1989-09-25 q ~ ~ 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ... 1 rlECEIVElJ OCT _1 1989 2 ELAINE H. SNOWDEN Town Clerk 1 3 PLANNING BOARD : TOWN OF WAPPINGER COUNTY OF DUTCHESS : STATE OF NEW YORK -----~-----------~-------------------X PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS ON THE BROOKVALE SUBDIVISION DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL STATEMENT THAT WAS RECEIVED AS TO COMPLETENESS ON ~ 0 1 89 AUGUST 14, 1989, ON PROPEORTY LOCATED "71'\~,';" ON SPOOK HILL ROAD AND BEING PARCEL ,Vu..t...i;....,...~....., #19-6257-01-260870, IN THE TOWN OF WAPPINGER --------------------------------------X September 25, 1989 Town Hall 20 Middlebush Road Wappingers Falls, New York 4 5 6 r-:--- ,... I . it! __ t. ".: .._. . "" 7 8 9 APPEARANCES: PLANNING BOARD CHAIRMAN EDWARD HAWKSLEY WILLIAM PARSONS CHRIS SIMMONETTY JOHN PERILLO DONALD KELLER JAMES MILLS NOT PRESENT: FRANK PATTERSON ALSO PRESENT: HERBERT LEVENSON, Zoning Adminstrator and Clerk to the Planning Board JAY PAGGI, P.E. Engineer to the Town RAY ARNOLD, A.I.C.P. Town Planner Robin E. DiMichele Senior Court Reporter State of New York ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 2 CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: The meeting will come back to order. The next item on the agenda is the public hearing to receive comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Brookvale sub-division. I would move to open the public hearing. MR. PARSONS: So Moved. MR. MILLS: Second. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Moved and seconded. All in favor? MR. SIMONETTY: Aye. MR. KELLER: Aye. MR. PERILLO: Aye. MR. PARSONS: Aye. MR. MILLS: Aye. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Opposed? {No Response) CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: For the record, please show that Mr. Patterson is absent. Would the Clerk please verify that this public hearing was properly advertised. MR. LEVENSON: Yes, Mr. Chairman, it was properly advertised in the Southern Dutchess News. ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 3 CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Thank you. Again, the purpose of this public hearing is to give the public an opportunity to make comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the sub-division, with respect primarily to its completeness and adequacy. Would the Clerk please verify that the Draft E.I.S. was properly distributed to the interested agencies. MR. LEVINSON: Yes, it was, Mr. Chairman. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Thank you. As some background information, the application for this preliminary site plan, rather sub-division was received in 1985, and the preliminary approval was granted on the approval, then the E.I.S. -- the Planning Board determined that it was a type 1 action and it circulated lead agency designation in September of 1988. The Draft Environmental Impact Statement was received by the Planning Board on July 24, 1989, and it was accepted for circulation in August of 1989. At this time I'd like to ask the applicant to give a brief presentation regarding the application. ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 5 years in four stages which is roughly 24 units per year, which the developer, the applicant feels that is a reasonable amount to be able to build. The primary access is provided off Spook Hill Road in the center of the frontage, and the secondary access through the internal loop system connects with the Fieldstone sub-division which right now is a cul-de-sac that ends up at the high point in Fieldstone. This development is contingent on connection to municipal sewers and municipal water supply. As far as environmental impacts go, there are no out of the ordinary construction impacts that we discovered or anticipate through our analysis of this project. The extent of temporary disturbance would be minimized by the stage construction, so only one stage at a time would be disturbed and only one stage would be developed, completely developed before another stage progresses. Permanent impacts are primarily traffic and drainage, and those were voiced by the Board in the past, and also by residents in the area. We have studied both those in depth. The draft E.I.S. contains detailed studies of both traffic and ~ 2 ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 6 drainage. To briefly summarize the traffic, a number of intersections were studied in the area. Spook Hill Road, both ends of Spook Hill Road, Ervin Road at Meyers Corners Road and Central Avenue and Kent Road at Meyers Corners Road, Central Avenue and All Angels Road. In general the levels of service were found to be adequate at the present time. The extended traffic over the four year construction period is expected to degrade slightly based on normal growth in the area, and little or no impact in terms of levels of service could result from this project in particular. The primary points of traffic impacts are at both ends of Spook Hill Road. Those were found to slight --cause for slight increase in traffic delay at those intersectioris. As far as drainage goes, the net decrease in the peak run-off is expected from the site. Jack Railing, the Engineer will expound on that a little more. The proposal is for a detention pond and an overflow pond which functions similar to a detention pond, so on-site drainage can be controlled during peak storms, so that off-site "'-' ~ \." 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 to -- MR. RAILING: Fred, I think you've adequately addressed for the time being the drainage aspects. What we've done is to propose a zero increase in ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 8 discharge and we've generated that in the report which now the Town Engineer and the people can review. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Thank you. Do either Jay or Mr. Arnold wish to talk? MR. ARNOLD: I have nothing right now. MR. PAGGI: I have a few comments. Just one general comment. The topography on the site plan that I reviewed is five foot contours, said it was U.S.G.S. datum but it didn't quote the source of the topography, whether it was a trace of U.S.G.S. or actual field topography. I would think an accurate field topography to two foot contours would be necessary to naturally definitely develop the final site plan, the final sub~division plot, but also in order to make some determinations that were made in the E.l.S. I would think an accurate based map would beappropriate~ I'm not questioning exactness, I'd just like the source stated on the plan. With respect to sewerage and water on page 3-6 they state the sewerage is at capacity now and only will be able to connect when the Town connects with Tri-Municipal Sewer districts which should be ~ ~ '- .... '-' 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- another adjective or adverb placed, if and when. It states that the existing Hilltop wells are at or near capacity, that again is a true statement, and again, the execution of the sub-division can only take place if and when the Town develops their overall Town wide water. I think mitigating measures have to be offered for those two cases, those two cases, and they really weren't offered in the D.E.I.S. That will be in my substantive comments that will be coming before the close of the comment period. With respect to storm water, we agree in concept with the plan that Jack's office has devised. We have some site specific comments. Number one, the stream that traverses Spook Hill Road is deteriorated quite a bit from Meyers -- actually from the end of Black Falls (phonetic) up 9 to Spook Hill Road, and that needs to be addressed. It can't handle the existing flows of areas now. The second comment is on the You can see the little white inlet there, the Devine property, now or formally Devine. The only white inside the map. there. There's an existing driveway crossing right It's a 24 inch concrete pipe that floods ~ 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale 5ubdivision- 10 pretty bad right now, even during storms of low intensity, and I think that has to be addressed. The overflow pond is going to have to be shown that it can actually work. Part of the reason-- the thing is that the drainage system doesn't function properly here, and this is brought out in the report, is that some of the culverts there can't work because the stream can't develop enough head to make the entire culvert operable. I think it's going to have to be demonstrated that this overflow pond is going to be able to work hydraulically, that the water is going to actually overflow into the pond before it can, the excess flow rate can overflow in to the pond and get back into the stream. I have some questions whether or not it can actually work. 50 I would think we need some more mitigating measures with respect to drainage other than simply saying we're going to build a detention pond on the north end of the site and overflow pond on the west end of the site. I think some statements as to the existing stream and that one critical driveway crossing would have to be offered. That was basically it. The sewer, water, and ~ ~ '-' ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 11 the source of the topography. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Thank you very much, Mr. Paggi. Hr. Arnold. MR. ARNOLD: No. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: How about Board members? MR. PARSONS: I do. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Mr. Parsons. MR. PARSONS: Looking at that I have to really say that that is a pretty, whatever you want to call it up there, although, basically, in my mind what it's done is taken what I think is an old beat up Chevy and tried to make it look like a Cadillac. Look at this if you really want to see how the property is going to develop. (Indicating) You make it look like it's all green, just a little house here and there. MR. RAILING: Bill, MR. PARSONS: Jack, I'm talking. 94 houses going on 89 acres, so that's not what you call leaving a lot of green space. MR. SIMONETTY: There's a lot of road in there too. MR. PARSONS: Yep. So I just wanted you to remember that. On page 1-2 it's no big thing, but ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 12 ~ as far as impacts, increased revenue from municipal governments and schools from property tax. Well, that's a fallacy and you all know it. There's no time in the history of the country where more development reduces your taxes. It may give more income but at the same time it costs more and everybody pays more. I don't know. MR. SIMONETTY: I CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Please let Mr. Parsons have the floor. MR. PARSONS: I have a problem with the way it's laid out to start with, and I know, I say I know, I think I know, they were given preliminary approval, and today I have a big problem with it, considering what that is compared to, possible layout of something like this, but if they have it they have it. It's pretty difficult not to do it, but originally when we talked about a conservation sub-division, and the reason I'm bringing this up is that you may have to reduce the number of units there when I point out some of the other things. The conservation subdivision used 25.7 acres still with 94 units but there was a much better layout as far as preserving some green space. ~ ~ ~ 4 ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 15 Wappingers where all the major things are, I.B.M. and plants and everything else. It doesn't make sense. Where could they possibly have come up with that? While we're on the study too, and this is not the first time we asked for this, we should have a certified copy of the traffic study stating when these studies were done, the particular days and the particular hours, especially in this area, because you're dealing with the school traffic which can add anywhere from a thousand to two-thousand trips per day in that area. I don't know whether you did it in December and January. There's numerous vacations periods in there, and it could have been done in either one. Let's jump back to page C-41, figure two. Tell me when you're ready. MR. RAILING: Okay. MR. PARSONS: All right. Let's take the intersection of Spook Hill and Meyers Corners, but let's back up first to Ervin Drive. You got 706 cars heading towards Route 9. We drop down to the next intersection and all of a sudden we have 506 cars. Where did the other 200 go? MR. RAILING: I can't answer that question ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 ~ ~ \. '-' 5 '-' 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 17 that's C-48, figure number nine, page C-48. MR. PARSONS: You got 826 cars there and 67 turn in to Spook Hill and leaves 779 which comes out right. One time they're considering the school traffic and other times they're not. One time the school is closed, if that's what it is. What I'm saying is they're not correct. The point I'm trying to make is that as far as the traffic study, and that's a major concern of mine, we've already touched on water, sewerage, drainage, the traffic study, I know you're all familiar with Spook Hill Road and the turns in it, and it's in an F level right now as far as safety factor is concerned. You're dealing with the intersection of Spook Hill and Old Hopewell, Spook Hill and Meyers Corners. You're dealing with the severe curves in the road itself and there's no way in the world that that road can carry the additional traffic for the 94 more homes which you're talking a minimum of 200 vehicles every morning going out of there and 200 more coming back at night, and I know they aren't going to all come in the same hour, but the point is, that environmentally, unless there's major major work going to be done on Spook Hill at that ~ 1 2 3 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 18 , intersection this thing doesn't fly. You can say all you want that 200 cars isn't going to make a 4 difference. The problem is it does make a 5 difference because what it boils down to is these 6 things in a development such as this, it's just 7 like the straw that broke the camel's back. 8 There's a limit to what you can d6. Right now you 9 can come out on Spook Hill Road, without this 10 development, without any additional traffic, and 11 12 you can't make a left turn and go towards Wappingers unless you sit there for some time. 13 Going to Hopewell Road and trying to make a left ~ 14 it's the same situation. It really needs left turn 15 lanes in those roads. It needs, the major corner 16 there just beyond this property, needs to be some 17 major work done there too. It's been talked about and talked about but nothing happens, and if the 18 19 developer don't do it whose going to do it? I'll tell you whose going to do it? The Town. Whose 20 21 going to pay it for it? Everybody, and that's not 22 fair. You can't have impacts fees, I know they're 23 against the law, but at the same time you have to remember is that if something doesn't fit into the 24 25 area and turns around and makes life more ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 19 uncomfortable for everybody that lives here, that's an impact. It's a safety impact and so on, so that's my comments on that. I think there's too many houses going in there, considerably too many unless there's some major road improvements going to be done as part of the project. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Thank you, Mr. Parsons. Anyone else on the Board? John? MR. KELLER: No. He took the wind out of my sails. MR. MILLS: He said it all. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Chris? MR. SIMONETTY: No, it's covered. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: John? MR. PERILLO: Just to add to what Bill said, the fact you do have that traffic light right there will have an impact during school hours. I normally leave very early in the day. Today I left late. I couldn't believe what school buses do. I think that should be added. It's total eliminated from here. MR. PARSONS: I'm glad you brought it up. They should treat the Ketchum thing and do a traffic study. I can show you any morning where ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 20 the traffic is backed up at least a mile in either direction waiting to get in. Another thing, they seem to think once they get on Meyers Corners and go that a way they disappear in to never never land. You go down Route 9, another disastrous intersection, you can sit there five or ten minutes to get out and go out south. These are all problems. The traffic study has to take the traffic somewhere they can move, and your traffic study doesn't do that. It doesn't take in to the fact if you think all those cars are going to go east and they get to All Angels and Meyers Corners, another bad intersection, and hang a left there. Your traffic study here uses comments from the one I.B.M. did or Pizzigalli for the additional I.B.M. building. They were laxed in doing that. They made believe the traffic was going to disappear on a cloud once it got away from the site. That's why you have to follow it further. Hackensack, Old Angels and Route 376 where they come together, another disaster. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Okay. Thank you Jack and Bill. Mr. Mills? MR. MILLS: Nothing. ..... 6 ...., \..r 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 ~ ~ ~ 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 t ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 23 residential plot something should be mentioned of it so that it can be dealt with that way, because otherwise you have one individual has it right in their front yard. MR. LEVENSON: And the other thing you should know is there's a very stringent law that's administered by the Secretary of State with regard to old cemeteries. They become the responsibility of the municipality and there should be some designation made on that map, and there should be a reference to the law that the Secretary of State of the State of New York has to deal with that. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Do you have some additional comments, Herb? MR. LEVENSON: I have nothing other than what Mr. Parsons said. When I got to the traffic study I practically gave up because I was losing cars. I couldn't find out where they were going. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: At this point I'd like to open to the floor. MR. KELLER: I'd like to ask Jack a question. Jack, on those ponds, one's a detention pond, one is a retention pond. One holds water and one will not hold water, is that correct? ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 24 MR. RAILING: The detention pond is your standard dry area that is normally dry and during a heavier rain will swell and hold the water and release it slowly. The overflow pond actually has the stream adjacent to it or in combination with it which does remain MR. KELLER: Runs right through it. MR. RAILING: Pretty much, and then as that swells it will go in to the area of the overflow. MR. KELLER: This is the same parcel of land that when you came in originally years ago, I remember a lot of people came in with pictures of flooding in the backyard. Your drainage plan mitigates.that? MR. RAILING: We believe so. MR. PARSONS: The original drainage ended up in Lake Oniad and people came in with those complaints. MR. KELLER: Jay is in agreement with your drainage plan? MR. PAGGI: We looked at it from a point of view as an environmental impact statement, not from a design of the sub-division. We didn't look at the size of the holding ponds, but we did look at ~ ~ ~ 7 ~ ~ 1 2 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 25 the methodology he used. The pictures that you're talking about before were the back of Central 3 4 Avenue. 5 6 MR. MILLS: They were over here. (Indicating) MR. PAGGI: There's an existing 15 inch pipe 7 that diagonally goes through somebody's backyard 8 over there, and what they've done is they've shown 9 in their impact, in the drainage study that right 10 now that 15 inch, and correct me if I'm wrong, the 11 12 15 inch now is undersized by about close to three hundred percent, I think, and what they're doing is 13 by building the proper size retention pond they're 14 not only decreasing it to pre-development flows, 15 they're decreasing it to the less than existing 16 capacity of the existing 15 inch, so that should 17 really help that area. 18 MR. MILLS: That's going to mitigate that 19 problem all the way down to Camp Road where that 20 21 drain comes all the way across Central Avenue? MR. PAGGI: Using that 15 inch as a design 22 23 section, yes. It's going to make it, theoretically make it better than it is. It floods now and it 24 will make it better than it is today. The other 25 side I think they have a little more work to do. ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 26 They've addressed the problem, but again, I think they have to offer more mitigating measures. MR. MILLS: Straightening out the road that we're talking about, is that going to effect that? MR. PAGGI: What, the stream? MR. MILLS: In that stream along there. MR. PAGGI: Not really. The stream is to the east. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 27 CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: I'm not sure what Central Hudson will do with that. I assume they might move the pole. They may not do anything. I don't know. I don't know what their policy is about having poles in areas like that. MR. KELLER: If it's an easement-- MR. PAGGI: It shouldn't be because that will have to become part of the Town drainage system. It will require an easement. I'm sure Central Hudson won't look on that too happily. The developers engineer should pursue that with Central Hudson as part of the final environmental impact statement. I don't think they're allowed drainage easements MR. TALLMAN: Because that right-of-way when you get to the corner where Nancy Lane comes out, that goes through another piece of property and there's a right-of-way through that piece of property. The other comment I have is on the cemetery that's up there. I heard comments prior to the meeting that there was one headstone that was still up there. Twenty-five years ago there was quite a few more than one headstone and I'm just concerned ~ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 28 about this size of that piece of property that supposedly will be deeded over to the Town. I think you will find out there's a lot more graves in there than one headstone. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? ~ MR. LOUGHREN: Tom Loughren; 54 Spook Hill Road. My main concern again is the traffic. If it did go through which I feel it probably will, Ervin Road should be opened up to help alleviate the traffic from Spook Hill Road because it's just a mess on Sunday morning or at night, it's just a mess. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Well, to answer your concern, sir, that is one of the options that the Planning Board has under consideration, is opening that connection. From a planning point of view, strictly I think it makes sense. MR. MILLS: By the way, that piece of property from the cul-de-sac to the property line will be deeded to the Town. If it stays a cul-de-sac it will be deeded to the Town for the future opening to Ervin Drive. MR. LOUGHREN: The traffic impact once that ~ \.r ..., '-" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 29 goes in, it's murder there now. It's just ludicrous not to have extra ingress and egress out of that complex. MR. MILLS: Mr. Parsons succinctly said that. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Do you have any other comments? MR. LOUGHREN: That's it. Thank you. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Anyone else? Anyone else want to make another comment if you've already made one? Okay. If Planning Board members don't have any further comments, then I would move to close the public hearing. MR. MILLS: So moved. MR. PARSONS: Second. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Moved and seconded to close the public hearing. All in favor? MR. PERILLO: Aye. MR. MILLS: Aye. MR. SIMONETTY: Aye. MR. KELLER: Aye. MR. PARSONS: Aye. CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Opposed? (No Response) CHAIRMAN HAWKSLEY: Motions carries. For -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 30 your information, ladies and gentlemen, the written comments will be received by the Planning Board regarding this draft impact statement until October 5th. That is a ten day period to submit written statements. The next step before the Planning Board will be to determine whether the final impact statement will be required. This will be done at a future meeting of the Planning Board. That's it. Thank you. MR. LEVENSON: The other thing is that all written comments postmarked up until October the 5th will be accepted by the Planning Board. That's the direction we got from the D.E.C. attorneys. (Whereupon the public hearing was concluded) lit lit lit lit lie ...... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 ~ 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 -Public Hearing/Brookvale Subdivision- 31 C-E-R-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N CERTIFIED TO BE A TRUE AND ACCURATE RECORD OF THE WITHIN PROCEEDINGS AS TAKEN AND TRANSCRIBED BY ME. Robin E. DiMichele Senior Court Reporter \....t