Town of Clermont
Town Board Meeting
November 4th, 2024
The Clermont Town Board held their regular monthly meeting on Monday November 4th, 2024 at the Town Hall. Those presents were Supervisor Staats, Councilman Robert Desmond, Councilman Kris Gildersleeve, Councilwoman Dawn Brownson and Councilwoman Lindsey Lusher Shute.
- Call Meeting to Order @7PM by Supervisor Staats with the Pledge of Allegiance.
- Approval of prior Town Board Meeting Minutes-
- Approval of October Minutes, Motion to accept by Councilman Gildersleeve, Seconded by Councilwoman Lusher Shute. All in Favor So Carried
- Written communications/Mail review
Clerk Report
- Total for General Fund $1457.01
- NYS Ag&Mkts $2.00
- Total report for October 2024 $1459.01
Mail Review
- Solid Waste-
- Recycling permits can only be purchased from Town Clerks office
- Solid waste station hours
- Election Day Dinner
- Village Green committee Christmas Caroling event-December 17th
- Office for the Aging New Director to present services at next Board meeting.
Web Committee-None
- Committee Reports and Updates
- Bob-None
- Lindsey
- Finalist Designs for Logo-3 Submissions-Voting in progress will be left open for approximately 2 weeks
- Playground proposal ready for signature ~ $298,000.00
- Park/Playground committees will be busy fundraising, requesting donations for services and Community Build
- Kris
- Working on Wi-Fi for community house/ran into some issues with running cables from basement. Will be completed after election day dinner.
- Dawn-
- Request to remove signs at Clermont Park as they are duplicate information on Kiosk. Suggestion made to relocate signs to other parts of the park.
- AEDs seem to run approximately $1700, more information will be available at December’s meeting
- Thank you to Chris Nolan for stepping in and assisting with the artifact investigation
- Old Business
- Mary Howard Next Meeting Thursday, November 14th.
- Hoping for all information gathered from Town Board members via the google documents prior to that meeting.
- Stahl Bridge Update-
- Decking is poured and project is on schedule for completion prior to Thanksgiving, May do an opening ceremony at some time.
- Grader Auction
- Only offered $3400.00 at auction will put up for auction in the spring again.
- New Business
- Motion made to adopt 2025 budget by Councilman Gildersleeve, Seconded by Councilwoman Brownson. All in favor.
Motion made to adopt 2025 budget by Councilman Gildersleeve, Seconded by Councilwoman Brownson. All in favor.
- Pleasantvale/Commons Road -Weight restriction request
- Unable to put restriction on bridge however a restriction can be placed on the Roads leading to the bridge. Town of Livingston placed restriction on Hapeman Road and Pleasantvale Road.
Motion made to place 10 Ton Weight limit restriction-except Local deliveries on Commons Road and Pleasantvale Road by Councilwoman Lusher Shute, Seconded by Councilwoman Brownson. All in favor.
- 3rd quarter Sales Tax-$162,373.06 received
- Supervisors Report-
- Currently still working on County Budget -expected to be ~ 2% increase.
- Park Fundraising-Matching pledge has been received-Thank you to that donor. Donations are open.
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- Motion To Pay Abstracts
- Motion to pay Trust & Agency abstract #5 Vouchers #8-10 $1388.85 By Councilman Gildersleeve Seconded by Councilwoman Lusher Shute. All in Favor. So carried.
- Motion to pay Highway abstract #11 Vouchers #97-110 $8299.53 By Councilwoman Lusher Shute Seconded by Councilman Desmond. All in Favor. So carried.
- Motion to pay General abstract #11 Vouchers #246-264 $10302.76 By Councilwoman Brownson Seconded by Councilman Desmond. All in Favor. So carried.
Public Communication/Comments to Board-
Thank you to Amy Perella for work towards playground grant.
Thank you to Didi Barrett for help in securing the grant.
Motion to enter executive session at 7:41 PM by Councilman Gildersleeve Seconded by Councilwoman Lusher Shute. All in Favor. So carried.
There will be no additional business for the Town Board after executive session.
Motion to exit executive session at 8:19PM by Councilman Desmond Seconded by Councilman Gildersleeve. All in Favor. So carried.
Motion to adjourn at 8:19PM by Councilman Gildersleeve Seconded by Councilman Desmond. All in Favor. So carried.
Respectfully submitted.
Tracey J Gallant
Town Clerk
