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GOT A FEW THINGS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.UH, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION, UM, ON THE EP PROGRAM PRESENTATION FROM OUR PLANNER, AND THEN WE WILL BE REPORTING, THE TOWN BOARD WILL BE REPORTING ON OUR EXPERIENCE AT THE ASSOCIATION OF TALENTS CONFERENCE AS WELL.
UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CONLEY IS NOT HERE TONIGHT.
UM, AND WE CAN GO RIGHT INTO FIVE 30.
PRESENTATION, I'M ASSUMING IS YOU? YEP.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR HAVING MY PARTNER, KYLE ARSON AND I, MY NAME IS ALEXANDER SHERMAN.
I'M, WE'RE WITH WILMINGTON TRUST AND WE, UH, MANAGE THE TOWN OF HAMBURG'S LOS SAP PLANT, THE LENGTH OF SERVICE PLANT FOR ALL THE FIRE HALLS.
AND, UH, WE'RE, UH, GRATEFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH ALL OF YOU TONIGHT AND REVIEW THE 2022 YEAR END PERFORMANCE.
UM, I UNDERSTAND WE HAVE ABOUT 30 MINUTES TOGETHER, SO THAT KIND OF MAKE MOST OF THAT, UH, WE'LL JUST KIND OF DIVE RIGHT IN.
UM, WE'LL START WITH JUST OUTLINING, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT TOOK PLACE IN 2022 AND WHAT TO EXPECT FROM HERE, ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE CURRENT DYNAMIC AND THE BANKING SYSTEM, THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM.
AND THEN KYLE WILL ALSO, UH, OUTLINE THE, UH, 20, 22 YEAR END PERFORMANCE AND THEN JUST SET EXPECTATIONS ON WHAT WE'LL LIKELY EXPERIENCE IN THE MARKETS GOING FORWARD.
AND OF COURSE, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS, WE'LL, WE'LL GET TO THAT.
UM, JUST TO KIND OF OUTLINE OUR ROLES REAL QUICK, I'M THE WEALTH ADVISOR ON THE ACCOUNTS.
SO REALLY WHAT THAT MEANS IS I'LL BE QUARTERBACKING YOUR ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP.
YOU HAVE A WILMINGTON TRUST AND COORDINATING MEETING WITH OUR PORTFOLIO MANAGERS LIKE KYLE R CENTER, MAYBE ANYONE ELSE AT WILMINGTON OR THE BANK THAT WE WOULD NEED TO BRING IN FOR WHATEVER THE SITUATION MIGHT BE.
AND THEN KYLE IS REALLY THE TEAM'S INVESTMENT ADVISOR.
SO HE WORKS CLOSELY WITH OUR CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, CHIEF ECONOMIST AND CHIEF STRATEGIST, JUST WORKING ON IMPLEMENTING, UH, WHAT WE'RE THINKING WITH THE PORTFOLIOS AND ACTIVELY TRADING THE ACCOUNT AND, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, MANAGING ACCOUNT OF SAP IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE INVESTMENT POLICY STATEMENT AND SUCH.
SO, UH, I'LL LET KYLE TAKE IT AWAY FROM HERE, THOUGH.
WELL, KYLE LARKIN, UH, SENIOR INVESTMENT ADVISOR ON THE ACCOUNT.
UM, FEEL FREE TO INTERRUPT IF YOU GOT QUESTIONS.
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF, A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON IN THE, IN THE ENVIRONMENT TODAY, SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT, FEEL FREE TO, TO INTERJECT.
OTHERWISE I'LL JUST RAMBLE ON.
SO
UM, I'LL SKIP THROUGH MOST OF THIS STUFF.
SO KIND OF JUST TALKING ABOUT LIKE LAST YEAR, WHERE WE'VE BEEN AND KIND OF WHERE WE'RE WE'RE AT TODAY.
UM, A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY AND DEALING WITH TODAY ARE STILL LARGELY A LOT OF THE SAME TOPICS THAT WE WERE DEALING WITH LAST YEAR.
YOU KNOW, NAMELY INFLATION, UM, YOU KNOW, SUPPLY CHAIN DYNAMICS AND, AND WHAT THAT'S DONE TO CAUSE INFLATION OR KEEP INFLATION HIGH.
UM, WHAT'S THE FED DO DOING TO TRY TO COMBAT INFLATION WITH INTEREST RATE POLICIES? UM, YOU KNOW, AND THEN, AND THEN WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE, THE ENERGY MARKETS AND WHAT'S HAPPENED ARE TRANSPIRED, UH, BECAUSE OF THE, YOU KNOW, RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE.
AND YOU KIND OF TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE AT TODAY, THAT'S BEEN STARTED OVER A YEAR AGO, BUT WE STILL DON'T HAVE MUCH RESOLUTION ON THAT YET.
SO, UM, OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THINGS HAVE KIND OF CHANGED AND TRANSPIRED OVER THE COURSE OF LAST YEAR.
LAST YEAR WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE YEARS WHERE IT WAS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FOR JUST ABOUT ALL ASSET CLASSES, UM, WHETHER YOU ARE IN THE, THE STOCK MARKET, YOU KNOW, WHICH WE TEND TO VIEW AS, UM, THE RISKY AREAS OF THE MARKET WHERE YOU TEND TO GET THE MAJORITY OF YOUR, YOUR GROWTH IN THE LONG RUN.
BUT YOU ALSO GET, UM, A LOT OF THE DOWNSIDE WHEN WE GO THROUGH PERIODS OF RECESSION OR ECONOMIC WEAKNESS.
SO YOU GET A LOT OF THE VOLATILITY IN THE STOCK MARKET.
UH, AND THEN THE BOND MARKET, WHICH, YOU KNOW, WE TRADITIONALLY VIEW AS BEING MORE SAFE, MORE SECURE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GENERALLY EXPECT LOWER RATES OF RETURN, UM, WITH LESS, LESS VOLATILITY.
UM, LAST YEAR YOU, YOU DIDN'T REALLY GET THAT SAFETY IN THE BOND MARKET, LIKE WE'RE, LIKE WE'RE USED TO.
LAST YEAR WAS PRETTY MUCH THE ONE OF THE WORST YEARS ON RECORD FOR, UH, FOR FIXED INCOME FOR BONDS, LARGELY DUE TO THE INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT AND A CHANGING RAPIDLY BECAUSE OF, UH, INFLATION AND TRYING TO GET INFLATION IN CONTROL.
SO, UM, COINCIDENTALLY IT WAS A BAD YEAR FOR ONCE AGAIN, JUST ABOUT ALL ASSET CLASSES, EQUITY MARKET BONDS, UM, ALTERNATIVE ASSETS, UH, CRYPTO
I WOULDN'T CALL IT INVESTMENT, BUT, UM, NOT THAT WE INVEST IN CRYPTO, UM, THAT THE ONLY THING THAT WAS POSITIVE FOR THE YEAR WAS, WAS ENERGY.
THAT WAS LARGELY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT PERSISTED AND, AND MADE THINGS LARGELY DIFFICULT.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT SAID, AND WE KIND OF WE'RE STILL WORKING THROUGH A LOT OF THOSE ISSUES TODAY AND, YOU KNOW, THE BIGGEST BEING INFLATION, WHAT'S GOING ON WITH INFLATION, AND OBVIOUSLY NOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE BANKING, BANKING SECTOR AND HOW'S THAT, UM, HOW'S THE FED RESPONDING TO THAT? UM, INFLATION, YOU KNOW, WE DID SEE RATES OVER 9% LAST YEAR, AND WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT RATES RIGHT AROUND 6%.
UM, BUT IN INFLATION RATES ARE COMING DOWN, THEY'RE COMING DOWN RATHER QUICKLY, UM, AT LEAST BASED OFF OF THE DATA THAT WE'RE SEEING.
UM, AND SO, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT
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SAID, WE, WE DO EXPECT INFLATION TO KIND OF SLOW TO AROUND TWO AND A HALF PERCENT OR SO.UM, AND BY ROUGHLY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR, IF EVERYTHING KIND OF GOES IN LINE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE THOUGHT PROCESS, OBVIOUSLY THINGS CAN DO CHANGE, BUT THE FED HAS BEEN PRETTY RESTRICTIVE IN THEIR POLICY AND WE'RE SEEING SOME EFFECTS OF THAT THROUGH THE FINANCIAL SECTOR, UM, ESPECIALLY OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WELL.
BUT, UM, WE THINK THAT THE FED IS LIKELY VERY, VERY CLOSE TO THE, THE END OF THEIR RATE HIKING CYCLE.
UM, YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY THEY, THEY'VE RAISED RATES AT THE FASTEST PACE ON RECORD AT THE HIGHEST, UH, ON RECORD THROUGH PREVIOUS RATE HIKES, RATE, HIKE AND CYCLES.
AND NOW THEY'RE GONNA KIND OF HOLD IT THERE AND, AND LET THE POLICY TAKE ITS, YOU KNOW, TAKE ITS EFFECT.
AND RAISING INTEREST RATES HAS A LAG EFFECT, UH, IN THE ECONOMY.
AND WE ARE SEEING THINGS SLOW.
UM, YOU KNOW, BUT THE, THE ECONOMY HAS BEEN AT LEAST YEAR TO DATE RELATIVELY STRONGER THAN WE HAVE EXPECTED.
UM, BUT WITH THIS MOST RECENT EVENT WITH THE, THE FINANCIAL, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME BANKS GOING UNDER LIKELY GONNA HAVE SOME PULLBACK IN LENDING FROM SOME OF THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH COULD FURTHER SLOW THE ECONOMY.
UM, AND SO WITH THAT, WE, WE DO THINK THERE'S A PRETTY HIGH PROBABILITY OF THE ECONOMY GOING INTO RECESSION, UH, SOMETIME IN THE COMING MONTHS, YOU KNOW, LIKELY BE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
UM, BUT WITH THAT SAID, WE, WE DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE A DEEP SCAR IN RECESSION.
LIKE SOME OF THE RECESSIONS WE HAD SEEN IN THE PAST, NO, IN PARTICULARLY THE, THE GREAT FINANCIAL CRISIS, UM, LARGELY BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN, IN THE LABOR FORCE.
UM, ANYBODY WHO IS, YOU KNOW, HAS A BUSINESS OF THEIR OWN OR KNOWS FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS THAT RUN OR OPERATE A BUSINESS, UM, MOST PEOPLE CAN ATTEST THAT IT'S PRETTY DIFFICULT TO FIND EMPLOYEES.
IT'S DIFFICULT TO FIND WORKERS RIGHT NOW.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME OF THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT RATES IN HISTORY AROUND JUST UNDER THREE AND A HALF PERCENT.
UM, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF WAGE GAINS BECAUSE OF THAT.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF, A LOT OF, UH, PRICING POWER THAT WORKERS HAVE IN THIS TYPE OF ENVIRONMENT.
UM, AND THAT'S ACTUALLY SOMEWHAT OF A PROBLEM WHEN IT COMES TO INFLATION, BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING AND WHAT YOU SEE HAPPEN IS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE X, Y, Z COMPANY WHO NEEDS WORKERS.
YOU GOT WELL XYF COMPANY, WHATEVER, WHO NEEDS WORKERS ALSO.
AND SO THEY'RE JUST OFFERING EMPLOYEES HERE A LITTLE BIT MORE TO COME, A LITTLE BIT MORE MONEY TO COME WORK FOR THEM.
SO NET ON NET, YOU'RE ACTUALLY, YOU'RE NOT INCREASING PRODUCTIVITY, YOU'RE NOT INCREASING PEOPLE ON THE, THE ENVIRONMENT THAT ARE REALLY TAKING MORE JOBS.
YOU'RE JUST INCREASING THE WAGES, THEN PEOPLE HAVE MORE MONEY TO SPEND, THEY SPEND MORE MONEY, KEEPS DEMAND UP, IT KEEPS INFLATION HIGH.
SO THAT'S WHY THE FED'S HAVING TO RAISE INTEREST RATES TO THE LEVEL THAT THEY BRING DOWN, THE DESIRE OR THE, THE WILLINGNESS FOR ORGANIZATIONS INVEST MORE IN THEIR COMPANIES, MORE IN GROWTH, THE, TO MAKE IT MORE EXPENSIVE FOR CONSUMERS TO BUY THINGS, BUY A HOUSE, BUY A CAR, YOU KNOW, BORROW ON YOUR CREDIT CARD, UM, TO TRY TO BRING DOWN THAT DEMAND FOR, FOR GOODS AND SERVICES SO THAT THE LABOR MARKET CAN ACTUALLY LOOSEN UP A LITTLE BIT AND GET BACK IN LINE.
UM, BECAUSE UNTIL IT LOOSENS UP, YOU'RE STILL GONNA KIND OF HAVE THIS PERSISTENT ISSUE WITH PEOPLE HAVING MONEY AND PEOPLE SPENDING MONEY.
AND THAT SOUNDS FUNNY BECAUSE WE DON'T FEEL THAT WAY, RIGHT? WHEN, WHEN
I I'M STILL SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY.
UM, AND, AND SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE OTHER END OF THE COIN, UM, IN INFLATION IS IT EATS AWAY AT THE REAL, THE REAL RETURN THAT WE GET.
SO IT'S A, IT'S A VERY DIFFICULT PROBLEM TO SOLVE, AND IT'S PRETTY DIFFICULT TO SOLVE WITHOUT HAVING SOME PAIN, UH, DELIVERED THROUGHOUT THE ECONOMY.
AND THAT'S REALLY KIND OF WHAT WE'RE STARTING TO SEE NOW.
UM, WE'RE LIKELY GONNA SEE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, UH, IN ORDER FOR US TO, TO MAKE SURE INFLATION COMES DOWN TO THE LEVELS THAT WE NEED IT TO, WHERE THINGS ARE SUSTAINABLE AND EXPECTED, UM, SO THAT WE CAN HAVE LONGER TERM STEADY GROWTH.
UM, BUT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT AN EASY PROCESS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITHIN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT IS CERTAINLY DUE TO RISING INTEREST RATES AND, AND HOW THAT AFFECTS BANK BALANCE SHEETS.
UM, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING SPECIFICALLY THOUGH IS A HANDFUL OF BANKS THAT HAD MADE IN, IN, IN OUR VIEW SOME POOR MANAGEMENT DECISIONS AND HOW THEY MANAGE THE BALANCE SHEET.
SO, UM, REALLY THE WAY A BANK WORKS, OBVIOUSLY YOU BRING DEPOSITS IN, UH, AND YOU LEND DEPOSITS OUT AND YOU COLLECT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT YOU PAY DEPOSITORS AND THE LOANS THAT YOU MAKE.
THAT'S HOW YOU MAKE YOUR NET INTEREST MARGIN.
UM, WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE LOANS READY TO GIVE OUT AND YOU HAVE EXCESS CASH, YOU INVEST THAT CASH AND STAY SECURE.
UH, INVESTMENTS LIKE TREASURY BONDS, FOR EXAMPLE.
UM, BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS IF YOU BUY TREASURY BONDS THAT ARE LONGER DATED AND 15, 20, 30 YEARS IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE INTEREST RATES GO UP, THAT HAS A NEGATIVE EFFECT ON THE VALUE OF YOUR BONDS, SIMILAR TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE IN, UM, WHAT EVERYBODY WENT THROUGH, IF YOU HAD BONDS,
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YOU INTEREST RATES WENT UP AT SUCH A RAPID PACE, YOUR BOND PORTFOLIO LOST VALUE.AND SO ON A BANK, WHEN YOUR BALANCE SHEET LOSES THAT PORTION OF VALUE, YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACTUALLY REALIZE THAT LOSS UNLESS YOU HAVE TO SELL THE SECURITIES.
AND SO IN THIS CASE OF SIGNATURE, UH, ARMS LIKE SILICON VALLEY, UH, THEY HAD QUITE A BIT OF MONEY, UM, LEAVE THE BANK BECAUSE THEY WERE TIED UP, YOU KNOW, VENTURE CAPITALS, UM, PRIVATE EQUITY TYPE FUNDING.
SO VERY, VERY CONCENTRATED INVESTOR DEPOSIT BASE.
AND, UM, IN A SITUATION WHERE MONEY IS KIND OF LEAVING THE SYSTEM, THEY ESSENTIALLY HAD A BANK RUN AND THEN THEY HAD TO SELL THESE ASSETS AT A LOSS, AND IT CREATED THIS KIND OF SNOWBALL EFFECT.
UM, HAD THEY NOT INVESTED THAT MONEY IN LONGER DATED SECURITIES AND KEPT IT SHORTER DATED, UM, SIMILAR TO M AND T BANK, ACTUALLY, UM, THEY WOULDN'T LIKELY HAVE EXPERIENCED NEARLY THE ISSUES THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH AND, UM, THE BANKRUPTCY AND FORCED SALE.
SO, BUT WHAT HAPPENS CLEARLY IS WHEN YOU HAVE BANK FAILURES, WE NATURALLY KIND OF REACT, UM, WITH FEAR BASED OFF OF WHAT WE SAW HAPPEN IN 2008.
UM, BUT I WOULD, I WOULD ARGUE, AND I THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD ARGUE THAT THIS ISN'T ANYTHING LIKE THAT, UM, BUT WHEN THERE IS A LACK OF TRUST IN THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM, IT CREATES ISSUES.
UM, AND NOW WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF, SOME OF THAT DEPOSIT BASE GO FROM THE SMALLER REGIONAL BANKS TO SOME OF THE LARGER BANKS THAT ARE VIEWED AS TOO BIG TO FAIL, GONNA HAVE THAT GOVERNMENT BACKSTOP.
SO IT'S KIND OF A, IN PEOPLE'S MINDS A A SAFETY THING.
SO WHEN THE FED STEPPED IN AND SAID, UM, WE'RE GONNA BASICALLY BACK, UM, ALL OF THE DEPOSITORS ASSETS, UM, AND NOT JUST THAT WE'RE PROVIDING LENDING, LENDING FACILITY REALLY SHORED UP THE BANKING SYSTEM, BUT WE'RE STILL KIND OF SEEING SOME REVERBERATING EFFECTS NOW.
WE'RE STILL KIND OF WAITING TO SEE HOW MUCH MONEY KIND OF LEFT SOME OF THESE BANKS DEPOSIT BASES AND WHAT TYPE OF EFFECT THAT MIGHT HAVE ON, UH, ON BANK PROFITABILITY MOVING FORWARD.
SO THERE'S STILL SOME QUESTION MARKS OUT THERE.
UM, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THE STEPS THAT THE FED AND THE TREASURY HAVE TAKEN TO KIND OF SHORE UP THOSE ISSUES, UH, WE THINK, UH, HAVE GONE A, A VERY LONG WAY TO REAFFIRMING THE STABILITY OF THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM.
UM, ALTHOUGH I THINK IT'S GONNA TAKE SOME TIME FOR PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS TO KIND OF FEEL THAT WAY.
UM, AND, AND, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH RIGHT NOW.
BUT THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT OF THAT IS POTENTIALLY BANKS BEING MORE CONSERVATIVE IN THEIR LENDING.
UM, SO NOT ONLY DO WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THE FED'S RAISING INTEREST RATES TO MAKE THINGS MORE EXPENSIVE, SLOW DOWN THE ECONOMY.
NOW YOU HAVE BANKS THAT ARE MAYBE NOT GONNA BE LENDING AS MUCH 'CAUSE THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MANAGING THEIR RISK A LITTLE BIT MORE.
UM, AND THAT MIGHT ADD TO FURTHER SLOWING OF THE ECONOMY.
SO THIS IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE THINK MIGHT LEAD US INTO, UM, A RECESSION HERE IN THE, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE.
AND, AND THAT'S WHERE WE, WE KIND OF HAVE THESE THREE SCENARIOS AHEAD.
WHAT'S THE PROBABILITY OF SEEING THAT HAPPEN? AND WE THINK THAT MILD RECESSION, UM, WE HAD IT LABELED AT ABOUT A 55% PROBABILITY.
UM, IT IS PROBABLY, WE'D PROBABLY SAY IT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN THAT NOW, GIVEN THAT THIS SCENARIO WAS PRIOR TO THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
UM, BUT WHAT THAT SITUATION IN OUR VIEW MIGHT LOOK LIKE, IS INFLATION SLOWING TO THAT THREE TO 4% RANGE? ONCE AGAIN, FROM THAT 6% RANGE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW, UM, THE FED FUNDS RATE PEAKING RIGHT AROUND FIVE TO 6%.
THEIR FED FUNDS RATE IS RIGHT AROUND 5% TODAY AFTER THE MOST RECENT HIKE.
UM, AND GROWTH, WE THINK, WHILE WE STILL, WHILE WE STILL WILL HAVE A COUPLE QUARTERS OF NEGATIVE GROWTH, WHICH GIVES US THAT RECESSIONARY INDICATOR, WE DO THINK THAT FOR THE YEAR IN SOME, WE MIGHT STILL HAVE A POSITIVE YEAR OF GROWTH JUST FAIRLY, OR MAYBE JUST SLIGHTLY NEGATIVE.
SO ONCE AGAIN, A, A RECESSION THAT WE, IN OUR VIEW WOULD BE POTENTIALLY MILD, UM, NOT DEEPLY SCARRING, BUT OBVIOUSLY THERE'S GONNA BE SOME NEGATIVE IMPACTS, UM, FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY GOING TO LOSE JOBS AS THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE POTENTIALLY MOVES UP TO THAT FOUR POINT HALF TO FIVE AND A HALF PERCENT RANGE.
UM, IN THAT SCENARIO, WHEN, WHEN IT COMES TO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE THINK MARKETS WILL PERFORM, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, A LOW STEP PORTFOLIO OR 4 0 1 KS? UM, WE THINK THE S AND P 500 COULD STILL FINISH THE YEAR POSITIVE, UH, FROM WHERE WE STARTED.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY, I THINK WE'RE UP ROUGHLY FOUR OR 5%, UM, TODAY FROM WHERE WE STARTED THE YEAR.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND WE THINK THAT IF WE CAN KIND OF WORK THROUGH THIS SCENARIO IN A SITUATION WHERE THE MUD, THE WATERS DON'T GET TOO MUDDY, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST EX WIDELY EXPECTED RECESSIONS, I THINK IN, IN, IN A LONG TIME.
EVERYONE'S BASICALLY CALLING FOR IT.
SO, UM, AND YOU'RE SEEING THAT WITHIN POSITIONING TOO.
SO WE, WE DO THINK THAT THE MARKET IS WELL PREPARED FOR IT IN A LOT OF WAYS.
UM, AND SO THE DOWNSIDE RISK I THINK IS SOMEWHAT MUTED, BUT I THINK THE UPSIDE POTENTIAL, AT LEAST FOR THE COMING YEAR, UH, AT THE SAME TIME MAYBE ISN'T, UM, MAYBE ISN'T REALLY, REALLY HIGH.
THE GOLDILOCKS SCENARIO WOULD BE THAT SOFT LENS SCENARIO WHERE, UM,
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INFLATION DOES COME DOWN.THE FED DOESN'T HAVE TO KEEP RAISING RATES HIGHER THAN WE'RE EXPECTING.
UH, AND GDP ACTUALLY STAYS POSITIVE FOR THE YEAR WITH THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BARELY TAKING UP TO MAKE SURE THAT LABOR MARKET STAYS IN BALANCE.
IF WE GET THAT TYPE OF SCENARIO, WHICH IS NOT VERY LIKELY IN OUR VIEW, UM, THE S AND P 500 COULD REALLY KIND OF TAKE OFF AS IT'S SOMEWHAT MAYBE VIEWED AS AN ALL CLEAR SIGNAL.
BUT, UM, THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, AT TODAY AS MOST LIKELY SCENARIOS FOR, FOR THE MARKET, UM, AND THE ECONOMY.
AND THEN WHEN YOU TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THAT MEANS AS FAR AS PORTFOLIO AND PORTFOLIO POSITIONING, UM, REALLY WE'RE, WE'RE DOING WHAT WE CAN TO TRY TO MANAGE RISK, UM, WITHIN OUR PORTFOLIOS.
AND AS FAR AS POSITIONING, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT UNDERWEIGHT RISK, IF I CAN GET TO THE PROPER SLIDE, HERE WE GO, A LITTLE BIT UNDERWEIGHT RISK.
SO WHEN WE SAY THAT WE'RE UNDERWEIGHT EQUITIES AND WE'RE OVERWEIGHT TO FIXED INCOME, UM, WHEREAS LAST YEAR WE WERE A LITTLE BIT OVERWEIGHT EQUITIES TO START THE YEAR UNDERWEIGHT FIXED INCOME, WE'VE KIND OF SWITCHED THOSE ROLES A LITTLE BIT NOW, UM, WHICH MEAN, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY INDICATES A A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A CAUTIOUS POSITION.
SO IF WE DO HAVE A SITUATION WHERE WE GO INTO RECESSION AND THE MARKET MAYBE HAS SOME REACTION TO THAT, UM, THAT FIXED INCOME BUCKET SHOULD HELP, YOU KNOW, BALANCE THE PORTFOLIO A LITTLE BIT MORE.
AND WE'RE A LITTLE BIT UNDERWEIGHT EQUITY, SO IT GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY TO POTENTIALLY REBALANCE IN, IN A SCENARIO WHERE, UM, WE HAVE SOME CHALLENGING MARKETS AHEAD.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MARKET IN GENERAL, OR JUST THE ECONOMY THAT WE WANNA TALK ABOUT, ABOUT THE BONDING RATES LAST YEAR? WHAT WAS THE REASON THAT WE WERE BORROWING MONEY FROM LAST YEAR AND WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S GONNA BE IN THE COMING YEAR? UH, AS FAR AS LIKE BOND ISSUANCE? YEAH.
SO IF YOU LOOK, TAKE A LOOK AT LIKE WHAT MARKET YIELDS ARE, UH, IN, YOU KNOW, IN THE MUNICIPALITIES, UM, RIGHT NOW, I THINK ON THE SHORTER TERM, THEY'RE RIGHT AROUND TWO POINT A HALF PERCENT.
TYPICALLY YOU'RE ISSUING BOND MUNI BONDS WITH A FOUR OR 5% COUPON, BUT THE ACTUAL BORROWING RATE IS PROBABLY GONNA BE SOMEWHERE AROUND THE TWO POINT A HALF TO THREE POINT A HALF PERCENT RANGE.
UM, I'M GUESSING, AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA CHANGE A WHOLE LOT, UH, OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT YEAR, I THINK WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA SEE THESE LEVELS OF INTEREST RATE WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY, KIND OF MAINTAIN FOR A YEAR, A YEAR AND A HALF IF WE KIND OF STAY ON THIS PATH THAT THE, THE FED IS INDICATING.
SO THE LANGUAGE THAT THE FED HAS USED WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE MAY HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, HIKES THAT WE MAY HAVE TO TAKE, BUT WE EXPECT TO REMAIN HIGHER FOR LONGER.
UH, SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, IN OUR, IN OUR VIEW, THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
BUT IF WE GO INTO A SCENARIO WHERE WE DO COME INTO THAT RECESSION, UM, AND THINGS DO SLOW DOWN FASTER THAN EXPECTED, YOU WOULD EXPECT THE FED, AS LONG AS INFLATION IS IN LINE, UM, TO START REDUCING INTEREST RATES WITH WOULD LOWER YOUR POWER RATE COST.
UM, THE SCENARIO THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE AVOID THOUGH, IS WHERE YOU HAVE AN ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN, UM, YET INFLATION STILL REMAINS HIGH.
AND THAT PUTS THE FED AT A, A VERY, VERY CHALLENGING POSITION, UM, TO WHERE THEY LIKELY WON'T TAKE THEIR FOOT OFF THE GAS PEDAL.
THEY LIKELY HAVE TO KEEP INTEREST RATES HIGH, UH, UNTIL INFLATION COMES DOWN, WHICH COULD MEAN MORE DEGRADATION OF THE ECONOMY.
UM, SO THAT'S, THOSE ARE SCENARIOS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, BUT WE, WE DON'T, WE DON'T THINK IT WILL BE THAT BAD BASED OFF OF THE, THE FACTORS THAT WE'RE WATCHING.
THE S AND P, YOU THINK IT'S, I MEAN, YOU OPTIMISTIC OR DO YOU THINK YOU'RE CONFIDENT THAT WE'RE GONNA FINISH? AS FAR AS THE S AND P? YEAH, HARD TO, VERY, VERY HARD TO SAY.
I PERSONALLY, I I, I DON'T THINK THERE'S A TON OF UPSIDE IN THE MARKET IN THE NEAR TERM, UM, BASED OFF OF, UM, REALLY VALUATIONS.
AND IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT VALUATIONS COMPARED TO, UH, UH, TO EARNINGS, SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE TRADING AT ABOUT AN 18 FORWARD PRICE TO EARNINGS MULTIPLE, UM, WHICH IS OUR 15 YEAR AVERAGE IS ABOUT 15.8, JUST UNDER 16 OR SO.
SO WE'RE STILL ACTUALLY, HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, A SOMEWHAT EXPENSIVE MARKET WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY BASED OFF OF EARNINGS.
UH, AND THERE'S A CHANCE THAT EARNINGS COULD STILL COME DOWN, ESPECIALLY IF YOU GO INTO A RECESSION.
SO THAT WOULD NATURALLY MEAN THAT YOU COULD EXPECT THE MARKET TO COME DOWN FURTHER TOO.
UM, BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE, THE MARKET PRICES THING IS LOOKING FORWARD.
SO IF WE HAVE A SITUATION WHERE, UM, EARNINGS REVISIONS BOTTOM OR HAVE BOTTOM, AND WE START LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEXT 12 MONTHS, SO NEXT 18 MONTHS, THE MARKET COULD SAY, OKAY, YEAH, EARNINGS ARE MAYBE BAD NOW, BUT WITHIN A YEAR FROM NOW, WE THINK THINGS ARE GONNA BOUNCE BACK
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AND THE MARKET TYPICALLY LEADS OUT OF, YOU KNOW, PRIOR TO OR COMING OUT OF A RECESSION.UM, SO THAT'S WHY IT IS A LOT OF IT, I THINK JUST COMES DOWN TO, TO TIMING AND WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF SOME OF THESE UNKNOWN THINGS THAT WE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T FOR TELL THE FUTURE, THE BEST YOU CAN DO IS MAKE THE BEST GUESS.
UM, I THINK WE'LL BE OKAY IN THE SITUATION WHERE WE MIGHT, WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE SOME MORE VOLATILITY WITHIN THE MARKET, BUT I THINK THAT DOWNSIDE'S A LITTLE BIT.
UM, THE FLOOR IS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN WE MAYBE HAD THOUGHT CALL IT LAST YEAR, UM, BUT THE UPSIDE'S PROBABLY ALSO A LITTLE BIT LOWER.
SO I THINK OUR, I THINK THE WINDOW'S JUST A LITTLE BIT TIGHTER, I GUESS IS WHAT TO PUT IT.
AND THEN IF WE WANNA JUST GET INTO, UH, PERFORMANCE IN THE PORTFOLIO FOR LAST YEAR, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE, WE'VE BEEN HIGHLIGHTING IS, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS ONE OF THE WORST YEARS ON RECORD, I THINK SUPPORT, LIKE YOUR STANDARD 60 40 PORTFOLIO, 60% BONDS, 40%, UM, I'M SORRY, 60% EQUITIES, 40% BONDS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY IS, IS LIKE YOUR STANDARD PORTFOLIO FOR A BALANCED TYPE OF, UH, OF, UH, A PORTFOLIO.
UM, THAT PORTFOLIO IS DOWN ROUGHLY 17.5%, UM, IN 2022, WHICH IS I THINK THE WORST YEAR, UH, ON RECORD SINCE 1938.
SO, I MEAN, JUST TO KIND OF PUT THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE, HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS, UM, OF A YEAR FOR ALL ASSET CLASSES LAST YEAR, ONE OF THE WORST YEARS, UM, ON RECORD WHEN YOU KIND OF BLEND ALL THE ASSET CLASSES TOGETHER.
ONCE AGAIN, TYPICALLY YOU HAVE A YEAR WHERE IF THE EQUITY EQUITY MARKETS ARE DOWN, YOUR BONDS KIND OF HOLD, HOLD THE BALLOT, HOLD THE BALLOTS AND HOLD YOU UP.
UM, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS IN A SITUATION WHERE EVERYTHING'S COMING DOWN BECAUSE OF A, A RISING INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT, AND YOU'RE STARTING TO HIGHER VALUATION.
SO, UM, SO WITH THAT SAID, YOU KIND OF TAKE A LOOK AT THE, THE PERFORMANCE OF THE ACCOUNT, UM, YEAR FOR THE YEAR OF DEC, YOU KNOW, JANUARY 1ST TO DECEMBER 31ST.
PORTFOLIO IS DOWN ABOUT 16 AND 16 AND A QUARTER, UM, SIMILAR TO THAT 60 40 PORTFOLIO WHERE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENCE AS WE MIX IN SOME REAL ASSETS, UM, WHICH WAS A BENEFIT TO THE PORTFOLIO IN THAT IT DIDN'T EXPERIENCE AS MUCH DOWNDRAFT, UM, AS THE EQUITY MARKET.
SO REAL ASSETS ARE INFLATION LINKED BONDS, UM, SOME COMMODITIES AND SOME REAL ESTATE EXPOSURE.
UH, AND SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY THE PORTFOLIO WAS DOWN A LITTLE BIT LESS RELATIVE, UH, TO LIKE A 60 40 STANDARD PORTFOLIO.
UM, BUT CLEARLY A, A A CHALLENGE IN DIFFICULT YEAR.
AND YOU CAN SEE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER, UH, THE LAST QUARTER, WE HAD A, A GOOD STRONG BOUNCE BACK.
UM, YOU KNOW, FINISHING THE LAST THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR UP ABOUT SEVEN AND QUARTER PERCENT.
UM, THE, THE LOWS CAME IN IN OCTOBER.
AT ONE POINT THE MARKET WAS DOWN, I THINK 25%.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NASDAQ WAS DOWN LIKE 33%.
UM, SO JUST A REALLY, REALLY VOLATILE YEAR.
PRETTY, PRETTY CHALLENGING ACROSS THE BOARD.
UM, YOU CAN SEE WE FINISHED THE YEAR ACTUALLY JUST UP, UH, OVER OUR TARGET JUST A LITTLE BIT AT 63% WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY.
NOW, THE WAY THE PORTFOLIO'S POSITIONED AS I, AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE A LITTLE BIT UNDERWEIGHT ON RISK.
SO THE PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION TODAY IS ACTUALLY ABOUT 60% EQUITIES, UM, ABOUT 35% FIXED INCOME AND ABOUT 3%, UM, REAL ASSETS.
SO A LITTLE BIT MORE CAUTIOUS NOW VERSUS OUR, OUR LONG-TERM TARGET ALLOCATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, JUST WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT ONCE AGAIN, MAYBE THERE'S NOT QUITE AS MUCH UPSIDE AS WE WOULD HOPE THE MARKET, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A BUFFER ON THE DOWNSIDE, AND WE THINK FIXED INCOME NOW PROVIDES THAT.
AND THEN IF YOU REALLY KIND OF BREAK DOWN PERFORMANCE DRIVERS, YOU KNOW, WHAT DID WE DO GOOD? WHAT DID WE DO BAD? UM, WHERE WE STRUGGLED THIS YEAR WAS IN SOME OF OUR, OUR ACTIVE MANAGERS, UM, REALLY JUST ANY MANAGER THAT WAS FOCUSED ON, UH, GROWTH, UM, VERSUS SAY VALUE AS AS AN INVESTMENT STYLE.
UM, SO GROWTH ARE, ARE YOUR COMPANIES THAT TEND TO BE, UH, A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST GENERALLY MORE RISKY BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL REINVESTING MONEY INTO THE BUSINESS.
THEY'RE MAYBE NOT AS PROFITABLE.
THEY, THEY'RE STILL KIND OF GROWING OUT THERE, THEIR BUSINESS MODEL, FOR EXAMPLE.
UH, AND HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, GROWTH HAS REALLY OUTPERFORMED, UM, VALUE ON A RELATIVE BASIS.
'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES IT'S THOSE, YOU KNOW, TECH COMPANIES AND STUFF LIKE THAT THAT MAKE UP, UH, A LOT OF THAT GROWTH, UM, ALLOCATION.
THEY'VE DONE REALLY WELL FOR THE LAST DECADE.
2022 WAS NOT ONE OF THOSE YEARS THOUGH.
2022 WAS A YEAR, EVERYTHING KIND OF REVERSED, UM, WHERE GROWTH REALLY GOT BEATEN UP.
AND VALUE AND CYCLICALS WERE, WERE THE AREAS THAT DID WELL.
AND SO FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, THE LOW SAT PORTFOLIO BEING LONGER TERM IN NATURE, WE, WE DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERWEIGHT TWO GROWTH, UM, AND IT, IT HURT US ON A RELATIVE BASIS.
SO, UH, THE US LARGE CAP, WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF UNDERPERFORMANCE THERE.
UM, BUT IN THE SMALL CAP SPACE, WE, WE DID HAVE SOME OUTPERFORMANCE, NAMELY BECAUSE ONE OF OUR MANAGERS BEING A, A VALUE
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ORIENTED MANAGER, UM, AND JUST TO KIND OF PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE, IF YOU LOOK AT LIKE THE INDEXES GROWTH IN 2022 WAS DOWN, UH, I THINK 25% VALUE AS A FACTOR WAS ONLY DOWN 7%.THAT'S THE WIDEST DISPARITY THAT THERE'S BEEN IN, IN DECADES.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT
UM, SO ANOTHER, ONCE AGAIN, JUST ANOTHER CHALLENGING YEAR IN, IN MULTIPLE ASPECTS ABOUT THE ONLY THING THAT WORKED WAS, UM, HAVING EXPOSURE TO, TO ENERGY, UH, TO OIL MARKETS, REALLY IN PARTICULAR OIL, OIL AND GAS.
UM, AND THEN ON THE INTERNATIONAL SIDE, INTERNATIONAL ACTUALLY DID BETTER THAN, THAN US MARKETS.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPED EUROPE, UM, JAPAN, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THEY ACTUALLY DID BETTER THAN, UH, THAN US MARKETS, WHICH HASN'T BEEN THE CASE FOR A LONG TIME EITHER.
UM, AND THEN FIXED INCOME ONCE AGAIN, DOWN ON A LITTLE, OVER 12% IN FIXED INCOME AND BONDS, UH, VERSUS A BENCHMARK OF 13%.
SO DID BETTER IN FIXED INCOME VERSUS A BENCHMARK.
BUT ONCE AGAIN, WHEN YOU'RE DOWN 12%, UH, IN A BOND PORTFOLIO THAT IS VERY, VERY ABNORMAL, UM, AND NOT SOMETHING THAT, UH, YOU, YOU'RE TYPICALLY EXPECTING TO SEE.
UM, THE GOOD THING AND THE BENEFIT IS THAT WE'RE IN AN ENVIRONMENT NOW WHERE FIXED INCOME PORTFOLIOS ARE GENERATING A YIELD AGAIN, UM, WITH, WITH, YOU KNOW, YIELD YIELDS IN THAT FOUR POINT HALF TO 5% RANGE NOW.
UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ON A LONGER TERM BASIS IS, IS GONNA SERVE THE PORTFOLIO WELL, BUT IT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO KIND OF RECOUP THE PAIN FROM 2022 ESSENTIALLY.
SO, UM, OVERALL, ONCE AGAIN, A VERY CHALLENGING YEAR, VERY DIFFICULT YEAR.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'RE AT LEAST IN A POSITION WHERE, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO KIND OF START WORKING OUR WAY FORWARD.
E ESSENTIALLY WE HAD THE PERFORMANCE FROM 2021 KIND OF WIPED OUT BY 2022.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT LIKE THE LAST TWO YEARS RUNNING, WE'RE KIND OF FLAT, UM, LAST THREE YEARS.
UNLESS THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, WE'RE JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME, NO QUESTIONS FOR ME.
ANY QUESTION BOARD FOR EVERYONE PERSONALLY? I THINK THE STORY IS REMAIN INVESTED.
JUST LET THE MARKET DO THE WORK.
WELL I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION.
YEAH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
THANKS FOR HAVING US, US ALL RIGHT.
AND YEAH, WE ARE RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.
WHICH BRINGS US TO A PRESENTATION FROM MR. RILEY.
THE FIRST THING THAT I NEED DIRECTION ON TONIGHT IS AT THE LAST MEETING I HANDED THIS MAP OUT TO YOU.
YOU KNOW, WE, UM, WE HAVE ADOPTED A NEW CAMP ROAD INTERCHANGE DISTRICT.
I ASKED YOU, IT'S THE SAME MAP 'CAUSE I HANDED OUT LAST TIME, BUT I ASKED YOU FOR YOUR DIRECT IN-LAW.
THE NEXT STEP IS TO PROPOSE SOME REZONING OF PROPERTY IN THE CAMP ROAD INTERCHANGE AREA.
SO, UM, SO, UH, AS YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE THE UPDATE.
YOU, I DIDN'T MISSPEAK, I SPOKE TO THE DOT, VERY INTERESTING POINT.
THEY'RE SELLING THAT PROPERTY WHERE THE, WHERE THE OLD, UH, LOOP WAS.
AND I SAID, THEY'RE NOT GONNA ALLOW ACCESS IN THAT WHOLE AREA.
THEY, THEY ACTUALLY HAVE, CHA HAS CLARIFIED THAT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWING ACCESS FROM THIS ROAD TO THE, TO THE, UH, ACTUAL INTERCHANGE OR FROM THE INTERCHANGE TO, UH, COMMERCE PLACE.
BUT THEY ARE GONNA ALLOW ACCESS RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE, FROM THE INTERCHANGE ITSELF.
SO THEY'RE GONNA CHANGE THE RIGHT OF WAY AND ALLOW ACCESS RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE INTERCHANGE.
SO I HAVE THAT LETTER FROM THEM AND I'LL, I'LL UPDATE YOU.
SO THAT DOES BODE WELL FOR THE SALE OF THAT PROPERTY IF THEY'RE GONNA ALLOW ACCESS.
DEFINITELY WE'VE SAID FROM DAY ONE, IT'S IN THE COMP PLAN.
WE ARE DEFINITELY REZONING THE UN ZONE PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT'LL GO UP FOR SALE.
THIS NEW CAMP ROAD INTERCHANGE DISTRICT, BY THE WAY, HAVE COPIES HERE.
IT'S ALSO, UH, FOR YOU, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DISTRICT WE ADOPTED QUESTION I HAD OF YOU.
WHAT ACROSS THE INTERCHANGE DOCUMENT, RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE INTERCHANGE, THEY WOULD HAVE ALLOW AN ACCESS HERE.
IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.
ACROSS FROM, YOU KNOW, MAKING A FOUR WAY.
THEY USUALLY DON'T DO THAT, BUT THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE THEY WOULD ALLOW ACCESS BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO GO EITHER WAY WITH PROPER SEPARATION DISTANCES FROM, FROM MAJOR ROADS.
SO THAT'S WHERE THEY'RE GONNA ALLOW ACCESS.
SO BACK TO THE QUESTION AT HAND.
I KNOW I HAVE A BRIEF TIME IS I PUT SOME PROPERTIES THERE WITH QUESTION MARKS ON IT, WHICH ARE ONES I THINK YOU SHOULD CONSIDER.
I HAVE THE ONE MARKED THE, THE BIG BENDERSON
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PIECE OF PROPERTY.NO, BECAUSE BENDERSON HAS STATED UNEQUIVOCALLY THEY DON'T WANT THEIR PROPERTY REZONED 'CAUSE THEY HAVEN'T ACTIVE APPLICATION.
YOU'VE ALL KNOW ABOUT IT AND YOU'VE READ ABOUT IN THE PAPER FOR 800,000 SQUARE FEET OF DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT ME THAT TONIGHT OR OVER THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.
'CAUSE AT THE NEXT BOARD MEETING, I'D LIKE TO AT LEAST BEGIN THAT PROCESS.
UM, REZONING PROPERTY, WE HAVE THE DISTRICT, AS I SAID, WE'RE DEFINITELY REZONING THE ONE AND THEN THE OTHER ONES WITH QUESTION MARKS ON THEM, I WOULD SAY ACROSS THE STREET, NO PROBLEM.
THAT PROPERTY HAS BEEN, THERE'S THE OLD HOTEL THERE AND THEN THERE'S BIG VACANT PIECE OF PROPERTY NEXT TO IT.
THOSE HAVE BEEN TALKED ABOUT FOR YEARS OF WHAT SHOULD BE DONE THERE.
WE DO NOT WANNA LEAVE THOSE PROPERTIES C TWO AND WHATEVER ACROSS THE STREET.
THAT'S NOT OUR INTENT FOR THAT.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CAN GO INTO C TWO ZONING DISTRICT, IT'S JUST NOT PROPER FOR THAT, THAT AREA.
SO THAT WOULD BE MY SUGGESTION TO AT LEAST THE INTERCHANGE, THE PROPERTIES ACROSS THE STREET AND POSSIBLY, AND ON THE RECORD, WE HAVE SPOKEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THE PROPERTIES TO THE NORTH HERE WITH THE QUESTION MARKS ON THEM ON THAT SIDE OF THE ROAD.
I BELIEVE A LOT OF THAT IS OWNED BY LIBERATORY MANAGEMENT.
UH, I'VE EXPLAINED TO THAT SOME OF THEIR PROPERTIES ARE SPLIT ZONE OR INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL AND WHATEVER.
I I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GREAT REZONING.
THEY DIDN'T LEAVE THE CONVERSATION SAYING NO, BUT THEY WERE, THEY WERE SKEPTICAL ABOUT REZONING THOSE PROPERTIES.
SO, UM, WE'D LIKE TO WORK WITH BENEN WAS A FLAT, NO, THEY, THEY HAD PLANS FOR THEIR PROPERTY.
SO I DUNNO, SUPERVISING HOW DO YOU WANNA, DO YOU WANNA JUST SO MY THOUGHTS, UM, UH, GOING INTO THE, THE, THE CONVERSATION ON THE CAMPGROUND INTERCHANGE DISTRICT WAS THAT IT WOULD BE FOR, FOR FOR THE AREA, WHEREVER APPLICABLE AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE TO APPLY.
UM, MY THOUGHTS WOULD BE TO SUPPORT EXTENDING THAT, UH, REZONING TO THE PARCELS THAT YOU HAVE INDICATED HERE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE, THE VENDORS AND PARCEL AS WELL.
UM, BUT I WILL, UH, LEAVE IT OPEN TO, TO THE BOARD TO, TO WEIGH IN ON THAT.
I THINK WE'VE DONE A LOT THROUGH THE PROCESS, THE COMP PLAN.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS.
UM, WE'VE HAD SOME OTHER DISCUSS.
YOU PAID A LOT OF MONEY, YOU HAVE A GREAT GATEWAY PLAN THAT SHOWS ACTUALLY A DEVELOPMENT PATTERN FOR THAT ACROSS THE STREET.
UM, LIKE I SAID, UNLESS I HEAR DIFFERENTLY AND I DON'T WANNA STOP THE CONVERSATION, BUT I WILL PROPOSE.
SO OBVIOUSLY WE PROPOSE REZONINGS WITH A BUNCH OF PROPERTIES.
SOME MAY MAKE SENSE FROM THROUGH PUBLIC HEARING AND OTHER COORDINATED REVIEWS MAY, MAY FALL OUT.
BUT I'LL WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU RIGHT NOW.
I'LL GO WITH THAT UNTIL, UNTIL IF I HEAR DIFFERENTLY.
SO AT THE NEXT MEETING I WILL BEGIN THE PROCESS AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE YOU WILL GET CALLS ON THIS.
THIS IS A BIG CHANGE TO THAT AREA.
AND IF YOU HAVE IT LATER, I'LL HAND OUT.
I HAVE A COPY OF THE
UM, THE SECOND ITEM ON THE AGENDA, I DO NOT HAVE A HANDOUT FOR.
UM, YOU HAD, YOU HAD THE FIVE SHEETS SHOWING THE INDUSTRIAL ZONINGS.
UM, AND I WANNA APPLAUD CINDY FROM THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT WHO SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON THOSE, ON THOSE PROPERTIES AND FOUND SOME GLITCHES AND SBL NUMBERS THAT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE.
SO ALL I'M ASKING FOR IS THE NEXT MEETING.
SHE HAS PREPARED, CINDY HAS PREPARED ALL THE MAILINGS FOR ONCE YOU CALL THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ONCE YOU CALL THE PUBLIC HEARING KATHY, AND YOU ASKED THAT QUESTION TOO, WE'LL HAVE COPIES OF EVERYTHING 'CAUSE WHEN THEY PUT THE NOTICE IN THERE, SO AT THE NEXT MEETING IF YOU'RE HAPPY, WE'RE GONNA BEGIN THAT PROCESS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A LOT OF PROPERTIES.
SO, UH, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT BREAKING IT UP MAYBE INTO TWO OR AT LEAST TWO NIGHTS AND NOT DO 'EM ALL ONE NIGHT.
SO I'LL WORK WITH, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE TWO OR THREE NIGHTS THAT'LL STRETCH IT OUT A COUPLE MONTHS.
BUT IT MAY MAKE SENSE TO DO THAT, UH, TO BREAK IT INTO THOSE INTO GROUPS SO WE DON'T GET, I MEAN 'CAUSE THEY'RE GONNA GET A LOT OF NOTICE.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY NOTICES OF PROBABLY HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PROPERTIES THAT'LL BE NOTIFIED.
AND I THINK CERTAIN PROPERTIES WILL BE NOTIFIED FOR MULTIPLE RIGHT.
SO MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE LIKE ONE AT A TIME.
DO FIVE SEPARATE, IT'S GONNA BE ON FIVE SEPARATE NIGHTS OR MAYBE DO 'EM SEPARATE.
WE DO DO 'EM SEPARATE, BUT MAYBE DO TWO OF THEM ONE NIGHT, THREE OF THEM ANOTHER NIGHT IN, IN THE FOLLOWING.
BUT HAVE 'EM SEPARATE AS I AGREE.
THEY'RE SEPARATE LOCAL LAW REVISIONS OR YEAH.
MAYBE WE CAN LOOK AT THE MAP AND FIGURE OUT WHICH TWO TO PUT TOGETHER SO THERE'S LESS OVERLAP.
BECAUSE OTHERWISE I THINK RESIDENTS WOULD GET CONFUSED.
SO I WILL WORK WITH YOUR OFFICE AND AGAIN, WE'LL HAVE RESOLUTION SIMILAR BEFORE, BUT ACTUALLY CALLING A A A, A PUBLIC HEARING ON THEM.
UM, WE ARE, WE HAVE REFERRED 'EM TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
IT'S ON THE PLANNING BOARD AGENDA IN APRIL.
AND WE'VE REFERRED IN SUPERVISOR WORK WITH YOU.
UH, THE CODE REVIEW COMMITTEE TECHNICALLY SHOULD MAKE THEIR FINAL COMMENTS ON
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IT.UH, AND WE ALSO HAVE A COUPLE OTHER ITEMS THAT JOSH HAS US COME IN FOR THE CODE REVIEW COMMITTEE.
SO, UM, THAT IS MY, AND I'M UNDER MY 15 MINUTES, SO I'LL USE THAT EXTRA TIME IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND JUST TO, I HAVE MY STANDARD REPORT TONIGHT, BUT I ALSO WANT TO HAND YOU AND JOSH, JOSH IS HERE NOW.
A COUPLE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON, WE'RE WORKING ON A MEMO TO KEEP YOU UP TO DATE.
'CAUSE YOU GET PHONE CALLS ALL THE TIME OF ALL THE ACTIVE PROJECTS, WHETHER THEY'RE TABLED OR NOT BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD THESE 20 YEARS.
AND WE'RE ALSO DOING, BY THE WAY, THE COORDINATE BOARD WITH THE ENGINEERING AND BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
WE'RE TAKING ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WERE ON THE PLANNING BOARD'S AGENDA OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
'CAUSE THEY'RE JUST BASICALLY TYPED INTO A SPREADSHEET RIGHT NOW.
AND ACTUALLY TAKING THAT, MAKING AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET, NOT ONLY, OKAY, THIS IS THE PROJECT.
WE COULD EVEN REFERENCE YOUR FILE NUMBER, THE ENGINEERING FILE DEPARTMENT AND WHERE IT STANDS.
WE HAVE PROJECTS THAT WERE APPROVED TWO YEARS AGO THAT NEVER WENT FORWARD.
WE NEED TO NOTIFY THEM AND TELL THEM WE'RE CONSIDERING THEIR PROJECT IS, BUT IT'S JUST UPDATING ALL THAT OF WHAT PROJECT THEY'RE ACTIVE.
JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WITH A COUPLE OF OUR PROJECTS WHERE THEY, THEY THEY JUST KIND OF GOT LOST IN LIMBO.
WE DIDN'T HEAR FROM THEM FOR, FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME.
WE NEED TO CLOSE THOSE PROJECTS OUT AND ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE AGREED THERE COULD BE PROJECTS THAT WERE APPROVED FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO, BUT THEY'RE STILL NOT ENGINEERING A SIGN OFF ON 'EM.
OR THERE'S ENGINEERING SIGN OFF AND THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT HASN'T ISSUED BUILDING PERMITS YET.
THERE'S ALL TIMEFRAMES IN THERE FOR PEOPLE TO BE NOTIFIED AND SAY, AND IF WE MAKE THIS ELECTRONIC, I'LL WORK WITH YOU GUYS, EXCEL STREETS, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DO IT.
THERE'S GOTTA BE A WAY TO NOTIFY PEOPLE ABOUT, HEY, YOUR PROJECT HAS EXPIRED.
YOU HAVEN'T, HAVEN'T DONE WHAT YOU NEEDED TO DO ON IT.
WE CAN'T JUST HAVE THESE PROJECTS SITTING OUT THERE.
WE, JOSH WILL GET PHONE CALLS AND PULL OUT A FILE AND GO, WELL WHERE'S THIS PROJECT STAND? THERE'S NO NO DOCUMENT THAT SAY, OTHER THAN CALLING ENGINEERING, CALLING BILLING INSPECTOR, DID IT EVER GET BUILT? IS THERE, IS THERE AN ISSUE WITH IT? THAT CAME UP.
FOR EXAMPLE, UM, WITH THE TACO BELL PROJECT, THAT WAS THE ONE WHERE WE APPROVED IT.
IT WAS GOING, I THINK ENGINEERING MAY HAVE OR NOT SIGNED OFF, BUT IT, THEN WE GOT A LETTER FROM THE DOT HAVING PROBLEMS WITH IT.
SO WE NEEDED TO RESOLVE THAT AND KNOW THIS IS THE STATUS OF IT AND HOW TO RESOLVE IT.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT JOSH IS WORKING ON.
WE ARE WHAT'S THAT? THAT'S HUGE.
'CAUSE THERE'S SO MANY PROJECTS IN FRONT AND PLANNING MORE THAT YOU MAKE YOUR DECISIONS REALLY BASED ON YEP.
THE CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND IF YOU DON'T TRULY KNOW WHAT THE PLANS ARE FOR THE PROPERTY GOING IN AND THE SITE PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED, YOU CAN'T REALLY ASSESS THE NEEDS OF THAT COMMUNITY APPROPRIATELY.
ALSO, WE NEED TO SOMEHOW CONNOTATE SO PEOPLE WHO, AND THEY, THAT'S ONE OF THE HARD JOBS WE'RE DOING IS KNOWING YOU'RE TRANSITIONING HOW WE GET ALL THAT INFORMATION.
SO IT'S NOT JUST IN MY HEAD OR SARAH'S HEAD OR SOMEONE ELSE'S HEAD KNOWS THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF SOMETHING THAT HAS GONE ON.
THE EXAMPLE, IT'S IN THE MEMO.
THE EXAMPLE IS FOR THE BENDERSON PROJECT TOWN BOARD, DO YOU REALIZE THE TOWN BOARD REZONED PART OF THAT PROPERTY EIGHT, 10 YEARS AGO AND IT WAS BASED UPON A UH, GEIS THAT WAS DONE FOR THAT DEVELOPMENT AND YOU HAD CONDITIONS THAT REZONING, WE NEED TO KNOW THAT.
I WOULD SUGGEST ON YOUR ZONING MAPS, A LOT OF TIMES DO IT THAT ANYTIME YOU PLACE A CONDITIONAL REZONING, WE PUT A C AND IT WOULD GO AS A LAYER ON THE, ON THE ZONING MAP.
OR SOMEONE WOULD SAY, HEY, THERE'S CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS APPROVAL.
THE OTHER ONE IS PUTTING AN S ON IT, THAT IT HAS A SPECIAL USE PERMIT.
BECAUSE WHEN A PROJECT HAS A SPECIAL USE PERMIT, THERE'S ALWAYS CONDITIONS TO HOW IT'S UTILIZED.
SO TRYING TO SET IT UP SO THAT AS YOU TRANSITION THAT YOU HAVE A METHODOLOGY AND THEN WHEN THE NEW PEOPLE COME IN, THEY MAY EVEN APPROVE THE SYSTEM, BUT AT LEAST HAVE A WAY TO TRANSFERRING ALL THAT INFORMATION OVER AS YOU HIRE NEW PEOPLE TO DO THIS, THIS WORK.
SO WE WANNA, AND WE'LL WORK WITH KEN BECAUSE KEN'S WORKING ON MAKING SURE THOSE DEPARTMENTS ALL WORK TOGETHER AND THEY HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.
IT'S JUST, AND WE'RE VERY BUSY RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE GONNA SEE FROM THE LIST JOSH IS GETTING PHONE CALLS AT THEM AND WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF PROJECTS COMING IN.
THE OTHER THING WE DID TODAY, WE SENT TO THE CONSERVATION BOARD IS I'M TRYING TO PUT UP A PROCESS AND PROCEDURE FOR EACH ONE OF THE ADVISORY BOARDS THAT STATE BOARD IS NEXT, UH, CONSERVATION BOARD.
WE WANTED TO REFERENCE THE LAWS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE REFERENCING.
THE ITEMS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GIVING US INPUT TO JUST GIVE 'EM SOME GUIDE AND ALSO TALK ABOUT THE SCHEDULE WHEN THINGS HAVE TO BE DUE TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
BECAUSE I KNOW IT FRUSTRATES THE ADVISORY BOARDS WHEN THEY'RE OUT OF SYNC WITH THE PLANNING BOARD AND THEY SUBMIT A MEMO AND THE PLANNING BOARD'S ALREADY ACTED ON, ON THE DEVELOPMENT.
SO WE GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT'S AN IMPROVED.
SO WE'RE GONNA TRY TO IMPROVE THAT.
BUT THINK THAT, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A WELCOME, UH, CHANGE FOR THE APPLICANTS AS WELL.
'CAUSE WHAT I'VE NOTICED IN THE PAST YEAR IS WE HAVE APPLICATIONS GOING THROUGH THE VARIOUS BODIES, RIGHT.
AND SOMEBODY FROM ONE ENTITY WILL BE ASKING QUESTIONS THAT REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE COMMITTEE.
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BUT YOU KNOW, AND THE APPLICANT IS PREPARED TO DISCUSS THAT ELEMENT OF THEIR APPLICATION EITHER SO THAT I, AND, AND THE MEMBERS OF THESE COMMITTEES THEMSELVES ARE ASKING FOR THAT, THAT CLARITY, AND I'VE SAID IT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MY REPORTS TOO, IS THAT AT SOME POINT I THINK THE WATERFRONT COMMITTEE AND THE TOWN BOARD SHOULD DO A PRESENTATION LIKE THIS BECAUSE I BELIEVE, AND WE'VE SEEN IT LOOK RECENTLY, IS THAT THE WATERFRONT COMMITTEE IS GONNA GET MORE AND MORE ACTIVE.THERE'S MORE PROJECTS PLANNED ON THE WATERFRONT, THERE'S GONNA BE CHANGES IN THE WATERFRONT.
AND WHEN YOU ADOPT AN LWRP, YOU'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO SEE CHANGES.
THERE'S QUESTIONS ABOUT, WE HAVE A MIXED USE DISTRICT, SHOULD WE APPLYING IT TO ANY WATERFRONT PROPERTIES OR ARE WE TRYING TO GET RESIDENTIAL OUT OF THE WATERFRONT AREAS? I THINK THERE MAY BE APPROPRIATE AREAS AND NOT APPROPRIATE AREAS.
SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY.
I WAS HOPING THAT SEAN WOULD BE HERE TONIGHT.
I WANTED TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT HIS PROPOSAL FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PARK WHERE HE IS GOING WITH THAT.
HE SHOULD GET INPUT FROM THE ENGINEER AIR OFFICE.
HE SHOULD GET INPUT FROM THE PLANNING, HE SHOULD GET INPUT FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
UH, THERE'S ISSUES THAT, MANY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAT PART THAT, THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY, I'VE KNOWN IT FOR YEARS.
IT'S, IT HAS INTERESTING CHARACTERISTICS TO IT.
SO, UM, SO I'VE GIVEN YOU A LOT OF INFORMATION IN A SHORT TIME AND I APOLOGIZE, I DO HAVE THE HANDOUTS THAT GO THROUGH ALL THOSE THINGS.
UM, BUT UNFORTUNATELY YOU HAVE A LOT OF BIG AND SOMEWHAT CONTROVERSIAL PROJECTS AT THE TOWN RIGHT NOW.
AND I TRY TO REITERATE, I GET, WE GET THE PHONE CALLS ALL THE TIME.
WHY IS THE TOWN DOING THIS? TOWN'S NOT DOING ANY OF THIS.
THIS IS ALL PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT BEING PROPOSED.
THE TOWN HAS TO, HAS TO ENTERTAIN.
WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS WITH IT.
IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE SAYING THIS IS GREAT.
WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS WITH IT.
WE GOTTA FOLLOW THE RULES OF THE TOWN.
AND YOU AS THE LEGISLATIVE BOARD FOLLOWS AND SAYS, HEY, ARE OUR LOCAL LAWS WORKING CORRECTLY? DO WE NEED TO CHANGE THEM? IF IT'S NOT HEADING IN THE DIRECTION YOU WANT, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO LEGISLATE THAT CHANGE AND CHANGE THE LAWS OF THE TOWN.
NOT A LECTURE, BUT I DID THAT TALK A COUPLE, COUPLE TOWNS THIS YEAR BECAUSE THEY'RE SEEING INCREASED ACTIVITIES ALL A SUDDEN.
UM, SO I'M STILL UNDER MY 15 MINUTES.
ANY QUESTIONS? I'LL DO THESE HANDOUTS.
UM, DOC, I'M SORRY I GAVE YOU OPPORTUNITY.
WAS THERE ANY QUESTION, ANYTHING YOU WANTED TO POINT OUT TO THE TOWN BOARD? I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR TOWN BOARD.
SO I GOT A CALL EARLIER TODAY, UM, ASKING ABOUT 3,800 HOOVER ROAD.
IT'S ACTUALLY BEFORE THE PLAYING BOARD ON THE FIFTH.
UM, IT'S THE TOWN HOME PROJECT, UM, I HAVE IS REPORTED.
UM, THEY WERE BASICALLY ASKING IF THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, UH, HAS GONE THROUGH, UM, THERE'S A, I BELIEVE IT'S A LANDMARK, UH, APPLICATION GOING BEFORE THAT PROJECT.
AND THEY WAS ASKING WHAT THE STATUS WAS AND I TOLD THEM I WOULD HAVE TO TOWN BOARD WHOEVER THE LIAISON IS FOR IT OR I'M GETTING THE INFORMATION.
THEY MOVED ON THE APPLICATION MORE WITH THE STATUTE THAT FOLLOW THE QUESTION? WELL, THEY'VE BEEN, THEY'VE RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT IT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY'RE ASKING YOU ABOUT IT.
UM, IT'S, IT'S ON HOLD RIGHT NOW.
WHO IS THE, WHEN JOHN GETS PHONE CALLS OR ISSUES ABOUT THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD, WHO, WHO ARE THE, WHO ARE THE BEST PEOPLE TO CONTACT ON NATALIE? ME.
AS FAR AS THE BOARD, IT WOULD BE BETTER.
LIAISON, I, IF WE GET ANYTHING THAT IS RELATED TO HISTORIC PROPERTY, WE SHOULD SEND IT TO YOU AND THE NEWLY FORMED.
SO MARK, I HATE TO SAY I HEARD, I HEARD YOU SAY, OKAY.
WELL I BELIEVE WE DID THE, UM, SERVE PRESERVATION BOARD DID RECEIVE A RESPONSE FROM THE DEVELOPER ON THAT.
WELL I JUST, THAT JUST CAME IN AND I CIRCULATED THAT TO THE ENTIRE BOARD.
I CAN CERTAINLY FORWARD IT TO YOU IF YOU WOULD FORWARD THAT, UM, BOTH TO JOSH AND TO THE REST OF THE TOWN BOARD.
THE REST THE TOWN BOARD HAS IT.
OH, YOU DID? OH, I THOUGHT YOU SAID THE BOARD SAID, I SENT IT TO EVERY TOWN BOARD MEMBER ALONG WITH, UM, THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION BECAUSE I THOUGHT THE BOARD DIDN'T WANNA KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
SO YES, IN FACT, I SENT IT THE SAME DAY.
I KNEW THAT IT WAS THERE, UH, FOR SOME REASON I DIDN'T FIND OUT ABOUT IT UNTIL THE LAST WEEK.
SO, UM, THEY, WHAT WHAT'S HAPPENED IS VENISON, BUT SHOULDN'T HAVE VENDORS.
EVERYTHING'S VENDORS, BUT, UM, THE, THE OWNER, UM, HAS, HAS PRESENTED REASONS WHY THEY DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE A LANDMARK, BUT IT'S NOT HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH.
SO THAT IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION ITSELF AT A HEARING.
SO BASICALLY, BUT THERE'S NO HEARING CURRENTLY SCHEDULED
AND THEY, THEY REALIZE THAT YOU DESIGNATED A PROPERTY, WHETHER IT'S STATE OR LOCAL, HISTORIC, IT DOES HAVE IMPACTS
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ON SURROUNDING PROPERTIES.IT DOESN'T JUST IMPACT THAT PROPERTY WHEN YOU HAVE PROPERTIES THAT ARE JOINING IT, THEY HAVE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THAT THEY'RE ADJOINING A HISTORIC PROPERTY.
ALRIGHT, THAT BRINGS US TO SIX 15.
AND WE SET ASIDE THIS TIME TO TALK ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNS CONFERENCE, WHICH, UH, TOOK PLACE LAST MONTH, UH, IN NEW YORK CITY.
THE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNS CONFERENCE IS, UH, FOR FOLKS FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, MOSTLY TOWN GOVERNMENTS THROUGHOUT NEW YORK STATE, TO GET TOGETHER EVERY FEBRUARY TO TALK ABOUT, UM, WHAT'S WORKING, WHAT ARE THEIR CHALLENGES, WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES.
IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK WITH PEOPLE FROM OTHER COMMUNITIES.
UM, AND IT IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM EXPERTS IN THE VARIOUS FIELDS, FIELDS THAT IMPACT LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
SO I, UH, ATTENDED, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY AROUND, UH, SIX OR SEVEN, SEVEN PRESENTATIONS.
UM, AND, UH, SOME OF THEM, UH, WERE MORE APPLICABLE TO THE TOWN AND OTHERS.
UH, BUT I WANTED TO SHARE, FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK, UH, MY COLLEAGUES ON THE TOWN BOARD FOR APPROVING, UH, THE, THE EXPENSE TO ATTEND THIS TRAINING.
AND I WANNA THANK MY COLLEAGUES ON THE TOWN BOARD FOR ATTENDING AS WELL.
THIS WAS, I THINK THE FIRST YEAR IN A LONG TIME THAT WE HAD ALL FIVE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD ATTEND.
UM, AND, UH, WHAT I SAW THERE IS THAT THERE CERTAINLY ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM TOWN BOARDS THROUGHOUT NEW YORK STATE THAT ATTEND, BUT THERE WAS ALSO CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, FINANCE DIRECTORS, PLANNERS, UM, FOLKS FROM ALL TYPES OF TOWN OFFICES, UH, THAT WERE THERE.
OFTEN THERE'S A, A DIFFERENT THEME EVERY YEAR.
THERE MIGHT BE TRACKS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO CERTAIN OCCUPATIONS.
UM, BUT IT WAS CERTAINLY FOR ME, A VALUABLE AND WORTHWHILE EXPERIENCE AMONG THE, UH, SESSIONS THAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT, UM, WAS A LONG-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING, UH, SESSION.
THAT WAS, THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY TO NEW YORK CITY TO, TO SEE.
IT WAS PRESENTED BY, UH, OUR FRIENDS IN THE TOWN OF AMHERST.
UM, AND THAT THIS WAS REALLY, UH, FINANCIAL PLANNING FROM A, A COMMUNITY FOCUS, REALLY LOOKING AT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UNDERSTANDING YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY.
THEY WERE ABLE TO SHARE A LOT OF THEIR EXPERIENCE ON SET IT SETTING THE BOULEVARD MALL PROPERTY UP FOR SUCCESS.
WE HAVE SIMILAR, UH, DYNAMICS HAPPENING HERE WITH, WITH, WITH OUR MALL IN THE NORTH END OF TOWN.
TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, REALLY HAVING A VISION FOR YOUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND ALSO WE DISCUSSED, UM, HOUSING A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
UH, I ATTENDED A SESSION, A NEW YORK STATE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.
I'VE BEEN WORKING, UH, WITHIN NEW YORK STATE CIVIL SERVICE LAW FOR MOST OF MY CAREER.
UH, WORKING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
UH, SO THERE WAS CERTAINLY SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION THAT WAS SHARED.
UM, I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND A SESSION ON PUBLIC SECTOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, UH, WHICH TALKED ABOUT STRATEGY AND APPROACH AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ORGANIZED LABOR.
UH, BUT THE TWO THAT I REALLY LIKE TO FOCUS ON, UM, WERE, UH, A SESSION TITLED THE NORMALIZATION OF EXTREMISM AND THE DEPTH OF THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE AND WHAT TOWNS CAN DO ABOUT IT.
SHOCKING TITLES FOR SURE FOR BOTH OF THESE.
UH, THE NORMALIZATION OF EXTREMISM, I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
UH, BUT THIS SPEAKER, UH, MS. AMY NIK FROM INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA, TALKED ABOUT A GROWING RISE IN EXTREME VIEWS.
AND AS PUBLIC OFFICIALS, AS FOLKS THAT WORK WITHIN GOVERNMENT.
UH, YOU MAY COME ACROSS SOME EXTREME VIEWS AS WE COMMUNICATE WITH, WITH RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT THE TOWN AND, AND FOLKS WHO MAY BE VISITING OUR COMMUNITY.
TO GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS EXTREME VIEW, THIS NIK TALKED ABOUT, UM, WHAT WHAT CAN BE, UH, OFFERED AS A, A THEORY CALLED REPLACEMENT THEORY.
AND THIS THEORY IS THAT THERE EXISTS A COORDINATED EFFORT AMONG ELITES OR A GLOBAL CABAL THAT PLAN TO REPLACE WHITE PEOPLE WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR.
AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, THIS IS ALARMING
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AND DANGEROUS.IN 2019, THE FEDERAL US GOVERNMENT STATED THAT WHITE SUPREMACY AND OTHER FAR RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS ARE THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DOMESTIC TERRORISM THREAT FACING THE UNITED STATES.
AND THEY CAME OUT OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN 2019.
SO IT'S RECENT AND THE TIMING IS CERTAINLY INTERESTING.
SO, UM, SO WHAT YOU MIGHT BE ASKING, WHAT CAN WE DO? WHAT SHOULD WE DO? THERE ARE CERTAINLY RESOURCES AVAILABLE AND THESE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WE NEED TO, IT'S THE OLD ADAGE, IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, FOLKS THAT MAY PRESENT AT OUR LOCAL TOWN OFFICES, UH, PLEASE, IF YOU'RE CONCERNED, UM, SHARE THAT WITH, WITH OUR POLICE CHIEF OR, OR MY OFFICE.
UM, THEY ALSO HAVE A, A GREAT, GREAT WEBSITE IF FOLKS ARE MORE INTERESTED IN THE TOPIC.
AND THAT IS WWW.INTEGRITYFIRSTFORAMERICA.ORG.
THE, UM, SEMINAR ON THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE, THIS WAS, UH, PRESENTED BY, BY AN ATTORNEY, UH, NAMED BRAD PINSKY, WHO I BELIEVE IS IN THE ROCHESTER OR SYRACUSE AREA.
AND HE'S CERTAINLY, UH, KNOWN THROUGHOUT THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE.
UM, BUT HE STARTED THIS PRESENTATION BY SHARING TWO VERY, UH, SCARY AND BOLD PREDICTIONS.
ONE IS THAT THE VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICES WILL BE DONE IN NEW YORK STATE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
AND THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE WILL BE NO, WILL CEASE TO EXIST AFTER 10 YEARS.
HE OUTLINED THE MANY CHALLENGES THAT GO INTO THIS.
IN 1998, NEW YORK STATE HAD 110,000 VOLUNTEERS.
IN 2021, WE WERE DOWN TO 75,000 VOLUNTEERS.
AND IN THAT SAME TIMEFRAME, CALLS TO OUR VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE HAVE INCREASED BY 29%, AND THE COST OF VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT HAVE INCREASED BY 46%.
HE REALLY FOCUSED ON, UM, RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION AS ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUES THAT'S IMPACTING THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE RIGHT NOW.
AND NOT SO MUCH ON RECRUITMENT, BUT RETENTION.
AND HE PRESENTED A CASE THAT WE MAY HEAR FROM PEOPLE THAT VOLUNTEERISM IS AT AN ALL TIME LOW.
HE CONTENDS, AND I'VE CERTAINLY WITNESSED THE ANECDOTAL ACCOUNTS THAT I WOULD AGREE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER.
NOW, HE REFERENCED, UM, PUPPIES AS HIS PROOF THAT PEOPLE ARE VOLUNTEERING AND, AND I KNOW INDIVIDUALS WHO DEVOTE ONE NIGHT A WEEK TO VOLUNTEERING AT, UH, AT A, AT A KITTEN SHELTER.
NOW, I'M NOT TRYING TO CONFLATE CARING FOR KITTENS AND, AND VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE.
UM, BUT MY POINT IS THERE'S MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER NOW THAN THERE REALLY EVER HAVE BEEN.
THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE, UH, HAS OTHER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES TO COMPETE WITH, AND WE'VE ALSO SEEN A GREAT DEAL OF CHANGE, UH, IN THE WORLD AROUND US.
UM, SO HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT SOME POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS, WHICH IS ALSO NICE TO HEAR WHEN SOMEBODY IS RAISING SUCH, SUCH SERIOUS ISSUES.
UM, TALKING ABOUT SOME, SOME PARTNERSHIP AMONG FIRE DEPARTMENTS, UH, FIRE DISTRICTS, UH, AND, AND FIRE COMPANIES SHARING A HIRED VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR, BRINGING AN INCLUSIVE APPROACH TO RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION.
REVAMPING WEBSITES SO THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE PICTURED ON THESE WEBSITES AND VIDEOS AND RECRUITMENT MATERIALS REPRESENT THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT YOU'RE LOOKING TO RECRUIT FROM.
SHARING THE BENEFITS OF JOINING THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE RATHER THAN TALKING ABOUT HOW IT'S SO HARD TO RECRUIT, SHARING THE BENEFITS OF MEETING PEOPLE, DEVELOPING A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK, HELPING PEOPLE, UH, DEVELOPING LEADERSHIP SKILLS, SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY, LEARNING THINGS THAT WILL HELP YOU PURSUE A, A NEW TRADE OR A NEW JOB OPPORTUNITY.
THEY TALKED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING AND THE CHALLENGES THAT OUR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS, UH, HAVE IN ENSURING THAT THEIR VOLUNTEERS GET THAT TRAINING AND POINTED TO THE OPPORTUNITY TO PERHAPS WORK TOGETHER AMONG DEPARTMENTS,
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DISTRICTS, AND COMPANIES ON A TOWN WIDE TRAINING PROGRAM.UM, AND ALSO TO AMEND BYLAWS TO ALLOW FOR COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS.
CURRENTLY, IF YOU WANNA, YOU CAN VOLUNTEER, YOU CAN BECOME A VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER, UM, AND YOU WOULD LIKELY BE WELCOMED INTO THAT ORGANIZATION, UH, TO DO A NUMBER OF THINGS.
UM, BUT THE, UH, THE IDEA HERE WAS IS THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WHO MAY WANNA SUPPORT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UM, BUT NOT WANT TO FIGHT FIRES.
AND THERE'S OTHER, UM, BOOKKEEPING AND FUNDRAISING AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES, UH, THAT, THAT FOLKS CAN HELP OUT WITH AND THAT ARE CERTAINLY SORELY NEEDED WITHIN THE VOLUNTEER FIRE SERVICE.
UM, I HAVE TO SAY THAT I FELT, UH, I FELT GOOD ABOUT HAMBURG AS I HEARD THESE STATISTICS IN THIS PRESENTATION.
I THINK WE'RE FORTUNATE IN THAT WE HAVE SOME VERY TALENTED AND WELL-RESOURCED FIRE DEPARTMENTS, BUT WE'RE NOT UNLIKE OTHER COMMUNITIES.
AND, UM, IT WAS GOOD TO KNOW THAT THERE'S FOLKS THAT HAVE, HAVE BEEN THERE BEFORE.
AND, UH, I WILL BE MEETING WITH THE, UH, FIRE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION, UH, NEXT MONTH AT THE, AT THEIR MONTHLY MEETING TO SHARE SOME OF THIS INFORMATION.
BUT TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT, THAT WE HAVE IN HAMBURG.
SO, UH, ALL IN ALL, MY EXPERIENCE AT THE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNS CONFERENCE, UH, WAS VERY BENEFICIAL.
CERTAINLY IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I WISH I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPERIENCE AT THE VERY BEGINNING, UH, OF MY TERM LAST YEAR.
UM, BUT OF COURSE THEY WEREN'T HOLDING THE CONFERENCE BECAUSE OF COVID RESTRICTIONS AT THE TIME.
SO, AGAIN, TO MY TOWN BOARD, THANK YOU FOR, UH, FOR ALLOWING US TO HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY.
AND TO THE TAXPAYERS AT VAN BERG.
THANK YOU FOR, UH, GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO BETTER SERVE YOU.
I'LL GO NEXT AND I'LL START BY SAYING THE SAME THING.
I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY AFFORDED BY MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS AND THROUGH THE BUDGET, UM, AS PROVIDED BY THE TAXPAYERS OR OUR TOWN.
IT DEFINITELY WAS A TERRIFIC EXPERIENCE.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THIS CONFERENCE, UH, ONCE BEFORE IN 2018.
SO IT HAD BEEN A FEW YEARS, AND, UH, I ENJOYED ALL OF THE PRESENTATIONS.
THEY WERE ALL SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT.
THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS I WONDERED ABOUT GOING IN.
HOW DIFFERENT WOULD IT BE FROM THE PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE? AND IT DEFINITELY WAS VERY DIFFERENT.
AND SO THAT MADE IT WORTHWHILE.
IT WAS MANY, UM, UH, VERY CONTEMPORARY UP TO DATE ISSUES SUCH AS THE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ISSUE THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH NOW.
AND SO THAT MADE THE, THE CONFERENCE THAT MUCH MORE VALUABLE.
UM, I STARTED OUT WITH A PRESENTATION ON A DU, WHICH IS ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS.
I BELIEVE YOU ATTENDED THE SAME PRESENTATION.
I REALLY DID NOT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THIS HOUSING OPTION, UH, PREVIOUSLY.
THEY STATED IT'S A MEANS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL OPTIONS IN THE CHANGING HOUSING LANDSCAPE AND HOLDS PROMISE, PARTICULARLY FOR FAMILIES AND SENIORS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, THE, THEY ALSO SUGGEST THAT THAT COMMUNITIES MAY WANT TO ENGAGE A HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
AND THEY PROVIDED MANY DIFFERENT SUGGESTIONS, INCLUDING EXPLORING, UH, PERMITTING OPTIONS AND, UH, IN ONE OR TWO SPECIFIC AREAS OF THE COMMUNITY, WHETHER RATHER THAN DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS TOWN WIDE, THAT IT REALLY SHOULD BE IN, IN FOCUSED AREAS, ESPECIALLY AS AN INTRODUCTION, THEY SAID BEFORE, UH, A TOWN GOES DOWN THIS PATH, THAT THERE ARE MANY, MANY QUESTIONS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
AND IT HAS TO BE A VERY THOUGHTFUL PROCESS INCLUDING, UM, THAT THE TOWN HAVE A VERY CLEAR PURPOSE FOR WHAT THEY'RE AND WHY THEY'RE LOOKING TO USE, UM, ADUS.
UM, WHERE WILL THEY BE PERMITTED? HOW WILL IT BE IMPACTED IN OUR ZONING CODES, ET CETERA.
UH, WILL OWNER OCCUPANCY BE REQUIRED? AND THEY HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT.
UM, AND THAT OF COURSE, IT WILL HAVE IMPACT ON DESIGN AND IT SHOULD HAVE IMPACT ON, UH, DESIGNING QUALITY STANDARDS.
UM, THE BIGGEST THING AT THE END THAT THEY EMPHASIZED WAS THAT THIS HOUSING OPTION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR SHORT TERM USE.
UH, I ATTENDED A SESSION ON ENTITLED DIGITAL TWIN, THE FUTURE OF ASSET MANAGEMENT.
AND THAT CONCEPT OF ASSET MANAGEMENT IS WHAT DREW ME TO THIS SESSION.
UH, IT WAS BY THIS PARTICULAR SESSION WAS HOSTED BY, UM, AN ONLINE, UH, PLATFORM, A COMPANY THAT WAS OF COURSE, UM, ESPOUSING THEIR, THEIR PRODUCT.
BUT THERE ARE MANY PRODUCTS OUT THERE, AND IT REALLY WAS, I WAS MORE INTERESTED IN THE IDEA OF THE CONCEPT OF, OF THIS TYPE OF PLATFORM IN TERMS OF ASSET MANAGEMENT.
UH, IT PUT AN EMPHASIS ON DATA COLLECTION AND THE POWER OF THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM TO, TO FACILITATE DATA COLLECTION.
AND ALSO THE RELATIONSHIP TO GIS, WHICH I THINK IS EXTREMELY, UH, CRUCIAL, ESPECIALLY IN A TOWN OF OUR SIZE.
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TO, UH, INCREASE OUR GIS CAPACITY, UH, TO THE EXAMPLES THEY GAVE WERE THAT WERE INTERESTING, CAUGHT MY ATTENTION, UH, INCLUDED THE CITY OF ALBANY PARKING STUDY AND THE TOWN OF HALF MOON FOR THE WAY IT WAS BEING UTILIZED FOR WATER INFRASTRUCTURE.THE, UH, RETIREE HEALTH INSURANCE PRESENTATION THAT I ATTENDED HAD A LOT OF GREAT NUTS AND BOLTS INFORMATION.
I THINK THE BIG TECH TAKEAWAY THERE WAS THE CRUCIAL NEED FOR ANY MUNICIPALITY TO, UH, HAVE A MEDICARE AUDIT DONE PERIODICALLY, AS WITH MANY OTHER JUST GOOD PRACTICES THAT A MEDICARE AUDIT SHOULD BE DONE, THAT THEY, THAT AN AUDIT, UH, SUCH AS THAT WILL ADDRESS AN OVERLAP IN A REPLICATION OF COVERAGE AND CAN SAVE A MUNICIPALITY, UM, SUBSTANTIAL FUNDS FROM YEAR TO YEAR.
THE LOCAL FEDERAL AID OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL ROADS PRESENTATION WAS A GREAT OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE NEW FUNDING SOURCES.
UH, SOME THAT WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH, SUCH AS TAP AND BRIDGE, NEW YORK.
UH, THE PRESENTER WAS DAVID ORR FROM THE CORNELL LOCAL ROADS PROGRAM.
THERE WERE SOME WONDERFUL EXAMPLES.
THERE WAS AN INDIVIDUAL IN ATTENDANCE WHO SPOKE ABOUT HOW THEY NEEDED, THEY WERE IN NEED OF EXTENSIVE REPAIRS FOR THEIR HIGHWAY GARAGE.
AND THEY WERE, UM, UH, ABLE TO PUT THIS THROUGH SOME OF THE FEDERAL FUNDING THAT WAS AVAILABLE, WHICH SURPRISED EVERYONE IN ATTENDANCE.
AND ACTUALLY THAT CAME UP IN A RECENT, RECENT MEETING.
UM, 'CAUSE TYPICALLY YOU WOULDN'T THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO BE FUNDED.
AND, UH, SO THAT, THAT PRESENTATION WAS, WAS, UM, WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE AND MORE, UH, OPPORTUNITIES.
SOME, UH, IT TYPICALLY THERE REQUIRES SOME TYPE OF A, A MATCH FROM THE TOWN.
BUT THERE, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE.
UM, THE PRESENTATION ON DIGITAL SERVICES TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTEGRATED ONLINE SERVICES WAS INTERESTING BECAUSE IT COVERED EVERYTHING FROM RECORDS RETENTION TO SECURITY, UH, PRIVACY ISSUES.
UM, IT SUGGESTED THAT POSSIBLY YOU CAN SURVEY YOUR CONSTITUENTS ON WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN GOING GOING FORWARD IN TERMS OF, UM, INTEGRATING MORE ONLINE SERVICES IN, UH, IN WHAT WE OFFER.
AND THAT THERE ARE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE AND ALSO A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARED SERVICE ARRANGEMENTS AND AGREEMENTS WHEN, UH, LOCAL COMMUNITIES, UH, OR A GROUP OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES WANT TO, UM, ENGAGE AND HAVE MORE ONLINE SERVICES FOR THEIR CONSTITUENTS.
UM, THE PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS PRESENTATION WAS INTERESTING, AND I THINK IT'S ALWAYS VALUABLE FOR US TO LOOK AT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
ALL PRIVATE BUDGET PARTNERSHIPS.
UM, THE PRESENTATION ON EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT, UM, BIG TAKEAWAY THERE WAS THAT OUR STATE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE IS AVAILABLE TO COME IN AND ASSIST WITH, WITH A, IF THERE'S A PARTICULAR TOPIC WE HAVE THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION TO OUR EMPLOYEES IF THEY ARE AVAILABLE, ALONG WITH SOME OTHER COMPANIES SUCH AS EQUITABLE.
UM, SO IF WE'RE LOOKING FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO EDUCATE OUR, OUR EMPLOYEES AND TO GIVE THEM INFORMATION THAT COULD HELP THEM PREPARE FOR THEIR RETIREMENT, THOSE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE OUT THERE.
AND THEN THE LAST PRESENTATION, UM, YOU ALREADY TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT, WAS THE LESSONS LEARNED FROM, FROM, UH, LONG-TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING AND RECOVERY.
AND THAT WAS HOSTED BY, UM, THE SUPERVISOR FROM THE TOWN OF AMHERST.
AND HE REVIEWED MANY OF THE, THE CHALLENGES THAT THEY'VE ENCOUNTERED AS THEY'VE LOOKED AT THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE, UH, BOULEVARD MODEL AREA.
AND, UH, HE TALKED A LOT ABOUT HOW THEY NEEDED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE STARTED TO PAMPER AND THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO DO BECAUSE WE, I BELIEVE, NEED TO PUT MORE OF A FOCUS ON OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT, A TON OF THE SIZE, UM, DEALING WITH THE CHALLENGES THAT, THAT WE HAVE BEEN ENCOUNTERING AND THAT WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE TO ENCOUNTER.
WE, WE EVEN TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT, AT OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND, AND, UM, HOW WE'RE, UM, THE STRENGTH OF THAT DEPARTMENT AND, AND WHETHER WE'RE ADEQUATELY RESOURCED THERE.
UM, HE TALKED ABOUT THE ECONOMIC STRATEGY, UH, STUDY THAT THEY DID.
AND AGAIN, IT WAS PREDICATED BY THEIR NEED TO GATHER MORE DATA, WHICH IS, I THINK ALSO IMPORTANT FOR US AS WE ADDRESS SOME OF THESE SAME ISSUES.
AND HOW DO WE, UM, MY TAKEAWAY THERE WAS HOW DO WE CONNECT AND HOW DO WE COMPLIMENT THE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF OUR TOWN? THEY, AS HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, THE AREAS OF THEIR TOWN, INCLUDING THE BOULEVARD MALL, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE AREAS IN OUR TOWN, MCKINLEY MALL, THE, UM, LAKEFRONT, OUR VILLAGE OF BLAZEDALE, OUR VILLAGE OF HAMBURG, UH, THE STADIUM IMPACT AREA THAT WE'VE RECENTLY IDENTIFIED.
AND HOW DO WE HAVE THAT, THAT GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE,
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UM, THAT OVERALL PLAN SO THAT EACH AREA AS IT EVOLVES, AS IT REVITALIZES, UM, COMPLIMENTS EACH OTHER, CONNECTS WITH EACH OTHER, AND THAT WE PUT IN MOTION, UM, WITH OUR COMP PLAN AND THE IMPLEMENTATION TEAM THAT'S GONNA CARRY THAT COMP, UH, PLAN OUT.HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, PUT IN MOTION WHAT WE NEED TO DO SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THIS CONNECTION AND THIS REVITALIZATION OF THESE AREAS IN THE TOWN.
SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.
IT WAS, IT WAS ACTUALLY MORE THAN I EXPECTED.
AND, AND, UM, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR
UM, I JUST WOULD WANNA ECHO BETH AND RANDY SETTLEMENTS OF THANK YOU TO TAXPAYERS AND THE BOARD FOR SETTING ALL OF US AND MAKE IT A PRIORITY TO GIVE US OPPORTUNITY TO NETWORK AND TO LEARN FROM ONE ANOTHER AND LEARN FROM EXPERTS IN THE FIELD BECAUSE IT IS CERTAINLY NOT SOMETHING WE ALWAYS HAVE ACCESS TO.
TO HAVE AN EXPERT IN EVERY AREA OF INTEREST TO US AND SIT AND TALK WITH THEM AND LEARN FROM THEM AND HAVE THEM PRESENT ON VARIOUS ISSUES.
I SPENT, I WANNA SAY THE BETTER PART OF EVERY SINGLE WAKING MOMENT IN SOME SESSION.
I THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY A HELPFUL AND WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY, ESPECIALLY BEING A NEW BOARD MEMBER, UM, TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT DIFFERENT AREAS THAT I WAS NOT SUPER COMFORTABLE IN AND MY DAY JOB AS A SCHOOL TEACHER.
SO HE ASKED ME QUESTIONS ABOUT EDUCATION AND I GOT YOU ALL DAY LONG PLANNING BOARD.
I SPENT A LOT OF TIME LEARNING ABOUT THOSE AREAS, BUT THERE WERE AREAS THAT I DEFINITELY FELT LIKE I NEEDED SOME EXTRA TIME WORKING ON AND LEARNING ABOUT.
AND I WAS ABLE TO FOCUS WHILE I WAS THERE ON THOSE THINGS.
UM, I ALSO THOUGHT IT WAS WONDERFUL TO HEAR THE PERSPECTIVES OF OTHER TOWNS WHEN YOU'D HEAR AS YOU'RE SITTING NEXT TO SOMEBODY AND THEY'RE LIKE, WE HAVE THAT PROBLEM IN OUR TOWN.
AND I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, OKAY, HOW DID YOU ADDRESS IT? HOW DID YOU SOLVE IT? HELP ME LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES.
HELP ME LEARN FROM YOUR SUCCESSES.
UM, SO THAT WAS INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY HELPFUL.
UM, JUST TO HEAR SUCCESS STORIES IN HERE, STRUGGLES THAT OTHER MUNICIPALITIES HAVE FACED.
UM, SOME OF THE CLASSES I HAD ATTENDED, I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH A LIST OF ALL OF THEM 'CAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE DIRECTLY BORING, LIKE BUDGET WRITING AND USING COMPUTER SOFTWARE TO ORGANIZE BUDGET WRITING OR, UM, HOW TO BEST DEAL WITH GAP FUNDING AND UNDERSTANDING STATE AND LOCAL GRANTS.
I WAS LIKE, A LOT OF IT WAS VERY GET OUTTA BOOK AND LEARN ALL THESE THINGS AND THOSE ARE THE ONES I ATTENDED.
BUT I WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR LIKE BEST DEAD PRACTICES AND REALLY UNDERSTANDING HOW MUNICIPAL DEBT IS SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN SCHOOL DEBT.
IT IS SO MUCH DIFFERENT THAN PERSONAL DEBT AND HOW TO BEST MANAGE THOSE DEBT PRACTICES, HOW TO BALANCE THE NEEDS, UM, AND WANTS IN A MANNER SO THAT YOU, UH, ENCOURAGE STRONG AND SOLID GROWTH.
AND SOMETIMES IT'S A LITTLE NOT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT.
AND SO IT'S INTERESTING TO HEAR HOW MUNICIPALITIES HAVE BEST ADDRESSED THEIR DEBT PRACTICES IN A ROBUST WAY.
UM, AND I, I ATTENDED A SESSION ON SUPPORTIVE INCLUSIVE HIRING PRACTICES TO ENCOURAGE, UM, APPLICANTS TO APPLY FOR, UM, VARIOUS HIRING POOLS YOU WOULDN'T TYPICALLY SEE COME OUT.
I THINK IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US AS A MUNICIPALITY TO REALLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO, TO APPLY FOR STATE JOBS AND MUNICIPAL JOBS AND UNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF WORKING FOR A MUNICIPALITY, UM, AS A STATE EMPLOYEE FOR ALL THESE YEARS.
I UNDERSTAND THE VALUE AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE, BUT ALSO KIND OF HOW THE WHOLE SYSTEM WORKS AND WHAT ARE THE OTHER, THE OTHER THINGS THAT COME WITH WORKING, LIKE BETH SAID WITH STATE RETIREMENT AND THINGS OF THOSE THAT IT'S HARD TO UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE WHEN YOU'RE JUST STARTING OUT IN YOUR CAREER, BUT WHEN YOU'RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE END, IT HAS A DIFFERENT INCENTIVE TO IT.
UM, THE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING, I, I GOT TO ATTEND A SESSION ON CANNABIS AND THE CANNABIS ROLLOUT THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND IT WAS NICE TO HAVE AN EXPERT GET UP THERE AND EXPLAIN TO US WHERE THE STATE STANDS, BUT ALSO WHAT THE ROLLOUT LOOKS LIKE STATEWIDE AND KIND OF DISPEL ANY RUMORS THAT WERE KIND OF GOING AROUND AS TO WHAT IT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE AND HOW IT'S GONNA GO, BUT ALSO HELP US UNDERSTAND THEY ARE TAKING IT SUPER SLOW AND SUPER CAUTIOUS STATEWIDE TO MAKE SURE THEY DO IT RIGHT.
UM, I HAD A OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND A SESSION ON LIBRARIES AND UNDERSTAND I THE VARIOUS TYPES OF LIBRARIES THROUGHOUT THE, UH, STATE.
THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIBRARIES.
WE ARE SUPER LUCKY IN WESTERN NEW YORK TO HAVE THE TYPE LIBRARY WE DO THAT IS SUPPORTED BY THE COMMUNITIES AND HAVE ACCESS TO ALL OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES.
BUT IT WAS VERY INTERESTING TO FIND OTHER WAYS TO CREATIVELY SUPPORT THE LIBRARIES AS MUNICIPALITY.
UH, AND THEN I ATTENDED VARIOUS OTHER SESSIONS, UM, LISTENING TO EXPERTS ON CASE LAW AND THE EVER-CHANGING CASE LAW AND LITIGATION THAT GOES WITH PLANNING BOARDS AND ZONING BOARDS AND UM, PLANNING LEGISLATION.
AND THAT WAS VERY
IT WAS NICE TO HEAR AND LISTENED TO SOMEBODY SPEAK ABOUT THAT, BUT ALSO LISTENED TO ABOUT 30 DIFFERENT CASE LAWS THAT HAD CHANGED IN THE PAST YEAR THAT SOME OF 'EM HAD CHANGED WITHIN
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A WEEK OF WHEN WE WERE AT THE SEMINAR.SO IT WAS NICE TO GET THE MOST UPTODATE INFORMATION.
AND THEN THAT BEING SAID, I ALSO ATTENDED, UM, TWO SESSIONS ON LEARNING ABOUT GREEN ENERGY, HOW TO BEST IMPLEMENT GREEN ENERGY IN YOUR COMMUNITY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, HOW TO GET THE BEST FUNDING OPTIONS FOR YOUR GREEN ENERGY, THE DIFFERENT GRANTS THAT ARE OUT THERE.
AND SINCE WE HAVE SO MANY PROJECTS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE IN THE WORKS, SOME OF THEM ARE ONES THAT WE COULD BE PURSUING RIGHT NOW FOR PROJECTS THAT ARE ALREADY IN THE PIPELINE.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE JUST STARTING.
SO THAT WAS ALL WONDERFUL, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RISING ENERGY COSTS, TO BE MORE CONSCIENTIOUS AS A COMMUNITY TO WHEREVER WE CAN DECREASE THE IMPACT WE HAVE ON OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS, BUT ALSO BE VERY FISCALLY MINDED IN DOING WHAT WE CAN TO PRESERVE OUR POCKETBOOKS WHILE STILL HAVING THE LIGHTS ON AND KEEPING THE BUILDINGS WARM.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO GOING AGAIN NEXT YEAR.
I THINK IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY HELPFUL EXPERIENCE AND A VERY, VERY BUSY COUPLE OF DAYS WE WERE THERE.
NO, IT ALS IT EXCEEDED MY EXPECTATIONS.
AND, UM, I ALSO WANNA THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
I THINK IT WAS AN EXCELLENT EXPERIENCE.
UM, I THINK IT WAS CRITICAL THAT IT WAS IN PERSON.
I THINK WHAT WE DID WELL THAT WE DIDN'T PLAN FOR, WE MANAGED TO ALL ATTEND VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
THERE WAS A LOT OF CHOICES THERE, THERE WAS SO MANY OF YOU THAT I, THAT THERE WAS CROSSOVER AND RIGHT.
UM, SO THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL.
IT WAS ALSO HELPFUL THE WAY THAT THEY HAD THE SCHEDULE CRAFTED SO THAT THERE WAS OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE DISCUSSION WITH OTHER PEOPLE, NETWORKING, UM, AND KIND OF SHOOT SOME IDEAS AROUND.
SO I REALLY LIKE THE STRUCTURE OF IT, THE SETUP AND THE CORE SELECTION THAT THEY HAD.
UM, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ONES THAT I SENT, UM, HAD ATTENDED WAS THE, UH, CIVIL SERVICE LAW AND HOW IT IMPACTS FIRING AND FIRING DECISIONS.
UM, IT'S VERY CIVIL SERVICE LAW'S VERY COMPLICATED AND I THINK THERE IS A LARGE AREA OF MISINTERPRETATION THAT I'VE SEEN ACROSS GOVERNMENT IN GENERAL.
UM, SO IT WAS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO, TO HAVE DISCUSSION AND GET INFORMATION, UM, REGARDING OUR, OUR HIRING PRACTICES FOR CIVIL SERVICE.
ANOTHER ONE THAT I ATTENDED WAS, UM, AND I DON'T HAVE THE TITLE ON MAY, UH, BUT IT WAS DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION.
AND IT WAS PRESENTED BY THE TOWN OF BRIGHTON, WHICH IS OUTSIDE OF ROCHESTER.
THAT WAS, UH, A VERY INTERESTING PRESENTATION.
UM, THEY HAVE, UH, A, A RELATIVELY DIVERSE COMMUNITY, UM, AND THEY, THEY HAVE, UM, A POSITION WHERE SOMEBODY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A DIVERSITY EQUITY AGENT IN, IN THEIR GOVERNMENT.
SO, UM, THEY KIND OF SHARED HOW THEY IDENTIFIED THE NEED FOR THAT, WHAT STRATEGIES THEY'VE IMPLEMENTED, UM, AS FAR AS INTERNALLY AND THEN ENGAGING WITH THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN IT WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAD TO SHARE.
UM, I ATTENDED ANOTHER ONE THAT WAS ABOUT THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATIONS.
SUPER HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENT INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED TO POWER THE DIFFERENT, UM, CHARGING STATIONS.
UM, AND, AND WHAT MIGHT BE THE BEST OPTION FOR YOUR COMMUNITY FOR A LONG TIME.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SERTA'S GRANT FUNDING THAT WAS AVAILABLE.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS IT'S AT LEAST DURING THE CYCLE IS NOT AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL CYCLES THAT IT HAD BEEN AVAILABLE AND AT THIS TIME IT'S, IT'S NOT FOR THE ONE THAT PAYS FOR THE PORT, UH, BUT IT'S A LEVEL TWO, A LEVEL ONE OR A LEVEL TWO PORT, BUT IT'S THE SLOWER CHARGING PORT WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING MORE FOR A FAST CHARGE.
UM, THOSE PARTICULAR PORTS TAKE A CERTAIN KIND OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
WHAT THEY ENCOURAGE WAS MUNICIPALITIES TO DO A FLEET ASSESSMENT SO UTILITIES CAN PRIORITIZE YOUR LOCATION.
UM, WE KNOW IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF IT'S, IT'S WHEN I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN IMPORTANT ONE TO ATTEND.
AND THEN THEY ALSO MENTIONED SOME OTHER GRANT OPPORTUNITIES FOR MAKE READY GRANTS, UM, TO, TO INSTALL THE CHARGING STATIONS AND DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT, UM, CHARGING MONEY FOR THE CHARGING, UM, AND HOW MUNICIPALITIES ADDRESSED THAT.
THE OTHER ONE THAT WAS HEAVILY ATTENDED WAS THE CANNABIS LEGISLATION ONE I ATTENDED THAT.
UM, IT WAS ABOUT REGULATING CANNABIS NEAR TOWN.
THEY REALLY HELPED DISSEMINATE A LOT OF THE INFORMATION THAT'S ON THE OCM WEBSITE.
AND IF YOU GO ON THE OCM WEBSITE, IT, THERE'S A LOT, THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION.
THEY HAD, UM, SOME ATTORNEYS THAT WERE IN DISCUSSION AND USED A LOT OF GREAT PUNS TO KEEP PEOPLE ENGAGED ON THE MRTA.
UH, WE OR THE MRT WAS PASSED IN N MARCH OF 2021.
I THINK WE VOTED ON IT HERE AT THE END OF 2021.
UH, THE TAKEAWAY THAT I GOT FROM THAT IS WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME POSITION.
I THINK EVERY MUNICIPALITY IS FACING THE SAME QUESTIONS, THE SAME, UH, CHALLENGES.
AND WHAT THEY LEFT US WITH WAS THAT IT'S A, IT'S A VERY SLOW ROLLOUT.
UM, AND, AND KIND OF PROVIDED US WITH SOME RESOURCES.
THEY TALKED IN DEPTH A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT
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CANNABIS OVERLAY DISTRICTS.I SUSPECT DREW KNOWS A LOT ABOUT, UM, THIS NEW INFORMATION THAT'S COMING OUT.
AND WHAT I FOUND INTERESTING IS I THINK THE OPPORTUNITY YOU HAVE TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CUSTOMIZE THINGS IN THE PROCESS.
UM, A LOT OF INFORMATION WITH IT, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK AHEAD OF US.
I KNOW THERE'S BEEN CONVERSATION BEFORE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE GETTING ORGANIZED WITH AN ADVISORY BOARD OR HAVING MEETINGS AS FAR AS HOW TO MOVE THIS FORWARD AS IT'S ROLLED OUT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD PRIORITIZE.
THERE'S LOTS OF QUESTIONS THERE.
UM, AT THIS POINT I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO INFER TO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS A MATTER OF POTENTIAL LITIGATION.
AND FOR THOSE, UH, THAT ARE JOINING US AS GUESTS, UH, WE WILL BE BACK PROBABLY ABOUT 7 7 0 5 TO START THE SEVEN O'CLOCK MEETING.
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TO THE UH, TOWN BOARD MEETING MARCH 27TH, 2023[01:55:02]
AND WE'LL START WITH THE ROLL CALL SUPERVISOR HOCH, PRESENT MEMBER HO PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER OF PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER DAR LOREN PRESENT.MAY I ASK EVERYBODY TO JOIN ME IN THE FLAG? THE BE RESOLVED AT THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD DOES HEREBY APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING AS FOLLOWS.
MARCH 13TH, 2023, REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING.
WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER CAR SECOND.
SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER FAR LORENZO IN FAVOR.
THIS NEXT RESOLUTION IS IN MEMORY OF JAMES M SP, UH, WHO PASSED AWAY.
WE, UH, ADJOURNED THE LAST MEETING WITH A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR MR. SP, WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURGS GREATLY SAT IN BY THE PASSING OF JAMES M SP SENIOR ON FEBRUARY 21ST, 2023 AT THE AGE OF 78.
WHEREAS MR. SPEW WAS A GRADUATE OF HAMBURG HIGH SCHOOL AND A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
AND WHEREAS MR. SPEW SERVED HIS COUNTRY FOR SIX YEARS AS A BOAT SWAINS MATE IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD.
AND WHEREAS MR. SP ADMIRABLY SERVED AS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG'S DIRECTOR OF FINANCE ADMINISTRATION FOR OVER 33 YEARS AND ALSO SERVED AS THE TOWN'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR.
AND WHEREAS MR. SP WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE HAMBURG VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT FROM 1968 THROUGH 2020, WHERE HE HAD MANY ROLES INCLUDING CHIEF AND DEPARTMENT TREASURER AND WHERE HE WAS HONORED IN 1982 AS FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR.
AND WHEREAS MR. SP WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR HIS GENEROSITY, CHARACTER, AND DEDICATION, WHETHER TRAINING NEW FIREFIGHTERS, VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY, OR SPENDING TIME WITH HIS BELOVED FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF BURG EXTENDS OUR SYMPATHY TO DISPUTE FAMILY AS OUR COMMUNITY CELEBRATES A LIFE WELL LIVED.
A AYE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN CLERK IS AUTHORIZED TO ADVERTISE FOR SEAL BIDS ENTITLED TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE ROOF INSULATION AND GENERAL TERRACE SEALED SEPARATE BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT TAM TOWN HALL, TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK 1 4 0 7 5 AND SAID BID WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ ALOUD ON TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH IN CONFERENCE ROOM SEVEN A SLASH B DOWNSTAIRS AT 11:00 AM MAIL BIDS SHOULD BE SENT TO TOWN OF HAMBURG, CLEARLY MARKED ATTENTION, TOWN CLERK BID, ENCLOSED GARAGE ROOF INSULATION AND GENERAL REPAIR.
6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK 1 4 0 7 5.
PROJECT NUMBER 2 0 2 3 DASH ZERO FIVE HAMBURG TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE BUILDING GENERAL REPAIRS TO BE CHARGED TO H 0 4 5 3 0 3 PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT.
SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER FERRELL LAUREN SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HO.
OPPOSED? CARRIED BE RESOLVED THAT THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD DOES HEREBY APPROVE THE PERSONNEL ACTION FORM AS ATTACHED.
MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER C****R FOR SECOND BY SUPERVISOR OL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
WHEREAS ON DECEMBER 12TH, 2022, THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO RELEASE AN RFP FOR COMPREHENSIVE HOUSING AND FINANCIAL COUNSELING SERVICES FOR THE PERIOD APRIL 1ST, 2023 THROUGH MARCH 31ST, 2025.
AND WHEREAS THE RFP WAS OPENED ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2023 AND REVIEWED NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZES THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH BELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES OF FOR WESTERN NEW YORK BASED UPON THEIR RESPONSE TO THE RFP AND THE SUBSEQUENT NEGOTIATED FEE AS THE ONLY RESPONDENT FUNDING FOR THIS TWO YEAR CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF $17,500 IS AVAILABLE WITHIN THE CDBG ACCOUNT AND OR CL 8 6 6 8 0.4561.
SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER FERRELL LAUREN.
SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER HO IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
WHERE THE TOWN OF HAMBURG RECOGNIZES
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THAT APRIL, 2023 IS THE 55TH ANNIVERSARY OF TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1968, ALSO KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ACT.AND WHERE THE TOWN OF HAMBURG HAS HAD ITS FAIR HOUSING LAW SINCE 1986 WITH UPDATES IN 2005 AND 2016, WHICH INCLUDED GREATER PROTECTIONS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR TOWN RESIDENTS.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG REMAINS A LEADER FOR FAIR HOUSING THROUGHOUT WESTERN NEW YORK, ENSURING THAT ALL PERSONS ARE TREATED EQUALLY AND FAIRLY UNDER THE LAW.
AND WHEREAS THE THEME FOR THIS YEAR'S FAIR HOUSING MONTH IS CHOICES FOR ALL VOICES BUILDING AN EQUITABLE FUTURE NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ITS PARTNERS IN FAIR HOUSING THE TOWN OF HAMBURG DESIGNATES THE MONTH OF APRIL, 2023 AS FAIR HOUSING MONTH WITHIN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER FERRELL LAUREN SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER COMERFORD.
WHERE AS THE TOWN OF HAMBURG ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT PREPARED BID DOCUMENTS FOR MOUNT VERNON SANITARY SEWER REPAIR PROJECT AND WHEREAS THE PUBLIC BID OPENING WAS HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 16TH, 2023.
AND WHEREAS AT THE LOWEST RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIS PROJECT IS THE NEW FRONTIER PAVING AND EXCAVATING HAVING SUBMITTED BIDS FOR HOURLY RATES NEED REPRICING FOR SPOT REPAIRING BROKEN PIPE SECTIONS WITH NEW EIGHT INCH PVC SANITARY SEWERS DIRECTED BY THE TOWN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT VIA RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN SUPERVISOR ARE AUTHORIZED TO SIGN THE CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT WITH NEW FRONTIER PAVING AND EXCAVATION CORP.
AND ISSUE THE NOTICE OF AWARD OF THE PROJECT WILL BE CHARGED.
THREE PUBLIC WORKS IMPROVEMENTS.
THE TOWN ENGINEERS REPORT ON THE COMPLETION ACCEPTANCE OF PLEASANT CREEK SUBDIVISION BASIS TWO A AND FOUR WORK PERFORMED ON A PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT BASE.
A PERMIT NUMBERS 10 78, 10 79 AND 10 80.
PHASE FOUR PERMIT NUMBERS 10 82.
10 83 AND 10 84 BE RECEIVED AND ACCEPTED AND THAT THE SUPERVISORS AUTHORIZED TO SIGN THE REPORT AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THIS ACTION DOES NOT RELIEVE THE DEVELOPER THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR COMPLETING THE REQUIRED STREET LIGHTING INSTALLATIONS UNDER PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT PHASE TWO A PERMIT 10 81 AND PHASE FOUR, PERMIT NUMBER 10 85.
THIS WORK TO BE COMPLETED UNDER PERFORMANCE BONDS.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THIS RESOLUTION BECOMES EFFECTIVE ON THE DAY THE REPORT IS SIGNED BY THE SUPERVISORY.
WHEREAS CONSTRUCT ACT INCORPORATED MAILED IN CHECKS FOR TWO BID DOCUMENTS, ONE FOR TOWN SENIOR POLL RESTORATION ONE FOR MOUNT VERNON SANITARY AND WHEREAS THEY DID NOT RECEIVE THE BID DOCUMENTS, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT CONSTRUCT CONNECT BE ISSUED A REFUND FOR THE BID DOCUMENT FEES, THE FEE PAY TOTALING $150 AND NO CENTS.
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MOTION BY SUPERVISOR SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER CONLEY.
IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN CLERK IS AUTHORIZED TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS ENTITLED TOWN HIGHWAY OFFICE AND GARAGE ELECTRIC SERVICE UPGRADE PROJECT SEALED SEPARATE BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT HAMBURG COUNTY HALL TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK 1 4 0 7 5 AND SAID BID WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ ALOUD ON TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH IN CONFERENCE ROOM SEVEN A SLASH B DOWNSTAIRS AT 11:30 AM MAIL BIDS SHOULD BE SENT TO TOWN OF HAMBURG.
CLEARLY MARKED ATTENTION TOWN CLERK BIDDING, CLOSE TOWN HIGHWAY OFFICE AND GARAGE ELECTRIC.
UPGRADE PROJECT 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK.
PROJECT NUMBER 2 0 2 3 DASH ZERO SIX TOWN HIGHWAY OFFICE AND GARAGE ELECTRIC UPDATE TO BE CHARGED TO H 0 4 5 3 0 3 PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
MOTION CAROL LAUREN SECOND MAY.
OPPOSED BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN CLERK IS AUTHORIZED TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS ENTITLED TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE HVAC UPGRADES AND REPAIRS.
SEALED SEPARATE BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT HAMBURG TOWN HALL TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK 1 4 0 7 5 AND SAID BID WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED IN RED ALOUD ON TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH IN CONFERENCE ROOM SEVEN A SLASH B.
DOWNSTAIRS AT 12:00 PM MAILED BIDS SHOULD BE SENT TO CLEARLY MARK TOWN OF HAMBURG.
ATTENTION TOWN CLERK BID, ENCLOSED TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE, HVAC UPGRADES AND REPAIRS.
6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK 1 4 0 7 5.
PROJECT NUMBER 2 0 2 3 DASH ZERO SEVEN TOWN HIGHWAY GARAGE, HVAC UPGRADES AND REPAIRS TO BE CHARGED TO H 1 0 4 0.50303.
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PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT.MAY COUNCIL MEMBER S SECOND MAY.
WHEREAS HE HAS PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED FOR SEAL BIDS AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY BIDS FOR THIS PROJECT BE RESOLVED.
THE TOWN CLERK IS AUTHORIZED TO READVERTISED FOR SEAL BIDS ENTITLED TOWN SENIOR POOL BUILDING ELECTRIC AND INTERIOR REPAIRS.
SEALED SEPARATE BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED IN HAMMER TOWN HALL TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE HAMMER, NEW YORK 1 4 0 7 5 AND SAID BID WILL BE PUBLICLY OPEN AND READ ALOUD ON TUESDAY, APRIL 20TH IN CONFERENCE FROM SEVEN A SEVEN B AT 10:00 AM MAIL BIDS SHOULD BE SENT AND CLEAR.
THE MARCH TO TOWN OF HAMBURG ATTENTION TOWN CLERK BIDDING CLOSE TOWN SENIOR POOL BUILDING ELECTRIC INTERIOR REPAIR, 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK, 1 4 0 7 5 4.
PROJECT NUMBER 2023 DASH ZERO THREE HAMBURG TOWN SENIOR POOL BUILDING REPAIRS.
SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER FAR LORENZO IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THE TOWN BOARD APPROVE THE HIRING OF THE FILING EMPLOYEES IN THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT AS LISTED.
SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER FAR LORENZO IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
A OPPOSED, CARRIED BE RESOLVED.
TOWN SUPERVISORS AUTHORIZED TO ENTRY THE AGREEMENT PREPARED BY ALLIED CPA'S PC TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE ANNUAL AUDIT OF THE TOWN'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SUMMARY.
SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER C*M.
OPPOSED? CARRIED THE RESULT OF THE TOWN BOARD OF DETERMINATION AND HIRING OF PERSONNEL, THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH RECREATION AND SENIOR SERVICES AS FOLLOWS.
SO SECOND, TALKING TO MY COUNCIL MEMBER LOREN.
THERE IS ALL THE TOWN BOARD APPROVED, THE TERMINATION AND REHIRING OF PERSONNEL IN THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEPARTMENT AS FOLLOWS IN THE ATTACHMENT.
MY COUNCIL MEMBER HO SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER FAR LORENZO IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE TOM BOARD AUDIT OF S DISBURSEMENT DATED MARCH 27TH, 2023.
TOTAL CASH DISBURSEMENT SUBMITTED FOR AUDIT $1,416,113 AND 28 CENTS.
SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER FARRELL.
NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS, UH, BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR.
AND JUST SINCE WE DO HAVE SO MANY STUDENTS HERE TONIGHT, I JUST WANT TO, UH, NUMBER ONE, WELCOME YOU TO IT'S, IT'S GREAT TO SEE YOU ALL HERE.
WE USUALLY DON'T HAVE SO MANY VISITORS AT TOWN BOARD MEETING, SO THIS IS NICE.
UM, WHAT WE JUST DID, UH, WAS PASS RESOLUTIONS.
THOSE RESOLUTIONS WERE PASSED TO, TO SPEND MONEY, TO HIRE PEOPLE, TO APPROVE CONTRACTS.
THAT'S HOW WE EXECUTE THE, THE PAPERWORK PART OF, OF OUR JOB.
NOW WE'RE MOVING ON TO BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR WHERE ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO STAND OR APPEAR BEFORE THE BOARD IN WHATEVER WAY THEY'RE MOST COMFORTABLE AND SHARE THEIR CONCERN, THEIR THOUGHT OR IDEA, WHATEVER THEY HAVE, UH, WHATEVER THEY'D LIKE TO SHARE.
WITH THE PAR WITH THE BOARD, WE TYPICALLY LIKE TO KEEP THOSE COMMENTS TO LESS THAN THREE MINUTES, BUT WE TYPICALLY DON'T HAVE MORE THAN ONE OR TWO PEOPLE.
SO IF YOU NEED TO GO A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAT'S FINE.
WE JUST ASK YOU TO BE RESPECTFUL OF EVERYBODY'S TIME.
SO AT THIS POINT, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR.
HI, BOB MAHONEY, 6 6 1 9 TAYLOR ROAD.
UM, THANK YOU TO BOARD AND, UH, MR. HOPE, UM, I'M TALKING ON BEHALF OF SOME TAXPAYERS IN, IN THE HAMBURG AREA.
UM, IN FEBRUARY, PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE RECEIVED, UH, A POSTCARD ON TAX EXEMPTIONS.
AND SINCE THAT TIME, UH, BECAME AWARE OF, UM, THE CAP THAT YOU PUT ON IT WAS 27,900.
AND THEN SOMEBODY CALLED ME AND SAID THAT YOU COULD HAVE RAISED TO $37,900.
ONE IS YOU HAVE A REASON WHY YOU DIDN'T RAISE IT TO THE MAX CAP.
THE SECOND IS, DO YOU HAVE THE NUMBER OF HOW MANY PEOPLE THAT IMPACTS? SO YES.
SO WITH THE, UH, WE DO HAVE ANSWERS FOR BOTH THOSE QUESTIONS AND THIS WAS A CONVERSATION THAT THE TOWN BOARD ENGAGED IN LAST YEAR.
UM, WE HAD A PUBLIC PUBLIC HEARING ON, ON THIS LAW.
AND BASICALLY THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT, UH, IS AVAILABLE FOR SENIOR CITIZENS WHO OWN PROPERTY WITHIN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
AND PRIOR TO THE TOWN BOARD'S VOTE LAST YEAR, IF YOU LIVED IN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG AND OWNED YOUR OWN HOME AND MADE LESS THAN $16,800 A YEAR, YOU QUALIFIED FOR THIS PROGRAM.
THERE WEREN'T MANY PEOPLE THAT QUALIFIED, I CAN TELL YOU THAT.
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SO WE RAISED THE CEILING BY OVER $11,000, UM, WHICH WE'RE HOPEFUL MORE PEOPLE WILL QUALIFY FOR.WE ALSO KNOW THAT MORE PEOPLE QUALIFYING FOR THIS PROGRAM MEANS LESS TAX REVENUE FOR THE TOWN.
NOW WE WOULD LIKE TO GET THIS UPPER INCOME LIMIT AS HIGH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
THE TOWN BOARD, DURING OUR PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS LAST YEAR ON THE ISSUE, UH, DECIDED TO EXERCISE SOME CAUTION TO SEE WHAT COMES IN AFTER WE RAISE THE INCOME LIMIT TO $27,000.
AND THAT WILL INFORM OUR DECISION THIS YEAR WHEN WE TAKE UP THE SAME TOPIC AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RAISE THAT CEILING ONCE AGAIN.
UM, I'M PIGGYBACK ON THAT NOW.
IS THAT LIKE AN OPEN ENROLLMENT NOW? DO THEY HAVE TO REQUALIFY IF YOU DECIDE TO RAISE IT AGAIN? DO THEY HAVE TO WAIT TILL MARCH 1ST OR WOULD YOU OPEN THAT UP BEFORE THAT? BECAUSE THIS YEAR I THINK IT, IT ENDED AT MARCH 1ST.
THEY HAVE AN APPLICATION NOW TO, IF YOU'RE TO REAPPLY FOR THAT, WILL THEY HAVE TO WAIT TILL NEXT MARCH 1ST? EVERYBODY HAS TO REAPPLY EVERY YEAR AT MARCH 1ST? YES.
UM, ONE FURTHER QUESTION, UH, ON THE SENIOR CENTER FOR THE, I KNOW IT'S A LOT OF DISCUSSION THEY'RE HAVING THERE, BUT AS THE QUESTIONS CAME TO ME, UM, THAT FRONTIER ESSENTIAL OR THINKING ABOUT YOU NEGOTIATING, TAKING BACK THEIR, THEIR BUILDING, HAVE YOU STILL BEEN ANY NEGOTIATIONS AND TRYING TO MAKE SOME KIND OF LEEWAY OR EXTENSIONS OR ANY KIND OF, UH, UH, CONVERSATION IN KEEPING THAT CENTER THERE FOR THE USE OF THE HAMMER RESIDENCE? YES.
AND NOW THE MONEY THAT THE TOWN HAS PUT INTO THERE SINCE THEY ACQUIRED IT, DO THEY, OR IS IT NEGOTIATED THAT THEY, THEY COULD BE RE, RE UH, REFUNDED THAT MONEY? LIKE SAY YOU PUT ONE POINT, I FORGOT, $4 MILLION INTO RENOVATIONS, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO RECOUP ANY OF THAT, THAT MONEY AT ALL? I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANYTHING IN THE CONTRACT THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR THAT.
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ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR? YES, SIR.
I KNOW MOST OF YOU, UM, LIVE BEHIND A FORMER PIZZA HUT.
OBVIOUSLY EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE BEEN INCLUDED IN EMAILS.
ONLY HEARD FROM ONE OF YOU EITHER WAY.
BUT I PROPERTY AND MY QUESTIONS ARE, THEY ARE GOING TO THE ZONING BOARD.
PETE'S NOT ASPEN DENTAL, THEY'RE GOING TO APRIL 4TH, THEN A PUBLIC HEARING SET FOR APRIL 5TH.
AND I WAS UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING AND SO WAS THE PLANNING BOARD FROM THE PEOPLE I TALKED TO OVER THERE, THAT THEY WERE TABLED ON THE MARCH 15TH MEETING.
THEY ASKED TO BE TABLED, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO RELEASE DESIGNS, PROPER DESIGNS OF MAYBE A LANDSCAPE PLAN, A NEW FENCE, HOW THEY'RE GOING TO HANDLE THINGS, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO THE ZONING BOARD, FOLLOWED BY A PUBLIC HEARING THE NEXT DAY.
AND I WANT TO KNOW WHY THEY'RE ALLOWED OF GOING TO THE PLANNING BOARD, WHY THEY ASKED TO BE TABLED, AND THERE'S NO UPDATE ON THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
YOU KNOW, NO FENCING, NO NEW VERB, NO NEW LANDSCAPING.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE DRAINAGE PLAN? AND THERE'S NO QUESTIONS.
THE DUMPSTER PICKUP THAT THEY WANT TO PUT IN, PEOPLE PICK UP DUMPSTERS IN THE AREA AT 5:00 AM IT'S AGAINST TOWN CODE.
NOBODY SEEMS TO DO MUCH ABOUT THAT.
I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE AN ANSWER.
GET SOME RESOLUTION, INCLUDING YOU SUPERVISOR.
I YOU'VE BEEN INCLUDED ON EVERY ONE OF THOSE EMAILS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS.
WELL, MR. STATE, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CORRECT YOU.
WE HAD A LENGTHY CONVERSATION BY PHONE LAST YEAR.
AND IT WAS ABOUT SIDEWALKS AND A COUPLE THINGS.
BUT NOW THE NEW PROBLEMS, THE BLIGHT, THE RATS A HOMELESS GUY THAT ALL LIVE IN THE AREA, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT? BECAUSE MS. FERRELL IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS A COMMUNICATION.
YOU ALSO HAD A COMMUNICATION FROM OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER TODAY, WHICH GAVE YOU UPDATED PICTURES ON THE PROPERTY.
THE TOWN CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, OUR REPRESENTATIVES OF THE TOWN BOARD AND BY EXTENSION ARE REPRESENTATIVES OF MY OFFICE.
BUT DON'T YOU THINK SOMETIMES YOU SHOULD BE INVOLVED IN CERTAIN ABSOLUTELY.
OPERATIONS OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS? ABSOLUTELY.
SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS IF
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YOU, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT DEVELOPERS SKIRTING THE RULES.UM, SO I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO TELL US WHICH RULE HAS, HAS BEEN SKIRTED SO WE CAN ADDRESS THAT.
ASPEN DENTAL IS SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE PANEL PLANNING BOARD ON MARCH 15TH.
THEY ASKED TO BE PAID, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD FIRST, GET APPROVED AND GO TO THE ZONING BOARD ON APRIL 4TH.
I'LL BE A PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL 5TH.
THAT WAS WHAT WAS SAID IN THE FEBRUARY MEETING WHEN THIS WAS ALL RUSHED.
AND THERE WAS A YOUNG KID SURE DOESN'T REALLY KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT ANYTHING.
THEY LAUGH OFF THE, THE FENCE.
THEY THINK THAT'S AN ACCEPTABLE BOARD.
I I DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN YOU GO BY THERE.
MAY, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHERE THAT FENCE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK THAT'S ACCEPTABLE.
JUST LIKE THE TRASH, IF YOU THOUGHT THAT WAS ACCEPTABLE.
I DON'T KNOW WHY IT TOOK TWICE IN TWO YEARS, TWO DIFFERENT PORTS TO GET CLEANED UP.
THAT OFTEN WHY I HAVE TO THREATEN LEGAL ACTION.
WHY I HAVE TO THREATEN MY ASSESSMENT.
I DON'T KNOW WHY IT TAKES THAT MUCH TO GO THAT FAR.
WHY COULDN'T IT GET DONE ON A REGULAR? WHY ARE WE NOT STAYING ON TOP OF IT? WHY DOES IT TAKE A RESIDENT LIKE ME FAULT FOR COMPLAINTS? I'M, I'M JUST CURIOUS.
THE, I'M, I MIGHT BE THE ONLY GUY COMPLAINING.
WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS IF I GET THAT INFORMATION.
I'D LOVE TO HEAR THAT INFORMATION, WHAT HAS HAPPENED ON THEM AND HOW THEY'VE BEEN CITED.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BIG CORPORATIONS, THE TOWN OF HAMBURG OR YOURSELF AND SKIRTING THE RULES AND IT'S RULES FOR ME AND RULES FOR THE LOVE IT HAVE, UH, SOME HELP FROM YOU.
SO IF YOU'D LIKE TO TALK TO PARTICULARS OF THE PROJECT, I MEAN WE, WE CAN CERTAINLY HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND I CAN CONNECT YOU TO THE FOLKS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THOSE IN THAT PROCESS.
I STILL HAVEN'T HEARD THE RULE THAT IS BEING BROKEN.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO, IN FEBRUARY, THE DINING PLAN, THEY WERE GIVEN EXPLICIT TRACTION THAT THEY HAD TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD IN MARCH BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA DEMOLISH THE BUILDING.
THEY'RE GONNA BUILD A NEW BUILDING.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
THEY TABLED AT THE LAST MEETING.
PRETTY SURE YOU CAN PICK A LOOK.
YOU CAN GO BACK AND WATCH TABLE.
THEY TABLED THEMSELVES IN FEBRUARY.
THEY WERE SUPPOSED, EVERYTHING WAS TALKED ABOUT THE TIMELINE OF GOING TO THE ZONING BOARD.
THE TIMELINE OF GOING BACK TO THE PLANNING BOARD FOR A PUBLIC HEARING.
I'VE REACHED OUT TO BRAD KY OVER MY COMMENTS ABOUT IS THE ZONING BOARD A PUBLIC THING? BECAUSE THEY WANT, THEY WANT TO NEED FOUR VARIANCES.
THEY WANT TO BE WITHIN 15 FEET OF MY PROPERTY LINE INSTEAD OF 10 OF THE FORMER PIZZA.
AND I WANT SOMEBODY TO IMPOSE RESTRICTIONS.
I DON'T LIKE LOOKING AT THE PIZZA HU BUT I'M SURE THE NEW BUILDING'S GOING TO BE BETTER.
BUT I ALSO DON'T WANT TO KEEP LOOKING AT AN UGLY FENCE.
I DON'T WANT TO KEEP GETTING TRASH ON MY PROPERTY THAT I DIDN'T, I'M REASSESSED NOW FOR 207,000.
I'M NOT SURE I COULD EVEN SELL THE HOUSE FOR 207,000.
I HAVE TO GO FIGHT MY ASSESSMENT AND EVERYTHING ELSE WITH ALL THE PROBLEMS THAT I HAVE ON MY PROPERTY.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT YOU AS A SUPERVISOR CAN DO FOR ME, A RESIDENT AND HOW YOU CAN HELP ME.
BUT I'VE ONLY HEARD FROM ONE OF YOU, HEY, AND TO ME A TWO YEAR THREAT.
WE MAY HAVE A PHONE CONVERSATION A YEAR AGO, BUT HOW ARE YOU KEEPING TRACK? YOU'VE BEEN INCLUDED IN THOSE EMAILS.
I I MAYBE IT'S A MISCOMMUNICATION, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THERE SHOULD BE MORE THAT THE TOWN BOARD A BUSINESS IS GOING TO SKIRT OR NOT GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD, GO RIGHT TO THE ZONING BOARD.
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO START COMPOSING GUIDELINES FOR THIS PARTICULAR BUSINESS.
AND IF IT'S NOT THE PLANNING BOARD, I DON'T THINK THE FENCING'S ACCEPTABLE.
I DON'T THINK THE LANDSCAPE, I DON'T THINK THE DRAINAGE IS ACCEPTABLE.
WELL JOSH COULD CERTAINLY, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THE, THE CRUX OF YOUR ISSUE IS WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE APPEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD IN MARCH.
SO WE CAN CERTAINLY CHASE THAT DOWN.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE OTHER CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROJECT AND THE PROPERTY.
THOSE ARE MOST APPROPRIATELY ADDRESSED THROUGH THE PLANNING BOARD PROCESS AND THE ZONING BOARD PROCESS.
THEY STILL CAN GO TO THE ZONING BOARD.
SO IF I TOLD YOU I WANTED TO GO BUILD A STRUCTURE, YOU WOULD TELL ME I GOTTA GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
IF I WANTED TO BUILD A STRUCTURE, I'M SURE YOU WOULD.
I HOW COME I THEY CAN SKIRT THE PLANNING BOARD AND BE TABLED TO THE PLANNING.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT SKIRTING THE PLANNING BOARD.
I'VE BEEN ON, I I WAS AT THOSE MEETINGS.
WHAT THEY'RE DOING, I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU OUT.
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BOARD.THERE'S A PUBLIC HEARING YOU CAN GO ON TUESDAY AND SPEAK AT IT.
THEY HAVE TO GET THE FOUR VARIANCES AT ZONING BOARD BEFORE THEY CAN EVEN HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT PLANNING BOARD.
IF THEY DON'T GET APPROVED FOR THOSE VARI THOSE ZONING VARIANCES, THEY CAN'T HAVE THEIR PUBLIC HEARING.
SO, SO, SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE GOING TO ZONING BOARD FIRST.
THAT'S WHY IT WAS ON THE PLAN.
AND THEN THEY'LL GO AND HAVE THEIR PUBLIC HEARING.
SO YOU'RE GONNA GO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE DESIGN THAT THE PLANNING BOARD DOESN'T EVEN KNOW IS COMING.
THE PLANNING BOARD KNOWS THE, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC AND TO SEE THE DESIGN BEING PRESENTED.
THE ZONING BOARD IS CALLING, LOOKING AT ALL THE INFORMATION AND DECIDING AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT ISSUE AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY CAN GET THOSE VARIANCES.
BECAUSE THE PLANNING BOARD IS NOT ALLOWED TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT YOU CAN GET A VARIANCE.
SO CAN THE ZONING BOARD IMPLEMENT, UH, THEIR DRAINAGE PLAN, THEIR VARIANCE TO MAYBE PUT A NEW FENCE IN AND PROPER LANDSCAPING AND PROPER DRAINAGE? ONLY THING THE ZONING BOARD CAN DO IS ZONING VARIANCES.
THEY CAN'T TALK ABOUT ANYTHING OTHER THAN ZONING VARIANCES.
IT, IT SEEMS LIKE IT, IT MIGHT BE A ZONING OF PLANNING AND A TOWN ISSUE.
NOW THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON.
AND MR. STATE, MR. STATE, I'M GOING TO INTERRUPT AND I'M GOING TO TO TO CUT YOU OFF HERE BECAUSE WE'RE WELL PAST FIVE OR SIX MINUTES HERE AND YOUR QUESTIONS CONTINUE REGARDLESS OF WHETHER WE ANSWER THEM OR NOT.
THIS CONVERSATION WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER OFF IN MY OFFICE OR IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S OFFICE.
I'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TALK MORE PARTICULARS, BUT I DO HAVE TO SAY THAT THE ZONING BOARD AND THE PLANNING BOARD ARE PUBLIC PROCESSES AND THERE'S, THERE'S NOTHING TO HIDE HERE.
WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO WEIGH IN ON ALL OF THIS AND THEY WILL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY THROUGH THE PROCESS OF THE PLANNING BOARD AND ZONING BOARD.
IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WITH BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR? WHEN WILL YOU GIMME THE TIME TO HAVE THAT MEETING? WE CAN FIGURE THAT OUT AFTER THE MEETING.
WE DON'T NEED TO HOLD EVERYBODY ELSE'S EVENING UP.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR? YES SIR.
HI, UH, JOEL KY 47 14 DALE STREET.
I JUST WANT TO ADDRESS, UH, I I KNOW WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, ON WELL BEFORE THIS BOARD, THE, THE DRAINAGE ISSUES FROM THE TOWN IN LILYDALE AND N UH, SO THAT NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, BUT MY FENCE IS FALLING OVER, HAS BEEN FALLING OVER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
SO I'M AT THE POINT AT EIGHT YEARS INTO THIS WHERE I NEED TO PUT SOMETHING UP TO BLOCK, BLOCK THAT FARM.
IT, IT IS JUST ANOTHER SUMMER WITH A TRUCK IDLING 24 7, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I WENT OUT AND GOT A QUOTE FOR $9,100 TO PUT A FENCE.
I NEED TO GO EIGHT FEET IN ORDER TO ADEQUATELY BLOCK THE VIEW FROM THERE.
SO OF COURSE I'M GONNA NEED A VARIANCE FROM THE PLANNING BOARD.
I WAS TOLD TODAY THAT I NEED TO GO SPEND $200 TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, AND WHETHER THEY APPROVE THAT OR NOT, AND I WOULD ASSUME THAT THEY WOULD BASED ON THE HISTORY OF, OF THIS.
UM, SO I WAS WONDERING IF THERE IS ANY RELIEF THAT I COULD GET FROM THAT.
I MEAN, THE, THE COSTS ARE JUST ADDING UP.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO LOSE ABOUT TWO FEET OF PROPERTY, UH, WITH WHICH TO PUT UP THIS FENCE FEE BECAUSE OF THE, THE EROSION ISSUES THAT ARE, ARE PART OF THE DRAINAGE THING THAT WE JUST CAN'T SOLVE IN THE NEAR TERM.
HOPEFULLY WHEN WE GET TO THAT, WE CAN, UM, BUT IN THE INTERIM IT'S GOING TO COST MORE MONEY.
AND, AND THE THE, THE ONE THING THAT I WANTED TO SAY IS THAT IT, IT IS UNFORTUNATE.
I I'M GONNA PUT UP A FENCE, UM, AND I, IF I CHOOSE PUT UP A FENCE, I SHOULD BEAR THE MAJORITY OF THE COST.
BUT HAVING TO GO THAT EXTRA TWO FEET IS AN EXPONENTIAL COST TO BLOCK THAT.
I, I THINK THAT MAYBE WE AS A BORDER, AS A TOWN NEED TO LOOK AT THESE, THESE ENTITIES SUCH AS THESE FARMS OR, OR OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THEY SHOULD BE PROTECTING ME.
WE SHOULD PROTECT THE RESIDENTS FROM THE EYES O THAT, THAT I LOOK AT NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BEAR THAT COST.
I UNDERSTAND THAT IF I CHOOSE TO PUT UP A FENCE ON MY PROPERTY, THAT'S ONE THING FOR PRIVACY FOR MYSELF.
BUT TO HIDE BLOCK THE VIEW OF, OF THIS, THIS DUMP THAT I LOOK AT.
AND, AND I DON'T MEAN THAT IN A DISPARAGING WAY.
IT LITERALLY IS JUST A DUMP OF GARBAGE.
AND I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU PICTURES IF, IF I MAY.
AND YOU GUYS CAN JUST LOOK THROUGH THOSE.
THIS, THIS IS A, A REAL BRIEF HISTORY GOING BACK INTO THE, INTO THE SIXTIES WHEN THE HOUSE WAS BUILT.
UM, THIS IS THE QUOTE AND THEN THIS IS TODAY WHAT I LOOK AT OUT, OUT MY BACK WINDOW.
AND, AND SO IT WOULD JUST BE NICE IF WE HAD SOME KIND OF CONTROL OF THE TOWN TO, TO FORCE FARMS AND OTHER THINGS THAT HIDE BEHIND THE RIGHT TO FARM TO BE ABLE TO, TO BLOCK.
YOU KNOW, IF, IF THEY WANT TO HAVE ALL THOSE THINGS, THAT'S FINE, BUT I I, THEY, THEY SHOULD HIDE IT FROM ME NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND IF, IF I'M ARTICULATING IT CORRECTLY.
SO I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME ON THAT AND HOPEFULLY YOU CAN SEE
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THE, THE HISTORY OF, OF HOW THIS HAS EVOLVED FROM KIND OF IDYLLIC ALL THE WAY TO IF, IF YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER SANFORD AND SUN AND THAT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE LOOK AT.SO, AND I KNOW CODES HAVE BEEN THERE MULTIPLE TIMES, BUT IT'S NEVER BEEN CLEANED UP.
SO, SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, FOR TWO DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES.
NUMBER ONE, MORE OF A LONGER TERM APPROACH AND STRATEGY TO HOW THE TOWN, UM, REGULATES FARMS. CORRECT.
BUT ALSO DID UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR RELIEF FROM THE $200 ZONING AND AT THE VERY LEAST YES, EXACTLY.
BECAUSE I I THINK IT SHOULD BE A DONE DEAL.
I I SHOULD, I SHOULD BE APPROVED TO AT LEAST PROTECT MY VIEW AT THIS POINT WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH THAT WHOLE PROCESS.
I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S WELL KNOWN.
YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT I, WHAT I LOOK AT, AND I KNOW COUNCILMAN CONNELLY'S BEEN IN MY BACKYARD.
I I KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE FORMER SUPERVISOR STOOD IN MY KITCHEN AND, AND HE WAS JUST AGHAST AT WHAT WE LOOK AT.
SO THEN, YOU KNOW, MY PROPERTY IS DEVALUING AND YOU KNOW, WHETHER I CAN AFFORD THE FENCE OR NOT IS, IS REALLY IMMATERIAL.
IT'S REALLY SHOULD I HAVE TO BEAR THE EXTRA COST FOR THE EXTRA DISTANCE AND LOSING THE PROPERTY, YOU KNOW, THING, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
AND THEN TRYING TO SELL THAT HOUSE WITHOUT A FENCE.
IT, NOBODY'S GONNA WANNA BUY IT.
YOU KNOW? SO NOW MY ASSESSMENT SHOULD GO LOWER BECAUSE MY VALUATION IS IN THE TANK, YOU KNOW, AND NOW THE HOUSES ARE COMING ON THE MARKET WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT OTHER HOUSES, YOU KNOW, AND NOW I'M STUCK WITH THIS RIGHT.
SO, SO I CAN TELL YOU THE TO BOARD CAN ENTERTAIN THE REQUEST.
TAKE A LOOK AT PAST PRACTICE, WE'LL CONSULT WITH OUR TOWN ATTORNEY.
UM, BUT EVERYTHING IN GOVERNMENT STARTS WITH A, A FORMAL REQUEST.
IF YOU COULD, KATHY, WOULD IT BE MOST APPROPRIATE TO SUBMIT THE REQUEST TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE TO LEGAL OR MY OFFICE? DOESN'T MATTER.
AND THEN MICHELLE CAN GET YOU ANY CONTACT INFORMATION.
IS, IS THERE ANY, UM, AS LONG AS HE'S HERE, IS THERE, I KNOW THAT THAT AREA'S INVOLVED, THAT WAS ONE OF THE AREAS CITED IN THE DRAINAGE STUDY.
IS THERE ANY UP UPDATE THERE OR ANYTHING AS LONG AS HE'S HERE THAT CAMMY CAN PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM THE DRAINAGE STUDY.
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE TARGETED AREAS.
IS THERE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT WE CAN PROVIDE AT THIS TIME? I, WELL IT IS DISCUSSED IN THE DRAINAGE STUDY.
UM, BUT NOW THE STEPS FOR THE TOWN IS TO, WHAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD ON ALL THE ISSUES THAT ARE IDENTIFIED, THE DRAINAGE STUDY, WHICH ARE ALL SIGNIFICANT.
AND, AND WITH THIS SPECIFICALLY, THERE'S GONNA BE A QUESTION OF ACCESS AND PROPERTY OWNERSHIP, UH, BECAUSE THE TOWN DOESN'T HAVE AN EASEMENT OR OWN ANY OF THE PROPERTY IN THE BACK.
SO IT'S ALL COMBINATION OF, UM, THESE NEIGHBORS AND THE, THE FARM ITSELF, UM, THAT HAVE ALL THE DRAINAGE RUNNING THROUGH THE BACK OF THAT AREA.
SO WE HAVE TO TAKE A DEEPER LOOK.
AND I KNOW THAT KEN HAS LOOKED AT THE DRAINAGE STUDY, WE DID RECEIVE THE MULTIPLE COPIES OF THE DRAINAGE STUDY SO THAT WE CAN DIVE, FILTER INTO THE LIST, THE ENORMOUS LIST OF PROJECTS AT THE BACK OF THE REPORTS THAT, UM, THAT THEY'RE RECOMMENDING THE TOWN UNDERTAKE.
AND IN, IN THE NEAR TERM TO, TO THAT, TO THAT POINT, I, I HAD, I HAD COME INTO YOUR OFFICE, UH, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO AND, AND I THINK WE COULD BENEFIT BY TRENCHING FURTHER FROM MY PROPERTY TOWARDS THE DRAINAGE RECEIVER TO TRY TO TRY TO SLOW THIS WATER FROM MEANDERING.
YOUR PREDECESSOR THOUGHT THAT, THAT I HAD TAKEN LEAVE OF MY SENSE TO ASK THAT.
BUT THE STILT HAS FILLED ONE OF THE NEIGHBOR'S SENSES ABOUT, ABOUT A FOOT AND A HALF DEEP ON THE BACKSIDE OF THAT.
SO ALL IT DOES IS WHEN IT RUNS INTO THE RIVER DELTA, IT FEEDS OVER INTO HIS YARD AND HIS YARD IS ABSOLUTELY ACTUALLY SUBDUCTING AND, AND FALLING AND SINKING.
IN FACT, MY FENCE HAS DROPPED ABOUT TWO FEET JUST, JUST BY EROSION AND IT'S JUST SETTLING DOWN.
SO THAT, THAT MIGHT BE A THOUGHT TO, TO GOING FORWARD IF WE COULD TRENCH DIRECTLY TO THE RECEIVER ON DROUGHTS PROPERTY THAT WE, WE MAY BENEFIT IN THE NEAR TERM AT LEAST TO MITIGATE A LITTLE BIT OF THIS EROSION.
ANY OTHER BUSINESS FROM THE FLOOR? ALRIGHT, THAT'LL BRING US TO REPORTS.
UH, FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS IT FAR JENNY'S BACK
UM, BUILDING AND ENGINEERING SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC WORKS.
UM, I'D LIKE TO REPORT WE'VE GOT 38,270 FEET OF PIPE VIDEO IN THE MOUNT VERNON SEWER, UH, AREA.
IT'S OUT OF 87,000, SO WE'RE MAKING GOOD TRACK.
THERE'S TWO CREWS IN THE AREA.
UM, THERE'S BEEN 13 SPOT REPAIRS FOR EMERGENCY COLLAPSES WHEN THE CAMERA GOES THROUGH AND PIPES ARE FALLING AROUND ABOUT IT.
WE'VE GOT 17 MORE THAT WE'RE GONNA ASSIGN TO THE CONTRACT.
UM, AND THE WOODLAWN PUMP STATION'S GONNA START PROGRESSING AGAIN.
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HAVE TO TAKE A SMALL LEAVE 'CAUSE THERE SOME EQUIPMENT BROKE, BUT THAT'LL BE FINISHED UP THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.UH, JUST IN REGARDS TO THE LED CONVERSION PROJECT.
SO ON THE 16TH WE WERE ABLE TO CLOSE THE PURCHASE OF THE STREETLIGHTS FROM NATIONAL GRID, WHICH CONSTITUTES ROUGHLY HALF THE STREETLIGHTS, UH, IN THE TOWN.
SO THE CONVERSION OF THOSE STREETLIGHTS STARTED TODAY.
UH, WE ALSO HEARD FROM SAG WELL AS THE OTHER HALF AND THEY ARE LOOKING TO CLOSE MONDAY THE FIRST.
HOPEFULLY THAT'S NOT AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE, BUT, UH, THAT'S THE AIM RIGHT NOW.
SO THE TOWN WOULD OWN, UH, ALL THE STREETLIGHTS OUTSIDE OF COUNTY OR DOT AND UH, AND WE WOULD CONTINUE CONVERSION OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS.
UH, I JUST WANNA THANK ENGINEERING FOR, UH, DOING A GOOD JOB, UH, PUTTING OUR, UH, GETTING OUR BUILDING TO, UH, WHERE IT'S AT RIGHT NOW AND, UM, MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT.
AND, UM, STARTING, UH, ZONE FOUR BRUSH.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UH, RADIO EDGE FOR OUR RENOVATION AND FIRST TIME HOME BUYER GRANTS START IN APRIL AND WE'LL GO THROUGH MEMORIAL DAY.
UH, YESTERDAY, THE COALITION FOR EQUITY AND INCLUSION RECOGNIZED, HONORED ONE OF OUR YOUNG FEMALE OFFICERS, KELSEY EBERT, FOR SERVING IN A NON-TRADITIONAL ROLE, ROLE OR JOB.
SO WE'RE VERY PROUD OF KELSEY FOR HER PROFESSIONAL DEDICATION TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, SHE CERTAINLY SERVED AS A ROLE MODEL FOR, FOR YOUNG WOMEN.
SO FOR, UH, VERY PLEASED WITH THAT.
AND THEN JUST QUICKLY LAST WEEK, I WAS ABLE TO OBTAIN, UH, ATTEND, UH, POLICE EXECUTIVE TRAINING AT THE BERNARD FALLS AIR FORCE BASE.
UM, PUT ON BY THE NEW YORK STATE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE.
IT, UH, WITH A GREAT PROGRAM THAT HIGHLIGHTED 21ST CENTURY POLICING, FOCUSING ON, YOU KNOW, LEADERSHIP AND, UM, DEVELOPING THE CULTURE OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICER WELLNESS, A LOT OF INNOVATIVE TOPICS THEY LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING BACK TO THE DEPARTMENT AND HAVING IT STUCK WITH THE STAFF AND HOPEFULLY IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THESE NEW IDEAS.
THE OTHER BIG THING I LEARNED WITH CHAOS MEANT I NEVER KNEW THIS CHIEF HAS ARRIVED ON SCENE.
UM, UH, GO TO REC, YOUTH REC SENIOR SERVICES.
UM, WE HAVE AGAIN, OUR, UH, OUT OF SCHOOL CAMPS AND WE'RE ACTUALLY VERY EXCITED THIS TIME.
WE HAD A WAIT LIST, WE LET THE WAIT LIST PEOPLE IN.
UH, SUMMER DAY CAMP OPENED AND THAT'S GETTING FLOODED AS WELL.
UM, AND ALSO JUST A REMINDER FOR ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO ATTEND OUR HOST DAY PARTY AT THE SENIOR CENTER, UM, IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT TIME.
WE SIGN UP OFF, UH, APRIL 13TH.
NOTHING REPORTED AT THIS TIME.
DID I MISS ANYBODY? WE GOT A FULL ROOM HERE.
THAT BRINGS US TO REPORTS FROM THE BOARD.
UM, I ATTENDED THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION FOR THE COALITION FACULTY EQUITY AND INCLUSION.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CHIEF.
HE IS THE ONE WHO NOMINATED OFFICER EVERT, SO THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING HER CONTRIBUTIONS AND HER LEADERSHIP IN THE DEPARTMENT.
UH, I WAS ALSO ABLE TO ATTEND THE EVENT YESTERDAY, AND IF, UM, I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE BOTH, UM, COUNCILWOMAN HOPE FOR HER INVOLVEMENT WITH BRINGING THIS EVENT TOGETHER, AND ALSO THE FACT THAT SHE WAS RECOGNIZED YESTERDAY.
UM, IT, IT WAS GREAT TO SEE ALL THE WOMEN IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO, UM, WERE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AND IT'S PHENOMENAL JUST THE, THE BREADTH OF THEIR, UM, SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTRIBUTIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND IT WAS A REFRESHING, WONDERFUL EVENT TO ATTEND.
UH, JUST LOOKING AHEAD, WE'LL HAVE MORE INFORMATION IN MAY ABOUT, UH, THE REJUVENATION PROJECT'S UPCOMING, UH, ENDEAVOR, WHICH WILL BE TOWN BEAUTIFICATION MONTH IN MAY.
IT WILL, UH, A FEW YEARS AGO WE SWITCHED IT INSTEAD OF BEING A WEEKEND OR A FEW DAYS, IT'S A BEAUTIFICATION MONTH AND THERE WILL BE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT FORTHCOMING IN APRIL.
UM, JUST WANTED TO THANK ALL THE RESIDENTS FOR COMING UP.
JUST DID AN HI GIGANTIC TOOK BOOK SALE AND IT WAS SO WELL RECEIVED.
UM, THEY NEARLY RAN OUT OF BOOKS, SO THAT WAS A NICE PROBLEM TO HAVE.
THEY ALSO HAVE AN INSTAGRAM PAGE TO FOLLOW.
UH, FRIENDS OF THE HAMBURG LIBRARY MAY BE WORTHWHILE FOR ANYBODY LOOKING FOR ACTIVITIES FOR THEIR KIDS TO DO ON WEEKENDS OR SUMMER CAMPS.
THEY RUN A LOT OF FREE NO COST ACTIVITIES TO KEEP YOUNG ONES ENGAGED IN READING AND LEARNING.
UM, AND THEY'RE ALSO BRINGING BACK THEIR COOKING CLUB AND A FEW OTHER THINGS.
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOW COST, NO COST INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY.ALRIGHT, AND I WANT TO THANK THE FOLKS AT, UH, UH, FEED MORE.
UH, THEY SPONSORED A MARCH FOR MEALS EVENT ON TUESDAY, AND I WAS ABLE TO, UH, TO PICK UP A ROOF, UH, MYSELF AND ERIE COUNTY LEGISLATOR JOHN GILMORE, BOTH ATTENDED ON TUESDAY WHERE WE, UH, DELIVERED MEALS TO FOLKS ON THE HAMBURG ROUTE.
UM, IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO TO, TO DO THAT EACH YEAR.
UM, AND IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM AND, UH, AND THE TOWN IS HAPPY TO SUPPORT, UH, FEED MOORE'S EFFORTS.
I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO CONGRATULATE, UH, THE MAYOR OF THE VILLAGE OF BLAZEDALE, ROB HEFNER ON HIS RECENT REELECTION, AS WELL AS, UH, NEWCOMER TRUSTEE PETER MURPHY, WHO WAS RECENTLY ELECTED AND INCUMBENT VILLAGE TRUSTEE DENNIS FOX.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ELECTION.
UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU FROM, UH, THE TOWN BOARD.
UM, AND ALSO, UM, I WOULD, UH, JUST LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND EXTEND OUR SYMPATHY TO VILLAGE OF HAMBURG MAYOR TOM TALLMAN, UH, WHO LOST HIS FATHER RECENTLY.
UH, HE WAS BURIED, UH, THIS MORNING.
THEY HAD A FUNERAL MASS AT ST.
AND IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, I WOULD, UH, UH, MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADJOURN, UH, WITH A BRIEF MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HONOR OF MR. TOMAN.
WE CAN SIGN YOUR SLIPS UP HERE.