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SUPERVISOR FEINER: So we're ready to start the
rest of the Town Board meeting. The first is we're having
a Public Hearing on the Capital Budget. So I would like to
move that we open up the hearing on the proposed 2018
Capital Budget.
COUNCILWOMAN JUETTNER: Second.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: All in favor?
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Aye.
COUNCILMAN JONES: Aye.
COUNCILWOMAN JUETTNER: Aye.
COUNCILMAN SHEEHAN: Aye.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: I basically have posted on
the website the Capital Budget for 2018 and basically it's
a $17,958,636 proposal and $9 million pertains to water
district funding. And there is a lot of, you know, basic
things that we have to do.
Communication networks have to be upgraded. Some
of these networks are obsolete. We need to improve the
communications possibilities within the Town. The Capital
Budget deals with more sidewalks around the Town. And we
have included funds for Pedestrian Safety initiatives.
We plan to build a sidewalk on Central Avenue,
Knollwood Road sidewalks. We're having a meeting on May
12th with the Public Works Commissioner and myself and
other Town officials with residents who live off of Juniper
Hill. We're looking at a sidewalk there.
There is interactive pool improvements, the AF
Veteran Park. There is a creation of playground upgrades
for the disabled. New poles and LED lights at E. Rumbrook
Park.
And we are proposing significant dollars on road
repaving and on curb restoration and a longstanding
initiative that people have been talking about for years.
We're going to be putting a traffic light on Ardsley Road
and Sprain Road.
And today we're having the Public Hearing.
Again, there is a lot of other details. It's all on the
website. And we have copies of the book here. And if
anybody would like to speak. So we have Dorrine and Ella.
TOWN CLERK BEVILLE: For the record, the name is,
for our stenographer, Dorrine Livson.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: Good evening. I have a
question about the budget. The question is the money that
is proposed is put up for bonds, right. How much will that
cost a taxpayer or how does one figure out approximately
how much it will cost a taxpayer for next year?
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Roberta, will you be able to
answer that? Sometimes you borrow for longer amounts,
sometimes you borrow for shorter amounts. So it's sort of
a -- we are also getting rid of debt every year. So a lot
of this is like replenishing the debt that we're getting
rid of.
COUNCILWOMAN JUETTNER: For the most part.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: You want to come on up.
COUNCILMAN SHEEHAN: This also authorizes the
current debt. It doesn't mean that we will. This
authorizes the occurring debt. It doesn't mean that we
will actually do it.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Yes.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Roberta?
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Roberta, maybe let Dorrine
ask her questions and then you'll know --
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Okay.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: That's my question.
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: That's your one.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: That's it.
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: That was easy.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: I know, I usually have more
to say.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: The debt is recorded within
the debt service fund and that will break down the
principle that gets paid and the interest that gets paid
for each year. So that's where you can find it.
And then it is through the debt service, it is
spread out to the different funds based on which fund has
requested it. Like for example, the Town outside piece
will go, there will be a transfer into the B fund for that
amount.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: Okay.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Does that answer your
question?
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: Yes.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: One of the things I've tried
doing is, there are a lot of additional requests in the
Capital Budget that I didn't recommend. And I was
trying -- and I'm not even sure I'm making the right
judgment or we're not, it's just a call. I was trying to
keep it as close to previous bonding, even though I
personally felt that I could easily have justified a lot of
the requests that were not approved.
So some people may say, you know what, you're
being penny-wise and about foolish, you should just do all
the infrastructure immediately. Maybe they are right, but
I thought it would be safer trying to keep it as even as
possible.
Now, the water district, there is a lot of -- now
that has nothing to do with the taxes, but that's really
very, very significant because --
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: And a necessity.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: What?
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: And a necessity.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: It's a necessity, and that's
$9 million. I think this is the most significant water
infrastructure probably in generations. We're doing water
tank rehabilitation $2,750,000. We're doing water main
cleaning and lining. That's about $3 million.
They have been doing that in the Mayfair,
Knollwood area and we are also going to be doing it again
soon on Underhill Road. But we are going to be doing it
throughout the Town. And this is where we're addressing,
you know, issues now. And it's going to help in the long
term.
And then we have a water main interconnection
from Rumbrook pump station to Knollwood pump station.
That's three million dollars. It's an installation of a
water transmission main from the Rumbrook pump stations to
Knollwood pump and currently the Town has no back up for
water if the Knollwood station is unavailable. So this is
really, I think, this is very, very significant.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Thank you.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Ella -- Did you want to say
anything else?
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: No thanks.
TOWN CLERK BEVILLE: For the record, Ella Priser.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Just a couple of short
questions. Paul, I'm not sure how you organized this. In
the front you have Town Entire and under that you've listed
Planning and Zoning. And you're talking about sidewalks on
Central Avenue and what have you. Isn't that B Budget?
SUPERVISOR FEINER: We will make changes.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Well, I'm just asking. I don't
know, maybe there is something different. You
specifically, there's something on the police headquarters.
Is that A Budget because it's a building owned by Town
Entire or I'm sure Roberta is getting all of this and she
will answer my question.
And finally, under the consolidated water
department, you didn't fund it, but there is a listing in
here for manhole and sewer line cleaning. And I'm not
sure, I thought the consolidated water district was
separate and apart from the sewer district in the Town. Is
that true or on page 22 Roberta?
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Say that again, I'm sorry.
MS. ELLA PRISER: It lists -- it wasn't funded
this year, but listed is manhole and sewer line cleaning
and lining on page 22. And is sewer lining correctly under
the consolidated water district budget?
I, you know, we have to do something. So we
probably should be doing a heck of a lot more. I look at
the roads around Town and what have you. And not just our
Town roads, but the State roads and we're in sad shape in
some areas of this Town.
So I'm hoping that almost more money is spent on
improving some of the infrastructure because if you don't
improve it, it seems to me it's going to break down totally
and then we will have an even more difficult problem to
address down the road.
And Roberta, just out of curiosity, what kind of
interest rates are bonds going for these days? Thank you.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Thank you.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Okay, I think I got all your
questions. So the first one was the A Budget, what is in
the A Budget for the police, that is related to SWAT, which
is a Town Entire expense.
The Planning and Zoning piece, the reason why it
was put into the A Budget is because it's matched -- it's
through a grant. So that's why we put it there. We can
switch it to the B Budget.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Is Town Entire going to pay for
it?
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Yes. Well, no, only that
piece. The rest of it is being funded through a grant.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Okay.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: And there is a big piece
that's being funded through a grant.
MS. ELLA PRISER: But our half, our whatever,
will be paid just by B?
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: By A.
MS. ELLA PRISER: A is going to pay ours for
Central Avenue?
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: It's through a grant. I
mean we can change that.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Okay, I'm --
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: We can change that. We will
discuss it, okay. And the other one was the waterline, you
were asking why it was in the --
MS. ELLA PRISER: The sewer line.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: No, that's the water.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: No, it says 22, look, it
says manhole, sewer line.
MS. ELLA PRISER: It says manhole and sewer line.
I was wondering why --
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: Number three.
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Can you come up and answer
it, Victor?
COMMISSIONER CAROSI: Hi, good evening, Victor
Carosi, Commissioner of Public Works. The question about
the listing in the documents for the sewer aspect, it's
just to be noted that it's the water district, so water and
sewer district. And as Roberta noted earlier, different
capital projects do ultimately have different funding
sources.
But from a purpose of listing these things and
tracking them, because it comes from the same department.
In other words, my water and sewer Superintendent John
Devany and I worked together and put that aspect together.
So it comes under the title and heading of water and sewer
district. But when it actually comes to funding, there are
separate sources that are broken out later in each capital
repayment schedule.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Okay, so consolidated --
COMMISSIONER CAROSI: Consolidated water and
sewer. The water district would not paying for sewer. And
as you note, there is a separate, you know, SS line for
sewers.
COUNCILMAN SHEEHAN: Let's put an asterisk on it
so it's there.
MS. ROBERTA ROMANO: Okay.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Would anybody else like to
talk?
(Whereupon, there was no response from the
audience.)
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Then should we -- should I
make a motion for -- does the Board want to close the
hearing or do we want to give people another opportunity to
speak?
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Do we have to?
SUPERVISOR FEINER: You know, I'm wondering since
we should, we basically, since it's the Capital Budget,
should we let people, extend the hearing until the next
meeting and this way, and then we can vote on it the last
meeting in May?
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Is there any funding that has
to be taken out now?
SUPERVISOR FEINER: The only problem is if we do
it now, then we can get some of the road work done faster.
MS. ELLA PRISER: Right.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: We always basically -- I mean
do you have any recommendations?
MS. ELLA PRISER: To be honest, I do not. I've
been preoccupied with something else the last few days.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: Why don't we close the
hearing. We will leave the record open --
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Seven days.
MS. DORRINE LIVSON: Ten days, whatever you do.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: We can leave the record open
until the day before the next meeting.
TOWN ATTORNEY LEWIS: Right. If there are any
changes that you, The Board, feels need to be made, we can
make those and we will open it.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: We will leave the record open
for ten days.
COUNCILMAN MORGAN: Second.
SUPERVISOR FEINER: All in favor? Aye.
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