HOUSING COMMITTEE JOINT WITH COMMITTEE ON BUDGET & APPROPRIATIONS
MINUTES: July 6, 2004
BUDGET & APPROPRIATIONS MEMBERS: Chair: Kaplowitz; Legislators: Bronz, Rogowsky, LaMotte, Wishnie, Ryan
HOUSING MEMBERS: Chair: Bronz; Legislators: Pinto, Ryan,
PUBLIC WORKS MEMBERS: Chair: Clinton I. Young; Legislators: Pinto, Rogowsky, Wishnie
IN ATTENDANCE: CE’s office: A. Neuman, B. Randolph, S. Carrera; Budget: K. Carrano, C. Burkart; LAW: S. Gerry; DPW: R. Butler; Finance: P. Pucillo, S. Broege; Planning: L. Kelly, F. McLaughlin, N. MacMillan; LWV: B. Strauss, BOL: B. Boland, S. Bass, B. Dodds, H. Corbin
With a quorum present, the Committee on Budget and Appropriations was called to order at 10:12 a.m.
ITEM A15/C72(BPL10)
With a quorum present, the Committee on Housing was called to order at 10:38 a.m.
(Wishnie, Ryan) moved for the Budget Committee (Vito, Bronz) moved from the Housing Committee to approve an act authorizing the purchase & conveyance of 21.97 acres of real property in the Town of Cortland and the attached $2,890,000 Bond Act.
Chairman Kaplowitz stated our involvement comes to $4,045,000.00 at 102 units of just under $40,000 per unit.
Chairman Kaplowitz said there is a great pull and push for the use of the capacity of The Peekskill Sewer plant. The question is there are lots of homes that want to get into the district and the equity of putting new homes into the Peekskill Sewer District when existing homes can’t get into the district. I am troubled by the sewage issue I can not have constituents in my district who share the same sewer district get harmed directly and there is a finite amount of capacity that Cortland officials have famously told us about. To have through the back door 102 units, a certain amount of capacity. Yorktown is over 50% of the appraised value in the Peekskill Sanitary Sewer District. As their representative I’m not sure I want to utilize capacity of 102 for brand new units when in fact I have over a thousand units in Yorktown that are built, up and running and many of them are failing septics and they can’t get into the Peekskill Sanitary Sewer District. I don’t know where the equity is in that.
Motion Carried Budget 6-0 (Kaplowitz,LaMotte voted without prejudice) Motion carried in Housing 3-0
(Pinto, Ryan) Housing Adjourned at 11:25.
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