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SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD
Monday, July 25, 2022 at 2:30 p.m.
This meeting was held/broadcast via the Zoom Platform under Gov. Hochel’s Executive order.
MINUTES
Present: Rich DePaolo, Deputy Supervisor; Members Margaret Johnson, Pamela Bleiwas, and
Rob Rosen Absent: Rod Howe, Bill Goodman, and Eric Levine
Staff Present: Donna Shaw, Finance; Dan Thaete, Engineering; Mart Moseley, Code Enforcement;
Susan Brock, Attorney for the Town; Becky Jordan, Deputy Town Clerk
Item 1 Consider setting a public hearing regarding a Proposed Sewer Improvement for the
Town of Ithaca - Town of Ithaca 2022 Boiler Replacement Sewer Improvement at the Ithaca Area
Wastewater Treatment Facility - Subject to Permissive Referendum
TB Resolution 2022 - 121: Order Setting a Public Hearing Regarding a Proposed Sewer
Improvement for the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, pursuant to Article 12-
C of the Town Law, to be known as the Town of Ithaca 2022 Boiler Replacement Sewer
Improvement at the Ithaca Area Wastewater Treatment Facility and establishing the Town of
Ithaca 2022 Boiler Replacement Sewer Improvement Area
Present: Rich DePaolo, Margaret Johnson, Pamela Bleiwas, Rob Rosen
Moved: Pamela Bleiwas Seconded: Margaret Johnson
WHEREAS, a map, plan and report, including an estimate of cost, have been duly prepared in such
manner and in such detail as has heretofore been determined by the Town Board of the Town of
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, relating to the establishment and construction, pursuant to
Article 12-C of the Town Law, of sewer system improvements to be known and identified as the
Town of Ithaca 2022 Boiler Replacement Sewer Improvement at the Ithaca Area Wastewater
Treatment Facility (the “Improvement”), to provide such Improvement to the present Town sewer
system, such sewer system Improvement to be jointly constructed and jointly owned by the Town
of Ithaca, City of Ithaca and Town of Dryden, all of which are co- owners of the Ithaca Area
Wastewater Treatment Facility (“IAWWTF”), to serve a benefitted area in said Town to be known
as the Town of Ithaca 2022 Boiler Replacement Sewer Improvement Area (the “Sewer
Improvement Area”); and
WHEREAS, the area of said Town determined to be benefited by said Sewer Improvement Area
consists of the entire area of said Town excepting therefrom the area contained within the Village
of Cayuga Heights, and the Sewer Improvement Area boundaries shall consist of the entire area
of said Town outside of the Village of Cayuga Heights as more fully shown upon a map on file
in the office of the Town Clerk, which map is available for inspection by any person or persons
interested in same during regular office hours at said office; and
WHEREAS, said map, plan and report, including estimate of cost, were prepared by a competent
engineer, duly licensed by the State of New York, and have been filed in the office of the Town
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Clerk of said Town, where the same are available during regular office hours for examination by
any person or persons interested in the subject matter thereof; and
WHEREAS, the Improvement proposed in connection with the establishment of the Sewer
Improvement Area consists of replacing the IAWWTF’s existing dual fuel boiler with two high
efficiency non-condensing packaged boilers, disposal of the existing boiler, and other ancillary and
incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, at a maximum estimated cost to the
Sewer Improvement Area of 41.57% of $650,000.00, which is $270,205, it being determined that
the additional $379,795 of the $650,000.00 aggregate maximum cost shall be apportioned and
allocated to the City of Ithaca and Town of Dryden, pursuant to the terms of the December 31, 2003
Joint Sewer Agreement among the Town of Ithaca, City of Ithaca and Town of Dryden; and
WHEREAS, said $270,205 maximum estimated cost, which is the cost of the project to be expended
by the Town of Ithaca, shall be authorized to be financed by the Town of Ithaca by the expenditure
of current revenues and surplus funds from sewer rents and charges from said Sewer Improvement
Area, and/or by serial bonds, provided however, grants-in-aid may be received and utilized therefor;
and
WHEREAS, it is proposed that the cost of the Improvement shall be borne by the real property in
said Sewer Improvement Area by assessing, levying upon and collecting from the several lots
and parcels of land within such Sewer Improvement Area, outside of any villages, which the Town
Board shall determine and specify to be especially benefitted by the Improvement, an amount
sufficient to pay the cost, and
WHEREAS, said maximum estimated cost is not greater than one-tenth of one per centum of the
full valuation of the taxable real property in the area of the Town of Ithaca outside of any villages
and, therefore, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 13(a) of Section 209-q of the Town
Law, the permission of the State Comptroller is not required for such Improvement and the
establishment of said Sewer Improvement Area; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board has determined approval, construction and implementation of the
Improvement to be a Type II Action pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department
of Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review
Act (SEQR) for the following reasons: the Improvement involves the purchase of equipment, and
the replacement in kind of facilities on the same site; and thus per the SEQR regulations the
Improvement will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment, and approval,
construction and implementation of the Improvement are not subject to review under SEQR; and
WHEREAS, it is now desired to call a public hearing for the purpose of considering said map, plan
and report, including estimate of cost, and the providing of the Improvement, and to hear all persons
interested in the subject thereof concerning the same, in accordance with the provisions of Section
209-q of the Town Law; now, therefore, be it
Ordered, by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, as follows:
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Section 1. A public hearing shall be held by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca,
Tompkins County, New York, 215 North Tioga Street, in Ithaca, New York, in said Town,
on August 8, 2022, at 5:30 o’clock P.M., Prevailing Time, to consider the aforesaid map,
plan and report, including estimate of cost, and the question of providing the
Improvement, and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same
and to take such action thereon as is required by 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, and also to post a copy thereof on
the Town signboard maintained by the Town Clerk, not less than ten (10) nor more than
twenty (20) days before the day designated for the hearing as aforesaid, in accordance
with the provisions of Section 209-q of the Town Law.
Section 3. This Order shall take effect immediately.
The question of the adoption of the foregoing Order was duly put to a vote on roll call, which
resulted as follows: Rich DePaolo, aye; Margaret Johnson, aye; Pamela Bleiwas, aye and Rob
Rosen, aye. The resolution was thereupon declared duly adopted.
Item 2 Consider approval of Town of Ithaca Abstract 14 of 2022
TB Resolution 2022 -122: Town of Ithaca Abstract 14 for FY-2022
Resolved that the governing Town Board hereby authorizes the payment of the audited vouchers
in total for the amounts indicated:
VOUCHER NOS. 817 - 870
General Fund Town Wide 49,934.22
General Fund Part-Town 8,857.75
Highway Fund Town Wide DA 5,785.07
Highway Fund Part Town DB 13,812.23
Water Fund 20,862.28
Sewer Fund 7,402.11
Gateway Trail – H8 9,355.20
Risk Retention Fund 547.00
Forest Home Lighting District 108.90
Glenside Lighting District 26.47
Renwick Heights Lighting District 39.68
Eastwood Commons Lighting District 33.44
Clover Lane Lighting District 4.79
Winner’s Circle Lighting District 6.78
Burleigh Drive Lighting District 25.94
West Haven Road Lighting District 85.09
Coddington Road Lighting District 51.98
Trust and Agency 647.64
TOTAL 117,586.57
Moved:Rich DePaolo Seconded:Pamela Bleiwas
Vote:aye —DePaolo,Bleiwas,Johnson,Rosen
Meeting was adjourned at 2:39 p.m.upon a motion and a second;unanimous.
Submitted by
Becky Jor ‘eputy Town Clerk
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