Agenda Jan 2, 2007

TOWN OF VARICK
Regular Town Board Meeting
January 2, 2007

• Call to Order
• Pledge to the Flag and a moment of silence

1. Petitioners to the board
2. Report from the Supervisor
3. Town Clerk’s report
4. Committee Reports
• a. Highway Superintendent’s Report
• b. Planning Board’s Report
• Reappoint Frankie Long to the Board for 5 year term ending December 31, 2011
• c. Zoning Board’s Report – no meeting this month
• Reappoint Arthur Sherman to a 5 year term ending December 31,2011
• d. Sewer Maintainer’s Report
• e. Water Maintainer’s Report
• f. Assessor’s Report
• g. Building Inspector’s Report
• h. Bookkeeper’s Report
• i. Supervisor’s Report
• j. Committee Reports
5. Motions and Resolutions
• a. A resolution to designate the Town of Varick’s
• depositories for the year 2007
• b. A resolution to designate the Town of Varick’s official
• newspaper for 2007
• c. A resolution to establish the mileage rate for 2007
• d. A resolution to increase the sliding scale income eligibility for the Senior Citizen Exception
• e. A resolution for the Town of Varick to apply for the Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund grant (LGRMIF) due by Feb. 1, 2007
• f. A resolution to appoint the Varick Town Supervisor as Varick’s Delegate for the 2007 Association of Towns Annual meeting with the Clerk writing and mailing a letter to the Association to verify the appointment by the second week in January
6. Approval of Warrants:
• a. Highway and General
• b. Water, Sewer
7. Old Business
8. New Business
9. Town Clerk’s Report
10. Approval of Minutes
• December 5, 2006 – Regular Board Meeting
• December 27, 2006 – Close out Meeting for 2006
11. Adjournment

Communications

• a. Stuart I. Brown Associates, Inc., Planning and Management Consultants announcing partnership with LaBella Associates, 300 State Street, Suite 201, Rochester, New York 14614, Phone (585-223-3430) Fax (585-454-3066) sbrown@labellapc.com
• b. Senator Charles E. Schumer announcing the opening U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s 2006 Fire Protection and Safety Grant (FP&S) program. Application and award process is open Dec. 4 until Jan. 12, 2007.
• c. Time Warner – Channel changes with no change in rate
• d. Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe, LLP with revised bill for services to $10,044.00
• e. Seneca County Self-Insurance bill for Varick’s 2007 Compensation Statement of Account in the amount of $13,648.43
• f. Stuart Brown Associates, Inc. information concerning Governor’s Office for Small Cities (GOSC) Program
• g. Town of Romulus with Details of services being provided and copy of agreement for Seneca lake Sewer and Water Districts for billing with an invoice for 2007
• h. Sonneborn, Spring & O’Sullivan, P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at law with a recent Decision by Judge Demarest ruling in favor of the Town of Santa Clara ruling that towns have the power to regulate construction of boathouses and structures on navigable bodies of water.
• i. McCormick engineering PC sent an invoice for $750.00 for Professional consulting services for design and specification of the culvert crossing on Townline Road.
• i. Hunt Newsletter: Engineers, Architects and Land Surveyors, P.C./hunt-eas.com located in Horseheads NY
• j. New York State Thruway Authority, Chips Capital Program a check for $32,272.26
• k. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Water concerning proposed rule making and public hearing and public information meetings to amend water quality regulations (Tues. Jan.16, 2007, from 1 – 4 in the auditorium at the Cornell Cooperative Extension, 249 Highland Drive, Rochester, N.Y.)
• l. NYMIR Handbook General Liability concerning the New York State Workplace Violence Prevention Act.