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Guilderland Town Board Meeting

May 19, 2009

The above video is the entire Town Board meeting held on May 19, 2009.  If you do not wish to watch the video, a summary of the meeting follows.

The Town Board took the following action at the May 19 meeting:

1.  A local law was adopted granting a phased in tax exemption for the rehabilitation or reconstruction of historic barns.  Basically the increased value associated with the reconstruction is phased into the assessment over a ten year period.

2.  The town board by a 3-2 vote agreed to abide by the ANSWERS Solid Waste Management Plan.  This plan provides that answers communities will participate in re-cycling of materials and other practices recommended by the Department of Environmental Conservation.  Board members Mark Grimm and Warren Redlich voted against participation in the plan.  If the plan was not adopted the town would have been removed from ANSWERS and would have no where for town residents to deposit their trash.  Board members Grimm and Redlich offered no alternative to participation in the ANSWERS program.  Again, this just appeared to be an obstructionist type vote on their part.

3.  Supervisor Runion advised the Board that he would be recommending at the next meeting the appointment of a committee to review and make recommendations for updates to the Town’s Zoning Law.  The committee would be made up of the Zoning Board Chairperson, the Planning Board Chairperson and members of the community at large.  The Supervisor asked Board members to submit names and resumes of any individuals they might want to recommend for consideration.

4.  Councilman Warren Redlich asked what had happened to his proposed local law to grant a tax exemption to Commercial properties.  He was advised that the town had adopted such law in 1976, so a re-adoption would be fruitless.

Submitted by Ken Runion.