Events

"The Planning Board will decide whether to require White Acre Equities to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to study the potential adverse environmental and community impacts of its Yeshiva proposal...

This meeting is NOT A PUBLIC HEARING, so there will be no opportunity to speak or address the Planning Board, but the simple presence of concerned community members will speak volumes to the Planning Board."

Town Board Comp Plan Work Session and Regular Workshop Meeting
Preliminary Agenda
August 27, 2007

Call to Order: 5:00PM
 
Roll Call

Work Session Discussion:
Considering the readiness of the current version of the Comprehensive Plan to be released to the public for review and comment at the hearings that will be scheduled in the weeks and months ahead. Please note, this will be a discussion among the town board members, attorneys, consultants and leadership of the Comprehensive Plan and Open Space/Affordable Housing Committees. 

Suspend Discussion and Move to Regular Workshop Agenda: 6:45PM

Announcements: 

The Duchess County Department of Public Works has begun a bridge rehabilitation project on Mill Road (north of Cove Road) that will be completed by the fall. The bridge will be closed to traffic during that time and a detour route will be in place. Any questions about the project may be directed to the County Department of Public Works at 486-2925.

Town Hall, the Highway Department and the Transfer Station will all be closed Monday, September 3, in observance of Labor Day. The town pool will be open for the last day of the season. (Where has the summer gone??)

This year's Community Development Block Grant applications are now available in the Town Clerk's office.  Completed applications must be submitted to the County by October 5, 2007.

Old Business: 

1. Status report on discussions with the State Department of Transportation regarding construction of a park 'n ride lot on Rt. 199 near the 9G intersection.
2. Considering request from Morris Associates to authorize the return of all Bid Bonds received from companies that submitted bids in the Vanderburgh Cove Sewage Treatment System Replacement project. 

New Business:

1. Considering plan from the Highway Department to make safety improvements to Mt. Rutsen Road.
2. Approval of the 2007 284 Agreement between the Highway Superintendent and the Town Board. 

Proposed Actions: 

1. Accepting the resignation of Scott Newkirk as MEO at the highway department, due to relocation to Florida.. 
2. Renewal of the annual agreement between the Town and County for snow and ice control for the 2007-2208 season.
3. Approving the appointment of David Miller to the Thompson-Mazzarella Park Committee.
4. Approving the appointment of Beverly Sloan to the Committee on the Aging.
5. Approving regular check disbursement list.
6. Approving capital project check disbursement list.
7. Approving minutes of July 23 and August 8 

Adjourn and return to work session, if necessary.

This Monday, September 17, beginning at 5 PM, the town board will meet in public session to discuss the draft zoning modifications with its consultants and volunteer leadership.  The public is welcome but public comment is suspended during these sessions in order to complete the work of the town board in preparing the various documents -- zoning code in this case -- for public distribution and to launch the SEQRA and public review and comment phase of this process. 

On Tuesday, September 18, at 7 PM, the school board, village board and town board will meet together at the Rhinebeck Middle School cafeteria to continue efforts at building consensus on proposals to further the objectives of increased cooperation and collaboration among the three municipalities.

Agenda

• Welcome
• Review of the original concerns and the results of the planning process thus far
• The current status of cooperation among the village, town and schools
• Considering proposals advanced by each of the boards
• Public questions and comments

note: the discussion will be facilitated by Bob Grems, General Manager of the Dutchess County Fair
 
note: It is anticipated that this unique meeting will enable the seventeen members of the three boards to consider proposals that were previously discussed by one or more of the boards separately. It is understood that no specific proposal to increase cooperation and collaboration will be implemented unless and until all three boards approve it.