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1962-02-22155 A Special meeting of the Town Board, Town of Wappinger, was held in the Town Hall, on Thursday evening, February 224, 1962. Present: -Supervisor, Richard H. Linge, Councilmen-GedIrge Robinson and Malcolm Hait, Justices of the Peace -Joseph F. Kelly, Town Attorney -Judson Willism, Town Engineer -Charles Maneri, Town Clerk: The attched report was read from the Planning Board. Motion was made by Judge Kelly and seconded by Councilman Hait that the Planning Board Report be accepted and that their recommendation that we have enough Iarorremt*max property for recreation be accepted. That the option on the Kapfenstein property be cancelled. Motion carried. The attached Sick Leave and Vacation schedule for Town Em-rloyees was read. Motion was m Made by Councilman Hait and seconded by Judge Kelly that the Sick Leave and Vacation Schedule for Town Employees be accepted. Motion carried. The following were appointed as members of tae R .creation Committee --Hugh J. Maurer, Mrs. Richard Russell, Mr. Leonce Heady, Mrs. Alfred Arkell, Mr. Arthur. Weinberg, Nr- E-sk ll Berg Mr r; *t,g,s_ Mr. Berg to act as Temporary Chairman. The new Recreation Committee will hold a meeting on March 1st, 1962 at the Town Hall at 8 o'clock. Motion was made by Councilman Robinson and seconded by Councilman Hait that the above appointments to the Recreation 5ommittee be accepted. Motion carried. Councilman Robinson reported that he could have two signs made for the Entrances to the Recreation Parks, 4 by 4 for $40.00. The Board suggested that the Recreation Commission place these 15G signs in place. Motion was made Judge Kelly and seconded by Councilman Hait that Vanderwater Drive, presented by Mr. Mc Ghee be accepted. Motion was made by Judge Kelly and seconded by Councilman Hait that the meeting adjourn. Signed Town Clerk February 20, 1962 To: Town Board, Town of Wappingers From: Town of Wappinger Planning Board Subject:Recreation in Town of Wappingers Date: February 22, 1962 This memorandum refers to the request of the Town Board for the Planning Board's recommendation on the proposed purchase for recreation use of the Kapfenstein property located on All Angels Hill Road. It is the Planning Board's considered opinion after a detailed study of recreation in the Town of Wappinger, that the so-csllad Kapfenstein property not be approved for purchase by the Town Board. The Planning Board is nearing completion a Community Development Plan which we hope will represent the best goals for the future development of the Town and the best policies and standards to be followed in reaching those goals. This development plan will be based on the extensive studies of existing conditions in the Town, and reflects the desires and wishes of the Town residents as determined from the meetings held throve -lout the Town last Fall. Ia May 1962, further meetings will be held to familiar- ize the public with the development plan to date. This Development Plan will be a helpful guide in the review and control of the rapid development taking place in the Town. A Recreation Plan will be an integral part of the overall Community Development Plan. Recreation goals, policies and stand- ards will be arrived at jointly by the Planning Board, Planning Consultant, Recreation Commission and the Town Board. To: Town Board -2- Feb. 20, 1962 Thus far, all the above parties have agreed on applying the following generally accepted recreation standards: Land for playground and play fields - 3 acres per 1,000 pop. Tend for parks and special facilities - 7 acres per 1,000 pop. A second aspect of standards is the matter of location. While Town parks are located where partianiAr4 suitable land may be found, it is important that active recreation areas be strategically located with respect to the population that will use them. Based on a population of 10,000, and on a criteria of 3 acres per 1,000 there is an immediate need of approximately 30 acres for playground and play fields for sports and active recreation within easy access of school children. The Towns- people have demanded this type of play areas and it is our duty to be responsive to their wishes. Therefore, it is our recommend- ation that the Recreation Commission (1) purchase and develop sites near existing residential areas which presently do not have such facilities (2) Require recreation land be set aside in new subdivision or, where land is unapproved, to waive the requirement of land and accept an equivalent amount of money to be used for purchase of recreational land. With proper plennivg, some of these play areas can very easily be expanded into a 10 - 20 acre parks and at no acquisition cost to the taxpayer. To: Town Board -3- Feb. 20, 1962 Land for Parks and Special Facilities Based on a population of 10,000 and a criteria of 7 acres per thousand, there is an immediate need of 70 acres of large parks and special facilites. At the present time the Town has acquired the Reese �,,e.ye.i Ly of 4+0 acres and the Becker property consisting of 52 acres or a total of 92 acres. This is more than adequate to serve the present population. Additionally, we are happy to report that Dutchess County has announced plans to fully develop YO acres of County owned land adjacent to the County Air- port along the Wappingers Creek. We understand that funds are available in this year's budget to start work on the property this Spring. This will give the Town of Wappinger the following large park sites: Reese Site 4o acres Becker Site 52 acres Airport Site Lei:30 acres Total -12 acres With a criteria of 7 acres per thousand and based on the present population of 10,000, the Town of Wappinger will have availably twice as much recreation propertAthe suggested recommended standards. It is interesting to note that the Board of Supervisors wisely decided not to purchase any additional recreation land until the Wilcox site (600 acres) and the Airport site (50 acres) are fully developed. Both of these recreation areas will be available for use this summer. Negotiations are continuing for acquisiton of 350 acres of Wassaic State School property gratis from New York State. To: Town Board Feb. 20, 1962 Provisions are also being made in the Town Development Plan to supply certain special types of recreation areas and facilities, when the need becomes great enough. These special areas and facilities include Swimming, fishing, boating, winter sports, and even the advantage of enjoying a magnificent view or a beauty spot. The Planning Board visunlizes the creation of parks on open lands along the full length of the Wappingers Creek and. Sprout Creek. Efforts are now being made by the Town Board to acquire a site along the Hudson River providing it is within the Town's present means. On December 1, 1961, our Planning Consultant, at the request of the Town Board rendered a preliminary recreation report for "P1 nning Board Discussion Only." After a detailed study of Town Recreation needs for the past three months, the PlAnning Consultant and P1 nnjng Board are substantially in agreement that: 1. Since there is now a definite need for neighborhood type of playground-playfield recreation sites, steps be taken immediately to supply this need. 2. The Planning Board should exercise their right to require subdividers to set aside as ranch as 10% of their 19pa for recreation purposes or the equivalent in money where there are not suitable recreation sites in the subdivision. 3. The Reese site and Becker site be developed to its fullest potential before acquiring any additional lAnd for lADge type parks unless it offers unusual type recreation facilities not being supplied by the present park sites. 4. The Town should make every effort to reserve the tributaries of the Wappinger Creek and. Sprout Creek for parks or maintain this area as open lands. To: Town Board -5- Feb. 20, 1962 Since this land is in a drainage area, it is believed that it could be acquired at little or no cost to the Town. 5. The development by the County of the Airport site, at no direct cost to the Town, which will supply similar recreation facilities as the Becker site and the Kapfenstein site, precludes the necessity of purchasing the Kapfenstein property at this time. 6. With the concentration of present parks sites in the northern part of the Town, preference for future park sites should be given to the southern part of the Lown. The Planning Board sincerely fee's this is a sound and realistic approach to the Town Recreation Program and is geared to supply the necessary recreation facilities as and when they are required due to population increases, other than perhaps special recreational facilities. Respectivefully submitted, Town of Wappingers Planning Board 1 SICK LEAVE AND VACTION PLANNTOR TOWN 0? WAPPINGER EMPLOYEES FiRPOSE. The purpose of theses regulations is to establish uniform revisions for vacation and sink leaves applicable alike to all mployees of the Town of Wappinger. 2. 12INITIoN. The term "Town employee" shall include all employees f the Town of Wappinger except sleeted officials, department heads mbers of Hoards and Commissions, but not temporary employees. CATION. When an employee has completed one year of continuous =anent employment with the Town, he or she shall be entitled to ree calendar weeks of vacation with pay at the regular rate, no event shall an employee be allowed more than three weeks cation in any calendar year, except that an employee may with the pproval of the departmtnet head accumulate one calendar week of aoation to be used by him or her, but such vaeation leave thus -ecumu1ated must be used by him or her in the next succeeding year. employee failing to use such accumulated vacation at the time rd in the manner prescribed herein shall be deemed to have forfeitei ria same. All Town employees who have been employed by the Town a eermanent basis for at least six continuousennthe may at the oration of the department head of the deparment in which the mployee is employed be granted one calendar week of vacation with yay at their regular rate. Nowfivers in the event that an tmployee is granted a week of vacation at the expiration of six ronths of continuous service to the Town, such weeek so granted shall to charged against the tree weepy vacation to which the employee uould have been entitled to had he not been granted a week of i acation at the end of six Months emplyment. 4 IL LEAVE. LEAVE, Absence from duty by an employee of the Town by router, of aiolpess or disability of himself or hereelf by reson of illness eir death of a member of his or her immediate family shall be allowed es provided in this section and not otherwise. Absence from duty hall, if duly granted b:, the department head for such reason hall be considered and known as "sick leave" Th a following egulations shall govern such absence from duty. • An emplyee of the Town may be absent from duty on account of ickness or disability. Every leave for such absence is granted the depart ment head. Any sick leave eo granted shall be ported to the Town Clerk as hereinafter provided. • No employe,f) shall receive any part of his compensation while absent rom duty because of illness or disability except as herein provided, • An employee of the Town shall be granted sick leave with pay of &no day a month or twelve days a year. Suoh leave with pay shall te ranted to the employee by the department head. The twelve days a year to be allowed an employee for sick leave wij ay may hereafter be acceetillated at the rate of one day a month tjntil a total of" one hundred twenty days is reached, and may be apt to his credit for future sick leave with pay. Upon becoming sic1 or disabled an employee by virtue of employment ervice after the effective data of this resolution may during L;ia sickness or disability be granted sio4 leave with pay to the extent of the unused sick leave which he or she has accumulated, int no sick leave with pay shall be granted to any employee in MCOOUS of one hundred twenty day a in any one calendar year. Any t.mployee absent from duty mofie than the maximum period for sick :eave shall not receive futhor oompeneation. 1. Allowable and allowed sit* leave shall be considered for all Purpoeea as continuing services, but, in the event of resignation car discharge of an employee his accumulated and unused sick leave Um* shall be cancelled and not paid fox'. 6, An employee isolated or quarantined booauae of exposure to a e�onmaunioabie disease shall for the purpose of this regulation, be considered absent beaauae of eiekness and may be granted sick leave with pay during suoh isolation or quarantine, to the extent • this accumulated or unused sloe leave time, Where an employee a isolated or quarantined beeoauee of exposure to a aoxrmuntoable seaee oontao tied in the line of duty, then and in that event t.Q may be granted additional sick leave with pay, but such lditional aiok leave with pay shall not exceed one year, should employee require additional sink leave beyond one year, it all be granted him but without pay for the duties of his liness. The validity of the employee's claim for ouch sick ave as heroin before deanribed shall be determined by the Town «ard, whome decision in the matter shall be final„ . No employee ray be granted a leave of absence from duty by reason pregnancy* The existence of pregnancy 'Host be reported in citing to the department head not later than the fourth month e department head may continue such employee in service until =uvh time, as in hia judgement„ further service would not be to t:rie best ineterest of the Town or the employee„ but in no event t eyond the sixth month* Every employee leaving Town service because of pregnancy may be x einetated without examination to her former position or to a imiliar portion and upon such reinstatement the employee so )instated may receive the same ooneation that she reoeived ;ion ieavint Town service upon oertifioation thereof by the head r the department* And further provided that such reinstatement ay be permitted only if a vaoanov exists in the same or a lower rade* An further provided that such application be made within c ne year after leaving Town service. Applications for netatament nut be made to the department head xcamixtimaxa#* �+ + • to the D xtaheaa County Civil Service Commission. A physician's certificate may be required by the department head at any time attesting to tike physical fitness of an employee to perform the duties of the pbaition while said employee is still employed by the Town, and a Lso prior to returning to duty. i Where an employee reveives compensation under the workmen's C pensation Law on account of disability, he obeli elect in w icing whether hee desires to have sick leave with pay during the p od of disability for which he reoeived comnpensation. Such ✓ iting must to filed with the department head. In the event t at the employee sleote to take side leave with pay during such d sability for the period of his disability not exceeding his a cumulated and unused elok leave time be paid the differenoon o what he reoeived as compensation and his regular rate of pay, Tie time during which he is eo paid obeli be deducted from his a ►.cumulated sick leave time* Such election shall be made within 3 days after the period of disability 0easea. j The department head may require a phyaioianAs certificate for ani,,,, a serum wherein an employee requests abeereoe from duty to be o.argeed against sick leave* Where the illness or disability is 0.' long duration a physician's oertifieate will be required for e oh 30 days of aoetinuoue *boons.* In any cases the deparmtnet h ad may require an examination by a physician or other accessible e� idenoe that the illness $0 bofide0 k It shall be the duty or every department head after the effeextivea d .to of this resolution to Pak* * report in writing to the Town S yard on the 5th day of each month dor et the first meeting of the T wn Board in each and every month giving the name of the easploysi a_ .d the sick leave used.