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1985-08-27 1200 TOWN BOARD MEETING AUGUST 27, 1985 TOWN BOARD MEMBERS Mrs. Frances Walter-Supervisor Mr. Daniel Olson-Councilman Dr. Charles Eisenhart-Councilman Mr. Daniel Morrell-Councilman Mrs. Betty Monahan-Councilman Mr. Wilson Mathias-Town Counsel PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY COUNCILMAN EISENHART PRESS: G.F. Post Star GUESTS: Mr. DeMars, Mr.. Harris, Mr. Osgood TOWN OFFICIALS: Mr. Paul Naylor, Mr. Rick Missita MEETING OPENED 7:33 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE SHOWN-HEARING OPENED 7:33 P.M. Proposed Amendment to the Queensbury Zoning Ordinance - amending Article 2 Section 4.020 a) 42. "Garage, Private Parking" means an accessory building or structure, attached or detached, used primarily to shelter automobiles; and provided that, with the exception of farms, such garage may be used to shelter only one (1) commercial vehicle, but in no event shall such commercial vehicle exceed one and one half ton capacity. See also definition#81 "Parking Area, Private" SUPERVISOR WALTER-Asked for public input...This all stems from some problems we are having in areas of our town, residential areas, where we are finding that commercial vehicles are on the streets ... our counsel has recommended that we change the definition... TOWN COUNSEL-The Building & Zoning Dept. believed that the current ordinance definition meant what the new definition says they had instructed applicants that this definition meant that you could not have commercial vehicles, a one and a half parked in a back yard in a residential zone. There were several violations and proceedings in our Justice Court, when I reviewed the definition under the ordinance and discussion the violation with the Building & Zoning Dept. and with the Attornies of the various defendants, I was forced to conclude that the former definition did not prohibit what everyone thought it prohibited. What we are doing is clarifying the definition to insure that it is understood, that it means what everyone thought it did in the beginning. MR. DEMARS-Questioned if this would apply to Recreational Vehicles since they are licensed as Commercial Vehicles? TOWN COUNSEL-That would not be considered commercial under our ordinance... SUPERVISOR WALTER-That would be a Recreational Vehicle which is covered under the Zoning Ordinance... Asked for further comments, hearing none the Public Hearing was Closed. 7:40 P.M. RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION TO AMEND QUEENSBURY ZONING ORDINANCE RESOLUTION 192, Introduced by Dr. Charles Eisenhart who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: WHEREAS, the Queensbury Town Board requested an amendment to the Queensbury Zoning Ordinance, and WHEREAS, the Queensbury Town Board set a public hearing on August 27, 1985 at 7:30 P.M. on the proposed amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, and WHEREAS, the Public Hearing was held at the specified time and place and all interested parties were heard on the proposed amendments to the Queensbury Zoning Ordinance, NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the following amendment be added to the Queensbury Zoning Ordinance: ARTICLE Z SECTION 4.020 a) 42. "Garage, Private Parking" means an accessory building or structure, attached or detached, used primarily to shelter automobiles; and provided that, with the exception of farms, such garage may be used to shelter only one (1) commercial vehicle, but in no event shall such commercial vehicle exceed one and one �- half ton capacity. See also definition #81 "Parking Area, Private"." Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:None RESOLUTION TO APPOINT ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS MEMBER RESOLUTION NO. 193, Introduced by Mrs. Betty Monahan who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: WHEREAS, a vacancy exists on the Queensbury Zoning Board of Appeals due to the resignation of James Mills, and WHEREAS, the term does not expire until September 14, 1986, NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board of Queensbury herey appoints Jeffrey Kelley of Queensbury to fulfill the unexpired term that ends September 14, 1986. I --- Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:None RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING LEAD AGENCY AND ADOPTING DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE OF ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTRAL QUEENSBURY/QUAKER ROAD SEWER DISTRICT RESOLUTION NO. 194, Introduced by Mr. Daniel Morrell who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mrs. Betty Monahan: WHEREAS, Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law established the State Environmental Quality Review Act, and WHEREAS, such act requires environmental review of certain actions undertaken by local governments, and WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury recognizes the need for the creation of a central sewer district to serve the residents of the Town which proposed district is detailed in Final Engineers Report for Proposed Central Queensbury/Quaker Road Sewer District of Kestner Engineers, P.C., dated August 23, 1985 and currently on file in the Town Offices and WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury is duly qualified as lead agency with respect to the creation and establishment of said district; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury is hereby designated lead agency 202 for purposes of SEQRA compliance in the creation and establishment of the Central Queensbury/Quaker Road Sewer District, and be it further RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury adopt the annexed notice of determination of non-significance, and that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Conservation and the Region 5 Offices of the D.E.C., Department of Health, Department of Transportation, Warren County Planning Department, and the City of Glens Falls. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter j Noes: None Absent:None SEQRA Negative Declaration Notice of Determination of Non-Significance This notice is issued pursuant to Part 617 of the implementing regulations pertaining to Article 8 (State Environmental Quality Review) of the Environmental Conservation Law. I The Town Board of the Town of Queensbury has determined that the proposed action described below will not have a significant effect on the environment. 1. Title of Action: Proposed Central Queensbury/Quaker road Sewer District. 2. SEQRA Status: Unlisted action. 3. Description of Action: Installation of 77,500 Linear feet of Sanitary sewers and sewage pump stations. 4. Reasons Supporting Determination: Based upon the Environmental Assessment Form filed by Kestner Engineers, P.C. dated August 22, 1985, the personal inspection of the area by the members of the Town Board, the public hearings and proceedings resulting in the preparation and completion of Final Environmental Impact Statement Wastewater Collection and Treatment Facilities, Lake George-Upper Hudson Region, New York, prepared by the United State Environmental Protection Agency dated December 1983, and the Town Board's determination that no site specific impacts of the proposed action were inadequately addressed or unidentified in the said F.E.I.S., the Town Board finds that the project will result in no major impacts, and that all significant environmental effects were identified and addressed by the aforesaid F.E.I.S., and therefore pursuant to Section 617.7 -a d 617.15 no further review process is required. 5. For further Information: Contact Person: Frances J. Walter Town Supervisor Town of Queensbury Bay & Haviland Rds. Queensbury, N.Y. 12801 (518) 792-5832 6. The Town of Queensbury Maintains a file of its proceedings and determination and the supporting reasons therein which file is a a fable for Public inspection. Dated: August 27, 1985 Town Board Town of Queensbury Bay & Haviland Rds. Queensbury, N.Y. 12801 SUPERVISOR WALTER-We are able to set a public hearing on the proposed sewer dist. because we have reached agreement with the City of Glens Falls to handle our sewage from that district into the new Glens Falls facility. We were at the negotiation table for close to a year and a half. The Town Board had looked at two other options, 1. to go to the Washington County Sewer Dist. and 2. to construct �Q3 a sewer plant of our own. This is by far the most economical, we hope with our schedule, if everthing goes according to plan that ..,s �.. �• district and be about the s - " e able "' coastruct our same tirnse ready as the plant is for operation in the City of Glens Falls. Even though we spent a lot of time in negotiations I feel for the best deal for the Town of Queensbury we really have not lost any time because we would have had no where to go. Our Engineers will be present if the Town Board sets the district, which I am sure they will, for our meeting on September 12, 1985. At that time they will make a full presentation with the costs of the district where the district will be located and they will be able to answer any questions that those people that are in the district or who would like to be in the district, will be present to answer questions. This report is the final engineers report and it will be on file in the Town Clerk's Office so any member of the public will be able to take a look at it. The Sewer District runs from Route 87 east side along the Quaker Road south to Route 9 it picks up Quaker Road North and South to a point about North of Cronin Road going east to Ridge Road and taking in Albany System Engineers and it goes from the City Line. It will be picking up many of the problem areas plus the commercial district. One of the fine features of our negotiations agreement is the fact that we will be able to buy in, we will buy capacity in the plant when it becomes available. When the plant is in operation and they have more capacity we have the option to buying in. That gives us flexability as far as extending our district. There are several areas that the Planning Board felt this would be necessary in the next ten years. This is a thirty year contract and we will be paying a portion of the operation and maintenance in h t e City f Glens Falls Plant,ant, that would be based on the amount of flow. At this point we are estimating our flow to be 1Q% of the capacity of the plant. Although the district is important tant to us it is a small portion of what will be handled by the fairly large sewage system. Discussion was held in regard to the a date on the resolution, it was agreed to by the entire Town Board to revise the resolution to state August 23, 1985. COUNCILMAN OLSON- With this contract we have reached with the City of Glens Falls has got to be one of the largest accomplishments and is going to make the best use of our facilities, along Quaker Road, our commercial area along Quaker Road and Route 9. I like to compare this proposed district with the position that the town was in ten or eleven years ago before we went to the water treatment plant. The Town was growing and had a need for water for businesses and homes, which was being held back until we had a source of water. The Town built a plant on the Hudson River and we can all see the growth and development of new homes and construction based on that water treatment plant. Now as we look at a sewer dist. we should also be expecting what good things will happen to the Town and our business community, it should make our commercial dist. grow. I am please that we can buy into.the plant to extend the district...this area will be in a growth cycle similiar to the way the growth has grown based upon providing water to the Town of Queensbury. As one member of this Board I want to thank the Board also for their work and the Supervisor for bringing this project to reality. SUPERVISOR WALTER-One advantage of this is the fact that it is a cooperative agreement with another community. I think that since we are buying capacity in the City Plant helps the people in the City of G.F. because we are taking some of the burden off them. The people that live in this district, we have heard from a lot of them over the years, they are just happy to have a sewer, they do not care what the cost is because of the problems that they have experienced, but on the other hand there are those that are concerned about the costs. All the time I was negotiating that was something that was on my mind. COUNCILMAN MORRELL-I would like to add that the Federal and State Government are telling us that we have to solve these problems and they dry up all the funding, to solve the problems and this is basically a funded project by the tax base of the Town, without outside help. I think that this will be a mile stone example to the Federal and State funding agencies so that once we get this thing going maybe we can be a recipient of help to other areas of the Town, where the tax base is not that great but the sewer problems are. SUPERVISOR WALTER-This is a direct cost to the people of the district it doesn't reach everyone... COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I think one of the great things about this is the cooperation between Glens Falls and Queensbury. We are not having a duplication of tax dollars, in otherwords on the local, state and federal governments it is all going for one plant not two plants, which would have been a great waste of tax dollars. SUPERVISOR WALTER-The Town of Queensbury is not eligible for Federal Funds...they 2®4 }i�iv a c^r -ins sheet and we do not meet the criterip.. IN THE MATTER OF THE QUAKER ROAD SEWER DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY, COUNTY OF WARREN, STATE OF NEW YORK, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 12 OF THE TOWN LAW RESOLUTION NO. 195, Introduced by Mrs. Frances Walter who moved for its adoption, seconded by Dr. Charles Eisenhart: WHEREAS, a map, plan and report have been prepared in a manner and detail as determined by the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury regarding the establishment of a proposed Sewer Collection District in the south-central area of the Town; and WHEREAS, such map, plan and report have been filed in the Town Clerk's Office in the Town; and WHEREAS, the map, plan and report were prepared by Kestner Engineers, P.C. of Troy, New York; New York State licensed professional engineers; showing the boundaries of the proposed district and a general plan of the sewer system and a report of the proposed method of operation; and WHEREAS, the boundaries of the proposed Quaker Road Sewer District are as follows: DESCRIPTION OF CENTRAL QUEENSBURY QUAKER ROAD SEWER DISTRICT ALL THAT CERTAIN TRACT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, situate, lying, and being in the Town of Queensbury, County of Warren, State of New York and being more particularly bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at the point of intersection of the westerly line of Glen Street with the northerly line of the City of Glens Fells, said point also being the southeast corner of the Town of Queensbury tax map lot number 102-2-8; thence westerly along the northerly line of the said City of Glens Falls to the northwest corner of said city, said point also being in the southerly line of tax map lot number 102-2-9; thence continuing in a westerly direction along the southerly line of tax map lot number 102-2-9 and tax map lot number 102-2-4 to the southwest corner of said lot, said point also being the most southerly corner of tax map lot number 99-2-6; thence in a northerly direction along the westerly line of said lot number 99-2-6 and Angel Lane to a point in the southerly line of tax map lot number 99-2-3; thence in a southwesterly direction along the southerly line of said lot to the southwest corner thereof; thence in a northerly direction along the westerly line of said lot number 99-2-3 and through the lands of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation to the southeast corner of tax map lot number 99-1-4; thence along the southerly line of said lot number 99-1-4 to the southwest corner thereof, said point being in the southerly line of tax map lot number 98-1-5.2; thence in a westerly direction along the southerly line of said lot number 98-1-5.2 to the point of intersection with the easterly line of Interstate Route 87 Northway; thence in a northerly direction along the easterly line of said northway to the intersection with the northerly line of tax map lot number 72-1-10; thence easterly along said northerly line to the northeast corner of said lot number 72-1-10; thence easterly across June Drive to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 72-3-18; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 72-3-18 to the northeast corner thereof; thence northeasterly across Carleton Drive to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 72-5-14; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 72-5-14 to the northeast corner thereof, said point being in the westerly line of tax map lot number 72-5-13; thence northerly along the westerly-line of tax map lot number 72-5-13 to the northwest corner thereof; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot 72-5-13 to the northeast corner thereof, said point being in the westerly line of tax map lot number 72-5-12; thence southerly along the easterly line of tax map lot number 72-5-13 to the intersection with the northerly line of Aviation Road; thence easterly along the northerly line of Aviation Road to the point of intersection with the prolongation northerly of the westerly line of tax map lot number 98-2-1; thence southerly along said prolongation to the northwest corner --'' of tax map lot number 98-2-1; thence southerly along the westerly line of said lot number 98-2-1 to the point of intersection with the northerly line of Aviation Road Interchange; thence southeasterly along the northerly line of said Aviation Road Interchange to the intersection with the westerly line of tax map lot number 98-4-5; thence northerly along the westerly line of said lot number 98-4-5 and tax map lot number 98-4-2 to the intersection with the southerly line of Aviation Road; thence westerly along the southerly line of said Aviation Road to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 98-3-1; thence northeasterly across Aviation Road .?05 to a point in the northerly line of said Aviation Road, said point being the southwest corner of tax map lot number 72-6-24; thence northerly along the westerly lines of tax map lots numbered 72-6-24, 72-6-25, and 72-6-26 to the most westerly corner of said tax map lot number 72-6-26, said point also being the most southerly corner of tax map lot number 72-6-27.2; thence northeasterly along the division line between lot number 72-6-26 on the south and lot number 72-6-27.2 on the north to the intersection with the westerly line of New York State Route 9; thence northerly along the westerly line of said Route 9 to the point of intersection with the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of tax map lot number 72-7-4; thence easterly along said prolongation to the easterly line of Route 9, said point being the northwest corner of tax map lot number 72-7-4; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 72-7-4 to the northeast corner thereof, said point being in the westerly line of tax map lot number 63-1-1.1; thence northerly along the westerly line of said lot number 63-1-1.1 to the northwest corner thereof; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 63-1-1.1 to the northeast corner thereof, said point being in the westerly line of lands of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation being a portion of tax map lot number 62-1-2; thence southerly along the division line between lot number 63-1-1.1 on the west and lot number 62-1-2 on the east to the point of intersection with the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of tax map lot number 63-1-2; thence easterly along said prolongation through the lands of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 63-1-2; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 63-1-2 to the point of intersection with the southwesterly line of lands of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, said lands being a portion of tax map lot number 62-1-2; thence southeasterly along the division line between lot number 63-1-2 on the southwest and lot number 62-1-2 o the northeast to the point of intersection with the westerly line of Country Club Road; thence northerly along the westerly line of said Country Club Road to the point of intersection with the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of tax map lot number 61-1-21; thence easterly along said prolongation across Country Club Road to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 61-1-21; thence easterly and northerly along the northerly line of said lot number 61-1-21 to the northeast corner thereof, said point also being the northwest corner of tax map lot number 61-1-25.2; thence easterly along the northerlydines of tax map lot numbers 61-1-25.2, 61-1-27.2 and 61-1-39.1 to the intersection with the westerly line of Bay road; thence continuing easterly along the prolongation of the northerly line of tax map lot number 61-1-39.1 across Bay Road to the intersection with the easterly line of Bay Road; thence southerly along the easterly line of said Bay Road to the point of intersection with the northerly line of Cronin Road; thence easterly along the northerly line of said Cronin Road to the center of Halfway Brook, said point being the southwesterly corner of tax map lot number 60-2-8; thence northeasterly along the center of Halfway Brook to the point of intersection with the westerly line of Meadowbrook Road; thence northerly along the westerly line of said Meadowbrook Road to the point of intersection with the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of tax map lot number 46-2-7.2; thence easterly along said prolongation across Meadowbrook Road to the northwest corner of said lot number 46-2-7.2; thence continuing easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 46-2-7.2 to the northeast corner thereof; thence southerly along the easterly lines of tax map lot numbers 46-2-7.2 and 46-2-7.1 to the center of the above mentioned Halfway Brook, said point being in the northerly line of tax map lot number 46-2-9.5; thence easterly along the northerly line of said lot number 46-2-9.5 to the northeast corner thereof; thence southerly along the easterly lines of tax map lot numbers 46-2-9.5 and 46-2-9.1 to the point of intersection with the northerly line of tax map lot number 46-2-16; thence northeasterly along the northerly lines of tax map lot numbers 46-2-16, 46-2-17,46-2-18,46-2-19.1, 46-2-19.2, 46-2-20.2 and 46-2-20.1 to the northeast corner of tax map lot number 46-2-20.1; thence southeasterly along the easterly line of said lot number 46-2-20.1 to the point of intersection with the northerly line of Cronin Road; thence continuing southeasterly along the prolongation of the easterly line of said lot number 46-2-20.1 across Cronin Road to the intersection with the southerly line of said Cronin Road; thence southwesterly along the southerly line of said Cronin Road to the point of intersection with the easterly line of tax map lot number 59-3-1.24; thence southerly along the easterly lines of tax map lot numbers 59-3-1.24 and 59-3-1.25 to an angle point, said point also being the southwest corner of tax map lot number 59-3-10; thence easterly along the division line between said lot number 59-3-10 on the north and lots numbers 59-3-1.25 and v 59-3-1.21 on the south to the northeast corner of tax map lot number 59-3-1.21; thence southwesterly along the easterly line of said lot number 59-3-1.21 to the point of intersection with the northerly line of tax map lot number 58-2-3; thence southeasterly along said northerly line of lot number 58-2-3 to the westerly line of Meadow Drive; thence continuing southeasterly along the prolongation of the northerly line of lot number 58-2-3 to the point of intersection with the easterly line of said Meadow Drive; thence northeasterly along the easterly line of said Meadow Drive to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 58-3-12; thence southeasterly 1 L06 along the northerly line of said lot number 58-3-12 to the point of intersection with the westerly line of tax map lot number 58-3-7; thence-northeasterly along said westerly line of tax map lot number 58-3-7 to the northwest corner thereof; thence southeasterly along the northerly line of said lot number 58-3-7 to the point of intersection with the westerly line of Meadow View Drive; thence continuing southeasterly along the prolongation of the said northerly line of lot number 58-3-7 to the easterly line of Meadow View Drive; thence northerly along the said easterly line of Meadow View Drive to the northwest corner of tax map lot number 58-4-13; thence southeasterly along the northerly line of said lot number 58-4-13 to the northeast corner thereof, said point being in the westerly line of tax map lot number 58=4-8; thence northeasterly along the westerly line of said tax map lot number 58-4-8 to the northwest corner thereof; thence southeasterly along the northerly line of said lot number 58-4-8 to the point of intersection with the westerly line of Ridge Road; thence southwesterly along the westerly line of said Ridge Road to the point of intersection with the westerly prolongation of the northerly line of tax map lot number 109-1-1; thence southeasterly along said prolongation to the easterly line of Ridge Road, said point being the northwest corner of said lot number 109-1-1; thence southeasterly along the northerly lines of tax map lot numbers 109-1-1, part of 109-3-2.1 and 109-3-2.2 to the northeast corner of tax map lot number 109-3-2.2; thence southwesterly along the easterly line of said lot number 109-3-2.2 to the southeast corner thereof, said point being in the northerly line of tax map lot number 109-3-28.1; thence easterly along the northerly line of sadi lot number 109-3-28.1 to the northeast corner thereof; thence southerly along the easterly line of said lot number 109-3-28.1 to the southeast corner thereof; thence westerly along the southerly line of said lot number 109-3-28.1 to the point of intersection with the northeasterly line of Quaker Road; thence continuing westerly across Quaker Road along the prolongation of the said southerly line of lot number 109-3-28.1 to the southwesterly line of Quaker Road; thence continuing westerly along said prolongation to the northeast corner of tax map lot number 109-3-26.1; thence southerly along the easterly line of said lot number 109-3-26.1 to the southeast corner thereof; thence westerly along the southerly line of said lot number 109-3-26.1 to the point of intersection with the easterly line of tax map lot number 109-3-21.5; thence southerly along the easterly line of said lot number 109-3-21.5 to the point of intersection with the northerly line of tax map lot number 109-2-2; thence westerly along the northerly lines of the tax map lot numbers 109-2-2 and 109-2-1 to the northeast corner of tax map lot number 109-3-16; thence southwesterly along the easterly line of said tax map lot number 109-3-16 to the point of intersection with the northerly line of the City of Glens Falls; thence westerly along the northerly line of the said City of Glens Falls to the point and place of beginning. WHEREAS, the improvements proposed consist of the installation and construction of pipes, hydrants, valves and appurtenances for the collection of wastewater in said District and basic treatment one-time charge for use of Glens Falls Treatment Plant; WHEREAS, the proposed method of financing the cost of the improvement consists of the issuance of serial bonds of the Town to mature in annual installments over a period not exceeding twenty years, payable in the first instance from assessments levied on an ad valorem basis on benefited property in the proposed district; and WHEREAS, the maximum amount proposed to be expended for the improvement is Seven Million Dollars ($7,000,000); and WHEREAS, the map, plan and the report describing the improvements are on file in the Town Clerk's Office for public inspection, Now on motion of Mrs. Walter, and seconded by Mr. Eisenhart it is hereby ORDERED that a meeting of the said Town of Queensbury shall be held at the Town Office Building situate at Bay and Haviland Roads in the Town, on the 12th day of September 1985 at 7:30 P.M. for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposal to establish said Sewer District with the improvements specified therefore and to consider the map, plan and report, and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same and to take action as may be required and authorized by law and it is fLu,;<.: ORDERED that the Town Clerk of the Town of Queensbury is hereby authorized and directed to publish a copy of this order in the official newspaper of the Town of Queensbury and to post a copy of the same on the signboard of the Town of Queensbury in the time and manner required by law. Duly adopted by the following vote: 207 Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan,-Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent: None THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A WATER DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF QUEENSBURY WARREN COUNTY, NEW YORK TO BE KNOWN AS THE CLENDON BROOK WATER DISTRICT IN SAID TOWN FINAL ORDER RESOLUTION NO. 196, Introduced by Mr. Daniel Morrell who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of has heretofore duly caused a general map, plan and report be prepared by a competent engineer, duly licensed by the State of New York, which have been filed in the Office of the Town Clerk of said Town in relation to the establishment of a proposed water district in said Town, to be known as the Clendon Brook Water District; and WHEREAS, an order duly adopted by said Town Board on the 11th day of June, 1985 reciting a description of the boundaries of said proposed water district, the improvements r p o osed therefore, P th the maximum amount proposed to be expended for said improvements, the proposed method of financing to be employed, the fact that said map, plan and report were on file in the Town Clerk's Office for public inspection, and specifying the 25th day of June, 1985 at 7:30 o'clock p.m., prevailing time, at the Queensbury Town Office Building, Bay & Haviland Roads, in said Town, as the time when and the place where said Town Board would meet for the purpose of holding a public hearing to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same; and WHEREAS, such order was duly published and posted in the manner and within the time prescribed by Section 209-d of the Town Law and proof of such publication and posting has been duly presented to said Town Board; and WHEREAS, following said public hearing, and upon the evidence given thereat and upon the general map, plan and report along with the Environmental Assessment Form which the Town Board had caused to be prepared in accordance with the requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act concerning the establishment of the proposed Clendon Brook Water District and the construction of the improvements proposed therefor, the Town Board duly adopted a resolution making a determination of no significant environmental impact of the proposed establishment of the Clendon Brook Water District and the construction of the improvements proposed therefor;and WHEREAS, following said public hearing, and based upon the evidence given thereat, said Town Board duly adopted a resolution determining in the affirmative all of the questions set forth in Subdivision 209-e of the Town Law; and WHEREAS, following said public hearing, said Town Board also duly adopted a resolution approving the establishment of said water district and the construction of the improvements proposed therefor, said resolution expressly providing that it was subject to a permissive referendum as provided by Section 209-e of the Town Law; and WHEREAS, after the expiration of the time for filing a petition requesting that the matter be submitted to a referendum of the eligible voters of the proposed district, the Town Clerk duly filed in the Office of the County Clerk and in the Office of the Department of Audit and Control at Albany, New York, a certificate stating that no petition requesting that the matter be submitted to a referendum had been filed with the Town Clerk; and WHEREAS, in response to an application duly made pursuant to Subdivision 3 of Section 209-f of the Town Law, it is hereby ORDERED, by the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury, Warren County, New York, as follows: Section 1. A water district in the Town of Queensbury, Warren County, New York to be known as the Clendon Brook Water District, is hereby established in accordance with the aforesaid order of the State Comptroller and described as set forth in Appendix "A" attached thereto and made a part thereof. Section 2. The improvements proposed for said water district, consisting L08 of the construction of a water system to serve said district, including original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus required in connection therewith, and also including the acquisition of lands and rights in lands required in connection therwith, all as more fully described in the map, plan and report prepared in connection therewith, is hereby authorized and approved. The maximum amount to be expended for such improvement is estimated to be Four Hundred Seventy-Nine Thousand and Eight FI.adi ed Dollars ($479,800.00). The $479,800.00 cost of said improvement shall be financed by the issuance of not more than $479,800.00 in Serial Bonds of said Town maturing in annual installments over a period not exceeding twenty-five (25) years, which cost shall be borne by local assessment upon the several lots and parcels of land in said district which the Town Board shall determine and specify to be especially benefited thereby; but, if not paid form such source, all the taxable real property in said Town shall be subject to the levy of ad valorem taxes, without limitation as to rate or amount, sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same become due and payable. Section 3. The Town Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause a certified copy of this order to be duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Warren County, New York, within ten (10) days after receipt of the State Comptroller's order in duplicate, dated August, 1985 granting permission for the establishment of said district, the certified copy of the order shall also be filed in the State Dept. of Audit and Control, both pursuant to Subdivision 1 of Section 209-e of the Town Law. When so recorded, such order shall be presumptive evidence of the regularity of the proceedings for the establishment of said Clendon Brook Water District, of the proceedings instituted for the construction of the improvements hereinbefore described and of all other action taken by said Town Board in relation thereto. Section 4. This order shall take effect immediately. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell,;Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:None Description of Clendon Brook Water District All that certain piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Queensbury, County of Warren, and the State of New York, more particularly bounded and described as follows: B E G I N N I N G at a point in the center of West Mountain Road where the same is intersected by the west line of lot 84, Queensbury Patent and the west line of the present Land O'Pines Water District; running from thence southerly along the said westerly bounds of lot 84 to the northeast corner of lands of Earle and Eve Bellew; thence running southerly along the easterly bounds of the said lands of Bellew and the westerly bounds of said lot 84 and the westerly bounds of the lands of Steven and Susan Carp to the southwest corner thereof; thence easterly along the southerly bounds of Carp and the southerly bounds of the said Land O'Pines Water District to the southeasterly corner of the lands of said Carp; thence easterly along the southerly bounds of the lands of Eileen Kaplan and Lois Holmes, still along the southerly bounds of lot 84 and the Land O' Pines Water District, to the southeast coner of said Lois Holmes; thence easterly alogn the southerly bounds of other lands of Steven and Susan Carp being also along the southerly bounds of lots 84 and 77 of the Queensbury Patent and the southerly bounds of the Land O' Pines Water District to the southeast corner of the lands of said Carp in the westerly bounds of Sherman Acres-Subdivision; thence southerly along the westerly bounds of the said Sherman Acres Subdivision and the said Land O' Pines Water District to the southwest corner of lot 21, Sherman Acres Subdivision; thence southerly along the westerly bounds of the lands of Elizabeth A and Walter J O. Rehm, III to the southwesterly corner thereof; thence easterly stillalong the Land O' Pines Water District and the southerly bounds of said Rehm to the southeast corner thereof and the southeast corner of the Land O' Pines Water District; thence southerly along the westerly bounds of the lands of Anne Betters to the southwesterly corner thereof; thence running easterly along the southerly bounds of said Betters to the southeast corner thereof; thence easterly crossing Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation transmission line to the southwest corner of the lands of Ernest and Doreen Centerbar; thence easterly along the southerly bounds of Centerbar to the southeast corner thereof; thence northerly along the easterly bounds of said Centerbar and the westerly bounds of hlortnot Investing Co., Inc. to the northwesterly corner thereof; thence easterly alogn the northerly bounds thereof and the southerly bounds of the lands of Milton Aronson to the southeast corner of said Aronson and 209 the southwest corner of the lands of Harold W. Katz; thence northerly along the westerly bounds of the lands of said Katz to the northwest corner thereof at the southwest corner of lot 23 of the N.F. Ripley Subdivision in the southerly bounds of the present Sherman Avenue Water District; thence running easterly along the southerly bounds of said Sherman Avenue Water District and the southerly bounds of lots 23,22,21,20,19, and 18 of said subdivision to the southeast corner of said lot 18 thereof, crossing one unnumbered parcel of land between lots 21 and 20; thence southerly along the westerly bounds of said Sherman Avenue Water District and the lands of Howard S. Dickinson to the southwesterly corner thereof; thence easterly still along the southerly bounds of said Sherman Avenue Water District and the southerly bounds of said Dickinson to the southeast corner thereof; thence northerly along the lands of said Sherman Avenue Water District and the easterly bounds of said Dickinson, a distance of 50 feet to the southeast corner of lot 15 of said Ripley Subdivision; thence easterly along the southerly bounds of said Sherman Avenue Water District and along the southerly bounds of lots one through fourteen of said Ripley Subdivision, crossing three unnumbered parcels of land each 50 feet in width between lots two and three, lots eight and nine, and lots fourteen and fifteen to the southeasterly corner of lot one therein; thence running southerly along the westerly bounds of lot 55 and the easterly bounds of lot 62 in the Queensbury Patent still along the Sherman Avenue Water District to a point in the northerly bounds of the Queensbury Water Storage and Distribution District; thence running westerly passing in a straight line along the extension westerly of the northerly ends of East Drive and West Drive to a point; thence running southerly along a line parallel to West Drive, still along the Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District crossing uzerne Road g to the northwest comer of lot 947 Western Park Subdivision; thence running westerly along the southerly bounds of Luzerne Road still along the Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District bounds to the northeast corner of the lands of Thomas D. Nash and Harold C. Nash, III and the northwest corner of the Walter Dombek Subdivision; thence running southerly along the said Walter Dombek Subdivision and the easterly bounds of said Nash and of one Winchip to an angle point in said Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District bounds; thence westerly through the lands of said Winchip and the lands of William K. Gilmen to the southeast corner of the lands of LeRoy Ball, Sr. in the bounds of said Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District; thence westerly along the southerly bounds of the lands of LeRoy Ball, Sr. to the southwest corner of said Ball; thence running westerly through the lands of LeRoy Ball, Jr., Web Graphics, Inc., and Kenny and Stanley Phillips to the southeast corner of the lands of Lawrence Mattison; thence continuing along the Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District and along the southerly bounds of said Mattison and continuing the same line westerly crossing the lands of Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation to a point in the westerly bounds thereof; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds thereof to the southeast corner of the lands of Morgan Combs; thence running westerly along the south line of said Combs to the southwest corner thereof still in the bounds of the Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District; thence running southerly along a portion of the lands of Lorraine G. and Sally A. Brandt to the northeast corner of other lands of said Lorraine G. and Sally A. Brandt at the southeast corner of the lands of Lawrence Mattison; thence running westerly along the southerly bounds of said Matison to the northeast corner of the lands of Alfred G. and Gladys Mae Reed; thence running southerly to the southeast corner thereof; thence running westerly along the southerly bounds thereof and a continuation thereof to the center of VanDusen Road; thence running southerly in the center of VanDusen Road to its intersection with the center of Pitcher Road; thence running westerly in the center of Pitcher Road still along the bounds of the Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District to the northwesterly corner of the lands of Joseph Benedict; thence running southerly along a portion of the lands of Benedict to the northeast corner of the lands of Eleanor McGuire; thence running westerly still in the bounds of Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District and the northerly bounds of the lands of Eleanor McGuire to the northwest corner thereof; thence running southwesterly crossing the lands of James and Marion Green and Earl and Shirley Russell to the northeasterly corner of the lands of Floyd and Louisa Norton; thence running southwesterly along the northwesterly bounds of said Norton and the southerly bounds of the lands of Earl and Shirley Russell to the southwest corner of the lands of Earl and Shirley Russell in the northerly bounds.of said Queensbury Water and Storage Distribution District and the easterly bounds of the extension in Bedford Close Area Water District; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds of the said lands of Russell to the center of Pitcher Road at the northwest corner of thereof; running thence westerly in the center of Pitcher Road to a point in a line which is an extension northerly of the easterly bounds of Section One of Bedford Close Subdivision; thence southerly along the said line about 25 feet to the northeasterly corner of Section One of Bedford Close Subdivision and continuing from thence South 12 degrees and 09 minutes West along the same, a distance of 200.00 feet; thence South 41 degrees, 31 minutes and 30 seconds West along the southeasterly bounds of Section One, Bedford Close, a distance of 363.76 feet; thence North 48 degrees, 28 minutes and 30 seconds West, a distance of 200.00 feet to a point in the southeasterly bounds of Lantern Hill Road; thence South 41 degrees, 31 minutes and 30 seconds West along the southeasterly bounds of Lantern Hill Road, a distance of 197.50 feet; thence South 48 degrees, 28 minutes and 30 seconds East, a distance of 200.00 feet to a point in the said southeasterly bouns of Section One of Bedford Close Subdivision; thence South 41 degrees, 31 minutes and 30 seconds West along the southeasterly bounds of Section One of Bedford Close, a distance of 284.50 feet; thence South 06 degrees and 07 minutes West, still along the same, a distance of 79.50 feet; thence North 83 degrees and 53 minutes West along the southerly bounds of Section One of Bedford Close, a distance of 200.00 feet; thence running southwesterly about 57 feet, still along the southerly bounds of Section One, Bedford Close Subdivision; thence North 83 degrees and 53 minutes West, still along the same, a distance of 157.41 feet; thence North 59 degrees and 38 minutes West, still along the same, a distance of 400.00 feet; thence North 83 degrees, 46 minutes and 40 seconds West, still along the same, a distance of 200.00 feet to a point in the easterly bounds of the lands of John and Carolyn Lord; thence northerly along a portion of the easterly bounds of the said lands of Lord to the northeasterly corner thereof; thence westerly along the northerly bounds of the said lands of Lord and continuing the same course to the center of West Mountain Road at the northwest corner of the extension of Bedford Close; thence funning northerly in the center of said West Mountain Road to a point therein, which is an extension easterly of the southerly bounds of the lands of Philip and Judith Buttling; thence running westerly to and along the southerly bounds of the lands of Philip and Judith Buttling to the southwesterly corner thereof; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds of said Buttling to the northwesterly corner thereof; thence westerly in the southerly bounds of the lands of Michael Brandt and West Mountain Corporation to the northeast corner of other lands of West Mountain Corporation as described in Book 582 of Deeds at page 697; thence running southerly, northwesterly, southwesterly, westerly, northerly, and again westerly along the southerly bounds of the lands of West Mountain Corporation as described in said Book 582 of Deeds at page 697 to the southwest corner thereof; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds thereof to the northwest corner thereof in the southerly bounds of the lands of Arthur and Christine Hull; thence running through the lands of said Hull to the southwest corner of the lands of Fred M. and Dorothy L. Hull; thence running northerly along the west line of said Hull to the northwest corner thereof; thence running northerly through other lands of said Arthur and Christine Hill to the southwest corner of the lands of Pamela Stanton; thence running northerly to the northwest corner thereof; thence running easterly to an angle point therein at the southeast corner of the lands of Marshall and Lorraine Jarvis; thence running northerly along the lands of said Jarvis and the westerly bounds of the lands of said Stanton to the southerly bounds of Luzerne Mountain road; thence running across said Luzerne Mountain Road to the southwest corner of Twin Mountain road; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds of said Twin Mountain road, a distance of 410.33 feet to the southeast corner of the lands of Rita Frank; thence westerly along the southerly bounds of said Frank to the southwest corner thereof; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds of said Frank, Harold and Jane Zenger and William and Patricia Carpenter to the southeast corner of the lands of Michael and Kim Manney; thence running westerly along the southerly bounds of said Manney to the southwesterly corner thereof; thence running northerly along the westerly bounds thereof to the northwesterly corner thereof; thence running easterly along the northerly bounds thereof to the southwest corner of Lilac Lane; thence running northerly across the westerly end of Lilac Lane to a point in the southerly bounds of the lands of Donald and Margaret Tabor; thence running westerly along the said southerly bounds of said Tabor, a distance of 600 feet to a point therein; thence running northerly through the lands of said Tabor at right angles to the southerly bounds thereof to a point in the northerly bounds therein, in the southerly bounds of lands of Clendon Cone; thence running easterly along the northerly bounds of said Tabor and the southerly bounds of said Cone to the southeast corner of said Cone; thence running northerly still along the bounds between said Tabor and Cone to the southwest corner of the lands of Gary and Jeannette Zollinger; thence running easterly along the northerly bounds of said Tabor and the southerly bounds of said Zollinger, a distance of 530 feet more of less to a point; thence running northerly through the lands of said Zollinger --� on a line running parallel to the westerly bounds of said Zollinger to a point in the southerly bounds of the lands of Leland H. Loffler; thence running easterly along the southerly bounds of said Loffler to the southeast corner thereof in the westerly bounds of the lands of Robert and Dorothy Rowe and in the center of a small brook; thence running northerly alung the center of said small brook in the easterly bounds of said Loffler being also the westerly bounds of the lands of Robert and Dorothy Rowe and Charles and Shirley Harvey to the southerly bounds of Clendon Brook Road; thence running easterly along the southerly bounds of said Clendon Brook X11 Road and the extension thereof to the center of West Mountain Road; thence running southerly along the center of West Mountain Road to the point and place of beginning. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Noted that work on this water district will be done by Town forces... COMMUNICATIONS -Ltr.-State Comptroller-filed application for Clendon Brook Water Dist. with Warren County Clerk's Office... -Ltr. United Cerebral Palsy - withdrew as a polling location after November Election... on file... -Ltr. Warren County Planning Board- approved the rezoning application of Daniel & George Drellos from LA to LI-lAMH on file... SUPERVISOR WALTER-We have asked for further information from the Planning Board and as of yet we have not received it, we hope to have that information by our next meeting and we will then set a public hearing... -Mr. Harold LaRose has asked for permission to attend a school... RESOLUTION TO ATTEND SEMINAR RESOLUTION NO. 197, Introduced by Dr. Charles Eisenhart who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Morrell: RESOLVED, that permission is hereby granted to Mr. Harold LaRose, Town Assessor to attend a seminar in Ellenville, N.Y. on September 29th and 30th, October 1st. and 2nd. 1985 and be it further RESOLVED, that the Town Board authorizes all reasonable and necessary expenses. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent: None -Fire Marshal Bodenweiser as requested permission to attend a school in Montour Falls, N.Y. RESOLUTION TO ATTEND SEMINAR RESOLUTION NO. 198, Introduced by Dr. Charles Eisenhart who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: RESOLVED, that permission is hereby granted to Mr. Bill Bodenweiser, Fire Marshal to attend a seminar N.Y. Fire Acadamy at Montour Falls, N.Y. on October 14th through the 18th 1985 and be it further RESOLVED, that the Town Board authorizes all reasonable and necessary expenses. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:None -Request from Thomas Flaherty to Attend the A W WA Meeting in Toronto Canada... RESOLUTION TO ATTEND SEMINAR RESOLUTION NO. 199, Introduced by Mrs. Betty Monahan who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: RESOLVED, that permission is hereby granted to Mr. Thomas Flaherty, Water Supt. 2?2 to attend the fall meeting of the A W WA in Toronto, Canada on September 10th through the 13th, 1985 and be it further RESOLVED, that the Town Board authorizes all reasonable and necessary expenses. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent: None i Walter-Announced the resignation of Mr. Ronald Noll - -Supervisor g Qsby. Planning ._.1 Board... -Supervisor Walter-communication from Niagara Mohawk re: unmetered traffic signals...rate increase... -� RESOLUTION TO SIGN CONTRACT RESOLUTION NO. 200, Introduced by Dr. Charles Eisenhart who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: i RESOLVED, that the Supervisor, Mrs. Frances Walter is hereby authorized to sign a contract with Niagara Mohawk in regard to unmetered traffic signals. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None ; Absent:None OLD BU SINE SS(Discussion held) RE: placing a question on the ballot in November -TOWN COUNSEL-listed the steps necessary to place an issue on the ballot (purchase of park and recreation property)...there are time limits in which a resolution would have to be adopted which are set by Town Law, I do not have a definitive answer at this point because addition to the Town Law we also have a question of compliance with SEQRA and how the time tables required under that law will mesh with the permissive referendum time ... COUNCILMAN EISEN HA RT-Questioned if the referendum could be held before the SEQRA requirements are met? TOWN COUNSEL-...you have to have your environmental impact statement first...the legislature says you should know what the environmental impact of any action is at the earliest possible moment... SUPERVISOR WALTER-We are still negotiating as late as this week with the owner, ...have met with various individuals and the recreation commission regarding the purchase of the Round Pond Property...From Recreation Commission-Resolution-August 26, 1985 the Recreation Commission urges the Town Board to preceed with the scheduled bidding and the fall ground breaking of the Gurney Lane Pool Pro ect, in order to have the facility open for recreational use next season. The Project has been before the public for the past two to three years and has already been started, with the clearing of the site accomplished. The present pool at Gurney Lane cannot be continued to operate thus we should proceed with the project with J all post haste in order to have the facility next summer. No other recreation facility can possibly be ready for the public use next summer. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-The Recreation Commission felt very strongly about this, there is no doubt that this will be the last year the State will let us operate the pool that is in Gurney Lane at this present time. We are doing it this year by their grace. Three out of the past four years we have not had the Queensbury School Pool to use because of problems that they have. The Town and the Recreation Dept. is faced with the problems of where are they going to give swimming lessons ...every single person on the Recreation Commission has been in favor of the Gurney Lane Project. This action has been taken with full public knowledge and approval all the site plans have been shown here at meetings, the buildings, landscaping etc. everything has been fully disclosed over a long period of time. The feeling of the Recreation Commission is this has got to go forward, it is the cornerstone of our whole recreation plan for the Town of Queensbury. The fact that we are doing Gurney Lane has nothing to do with Round Pond, what-so-ever. Gurney Lane is ready to go, lets go with it and then step back and see what our options are for other recreational areas. COUNCILMAN MORRELL-Gurney lane was all part of a master plan that took years to compile to plan for the future of this town. Now all of a sudden out of the blue came this other opportunity, we should treat it as an opportunity, but I do not think we should deviate from the plan of what we have envisioned for Gurney Lane. SUPERVISOR WALTER-Bids will be opened on September 9th for Gurney Lane... COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I would like to thank Paul Naylor and his crew for the great work that they have done on Gurney Lane...there is a possibility of expanding Gurney Lane in the future... OPEN FORUM 8:47 P.M. -Philip Harris-Ward One Candidate for Town Council- With this news release I am formally asking the Queensbury Town Board to sponsor a public forum so the pros and cons can be fully aird and discussed on the proposed construction of a swimming pool at the Gurney Lane Recreational Area. The bids on the proposed contract are to be opened Sept. 9th. The cost is expected to be over $500,000.00 In my travels around Ward One I have found no support for the Gurney Lane project but have found substantial support for the establishment of a town park at Round Pond, to contradict what Betty said. There is in fact outright opposition to the Gurney Lane Project. I proposed also that the bids be suspended until a public forum can be held. If the town board will not sponsor a public forum, I will do so myself. The League of Women Voters have also expressed an interest in holding this public forum. I want to give the constituents of Ward One and all of Queensbury the opportunity to express thier views on this important subject. Many residents of Queensbury have already invested their school tax dollars in a swimming pool at the Queensbury Elementary School. Taxpayers recently had to cough up $240,000.00 to rehabilitate the school pool which is only ten years old. As Fran mentioned we have not been able to use that this summer. If we do this every 10 years another $500,000.00 every 10 years at Gurney Lane, wouldn't we be better serviced with a fresh water lake that needs no maintenance? Some questions must be addressed. Do the taxpayers of Queensbury want another swimming pool? Or do the people want to establish a town park at Round Pond? Can we afford both projects? Where should our priorities be? The entire town board has acted irresponsibly over this issue in knowing about the Round Pond opportunity for over a year. You just mentioned a few minutes ago that the impact statement had not been done. My opponent has mentioned new appraisals for Round Pond. This could be done in one day, I might indicate that we have several banks with qualified people that could do this. A voter referendum on Round Pond has been suggested. The Town Board wants to do it after they have spent $700,000.00, that includes the price of the..if it came in at $500,00.00 and what school tax is going to be on the elementary school, knowing a referendum would go down to defeat after that. Let's hold the public forum before our money is spent, Let's hear what the taxpayer has to say. Then hold a referendum if it is needed. I would also like to mention that the quotation that is in todays paper of a million and a half dollars renovation of the project is really irresponsible. We have Paul Naylor's crew working all summer long at Gurney lane, I do not know why they would not be able to take down a building at Round Pond. They also have available the facilities at Wilton, the man power and also the BOCES construction projects. I think the cost of renovating Round Pond, taking the buildings down that need to be taken down and I don't thing everthing has to be taken down, would be in the thousands of dollars not millions of dollars. I would like to congratulate the Town at this time for their efforts that they have put forth in establishing the Queensbury Sewer Dist. Thank you. MR. NAYLOR-Noted his crew had worked at Gurney Lane for two weeks, the time cards are available for inspection... COUNCILMAN MONAHAN- Mr. Russo right now wants $975,000.00 for the property, the buildings have to come down and in order for Round Pond to be open to the public, a bath house will have to be put up according to State Specs. all that is going to cost a great deal of money. There is also going to be other changes such as legal fees etc. I think that when you start looking at it you are going to find the cost more than you think. How many people per day do you think Round Pond 114 can handle and maintain its water quality? MR. HARRIS-I would say into the thousands per day, we could not handle that at Gurney Lane. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-We will be under the Dept. of Health and I am sure they will not certify that area will hold... MR. HARRIS-You are saying you are against Round Pond? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I am not saying that, my comment about Round Pond is, that I have been in favor of Round Pond if we can get the right amount of land for the right price. SUPERVISOR WALTER- I am really sorry that you have come in two weeks before an election to bring up this issue, because Mrs. Little pointed out in her letter the improvements to Gurney Lane have been about three years, it has been over a year that we have considered going to bid, this is not new, I do not understand this last minute outcry. The Town Board and Recreation Commission have been extremely interested in purchasing Round Pond but we are all having a problem with the amount of money that Mr. Russo wants for that acreage. Mr. Mathias and myself were the negotiators, and I take offense that we acted irresponsibly, we spent a lot of hours at the table with Mr. Russo's representative to determine whether we could possibly get our hands on that property. Our last contact was this week... noted that the Town Board is also looking at other properties around the town for recreational purposes... MR. DEMARS-Councilman Monahan, do you belong to the Recreation Committee? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-I am one of the Town Board representatives... MR. DEMARS-What is the total attendance at Gurney Lane? COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-June 24-August 13 13,770... MR. DEMARS-What do you anticipate the growth to be in the next five years. COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-As the facility is improved, you will see the attendance double and triple. COUNCILMAN MORRELL-This area will be a mass of recreation...ice skating, J cross country sking...ect. GLEN GREGORY-Luzerne Road, W.G. Falls-I am not opposed to Round Pond, I am opposed to the buying land that we do not need on Route 9...I think Gurney Lane makes more sense.... COUNCILMAN MONAHAN-That area along Route 9 will be taking prime commercial property off the tax rolls that should be going to commercial development... GLEN GREGORY-Speaking for people in W.G.F. I know Gurney lane is used... MR. WILLIAM OSGOOD-Upper Aviation Road, there is currently a new development Briarwood Close, Developer Wm. Kostechko, Planner McCormick...concerned over the development of the road afraid the slope of the road will cause a problem with his property...increased the height of the road...I oppose the acceptance of this road into the Town Highway System as it stands now...also had a problem with a sign being placed on the Town Right of Way by the Developer, the sign has been removed...(Queen Diana Lane) MR. NAYLOR-We are in a situation where it is not ours yet...the Board will not receive the road acceptance until the legal work is done and the bug is out of the road...he has not passed the final inspection... MR. WILLIAM OSGOOD-I would like to be on public record opposed to the acceptance of Queen Diana Lane as it now stands. .. MR. DEMARS-Regard the removal of the burned out house... SUPERVISOR WALTER-In order to have any kind of notice to remedy a violation, it has to be received by the owner, evidently where our dept. sent that it was not received, we now have a new address or the owner and a certified notice to remedy 215 was sent out, if it isn't remedied by Friday or Tuesday a ticket will be issued to the owner—this is under a violation of the zoning ordinance.,. MR. DEMARS-It is there, and it defaces the value of the surrounding area... RESOLUTION TO APPROVE SPECIAL AUDIT OF BILLS RESOLUTION NO. 201, Introduced by Mr. Daniel Morrell who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Olson: RESOLVED, that the Audit of Bills as appears on Abstract No. 85-8E and numbered f 1603 and totlaing $2,986.00 be and hereby is approved. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell, Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:N one RESOLUTION CALLING FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION RESOLUTION NO. 202, Introudced by Dr. Charles Eisenhart who moved for its adoption, seconded by Mr. Daniel Morrell: RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby moves into executive session to discuss negotiations. Duly adopted by the following vote: Ayes: Mr. Olson, Dr. Eisenhart, Mr. Morrell,;Mrs. Monahan, Mrs. Walter Noes: None Absent:None On motion the meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Donald A. Chase, Town Clerk m.