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2003-11-24 SP SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING 11-24-2003 MTG. #56 845 SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING NOVEMBER 24, 2003 7:00 p.m. MTG. #56 RES. 493-494 TOWN BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT SUPERVISOR DENNIS BROWER COUNCILMAN ROGER BOOR COUNCILMAN THEODORE TURNER COUNCILMAN DANIEL STEC COUNCILMAN TIM BREWER TOWN OFFICIALS WATER/WASTEWATER SUPT. RALPH VANDUSEN DEPUTY WASTEWATER SUPT. MIKE SHAW DIRECTOR OFCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CHRIS ROUND SENIOR PLANNER MARILYN RYBA SUPERVISOR BROWER- Called the meeting to order. 1.0 RESOLUTIONS NONE 200 DISCUSSIONS 201 Route 9 Sewer Work Design Change Presentation-Co To Male Supervisor Brower-CT Male hired to obtain easements and design sewer district from Quaker Road to up Country Club Road to across the Warren County Bike Trail up Sweet Road to behind Lawton Avenue to Route 9 in Phase One, Phase 2 from Route 9 to the Great Escape and Phase 3 Great Escape to Route 149 including the new Public Safety Building. Noted running into additional work ... requesting additional monies to complete the project. Mr. Gary Male-Introduced Rich Campagnola and Chris Shaver who are managing architect and managing structural engineer. Noted there are nine areas where extra work was performed. 1. Hidden Farm Road determined to be a Town Highway, needed to extend the sewer up Hidden Farm Road to R V Park in the back, that was not originally included and was not shown on the original plan in the map, plan and report. Additional survey and design work needed to include this area. 2. Original plan to take Route 9 Sewers down Route 9 and over Quaker Road, during study it was determine that the capacity did not exist to take all the flow, the decision was made to go down Sweet Road with a gravity sewer, investigated some of the homes on Sweet to see if they would want to hook up, of the forty residents, thirteen wanted sewer service it is now down to seven or eight noted they would have been outside district users. There was extra expense involved in that. 3. Major item - Proposal prepared in 2002 noted in 2003 the building code changed added cost to the pump station and Mike wanted a canopy SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING 11-24-2003 MTG. #56 846 added 4. Route 9 Pumping station first design was to place it as far away from Route 9 as possible, after discussions with the Great Escape we ended up behind the knoll behind Ellie's in the Great Escape's parking lot and planning for it there. 5. Environmental Review with Archeologist additional wetlands work delineation... Noted Contract 3 is out to bid which goes almost to the Mobil Station, the commercial strip we are past the point of the Municipal Center. . . the design is finished the rest of the way. . . have received DEC approval on Contract 3. . . Reviewed the contract time schedule... Noting that Contract One will be starting this Monday. . .6. Brown's Motel- changed from in front of the building to a route in the back going to Lawton Avenue additional survey work then had to be done. . .7. Warren County Bike Path issued raised with park land sewer is not for park purposes, argued that the sewer was invisible to the bike path the County decided that they would let us be in the bike path., this also took State approval. 8. EDA Grant Assistance involved getting EDA requirements in the Contract documents 9. Originally figured on some costs for dividing into multiple contracts and as it stands right now this did not included 3A&B which costs more money. . . would appreciate your consideration for these nine items. Water/Wastewater Supt. Ralph VanDusen-Noted that what is in here was not within the initial scope. Supervisor Brower-Noted receiving a memorandum from Mike Shaw regarding the sewer camera. Deputy Wastewater Supt. Mike Shaw-Cost of camera, thirty three and change we are out to save money will give cost to the Board on Monday night. Supervisor Brower-Noted that Mike Genier Pine View Cemetery Supt. noted the article in the paper was in error on the cost of the fence it is $16,300. 202 HOUSING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTATION Marilyn Ryba and Shelter Planning Senior Planner Marilyn Ryba-Introduced Bob Murray from Shelter Planning and Bill Tomkins from Shelter Planning Mr. Bob Murray-Re: Grant opportunities for Housing Assistance Three sources of housing assistance monies; Small Cities Program, looking to come up with a strategy where we can go to not only Small Cities but to a program called Home which is also HUD money that comes from the Division of Housing and Community Renewal and the Affordable Housing Corp. each have different rules one of the strategies is come up with a way in which we can set up a program which is sustainable from year to year where you can use anyone of the three sources. First application is Home on February 9th then Affordable Housing and Small Cities. Want to add a loan component to the rehab efforts, you can structure it in a way that it really doesn't hurt anybody it has the effect of subduing the demand of more and more on a case by case basis because there is a portion that is a loan. You SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING 11-24-2003 MTG. #56 847 can also structure it so the low income people don't have to pay on a monthly basis, they can pay on sale. The concept is to have a fifty percent loan component and a fifty percent grant component. Noted this can make it more competitive. The Town would offer some money possibly from your AMG revolving loan fund as a means of coming up with what we call the match, that would be the loan money. If the Town would make that money or local money by budget available for this purpose if you loan it in conjunction with a grant on a case by case basis the Town always gets its money back. The condition is if there is a sale the lean has to be satisfied. The grant portion is a lean for a five year period. Mr. Bill Tompkins-Reviewed the size of the grant area, three in West Glens Falls and one in South Queensbury. Councilman Boor-What are the Town's legal requirements? Sr. Planning Marilyn Ryba-We file the lean and it is just like any other. .interest rates can be zero, you can do it on income scale different percentages. Noted that she had worked with sixteen municipalities doing this very same type of program and we worked with a the bank, the bank did the paper work.. Supervisor Brower-Questioned how much money is the in AMG revolving loan fund? Sr. Planner Ryba-One hundred and eighty one thousand dollars. Mr. Bob Murray-We would want you to agree with the concept, put the first application together, with a matching amount from the Town that will create the opportunity and use the concept in all the applications and that would increase your opportunity to get funded. Councilman Boor-This is your selling point, we are willing to go extra here. Director of Community Development Chris Round-Questioned if other communities use general fund as matching funds? Mr. Bob Murray-In order to compete in almost any program in some fashion has got to be local commitment. What ever percentage we pick has to be transferable to the other programs. Mr. Bill Tompkins-Reviewed the needs in the four census areas, basic legibility standard is eighty percent of median in the 2000 census that was thirty five thousand in Warren and Washington County, there are four hundred and seventy five owner occupied households in West Glens Falls and So. Queensbury who were below 80% of median. Board agreed to work toward this project. Supervisor Brower-Re: Housing Rehab how far along are we? Sr. Planner Ryba-We are quite a ways through, we will be done by July 1 st. we were going to do seventeen units we will be doing twelve units. SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING 11-24-2003 MTG. #56 848 Director of Community Development Chris Round-We have agreed to partner with the School on a project which is our build out analysis, what is the residential and commercial capacity within the Town. The School would like to see with some assistance in refining population projections. The Lake Champlain, Lake George regional Planning Board said that they would help us from a technical standpoint. The third part of that is what will this do to tax rates. 203 2005 REVALUATION CONTRACTOR PROPOSALS Assessor Helen Otte RESOLUTION CALLING FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION RESOLUTION NOo 493, 2003 INTRODUCED BY Mro Roger Boor WHO MOVED FOR ITS ADOPITION SECONDED BY: Mro Daniel Stec RESOL VED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby moves into an Executive Session to discuss Contractor Proposals for Revaluationo Duly adopted this 24th day of November, 2003 by the following vote: AYES: Mro Boor, Mro Turner, Mro Stec, Mro Brewer, Mro Brower NOES: None ABSENT: None No action takeno RESOLUTION ADJOURNING EXECUTIVE SESSION AND TOWN BOARD MEETING RESOLUTION NOo 494, 2003 INTRODUCED BY: Mro Roger Boor WHO MOVED FOR ITS ADOPTION SECONDED BY: Mro Daniel Stec RESOL VED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby adjourns its Executive Session and be it further RESOL VED, that the Town Board here by adjourns its Special Sessiono Duly adopted this 24th day of November, 2003 by the following vote: AYES: Mro Boor, Mro Turner, Mro Stec, Mro Brewer, Mro Brower SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING 11-24-2003 MTG. #56 849 NOES: None ABSENT: None Respectfully submitted, Miss Darleen Mo Dougher Town Clerk-Queensbury