Town of Olive
County of Ulster
State of New York
June 5, 2000

Minutes of the monthly audit meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Olive held Monday, June 5, 2000 7:30 pm at the Town Meeting Hall in Shokan, NY.

Members present:

Supervisor Leifeld stated the Cablevision fees were received and expressed concern that Rusty Monroe of Telecom Associates has not fulfilled the promises made prior to entering into contract with his firm.

Supervisor Leifeld introduced the contract for engineering services for the swimming pool project. He stated the contract fee would be $20,000.00 for both Stephen Molmed and Clayton Bisch. Supervisor Leifeld asked Town Board members if the bids are received and they come back at $600,000.00 plus for the swimming pool, what will their response be. He noted that Mr. Molmed has the costs broken down with payments to see the pool through construction; therefore, if there is no construction then there will be no payments. Discussion occurred on the proposed contract.

Supervisor Leifeld stated grant applications from the Department of Parks and Historic Restoration are now available and asked the board members if they wish to pursue another grant. Council Member Johansen asked the Town Board how they originally chose La Barge Associates and stated the board should consider looking into someone else besides La Barge to write the grants since they are engineers and not grant writers. Council Member La Monda stated since the grant has already been prepared by La Barge the board should ask what they would charge the town since it is already written. Council Member Chase stated La Barge was charging us money but was using someone else's grant. Supervisor Leifeld stated La Barge was quick to respond to the town last year and doesn't fault their company for not receiving the grant since NY State chose to give all the money to themselves.

Council Member Chase stated she spent a lot of time seeing that errors were corrected in the proposed wireless law and with the attorney's changes there are now more errors. She noted that "commercial impracticability" was taken out as a definition; however, it was used throughout the document. Council Member Burkhardt asked if Council Member Chase is suggesting they cancel the public hearing noting that if anything is changed then they can't have the public hearing. Supervisor Leifeld suggested that after the meeting Council Member Chase meet with the attorney to clean up the document. Council Member Chase stated that consultant Dick Comi missed things in the original draft and even after talking to the attorney still has no idea what a law should look like.

Council Member Burkhardt stated if it has been reviewed and accepted by our attorney then that is what we are paying him for. Council Member Chase stated it is not a clean copy. Supervisor Leifeld reiterated they should discuss this after the public hearing.

On a Leifeld/Johansen motion the Town Board approved proceeding with the public hearing on the proposed wireless law as presented by Attorney Peter Graham. Roll vote: Johansen, yes; Chase, abstained; La Monda, yes; Burkhardt, yes; and Leifeld, yes. Supervisor Leifeld stated the Town Board will discuss changes that are suggested after the meeting and if they are minor and do not affect the implementing of the law then they will be done.

Gene Sorbellini stated the Health Department was present to inspect the park for summer recreation, bus transportation costs have not increased, and asked the Town Board whether or not fees will again be charged for the summer recreation program.

On a Leifeld/Burkhardt motion and unanimous approval the Town Board adjourned to executive session for the purpose of the discussing union negotiations at 8:30 pm.

The Town Board reconvened the regular meeting at 8:45 pm at which time they adjourned on a Leifeld/Burkhardt motion.


Sylvia Rozzelle, Town Clerk