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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTB 2025-091 Adopt Public Interest Order 2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer ImprovementMEETING OF THE ITHACA TOWN BOARD August 25, 2025 TB Resolution 2025–091: Public Interest Order -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 Ithaca2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer Improvement and establishing the Town of Ithaca 2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer Improvement Area At a regular meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, held at the Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, in Ithaca, New York in said Town, onAugust 25, 2025, at 4:30 o’clock p.m., Prevailing Time. Present:Rod Howe, Supervisor; Members Rich DePaolo, Rob Rosen, Susie Gutenberger and Margaret Johnson Moved: Rob RosenSeconded: Susie Gutenberger 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, ofsewer system improvements to be known and identified as the Town of Ithaca 2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer Improvement (the “Improvement”), to provide such Improvement to the present Town sewer system, such Improvement to be jointly owned by the Town of Ithaca and the City of Ithaca, to serve a benefitted area in said Town to be known as the Town of Ithaca 2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer Improvement Area(the “Sewer Improvement Area”); and Whereas, the Improvement proposed in connection with the establishment of the Sewer Improvement Areaconsists ofreplacing approximately 250 LF of 8” Cast Iron forcemain with new 8” HDPE and installing 190 LF of 12” Steel Sleeves, as well as other ancillary and incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, at a maximum estimated cost to the Sewer Improvement Area of 41.57% of $208,579.50, which is $86,706.50; 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 were filed in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town prior to the Town Board’sAugust 11, 2025 meeting, where the same were available during regular office hours for examination by any person or persons interested in the subject matter thereof; and Whereas, the area of said Town determined to be benefited by said Improvement 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, 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 or the principal and interest on serial bonds and bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the issuance of serial bonds, as the same become due and payable; and Whereas, said maximum estimated cost shall be authorized to be financed bythe expenditure of current revenues and surplus funds from sewer rents and charges from said Sewer Improvement Area or by the issuance by the Town of Ithaca of its serial bonds with a maximum maturity not in excess of the forty year period prescribed by the Local Finance Law; and Whereas, onAugust 11, 2025, the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca duly adopted an Orderreciting the proposed Improvement, a description of the boundaries of the proposed benefited area, the maximum amount proposed to be expended for the Improvement, the proposed method of apportioning the costs of such Improvement, the proposed method of financing to be employed, the fact that a map, plan and report describing the same are on file in the Town Clerk's office for public inspection, and calling a public hearing upon said map, plan and report and the question of providing the Improvement to serve the area to be known as the Town of Ithaca2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer Improvement Area, such public hearing to be held onAugust 25, 2025, at 4:30 o’clock P.M., Prevailing Time, at the Town Hall, 215 North Tioga Street, Ithaca, New York, in said Town, at which time and place all persons interested in the subject thereof could be heard concerning the same; and Whereas, notice of said public hearing was duly posted and published as required by law; and Whereas, said public hearing was duly held at the place and at the time aforesaid and all persons interested in the subject thereof, who appeared at such time and place, were heard concerning the same; and Whereas, pursuant to the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”) and its implementing regulations at 6 NYCRR Part 617, it has been determined by the Town Board that approval, construction and implementation of the Improvement are a Type II action due to the Improvement being a “replacement, rehabilitation or reconstruction of a structure or facility, in kind, on the same site….”;and Whereas, based on the evidence offered, it is now desired to authorize the Improvementto serve the area to be known as the Town of Ithaca2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer ImprovementArea; therefore, be it Resolved, by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, as follows: Section 1.It is hereby determined that it is in the public interest to establish said Town of Ithaca2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary Sewer ImprovementArea and to authorize, establish and make the Improvement hereinafter described, and such Town of Ithaca2025 Cecil Malone Sanitary SewerImprovementArea is hereby established and the Improvement is authorized at a maximum estimated cost to said Sewer Improvement Area of$86,706.50Said Sewer Improvement Area boundaries shall consist of the entire area of said Town outside of the Village of Cayuga Heights as more fully shown and described in the aforesaid map, plan and report presently on file in the office of the Town Clerk. The area hereby determined to be benefitted by said Improvement is the entire area of the Town outside the Village of Cayuga Heights.All of the property within said Sewer Improvement Area is benefited by the proposed Improvement, and all of the property benefited is included within said Sewer Improvement Area. Section 2.The proposed Improvement shall consist ofreplacing approximately 250 LF of 8” Cast Iron forcemain with new 8” HDPE and installing 190 LF of 12” Steel Sleeves, as well as other ancillary and incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, at a maximum estimated cost to the Sewer Improvement Area of 41.57% of $208,579.50, which is $86,706.50. The proposed method of apportioning the costs of the Improvement should not be changed. The method of financing of said cost shall be by the expenditure of current revenues and surplus funds from sewer rents and charges from said Sewer Improvement Area or by the issuance by the Town of Ithaca of its serial bonds with a maximum maturity not in excess of the forty-year period prescribed by the Local Finance Law. Section 3.It is hereby determined that the estimated expense of the Improvement does not exceed onetenth of one per cent of the full valuation of the taxable real property in the area of said Town outside of any villages and, therefore, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 13 of Section 209q of the Town Law, the permission of the State Comptroller shall not be required for such Improvement. Section 4.Pursuant to subdivision 6(d) of Section 209q of the Town Law, the Town Clerk will cause a certified copy of this resolution to be duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the County of Tompkins, New York, within ten days of the date this resolution becomes effective pursuant to Town Law Section 91, which when so recorded, shall be presumptive evidence of the regularity of the proceedings and action taken by the Town Board in relation to the Improvement. Section 5.It is hereby further determined that all of the cost of the Improvement allocable to the Town shall be borne by property within said Sewer Improvement Area constituting all of the area of said Town outside of any villages, and therefore this resolution shall be subject to permissive referendum. Section 6.This resolution is adopted subject to permissive referendumin the manner provided in Town Law Article 7 and Town Law Section 209-q. The question of the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly put to a vote on roll call, which resulted as follows:Rod Howe, aye; Rich DePaolo,aye; Rob Rosen, aye;Susie Gutenberger, aye and Margaret Johnson, aye.