1998-05-11 RGMCONSTANCE 0. SMITH
SUPERVISOR
TELEPHONE: (914) 297.2744
FAX: (914) 297-4558
May 6, 1998
TOWN OF WAPPINGER
SUPERVISOR'S OFFICE
20 MIDDLEBUSH ROAD
P.O. BOX 324
WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY 12590.0324
MEMO TO:
Town Board
Attorney to Town
Engineer to 'Down
Media
FROM:
Constance O. Smith
RE:
WORKSHOP AGENDA
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1998
7:30 PM
7:30PM
City of Poughkeepsie Water --Mike Murphy
City Administrator
Combined Wappinger Water --- Paggi 3/17/98 & 4/27/98
Wappinger Park---Paggi 4/27/98
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Alpine Commons—Ed Kellogg 4/22/98
8:30PM
DeLuccia/Humeston Rezone
8:40PM
Neave—downstream drainage 4/21/98
8:45PM
Castlepoi.nt landfill Closure—Paggi 4/16/98
DEC 5/1/98
9:00PM
Authorize Annual Water Statement—CAMO 3/19/98
Flushing Water Hydrants—CAMO 4/30/98
9:10PM
DC121—repairs 4/28/98
9:15PM
Authorize Animal Control Officer attend Delhi 4/27/98
9:20PM
Chelsea Yacht; Club Recreation agreement
COS:dly .
NO OTHER BUSINESS SHALL COME BEFORE THE BOARD.
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The Workshop Meeting of the Town of Wappinger was held on May 11, 1998
at the Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls, New York.
Supervisor Smith opened the meeting at 7:35 p.m.
Present:
Constance Smith, Supervisor
Robert Valdati, Councilman
Vincent Bettina, Councilman
Joseph Ruggiero, Councilman
Joseph Paoloni, Councilman
Elaine H. Snowden, Town Clerk
Others Present:
Al Roberts, Attorney to the Town
Jay Paggi, Engineer to the Town
Graham Foster, Highway Superintendent
At this time 7:35 p.m., COUNCILMAN PAOLONI moved to go into Executive
Session to discussion negotiation with the city of Poughkeepsie for water.
Seconded by Mr. Ruggiero
Motion Unanimously Carried
The meeting reconvened at 8:30 p.m. with all board members present.
COUNCILMAN PAOLONI moved to authorize the Attorney to the Town Al
Roberts, and Engineer to the Town Jay Paggi, to meet with the City of
Poughkeepsie Manager to discuss the feasibility of securing water for the
Town of Wappinger.
Seconded by Mr. Valdati
Motion Unanimously Carried
Ed Kellogg to discuss the rezoning application for 18 acres along Old
Hopewell Road. He gave a short presentation on the proposed site to be part
of Alpine Commons. He went over the conceptual plans, and announced that
he submitted a draft of a traffic report to Clark Associates, and has agreed to
address everything that has been suggested in the memo. There have been
three intersections that have not been studied, they will be doing counts in
the next few days. When its ready, they will submit it to the county, the
state, and the town.
Steve Matthews, Engineer for Alpine went into more detail regarding the
traffic study which covered a number of intersections along Route 9, Old
Hopewell Road, and Myers Corners Road. According to the memo from Clark
Associates they have asked for three other intersections to be part of the
study. The Alpine study takes a very conservative look at traffic conditions
in the future. SUPERVISOR SMITH advised Mr. Kellogg that the town
board would have to have another night of discussion on the traffic pattern
before adopting a local law for rezone.
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Next on the agenda is the DeLuccia/Humeston rezone. Supervisor Smith
informed the board that this item must be tabled to the next meeting,
because the attorney has not prepared the local law yet.
Bill Neave of Neave Landscaping, to discuss downstream drainage fees. Don
Close, Zoning Administrator informed the board how he arrived at the
drainage fees. He figured the square footage of the roof and square footage of
what can be blacktopped. It came to 15 cents a square foot. Mr. Neave is
being asked to pay $5,300.
COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO moved to go into Executive Session for five
minutes to consult with Council on this matter.
Seconded by Mr. Bettina.
Motion Unanimously Carried
The meeting reconvened at 9:25 p.m. with all board members present.
COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO moved to waive the drainage fee at this time.
Seconded by Mr. Bettina
ROLL CALL VOTE
Supervisor Smith
Councilman Valdati
Councilman Bettina
Councilman Ruggiero
Councilman Paoloni
VOTE
Aye
Nay
Aye
Nay
Nay
Motion Defeated
COUNCILMAN VALDATI moved to examine Town policy and if it needs to
be overhauled at this time it should be done for everyone.
Seconded by Mr. Bettina
Roll Call Vote
Supervisor Smith
Councilman Valdati
Councilman Bettina
Councilman Ruggiero
Councilman Paoloni
Vote
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Aye
Motion Unanimously Carried
June Visconti was recognized by the board, and asked why Mr. Neave feels
he should have the fee waived. Did he do something extra? Mr. Neave
explained he is being made to go to considerable expense by the Engineer,
the Town, Attorney to the Town, his lawyer, his engineer, surveyors,
easement from neighbor next door, two detention ponds, to collect his money.
On top of all this the town is requesting he pay an additional $5,300. If that
is the case, then waive the detention ponds, and let him run two pipes from
his property down under the pipe which runs under Airport Drive and
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downstream. Jay Paggi, Engineer to the Town explained that Mr. Neave's
Engineer proposed two ponds, because the property drains two ways.
Next is the Landfill closure state assistance application resolution. Mr.
Paggi went on to explain that his correspondence of April 16, 1998, details
some additional areas of waste that was found on site, and the
correspondence handed out today further explains it. Supervisor Smith
informed the board that we applied for State assistance and were supposed to
receive 50%. We were notified Friday that we will receive $275K.
The following Resolution was offered by COUNCILMAN VALDATI who
moved its adoption:
Resolution Authorizing the submission of an application for State Assistance
for landfill closure pursuant to Title 5 Article 54 and Title 4 of Article 56 of
the New York State Environmental Conservation Law.
WHEREAS, the Town of Wappinger herein called the "Municipality: has
hereby determined that certain work, as described in the State Assistance
application and any amendments thereof, herein called the "Project," is
desirable and in the public interest; and
WHEREAS, Title 5 of Article 54 and Title 4 of Article 56 of the
Environmental Conservation Law authorized State assistance payments to
municipalities for closure of municipal landfills by means of a written
agreement and the Municipality deems it to be in the public interest and
benefit under this law to apply therewith;
NOW, THEREFOR, BE IT RESOLVED by the Town of Wappinger that
Constance O. Smith is directed and authorized as the official representative
to act in connection with any application between the Municipality and the
State, and to provide such additional information as may be required;
And that one certified copy of this Resolution be prepared and sent to the
Director, Division of Solid & Hazardous Materials, New York State
Department of Environmental Conservation, 50 Wolf Road, Albany, New
York 12233-7250, together with the application.; and that this resolution
take effect immediately.
Seconded by Mr. Bettina
Motion Unanimously Carried
Next are the bids for the Fleetwood Water District/Village of Fishkill water
System Interconnection. The bids were received and opened for the above
project on May 8th, 1998 at 11:00 a.m. Twelve (12) Bids were received and
reviewed.
Eastern Excavating, Inc: $257,135.00
Nenni Construction Corp: 258,875.00
Construction Fabrication & Installation 263,900.00
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Sun Up Enterprises $277,600.00
Yonkers Excavating 316,617.30 **
Cal Mart Enterprises: 333,333.00
Grant Street Construction 338,800.00
Metzger Construction 354,534.00 ***
Schipp Construction 370,450.00
C.M. Mechanical 376,967.00
Globe Construction 402,785.00
Thomas Gleason, Inc. 417,700.00
As you can see, Nenni Equipment Corp. is marked with an asterisk. Their
bid was summed by them in the original submission as $258,875.00. A check
of their addition indicates that their total bid was added incorrectly and
should have been $256,875.00. In review of Yonkers Excavating bid we found
a $3,000 addition error and their bid should actually be $319,353.88. In
review of Metzger Construction's bid, we find their bid to be $355,269.00.
A further review indicates that if the Board is going to consider Nenni
Equipment Corp.'s bid as mathematically correct, it would be lower than the
apparent low bidder which is Eastern Excavation, Inc. With that in mind, we
turned the information over to Al Roberts, Attorney to the Town. Mr.
Roberts researched the item and requested that we contact Nenni Equipment
and advise him that his bid is not mathematically correct and ask him to
reconsider his submittal. We did that on Monday, May 11th, 1998 and Nenni
Equipment faxed us back his bid, which we check today, and find that it is
now mathematically correct. The sum submitted in today's bid was
$256,875.00. We have checked all other facets of the first two bidders, and
find them to be accurate and complete. We therefore, recommend that this
information be turned over to the Attorney to the Town and have the
attorney advise as to who the low bidder is; and the bid be awarded to the low
bidder only upon successful execution of the easement agreement between
the Town of Wappinger and James & Sheila Marino. Attorney to the Town
Al Roberts, upon researching cases, stated he came across one case in which
there was a pure mathematical error, and the error was against the
contractor and in favor of the community and that's the case that he has
attached to his decision, and the court required the contractor to comply with
correct mathematical tabulation.
COUNCILMAN BETTINA moved to award the bid for the Fleetwood Water
District/Village of Fishkill Water System Interconnection, to Nenni
Equipment Corporation, the apparent low bidder at $256,875.00, upon
successful execution of the easement agreement between the Town of
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Wappinger and James & Sheila Marion as recommended by Jay Paggi,
Engineer to the Town.
Seconded by Mr. Valdati
Motion Unanimously Carried
Next is to authorize Mike Tremper, of CAMO Pollution Control, to send the
annual water statements to residents of the Central Wappinger Water
District.
COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO moved to authorize Mike Tremper, of CAMO
Pollution Control, to send the annual water statements to residents of the
Central Wappinger Water District.
Seconded by Mr. Paoloni
Motion Unanimously Carried
Ann Marie Buck, Animal Control Officer has requested permission from the
Board to attend Delhi University from 5/26/98 to 5/29/98 for the yearly
Animal Control Schooling.
SUPERVISOR SMITH moved to authorize Ann Marie Buck, the Animal
Control Officer to attend Delhi on 5/26/98 to 5/29/98, and her legitimate
expenses to be a town charge.
Seconded by Mr. Bettina
Motion Unanimously Carried
The last item for the Boards consideration is to approve the License
Agreement between Chelsea Yacht Club and the Town of Wappinger.
COUNCILMAN BETTINA moved to approve the Agreement between the
Chelsea Yacht Club and the Town of Wappinger, and authorize the
Supervisor to sign.
There was no other business to come before the Board.
COUNCILMAN BETTINA moved to close the meeting, seconded by Mr.
Valdati, and unanimously carried.
The meeting closed at 10:05 p.m.
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Elaine H. Snowden
Town Clerk
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