Oh, there's zones in this.
» Oh, okay.
credit.
>> Okay. At this time, I'll call to order
the meeting of Monday, July 27th, 2026
to order. I ask that all who have not
signed in, please do so. Please turn off
all cell phones and other electronic
devices. Please conduct any private
conversation in the hallway or outside.
Um, this meeting is equipped with
inductive loop hearing assistance.
Emergency access can be found to your
right and to your left. This meeting is
also live streamed via YouTube with text
commenting available. Uh this evening we
have our county clerk Jean Chrisman here
and we've asked Jean if she would lead
us in the pledge of
>> allegiance
to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it
stands one nation under God indivisible
with liberty and justice for all.
Okay,
we have all of our town board members
are present
for supervisors announcement. Prior to
the start of the meeting here, we have
eight birthdays to celebrate and
recognize in the month of September.
Starting with September the 2nd, Greg
Knap.
September 5th, Casey Paige. The 13th,
Steve Hendrickson. And the 13th as well,
Debbie Trouad. On the 20th, Tom Psonelli
on the 23rd, Hayden Nearpass, the 25th,
Joanne Henry, and on the 29th, Stacy
Preston. So, happy birthday to all those
individuals. [snorts]
In addition, I do have a walk-in
resolution for the town board's
consideration consideration. This would
be the acknowledgement of the
resignation of a deputy town clerk. and
resolution number one which is on this
evening's agenda will be moved up and we
will consider that prior to uh the
privilege of the floor and right after
the payment of bills. So couple things
at this time for the board's
consideration we have meeting minutes
from the July 27th town board meeting.
So moved second.
>> All those in favor? I abain. Thank you.
I
>> for the approval of minutes for the
August 6. This was a special meeting.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
>> And the final one would be again uh the
August 10th pay bills only meeting for
your consideration.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
And at this time, we'll ask that
manifest number 16 be introduced.
>> The Victor Town Board has reviewed
manifest number 16 in the amount of
668,50044
with the following accounts charged.
General Townwide, General Outside
Village, Parkland Trust Fund, Highway
Townwide, Victor Fire Protection, SS
Consolidated Sewer Fund, and Trusting
Agency.
>> Thank you. And you'll see up on the
screen, these are expenditures that are
in the range of or exceed $5,000. We
start with uh item number one, payment
to American Rock Salt.
Number two, Barkley Damon July legal
fees. There are some chargebacks
associated with this invoice. Payment to
CP Ward for emergency sewer repair and
pump station 5 payment. Payment to Doyle
security. Upgrades to the court security
system. Payment to environmental
equipment for a new recycling truck.
Payments to payment to Harris Beach for
July and August legal services. Payment
to RG townwide and street lightning
lighting charges and payment to soft
surfaces for the um gymnasium flooring.
Timewise uh is a July cleaning service
invoice. Total of the above mentioned
expenditures is $617,44624.
Total town expenditures minus the
previously mentioned expenditures above
equals $50,63920.
Town board members, any question on
manifest number 16?
>> Mark, I just have a question about the
road salt. [clears throat] Is this to
fill up the barn before winter or is
this
>> So, the current contract ends at the end
of this month.
>> Okay.
>> And there's a 9% increase for next next
the next contract.
>> Okay. Well, will then we do another
like another order just to make sure
it's full, I guess, at capacity. It is
full.
>> It's full now.
>> Oh, yay. Yep.
>> And were they good on delivery? Yes. To
the time. Okay. Yep. Here we go. That's
it. Okay.
>> Thank you. So moved. Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I
>> Okay, as as I mentioned, we're going to
just go out of order here a bit. Um, and
we're going to go to
resolution number one, which is in your
agenda, if I may, is to the appointment
of an interim town clerk
pursuant to section
64
five of the New York town law. And
whereas uh the office of town clerk is
currently vacant due to the retirement
of former town victor town clerk Karen
Boddine. Whereas an election of office
of town clerk will be held on November
4th, 2026 for term of office commencing
on January 1st, 2027.
Whereas, pursuant to section 6405 of the
New York town law, the town board is
vested with the authority to appoint a
qualified person to fill a vacancy due
to the retirement of a town clerk. And
whereas the town board believes that it
is in the best interest of the town of
Victor and his residents to appoint a
qualified person to serve as a town
clerk on an interim basis until that
office can be filled by an election. Now
therefore, now therefore, it is hereby
resolved that pursuant to section 645 of
New York Town Law, Kimberly A. Can
Consella is appointed to serve as a town
clerk from August 25th, 2026 to December
31st, 2026. And be it further resolved
that the town clerk of the town of
Victor shall cause a certified copy of
this resolution to be duly recorded in
the office of of the clerk of Ontario
County within 10 days of the adoption of
this resolution. And be it further
resolved that this resolution shall take
effect immediately.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I sorry
>> just Jack. I'm sorry because I'm so
excited about this. Um, but I just want
to make sure that and if we submit our
resolution to state they don't turn
down. November 3rd is election day. You
got it. Okay, we're good.
>> Wrong on our calendar.
>> Now we can clap. [cough]
>> Thank you.
» At this day, at this time, the county
clerk, Jean Chrisman, will
administer the office of oath for our
new town clerk.
>> Raise your right hand.
And
>> I, Kimberly A. Canella
>> I, Kimberly A. Canelo
>> do solemnly swear that I will support
>> the Constitution of the United States
>> and the Constitution of the State of New
York
>> and the Constitution of the State of New
York
>> and that I will faithfully discharge
>> the duties of the office of
>> interim town clerk for the town of
Victor
>> interim town clerk for the town of
Victor
>> according to the best of my ability.
>> Congratulations. So happy.
[applause]
>> I just want to thank the board for their
support and it's a shortterm
interrum.
[laughter]
Short term.
>> Yes. I want it noted for the record.
[laughter]
>> Thank you.
[cough]
>> Okay. Privilege of the floor. Mr. James
Credicose.
» Uh, good evening everybody. Uh, my name
is James Credos. I'm with BME
Associates. I'm here on behalf of
Commercial Street Partners LLC. Um, a
couple weeks ago, we submitted a request
to this board as part of our Woods of
Allentown project. Uh, that was in front
of you guys last year for some PDD
amendments. Um, we just started into the
final section 2 through four subdivision
application. We're going to be at the
planning board tomorrow night and we
were at the conservation board last
Tuesday. Um, the request of this board
is to abandon some existing easements.
These were easements that were created
back in 2007 as part of the original
High Point uh business park development.
Um when we first subdivided out the um
lots at the bottom of the hill as well
as office buildings 100, 200, 300, etc.
Um what happened was there was a design
at that time for some townhouse layouts
and a lot of the easements were filed
including u several conservation
easements through the whole woods at
Valenton property and some other
easements. So the request uh to the town
is to abandon seven easements. Uh four
of them are conservation easements. Two
are utility easements that were
associated with some storm sewers and
one is a water main easement again that
was associated with a water main design.
Um the water main easement and the uh
two utility easements are shown on this.
So that walk you through this. This is
the just an existing aerial of the woods
of Bontown property. The blue is our
property limits. Um the easements we are
looking to abandon this red easement up
at the top here and this one here. These
are the two utility easements that just
had to do with some storm sewers and
then there's also this red one that goes
east west just a little bit here. This
is the water main easement. Uh with the
new layout and design, none of these are
going to be applicable. They'll be
conflicting with some building layouts.
So those are just going to get
abandoned. Um and then we'll recreate
new access and utility easements based
on the final design as we go through it.
The four conservation easements that we
are requesting to be abandoned are the
four green blobs up at the northern part
of the site. Uh basically what we're
going to do is abandon those and then
recreate the M in approximately the same
spot. We need to move some of them, you
know, 10 ft this way, 10 ft this way to
kind of fit in with the new development,
follow the new grading limits, tree
lines, etc. Um but what we're going to
do is get them recreated. I'll walk you
through the rest of this quick. The
yellow easements here are existing
drainage easements to the town. Those
are in place for the stormwater
facilities that have been built and
operating for probably 15 plus years
now. And then the large uh lavender
color here, these are the large existing
conservation easements that exist
between the loop of High Point Drive.
Those are in a separate easement
document. We're not going to be touching
those at all and we're still kind of
coordinating with uh the parks and recck
department on them starting the trails
through those loops. Um, if you wouldn't
mind flipping to the next slide.
Uh, so this is the proposed layout for
the Woods of Valentine Town. As you can
see, we've got, uh, the four green areas
in approximately the same location, as
well as one more additional green area
over here just to make sure that these
trees never get cleared out um, in the
future. And then everything else here,
this red, is all either drainage
easements or combined access and utility
easements. Um, so this is pretty
straightforward request. Uh, the board
already kind of, uh, completed the first
step of this a couple years ago when we
abandoned some of the existing access
and utility easements in section one and
those were recreated. This is something
we've always kind of talked about and
knew we had to do um, moving into this
last step. Um, as I mentioned, we have
about a 1% decrease in total area to the
conservation easements. We did meet with
the conservation board last Tuesday,
review this in detail with them. The
recommendation was to just abandon the
conservation easements. All four of them
are exist in one easement document.
We're just going to NYX it and then we
will recreate those easements with the
new town standards site specific based
on um some of the trail language and
things that we'd like to incorporate
into the easements up at the northern
part of the site um to allow you know
future development of trails. Uh the two
utility easements exist in their own
easement document. However, there is a
separate easement in that one. So we
would just look to remove the two
easements from that and then the water
main easement is a standalone easement
to get rid of. So it's pretty
straightforward. Basically next these
will resubmit new easements that'll get
reviewed as part of the final
subdivision application and then when we
go to um subdivide the lots for the
sections two and four for the town
houses, we'll create all those easements
at the same time.
I'd be happy to answer any other
questions about the project if you guys
are just curious for an update um or if
you have questions specific to this.
>> I think the uh I appreciate you spending
time with the conservation board and I
know um uh staff has put together a
detailed overview of uh the questions
that were asked of you uh during the
course of that. upon my review certainly
and again this is my opinion. I seems
like it checks all the boxes for what I
was looking for from um regarding this.
So
>> I thought it was pretty straightforward
James I appreciate it and the comments
from the conservation board as well.
>> Anyone have any questions for James?
>> I agree. uh conservation board noted
they recommended consider for the
northern boundary uh whether the
boundary of the northern conservation
unit can be simplified or straightened
where feasible. Is that something you've
done?
>> Yep. We we will incorporate that.
Basically what we were doing is we are
following the existing um conservation
ement along the side. It basically
followed the wetland limits that we
delineated a long time ago. So there's a
lot of angle points in there as part of
the town requirements. Every angle point
we have to put a marker on. So, they
were just asking if we can straighten
that so they don't have to have 15
markers all kind of in close proximity.
So, we'll we'll take care of cleaning
that up as part of this and it'll still
basically follow the same limits with
just less little angles.
>> Okay.
>> Any other questions for James?
Okay. Well, good luck tomorrow night.
Your town planning board meeting.
>> Perfect. And then we'll just work with
you guys to resolve this. Think
>> you're good.
>> Okay.
>> Wonderful. Thank you all so much. Have a
great night.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay.
At this time, uh, under the this
evening's agenda, public comment and
concerns, opportunities for members of
the public to address the town board.
Okay. Moving to reports of town
officials. Within your packet, board
members, you had a report from the
planning and building department,
economic development.
Yes, sir. I didn't want why don't you
come to the podium so we could hear you.
>> I'm sorry. I didn't want to skip over I
requested privilege of the floor and I
didn't want to skip over the public
comment part if this is the time that I
can address.
>> Yes.
Thank you. Good evening ladies and
gentlemen of the Vicortown board. Thank
you for the privilege of speaking to you
tonight. I have a request and an
opportunity.
>> Excuse me sir. Can you just state your
name and your address for the record,
please?
>> Sure. Uh my name is Edgar Brown. uh 3137
Connor Road 47 in Canada.
Uh tonight I'm speaking as a member of
the Fingerlakes Justice Partnership.
250 years ago, Americans began securing
their independence by enumerating and
decrying the many injuries, abuses, and
usurppations visited upon them by King
George III and communicating them to
each other through committees of
correspondence.
Today we feel the need to protest a
king-like authoritarian president who
thinks he is above the law and is again
inflicting an onslaught of injuries,
abuses, and intolerable acts upon the
American people. We are calling upon you
to issue resolutions of condemnation for
the current administration in
Washington. You can choose whichever
issues you feel are the most important
to highlight, but the goal is to foster
robust public debate and for this
governing body to go on public record
with your position. Of course, a
nonresponse is also a response. And the
results of this regionwide initiative
that began in June at the Ontario County
Board of Supervisors meeting and is part
of a broader national initiative in
honor of America's 250th birthday will
be published in local print and social
media in time to help undecided voters.
Rather than being divisive, we see this
effort as merely illuminating divisions
that already exist. We are offering this
body an extraordinary opportunity to
clarify your position within this
current political environment and
demonstrate complete transparency for
your constituents. As the Declaration of
Independence states, "Let the facts be
submitted to a candid world." Of course,
the original intent of this whole
project was to formally condemn federal
overreach, but if there's policy that
you support, then your constituents need
to know that as well. Again, the goal is
robust public debate and complete
transparency.
I'll submit a copy of this request to
the clerk, a draft resolution that
you're welcome to modify, as well as
copies of previous resolutions of
condemnation that have been issued by
other governing bodies and
municipalities from across the country.
So far, there have been 95 resolutions
in 23 states. As far as I know, you
could be the first in New York. I
encourage you to explore the link that I
have included for more information on
the national initiative and the genesis
of the project. I thank you for your
time this evening and look forward to
continuing dialogue. Thank you.
>> Thank you, sir.
>> Where can I leave this?
>> Yep.
>> Please.
>> Thank you.
>> Okay. I'll let just ask again if there's
any members of the public care to
address the town board.
Okay, moving to the reports again. We
have planning and building department in
your packet, economic development,
parks and recreation, which we'll get
back to momentarily,
highway, and finance report. Board
members, any questions on those five.
Okay, at this time um we had to shorten
our work budget workshop prior to and
Brian was ready to uh give us an
overview regarding Dryer Road Park.
Brian, if you would continue,
we'd appreciate it.
Thank you, sir.
» Thank you.
» Good evening. Brian Emerson, director of
parks and recreation. Um where we left
off with our um budget u proposal
earlier tonight was at the end of the
operating budget. So uh what I'll focus
my comments on um for Supervisor Marin
is just on our capital B parks
facilities proposal. Um these are
expenditures that are typically financed
through your Capitol parks trust fund um
which is now um set at $2,000 and it's
achieved through um the purchase of a
new home either by the owner of the home
or the developer um absorbs that cost.
So these are projects that are largely
financed without an impact to taxes.
That being said, in 2026, we completed a
variety of capital projects um this
year, including the construction of a
new playground at Dryer Road Park. Uh
the second phase of improvements to
Harlem Fischer Park, including the
landscaping with uh eight additional
trees planted and over 100 shrubs um in
the park. And um as of today, we just uh
had our first day of construction on the
new roofing system um at Mary Francis
Bluebird Haven, which will be completed
by the end of the year. So that will be
our um second to last capital project.
Um, as the board is also aware, um,
originally this year we were budgeted in
a capital budget to, um, construct a
nine-hole disc golf course, um, on the
land known as, um, currently under unde
undeveloped land known as Paparon Park.
Um, in late spring, um, our park and
wreck advisory committee um, in
cooperation with a town board asked that
we look at another location in our park
system for um, a disc golf course. So it
might be an 18hole disc golf course,
might involve some wooded portions of
the dis disc golf course um as well as
open meadow. Um we've had one sitewalk
um to date of the Fischer Park project.
Um the group included myself um J
Councilman Tip uh woman Typton uh Dave
Cop from the Rochester District um disc
golf association. um Ed Martin, a
resident and stakeholder, and Dirk
Andress, who's with me here tonight, the
chair of um our parks and recreation
citizen advisory committee, wasn't able
to make that, but he's integrally
involved with the disc golf course
project. I anticipate um having a site
design for an 18hole disc golf course um
by the end of this week. Um and um uh
should the project move forward, I'll be
meeting with some additional residents
um in Fischer area. I've already met met
with two of four um two two thus far.
I'm anticipating meeting with four other
um uh resident um residents that are on
the old Dutch roadside um to give due
diligence um getting their feedback for
the project. And um if all goes well,
I'll have a resolution at uh one of your
September meetings for the purchase of
um the disc golf baskets which largely
comprise um that disc golf course. And
that'll bring to close our capital
projects for this year. Moving into next
year, as you're well aware, the the
parks and recreation uh citizen advisory
committee is a stakeholder group that is
works closely with the department as an
advocate for capital projects like I I
will share with you tonight. Um we are
proposing as a department two capital
projects in 2027. Uh the first of which
is a $137,000
project involving the repaving of the
park road and primary parking area at
Victor Municipal Park. Um that park road
was originally constructed in 2008. Um
it was uh constructed um just prior to
the park opening in 2010 to facilitate
construction when we um installed the
park entrance road. Um it was uh
discussed with the town board of paving
it or chip sealing it um from a cost um
standpoint because we were going be
committed to a variety of other elements
within that park um including a
playground in the first phase, a picnic
shelter, the fishing pond. Um the board
at that time chose to instead of pave it
with asphalt chose to um do what's
called a double chip seal application.
It's a highcapacity park as you all
know. Um si additional phases have been
built. Um since the park was opened in
2010 and 2012 we built um a year-round
lodge there with permanent bathrooms. Um
subsequent to that we've built our um
special events amphitheater and
bandshell to that park. So it gets a lot
of use. Um and over the years the road
has become in disrepair over the past
decade and a half. Um it's uh very flat
even though that there's um drainage um
associated with that and several storm
water ponds that carry water um off that road. Um the surrounding
area is a lot of wetlands. There's a lot
there's a subdivision that was also
built after the park was built and it's
time that we should look at addressing
um some of the challenges with the
potholes in that road. So, um, we're
proposing a project to repave the park
road.
Any questions about, um, that proposed
project?
We just propose paving the road and then
the main parking area. We're not
proposing paving the entire 200 um bar
parking area because largely, if you
recall during the ARPA funding, we um
added lights, LED lights to that parking
lot. We added cameras to that parking
lot and then we also um put an ancillary
seasonal parking lot that is um gravel,
if you will. It has some drainage in.
There's 4in pipe in there. There's some
drainage. There's no catch basins in
there, but that's largely to support
special events like our Thursday night
concert series. Um, we have a road race
that we host in January that exceeds the
capacity of the formal parking area.
We're just proposing um paving the
entrance road um out to the out out to
the park entrance where it splits off
from um Doorchester Park subdivision and
then the main parking area. Ryan, is
there a was it considered of just the
lower cost of having our highway
department do some general repair and a
new a new chip ceiling there, or is it
just because of the the infrastructure
of that surface is so worn that it
requires a full replacement?
>> We've we've wedged in there with the
department. We've patched potholes um
with there and we've done a like a
wedging application, I would call it, um
several times. Um but um it's not
sustainable. I would say it's it it's
not going to serve you very well. It's
going to continue to disintegrate.
Um and
uh the staff asked that we look at that
in in an upcoming capital budget cycle.
because we did look at it with Labella
several years ago and the cost to do
that was over $700,000.
Um it involved a lot more additional
drainage. It involved a different type
of asphalt application that we're
proposing. Um it was right on the heels
of doing the dryer road park parking
lot. Um, and it had uh an asphalt um and
glass sheeting um rolled out onto the
road. Um but the cost was insurmountable
at that time with us being already under
construction in the first phase of
Harlem Fisher Park, anticipating a
second phase of Harlem Fisher Park and
then other future upgrades. We can
certainly look at we could certainly
look at um uh a more enhanced project,
but it I don't think the cost is going
to come down. I think our price includes
the the highway department aiding us in
hauling material for this project, but
we would still have to buy asphalt and
rent a paver and an operator to hook on
to essentially.
>> If that answers you.
>> Yes. Thank you.
>> You got it.
Um the other project the advisory
committee and I are proposing is um uh
creating an asphalt pump track and a
bicycle playground for Dryro Park as
depicted uh in a similar project in the
photos. Um to date we've built three
dirt pump tracks at Dry Road Park. Um
it's not the most um appealing feature
of that park, especially now with the
new playground. um the pump tracks uh
for bicycles and it's lot it's heavily
populated um by toddlers by preschoolers
that so they can be in eyesight of the
parking lot where their parents are or a
sibling on the on the playground. Um
we've done three dirt ones, one better
than the next. Um, the last one we did,
we hired a professional design company
to come in and design a dirt pump track.
And we watch the wind go down the road
and through the trees, and eventually
the dirt just dissipates.
Um, and we've got a new playground
there. We've made major modifications to
the trail system to make the existing
trails in there more relevant. um given
the traffic that that park use. We've
got our second box rink in there with
new turf and then we have the pump
track. And so the committee and I felt
that this was the most shovel ready
project to look into the near term in
weighing a variety of different other
projects that the board might be
considering and it's been discussed over
the past year. Um, we anticipate there
being needing a some significant outside
fundraising as well. We have met um with
our um with Genesee Regional Off-Road
Cyclist and they're interested in
helping to fund uh offset some of the
design costs. The design costs are can
be anywhere from 10 to 14,000. It can be
a phased project. Um essentially the
pump track would uh grow in size and
instead of it being dirt rollers in
there um it would be asphalt
be easier um to use year round and then
the concept of a bicycle playground. the advisory committee looked at
possibly making um improvements to our
existing jump lines, but I think Drew
was in the meeting and we felt that like
approaching the lowest common
denominator of bicyclist that utilizes
that park. A bicycle playground in
conjunction with an asphalt pump track
will get a lot more use than jump lines
which create higher higher uh levels of
skill, higher higher levels of technical
riding ability. So, we obtained um a
quote from the American Ramp Company um
who does this all across the country. Um
they're just finished a project in
Saratoga Springs um on a new asphalt
pump track in that climate because they
had a dirt pump track that they also saw
not being able to substain, you know,
sustain the environment. I mean, we've
covered the pump track to keep the dirt
from um it's it's it's a tedious event
that we don't even can't even do. And so the group feels that that this is
um an existing need that could be
realized um immediately that could be
partnered with um a local nonprofit that
would be a benefit would be of great use
um in this area. Um, and it would be a
nice addition to the park.
So, um, the example, um, that I handed
out to you is is of an asphalt pump
track with a bicycle playground. And the
bicycle playground more or less caters
to, um, preschoolers on on no pedal tot
bikes where they're at ground level.
They can ride through a variety of
different apparatus.
The park is known for its trail system
and and and that's why we brought that
theme out in our in the playground. Uh
but this is something that uh the
advisory committee and I are
recommending you consider in an upcoming
budget cycle.
>> It certainly certainly would attract I
think uh the older teen, you know, I
mean for the challenges. I mean I like
the idea. I don't think I'll be using it
but uh you know I definitely like the
idea. I I definitely like the idea of it
because I think uh like you say, they've
been coming out there for years, you
know, uh riding that trail as it is, but
there's some pretty challenging things
that you could put out there for the
older kids.
>> Looking singularly at this project is
excellent and I I I like it. My only
concern is is that it offsets funding
and pushes back development at that
paparone park which we I think that
there are some especially with the
potential clover clover leaf pickle ball
courts uh splash pad you know I think my
personal opinion is I I would love to
get that going. So my only concern I
guess inherently would be that this
offset some available funding timelines
for maybe that starting that project. So
I don't know if that's been discussed a
little bit further. I think the the
group did discuss that um with me when
putting this budget together as well as
tonight and the committee feels that
there's a concern that that's going to
be so far down the line that their
families and the participants that they
represent will never see that. So I
think if
>> see the baseball fields
>> see that progress next year. I think if the advisory committee felt and Durk
is here and he can communicate um for
himself, but I think if the advisory
committee feel felt that that project
was going to go that they would not they
would see the needs of the many versus
just dry road park again. But I feel
that
I won't speak for them, but what I'm
hearing from them is that they want to
realize things
in in the not too distant future. And
they feel that like there's so many
variables associated with the
development of that park that's beyond
their existing control that they're
concerned that it's going to be pushed
off for three to five years. If if we
went back to them and said, "Hey, Brian,
get going on Seeker. Brian, get going
with Labella on a master plan,
construction cost estimates, a
schedule."
Then then I think that we're in a good
discussion point to maybe say we'd love
to do the pump track, but the current
feeling is that it might be several
years before Paparon has progressed.
I don't necessarily agree with that, but
I'm I'm with Drew a little bit
>> and I'm only I'm speaking for my own
position, but if there's a way to get
that seeker going and and really get
working on I know we have some initial
label plans that they've done a couple
initial drawings.
>> Sure.
>> Next year I would I would love
personally I would love to get moving on
that. But are we looking at a phased in
approach for Paparon? Like just doing
the clovers and then the year after, you
know, we're spending two years designing
a splash pad and a year designing pickle
ball court. Is that maybe that's not a
question for you, Brian. Maybe that's a
question for the board. Is that what
we're looking at at Paparon? Maybe
that's the Is that the concern? I Sorry,
I don't know who I'm directing my
question to.
>> I mean that you're talking about a
multi-million dollar project.
>> Okay. for pepperon.
>> Yeah. And I think I think it would have
to be phased in.
>> What's that?
>> I think it would Pepperon would have to
be a phased approach and I personally
starting with that clover leaf and
getting that underway because we have
had some good discussions with Little
League and there's some sounds like
there's certainly some buy in there. So
I think Alexis I think it would have to
be a multi multi-year phased in project
but I I would like to start phase one
>> and the phase one would be the clover
leaves.
>> Well, that's just my opinion. Okay.
>> Yeah. Well,
>> have we moved at all on that? We We
haven't really, have we, Jack? We
haven't really had much discussion on
that, have we?
>> No. The um the U president did send an
email today that he's back from
traveling and open to that um
conversation.
>> I think the reason that was delayed uh
was when we were interested in some of
that property and we're thinking about,
you know, a town facility over the
highway facility over there and that
kind of has gone to the wayside for an
opportunity, you know. So now it's, you
know, it's to utilize the the parkland
that we have over there. So
>> I mean feedback for me, Brian, would be
I think that the drier road plans would
be fantastic. It would be a great
addition to our resources over there. I
think I would I would hope that we could
do that in conjunction with starting the
process at Paperone and not allowing
this project at drier to prohibit us
from really getting [clears throat]
moving on that because I would I would
really like to see those ball fields
coming in.
Yeah, I think you know we we've got
interest in the ball fields as far as
funding already and you know I think
what you were putting out there Brian
was this at the drier road park. This is
more of like lowhanging fruit like we
can get going on it semi right away. I
think it would really be dependent on um
you know the private funders we can find
for it because if we can do both that
would be ideal at least start phase one
of paparone how we determine it to be
but I I I support this
>> money money
>> also I mean one of the board one thing
that the board can consider as you
debate the budget moving forward the
next six to eight weeks is you'll
probably have a good idea uh in the next
6 to8 weeks if you got the
million-dollar grant from the state for
the New York Place application that that
um Emily and I worked on um that you're
familiar with and that maybe gives you
either a decision to go forward with a
little bit of drier and a little bit of
paparone or more progressive paparone
quicker or progress dryer quicker. It's
just that um the committee looked at a
variety of different things and they're
trying to look at shovel ready projects
and
I think
is can we move without changing the
entrance road? I mean there's a lot
>> that I mean we've we talked a little
league in February and March.
>> Yep. I'm here, you know, and so we gota,
you know, there's other steps that need
I mean that that property sits a foot
below the level of the road. So there's
a lot of drainage and a lot of site work
that needs to be done to make it and and
Lella can do that, but
you know, I think that the committee I'm
sorry, Dirk, go ahead.
>> Oh, no. I was just going to everybody
Dirk Andress, uh, chair of the CAC. I
just want to echo everything that Brian
said. So, we looked at all the potential
projects. We talked about it as a
committee and with the Grace Road idea,
we've had the opportunity to do
something on that land since 2006. So,
that's two generations that's lost that
we lost the opportunity to benefit.
Yeah. And so, when we looked at the
potential projects, we thought drier was
something that was shovel ready. We
already have a quote. We already have
well, we have preliminary designs, but
we have funding uh from Grock and others
that would help us get to that design
stage. And once we have that picture, we
can apply for grants which will even
help us more. So we thought that was
further down the road than when we're
still brainstorming usage of a
multi-million dollar project that when
you add in the utilities, the drainage,
the potential Anthony road signal and
the complexity, 2027 did not seem
feasible.
That's what that's what we determined.
With that, that's the information I have
to share with you tonight. I certainly
can answer more questions as you work
yourself through the budget process over
the next um couple months. Um I don't
think the commitment from Jennese
regional psych cyclist will go away. Um
uh and certainly if um we can get
something going with little league um
quickly then we can have some ideas of
budgets from Labella and
know we can take action in 27.
>> Very good.
>> More questions for me?
>> Thank you Brian.
>> Thanks.
>> Thank you. Appreciate your time.
>> Thank you Dirk.
>> Thanks Dirk.
Okay.
Town board members, you have any
committees [clears throat] you'd care to
report on at this time?
>> No, but I know prior to the board
meeting starting, we were talking
discussing Victor hiking trails. Do we
need to continue that discussion with
Ryan or hiking on the budget?
No. Okay.
Raymond, is that was there more to be
added?
>> I didn't mean to steal the mic from you.
The only item in the operating budget
related to trails that I didn't get to u
beyond the um a formal agreement with
Victor hiking trails is that right now
Victor hiking trails has several
um trail systems that are on revocable
permit.
And so it's a an agreement um with the
private land owner and Victor hiking
trails um for the system. I'll give you
examples. Dominique Trail. There's a
trail that runs on the Dominy, former
Dominique property between the Auburn
and Lehi trails, which are public trails
owned by the town or long-term
easements. So, that's on a revocable
permit that the land owner can revoke,
meaning the trail goes away at their
discretion. There's other ex there's
several other examples. There's a trail
that runs from the Stonington Ridge
subdivision up to Dryer Road Park and
there's three revocable permits that
Victor Hiking Trails has um for that
trail. So, it's not right now other than
that permit to VHT, it's not permanently
in in the public domain like many of our
other trails where we got either a trail
easement
from our Gene when we constructed the
Auburn Trail and just recently updated
or it comes through the planning process
like with James that was here earlier
and BME and and Christa and we get a
trail easement. So these can be revoked.
Helen's Helen's Way trail up in uh
Village on the Park. So with Victor
hiking trails, we looked at the variety
of different revocable permits that we
current that they currently have that
could go away but are highly valued
trails because they have either
colllocated with a town park, they're
connected to existing townowned trails.
Um and so we wanted to start setting
some goals of changing these revocable
permits into permanent easements so they
stay in the public domain. Now typically
these are lowcost easements. Okay. The
cost is in um usually you have to get a
survey. So you know have to understand
the meats and bounds. You are typically
going to do a valuation of it. So you do
some um research. You can hire uh a
person that has a real estate license,
your attorney to get comps of similar
sections. And then there's a legal
agreement that's created.
It would be it would be good in in next
year. I put $12,000 in the operating
budget to start progressing these some
of these high priority easements so they
can stay within the public domain.
Okay? so that then not only can they be
used by our residents um to enjoy um a
walk in the woods but then public funds
can also be utilized for their ongoing
maintenance and care and management. So
because we have several of them and
because of the concern of our department
as well as the executive board of Victor
hiking trails is that our residents and
our visitors just look at it as a trail.
They just want to use the trail. They
want to get from point A to point B or
they want to experience nature and a
walk in the woods and they don't think
who owns the property unless the
property is not allowed to be used
during hunting season where they have
some revocable permits. So when then it
stops getting maintained when it goes
back reverts back to the private land
owner because right now these folks over
here to my right are maintaining it.
Okay. So our goal is just to do what we
had done with the Auburn Trail Corridor
is acquire those easements so it then
stays in the public domain for its
period of probable usefulness. So we'd
like to progress some of those.
Brian, do we have a map um of the town
and including the village of all of the
trails highlighting who owns them and
who maintains them? We have we have a
map of town and village owned trails.
>> Okay.
>> Um Victor hiking trails has a map system
that combines the two I believe that has
both basically lands that are trails
within the town, trails within the
village plus Victor hiking trails
has those that are on revotable permit.
>> I if I give you guys my card, would you
mind sending it to me?
>> Is it okay? I will. Thank you. And
there's some maps in your in your um
those maps that I put um show where the
existing trails are that are that are on
some of the high priority easements that
we should progress as a community.
So it's large it's largely the legal
work and the um um paperwork associated
with
obtaining these. These typically aren't
highcost easements.
um the value is is pretty low because
it's typically not developable land
within that parcel
>> and would we do that through our town
attorney or we would fund Victor hiking
trails to do that work on their own?
>> I would say you would do it as a town.
Someone needs to manage
>> and and move those along. Someone needs
to work with with the town attorney,
work with the realtor, work with the um
survey crew, and then meet with the land
owner if there's any negotiation back
and forth.
>> Okay.
>> And then the transfer once the once the
easement once it's acquired, then it
goes into management and maintenance.
>> Thank you.
>> You're welcome. Any other questions?
» Thanks.
>> Thank you.
No board members. Uh
any committees you care to report on at
this time?
Moving to the resolutions. We have a
walk-in resolution that should have been
at your place setting. This is the again
acknowledgement of the resignation of
Jenna Wernern from the full-time deputy
town clerk's position effective today.
>> Okay, we have first. Do we have a
second? Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I I
>> resol. Resolution number two is
resolution supported the New York
Association of Towns Bill of Rights.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
>> Number three is a resolution scheduling
an eminent domain public hearing for
property acquisition.
>> So move.
» Second.
All those in favor?
>> I I
>> Number four, authorizing the engagement
of Gleon Strategies.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
» Number five is amending the resolution
um number 37 back in 2025 for Tenco plow
equipment for the installation on a 2025
freight lane. So moved. Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I
>> number six amending resolution again
number 65 of 2025 for additional plow
equipment. So move
>> second.
>> And this is a piece of equipment uh
instead of sending to the auction, we're
going to retain the 2015 Western Star to
be utilized as a spare truck.
All those in favor? I I
>> Mark, is that the one we have to store
outside now?
>> Well, we'll see if we can get it. The
plan is to put it inside somewhere. Yes.
Right now,
>> if we can finangle it inside, we're
finangling inside.
>> Correct.
>> But if we can't, it's something's going
outside.
>> Correct.
>> Okay. Thank you.
Number seven is the authorization to
purchase a 2027 Western Star rolloff
truck and tradein 2016 model for the
transfer station.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I
the finance department authorizing the
town supervisor execute an equipment
lease agreement with the Victor Fire
District.
>> So moved. Second.
>> All those in favor? I
>> I
>> number nine is amending the 2026 budget
to include the purchase of drier road
playground surface.
>> Moved second.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I
number 10 out of the parks and
recreation Brian Ays uh summer concert
moved
>> second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
Number 11, again, summer concert,
Frederick Seager.
>> Moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> Number 12, Girls on the Run, uh, youth
running program.
>> Moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
>> And number 13, certificate of liability
waiver.
>> Moved. Second.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor? I
>> number 14 is a letter of credit. This is
related to Bluemont Rise subdivision.
It's a final release as well as the
dedication and acceptance of the
maintenance bond.
>> All good on the road mark.
>> Yes. All good.
>> So moved.
>> Second.
>> All those in favor?
>> I.
>> At this time, public comment. We'll ask
it.
No one. Oh,
any members of the our audience care to
address the town board?
Okay,
board members, I do need a
motion to go on executive session under
rule number two, financial credit and
unemployment history of particular
persons,
town board members and our newly
appointed town clerk Kim Canella and
board members. Before I do, you have the
need for our two councils attorneys that
we met with prior to uh the board
meeting. No,
>> no, no.
>> So,
>> and as far as the public, um we will
adjourn following this uh executive
session. All those in favor?
>> I I
Let's