MINUTES of a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Village of Lansing held on Monday April 5, 1999 at 7:30 P.M. in the Village Office.

PRESENT: Mayor Don Hartill, Trustees Cliff Buck, Larry Fresinski and Lynn Leopold; Attorney Randall Marcus; Clerk/Treasurer Jodi Dake.

Mayor Don Hartill called the meeting to order at 7:35P.M. Mayor Hartill called for Public Comment. The Mayor commented that at 8:00pm tonight he and John Majeroni were going to the Village of Cayuga Heights Board of Trustees meeting to try and get more sewer units.

Motion- To Close Public Comment Period

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

There was no public present to comment.

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

At this point Mayor Hartill left to go to the Village of Cayuga Heights. The board discussed changes to the minutes and decided to wait till the Mayor returned to vote on approving all of the minutes.

Randy took this opportunity to explain to the board members why the consideration of a street light on Cayuga Hills Road was on the agenda. This originated from a phone call from Roy Park Jr. stating that there are one or more cars regularly parked at the T at the end of Cayuga Hills Road, which the Village owns. Mr. Park calls the sheriff regularly on people who are parking there and doing illegal things. Mr. Park has gathered support from the other two neighborhood residents indicating that action needs to be taken. Mayor Hartill met with Roy Park last Saturday at the site. Cliff asked about abandoning the road. Randy said that this is an option. Lynn doesn’t feel this is a good idea. The Village needs to be aggressive in taking care of these problem areas. Cliff is not inclined to put a streetlight in the wilderness. He feels that maybe a better alternative would be to abandon the road. Lynn asked if this could include removing the pavement. Randy stated that it could be done but would be very expensive. At this point in the discussion Mayor Hartill returned. The Mayor stated that about six weeks ago he received a letter regarding the dead end on Cayuga Hills Road, which initiated the meeting he had with Roy Parks last Saturday. The problem is people parking there. We use to have the same problem at the end of Twin Glens Road. The solution that the Mayor and Mr. Park came up with was to have the Village put up a down pointing streetlight there. The Trustees asked about abandoning the road. The Mayor said that Mr. Park’s lawyer advised him against that if he ever wanted to develop his property down there. Mayor Hartill is prepared to spend this money because it is cheaper than a police force and a streetlight seems to be the best solution. Larry asked about a motion light but that area has too many deer. The Mayor asked for a motion to get a design and install a streetlight.

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

Next on the agenda was consideration of the transfer of $112,000 from the Water Capital Reserve to the Water Fund to pay for the painting of the in-ground water tank at the airport. In the Budget under Misc. you see a $10,000 item which is the portion that John Majeroni & Cornell have agreed to pay for the tank.

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

The water tank will be painted inside with epoxy paint.

The next item on the agenda is to approve the budget. Mayor Hartill would like to adopt the budget with one change that would allow the Village to take funds from Water Capital Reserve and transfer it to the Water Fund to pay for the painting of the water tank as approved above.

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

The Budget was passed.

Next were comments from the Mayor. The joint sewer letter that the Mayor had written to be sent from him and Jeanine Kirby of the Town of Lansing still has not gone out. Jeanine and Dave Herrick rewrote the letter and the Mayor felt it was too stiff. On Friday, Don and Dave will get together to rewrite the letter and he will get it to Jodi to mail out. The Village of Cayuga Heights is nervous about the partnership and the costs. The Mayor is concerned with where the transmission main will go. Thursday the Mayor will attend a meeting at Bolton Point and will have our contract in place, which is a basis for a MOU.

Next area of discussion was the NEST proposal to split the Village in half with a new road. Cliff stated that we appointed John Bailey to the NEST Committee to represent the Village and he gets the feeling that it hasn’t been a good experience for John. Cliff would like the Board to consider asking John Bailey to be our representative at the Taste of the Nations Auction. The Mayor supported this idea. Don stated that the problem with the whole process is that it only has a 10% affect. The working group did a good job but the engineer’s were useless. The State won’t consider funding this because it won’t reduce traffic. The good thing that will come out of all this is that we will get an enhanced public transit. In the end, if funded by the State, there will be an attempt to get right of way rights in each of the municipalities. The Mayor will not support the by-pass. There is a joint meeting of the Working committee and the client committee on May 13^th.

The Planning Board asked Randy to present a couple of proposed laws to the Board for consideration. First was Proposed Local Law_, Village of Lansing Type II Action Under State Environmental Quality Review Act (Randy will get this Proposed Law a letter). The suggestion was to add 10 items to Type II list of items that don’t need a SEQRA. Don suggested we look this over and set a public hearing at the next meeting. Next was Proposed Local Law E, Amendment of Village of Lansing Zoning Law Section 103 Adding Definition of "Mobile Home". This is an attempt to define mobile home. Lastly, the Planning Board had a question on alternate member law. Now the appointment of acting member is for a specified time and person and they would like to change this so the alternate could fill in for anyone that couldn’t make it to a particular meeting. Don views this as difficult enough to attract good people. This would be a payroll problem. The Mayor feels that to make it a bookkeeping enterprise it doesn’t add to our ability to attract people.

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

The Board came out of executive session at 10:15pm.

Trustee Larry Fresinski motioned to adjourn.

Trustee John Caren seconded the motion. A vote was taken:

Trustee Cliff Buck- Aye Trustee Larry Fresinski- Aye

Trustee Lynn Leopold-Aye Mayor Donald Hartill- Aye

The Board adjourned at 10:16pm.

Jodi Dake

Village Clerk