ROLL CALL:     Town Clerk

All Present

INVOCATION:   Trinity United Methodist Church

Rev. Jeffrey Childs

PLEDGE:  Councilman Gary Roesch

PROCLAMATION:

Eagle Scout Proclamation

Scott Matthew Chown

PUBLIC COMMENTS: - AGENDA ITEMS ONLY

Speakers: None

PUBLIC HEARINGS:

1.  Special Use Permit Application – Caitlin M. Doldan, Huth Road – Keeping of 2 Agricultural Animals on 3.5 Acres

 Speakers in Favor: None         Speakers in Opposition:  None Cooke/Argy, Approved 5-0

MINUTES: 

1.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #55, July 2, 2008

2.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #56, July 7, 2008

3.    Approve Minutes of Regular Meeting #12, July 7, 2008

Roesch/Crawford, Approved 5-0

CONSENT AGENDA:

1.    Meeting Minutes – Zoning Board of Appeals – June 5, 2008

2.    Meeting Minutes – Grand Island Memorial Library Board of Trustees – April 17, 2008

3.    Meeting Minutes – Long Range Planning Committee – May 28, 2008

4.    Meeting Minutes – Town of Grand Island Safety Committee – May 1, 2008

5.    Hodgson Russ, Attorneys – Town of Grand Island, $3,650,000 Serial Bonds, 2008

6.    Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council – Invitation to Meeting, July 17, 2008

7.    AT&T – AT&T Mobility and Verizon – 80 Carl Road, Site Lease Agreement

8.    New York State Department of Environmental Conservation – Notice of Complete Application – Czajka Property, Fix Road 

9.    Town of Cheektowaga – Resolution in Support of Revision to Section One, Subdivision 1 of Section 339-Y of the Real Property Law

10. Meeting Minutes – Planning Board – June 9, 2008

11. Meeting Minutes – Board of Architectural Review – June 17, 2008

Cooke/Argy, Approved 5-0

COMMUNICATIONS –TOWN BOARD:

SUPERVISOR McMAHON:

1.    Local Law Intro #5 of 2008 – Enhanced Environmental District Creation – Set Public Hearing

2.    Resolution in Support of Division of Criminal Justice Services Grant Application

3.    Appointment – Grand Island Police Department

4.    Authorization to Re-bid – Police Car

5.    Resolution in Support of Court Assistance Program Grant

1.    Referred to Planning Board/Town Board for review                          Roesch/Argy, Approved 5-0

2.    Crawford/Cooke, Approved 5-0

3.    Tabled                       Crawford/Argy, Approved 5-0

4.    Cooke/Argy, Approved 5-0

5.    Crawford/Cooke, Approved 5-0

COMMUNICATIONS – OTHER TOWN OFFICIALS:

ZONING OFFICER – JOHN McCARTHY:

1.    Special Use Permit Renewal – National Fuel Gas Supply Corp., Stony Point Road – Natural Gas Regulator/Metering Station

2.    Activity Report – January 1, 2008 to June 30, 2008

1.    Roesch/Cooke, Approved 5-0

2.    No Action by Town Board

PLANNING BOARD:

1.  Invitrogen, Staley Road – Site Plan Approval – Waste Water Treatment Facility Expansion

1.  Argy/Cooke, Approved 5-0

COMMUNICATIONS – GENERAL: 

1.  William Briggs – National Electrical Certified Inspectors – 3^rd Party Electrical Inspections

1.  Referred to CEO             Roesch/Cooke, Approved 5-0

REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE:

Vouchers #91078 - 91180

General       $  54,330.06

Highway      $    7,181.18  

Sewer          $ 29,153.33

Water          $  84,225.83

 Capital         $194,645.50

 Garbage      $  94,695.93

 Total            $464,231.83

Cooke/Roesch, Approved 5-0

   UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

1.    Approve Town Safety Manual

2.   Local Law Intro #3 of 2008 – Rezone a Portion of River Oaks (56+/- Acres) Whitehaven Road West of Golf Course Villas – R2 to R1E

3.   Appointment – Architectural Review Advisory Board

1.    Remains Tabled

2.    Remains Tabled

3.    Appoint Kenneth Killian to fill remainder of term expiring December 31, 2008.   Argy/Roesch, Approved 5-0

   PUBLIC COMMENTS:

Speakers: Fran Preve                     Re: Niagara Falls Campgrounds

FROM THE BOARD:

Cooke: “Paddles Up” – 7-26-08 – Beaver Island State Park

Roesch: Blood Drive – 7-22-08 –      GI Fire Company – 1:00p.m.

McMahon: Fisherman’s Landing – Greenway Grant

MEMORIAL ADJOURNMENT:

Dorothy Lane

Helen Jarosz

Nancy DeGlopper

Anthony Genova

Catherine Ann Lecksell

Felicia DeMartin

William Engel

David Forbes, Jr.

Adjourned at 8:39p.m.  Crawford/Cooke, Approved 5-0