307.2002
ORDER SETTING PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING PROPOSED
INCREASE IN MAXIMUM AMOUNT TO BE EXPENDED ON SOUTH
QUEENSBURY – QUEENSBURY AVENUE SEWER DISTRICT
RESOLUTION NO.: 307, 2002
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Daniel Stec
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Theodore Turner
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury, Town of Kingsbury, Warren County, Queensbury
Economic Development Corporation, Washington County Sewer District #1, Warren-Washington
County Industrial Development Agency and City of Glens Falls have entered into an Intermunicipal
Agreement to jointly construct sewer facilities connecting the existing Washington County Sewer
District #1 (WCSD#1) Wastewater Treatment Plant to the City of Glens Falls Wastewater Treatment
Plant (GFWWTP), and
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury is acting as the coordinator of the project and will issue
its municipal bonds and/or bond anticipation notes to finance a portion of the project with amounts
required for debt service to be apportioned among the municipalities, municipal agencies and
individual properties which will be benefited by the project, and
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury has created the sewer district known as the South
Queensbury-Queensbury Avenue Sewer District, and
WHEREAS, a District Formation Report (Map, Plan and Report) was prepared by Jarrett-
Martin, LLP, professional engineers, concerning the proposed sewer district formation and the
construction of sewer facilities involving three sewer districts and connecting the existing Washington
County Sewer District #1 (WCSD#1) Wastewater Treatment Plant to the City of Glens Falls
Wastewater Treatment Plant (GFWWTP) along a route following Queensbury Avenue and the
Niagara Mohawk Right of Way, which area also included 30 lots in the Warren-Washington Counties
Airport Industrial Park, the Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport and several parcels along the proposed
force main route to the City of Glens Falls, as more specifically set forth and described in the Map, Plan
and Report (the "Project"), and
WHEREAS, the Map, Plan and Report was filed in the Queensbury Town Clerk's Office and is
available for public inspection, and
WHEREAS, the Map, Plan and Report delineates the boundaries of the sewer district, a
general plan of the sewer system, a report of the sewer system and method of operation, and
WHEREAS, the South Queensbury – Queensbury Avenue Sewer District was duly and
properly formed, and
WHEREAS, the estimated annual cost to the “typical property” was filed with the Town
Clerk and as part of the Map, Plan and Report, and
WHEREAS, the Town has received bids for this Project and all of the bids were in excess
of the maximum estimated cost of the Project set forth in the Map, Plan and Report, and
WHEREAS, the Town still feels that this is an important Project, and
WHEREAS, the costs to the typical user still do not exceed the State Comptroller’s Office
threshold for the average estimated cost of a sewer district to a typical user, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board wishes to increase the maximum amount to be expended for the
South Queensbury-Queensbury Avenue Sewer District in accordance with Town Law Article 12-A,
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS
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ORDERED:
1. The boundaries of the South Queensbury – Queensbury Avenue Sewer District have
not changed and are shown on the Project Location Map included with the Map, Plan and Report on
file with the Town Clerk’s Office. The benefited properties proposed to be a part of the Sewer District
are as follows:
TAX MAP NO. OWNER/USE
303.10-1-12North Country Imports (automobile dealership)
297.16-1-1Airron Industrial
297.16-1-2Airron Industrial
297.20-1-2Airron Industrial
297.20-1-3Airron Industrial
303.12-1-9Warren County
303.10-1-8Forest Enterprises
303.11-1-4Forest Enterprises
303.15-1-25Forest Enterprises
303.15-1-18 Garden World Assoc.
303.15-1-20 Forest Enterprises
303.15-1-21 Forest Enterprises
303.15-1-22 Forest Enterprises
303.15-1-23 Glens Falls National Bank & Trust Company
303.15-1-24 Forest Enterprises
303.10-1-9 Top of the World Auto Body
2. Four separate sewer districts, including the existing Warren County Sewer District #1
and Washington County Sewer District #1 and the South Queensbury-Queensbury Avenue Sewer
District and Kingsbury Sewer District, will utilize the improvements which comprise the Project. The
proposed improvements will connect the existing wastewater collection system to the City of Glens
Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant by constructing a gravity sewer line along Queensbury Avenue
connected to a pump station opposite the Floyd Bennett Memorial Airport which will lift wastewater
through a force main to a gravity sewer manhole in Dix Avenue. Specific improvements include the
construction of the pumping station, installation of approximately 1000 feet of gravity sewer to convey
sewage from the existing Warren County Sewer District #1 Wastewater Treatment Plant to the
pumping station, installation of a force main southward along Queensbury Avenue to an existing
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. right-of-way, westward along the NIMO right-of-way to Quaker
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Road, under Quaker Road by directional borings, along the south shoulder of Apollo Drive and along
the south edge of a NIMO parking lot to an existing City of Glens Falls municipal sewer manhole. The
improvements are still more fully described in the Map, Plan and Report.
3. All proposed improvements shall be installed and paid for as described in the Map, Plan
and Report (including the cost payable to the City at the time of initial hook-up) and shall be
constructed and installed in full accordance with the Town of Queensbury's specifications, ordinances
or local laws, and any State laws or regulations, and in accordance with approved plans and
specifications and under competent engineering supervision.
4. The maximum amount proposed to be expended for these improvements is increased
from $2,204,035 to approximately $2,596,328 including a one time buy-in fee to the City of Glens
Falls wastewater treatment facility which is estimated to be $.50 per gallon of average daily flow, which
in this case will equal $12,500. As described in paragraph 7 below, the amount for which existing and
new District users will be responsible for is increased from $903,195 to approximately $1,367,591.
The improvement costs for various components of the Sewer District are detailed in the bid
information on file with the Town Clerk’s Office.
5. Nearly all of the properties within the Sewer District are zoned for industrial or
commercial use but are vacant at this time. Under Town Law Section 209-a(2), "Typical Property"
is defined as a benefited property having an assessed value that approximates the assessed value of
the mode of the benefited properties situated in the district or extension that will be required to
finance the cost of the proposed improvements. Using this definition, the assessed value of the
"Typical Property" is $50,000 and the total estimated annual cost of the District to the "Typical
Property" during the first year following formation would be increased from $340 to $372. The
estimated annual cost of the District for debt service and operation and maintenance costs to a
typical one or two family home during the first year following formation would be increased from
$170 to approximately $186. There would be no actual hook-up fees. The cost to retain a private
contractor to install a new collection sewer system and/or sewer lateral between a building and the
main Project sewer lines vary significantly depending on the individual conditions including
distance from the line and various subsurface conditions. Typical sewer lateral installation costs
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have been at least several thousand dollars; it is impossible to generalize the costs for collections
sewer systems.
6. A detailed explanation of how the estimated cost of the District to the typical property,
and, if different, the typical one or two family home was computed is included in the Map, Plan and
Report which is on file with the Town Clerk and available for public inspection. The bid information
leading to the increase in the maximum amount is also on file and available for inspection.
7. The proposed method of financing the total cost of the Project includes the following:
A.U.S. Department of Commerce-Economic Development Administration Grant in the
amount of 50% of the Project cost up to $600,000;
B.NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Clean Water/Clean Air Bond Act Grant
in the amount of $302,000;
C.$325,000 purchase of future capacity in the sewer district; and
D.issuance of Bonds and/or Bond Anticipation Notes by the Town of Queensbury on
behalf of the Sewer District in the amount of $1,369,328, increased from $903,195.
Debt service on the Bonds will be paid by an annual benefit tax charge to users and annual sewer use
charges will be imposed to pay the costs of operation and maintenance.
8. The Town Board shall meet and hold a public hearing to hear all persons interested in
the increase of maximum amount to be expended for the Sewer District and take such other and further
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action as may be required or authorized by law, at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, August 5, 2002 at the
Queensbury Activities Center, 742 Bay Road, Queensbury, New York.
9. The Town Board hereby authorizes and directs the Queensbury Town Clerk to duly
publish and post this Order not less than ten (10) days nor more than twenty (20) days before the
public hearing date, as required by Town Law §209-d and §209-h and complete or arrange for the
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securing of two (2) Affidavits of Publication of Notice and two (2) Affidavits of Posting of Notice of
the Public Hearing required hereby and to file a certified copy of this Order with the State Comptroller
on or about the date of publication.
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Duly adopted this 23 day of July, 2002 by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Boor, Mr. Turner, Mr. Stec, Mr. Brower
NOES : None
ABSENT: Mr. Brewer
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