Date: December 14, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers:
Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson, Kurkowski all present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the November 24th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Nov. 24th, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Trustee Pierson, abstained. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Glen: Contract #1 is done for the season but will be back in the spring to finish the restoration work.
Contract #2- Blue Heron, has not reached substantial completion as of 12/14/2010. Had a truck come to pump out the muck at the bottom of the manhole for the reed bed. No rails or pump in yet.
Contract #3- pulling wires, running conduit, putting lights in the pre-treatment bldg.
Contract 4 & 5 – No louvers or fans in yet. Contractor was concerned about glass in the doors getting broken.
Change orders for Contract 5- J.V.Warren - regulator by the tank, $522.00, was installed. Also the power vents, all piping and heaters, $6,548.93. Also received a proposal from Stilsing to wire all power vents and put in conduit and wire the heaters at a cost of $3,520.00. These change orders were previously approved and the work is done.
Change orders – Stilsing – installation of conduit from master control unit to clarifier building, digging, backhoe, backfilling 20ft. trench, change in feed wire size to influent pumps, pulling wire from master control unit, pre treatment building, install conduit & Explosion poof fittings for sludge pump pit on north side of clarifier bldg., total $10,214.00, and new conduit to backwash building $6,215.00. Total change $16,429.00
Resolution to approve Change order for Contract #3, Stilsing Electrical Inc. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Change order from Blue Heron – release valves, backwash building total $6,104.48, installing 18” sanitary sewer, $4,516.04, unforeseen conditions to install 8” plug valve and piping for reed bed under drain system, $6,906.96, extra work in effluent pump station, $4,656.58.
Resolution to approve Change order for Contract #2, Blue Heron made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Resolution made to not approve an extension for substantial completion date for Contract #2, Blue Heron, by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Tom Hallock – Fire Chief
Reported that the ambulance is out of service.
The firemen would like to update the stove in the kitchen for the auxiliary at the fire house. They would like to plumb the building for Natural Gas. The fire dept. will pay for this to be done, just asking the board if they are ok with this. Also, they will be getting supplies at Northrup Supply but do not have an account with them, so asked if they could charge to the village and then they will pay the bill.
Motion to approve made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Public Comment:
Snowmobilers and business owners from the area were invited to come to the board meeting to discuss the snowmobiles on the village streets. Trustee Kurkowski explained to them that the board is concerned about the blacktop being ruined that was just put down this fall. Also, expressed the concern of the snowmobiles driving on the sidewalks as well. Several members expressed there concerns about the loss of business for the local businesses. It was asked why tickets are not being written when the people abuse the rights of the village streets. After a long discussion, Mayor Frohne thanked the people for coming to discuss this issue and it was left that Mayor Frohne will speak to the St. Troopers, Otsego Co. Sheriff’s, and DEC and see just what their limitations are for enforcing the village laws, and ask them to attend a meeting along with the snowmobilers so everyone has a better understanding of the laws and how they can be enforced.
Theresa Oaks spoke to the board about the Christmas tree lighting. She was disappointed about the lack of show of the village board members. John O’Connor and Mayor Frohne were the only ones there. She asked if the members could at least call her to let her know who was coming or not coming. She also asked about why the village would not give a $25.00 monetary gift for the Santa for coming each year. It was explained to her that it is illegal to give a monetary gift to any private individual. Trustee O’Connor thanked Theresa for volunteering her time and putting this whole ceremony together each year.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #13- General Fund- $13,086.73, Water Fund - $2,235.94, Sewer Fund - $1,345.46, Cemetery Fund-$113.75,Trust and Agency - $64.96, Capitol Projects - $113,639.58. Total: $130,486.42.
Motion to approve abstract #13 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk’s report for Nov. 2010 – Clerk fees taken in $45.75, registrar fees taken in $30.00. Total check given to the treasurer for $75.75.
Clerk reminded the board members about the Christmas luncheon being held on Dec. 23rd. at 12:00 pm. in the Memorial room, put on by Diane and Donna.
Clerk asked the board if they wanted the village office opened on Dec. 24th and if so, what hours? After discussion, was decided to close the office on Dec. 24th, in observance of Christmas and to close the office on Dec. 31st. in observance of New Years Day. The clerk would like to thank the board for this. A notice will be put on the doors of the building and also in the Pennysaver.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Donna asked the board what to do about Theresa Oaks being billed as an inside user of water/sewer, when it should be outside. After discussion, was decided the treasurer will write her a letter and inform her of this.
The DEC informed Donna that the Village has never been certified for the license to use pesticides. This will be taken care of on line and there is no charge.
There is still a big hole in the ceiling in the library, so Donna called Ed Bello’s about checking it. His men suggested two ways to take care of the problem; 1) to tear the plaster down and replace it or, 2) to put 2x4’s up and sheet rock and then put drop ceiling with a vapor barrier and rigid insulation. After discussion, was agreed to go with the 2nd. option, and wait for two weeks so Bob Graepel can do the work.
Treasurer needs two new accounts set up for disability insurance and two transfers done to same accounts.
Resolution made to approve two new accounts for disability insurance, FX9055.8, with transfer of $27.00 from FX9089.8, other employee benefits, and G9055.8 with transfer of $54.00 from G8120.1, Sanitation T/Lines P.S., made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Balance sheets budget reports and bank reconciliations were passed out.
A check was received from Otsego Co. in the amount of $78,202.00, the breakdown of this check is as follows: re-levied sewer-$16,033.69, re-levied water-$9,364.33,real property tax-$46,925.82, penalties & interest-$4,400.23, and special assessments(property maint.) - $1,477.93.
Cemetery investments, 2 stocks in the stock management account, Donna would like to sell. Donna met with the broker from the bank. The bonds that we have are callable. After discussion, was agreed for Donna to put a sell order in for these before any more money is lost on them.
Resolution made to approve the treasurer to sell the Lakeview Cemetery two remaining stocks and bonds made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Donna then gave a report to the board of the contractors meeting that was held on Dec. 10th. and also about the conference call from EFC that included the Village Attorney, Donna, Lamont and several people from the EFC. The problem is that Blue Heron has received payments from the village for the project but has not paid their suppliers. Also, there will be $800.00 a day held out of their pay due to not meeting the substantial completion date, which totaled $14,400.00 as of 12/14/2010. This will not come out of the retainage account.
Motion made to go into executive session to discuss personnel made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Motion to come out of executive session made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Mayor Frohne:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Passed out information he had gotten from the Village of Cooperstown regarding the codes enforcement and issuing tickets to illegally parked vehicles. Trustee Patrick suggested reviewing this information and maybe the Village of Richfield Springs could follow this pattern. The question arose about the crossing guard, if it is necessary to have him for 1 ½ hrs. when the school is a closed campus all but for the seniors. If this could be worked out, he would have more time to do zoning work. Trustee Pierson offered to speak to Penny Harrington at the school about this issue and possibly becoming a 100% closed campus. After discussion, it was decided to bring this back to the next meeting.
Trustee Patrick offered to work on the codes for code officer and water/sewer.
The subject was brought up about overtime pay. As it is set up now, the employee has to work 40 hrs. before they get any overtime. The fair way for this to be is after working 8 hrs. then if called in for emergency that time would be overtime.
Resolution to make a motion was made by Trustee O’Connor and 2nd. by Trustee Pierson to make vacation days, sick pay and personal time to count as regular hours for overtime purposes.
Also brought to the boards attention was a complaint from Ray Duncan, on Center St. about the water that is in his yard and gets underneath his trailer, because there is no drainage. As was discussed in the past, this is on Mr. Duncan’s property therefore; it is his responsibility to correct the problem.
Trustee Kurkowski;
Concerned about the number of calls the ambulance makes.
The Tisdale lot in the cemetery is not on the map or on the cards. Trustee Kurkowski is very concerned about the situation of the cemetery records. Donna and Diane will work on this as soon as possible. Was suggested to have the plots all probed. Before any burials are to be done, a deed must be provided.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson:
Brought a proposal for a new truck for the DPW, from STADIUM International Trucks
1-2011 international 2011 4300M7 SBA 4x2 trucks - $62,685.00
1-TENCO Plow/body pkg (Wayne’s Welding) $26,270.75
TOTAL $88,955.75
Any order for truck will take 6-7 mo. for delivery. This is also under state contract.
Mayor Frohne asked what the status of the water break on Union St. and South St. After discussion, was decided Donna will call Attorney David Merzig about the legalities and then have Jim Malinowski talk to Bob Hugick to do the repairs.
Larry Jouben then presented the village board with a rebate check from the Volunteer Fire Dept. NYS Ins. in the amount of $1108.49.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell,
Village Clerk
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
November 24, 2010
Date: November 24, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers: Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Patrick, O’Connor, present. Trustee Pierson absent, Trustee Kurkowski, late.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the November 9th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Oct. 27, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Chris Y.- here for Glen this week.
The Blue Heron Co.has finished the sand on reed beds, installed the reeds, stacking deliveries of blocks for reed bed, working on pre-treatment building and finished the framing, FRP siding and roofing is on, and the electrician can now wire the building, which is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 29th to do this.
J.V. Warren Co, has done the plumbing in the bathroom and put the new sink in, hung the heater in the filter room, moved old propane tank into new location, problem with regulator so Paraco had to be called for service call, because with everything unhooked there is no heat in building. Was repaired before the end of the day. With the new regulator the heating should be more efficient and less costly. Colors for the louvers and exhaust fans and dampers were picked by the village and it is a ten day time frame before they would be shipped.
The roof on the clarifier has about 20% left to be finished. They were short two panels and this held up the process.
J.V.Waren will not have the fans and louvers done at the time of the substantial completion date.
Blue Heron has 3 items to complete: 1) the start of the automatic bar screen, Dec. 2nd. ,2) start up the pump that will pump to the reed beds, 3) the installation of the stainless steel airline.
Also painting the process room floor that was an add alt on a change order needs to be done.
Substantial completion date is November 26, 2010. Donna has been in touch with the village attorney about how to handle the fines to any company who has not met the substantial completion date.
Nick Green presented a change order for Contract 5 to the board: 3 items on this change order: 1) flu vents out of the heaters were larger than 3”, had to be expanded to 4”, 2) the valves to the heaters were bad, 3) installing the instantaneous water heater. Total amount for this change order is $2,667.05.
Motion made to adopt a resolution to accept the change order for Contract #5 at the cost of $2,667.05 to cover the flu vents, valves to heaters and install instantaneous water heater, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Contingency budget balance as of Nov. 24th, 2010 is $47,493.00. This is below the $55,000.00 needed for sewer jetter, $8,000.00 short. Chris reviewed Glens over/under report, when he zeroed up projected numbers out and put in all total numbers to date, come up with $180,000.00 good to the village, plus the $47,493.00. Chris and Nick will talk with Glen to get more of an exact number.
Chris passed out a report to the board members concerning the number that was negotiated with the G.DeVincentis contractor. $107,000.00, their claim is they had conflict with existing water services in the same trench as the sewer laterals. They identified 36 laterals conflicts out of 100 laterals. Lamont does feel they have a legitimate claim because they should not have had to dig around water services. Based on the contract the contractor has to notify the Engineers within 30 days of a claim, 13 of the laterals are before the 30 days. So, 23 laterals are a legitimate claim. Price they had per hour and per lateral and lateral crew, submitted a cost of $811.00 per lateral crew, based on Glens notes and the negotiations, the cost came down to $623.53 per lateral crew per hour. Only thing not negotiated was the amount of hours spent on each water service conflict. On average they would install 5 laterals per day, they said they were losing 2 sewer laterals per day which is where the 3.2 hrs. figure came from. Nick wants to talk with Glen because he is the field man, then meet with Donna, Chris Y. and Glen to discuss this.
Nick reported on the SPDES reports, 3 draft reports on Chris Butlers desk at WWTP and the budget is at $18,000.00. These reports are due Dec. 1st. 2010.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #12- General Fund- $25,770.47, Water Fund - $33,916.47, Sewer Fund - $10,589.88, Trust and Agency - $670.16, Total: $70,946.98.
Motion to approve abstract #12 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk passed out report to all members of outstanding property maintenance fees for the yr. of 2010, amount of $5772.36.
Clerk asked board members to approve her to attend a grant application information session workshop on Jan. 4th. 2011 in Wampsville with no charge. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk passed out a letter from Cub Scout Pack 114 thanking them for giving a second chance to continue having their meetings in the Boy Scout room of the village building. In return, they would like to provide a community service project for the village. The board members said they would think on this and try to come up with an answer to the scouts.
Clerk sent a letter out to 2 snowmobile clubs and 3 village businesses regarding an invitation to come to the Dec. 14, 2010 board meeting to discuss the upcoming snowmobiling season and the use of the village streets.
A request was given to the village clerk from the Lions Club for the use of the Spring Park on Dec. 18th, 2010 from 10:15-1:15 for their annual Santa Party for the children / free sleigh rides and hot dogs and hot chocolate. All members approved.
The Boy Scouts asked permission to use the parking lot at the village office to sell Christmas trees for the next 4 weekends. All members approved.
Theresa Oaks called and asked clerk to remind all village board members of the tree lighting ceremony to be held on Nov. 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm. in Spring Park.
Clerk informed the board members that now that tax collection time is over for the clerk, the $200.00 for the petty cash was put back into the general fund.
The Christmas luncheon put on by Diane and Donna will be on the 23rd. of Dec. at 12:00 in the Memorial Room. Invitations will be passed out.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Mr. James McKee’s son, Peter McKee, would like to put a veteran’s marker on his father’s gravesite. Usually a $50.00 fee is charged for this service and the cemetery sexton puts it down. Donna asked the board if it was ok to waive this fee being that Mr. McKee left money to the Lakeview Cemetery when he passed away. The members all agreed to waive the fee.
It was brought to Donna’s attention that Theresa Oaks also known as Theresa Salon of Beauty, has been being billed as an inside user for many years and is an outside user. After discussion, was decided that this needs to be checked into further. Jim Malinowski has a copy of the signed agreement and will bring into the office for the file.
In the petty cash drawer that is used for making change for w/s payments and other payments brought into the village office, has $200.00 in it daily. Donna has asked to change the amount to $150.00 instead.
Resolution was made to approve the decrease to $150.00 to be kept in the petty cash drawer daily made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Transfers: 1) Transfer from A9901.01 interfund transfer Water $16,000.00 to FX 5031, 2) Transfer from A3301.03 interfund transfer Library $2,000.00 to L5031.
Motion made to adopt a resolution to approve transfers by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
It was brought to the board’s attention that the Fire Dept. is not following proper procedure for spending. A voucher was put in for $3,328.85, which included 2 suits, turnout gear, as well as other equipment. This was not brought to the board for approval. After discussion, was decided that the Mayor will speak to Chief Hallock about following the procurement policy procedures which states that any purchases up to $250.00 can be done without approval, $250.00 to $1000.00 must be put in the procurement policy book and approved by 2 board members, $1000.00 - $5000.00 prior board approval and at least 2 estimates from suppliers, $5000.00 to bid limits, prior board approval and at least 3 estimates from suppliers.
The fire contract with the Town of Richfield has been approved.
The chimneys on the Library bldg. are done and look great and there is still some grant money left to paint the trim.
Mayor Frohne:
Brought to the boards attention the water leak that was found on Union St. and South St. This is outside the village line and the village needs a letter from Mike Kress for approval to proceed with a solution. The Attorney for the Village said the homeowners should be given the option to take care of this themselves or have the village make the arrangements to have the job done and bill the residents. Estimated cost was $500.00 - $700.00, but it could be more depending on what they find. After discussion, was decided that a letter will be written to the homeowners explaining the problem and what the two options for repair are. Motion was made to approve a resolution to authorize Jim Malinowski and Tom Shypski to shut off water to find out who is on the line, send a letter to each party and give them 10 days to respond, by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Trustee Patrick:
We are still waiting for workers comp. insurance from Canadarago Electric before he can put the light up for the flag pole in front of the Village office.
Was reported that Jessie Van Court received his first check for the re-imbursement of health ins. from the village.
Trustee Patrick stopped at the Cooperstown village office and asked how they handled the property maintenance problems. He has information and will bring this back to the next meeting.
There is a lady that walks the village streets every morning and picks up the papers. Was wondering if every morning a man from DPW could travel the streets to pick up papers to keep the village looking nice. After discussion, no decision was made.
Trustee Kurkowski;
Asked if anyone has noticed the mess behind the Rudenko property on Main St.? This is in the hands of the DA at this time.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson: Absent
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers: Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Patrick, O’Connor, present. Trustee Pierson absent, Trustee Kurkowski, late.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the November 9th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Oct. 27, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Chris Y.- here for Glen this week.
The Blue Heron Co.has finished the sand on reed beds, installed the reeds, stacking deliveries of blocks for reed bed, working on pre-treatment building and finished the framing, FRP siding and roofing is on, and the electrician can now wire the building, which is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 29th to do this.
J.V. Warren Co, has done the plumbing in the bathroom and put the new sink in, hung the heater in the filter room, moved old propane tank into new location, problem with regulator so Paraco had to be called for service call, because with everything unhooked there is no heat in building. Was repaired before the end of the day. With the new regulator the heating should be more efficient and less costly. Colors for the louvers and exhaust fans and dampers were picked by the village and it is a ten day time frame before they would be shipped.
The roof on the clarifier has about 20% left to be finished. They were short two panels and this held up the process.
J.V.Waren will not have the fans and louvers done at the time of the substantial completion date.
Blue Heron has 3 items to complete: 1) the start of the automatic bar screen, Dec. 2nd. ,2) start up the pump that will pump to the reed beds, 3) the installation of the stainless steel airline.
Also painting the process room floor that was an add alt on a change order needs to be done.
Substantial completion date is November 26, 2010. Donna has been in touch with the village attorney about how to handle the fines to any company who has not met the substantial completion date.
Nick Green presented a change order for Contract 5 to the board: 3 items on this change order: 1) flu vents out of the heaters were larger than 3”, had to be expanded to 4”, 2) the valves to the heaters were bad, 3) installing the instantaneous water heater. Total amount for this change order is $2,667.05.
Motion made to adopt a resolution to accept the change order for Contract #5 at the cost of $2,667.05 to cover the flu vents, valves to heaters and install instantaneous water heater, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Contingency budget balance as of Nov. 24th, 2010 is $47,493.00. This is below the $55,000.00 needed for sewer jetter, $8,000.00 short. Chris reviewed Glens over/under report, when he zeroed up projected numbers out and put in all total numbers to date, come up with $180,000.00 good to the village, plus the $47,493.00. Chris and Nick will talk with Glen to get more of an exact number.
Chris passed out a report to the board members concerning the number that was negotiated with the G.DeVincentis contractor. $107,000.00, their claim is they had conflict with existing water services in the same trench as the sewer laterals. They identified 36 laterals conflicts out of 100 laterals. Lamont does feel they have a legitimate claim because they should not have had to dig around water services. Based on the contract the contractor has to notify the Engineers within 30 days of a claim, 13 of the laterals are before the 30 days. So, 23 laterals are a legitimate claim. Price they had per hour and per lateral and lateral crew, submitted a cost of $811.00 per lateral crew, based on Glens notes and the negotiations, the cost came down to $623.53 per lateral crew per hour. Only thing not negotiated was the amount of hours spent on each water service conflict. On average they would install 5 laterals per day, they said they were losing 2 sewer laterals per day which is where the 3.2 hrs. figure came from. Nick wants to talk with Glen because he is the field man, then meet with Donna, Chris Y. and Glen to discuss this.
Nick reported on the SPDES reports, 3 draft reports on Chris Butlers desk at WWTP and the budget is at $18,000.00. These reports are due Dec. 1st. 2010.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #12- General Fund- $25,770.47, Water Fund - $33,916.47, Sewer Fund - $10,589.88, Trust and Agency - $670.16, Total: $70,946.98.
Motion to approve abstract #12 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk passed out report to all members of outstanding property maintenance fees for the yr. of 2010, amount of $5772.36.
Clerk asked board members to approve her to attend a grant application information session workshop on Jan. 4th. 2011 in Wampsville with no charge. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk passed out a letter from Cub Scout Pack 114 thanking them for giving a second chance to continue having their meetings in the Boy Scout room of the village building. In return, they would like to provide a community service project for the village. The board members said they would think on this and try to come up with an answer to the scouts.
Clerk sent a letter out to 2 snowmobile clubs and 3 village businesses regarding an invitation to come to the Dec. 14, 2010 board meeting to discuss the upcoming snowmobiling season and the use of the village streets.
A request was given to the village clerk from the Lions Club for the use of the Spring Park on Dec. 18th, 2010 from 10:15-1:15 for their annual Santa Party for the children / free sleigh rides and hot dogs and hot chocolate. All members approved.
The Boy Scouts asked permission to use the parking lot at the village office to sell Christmas trees for the next 4 weekends. All members approved.
Theresa Oaks called and asked clerk to remind all village board members of the tree lighting ceremony to be held on Nov. 28, 2010 at 6:00 pm. in Spring Park.
Clerk informed the board members that now that tax collection time is over for the clerk, the $200.00 for the petty cash was put back into the general fund.
The Christmas luncheon put on by Diane and Donna will be on the 23rd. of Dec. at 12:00 in the Memorial Room. Invitations will be passed out.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Mr. James McKee’s son, Peter McKee, would like to put a veteran’s marker on his father’s gravesite. Usually a $50.00 fee is charged for this service and the cemetery sexton puts it down. Donna asked the board if it was ok to waive this fee being that Mr. McKee left money to the Lakeview Cemetery when he passed away. The members all agreed to waive the fee.
It was brought to Donna’s attention that Theresa Oaks also known as Theresa Salon of Beauty, has been being billed as an inside user for many years and is an outside user. After discussion, was decided that this needs to be checked into further. Jim Malinowski has a copy of the signed agreement and will bring into the office for the file.
In the petty cash drawer that is used for making change for w/s payments and other payments brought into the village office, has $200.00 in it daily. Donna has asked to change the amount to $150.00 instead.
Resolution was made to approve the decrease to $150.00 to be kept in the petty cash drawer daily made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Transfers: 1) Transfer from A9901.01 interfund transfer Water $16,000.00 to FX 5031, 2) Transfer from A3301.03 interfund transfer Library $2,000.00 to L5031.
Motion made to adopt a resolution to approve transfers by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
It was brought to the board’s attention that the Fire Dept. is not following proper procedure for spending. A voucher was put in for $3,328.85, which included 2 suits, turnout gear, as well as other equipment. This was not brought to the board for approval. After discussion, was decided that the Mayor will speak to Chief Hallock about following the procurement policy procedures which states that any purchases up to $250.00 can be done without approval, $250.00 to $1000.00 must be put in the procurement policy book and approved by 2 board members, $1000.00 - $5000.00 prior board approval and at least 2 estimates from suppliers, $5000.00 to bid limits, prior board approval and at least 3 estimates from suppliers.
The fire contract with the Town of Richfield has been approved.
The chimneys on the Library bldg. are done and look great and there is still some grant money left to paint the trim.
Mayor Frohne:
Brought to the boards attention the water leak that was found on Union St. and South St. This is outside the village line and the village needs a letter from Mike Kress for approval to proceed with a solution. The Attorney for the Village said the homeowners should be given the option to take care of this themselves or have the village make the arrangements to have the job done and bill the residents. Estimated cost was $500.00 - $700.00, but it could be more depending on what they find. After discussion, was decided that a letter will be written to the homeowners explaining the problem and what the two options for repair are. Motion was made to approve a resolution to authorize Jim Malinowski and Tom Shypski to shut off water to find out who is on the line, send a letter to each party and give them 10 days to respond, by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Trustee Patrick:
We are still waiting for workers comp. insurance from Canadarago Electric before he can put the light up for the flag pole in front of the Village office.
Was reported that Jessie Van Court received his first check for the re-imbursement of health ins. from the village.
Trustee Patrick stopped at the Cooperstown village office and asked how they handled the property maintenance problems. He has information and will bring this back to the next meeting.
There is a lady that walks the village streets every morning and picks up the papers. Was wondering if every morning a man from DPW could travel the streets to pick up papers to keep the village looking nice. After discussion, no decision was made.
Trustee Kurkowski;
Asked if anyone has noticed the mess behind the Rudenko property on Main St.? This is in the hands of the DA at this time.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson: Absent
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
November 9, 2010
Date: November 9, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, present. Trustee Pierson absent
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the October 27th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Oct. 27, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Glen – informed the board that he will be overseeing Contracts 1 – 5 from now on.
Contract 1 – All paving is done, including driveways and curbing.
G. DeVincentis had asked for $107,000.00 for a change order due to the conflict from the sewer laterals and the water surface lines they put in. Glen put together a spread sheet and Chris Yakabuci has reworked the hours and has come up with an amount between $15,000.00 and $17,000.00. Lamont is still working on this and will be in touch with G. DeVincentis. The restoration work is done throughout the village now until spring when the planting can take place again.
Contract 2 – still working on the clarifier building, contractor has new carpenters, work is moving along but the weather has slowed them down this past week. The pre-treatment building will have one more pour of concrete in the channel; hopefully will be done on Thursday, Nov. 11th. This has to set for 4-7 days, then the by pass pumps will be shut down and will be able to use the pre-treatment building again. The bar screen will be put in by the end of the week. The reed bed liner will be installed Nov. 10th, & 11th. Glen has spoken to Scott Davis, the reed guy; he will come to the plant after the liner is installed to make sure it is correct. Once the layers of stone and sand is down, Scott Davis will be back to plant the reeds.
Contract 3 – contractors not on site due to Blue Heron holding up the work.
Contract 4&5 – the toilet has been installed; contractors are working on how to vent the heaters properly.
Trustee Patrick asked Glen about the 11/2 in. lift at the Crouch area on Elm St. He is concerned about this causing injury to someone on a bicycle or walking. Glen said he will talk to Steve about it.
Trustee O’Connor expressed his concern about the condition of the WWTP grounds. Everything is just left laying everywhere and if we got a snowstorm the guys would have no place to plow. He stated he would like to see it cleaned up. Glen said he would speak to the contractors and get them cleaning up the area.
Tom Hallock- Fire Chief
Passed out paperwork from 10 years ago that listed recommendations of what should be done to the fire house.
Tom also informed the board that the inside of the fire house is being painted.
Passed out a list of all members of the fire dept. Motion to approve all members on the list as firemen made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Passed out log of calls for month of Oct. 2010.
Passed out report on annual inspection done on the ladder truck.
Also informed the board that the grant that was applied for to purchase a new ambulance was denied.
VRS finished making minor repairs to trucks and all trucks will go to annual inspection at Skinners except the ladder truck which will go to Carl Burdick’s because of the size.
There are 4 new EMS members.
Tom found a company in Millers Mills who will do the stick on signs required for the trucks that says “Danger-crush hazard”.
Tom has found an organization that gives small amounts of money to non-profit groups so they can use the RUHF radio systems to rescue truck and that will send it to the low bands.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #11- General Fund- $28,626.84, Water Fund - $3,549.03, Sewer Fund - $12,203.23, Cemetery Fund-
$201.67, Trust and Agency - $64.96, Capitol Projects - $711,864.48, Total: $756,510.21.
Motion to approve abstract #11 made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Correction made on abstract #10, General Fund s/b $33,611.18, not $33,620.78.
Clerks report for month of October, 2010: money taken in was $3.50. Check given to treasurer for $3.50.
Clerk also reported the unpaid taxes were returned to the Otsego Co. Treasurer’s office and a final check was given to the treasurer for $6814.77, leaving a balance of $5.00 in the tax checking account.
Clerk spoke to Theresa Oakes and the Xmas tree lighting ceremony will be on Nov. 28th, 2010 at 6:00pm. in Spring Park. She invited all Board of Trustee members and Mayor Frohne to attend.
In observance of Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11th, 2010, the Village Office will be closed, as well as the Library.
Clerk asked the board if she could close the office on Friday, Nov. 26th, 2010, the day after Thanksgiving. The village workers do not work on this day and the Library is also closed. All members were in agreement.
Clerk asked to have Suzanne Christman appointed as temporary Deputy Clerk/Treasurer if a time comes that Diane and Donna can’t be at the office, so the office does not have to be closed. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk asked about the regular meeting that is scheduled for Thanksgiving Eve, if it should be changed or not. After discussion, it was decided to leave it as is and hope for a short meeting.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Donna informed the board that payroll will be done one day early 3 weeks in November 2010.
The expense and revenue reports along with the balance sheets for the month of Oct. 2010 were handed out to each member. The bank reconciliations for Oct. 2010, were presented at the meeting, any quest ions see Treasurer.
The CHIPS paperwork was filed on time therefore the money should be to the village around Dec. 15, 2010.
Varik- account # 62400 - outside user of village water/sewer. They are apparently using their own well water. DOH says they must install a check valve so their well water does not flow back into the village system and they need to install a water meter on their water line so we can bill for the sewer at their expense, If they refuse to do so, their water should be shut off at the curb. Also, the village can set a sewer fee per month based on prior usage. Or if they wish, they can do their own septic system and get off the village sewer system all together.
After discussion, it was decided a letter will be written and they will be given 2 weeks to do what is requested and Tom Shypski will do an inspection when done. If they decide to stay with the village sewer, a flat fee of $75.00 was agreed on to be charged. Motion was made to approve the charge of $75.00 until a meter and a check valve is put on and an inspection has been done by Tom Shypski, made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Transfers to be done: NYS Retirement payments, 1) transfer for General Fund, from A1990.4 to Contingent $3,236.00, to A9010.8, 2) transfer for Sewer Fund from G8130.4 Sewage Treatment/Disp. $1,690.00 to G9010.8, 3) transfer fro Water Fund from FX8397.2 Capital Expenditures $909.00 to FX9010.8. Also increase Line Item A1620.21 to reflect the amended budget amount of $125,000.00.
Resolution to approve the transfers and increase the line item made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
A Federal inspector will be in on Nov.16, 2010 to go over records and inspect the WWTP project. Also a contractors meeting will take place that same day.
Donna also passed out the profit and loss budget report and the balance sheet.
Mayor Frohne:
Step 1 in working on a solution to the dog control problem. Mayor stopped at the Herkimer Co. SPCA for information on contracting with the village for stray dogs. As of new year, the SPCA will bill dog owner for the whole cost. If the dog is there for 5 days, the total bill will be $100.00. When the dog is taken there and the owner picks up the dog, he/she is responsible for paying $100.00. If no one claims the dog, the village pays. After discussion, was agreed to speak with the attorney and work out a contract for individual contractor for dog control person. Then the next step would be to start with interviewing possible prospects for the job.
Also, Mayor and Clerk are still working on finding another company that works on tower clocks.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Expressed his concern about letting snowmobiles on the village streets that have just had new blacktop put down. He was told that the cleats in the tracks of the sleds will chew up the blacktop. He suggested for the village to consider not allowing the snowmobiles on the streets for a year. Center St. is the only street in the village that has not had new blacktop put down. Also this brings up the problem of people blocking the sidewalks so snowmobiles can not travel on them. This causes a hazard which could turn into an insurance issue. A discussion took place to look into hiring someone who can patrol the village streets such as a constable or peace officer. Further discussion and research on this concern will be done. Trustee O’Connor suggested the Village Board invite the snowmobile club officers to come to the Dec. 14th, 2010 meeting to discuss the problems.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Jessie Van Court-- Employee Health Care Plan Opt-Out discussion 11/9/2010:
Single cost $422.24/mo.- cost for 12 mos. $5066.88.
1) 25% will be $1,266.72 – 78.54 SS, - 17.73 Medicare, Cost to village $1,362.99, Savings $3,703.89.
2) 33% will be $1,672.08 – 103.67 SS -23.41 Medicare, Cost to village $1,799.16, Savings $3,267.72.
3) 50% will be $2,533.44 -157.07 SS, - 35.47 Medicare, Cost to village $2,725.98, Savings $2,340.90.
After discussion, was decided to approve the 25% to Jessie Van Court for opting out of medical ins.
Resolution made to pay Jessie Van Court 25% of the medical ins. plan, not to be retroactive, on a weekly basis, providing he has proof of being covered by another medical insurance plan and has signed the village opt out form, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Light on flag pole – estimate from Ed Bello, $675.00 which includes the light being installed on back of sign near flag pole, excavating and wiring pushed under sidewalk and materials. A second estimate was received from Canadarago Electric LLC, which was for $410.00, plus $195.00 for the 3 lights, total $605.00. This would have the light on a mighty pole fixture holder. After discussion, everyone agreed they would prefer the light on the back of the sign. Trustee Patrick called Matt Dawson, Canadarago Electric and asked if he would be digging the trench or the village. He said he would dig it.
Motion made to accept Canadarago Electric LLC to mount the light on the back of the sign in front of the village building for $605.00, made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Trustee Patrick will talk to Matt Dawson, Canadarago Electric LLC.
Express Mart, Nick Green is talking to the Village Attorney about this issue.
Trustee Pierson: Absent
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:10 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, present. Trustee Pierson absent
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the October 27th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Oct. 27, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Glen – informed the board that he will be overseeing Contracts 1 – 5 from now on.
Contract 1 – All paving is done, including driveways and curbing.
G. DeVincentis had asked for $107,000.00 for a change order due to the conflict from the sewer laterals and the water surface lines they put in. Glen put together a spread sheet and Chris Yakabuci has reworked the hours and has come up with an amount between $15,000.00 and $17,000.00. Lamont is still working on this and will be in touch with G. DeVincentis. The restoration work is done throughout the village now until spring when the planting can take place again.
Contract 2 – still working on the clarifier building, contractor has new carpenters, work is moving along but the weather has slowed them down this past week. The pre-treatment building will have one more pour of concrete in the channel; hopefully will be done on Thursday, Nov. 11th. This has to set for 4-7 days, then the by pass pumps will be shut down and will be able to use the pre-treatment building again. The bar screen will be put in by the end of the week. The reed bed liner will be installed Nov. 10th, & 11th. Glen has spoken to Scott Davis, the reed guy; he will come to the plant after the liner is installed to make sure it is correct. Once the layers of stone and sand is down, Scott Davis will be back to plant the reeds.
Contract 3 – contractors not on site due to Blue Heron holding up the work.
Contract 4&5 – the toilet has been installed; contractors are working on how to vent the heaters properly.
Trustee Patrick asked Glen about the 11/2 in. lift at the Crouch area on Elm St. He is concerned about this causing injury to someone on a bicycle or walking. Glen said he will talk to Steve about it.
Trustee O’Connor expressed his concern about the condition of the WWTP grounds. Everything is just left laying everywhere and if we got a snowstorm the guys would have no place to plow. He stated he would like to see it cleaned up. Glen said he would speak to the contractors and get them cleaning up the area.
Tom Hallock- Fire Chief
Passed out paperwork from 10 years ago that listed recommendations of what should be done to the fire house.
Tom also informed the board that the inside of the fire house is being painted.
Passed out a list of all members of the fire dept. Motion to approve all members on the list as firemen made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Passed out log of calls for month of Oct. 2010.
Passed out report on annual inspection done on the ladder truck.
Also informed the board that the grant that was applied for to purchase a new ambulance was denied.
VRS finished making minor repairs to trucks and all trucks will go to annual inspection at Skinners except the ladder truck which will go to Carl Burdick’s because of the size.
There are 4 new EMS members.
Tom found a company in Millers Mills who will do the stick on signs required for the trucks that says “Danger-crush hazard”.
Tom has found an organization that gives small amounts of money to non-profit groups so they can use the RUHF radio systems to rescue truck and that will send it to the low bands.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #11- General Fund- $28,626.84, Water Fund - $3,549.03, Sewer Fund - $12,203.23, Cemetery Fund-
$201.67, Trust and Agency - $64.96, Capitol Projects - $711,864.48, Total: $756,510.21.
Motion to approve abstract #11 made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Correction made on abstract #10, General Fund s/b $33,611.18, not $33,620.78.
Clerks report for month of October, 2010: money taken in was $3.50. Check given to treasurer for $3.50.
Clerk also reported the unpaid taxes were returned to the Otsego Co. Treasurer’s office and a final check was given to the treasurer for $6814.77, leaving a balance of $5.00 in the tax checking account.
Clerk spoke to Theresa Oakes and the Xmas tree lighting ceremony will be on Nov. 28th, 2010 at 6:00pm. in Spring Park. She invited all Board of Trustee members and Mayor Frohne to attend.
In observance of Veteran’s Day, Nov. 11th, 2010, the Village Office will be closed, as well as the Library.
Clerk asked the board if she could close the office on Friday, Nov. 26th, 2010, the day after Thanksgiving. The village workers do not work on this day and the Library is also closed. All members were in agreement.
Clerk asked to have Suzanne Christman appointed as temporary Deputy Clerk/Treasurer if a time comes that Diane and Donna can’t be at the office, so the office does not have to be closed. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk asked about the regular meeting that is scheduled for Thanksgiving Eve, if it should be changed or not. After discussion, it was decided to leave it as is and hope for a short meeting.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Donna informed the board that payroll will be done one day early 3 weeks in November 2010.
The expense and revenue reports along with the balance sheets for the month of Oct. 2010 were handed out to each member. The bank reconciliations for Oct. 2010, were presented at the meeting, any quest ions see Treasurer.
The CHIPS paperwork was filed on time therefore the money should be to the village around Dec. 15, 2010.
Varik- account # 62400 - outside user of village water/sewer. They are apparently using their own well water. DOH says they must install a check valve so their well water does not flow back into the village system and they need to install a water meter on their water line so we can bill for the sewer at their expense, If they refuse to do so, their water should be shut off at the curb. Also, the village can set a sewer fee per month based on prior usage. Or if they wish, they can do their own septic system and get off the village sewer system all together.
After discussion, it was decided a letter will be written and they will be given 2 weeks to do what is requested and Tom Shypski will do an inspection when done. If they decide to stay with the village sewer, a flat fee of $75.00 was agreed on to be charged. Motion was made to approve the charge of $75.00 until a meter and a check valve is put on and an inspection has been done by Tom Shypski, made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Transfers to be done: NYS Retirement payments, 1) transfer for General Fund, from A1990.4 to Contingent $3,236.00, to A9010.8, 2) transfer for Sewer Fund from G8130.4 Sewage Treatment/Disp. $1,690.00 to G9010.8, 3) transfer fro Water Fund from FX8397.2 Capital Expenditures $909.00 to FX9010.8. Also increase Line Item A1620.21 to reflect the amended budget amount of $125,000.00.
Resolution to approve the transfers and increase the line item made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
A Federal inspector will be in on Nov.16, 2010 to go over records and inspect the WWTP project. Also a contractors meeting will take place that same day.
Donna also passed out the profit and loss budget report and the balance sheet.
Mayor Frohne:
Step 1 in working on a solution to the dog control problem. Mayor stopped at the Herkimer Co. SPCA for information on contracting with the village for stray dogs. As of new year, the SPCA will bill dog owner for the whole cost. If the dog is there for 5 days, the total bill will be $100.00. When the dog is taken there and the owner picks up the dog, he/she is responsible for paying $100.00. If no one claims the dog, the village pays. After discussion, was agreed to speak with the attorney and work out a contract for individual contractor for dog control person. Then the next step would be to start with interviewing possible prospects for the job.
Also, Mayor and Clerk are still working on finding another company that works on tower clocks.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Expressed his concern about letting snowmobiles on the village streets that have just had new blacktop put down. He was told that the cleats in the tracks of the sleds will chew up the blacktop. He suggested for the village to consider not allowing the snowmobiles on the streets for a year. Center St. is the only street in the village that has not had new blacktop put down. Also this brings up the problem of people blocking the sidewalks so snowmobiles can not travel on them. This causes a hazard which could turn into an insurance issue. A discussion took place to look into hiring someone who can patrol the village streets such as a constable or peace officer. Further discussion and research on this concern will be done. Trustee O’Connor suggested the Village Board invite the snowmobile club officers to come to the Dec. 14th, 2010 meeting to discuss the problems.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Jessie Van Court-- Employee Health Care Plan Opt-Out discussion 11/9/2010:
Single cost $422.24/mo.- cost for 12 mos. $5066.88.
1) 25% will be $1,266.72 – 78.54 SS, - 17.73 Medicare, Cost to village $1,362.99, Savings $3,703.89.
2) 33% will be $1,672.08 – 103.67 SS -23.41 Medicare, Cost to village $1,799.16, Savings $3,267.72.
3) 50% will be $2,533.44 -157.07 SS, - 35.47 Medicare, Cost to village $2,725.98, Savings $2,340.90.
After discussion, was decided to approve the 25% to Jessie Van Court for opting out of medical ins.
Resolution made to pay Jessie Van Court 25% of the medical ins. plan, not to be retroactive, on a weekly basis, providing he has proof of being covered by another medical insurance plan and has signed the village opt out form, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Light on flag pole – estimate from Ed Bello, $675.00 which includes the light being installed on back of sign near flag pole, excavating and wiring pushed under sidewalk and materials. A second estimate was received from Canadarago Electric LLC, which was for $410.00, plus $195.00 for the 3 lights, total $605.00. This would have the light on a mighty pole fixture holder. After discussion, everyone agreed they would prefer the light on the back of the sign. Trustee Patrick called Matt Dawson, Canadarago Electric and asked if he would be digging the trench or the village. He said he would dig it.
Motion made to accept Canadarago Electric LLC to mount the light on the back of the sign in front of the village building for $605.00, made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Trustee Patrick will talk to Matt Dawson, Canadarago Electric LLC.
Express Mart, Nick Green is talking to the Village Attorney about this issue.
Trustee Pierson: Absent
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:10 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Friday, November 12, 2010
October 27, 2010
Date: October 27, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the October 12, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Oct. 12, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Glen - Contract 1- Paving done on all streets, some driveways done but weather has not been cooperating. Crews are putting gravel on sides of roads, cutting rebates. Spring Park had a low spot, G.DeVincentis will cut out and fix. Topsoil and seed is being done now and redone in the spring. Glenn has asked for the last video tapes and will check them, and then all should be good. The situation on Elm St. (Zurhmuhlan vs Crouch), Jim Malinowski suggested to leave the binder as is. It is sloped away from the next driveway. Some work on Zurmuhlan’s driveway will help with the water problem but not solve it. Manhole 4-6 will be taken care of depending on the contingency amounts available at the end of the project. G. DeVincentis will be responsible to do this, but not until late spring because how wet it is in that area.
Frank- contract #2- Blue Heron sent a schedule with goals and plans but none have been met so far. Concrete floor with automatic bar screen will be poured on 10/28/10. On Tues. 11/2/10, they plan on doing the pump start up at the pump station, reeds have arrived on site, must keep them watered so they don’t die, plan on installing the liner on Mon. 11/1/10.
Change order: 1- relocate water hydrant next to the pretreatment building, $500.00, new angle iron in the SWB room, $800.00, need to order new pump base for sledge pump in reed bed system, $1100.00, credit for the washer and dryer that was not needed, $1000.00. Change order total $1451.97.
Resolution made to approve change order totaling $1451.97 made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Change order: 2- Backwash pumps for SWB’s when started up were leaking. Suggested to get new check valves for those, and to get new air leak valves. Estimated cost about $5000.00. Not ordered yet.
Resolution made to approve the order of check valves and air leak valves with an estimated cost of $5000.00 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Frank also stated that Blue Heron asked for a change order for $10,741.00 for extra hours worked on manhole #1 and #2. Franks hours logged were only 2800 and Blue Heron had 10,000 logged. Nick Green said they would send a letter to them regarding the differences.
Contract #3 – is making good progress. Running out of work because of Blue Heron’s delays.
Contract 4 & 5 has only been there 1 day, Nick Green sent an e-mail to them to return, have not been there yet.
Change order #7 - Bronner St. storm sewer work - $38,404.17
Change order #8 – for asphalt increase $3,121.77.
Resolution made to approve the change orders 7 & 8 made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Nick then presented the updated SPDES contract from Lamont with 50% off of the original price of $27.900.00. The cost would be $13,950.00. But if the cost does exceed the $27,900.00 fee, the village would be charged hourly an additional service based on DEC comments. The deadline is Dec. 1st. 2010. This is a one time report that consists of 5 reports. Mayor Frohne expressed his concern about the cost going over the $13,950.00, and asked that this price be capped. Nick offered to give a 2 week report to the board of the process of these reports and the costs so far. After discussion, it was decided when the amount of $13,950.00 was reached, Lamont will report to the board what is left to be done and how much over the $13,950.00 this will cost the village.
Resolution was made that the contract would be approved with the condition that when the $13,950.00 amount was reached, all work will stop until the board approves further work to be done. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Trustee Patrick then asked Nick Green if he had a chance to inquire about the Express Mart situation. Nick has been in touch with Mike Harrington but has not had a chance to talk this over with him yet.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests
Cub Scout representative Scott Kessler spoke to the board asking for a second chance for the Cub Scouts to be able to hold their meetings in the village building. Scout Council asked Scott to work with the scouts and work out the problems that have been going on over the past 2 years. They are willing to change their meeting times so as not to interfere with the board meetings. They have set up a check list as to what should be done by each leader before leaving the building, including the lights, the bathroom cleaned, the doors locked, etc.
There are 4 dens that meet once a week, and 2 dens that meet every other week. After discussion, it was agreed that a 30 day trial period would take place and a checklist would be made. Scott will come to the village office to meet with Mayor Frohne and go over the checklist and discuss about the distribution of keys for the building on Thursday, Oct. 28th, 2010 at 4:00pm.
Motion was made to agree to a 30 day probation period for the Cub Scouts to continue their meetings at the village building, if this is violated the Cub Scouts will then need to find a new place to hold there meetings, and by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Clerk asked for the keys to be returned at the end of the season. It was stated that the cub scouts have meetings throughout the summer. The keys will be distributed to only the scout leaders and if a leader leaves, that key will be turned in to the village clerk, not passed on to another leader. Also the keys will be numbered and that will be listed on the sign out sheet for each key.
Frank Chioda asked the board about the building he purchased on E. James St. The ZBA told him he needed to come to the village for approval because it is zoned as industrial. The zoning will not be changed, but what he needs is a special use permit which should be issued from the ZBA.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #10- General Fund- $33,620.78, Water Fund - $1,795.49, Sewer Fund - $4,822.99, Cemetery Fund- $450.00, Trust and Agency - $690.96, Total: $41,380.22.
Motion to approve abstract #10 made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Resolution to return all unpaid village taxes back to Otsego Co. by Nov. 5th.
Motion by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Clerk made all trustees aware that Cindy Hall, the deputy clerk/treasurer had quit. Right now would prefer not to hire someone new. Not enough work and Donna and Diane will back each other up. In the event that neither would be able to cover the office, Diane asked the board if Susan Christman could be called in to cover the phones and take in water/sewer payments. She understands it would be a call in basis, and has agreed to do this if available. Motion made to approve Susan Christman to cover the office on a call in basis and pay her $10.00 if she is needed by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski, and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk received a letter from Citizens Campaign for the Environment stating they would be canvassing the Village on Mon-Fri between the hours of 1-9pm and selected Sat. between 11-4pm. during the months of October 1st 2010 through February 20th, 2011. This is a non-profit organization.
Diane and Donna have talked to Karena Proctor about cleaning the village building including the village office on a weekly basis. She is very interested in taking on this job. The village attorney will draw up an independent contractor agreement in lieu of insurance. The pay would be $60.00 per week with an extra $20.00 for cleaning the Memorial Room once a month. We do not have a contract with the Genie Services Co. who cleans at the present time. Motion to approve Karena Proctor as the cleaning person for the village building and the village office by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Express mart - Donna asked the board to approve adding the Env. Lab fee to their water/sewer bill plus their $5.00 adm. fee instead of sending a separate bill. All agreed to this.
Brian Coones asked when he should be done working at the cemetery. He would prefer to work as long as possible, weather permitting. All agreed to this.
Also, Brian had jury duty, law states 20 or more employees, you must pay the first three days to employee, we did that, the 2nd two days they paid him $40.00/day, our codes say we make up the difference. So, approval is needed for this to be put in his paycheck, Motion made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
The rates for the cemetery for grave digging need to be revised. The Catholic Church charges $550.00 and Frank Toth (man that digs the graves) charges $400.00 weekdays and weekends. After discussion, was decided to charge $550.00 for weekdays and weekends. Motion made to change the charge for grave digging to $550.00 for weekdays and weekends not including snow removal if necessary, by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
The chimneys on the Library building were done the way the proposal was written, but no one realized they
would be left black. Donna has gotten an estimate from Dundee Brooke for copper to cover the black; it would cost $6356.00, or musket brown aluminum that would cost $5468.00. The balance left from the grant is $4100.00. So, the cost for the village for the copper would be $2256.00 or the musket brown aluminum would be $1368.00.
Resolution made to approve Dundee Brooke to put copper on the chimney’s for a cost of $6356.00, which would cost the village $2256.00 because of the $4100.00 balance left from the grant, by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Procurement policy was checked by the attorney and he explained we could take the RFP section out without any problems. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Masonic Lodge had a water bill last month that totaled $1200.00. They found the leak, Tom S. read the meter and they still had a leak, due to a couple of toilets running. They were using 1000 gals of water a day. The major leak was because the old meter was never taken out, when the new one was put in, and has now rusted out and is leaking. The owner does not feel they are responsible because the old meter was not taken out. It is not the village’s responsibility to remove old meters; therefore, the owner is responsible for paying the total of the bill.
The old bank building, when the water was turned on the meter was not read and the water had been shut off since early 2008. Because the meter was not read, there was an error on the water bill. After discussion, was agreed to issue a minimum bill.
2 Fire contracts have been signed, Town of Warren, and Town of Schuyler Lake. Have not received Town of Richfield yet.
Mayor Frohne:
Village clock- we received a bill for estimate and travel time. This was not authorized by the Mayor or the board. Mayor Frohne called and asked for an estimate but had not received a return call; they just came out from Syracuse and did the estimate. The bill is $456.80. If we decide to have them fix the clock, this payment would be included in the bill. The estimate was for $1252.35. The warranty is for only 1 year. After discussion, it was decided to check around for another company and another estimate. This will be brought up at a future meeting.
Trustee Patrick:
Express mart, will bring back up at next meeting. Was suggested to escalate the penalties until they decide to take care of the problem.
Medical policy- Jessie Van Court has asked about a reimbursement for not taking the village insurance. He is on his wife’s ins.
Resident on Elm St. asked Trustee Patrick about a large tree that is on his property by the road. Was stated it is the homeowner’s responsibility to take the trees down. He also asked about any grants out there to help with this kind of problem.
Light for the flag pole in front of Library bldg. Trustee Patrick has received 2 estimates, Ed Bello, $675.00 and Canadarago Electric, $605.00. After discussion, was decided to put on hold until the next meeting.
Trustee O’Connor:
Building over the pumps at the water plant. In the past we have paid Chuck Furner to do this, Tom and Jim have decided to cut one side off the building and move it back and forth with the backhoe.
Trustee O’Connor expressed his concern about the mess at the sewer plant. Very upsetting how Blue Heron is holding up progress.
The swans from the reservoir need repair. One is leaking badly.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Has been checking on prices for buildings for the cemetery for storing the lawn mowers. Trustee Kurkowski got a price for a 12x16 shed from Yoder’s Quality Sheds for $2485.00, the garage door would be $375.00, the vinyl siding would be $375.00 and ridge vents would be $60.00. These prices are not included in the $2485.00. Total for this shed would be $3295.00. This is a spring project. Donna has also called another company in Oneonta for prices.
Trustee Kurkowski and Brian Coones have measured from the pump house up and there is 393ft to the roadway, for possible mausoleums and cremation plots. Trustee Kurkowski will draw this out and bring to a future meeting.
The fire chief has spoken to Trustee Kurkowski about the condition of the fire house. We will check into the prisoners for doing repairs. Donna has told Tom in the past, that she would help write a grant, but she can’t without a design and input on the cost.
Trustee Pierson:
Nothing at this time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the October 12, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Oct. 12, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Lamont Engineers:
Glen - Contract 1- Paving done on all streets, some driveways done but weather has not been cooperating. Crews are putting gravel on sides of roads, cutting rebates. Spring Park had a low spot, G.DeVincentis will cut out and fix. Topsoil and seed is being done now and redone in the spring. Glenn has asked for the last video tapes and will check them, and then all should be good. The situation on Elm St. (Zurhmuhlan vs Crouch), Jim Malinowski suggested to leave the binder as is. It is sloped away from the next driveway. Some work on Zurmuhlan’s driveway will help with the water problem but not solve it. Manhole 4-6 will be taken care of depending on the contingency amounts available at the end of the project. G. DeVincentis will be responsible to do this, but not until late spring because how wet it is in that area.
Frank- contract #2- Blue Heron sent a schedule with goals and plans but none have been met so far. Concrete floor with automatic bar screen will be poured on 10/28/10. On Tues. 11/2/10, they plan on doing the pump start up at the pump station, reeds have arrived on site, must keep them watered so they don’t die, plan on installing the liner on Mon. 11/1/10.
Change order: 1- relocate water hydrant next to the pretreatment building, $500.00, new angle iron in the SWB room, $800.00, need to order new pump base for sledge pump in reed bed system, $1100.00, credit for the washer and dryer that was not needed, $1000.00. Change order total $1451.97.
Resolution made to approve change order totaling $1451.97 made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Change order: 2- Backwash pumps for SWB’s when started up were leaking. Suggested to get new check valves for those, and to get new air leak valves. Estimated cost about $5000.00. Not ordered yet.
Resolution made to approve the order of check valves and air leak valves with an estimated cost of $5000.00 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Frank also stated that Blue Heron asked for a change order for $10,741.00 for extra hours worked on manhole #1 and #2. Franks hours logged were only 2800 and Blue Heron had 10,000 logged. Nick Green said they would send a letter to them regarding the differences.
Contract #3 – is making good progress. Running out of work because of Blue Heron’s delays.
Contract 4 & 5 has only been there 1 day, Nick Green sent an e-mail to them to return, have not been there yet.
Change order #7 - Bronner St. storm sewer work - $38,404.17
Change order #8 – for asphalt increase $3,121.77.
Resolution made to approve the change orders 7 & 8 made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Nick then presented the updated SPDES contract from Lamont with 50% off of the original price of $27.900.00. The cost would be $13,950.00. But if the cost does exceed the $27,900.00 fee, the village would be charged hourly an additional service based on DEC comments. The deadline is Dec. 1st. 2010. This is a one time report that consists of 5 reports. Mayor Frohne expressed his concern about the cost going over the $13,950.00, and asked that this price be capped. Nick offered to give a 2 week report to the board of the process of these reports and the costs so far. After discussion, it was decided when the amount of $13,950.00 was reached, Lamont will report to the board what is left to be done and how much over the $13,950.00 this will cost the village.
Resolution was made that the contract would be approved with the condition that when the $13,950.00 amount was reached, all work will stop until the board approves further work to be done. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Trustee Patrick then asked Nick Green if he had a chance to inquire about the Express Mart situation. Nick has been in touch with Mike Harrington but has not had a chance to talk this over with him yet.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests
Cub Scout representative Scott Kessler spoke to the board asking for a second chance for the Cub Scouts to be able to hold their meetings in the village building. Scout Council asked Scott to work with the scouts and work out the problems that have been going on over the past 2 years. They are willing to change their meeting times so as not to interfere with the board meetings. They have set up a check list as to what should be done by each leader before leaving the building, including the lights, the bathroom cleaned, the doors locked, etc.
There are 4 dens that meet once a week, and 2 dens that meet every other week. After discussion, it was agreed that a 30 day trial period would take place and a checklist would be made. Scott will come to the village office to meet with Mayor Frohne and go over the checklist and discuss about the distribution of keys for the building on Thursday, Oct. 28th, 2010 at 4:00pm.
Motion was made to agree to a 30 day probation period for the Cub Scouts to continue their meetings at the village building, if this is violated the Cub Scouts will then need to find a new place to hold there meetings, and by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Clerk asked for the keys to be returned at the end of the season. It was stated that the cub scouts have meetings throughout the summer. The keys will be distributed to only the scout leaders and if a leader leaves, that key will be turned in to the village clerk, not passed on to another leader. Also the keys will be numbered and that will be listed on the sign out sheet for each key.
Frank Chioda asked the board about the building he purchased on E. James St. The ZBA told him he needed to come to the village for approval because it is zoned as industrial. The zoning will not be changed, but what he needs is a special use permit which should be issued from the ZBA.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #10- General Fund- $33,620.78, Water Fund - $1,795.49, Sewer Fund - $4,822.99, Cemetery Fund- $450.00, Trust and Agency - $690.96, Total: $41,380.22.
Motion to approve abstract #10 made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Resolution to return all unpaid village taxes back to Otsego Co. by Nov. 5th.
Motion by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Clerk made all trustees aware that Cindy Hall, the deputy clerk/treasurer had quit. Right now would prefer not to hire someone new. Not enough work and Donna and Diane will back each other up. In the event that neither would be able to cover the office, Diane asked the board if Susan Christman could be called in to cover the phones and take in water/sewer payments. She understands it would be a call in basis, and has agreed to do this if available. Motion made to approve Susan Christman to cover the office on a call in basis and pay her $10.00 if she is needed by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski, and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk received a letter from Citizens Campaign for the Environment stating they would be canvassing the Village on Mon-Fri between the hours of 1-9pm and selected Sat. between 11-4pm. during the months of October 1st 2010 through February 20th, 2011. This is a non-profit organization.
Diane and Donna have talked to Karena Proctor about cleaning the village building including the village office on a weekly basis. She is very interested in taking on this job. The village attorney will draw up an independent contractor agreement in lieu of insurance. The pay would be $60.00 per week with an extra $20.00 for cleaning the Memorial Room once a month. We do not have a contract with the Genie Services Co. who cleans at the present time. Motion to approve Karena Proctor as the cleaning person for the village building and the village office by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Express mart - Donna asked the board to approve adding the Env. Lab fee to their water/sewer bill plus their $5.00 adm. fee instead of sending a separate bill. All agreed to this.
Brian Coones asked when he should be done working at the cemetery. He would prefer to work as long as possible, weather permitting. All agreed to this.
Also, Brian had jury duty, law states 20 or more employees, you must pay the first three days to employee, we did that, the 2nd two days they paid him $40.00/day, our codes say we make up the difference. So, approval is needed for this to be put in his paycheck, Motion made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
The rates for the cemetery for grave digging need to be revised. The Catholic Church charges $550.00 and Frank Toth (man that digs the graves) charges $400.00 weekdays and weekends. After discussion, was decided to charge $550.00 for weekdays and weekends. Motion made to change the charge for grave digging to $550.00 for weekdays and weekends not including snow removal if necessary, by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
The chimneys on the Library building were done the way the proposal was written, but no one realized they
would be left black. Donna has gotten an estimate from Dundee Brooke for copper to cover the black; it would cost $6356.00, or musket brown aluminum that would cost $5468.00. The balance left from the grant is $4100.00. So, the cost for the village for the copper would be $2256.00 or the musket brown aluminum would be $1368.00.
Resolution made to approve Dundee Brooke to put copper on the chimney’s for a cost of $6356.00, which would cost the village $2256.00 because of the $4100.00 balance left from the grant, by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Procurement policy was checked by the attorney and he explained we could take the RFP section out without any problems. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Masonic Lodge had a water bill last month that totaled $1200.00. They found the leak, Tom S. read the meter and they still had a leak, due to a couple of toilets running. They were using 1000 gals of water a day. The major leak was because the old meter was never taken out, when the new one was put in, and has now rusted out and is leaking. The owner does not feel they are responsible because the old meter was not taken out. It is not the village’s responsibility to remove old meters; therefore, the owner is responsible for paying the total of the bill.
The old bank building, when the water was turned on the meter was not read and the water had been shut off since early 2008. Because the meter was not read, there was an error on the water bill. After discussion, was agreed to issue a minimum bill.
2 Fire contracts have been signed, Town of Warren, and Town of Schuyler Lake. Have not received Town of Richfield yet.
Mayor Frohne:
Village clock- we received a bill for estimate and travel time. This was not authorized by the Mayor or the board. Mayor Frohne called and asked for an estimate but had not received a return call; they just came out from Syracuse and did the estimate. The bill is $456.80. If we decide to have them fix the clock, this payment would be included in the bill. The estimate was for $1252.35. The warranty is for only 1 year. After discussion, it was decided to check around for another company and another estimate. This will be brought up at a future meeting.
Trustee Patrick:
Express mart, will bring back up at next meeting. Was suggested to escalate the penalties until they decide to take care of the problem.
Medical policy- Jessie Van Court has asked about a reimbursement for not taking the village insurance. He is on his wife’s ins.
Resident on Elm St. asked Trustee Patrick about a large tree that is on his property by the road. Was stated it is the homeowner’s responsibility to take the trees down. He also asked about any grants out there to help with this kind of problem.
Light for the flag pole in front of Library bldg. Trustee Patrick has received 2 estimates, Ed Bello, $675.00 and Canadarago Electric, $605.00. After discussion, was decided to put on hold until the next meeting.
Trustee O’Connor:
Building over the pumps at the water plant. In the past we have paid Chuck Furner to do this, Tom and Jim have decided to cut one side off the building and move it back and forth with the backhoe.
Trustee O’Connor expressed his concern about the mess at the sewer plant. Very upsetting how Blue Heron is holding up progress.
The swans from the reservoir need repair. One is leaking badly.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Has been checking on prices for buildings for the cemetery for storing the lawn mowers. Trustee Kurkowski got a price for a 12x16 shed from Yoder’s Quality Sheds for $2485.00, the garage door would be $375.00, the vinyl siding would be $375.00 and ridge vents would be $60.00. These prices are not included in the $2485.00. Total for this shed would be $3295.00. This is a spring project. Donna has also called another company in Oneonta for prices.
Trustee Kurkowski and Brian Coones have measured from the pump house up and there is 393ft to the roadway, for possible mausoleums and cremation plots. Trustee Kurkowski will draw this out and bring to a future meeting.
The fire chief has spoken to Trustee Kurkowski about the condition of the fire house. We will check into the prisoners for doing repairs. Donna has told Tom in the past, that she would help write a grant, but she can’t without a design and input on the cost.
Trustee Pierson:
Nothing at this time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Monday, November 1, 2010
October 12, 2010
Date: October 12, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the September 14, and 29th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Sept.14th, 2010 minutes made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Motion to approve the Sept. 29th, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Tom Hallock – Fire Chief – New tires were put on ambulance. When this was done, it was discovered all ball joints were bad as well, these were repaired at Skinners. The Marcy Hydraulic bill was for the ladder truck. The power steering unit started leaking after a drill, the first assistant chief and another fireman took the power steering unit off the truck and took it to Marcy Hydraulic to be repaired and also went to pick it up when it was done. Chief Hallock wanted to let the board know this saved probably $900.00-$1,000.00 on that bill. Pumper school is going on now; when this is done the firemen are going to strip the back end of 42 down and try to patch the tank on that truck. County is trying to update communication system. This will cost the co. taxpayers $35 million dollars. Therefore, they are going to stay with the low band and make some improvements. For the R.S. fire co. there are only 14 portable low band radios, there are no longer any parts available for repairs. In the future, 14 new radios are going to be needed. Estimated cost $4200.00. UHF system was bought and there is a way to put a repeater in the rescue truck for about $800.00 – $1,000.00, and it will transmit on the UHF radio which the repeater will pick up and re-transmit on the low band for the co. This might be a way to get rid of the low band radios. Three pagers had to be thrown, because they were beyond repair. The fire dept. building is getting to the point of desperate repair. There are blocks starting to come out. Also, the roof is leaking more. The prisoners do this kind of work, and Chief Hallock would like to see the board look into this.
Lamont Engineers:
Glen - Contract 1- Paving is being done, Lake St., W. James St., E.James St., Manley St., Canadarago St., Johnson St., Elm St. and Division St. The driveways are not being tied in at this time. Sidewalks repaired where dug up. There is a problem with flooding at the end of River St. and Bronner St. There is enough money left to replace extra 75 ft. of sidewalk which was tilted very badly where it was flooded, Lamont checked with EFC to see if it could put up a curve along the sidewalk. There was enough grade to get the water to drain away from Bronner St. The video taping was completed, and Glen had them video again from manhole 4 to where they think manhole 5 is, flow was very heavy, could only go about 20ft. No charge to village for that area. Could see a big crack in the line, do manhole 4 to 6 needs to be replaced. Glen will work on the cost for that. Manhole 5 was not found, so it will be eliminated if it is a straight line.
Elm St. problem: Kurt Zurmuhlen questioned at the previous meeting about the binder that was put in at the L.Croucn residence. Mr. Crouch asked a workman from G. DeVincentis to blacktop the area between the sidewalk and the road. This was agreed upon between Mr. Crouch and the individual workman. One layer has been put down, still 11/2 in. lower than the sidewalk, and the workman told Mr. Crouch he can not finish it. This was done outside of the village contract with G. DeVincentis and should not have been handled this way. It seems to be causing flooding in his driveway and sidewalk. Glen checked into this and found that the binder that was put in is not flooding K. Zurmuhlen’s driveway but is running towards Rt. 20. K. Zurmuhlen’s driveway does have a low spot that Glen thinks can be helped if a catch basin is put in, but he will still have a low spot at the end of his driveway. So, it will not take care of the whole problem. Glen will ask Jim Malinowski to look at it with him and see what they can do about this. Kurt Zurmuhlen asked that the problem not be made worse than it already is. Trustee Patrick asked Glen if the construction co. will be putting stone or something in on the sides of the road. He answered that crusher run will be put down to taper the side of the roads down.
Frank- contract #2- Blue Heron has been by-passing for 3 weeks now. The contract states should only be for 2 weeks. All valves in, waiting on 2 8in. pumps, pouring floor in pre-treatment building, SWB’s running, startup was few weeks ago, running good, reed bed area is all filled, PCV liner in next week, scheduled to plant end of October, this should be no problem with planting this late in the season, once planted the sludge can be put in immediately, should be up 2-3 in. of sludge. Had a problem with a drain line from reed bed, new drawings and old drawings are different. Only option is to get a new 8 in. valve and put in T and tie into the under drain to drain to head of the plant. There will be an extra cost for this. The clarifier building progressing good, four guys are working on it now.
Contract 3- contractors are moving along, upset with Blue Heron because they are slowing them down.
Contract - plumbing and heating men were there one day, now are requesting an extension. Nick sent e-mail to them to explain they have had plenty of time to do the work and no extension would be given. Problem with exhaust, new route needs to be made for the exhaust.
Frank stated they are waiting for a letter from Blue Heron on the updated progress schedule.
2-Change orders- Contract 1 for slip line on Manley St. $29,900.00, Contract 2 Blue Heron, for premium on sludge disposal and additional cost to pump remaining muck into the wet weather basin at the plant, $4578.11.
Resolution made to accept the 2 change orders made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Nick passed out an Amendment No. 4 to Agreement for Engineering Services. The Amendment results in a net change in Engineering Fees of $0.00. Motion to approve made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Nick also passed out SPDES Permit Required Engineering Reports, which is due December 1st. 2010. Five (5) reports must be done. Costs for these reports are $27,900.00. After discussion, was decided the board would have further discussion on this.
Trustee Patrick asked Nick if he had any thoughts or suggestions of what could be done at the Express Mart concerning the issue of the BOD levels. He stated he is not fully aware of the whole situation but he would check into it further.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Judie Stone from the Chamber of Commerce and David Arkema a contractor, wanted to give a report on the bandstand condition in Spring Park. Mr. Arkema has looked over the bandstand and has ideas of what should be done to restore it. He will put together an estimate and give to the Chamber to bring to a future meeting. Mr Arkema was asked about the railings and keeping within the historical codes. He stated that as long as they are not made less safe than they are.
William Juteau asked about the way the end of his driveway was left after the blacktopping was done by Hanson Aggregates. Was told that the village will probably taper off the side of the road and the end of the driveways.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #09- General Fund- $9,317.55, Water Fund - $804.01, Sewer Fund - $723.77, Cemetery Fund- $160.39, Trust and Agency - $81.20, Capitol Projects - $314,951.70 Total: $326,038.62.
Motion to approve abstract #09 made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk’s report for month of Sept. 2010 as follows: clerk’s fees, $21.25, registrar fees, $60.00. Check given to treasurer $81.25.
Halloween night will be Oct. 31, 2010 during the hours of 6pm. to 8pm. Motion made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Trustee Kurkowski voted no. Motion carried.
FYI to all board members and Mayor, village elections for 2011 will be held on March 15, 2011.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Transfer $5000.00 From General A9901.03 to Library L5031. Resolution made to approve transfer by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Increase Line Item A1620.21 to reflect the Grant money received $96,800.00.
Treasurer passed out balance sheets and profit and loss reports.
The audit was received and corrections had to be made. Donna wrote up all corrections and passed out to the board for their review.
Randy Stocking called last week and asked why he was getting a water/sewer bill for 6 Lakeview Ave. when the water was turned off in 2009. Donna informed him that the office was never informed of the shut off so he has been getting the minimum charge. She asked who shut it off and was informed he had called Tom Shypski and he shut it off for him. After talking with him, Donna told him she would credit him the $20.77 for the past month and not be billed the shut off fee. He agreed and was appreciative. Motion was made to approve the credit issued on his water bill by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor. Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Letter was received with no objections from SHIPPO to repair the chimneys and paint the village building.
Mayor Frohne:
Received an estimate for repairs to be done on the 4 Face Tower Clock in the center of the village from Syracuse Time & Alarm Co. Inc. The estimate was for a new motor, travel to R.S., hours of labor and for shipping and handling charges. Total estimate was for $1,252.35. After discussion, it was decided Mayor Frohne will speak to the company about the length of warranty for the parts, and will also try to find another company for a second estimate.
Information Mayor Frohne received from Attorney Merzig: employee healthcare-opt out election. This will be discussed at a later date.
Also the residential rental registration law, if a party owns property in the village but does not live in the village, they must have a local party to take care of the property. This would have to be a local law.
And the sidewalks are considered part of the street and part of the public way, and the village regulates activity within both the street and the sidewalk area. No action can be taken without the permission of the village.
Trustee Pierson:
Met a salesman at the DPW building from the International Truck Co. Jim Malinowski has a tentative plan for a cabin chassis, diesel, automatic transmission, etc. Man coming to look at the other truck with the stainless steel sander, to see if it can be adapted to another vehicle which would save roughly $45,000.00.
DPW men closed the bathrooms in the park, except the small ones, which will be closed when the farmers market is done and the benches will be put away before Halloween.
Trustee Patrick:
Working on getting estimates for the light to be put on the Library building for the flag. Trying to get 3 estimates.
Suggests there be a form made up for questions and concerns about the project and keep in the village office. The clerk will see that it gets to the right person for answers. All members agreed and Mayor Frohne said he would make the form.
Concerned about the Express Mart fines and feels they should be increased. After discussion, was decided to table this issue for a future meeting.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Brian Coones is on jury duty at this time.
Brian and Trustee Kurkowski have been measuring land near the work shed to see if single plots could be sold there.
Also, Trustee Kurkowski offered to speak to Marston Erwin who knows the procedure of hiring prisoners to work on the firehouse. All agreed.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd.by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:10 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the September 14, and 29th, 2010 minutes. No objections.
Motion to approve the Sept.14th, 2010 minutes made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Motion to approve the Sept. 29th, 2010 minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Special Business:
Tom Hallock – Fire Chief – New tires were put on ambulance. When this was done, it was discovered all ball joints were bad as well, these were repaired at Skinners. The Marcy Hydraulic bill was for the ladder truck. The power steering unit started leaking after a drill, the first assistant chief and another fireman took the power steering unit off the truck and took it to Marcy Hydraulic to be repaired and also went to pick it up when it was done. Chief Hallock wanted to let the board know this saved probably $900.00-$1,000.00 on that bill. Pumper school is going on now; when this is done the firemen are going to strip the back end of 42 down and try to patch the tank on that truck. County is trying to update communication system. This will cost the co. taxpayers $35 million dollars. Therefore, they are going to stay with the low band and make some improvements. For the R.S. fire co. there are only 14 portable low band radios, there are no longer any parts available for repairs. In the future, 14 new radios are going to be needed. Estimated cost $4200.00. UHF system was bought and there is a way to put a repeater in the rescue truck for about $800.00 – $1,000.00, and it will transmit on the UHF radio which the repeater will pick up and re-transmit on the low band for the co. This might be a way to get rid of the low band radios. Three pagers had to be thrown, because they were beyond repair. The fire dept. building is getting to the point of desperate repair. There are blocks starting to come out. Also, the roof is leaking more. The prisoners do this kind of work, and Chief Hallock would like to see the board look into this.
Lamont Engineers:
Glen - Contract 1- Paving is being done, Lake St., W. James St., E.James St., Manley St., Canadarago St., Johnson St., Elm St. and Division St. The driveways are not being tied in at this time. Sidewalks repaired where dug up. There is a problem with flooding at the end of River St. and Bronner St. There is enough money left to replace extra 75 ft. of sidewalk which was tilted very badly where it was flooded, Lamont checked with EFC to see if it could put up a curve along the sidewalk. There was enough grade to get the water to drain away from Bronner St. The video taping was completed, and Glen had them video again from manhole 4 to where they think manhole 5 is, flow was very heavy, could only go about 20ft. No charge to village for that area. Could see a big crack in the line, do manhole 4 to 6 needs to be replaced. Glen will work on the cost for that. Manhole 5 was not found, so it will be eliminated if it is a straight line.
Elm St. problem: Kurt Zurmuhlen questioned at the previous meeting about the binder that was put in at the L.Croucn residence. Mr. Crouch asked a workman from G. DeVincentis to blacktop the area between the sidewalk and the road. This was agreed upon between Mr. Crouch and the individual workman. One layer has been put down, still 11/2 in. lower than the sidewalk, and the workman told Mr. Crouch he can not finish it. This was done outside of the village contract with G. DeVincentis and should not have been handled this way. It seems to be causing flooding in his driveway and sidewalk. Glen checked into this and found that the binder that was put in is not flooding K. Zurmuhlen’s driveway but is running towards Rt. 20. K. Zurmuhlen’s driveway does have a low spot that Glen thinks can be helped if a catch basin is put in, but he will still have a low spot at the end of his driveway. So, it will not take care of the whole problem. Glen will ask Jim Malinowski to look at it with him and see what they can do about this. Kurt Zurmuhlen asked that the problem not be made worse than it already is. Trustee Patrick asked Glen if the construction co. will be putting stone or something in on the sides of the road. He answered that crusher run will be put down to taper the side of the roads down.
Frank- contract #2- Blue Heron has been by-passing for 3 weeks now. The contract states should only be for 2 weeks. All valves in, waiting on 2 8in. pumps, pouring floor in pre-treatment building, SWB’s running, startup was few weeks ago, running good, reed bed area is all filled, PCV liner in next week, scheduled to plant end of October, this should be no problem with planting this late in the season, once planted the sludge can be put in immediately, should be up 2-3 in. of sludge. Had a problem with a drain line from reed bed, new drawings and old drawings are different. Only option is to get a new 8 in. valve and put in T and tie into the under drain to drain to head of the plant. There will be an extra cost for this. The clarifier building progressing good, four guys are working on it now.
Contract 3- contractors are moving along, upset with Blue Heron because they are slowing them down.
Contract - plumbing and heating men were there one day, now are requesting an extension. Nick sent e-mail to them to explain they have had plenty of time to do the work and no extension would be given. Problem with exhaust, new route needs to be made for the exhaust.
Frank stated they are waiting for a letter from Blue Heron on the updated progress schedule.
2-Change orders- Contract 1 for slip line on Manley St. $29,900.00, Contract 2 Blue Heron, for premium on sludge disposal and additional cost to pump remaining muck into the wet weather basin at the plant, $4578.11.
Resolution made to accept the 2 change orders made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Nick passed out an Amendment No. 4 to Agreement for Engineering Services. The Amendment results in a net change in Engineering Fees of $0.00. Motion to approve made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Nick also passed out SPDES Permit Required Engineering Reports, which is due December 1st. 2010. Five (5) reports must be done. Costs for these reports are $27,900.00. After discussion, was decided the board would have further discussion on this.
Trustee Patrick asked Nick if he had any thoughts or suggestions of what could be done at the Express Mart concerning the issue of the BOD levels. He stated he is not fully aware of the whole situation but he would check into it further.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Judie Stone from the Chamber of Commerce and David Arkema a contractor, wanted to give a report on the bandstand condition in Spring Park. Mr. Arkema has looked over the bandstand and has ideas of what should be done to restore it. He will put together an estimate and give to the Chamber to bring to a future meeting. Mr Arkema was asked about the railings and keeping within the historical codes. He stated that as long as they are not made less safe than they are.
William Juteau asked about the way the end of his driveway was left after the blacktopping was done by Hanson Aggregates. Was told that the village will probably taper off the side of the road and the end of the driveways.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #09- General Fund- $9,317.55, Water Fund - $804.01, Sewer Fund - $723.77, Cemetery Fund- $160.39, Trust and Agency - $81.20, Capitol Projects - $314,951.70 Total: $326,038.62.
Motion to approve abstract #09 made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk’s report for month of Sept. 2010 as follows: clerk’s fees, $21.25, registrar fees, $60.00. Check given to treasurer $81.25.
Halloween night will be Oct. 31, 2010 during the hours of 6pm. to 8pm. Motion made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Trustee Kurkowski voted no. Motion carried.
FYI to all board members and Mayor, village elections for 2011 will be held on March 15, 2011.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Transfer $5000.00 From General A9901.03 to Library L5031. Resolution made to approve transfer by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes.
Increase Line Item A1620.21 to reflect the Grant money received $96,800.00.
Treasurer passed out balance sheets and profit and loss reports.
The audit was received and corrections had to be made. Donna wrote up all corrections and passed out to the board for their review.
Randy Stocking called last week and asked why he was getting a water/sewer bill for 6 Lakeview Ave. when the water was turned off in 2009. Donna informed him that the office was never informed of the shut off so he has been getting the minimum charge. She asked who shut it off and was informed he had called Tom Shypski and he shut it off for him. After talking with him, Donna told him she would credit him the $20.77 for the past month and not be billed the shut off fee. He agreed and was appreciative. Motion was made to approve the credit issued on his water bill by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor. Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Letter was received with no objections from SHIPPO to repair the chimneys and paint the village building.
Mayor Frohne:
Received an estimate for repairs to be done on the 4 Face Tower Clock in the center of the village from Syracuse Time & Alarm Co. Inc. The estimate was for a new motor, travel to R.S., hours of labor and for shipping and handling charges. Total estimate was for $1,252.35. After discussion, it was decided Mayor Frohne will speak to the company about the length of warranty for the parts, and will also try to find another company for a second estimate.
Information Mayor Frohne received from Attorney Merzig: employee healthcare-opt out election. This will be discussed at a later date.
Also the residential rental registration law, if a party owns property in the village but does not live in the village, they must have a local party to take care of the property. This would have to be a local law.
And the sidewalks are considered part of the street and part of the public way, and the village regulates activity within both the street and the sidewalk area. No action can be taken without the permission of the village.
Trustee Pierson:
Met a salesman at the DPW building from the International Truck Co. Jim Malinowski has a tentative plan for a cabin chassis, diesel, automatic transmission, etc. Man coming to look at the other truck with the stainless steel sander, to see if it can be adapted to another vehicle which would save roughly $45,000.00.
DPW men closed the bathrooms in the park, except the small ones, which will be closed when the farmers market is done and the benches will be put away before Halloween.
Trustee Patrick:
Working on getting estimates for the light to be put on the Library building for the flag. Trying to get 3 estimates.
Suggests there be a form made up for questions and concerns about the project and keep in the village office. The clerk will see that it gets to the right person for answers. All members agreed and Mayor Frohne said he would make the form.
Concerned about the Express Mart fines and feels they should be increased. After discussion, was decided to table this issue for a future meeting.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Brian Coones is on jury duty at this time.
Brian and Trustee Kurkowski have been measuring land near the work shed to see if single plots could be sold there.
Also, Trustee Kurkowski offered to speak to Marston Erwin who knows the procedure of hiring prisoners to work on the firehouse. All agreed.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd.by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:10 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Thursday, October 14, 2010
September 29, 2010
Date: September 29, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
No minutes passed at this meeting.
Property Maintenance: Doug Bordinger
031- 9/9/10 - 27 Elm St. – rubbish/debris – cleaned up
032- 9/9/10 - 6-8 Park St. – rubbish/debris – cleaned up
033- 9/9/10 – 26 W. James St. – overgrowth – mowed
034- 9/16/10 – 11 Church St. – rubbish/debris – letter sent to wrong address, resent on 9/27/2010.
Special Business:
Tom Hallock – Fire Chief – Truck that was repaired needs more work done on it. Now the tank is leaking, 1000 gal. tank is leaking 250-300 gals. per wk. After discussion, was decided the firemen will try to fix it, if they can’t they will have to get it repaired. There are 3 guys taking a pumper class now. The ambulance needs 2 new tires for front of ambulance. Will go to Chuck Furner’s for the tires, mounting and balancing. Will be approximately $500.00. Motion was made to approve purchase of 2 front tires for ambulance by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Tom was told by Father Bartle that when the time comes for work to be done on the fire dept. building, the prisoners will do the work for materials and meals, no labor would be charged. Tom then passed out a letter from Charles Osterhoudt, President of the Fire Dept. that stated that as previously decided by the Village Board, the Equipment Account is allocated for the Fire Dept only, and is used for the purchase of large equipment when needed.. The money allocated for the equipment is not to be withdrawn for any reason without the written consent of the Richfield Springs, Fire Dept. The account in question is the reserve account.
Lamont Engineers:
Glen - Contract 1- Binder in the trenches, almost done. The paving crew has a job in Pa. for 3 days, and then will be back here and the paving should take 1-2 weeks to do, then the restoration will be done. A final bill was received for the Bronner St. storm sewer that was done. Amount was $45,000.00(a little over). Nick, Chris and Glen re-worked the bill and brought the bill down to $37,412.00. At this time, Glen has not spoken to anyone at DeVincentis about this bill. A change order for $107,000.00 was requested from DeVincentis because of lost time when putting in laterals due to the water lines near the laterals. The letter received July 28, 2010 stated approximately 70-75% of the laterals were in conflict with the existing water lines. Then the change order request was cut down to 36 lines. Glen is working on a spread sheet to work this out. To re-do the line from manhole 4 to manhole 6 estimated cost would be $69,742.00 for 550 ft. An adjustment might be made for the amount of topsoil, 200 cubic yards of topsoil at 55.00 per yard, total of $11,000.00. This amount is probably high. When the final video taping is done on the main lines, Glen wants the line from manhole 4 to manhole 5 to be found, if possible. On Sept. 28th, 2010, the binder was started on Lake St. the add alternates states that all village streets get a full width overlay. The construction crew will do a full width overlay on Lake St. past the village line which is county road. Therefore, the cost to correct this error will be $3000.00. There is $116,336.00 in contract #1.
Frank- contract #2-The plant renovations are progressing better. Blue Heron has gotten the clarifier building frames up and tresses on, roof should be on soon. Pre-treatment bldg. replacing all valves, and wet well, installing pumps, by pass up and running for two weeks now. Began reed bed, required fill in. forced main pipes in, liner, stone sand and plants, should be completed in 3 weeks. Sweet water boy started up in plant. Contractor ordered 80 ft. of stainless steel pipe, when came in it was stamped made in Taiwan. Per the buy America agreement form that they signed, everything was suppose to be American made. Contractor was asked to replace with American made, which has not happened. Then the contractor contacted EFC, and tried to get under the 5% clause. That is 5% of total cost. EFC says it is the village’s decision as to whether they use foreign or stay with American made. After discussion, was decided to stay with American made product. Motion to use American made stainless steel pipe made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Change orders for contract #2- more sludge than expected, had to pump over to storage basin, cost $4500.00, includes premium had to pay at treatment plant.
Change order for main line replacement, problems found that were not on plans, requesting 36 hrs, after reviewing notes, Frank found 11 hrs.
Contract #3- working off the $10,000.00 cap for clarifier bldg. Had a small problem when the backwash pumps were started, the control room filled with smoke, the starter was hooked up wrong and fried, this was replaced with new starter by the contractor, at no cost to the village.
Contract #4&5- plumbing and heating, started, few things to work out, such as heater vents, now exhaust is through roof vents, must be run through the concrete deck and vented outside. The new heaters have 4in. ventilation, and the existing heater has 3in.
SWB’s require pneumatic valves that run by the compressor which causes condensation. The WWTP needs an air dryer. Chris will get prices and the village will buy up front and then be put into the project. Motion was made to approve the purchase of the air dryer up to $1600.00 made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Nick- Lamont has an on demand gas water heater at the office and is giving it to the WWTP.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Kurt Zurmuhlan, 14 Elm St., asked who is responsible for the sidewalks to be replaced. His neighbor had the contractor put in binder over an area which measures out 6 ft. and 77ft. long in front, and now the water runs off into Mr. Zurmuhlan’s driveway and front yard causing flooding. Glen stated that the owner told him he gave the contractor, G. DeVincentis, money to pay for this. Glen knew nothing about this until that time. Mayor Frohne will check with the attorney about this issue and as to who is responsible for area between the sidewalk and the road.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harrison asked about an adjustment to be made to his sewer bill because he power washed his house. After discussion, motion was made to approve credit to Mr. Harrison for this one time to his sewer bill by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #08- General Fund- $31,017.53, Water Fund - $1,097.46, Sewer Fund - $10,715.12, Cemetery Fund- $50.00, Trust and Agency - $975.40, Total: $43,855.51.
Motion to approve abstract #08 made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Correction on Abstract #07- General Fund s/b $10,992.79, Water fund s/b $11,900.54 and the total s/b $617,190.15.
Clerk passed out the monthly report from Jim Malinowski for DPW and the water report from Tom Shypski, concerning the drinking water taste and odor issue. Chris Butler’s report would be the same as Lamont.
The Vet’s Club has requested permission from the Village Board to renew their Liquor License. Motion to approve the Liquor License for the Vet’s Club and to waive the 30 day notification established by the NYS Liquor Authority. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes
There has been a problem for quite some time now with the Cub Scouts holding their meetings in the Village building. The lights are left on, the bathroom is being left a “mess”, the scouts are running around the halls yelling and screaming rather than being in the meeting room. Donna and I both have approached the individual leaders, to no avail. I have made several phone calls to Roland Miner, the Boy Scout leader explaining the problems. He has been very understanding and been trying to work out some sort of solution. I wrote the individual Cub Scout leaders, with the Mayor’s approval, a letter on July 14th, 2010, asking them to return the keys to the building and then they would be signed out again in Sept. when the meetings started up again. Not one of these 4 people acknowledged the letter. On Sept. 28th, 2010 a group came in at 3:00 pm. to have a Cub Scout meeting and it was a disaster. Bathroom was left with papers all over floor and the toilet had urine all over them, and they were running and yelling in the halls. Mayor Frohne spoke to the leader to clean the toilet, and then called Roland Miner. After discussion, with Roland Miner, Mayor Frohne was asked to write a letter to the Boy Scout Pack explaining the Cub Scouts need to find a new place to hold their meetings. Mayor Frohne agreed to this. I reminded Mayor Frohne that there are 4 keys to the building out there that need to be returned. After discussion with the board members, they were in agreement that it is time for the Cub Scouts to find a new meeting place.
October 11th. 2010 is Columbus Day, a National Holiday; the village office will be closed.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Restore NY Grant 2007 – Village board and Jerry Buck agreed for JGB to apply for grant to tear down buildings and put up moderate or low income housing. Nothing has transpired. Economic Development called and wanted to close it out. JGB is not going to do anything about it. It is now closed out. Amount of grant was $500,000.00.
Procurement policy, State Auditor asked for RFP. Donna asked to have this amended to be taken out of Procurement policy. After discussion, clerk was asked to make copies for all Trustees’ and this will be discussed further at next meeting.
Donna reported stocks were sold, $16,785.37 made.
Passed out balance sheet for Cemetery as of Sept. 2010 and the Profit & Loss by Class report from June 1 – Sept. 29, 2010.
Mayor Frohne:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Discussion about who owns the property from the edge of road to edge of sidewalk.
Will speak to Ed Bello about putting a light up on front of Library bldg. to shine on flag at night.
Trustee Kurkowski:
In Lakeview Cemetery, from the workhouse up, would be a perfect spot for Mausoleum’s to be sold. Trustee Kurkowski spoke to Brian Coones and they would like to measure off this area before winter.
Also, the storage building for the lawn tractor and equipment needs to be enlarged. Brian would like to have a gas powered generator and a pump so he can pump water out of stream to wash the equipment. After discussion, it was decided to get prices for a 15 ft. addition to the building.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson:
Spoke to Jim Malinowski, would like to get rid of the two DPW trucks that they have now, because of the high repair bills, and get a truck that can be used year round. After discussion, was decided Trustee Pierson will speak to Jim to put together a list of what he would want for a new truck, and to start checking prices.
Trustee Pierson would like to make a Local Law for any outside property owner to have a local person take care of property maintenance. Mayor Frohne will check with village attorney and check into this.
Donna reported there has been a complaint about the front doors to the library bldg. They need to be sanded and varnished. This will be a job for spring time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd.by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
No minutes passed at this meeting.
Property Maintenance: Doug Bordinger
031- 9/9/10 - 27 Elm St. – rubbish/debris – cleaned up
032- 9/9/10 - 6-8 Park St. – rubbish/debris – cleaned up
033- 9/9/10 – 26 W. James St. – overgrowth – mowed
034- 9/16/10 – 11 Church St. – rubbish/debris – letter sent to wrong address, resent on 9/27/2010.
Special Business:
Tom Hallock – Fire Chief – Truck that was repaired needs more work done on it. Now the tank is leaking, 1000 gal. tank is leaking 250-300 gals. per wk. After discussion, was decided the firemen will try to fix it, if they can’t they will have to get it repaired. There are 3 guys taking a pumper class now. The ambulance needs 2 new tires for front of ambulance. Will go to Chuck Furner’s for the tires, mounting and balancing. Will be approximately $500.00. Motion was made to approve purchase of 2 front tires for ambulance by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Tom was told by Father Bartle that when the time comes for work to be done on the fire dept. building, the prisoners will do the work for materials and meals, no labor would be charged. Tom then passed out a letter from Charles Osterhoudt, President of the Fire Dept. that stated that as previously decided by the Village Board, the Equipment Account is allocated for the Fire Dept only, and is used for the purchase of large equipment when needed.. The money allocated for the equipment is not to be withdrawn for any reason without the written consent of the Richfield Springs, Fire Dept. The account in question is the reserve account.
Lamont Engineers:
Glen - Contract 1- Binder in the trenches, almost done. The paving crew has a job in Pa. for 3 days, and then will be back here and the paving should take 1-2 weeks to do, then the restoration will be done. A final bill was received for the Bronner St. storm sewer that was done. Amount was $45,000.00(a little over). Nick, Chris and Glen re-worked the bill and brought the bill down to $37,412.00. At this time, Glen has not spoken to anyone at DeVincentis about this bill. A change order for $107,000.00 was requested from DeVincentis because of lost time when putting in laterals due to the water lines near the laterals. The letter received July 28, 2010 stated approximately 70-75% of the laterals were in conflict with the existing water lines. Then the change order request was cut down to 36 lines. Glen is working on a spread sheet to work this out. To re-do the line from manhole 4 to manhole 6 estimated cost would be $69,742.00 for 550 ft. An adjustment might be made for the amount of topsoil, 200 cubic yards of topsoil at 55.00 per yard, total of $11,000.00. This amount is probably high. When the final video taping is done on the main lines, Glen wants the line from manhole 4 to manhole 5 to be found, if possible. On Sept. 28th, 2010, the binder was started on Lake St. the add alternates states that all village streets get a full width overlay. The construction crew will do a full width overlay on Lake St. past the village line which is county road. Therefore, the cost to correct this error will be $3000.00. There is $116,336.00 in contract #1.
Frank- contract #2-The plant renovations are progressing better. Blue Heron has gotten the clarifier building frames up and tresses on, roof should be on soon. Pre-treatment bldg. replacing all valves, and wet well, installing pumps, by pass up and running for two weeks now. Began reed bed, required fill in. forced main pipes in, liner, stone sand and plants, should be completed in 3 weeks. Sweet water boy started up in plant. Contractor ordered 80 ft. of stainless steel pipe, when came in it was stamped made in Taiwan. Per the buy America agreement form that they signed, everything was suppose to be American made. Contractor was asked to replace with American made, which has not happened. Then the contractor contacted EFC, and tried to get under the 5% clause. That is 5% of total cost. EFC says it is the village’s decision as to whether they use foreign or stay with American made. After discussion, was decided to stay with American made product. Motion to use American made stainless steel pipe made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Change orders for contract #2- more sludge than expected, had to pump over to storage basin, cost $4500.00, includes premium had to pay at treatment plant.
Change order for main line replacement, problems found that were not on plans, requesting 36 hrs, after reviewing notes, Frank found 11 hrs.
Contract #3- working off the $10,000.00 cap for clarifier bldg. Had a small problem when the backwash pumps were started, the control room filled with smoke, the starter was hooked up wrong and fried, this was replaced with new starter by the contractor, at no cost to the village.
Contract #4&5- plumbing and heating, started, few things to work out, such as heater vents, now exhaust is through roof vents, must be run through the concrete deck and vented outside. The new heaters have 4in. ventilation, and the existing heater has 3in.
SWB’s require pneumatic valves that run by the compressor which causes condensation. The WWTP needs an air dryer. Chris will get prices and the village will buy up front and then be put into the project. Motion was made to approve the purchase of the air dryer up to $1600.00 made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Nick- Lamont has an on demand gas water heater at the office and is giving it to the WWTP.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Kurt Zurmuhlan, 14 Elm St., asked who is responsible for the sidewalks to be replaced. His neighbor had the contractor put in binder over an area which measures out 6 ft. and 77ft. long in front, and now the water runs off into Mr. Zurmuhlan’s driveway and front yard causing flooding. Glen stated that the owner told him he gave the contractor, G. DeVincentis, money to pay for this. Glen knew nothing about this until that time. Mayor Frohne will check with the attorney about this issue and as to who is responsible for area between the sidewalk and the road.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harrison asked about an adjustment to be made to his sewer bill because he power washed his house. After discussion, motion was made to approve credit to Mr. Harrison for this one time to his sewer bill by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #08- General Fund- $31,017.53, Water Fund - $1,097.46, Sewer Fund - $10,715.12, Cemetery Fund- $50.00, Trust and Agency - $975.40, Total: $43,855.51.
Motion to approve abstract #08 made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Correction on Abstract #07- General Fund s/b $10,992.79, Water fund s/b $11,900.54 and the total s/b $617,190.15.
Clerk passed out the monthly report from Jim Malinowski for DPW and the water report from Tom Shypski, concerning the drinking water taste and odor issue. Chris Butler’s report would be the same as Lamont.
The Vet’s Club has requested permission from the Village Board to renew their Liquor License. Motion to approve the Liquor License for the Vet’s Club and to waive the 30 day notification established by the NYS Liquor Authority. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes
There has been a problem for quite some time now with the Cub Scouts holding their meetings in the Village building. The lights are left on, the bathroom is being left a “mess”, the scouts are running around the halls yelling and screaming rather than being in the meeting room. Donna and I both have approached the individual leaders, to no avail. I have made several phone calls to Roland Miner, the Boy Scout leader explaining the problems. He has been very understanding and been trying to work out some sort of solution. I wrote the individual Cub Scout leaders, with the Mayor’s approval, a letter on July 14th, 2010, asking them to return the keys to the building and then they would be signed out again in Sept. when the meetings started up again. Not one of these 4 people acknowledged the letter. On Sept. 28th, 2010 a group came in at 3:00 pm. to have a Cub Scout meeting and it was a disaster. Bathroom was left with papers all over floor and the toilet had urine all over them, and they were running and yelling in the halls. Mayor Frohne spoke to the leader to clean the toilet, and then called Roland Miner. After discussion, with Roland Miner, Mayor Frohne was asked to write a letter to the Boy Scout Pack explaining the Cub Scouts need to find a new place to hold their meetings. Mayor Frohne agreed to this. I reminded Mayor Frohne that there are 4 keys to the building out there that need to be returned. After discussion with the board members, they were in agreement that it is time for the Cub Scouts to find a new meeting place.
October 11th. 2010 is Columbus Day, a National Holiday; the village office will be closed.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Restore NY Grant 2007 – Village board and Jerry Buck agreed for JGB to apply for grant to tear down buildings and put up moderate or low income housing. Nothing has transpired. Economic Development called and wanted to close it out. JGB is not going to do anything about it. It is now closed out. Amount of grant was $500,000.00.
Procurement policy, State Auditor asked for RFP. Donna asked to have this amended to be taken out of Procurement policy. After discussion, clerk was asked to make copies for all Trustees’ and this will be discussed further at next meeting.
Donna reported stocks were sold, $16,785.37 made.
Passed out balance sheet for Cemetery as of Sept. 2010 and the Profit & Loss by Class report from June 1 – Sept. 29, 2010.
Mayor Frohne:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Discussion about who owns the property from the edge of road to edge of sidewalk.
Will speak to Ed Bello about putting a light up on front of Library bldg. to shine on flag at night.
Trustee Kurkowski:
In Lakeview Cemetery, from the workhouse up, would be a perfect spot for Mausoleum’s to be sold. Trustee Kurkowski spoke to Brian Coones and they would like to measure off this area before winter.
Also, the storage building for the lawn tractor and equipment needs to be enlarged. Brian would like to have a gas powered generator and a pump so he can pump water out of stream to wash the equipment. After discussion, it was decided to get prices for a 15 ft. addition to the building.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson:
Spoke to Jim Malinowski, would like to get rid of the two DPW trucks that they have now, because of the high repair bills, and get a truck that can be used year round. After discussion, was decided Trustee Pierson will speak to Jim to put together a list of what he would want for a new truck, and to start checking prices.
Trustee Pierson would like to make a Local Law for any outside property owner to have a local person take care of property maintenance. Mayor Frohne will check with village attorney and check into this.
Donna reported there has been a complaint about the front doors to the library bldg. They need to be sanded and varnished. This will be a job for spring time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd.by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:15 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
September 14, 2010
Date: September 14, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the August 25, 2010 meeting. No objections. Motion was made to approve the August 25, 2010 minutes by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Property Maintenance: Doug Bordinger
021- 26 Center St. mowed as of 9/14/2010
022- 16 Sylvan St. mowed as of 9/14/2010
023- 58 Church St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
024- 76 Church St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
025- 29 W. James St. mowed as of 9/14/2010
026- 19 Lake St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
027- 20 Lake St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
028- 9 Park St. rubbish/debris- not cleaned as of 9/14/2010
029- 42 Walnut St. rubbish/debris- cleaned up as of 9/14/2010
030- 219 Elm St. rubbish/debris not cleaned up as of 9/14/2010
031- 27 Elm St. rubbish/debris- mailed letter 9/9/2010
032- 6-8 Park St. rubbish/debris- mailed letter 9/9/2010
033- 26 W. James St.-overgrowth- mailed letter 9/9/2010
Motion made to order lawns mowed, fines assessed and property owners billed made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Motion made to order clean work done on 9 Park St. and 219 Main St. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Trustee Patrick asked Doug about Wordens place of business on Main St. and about the problem of the sidewalk being block at Springer’s Inc. on Walnut St. He said he has spoken to them and will keep track of the situations.
Special Business:
Bids were opened for the paving of three streets, Johnson St., Sylvan St., and Walnut St. Bids were received from Hanson Aggregates, Jamesville, NY. bid was $28,315.00 and a bid from Barrett Paving Materials, Inc. for $29,645.00. Motion was made to accept the lowest bid from Hanson Aggregates, after Jim Malinowski reviews the bids and agrees, by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick. Trustee O’Connor voted no, Trustee Pierson, voted yes, Trustee Patrick, voted yes, Trustee Kurkowski, voted yes, and Mayor Frohne, voted yes. Motion carried.
Glen Simpson from Lamont gave an update on the project.
Contract 1- Glen does not have a definite date for the paving to begin, but it will be soon. Binder work done, finished off E. James St., Manley St. and Hotel St. Vacuum testing of manholes were done, 50 so far and all passed. The video crew needs to finish up video taping of the new lines. Still have a lot of restoration to do. The paving will probably be done first. Price for the manhole 6 to 5 (manhole 5 can not be found), so Chris Yakabuci checked into going form manhole 6 straight to manhole 4. Chris requested a proposal from De Vincentis on 9/9/2010; Glen has not received anything from them so far.
Frank-Lamont
Contract 2-5—Contract 4&5 not started yet. Contract 3 is moving along slowly due to Contract 2. Clarifier building walls are up and they plan on starting the bypassing so they can start on the pre- treatment building and get the effluent pumps in. All material is on site. All sludge is out of sludge storage pavilion, a little more in there than contract stated. Estimate of how much would cost to pump from lagoon to the wet station lagoon. It took 1 ½ days to do this. They will begin hauling material this week. Hoping to get the plants in and get the growth established before the end of the season. They will plant the plants and maintain them for 2 years.
Mayor Frohne has been in contact with the Village Attorney David Merzig that he would like a meeting with him and Nick Green from Lamont.
Change order for Contract 3, backwash pump house, has pumps that pump out chlorine contact tank and back wash, electrician stated it needed to have new conduit and lighting. Motion to approve Contract #3 change order in the amount of $2045.00 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Frank reported that Chris said the flow gallons per minute have been reduced by 2/3rd.
Nick also reported that the SPEDES permit has been extended to December 1st. 2010.
Mayor Frohne would like to hire a dog control officer. There have been problems with dogs running loose and no one to pick them up. He feels that an increase in pay would be necessary. He suggests increasing pay to $200.00 from $125.00 per month. The dog control officer must follow state regulations. This job is a contractual, and would not be a village employee. Was suggested to have the village attorney draw up a contract for this position. After discussion, a motion was made to interview and to pay up to $200.00 for the dog control officer position, by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustee O’Connor, voted yes, Trustee Pierson, voted yes, Trustee Patrick, voted no, Trustee Kurkowski, voted yes, Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Larry Jouben reported to the Board of Trustee’s that the Village’s Liability Insurance will be about $3000.00 less than last year.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Higgins spoke to the board about two dogs running loose around the village during the week of 9/8/2010. Mr. Higgins noticed the dogs were being taken care of at 6-8 Park St. He does not believe they were the owners of the dogs. The dogs trashed their back porch and were terrorizing their cats. At this point in time, one dog has been taken to SPCA in Cooperstown and the other has not been seen lately.
Wayne King asked if the village plans on taking over tagging and licensing of dogs? Mayor Frohne answered we have not gotten that far with the process so far. Mayor Frohne will call NYCOM and check into what needs to be done.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #07- General Fund- $10,992.79, Water Fund - $11,879.22, Sewer Fund - $6,621.24, Cemetery Fund- $661.14, Trust and Agency - $64.96, Capitol Projects- $587,270.80. Total: $617,490.15.
Motion to approve abstract #07 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerks report for the month of August 2010 – clerk fees, $45.50, check given to treasurer for $45.50.
Resolution needed for NYS and Local Employees Retirement made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Resolution filed with minutes.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Budget modification for State Dormitory has been approved, for the $22,200.00 that is left. Chimney repairs has to be done asap. Two estimates: S&G Masonry, $2,600.00. Kurt Van Spanje masonry, $5,900.00.
Motion was made to approve Kurt Van Spanje estimate to do the chimney repairs made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee O’Connor, voted yes, Trustee Pierson, voted yes, Trustee Patrick, voted yes, Trustee Kurkowski, voted no, Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
As for the painting of the trim for the building, we have from May 1st. 2011- Sept. 1st. 2011 to get done and the money will be available for that as well.
The check for the roof and back wall should be received soon.
Resolution to transfer money from the A1990.4 Contingency Fund, $2,000.00, to A8664.4 Codes Enforcement Contractual. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee O’Connor, yes, Trustee Pierson, yes, Trustee Patrick, yes, Trustee Kurkowski, yes, and Mayor Frohne, yes.
Profit and Loss reports and Balance sheet passed out.
Concerned about the Fire Dept. using village money to install a piece of equipment into a private vehicle. Trustee Kurkowski stated that it was approved by the Board quite some time ago for the Chiefs to do this, but only Chiefs vehicles. Trustee Kurkowski said he will speak with Tom Hallock to see whose vehicle this siren mount was put on.
Cemetery- Donna suggested that 25% of the sale of a plot should go into the Perpetual Care fund which would be used to maintain the cemetery. Motion made to approve the 25% of each plot sale to go into the CM2190.31 fund for maintenance of the Lakeview Cemetery made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Also the check from the Ins. Co, from Mr. Mckee to the Lakeview Cemetery as a beneficiary was received. It was for $10,071.17 and that was deposited into the Cemetery account.
Mayor Frohne:
ZBA- appointments- William Juteau as chairperson- 2010-2013. Motion to approve appointment made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Gerald Zavitz- 2012 – Motion to approve appointment made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
CHIPS money- this was from discussion at August 25, 2010 meeting, if CHIPS money could be spent for sidewalk repairs. No decisions were made at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Asked about the village water and the bad smell and taste from it. Was explained that the reservoir turns over 1-3 times a year and being that the water was so much warmer this year, it caused it to be much worse than before.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson:
Asked Brian Coones if he would want a post hole digger for digging for the cremains burials. Brian told Donna that he really did not need one but he would like electric and water.
FYI--A lot of villages and towns are passing a law that all out of area property owners must have a local person to maintain their property. This person must be registered in the Village Clerks office.
Trustee Kurkowski asked if the village can do anything about the trash that is left on the porch at 11 Church St. Mayor Frohne said to send a notice to owner, William Donnelly and give him the allotted amount of time to respond. If no response we will proceed from there.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd.by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 6:00 pm
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the August 25, 2010 meeting. No objections. Motion was made to approve the August 25, 2010 minutes by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Property Maintenance: Doug Bordinger
021- 26 Center St. mowed as of 9/14/2010
022- 16 Sylvan St. mowed as of 9/14/2010
023- 58 Church St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
024- 76 Church St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
025- 29 W. James St. mowed as of 9/14/2010
026- 19 Lake St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
027- 20 Lake St. not mowed as of 9/14/2010
028- 9 Park St. rubbish/debris- not cleaned as of 9/14/2010
029- 42 Walnut St. rubbish/debris- cleaned up as of 9/14/2010
030- 219 Elm St. rubbish/debris not cleaned up as of 9/14/2010
031- 27 Elm St. rubbish/debris- mailed letter 9/9/2010
032- 6-8 Park St. rubbish/debris- mailed letter 9/9/2010
033- 26 W. James St.-overgrowth- mailed letter 9/9/2010
Motion made to order lawns mowed, fines assessed and property owners billed made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Motion made to order clean work done on 9 Park St. and 219 Main St. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Trustee Patrick asked Doug about Wordens place of business on Main St. and about the problem of the sidewalk being block at Springer’s Inc. on Walnut St. He said he has spoken to them and will keep track of the situations.
Special Business:
Bids were opened for the paving of three streets, Johnson St., Sylvan St., and Walnut St. Bids were received from Hanson Aggregates, Jamesville, NY. bid was $28,315.00 and a bid from Barrett Paving Materials, Inc. for $29,645.00. Motion was made to accept the lowest bid from Hanson Aggregates, after Jim Malinowski reviews the bids and agrees, by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick. Trustee O’Connor voted no, Trustee Pierson, voted yes, Trustee Patrick, voted yes, Trustee Kurkowski, voted yes, and Mayor Frohne, voted yes. Motion carried.
Glen Simpson from Lamont gave an update on the project.
Contract 1- Glen does not have a definite date for the paving to begin, but it will be soon. Binder work done, finished off E. James St., Manley St. and Hotel St. Vacuum testing of manholes were done, 50 so far and all passed. The video crew needs to finish up video taping of the new lines. Still have a lot of restoration to do. The paving will probably be done first. Price for the manhole 6 to 5 (manhole 5 can not be found), so Chris Yakabuci checked into going form manhole 6 straight to manhole 4. Chris requested a proposal from De Vincentis on 9/9/2010; Glen has not received anything from them so far.
Frank-Lamont
Contract 2-5—Contract 4&5 not started yet. Contract 3 is moving along slowly due to Contract 2. Clarifier building walls are up and they plan on starting the bypassing so they can start on the pre- treatment building and get the effluent pumps in. All material is on site. All sludge is out of sludge storage pavilion, a little more in there than contract stated. Estimate of how much would cost to pump from lagoon to the wet station lagoon. It took 1 ½ days to do this. They will begin hauling material this week. Hoping to get the plants in and get the growth established before the end of the season. They will plant the plants and maintain them for 2 years.
Mayor Frohne has been in contact with the Village Attorney David Merzig that he would like a meeting with him and Nick Green from Lamont.
Change order for Contract 3, backwash pump house, has pumps that pump out chlorine contact tank and back wash, electrician stated it needed to have new conduit and lighting. Motion to approve Contract #3 change order in the amount of $2045.00 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Frank reported that Chris said the flow gallons per minute have been reduced by 2/3rd.
Nick also reported that the SPEDES permit has been extended to December 1st. 2010.
Mayor Frohne would like to hire a dog control officer. There have been problems with dogs running loose and no one to pick them up. He feels that an increase in pay would be necessary. He suggests increasing pay to $200.00 from $125.00 per month. The dog control officer must follow state regulations. This job is a contractual, and would not be a village employee. Was suggested to have the village attorney draw up a contract for this position. After discussion, a motion was made to interview and to pay up to $200.00 for the dog control officer position, by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustee O’Connor, voted yes, Trustee Pierson, voted yes, Trustee Patrick, voted no, Trustee Kurkowski, voted yes, Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Larry Jouben reported to the Board of Trustee’s that the Village’s Liability Insurance will be about $3000.00 less than last year.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Mr. & Mrs. Ron Higgins spoke to the board about two dogs running loose around the village during the week of 9/8/2010. Mr. Higgins noticed the dogs were being taken care of at 6-8 Park St. He does not believe they were the owners of the dogs. The dogs trashed their back porch and were terrorizing their cats. At this point in time, one dog has been taken to SPCA in Cooperstown and the other has not been seen lately.
Wayne King asked if the village plans on taking over tagging and licensing of dogs? Mayor Frohne answered we have not gotten that far with the process so far. Mayor Frohne will call NYCOM and check into what needs to be done.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #07- General Fund- $10,992.79, Water Fund - $11,879.22, Sewer Fund - $6,621.24, Cemetery Fund- $661.14, Trust and Agency - $64.96, Capitol Projects- $587,270.80. Total: $617,490.15.
Motion to approve abstract #07 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerks report for the month of August 2010 – clerk fees, $45.50, check given to treasurer for $45.50.
Resolution needed for NYS and Local Employees Retirement made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Resolution filed with minutes.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Budget modification for State Dormitory has been approved, for the $22,200.00 that is left. Chimney repairs has to be done asap. Two estimates: S&G Masonry, $2,600.00. Kurt Van Spanje masonry, $5,900.00.
Motion was made to approve Kurt Van Spanje estimate to do the chimney repairs made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee O’Connor, voted yes, Trustee Pierson, voted yes, Trustee Patrick, voted yes, Trustee Kurkowski, voted no, Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
As for the painting of the trim for the building, we have from May 1st. 2011- Sept. 1st. 2011 to get done and the money will be available for that as well.
The check for the roof and back wall should be received soon.
Resolution to transfer money from the A1990.4 Contingency Fund, $2,000.00, to A8664.4 Codes Enforcement Contractual. Motion made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee O’Connor, yes, Trustee Pierson, yes, Trustee Patrick, yes, Trustee Kurkowski, yes, and Mayor Frohne, yes.
Profit and Loss reports and Balance sheet passed out.
Concerned about the Fire Dept. using village money to install a piece of equipment into a private vehicle. Trustee Kurkowski stated that it was approved by the Board quite some time ago for the Chiefs to do this, but only Chiefs vehicles. Trustee Kurkowski said he will speak with Tom Hallock to see whose vehicle this siren mount was put on.
Cemetery- Donna suggested that 25% of the sale of a plot should go into the Perpetual Care fund which would be used to maintain the cemetery. Motion made to approve the 25% of each plot sale to go into the CM2190.31 fund for maintenance of the Lakeview Cemetery made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Also the check from the Ins. Co, from Mr. Mckee to the Lakeview Cemetery as a beneficiary was received. It was for $10,071.17 and that was deposited into the Cemetery account.
Mayor Frohne:
ZBA- appointments- William Juteau as chairperson- 2010-2013. Motion to approve appointment made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Gerald Zavitz- 2012 – Motion to approve appointment made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd by Trustee Patrick, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
CHIPS money- this was from discussion at August 25, 2010 meeting, if CHIPS money could be spent for sidewalk repairs. No decisions were made at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Asked about the village water and the bad smell and taste from it. Was explained that the reservoir turns over 1-3 times a year and being that the water was so much warmer this year, it caused it to be much worse than before.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Pierson:
Asked Brian Coones if he would want a post hole digger for digging for the cremains burials. Brian told Donna that he really did not need one but he would like electric and water.
FYI--A lot of villages and towns are passing a law that all out of area property owners must have a local person to maintain their property. This person must be registered in the Village Clerks office.
Trustee Kurkowski asked if the village can do anything about the trash that is left on the porch at 11 Church St. Mayor Frohne said to send a notice to owner, William Donnelly and give him the allotted amount of time to respond. If no response we will proceed from there.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd.by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
August 25, 2010
Date: August 25, 2010
Time: 9:00 am
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the August 10, 2010 meeting. No objections. Motion was made to approve the August 10, 2010 minutes by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Property Maintenance: Doug Bordinger
Trustee Patrick asked Doug about the status of 1 Hyde St. Doug stated that the County was going to send a second letter to the property owner and would have 2 weeks to respond. After that it will be in the hands of the DA.
Also would like Doug to check into Walnut St. near the Springer’s business, there are cars parked on the sidewalk quite often.
Park St. property across from 9 Park St. in need of paint.
Special Business:
Glen Simpson from Lamont gave an update on the project. Contract 1
Did some checking into finances to do some sidewalks. The bid item has a little more than 4300 sq. ft. of sidewalk, there is about 1800 ft. of sidewalks that must be done due the digging to replace laterals. There should be some funds left to use for concrete sidewalk to be done. Glen will check with Nick Green to see if EFC will allow the money to be used for sidewalks other than what was dug up for the laterals. The main area of concern at this point is on the east side of Lake St. and some on the west side. Glen will update the over/under spread sheet to have a better idea of what funds are left to use. Lake St. was milled on 8/24/2010 and by the end of 8/25/2010 all binder and trench should be complete. Extra sewer pipe video tape was done and the total cost was $250.00. One section from manhole 6 to manhole 5 is in very bad condition. Approximate cost for repair is $28,000.00.
Contract #2 – work at the WWTP – is progressing along now. The village received a letter from Blue Heron requesting approximately $78,000.00 extra because of the consistency of the sludge. Donna Wells called Chittenango to see what the cost was to dump the sludge; it was $.05 a gallon. If the solids were over 6% they would add $.01. One test did come out 12% solids. Herkimer did not charge extra for thick sludge. Nick Green from Lamont requested that Blue Heron provide documentation. As of 8/24/2010, he had not received any. Lamont had a meeting with Blue Heron regarding the $78,000.00 and it was cut down to $5600.00. If there is no documentation from Blue Heron, there will be no extra payment made.
Chris Butler stated that Blue Heron was guaranteed 401,000 gals. of sludge removal. They have taken that amount out. An estimate was given of 29,000 gals. to continue to take sludge out. This is unacceptable. The overflow pond will be used for the excess sludge, and next year when the reed beds are in operation, this will be reprocessed. Chris checked into the reed beds to be sure this will not do any damage to the reed beds. Being that the pond is on site, the DEC should have no problem with this process.
Jim Malinowski received 3 estimates for repairs to be done to the north side of the DPW building.
1- Graves Enterprises LLC- $5,400.00, 2- Greg Hardy Construction- $4000.00, 3- WTC Construction- $3,050.00. Jim reviewed all estimates and all had in the estimate what was needed to be done.
Motion made to approve the WTC Construction’s estimate of $3050.00 and all proper paperwork, which includes certificate of insurance and workers comp. forms, by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Jim also reviewed the estimates he had passed out at a previous meeting for certain streets in the village to be paved using the CHIPS allotment. 1- Canadarago St. to be milled and paved. The cost would be $5000.00 for milling, and $17,820.00 for the paving. Total: $22,820.00. 2- Johnson St. - $11,745.00, 3- Lake St, 25,515.00, 4- Sylvan St. $10,215.00, 5- Walnut St. $6,480.00. Each estimate includes Type 6 Top @ $81.00 per ton. The CHIPS allotment is $35,796.00. These streets will total $51,170.00, leaving a balance of $15,470.00 unfunded by CHIPS. After discussion, it was decided to do Johnson St., Sylvan St. and Walnut St. with the CHIPS money.
Motion made by Trustee O’Connor and 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, to use the CHIPS money to blacktop Johnson St., Sylvan St. and Walnut St. Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. This will leave an approximate balance of $7000.00 in the CHIPS fund for this year, depending on what the cost of the blacktopping is. A discussion took place about looking into using the balance of the CHIPS money to replace sidewalks in the village. This needs to be checked into and brought back to the next meeting.
Jim would like to have a fence put back up between the village property and Bronner St. (Domion Tr.Park), where two trees were removed and the fence taken down. There is some wire and posts that can be used, and there is wire from the reservoir that can be used. The G. De Vincentis Co. took this fence down, so they will be putting this back. After discussion, it was agreed for this to be done.
Chris Butler-WWTP report
Due to the 5” of rain from the weekend a serious issue occurred. They were not able to do wet weather operations because of Blue Heron not completing the manhole at the WWTP. Because of this the pumps had to be turned on full throttle and pumped from the wet well where it comes into the treatment plant up on top to the wet weather basin and treatment basins. Fortunately, a bypass was avoided. Chris was assured the manhole problem will be taken care of 8/26/2010.
Chris reported on the projects that are completed, such as the new generator, that is up and running and the Solar Panels are operating. Extra sampling for the EPA is required now for every 6 mo. starting in August 2010. The trash pump was delivered on 8/24/2010. The green house has been dismantled; Blue Heron is in the process of building over the clarifiers.
Letter from J. Spytko regarding the tests results from Express Mart. Mr. Spytko does a FOIL request every month for the tests results from Environmental Lab.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Bill Klemm asked about the trees around the village that are old and need trimming. It was noted by Mayor Frohne that the trees are on private property, but he will make a note to the public to tend to these problem trees. He also asked the board when they started having two meetings a month. He feels the attendance has not increased and that people are missing information because they can not always get to the two meetings. Mayor Frohne tried to explain the reason for this is that there is a lot of business to take care of and if we cut back to one meeting, the meetings would be 3-4 hrs. long. He also explained the minutes of each meeting are put on the web site and are available in the Clerks office if anyone is interested in obtaining them.
Ron Hansel asked if he could have permission to buy water from the village for his barns to be washed. The person hired to wash the barns has a truck that will hold 2600 gals. After discussion it was decided there would be a charge of $40.00 per fill, $20.00 for the water and $20.00 for the hydrant to be opened and the water drawn.
Motion made to approve 3 tanks of 2600 gals. of water drawn and to charge $40.00 per fill made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #06- General Fund- $10,055.57, Water Fund - $4,093.36, Sewer Fund - $8,206.09, Cemetery Fund- $1,067.04, Trust and Agency - $422.24, Capitol Projects- $250.00. Total: $24,094.30.
Motion to approve abstract #06 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Correction on abstract #05 due to a change in the capitol projects amount: was read as $825,135.96, s/b $706,587.96.
Board agreed to let the Boy Scouts do a clean up project in Spring Park on August 29th, 2010 through the Rural Three for Tobacco Free Communities led by Marcia Kozubek, Project Coordinator. This is based at the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown.
Also, the clerk received an application from the Chamber of Commerce for their Country Fair on 10/3/2010, insurance updated and deposit check of $100.00 and check for $100.00 for electric, water and bathrooms given. Motion made to approve the Chamber to use park for Country Fair made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson. Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Training sessions: Chris Butler, Fred Clements, James Malinowski, for Oct. 14, 2010, Vernon, NY for pump calibrations, cost $75.00 each. Also for James Malinowski for Sept. 8, 2010 in Auburn, NY for pump mechanics, cost $35.00, and for Sept. 29, 2010 in Vernon, NY for basic math, cost $75.00.
Motion to approve training sessions for Chris Butler, Fred Clements and James Malinowski made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Also the Clerk reminded all Board members and Mayor Frohne of the upcoming Open House for the Library Anniversary on August 29th, 2010 from 1-4pm.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Cemetery plot fees-would like to have the $50.00 just added to the total of cost of the plot. To explain to someone buying a plot it gets very confusing to break this down, much easier to just say $425.00 which includes the 4 corner markers with the initial on. All agreed this would be easier.
Cemetery financial- meeting with bank, put in sell orders on all stock. Have sold some, and made money from it. Wells Trust has been updated and addresses changed. Needs a resolution to approve the treasurer and Mayor to sign the paperwork from The Hartford Ins. Co. for $10,000.00 the cemetery association will receive from James McGee who named the Lakeview Cemetery as a beneficiary.
Resolution made to authorize Treasurer, Donna Wells and Mayor Ronald Frohne to sign the paperwork from The Hartford Ins. Co. #L01365704, on behalf of the Richfield Springs Cemetery Assoc. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Pierson-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
Donna also reported that the Library roof repairs and the back wall of the Library building have been completed. The village has $22,000.00 left from the State Dormitory Authority in regards to the chimneys being fixed at the base and to paint the trim and the overhang. Donna has been in touch with the State Dormitory Authority and they do not think there will be a problem but it has to taken to the Assembly for approval. We have an estimate from Kurt Van Spanje for the chimney repair. Two other men came and looked but no estimate has been received from them. Mayor Frohne asked the Trustee’s if someone could help finding a responsible party that might be interested in the paint job for the Library building. Trustee Patrick volunteered to make phone calls and get them to come to the office to speak to Donna about the job. The gutter that was taken down needs to be replaced. The diverter put up when roof was repaired does not do the job and when a lot of rain it splatters on the stucco work of the building.
The new natural gas furnace has been installed and the Otsego Co. Codes Enforcer will be coming to inspect the job.
Donna wants to put money into the Cooperstown Bank, which was approved by the board at the Organizational meeting to use, because the interest rates are better right now than NBT.
Party on Rt. 20, possibly outside user, might have hooked up the village water line into their private well. This is not legal. After the water meters are read, this will be checked into further. Another concern is the charge for the sewer use as well.
Mayor Frohne:
Received a letter from Marcia Kozubek, from Rural Three for Tobacco Free Communities requesting for the village to put signs up in the village parks for Tobacco-Free Policy for all public facilities. After discussion, was decided not to sign the resolution for the no smoking in the village park because it is next to impossible to enforce it.
Trustee Pierson:
Expressed how well the Lakeview Cemetery is being kept. He was told recently by non-residents how nice the Cemetery is taken care of. He also asked about possibly looking into a gas post hole digger for Brian Coones when he needs to dig for a cremation burial. He will talk to Brian about this.
Request to go into executive session to discuss personnel issue.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Concerned about 11 Church St. and the possibility of dogs being left abandoned in the house. The Clerk took a call on 8/19/2010 about 2 dogs being abandoned in the house at 11 Church St. David Weise was called but not available, then the State Police were called and told the person they had no jurisdiction. The Clerk called the Otsego Co. Sheriff’s Dept. and was told they would check into the situation. It was stated that being the village does not have a dog officer right now, so if there is an unknown unlicensed dog call David Weise, or if there is a dangerous dog, call 911. In January 2010, the state turned over the licensing to the localities and they can set whatever licensing fees they want and the locality keeps the money. The village could hire their own dog control officer and take over the licensing for the village. After discussion, was decided to bring this subject back up at a future meeting.
Also concerned about the sidewalk torn up on Manley St. and was not replaced.
Trustee Kurkowski also was concerned about the electric used for the recent carnival that was held by the Zone. He read the meter before the carnival started and after, for future reference.
David Arkema and Trustee Kurkowski checked the bandstand structure. The floor ok, the railing is very bad, the wiring needs to be worked on, and the door needs to be checked. The door is very heavy and steps are very steep. The bandstand is an historical structure; certain steps must be followed to keep it that way.
Received a letter from Joseph Spytko concerning the BOD’s and oil and grease tests results for August 2010.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Asked about the cemetery speed limit signs. Was told the signs have been placed in the cemetery.
Bill and Cindy Klemm left at this time.
Motion to go into executive session to discuss personnel issue made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Motion to come out of executive session made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
After executive session, a discussion took place about the cafeteria plan for the employees who decide not to take advantage of the CDPHP Ins. offered to them by the village. No decision was made at this time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
Time: 9:00 am
Elected Officers: Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Pierson
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Roll Call: Mayor Frohne, Trustees Kurkowski, Patrick, O’Connor, Pierson present.
Mayor Frohne asked if there were any objections to waiving the reading of the minutes of the August 10, 2010 meeting. No objections. Motion was made to approve the August 10, 2010 minutes by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Property Maintenance: Doug Bordinger
Trustee Patrick asked Doug about the status of 1 Hyde St. Doug stated that the County was going to send a second letter to the property owner and would have 2 weeks to respond. After that it will be in the hands of the DA.
Also would like Doug to check into Walnut St. near the Springer’s business, there are cars parked on the sidewalk quite often.
Park St. property across from 9 Park St. in need of paint.
Special Business:
Glen Simpson from Lamont gave an update on the project. Contract 1
Did some checking into finances to do some sidewalks. The bid item has a little more than 4300 sq. ft. of sidewalk, there is about 1800 ft. of sidewalks that must be done due the digging to replace laterals. There should be some funds left to use for concrete sidewalk to be done. Glen will check with Nick Green to see if EFC will allow the money to be used for sidewalks other than what was dug up for the laterals. The main area of concern at this point is on the east side of Lake St. and some on the west side. Glen will update the over/under spread sheet to have a better idea of what funds are left to use. Lake St. was milled on 8/24/2010 and by the end of 8/25/2010 all binder and trench should be complete. Extra sewer pipe video tape was done and the total cost was $250.00. One section from manhole 6 to manhole 5 is in very bad condition. Approximate cost for repair is $28,000.00.
Contract #2 – work at the WWTP – is progressing along now. The village received a letter from Blue Heron requesting approximately $78,000.00 extra because of the consistency of the sludge. Donna Wells called Chittenango to see what the cost was to dump the sludge; it was $.05 a gallon. If the solids were over 6% they would add $.01. One test did come out 12% solids. Herkimer did not charge extra for thick sludge. Nick Green from Lamont requested that Blue Heron provide documentation. As of 8/24/2010, he had not received any. Lamont had a meeting with Blue Heron regarding the $78,000.00 and it was cut down to $5600.00. If there is no documentation from Blue Heron, there will be no extra payment made.
Chris Butler stated that Blue Heron was guaranteed 401,000 gals. of sludge removal. They have taken that amount out. An estimate was given of 29,000 gals. to continue to take sludge out. This is unacceptable. The overflow pond will be used for the excess sludge, and next year when the reed beds are in operation, this will be reprocessed. Chris checked into the reed beds to be sure this will not do any damage to the reed beds. Being that the pond is on site, the DEC should have no problem with this process.
Jim Malinowski received 3 estimates for repairs to be done to the north side of the DPW building.
1- Graves Enterprises LLC- $5,400.00, 2- Greg Hardy Construction- $4000.00, 3- WTC Construction- $3,050.00. Jim reviewed all estimates and all had in the estimate what was needed to be done.
Motion made to approve the WTC Construction’s estimate of $3050.00 and all proper paperwork, which includes certificate of insurance and workers comp. forms, by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Jim also reviewed the estimates he had passed out at a previous meeting for certain streets in the village to be paved using the CHIPS allotment. 1- Canadarago St. to be milled and paved. The cost would be $5000.00 for milling, and $17,820.00 for the paving. Total: $22,820.00. 2- Johnson St. - $11,745.00, 3- Lake St, 25,515.00, 4- Sylvan St. $10,215.00, 5- Walnut St. $6,480.00. Each estimate includes Type 6 Top @ $81.00 per ton. The CHIPS allotment is $35,796.00. These streets will total $51,170.00, leaving a balance of $15,470.00 unfunded by CHIPS. After discussion, it was decided to do Johnson St., Sylvan St. and Walnut St. with the CHIPS money.
Motion made by Trustee O’Connor and 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, to use the CHIPS money to blacktop Johnson St., Sylvan St. and Walnut St. Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. This will leave an approximate balance of $7000.00 in the CHIPS fund for this year, depending on what the cost of the blacktopping is. A discussion took place about looking into using the balance of the CHIPS money to replace sidewalks in the village. This needs to be checked into and brought back to the next meeting.
Jim would like to have a fence put back up between the village property and Bronner St. (Domion Tr.Park), where two trees were removed and the fence taken down. There is some wire and posts that can be used, and there is wire from the reservoir that can be used. The G. De Vincentis Co. took this fence down, so they will be putting this back. After discussion, it was agreed for this to be done.
Chris Butler-WWTP report
Due to the 5” of rain from the weekend a serious issue occurred. They were not able to do wet weather operations because of Blue Heron not completing the manhole at the WWTP. Because of this the pumps had to be turned on full throttle and pumped from the wet well where it comes into the treatment plant up on top to the wet weather basin and treatment basins. Fortunately, a bypass was avoided. Chris was assured the manhole problem will be taken care of 8/26/2010.
Chris reported on the projects that are completed, such as the new generator, that is up and running and the Solar Panels are operating. Extra sampling for the EPA is required now for every 6 mo. starting in August 2010. The trash pump was delivered on 8/24/2010. The green house has been dismantled; Blue Heron is in the process of building over the clarifiers.
Letter from J. Spytko regarding the tests results from Express Mart. Mr. Spytko does a FOIL request every month for the tests results from Environmental Lab.
Privilege of the floor: public comments and requests:
Bill Klemm asked about the trees around the village that are old and need trimming. It was noted by Mayor Frohne that the trees are on private property, but he will make a note to the public to tend to these problem trees. He also asked the board when they started having two meetings a month. He feels the attendance has not increased and that people are missing information because they can not always get to the two meetings. Mayor Frohne tried to explain the reason for this is that there is a lot of business to take care of and if we cut back to one meeting, the meetings would be 3-4 hrs. long. He also explained the minutes of each meeting are put on the web site and are available in the Clerks office if anyone is interested in obtaining them.
Ron Hansel asked if he could have permission to buy water from the village for his barns to be washed. The person hired to wash the barns has a truck that will hold 2600 gals. After discussion it was decided there would be a charge of $40.00 per fill, $20.00 for the water and $20.00 for the hydrant to be opened and the water drawn.
Motion made to approve 3 tanks of 2600 gals. of water drawn and to charge $40.00 per fill made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Abstract #06- General Fund- $10,055.57, Water Fund - $4,093.36, Sewer Fund - $8,206.09, Cemetery Fund- $1,067.04, Trust and Agency - $422.24, Capitol Projects- $250.00. Total: $24,094.30.
Motion to approve abstract #06 made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Correction on abstract #05 due to a change in the capitol projects amount: was read as $825,135.96, s/b $706,587.96.
Board agreed to let the Boy Scouts do a clean up project in Spring Park on August 29th, 2010 through the Rural Three for Tobacco Free Communities led by Marcia Kozubek, Project Coordinator. This is based at the Bassett Research Institute in Cooperstown.
Also, the clerk received an application from the Chamber of Commerce for their Country Fair on 10/3/2010, insurance updated and deposit check of $100.00 and check for $100.00 for electric, water and bathrooms given. Motion made to approve the Chamber to use park for Country Fair made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson. Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Training sessions: Chris Butler, Fred Clements, James Malinowski, for Oct. 14, 2010, Vernon, NY for pump calibrations, cost $75.00 each. Also for James Malinowski for Sept. 8, 2010 in Auburn, NY for pump mechanics, cost $35.00, and for Sept. 29, 2010 in Vernon, NY for basic math, cost $75.00.
Motion to approve training sessions for Chris Butler, Fred Clements and James Malinowski made by Trustee Pierson, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Also the Clerk reminded all Board members and Mayor Frohne of the upcoming Open House for the Library Anniversary on August 29th, 2010 from 1-4pm.
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Cemetery plot fees-would like to have the $50.00 just added to the total of cost of the plot. To explain to someone buying a plot it gets very confusing to break this down, much easier to just say $425.00 which includes the 4 corner markers with the initial on. All agreed this would be easier.
Cemetery financial- meeting with bank, put in sell orders on all stock. Have sold some, and made money from it. Wells Trust has been updated and addresses changed. Needs a resolution to approve the treasurer and Mayor to sign the paperwork from The Hartford Ins. Co. for $10,000.00 the cemetery association will receive from James McGee who named the Lakeview Cemetery as a beneficiary.
Resolution made to authorize Treasurer, Donna Wells and Mayor Ronald Frohne to sign the paperwork from The Hartford Ins. Co. #L01365704, on behalf of the Richfield Springs Cemetery Assoc. made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Pierson-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
Donna also reported that the Library roof repairs and the back wall of the Library building have been completed. The village has $22,000.00 left from the State Dormitory Authority in regards to the chimneys being fixed at the base and to paint the trim and the overhang. Donna has been in touch with the State Dormitory Authority and they do not think there will be a problem but it has to taken to the Assembly for approval. We have an estimate from Kurt Van Spanje for the chimney repair. Two other men came and looked but no estimate has been received from them. Mayor Frohne asked the Trustee’s if someone could help finding a responsible party that might be interested in the paint job for the Library building. Trustee Patrick volunteered to make phone calls and get them to come to the office to speak to Donna about the job. The gutter that was taken down needs to be replaced. The diverter put up when roof was repaired does not do the job and when a lot of rain it splatters on the stucco work of the building.
The new natural gas furnace has been installed and the Otsego Co. Codes Enforcer will be coming to inspect the job.
Donna wants to put money into the Cooperstown Bank, which was approved by the board at the Organizational meeting to use, because the interest rates are better right now than NBT.
Party on Rt. 20, possibly outside user, might have hooked up the village water line into their private well. This is not legal. After the water meters are read, this will be checked into further. Another concern is the charge for the sewer use as well.
Mayor Frohne:
Received a letter from Marcia Kozubek, from Rural Three for Tobacco Free Communities requesting for the village to put signs up in the village parks for Tobacco-Free Policy for all public facilities. After discussion, was decided not to sign the resolution for the no smoking in the village park because it is next to impossible to enforce it.
Trustee Pierson:
Expressed how well the Lakeview Cemetery is being kept. He was told recently by non-residents how nice the Cemetery is taken care of. He also asked about possibly looking into a gas post hole digger for Brian Coones when he needs to dig for a cremation burial. He will talk to Brian about this.
Request to go into executive session to discuss personnel issue.
Trustee Kurkowski:
Concerned about 11 Church St. and the possibility of dogs being left abandoned in the house. The Clerk took a call on 8/19/2010 about 2 dogs being abandoned in the house at 11 Church St. David Weise was called but not available, then the State Police were called and told the person they had no jurisdiction. The Clerk called the Otsego Co. Sheriff’s Dept. and was told they would check into the situation. It was stated that being the village does not have a dog officer right now, so if there is an unknown unlicensed dog call David Weise, or if there is a dangerous dog, call 911. In January 2010, the state turned over the licensing to the localities and they can set whatever licensing fees they want and the locality keeps the money. The village could hire their own dog control officer and take over the licensing for the village. After discussion, was decided to bring this subject back up at a future meeting.
Also concerned about the sidewalk torn up on Manley St. and was not replaced.
Trustee Kurkowski also was concerned about the electric used for the recent carnival that was held by the Zone. He read the meter before the carnival started and after, for future reference.
David Arkema and Trustee Kurkowski checked the bandstand structure. The floor ok, the railing is very bad, the wiring needs to be worked on, and the door needs to be checked. The door is very heavy and steps are very steep. The bandstand is an historical structure; certain steps must be followed to keep it that way.
Received a letter from Joseph Spytko concerning the BOD’s and oil and grease tests results for August 2010.
Trustee O’Connor:
Nothing at this time.
Trustee Patrick:
Asked about the cemetery speed limit signs. Was told the signs have been placed in the cemetery.
Bill and Cindy Klemm left at this time.
Motion to go into executive session to discuss personnel issue made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
Motion to come out of executive session made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Pierson, Trustee’s O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowsk and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried.
After executive session, a discussion took place about the cafeteria plan for the employees who decide not to take advantage of the CDPHP Ins. offered to them by the village. No decision was made at this time.
Motion to adjourn made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd.by Trustee Pierson, Trustees O’Connor, Pierson, Patrick, Kurkowski and Mayor Frohne voted yes. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
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