2023-1272023-127
Resolution Setting Public Hearing On Proposed Budgets, O&M Charges, Water/Sewer Rates And Rents
For Special Improvement Districts And Special Improvement Areas For Fiscal Year 2024 And To Hear
Any Objections Thereto
At a Regular Meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Wappinger, Dutchess County, New York, held
at Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls, New York, on September 25, 2023.
The meeting was called to order by Richard Thurston, Town Supervisor, and upon roll being called, the
following was recorded:
✓ Vote Record - Resolution RES -2023-127
Yes/Aye
No/Nay
Abstain
Absent
2 Adopted
❑ Adopted as Amended
Richard Thurston
Voter
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Defeated
William H. Beale
Voter
2
❑
❑
❑
❑ Tabled
Angela Bettina
Mover
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Withdrawn
Christopher Phillips
Seconder
Q
❑
❑
❑
Al Casella
Voter
2
❑
❑
❑
The following Resolution was introduced by Councilwoman Bettina and seconded by Councilman
Phillips.
WHEREAS, the Town Board annually establishes budgets for the financing of capital improvements of
all Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas within the Town of Wappinger for the
ensuing year, and as part of the budget process the Town Board establishes Operation and Maintenance Charges
(O&M Charges), Rates and/or Rents, to be charged against those properties within said Special Improvement
Districts or Special Improvement Areas; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board will have completed the proposed budgets for the financing of capital
improvements for the proposed quarterly O&M Charges, Rates and Rents to be charged against those properties
within said Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvements Areas for Fiscal Year 2024 no later than
October 1, 2023; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board, as required by Town Law, hereby schedules and orders a Public Hearing
to be held on October 23, 2023 for the purposes of hearing and considering any objections which may be made
to the aforementioned proposed budgets, and the proposed quarterly O&M Charges, Rates and Rents for the
Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas for Fiscal Year 2024.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby schedules a Public Hearing
to be held at a regular meeting of the Town Board on October 23, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. at Town Hall, 20
Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls, New York for the purposes of hearing and considering any objections
which may be made to the proposed budgets and the proposed quarterly O&M Charges, Rates and Rents to be
levied against the properties within the Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas in the
Town of Wappinger, as noted below, for Fiscal Year 2024.
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS:
Town -wide Ambulance District
United Wappinger Water District
Fleetwood Manor Water District
United Wappinger Sewer District
Wildwood Sewer District
Fleetwood Manor Sewer District
Mid -Point Park Sewer District
Cameli Lighting District
Chelsea Lighting District
Hughsonville Lighting District
The Regency at Wappinger Lighting District
Keenan Acres Drainage District
Blackwatch Farms Drainage District
Meadowood Drainage District
Tuscany Subdivision Drainage District
The Hamlet Conservation Park District
Fieldstone Conservation Park District
Kendall Farms Conservation Park District
Chelsea Farms Drainage District
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT AREAS:
WST/TIA - Phase 3A
Sewer Improvement Area 45
Wappinger Sewer Improvement Area No
Watch Hill Sewer Improvement Area
Watch Hill Water Improvement Area
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk is directed to publish a Notice of Public Hearing
in the form annexed hereto in the Town's official newspapers, the Southern Dutchess News and Poughkeepsie
Journal, not less than five (5) days prior to said public hearing date and is further directed to post the Notice of
Public Hearing on the Message Board of the Town and on the Town website as set forth above.
The foregoing was put to a vote which resulted as follows:
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Angela Bettina, Councilwoman
SECONDER: Christopher Phillips, Councilman
AYES: Thurston, Beale, Bettina, Phillips, Casella
Dated: Wappingers Falls, New York
9/25/2023
The Resolution is hereby duly declared Adopted.
JOSEPH P. PAOLONI, TOWN CLERK