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Home My WebLink AboutTB-11/07/2012 Budget HearingsELIZABETH A. NEVILLE TOWN CLERK REGISTRAR OF VITAL STATISTICS MARRIAGE OFFICER RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER FREEDOM OF INFORMATION OFFICER OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK SOUTHOLD TOWN BOARD BUDGET HEAR1NGS Town Hall, i3095 Main Road PO Box 1179 Southold, NY 11971 Fax (631) 765-6145 Telephone: (631) 765 - 1800 southoldtown.northfork.net MINUTES November 7, 2012 4:00 PM A Budget Hearings of the Southold Town Board was held Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at the Meeting Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, NY. Supervisor Russell opened the meeting at 4:00 PM with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. 1. Call to Order 4:00 PM Meeting called to order on November 7, 2012 at Meeting Hall, 53095 Route 25, Southold, NY. Attendee Name William Ruland Christopher Talbot Jill Doherty Albert Krupski Jr. Louisa P. Evans Scott Russell Organization Title Town of Southold Councilman Town of Southold Councilman Town of Southold Councilwoman Town of Southold Councilman Town of Southold Justice Town of Southold SUpervisor Status Arrived Present Present Present Present Present Present II. Public Hearings Set PH for 2013 Budget COUNCILMAN TALBOT: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Preliminary Budget and Preliminary Capital Budget of the Town of Southold, Suffolk County, New York for the fiscal year beginning on January 1, 2013 has been prepared and approved by the Southold Town Board and filed in the Office of the Town Clerk at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, where they are available for inspection and where copies may be obtained by any interested person during business hours. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Town Board of the Town of Southold will meet and review said Preliminary Budget and Preliminary Capital Budget and hold a public hearing thereon at the Southold Town Hall, 53095 Main Road, Southold, New York, in said November 7, 2012 Page 2 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes Town at 4:00 p.m. and at 7:00 p.m., on Wednesday, November 7, 2012, and at such hearing any persons may be beard in favor of or against the 2013 Preliminary Budget and 2013 Preliminary Capital Budget as compiled, or for or against any item or items therein contained. FURTHER NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that pursuant to Section 108 of the Town Law, the following are proposed yearly salaries of members of the Town Board, the Town Clerk and the Superintendent of Highways: SCHEDULE OF SALARIES OF ELECTED OFFICIALS (ARTICLE 8 OF TOWN LAW) Officer Supervisor Members of the Town Board (4) ~ Town Justice and Member of the Town Board, Fishers Island Town Justices (2) ~ Town Clerk Superintendent of Highways Tax Receiver Assessors (3) ~ Trustees (5) ~ SUMMARY OF TOWN BUDGET 2013 PRELIMINARY $ 91,992 $ 32,567 $ 49,662 $ 66,618 $ 92,275 $ 100,857 $ 37,174 $ 71,214 $ 17,984 Appropriations Less: Less: and Provisions Estimated Unexpended Amount to be Code Fund for Other Uses Revenues Balance Raised by Tax A General $ 28,471,228 $ 3,625,476 $ 2,630,000 $ 22,215,752 B General-Outside Village 2,191,079 1,248,890 98,500 843,689 DB Hil~hway Fund 5,622,086 353,769 335,500 4,932,917 CD Community Development 85,000 85,000 CS Risk Retention Fund 521,000 521,000 H3 Community Preserv Fund 6,293,439 3,916,000 2,377,439 MS Employees Health Plan 4,750,784 4,600,784 150,000 Total- $ 47,934,616 $ 14,350,919 $ 5,591,439 $27,992,258 Town DB 1 Orient Road Improve Dist $ 3,650 $ $ 650 $ 3,000 SF East-West Fire Protct Dist 739,353 500 7,000 731,853 SM Fishers Island Ferry Dist 3,740,837 2,694,168 281,669 765,000 SR Solid Waste Manage Dist 4,449,776 2,264,500 78,000 2,107,276 SS 1 Southold Wastewater Dist 126,300 20,000 106,300 SS2 Fishers Island Sewer Dist 34,600 32,471 2,129 F.1. Waste Mana[~e Dist 829,450 70,000 222,500 536,950 Orient Mosquito Dist 85,000 85,000 Subtotal- $10,008,966 $ 5,061,639 $ 611,948 $ 4,335,379 Special Districts November 7, 2012 Page 3 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes Orient-East Marion Park $ 39,984 $ $ $ 39,984 Dist Southold Park District 321,300 321,300 Cutchogue-N S Pk Dist. 140,000 t0,000 130,000 Mattituck Park District 581,610 28,000 147,300 406,310 Subtotal-Park Districts $ 1,082,894 $ 28,000 $ 157,300 $ 897,594 Fishers Island Fire $ 395,200 $ 150 $ $ 395,050 District Orient Fire District 602,920 65,450 537,470 East Marion Fire District 610,783 84,430 17,000 509,353 Southold Fire District 1,830,875 22,493 1,808,382 Cutchol~ue Fire District 1,276,700 1,000 45,000 1,230,700 Mattituck Fire District 1,822,282 1,822,282 SubtotaI-FireDistricts $ 6,538,760 $ 173,523 $ 62,000 $ 6,303,237 Total-All Districts 17,630,620 I $ 5,263,162[ $ 831,248I $11,536,210 I Grand Totals This Page 65,565,235.91 6,422,687.00 39,528,467.91 19,614,081.00 I have a notice that it was posted in the Suffolk Times on the November 5, 2012 and on the Town Clerk's bulletin board on October 25, 2012. And that is it. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Would anybody like to comment on the proposed budget of the Southold Town Board? And I say that implying that there are actually people here. ROBERT CLEVELAND: You all know I have been here a lot and I watch what you do, I watch what you put in to it and relative to some of the other salaries that I know of, perhaps even some civil servants, I think that some of the salaries are kind of low and you stayed well under the 2 %, so what would it be if it were another 2 or 3 % that you got higher up and spread it around at the top. I mean, if we are going to attract good people to do the primary work of the town, I don't think a few more bucks is going to hurt anybody. I am not talking about making anybody $250,000 a year but it just, I mean they were the only real numbers that I could look at and compare and I just say, wait a minute. Full time salary? Perhaps some part time salaries it is not a killer but when you are talking about somebody that is working full time and we live in the environment we live in and you have got to pay for bread and milk and everything else. I think he has worked hard to keep the costs down. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Thank you. COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: Thank you. COUNCILMAN RULAND: Mr. Supervisor, I would like to comment. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: Sure. November 7, 2012 Page 4 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes COUNCILMAN RULAND: (tape change) for the town that you spend in the actual development of this budget, addressing the needs of just a myriad of budget codes that provide funding for so many of the things that it takes to operate the town that people don't see. There are many things that have to go on that are rarely seen, a lot of it is behind the scenes, yet the functions are extremely important. The people have to be served and they deserve to be served well and I think by and large, we can all say that they are. Not that there aren't glitches, certainly there the town services have been tested to the limit in the last week or 10 days and who knows what the future holds but by the same token, fully realizing that we can't spend ourselves into oblivion and as have some other municipalities have done and find themselves really in dire financial straights and certainly I would say to you, I would applaud you for your resolve that no, there is no way we are going to go over the tax cap, we are going to find a way to stay under the tax cap, to keep the spending as low as it can possibly be and still provide the services that people expect and certainly I know in listening to each one of the members of the Board in our budget discussions that that has been pretty much the common theme throughout. We know we need to provide services and at the same time, we know that people can only pay so much and I think not only to you but to John Cushman and his department, and the amount of time that it takes to provide the information, even with computers, the amount of time that it takes to provide the information to make educated decisions about funding and about personnel and about how much personnel it takes to do a job and are there better ways to do a job and we talked this morning about the only thing that appears ever to be constant is change. Things are changing rapidly and the people and the establishments and businesses and municipalities that can keep up with it or stay just a little bit ahead of it are the ones that are going to be successful. And I think to you again, you have done an excellent job. We all at one time or another expressed some reservations about certain items and the amount of funding attached therewith and it appeared in every case we have come to a consensus about what we felt was something we could all accept and that puts us here tonight and you know, again, I would say to you thank you and keep it up. Keep up the good work. COUNCILMAN KRUPSKI: I would like to echo what Councilman Ruland said, the Supervisor did a tremendous amount of work on the budget and this is not his first budget and it certainly shows because he has gotten very good with working with the department heads and knowing what the town needs and what the town wants but doesn't really need. You know, it is a pleasure working with the other Town Board members reviewing all the information that the department heads submitted and it is a good process. SUPERVISOR RUSSELL: This is a Town Board that takes its job seriously. Every member here puts an awful lot of time, it's not just me, it is the entire town board. The budget process, the review process with each of the department heads, literally every dollar gets accounted for. And this is a $40 million budget when you factor in risk management and community preservation funds, you are really talking about a town board that manages about $48 million annually and literally every dollar gets accounted for before it hits the pages that are before the public now. Any other comments? (No response). November 7, 2012 Page 5 Southold Town Board Meeting Minutes RESULT: CLOSED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: William Ruland, Councilman SECONDER: Albert Krupski Jr., Councilman AYES: Ruland, Talbot, Doherty, Krupski Jr., Evans, Russell Motion To: Adjourn Town Board Meeting RESOLVED that this meeting of the Southold Town Board be and hereby is declared adjourned at P.M. RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS] MOVER: William Ruland, Councilman SECONDER: Jill Doherty, Councilwoman AYES: Elizabeth A. Neville Southold Town Clerk Ruland, Talbot, Doherty, Krupski Jr., Evans, Russell