NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING
MEETING OF THE
ITHACA TOWN BOARD
215 N. Tioga St.,
Ithaca, NY Tompkins County
TB Resolution 2019-036: Order setting a Public Hearing regarding a proposed
Water Improvement for the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, pursuant
to Article 12-C of the Town Law, to be known as the Town of Ithaca Muriel Street Water Main Water Improvement, and establishing
the Town of Ithaca Muriel Street Water Main Water Improvement
Area
Present: Bill Goodman, Supervisor; Rod Howe, Eric
Levine, Tee-Ann Hunter, Pat Leary and Rich DePaolo Absent:
Pamela Bleiwas
Moved: Eric Levine Seconded: Tee-Ann Hunter
Whereas, a map, plan and report, including an estimate of cost, have been
duly prepared in such manner and in such detail as has heretofore been
determined by the Town Board of the Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York,
relating to the establishment and construction, pursuant to Article 12-C of the
Town Law, of water system improvements to be known and identified as the Town
of Ithaca Muriel Street Water Main
Water Improvement, (the “Improvement”), to provide such water Improvement to
the present Town water system, such water system Improvement to be constructed
and owned by the Town of Ithaca; to serve a benefitted area in said Town to be
known as the Town of Ithaca Muriel Street
Water Main Water Improvement Area (the “Water Improvement Area”); and
Whereas, said map, plan and report, including estimate of cost, were
prepared by a competent engineer, duly licensed by the State of New York and
have been filed in the office of the Town Clerk of said Town, where the same
are available during regular office hours for examination by any person or
persons interested in the subject matter thereof; and
Whereas, the area of said Town determined to be benefited by said Town of
Ithaca Muriel Street Water Main
Water Improvement Area consists of the entire area of said Town excepting
therefrom the area contained within the Village of Cayuga Heights; and
Whereas, the Improvement proposed in connection with the establishment of
the Water Improvement Area consists of the replacement of approximately 3,000
LF of existing 6” and 8” water main with new 8” water main under Muriel Street from Hanshaw Road to the end of the
cul-du-sac, and other related ancillary facilities, at an initially determined
maximum estimated cost to said Water Improvement Area of $675,000; and
Whereas, said $675,000 maximum estimated cost, which is the cost of the
project, shall be authorized to be financed, at the option of the Town, by
temporary financing
under use of
available reserves or a bond anticipation note, and upon maturity of a bond
anticipation note, the issuance of serial bonds with a maximum maturity not in
excess of the forty (40) year period prescribed by the Local Finance Law, or
directly by the issuance of such bonds; and
Whereas, it is proposed that the cost of the aforesaid improvements shall
be borne by the real property in said Water Improvement Area by assessing,
levying upon and collecting from the several lots and parcels of land within
such Water Improvement Area, outside of any village, which the Town Board shall
determine and specify to be especially
benefited by the improvements, an amount sufficient to pay the principal and
interest on serial bonds and bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of
the issuance of serial bonds, as the same become due and payable; and
Whereas, it is now desired to call a public hearing for the purpose of
considering said map, plan and report, including estimate of cost, and the
providing of the Improvement, and to hear all persons interested in the subject
thereof concerning the same, all in accordance with the provisions of Section
209-q of the Town Law;
Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered, by the Town Board of the Town of
Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, as follows:
Section 1. A public hearing shall be held by the Town Board of the
Town of Ithaca, Tompkins County, New York, at the Town Hall, 215 North Tioga
Street, in Ithaca, New York, in said Town, on the 25th day of March, 2019, at 4:30
o’clock P.M., Prevailing Time, to consider the aforesaid plan, report and map,
including estimate of cost, and the question of providing the Improvement, and
to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same and
to take such action thereon as is required by law.
Section 2. The Town Clerk
is hereby authorized and directed to publish a
Notice of Public Hearing regarding the aforesaid Improvement to be
published once in the official newspaper, and also to post a copy thereof on
the town signboard maintained by the Town Clerk, not less than ten (10) nor
more than twenty (20) days before the day designated for the hearing as
aforesaid, all in accordance with the provisions of Section 209-q of the Town Law.
Section 3. This
Order shall take effect immediately.
The question of the adoption of
the foregoing Order was duly put to a vote on roll call, which resulted as
follows: Bill Goodman, Supervisor, aye;
Rod Howe, aye; Eric Levine, aye; Tee-Ann Hunter, aye; Pat Leary aye; and Rich
DePaolo, aye Absent: Pamela Bleiwas
The Order was thereupon
declared duly adopted.
