ROLL CALL:     Town Clerk

Excused:  Councilman Roesch

INVOCATION:   Bible Fellowship Center

Mr. Gary Wadsworth

PLEDGE:  Councilwoman Susan Argy

PROCLOMATION: Eagle Scout

Seth Kline

PUBLIC COMMENTS: - AGENDA ITEMS ONLY

Speakers:  None

MINUTES:

1.  Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #71, December 7, 2009

2.  Approve Minutes of Regular Meeting #22, December 7, 2009

Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

CONSENT AGENDA:

1.    Meeting Minutes – Grand Island Memorial Library – October 28, 2009

2.    Meeting Minutes – Zoning Board of Appeals – November 5, 2009

3.    Meeting Minutes – Traffic Safety Advisory Board – November 10, 2009

4.    Meeting Minutes – Board of Architectural Review – November 17, 2009

5.    Meeting Minutes – Commission for the Conservation of the Environment – November 9, 2009

6.    Meeting Minutes – Planning Board – November 9, 2009

7.    Time Warner Cable – Billing Statement Rate Changes

Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

COMMUNICATIONS –TOWN BOARD:

SUPERVISOR McMAHON:

1.    2010 Sewer Rents

2.    Authorize Supervisor to Sign Contract – Network Services 2010 Contract

3.    Authorize Supervisor to Sign Contract – O’Connell & Associates 2010 Contract

4.    Monthly Supervisor’s Report – November 2009

1.    $5.00 per 1,000 gallons of water used.                             Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

2.    $29,120.00                    Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

3.    $34,000 – Two Years   Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

4.    No action by the Town Board

COMMUNICATIONS – OTHER TOWN OFFICIALS:

COUNCILWOMAN MARY COOKE:

1.   Medical Care Bonus Returned to Town

2.   Support for Radio Controlled Aircraft Flying Field Grant Application

1.    No action by the Town Board

2.    Cooke/Crawford, Approved 4-0

TOWN ATTORNEY – PETER GODFREY:

1.    Create Lighting District #55 – Waterford Park Phase I – Set Public Hearing

2.    Local Law Intro #8 of 2009 – Stop Sign – Laurie Lane and Park Lane – Set Public Hearing

1.    Set Public Hearing for Monday, January 4, 2010 at 8:00p.m.   Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

2.    Set Public Hearing for Monday, January 4, 2010 at 8:00p.m.   Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING & WATER RESOURCES – JOHN WHITNEY:

1.  Award Bid – West River Road Drainage Improvement Program – Project No. D-38

1.  Award to Sam Long’s Landscaping      $37,777.00                         Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

RECREATION DIRECTOR – LINDA TUFILLARO:

1.    Authorize Supervisor to Sign – DFY State Aid Reimbursements – 2009

2.    Winter Part-time Hire

1.    Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

2.    Lisa Kurpiewski – 5 weeks, 19 hrs./wk, PT Rec Attendant, $8.20/per hour                Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

TOWN ACCOUNTANT – PAMELA BARTON:

1.  2009 Budget Transfers

1.  General–$117,280, Hwy-$21,100, Sewer-$1,600, Water-$1,400 Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER – DOUGLAS LEARMAN:

1.    Board of Plumbing Examiner’s Election

2.    Electrical Election

3.    Proposed Addition to Fee Schedule

1.    No action by the Town Board

2.    Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

3.    Cooke/Crawford, Approved 4-0

ZONING OFFICE:

1.    Tower Permit Renewal – Upstate Cellular Network (Verizon),                423 Ransom Road

2.  Special Use Permit Renewal – Robert F. Mesmer, Love Road – Private Airport/Landing Strip/Residential, Rural Area

1.  Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

2.  Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

PLANNING BOARD:

1.  New England Estates Now Changed to New England Village – Preliminary Plat – Revision 6

1.  Crawford/Cooke, Approved 4-0

REPORT OF THE A UDIT COMMITTEE:

Vouchers #96307 – 96449

General          $117,921.22         

Highway         $  12,659.70    

Sewer             $   18,321.14       

Water             $     7,254.72     

 Capital             $    1,500.00 

 Lighting            $        65.00

 Garbage          $100,969.04

 Total               $258,690.82

Cooke/Crawford, Approved 4-0

   UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

1.   Local Law Intro #4 of 2009 – 6^th Street Mining Overlay District

2.   Double-D Construction, Bedell Road – Site Plan Approval/Contractor’s Yard

          A.  Doug Learman, Code Enforcement Officer – Contractor’s Yard

1.  Remains Tabled

2.  Remains Tabled

   PUBLIC COMMENTS:

Speakers:  None

FROM THE BOARD:

All:  Best wishes to Susan Argy for her service to Grand Island, Merry Christmas. – Happy New Year.

Swearing in Ceremony – January 1, 2010 – Golden Age Center - Noon

MEMORIAL ADJOURNMENT:

John Mager                                                Jack Lindelow

Anthony Ferrentino, Jr.                              Jeanette Courey

Cynthia Louth                                            Byron Cole                    

Raymond Kramer                                      Harold Arcouet                

Michael Schneider                                    Carl Detig

Harry Fedak                                              Melvyn Nusstein

Roberta Blasius                                        Joseph Ognibene

Adjourned at 8:26p.m.                     Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0