1979-04-12
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TOWN OF WAPPINGER
RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES
APRIL 12, 1979
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The regular meeting of the Town of Wappinger Recreation Commission was held
on April 12, 1979 at Town Hall, Mill Street, Wappingers Falls, New York.
Mr. Maurer opened the meeting at 7:45 P.M.
Present: Hugh J. Maurer, Chairman, Mary Schmalz, Ronald Petro and
Joseph Ennesser, Director. and Nicholas Johnson, Councilman
Wendy Lecher was present representing the Angel Brook Civic Association,
and asked those present about equipment for their recreation field. She
was given to understand that there were funds alloted in the budget for
their recreation field and, the residents in that area wanted to know what
equipment had been provided for them.
Mr. Maurer explained to Mrs. Lecher that $300 had been put in the 1978
budget for that recreation area, however, no specific request was received
and they assumed that nothing was needed. They did maintain the field
and at one time did have swings there, but they had long since disappe~ed.
Mrs. Lecher said they did not realize they had to request anything, but
frankly they really did not require anything but a level field. Mr. Maurer
informed her the field had been fertilized, and would be seeded, but if they
desired more work done on the area, he certainly would make every effort
to level the field as much as they could.
PLANNING BOARD
Two letters had been received from the Planning Board--one dated March 21
1979 in regard to Hunt Country Estates (formerly Quail Homes) Recreation.
The Recreation Commission had recommended money in lieu of land on this
subdivision, however the Planning Board did not wish to accept this and
they, in turn recommended lots 13, 14 and 19 as land dedication. The
other correspondence dated March 27, 1979 referenced to exemption of
the Recreation Commission from site plan approval. They questioned the
Town Board on this, wanting to know if they were exempt, and why. Mr.
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Maurer invited the Planning Board to attend this meeting to discuss
these +etters with them. Mr. Victor Fanuele, Chairman of the Planning
Board was the only member who attended. A lengthy, sometimes heated
discussion was held involving Mr. Maurer, Mr. Petro and Mr. Fanuele.
who kept insisting that land should be taken in these subdivision
because land would become more and more valuable. The two commissioners
and Mr. Ennesser who had previously been a member of the Cmmmission,
all differed with him. They had been all through that experience when
they sometimes ended up with swamp lands. They all stuck to their
opinions and it was agreed that both the Planning Board and the Recreation
members should make site inspections together on proposed subdivisions
and see if they could agree on the dedications to the Town. Perhaps
they could both learn something. They all felt they should get together
and air their differences more frequently--that could be a healthy
situation and eventually harmonious.
FOOTBALL BIDS
Fomtball bids had been advertised and sent to three sporting good
companies. None were received. Those members present agreed to rebid
and Mr. Petro would supply the secretary with additional sporting good
companies to send the bids to with the hope that some would bid on the
equipment. The opening date was set for May 10, 1979.
YOUTH BUREAU
A memo was received from Mr. Ryan, Comptroller advising the Commission
that they had a problem with a reimbursement due the County for funds
received in 1978. A contract signed by the Town on July 6, 1977
was researched and found to be a true fact that $4,054.05, half of
the reimbursement received was to be returned to the County. There
was no cover letter received with the check and no other correspondence
could be found in the Supervisor's files or the Recreation files, there-
fore no one seemed aware of it. Nevertheless, the money had to be
refunded and Mr. Ryan offered three options to the Commission. One was
to wait for the State check and if that was an adequate amount, it could
be sent to the County, the second was to take it out of Recreation budget,
the third option was to seek permission from the Town Board to transfer
the amount from contingency. Mr. Ryan asked for a recommendation from the
Commission.
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It was agreed to pick the first option, that of waiting for reim-
bursement from the State, and if a sufficient amount was received,
it could then be refunded to the County. Mrs. Schmalz was handling
these applications for the State and County, but had no available
information as of this date on the amount we would receive from
the State. Mr. Maurer requested that she meet with Mr. Ryan the
following Monday and discuss this with him. This was the first and
only time the County had followed this procedu~e, so there would be
no problem of this happening again. We learned that we were not the
only Town who went through this confusion and had to reimburse the
County half of what was received. The problem seemed to be lack of
communication, since a contract was signed back in 1977, the refund
received in 1978 with no follow up instructions in a cover letter.
There was no further official business that could be discussed since
there were only thr~e commissioners present.
Mr. Maurer set the next meeting for May 10, 1979, in order to send
a recommendation to the Town Board on the football bids which would
be opened that day'. He commented that he would like to see all the
members of the Commission present at the next meeting so that there
would be unanimous participation.
The meeting closed at 10:30 P.M.
Gladys Ruit, Secr.
Recreation Commission