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HEY THERE.HOW YOU HEY, BETH, HOW'S IT GOING? DOING WELL, I KNOW, I BELIEVE IT'S ANOTHER MONDAY, MONDAYS ROLL AROUND SO FAST.
WE ONLY GET ONCE UNITED STATES MAYOR.
ALRIGHT, WE HAVE, UH, TWO ITEMS ON THE WORK SESSION AGENDA FOR TODAY.
UH, FIRST OF THE HAMBURG MOVES PRESENTATION, AS WELL AS A CFA GRANT UPDATE FROM WENDELL.
AND THAT POINT WE WILL ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, UH, ISSUE.
I'LL TURN IT OVER TO, UH, MS. SAMUEL FOR THE MOVES PRESENTATION.
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I, IT LOOKS LIKE I KNOW MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE PAST THOUGH, BUT AGAIN, I'M ANISE, UM, IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.I'M GONNA HAVE SOME OTHER HENRY MOVES, UH, PEOPLE PART OF THE GROUP HERE TO SUPPORT, WHICH IS GREAT.
UM, SO THIS PRESENTATION CAME UP, UM, BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT AFTER A, A PRO A MEETING WITH THE LARGER HAMBURG GROUP HAMBURG MOVES GROUP THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THIS IS A PRESENTATION THAT THE TOWN BOARD WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THE INTERESTS, UM, IN COMPLETE STREETS, UH, IN OUR TOWN.
SO WITH SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING AND THAT ARE COMING UP, LIKE THE LAKE AVENUE CORRIDOR PLAN, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, SAFETY INTERVENTIONS FOR LAKE A, UM, WITH THE EVENTUAL G-B-N-R-T-C, HAMPTON BROOK WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, UH, AREA STUDY THAT WILL START IN THE FALL.
AND ALSO WITH SOME OF THE, UH, CITIZENS BRAVEN OUTSPOKEN SUPPORT FOR LONG LASTING CHANGES, INCLUDING SOMEONE ON OUR COMMITTEE OR IN OUR GROUP THAT, OR IN THE HAMBURG MOVES GROUP THAT, UM, HAD A FAMILY MEMBER F*****G KILLED ON SOUTH PARK.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF RESIDENT SUPPORT FOR THIS.
UM, AND SO WE JUST WANTED TO, WE THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNE TIME TO TALK TO THE BOARD ABOUT COMPLETE STREETS AGAIN AND KIND OF REPLENISH SOME OF THE, THE EFFORT THAT'S GOING ON.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEING DRIVEN BY THE RESIDENTS, WHILE THE DEPARTMENT OBVIOUSLY SUPPORTS AND IS EXCITED ABOUT THE, THE PASSION, UM, BEHIND THIS PROJECT.
THIS IS, UH, OF THE RESIDENTS.
SO I'LL GIVE IT OVER IN KATIE.
SO I'LL START OUT WITH A BROAD IDEA OF WHAT COMPLETE STREETS KIND OF IS.
ANNISE WILL JUMP IN WITH SOME DETAIL ABOUT WHAT FUN ALREADY WORKING ON AND WHERE THIS KIND OF SLOTS IN.
AND THEN I'LL GET INTO MORE SPECIFICS ABOUT WHAT EXACTLY MAKES A COMPLETE STREET.
SO, HAMBURG MOVES, WHO ARE WE? HAMBURG MOVES AS A GROUP OF ENGAGED CITIZENS LOOKING TO DRIVE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY BIKE MOBILITY IN A MORE WALKABLE HAMBURG.
OVERALL, OUR GOALS IS WE WANT HAMBURG TO BE A DESTINATION THAT FAMILIES AND PEOPLE OF ALL AGES LOVE TO LIVE IN A VIBRANT AND ROBUST TOWN THAT IS SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL.
AND WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT WALKABILITY AND DRIVABILITY ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE AS LONG AS WE'RE IN RELATABLE INTENTION
SO HOW WE ENSURE HAMBURG IS NOT ONLY A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK, BUT REMAINS COMPETITIVE WITH OTHER TOWNS IN THE WEST MAIN YORK REGION AND BEYOND, IS THROUGH COMBINING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE, AND EASY ACCESS TO FOR MOTORISTS THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLANNING, UM, MOVING FORWARD.
SO WHAT ARE COMPLETE STREETS? WE HEAR IT A LOT.
ALRIGHT, GOT AWAY FROM MY NOTES.
IT IS NOT A ONE SIZE FITS ALL SOLUTION.
IT IS BUILT ENTIRELY, UM, IS A FRAMEWORK THAT SUPPORTS THE NEEDS OF ALL USER USERS BY KEEPING ALL USES IN MIND WHEN CONCEPTUALIZING, DESIGNING, EVALUATING, AND PRIORITIZING ROAD PROJECTS.
SO WHETHER IT'S A PEDESTRIAN, A CYCLIST, A PUBLIC TRANSIT USER, OR MOTORIST, ALL USES AND ALL USERS ARE KEPT IN MIND WHEN YOU'RE DESIGNING NEW ROADWAYS, NEW OR REDESIGNING ROADWAYS.
AND THE GOAL IS STREETS THAT ARE SAFE FOR ALL, NO MATTER THE AGE, THE ABILITY OR THE USER, THE DRIVING PRINCIPLE IS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY BECAUSE THEY'RE THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION.
SO HERE YOU SEE A CHART THAT SHOWS AT WHAT SPEED, UM, IS MORE FATAL TO A PEDESTRIAN BEING STRUCK.
IT TAKE AT 20 MILES AN HOUR, IT TAKES 19 FEET FOR A CAR STOP AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
AND AT 40 MILES AN HOUR, IT'S 76 FEET BEFORE A CAR IS ABLE TO FULLY STOP.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS, AT 15 MILES PER HOUR, THERE'S LESS THAN A 5% CHANCE THAT A PEDESTRIAN WILL BE KILLED BY A, UH, DRIVER HITTING THEM AT 25 MILES PER HOUR.
AT 30 IT'S 20%, AND AT 40 IT'S 45% CHANCE OF PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.
AND MOST OF THE ROADS THAT WE SEE PEOPLE ON THE SHOULDER WALKING ARE AT LEAST 40.
SO IT JUST GETS MORE FATAL AS TIME GOES ON.
SO LOWER POSTAL SPEED IS A GREAT WAY TO, AND A SIMPLE WAY TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN OUTCOMES.
BUT A POSTED SPEED, SPEED CAN ONLY DO SO MUCH.
THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OR THE WAY WE BUILD ROADS, WHAT WE SURROUND ROADS WITH, THE WAY WE
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DESIGN THEM, ULTIMATELY HAS A LARGER IMPACT ON DRIVER BEHAVIOR.AND YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE, BOTH ARE 20 MILE PER HOUR ZONES, BUT ONLY ONE OF THEM IS DESIGNED LIKE IT IN THE TOP PICTURE THAT PSYCHOLOGICALLY ENCOURAGES DRIVERS TO GO FAST AND GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO.
YOU'RE NOT REALLY THINKING ABOUT ANYTHING, YOU'RE JUST LIKE, OH, IT'S A STRAIGHT SHOT.
THE, UH, PICTURE BELOW YOU FEEL A LITTLE MORE ENCLOSED, THEREFORE, YOU'RE A LITTLE MORE CONCERNED OR CONSCIOUS ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND YOU.
AND THAT'S THE PRINCIPLE THAT DRIVES A LOT OF THE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY DESIGNED IN COMPLETE STREETS.
UM, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LOT ABOUT TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, AND I JUST WANT TO GET AHEAD OF IT AND SAY TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES DO NOT EQUAL A LONGER TRIAL TIME.
UH, THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION DID A STUDY, A 50% REDUCTION IN POST-IT SPEED ONLY INCREASED THE AVERAGE MOTOR STRIP TIME BY 33 SECONDS.
MOST MOTOR STRIPS ARE WITHIN FOUR MILES OF THEIR HOUSE, SO YOU ADD HALF A MINUTE TO YOUR TRAVEL TIME BY HAVING THE SPEED.
UH, AND THEN TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES ALSO MINIMALLY IMPACT THE AVERAGE DRIVER, BUT THEY DO ELIMINATE THE VERY HIGH VEHICLE SPEEDS.
SO IF YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT, UM, CLARK STREET, WHERE WE HAD SOME DRIVERS IN THE LATEST STUDY COMING IN, I WANNA SAY IT'S 70 SOME MILES PER HOUR.
TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES ARE DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE THE WAY HOT SPEAKS.
SO IT DOESN'T REALLY CHANGE ANYONE IF THEY'RE DOING ANYTHING FOR ANYONE DOING THE RIGHT THING, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OBVIOUSLY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A ROAD THAT'S DESIGNED TO BE FAST, THEY CAN'T GO THAT FAST.
SO HOW DOES THIS CONNECT TO THE BROADER VISION? YEAH.
SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT WHERE THE TOWN HAS ALREADY BEEN MOVING IN THIS DIRECTION.
MOST OF YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S NICE TO SEE IT IN, UM, AN OVERVIEW AGAIN.
UM, AND AS I PREPARED THIS CON THIS PRESENT PRESENTATION, I REALIZE THIS SECTION COULD BE A WHOLE PRESENTATION ON ITS OWN.
UM, BUT WE SEE, UH, WE SEE THIS CONCEPT OF COMPLETE STREETS IN OUR EXISTING PLANS.
SO, AND ON MANY OF OUR GUIDING DOCUMENTS, WE HAVE A COMP PLAN, UM, GATEWAY REVITALIZATION PLAN.
WE HAVE THE ACTIVE MOBILITY PLAN.
UH, WE EVEN HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OLDER STUDY, UM, WHICH IS THE HAMBURG MULTIMODAL TRIALS PLAN.
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE SOME REGIONAL REPORTS AS WELL FROM G-B-N-R-T-C.
JUST AS A QUICK NOTE, FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, G-B-N-R-T-C, THAT'S THE GREATER BUFFALO NIAGARA REGIONAL TRANSIT COUNCIL.
SO JUST TO QUICKLY SAY, AN MPO IS A FEDERALLY MANDATED, AND, UM, ALSO A FEDERAL FUNDED ORGANIZATION THAT EXISTS IN EVERY REGION ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
THEY, UM, FACILITATE, OVERSEE, AND PLAN AND COORDINATE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION.
SO IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, TRANSPORTATION IN A VACUUM AND IT DOESN'T REALLY CONNECT WITH MAYBE TOWNS OR COUNTIES ABOVE.
UM, SO WHAT, AND EVEN IN THEIR, THE G-B-N-R-T-C IS ALSO MOTIVATED BY, UH, FEDERAL GOALS SUCH AS SUPPORTING ECONOMIC VITALITY, INCREASING SAFETY FOR MOTORIZED AND NON-MOTORIZED USERS, AND JUST PROMOTING ENVIRONMENTAL, UH, CONSERVATION.
UM, AND THEY DO THIS THROUGH CONNECTED REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, ENHANCING SOME OF THE LARGER REGIONAL, UH, ARTERIALS THROUGH MULTIMODAL, ENHANCING MULTIMODAL OPTIONS, AND ALSO PROMOTING BICY UH, BICYCLING JUST ACROSS THE REGION.
SO I SAY THAT ALL JUST TO GIVE AN, AN IDEA THAT IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, HAMBURG'S DOCUMENTS THAT POINT TO THIS.
IT'S ALSO OUR REGIONAL, UM, PLANNERS WHO ARE POINTING TO THIS AND THE G-B-N-R-T-C AND EVEN OUR STATE AND FEDERAL, UH, GOVERNMENT WHO IS THINKING THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA INCREASE SAFETY FOR MOTORIZED VEHICLES AND ALSO NON-MOTORIZED VEHICLES, WHICH IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH A COMPLETE STREET LOWERING TRAFFIC AND INCREASING SUB.
UM, SO I JUST AM PUTTING THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND HAMLET, UM, MAP UP HERE FROM OUR COMP PLAN.
UM, AND WE SEE COMPLETE STREETS OR MULTIMODAL CONNECTIONS TALKED ABOUT IN ALMOST ALL OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, FOCUSES IN OUR COMP PLANT.
UM, SO FOR INSTANCE, IN THE EASTERN HAMLETS OF THE TOWN, WE HAVE WINDHAM AND ARMOR, DUAL ARMOR DUALS IN THE BIG TREE AREA.
THEY EXPRESS WANTING TO BE MORE CONNECTED TO THE VILLAGE AND HAVE SAFER, UH, OPPORTUNITIES FOR BIKING AND WALKING IN
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THE VILLAGE TRANSITION AREAS.UM, THEY ALSO WOULD LIKE MORE CONNECTIVITY, UM, INTO THE VILLAGE AND ALSO TO, UM, THE WATERFRONT AND MORE, AND SOME RECREATIONAL AREAS OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE.
UM, WE ALSO SEE A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF THIS WITH CONNECTING HILBERT COLLEGE AND, AND THE SENIOR HOUSING INTO THE VILLAGE.
UM, EVEN THE SOUTH PORTIONS OF HAMBURG WANT THOSE MULTIMODAL CONNECTIONS TO THE VILLAGE, UM, ESPECIALLY WITH A, AN INTENTIONAL FOCUS ON THE NIKE BASE.
SO HOW CAN WE CONNECT SAFELY, UH, THE NIKE BASE TO THE VILLAGE AND ALSO THE NIKE BASE TO SOME OF THE MORE REMOTE AIR NEIGHBORHOODS AND CONNECTING THE NIKE BASE TO OUR WATERFRONTS.
UM, SO THESE ARE JUST THINGS THAT THE COMP PLAN HAVE ALREADY TOUCHED ON.
RESIDENTS HAVE ALREADY EXPRESSED SUPPORT IN.
UM, AND SOME OTHER GENERAL GOALS IN OUR COMP PLAN SUPPORTS ARE CONNECTING THE TOWN TO THE WATERFRONT, UM, CONNECTIVITY TO OUR EXISTING RECREATIONAL ASSETS AND IMPLEMENTING THAT MULTIMODAL, UH, TRAILS PLAN THAT I TOUCHED ON EARLIER.
SO HERE'S A PICTURE OF THE MULTIMODAL TRAILS.
UM, YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF IT CENTERS AROUND THE VILLAGE ALSO CONNECTING, BEING A CONNECTING FACTOR IN THAT, UH, LAKE SHORE OR IN THE, UM, LAKE SHORE TRAIL, UH, FORGETTING IT.
AND, UM, WE ALSO CONNECT SOME OF THE, THE, THE MAJOR NEIGHBORHOODS INTO THE VILLAGE.
SO THIS IS ALREADY EXISTING AND YOU, THERE'S THE SUPPORT FOR IT.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE THE ACTIVE MOBILITY ACTION PLAN DONE BY GO BIKE.
IT WAS JUST FINALIZED, UM, LAST WINTER, AND A LOT OF THE OUTREACH WAS DONE OVER THE SUMMER.
UM, BUT THERE IS AGAIN, THAT EXPRESS CONNECT DESIRE FOR CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE VILLAGE AND JUST IMPROVING GENERAL BIKE FACILITY ON MAJOR ROADS.
UM, AND THE ACTIVE MOBILITY ACTION PLAN HIGHLIGHTS SOME PRIORITY AREAS OF LAKE AVE AND SOUTH PARK, CLARK AND MCKINLEY, CLARK HARBOR, JEWELS, BAYVIEW, ABBOTT, PLEASANT AVE, AND AMAL AND, UM, ROGERS ROAD IN PLEASANT.
SO LASTLY, I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO TOUCH ON THE, THE MOMENTUM THAT THE STATE ALSO HAS BEHIND, UM, SOME ABOUT AROUND BETWEEN COMPLETE STREETS.
SO, UH, THIS IS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE WEBSITE, UH, WHERE THEY PROMOTE SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES, UM, AND THEY WANNA SEE, UH, WALKABLE BIKEABLE, TRANSIT FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS.
PUBLIC ART IS SOMETHING THAT CONTRIBUTES TO COMPLETE STREETS AND LOWERING, UH, CALMING TRAFFIC.
AND THEN ALSO SAFE ACCESSIBLE, INTENTIONALLY PLANNED PUBLIC SPACES, WHICH, UM, CONNECTIVITY AND WIPING WALKING PLAYS A BIG PART IN ALSO BEING CLIMATE BRAZILIAN.
UM, AND THEN THE STATE ALSO HAS A COMPLETE STREETS LAW, ALONG WITH A SMART GROWTH PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE POLICY, WHICH BASICALLY JUST SAYS THAT MAJOR ROAD PROJECTS WITH STATE FUNDING WILL, UH, PRIORITIZE COMPLETE STREETS.
SO AGAIN, IN ALL, I JUST WOULD POINT TO THIS TO SAY IT'S PART OF THE LARGER MOMENTUM AND DIRECTION OF THE STATE AND THE, THE REGION THAT WE'RE IN AND WHAT OUR TOWNS ALREADY DO.
SO ON THAT, WHAT COULD HAMBURG LOOK LIKE? WE ALREADY SEE SOME OF THESE PRINCIPLES IN, UH, THIS SUPPORT WORK PROJECT.
UM, SO YOU'RE SOUTH CAR, WE KNOW IT, WE HATE IT.
IT IS WHAT IT'S, BUT IN THE CORRIDOR PLAN, A COMPLETE STREETS POLICY PROGRAM, THIS IS WHAT YOU END UP WITH.
YOU HAVE STREET TREES WHICH HE TRAFFIC IN AND SLOWS IT DOWN.
YOU HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE WIDE PATHWAYS FOR PEDESTRIANS TO EASILY GET WHERE THEY NEED TO GO.
UM, INFIELD DEVELOPMENT RIGHT ON THE SIDEWALK TO ENCOURAGE WALKING AND PEDESTRIANS ENGAGING WITH THOSE STOREFRONTS.
UM, AND ALL OF THIS GOES INTO SLOWING TRAFFIC DOWN IN A WAY THAT FEELS LIKE IT'S THE RIGHT SPEED YOU BUILD IN THESE PRINCIPLES AND YOU WON'T HAVE TO ENFORCE AS MUCH BECAUSE THE IDEA IS THAT THE ENVIRONMENT, THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT WE'VE CREATED ALREADY ENCOURAGES THAT THROUGH STUDIES THAT WE'VE ALREADY SEEN TO PROVE, UH, THESE PRINCIPLES SLOW DOWN TRAFFIC NATURALLY.
SO HERE'S ANOTHER IMAGE FROM THE GATEWAY ORGANIZATION.
UM, SO THIS IS CAMP ROAD AND LEGION DRIVE.
AGAIN, IT, IT PROVIDES ANOTHER ENGAGING
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PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE TOWN IN A VERY DIFFERENT WAY THAN WE ARE NOW.SO THEN THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO YOU BUILD COMPLETE STREETS? I SAID IT EARLIER.
IT'S A FRAMEWORK WHERE YOU TAKE THE PIECES THAT MAKE SENSE IN CONTEXT.
AND AS LONG AS YOU ARE TAKING THESE PRINCIPLES INTO CONSIDERATION, YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD IN MORE INVITING AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE OF USING ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION TO ENGAGE WITH.
SO WHETHER THAT'S WIDE SIDEWALKS, STREET SCAPING, SO TREES, UH, STREET TREES, BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE, TRAFFIC, CALMING MEASURES, OR MY CURRENT OBSESSION CURB EXTENSIONS.
UM, THESE PRINCIPLES USED IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT GO A LONG WAY.
SO WE'LL START WITH STREET TREES.
STREET TREES HELP WITH TRAFFIC CALMING BY SLOWING DOWN DRIVERS.
THEY MAKE THE STREETS, YOU'RE A NARROWER, WHICH ENCOURAGES DRIVERS TO SLOW DOWN.
UM, THEY ALSO HELP REDUCE ENGINE AND TIRE NOISE, WHICH MAKES IT A MORE INVITING EXPERIENCE FOR PEDESTRIANS.
NOT ONLY DO THEY FEEL SAFE, BUT IT ALSO DOESN'T SOUND AS LOUD.
UM, ALSO, TREES NOT ONLY MAKE ROADS SAFER, BUT THEY ALSO INCREASE PROPERTY VALUE, REDUCE STORM WATER RUNOFF, AND GENERALLY MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER.
SO THEN PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE TOP TWO BENEFITS OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS INCREASED VISIBILITY OF PEDESTRIANS AND BIKES AND A DEFINED SPACE FOR EACH USE, WHICH IMPROVES SAFETY.
UM, WITH NARROWER LANES AND MARKED CROSSWALKS AND PROTECTED BIKE LANES, IT IS SAFER FOR ALL USES.
A CAR DOESN'T WANNA HIT A PEDESTRIAN, OBVIOUSLY.
SO BY, IN SITUATIONS WHERE A CAR IS SLAMMING ON THE BRAKES, IT'S MORE LIKELY THEY'RE GONNA HIT FIND ANOTHER CAR BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO HIT A PEDESTRIAN.
IF YOU PROVIDE SPACE FOR EACH USE, THAT'S LESS LIKELY TO HAPPEN.
TRAFFIC MOVES SMOOTHER, PEDESTRIANS ARE SAFER, AND EVERYONE GETS WHERE THEY NEED TO GO NO MATTER HOW THEY'RE GETTING THERE.
UM, THE BENEFIT HERE, YOU SEE IT KIND OF PAINTED, THIS IS A TEMPORARY TREATMENT TO KIND OF PROVE OUT THE CONCEPT.
UM, YOU HAVE A SHORTENED DISTANCE TO CROPS AND MORE VISIBILITY TO THE PEDESTRIAN.
SO THE CARS ARE ABLE TO SEE THE PEDESTRIAN BEFORE THEY'RE ACTUALLY IN THE ROADWAY.
UM, AND THEN YOU ALSO HAVE THE PEDESTRIAN HAS LESS SPACE TO CROSS, SO THEY'RE IN THE ROADWAY A SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME.
UM, THIS TREATMENT ALSO CHANGES THE RADIUS ON THE CORNERS.
SO WITH A TIGHTER RADIUS ON A, A TURNING CORNER, YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO SLOW DOWN.
WHEN YOU SEE A REALLY WIDE RADIUS ON THE CORNER, IT ENCOURAGES CARS TO TAKE THE CORNER QUICKLY WITHOUT SLOWING DOWN TO REALLY MAKE SURE THEIR CAR IS STAYING IN THEIR LANE.
UH, AND WE HAVE DAYLIGHTING INTERSECTIONS.
SO THIS IS REMOVING VIS VISUAL OBSTRUCTIONS NEAR AN INTERSECTION.
BY CLEARING AWAY THE VISUAL OBJECTS, IT IMPROVES SAFETY BECAUSE YOU CAN SEE THE PEDESTRIAN LONGER RATHER THAN A MID-BLOCK CROSSING.
YOU CAN SEE A PERSON NOT HOPPING OUT FROM BEHIND A CAR, BUT YOU VISIBLY SEE THEM, UH, FROM A A SIGNIFICANT DISTANCE.
UM, AND HERE YOU CAN SEE ANOTHER GRAPHIC THAT SHOWS BEFORE DAYLIGHTING, THE CARS WERE ABLE TO PARK UP RIGHT ON A CROSSWALK, WHICH LIMITED THE, UH, THE WIDTH, THE SCOPE THAT THE DRIVER COULD SEE.
UM, AFTER DAY LIGHTING, WHICH THIS TREATMENT IS SIMPLY REMOVING A PARKING SPOT ON EACH SIDE, DOESN'T REALLY COST ANYTHING, JUST PAINT.
UH, IT IMPROVES THE VISIBILITY OF THE, UH, DRIVER TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE ENTIRE ROADWAY AND THE PEDESTRIANS CROSSING FROM EITHER SIDE.
SO THEN ROUNDABOUTS, UM, I LOVE ROUNDABOUT, PERSONALLY.
I'M KIND OF A NERD THAT WAY, SO YOU CAN ALL ATTEST TO IT.
UM, BUT YOU HAVE LOWERED MAINTENANCE COSTS, NO COST FOR THE SIGNALS, AND IT WORKS WITH THE POWER OUTAGE AND OR IN ANY WEATHER.
SO YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA EXPECT AND THEN, OH YEAH, RIGHT.
UM, QUICKLY ON A SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION VERSUS A ROUNDABOUT SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION, THE AVERAGE WEIGHT IS 60 SECONDS.
ON ROUNDABOUT, THE AVERAGE WEIGHT IS 20 SECONDS.
AND THEN THE LAST OPTION IS A ROAD DIE, WHICH WE'VE SEEN HERE ON MAIN STREET BACK IN 2008.
UH, WE WENT FROM A 21 INCH TRAVEL LANE DOWN TO A 10, 10, NOT INCH, UH, 10 FOOT TRAVEL LANE WITH A SAFETY BUFFER AND DEFINED PARKING AND STREET TREES, WHICH GIVES US, UH, THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO WALK AND ENJOY.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DIDN'T SEE MAIN STREET BEFORE THE CHANGES, I KNOW I DIDN'T.
THIS WAS MAN IN BUFFALO BEFORE 2008 AND MAN IN BUFFALO AFTER 2008.
UM, JUST FROM AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDPOINT, THERE WAS AN IMMEDIATE INCREASE
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IN COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT.UH, AFTER THIS PROJECT WAS COMPLETED, THE VILLAGE DOUBLED THEIR COMMERCIAL BUILDING PERMITS FROM 2008, 2010.
AND THESE, UH, TREATMENTS ALSO RESULTED IN A 90% DROP IN SEVERE ACCIDENTS AND A 60% REDUCTION IN ACCIDENTS OVERALL.
IT'S ALSO INTERESTING TO COMPARE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UM, ORCHARD PARKS MAIN STREET, WHICH IS THIS PHOTO THAT IS UP HERE, AND HAMBURG, UM, ORCHARD PARK WAS DOING THIS AROUND THE SAME TIME.
THEY WENT WITH THE TYPICAL SUGGESTION OF JUST, UH, INCREASING THEIR ROAD SPACE AND INCREASING THE, THAT MAIN INTERSECTION OF THEIR VILLAGE.
AND HAMBURG WENT, UH, BECAUSE OF SOME OUTSPOKEN RESIDENCE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OF BEAUTIFYING THEIR AREA.
AND JUST DUE TO THAT, YOU CAN SEE THE INCREASED WALKABILITY AND DESIRABILITY OF THE VILLAGE OF HAMBURG AND HOW HOW BEAUTIFUL, UM, THE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT, UM, IN COMPARISON.
SO THEN ONE LAST SLIDE, UM, GOING WRONG THERE.
UM, AND INTERESTINGLY, STUDIES DO SHOW THAT PROPERTY VALUE AROUND COMPLETE STREETS DOES INCREASE.
UM, ONE STUDY SHOWED ABOUT AN 8% HIGHER HOME VALUE THAN, UM, THAN HOMES IN THE SAME COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE JUST OUTSIDE OF COMPLETE STREET PROJECTS.
AND THAT STUDY ALSO SHOWED THAT WAS SUSTAINED OVER TIME.
IT WAS SUSTAINED GROWTH OVER TIME.
UM, SO ONE NOTE, HOBOKEN NEW JERSEY HAS A VISION ZERO INVESTMENT AND SAFETY PLAN, AND THROUGH DAY LIGHTING AND HIGH VISIBILITY, UH, CROSSWALKS IN CURB EXTENSIONS, THE CITY OF HOBOKEN HAS HAD ZERO PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES IN SEVEN YEARS.
SO IF A CITY LIKE HOBOKEN CAN DO IT REALLY JUST WITH BOLLARDS AND PAINT, AND HOBOKEN IS VERY CLOSE TO NEW YORK CITY, SO IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A SMALL MUNICIPALITY.
IT HAS HIGH TRAFFIC VOLUMES AND A LOT OF, UM, HIGH SPEEDS AS IT IS, IT IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO, UH, REALIZE THAT VISION ZERO.
I WOULD LOVE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
WELL, LIKE COMPLETE STREETS, UM, IS THERE FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS, BECAUSE BIG TREE AVENUE GOING UNDERNEATH THAT VIA DOCK, THERE IS NO WALKWAY, THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S, I THINK IT'S A VERY DANGEROUS SPOT IN ITSELF.
UM, IS THERE MONEY TO SAY PUT A, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE, THE RAILROAD TRACKS OR THE BRIDGE OR SOMETHING, BUT THERE'S NO WALK SPACE AT ALL.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YEAH.
EVERY BAND FOR HIMSELF, I GUESS, TRYING TO GO UNDERNEATH THAT BRIDGE, ESPECIALLY IN THE WINTER, AT NIGHTTIME.
THAT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE WHERE IT GETS KIND OF HAIRY AND SCARY OUT THERE.
IS THERE, I MEAN, IS THERE FEDERAL FUNDS TO MAYBE TRY TO DO SOMETHING THERE OR? YEAH, THERE'S DEFINITELY FEDERAL FUNDS.
I MEAN, I WAS ACTUALLY EVEN JUST SENT A GRANT TODAY, UM, THAT FOCUSES ON ACTIVE, UM, TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENT.
YOU ALMOST HAVE TO PICK THE PRIORITY AREA SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE DOING THOSE BIG, BIG PROJECTS.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO ALWAYS, UM, THERE'S FEDERAL MONEY LIKE THAT WE CAN APPLY FOR.
I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN GRANTS OUT THAT HAVE, WOULD PAY FOR, YOU KNOW, UP TO 80% OF $5 MILLION FOR SOME PROJECTS AND, YOU KNOW, JUST CAPITALIZE ON THOSE WHEN THEY COME.
THEY DON'T ALWAYS COME OUT, YOU KNOW, ACTIVELY AND THEY'RE NOT USUALLY ROLLING BASIS.
UH, FOR INSTANCE, I KNOW THE, THE GRANT THAT'S OUT RIGHT NOW, THE, THE DEADLINE IS JUNE 17TH.
SO YOU HAVE TO KIND OF ACT QUICKLY AND IT DEFINITELY HELPS TO HAVE DEMONSTRATED, UM, MUNICIPAL INTEREST IN A PROJECT.
UM, BUT THERE, FOR INSTANCES LIKE THAT, THERE ARE WAYS THAT WE COULD DO SMALLER, UM, LESS INTENSIVE PROJECTS TO, TO MAKE IT SAFER, SUCH AS RES STRIPING OR PUTTING IN, UM, LIKE PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALKS AND EVEN SIGNAGE.
SO IT DEPENDS ON, THERE ARE, THERE IS MONEY OUT THERE FOR THOSE PROJECTS, AND I KNOW OUR DEPARTMENT DO KNOW ABOUT THEM, BUT SOMETIMES THEY'RE NOT JUST ON ROLLING BASIS.
WELL, I BELIEVE THAT'S STILL PART OF THE STATE ROAD RIGHT DOWN THERE.
UM, I BELIEVE, I DON'T KNOW IF BIG TREE IS A STATE,
UM, SO IT'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF PUSH THOSE PROJECTS FORWARD AND GET'EM THE TOP OF THE PILE.
UM, LIKE RIGHT NOW THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY IN THE SAFE STREETS FOR ALL INITIATIVE.
UM, AND THAT'S PART OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE VILLAGE WENT THROUGH LAST YEAR.
I'VE SEEN A LITTLE BIT OF THIS AT THE VILLAGE WHEN THE VILLAGE HAD THEIR ANNUAL,
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UH, YEAH.AND I, I, I DO HAVE, UH, YOU TRAFFIC SAFETY COORDINATOR LOOKING INTO HAVING THE SPEED LIMIT LOWERED FROM SOUTHWESTERN TO THE VILLAGE.
I MEAN, ESPECIALLY SEEING THE, WELL YOU HAVE THE COLLEGE, YOU HAVE THE SENIOR CENTER.
NOT TO MENTION WHAT HAPPENED AT THE SCRANTON.
WE HAD A PRESENTATION A COUPLE MONTHS AGO ABOUT AMSTEL ROAD, THE COUNTY ROAD.
UM, WHERE DOES THAT STAND? YOU KNOW, AS I WAS PUTTING THIS TOGETHER, I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT PROJECT.
I KNOW IT'S IN THE WORK, YOU KNOW, WE STARTED DESIGN ON IT.
UM, WE HIRED A LOTS ENGINEERING FIRM TO START DOING THE CONCEPTUALS ON IT.
AND, UM, WE'RE TALKING TO THEM ABOUT ACTUALLY EXTENDING THE WIND, SNOW.
THE ONE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE, LIKE I'D LOVE, I MEAN IF YOU EVER GO TO VANCOUVER, UH, THEY HAVE SOME, SOME REALLY GREAT NEW YORK CITY TOO, BUT BIKE LANES AROUND, IT'S VANCOUVER ISLAND AND THEY'RE SEPARATE, LIKE AS YOU POINTED OUT, THEY'RE PAINTED.
IT DID HAVE ONE ON RIDGE ROAD FOR, AND THEY TOOK IT DOWN, WHICH I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DID THAT, BUT I THINK IT WAS, I THINK IT WAS THE, UH, FIBERGLASS POLE STICKING UP OUT OF THE GROUND.
SO THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A TEMPORARY MOMENT TO OUT AN IDEA.
IT WAS THE WINTER TIME, BUT THERE WAS PLENTY OF, FOR, FOR WHATEVER REASON THAT I, I DID BIKE IT.
BUT, UM, BUT I KNOW LIKE VANCOUVER, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY STARTED IT, BUT THEY HAVE DESIGNATED PASS, BUT WE HAVE THEM WHAT WOULD BE, I MEAN, JUST THINKING OUT LOUD, BUT IT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT TO HAVE SOMETHING CONNECTED FROM THE VILLAGE TO THE WATER AND THE WATER TO THE CITY OF BUFFALO.
BUT THE PROBLEM THAT I SEE IS THAT ALONG ROUTE FIVE, UH, I KNOW IN THE PAST THEY HAD DONE THINGS WHERE THEY HAD TWO LANES OF TRAFFIC AND THEN THE CENTER, THEN THEY WENT, THE STATE WENT BACK TO THE, TO FOUR LANES.
I DON'T KNOW KNOW WHY, BUT, UM, THAT SEEMS TO BE ITS GEOGRAPHY.
'CAUSE ALL THE HOMES THERE OR, YOU KNOW, IT'D BE REALLY NEAT IF YOU COULD, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OTHER SOLUTION, SOMETIMES WHEN I'LL RIDE MY BIKE, I'LL RIDE IT BEHIND, LIKE PARALLEL TO
BUT IF WE COULD GET SOMETHING TO CONNECT ALL OF THAT, IT WOULD BE YEAH.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE SOMETHING LIKE A COMPLETE STREETS METHODOLOGY TO PLANNING AND THINKING THROUGH REDESIGNING DIFFERENT ROADWAYS IN THE FUTURE IS IT IS A AND A LOT OF TIMES IT'S A, UM, CONCENTRIC CIRCLE.
YOU FOCUS ON THE GATEWAY CORRIDOR AND THEN YOU BUILD IT OUT TO THE NEXT CIRCLE.
YOU CONTINUE TO EXTEND IT UNTIL YOU REACH ALL THE SPOKES TOGETHER.
UM, BECAUSE LIKE A PROJECT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE DOESN'T REALLY DO ANYONE ANY FAVORS UNTIL YOU CAN CONNECT TO IT.
BUT AS NEW PROJECTS COME UP, HAVING THIS SORT OF IDEA IN MIND AND HAVING IT ON THE BOOKS IS A HUGE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THE FUTURE THERE IS SOMETHING THAT CAN CONNECT YOU TO THE WATERFRONT AND THERE IS SOMETHING AND CONNECT YOU FROM THE WATERFRONT ALL THE WAY TO CANAL SIDE.
UM, AND REALLY CREATING THOSE PEDESTRIAN THROW BEARERS THAT FEEL SAFE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIND A SIDE STREET.
THAT'S REALLY AN, THERE'S A LOT OF THAT.
I, I PERSONALLY WOULDN'T BIKE OVER THERE.
WHERE, SO LIKE THE FIVE THROUGH FIVE? OH NO, I WOULDN'T, THAT'S MY POINT.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHERE, I MEAN, MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW.
THERE'S ALSO A LAKE AVENUE PROJECT THAT WE, I THINK I VOTED FOR.
UM, AND THAT, AND THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, WHEN'S THAT, DO YOU KNOW WHEN THAT ONE'S GONNA COME ABOUT? UM, IT'S IN THE PROGRESS RIGHT NOW.
SO GOBI IS A CONSULTANT WITH THAT AND THEY'RE DOING THE INVENTORY ASSESSMENT AND HE'S STARTING TO, UH, SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC OUTREACH AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE STARTING ON THE DESIGN, THE PRELIMINARY PLANS THAT COULD CONNECT THEM FROM THE VILLAGE OF WASTE UP LIKE INTO, YEAH.
AND THEN THERE'S SIDEWALKS IN, IN ANA VALLEY STEEL PLANT THAT GO INTO THE CITY AND YEAH.
AND ANOTHER THING OF HOW YOU CAN EVEN JUST DO THIS, LIKE START THE MOMENTUM WITH IT, UM, IN NON-MONETARY WAYS IS JUST PASSING A COMPLETE STREETS POLICY FOR THE TOWN.
A TOWN WIDE POLICY, WHICH JUST ESTABLISHES, YOU KNOW, COMMITMENT TO COMPLETE STREETS IN ANY FUTURE UPCOMING ROAD PROJECTS SAYING IT'S A PRIORITY.
UM, GIVE STANDARDS AND FRAMEWORK FOR LIKE THE FUTURE PROJECTS.
UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PAINTING GOING ON OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE.
UM, AND IT CAN ALSO, UH, SAY WHEN COMPLETE STREETS AREN'T NECESSARY.
SO JUST EVEN HAVING A POLICY IS A GOOD, A GOOD START.
AND YOU KNOW, AS IS YOU FOUND THAT ONE? NO, THE TOWN DOES NOT.
WE WOULD LIKE ONE DID YOU WRITE ONE UP FOR US TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT? YEAH, WE HAVE.
THERE'S A LOT OF EXAMPLE AUDIENCES OUT THERE THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
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TO DO THAT.THE, THE DEPARTMENT AND AGAIN, JUST EMPHASIZING THAT, YOU KNOW, HAMBURG MOVES IS, IS NOT A TOWN IS NOT LIKE TOWN EMPLOYEES.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, CITIZENS WHO ARE REALLY ENGAGING AND EXCITED ABOUT THIS WORK.
SO ONE OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU STATED AND HIGHLIGHTED WAS THE DAYLIGHTING MM-HMM
BUT WHERE ARE YOU THINKING OF IMPLEMENTING A PROJECT LIKE THAT? BECAUSE YOU HIGHLIGHTED A LOT OF EXAMPLES THAT WOULD BE, UM, COMMONLY SEEN IN THE VILLAGE OF HAMBURG.
BUT WHAT ARE YOU THINKING FOR WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DAYLIGHTING? BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THOSE IT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
I THINK THERE ARE SOME, IT'S THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN WHERE THERE ARE SO MANY MORE PEOPLE WALKING AND THERE ARE ON A LOT OF STROBE TYPE ROADS.
SO YOU HAVE PLACES LIKE, LIKE THE A WHERE YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE A DIS YOU HAVE A DESIGNATED SPOT THAT PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO CROSS.
BUT PROVIDING MORE VISIBILITY THERE, DEPENDING ON WHAT GO BIKE COMES BACK WITH.
UM, BUT LOOKING AT WHERE PEOPLE ARE CROSSING TO GET TO A BIKE OR A BUS STOP, UM, AND PROVIDING IT MIGHT, IT MIGHT NOT BE SO MUCH DAY LIGHTING AS, UM, I SAY I DON'T THINK GAP HAS PARKING, STREET PARKING, BUT OKAY.
UM, THEY KIND OF SERVE SIMILAR FUNCTIONS, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE.
JUST TRYING WHERE THERE ARE A LOT MORE PEOPLE WALKING.
TRYING TO THINK OF AREAS WHERE YOU COULD IMPLEMENT IT AT FIRST, BECAUSE THAT'S THE EASIEST SLOW LINE THROUGH MM-HMM
BUT IT'S FINDING AN AREA TO IMPLEMENT IT WHERE IT'S SOUTH PARK.
MAYBE I GONNA SAY SOUTH PARK, SCRANTON, WE COULD DEFINITELY PUT A CURB EXTENSION THERE, WHICH WOULD, UH, ELIMINATE THAT.
KINDA LIKE ALMOST SLIP TURN YOU HAVE AT THAT.
I THINK THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY ALSO.
WELL, EVEN THOUGH WHEN YOU, YOU LIMITED THE PARKING, THE ON STREET PARKING.
WE'RE TALKING CURB EXTENSION, A LITTLE BIT OF A HOP IN THE YEAH, NO, I WAS THINKING THE ONE THAT'S JUST GONNA BE A GALLON OF PAINT FOR US TO LIKE PUT CURB CHANGES IN SIMILAR YEAH.
SO HERE IS A CURB EXTENSION, RIGHT? SO IT IS PAINT AND A COUPLE BALLARDS JUST TO NARROW SO THE PEDESTRIAN CAN STAND SORT OF IN THE ROADWAY IN A SAFE SPACE.
AND THEN ACROSS, I WAS THINKING THE DAYLIGHTING WAS MORE SOMETHING YOU COULD IMPLEMENT PRETTY QUICKLY.
LIKE WE COULD GET OUT AND DO IT THIS SPRING AND TEST AREAS.
WELL THAT WOULD BE LIKE A GOOD SORT OF
'CAUSE THAT'S, I FEEL LIKE, YEAH, A PROOF OF CONCEPT THING WE CAN TRY, IT'S PRETTY INEXPENSIVE, QUICK TO IMPLEMENT, SEE IF IT MAKES CHANGE.
AND IF IT DOESN'T, IT'S AN EASY GO BACK TO THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE.
I KNOW WHEN COUNCIL MEMBER BALKI WAS MENTIONING BEFORE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU, BECAUSE I DO THE SAME THING, YOU BIKE PARALLEL TO ROUTE FIVE AND YOU CUT THROUGH SOME OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
BUT INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, PEOPLE PARK A LOT OF TIMES ALONG THE ROAD THERE AND THEY DO GET FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE INTERSECTIONS.
SO MAYBE EVEN IN A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LIKE THAT WHERE YOU COULD GO AND, AND OVERALL, AND THEN YOU'D HAVE THE WHOLE COMMUNITY INVOLVED AND TOOK A, TOOK A LOOK AT MAYBE AROUND ALL THOSE.
THE SCHOOLS, I'M THINKING LIKE PLACE DOGS, SCHOOL AND
BECAUSE BANK, BECAUSE THEY, WHEN THE STUDENTS, SOMETIMES THE STUDENTS DO WALK OR WHEN PEOPLE ARE WALKING THEIR, THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOLS OR BIKING, A LOT OF PEOPLE BIKE UP AND DOWN THOSE ROADS.
AND IN THAT COMMUNITY, AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE, FREQUENTLY PEOPLE ARE, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY DO ALL THE TIME.
AND I'M NOT SAYING IT'S, YOU KNOW, RIGHT OR WRONG, BUT THEY FREQUENTLY WILL PARK ALONG THERE.
BUT IF WE GAVE SOME GUIDANCE SO THAT NO ONE EVER PARKED AND CAUSED THAT OBSTRUCTION AT THE INTERSECTION.
BECAUSE I THINK MANY PEOPLE IN THE AREA AND IN THE TOWN DO THAT WHERE YOU PARALLEL ROUTE FIVE AND YOU TO, TO GET A LONG STRETCH TO BE ABLE TO BIKE.
AND IT'S BECAUSE IT'S IN BETWEEN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES AND YOU HAVE THE SCHOOLS MAYBE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE THAT WOULD BE A GREAT SPOT.
YOU KNOW, WE TEND TO THINK OF LIKE THE VILLAGE OR WHATEVER, BUT MAYBE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WOULD GIVE YOU THAT OPPORTUNITY.
I THINK A LOT OF STREETS USED TO LIVE BACK IN THE DAY.
I MEAN, I GREW UP IN
PAYING FOR BREAD GOES A LONG WAY.
AND AS YOU GET INPUT FROM, UM, THE HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT TOO MM-HMM
I'D WANNA BE CERTAIN THAT WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING WOULDN'T CREATE A BARRIER TO LONG TERM THE LONGEVITY OF WHATEVER SIDEWALKS YOU PUT IN.
SO YOU DON'T CAUSE CURB LIFT, BUT ALSO SO THAT WE DON'T CREATE, UM, OUR OWN PROBLEMS BY THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT HITTING
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THE TREES GOING OVER OR THE OVERHANG TAKING OUT THE TREES.WE HAVE TALKED TO ADD BRIEFLY ABOUT, UM, A STREET TREE POLICY OR, AND, UH, PROCESS IF RESIDENTS WANNA PLANT STREET TREES BECAUSE I MEAN, THEY ARE AN INFRASTRUCTURE, A PIECE OF INFRASTRUCTURE, HONESTLY, AT THE END OF THE DAY THAT HAS TO BE MAINTAINED AND, UM, KIND OF TRACKED.
SEE AND LIKE TAKING IN THE CONDITIONS.
UM, SO THAT JUST ADDS ANOTHER THING TO THE DEPARTMENT.
SO SPECIFICALLY IN THE PAST, IT'S NO STREET TREES, BUT NOW, YOU KNOW, I HAS EXPRESSED THAT HE'S WILLING TO COME AROUND TO IT.
SO IT'S ALSO ABOUT THE TYPE OF TREE THAT WE, WE PICK.
UM, AND SOMETIMES ORNAMENTAL TREES ARE, ARE MORE PREFERRED BECAUSE THEY WOULD ADD FALL AND THEN THEIR ROOTS.
NOCO IS DEEP AND, AND DON'T KIND OF BREAK UP THE SIDEWALKS AS MUCH.
AND WE CAN DEFINITELY TALK TO ED AND SEE ABOUT THE OVERHANG.
'CAUSE TYPICALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT STREET TREES, A LOT OF IT'S BEEN ARE THEY GONNA GET INTO THE SEWERS? ARE THEY GONNA BREAK UP THE SIDEWALKS? BUT ALSO, WHAT ABOUT THE OVERHANG? BECAUSE AS LUXURIOUS AS THOSE CAN BE, IT CAN BE DIFFICULT.
BUT YOU DO SEE IT IN A LOT OF MAJOR PROMINENT CITIES AND SUBURBS.
SO THERE'S GOTTA BE A WAY TO WORK WITH THAT.
AND IF THEY'RE GOING THAT BIG, BECAUSE MOST OF THE TREES NOW, THEY, THEY PICK THE ONES THAT THE ROOTS BROKE DOWN SO THEY DON'T GO THIS WAY.
INTO BREAKING UP SIDEWALKS OR, YOU KNOW, SEWERS.
I KNOW THEY JUST PLANTED A TON A COUPLE YEARS AGO ON MCKINLEY.
UH, JUST NORTH NEW, THAT WHOLE RUN IS ALL LIKE RELATIVELY NEW.
I THINK THEY'RE MAINLY KAREN AND APPLE BLOSSOM TREES.
SO THEY JUST DID A, THEY'RE A LITTLE SMALLER.
THEY DID A BIG RUNUP EVENT SUNSET TOO.
SO TAKE A LOOK AT THE VILLAGE 'CAUSE THEY SPEND AN EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF TIME CREATING A TREE LIST.
UM, AND IT'S PRETTY HOLD DOWN BECAUSE I WOULDN'T WANT TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO PLANT A TREE, A SIDEWALK LIST AND THEN THEY'RE REPLACING SIDEWALKS.
UH, THAT'S ANOTHER PROJECT TOO.
UM, AND OUR CONSERVATION ADVISORY BOARD HAS A LANDSCAPE, HAS A LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPER WHO'S, UM, PRETTY WELL VERSED IN THAT.
AND HE CREATED A A TREE LIST SO I CAN SEND IT TO YOU.
I KNOW WE HAVE A TOWN WIDE TREE LIST OF ACCEPTABLE TREES AND UM, NATIVE TREES AND UM, NON-INVASIVE SPECIES.
BUT I WOULD WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ALSO COMPATIBLE WITH SIDEWALKS AND HOW MUCH OF A CURB SET WE WOULD NEED BACK UP LIKE THE ONE YOU HIGHLIGHTED.
SOUTH PARK IS A VERY NARROW SIDEWALKS OR ROAD RATIO.
AND I'M NOT EVEN SURE YOU WOULD HAVE ENOUGH IF YOU WANTED TO WIDEN IT TO PUT TREES IN THERE AND STILL HAVE THE TREES SURVIVE AFTER A FEW YEARS.
LIKE YOU WANNA GIVE THEM ENOUGH ROOM TO GROW AND NOT GET KILLED OFF WITH THE SALT.
SO YEAH, IF YOU CAN LOOK INTO THAT AND GET BACK TO US, I'D APPRECIATE IT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? HALEY ANNISE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
I LOOK THAT YOU PUT INTO THE PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU HAMBURG MOVES COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR, UH, SHOWING UP TO SUPPORT, UM, ALL GREAT INFORMATION AND SOMETHING FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION OF THE TOWN BOARD.
NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS, UH, THE CFA GRANT, WHICH IS GOING TO BE PRESENTED BY THANK YOU.
RILEY, I'M JUST GONNA ADD SOME SUPPORT TO THE HAMBURG BLUES PROJECT.
ANY STUDY OR ANYTHING THAT'S DONE BY A A GROUP LIKE THAT, THAT'S ACCEPTABLE TO THE TOWN BOARD, GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF APPEND TO YOUR COMP PLAN.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU HAVE IT APPEND TO YOUR COMP PLAN, STATE, COUNTY AND FEDERAL AGENCIES MUST CONSIDER IT IN ALL THEIR ACTIONS.
AND THOSE BIG PROJECTS LIKE ROUTE FIVE THAT'S GONNA BE COMING UP AGAIN, HAVE IT HAVE YOUR PLAN IN PLACE.
WHAT HAPPENED 30 YEARS AGO OR 25 YEARS AGO WAS THE TOWN AND THE STATE AND THE FEDS WERE ALL ON DIFFERENT PAGES WHEN THE PROJECT GOT DROPPED.
NOW'S THE TIME TO GET THAT PROJECT DONE IN THE NEXT, I THINK IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO REBUILD THE ROUTE FIVE.
NOT ONLY TAKE CARE OF THE ISSUES OF THE PROBLEMS OF LAKE FRONT EROSION, BUT ALSO BYPASS AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON.
THAT'S A NATIONAL SEAWAY TRAIL ALONG THERE.
I THINK IT'S A HUGE PROJECT FOR THE TOWN.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL MOVE ON TO WHY I'M HERE TONIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SPEAK.
I WAS COMING HERE FOR THE LAST 29 YEARS.
I HAVEN'T BEEN TO THE TOWN BOARD MEETINGS ONLY ONCE THIS THIS YEAR.
UM, SO BACKGROUND A LITTLE BIT.
CONFERENCE LINE WAS ADOPTED IN 20 20, 20 23.
LOTS OF IMPLEMENTATION HAS BEEN BEGUN.
THERE WAS AN IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE PUT TOGETHER.
A LOT OF THINGS BEEN GOING ON.
YOU'VE BEEN DEALING WITH THE DIFFICULT ZONING ISSUES.
ZONING ISSUES ARE ALWAYS DIFFICULT.
BUT LAST YEAR TO ASSIST WITH ALL THESE COSTS, THE TOWN APPLIED FOR A CFA GRANT CONSOLIDATED FUNDING APPLICATION.
THEY RECEIVED ONE THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
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THE TOTAL GRAND VALUE IS $140,000 TO HELP YOU TO BEGIN TO, TO IMPLEMENT MORE OF THESE ZONING MAP AND ZONING CODE REVISION.UM, I ALSO, IN YOUR PACKET TONIGHT, I HAVE A MEMO.
I BROUGHT COPIES OF TONIGHT BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO OPEN THOSE MAPS.
THEY WERE DIFFICULT TO OPEN BECAUSE OF THE TYPE OF TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS USED ON 'EM.
I THINK IT'S A GREAT VISUAL PRESENTATION OF ALL THE ZONING ISSUES THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BECAUSE I LIKE VISUAL THINGS TO LOOK AT.
UM, SO YOU HAVE A GRANT NOW YOU HAVE TO DO IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE GRANT CONTRACT, WHICH YOU'RE NOW PUTTING TOGETHER, WHICH YOU HAVE TO INCORPORATE SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES.
THERE'S, THERE'S REQUIREMENTS LIKE MBWV REQUIREMENTS AND THERE ARE PROCEDURAL REQUIREMENTS THAT DEPARTMENT AND STATE HAS.
I'M HERE TONIGHT JUST TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE GONNA BE SIGNING THIS CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF NEW YORK, THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS PROJECT IS GOING TO DO AND WHAT IT'S ABOUT.
THERE'S BEEN CHANGES TO IT OVER, OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS ONLY BECAUSE WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WERE IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT PACKAGE.
SO NOW WE'VE KIND OF ADDED OTHER THINGS INTO THE, INTO THE GRANT PACKAGE.
SO THE MAJOR AREAS OF ZONING WORK THAT WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING ON IS AROUND THE BILL STADIUM THAT HAS BEEN POINTED OUT FOR YEARS AS THEY BUILD THAT NEW STADIUM, ORCHARD PARK IS STRUGGLING WITH THAT ISSUE.
THEY'VE BEEN ASKED TO LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, TALLER HOTELS AND MOTELS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE HAVE, THE BIGGEST ISSUE WE HAVE IS THE ECC CAMPUS, WHICH IS ZONED R THREE, WHICH MEANS FOR MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING, IF THE CAMPUS WAS EVER TO CLOSE.
THAT IS NOT THE VISION OF THE TOWN TO HAVE MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING AT THAT LOCATION.
WE ALSO HAVE THE NORTH SIDE OF, OF SOUTHWESTERN THERE WHERE YOU REALLY HAVE TO LOOK AT CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE WITH A REZONING APPLICATION AND WHAT THAT ZONING OF THAT AREA SHOULD LOOK LIKE.
MCKINLEY MALL, WE'VE ATTEMPTED TO DO SOME THINGS WITH THAT.
THERE ARE MANY ISSUES DEALING WITH THE REDEVELOPMENT, MCKINLEY AND MCKINLEY MALL AREA.
BUT THAT WOULD BE PART OF YOUR GRANT APPLICATION TO LOOK.
WE NOW HAVE AN INCENTIVE ZONING ORDINANCE.
YOU MAY WANNA LOOK AT DOING SOMETHING ADDITIONAL TO THAT AND PROVIDING MORE DIRECTION.
WE KNOW WALKABILITY IS A BIG ISSUE IN THE MCKINLEY MALL AREA.
AND EVERY TIME WE GET AN APPLICATION THERE, THE PLANNING BOARD STRUGGLES WITH WHERE WE WOULD PUT BIKING OR WALKING FACILITIES IN THAT AREA.
UM, SOUTH PARK AVENUE, OUTSIDE THE VILLAGE, ANOTHER BIG AREA.
YOU'VE DONE STUDIES IN THE PAST.
WE SHOWED SOME GREAT VISUAL PRESENTATIONS.
WELL, THE ZONING HAS TO FOLLOW UP.
IT WOULDN'T ALLOW THAT, THAT THE BUILDING'S UP WITH THE ROAD AND WHATEVER.
WE'D HAVE TO CHANGE THOSE THINGS IN THAT AREA.
UM, WOODLAWN GATEWAY BOA, YOU HAVE A, ANOTHER PROJECT GOING ON.
YOU HAVE THREE PROJECTS THAT YOU'VE BEEN FUNDED BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
YOU HAVE THE LWRP, WHICH IS THE WATERFRONT PLAN.
YOU HAVE NOW A NEW BIG STUDY, THE BOA, WHICH IS A BROWNFIELD OPPORTUNITY AREA.
STEP ONE, WHICH IS A PLANNING STUDY.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS CFA GRANT.
EVEN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT, THAT THESE ALL HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER AND ACTUALLY ARE EXTENDING THE ONE DEADLINE ON THE LWRP TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE THREE PLANS ARE WORKING TOGETHER.
SO, UM, WE HAVE THAT GOING ON.
SO WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT THAT AREA THROUGH THE, THE BOW IS GONNA LOOK AT THAT AREA AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TO DO ZONING MODIFICATIONS.
THERE'S A TALK OF, AND IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP OF AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT ET CETERA IN THE PAST.
BUT IT'S AN ISSUE THEN THAT'S ALONG WHERE IT'S BETWEEN LIKE THE, THE SEAWAY TRAIL VISITOR CENTER AND YOUR BEACH AREA HAVING SOMETHING TO DO SOME REDEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA.
UM, I'M TELLING YOU THAT THE CFA GRANT, THAT'S MOSTLY GONNA BE DONE UNDER THE LWRP 'CAUSE THE LWRP IS THE OVERRIDING DOCUMENT.
IT'S THE CONFERENCE PLAN FOR THE WATERFRONT.
EVERYTHING YOU DO FROM A ZONING STANDPOINT HAS TO BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LWRP.
SO THAT ONE, IT'S IN THE GRANT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LOOK AT IT, BUT IT'S GONNA BE A RESULT OF THE LWRP TELLING US WHAT DIRECTION TO DO WITH THAT.
ANOTHER MULTIMODAL ISSUE ON LAKE AVENUE.
UM, NEW TO ME, I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, THE VILLAGE OF HAMBURG GOT A BOA GRANT, ANOTHER BOA AND THEY ARE STUDYING THE AREA OF CAMP ROAD IN THE OTHER AREAS AND CAMP ROAD ALL THE WAY INTO THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
A MESS IN THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
I WON'T DO, I DON'T HAVE TIME TONIGHT, BUT WORK WITH THE VILLAGE VERY, VERY CLOSELY ON THAT PLAN BECAUSE IT DOES AFFECT THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
THE TOWN OF HAMBURG SHOULD BE A PARTY TO WHAT'S GOING ON IN THAT, IN THAT STUDY, WHICH IS GONNA END UP WITH LAND USE ISSUES AND ZONING ISSUES THAT THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO INCORPORATE ZONING CODE, UM, LAKEVIEW OVERLAY IT TALKED ABOUT.
WE ALREADY REESTABLISHED THE LAKEVIEW OVERLAY, BUT THROUGH THIS STUDY WE MAY WANNA COME UP WITH A COUPLE OTHER THINGS TO DO IN LAKEVIEW.
LAKEVIEW, AS YOU KNOW, IS WHERE A LOT OF THE SUBDIVISIONS WERE BUILT IN THE SEVENTIES AND EIGHTIES AND INTO THE NINETIES.
AND THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, THERE'S WORD THAT HAS TO BE DONE THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DOESN'T TURN INTO, I'VE HEARD IT BEFORE.
WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN A SUBURBAN
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AREA LIKE AMHERST.SO WE GOTTA DO SOME WORK THERE.
AND THEN THE OTHER BIG ONE WAS THE CAMP OF INTERCHANGE, WHICH WE STARTED.
WE WERE PUSHED TO DO THAT VERY QUICKLY 'CAUSE THE THROUGHWAY AUTHORITY WAS GONNA SELL A PIECE OF PROPERTY WHERE THE, WHERE THE ONE CLOVERLEAF WAS.
SO WE QUICKLY CAME UP WITH A CAMP ROAD INTERCHANGE BASED UPON THE GATEWAY STUDY THAT WAS DONE.
AND WE CAME UP WITH A DISTRICT AND WE REZONED THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY.
LO AND BEHOLD, THEY DIDN'T SELL THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY.
BUT MY UNDERSTANDING, SEAN'S HERE, SEAN HERE, I BELIEVE IT'S GONNA GO OUT FOR SALE AGAIN IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO, I BELIEVE IS WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WE MAY MAKE A COUPLE TWEAKS TO THAT CAMP BOARD INTERCHANGE, ZONING, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A BIG PROJECT THAT'S THE PLANNING BOARD GONNA BE RECOMMENDING TO YOU ALL THE OTHER PROPERTIES IN THAT AREA.
SO THOSE ARE THE BIG PICTURE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN, NOT ADDED, BUT ADDED MORE DETAIL TO IN THE, IN THE, UH, IN THE APPLICATION.
WE'RE ALSO GONNA CONTINUE OUR WORK WITH THE INDUSTRIAL REZONINGS.
SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE REZONING SOME OF THE OLDER, OUTDATED INDUSTRIAL ZONING IN THE TOWN.
THERE ARE SOME AREAS THAT ARE ZONED
UM, WE'RE GONNA WORK ON NEW COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS FOR THE TOWN.
ONE, ESPECIALLY ON SOUTHWESTERN BOULEVARD.
WE HAD SOME CONTENTION OVER WHAT IS ZONED COMMERCIAL ON SOUTHWESTERN BOULEVARD, THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE TOWN.
UH, WE'RE GONNA MODERNIZE OUR COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICT.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO, UH, MAKE SOME OTHER ZONING CHANGES ON SOUTHWEST BOULEVARD IN THAT AREA.
UH, WE ARE GOING TO, UH, REZONE PROPERTIES OR NEW DISTRICTS ADJACENT TO THE VILLAGE THAT WOULD INCORPORATE THOSE CONCEPTS.
UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE AREAS.
UM, WE ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT PARKER ROAD AND BOSTON STATE ROAD DOING WHAT THEY CALL CONTEXT CONTEXTUAL SENSITIVE DESIGN.
IT'S BASICALLY THE ROAD SHOULD MATCH THE AREA SO IT'S EVEN FURTHER, NOT ONLY INCORPORATING WALKABILITY AND BIKES, BUT MAKING THE ROAD MEET WHAT THAT AREA IS.
AND ESPECIALLY WITH PARKER ROAD, YOU REALLY, IF YOU LOOK, IF YOU EVER RID ON PARKER ROAD, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF, YOU CALL LIKE IT'S A RURAL ROAD WITH THE NEWVILLE STADIUM IN THERE, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE A LITTLE MORE PROACTIVE TO KEEP IT WHAT IT IS.
SO, UH, WE'RE GONNA WORK ON THINGS LIKE THAT.
UH, WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THE, UH, CEA LANGUAGE PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL AREA.
THAT WAS, UH, SOMETHING ESTABLISHED BY THE TOWN, I THINK CLOSE TO 40 YEARS AGO ALONG 18 MILE CREEK.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IT MATCHES WHAT'S IN THE LWRP.
IT'S THE LWRP NOW WHO 18 MILE CREEK GOING FAST HERE.
AND I'M GONNA GET TO QUESTIONS.
SO I THINK ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT, WELL, WE DO THE FIRST WE HAVE A NEW AGRICULTURAL ZONING DISTRICT.
WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH THE AGRICULTURAL BOARD, UH, TO COME UP WITH PROPERTIES TO REZONE TO THE AGRICULTURAL.
IT'S AN ENCOURAGEMENT, IT'S AGRICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL RELATED.
I DON'T THINK, PLEASE, I FEEL BAD SAYING THIS, THAT THE TOWN OF HAMBURG IS GONNA TURN, TURN BACK INTO AN AGRICULTURAL COMMUNITY.
UM, WE ONLY HAVE A FEW FARMS LEFT, BUT WE CAN HAVE AGRICULTURAL RELATED USES, THINGS THAT BRING THAT AMBIANCE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
UM, THE OTHER BIG ONE I THINK IS A CLEARED ONE IS A SITE PLAN AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS.
YOU HAVE 19 70, 70 SITE PLAN AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS.
THEY HAVE TO INCORPORATE ALL THE NEW CONCEPTS INTO THE SMART GROWTH PRINCIPLES.
I'LL SAY EV CHARGING STATIONS, ALL THOSE THINGS HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED
I WORK HAND IN HAND WITH THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, BUT A LOT OF THE THINGS WE'LL TALK ABOUT IN THOSE SITE PLAN AND SUBSTITUTE REGULATIONS IMPACT YOU IN THE REVIEW OF THOSE PROJECTS AND THE, AND THE FUTURE GROWTH OF, OF THE TOWN.
SO I THINK THOSE ARE HUGE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE.
THERE'S A ATION SECTION, YOU ZONING CODE THAT'S BEEN OUTDATED FOR 15 YEARS.
WE HAVE TO BRING UP TO SPEED, UM, AND THEN CONTINUE TO WORK.
I'VE SUGGESTED NOT ONLY IN THE BILLS AREA, BILL STADIUM AREA, BUT ALL ALONG THE ORCHARD PARK KIND OF HAMPER AND BORDER.
WE HAVE TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE COORDINATION.
WE'VE DONE SOME RECENT REZONINGS AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE ON ONE SIDE OF THE ROAD, THE TOWN OF ORCHARD PARK'S NOT TAKING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIRECTION THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD.
I, I WORK WITH MANY COMMUNITIES IN WESTERN OREGON.
WE HAVE A ROAD THAT FOLLOWS A BOUNDARY IN WHAT GOES ON ONE SIDE OF THE STREET.
TRANSIT ROAD OFF OF NIAGARA COUNTY HAS A PROBLEM WHERE THE ZONINGS DON'T MATCH AND THEY DON'T, DON'T MAKE SENSE.
SO, UM, AND THEN THE LAST ONE ON THE LIST IS THERE'S SOME INDUSTRIAL ZONING IN THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE TOWN.
IT WAS A CLEANUP PROJECT FROM 25, 30 YEARS AGO.
I THINK THE TOWN'S GOTTA FINALLY MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT THE FUTURE OF THAT AREA IS.
SO THERE COULD BE SOME COMMERCIAL LEVEL WHAT FITS BEST IN THAT AREA OF THE TOWN.
I THINK I DID MY JOB IN IN LESS THAN 15 MINUTES BECAUSE I'M HERE HOPEFULLY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
YOU, I WANT YOU TO BE COMFORTABLE.
YOU'RE GONNA GET A RESOLUTION AT SOME POINT IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO.
I THINK IT'S PROBABLY TWO MONTHS OUT TO AUTHORIZE A SIGNATURE OF A CONTRACT WITH THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU'RE COMMITTED TO DO.
AND I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE IT'S IN THIS BUSINESS FOR 40 YEARS, IS THAT YOU SIGN A CONTRACT TO
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STATE IN NEW YORK AND SAY YOU'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING, YOU BETTER DO IT.BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T DO IT, YOU WON'T GET A GRANT FOR THE NEXT FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS.
THEY'LL PUT YOU ON A BLACK LIST AND, AND YOU WON'T GET ANY MORE GRANTS.
SO I THINK I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE COMFORTABLE AGAIN, YOU LAST TIME AND REVIEW ALL THAT STUFF, BUT ILL TURN IT BACK TO YOU.
UM, A LOT OF THE STUFF WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND ALL THAT, THAT THEY, THEY CONTINUE TO DO EVERY 20 YEARS I BELIEVE IT IS OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
WE'VE CUT IT DOWN EVERY 10 YEARS.
NOW WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS DOC, WHEN WHEN, WHEN THEY DO THESE PLANS YEP.
IS IT POSSIBLE TO SAY, OKAY, IT ZONED THIS, RIGHT? BUT IT COULD BE POSSIBLY THIS OR THIS BECAUSE, SO WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE COMING UP TO US AFTER THE THING'S BEEN PASSED AND SAYING, HEY, I WANNA REZONE THIS BECAUSE I WANNA DO THIS, OR I WANNA REONE AND I'LL, I'LL TAKE SOME CREDIT FOR THAT.
MOST CONFERENCE PLANS DON'T DO THAT.
NOW, ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, I WAS THE FIRST ONE INTRODUCED TO WESTERN YORK ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO.
PEOPLE USED TO DO WHAT THEY CALL FUTURE ZONING MAPS AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT THE ZONING SHOULD BE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
WE DO VISION MAPS AND SAY IN GENERAL, THIS IS WHAT THE TOWN'S TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
AND IT GIVES YOU OPTIONS IN THOSE AREAS BECAUSE TOWNS USED TO GET SUED ALL THE TIME BECAUSE THE IDEA WAS YOU ADOPT A COMP PLAN, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE BRINGING THE ZONING COMPLETELY IN, CONFORMANCE IN WITH THAT.
THEY'VE ADOPTED, ALMOST EVERY CONFERENCE PLAN I'VE READ NOW IN THE LAST 10 YEARS HAS TAKEN AWAY FROM THE FUTURE ZONING MATCH BECAUSE IT'S JUST, YOU'RE JUST ASKING FOR LITIGATION.
'CAUSE ZONING IN NEW YORK STATE MUST BE IN ACCORDANCE WITH A CONFERENCE PLAN.
SO YOU'RE GONNA ACCUSE IT EITHER WAY.
THERE'S NOTHING IN THAT COMP PLAN THAT SAYS YOU HAVE TO DO THIS.
FOR EXAMPLE, WE SAID, YOU NEED TO EVALUATE THE INDUSTRIAL ZONINGS IN FED IN THE AREA.
YOU NEED TO EVALUATE THE COMMERCIAL ZONINGS IN THESE AREAS.
SO IT GIVES YOU THE DIRECTION, GIVEN THE TOWN BOARD THE ABILITY TO SAY, HEY, WE NEED TO GET DOWN TO A FINER LEVEL.
IF YOU WERE A VERY RURAL COMMUNITY WITH 4,000 PEOPLE, IT'S MUCH EASIER TO DO.
THIS IS A COMMUNITY THAT HAS, AND I'VE SAID THIS OVER A LOT OF COMPLICATED LAND ISSUES, A LOT, YOU KNOW, LAST LITTLE WATER FRONT.
YOU HAVE ALL THESE THINGS IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT MOST COMMUNITIES IN NEW YORK STATE DON'T HAVE.
UM, FOR ABOUT $8 MILLION, I BELIEVE WE COULD PROBABLY PURCHASE THE MCKINLEY MALL AND THEN FOR ONCE IN THE TOWN'S HISTORY, THEY COULD BE RESPONSIBLE AND IN CHARGE, IN CONTROL OF REZONING.
IF THEY WANNA PUT A HOTEL, IF THEY WANNA PUT APARTMENTS, IF THEY WANNA PUT A, YOU KNOW, A STRIP PLAZA IN THE FRONT AND UH, AM I CRAZY OR IS THAT NO, THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD, IT'S, IT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT'S BEING DONE WITH EASTERN HILLS AND WITH BOULEVARD, UH, THROUGH A PUBLIC, MOSTLY PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.
TOWN OF AMHERST WAS LOSING EMINENT DOMAIN.
UH, WE'RE WORKING WITH TOWN, CLARENCE IS USING OUR KIND OF DEVELOPERS, BUT THEY'RE NOT TAKING THE PROPERTY, WORKING WITH THEM AND SAYING, HEY, WE'LL DO THIS AND DO THIS.
THAT WAS KIND OF THE CONCEPT OF THE INCENTIVE ZONING.
INCENTIVE ZONING SAYS WE WANNA ACCOMPLISH THESE THREE OR FOUR THINGS IN THIS AREA.
YOU COME TO US WITH A PROPOSAL, WE, WE DON'T MAY NEED YOU COME WITH A PROPOSAL.
AND BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE MORE MODERN ZONING THESE DAYS.
IF YOU'RE THE WORD FORM-BASED CODES, A LOT WE'RE GETTING AWAY FROM UNDER OLD ZONING USED TO BE, HERE ARE THE USES THAT ARE ALLOWED AND HERE'S THE SETBACKS AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED.
FORM-BASED CODE IS MORE ABOUT DESIGN.
IF I SAID THAT 30, 40 YEARS AGO YOU WOULD BE SUED BECAUSE ZONING IS SUPPOSED TO ONLY REFLECT USES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
IN TODAY'S WORLD, DESIGN HAS THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
HOW IT FIX FIT FITS INTO THE CHARACTER OF THE AREA, HOW IT WORKS AND WHATEVER.
SO MCKINLEY MALL LESS CONCERNED ABOUT USES, OR I SHOULD SAY THAT THE SUB USE IS PROBABLY WHAT MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HOW DOES IT FIT INTO THE COMMUNITY? HOW DOES IT BECOME WALKABLE? HOW DOES IT BECOME A COMMUNITY ASSET? AND I FIGURED WHAT MR. DOYLE, IF HE WAS HERE TO, YOU KNOW, HE WOULD BE ABLE TO ASSET AND HELP, YOU KNOW, BRING IN SOME TUITION.
AND MCKINNEY MALLS, EVERYONE IS NOT FOR TONIGHT, BUT IT VERY COMPLICATED ISSUE.
THE OWNERSHIP ISSUES, DIFFERENT OWNERSHIP OF THE PIECES OF THE MALL, ET CETERA.
SO IT BECOMES A LOT MORE TYLER DEALING WITH ONE OWNERSHIP AND BOULEVARD MALL THEY WERE DEALING WITH MULTI AND HOW THEY TOOK CONTROL OF IT IS, WELL, THE OUTER RING SEND THE DOMAIN, I'M EXCLUDING THE OUTER RING.
I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT THE BUILDING IN THE PARKING LOT THAT, THAT IS MR. COHEN, I BELIEVE.
AND THE AND, AND, AND, UM, ANDERSON OWN TWO STORES INSIDE THERE.
AND THAT'S WHAT THE MACY STORES, THEY WORKING, SO THEY USED POWER.
I BELIEVE THEY OWN THE TWO MACY STORES HERE.
THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, IT SAYS SMALL AREAS OF MC ZONING.
UM, WHY IS THAT ON THERE? WAS THAT PART OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? BECAUSE THAT IS PREDOMINANTLY HIGHLY RESIDENTIAL.
LOTS OF I SAYING IS THERE, IT'S KIND OF IN THE GRAND OUT VISION.
LOOK AT, AND I'M, I'M I'M SAYING THAT THE LWRP WOULD HAVE TO TALK
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ABOUT, I LOOKED AT THE AREA AND SAID, REALLY IT'S ALL RESIDENTIAL.THERE'S TWO LITTLE COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS AT EITHER END.
SO I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT IS THE LWRP GONNA TELL ME ABOUT THAT? THAT'S, I'M NOT, I'M RULING IT OUT.
I'M JUST SAYING I NEED DIRECTION FROM THE LWRP AND THE PUBLIC AND WHATEVER.
WHAT YOU MAY WANNA DO, THERE'S A COUPLE IN BETWEEN THE TWO.
YOU HAVE A COUPLE, YOU HAVE THE LIBRARY AND YOU HAVE THE FIRE ONE, I THINK TWO FIRE ONE AT LEAST ONE FIRE IN THAT FIRE.
BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, IT'S RATHER RESIDENTIAL FIRE COMPANY AND CHURCH IN THERE.
I WOULDN'T THINK IT'S JUST SPEC SPECIFIED THAT AREAS, WELL JUST BETWEEN SEAWAY TRAIL BUILDING AND THE LIKE HAM BEACH.
I WOULD REALLY, AND I PUT NC ZONING IN THERE BECAUSE I JUST WANTED TO KNOW THERE'S ONLY TWO SMALL AREAS OF COMMERCIAL ZONING, BUT I'M THINKING OF ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, I'M THINKING OF COMMERCIAL ZONING, SO RIGHT.
EVERYTHING ELSE IN BETWEEN IS RATHER THAN, AND I WOULDN'T NECESSARILY CALL IT, I THINK THE ONLY, WHAT YOU HAVE, UM, THE SEVEN ELEVENS THERE.
AND THERE'S, WELL, SO WHAT ARE WE THINKING? LIKE IF THAT'S PART OF THIS I DO NOT KNOW, AS I SAID IN THE THING, IT'S GOTTA COME OUTTA THE LWRP.
UNDERSTAND THE LWRP IS THE OVERRIDING DOCUMENT FROM EVERYTHING ON THE WATERFRONT, EVERYTHING IN THE LWRA, I CAN'T COME UP WITH ANYTHING ELSE.
THAT'S WHERE IT'S REALLY SPECIFIC.
YOU HAVE TO NAME ZONING REVISIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND WE DID THE LAST LWRP 25 YEARS OR WHATEVER IT WAS, WE SUGGESTED FOR A BUNCH OF PROPERTIES, A NEW WATERFRONT COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.
AND AS WE ESTABLISHED THAT WATERFRONT COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO SAY IN THE LWRP WE'RE GONNA COME UP WITH, AND THIS IS THE REASON WHY WE'RE GONNA COME UP WITH SOME ZONING CHANGE.
SO I'M WAITING FOR THE L-W-R-P-I WAS GONNA WITH MIXED JUNE, AND THEY'RE HAVING THEIR FIRST PUBLIC MEETING MEETING.
SO, UH, THERE'S A BUNCH OF PUBLIC MEETINGS COMING UP.
SO WE HOPE TO GET WATERFRONT WOULD MIXED USE BE GOOD FOR THAT AGREEMENT?
HOW WOULD WE VOTE ON THAT THOUGH, IF WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON, IF WE CAN'T GET A CLEAR ANSWER AS TO WHAT THE PLAN IS FOR THAT? RIGHT.
I, WELL, IT'S IN THE GRANT APPLICATION NECESSARILY BE SPECIFIC.
IT, IT'S IN THE GRANT APPLICATION.
AND I'M HERE TO POINT YOU OUT.
I POINTED THIS OUT TO THE SUPERVISOR AND BETH, I POINTED OUT TO THEM THAT I'M GONNA HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE LWRP.
IF THE LWRP SAYS THERE'S NO ZONING CHANGES, NOTHING'S HAPPENING, AND WE'RE NOT, NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CON CON UH, UH, GRANT.
SO FOR THE, SO THIS SECTION THAT INCLUDES THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT, MY IRISH YEP.
IS UNDERNEATH SINCE THE APPLICATION BASED ON CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MARK AND LUCY AND NEW YORK STATE.
SO IS THIS ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT IN THE GRANT APPLICATION? IT IS IN THE, IN THE ORIGINAL GRANT APPLICATION.
WE SAID WE WOULD LOOK AT THAT ZONING.
WE WERE LOOK AT ALL THE COMMERCIAL ZONING IN THE TOWN AND SEE IF IT'S APPROPRIATE.
MARK HAS KIND OF FURTHER CLARIFIED THAT, SAYING HIS THOUGHT WAS AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT.
HE IS GONNA PRESENT THAT TO THE LWRP COMMITTEE.
IF IT WORKS OUT ON THE PLAN, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT THE ZONING DISTRICT TOGETHER, IF THAT'S WHAT IT WAS AGREED TO AND EVERYBODY AGREED TO.
AND THE GRANT APPLICATION, THERE'S GONNA BE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SAY IN THE GRANT APPLICATION.
THERE'S ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE THINGS OR MORE THAT WE'RE ALREADY ALMOST DONE.
WE, FOR EXAMPLE, SAYS WE'RE GONNA UPDATE THE LAKEVIEW OVERLAY.
I DON'T KNOW, MUCH MORE UPDATE WE CAN DO, BUT MAYBE DO SMALL TWEAKS TO IT, SO WE'LL HAVE MONEY TO DO ELSEWHERE.
THIS ONE I'M GONNA SPECIFICALLY ASK MARK WHEN THE GRANT THAT, THAT'S GONNA BE UP TO DEAL WRP, WHICH IS TOMORROW STATE AGREES.
ALL THREE, THEY'RE FUNDING ALL THREE AND ALL THREE HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER.
I'M DOING NOTHING UNLESS THE LWRP TELLS ME THROUGH WEDNESDAY, FOR OVER TWO YEARS I'VE WORKED, I I'VE MET WITH THE STABILIZATION COMMITTEE AS WELL AS THE R-L-W-R-P.
AND I HAVE ONLY HEARD MENTION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT FROM ONE PERSON.
AND THAT'S MARK LEWIS AS A FACILITATOR OF THESE CONVERSATIONS.
BUT HE IS NOT SERVING THE ROLE OF A RESIDENT INFORMING WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
I WOULD LIKE TO, TO SAY IT ON THE RECORD RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW, THAT I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT IN THIS PART OF TOWN.
AND MY PREFERENCE WOULD BE TO TAKE ANY MENTION OF AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT OUT OF THIS APPLICATION.
AND I AM CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO SAY THAT THE LWR COMMITTEE WILL WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE THAT CLEARLY AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT OFF THE TABLE FOR OUR LAKE SHORE RESIDENCE.
AND I, I WOULD SOMEWHAT AGREE WITH THAT.
THE, THE APPLICATION SAID, WE'LL LOOK AT COMMERCIAL ZONING.
SO I'M SAYING WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THOSE TWO COMMERCIAL ZONING AREAS.
MATTER OF FACT, AT
I WOULD DO THOSE AREAS AS ENHANCED FOUR FIVE B AREAS THAT WOULD BE EXTRA TAX INCENTIVES FOR PEOPLE TO, UH, ENHANCED FOUR FIVE B WOULD ALLOW YOU THEN TO
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INVEST IN A PIECE OF PROPERTY.AND MY TAXES WOULD NOT GO UP FOR 10 YEARS.
AND AFTER 10 YEARS, THEY WOULD BE GONE UP A REGULAR 4 0 45 B BASICALLY SAYS THE DAY YOU DO THE IMPROVEMENTS, THEY GO UP 10% EACH YEAR OVER A 10 YEAR PERIOD.
BUT DO YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO AN ENHANCED 45 B? MY SIMPLE LOOK AT IT IS THAT IT'S AN AREA THAT NEEDS TO INVEST.
PEOPLE WANT TO INVEST IN THE PROPERTY AND MAYBE THAT'LL ENCOURAGE 'EM, PROBABLY SOME OTHER ECONOMIC TOOLS YOU CAN LOSE, GET PEOPLE TO INVEST IN THOSE PROPERTIES AND MAYBE INVEST IN, AND THAT'S WHERE THE NEW DISTRICT, INSTEAD OF NNC, YOU COME UP WITH A, MAYBE THE WATERFRONT COMMERCIALS FINE IF THERE'S SOME FORM OF EXCUSE, MAYBE THERE'S SOME OTHER CODE YOU COME UP WITH NOT, I'M HERE TO SAY THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THE TWO NC DISTRICTS.
YOU CAN TAKE THE WORD ENTERTAINMENT OUT.
WE DO END UP WITH SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT THOSE TWO AREAS.
I PREFERENCE WOULD BE THAT ANY DOCUMENTS, ANY MAPS THAT ARE CREATED BY YOURSELVES OR FROM OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT, NO LONGER USE THE WORDS ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS NOT PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD.
AND THIS WILL BE SHARED IN EMAILS.
IT WILL NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN THAT THIS IS NOT GETTING CONSIDERATION FOR THE TOWN BOARD AT ALL.
WE AN IDEA OF THE TOWN BOARD AND IT'S NOT AN IDEA FROM THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
I DON'T THINK THE WORD ENTERTAINMENT REPRESENTS WHAT WE'D BE LOOKING FOR.
I THINK ENTERTAINMENT IS MISLEADING, IS NOT DESCRIPTIVE OF, OF ANY OF THE CONVERSATIONS.
IT'S NOT GONNA BE AN ENTERTAINMENT.
I I WOULD AGREE WITH, UM, UH, THE SUPERVISOR COUNCIL UNDER, UH,
I MEAN, YOU DO HAVE SOME COMMERCIAL PROPERTY THERE.
THAT WAS, IT USED TO BE A GROCERY STORE AND THEN IT BECAME A WILSON FARMS AND THERE'S A, A PUBLIC HOUSE RESTAURANT.
I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD IN THAT AREA.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A BROOK THAT GO ALL THE WAY TO BROOKS PHARMACY, THAT AREA.
AND UH, I MEAN, THERE'RE A HISTORICAL CONTEXT, I GUESS THAT USED TO BE ABLE TO WHERE THE DRUG STORES, I MEAN, YOU USED TO BE ABLE TO RENT BOATS THERE LIKE 75 YEARS AGO.
AND THEN YOU, IF YOU'RE ON THE BEACH AND YOU, YOU'RE ON ON, UM, ON THE BEACH, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE SOME OF THE ANTS OF, OF THAT APPROXIMATE TO HAMBURG BEACH.
AND I THINK HISTORICALLY YOU HAD OVERBANK HOTEL, FOR EXAMPLE, WHERE THE, UH, UH, WHERE THE DAYCARE, DAYCARE CARE CENTER IS.
AND PEOPLE WOULD, WOULD GO TO ONE OF THE COUNTRY CLUB AND THERE'D BE HOTELS HISTORICALLY IN THAT AREA.
BUT OVER TIME, AND, AND AT LEAST IN MY LIFETIME, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN PRIMARILY RESIDENTIAL.
THERE WAS AT ONE POINT THERE WAS TWICE BY FRONT, IF YOU RECALL, WHICH IS, UH, KITTY CORNER, LIKE YOU COME ON CAMP ROAD AT THE END OF IT, IT WAS A RESTAURANT THERE THAT BASICALLY BECAUSE OF SHORELINE EROSION.
BUT IT'S EVOLVED NOW TO MORE RESIDENTIAL AND IT COULD BE DISRUPTIVE TO MAKE THAT AS ENTERTAINMENT.
SO I WOULD AGREE WITH THE SUPERVISOR AND, UH, COUNCIL, UH, MEMBER LAWRENCE.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TONIGHT.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE WHAT GOES IN THIS OFFICIAL CONTRACT ALLEGATIONS ARE ADVICE NICE.
BUT THEN YOU HAVE AN OFFICIAL CONTRACT THIS TIME AND THE WORDING WILL BE REMOVED.
WE'RE LOOK AT THE TWO NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL AREAS THROUGH THE LWRP.
AGAIN, THE LW RRP IS THE OVERRIDING DOCUMENT.
IT'S NOT JUST UP TO, YOU KNOW, IT'S UP TO THE BOARD.
THAT'S JUST MY OPINION, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I, I I DON'T IT IS A UNIQUE AREA, CERTAINLY.
WHEN'S THE LWRP MEETING? MAY THERP MEETING IS SET.
I'LL GETTING TO THAT MATTER FACT THIS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE THROUGH HOPEFULLY THE PANDEMIC AND WE GET PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND GET THE WORD OUT.
THAT MEETING IS VERY IMPORTANT.
IT'S THE UPFRONT MEETING BEFORE THEY ESTABLISH PROJECT.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT ESTABLISHING PROJECTS.
THAT'S THE NEXT COMPONENT OF THE LWRP.
THIS IS INTRODUCING THE PROJECT, WHAT WE FOUND OUT THE DATE AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN.
SO VERY IMPORTANT MEETING UPFRONT.
ADD THAT, THAT INPUT IN THE WATERFRONT.
WATERFRONT IS A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE TALENT.
SO WOULD YOU, I I UNDERSTOOD YOU CORRECTLY.
YOU TALKED ABOUT THAT ONE OF THE SHIPS, UM, THAT THE INDUSTRY, SO TO SPEAK, IS IN THE PROCESS OF, IS MANY OF THESE THINGS ARE BEING LOOKED AT, UM, WITH FORM-BASED CODE.
SO, UM, YOU'RE SAYING THAT A LOT OF THE PROJECTS OR A LOT OF THE AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THROUGH THE CFA WOULD BE GOOD CANDIDATES.
THEY WOULD FALL IN LINE, BE ABLE TO BE BASED, THEY CALL HYBRID HYBRID FORM BASED CODES.
AND I HAVE TO GET EDU NOT DO EDUCATIONAL, BUT FORM BASED CODES ARE IN A COMMUNITY.
YOU ACTUALLY, WHAT THEY DO TRANSECT ZONING, THEY RUN A LINE OUT FROM THE VILLAGE CENTERS OR CITY CENTERS OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND YOU SET UP WHAT THE TRANSECT ARE WITH THE DIFFERENT TYPE OF, OF ZONING YOU WOULD WANT.
WE'RE NOT DOING OVERRIDING, UH, A COMPLETE REZONING OF THE TOWN.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT AREAS THAT HAVE, THAT HAVE THOSE QUALITIES.
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AND YOU'LL SEE ALMOST EVERYTHING CITY OF BUFFALO IS A HYBRID FORM BASED CODE.THERE'S STILL ABOUT ABOUT USES, BUT THEY TALK A LOT ABOUT DESIGN THERE.
ARE WE REALLY? NO, I FEEL BAD.
THERE ARE REALLY NO, UH, FORM-BASED CODES IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
THERE'S SOME DOWNSTATE, UH, BUT WESTERN EUROPE, WE TEND TO GO TO THE HYBRID, UH, BECAUSE IT COSTS A LOT OF MONEY.
CITY OF BUFFALO SPENT THINK THE NUMBER CAME OUT TO CLOSE TO $5 MILLION TO REDO THEIR, THEIR ENTIRE CODE.
AND EVEN THAT WAS NOT INTO A FORM-BASED CODE.
IT WOULD BE COMPLETE REZONING, COMPLETELY CHANGING THE, THE, THE TOWEL.
WE'RE LOOKING AT AREAS AND DOING FORM-BASED HYBRID CODES.
SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT, YOU TOWARDS DESIGN, THAT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD LEND ITSELF AND GO HAND IN HAND WITH SOME OF THE ALMOST CORRIDOR WE'RE LOOKING AT.
ALL OF OUR MCKINLEY SIDEWALKS STADIUM AND TRAIL AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
AGAIN, THE ZONING, I TELL PEOPLE ZONING IS KIND OF THE TEMPLATE FOR FUTURE.
IT DOESN'T CREATE PROBLEMS. IF YOU ZONE IT, THEY WILL COME, DOESN'T WORK.
MY MY FAMOUS QUOTE TO PEOPLE, JUST BECAUSE I JOKE IN SOME WAY DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
IT'S BASICALLY THERE'S A LOT OF INVESTMENT JUST AS HAMMER MOVED, IT'S A LOT OF INVESTMENT BY THE CHANNEL, BY THE COUNTY, BY THE STATE, AND BY THE FEDS TO INVEST THAT MONEY IN AND CHANGE THE, THE OUR 1960 ROAD DEPENDENT, I MEAN CAR DEPENDENT ROAD.
I MEAN THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE BUILT.
I WAS AROUND THEN BILL ROAD, THE DOT BASICALLY SAID THIS IS HOW ROAD ONE HOUSEHOLD HAD ONE CAR.
RIGHT? IT IS OVER TWO CARS PER HOUSEHOLD.
NOW WEST
AND PEOPLE GO, HOW COME WE HAVE MORE TRAFFIC? THE POPULATION HAS DECLINED BECAUSE WE HAVE 2.2 CARS PER HOUSEHOLD.
WHEN WE USED TO HAVE LESS THAN ONE CAR PER HOUSEHOLD.
YOU KNOW, THEY, THAT'S IT WAS A BIG THING WHERE WE BROUGHT A CAR AND THAT WAS IT.
BUT ANYWAY, I KNOW YOU HAVE EXECUTIVE SESSION TONIGHT.
BETH AND I AND THE SUPERVISOR ARE WORKING WITH MARK TO FINALIZE THAT CONTRACT.
SO OVER THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS, LET'S MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT THE THINGS.
AND BY THE WAY, YOU STILL HAVE ANOTHER BIG DECISION.
YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA HIRE US OR GO OUT TO RFP.
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH EITHER ONE.
UM, JUST UNDERSTAND I WILL BE AN ACTIVE COMPONENT.
I WANT TO GIVE UP 30 YEARS OF UNDERSTANDING WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TOWN WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO GO.
AT THIS MOMENT MAKE MOTION TO ADJOURN TO DISCUSS A BARGAINING ISSUE.
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THE HAM TOWN BOARD TO ORDER.AND IS DEPUTY CLERK HERE? I JUST WENT TO THE, OKAY, WELL THERE HE IS.
WE WILL DO THE PLEDGE OF THE FLAG BEFORE THE ROLL CALL.
SO PLEASE JOIN ME IN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF FLAG, THE PLEDGE, THE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IS BANNED ONE NATION UNDER GOD, LIBERTY JUSTICE.
BRIAN, UM, I ASK DEPUTY CLERK TO CALL THE ROLE SUPERVISOR HOPE PRESENT.
NOW I WOULD LIKE TO UH, MOVE A COUPLE ITEMS EARLIER ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT ARE, UH, HERE TO RANDY.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE UP A COUPLE ITEMS IN THE AGENDA, UM, UH, BECAUSE WE HAVE SPOKE HERE FOR SOME
FIRST ITEM NUMBER 19, WHICH ON THE AGENDA HERE AS DIVIDED W OR YRS SLO.
AND THE SECOND IS ITEM NUMBER 33, WHICH IS THE PEN DIXIE PROCLAMATION.
SO WE WILL MOVE IMMEDIATELY TO RESOLUTION 19, WHICH I BELIEVE IS BEING MOVED BY COUNCIL LUMBER HOST BY AWAY PAGE 29 YRSS ACCOUNT CLERK TYPIST BEING RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD APPROVES THE RECOMMENDATION OF DIRECTOR OF RECREATION IN APPOINTING AMY BROWN TO THE VACANT POSITION OF ACCOUNT CLERK TYPIST, PERMANENT COMPETITIVE, UM, EFFECTIVE APRIL 23RD, 2024.
THIS APPOINTMENT IS SUBJECT TO THE COMPLETION OF ALL PRECONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT.
THE CANDIDATE IS ON THE ACCOUNT CLERK TYPE OF CIVIL SERVICE EXAM LIST.
42 DASH 2 97 SALARY 24 81 PER HOUR FOUND ARE AVAILABLE AND A 7 0 2 100.
ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
UM, I'D ALSO LIKE YOU GIVE, UH, MS. MCCAIN IF SHE'S HERE THE OPPORTUNITY.
I THINK THAT WE TYPICALLY YOU THERE? YEAH.
UH, BUT BEFORE THAT I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU THAT I KNOW MS. BROWN HAS BEEN AN EMPLOYEE OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG FOR SOME TIME.
AND AS A GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE, OFTEN WE ARE
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BOUND BY SOCIAL SERVICE RULES AND LAWS.AND IT CAN BE TAUGHT FOR SOME EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE GREAT TALENT, BUT HAVE TO WAIT FOR A TEST TO COME OUT AND PASS THAT CONSTANT.
SO IN THE TOP TREE, THERE'S A LOT THAT IS INVOLVED, BUT IT IS GREAT WHEN YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECOGNIZE AN EMPLOYEE WHO OBVIOUSLY HAS A SKILLS AND ABILITIES TO EXCEL IN HER WORK AND THEN FIND THE APPROPRIATE TITLE AND THE APPROPRIATE COMPENSATION FOR THAT WORK.
SO I'M GLAD WE WERE FINALLY ABLE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO A LONG PARTNERSHIP IN YOUR EMPLOYMENT MEMBER.
UM, JUST REAL QUICK, I'VE ONLY WORKED WITH AMY FOR A LITTLE UNDER TWO YEARS, UM, BUT THE FIRST THING I HEARD WHEN THEY CAME INTO THE OFFICE WAS, IF YOU NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING, ASK AMY AND, UH, ANYTHING THEY WERE RIGHT.
ANYTHING WE DO NEED TO KNOW TO KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF IT IS TECHNOLOGICAL, UM, WE ASK AMY.
SO SHE HAS BEEN, UM, WOEFULLY, UM, UNDERPAID AND UNDER TITLES FOR A LONG TIME.
SO WE ARE VERY, VERY EXCITED AND CONGRATULATIONS.
BRING US TO RESOLUTION NUMBER 33, WHICH I BELIEVE IS UNDER
WHEREAS THE TOWN OF PANDEMIC ACKNOWLEDGES PENN DIXIE'S OUTSTANDING OUTREACH PROGRAM TO PREPARE AND EDUCATE A VAST AMOUNT TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY.
AND WHEREAS THE PROGRAMS SERVED MANY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND HOME SCHOOLS FROM HAMBURG, BUFFALO AND THE KENMORE TOWNAWANDA DISTRICT GIRL SCOUT TROOPS AND GUESTS AT EXPLORED MOORE MUSEUM AND WHERE THEY NOT ONLY SERVE THE SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO MANY PUBLIC LIBRARIES STRETCHING FROM ERIE COUNTY TO NIAGARA AND GENESEE COUNTIES.
AND WHEREAS THEY NOT ONLY EDUCATED THE YOUNG, BUT CONTINUED THEIR SERVICE TO SERVE THE ELDERLY BY VISITING THE HAMBURG SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER, ELDERWOOD ASSISTED LIVING IN HAMBURG.
AND WHEREAS THEY PROVIDED NO LESS THAN 20,000 CENTRAL ECLIPSE GLASSES TO THE COMMUNITY SO THEY COULD SAFELY ENJOY THE ECLIPSE WITH THE MAJORITY GOING TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS WITHIN HAMBURG.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF HAMBURG COMMEND THE PEN, DIXIE FOSSIL PARK AND NATURE RESERVE FOR THEIR SERVICE THAT WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND, NOT ONLY TO THE HAMBURG COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO NEARBY COUNTIES TO INFORM AND EDUCATE ON HOW TO ENJOY THE ECLIPSE SAFELY.
HERE RECEIVE THEIR PROCLAMATION.
SHE HAS A DRESS FOR THE ECLIPSE TOO.
SHE'S GOT 'EM ALL WHERE? OOPS.
YOU GUYS REALLY ALL THANK YOU SO MUCH.
YEAH, DON'T FORGET TO RETURN YOUR GLASSES SO THEY CAN SEND THEM OUT TO I GOT.
IT IS NO US TO ITEM OF THE DEGREE.
LOCAL NUMBER 1 20 24 LEGAL NOTICE.
PLEASE STATE NOTICE THAT THERE'S BEEN PRESENTING TO TOWN BOARD TOWN OF HAMBURG AND MARCH 11TH, 2024.
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PROPOSED LOCAL NUMBER 1 20 24 AND LOCAL LAW SET LOCAL LAW PROVIDES FOR THE REPEAL.ARTICLE NINE IN CHAPTER 2, 35, TON TOWN CODE ENTITLED GRIEVANCE ESTATE FOR REAL PROPERTY ASSESSMENT REVIEW.
THIS REPEAL WOULD STABLISH GIVENS DATED BEFORE THE JUNE OF MAY PURSUANT TO SUB SECTION FIVE, CALL THE UNIVERSITY ANNUAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, THEREFORE PURSUANT TO STATUTES AND PROVISIONS OF LAW, THE TOWN, LORD THE COUNTY WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON APRIL 22ND, 2024 AT 7:00 PM TO CONSIDER REVEAL OF ARTICLE NINE, CHAPTER 3 35, WHICH TIME ALL ARREST IN PERSONS MAY BE HEARD.
THIS NOW OPENS OUR PUBLIC HEARING ON THE REVEAL OF ARTICLE NINE, CHAPTER 2 35.
IS THERE ANYBODY THAT CAME THAT YOU HEARD ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING FOR US? GOING TWICE.
SEEING THAT THERE IS NO COMMENTS ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING, I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
ONE THING I TYPICALLY DO BEFORE WE GET INTO THE AGENDA ITEMS IS LET PEOPLE KNOW HOW THEY CAN, UH, TALK, UH, FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT AGENDA ITEMS. ANYTHING THAT IS BEFORE THE BOARD, UH, IS OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AS WE ARE ON AN AGENDA ITEM.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE HEARD ONCE THERE IS A MOTION AND A PROPER SECOND, UM, YOU CAN STAND UP, RAISE YOUR HAND, SOMEHOW, INDICATE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE HEARD, WE WOULD INVITE YOU TO THE FRONT OF THE ROOM AND WE ASK THAT YOU USE THE MICROPHONE NOT JUST SO PEOPLE IN THE ROOM CAN HEAR, BUT FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE VIEWING FROM HOME AND HEARING THE REMARKS AS WELL.
AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE AGENDA, WE WILL THEN HAVE A PUBLIC EXPRESSION PORTION, UH, WHERE FOLKS ARE INVITED TO, UH, BRING ANY QUESTION OR CONCERN, UH, OR IDEA THAT THEY HAVE IN THE TOWN BOARD.
AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING FOR FOLKS TO INDICATE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THE FRONT OF THE ROOM, USE THE MICROPHONE.
AND IN ALL OF THESE, IN THE AGENDA ITEMS AS WELL, PUBLIC EXPRESSION, WE ASK THAT YOU KEEP YOUR COMMENTS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES.
SO WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ALONG TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR.
THE TOM BOARD DOES HEREBY APPROVE THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING AS FOLLOWS, REGULAR TOM BOARD MEETING MARCH 11TH, 2024.
OPPOSED? ABSTENTIONS CARRIED LABOR AND
AND WHEREAS ANDREW TOWN BOARD ACKNOWLEDGES AND BY MEANS OF THIS RESOLUTION DOES NOT INTEND AND ANY WAY TO ALTER AND INTERFERE WITH THE RESPONSIBILITIES AND THE RIGHTS OF THE TOWN SUPERVISOR IN AREAS DETAILS SPECIFICALLY IN THE BOARD APPROVED TO COLLECT THE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, THEREFORE BE RESOLVED.
THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD ESTABLISHES A LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS LABOR RELATED ISSUES WITH THE EXCEPTIONS OF THOSE MATTERS, PRECLUDED BY THE APPLICABLE CDA BROUGHT TO THE COMMITTEE BY ANY OF THE TOWN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS, PRESENCE OF THEIR DE DESIGNEES AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE IS SEPARATE AND DISTINCT FROM HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE RUN BY THE SUPERVISOR AND VIA FURTHER RESOLVED.
THIS COMMITTEE WILL BE SHARED BY COUNCILMAN DAN COZA AND INCLUDE ONE OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, HR LABOR COUNCIL, JIM DEBOWSKI, TOWN ATTORNEY OR DESIGNEE, APPLICABLE DEPARTMENT HEADS, APPLICABLE UNION RESIDENTS OF DESIGNEES, AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED.
THIS COMMITTEE WILL ESTABLISH A REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING, DAY AND TIME, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT IF THERE ARE NO ITEMS BROUGHT FORTH IN WRITING TO THE COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEE CHAIR TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE MONTHLY MEETING WILL NOT TAKE PLACE AND BE A FURTHER RESOLVED.
THE COMMITTEE CHAIR WILL PROVIDE NECESSARY UPDATES IN THE ENTIRE HANDBOOK TOWN BOARD.
SO MOVE SECOND ON THE QUESTION.
COUNCIL MEMBER, I JUST HAD A QUESTION.
WE HAVE IT LISTED WITH COUNCIL MEMBER AND WE'RE LISTING EVERYBODY UP HERE EXCEPT FOR THE SUPERVISOR HIMSELF.
COULD WE PERHAPS CONSIDER PUTTING BOARD MEMBERS AND THAT WAY IT CAN BE OPEN SINCE YOU'RE THE CHAIRMAN, YOU'LL BE DECIDING WHO COMES OR WHO'S INVITED IS THAT SECOND PERSON? IT IT COULD BE, BUT THE, YOU KNOW, GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S ONLY
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TWO.'CAUSE THEN RIGHT, BUT THAT'S WHAT I MEAN.
YOU WOULD JUST CHANGE IT TO COUNCIL MEMBER OR BOARD MEMBERS.
WELL, THE SUPERVISOR HAS HIS OWN, I THINK WHAT THE CONFUSION IS, IS ABOUT WHETHER THERE'S MORE THAN ONE OF THE THREE PEOPLE LISTED THERE IN TERMS OF COUNCIL MEMBERS.
BECAUSE YOU HAD HAVE OR TWO OR IT COMES UNDER THE OPEN MEETINGS LONG I THINK SOMEBODY YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE REQUIREMENT TO NOT HAVE MORE THAN TWO, BUT THIS RESOLUTION SAYS ONE OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE REPAIR THAT ONLY INCLUDES THREE COUNCIL MEMBERS RATHER THAN THE REMAINING FOUR COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, BUT BY FRANKLY, THANK YOU, UH, MR. HOPE.
I I ANOTHER QUESTION, UH, WITH THE UNIONS, MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE TAYLOR LAW IS THAT IF THERE'S GOING TO BE A LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, THERE NEEDS TO BE NEGOTIATIONS.
AND THIS DOESN'T IDENTIFY THE UNION SPECIFICALLY.
SO, UH, I WOULD BE CONCERNED, UM, THAT THERE COULD BE SOME POTENTIAL VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW IF THIS WERE TO GO FORWARD.
I'M NOT SAYING IT'S A BAD IDEA.
UM, HAVING WORKED FOR A UNION FOR A LONG TIME, UH, I THINK LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES TEND TO BE PRODUCTIVE.
HOWEVER, UM, I WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE ALL THE UNIONS THAT WERE ON BOARD OF THE PBA, FOR EXAMPLE, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE BEEN DISCUSSED.
I KNOW THERE'S A, UM, LIEUTENANTS AND CAPTAINS UNION.
I KNOW THERE'S TWO CSEA BARGAINS AND, AND MR. COZA WOULD THOSE UNIONS CONSULTED WITH, UH, ABOUT THIS? WELL, THE INVOLVEMENT IS VOLUNTARY.
CORRECT? IT'S IF THEY CHOOSE TO BRING SOMETHING FORTH, THAT'S NOT A MANDATORY, THERE'S NOTHING, IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING AND COUNCIL MEMBER COZA, MAYBE YOU CAN SHED SOME LIGHT ON THIS.
IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS COMMITTEE IS SCHEDULED TO MEET REGULARLY AT A SPECIFIC TIME, A SPECIFIC DATE, LIKE REGULAR SCHEDULE.
LIKE EVERY FOURTH THURSDAY OR SECOND TUESDAY.
OR LIKE SAY TWO O'CLOCK O AND THAT COMES MEET.
SO THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THAT WOULD BE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE UNIONS IF THEY HAD SOMETHING THEY WANTED TO DISCUSS IF CONTACT US.
AND IF WE HAD SOMETHING THAT WE WANTED TO DISCUSS WITH THEM, WE WOULD LET THEM KNOW IN ADVANCE.
SO THEY WOULD KNOW THAT THERE WAS A SCHEDULED MEETING.
BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO BRING TO THEM AND THEY DON'T REACH OUT, WE CAN CANCEL THE MEETING.
YEAH, THAT WAS MY ONLY OTHER CONCERN THEN.
LIKE IF IT'S A REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING, IF WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE'VE LISTED ALL OF THEM EXCEPT FOR ONE.
SO I JUST DIDN'T WANNA BE WHO'S, WHO'S THE ONE THAT'S NOT MENTIONED.
YOU, YOU HAVE YOUR OWN MEETING.
HE IS A, HE IS A CUSTODY MR. ZA COUNCIL MEMBER.
YOU'RE THE SUPERVISOR, YOU'RE A BOARD MEMBER.
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SHARE THAT I I SHARE COUNCIL MEMBER WITH ELSE'S CONCERNS ABOUT THE TAYLOR LOSS.
I MEAN, JUST BECAUSE WE'RE SAYING THAT PEOPLE CAN COME AND GO AS THEY POLICE DOESN'T ADDRESS THE FACT THAT LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES NEED TO BE NEGOTIATED.
THERE NEEDS TO BE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE LABOR, BETWEEN THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS AND MANAGEMENT AS WAS DISCUSSED.
HOW OFTEN, WHAT ARE THE GROUND RULES? IN THEORY AND IN CONCEPT, I'M NOT OPPOSED.
IN FACT, I'VE BEEN ENCOURAGING, UH, DISCUSSION OF LABOR MANAGEMENT MEETINGS WITH OUR CSEA UH, BARGAINING UNITS FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF.
FURTHERMORE, I HAVE CONCERNS THAT THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO MENTION OF OUR PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT IN THIS LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE, WHICH WOULD BE INTEGRAL TO DISCUSSING ANY BUSINESS OF, OF LABOR MANAGEMENT.
I I DON'T REALLY SEE IT AS A LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE WITHOUT MANAGEMENT REALLY HAVING A SEAT AT THE TABLE.
SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS SO THAT WE CAN DO SOME FURTHER LEGAL RESEARCH AND FIND OUT A WAY WHERE WE CAN INVOLVE MANAGEMENT AND NEGOTIATE WITH OUR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING UNITS TO HAVE A TRUE LABOR MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE RATHER THAN JUST A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT MEET FORMALLY TO TALK ABOUT WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE GOING ON.
SO I MOTION I WOULD SECOND THE MOTION.
MOTION AND WE HAVE TO SECOND, I WOULD SECOND.
AND ONE OTHER COMMENT THOUGH, THE OTHER CONCERN I HAVE IS THAT, THAT THERE'S A LAWYER ON HERE THAT I THINK WE PAY $350 AN HOUR.
SO I DON'T, IN MY OPINION, WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE, UH, A LABOR LAWYER SET ON THE COMMITTEE TO, YOU KNOW, TO WASTE MONEY.
I IF YOU HAVE LEGAL ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
THAT'S WHY YOU CALL THE LAWYER.
SO ANYWAY, I SECOND THE, UH, MOTION A SUPERVISOR OR TO TABLE.
SO THE MOTION TO TABLE AND A PROPER SECOND.
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HANDLING THE RESOLUTION.PLEASE STATE ABOUT THAT SAME, AYE AYE.
I BELIEVE THE MOTION BILL TWO TO ONE.
WILL WE ROLL? ALL OPPOSED? THANK YOU.
COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ERFORD AYE.
WE'RE IN A
AND WHERE THE PUBLIC BID OPENS THE TITLE ON MONDAY, APRIL 9TH, 2024 AT 11:30 AM AND A SINGLE RETURN BID WAS OPEN, RIGHT.
ALLOWED NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED.
THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO AWARD THE POLICE VIA LIENS TO TOWN CHRYSLER DODGE, JEEP, RAM.
WHEREAS AGAIN, THE FIRE SIGNS IS OFFERING THE FIRE INVESTIGATOR TRUMAN PROGRAM FOR CHIEF THIRD, 2024 AND JUNE 28.
NOW THEREFORE BE A RESOLVED TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZED OFFICER RYAN DRYER IN OFFICE OF PETER RANDALL FROM P 2024 FIRE INVESTIGATOR TRAINING PROGRAM WITH THE FOLLOWING EXPENSES AS LISTED.
P BOARD AUTHORIZES USE OF AN UNMARKED LEASE VEHICLE FOR TRANSPORTATION.
VOTING IS AVAILABLE IN B 31 22 SEMINARS DEPARTMENT.
WHEREAS PER THE PREVIOUS RESOLUTIONS FOR THE DOG CONTROL OFFICER, THE LODGING WAS INADVERTENTLY OMITTED.
RESOLVED THAT TWO NIGHT LODGING FROM APRIL 30TH TO MAY 1ST WITH A COST OF $238 BE ADDED.
FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN COUNT A 3 5 1 0 4 9 2.
SECOND, A QUESTION, IS IT, IS IT JUST POSSIBLE WHEN, UH, THAT WE HAVE A FORM MADE OUT FOR THE DEPARTMENT SO WHEN THEY DO GO ON, THEY THEY COULD FILL IN HOW MUCH EVERY LINE ITEM IS JUST, JUST THE THOUGHT.
I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER ENOUGH WHICH BOND, BUT ANYWAYS, I'M, I'M, I'M A YES.
WHERE THE CHECK FOR 13,018 AND $19 WAS RECEIVED BY THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT FROM SATURN WIRELESS CONSULTING LLC FOR THE SELL BACK OF TOWN CELL PHONES.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD DOES HEREBY AUTHORIZE A BUDGET AMENDMENT IN 2024 TO INCREASE THE APPROPRIATE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE LINES TO BE USED FOR FUTURE EQUIPMENT UPGRADES INCREASE A 0.2665 SALE OF EQUIPMENT AND A1 6 9 0 0.42.
CARRIE
UH, I'M GONNA MENTION THIS IN MY REPORT IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL, BUT FOR PURPOSE OF THE RESOLUTION, WHEREAS THE HAMBURG REJUVENATION PROJECT COMPROMISED VOLUNTEER MEMBERS AS ANNUALLY PLANNED TOWN-WIDE EVENTS TO BENEFIT AND BRING OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER.
NOW THEREFORE, WE RESOLVED THAT THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD ANNOUNCES THE HAMBURG REJUVENATION PROJECT WILL COORDINATE AND SPONSOR THE FOLLOWING EVENTS DURING THE 2024 YEAR TOWN BEAUTIFICATION MONTH.
MAY, 2024 SUPPLIES MAY BE PICKED UP IN THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE.
LAST ON THE BEACH JULY 27TH, 2024, CHRISTMAS AT THE CABIN DECEMBER 7TH, 2024.
BE FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE INFORMATION REGARDING THESE EVENTS WILL BE DISSEMINATED ON TOWN'S WEBSITE AND JUNE TOWN AND HAMBURG REJUVENATION PROJECT SOCIAL MEDIA.
WE'RE IN AS TOWN OF HAMMER REQUEST ADDITIONAL INCORPORATED AND CONSTRUCTION PHASE ONE DESIGN THE PROPOSED OPERATE PROJECT WHEREAS LINBERG BASS HAS SUBMITTED CHANGE ORDER, THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE THESE ADDITIONAL SERVICES.
THEREFORE WE RESOLVED A HUNDRED POUND BOARD AUTHORIZED TOWN SUPERVISOR TO SIGN THE CHANGE ORDER ONE FOR BURG BATS INCORPORATED IN THE AMOUNT OF $762,475 FUND AND BE ON THE CITY TRANSFER FROM GENERAL FUND TO ACCOUNT H 1 1 1 71 85 4 4 0
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ATTORNEY CONTRACT SERVICES.ALL IN FAVOR? I A QUESTION? SEE I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, I ON THE QUESTION, UM, MR. CASTOR, WHAT IS THE, WHAT ARE THE CHANGES JUST SO WE KNOW, UH, HOW MUCH TIME DO I GET? ALL RIGHT,
SO NOTHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT AT THE LAST WORK SESSION? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT AT THE LAST, OKAY.
GARY, THANK YOU BY THE WAY, MR. UNDERGOING SINCE REHABILITATION OF THE EXHIBIT
AND WHEREAS THE SOURCE WALL PER COOPERATIVE AS CONTRACT 1 2 0 3 2 0 DASH T, WHICH THROUGH BUY AND INSTALL A NEW PRO TO HIS DASHBOARD SYSTEM, YOU RESOLVE THAT THE TOWN SUPERVISOR AUTHORIZED TO SIGN QUOTATION 2 4 0 2 0 8 DASH 16 A R UH, RE REVISION THREE WITH A LI SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR THE BASE BID AMOUNT OF $277,400.
FURTHER, THAT GENERAL SUPERVISOR AUTHORIZED ACCEPT ALTERNATE ONE ACRYLIC AND LOW TEMPERED GLASS OPTION AMOUNT $36,710.
ALTERNATE THREE CURB TO GROW DETERMINATION TO PROVIDER THE AMOUNT OF $7,800 AND OPTION ONE ATHLETIC WORK SYSTEM SOFT CAP SAFETY CAPITAL RAIL ON ICE SUPPLEMENT OF SHIELDING THE AMOUNT OF $8,500 TOTAL BUSINESS AMOUNT, $330,410 FUNDS TO BE TRANSFERRED FROM GENERAL ONE TO A ACCOUNT H 1 1 1 7 1 5 3 0 3
OPPOSED? EXTENSIONS CARRIED ADVERTISE FOR PLUMBING LICENSE TESTS.
BELIEVE RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN OF COURT IS AUTHORIZED TO PUBLISH A LEGAL NOTICE FOR THE MASTER PLUMBER LICENSE SITE UTILITY CONTRACTOR LICENSE AND JOURNEY PLUMBER LICENSE EXAMINATION.
THE EXAMINATION IS SCHEDULED FROM MAY 29TH, 2024 AT 6:00 PM SO MOVED SECOND.
OPPOSED? BENCH CARRIED SENIOR CENTER TECH PROJECT WITH RY COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES, WHEREAS DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH RECREATION SENIOR SERVICES PARTNERED WITH RY COUNTY AND SENIOR SERVICES TO PROVIDE NUTRITIONAL SERVICE AND SERVICE SPECIFIED AL SERVICES TO BIRTH AGE 60 AND THEIR SPOUSES AKA CONGREGATE DINING.
WHEREAS ERIE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES IS PROVIDING A NEW INITIATIVE UTILIZING THE INTENT TO LINK THE CONGREGATE DINING SITES TOGETHER WITH PROVIDE FOR STREAMING OF EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL PROGRAMMING AMONG THEM.
WHEREAS ERIE COUNTY WANTS TO AMEND THE EVERGREEN AGREEMENT WITH THE TOWN TO INCLUDE STATEMENT OF SERVICES FOR TIME DINING, TECHNOLOGY, INSTALLATION, AND SPECIAL EVENTS PROGRAMMING ALONG WITH ANY UH, RATED, UH, FORM, UH, ITEM LISTED A ABOVE.
NOW THEREFORE BE RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZED A SUPERVISOR TO SIGN THE CONTRACT AMENDMENT BASED ON THE EVERGREEN AGREEMENT FROM JANUARY 1ST, 2017.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZES THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT TO PURCHASE A NEW JOHN DEERE 6 24 P TIER WHEEL LOADER IN THE AMOUNT OF $73,625 AFTER TRADE-IN PER NEW YORK STATE OGS CONTRACT, PC 6 9 4 0 3 SOURCE, WELL CONTRACT 0 1 1 7 2 3 DASH JDC PURCHASES ON A LEASE TO OWN BASIS WITH FIVE ANNUAL PAYMENTS OF $17,999 AND 34 CENTS AFTER AN INITIAL DOWN PAYMENT OF $10,000.
FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN ACCOUNT A 0.162 0.201.
OPPOSED EXTENSIONS GARY, WHEREAS THE BUILDINGS AND DROWNS DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE GO BOTH, UM, FOR BREAKING DOWN
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EXISTING DASHER BOARDS AS PART OF THE ICE RINK RENOVATION AND, UH, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE DASHER BOARDS ARE DECLARED SURPLUS AND TO BE SOLD THROUGH SALES OR ONLINE OPTION AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT FUNDS PROCEED.REVENUE FROM THE DISPOSAL OF AFOREMENTIONED ITEMS WILL BE DEPOSITED INTO H ONE 11.2665 SALE EQUIPMENT AND TRANSFERRED TO H ONE 11.7 85 3 3 FOR THE PURCHASE OF NEW DASHER BOARDS.
OPPOSED? AB EXTENSIONS CARRIED BE IT RESOLVED.
THE TOWN BOARD APPROVES THE TERMINATION AND HIRING OF THE FOLLOWING EMPLOYEES IN THE BUILDINGS AND BROWNS DEPARTMENT.
OPPOSED? AB EXTENSIONS CARRIED WHEREAS THE EVER TOWN BOARD PREVIOUSLY BONDED AND SECURED FUNDS TO RENOVATE THE OLD DISPATCH AREA IN TOWN HALL AND PLAN ALTERNATIVES HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED AND WHERE THE EVER TOWN BOARD WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ENTIRE OLD DISPATCH AREA REPURPOSED AT THIS TIME, UTILIZING THE ENTIRE AMOUNT OF BONDED FUNDS AVAILABLE AND WHEREAS HAMPER TOWN BOARD COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN RELOCATING COUNCIL OFFICES TO THE FIRST FLOOR OF TOWN HALL.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, THE HAMPER TOWN BOARD DIRECTS RENOVATION OF THE ENTIRE OLD DISPATCH AREA TO THE PROCEED.
AND THAT THE PLANS INCLUDE SPACE FOR THE IT DEPARTMENT, COUNCIL MEMBERS, AREA CHAMBER, ADDITIONAL OFFICES AND SPACE ALLOWS A CONFERENCE ROOM AND IF NEEDED, ADDITIONAL SPACE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH THE COURT AREA AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED.
THE DIRECTOR OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS WILL UPDATE THE TOWN BOARD AND CONSULT AS NEEDED FOR DECISION MAKING REGARDING THE AREA AND WILL UTILIZE BUILDINGS BEYOND STAFF AS APPROPRIATE FOR REQUIRED TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS RENOVATION.
I HAS SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THIS, UH, THIS RESOLUTION AND THERE, THIS MOVE OF THE COUNCIL OFFICES TO THE FIRST FLOOR OF TOWN HALL.
UM, SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS ARE RELATED TO THE RELUCTANCE OF THIS BOARD TO BORROW MONEY FOR, FOR PARTS, UH, TAKING MONEY AWAY FROM, UH, OUR, OUR DEVELOPMENT OF PARKS.
UH, REFUSING TO BORROW MONEY FOR OUR ICE ARENA IN SENIOR CENTER.
UM, BUT WE'LL BE BORROWING MONEY USING THE BORROWER FUNDS FOR THIS RENOVATION.
AND THE MAJOR PROBLEM I HAVE WITH THIS RENT, THIS THIS MOVE IS THAT OUR FIRST FLOOR IN TOWN HALL HAS BEEN TYPICALLY RESERVED FOR PUBLIC FACING OFFICES.
THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS LIKELY TO VISIT DURING BUSINESS HOURS.
OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE CERTAINLY DEDICATED TO THEIR WORK, BUT THE HOURS THAT THEY'RE IN TOWN HALL ARE TYPICALLY NOT BUSINESS HOURS.
ADDITIONALLY, I BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE A VERY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY HERE WHERE WE CONSOLIDATE SOME OF OUR SPACE WITHIN TOWN OFFICES.
THERE'S A BUILDING, UM, WHICH IS THAT WAY CLOSER TO, TO TOPS THAT HOSTS OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE.
AND THOSE STAFF OFFICES ARE UP A VERY STEEP FLIGHT OF STAIRS.
OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, UH, WORKS ON HOUSING PROGRAMS, UH, AND I BELIEVE FOLKS THAT ARE LOOKING FOR HOUSING PROGRAMS WILL BE BETTER SERVED WITH A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICE THAT'S ON THE BRIDGE FLOOR IN TOWN HALL, WORKING WITH CLOSER PROXIMITY WITH FOLKS FROM OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT, FROM OUR ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, AND PERHAPS MOST IMPORTANTLY OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
AND I BELIEVE THIS SPACE WOULD BE MUCH BETTER SUITED FOR OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S A LOT THAT WE CAN DO AT TOWN HALL.
THERE'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE AESTHETICS OF OUR SPACE.
FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, UH, THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN PAINTING THE INTERIOR OF TOWN HALL, THE HALLWAYS, THE OFFICES, AND I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THAT WORK COMPLETED.
IT'D BE NICE TO HAVE SOME, SOME, SOME MATCHING FLOORS.
UH, SOME, SOME ENTRYWAYS THAT ARE, ARE FREE OF CLUTTER AND DEBRIS.
UH, THERE'S A LOT THAT WE NEED TO DO WITH THIS FACILITY THAT I WOULD PRIORITIZE BEFORE MOVING THE PARTTIME COUNCIL OFFICES UPSTAIRS.
FOR THAT REASON, I'LL BE VOTING AGAINST THE RESOLUTION.
BUT, UM, THE, UM, PEOPLE IN QUESTION IN THE BUILDING DOWN CLOSER TO TOTS.
I MEAN, IF THEY TOOK THE OFFICES DOWN BY US, ISN'T THAT ALL, ALL THE BUILDINGS AND OFFICES YOU DECLARED
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WOULD BE RIGHT ON THE SAME FLOOR AS 'EM, SO, SO THAT'S WHY I'LL BE VOTING.I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS ON, ON THIS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, LORENZ, UH, WHAT IT, IN THE RESOLUTION IT STATES THAT IT WAS PREVIOUSLY BOND.
DOES THAT MEAN THERE'S A BOND NOW OR WHAT'S THE STATUS IN 2020? THERE WERE A NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT WERE BONDED, INCLUDING FOR THE LED PROJECT.
UM, THE ORIGINAL, ALMOST 2 MILLION FOR ITEMS THAT WERE AT THE NIKE SITE AND ANOTHER AREA WAS 200,000 FOR THE OLD DISPATCH AREA.
WE TALKED, IN FACT, UM, JENNIFER ROBERTSON AND I WERE TALKING TODAY ABOUT HOW THIS HAS BEEN A CONVERSATION FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
UH, IT WOULD INCLUDE THE RELOCATION OF HER OFFICE.
SO THE MONEY, UM, WAS PREVIOUS, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THE MONEY WAS PREVIOUSLY BONDED AND IS THERE TO BE UTILIZED.
UM, IT WAS BONDED IN 2020 FOR, FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE OLD DISPATCH AREA.
SO HOW MUCH MONEY IS IT? 200,000.
SO I MEAN, COULD WE USE THAT TOWARDS HOCKEY ACRES OR SOMETHING OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE USED FOR? WELL, THERE WOULD BE, THERE'S QUITE A FEW RENOVATIONS THAT'LL TAKE PLACE THERE.
IT WILL FACILITATE THE, UM, MOVE OF THE IT DEPARTMENT, WHICH PUTS THEIR DEPARTMENT BY THEIR SERVERS.
AND THERE'S A, UM, MANY REASONS WHY THAT WILL BE ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THAT DEPARTMENT.
AND I'M SURE MRS. ROBERTSON COULD GO OVER THOSE.
I GUESS MIKE POINT, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
I'M MORE CONCERNED ABOUT FISCALLY PHYSICAL PRANCE.
UM, THE MONEY WAS BONDED IN 2020 SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE RENOVATIONS.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T USE IT? WE SEND IT BACK.
AND THEN THAT AREA WILL LAY NOT UTILIZED AND MANY OF THE IMPROVEMENTS, INCLUDING THE EXTRA AREA, UM, PART OF THE PLAN ADAPTS FOR EXTRA AREA FOR, UM, NEEDS OF THE COURT.
UH, I KNOW THE COURT EVEN INDICATED THAT THEY FREQUENTLY STILL HAVE PEOPLE GOING BACK IN THERE AND AREN'T SURE WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AND THINK THEY'RE IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, THINK WE PUT A LOCK ON IT.
I MEAN, I'VE BEEN BACK THERE, BUT ANY, ANY EVENT I, I WANNA MOVE TO THE TABLE.
THIS I, I MEAN I WANT TO STUDY IT MORE.
UM, AND JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT IT, IT HAS BEEN STUDIED SINCE 2020.
UM, WE EVEN ARE PAID FOR, UH, AN ARCHITECT.
THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE, OUR ENGINEERS BEEN INVOLVED.
UM, QUITE A FEW PEOPLE HAVE TAKEN A LOOK THERE.
WE HAVE HAD, UH, REQUESTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS TO MOVE TO THE FIRST FLOOR.
THE AREA FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS IS MINIMAL.
IT'S ABOUT THE SAME SPACE AS WHAT WE HAVE IN, IN THE BASEMENT.
AND THEN THE AREA WOULD BE COMPLETE.
YOU WOULDN'T HAVE OPEN CEILINGS.
THERE WOULD BE AN A DA BATHROOM.
UM, THERE WOULD BE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT COMPONENTS IN THERE.
WHY DON'T I GIVE YOU A PROPER SECOND BEFORE WE DISCUSS.
SO BEFORE WE DO FURTHER DISCUSSIONS, WE DO HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE RESOLUTION 18.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO SECOND THAT MOTION.
UM, I DON'T, I DO KNOW THAT COUNCILMAN ALKI, UH, HAS A QUESTION OR APPOINTED LIKE TO MAKE, BUT BEFORE DOING SO, I HAVE A SIMPLE QUESTION FOR THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, THE $200,000, IF THIS FUND THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO RIGHT NOW, THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO GIVE BACK AND NOT BORROW.
OR IS HIS FUNDS WAITING TO BE ACTUALLY BORROWED? NO, WE BORROWED THEM IN 2020.
THEY'RE SITTING IN OUR BANK ACCOUNTS UNDER OUR CONTROL.
I'D HAVE TO INVESTIGATE WHAT IT MEANS TO ACTUALLY GIVE IT BACK WHAT THAT ENTAILS.
BUT THERE ARE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE AT OUR DISPOSAL TO BE SPENT AS ALLOCATED FOR THAT BOND IN 2020.
I DID MAKE A MOTION TO TABLE SOMEONE LOOK INTO THIS FOR, SO I WOULD JUST ADD THERE'S A LATER RESOLUTION THAT IS REALLY ALLOCATING SOME AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS.
UM, PERHAPS WE CAN, AS WE'RE LOOKING TO REALLOCATE SOME OF THOSE FUNDS, WE COULD FIND A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR A RENOVATION OF THESE OFFICES WITHOUT PUTTING TOWN INTO DEPTH.
TO ELEVATE THE PART-TIME COUNCIL OFFICES IN THE FIRST FLOOR OF TOWN HALL, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A PROPER SECOND TO TABLE RESOLUTION 18.
ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
I WAS LOOKING FOR CLARIFICATION THAT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST CLARIFICATION THAT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST THE COUNCIL MEMBERS' OFFICES.
THIS IS THE IT DEPARTMENT MOVE.
IT WOULD SPACE THAT THE COURTS NEED.
IT WOULD BE ADDITIONAL OFFICES SO THAT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COULD MOVE OVER.
IT, THE WHOLE AREA WOULD BE COMPLETED AS WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED WHEN THE MONEY WAS BONDED IN 2020.
SO THE CONFERENCE ROOM WOULD BE OPEN TO WHEN WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMITTEE MEETINGS MM-HMM
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ADVISORY BOARD IS COMING AND WANTS TO MEET.THERE WOULD BE A SPACE FOR 'EM TO MEET, UH, HAMBURG MOVES COMES OVER AND MEETS.
THERE'D BE A SPACE FOR THEM TO MEET.
WE WOULDN'T BE CONSTANTLY JOCKING FOR THE ONE CONFERENCE ROOM SPACE UPSTAIRS, CORRECT? TRUE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE I'M GETTING FULL CLARIFICATION.
IT'S MORE THAN JUST THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND I DON'T THINK IT'LL PUT US IN DEBT 'CAUSE THE MONEY'S ALREADY THERE.
BUT IF WE DID RETURN IT, WE WOULD NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY INTEREST ON IT.
SO WE DO HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE ITEM NUMBER 18 WITH A PROPER SECOND AND I'LL CALL FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THIS.
ALL IN FAVOR? UH, SUPERVISOR HOKE.
THIS IS THE TABLE, CORRECT? THIS IS THE TABLE, YES.
AND THEN WE WOULD TAKE THE VOTE ON THE ACTUAL AMENDMENT AFTER THIS DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME OF THIS VOTE ON THE, IF IT IS THE TABLE CORRECT.
UM, SO C UH, SUPERVISOR HO IS IT? AYE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER FER.
COUNCIL MEMBER PER ARRESTS? NO.
SO THAT BRINGS US BACK TO ITEM NUMBER 18, WHICH ALSO HAS A MOTION AS WELL AS A PROPER SECONDMENT.
ONE ADDITIONAL QUESTION THAT I HAVE.
UM, IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $200,000, UM, I'M, I'M JUST WONDERING EXACTLY AND I'M PROBABLY ON BELOW THE IT DEPARTMENT GOING OVER THAT'S LONG OVERDUE, CLOSE TO THE SERVERS AND THE THE SHOEBOX THAT MS. ROBERTSON AND JEFF WORK IN IS, IT'S AMAZINGLY THEY'RE ABLE TO DO WHAT THEY CAN.
UM, SO THEY ARE DEFINITELY IN NEED OF MORE SPACE AND MORE APPROPRIATE SPACE.
UM, IT IS, IT'S, IT IS THE OTHER ITEMS FOR SURE.
UM, BUT I I I REALLY THINK THAT WE WOULD BE BEST SERVED TO, TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH THE RENOVATION FOR IT WOULD COST, HOW MUCH THE RENOVATION FOR THE COUNCIL OFFICES WOULD COST.
AND JUST BY BEING INVOLVED IN THE PROJECTS THAT I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH, I DON'T THINK $200,000 WILL BE ENOUGH TO COVER EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE COVERED.
AND UNLESS, OF COURSE THERE ARE SOME ESTIMATES THAT, THAT I'M NOT AWARE OF.
MR. RIVERA, CAN YOU SHED ANY LIGHT? I KNOW WE HAD, WE DID HAVE AN ESTIMATE FROM TELCO.
SO WE DO MAJORITY OF THE SPACE FOR 217 AND THE MAJORITY OF THAT WAS DEMOLITION THAT I BELIEVE THAT MY DEPARTMENT AND MY STAFF CAN DO.
UH, IT PAINTING THE WALLS, THREE PLASTERING, PUTTING FLOORING DOWN, IT'S BUILDING THREE, THREE STANDING WALLS, PUTTING SOME ELECTRICAL IN.
SO I BELIEVE WITHIN 200,000 THAT MY DEPARTMENT CAN DO THE MAJORITY OF WORK AND CONTRACT SOME OF IT OUT.
I HAVE BEEN IN TALKS WITH JENNIFER, UH, ABOUT IT AND WE HAVE A ROUGH QUOTE ABOUT $10,000 TO PUT CAT CABLES IN FOR COMPUTERS.
UH, ONE THING WE DIDN AN ACCOUNT FOR WITH BOBS, BUT THAT SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM.
BUT I, I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT MY STAFF CAN HANDLE THIS PROJECT GOING FORWARD.
MR. RIVERA, HOW MUCH SQUARE FOOTAGE, TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE ARE WE TALKING RIGHT NOW OF UNDER LIKE NON-USABLE SPACE? BECAUSE I'VE BEEN BACK THERE AND YOU YOU COULDN'T HAVE A MEETING BACK THERE, YOU COULDN'T USE IT RIGHT NOW.
YEAH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, UH, EXACT NUMBER.
I DON'T KNOW, BUT THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF SPARE FOOTAGE BACK THERE AND WE WOULD BE EXPANDING ON THAT TOO IN THE, IT IT AREA BUILDING A WALL OUT.
BECAUSE SHE HAS MORE SPACE AND IT IS, AND, AND IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO THE COURTS BECAUSE RIGHT NOW COURTS DON'T HAVE AN AREA FOR FEMALE PRISONERS TO GO.
SO WE WILL BE BUILDING AN AREA INTO THERE FOR THE FEMALE PRISONERS SEPARATE FROM THE MALES.
AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT BY FINISHING OFF THE SPACE, IT GIVES US OPPORTUNITY TO USE IT AND USE OTHER SPACES WITHIN THE BUILDING.
AND SO IN MY TIME HERE, WE'VE KIND OF SOMETIMES KEEP MOVING PEOPLE AROUND.
THAT EVEN IF WE FINISH AS A COUNCIL MEMBER SPACE, IT COULD VERY WELL BECOME AN OFFICE IF WE HAVE A NEED FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
SO, SO THE PLAN FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO BE IN THE FRONT, THAT COULD BECOME A CONFERENCE ROOM LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD.
AND THE CONFERENCE ROOM WILL BE IN THE BACK TO BE TURNED INTO TWO SEPARATE OFFICES.
SO WE COULD POSSIBLY END UP WITH FOUR OFFICE SPACES IN THE BACK.
SO IF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DOES DECIDE TO COME OVER, I MEAN IT IS A BLANK SLATE, WE COULD BUILD IT HOW WE WANT.
SO IT'S NOT BEING BUILT IN ONLY USABLE TO THIS GROUP AND NOBODY ELSE.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO POINT OUT, AND I FAILED MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, BUT IF WE WERE ABLE TO MOVE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INTO HIS OFFICE AND FREE UP THE HOUSE THAT THE TOWN OF AMBER OWNS ADJACENT TO TOWN HALL PARKING LOT, WE COULD THEN SELL THAT PROPERTY AND USE THOSE FUNDS, WHICH I WOULD AS A A GUESS WOULD BE MUCH GREATER THAN 200,000, MUCH GREATER THAN $200,000 AND BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT AT NO ADDITIONAL EXPENSE TO THE TAXPAYER.
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WE DO HAVE A MOTION AS WELL AS A SECOND.ALL IN FAVOR OF RESOLUTION 18.
ITEM NUMBER 18, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
ALL OPPOSED? NO, NO MOTION GARY.
COULD YOU PASS IT? SO IS THIS WHERE THE PUBLIC COULD SPEAK ON THIS ITEM OR DO WE RATE IT TO THE END? WELL, TYPICALLY THE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF, OF RESOLUTION WOULD TAKE PLACE WHILE WE'RE, WE'RE DISCUSSING PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC BEING TAKEN.
BUT IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'D LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE, YOU'RE WELCOME TO DO SO.
WELL, I WOULD, I, FROM A TAXPAYER PERSPECTIVE, I APPRECIATE YOU SUPERVISOR HO AND MR. ALKI WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT SPENDING MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT COULD BE SPENT ON PUBLIC SPACE, ET CETERA.
I WAS TRYING TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UM, IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT THAT'S NOT HOW THIS WOULD GO, BUT AS FAR AS, UM, COMMUNITY SPACE, I FEEL LIKE OUR COMMUNITY HAS SUFFICIENT SPACE ALL OVER THE PLACE.
SO I HOPE THAT FROM, UH, COUNCIL WOMEN THIS CONVERSARY, I HOPE THAT THAT WOULD BE THE DRIVING REASON TO HAVE APPROVED THIS BECAUSE THERE'S LIBRARIES, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF COMMON SPACES OUT THERE AVAILABLE, BUT THAT'S LIKE THE DRIVING BECAUSE WE NEED COMMUNITY SPACE.
ALTHOUGH I KNOW IT'S BEEN PASSED.
BUT I DO WANNA THANK THOSE OF YOU ON THE BOARD WHO WERE CONCERNED ABOUT SPENDING TAXPAYER MONEY ON SOMETHING THAT COULD BE DONE AND YOU FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
NO, WE DID IT WHERE IS, WHEREAS PURSUANT TO THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD ON 1 8 24, THE TOWN ENTERED INTO AGREEMENT WITH SARAH DE DAN AND WHEREAS THE AGREEMENT OUTLINED SERVICES THAT MAY BE PROVIDED HOURLY RATE AND TOTAL CAP FOR THE 2024 BUDGET YEAR.
AND WHEREAS THE AMBER TOWN BOARD INTENDS TO ENSURE CONTRACTED SERVICES SERVICE PROVIDERS ARE RERATED IN TIMELY MANNER.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THE AMBER TOWN BOARD DIRECT VOUCHERS AS SUBMITTED BY SARAH HR AGAIN FOR SERVICES OUTLINED IN THE AGREEMENT, BE SIGNED IN A TIMELY MANNER WITHOUT CONDITIONS NOT INCLUDED IN THE AGREEMENT SO AS NOT TO DELAY THE PROCESSING OF PAYROLL PAYMENT AND BE A FURTHER RESULT OF FACILITATE TIMELINESS.
SET VOUCHERS MAY BE SIGNED BY SUPERVISOR OR DEPUTY SUPERVISOR.
SO MOVED SECOND ON THE QUESTION.
SO THIS RESOLUTION MENTIONS THAT THERE IS A TOTAL CAP FOR THE 2024 BUDGET YEAR AND THAT CAP IS RELATED TO THE AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION THAT MS. DE ARDINE, UH, CAN DRAW DOWN ON HER CONTRACT.
UM, SO I, I GUESS I'M, I'M A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED, UM, ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THIS RESOLUTION AND REALLY INTENT OF THIS RESOLUTION I HAD RECENTLY.
UH, WHEN, WHEN I BECAME AWARE THAT, UH, MS. DE JARRING WAS GOING BE REJOINING US AS A CONSULTANT IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, I MET WITH MS. DE JARIN AS WELL AS THE STAFF FOR OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO TALK ABOUT, UM, THE AMOUNT OF HOURS, THE AMOUNT OF HOURS THAT ARE NEEDED.
AND WE, UH, DISCUSSED MITIGATION OF SERVICE THE TOWN IN TERMS OF, UH, DOING THE, THE MINUTES, THE MEETING MINUTES FOR OUR TOWN PLANNING BOARD AND OUR ZONING BOARD.
UH, AND IT WAS, IT WAS MY IMPRESSION THAT WITH THIS CAB ON COMPENSATION, IT WAS UP TO ME AS THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO UH, MONITOR, UH, HER PROGRESS TOWARDS THAT CAP.
AND, UM, SO WE TALKED ABOUT SOME, SOME GUIDELINES FOR HOW MANY HOURS SHE WOULD BE WORKING AND AGREED THAT AT A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF HOURS BEYOND HER WORK, ON THE MINUTES FOR THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE ZONING BOARD THAT SHE WOULD GET PRIOR APPROVAL SO THAT I WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENSURE THAT HER HOURS DON'T GO OVER THE CAP.
UM, I INCREASED THAT CAP TO 10 HOURS PER WEEK ON FEBRUARY 23RD AFTER A SUBSEQUENT MEETING WITH MS. DE.
SINCE THAT TIME SHE HAS SUBMITTED
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TWO VOUCHERS THAT WENT BEYOND THE 10 HOUR PRE-APPROVAL DIRECTIVE.I SIGNED THE FIRST ONE BECAUSE I THOUGHT PERHAPS IT WAS A MISTAKE, BUT THE SECOND ONE I, I REFUSED TO SIGN BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE PRIOR APPROVAL TO GO BEYOND THE 10 HOURS.
SO THAT IS, UM, THAT'S THE ONLY INFORMATION I HAVE THAT MAY BE RELEVANT TO THIS RESOLUTION.
UM, BUT IT SAYS THAT IN THE CONTRACT THERE'S A CAP, BUT I CANNOT WITHHOLD SIGNING THE VOUCHERS BEYOND THE CONDITIONS NOT INCLUDED IN THE AGREEMENT.
SO BECAUSE WE HAVE A PLANNING DEPARTMENT THAT IS GOING TO BE SHORT STAFFED COMING UP SOON, WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STAYED AS, AS MANY CONSULTING HOURS AS POSSIBLE DURING THAT SHORTAGE IN OUR STAFF.
AND EVEN IF THIS RESOLUTION DOES PASS, I AM NOT SURE HOW, HOW I AM TO PROCEED IN MONITORING AGAINST THIS LAP OR IF MS. DE INE WILL HAVE A, A LINE CHECK AND IF SHE DOESN'T LIKE THE ANSWER SHE GETS FROM ME, SHE CAN NOW GO TO DEPUTY SUPERVISOR TO HAVE HIM SIGN IT INSTEAD.
I'M, I'M VERY MUCH, UH, CONFUSED BY THE SUBSTANCE OF THIS RESOLUTION.
THE RESOLUTION IS SO THAT SHE DOES GET PAID FOR THE WORK THAT SHE HAS DONE AND SHE'S NOT WORKING OUTSIDE OF WHAT WILL TAKE HER OVER THE CAP FOR THE YEAR SHE'S WORKING WITHIN WHAT THE, UH, WAS OUTLINED IN THE AGREEMENT.
AND I DON'T THINK ANYONE HERE WANTED TO SEE SOMEONE THAT IS WORKING FOR THE TOWN NOT BE PAID IN A TIMELY MANNER.
I, I BELIEVE THAT'S, IS IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT SHE DOES NOT GO BEYOND THE CAP.
THAT IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY AS TOWN SUPERVISOR TO MONITOR THAT CONTRACT AND THE ACTIVITY ON THAT CONTRACT IS THIS RESOLUTION SAYING THAT I AM NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE HER, UH, CHECK IN WITH ME IF SHE BELIEVES THAT SHE CAN BE GOING OVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME IN ANY GIVEN WORK WEEK.
DID THE AGREEMENT THAT SHE SIGNED OUTLINE THAT SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE A LIMIT WEEKLY ON THE NUMBER OF HOURS? I DON'T REMEMBER THAT BEING IN HER AGREEMENT, BUT THE AGREEMENT AS MENTIONED IN THIS RESOLUTION IS A TOTAL CAP AND IT'S NOT HER RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE SHE'S UNDER THE TOTAL CAP.
IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY AND MY MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVE TO HER WAS SIMPLY TO CHECK IN WITH ME BEFORE SHE GOES OVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF HOURS.
SO THAT TOGETHER WITH HER INPUT AS WELL AS THE INPUT FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, WE CAN MAKE THE DECISION ON HOW MANY HOURS SHE'S ABLE TO WORK GIVEN THE CAP AND THE CONTRACT AND THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE.
AND I'M SURE WHEN YOU'RE MONITORING THAT, WHEN YOU, YOU WOULD KEEP THE TOWN BOARD APPRISED, IF SHE DID COME CLOSE TO THAT LIMIT, I'M SURE YOU WOULD NOTIFY US OF THAT.
I KNOW THAT THEY ARE MEETING WEEKLY, AS YOU SAID, AND THAT THE WORK THAT SHE'S BEING DONE IS BEING COORDINATED WITH THE REST OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND IN TURN YOURSELF, UM, THIS IS AN EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR THE WORK SHE HAS DONE, SHE IS PAID IN A TIMELY MANNER AND I'M SURE WE'LL CONTINUE MONITORING IT AND YOU'LL LET THE BOARD KNOW THAT SHE APPROACHES THAT CAP THAT WAS
AS A, AS A, AS A MANAGER IN TOWN, I'M ABLE TO, UH, ASK HER FOR PRIOR APPROVAL WITHOUT, ON A CERTAIN WAY, WAS PRIOR APPROVAL IN THE AGREEMENT OR DID THE AGREEMENT OUTLINE WHAT THINGS SHE WOULD BE WORKING? I DON'T BELIEVE IT HAS TO BE IN THE AGREEMENT IN ORDER FOR ME TO ISSUE THAT DIRECTIVE.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT MY MANAGEMENT TO DIRECTIVE IS APPROPRIATE, GET IN THE RESOLUTION.
AND I WOULD LIKE THAT, THAT ANSWER ON THE RECORD.
I, I'M, WHAT ARE YOU, I'M STILL NOT CLEAR ON WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BECAUSE WE SAID THAT SHE HAS AN AGREEMENT, SHE HAS A CAP FOR THE YEAR.
RIGHT? SHE'S BEEN YOU DOING AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME EACH WEEK.
WE WOULD JUST LIKE TO SEE HER MAKE SURE THAT SHE'S PAID FOR THAT.
AND IT IS AS A CONTRACT MONITOR, IT IS UP TO ME TO ENSURE THAT SHE'S SPENDING AN APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME PER WEEK AS REALLY LIMITED EVEN.
NO, I WANT COMMUNICATION FROM THIS.
IF SHE, AND SHE SENDS YOU, I BELIEVE THERE IS COMMUNICATION AND SHE MEETS WEEKLY ALSO WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNICATION.
SHE HAS NOT COMMUNICATED WITH ME TO GO BEYOND THE HOURS THAT I IDENTIFIED.
SO MY INTENTION, UH, MY INTENTION OF HER MOTIVE IS TO VOTE AGAINST THIS RESOLUTION.
I WILL ALSO ENTERTAIN, UH, ANYBODY THAT REALLY WANTS TO TABLE THIS RESOLUTION.
UM, HOW ABOUT A MOTION TO TABLE
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RESOLUTION? WE HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE THE RESOLUTION AS WELL AS THE PROPER SECOND ON SECOND.NOW, MY QUESTION IS, WHERE ARE WE ON HER CONTRACT? CONTRACT FUNDS? HAVE WE SPENT, HOW MUCH ARE WE PROJECTING TO SPEND EACH WEEK? AND WHY DID SHE GO OVER? DID SHE GO OVER BECAUSE PLANNING BOARD MEETINGS RAN LONG BECAUSE I'VE BEEN THERE WHEN THEY'VE RUN FIVE AND A HALF HOURS.
THAT'S REASONABLE REASON TO GO OVER.
THOSE ARE THE SAME QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE AND I THINK WAS SUPPORT THE CASE FOR TAKING ON THIS SO WE CAN FURTHER INVESTIGATE THAT.
I THINK I'M PREPARED TO DISCUSS WHERE SHE IS IN THE CONTRACT, BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO BRING THAT INFORMATION TO THAT COMMITTEE.
WELL, IF YOU'RE, YEAH, IT'S, MY QUESTION IS, IF YOU'RE CONCERNED THAT WE'RE GONNA EXCEED THE CONTRACT, I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW FAR WE ARE INTO THE CONTRACT AND ARE WE ON TRACK TO PROJECTED TO EXCEED IT? I, I BELIEVE WHEN I TOOK A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS, WE ARE, RIGHT NOW, IF WE'RE PROJECTING AT WHAT SHE'S CURRENTLY BEEN DOING, WE'LL BE UNDER THE CAP FOR THE YEAR.
AND WE HAVE A VERY SIGNIFICANT VACANCY COMING UP IN OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, UH, THERE'S WHATEVER HOURS SHE HAS BEEN WORKING IN THE PAST, UH, HAVING MET WITH OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT, THERE'S GONNA BE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE.
SO I DO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT GOING OVER THE CAB.
I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER ERFORD HAS OUTLINED SOME, SOME GREAT REASONS THAT, THAT THIS SHOULD BE TABLED AS WELL.
AND THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION TO TABLE, WHICH HAD BEEN SECOND, BUT I'D LIKE TO TELL FOR, JUST FOR CLARITY AND ROLL CALL VOTE.
SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, IN OTHER WORDS, SOMEONE CAN WORK TIME EVEN THOUGH THEY'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN MEETINGS AND COORDINATED WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO IN A GIVEN WEEK, BUT IT WILL BE OKAY TO WITHHOLD AND NOT PAY HER IF THEY DON'T GET THAT OVERAGE AUTHORIZED BY THE CONTRACTOR.
AND WHAT IS THE OVERAGE RIGHT NOW? UH, WE AGREED ON 10 HOURS.
THIS IS, THIS IS MY MANAGEMENT DIRECTIVE.
I'M, I'M SURE THAT DEPARTMENT HEADS, UH, WORK WITH CONSULTANTS AND OFTEN HAVE LIMITS SET ON THOSE CONTRACTS WITHOUT CONSULTATION OF TOWN BOARD.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION TABLE AND A SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR OF DAILY, UH, HOPE SUPERVISOR.
COUNCIL MEMBER FARRELL LOREN NAY.
NAY THE MOTION THE TABLE PASSES THREE TWO, WHEREAS TO FLYING BOARD RECEIVED AN APPLICATION FROM BREACH MONTON FOR TWO HOT SUBDIVISION THAT TO BE LOCATED AT 36 48 OLD LAKEY ROAD.
WHEREAS IN MARCH, 2023, THE AVERAGE REQUEST FROM REVIEW BY THE FLYING BOARD, WHICH DETERMIN THAT TWO AREA VARIANCES WERE REQUIRED.
AND WHEREAS THE APPLICANT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL IN ATTAINING THE NECESSARY VARIANCES FROM THE BOARD THAT WAS OWN APPEALS AND THEREFORE CAN, WAS FORWARD WITH THE SUBDIVISION REQUEST AND HAS REQUESTED THAT ACHIEVED AND RESPONDED TO HIM.
NOW, THEREFORE THEY RESOLVED, BUT THE DOWN HAND AUTHORIZED THE RETURN.
THE APPLICANT FEES THE AMOUNT OF $400.
I GOING TO BE, UM, REGARDING THIS RESOLUTION NUMBER 22 TODAY, OUTSIDE OF LEGAL SERVICE RESOLUTION, WHERE THE TOWN OF HAM LEGAL DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN HIRING VARIOUS OUTSIDE ATTORNEYS AND LAW FIRMS TO CONDUCT LEGAL BUSINESS ON BEHALF OF TOWN WHERE THE TOWN BOARD HAS NOT BEEN ADVISED OF THE NATURE OF EXTENT OF THESE EXPENDITURES WHERE I'VE CONDUCTED INVESTIGATION OF THE PRACTICES OF OTHER TOWNS AND VILLAGES REGARDING LEGAL SERVICES AND MOST TOWN MANDATE THAT ALL LEGAL SERVICE, THAT ALL OUTSIDE LEGAL EXPENDITURES BE APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED.
THIS FOLLOWS, THE TOWN ATTORNEY AND THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT FROM THE TOWN OF HAMBURG ARE HEREBY DIRECTED AT PRIOR RETAINING OUTSIDE LEGAL SERVICES AND SPENDING ANY MONEY AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR LEGAL SERVICES THAT THE TOWN BOARD APPROVED, UH, ALL OUTSIDE EXPENDITURES FOR LEGAL SERVICES ATTORNEYS AND OTHER RELATED LEGAL EXPENSES.
SO HEARING NO SECOND, THE MOTION FAILS THE, UH, 2024 TAYLOR ROAD ALCOHOL WAIVER REQUEST RESOLVED THAT, UH, HAY TOWN BOARD DOES HEREBY AUTHORIZE ALCOHOL WAIVER FOR THE FOLLOWING MAY, 2024 TAYLOR ROAD RENTAL AS FILED.
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PROPOSED DETENTION CARRIED PAF YOUTH RECREATION SENIOR SERVICES BE IT RESOLVED THE TOWN BOARD TERMINATES AND HIRES PERSONNEL FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF YOUTH RECREATION SENIOR SERVICES AND FILED.OPPOSED? CARRIED ICE ARENA CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION.
UH, WHEREAS CONSTRUCTION, THE ICE ARENA MECHANICAL OPERATES PROJECT IS UNDERWAY.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN ENGINEER DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDS THE HIRING OF NEW YORK STATE LICENSED CONSULTANT TO PERFORM CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION SPECIALIZED THE BILL REVIEW CONTRACTOR RFI AND TECHNICAL OVERSIGHT.
AND WHEREAS DEAN DONATO ASSOCIATES SUBMITTED A FIRST PROFESSIONAL AND FOR TIME AND MATERIAL TO PROVIDE THESE PROFESSIONAL S WITH THE TOTAL CONTRACT ESTIMATING 68,900 AND 0 CENTS.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT RESOLVED THE TOWN AUTHORIZED THE SUPERVISOR TO SIGN THE CONTRACT.
NUMBER TWO, I'M SORRY, 3 3 8 8 DASH 0 3 2 0 2 3 BETWEEN THE TOWN PAMPER AND DITO ASSOCIATES NOT TO EXCEED $61,790 0 CENTS FUNDS TO BE TRANSFERRED FROM ARPA OR GENERAL FUNDS TO ACCOUNT NUMBER H 1 1 1, DO 1 4 4 0 0.440 BY SERENA CONTRACTUAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ENGINEERING.
OPPOSED? EXTENSIONS CARRIED RESOLVE RESOLVE.
THE HAMBURG TOWN BOARD REDIRECTS PREVIOUSLY COMMITTED ARPA FUNDS TO THE FOLLOWING PROJECTS, MECHANICAL UPGRADES AT THE NIKE CENTER, ICE RINK AND EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH RELOCATION OF THE SENIOR G ROOF REPAIR.
25,000 FROM HIGHWAY GARAGE REPAIRS 105,000 FROM WOODLAWN, 650,000 FROM PLAYGROUNDS.
150,000 FROM HO EIGHT FUNDS, 100,000 FROM COLUMBIA, 750,000 FROM WEST ARNOLD REPAIRS 130,000 FROM BOAT DOCK, 10,000 FROM BURKE ROAD AND 350,000 FROM TOWN HALL PAVING.
SO MOVED SECOND ON THE QUESTION.
SO I COMPLETELY UN NO, I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND IT AND APPRECIATE THE TOWN BOARD'S, UM, AUTHORITY TO, TO REALLOCATE THESE AMERICAN ARRESTED PLAN FUNDS.
UM, HOWEVER, I'M JUST GOING TO RAISE, UH, SOME CONCERNS.
THE, UH, MANY OF THESE ARE CERTAINLY APPROPRIATE AND THESE KIND OF CLEAN UP SOME OF THE PROJECTS FOR THEIR ELECTABLE FUNDS SO WE CAN REPURPOSE 'EM FOR OTHER PROJECTS AND THAT MAKES GREAT AND PERFECT SENSE.
UM, I'M CERTAINLY CONCERNED ABOUT TAKING $650,000 OUT OF THE, THE CHARTS.
UM, OUR CHARTS AND OUR PLAYGROUNDS ARE REALD WITH UNSAFE EQUIPMENT, OLD EQUIPMENT, UNATTRACTIVE EQUIPMENT ENTRANCES THAT ARE UNACCEPT UNACCEPTABLE FOR MANY MEMBERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND THE $1 MILLION IS OUTLINED IN THE ORIGINAL OF THE PREVIOUS BOARD, UH, WAS TO GO FOR THOSE VARIED PURPOSES.
ADDITIONALLY, THE AMERICAN RESIDENT PLAN ACT FUNDS WERE GIVEN TO LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES, UM, FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE, THE, THE, THE WELL PLANNING MUNICIPALITIES ARE REALLY LOOKING TO STRENGTHEN THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE, NUMBER ONE, BUT THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING TO MAKE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES IN THE EVENT OF ANOTHER PANDEMIC WHERE FOLKS ARE GONNA EARN TO PARKS FOR RECREATION AND LIMITED SOCIALIZATION.
I BELIEVE WE NEED TO INVEST IN OUR PARKS AND HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT TAKING THAT AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS AWAY FROM THEM.
ADDITIONALLY, MANY OF OUR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS BENEFIT FROM A LOT GOING ON IN, IN THE PROXIMITY TO GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS, RESTAURANTS, BUSINESSES, AND SO FORTH.
HOWEVER, MANY OF THEM ARE NOT ABLE TO ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF PUBLIC ROADS, PUBLIC STREET LIKES, UH, AND OTHER THINGS THAT HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS OFTEN GO TO THEIR MEMBERSHIP FLOOR.
$150,000 REPRESENTS JUST OVER 1% OF THE $11.5 MILLION THAT THE TIME RECEIVED FOR AMERICAN RESCUE BUYING FUNDS.
AND I BELIEVE THESE RESIDENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY
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SHOULD BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THAT AS WELL.THAT BRINGS ME TO WEST ARNOLD.
$750,000 WOULD ADDRESS A PROBLEM THAT HAS BEEN DECADES, IF NOT A CENTURY IN THE MAKING A PROBLEM THAT THE TOWN OFFORD HAS KICKED DOWN THE ROAD FOR DECADES TO THE VERY MUCH CONSUMMATION OF THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE IN THE WEST ARNOLD NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE OTHER ALTERNATIVE, AS HAS BEEN PRESENTED, UH, BY COUNCIL MEMBER FERRELL RENTZ, IS TO CREATE A TAXATION DISTRICT WHERE THE HANDFUL OF FAMILIES THAT LIVE IN THE WEST END OF NEIGHBORHOOD WOULD THEN BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING THE $750,000, UH, TO RECTIFY THIS SITUATION AS SOME VERY SERIOUS CONCERNS.
THE ARCO FUNDING IS, UH, HOPEFULLY A ONCE IN A MULTI-GENERATION OPPORTUNITY FOR TOWNS LIKE UNIVERS TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN LONGSTANDING WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OR THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
SO WHY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE INFO OF FAMILIES SHOULDERING $750,000 OF INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT IN THEIR COMMUNITY? MY HOPE IS THAT IF WE DO REALLOCATE THESE REDS AND GLEN ACT FUNDS, THAT THIS BOARD WILL EXPEDITE WHATEVER IT TAKES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THIS SITUATION TAKEN CARE OF.
BECAUSE IT IS INDEED, UH, GETTING CLOSE TO AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.
MY HOPE IS THAT IF WE DO TAKE THIS FUNDING AWAY FROM THAT COMMUNITY, WE WILL AT LEAST SHOW THE POLITICAL WILL TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE TO ENSURE THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF THOSE RESIDENTS.
UM, I BELIEVE A FEW MEANS MILLER WAS AN ATTORNEY HERE THREATENING TO SUE THE, UH, THE TOWN IF WE DID ANY WORK ON IT IN THAT AREA, EITHER PAVING THE ROAD OR ONE THE PIPE WORK BECAUSE IT IS NOT TILE PROPERTY.
IS THERE PROPERTY? AM I CORRECT? ASSUMING THAT I I WAS HERE TOO, AND I DID HEAR THE SAME THREAT FROM THAT ATTORNEY THAT YOU MENTIONED.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT IF WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING BECAUSE OF BEING THREATENED TO BE SUED BY AN ATTORNEY, THERE'D BE A LOT OF WORK THAT DIDN'T GET DONE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
IF IT IS A PRIVATE AREA, IT, IT, IT IS NOT THE TOWN'S PROPERTY.
UM, JUST LIKE THE HOAS, THERE'S, UH, THE ONE ON PARKER ROAD.
THEY HAVE TO MAINTAIN THEIR OWN FIRE HYDRANTS.
THEY HAVE TO MAINTAIN THEIR OWN ROADS AND MAKE THEIR OWN CONTRACTS WITH THEIR GARBAGE.
IT, IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
THERE'S OTHER, UH, AREAS LIKE THAT WITH HOAS.
THEY, THESE PEOPLE CHOOSE NOT TO HAVE AN HOA, THEY, THEY, UM, I DON'T KNOW.
IT'S A, IT'S A WEIRD SITUATION AND, UM, I I'M NOT AFRAID OF, UH, THREATS, BUT, UM, I DO BELIEVE THAT GIVE THE PUBLIC FUNDS IS SINCEREST THING.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE GIVING OUR TAX DOLLARS AWAY TO CANDIDATES THAT RUN FOR OFFICE.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? YES, PLEASE.
WELL, I APPRECIATE ALL OF THE COMMENTS MADE BY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS.
I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT IN TRYING TO COME UP WITH THIS PLAN, UM, IT WAS A LOT OF WORK, A LOT OF HEADS CAME TOGETHER.
AND I DO WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO MARTIN HEAD JUST SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS ANY DEPARTMENT HEAD WHO WAS AFFECTED IN ANY OF THESE CATEGORIES.
IT, UM, IT WAS DISCUSSED WITH THEM AND, AND AGAIN, I APPRECIATE THEIR CANDOR.
I APPRECIATE THEIR WILLING TO SIT DOWN AND LOOK AT ALL THE, ALL OF THE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THIS.
UM, AS FAR AS THE PLAYGROUNDS GO, WE HAVE MADE, UH, A VERY, UH, A DEDICATED COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING OUR PLAYGROUNDS.
AND THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS SINCE I CAME ON THE BOARD.
AND THERE'S BEEN QUITE A BIT OF IMPROVEMENTS MADE.
WE KNOW THAT WE NEED TO KEEP IMPROVING IN OUR PLAYGROUNDS.
WE'VE HAD A LOT OF EFFORT FROM MEMBERS OF OUR BUILDINGS AND GROUND CREW WHO GO OUT AND WITH THEIR OWN
THEY'VE BEEN WORKING WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TRY TO, UH, MINIMIZE THE VANDALISM THAT, THAT WE'VE SEEN IN SOME OF THE PLAYGROUNDS.
WE WILL CONTINUE OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR PLAYGROUNDS.
BUT IN SPEAKING WITH THE DEPARTMENT HEADS INVOLVED THERE, THIS AMOUNT, THE AMOUNT THAT WE CAME OUT, THE 650, IT STILL ALLOWS FOR PROJECTS THAT ARE, UM, IN THE WORKS.
IT WILL NOT STOP ANY OF THOSE.
AND AS THEY SAID, THOSE PROJECTS ARE PROBABLY WHAT THEY COULD HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THE REST OF THIS YEAR.
SO IT'S NOT SAYING THAT WE WON'T LOOK AGAIN AT ALLOCATING FUNDS FOR THE PLAYGROUNDS AS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST WITH FUTURE BUDGETS, BUT IT'S ALLOWING US TO APPROACH THE SITUATION OF THE BANKING SITE AND THE SENIOR CENTER WITH BEING ABLE TO MINIMIZE THE AMOUNT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BOND, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE SAVE IN INTEREST, WE CAN THEN TURN AROUND AND WE CAN BE INVESTING THAT DIRECTLY IN OUR COMMUNITY, IN OUR PLAYGROUNDS,
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ET CETERA, RATHER THAN HANGING IT OUT IN INTEREST.AGAIN, CARMEN HAS, WERE CONSULTED.
PLAYGROUNDS REMAINED A PRIORITY FOR US.
WE HAVE MANY GOOD PROJECTS GOING ON, WHETHER IT'S A SKATE CAR, OSBORNE, UM, UH, ROUNDTREE, THERE'S MANY THINGS IN THE WORKS AND, UH, AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT AS FAR AS THE HOA FUNDS, I KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY AFTER THE DEADLINE, I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THERE WAS A DEADLINE ON APRIL 15TH.
I DON'T THINK WE WERE NOTIFIED OF THAT AS BOARD.
I HAD HOA PRESIDENTS CALL AND SAY, I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS.
UM, SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF ALL OF THE HOAS IN THE TOWN WERE NOTIFIED AND I WOULD WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY EVEN TO HAVE RESPONDED.
BUT I KNOW THAT THERE WA WERE MANY QUESTIONS THAT WERE RAISED ABOUT, UM, PROVIDING THOSE PUBLIC FUNDS TO HOAS.
UM, AND SO AGAIN, AT THIS POINT DOWN THE ROAD, IF THERE'S A PROGRAM THAT THE TOWN WANTED TO START, THEY COULD POSSIBLY ENTERTAIN THAT.
BUT AT THIS POINT WE ARE KEEPING, UM, THE AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE TO BOND DOWN BY DOING THIS.
AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE MORE TO WORK WITH THAT.
WE'RE NOT HAVING THAT WE'RE NOT COMMITTED IN INTEREST FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS.
AS FAR AS WEST ARNOLD GOES, YES, WE HAVE LEGAL ISSUES THAT HAVE TO BE, UM, ADDRESSED AND IT IS NOT SET 750 VOTES WHERE THE ENTIRE AMOUNT, AS I'VE SPOKEN TO, UM, OUR DIRECTOR OF, UH, PUBLIC WORKS.
PART OF THAT IS FOR THE ROADS, PART OF IT IS FOR THE WATERLINE.
THERE ARE POSSIBILITIES DOWN THE ROAD THAT WE CAN ADDRESS IT MAYBE WE'LL AT IT IN A FUTURE BUDGET OR THROUGH ASSESSMENT.
THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES THAT WOULD NOT BE THE WHOLE SEVEN 50 FOR THE COMMUNITY.
BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY IN FUTURE BUDGETS IF, AND HALF MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR IS NOT GOING OUT TO INTEREST PAYMENTS.
SO THIS WAS DONE IN CONSULTATION WITH MANY PEOPLE.
WE FELT IT WAS A GOOD PLAN THROUGH RECAPTURE FUNDS.
WE HOPE AND ANTICIPATE THAT THERE MAY EITHER BE OTHER AREAS BETWEEN ON THE END OF THE YEAR AS PROJECTS ARE FINALIZED.
THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER PROJECTS THAT AS THEY FINALIZE, THERE MAY EVEN BE ADDITIONAL FUNDS.
WE CAN, WE CAN RECAPTURE AND REALLOCATE, BUT THERE SEEMED TO BE A VERY GOOD PLAN AT THIS TIME IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LATER RESOLUTION THAT TALKS ABOUT WHAT WE WOULD BE WILLING TO BOND THAT WOULD COVER CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE REGARDING THE SENIOR CENTER REGARDING THE NIGHT SITE.
I DO, UH, I DO AGREE THAT, UM, THEY'RE LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS.
THERE'S OVER $2 MILLION OF OUR, OF FUNDS THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO BORROW.
AND WE HAD BEEN LOOKING AT MAKING APPROVE.
WE'VE ALREADY STARTED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE NIKE BASE AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ISSUES WITH THE SENIOR CENTER WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS.
SO THIS IS, UH, FISCALLY PRUDENT, UM, PROJECT.
AND I, I, I APPLAUD, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER EARL LORENZ FOR MEETING WITH THE DEPARTMENT HASN'T TAKEN THE LEAD ON THIS ISSUE.
AND, AND YOU'RE CORRECT TO POINT OUT, ESPECIALLY WITH HOW HIGH INTEREST RATES ARE.
NOW WE HAVE MONEY AND, UH, AVAILABLE TO US.
WHY BORROW IT? JUST TO BORROW IT.
SO I'M GOING TO BE VOTING YES TO THIS BECAUSE I THINK IT MAKES GOOD PHYSICAL SENSE.
IT PROVIDES, UH, MONEY FOR PROJECTS FOR THE ARENA AND POTENTIALLY FOR THE SENIOR CENTER.
AND, UM, I, I APPLAUD COUNCIL MEMBER LL LOREN'S WORK ON THIS.
I KNOW YOU PUT A LOT OF HARD WORK INTO IT AND THERE'S OVER $2 MILLION HERE THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE FOR PROJECTS THAT WE NEED, THAT WE'VE ALREADY COMMITTED TO.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR
OPPOSED NO 2024 DRAIN PROJECT.
WHEREAS TOM PAM COMPLETED A TOWN WIDE DRAINAGE STUDY IN 2023 AND WHEREAS THE TOWN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT HAS IDENTIFIED VARIOUS SITES THAT ARE IN NEED OF REHABILITATION AND RECOMMENDS IN INSTRUMENTS OF RFP TO, UH, REFORM, REPAIR AND IMPROVEMENTS, BE IT RESOLVED IF THE TOWN CLERK IS AUTHORIZED TO ADVERTISE FORZE BIDS ENTITLED TOWN TO 2024 DRAINAGE PROJECTS.
PROJECT BIDS DOCUMENTS WILL BE READ FOR READY FOR REVIEWING ON MAY 1ST, 2024 SEALED SEPARATE BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE TOWN HALL CLERK'S OFFICE, 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, HAMBURG, NEW YORK, 1 4 0 7 5.
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PUBLICLY OPENED AT RENTAL ALOUD ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH, 2024 IN CONFERENCE ROOM SEVEN B DOWNSTAIRS AT 11:00 AM MALE.BIDS SHOULD BE SENT TO THE TOWN OF HAMBURG, CLEARLY MARKED ATTENTION.
TOWN CLERK BID AND CLOSE TO TOWN 2024 DRAINAGE PROJECTS 6,100 SOUTH PARK AVENUE, ER, NEW YORK, 1 4 0 7 5.
GARY WILLIAM D. WILLIAM BACKSTOP AWARDS WHEREAS 250,000, UH, GRANT WAS RECEIVED FROM SENATOR SEAN RYAN TO BE USED FOR IMPROVEMENTS AT THE WILLIAM D. WILLIAM PARK AND WHEREAS A NOTICE OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WERE PREPARED AND ADVERTISED FOR WILLIAM D UH, WILLIAM BACKSTOP REPLACEMENT PROJECT.
WHEREAS SEAL BIDS WERE OPEN AND READ ALOUD ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH, 2044 AT 11:00 AM AND WHERE IS THE LOWEST RESPONDING BID WHERE THE PROJECT IS? WOOD SMITH FENCE COMPANY HAVING SUBMITTED A BID IN THE AMOUNT OF $75,000 AND 0 CENTS FOR BASE BID.
WHERE IS ALTERNATE SEVEN? MICHELLE ALSO BE AWARDED IN THE AMOUNT OF $27,600 AND 0 CENTS FOR SIX TYPE EIGHT SHADE SHELTERS.
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN SUPERVISORS AUTHORIZED TO EXECUTE AND CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT WITH WOOD SMITH FENCE COMPANY AND ISSUE NOTICE OF AWARD AND NOTICE TO PROCEED.
FUNDS AVAILABLE IN ACCOUNT H 1 0 3 DASH 7 1 4 0 4 1 3 RANK PROJECT.
OPPOSED? ABSTENTION BE RESOLVED.
AND HAMMER TOWN BOARD ENGAGES WITH UNDERBERG AND KESSLER, LLP AS BOND COUNSEL EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND DIRECTS THE SUPERVISOR TO SIGN THE RETAINER AGREEMENT IMMEDIATELY.
FILING REVIEW BY TOWN'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND THEY HAVE FURTHER RESOLVED THE UNDERBERG AND KESSLER LLP EXCLUSIVELY WITH CONSULT AND WORK WITH THE SUPERVISOR OF TOWN BOARD AND LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND FINANCE DIRECTOR AS DIRECTED BY THE TOWN HAMBURG TOWN BOARD REGARDING PREPARATION OF RESOLUTION, OTHER MATERIALS AND PROCESS REQUIRED FOR THE TOWN OF HAMBURG TO BOND.
$3 MILLION FOR THE FOLLOWING PROJECT.
ONE NIKE BASED SITE ARENA RENOVATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS, MECHANICAL AND OTHER UPGRADES TO THE NIKE SITE.
ICE ARENA, $2 MILLION CONSTRUCTION OF WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOMS AND BATHROOM FACILITIES AND ADDITIONAL ALL SEASON BATHROOMS AND CONCESSION AREA AT THE TOWN'S NIKE ICE ARENA 1 MILLION AND BRINGING IT FURTHER RESOLVED, THE REQUIRED BOTTOM RESOLUTION WILL BE ON THE FIVE MAY 6TH THOUSAND 24 TOM BOARD MEETING AGENDA.
NOW WE HAVE, UM, BASED ON THE PREVIOUS RESOLUTION, UH, BY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CAROL LORENZ, WE'VE ALLOCATED, UM, THERE WAS OVER $2 MILLION THAT WAS GOING TO BE ALLOCATED TOWARDS THE PROJECTS FOR THE NIKE BASE.
UM, SO WHY WOULD BE TAKING OUT BONDS FOR SOMETHING WE ALREADY ALLOCATED MONEY FOR? IT'S NOT ALL NIKE BASE.
THAT WAS NIKE BASE AND THE SENIOR CENTER.
YEAH, NO, THERE'S OVER $2 MILLION AND I THINK A MILLION OF IT WAS NIKE BASE.
AND BASED ON THE PROJECTIONS AND NUMBERS WE HAVE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE 3 MILLION WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO COVER.
YEAH, THAT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH TO COVER THE NIKE BASE PROJECT.
SO, SO WE GOT 2 MILLION, TWO POINT SOMETHING MILLION OUT OF OUR BUCK.
AND THIS BOND IS KEPT, IS COVERING THE REST PLUS, PLUS THE BATHROOMS AND THE LOCKER ROOMS. RIGHT.
BUT I MEAN, WE, UH, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING WE WE'RE GONNA EVEN BE ABLE TO DO THIS YEAR EVEN IF WE WERE TO VOTE FOR IT.
AND IT IS NOT TO COMMIT US TO THAT.
IT'S, IT'S, UH, AUTHORIZING, BORROWING TO DO THAT PROJECT.
SO PROJECT START, BUT THIS PART OF THIS BOND IS GONNA BE ALLOCATING THE FUNDS TO DO THOSE BATHROOMS. WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT COMMITTING TO IT THOUGH.
RIGHT? WE'RE COMMITTING TO HAVE A POTENTIALLY SECURE A BOND BUT NOT COURT.
YEAH, YOU WON'T, YOU'RE NOT COMMITTED UNTIL YOU ACTUALLY BILL AGAINST THE BOND.
SO YOU'RE JUST SAYING, I'M GONNA MOVE THE TABLE.
THIS, UH, THIS RESOLUTION, WE HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE THE RESOLUTION DURING SECOND, UH, THE MOTION TABLE BOUNCE.
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SO MY CONCERN ABOUT THIS RESOLUTION IS IT APPEARS TO BE ATTEMPTING TO DO TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, EACH OF WHICH I BELIEVE ARE WORTHY OF THEIR OWN RESOLUTION.
NUMBER ONE IS THE DECISION TO DISENGAGE WITH OUR PREVIOUS BOND COUNCIL AND RETAIN NEW BOND COUNCIL.
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THAT DECISION IS MADE, WHO WAS CONSULTED AND WHY WE ARE MOVING AWAY FROM OUR PREVIOUS BOND COUNCIL TO THIS NEW FIRM.
I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE AN AMENDMENT THAT WE ELIMINATE THE DIRECTION TO, TO BOND, UM, THOSE DOLLARS BECAUSE I, I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THAT IS AN IMPORTANT, A VERY IMPORTANT SUPPORTIVE OF BONDING THOSE PROJECTS.
BUT IT WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THOSE PROJECTS OUTLINED BY BOND COUNCIL, WHETHER IT'S OUR CURRENT BOND COUNCIL OR NEW BOND COUNCIL.
UM, BUT I REALLY THINK THAT IT IS DESERVING OF, OF ITS OWN RESOLUTION.
SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO ELIMINATE THE TALK ABOUT BONDING THE 2 MILLION AND THE 1 MILLION FROM THIS RESOLUTION.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, THIS WAS, THERE'S THERE'S NO SECOND ON, ON A MOTION.
SO IF, IF WE'RE NOT MAKING THE AMENDMENT, WE GO BACK FROM ENTERTAIN THE ORIGINAL MOTION ON THE ORIGINAL QUESTION.
THAT'S WHY HAD DIDN'T AND IT WASN'T SET AT THE TABLE.
UM, AND THEY'RE TALKING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION OF A WOMEN'S LOCKER ROOM.
AND I KNOW THAT THE COACH FROM, UH, I THINK IT WAS BERT THAT WAS HERE, THERE WAS SOME MONIES AVAILABLE THAT THERE MIGHT BE, UH, THE WOMEN'S HOT COLLEGE WAS INTERESTED IN POTENTIALLY WORKING WITH US.
SO I AM REVIEWING MY MOTION TO, UM, TABLE, UH, THIS SO WE CAN EXPLORE OTHER, UM, OTHER OPTIONS AND OTHER PARTNERSHIPS FOR THESE, THESE LOCKER ROOMS. IT'S NOT SOMETHING EVEN IF WE WERE TO VOTE FOR IT TODAY, UM, OR HAD VOTED FOR A MONTH AGO, THAT WE CAN START CONSTRUCTION NOW BECAUSE THE PHASE ONE IS WHAT WE'VE COMMITTED TO, WHICH IS THE BOARDS, THE UPGRADE BOARDS, AND THE, UH, COMPRESSORS AND POOLING AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT OUR, WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE SOME OF THOSE PARTNERSHIPS BEFORE WE COMMIT TO POTENTIALLY RAISING TAXES THROUGH, THROUGH BONDS IN ADDITION TO THE A OF FUNDS THAT WE'VE ALLOCATED AS WELL.
SO I THINK IT WOULD BE WISE NOT TO RUSH INTO IT, TO TABLE IT.
UH, THE SUPERVISOR DOES RAISE SOME INTERESTING POINTS THAT THERE COULD BE TWO RESOLUTIONS HERE OF INCLINED, YOU KNOW, WHETHER I SUPPORT IT OR NOT IS IRRELEVANT INCLINED TO AGREE WITH YOUR ANALYSIS ON THIS.
SO, UH, I'M REVIEWING MY MOTION TO TABLE FOR THE REASONS, UH, PREVIOUSLY STATED.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY ONE THING THAT THERE IS NO MONEY ON BOARD RIGHT NOW WITH, UH, BERT COLLEGE.
UM, THEY'RE MAY, MAY MAKE SOME EXPLORATIONS AND IN THIS, BUT I'LL, I'LL JUST BE STRAIGHT WITH FOLKS.
I, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO VOTE FOR THE BONDING, BUT WITHOUT HAVING ANY COMMUNICATION ON THE DECISION BEHIND CHANGING OUR BOND COUNCIL, I WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO VOTE FOR THAT.
SO I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THIS RESOLUTION IS WORDED FAIRLY FOR A DOWN BOARD NUMBER TO MAKE A DECISION.
WE WOULD HAVE TO VOTE ON IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, ON, ON TWO ITEMS THAT ARE, DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE LINKED WITH EACH OTHER.
I DO KNOW THAT OUR, OUR OUR, UH, RULES OF ORDER, UH, DON'T ALLOW FOR, UM, NEW RESOLUTIONS TO BE SUBMITTED AFTER A FILING DEADLINE.
BUT I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS, THIS CONTAINS TWO RESOLUTIONS AND THE PREFERENCE WOULD BE TO, TO SEPARATE 'EM AND VOTE ON 'EM ON THEIR INDIVIDUAL MERITS.
AND I JUST WANT TO REITERATE, REITERATE MY QUESTION ABOUT HOW THIS, HOW THIS DECISION CHANGED BOND COUNCIL WAS MADE, WHO WAS CONSULTED, WHAT FIRMS WERE APPROACHED, AND, UM, AND, AND THE RESULTS OF, OF, OF CANVASSING FIRMS. IT IT IS, IT'S AN UNUSUAL ARRANGEMENT TO BE
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SUBMITTED, UH, WITHOUT CONSULTATION OF THE DENTAL SUPERVISOR AND THE REST OF THE BOARD WAS THE, WAS THE BOARD OF THE PREVIOUS BOARD, UM, ACKNOWLEDGED WITH WHEN YOU MADE THE BOND COUNCIL THE LAST TIME, THE, THE, THEY DIDN'T SELECT THE BOND COUNCIL.I KEPT THE BOND COUNCIL THAT WAS HERE WHEN, WHEN I TOOK OFFICE AND THIS BOND COUNCIL WAS, UH, WORKED WITH THE TOWN BEFORE FOR TWO ALSO.
WELL, AND MY QUESTION IS HOW WAS THE DECISION MADE? WHAT OTHER FIRMS WERE APPROACHED? WHAT, HOW, HOW MUCH ARE THEY CHARGING? WHAT ARE THOSE CHARGES LIKE IN RELATION TO OTHER FIRMS THAT ALSO PROVIDE THESE SERVICES? UM, THERE, THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS THAT GO INTO MAKING PROCUREMENT DECISIONS.
AND WHILE THIS DECISION DOES FALL OUTSIDE OF OUR
AND, AND THAT HASN'T HAPPENED.
AND, UH, AND, AND FOR THE SAME REASON THAT THE SUPERVISOR JUST INDICATED RELATIVE TO THE CHANGE IN BOUND COUNCIL, THAT'S WHY I DID HAVE, WHICH WAS NOT SECOND BY ANYONE ON THIS BOARD, UH, RESOLUTION FOR OUTSIDE LEGAL SERVICES.
SO WE KNOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND MONEY, WE KNOW WHY AND WHAT, AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S A, AN OUTLAND ISSUE OR ANYTHING UNUSUAL.
SO I'M, I'M NOT GONNA BE SUPPORTING THIS, UH, RESOLUTION.
I DO WANNA LOOK INTO IT FURTHER, BUT I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU MY PREFERENCE, THE TABLE, BUT I, I CAN'T SUPPORT IT AS CURRENTLY DRAFT.
I I AGREE WITH THE PATROL AS TO YOUR RESOLUTION REGARDING OUTSIDE COUNSEL.
I BELIEVE WE SIGNED COLLEGE FOR, UH, UH, RETURNS.
SO, UM, I WILL TAKE COMPLIMENT WITH'S COMMENTS AS, UH, A REINTRODUCTION OF HIS MOTION TO TABLE AND I'D BE HAPPY TO SECOND THAT MOTION TO TABLE WHILE, UH, THE BOARD PROVIDES A FURTHER AND COMPLETE NOTIFICATION ON THE DECISIONS CHANGE BOND COUNCIL.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN CONTINUE TO TABLE EVERY SINGLE THING THAT COMES UP TO US FOR THE NIKE BASE.
THE, UM, THIS BOND COUNCIL WAS VETTED.
IT WAS THE MOST FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.
THEY GAVE US THE LOWEST, UM, COSTS WHILE STILL PROVIDING QUALITY SERVICE.
UM, OUTSIDE EXPERTISE WAS SOUGHT OUT.
THEY ARE BEING GIVEN A DIRECTIVE TO CREATE A BOND THAT WE WILL VOTE ON AT THE NEXT MEETING.
WE'RE ASKING THEM TO GO AND GET THE INFORMATION TO PUT THE BOND RESOLUTION TOGETHER FOR US FOR THE NEXT MEETING.
WE'RE NOT VOTING ON THAT AT THIS MEETING, BUT WE ARE ASKING 'EM TO GO AND PUT THIS TOGETHER.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN WAIT ANY LONGER.
WE'VE BEEN KICKING AROUND THE NIKE BASE FOR A MONTH AND A HALF.
I THINK YOU TAKE THIS TO A VOTE, YOU WANNA TABLE IT.
LET'S SEE WHERE THE VOTE LANCES.
WHY I DIDN'T WANNA INTERRUPT ANYBODY.
UM, SO JUST, JUST A FEW QUICK QUESTIONS.
I KNOW THAT THE BATHROOMS AND EVERYTHING WEREN'T ORIGINALLY PART OF THE PHASE ONE.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S ONLY ABOUT $500,000 EXTRA IN MONEY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BORROW.
YOU JUST HAVE THE ABILITY TO BORROW.
AS FAR AS THE BOND GOES, THIS IS 3 MILLION, A MILLION.
FROM THERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THREE AND A HALF MILLION, SO IT'D BE AN EXTRA 500,000 THAT WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE BORROWED IN INTEREST REFLECTED AGAINST IT.
IT'S KINDA LIKE LINE, THAT'S HOW YOU EX I'VE BEEN TO ENOUGH OF THESE NOW THAT IT'S BEEN KIND OF EXPLAINED ABOUT CONCEPT BILL, THAT'S HOW IT GOES AS FAR AS THE BAND CO AS A BAND COMPANY THAT WE, BAND COUNCIL THAT WE GO THROUGH.
YOU SAID YOURSELF, YOU JUST WENT WITH WHOEVER WAS THERE.
SO WHEN YOU TOOK OVER, YOU DIDN'T SEE IF THERE WERE CHEAPER OPTIONS OR BETTER OPTIONS OR ANYTHING OTHER, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? AS FAR AS PREVIOUS BOND COUN BOND COUNCILS GO.
SO I DON'T, I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE.
THIS IS STILL ONE THAT'S WITH THAT'S BEEN WHIPPED, BUT FOUND BEFORE, LIKE WHY DRIVER JUST KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD TO, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION SEPARATELY.
BUT, UM, I THINK WE'VE MADE, I MEAN, I THINK LIKE, LOOK, THERE'S IS, I I I LIKE TO TELL MY EMPLOYEES THAT THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS ON THESE SOLUTIONS, RIGHT? AND SO WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER THE WAY THAT I SEE IT, RIGHT? WE ALL WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, UH, ARENA IS BETTER.
AND WHEN I SPOKE TO PEOPLE FROM THE HAWS TOLD 'EM WE WERE GONNA GO FORWARD WITH
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WITH CONSTRUCTION, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.BUT WHAT, AND, AND I KNOW, UM, I, I BELIEVE IN BEING PATIENT, UM, BECAUSE I DO, UH, STILL SHARE THE VISION FOR A, A DUAL RING COMPLEX THAT I'VE HAD PEOPLE CONTACT ME IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY SUPPORT THAT.
BUT I, I THINK AS COUNCIL, UH, MEMBER FERRELL RENTS HAD LOOKED AT THE ARPA MONIES, WHICH WE VOTED, WE DID VOTE THIS BOARD MAYBE HALF HOUR AGO NOW LIVE FOREVER TO, UH, USE THAT MONEY FOR OTHER PROJECTS.
AND I, WHEN I RAN FOR OFFICE, I RAN ON A COMMITMENT AND I DID GET THE HIGHEST VOTES, UH, FOR, FOR COUNCIL.
I RAN ON A COMMITMENT OF FISCAL PRUDENCE AND SAYING THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THINGS NOT JUST LIKE I'M RUNNING IT, WE'RE RUNNING THE TOWN.
LIKE IT'S YOUR PRIVATE COOLING STAND.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO BE FAIR AS A BOARD TO REPRESENT NOT JUST POTENTIALLY HOCKEY PLAYERS OF THE HAWKS, BUT ALL PEOPLE IN THE TOWN.
AND I GET A LOT OF, UH, CALLS, UH, ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS FOR PEOPLE SAYING THEY'RE HAPPY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, DOING THINGS MORE EFFICIENTLY AND LOOKING OUT FOR THE BEST INTEREST OF THE TAXPAYER.
WE DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE AMHERST WHERE THEY WENT THROUGH A FULL ASSESSMENT AND PEOPLE, UH, WITH INFLATION RIGHT NOW AND HOW PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, GAS PRICES ARE GOING UP, FUEL PRICES, UH, HOME HEATING, UH, UTILITY BILLS.
PEOPLE TELL ME ALL THE TIME, THEY DON'T WANT THEIR TAXES TO GO UP.
SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS BALANCE WHAT IT IS THAT WE NEED FOR RECREATION, BUT ALSO AT THE SAME TIME, BALANCE KEEPING TAXES DOWN.
BECAUSE I, I BELIEVE THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT, IT'S EASY TO SIT UP HERE AND SAY, YEAH, LET'S, LET'S SLOW THE BOTTOM.
SO WHEN WE COME TO BUDGET TIME, I'M GONNA ASK DEPARTMENT HEADS TO SUBMIT TO THIS BOARD COST SAVING ENDEAVORS.
SO THAT'S WHY I MOVED THE TABLE IS 'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN ACCOMPLISH WHAT PEOPLE WANT, WHICH ARE BETTER FACILITIES, BUT DO IT IN A MORE EFFICIENT, CHEAPER WAY RATHER THAN JUST BORROW MONEY ALL THE TIME AND RAISE STAFF NO MATTER WHAT.
WE HAVE TO BORROW MONEY TO FINISH THE PROJECT UP.
YEAH, WE WENT FROM SOME OF 'EM HAVE MONEY DOWN TO THREE, I THINK.
AND THAT'S, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT, BUT IT, IT, I WOULD LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT EVERYONE ASKED.
UM, AND YES, I TOOK OFFICE JANUARY 1ST, 2022 AND AS I'VE BEEN PUT IN LEADERSHIP POSITIONS, AS I'VE BEEN WITH LEADERSHIP POSITION TO MY GENERAL PRACTICE TO TAKE SIX MONTHS TO REVIEW WHAT'S GOING ON, AND IF IT ISN'T BROKE, I'M NOT GONNA INTEND TO FIX IT.
SO THE EVALUATION OF THE PREVIOUS BOND COUNCIL WAS THE WORK THAT THEY HAD DONE IN THE PAST.
I HAD RECEIVED NO CONCERNS FROM COMPLAINTS FROM HER FINANCE DEPARTMENT, FROM MY COLLEAGUES ON THE TOWN BOARD, TWO OF WHICH REMAIN ON THIS BOARD.
WHAT I'M ASKING FOR IS WHAT OTHER FIRMS, WHICH, HOW MANY FIRMS, WHAT WERE, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THE COUNCIL MEMBER COME SAID THIS WAS THE MOST FISCALLY PRUDENT ROUTE AND SOMETIMES THE, THE, THE LOWEST BID IS THE WAY TO GO.
SOMETIMES WE GOTTA LOOK AT BEST VALUE OR SPECIFIC EXPERTISE ON CERTAIN ISSUES.
SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT'S A BAD IDEA TO SWITCH, I JUST CAN'T SAY THAT IT'S A GOOD IDEA.
NOW WE DO HAVE A MOTION TO TABLE WITH A SECOND AND I WILL CALL THAT VOTE MOMENTARILY.
I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE TWO SEPARATE RESOLUTIONS HERE, AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE THREE, IF NOT FOUR VOTES TO PASS EACH ONE OF VOTES.
I DON'T THINK THEY'RE ALL THE SAME VOTES.
SO IF WE'RE NOT GONNA TABLE, I WILL THEN SUBMIT A MOTION TO PRE THIS INTO TWO RESOLUTION SO WE CAN VOTE SEPARATELY ON THE BOND COUNCIL AS WELL AS THE DIRECTION OF THE NEW BOND COUNCIL IT PASSED TO.
I, I THINK THAT'S A REASONABLE SOLUTION.
AND IT MAY SEEM LIKE WE'RE GETTING INTO THE WEEDS HERE, BUT WELCOME TO A TOWN BOARD MEETING GAMES.
SO CAN THE, SO IF YOU MAKE A MOTION TO SEPARATE 'EM, WOULD IT LITERALLY BE, I MEAN THEN IT WOULD HAVE TO BE DIVIDED LIKE 500,000? NO, NO, NO, NO RESOLUTION.
ACCOUNT THE BUSINESSES, UM, BUY, REST.
SO IF YOU DIVIDED INTO TWO ISSUES, ONE WOULD BE ARE WE CHANGING BOND COUNCIL? AND TWO WOULD BE, ARE WE DIRECTING THAT BOND COUNCIL TO GET READY TO PREPARE BOND RESOLUTIONS IN THE SPECIFIED MONTHLY RESOLUTION? YEAH.
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A MAJORITY VOTE, THEN WELL, I MEAN IT COULD, I MEAN AT LEAST THREE VOTES.I MEAN THE SECOND ONE MIGHT NEED FOUR.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BOND RESOLUTION.
WOULD WELL DEFER TO THE BOND IF THE BOND RESOLUTION IS INDICAT.
AT LEAST I'M READING THIS RIGHT? IF I'M, IF IM RIGHT, IT SAYS THE RECORDED BOND RESOLUTION WILL BE ON THE 5, 6, 10.
IT DOESN'T RESEMBLE THE THREE PAGE VERY DETAILED BOND RESOLUTION, WHICH ACTUALLY DOES THE FORMAL AUTHORIZATION FOR EITHER BAN OR SERIAL BONDS, ET CETERA, AND HAS A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS IN THERE.
UM, SO I WOULDN'T, I BELIEVE THIS IS A BOND RESOLUTION WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE SUPER MAJORITY FLOOR VOTES THAT TO ANSWER ONE OF YOUR QUESTIONS.
SO I, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'VE EXHAUSTED, UH, CONVERSATION DEBATE ON THE MOTION TABLE AND I'D LIKE TO CALL THAT VOTE.
SO THE MOTION TABLE WITH A SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR OF TABLING, PLEASE SAY AYE.
SO THE MOTION TO TABLE IS DAVITA.
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A RESOLUTION TO SEPARATE THESE INTO TWO RESOLUTIONS THAT COULD BE VOTED ON.
ONE RESOLUTION TO NOT
THE SECOND RESOLUTION WOULD BE BE RESOLVED THAT THE FIRM MENTIONED BY COUNCILMAN C****R EXCLUSIVELY WILL CONSULT AND WORK WITH THE SUPERVISOR, TOWN BOARD, PEOPLE, DEPARTMENT GUIDANCE DIRECTORS DIRECTLY HENRY TOWN BOARD REGARDING PREPARATION RESOLUTIONS AND SO FORTH, UH, RELATED TO THE NIGHT AND SITE AREA, ICE ARENA RENOVATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
IS THERE A SECOND TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION INTO TWO SEPARATE RESOLUTIONS SO WE COULD VOTE ON EACH AND MOVE FORWARD HEARING NO SECOND THERE RETURNS US TO YOUR ORIGINAL RESOLUTION, WHICH INCLUDES CHANGING AUDIT COUNSEL AND DIRECTING 'EM TO, I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE.
IT DOESN'T REALLY BIND US TO ANYTHING.
ESSENTIALLY THAT SECOND PART IS, IS REALLY MEANINGLESS.
UM, BUT IT DOES GIVE COUNCIL MEMBERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC THEY ARE IN SUPPORT OF, OF THESE.
SO I'M AGAINST THE CHANGE THE BOT COUNCIL BECAUSE AS A BOARD MEMBER, I HAVEN'T GIVEN, GIVEN INFORMATION TO VOTE ON THAT.
I'M FOR THE POLICE ARENA OF RENOVATIONS AND BONDING FOR THOSE REGULATIONS, UH, RENOVATIONS.
WELL, I, WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS ABSTAIN BECAUSE WHAT I'M BEING ASKED TO DO IS MAKE A DECISION WITH NO INFORMATION IN EXCHANGE TO VOTE ON A MEANINGLESS RESOLUTION.
ALL IN FAVOR OF ITEM NUMBER 30, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
ALL OPPOSED, OPPOSED IN ONE SESSION, THE MOTION PASSES BE RESOLVED.
THE
PROJECT BID DOCUMENTS WILL BE READY FOR REVIEWING ON MAY 1ST, 2024 SEAL DE BID WILL BE RECEIVED.
DOWNTOWN HALL CLERK'S OFFICE 61 SOUTH PARK AVENUE 1 4 0 7 5 INSTEAD OF BID WILL BE PUBLICLY OPEN AND READ ALOUD ON WEDNESDAY EIGHT 15TH, 2024.
AND
NOW BID SHOULD BE SENT TO DOWN HAMBURG.
CLEARLY MY DETENTION COUNSELOR BID ENC CLOSE ON IN STATE PARK PROJECT 69.
OPPOSED? ABSTENTIONS CARRIED HERE.
COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT RIGHT OF ENTRY AGREEMENT.
MARIA COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT VISION OF SEWER MANAGEMENT IS REQUESTING ACCESS TO THE TOWN PARK PROPERTY AT 4 6 9 9 BLAKE AVENUE TO INSPECT AND CCTV AND EXISTING SANITARY SEWER BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD AUTHORIZED THE SUPERVISOR TO ENTER SUPERVISOR TO SIGN THE RIGHT ENTRY AGREEMENT WITH THE ERIE COUNTY SEWER DIVISION OF SEWER MANAGEMENT.
OPPOSED? ION SECURITY RESOLVED THE RY COUNTY BOARD HAS HERE BY APPROVE THE REQUEST THAT PRIOR COMPANY THE ADDED REIGNS OF THE MEMBERSHIP INDIVIDUAL FILED, WRITTEN.
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FLORIDA.MS. MEMBER, ANOTHER PARTY, UM, JOEL
ITEM NUMBER 35 RESULT ISSUED BY REQUESTING
PATRICK HALEY, CHRISTOPHER OR MOLINA, KATHERINE MENDEZ, GABRIEL AL RONDEL.
OPPOSED YOU THE TIME WHERE ANDREW CASH SERVICE DATED
TOTAL CASH BEEN BROUGHT AT $874,102 AND 30 CENTS.
THIS BRINGS US TO OUR PUBLIC DISCRETION PORTION OF THE MEETING, UH, LIKE TO SPEAK.
PLEASE INDICATE THAT, UH, WE DO HAVE SIGN UP SHEET HERE FOR YOU.
WE DO HAVE DIANE IN THE BACK THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.
THANK YOU TO BOARD, UH, BOB
AND BOTH, UH, MR. UM, HO AND MR. UH,
AND I THINK IT'S MOVING A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
WE'VE HAD VERY, UH, LIMITED BUT A FEW MEETINGS AND WE'RE HAVE ANOTHER ONE THIS WEEK.
AND WE'RE HOPEFULLY WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME PUBLIC MEETINGS ON TO RE UH, GENERATE WHAT THEY DID LAST YEAR IN OCTOBER.
AND THE PAT TOWN BOARD HAD A GREAT MEETING RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM WHERE WE STARTED MIX MOMENTUM AND THEN THE COMMITTEES CHANGED.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC KNOWS THAT THE COMMITTEE IS ACTIVE, IT'S MOVING A, IN A POSITIVE DIRECT, UM, UH, DIRECTION.
AND ANY, UH, ANYBODY, YOU'D HAVE TO GET A HOLD OF ONE OF US IN THE COMMITTEE.
MY EMAIL IS, IS, UH, BE MAHONEY AT TO HAMBURG NEW YORK.COM.
LET ME KNOW YOUR IDEAS, YOUR PROPOSALS.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I CAN ENTERTAIN AT THE COMMITTEE.
WE'RE ONLY IN THE DISCUSSION, BUT WE NEED TO MOVE KIND OF QUICKLY BECAUSE I WANNA GET THESE TOWN MEETINGS AND PUBLIC, OR SORRY, PUBLIC MEETINGS SCHEDULED.
'CAUSE UM, WE'RE LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO BE HEARD? GOOD EVENING COUNSEL.
THIS IS MY FIRST TIME, UM, ATTEMPTING TO ADDRESS SOME GRIEVANCES.
UM, IT HAS BEEN MY EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIENCE OF OTHERS THAT THE TOWN ROUTINELY VIOLATES, UH, THE NEW YORK STATE FOIL LAWS, UM, THROUGH TIMELINES, UM, NOT PROVIDING RECORDS THAT ARE, UM, THAT WE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO.
FOR INSTANCE, UH, ON FEBRUARY 20TH, A TIMESTAMPED AND DATED FOIL REQUEST WAS FILED WITH THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE.
11 DAYS LATER, AFTER MY SECOND VISIT TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WAS RECEIVED.
UH, NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES ACKNOWLEDGEMENT WITHIN FIVE CANDIDATES.
THE REQUEST WAS THEN FORWARDED TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, AND THEN ON THREE 13, RESPONSE FROM DETECTIVE SERGEANT TIMOTHY CRAWFORD WAS WHOLLY INCOMPLETE.
UH, IT DID NOT CONTAIN, UM, ANY REASON WHY.
UH, WELL, PARTIALLY IT WAS COMPLETED.
IT WAS THE LATTER PORTION OF MY REQUEST.
UM, SO ON MARCH 25TH, A TIMESTAMPED AND DATED APPEAL WAS RECEIVED AT BOTH TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE AS WELL AS DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY BRIAN TIA'S PERSONAL OFFICE.
UH, LET'S SEE, ON APRIL 9TH, I REACHED OUT TO YOU, RANDY.
UM, WITH MY CONCERNS, UM, NEW YORK STATE FOIL REQUIRES A RESPONSE WITHIN 10 BUSINESS DAYS.
I WAS ADVISED THAT YOU WOULD SEE WHAT YOU COULD FIND OUT.
THIS WAS AFTER 12 BUSINESS DAYS.
HERE WE ARE TODAY AT 20 BUSINESS DAYS.
UM, IT IS REQUIRED THAT A RESPONSE IS GIVEN AND, UH,
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THERE'S NINE COMMON STATUTES THAT HAVE ONE OF WHICH HAS TO BE CITED IN ORDER TO NOT PROVIDE SUCH RECORDS.DID YOU RECEIVE ANY COMMUNICATION FROM MR. TIA SUBSEQUENT TO OUR CONVERSATION? I HAVE.
HE DID INDICATE THAT, UH, HE WAS GOING TO BE REACHED OUT TO YOU AND PERHAPS HE HASN'T.
SO WE, WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS.
SO, BEING THAT IT'S OUTSIDE OF THE 10 DAYS, IT COULD BE CONSIDERED A CONSTRUCTIVE DENIAL, UM, THAT WOULD POSSIBLY OPEN UP THE TOWN OF LI LITIGATION UNDER ARTICLE 78.
AS I HAVE 120 DAYS FROM THE 10TH BUSINESS DAY OF THE APPEAL TO FILE THE MOTION THAT WOULD COMPEL THE TOWN TO RELEASE THE RECORDS THAT I BELIEVE I'M CERTAINLY ENTITLED TO, AS THE RECORDS DO NOT FALL UNDER ANY OF THE NINE COMMUNIST, UH, INCEPTIONS ALLOWED BY THE NEW YORK STATE STATUTE PASSED BY THE LEGISLATOR.
UM, I BELIEVE I HAVE EXHAUSTED ALL ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES.
UH, THIS BEING, YOU KNOW, MY FINAL, UM, ATTEMPT.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT IT, THIS ISN'T RESPONDED TO IN THE PROPER WAY THAT THE TOWN WILL BE LIABLE FOR REASONABLE EXPENSES.
THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I'M OUT TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF.
UM, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT WOULD BE INCURRED IN ORDER TO FORCE COMPLIANCE ON THIS.
WHAT, UH, WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION ARE YOU LOOKING FOR, SIR? UM, I BELIEVE THAT INFORMATION TO BE PERSONAL AND I WOULDN'T LIKE TO EXPRESS THAT IN A PUBLIC FORUM.
I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS YOUR NAME AGAIN? RICHARD.
EVENING, FRANCINE FROM, UM, I'M TALKING TO, I'M JUST BRIEFING YOU TONIGHT ABOUT THE LAKE ERIE SEAWAY TRIAL CENTER.
AS YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN INVOLVED WITH AN ORGANIZATION FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS NOW, AND MOST RECENTLY, UM, THIS YEAR I'M NOW THE PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION, SO I'M GONNA BE MORE PROACTIVE IN MY REPORTS TO THE BOARD.
IT'S A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS GOING ON.
UM, I WILL REPORT MORE ON IT AFTER MAY 13TH, BUT I WANTED TO REPORT PRIOR TO MAY 13TH TO AFFORD YOU ALL THE INVITATION TO COME OUT TO THE CENTER ON THAT DAY.
UM, WE ARE AT THREE 30, WE'RE MEETING WITH, UM, UH, ASSEMBLY MEMBER RIVERA'S OFFICE.
HE'S BEEN REALLY SUPPORTIVE OF OUR INITIATIVE.
SARAH, AS FAR AS, UM, FUNDING REDFISH, AS YOU ALL KNOW.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA BE ASKING FOR MORE GRANT MONIES FOR UPCOMING PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT.
AND, UM, THE REASON WHY I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS EXTENDED THE INVITATION IS BECAUSE, UM, IT IT, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US ON SOME OF THE INITIATIVES THAT WE HAVE GOING ON BECAUSE THEIR PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND TO COMMIT TO THOSE LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIPS.
WE OBVIOUSLY NEED THE FULL COMMITMENT OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG SINCE YOU ARE THE LANDLORDS AND OWNER OF THE BUILDING AND THE FACILITIES.
UM, SO FOR US TO ENGAGE WITH, FOR EXAMPLE, THE BUFFALO AG RIVER, KEEP OUR WATER KEEPERS AND PROJECTS WITH 'EM IN ADDITION TO, UM, THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF DEC WHO WANTS TO PUT US ON THE BIRDING TRAIL.
UM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A LONG-TERM COMMITMENT FROM THE TOWN OF HAMBURG.
AND SOMETIMES WE FEEL THAT WE DON'T, BUT NOT IN A NEGATIVE WAY.
IT'S JUST THAT WE'VE BEEN SO FORTUNATE THAT YOU KIND OF LEAVE US ALONE, MAKE SURE WE'RE INCLUDED ON YOUR ANNUAL BUDGET, WHICH IS GREAT.
WE HAVE A NICE BUDGET ITEM ALLOCATED TO OUR ORGANIZATION.
BUT, UM, THERE'S THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE TOWN.
AND AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT WITH THEIR HAMBURG READ JUNE REJUVENATION NATION READ TO A NATION.
UM, SO FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE THEY HAVE THESE EVENTS, BUT THEY NEVER INVOLVE US.
WE'RE WHAT, IN MY OPINION, AN ADULT PARK, RIGHT? WHERE CHILDREN COULD ALSO COME.
BUT WE TALK ABOUT INVESTMENTS IN OUR PLAYGROUNDS, INVESTMENTS IN OUR, UM, YOUTH AND OUR FAMILIES AND OUR PARKS.
AND THAT IS THE MOST PROBABLY, IN MY OPINION, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PARK THAT TOWN OF HAMBURG HAS.
THAT'S OVER AND ABOVE RESIDENTIAL ONLY ACCESS.
SO WE KNOW THAT BEACH IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BEACH ACCESS THAT WE PROVIDE OUR, OUR RESIDENTS, BUT IT IS ONLY LIMITED TO RESIDENT PARKING.
SO WHAT THE SEAWAY TRAIL CENTER AFFORDS THE REST OF THE VISITORS TO OUR TOWN IS ACCESS TO THE BEACH.
NOT A FULL BEACH, OBVIOUSLY, BUT IT DOES BRING THEM DOWN TO THE WATER WHERE THEY COULD WALK IN THEIR WALK IN THE WATER, THEY COULD BRING A DOG, THEY COULD
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ON TO KAYAK, THEY CAN ENJOY THE VIEW, THEY CAN ADMIRE RED FISH.THEY CAN LEARN ABOUT OUR ORGANIZATION, WHICH IS VERY, VERY FOCUSED ON ENVIRONMENTALISM AND LATE SUSTAINABILITY.
WE ARE ENGAGED WITH THE BIG PICTURE, UM, STUDENTS FROM THE FRONTIER SCHOOL DISTRICT.
THEY'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY, INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE AND HELPFUL THERE.
THE, UM, LASTLY, THE BUILDING GROUNDS TEAM HAS BEEN INCREDIBLY SO GOOD TO US AND SO RESPONSIVE TO ALL OF OUR NEEDS, INCLUDING, UM, SHOWING UP LAST MINUTE.
ON THE DAY OF OUR, OUR EXHIBIT WE HAD IN THE, AT THE END OF MARCH, IT SNOWED IN THE MORNING, AND WHEN WE ARRIVED, WE HAD NO POWER.
THEY SHOWED UP INSTANTLY, GOT US BACK RUNNING IN AND SHOVELED AND PLOWED OUR DRIVEWAY FOR OUR VISITORS.
WE HAD AN ART EXHIBIT THAT DAY.
UM, THE VILLAGE, WHEN YOU DRIVE TO THE VILLAGE, SEE THOSE BEAUTIFUL ADIRONDACK CHAIRS? WE TOO HAVE ADIRONDACK CHAIRS THAT OUR, UM, SUPPORTERS HAVE PURCHASED AND PUT PLAQUES ON, JUST LIKE THEY DO IN THE VILLAGE THAT INDICATED THAT ARONDA CHAIRS BUILDING AND GROUNDS ANNUALLY PUTS THEM OUT ON THE LAWN CROSS.
THEY STAY DOWN CHAIN SO THAT THEY'RE SUPPORTED AND SECURE.
AGAIN, ALL THIS SUPPORT, ALL THIS AWARENESS, AND I'LL CONTINUE TO KEEP THE TOWN HERE THROUGH PUBLIC FORUMS SUCH AS THIS AND AS WELL AS YOU BOARD MEMBERS PRODUCT OF ALL THE EXCITING THINGS THAT WE DO THERE.
UM, SOMEBODY TODAY ON OUR BOARD NOTICED THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF TODAY'S, OR YESTERDAY WAS EARTH DAY, THERE WERE, UM, CLEAN BEACH INITIATIVES.
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING THAT MR. HOPE, ESPECIALLY THROUGH THE, UM, PROGRAM THAT IN BEACHES.
BUT, UM, WE WEREN'T, WE, OUR ORGANIZATION WASN'T ASKED.
AND USUALLY WE, YOU KNOW, HAVE OUR OWN EVENTS THAT DAY WE DIDN'T THIS YEAR.
AND JUST THINGS LIKE THAT THAT WE FEEL THAT WE'RE JUST MISSING OUT ON.
BUT IF I KEEP COMING AND MENTIONING THAT WE'RE HERE AND WE'RE A GREAT PLACE, WE ARE AND INVITING YOU TO COME TO OUR, UM, PRESENTATION THAT DAY WHERE WE WILL HAVE ALL OUR BOARD MEMBERS PRESENTING ALL THIS EXCITING WORK, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES A CULINARY GARDEN THAT THE STUDENTS AND THE ECOLOGY CLUBS FROM THE FRONTIER SCHOOL DISTRICT ARE PUTTING IN OUR, UM, ON PICNIC AREA.
IF YOU SAW IT LAST YEAR, IT WAS PHASE ONE.
WE'RE PUTTING IN PHASE TWO THIS YEAR.
MAY 13TH, THREE 30 AT THE UA TRIAL CENTER WHERE YOU WILL PRESENT FORMALLY TO ALL OF YOU.
UM, THE REJUVENATION, THE HAMBURG REJUVENATION PROJECT.
THE HAMBURG REJUVENATION PROJECT IS ALSO A 5 0 1 C3 AS YOUR ORGANIZATION.
AND SO THEIR MEMBERSHIP IS, IS OPEN.
SO WOULD I, IF YOU FEEL WHAT YOU, THAT, THAT COLLABORATION, YOU WOULD LIKE SOMEONE FROM YOUR GROUP TO BE, UM, INVOLVED IN THAT GROUP.
I'M SURE THAT THEY COULD WELCOME.
THEY'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW VOLUNTEERS.
LAURA IS RIGHT HERE IN FACULTY.
UM, AND I'M SURE LAURA, I DON'T, I THINK I'M STATING THAT CORRECTLY.
THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS AND I'M SURE IF YOU SPOKE TO LAURA AFTER THE MEETING, SHE WOULD BE HAPPY TO GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION SO THAT YOU COULD GO ABOUT HAVING REPRESENTATION FROM YOUR GROUP, UM, ON, ON THEIR GROUP.
ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO BE HEARD FROM THE PUBLIC BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO REPORT DEPARTMENT HEADS? ALRIGHT.
AND WE WILL START IN THE BACK WITH CHIEF DENNIS.
MS. NOTHING TO REPORT, UH, MR. RIVERA BUILDING AND GROUNDS.
WE'LL BE GOING IN NEXT SPEECH.
KLEENEX, CONTINUOUS
THE ICE CREAM IS COMPLETELY EMPTY.
SO THAT'S READY FOR DEMOLITION HOPEFULLY SOON.
UH, AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH WITH GREAT LAKES AND DOING BACKFLOW PREVENTATIVE TESTING, FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, KITCHEN HOODS AT TOWN PARK IN THE, UH, UM, GOLF COURSE.
DO WE HAVE A TENANT OF DATE FOR OPENING THE PROGRAM YET? UH, MAY 1ST IS WALLEYE SEASON, SO THAT'S OUR END DATE.
UM, UH, MS. YOU OUR SENIOR SERVICES.
SO JUST, UH, UH, ADD OFF MR. RIVER'S REPORT.
THE GOLF COURSE IS, UM, CURRENTLY BEING GROOMED AND GETTING READY.
UM, SO HOPEFUL WE OPEN ON MAY 1ST,
AND, UM, WE ALSO HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL DANCE THIS WEEKEND WITH OUR ADAPTIVE RECREATION, UH, PARTICIPANTS AND SENIORS, UH, VERY WELL.
AND THEY'RE GOING TO EXPLAIN THAT YOU SAID.
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THANK YOU.TRAFFIC SAFETY, NO REPORT, UH, ASSESSING MS. AZAR.
AND SUPERINTENDENT ON THE BOARDS.
UH, JUST A DEMOTION GONNA BE STARTING ON THE CONCRETE HEAD, THE ICE ARENA WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY THIS WEEK.
UH, MS. ROBERTON, IT, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK THE BOARD FOR RECOGNIZING THAT OUR DEPARTMENT DID NEED A LARGER SPACE FOR OUR OPERATION AND FOR PASSING THAT TONIGHT.
OTHER THAN THAT, I HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO REPORT.
MR. FINANCE, UH, NOTHING TO REPORT.
UM, MAY 1ST THE, UH, BE THE LAST DAY, UH, MAKES, MAY 1ST WOULD BE SENDING THE BILLS OUT TO THE COUNTY.
SO IF ANYONE HAS ANY BACK TAXES DUE, PLEASE, UH, COME ON INTO THE OFFICE, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT FOR YOU.
UM, WE, UH, ALSO PUT ON A NEW STAFF MEMBER.
I'M NOT SURE IF, UH, THAT WAS REPORTED.
UM, MARISSA MOSSEK IS DOING GREAT.
UM, GET A CHANCE TO STEP BY AND SAY HI.
IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR A LITTLE OVER A MONTH NOW, MAYBE TWO CLOSER TO TWO MONTHS.
UM, CLERK WANTED ME TO, UH, LET KNOW, SHE'S IN ALBANY RIGHT NOW, AND, UH, I WAS THERE WITH JILL FOR THE TOWN CLERKS CONFERENCE.
UM, THEY'RE LOOKING INTO A LOT OF DIFFERENT, UH, ACTUALLY A COUPLE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS WE NEEDED.
AND ACTUALLY BRINGS ME TO, UH, GENTLEMAN'S COMMENT BEFORE.
OUR FOIL PROGRAM HAS BEEN, UH, LESS THAN PERFECT, TO SAY THE LEAST.
UM, IT CAN TELL YOU BETWEEN JEFF, JENNY, WE'VE, UH, WE BASICALLY TOOK EVERYTHING OUT OF THE COMPUTER, PUT IT BACK ON REBOOTED SERVERS, CHANGED THE SERVERS OVER, AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, WE CAN'T GET THE PROGRAM TO COMMUNICATE WITH MICROSOFT.
SO WE'VE HAD SOME SERIOUS ISSUES WITH, UH, WITH RECEIVING AND, UH, AND GETTING THOSE OUT.
WE'RE ADDRESSING IT AS BEST WE CAN MANUALLY.
BUT, UH, WE DID RECEIVE, UH, SEE, WE'RE UP OVER 300 FOILS NOW FOR THE YEAR.
WE DON'T GET 300 FOILS ANY YEAR, LET ALONE BY APRIL.
SO IT, IT, IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE TARDINESS AS I DID WHEN YOU CAME IN.
UM, I CAN'T ADDRESS THE, UH, THE APPEAL PORTION THAT'S ON OUR OFFICE, BUT I WILL WORK WITH MR. ATIA.
HE DID REACH OUT TO OUR OFFICE, SO, UH, ANYTHING THAT OUR OFFICE CAN DO TO HELP, UH, FACILITATE CERTAINLY WILL.
UM, BUT, UH, YEAH, THAT'S, UH, THAT'S WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE FOIL PROGRAM.
THEY'RE ALSO GONNA BE LOOKING AT A NEW, UH, AGENDA PROGRAM.
UH, AS THIS ONE WILL BE OUTDATED, UH, WE WILL NO LONGER HAVE SERVICE, UM, AFTER THIS YEAR.
SO I, NOT ONLY WILL IT BE, UH, OBSOLETE, BUT, UH, THEY'RE NOT SERVICING IT ANYMORE.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GET INTO ONE OF THOSE.
SO THOSE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON.
UM, AND THAT'S, UH, THAT'S ALL OF MY, UH, FOR MY REPORT.
YEAH, IT BRINGS US THROUGH REPORTS FROM THE BOARD.
I SEE, UH, LAURA HERE FOR THE, UH, REJUVENATION COMMITTEE.
AND, UH, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FLYER HERE TODAY.
UM, THE, UH, 28TH ANNUAL TOWN WIDE CLEANUP, UH, HE REJUVENATION PROJECT.
SO IT'S THE WHOLE MONTH, MAY 1ST TO MAY 31ST.
UM, BASICALLY WHAT THIS IS, IF YOU CAN, ANY, ANY TOWN RESIDENT OR GROUP, WHETHER IT COULD BE GIRL SCOUTS, BOY SCOUTS, HOCKEY TEAM, UH, IF THEY WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN CLEANUP, THE TOWN WILL, UH, PROVIDE ANY VOLUNTEERS WITH A KIT, WHICH HAS THE NECESSARY BUYS, TRASH BAGS, GLOVES, UH, SAFETY VESTS IF YOU NEED IT.
HAND SANITIZER AND INSTRUCTIONS ON WHO TO CONTACT.
UH, FOR TRASH PICKUP, UH, THE VOLUNTEERS CAN CHOOSE THE LOCATION OR WE CAN SUGGEST AREAS THAT NEED SOME ATTENTION.
COULD BE INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, ANYONE ELSE.
I KNOW MY NEIGHBORHOOD DOES IT EVERY YEAR.
I ALWAYS, MY, MY, UH, MY KIDS LIKE TO DO IT.
UH, AND I TELL LAURA, AND SO HE TOLD ME TODAY, I DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEY RECEIVED THE, UH, THE SUPPLIES, BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DO IT.
I, I, WHEN I WALKED DOWN THE STREET, I SEE A LOT OF PLASTIC AND GARBAGE AND UM, SO I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ALL DO TO HELP OUR TOWN OUT.
HERE'S THE FLYER, BUT IF YOU NEED, UH, THE SUPPLIES, JUST CONTACT THE, UH, HAMBURG TOWN CLERK AND THAT'S MY REPORT.
UM, THIS IS, UH, PROBABLY FOR THE CHIEF OVER THERE.
UM, THE NEIGHBORS DID HIRE LINDSAY ROB TO BE THEIR, UH, NEW COACH.
UM, I REALLY HAVE NOTHING TO REPORT.
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UM, I DID HAVE CONVERSATIONS, UH, WITH MR. FARRELL ABOUT A MONTH AGO, AND THEY'RE PROBABLY MAYBE TWO MONTHS AWAY, IF NOT MORE, TO GET THE TAX BREAKS FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS RUNNER.I CAN FOLLOW UP BRIEFLY IF YOU WANT ME TO RNAC DO ANOTHER SECOND.
SO, SO THE WHY DON'T GIVE HIM A MICROPHONE.
SO EVERYBODY DOWN HERE SOME BUTTON THERE.
OH, THERE IS BE HONOR, RIGHT, SIR? YES.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? UH, OUR ASSESSOR HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL AND SHE OF COURSE IS, UH, HELPING GET THIS ACCOMPLISHED.
IT IS A, UM, THERE IS A NEW LEGISLATION, WE, FAIRLY RECENT LEGISLATION WE PROVIDES FOR TAX, TAX DISCOUNT OFF THE TAX OR PROPERTY TAXES FOR VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS.
IT WILL SERVE NOT ONLY AS A, UH, TAX BEFORE THE VOLUNTEER FIGHTER RELAT WAS SERVED, UH, BUT ALSO IT WILL SERVE AS A, UH, I ESSENCE A RECRUITING TECHNIQUE FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO HAD, UM, VERY DIFFICULT TIME, UM, THE WAY WE PUT OUR MEMBERSHIP ROLES.
UH, AND IT IS REALLY A MATTER OF JUST THE TIMING OF THE CYCLE OF THE TAX ROLE AND THE ROLE AND THE BILL DATES AS THE ASSESSMENT OF DATE OF MARCH 1ST, UH, PRECLUDE US FROM BEING ABLE TO ENACT IT IN TIME FOR THIS YEAR, BUT IT'S ALREADY IN THE WORKS.
SO WE'VE ALREADY FINISHED REALLY DRAFTING THE LEGISLATION AND THE PROPER RESOLUTIONS, AND THAT'LL HAVE IT IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS TO PUT THAT IN PLACE.
BUT IT DOESN'T STOP FIREFIGHTERS FROM GOING FORWARD AND CERTAINLY USING IT AS A RECRUITING TOOL.
IT WILL IN ESSENCE BE AFFECTED.
IT'LL BE AN ACTIVE LONG BEFORE NEXT YEAR, BUT IT'LL BE EFFECTIVE OR THE ROLE THAT GOES INTO PLACE NEXT YEAR.
I THINK I GOT CAN WE FINE? FINE.
UH, THE ONLY, THE ONLY THING I, THE ONLY THING I HAVE TO ADD SINCE COUNCIL MEMBER BALKI ALREADY SPOKE ABOUT BEAUTIFICATION MONTH, WHICH, UM, UP UNTIL THIS YEAR I HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH THE REJUVENATION PROJECT AND, AND I, UM, THEY WERE ALWAYS VERY PROUD OF THEIR EVENTS IN THE COMMUNITY, SO I'M GLAD THAT HE COMMENTED ABOUT THAT.
THE ONLY OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION WAS THAT THE LW THE LWRP COMMITTEE, UM, WHICH IS YOUR, UM, LAKEFRONT, UH, LOCAL WATERFRONT, I'M SORRY, REVITALIZATION PROGRAM.
THEY WILL BE HAVING AN IMPORTANT FIRST PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE ON MAY 9TH.
I THINK THAT WAS ALREADY TALKED ABOUT, UM, DURING THE MEETING.
IT WILL BE FROM FIVE 30 UNTIL SEVEN 30 AT THE SENIOR CENTER.
UM, SO IF YOU HAVE INTEREST IN ANYTHING ALONG OUR WATERFRONT, THEY COVER A WIDE RANGE OF TOPICS FROM PRESERVATION TO REVITALIZATION, UH, ET CETERA.
THEY, IT BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH SOME OF THE CHALLENGES AND SOME OF THE BLESSINGS WE HAVE FROM BEING, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVING WATERFRONT THAT WE ARE GATEKEEPERS FOR.
UM, AGAIN, THAT'S MAY 9TH SENIOR CENTER, FIVE 30 TO SEVEN 30, AND IT WILL BE THE FIRST OF SEVERAL PUBLIC OPEN HOUSE MEETINGS.
MEETING COUNCIL MEMBER CHAIR, LORENZ.
I KNOW WE HAVE A LIKE TO WRAP THIS MEETING UP, BUT I WANTED TO REACH OUT AND THANK ALL OF THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN ORGANIZING THE SU CENTENNIAL 5K.
UM, THE VILLAGE OF HAMBURG IS PART OF THE TOWN OF HAMBURG AND THEY HAVE A BIG BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR.
THEY'RE CELEBRATING 150 YEARS.
UM, AND THEY REALLY ARE AN IMPORTANT AND INSTRUMENTAL PART OF THE TOWN AND THE SUCCESS WE HAVE AS A TOWN BY HAVING, UM, THIS COMMERCIALIZED OR COMMERCIAL AREA FOR RECREATION AND ALSO JUST HOMETOWN FUN.
SO I WANTED TO THANK THOSE THAT TOOK THE TIME.
IT WAS A COMPLETE VOLUNTEER EFFORT OF THE WOMEN THAT WERE NICE ENOUGH TO RUN.
IT HAD OVER 300 RUNNERS PARTICIPATE IN THE ASSESS MILLENNIAL RUN, AND THE LAST TIME WE HAD A RUN LIKE THAT WAS 50 YEARS AGO.
SO YOU'RE EVER THINKING YOU MIGHT WANNA ORGANIZE IT.
YOU GOT 50 YEARS TO GET OFF THE GUMPTION.
DAN SAYS HE IS DOING THE NEXT ONE.
IN ADDITION TO HAVING THE QUINCENTENNIAL RUN, KICKING OFF THE QUINCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION IN THE VILLAGE THIS WEEKEND, WE HAD A LOT GOING ON IN THE TOWN.
THERE ARE MULTIPLE BEACH CLEANUPS.
I KNOW THE SUPERVISOR WAS THERE FOR ONE OF 'EM.
I'D REMISS IF I DIDN'T TELL YOU.
WE CELEBRATED EARTH DAY IN SCHOOL.
THE THEME THIS YEAR IS PLANETS VERSUS PLASTICS.
SO, UM, MS. GEER, YOU GUYS WERE AHEAD OF YOUR TIME WITH RED FISH BECAUSE IF YOU GET A CHANCE, GO SEE RED FISH.
IT IS FILLED WITH THE PLASTIC BOTTLES EVERY TIME MY CHILDREN AND I WALK THE BEACH AND MAKE THE PICK UP THE PLASTIC BOTTLES TO FEED THE FISH
SO DO YOUR PART NEXT TIME YOU'RE DONE AT THE SEAWAY TRAIL.
THINK OF GRABBING SOME OF THE BOTTLES, FEED THE FISH THIS YEAR BECAUSE THE THEME IS PLANETS VERSUS PLASTICS.
I, UM, JUST WANNA MENTION THAT WE
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HOSTED A RIBBON CUTTING FOR THE NEW PARKING LODGE AT THE LAKEVIEW ATHLETIC FIELD THIS PAST FRIDAY, APRIL 19TH.THIS IS A PROJECT THAT'S BEEN A LONG TIME IN THE MAKING AND OFTEN PEOPLE ARE SHOCKED AT HOW LONG IT TAKES THINGS TO HAPPEN IN GOVERNMENT.
THE LAKEVIEW WITH LIFE ASSOCIATION AND THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION BEGAN THEIR ADVOCACY FOR A NEW PARKING LOT TO MEET, REMEDIATE SOME OF THE SAFETY CONCERNS THAT THEY HAD AT THEIR FACILITY.
THEY STARTED REACHING OUT TO THE TOM HAMBURG EIGHT YEARS AGO, THREE YEARS AGO.
FORMER SUPERVISOR SHAW PUT SOME MONEY IN THE BUDGET TO GET US STARTED.
I WAS ABLE TO CARRY ON THAT PRIORITY TO ADD FUNDING THAT WOULD COMPLETE THE PROJECT.
WE ALSO HAD SOME LEGAL QUESTIONS TO ANSWER.
SO FROM THE INITIAL INQUIRY INTO THE OPENING PARKING LOT, YES IT TOOK EIGHT YEARS.
I JUST WANT TO COMMEND LAKE TO ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION AS WELL AS THE LAKE AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION FOR THEIR, UH, PERSISTENT ADVOCATING ON THIS ISSUE.
AND I DO BELIEVE THAT THE FAMILIES, THE CHILDREN AND THE ADULTS THAT ENJOY THE ATHLETIC FACILITIES THAT ARE OWNED AND PART BY THE TOWN OF VAN AND PART BY THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION AND VERY MUCH SUPPORTED BY COMMUNITY BENEFACTOR, UH, SCOTT LER.
AND THAT'S HER, UH, FOR REALLY A GREAT ADDITION TO THEIR SPORTS FACILITIES.
I ALSO ENJOYED TO SPEND, UH, SOME MY EVENING ON FRIDAY WITH THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.
FURTHER INSTALLING OF OFFICERS.
THIS IS THE COMMUNITY SOLUTION THAT HAD SIGNIFICANT REACH IN THE LAKEVIEW COMMUNITY AND THEY PROVIDE A LOT OF INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY TO THE TOWN BOARD AND HAVE A GREAT RESOURCE FOR THE TOWN BOARD TO GET INFORMATION OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO AGAIN, MY APPLAUSE FOR THE S AND ADVOCACY FOR THE PARKING LOT AS WELL AS GIVING THE OFFICERS HAS, HAS BEEN MENTIONED TONIGHT.
UH, WE HOSTED TWO BEACH CLEANUP IN HAMBURG.
UH, I WAS ABLE TO TO ATTEND BOTH THE WOODLAWN BEACH STATE PARK BEACH CLEANUP THAT WAS SPONSORED BY MYSELF AS WELL AS ASSEMBLYMAN RIVERA, AS WELL AS THE BEACH CLEANUP.
THE HAMPTON TOWN PARK, WHICH WAS SPONSORED BY THE BUFFALO GRA WATER KEEPERS.
UH, BOTH WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL AND A LOT OF GARBAGE WAS REMOVED FROM THE SAND FROM THE WATER, UM, AND WILL MAKE THE BEACHES MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE.
PLACES FOR HAMBURG RESIDENTS AS WELL AS VISITORS WHO OUR COMMUNITY FOR THIS SUMMER SEASON.
AND THEN FINALLY, I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT, UH, AS BEEN MENTIONED BEFORE, UH, IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, THE OSBORNE PARK COMMUNITY IS GETTING READY FOR A COMMUNITY BUILD FOR THEIR PLAYGROUND.
UM, THERE HAS BEEN, UM, SOME SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FROM THE SEVEN GENERAL RIVERA'S OFFICE TO GET THIS PROJECT OFF THE GROUND, AS WELL AS SOME COMMITMENT FROM THE TOWN OF
THE COMMUNITY BUILD PORTION IS GOING TO STRETCH OUR DOLLARS MUCH FURTHER, BUT WE NEED PEOPLE TO SHOW UP AND ASK.
AND IF YOU'RE WONDERING IF YOU CAN BE OF AN ASSISTANCE, THE ANSWER IS YES.
UM, AND WE WILL PUT YOU TO WORK ON THE WEEKEND OF MAY 10TH AND 11TH.
OUR HOPE IS TO FINISH THE WORK ON THE 11TH BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT ANYBODY TO BE SPENDING THE THEIR MOTHER'S DAY WITH US ON THE 12TH.
SO THE MORE FOLKS WE HAVE, UH, THE QUICKER WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET IT DONE.
IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN HELPING OUT ON THIS PROJECT, IF YOU KNOW KIDS WHO HAVE SERVICE HOURS THAT THEY NEED COMPLETE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO MY OFFICE AND WE'LL BE SURE YOU GET YOU REGISTERED.
UM, AGAIN, THE PRE PRIMARY BILL DAY IS GONNA BE MAY 11TH, BUT I DO BELIEVE WE ALSO HAVE NEED FOR SOME HELP ON THE 10TH AS WELL.
UH, THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT, AND I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE, MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN MEETING.