Bayville Village Board meeting Highlights - January 23, 2012 7:30 pm
SUMMARY of discussions, prepared by audience participants
 
Ludlam Ave Streetscape: A second change order was discussed, pertaining to D.F. Stone contractor. After multiple meetings reviewing work completed to date, Village staff and contractor discussed adding more of the subject area sidewalks and curbs and planting areas not originally included in the 2005 planning phase. Warm winter weather has allowed the project to continue at a great pace until the very recent work stop due to winter weather. Work is scheduled to will begin again on April 9 with paving and planting, and the project should be completed by Memorial Day.
Resolution to approve CO # 2 for $34 K approved.          
Additionally, expanded design services from Starr Whitehouse Landscape Design were mentioned, but the Village Board members were to gather more information on that before discussing at a future date.

Use of West Harbor Beach: The Board members voted to allow use of the West Harbor Beach for selected Spring dates by St. Gertrude's Preschool, and by the Locust Valley Middle School 8th Grade class for their year end parties.

Improvements at 24 Ludlam Avenue, Tilford Building:  The building's façade improvement project has an approved bid from Calabrese Brothers Construction for exterior façade construction, signage and awnings. The project is funded by federal tax dollars administered through a Nassau County's Community Block Development Grant program for property improvements. << MORE >>

Open conversation following the Regular Public Meeting of the Village of Bayville Board of Trustees.

Meeting Summary: compiled by resident attendee(s)

Bayville Village Board Meeting Highlights - Monday, Jan 9, 2012 7:30 pm

All Village Board members approved without discussion the Warrants and Claims
All Village Board members approved without discussion the Prior Meeting's Resolution
All Village Board members approved without discussion the Budget Transfers
The Village Board members discussed briefly and the agreed to table a proposal for Anker Electric to perform streetlight maintenance. They wanted to discuss the options. It was mentioned that the yearly proposal was for $9500.


Water Monitoring-
After some discussion[s] by the Village Board and questions from residents, all the Village Board members approved a proposal to hire Cornell Co-Op for $7946.80 to locate about 10 sites and perform Dry Weather Monitoring as part of the Mandated MS4 Requirements. There was discussion that this must be done every five years. It was also discussed if Village Employees could perform this task but the Village Board felt it best that it be professionally done this time and they would try to have a Village Employee or Village Board member present for the testing.


Proposed Increase of Village of Bayville taxes above 2% State Mandate-
The Village is proposing the enactment of a law that will override the 2011 NYS Property Tax Levy Cap of 2% on your Village Taxes, enacted by State Legislature and signed into law by Gov Cuomo. The Mayor opened the public hearing, summarized the law and stated that nobody in Albany asked the Village for any input when coming up with the percentage amount. He then presented the following, last year the budget was approximately $5.2M and the tax levy was $4.1M so 2% of $4.1M was ~$92K from this amount with everything else being equal they had to add to last years budget a 2% Union raise at ~$25K+FICA and ~$55K for the retirement plan (Note that some of this may, by law, be excluded from the Property Tax 2% ceiling) leaving the Village with less than ~$12K to work with when drafting the 2012-2013 budget. << MORE >>

Open conversation following the Regular Public Meeting of the Village of Bayville Board of Trustees.

Meeting Summary: compiled by resident attendee

Bayville Village Board Meeting Highlights

Monday Dec 12, 2011, 7:30 pm

The meeting opened with the Boards business motions to accept the warrants and claims as presented, and to pass the prior meetings resolutions as accepted.

Environmental Conversation Committee (ECC):
A recommendation was accepted for an appointment to the Village of Bayville's Environmental Conservation Commission. Ms. Beth Bates, a 4th grade teacher from Bayville Intermediate School, was recommended to serve on the committee, which works on environmental projects such as removing invasive species from woodlands in the Harrison Williams Woods, preservation of trees, removing invasive vines.

Creek Beach dock removal:
Electrical contractor work will be required and will consist of disassembly of electric systems before hauling,  and more extensive reassembly of electric systems in the Spring. Best price bid was Anchor Electric: $1850 for Fall work, and $6765 for Spring work. Mayor Watson explained that over the past two years, the docks were left in the water with a bubble system to prevent icing damage. However, now the docks are in need of maintenance. Money for this work will come from reduced security budget items this season in the boating budget and not the general fund. << MORE >>

Open conversation following the Regular Public Meeting of the Village of Bayville Board of Trustees.

Bayville Village Board Meeting – Monday Nov. 28, 2011 - 7:30 pm

SUMMARY of discussions, prepared by audience participants

 
 Recognition of two hero Police Officers from Nassau County for selfless bravery during helicopter rescue of driver of car hit by tree branch on Bayville Ave. on August 28^th 2011 during extreme conditions of Hurricane Irene. Citation Award given.

 

Board motions to accept their last meeting minutes, Warrants & Claims, budget transfers, and 2012 Holiday and Meeting schedule.

 

Bridge Marina Lease:

Motion to accept amendment to 2002 lease agreement with Bridge Marina for 40 Ludlam Avenue, mutually agreed negotiations to extend lease another 5 year period at existing rent, with Bridge Marina to pay half of property taxes should they become due in the time period.   Monthly rent of $10,655. Motion accepted.

 

Ludlam Ave Streetscape change order:  Continuation of change order discussion from last meeting; changes to include more sidewalk areas in renovation project, of damaged areas that have deteriorated since the original project scope 2+ years ago.   Different charge rates of saw cutting noticed by Trustee Fey were investigated and found to be attributed to required cutting depth.

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Open conversation following the Regular  Public Meeting of the Village of Bayville Board of Trustees.

BAYVILLE VILLAGE BOARD MEETING Nov 14, 2011  7:30 pm

MEETING SUMMARY:  (compiled by resident attendee)

Business Motions of Village Board:

• Resolution to  authorize Building Inspector to begin code Chapter 15 (condemned or unsafe structure) on 22 Bayville Ave, old Pig n Whistle location where currently concrete framing sits behind fencing.  First step in getting property cleaned up.  May include determination of unsafe structure.  Owner will be notified with timeframe for remedy.  If not remedied, fines or other measures will ensue.
• Resolution to continue participation in ongoing Nassau County program of Community Development Block Grant Program to assist homeowners who meet certain income criteria with necessary home improvements.
• Resolution to honor the Village mandated audit for the courts.
• Resolution to hire beach attendant at $7.50 hour.
• Resolution for a change order to the Streetscape Project (Ludlam Ave), cost of $62,000 within original budgeted frame (which came in below initial cost estimates),  based on past three years weather, tree, fencing conditions since first plans were drawn up 3 years ago.  More sidewalk to be included in renovation.   One resident complaint that he was not personally notified as to the project and schedule, and his property borders on the project areas.

 

Public Comment:  The Mayor opened up Public Comment announcing that since September 26^th public comment time ran over 2.5 hours, and that did not serve anyone, he will limit Public Comment tonight to 30 minutes.

• Resident disappointed that after Library construction project there were many empty shelves, not very much more books, and very low attendance at toddler story time, since Library newsletter was discontinued.  A request was made to add a Library news insert into the quarterly Village newsletter.
• Over the Bridge storeowner reminded and requested of Bayville to shop locally, and gave dates of Wine Tasting event on Nov 18, and the countywide program of Small Business Saturday on Nov 26.  The comment was of very low traffic in her store in town.
• Arlington Lane resident asked for response from Maria Alfano-Hardy on two road questions regarding private roads and maintenance.  Since the Village Board has not me in regular session since September 26 they had not discussed answers, but will have answers at next Village Board Meeting.
• A resident commented that he was not pleased with Board’s vote to settle the Fire Company budget lawsuit with a vote to meet full request of Fire Company budget.  Trustee Staab gave several detailed points on the considerations that went into that settlement decision such as cost of long lawsuit, relationship with Fire Company, parameters to other two Villages served by Fire Company, and getting second year at no increase.  Discussion of these considerations were limited at Oct 25th Public Hearing because lawsuit was not yet closed.
• Resident  complaining on past issue of suspected polluted water effluent from neighboring property.  Resident thanked Village Board for pressure put to business that was pumping out front to sidewalk and road in front of another restaurant.  Sidewalk outflow was removed and piped underground to street drain.  Several water tests were made, and Mayor and resident discussed the water test reports of fecal coliform ppm and that while not drinking water, the water was not sewage.
• Resident asked about 2011 budget line item for Fire Company, of $25,000.  Mayor explained that the money was a short term transfer to buy a 6-wheel dune buggy for the Fire Company but that state grant money obtained by the Fire Company was then used to pay back the Village
• 8 residents from Oak Neck Point asked of Village Attorney about the repair responsibility of the brick wall along their neighborhood and Bayville Avenue.  Village letter went out to Association that Oak Neck Point Association is responsible for wall. But no action of repair taken. Village Attorney Bianco is working on further research and will have more information on possible remedies, of which Chapter 15 or unsafe structure does not seem to be a viable mechanism in this case.
• Resident spoke out that incidence of unkind letters and emails to Village government members is awful and unacceptable, and she hopes investigation finds the culprit.
• Resident commented on current construction at Streetscape Project and thanked both current and past Village administrations for their work in securing this project with grant funds for Bayville, and the progress is appreciated.
• Resident thanked Village Board for proceeding in Chapter 15 to remedy 22 Bayville Avenue, and asked specifically what fines were available if remedy not made, and the answer was most likely the $250.00 per day fine.
• Resident asked how many violation were issued in recent months, how many of these were dismissed, and how many were rectified.
• Resident asked again about free running chickens on her street, and asked again for an answer as to code violation on this.
• Senior Citizen resident gave an emotional plea to Board to see the upsetting decline in Bayville neighborhoods, house near him with four families, unkempt homes.  He recognized the beautiful nature of Bayville, residents, and participants who come here tonight.

 

Meeting adjourned.

NEXT MEETING: Monday November 28^th, 7:30 pm.

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When I originally began addressing “The Roads of Bayville” several years ago on this blog, I did my absolute best to keep it objective.   I was attempting to get the administration at that time to at least make an attempt to address the glaring flaws in the way that roads were being (or, more to the point, not being) handled.   Obviously, living on Arlington Lane, this was no easy task.   To my knowledge, Arlington Lane is the best (worst) example of these flaws in existence. I understand that, given the state of things in our little village, this is an ambitious statement.

At this point it may be a good idea to go back and re-read my prior posts on the subject:

http://bayvilleblog.com/2006/11/12/the-roads-of-bayville.aspx

http://bayvilleblog.com/2007/01/21/roads-revisited.aspx

As anyone who drives by Arlington Lane can attest, the road is a shambles.   You need not even drive down the road to see that it is virtually impassable in anything but an SUV or truck.   Each time we have even a moderate rainfall; the road floods and we are left with standing water for days.   In the spring of 2010, there was standing water at the intersection of Arlington and Grove from March 11^th to May 21^st without ever once being dry -  two and a half months.

 

I’m sure that, right about now, many of you are grumbling to yourselves that we should all just re-pave the road and stop complaining.

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Use this thread for announcements, events and general conversation in and around the Locust Valley Central School District. This district has schools in the Long Island communities of Locust Valley and Bayville NY.
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Please use this thread for general conversation about the storm, conditions, storm related messages,  etc.  Keep it to Irene only. Thanks!
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Monday night’s meeting of the Board of Trustees was demonstrative of a constituency that is nearing its limits of tolerance for watching their home town deteriorate.   Resident after resident came forward to voice outrage over the village’s inability (or unwillingness) to address long-standing problems.   << MORE >>

Posted at the request of the Bayville Fire Company - Admin

The Bayville Fire Company is this years host of the 5th Battalion Parade and Drill. The event brings together the 11 fire departments along Nassau's North Shore that make up the 5th Battalion of the Nassau County Fire Service. The days events will begin with the drill which is held at the track at Centre Island Beach. The drill will begin at 10:00AM on Saturday the 18th and should end around 2:00PM. The competition tests firefighters skills in ladder events, hose events and comes to a conclusion with the popular buckets brigade!

The evening events get started with the parade of the 11 departments through town. Each department is judged by appearance, number of members in line by judges that are stationed along the parade route. The parade will begin at School Street and proceed east to Centre Island Beach. At the conclusion of the parade entertainment will be provided by the band Flashback. This is the same band that performed at the recent Falcon Pride Summer Kick Off Concert.

The Grand Marshall for this years event was to be Past President Edward M.

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Last night the Village of Bayville approved a 19.5% tax increase for 2011/2012 year. Residents packed the room while the Board unanimously passed the increase.
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Its that time again... Discussion on the Bayville Elections June 20th 2010 << MORE >>

Discussion on LVCSD Annual Budget Vote Tuesday May 18th, 2010 << MORE >>

There is a documentary scheduled to be released this December (which has already been entered into several film festivals) entitled, Full Signal. This film documents the current controversy regarding cell phones, cell phone antennas, the radiation that these technologies emit, and how it impacts the human population. This is an area that all residents living in Bayville << MORE >>

I've seen pre-contruction activity on West Shore Road recently. According to the article below it seems as if this project has been delayed as it should have reached completion by the end of 2009. The article states that the repairs will be to the wall only? Anyone know the scope of the project? Will the new road finally be inclusive of a bike path?


Below is an article that was recently mailed to me that had appeared in the Oyster Bay Enterprise Pilot back in May 2009. It is written by D.F. Karppi Monday, 18 May 2009

Ray Ribiero, Nassau County Department of Public Works commissioner, returned a phone call requesting information, saying he currently does not have a crew working on West Shore Road.
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Parents across the country are rebelling against plans by President Barack Obama to speak directly to their children through the classrooms of the nation's public schools without their presence, participation and approval on Sept 8th.  For many this is the first day of school.

Should there be an "opt out" option available to parents such as recess? Many school districts are adopting such a plan for next weeks address. How should our local districts handle?

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Lacking details, the Obama Healthcare proposal will eventually increase federal spending. Historically they have mismanaged Medicare and Medicaid and killed Social Security. Government healthcare has failed miserably in other countries and will strip<< MORE >>

On December 11, 2008 Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo announced a plan to empower communities across the state with the ability to fundamentally reorganize and consolidate local governments. In May, the Attorney General, after working with various groups, citizens and the Legislature, announced legislation, entitled The New N.Y. Government Reorganization and Citizen Empowerment Act - taken from the NYS Attorney Generals Office website. More here 

Consolidation. Some say long over due, some say not necessary.  Lets face it, from the way I see things from here downstate, NY is not in the greatest  fiscal shape, yet the downstate area of Long Island is << MORE >>

Discussion on July 4th Celebration and the bonfire decision (still pending as of June 1st)<< MORE >>

Discussion on  LVCSD Annual Budget Vote May 19th<< MORE >>

In another glaring example of the deficiencies of the way in which the roads in Bayville are managed, the piece of road on Shore Road (not to be confused with West Shore Road - soon to be addressed) that was closed decades ago by Mr. Viteritti is now open and paved.  The history of this, the implications for residents of Arlington Lane  and the practice of selectively allowing roads to be closed with absolutely no basis in law, is so mind numbing that I can't even begin to address it right now.  To top it all off, this project was done with no notice to the residents most affected by it.<< MORE >>

A groundbreaking ceremony has been scheduled to celebrate the start of the Birches sewage remediation project.  The ceremony will take place at the site of the proposed pump station on Melody Rd. on Thursday April 16th at 10:30 P>

Barry E. Lamb
Bayville

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General discussion about the current administration and their performance, challenges and accomplishments. Starting with President Barak Obama in 2009, this will be an ongoing thread following future administrations. If someone wants a thread on a specific subject please email admin@bayvilleblog.com and it will be set up. Please include a brief description of the thread when submitting request. Remember, you are responsible for your content, please keep it constructive and free of personal attacks. All have the right to their own beliefs and opinions. Please use your head when posting, targeted threats against heads of states whether written spoken is a serious offense. << MORE >>

I received a call from Diane Yatauro’s office just moments ago informing me that Senator Schumer will hold a press conference tomorrow at 11:00am. The press conference will be held at the site of the proposed sewage pump station in the Birches development. The purpose is to make a request of president elect Obama to include additional funding for sewage treatment in his economic stimulus plan.<< MORE >>

General discussion on the election such as events, the Media coverage of, etc. Please rememeber that you are responsible for your content, please keep it constructive and free of personal attacks. All have the right to their own beliefs and opinions.<< MORE >>

For posts regarding the Republican Candidates:  - John Sidney McCain III  for President / Sarah Louise Heath Palin for Vice President. Please rememeber that you are responsible for your content, please keep it constructive and free of personal attacks. All have the right to their own beliefs and opinions.<< MORE >>

For posts regarding the Democratic Candidates: Barack Hussein Obama II - for President / Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. - for Vice President. Please rememeber that you are responsible for your content, please keep it constructive and free of personal attacks. All have the right to their own beliefs and opinions.<< MORE >>

Friends of the Bay is Calling on All Nassau County Residents to urge their legislators to approve the Intermunicipal Agreement between the Town of Oyster Bay and Nassau County to connect the homes in the area known as The Birches to the Glen Cove Sewage Treatment plant.
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The Nassau County legislature is scheduled to vote on the Birches cost sharing agreement. The following was sent out by Friends of the Bay:

Update- the hearing will be held at the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building at 1550 Franklin Avenue, Mineola at 2:45 pm on Monday, August 4th. The hearing will be in the first floor legislative chamber.

Your help is needed to resolve the situation at the Birches.

Please come to a hearing by the Planning Committee of the Nassau County legislature at 2:45 pm on Monday, August 4th, to show your support for the Intermunicipal Agreement by Nassau County and the Town of Oyster Bay to connect the Birches to the << MORE >>

On Wednesday, June 25th, a meeting was held at Bailey Arboretum to update residents regarding changes to the plan for mitigating the raw sewage discharge from the Birches residential area, into Mill Neck Creek..

Earlier this year, Nassau County took possession of the Glen Cove sewage treatment plant. This prompted them to look into the possibility of connecting the Birches area, via a pump station and forced main, to the Glen Cove plant instead of constructing a packet treatment plant in the Birches area. This, of course, delayed the start of construction, which was to have already begun earlier this year. Needless to say, I was not happy with the delay. It was my contention<< MORE >>

It has been a little unclear as to how the Williams Estate deed reads as it pertains to the property on which the Bayville Water tower resides and the surrounding property. There has been a lot of talk about it during the recent meetings regarding the cell phone antennas but few have had the opportunity to read it. Here is your opportunity to review it and see how it relates to the cell towers (commercial enterprise) or anything else deemed offensive.

Harrison Williams Deed

Bayville Cell Towers FAQ's

International Association of Firefighter's - Position on the Health Effects from Radio Frequency/Microwave (RF/MW) Radiation in Fire Department Facilities from Base Stations for Antennas and Towers for the Conduction of Cell Phone Transmissions

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The Green Market is scheduled to open Saturday, June 7 and remain open through Saturday, September 6, 2008.  We are looking for volunteers - Anyone interested can call Joanne at Village Hall 628-1439 extension 10.

Posted at the request of Kate Naughton

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The Locust Valley Central School District Annual Election of Board Members and Vote on the Budget will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 2008, between 12:00 noon and 10:00 p.m. at the following places:

Bayville Election District:  Bayville Intermediate Schools

Brookville Election District:  Community Hall, Brookville Reformed Church at the corner of Brookville Road and Wheatley Road

Locust Valley Election District:  Locust Valley High School/Middle School

There will be a "Meet the Candidates” evening on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. in the High School Cafeteria.   Six candidates are running for three seats on the Board of Education:  incumbents Dr. Yao H. Chu and Ronald J. Walsh, as well as Philip Bellisari, Kathleen Falciano, Joseph Florio and Lisa McLoughlin. 

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The board of the civic association is all resigning, with the exception of the treasurer. We have been the board for 2 years now but can no longer do it for various reasons. We sent out a flyer and held a general meeting in April to elect new officers. Out of 250 families only 7 families showed up; 4 of those families were the officers. We are not a usual civic association. We have to have one to maintain our roads and drainage systems or else we will have to pay back the original grant << MORE >>

It’s been brought to my attention that the LVCSD Board of Education has opened a dialogue with the Village Gov’t, expressing concerns about the safety of the Cell Towers being so close to BP. The Village has responded that there is little community opposition to this situation, merely a dozen or so people who are

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To anyone interested in running for trustee of Bayville, there will be a
Village Election June 17th, 2008.
 
Three Trustee positions are up for election. There are 6 Trustees in Bayville and they run on split years. Three Trustees (3)  this year and then the opposite three (3) in 2010 when the next Mayoral Race occurs.
 
Anyone can run for Trustee. Maria Alfano-Hardy is the Village Clerk and she is the designated election official during Village Elections. Information on running can be obtained from her office or the Nassau County Board of Elections. 
 
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The acquisition of the twenty-five acre Smither's property was unanimously approved yesterday.  After several other items were addressed at the meeting, Diane Yatauro requested that those who were scheduled to speak on the Smithers' acquisition not do so for the sake of expediency, indicating that it would pass.   When the the polling was complete, it was unanimous.