MINUTES of a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lansing held on Wednesday, January 10, 2001, in the Village Office.

Present: Mayor, Don Hartill, Trustees Janet Beebe, Larry Fresinski, Lynn Leopold, Frank Moore; Jodi Dake, Carol Willard, Benjamin Curtis, Rick Beckwith and Dennis Reinhart.

Mayor Donald Hartill called the meeting to order at 12:10 p.m.

Rick stated that the Christmas tree pick up was complete. He picked up a couple hundred trees and used the Village of Cayuga Heights chipper to cut them up. Rick wondered who was responsible for maintaining the sidewalk along Brown Road in front of the Business and Technology Building. The Mayor told Rick that Brown Road was taken over by the County but we are still responsible for maintaining the sidewalk up to Culligan Dr. Rick had no idea that he was suppose to be clearing that sidewalk. He stated that it would take him awhile to get the skidster up there. Rick asked if he could cut up across the Bomax Road. The Mayor advised him that it was illegal to go on private property so he should just continue to go up the road.

Janet reported that she attended the Recreation Partnerships meeting yesterday. They are working on a contract, which we should receive in a couple of months.

Lynn asked Jodi if she would mail a copy of the resolution the Board passed stating that we support the Cayuga Lake Watershed Intermunicipal Organization to Kathleen Bertuch.

Don and Frank went to a sewer meeting this morning. They discussed issues in the draft agreement. There are serious financial issues. Two concerns are the buy in charge and the x2 forever rate increase. There was no clear answer as to why it’s part of the draft document. In the Sewer Agreement it states that sewer would not service agricultural lands. The Village has two areas, which this would affect, Sundowns or Murray Estates and a stretch along Rt. 34. Steve Farkas has started a committee and Frank is on it.

The Mayor announced that on December 22ndthe Edelman’s gave a property gift of 16.4 acres of undeveloped land to the Village. It is located in the Kensington area. He will be setting up a committee consisting of Board members and residents to decide how to best utilize this gift. Don stated that this is the first time since he’s been Mayor that we have received such a gift. At the December meeting Kensington residents were present to further discuss their concerns of access to Coventry Walk. The Mayor sent all the Kensington area residents a letter informing them of the gift. Once Don has had a chance to meet with the Edelman’s, he will do a press release on this gift.

Jodi gave the Mayor an update of the progress on getting all the Purchase offers back for the N. Triphammer Rd. project. She stated that we need to appoint Steve Halevy as Acting Chairman and Phil Dankert as an acting alternate member since Ned left for Florida yesterday.

Halevy Appt. Acting
P. B. Chair

Resolution #3733-To Appoint Steve Halevy as Acting Chairman of the Planning Board Until Ned Hickey Returns From Florida in April.

Trustee Frank Moore-Aye Trustee Janet Beebe- Aye
Trustee Lany Fresinski- Aye

Dankert Active member

Resolution #3734-To Appoint Phil Dankert as an Acting Alternate
Member of the Planning Board Until Ned Hickey Returns From Florida in April.

Trustee Frank Moore-Aye Trustee Janet Beebe- Aye
Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Steve Halevy stated that the Ornithology Lab was finalizing some of their problems. Ned had contacted a gentleman to come in and do a landscape seminar and when he finalizes the date he will let the Board know so they may attend if they wish.

Larry would like to start strategizing for the N. Tripharnmer project engineer interviews. He would like to hear suggestions as to who will be part of the team, interview criteria, etc. Don would be interested in have the engineer that did the Dryden project involved to at least give us advice on how to keep traffic flowing through the area. He also feels that TG Miller’s should be involved and both residents and business owners. However, the Mayor would like Larry to wait until 90% of the purchase offers are returned before he starts to form a committee.

Don asked Dennis to check into acquiring 6 feet on the northside of the road coming out from Sevanna Park so that the Village could consider widening that road so that a turning lane can be put in. There used to be a turning lane before the State took over that light. The road isn’t wide enough to meet the State’s specifications for three lanes.

Larry also asked Dennis to check on the timing of the lights at the Route 13 off ramp. He believes it was changed for the holidays but now it is way too long. The Mayor suggested that Larry send a letter to Barry Stevens at NYSDOT Operations.

Dennis took Brent Cross up to Arrowwood and confirmed that the sewer line there is leaking 14,000 gallons a day. Drain Brain will televise the line tomorrow. Once they decide where the leak is it will be fixed.
We got a refund from NYSEG for the signal lights. The State now owns all the lights on N. Triphammer in the Village. Once the traffic signal goes in at Graham Road we will own that. The traffic signal at Graham Rd. should be operational in about a week. Once again we have pulled the NYSEG bill for 5 lights. These lights were added to the Janivar Dr. bill when we took them over from Ivar Jonson but NYSEG has been billing us twice for them. Dennis has spoken to NYSEG and we should soon see a credit.
The lights on Arrowwood are all ready to go on a timer. The public heanng is on Monday. If there are no objections it is just a matter of programming them.

The Lighting Commission met just before this meeting to discuss McDonald’s and our lighting regulations. The Board gave Dennis approval to buy an IES Lighting reference book. This book contains the recommended standards for lighting.

Ben stated that he received a very contentious letter from McDonald’s. Ben needs a recommendation from the lighting commission to deal with McDonald’s. He also feels that our attorney needs to be involved.

Connie Kindig is back and Ben would like to have her do the minutes again. He would like to have Carol help him decompress the files in the building department and make room for the new code. Don feels that if it is cleared by Jodi it is ok with him. Don also would like Ben to speak with Paul about using the Bolton Point space next door for storage. Jodi stated that she would soon need another locked fireproof filing cabinet.

The State is adopting the International Code. Ben will be attending training in Dryden next Wed-Fri. The new code is very demanding. It will probably go into affect January 2002. Cable negotiations still slowly continue. Ben has mailed the three letters to change street addresses on Dart Dr.

Approve Vouchers

Next the Mayor proposed a motion to approve the vouchers.

Trustee Frank Moore-Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold- Aye Trustee Janet Beebe- Aye

Lynn asked Dennis when we were going to set up the radar on Dart Dr. It has just come back from being repaired and once we plow a place to put it would be set up.

Trustee Lynn Leopold motioned to adjourn and Trustee Frank Moore seconded the motion. A vote was taken:

Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

Trustee Frank Moore-Aye

Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye