2013-04-08- Mtg 16 - SP SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING MTG#16 1019
SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING MTG. #16
APRIL 8, 2013 RES 182
7:00 P.M.
TOWN BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT
SUPERVISOR RONALD MONTESI
COUNCILMAN ANTHONY METIVIER
COUNCILMAN BRIAN CLEMENTS
COUNCILMAN JOHN STROUGH
COUNCILMAN TIM BREWER
PRESS
POST STAR
Discussion-Lake Sunnyside Aquatic Plant Growth Control
SUPERVISOR MONTESI —1 have put together information on what we will be
able to work with for the next few years we will need guidance on how you
want to approach this. We collect seventeen thousand dollars a year about
ninety five dollars per unit one parcel has twenty two owners on it if you
owned a piece of the twenty two it might be two dollars a year more for you.
To form the district the engineering with the legal was fifteen thousand dollars
that included the two thousand dollars for the easement so you end up with
thirteen thousand eight hundred per year for at least the first five years. I
want to make sure you all understand if we are going to hire people for you if
it's just for doing harvesting you have to pay prevailing rates we want to be
careful with that it is expensive. Received the figure from Glen Lake they are a
couple of years ahead of you on their taxing district the last time they bid this
it was a thousand dollars per acre for using the herbicide. If we did all forty
acres of Sunnyside it would forty thousand dollars. The plan that the folks
have is they did not want to do any herbicide the first year you just wanted to
do some harvesting.
LAKE SUNNYSIDE COMMITTEE MEMBER-The original plan that was set up is
that we would do hand harvesting herbicide in a three year cycle. What we
really would like to do is just do hand harvesting. We know that there is too
much milfoil in the lake at the moment to start with hand harvesting. We
would do nothing this year then do an herbicide treatment next year with the
amount of money that we have. Our lake is about thirty five acres the last
time we had it done it cost us seventeen thousand dollars this only needs to be
applied around it. It is on the eastern side and south side of the lake is where
the problem is the center doesn't get any because it is too deep.
LAKE SUNNYSIDE COMMITTEE MEMBER- Over the past five years we have
done multiply applications with sonar after an application of sonar was put in
the lake we managed to clear approximately a twenty percent square area of
the infected zone on the lake. Now the only concern we have to do is
periodically go in and pick out the few stray plants that migrate in from
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contaminated areas. We have proven effectively that there is a process that
we can implement in the long term to manage the lake to get it down to where
there are very few plants in the lake. The overall cost for the residents is going
to decrease we will not need to use chemicals anymore. We are not going to
have enough money for the hand harvesting to be effective at all. Ideally the
best way to do it would be to save up as much money as possible over the next
three or four years do a chemical treatment and then just blast the lake
consistently with hand harvesting that would get the lake under control. From
a usage standpoint and for the residents on the lake that is not acceptable
processes letting the lake go. We agree and have had meetings with a lot of
the residents of the lake they buy into the logic they have seen the progress,
the fact that it can work so we came up with do nothing this year next year try
to do a chemical treatment then the following year have a plan already in
place to where we're out hand harvesting in a specific sequence.
SUPERVISOR MONTESI-After further discussion the plan is for no action for this
year, treatment with the chemical Sonar in 2014 and hand harvesting in 2015.
As soon as I get a number from what we collected this year I will let you know.
Discussion — Water Department
Water Superintendent Bruce Ostrander spoke to the board regarding the
Administration Building boilers. They were installed in 1992 at the water
filtration plant they are running on oil there was no natural gas available at
that time. The boilers have to be replaced we would like to switch over to
natural gas. The Town would recoup the cost of replacement in eight years
through reduced utility costs; the Town Board is in agreement of replacing the
boilers, Supervisor Montesi will find out whether this would require a public
hearing or just a resolution. Water Superintendent Ostrander spoke to the
board regarding the memo he has sent out to board members regarding his
plan to retire sometime between June 2014 and September of 2014. The
plan would be for the Wastewater Director, Chris Harrington to manage the
Water Department and Waste Water Department. Anew employee would be
hired and trained to be chief operator of the water filtration plant.
Discussion - Craig and Lisa Jenkin, Rockwell Road Queensbury
Spoke to the board asking the board to rezone their twenty acre parcel to RR3 to
allow them to keep a horse on it noted there are other property owners in the
vicinity that have horses. (Presented maps to board members) Councilman
Strough recommended that they survey their neighbors to see if there would be
opposition to the rezoning. Supervisor Montesi to discuss this request with Craig
Brown to see what the options would be.
RESOLUTION ADJOURNING SPECIAL TOWN BOARD MEETING
RESOLUTION NO. 182, 2013
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. John Strough
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WHO MOVED FOR ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Tim Brewer
RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby adjourns its
Special Town Board Meeting.
Duly adopted this 8t" day of April, 2013 by the following vote:
Ayes: Mr. Metivier, Mr. Clements, Mr. Strough, Mr. Brewer, Mr. Montesi
Noes: None
Absent:None
Respectfully Submitted,
Darleen M. Dougher
Town Clerk
Town of Queensbury