- Call to order the Monday, October 27th meeting of the Elstville Town Council. Chief, prayer please.
- Just one more time, we come before you this evening and again we thank you so much for the privilege
- of working in this little town. We ask you to be with us tonight, lead our thoughts and guide our thoughts
- in the way you see fit. We ask these things in Jesus' name, amen. I pledge. 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. Roll call when you're ready. Here. Here. Here. And again,
- if you'll pay attention, Pam was going to try and get in on the internet. I don't know whether she's
- having issues or not, but if you can just make sure that we're kind of paying attention to that, please.
- Starting off this evening, action to approve minutes from the October 17th, 2025 meeting. So moved.
- All second. Motion to second, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining? Action to
- pay accounts of payable vouchers and payroll vouchers. So moved. Second. Motion to second, all those
- in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstaining?
- Resolutions this evening, there's one, Resolution 34-2025 to adopt Monroe County Multi-Hazard Mitigation
- Plan. This is through the EMA Director's Office through FEMA. It's, well, it's loud tonight. It's updated
- every five years. It's basically a roadmap that tells the local government how to proceed with disasters
- so we can get reimbursed
- Should FEMA need to come in? Okay. I'm sorry. As a side note, I think you have attached to your materials
- an edit sheet. There are a couple of minor mistakes in the plan that you have provided, and those will
- be changed, or those mistakes will be corrected, but the plan is in substantially final form, but not
- final form.
- But Jamie Nibel sent your clerk treasurer a reminder e-mail a couple weeks back and reminded us that
- we needed to, or the town council needed to approve a resolution agreeing to participate in this plan
- in order to get reimbursement from FEMA. Questions or concerns from council? I'll ask both Jimmy and
- Kevin and anybody else involved, do you have any concerns with the plan as written?
- fire department actually participated in helping review this and so we're good with it. Okay. So you'd
- have a positive recommendation for us? Okay. Okay. Anyone else with questions, comments? Okay. Anyone
- from the public? And back to council for action.
- I'll move to approve Resolution 34-2025 to adopt the Monroe County Multihazard Mitigation Plan. Second.
- Motion to second. Roll call, please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Trevor Seger. Yes.
- Motion carried. Next is Ordinance on First Reading, Ordinance 2025-25, Creating a Separate
- Vehicle Replacement Fund for the Stormwater Utility.
- What we are wanting to do is establish like what the sewer and the water has already is having a vehicle
- purchase line in the storm water. We've got equipment in storm water that's creeping up on us. We want
- to start being able to put money into that budget so we can budget in the future for purchasing equipment.
- So make sure I'm understanding, you're wanting a non-reverting fund established rather than a separate
- line item. Yes. Okay. I mean, it would be a separate line item, but okay, I get it now. Sorry, Domenico.
- So it just makes it easier for us to build plan and budget ahead. And like I said, we got a street sweep
- for the 2008 model, so I'm going to be coming up here shortly with you to try to replace that eventually.
- So we want to get something established.
- The new models are to have CD players instead of cassettes. Yeah. So yeah, that's what we're wanting
- to do. This is Norton's own first reading, so it'll be published so everyone can see it. And we'll reconsider
- it again on second reading in two weeks. I do have a question on that, if that's OK. Sure.
- talent, because we didn't approve this for the budget, so where would you be moving money from? I was
- gonna mention that a minute ago, as money is allowed, we're gonna put money back into that fund. Jeff,
- can you help me with this, how you guys do that? If you got a little bit each month, then you add to
- it, is that how it is in the state of New York? For the reverting fund, for non-reverting fund for purchases,
- equipment line? Yeah, we'd pay into that.
- Every month, right? Yeah. So right now it is, it is a reverting fund reverts to the general union one
- to convert it to a non-reverting fund. They don't revert to the general. I mean, it's, this is the utility.
- This is stormwater utilities. Right. This is fee based. It's not general fund based. Yes. Okay. So I
- guess I'm just saying if this,
- The fees right now are going somewhere, and they're going to be going into this fund. So where are they
- now going? It just stays in the cash balance, I guess, is that where it stays, is that right? It's more
- of a tool for, I mean, it's part of our budget. Currently, if we wanted to use money on stormwater,
- we come to you, move the money out of materials or this, that, and the other, and instead of,
- Having to do that, we want to have a fund where a portion of the collections of stormwater fees goes
- directly into this mine. And you'll be able to see it always as it grows and we're ready to purchase.
- we'll be able to come to you and say, we want to buy this, that, and the other, and it'll come out of
- that fund. And it just makes it more transparent. So we don't have to move from three different funds
- to be able to get a vehicle or whatever. But on the other hand, even though it would be in that fund,
- if we found that we needed a project finished and we needed extra money and we had, say, $30,000
- in this fund, we could
- we could transfer it back and patch a hole, pun intended, in a stormwater project. So it's really more
- for, it's more of a bookkeeping thing. So you can look at our budget, and when we come to you and we
- say we have $35,000 in this fee, we want to buy a pickup truck. It's there. It's very similar in Canada,
- fire and police, CCD and CCI.
- Further questions? Okay, moving on. We have no ordinance on second reading. There is no old business.
- Under new business this evening is the 2026 Monroe County Interlocal Agreement with Animal Control.
- This is the proposed annual agreement between the city, the county, and the town of Ellitsville for
- the animal shelter
- and management interlocal agreement. And so what you have attached to your materials is the projected
- costs, which shows the animals picked up from various county sources, as they say, and then you also
- have a spreadsheet that shows where the animals are coming from in terms of their surrender.
- Okay, so looking at this, it's saying there's 1,423 total number of Monroe County animals. And then
- that's the number that's multiplied by $364 per animal for the animal interlocal amount. But Ellisville
- alone just has 103. So why would we be paying
- 4.3% of the total budget, 3.02% of the total budget. Right, and it says numbers here. So if they're
- saying the total cost is, am I right, it's 517,972? That's what they're wanting us to pay? No,
- it's 37.492. Okay, am I missing a page or something? That's on the second page of the agreement, paragraph
- five. I see here.
- two separate sections. Okay. All right. Question withdrawn. And I'm sorry, where was this considered
- from this year? Is it up or down? Pardon? It's in 2025, we were to pay $22,150. We have a budget amount
- in our budget of $28,350, but we do
- additional funds so we can make this one. Okay. Questions, concerns from council? Anyone from the public
- have questions or concerns they want to address? And back to council.
- then move to approve the 2026 Monroe County Interlocal Agreement Animal Control. Second. Motion second.
- Roll call, please. Scott Oldham. Yes. William Ellis. Yes. Trevor Seger. Yes. Motion carried. The next
- is the Appointment to Monroe County Animal Management Commission. Do you want to continue with this?
- I do. I don't know why. They just need Darla to
- give them a form to say that I was appointed because we did this in January. I thought we did. Yeah,
- they're not recognizing it though, so. Okay. Then we don't need to do anything with it. We don't need
- to do anything with it, so I guess they just need something that say that we've appointed me. Darla,
- do you want some type of vote again or? If you wouldn't mind. Okay. Is this council or president? Yes.
- Pardon me? Is this council level or president level? I don't remember who did it. I think it's council
- level. Okay.
- Yeah, please. Make a motion to appoint William Ellis as the Monroe County Animal Management Commission
- member from Ellisville's town council. Scott Oldham? Yes. William Ellis? Yes. Trevor Seger? Yes. Motion
- carried. Congratulations again. Privilege of the floor. Anyone having business for the council not part
- of our normal agenda?
- No one's online, no one rises in chambers. Moving on to supervisor comments. I had nothing. I'm good,
- thank you, sir. Well, something just popped into my head. It's bouncing around in there, so. Is this
- where I say of course it did? Yeah. I just thought that I would like to mention that we just started
- the LEAF pick up here in town.
- We started, we went around again today. Just want to let all the residents know to get them out along
- the edge of the curb, not in the streets or in the drainage ways. And we'll be around periodically to
- get them picked up from now until somewhere around Thanksgiving. Okay. Sounds good. Anything? I don't
- have anything. Okay. Moving to council comments. Nope. Seeing nothing. No further agenda? Items on the agenda?
- Okay.