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Council Member Long discussed granting access to the wax mechanicals of Barbara McMartin’s book to Allen Farber. He received a query from the retired art history professor who was interested in taking on the onerous task of salvaging the wax mechanicals of his mother’s book. Background: She donated the book to the town but the wax mechanicals don’t have a long shelf life. If they are kept in temps over 80° the text and artwork slides on the master. He would like to have access to see what he can salvage to update it and do what he see fit. He has expertise in this area.
RESOLUTION#2019-094 to give access to the wax mechanicals was offered by Council Member Long at the regular monthly meeting of the Caroga Town Board held on Wednesday September 11, 2019 at town hall.
WHEREAS, Council Member Long discussed with the board his desire to see what shape the wax mechanicals of his mother’s book are in, and
WHEREAS, Professor Alan [sic] Farber has expertise in this area, now therefore be it
RESOLVED, that access to the Caroga Book by Barbara McMartin is to be given to Professor Farber.
Discussion: Council Member Glenn stated access to not possession of. He will make a determination of what is salvageable. Council Member Long stated this is a public copyright It lost being a private copyright when it [sic] his mother’s copyright went to a government entity. He stated anyone can copy it. It was thought he might want to republish it perhaps online. Council Member Long thought the town would incur a large expense to try to build a new master for printing purposes. He noted we are out of print right now. There is no cost associated.
Seconded by Supervisor Selmser
Adopted by a vote of 5 Ayes: Selmser, Glenn, Manning, Long, Kirch
In fact, the Town of Caroga had already managed to loose those wax mechanicals prior to the second printing of the book in 1998. All that was in storage were photographs of a copy of the book from the first printing. Allen Farber and Dick Loomis had to completely retype, design, and format the text, scan and old photographs, and find color images to replace the low-resolution images used in the original book. This took many months of labor by Allen Farber and Dick Loomis.
| Supervisor | $15,000.00 |
| Councilman (each) | $3,500.00 |
| Town Clerk/Tax Collector | $38,142.00 |
| Town Justice | $17,785.00 |
| Superintendent of Highways | $50,000.00 |
Note the 46% increase in the Supervisor's salary.
The supervisor made absolutely no plans for zoom while his confidential secretary is on vacation. Thus, I will attempt to provide some zoom access to the meeting tonight. I am not sure how this will work, but I will try.
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Meeting ID: 892 8036 5184
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Meeting ID: 892 8036 5184
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Because I will be participating as your Town Board member and trying
to run zoom at the same time, I don't think I'll be able to handle
public speaking. I'll be lucky if I get zoom working at all.
To make transfers as necessary to maintain a balance budget and to set aside reserve funds.
Resolution to adopt the provisions of executive order 202.83 suspending the requirements of renewal applications as a condition to granting exemptions under sections 459-C and 467 of the real property tax law.
Resolution to enter into a contract with the James A Brennan Humane Society.
This meeting has been called to continue the process of interviewing candidates for Sole Assessor. Thus, most of the meeting will be in Executive Session and closed to the public. The duration of this Executive Session cannot be known in advance, but the last Executive Session lasted 90 minutes. It is possible that the Town Board may, in public session, vote on selection of a new Sole Assessor. It is always possible that other business will be conducted in public session either before or after the Executive Session.
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The original reasons stated was to give Supervisor Horton
Emergency Powers Execute Contracts for the Golf Course
Clubhouse/Pro Shop
Supervisor Horton has advised Town Board Member Long
that Supervisor Horton will not allow this meeting to be conducted
using Zoom.
Supervisor Horton at 7:53 PM, November 24, finally emailed notice to the Town Board as to what the actual agenda would be:
There is no agenda for tomorrow.
I have one resolution; to hire Chris Foss to do a survey of the clubhouse area of the golf course. If he can do this before the snow flys, it will help the architect we choose to work on the project over the winter.
Next regular board meeting we will have Bill Van Border [sic, Bill VanGorder of NBT-MANG Insurance Agency] explain the insurance process, and I hope to have an architect proposal to present to the Board.
This Public Hearing is necessary to correct mistakes in the
resolution offered by Supervisor Horton and seconded
by Councilmember Glenn to adopt the budget.
This means the budget has not yet been adopted
and is still subject to change.
Being a Public Hearing, Zoom participants must be allowed to speak,
per Executive Order 202.15, extended through December 3, 2020 by 202.72.
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This Public Hearing must allow the public attending by Zoom to speak.
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During both the recent 10/24 and 10/31 meetings,
some folks wanting to attend
reported having trouble getting in to the meeting.
If you experience trouble please immediately
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518 835 3734
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being unmuted for the duration of the meeting,
will speak to whomever is moderating Zoom in an attempt to
diagnose and remedy this now chronic problem.
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Details on the state of budget preparation are
here.
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Meeting ID: 632 108 3318
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The sole stated reason for this emergency meeting is
to correct a defect in the language of Local Law #4 to
override the Property Tax Cap
and in the accompanying resolutions.
The sole defect is that the word
“Tentative” was used when the proper word
is “Preliminary”, in reference to the
version of the budget.
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Details on the state of budget preparation are
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Details on the state of budget preparation are
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Agenda (Multiple versions marked
version 4 have been distributed, one from the Town Clerk and one
from the Supervisor. It is unclear if this is the latest agenda.)
October financials
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2020-10-01 tentative budget
or
Excel spreadsheet
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This emergency meeting was made necessary by the retirement of the
Town of Caroga”s Code Enforcement Officer, but the meeting agenda
will be broader.
Here is the
full agenda.
Here is the latest
financials.
Here's the proposed
Fulton
County Highway Department snow plowing contract.
While the meeting will, as
always, start and end in public session, it is anticipated that much of
the meeting will be in closed executive session.
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Meeting ID: 837 0527 9843
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Meeting ID: 880 4533 0654
Password: 372694
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The new Zoom.us ID is 895 9207 7028
and the new password is 942073.
The agenda states that (929)205-6099 is toll-free for reaching
Zoom. Area code (929) is a NYC area code and, thus,
a toll call for residents of the Town of Caroga calling from
traditional landline telephones.
This is a second violation of New York Open Meetings Law
for this meeting.
Two agenda packets have been distributed:
First draft (50 page PDF, most not
present in the second draft)
Second draft (new PDF agenda pages
and additional documents)
Third draft (agenda only as web page)
Town of Caroga Supervisor has abandoned GoToMeeting.com in
favor of Zoom.us for the May 13 Town Board meeting.
Meeting ID: 871 4193 8925
Password: 915949
Town Board meetings are for the board to discuss issues and make decisions. The board strives to complete the meetings in 60 to 90 minutes. The meetings are public and the board has chosen to allow public comments. Resident comments are limited to 3 minutes. All comments are to be respectful and civil. Anyone who shouts or uses profanity will be expelled. Residents with personal issues or related to their property should work with the appropriate department head first. If the department head doesn’t resolve the issue, it should be taken to the town Supervisor. Only after those two steps should the issue be raised in a board meeting if needed. The board appreciates your support in keeping meetings timely, civil and productive. Thank you.
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