320.98
NOTICE OF ADOPTION
At a Regular Meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury
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held on September 3. at 7:00 P.M. at the Queensbury Center, Town
of Queensbury, 742 Bay Road, Queensbury, New York, the following
resolution was passed, and is subject to permissive referendum:
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CONSOLIDATION OF THE WEST GLENS
FALLS WATER DISTRICT AND THE WEST GLENS FALLS
WATER DISTRICT EXTENSION WITH THE
QUEENSBURY CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT
RESOLUTION NO.: 320.98
INTRODUCED BY: MR. PLINEY TUCKER
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: MR. DOUGLAS IRISH
WHEREAS, there has previously been established and created a water district known and
described as the Queensbury Consolidated Water District, and
WHEREAS, there has previously been established and created water districts known and
described as the West Glens Falls Water District and the West Glens Falls Water District Extension,
and
WHEREAS, notice of a public hearing was given in the official newspaper of the Town of
Queensbury and the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury duly conducted a public hearing on
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September 3, 1998 on the subject matter of the proposal to consolidate the West Glens Falls Water
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District and the West Glens Falls Water District Extension with the Queensbury Consolidated Water
District pursuant to New York State Town Law Section 206,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby determines upon the
evidence given at the public hearing that it is in the public interest that the districts described above be
consolidated and that the resulting Consolidated Water District be known as the Queensbury
Consolidated Water District, and that all property of the West Glens Falls Water District and the West
Glens Falls Water District Extension and of the currently existing Queensbury Consolidated Water
District become the property of the new Queensbury Consolidated Water District and that the new
Consolidated Water District assume and pay the indebtedness of each of the original districts as if such
indebtedness had been incurred subsequent to the consolidation, pursuant to Town Law Section 206,
and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby determines that it is in the public interest to
consolidate the districts and that it is in the public interest that all future assessments of all costs of
operation, maintenance and improvements of the Queensbury Consolidated Water District and West
Glens Falls Water District and West Glens Falls Water District Extension, including any such costs that
were formally assessable by law, upon the taxable real property in the aforesaid Districts, be assessed
upon the taxable property in the new Queensbury Consolidated Water District, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby orders and directs the consolidation of the Water
Districts as determined to be in the public interest and orders and directs that there be annually assessed
upon all taxable real property in the new Queensbury Consolidated Water District amounts sufficient to
pay the principal of and interest on all outstanding indebtedness of the new Consolidated District,
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including the prior outstanding indebtedness of the West Glens Falls Water District, the West Glens
Falls Water District Extension and the currently existing Queensbury Consolidated Water District, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that if there are any Office of Commissioners provided for in any of the districts,
the offices shall be abolished upon the effective date of the aforedescribed consolidation, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that in accordance with Section 206, Subdivision 4 of the Town Law, the Town
Board hereby authorizes and directs the Town Clerk to publish and post this Resolution within ten (10)
days after the adoption of this Resolution, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that this Resolution shall be subject to a permissive referendum as provided by
Section 206 of the Town Law.
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Duly adopted this 3 day of September, 1998, by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Merrill, Mr. Irish, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Champagne
NOES : None
ABSENT: Mr. Turner
I, Darleen M. Dougher, Town Clerk of the Town of Queensbury, Warren
County, New York, do hereby certify that I have compared the
foregoing with the original Resolution as listed entitled
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CONSOLIDATION OF THE WEST GLENS FALLS WATER
DISTRICT AND THE WEST GLENS FALLS WATER DISTRICT EXTENSION WITH THE
QUEENSBURY CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTIRCT adopted at a Regular meeting
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of the Town of Queensbury held on the 3 day of September, 1998 at
which a quorum was present and that the same is a correct
transcript therefrom and of the whole original thereof to date.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and the SEAL of
said Town of Queensbury, this 4th day of September, 1998.
SEAL SIGNED:____________________________
Darleen M. Dougher
Town Clerk
Town of Queensbury
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