Town Board closes 2011

AMENIA — On Thursday, Dec. 15, the Amenia Town Board held its last meeting of the year. It was the final Town Board meeting that Wayne Euvrard presided over as town supervisor, as he did not run for re-election.During the organizational meeting that will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 4, Supervisor-elect Bill Flood will assume the position.Euvrard is not the only one who will be leaving. Town Councilman Norm Cayea will be leaving his seat; he did not win in the November elections. Instead, newcomer C.J. Hoss will be replacing him.Attorney to the Town Michael Hayes will also be leaving his position.Euvrard said he was reminiscing about the time when he first met Hayes while working on a law regarding airfields in the town of Amenia.While reviewing the law books, Euvrard discovered that the airfield law had been accidentally repealed by a later zoning law.Euvrard, believing that the aircraft law is necessary to maintain the rural character of Amenia, decided to repropose the airfield law.The Town Board gave the first reading of the proposed law during the Dec. 15 meeting. The law, if adopted, will ban the creation of new airfields in the town, including landing strips and helipads. The law will also ban the takeoff or landing of any aircraft within the town’s boundaries except in a “bona fide emergency.”The law’s text explains that the noise of an airfield will conflict with the rural nature of the area and can potentially scare the livestock in the area. It continues to say that the region has plenty of other forms of transportation, including major roads and railroad access, as well as other small airports within a half-hour drive, which makes an airfield within the town unnecessary.A public hearing will be held for this law in early 2012.During the meeting, the Town Board also passed a resolution that balanced the lines in the budget that had been overdrawn. The board explained that this was a normal “housekeeping” measure.The resolution also moved money from the General Fund Balance into “a CD or interest-bearing account” for three separate capital reserve projects.Twenty-five thousand dollars was transferred into a capital reserve fund for the water district, $20,000 was transferred for the Assessor’s Office’s capital project and $5,000 was transferred for the wastewater engineer planning.

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