November 6, 2018 Town of Ballston Sewer Committee Meeting

Town of Ballston Sewer Committee Monthly Meeting Notes

Taken by a town resident on Monday, November 6, 2018

Attendance

Wes DeVoe, Jim DiPasquale, Dick Doyle, William Goslin, Drew Hamelink, Ed Hernandez

and Kim Kotkoskie

Guests & Observers

Ruth Osterlitz, and Carl Thurnau

Meeting Schedule

Next Meeting is December 4th at 4pm

Ballston Lake Sewer Financial

Financial was not handed out.  Kim K. informed it was given on-line for the committee.

Total spending to date is $701,879.00

Ballston Lake Sewer Legal Update

Eminent Domain Legal

There are now 13 parcels on the list. Four of the parcels are in Clifton Park and CP will be monitoring our hearings and activities.

Atty Trainor is $225. per hour for emanate domain portion of the project

Sewer Use Law

The final Sewer Use Law is posted on the Ballston Sewers website and it became effective October 1, 2018.  Now we have received a new comment on the law.  Kim K. has spoke with Atty Bill and Tim about this already.

New Comment:  The Lake Road residences submitted a comment to the draft law back when we had a public hearing. The format is which they submitted it was; Anyone which is not is the waterfront district should not be required to connect.  As a group we determined there are other contributors that are not in the waterfront, but they are in the watershed.  Now the person than said that they did not understand why their comment has not taken since they are not in the watershed.  Kim K. informed the person that was not what was said in the comment.  Kim then checked the data on the properties, they are around borderline upper 200 feet from the sewer and the smallest property is a little over 3 acres, they are down stream and almost qualify for the distance connection but do not.  Kim would like to know how the group felt if they were exempt until failure.  Open discussion included; they are not in the watershed. they would still have to pay the debt service, Drew & Jim both said no exemption should be given.  Ed H. comment was barely audible.  He did not think any specific properties should be exempt, a new exemption description would have to be added to exempt a property. 

If the Town board asks this committee for a recommendation, Kim will report to the board that the Sewer Committee thinks there are already too many exemptions and could be unfair to do this.  However, these homes have large parcel sizes and they are not in the watershed.

Parcel Query Update

The sewer district is constantly changing in EDUs. This month’s update is that Clifton Park went down by 2 EDUs. One is an Ag exemption and the other is an unbuildable lot.

Hoping to go out for bid end of 2018 - January 2019.  Adjourned.