MINUTES OF THE APRIL 13, 2021 TOWN BOARD MTG (VIRTUAL)


This Virtual Meeting of the Brant Town Board was held at 6:30 PM on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 via “GoToMeeting”, an online virtual live meeting application approved by NYS Governor Cuomo for use during the Corona Virus pandemic shut-down.

 

PRESENT VIA “GO TO MEETING”:

 

Mark DeCarlo                                    Supervisor

Donna Marien                                   Councilwoman

Janice Ross                                         Councilwoman

Linda Giancarlo                                 Councilwoman

Michael Muffoletto                        Councilman

Barbara J. Daniel                               Recording Secretary

William Trask                                     Town Attorney

 

ALSO PRESENT ONLINE:

 

Lynda Ostrowski                               Planning Board secretary

Frank Broughton                              Zoning Board Chairman

Debra Ritz                                           Planning Board Member

 

The meeting opened at 6:30 PM.

 

GoToMeeting:                                                                        00:00 - 00:03

 

This conference will now be recorded

 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            00:05 - 00:17

Alright, Pledge of Allegiance.  So one person want to lead us in the pledge?

Barb, can you lead us in the pledge? You got to unmute yourself.

  • Debra Ritz                                                                  00:17 - 00:18

Unmute yourself Barb

  • Barb                                                                            00:20 - 00:31

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under, God, indivisible, with Liberty and justice, for all.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            00:32 - 00:39

Thank you. Approval of the minutes for the March ninth, 2021 board meeting.  Does anyone have any questions?

 

  • Linda                                                                          00:41 - 00:47

Just the change on the very first motion was Linda Giancarlo, and I wasn't there.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            00:51 - 00:51

Barb you are muted.

 

 

            00:53 - 00:55

  • Barb                                                                            00:55 - 01:07

I use a previous set of minutes. Sometimes somebody gets stuck in there by accident. Janice caught one, but apparently, there was  another, unless maybe you got the copy before Janice caught it.

 

  • Linda                                                                                      01:07 - 01:08

All set.  I picked it up from the Mailbox today so, I’m…

  • Barb                                                                                        01:08 - 01:16

Ok, it was probably fixed but you got the first copy.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        01:20 - 01:23

All right, I'll make a motion to approve those minutes, the corrected version.

 

  • Donna Marien

 

I’ll second it

  • Mark DeCarlo

01:26 - 01:27

All those in favor.

  • Linda                                                                                      01:28 - 01:28

Aye

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        01:29 - 01:29

All those opposed.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        01:31 - 01:36

Carried.  Supervisors Financial Report, I'm going to table that, we are working on….

  • Bill Trask                                                                                01:39 - 01:42

Mark is Donna on the call?

 

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  Time stamp absent

 

Yes I am

  • Bill Trask                                                                                01:46 - 01:48

Are you on as Caller three?

 

  • Bill Trask                                                                                01:52 - 02:05

Oh, Donna, and there we go.  I just wanted to make sure, because when the transcript of the minutes comes up, I wanted to make sure all of the board members were accurately identified.  Thank you.

 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:06 - 02:112

Linda Giancarlo is identified just as Linda. 

  • Bill Trask                                                                                02:11 - 02:12

Ok?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:15 - 02:19

I'm gonna ask to table to supervisor’s financial reports until next month

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:21 - 02:32

Town Clerk tax collector report…. Any questions on that? I’ll make a motion to approve.

 

  • Donna Marien                                                                        No time stamp

I’ll approve

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:34 - 02:34

All those in favor

 

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:37 - 02:39

All those opposed?  Carried.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:42 - 02:47

Clerks for the justices' financial report.

  • Janice                                                                                      02:51 - 02:51

I'll make a motion.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:53 - 02:56

Move to approve, Second by councilman Muffoletto.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:56 - 02:57

All those in favor?

 

 

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        02:59 - 03:07

Those opposed….Carried.   Code enforcement, and Dog Report, we’re going to table, so we can do that in person.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        03:09 - 03:10

Report to the police….

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        03:23 - 04:53

I'll read that.  So, Animal Complaints 5, assist fire 4, assist other police 10. First aid 2, Motorist broken down 4,  Assist dog control 1,  Assist Code Enforcement 1, assist other persons other 14, refer to other Police 1, streetlight out 7, premise check's 214, Escort 1, Money escorts 19, Community Policing 31, Services, other 72, PDO Accident 1, Municipal request 341.  Total complaints logged 1273, total Summonses 223.  Total fuel use 698.2 gallons.  The Town of Brant Town Reform board, along with the Town of Brant police department, have completed and submitted our police reform program to New York State, to comply with the Governor's Police Reform Mandate.  We are continuing to review and update our existing policies and procedures. The Town of Brant Police Department again would like to ask everyone to be good neighbor and report any suspicious activity to the police department right away.  Please keep your vehicles locked at all times.  We wish everyone the best of health and please social distance, wear a mask public and Stay Safe with everyone's co-operation we'll get through this terrible pandemic, respectfully submitted Chief Donald D. Hepkins.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    04:55 - 04:56

Any questions on that?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:00 - 05:02

Ok, I'll make a motion.  Do I have a second to approve the Report?

  • Linda                                                                                      05:03 - 05:03

Second.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:04 - 05:06

Second by Councilwoman Giancarlo, all those in favor?

 

 

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE

 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:10 - 05:12

All those opposed, Carried

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:14 - 05:15

Highway Report.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:15 - 05:20

Probably table that one until next month as well.

 

Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    05:22 - 05:26

 

Town Clerks report tabled.  Is there anything to report for Planning.

  • Janice                                                                                      05:29 - 05:30

No, there was no meeting.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:31 - 05:32

Ok, thank you.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        05:33 - 05:36

Zoning Board Chairman?

 

 

  • Frank Broughton                                                                              05:37 - 05:38

Nothing to report

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    05:38 - 05:38

Report?

  • Frank Broughton                                                                              05:40 - 05:42

Yes, sir. Nothing to report.  Thank you.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    05:42 - 05:46

Ok, good, thank you.   Rec Report?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    05:47 - 05:52

Councilmen Muffoletto, do you have you want to talk about anything, or discuss summer Rec?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                            05:53 - 06:17

Yes.  We got the state  recommendations in for summer camp, or as they put it It’s  really kind of a little difficult right now.  Can't have busses, because people being too close.  I did talk to Vince, he thinks that we can do this.  There will be no trips.  There will be no school busses.  But we spoke about it, he thinks it can be taken care of keeping everybody outside.  And so I guess put a cap on it, Tracy, is Tracy on?

 

  • Tracy                                                                                                  06:33 - 06:33

Yes I am

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                            06:36 - 06:42

Do you remember last year where we have about 180, 190 people that signed up?

  • Tracy                                                                                                  06:42 - 07:04

Yeah, we had just over 150.  We had about 100 kids show up every day and Vince was wondering if you wanted to put a cap on it because they can only be in groups of 15. 

 

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                Dialogue was not timed

 

Right, we spoke about it and Vince seems to think that we can cap it at 150.  I'm not so sure that we should go that high.  But with 20 people being hired, which is what they had last year, it's a it's a doable thing.  I guess they can still use the pool, in their groups.  The biggest thing is, when you're in a group, you gotta stay in that group.  You can't go out and do anything else.  So each day, whatever group you're in, you have to stay in that group.   So I would, I would say that, at least for now, we move forward and assume that we're going to have rec, maybe start a sign-up soon as we can get an idea on what we have, I would give preference to Brant kids, first, and put a cut off, what do you think the cut off should be?

  • Janice                                                                                      07:53 - 08:03

I would probably say one third, everything else is at one third isn’t it?

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                08:06 - 08:17

Uh, they are raising a lot of things right now, especially being out for gatherings and such, up to 50%, and keep in mind it’s not the same terms if you're outside.

  • Janice                                                                                      08:18 - 08:22

Oh yeah, but there are days too when they're going to be indoors.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                08:22 - 08:45

It's not going to be indoors, it’s going to be outdoors.  If there’s a rain day, they're going to get everybody's phone number, so they can cancel rec for those specific days. Remember, there's no busses.  Going to be up to the parents or grouping to get kids in and out of there. 

Then he was saying that everyone does sign up for that.

  • Tracy                                                                                      08:45 - 09:03

Pardon me, Vinnie was saying everyone that does sign up, to remind me it's a texting service that he uses.  He’s used that for rec for quite a few years and he gets all the parents to sign up for, they use it at school as well.  And he was saying that if it's a rainy day, they'll just have to call it because they can't swim if it's a rainy day.  And there's not enough buildings to put people in a social distance.

 

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                                        09:05 - 09:25 

Exactly.  So we can do that.  And also you know things can change by July.  If it’s correct that by May 1st everybody will have an opportunity to get the vaccine no matter what your age,  by July, we may have a whole different story.

 

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                09:27 - 09:41

I think we should move forward too, because this way here, it's going to show that we want to do stuff for the people in this Town.

  • Janice                                                                                                  09:41 - 09:47

I agree, I'm not against it, I Just don't think 150 is doable.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    09:50 - 09:52

Well, the fact that there’s no bussing, that might limit it, right?  I mean.

  • Janice                                                                                                  09:52 - 09:53

Right?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                            09:53 - 10:13

That’s what I think, a lot of parents work and are not going to be able to get their kids out.  You have a lot of these places just big groups like the bus picks up.  So I don’t know, do we limited at 100?  See where it goes from here.  We can always add, right?  

 

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                                  No time stamp

 

Yep, but we can’t subtract.

  • Janice                                                                                                  10:14 - 10:15

Right.

  • Janice                                                                                                  10:17 - 10:18

Want to start off with….

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                            10:20 - 10:26

Let's limit it to 100, they’re not doing any field trips or anything this year, so they are at the park, period..

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        10:28 - 10:32

All right.  Well, we can limit it to 100.  We can always increase if we feel like things open up. 

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                                   10:35 - 10:45

We keep the price the same.  Is everybody in agreement with the same price to sign up.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        10:46 - 10:47

Yes.

  • Linda                                                                                      10:48 - 10:49

Yes.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                10:49 - 11:07

The next question is, of course, Vince is asking that they get more money, and you know what, I think, I think maybe it's not a bad idea, and I would suggest maybe between $11.50 and $12, what are your thoughts?

  • Janice                                                                                      11:08 - 11:10

Minimum, wage is $12.50.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                11:12 - 11:14

We don't have to pay minimum wage.

  • Janice                                                                                      No time stamp

oh we don't?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        11:15 - 11:18

No we’re exempt, because we are a municipality.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                11:19 - 11:21

Last year was $9.89

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        11:26 - 11:34

Last year it was $9.89.  You know what, I would even go to 12 or 12 50, in my, my opinion.  But its up to the Board

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                11:36 - 11:39

I'm OK with the minimum wage, if everybody's OK with it.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        11:40 - 11:50

Yeah.  I think we have some room we’ve been responsible about other spending.  I think we have some room to do that.  I think it would make them very happy, and you know what’s going on.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                11:51 - 12:01

There are thousands of dollars that we're not going to be spending for busses and such. 

  • Donna Marien

 Not only that, they will have a lot more responsibility with all those kids there.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        12:02 - 12:03

Absolutely

  • Janice                                                                                      12:03 - 12:04

What's the minimum?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        12:05 - 12:08

All right, Mike, you want to make the motion?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                                        12:11 - 12:14

All right, I'd like to make a motion that we have Rec this year.  We cap the hourly wage at $12.50 an hour.  That we start….. Tracy would May 1st be OK to start registration?

[clerk’s note: Tracy did not reply]

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                12:34 - 12:52

I ‘m going to say that we start registration May 1st.  And we limit it to initially 100 people that we can later modify, and that we move forward with the rec program this year.  Did I miss anything?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        12:52 - 12:53

No.  I think it's perfect. I’ll second it.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                12:55 - 13:04

You didn't…..you didn't state what the fee would be and are you looking to limit it to town residents?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                13:05 - 13:13

The fee would be limited to what it was last year.  I don't know if we have to put the actual number in, because I don't have that.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                                   No time stamp

I have it and can read it off

  • Bill Trask                                                                                13:13 - 13:19

I think Donna asked for it but didn’t get a response.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    13:21 - 13:41

Ok, one child was $95.00.  Two children was $160, Three children was $215, and four or more was $225.  That's for residents.  And non-residents was one child is $170, two children is $320, three children is $460, and four or more children as $500?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                13:42 - 14:05

I say we keep that the same.  We limit the first, first come would be Brant residents.  Then from there the limit will be 100 total, but Brant residents come first.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        14:03 - 14:05

When are we having the cutoff?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                14:08 - 14:11

I say we keep going we fill that hundred slot?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        14:15 - 14:20

Well, no, no, no, so that we can do it for outsiders if we don’t fill with our hundred

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                14:21 - 14:29

Oh, I gotcha.  Well we’re not going to fill that hundred with Brant residents, that’s number one.  We don’t have a hundred kids.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        14:31 - 14:32

Ok.

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  No time stamp

Ok

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        14:39 - 14:43

All right, I'll second that.  All those in favor?

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE

 

Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    14:46 - 14:49

All those opposed?    carried.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        14:50 - 14:51

Thank you Councilman Muffoletto.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                14:54 - 14:56

Thank you

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                    14:58 - 15:00

Do we have a report from Alan?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        15:04 - 15:08

It’s a long…Yes, yes, yes….  I have a Long one. 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        15:16 - 15:18

We can just make it available at the Town hall maybe, at Clerk’s office.

  • Donna Marien

Yep, I have it, though.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        15:18 - 15:21

But he did a lot to get the senior building ready right?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        15:22 - 15:23

Yes, he did.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        15:27 - 15:30

Alright, Great.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                15:30 - 15:38

I see they cleaned up on the corner as well at the little park.  Donna Um, do you know, do they have any plans as to when they're going to fix the fence and all that stuff?  The chain link.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        15:40 - 15:40

He’s gotta order the new posts.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                15:43 - 15:49

well, I understand that, but we can get that.                                              15:51 - 15:54

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  15:55 – 15:59

That's what he told me.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

We need to remove the old posts first?

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  No time stamp

Pardon me?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

He needs to remove the old posts first

  • Donna Marien                                                                        16:04 - 16:07

Yep, I'll work on that.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

OK.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        16:13 - 16:14

There was no, I’m assum….

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                16:17 - 16:26

I was just going to say, if the floor is kind of open we need to talk about, trimming and mulch, and all that this year, it hasn't been done in several years now.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        16:27 - 16:28

I agree.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                16:30 - 16:39

Whether we put that and see what Allen can do with that, and if he doesn’t feel they have the manpower for, we’re going to have to bid it out.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        16:40 - 17:10

Yeah, it may be better just to bid it out, but let's…Donna can you talk to him first?  And see if it's something he wants to tackle or if we should bid it out.  Because just like, even, like at a Town Park, or, I'm Sorry.  The town hall, um.  The area for children to play in that that's, uh, could use an overhaul.  I mean, I don't think it would cost that much mulch.  Just some, some maintenance, but I know he's got other things on his plate with the pool and testing of the water, and things like that…so…

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                17:15 - 17:30

Exactly.  Mowing the lawn, you only got one person right now, so I have no problem subbing it out, but it does need to get done.  It’s been at least three years since Mulch has been done at the town hall.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        No time Stamp

OK.  All right then we’ll work on the….

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        17:30 - 17:35

Do we want to just even put it out for a bid and just see?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        17:36 - 17:38

Yeah, but where you gonna….

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                17:41 - 17:49

Yeah, we can do that, but we’re going to have to get together to see exactly has to be done so that they can bid on what needs to be done.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        17:50 - 17:50

Yeah.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        No time stamp

correct.

  • Tracy                                                                                      17:51 - 18:28

Pardon me Supervisor?  Pardon me Mark, I’m sorry?  This is Tracy.  Um, at the last meeting, when you all talked about getting together some bid specs, remember, I looked at the prevailing wage for you, anything that's done at The Town Park does not fall under prevailing wage, but anything that's performed in an occupied building, whether it is the senior community building or the highway building, or the Town Hall is prevailing wage and that's like fifty dollars an hour.  The only thing that's exempt is the Town Park from prevailing wage.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                                                   18:29 – 18:31

And how much was the prevailing wage for that type of work, do you know?

  • Tracy                                                                                      18:32 - 18:39

It falls under the Construction thing.  It’s like fifty, I don’t know.  I have it back at the office, but it’s….

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        18:39 - 18:45

Ok.  All right.  And that’s just like a one-man shop.  Then they don't have to pay prevailing wage, right?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                18:51 - 18:53

Exactly.  Does this include outside the facilities or just doing inside

  • Tracy                                                                                      18:54 - 19:20

Yes, Yes.  Because she called me, it's outside, it's outside any occupied building, and I go, well, “let me ask you about these buildings” and she said, and I told you about where the park was, and the highway building and she goes, “If there's anyone, there was an office in that building, if there's someone that works in that building it’s considered an occupied Building.”  Now, a town employee can do that.  But it's open to prevailing wage, unless it is a town park.

  • Tracy                                                                                      19:22 - 19:23

Basically, the Town Park and the Veteran’s Park can be done at regular rates?

  • Tracy                                                                                      19:25 - 19:31

Yes, those two can be done at yes

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        19:33 - 19:35

I say, we're get something together.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                19:36 - 19:38

Yeah, I could put something together.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        19:38 - 19:40

Yeah, let's do that.  Let's publish it, let's see the cost because if it's relatively inexpensive, let's say we just do it,

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                19:41 - 19:52

well, I don't think it’s going to be that cheap because it's been neglected for some time now.  So you gotta get it back into shape before you can just do a regular maintenance.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        19:53 - 19:54

I agree.  I agree

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                19:55 - 19:59

And quite frankly, the bushes are going to look like crap the first year at this point.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        20:00 - 20:00

Yup.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        20:02 - 20:05

We probably need to see which ones need to be replaced as well, I guess.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                20:06 - 20:07

Exactly. Yep

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        20:10 - 20:15

Alright, if you can put that together, maybe, do, like, a inventory of what we need done.  But, let's put it out and see what happens

.Michael Muffoletto                                                                20:18 - 20:22

Grab one or the others to go with me, We can go around and see what needs to be done.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        20:23 - 20:24

All right, that sounds great.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        20:27 - 20:30

Mike, I'll go with you, if you want.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                20:31 - 20:32

Ok, that's good.

  • Mark DeCarlo

20:33 - 20:38

All right, awesome thank you.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        20:39 – 20:40

 Mark, can we talk about the tables that we need for the community building?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        20:42 – 20:43

Yeah go ahead. 

  • Donna Marien                                                                        20:43 – 20:59

Or, not the Community Building, but the upper Building, yes.  The tables that are up there right now are spot welded, they’re not safe.  It's just not a good scenario.  Um, but we have we have a quote for $139.65 a table.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        21:00 - 21:01

How many do we need?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                21:04 - 21:05

What tables are spot welded?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        21:10 - 21:14

The ones that were at the community building, and the ones that are up into Town Park now.

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                21:17 - 21:20

Ok, so those are not usable.  Is that what you’re telling me?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        21:21 - 21:24

That's what I'm saying.   

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        21:25 - 21:26

Yeah.  But probably needed to be replaced for years.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        21:26 - 21:27

Yeah.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                21:28 - 21:33

Probably, so that's, that's that um….

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        21:33 - 21:37

We got the new chairs for the Community Building but…

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                21:38 - 21:44

What about chairs?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        21:46 - 21:54

Well, because we can get…nope…. we're not, we can get folding chairs. And we can get them for $35.99 a piece.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                21:56 - 21:57

Well that gets expensive real fast.

  • Janice                                                                                      22:00 - 22:13

Donna, what's going to happen to all those chairs leftover that are in the town hall in the gym/cafeteria area?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        22:14 - 22:28

Some of those should be going back to, if we're gonna see if the Jehova’s want them back.  The problem, is there, their cloth, and you're gonna, you're gonna leave them up there for people to use and it's gonna be a disaster,

  • Janice                                                                                      22:28 - 22:34

I just want to know what’s going to happen to them, because they're good chairs.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        22:36 - 22:37

Yes, but um….

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        22:39 - 22:40

We may be able to continue to use those at the Town Hall

  • Linda                                                                                      22:42 - 22:42

Didn’t we have a lot of chairs [inaudible] at the Senior building?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        22:45 - 22:46

What was that? 

  • Linda                                                                                      22:46 - 22:50

Didn’t we have a lot of chairs we were [inaudible] at the Senior building.

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  No time stamp

Those were all spot welded too.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        22:54 - 22:56

Yeah, they were no good really anymore.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        22:58 - 22:59

Mark was with me when we went….

 

[clerk’s note: sound was lost temporarily]

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                23:10 - 23:11

Anybody, though?

  • Janice Ross                                                                             23:12 - 23:12

Yeah.

  • Linda                                                                                      23:16 - 23:18

It all went silent.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                23:20 - 23:37

That’s because we keep talking and it keeps cutting others off.  So Donna, maybe you just get together, we do the grounds, go over what we need up top.  What we need for chairs or what we can do with the current chairs.  Have them recovered with vinyl or something versus cloth.

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  23:40 - 23:49

Ok.  So can we go ahead with the tables?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        23:51 - 23:52

How many do we need?

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  23:52 - 23:53

Ten

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        23:56 - 23:57

I'd be OK with that.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                23:58 - 24:00

What kind of tables are these, folding?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        24:01 - 24:03

But they're commercial grade.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                24:04 - 24:07

And they're white top.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        24:10 - 24:10

Yeah.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        24:12 - 24:14

And there's a 10 year warranty on the ones that we have.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        24:16 - 24:18

Are they similar to the ones that we bought for the Senior Builder?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        24:19 - 24:24

Yes.  But those are not commercial grade where these ones are

 

  • Donna Marien                                                                        24:26 - 24:37

And that's why we um…. if you want to look into these lifetime contemporary folding chairs, they also are a 10 year warranty.

  • Janice                                                                                      24:39 - 24:41

Donna are these specifically for the rec building?

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  No Time stamp

Yes

  • Janice                                                                                      24:45 - 24:46

I'm not sure 10 will fit in there.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        24:48 - 24:53

Yeah. There’s four in the back that they use for food and then there is six that go on side.

  • Janice                                                                                      24:54 - 24:56

I haven't been in there in a while.

  • Donna                                                                                     24:58 - 25:02

I already did it all.  We would need and we would need 50 chairs.

  • Janice                                                                                      25:04 - 25:04

Got it.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        25:05 - 25:08

Yeah, I'd say, if you want to go ahead with the motion on that.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                25:09 - 25:27

Question.  Are these: are these: is the purchase going to comply with the procurement policy in terms of whether it needs to be competitively bids, or are these being purchased off of state contract?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        25:31 - 25:35

I think the total…. the total would be under the dollar amount, I think, required right or no?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        25:36 - 25:39

I think…isn’t it 2000?  I don’t have the procurement policy in front of me.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                25:41 - 25:42

I don't have it in front of me either.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        25:43 - 25:50

Barb, do you have it?

  • Bill Trask                                                                                25:52 - 25:56

What's the total estimated cost of this purchase?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        25:57 - 26:03

It will be like $1390, approximately.  Under $1400

  • Linda                                                                                      26:04 - 26:05

For the chairs.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                26:11 - 26:12

Is that for both chairs and tables?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        26:12 - 26:16

No, chairs would be 36.

  • Linda                                                                                      26:18 - 26:20

18, 19, about 2000.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        26:36 - 26:37

Hey, Barbara, if you're talking, it’s muted.

  • Barb                                                                                        26:40 - 26:45

Sorry, OK, guide three.  If it's less than 4000, but greater than 500, are left to the discretion of the purchaser, but all steps taken to solicit prices must be documented in writing by the purchaser.  That’s for goods, supplies and equipment

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                27:05 - 27:07

What does that mean in English?

  • Barb                                                                                        27:08 - 27:09

What?

  • Barb                                                                                        27:09 - 27:27

Well, if it's less than $4000.  but greater than $500, all estimated purchases of goods, supplies, and equipment, It's got to be left to the purchaser’s discretion but they have to have everything, but everything has to be documented in writing.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                27:28 - 27:32

What if it's, over 4000?

  • Barb                                                                                        27:33 - 27:44

Ok, so less than $10,000, but greater than $4,000.  Requires an oral request for the goods and oral fax quotes from two vendors.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                27:45 - 27:50

Ok, so, it's going to be one or the other, you have to do the total cost for the tables and chairs.  And then, if it's under the 4000, you've got the simpler guideline that you follow. If the total cost is going to exceed 4000, and you have to go with the two quotes.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        28:04 - 28:06

It would be $3,190.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                28:08 - 28:11

Is that to total data for chairs and tables?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        28:12 - 28:14

Yes, it is because it's free delivery.  And we’re tax exempt.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                28:20 - 28:26

So, these are foldable chairs, so if you want to store them, what do you do with them?  You just stack them on top of each other?  I think that’s not going to be good.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        28:31 - 28:36

They can also go in the one corner, and be stacked on top of one another.

[clerk’s note: portions inaudible]

  • Donna Marien                                                                        28:47 - 28:59

Right now, we have those picnic tables up there, or we had the picnic tables up there.

Now we got those heavy tables up there that are not safe.  So we are in the same scenario with those tables as we would be with these table.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                29:17 - 29:19

What do you think, mister Supervisor?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        29:21 - 29:33

Um, I’s say let's go ahead with it, let's see if there's anything we can get that would help us like a cart where you can put the chairs on.  Ok, that's what do you think about that?

  • Janice                                                                                      29:36 - 29:37

And a cart for the tables too if you don't need them?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        29:37 - 29:46

Yeah, we should be able to I’ve seen them available commercially.  We should be able to, it might be safe, and be good storage option. That's a good point.

  • Donna Marion                                                                       29:47 - 29:51

Then, with those two, we would still be under the 4000.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        29:53 - 30:03

Alright, go ahead if you want to make the motion to approve it.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        30:05 - 30:10

OK, OK, um, make a motion to purchase 10 tables for the upper rec building with fifty chairs

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        30:14 - 30:15

I'll make a second.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                30:17 - 30:19

You have to state in the resolution the estimated cost.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        30:22 - 30:25

Can we put in there to remain under $4,000.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                30:27 - 30:28

Yep, that'll work.

  • Janice                                                                                      30:28 - 30:30

And the purchase of the carts also, right?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        30:35 - 30:36

Yep.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        30:39 - 30:41

I'll second that.  Could get a roll call

  • Barb                                                                                        30:41 - 30:45

Councilwoman Marien.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                                        30:46 - 30:53

Supervisor DeCarlo

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                                        No time stamp

councilwoman Giancarlo.

  • Linda                                                                                                                    No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                                        30:56 - 31:02

Councilmen Muffoletto

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                                        No time stamp

Councilwoman Ross.

  • Janice                                                                                      31:03 - 31:03

Aye. 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:11 - 31:12

Carried.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:15 - 31:17

Alright we got five more minutes before the public hearing.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:18 - 31:40

I'm going to table the Town Historian’s report until next month.  We need to set a public hearing for the annual special use permit renewals for June.  I like to set a regular meeting date of June eighth, 2021, but at 7 30 PM I'd like to make a motion.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:41 - 31:43

Do I have a second?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        No time stamp

I’ll second it.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:44 - 31:45

Second by Councilwoman Marien.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:45 - 31:46

All those in favor?

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        31:49 - 31:51

All those opposed?  Carried.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                31:53 - 32:17

I want to asked a question about that Special Use.  We see that Weitsman didn’t do what they said they were going to do.  They just did it to get another year under their belt.  My suggestion for what I said last year, but I think we should do it this year, is have them apply for special use permit to do exactly what it is that they wanted to do there, and NOT as a junkyard.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        32:22 - 32:27

I agree. 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                32:27 – 32:30                       

They wanted it as a transfer station, and didn't…the only reason they did it was to get their junkyard license, or permit extended.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        32:33 - 32:37

Right…they haven't used it

  • Donna Marien                                                                        32:37 - 32:38

It has not been open one day from that special use permit?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        32:43 - 32:48

Can we go back to the Brant Town park?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        32:50 - 32:52

Sure.

  • Donna Marien                                                                        32:53 - 32:59

OK, are we just doing the wages now for the counselors for the pool?.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        32:59 - 33:00

The pool?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        33:01 - 33:20

I was going to talk about that under New business, after the… After the public hearing.  We've got three more minutes so, Mike, do you have anything else you want to say about Weitsman before the public hearing?

  • Mike Muffoletto                                                                     33:21 - 33:26

I would kind of like to know, I assume we have to let them know in advance so they can apply for the new format, right?

  • Bill Trask                                                                                33:32 - 33:37

This is something that I would like to have a discussion in Executive session with the Board.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        33:38 - 33:49

OK, we can do that next month's meeting, because we don't have, uh, what… will time permit for us to do it next month, since we have June for the renewal, or should we be doing it now?

  • Bill Trask                                                                                33:51 - 33:53

So I say, I think we can do it next month.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        33:55 - 34:03

Ok.  I'll put that on the agenda for next month.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                34:07 - 34:08

Uh…I wasn’t at the last meeting, what happened to the Windows from the Senior Building?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        34:14 - 34:36

We had agreed that Donna and I would go over there. And we would basically, the Town Board basically agreed to declare that items, I guess, as salvage. and we were to go over and look through everything in there, there wasn't they weren’t in good shape.  So we basically, we basically threw them all out.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                                        No time stamp

Were they tossed, or did somebody take them?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        34:42 - 34:48

My understanding is, Donna, did you say the highway was going to put them in the dumpster, right?

  • Donna Marien                                                                                                  No time stamp

Yes

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        34:52 - 34:53

Were you there for that or no?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        34:54 - 34:55

No, I was not.  I was working.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        34:56 - 35:03

So they were instructed to put them in the dumpster.  If someone took them, we're not aware.  I could probably pull the video and see.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        35:05 - 35:06

Naw, I was just wondering what happened.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        35:07 - 35:16

Yeah, no, it wasn't.  They definitely weren't given away.  A lot of them got cracked when they were removed, I think.  They just didn't look good.

  • Donna Marion                                                                       35:19 - 35:25

Some of them had chairs and everything on top of them.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        35:27 - 35:28

Yeah, they were in bad shape, for sure.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        35:32 - 35:43

All right, at 7 30, I'd like to make a motion to go into a proposed, local law number two, national flood insurance program, public hearing.  Do I have a second?

  • Donna Marien                                                                        35:44 - 35:45

I’ll second it

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        35:46 - 35:47

All those in favor?

 

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE                                   35:48 – 35:50

 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        35:51 - 35:57

Carried. Barb, can you read the notice?  Don't forget to unmute yourself.

  • Barbara                                                                                  36:00 - 36:03

Legal Notice, brant, New York.  Notice of Public Hearing.

  • Barb                                                                                        36:04 - 36:10

Keep in mind, this is the second public notice, because we did change the meeting a little bit, OK.

  • Barb                                                                                        36:11 - 37:23

So, this is what Tracy ended up sending to the Dunkirk Observer:

This notices to advise of a meeting change for a public hearing regarding proposed local law number 2-2021 which is to be held on Tuesday, April 13th, 2021 at 6 30 PM.  This meeting will now be conducted virtually.  The new information for this public hearing is listed below.  Pursuant to resident resolution of the Town Board of the town of Brant New York, Notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the Brant Town Board, in the Brant town hall, 1272 Brant North Collins Road, Brant, New York on Tuesday, the 13th day of April 2021 at 7 30 PM.  local time for the purpose of considering proposed local law number 2-2021, which, if approved, would replace current article 2, chapter 87 of the Town of Brant code entitled “Flood Hazard Areas” to Comply with new requirements established by the Federal Emergency Management Administration, otherwise known as FEMA.  To attend the meeting you can join from your computer, tablet or smartphone, and then he has the address https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/121207725.

  • Barb                                                                                        37:23 - 37:56

You can also dial in using your phone.  United States 1 (312)757-3121 Access Code: 121-207-725.  Copies of the proposed local law are available for review in the Office of the Town clerk.  All interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard, dated April 9, 2021, by order of the Brant Town Board.  Barbara J. Daniel, Brant Town Clerk.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        38:01 - 38:06

Thank you.  Anyone have any questions about this, or, Bill, did you want to give a short synopsis on the…

  • Bill Trask                                                                                38:11 - 39:26

The quick…the quick response is Article two of Chapter 87 of the Code, which is currently on the books, was adopted in 2019 as a local law, and this is these are updated design standards and procedural standards required by FEMA for the municipality to be in compliance with its flood insurance program.  So, it's only two years, since the last law was, was put on the record.  But this is good wholesales replace article two with a new set of standards that the Code Enforcement Officer who is the Floods Insurance Administrator for the Town of Brant would be followed.  And, as you said, Mark in advance, the town has to have this on the books in order for, uh, property within flood areas on the FEMA maps to qualify for flood insurance.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        39:31 - 39:32

Okay, does anyone have any questions?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        39:38 - 39:42

Alright, then I will motion to close the public hearing.  Do I have a second.

  • Linda                                                                                      39:43 - 39:43

I’ll second.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        39:44 - 39:47

Seconded by Councilwoman Giancarlo… all those in favor?

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE                                  

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        39:50 - 39:53

All those opposed?   Carried?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        39:55 - 39:58

Do we want to vote on that public local law, or do we want to wait till next month?

  • Linda                                                                                      40:03 - 40:03

Can probably vote on it.

  • Multiple Board members spoke at once.  INAUDIBLE        40:06 - 40:10
  • Bill Trask                                                                                40:10 - 40:46

My suggest would be that you vote tonight and get it into Albany because they need to review it once it's adopted and make sure that it complies with what FEMA is deeming acceptable.  This will give them enough time to tell us if we miss something, but I don't think we did because we used the model that they provided.  But the deadline for having this on file in Albany is June.  So, I'd just, as soon wait till the last minute, if the board is comfortable moving forward with this.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        40:48 - 40:50

All right, I'll make a motion to approve.

  • Linda                                                                                      40:54 - 40:58

I’ll second it

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                         No Time stamp

Councilwoman Giancarlo, can I get a roll call?

  • Barb                                                                                        41:00 - 41:03

Supervisor DeCarlo

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        41:03 - 41:04

Aye.

  • Barb                                                                                        41:04 - 41:10

Councilwoman Giancarlo

  • Linda                                                                                      No time stamp

Aye

 

  • Barb                                                                                        No time stamp

 Councilmen Muffoletto                                                                   

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                                        41:11 - 41:14

Councilwoman Marien

  • Donna                                                                                                                 No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                                        41:16 - 41:18

And Councilwoman Ross.

 

  • Janice                                                                                                                  No time stamp

Aye

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        41:20 - 41:24

Carried.  Alright, awesome

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        41:26 - 41:28

The next thing was the lifeguard wages and pool fees.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            41:31 - 41:46

Current total 2020 wages were $12 for the lifeguard and $13 for the head lifeguard.  Now, that's going to be below our summer rec people's pay.  I don't know if we want to raise that some or, what your thoughts are?

  • Donna Marien                                                            41:49 - 41:51

I would go to 13 and 14.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            41:52 - 41:59

I agree.  Is everyone OK with it?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            42:00 - 42:22

Ok, What about currently the Day Pass is $3 a season pass for an individual is $40,  a family of four pass is $90, and add $20 for each additional family member.  Senior pass is $20. The splash pool is free, and fees adopted.  These are the fees that were adopted, do we want to leave that the same?

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                    42:24 - 42:27

I'm good with that as well

  • Janice

I think leave them the same.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            42:28 - 42:44

Alright, I make a motion to leave the fees that we adopted in the 2021Org meeting the same increasing the lifeguard wages for the lifeguards to $13 an hour, and head lifeguard to $14 an hour.  Do I have a second?

  • Janice

42:45 - 42:45

I second.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            42:46 - 42:48

Seconded by councilwoman Ross.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                             42:49 - 42:51

Seconded actually by the whole Town Board.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            42:52 - 42:53

All those in favor?

>>> ALL BOARD MEMBERS STATED AYE

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            42:56 - 42:57

All those opposed?  Carried.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            42:59 - 43:21

Alright.  Anyone ever reports?  Well, let me make a quick report. We had the, the opening of the senior building there for the seniors first meeting.  I want to thank Councilwoman Ross for giving an elegant speech and Cutting the ribbon.  Can you give us a short report on how that day went?

  • Janice                                                                          43:22 - 43:50

Oh, there were 26 seniors and people in attendance. Tracy was nice enough to bring us the coffee doughnuts muffins which was much appreciated.   I just gave a little speech. I had the President do the ribbon cutting.  And everybody was anxious to go into the building and see the changes. But it went well.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            43:52 - 43:53

Awesome, well thank you very much.

  • Janice                                                                          43:54 - 43:54

You're welcome.

  • Lynda Ostrowski                                                       43:58 - 44:22

Can I say one thing, just on behalf of the seniors, thank you to the Town Board for the reception and the dedication and everything.  Everybody there was so pleased with how everything looked.  They were very happy and glad to be back in the building and it was all I greatly appreciated. And thank you, Tracy too for helping out like you did.  Thank you all.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            44:23 - 44:30

Thank you.  Um, anyone else have anything else to report?

  • Donna                                                                         44:32 - 44:35

Just that this is the first month for eWaste.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            44:36 - 44:39

Awesome.  I'll see you there.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                    44:40 - 44:44

What is that date?

  • Donna                                                                         No time stamp

 last Saturday of April

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            44:47 - 44:54

That would be 24th.

  • Donna Marion                                                           44:55 - 44:55

Yeah.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            44:58 - 44:59

Yep, the 24th.

  • Donna                                                                         45:01 - 45:03

Are we keeping the fees the same?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            45:05 - 45:07

Yeah, we did pretty good last year.  I think we maybe there was more enforcement of the fees than we had in previous years, but, uh.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            45:07 - 45:14

I think we maybe there was more enforcement of the fees than we had in previous years, but I think we did pretty good.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

You think?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        45:16 - 45:17

I think we did pretty good.

  • Donna                                                                                     45:18 - 45:25

Tracy can you give me a favor?  Can you grab me a copy so that I can pin it in the door?

  • Tracy                                                                                      45:29 - 45:31

Give you a copy of the ad?

  • Donna                                                                                     45:33 - 45:34

Of Just the fees.

  • Tracy                                                                                      45:35 - 45:37

Ok, I can read them to you if you'd like I brought an ad home.

  • Donna                                                                                     45:39 - 45:39

Oh, sure.

  • Tracy                                                                                      45:40 – 46:01

Ok, so the tube type monitors and TVs are free, with a limit of one for residence, and a $20 charge per unit for non-residents.  Tires are free, with a limit of four for residence, but $3 charge per tire for non-residents, no rims are allowed.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                46:06 - 46:16

 

Can we…on the picture tube tv’s and such…the first one's free for residents, should we have a fee if they have more?

 

  • Donna                                                                                     46:19 - 46:20

Oh, they pay.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                46:22 - 46:25

So you make sure that even residents pay above one.

  • Donna                                                                                                                  No time stamp

Yes

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                                        No time stamp

 

OK, that’s all I wanted to know.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        46:28 - 46:30

What’s that? It’s $20.00?

 

  • Donna                                                                                                                  No time stamp

Yes

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        46:34 - 46:36

And does it matter if it's a flat screen or a picture tube?

  • Donna Marion

No

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        46:38 - 46:41

Ok, good.  Alright, awesome.

  • Donna                                                                                     46:46 - 46:48

 

Oh Mark, where are we at with the tractor?  Did you talk to anybody?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        46:48 - 47:04

Yep I got that, that is ordered,  they have it hopefully sooner than later.  I'm hoping, well, I'm trying to push them to do it as quickly as possible, but they do have it there, and they're getting it up here and getting it set up, and then they'll have it to us.

  • Donna                                                                                     47:05 - 47:05

Ok?

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                     No time stamp

 

Oh, that got it?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        47:07 - 47:14

Yeah, they had it in stock, but it was down sou…. one of their….I don’t know… they have like nineteen dealers, it was down south I believe….Pennsylvania

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                    No time stamp

ok

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        47:18 - 47:30

I think, the brush system they had to order.  So that might be a little bit longer out, but the tractor itself and a couple of the other things were, and were in stock.

  • Donna                                                                                     47:33 - 47:34

Ok, thank you

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        47:36 - 48:25

Thank you.  Oh our second April, sales tax remittances it's 3.46% greater than 2020 Our year to date is running 6.9, 8% above last year at this time. So we're back on track.  Oh, one thing I did forget, and I wanted to talk about, is, I got a call from Mayor Hoisington in Farnham….he asked, you know, every year we have a Memorial Day, except for last year. He asked, maybe, if we could do a combined one in Farnham this year since Covid.. everything else.  I thought it was kind of a good idea just to do one ceremony this year.  And I said, if it goes, well, maybe we can go back and forth between the Town park and the Village park.  What do you guys think of that?

  • Donna                                                                                     48:26 - 48:27

I think that's a great idea.

 

TWO BOARD MEMBERS RESPONDED---INAUDIBLE

 

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        48:31 - 48:32

What's that?

  • Janice                                                                                      48:32 - 48:35

Why have two, it always seemed so silly?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        48:36 - 48:38

Well yeah, and then Neil doesn’t have to give two speeches.

  • Donna                                                                                     48:41 - 48:47

Ok, Mark the other thing is is the Easter egg hunt.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        48:47 - 48:51

Yes, oh yeah, can you talk about that?  It was a huge, I think, a huge success.

  • Donna                                                                                     48:53 - 48:58

I want to thank everybody that came.  We had approximately 80 to 85 kids.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        48:59 - 49:02

It was all safe outdoors social distance.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                49:04 - 49:05

It was a huge success

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        49:08 - 49:21

I want to thank you both Janice and Donna for really doing the whole thing and going shopping for the kids chocolate and setting up the eggs, and really the whole the whole thing. Everyone was just ecstatic to have it.

  • Janice                                                                                      49:22 - 49:28

It was fun.  And Amanda helped us with the eggs…. and Donna's daughter.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        49:30 - 49:33

Oh yeah.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                                No time stamp

And I got chocolate cake

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        49:34 - 49:36

It was Mike’s birthday so….

  • Donna                                                                                     49:39 - 49:42

But yeah, I mean, I think it's to help the morale in town.

  • Janice                                                                                      49:44 - 49:53

We made it safe, You know that people wore masks that, that needed to, that wanted to.  We had hand sanitizers on the table, so….

  • Donna                                                                                     49:54 - 49:57

it worked out well.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        49:58 - 50:01

Yeah, I think it was a great, a great success.  Thank you

  • Donna                                                                                     50:02 - 50:03

Thanks for allowing us to do it.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        50:04 - 50:09

It was… really, I thought, maybe we'd have 25 kids I couldn't believe who showed up.

  • Janice                                                                                      50:10 - 50:14

Wasn't that great?  And we didn't really advertise other than Facebook.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        50:15 - 50:16

It was huge.

  • Janice                                                                                      50:17 - 50:19

Yes, it'll be bigger next year.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        50:20 - 50:21

Oh, yeah, for sure.

  • Barb                                                                                        50:24 - 50:25

My battery is ready to go.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        50:27 - 51:32

I'll try to hurry so approval of the abstract.

 

Abstracts for 2021 prepaid and unpaid as a 4/13/21 total claims, $96,469.84.

General Fund town wide vouchers totaling $77,916.25

General Fund part-town vouchers totaling $8135.04

Highway Town wide $5404.71

Highway part town vouchers totaling  $1,842.71

Street Light Vouchers $2751.13

Brant Water district totaling $420.

All payrolls from 2/28 through 3/19 General Townwide $47,990.81

General part town payroll totaling $712.96

and highway, town wide total of $10,228.11

 

I'll make a motion to approve the abstract, can I get a roll call?

 

  • Barb                                                                            51:33 - 51:41

ok, who wants to second it.

  • Donna                                                                         51:41 - 51:41

I’ll second it

  • Barb                                                                            51:43 - 51:44

Supervisor DeCarlo

  • Supervisor DeCarlo                                                                      No time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                            51:46 - 51:48

Councilwoman Marien.

  • Councilwoman Marien                                                                No Time stamp

Aye

  • Barb                                                                            51:52 - 51:59

Councilwoman Giancarlo

 

*No response from Councilwoman Giancarlo*

 

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                    No time stamp

She can’t hear anything

 

  • Barb                                                                            No time stamp

Can you hear me?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            52:00 - 52:01

Yes

  • Janice                                                                          52:01 - 52:02

We can hear you.

  • Barb                                                                            52:03 - 52:07

Ok, so Councilwoman, Giancarlo must not hear me.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                    52:07 - 52:09

She might have a problem.

  • Barb                                                                            52:10 - 52:14

Ok, well, I'll go on to councilman Muffoletto.

  • Michael Muffoletto                                                    52:15 - 52:15

Aye

  • Barb                                                                            52:16 - 52:19

Ok, and Councilwoman Ross.

  • Janice                                                                          52:22 - 52:26

Aye……Barb, when will the prepaid be ready for us to sign.

  • Barb                                                                            52:27 - 52:35

They're ready right now  I'm going to give them for Tracy's office.  I can leave them on the conference table, how about that?

  • Janice                                                                          52:36 - 52:39

Well, you're close tomorrow, right?

  • Barb                                                                            52:39 - 52:44

Yeah, I'll leave them there because I got to make sure that they're available for Tracy since  she can't get in here.

  • Barb                                                                            52:44 - 52:47

I'll leave them in the conference room, you can get in there.

  • Tracy                                                                          52:50 - 52:52

They’ll be in the Supervisor’s office tomorrow, because Mark can sign them?

  • Barb                                                                            52:57 - 52:59

Ok

  • Janice                                                                          53:00 - 53:01

We’ll come in tomorrow.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            53:03 - 53:03

All right. Awesome

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            53:05 - 53:09

All right.  A motion to adjourn, next meeting May 11, 7 PM.  Do I have a second?

  • Bill Trask                                                                    53:14 - 53:22

Mark, you may not have known.  My aunt Shirly Trask, a longtime resident, of Brant Farnham road passed away last week.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                            53:22 - 53:23

I'm sorry, I had no idea.

  • Bill Trask                                                                    53:25 - 53:36

She and my uncle Mike bought that the old school house over there by Hammond Road, and they live there for many, many years.

  • Bill Trask                                                                    53:37 - 53:41

I think she was an election inspector for awhile in the town also.

  • Bill Trask                                                                                53:42 - 53:49

And I also wanted to publicly congratulate Debbie Ritz on her admission to the New York State Bar.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        53:50 - 53:51

Congratulations.

  • Debra Ritz                                                                              53:52 - 53:52

Thank you very much.

  • Debra Ritz                                                                              53:52 - 53:56

Thank you, Thank you

  • Bill Trask                                                                                53:56 - 53:59

Just what our Town needs, another lawyer

  • Debra Ritz                                                                              54:00 - 54:01

Ha Ha Ha, that's what I thought.

  • Barb Daniel                                                                54:06 - 54:07

Awesome.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        54:08 - 54:13

Yeah, so a motion to adjourn in the name of Shirley Trask.

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        54:16 - 54:17

All those in favor?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        54:18 - 54:19

All right?

  • Mark DeCarlo                                                                        54:25 - 54:26

All right, I think we're good.

  • Barb                                                                            54:27 - 54:32

750 PM we're adjourning….. OK, we're all set.

 

The minutes transcribed by GoToMeeting and Barbara Daniel.  These minutes are hereby certified to be true and correct and contain all verbiage and actions taken by the Brant Town Board.  A digital recording of this meeting is available for those who wish to review or confirm any portion thereof.

Respectfully submitted by,

 

Barbara Daniel

Brant Town Clerk