473.92
RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING ON MODIFICATION TO
AGREEMENTS WITH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND RESCUE SQUADS
REGARDING PHYSICAL OR MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
RESOLUTION NO.: 473, 92
INTRODUCED BY: Mrs. Betty Monahan WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Nick Caimano
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury has been
advised that there are certain federal regulations that require
that physical or medical examinations be offered to firemen and
rescue workers, and
WHEREAS, Volunteer Firemen and Rescue Squad Workers associated
with Volunteer Fire Companies and Rescue Squads in the Town of
Queensbury Fire Protection District, previously secured physical/
medical examinations through Warren County and have now been
advised that said physical/medical examination services will no
longer be available from the County, and
WHEREAS, the members of the Volunteer Fire Companies and
Rescue Squads have advised that physical/medical examinations can
be obtained through Northcare medical facilities, but that the same
will result in a cost of approximately $15,000.00 for all affected
Volunteer Fire Companies and Rescue Squads, and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid physical/medical examinations cost is
not something that the Fire Companies or Rescue Squads had to
previously pay as the same were provided through the government of
Warren County, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury and the
Volunteer Fire Companies and Rescue Squads are desirous of
modifying the terms of the agreements currently in existence
between the parties to arrange for and make available to all
volunteer fire fighters and rescue squad workers the physical/
medical examinations, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board has reviewed the proposed
modifications to the agreements and finds that the modifications to
the agreements and payments required by said modifications are not
expected to exceed the approximate sum of $15,000.00 in total and
to be in the public interest and beneficial to the residents of the
Town of Queensbury, and
WHEREAS, Section 184 of the Town Law of the State of New York
provides that the contracting parties, by mutual consent, after
public hearing, may amend an agreement provided it is in the public
interest to do so, and it would also seem appropriate to similarly
modify Rescue Squad Contracts due to the fact that the physical/
medical examinations cost was not originally contemplated by
the parties at the time the agreements were entered into, and price
therefore agreed to,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby
approves of the form of the proposed agreement between the
Volunteer Fire Companies and Rescue Squads and hereby further
authorizes and directs that a Notice of Public Hearing be
advertised in the official newspaper for the Town and that a Public
Hearing be held on the issue of whether the agreement should be
modified as proposed in the agreement presented at this meeting,
and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Notice of Public Hearing is hereby approved
and shall be advertised in accordance with the appropriate
provisions of the Town Law or General Municipal Law of the State of
New York, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Public Hearing shall be on the 14th day of
September, 1992, at which time the Town Board shall hear all
citizens and residents desiring to speak or comment relative to the
same, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that all costs incurred as a result of the
aforementioned agreement shall be paid for from the Miscellaneous
Contractual Account line of the Fire Protection Budget or from the
unappropriated fund balance of the Fire Protection Fund.
Duly adopted this 31st day of August, 1992, by the following
vote:
AYES : Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Goetz, Mr. Caimano, Mr. Tucker, Mr.
Brandt
NOES : None
ABSENT: None