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YOUR PERMISSION, UH, WE'LL CALL THE WORK SESSION FOR NOVEMBER THE 15TH OF THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD TO ORDER.AND, UH, WILL THE CLERK PLEASE CALL THE ROLE SUPERVISOR SHAW HERE.
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UNITED STATES AMERICA REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD IN VISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.UH, I SUPPOSE WE SHOULD GET RIGHT INTO THE AGENDA, THEN MOVE INTO THE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS.
IS THAT OKAY WITH EVERYBODY? ALL RIGHT.
THE FIRST THING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IS A PROCLAMATION FOR TERRY DUB, A WONDERFUL PERSON.
TERRY WORKED FOR THE TOWN OF HAMBURG FOR, OH GOSH, MORE THAN 20 YEARS IN THE 1970S AND EIGHTIES AND INTO THE EARLY NINETIES.
UM, SHE WAS KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT SEVERAL DAYS AGO.
AND, UH, THERE'LL BE WAKE ON FRIDAY AND A, UH, SERVICE AT ST.
FRANCIS CHURCH IN ALE SPRINGS THIS COMING SATURDAY.
SO, UH, UH, UH, HAVING TALKED WITH HER DAUGHTER, I PREPARED THE, THE, UH, RESOLUTION, WHICH WE CAN READ AT THE REGULAR MEETING AT SEVEN O'CLOCK.
UH, MINUTES OF THE PRIOR MEETING.
UH, WELL, BRAD GOT THAT OUT FOR US.
ANY CHANGES TO THAT? LADIES AND GENTLEMEN? THERE WAS JUST ONE ITEM, I THINK, WHERE IT DIDN'T LIST, UM, IT ONLY LISTED THREE PEOPLE VOTING ON IT.
I THINK ONE NAME WAS LOOKED UP, BUT IT'S, IT'S A MINOR.
AND IT DOESN'T LIST MY, WELL, WHY DON'T WE DO THIS THEN? UH, NO LEFT.
I MUST HAVE MISSED THAT WHEN I WAS, AND IT WAS THREE.
SO I, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST A LITTLE THING.
WELL, WHAT WE'LL DO IS, UH, WHEN WE GET TO THE MEETING, WE'LL MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND IT, KATHY, AND, UH, LET BETH WILL MAKE THAT A MOTION.
AND THEN, UH, WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
LEMME JUST MARK THAT, UH, THANK YOU.
UM, UH, NUMBER FIVE, PAM GOSS, UH, FORMERLY PAM FISHER OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT, HAS SECURED THE PERMISSION OF HER DEPARTMENT.
HEAD HAS GIVEN REASONS AS TO WHY SHE COULDN'T UTILIZE HER VACATION TIME IN 2021 DUE TO, UH, FAMILY ILLNESS.
AND, UH, SHE WOULD LIKE TO CARRY OVER HER THREE WEEKS, UH, INTO 2022.
THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT ALLOWS FOR THAT, AND IT SPECIFIES THE TERMS UNDER WHICH AN EMPLOYEE MAY BE GRANTED PERMISSION BY THE TOWN BOARD UNDER SECTION 6.2 OF THE AGREEMENT.
ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ABOUT THAT? OKAY.
UH, NUMBER SIX IS THE NEWTON AVID VOLUNTEER PRIOR COMPANY, UH, NEW MEMBER BRIAN BEERS, UH, ORCHARD PARK ADDRESS.
EVERYBODY OKAY WITH BRIAN? YES.
AND IN BIG THREE, WE HAVE, UH, A REQUEST FOR TWO NEW MEMBERS, UH, MICHELLE COLON AND JODY TORRES.
UH, SO I, I ASSUME WE'RE ALL ON BOARD WITH THOSE TWO NOMINEES.
UH, NOW, IN THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION, UH, THE, UH, SCRANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, UH, CAN SECURE A BORROWING AT A VERY LOW INTEREST RATE DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE LAW PERMITS THE LENDER TO RECEIVE PAYMENTS BACK WITHOUT A TAX IMPACT.
AND, UH, THEY'RE PROPOSING TO BUY A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE FAIR MARKET VALUE OF 1.4 MILLION.
THERE HAS TO BE A PUBLIC HEARING.
AND, UH, IT SAYS THAT, UH, THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZES SHAW TO APPOINT MICHAEL QUINN, WHO'S AN OFFICER IN THE SCRANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY TO CONDUCT, UH, THE, UH, HEARING ON NOVEMBER THE 30TH.
AND THAT'S TO BE CONDUCTED, UH, AT THE SCRANTON
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VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY.THIS IS SOMETHING WE DID FOR WOODLAWN BACK IN 2019, A SIMILAR PURCHASE.
SO, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH THE STORY THERE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
WE'VE GOT, UH, UH, HOLLY SCHREIBER, UH, REAPPOINTMENT TO THE LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES UPON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF BRIAN HO.
UH, SEAN CONLEY'S GOT, UH, A COMMITTEE.
LET'S SEE, UH, FOR THE INTERVIEW, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF CANDIDATES, AND THERE'S THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, SEAN CON CONNOLLY, RANDALL HOKE, BETH FERRELL, KEVIN TRASK, MARTY DEKE, EVERYBODY OKAY WITH THAT ONE? OKAY.
HOW MANY APPLICATIONS DID WE RECEIVE? OH, ABOUT 20 20, 20 21, AS FAR AS I KNOW.
OH, THIS NEXT ONE IS, UH, WITH REGARD TO TOM MURPHY, WHO HAS, UH, LEFT OUR EMPLOYEE IN THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICE, UM, PURSUANT TO HIS ABSENCES AS SPECIFIED UNDER THE CRITERIA SET OUT IN SECTION 71 ON THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
SO THERE'S A PAF, UH, PERSONAL ACTION FORM TO, UH, ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, HIS DEPARTURE FROM, FROM THAT DEPARTMENT.
UH, HOWEVER, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS, THE RESOLUTION DOESN'T NEED TO HAVE THE DATE OF EFFECTIVE DATE OF THAT.
EVIDENTLY NOT, UH, EVIDENTLY NOT.
UM, NOW, UH, THE NEXT ONE IS, UH, B AND G.
UH, THE ACCOUNT APPROVES THE TERMINATION OF THE HIRING, UH, OF THESE PEOPLE.
THERE'S JUST ONE PERSON GOING OUT, UH, EFFECTIVE 1115, THAT'S TODAY, PART-TIME LABORER, AND ANOTHER PERSON'S START DATE COMING IN, UH, ON 1116 TOMORROW.
UH, WE HAVE A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF TOWN ASSESSOR, UH, THE TERMINATION, KIMBERLY, BAD TIME.
WE NEVER, WE NEVER, UH, ACKNOWLEDGED THE TERMINATION.
UH, HER LETTER HAS ALREADY BEEN IN, AND SHE'S BEEN OFF PAYROLL FOR A WHILE, BUT WE NEED TO DO A PERSONAL ACTION FORM TO OFFICIALLY REMOVE HER FROM THE ROLE OF EMPLOYEES.
UH, SO THAT POSITION WILL BE OPEN AND, UH, THE SCREENING, UH, WILL, FOR REPLACEMENT WILL BE UNDERWAY SOON.
UH, IN ENGINEERING, WE'VE GOT, UH, TWO DEPARTURES.
THESE WERE THE PART-TIME TIMERS, RETIREES THAT WERE BROUGHT BACK TO HELP.
UH, RICK LARDO AND JASON COARD.
THEY'RE, UH, TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENTS ARE COMPLETED, AND THEY'RE OFF THE PAYROLL.
SO THAT'S WHAT THAT PAF IS ABOUT.
AND THE NEXT ONE, I GUESS, IS JOHN CONLEY'S DEPARTMENT.
THERE'S A FAIR NUMBER OF PEOPLE THERE.
A LOT OF THIS IS SEASONAL LIFEGUARDS, UH, TERMINATION, UH, AND THEN CHANGING TO THE, UH, ICE RINK AND SOME OF THE WINTER PROGRAMS. OKAY.
UM, THE NEXT ITEM IS NUMBER 16, BETH FARRELL, UH, RESOLUTION FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE OPT OUT POSSIBILITIES FOR THE RETAIL DISPENSARY OR ONSITE CONSUMPTION OF CANNABIS MARIJUANA.
SO WE OFFER THE, THE PUBLIC THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN BEFORE THE DEADLINE.
WHAT YOU GOTTA DO THOUGH, UH, IS YOU'VE GOTTA OFFER LOCAL LAW WITH THIS, RIGHT? THAT YES, I DO.
SO, ATTACHED TO THIS NOTICE SHOULD BE THE LOCAL LAW.
SO, UH, IF YOU WANT TO PASS IT AROUND, UH, WE HAVE TO DO THAT, OR ELSE WE HAVE TO HAVE A SECOND POLL HERE.
SO THAT ONE SETS UP THE MEETING FOR NOVEMBER 29TH AT 7:00 PM UM, AND IT HAS TO BE PUBLISHED ALONG WITH THE LOCAL LAW.
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OKAY.THAT WAY AT LEAST IT GIVES THE OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNITY TO, UM, I KNOW THE VILLAGE HAS DONE THE SAME AND, AND THEN COMMENT.
UH, THE NEXT ONE, UH, SEAN DOYLE IS HERE TOO, IS AN A RPA FUNDED, UH, RESOLUTION FOR PITCH HAMBURG.
SEAN, YOU WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO SEND US ALL, UH, A VERY DETAILED BROCHURE.
CAN YOU GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF INSIGHT INTO THIS PROGRAM? SURE.
UH, PITCH HAMBURG PROGRAM STARTED, UH, IN 2019, UH, WAS, WAS REALLY THE INITIAL IDEAS.
AND A COUPLE OF THE MEMBERS WILL BE AT, UH, THE MEETING LATER THIS EVENING.
UH, SO, UH, THEY HAD THIS, THIS IDEA TO CREATE, UH, SOME TYPE OF INCUBATOR OR INNOVATION HUB IN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
UM, AS I CAME ON WITH THE I-D-A-I-D-A AS DIRECTOR, UH, I BECAME INVOLVED, EXCUSE ME, WITH THIS GROUP.
AND, UM, WE'VE CONTINUED THE, THE PLANNING OF THE ORGANIZATION, UM, AND, AND KIND OF HONED OUR MISSION.
UH, AS TIME HAS PROGRESSED HERE, UM, TO DATE, WE'VE ACHIEVED THE, UH, 5 0 1 C3 DESIGNATION.
SO WE'VE WORKED WITH A LOCAL LAW FIRM WHO'S, UH, DONATED THEIR TIME AND SERVICE TO HELP US ACCOMPLISH THE, UH, 5 0 1 C3 FILING AND DESIGNATION.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, IS, IS KIND OF MEMORIALIZED IN THE, IN THE APPLICATION, WE'VE REFINED OUR, OUR MISSION AND KIND OF OUR, OUR GOALS IN DEVELOPING THIS, THIS STARTUP INCUBATOR.
SO, UH, IN A NUTSHELL, WE'RE LOOKING TO, UH, BE SIMILAR TO 43 NORTH, WHICH IS, IS KIND OF ONE OF THE MOST PROMINENT, UH, INCUBATORS OF ITS TYPE, LOCATED IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO, AND HAS HAD TREMENDOUS SUCCESS.
UM, THIS WOULD, UH, MORE SO, UH, SHIFT FOCUS FROM, UH, A TECHNOLOGY HIGH, HIGHLY SCALABLE STARTUP TYPE OF OPERATION TO MORE OF THE, UH, MAIN STREET TYPE BUSINESSES THAT ARE IN AND AROUND HAMBURG.
UH, SO THESE WOULD BE SMALL BUSINESSES, UH, 25 EMPLOYEES OR LESS, AND STARTUP TYPE BUSINESSES, UM, AS THE INCUBATOR WOULD SUPPORT THESE BUSINESSES.
ANOTHER BIG DIFFERENCE IS WE WOULD NOT TAKE AN EQUITY STAKE AT THIS COMPANY.
THESE COMPANIES, SO PITCH HAMMERED, UH, WOULD LOOK TO, UH, DRIVE SUSTAINABLE REVENUES AS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, OFFSET OUR, OUR PROGRAM COSTS THROUGH PROGRAM FEES.
SO WE WOULD, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, UTILIZE, UTILIZE THIS PERSON TO, UH, RUN A, RUN A POSITION AND ESTABLISH PROGRAMMING THAT THEN, UH, PEOPLE WOULD PAY FOR.
AND WE WOULD CERTAINLY SEEK, UH, PRIVATE FUNDS.
WE WOULD SEEK FUNDS FOR THE STATE TO OPERATE THIS PROJECT AS WELL.
AND THESE SMALL BUSINESSES, UH, WE WOULD HOUSE, IDEALLY, AS TIME WOULD GO ON, WE WOULD GIVE THEM DISCOUNTED OR FREE SPACE TO OPERATE UNTIL THEY ESTABLISHED IN A POSITION WHERE THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO SURVIVE ON THEIR OWN, UH, IN THE TYPICAL COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET.
SO THE GUISE OF THIS IS TO SUPPORT THREE BUSINESSES AT LEAST ANNUALLY, AND TO GET THESE BUSINESSES ON A, ON A GROWTH PATH THAT THEY WOULD BE THE ONES, YOU KNOW, COMPETING AND DRIVING THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET IN AND AROUND HAMBURG.
AND, UM, SO THIS WOULD NOT ONLY BE LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE MAIN AND BUFFALO STREET AREA, BUT IF YOU'VE SEEN THE, UH, THE RESURGENCE OF THE, UM, THE, THE MALL AND CLEARANCE THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE, THE OCCUPANTS IN THAT, THAT MALL ARE SMALL BUSINESSES AND LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES.
SO THIS CAN REALLY BE A PATH TO ESSENTIALLY FUEL THE FIRE OF THE, THE LOCAL ECONOMY HERE.
YOU KNOW, ASSUMING SOME BUSINESSES WILL MOVE ON, SOME BUSINESSES WILL FALL OUT OF BUSINESS.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING TO, TO CULTIVATE, UH, THAT ENVIRONMENT IN, TO DRIVE THE DRIVE EMPLOYMENT, AND ALSO DRIVE THE TAX BASE.
UM, NOW IN THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION, UH, YOU AND I HAD DISCUSSED IT, UM, THE TOWN WOULD'VE PROPO, UH, PROPOSE TO APPROPRIATE $200,000 FROM THE A RPA FUNDING, UH, TWO YEAR, TWO PITCH OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD.
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SEMI-ANNUAL BASIS AS TO HOW IT'S DOING, UH, BALANCE SHEETS, P AND L STATEMENTS, THAT KIND OF THING.AND, AND THAT'S, THAT'S AGREEABLE.
AND NOW WE WERE, YOU KNOW, WE HAD STATED THE GOALS, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF REPORTING BACK ON OUR, ON THE PROGRESS OF THE AGENCY.
UH, SO, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BE PART OF IT.
AND CERTAINLY WE WOULD SHARE, YOU KNOW, BE OPEN TO SHARE THE NINE 90 FILINGS AS A RESULT OF, YOU KNOW, BEING A 5 0 1 C3.
UH, YOU KNOW, AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNTING AND WE CAN SHARE THAT BACK AS A PROGRESS REPORT OR IN ADDITION TO THE PROGRESS REPORT.
ANY, UH, BOARD MEMBERS? ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I JUST HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.
PROBABLY MORE CLARIFYING THAN ANYTHING.
SO THE 200,000 WILL BE 100,000 THE FIRST YEAR, 100,000 THE SECOND YEAR? YES.
AND IN THE RESOLUTION, THERE'S SIX DIFFERENT, A MINIMUM OF SIX.
SO YOU'RE THINKING THREE COMPANIES THE FIRST YEAR AT A MINIMUM, THREE COMPANIES THE SECOND YEAR? THAT IS CORRECT.
AND WHEN YOU SAY FUNDING, WE ARE, WE'RE PROVIDING A HUNDRED THOUSAND THE FIRST YEAR.
SO THAT WOULD WORK OUT TO 33,333 PER AS A MINIMUM.
PER, UH, IS THAT JUST BASED ON OUR MONEY OR IS OUR MONEY, IS IT THE AGGREGATE OF OUR MONEY PLUS WHATEVER PITCH ALREADY HAS IN THEIR BUDGET? A GOOD QUESTION.
THAT IS, THAT IS NOT AN AGGREGATE.
SO THAT YOU'RE, THE, THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO WOULD BE, UH, STRICTLY FOR THE TOWN.
UH, RIGHT NOW, THE, THE ORGANIZATION HAS VERY LIMITED RESOURCES.
WE HAVE ABOUT $12,050 IN FUNDING THROUGH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UM, IN ADDITION, THE IDA BOARD HAS BUDGETED, NOT OFFICIALLY COMMITTED, BUT BUDGETED, UH, $10,000 INTO THE ORGANIZATION AS WELL.
UH, SO BEYOND HUMAN RESOURCES, WE WILL ANTICIPATE, UM, SOME TYPE OF REAL ESTATE NEED, UH, FOR THE ORGANIZATION TO HAVE TO HOUSE THIS ORGANIZATION.
UH, YOU KNOW, AS IT AS IT MOVES ON AND AS WE HAVE, HAVE A NEED.
UM, A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, UH, ON, IN ANTICIPATION OF THIS PROJECT, THE IDA IS UNDER A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT FOR A BUILDING ON SCOTT STREET.
UM, AND IN THE, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL UNDER CONTRACT.
UH, WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR DUE DILIGENCE.
WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WOULD TAKE TITLE OF THAT BUILDING, RENOVATE IT, AND THEN LOCATE THE BUILDING IS WILL BE ABOUT 7,000 SQUARE FEET.
WE WOULD LOCATE PITCH HAMBURG, UH, IN THAT BUILDING, AND IT WOULD HAVE RESOURCES TO, YOU KNOW, A LARGER MEETING SPACE.
UH, IT HAS SOMEWHAT OF A, A FRONT ON THE BUILDING.
IT'S SOMEWHAT COMMERCIALLY FACING, ALTHOUGH SCOTT STREET ISN'T, YOU KNOW, A HIGHLY TRAVELED AREA.
UH, BUT THEN WE WOULD BE ABLE TO CREATE SOME FLEXIBLE SPACE WHERE THESE COMPANIES WOULD THEN LOCATE.
UM, THE TIMING OF THAT PROJECT IS, IS PROBABLY 12 TO 24 MONTHS OUT.
AS YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING JUST NEEDS A LOT.
SO WHAT'S THE PLAN LONG TERM? I MEAN, AFTER TWO YEARS ARE UP, YOU KNOW, OF THE BULK OF YOUR MONEY, THE 200,000, THE POUNDS WE PROVIDE, UH, WILL HAVE BEEN GONE.
WHAT'S THE, THE GAME PLAN FOR, YOU KNOW, MONTH 25 AND BEYOND TO KEEP IT FINANCIALLY FEASIBLE? SO YOU, YOU WOULD SEE OTHER SOURCES OF FUNDING.
UM, I, I DIDN'T WANNA PRESENT THIS TO THE TOWN AS A PROJECT THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO SUPPORT, UH, INDEFINITELY.
UM, I THINK THE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR TO BOOST THIS.
IT'S DIRECTLY IN LINE, UH, WITH SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT, THAT HARPA SPEAKS TO.
UM, BUT I DON'T WANNA SEE THIS PROJECT AS A WHAT TO THE TOWN.
I WANNA SEE IT AS SUPPORTIVE OF THE TOWN.
AND, UH, SO WITH THAT, WE WOULD SEE FUNDS THROUGH THE STATE OF NEW YORK CONSOLIDATED FUNDING.
UM, THE, UH, 43 NORTH ORGANIZATION ACTUALLY HAS A FOUNDATION FORMED AS A RESULT OF THEIR SUCCESSES.
SO WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THEM TO TRY TO USE, UH, THE PITCH HAMBURG PROJECT AS A SUPPORTIVE RESOURCE.
IN ADDITION, UM, A LOT OF THE FUNDING THROUGH 43 NORTH CAN COME FROM OTHER FOUNDATIONS LIKE THE RUSSELL WILSON FOUNDATION AND ALSO THE PUBLIC UTILITIES IN THE AREA.
UH, WE'VE MET WITH AND THEY'RE SUPPORTIVE.
SO OUR PLAN WOULD BE TO UTILIZE MORE SO PRIVATE FUNDS IN ADDITION TO PROGRAMMING.
YOU KNOW, OUR HOPE IS TO REALLY ESTABLISH A GREAT, UH, STARTUP AND SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM THAT WE CAN THEN LOOK TO, UH, ESSENTIALLY SOMEWHAT SELL IN A LIMITED FASHION TO SUPPORT OUR ONGOING PROGRAM, UH, RESOURCES TO, TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
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AND THEN, UM, WE DO HAVE THE STARTUP COMPETITION THAT WE SPOKE TO.SO SEEKING, UH, UH, BASICALLY MARKETING RELATIONSHIPS AND SPONSORSHIPS THROUGH THAT WOULD ALSO SUPPORT THE, ESSENTIALLY YOUR ANNUAL BUDGET.
THE, THE, THE FUNDING COMPETITION WOULD BE OUR LARGEST, UH, ESSENTIALLY LIKE FUNDRAISING ACTIVITY IN TERMS OF EVENT, UH, THROUGH THE ORGANIZATION THAT WOULD BE, UM, SUPPORTIVE PROBABLY TO THE TUNE OF 20% OF THE AGENCY BUDGET.
SO OUT OF THIS 200,000, WHAT PERCENT BALLPARK DO YOU ANTICIPATE GOES TO THE ACTUAL BUSINESSES, THE STARTUPS THAT ARE SELECTED COMPARED TO THE ONGOING OPERATIONS OF, OF PITCH JAM? SO THIS WOULD LARGELY FUND THE HUMAN RESOURCES.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO IN TERMS OF, UH, PERCENTAGE BASIS, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE BETWEEN WAGES AND PERSONNEL EXPENSES, PROBABLY 70% OF THE A HUNDRED THOUSAND GOING TOWARDS THE, THE HUMAN RESOURCES AND THE PROGRAMMING ACTIVITIES.
THAT PERSON WOULD THEN, AN INITIATIVE IS OUTLINED IN THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION WOULD BE TO DRIVE FUNDRAISING IN ADDITION TO THE PROGRAM TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING TOWARDS.
UM, AND THEN BEYOND THAT, WE WOULD LOOK TO, YOU KNOW, USE THE REMAINING FUNDS IN ADDITION TO THE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE, GENERAL OPERATING, YOU KNOW, LOOKING TO OPERATE PROBABLY LESS THAN 10% FOR OPERATING EXPENSES, FILINGS, AND THE REMAINDER TO GO TOWARDS SUPPORTING THE REAL ESTATE, UH, FOR THESE COMPANIES.
AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE HAD TALKED TO IN THE COMPETITION, WE WOULD GIVE THEM A BUDGET OF $5,000 FOR QUALIFIED BUSINESS EXPENSES.
SO IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, EQUIPMENT THAT HELPS 'EM PRODUCE WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO PRODUCE.
IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN TERMS OF FILING FEES FOR THEIR ORGANIZATION.
UM, ANY QUALIFIED BUSINESS EXPENSE THAT THE COURT WOULD HAVE TO ESSENTIALLY REVIEW, THEY WOULD HAVE THE SUBMITTAL PROCESS IN THE APPROVAL PROCESS.
SO I GUESS MY ONLY COMMENT WOULD BE, ESSENTIALLY WE'RE PROVIDING THE SEED MONEY FOR THE ORGANIZATION TO GET THROUGH THAT TOUGH PERIOD OF, OF GROWTH TO START YOUR MARKETING, TO START YOUR FUNDRAISING, TO DEVELOP YOUR, YOUR STAFFING.
SO WHEN YOU GUYS REPORT BACK TO US, JUST TO GIVE YOU GUYS GUIDANCE, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE IMPORTANT FOR US TO SEE HOW YOU'RE DOING IN ALL THOSE AREAS.
UH, BECAUSE I'D HATE TO SEE 200,000 OVER TWO YEARS.
UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S ESSENTIALLY GONNA BE A BAD INVESTMENT IF WE DON'T GET THE PROGRAM SELF-SUSTAINING OR UP AND RUNNING COME BACK 25TH MONTH.
SO WHATEVER DATA AND INFORMATION YOU CAN GIVE TO, TO SHOW US THE PROGRESS WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.
AND, UH, I THINK THAT SHOULD BE A GOAL FOR YOUR GROUP ANYWAY.
YEAH, THE RESOLUTION PROVIDES FOR BIANNUAL REPORTS.
UH, IT IS, THIS IS INDEED A SEED MONEY, UH, UH, CREATION.
WE'RE NOT DESIGNING, UH, AN ONGOING BUDGETARY COMMITMENT PAST THE TWO YEAR, TWO YEAR PERIOD.
BUT IF WE DON'T MAKE THIS INITIAL INVESTMENT, I DON'T THINK PITCH HAMBURG GETS OFF THE GROUND.
I JUST, IN CLOSING, I, YOU KNOW, IT, IT IS, IT'S A LIFT.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A GROUP OF VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBERS.
WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING CONSULTING RIGHT NOW, OR WE ARE WORKING WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND IT'S ALL OUT OF POCKET.
YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, LEAVING SOME OF THE FILINGS, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, OUR PLEASURE RIGHT NOW IS OPERATING, YOU KNOW, OUT OF, OF DONATIONS FROM OUR O OWN BOARD, HAVING THIS OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE THE, THE POSITION.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH.
WE'VE MET A LOT OF PEOPLE ON THE PROJECT.
IT'S JUST HAVING A LOT OF STRUGGLE GETTING INTO THAT NEXT LEVEL, I THINK.
I THINK, UH, 33 NORTH OR 34 NORTH IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW IT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
THAT'S WHY THE KEY IS TO, YOU KNOW, KEEP IT UP AND RUNNING BECAUSE OF, BECAUSE OVER TIME, THAT'S WHEN THE BENEFIT REALLY STARTS TO PAY OFF.
SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA, AND I, I'M EXCITED FOR HAMMER TO BE A PART OF THE VENTURE, UH, STARTUP COMMUNITY.
ANYTHING ELSE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SEAN, THANKS VERY MUCH FOR YOUR INSIGHT.
UH, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA 18 IS A RPA FUNDING RESOLUTION FOR THE HAMBURG SKATE PARK.
IT INDICATES, AS YOU KNOW, THAT THE, UH, THE GROUP RECEIVED, UH, COMMITMENT FROM THE RALPH WILSON JUNIOR FOUNDATION, UH, TO THE EXTENT OF $250,000, BUT IT HAS TO SECURE MATCHING FUNDS.
UH, THE, UH, VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION HAS SUBMITTED A GRANT APPLICATION,
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UH, THROUGH THE EMPIRE STATE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, UH, HOPING TO SECURE $110,000.I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS ON FRIDAY.
I GOT A LETTER, UH, FROM EMPIRE STATE.
THE APPLICATION WAS TURNED DOWN, SO, UM, WE ARE NOW TRYING TO, MIGHT HAVE LEFT IT UPSTAIRS, I'M SORRY.
BUT IN ANY EVENT, THE APPLICATION WAS NOT, UH, AWARDED TO THE GROUP.
UH, AND I'M NOT SURE THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF IT YET.
IT WAS ADDRESSED TO ME FROM EMPIRE STATE.
SO, UH, WITHOUT SOME A RPA FUNDS, IT'S NOT LIKELY THAT THIS WILSON GRANT CAN BE MATCHED.
UH, NOW THEY HAVE THE, THE GROUP HAS RAISED 15,000 LOCALLY THROUGH SMALL FUNDRAISING EFFORTS.
HAMBURG BREWING COMPANY CONTACTED ME.
THEY'RE SPONSORING A FUNDRAISING EVENT, AND THE FAMILY FOUNDATION, UH, FAMILY THAT OWNS THAT COMPANY WILL BE MAKING A DONATION.
SO THERE'S A HOPE HERE THAT, THAT, UH, THE SKATE PARK VOLUNTEERS CAN, CAN RAISE 50,000.
THEY'VE GOTTA DO IT BY APRIL THE 22ND.
UH, AND THAT'S THE CONDITION FOR SEEDING TO THE WILSON BRANCH.
SO THIS RESOLUTION I DREW UP PRIOR TO, UH, READING THE LETTER ON FRIDAY WHEREIN THEY WERE DENIED THE $110,000 EMPIRE STATE APPLICATION.
MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT WE CONSIDER ADOPTING THIS RESOLUTION, AND THEN AS WE GET CLOSER TO THEIR APRIL DEADLINE TO SEE HOW WELL THEY'RE DOING FINANCIALLY ON THEIR OWN IN TERMS OF RAISING MONEY, AND IT'D BE A NEW TOWN BOARD, AND IF THE TOWN BOARD IS INCLINED AT THAT TIME, IT CAN MAKE A SUPPLEMENTAL ARPA CONTRIBUTION.
I DON'T KNOW IN LIGHT OF WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THAT.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.
BUT, UH, ANYWAY, OTHER THAN THAT, IF THEY, WE TOLD THEM IN THE BEGINNING THAT WE WOULD NOT FUND THIS OUT OF TOWN RESOURCES, TOWN A FUNDS, BUT, UH, IT FITS, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS OF HARPA.
AND, UH, IF YOU THINK IT'S A WORTHWHILE PROJECT, UH, THEN AGAIN, WE, WE MIGHT WANNA MAKE THAT APPROPRIATION.
SO MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE APPROPRIATE, 1 25 THAT MIGHT GIVE THE GROUPS SOME REAL POSITIVE LIFT IN TERMS OF GOING OUT AND RAISING MORE MONEY.
IT DOESN'T, THE TASK DOESN'T SEEM SO HERCULEAN WITH OUR SUPPORT IN THE FOREGOING AMOUNT OF 1 25.
AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT, YOU GUYS CAN LOOK AT IT AND MARCH, APRIL AND, AND MAKE A FINAL DETERMINATION AS TO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
AND I, I THINK IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE WE SPOKE WITH THEM.
WHATEVER PART THAT THEY RAISE, THAT'S WHAT IT WOULD MATCH.
THAT'S THE MAXIMUM WOULD BE THE TWO 50.
BUT I, I WOULD ENCOURAGE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY FALL A LITTLE SHORT, I MEAN, IT'S ON THE NEXT BOARD TO, YOU KNOW, TRY AND COME UP THERE AND HELP OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
AND THEN SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S ON A SIDETRACK.
BUT THE PUMP TRACK THAT'S OVER IN WEST SENECA.
YOU, YOU SHOULD SEE THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING THERE.
SO IF YOU GUYS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE, IF YOU NEED TO SPEND SOME OF THIS MONEY, MIGHT WANNA CONSIDER SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WHAT, WHAT IS THAT? THAT IT'S A, IT'S A PUMP TRACK, UH, FOR BICYCLES.
I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE THERE.
SO IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE VERY POPULAR.
UH, THE, THE PEOPLE THAT, UH, ARE, UH, SPEARHEADING, UH, THE SKATE HAMMER PROJECT, YOU'RE GONNA COME TONIGHT AT SEVEN O'CLOCK.
DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH A TOTAL PROJECTED COSTS THE PROJECT? YEAH.
SO I THOUGHT THAT, UH, WITH, WITH THE, UH, EMPIRE STATE GRANT 110, WE CAME UP WITH 125, THEY'D BE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR WITH THEIR OWN FUNDRAISING AND, UH, BE ABLE TO PUT IT OVER THE TOP.
UH, AND THERE'S NO REASON GIVEN, UH, BY EMPIRE STATE AS TO WHY THEY DENIED THEM.
JUST SIMPLY SAYING, SORRY, THANK YOU.
UH, BUT WE WERE NOT HONORING YOUR REQUEST.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE SUGGESTION HERE.
SO I GUESS IT SEEMS LIKE THE SECOND, WHEREAS,
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WHEREAS THE ABOVE GRANT IS CONTINGENT UPON SECURING MATCHING FUNDS, UM, MY SUGGESTION WOULD, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLARIFYING, THAT MATCHING, YOU KNOW, FOR THE FULL MATCH OF 250.WELL, I DON'T WANNA, I DON'T WANNA SAY TWO 50 FOR SURE, BECAUSE MAYBE THE WHOLE THING IS 5 60, 5 45 30.
UH, WELL, JUST THE MATCHING PART IS TWO 50 THOUGH, SO, SO, WELL, I GUESS WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS, UM, IF THEY DON'T RAISE TWO 50, DON'T, ALRIGHT, WELL, WE CAN PUT TWO 50.
WE CAN PUT TWO 50 IN THERE BECAUSE SECURE MATCHING FUNDS, I SUPPOSE MEET MEANS TWO 50.
PUT, IT'S, YEAH, I THINK, I THINK IT'S IMPLIED.
I JUST THINK JUST TO ALRIGHT, FINE.
WE CAN AMEND THAT IF YOU WISH.
UH, THE NEXT ONE IS, UH, THIS LONGSTANDING PROBLEM.
UH, THIS IS THE, UH, ORIGINALLY THE, THE, THE DEPARTMENT ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION, UH, HIT US WITH A CONSENT ORDER BACK IN SEPTEMBER OF OH ONE, RIGHT AROUND THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER.
THERE HAVE BEEN MODIFYING ORDERS EVER SINCE THE MOST RECENT ONE CAME OUT ON SEPTEMBER THE FIRST OF THIS YEAR.
UM, AND A GHD HAS PUT TOGETHER A, UH, UH, A PLAN FOR ADDRESSING THE REQUIREMENTS SET FORTH IN THE ORDER THAT WE SEND IT TO.
UH, INITIALLY IT LOOKED LIKE SOMETHING IN THE RANGE OF $11,000, BUT KAMI GILL'S, AND I'LL HAVE TO GET IT FOR YOU, LETTER TO EVERYBODY, UM, WHICH SHE SENT OUT TODAY, INDICATES THAT, UH, IT'LL, IT MAY BE MORE AND THE SPENDING WILL HAVE TO BE OVER A 12 TO 14 YEAR PERIOD.
UM, IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION, TOM, UH, LARDO AND CAMMIE MET WITH ME ON THURSDAY, AND THEY HAD INDICATED, GOD BLESS, THEY HAD INDICATED THAT, UH, THREE PARTICULAR PROJECTS WERE IN THEIR MINDS, VERY IMPORTANT.
I ATTACHED, UH, A SUMMARY SHEET.
IT'S NOT AS COLORFUL AND BLACK AND WHITE AS IT WAS, BUT THERE ARE THREE, UH, UH, NUMBERS, 400 2002 5,250 3000 258 1 19, 6 0 2.
UH, AND THE NUMBER OF LINES ARE SPECIFIED, UH, THERE.
AND THEY WOULD TOTAL, UH, 95, UH, LINES WITHIN THE MOUNT VERNON SEWER DISTRICT.
THERE ARE 1050 RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, SEPARATE TAXABLE PARCELS THERE.
AND, UH, UH, THESE ARE THE MOST URGENT.
UH, AND THE ONE WITH 47 LINES IS CRITICAL, UH, IN TERMS OF WORK TO BE DONE, KIND OF GET A, AN IDEA OF WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, UH, CRACKS, UH, FRACTURES, UH, ROOTS GROWING IN.
IT'S, THIS, THIS SYSTEM IS PROBABLY 75 YEARS OLD.
AND, UH, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY ROUGH.
SO WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS? HUH? INFRASTRUCTURES IMPORTANT.
WELL, AND OF COURSE, THIS IS A PRIMARY FUNCTION OF THE ACT, RIGHT? WE HAVE 5.64 MILLION THIS YEAR WITH A LIKE AMOUNT NEXT YEAR.
WE'RE ONLY PURPORTING TO SPEND ROUGHLY A THIRD OF THIS YEAR'S ALLOCATION.
AND, UH, TOM AND CAMMIE INDICATE THAT IT'S, IT'S, UH, PRETTY ESSENTIAL NOW.
WE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO COVER IT ALL WITH, UH, HARPER FUNDS.
SO YOU CAN'T, AND WE GOT OTHER PROJECTS FOR HARPER TOO.
YOU, YOU MAY GET SOME GRANTS OR YOU MAY NOT.
WE'VE GOT A GRANT APPLIC, WE'VE GOT A GRANT APPLICATION IN, UH, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN OR WHEN, UH, WE MAY HAVE TO LOOK AT BONDING DOWN THE ROAD, YOU KNOW, TO FINISH THE PROJECT AT SOME POINT.
ANYTHING ELSE THERE, LADIES AND GENS? OKAY, THE NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS IS THE HVAC SYSTEMS. WE'VE HAD A COUPLE DIFFERENT MEETINGS, AS YOU KNOW, AND THEN WE'VE HAD, UH, THAT RYAN OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS AND, UH, OUR ENGINEERING PEOPLE, UH, THIS PROPOSES TO SPEND OUR FUNDS, UH,
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CAPPED AT 500 K.HOPEFULLY IT WILL COME IN, THE PROJECT WILL COME IN LESS THAN THAT.
UH, THERE ARE FOUR, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, SYSTEMS THAT ARE PROPOSED TO BE REPLACED.
THE HAMBURG SENIOR CENTER, THE HAMBURG TOWN HALL, OUR POLICE AND DISPATCH CENTER, AND THE HVA SYSTEM AT THE NIKE BASE.
THESE ALL FALL WITHIN ARPA ARPAS BROAD COVERAGE.
UH, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WOULD BE, YOU'D HAVE TO DO RFPS OR ONE RFP, WHATEVER YOU, THE NEW BOARD DECIDES.
AND THEN, UH, THIS CAP OF 500 K SHOULD BE ENOUGH, I WOULD HOPE.
UH, BUT
AND THERE ARE ALL SYSTEMS THAT WE'RE LIKELY TO NEED, UM, ADDRESSING IN THE SHORT TERM.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TOLD BETH, UH, FROM OUR ENGINEER FROM, FROM, UH, BUILDINGS OF GROUNDS.
AND I GOT ANECDOTAL, UH, INFO FROM, UH, SEAN CRADY.
AND SO I, I, I GUESS THAT'S THE CASE.
WE'D NEED TO HAVE GHDI THINK DRAW UP THE RFP OR RFPS AND THEY WOULD KNOW HOW TO DO IT.
AND THEN THE NEW BOARD COULD APPROVE THEM AND SEND THEM OUT.
BUT IT'S GONNA BE A SEVERAL, IT'S GONNA TAKE SEVERAL MONTHS TO GET A CONTRACTOR IN PLACE TO START THE WORK.
SO AGAIN, THAT'S JUST THE THOUGHT TO GET SOMETHING GOING ON THIS THOUGH.
ANYTHING ELSE, FOLKS? WELL, AND THESE ARE THE ESSENTIAL TYPE OF PROJECTS THAT I THINK ARCO WAS INTENDED TO BE ABLE TO FIND.
AND THEY ALL HAVE DIRECT CORRELATION WITH ASPECTS OR POINTS ON THE, ON THE OUTLINE THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED.
WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAD, UH, ONE PUBLIC HEARING AND THEN WE DISCUSSED ARPA FUNDING IN TWO OR THREE WORK SESSIONS.
UH, I'VE SENT YOU OUT MEMOS AND SO ON.
WE WIN DOWN THE BIG, BIG REQUEST LIST TO ABOUT 10 OR 12 ITEMS. BUT THERE ARE, THE NEW BOARD CAN CONSIDER OTHER THINGS TOO.
UH, BUT IT SEEMS, I THOUGHT BEFORE WE WERE TO ADJOURN THIS YEAR, WE OUGHT TO ADDRESS SOME THINGS THAT ARE REALLY URGENT.
GET SOMETHING, GET THE BALL ROLLING SOMEWHERE.
THIS ONE I KNOW A AND B RAY POLOWSKI'S MENTIONED SEVERAL TIMES.
UH, C UH, UH, CHIEF TRA HAS MENTIONED, AND D RICK NOIC HAS MENTIONED AND, AND ALL IN A MATTER OF ASAP.
SO I THINK IT REALLY IS, UH, AN EASY DECISION TO, TO ALLOCATE THESE FUNDS.
AND THEN THE LAST ARPA INCURSION IS THE, UH, IS THE WEBSITE.
UH, AND I DID SOME READING, UH, AND RESEARCH.
WE CAN UTILIZE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN FUNDS FOR, UH, REDESIGNING OUR WEBSITE.
AND THE RATIONALE FOR THAT IS TO MAKE IT MORE INTERACTIVE TO, UH, UH, FACILITATE, UH, REMOTE COMMUNICATION AS OPPOSED TO CONTACT, UH, AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITHIN A CONFINED SPACE.
UM, IT DEPARTMENT TELLS ME, AND I KNOW FROM MY LIMITED EXPERIENCE THAT OUR WEBSITE COULD CERTAINLY USE A COMPLETE OVERALL.
SO I ASKED JENNIFER, UH, ROBERTSON WHAT SHE THOUGHT IT WOULD COST TO GET AN RFP OUT, GET A COMPREHENSIVE, UH, PLAN EMBODIED IN THE RFP AND THEN TO SECURE PROPOSALS.
WHAT WOULD, WHAT WOULD'VE, UH, DESIGN AND, UH, UH, CREATION COSTS.
I'VE PUT A HUNDRED IN JUST TO BE SAFE.
UH, AND OBVIOUSLY WE CAN DO IT FOR LESS, SO MUCH THE BETTER.
BUT THAT WAS THE THINKING ON THIS ONE.
AND WHEN THAT WAS DEVELOPED, WOULD WE LOOK, UM, SO THAT ALL OF THE, I KNOW WE HAVE QUITE A FEW OTHER WEBSITES, WHETHER IT BE REC, UM, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WOULD THERE BE SOME THOUGHT TO GETTING EVERYTHING? SO IT'S ON A PAR BECAUSE, UH, PART OF REDOING, PART OF REDOING THE WEBSITE IS THAT IT'S A DA COMPLIANT TOO, RIGHT? SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF OUR WEBSITES, I MEAN, I KNOW CHRIS, UH, YOU JUST WENT OVER THROUGH AND OVERALL YOURS IS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE OTHER SITES STAND, OR AT LEAST.
SO THERE'S, SO THAT THEY'RE ALL THEN BROUGHT IN TO BEING COMPATIBLE.
THIS RESOLUTION, UH, INDICATES THE SECOND, WHEREAS THAT WE REQUIRE WEBSITE DESIGN, UH, WEBSITE DESIGNS THAT ARE ADA A COMPLIANT.
SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I, UH, THIS IS JUST TO GET THE MAIN WEBSITE, UH, REDONE.
IF THAT WERE TO OCCUR AND YOU FELT THAT WE NEEDED TO DO SOME SIGNIFICANT UPGRADES, AND I THINK WE WOULD, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING FOR THE NEW BOARD TO CONSIDER.
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SO THERE YOU GO.IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE, UH, WE'LL MOVE ON.
IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, WE'LL MOVE ON.
UH, NOW, UH, WE GOT CHRIS, UH, HALL, UH, AND SEAN.
I'VE GOT THE, UH, CDBG, UH, GRANT.
UH, WE'VE GOT AN APPROVAL FOR A $450,000 BLOCK GRANT, UH, UH, CORONAVIRUS AID, UH, TO ASSIST SMALL BUSINESSES TO THE HAMBURG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
THAT'S A PRETTY SIZABLE, UH, CHUNK OF CHANGE.
SO IN ORDER TO GET THIS, UH, ACTIVATED, WE HAVE TO AUTHORIZE SHAW TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT AND NECESSARY MATERIALS TO FORWARD THESE FUNDS TO THE APPROVED SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
I DON'T KNOW SEAN OR CHRIS, WHO THE, UH, APPROVED BUSINESSES ARE.
BUT, UH, I'M WILLING TO TAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
THIS IS REALLY A GOOD FUNDING SOURCE TO HELP SOME, SOME TROUBLED BUSINESSES OUT.
SO THIS IS, UH, A CRITICAL STEP IN THE PROCESS.
SO WE'VE, UH, WE'VE BEEN APPROVED TO ACCESS THESE FUNDS,
UM, SO WE, WE HAD AN INITIAL APPLICATION PROCESS IN A PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, THIS WILL ALLOW THE CONTRACT TO BECOME EXECUTED.
AND THEN, UH, WE WILL ESTABLISH, UH, A PROTOCOL.
SO WE'VE ALREADY STARTED WITH PROTOCOL.
THEY, THEY HAVE TO BE FOR, UH, QUALIFIED EXPENSES.
SIMILAR ORDER TO ARPA MM-HMM
UH, AND THEY HAVE TO, UH, PROVIDE IRS FILINGS THAT DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY'VE HAD A PRECIPITOUS LOSS IN INCOME DUE TO THE PANDEMIC.
AND THEN THEY WOULD, THE APPLICANTS WOULD BE VETTED, UH, THROUGH A PROGRAM CONSULTANT, UH, WHICH IS THE ERMAN GROUP.
AND IF THEY'RE DEEMED TO BE QUALIFIED, THEN THEY WOULD ESSENTIALLY BE APPROVED THROUGH THE HAMBURG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BOARD.
THEY HAVE TO, UH, SPEND THE FUNDS AND THEN THEY WOULD BE REIMBURSED.
SO THIS IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO LIKE A, A MAIN STREET GRANT.
UM, EXCEPT THAT IT'S NOT USED FOR, FOR SOCKS, YOU KNOW, THE, YEAH.
PROJECT OPERATOR APPLICANT, UM, SAY FOR INSTANCE, UH, NEEDS TO INCLUDE LIKE A SPLIT SYSTEM FOR BETTER VENTILATION OR A WEBSITE WHERE THEY CAN SELL THEIR MERCHANDISE ONLINE, UH, OR ALL LIKE DIVIDERS IN A RESTAURANT SETTING OR OUTDOOR DINING.
SO THOSE WOULD BE SOME QUALIFIED EXPENSES IF THE COMPANY INDEED HAD A LOSS.
UM, AND THEN WE COULD REIMBURSE THEM, UH, TO THE TUNE UP TO, I BELIEVE $35,000 PER BUSINESS.
UM, AND THE OTHER OBLIGATION ON THE COMPANY IS THAT THEY HAVE TO EITHER, UH, BRING BACK AN EMPLOYEE WHO HAS BEEN LAID OFF, SO ONE EMPLOYEE PER $35,000 ONE FTE, OR, UH, ESTABLISH A NEW POSITION, UH, FOR THE AMOUNT OF THE, THE GRANT MONEY REIMBURSED TO THAT.
WELL, WE'RE FORTUNATE TO BE ON THE RECEIVING END OF THIS.
ANYTHING ELSE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN? QUESTIONS, SEAN? OKAY.
THAT'S THE NON UNCOVERED FUNDS FROM 2019 IN THE AMOUNT OF 40 1005 89.
SO IT'S A TRANSFER, UH, TO THE IT ACCOUNT NUMBER AS REFERENCED THERE.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT, LADIES? AND, UH, THIS IS THE, UH, I'M SORRY, THIS MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOMETHING I TOUCHED ON BEFORE, BUT, UH, THIS IS THE, UH, SCRANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY, UH, PURCHASE OF THEIR NEW EQUIPMENT.
AND, UH, I HAVE TO SIGN THIS TO AUTHORIZE QUINN TO, UH, CONDUCT THE HEARING.
KATHY KY HAS TO, UH, UH, UH, SIGN AN, UH, AFFIDAVIT, A WEBSITE POSTING.
AND SO WE DO THAT TONIGHT, KATHY, OR TOMORROW MORNING IF THE BOARD PASSES IT, I SIGN.
UH, AND THEN YOU POST THE NOTICE AND THE APPOINTMENT NOTICE FOR THE HEARING AND THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. QUINN TO ACT AS A PRESIDING OFFICER AT THIS HEARING.
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NOW WE'VE GOTTEN THROUGH THE REGULAR AGENDA.UH, AND IT JUST SIMPLY SAID, BE RESOLVED UPON EVER TOM BOARD ADOPT THE 2022 PRELIMINARY BUDGET WITH AMENDMENTS.
SO THE AMENDMENTS ATTACHED, AND I THINK, I HOPE EVERYBODY'S GOT, WE HAVE LUCKY SUMMARIES AND TAX RATES ALSO.
IF NOT, WE CAN ADJOURN IF WE NEED TO GET PICK UP INFORMATION, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU HAVE IT.
SO WHAT DO YOU WANNA DISCUSS HERE? LADIES ANDS, UH, WITH REGARD TO THE BUDGET, ANYTHING STRESS, ANY PUBLIC MEMBERS WANNA SAY ANYTHING REGARDING THE BUDGET? UH, YOU CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT AT THE REGULAR MEETING, BUT YOU'RE CERTAINLY WELCOME.
WE'RE TALK, WE'RE NOW IN A WORK SESSION, SO YOU CAN CERTAINLY TALK ABOUT THAT NOW IF YOU WISH ANYTHING AT ALL.
SO, KIM, GO OVER, UM, WHAT WITH, IF WE ADOPT ALL THE AMENDMENTS, WHAT THE, WHAT THE EFFECT ON THE TAX RATES WILL BE? YEP.
IT'S, UM, COMPARED TO THE SUPERVISOR'S BUDGET.
OH, DO THAT COMPARISON FOR US, PLEASE.
SUPERVISOR'S OVERALL IS A DECREASE OF 1.52, AND THIS WILL BE AN INCREASE OF 2.17.
AND THEN THE HEADS, THE, THE TOWN, UH, OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE FUND, UH, UM, WAS 1.52.
AND THEN YOU HAD VILLAGE RATES OF 0.54 KIM AND 0.54 FOR BLAZEDALE AND HAMBURG MM-HMM
SO NOW WE'VE GOT VILLAGE RATES OF 3.35, 3.26 UPDATED, OH, I'M SORRY, 3.2, THE UPDATED.
SO THAT'S A, THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THE ADJUSTMENT, I KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAD TO DO IS MAKE THE ADJUSTMENT.
THERE HAD BEEN QUITE AN OVERAGE, UM, IN I THINK SEAN'S DEPARTMENT THERE WAS THAT 220 THAT'S WITH ADJUSTING THAT.
TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION.
AND SO THE, THE, THE ONE THING I DON'T THINK WE DISCUSSED A LOT, BUT THIS, YOUR NEW CALCULATIONS INCLUDE THE REPLENISHMENT OF THE, THE FUND BALANCE.
JUST WHAT, WHAT LEVEL WE WANNA DO THAT YES.
AND WHAT, HOW THAT MIGHT IMPACT.
SO WE, SO WE DON'T HAVE THE TYPE OF INCREASE THAT WE, YOU KNOW RIGHT.
JUST DESCRIBED, WE WENT FROM 700,000 TO 200,000 FOR THE TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE.
SO WE REPLENISHED 500,000 IS WHAT'S BEING, YES.
I, UH, SO IF WE KEPT IT, SORRY.
SO IF WE KEPT IT, DID YOU DO, BECAUSE I WAS HOPING THAT YOU HAD DONE THE NUMBERS THAT WE HAD LEFT, THAT AS, IN OTHER WORDS, IF WE'D LEFT THAT FUND BALANCE AS THE SUPERVISOR PRESENTED IN JUST ON THE OTHER AMENDMENTS.
SO WE HAVE THOSE CALCULATIONS.
SO YOU WANNA KEEP IT AS
THE, YOU KNOW, THE AMENDMENTS AND THEN YOU ADJUSTMENT TO THE FUND BALANCE.
ANY, ANY OTHER COMMENTS, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN? ANYTHING TO SAY? I, UH, NO ONE HAS ANYTHING TO SAY.
SO I KNOW IN THE, UM, GO AHEAD.
THERE WAS THE VEHICLE ADDED FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, WHICH I THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT EXTENSIVELY IN THE NEED THERE.
I ALSO NOTICED THAT THERE WAS AN INCREASE FROM ONE ADDITIONAL CAR AND CODE ENFORCEMENT TO TWO THAT WAS WHAT IS THAT THEIR, OR WHAT THEIR ORIGINAL REQUEST WAS, BECAUSE THERE WERE FEW ENGINEERING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THEN CODE ENFORCEMENT.
BUT THEY HAD ONE WAS IN THERE.
IT WENT FROM 25,000 TO 50,004 CODE ENFORCEMENT.
I WOULD, THE ORIGINALLY REQUESTED TWO VEHICLES.
I WOULD'VE PREFERRED IF WE LOOKED AT THE, FOR THOSE FOUR VEHICLES, WE WOULD'VE LOOKED AT THE LEASING OPTIONS I PRESENTED TO YOU.
THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE WE STOOD WITH I HAVE NO IDEA.
AFTER I BROUGHT IT UP, I HADN'T HEARD A THING.
I, I CAN TELL YOU IN ALL CANDOR, IT IS, IT'S PRETTY TOUGH.
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WE WERE VERY LUCKY THIS YEAR, I THINK, IF YOU DON'T MIND ME SAYING, WE'VE GOT A SIGNIFICANT UNANTICIPATED STREAM OF REVENUE, SALES TAX, MORTGAGE TAX, FULL FUNDING ON DLT.THAT HASN'T HAPPENED IN SEVERAL YEARS.
UH, CHIPS FUNDING UP PAVED NEW YORK FUND, I MEAN, ALL FUNDING SOURCES WERE UP SIGNIFICANTLY.
WE ALL KIND OF TENTATIVELY AGREED PRIOR TO STARTING THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT BECAUSE WE GOT SPENDING LAST YEAR IN LIGHT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC AND FROZE SALARY AND WAGE, UH, POSITIONS FOR MANAGERIAL AND CONFIDENTIAL.
AND WE TRY TO MAKE UP SOMETHING FOR THEM THIS YEAR THAT WE TRY TO DO SOMETHING.
WELL, MY, MY DISAPPOINTMENT IS THAT WE'VE GOTTA DO SOMETHING MORE.
THE PEOPLE THAT PAY THE BILLS, I, I LOOKED AT THE DREIER MAKI, UH, OUTLINE THEY DID FOR THE BUDGET HEARING ON OCTOBER THE 30TH.
UH, THIS IS JUST A STANDARD HOME WITH AN ASSESSED VALUATION OF $170,000 IN THE TOWN.
HAMBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT PAY $5,384 A YEAR.
SCHOOL, COUNTY AND TOWN TAXES.
THAT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS.
THAT'S 104 BUCKS A WEEK FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF TURNING THE KEY IN THE DOOR WITH THE USED TOWN SERVICES.
THAT'S FOUR, UH, $14 A MONTH IF YOU LIVE IN THE VILLAGE OF HAMBURG.
I DIDN'T DO BLAZE, BUT MOVED IN THE VILLAGE OF HAMBURG, SAME TIME ASSESSED VALUATION ON YOUR HOME.
ONE 70, YOU'RE LOOKING AT, UH, 5,384 A YEAR, WHICH IS 104 A WEEK, OR $447 A MONTH, UH, FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
THAT'S A FAIR AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND WE, UH, THE CENSUS, MOST RECENT CENSUS SAYS THAT THE AVERAGE INCOME FOR HOUSEHOLD HERE IS ABOUT 66,000 A YEAR.
THAT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T LIVE A LAVISH LIFESTYLE ON THAT.
UH, WE'VE TAKEN CARE OF OUR NEEDS HERE IN TOWN HALL, SO TO SPEAK, BUT, UH, WE ARE NOW FACING THE MOST SERIOUS INFLATIONARY THREATS WE'VE FACED IN THREE DECADES.
GAS IS THREE 50 A, UH, A GALLON, UH, FOR REGULAR.
SO I, I HAVE SOME REAL RESERVATIONS ABOUT A IMPROVE, UH, APPROVING A TAX INCREASE TOWN WIDE OF 2.21 WHEN WE CAME IN WITH NEGATIVE 1.52 ALSO.
AND AGAIN, I SAY THIS WITH UTMOST RESPECT.
EVERYBODY'S GOT DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW AND BUDGETS ARE DESIGNED TO BE A, A COMPROMISE AMONG THE COMPETING POINTS OF VIEW AND COMPETING INTERESTS.
THAT'S HOW WE REACH SOME CONSENSUS.
UM, I AM ALSO RESPECTFULLY DISAPPOINTED THAT, UH, WE HAVEN'T DONE MORE TO HELP OUR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEPART, UH, DEPARTMENT.
I KNOW AS A LAWYER FOR 45 YEARS, HAVING DONE A LOT OF MATRIMONIAL WORK, MORE THAN I CARE TO MENTION THAT, UH, THEIR SERVICES TO, UH, PEOPLE IN DISTRESS ARE INVALUABLE.
CAN'T PUT A DOLLAR VALUE ON HUMAN LIFE OR THE WELLBEING OF CHILDREN AND WHAT THEY DO WITH COURT ORDERS AND MODIFICATIONS OF ORDERS AND ASSISTING FAMILY WITH, WITH LIVING ARRANGEMENTS, MODIFYING ORDERS, POLICING THE CONDUCT OF EMBATTLED PARTIES.
UM, AND THEY DID IT ALL WITHOUT INCURRING OVERTIME, WORKING A LOT OF HOURS.
AND DURING THE PANDEMIC, THE CASELOAD SHOT UP.
AND HERE WE ARE, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, SHORT CHANGING THEM.
AND I DON'T THINK THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO CHANGE, UNFORTUNATELY, EITHER.
I, I ECHO YOUR SENTIMENTS REGARDING THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT DEPARTMENT.
IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT THAT'S THE POSITION WE'RE IN, BUT, BUT IT IS, AND I THINK THE FACT THAT WE AS A TOWN ARE ABLE TO OFFER THE SERVICES OF AN ADVOCATE IN THE SERVICES OF A DEPARTMENT SUCH AS THAT IS, IS TRULY, UM, A, A, A PLUS IN AN OTHERWISE DIFFICULT SITUATION IN OUR TOWN.
UM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.
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SUPPOSED TO BE PROVIDING THOSE, THOSE TYPE OF ABSOLUTELY FUNDAMENTAL, CRUCIAL TYPE OF SERVICES AT WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES FOR FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS.UM, I AGREE WITH YOUR POINT ABOUT BEING MINDFUL ON THE NUMBERS.
IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT AS WE'RE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW, WHAT THE OVERALL IMPACT AT THE END WOULD BE.
WHEN I HEAR THE OVERALL IMPACT, IT'S, YOU KNOW, I AGREE THAT I DON'T CARE FOR THAT NUMBER.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M CURIOUS TO HEAR WHAT IT WOULD BE IF WE TOOK IT BACK UP TO 700,000.
THE OVERALL TAX RATE WOULD BE A NEGATIVE 0.21.
AND HOW WOULD IT AFFECT THE, WELL, IT STAYS AT 3.26 FOR THE GENERAL, THE TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE GOES TO NEGATIVE 4.53, WHEREAS IT'S POSITIVE 5.22 RIGHT NOW.
AND THEN DB STAYS THE SAME, BUT THE OVERALL WOULD BE 0.21 NEGATIVE, 0.21 NEGATIVE 0.21.
WELL, THAT TO MY MIND IS A HECK OF A LOT BETTER THAN 0.254 INCREASE.
I, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, AND, AND I I UNDERSTAND IT, IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH DIFFERENCE, UH, WHETHER YOU'RE PAYING AN EXTRA A HUNDRED OR $50 A YEAR.
NO ONE'S GONNA GET RICH OR UH, UH, FLY OFF TO, UH, A SOUTHERN VACATION WITH THAT.
BUT BY THE SAME TOKEN, IT'S HARD TO SAY TO PEOPLE WHO PAY THE BILLS, INFLATION IS EATING AWAY AT YOU, WE'RE GONNA TAKE MORE OF YOUR MONEY AND YOU MAY DO, EVERYBODY HERE ON THE INSIDE GETS SIGNIFICANT RAISES.
THAT JUST DOESN'T SIT TOO WELL WITH ME.
IF, IF I COULD PLEASE SPEAK OUT, IF YOU'RE FINISHED ON, IN MY OPINION, UH, THE SUPERVISOR'S BUDGET, UH, OFFERS THE BEST RATE FOR, YOU KNOW, THE TAXPAYER.
'CAUSE YOU HAVE NO TAX INCREASE.
BUT, UH, I'M ALSO KIND OF DEFERRING TO OUR THREE BOARD MEMBERS GOING FORWARD AS YOU GUYS HAVE TO, UH, DEAL WITH AND WORK WITH A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE IN HERE.
I AGREE WITH YOU, YOU AND I WON'T BE HERE TO, UH, WORRY ABOUT RIGHT.
WHETHER WE GUESSED RIGHT OR WRONG.
WELL, IT'S JUST, I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE WORKING WITH THEM AND I UNDERSTAND, AND I GET IT.
I A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE IS, YOU KNOW, UH, THE NEW NUMBER POPPING OUT IS PRETTY EYE-OPENING COMPARED TO WHAT CAME OUT IN OCTOBER.
SO, SO HISTORICALLY, HAVE WE BEEN USING SUCH A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT ON THE FUND BALANCE TO, TO OFFSET? I THINK SO WITH THE TAX RATE, HAS THAT, HAS THAT PRACTICE IMPACTS ON ANYTHING AS FAR AS OUR, OUR BOND RATING OR I, DOES IT PUT US IN A POSITION? I GUESS WHERE I'M LOOKING AT IT IS MM-HMM.
DOES DOES IT LOOK LIKE THIS THAT WE HAVE A DECREASE THIS YEAR AND THEN A HUGE SIGNIFICANT INCREASE NEXT YEAR? OR IS IT A LITTLE BIT OF AN INCREASE THIS YEAR, A LITTLE BIT NEXT YEAR IF THE FUND BALANCE IS USED APPROPRIATELY, IF'S GONNA DEPEND ON YOU GUYS.
SO YOU PUT OUT YOUR, YOUR TAXES FOR THE YEAR.
AND THAT'S, EVERYTHING'S ALL FIGURED OUT.
WELL, WHATEVER YOU DON'T SPEND GOES BACK INTO YOUR RESERVES, YOUR FUND BALANCE.
SO IF YOU PASS THIS BUDGET WITH, UH, PUTTING BACK THE MONEY THAT WE'RE GONNA TAKE FROM THE, UH, RESERVES, ALRIGHT? IF YOU DON'T SPEND THAT MONEY NEXT YEAR, IT GOES BACK INTO FILL IT.
BUT IF YOU GOTTA SPEND EVERY LINE OUT MM-HMM
THEN YOU'RE, YOU'RE NOT GONNA FILL IT BACK UP.
SO IT DEPENDS ON, YOU KNOW MM-HMM
ON GOING FORWARD NEXT YEAR, HOW YOU GUYS OPERATE.
EVERYONE'S FIDELITY TO THE PROCESS OF TRYING TO BE CONSCIOUS OF, OF THOSE EFFICIENCIES THAT ARE NEEDED.
SO IF YOU NEED IT, YOU BUY IT.
IF YOU DON'T, IF IT'S A LAUNCH OR NEED
THE MORE THAT YOU CAN NOT SPEND OUT OF EVERY LINE NEXT YEAR GOES BACK INTO THAT PART TO HELP YOU WITH THE FOLLOWING YEAR.
NOW, I KNOW THERE'S A NUMBER OF THE AMENDMENTS THAT ARE CORRECTIONS OF CLERICAL ERRORS OR THAT ARE CORRECTIONS.
I MEAN, A BULK ACTUALLY ARE, I THINK, UM, REFLECT, YOU KNOW, A DECREASE OR AN INCREASE BASED ON THE FACT THAT THERE WERE MISCALCULATIONS WITH, UM, MINIMUM WAGE, ET CETERA.
SO I GUESS WHAT WOULD'VE BEEN HELPFUL TOO IS TO HAVE THOSE SEPARATED OUT OR GROUPED BECAUSE THE, JUST THAT THERE'S A, THERE'S A, A BULK OF THIS THAT WE KNOW WE HAVE TO DO, UM, AND, AND TO KNOW WHAT THE, THAT IMPACT WOULD BE.
IN FAIRNESS TO KIM, SHE DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF THESE RIGHT.
NO, I UNDERSTAND NUMBERS UNTIL FRIDAY.
I UNDER, I UNDERSTAND IT'S, IT'S DIFFICULT.
I WASN'T, I WAS BEING CRITICAL.
I'M JUST SAYING IN AN IDEAL WORLD RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THESE DECISION, IT JUST THAT THIS SOUNDED GOOD AS WE'RE TALKING.
BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE, THE ACTUAL, THE NUMBER.
THE OTHER THING, KIM, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL IS, UM, I KNOW THERE'S THE FUND
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BALANCE, YOU KNOW, HISTORY FROM 2015 MM-HMM2016 FROM THE 17, 18 19, AND THEN THE UNAUDITED FROM 2020.
UM, I DON'T HAVE NUMBERS IN FRONT OF ME, BUT I DID THE MATH ON ALL OF THOSE.
AND WHEN I SUMMED UP THE 2015, 2000 I HAVE IN FRONT OF ME.
SO THE, BUT THE SUM OF ALL ITEMS, YOU KNOW, FROM THE GOVERNMENT FUNDS, ENTERPRISE FUNDS.
CAN YOU QUICK DO A QUICK EXCEL SUM OF ALL OF EACH YEAR? MM-HMM
WELL, UH, YOU'RE CORRECT ABOUT CERTAIN ERRORS HAVE GOTTA BE CHANGED.
UH, UH, THE PART-TIME SUMMER HELD CALCULATIONS AT 1320 AN HOUR INSTEAD OF 14.
UH, SO THERE ARE SOME, THERE ARE SOME ERRORS, UH, THE FUNDING MISTAKE FOR PEN DIXIE GIVING 'EM A THOUSAND AS OPPOSED TO 10,000, THAT'S AN OBVIOUS ERROR.
THERE ARE SEVERAL, UH, THAT WE CAN, WE CAN DEAL WITH.
UH, AND THEN THERE'S THE QUESTION OF, UM, WHETHER THERE ARE ANY CUTS OR WHETHER YOU WANNA DO SOMETHING WITH FUND BALANCE OR WHETHER YOU'RE GOING TO, UH, DO SOMETHING TO ADJUST THE APPROPRIATION FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR NOT.
SO ALSO THE OTHER WAS THE REMOVAL OF THE ARPA 120,000.
I MEAN, I, WELL, I, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE HANDLING THAT PROPERLY IN TERMS OF HOW IT INTERFACES WITH OUR WELL, I, I TALKED WITH SEAN ABOUT IT.
IT, IT, IT ISN'T, IT, IT DOESN'T, AR DOESN'T GO INTO OUR BUDGET.
IT'S LIKE AN ESCROW ACCOUNT MM-HMM
THAT LAWYERS HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO HOLD IT SEPARATE AND DISTINCT.
SO WE GOT FIVE POINTS, SOMETHING IN THERE.
UH, SO THE FEELING WAS IF WE'RE SPENDING OUT OF THAT, UH, WE, AND THE BUDGET, WE SPENT 120,000 AND CHANGE ON ARPA RELATED EXPENDITURES.
SO THE FEELING WAS THAT SHOULD BE DEBITED FROM THAT ACCOUNT AND KEPT COMPLETELY APART FROM THE BUDGET ITSELF, BECAUSE IT'S NOT A BUDGETARY, IT'S NOT BUDGETARY REVENUE IN, SO IT SHOULDN'T BE AN APPROPRIATION OUT.
AND THEY'RE REALLY CAPITAL EXPENSES.
THEY'RE KIND OF OFF WHERE THE BUDGET IS GENERALLY, YOU KNOW, ONGOING EXPENSES.
SO DO YOU WANT EACH YEAR, EACH YEAR, JUST THE SUM TOTAL OF ALL? OKAY.
AND THEN 2020 UNAUDITED IS 10 MILLION 617, 7 41.
SO MY CONCERN IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LAST, I MEAN, WE'VE GOT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 YEARS OF DATA.
WE'RE BASICALLY AT THE LOWEST POINT.
UM, WE'VE BEEN IN TERMS OF, AND, AND WE'RE, YOU KNOW, 2 MILLION LESS THAN OUR HIGH POINT JUST FIVE YEARS AGO, UH, OR FOUR YEARS AGO I SHOULD SAY.
SO IF WE'RE DOWN 2 MILLION FROM, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE WERE BEFORE, YOU KNOW, I REALIZE WE'RE STILL GONNA BE ON THE LOW END.
UM, BUT TO TAKE 1.25 MILLION AND OFFSET A BUDGET, SHORT TERM SOUNDS GREAT, LOOKS GREAT, FEELS GREAT.
EVERYBODY LOVES TO NOT HAVE TAXES.
BUT EVENTUALLY THAT COULD REALLY COME BACK TO BITE US BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW, AS JIM MENTIONED, RIGHT NOW, INFLATION IS AT A HISTORIC, UH, HIGH, UH, 6.2%.
UM, IT'S ACTUALLY A 30 YEAR HIGH.
UM, IN THE LAST SIX MONTHS, IT'S BEEN, UH, 5%, UH, WHICH WE HAVEN'T SEEN SINCE THE EARLY, UH, NINETIES.
UM, SO TO, IF INFLATION, IF EVERYTHING IS GOING UP BY 6.2%, THE COST OF GAS, THE COST OF GROCERIES, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING.
H HOUSING, AS YOU KNOW, IS GOING UP CERTAINLY BY MORE THAN THAT, FOR US TO THINK THAT WE CAN HAVE A DECREASE IN THAT ENVIRONMENT WHEN WE KNOW THE WAGES ARE GOING UP.
WE'RE, WE KNOW MOST OF OUR EMPLOYEES ARE UNION BASED, SO THEY HAVE GUARANTEED INCREASES.
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BE IRRESPONSIBLE.I THINK WE'D ALL LOVE TO SEE A TAX IN, UH, DECREASE OR EVEN TO BE FLAT.
BUT I THINK WE REALLY OWE IT TO THE TAXPAYERS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FORWARD THINKING, REALIZING THESE COSTS ARE GOING UP, AND TO TAKE MONEY OUT OF OUR, ESSENTIALLY OUR SAVINGS ACCOUNT, OUR NEST EGG, UM, WHEN IT'S, IT'S NEAR A FIVE YEAR LOW AND, AND MAKE IT NOW EVEN LOWER WHEN WE HAVE A GOOD SITUATION, WOULDN'T BE FISCALLY THE SMARTEST LONG-TERM DECISION.
I, I I FEAR FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, A, AN INCREASE DOWN THE ROAD.
AND LAST YEAR, I THINK WE WERE, WE DID A REALLY GOOD JOB IN TERMS OF KEEPING THE RATE PRETTY REASONABLE.
UM, WE ENDED UP BEING IN THE, YOU KNOW, TWO TO 3% RANGE.
UM, THIS YEAR, UH, WE'RE GONNA BE IN THE, THE TWO TO 3% RANGE.
UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE GETTING, YOU KNOW, THE, THE MOST VULNERABLE THAT I'M CONCERNED WITH ARE LOW INCOME SENIOR CITIZENS.
UM, THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ESSENTIALLY ARE LIVING PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK.
AND FOR THE MOST PART, THEY'RE LIVING OFF OF SOCIAL SECURITY.
UM, SOCIAL SECURITY JUST INCREASED, UH, 5.9%.
SO IF WE HAVE A 3% INCREASE IN OUR PORTION OF THE TAXES AND THEY'RE GETTING 5.9 INCREASE IN SOCIAL SECURITY, UM, I DON'T THINK WE'RE BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIVE.
I THINK WE'RE ACTUALLY, UH, OR IRRESPONSIVE, I THINK WE'RE BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIVE.
UM, AND, AND IT'S CLEAR THAT THOSE MOST VULNERABLE, UM, ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO, UM, GOING TO BE ABLE TO, UH, ACCOMMODATE THAT, UM, INCREASE JUST BECAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE IS GOING UP AS WELL.
SO I, I THINK THAT WE TOLD A LOT OF OUR EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD TO HOLD THE LINE LAST YEAR.
A LOT OF OUR PROGRAMS, WE HAD TO HOLD THE LINE.
WE DIDN'T, UH, HAVE, UH, A LOT OF THE EVENTS THAT WE HAD AND WE TOLD EVERYBODY AT THAT TIME, BE PATIENT, THINGS WILL TURN AROUND WHEN THEY TURN AROUND, WE'LL BE THERE FOR YOU.
WE'LL INCREASE THE FUNDING AS BEST WE CAN.
AND THAT'S WHAT I THINK WE NEED TO DO.
AND I THINK THIS IS DOING IT IN A VERY REASONABLE, RESPONSIBLE MANNER.
I'D RATHER SEE US GO TWO TO THREE, TWO TO THREE, TWO TO THREE THAN TWO TO 3, 0 6, 4, 8, DOWN TO, I THINK THIS IS A REALLY, YOU KNOW, GOOD WAY TO, UH, LEVELIZE THAT.
AND, AND IT'S, IT'S JUST FISCALLY SOUND BUDGETING THAT ANY HOUSEHOLD WOULD DO.
UH, I THINK WE, WE, WE HAVE A IN IN THE POSITION TO DO THAT AS WELL.
THINK ABOUT IT, WE ARE GOING AND ON A LOT OF OUR JOBS FROM 12 TO $13 AN HOUR, UP TO $14 AN HOUR, MOST PEOPLE CAN GO OUT AND GET A $17 AN HOUR JOB TODAY AND START WORK WITHIN A WEEK.
WE HAVE TO REALIZE WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO CONTINUE A LOT OF THESE WAGE INCREASES AS TIME GOES ON, NOT ONLY FOR THE NON-UNION, BUT OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, FOR THE UNION, WE ALSO REALLY ARE GONNA POSITION WHERE, IN TERMS OF HEALTHCARE COSTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE, I THINK WE'VE CUT A BREAK.
WE'VE, WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, LOWER COSTS, BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ALSO GONNA RAISE.
ALSO, YOU LOOK AT THE SALES TAX, UM, WE, IN OUR BUDGET, WE'RE ANTICIPATING A 10% INCREASE IN SALES TAX FROM 6.9 MILLION TO 7.6 MILLION.
AS WE KNOW, WHAT CAN HAPPEN WITH COVID IS THAT'S NOT GUARANTEED.
WE ALSO HAVE OVER 600,000 IN THE VIDEO LOTTERY TURNAROUND.
WE'RE FORTUNATE TO HAVE IT, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT IT HAPPENED IN 2020.
SO I JUST THINK THAT IF WE'RE REALLY GONNA BE ON THE, THE, THE SAFE SIDE OF BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIVE, UM, YES, IT'S AN INCREASE, BUT IT'S A VERY REASONABLE INCREASE.
AND ALSO THINK ABOUT HOW MANY TIMES IN THE LAST TWO YEARS WE'VE SAID, WE HAVE TO PUT MONEY AT THIS PROJECT.
WE HAVE TO PUT MONEY AT THAT PROJECT, OR WE NEED TO HAVE A NEW CAR BECAUSE IT'S AN 18-YEAR-OLD CAR WITH 200,000 MILES ON IT.
AND WHY IS IT THAT, BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTED JUST CUT, CUT AND, AND NOT REALLY KIND OF BLEND THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE EXPENSES OVER TIME.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF BE GOING DOWN THAT PATH AGAIN AND BEING SHORTSIGHTED AND TAKING OUR RESERVES AT A TIME THAT IT WOULDN'T BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.
I GOT, I GOTTA HAVE SOME DISAGREEMENT WITH A COUPLE THINGS YOU SAID THERE.
SO THE SENIORS GETTING A 6% INCREASE, UM, NO TAX INCREASES EVER GOOD FOR THEM.
THAT'S JUST, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THAT
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TO USE UP SOME OF THIS FUND BALANCE.IF YOU GO OVER THOSE FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, YOU, YOU WENT DOWN ROUGHLY 500,000 A YEAR IF YOU ROUGHLY, OKAY.
UH, I THINK YOU'RE BETTER OFF GOING DOWN THAT ROUTE.
YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING FORWARD, WHAT IT'S GONNA BRING MONEY IN.
UH, IF YOU HAVE INCREASED ASSESSMENT COMING IN, THAT'S GONNA HELP OUT YOUR TAX SPACE.
YOU DO HAVE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ARE COMING IN, YOU KNOW, THE
UH, SOME OF THE RAISES THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING A PRETTY DARN HIGH.
SO TO ME, I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT SPENDING THE MONEY SO MUCH OUT OF THE, UH, FRONT BALANCE.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GONNA BE YOU GUYS' CALL.
RIGHT? BUT I WOULDN'T BE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
AND I BELIEVE THAT'S JUST THE B SIDE, RIGHT? MM-HMM
SO THAT, THAT'S ALWAYS GONNA HAVE EXTRA AMOUNT BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOUR SALES TAX MONEY COMES UP.
NOW, AS FAR AS WITH, UH, THE SALES TAX, WHEN YOU HAVE THIS INCREASED MINIMUM WAGE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE INCREASED COSTS FOR EVERYTHING THAT PEOPLE BUY.
THAT'S GONNA INCREASE THE, IT'S LIKE A, IT'S LIKE A, TO RAISE TAXES.
IT'S BASICALLY A, A, A RAISE OF TAXES.
SO YOU'RE GONNA GET MORE FROM YOUR, UH, UH, WHAT'S IT CALLED? YOUR SALES TAX.
SO TO ME, I WOULD, I WOULD CHEW UP MORE OF THE, UH, THE FUND BALANCE TO HELP MAKE IT EASIER ON PEOPLE.
AND I THINK WE NOW TOO, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THE ARPA AND WE'RE, WE'RE BEING VERY MINDFUL ABOUT HOW WE PLACE AND UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS.
BUT THE HOPE IN SOME OF THOSE SITUATIONS IS THAT IT WILL AFFECT COST DOWN THE ROAD.
AND I THINK AN EXAMPLE IS YOUR HVAC IMPROVEMENTS.
SO THEY SHOULD RESULT, ESPECIALLY IF WE'RE CAREFUL GOING FORWARD WITH HOW WE SPEND THE REST OF THE ARPA, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ALSO HELP OUR BUDGET IN THOSE TERMS IN THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
UM, I'M UNCOMFORTABLE, I, I UNDERSTAND THE PREMISE OF THE FUND BALANCE, BUT I, I AGREE THAT I THINK WE'RE AT A POINT RIGHT NOW WHERE WE, WE WATCH, WE, WE, AGAIN, WE WORK WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS FOR ANY OTHER EFFICIENCIES.
UM, MAYBE WE LOOK AT PART-TIME, UH, I KNOW WE HAVE TO DO SOME OF THE INCREASES BECAUSE OF THE WAGES, BUT POSSIBLY WE'LL LOOK THERE FOR THE FUTURE.
BUT, AND WE MONITOR THAT, BUT WE DON'T IMPOSE, UM, THE HIGHER TAX INCREASE ON OUR RESIDENTS AT THIS TIME.
ONE THING I, I WOULD ADD TOO, I GET WE'VE GOT SOME TIME, UH, OUR APPROPRIATIONS IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET ARE $1,089,656 MORE THAN WE APPROPRIATED IN 2021.
WE'RE SPENDING MORE, THE AVERAGE TAX INCREASE OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS, TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE IS 1.8% 10 YEAR AVERAGE IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS.
TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE TAXES DIVIDE THIS BY FOUR, INCREASED 2.74%.
WE'RE ALMOST BUMPING IT IN ONE YEAR, BUT WE'VE BUMPED IT IN FOUR.
NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, THERE'LL BE SOME DAYS OF RECKONING POTENTIALLY DOWN THE ROAD, BUT WE CAN'T KEEP SPENDING THE WAY WE'RE SPENDING.
ARPA WILL HELP US OUT TREMENDOUSLY.
WHAT A, WHAT A GODSEND THAT IS.
UH, WE WERE HELPED OUT ENORMOUSLY BY THE CARES ACT.
UH, WE BONDED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
UH, WE'RE GONNA EVENTUALLY REALIZE AN LED UH, UH, SAVINGS DIVIDEND.
SO I, I CAN'T BUY INTO THE NOTION THAT, UH, IT'S OKAY TO GIVE SIGNIFICANT, UH, SPENDING INCREASES VIA MOST DEPARTMENTS AND THEN TELL THE FOLKS OUT HERE WHO ARE DEALING WITH INFLATION THAT THEY GOTTA PAY MORE TO US FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING US DO THAT.
I, I JUST, I'M HAVING TROUBLE WITH THAT.
WELL, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE COULD CERTAINLY BE, YOU KNOW, A HAPPY MEDIUM.
I JUST THINK WHEN YOU LOOK AT DIFFERENT ITEMS, UM, JUST TO, AS AN EXAMPLE, THE RETIREMENT, UH, THE PENSION, OUR PAYMENT INCREASES NEXT $290,000, $255,000 JUST FROM LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR, UH, FOR RETIREMENT, FOR PE, FOR THE PENSION SYSTEM.
UM, IT'S JUST INEVITABLE THAT THAT'S LIKELY TO CONTINUE IT.
I MEAN, IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE CASE.
AND I JUST THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL
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AND NOT TOO SHORTSIGHTED.UM, YOU KNOW, IN, IN CUTTING TO THE POINT WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA SUFFER.
I MEAN, THINK ABOUT THE MONEY THAT WE'VE ALLOCATED FOR THE, YOU KNOW, THE, OUR FUNDS AND SOME OF THESE CASES LIKE, UM, THE H-V-V-A-C, YOU KNOW, $500,000.
WE ALL KNOW IF YOU TALK TO PEOPLE IN THESE DEPARTMENTS, THAT THAT'S BEEN LONG OVERDUE IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THE SAFETY AND THE EFFICIENCY, THE COST EFFICIENCY OF, OF REPLACING THAT.
UM, SO IT'S GREAT THAT WE HAVE THE A OF FUNDS, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS OUT THERE THAT HAVE ALSO BEEN NEGLECTED.
AND I THINK IT'S JUST NAIVE TO THINK THAT IF, UM, IF WE KEEP GOING AT ZERO TO 1%, AT SOME POINT, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO POTENTIALLY COME BACK TO THE TAXPAYERS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, NOW YOU'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, A 10% INCREASE.
I MEAN, WE'VE SEEN THAT IN A LOT OF MUNICIPALITIES IN THE PAST WHERE, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD UNTIL THE DAY OF RECKONING COMES.
AND THAT'S ONLY, YOU KNOW, MY THOUGHT IS IF WE HAVE SUCH A GOOD SITUATION AND IF WE'RE DOING SO GOOD, WHY ARE WE TAKING, WHEN IT'S AT THE LOWEST POINT, OUR EMERGENCY RESERVES, WHY ARE WE TAKING 1.2 MILLION TO APPLY IT TO, YOU KNOW, THE BUDGET? MAYBE IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S NOT ZERO, MAYBE IT'S NOT 1.2 MILLION, MAYBE IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, THE 750 THAT'S NOW BEING CONSIDERED.
UH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S, YOU KNOW, A MILLION INSTEAD OF SEVEN 50 THAT WE TAKE OFF.
UM, AND THE TAX RATES, YOU KNOW, 1% INSTEAD OF NEGATIVE INSTEAD OF 2%.
BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, LONG-TERM PLANNING AND FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, UM, AND FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT, UM, IT AFFECTS THE MOST, UM, CONSISTENT GRADUALLY BUDGETING AND KNOWING THAT COSTS ARE ALWAYS GOING UP.
UM, AND WE'VE BEEN DOING A TON OF COST SAVING MEASURES AND WE ARE DOING THINGS THAT WE, I, I THINK WILL PAY OUT IN TERMS OF US KEEPING THE TAX RATE LOW.
UM, MY QUESTION IS JUST, YOU KNOW, IN INFLATIONARY ENVIRONMENT LIKE THIS, ARE WE REALLY BEING HONEST WITH OURSELVES, THINKING THAT WE CAN HAVE A A, A DECREASE? DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT'S UNALLOCATED IN THE, UM, 2021 BUDGET? AT THIS POINT? THERE'S NOT MUCH ON THAT ALLOCATED, BUT I WAS GONNA SAY, WOULD YOU LIKE THE B FUND FUND BALANCE JUST FROM 2015 TO 2020? SO YOU COULD SEE THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO SEE.
NO, BECAUSE IT HAS DECREASED QUITE A BIT.
SO IN 2015 IT WAS 6.1 MILLION IN 20 16, 5 0.3 MILLION 20 17, 4 0.5 MILLION 20 18, 3 0.4 MILLION, 20 19, 2 0.4 MILLION.
AND THE UNAUDITED FOR 2020 IS 1.4 MILLION.
SO IT HAS DECREASED SINCE 20 15, 4 0.7 MILLION TOTAL.
WELL, LADIES AND GENTS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME.
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO ADOPT THE BUDGET.
I KNOW WE DIDN'T SIT TOGETHER SINCE OCTOBER THE 30TH, SO WE GOTTA COME TO SOME UNDERSTANDINGS, I THINK.
BUT I MEAN, I THINK THAT UNFORTUNATELY TELLS A STORY.
I MEAN, 6.1 MILLION, 5.3, 4.5, 3.4, 2.4, 1.4.
LET'S BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES.
WHERE'S THIS GOING? YOU KNOW, SO AGAIN, I, I
WELL, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS BEING DISHONEST.
WHAT WE'VE ALSO GOTTA FACE IS SOMETHING WE HAVEN'T BEEN TOO GOOD AT FACING FOR MANY YEARS.
AND THAT'S THE IDEA OF SAYING, NO, NO, TO A LOT OF NEW SPENDING, NO TO FIVE, 6% PAY, RAISE, PAY RAISES.
AND I'M AS GUILTY AS ANYBODY ELSE, UH, NO TO, UH, ALL KINDS OF REQUESTS FOR TRAVEL VEHICLES, UH, SEMINARS, MORE EQUIPMENT, MORE STUFF.
UH, WE'VE GOTTA ANALYZE TO OUR PROGRAMS WHAT REALLY DELIVERS FOR PEOPLE.
WHAT IS STUFF THAT, THAT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE TO DO.
UH, THERE MAY COME A TIME WHEN WE HAVE TO FACE SPENDING CHALLENGES AND LEARN TO SAY NO, BECAUSE CLEARLY THE DEMANDS ARE NOT GONNA GO AWAY.
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ABILITY TO SHOW BACKBONE AND SAY NO IS GOING TO BE PUT TO THE TEST, IF NOT THIS YEAR, CERTAINLY IN THE NEXT THREE OR FOUR YEARS, IN MY OPINION.YOU CAN DEBATE THIS THEORETICALLY ALL EVENING, BUT, UH, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO COME TO SOME UNDERSTANDING TONIGHT.
SO I, I'M INTERESTED IN, AND LISTEN, I'LL, I'LL GO AHEAD WITH THE COMPROMISE ON THE FUND BALANCE IF IT GETS EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO BE INCLINED TO VOTE FOR THIS BUDGET IF WE'RE GONNA GUT THE, THE, IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE TO HELP, UH, THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEPARTMENT, I THINK IT'S A VALUABLE DEPARTMENT.
AND I DON'T THINK, UH, UH, WE'RE TREATING IT AS IF WE CONSIDER IT TO BE VALUABLE IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT AN INCREASE THERE.
AND THEN ALSO, UM, I'D BE WILLING TO LOOK AT IT, A COMPROMISE ON THE, ON THE FUND.
SO WOULD I BALANCE, UM, WE EVEN WORK NUMBERS RIGHT NOW TO CUT IT IN HALF? I'M OKAY WITH THAT.
I COULD LIVE WITH THAT AND SEE WHAT THAT DOES.
SO INSTEAD OF THE 700 USING THREE 50, IS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING, THAT WOULD BRING IT TO AN OVERALL OF 1.45% INCREASE AND 2.3% IN THE TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE.
THAT'S A LITTLE MORE PALPABLE THAN 3.4.
I, I COULD PROB I COULD GO ALONG WITH THAT, BUT I THINK WE'VE GOTTA DO SOMETHING TO HELP DV.
IT'S, UH, IT'S, THEY DO GREAT WORK.
AND, UH, THERE WERE A COUPLE SPOTS TOO THAT WERE IN LARGE INCREASES HERE.
I KNOW IN THE AMENDMENTS THAT I'M, I'M NOT SURE WE EVER HAD A CHANCE TO DISCUSS.
WELL, I THINK AS FAR AS THE FUND BALANCE, BUT IT'S, SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS HERE AS FAR AS THE FUND BALANCE GOES.
I, I AGREE WITH SEAN AS FAR AS BEING CONCERNED ABOUT IT BEING SHORTSIGHTED, HOW IT'S GONNA IMPACT THE TOWN.
IF WE, IF WE DON'T GET A HANDLE ON, ON THIS NUMBER GOING DOWN, UM, I'M ABSOLUTELY WILLING TO COMPROMISE AND, AND LOOK AT A NUMBER THAT WE CAN ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH.
UM, AS FAR AS THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEPARTMENT, I THINK WE'VE ALL HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS.
UM, I'VE CLARIFIED INFORMATION 'CAUSE PEOPLE HAVE REACHED OUT, THAT SORT OF THING.
UM, AND SO I KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT GOES ALONG WITH THE SAME, THE SAME CONVERSATION THAT THE SUPERVISOR BROUGHT UP WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE FUND BALANCE IS, IS TRYING TO FIND, UM, AN EQUITABLE APPROACH AND, AND HOW WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE, ARE GETTING APPROPRIATE RAISES.
UM, SO I, I THINK THAT'S A SEPARATE ITEM OUTSIDE OF THE FUND BALANCE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WELL, THEY CERTAINLY, OVERALL OUR RAISES DEFINITELY IMPACT, YOU KNOW, HOW THINGS ARE GONNA LOOK IN THE FUTURE AND HOW ARE USING THE FUND BALANCE.
I THINK THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE CONVERSATIONS.
UM, AND THEN WE CAN ADDRESS THOSE AFTERWARDS ONCE WE, I WOULD BE, UH, IF WE CAME TO, UH, THREE 50 KIM ON THE, ON THE FUND BALANCE.
COULD YOU GIMME THE RATES ONE MORE TIME? SO IT STAYED 3.26 FOR THE GENERAL 2.3 FOR TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE.
STILL STAY AT NEGATIVE 2.02 FOR DB, AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 1.45.
WHAT DO YOU THINK FOLKS, DID YOU COMPROMISE WITH THAT CONCEPT? WE STILL HAVE CERTAIN ITEMS TO ADJUST ON THE AMENDMENTS HERE, BUT, UH, DOES THAT SEEM PLAUSIBLE? THERE'S ALSO THE OPTION BECAUSE THE EIGHT FUND IS HEALTHIER AND THAT IS INCREASE TO USE A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
'CAUSE THAT RIGHT NOW WENT FROM 20 19, 3 0.8 MILLION TO 5.1 ALMOST IN 2020.
SO YOU CAN OFFSET A LITTLE BIT BY USING A LITTLE MORE POINT.
WELL TAKE ANYTHING FROM, THERE YOU GO.
MAYBE THE THREE 50 DOESN'T HAVE TO GO THEN.
SEE WHERE THINGS, IF WE TOOK, IF WE ADJUSTED, UH, THE A, A FUND BALANCE, THAT WOULD BE, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, KIM.
IS THERE ANY NUMBERS YOU GUYS WANNA THROW OUT? GIMME THE NUMBER AGAIN.
WELL, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE? RIGHT NOW WE'RE USING 550,000.
BUT THE PROJECTED ON AUDITED NUMBERS ARE, WE HAVE ABOUT 5.1 MILLION IN THE GENERAL FUND.
HOW MUCH DIFFERENT IS THAT FROM THE PRIOR YEAR? I'M SORRY.
BUT CAN YOU USE, WE CAN'T USE, UH, MONEY OUT OF THE, UH, A FUND BALANCE INTO THE B FUND.
SO HOW ARE YOU GONNA TRY AND WELL, WE JUST 'CAUSE MAJORITY OF THE INCREASES IN THE GENERAL FUND YEAH.
THE TAX INCREASE, IT'S THREE POINTS.
SOMETHING PERCENT CAN'T GO BETWEEN THEMSELVES THAT FAST.
WE COULD INCREASE JUST USING GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE SINCE THAT'S WHERE A MAJORITY OF THE INCREASE IN EXPENSES ARE.
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YOU WANT ME TO, SO COULD YOU THEN JUST, UM, LEAVE THE GENERAL FUND B THE SAME AND THEN, UH, FOR A DECREASE THAT BY THREE 50, THAT WOULDN'T BE QUITE THE SAME, BUT, BUT GO AHEAD.SO IT'D BE, SO WE, WE DRAW 200 FROM THE A FUND 2, 7 50 FOR THE GENERAL FUND FROM FIVE 50, USE THAT MUCH? NO, NO.
JUST LEAVE IT THE SAME AS THE SUPERVISOR REQUESTED.
AND THEN FOR THE A, THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD TAKE, UH, AGAIN, INSTEAD OF 700, WE SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE THREE 50.
SO WE'D APPROPRIATE 200 IN THE, IN THE A MM-HMM
AND WE'D KEEP THE 700 IN THE BI THINK THAT'S BACKWARDS.
SO YOU WANNA KEEP 200 IN THE TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE, CORRECT.
200 IN THE TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE.
AND WE'LL JUST, THAT'S CORRECT.
GENERAL TO GO FROM IT'S FIVE 50 NOW, WOULD YOU LIKE TO INCREASE THAT TO GO TO 800, 800? JUST TO JUST SEE, JUST TO GET
THAT WOULD TAKE IT TO THE GENERAL FUND WOULD BE A 1.13% INCREASE.
THE TOWN OUTSIDE WOULD STAY AT 5.22% AND AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 1.19.
IT'LL ADJUST A LITTLE BIT ONCE WE MAKE THESE OTHER THAT'S RIGHT.
BUT, BUT IT'S IN THE BALLPARK.
IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE THAN WHAT, UH, WE CAME IN WITH MM-HMM
SO WHY DON'T WE, FOR NOW HOLD THOSE NUMBERS AND THEN START TO WORK ON THE REST OF THE PACKAGE.
SO THE ONE THING I WANTED TO SAY IS ON THE POLICE BUDGET, UM, I WOULD RECOMMEND WE DO THE 20,000 FOR THE TRAINING.
WE HAVE TO ADD THAT, THAT THEY HAD REQUESTED INSTEAD OF, I THINK IT WENT DOWN.
WAS THAT SIX? IS THAT ON THE AMENDMENTS? NO, NO, IT'S NOT.
THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD, EVERYTHING ELSE WOULD BE, THAT'S THE ONLY ADDITIONAL ONE THAT I THINK I, I WOULD LIKE TO RE OR PROPOSE.
WHAT ARE THEY PROPOSING THE TRAINING FOR? WHAT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN TRAINING? WHAT, WHAT'S WHAT TRAINING.
SO THEY, I, I TALKED TO CHIEF, UM, ABOUT THIS AND HE SAID THAT, UM, THEY HAD A LOT OF, UM, TRAINING IN, IN TERMS OF HOW THE OFFICERS WILL, UH, RELATE IN THE, IN THE COMMUNITY AND SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY, UM, HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO.
WERE, BECAUSE OF THAT FUNDING, UM, DON'T HAVE MY NOTES AND MAYBE WE CAN WAIT UNTIL HE'S HERE TO, TO EXPLAIN MORE DETAILS.
I THINK WHAT IT WAS, IF I REMEMBER THE CONVERSATION, 'CAUSE CAPTAIN DIAZ WAS INVOLVED, AND I KNOW HE TAKES CHARGE OF A LOT OF THE TRAINING, UM, THAT IN THE PAST, I THINK THEY HAD 15,000 TYPICALLY ALLOCATED.
AND THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD IS WE HAVE 62 OFFICERS PERFORMING CRITICAL WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND THE IDEA THAT THEY WERE REALLY KIND OF LIMITED AT, YOU KNOW, ABOUT A HUNDRED DOLLARS AN OFFICER.
UM, AND, AND HE GAVE US, UM, SOME IDEAS AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY WOULD PARTAKE IN, UH, THAT WOULD BE REALLY BENEFICIAL.
UM, SO, AND, AND THEN OF COURSE THE IDEA OF HAVING NEW OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE, UM, HE COULD PROVIDE MORE DETAILED BACKGROUND ON IT, BUT IT WAS A, A COMPELLING CASE AS TO HOW IT COULD BE USED.
THE OTHER BIG ASPECT IS, IS WE FORMED THIS, THE COMMITTEE TO COME UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, ON THE REFORMS, UH, THAT WERE MANDATED BY NEW YORK STATE.
AND A LOT OF THOSE REFORMS, A LOT OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, IF WE'RE REALLY GONNA PROPERLY IMPLEMENT 'EM, WOULD REQUIRE, UH, ADDITIONAL POLICE TRAINING THAT IS NOT FUNDED CURRENTLY.
HAS THE CHIEF MADE ANY REQUESTS FOR, I DON'T REMEMBER IN HIS BUDGET PROPOSAL, DID HE MAKE INCREASED REQUESTS FOR TRAINING FUNDING? I DON'T REMEMBER HIM DOING THAT.
IT WAS 20 WAS IT WAS 20,000 CHIEFS.
HIS BUDGET REQUEST WAS 20,000.
AND I THINK YOUR BUDGET WAS SIX.
WHAT ABOUT, NO, THE 2021 WAS 6,000.
UM, BUT THEY SAID PREVIOUSLY IN YEARS PAST THAT THEY HAD HAD, DID THEY GET DRUG FORFEITURE MONEY IN YEARS PAST FOR TRAINING? THEY MAY HAVE.
WHAT DID, WE DIDN'T GIVE 'EM SIX THIS YEAR.
SO IT'S REALLY JUST AN ADDITIONAL FIVE THAT THEY'RE REQUESTING, I THINK.
DO THEY HAVE ANY ACCESS TO DRUG FORFEITURE MONEY? MY UNDERSTANDING WAS THAT WAS A LITTLE BIT MORE LIMITED THAN IT'S BEEN IN THE PAST AND DID THE, GET THE NUMBERS FROM HIM, BUT
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ARE WE APPROVING TO TAKE IT BACK UP TO 20? LET'S HOLD ON AND SEE WHAT THE CHIEF HAS TO SAY.SO DO WE WANNA JUST START RIGHT AT THE TOP AND GO THROUGH EACH ONE AND THEN WE CAN, BECAUSE SOME ARE, YEAH, WE KNOW THAT OUR, THERE'S NO DISCUSSION WE HAVE TO DO.
WE TALKED ABOUT THAT THERE'S A DECREASE IN ANTICIPATED REVENUE.
THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE, UH, THAT'S THE BEACH.
UH, IN YEARS PAST, YOU KNOW, WE WERE PUTTING DOWN 45 LAST TWO YEARS, 45 AND 46,000.
UH, WE ONLY TOOK IN 6,000, 7,000, UH, LAST YEAR.
AND WE'RE ON TRACK TO TAKE IN AROUND 6,000 THIS YEAR.
SO IF WE BUDGET REVENUE OF 15,000, UH, WE'RE HOPING THAT THE NEW PROGRAMS WE INITIATE AT THE END OF THIS YEAR WILL GIVE SOME LIFE TO THE, TO THE OPERATION.
SO THE REVENUE ANTICIPATION IS REALISTICALLY 15,000 THERE.
THE NEXT ONE IS AN INPUT ERROR THAT, YEAH, YOU GOT THE ARPA THE INPUT ERROR.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT IS, BETH.
THAT WAS JUST SOMETHING WHEN THE BUDGET WAS COMPILED, THEY LEFT OUT A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE, YOUR TOWN BOARD, MISCELLANEOUS FOR YOUR SUPPLY.
SO IT, IT'S JUST PUTTING THAT THOUSAND BACK IN.
'CAUSE A SUPERVISOR DID NOT INTEND TO CUT THAT.
I MEAN, I KNOW I HAVEN'T USED A DOLLAR OF SUPPLIES THIS YEAR.
YOU GUYS COULD DECREASE IF YOU WANT, BUT YOU PROBABLY WANNA KEEP SOMETHING WITH NEW STAFF.
HOST OR YOUR ENVELOPES OR WHATEVER.
BUT I DON'T THINK WE NEED A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
THE NEXT ONE, UH, WELL THIS IS, I'M SORRY.
UH, THE, THE COURT OFFICERS, THEY'RE AT 20 BUCKS AN HOUR.
THE PROPOSAL FROM THE CHIEF COURT CLERK WAS TO TAKE THEM TO 24.
SO I DON'T YOU DO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
AND DID, DID EVERYBODY GET A CHANCE TO CATCH UP WITH BRIDGET ON THAT? MM-HMM.
AND I, I UNDERSTAND HER REASONING, BUT YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IF WE'RE NOW GOING BACK TO THIS AND TRYING TO SHARE UP IN THE PENCIL, YEAH.
I DON'T KNOW IF MAYBE WE CAN AGAIN COME SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE WHEN YOU THINK 20% PAY RAISE IN ANY, FOR ANY GIVEN INDIVIDUAL'S, A PRETTY GOOD CHUNK IN ONE YEAR.
I THINK HER EXPLANATION WAS THEY'RE AT, YOU KNOW, 26, 27 OTHER PLACES THEY CARRY GUNS, THEY'RE AT THE, AT THE COURT.
THEY'RE NOT GETTING PEOPLE AT, AT THE RATES NOW.
SHE'S, SHE'S ALREADY LOST THREE.
SO I, I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE, WE'LL BE LUCKY AT 24 TO GET 'EM BASED ON, ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'VE LOST AND WHAT OTHER OFF, WHAT OTHER, UH, PLACES ARE OFFERING.
UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MOST RESTAURANTS, MOST, YOU KNOW, AREAS, ENTRY LEVEL FOR A COLLEGE STUDENT IS, UH, $17 AN HOUR.
NOW HAVING SOMEBODY THAT'S IN CHARGE OF CARRYING A GUN AND PROTECTING, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE COURT.
I, I DON'T THINK 24 IS A STRETCH WHEN WE KNOW THAT WE'RE LOSING PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE WAGE ANYWAY.
AND THEY'RE NOT FULLTIME POSITIONS.
SO IT'S NOT, UM, WELL, IF WE'RE GONNA START CUTTING, WE'RE GONNA START CUTTING.
YOU WANNA KEEP IT AT 24? FINE.
IT, IF YOU GOT THE VOTES, THERE'S A RULE HERE.
IF YOU GOT THREE TO SAY 24, THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS SAY WE DO INCREMENTAL.
WELL, NO, I THINK, BUT YOU'RE HERE NOW AND YOU'RE PART OF THE DECISION.
HOW'S THAT? AND THEN WE GO INCREMENTALLY, WE CAN LOOK AT MORE NEXT YEAR AGAIN AND SEE HOW IT AFFECTS.
WHAT DO SAY 20, WHAT DO SAY 23? WE SPLIT, UH, I MEAN,
THEY HAVE OFFICERS CARRYING GUNS, YOU KNOW, TAKING THE SAFETY WHEN OTHER O MUNICIPALITIES ARE CHARGING MORE.
SO, YOU KNOW, I GUESS I'LL JUST STAY AND SAY I THINK 24 IS FAIR.
WELL LET'S JUST, JUST VOTE ON WHAT DO WE WANNA DO? 24, 22.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S PART-TIME.
WE'RE LOOKING AT SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN A LOT OF DEPARTMENTS.
YOU KNOW, GIVEN THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE RESPONSIBILITY OF CARRYING A WEAPON AND WE'RE LOSING THEM.
I'M A 22 SO I'LL GO, I'LL GO FOR THE 23.
HOW ABOUT THAT? I'LL SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE.
IS THAT GOOD? 23 THAT MAKE EVERYBODY A LITTLE BIT HAPPY? ALRIGHT.
WHAT'S NEXT? WE'VE GOT AN INPUT ERROR.
KIM, WHAT DO WE GOT TODAY? NO, THIS WAS JUST YOUR, THE SECRETARY SUPERVISOR,
SO IT GOES DOWN, YEAH, GOES DOWN.
SO IT GOES BACK DOWN TO KEEP THE SECRETARY AT THE WAGE OF THE PREVIOUS SECRETARY.
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LIKE THAT.NEXT, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING MR. KNOWS A LITTLE BIT.
OH YEAH, WELL, TH THERE WAS A, UH, THIS IS A $5,000 EXPENDITURE, THE TOWN OF THE AMHERST WEST SENECA TOWANDA.
AND THEY INVITED US, THEY WANTED TO DO A STUDY WITH DRESCHER MALKI, UH, CONDUCTING THE STUDY.
AND THE STUDY WAS TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH WE'RE SPENDING ON THE MAJOR ITEMS SUCH AS HIGHWAY, UH, BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS RECREATION, AND TO DO A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, COMPARATIVE STUDY USING POPULATIONS TO SEE HOW THE TRENDS ARE GOING AND, AND WHAT TOWNS CAN DO TO MIMIC OTHER TOWNS TO DO THINGS MORE EXPEDIENTLY.
THE OTHER FOUR LARGE TOWNS WERE IN IT.
SO I SAID, WELL, I RECOMMENDED TO US THAT WE'RE IN IT.
HOWEVER, KIM, THE COST TO GET IN WAS 5,000.
SO WHERE DOES THIS, UM, I PUT IT IN THE 22 TO 27 GO.
WELL, I PUT IT IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT THINKING SINCE IT'S A BUDGETARY EXPENSE, ANALYZING COSTS.
OH, I JUST ADDED IT TO ONE OF OUR CONSULTANT.
I THOUGHT IT JUST KIND OF MADE SENSE TO PUT IT THERE.
SO I DON'T KNOW, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT WAS THE, THAT WAS WHAT, UH, THE SUPERVISORS, UH, TOLD ME.
AND WE CAN'T GET THAT FUNDED SOMEWHERE ELSE.
OR COULD WE LOOK FOR A REIMBURSEMENT SOMEWHERE ON THAT OR, I DON'T KNOW.
EACH OF THE TOWNS WERE SUPPOSED TO KICK IN 5,000 TO THIS, UH, TO GET, GET THE STUDY DONE.
I SUPPOSE IT COULD HELP US DETERMINE HOW EFFICIENT WE ARE.
A PIECE OF E WEST SENECA CHI TO WAWA.
SO ON, I GUESS I THINK IT'S MONEY WELL SPENT.
I MEAN, 5,000 TO COLLABORATE WITH OTHER MUNICIPALITIES TO FIND SOME WAYS TO SAVE MONEY.
WE GOT, UH, YEAH, WE GOT THE INCREASED PERSONAL SERVICES LINE.
KIM, CAN YOU GIVE US A, THERE WAS ANOTHER SALARY WAGE THAT JUST, UM, DECREASED JAMIE IN LEGAL.
SO THAT JUST PUTS HER BACK UP TO WHERE HER SALARY SHOULD BE.
AND THERE WAS A 2% INCREASE FOR HER ALSO THIS YEAR.
ISN'T THAT IN THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT? THIS NUMBER? YEAH.
IT'S AN INCREASE IN 8,000 OVER THE SUPER BECAUSE THE SUPERVISORS BUDGET ALREADY ACCOMMODATED THE RAISE.
WELL THAT'S, NO, THAT DUBER BILL'S IN THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT.
AND SO YOUR SUPERVISOR'S BUDGET HAD 1 0 5 AND THEN IT WENT UP ANOTHER 8,000.
YEAH, SO THAT'S, NO, IT'S GOING TO 1 0 5 TO 1 0 9.
UM, UH, WHAT, WHAT IS, CAN YOU GIMME, UH, WHAT'S PAUL'S PERCENTAGE INCREASE? WAS IT 3% GOING FROM 2155 TO 2350? SO THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD INCREASE.
I THINK IF WE'RE GONNA START, GO LINE BY LINE WITH PERSONNEL, I SHOULD WE NORMALLY DO PERSONNEL, UH, IN EXECUTIVE SESSION BECAUSE OF THAT? NO, NO.
YEAH, WE BETTER CUT THAT BACK A LITTLE BIT.
WE'RE IN THE 14 30, 100 I THINK SO.
I MEAN, SHE'S A WONDERFUL PERSON AND SHE'S DOING A GREAT JOB.
AND I KNOW SHE, SHE STARTED OUT AT A VERY LOW SALARY, BUT, UH, MAYBE WE BETTER TAKE IT BACK TO 2%.
DOES THAT MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT BETTER? WHAT WAS HER RAISE LAST YEAR? NONE.
SHE JUST STARTED, SHE JUST STARTED THE OFFICE.
THE POSITION HAD NO RAISE LAST YEAR.
AND SHE JUST STARTED, YEAH, SHE JUST STARTED IN THE SPRING OF, FOR MARCH OF 2020.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S LOW FOR WHAT SHE DOES BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE THAT, UH, ARE MAYBE IN THE FIFTIES.
SO MAYBE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 2%.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? UH, LET'S, LET'S LOOK AT A, AT A 4% INCREASE.
I DON'T WANT HER TO BE, SHE, SHE DESERVES, WORKS PRETTY HARD.
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ALMOST 47,000.MAY I SUGGEST THAT EVEN 47 FOR HER? I DON'T SO THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE OVER 4%.
CLOSER TO FIVE, RIGHT? PARDON? YES.
ALRIGHT, IS EVERYBODY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? OKAY.
SO, SO THE ACTUAL DOLLAR AMOUNT OF THE PAY RAISE WOULD BE KIM 2000, WHAT? 20 2700 AND CHANGE? I'M, I'M DOING SOME, NO, $2,004.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE SAVING UH, 1028 BUCKS, I GUESS.
VEHICLE LINE FROM EIGHT TO 25,000.
THIS IS CODE ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE.
WE HAVE NO ABILITY TO TRADE DOWN ON, UH, EXISTING AUTOMOBILES FROM OUR FLEET FOR THESE GENTLEMEN AND LADIES OVER THERE.
WANNA COME BACK TO THAT? I DON'T KNOW.
WHAT'S THE OFFICE EQUIPMENT? THE 14 42 0 3 3, THAT IS THE SUPERVISOR'S BUDGET WAS ACTUALLY ZERO WHERE IT SHOWS 10,000.
BUT THAT IS A BLUEPRINT COPIER FOR THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR FOR A COUPLE YEARS.
IS IT ESSENTIAL OR IS IT JUST YEAH, IT'S, JOHN SPOKE TO THEM AS A LIAISON.
I TALKED, I'VE TALKED TO 'EM FOR, YOU KNOW, I GUESS TWO YEARS NOW.
UM, THEY, IT'S, IT'S A MACHINE THAT ONCE THEY BUY, IT'LL LAST ABOUT 20 YEARS.
AND IN THE MEANTIME WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS THEY'RE TAKE THEY, UH, AND GENERALLY IT'S TWICE A WEEK THEY GO TO KINKO'S.
THERE'S OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT USE IT.
IS EVERYBODY ALL RIGHT WITH THAT ONE THEN? YEP.
NEXT ONE'S JUST AN INPUT ERROR.
WE, YES, THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS OUR, WE THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE OUR, BUT IT WASN'T.
SO IT WAS INCLUDED ALREADY IN THE UM, 4 1 3 LINE.
SO THAT'S JUST GONNA BE BACKED OUT.
THE NEXT ONE IS, UH, PERSONAL SERVICES.
IN WHICH DEPARTMENT IS THAT? UM, BILL IS THE MALE PERSON.
SO IT WOULD TAKE HIM TO $14 AN HOUR TO ALIGN HIM WITH EVERYBODY ELSE.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S REASONABLE.
NEXT INCREASE LINE FOR CYBERSECURITY.
BUT CAN ANY OF THAT BE, I KNOW THERE WAS DISCUSSION, I DUNNO, JENNY, WHERE IT WAS ABOUT, UH, THERE WAS A GRANT THAT MARK WAS GONNA WORK ON WITH YOU AND DID THAT GET SUBMITTED YET? OR THAT HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED.
THAT'S TYPICALLY IT COMES OUT IN THE SPRING MM-HMM
AND WHETHER OR NOT THAT GRANT IS GONNA BE AVAILABLE, I'M UNSURE OF.
UM, IT WASN'T AVAILABLE LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF COVID.
IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT CAN BE LOOKED AT, BUT I'M NOT SURE CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THAT? BECAUSE IF ANYTHING, NEXT YEAR, IF WE DON'T USE IT, IF THAT GETS GRANT FUNDED YEAH.
SO CAN WE MAKE A A POINT OF MAKING SURE THAT WE APPLY FOR THAT GRANT? BECAUSE I KNOW WHEN WE APPLIED LAST TIME IT WAS FELT THAT THE SUBSEQUENT TIME WE APPLIED, WE'D HAVE A MUCH BETTER, YOU KNOW, WE'D HAVE A PRETTY GOOD CHANCE OF GETTING THAT.
JENNIFER, IN YOUR BUDGET PROPOSAL, WHAT DID YOU RECOMMEND TO US FOR, UH, CYBERSECURITY? DO YOU REMEMBER WHICH YOU WAS THE COMPANY? NO, NO.
THE AMOUNT OF MONEY YOU RECOMMENDED.
63 WAS THE, OH, THE AMOUNT THAT I REQUESTED WAS 51.
WITH THE CYBERSECURITY IT WOULD END UP BEING THE 63.
SO THE, THE WHOLE CYBERSECURITY WAS 12,000.
UM, FOR ALL, FOR EVERYBODY THAT HAD, I SUPPOSE IN THIS DAY AND AGE, AS YOU POINTED OUT, SEAN, WITHOUT SOME SECURITY.
UH, AND IF WE GET A MILLION DOLLAR HACKER, WE'RE GONNA BE IN LOOK PRETTY STUPID.
THAT'S ALL WE, SO I THINK WE PUT IT, WE PUT IT IN, BUT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE LOOK FOR THOSE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES SO POSSIBLY CAN RECOUP SOME OF THAT.
INCREASE IS EXPENSE LINE 25 TO 35.
HOW ABOUT THAT ONE? THAT WAS FOR MARK MALKI.
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OH YEAH.HE'S HANDLING A LOT MORE STUFF YES.
THAN HE DID BEFORE, SO, ALL RIGHT.
I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT.
THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A CLERICAL.
HE WAS GETTING A 5.1% INCREASE AND THAT WOULD TAKE HIM TO AN EVEN 6%.
ANYTHING YOU WANNA DO ON THAT FOLKS OR? NO, I'M TRYING TO TWEAK EVERYTHING A LITTLE.
REMEMBER HE GETS OVERTIME TOO.
WHAT IF WE LEFT IT WHERE IT WAS? I THINK THAT'S OKAY WITH ME.
I MEAN, I'D BE OKAY WITH SEAN, BUT I CAN'T MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY.
EVERYBODY ELSE I DON'T, BUT I WITH WHATEVER.
DECREASED PERSONAL SERVICES LINE 107,000 802 5 DOWN TO 53,000 503 1.
THIS IS THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
WELL AND THERE'S TWO LINES, RIGHT? THERE'S THE LINE FOR THE ADVOCATE AND THEN FOR THE ADDITIONAL HELP.
AND I THINK THE ONE LINE REFRE REFLECTS, UM, THE 1 0 2 LINE WOULD BE THE INCREASE FOR THE, THE PART-TIME SEASONAL, CORRECT? YES.
THE UNION SCALE CALLS FOR 19, UH, NOT 2021.
AND THERE WAS ALSO, SHE'S A PART-TIMER IN THE EXISTING BUDGET.
SO, UH, I HAD RECOMMENDED THAT SHE BE A FULL-TIME ASSISTANT AT UH, 20, BUT 20 IS TOO RICH.
IT'S NINETEENS WITH THE PAY GRADE IS, UH, OKAY.
AND THEN JEN, CAN YOU OFFER ANYTHING IN TERMS OF THE ADVANTAGE OF KEEPING IT PART-TIME SEASONAL VERSUS WELL, WE, I'VE TALKED TO VARIOUS MEMBERS ABOUT THIS.
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE LISTS FULL-TIME.
WE CERTAINLY HAVE THE NEED FOR IT.
WE, ONCE UPON A TIME, WE ACTUALLY HAD, UH, TWO CLERKS IN THE OFFICE FOR QUITE SOME TIME AND UH, THE ONE POSITION HAD ALREADY BEEN CUT.
AND SO THEN WE'RE DOWN TO JUST LIZ BEING SEASONAL.
AND, UM, I HAD HOPED TO GET HER FULL TIME AND MY IMPRESSION ACTUALLY OF THE ONE LINE WAS AT THE, IT WAS SO HIGH BECAUSE IT WAS GIVING ME A RAISE AND PUTTING LIZ UP FULL TIME AND I THOUGHT
SO RIGHT NOW THE LINE THAT INFERS JUST TO LIZ, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT KEEPING, ABOUT THE RAISE AND I MEAN, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE HER FULL TIME.
UH, I JUST DON'T HAVE A TITLE FOR HER.
SO I WOULD HAVE TO GIVE HER A TITLE THAT SO SHE COULD BE APPOINTED PROVISIONALLY ON A, ON A POSITION AND THEN HAVE HER TAKE THE TEST LATER BECAUSE SHE'S NOT CURRENTLY ON A LIST AND I'M NOT IN A POSITION TO BE MY CURRENT STAFF THAT'S FULLY TRAINED AND, AND HAS EIGHT AND A HALF YEARS IN THIS POSITION.
UH, AND I DON'T WANNA LOSE HER.
UM, UNLESS YOU WANNA ADD SOMEBODY ELSE.
I I YOU DON'T WANNA RUN THE RISK 'CAUSE SHE'S SO GOOD.
SHE HAS EXPERIENCE OF MAYBE GETTING HER FULL TIME ONLY NOT TO HAVE HER RIGHT.
ULTIMATELY LOSE THE, THE SPOT.
SO MAYBE THIS YEAR AT LEAST WE GOTTA CONSIDER, UH, KEEPING HER PART-TIME SEASONAL, BUT GIVING, I MEAN, $12 AN HOUR OR WHATEVER IT IS AND CHANGE YEAH.
I HAVE, BY THE WAY, PRINT OUT.
I CAN SHOW YOU WHAT WE BOTH DO ON A TYPICAL DAY.
I DIDN'T, I WANNA INTERRUPT YOU IN THE MIDDLE OF ALL THIS TO TO PASS IT OUT, BUT I CAN CERTAINLY GIVE IT TO YOU.
YOU CAN LOOK AT IT IN BETWEEN, UH, NOW AND
WELL, I, I'M GONNA SUGGEST TO THE BOARD THAT WE GO WITH 19, UH, THAT WE KEEP HER AS A PART-TIME SEASONAL HELPER.
I WOULD LOVE TO REVISIT THOUGH HER BEING FULL TIME NEXT YEAR AND WHEN SHE CAN HOPEFULLY GET ON THE LIST.
WELL, THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN WORK ON BETWEEN NOW AND THEN NOW.
SO THAT ORIGINAL, 'CAUSE I HAD IT AS 2051 WAS BASED, THAT WASN'T BASED ON WHAT THE UNION GUIDE WAS.
THERE WAS A, A UNION TITLE, BUT THE TITLE THAT SHE WASN'T, SHE WAS THAT QUALIFIED TO BUILD.
SO THE, THE TITLE THAT SHE'S IN NOW WOULD BE THE 19TH MM-HMM
SO HOW DOES IT THAT WOULD ADJUST IT THEN IF WE KEEP HER PART-TIME SEASONAL AT THE 19TH.
IS THAT CORRECT? IS THAT THE 19? I THINK IT WAS 19 OR 1951, I THINK.
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1951.WELL WE CAN FIND WHAT WE'LL TAKE EVEN 19 AT THIS POINT.
IT WAS LIKE OKAY WITH YOU BECAUSE SHE, SHE'S POORLY UNDERPAID AND SHE WORKS LOT TAKE, TAKE.
I KNOW THAT SHE'S A GOOD PERSON.
NOW WE GO BACK UP TO THE, THE 32 25 100, WHICH IS, HANG HANG ON JUST A SECOND.
UH, KIM, IF WE GO, WE'RE AT 19 PART-TIME SEASONAL MM-HMM
AS OPPOSED TO 20 AND CHANGE FULL-TIME.
WE'RE SAVING SOME SIGNIFICANT MONEY.
CAN YOU GIVE US JUST A QUICK RUNDOWN OF WHAT YOU THINK IT IS TO GO DOWN? IT'S GONNA BE 26,000 3 72.
AND WE HAD A BUDGET FOR 28, 4 68, SO IT'D BE ABOUT 44,000.
SO WE'RE SAVING A FAIR AMOUNT THERE.
WE'D ALREADY MOVED HER BACK DOWN TO PART-TIME SEASONAL THOUGH, SO, OH, I'M SORRY.
SO YEAH, ABOUT $2,000 THEN? MM-HMM.
SO LEMME GO BACK TO THE ADVOCATE.
JENNIFER, YOU'RE AT 51,000? UH, I'M HOURLY SO I COULDN'T TELL YOU.
YEAH, BUT I MEAN, UH, I KNOW YOU'RE HOURLY, BUT IT'S 52 ON THE DOCUMENT.
UH, AND YOU HAD ASKED FOR, UH, 75.
AND THEN BALLPARK, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO CHANGE MY TITLE.
YEAH, YOU CAN'T, I HAD 80, 82 OR SOMETHING.
I HAD COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION OF 65, I THINK.
I THINK THAT WAS YOUR RECOMMENDATION.
AND THAT WOULD BE KEEPING THE SAME TITLE 65.
I HAVE TO HAVE MY TITLE CHANGED.
YOU'D HAVE TO MODIFY THE TITLE PENDING APPROVAL FROM CIVIL SERVICE AND THE UNION, BUT I WOULD STAY IN THE UNION.
MY TITLE CHANGED WITH RECOGNITION OF EVERYBODY ON BOARD WITH THAT THEN MM-HMM
WITH THAT WOULD BE THE CHANGE IN THE PAY.
THE WHITE COLLAR UNION SAID THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO DO AN MOA TO ACCOMMODATE THAT.
IF WE PASS THE BUDGET TO GIVE YOU THE RAISE.
SO YOU'VE ALREADY TALKED TO 'EM ABOUT THAT.
AND YOU'RE A DEPARTMENT HEAD YES.
ARE YOU, UM, WOULD THIS CHANGE, WOULD YOU, ARE YOU, YOU CURRENTLY OVERTIME ELIGIBLE? YES.
WOULD YOU, WITH THE TITLE CHANGE, WOULD YOU BE I WOULD STILL BE IN THE UNIT.
I WOULD STILL BE OVERTIME ELIGIBLE.
IF YOU GOT, YOU'VE BEEN USING COMP TIME YES.
WOULD YOU, YOU WILLING TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT IF NEED BE? I, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE THE OPTION.
WELL, I KNOW IT WOULD BE NICE TO, I KNOW IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE MORE GET IT.
I'M ASKING, I'M ASKING YOU HAD OVERTIME ELIGIBLE FOR? YEP.
ALRIGHT, WELL IF YOU'RE WILLING TO STICK WITH YOUR COMP TIME, I MEAN, YOU'VE BEEN VERY, VERY GOOD ABOUT THAT.
UH, I DON'T FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE RECOMMENDING 65.
EVEN THE FACT THAT YOU'RE A DEPARTMENT, YOU BEEN A DEPARTMENT HEAD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE 2007.
I DUNNO HOW THE BOARD FEELS ABOUT IT.
I, YOU KNOW, AND THIS GOES BACK TO THE CONVERSATION.
I THINK THAT A LOT OF THE COMMUNICATIONS THAT WE'VE HAD IS ABOUT TRYING TO APPROACH THESE RAISES IN A, IN A FAIR WAY.
AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF SUPPORT FROM THE DV BOARD HERE.
UM, AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S COME UP, THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY DISCUSSION THAT I KNOW OF, OF, OF TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM THE DEPARTMENT OR, OR GETTING RID OF THE DEPARTMENT.
I, YOU KNOW, AM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR.
I KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VICTIMS WHO HAVE NOT SURVIVED.
IT'S A CRITICAL, CRITICAL SERVICE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR TOWN CERTAINLY NEEDS.
UM, BUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE BUDGET AND LOOKING AT HOW TO APPROACH THE RAISES, UM, I WASN'T PART OF THE CONVERSATION WITH THE 65,000.
SO I HAD BEEN LOOKING AT IT AS A 40% INCREASE.
UM, AND I KNOW COUNCILMAN CONLEY HAD FOLLOWED UP WITH SOME QUESTIONS, JUST, JUST WONDERING, UM, LOOKING FOR FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU GUYS HAD A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION AS FAR AS WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE DEPARTMENT AND ALL THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
SO, UM, BUT THE 65,000 THIS NEW, NEW INFORMATION TO ME, SO I GUESS I'M CURIOUS TO SEE HOW THAT'S WHAT I PROPOSED WHEN I DID THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
THERE WAS NO, THERE WAS NO DEBATE ABOUT IT.
I JUST PUT IT OUT THERE FOR YOU FOLKS TO DEBATE.
I ENGAGED AND I JUST, I DID SPEAK WITH MR. CONLEY ABOUT THE LAST WEDNESDAY.
I JUST WANNA SURE THAT THE, GOING FORWARD, THAT THE, TO HOPEFULLY GET THE COMMITMENT OF THE, THE STABILITY OF THE OFFICE.
YOU KNOW, IN MY MEETING RECENTLY, I WAS ASSURED OF ONE YEAR OF THE OFFICE, BUT ONE YEAR GETS ME CONCERNED.
I, I'M HEARING THAT I'M REASSURED OF ONE YEAR
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OF, OF FUNDING FOR THE OFFICE AND I GET THAT WE HAVE A BUDGET, BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS RAISED IN TERMS OF MY WORKING WITH THE DV BOARD AND MY CONNECTION TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.THAT CONCERNS ME BECAUSE I, I FEEL THAT I, I HAVE A VERY GOOD RAPPORT WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND CERTAINLY THERE'S POLICE THAT WOULD ATTEST TO THAT IN ADDITION TO THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR THE DV BOARD BECAUSE THE INTERIM PRESIDENT IS HERE, BUT, UM, THEY ARE A STANDALONE ENTITY AND, UM, I'M CERTAINLY WILLING TO WORK WITH THEM WHENEVER THEY INVITE ME TO A MEETING.
SO, YEAH, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY THERE.
I THINK THE INVITES ARE ALWAYS OPEN AND THERE'S A LOT OF RESOURCES THAT ARE READY TO SUPPORT THE WORK.
SO WHENEVER THEY INVITE ME, I'M HAPPY TO ATTEND.
WHAT DO WE WANNA DO HERE? I DON'T THINK WE TYPICALLY HAVE NECESSARILY LOOKED AT RAISES ACROSS THE BOARD IN LARGE AMOUNTS, BUT WE HAVE AT TIMES IN THE PAST WHEN THERE ARE THINGS THAT NEED A CORRECTION BECAUSE IT'S GOTTEN OUT OF, YOU KNOW, IT'S OUT OF WHACK, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE MADE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS.
I THINK THIS DEFINITELY IS ONE AREA THAT NEEDS THAT ADJUSTMENT ONLY BECAUSE I THINK YOU ARE THE LOWEST DEPARTMENT HEAD.
AND I THINK THE NEXT LOWEST DEPARTMENT HEAD IS SOMEONE WHO IS ALSO VALUABLE BUT HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, A TOWN EMPLOYEE FOR A MUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME THAN YOU HAVE BEEN ALSO.
UM, AND I THINK THAT THAT SHOULD BE PART OF OUR CONVERSATION.
AND, AND THE FACT THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT HEAD, AS ALL THE DEPARTMENT HEADS WHO HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO MANAGE YOUR BUDGET.
YOU HAVE A HIGH LEVEL OF CONFIDENTIALITY.
YOU HAVE TO INTERFACE WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS REGULARLY.
YOU ARE FACE FOR NOT ONLY OUR TOWN AND AGAIN, AS MANY OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS, BUT YOU'RE FACE NOT ONLY FOR THE DEPARTMENT, BUT FOR THE TOWN BECAUSE YOU ARE INTERFACING WITH SO MANY OTHER, NOT ONLY, UM, DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE TOWN, BUT OTHER AGENCIES THROUGHOUT WESTERN NEW YORK THAT I THINK DEFINITELY WE'RE OVERDUE IN MAKING THAT ADJUSTMENT TO YOUR SALARY.
UH, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU SAY LADIES AND GENTS PROPOSAL IS TO GO TO 65? UH, AND WE'D HAVE TO DO AN MOA TO GIVE YOU A NEW TITLE UNDER THE WHITE COLLAR BARGAINING UNIT.
UH, SO WE EITHER DO OR WE DON'T.
AND WHAT'S THE CURRENT SALARY? 51.
IT'S HOURLY, SO I KNOW IT'S 24 90.
BUT AGAIN, GOING BACK TO LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE PART-TIME, YOU KNOW, CLERK PEOPLE WHO WERE TALKING 2324 AND SHE JUST TOLD US SHE'S MAKING THE SAME HOURLY, UM, AND SHE'S NOT A PART-TIME AND SHE'S NOT, AND SHE'S THE DEPARTMENT HEAD WITH THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? I'M OKAY WITH SIX FIVE.
UM, LET'S SEE, INCREASE FOR MOTOR VEHICLE.
NOW IS THIS ENGINEERING OR NO, THIS IS CODE ENFORCEMENT.
AND I KNOW THAT THEY NEED, DESPERATELY NEED THE IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR VEHICLES.
BUT, BUT, AND THEY, BUT THEY REALLY NEED TO.
NOW THEY DO MORE DRIVING THAN ENGINEERING.
UH, MR. HALL HAS ONLY WORN OUT TWO PAIRS OF SHOES WITH THE PRESIDENT.
I GOT, BUT MAYBE NEXT YEAR ON OUR SHORT LIST OF THINGS REALLY HAS TO BE REVISITING BECAUSE THIS MAY SOLVE THIS NOW, BUT GOING FORWARD THERE'S GONNA BE OTHER CARS IN THE FLEET.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE AGGRESSIVE IN LOOKING AT THOSE OTHER OPTIONS LIKE A LEASE.
WE'VE GOTTA LOOK AT LEASE MILEAGE, YOU KNOW, GOING BACK TO IN CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS MAYBE THAT WE'RE ON A MILEAGE SITUATION.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE COME UP WITH THAT RATE, THERE'S A STATE RATE.
UM, AND MAYBE WE LOOK AT, AT GOING BACK.
THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING FOR DISCUSSION THEN WITH THE DEPARTMENTS WHO ARE, WELL THE COST OF VEHICLES IS CERTAINLY ONE OF THE BIG INFLATIONARY FACTORS THAT, UH, IN OUR ECONOMY AND THEY'RE NOT GOING DOWN, THAT'S FOR SURE.
WELL WHAT DO YOU, YOU WANT TO GET BACK TO THE VEHICLES? WE HOLDING THE VEHICLES FOR A TIME BEING HERE, HOLDING THEM HOSTAGE.
I THINK, I THINK YOU HAVE TO GO FORWARD WITH THESE VEHICLES.
BECAUSE I WAS TALKING WITH ROGER ABOUT IT EARLIER, EARLIER THIS YEAR.
HIS AVERAGE MILEAGE WAS LIKE ONE 40 SOMETHING.
UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE PRETTY BEAT.
UH, I MEAN, UNLESS YOU CAN GET A LEASE PROGRAM OR SOMETHING MM-HMM.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO START BUYING A COUPLE CARS.
YOU GOT BY WITH THE POLICE CARS FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT, OKAY.
WE'RE NOT PREPARED TO DO A LEASE THIS YEAR.
WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY DISCUSSIONS ON IT.
SO WE FOLLOW UP NEXT YEAR WITH THEM.
INCREASE PERSONAL SERVICES LINE.
THIS IS A RAISE FOR MARK COLLINS FROM 5% TO 7%.
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MARK COLLINS.WHAT'S WRONG WITH 5%? WELL THESE ARE GUYS THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE MAKING AND HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN HERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE COULD THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA BE FAIR AND EQUITABLE.
IT PROBABLY BE MORE THAN SEVEN, BUT I THINK SEVEN'S AT LEAST REASONABLE.
YOU KNOW, MY THOUGHT IS THEY DIDN'T GET A PAY RAISE LAST YEAR.
THIS REALLY AVERAGES THREE AND HALF PERCENT YEAR.
WHAT DOES THAT TAKE IS SALARY 3 34.
AND 5% WOULD TAKE THEM DOWN TO ABOUT 57 AND CHANGE TOO, ISN'T IT? ALRIGHT, I, I GET THE IDEA.
WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A COMPARATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT.
THEY DON'T GET ANY OVERTIME EITHER.
AND THE NEXT TWO ARE JUST CLEAR OR ERRORS WE INCREASED TO 14 HOURS.
NO, THERE WAS SOMETHING FROM 13.
BUT THEN ALSO THERE WAS AN INCREASE FOR VAN DRIVERS TO $16 AN HOUR IN FOOD SERVICE WORKERS TO $15 AN HOUR.
AND IT PUT ALL OTHER EMPLOYEES TO 14 AN HOUR.
WELL, MARTY HAD TALKED ABOUT THE DIFFICULTY GETTING VAN DRIVERS.
THEY HAVE SOME PRETTY DIFFICULT WORK TO DO.
THIS ONE WAS TO INCREASE TO $17 AN HOUR FOR THE PART-TIMERS.
FOR WHAT POSITION KIM? OFF THE TOP OF HEAD IS THAT THE VAN DRIVERS COULD BE ADULT DAY SERVICE.
YEAH, I THINK, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT IT IS.
I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY WHAT THEIR POSITION IS.
SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE DEALING DIRECTLY WITH THE SENIORS, THE ELDERLY ALZHEIMER'S DEMENTIA.
AND YOU NEED A, YOU NEED A CERTAIN SKILLSET SET THAT MM-HMM
NOT EVERYONE POSSESSES THE NEXT LINE.
MARTY INFORMED US THAT THERE WAS AN 8% INCREASE FOR NEXT YEAR IN THE MEAL COST FOR SENIOR SERVICE.
WASN'T INPUT SUPERVISOR WAS 10,000.
THIS IS LINE TO INCREASE ALONG WITH IN LINE WITH MARK COLLINS, THE OTHER, UM, RECREATION EMPLOYEES TO 7%.
THAT WOULD BE ONE, TWO OF THEM.
AMY'S RAISE IS, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY SHE WENT FROM 1775 TO 1975 AND THEN AN INCREASE IN HER STIPEND, WHICH WAS 1500 TO FIVE.
WELL, SHE HIT THE CHAT IN TALKING TO MARTY, YOU KNOW, IT'S EXTREMELY WELL DESERVED.
SHE'S BEEN DOING A TON THERE AND IT'S JUST KINDA KEEPING IN MIND SHE'S A VERY GOOD PERSON.
THAT'S THE SUB 1 41 1 THAT'S AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED BASED ON SALARIES.
UM, SO IF YOU GO DOWN TO 71 41 0 3, THAT'S AN INCREASE IN, UH, A STIPEND FOR RICK NOACK.
HE, UH, UH, HE WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND.
UH, I, I'D STAND BY THIS ONE, UH, ONE FOR THE, FOR THE BOND ISSUANCE ON THE NIKE CENTER.
HE, I, HE PUT IN AN AWFUL LOT OF TIME IF YOU WANNA KNOCK IT BACK 500.
I THINK HE COULD LOOK AT THAT.
NO, I MEAN I THINK WE TOLD EVERYBODY UP FRONT, WE WERE VERY UPFRONT THAT IF THEY DID A GOOD JOB, IF THEY GOT, IF THEY SAW IT THROUGH.
SO I DON'T THINK WE WANNA GO BACK.
I WAS, I THINK IT'S FAIR SUGGESTING WHAT ARE THE NEXT TWO? UM, THAT IS TO INCREASE LIFEGUARDS TO $15 AN HOUR AND THEN ADD READERS AT THE BEACH FOR THE SUMMER, WHICH WOULD BE 8,400.
SO THAT 5,100 IS FOR WHAT AGAIN? LIFEGUARDS? YEP.
THAT'S TO INCREASE THE LIFEGUARDS TO 15.
AND THEN GREETERS AT THE BEACH, THEY GO TO 14.
UM, NO, THEY WERE BUDGETED FOR 8,400.
THAT WAS JUST A FLAT RATE THAT MARTY TOLD US THAT WOULD COVER THAT.
AND WHAT'S THE NEXT ONE? THE 1 0 4 THAT IS TO INCREASE THE BEACH SECURITY.
'CAUSE THAT WAS OVER BUDGET THIS YEAR.
'CAUSE WE INCREASED HIS HOURS.
BUT ALSO TO GIVE HIM A RAISE TO $24 AN HOUR.
WELL HE'S GOT 35 HOURS A WEEK.
WELL, HE'S LIKE THE COURT OFFICERS.
I MEAN IT'S, I WOULD SAY WHATEVER THE COURT OFFICERS WERE.
WELL, YEAH, THAT'S, DID WE WANNA FOLLOW OFF WITH THE CHIEF BECAUSE OH YEAH.
YOU HAD ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR HIM.
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QUESTION ON THE TRAINING.YEAH, I WAS LISTENING ON FACEBOOK.
SO I, UM, SO WHAT SEAN SAID IS CORRECT, WE HAVE THIS GOVERNOR'S MANDATE NOW, IT WAS OUR PLAN TO BE DEVELOPED.
SO WHAT WE, WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS, THIS ISN'T TRAINING THAT'S FOR CERTIFICATIONS OR SAY ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION WHERE YOU SEND TWO PEOPLE, THIS IS THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE TRAINED ON WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
BIAS, MORE DEESCALATION KIND STUFF.
AND LAST YEAR, BECAUSE OF THE COVID BUDGET, ALL WE, WE SET PEOPLE ON, ALWAYS SET PEOPLE ON WAS FREE TRAINING.
OTHER THAN LIKE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE NEED CERTIFICATIONS FOR.
SO IF WE'RE GONNA TRAIN THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT, IT'S GONNA BE A BIT MORE OF AN EXPENSE.
YOU SAID IN MY EXPERIENCE WITH TRAINING YOU, YOU GET WHAT YOU'RE PAID FOR.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE REASON I'M GOOD WITH THAT, WITH THE EXTRA THOUGHT.
TO BE THE NUMBER ONE, YOU KNOW, TAKEAWAY FROM THE LAST TWO YEARS WITH POLICE.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PROBLEMS THAT WE'VE HAD OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, NATIONWIDE AND NOW LOCALLY IS, YOU KNOW, UH, IS TRAINING, YOU KNOW, LACK OF TRAINING.
AND I THINK THIS, UH, IS AT LEAST A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO HELP 'EM.
WELL I SEE IF YOU, I MEAN IF WE TALK ABOUT JUST NATIONWIDE, THE MOST OF THE PROBLEMS YOU SEE ARE FROM LACK OF TRAINING OR POOR TRAINING.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND IN NEW YORK STATE WE'RE, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT MORE LUCKY BECAUSE IT'S MORE, UH, STATEWIDE MANDATE.
EVERY POLICE OFFICER GOES, GOES TO THE SAME TRAINING.
BUT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, IN THE SOUTH OR MIDWEST, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THAT WAY.
SO IT IS, YOU TRADING IS, IS VERY IMPORTANT.
THAT'S AND NO ASSET FORFEITURE MONEY CAN'T BE USED IN THIS REGARD.
SO WE CAN, WE CAN USE ASSET FORFEITURE MONEY.
UM, PROBLEM IS LAST YEAR, YOU KNOW, TO RETAIN THE POSITIONS THAT WE WANTED TO RETAIN AND BUY THE CARS WE WANTED, WE DIPPED INTO IT.
I HEARD YOU GUYS TALK ON FACEBOOK.
I HAVE THAT NUMBER IN FRONT OF ME.
I DON'T FIND, I DUNNO WHAT IT IS, BUT WE, WE DIPPED INTO IT PRETTY GOOD.
BUT I MEAN, AGAIN, IT USED TO BE TWO 50 TO 2 75.
YEAH, WE, WE PUT A PRETTY BIG DENT IN IT LAST YEAR.
WE'LL ASSUME WE WE'RE NOT GONNA HIT ASSETS ANYMORE FOR KIND THE INPUT ERROR.
UH, BETH, WE GOT, YOU GOT, WE PUT DOWN 1500 HERE, BUT YOU GOT A $15,000 GRANT.
WE TALKED, YOU GOT THAT, THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE AG, UM, UH, THAT WE JUST GOT ON FRIDAY.
WHICH ACTUALLY DO, DO WE HAVE THAT SOLUTION? DIDN'T DO IT.
UM, SO THAT SPECIFICALLY, THIS WAS, THIS WAS MORE FOR, UM, WE HAD A COUPLE OF INSTANCES LAST YEAR WHERE WE HAVE PUBLIC, UM, MEETINGS, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT AS WE GO THROUGH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS.
WE HAD TO ADVERTISE FOR THOSE AND WE PULLED IT FROM OTHER LINES.
SO THEY WANTED TO KIM, THAT WAS A GREAT SUGGESTION TO ACTUALLY ALLOCATE SOMETHING.
IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR THEM FOR THE RECORD KEEPING AND FOR PAYING THAT INVOICE WHEN IT COMES IN.
BUT THAT GRANT, DIDN'T THAT COVER COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DEVELOPMENT, THE 15,000? IT DID, BUT SPECIFICALLY FOR, UM, IT LOOKED AT SOME OF THE AGRICULTURAL ASPECTS IT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY COVER, COULD BE USED FOR, COULD BE USED FOR THAT.
I'M THINKING ALSO LIKE THE G HD CONTRACT.
HOW MUCH WAS THAT? LIKE 120? YEAH.
TO DO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, RIGHT? OR UM, WENDELL.
YES, BUT THAT DIDN'T COVER WHEN WE HAVE TO PUT AN AD IN THE SUN BECAUSE THE SPECIFIC, SO WE, WE CAN CUT THAT DOWN IF YOU WANT.
MAYBE WE COULD USE SOME THAT $15,000 MAYBE WE CUT THAT.
AND AGAIN, IF WE CAN WE'LL, AND THEN WE JUST WON'T USE THIS NEXT YEAR, BUT WHY DON'T WE CUT THIS DOWN TO A THOUSAND.
UH, WE CAN GET A DISCOUNT, RIGHT? OH YEAH.
THEY UP CHARGE NOW THE NEXT ONE IS THE CAR SITUATION.
THIS IS, UH, THIS IS THE INCREASE IN EXPENSE LINE, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
WELL, YEAH, WHICH ONE WAS THAT? I'M SORRY.
THAT'S FOR THE REJUVENATION COMMITTEE? OH YES.
OH NO, THEY HAVEN'T USED THEIR BUDGET IN TWO YEARS AND THEY HAD ASKED FOR AN INCREASE AND THAT WASN'T INCLUDED.
SO WHY WOULD WE GIVE 'EM MORE MONEY IF THEY HAVEN'T USED ANY MONEY? BECAUSE THEY, WITH COVID, THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY OF THEIR EVENTS.
AND REMEMBER OVER THE SUMMER THEY HAD ASKED US FOR AN INCREASE AND I THINK LAURA IS HERE ACTUALLY THERE.
HOW MUCH DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR ACCOUNT? WELL, EACH
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YEAR YOU TAKE IT BACK, RIGHT? YEAH.IF WE DON'T USE IT, YOU TAKE IT BACK.
SO WE HAD TALKED ABOUT GIVING THEM EXTRA.
AND THEN THAT EVENT GOT CANCELED ANYWAY, SO IN ANTICIPATION OF BEING ABLE TO ACTUALLY HAVE THESE EVENTS NEXT YEAR, WE'RE, WE'RE KIND OF, UM, WE HAVE MADE THIS PROMISE TO THEM.
KNOWING THAT IN FUTURE, PROBABLY GO BACK TO THE FIVE.
AND IF THERE IS NO EVENT, THEN AGAIN THEY'LL BE ZEROED OUT AGAIN.
UH, NOW WE'VE GOT AN INCREASE FOR THE MOTOR VEHICLE.
THIS IS, UH, OVER, ITS, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
THAT'S, THOSE ARE AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED.
THEN THIS WOULD BE JUST WHATEVER WE DECIDE FOR THE FUND BALANCE.
WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT, WHAT IS ENCOMPASSING THAT JACOB? THOSE ARE AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATED TRANSFERS.
THAT JUST PERTAIN TO SALARIES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
AND HERE COMES THE FUND BALANCE.
THE FUND BALANCE WE MAKE THAT, WE TENTATIVELY MADE THAT ADJUSTMENT.
UM, THE, UH, SUMMARY ON INCREASED PERSONAL SERVICES LINE, KIM, THAT IS A COMPILATION OF, OF THE ABOVE EXPENDITURES FOR THE B 31 20.
THAT IS THE CHIEFS DO CONTRACT WAS NOT INCLUDED ON SALARY WAGE.
AND THEN AN INCREASE FOR TERRY.
SHE'S, WHAT'S TERRY GETTING? WHAT'S TERRY'S, UH, HOURLY RATE NOW YOU HAD BUDGETED HER FOR THEN 23.
NO, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WAS IT? MY BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR HER? 2399.
AND WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THE PRESENT COUNCIL PROPOSAL, WHAT? 25 30.
SO THAT MEANS SHE GETS, UH, UH, WITH 25, 30.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A BIT RICH.
SHE'S JUST NEW IN THE POSITION.
I KNOW HER PREDECESSOR GOT MORE MONEY, BUT SHE HAD BEEN THERE SINCE, UH, CHIEF WILLIAMS WAS THERE.
AND WE'VE SEEN THIS HAPPEN WITH OTHER EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE NOT GETTING PAID, WHAT THEY KNOW THEIR WORTH, UH, THEY LEAVE.
AND SO I THINK THIS WAS A REQUEST FROM THE CHIEF THAT BASICALLY SAID THIS IS A SUPERSTAR EMPLOYEE.
SOMEBODY THAT REALLY IS DOING ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD ANTICIPATED.
AND THAT THE MONEY WOULD BE WELL SPENT BECAUSE IT'D KEEP HER, YOU KNOW, IN A POSITION TO HAPPY.
UM, SO THAT WAS AT LEAST THE RATIONALE THAT WAS PROVIDED.
SHE'S, SHE'S BASICALLY CONVERTED ALL HER, ALL HER DATA EXCEL.
SHE'S ACTUALLY, SHE'S REALLY DOING A DIFFERENT JOB THAN THAN KATHY DID.
SHE, SHE'S A LOT MORE INVOLVED IN THE BUDGET.
UH, IT WAS JUST, UH, HER, HER KNOWLEDGE SKILL LEVEL I THINK IS, UM, IS EQUAL WITH THIS, WITH THIS REQUEST.
I, I, I, UH, UH, SHE'S ONLY BEEN HERE A SHORT TIME AND, UH, SHE GOT AN INCREASE WHEN SHE WENT FROM PERSONNEL TO YOUR DEPARTMENT.
NOW SHE GETS AN INCREASE AGAIN.
BUT TAKING IT UP TO 10 PERCENT'S A BIT MUCH.
I'D GO ALONG WITH 24, 30 AND 25, 30 IS A LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR ME.
BUT IF THE BOARD MEMBERS HAVE GOT THREE VOTES AND IT'S 25, WELL, WELL THERE'S 23.
WELL, IT'S A 2020, UH, 3 99 AND 25 30.
UH, WHICH ONE ARE WE ON NOW, KIM? I LOST YOU.
UH, THE NEXT ONE IS, OH, THE NEXT TWO ARE AUTO CALCULATOR FOR SOCIAL SECURITY.
UM, THEN THESE WERE JUST CHANGING THE PART-TIME FROM 1320 TO 14, WHICH THAT WAS DECIDED FOR THE EI 7, 2, 6, 5, 1 0 2.
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YEAH.THEN THE NEXT ONE WAS AUTO CALCULATED AND THE EI 7 2 6 6 1 0 2.
UM, AGAIN, CHANGING EVERYBODY TO 14.
THE NEXT ONES AUTOPOPULATE, THEN THE ER 7 2 5 1, 1 0 2.
AND AT THE BOARD MEETING ON 10 25, YOU'VE GOT THE BOARD HAD SAID TO TAKE IT DOWN TO, SO THAT'S A DECREASE.
SO, SO ONE LINE IS JUST, UH, A STAKE.
AND I TALKED TO CAROL, THEIR APPROPRIATIONS DIDN'T, UM, MATCH THEIR BUDGET, SO SHE HAD TO TAKE OUT AN EXPENSE LINE OF $400 TO MAKE THAT EVEN.
SO THAT'S JUST TAKING, CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE 16? TO THE 14? MM-HMM
WHAT IS THAT? UH, WHO IS THAT FOR? THAT IS FOR THE GOLF COURSE.
SO WHERE ARE THE EMPLOYEES AT NOW? UM, SEVEN WAGE DOESN'T HAVE BROKEN DOWN BY PART 10 EMPLOYEES.
SO I DUNNO WHAT THE, I WOULD MINIMUM WAGE.
WELL IF WE GO TO 14, IT'S A SAVINGS OF 16,500.
SO THAT'S NOT, UH, NICKELS AND DIMES.
AGAIN, MY FEAR IS, YOU KNOW, $14 AN HOUR FOR PEOPLE DOING, YOU KNOW, UH, PHYSICAL LABOR, I BELIEVE PROBABLY AT THE GOLF COURSE.
UM, I THINK IT'D BE NAIVE TO THINK THAT THAT'S NOT GONNA NEED TO GO UP TO ATTRACT, UH, QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WHEN YOU CAN GO TO ANY FAST FOOD AND MAKE, START OUT AT $17 AN HOUR.
PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE COURSE ARE A LONG TIME PEOPLE.
I'M JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT I WOULD KEEP, I WOULD GO TO THE 14.
AT SOME POINT IT IS AGAIN, IT'S JUST MORE FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR IN THE FUTURE YEARS.
WE HAVE TO KIND OF KEEP AN EYE ON IT PEOPLE.
WELL THAT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY THAT I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THEM.
YOU KNOW, MAKE INCREMENTAL FOR NOW AT LEAST WE'RE 14.
THE NEXT TWO ARE JUST CALCULATIONS BASED ON, UM, INFORMATION WE WE SEE FROM AIR COUNTY HYDRANTS.
AND THEN IT GOES TO THE FIRE COMPANIES.
AND THESE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE FIRE COMPANIES BASICALLY THEN CAME FAIRLY CLOSE TO WHAT THEIR REQUESTS WERE.
AND I KNOW YOU TALKED, SPOKE WITH EACH OF THEM.
I SPOKE WITH THREE OF THEM, BUT, UH, AND I, AND UH, BEING THE, UH, BIG CHICKEN THAT I AM, I, UH, A HARD LINE AND THEN GIG IT
SO FOR THE MOST PART ANYWAY, UH, I THINK THE FIRE, I THINK THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS AREN'T GONNA COMPLAIN.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU SEE THERE THAT NEEDS TO BE FURTHER ADJUSTED FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS? FIRE DEPARTMENTS? I, I THINK THEY CAN ALWAYS GET BY.
I MEAN, LOOK AT, YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PUT SOMETHING OFF FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT THEY DID HAVE SOME INCREASED COSTS.
I THINK IT HELPS, YOU KNOW, IF THEY WANT THE WHOLE THING, THEY SURE EVERYBODY DOES.
AND IT ADDRESSES THE NECESSARY PEN FLEX AND EVERYTHING.
YOU KNOW, AND IT SAID, REALITY IS WE DON'T GET A REALLY GOOD BASIS FOR WHICH TO MAKE AN ANALYSIS OF.
I NOTICED TODAY GOING THROUGH THE WHOLE ED BUDGET THAT THE SUPERVISORS WERE A THOUSAND, BUT DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR PAT WAS 10,000.
WHICH LEADS ME TO BELIEVE THAT WAS JUST AN ERROR THAT SHOULD BE BUMPED BACK OFF.
CAN SAY THAT AGAIN? I'M SORRY.
UM, THE SUPERVISORS WAS A THOUSAND, BUT HAD REQUESTED 10, SO I BELIEVE THAT WAS JUST AN INPUT ERROR.
THAT WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK UP.
AND THEN 13 55, 1 0 2, THE SALARY WAGE DIDN'T INCLUDE THE BOARD OF REVIEW SALARIES, WHICH WOULD BE AN INCREASE OF $2,900.
YOU MEAN THE ASSESSMENT BOARD OF YOU? YES.
WHAT WAS THE INCREASE THERE, KEVIN? UM, 29 31 BECAUSE THEIR SALARIES ARE SMALL.
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WEREN'T INCLUDED IN THE CALCULATION.WELL, IT'S NOT AN INCREASE, BUT EXACTLY.
SO THAT'S THE PACKAGE THEN FOR TONIGHT AMENDMENTS.
SO WE'LL GO TO THE MEETING, KIM.
YOU WANT US TO LEAVE YOU ALONE SO YOU CAN WORK ON THIS? SURE.
YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO US TALK.
IS THAT OKAY? YOU WANNA LEAVE, GO UPSTAIRS OR NO? I CAN DO IT DOWN HERE.
DO YOU WANNA ADJOURN THE WORK SESSION THEN? UH, YEAH, I GUESS SO.
I MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE ADJOURN THE WORK SESSION.
UH, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CONVENE A REGULAR MEETING FOR 11 15 21 ORDER.
MADAM CLERK, DO YOU WANT TO CALL THE ROLL PLEASE? OKAY, I'LL DO A SECOND FOR THAT.
UH, WOULD YOU UP TO CALL, CALL THE ROLL.
THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE ON THE, OKAY.
KATHY, THIS RESOLUTION WE ADDED, I'LL IT UP AND GET IT TO YOU.
SO WHEN WE DO IT GOES I'LL SEND IT TO TOMORROW.
SOMETHING AUTHORIZING SUPERVISOR.
HEY, HOW ARE YOU? EVERYTHING OKAY? GOOD.
WE BOUGHT THE HEAVY, WE BOUGHT THE HEAVY ARTILLERY WITH THE YEAH.
GOOD TO GET TOGETHER WITH YOU BEFORE, UH, JANUARY 3RD.
ALRIGHT, SO, BUT I'LL, HOW MUCH LESS? SO FOR EXAMPLE, THE 15,000, ARE WE GOOD WITH, UM, IT DOESN'T RISE ABOVE THE AMOUNT.
IT, IT'S, HEY, YOU, ME, TO ADD THAT RIGHT HERE.
NOT UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UH, CONVENE THE REGULAR SESSION.
ALRIGHT,
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CLERK, WOULD YOU CALL THE ROLL SUPERVISOR SHAW HERE.LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WOULD YOU PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVIDUAL WITH THE LIBERTY AND THE JUSTICE FOR ALL.
UH, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I HAVE A PROCLAMATION TO READ.
UH, WE'LL MAKE A PRESENTATION OF THIS LATER, BUT, UH, PERMIT ME TO DO THAT.
WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG LOST A LEADING CITIZEN AND A DEVOTED SERVANT OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF OUR COMMUNITY AS A RESULT OF A TRAGIC AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT THAT RECENTLY OCCURRED.
WHEREAS THERESA TERRY DUBY SERVED THE TOWN OF HAMBURG AS THE CONFIDENTIAL ASSISTANT TO THE LATE BARBARA WICKS, FORMER SUPERVISOR OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
AND WHEREAS TERRY DUBY CONTINUED HER SERVICE THROUGHOUT THE 1980S AND NINETIES BY WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE OF HAMBURG AS SECRETARY TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS AND THE PLANNING AND CODE ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENTS, SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER WONDERFUL DISPOSITION AND WILLINGNESS TO WORK COOPERATIVELY.
THE BENEFIT OF ALL PEOPLE WHO WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO COME INTO CONTACT WITH HER.
AND WHEREAS TERRY WAS ALSO A DEVOTED PARISHIONER OF ST.
FRANCIS CHURCH IN ALE SPRINGS, SHE DEVOTED HER RETIREMENT YEARS IN PARTICULAR TO CHURCH SERVICES THAT BENEFITED THE PARISHIONERS OF ST.
FRANCIS LABORING OFTEN WITHOUT RECOGNITION OR ANY EXPECTATION OF REWARD.
AND WHEREAS MOST IMPORTANTLY, TERRY WAS A LOVING MOTHER TO HER CHILDREN AND A FRIEND TO SO MANY IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO VALUED HER KINDNESS AND LOYALTY.
NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD, THE TOWN OF HAMBURG, ON BEHALF OF OUR COMMUNITY, EXTENDS ITS SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE DOOBIE FAMILY OF THE LOSS OF TERRY DOOBIE, OUR FRIEND AND COWORKER.
MAY SHE REST IN PEACE AND MAY YOUR MEMORY BE A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR ALL OF US? THAT'S THE RESOLUTION.
WE HAVE SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HER FAMILY WHO ARE HERE, HER DAUGHTER AND HER GODDAUGHTER UP HERE.
WHO ARE YOU? YOU WANT ME TO, I'M GONNA GIVE THIS TO YOU.
THIS IS SUCH A WONDERFUL HONOR FOR MY MOTHER AND SHE'S JUST, I KNOW SHE'S JUST, YOU KNOW, BEAMING UP THERE IN HEAVEN AND WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL THE FAMILY, THANK YOU FOR THIS WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY AND WE WILL SHARE IT WITH EVERYBODY.
BUT THANK YOU FOR KIND OF RECOGNIZING ALL OF HER.
YOUR MOTHER WAS A DEAR, DEAR FRIEND, AND A BEAUTIFUL PERSON.
ALRIGHT, ITEM NUMBER FOUR, WHEREAS THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD DOES HEREBY APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING AS FOLLOWS, TEN FOUR TWENTY TWENTY ONE TOWN BOARD WORK SESSION 10 25 20 21 REGULAR SESSION.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND, UM, TO ADD, UH, CLARIFICATION NUMBER 21, THAT IT WAS A FOUR ZERO VOTE.
ALL IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT PLEASE SAY AYE.
NOW THE RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS AMENDED, UH, THE MOTION HAS BEEN MADE BY MS. HOPE.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT SECOND.
MR. PETRI, YOU ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
WHEREAS PAM GOSS FK FISHER, THE HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR IN THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT WAS UNABLE TO USE HER THREE WEEKS OF ACCUMULATED VACATION TIME DURING THE 2021 CALENDAR YEAR DUE TO FAMILY ILLNESS.
AND WHEREAS MS. GOS HAS SECURED THE PERMISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT TO CUR DEPARTMENT HAD TO CARRY OVER 2 20 21 VACATION TIME FOR THE YEAR 2022.
NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED AND MS. GOSS SHOULD BE PERMITTED TO CARRY OVER THREE WEEKS OF VACATION TIME TO BE UTILIZED IN THE CALENDAR YEAR 2022 CONSISTENT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 6.2 OF THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT.
NOW IN EFFECT BETWEEN THE TOWN AND THE CSEA LOCAL 1000 SME A-F-L-C-I-O.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
MS. FERRELLS ON THE SECOND ON THE QUESTION, ANYBODY ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
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AYE.RESOLVED THAT THE HE TOWN BOARD IS HEREBY APPROVED, WE REQUEST ADMITTED BY THE NEWTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY TO ACCEPT INTO MEMBERSHIP THE INDIVIDUAL AS FOLLOWS, MR. BRIAN BEERS, UH, IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT MOTION? SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR OF ADMITTING BRIAN BEERS.
RESOLVED THE TOWN BOARD APPROVED THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE FOLLOWING INTO THE BIG TREE VOLUNTEER FIREMAN'S COMPANY, MICHELLE COHEN AND JODY TORRES.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
THE RESOLUTION IS, ADOPT, ADOPTED, UH, RESOLVED THAT THE UNDERSIGNED MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG, UH, UPON READING, UH, THE APPOINTMENT OF A HEARING OFFICER EXECUTED BY JAMES SHAW, SUPERVISOR DATED 11 15 21, UH, SET THE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING POSTED ON THE TOWN OF HAMBURG WEBSITE FOR SEVEN DAYS IN ADVANCE PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THE REPORT OF THE HEARING OFFICER, WHICH WILL BE DATED FOR 11 30 20 21 FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON THAT SAME DATE, 11 30 20 21 AT 7:00 PM HEREBY WE HEREBY APPROVE THE, UH, APPROVAL OF BOWING ATTACHED HERE TO AND FURTHER RECORD THE HAMPER TOWN SUPERVISOR EXECUTE SUCH APPROVAL TO BORROWING ON BEHALF OF THE TOWN BOARD.
THIS IS A RESOLUTION, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TO PERMIT THE SCRANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY TO, UH, PURCHASE UH, A NEW, NEW FIRE EQUIPMENT.
AND IN DOING THAT, THE LENDER WHO LOANS THEM MONEY PURSUANT TO THEIR APPLICATION, UH, DOES NOT HAVE TO DECLARE INCOME ON THE INTEREST RECEIVED ON THE LOAN.
AND THAT'S SPECIAL LEGISLATION THAT UNDER IN THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE THAT PERMITS THAT.
UH, BUT IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR THIS, THE TOWN HAS TO APPROVE THE, UH, PURCHASE.
UH, WE HAVE TO APPOINT A HEARING OFFICER, MR. QUINN IS WITH SCRANTON.
WE HAVE TO SET A DATE FOR A HEARING.
THE TOWN CLERK HAS TO PUBLISH NOTICE, UH, UH, ONLINE.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
SECOND IS MS. SPARROW ON THE QUESTION.
WHEREAS THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD, THIS HEREBY REAPPOINT TO A FULL FIVE-YEAR TERM COMMENCING JANUARY 1ST, 2022 AS REQUESTED BY THE HAMBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, THE INDIVIDUAL AS FOLLOWS, HOLLY SCHREIBER.
ESTABLISH A COMMITTEE TO SCREEN FOR FINANCE DIRECTOR.
WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HAS A VACANCY IN THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT.
AS SUCH, THE TOWN IS IN THE PROCESS OF ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR A FINANCE DIRECTOR.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HEREBY ESTABLISHES A COMMITTEE TO INTERVIEW ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG APPOINT THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE TO THE COMMITTEE.
SEAN CONNOLLY, RANDALL HOKE, ELIZABETH FARRELL, KEVIN TRASK, MARTIN DUNEY.
SO IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? I'LL SECOND IT THEN.
ALRIGHT, ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE A AYE.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED, UH, RESOLVE OF TOM MOORE, APPROVE THE TERMINATION OF THOMAS MURPHY WITHIN THE BUILDING INSPECTION DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 71 OF THE NEW YORK STATE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT MOTION? SECOND.
UM, BE IT RESOLVED IF THE TOM BOARD APPROVES THE HIRING AND TERMINATION OF THE FOLLOWING EMPLOYEES IN THE BUILDING, THE GROUNDS DEPARTMENT, THE ATTACHMENT PROVIDES FOR THE TERMINATION OF ONE PART-TIME EMPLOYEE AND THE SUBSTITUTION OF ANOTHER EFFECTIVE IN THE FORMER CASE.
THE NEW EMPLOYEE STARTS TOMORROW, NINE 16.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
SECOND IS MR. PETRI ON THE QUESTION.
RESOLVED THE WARE APPROVED, THE TERMINATION OF KIM VAN TY OF IN THE POSITION OF ASSESSMENT CLERK WITHIN THE ASSESSING DEPARTMENT.
UH, IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT APPROVAL? SECOND, MR. CONLEY ON THE QUESTION.
THANK, UH, RESOLVED THE TOWN BOARD APPROVES THE TERMINATION OF RICHARD LARDO AND JASON COLLAR FROM THEIR TEMPORARY POSITIONS WITHIN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND,
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MS. FERRELL'S? ON THE SECOND ON THE QUESTION.ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
THANK YOU FOR WHAT SOLUTIONS CARRIED.
UM, HE RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD APPROVED THE TERMINATION AND HIRING OF PERSONNEL FOR THE YOUTH RECREATION AND SENIOR SERVICES DEPARTMENT AS FOLLOWS, AS PER THE PAF ATTACHMENT.
I'LL SECOND THAT ON THE QUESTION, PAUL.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED WHERE IS THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD HAS UNTIL DECEMBER 31ST, 2021 TO OPT OUT OF ADULT USE CANNABIS DISPENSARIES AND ONSITE CONSUMPTION SITES BY ENACTING A PUBLIC LAW.
AND WHEREAS OPTING OUT BY THE DEADLINE STILL ALLOWS FOR OPTING IN IN THE FUTURE WHEN ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE.
AND WHEREAS THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD DESIRES TO PROVIDE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON PROPOSING A LOCAL LAW TO OPT OUT PRIOR TO THE DEADLINE, NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD SETS A PUBLIC HEARING FOR MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29TH, 2021 AT 7:00 PM AT HAMBURG TOWN HALL, 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK, 1 4 0 7 5 FOR HAMBURG TOWN RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS TO COMMENT ON WHETHER THE TOWN SHOULD ADOPT A LOCAL LAW TO OPT OUT OF ADULT USE CANNABIS, RETAIL DISPENSARIES AND ONSITE CONSUMPTION SITES, AND THAT THE NECESSARY NOTIFICATIONS OF SAID PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE MADE.
SECOND IS MS. HOKE ON THE QUESTION.
THE LOCAL PROPOSED LOCAL LAW FOR OPTING OUT IS ATTACHED TO THE RESOLUTION THAT HAS TO BE PUBLISHED, UH, AS WELL AS THE NOTICE.
UH, ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
WHEREAS PROPONENTS OF THE FORMULATION OF A COMMUNITY-WIDE RESPONSE TO THE GROWING DEMAND IN HAMBURG FOR SEED OR STARTUP CAPITAL TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SMALL BUSINESSES AND ENTREPRENEURS WILL RESULT IN THE CREATION OF BUSINESS INCUBATORS AND INNOVATION HUBS TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF SMALL BUSINESS IN COMMUNITIES SUCH AS HAMBURG.
AND WHEREAS PITCH HAMBURG IS A COMMUNITY-BASED NOT-FOR-PROFIT 5 0 1 C3 DESIGNED TO BOOST EMPLOYMENT AND COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES IN HAMBURG BY SUPPORTING COMMUNITY INNOVATORS WHO ARE LOOKING TO ADD SIGNIFICANT VALUE TO THE HAMBURG BUSINESS LANDSCAPE.
AND WHEREAS STARTUP FUNDING IS CRITICAL TO PITCH HAMBURG'S PROMOTION OF ENTREPRENEURS WHOSE PRODUCTS, SERVICES, AND OFFERINGS WOULD BE OF SIGNIFICANT BENEFIT TO THE HAMBURG COMMUNITY NOW THEREFORE BEING RESOLVED THAT THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD HEREBY APPROPRIATES FUNDS AWARDED TO IT PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN TO BE EXPENDED OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD TO PROVIDE STAFF OFFICE SPACE AND PROGRAMMING FOR PITCH HAMBURG TO ENABLE THE ANNUAL STARTUP OPERATIONS AND FURTHER ENABLE DIRECT SUPPORT TO NO LESS THAN SIX STARTUP BUSINESSES BOOSTING EMPLOYMENT AND ADDING SERVICES TO HAMBURG'S BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED.
A PITCH HAMBURG SHALL BE REQUIRED, UH, TO OFFER PERIODIC REPORTS TO THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD ON A SEMI-ANNUAL BASIS AT MINIMUM AS TO ITS REVENUES, EXPENSES, AND OPERATING SURPLUSES OR DEFICITS.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE APPROPRIATION OF $200,000 SHALL BE EXTENDED OVER A TWO YEAR PERIOD PURSUANT TO THE PITCH APPLICATION FROM FUNDS APPROPRIATED UNDER AR PA.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
SECOND IS MS. FERRELL ON THE QUESTION.
ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE A.
AYE, THE RESOLUTION HAS PASSED, WHEREAS THE HAMBURG SKATE PARK PROJECT HAS SECURED AND MATCHING GRANT FROM THE RALPH WILSON JR.
FOUNDATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $250,000 OR MAYBE TO INTERRUPT HERE AND OFFER AN AMENDMENT TO THE SECOND, WHEREAS, WHEREAS THE ABOVE GRANT IS CONTINGENT UPON SECURING MATCHING FUNDS THAT WOULD BE, AND I'LL ADD THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT TO IT, $250,000 FROM OTHER SOURCES.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG GETS AUTHORIZED THE PURSUIT OF A STATE GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $110,000 THROUGH THE EMPIRE STATE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, AND WHEREAS SKATE PARK VOLUNTEERS RAISE 15,000 TO DATE TO VARIOUS LOCAL FUNDRAISING EFFORTS, AND WHEREAS ALL MATCHING FUNDS MUST BE RAISED BY APRIL, 2022 AS A CONDITION PRECEDENT TO THE RECEIPT OF THE WILSON FOUNDATION GRANT.
AND WHEREAS OUTDOOR RECREATION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ARE ESSENTIAL TO GOOD HEALTH, PARTICULARLY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT CONSISTENT WITH A FUNDAMENTAL WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL
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PREMISE OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, WHICH IS THE PROMOTION OF RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES ALONG WITH PARKS AND PLAYGROUND RESTORATION.THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD AWARDS 125,000 FROM ITS A RPA FUNDS TO THE SKATE PARK VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION CONTINGENT UPON ITS ABILITY TO REALIZE ALL OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE TO COMPLETE THE SKATE PARK PROJECT.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND? SECOND, SECOND.
MR. PETRI ON THE QUESTION PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
UH, I WANT TELL THE FOLKS OUT THERE THAT IN THE EVENT, IN THE EVENT THAT, UH, THERE ARE SOME FUNDING ISSUES GOING FORWARD, I KNOW YOU HAVE A, AN AGGRESSIVE PROGRAM OVER THE NEXT TWO OR THREE MONTHS, UH, IN THE EVENT THAT, UH, THERE ARE SOME DIFFICULTIES, UH, FROM ANY SOURCE, WE CAN DISCUSS THEM LATER AND THE TOWN MAY CONSIDER, MAY CONSIDER, UH, ADDITIONAL ARPA FUNDING IN THE NEW CALENDAR YEAR.
WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG IS THE RESPONDENT WITH RESPECT TO THE INITIATION OF AN ACTION BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION, THE STATE OF NEW YORK TO ABATE SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS UNDER AN ORDER OF CONSENT ISSUED ON 9 1 21.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN HAS CONSENTED TO THE ADOPTION OF THE ORDER, WHICH REQUIRES THE ELIMINATION OF SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS RESULTING IN THE DISCHARGE OF RAW SEWAGE FROM SANITARY SEWERS, WHICH MAY EXPOSE THE PUBLIC TO BACTERIA INFECTION THROUGH CONTAMINATED WATER SOURCES.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HAS COMPLETED SEVERAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, BUT THE PROHIBITED SANITARY DISCHARGE OVERFLOWS PERSIST, AND THE DISCHARGE CONTINUES TO ADVERSELY IMPACT THE RESIDENTS OF THE MOUNT VERNON SEWER DISTRICT.
AND WHEREAS THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK HAS DETERMINED THAT THERE ARE A NUMBER OF SANITARY SEWER LINES THAT ARE IN URGENT NEED OF REPAIR, WHILE THERE ARE OTHERS THAT QUALIFY AS HIGH OR MEDIUM PRIORITY TO ABATE FURTHER CONTAMINATION.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED AT THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG, HEREBY APPROPRIATES FUNDS PROVIDED PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN UNDERTAKE REPAIRS OF URGENT HIGH OR MEDIUM PRIORITY SEWER LINES AS OUTLINED IN THE ATTACHMENT TO THIS RESOLUTION ENTITLED CIPP LINING WORK ORDER NUMBER IN THE AMOUNT OF $774,610.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND IS MR. PETRI ON THE QUESTION.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE'VE BEEN UNDER CONSENT DECREES ON AND OFF FOR A 20 YEAR PERIOD.
UH, THERE ARE ABOUT 1050 HOMEOWNERS IN THE MOUNT VERNON SEWER DISTRICT.
UH, THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, UH, OUR ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS HAVE ESTIMATED, THERE'S NO QUESTION AS TO THE VALIDITY OF THEIR ESTIMATION THAT THE OVERALL CAPITAL EXPENDITURES TO BRING THE LINES INTO COMPLIANCE WILL BE BETWEEN 11 AND $12 MILLION AND MAYBE MORE AS INFLATION IMPACTS IT.
SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES.
THE 774,610 IS DESIGNED TO EXPEDITE TREATMENT OR REPAIR OF THOSE LINES THAT ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION, UH, TO PREVENT CONTAMINATION IN THE BASEMENTS OF MANY HOMEOWNERS IN THAT, IN THAT PARTICULAR DISTRICT.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT OTHER SOURCES OF REVENUE TOO.
SO JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND, UH, THAT'S THE MOTION OF MR. PET'S ON THE SECOND, UH, ALL OF FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
WHEREAS THE PROLONGED AND INTENSE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAVE ENHANCED THE PUBLIC'S AWARENESS FOR THE NEED TO MAINTAIN HEATING AND COOLING SYSTEMS THAT ELIMINATE TOXINS FROM ANY SOURCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH IMPERATIVE.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG'S BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS ARE IN NEED OF SUBSTANTIAL, A SUBSTANTIAL SEQUENCE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS TO PROVIDE FOR CLEANER AIR AND A HEALTHIER WORK ENVIRONMENT.
NOW, THEREFORE, B RESOLVED AT THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG AGREES TO SECURE INDEPENDENT PROPOSALS RFPS FOR THE UNDERTAKING OF THE FOLLOWING, A, THE REPLACEMENT OF THE GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM WITH ROOFTOP HVAC AT THE HAMBURG SENIOR CENTER, B REPLACEMENT OF THE HVAC SYSTEM AT THE HAMBURG TOWN HALL C REPLACEMENT OF THE HVA SYSTEMS, UH, IN THE POLICE BUILDING AND DISPATCH CENTER D REPLACEMENT OF THE HVAC SYSTEMS SYSTEM AT THE NIKE BASE ARENA.
NOW THEREFORE BEING RESOLVED AND PREMISED UPON THE PROLONGED EXPOSURE
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TO TOXINS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR ONGOING EXPOSURE TO VIRUS CONTAMINATION, THE FOREGOING EXPENDITURES SHALL BE UNDERTAKEN UPON SECURING UPON THE SECURING OF ONE COMPREHENSIVE PROPOSAL OR A SERIES OF PROPOSALS TO REPLACE THE AFOREMENTIONED HVAC SYSTEMS AS INDICATED ABOVE, PURSUANT TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN, WITH A MAXIMUM AMOUNT TO BE CAPPED AT $500,000.IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
SECOND IS MR. CONLEY ON THE QUESTION.
AYE, RESOLUTION WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HAS DETERMINED THAT THE INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITY WOULD BEST BE SERVED BY UPGRADING THE TOWN'S WEBSITE SO AS TO NOT ONLY MAKE IT MORE INTERACTIVE AND INFORMATIVE, BUT TO REDUCE RESIDENT INTERACTION AT TOWN FACILITIES, THEREBY MINIMIZING EXPOSURE TO COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN REQUIRES A WEBSITE DESIGN THAT IS A DA COMPLIANT CAN OFFER LIVE CHAT INTERACTIONS TO DECREASE PHONE CALLS AND PROVIDE FASTER RESPONSE TIMES, PROVIDE MORE GRAPHIC AND COLORFUL DETAILS PERTAINING TO SPECIFIC DOWN SERVICES, ALL IN A MORE USER-FRIENDLY APPLICATION.
NOW THEREFORE, BEING RESOLVED THAT THE IT DEPARTMENT OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG IS DIRECTED TO SECURE PROPOSALS, RFPS TO CREATE A NEW TOWN WEBSITE CONSISTENT WITH THE FOREGOING CHARACTERISTICS AND BEING FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE MINIMIZING OF THE PUBLIC'S EXPOSURE TO COVID OR OTHER COMMUNICABLE DISEASES JUSTIFIES A RELIANCE UPON A RPA FUNDING FOR FUNDS TO PAY FOR THE CREATION AND INSTALLATION OF A NEW WEBSITE PURSUANT TO AN RFP AT AN OVERALL PRICE NOT TO EXCEED $100,000.
SECOND IT IS MS. HOPE ON THE QUESTION.
ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE A AYE RESOLUTION IS CARRIED.
WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG TOWN BOARD HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR $450,000 IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT CORONAVIRUS FUNDING, UH, FOR THE TOWN, SMALL BUSINESSES FOR THE TOWN OF HAMBURG SMALL BUSINESSES THROUGH THE HAMBURG DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO THE STATE OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF COMMUNITY RENEWAL TO PROVIDE, TO PREVENT, PREPARE FOR AND RECOVER FROM COVID-19 CONSEQUENCES WITHIN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HELD A PUBLIC HEARING PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE 70.486 SUBPART ONE OF THE CFR AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1974 AS AMENDED TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC AND CONSIDER CITIZEN COMMENTS REGARDING COMMUNITY NEEDS AND THE PLAN PROPOSAL PRIOR TO SUBMITTING AN APPLICATION FOR CDBG CV FUNDING.
THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZES, UH, THE SUPERVISOR TO EXECUTE THE GRANT AGREEMENT CONTRACT AND ANCILLARY MATERIALS TO FORWARD THESE FUNDS TO THE APPROVED SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
SECOND IS MS. FERRELL ON THE QUESTION? ANYONE? ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE.
THE RESOLUTION IS CARRIED, WHEREAS THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT DID NOT ENCUMBER $41,589 AND 7 CENTS IN 2019 FOR THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT AND WHEREAS THE ENCUMBERED FUNDS ARE ALSO TO BE USED FOR TOWN NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADES NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, BUT THE TOWN BOARD APPROVED THE TRANSFER FUNDS FROM THE A 5 9 9 TO A 1 16 9 2 0 7.
ALL RIGHT, SECOND MR. PETRI SECONDS IT, UH, ON THE QUESTION? ANYBODY? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
RESOLUTION CARRIES, UH, NU UH, NUMBER 24 IS A BIT REDUNDANT, BUT, UH, WE'LL READ IT.
RESOLVE THAT THE HENRY TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZES THE SUPERVISOR'S EXECUTION OF THE APPOINTMENT OF A HEARING OFFICER FOR THE SCRANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AT THE SCRANTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY RELATIVE TO THE COMPANY'S PURCHASE OF NEW FIRE APPARATUS.
SAID HEARING TO BE HELD PURSUANT TO THE NOTICE ATTACHED HEREIN.
UH, IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? UH, I'M SORRY.
THE CLERK SHALL POST THE NOTICE NO LATER THAN 11 22 21.
THE MEETING IS SET, UH, FOR 11 30 20 21.
OKAY, MR. PETRIE'S ON THE SECOND.
UH, MS. FERRELL, MAYBE IT'S A GOOD TIME NOW, BUT JIM'S STILL WORKING.
WE HAVE A LADIES AND GENTLEMEN IN OUR RULES, YOU HAVE TO FILE YOUR RESOLUTIONS IN WRITING, UH, AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT, UH, UH, ON A DAY CERTAIN BEFORE,
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UH, THE REGULAR MEETING TO GIVE EVERYBODY ADEQUATE NOTICE OF WHAT'S ON THERE.BUT WHEN THERE'S AN EMERGENCY OR A LATE DEVELOPING, UH, CIRCUMSTANCE THAT WE COULDN'T ACCOUNT FOR, WE ENTERTAIN LATE RESOLUTIONS.
SO HERE'S ONE FROM MS. FERRELL, AND THIS IS BECAUSE WE RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF THIS AWARD JUST ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, BUT THE PROCESS THAT WE MUST FOLLOW, UH, WITH ERIE COUNTY TO BE ABLE TO AVAIL OURSELF OF THIS AWARD REQUIRES THAT WE COMPLETE EVERYTHING BEFORE DECEMBER 3RD.
OUR NEXT TOWN BOARD MEETING IS ON DECEMBER 3RD.
THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO PASS THIS RESOLUTION THIS EVENING.
WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HAS RECEIVED NOTIFICATION OF A $15,000 AWARD FROM ERIE COUNTY, ERIE COUNTY TO UPDATE THE TOWN OF HAMBURG COMP PLAN AND ZONING ORDINANCE.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZED THE SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO AN INNER MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH ERIE COUNTY TO ACCEPT THE $15,000 IN FUNDING AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT TWO HARD COPIES AND ONE SCANNED DIGITAL COPY OF THE CONTRACT, INCLUDING THE EQUAL PAY CLARIFICATION BE MAILED AND TRANSMITTED TO ERIE COUNTY AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT WENDELL BE UTILIZED FOR THE WORK INCLUDED IN THE SCOPE OF THE AWARD AND THAT EECG CONSULTING BE UTILIZED FOR COMPLETING ALL COMPLIANCE COMPONENTS INVOLVED WITH THIS AWARD.
ALRIGHT, ON THE QUESTION, LADIES, GENTLEMEN.
ALL IN FAVOR THEN PLEASE SAY AYE.
I'M JUST GONNA GET THE, OH, OKAY.
UH, NOW THAT BRINGS US TO THE BUDGET.
WELL, UH, WE'VE HAD, WE HAD A MEETING, UH, STARTING AT FOUR 30.
SO, UH, WE MET TILL ABOUT SEVEN, UH, WELL ON OTHER THINGS, BUT SPENT A GOOD HOUR AND A HALF, UH, GOING THROUGH THE VARIOUS PROPOSED BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND TRYING TO RECONCILE, UH, SOME OF THESE SO AS TO MAKE THE BUDGET AS TIGHT AS WE COULD REASONABLY MAKE IT.
UH, WE'VE ALSO AGREED TO, UH, SOME ACCOMMODATIONS REGARDING FUND BALANCES AND HOW MUCH WE RETAIN IN THE A FUND AS OPPOSED TO WHAT WE RETAIN IN THE B FUND.
SO, UH, KIM, HAVE YOU GOT ANY SUGGESTIONS THAT, UH, THANK YOU.
BE GREAT WITH THE CHANGES THAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT.
KEEPING THE FUND BALANCE THE SAME AT THE 800 AND THE 200.
THE GENERAL FUND IS AT 1.26 AS OPPOSED TO 1.13 TOWN OUTSIDE IS 5.28 AS OPPOSED TO 5.22 DV STAYS THE SAME AT NEGATIVE 2.02.
SO THE FINAL WOULD BE AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 1.26 AS OPPOSED TO 1.19.
SO THE OVERALL TOWN TAX INCREASE IS 1.26%? CORRECT.
AND INITIALLY OUR PROPOSAL BROUGHT A TAX DE OVERALL TAX DECREASE IN AT 1.52%.
SO WE GO FROM A SLIGHT DECREASE TO A SLIGHT INCREASE, UH, AND WE HAVE AGREED, UH, TO THE APPROPRIATIONS.
SO WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE AMENDMENT THAT WAS SUBMITTED AND WE HAVE TO AMEND THAT WITH INCORPORATING YOUR NOTES, UH, INTO THIS RESOLUTION TO APPROVE THE 2022 BUDGET.
IS THAT OKAY? ARE WE ABLE TO DO THAT? MM-HMM
IT WILL SAVE US TIME IN TERMS OF GOING LINE BY LINE BY OKAY.
SO WE WOULD INCORPORATE THEN EIGHT TEN TEN FOUR FIVE ONE WOULD BE CHANGED TO 500, OH WAIT A MINUTE.
EIGHT TEN TEN, FOUR FIVE ONE EIGHT, TEN, TEN FOUR FIVE ONE.
UM, THE LINE BELOW IT A 1 1 1 0 1 2, WE'LL GO TO 73,000 3 0 8.
14 3100 IS GOING TO GO TO 107,000 EVEN.
AND LINE A 30 2100 GO TO 1 MILLION 2 35 2.
THE ONE BELOW IT, A 3 2 2 5 100 WILL BE 65,000.
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THE ONE BELOW THAT, A 3 2 2 5 1 0 2 WILL BE 26,372.AND THEN WE GO TO A 80 24 5 1.
AND THAT AMOUNT IS 5,854,000 70 0 7 0? YES.
OKAY, THEN WE HAVE TO ADD ON THE B 31 24 92 FOR 20,000.
WHAT IS THAT AGAIN, KIM? THE TRAINING.
AND THEN A BUT I THOUGHT THE TRAINING WAS ALREADY IN THERE.
IT WAS JUST THE INCREASE OF FIVE.
BUT NOW IT'LL BE AMENDED TO GO ON.
SO THEN, UM, WE'RE INCREASING 8 13 55 1 0 2.
WE'LL HAVE TO WRITE THAT ONE IN.
AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS A 71 41 4 60 10,000.
THAT'S A, THAT WAS AN INCREASE OF 10,000.
UH, 9,000 BECAUSE THAT WAS AN INPUT.
TO 10,010 BECAUSE WE SWITCHED THE PERSONNEL LINES, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RECALCULATE AND JUST AMEND THE BUDGET TO, FOR THE SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE TAXES FOR THAT, BUT IT'LL BE A VERY SLIGHT INCREASE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T CHANGE MUCH.
WELL, CAN WE DO THIS THOUGH? WE HAVE TO ADOPT A BUDGET BEFORE THE 25TH OF NOVEMBER.
RIGHT? SO WE'RE GONNA ADOPT TONIGHT, EXCUSE ME, SUBJECT TO THOSE REVISIONS.
CAN WE JUST AGREE TO ELECTRONICALLY ALL SIGN OFF OR SIGN ON THOSE REVISIONS? I WONDER IF THAT'S PERMISSIBLE, WALTER.
THE CHANGE THAT SHE'S TALKING ABOUT DOES DOESN'T SEEM TO BE VERY SUBSTANTIAL.
SO, UH, THE OVERALL INCREASE IN THE A FUND WAS $15,113.
AND THE OVERALL IN THE B FUND WAS $2,912.
SO THAT'S PRETTY, THAT'S PRETTY CONSERVATIVE AS OPPOSED TO WHERE WE WERE AT WHEN WE BEGAN.
WELL THIS WAS JUST FROM PREVIOUS.
SO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, YOU'VE HEARD THE RENDITION.
UH, DO WE MAKE A MOTION THEN TO APPROVE THE 2022 BUDGET, UH, BASED ON THE AMENDMENTS TO THE SUPERVISOR'S BUDGET THAT HAD JUST BEEN READ INTO THE RECORD BY, UH, KIM SANA, UH, REFLECTING A GENERAL FUND TAX INCREASE OF 1.26% AND REQUEST THAT YOU KIM PROVIDE A WRITTEN AMENDMENTS TO, UH, ALL CONCERNED, UH, TOMORROW AT SOME CONVENIENT TIME? NEED A SECOND? I DO, SIR.
ALL IN FAVOR? AYE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BUDGET FOR 2022 HAS BEEN ADOPTED.
OKAY? NOW IS THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS WE GOTTA TRANSACT? OH, THE GAS DISBURSEMENT FINE.
I NEVER FIND, OH, THERE YOU GO.
MOTION YOU RECEIVE AND FILE THE AUDIT OF CASH DISBURSEMENTS FOR THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS 11 15 21 TOTAL OPERATING FUND DISBURSEMENTS $512,053 AND 2 CENTS AND TOTAL CAPITAL FUND DISBURSEMENTS $669,026 AND 42 CENTS.
THE TOTAL PAYROLL DISBURSEMENTS REMITTED $741,368 AND 48 CENTS.
TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENTS SUBMITTED FOR AUDIT AMOUNT TO FOUR MID $922,447 AND 92 CENTS.
THOSE ARE THE AUDITED FIGURES PROVIDED BY THE CLERK.
IT'S A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THEM.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? SECOND.
AYE LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THAT CONCLUDES THE FORMAL
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AGENDA.SO WHAT WE DO NOW IS WE GO TO DEPARTMENT HEADS AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE AUDIENCE, UH, FOR ANY ADD-ONS OR ADDITIONS OR COMMENTS.
UH, LET'S CHIEF, WE'LL START HERE AND WORK OUR WAY UP THE REPORTS.
OKAY, SIR? UH, MARTIN, UH, THE GOLF COURSE IS CLOSED FOR THE, AND, UH, WE DID RECEIVE OUR, UH, FELLOW RIDER CARD FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES.
JUST ARRIVED TODAY, BUT WE'LL HAVE IT AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE NEXT YEAR.
RYAN, WHAT DO YOU SAY, SIR? NOTHING TO REPORT.
AND MR. HALL, HOW ABOUT YOU? I'M GOOD.
LEMME SEE WHO ELSE IS OUT THERE.
ANY OTHER DEPARTMENTS? JENNIFER? OH, I'M SORRY.
ACTUALLY, TODAY WE WERE QUITE BUSY.
WE GOT, UH, TWO CASES FOR CASES THAT WERE WARRANT, THAT WERE RECALLED.
I GOT, UH, FIVE FORMER CLIENTS THAT CALLED A COUPLE ANONYMOUS INVENTORIES.
UM, WE GOT
IT WAS QUITE, QUITE BUSY AND IT COMING TODAY, BUT WE REMAIN, UH, STEADY WITH INCOMING CALLS, UH, AGENCIES THAT ARE CONNECTING THEIR CLIENTS LIKE FROM URGENT CARE TO HOSPITAL NEARBY.
WE DID GET A CALL FROM A CLIENT WHO WAS TRYING TO GET AN ORDER PROTECTION AND THEY ACTUALLY WERE TOLD FROM ANOTHER AGENCY, UH, THAT THEY HAD TO WAIT TILL THE NEXT DAY.
SO PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO GET, UH, EXPEDITED SERVICES THAT WE COULD IMAGINE KNOWING THE NATURE OF THE WORK.
UM, SO THEY ARE TRYING TO REACH OUT TO A PLACE THAT THEY CAN GET, YOU KNOW, SERVICES IMMEDIATELY.
SO WE DO GET A LOT OF, UH, FOLLOW UP CALLS JUST FOR THAT REASON.
AND JUST I ONGOING WITH OUR CASE LOAD THAT WE HAVE WITH COURT CASES THAT ARE JUST IN OUR, UH, OFFICE THAT MARCH 40.
AND, AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR THE GOOD WORK YOU DO.
JENNIFER ROBERTSON, NOTHING SIR.
UH, I, I'LL GET YOU IN A MINUTE.
UH, HOW ABOUT YOU, TARA? ANYTHING ON PERSONNEL? UM, JUST THAT TODAY WAS THE LAST DAY FOR RESUMES TO BE SUBMITTED FOR THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, SO I'LL BE SCHEDULING THE INTERVIEWS.
UM, THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS WE HAVE 24 RESUMES.
ALL WELL, THAT'S GOOD, I THINK.
AND I WANNA SAY TO YOU, KIM, I, UH, FOR EVERYBODY, UH, YOU UH, DID THIS PRETTY MUCH ON YOUR OWN.
I KNOW WE HAD SOME HELP FROM, UH, BON IN THE BEGINNING AND DRE
I WANT TO TELL YOU, I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU.
PROUD, AND I'M GRATEFUL YOU STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE AND, UH, PUT IN A LOT OF HOURS TO MAKE A GOOD, UH, BUDGET HAPPEN.
THAT, UH, OH, KATHY, I APOLOGIZE.
NOW LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE AUDIENCE.
WELL, IN THAT CASE, UH, TOWN BOARD MEMBERS JUST LIKE TO QUICKLY SAY, YES SIR.
I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FROM THE MEMBERS OF THE PARK PROJECT TEAM.
AND, UH, WELL, YOU'RE VERY, YOU'RE VERY WELCOME.
I TELL YOU WE'VE GOT SOME THINGS TO TALK ABOUT.
UH, I HOPE I CAN TALK TO YOU IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO.
UH, AND, UH, UH, YOU'RE NOT OVER THE HURDLE YET, BUT YOU'RE A LOT CLOSER TO GETTING TO HOME PLATE THAN YOU WERE BEFORE.
I'M WITH THE SKATE PARK PROJECT, FORMERLY THE TONY MOTT FOUNDATION.
AND WE'RE THE ONES WHO HAVE PARTNERED WITH RALPH WILSON JUNIOR FOUNDATION TO HAVE THESE MATCHING GRANTS FOR THE SKATE PARK.
AND I JUST WANNA SAY IT'S, IT'S EVERY TIME I'M IN ONE OF THESE MEETINGS WHERE THIS SOME FUNDING IS DESIGNATED.
IT'S GREAT, UM, TO SEE TIM, WE ADVOCATE HAS SEVEN KIDS AND HE'S, HE AND HIS WIFE BOTH HAVE FULL-TIME JOBS AND THEY WORK REALLY HARD FOR THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S, I REALLY PROUD TO SEE THIS, UM, HAPPEN IN, IN THIS COMMUNITY.
SO LOOKING REALLY FORWARD TO HELPING OUT, UM, WITH THE PROJECT IN ANY WAY I CAN FROM DESIGN, COMMUNITY INPUT TO THE CONSTRUCTION, AND THEN THE OPENING LATER TOO.
GIVEN THE FACT THAT HE IS GOT SEVEN CHILDREN, WE CAN BE ASSURED THAT THERE'LL BE SOME USE OVER THERE.
BUT I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY FOR BEING SO SUPPORTIVE OF OUR, UH, OF OUR CAUSE.
UH, MIKE, FROM DAY ONE, YOU WERE THERE AND I, UH, I APPRECIATE IT, EVERYBODY BEING, UH, BEING A PART OF THIS AND I THINK IT'S GONNA BE, UH, A GREAT THING FOR HAMBURG, OBVIOUSLY THE NEXT 30, 40 YEARS SO THAT WE, UH,
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HER KIDS WILL BE PLAYING THERE SUNDAY.ANYBODY ELSE? LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, ANYTHING, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, CONCERNS? WELL, HEARING NONE, I'LL MAKE OH, BOARD MEMBERS.
JUST A QUICK, I KNOW, UM, IT'S BOUNCED BACK AND FORTH A FEW TIMES, BUT WHERE DO WE STAND? I THINK IT'S WITH CODE REVIEW RIGHT NOW ON THE MIXED USE.
DID THAT GO BACK TO PLANNING? I KNOW.
IT, WE, AT THE LAST MEETING, WE SENT IT BACK TO PLANNING, UH, WHERE, WHERE IT'S AT, WHAT PLANNING IS DOING WITH IT.
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WHEN I CHECKED WITH THEM, THEY HADN'T GOTTEN IT.
SO I GOTTA CHECK WITH YOU RIGHT, WELL RIGHT WITH THOSE BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WERE SOME, UM, REVISIONS MADE.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT PLANNING GETS THAT.
I'LL TALK TO SARAH MYSELF TOMORROW.
AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS, CAN WE SET SOME TIME, UH, SOME TIME ASIDE, MAYBE AT THE NEXT MEETING DURING THE WORK SESSION? I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LOT.
I KNOW THAT DREW PREPARED, UM, SOME ITEMS FOR US ON THE EXIT 57TH.
I THINK WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YEAH.
FINALIZE WHAT WE WANNA DO THERE.
ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS? I WANNA TELL YOU SOMETHING.
UM, I'VE GOTTEN, UH, TEXT MESSAGES AND EMAILS YESTERDAY AND TODAY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND THE MONROE COUNTY EXECUTIVE GOT TOGETHER, UH, AFTER, UH, STUDIES BY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENTS AND THE, THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, OUR POSITIVE COVID POSITIVITY RATE IS UP SIGNIFICANTLY PRETTY BAD.
SO THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE IS GOING TO, UH, UH, INITIATE, HE HAD A CONFERENCE TODAY ABOUT IT.
HE'S MADE CERTAIN RECOMMENDATIONS.
HE'S GONNA INITIATE A CALL WITH ALL TOWN, ALL VILLAGE, UH, CITY MAYORS AND TOWN SUPERVISORS ON WEDNESDAY.
AND THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT WE MAY HAVE TO ISSUE A, A SUPPLEMENTAL STATE OF EMERGENCY, UH, IF THE POSITIVITY RATE IS AS HIGH THEN AS IT WAS ON FRIDAY, WHICH WAS OVER 8.5%.
SO IT'S NOT GOOD NEWS, BUT I THINK WE OUGHT TO AT LEAST BE AWARE THAT, UH, SOME CHANGES COULD BE IN THE OFFICE.
THAT BRINGS TO MIND ANOTHER UPDATE.
AREN'T YOU GUYS PARTNERING FOR VACCINE CLINIC? YES.
WE HAVE TWO CLINICS THIS WEEK FOR, UH, BOOST SHOTS.
SO, AND ARE THEY AT THE SENIORS CENTER AT THE SENIOR CENTER? YES.
WE'RE PARTNERING THE TOPS ON THAT.
MARTY, YOU KNOW, I WENT ON THAT LINK TODAY.
ONE THING, UNLESS THEY'VE UPDATED IT, BUT THIS MORNING WHEN I CHECKED THAT LINK, IT ONLY HAD ACCESS TO THE, UH, APPOINTMENTS FOR THE 12 AND UP.
IT DID NOT HAVE THE GROUPING OR JUST FOR THAT SPECIFIC, IT DID NOT HAVE FOR THE SENIOR 65 AND OVER FOR THE BOOSTER.
IT ONLY, THAT LINK ONLY LED TO THE ONE FOR THE YOUTH FOR THEIR FIRST TIME.
I'LL CHECK ON THAT FIRST THING.
CAN WE POST THAT TO OUR WEBSITE OR TO OUR FACEBOOK WITH'S PERMISSION? OKAY.
WELL, WE'LL, WE'LL GET TOGETHER, UH, JENNIFER, UH, WEDNESDAY, UH, WHEN THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE FINISHES THIS CALL, WE'LL TAKE OUR NOTES AND MAKE ALL THE POSTINGS ON, ON, UH, VACCINATIONS AND WHAT HE'S RECOMMENDING FOR EMERGENCY MEASURES.
UH, IF WE ISSUE A STATE OF EMERGENCY, WE MAY HAVE TO GO BACK TO, UH, SIMULATED MEETINGS AS VIRTUAL MEETINGS AS OPPOSED TO REGULAR IN FACE MEETINGS.
AND WE MAY HAVE TO, MAY HAVE TO REQUIRE FACE MASKS.
I KNOW WE'RE ALL PRETTY FED UP WITH THAT STUFF, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
UH, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE FOLKS? HEARING NOTHING? I MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.