The Town Board held a work session on July 9, 2024, to discuss water department updates, pump station infrastructure, the Hallex Mills sewer district expansion, and to approve several appointments and resolutions. The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence.
Good evening and welcome to the work session meeting for July 9th, 2024. If we could all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Mr. Coxtein, could you lead us? And to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible liberty and justice after all. And if you can remain standing for a moment of silence as we uh pray for the safety of all of our military and first responders and uh keep in our minds and thoughts all of those that have sacrificed for our country. Thank you. All right. We will uh we are supposed to start with a discussion from the water department. I do not great discussion. Do not see supposed to read what read that. Oh, I'm sorry. Um might have been nice. I feel like I'm at home. So uh there will be due they will be doing some uh overnight system updates in the uh Pine Brook Road area. There may be some uh some loss of service uh during that time, but uh they're trying to uh update the system and get some things uh going right. We also have a couple projects that'll be going on and we'll bring water in uh for those, especially some new water loops. Uh I'm assuming Dan is downstairs. I haven't seen him come up yet. Don't worry, he's usually listening, Jim. But well, you know what we'll do is we'll go into our appointments real quick. Uh on our resolutions. We have um the appointment of Anthony Galvo to Parks and Recreation. Uh we have an appointment of Michael Beaks to the Climate Smart Community Task Force. We have the appointment of John Meystrich to the zoning board of appeals. Actually, John's already part of the zoning board of appeals. This is a uh a promotion to the chair of the zoning board of appeals, as he will be taking over for Gordon Fine, and that comes with a doubling of your current salary. Congratulations, John. And uh we uh one that did not make it on, I think it was uh car, right? Free car as long as it fits the keys that you already have. Um and we have the appointment of uh Anthony Altamari to the zoning board of appeals. Uh taking uh as John moves up, taking his place there. Um may I have a motion? Uh motion. Oh, I'm sorry, yes. Uh appointment of David McConnell to the tree committee. Thank you. I stopped with the uh with that. Um we'll keep going through all of the uh personnel. Accept the retirement of Paul Collaruso from the building maintenance department. Uh thank you very much for your service, Paul. Uh we we will definitely miss you guys miss you there, and I'm sure the guys will as well. Uh except the retirement of Sergeant Craig Scotola from the police department. Uh once again, another uh another great person. Uh Craig was in charge of our safety and uh the cert team, so I'm sure we'll be appointing a new safety officer, and uh we wish you luck, Craig. And uh we are also gonna have uh we're gonna appoint Keith Cutriff to the position of lead maintenance mechanic repair job class code 0477-02 within the police department, civilian. Um Keith has been with us for quite a long time. Uh a much, much uh deserved yes, promotion, very well deserved, and uh, you know, thank you, Keith, for the job you do. And uh when you talk to when you talk to the chief, you know how how important he is for the things they've gotten done there. So I I gotta say, even uh uh just just some uh for Christ, Sergeant Scatola.