 --> 01:33:52,680
Hold on.

1242
01:33:52,840 --> 01:33:53,800
Hold on.

1243
01:33:53,820 --> 01:33:54,360
Hold on.

1244
01:33:54,500 --> 01:33:54,840
Hold on.

1245
01:33:55,100 --> 01:33:56,160
You got to be on the ball.

1246
01:33:56,480 --> 01:33:57,400
I'm telling you.

1247
01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:01,460
You get all candid up and you just forget about everything.

1248
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:03,520
All right.

1249
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:04,100
I'll do this again.

1250
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:06,660
I present a motion for the consent agenda.

1251
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:07,240
I can have a second.

1252
01:34:07,420 --> 01:34:07,740
Second.

1253
01:34:08,420 --> 01:34:09,040
Mr. Foreman.

1254
01:34:09,180 --> 01:34:09,540
All in favor.

1255
01:34:09,940 --> 01:34:10,180
Aye.

1256
01:34:10,820 --> 01:34:11,580
Thank you.

1257
01:34:13,260 --> 01:34:15,380
Next up is items for special consideration.

1258
01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:16,440
We've got a couple.

1259
01:34:17,440 --> 01:34:19,180
Let's solve the rock through these.

1260
01:34:21,980 --> 01:34:23,120
The results are okay.

1261
01:34:25,830 --> 01:34:30,590
The first one is the resolution to authorize the solicitation of bids for the demolition of Unsafe House.

1262
01:34:30,950 --> 01:34:33,370
That's the one on Van Wicklake Road.

1263
01:34:34,310 --> 01:34:36,470
Now, therefore, it could be resolved by the town board as follows.

1264
01:34:36,630 --> 01:34:42,170
Section 1, the town board hereby directs the building inspector zoning administrative to solicit such bids.

1265
01:34:42,170 --> 01:34:52,570
With scope of work for demolition of unsafe building at 448-450 Van Wick Lake Road with the cost of such demolition to be levied on the property owner for the unsafe building.

1266
01:34:52,750 --> 01:35:01,970
Section two, any other town official, employee, consultant, as directed by the town supervisor here by authorized and directed to take any necessary and appropriate actions necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution.

1267
01:35:02,170 --> 01:35:04,310
Section three, this resolution should be effective immediately.

1268
01:35:04,850 --> 01:35:05,650
I present that as a motion.

1269
01:35:05,790 --> 01:35:06,230
Can I have a second?

1270
01:35:06,450 --> 01:35:06,510
Second.

1271
01:35:07,110 --> 01:35:08,210
Mr. Forman, all in favor?

1272
01:35:08,510 --> 01:35:08,690
Aye.

1273
01:35:09,070 --> 01:35:09,170
Aye.

1274
01:35:09,170 --> 01:35:12,950
Next one off is resolution except the resignation of police assistant Daniel Seca.

1275
01:35:13,590 --> 01:35:20,670
Now therefore it be resolved the town board of the town official does hereby accept the resignation of police assistant Daniel Seca.

1276
01:35:20,930 --> 01:35:29,170
Effective of July of 2022 and be it further resolved the town supervisor and or his designate be in hereby authorized take any illegal necessary action.

1277
01:35:29,430 --> 01:35:33,750
If we carry out the provisions of this resolution and be further resolved this resolution shall be effective immediately.

1278
01:35:34,130 --> 01:35:36,370
We have to add 31 to July.

1279
01:35:36,970 --> 01:35:37,290
31?

1280
01:35:38,110 --> 01:35:44,450
That's a clerical mistake I can correct. I don't have to amend that or can I just make the correction?

1281
01:35:48,380 --> 01:35:48,680
Mr. Gavin?

1282
01:35:49,060 --> 01:35:49,280
That's fine.

1283
01:35:50,580 --> 01:35:53,100
I forgot to write the 31st of July.

1284
01:35:53,860 --> 01:35:54,900
That agenda is amended.

1285
01:35:55,480 --> 01:35:57,660
Present that as a motion to add to 31st. Can I get a second?

1286
01:35:58,120 --> 01:35:58,960
Adopted as amended.

1287
01:35:59,220 --> 01:35:59,920
All right. All in favor?

1288
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:00,420
Aye.

1289
01:36:00,700 --> 01:36:00,820
Aye.

1290
01:36:01,140 --> 01:36:01,360
Okay.

1291
01:36:02,140 --> 01:36:02,540
Carmine.

1292
01:36:02,700 --> 01:36:03,060
Carmine.

1293
01:36:03,580 --> 01:36:07,760
Further result that this resolution shall be effective immediately. I present that as a motion. I get a second.

1294
01:36:08,200 --> 01:36:08,980
Wait, what about you now?

1295
01:36:10,180 --> 01:36:10,760
Second?

1296
01:36:11,760 --> 01:36:12,340
Second.

1297
01:36:12,340 --> 01:36:15,060
We amended it, and now we're voting on it.

1298
01:36:15,060 --> 01:36:15,360
Second.

1299
01:36:15,820 --> 01:36:18,020
All in favor?

1300
01:36:18,240 --> 01:36:18,440
Aye.

1301
01:36:22,300 --> 01:36:28,120
Discussion of resolution to accept the resignation of Justice Clerk Josephine Scaferino.

1302
01:36:28,980 --> 01:36:32,260
So that's a discussion and a resolution. Any discussion?

1303
01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:35,160
Go right to the resolution.

1304
01:36:37,530 --> 01:36:37,930
Okay.

1305
01:36:38,570 --> 01:36:40,650
Now therefore be resolved by the town board as follows.

1306
01:36:41,250 --> 01:36:54,050
section one all where as paragraphs and incorporation here in by reference I set forth and full section to the town board here by accepts the resignation of justice court clerk Josephine Schadarino effective September 22, 2022 and extends her.

1307
01:36:54,550 --> 01:37:04,610
It's thanks and best wishes section three the town's supervisor in his designation will be able to take any and all necessary action to carry out the provisions of this resolution I'll present that as a motion can have a second second.

1308
01:37:05,050 --> 01:37:05,570
All in favor.

1309
01:37:07,030 --> 01:37:11,830
Next one up is discussion of resignation of Gregory Tatino as confidential secretary.

1310
01:37:12,390 --> 01:37:13,510
Are you guys okay with just a resolution?

1311
01:37:14,170 --> 01:37:14,410
Yes.

1312
01:37:15,490 --> 01:37:17,610
Now therefore it will be resolved by the town board as follows.

1313
01:37:17,890 --> 01:37:22,710
Section 1, all whereas paragraphs are incorporated herein by references set forth in full, the town board.

1314
01:37:23,270 --> 01:37:28,350
Section 2, the town board hereby accepts a resignation of Gregory Tatino from the position of confidential secretary to the town supervisor.

1315
01:37:28,810 --> 01:37:30,430
Effective September 26, 2022.

1316
01:37:30,430 --> 01:37:36,250
and further appoints Gregory Tatino to the position of Part-Time Legislative Aid, effective September 26, 2022,

1317
01:37:36,670 --> 01:37:41,530
to a schedule not to exceed 10 hours per week and a rate of 27.74 per hour.

1318
01:37:41,890 --> 01:37:47,390
Section 3 of Town Supervisor and his designee are authorized to take any known actions necessary to carry out the provisions of this resolution.

1319
01:37:47,870 --> 01:37:49,250
I present that as a motion. Can I have a second?

1320
01:37:49,490 --> 01:37:49,770
Second.

1321
01:37:50,190 --> 01:37:50,970
Louise, all in favor?

1322
01:37:51,390 --> 01:37:51,610
Aye.

1323
01:37:52,710 --> 01:37:52,970
Aye.

1324
01:37:53,170 --> 01:37:53,810
Thank you very much.

1325
01:37:54,550 --> 01:37:55,290
Thank you very much.

1326
01:37:55,510 --> 01:37:58,070
Next one is to appoint the new secretary.

1327
01:37:58,490 --> 01:38:00,030
You guys okay with the resolution only?

1328
01:38:00,230 --> 01:38:00,970
Yes, sir.

1329
01:38:01,830 --> 01:38:04,030
Now therefore it be resolved that the town board of the town of Fishgill,

1330
01:38:04,430 --> 01:38:06,470
January points to Michael, and the trellis as supervisors,

1331
01:38:06,630 --> 01:38:10,050
confidential secretary, effective to September 26, 2022,

1332
01:38:10,230 --> 01:38:10,970
and be a further resolved.

1333
01:38:11,510 --> 01:38:14,270
Mr. Trellis shall serve at this position at the pleasure of the town supervisor

1334
01:38:14,650 --> 01:38:19,450
and be a further resolved that the town supervisor or his authorized designee

1335
01:38:19,450 --> 01:38:23,130
be in hereby authorized at the right to take all the necessary actions

1336
01:38:23,130 --> 01:38:26,430
and convenient to get full effect of this resolution and be a further resolved

1337
01:38:26,430 --> 01:38:27,990
All this resolution shall take effect immediately.

1338
01:38:28,510 --> 01:38:29,350
I present that as a motion.

1339
01:38:29,510 --> 01:38:29,970
Can I have a second?

1340
01:38:31,150 --> 01:38:31,570
All in favor?

1341
01:38:31,970 --> 01:38:32,150
Aye.

1342
01:38:32,310 --> 01:38:32,370
Aye.

1343
01:38:33,450 --> 01:38:35,590
Next up is a discussion and resolution

1344
01:38:36,110 --> 01:38:37,830
to accept the police officer resignation.

1345
01:38:39,070 --> 01:38:42,250
Section 1, narrow all above whereas paragraphs

1346
01:38:42,250 --> 01:38:43,090
are incorporated hearing.

1347
01:38:43,510 --> 01:38:45,130
Be referenced as set forth in full.

1348
01:38:45,270 --> 01:38:46,370
Section 2, the town board accepts

1349
01:38:46,370 --> 01:38:48,450
a report of the police chief on the personal status

1350
01:38:48,450 --> 01:38:49,850
of police officer, Dean Wakefield,

1351
01:38:50,230 --> 01:38:52,050
and accepts his resignation as police officer.

1352
01:38:52,570 --> 01:38:54,070
Dean Wakefield affected with the close of business

1353
01:38:54,070 --> 01:38:55,910
on September 29th, 2022.

1354
01:38:56,390 --> 01:38:58,810
Section three, the town supervisor or his designee,

1355
01:38:58,950 --> 01:39:00,770
be in here by authorize to take any of all

1356
01:39:00,770 --> 01:39:02,730
the actions necessary to carry out the provisions.

1357
01:39:03,190 --> 01:39:04,590
Now this resolution, section four,

1358
01:39:04,690 --> 01:39:06,090
this resolution shall be affected immediately.

1359
01:39:06,610 --> 01:39:07,450
I present that as a motion.

1360
01:39:07,590 --> 01:39:08,010
Can I have a second?

1361
01:39:08,890 --> 01:39:09,030
Second.

1362
01:39:09,670 --> 01:39:10,550
Brian, all in favor?

1363
01:39:10,950 --> 01:39:11,190
Aye.

1364
01:39:11,490 --> 01:39:12,250
That's the end of that.

1365
01:39:12,550 --> 01:39:13,510
Anyone all business, Louise?

1366
01:39:23,210 --> 01:39:25,270
So I have both new and old business.

1367
01:39:25,750 --> 01:39:27,950
For old business, I received an email from a citizen

1368
01:39:27,950 --> 01:39:29,750
who wanted to know why I voted no

1369
01:39:29,750 --> 01:39:31,850
on putting a police officer in the Brinkerhoff School.

1370
01:39:31,850 --> 01:39:35,510
I had no issue explaining to the person why I voted no.

1371
01:39:35,850 --> 01:39:40,290
But when I emailed back and gave him my cell phone number to call him, to call me, he never did.

1372
01:39:40,490 --> 01:39:43,430
So to clarify it, the item was not on the agenda for a discussion.

1373
01:39:43,810 --> 01:39:46,630
It was only on for a resolution. Had it been on for a discussion,

1374
01:39:46,790 --> 01:39:51,110
I would have had the opportunity to explain that I disagreed with the contract that was created.

1375
01:39:51,550 --> 01:39:55,850
I did not feel it would be feasible to find a part-time police officer to work four hours a day,

1376
01:39:55,990 --> 01:39:58,910
five straight days in a row as the contract was written.

1377
01:39:58,910 --> 01:40:04,430
And the chief was also asking to hire a police officer to replace that one that would be assigned to the school

1378
01:40:04,430 --> 01:40:10,190
Instead if we had created our contract to read as the village official PD did I would have said yes

1379
01:40:10,190 --> 01:40:17,190
I heard police commissioner Schofield explained to the village board that he had posted a schedule for police officers to volunteer throughout September

1380
01:40:17,190 --> 01:40:21,770
To rotate being in the school for the four hours at the school district requested

1381
01:40:21,770 --> 01:40:27,110
This would have given an opportunity for those who didn't work their 20 hours to do so and there would be no need to

1382
01:40:27,110 --> 01:40:28,550
to ask for a replacement officer.

1383
01:40:28,990 --> 01:40:30,770
He had the schedule filled up and didn't foresee

1384
01:40:30,770 --> 01:40:33,590
any issues having police officers sign up to work there.

1385
01:40:33,910 --> 01:40:35,530
So it wasn't that I didn't want one,

1386
01:40:35,650 --> 01:40:37,790
it was a way that it was presented to the town

1387
01:40:37,790 --> 01:40:38,770
that I disagreed with.

1388
01:40:39,350 --> 01:40:41,210
And if anybody out there has any questions

1389
01:40:41,670 --> 01:40:44,150
about the way that I vote, feel free to email me

1390
01:40:44,150 --> 01:40:45,950
and I will call you back.

1391
01:40:46,110 --> 01:40:47,370
I will meet with you, you know,

1392
01:40:47,630 --> 01:40:49,010
or if you don't want to respond back,

1393
01:40:49,170 --> 01:40:50,510
I'll address it at the next meeting.

1394
01:40:52,010 --> 01:40:55,370
For new items, we discussed at the last meeting,

1395
01:40:55,370 --> 01:40:59,890
Councilmember Van and I were in agreement and felt very strongly about removing the

1396
01:40:59,890 --> 01:41:05,870
.4% fee to pay the school taxes and the supervisor advised me that if I could find the money

1397
01:41:05,870 --> 01:41:10,870
and it wouldn't raise the tax cap that I could ask for it to be for a resolution.

1398
01:41:11,270 --> 01:41:12,070
So I did that.

1399
01:41:12,190 --> 01:41:15,030
It wasn't for a resolution this meeting, so I'm just asking the board if we can

1400
01:41:15,030 --> 01:41:17,130
put it for a resolution for the next meeting.

1401
01:41:17,750 --> 01:41:23,130
And I want to thank Sharon very much because she did a lot of hard work to look into

1402
01:41:23,130 --> 01:41:28,230
to this and find how we could do this and also to thank Carmine because without his support

1403
01:41:28,770 --> 01:41:32,890
he felt as strongly as I did that this is something that should be done for the citizens

1404
01:41:32,890 --> 01:41:36,330
that they should not have to pay to pay their school taxes.

1405
01:41:36,990 --> 01:41:40,870
So I'm just asking that that be placed on the next meeting for a resolution.

1406
01:41:42,630 --> 01:41:43,490
We have one more.

1407
01:41:43,770 --> 01:41:47,170
I'm glad you guys brought that up and I'm glad we're going to do that.

1408
01:41:47,370 --> 01:41:47,690
Thank you.

1409
01:41:48,310 --> 01:41:48,970
One last one.

1410
01:41:48,970 --> 01:41:56,110
I spoke to the Planning Board Chairman and he asked me if I could create a discussion.

1411
01:41:56,770 --> 01:42:02,330
So the discussion that he'd like me to bring up for a future meeting is to remove the provision

1412
01:42:02,330 --> 01:42:08,210
that allows the Planning Board to approve special use permits to allow use that isn't

1413
01:42:08,210 --> 01:42:09,810
listed in the table of uses.

1414
01:42:10,510 --> 01:42:15,010
So I'm just asking for him that we bring that up as a discussion and he wants to

1415
01:42:15,010 --> 01:42:17,230
come here to explain what it is.

1416
01:42:17,230 --> 01:42:18,290
What is this announcement?

1417
01:42:18,590 --> 01:42:18,930
What do you want?

1418
01:42:19,030 --> 01:42:19,670
What's he going to get done?

1419
01:42:19,850 --> 01:42:21,610
He doesn't want to vote on special permits?

1420
01:42:21,930 --> 01:42:24,410
He doesn't think that it should be in his form in the planning board.

1421
01:42:24,630 --> 01:42:29,870
So it was put in, I think, five years ago into the code, so he said he can explain it

1422
01:42:29,870 --> 01:42:30,530
better when he comes.

1423
01:42:30,730 --> 01:42:31,330
I'll second that.

1424
01:42:31,370 --> 01:42:32,090
I'll hold on a second.

1425
01:42:32,950 --> 01:42:34,630
So who's going to review that?

1426
01:42:35,290 --> 01:42:35,890
Oh, I don't know.

1427
01:42:36,070 --> 01:42:36,670
I'll discuss it.

1428
01:42:36,670 --> 01:42:39,410
I'll discuss it when he will come here and we'll see what he has to say.

1429
01:42:39,430 --> 01:42:41,870
Can a talent board review special permits like that?

1430
01:42:41,930 --> 01:42:42,950
Happens all the time.

1431
01:42:43,250 --> 01:42:43,650
Thank you.

1432
01:42:43,650 --> 01:42:50,530
So if you want to have this board determine whether or not an unlisted use is eligible for a special use permit

1433
01:42:50,530 --> 01:42:53,710
Or it's just not allowed under the code as opposed to the planning board

1434
01:42:53,710 --> 01:42:55,950
Certainly within your purview to do that.

1435
01:42:55,950 --> 01:42:58,010
Is it as a right if it's not in there?

1436
01:42:58,770 --> 01:43:00,110
We just deny a special permit.

1437
01:43:01,410 --> 01:43:04,510
This is important.

1438
01:43:05,070 --> 01:43:09,070
Right, well the section I believe Louise is referencing is a section that says

1439
01:43:09,070 --> 01:43:12,890
There's a whole bunch of uses that are listed as permitted by special use permit.

1440
01:43:12,890 --> 01:43:17,690
The planning board has authority to determine that a proposed use, although not listed, is

1441
01:43:17,690 --> 01:43:23,590
similar enough to those listed uses that it also qualifies as a specially permitted use.

1442
01:43:24,590 --> 01:43:28,830
And some towns don't like having, some of the zoning board make that determination.

1443
01:43:29,550 --> 01:43:34,510
Some towns don't like having the planning board or the zoning board make the determination

1444
01:43:34,510 --> 01:43:38,570
as to whether it's close enough under the zoning code they want, the governing board,

1445
01:43:38,770 --> 01:43:40,790
the town board, to make that determination.

1446
01:43:40,790 --> 01:43:43,050
And that's fine if that's what you want to do.

1447
01:43:43,530 --> 01:43:47,030
The reason it's placed with those other boards usually is because they have a little bit more expertise

1448
01:43:47,030 --> 01:43:49,750
in administering your zoning code and your planning regulations.

1449
01:43:50,770 --> 01:43:52,810
So they're a little bit more familiar with the terms.

1450
01:43:53,030 --> 01:43:55,550
But ultimately, this is the governing board.

1451
01:43:55,710 --> 01:43:58,890
If you want the authority to rest with the town board, you're free to do that.

1452
01:43:59,930 --> 01:44:01,930
He just asked for me to bring it up for discussion.

1453
01:44:02,170 --> 01:44:03,290
So I second it.

1454
01:44:03,750 --> 01:44:04,850
We can discuss it.

1455
01:44:04,930 --> 01:44:05,990
It doesn't say we agree with it.

1456
01:44:06,430 --> 01:44:07,070
Not saying that.

1457
01:44:07,110 --> 01:44:08,490
How about we have them come in and make a presentation?

1458
01:44:09,030 --> 01:44:11,270
There's no problem doing that, he said it would come, yeah.

1459
01:44:11,610 --> 01:44:18,090
So great, not the second, not October 2nd, because we're going to have the trooper come in on October 5th.

1460
01:44:18,230 --> 01:44:19,130
That's going to be a busy meeting.

1461
01:44:19,270 --> 01:44:20,410
So for the 19th?

1462
01:44:20,550 --> 01:44:21,890
Yeah, tell them we're coming for presentation.

1463
01:44:22,390 --> 01:44:22,710
Got it.

1464
01:44:22,830 --> 01:44:24,990
And tell them to give us like a half a page of what he wants to do.

1465
01:44:25,170 --> 01:44:25,330
Okay.

1466
01:44:25,830 --> 01:44:26,110
Got it.

1467
01:44:26,110 --> 01:44:26,950
Okay, that's it.

1468
01:44:27,190 --> 01:44:30,530
No more than half a page and you can come in and speak and let us know what he wants to do.

1469
01:44:30,710 --> 01:44:30,910
Okay.

1470
01:44:31,210 --> 01:44:31,450
Understood.

1471
01:44:31,830 --> 01:44:31,990
Okay.

1472
01:44:32,470 --> 01:44:32,890
Thank you.

1473
01:44:34,010 --> 01:44:34,610
Did I already do you?

1474
01:44:35,170 --> 01:44:35,470
You're done.

1475
01:44:36,170 --> 01:44:36,650
I'm good.

1476
01:44:36,650 --> 01:44:37,150
They're good.

1477
01:44:37,670 --> 01:44:38,190
I'm good.

1478
01:44:39,090 --> 01:44:39,610
I'm good.

1479
01:44:40,650 --> 01:44:41,890
Okay, next time board meeting is when?

1480
01:44:42,890 --> 01:44:43,610
October 5th.

1481
01:44:43,630 --> 01:44:45,850
Next board meeting is October 5th.

1482
01:44:45,910 --> 01:44:46,630
I'm sorry, yeah, I'm sorry.

1483
01:44:47,190 --> 01:44:47,970
October 5th, right?

1484
01:44:48,030 --> 01:44:48,790
October 5th.

1485
01:44:48,850 --> 01:44:49,650
Okay, October 5th.

1486
01:44:50,310 --> 01:44:54,110
We're going to go into executive session for a legal matter.

1487
01:44:54,770 --> 01:44:56,650
So I'll make a motion to leave the regular session

1488
01:44:56,650 --> 01:44:57,750
and go into executive session.

1489
01:44:58,170 --> 01:44:59,250
I'll present both as a motion.

1490
01:44:59,450 --> 01:44:59,850
Can I get a second?

1491
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:01,720
Second. Carmine, all in favor?

1492
01:45:02,060 --> 01:45:02,220
Aye.

1493
01:45:02,620 --> 01:45:06,360
And we're not going to discuss anything or vote on anything after this, so see you guys next week.