At a glance
A short Wednesday working session. The Public Works Board opened sidewalk season — nine fresh Sidewalk Improvement District applications on top of last year's carry-overs and roughly $310,000 in the fund — and scheduled a Thursday afternoon walk-through with the mayor to weigh priority pieces on Third through Seventh Streets for a city-funded summer rebuild. The board also renewed its engineering-services contract.
011:04
Opening and a welcome back
Members opened the meeting and welcomed returning colleagues.
Key points
- Members welcomed two returning board members.
- Roll was taken.
A note on the transcript
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021:28
Sidewalk Improvement District: nine fresh applications, a walk-through, and a possible summer rebuild
The Sidewalk Improvement District (SID) season opened with about nine fresh applications on top of last year's holdovers. The board will review them as a committee, send applicants letters either way, and bring recommendations to the Common Council. The available SID fund this year is roughly $310,000 — similar to last year.
Key points
- About nine new SID applications came in by the deadline; the board will review and decide them as a committee, then notify residents by letter — including residents asked to supply any missing pieces.
- The board scheduled a Thursday afternoon walk-through with the mayor (Thursday, May 28 at 3 p.m.) to evaluate priority sidewalk pieces — there are candidates on Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Streets, plus an attachment to municipal buildings.
- After the walk-through, the board plans to issue a Request for Proposals to get city-funded sidewalk work done this summer.
- Per the engineer's report, the assessment roll for the year is being prepared and is expected to land near last year's roughly $310,000.
- Members discussed soliciting more contractors. The city allows any insured contractor who meets the state's registration paperwork to bid; the board may keep a list of contractors residents have used and send them notice when the city has work.
0312:38
Veterans' second parcels, and an unfinished question for the Council
A clarifying question about how veterans-with-a-second-parcel are treated for credit purposes remained unresolved, with members disagreeing on what they had previously voted.
Key points
- The engineer asked the city to authorize, in writing, how a veteran owning a second parcel should be treated for credit or exemption purposes.
- Members remembered different things — some recalled voting against treating second parcels as credit-eligible, others were unsure — and agreed to check the prior minutes.
- The board will bring the issue to the Common Council for clarification.
045:00
Engineering contract renewed, and bills paid
The board authorized a renewed engineering services contract amendment and approved a small batch of bills.
Key points
- The board's as-needed engineering services contract was renewed at the same value as the last amendment (from around September of the prior year).
- A few outstanding invoices from February, March and April were approved for payment.
- Members heard a brief observation that local concrete pricing has dropped from about $15 to roughly $10-12 per square foot, which may stretch the budget.
0514:19
Brief public comment, then adjournment
One in-person speaker delivered an enthusiastic and rambling tribute to the board, including unrelated commentary about the Dunn warehouse and city personalities.
Key points
- A regular public-comment attendee praised the board and members by name.
- He referenced his own continued work on the Dunn warehouse outside the scope of this board.
- The meeting was adjourned.
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0:02That Welcome everybody to the public works
1:06board meeting. Um, welcome back Gary. Welcome back, Dave. Um, I'm going to chair tonight and just getting uh Gary back on his feet here. Uh, roll call. Tyler Kman, GW Commissioner. Gary Bernett, >> Martin, >> Dave Marson, George Fard. Good. Um, commissioners report. Uh, the deadline is up now for our applications for the SID. Um, we have about nine applications this year added to the ones from last year. We will review as a committee in the next month and determine um, yay or nay. send out a letter to the residents. Either way, they'll get something. Um, if they're missing a piece of information, we'll contact them and just make sure that we get that. Um, 99% of these look pretty good. Um, the uh we had a walkth through scheduled, but unfortunately we had to
2:10reschedu for later this week. We have some potential new sidewalks for this year's uh revenue that we have. Looks like there's a piece on third attachments to municipal buildings, a piece on fourth, a few pieces on fifth, sixth, and seventh. Uh we're going to walk with the mayor this week and get his blessing and um try to get a RFP out and get some more work done this summer. I think I think the the appropriate procedure would be that we make recommendations to the council. >> Yeah. Y Okay. Y um you know, whatever the steps are, we'll make sure everything is ironed out. Uh but the first obvious step is, you know, make sure committee's on board, the mayor's on board. Um Ryan, you got a engineer report?
3:11>> Yeah. So, since the last month's meeting, uh we've been working with the county. We're able to uh import this year's establishment, which that's currently for pretty much the beginning of June was the end of or sorry, end of May. Uh so we've started to import that data. Um pretty seamless, pretty smooth. I think this year um the SIB fund, I think last year around 310. We're a little bit higher right now, but I think once we add in any of the credit applications, it's probably going to level off about the same. Um, one of the things I I sent a quick snip to uh Tyler and Tiffany today with a request that any of the applications that are going to be either receiving credit or or potentially receiving credit, just send something to us just in writing so we can have we're making sure we have them all, we don't miss any. Um the only other piece that I think was talked about at prior meetings was that the veterans if a veteran owned a second piece of property, you know, just we just need someone to from the city's end
4:13to ex confirm which of those properties they want us to include as credible or exempt what their credit term would be. Um but on our end, uh we've pretty much begun the process to be ready for the July 1 tax rules. Um I think Tyler has a list right now. um of potential credit applications if we can get together maybe early next week. Yep. >> And just start checking the box on those. Um we could have a draft ready for the city probably early June just as a draft that anybody could review from the board's end. Um and then we could make any final tweaks before we get it to the county for the July 1st deadline. Hopefully get it there well before the July 1 deadline. Clarify that. And the other thing I did bring with me um is a contract amendment. We have a you know an as needed you know contract with the public works board. So just wanted to make sure we don't you know we don't exceed an amount that we agreed here where the city agreed to. So we use the same value as the last one from I
5:15believe it was last September or so. So I Gary and then continue on with whatever the city needs. >> Okay. So question go ahead. >> Are there any outstanding invoices current? Uh there are a few. Yes. But we can I have a summary as well as the vouchers and invoices. So I can I'll give those to you tonight as well. >> Thank you. >> Uh just review Ryan. Uh so you need 25 26 applications. Um and then we'll meet next week to go over the uh 9 10 >> Okay. Do we have a walk? Yeah, we do >> look on my calendar. >> I think it's Friday, isn't it? >> Thursday. Friday. >> Thursday at 3 Thursday 3 p.m. >> 3 p.m. Thursday. >> That's the 4th >> the 28th. >> Tomorrow.
6:18>> Yeah. Very good. At what time? >> 3 p.m. >> Meeting here. >> That's a thought. >> Yeah. Okay. Yeah. >> Um business needs to bring on >> Oh, just enough. I don't believe so. larger. I've noticed just as a comment uh I've been pricing out comment and uh it's it's dropping down 15 square foot to around 10 to 12. So we might get more work. And my second followup question is, do we have a prescribed list of contractors that can get this something that's open?
7:25Do we file dodge reports or something like that? >> So, I don't know what those reports might be. >> All right. In general, the city would allow any any contractor. There are some require insured. Yeah, you say they have to be insurance. They got to have insurance. There is um New York State did pass some legislation that speaks to them being a registered New York State contractor and that they file B paperwork and there's some other of those procedural steps, but the city it's focused to pretty much anyone who meet the criteria of responsib you know, um, just thinking about what you said, George, we do see the same contractors in a lot of these applications. >> I I you know, and I'm sure they do very good work.
8:26>> Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, it might be a good idea to guess that's the nonprofit is all contractors in search machine for digital. So the city generally uses it's a similar similar bid it's bidet is the actual website and there's a lot of similar uh similar to dollars but a lot of those we call them plan houses plan rooms generally request documents in our experience from us whenever they whenever those are made public through you know the notice the biders they generally ask for it there's a few there's the dodge there's a couple other blue
9:28so some other very similar to that that they'll request it. Very similar. They post it on their websites and contractors I believe some pay for their services and they get notifications. But um I guess to Tyler's point is there if there's a list of contractors that um residents have used, there's nothing wrong with sending them a solicitation when the city is has a project just as hey this is a notice. There's work that the city is just Yeah, exactly. We that's generally the notice to biders. Um and anyone who uh requests documents from our office on other projects, we generally keep a list and then the next time we do a project, we generally start with that list just to make sure that the goal is to get more than one bit. So that's generally the goal. Okay. Okay. So, new business really was just the I think is the priorities which we've been discussing. That's the walk through tomorrow. Um um you're going to give him those bills
10:33tonight. Yep. >> Right. We'll give them on next month. >> Um our next meeting, >> excuse me. >> Second. >> Are there any bills that we have not uh uh approved as a board? >> We can do that tonight. >> I don't believe so. Okay. And do the summary right now. >> Are any of the bills from 2025? >> No, they I believe one is February, March, April. >> Okay. >> They're working on that. You want to pull up the calendar? We have our is our next meeting. We got back. >> Yeah, we did. That's a push. That should be okay. They're not going
12:17to have them draft up the letters once we make our final decision. >> Yeah. Even if it's just we get the list before they're Oh, yeah. letters can don't have to go out for us. Okay, questions comments. Go ahead. >> Um, so Ryan, you had mentioned that we need to make a decision around the uh veterans with a second uh parcel. I believe the board had already decided that but I again I don't know which of those parcels are without spending time which the city wants me to go through and do that again. I just need some need someone from the city to authorize what what to do and how to decide which properties get that exemption or don't. That makes sense. Sure. Um so the board did approve that. Um,
13:23let's move forward. But that's something I want to bring up to the council. Get there as well. So, we voted so I was last one before. Yeah, I remember. I was there. Oh, okay. Okay. Four. No, we voted against it. We voted against that. They had multiple properties and and that they could only submit for one. Are you sure? >> Yeah. >> I thought that was the only I I do too because I voted against it and I vote for I don't know. >> I thought we voted. >> Well, we'll check. >> We'll check. >> Okay. I know there's a lot >> and you don't have to rely on my number. >> Well, I can't rely on my own. So, >> actually, I think mine is clear right now. Uh questions, comments from the public. >> I so enjoy coming to these meetings.
14:26Boy, Kenny, just Gary, you're just magnificent. You know, I'm not just a casual observant here, but I'm involved. I got some ideas. So, you know, I first came to the common council some 3 years ago, and you know, we had a little difficulties. Tom was not always the nicest, but uh Tom and I actually become good friends and I'm hoping that the mayor comes around and starts being more friendly with me and as I did, you know, make a point of getting to know him, you know, last year even before his primary. So, I I think he has a good heart and, you know, he's have to come around. But uh you know the new initiative in town that maybe you guys will become aware of the bright white transitioning transformational you know in terms of what it could bring in actually I don't know if the public works that the dung warehouse is part of you know your your perspective but I'm actively working on that so we'll skip that. So we're now the bright light and the gifted the
15:31visionary gift. So with that, thank you for your wonderful work. I appreciate, you know, the opportunity to attend all your meetings in real life because I appreciate real life oil in signing off and thank you. >> Thank you, Lord. else. >> Justin, >> anyone anyone online had anything they wanted to add? >> Justin, right? >> And I believe Carol's on as well. >> Hi, Carol. I know she deleted a post about the tree that was nice to me. >> Question. Where are you guys being tomorrow? Here. Here. >> 1 hour. We need one hour. >> Yeah. A lot of them would spray together. What are you doing? 3:00 >> just looking at some possible sidewalk. >> Oh, sidewalk. >> Yes, >> that would be fun. How much money do we
16:35get for >> 3105? >> That's all stuff. >> That's what we have. But we have bills in >> Right. We have the 50,000 you wanted to pay. >> We're good. >> All right. Make a motion we >> wonder I got work to do. I got my notes. >> Have a break. >> I had my hand up.
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