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ROLL CALL:     Town Clerk

Excused: Councilman Crawford

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INVOCATION:  Harbor Lights Fellowship

Vince Anetrini

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PLEDGE:  Councilwoman Mary Cooke

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PUBLIC COMMENTS: - AGENDA ITEMS ONLY

Speakers:  None

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PUBLIC HEARING:

Local Law Intro #1 of 2008 – Architectural Review Advisory Board

A. Speakers in Favor:  None              Speakers in Opposition:  None   Adopt Local Law #1/2008 Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0                                       B. Adopt Proposed Rules of ARB Argy/Roesch, Approved 4-0

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MINUTES: 

Approve Minutes of Regular Meeting #1, January 7, 2008

Roesch/Argy, Approved 4-0

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CONSENT AGENDA:

1.    Golden Age Center – Facility Usage – December 2007

2.    Meeting Minutes – Zoning Board of Appeals – December 6, 2007

3.    Meeting Minutes – Grand Island Traffic Safety Advisory Board – December 11, 2007

4.    Meeting Minutes – Economic Development Advisory Board – January 9, 2008

5.    United States of America, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission – Order Approving Exhibit G Drawings

6.    Meeting Minutes – Planning Board – December 10, 2007

7.    Meeting Minutes – Town of Grand Island Safety Committee – December 6, 2007

8.    Meeting Minutes – GIFTS Executive Meeting – December 11, 2007

9.    County of Erie, Department of Environment and Planning, Division of Planning – Public Review of 2008 Annual Action Plan

10. Niagara River Greenway Commission – Project Consultation and Review – Fisherman’s Park

Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

COMMUNICATIONS –TOWN BOARD:

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SUPERVISOR McMAHON:

1.  Authorize Supervisor to Sign – Two Year Contract with J. O’Connell            & Associates

$32,000 per year – two year contract                    Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

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COUNCILWOMAN MARY S. COOKE:

   1.  Medical Care Bonus Returned to Town

No action by Town Board

COMMUNICATIONS – OTHER TOWN OFFICIALS:

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TOWN CLERK – PATRICIA A. FRENTZEL:

1.  Authorization to Sign Lease – Postage Machine

Tabled                                         Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

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HIGHWAY SUPERINTENDENT – RAYMOND DLUGOKINSKI:

1.       Request Permission to Bid – One New and Unused 2008 9’ All Season Dump Box

Authorization to bid               Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

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DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING & WATER RESOURCES – JOHN WHITNEY:

1.    Authorize Supervisor to Sign Letter of Support – Healthy Niagara:  Strategic Watershed Management and Implementation Proposal

2.    Authorization to Advertise for Bids – Overflow Retention Facility Spray Wash System & Liner Replacement – Job #M-182

3.    Award Contract – Trailer Mounted Portable Generating System – M-184

1.    Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0

2.    Authorization to bid on January 25^th, open bids February 27^th at 10:00a.m.                  Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

3.    Penn Power Systems - $30,600 Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

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TOWN ACCOUNTANT – PAM WHITNEY:

1.  Employee Buyback Request

Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

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RECREATION DIRECTOR – LINDA TUFILLARO:

1.  Lifeguard Hires

Hire Michael Soos, Benjamin Soos Part-time lifeguards, $7.50/hr.  Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0

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PLANNING BOARD:

1.    Recommended Amendments to Town Code – Section 49-211

2.    Radhe Krishna Properties, Inc. – 3080 Grand Island Blvd. – Exception to the Subdivision Regulations

3.    Commercial Plaza – 1738 Grand Island Blvd. – Site Plan Modifications

4.    Executive Carpet Cleaning, Inc. – 110 Industrial Dr. – Site Plan Modifications

5.    Golf Villas at River Oaks – Exception to Subdivision Regulations

A.  Metzger Civil Engineering, PLLC – Request Exception to Subdivision Regulations – Golf Villas at River Oaks, Lot No. 95

1.  Approve a 10 working day submission deadline for PB items, effective with February PB Meeting Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

2.  Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0

3.  Subject to conditions Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

4.  Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

5.  Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

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REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE:

Vouchers #89186 , 89187 - 89309

General      $132,905.21   

Highway      $  19,673.83

Sewer          $      6,435.41

Water          $   74,610.42

Garbage       $   93,813.37

Total            $327,438.24

Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

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   UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

    Approve Town Safety Manual

Remains Tabled

Councilman Crawford Joined the Meeting at 8:24 p.m.

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  SUSPEND THE RULES:

1.   Appointment of Part-time Police Officers

A.      Suspend the Rules       Roesch/Argy, Approved 5-0

B.      Appoint Part- time Police Officers – Peter Sukmanowski, Thomas C. Dewey II, effective August 7, 2006               Roesch/Argy, Approved 5-0

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   PUBLIC COMMENTS:

Speakers: Alice Gerard                     Re: Bus Shelters

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FROM THE BOARD:

Cooke: Conservation Commission change in meeting dates starting April – Second Thursday

Workshop 1/31/08 – DOT –Info mtg. for a roundabout at Staley and Grand Island Blvd.

Argy: Time involved in ARB Local Law and Rules decisions

Roesch: Safety Manual Still on Table, Rotary Chili Dinner – 2/2/08 at the Bflo. Launch Club

Crawford: Great job to Hwy Crew

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MEMORIAL ADJOURNMENT:

June Byron

Eileen Sweeney

Thomas Kuczynski

Regina Gicewicz

Mary Ognibene

Thomas Grycel

Jerome Funk

Adjourned at 8:30p.m.

Crawford/Cooke, Approved 5-0