Town Board Meeting December 10, 2009

TB Meeting December 10, 2009

The regular meeting of the Town Board of Cherry Valley was held on Thursday, December 10, 2009 with meeting called to order at 7:02PM by Supervisor Garretson.

Pledge to the Flag was said.

Roll call of Officers was taken:
Tom Garretson Supervisor P
Mark Cornwell Councilperson P
Jim Johnson Councilperson P
Ed VanDerWerker Highway Superintendent Excused
Mary Beth Flint Town Clerk P

Minutes of the November 2009 meeting were read. Supervisor Garretson approved the minutes as corrected.

Bills for the month of December 2009 are presented:
445 Time Warner Cable Business $69.95pd
446 The Freeman’s Journal $34.29pd
447 Broadview Networks $328.46pd
448 Rury’s Food Store $225.56pd
449 Hummels Office Plus $199.94pd
450 RBS Inc $250.00pd
451 Verizon Wireless $95.83pd
452 Otsego County Code Enforcement $50.00pd
453 Edward VanDerWerker $102.50pd
454 NBT Bank $7,085.00pd
455 Transcription Associates $864.45pd
456 RBS Inc. $120.00pd
457 RL Parsons Inc. $1,005.69pd
458 The Daily Star $25.84pd
459 Hummel’s Office Plus $89.90pd
460 Williamson Law Book Company $54.45pd
461 Medical Arts Press $63.96pd
462 Highmark Medicare Services $399.00pd
463 Bruce Hall Corp $25.68pd
464 Logical Net $17.95pd
465 Cherry Valley Hardware $268.21pd
466 Cintas Corporation #121 $206.73pd
467 National Grid $1,081.98pd
468 Public Goods Pool $431.00pd
469 Verizon $198.16pd
470 Excellus BC/BS $222.47pd
471 Schwaab Inc. $37.99pd
472 Ikon Financial Services $196.91pd
473 Gates Cole Associates $306.00pd
474 Time Warner Cable Business $74.95pd
475 Hughesnet $64.99pd
476 MVP Healthcare Inc. $1,875.38pd
477 Bassett Healthcare $27,561.25pd
478 NBT Bank $29,566.34pd
479 Cordia Communications $106.64pd

Highway Vouchers:
Item 3 (143-153)
Item 4 (17-18)

Councilperson Johnson made a motion to accept the invoices and payments as read Councilperson Cornwell seconded the motion. The invoices and payments have been presented and accepted. All in favor 3 yes 0 no. Motion carried. Monthly budget and NBT account balances are reviewed.

Information presented to the Town Clerk by Supervisor Garretson is as follows:
Town share of monthly County sales tax collected for the month of September is $3,982.
Thank you card received from the Ladies Auxiliary.

Updates:
Community Center:
Revenue for Nov was $1305. and Expenses were $1650
The next fund raiser done by the Community Center will be earmarked for the Cherry Valley Health Center.

Miscellaneous Information:
Next month annual organizational meeting and employee benefits update.

Health Center:
Revenue for Nov $25917 and Expenses were $34,930. Waiting for Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements from the State.
New carpet to be installed-fund raiser at the Community Center in early 2010

Town Facilities:
The new conference/Town Board meeting room will be the new location for all Town Board meetings. The Town Clerk will put a notice in the papers and post change at the Town Clerk board in the post office as well as at the old location.
Town owned parking area is not a long term parking or storage lot. This will be monitored by Town officials throughout the year.

Community Facilities Corp:
Sam Dubben will be inquiring about the balance of the mortgage from Wilbur Bank. He will also be reviewing the history of the Corp to see how it came to be.

Village:
Town and Village board minutes online @ cherryvalleyny.us

Visitor’s Center:
Additional survey information presented to Foit-Albert.
Invoices sent to NYSDOT for reimbursement. 80% of invoice will be reimbursed by the NYSDOT and the other 20% will be sent to Jim Seward.

Planning Board:
Road Preservation Law-progress update. Mark Cornwell should have another draft by next meeting to present.
Two proposal inquires received for Town wide Assessment Re-eval Project
Memorandum or Understanding and Resolution needed by NYS ORPS.

Highway Department:
Town Barn cleaner as retired. Supervisor Garretson as requested the highway staff to perform these duties in the future.

Federal/State/County:
Otsego County Board of Election sent a letter to Supervisor Garretson asking the Town to continue to store the last remaining lever voting machine we still house.
Newly elected officers will be sworn in at the next Town Board meeting

Land Use Committee:
Land Use Regulation Document close to going to print. Supervisor Garretson will connect with Walter Buist regarding this.

Alternative/Renewable Energy Committee:
NYS wind law setback document was completed by the end of the year. Mark made contacts with Power Companies, Towns with regulations and laws as well as doing a search in the State listings.

Resolution 2009-9 State Financial Assistance for Reappraisal Project
Resolution of the Cherry Valley Town Board

Proposed Action: State Financial Assistance for Reappraisal Project

Whereas, The State of New York will provide financial assistance to the Town for the implementation of a system of Real Property Tax Administration which conforms to the standards established pursuant to Subdivision 1 of #1570 of the Real Property Tax Law, and

Whereas, The Cherry Valley Town Board is in full support of a full reappraisal of the Town of Cherry Valley, and

Now therefore be it resolved, The Town of Cherry Valley hereby requests State assistance, specifically from the Office of Real Property Services of the State, to assist in a reappraisal project to achieve and maintain a uniform standard of assessment for the 2011 assessment roll in accordance with section 305 of the Real Property Tax law, and

Further be it resolved, The Supervisor is hereby authorized and directed to expend the necessary funds for the preparation of said plan and the establishment and maintenance of the Real Property Improvement Program and to make application to the State Board of Real Property Services for financial assistance therefore pursuant to #1573 of the New York State Real Property Tax Law.
Councilperson Cornwell made a motion to accept Resolution 2009-9 State Financial Assistance for Reappraisal, Councilperson Johnson second the motion. Roll call vote was taken: Supervisor Garretson-yes, Councilperson Cornwell-yes, and Councilperson Johnson-yes, 3-yes 0-no. Motion duly carried.

Resolution 2009-10 Comments to NYSDEC on gas drilling concerns-due to the length of this resolution it can be viewed either at the Town Clerk’s office or on the website.
Councilperson Johnson made a motion to accept Resolution 2009-10 Comments to NYSDEC on gas drilling concerns, Councilperson Cornwell second the motion. Roll call vote was taken: Supervisor Garretson-yes, Councilperson Johnson-yes, and Councilperson Cornwell-yes, 3-yes 0-no. Motion duly carried.

Supervisor Garretson handed out a copy of a Publication in Talk of Towns entitled DEC opens Public Comment Period.

Question and comments from the public present:

Tim Horvath knows Lou Allstadt, executive Vice President for Exxon for many years, who is very knowledgeable about the gas drilling industry and he may be able to get him to come and do a presentation to the Town.

Bill Elsey thanked Supervisor Garretson for inviting him to the Town Board meeting. Mr. Elsey is the newly elected Town Supervisor for Springfield. He is interested in how much the re-eval for Cherry Valley will cost?

Supervisor Garretson asked the Town Assessor, Kassie Cade-Laymon, to attend every Town Board meeting until the re-evals are complete.

Andy Minnig asked for clarification to regards to revenue being down for the Health Center due to Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement are slow coming in. Also sales tax revenue being down throughout the county is also a factor in reduced revenue for the Town. He also inquired about a copy of the Wind document.

Motion made by Councilperson Johnson to adjourn the meeting, seconded by Councilperson Cornwell meeting adjourned at 8:12PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Beth Flint, Town Clerk