1 1 2 HELD REMOTELY 3 4 WORKSHOP MEETING 5 of the Town Board of the Town of Newburgh held at 1496 Route 300 in said township 6 at 7:03 p.m. on Monday, the 27th of April 2020 7 8 9 PRESENT Gilbert J. Piaquadio, Supervisor 10 Elizabeth J. Greene, Councilwoman Scott M. Manley, Councilman 11 Joseph P. Pedi, Town Clerk 12 13 PRESENT Paul R. Ruggiero, Councilman 14 REMOTELY Mark C. Taylor, Attorney for the Town James Osborne, Town Engineer 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 REPORTED BY: Michelle L. Conero Court Reporter 24 3 Francis Street Newburgh, New York 12550 25 (845)541-4163 TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 2 2 MR. PEDI: Today is Monday, 3 April 27, 2020. It is 7:03 p.m. This is a 4 regularly scheduled Workshop Meeting of the 5 Town of Newburgh Town Board. 6 The first order of business is 7 roll call. Mrs. Greene. 8 MS. GREENE: Here. 9 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero. 10 MR. RUGGIERO: Present. 11 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley. 12 MR. MANLEY: Here. 13 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio. 14 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Here. 15 MR. PEDI: Next we'll have the Pledge 16 of Allegiance and a Moment of Silence. 17 (Pledge of Allegiance and Moment of 18 Silence.) 19 MR. PEDI: Thank you, everyone. 20 Mr. Supervisor, are there any changes 21 to the agenda? 22 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I have no 23 changes. Anyone else? 24 MS. GREENE: I have none. 25 MR. MANLEY: I have none. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 3 2 MR. RUGGIERO: None. 3 MR. PEDI: Thank you. 4 Next we'll have item 5, the approval of 5 the audit. 6 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. So 7 I'm looking for a motion to approve this audit in 8 the amount of $2,024,948.77. 9 MS. GREENE: So moved. 10 MR. MANLEY: I'll second it. 11 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll second it. 12 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 13 Mrs. Greene? 14 MS. GREENE: Yes. 15 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 16 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 17 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 18 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 19 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 21 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 6, 22 amendment and extension agreement in support of 23 transportation services for the elderly program. 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. 25 Again, this is something we do in coordination TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 4 2 with the County, and we do it each year. 3 Would someone want to make a motion 4 to approve this resolution? It's an extension 5 agreement for the support of transportation for 6 the elderly with Orange County. 7 MR. MANLEY: I'll make that motion. 8 MS. GREENE: And I'll second your 9 motion. 10 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 11 Any discussion? 12 (No response.) 13 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 14 MS. GREENE: Yes. 15 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 16 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 17 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 18 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 19 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 21 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 7, 22 another resolution authorizing execution and 23 delivery of bus operating service agreement 24 between Town of Newburgh and Orange County. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. Once TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 5 2 again, this is another resolution, again with the 3 County but this one is for Dial-A-Bus. 4 Let me ask the Town Attorney. Mark, 5 this is correct here? 6 MR. TAYLOR: Yes. The agreement is for 7 the Town and Orange County for a term of five 8 years. You have separate agreements governing the 9 provision of the Dial-A-Bus themselves. This 10 ties to the pass through from the County of 11 funding for the Dial-A-Bus operation if we don't 12 collect enough revenue to cover them. All those 13 collect simply through fares. The agreement 14 governs the pass throughs of revenue to the Town 15 from other sources. 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Very good, Mark. 17 Thank you. 18 Does someone want to make that motion 19 to accept the resolution? 20 MS. GREENE: So moved. 21 MR. MANLEY: I'll second. 22 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 23 Any discussion? 24 (No response.) 25 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 6 2 MS. GREENE: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 4 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 5 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 6 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 7 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 9 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 8, 10 Engineering Department, Chadwick Lake dam animal 11 control. 12 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I know we've got 13 our Town Engineer on the line, too. So you can 14 just tell me if this is right or wrong. 15 I believe, after analyzing this -- and 16 Paul, you're on the phone, you can tell us as 17 well -- it looks like we're going to go with 18 Hudson Valley Wildlife & Nuisance Control for 19 $3,500. That's for the season with no additional 20 inspection charges. What this is is they actually 21 remove animals, woodchucks or whatever, from the 22 dam, on the dam wall. So this prevents any 23 weakening of the dam structure. 24 MR. OSBORNE: That's correct, Gil. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Thank you, Jim. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 7 2 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make that motion. 3 MS. GREENE: I'll second your motion. 4 I'm happy to have this because we need to protect 5 the dam as much as we can. 6 MR. PEDI: Any further discussion? 7 (No response.) 8 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 9 MS. GREENE: Yes. 10 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 11 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 12 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 13 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 14 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 15 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 16 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 9. 17 For the Highway Department, item A, approval to 18 award bid for a truck body and plow. 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. So Mark 20 Hall, the highway superintendent, is suggesting 21 that we purchase this tandem truck body and plow 22 from Amthor Welding for a cost of $105,973. And 23 this is in his budget under account 5130.200. As 24 you know, we've been replacing these trucks each 25 year so we don't fall behind with very old TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 8 2 trucks. 3 Does someone want to make that motion? 4 MR. MANLEY: I'll make that motion. 5 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll second it. 6 MS. GREENE: Paul seconded it. 7 MR. PEDI: Any further discussion? 8 (No response.) 9 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 10 MS. GREENE: Yes. 11 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 12 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 13 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes he said. I 14 don't know if he's got a bad connection there. 15 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 16 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 17 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 18 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 19 MR. PEDI: Okay. Next we go on to item 20 9-B, approval to award bid for brush grinding. 21 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: And once again, 22 this is from the highway superintendent and this 23 deals with brush grinding. We've got bids and/or 24 quotes. The one that came in is Rancourt & Sons 25 in the amount of $320 per hour. And again this is TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 9 2 in his budget. 3 Does someone want to make that motion? 4 MS. GREENE: So moved. 5 MR. MANLEY: I'll second it. 6 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 7 Mrs. Greene? 8 MS. GREENE: Yes. 9 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 10 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 11 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 12 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 13 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 14 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 15 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 9-C, 16 approval to award bid for summer material. 17 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. 18 Again, these are going to be -- our highway 19 superintendent deals with summer materials. You 20 can see there's various ones. We will go with the 21 low bidder here on each as indicated. 22 MR. MANLEY: I'll make a motion as 23 presented. 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. 25 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make a motion as TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 10 2 presented. 3 MR. MANLEY: I'll second his motion. 4 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded as 5 presented. 6 Mrs. Greene? 7 MS. GREENE: Yes. 8 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 9 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 10 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 11 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 12 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 13 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 14 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 9-D, 15 approval to award bid for cold milling machine. 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Again the 17 highway superintendent is suggesting the 18 following vendor, which is Woolley Excavating & 19 Site Development, and his costs are indicated 20 here for that work. 21 Does somebody want to make a motion as 22 presented? 23 MS. GREENE: So moved. 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I didn't make 25 the motion, but does somebody want to make the TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 11 2 motion? 3 MR. MANLEY: Betty is making the 4 motion. 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Oh, you made the 6 motion? 7 MS. GREENE: Yeah. 8 MR. MANLEY: I'll second. 9 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I thought you 10 said second. With these masks. 11 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 12 Any further discussion? 13 (No response.) 14 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 15 MS. GREENE: Yes. 16 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 17 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 18 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 19 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 20 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 21 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 22 MR. PEDI: The last item is item 9-E, 23 leaf and brush pick up. 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. Our 25 highway superintendent this year, due to the TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 12 2 conditions that we're under, he is actually 3 cancelling the leaf and brush -- spring leaf and 4 brush pick-up. Usually we make a motion to have 5 it, so I think we'll need a motion to cancel it 6 even though no action means nothing happens. 7 Does someone want to make a motion 8 that we will cancel this year's leaf and brush 9 pick-up. However, the bins are open for those 10 that want to bring them there. 11 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make a motion. 12 MR. MANLEY: I'll second it. 13 MS. GREENE: Question. Are we going to 14 put some type of a piece in the paper to tell the 15 people that the bins are open, that we aren't 16 going to be coming down their roads, so to speak? 17 Have some way that they know. 18 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Joseph, can you 19 put that in the paper, that even though the leaf 20 and brush thing is canceled, pick-up, but they 21 will bring them to highway. Okay. 22 MS. GREENE: Thank you. 23 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Good suggestion. 24 MR. PEDI: Any further discussion? 25 (No response.) TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 13 2 Mrs. Greene? 3 MS. GREENE: Yes. 4 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 5 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 6 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 7 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 8 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 9 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 10 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 10 for 11 the assessor, solar wind energy systems. Now I'll 12 be calling in -- 13 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Before you do, 14 just hang on one second, Joe. 15 We've talked about this before, right, 16 what the choices are. Also tonight, like at 6:30 17 from Jeffrey Lease who has an interest because 18 they're building a solar farm -- 19 I don't know, did I leave it with you, 20 Betty? There it is. 21 MS. GREENE: Okay. 22 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: So those were 23 his suggestions, even though this is not a public 24 hearing in any way. 25 So with that we can get Cathy Drobny on TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 14 2 the line. 3 Do we have any questions before we even 4 call her? What we were thinking of doing? 5 MR. MANLEY: I don't know if Mark 6 Taylor can hear this or who can relay it. I had 7 asked him about the possibility of the one choice 8 where it would still be a PILOT but we can 9 actually put a limit on the kilowatts or 10 something, or whatever you call the wattage. 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. So by 12 limiting the kilowatts we would get it to the 13 point where it wouldn't affect the homeowner who 14 has solar panels. 15 MR. MANLEY: It depends how he writes 16 it up. He was going to send us something. Maybe 17 we could check with Cathy Drobny on that. 18 Can you hear that, Mark, at all or no? 19 MR. TAYLOR: I'm having a difficult 20 time hearing you. 21 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Can we bring the 22 phone down here, maybe halfway. 23 Hang on, Mark. 24 MR. PEDI: I'm moving the phone. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: I think he's got TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 15 2 a better chance. 3 MR. MANLEY: Mark, can you hear me at 4 all right now? 5 MR. TAYLOR: Yeah. That's better. 6 MR. MANLEY: What we discussed earlier, 7 I had asked you about earlier, and I don't know 8 if we should double check with Cathy Drobny about 9 if we do the PILOT and we can work something in 10 writing on the minimum or maximum, I guess they 11 call it kilowatts. I'm not too sure exactly 12 what -- 13 MR. TAYLOR: Basically NYSERDA, New 14 York State Energy agency, has provided guidance 15 to how to go about implementing PILOT 16 arrangements for governing solar. Their guidance 17 documents include a draft local law that 18 recommends or suggests that municipalities accept 19 smaller facilities, such as residential 20 facilities, and also accept those facilities that 21 don't actually apply for the exemption. In their 22 documentation they refer to the 1 megawatt 23 standard as being appropriate for granting 24 exceptions, the rationale being that it's going 25 to cost more to enter into a PILOT agreement with TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 16 2 every residential property owner that you'll have 3 to collect in terms of revenue based on the 4 amount of energy or electricity that those 5 systems produce. So the way to achieve this is to 6 enact a local law that basically provides for 7 that exemption from PILOT. 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Mark, we're 9 going to get Cathy on the line. If you hold on a 10 second, our capable clerk will dial in Cathy here 11 in a minute. Standby. 12 (Phone call being made to Cathy 13 Drobny.) 14 MS. GREENE: Are we under the gun to 15 pass this or can we table it? 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: No. 17 Are you there, Cathy? 18 MS. DROBNY: Yes. 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Very good. We 20 just started on the opt out -- not saying we just 21 started. We've been looking at this for quite 22 some time. 23 Mark, you're here, too? 24 MR. TAYLOR: I'm still here. Yes. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay, good. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 17 2 Mark is here, too. 3 One of the things we came up with is 4 maybe there would be a certain threshold on the 5 amount of power. 6 MS. DROBNY: Hello? 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Cathy? Cathy? 8 MS. DROBNY: Yes. Somehow it muted. I 9 lost you. 10 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: You should be 11 back now hopefully. What we were talking about, 12 and Councilman Manley brought it up, perhaps we 13 would go with some kind of threshold for a 14 certain amount of power, then after that the Town 15 would go with a PILOT. 16 Is that correct, Mark? 17 MR. TAYLOR: Yeah. If the Board elects 18 not to opt out, instead impose PILOT 19 requirements, NYSERDA guidance documents indicate 20 it's possible to implement a PILOT policy through 21 enactment of a local law which basically would 22 not subject smaller, for example residential, 23 solar improvements to the PILOT requirement, only 24 those that are above a certain threshold or 25 non-residential, however you decide to word your TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 18 2 local law. 3 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. Now we're 4 waiting to get Paul on the speakerphone. Somehow 5 he lost his connection. We're going to get him in 6 a moment on the speaker cell. 7 So now we're all back again I think. 8 Paul, real quickly, we've been talking 9 about if we went with something, perhaps it would 10 be something where there would be a certain power 11 rating, and after that power rating then we would 12 perhaps go with a PILOT with the Town. That's 13 just -- unless you've got some other ideas. 14 MR. RUGGIERO: After reading everything 15 from Jones, Hacker & Murphy, I think if we do 16 nothing, in my opinion is it's not good. If we 17 opt out, it's really not good either. The State 18 is kind of forcing us into a PILOT from what I 19 see. At least with the PILOT, the homeowners 20 aren't going to be subject to getting charged. 21 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Well that's 22 true. 23 MR. MANLEY: Plus even the larger 24 farms, it won't be fully taxable. They'll get 25 some kind of break. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 19 2 MR. RUGGIERO: Correct. And that 3 definitely works. At least we're getting 4 something that way with the PILOT. 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Right. Just so 6 you know too, and I e-mailed you from Jeff Lease. 7 He sort of sent it over a little late. I e-mailed 8 you from Jeff Lease, his comments. He really is 9 involved with a solar farm. 10 MR. RUGGIERO: I read it, Gil. I'm not 11 making my opinion on Jeff. I'm more or less 12 making it from what Jones, Hacker & Murphy 13 explains, which is very explaining. I understood 14 a lot. 15 MR. MANLEY: Okay. They did very well 16 explaining all three options. My personal opinion 17 is what they call option 3 with the exemption. 18 Just write up a town law. 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Paul, so you 20 know, Cathy Drobny is on the phone, too. I hope 21 she's still on the phone. 22 MS. DROBNY: I am on the phone. 23 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Good. 24 Excellent. 25 So knowing that, it looks like that's TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 20 2 the way we're going. We will ask Mark Taylor to 3 pursue it, and maybe Cathy also, and we'll try to 4 come up with something and bring it back again. 5 MR. MANLEY: So we have to write it up 6 as a Town law? 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Mark, it would 8 have to be a town law. Yes? 9 MR. TAYLOR: Yeah. In order to craft 10 the policy to a point where you could say okay, 11 residential properties you're not going to be 12 subject to the PILOT requirements. The NYSERDA 13 guidance, they have a model law that achieves 14 that exemption in a clearer fashion and gives you 15 the authority to grant it. 16 MR. MANLEY: Mark, can you use that and 17 work with Cathy Drobny and we can come up with 18 something? 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. Absolutely. 20 MR. RUGGIERO: That sounds good. 21 MS. GREENE: I agree. It sounds good. 22 I don't really -- without seeing it and having 23 read it to vote on anything tonight -- 24 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: No, we're not 25 voting on anything right now. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 21 2 MR. MANLEY: At least we know the 3 direction we're going to go. 4 MS. GREENE: That's fine with me. 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Cathy, thank 6 you. 7 MS. DROBNY: You're welcome. 8 MR. MANLEY: Thank you, Cathy. 9 MS. GREENE: Hello. Take care. Stay 10 well. 11 MS. DROBNY: All of take care and stay 12 healthy. 13 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Stay safe, 14 please. 15 MS. DROBNY: Okay. You too. Thanks. 16 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Bye. 17 So I guess we can move on, Joseph. 18 MR. PEDI: Item 11, Public Service 19 Commission confidentiality agreement. 20 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. As you 21 know, on this the Public Service Commission, in 22 reference to Danskammer and their application, 23 there are certain things that they want to keep 24 confidential due to trade secrets and what not. 25 They're in the application. They have asked us TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 22 2 if that's all right with us. 3 Mark, do you want to tell us any more 4 on this one? 5 MR. TAYLOR: Sure. Danskammer applied 6 to the Public Service Commission to determine 7 that certain submissions, if made to the 8 Commission, would protect it from public 9 disclosure. That's, as Gil said, either for 10 business reasons or for security reasons. So for 11 example, they have a survey that they submitted 12 not to be disclosed to the public. Those parties 13 to the process, including the Town, who want to 14 see those materials under the PS -- Public 15 Service Commission's determination have to agree 16 to maintain the confidentiality of those 17 materials. So basically for the Town there's an 18 agreement that has to be signed by both -- either 19 me or Gil and then by either the FOIL officer or 20 the FOIL appeals officer, and that's me again, 21 which basically says we're going to hold this 22 confidential and as we get this information that 23 we obtain from you, Public Service Commission, 24 confidential, and if we get a FOIL request we are 25 going to deny that FOIL request based on your TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 23 2 determination of the stuff that is not 3 confidential. And then each of the consultants 4 that the Town has retained to conduct the review 5 also has to sign an agreement saying that they 6 will keep the information confidential also. 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Right. 8 MR. TAYLOR: So basically in order for 9 us to have full access to all the materials that 10 are submitted before it has to authorize the 11 execution of that confidentiality agreement. 12 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay. You know, 13 this was really the direct recommendation of the 14 Public Service Commission. For us to do our 15 studies we need to know all the information. 16 We're not going to get involved. They won't show 17 it to us unless we do. 18 Does someone want to make that motion? 19 MS. GREENE: I'll make that motion. 20 MR. MANLEY: I'll second your motion. 21 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded. 22 Any further discussion? 23 (No response.) 24 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 25 MS. GREENE: Yes. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 24 2 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 3 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 4 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 5 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 6 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 7 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 8 MR. PEDI: Next we go on to item 12, 9 Animal Control, a T-94 withdrawal. 10 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Cheryl 11 Cunningham, our animal control officer, is asking 12 to expend $853.25 to Newburgh Veterinary 13 Hospital. That is from a T-94 account which is 14 not taxpayer money but that is a donation 15 account. 16 Does someone want to make that motion? 17 MR. RUGGIERO: I'll make the motion. 18 MR. MANLEY: I'll second it. 19 MR. PEDI: Any further discussion? 20 (No response.) 21 MR. PEDI: Mrs. Greene? 22 MS. GREENE: Yes. 23 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 24 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 25 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 25 2 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 4 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 5 MR. PEDI: The last of the items is 6 item 13, Recreation Department, authorization to 7 bid construction of pickle ball courts. 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: All right. So 9 this is actually -- and Jim Presutti, our newest 10 commissioner, is talking about a pickle ball 11 court inside the, I call it the ice rink if you 12 would. But they're talking about grinding it 13 down and making several pickle ball courts, which 14 is a very popular pastime. So he's asking 15 permission just to go out and get prices to do 16 that. It would probably be done with that 17 parkland trust money which is a trust just for 18 the park. 19 If someone wants to make a motion and 20 give him permission to get that started or looked 21 into. 22 MS. GREENE: I'll be glad to make the 23 motion. I look forward -- I've never seen pickle 24 ball. I look forward to being a watcher. 25 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Okay, Betty. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 26 2 MR. MANLEY: I'll second it. 3 I just have a question, Mark. 4 MR. TAYLOR: Yes, sir. 5 MR. MANLEY: I know he said to get 6 prices. Is this something that's got to go 7 through a formal bidding process or -- 8 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: It won't be that 9 much money I don't believe. 10 MR. TAYLOR: As I understand it, it's 11 just a preliminary evaluation that it will exceed 12 the requirement. We're going to need to prepare 13 the bidding contract documents for the bid to go 14 out. 15 MR. MANLEY: So it will be bidding 16 then. Okay. 17 MR. TAYLOR: Yes. 18 MR. MANLEY: Okay. 19 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Do we have a 20 motion and a second, Joseph? 21 MR. PEDI: Yes. 22 Mrs. Greene? 23 MS. GREENE: Yes. 24 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 25 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 27 2 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? 3 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 4 MR. PEDI: And Mr. Piaquadio? 5 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 6 MR. PEDI: The last is item 14, motion 7 for adjournment. 8 MR. MANLEY: I'll make that motion. 9 MS. GREENE: And I'll second that 10 motion. 11 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Before we vote, 12 everyone that's listening in and watching, I just 13 hope that they stay safe and stay home if 14 possible. Hopefully things are starting to get 15 better slowly. I hope that we have a good spring 16 yet coming up. We're going to do it together and 17 try to stay home and stay safe and go out as 18 little as possible. 19 MR. PEDI: Motion made and seconded at 20 7:33 to adjourn. 21 Mrs. Greene? 22 MS. GREENE: Yes. 23 MR. PEDI: Mr. Ruggiero? 24 MR. RUGGIERO: Yes. 25 MR. PEDI: Mr. Manley? TOWN WORKSHOP MEETING - 4/27/20 1 28 2 MR. MANLEY: Yes. 3 MR. PEDI: Mr. Piaquadio? 4 SUPERVISOR PIAQUADIO: Yes. 5 Thank you, everyone. 6 7 (Time noted: 7:33 p.m.) 8 9 C E R T I F I C A T I O N 10 11 I, MICHELLE CONERO, a Notary Public 12 for and within the State of New York, do hereby 13 certify: 14 That hereinbefore set forth is a 15 true record of the proceedings. 16 I further certify that I am not 17 related to any of the parties to this proceeding by 18 blood or by marriage and that I am in no way 19 interested in the outcome of this matter. 20 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto 21 set my hand this 4th day of May 2020. 22 23 24 _________________________ MICHELLE CONERO 25