[0:08] Good evening everybody.

[0:13] » You're on.

[0:18] » Good evening everybody.

[0:22] if we can start start our meeting.

[0:27] And we're going to start off uh today's town board meeting September 3rd, 2026

[0:33] um with a the first public hearing on the proposed building department fee

[0:38] amendments. Has anybody signed up? Does anyone have

[0:42] any comments? Signed up to speak. Interested in

[0:45] speaking? Okay, we'll close the public hearing.

[0:50] The second public hearing, uh, proposed amendments to chapter 29,

[0:55] article 26, uh, on signs. >> 29.

[1:02] » Oh, no. 26. Sorry. Chapter 29. My fault. >> Latin was a long time ago for me.

[1:10] » Um, is there anybody who's interested in

[1:14] speaking on the the sign and amendment. Okay, go ahead,

[1:20] John. >> John McAfflin Road. I just want to

[1:24] disagree with it. That's all you were my responses before in the past, but uh

[1:28] that's all. Thanks. Thanks. >> Okay. Anybody else?

[1:32] » I'd like to speak on that. >> Okay.

[1:34] » Michael Bryce Lou, I've been looking into these sign

[1:39] things. I understand what you're looking for, but you guys have a million more

[1:45] important things to worry about in this town than signs. Signs have been going

[1:50] up for 30 years, 40 years probably. Construction signs, selling eggs, uh,

[1:57] garage sales. Now all of a sudden, it's coming election time and now there's a

[2:01] little sign issue and we all, everybody in Wilton knows really what it's about.

[2:05] But why put so much effort into things when maybe you can learn different

[2:10] things what you need to know such as emergency response reverse 911 scenarios

[2:17] not signs give it a break already for God's sake

[2:21] » okay thank you Mike anybody else want to speak all right

[2:28] we'll close the public hearing and we'll call to order our regular town

[2:34] board meeting and we'll start with the pledge of allegiance

[2:42] to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it

[2:48] stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all.

[2:58] Uh, roll call. Sue. >> Supervisor Stern present.

[3:02] » Deputy Supervisor Rowan >> present.

[3:05] » Councilman >> here.

[3:07] » Councilwoman Culligan >> here. Councilman Okconor

[3:09] » here. >> And uh, public comment section. Has

[3:14] anyone signed up to speak? >> Kristen Allen.

[3:22] » Good evening. Kristen Allen. 714 Wilford Road. The history of this case is

[3:27] available through foil, but the public record doesn't capture its cost. I began

[3:32] smelling sewage in February 2024. February became spring, summer, fall,

[3:37] winter again, and spring again. I shoveled snow while my nose was freezing

[3:41] from the cold and burning from sewage odors. I tended my gardens on hot summer

[3:45] days, unable to escape the smell. I stopped using my windows, and I even

[3:49] bought a hydrogen sulfide gas detector. Have you ever been drinking your morning

[3:54] coffee when suddenly you smell sewage coming in through the sliding door?

[3:58] Or have you ever been jolted awake in the dark because the smell of sewage has

[4:01] filled your bedroom? Because I have. Work is performed outside the town's

[4:06] instruction and the town expects it to fail. Over a year of sewage exposure,

[4:11] another year in counting with no risk of it happening again.

[4:15] The town tells me this is the priority that it will take stay on top of. After

[4:18] years of the town's nonchalance, I no longer trust that. So, I supervise it

[4:22] myself. I've tracked deadlines, caught delays, followed up, and attended court.

[4:27] I do not work for the town, but the town's own attorneys have now caused

[4:30] three preventable delays. Eight more weeks lost. My third entire summer gone.

[4:38] The town has expressed frustration to me about the town's own performance. The

[4:42] town has shown patience and financial concern for people who refuse to comply,

[4:46] cooperate, or even communicate. Meanwhile, as my hardships pile up, the

[4:50] town reminds me of their rights and tells me repeatedly that this case is

[4:53] unusual because, quote, "Most people comply. Again and again, I pay the price

[4:58] for the town's cavalier words and actions. Town government is responsible

[5:02] for the safety and wellbeing of its residents. I came to my government

[5:06] because an unimaginable harm is being imposed on me.

[5:10] I needed help and I didn't get it. For you, this is paperwork, but for me, it's

[5:13] my life. Even when the town acts, a lack of follow-through and oversight allows

[5:18] preventable failures to continue. From the start and over and over since, the

[5:23] town has treated something severe in my life like it can wait.

[5:27] In a case involving sewage, the only unyielding supervision has been mine,

[5:30] and that is appalling. I need relief, but I can't count on my town has hurt

[5:35] me. Please consider how much of this you

[5:39] would tolerate before you felt violated in your own home and abandoned by your

[5:42] town. How many summers would you give up while having to make sure your own

[5:46] government holds itself accountable? The next Supreme Court date is September

[5:51] 9th. I expect my elected leaders to one, make sure the town's paid legal

[5:55] representatives are prepared for possible outcomes and next steps, and

[5:59] two, regardless of how the court rules, treat this with urgency until there is

[6:03] compliance or consequences. Thank you. >> Thank you.

[6:13] Thank you. Thank you, John McCack.

[6:26] Again, John McCack.

[6:32] Good evening, everyone. I want to take a few moments to thank the people who

[6:35] stepped up when the tornado hit our neighborhood and left so many families

[6:39] facing a difficult and frightening situation. First, I want to recognize

[6:43] our town highway department. Mike, uh you were there when the roads were

[6:48] blocked, trees were down, and our community needed help. Your hard work,

[6:51] long hours, and dedication helped begin the process of getting our neighborhoods

[6:55] back on its feet. We are grateful for everything you did. I also want to thank

[7:00] our first responders and all emergency services. The men and women who answered

[7:04] the call, assessed the damage, helped keep people safe, and responded to the

[7:08] needs of our residents deserve our deepest appreciation. In a crisis, we

[7:13] count on you and showed up for our community. But most importantly, I want

[7:18] to thank the citizens of Wilton who came out to help their neighbors. You didn't

[7:22] wait to be asked. You saw someone who needed help, and you stepped forward.

[7:26] You cleared branches, checked on families, helped clean up, and offered a

[7:29] helping hand wherever it was needed. That is what makes a community strong. A

[7:34] tornado can damage homes, knock down trees, and disrupt our lives. But it

[7:38] cannot destroy the spirit of a community that cares about one another. And that

[7:42] spirit was on full display right here in our neighborhood. To every person who

[7:46] picked up a chainsaw, moved a branch, checked on a elderly neighbor, helped a

[7:50] family, or simply showed up to lend a hand, thank you. Your kindness and

[7:54] generosity made a big difference. We often talk about what makes a town a

[7:59] great place to live. It's not just our roads, our parks, and our buildings.

[8:02] It's the people who live here. It's its willingness to stand together when times

[8:07] are tough. And after this storm, I could not be prouder of our community. Thank

[8:11] you to our highway department, our first responders, all emergency services, and

[8:16] especially our neighbors. You reminded us when one of us is hurting, we all

[8:20] come together. That's what kind of community we are and that's the kind of

[8:23] community we will continue to be. Thank you and God bless Wilton Strong.

[8:29] » Thank you. >> Thank you, John.

[8:33] » Mike Bryce,

[8:41] » I'd like to ask you guys something here because it's been going around on social

[8:44] media. Why? When you Google the town of Wilton, it comes up. The town of Wilton

[8:52] consists of town supervisor Tony Stern, deputy supervisor Conor Ruin, and Joe

[8:59] Conneal. Okay. The board holds regular meetings

[9:03] on the first Thursday of every month, 700 p.m. Then states, key town

[9:08] officials. Tony Stern, town supervisor. Conor Ruin, deputy town supervisor. Joe

[9:14] Canaly, town board member. Sue Baldwin, town clerk, Mike Monroe, highway

[9:20] superintendent. David Town, and Chad Gerro.

[9:25] Why the two longest standing members on this board are not on it. Okay. It's

[9:31] very deceiving for people who have voted for them, who might want to get in

[9:36] contact with them, or know more of what's going on, and they're eliminated

[9:40] from the website. Why is that? And just so you know, I already showed it to them

[9:44] if you'd like to see it. >> Could we see it?

[9:46] » When did they come up? >> 8 weeks. It's been this way so far that

[9:50] I know of. >> Mike, is that the website or just

[9:52] Google? >> It's a Google AI summary.

[9:54] » It's just a Google we can't control. >> I Googled Maro, Boston, numerous ones.

[10:01] They show everybody. So, somebody put your names on there, but they eliminated

[10:07] those names. Mike curious why that is. >> The people who control the algorithm of

[10:13] Google are the people who own Google. >> Okay. So they that's your answer. I'm

[10:18] just asking is that's your answer? >> We don't control Google cuz on the

[10:22] website people are listed. So it's peculiar and it's puzzling but

[10:28] » it's very deceiving. I find that they were on it when you did this two years

[10:33] ago. They were on it. Every board member was on it. Now it's not on there.

[10:38] » So we do some googling here. >> Yeah.

[10:41] » And I have it right here now. Uh maybe it's on there now, but this was been

[10:45] going on social media for a while now why they've been eliminated. So that's

[10:50] the question to you. >> But that's a Google issue. It's not.

[10:53] » But even so, as the town supervisor, you should now that you're aware of it, you

[10:57] should try to check into it. I correct it.

[11:00] » Do you have Do you have a bio on the website?

[11:04] » I think I do. >> Do you have a bio on the website? Yeah,

[11:06] I think so. Do you have a bio on the website?

[11:07] » So, I just I just entered into Google a question. Who are the Town of Wilton,

[11:12] New York board members? Tony Sturm, Connor Rowan, Joe Connealy, Aaron

[11:16] Culligan, Rainbow Conor. >> Well, here it is. I mean, I I did it

[11:19] only because it's been on social media. And that's what's coming up.

[11:26] » Okay. >> What? You can't believe everything you

[11:28] see on the internet? >> Uhoh.

[11:32] » All right. Is there anybody else? >> Yes. Lee Townson,

[11:40] come on up, Lee. >> Yeah, you you have to speak in the

[11:43] microphone or else it doesn't go into the recording.

[11:50] Please,

[11:54] Mount McGregor Road. I just have a question as to political signs and what

[11:58] is the point that they should be out within the town. I was under the

[12:03] understanding that it was September 19th before they should be displayed.

[12:07] » I haven't seen any. >> I think what's left over is from the

[12:11] primaries. >> There's all I know is going up the

[12:16] Corinth Mountain Road there are signs

[12:21] that have been posted. >> I think those are there's a couple two

[12:26] Constantinos and one Blake Jendabine that those are left over from the

[12:30] primaries. cuz the Yeah, the new code is 45 days

[12:35] before the event or before the >> Okay, I'm just getting a clarification.

[12:41] So, should they be reending? >> So, I can I can speak to this. I saw the

[12:45] gend park signs and I knew that they didn't comply. I emailed Steve and I

[12:50] said, Steve, cuz he's the chair of the Dems and I said, can you please reach

[12:53] out to the Gend campaign and have them these removed because they're not

[12:57] compliant with the town. And I I he did he loo me in and I I think I think

[13:02] they're gone. Are they not gone? >> I didn't personally remove them, but I

[13:06] reach out to the John Dean campaign and advise them that that's that's the

[13:12] regulation within this town. >> Yeah. So I think if if there is a sign

[13:17] that isn't compliant that it it should because they shouldn't be there and if

[13:21] they're maybe left over from the from the campaign, maybe they're not. Uh

[13:25] reaching out to >> remove all of them. It would not I

[13:27] wouldn't get arrested or saw these >> I don't think you'd be arrested but I

[13:31] think the cleanest way I

[13:36] » agree I think the cleanest way to do it would be to reach out to John Hurley he

[13:40] can reach out to both of the uh the chairs of the parties and they can

[13:43] coordinate it with the campaigns >> and since it's so far out of cycle I

[13:49] think our code enforcement people can just pick them up and

[13:57] so we'll we can do that. >> Steve,

[14:01] » I didn't sign up. Would I be allowed to say something for me?

[14:06] » We have one more person. Oh, so we'll do one more signed up and then you could go

[14:11] » Franklin me

[14:15] 24.

[14:23] Good evening. First, I'd like to thank Sandy, Sue, Josh. I've been requesting

[14:27] documents under the project, and they've been very helpful. This is my third

[14:32] month speaking on the Car Jones project, trying to show the board how this

[14:35] project misses the intent of traffic plumbing that we were promised in our

[14:38] comp plan. This appears to be a traditional roundabout design to satisfy

[14:43] peak hour traffic that will be right for misuse at any other time. The

[14:48] traditional designs of yesterday led to the traffic problems of today and the

[14:52] traditional designs of today are going to lead to to traffic problems of

[14:55] tomorrow. What are the issues this project is

[14:58] addressing? First, we're trying to fix intersections with delays and crash

[15:02] rates above the state average. A roundabout makes sense for those issues.

[15:06] Second, our residents are constantly asking for help with speeding vehicles

[15:10] in the area. And third, this is a Keystone project meant to finally bring

[15:14] pedestrian access into the corridor. But vehicle speed is the number one risk

[15:19] to pedestrians. How does it make sense to introduce pedestrians into an area

[15:23] where speeding vehicles is an existing problem that's not also directly

[15:27] addressed? Requests for speed limit reductions have repeatedly found been

[15:31] found unwarranted. What can we do? We can engineer traffic calming into our

[15:36] projects to reduce vehicle speed as identified in our comp plan. Last month

[15:41] we discussed the idea that single lane roundabouts are traffic calming. Like we

[15:46] learned in elementary school, a square is always a rhombus, but a rhombus isn't

[15:51] necessarily a square. In the same way, a single lane roundabout can have traffic

[15:55] calming applied to it. But simply being a single lane roundabout does not

[15:59] necessarily make traffic control traffic cal.

[16:03] Would a thousand ft roundabout be considered traffic calming? No, because

[16:07] traffic calming is inherent to roundabouts.

[16:10] because it's not to roundabouts. Is the deliberate application of deflections

[16:14] that quantify it as traffic? Please see the design plans and ask if

[16:19] these roundabouts have sufficient deflection to slow traffic. What other

[16:22] elements of traffic calming are incorporated in this traffic caling

[16:25] project? Why are some of the most obvious traffic calming measures absent

[16:29] like pedestrian bunk house and compound curves in the approaches? It's likely

[16:33] because traffic calming was never requested. Our RFQ did not solicit

[16:38] traffic calling for design. The engineer's proposal does not call for

[16:41] traffic caling in the design. I haven't yet reviewed the contract to see the

[16:46] scope services. I don't know if traffic calming was identified there. How can

[16:50] this be called a traffic calming project if traffic calming design was never

[16:54] requested? Last month, we learned that the project is increasing by 1.6 million

[17:00] for cost overruns and landscaping. I asked the town to consider a better use

[17:04] of those funds would be to include actual traffic calming measures to

[17:08] address vehicle speed as the residents are constantly requesting. Thank you.

[17:12] » Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you.

[17:14] » Could I ask the question? What am I looking at here?

[17:17] » Those are my markups from the design plans. Um I hope they give a little bit

[17:22] more maybe a visual understanding to my words. So the reds are your

[17:26] recommendations or >> Well, I tried to if I point

[17:32] you can see where this vehicle path is deflected. They have to go around the

[17:38] roundabout. This path, they have a slight deflection that they have to that

[17:43] would be like a change lane kind of movement,

[17:46] but this appears like it's just a wide open curve and I don't see any

[17:51] deflection in it. Same thing for the other intersection. And this is just a

[17:55] general idea. The black arrow is the designed path.

[18:01] A deflection or an appropriate deflection would be to make them zigzag

[18:04] before they come to the circle so they can't just blow past it.

[18:07] » Thank you.

[18:15] » Um, anybody else who wants to please speak? Steve,

[18:27] » Steve Jurian, uh, 8 Woodland Drive. Uh, just a a quick um comment in regard to

[18:35] the criticism of the lack of attribution for our board members. Uh the town

[18:41] website very clearly lists elected officials and they have the most senior

[18:45] at the top, Aaron and Ray. Uh you were there and uh and then the rest of the

[18:50] board is is mentioned in total. So no one was slated or left out. There was a

[18:55] picture missing of of Supervisor Stern. However, so perhaps we will donate a

[19:01] picture to that. That would be

[19:06] » Thank you.

[19:10] The next item, uh, request a motion to approve the pending minutes

[19:15] with the corrections as have been submitted.

[19:18] » I'll make a motion to approve the minutes with the so noted corrections

[19:22] » or amendments. >> We have a second.

[19:24] » Okay. All in favor? I. >> Any opposed or abstensions? Okay. Motion

[19:29] passes unanimously. Next item, uh, follow up on the tornado

[19:36] event. Um, you know, some of you here have lived

[19:40] through the reality of having trees fall down, holes in your homes, um, losing

[19:47] electricity for many days. And what John McCackan said was really, really

[19:54] beautiful that it really evidenced the town people coming together, the

[19:59] incredible hard work of our highway department, um, and all the first

[20:03] responders who were out and about. Um it was a very trying time and they really

[20:11] put themselves out and the highway department continues to be working every

[20:15] single day clearing brush. The the roads are completely open now. A lot of the

[20:20] brush piles have been cleared, you know, at least two times. Um and we're going

[20:25] to continue picking that up periodically. Um, we engaged a tree

[20:31] company with largecale equipment to help us and they were able to do a lot of the

[20:37] big clearing along some of the major roads much quicker. Um, and I know

[20:42] people were very frustrated that it seemed to take a long time to get into

[20:47] the smaller neighborhoods, especially the one around Glenn Bernie and that

[20:51] whole neighborhood that was especially hard hit. But the town's priority always

[20:55] has to be the major roads first to be able to get first responders to

[21:01] different parts of town. Um, and I think it's wonderful that the residents in

[21:06] those heavily hit neighborhoods, they banded together and they cleared. They

[21:10] did a lot of the road clearing themselves. Um, but I I think the

[21:15] community just shown in terms of their response and our highway department did

[21:20] as well. Um, so I and there's was no reported injuries at all, which is truly

[21:27] remarkable if you see, you know, when you go online

[21:31] and you see the swaths of of trees down. So I I think as a community we can be

[21:37] proud of ourselves. Um, there was frustrations with town hall's

[21:42] communication to the residents and that's something that I've been looking

[21:46] into. Somebody at our emergency town hall meeting Monday morning mentioned,

[21:50] "Well, what about the reverse 911 system?" It doesn't exist anymore. Um,

[21:55] what there is instead is a system that's been rolled out um by the county goes by

[22:02] the acronym Wens WS, wireless emergency notification system. And I had posted it

[22:10] on our website maybe 6 weeks ago encouraging people to sign up for it.

[22:15] And now I'm really encouraging people to sign up for it. There's a the bright

[22:20] orange paper on the side there. It's got a QR code. It was it will be posted

[22:26] again prominently on our website. Um I think there's even handouts, paper

[22:32] copies. >> Um that is for Homeland Security

[22:36] emergency service. Okay. So that's to u submit a claim if

[22:42] » so there's that's a separate thing. Yeah. So, um, so there also is listed a

[22:48] link to go if you don't have a smartphone to take pictures.

[22:53] somebody out in the audience we know still doesn't but um

[22:59] there's the link on the county and you can also go to the county website to the

[23:02] department of emergency management and right there there's like four options

[23:06] and one of them is sign up for emergency notifications

[23:10] and agenda and al yes yes it's and it's listed on the agenda as well and what

[23:16] that allows us unfortunately it relies on the on the public to do the active

[23:22] signing up. Um, but it then will allow us to post notifications

[23:27] to reach out to people that we'll be able to post ourselves without going

[23:31] through getting our website provider to post something on the website. So, it

[23:36] can be really instantaneous. Um, and so we're working on that. The

[23:42] other mechanism for us reaching out to people is through the town email. And

[23:47] that's another thing that you know we're working on posting more and more things

[23:52] and reaching out to people. So I'm we'll encourage people on our main main page

[23:57] of the town website on the left hand side there's a whole row of you know

[24:01] items to do and near the top or somewhere up there is sign up for town

[24:06] email. Um so we're really encouraging people to do that cuz that will also

[24:11] allow us to communicate faster and better. And we're working with our um

[24:16] internet provider, not our internet, but our webpage provider because things

[24:20] postings and the email has always had to go through them to place these things

[24:26] and you know on a Friday night or when we're down and phone service is down and

[24:31] our email is down. So, we're going to reclaim control over our email account

[24:37] to be able to ourselves just shoot out emails to people um which will allow

[24:42] obviously much faster communication. Um one of the things we talked about at the

[24:48] emergency meeting was um we talked about the extent of the pickup of tree debris,

[24:56] branches and things like that um and non uh tree debris. So, our tree to be

[25:03] debris pickup, we're going to finish at this point have the last put out of

[25:10] bundles and and just debris within that ride ofway. So, it needs to be right up

[25:14] close to the road Sunday, September 13th. So, people have two more weekends

[25:20] to get stuff out and then we'll be coming around Monday and perhaps Tuesday

[25:24] if need be. But people need that's the end where people have to put their tree

[25:29] debris out right next to the road. Um we're working with the county to be able

[25:34] to pick up similar debris from, you know, houses that are on the county

[25:39] roads and we still haven't contacted fully with the state to to find out, you

[25:43] know, when they're going to be doing that and if they'll be doing that for a

[25:47] more extended time. Um, we I spoke with people or we spoke with

[25:53] people at County Waste and those people who have County Waste as their trash

[25:57] service, they they pick up 10 bags of of yard waste free and I push them to

[26:04] increase that to 15 or 20 bags with each round where they come around. And I

[26:09] haven't heard back from them, but to remind people if you're a county waste

[26:12] person, you've got at least 10 bags that they'll pick up each time. Cassella or

[26:17] Twin Bridges, whatever they're known as now, has no limit on their bags. And

[26:22] they do accept sticks and things tied up. You don't have to tie up your sticks

[26:26] because we'll be picking up sticks. But they clearly said, "Don't put any sticks

[26:30] in the bags. We will not pick up a bag if we see sticks in it." So, um, but

[26:35] that's already been their policy, so it's just a reminder. Um, building

[26:39] debris, we had talked about at the emergency board meeting. Um, and

[26:46] Ry had some connections through Veterans Connections, a company called Jay Dog

[26:51] that picks up refu um building debris, things like that. And we weren't able to

[26:57] get a commitment from them of a reduced price, but they did say that if volume

[27:01] is sufficient, they will do that. So that's one possibility you could try or

[27:07] any of one of the 1800 got junk junk something like that. We've also arranged

[27:12] for two rolloff big trash collection things. Um, one dumpsters. Yes, sorry.

[27:21] Um, one at Gavin Park and one at Town Hall. They will be available for people

[27:26] to bring things to. Not yard weight, not trees and and leaves,

[27:32] but construction type debris starting this Wednesday for 2 weeks. However, no

[27:39] sheet metal, no concrete, no electronics, no hazardous material. And

[27:44] that will go up on our website and the email list again tomorrow to make sure

[27:48] that that's clear. And we'll put signs on those dumpsters. So, the one at Gavin

[27:53] Park is going to be right off the Beverly

[27:56] Street exit parking lot. So, if you come in Beverly Street, the closest parking

[28:01] lot, and at Town Hall here, it'll be sort of to the side or behind the senior

[28:05] center. So, it will be easily visible and we're asking people to go just

[28:10] during daylight hours, but that allows them to do that on the weekends as well.

[28:15] Um, and there's one final thing to that

[28:19] we're asking people who experienced storm damage to sign up for. There's a

[28:24] um Department of Homeland Security puts out a self-reported damage report. It's

[28:29] five pages of, you know, just a few lines on each page. So, if you

[28:33] experienced any storm damage, so that's going to be posted on our website

[28:38] tomorrow and that helps um FEMA determine and the county determine what

[28:44] the extent of damage is for homeowners in the county. For FEMA to consider this

[28:49] eligible for federal level aid has two qualifiers and both have to be met. One

[28:55] is that Saratoga County must be able to say that they had over $1.14 million in

[29:02] damage and that doesn't include what you pay tree companies to clean up. It's

[29:05] structural damage. And then New York State requires many, many millions. I'm

[29:11] forgetting how much it is. And it does not seem that the state had much more

[29:16] activity other than in Saratoga County. But the last one I spoke to people from

[29:20] the state yesterday, they felt that it probably won't be declared at the state

[29:25] level, but it was too early to tell. So that whole FEMA declaration is still

[29:29] pending in the air. Um,

[29:35] and I guess I'm going to ask for since this is a sort of active issue if

[29:41] anybody has any questions from the audience at this point in time on that

[29:46] item before we move on.

[29:49] Yes. >> I'm just curious, have you decided to do

[29:52] or considered doing a debrief of everybody? And does the town have an

[29:57] emergency response plan? They do. >> We do. We do. And we're we're going to

[30:02] be doing a debrief and sort of convene an emergency management group to review

[30:07] and to update things and to to sort of and and I'm thinking of actually asking

[30:12] the county um cuz there's a lot of new supervisors that came in this year and a

[30:18] lot of us who were elected in 2025 and have two-year terms. We have to run

[30:23] again now. So there might even be another batch of new supervisors um not

[30:27] in the cities. So, Saratoga Springs, they kept their two-year terms, but the

[30:32] rest of us got cut one year short because of the change in election law to

[30:36] see if they would be interested in doing or or even sending their emergency

[30:41] management supervisor to Andre um Andre Delvo to us to to work through stuff

[30:49] with us cuz a lot of emergency issues come everything funnels down from the

[30:54] county down. But this was an issue that happened and it was really limited to

[30:58] Wilton. So everything had to trickle up. Um so yes, we will be reviewing that and

[31:03] as I said, we're updating our communication systems to be able to

[31:07] really more readily reach out to people. >> Might be useful to find a community

[31:13] aspect of that too because the people are impacted obviously concerns but some

[31:18] of them can't be solved by the town. They have to deal with them themselves.

[31:22] but to also have that opportunity for people just to sit down and hear what

[31:27] the plan is. And I I kind of look quickly, but I didn't find one. So I I

[31:31] was just curious to know how your record gets updated is like comprehensive plan.

[31:37] » I mean, it was actually updated partially in this year in 2026. There's

[31:41] a bunch of updates. Um but like that what people thought existed, the reverse

[31:46] 911 doesn't exist anymore and it's now this new system. Um so which people have

[31:52] to sign up for >> it should be like a playbook of sorts.

[31:56] We did it with some of my past work. We work homeland security at bigger

[32:02] scenarios for more than this way. >> Yeah.

[32:07] » Right. So, and >> stuff like that. But the point is it

[32:10] gives people a playbook to work with so that if you're preoccupied with somebody

[32:15] supervisor, maybe Ryan can handle it or Connor, but everybody's got to be a

[32:21] player. So it's it's not one person should bone you stop there but it's a

[32:29] team. >> Right. Right. So yes and um we also put

[32:34] up um based on the meeting on Monday people said can you help us? We feel

[32:38] overwhelmed. Are we getting fleeced by the contractors coming the roofers? So,

[32:43] um, Connor put together a really nice outline of, you know, things to do,

[32:47] things to look out for, and that got posted Monday evening on our website, as

[32:53] well as, you know, the first iteration of, you know, what what we're doing in

[32:57] terms of debris pickup and we'll have, you know, sort of updates then again

[33:03] posted tomorrow. Um, so yes, Brenda,

[33:09] » I have a question. So you're saying that the orange sheet on the wall that is

[33:14] that new system that you mentioned WPS? >> Yes.

[33:18] » Because the one out here is if you have a problem to report.

[33:23] » That's different. Yes. So the the orange one is is the same as the QR code on our

[33:29] agenda and it's the office of emergency. It's the wireless notification, the

[33:34] Inspiron logics blah blah blah. But there is in addition to to submit a

[33:43] claim. >> No, I just wanted to be sure that they

[33:46] were because I have this one in hand. I just wanted to be sure this is not the

[33:50] one to submit a claim. No, I scanned it to that is that is on a separate piece

[33:57] of paper over there and it is just a link. They didn't have a QR code,

[34:01] » but it's basically the same thing. The sheriff's the sheriff's notice whatever.

[34:05] Yeah, >> the link. No. Oh, yes. Correct. Same

[34:09] thing. Yeah. >> Right. But these it's not a submit a

[34:12] claim. It's submit self-reported damage. So it doesn't put you in. Yeah. So

[34:18] » Okay.

[34:21] » All right. I also just want to say thank you to Mike from the highway department.

[34:26] It's actually the tornado was a week ago today for the tornadoes and it is

[34:32] unbelievable to me how quickly we were able to get the roads back open. And a

[34:36] lot of that most of that is because Mike and his team were incredibly responsive,

[34:41] came prepared with uh with an action plan with people we needed to work with

[34:48] um to get things up and running quickly. Um very communicative. I spoke to him,

[34:53] you know, early mornings on the weekend. Uh, so just want to say thank you and

[34:59] the town appreciates us.

[35:07] » Thank you for your leadership, Mike. >> Thank you. I will pass it on to

[35:13] » I'm sure they're all sleeping well for 30hour blocks.

[35:18] » Every time I wait in the neighborhood today, they were still making their way

[35:22] back. And and I have to say also, Richard

[35:28] Sears Tree Company has been pretty amazing. I mean, we had a limited

[35:33] contract with them to help us with the big stuff cuz they have like a 40in

[35:38] chipper and these incredible machines. Um, but they then went on looking around

[35:44] for the elderly widow who's overwhelmed, who is freaked out by, you know, the

[35:50] quotes she's getting from tree companies and and they've helped several of those

[35:54] individuals. So, um, and you know, they've been pretty remarkable and and I

[36:01] think he's still available. So, if anybody knows of somebody who kind of

[36:05] fits that bill, who's really needy and and just can't afford um cuz I'm sure

[36:09] there's a certain amount of scalping that goes on with what the tree

[36:12] companies are claiming. >> I have a lot of friends who live over

[36:15] there. It sounds like a lot of the companies are starting to undercut each

[36:18] other, so they're ending up with

[36:22] » they're ending up with better deals. >> Yeah. Markets work. But friends of mine

[36:27] that needed to take down stuff with Sears because they stepped up so big.

[36:33] They were doing stuff at no charge just to help out. The neighbors were buying

[36:38] them pizza. >> I mean it was it was a great community

[36:42] effort in a tough time. >> Very generous.

[36:46] » Um if if I could mention just for a second, Supervisor Sturm uh mentioned uh

[36:50] Jay Dog junk removal and hauling. Um, I I've used them in the past and a reason

[36:56] I became familiar with them is uh they're a veteranowned business and have

[37:00] been supportive of veteran causes that I'm involved with. And um and the way

[37:05] they work is if you call them um they'll come to your home, they'll take a look

[37:09] at what you have and there's no charge for that. They'll tell you, you know, of

[37:14] the materials you have, what they can take away and how much it would cost you

[37:18] and you're under no obligation to use them. And there are other services as

[37:21] well that are available in our area, you know, if uh if you want to be

[37:25] competitive and see what best deal you can get. But uh but but I I found them

[37:31] personally to be a good reliable outfit.

[37:36] » All right. Um on to next item agenda. Um, Saratoga Plan is um um

[37:45] seating their conservation easement at the property around the Kings Mill

[37:50] development. Um, Ryan, do you want to talk about that? There's not much to

[37:55] say, but >> say they're just uh taking over the

[37:58] conservation surrounding Kings Mill property.

[38:01] » Wilton is taking it over because it is land that the town of Wilton owns. Kings

[38:06] Mills is an older development, but it's got streets that reach out and then so

[38:10] the conservation land kind of these fingers

[38:14] » on the town land. >> So it's really duplicative to have

[38:17] another agency >> just protected.

[38:19] » Yeah. All right. >> Super.

[38:21] » No. >> No. No.

[38:23] » All right. >> So, um, request a motion for resolution.

[38:27] » I'll make a motion for the assignment of the conservation ement.

[38:29] » I'll second. >> Okay. All in favor? I.

[38:33] » Any opposed? Thank you. Motion passes unanimously.

[38:38] Next item, uh, report sort of not quite quarterly. It's a

[38:44] month over. I think >> Margo Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park.

[38:50] And I don't was it at our request that you delayed the I I think we did.

[38:54] » It was your request and then it was my request cuz last month I I went to

[38:59] Montana for my grandbaby a month early. So, congrats.

[39:04] » Thank you. Thank you. And I also see in the agenda today, I did not bring a

[39:10] PowerPoint presentation cuz I know you wanted to kind of keep things moving.

[39:15] So, um, so I just honoring people's time. Um, so the report that I submitted

[39:23] to the town board that you should all have, um, it does cover our activities

[39:29] through the end of the summer. Um, so it covers everything that happened in the

[39:34] second quarter, but then also because the summer just ended, I included those

[39:40] as well. So talking about uh what we've been doing with the Larry Gordon Outdoor

[39:45] Education Center that the uh building the old winter lodge was demolished and

[39:51] again thanks to the highway department, the building department who were able to

[39:55] get that done. We covered the costs of that as we discussed at the town board

[39:59] meeting and so now we're moving on with the next phase um and looking into

[40:05] developing building that will then replace that one that has been taken

[40:08] down. Um we just we got a survey done at that area cuz again with the new site

[40:13] work we need to know where the lay of the land is. Ray and Ryan came out to

[40:18] help with that. Uh we had a surveyor who named Matt Steves from Steve Matt Steves

[40:24] » came and they uh Proono uh did the points that we needed out there and that

[40:30] information went to the LA group. Again, Proono is developing the site plan so

[40:35] that we'll be ready to move ahead uh hopefully as we move into the fall with

[40:41] um the Ray Gordon Outdoor Education Center. Um,

[40:45] so I know the town is really I I think the most interested in many times in

[40:51] what the programming is and how we're serving the public. Um, so in the report

[40:56] you can see the list of all the different public programs that we had.

[41:00] So again, all of the spring programs and then running into the summer. Um, and we

[41:05] make uh make a big effort to try to reach all different audiences all the

[41:10] way from preschoolers up through retirees through the Academy for

[41:14] Lifelong Learning doing walks with those retirees and preschool nature hour and

[41:19] other programs so that we are covering all of the different uh people in our

[41:24] community who are looking for activities and programming. Uh so a lot of of

[41:30] course science and natural history and environmental based programs but also a

[41:34] lot of incorporating the arts into nature as well. So we have different uh

[41:40] nature writing in nature painting in nature sketching the sand plains

[41:44] different kinds of programs that attract different kinds of people and their

[41:48] interest in getting them out onto the properties at Camp Saratoga out on the

[41:52] trails out in nature which we all know is beneficial to people. And again,

[41:57] there's a very long list. I know Aeron's always looking at that list of all the

[42:01] different schools and community groups that we work with with these school

[42:05] after school and then the summer camp programs. So, um we work with, you know,

[42:10] from all over. I feel feel like we take care of our local schools really well

[42:14] and then also, you know, a broader community um reaching down to Albany

[42:19] County and Wler County and Warren County and so the surrounding areas. So really

[42:25] regionally um we're reaching all of those. Um so looking at um the graph

[42:32] there with the second quarter attendance um I left it as the second quarter

[42:37] because I wanted it to be able to be compared to past second quarters. So

[42:41] this does not include the numbers from the summer programs. You'll get that

[42:44] when you have the third quarter report. Uh but I was kind of blown away to see

[42:49] that it was over was 30% over the second quarter of last year and our wildlife

[42:55] festival some of you were there um was huge like at least double what it has

[42:59] been in past years in terms of people coming. So that was part of that

[43:03] increase but also the welcome cabin um having people come in and stop at this

[43:08] newly renovated building parking lot there at Saratoga. People are stopping

[43:13] in for maps, stopping in for information, coming in for programs. And

[43:17] so 20% of that number is people who were stopping in the cabin. And just in case

[43:21] you asked, I looked and thought, well, how many people have come so far this

[43:24] year? And we're at over 3,000. Just over 3,000 people have stopped through the

[43:29] door of the welcome cabin this year so far. So um those are all just really you

[43:35] know it's exciting to see that when you're working on things and then to get

[43:38] this kind of validation that you know they always say if you build it they

[43:42] will come from >> it is happening it is happening. So um

[43:48] so those are kind of the main points that I wanted to make. I also wanted to

[43:52] um thank Ryan um and all of the trail stores uh tornado update from us as

[44:00] well. you know, as you pass just souths of Camp Ser Road. Um, so I went flying

[44:06] up there to see and all the buildings were good, but um, the trails, the

[44:10] county trails at Eden Road are going to be closed probably for some time cuz

[44:14] there's tremendous tree damage on on the southern part of that parcel. Um, and

[44:21] then, um, at the town's Neilman parcel, our stewards went out and there's a lot

[44:26] again, the other tornado went through there. So, um, so we have it posted as

[44:31] closed on the advice of, uh, of the town to close Neilman for now. But I did get

[44:37] a report from the county right at the end of the day today that they have

[44:41] cleared the county trails at Calvis Perry. So, I take that to be that the

[44:46] bike trails are still closed. The county,

[44:48] » there's a lot of trees in the bike trails, Calvis Perry, and also the state

[44:52] trails entry back from Rose. State crews were in there. the uh the rangers

[44:58] clearing trees too. >> So that's that's our report on the the

[45:03] tornado as well. And so our trail stewards again are out there and they're

[45:08] GPSing trees down and then we send it to the state to the county. We get every so

[45:14] that everybody knows and so we can update them on the trails as well.

[45:21] I was out on the trails um following the vicinity of Camp Saratoga and you'd

[45:26] never know that you had a storm. >> Yeah.

[45:31] » And there were Yeah, there weren't as many just like a normal storm, you know,

[45:34] there trees coming down, but when I came in Friday morning to check on things, I

[45:39] believe the the car the the the forest ranger had already cleared the trail

[45:45] that was blocking the way up to Camp Saratoga. And then Roy and Greg were

[45:51] taking down the trees that fell in and around Camp Saratoga. They already had

[45:55] those cleared up. So, um, so >> quick action by everybody.

[46:00] » Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. So, thank you everyone. And I don't know if

[46:05] anyone has any other questions.

[46:10] Our our fall fundraiser is coming up. So some of you will hopefully and most of

[46:14] you will be able to get your hope your invitations in the mail while the bell

[46:17] blue will be wishing well again. This year we are honoring Ann and Ethan

[46:21] Winter for creating helping create the wonderful graphite range community

[46:27] forest here in the town of Wilton um in partnership with the county and the town

[46:32] also helps with that. >> Great. Thank you.

[46:36] » Thank you.

[46:41] Okay. Uh the next item is a request for a motion for a 30-day

[46:48] waiver uh for their liquor license for Canopy.

[46:53] » Second. >> And all in favor?

[46:56] » I. Anyone opposed? >> Okay. Motion passes unanimously. And

[47:00] Sue, this is a temporary. They're changing over to offering liquor. Yes,

[47:06] they they don't have anything now. they they can't offer your wine. So, so yes,

[47:11] this just expedites their their ability to start.

[47:21] Next item um is the addition of an electrical inspector to the town

[47:27] approved list and this is for residential inspections only. And the

[47:31] inspector is Timothy Staniac. uh he's got a

[47:37] master's electrician's license. So requesting and we have a list of in

[47:44] certified approved electrical inspectors uh in the town. So if anyone it would be

[47:50] on in within the building department uh listed on their pages.

[47:55] So, sorry, Steve.

[48:00] » Pardon? >> We did it.

[48:03] » We did. It was so It was very quick.

[48:07] » We were We were so efficient, Steve. >> I must have been blinking.

[48:13] » Um, so yes. So requesting a motion to add uh

[48:19] Timothy Staniac to our approved electricians list.

[48:25] » So just so I understand the vetting process to for adding uh electrical

[48:31] inspectors or others

[48:38] » they have to basically submit their credentials that they've been through.

[48:43] » Mhm. Once they've done that,

[48:47] » okay, they can be credential,

[48:51] uh, residential, commercial.

[48:57] Okay.

[49:01] » So, you're familiar with this level of qualification or comfortable. Okay. And

[49:05] this actually came up now in the tornado with at least one person who had their

[49:12] meter box was outside of their residence and then Nat Grid connected to it and

[49:17] Nat Grid needed them to have an electrical inspector come and verify

[49:22] that the circuitry was safe from their meter box so Nat Grid could then rering

[49:27] their wires to connect to it. Um, and it was good to be able to give this person

[49:32] a list because I think we had five companies on the list, but each company

[49:36] has like five different people listed individually.

[49:40] » So, this is if you don't know an electrician.

[49:43] » It's not just an electrician, it's an electrical inspector.

[49:46] » Okay. >> Many of which who are electricians.

[49:50] » Perform electrical inspections. >> You have to hire contract to do that.

[49:54] Got it. >> So, it's typically every town has a

[49:57] list. >> Mhm.

[49:59] That's what we got. Yeah. >> All right. I'll make a motion to

[50:02] approve. >> I'll second.

[50:03] » All in favor? >> I. Any opposed?

[50:07] » Motion passes unanimously. Next item um is a proposed amendment to

[50:14] the code uh building department fees and those are those minor fees from 150 to

[50:21] $300. There were two of them, >> right? from the time when we had amended

[50:25] the building department fees, but there was a typo and that was corrected. Um,

[50:30] and that was actually the public hearing, the first public hearing

[50:34] tonight that nobody had any comments on. >> So, uh,

[50:38] » could I ask a quick question? Did all of these recommended I know we voted on

[50:42] this. Did all these recommendations go through?

[50:45] » Mhm. >> H Okay.

[50:52] Yeah, because we the list on the spreadsheet, we looked at all the

[50:56] surrounding communities. What? >> No, I remember I remember doing this

[50:59] list, but I remember having objections to two things that I don't remember

[51:03] approving that are on here as with check mark. Um

[51:10] I I'll look back through the minutes.

[51:15] » I'm having this is on the accessory structure, residential, and portable

[51:19] storage unit. I don't have an issue with this. Yeah. Is there a motion?

[51:23] » Yeah. I'll make a motion to approve the accessory structure, residential, and

[51:26] portable uh storage unit um typo amendments. I'll second.

[51:31] » All in favor? >> I.

[51:33] » Any opposed? >> Passes unanimously.

[51:43] Maybe you made an objection, but we now voted you.

[51:46] » Probably. You're probably a hostile hostile actor.

[51:51] Or maybe >> I don't remember.

[51:53] » Powers of persuasion such that we can >> exactly.

[51:56] » We're going to have to Google that later.

[51:58] » Right. YEAH.

[52:05] » OKAY. Next item. Um so this is about the uh changes to the

[52:13] signs. Um and we're this was again part of the this was one of the public

[52:18] hearing items, right? >> Um so I'm requesting an a motion to and

[52:24] can I just clarify quickly of the two things that the gentleman mentioned that

[52:27] his his two objections one the timing for the election and two the reason

[52:32] we're doing it. One timing is not applicable because we're doing it it's

[52:35] going into effect after the election on December 1st. And two um why are we

[52:41] doing it? It's because our current sign code is unconstitutional and it's a big

[52:45] legal risk for the town to have it in our code because anyone who challenges

[52:49] it, the whole thing will be thrown out. So that's why this is something

[52:53] happening now and that is why we've chosen the date at least for the motion

[52:58] to have it go into effect. >> And actually didn't happen now. It

[53:03] happened several months ago well before. >> Yeah, this is around thection.

[53:07] » We've had this has been Yeah, we had we introduced it. We set a public hearing.

[53:12] We I think came back had some amendments um and set another public hearing just

[53:17] because I you know just wanted it to be ironclad that it's been introduced and

[53:22] given enough time for the public to consider.

[53:27] » All right. Um next item

[53:30] I'll make a motion to approve uh going into effect December 1st. I'll second.

[53:34] » All in favor? I. Any opposed? The motion passes unanimously.

[53:42] Next item, uh, building permit fee waiver.

[53:47] Do we do we have the verbiage of that?

[53:57] » I don't have it. But I also know that um one of the wonderful

[54:05] council that we have had a couple changes that they wanted to make. So let

[54:10] me pull those up. I didn't have an opportunity to revise.

[54:14] » Was that your email, sir? >> Yes. I think it

[54:30] You have it. I can read it if you'd like.

[54:42] I don't have it in that initial email. I have it right here.

[54:48] I did send it. So the essence of it is that the town is waving any building

[54:54] department permit fees resulting from damages sustained in the recent storm.

[55:01] Um and it's an extensive time period so that the construction has to begin by

[55:07] end of December. >> End of December.

[55:08] » So but if you want to go ahead with >> Do you want me to read it?

[55:11] » Email.

[55:14] if you want to. >> Yeah, I'll I'll read it and then and

[55:17] then we'll have a couple quick changes to make to it as well. Resolution number

[55:22] whatever of 2026 uh resolution temporarily waving town building

[55:25] department fees for repairs related to the August 27th, 2026 storm. Whereas the

[55:30] severe storm and tornadoes of August 27th, 2026 caused substantial damage to

[55:34] homes and other properties within the town of Wilton. And whereas the town

[55:37] board wishes to encourage the prompt and safe repair of storm related properties

[55:40] without imposing additional costs on affected property owners. And whereas uh

[55:45] chapter 4843 section 18 of the code of the town of Wilton provides that the

[55:49] building department fee schedule may be established and amended by resolution of

[55:52] the town board. Now therefore, be it resolved that the town board hereby

[55:57] temporarily amends the building department fee schedule to wave all town

[56:00] of building department permit and inspection fees for work necessary to

[56:04] repair or replace property damages result direct result of the August 27th,

[56:08] 2026 storm subject to the following. One, the permit application must

[56:13] identify the work as storm related and be submitted on or before December 31st,

[56:17] 2026. Two, the building inspector or code enforcement officer John shall

[56:22] determine whether the work qualifies as a repair or replacement of damage caused

[56:26] by the August 27th, 2026 storm and may request such information as is

[56:30] reasonably necessary to make the determination. Three, the waiver applies

[56:34] to repair or replacement of storm related property, including work

[56:37] necessary to comply with current code requirements, but does not apply to

[56:40] additions, expansions, or improvements unrelated to the storm damage. where

[56:44] where an application includes both qualifying and non-qualifying work.

[56:47] Ordinary fees shall apply to the non-qualifying work. And four, the

[56:52] waiver applies solely to fees imposed by the town of Wilton building department

[56:55] and does not wave any fee imposed by another governmental entity, third party

[56:59] inspection agency, other town department of board, or outside consultant. Be it

[57:03] further resolved that nothing herein waves or modifies any permit,

[57:06] inspection, building code, zoning, or other legal requirement applicable to

[57:10] the work. Only the applicable town building department fees waved. be it

[57:13] further resolved that this resolution shall take effect immediately and the

[57:17] town board may extend the application deadline by subsequent resolution.

[57:22] Uh ran this by the attorneys and they recommend and I

[57:27] would like to amend to include language uh adding or impede after wave and or

[57:34] contractor after consultant in paragraph number four.

[57:43] If you want to take a minute to read it, totally fine. I thought you had

[57:46] » item four. Where? >> Oh, paragraph paragraph number four.

[57:50] » Yeah. >> Um, add or impede after wave and or

[57:55] contractor after consultant.

[58:00] » So, it's not does not wave or impede. >> Yes.

[58:03] » At board or outside consultant or contractor.

[58:06] » Yeah.

[58:10] » Thank you. I'll make a motion.

[58:14] » I'll second it. >> All in favor?

[58:17] » I. >> Any opposed or abstensions? Motion

[58:21] passes unanimously. Thank you.

[58:25] Um the next item is a discussion of the repaving of Hilltop

[58:32] Drive and the first process in that will be

[58:36] milling that's done by Kubriki cuz we don't have the capabilities to do that.

[58:42] Correct Mike? >> Correct.

[58:44] » Okay. And there is a question that I'll pose to

[58:49] our legal counsel that there was issues between some of the parties around that

[58:56] property that resulted in a lawsuit and council has not been able to get some

[59:03] information from results of that lawsuit. But does the status of that

[59:09] make a difference? Can we go ahead and fill our obligations that we have a

[59:14] letter of credit from them to complete the paving?

[59:18] » One of the questions we had cuz this been going on for years was did the town

[59:21] ever adopt accept Hilltop Drive as a road?

[59:26] » If we didn't, it's not ours to do. And we were trying to go back years of

[59:30] paperwork to find out if we actually ever took over ownership of the road,

[59:36] which I think was very hard to find. But then the lawsuits were also

[59:40] happening. >> Right. The first part we have no clue

[59:44] and no development. Then is it I don't know if it's on is on our trips

[59:47] inventory. I I don't know. I don't we have no idea nor would we have a way of

[59:51] knowing if it's been formally adopted except there's a town road whether it's

[59:55] on our trips inventory or anything else or things that maybe um I don't know if

[59:59] Mike knows or not. >> As far as I know it was. I have the

[1:00:03] file. I seem to recall it is also but I could be wrong but um

[1:00:08] » well you know what it was there were contingencies.

[1:00:11] I believe that they were contingencies and we were trying to determine whether

[1:00:14] the contingencies were fulfilled. >> But Erin's absolutely 100% correct that

[1:00:19] we've tried pretty hard to find out details of the litigation and so far

[1:00:24] we've been spun along by the parties and the court doesn't have anything further

[1:00:27] to offer. >> Where does that leave us? Are both

[1:00:32] parties in in the lawsuit?

[1:00:37] Both parties in the lawsuit are still lying.

[1:00:41] » Well, we we only know of the council for one who made reference

[1:00:50] to a settlement agreement or a judgment of the court, but only made the

[1:00:54] reference without attaching the document. We tracked it down to the

[1:00:57] county clerk's office. found the agreement or or order I can't remember

[1:01:00] which but what was not found with it was whatever the substance was saying what

[1:01:05] does or doesn't happen to the road or more importantly whose responsibility

[1:01:10] for portions of the road who is responsible for portions of the road

[1:01:14] » so that lawsuit specifically does potentially impact

[1:01:19] » the outcome >> that could

[1:01:23] we'll try again >> I mean we had talked about blocking off

[1:01:25] the road not making accessible because it's not safe, right, once you get to

[1:01:31] the top with the way that it's crumbling. But there's also issues with

[1:01:34] drainage infrastructure up at the top that's now becoming more exposed and the

[1:01:40] more time goes by. >> Well, for sure, but if it's not our

[1:01:44] problem, we shouldn't be paying for it. And that's what it's we've just it's

[1:01:48] like kind of one rabbit hole after the other. But I think we need to find out

[1:01:51] whose responsibility it is. >> Could I just You're

[1:01:55] » talking how much money to repair pay that $100,000. Yeah.

[1:02:01] » Yeah. If we're getting stonewalled, who the what are we asking the parties that

[1:02:06] are not giving us >> an agreement that supposedly the parties

[1:02:11] made that was supposed to be part of the recorded order, but wasn't

[1:02:16] » it wasn't part of the recorded order? I mean, is it then is it legally binding?

[1:02:22] » Can't tell you unless we see it. >> Fair. Is there uh like anything we any

[1:02:28] action we could take that would require that as a part of discovery?

[1:02:32] » Only if we only if we started a litigation action

[1:02:35] » and we would probably be cheaper to start a litigation action.

[1:02:37] » We weren't a part of the original action. So we so we're not involved

[1:02:41] legally in terms of discovery. >> Who were the parties

[1:02:46] at >> ruin and

[1:02:49] correct? >> Okay. And can I ask when was this street

[1:02:54] built? 15 plus years ago. >> Okay. But we're not clear on the records

[1:02:57] of town acceptance. >> We talked about before this is that the

[1:03:03] lawsuit stated the road to be built the town's backs and town was taken over but

[1:03:07] it was never built back so it was never topped and the binder course that is

[1:03:11] there is crumbled and failed and we need we need to take it all out and start

[1:03:15] over. So that 100,000 is just for material. That doesn't include highway

[1:03:20] labor, cost of our trucks, >> right? Which should all be in turn

[1:03:24] counters suited against the developer. >> Right. And I I was on the planning board

[1:03:29] at the time and I remember that we had contingencies

[1:03:33] on that road before we adopted it. >> Are they in the planning board minutes

[1:03:38] from that time? I mean, do we is that a place to

[1:03:41] » That's part of the game. I don't even know like sh

[1:03:44] » we pulled the letter of credit because the bank was not going to read the

[1:03:47] letter of credit anymore. So

[1:03:56] » right this has been many many years in the works trying to figure out how to do

[1:04:02] this. >> I mean

[1:04:04] » so does some of this legal uncertainty exist for the very bottom portion

[1:04:09] because that was a conversation we were having. Should we just take

[1:04:13] » together? You can't just segregate >> the whole thing. It's all

[1:04:18] » sounds to me like if we were going to accept it if it's built to town specs

[1:04:21] and it's not built to town specs and now we are facing the consequence of it not

[1:04:25] being built to town specs that's probably not our road. And if we draw,

[1:04:29] you know, you stake a claim that it's actually ex parties road, let them come

[1:04:36] back and say, "No, it's not." And we'll say, "Okay, prove it."

[1:04:39] » Right? And then they have to bring court paper,

[1:04:42] » right? So they'll stop stonewalling at that point, right?

[1:04:45] » So is that a reasonable legal maneuver to

[1:04:52] » uh I'm not comfortable giving too much legal advice at dealing with public

[1:04:56] committee? >> Right.

[1:04:58] » Okay. So So we can So we're going into executive session discussion to

[1:05:03] executive session. >> Yes.

[1:05:04] » Yeah. Okay. >> Good.

[1:05:09] All right, next item. Uh, proposed lighting code

[1:05:14] update. Connor, >> lighting code. Okay. Code zone revision

[1:05:17] committee has spent, we've touched this, uh, for 3 months. Um, took half of a

[1:05:25] meeting, then a full meeting, and then maybe a quarter of a meeting. Um, has

[1:05:28] gone through a few different rounds of revision, but we have a proposed outdoor

[1:05:33] lighting chapter, an entire new chapter to the town code. Um Ryan was in those

[1:05:38] meetings, John was in those meetings. Um and this is something that we've heard a

[1:05:44] lot of at least I've heard a lot from residents

[1:05:48] uh who have concerns with lighting um who have reached out and asked what can

[1:05:55] we do and the answer is well we don't have anything on the books. Um, so this

[1:05:59] is an attempt to rectify that and give people what I believe is a uh reasonable

[1:06:05] course of action to take in the case of uh real trespass. Um it is

[1:06:14] light light trespass. Yeah. Yeah. Um I think it's fairly reasonable. It all

[1:06:18] hinges on a complaint um mechanism where nothing's going to be enforced

[1:06:24] uh willy-nilly. It's if a neighbor has a complaint, that is the point at which

[1:06:29] someone reaches out, you know, to the town and the town will uh investigate

[1:06:34] and see if it constitutes any sort of trespass under these these series of

[1:06:39] ordinances. Um I've had we had one person reach out I

[1:06:46] they saw on the website who seemed to be supportive of this um via email. I don't

[1:06:49] know who was on the thread um but happy to happy to chat. So my first question

[1:06:58] is a lot of things that we have issues with with their lights have been around

[1:07:04] for a long time. These are new reg regulations. What kind of teeth do we

[1:07:09] have to force someone to step up to what we're

[1:07:16] now instituting as a new code? >> I mean it depends on it depends on the

[1:07:20] trespass. If somebody has a light that is uh the size of five suns and nobody

[1:07:26] complains, there will be no action. If someone has a and this is exactly what I

[1:07:32] was trying to rectify. I remember knocking on on a door last year and

[1:07:36] speaking to uh to a resident who lived near a self-s storage facility. They're

[1:07:41] like, "Every night we're blinded. Every night we're blinded. We cannot sleep.

[1:07:45] What can we do?" I said, "I don't know. Look into it. Nothing on the books." In

[1:07:49] the case that uh there is genuine light trespass that is hurting residents where

[1:07:56] they can't sleep where it's it's impacting their quality of life. Yeah.

[1:08:00] They can complain to the town and the town can take action.

[1:08:02] » Um but a lot of that lighting is determined during the planning process

[1:08:07] too because they have to go through they they're submitting plans. The scope of

[1:08:12] light has changed so much with the the downward stuff instead of it being like

[1:08:16] a beacon in the sky. >> Yeah. And a lot of it's really just a

[1:08:20] shielding issue. >> Yeah.

[1:08:24] » Could I add to that? >> Um

[1:08:30] I think this is where the supervisor was coming from the question, but I could be

[1:08:33] wrong. But there are certain situations in which I would not necessarily agree

[1:08:38] with the blanket statement that the town can enforce or prevent. And there's

[1:08:42] something I think Tony asked about, correct me if I'm wrong, situations that

[1:08:46] have been in existence for a number of years.

[1:08:48] » Well, there is an item number seven, applicability to existing lighting.

[1:08:53] » Right? So, what I'm saying is is we can't guarantee that adopting a lighting

[1:09:01] code provision now can necessarily be successfully enforced against lighting

[1:09:06] that's existed for. That's my answer to your question.

[1:09:10] Yeah. >> So, a lot of what people then complain

[1:09:16] about in a sense we can't really do much about.

[1:09:20] » Well, well, it doesn't mean that if a complaint is filed and the town takes

[1:09:24] action that even someone who may have had, you know, that lighting in

[1:09:29] existence for years won't comply. You know, just is there a commercial

[1:09:35] property that's the issue or is it residential? for me personally.

[1:09:39] » Oh, never mind.

[1:09:43] » It's the Target warehouse all along Ballard Road. There their there lights

[1:09:48] along their their building. There are a few that are nicely aimed down. The rest

[1:09:52] are straight out. And when I have a migraine at the end of the day and it's

[1:09:57] dark out and I'm driving home, it's like right in your eyeballs and you see this

[1:10:01] haze of light in the sky. It's like major

[1:10:05] » Sorry, Ace Hardware. Mercedes. Yes, Ace Hardware

[1:10:09] » hardware that say Ace, >> but but they're also those are light

[1:10:12] fixtures that are what 30 ft up at the top of the building and which is

[1:10:17] different I guess if you have a residential neighbor who can just change

[1:10:21] the light bulbs or you know hopefully make some simple modifications.

[1:10:26] Um so >> usually commercial entities will comply

[1:10:31] if it's something that they can reasonably do.

[1:10:33] » Sure. you know um but if it's something for their safety or their operation you

[1:10:38] know then that's something needed to hold them why did the spread of the

[1:10:41] light >> right

[1:10:42] » right right >> there can also be issues as to timing

[1:10:46] when who was there first who/ what was there first

[1:10:51] » oh yeah you build your house right >> next to the existing lighting correct

[1:10:55] » and gee I'm unhappy on the golf course about mowers

[1:11:02] » yeah build it yeah built the house that backs through to the northway.

[1:11:05] Somebody's got to do something about those cars,

[1:11:06] » right?

[1:11:09] » So, without getting or without getting into too much detail, again, at an open

[1:11:13] public meeting, there's a legal principle called coming to the nuisance.

[1:11:18] » And like Ray says, if you build a house by the Northway and say, "Oh my god,

[1:11:22] look at the traffic in my backyard." State New York's not going to close down

[1:11:25] the Northway because there's traffic. >> Mhm.

[1:11:31] But all we're doing at this point is setting a public hearing.

[1:11:34] » Correct. >> Yes.

[1:11:36] » All right. So requesting anyone else have questions, comments here.

[1:11:43] » So request a motion to set public hearing refer to the San County October

[1:11:49] 1st 7 p.m. >> All right. All in favor?

[1:11:55] » I I Any opposed for abstensions? Motion passes unanimously. Sorry, who seconded

[1:12:00] that? >> Okay, thank you.

[1:12:05] » Uh, the next Oh, all right. So, we have some sort of public servicesy

[1:12:10] announcements that were not on the agenda. Um,

[1:12:16] September 13th, Sunday, uh, there is a historic home open house.

[1:12:23] It's I don't think it's an open house at their home. I think it's a presentation

[1:12:28] at the historical society.

[1:12:33] » Hold on. >> I had the invitation from the

[1:12:38] » historic presented to Andy's

[1:12:43] Parker. >> They're on Parker Road in

[1:12:47] Parker. >> Okay. So, it is it's a presentation the

[1:12:50] Spanos are going to do about their very historic home on

[1:12:54] » You can't show up there. No, we can't get a free house tour,

[1:13:00] but it's one of those houses. It's at the corner of Parkhurst and uh Gaylar

[1:13:06] Road that then turns into goes up the hill to the Wilton Grinfield, the old

[1:13:10] Styles Tavern, which is very, very, very old.

[1:13:13] » What time is it? >> So, September 13th,

[1:13:16] » 1 to 3. >> 1 to 3, but it's at the Wilton

[1:13:18] Historical Society, which is um five Parker Road.

[1:13:25] If people are not, keep reading it to show that they're not.

[1:13:28] » The next item um >> I'm getting in.

[1:13:33] » Where is everyone? >> Is uh Saturday, October 10th. It's our

[1:13:37] hazardous waste and electronic waste uh day, and you need to register it. The

[1:13:43] the registration spots are already up on the town website. You actually have to

[1:13:48] list what hazardous waste you're going to bring. Uh the electronic waste is has

[1:13:53] descriptions of what kind of things you can and cannot bring. Um so it's a

[1:13:57] reminder to please and hazardous waste is really the last one was about four or

[1:14:02] five years ago and it's sort of a big deal to put together and probably won't

[1:14:06] happen for a couple more years >> and it takes a lot of volunteers.

[1:14:11] Uh you said I'm sorry the 10th October 10th Saturday from 8 to 1

[1:14:18] » and sorry that is at the town hall property. The next item is bulk waste

[1:14:23] day, which is the following Saturday, October 17th. And it's at both town hall

[1:14:29] and Gavin Park from 9 to 1. And that's things like couches, refrigerators,

[1:14:34] stoves, and again, that has a list on our website of what kind of things you

[1:14:39] can bring. >> Just show up.

[1:14:41] » And that's right. You don't have to register. You can just show up. Time to

[1:14:45] » 9 to 1.

[1:14:51] All right. Uh, going on to committee reports. No.

[1:14:55] » Um, Ray, do you have Well, veterans in a certain fishing pier.

[1:14:59] » Oh, yeah. So, we have really nice turnout and perfect weather thankfully

[1:15:02] for the grand opening of the Roy McDonald Veterans Fishing Pier and uh

[1:15:08] Roy uh two of his daughters uh two of his grandkids, his wife uh were all

[1:15:13] there uh to share on that celebration with us. And um in fact I saw Roy gosh

[1:15:21] probably about a week later I ran into him. We had something to eat together

[1:15:25] and uh the guy was still smiling ear to ear about being recognized and his his

[1:15:30] wife and one of his daughters was with him when I saw him. Uh so it went really

[1:15:34] well. Uh I appreciate uh the town board support for the naming of uh the

[1:15:40] facilities and certainly uh Mike getting you know more accolades for the uh path

[1:15:45] work and other uh work done on the site. Um it came out really well. So uh yeah

[1:15:53] couldn't be happier. >> There's a beautiful crushed stone path

[1:15:56] in a big crushed stone isn't the right word.

[1:15:59] » Stone dust. stone dust path um in a big circle and then it branches off to go

[1:16:04] down to the stream with this big elevated fishing pier and already Ray

[1:16:08] you've seen >> a lot every time I I probably drive down

[1:16:11] to Northern Pines Road you know almost every day and there's almost uh always a

[1:16:17] a car or two or three in the lot. Um, I was there I think the day before

[1:16:22] yesterday uh after taking the tour of uh tornado damage uh to see what sort of

[1:16:27] damage there might be at the park there and uh there was a dad there with three

[1:16:32] kids uh fishing. Uh they weren't catching much but they were enjoying the

[1:16:36] heck out of it anyway. >> I want to tell one more story about the

[1:16:40] day when Ray and I showed up. There was a mom there biking with her two

[1:16:43] daughters and I had a Folds of Honor t-shirt on. They are a recipient of

[1:16:48] fulls of honor and a tone of towers family. They lost their husband and

[1:16:52] their dad who is in the Navy and she was like I don't even know what brought us

[1:16:55] here this day but I think we're meant to be here and they joined us for the they

[1:16:59] were there for the ribbon cutting too. So it was

[1:17:02] » it was great. >> Yeah. Yeah. So that's the other thing is

[1:17:04] uh if there is a group of people that's visiting more than any other um it's

[1:17:10] kids on bikes and uh you know anything about that John

[1:17:16] » but uh yeah I see you know kids in bike on bikes in there all the time so it's

[1:17:20] pretty cool so and there's a beautiful glade behind

[1:17:25] a row of I think arborvite big tall mature ones and then behind there

[1:17:30] there's some big pine trees so it's this shaded glade and when you step past the

[1:17:34] pine trees, all of a sudden you're looking down and it's a steep embankment

[1:17:37] cuz the stream kind of goes like this and you're right looking down on the

[1:17:41] stream. So, we want to get a nice bench in there.

[1:17:45] » Um, so it it's really has potential for being a a really nice site even if

[1:17:49] you're not a fisher fishing person. >> Oh, one other thing, you know, there's

[1:17:53] uh subsidized veteran housing just north of the site and a handful of the

[1:17:57] veterans that live there uh came down. Uh they all introduced themselves to

[1:18:02] Roy, you know, who's a decorated Vietnam veteran. So that that made the day extra

[1:18:08] special having those folks there. And we're looking to put in a path. There's

[1:18:12] a little shallow wetland wet area between that fishing pier area and those

[1:18:19] veterans apartments. So, we're looking to calling out an Eagle Scout

[1:18:25] to help put in, you know, sort of a little elevated raised through the

[1:18:30] wetland pathway to connect the two areas.

[1:18:34] » Um, anything else, Ray? >> Nope.

[1:18:37] » Okay. Uh, Aaron, not right now. I have a meeting with the

[1:18:42] school district on the 14th and Sue and I have a meeting with the

[1:18:47] uh county treasurer about the short-term rental information to come in October.

[1:18:53] » Great. And you had tons of stuff last month about all the sorts of things that

[1:18:57] you have in park. >> Okay. Uh Joe,

[1:19:01] » um the emergency service planning committee uh traditionally takes off the

[1:19:05] last Monday of the summer. So we did that and it also was good because they

[1:19:08] had had a long weekend. storm response. So what I said, what do

[1:19:13] we postpone or not have one this month? Okay. Yeah, fine. That's fine with us.

[1:19:19] No, no, we're in that group. I did just have a conversation with Mr. Kogan um

[1:19:24] going forward. So this month he and I will collaborate and try and make

[1:19:28] progress towards this revised code to present to Conor's revision committee

[1:19:33] for the uh nuisance alarm systems because what we have is antiquated. I

[1:19:39] did do a little research online what other communities do and it's just kind

[1:19:44] of you could reel because some communities

[1:19:49] do and some don't and it's just just a lot to absorb to

[1:19:55] move forward to figure out what makes sense for us. But for us, for our

[1:19:58] especially our our fire departments that are all volunteer, when you have alarms

[1:20:03] that are malfunctioning and they go off three times a day, four times a day, you

[1:20:08] know, five times in a week, these are volunteers who are dropping everything

[1:20:11] and leaving their jobs and rushing out and it's just it's a horrific waste of

[1:20:17] resources and it really taxes the fire departments.

[1:20:22] » Transportation Committee had a quick meeting yesterday.

[1:20:24] » Oh. Oh, so I want to announce we have a new member for alternative

[1:20:28] transportation committee and I think he faded Steve Wilcox is now has joined the

[1:20:33] alternative transportation committee. >> Good evening bunch.

[1:20:38] » Um and then uh it's not in the formal committee report but uh supervisor Sturm

[1:20:43] asked me to put together a land hawk group and we met here with Miss Baldwin,

[1:20:47] Mr. Riper, uh Dominic what? Deandre Deandre Deandre our IT man and Colin

[1:20:56] from Greensbury an audiovisisual design professional.

[1:21:00] » So he's going we talked with him um and expressed uh

[1:21:05] problems in this room and he understood and he knows how to do this and it's all

[1:21:10] about you know committee meeting presentation meetings and then you know

[1:21:15] public capability so being able to zoom better. So he's going to make up come to

[1:21:20] us with a presentation of a unified new system uh new microphones probably

[1:21:28] roughly sketch ideas perhaps an LED screen there LED screen here a camera

[1:21:34] here for if someone's zooming in if one of us are zooming in or a presentation

[1:21:39] they can see the audience and then a better one screen can be split two

[1:21:43] different views. So, that's sort of the idea. And then

[1:21:48] we're going to take the wall down. >> Yes.

[1:21:52] » We're talking about this is all prompted by the um overflow meeting from zoning

[1:21:56] board of appeals where extra folks had to go to the senior center. There just

[1:22:00] wasn't enough space here. So, we're going to take that wall down. We'll have

[1:22:04] more space from here to the lobby. Uh and a more enhanced

[1:22:10] presentation system. Nice. more to follow.

[1:22:14] » Great. Connor, do you have any?

[1:22:17] » Yes. Uh, we spent the last meeting I wrote some a draft of new multi-use

[1:22:25] path code. Uh, it's come to our attention that, you know, we only have a

[1:22:28] sidewalk code and we are building a multi-use path on car road. So, we need

[1:22:34] uh we need some code to say what that means because a sidewalk code is not

[1:22:38] going to apply to it. Um so did a draft there have realized that there is now

[1:22:45] actually a need for to distinguish three things multi-use paths sidewalks and

[1:22:49] trails and that's largely the maintenance responsibilities and the

[1:22:53] relative liabilities to people with easements to adjoin land owners. Um so

[1:23:02] that has been reddrafted. Ryan got me some notes today. I'm going to look

[1:23:05] through them. Uh and it's coming along. Um and I met yesterday with Eric and um

[1:23:12] woman Eva from Saratog Springs, a subcontractor in Nicerta to discuss some

[1:23:18] uh battery energy storage system uh code essentially. Eric has drafted

[1:23:24] some and we were getting feedback from that advisor. Uh it was I think it was a

[1:23:31] good meeting. >> Yeah.

[1:23:34] » And well yeah right and solar. >> Yeah. because we have a concern

[1:23:39] » because we have a moratorum >> on best. So we have and we have solar

[1:23:43] code on the books. The issue which um is you know is a real issue is that for

[1:23:49] solar if it's regulated as a public utility um the state can just come in

[1:23:54] and put it wherever they want. >> And the code that we have in the books

[1:23:57] right now is not written in such a way that can

[1:24:02] prevent that essentially. And the objective is not to prevent the use of

[1:24:06] public utility, but rather to site properly and ensure that should a solar

[1:24:11] provider come into town um that they are being treated reasonably

[1:24:18] um and that we don't have like a blanket ban on the books. um which essentially

[1:24:23] can give us a lot more leverage not only with any provider but also just to be

[1:24:30] fair and equitable and allow things that are cited well to happen.

[1:24:39] » Can I just add one thing to avoid a ban in disguise?

[1:24:44] » Yes, that's a big no no too because bans are easily defeated. There's no no teeth

[1:24:50] and people react happily to a ban where it's banned but

[1:24:54] means nothing in the courts are demolishing bans left and right. So you

[1:25:00] can't write a piece of code in disguise. This has got to be a wellthoughtout

[1:25:06] piece of legislation that addresses real issues and shows that we are thoughtful

[1:25:11] about how these facilities can be cited as much as people may regret it. But the

[1:25:18] thing is the code can speak for itself and most of the time we're going to be

[1:25:22] facing less than 25 GW anyway whether it's for gas or for solar. So like won't

[1:25:30] necessarily find our legislation overly burdensome or substantially burdensome.

[1:25:36] I can't remember the words. So it's just to have give us the best chance we have

[1:25:42] to have control as much control as possible in citing these things to keep

[1:25:47] community. That's what this channel,

[1:25:52] » right? Even though we may be the the collide

[1:25:59] money if they want money to be made and so invest and you know that's the

[1:26:05] biggest challenge. >> Thank you.

[1:26:09] » Great. All right. Um our controllers report Maria.

[1:26:15] » Thank you. So the first item is our budget transfers. We only have one. Uh

[1:26:20] last month, if you recall, we added the open form development to our road

[1:26:24] maintenance schedule related to some poor samples that were taken and uh you

[1:26:30] know, recommendation made to go ahead and and pave that section of town. Um as

[1:26:35] a result of doing that work, we need to purchase more cherry asphalt solid for

[1:26:40] the machines. So that cost is $11,340. And that money is coming from our

[1:26:47] maintenance of road blacktop budget. >> I'll make a motion to approve that

[1:26:51] budget transfer. Second. >> All in favor?

[1:26:54] » I. Anyone opposed or abstaining? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Our

[1:26:59] second category is the 2026 budget amendments. And the first three items

[1:27:04] are related in that the summer camp salaries went over budget this year. uh

[1:27:10] they went over budget because and this is this represents the totality because

[1:27:15] summer camp is now over. So we're able to analyze the salaries portion. We

[1:27:19] certainly haven't received all of the invoices yet. We haven't gotten the bus

[1:27:22] transportation invoice. We won't get that for several months. So this might

[1:27:26] be, you know, to be revisited for summer camp in general, but salaries in

[1:27:31] particular went over budget. And I questioned um about that as to to why.

[1:27:36] Uh apparently there have been staffing um challenges in relation to ensuring

[1:27:42] that there is the proper ratio between counselors and campers. In addition to

[1:27:46] that, we had accepted more campers. So we needed more stackers. Um so for

[1:27:51] several reasons, we went over budget by approximately $21,000.

[1:27:55] Um so pulling money from the additional monies that we received as a result of

[1:28:00] having more campers, we had more fees that we collected for field trips and

[1:28:04] for summer camp fees. So, we're able to use some of that to offset the salary

[1:28:08] cost. And in addition, I'm going to use some of our surplus and interest in

[1:28:12] earnings to offset the remainder. So, that's items 1, 2, and three. Item four

[1:28:17] is related to summer campus for program supplies. So, more campers means more

[1:28:21] cost for supplies that they needed, so arts and crafts and so forth.

[1:28:26] And I'm just going to make a comment about the summer camp. It is so

[1:28:31] successful that when they open registration in March, it's filled

[1:28:35] within a couple hours. >> Sorry.

[1:28:40] 6 minutes. >> So successful does work overtime.

[1:28:45] » So it's pretty remarkable. >> It is. It's a excellent program. It's

[1:28:49] very popular obviously. Um, and I am going to be working with Ross and Matt

[1:28:55] as far as the revenue schedule for the um the various tiers that we have. So,

[1:29:00] Wilton residents, non-residents, non-school district residents, um, you

[1:29:04] know, just to kind of revisit because everything goes up. The cost of salaries

[1:29:09] obviously rehab, you know, the cost of everything goes up. So, um, we're going

[1:29:14] to be taking a look at that. Right now, the fee that somebody pays for 6 weeks

[1:29:19] of sending their child to full-time summer camp every day, 6 hours, 7 hours

[1:29:24] a day, is in the range, it's less than $1,000. And if you add field trips to

[1:29:28] it, it's less than $1,500. So, it it's a really very very good deal, you know, as

[1:29:34] opposed to paying for daycare or something over the summer while you're

[1:29:38] working to have someplace for your child to go. Um, hence, you know, between that

[1:29:42] and most importantly the excellent programming, it's um a very popular

[1:29:46] program. So, I think that we're going to take a look at that and hopefully not

[1:29:51] run into any overages next year. I would like to approach this as a break even

[1:29:56] activity. Not that we want to make a profit, but we certainly don't want to

[1:29:59] run into these types of situations where we're so far under budget.

[1:30:05] » Okay. Thank you. So, that was that took us through items 1 through four. Items

[1:30:09] five, six, and seven are related and are pertaining to our tornado cleanup. Um,

[1:30:15] we have used uh Richard Sears uh for a day that we're being charged at $18,000.

[1:30:22] In addition, we've rented a chipper at the cost of nearly $4,000. So, I'm

[1:30:27] asking for $22,000 in total coming from two places. One is our interest earning

[1:30:34] surplus and the other is our emergency disaster budget which of course this

[1:30:37] fits that category 2. Um so we had $10,000 in our emergency disaster. I'm

[1:30:42] using all of that plus an additional 12,000 from interest in earnings to

[1:30:46] create a transfer to the highway fund from the general fund of a total of

[1:30:50] 22,000. The next three items are pertaining to

[1:30:56] the Hilltop Drive and I know that there's going to be additional

[1:31:00] discussion in executive session. Um I want to add to that that there is a

[1:31:05] letter of credit that we drew last July, so a year ago July to the tune of

[1:31:11] $72,000 and as Mike had said uh a few minutes earlier, the total estimated

[1:31:16] cost right now is about $100,000 to do what we plan or contemplate doing on

[1:31:20] Hilltop Drive. So the $72,000 that we took from the letter of credit, we book

[1:31:25] as deferred revenue on the balance sheet. Now that we're contemplating

[1:31:28] actually using the money as an expense, we can match the revenue to the expense.

[1:31:32] Take that money off the balance sheet, put it as revenue. So the forfeite of

[1:31:36] deposits will be increased by coming off of the balance sheet and going onto the

[1:31:41] income statement. And then the remainder, the $28,000 that we'll need

[1:31:45] to get to the $100,000 will be taken from interest and earnings surplus. So

[1:31:50] that covers items 8, 9, and 10. Are we holding off on that or are we going to

[1:31:54] go ahead and just get that? So that that therein is the question. So I mean, we

[1:31:59] can we could move the money now so that if it's determined between now and the

[1:32:04] next uh budget meeting that there we can go ahead and do it, the money is there

[1:32:09] to do it. >> If if we can't do it, then we'll put the

[1:32:11] money back. >> Yeah. I'd be I'd be inclined to go with

[1:32:14] their recommendation is to fund it. Yeah. Yeah, for London and then you know

[1:32:19] so it's there to use because I think that paper is going if we can proceed

[1:32:23] paper needs to start there needs to start.

[1:32:26] » Okay, thank you. And then items 11 and 12 which are the last two items on this

[1:32:30] category. Um, there is a an initiative to do some work to have CT now do some

[1:32:37] site work at Smithbridge Road to pretty much bring up to speed from the last

[1:32:42] time CT now ML looked at Smithbridge Road to now to to bridge that that span

[1:32:48] of time maybe it was two years that they've done that work at least.

[1:32:51] » Yeah. >> It's really an engineering assessment of

[1:32:54] the road right over the dam. Right. >> Just a visual assessment in comparison

[1:32:58] to where it was prior. Right. So that cost is $2,800. We

[1:33:05] received the uh proposal for that and that's going to come from interest

[1:33:09] earnings as well to transfer from the general fund to the highway fund

[1:33:14] appropriation. So those were the the 12 budget

[1:33:18] amendments. I have a motion. I'll second.

[1:33:22] » So all in favor I >> any opposed or abstensions? Motion

[1:33:26] passes. >> Thank you. And on the the back side, I

[1:33:29] have some other items on personnel. Um Marcus Sila, he's currently a seasonal

[1:33:35] worker in um our building department, and he is available to fill the

[1:33:41] full-time position for the building inspector that was vacated by John

[1:33:45] Purley in January. If he's approved, Mr. Consilla's rate of pay would continue as

[1:33:50] what it is now, at $40 an hour, and it's going to be effective pending the

[1:33:54] completion of paperwork. Uh we estimate, you know, that that should be around the

[1:34:00] 22nd of September. >> Okay.

[1:34:02] » All right. Request a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve, Mr.

[1:34:06] Gilla. >> Second.

[1:34:08] » All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Abstensions? Motion

[1:34:12] passes. >> Thank you. And then we have our JCAP

[1:34:14] grant application. Um, Justice David Town is requesting to apply to the state

[1:34:18] for funding from the Justice Court Assistance Program. The court wants to

[1:34:23] digitalize their records. Um and so they're going to apply for $30,000. Um

[1:34:29] they had received a quote in that amount. Uh the quote is just to get an

[1:34:33] idea of about how much it would cost. Um but they would have to go through the

[1:34:38] regular procurement channels to you know actually have the work done. So it's

[1:34:42] just to apply for the grant and then the state will review it and if the money is

[1:34:45] granted then the town can you know fund the budget for that. Make a motion. I'll

[1:34:51] second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes.

[1:34:56] » Thank you. And lastly, this isformational only um power ORPA money.

[1:35:00] The state local rescue fund uh money that came from the treasury uh has been

[1:35:05] completely spent as of December 31st, 2025.

[1:35:09] So, um we have filed all of our reports and we received information from the

[1:35:15] Treasury that they have reviewed our reporting and no additional reporting is

[1:35:20] necessary. So at this point we're done with reporting. We're done with the

[1:35:24] spending obviously and um no additional work is done as needed. So that was

[1:35:29] justformational. Okay. Thanks for your work on that.

[1:35:33] Thank you. >> Thank you.

[1:35:34] » It was very

[1:35:40] » All right. Uh thank you Maria. And I'm making a motion to go into executive

[1:35:44] session and >> the generic reasons for executive Oh no.

[1:35:51] Sorry. >> I make a motion going to executive

[1:35:55] session for discussions regarding proposed, pending, or current litigation

[1:35:58] in medical, financial, credit, or employment history of a particular

[1:36:01] person or corporation or matters leading to appointment, employment, promotion,

[1:36:05] demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of that person or

[1:36:09] corporation. >> I'll second.

[1:36:12] » Thank you. Can you give me a general idea of the

[1:36:15] proposed topic? Cerseiary >> certary. This one.

[1:36:20] » Okay. >> Certary and um hill personnel and

[1:36:25] hilltop. >> Okay. The hilltop one won't fit the

[1:36:29] executive session war criteria, but we can talk attorney client privilege

[1:36:33] » even though there's litigation involved and we're

[1:36:36] » not involving us.

[1:36:41] » Okay. >> All right.

[1:36:43] » All in favor? I >> All in favor? I

[1:36:52] » I'm going to rephrase that. All in favor?

[1:36:56] I >> are you guys in favor of the motion to

[1:37:00] go? I Okay. Any abstensions? No.

[1:37:09] I understand.

[1:37:16] All in favor? I. Anyone opposed? >> At your own peril, say no.

[1:37:22] Unanimously. >> Passed. Okay. Uh, no action taken uh

[1:37:27] coming out of uh executive session. And I will make a motion to adjourn.

[1:37:33] » Also second. Who second? Aaron. Oh, Aaron. All in favor?

Town of Wilton NY - Town Board Meeting - September 2026

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