Regular Meeting—June 13, 2007

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM.  Present were:  Mayor Mahoney, Trustees Kelts, Pascucci, Rocque and VanDervoort; Clerk O’Brien, Treasurer VanDervoort, Attorney Varley, 3 fire chiefs, and several interested residents.

Trustee Kelts moved to waive reading the minutes from the previous meeting.   The motion was seconded by Trustee Rocque and carried unanimously.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Trustee Pascucci—The summer parks program will run from June 27 thru Aug. 17, and an adult basketball league will also be formed, to meet on Wed. evenings.  A new fountain is being installed in the kiddie pool at the 4th St. playground.

Trustee VanDervoort—Praises the Waterford Fire Dept. for actions at a fatal fire in Pleasantdale.  A total of 12 alarms were answered  during May.  The  annual Chief’s Show is being held in Lake George on June 16 and 17.  The complete report is available from the Village Clerk.  He also requests that police patrol the canal bike path.

Trustee Rocque—Repairs have been made to fences at the tennis court and at a property on 4th St. which was damaged by a snowplow.  A sink hole at 7th and Broad St. is still being worked on.  The Director of Public Works is presently out of town for job related training.

Trustee Kelts—Five concerts are scheduled for Sunday afternoons, 2:30 – 4:30 PM.

Attorney  Varley—A letter has been sent to the owner of 5 Lawrence St., instructing him to remove the fence and trees which he installed on Village property some time ago.  No response has been received to date.

Mayor Mahoney reported that at the recent Museum open house Dr. Paul Grattan was honored with a Trustees Award in recognition of his many years of service to the museum and the community.  The Mayor thanked Mr. and Mrs. Ward Patton for donating the flowers and planting the boxes on the canal bridge.

The Village, Town and County Boards are all committed to forcing the EPA to provide an alternate source of water for the communities along the Hudson River which will be affected by the dredging of PCB’s, since no one can tell if the river water will be safe to drink.

Installation of street lights on Broad St. has been delayed due to the death of one of the key foremen on the project.  Another part of the Streetscape project is planned between 2nd and 4th St. on the south side of Broad St.

The financial report is as follows:  Checking Acct. $77,839. and Money Market Acct. $147.537. for a total General Fund balance of $225,376.  Special Projects Fund, $58,089.; unaudited utilities $5,123.; Payrolls, $4,964. and Section 8, $19,836.  There are 3 abstracts to approve:  General Fund accounts payable from the previous fiscal year, $52,358.63; General Fund for this fiscal year, $17,514.77; and Special Projects accounts payable, $27,600.  Trustee Kelts moved to pay all of these bills upon approval of the department heads and the Village Board.  Trustee Rocque offered the second and all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Pascucci offered Resolution #      adopting Local Law #6 of 2007, restricting the use of Village owned basketball courts and tennis courts to Village residents.  Trustee Rocque offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Pascucci offered Resolution #       reserving the 4th St. basketball courts on Wed. evening from 5:30 to 9 PM for the adult basketball league.  Trustee Kelts offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Pascucci offered Resolution #       appointing Paul Gervasio and Justin Messier as adult coordinators at $200 each for the season, and Referee Scott McIntyle at $90 per night.  Trustee Rocque offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Pascucci offered Resolution #      appointing village park counselors Nick Hulse and Erica Clickner to full time, and Ryan Lansing and Jamie Vanbramer to part-time, and Jackie Colarusso and Casey Caradori as pool counselors.  The second was offered by Trustee Kelts.  All Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Rocque offered Resolution #        to increase the pay rate of Albert Cassella, Jr. to  $9.25 per hour.  Trustee Kelts offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Kelts offered Resolution #      to approve a handicap parking sign in front of 14 First St.  Trustee Rocque offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Kelts offered Resolution #         to retain Darryl Purinton, CPA, to provide necessary assistance to the Village board in performing his statutory responsibility under Village Law, to audit the report of the Village treasurer for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 fiscal years.  Trustee Rocque offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee VanDervoort offered Resolution #       authorizing up to 12 volunteer firemen to attend the Chief’s Convention while following the Village’s travel policy.  Trustee  Kelts  offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

Trustee Pascucci offered Resolution #      to transfer $8,433.01 from insurance recovery (A2680) to Fire Equipment (A3410.2) in the previous fiscal year.  Trustee Kelts offered the second; all Trustees and Mayor Mahoney voted Yes.

The Board went into executive session at 7:50 and exited at 8:05 PM.  As there was no further business to conduct, the meeting was then adjourned.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy P. O’Brien, Village Clerk