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1. (Zoom Info follows the agenda) Call Meeting To Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION/DISCUSSION: To Accept Reports from all Departments: (Water/Sewer/Valcour; Highway; Town Clerk; Nov./Dec. Dog Control; Youth Department; Code/Zoning; Supervisor’s Report; Court; Website; JCEO; and Banking Reports) Also November 2021 Dog Control Report.

5. MOTION: Approval of Minutes for the Town Board Regular Meeting of December 29, 2021.

6. Community Input 

7. DISCUSSION/MOTION: Walking Trail Extension Property. 

8. RESOLUTION/MOTION: Approval of Rifenburg’s Pay Application #9. 

9. RESOLUTION/MOTION: Request for Quotes for Purchase of Automatic Start Generator Switch for Highway Garage.

10. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION: Authorization for AES, Northeast To Put the Lagoon Dewatering Project Out to Bid.

11. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION: Authorization for AES, Northeast To Put the Elm St. Sewer Project Out to Bid.

12. DISCUSSION/MOTION: Confirm Sewer Workshop for January 24, 2022 at 5 pm. 

13. DISCUSSION: Sewer Project Update. 

14. DISCUSSION: Other Business. 

15. DISCUSSION: Public Comments on Agenda Items Only. 

16. RESOLUTION/DISCUSSION: Pay Bills 

MOTION:     Adjourn

**In an effort to help stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, this Town Board Meeting will not be open to the public.  The minutes will be available online as soon as they are approved at the following Board Meeting of January 24, 2022.  Thank you for your understanding in this matter and stay safe!

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1. (Zoom info follows the agenda) Call Meeting To Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Establishment of 2022 Salaries for Elected Positions:

5. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Approval of 2022 Appointees.

6. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Establishment of 2022 Appointee Salaries and Frequency of Payments

7. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Establishment of Town Department Liaisons.

8. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Establishment of 2022 Regular Town Board Meeting Dates and Times.

9. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Approval of 2022 Contracts.

10. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Establishment of 2022 Town Mileage Reimbursement.

11. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Designation of Town Depositories.

12. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Designation of Town Newspaper.

13. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION: Town Procurement Policy.

             MOTION:                      Adjourn

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Plattsburgh, January 10, 2022. Clinton County continues to experience a high number of new daily COVID-19 cases. The Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) is working to complete case investigations as quickly as possible. However, with the significant increase in cases coupled with the revised NYSDOH guidance for shortened isolation and quarantine, it is very likely many new cases will not receive a call from CCHD or the NYS Virtual Call Center (VCC). CCHD and the VCC are prioritizing calls to the highest risk cases. 

If you have tested positive for COVID-19, stay home and isolate yourself from others for 5 days from symptom onset. Tell your close contacts that you have COVID-19 right away so they can monitor for symptoms. If your symptoms are improving, you may discontinue home isolation on day 6 but you must continue to wear a well-fitted face covering and social distance whenever around others for another 5 days. All household members that are not fully vaccinated, including a booster if eligible, should stay home for 5 days from their last interaction with the positive case and monitor for symptoms. 

If you need isolation paperwork and have not received a call within 5 days of your test date, please connect with CCHD through this secure online form: https://form.jotform.com/220063385752151. If your information can be verified in the state’s contact tracing system, you will receive your isolation information within 36-72 hours. This is for laboratory tests only. Do not use this link to self-report results of an at-home test. 

If you complete the secure on-line form, in addition to receiving your isolation paperwork, you will receive a text message request to enter your close contacts. Please complete this task; your contacts may receive a call from a VCC contact tracer with further instructions. Whether they receive of call or not, all contacts who are not fully vaccinated, including a booster, if eligible, should stay home for 5 days following the last interaction with the positive case. 

If you have tested positive using an at-home test, stay home and isolate yourself from others for 5 days from symptom onset. If your symptoms are improving, you may discontinue home isolation on day 6 but continue to wear a well-fitted face covering and social distance whenever around others for another 5 days. You do not need to seek additional testing unless you require isolation paperwork. 

School cases are being prioritized as higher risk cases. To help families make the best decisions, if you have a child who has tested positive, please keep them home from school and extra-curricular activities for 5 days from symptom onset. Any siblings that are not fully vaccinated, including a booster if eligible, should quarantine for 5 days from their last interaction with the positive sibling. If siblings develop symptoms, they “Working Together for a Healthier Community” – 2 – 

should be tested and/or stay home from school and extra-curricular activities for 5 days from their symptom onset. 

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Stewart’s Shops is Reintroducing Civility Ice Cream to Encourage Kindness

January 10, 2022 – This pandemic has gone on much longer than expected and people seem more frustrated and stressed than ever before.  A report published in the Washington Post, “Civility in America”, cited that 93 percent of Americans identified incivility as a problem; 68 percent considered it a “major” one, and 74 percent thought it was getting worse.

Stewart’s Shops would like to relieve some of that frustration with Civility Ice Cream. Bring in a friend, a family member, or even a stranger and treat them to a scoop of civility. Beginning Monday January 10^th through Sunday, January 16^th, when you buy a single scoop, you’ll get a free single scoop to share. (Promotion applies to Civility Ice Cream only)

Stewart’s Shops hopes everyone will be inspired to share some kindness and some Civility Ice Cream. The company would love to see your kindness in action. Share your photos enjoying Civility Ice Cream and showing kindness with #ShareCivility on social media.

A scoop of civility makes everyone’s day a little sweeter. Together we can help to spread civility and kindness in our communities.

We Are Closer to You!

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Source: Governor Hochul Announces New Guidance on COVID-19 Booster Doses

Peru Dollar General Update – As of January 10th the Peru Dollar General store remains closed. Only one of the two non-working HVAC units has been repaired or replaced according to the Peru Codes office. The Peru Gazette is awaiting further news from the Dollar General Public Relations office.

“Black drivers were also three times more likely to be searched than white drivers — even though they were actually less likely to have contraband that led to a ticket or arrest.”

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L-R Care/Adoption Supervisor Paula Dew and Home Finder Lorene Easter and other knowledgeable people will be there to answer your questions

The Department of Social Services will conduct an information and orientation meeting for anyone with questions about becoming a foster parent on Tuesday, January 11th from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at 13 Durkee Street in Plattsburgh. Caseworkers and one or more foster parents will be there to answer questions and to describe the foster care program. Please call 518-565-3320 to confirm attendance since space will be limited to maintain COVID-19 social distancing. 

The Babbie Rural Farm Learning Museum newsletter highlights the great progress the museum is making. Congratulations to the Babbie family, its volunteers, and museum supporters.

Click here to view the Babbie Museum Newsletter 010122

Could non-profits be the future of journalism? VT. Digger is doing a great job in my opinion. Here’s the editor’s bio:

Anne Anne Galloway is the founder and editor of VTDigger and the executive director of the Vermont Journalism Trust. Galloway founded VTDigger in 2009 after she was laid off from her position as Sunday editor of the Rutland Herald and Times Argus. VTDigger has grown from a $16,000 a year nonprofit with no employees to a $2 million nonprofit daily news operation with a staff of 25. In 2017, Galloway was a finalist for the Ancil Payne Award for Ethics, the Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journal

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TROY, NY (01/07/2022)– Allison Beattie of Peru was named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List at Hudson Valley Community College.

Beattie is studying in the Diagnostic Medical Sonography program at the Troy, NY college.

The Dean’s List recognizes those full-time students and part-time students registered for at least six college credits who have a term average of 3.00 to less than 3.50 and who received no grade of “D,” “F,” “I,” “Z,” or “W” on their record for that term. Students must have completed at least 12 college credits successfully.

Founded in 1953, Hudson Valley offers more than 80 degree and certificate programs in three schools: Business and Liberal Arts; Health Sciences; and Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). One of 30 community colleges in the State University of New York system, it enrolls nearly 10,000 students and is known as a leader in distance learning and workforce training. Hudson Valley has more than 80,000 successful alumni.

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ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

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Time: Jan 10, 2022 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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