Village Board Minutes

Call to Order: 8:00PM. Pledge of Allegiance.

Members Present: Mayor Alan Higgins, Trustee Michael Tancredi and Trustee Geri Marino

Also Present: Larry Gardner, Village Attorney, Charles Sweet, Village Highway Superintendent, Kathleen Hilbert, Village Clerk/Treasurer and Suzanne Hartman, Deputy Clerk

Public Present: JD, Jim Ray, Carl Giangrande, Tom Larison, John Moffett and Todd Murphy from Cedarwood Environmental Services and Jeff Prince.

Approval of Minutes: Approved minutes of Board of Trustees Meeting held October 9, 2017. Motion to approve minutes made by Trustee Tancredi, seconded by Trustee Marino. All in favor.

Mayor Higgins – Approval of minutes of Board of Trustees Meeting held September 11, 2017 tabled until next meeting as they are incomplete.

Privilege of the Floor:

Greene County Planning Board – Carl Giangrande – I have been informed by Harold Goldberg that he is retiring from the Greene County Planning Board and I would like to submit my name for replacement. Mayor Higgins – I do have his letter and I will read it when we get into new business and I thank you for volunteering.

Hunter Peaks – Jeff Prince – I wanted to come tonight to give the Board a copy of the Water Supply Concept Report prepared by Chazen Engineers. For those of you who are not familiar with the Hunter Peaks project, it is a subdivision project on sixty acres at the end of Hunter Drive adjoining the Hunter Highlands Condominium Development, slope side to one of the trails on Hunter Mountain. We went before the Planning Board and are in the process right now of going through the SEQR review. I will get the Village Board a copy of all the documents and maps. I will drop that off this week so everybody can look at it. As part of the SEQR review, we are going to apply to the Village for water connection. Trustee Tancredi – So is that a plan for the entire development? Jeff Prince – Yes. It consists of twenty-seven buildable lots, a club house and a sort of a public site up there as well. I have talked to Joe Myers and he is going to set up a meeting just on this with Chazen to go through it and the maps. We will fill out the proper application to the Board for your next meeting. Trustee Tancredi – How far along in the SEQRA review process are you right now? Jeff Prince – TheVillage Planning Board has been accepted as the lead agency for the review. We have received some comments back and we are on the agenda for this month to go over some additional comments. Mayor Higgins – On the issue of sewer. Is that all taken care taken care of with that plan. Jeff Prince – We submitted the paperwork to the transportation company for the Hunter Highlands Pollution Control. They have to then submit that to DEP for their review. I have had several meetings with DEP just about the sewer plant because we do not want to get blindsided, if there is not capacity or if they are not in compliance. As it seems right now, they are in compliance. There is plenty of capacity. It is just a question of if the current owners of the plant cooperate and submit the paperwork which we are filling out. We are really not asking them to do much but there are some concerns that might come out in the SEQR process that they will have to deal with. One of the other options would be to create a new lateral line connected into the Village sewer plant which DEP was very pro-active on. Trustee Tancredi – They would rather have us operating the sewer system than a private individual. Jeff Prince – If we hit a road block, then we would come to the Board again and ask for permission to connect into the Village plant. We would, of course, assume all the costs that go along with that. We have the ability to run lines right down Hunter Drive and a pumping station on a piece of property at the end on Ski Bowl Road to pump in. So, it’s all been engineered out as necessary. I might also add that this weekend I spoke to Michael Osterer about coordinating with him because, you probably know, he has other plans to develop up there. We are all trying to work together so it is not a duplication. It is a key piece of developable real estate in the Village. Trustee Tancredi – Does Lester Tanner still own the plant? Jeff Prince – No, Richard Rem’s brother owns the plant. We hope the Board would be receptive to the idea of providing water to the project. It would be a great asset to the Village just in terms of tax revenue dollars. Mayor Higgins – Does this change how the second house will receive its water? Jeff Prince – It is in the plan. DEP stated it would be better to review the whole project so we went back and revised our maps and plans to include Lot 2 into the plan. We submitted storm water erosion control to the whole plan and one specifically for that lot. Once we can get through the review process, hopefully by April, we can go forward and build. Trustee Tancredi – I agree with that recommendation. One of the big advantages is when you come into the SEQR review on your project, all the involved agencies are in from the beginning. They are all on the same page and you do not get blindsided down the road after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on your plan. Mayor Higgins – Hopefully it is all going to happen soon, so keep us informed. Kathleen Hilbert – Jeff, you should contact Paul Slutzky because he received an e-mail from Mary Beth DuMont of Delaware Engineering. In that e-mail she writes that the applications for the site plan and subdivision are incomplete, so you might want to check with Paul. Jeff Prince – I will find out what might be missing. Mayor Higgins – They were trying to find out from Paul what they would do about this month’s meeting because it falls on Thanksgiving. Kathleen Hilbert – The meeting will be rescheduled and held on November 30th.

New Business:

New Resident Welcome Packet – Kathleen Hilbert – We are going to work on creating a New Resident Welcome Packet. Although we cannot recommend any particular business or service, if anyone has a brochure or business card that they would like us to include in the packet we would be happy to do so. Mayor Higgins – It seems like a good idea to do a nice service to new residents and make them feel welcome. So, any input anyone would like to have on that, please bring to the Village Hall. Trustee Tancredi – Is there a size limitation on any information that is to be disseminated? Kathleen Hilbert – Nothing bigger than 8½” x 11”.

Applications for Active Membership Hunter Fire Co. No. 1, Inc.

Philip Garvey – Resolution 2017 – 064.
Michael Justice – Pending street address – Resolution 2017 – 065.

Greene County Planning Board – Mayor Higgins read the resignation letter of Harold Goldberg. Mayor Higgins – Definitely nice of him to put the time in that he did. I would entertain a motion to make Carl Giangrande our representative for the Greene County Planning Board. Resolution 2017 – 066.

Annual Financial Report – Mayor Higgins – The Annual Financial Report Update Document is available for inspection in the Clerk’s Office, if anybody wishes to review that.

Budget Modification – Mayor Higgins – We need to account for unanticipated revenue for our General Fund. This happened after the budget process. The logging that we are doing has generated $100,000 so far. Trustee Tancredi – Are we still logging? Mayor Higgins – All next year. Resolution 2017 – 067.

Appropriate Funds – Appropriate funds from line items with an excess to line items with a shortfall.

General Fund – Move $1,497.55 from A5680.2 Equipment: Equipment/Capital Outlay to A5110.2 Maintenance of Roads: Equipment/Capital Outlay to cover cost of 14” planer shared with the Town of Hunter and Village of Tannersville. Resolution 2017 – 068.

Water Operating Account – Move $1,497.55 from F834021 Transmission and Distribution: Equipment and Capital Outlay/Hydrants to new appropriation account F834020 Transmission and Distribution: Equipment and Capital Outlay/Equipment (Shared) to cover cost of 14” planer shared with the Town of Hunter and Village of Tannersville. Resolution 2017 – 069.

Rabies Clinic – Mayor Higgins – We have had some inquiries about a rabies clinic and when it is happening. There are no members of the Fire Department present. The way I understood it, our Fire Company said Hensonville is having one so we are not going to do it. That is not the information that has been given to the public who have asked. I can assure everybody that it had nothing to do with The Village Board. We have never had a rabies clinic. It was always the Fire Company. So, if anyone was here representing the Fire Company, we could see why they are not doing that anymore. We will try to get that information for anyone who gives a call here in the future. Trustee Marino – I will ask Anthony. Mayor Higgins – That would be great. Let Kathleen know.

Mayor Higgins – We will pass on the next two items until Attorney Gardner arrives. We will need him to write a Local Law.

Firehouse – Mayor Higgins – About two months ago, we discussed doing a storage shed adjacent to the firehouse in which the fire company would store the new truck. We asked for quotes to do the concrete slab. Proposal from T. L. Masonry Contractor is $11,396 which appeared to be to low bidder. Proposal from MP Construction Company is $12,600. Proposal from Evergreen Mountain Contracting Inc. is $12,300 which included a saw cut of the perimeter for the proposed slab, which we planned to have The Village employees do. They also will excavate all of the old blacktop and dispose of it; excavate and level the sub-base; excavate the haunch; furnish compact item #4 sub-base as needed; form, reinforce and pour concrete haunch and 6” slab; strip forms and backfill against slab and furnish and install new blacktop around new slab as needed and do a full cleanup. The other two bids were only for a concrete slab. This bid gives you all the other stuff for $1,000. So, I personally feel that this is the best bid. Trustee Tancredi – I agree. Trustee Marino – I make a motion for Evergreen to be our contractor for the slab. Trustee Tancredi – I will second that motion. All were in favor.

Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, LLC-Letter from Paul Slutzky – Mayor Higgins – Greg Lubow wrote a letter on behalf of his client, the Home Owners’ Association of Scriber Hollow complaining about noise and referencing things that Scribner’s had put in their site plan. Attorney Lubow inaccurately describes our noise ordinance. There are a lot of things in this letter that are just not accurate. I think what it is going to come down to, is the decibel reading. Trustee Tancredi – It almost hits the threshold of a civil matter. Mayor Higgins – I do not think that they are in violation of the noise ordinance. Trustee Tancredi: Send them a letter and say this is the law, here is the threshold for noise. Trustee Marino – I live across the street and I do not hear anything. Trustee Tancredi – There are some thresholds that I do not think are being exceeded in our law as it presently exists. Trustee Marino – We have Mountain Jam and Taste of Country. That blasts through the town. Trustee Tancredi – That is absolutely true. Trustee Tancredi – Those are the exact same people who will complain to you as an elected official. They will ask “What happened to the Village? There’s no business here. We need business.” Really? You are talking out both sides of your mouth. That’s what happens. So, I really don’t have a lot of sympathy for this stuff. I was in the same situation. My predilection was to talk to the people, who I was having a problem with – not the Village Board. That’s how you resolve issues like this and you come to some mutual understanding that you both can live with. I know a lot of those homeowners up there and they are not the type of people who want to compromise. Mayor Higgins – I think that they are complying with the conditions of the site plan. Trustee Tancredi – I honestly think they are trying to do the right thing. Mayor Higgins – They just celebrated their one year of being opened this weekend.

Mayor Higgins – We should sum it up. This was put down as old business but this letter is not the letter we had before the last meeting. I want to let it to be known that we did discuss this letter as something that was new and we were not revisiting something else. They are going to have to involve the police, if that’s the route that the HOA wants to go. I hate to see them do that. It would be nice for them to discuss it with the hotel, not at midnight, but prior to that. Maybe they can come to an agreement where the owners can say hey, we can work with you and fix this. There is nothing that the Village can do right now except to urge the HOA to have a discussion. Other than that, even in the future, we have an ordinance in place. If the ordinance is violated and there is proof, it will be litigated.

Town of Hunter’s Comprehensive Plan – Mayor Higgins – There is a survey that can be taken on line or we have copies here.

Planning Board Secretary – Mayor Higgins – We are looking for someone to attend and transcribe minutes of the Planning Board Meetings. The current secretary has not been providing us with the minutes as prescribed by law. Trustee Tancredi – So, if anyone knows anyone that wants to do it, I don’t know if your new assistant would like to get involved in that one night a month. I have no qualms about that. Obviously, they need someone to transcribe the tape and attend the meeting. I consider the Planning Board Minutes more important than our minutes, quite frankly. There’s a lot more going on there. Mayor Higgins – We have Greg Lubow’s letter here. He references the minutes. Those minutes are important. We need them done timely. Trustee Tancredi – Do you know what we pay Carol? Mayor Higgins – We pay a minimum of two hours. Kathleen Hilbert – Carol charges us $25 per hour. Other municipalities budget an annual salary for the Planning and Zoning Board secretaries. Mayor Higgins – If we have to, between now and then, we can set up a special meeting to establish a rate.

Attorney Gardner arrived.

North Dome Operations – Mayor Higgins – Larry, our water operating agreement has expired and I do not see any language in the contract that we continue on any type of a monthly basis in the meantime – no interim terminology. What authorizes us to pay our operator? Attorney Gardner – Has the service continued to be rendered? Mayor Higgins – Yes. Larry Gardner – Is the rate that is being charged the same as it had been or was there a change in the rate since the expiration? Mayor Higgins – The rates are the same. Attorney Gardner – Okay. We would be unjustly enriched if we were accepting the service and not paying for it, so we are certainly authorized by law to make the payment for the fair value of the service accepted.

RPTL 487 Exemption – Expansion of this exemption takes effect on January 1, 2018. A discussion was held. Attorney Gardner – If we do not opt out, we simply are not going to increase taxes by virtue of the investment. The improvement would be made without it increasing their assessed value. This is telling you that they are entitled to an exemption unless you opt out. I can double check with Real Property Taxes in the morning but I’m just reading what it says. Mayor Higgins – Please check on that so that we can have a definite understanding. We do have time before January 1st. If that’s the case, then wonderful, because we don’t need to opt out.

Proposals for the Operation and Maintenance of The Village of Hunter Sewer District – Mayor Higgins – We each have two proposals. Please review these proposals. A representative of Cedarwood will be attending our meetings in case we have any questions or comments or anything that comes up at our meetings.

John Moffett – We did look into the water meters. Mayor Higgins – I will preface what you are about to say. I had a meeting with John, Todd and Tom Suozzo and I said it would be great if you could find us some NYC money to have water meters put in because they would like to see flows coming out of the sewer. John Moffett – It would make more sense to do your commercials because that is what the city is focusing on. They are trying to push more towards the commercial end because they do not subsidize that. We use the ten-state standard. The original one that was put out in NYC, and this is why they accepted it for the last how many years and then last year they came back and said we want to see actual figures. When we looked at it and we went to ten-state standards, it only increased the commercial by seven EDUs overall. Mayor Higgins – Is it safe to say that the ten-state standard is a higher EDU amount than actual? John Moffett – Right. Typically, it gives you worst case scenario for each business. When they take a look at a bar they say the bar has twenty seats. That is twenty gallons per seat per day. When we looked at the businesses, we said typically they are not going to be opened all year long because of ski season. Some will be and some will not. We tried to base it on that with them and they accepted it but then they came back again this past year and said we really want to look more at commercials because we still think you are too low on commercials. When we actually looked at commercials because some of them are metered and there was an issue with some meters not working and again, these come in from Myers? We only had one that jumped up substantially but the meter wasn’t reading correctly to begin with and now the meter is supposedly working right and that’s why the EDUs jumped up there. Out of all of them, there were three that actually dropped, two went up – one only went up one EDU, and that’s metered flows. One that was really large, that meter has a question on it. It says meter is working then it says meter is broken. I think it would make more sense to look at the possibility of doing all your commercials to satisfy them on their end and actually show the City and say “Look, our business rates are astronomical for what it actually should be.” Tom Suozzo spoke with Dave Phillips of the Department of Health. There is funding out there, however, the funding for meters are typically tied into a larger project, if you are doing your water mains and service lines, they will throw money at you. Mayor Higgins – I had asked if we could get some type of money through CWC? John Moffett – I want your permission to approach Tom Stalter from DEP to say “You are focusing so much on the commercial EDUs so pay for the meters,” but I want to make sure it’s okay with you. Trustee Tancredi – I have no problem with that. Mayor Higgins – I want to go for that and I think it is going to help the commercial tax payers and sewer users. It would be nice to get it for the residentials too but it would not be nice for the EDU, the gallon amount that we have per EDU, to be reduced for any reason. In other words, if we get 291 a day, we would not want to establish that number higher than it should be because that effects the commercials. We are looking for commercials because DEP is looking for commercials. Like you Mike, I am all for that. John Moffett – Tom has been good to work with. Mayor Higgins – In the case of a multi-use, we would be proposing that we would be metering the commercial portion of that building. John Moffett – You could do the whole building and then you would take your 291 off for the resident and the remainder would just be for your commercial. Mayor Higgins – Then later on, if we can get them to meter our water users for the benefit of our water company, that is separate. John Moffett – We will contact Tom. Mayor Higgins – That would solve the problem of the occupancy ratings that they were looking for because that was for the ten-state standard? John Moffett – Ten-state standard goes by the number of seats. Trustee Tancredi – I still think it is a good idea to have a file that does have the occupancy ratings. Kathleen Hilbert – The board instructed Dominick to do so last year. Mayor Higgins – For that we will have to deal with our Building Department. Now, on residentials, hotels, certain things could be considered one-half EDU or three-quarters EDU depending on what they are. If we had flow rates to go by, is one the minimum now? John Moffett – I believe it is. Mayor Higgins – So, even in residentials, like a hotel, it is one-half EDU per room. One is not the minimum in that case? John Moffett – No. If you go by ten-state standard when you do the hotels, there is a flow per room which I believe is 125 gallons per room because there is a possibility of having two or three people in the room. Mayor Higgins – We had a resident who ran his business out of his home. He received a bill for one commercial EDU and one residential EDU. He is the same guy whether he goes to the bathroom in his downstairs bathroom or his upstairs bathroom. I mean, that is so unfair. John Moffett – Yes, that is unfair. Mayor Higgins – In a case like that, if there was a business that opened and used no water and no sewer for the commercial side of their building, is there any case where you would not be at the minimum of one commercial EDU? John Moffett: I will look. As far as I know, the minimum is a one.

Old Business:

Mountain Drive – Mayor Higgins – We had some discussion about the potholes that need to be patched and all that. JD had mentioned that. Is that all completed? Charlie Sweet – Yes.

Glen Avenue – Trustee Tancredi – I have a question, while we are on old business, related to our water work, Charlie, on Glen Avenue. Do we have any plans to get some blacktop down on that? Charlie Sweet – No, we decided not to because of settling. I believe that once it freezes we can plow with no problem. We have a water break that we are going to do tomorrow by the old main that will be tied into the new. Trustee Tancredi – Okay, because I went up there and it was pretty rough. Mayor Higgins – That is something we will have to get on – dressing that up. Part of that roughness, if you pave over it, we have our base for the road that we are going to do in the spring. However, if you pave over it, it is not getting any water or anything on there. If there is going to be settling, it is going to happen much better without making it impervious. We need to stay right on fixing that up. Calcium will dry it right up nice. They found a leak at Martha Hartman’s, so that will be the first one that gets hooked into the new main. There might be other ones that we will do between now and the deep freeze and if not, in the spring they will get done. Then we are going to pave all the way up to the Bob’s new culvert, right before Camp Loyaltown.

Schoharie Street – Since the last meeting, we paved Schoharie Street. I recently saw the people that live at the end and they were so thrilled that the road was so beautiful going in.

Garbage – Tom Larison discussed the problem again but the discussion was inaudible on the recording. Mayor Higgins – The property owner has to be responsible for that garbage and it’s a very difficult thing to enforce. Kathleen Hilbert – We need to know who the offenders are. Tom Larison – Charlie would know who. Mayor Higgins – There is really nothing we can do without knowing who the offenders are. There are plenty of littering laws. Kathleen Hilbert – Attorney Gardner was going to look into littering laws. I have not heard back from him. Trustee Tancredi – There needs to be local law or a procedural policy in place. If you rent your house, you need to inform your tenants where to put their garbage in your house and you would have to have a) yourself, or b) a property manager, or c) private contractor come get your garbage out of your house on the following Monday. The responsibility is on the homeowners and they are the ones who are benefiting from the rental. So, they are the ones that need to hire someone to come in for three minutes on Monday morning and put that garbage out. Period. The end. That could be the same person who goes and changes their bedsheets. There should be a law. Mayor Higgins – There should be some sort of fine imposed by the Village when the Village highway crew has to clean up their garbage. It would be much more beneficial to get rid of your garbage properly. Kathleen, if we had a one-page notice, can we put it with the tax bills? Kathleen – Yes. Trustee Tancredi – We could post this to our website. Mayor Higgins – We need to have literature to put out there to let these people know that you have to take care of your garbage or it is going to hit you in your pocket. Trustee Tancredi – Quite frankly, my personal opinion is I do not like to be punitive towards our tax bills. I do not like to have laws that are punitive to our local tax base. Having said that, some of these people do not want to own up to responsibility and really do what is necessary and in everybody’s best interest in the community. So, in that case, let’s do a local law, set a precedent with guidelines, with fines, so they are aware of it when it’s instituted. How they choose do deal with it after that, I don’t feel that it’s being punitive. Jim Ray – Late 80s, early 90s there was a local law where you had to have some type of dumpster. Trustee Tancredi – That was for commercials. Jim Ray – No. Trustee Tancredi – For homes too? Jim Ray: For homes because the ski houses were doing it. Mayor Higgins – That is probably when those little boxes appeared. Carl Giagrande – The problem is going to be the enforcement.

When Attorney Gardner joined the meeting: Mayor Higgins – Regarding existing laws regarding garbage or littering. Attorney Gardner – There is nothing that addresses this. There is no local law. Mayor Higgins: We discussed that it would be nice to draft some kind of local law, maybe similar to our property maintenance law which touches on some of the health/quality issues that could arise. You can definitely establish that the litter can be considered a health hazard. Please draft something that we could adopt. Maybe we could notify everyone when we mail out the tax bills in the spring so we can avoid the extra costs of an individual mailing. We do not have to notify them because ignorance of the law does not exempt you from it but we would like to notify people that we have a local law and a list of fines that will be imposed if you break this law. Trustee Tancredi – So, Larry, the discussion was along the lines of including in the law specific responsibilities to the property owner to keep their garbage contained in their house secured until Monday morning at which time the Village commences pickup. It would be their responsibility to relay that to their renters if they are, in fact, renting their homes out, so that everybody is on the same page. It would require them to contract with someone to pick it up other than the Village if they want to have it picked up on Sunday night when the renters leave, or a caretaker or housekeeper that would go and release the garbage from a secure setting on Monday morning to put it out to the curb. Just make it clear to the users what they need to do to facilitate meeting the new law. Attorney Gardner – I will draft the law. Charlie Sweet – We do have something on paper at our shop that we have given out that says the Village garbage has to be out at a certain time, there’s a whole set of guidelines with a $250 fine if the guidelines are not followed. Kathleen Hilbert – Would you give us a copy of that, Charlie? Mayor Higgins – Yes, bring us a copy of that.

Park Benches – Mayor Higgins – Charlie, I asked you for some quotes and possible new locations. I am more interested in the quotes on buying more benches that match the benches we have in the park. Charlie Sweet – I don’t have it on me. I had it sent here. They have it somewhere here in this office with new prices on the benches and plaques. Mayor Higgins – Then you have the quotes? Kathleen Hilbert – We received one faxed quote and Tammy put it in Charlie’s box. If you have not picked it up, it would still be there. Mayor Higgins – So then maybe you could find some other bench company that can duplicate it or make something very similar so we have something to go by in the future. If we pick a different location, they do not necessarily have to match but the quality and construction of them should. So, we can get on that. So, you can get one like what is there? Charlie Sweet – The ones that we have cost $940 and the new ones are going to be $1,000 so it hasn’t gone up that much in the last 20 years. Mayor Higgins – So, it is identical? Charlie Sweet – It is the bench. Kathleen Hilbert – Actually, we originally purchased the benches from E. F. Schweitzer Co., which is no longer in business. The benches did not cost that much. The cost for the benches including shipping was $615 each. Charlie Sweet – The ones that we have been buying for the last twelve years are the same. You guys bought all of them with the intent to sell them to whoever wanted. That was the way I understood that. The $900 plus dollars and $600 for the plaque. Kathleen Hilbert – During the project a donation of $600 was made and that was for the bench and plaque. However, the Dolan’s Lake bench project was closed around the end of 2002 or beginning of 2003. Mayor Higgins –

The $600 was for the bench, plaque and concrete. It did not cover the entire cost of them but that was the price agreed upon by the Board at the time. Anyway, let’s work on seeing if we can get some better prices on something that will last as long.

LED Street Light Conversion – Charlie Sweet – All I saw was a piece of paper in my thing saying Charlie was going to take of it. I don’t know what to take care of. Mayor Higgins – Just the cost. Kathleen Hilbert – I will provide you with a copy. Mayor Higgins – Take a look at that information.

Driver’s Daily Vehicle Inspection Reports – Mayor Higgins – This was recommended by our insurance company. The Drivers’ Daily Vehicle Inspection Reports – Do we have that program in effect? Charlie Sweet – Kathleen had gotten those for us. We have not had the time to copy them out of the book and make them fit the Village. Mayor Higgins – We need to implement that program. Kathleen Hilbert – At the November 14, 2016 meeting – “It is agreed that pre-trip inspections be performed on a daily basis. A Driver’s Vehicle Inspection Report should be signed and submitted on a daily basis. Trustee Tancredi – How does that work? Charlie Sweet – It is quite a bit. They want it every two weeks into the Village Hall with our time sheets. Every vehicle, every time you move it. Mayor Higgins – Okay, we will have to do some daily inspection report training. Let’s get on it. Charlie Sweet: Well, we are also very busy. We’ve been trying, but… Trustee Tancredi – Well, at least do one truck right off the bat. You would have to figure out your priorities.

Garbage/Littering-Existing Laws – Attorney Gardner was to get back to us regarding some existing laws. Attorney Gardner joined the meeting. No existing laws – will draft a local law.

Joe Tumasella/Louis Natole – Mayor Higgins – I have not heard anything from Dominick. Kathleen Hilbert – Dominick has not performed the violation inspection because Mr. Tumasella has not yet returned his phone call to schedule same. Mayor Higgins – I will review that letter again. I do not think that just any member of the Village as a taxpayer can call on the Building Department to do a violation inspection because they feel like they want to do that to the neighbor who they had a spat with over the weekend. Kathleen Hilbert – At last month’s meeting, Attorney Gardner directed Dominick to perform the inspection. Mayor Higgins – We will make sure Larry gets with Dominick to figure out how that is going to happen.

Correspondence:

Greene County Department of Human Services – Brochure is available for reference in the Clerk’s Office.

Executive Session:

Mayor Higgins – We are reconvening after Executive Session. We discussed allowing the Clerk/Treasurer to rollover vacation and personal time for the 2017-2018 fiscal year. Motion made by Trustee Marino, seconded by Trustee Tancredi. All were in favor.

V-Plow Estimates – Mayor Higgins – We have one more thing before we adjourn. Prior to entering into Executive Session, Charlie handed me three quotes for a new snowplow. The snowplow is the F550 dump truck that Richie drives. They are all “V” plows. Two of them are Fisher. Fisher happens to have a 9½ foot stainless “V” plow. These are prices installed. The other one is Boss “V” plow. The Boss “V” plow happens to be the lowest bid. It is a 9-foot 2-inch because that happens to be what Boss does. It includes two-year parts and labor warranty on the Boss which the other ones do not seem to give. I do not see anything that disqualifies Boss over Fisher. I guess Charlie did not spec out that it has to be a 9½-foot Fisher. He said that all the municipalities use Fisher. I know this dual trip system on the Boss. Trustee Tancredi – They are all reputable. Mayor Higgins – Should we give Charlie the go-ahead on the low bid. Trustee Tancredi – I am good with that. Motion made by Trustee Marino, seconded by Trustee Tancredi. All were in favor.

Bills:

Account Voucher Nos. Abstract

General Fund V-187 to V-231 V-6
Sewer Operating G-112 to G-143 G-6
Water Abstract F-76 to F-116 F-6

The above vouchers were audited and ordered paid.

Financial Reports: General Fund Account – Budget vs. Actual

Resolutions:

Resolution 2017-064

Approval for Active Membership in The Hunter Fire Co. No. 1, Inc. – Philip Garvey

Motion made by Trustee Tancredi; seconded by Trustee Marino.

RESOLVED that The Village of Hunter Board of Trustees approves Philip Garvey of 7886 Main Street, P. O. Box 98, Hunter, NY 12442 for active membership in The Hunter Fire Co. No. 1, Inc.

The foregoing resolution was put to a vote and was carried unanimously.

Mayor Alan Higgins voting – yea
Trustee Michael Tancredi voting – yea
Trustee Geri Marino voting – yea

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

Resolution 2017-065

Approval for Active Membership in The Hunter Fire Co. No. 1, Inc. – Michael Justice

Motion made by Trustee Tancredi; seconded by Trustee Marino.

RESOLVED that The Village of Hunter Board of Trustees approves Michael Justice of 8294 Main Street, P. O. Box 434, Hunter, NY 12442 for active membership in The Hunter Fire Co. No. 1, Inc.

The foregoing resolution was put to a vote and was carried unanimously.

Mayor Alan Higgins voting – yea
Trustee Michael Tancredi voting – yea
Trustee Geri Marino voting – yea

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

Resolution 2017-066

Greene County Planning Board Representative – Carl Giangrande

Motion made by Trustee Tancredi; seconded by Trustee Marino.

RESOLVED that The Village of Hunter Board of Trustees approves Carl Giangrande to represent The Village of Hunter on the Greene County Planning Board.

The foregoing resolution was put to a vote and was carried unanimously.

Mayor Alan Higgins voting – yea
Trustee Michael Tancredi voting – yea
Trustee Geri Marino voting – yea

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

Resolution 2017 – 067

Modify General Fund Budget to Reflect Unanticipated Revenue

Offered by Trustee Tancredi; seconded by Trustee Marino.

RESOLVED that The Village of Hunter Board of Trustees modifies the General Fund Budget for fiscal year 2017-2018 to reflect unanticipated revenues from sale of property in the amount of $100,000. Revenue Account A2652 Sale of Forest Products/Logging. A1990.4 Contingency Account.

The foregoing resolution was put to a vote and was carried unanimously.

Mayor Alan Higgins voting – yea
Trustee Michael Tancredi voting – yea
Trustee Geri Marino voting – yea

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

Resolution 2017 – 068

Appropriate Funds from Line Items with an Excess to Line Items with a Shortfall for General Fund Budget Fiscal Year 2017/2018

Offered by Trustee Tancredi; seconded by Trustee Marino.

RESOLVED that The Village of Hunter Board of Trustees authorizes the Clerk/Treasurer to move $1,497.55 from A5680.2 Equipment: Equipment/Capital Outlay to A5110.2 Maintenance of Roads: Equipment/Capital Outlay to cover cost of 14” planer shared with the Town of Hunter and Village of Tannersville.

The foregoing resolution was put to a vote and was carried unanimously.

Mayor Alan Higgins voting – yea
Trustee Michael Tancredi voting – yea
Trustee Geri Marino voting – yea

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

Resolution 2017 – 069

Appropriate Funds from Line Items with an Excess to Line Items with a Shortfall for Water Operating Budget Fiscal Year 2017/2018

Offered by Trustee Tancredi; seconded by Trustee Marino.

RESOLVED that The Village of Hunter Board of Trustees authorizes the Clerk/Treasurer to move $1,497.55 from F834021 Transmission and Distribution: Equipment and Capital Outlay/Hydrants to new appropriation account F834020 Transmission and Distribution: Equipment and Capital Outlay/Equipment (Shared) and authorizes creation of said account to cover cost of 14” planer shared with the Town of Hunter and Village of Tannersville. Resolution.

The foregoing resolution was put to a vote and was carried unanimously.

Mayor Alan Higgins voting – yea
Trustee Michael Tancredi voting – yea
Trustee Geri Marino voting – yea

The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.

Adjournment: Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Trustee Tancredi, seconded by Trustee Marino.

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Kathleen M. Hilbert
Clerk/Treasurer

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