150.2021 Endorsing Consolidated Agreement and Setting PH - 5 Sewer Districts
RESOLUTION ENDORSING CONSOLIDATION AGREEMENT AND
SETTING PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING PROPOSED
CONSOLIDATION OF FIVE (5) TOWN SANITARY SEWER DISTRICTS
RESOLUTION NO.: 150, 2021
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Harrison Freer
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Anthony Metivier
WHEREAS, New York General Municipal Law Article 17-A authorizes water and sewer
districts to consolidate into combined districts if such combination “shall be conducive to the
public health, welfare, and convenience and be of special benefit to the lands of the district”, and
WHEREAS, the Queensbury Consolidated Sanitary Sewer District was duly established by
the Queensbury Town Board (“Town Board”) to serve the business district of Queensbury, including
portions of Aviation Road, Quaker Road, Upper Glen Street, Bay Road, Ridge Road, Meadowbrook
Road, and numerous other side streets, and
WHEREAS, the Route 9 Sewer District was duly established by the Town Board to serve
the mostly commercial area along Route 9 from Weeks Road to Route 149, including
portions of Weeks Road, Sweet Road and Lawton Avenue, and
WHEREAS, the West Queensbury Consolidated Sanitary Sewer District was duly
established by the Town Board to serve the West Queensbury area including Exit 18 of I-87
(Adirondack Northway) extending from the City of Glens Falls line at Western and Thomas
Streets to the area just past Exit 18 on Corinth Road and encompasses the Carey Road Industrial
Park and adjacent properties, and
WHEREAS, the Technical Park Sewer District was duly established by the Town Board to
serve the Queensbury Technical Park off Dix Avenue, portions of Dix Avenue and a portion of
Luzerne Road, and
WHEREAS, the Pershing, Ashley, Coolidge Sewer District was established to serve the
area including Pershing Road, Ashley Place and Coolidge Avenue, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board is the body responsible for the administration of all its
Sanitary Sewer Districts, including the aforesaid five (5) Sanitary Sewer Districts, and
WHEREAS, the Town Wastewater Director has studied whether it would be to the mutual
benefit, and in the best interests of the customers each serves, to combine these five (5) Sanitary
Sewer Districts into one District, proposed to be named the “Greater Queensbury Consolidated
Sanitary Sewer District,” and determined that such a combination would create greater operating
efficiencies and more equitable distribution of fiscal responsibilities, provide better service to the
public served by each District, and generate cost savings by avoiding duplication in administrative
services, and
WHEREAS, in addition, the risk of isolated unpredictable failures and costs will be spread
over the entire Consolidated District, expecting to result in a more financially stable District and
will also better allow the Consolidated District to reliably finance its operating and capital costs,
and
WHEREAS, Town Counsel and the Town Wastewater Director have prepared a proposed
Consolidation Agreement and provided it to the Town Board for its review,
WHEREAS, New York General Municipal Law Article 17-A requires the local
government entities to be consolidated to endorse a Consolidation Agreement by adoption of a
joint Resolution to commence consolidation proceedings, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board is the governing entity for each of the Districts, so the
statutory requirement for a joint Resolution is satisfied by adoption of a single Resolution by the
Town Board on behalf of each District,
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NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY
RESOLVED AS FOLLOWS:
1. The Queensbury Town Board (on behalf of each of the five (5) Sewer Districts)
hereby endorses the proposed Consolidation Agreement.
2. As stated in the proposed Consolidation Agreement, the Town Board shall meet at
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the Queensbury Activities Center, 742 Bay Road, Queensbury, New York, on Monday, June 21,
2021 at 7:00 p.m. to hear public comments on the proposed Consolidation Agreement and to take
such other and further action as may be required or authorized by law, which date is not less than
35 days and not more than 90 days after commencement of consolidation proceedings by
adoption of this Resolution.
3. The Town Board hereby authorizes and directs the Queensbury Town Clerk to:
(a) cause a copy and a Summary of the Agreement to be displayed and readily
accessible to the public for inspection in a public place, being the Town Clerk’s Office
located at 742 Bay Road, Queensbury, New York 12804 and also at the Town
Wastewater/Water Building located at 823 Corinth Road, Queensbury, New York
12804;
(b) cause a copy and a Summary of the Agreement and a reference to the public place
where they may be examined to be displayed on the Town’s website; and
(c) arrange for the Summary of the Agreement and a reference to the public place
where they may be examined to be published at least once each week for four (4)
successive weeks in The Post Star;
not more than five (5) business days after adoption of this Resolution, as required by the New
York General Municipal Law.
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4. The Town Board further authorizes and directs the Town Clerk to cause a Notice
of the Public Hearing, including a Summary of the Agreement and a reference to the public places
where it may be examined, to be published and displayed on the Town’s website not less than 10
or more than 20 days before the Public Hearing, as required by the New York General Municipal
Law.
5. The Town Board authorizes and directs the Town Supervisor, the Town
Wastewater Superintendent, the Town Clerk and Town Counsel to take all actions necessary to
effectuate this Resolution.
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Duly adopted this 3 day of May, 2021 by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Ferone, Mr. McNulty, Mr. Strough, Mr. Metivier, Mr. Freer
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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