Date: December 8, 2009
Time: 7:00 pm
Elected Officers:
Mayor Frohne, Trustees O’Connor, Kurkowski, Patrick, and Dawley
Appointed Officers:
Clerk – Diane Blackwell
Treasurer – Donna Wells
Attorney – Paris Cavic
1) Call to order: Mayor Frohne, at 7:00 pm
2) Roll call of members: Trustees Kurkowski, O’Connor, Patrick, Dawley and Mayor Frohne present.
3) Mayor Frohne asked for unanimous consent to waive the reading of the minutes of the November 25, 2009 meeting. No objection.
Motion to approve minutes made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes, and Mayor Frohne-yes. Motion carried.
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Special Business:
1) Trooper Burdick and Mrs. Hill were present to ask the board to give approval for the Richfield Springs Athletic Assoc. to use the Village ball field in the spring. Also asked about the key to get equipment out of the storage building, was told to come to the Village office and sign form to use the key and return it. Trustee Patrick also made them aware that the shared services between the Town, Village and school are talking about a field on Walnut St. for possible future use. After discussion, motion was made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Dawley, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes, and Mayor Frohne-yes. Motion carried.
4) Code enforcement- nothing at this time.
5) Fire Dept. - Clerk passed out report to all trustees.
Tom Hallock asked the board to check the procurement book; he has listed in the book for 2 pagers, and needs another signature for approval to purchase.
2) Bids for surplus equipment:
a. 2 - tractor tires, 15-28, Jack Van Buren, bid $35.00
b) 3 bids on the John Deere 214 tractor, 46” mower deck, snow thrower:
1) Kenneth Wilson, bid $700.00, 2) Lyle Wilbert, bid $403.00, 3) A. Miller. Jr. bid $597.97.
Trustee O’Connor made a motion to table the bids for Jim Malinowski to review and decide. After discussion
Trustee O’Connor withdrew his motion. A motion was then made to accept the bids and award to the highest bidder by Trustee Dawley, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes, and Mayor Frohne-yes. The bid for the tires was awarded to Jack Van Buren for $35.00, and the bid for the tractor was awarded to Ken Wilson for $700.00.
Bids for WWTP vehicles:
a. Hybrid Pickup truck, 2009, 4 wheel drive half ton,
1) Country Club Chevrolet, $36,548.50, title plates and registration billed separately (approximately $165.00). Does meet all specks.
2) Steete Ponte Chevrolet, $35,851.00. Did not meet all specks.
Motion to accept Country Club Chevrolet bid of $36,548.50 meeting all required specks included, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes. Motion carried.
b. Bio-diesel ready riding lawn mower, 24 horse power, 4 wheel dr., 62 in. mower deck.
1) John Deere 748, from Cazenovia Equipment Co. Inc. bid $10,650.00.
Motion to accept bid from Cazenovia Equipment Co. for $10,650.00 for the bio-diesel riding lawn mower, made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee O’Connor, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowsk-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes. Motion carried.
2) John Deere Gator 4x2 145 amp, bid from Cazenovia Equipment Co. Inc. for $8500.00.
Motion to accept the bid from Cazenovia Equipment Co. Inc. for $8500.00 for John Deere Gator made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Dawley, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes. Motion carried.
Clerk- Diane Blackwell-
1) Abstract #13. Attached to minutes.
2) Resolultion to repeal 4-107(C) of the Village Code of the Village of Richfield Springs in its entirety made by Trustee Patrick, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawly-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
Resolution for Public Hearing with respect to the adoption of said local law to be held on December 30, 2009 in the Memorial Room of the Public Library at 102 Main St. Richfield Springs, NY, made by Trustee Dawley, 2nd. by Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowsk-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
3) Clerk received a call from Theresa Oakes about giving the Santa a gas gift card for coming every year to the Xmas Tree Lighting. The Municipal law states that gifts or donations are not allowed except in very limited circumstances.
4) Susan Van Riper requested to renew liquor license for The Genesee Tap Room. The board had no objection.
5) Bassett Health Care needs a form signed to continue the employee PE’s., PFT’s. Respiratory fit test, and Physician review-OSHA form. Mayor will sign, and clerk will send back.
6) Clerk asks for permission to close Village office at 3:00 pm. on Dec. 24, 2009. Permission was given.
Treasurer-Donna Wells:
1) The Treasurer recommended to keep the loan portion of the ARRA funds at $1.4 million, so it is possible to do more of the ad alt’s under the grant.
Resolution made to use excess money from grant on add alternatives by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Dawley, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes. Motion carried.
2) The Village has been awarded $125,000.00 from Assembly Magee through the State Dormitory Authority for the repair of the Public Library building roof and back wall. Treasurer asked for approval for Bob Graepel to help her with the estimate, will possibly be a need for overtime. All members and Mayor Frohne approved.
Resolution made to authorize the Treasurer and Mayor Frohne to sign contracts for the project, by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. Trustee Patrick, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
3) A check was received for the dividend from the Fire Ins. contract in the amount of $2487.60.
4) Balance sheets and profit and loss passed out. Bank reconciliations are done.
5) Historical society having Xmas party in Memorial Room on 12/14/2009. There is no ins. certificate from the historical society. After discussion was suggested to go into executive session under potential litigation. Motion made by Trustee Kurkowski, 2nd. by Trustee Dawley, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes. All board members, Mayor and Attorney left the room for executive session.
Motion made to come out of executive session made by Mayor Frohne, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
Motion made to waive the insurance for the Historical Society for the Dec. 14, 2009 function scheduled, but for future functions criteria will be set for all groups using the Memorial Room, by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-abstained, Mayor Frohne-yes.
Clerk asked why the scheduling for the Memorial Room was not done in the Village office? Attorney Cavic suggested that the Mayor appoint one or two individuals to set guidelines for the use of the Memorial Room, and also decide who should be in charge of the scheduling.
Mayor Frohne
1) Was invited to speak to the Richfield Springs Rotary Club on Dec. 3rd. 2009.
2) Spedies report back, going to require twice as many tests as before and wet testing.
Trustees Reports:
Trustee O’Connor-
No new business at this time
Trustee Patrick:
1) Mayor Frohne and Trustee Patrick attended the November Cemetery meeting.
Trustee Kurkowski;
1) Received a letter on the e-mail from Joseph Spytko. After discussion, was decided that all is being done that can be. The Village has done what they can to keep consistent with the contract documents and village codes and DEC regulations.
2) Residents from Walnut St. have spoke to Trustee Kurkowski about the vandalism going on.
3) Trustee Kurkowski is very concerned about the lack of order of the cemetery records. The Cemetery commission agreed to purchase card boxes for the records to help start getting records in order.
Trustee Dawley:
No new business at this time.
Attorney Cavic:
For the Opera, there has been no objection to the village acting as Lead Agency.
Resolution to resolve that the village will conduct a coordinated review of the various environmental and potential environmental impacts and solicit comments from interested agencies, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. Trustee Dawley, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-no, Mayor Frohne-yes,
Attorney Cavic suggested the board members and Mayor Frohne make a list of questions and concerns.
A coordinated review gives the village the option to issue what’s known as a conditional negative declaration, which says that provided that the applicant follows certain steps there will be no environmental issues.
Motion to go into executive session for personnel matters, made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. by Trustee Dawley, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes. Gerry Zavitch, Wayne King, Kenneth Wilson and
Motion to come out of executive session made by Trustee O’Connor, 2nd. Trustee Kurkowski, Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes, Trustee Kurkowski-yes and Mayor Frohne-yes.
Motion to adjourn; made by Trustee Dawley, 2nd. by Trustee Patrick. Trustee O’Connor-yes, Trustee Dawley-yes, Trustee Patrick-yes; Trustee Kurkowski-yes; Mayor Frohne-yes. Meeting adjourned at 8:35 pm.
Respectfully submitted:
Diane Blackwell
Village Clerk
