Remarks by Erin Enouen
350 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 14
“Yeah, we should definitely, it's not always going to be available.”
“You know, I think we will have like a booking calendar. Right. And it might work out because they'll give code enforcements using it and they're done at three. And I don't know if that gives her enough time. I don't know. Right. But it's only two days a week. Or more. We could do more. And postage. Most of your postage is tax collector. Anything from the board?”
“Oh, this needs to be fixed. I know what that is. That needs to be fixed. I'm going to have to update the annual financial report. I think that got double. I might have caught it for the annual financial report and didn't update QuickBooks. I'll look at that. There was a bookkeeping error with the leadership transition that I caught when I was doing the annual financial report. And I think I fixed it on that, but the QuickBooks needs to be updated. So the way the postage works is that we get billed. Postage is something you can pay in advance. and advance claim. The town pays for the postage…”
“I'll talk to Mary Lou, you and I should have a conversation about next year's projections and I'll also talk to the attorney that's representing us for the tax certiorari because a lot of those are going to end up in 2027 as well. And we are going to have to do. She is going to want to do a third party appraisal for one of the parcels that's going to end up on 2027 so that's also a consideration. So i'll do that follow up. and maybe we should bump the numbers up just for the preliminary budget if you guys feel that under it's a if you look though i did do a um 30 000 increase over what we…”
“HAB-Charlotte Pittsburg- They were projecting. HAB-Charlotte Pittsburg- 22. But I think it should stay at 30.”
“It's that other. It's the it's the court stuff. And who knows what we will be facing next year.”
“Yeah. And whether it will be covered by insurance. And insurance only covers us to $10,000 for most. So what are we saying we're putting it up? We can bump up that last one a little, if you'd like, if you think I undershot it.”
“So this next one we have been having, professional services for HR. And I was going to talk to that person because I think it might be the end of that. Yeah. And right now, a lot of our personnel services is in the attorney line because I'm consulting with counsel rather than an HR consultant.”
“Yep. It's $200 a month and I can call them up anytime.”
“But there are certain things like he is working with us on the collective bargaining agreement, which is now, and then it's not for another three years. And we can always, like, we can always work with him in three years on that as a, you know, we don't have to have the retainer for that.”
“It's possible. There are things that the attorney has caught that we should change. That is the thing that I'm specifically thinking of.”
“He would charge us for that type of work.”
“What I'm saying is possible that he might not be available in that way also.”
“I will start. Because what you're talking about is like drafting policy that has been.”
“So the current HR person helped is the one that was that drafted the initial policy manual. Um, what I'm, what I'm kind of saying, I'm starring that because I zeroed it out, but it might be worth if for this specific thing, seeing what resources exist, because it might not be that particular person, but we might want someone to assist.”
“Um, We also have, I haven't taken advantage of it, but through our insurance company, we have free access to a more robust HR portal that does this type of thing where you get templates of policies and things like that so um but non-professional services just no just like the yeah just here's the law the law change this is what you need to update it's like that sort of thing oh no they track the law yeah they'll tell you whether it happened or not yeah so um i just i'm starting that and i'll try to have that figured out by sunday um all right uh the last thing is records management i think we…”
“We should have stuck with a lot of things. Those roads also lasted a really long time.”
“They're still there. So just, oh, we'll have to wait. Oh, sorry.”
“Yes, we're taking a brief minute break before we do resolutions. Now we're in a bit. You can do it now.”
“Okay, so just quickly, we have a workshop meeting on Sunday at 1 p.m. Then our next meeting is not until November 5th, and that will be our business meeting, but we will also have the public hearing on the budget and the public hearing on the tax cap override as long as you guys schedule that tonight.”
“Yes, and an appointment. So we should have the book at the fifth. Okay, so for resolutions. I'll make a motion that the town board authorizes the town supervisor to form an inter-fund loan from general fund unrestricted fund balance to capital fund in the amount of $100,000 for the purposes of covering cash flow needs for the three Bridge New York funded capital projects. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. We should have the ban within the next three weeks.”
“The ban, you mean? Yeah, it's really quick. Once they do the sale, once they do the bid and we select, it's like, it's within. It's done. Yeah. So we're tabling the abstract 10B, there will be a change to what I have on the agenda of $88. Okay, so we're going to do an amendment to the wage schedule. I'll entertain a motion to amend the 2026 adopted wage schedule as follows by moving the position of deputy clerk one to tier six. at the rate of 29.75 per hour, moving deputy clerk three to tier four at the rate of 26.50 per hour.”
“Thank you. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. So the next resolution, I'll make a motion that the town board establishes the hours of the town clerk deputies as follows. Deputy clerk one, 40 hours per week. Deputy clerk two, 40 hours per week. Deputy clerk three, 40 hours per week. And I'm gonna add at the rates um, established in the wage schedule. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstain? Motion carries. Would you like to announce those appointments? These will be effective November 1st, 2026.”
“And because we... Because of the re numbering of the clerks, we're going to assign the secretarial duties of the highway department to the deputy clerk three. So I'll make a motion that the town board assigns additional duties to the deputy clerk three position. the secretarial duties associated with the Town Highway Department with a weekly stipend of $61. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Abstained? Motion carries. So this next one, the Toshiba contract is up for renewal. the board asked me to get quotes. I was going to just see if you guys want to table this until Sunday,…”
“Yeah. All right. Got it. We're going to do them all together then. Okay. So I'm just going to give a little context. We now have four vehicles that we're trying to purchase that are not heavy vehicles. So these are all class one through eight. New York state has a contract with it's basically a like a purchase contract that goes across many, many, many dealers for every kind of make and model of new vehicle. They call it a mini bid because there's rules associated with it where you make a spec sheet, you put it out, they give you a list of all the dealers, you send it to them. There are rules…”