Present: Paul Allen, Chairman; John Steger, Vice Chairman; Merwin Armstrong; Larry Cornell, Steve Dafoe, Scott Elston, Dan Tagliente,

Others present: Scott Steve, Chairman; Scott Schrader, County Administrator; Donald Chambers; Robert Beurkle; Brenda DeRusso; David Darrow; Shawn Smith; Jeffrey Phoenix; Partick Ruppe; Eric Mulvihill; Bonnie Quakenbush;

Motion by Mr. Cornell, second by Mr. Steger and adopted by all members present voting aye the minutes of September 1, 2005 were approved as printed.

 

1. Authorize Service Contract, Highway Department/Landfill. Moved by Mr. Cornell, seconded by Mr. Steger. This was re-bid because the previous contractor did not perform the service. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

2. Authorize Rental Contract, Highway Department. Moved by Mr. Dafoe, seconded by Mr. Cornell. Mr. Elston stated the reason the resolution was pulled when it went to the floor was because Legislators had questions regarding renting space to store equipment wondering if space came available when the Brockway truck was donated? There were also questions about the County building its own storage space. Mr. Schrader said that building storage space would be very costly. Mr. Chambers feels that this is money well spent to keep equipment out of the weather. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

3. Amend Budget/ Transfer Funds, Highway Department (Projects). Moved by Mr. Cornell, seconded by Mr. Armstrong. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

4. Amend Budget/ Transfer Funds, McGraw-Marathon Road Bridge Project, Highway Department (Projects). Moved by Mr. Armstrong, seconded by Mr. Cornell. Mr. Elston asked if this was all County tax dollars? Mr. Chambers said it was an 80/20 split and even though the project costs went up it would still be okay. Mr. Elston questioned the 15% mistake without a project expansion. Mr. Chambers said it was not a mistake but was because the cost of materials went and the projection of cost was based on 2001 prices of materials. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

5. Authorize Agreement, New York State, Federal Emergency Relief Project PIN-375445. Moved by Mr. Armstrong, seconded by Mr. Cornell. This is to perform work that was not covered by FEMA funding. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

6. Authorize Contract, Highway Department, Town of Taylor (Snow and Ice – County Roads). Moved by Mr. Cornell, seconded by Mr. Tagliente. Mr. Elston asked was the 10% increase added to all of these resolutions? Mr. Chambers said it was. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

7. Authorize Contract, Highway Department, Town of Homer (Snow and Ice – County Roads). Moved by Mr. Dafoe, seconded by Mr. Elston. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

8. Authorize Contract, Highway Department, Town of Cincinnatus (Snow and Ice – County Roads). Moved by Mr. Armstrong, seconded by Mr. Cornell. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

9. Amend Budget/ Transfer Funds, Highway Department (Fuel). Moved by Mr. Armstrong, seconded by Mr. Cornell. Mr. Chambers said this is to recognize revenue from the City of Cortland Fire Department. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

10. Amend Budget/ Transfer Funds, Highway Department (Fuel). Moved by Mr. Cornell, seconded by Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Chambers said this is to recognize additional revenue also.

 

11. Amnesty River Clean-Up, Highway Department/ Landfill. Moved by Mr. Cornell, seconded Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Chambers said the river clean-up has been done but the resolution had not so needed to be done. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

12. Award Electronic Disposal Contract/ Highway Department/ Landfill. Moved by Mr. Armstrong, seconded by Mr. Cornell. Mr. Chambers said this was on the list of goals for this committee and now it would be able to happen. The resolution is correct that there is no charge to the County. The company has agreed that if the County bundles and puts the material onto pallets there will be no charge. This material will be collected at the Recycling Center. All members voting in favor; none opposed; resolution adopted.

 

1. Work on Little League Field in the City of Cortland – Mr. Darrow, Mr. Smith and Mr. Phoenix were here to request assistance from the Highway Department developing a Little League Field located by Smith School and the McDonald Sports Complex. Chairman Steve said that he requested this group speak to this committee to promote the idea that was developed within the Leadership Cortland Program. He is hoping that the Highway Department will be able to assist with the project. Mr. Darrow said the City of Cortland has approved the use of the land. The group is here today to request approval by the committee for the Highway Department to assist in preparation of the land with manpower and equipment. The plan calls for two fields to be developed. The group is doing fundraising and so far have $8500. They are now selling advertising on fencing that will surround the field. Motion was made by Mr. Allen, seconded by Mr. Cornell, and adopted by all members present voting aye, for the Highway Department to furnish manpower and equipment assisting with this project.

 

2. Donation of art by a local artist. – Mr. Ferro of Little York wants to donate a fish sculpture to be displayed at either Little York Dam or Little York Park. He owns Frog Pond Art Studio and is a local artist. Mr. Tagliente questioned the liability exposure to the County, where it would be located and what size it would be? Mr. Ferro was not present for the discussion. Mr. Cornell asked was he aware of the meeting. Mr. Chambers did not know for sure if he was aware. The consensus of the committee was to have Mr. Chambers have Mr. Ferro contact Mr. Allen, the chairperson of the committee.

 

3. Fall Amnesty Day – Mr. Allen said that the discussion had taken place in the spring of this year and there was an agenda item passed for a spring amnesty day. At that time it was decided there would only be one this year. Mr. Dafoe said he had been approached by the Mayor of Homer to do a fall amnesty day therefore had tried to have a special committee meeting scheduled to possibly pass that. Mr. Allen said he had talked to Mr. McDermott at the NYSAC meeting and that he was comfortable with doing it only one day a year. Mr. Armstrong stated that his town does their own and just holds the collections until the spring day. Mr. Allen said there is a cost associated with amnesty day to the County in revenues lost. He thought the intent of the original amnesty days were to clean up the roadsides of the County – not a venue to dispose of household trash at no cost to the household. Mr. Chambers agreed with the original intent of amnesty day. Mr. Chambers said there is a concern that when it is done two times a year it encourages people to use this as a free trash removal day. Mr. Armstrong made a motion that the County have a fall amnesty day, seconded by Mr. Dafoe. With Mr. Armstrong and Mr. Dafoe voting aye, Mr. Allen, Mr. Steger, Mr. Cornell, Mr. Elston and Mr. Tagliente voting nay, motion failed. Mr. Elston said he supported this idea in the spring to give people the opportunity to participate.

Mr. Buerkle gave a report on multi-modal money that had been requested.

Mr. Dafoe said he has concerns about trash haulers using Parks Road to get to the Landfill. Chairman Steve said the Highway Department had monitored the traffic over a specific period of time to see the pattern. Mr. Chambers said letters have been sent to all haulers on the route to be used to get to the Landfill. He has had responses that they are taxpayer of this County. Chairman Steve said the only way to restrict traffic flow on specific roads is for the municipality that has ownership of the road to pass their own restrictions.

Mr. Allen noted there would be a trip in November to visit Pennsylvania to check on Leachade processes and everyone will be notified when it is set up.

Mr. Chambers said money for capping the landfill and leachade is drying up so the County needs to move forward on the issues.

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