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1 PH A Public Hearing was held by the Town Board of the Town of Wappinger on November at the Town Hall 20 Middlebush Road Wappingers Falls New York on the Preliminary Budget for 2002 opened the Meeting at 7 05 p m Present Robert Valdati Councilman Vincent Bettina Councilman Joseph Ruggiero Councilman Joseph Paoloni Councilman Gloria J Morse Town Clerk Others Present Gerald Vergilis Acting Town Attorney Graham Foster Highway Superintendent Absent Al Roberts Attorney to the Town Constance Smith Supervisor COUNCMAN VADAT COUNCMAN VADAT explained that he received word that Mrs Smith is on vacation and her deputy was unable to attend so as senior member of the board he will be conducting tonight s meeting The Town Clerkoffered for the record the Affidavit of Posting and Publication duly signed and notarized These Affidavits are attached hereto and made part thereof the Minutes of the Meeting COUNCMAN VADAT wished to know if there were any questions or comments from the audience One ofthe residents wished to know where he could get a copy of the budget COUNCMAN VADAT explained that copies are available through the Town Clerks office with a Freedom of nformation Request COUNCMAN VADAT explained that since a Preliminary Budget was not adopted by the Town Board about ten days ago we have been left with a 52 tax increase He announced that the board will work diligently to bring this budget down to an acceptable level that people can live with The Media was notified today there would be a meeting on Tuesday the 13th of November and we will be having a Public on Hearing the Benefit Assessments mprovement Areas and Districts and then adopt the budget There were no more questions or comments At this time COUNCMAN PAOON moved to close the Public Hearing seconded by Vincent Bettina and unanimously carried COUNCMAN RUGGERO moved that we amend the Workshop meeting on Tuesday November 13th Agenda from adopting the budget to a Regular budget workshop for further deliberation of the budget and move by resolution of the Town Board the Town Clerk provide notices to all Town 1

2 PH Board members and Supervisor that we will be meeting Thursday November 15th for a budget Workshop and Monday November 19th at 7 00 p m for the purpose of adopting the budget Seconded by Mr Bettina COUNCMAN RUGGERO requested Attorney Gerald Vergilis to give an opinion tomorrow on the appropriateness of the above resolutions case some questions are raised as to their validity COUNCMAN BETTNA wished to have it on the record that he did call the Town Clerk on October 29th and inform her he was ill and would not be able to attend the meeting that night COUNCMAN VADAT moved that the Minutes of October 29th be amended to reflect that Mr Bettina did in fact call the Town Clerk informing her that he was too ill to attend the meeting Seconded by Mr Paoloni At this time Judy Pavelock of 3 Fleetwood Drive wished to know how the Board was going to go about decreasing the increase COUNCMAN VADAT explained that what we have is the Supervisors Tentative Budget which is now the Preliminary Budget That in itself contains the 52 increase The Board will then proceed to remove the items that it feels are not necessary at this time in terms ofequipment and expenditures We will also look at our Fund Balance and the types of money that we need in order to maintain a good cushion for the town in order to do business We will also look at projections of sales taxes and what they should be We will also look at expenditures for the different departments By the time we finish we will have a more professional document in COUNCMAN RUGGERO hand announced in all fairness to the Board we were only given ten days to work on the budget and that s why we were unable to come to an agreement on the Preliminary and are still sitting with the Tentative but there is still enough time to get everything done that we need to COUNCMAN VADAT wished to have it on the record that a very important member of any budgetary concerns is missing tonight the Comptroller Resident Al Casella wished to know if the board knew that they had a contingency why did they put out a 52 tax increase The Board explained that this was the Supervisors budget explained yes COUNCMAN RUGGERO Mr Casella was partially correct during the period when we were in between budget workshops we only had 3 meetings and the Supervisor and Comptroller decided that they would come back with a 27 2

3 PH tax increase instead of a 52 tax increase We have been saying from day one that we have ample surpluses to offset these increases We were way under estimating revenues and overestimating expenses COUNCMAN VADAT explained that we requested the Comptroller to come back with projections and they were not accurate to the levels we wished to see We were given a document that was done in a totally different fashion COUNCMAN RUGGERO informed Mr Casella that none of the Board members was polled as to what they wanted on the budget COUNCMAN VADAT moved to close the Public Hearing seconded by Mr Ruggiero and unanimously carried The Public Hearing closed at 7 25 p m At this time 7 30 p m Mr Terwilliger the Comptroller arrived He explained that he had been informed by the Supervisor that this evenings meeting was to start at 7 30 p m COUNCMAN BETTNA moved to reopen the meeting seconded by Mr Paoloni and unanimously carried COUNCMAN VADAT moved authorize the Town Clerk to purchase a FAX machine appropriate to the needs of her office Seconded by Mr Ruggiero The Town Clerk wished to know if she had to submit 3 quotes for the FAX machine and Mr Terwilliger informed her that they had just received 3 quotes for a FAX for the Justice court and are in the process of purchasing one so we can use those quotes in order to purchase a FAX for the Town Clerk There was no other business to come before the Board COUNCMAN VADAT moved to close the Public Hearing seconded by Mr Paoloni and unanimously carried The Public Hearing closed at 7 32 p m fa t Gloria J Town C lta l 3

4 ii TOWN BOARD TOWN OF WAPPNGER DUTCHESS COUNTY NEW YORK N THE MATTER OF AFFDAVT OF POSTNG OC NOTCE OF PUBC HEARNG ON THE PREMNARY BUDGET OF 2002 FOR THE TOWN OF WAPPNGER STATE OF NEW YORK ss COUNTY OF DUTCHESS GORA J MORSE being duly sworn deposed and says That she is the duly elected qualified and acting Town Clerk of the Town of Wappinger County of Dutchess and State of New York That on October your deponent posted a copy of the attached notice of Public Hearing on the Preliminary Budget for the Town of Wappinger on the signboard maintained by your deponent in her office in the Town Hall of the Town ofwappinger 20 Middlebush Road Wappingers Falls Dutchess County New York Sworn to before me the day of rjdl D NOTARY PUBC efv8cr2 200 ROBN D SECOR Notary Public Stall ofnew York Residing n Dutchess County Reglstra on f 01 Se60403 My Commission Expires April 17 2OJ

5 i SOUTHERN DUTCHESS NEWS BEACON FREE PRESS 84 EAST MAN STREET WAPPNGERS FAS NY Affidavit f Publicati n To WAPPNGERS FAS TOWN P O BOX 324 WAPPNGERS FAS NY l Re egal notice State of NEW YORK SS County of DUTCHESS JOAN MER being duly sworn depose and say that am the BOOKKEEPER of Southern Dutchess News a weekly newspaper of general circulation published in WAPPNGERS Sworn to befor this 1st day of Novembe 2001 lj NotarY Pubfic FAS County of DUTCHESS State of NEW YORK and that a notice of which the annexed is a printed copy was duly published in Southern Dutchess News once on A RENA WRGHT NotAry Publlo State of New York No QUAlmld n Dutchess County Oommtaalon expires Aug 11 NOTCE S HEREBY GVEN THAT the Town Board of the Town of VVapplngerwtll meetat thetown Hall 20 Mlddlebush Road Townof Wappinger Dulcheu County New York l on the 8h 0ay of N bar p m o clock lor the pur PO of holding a Public Hearing on theprellmlnary Budget ofuld Town for theil year 1leglnnng January f 2002 i U dt H o b i A lpy of saidplllllmlnary Budget s available al lhe olceof the Town Clerk of thetown ofwappnger Town Hall 20 Mkldlebulh Road Town of Wapp nge ew York d rlng the hours of 830 a m and 4 00 p m Monday throughfriday where may ba n cted 8 Y nt 8Se 1 per on o i The propoled l8larles of each memo bar of the Town Board the TownClerk and thetown Superintendent of High ways are 8lclllow Supervisor Superlntendellt of Highways fo Town Clerk co Councllman ri Councilman Councllman Councilman Town Jusllee Town Jusllee Daled Octobar Wapplngers FallN Y BY ORDEROF THETOWN BOARD Gloria J Morl8 Town Clerk Town of Wappinger RECE JEO NOJ TOWN CERK