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A Public Hearing was held by the Town Board of the Town of Wappinger on
November 8, 2001 at the Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls,
New York on the Preliminary Budget for 2002. COUNCILMAN VALDATI
opened the Meeting at 7:05 p.m.
Present:
Robert Valdati, Councilman
Vincent Bettina, Councilman
Joseph Ruggiero, Councilman
Joseph Paoloni, Councilman
Gloria J. Morse Town Clerk
Others Present:
Gerald Vergilis, Acting Town Attorney
Graham Foster, Highway Superintendent
Absent:
Al Roberts, Attorney to the Town
Constance Smith Supervisor
COUNCILMAN VALDATI explained that he received word that Mrs. Smith
is on vacation and her deputy was unable to attend, so as senior member of
the board he will be conducting tonight's meeting.
The Town Clerk offered for the record the Affidavit of Posting and
Publication duly signed and notarized. (These Affidavits are attached hereto
and made part thereof the Minutes of the Meeting).
COUNCILMAN VALDATI wished to know if there were any questions or
comments from the audience.
One of the residents wished to know where he could get a copy of the budget.
COUNCILMAN VALDATI explained that copies are available through the
Town Clerks office with a Freedom of Information Request.
COUNCILMAN VALDATI explained, that since a Preliminary Budget was
not adopted by the Town Board about ten days ago we have been left with a
52% tax increase. He announced that the board will work diligently to bring
this budget down to an acceptable level that people can live with. The Media
was notified today there would be a meeting on Tuesday the 13th of November
and we will be having a Public Hearing on the Benefit Assessments
Improvement Areas and Districts and then adopt the budget.
There were no more questions or comments.
At this time COUNCILMAN PAOLONI moved to close the Public Hearing,
seconded by Vincent Bettina and unanimously carried..
COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO moved that we amend the Workshop meeting
on Tuesday November 13th Agenda from adopting the budget, to a Regular
budget workshop for further deliberation of the budget and move by
resolution of the Town Board, the Town Clerk provide notices to all Town
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Board members and Supervisor that we will be meeting Thursday,
November 15th for a budget Workshop and Monday, November 19th at 7:00
p.m. for the purpose of adopting the budget.
Seconded by Mr. Bettina
Motion Unanimously Carried
COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO requested Attorney, Gerald Vergilis to give an
opinion tomorrow on the appropriateness of the above resolutions in case
some questions are raised as to their validity.
COUNCILMAN BETTINA wished to have it on the record, that he did call
the Town Clerk on October 29th and inform her he was ill and would not be
able to attend the meeting that night.
COUNCILMAN VALDATI moved that the Minutes of October 29th be
amended to reflect that Mr. Bettina did in fact call the Town Clerk informing
her that he was too ill to attend the meeting.
Seconded by Mr. Paoloni
Motion Unanimously Carried
At this time Judy Pavelock of 3 Fleetwood Drive wished to know how the
Board was going to go about decreasing the increase. COUNCILMAN
VALDATI explained that what we have is the Supervisors Tentative Budget
which is now the Preliminary Budget. That in itself contains the 52%
increase. The Board will then proceed to remove the items that it feels are
not necessary at this time, in terms of equipment and expenditures. We will
also look at our Fund Balance and the types of money that we need in order
to maintain a good cushion for the town in order to do business. We will also
look at projections of sales taxes and what they should be. We will also look
at expenditures for the different departments. By the time we finish we will
have a more professional document in hand.. COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO
announced, in all fairness to the Board, we were only given ten days to work
on the budget and that's why we were unable to come to an agreement on the
Preliminary and are still sitting with the Tentative, but there is still enough
time to get everything done that we need to. COUNCILMAN VALDATI
wished to have it on the record that a very important member of any
budgetary concerns is missing tonight, the Comptroller.
Resident Al Casella wished to know, if the board knew that they had a
contingency why did they put out a 52% tax increase. The Board explained
that this was the Supervisors budget. COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO
explained yes, Mr. Casella was partially correct, during the period when we
were in between budget workshops we only had 3 meetings and the
Supervisor and Comptroller decided that they would come back with a 27%
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tax increase instead of a 52% tax increase. We have been saying from day
one that we have ample surpluses to offset these increases. We were way
under estimating revenues and overestimating expenses. COUNCILMAN
VALDATI explained that we requested the Comptroller to come back with
projections and they were not accurate to the levels we wished to see. We
were given a document that was done in a totally different fashion.
COUNCILMAN RUGGIERO informed Mr. Casella that none of the Board
members was polled as to what they wanted on the budget.
COUNCILMAN VALDATI moved to close the Public Hearing seconded by
Mr. Ruggiero and unanimously carried.
The Public Hearing closed at 7:25 p.m.
At this time, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Terwilliger the Comptroller arrived. He
explained that he had been informed by the Supervisor that this evenings
meeting was to start at 7:30 p.m.
COUNCILMAN BETTINA moved to reopen the meeting, seconded by Mr.
Paoloni and unanimously carried..
COUNCILMAN VALDATI moved authorize the Town Clerk to purchase a
FAX machine appropriate to the needs of her office.
Seconded by Mr. Ruggiero
Motion Unanimously Carried
The Town Clerk wished to know if she had to submit 3 quotes for the FAX
machine and Mr. Terwilliger informed her that they had just received 3
quotes for a FAX for the Justice court and are in the process of purchasing
one so we can use those quotes in order to purchase a FAX for the Town
Clerk.
There was no other business to come before the Board.
COUNCILMAN VALDATI moved to close the Public Hearing, seconded by
Mr. Paoloni and unanimously carried..
The Public Hearing closed at 7:32 p.m.
Gloria J. rse
Town C k
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TOWN BOARD: TOWN OF WAPPINGER
DUTCHESS COUNTY: NEW YORK
IN THE MATTER
OF
a
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE
PRELIMINARY BUDGET OF 2002 FOR
THE TOWN OF WAPPINGER
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss:
COUNTY OF DUTCHESS )
AFFIDAVIT OF
GLORIA J. MORSE, being duly sworn deposed and says:
POSTING
That she is the duly elected, qualified and acting Town Clerk of the
Town of Wappinger, County of Dutchess and State of New York.
That on October 30, 2001, your deponent posted a copy of the
attached notice of Public Hearing on the Preliminary Budget for the
Town of Wappinger, on the signboard maintained by your deponent in
her office in the Town Hall of the Town of Wappinger, 20 Middlebush
Road, Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County, New York.
GLORIA J
Town Cler
Town of pinger
Sworn to before me the K
day of 001
NOTARY PUBLIC
ROSIN D. SECOR
Notary Public State ot.NewYork
Residing in Dutchess Coun�tYy
Registration # 01 SEfi040302
My Commission Expires April 17,201-09—
SOUTHERN DUTCHESS NEWS
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84 EAST MAIN STREET"
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To: WAPPINGERS FALLS, TOWN
P.O. BOX :324
WAPPINGERS FALLS, NY 12590
Re: Legal
notice #49592
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County G f D U T C H E S S }
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT
the Town Board of the Town of
I, JOAN MILLER, being duly sworn, depose and
Wappingerwill most at the Town Halt,
20,Middlebush Road,,jTown'of.
.W4ppinger, Dulcheas County, New
say: that I am the BOOKKEEPER of Southern
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D u t c h e s s News, a weekly newspaper o f general
pose w minar g a Public Hearing on
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in WAPPINGERS FALLS,
for the flear b,January,C1rCJ1at1Gnpublished
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County of DUTCHESS, State of NEW YORK; and
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houMonday through Friday where it may
be Inspected by any Interested per-
son .
The proposed salaries of each mem-
ber of heTown Board, heTown Clerk
and hsTown Superintendent of High-
ways areas follows:..._ .
Supervisor - " ' 1. ,...-544,571.00 `
Sworn to befor e. this 1st day of November., 2001
Superintendent of:-,,
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8,257.00
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Town Justice $22,227.00
Town'Justks ' ^ $22,227.00
pated:,October 30, 2001
Wappingers Falls N.Y.
BY ORDER OFTHETOWN BOARD
Gloria J. Morse, Town Clerk'.
Town of Wappinger
A RENA WRIGHT
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No, 8083355
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