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QUEENSBURY PLANNING BOARD MEETING
SPECIAL MEETING
FEBRUARY 10, 2004
7:00 P.M.
MEMBERS PRESENT
CRAIG MAC EWAN, CHAIRMAN
CHRIS HUNSINGER, SECRETARY
ROBERT VOLLARO
ANTHONY METIVIER
RICHARD SANFORD
THOMAS SEGULJIC
MEMBERS ABSENT
LARRY RINGER
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR-CHRIS ROUND
STENOGRAPHER-MARIA GAGLIARDI
SUPPLEMENTAL EIS SITE PLAN NO. 4-2004 SPECIAL USE PERMIT NO. 2-2004
GREAT ESCAPE AGENT: LEMERY GREISLER, LLC ZONE: HC-I LOCATION: 1213 ST.
RT. 9, 1227 ST. RT. 9 APPLICANT HAS PRESENTED A SUPPLEMENTAL GENERIC
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT FOR THE GREAT ESCAPE, WHICH
ADDRESSES THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW 200-ROOM HOTEL AND
INDOOR AMUSEMENT CENTER. THE PLANNING BOARD WILL ENTERTAIN A
RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL GEIS AS COMPLETE AND
ADEQUATE TO COMMENCE THE PUBLIC COMMENT. THE PLANNING BOARD WILL
ALSO SET A “SPECIAL” PUBLIC HEARING DATE AS WELL AS A COMMENT PERIOD.
CROSS REFERENCE: MANY TAX MAP NO. 295.8-1-5, 4 LOT SIZE: 6.40 AC., 4.06 ACRES
JOHN LEMERY & JOHN COLLINS, REPRESENTING APPLICANT, PRESENT
MR. MAC EWAN-Tonight is a Supplemental EIS for The Great Escape. Chris and Stu, I’ll turn
it over to you. Give us a brief synopsis.
MR. ROUND-Yes. I’ll give you a brief background. I’ll let Stu fill in. As you know, Great
Escape delivered a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, in draft form. The first step
for the Planning Board is to judge that complete, to start the public review process. What we’ve
been doing, behind the public scenes, is reviewing that document. Chazen Group’s provided
two or three, three sets of comments on the document. The applicant has been responding to
those comments. We subsequently tried to draw the Planning Board’s process to a close, met
with several Planning Board members and with Stuart and myself, and identified those final set
of comments. The applicant, tonight’s, going to be delivering a document that we Planning
Staff and the Chazen Companies has judged complete, and the three members of the Planning
Board have identified as satisfactory to the issues that they have identified. Once this
document, the resolution in front of you tonight is a resolution to accept the document as
complete, start the comment process, so the document would be produced, distributed, to the
Planning Board members, involved agencies, Zoning Board of Appeals. Several documents will
be produced for the public, so that they’re available for those folks. We’ll be setting a public
hearing where we will actually be receiving public comment. That will be March 2, which is a
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Tuesday night. That’s a change from a previous date that we’ve brought around to you folks.
MR. VOLLARO-March 9 was the.
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MR. ROUND-March 9. March 2 was a date that Town Counsel, Mark Schachner, would like
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to be part of this process, rather than one of his associates. That date is most acceptable to him,
and to the applicants and the Planning Board, and our consultant. That will be, we’ll have a
presentation from the applicant at that point, and you’ll actually have like you do in a normal
public hearing, you’ll have the public come up, provide comment. The comment period will
extend a minimum of 10 days beyond that public hearing date. So folks will have an
opportunity to digest what they hear and see at that evening, and have an opportunity to
provide written comment up through the end of March 12, March 12 or 13, and we’ll, that’s
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in our resolution tonight, and then we’ll proceed, as we normally do, with the review process.
MR. VOLLARO-Will that be a joint meeting, Chris?
MR. ROUND-Yes, and it’s important to note, because this project involves relief from the
Zoning Board of Appeals, we thought it beneficial to have both the Zoning Board and the
Planning Board to hear the same presentation, to hear the substance of the project, because the
Planning Board is the SEQRA review agency. A lot of the substance that you’re looking at, one
of the critical areas is visual impacts and the height relief requested from the ZBA is directly
related to visual impacts. So it’s important that you both be on the same level of understanding
with those issues, and hopefully the decision process will coordinated between the two Boards,
and that’s our objective is to coordinate the review. Now, Stu, if you want to?
STUART MESINGER
MR. MESINGER-I think that’s, I don’t have anything to add to that.
MR. VOLLARO-I have just one question, if I could. Stu Mesinger’s letter of February 5, 2004,
has that been accepted by the applicant in total, or is it sporadically accepted, or what?
MR. MESINGER-The applicant submitted pages from the revised SGEIS responding to the 13
points in that letter. Either showing me where the physical changes have been made or
indicating, in the event, a figure, a lot of it was just changing the titles of figures, that that would
be done.
MR. VOLLARO-Okay. So we can, in a sense, incorporate into our approval tonight the
February 5 letter?
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MR. MESINGER-Yes. I don’t have a response about the last point, which if you’ll recall when
we met, and so I don’t know that they’ve changed the document to reflect that. You might want
to ask that.
MR. VOLLARO-I think we discussed that. That might be a Findings Statement?
MR. MESINGER-Yes, right, that’s what we talked about.
MR. VOLLARO-Okay.
MR. MAC EWAN-Any other questions, comments?
MR. SANFORD-Just one on clarification. I think that you didn’t change of those dates when we
last met, but let me just go over them again. On the 9, there’s going to be public hearing’s
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opened up, as well as the joint meeting with the Zoning Board?
MR. VOLLARO-The 2.
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MR. ROUND-No. It’s now the 2, and that should be reflected on your resolution that you
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have in front of you.
MR. SANFORD-3/2, then?
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MR. ROUND-Correct.
MR. SANFORD-Okay. What about 3/9?
MR. ROUND-3/9 is no longer a date that we will meet.
MR. SANFORD-Okay. Then on 3/19, or then on actually 3/12 would end the comment period?
MR. ROUND-That’s correct.
MR. SANFORD-Okay, and then on 3/25, site plan?
MR. ROUND-3/25 we propose a Special Planning Board meeting for you to start to review the
substance of the site plan.
MR. SANFORD-And will that be joint as well?
MR. ROUND-We hadn’t defined, or come to that conclusion yet. I think we tentatively
scheduled it as a joint meeting. I think we’ll know better after the 2.
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MR. SANFORD-And then tentatively on or around April 15 would be adoption of Findings?
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Is that still on, for target?
MR. ROUND-Within the month of April, I think that’s a target, yes.
MR. SANFORD-Okay.
MR. VOLLARO-Chris, along those lines, the variance that the ZBA has to look into for, there’s a
couple of variances. Will they take place before or after the second meeting? In other words,
it’s tentatively on the second meeting that it’s a joint, but will they have, when will they be
making their determination on variances?
MR. ROUND-The variance action cannot occur until after SEQRA Findings are adopted.
MR. VOLLARO-Okay. Thanks.
MR. MAC EWAN-Any other questions? Anything you wanted to add?
MR. LEMERY-Good evening, Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, my name is John Lemery,
Counsel for the project. I want to say, first of all, that we’re very appreciative that you took this
time to have this Special Meeting for us. We know that you have all these meetings every
month, and that they go on for several hours into the evening. So we’re very appreciative of
that. Mr. Vollaro, with regard to the last comment concerning the bridge, we’re very amenable
to have it part of the Findings that the bridge be part of the Findings. We’re working on it now.
We’re trying to figure out how we can get, because that’s a separate site plan review for the
bridge, as we see it. I mean, you have to approve the bridge and the site plan for the bridge and
all of that. The only question we have regarding the bridge is the question of, you know, when
they’re going to finish the sewer line, but it’s being designed and so we’re telling Ryan Biggs,
the designers and the construction company, that it has to be in by the Spring of ’05. It has to be
in place and ready to go. So we understand your concern there, and that you want to make it
part of the Findings that we’ve instructed the designers and the contractors that that’s the case.
MR. SANFORD-John, whether it’s part of the Findings, or as we suggested, maybe it could get
addressed right up front, basically the direction we were moving in, at least at that short
meeting that we had, would be that before a CO was issued, the pedestrian bridge would be
constructed and operational, and of course the sewer line would have to be put in at that point
in time, in order for the hotel to be operational, but it was the strong feeling, at least on those
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members who were present, that that be at least now part of the Findings Statement. So I just
thought I’d mention that.
MR. LEMERY-I understand that. That’s fine.
MR. SANFORD-Okay.
MR. LEMERY-I understand that.
MR. SANFORD-I believe the applicant is shaking his head no on that, when I just brought that
up.
MR. COLLINS-I’m not sure, when you say a CO, because the intention is to, if we can get this
thing done, have it open before the Park is open. The pedestrian bridge, obviously, would need
to be done for the Park. So I’m not sure that we’ve had a discussion, as far as timing of it, but
our intention is to have it ready for the 2005 season. Now our intention on the hotel is to try to
open that before the Park. So, you know, it’s a pretty aggressive construction timeframe as it is.
MR. MAC EWAN-I think what we can do is, as we start reviewing the site plan itself, we can
dive in to these details a little bit more, than try to discuss them tonight.
MR. COLLINS-Yes, and I have no problem with that.
MR. LEMERY-We understand the need to get it done, and hopefully it will be done by the time
that the hotel opens.
MR. COLLINS-I mean, the hotel project is the hotel project, and the pedestrian bridge is really
for the Park. We have no problem, you know, if it’s part of the Findings, but tying up a CO
based on that, I’m not sure that, you know, that’s the way you want to go with that.
MR. SANFORD-Well, you know, it’s kind of the way I want to go with that. I’m very concerned
about accidents potentially happening, when people are parked over there and they’re crossing
the street to get to the Park, and I think that the pedestrian bridge would go a long way in
preventing any kind of a horrible accident. So, we’ll go into it more, but I just wanted you to
know up front just exactly how I happen to feel about it.
MR. MAC EWAN-Okay. Anything else you wanted to add?
MR. LEMERY-No, sir. Thanks.
MR. MAC EWAN-Any other questions or comments? Does somebody want to move it?
MR. VOLLARO-I’ll make the motion.
MR. MAC EWAN-What’s that?
MR. MESINGER-We have a document now.
MEG O’LEARY
MS. O’LEARY-We do. So, I think, are we, we’re collecting all the SDGEIS, taking them back
and bringing back, right? Okay.
MR. ROUND-Yes.
MR. VOLLARO-Are we set?
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MR. ROUND-Yes. We just wanted to make sure we’re acting on the document that we had in
front of us tonight.
MR. VOLLARO-I see. Okay.
MOTION ACCEPTING THE DRAFT SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE GEIS FOR THE GREAT
ESCAPE THEME PARK AS COMPLETE AND SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING AND
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, Introduced by Robert Vollaro who moved for its adoption,
seconded by Chris Hunsinger:
WHEREAS, the Great Escape Theme Park proposes expansion of facilities to accommodate a
200 room hotel and water park, and
WHEREAS, the project applicant submitted a proposed Draft Supplemental to GEIS on January
20, 2004 and the Town Planning Staff, members of the Planning Board and its consultants
Chazen Companies have reviewed the proposed Draft Supplemental to GEIS and requested
various changes and revisions to the document, and
WHEREAS, the applicant has made the requested changes and revisions, and
WHEREAS, the Town Planning Staff and Chazen Companies have recommended the Planning
Board accept the Draft Supplemental to GEIS as complete for the purpose of public review and
comment, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, the Planning Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby accepts the Draft
Supplemental to the GEIS for the Great Escape Theme Park, LLC as complete for the purposes
of public review and comment, and
RESOLVED, the Planning Board of the Town of Queensbury wishes to conduct a public hearing
for the purpose of receiving public comment, and
RESOLVED, that the Planning Board of the Town of Queensbury establishes a public hearing
on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 at 7 p.m. at the Queensbury Town Center, and
RESOLVED, that the Planning Board shall receive written public comment with the close of
comment on Friday, March 12, 2004.
Duly adopted this 10 day of February, 2004, by the following vote:
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AYES: Mr. Hunsinger, Mr. Seguljic, Mr. Vollaro, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Metivier, Mr. MacEwan
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Mr. Ringer
MR. MAC EWAN-See you guys on March the 2.
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MR. LEMERY-Thanks very much.
MR. COLLINS-Thank you.
MR. MAC EWAN-Okay. Chris, Karner blue. You wanted to talk about the Karner blue.
MR. ROUND-Yes. We gave you a Vision Statement about what the Karner blue butterfly
protection plan, and that’s a change in the title from Management Plan to Protection Plan. We
gave you a Vision Statement about two weeks ago, and we said we would reconvene with you,
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make sure you understood that this was the direction that the Town was going in. I know not
everybody on the Planning Board agreed specifically with this, but we believe that the majority
of people that were involved with the project, Planning Board, Town Board, prescribed this
direction for us. We want to make sure you understood where we were going with this, and if
you had any comments or questions on it, you know, get back to me so that we can start
movement on this project, in the very near future, because it has, it’s been a couple of months
and we haven’t done anything with it. Basically, I’ll run through it quickly. We’re looking at
developing an overlay district that will communicate to the development community just what
protocols they need to follow when communicating with endangered species issues, with the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife and DEC, and that overlay district will apply to this entire Queensbury
Sand Plains Unit, and that will get rid of some of the confusion from the development
community, exactly what do they need to have in hand when they come to you, to prove that
they’ve documented their due diligence when it comes to endangered species. The plan as it
exists today, and will exist, once this work is completed, will also identify areas that the DEC
has judged to be suitable for future restoration activities. I don’t think, there were very few
people that wanted to actively acquire land or acquire land through set aside program through
a mitigation or an extraction program. So this just identifies, these are lands that are suitable for
these activities, and if there’s a mutually agreeable, voluntary mechanism where we can acquire
those lands, either directly to the State or a local entity, that’s a good way to communicate that.
So, that, and there’s additional language in there. So that’s the substance of the direction that
we’re taking, and we want to make sure the Planning Board members were involved with that,
and then I don’t know if, as we proceed, whether we want a Planning Board member to
participate in a smaller group, to track exactly the direction it’s going or if you want the entire
Board to see subsequent submissions.
MR. VOLLARO-Have you determined what the overlay looks like yet, in terms of land? In
other words, you’re going to have an overlay that goes over Queensbury, and it’s going to say,
these are the lands we’re talking about.
MR. ROUND-Yes. If you fall within this district, these are lands we’re talking about, that
physically identifies those areas, which is basically the Sand Plains unit, which is that
rectangular area that’s, you know, basically 149 south, and, you know, east of West Mountain
Road, and west of I-87.
MR. VOLLARO-Okay.
MR. ROUND-That rectangle. So you’ve seen this depict that depiction before.
MR. VOLLARO-Okay.
MR. ROUND-It’s very clearly defined on the map, and if a project falls within that district,
here’s a set of procedures that you need to follow. Basically it’s just, we’re taking what’s
already existing regulations, at State and Federal level, identifying it in our local land use
regulations, so that the local community really knows what they need to do to comply with the
State and Federal Statutes.
MR. VOLLARO-Yes. That’s what I was going to say.
MR. ROUND-We’re not creating a new law. We’re just really communicating what it is they
need for you folks to be sure that they have complied with the State and Federal Statute, and
then it also communicates, here’s our vision for restoration activities. We really don’t have an
entity in hand. We have some players pulling together. In the years to come, we’ll see an entity
take an active involvement in restoration. Hopefully DEC will do that through the
Environmental Bond Act and through its activities. They’ve done some cooperative efforts with
the Land Conservancy in other communities, and hopefully our land conservancy will step up
to that role.
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MR. VOLLARO-In your initial reviews, is this when the applicant gets notified that he’s
obligated to do this? In other words, he may not know.
MR. ROUND-Right. It’s helpful to Staff and it’s helpful to the applicant, because we get, you’ve
seen the applicants come in here, and there’s a checklist on the SEQRA form that says, is there
potential for endangered species, and they say, no, you know, well, that’s not the due diligence
that they need to follow. They need to send a notification letter. What we had suggested
adding is, here’s a biological screening process that you should go through, to kind of take the
guess work out of, you know, the first step in trying to evaluate whether there’s a potential for
that species on the site.
MR. VOLLARO-It sounds pretty straightforward to me. I wasn’t one of the supporters of this,
but, you know, that’s the way life goes. It’s in black letter type, now you do it. No problem.
MR. MAC EWAN-Any other questions, comments?
MR. SEGULJIC-Then you’re going to further identify areas that could be set aside?
MR. ROUND-Correct, yes, and what we refer to historically is this beads and string model, is
basically the Niagara Mohawk Power lines are a pathway for migration of the species, and
they’re very conducive to blue lupine growth, and that’s the string, so that’s the linear pathway
that the butterfly has adapted to in our region, and some people have said that, if not for the
power lines, the endangered species wouldn’t exist in our area, because that’s where the Sand
Dunes in this terrestrial environment.
MR. VOLLARO-We’ve kind of created the habitat, I think.
MR. ROUND-And so the beads would be nodes of land, you know, on that string that could
expand that type of environment and actively cultivate the lupine and then help the butterfly
reestablish itself. That’s kind of, in a nutshell.
MR. MAC EWAN-Where do you want to take it from here?
MR. ROUND-Well, I just want to make sure that you folks, that you all know what we’re doing,
that, you know, if not in agreement, that at least you know the direction that we’re taking.
MR. VOLLARO-Sure.
MR. ROUND-And gauge what kind of role do you want to play, as we develop this basically
zoning regulation. Do you want to see a draft? Do you want to have a membership actively
participate in the language crafting process?
MR. SANFORD-Well, the big issue is the quid pro quos, right? So someone wants to develop
up by West Mountain, in one of those areas, I guess what I’m interested in seeing is what is
going to be the criteria for, in exchange for developing up here, you will do this other thing? I
assume you’re still on that track, you know, which is, if you’re going to disturb habitat, you
have to replace habitat, and so I would just like to, I mean, that’s what we’ve never been able to
get to with our previous discussions. We all had agreed that that’s what we want to see, but
then the consultant never came in and said, you know, here’s the list of exactly, if A happens,
then B is what we want, and, what we didn’t want is we didn’t want this Board to have to
wrestle with that, without, you know, there’s issues of consistency here and appropriateness
and everything else, and I thought that that’s what we were going to get. Are we going to be
getting that?
MR. ROUND-No, you’re not, Dick. I think that’s the goal we were working towards. That was
like our Option C. This is Option B, which was less than that. What happens is that it’s, you
didn’t see a lot of the front end with the Schermerhorn, this Sherman Avenue project, in that
there’s very subjective decision making by the scientists involved, on qualifying and
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quantifying habitat. In that case, they identified, on the same piece of property, a 30 some odd
acre piece of property, they identified a patch of lupine as being occupied, and occupied
meaning in the strictest sense, that it was home to a butterfly, but the science allows them to
say, even though there’s not a butterfly in this particular patch of lupine, we know there to be
butterfly within 1,000 yards of this area, and so the potential exists for this butterfly to migrate
to this particular patch, and that changes from year to year to year, and they may be in a patch a
half mile wide. So on this one site, they identified two areas. They identified one area that was
occupied, not in a strict sense that there were not butterflies observed on this site, but it had the
potential to be home for butterflies. They identified another patch of lupine on the same
property that was not occupied, which was several hundred feet away, and they indicated it
was not occupied because it didn’t have a critical mass in size, and that the adjacent fauna was
not nectar species that was conducive to the feeding habits of the butterfly. So, for us to do that
kind of an evaluation on a Town wide basis and make judgments is a really time consuming
and difficult thing to do. So we haven’t taken that, we haven’t lifted that weight or that burden
off the developer. If a developer today, even after this plan is developed, wants to go in and
destroy occupied habitat, they need to go through a permitting process with the State and
Federal government.
MR. SANFORD-I just really, for the life of me, Chris, can’t understand what the LA Group
really did for us in this whole exercise, other than I guess charge us some $30,000, maybe, and
I’m not trying to be argumentative here.
MR. MAC EWAN-Just to clarify the record, it was C.T. Male.
MR. VOLLARO-C.T. Male.
MR. SANFORD-I’m sorry, C.T. Male. We knew all of this, way back when, about where the
habitat was, and what we wanted to have is a nicely laid out blueprint that the Planning Board
or the Town Board or whoever can follow, to basically review applications as the Chairman put
it one time, so we’re consistent, and we’re fair to everybody, and what you’re saying is that
nothing’s really been added, that I can see, from when we first started this project. So I’m
confused as to what we’ve done.
MR. ROUND-Well, I think we started out with this direction in mind. I think as the project
evolved I think that there were players at the table who wanted to achieve the goal that you had
identified, and as we became involved, I think there were concerns about cost, concerns about
process, concerns about the Town’s capacity to actually perform that service for the
development community, because we talked about, how do we fund that, and we talked about
mitigation fees and charging every developer money to come in and handle that particular
service for them. It’s a very, in concept, it’s a terrific objective and terrific goal to achieve, but in
a practical sense, it becomes very much a large burden, and our concern was, this level of effort
may not benefit a large.
MR. SANFORD-Right, but there was Option One, Two, and Three.
MR. ROUND-Right.
MR. SANFORD-I can’t locate my sheet which actually was, I think, distributed to us, which
listed Option One, Two, and Three.
MR. ROUND-Okay.
MR. SANFORD-We settled on Option Two.
MR. ROUND-Right.
MR. SANFORD-What was Option One? Do you recall?
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MR. ROUND-Well, Option One was to do less, I think, Bob, maybe you were an advocate for
that, is basically do nothing. It’s basically, let’s let the development community handle this.
MR. SANFORD-Well, that’s against public policy, isn’t it? I mean, you basically, we have an
obligation to deal with endangered species. So I don’t know if that was really what Option One
was.
MR. ROUND-Option One was no proactive measures. I think it said, hey, you’ve got to comply
with these State and Federal Statutes. That’s your job to do that. We’re not going to provide
any communication. We’re not going to adopt a zoning overlay. You’re on your own, basically.
MR. SANFORD-All right. Now, Option Two was what?
MR. ROUND-Is this, what’s presented to you.
MR. SANFORD-But as it was presented back when, it was a paragraph or so. How did it read,
do you know? I’d like to see that memo again.
MR. ROUND-Sure. I don’t have that with me, but I can give you a copy of that again.
MR. SANFORD-Okay. Can you e-mail it to me?
MR. ROUND-Yes.
MR. SANFORD-Because I’d like to read that through, because I know the difference with
Option One was basically C.T. Male, there was like, I asked you for the cost.
MR. ROUND-Yes.
MR. SANFORD-And I think that was around a $13,000 price tag. Option Two was in the 30’s,
and then Option Three was even higher than that, and I’m just kind of looking at it, you know,
if it’s a matter of another $16, or $17,000 from Option One to Option Two, and we already had
the overlay, then I’m really not sure what we’ve really gotten out of this.
MR. ROUND-I don’t think, I think a lot of what has been done is, a lot we have completed, no
additional cost, is already there. So to bring the work to closure is not going to be an additional
scope of work. I mean, we’ve already, and it’s going to be less than what we had projected, and
what has been approved by the Board. So basically we’re reducing the costs that we initially
identified. It’s been a very difficult issue. There’s been a learning curve involved with all of us
here.
MR. VOLLARO-This lines up with Special Use Permits, you know, it’s almost on the same par
as that.
MR. SANFORD-Well, when we had the presentation, and I remember it was a joint presentation
to the Planning Board and the Town Board.
MR. ROUND-Correct.
MR. SANFORD-The C.T. Male presentation, we had already known all of that, I mean, quite
frankly, what he had to say. I mean, it wasn’t new information there, and that’s kind of where
we are now. I mean, the way I’m seeing it.
MR. ROUND-I hear you.
MR. SANFORD-All right. Okay.
MR. MAC EWAN-Is that it?
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MR. SANFORD-Well, I guess. I mean, that’s it, but I mean, I’m not sure how we’re ever going
to really deal with these things.
MR. MAC EWAN-I guess maybe a comment is just, you know, keep proceeding the way you
are. Maybe what we can do, in the interest of just dispersing information is keep me in the loop
with this, and if you feel so inclined that at some point you either want to have a joint meeting
again with the Town Board or elect a committee from the PB, I’ll take it from that point and
make the necessary movements.
MR. ROUND-I’ll run it through you, and you can talk to the rest of the Board. Okay. I’ll work
with that, and I think that’s all I wanted to bring to your attention tonight.
MR. MAC EWAN-That’s it?
MR. ROUND-Lastly, I don’t know if you’ve met Gretchen Steffan, our new Planning Board
alternate?
MR. MAC EWAN-I knew she looked familiar. Hi, Gretchen, how are you?
MR. ROUND-I know Albert Anderson was here. I know he introduced himself to Bob. I don’t
know if he met the rest of you.
MR. VOLLARO-He was here. He talked to me. Well, I’ve known him from before.
MR. MAC EWAN-Anything else? That’s it?
MR. ROUND-That was it.
MR. MAC EWAN-Okay. Let’s adjourn.
On motion meeting was adjourned.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
Craig MacEwan, Chairman
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