Arietta makes plans for septic laws

Arietta TB September 8 2020

Arietta makes plans for septic laws

By PETE KLEIN

ARIETTA—When the Arietta Town Board met on September 8, Supervisor Rick Wilt reported that the Town Attorney feels the new language in the proposed septic law is ok. The next step is to have a public hearing for public comments. The board will pass the resolution to move ahead with the public hearing at the next regular meeting on October 20.

Retention and Disposition Schedule for New York Local Governments Records

The board passed the following resolution.

WHEREAS: The Town of Arietta, Town Board will rescind Resolution 20-06-17 Retention and Disposition Schedule for New York Local Governments Records or LGS-1 adopted at the Town Board Meeting on July 20, 2020, passed prematurely before the established effective date, and

WHEREAS: it is necessary for the Town of Arietta, Town Board to revisit the implication of the proposed new LGS-1 Retention and Disposition Schedule, and

WHEREAS: the Town of Arietta adopted Resolution 19G, the Records Retention and Disposition Schedule #MU1 on August 5, 1996 and now the Town of Arietta must adopt the new LGS-1 Retention and Disposition Schedule and it will supersede and replace the present Records Retention and Disposition Schedule #MU1 issued by the State Archives and Records Administration (SARA) and

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: The Town Board, Town of Arietta will rescind all past Record Retention Schedule Resolutions and adopt the Records Retention and Disposition Schedule LGS-1 issued by the State Archives and Records Administration.

Appointment Planning Board Member

The board passed the following resolution.

WHEREAS: The Town of Arietta, Town Board will reappoint Sheila Crouse to the Arietta Planning Board retroactive as of March 1, 2020 and,

WHEREAS: it is necessary that the Arietta Town Board reappoint Sheila Crouse for a five year term that ends February 28, 2025, and

THEREFORE, LET IT BE RESOLVED: that the Town Board, Town of Arietta does hereby appoint Sheila Crouse to the Arietta Planning Board effective immediately.

SNOWMOBILE TRAILS COMMITTEE

Rick Wilt reported nothing is going on with snowmobile trails yet. Mrs. Rudes reported that those working on the ski trail at the Airport are doing a great job.

AIRPORT & FINANCE COMMITTEE

Rick Wilt reported the final contracts are signed for the lighting work, but the contractor cannot order supplies until he receives the signed contract from the attorneys. It will take six weeks to get the supplies after he orders them. If it gets done this year it will be late October or early November. After that probably not.

The clear zone obstruction survey is almost done. After that is done the Town can get a grant to cut any in the clear zone except for the trees on Town property. None of the trees on State land can be cut down and there are a lot of them.

LAKE/ DAM/ INVASIVE COMMITTEE

Sarah Rudes reported the engineer for the Piseco Lake Dam David Railsback was supposed to be at this meeting to give information on the data collected from the water monitoring system and the future of the existing dam. He said he will be here in October. Rick Wilt said if he cannot come, we will do a zoom meeting. Mr. Railsback has been working on the permits for the fence.

OTHER BUSINESS

The board also agreed to hold budget meetings on October 13th, 20th, and 27th, 2020 at 5pm.

Rick Wilt reported there are two people working at the Airport from the highway department one running a brush hog and one is running a rental grubber that grinds the brush and trees that are growing up in the clear zone.

Rudes asked if the density plan given to the board by the Planning board could be sent to the APA for their review. Wilt said he would talk to Mrs. Kiewicz and have the Planning board send it.

Wilt reported there probably will not be any airport grants next year as the FAA has lost a lot of revenue since COVID has cut down sharply on airline flights where the money comes from.

Rudes asked when the brush dumping was moved from Route 10 to the Town old pit property by the airport. Mr. Small said someone came in and ground the brush at Route 10 and they hauled the grindings to the pit and spread it on the floor of the pit. At that time, they moved the dumping of brush to the pit property. He also said that they could take larger sized brush as the grinder can grind up to things up to 11 feet long. The board will consider larger brush. Mr. Wilt said the Towns permit only allows 20 tons of brush in a pile. He said we could change the permit, but it can be sticky. Mrs. Wilt will put the brush dumping has moved on the Town website.

Rudes reported that the board should thank the Piseco Lake Association for cleaning up after the fireworks display last Saturday.

Samuel LaScola asked if the demo permit has been changed to include roofing material. Wilt said yes charge for all demo permit debris taken to the transfer station. He also asked about town stickers for vehicles for the transfer station. Wilt said he investigated it and it usually does not work very well.

Craig Small reported he was not able to find any pickup trucks at dealers to be able to bid for the ones he was approved for at the last meeting. There are no Chevrolet and if he bid for them it would be at least until next March before the came in. He found four Dodge pickups at Main Motors that are on State OGS contract and he can get three of those. Wilt told him to have Joyce Page look on the OGS website and if she can find them, he can get them.

Chris Rhodes told the board he moved the snowmobile trail around the Evergreen pit and asked the board to please put up fencing or something on the old trail to stop people from using it and going through the pit.

Next regular meeting will be October 5 at 5 pm.

This article is based upon minutes provided by Kenneth Parslow, Town Clerk.