Lumberland budget hearing scheduled

DAVID HULSE
Posted 10/25/17

GLEN SPEY, NY — The Lumberland Town Board will be accepting public comment on the preliminary 2018 budget at the November 1 public hearing, to take place in the town hall at 7:30 p.m. …

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GLEN SPEY, NY — The Lumberland Town Board will be accepting public comment on the preliminary 2018 budget at the November 1 public hearing, to take place in the town hall at 7:30 p.m.

Supervisor Jenny Mellan had planned to have the tentative budget approved as preliminary at the board’s October 11 meeting, but she admitted that a math error in the document needed to be corrected beforehand.

The new budget will call for spending of $3,110,111, to be funded by $557,275 in non-tax revenues in addition to $2,552,836 from property taxes. The tax levy is $46,170 or 1.84% higher than 2017, but below the state’s two-percent ceiling.

Other than the amount and percentage of the levy increase, the tentative budget did not provide the prior year’s numbers for comparisons of individual departments.

In other business, the town board named the members of the new zoning review committee created last month. The roster includes Councilwoman Zoriana Gingold, planning board member Sharon Sparling, zoning board of appeals member Terry Fountain, code enforcement officer Dave Sparling and citizen/resident member Alexandra Watrelot.

Some $40,000, accumulated in annual set-asides since 2012, was disbursed to the Lumberland Fire Department to fund an emergency radio upgrade.

The board accepted a $1,685 quote from P&N Alarm Co., to supply eight “panic buttons” for town hall employees to call for emergency assistance, with an additional $180 for annual maintenance and monitoring.

The town also accepted donation of a $1,616 automated external defibrillator (AED) unit, which was purchased with an anonymous grant to the department by a full-time local resident. It is to be mounted outside the town hall for public access.

The board also viewed photographs and heard Rio Dam Road resident Sharon Sparling complain about the deterioration of the Rio Dam’s roadway and sidewalls. Attorney for the town Danielle Jose-Decker said she would contact counsel for the dam’s owners, Eagle Creek Renewable Energy.

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