ROLL CALL:     Town Clerk

Excused:  Supervisor Peter McMahon

INVOCATION:   Bible Presbyterian Church

Reverend Kevin Backus

PLEDGE:  Councilwoman Mary Cooke

PUBLIC COMMENTS: - AGENDA ITEMS ONLY

Speakers:  None

PUBLIC HEARING:  

Local Law Intro #1 of 2009 – Moratorium on Ponds

Speakers in Favor:  None                       Speakers in Opposition:  Jim Lorentz, Jim Daigler           Referred to the Town Board  Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

MINUTES: 

1.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #8, January 30, 2009

2.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #9, February 2, 2009

3.    Approve Minutes of Regular Meeting #3, February 2, 2009

4.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #10, February 6, 2009

5.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #11, February 9, 2009

6.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #12, February 12, 2009

7.    Approve Minutes of Workshop Meeting #13, February 23, 2009

Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

CONSENT AGENDA:

1.    Golden Age Center – Vehicle Usage – January 2009

2.    Golden Age Center – Facility Usage – January 2009

3.    Building Permits Issued – January 2009

4.    WNY Stormwater Coalition – Feasibility Study of Stormwater Utility District(s) Formation

5.    APP Pharmaceuticals – Emergency and Hazardous Chemical Inventory

6.    Meeting Minutes – Zoning Board of Appeals – January 8, 2009

7.    Meeting Minutes – Planning Board – January 12, 2009

8.    Meeting Minutes – Grand Island Memorial Library – October 16, 2008

9.    Meeting Minutes – Board of Architectural Review – January 20, 2009

10. Meeting Minutes – Traffic Safety Advisory Board – December 2008

11. County of Erie, Department of Environment and Planning – Final 2009 Annual Action Plan

12. Meeting Minutes – Grand Island Economic Development Advisory Board – February 12, 2009

13. Time Warner Cable – 20^th Annual Time Warner Cable National Teacher Awards

14. Patrick Moravec, J. O’Connell & Associates – Grant Applications

15. Time Warner Cable – Buffalo News Channel

16. Meeting Minutes – GIFTS Executive Team – January 15, 2009

Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

COMMUNICATIONS –TOWN BOARD:

SUPERVISOR McMAHON:

1.    Monthly Supervisor’s Report – January 2009

2.    Creation of Part-Time Seasonal Positions

3.    Appointment – Zoning Board of Appeals – Alternate

4.    Local Law Intro #2 of 2009 – Rezoning of Business Districts – Set Public Hearing

1.    No Action by the Board

2.    Create Recreation Attendants (50) PT Seasonal, Laborer (10) PT Seasonal                Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

3.    Appoint Tim Phillips as ZBA Alternate–term to expire:12-31-09          Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0

4.    Set Public Hearing for March 16, 2009 at 8:00p.m.               Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

COUNCILMAN RICHARD W. CRAWFORD:

1.    Appointment – Traffic Safety Advisory Board

1.  Appoint Norman Mrkall TSAB – term to expire 12-31-11     Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

COMMUNICATIONS – OTHER TOWN OFFICIALS:

DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING & WATER RESOURCES – JOHN WHITNEY:

1.  Authorization to Advertise for Bids – Wastewater Treatment Plant Ferrous Chloride

1.  Advertise March 6, 2009 – Open Bids March 18, 2009- 10:00a.m. Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

PLANNING BOARD:

1.  Verizon Wireless – Veteran’s Park (Bedell Rd.) – Revised Site Plan Approval/Cellular Tower

  1.  Tabled                                  Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

TOWN ACCOUNTANT – PAMELA BARTON:

1.  2008 Budget Transfers/Amendments

1.  A. Transfers                        Roesch/Argy, Approved 4-0            B. Amendments             Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0

COMMUNICATIONS – GENERAL: 

1.    Maurice C. Doyle, Attorney at Law – Sutter to Greenawalt and Greenawalt-Slobe

2.     Robert M. Graber, Erie County Legislature – Proposal to Establish an Erie County Planning Board

3.    Raymond P. Kot II, Attorney at Law – Woods Creek Tributary

1.    Referred to Town Board/Attorney Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

2.    Referred to Town Board Roesch/Cooke, Approved 4-0

3.    Referred to Town Engineer/Town Board                           Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE:

Vouchers #93387 – 93516

General          $ 69,937.30        

Highway         $ 35,765.84   

Sewer             $ 12,117.48  

Water             $   4,808.08   

  Garbage         $      130.00

  Fire                 $      416.53

  Total              $123,175.23

   UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

1.   Upstate Cellular, Long Road – Site Plan Approval – Cell Tower

2.   KeyCorp – Proposed Key Bank – Site Plan Review

3.   Golf Course Villas at River Oaks, Phase 3, (21 Lots) – Final Plat Approval

4.   Appointment – Cable/Communications Committee

5.   Appointment – Board of Ethics

6.   Appointment – Parks & Recreation Advisory Board

7.   River Meadows – Wetlands Dedication

1.    Remains Tabled

2.    Remains Tabled

3.    Remains Tabled

4.    Remains Tabled

5.    Appoint Charles Michaux – term to expire 12-31-13       Cooke/Roesch, Approved 4-0

6.     A.  Appoint William Warren – term to expire 12-31-13             Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0             B.  Appoint James Szakacs – term to expire 12-31-13         Argy/Cooke, Approved 4-0

7.     Adopt Resolution          Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0

   PUBLIC COMMENTS:

Speakers:  None

FROM THE BOARD:

Cooke/Roesch: Pond Moratorium 

MEMORIAL ADJOURNMENT:

Leo Hopkins, Sr.                      Nancy Lillian

Deborah Geiger                       Pauline Aydelotte

Fay Wood                                Leon Taylor

Franklin Guidone                     Kay O’Connor

Judith Dzielski                         John Fiore & the Victims of Flight 3407

Dorothy Lorich                         Elizabeth Eskew

Thelma McCaffery                   Leona Kloss               

Richard Stanek                        Karen Kelley

John Andersen                        Lynne Allen

Doris Musgrave                       Kathleen Marquart

Douglas Stein                         Nida Miller

Susan Koller                           Marie Shoemaker

Margo Mahnk                        

Adjourned at 8:36p.m.       Cooke/Argy, Approved 4-0