REGULAR MEETING
TOWN BOARD AGENDA – NOVEMBER 18, 2003
PLACE: TIME:
TOWN HALL 7:30
P.M.
“Happy
Thanksgiving”
Approve the minutes from the Regular Meeting
of October 21, 2003.
1. Public Hearing to
consider the establishment of the Tamarack Sewer District.
a) Close Hearing
b) Adopt a Negative
Declaration
c) Adopt an Order to
Establish
a) Close
Hearing
b) Adopt
a Resolution
3. Public
Hearing to consider the construction of a Wireless Communication Facility
by Sprint Spectrum L.P.
at
a) Close Hearing
b) Adopt a Negative
Declaration
c) Adopt a Resolution
HEARING OF CITIZENS – AGENDA ITEMS ONLY
1. Receive
and File Bids opened on August 29, 2003 with respect to “Water Meters
and
Radio Units”; and Award contract for
same.
2.
Receive and File
a Report from the Northern Joint Waterworks with respect to
the
Radio Meter Reading Project.
For
the month of October from the Receiver of Taxes, the Office for the Aging/DES,
the Town Justices and the Town Clerk.
1. Letter
dated October 15, 2003 from the Hudson River Valley Greenway
Community
Council with respect to the Compact Plan.
2. Reports
from DES with respect to the following:
a) Pavement
conditions on
b) Paving
needs of
c) Speeding
on
d) Request
for a cul-de-sac on Lent Avenue.
e) Request
for “No Outlet” sign on
f) Drainage
on
g) Speeding
on Sunset Road.
h) Requests
from
i) Drainage
issues at Quarry Acres.
j) Issues
on
3. Technology
Report from the Purchasing Director and Technology Support Team.
4.
Letters objecting to a request to purchase a portion of a right-of-way located in
the
area of Francis Drive;
a)
Donald and Faith
Troccoli of
c) Robert and Margaret Millman of 11 East
Francis Drive
Cemetery.
7.
Letter from
Cortway Apartments Ltd. requesting an exemption from the Town
Moratorium; and deny request
of same.
1. Letter/Petition
from residents of Lent Avenue and
repeated
problems with disorderly youths; and refer to the State and County
Police
Departments.
2. Letter
from Theresa Jessup with respect to traffic safety on Montrose Station
Road;
and refer to DES and the Traffic Safety Committee.
3. Letter
from Genevieve Lutton with respect to truck traffic on
and
refer to DES and the Traffic Safety Committee.
4. Letter
dated October 31, 2003 from Paul and Marie Taxer with respect to
speeding on
5. Copy
of a petition to be circulated from residents of the Town to the New York
State DOT
with respect to pedestrian safety along RT. 9A in the Springvale
area;
and adopt a Resolution in support of same.
6. The
Draft 2004 Capital Improvement Plan.
7. Letters
from the Verplanck Residents’ Association with respect to the following:
a)
The Draft Master Plan
b) Town Park
Patrols
Resolutions:
1.
Confirm the voluntary transfer of Jane Fitzgerald from
the Water Division of DOTS to
the Town Assessors Office effective January 1, 2004.
2. Authorize
the Town Attorney to seek a Court Order restraining the City of Peekskill from
requiring Town
Sanitation vehicles from having haulers permits.
3. Authorize
the following with respect to the Department of Technical Services:
a) Award an RFP with
respect to engineering services for the proposed Broadway
Streetscape Project.
b) Professional Service
Agreement with respect to up-dating the Town’s Tax
Maps.
c)
Award an RFP with respect to the construction of a doorway in a Town Hall
corridor.
d) Award an RFP with
respect to preliminary design services for Battery Place Road.
e) A letter to be sent
to the NYS DOT in support of restricting left turns from Regina
Avenue onto Rt. 6.
4. Direct
DES and the Traffic Safety Committee to evaluate the need for stop signs and
speed limit signs in
the area of Hill and Dale/Maple Ave. and Hill and Dale/Dimond Ave.
5. Authorize
the Settlement of a Tax Certiorari with respect to Union State Bank.
6. Authorize
a correction to Resolution No. 254-03 with respect to Zoning Codes.
7. Authorize
a two year extension to the collective bargaining agreement between the Town
of Cortlandt and AFSCME.
8. Authorize
the Supervisor and the Town Attorney to continue to coordinate regional
opposition to the proposed Millennium Pipeline.
9. Authorize
a License Agreement with respect to a portion of a paper road located in
Verplanck.
10. Award
an RFP to Applied GIS, Inc. with respect to GIS Consulting Services.
11. Resolution
in support of the purchase of land by the Department of Environmental
Protection in the area
of Colabaugh Pond Road
12. Authorize
an Order and Consent with respect to the dedication of Valley View Road; and
authorize DES to
install a “No Outlet” sign on same.
13. Authorize
funding with respect to the DARE Program; and authorize the Comptroller to
prepare an RFP with
respect to future DARE Services.
14. Schedule
the following Public Hearings for December 9, 2003 to be held simultaneously:
a) To consider an
Agreement for the Mt. Airy/Quaker Bridge Fire Protection District for
2004.
b) To consider an
Agreement for the Furnace Woods Fire Protection District for 2004.
15. Authorize
the acceptance of a Letter of Credit in the amount of $5,000 with respect to
16. Authorize
the acceptance of various Letters of Credit with respect to the Hollowbrook
Golf Subdivision.
17.
Authorize the acceptance of a Letters of Credit in the amount of $1,000 with respect to
GEIS Toyota.
ADDITIONS TO THE AGENDA
BUDGET TRANSFERS Yes
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