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1986-11-06 -TOWN BOARD MEETING NOVEMBER 6, 1986 7:35 P.M. TOWN BOARD MEMBERS Mrs. Frances Walter-Supervisor Mr. George Kurosaka-Councilman Mr. Stephen Borgos -Councilman Mr. Ronald Montesi -Councilman Mrs. Betty Monahan -Councilman PRESS: Glens Falls Post Star, WENU, GUESTS: Ms. Jean Davis, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Picket, Mr. Bergeron, Mrs. Bennett PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY: Town Clerk, Darleen Dougher SUPERVISOR WALTER-Congratulated Darleen on her election to the Town Clerk's Office. The 1987 Town Budget for The Town of Rueensbury...expenditures are up from 1986, the revenues are up from 1986, most of the general fund will be covered with revenues. The Highway Dept. has about $420,885.00 to be raised by taxes at this point. The Pineview Cemetery is looking to raising about $25,000.00. For those residents who have not attended a budget meeting before the question always comes up...what is our tax rate going to be for next year...at some point we will be able to give you a general town tax the tax that everyone pays. Currently the town tax in Rueensbury is .94 (cents) a thousand. In the other special districts it is very difficult to tell you what your whole tax will be, because not everyone is in the same district. The Town Clerk has copies of the preliminary budget for anyone who is here who wishes to see where we are spending our money. We have heard relative to our insurance and the news is very good. We had been cancelled five or six weeks ago by our general liability carrier and we have been looking through the Cool Agency, our insurance consultant, Mr. Schmidt from Binghamton, for coverage with the best price. We are increasing our insurance coverage this year, our insurance bill will be down about $35,000.00 which is a general decrease of seventeen percent. In all areas our insurance has gone down, that is in property, general liability, automobile and our boiler insurance. Last year we paid $207,078.00 and in 1987 we will be covered again with expanded coverages and limits for $171,684.00. We used to have to pay up front in January, now we are able to catch a few dollars interest on that by paying monthly. We are the first community in the State who has announced that municipal insurance has gone down. JEAN DAVIS-President Crandall Library, we have met with you previously and discussed our proposed budget which you each have a copy of. In addition to the public funds we receive, we also receive grants from the state so that we are able to provide our programs. We do have some control over the operating expenses, with salaries, we did render increases this year so that we could keep the employees we have and give them a little stronger motivation and remain competitive. The employee benefits, and library materials have all increased along with inflation. The one area of expense over which we have little control, is with the operation and maintenance of the building. Our expense here does go up every year as well as other areas such as postage, publicity etc. We are asking for a 6.85 per capita support, we are asking forthis because if we want to continue to provide the services to Rueensbury as well as for the other municipalities and meet our expenses, it is important for us to have that amount of money. We are most grateful to Rueensbury for the support you have shown Crandall and hope you will continue and I know you will. We are here to confirm our position and answer any questions the board might have. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Asked Ms. Davis if 6.85 per capita from Queensbury would be a contribution from the town of 1/3 per thousand. JEAN DAVIS-Yes. STEPHEN BORGOS-Noted that he was pleased with the constant communication from the library and we are aware of their situation. Our initial budget is up significantly over last year, but certainly we will consider this in further deliberations. I think we were shooting for the $6. per capita...Maybe after tonight we can refine some things. DENNIS PHILLIPS-542 Glen Street, Glens Falls, and stated that Fred Fisher was JVa . approaching the Board with some materials from the Hyde Collection. I think.that the Town Board is aware of the fact that the trustees of the Hyde have announced a major campaign of five million dollars. This campaign is designed to add a new wing to the Hyde Museum which will link the present Hyde House with the Cunningham House so as to provide additional display space for the Hyde and also provide permanent collection space, temporary collection space, office space, classroom space, auditorium and work job space. This will be a gross space of 14,000 feet with space for public purposes of 9,000 square feet. The building which has been proposed is a building designed by Edward Larabee Barnes, a world renowned architect, one of the five foremost architects in the world and Mr. Barnes has been through Glens Falls on a few occasions and he is very excited about the Glens Falls, Queensbury, Lake George, Warren County Region. The building he has designed has a price tag on it of $3,000,000. The trustees would like to begin construction on this building in the spring of 1987 with the idea the construction period for this would be about fourteen months. Opening would be sometime in 1988. At this point we have raised 1.8 million dollars for this project and very soon we expect to announce that we will be in excess of 2 million dollars and our goal for January 1, 1987 is to have pledges and commitments of 3 million dollars. The money is divided between endowment r s construction because with a 3 million dollar building being added to the Hyde we anticipate that there will be additional cost associated with maintaining that building over the long haul and that is the reason for the 2 million endowment enhancement campaign. We have a $500,000. pledge to the endowment with respect to that part of the goal, we only have 1.5 million dollars to go. As far as the community is concerned we think that the Hyde Museum is one of the main attractions to our area, it is a resource for the people as the collection, has an old masters collection, one of two outside of New York City and New York State. The highlight of the Hyde Collection is a Rembrandt which is over 300 years old and presently valued over millions of dollars. In order to make this campaign work we are going to need the support of all levels of government. We have asked for one hundred thousand dollars from the Town of Queensbury, payable at the rate of $20,000 dollars a year with the idea that these would be capital monies that would be used to construct the building. We do anticipate that we will have to get into some building and loan contracts in order to spread the cost of this building over a period of time but we are trying to limit it to a five year period of time. In the context of the overall goal, the one hundred thousand dollars is a significant percentage but at the rate of $20,000 a year its something we feel is necessary to make the project work. In addition to the capital request we are making which is really a one shot request payable five times, we are asking for the Town of Queensbury to maintain its present level of support for the Hyde. We view the capital campaign in the annual operating budget campaign as two different amounts which are necessary to make the projects a success. One of our trustees, Roger Hague, a resident of the Town of Queensbury has written a letter to the Town requesting $100, 000.00 dollars payable over a five year period and on behalf of the trustees we respectfully ask for your most serious consideration of this. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Crandall Library has been giving us their updated financial statements, would it be possible for us to get that from the Hyde so internally we can take a look and see how our money fits and get an idea of what money is available? MR. PHILLIPS-Yes, the Hyde is a public trust and that information is available. We will make a point of providing it to the Town of Queensbury. WALTER GRIS 'KOT-ilidirondack Balloon Festival-The Adirondack Balloon Festival Js going into the fifteenth year, last year one of the things the festival was hit with was the insurance cost....noted how the festival works...there is no one on a payroll it is all volunteers, we work with community and civic organizations. It promotes a tremendous amount of publicity. The restaurants and other businesses do well from what he has heard so in the anticipation of the insurance going up and the accommodations, the propane and many other expenses we ask if it were possible if the Town could support the festival a little more financially. We are planning to use the Sheraton this year for the headquarters, which represents a considerable amount of money when you rent a 120 rooms and that is only some of the accommodations as we rent other places also. Thanked the Board for the opportunity to put the request in. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-Presently we buy two ads, $1250.00, what kind of increase over this are you asking for? WALTER GRISHKO"T'-The Balloon festival is a nonprofit organization but we pay sales tax and this is over a $1000.00 alone. If you could tell me what you think the insurance will be next year then I can tell you exactly what I would like. The insurance last year was $5750.00 and when we first started it was $148.00 when we first started � T 4ft working with Stephen, he came up with a budget $10,000.00. The budget for this year is around $45, to $50 thousand dollars. It depends a lot...if the balloons don't fly, everything stays the same except propane, the insurance, the accommodations etc. Each year we have a banquet for the balloonist but last year we cut the banquet out and had a brunch which brought the cost down. It does total up and I think that George who was in Florida on vacation heard about the balloon festival down there and we are in some national magazines and I do always use the Town of Rueensbury in the all the press releases, so it does get a tremendous amount of publicity from it. I would like to request an additional three thousand dollars. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-Last year the feeling of the county who owns the airport property was that without the liquor liability, or with the availability of a liquor or hostess insurance they did not want alcohol beverages served at the Balloon Fesitival as it had been in the past, would you say that is the feeling this year? WALTER GRISHKOYYes, definitely...we try very hard, we have a very good safety record, we even cut the amount of balloons that were participating last year and the alcohol beverages was a very important factor. One of the members who is a member of the Lions Club who is an insurance man could not absolutely not get the insurance and that is why they did not have the party down in Glens Falls. The County said unless we could get the hostess insurance which we can't they preferred not to have it and so did I... because I as chairman of the festival could be sued. One slight problem I ran into, is that the festival carries one million to three million dollars worth of insurance at the airport, now at the college when we have the official first flight from the ACC which we only need three hundred thousand dollars, but because you can't break up the amount, the insurance that the festival carries for the Friday afternoon flight is also one million to three million coverage also. Every balloon that comes has insurance. Noted... that the Red Lobster Balloon carries one hundred million dollars of insurance and as a spin-off from this balloon a person who is on the committee for the Red Lobster Balloon is looking to open up a Red Lobster Restaurant here. It is just a nice event and involves the community and many residents who live here not just tourist. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-I am glad you remember 1973. I recall getting the insurance at that time and it was a low price. To be consistent in what we are asking from the other groups it would be nice if we could have a copy of your financial statements. To go with advertising there is no problem in my mind, to go beyond that it is important for us to see the financial statement. WALTER GRISHKOT-We have a very small committee, and we are all volunteers and nobody gets paid. I get a small amount of money from the county to do publicity and that is the only thing I get paid for. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Asked if they could have a statement in a week or so? WALTER ! GRISHKOJYes, I will check with Joanie. Thanks. SUPERVISOR WALTER-I do want to call to the Boards attention that we did receive a request for funding form the Chapman Historical Museum, asking for $5000.00. The Lake George Opera Festival has also requested that the Town has supported the Opera Festival in the past and they would like a grant from the Town of Rueensbury in the 1987 budget, but have not given an amount. FLOYD PICKETT-What I would like to ask you about, this Lake George Opera festival...this has been a sore thing in my mind for years...you go over to the school and the parking lot is filled with cars, and you say they are doing good, making money hand over fist, why does the taxpayers of the Town of Rueensbury have to support a theater. This has been in my craw for years, we've got taxpayers here that have got their names in the paper where they can't pay their taxes now and every year, the Opera Festival gets tax money from our taxpayers. Everybody wants a raise in pay, this balloon festival wants a raise in money, when are we going to take and think about the people in the Town of Rueensbury who pays these taxes. Look in the paper and you will know that there is a bunch of people who are going downhill with their taxes and where do you think these people are going to go. What is going to happen to these people or don't anybody care? It seems outrages to think of raising money all the time and the poor tax payer never gets anything out of it. The Opera Festival, as far as I have heard has never given a cent toward our taxes. SUPERVISOR WALTER-First off we generally buy an ad in the program and that is how we justify our support because we are getting the name of the Town of Rueensbury out front about $3400.00 last year. The Town Board members in the past has felt that they wanted to make a minimal contribution over and above the ad price for ivy culture in our community in hopes that our children will be somewhat introduced to some cultural events. There is not any major support of any of these people with the exception of Crandall Library. As budget officer, I've spent a lot of sleepless nights trying to keep the tax rate in the Town of Queensbury down over the years. Your town tax last year was .94 a thousand and I dare say for your assessed value which is probably $20,000 you are paying less than twenty dollars a year for the services that the town provides. What we are dealing in this particular budget is a lack of funding from the federal government. We are finding that there are expenses that are associated with increased development and we are faced with them this year because this particular board felt there were some areas that needed special attention. FLOYD PICKETT-What does the Opera Festival turn back to the school board, towards taxes to help the people. I am telling you that there are people here that are losing their homes and taxes keep going up and up and you go to the Opera and see the buses and cars there and they are running in the black now and here we are supporting them. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-I think that you can be sure that everyone on the board is concerned about the taxes and the individuals and where the money is going to come from. We are all taxpayers also, so I think that we've got to realize that is a major concern. We are trying to keep it down. In regard to the Opera itself, I do know they pay a fee to the school for the use of the school, but I am not sure how many thousand of dollars that is. Also a few years ago there was an economic impact statement prepared by Professor Batino from ACC, dealing specifically with the economic impact statement of the Opera Festival on the town and on the county. Noted that if he wanted a copy of that, the festival could provide it. It was a very concertive effort and showed that for every dollar put in by the local community many dollars are returned, in sales tax, etc. JOHN BERGERON-2 Foster Avenue-I would like to know why you people think you deserve a raise, especially you, Mrs. Walters...$7,425.00 raise when the senior people on social security got a $6.00 raise. I think it is way out of line... SUPERVISOR WALTER-You have to understand that in the tentative budget all salaries were in for 5% across the board which is what our union negotiated contract was and I would say that between the tentative and the preliminary budgets, several salaries were increased. t COUNCILMAN BORGOS-This is a deep concern to all of us. In learning about the process and going through each and everyone of these pages there are lots of pages, we looked at not only equipment, we also looked at people who are working for the community and trying to say "are those people being paid fairly and adequately for the work performed"? In the specific case of the Supervisor we are talking, about the Supervisor,not Mrs. Walter, for the Town of Queensbury, with approximately 20,000 people with a budget of 8.8 million dollars, is grossly underpaid based on the responsibilities, the time that she puts in compared with other people of comparable positions in the community and in the general region, not only in town and city government but in other publicly supported things such as schools and colleges. We think it is time to make a dramatic increase to bring the salary of the Supervisor somewhere near where it should be. As quoted in the newspaper today, two constituents have talked to me about the level of the increase in the first year, and their argument was that it wasn't so much the total but in the jump in one year as you pointed out of $7,000.00, my position is that although it is a lot in one year its about time to get caught up to a level where Mrs. Walter is satisfied or the person in that position will be fairly compensated for their work. To get to a level that we could only reach by making a big jump at one point, which five percent a year will never get it there and when the time comes for election next year maybe the level will be high enough to encourage some other people to run for office. JOHN BERGERON-A lot of people in the Town of Queensbury would like your job for the same amount of money. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-We've learned to appreciate the work of the Supervisor whomever it might be. We know the hours we are putting in and the Supervisor is here much more. JOHN BERGERON-You don't have to, you can resign and let somebody else take the job. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Thats absolutely correct and in the case of our increases also, we have been around about this. We did run with a certain salary in mind and we came with that salary in mind. We've been educated to the fact that while it is bothersome to say the least that we are in a position where we have to raise our own salaries in order to get them up. I personally would prefer to see the raise wait until the next election so other people could come out and know what it is going to look like it. JOHN BERGERON-I am sure there will be a change on the Board, because I am not going to forget it. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Its a very difficult position to be in. I feel strongly for the Supervisors increase, I feel very strongly about the Highway Superintendent since a lot of people in the department without the responsibilities are earning salaries equal to or possibly greater than the Superintendent there are a number of other department heads that should go up also. JOHN BERGERON-When the government is cutting us back and all the towns around here are not raising their wages and salaries, I don't think our town should do it. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Rueensbury is growing at a very rapid rate. JOHN BERGER.ON-Then why don't those people who move in here pay taxes to help us? The way the town is growing, with all these fast food places and everything else, our taxes should have gone down a long time ago. More recreation, more everything, my daughter worked for recreation, and recreation is good but how many parks do we need? Now you want a park near Woodburys and some people want to take Round Pond and make another park, we will be all parks like Glens Falls and no parking place. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-We may find out the tax rate will drop because of all the businesses you are talking about. JOHN BERGERON-But when, this has been going on for years. When two years comes up for for election I am going to put an ad in the paper to tell the people not to forget how Mrs. Walters took a $7000.00 dollar raise. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-No, the Board gave it to her. JOHN BERGERON-I think it should be voted on by the people not the board. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-1 think if you had done the research we have done you would come to the same conclusion. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-How many years has the tax rate in the Town of Rueensbury been going down? JOHN BERGERON-Not ours. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-School tax we have nothing to do with but the tax rate you are looking at is a combined county and tax rate together but you will find them broken up. Underneath you will find what it is broken up to what is the county share and what is the town share and what is special district share and if you get out your old tax bills you will find that the general town tax has been going down for several years. JOHN BERGERON-Well, mine hasn't, not $7,000.00 worth. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-What we are saying to you is that the dollars we set in this budget the tax rate has gone down from the last four years. School taxes have gone up, fire taxes have gone up, and water bills have gone up but the taxes we are talking about here in this budget have gone down in the last four years and hopefully if we have enough sales tax revenue anticipated this year maybe the taxes won't go up this year. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Relative to the supervisors salary, one of the responsibility of the Supervisor of the Town of Rueensbury is to be the fiscal officer, that means the person holding that position invest the money. If you check the amount of interest that this town investment practices has brought in, you will find that they rate very high compared to how it is done throughout the state, that's because when we know money is coming in here, the Supervisor# gets' #tvery quickly and has it invested properly within twenty-four hours and some times during the same day. JOHN BERGERON-Thatts her job. J�L COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Granted but some people do not do this job as well when you look at other areas and see how this has turned out. I would also point out that the mayor of the City of Glens Falls with less population without the growth we are having, wit_hout the problems Queensbury is having, makes, I believe a comparable salary, of $ 34, 000 . M dollars. The mayor also has a treasurer to take part of the work load that the Town Supervisor takes and I forget what the salary of the City Treasurer is. You've got two people doing the job at a much higher salary then what the Supervisor of the Town Of Queensbury gets. Now the feeling is if you are going to get good people that have the capability and the background to administer this town, and this town is a business, you are going to have to give them a good salary. 9 JOHN BERGERON-I am sure that if the Supervisor died tonight there would be somebody who could take her job. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I am not saying that there aren't other people, what we are saying is that the job description of this type warrants a salary that we hope will get good people in here who will do the job and do it right. JOHN BERGERON-Why can't she take a $1000.00 and be satisfied? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-One reason why is because the Supervisor is the top officer of this town and it is our feeling that the Supervisor should not be being paid less than department heads who have no where near her responsibility, no where near her legal obligation. JOHN BERGERON-When Mrs. Walter first asked for a raise because she wanted to be a full time Supervisor, because it takes a full time, not part time, well I've called and she is never here. SUPERVISOR WALTER-I resent that remark. You have made so many erroneous remarks here tonight and they are your opinion and the way that you see them but they are not facts. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Chris was in and out of this office this summer ask her how many times she saw Mrs. Walter in her office. I am in this building a lot, I confer with Mrs. Walter not by phone but because I come in the door and find her in the office and talk to her about problems I have. -.. JOHN BERGERON-Its not only the $7000.00 raise but now she has an assistant with a big salary to help her do her work. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-For two years we have put that position in the budget and it wasn't filled last year, I don't know if it is going to be filled this year. It should be filled to do some of the nitty gritty stuff and leave the Supervisor free to contact businesses we are trying to get into this community. We are trying to get businesses in here and it is taking a lot of work to do it, we are trying to do this in order to bring your taxes down by widening your tax base. The houses coming into Queensbury are causing your taxes to go up not down. JOHN BERGERON-Why? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Because of the services they require and houses do not pay the taxes for the services they require. If Queensbury becomes a bedroom community you haven't seen anything yet to what is going to happen to this budget. A lot of our effort is going toward trying to widen the tax base and a lot of Mrs. Walter's efforts should be going toward trying to attract new businessesnot doing some of the nitty gritty things an assistant could do for her. She is really tied down where she should be out doing these type of wider services that are going to help the town. JOHN BERGERON-When you compare the services with Glens Falls and the services we get are very few. We don't have garbage disposal, no sewer, no water, because we get a water tax bill. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Why do you say you aren't getting water when you say you are getting a bill for it, actually so is Glens Falls. FLOYD PICKETT-Where is our Police Department we had, we have the Sheriffs Department but if you call them up there is such and such a thing going on, they say we haven't got time it'll be a while before you get any service. No body does anything. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-Our contract with the Sheriffs Department is something close to something like $300,000. but three or four years ago our own budget with our own Police Department was $680,000, can you imagine what that would be with the liability insurance today. It would have been a million dollar cost to the town to have four police cars in service. FLOYD PICKETT-Why don't we get the protection? COUNCILMAN MONTESI-Noted that it was impossible for the Sheriff Department to catch the kids on motorcycles and three wheelers as they move about quickly off and on the roads. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Noted that the Highway Superintendent asked to have his -- budget reviewed, as additional help is needed for the winter. Also referred to a letter received from the Heritage Hall Committee, Glens Falls Civic Center and signed by Robert King, Chairman. Mr. King indicates that the Heritage Hall Committee has been developing an area hall of fame and a sports hall of fame and he is asking for some monetary support for helping to defray cost of materials, mounting, framing and producing a brochure on this hall of fame. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-Asked if he put dollar value on this? SUPERVISOR WALTER-No, he hasn't. Its a new group that we have not heard from. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Noted that Pop Peasshas been presented to be included in the hall of fame, he was one of our early aviators, almost the start of the Floyd Bennett Airport on the Aviation Road. BARBARA BENNETT-Town of Queensbury-Queensbury is a town of little or no service and endless taxes. Taxes go up constantly, surrounding areas turn their sales tax in toward reducing the sales tax rate, Queensbury takes the sales tax but the greatest portion of it isn't put toward reducing our taxes. Now they are reassessing Queensbury and more taxes, use the greatest amount of your sales tax against reducing the taxes for the Town of Queensbury not the services that do not affect the residents directly. In addition to the growth it shouldn't all be turned into the growth. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Mrs. Bennett every dollar that we receive in sales tax appears on a line of the budget. It is part of the revenue column and that is what reduces your taxes. If we did not put the sales tax on the revenue line your taxes would be substantially higher. Sales tax is the backbone of the revenues of Queensbury. You cannot use the sales tax which is a general town tax for a special district. Special districts have to stand on their own and the only thing I can tell you that is regrettable is that because of the per capita income, because of the nature of development in Queensbury, increasing population, there are no formulas in any of the states programs that have allowed us to get aid on water districts. We are taking the sales tax to a revenue line so that it can be applied to revenues in the town to match against the appropriations to keep the difference between what we can raise in revenues and other sources against what we need to spend to operate the town. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Noted that two million, three hundred fifty thousand dollars in sales tax revenue has been applied against the budget to keep the taxes down. That is what we expect to get as our share of the sales tax through Warren County. Special districts are set up by New York State Law, we have control on that. BARBARA BENNETT-The newspaper said you did not know what amount the sales tax would be yet. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Stated that she wanted to qualify that... in this yearn budget, the one that the town is operating under right now, we have applied two million, ten thousand dollars of sales tax to our revenue line. Noted that they have to realistic about how much they think they are going to get in sales tax, if you go over and the year before they did, so on this years budget Two hundred seventy seven thousand dollars of the previous year excess was applied under fund balance to also bring down the taxes. Every dollar of sales tax that comes in does get used as a revenue in the town to keep your taxes down. GEORGE KUROSAKA-Referred to what Mrs. Bennett said that some of the towns are taking the sales tax and applying it to the County tax that reduces the county tax, we are taking the money ourselves and applying it to the town tax. We are &4/,p getting the benefit either way. COUNCILMAN MONTESI-Noted that it appears that the tax rate will not go up as much as the difference looks right now on the budget because we are going to have something to apply to it. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Warren County Real Property Department puts together the assessment figures and why there is a lag time, I don't know but it is difficult, as budget officer, to put together a tentative budget back in September as a tentative budget which you want to have fairly realistic and not be able to have any indication at all your new assessment is going to be because they don't come.in. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-Pointed out that the sales tax for next year is an estimate. We try to be conservative because if we estimate them high and then we have a recession and didn't take in that much, we would really be in a mess the following year trying to make up the difference. COUNCILMAN BORGOS-We are all concerned...If the sales tax goes up a few percentage points or even quite a few percentage points, the total dollar isn't going to be very much. We would like not to raise it at all, but it isn't going to be much in actual dollars. That's important to keep in mind. DISCUSSION HELD SUPERVISOR WALTER-Noted that several changes would appear on the adopted budget. COMMUNICATIONS RESOLUTION TO ATTEND SEMINAR RESOLUTION NO.286, Introduced by Mr. George Kurosaka who moved for its adoption seconded by Mr. Stephen Borgos. RESOLVED, that permission is hereby granted to Mr. Howard LaRose to attend a Conference, November 10, 11, 1986 at the Holiday Inn being put on by the New York State Association of County Directors of Real Property taxes, and be it further i RESOLVED, that the Town Board authorizes payment of all reasonable and necessary expenses. Duly adopted by the following vote. Ayes: Mr. Kurosaka, Mr. Borgos, Mr. Montesi, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent: None RESOLUTION TO SET PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS RESOLUTION NO. 287, Introduced by Mrs. Betty Monahan who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. George Kurosaka. WHEREAS, the Queensbury Town Board wishes to amend the Queensbury Subdivision Regulations, Now therefore Be It RESOLVED, that a public hearing be held November 25, 1986 at 7:30 P.M. relative to an amendment to the Town of Queensbury Subdivision Regulations in the language attached hereto, at which time all persons interested in the subject thereof will be heard, and be it further _ RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk be hereby directed and authorized to publish and provide notice of said public hearing as may be required by law. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Kurosaka, Mr. Borgos, Mr. Montesi, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None <1 ovg Absent: None Attached: Amendment to the Townbf Queensbury Subdivision Regulations . On motion the meeting was adjourned. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, DARLEEN M. DOUGHER, TOWN CLERK