2-22-2010 3:15PM
AGENDA
CAYUGA COUNTY
LEGISLATURE
FEBRUARY 23, 2010,
6:30PM
WELCOME: In case of an emergency, please exit to the rear of the chambers. You will have to take the stairs down to the basement, turn right and exit through the rear door. Please note, the elevators will not function. If anyone is unable to use the stairway, I will stay with you in the safe room, located behind the chambers, caucus room #2.
Restrooms are located in the main hallway and handicapped restroom is located behind the chambers.
CALL
TO ORDER: Hon. Peter Tortorici, Chairman
ROLL
CALL: Mary Jones, Clerk of the Legislature
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
MOMENT OF PRAYER:
PROCLAMATION’S: Cayuga County Salutes
David Barnello, Saturday, February 13, 2010
“Be the Match Day” in Cayuga County
REPORTS OF DEATH:
PRESENTATION: Kevin Swain, NYS Police,
Annual Update
Timothy Kelly, Executive Director of
United Way
Mike
Pawlenko Blds. & Grounds Superintendent, and John Thomas Bixby, Gray
Management
PUBLIC
BE HEARD:
If
you wish to speak notify your Legislator, who will grant you privilege of the
floor. You will be allowed to speak for
3 to 5 minutes. You must state your name
and address.
MINUTES: For Approval: 12-14-09, 12-15-09, 12-17-09, 1-4-10 and 1-11-10
For Reading: 1-26-10 and 2-1-10 (Committee Meeting of the Whole)
CCC REPORT: Dr. Daniel Larson
COMMITTEE REPORTS & INDIVIDUAL LEGISLATORS’
REPORTS:
MANAGER’S REPORT: Nick Mazza
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT: Peter Tortorici
APPOINTMENTS AND
RE-APPOINTMENTS:
Cayuga County EMS Advisory Board
David M James, 2687 Bell St.,
Weedsport 13166, 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Dr. Mary DiRubbo, PO Box 775,
Skaneateles 13152, 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Roman Rotko, 213 Dunning
Aveport Rd, Auburn 13021 1/1/10 - 12/31/10
Michael Deyneka, 6468 E. lake
Rd. Auburn 13021 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Deanna Gates, PO Box 100,
Meridian 13113 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Sam Giannettino, 100 Swift
St. Auburn 13021 1/1/10 – 12/31/10
Jason Green, 1 Kennedy Lane,
Auburn 13021 1/1/10 - 12/31/10
Travis Poole, 33 French Ave.,
Auburn 13021 1/1/10 – 12/31/10
Kezia Parseghian Sullivan,
294 Lake Rd, King Ferry 13081 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Denise Stayton, 181 Seymour
St. Auburn 13021 1/1/10 – 12/31/10
Lon Fricano, 321 Backus Rd.,
Cayuga 13034 1/1/10 – 12/31/10
Edward Sherman, 107 Melrose
Rd, Auburn 13021 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Albert Mantey, 3045 White
Rd., Moravia 13118 1/1/10 – 12/31/10
Jen Savery, 3169 Swamp Rd.,
Cato 13033 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Board of Health Committee:
Variance
Committee
Richard Coalson, 405 Long
Point on Owasco, Auburn
13021 1/1/10
- 12/31/13
Board of Health Committee:
Ann Petrus, 2435 Route 31,
Weedsport 13166 1/1/10
– 12/31/10
Community Services Board:
Beth Dishaw, 149 Genesee St –
Long Term Care, Auburn 13021 1/1/10 – 12/31/13
John Henderson, 7481
Centerport Rd, Auburn 13021 1/1/10
- 12/31/13
Ann Petrus, 2435 Rt. 31,
Weedsport 13166 1/1/10 –
12/31/10
Francis Mitchell, 355 State
Rte. 34B, King Ferry 13081 1/1/10 – 12/31/10
Rebekah Gagne, 7286 Sherman
Rd, Auburn 13021 1/1/10
– 12/31/13
Cayuga County Planning Board:
Pat Bianconi, PO Box 197,
Aurora, NY 13026 (term: until locality they represent submits a new nomination)
Water
& Sewer Authority
Vicky Murphy, 24 South St,
Auburn, NY 13021(unexpired term of Bruce Ross) 1-1-09 to 12-31-2011
Agriculture & Farm Protection Board:
Paul Pinckney, 2035 Pinckney Rs, Auburn, NY 13021, term – coterminous with position.
COMMUNICATIONS AND
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1. Received a copy of a letter from Meg Vanek, Director of
Cayuga County Office of Tourism, to Assemblyman Steven Englebright, re: Empire
State Development, Matching Funds program.
RECESS:
CAYUGA COUNTY LEGISLATURE
RESOLUTION LIST 2-23-10
REGULAR MONTHLY
RESOLUTIONS:
1. Auth. payment of January Audit of
Claims
2. Auth.
payment of Utilities.
3. Auth.
payment of Claims for Thruway Tolls.
4. Auth. payment of Claims
for the Nursing Home
5. Auth.
payment of Claims for the Sr. Nutrition Program.
6. Auth. payment of Claims for Credit Card
Charges.
7. Auth. payment of Claims for Various Equipment
Leases.
8. Auth.
payment of Various Capital “H” Projects.
2-10-WM-1 (Pulled at W&M’s) Authorization to Increase the Salary of 100%
Reimbursed Position of Confidential Secretary to the CCIDA
2-10-WM-2 Authorizing Correction of Tax Errors in
Several Towns
2-10-WM-3 (Added 2-11-10) Authorization to Fill the Position of Sr. Typist
due to Resignation.
2-10-WM-4 (Added 2-11-10) Authorizing the Chairperson of the Cayuga County
Legislature to Sign Documents to Accept community Projects Appropriations and
Amending the 2010 Budget.
2-10-WM-5 (Added 2-11-10) Authorizing, Pursuant to § 1138 (1) of the Real
Property Tax Law, the withdrawal and Discontinuance, without Prejudice of Two
Parcels of Land Parcels Commonly Known as Tax Map No. 141.17-1-37, Located on South Street in the
Village of Union Springs and Tax Map No. 150.00-2.1, Located on State Rte. 90 in
the Town of Springport from the 2009 Tax Map Foreclosure Proceeding and
Authorizing the Execution of Documents.
2-10-WM-6 (Added 2-22-10) Approving Three-Year Agreement Between the County
of Cayuga and The New York State Nurses Association.
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES:
2-10-HH-1 Authorizing
the Clerk of the Legislature to advertise for bids for providing transportation
for Physically Handicapped Children.
2-10-HH-2 Authorization
to create and fill one Early Intervention Services Coordinator position and abolish
one RN position in Public Health.
2-10-HH-3 Authorizing
the Cayuga County Legislature to establish the 2010 billing rates for the
County’s Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) and Long Term Home Health Care
Program (LTHHCP).
2-10-HH-4 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health & Human Services
to renew the contract with Cayuga/Seneca Community Action Agency, Inc. for the
provision of non-residential Domestic Violence Services.
2-10-HH-5 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health & Human Services
to renew the contract with Cayuga/Seneca Community Action Agency, Inc. for the
provision of residential Domestic Violence Services.
2-10-HH-6 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health & Human Services
to enter into a contract with Unity House for the provision of congregate
care.
HEALTH & HUMANS
SERVICES CON’T:
2-10-HH-7 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health & Human Services
to enter into a contract with Hillside Children’s Center to reserve one
non-secure detention bed for the period of January 1, 2010 – December 31, 2010.
2-10-HH-8 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health & Human Services
to renew the contract with Chapel House (Temporary Homeless Shelter)
2-10-HH-9 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health & Human Services
to enter into a contract with Laboratory Corporation of America ® Holdings (AKA
Lab Corp.) for the provision of Parentage Testing for the Child Support
Enforcement Unit of Human Services.
2-10-HH-10 To
authorize the Director of Health & Human Services to provisionally fill a
Sr. Computer Specialist Position in Human Services.
2-10-HH-11 Authorizing
the Director of Health & Human Services to accept additional federal
funding and renew our contract with Catholic Charities for Continued Intensive
Case Services and direct the Cayuga County Treasurer to amend the 2010 Human
Services budget.
2-10-HH-12 Amending the 2010 Mental Health budget for unexpended 2009 funds
2-10-HH-13 Authorizing the Chairman of the Legislature
and the Director of the Office for the Aging to sign contract with the
Transportation Project for Cayuga County, Inc. for Title IIIB Transportation
Services.
2-10-HH-14 Authorizing the Administrator of Cayuga
County Nursing Home to accept a proposal for replacement of exterior doors at
the Nursing Home.
2-10-HH-15 (Added 2-22-10) Authorizing the
County Manager, the Chairman of the Legislature and the Director of Health
& Human Services to Sign a “Memorandum of Agreement” with NYSNA.
2-10-JP-3 (Co. Sponsor H&HS)
Authorization to create 2 positions within the Custody Division of the Cayuga
County Sheriff’s Office and abolish two positions
within the Community Mental Health Services Department.
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS:
2-10-GO-1 Authorizing the Board of Elections to
dispose of surplus lever voting machines.
2-10-GO-2 Authorizing
the award for the printing of the 2003 Legislative 2003 Journal of Proceedings.
2-10-GO-3 Authorizing the Transfer of Funds in the
County Manager’s Budget.
2-10-GO-4 Establishing
Policy and Procedures for Compliance with 42 USC 139a (a) (68), False Claims and
Whistle Blower Protection.
2-10-G0-5 (Added 2-19-2010) Resolution of the
Cayuga county Legislature Expressing its Fervent and Steadfast Opposition to
Holding the Trial of the Alleged September 11, 2001 Terrorists Anywhere within
New York State and Urging the President of the United Sates and the United
Sates Attorney General to Designate the Place of Trial Outside the State of New
York.
PLANNING:
2-10-PL–1 Authorizing
the Chairman of the Cayuga County Legislature to Sign an Agreement with Carl
Latting to Speak at Cayuga Corks Career Center’s Youth Leadership Forum.
2-10-PL–2 Authorizing
the Filing of an Application for State Assistance from the Household Hazardous
Waste (HHW) State Assistance Program and Signing of the Associated State
Contract, Under the Appropriate Laws of New York State.
PLANNING CON’T:
2-10-PL-3 (Revised 2-10-10) Authorization
to Establish Capital “H” Project No. 10-01 (Meridian Environmental Restoration
Project) for the Meridian Environmental Restoration Project and Authorizing the
Transfer of Funds.
2-10-PL-4 Authorizing
the Signing of a Contract with the Finger Lakes Association for the Transfer of
NYSDEC Funding for the Finger Lakes-Lake Ontario watershed Protection Alliance,
Fiscal Year 2008-2009.
2-10-PL-5 (Revised
2-16-10)Authorizing
the Execution of a One Year Operations Contract with the United States Geologic
Survey for Operation and Maintenance of a Satellite Linked Flow Gaging Station
on the Owasco Inlet to Monitor Water Quality in Owasco Lake.
PUBLIC WORKS:
2-10-PW-1 Authorizing the Cayuga County Parks &
Trails Dept. to
Replace the Ticket Booth Roof.
2-10-PW-2 Authorizing the Cayuga County Parks &
Trails Dept. to Replace the Island Bathhouse Roof.
2-10-PW-3 Authorizing the Purchase of Flowers for
the Various Flowerbeds at Emerson Park.
2-10-PW-4 Authorizing the Hiring of Seasonal Staff
for the Parks & Trails Dept. for the 2010 Season.
2-10-PW-5 Authorizing Transfer of $10,000 to the
Capital Reserve Fund Established for the Parks Department Building Improvements
at the Sterling Nature Center.
2-10-PW-6 Determining Lead Agency Status Under the State Environmental Quality review Act (SEGR) for
the Emerson Park Pavilion Preservation Project.
2-10-PW-7 Authorizing the Transfer of Funds from
the 2010 Emerson Park Equipment Budget Account to Capital “H” 08-2 for Emerson
Park Pavilion Renovations and amending Capital “H” Project No. 08-2.
2-10-PW-8 Authorizing an Agreement with Auburn
YMCA-WEIU Allowing for the Operation of Auburn Little League at Emerson Park.
2-10-PW-9 (Pulled at PW’s) Authorizing the
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds to Hire a Buildings Maintenance
Mechanic.
2-10-PW-10 Authorization to Enter into a Service
Agreement for a Parts Washer.
2-10-PW-11 (Revised 2-15-10) Authorization to
Raise Labor/Oil Change Service Rates at the Motor Pool to take Effect April
1, 2010.
2-10-PW-12 Authorize Chairman and Highway
Superintendent to Sign Fuel Purchase/Vehicle Repair Agreement with Various
Agencies for Motor Pool Repairs, Gasoline and Diesel Fuels.
2-10-PW-13 Authorizing a Change Order and Change in
Scope with Op-Tech Environmental Services, Inc. for Fuel Storage Tank Removals
and Spill Clean-Ups.
JUDICIAL & PUBLIC SAFETY:
2-10-JP-1 Authorizing the Chairman of the Cayuga
county Legislature and the Sheriff of Cayuga County to Enter into an Agreement
with Trade-A-Yacht Inc. for Dockage of the Sheriff’s Boat Utilized to Patrol
the Waters of Cayuga Lake.
2-10-JP-2 Authorizing the Sheriff’s Office to
Apply for the 2010 Operation Stonegarden Grant from the Office of Homeland
Security.
2-10-JP-3 (Revised
2-8-10) Authorization to Create 2 Positions within the Custody Division of the
Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office and Abolish Two Positions within the Community
Mental Health Services Dept.
JUDICIAL & PUBLIC SAFETY:
2-10-JP-4 (Revised
2-17-10) Authorizing the Sheriff of Cayuga County to Purchase Four (4) New
Marked Patrol Cars and One (1) Unmarked Patrol Car to Replace Existing Patrol
Cars that have Exceeded their Useful Life Span and have Accumulated High
Mileage.
2-10-JP-5 Authorizing the Sheriff of Cayuga
County to Purchase Two (2) Laptop Computers and Associated Equipment.
2-10-JP-6 Authorizing
the Chairperson of the Legislature to Renew a One Year Contract with Sunbelt
Software to Provide Support for Double-Take Software at Back up E-911 Center.
2-10-JP-7 (Pulled at W&M’s) Authorizing
the Cayuga County Coroner to Fill a Vacant Coroner’s Investigator, PT Position.
All
Legislators:
2-10-LEG-1 (Added 2-19-10) Authorizing a Request
for Assistance from State Elected Officials
Executive Session’s, re: Personnel Issue and
Acquisition of Real Property
And
any other business that comes before the board.
NEW
YORK STATE LOBBYIST LAW: the term Lobbyist shall mean every person or
organization retained, employed or designated by.
IF
YOU HAVE A DISABILITY AND NEED ACCOMMODATIONS, PLEASE CALL CAYUGA COUNTY AT
253-1498 AT LEAST 48 HOURS BEFORE THE SCHEDULED MEETING TO ADVISE WHAT
ACCOMMODATIONS WILL BE NECESSARY.