2024-792024-79
Resolution Authorizing Revocable License For Community Garden
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 February
29, 2024.
The meeting was called to order by Joseph D. Cavaccini, Town Supervisor, and upon roll
being called, the following was recorded:
✓ Vote Record - Resolution RES -2024-79
Yes/Aye
No/Nay
Abstain
Absent
Q Adopted
❑ Adopted as Amended
Joseph D. Cavaccini
Voter
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Defeated
William H. Beale
Voter
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Tabled
Angela Bettina
Voter
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Withdrawn
Christopher Phillips
Seconder
Q
❑
❑
❑
Al Casella
Mover
Q
❑
❑
❑
The following Resolution was introduced by Casella and seconded by Councilman
Phillips.
WHEREAS, the Town of Wappinger owns 99.5 acres of real property on Wheeler Hill Road known as
Carnwath Farms Historic Site & Park, and
WHEREAS, the Town prepared a comprehensive master plan for the development of Carnwath Farms,
and
WHEREAS, the TOWN has imposed a Conservation Easement on a portion of Carnwath Farms in
accordance with the Grant from the Dutchess County Open Space and Farmland Protection Matching
Grant funds, and
WHEREAS, in 2020 the Town set aside a one acre site on Carnwath Farms for use as a community garden
which is consistent with the plan for Carnwath and the Conservation Easement, and
WHEREAS, N.Y. Agric. & Mkts. Law § 31-i permits at Town to establish a community garden on its surplus
lands, and
WHEREAS, the Town of Wappinger lacks sufficient personnel and resources to maintain the community
garden at Carnwath Farms and it has remained untended and overgrown, and
WHEREAS, in 2022, Courtney and Brian Kolb submitted a proposal to maintain the Community Garden
site, and
WHEREAS, the TOWN and the Kolbs agreed that a pilot program for maintenance of the Community
Garden site for the 2022 and 2023 growing season was necessary to demonstrate the feasibility of a
community garden and determine what crops would thrive on the property and found it was extremely
successful, and
WHEREAS, it is the intention of the Town Board to continue community farming at Carnwath Farms, and
WHEREAS, the Town Board determines that the proposed action is a Type 11 action under SEAR, and
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, as follows:
1. The Town Board hereby authorizes the Kolbs to use the community garden property in
accordance with the terms of the license agreement annexed hereto.
2. This resolution and the license agreement may be modified by further resolution of the Town
Board.
The foregoing was put to a vote which resulted as follows:
RESULT: ADOPTED BY CONSENT VOTE [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Al Casella, Councilman
SECONDER: Christopher Phillips, Councilman
AYES: Cavaccini, Beale, Bettina, Phillips, Casella
Dated: Wappingers Falls, New York
2/29/2024
The Resolution is hereby duly declared Adopted.
JOSEP P. PAOLONI, TOWN CLERK