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KEUKA WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT COOPERATIVE MEETING
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2010, TOWN OF MILO
Chair Butchko (Wayne) called the meeting to order at 7:00pm. Commissioners in attendance were Gordon Lanphere (Urbana), John Socha (Milo), William A. Weber (Pulteney), Fred Wright (Barrington), Anne Green (Hammondsport), Daryl Jones (Jerusalem). Penn Yan was not represented. KWIC Manager Paul Bauter was in attendance. Fourteen members of the public were in attendance.
After some discussion it was decided we had elected all the required officers at the last meeting but we did need to amended the banking resolution - who are the signatories to the bank account.
It was moved and seconded by Green and Jones to have: the continuing signatories of Anne Green, Jack Snow and add Steve Butchko (deleting former chair Dawn Dowdle).
The minutes of the January 25 meeting were approved with spelling corrections of names of some guests by motion of Socha and Jones.
The treasurer’s report was reviewed and approved by motion of Butchko and Socha.
The Manager’s Report:
Paul Bauter reported there was only one inspection since the last meeting (not unusual for this time of year). The Department of Health has now finalized the revisions of Appendix 75-A which concern wastewater treatment residential onsite systems. The proposed revisions of KWIC’s model wastewater treatment law have already taken these changes into consideration.
The report on the computer software was moved up to the Manager’s report. Manager Bauter, Inspector Colby and Chair Steve Butchko met last Friday to update some data. Currently the data is being entered into the new program. We will have a report at the March meeting and in April DSD’s Scott Demmin will present a report to the board.
LULA Update: Chair Butchko invited Peter Landre from Yates County/Cornell extension to review the land use issue among the KWIC municipalities. He reviewed the history which began with a grant which permitted first, the review of all municipality’s land use laws by the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Council and second, in January and February 2008 classes for the Land Use Leadership Alliance (LULA) made up of elected officials, appointed officials, contractors and agricultural interests , third, a smaller group selecting six topics which needed recommendations for specific actions that municipalities could collaboratively undertake.
The draft of this report was taken to each municipality for presentation, review and agreement upon. The final resulting document “Keuka Lake Watershed Land Use Planning Guide” was issued March 2009. Each community is encouraged to use this as a resource when planning code changes etc. in their municipality. Chair Butchko expressed an interest in having the LULA members reactivate to push for more action by the municipalities on land use issues, so each community could use another’s experience to adopt similar laws on steep slope development, agricultural districts etc.
Mr. Landre stated he would contact the committee members and invite other interested community leaders to participate in a session or two on this matter. It is noted that each municipality has 20 copies of the Guide which was suppose to be distributed to Town, Village, Planning and Zoning Boards for their use.
Review of proposed changes in KWIC’s Uniform Wastewater Treatment Law began at 8:07 and ended at 9:00pm. We went through the document and accepted proposed changes where agreement was reached, and set aside until the end of the review items on which there was disagreement. We were able to review through 10(D) and will begin at 10 (E) at the March meeting.
The meeting adjourned at 9:07 p.m.
Next meeting at Branchport Fire Hall March 22.2010 at 7:00pm following the KLOC meeting.
