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AGENDA TOWN BOARD REGULAR MEETING, March 26, 2012, 7:00 PM

1. Call Meeting To Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance

3. Roll Call

4. MOTION:    Approval of minutes for the Town Board Regular Meeting of March 12, 2012 and Special Meeting of 3/15/12.

5. Community Input

6. DISCUSSION:  NYS Comptroller Visit Update.

7. DISCUSSION:  Internal Controls Audit.

8. DISCUSSION:  Water Quality Improvement Bond Update.

9. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION:  Highway Excavator Purchase and Transfer from Machinery Reserve Account.

10. DISCUSSION: Purchase of Mower/Snow Plower Machine.

11. DISCUSSION: Town Code Enforcement Officer.

12. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION:  Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals Fee Schedule.

 13. DISCUSSION: Elmore SPCA Workshop.

14. Other Business

15. Community Input on Agenda Items.

16. DISCUSSION/RESOLUTION:  Approve/Pay Bills.

17. Motion to Adjourn.

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Ice is out of Mirror Lake already, breaking 1946 record by four days – AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com 

iPad for each Saranac Lake village board member? – AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com 

Final group from Fort Drum’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team returns from deployment.

State parks: T.I. region campsites are filling up early; reserve spot now.

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Tupper leaders denounce lawsuit » Local News » Press-Republican.

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Former Bombay Fire Company president arrested » NEW TODAY… » Press-Republican.

From the Office of Congressional Candidate Matt Doheny

All endorsing Republican committees in new 21st Congressional District back Matt Doheny

ELIZABETHTOWN – The Essex, Warren and Washington Republican committees all recently announced their support of Matt Doheny, giving the Watertown businessman a perfect 11-for-11 in GOP endorsements in the 21st Congressional District. Read more »

Tuesday Night features a 6 PM Public Session Budget Workshop

The Peru Central Board of Education will gather Tuesday, March 27th at 6 PM in the community room for their sixth public session budget workshop, according to A. Paul Scott, Interim Superintendent of Schools at Peru Central. At its budget workshop the school board will:

A. Receive at the meeting a March 27th packet of updates regarding statewide budget development, related New York State Education Department and Legislative topics, the March 2012 NYSED Fiscal Accountability Report, forecasted 2012-2013 school year student enrollment and last week’s budget development workshop #5.

B.  Receive the revised set of six Budget Advisory Committee recommendations that reflect the Board’s recent outreach to our bordering school districts to further expand partnerships, as was discussed between the Board and its Budget Advisory Committee at the fifth budget workshop of March 20th.

C. Receive and consider the March 2012 revised second edition preliminary draft cost reductions list for July 1, 2012 forward, in response to continued scarcity of state aid revenues and in response to the first year of the state-mandated property tax cap threshold, July 1st forward.

Prior to adjourning Tuesday night, the Board is slated to go into executive session for a special meeting exclusively focused on the performance history of particular individuals currently under consideration for successor Superintendent of Schools.

Watertown Daily Times | State comptroller looking at city firefighters’ overtime.

Peru Central Hosting Open Forums for Residents 
Opportunities to Meet & Listen to Second Round Superintendent Candidates 


As part of its search process for a successor Superintendent of Schools, the Board of Education is conducting a set of three ‘open forum’ gatherings for school community members in the auditorium this coming week:

1. Wednesday, March 28th at 7:15 PM featuring second round candidate Patrick Kendell Brimstein, who currently is High School Principal for Wheatland-Chili School District of Monroe County, New York;

2. Wednesday, March 28th at 8:30 PM featuring second round candidate Christine Crowley, who is currently Superintendent of Schools for Duanesburg Central School District of Schenectady County, New York;

3. Thursday, March 29th at 8 PM featuring second round candidate Christopher Mazzella, who is currently High School Principal for Peru Central School District.

Those three forums offer opportunities for parents & guardians, employees, students and other district residents to meet and ask questions of the second round candidates. Each of the three candidates are slated to share their educational preparation, professional experience and preliminary vision for Peru Central School District. 



School community members attending will be able to submit questions through a moderator for candidates to answer. Also, school community members at the forum will be encouraged to submit feedback for the Board to examine and consider.

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Watertown Daily Times | Once short, Army now retains too many, McHugh says.

Schools may cut faculty, principal – AdirondackDailyEnterprise.com