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General News: Notes from the Village Board Meeting
October 13, 2009
►On Monday, Cornwall-on-Hudson trustees re-appointed members to the newly formed ethics board. Thomas Bailey, Anne Duignan and Elisabeth Hellwege were first appointed last January but were never sworn in, in part because they have not held their first meeting. In the meantime, their appointment expired. The ethics board, which was created by the passage of a new ethics law in the village in 2008, is now set to have its first meeting on Wednesday, October 14.
►At their board meeting on October 19, the trustees will be discussing the study of the Cornwall-on-Hudson police department that they commissioned from the Division of Criminal Justice Service. The only thing is, the study itself will not be available to the public until the board members have sent their comments to the DCJS to incorporate into a final document. Mayor Gross had planned to discuss the study in a closed-door executive session but when learned from trustee Mark Edsall and the village attorney that discussions had to take place in a public meeting, he quickly changed gears and said it would be on the agenda for Monday’s meeting.
►The village has decided to keep its tax assessment powers, opting not to follow in the footsteps of villages across New York State. Susan Ostrander, a realtor who sits on the board of assessment review, looked into the pros and cons of the issue for the board of trustees and found that while it costs the village as little as $250 to have an assessment system, it gives the village some independence to grant assessment relief. “As long as we remain a village, this is part of being independent,” Ostrander told the board. They agreed with her unanimously and decided to make no changes to the current system, which allows the village assessments to be raised or lowered only when it comes to paying village taxes.
►With the start of the deer hunting season just around the corner on October 17, the village attorney says that he plans to present a legal opinion on bow hunting in the village to the board at its meeting on October 19. Supporters of bow hunting deer on private property in the village have argued that state law supersedes local laws on the topic. See story.
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