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MARCH 13, 2008

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A Regular Meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Macedon held March 13, 2008 at the Town Offices, 32 Main Street in the Village of Macedon, was called to order by Supervisor William Hammond at 7:30 P.M.

 

Pledge of Allegiance

 

Upon Roll Call, the following members of the Board were present:

                                             Councilperson……….Paul Kenyon

Councilperson……….David McEwen

                                    Supervisor…………...William Hammond

 

Absent:                            Councilperson……….David Maul

Councilperson……….Ken Nawrocki

 

 

Also Present:               Highway Supt………..Richard Roets

Sergeant Police.…….John Colella

                                             Town Attorney…….…Anthony Villani

                                             Town Engineer………Scott Allen                                 

                                Town Clerk…………..Judy Gravino

 

 

REPORTS – The Supervisor presented the following:

Police

Ambulance Report

 

RESOLUTION NO. 86 (08) APPROVAL OF REPORTS

RESOLVED the Board approves the reports as submitted.

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

RESOLUTION NO. 87 (08) BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS – FEBRUARY 2008

RESOLVED the Macedon Town Board authorize the following budget adjustments for February, 2008:

AL         0511                    Appr. F.B. Local Drug Seizure                             470.82

 

A           0960                    Appropriations                                                                                          470.82

AL         3120.400           Local Drug Seizure Account                                                                470.82

 

AF         0511                    Appr. F.B. Local Drug Seizure                             246.35

 

A           0960                    Appropriations                                                                                          246.35

AF         3120.400           Local Drug Seizure Account                                                                246.35

 

B            0960                    Appropriations                                                            17.94

B            3620.400           Safety – Contractual                                                  17.94

 

B            0960                    Appropriations                                                                                          17.94

B            3121.400           Gananda School Crossing Guard                                                        17.94

To record budget adjustments necessary for expenses incurred thru the local drug seizure account, federal drug seizure account and the Gananda School Crossing Guard for safety accessories.

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

 

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RESOLUTION NO. 88 (08)  TOWN CLERK’S SOFTWARE SUPPORT – WILLIAMSON LAW BOOK

RESOLVED the Town Board authorizes the annual software support contract for the “Town Clerk Plus” Program with Williamson Law Book Company at a cost of $605.00 to be expensed from A1410.400 as budgeted and authorizes the Town Clerk to sign said contract.

MOTION BY MCEWEN, SECONDED BY KENYON

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

RESOLUTION NO. 89 (08)  NYS TOWN CLERKS ASSOCIATION - CONFERENCE

RESOLVED the Town Clerk be authorized to attend the NYS Town Clerk’s Association Conference to be held April 27, 2008 – April 30, 2008 in Saratoga Spring, New York to be expensed out of A1410.400 as budgeted.

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

Supervisor Hammond presented the following correspondence:

  1. The second round of property protection plan notices have been mailed.
  2. County roadside mowing is now at $208/mile.
  3. Town Court received a grant for approximately $3,000 to purchase equipment.
  4. Supervisor Hammond addressed the incorrect information that appeared in a letter to the editor in the Courier.

 

It was the consensus of the Board to allow John Colella, Officer-In-Charge and Supervisor Hammond to approach the owner of the Log Cabin regarding dedicated coverage on car nights at the owner’s expense, which would be in addition to the normal coverage.

 

NYSDOT denied a speed reduction as requested on Alderman Road between Route 31 and the town line.

 

RESOLUTION NO. 90 (08)  WEBER FARMLAND PRESERVATION

RESOLVED the Town Board approves the Weber final budget total of $285,401,

Consisting of funding sources being landowner donation $46,479, In-kind $5,625 and Federal $53,591 at no cost to the Town of Macedon.

MOTION BY MCEWEN, SECONDED BY HAMMOND

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

RESOLUTION NO. 91 (08) WEBER – STATE VOUCHER

RESOLVED the Town Board authorizes the Supervisor to submit voucher to the State in the amount of $179,706.

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RESOLUTION NO. 92 (08)  WEBER – WIRE FUNDS

WHEREAS the Town of Macedon will receive funds from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets in the sum of $179,706 and from the United States Department of Agriculture in the sum of $53,591 and

 

WHEREAS such funds are required by the conditions of the closing of the agricultural easement from Emil J. Weber to the Town of Macedon, to be drawn upon the escrow account of the Town Attorney, now

 

BE IT RESOLVED that Kim Leonard, Town Accountant be and the same is authorized and directed to immediately wire the funds received above to the escrow account of

                                                            Anthony J. Villani, P.C.

                                                            Trust Acct.#534815243

                                                            HSBC Bank

                                                            100-104 Church Street

                                                            Newark, New York 14513

                                                            Routing #021001088

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

8:00 PM – PUBLIC HEARING – SEWER DISTRICT #1 – PROPOSED EXTENSION

 

RESOLUTION NO.  93 (08)  WAIVE READING OF THE LEGAL NOTICE

RESOLVED   the reading of the legal notice published in the February 25, 2008                issue of the Times be waived.

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

Scott Allen and Shane Schumann described the Sewer District No 1 Extension proposal.  The Schumann property is adjacent to the existing sanitary sewer district on Canandaigua Road and would add a single-family home to the district.

 

RESOLUTION NO. 94 (08) PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED

RESOLVED the Public Hearing be closed at 8:05 p.m.

MOTION BY HAMMOND, SECONDED BY KENYON

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

RESOLUTION NO. 95 (08) SEWER DISTRICT NO. 1 EXT. NEG DEC

RESOLVED that based on the findings made by the Town Board of the Town of Macedon at a regularly scheduled meeting on March 13, 2008 it is determined that the implementation of the action as proposed will not result in any significant adverse environmental impacts and that a Negative Declaration has been declared by the Town Board

MOTION BY KENYON, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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RESOLUTION NO. 96 (08)  SEWER DISTRICT NO. 1 EXT. APPROVED

WHEREAS a written petition, dated January, 2008, signed and acknowledged by Shane and Janet Schumann, has been presented to and filed with the Town Board of the Town of Macedon requesting an extension to extension #4 of Macedon Sewer District No.1 to allow petitioners to hook up to the sewer lateral already in place as a result of improvements made as part of the petition and district established at the petition of Laker Development Corporation, as more particularly described in said petition and as annexed hereto; and

              

               WHEREAS, a notice calling a public hearing on the petition was duly and regularly published in the Times of Wayne County, the official newspaper of the Town, and also posted, as required by law, and

              

               WHEREAS, a public hearing having taken place at the Town Hall, 32 Main Street in the Town of Macedon, on March 13, 2008, at 8:00 P.M., prevailing time, and the petitioners having appeared in support of said application and proof having been presented concerning the same, and no objection or protest having been made to the proposed extension, and

 

               WHEREAS, the Town Board has given due deliberation to the hearing and the testimony and allegations presented and has determined to grant the request of said petition, and

 

               WHEREAS, the map and plan has been approved by the Town Engineer and filed with the Town Clerk, as required by law,

 

               NOW, on motion of Supervisor Hammond, seconded by Councilman McEwen, all members present voting therefore, it is

 

               FOUND, ORDERED AND DETERMINED that the said petition, dated January, 2008, for Extension #1 to Extension #4 to Macedon Sewer District No. 1 in the Town of Macedon, New York, is signed, approved and acknowledged, as required by law, and is otherwise sufficient and complies with the provisions of Section 191 of the Town Law; and that there is annexed to said petition a map and plan showing the boundaries of the proposed Extension #4 to Macedon Sewer District No. 1, and it is

              

               FOUND, ORDERED AND DETERMINED by the Town Board of the Town of Macedon, that it is in the public interest to grant the relief sought by said petition, and that all of the property, property owners and interested persons within the proposed extension benefited are included therein, and that no property or property owners of interested persons benefited thereby have been excluded where from, and it is

               ORDERED that the petition for Extension #1 to Extension  #4 to Macedon Sewer District No. 1 as described in said petition, map and plan, be granted and that the boundaries of said extension as hereby established shall be as described in the exhibits attached to the petition and attached hereto, said approval being contingent on the following terms and conditions:

 

               (a) The petitioner shall complete all remaining items of construction set forth in the plan and specifications for the construction of the sewer hook up in Extension 31 to Extension #4 to Sewer District No. 1.

 

               (b) The petitioner shall be responsible for the costs of creation to this extension and inspection of the construction of the facilities to be constructed in the proposed extension by the Town Engineer, according to an inspection schedule to be determined by the Town Engineer.

 

 

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               (c) All additional easements as may be required by the Town Engineer for such sewers and easements therefore servicing properties within Extension #1 to Extension #4 to Sewer District No. 1 shall be dedicated by petitioners to the Town, and it is further

 

               ORDERED that the sanitary sewer facilities to be constructed by the Petitioner shall not be accepted for dedication by the Town nor shall any sewer connections be allowed unless and until all of the above conditions are met.

 

MOTION BY HAMMOND, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

 

Scott Allen updated the Board on the GIS Grant awarded.  The Town of Macedon has received a plotter, server, projector and screen at no cost to the Town. 

 

The Town of Walworth will be holding a public hearing on March 20, 2008 at 7:45 p.m. to amend their Town Code Chapter 180-21, 180-14, and 180-4.

 

ABSTRACT NO. 3-08

Claim Nos. 16834-17008                                    Expenditures in the amount of

                                                                                          $291,111.14

RESOLUTION NO.  97 (08)  PAYMENT OF CLAIMS

RESOLVED the bills be paid as audited.

MOTION BY HAMMOND, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

RESOLUTION NO. 98 (08)  EXECUTIVE SESSION

RESOLVED the Board enter Executive Session at 8:20 p.m. to discuss personnel.

MOTION BY HAMMOND, SECONDED BY MCEWEN

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

RESOLUTION NO. 99 (08)  OPEN SESSION

RESOLVED the Board return to Open Session at 9:01 p.m.

MOTION BY MCEWEN, SECONDED BY HAMMOND

ROLL CALL VOTE:  KENYON AYE, MAUL ABSENT, MCEWEN AYE, NAWROCKI ABSENT, HAMMOND AYE  MOTION CARRIED

 

MOTION BY HAMMOND, SECONDED BY MCEWEN THAT THE MEETING ADJOURN AT  9:02 PM.

 

 

 

 

 

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Judy W. Gravino, RMC

Macedon Town Clerk