Today's Ithaca Journal contains lots of notices for public hearings to be held at the Town Board's April 8 meeting. The full text of the notices follows, but a quick description of the hearings is:
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED TOWN OF DRYDEN LOCAL LAW
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden will hold a public hearing on a proposed local law which will provide for an increase in the partial exemption for real property owned by persons with disabilities whose incomes are limited by reasons of such disability. Copies of the proposed local law are available at the Town clerk's Office. The proposed local law will increase the amount of the exemption to the maximum amount permitted by Real Property Tax Law Section 459-C.
The public hearing on the proposed local law will be held at 7:30 p.m. prevailing time, at the Dryden Fire Hall, Neptune Drive, Dryden, New York, on April 8, 2004 at which time interested parties will be heard.
March 29, 2004
By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Dryden.
By Bambi L. Hollenbeck Town Clerk
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED TOWN OF DRYDEN RESOLUTION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden will hold a public hearing on a proposed resolution pursuant to Real Property Tax Law Section 467 which will provide for senior citizens or aged exemptions based on income eligibility levels.
Copies of the resolution are available at the Town Clerk's Office. The proposed resolution will be held at 7:15 p.m. prevailing time at the Dryden Fire Hall, Neptune Drive, Dryden, New York, on April 8, 2004, at which time interested parties will be heard.
March 29, 2004.
By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Dryden
By Bambi L. Hollenbeck
Town Clerk
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED TOWN OF DRYDEN LOCAL LAW
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden will hold a public hearing at the Dryden Fire Hall, Neptune Drive, Dryden, New York, on April 8, 2004, 7:00 o'clock p.m. prevailing time, to hear all interested persons for or against a proposed Local Law entitled "A Local Law repealing Local Law No. 4 of the year 1983 and re-establishing the Cortland Road Sewer District Sewer Rent Law." The proposed local law would provide the basis of the charge of sewer rents, establish payment dates, penalties for late payment and a method for enforcement and collection of sewer rents, establish a formula for the calculation of sewer rents including minimums thereof and provide for the use of the revenues from sewer rents. This local law also repeals Local Law No. 4 of the 1983 and will apply to the Cortland Road Sewer District and to any future sewer districts which utilize the wastewater treatment services of the Village of Dryden wastewater facility. The complete text of the proposed Local Las is available from the Town Clerk.
March 29, 2004
By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Dryden
By Bambi L. Hollenbeck
Town Clerk
TOWN OF DRYDEN NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town Board of the Town of Dryden adopted an order on March 11, 2004 calling a public hearing on a plan, report and map prepared in connection with a proposed phosphorous removal project for the sewage treatment plant in the City of Ithaca serving the Town of Dryden. The public hearing will be held at the Dryden Fire Hall, Neptune Drive, Dryden New York at 7:45 P.M. prevailing time on April 8, 2004. The order calling the public hearing as follows:
ORDER CALLING PUBLIC HEARING
IN THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED PHOSPHOROUS REMOVAL PROJECT FOR THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT IN THE CITY OF ITHACA SERVING THE TOWN OF DRYDEN TO BE KNOWN AS THE JOINT SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT PHOSPHOROUS REMOVAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT PURSUANT TO TOWN LAW SECTION 202-b
WHEREAS, a plan, report and map have been duly prepared in such manner and in such detail as heretofore has been determined by the Town Board of the Town of Dryden, Tompkins County New York, relating to the construction, pursuant to Town Law Section 202-b of sewer system improvements to be known and identified as the Joint Sewage Treatment Plant Phosphorus Improvement Project, and hereinafter also referred to as "improvement,' to provide such sewer improvement to the present sewer treatment plant in the City of Ithaca managed jointly with the Towns of Ithaca and Dryden and providing sewage treatment services for the Town sewer districts served by such sewage treatment plant, such sewer system improvement to be constructed and owned by the Town of Ithaca, Town of Dryden, and the City of Ithaca, and
WHEREAS, said plan, report and map have been prepared by Stearns and Wheler, Professional Engineers, duly licensed by the State of New York and have been filed in the office of the Town Clerk where they are available for public inspection, and
WHEREAS, the area of said Town determined to be benefited by said Joint Sewage Treatment Plant Phosphorous Removal Improvement Project consists of the entire area of said Town sewer districts served by the sewage treatment plant in the City of Ithaca, and
WHEREAS, the proposed Joint Sewage Treatment Plant Phosphorous Removal Improvement Project consists of the sewer improvements set forth below, as more particularly shown and described in said map, plan and report presently on file in the Office of the Town Clerk:
Construction and installation of a teritary high rate settling process and associated reinforced concrete structure on piles at the end of the current process stream, adjacent to the final effluent channel at the jointly operated sewage treatment plant located at 525 Third Street, Ithaca, New York, together with associated controls, piping, and other structures, and
WHEREAS, a public hearing on said plan, report and map was held by the Town Board of the Town of Dryden on July 9, 2003 at which hearing all interested persons in the subject were heard on the questions of providing of said Joint Sewage Treatment Phosphorous Removal Improvement Project, and the question of executing any related agreement, and
WHEREAS, following said public hearing the Town Board of the Town of Dryden adopted a Public Interest Order on July 9, 2003, approving the improvement with a maximum proposed amount to be expended of $4,115,000 of which the Town of Dryden's share was not to exceed $81,477.00, and
WHEREAS, following the construction bid opening for the improvement, the lowest responsible bids exceed the project budget resulting in a revised total project cost, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Dryden adopted an order on September 11, 2003, calling a further public hearing upon said plan, report and map including a revised estimate of cost and the question of providing of said Joint Sewage Treatment Plant Phosphorous Removal Improvement Project, and the question of executing any related agreement, and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof, all in accordance with the provisions of Town Law Section 202-b and applicable provisions of the General Municipal Law and Local Finance Law, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board of Town of Dryden held a public hearing on October 1, 2003 to further consider the aforesaid plan, report and map, and the question of providing said joint improvement project and the question and the question of executing the related agreement, and
WHEREAS, following said public hearing the Town Board of the Town of Dryden adopted a Public Interest Order on October 1, 2003 which approved the joint improvement with a maximum proposed amount to be expanded of $4,448,500.00 of which the Town of Dryden's share is not to exceed $88,070.41, and approved a plan for payment of the Town of Dryden's share, and
WHEREAS, due to delays in receiving a satisfactory commitment from New York State for its anticipated funding share, the time in which the bidders on the project could be held to their bids expired and such bidders will no longer honor the amounts of their previous bids, and
WHEREAS, newly revised estimated of the total project cost result in a higher estimated maximum amount proposed to be expended, and
WHEREAS, it is now necessary to consider approving a revised maximum amount to be expended by the Town of Dryden for the aforesaid improvements, and
WHEREAS, the revised maximum proposed to be expended for the aforesaid improvement is now $4,975,000.00 of which the Town of Dryden's share is not to exceed $98,505.00, and the proposed method of payment of the Town's share consists of payment of said Town's share out of the surplus funds and current revenues in the Town of Dryden Sewer Districts, and
WHEREAS, the implementation of this project will be through a joint agreement with the City of Ithaca and the Town of Ithaca.
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, by the Town Board of the Town of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York, as follows:
Section 1. A public hearing will be held at the Dryden Fire Hall, Neptune Drive, Dryden, in said Town, on the 8th day of April, 2004 at 7:45 o'clock P.M., to consider the aforesaid plan, report and map and the questions of the providing of said Joint Sewage Treatment Phosphorous Removal Improvement project, and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof, all in accordance with the provisions of Town Law Section 202-b and applicable provisions of the General Municipal Law and Local Finance Law.
Section 2. The Town Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to cause a copy of this order to be published once in the official newspaper of the Municipality, and also to post a copy thereof on the Town signboard maintained by the Clerk, not less than ten nor more than twenty days before the day designated for the hearing as aforesaid.
Section 3. This order shall take effect immediately.
The question of the adoption of the foregoing order was upon motion of Councilperson Stelick, seconded by Supervisor Trumbull, duly put to a vote on a roll call, which resulted as follows:
Supervisor Trumbull Voting Yes
Councilperson Michael Voting Yes
Councilperson Stelick Voting Yes
Councilperson Christofferson Voting Yes
Councilperson Hattery Voting Yes
The order was thereupon declared duly adopted.
March 29, 2004
BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD
Bambi L. Hollenbeck, Town Clerk
Posted by simonstl at March 29, 2004 03:07 PM