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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1922_12_20 Town Board Minutes (2) Meeting of the Joint Town Board TOWN OF MAMARONECK held, December 20th, 1922. The meeting was called to order by Supervisor Burton at 10.20 P.M. PRESENT: Supervisor Burton, Justices Boyd, Collins and Shafer, Supt. of Highways Anthes, Town Clerk Sherman, Counsellor Gamble. Upon motion it was voted to dispense with the reading of minutes of meetings not yet approved. Mr. E. L. Crans of the Monarch Tractor Company was present and addressed the Board relating to the purchase of a tractor. No action taken. Mr. T. B. Tully appeared before the Board asking permis- sion to operate a bus line through the highways of the unincorp- orated section of the Town of Mamaroneck. He was asked to submit his proposition in writing at the next meeting. The Town Supt. of Highways' estimate for highway pur- poses for the year 1923 was received and considered and upon Mr. Anthes' recommendation, it was RESOLVED, that the following sums be allowed and approved for each pros- pective item: Item #1, allowance $13,000.00 Item #3, allowance 2,000.00 Item #4, allowance 5,000.00 The question being taken upon the foregoing resolution, same was upon ROLL CALL, unanimously adopted. The Board thereupon proceeded to execute the estimate of the Supt. of Highways for highway purposes, hereto approved and adopted. A communication from the State Commission of Highways in relation to the improvement of Weaver Street in the Town of Mamaroneck, was received, read, ordered spread upon the minutres and is as follows: STATE OF NEW YORK COMMISSION OF HIGHWAYS ALBANY. RE: HIGHWAY No. 1645 Dec. 14, 1922 Mr. Frederick M. Sherman, Clerk., Town of Mamaroneck, Mamaroneck, New York. Dear Sir: Plans, specifications and estimate of cost for the improvement of the Weaver Street, Part 1, County Highway No. 1645, Westchester County, in connection with which improvement your town has heretofore requested extra work, have been revised by this Commission. The total estimated cost of this improvement as revised is $84,400.00, of which your town will be required to pay $15,700.00 for the extra work requested. As your town has heretofore made an appropriation of $13,500.00 toward this extra work, and additional appropriation of $3,200.00 is re- quired. I attach hereto resolution in duplicate providing for the approval of the plans as revised and the appropriation in the sum of $3,200.00, additional, by your town for the extra work requested. Will you kindly present this resolution at the next meeting of your town board (together with the plans which will be forwarded to you by the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of Westchester County) and, if adopted, execute the plans in the place prepared and return same with certified copy of the resolution to this office. I also attach certificates of deposit covering the add- itional appropriation of $3,200.00. This certification with the one for $13,500.00, forwarded to you under date of May 18, 1922, should be executed by you and filed in this office and also in the office of the State Comptroller when the officials of your town have deposited funds with the State Comptroller amounting to $16,700.00 for the extra work which your town has requested in connection with this improvement. Arrangements should be made by your town officials to deposit these fundswith the State Comptroller on or before the day upon which proposals for the work are received by this Com- ission. In no case can a contract be awarded until the funds are on deposit with the State Comptroller. Very truly yours, Signed, STATE COMMISSION OF HIGHWAYS J. C. Finch, Secretary. The following resolution was presented by Justice Boyd and seconded by Justice Collins: ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION BY THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK ON THE WEAVER STREET, PART 1 COUNTY HIGHWAY No. 1645, WESTCHESTER COUNTY. which amount is hereby ordered deposited with the State Comptroller who is hereby authorized und directed to pay the same at any time upon the requisition and draft of the State Commission of Highways and the State Comptroller of the State of New York. IT BEING UNDERSTOOD, that the State Comp- troller is to refund to the proper town authorities any/expended balance of said appropriation upon the completion of the work and after written notice to the State Comptroller from the State Commission of Highways to the effect that no further drafts will be made upon the said approp- riation. The question being taken upon the foregoing resolution same was upon ROLL CALL, unanimously adopted. The following was presented by the Town Supt. of Highways; We, the undersigned members of the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck, do hereby certify that the cost of improving Palmer Avenue with concrete pavement, curb and gutter from Weaver Street, sourtherly to the Larchmont Village line, a distance of 0.26 miles in the Town of Mamaroneck, New York, was the sum of $23,886.65 as more specifically appears by the contract for the improvement of the same be- tween the Town of Mamaroneck and Fleming & Sheppard, Inc., a domestic corporation, dated September 18th, 1922, and by the final estimate of Charles McDonald, County Supt. of Highways; And we do further certified that we have examined the accounds of the Supt. of Highways of the Town of Mamaro- neck and that there is not sufficient funds on hand to pay the total cost of said improvement. We do further certify that the improvement of said highway was necessary and was duly authorized by this Board and that the cost thereof was $3,000.00 in excess of the amount on hand from motor vehicle fees and the amount received from the New York & Stamford Railway Company on account of its share of the cost for the improvement of the other section of Palmer Avenue, lying between Weaver Street and the westerly boundary line of the VIllage of Mamaroneck. Dated, December 20th, 1922. Signed, Geo. W. Burton, Supervisor. Frederick M. Sherman, Town Clerk. Wm. A. Boyd, Justice of the Peace. P. H. Collins, " " " F. P. Shafer, " " " F. A. Anthes, Supt. of Highways. After the above certification had been duly executed by the members of the Town Board, the following resolution was presented by Justice Shafer and seconded by Justice Collins: WHEREAS, pursuant to section 93 of the Highway Law, the Town Supt. of Highways shall cause any highway that is damaged or destroyed by the elements or other- wise, or shall become unsafe for public use and travel, to be immediately re- paired or rebuilt with the approval of the Town Board, and WHEREAS, the said Supt. of Highways did with the approval of this Board, enter into a contract for the construction of Palmer Avenue from Weaver Street south- erly to the Larchmont Village Line, with concrete pavement, curb and gutter, a distance of 0.26 miles in the Town of Mamaroneck, New York, with the belief that there was a sufficient amount of money in the highway fund to pay the cost of said improvement, and WHEREAS, said Highway has been improved in accordance with the plans and speci- fications prepared by the County Supt. of Highways, and WHEREAS, a statement has been prepared showing the cost of rebuilding said highway, which said statement has been signed in duplicate by a majority of said Town Board, one of which has been filed with the Town Clerk and the other has been delivered to the Supervisor, which statement shows that the cost of rebuilding said highway over and above the amount of motor vehicle fees on hand to be used for that purpose, will be the sum of $3,000.00 NOW THEREFORE, be it RESOLVED, that pursuant to Section 96 of the Highway Law, this Board borrow on the faith and credit of the Town of Mamaroneck, the sum of $3,000.00, to pay the balance of the expense incurred for rebuilding said highway, and be it further RESOLVED, that a certificate of indebted- ness of the Town of Mamaroneck be and the same is hereby directed to be issued in the amount of $3,000.00, to be dated Dec- ember 20th, 1922 and become due and payable on the first day of May, 1923 at the First National Bank of Mamaroneck, New York, to bear interest at a rate not exceeding 6% per annum and to be signed by the Super- visor and attested by the Town Clerk under the corporate seal of said Town and to be in the following form with the blanks property filled out: STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER TOWN OF MAMARONECK CERTIFICATE OF INDEBTEDNESS. No. 1 $3,000.00 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the Town of Mamaroneck, a municipal corporation within the County of Westchester, State of New York, acknowledges itself to be indebted to and for the value received, promises to pay to the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MAMARONECK, N.Y. its successors and assigns, the sum of three thousand ($3,000.00) Dollars, lawful money of the United States, on the first day of May, 1923, with interest thereon at the rate of 6% per annum. This certificate is issued in pursuance of a res- olution of the Town Board of said Town, duly adopted at a meeting held on the 20th day of December, 1922 and pursuant to the provisions of Sectio 96 of the Highway Law and is issued for the purpose of paying the balance of the cost incurred in the improvement of Palmer Avenue from Weaver Street south- erly to the Larchmotn line, with concrete pavement, curb and gutter, a distance of .26 miles in said Town of Mamaroneck, New York. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Supervisor of said Town has subscribed his name and the Town Clerk of said Town has countersigned his name and affixed the seal of said Town as of December 20th, 1922. SUPERVISOR. TOWN CLERK. RESOLVED, that the said certificate be sold by the Supervisor on behalf of the Town at not less than its par value and shall be payable out of the taxes coll- ected by the Town of Mamaroneck for the year 1923, and be it further RESOLVED, that the Supervisor certify the amount and interest of the certificate to the Board of the Supervisors and have the same assessed, levied, and collected as provided by law, and be it further RESOLVED, that there be levied and assessed upon the real property of the Town of Mama- roneck outside of the Villages of Larchmont and Mamaroneck, a tax to pay certificate and the interest thereon as the same shall become due. The question being taken upon the foregoing resolution same was upon ROLL CALL, unanimously adopted. Supervisor Burton reported that the Committee of this Board had met with Committees from other municipalities and had taken up the water situation affecting the different munic- ipalities. It was the sense of the Board that the Committee continue the investigations. Upon motion, the meeting adjourned at 11.45 P.M. Frederick M. Sherman Town Clerk.