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.