MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING, PUBLIC HEARING AND WORKSHOP OF THE HYDE PARK TOWN BOARD VIRTUAL MEETING HELD VIA ZOOM AND LIVE STREAMED ON YOUTUBE ON NOVEMBER 16, 2020 AT 6:00 PM PRESENT: SUPERVISOR AILEEN ROHR COUNCILMAN NEIL KRUPNICK COUNCILMAN DAVID RAY COUNCILMAN JOSEPH MARRINE COUNCILMAN KENNETH SCHNEIDER ATTORNEY TO THE TOWN WARREN S. REPLANSKY TOWN CLERK DONNA McGROGAN Supervisor Rohr: Well good evening everyone. And welcome to the virtual meeting of the Hyde Park Town Board today is Monday, November 16th. And I hope everyone is well and preparing for a quiet Thanksgiving. Please join me. While we pledge Allegiance to the Flag. I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all. Supervisor Rohr: It reminded me of how my family sings happy birthday, so, okay, well good. So, may I have a motion to accept the minutes of the November 2nd meeting? MOTION: Councilman Schneider: SECOND: Councilman Ray VOICE VOTE: ALL IN FAVOR: 5 ALL OPPOSED: 0 CARRIED Supervisor Rohr: Okay, So, we do have a couple of adjustments to our agenda tonight and I'd like to seek a motion to amend Resolution number three because we are taking out what are we taking out Ken? Pipe cleaning? Councilman Schneider: We are taking out number three, we're going to remove the base and pipe cleaning from the resolution. Supervisor Rohr: This as per the request of the Highway Super. And then we are also adding Resolutions 13 and 14. The first 13 is the agreement with Verizon and 14 is to authorize a new position to work in the Human Resources department. So may have a motion to make those three adjustments to our agenda. MOTION: Councilman Schneider SECOND: Councilman Ray VOICE VOTE: ALL IN FAVOR: 5 ALL OPPOSED: 0 CARRIED Supervisor Rohr: Okay, great. So, we do have public comment on that on the Agenda, and I just like to ask the Town Clerk, if anyone has submitted any comment on any of the resolutions Donna McGrogan: I have received no comments Supervisor Rohr: Neil, did anyone register to vote, to speak at this meeting? No. Okay. All right. Good. All right. So, we do have two public hearings on the agenda. The first is on our Community Development Block Grant application submission, and Joe and I have been working with the Rec Commission, the Rec Director, excuse me, and with the participation of the Rec Commission on developing, I think a really good application to expand the facilities at Dinsmore Park. And as many people know we were successful in receiving the award for 2020. And those improvements are underway right now, and that is to build Pickle- ball courts and improve the Basketball courts at Dinsmore Park. So just to kind of review the parameters for CDBG funding, they have to benefit low to moderate income folks. And the town has provided a map by Dutchess County Planning that identifies those areas that fall in those income blocks. So, it's fairly limited what the town is able to do, but you know, we are fortunate that we have received the awards almost every year for the last number of years. And so, this year the income qualified parks were Beck and Dinsmore, none of the other parks complied. And, you know, we do have our primary park at Hackett Hill, but sadly that is not in an income qualified block. You know, we do hope at some point that we may undertake an income survey which would allow us to make improvements at that park. That was just not in the cards this year, particularly because of COVID. So, we are going to submit an application for $118,000 for playground improvements at the Dinsmore. And, you know, our thought process was that with the improvements that are currently there and the high visibility of the park that we are in a good place to really kind of expand those recreational opportunities for different ages as Ken pointed out last time. So, that's the public hearing. And with that, I'll ask the Town Clerk to go ahead and read the public hearing notice. Donna McGrogan: Please take notice that the Town Board of the Town of Hyde Park shall conduct a public hearing to discuss the use of Dutchess County Community Development Block Grant Program funds for the fiscal year 2021 on November 16th, 2020 at 6:05 PM. Per the governor's executive orders, the meeting and public hearing will be held virtually with no gathering at Town Hall and livestreamed on YouTube for remote public procedures. Please use the following link, which is available on our town website, Hyde Parkny.us by order of the Town Board at the Town of Hyde Park dated October 19th, 2020 Hyde Park, New York, Donna McGrogan, Town Clerk Supervisor Rohr: Thanks Donna, so again, did you receive any comments? Donna McGrogan: I did not. Supervisor Rohr: Okay. And Neil has anyone registered to speak? Councilman Krupnick: Nobody has registered Supervisor Rohr: Okay. So, actually I guess I didn't ask for a motion to open the Public Hearing, but Donna's reading of the public notice suffices, I'm assuming. So, unless we have any other thoughts on it, I'll go ahead and seek a motion to close the public hearing. MOTION: Councilman Schneider SECOND: Councilman Ray VOICE VOTE: ALL IN FAVOR: 5 ALL OPPOSED: 0 CARRIED Supervisor Rohr: Okay. All right. Well, thanks. And do you want to thank the Rec Commission for working with us on this proposal and you know, we'll keep our fingers crossed and make sure we write a good strong application and hopefully we'll receive the monies. Okay. So, then we have a second public hearing. That's a proposed Assessment Roles filed by the Town Assessor for the Town of Hyde Park, for fiscal year 2020. So, may I have a motion to open that public hearing? MOTION: Councilman Schneider SECOND: Councilman Ray VOICE VOTE: ALL IN FAVOR: 5 ALL OPPOSED: 0 CARRIED And Donna, would you please read that public hearing notice Donna McGrogan: And on both of the last two, those were everybody voted okay. On that everybody voted in favor? Supervisor Rohr: Correct, yes Donna McGrogan: Okay. Please take notice that the Town Board of the Town of Park shall conduct a public hearing on the Proposed Assessment Role that the Town Assessor of the Town of Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York has filed for the fiscal year, 2021 for the properties within the Special Improvement Districts and the Town of Hyde Park pursuant to Town Law, Section 2:39 on November 16th, 2020 at 6:10 PM. Per the Governor's executive orders, the meeting and public hearing will be held virtually with no gathering at Town Hall and livestreamed at YouTube. For remote public hearing procedures please follow the Town website link, which is hydeparkny.us. By order of the Town Board of the Town of Hyde Park dated November 2, 2020. Hyde Park, New York, Donna McGrogan, Hyde Park. Supervisor Rohr: Thanks, Donna. And again, were there any comments received by you, Donna? Donna McGrogan: There were not. Supervisor Rohr: And Neil, did anyone register to speak for this public hearing? Councilman Krupnick: Nobody registered Supervisor Rohr: Okay. So just to clarify, because it is a little confusing. So, the assessment rules are for the taxes for 2021, but they're based on the fiscal year 2020, because the Assessor closes the roll as of July 1st. So that's why there's a discrepancy in the year. Okay, so, does any of the Town Board have any comments? Councilman Schneider: No. The only thing I would hope that maybe in 2021 or 2022, I know we've been discussing it for 10 years since we've been on the Town Board about doing a reevaluation for the Town. And I think, you know, it's something that we should really look at and consider you know, I, there's going to be some winners. There's going to be some losers there's going to be, but, you know, with all the homes that are being sold you know, I just think it's a good time to maybe have a discussion about when or how we can go about, I know it's going to be expensive. And I know we tried doing a Grant between, I think there's two other municipalities that are not at a hundred percent evaluation, but it's something I think we should probably put back on the table shortly again. Supervisor Rohr: Okay. Well, you could kind of head that up, Ken. Again, it's on our to do list for sure. I think that the reason we haven't really gotten to that is because we've been focusing on improving the actual, not just the assessment, but what we actually have. And I think you're right, it's a good time because we are seeing additional investment, but, you know, we're proba- bly talking about $800,000 to do the full value reassessment. And, you know, that's not something that you can bond for longer than five years, it's maxi- mum of five years. So, you know, I think that's definitely on our to do list. Councilman Schneider: Yeah, the list is always long and I get it.