Responsibilities
Our five-member board meets on the second Wednesday of each month to address matters pertaining to the governance of the Town of Jewett.
These involve setting policy, adopting the budget, approving contracts, managing public works (roads, facilities), overseeing public safety, handling zoning/planning referrals (advised by the Planning Board).
Members & Officials
Tal Rappleyea
Town Attorney
Recent Town Board Minutes
PLEASED BE ADVISED ANY MINUTES MARKED DRAFT HAVE NOT BEEN APPROVED BY THE TOWN BOARD AT THIS TIME
Added: July 27th, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday June 10, 2026. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Dan Dulligan, Marc Czermerys, Michael Ryan, Anatoly Tokarev, Dmitry Beryozkin, Tammy Vanucchi, Floyd Dart, Bill Rod Bill and Deb Saar and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present on the phone was the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea and the town clerk.
The Supervisors financial report for May was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “First order of business. The minutes have been provided by the clerk, our board members were sent them. Um, I’m seeing that they have not been prepared in a summary fashion as requested by the board. They consist of 23 pages for a one hour and two minute meeting. Therefore I will entertain a motion to approve the YouTube video of the main meeting to be the official record of the meeting”.
Councilman Giordano said, “So moved”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second?”
Councilman Pellitteri said, “Second”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All in favor?”
Board members Kroyer, Pellitteri, Giordano, Pumilia and Scotti all said AYE.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Hearing none, motion passes. I will ah, the unapproved clerks minutes will be posted to the website and marked as draft, not approved by the board and that’s actually what I intend on doing in the future until such time as their prepared in a summary fashion”.
Added: July 7th, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday May 13, 2026. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm after the pledge of allegiance was said. Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia. Public present was Marc Czermerys, Michael Ryan, Tammy Vanucchi, Floyd Dart, Scott Schoonmaker, Bill Saar, Deb Sarr, Elaine Warfield, Dan Dulligan, Robin Fleischman and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter. Also present on the phone was the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea and the town clerk.
The Supervisors financial report for April was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah, I guess I forgot to call the meeting to order, so I’m doing that now. Ah, last month we had several months’ worth of minutes and this month we have April’s. Ah, I’ll let Councilman Pellitteri have the floor”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I looked thru some of them but we did have four in one shot. So, um I’ve decided for me I can’t, I cannot ah approve verbatim’s because ah several reasons. One is instead of three or four pages, it’s fifteen pages, sometimes maybe twenty pages and um it takes probably somewhere between twice and three times the ah minutes for the meeting to actually go thru everything. Cause it’s not like you’re looking at two sheets of paper. Your listening to ah something on the voice, there’s things typed up that are not ah on the, on the recording um and last time I did it, um, there was about 20 percent of the talking was not there. So, it’s just too much ah work and um and it’s not just shortened. It was ah, a, um a planned missing of certain things um to slanter in certain directions. So, I, the other thing is I don’t know if anybody’s listening to or looked at Youtube where we have the meeting, you can see everybody. It’s clear, you can hear every word. You can hear all the nuances. Ah, that’s where you’re gonna get the most information and it’s a waste of time to be taping, typing up fifteen
pages and asking all four of us or all, all five of us, ah to to, approve that every word was correct when you’ve got every word right on the internet so”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I agree”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I agree”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah, I also agree and we’ve asked for these minutes in a summary fashion as always was customarily the case. Um, yeah, I, I’m not gonna ah vote to approve the minutes when they’re in this we’ll call it verbatim but we all know it’s not actually so, I will entertain a motion to not approve the minutes of December 2025 thru April 2026”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make that motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second?”
Councilman Giordano said, “To not approve”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Added: June 3rd, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday April 8, 2026. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Board Member James Pellitteri was absent.
Public present was Sheila Trautman, Paul Trautman, Marc Czermerys, Michael Ryan, Anatoly Tokarev, Tammy Vanucchi, Floyd Dart, Scott Schoonmaker, and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present on the phone was the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea and the town clerk.
The Supervisors financial report for March was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “If anybody needs another chair, there’s chairs. Um, alright ah Councilman Pellitteri is not present tonight, um he asked me to a, he’s reviewing the the the four months’ worth of minutes that we received on a March 24th and we will table them until next month”.
Planning Board Appointments
Supervisor Kroyer said, “On a our planning board we have two appointments tonight to consider. Ah due to the vacancy left after the retirement of Donna Bernard. I will propose current alternate member Renee Blinkwolt to become a member. In addition, I will propose Jonathan Ment to assume the positions of alternate member and assistant to the chair as well as his current role as secretary. So I am entertaining a motion to appoint Renee Blinkwolt as planning board member and Jonathan Mel, Ment as secretary, assistant to the chair and alternate. Do I have someone making that motion?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yeah, so moved”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All in favor? Say Aye”.
AYES: Kroyer, Giordano and Scotti.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “Opposed”.
Absent was Councilman Pellitteri.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “One opposed. Ok, so that motion passes. We a have two appointments. Congratulations to Renee and Jonathan”.
Security Update
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, I’m gonna update on the security cameras and the security a installation. So, we still don’t have the MOA signed by the union, there’s been no communication other than, what was the last communication? They acknowledged that their
Added: June 3rd, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday March 11, 2026. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Marc Czermerys, Michael Ryan, Peter McGuirk, Jessica Franz, Jim Franz, Anatoly Tokarev, Tammy Vanucchi, Floyd Dart, Scott Schoonmaker, Josh Holdridge,
Dana Salazar and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present on the phone was the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea and the town clerk.
The Supervisors financial report for January and February was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, there’s no minutes, the town clerk has asked to table the minutes again”.
Resolution #10 of 2026 Transfer of Funds
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok ah in your folders Board Members we have a resolution #10 of 2026. It is the transfer of funds. Whereas all funds must be in balance at the end of the fiscal year, in order that the appropriation accounts be balanced the following transfers shall be made. And you have one page of transfers for the general fund and the highway fund. Pretty much the same thing we do every year to get back in balance. Um, I’m not certain this will be the last one of these but I think it might be. Um, anybody have any questions on this or want to discuss it? I’ll entertain a motion to approve, did I hear something? No, entertain a motion to approve resolution # 10 of 2026”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I make a motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Jeanie, ah ok we’ll do a roll call vote on this”.
AYES: Kroyer, Giordano, Pumilia, Scotti and Pellitteri.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, the motion passes resolution #10 of 2026 is approved by the Board”.
Resolution #11 of 2026 Shared Services Agreement
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Next resolution for tonight is resolution #11 of 2026, shared service agreement between County of Greene and Town of Jewett. This is regarding a highway, it’s been requested by the Greene County Highway Superintendent to have the ability to share salt and sand and equipment in the event that they need to. Um, I have a signature here from the Highway Superintendent dated February 17th, so he signed off on this, everybody sees that right you got, everybody has the three or four pages of this?”
Added: June 3rd, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday February 11, 2026. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano and Jeanie Scotti.
Board Member John Pumilia was absent.
Public present was Bill Rod, Kerry Miller, Iciani Figueroa, Paul LaPierre, Tammy Vanucchi,
Dan Dulligan, Anatoly Tokarev, Sheila and Paul Trautman, Peter McGuirk, Jason Winocour,
Jim Franz, Shawn Jaeger, Robin Fleischman, Marc Czermerys, Al Olivieri, Scott Schoonmaker, Josh Holdridge, James Montague and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present was the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea and the town clerk.
The Supervisors financial report for January was not given to the Board prior to the meeting but the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review Minutes
The minutes of January 14, 2026 were tabled at the town clerks request.
Planning Board Appointment
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Pellitteri and carried, The Board moved to re-appoint Renee Blinkwolt as an alternate member to the Planning Board as 30 days to take her oath of office had expired.
Motion to Pay Bills
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I will just now make a motion to pay the bills this month. Do I have that? A member want to make that?”.
Councilman Pelltteri said, “I make a motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, um all in favor?”
All said Aye. Councilman Pumilia was absent.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Ok, hearing none, we’ll pay those bills tomorrow”.
General Fund was $58,451.07 on abstract #2, claim numbers 36-57.
The Highway Fund was $62,225.76 on abstract #2, claim numbers 26-41.
Greene County Public Health Presentation
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I was contacted back in, it’s says December but I thought it was in November um by Iciani Figueroa from Greene County Public Health and Family Planning.
She’s here with her partner who is ah”.
Karen Miller said, “Karen Miller”.
Supervsor Kroyer said, “Thank you”
Karen Miller said, “Deputy Director”.
Added: June 3rd, 2026
The re-organizational meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday January 14, 2026. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Marc Czermerys, Anatoly Tokarev, Tammy Vanucchi, Dan Dulligan,
Steve Canfield, Bill Rod, Al Olivieri, Jason Winocour, Gerard Johnson, Scott Schoonmaker,
Josh Holdridge, Dana Salazar and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present was the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea and the town clerk.
The Supervisors financial report for December was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We are going to table the minutes at the town clerks request”.
Resolution #3 of 2026 Town Justice Report
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We have our Town Justice here, Steve Canfield for his annual report, the floor is all yours Steve”.
Judge Canfield said, “Everything is about the same, number wise last year. The big issue this year we had was computer problems and um you’ll see in the notes, ah report here in January we had trouble submitting stuff to the state. So, finally in November we got new computers and printers and a laptop. We were like the last ones in the area to get what we needed. So that was a, it was a struggle and then we got them in November and of course there’s all kinds of problems getting in, um changing the programs over, we struggled with that. But now we’re up and running. So that’s about it. Another um, I noticed too that we’ve seen an increase this year in a environmental conservation law from Colgate Lake. It’s going up again a little bit, not bad but. The rangers are doing a good job with the tickets you know getting the illegally parking in the handicap spot up there or garbage, that’s normal or camping near the water whatever.
So that’s about all we have. I have the checkbook here for you’re ah review.
Again, numbers are almost the same as last year, very little difference. The training has increased, we’ve got cyber training now and all the other things we’re doing. Um, I keep up with that, Lisa keeps up with hers. We have to its mandated. It’s up to 16 credits now”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Annual, 16? What is that even like 16 hours?”
Judge Canfield said, “Yeah, we do it online. We used to have to go to Albany; now everything’s online so it’s a lot easier for me. So, any questions? You know Lisa and I appreciate The Boards support. We keep things smooth up there, no real outrageous conduct. Once in a while we have to, you know make people behave but, otherwise everything’s about the same”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yup, we appreciate everything you do Steve. Thank you very much”.
The Board thanked Judge Canfield.
Added: June 3rd, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday December 10, 2025.
Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Tony Geslak, Al Oliveri, Robin Fleishman, Jim Franz, Anatoly Tokarev and
Marc Czermerys. Also present was the town clerk and the Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea.
The Supervisors financial report for November was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, ah, minutes of November 12, 2025, Councilman Pellitteri?”
Councilman Pellitteri said, “Ah, yeah, I make a motion to ah, not, ah not accept the minutes for the same reason as last month, that ah, what we were doing for 15 years that I’ve been on the board works really well and it’s easier for people to understand and is actually giving more information than anything that can be typed ah, because I have the recordings”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, does anyone wanna, oh you made the motion, so do I have a second?”
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I made the motion”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I second that motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All in favor?”
Council Members Pellitteri, Giordano and Scotti said AYE.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “AYE”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, 4-1, the minutes are not accepted, let the record reflect that. Hey Mark”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Hey Mark”.
Human Services Contract for 2026
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Um, alright everybody in their folders has the building contract. I consider this to be good news. Um, looks like Human Services has decided they want to lease our building for another year at least, um I’m pretty sure this is based on the recent goings on with the public hearing, ah where the ah, public has weighed in heavily stating that ah, meals on wheels is an essential program and ah they want to keep it, so”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Great”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Good for everybody ah, its, its it is exactly the same as last year, you know except for the dates um, so. I mean other than the, the ah UV filter that’s the one that’s gonna hurt us is, is cause we’re forever having to repair that thing and I’m pretty sure we’re gonna have to move it and put in the building here, ah maybe even fairly soon seems like. Cause there’s some issues lately with it um, but you know other than that they pay us ah, $1,500 per month which includes ah the cost of garbage and internet
obviously electricity, heat all that. So, it’s kind of routine, same contract that ah, was presented to us last year, ah my suggestion is let’s just, lets, allow me to sign it ah, and let’s get another year down the road, see what happens, if we have to look at any other issues with it, we will. Ah, but, I don’t see a reason to ah, do anything but sign it”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Hey Greg, it sounds good but just for clarification for me, $1,500 a month rent which includes cost of garbage and internet? I’m not sure if I’m reading that right? Includes meaning, we’re paying for it or they’re paying for it?”
Added: June 3rd, 2026
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday November 12, 2025. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Robin Fleischman, Marc Czermerys, Bill Rod, Al Olivieri, Scott Schoonmaker, Josh Holdridge and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present was the Highway Superintendent, the town clerk and the
Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea.
Review Minutes
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright Jimmy, you got something on ah September minutes?”
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I do. Let’s see. Ok, I’ve got something about ah the September minutes of which ah we did not ah accept them and were asked, you know where the problems were. So, I put quite a bit of homework into it, um spent about two and a half hours, it’s an hour meeting and ah you know it sounds kind of simple but ah when your comparing, listening to something, reading something and there’s no way to really know exactly where you are, um you know in the audio stuff, um so it takes quite a bit awhile to go back and forth with it.
Um, so, ah let’s see. What I have here is the actual, where is this, you guys should have it in there I think”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Yeah we do”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “Ok, um. If anybody wants one, we have ah the full minutes. Ah, there’s only three pages that we’re gonna be talking about so, anybody want one?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’ll take one Jimmy, I think I can’t find mine”.
The town clerk said, “Yes, I’ll take one too please, thank you”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “Ok, so you’ll, if you go onto page 2, your gonna see a note there, um it says 4 minutes and 19 seconds. Um, what that is, is, where you see where it’s underlined? Um, what I did was record from that section there to the one where it says that John said can I interrupt. Um, that was ah four minutes and nineteen on the actual recording. Um, you look at this there’s actually six’s sentences there, so there’s something missing there, that cause that doesn’t take four minutes to read. I thought about actually going thru, there’s three recordings that I made, it would be about fifteen minutes to listen to it. I spent two and a half hours, I’m thinking, I’ll make them listen to all fifteen minutes but I decided against it. Just gonna do four minutes. The three minutes and 5, 56 seconds on page three. And we’re just gonna listen to it.
You got it right there, it goes from the middle of that page to the very beginning there of page four where Tal says ah the bottom line”.
Councilman Pellitter plays the recording from the September 10th board meeting.
The recording is as follows:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Resistance covering on that, in your own office that’s been there for the whole time. So I’m asking that the highway just, I’m gonna say it and then I’m done with this now. But I’m gonna say, that I’m asking that the highway department handles that project. And it’s not a ridiculously large project. It doesn’t really”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’m not saying it is”.
Added: November 18, 2025
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday October 8, 2025. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Tammy Vanucchi, Lynda Molino, Elaine Warfield, Will Warfield, Kathy and Tom Murante, Lenora Olivieri, Bill Rod, Scott Schoonmaker, Al Olivieri, Joe and Annette Annichiarico and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present was the Highway Superintendent, the Town Clerk and the
Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea.
The Supervisor’s financial report for September was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Review of Minutes:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, um Board Members received the minutes from the town clerk on Friday. Um, I’m gonna a, I’m just gonna table that for now”.
Review Next Step Digital Website Proposal:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, first item on the agenda, is the ah, proposal from Next Step Digital, who is a, a website provider. Ah our current website provider is Digital Towpath, we’ve had them for years. Um, we’ve had some problems; we had some serious issues with them right at the very end of last year. Where, we had to replace our email, ah provider.
Um and the website from Digital Towpath is ok but they’ve got some issues, security issues, they haven’t kept updating and according to our tech advisor, it’s actually ah, an issue because it’s tough to keep it secure. So, we, last year we asked for a quote from, from ah, Next Step Digital and ah they provided to us, we looked at it at the time we basically tabled it. Here we are its ah, we still have most of October, all of November and December. And I’m proposing that now’s the time to make the move. Ah we’re gonna receive a bill from Digital Towpath, be over a $1,000 dollars, probably coming any day now. I do not want to pay that again. I wanna switch over and ah, Next Step Digital handles Town of Hunter, Village of Hunter and many others. They do a nice job. I called to see if they would still honor the quote they gave us because it’s about ah ten or eleven months down the road, ah they said yes, they would. So, I’m proposing that we, ah, we notify them and ah, contract with them and let Digital Towpath go and let Next Step Digital build us a website and activate it. They said they will get it up by the first of the year. Um, so Board Members have a copy of it in their folder, the ah memorandum of engagement, um”.
Attorney Rappleyea asked, “They are gonna do a dot gov?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah, it’s gotta be dot gov now mandatory well, questionable whether or not we would have to be required to but anybody that’s getting a new website now. Our old website was townofjewett.org, the new one will be townofjewett.gov and that would fulfill NYS requirements for municipalities to have a dot gov website as well. So, um, Board Members have anything you’d like to discuss on this?”
Councilman Giordano asked, “So this is a one-time fee for the design and development right?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Correct. So the fee is to build the site, there’s a fire wall charge, there’s an initial set up charge, the website hosting, there’s a, I mean we’re currently paying it’s over a thousand. They’re gonna charge us, you know once we get it built, $239 a year. If we need support, that would be additional um”.
Councilman Giordano said, “A hundred dollars an hour”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Right, so their asking for like an initial deposit of half down to build the site and then the remaining fifty percent due upon launch of the website.
Councilwoman Scotti asked, “Do we know Greg that um what the other company charged per year?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It was a thousand plus and it was going up. Last year it went up I think a little, I think it’s gonna probably go up. But the problem is their not good. Well, they basically gave us. We had a huge problem where uh everybody’s town email went dead for a period of literally probably 6 weeks, it was a struggle and then ah they wouldn’t communicate properly, very frustrating to deal with them. So, I mean I’m personally done with them, with Digital Towpath at this point. And I think that this is a good a, choice. Their ah, you know they’ve proven, just take a look on Town of Hunter website for example or even Village of Hunter now just switched to them as well.
Councilwoman Scotti asked, “And they are happy with it?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yup and their responsive, they answer the phone, whereas Digital Towpath there was no phone. You couldn’t complain. You’d send an email but how you gonna send an email when your email program is not working so ah yeah that’s where we’re at.
Um, when your ready I’ll move it to the next step but ah basically I think I said it all. The time is right now to transition and we have enough time to do this. Whereas last year this was like mid to late December when we were looking at it. They’ll be able to, they say they’ll be able to complete the transition by January with the assistance of our Tech Advisor. Um, yeah.
So, I will entertain a motion to authorize the Supervisor to sign the memorandum of engagement with Next Step Digital”.
Councilman Scotti said, “I’ll make that motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Jeanie. Do I have a second?”
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll second the motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, ok. All in favor?”
Three Board Members said AYE.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’m opposed. Only because I don’t know much about it yet, I just got it in front of me and I didn’t have a chance to really study it. I’ll probably gonna be alright with it but it’s just too fast”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright duly noted, alright so four to one, the motion passes, I’ll contact them tomorrow. Next item on the agenda is”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Greg, could I just interrupt a second? I missed what you said about the minutes. We’re not accepting them, we are accepting them?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m not entertaining a motion to accept them”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “Any reason?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Um, it’s too, we talked about it but um, a, yeah there’s a reason”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “Well, can we know?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I mean do you want to make a motion John to accept them?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’m no, I’m asking you why you’re not, it’s in your hands”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Because the minutes that are being done now are nothing like they used to be. On a short half hour meeting, or whatever it was, is about 13 pages and their not accurate. I’ve talked with the town clerk about it and we’re at where we are”.
The town clerk said, “Yes, and I had asked you to give me an example and you did and we listened to the recording together and I was correct. So when you say it’s inaccurate”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m talking about this month’s Maya not last month’s right now”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Well, this months, that’s what this was, last months”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m saying this month’s minutes that we have before us. John I’m not going to discuss this but if you would like to make a motion, you could go ahead”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Well, I just want to know why you don’t want to”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I told you because their too long and done differently”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “That’s why there is a recording. All I’m saying is you know what that’s fine you could feel that way”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, I do”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “But don’t you think it would be fair that you like underline what you don’t think is accurate so it could be corrected?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Honestly I’m just trying to do the towns business John”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Well this is part of the town business”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “These minutes used to be one or two pages now its thirteen pages”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Yeah that’s fine but that’s, I understand what you’re saying but then the way you’re leaving it is there’s no minutes from last month’s meeting”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “No, there right here, what do you mean?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “Well, you’re saying they’re not accurate”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I believe that but I’m not”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “And I believe that you might be right”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, I’m not looking to get sucked into this right now so thank you but I’m moving on. Unless, you would like to make a motion to accept them”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I would like to make a motion to accept them”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, do I have a second? Ok, the motion is not carried”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “You got your way”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It’s not I got my way”.
Resident Tammy Vanucchi raised her hand to speak.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m sorry Tammy the public cannot speak right now we’re in the board meeting. You have to be on the agenda. Alright, we’re not, we’re not taking comments tonight. Ok, the meeting got away last month, I’m not taking comments. Everybody here, I told everybody last month if you want to be, make comments to contact me and I’ll put you on the agenda. I was contacted by some people and those people know who they are and their gonna be on the agenda tonight. So, that’s how it is. It’s not a free for all over here”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Last meeting and the meeting before, he asked for a motion and there was no comment. You were here. The last two meetings he asked for a motion and no one said anything”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Ok but I did now”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Right, I know. I’m just saying the last two”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John the motion didn’t, wasn’t carried so it’s done”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “That’s fine, I’m not arguing about it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, we’re gonna move on then, thank you”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “It seems to bother you more than it bothers me”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m not bothered at all, thank you though John.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Then let’s move on”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m trying to John but you’re still talking”.
Review Fuel Tank Replacement Proposal:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, the next item on the agenda is ah the fuel tank ah replacement proposal. We have ah aging tanks; we’ve been talking about it for a while. We got a quote John; do you have another quote you would like to present?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Um, I have a quote from Main Care I put in everybody’s folder. Um, for two tanks and then today we met with ah, here’s one for you Bob. And ah today we met with ah an RM company that works thru Main Care that does the ah, ah, computerized system so their gonna ah. They came here today and got some information about hard wiring for the internet to ah, then their gonna give us a price for computering to put together the price from Main Care to replace the two tanks that you all have”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “So roughly how much would the new tanks cost?”
Councilman Girodano said, “Ah, the one tank I think is um a little more than ten and the other one is just over seven. So for under $20,000 we can replace the tanks with digital pumps and Main Care would come remove the tanks, remove the fuel, plug the new tanks in, do the plumbing, put the fuels back in the tanks and have them hooked back up the way they are now.
Now, we’d be waiting for this guy who Main Care uses to computerize it, their systems. I think it’s gonna be a lot cheaper than $125,000 dollars which we got a price from with the other company”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “John with the tanks that we have now, besides their age are there any other problems we have with them?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Well their not self-contained tanks, their just single wall tanks”.
Councilman Pumilia then asked, “And how old are they?”
Councilman Giordano answered, “40 years old and they were buried before they were put there”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “And they were buried before that, ok the walls could be week”.
The town clerk asked, “John may I make a copy of the quotes you received”?
Councilman Giordano said, “Yeah sure”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So we’re gonna wait for this Harmon gentleman to get back with you and let you know what it would be for the um the key card system”.
Councilman Giordano said, “That is correct and then we can add it to Main Care’s”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “When the gentleman came from on the business quote, what’s the name of the company, the ah, RM, ah, he said that the location of the tanks would preclude um WIFI so we have to run a wire to it”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Right, hard wire, yup”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You would need a wire anyway for electricity from the electrical panel.
So he looked and he said very doable, they would run a wire from the server room out behind the highway garage and also an electrical wire from ah the panel out to the pumps. Ok, I’ll leave you with that”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’m sure we’ll hear back from them next week”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, so this is a work in progress then we can get a report on this next month as well John to see where we’re at?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Absolutely”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok”.
Town Attorney Tal Rappleyea said, “If it goes over $20,000 then we have to do competitive bidding”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Even if it’s an emergency, really?”
Town Attorney said, “Well, no, if it’s an emergency no”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It aint an emergency”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Well it will be if their…”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It’s not an emergency, enough emergencies”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Alright, we’ll get three prices, we’ve got two so we’ll get another one”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah right we have two quotes now because we have the first one”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Ok great, I’ll go do some more homework”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So, were gonna have to put it in the paper and everything huh?”
Attorney Rappleyea said, “If it goes over 20 we’d have to do that, yeah”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, well it’s gonna. I can tell you the whole thing, soup to nuts is gonna be over 20 so the question of whether it’s an emergency or not, I think that’s still an open question at this point. I don’t think you could just proclaim it. The tank is 40 years old, that alone might be an emergency, right?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yup”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Is that true Tal? I need an answer cause I run the system out there. So, I’m gonna talk Greg, I run the tanks and I run the highway department so why is it an emergency? The tanks are fine, they don’t leak. There’s nothing, we just had an inspector here two years ago, State of NY inspector”.
Attorney Rappleyea said, “The Board makes the determination as to what is an emergency”.
Superintendent Mallory asked, “Is everything we do here an emergency?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Absolutely not, absolutely not”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It seems to be”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “No, because we put things out to bid all the time, I don’t know what you mean?”
Superintendent Mallory said, “The heating system wasn’t an emergency”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well yeah that’s for sure that was”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “You don’t even cook in the kitchen anymore”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright Bob, Bob, Bob please you’re not on the agenda you really don’t have a speaking role”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I don’t care, I’m 30 years elected in this building and I’m gonna speak when I feel like it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That’s nice, that’s nice but I’m running the meeting as Supervisor. You know what we’re gonna ask that you remove yourself if your, if your insist on that. But please don’t”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I am a citizen”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, I am gonna move on again, ah so as far as the fuel tank proposal, it’s a work in progress. We need to hear back from ah the system with the key card and the computer, the gentleman Harmon who ah came for the first time today. So we’ll have another discussion about it next month, I’m assuming, I’m assuming right?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, Alright”.
Review Tentative 2026 Budget:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Moving onto the budget, the tentative budget was presented to The Board and ah they’ve all had it for a while. I emailed everybody specifically contact me with any concerns, I didn’t hear from anybody. Um, so what, the way it works is you start your budget at the pre, at the tentative, you bring it to the preliminary status. You set the public hearing and then you vote on the final budget after the public hearing is held. So, everybody has received a copy of the tentative budget. And ah, at this point I would like to entertain a motion to advance the tentative 2026 budget to preliminary status”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make that motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, I think that can be a roll call vote Maya”.
The town clerk said, “Supervisor Kroyer?” Supervisor said aye. “Councilman Giordano?” Councilman Giordano said aye.
“Councilman Pumilia?” Councilman Pumilia said aye. “Councilwoman Scotti?” Councilwoman Scotti said aye. “Councilman Pellitteri?” Councilman Pellitteri said aye. “All ayes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, so the budget has now advanced to the preliminary status. I will entertain a motion to set the public hearing on the preliminary 2026 budget for November 12th 2025 at 7pm. Do I have somebody that wanted to make that motion?”
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make the motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “Do I have a second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Jeanie, roll call vote please Maya”.
The town clerk said, “Supervisor Kroyer?” Supervisor Kroyer said aye. “Councilman Giordano?”
Councilman Giordano said aye. “Councilman Pumilia?” Councilman Pumilia said aye. “Councilwoman Scotti?” Councilwoman Scotti said aye. “Councilman Pellitteri?”
Councilman Pellitteri said aye. “All ayes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok so the public hearing is set. Um, the budget is now considered preliminary and ah I think it needs to be on the website and necessary notifications for the public hearing in the newspaper”.
The town clerk said, “Yes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, thank you Maya”.
The town clerk said, “Your welcome”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, alright so that’s it with budget ah, for this month. Next month will be the public hearing and we’ll vote on the final budget. I will mention it’s a balanced budget staying under the NYS tax cap ah, 4 years running, actually more than that but I’m saying since in my tenure, we’ve always stayed under that tax cap. I believe quite a ways before that as well. Alright, so we’re looking out for the Jewett tax payers”.
Greene EMS Update:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright Greene EMS, I just want to mention something. The ambulance um, county wide ambulance that’s been in the works for approximately a year or so. If you look at it, the they, the last meeting the Greene County Legislature, um that Chairman of Legislature Patrick Linger and the Administrator, the County Administrator Shawn Groden. One of the two of them stated at that meeting that ah, they’re not gonna put it to a vote even because it’s
7 to 7 tie vote and they don’t want to have a bunch of bad blood moving forward, ah if they don’t have support to finance it, to pay for it, you know whatever their reasoning is. So since then, I just want to say this before you, you know”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I attended”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, so you know more than me about that meeting, but the ah then the ah Mountain Top Supervisors met and ah put forth a resolution to all the different County Supervisors to basically force their hands and make them vote. We ask, we’re asking that the County Legislature hold a vote. We think that the votes are there for it to pass. They are there,
I think. You know, you never know till the actual vote takes place. So that’s where it’s at right now, it seemed like it fell apart. Now, this other resolution has been sent to the Greene County Legislature where 11 out of 14 Supervisors, um, 3 of them that didn’t vote for it were Catskill, Cairo and Halcott who doesn’t really, they get served by like Margaretville or something so Halcott is not involved with this. Catskill is the big one that decided not sign onto this and Cairo as well”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Cairo and I believe Greenville”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Greenville signed it”.
Councilwoman Scotti asked, “They did sign it?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Signed the letter”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “The letter, yeah”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The letter, well more than a letter it’s a resolution asking for them to”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “A resolution, yeah I think they all signed the letter but they, when it came to a vote for each rescue squad it was the 7 to 7 and they have no solution but what, this is what Mr. Groden said at the meeting, he, they were willing, The Legislature were willing to give monies to each rescue squad, and a nice some of money for them to keep operating as, as they been”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Give the money to the towns”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Towns, I’m sorry, yes. And um, you know the meeting went really downhill and you know these people put in a year and a half, almost 2 years of meeting and planning and now all of a sudden, it’s not there, you know for them so, and if all the towns or rescue squads don’t come on board it, it can’t be a County system. You know and that’s what their afraid and some of the major players as far as their ah call volume, their recovery for
billing, if those towns don’t come on, how do they, you know carry on and do a County wide system”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Right but, keep in mind you had 11 out of 14 town boards or Supervisors”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Supervisors, yes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “To vote to ask the County Legislature to take a vote on this”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Right, they want them to vote”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We want this, we want this County wide system, it’s for everybody’s good right?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Good, Yeah it’s to better the whole system”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I think the votes are there, I don’t know what’s gonna happen, the ball is in their court now”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I don’t know either”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You can only ask, you can’t make them vote. Um, but if they, you know if they vote, I’d say it passes and then as far as what’s gonna happen after that, we’ll have to find out, right?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “You know and also so everybody knows it’s not a system that gets put together over night. It takes 2, 3 years to form a system like this. You’re not talking about just a small area. You’re talking about a long, a large area and you got to get all those rescue squads on board. So, it does take a long time”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And like we don’t have our own rescue squad, we contract with Windham. So we have a seat at the table, sort of but we’re kind of sitting behind Windham, right? Um, I think that it’s best if they pass this, honestly for us. The money that they talk about giving out to the towns was a, the initial proposal sounded to me like they were saying they’re gonna give a $100,000 to each town. That really doesn’t make sense right? Because if you’re thinking about it, a town like Greenville, I think they pay about $700,000 a year. Ok, Jewett I think we paid $132,000 to Windham last year. So if we got a $100,000 that would be great. Right, we’re, now we’re only paying $32,000 but if a town like Greenville got $100,000, they’re still paying $600,000 so it doesn’t really help them, much. You know it helps them but it’s really not the way ambulance, first of all why wouldn’t it be prorated where bigger towns with greater populations, of course you get more money, right? It seems like a quick, somebody took a short cut with that number. So, I don’t think that’s sustainable either it’s just a”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “But towns like us and towns like Prattsville, Lexington who contract with Ashland, you know um they still pay just like we pay Windham to cover our area and our residents. So, I mean you know, that’s a good number but it still keeps each individual town in the ambulance business and that’s what some towns don’t want to be in. That’s really the bottom line. You know, they’ve, they’ve had it. They can’t, it’s hard to coverage for staffing, its hard budget wise and they feel like they can’t efficiently keep going like this, you know unless something changes. So that’s why, you know they, they want a county system but I’m not sure that the money. You know look at the money they’re quoting. Anywhere from 12, which that’s a low number for a county like ours to have a system, 15 million? Yeah that’s that’s pretty accurate.
I think, in my opinion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “12, 12 to 15 is what their saying”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “12 to 15 is what they”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “For the whole County”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “For the whole County”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Right, again we kind of have a seat at the table but we’re kind of just gonna do what we have to. Um we need to keep our coverage going with Windham”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Absolutely with Windham”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “With Windham and whatever ends up happening, were gonna have to sign onto that too because we don’t have any other options. Well, we don’t have any other reasonable options. Right? We could start our own ambulance service here but when I say that, I don’t really, I don’t think we have the a”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Don’t ask me”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Right, we don’t really have the ability to do that or the money. Or with the rig itself. The one rig would cost way more than we pay for a year”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Oh absolutely”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Right and equipment”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “That will cost 3 years of what we pay. Alone, just for that one item”.
Councilman Giordano said, “And now payroll right?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “And forget payroll, if you can get staff, that’s the next thing”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So it kind of remains to be seen what’s gonna happen”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Absolutely, yup”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I don’t think there’s any other scheduled meetings at this point”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “No, not that I heard of, no”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So we kind of got to see what happens. Is the County Legislature gonna vote on this or not? If they don’t then it won’t happen”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “In the paper if anybody wants to know, this week’s paper, is the exact letter verbatim that Mike put in for, from them”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “From the County Supervisors?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “From the County to the Supervisors, yeah”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And really it’s Catskill, Catskills the one that pulled out if you must know. It’s like they were, they were all in like up until they weren’t. It seemed like it. I mean the guy Patrick is the, what’s his last name? McCoughlic or something or? Anyway, he was all in, he was leading the charge to get this and then all of a sudden, I’m not sure what happened”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “But isn’t there, for Catskill, isn’t there like 3 different legislatures?
For Catskill?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yup”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “You know, so I don’t know if they were all on board. You know we don’t know that part of it. We only knew the part of sitting in the meeting. And you know Shawn and and Patrick Linger telling us you know, what was going on”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah the municipality, are they willing?, if they’re not, that’s tough.
The Legislatures are that ones that are voting and are in control of this stuff. So, if they vote for it, it will happen”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yeah, then it will have to happen”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You will have to be either a member of it or if you want to say no, I don’t want to be a member, that won’t be good because your residents will be double taxed is
what will happen and you can’t let that happen so. You know, inevitably if they do start this thing and it comes with better benefits, higher pay, they will get the employees. All the employees will leave these other services and come over here. So, I kind of”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “You mean eventually, that maybe they can come on board? But I’m not sure that it could work like that if it, you know I mean like you said, they’re gonna get double taxed”.
Bill Rod, resident of Jewett said, “Jeanie, the bridging of service, the bridging of service issue, the bridging of service issue for Catskill”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Thanks Bill, but please don’t”.
Coucnilwoman Scotti said, “Bridging yeah”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Thank you Jeanie”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “You got more Jeanie?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yes please”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Um, yeah I have a few other things. What did I do, ah for Greene County EMS ah, we interviewed one new medic, which that was good. We did accept her, liked her very much, very knowledgeable, she knows her stuff. Um, she’s gonna need a lot of, a little bit more on the job training. Only cause she’s not that that familiar with the area and the system. You know she came from other systems and they operate differently. Some different equipment, some different things, you know. But she’ll, she’ll work out just fine. She was very good. Um, filling shifts have been really hard with Greene EMS as well, um, employees had come and asked something to the chief about like possible 48 hour week work for full time employees. And a lot of the squads are going towards that because at least then they know that they get 8 hours overtime. They come in, they do their shifts and they’re there then, you know, there’s less holes to fill if, you know because they cover a whole other 2 shifts, each of them. So, that’s something we didn’t decide on that. We didn’t put it to a vote or anything. It was just suggested so we got to talk more about that. Our call volume did go up, this month we were last month we were staying steady at 10, we went up to 13. We had 3 calls. Two were ALS used and one was BLS. So, I don’t know who transported the BLS. Because apparently if we have them then Windham was out on their call. So, Greene County came. Other than that, nothing else”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, I’m gonna remain hopeful that the County works this out after over a year of a, a these meet, you know 2-3 hour meetings ah once a month and then all the effort that went into it and the money spent, probably, I bet you a hundred grand spent on the consultant”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I mean The Supervisors were very downhearted on it. Because I mean, like I said a year and a half, two years of planning and then we, you know, we get told its not gonna go”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah, I don’t know why these guys are in the seats they’re in if they’re not gonna make this happen. I mean this is good for the whole County”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I mean besides the money we spent on the, a, the report from ah”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Finch Associates”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yeah, Finch. And this is exactly what happened in 209, this is exactly the same way it went”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And all along they said, oh we don’t want it to be like it was in 209, 2009 right and here it is and it ends up the same way. So let’s, I don’t know, I’m staying hopeful, I think you know, I think that this Supervisors did what they can do. You know they passed the resolution asking them to take the vote. And we think that if they take a vote, this thing passes.
And then, they’re gonna, you know, I’m sorry that its uncomfortable for those other 7 Legislatures that you know didn’t get it their way, but in the end its probably for the good of the County to get this.”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yeah, Absolutly”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Hopefully it happens”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Well, we’ll see”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, alright, thank you very much Jeanie”.
Councilwoman Scotti answered, “Yeah, no problem”.
Councilman Pellitteri thanked Councilwoman Scotti.
Planning Board Liaison Report:
Supervisor Kroyer said, ”The Planning Board did not meet, so I don’t have anything for them”.
Motion to pay bills and accept the financials:
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I will entertain a motion to pay the bills. Do I have somebody making that motion?”
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I make a motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “Jim, do I have a second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Jeanie, all in favor?”
All said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Ok motion passes. We will write those checks tomorrow Entertain a motion to accept the financial statements”.
General Fund was $8,068.55 on abstract #10, claim numbers 217-229.
The Highway Fund was $14,952.69 on abstract #10, claim numbers 159-172.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make a motion to accept the financial statements”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “Second”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All in favor?”
All said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Motion passes. Financial statements are accepted.
Entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “Before you do that Greg, I just want to say something. I’m not looking for any answers or a response. I just want to be part of the record. Take me a minute.
I find it very disturbing that this Board”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, you should have contacted me if you wanted to make a statement right now”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I didn’t though, I didn’t and I’m talking about it now. I find it very disturbing that this Board isn’t happy with the minutes and doesn’t want to pass them because they think some things are inaccurate and because its 13 pages long. If anybody thinks that
there’s anything inaccurate, they could simply underline it and we can sit down with the recording and find out what’s right and what’s wrong”.
Councilman Giordano said, “What if it’s missing and it’s not there and you can’t find it?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “Well, then we’ll find out but right now we didn’t do that, it’s just that Greg doesn’t want it so”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, hold on, this doesn’t have to do with Greg”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I said I didn’t want to have a discussion I just wanted to be part of the record”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright, you made your point. By voting, by making a motion”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “ I’d like to make a point”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok Jim”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Go ahead, I’ll listen”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “Ah, We’ve discussed this before. Um, I don’t know what your vote was but all four of us don’t like how it’s set up”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “As far as what?”
Councilman Pellitteri said, “To try to put down every word, cause those words are not correct. And for us to know their correct, we’re gonna have to listen to 45 minutes to see if it’s all correct. Before, it was before, it , it , it ah put the important things where something happened to be, it told who voted for what just like every other town. And it’s just, I’m not gonna spend an hour with this trying to figure it out. And I know from looking at this one it was not accurate.
The town clerk said, “I would like you to please show me where it is not accurate”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “If its important issues that you find that aren’t accurate, they should be addressed. If its immaterial stuff than it doesn’t matter”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “No, no, no, the point is, it’s a ridiculous idea to put every single word of everybody’s in there”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Its 13 pages, I got it on my email like everyone else did”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I can’t afford to print the paper, not every month”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Then don’t”.
Councilman Giordano asked, “Oh then how am I gonna read it?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “Wait till you get here. But, I read it and it took me 5 minutes and I’m not a reader, I don’t sit and read stuff”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John you made your point, Jim made his, I think we’re good to go”.
The town clerk said, “I think the Town of Jewett, the residents they deserve the Council People
to put in, maybe what, 10, 20 minutes extra time to read the minutes?”
Councilman Giordano said, “It used to be a page, a page and a half”.
The town clerk said, “We work for them, we serve the town”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I mean that’s what your recording is for basically”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Can I say something, I think if we had to sit down with that recording and go thru every part of that 13 page, we would have to be here and we get it on, you gave it to us on Friday, right?”
The town clerk said yes.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “We got Monday and Tuesday. We would have to sit down with that and take like Jim said, you said 45 minutes, I don’t think that, I think it would be a hell of a lot longer.”
The town clerk said, “Well, I think the residents of our town who elected us are worth the extra 45 minutes. Don’t you think so?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I think you should write the minutes like you used to Maya and there wouldn’t be a problem”.
Councilman Giordano agreed.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’m sorry I didn’t hear what you said”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I think Maya should write the minutes as she always used to up until about 4 months ago and there would be no problem. We would always vote to accept them and that’s how it went”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Oh back when we went to 9 minute meetings?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Bob, Bob again, you’re not on The Board, no you’re not, you don’t have the floor, you don’t have the floor Bob”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Back to when we went to 9 minute meetings, it doesn’t matter, I’m taking the floor”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright I’m going to entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’d like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Second? All in favor?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Aye”.
The town clerk couldn’t hear who seconded the motion and Councilman Giordano told her to listen to the recording to find out.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The meeting is adjourned.”
The meeting adjourned at 8:37pm.
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Maya Carl, Town Clerk
Added: October 09, 2025
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday September 10, 2025. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Bill Rod, Kathy Mellody, Al Olivieri, Nancy Wyncoop, William Mead and Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter.
Also present was the Highway Superintendent, the Town Clerk and the
Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea.
The Supervisor’s financial report for August was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Supervisor Kroyer said that the clerk sent the minutes out on Sunday and asked if anyone had any questions. Councilman Giordano said the minutes used to be about a page/ page and a quarter/ page and a half and went on to say that these last couple of months they seem to be 13 pages.
Councilwoman Scotti asked the clerk if she was using another program for the minutes.
The town clerk said no and that she was doing them verbatim.
Councilwoman Scotti expressed that we never did this before.
The town clerk said, “No, no but I didn’t want anyone to say that I didn’t properly represent the meetings so I figured if I did it verbatim, then everybody’s words would be their own”.
Councilwoman Scotti said she thought the minutes were sufficient before and that it basically gave an outline of what was said but thought that this way of doing the minutes was a lot.
She thought maybe the clerk was using some sort of a recording program/ app.
The clerk said, “No, I used the recorder here and just listened to it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It is what it is I guess, so I mean if you’re going to do them verbatim maybe you do them actually verbatim with an app because they’re not actually verbatim, they’re just really long, I mean we had a 28 minute meeting and 12 pages of minutes.
Whatever, ok we’ll just let it go for now”.
Supervisor Koyer entertained a motion to appoint Nancy Wyncoop to a 6 year term beginning October 1, 2025 and asked if anyone wanted to make the motion.
Councilwoman Scotti made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Pellitteri and carried, the Board moved to appoint Nancy Wyncoop as Assessor for a 6 year term.
All were in favor and Ms. Wyncoop thanked the Board.
Supervisor Kroyer brought up the conversation from last month regarding the possibility of
re-occurring mold/ storm water. He wanted to review things that the Board Members already knew about. He sent an email out to everyone after the last meeting. Supervisor Kroyer spoke of a conceptual design which he placed in the Board Members folders. This SLR design was completed in January. Next he informed the Board that there was a storm water final design proposal from SLR which is the proposal for the final design to do the storm water retro fit.
Supervisor Kroyer mentioned information in an email that he sent out to Board Members on August 20th was in their folders as well. Another plan, The Corrective Action and Maintenance Plan that was presented to the town by Safe and Sound Property Services by licensed mold assessor, Brian Colletti was in their folders as well. It was recommendations regarding the corrective action that needs to be taken to prevent a reoccurrence of the situation. Supervisor Koyer said to the Board that all the paperwork regarding these projects are in their folders for their review and that they had them for a couple of weeks.
Supervisor Kroyer started with the concept design phase by SLR. He said it is the current template from which the final plan will be drawn. The Jewett storm water final design proposal also provided by SLR Engineering will include data collection, advanced design, regulatory permitting assistance, the final design phase, bidding assistance and direct expenses for a total of $133,500 that was approved for the grant. They will work on the final design and handle the bidding process. This amount will be covered by the Catskill Watershed Corporation, Storm Water Retrofit. This project will include numerous measures to make our municipal complex more flood resistant. Trench drains, catch basins, dry swales, retention basins, filterra systems, roof gutters and culverts will all be included. This will include both sides of the road.
Supervisor Kroyer said the more immediate concerns should be addressed in house.
He then went onto read the Corrective Action and Maintenance Plan from Safe and Sound Property Services which included, increasing ventilation and light, monitoring temperature and humidity, manage drainage temporarily until the larger project can be completed, water proofing of the foundation wall and repair walls inside and out with mold resistant building materials. He updated the Board that missing insulation in the boiler room has been replaced and he is suggesting the Highway guys do the same in their building.
He mentioned that there are some additional concerns out there about the framing that needs to be replaced, stating that the sill plates are rotten and that some of the framing is soft.
Supervisor Kroyer expressed that this is well within the skill sets of our Highway guys and that he would like to see that addressed that way without bidding it out. He suggested even gutting the whole wall and replacing it with either a poly vinyl siding or metal siding or at the very minimum mold resistant water proof sheet rock. On the outside of the building, Supervisor Kroyer said to dig it out and continue to the creek. He stated that this would be next to impossible to bid out when it is just a little maintenance plan that would need to happen.
Superintendent Mallory said that we should bring in a couple of contractors to take a look at it and give us a price to put it back together. Supervisor Kroyer disagreed and said it is minor repairs that can be done in house.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Can I interrupt? I don’t think it’s fair to make it sound like it’s not a big deal. The construction part of it, it’s not a major deal at all. Its relatively simple, but it’s not like it’s not a big deal”.
Supervisor Kroyer said it’s a piece of cake.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Number one, number two, my concern is”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John you’re a board member, if you’re going to try to represent the union or something right now, that’s not appropriate”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Well, I’m not representing the union”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You did at the last meeting, what I’m saying is that”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Why don’t you give me the same courtesy I gave you and let me finish talking. What I’m saying is, and this isn’t defending or taking sides with the union or anyone else. If his men start that project and they run into a problem, a safety problem, their unions gonna stop them and then where are we gonna stand?”
Councilwoman Scotti asked why they would run into a safety problem.
Councilman Pumilia said, “How about if they open up a wall and they find out there’s mold in it? What if they open up a wall and find out there’s much more damage in it than anticipated?
I say this because it happened to me, it happened to me all the time when I was in business, with stuff like this, you really don’t know what you’re in for until you start”.
Councilman Scotti said, “Ok, then you got to call a professional in and you would call the Servpro back in”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I would and my suggestion was going to be, have somebody come in. let them give us a price not that we’re going to use”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We’re a municipality John, you don’t understand the bidding process”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Not that we are going to use an outside contractor but at least we get somebody to come in to really look at it and see what would they do, now we have an idea what has to be done.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, hold on, listen, we have it right here. Listen, I’m a master carpenter, a builder with 50 years’ experience. Bob Mallory is a builder. We know what’s going on here. Don’t pretend that you don’t. The bottom line is that it’s a simple matter to fix some sill plates that are rotten and put some new framing in and put some foam insulation in the wall and put either some type of mold resistance covering on that in your own office that’s been there for the whole time. So I’m asking that the highway, I’m gonna say and I’m done with this now, but I’m gonna say, I’m asking that the highway department handles that project. And it’s not a ridiculously large project. I already fixed this little room in here by myself in three hours.
It’s done, ok so let’s see if you could come up, I take it as a challenge. You and your crew fix your own work space to your liking. I mean I could go in there and tell you exactly how to do it, I could run that job”.
Superintendent Mallory went on to explain that his highway foreman spoke to their union representative and told him that their representative told them that if the work involves mold, they don’t have to do it.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Bottom line is, you have four members of the highway crew that you direct and this is a very small job. If they are telling you how it goes then its backwards Bob”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Richie told them that they don’t have to be part of that, because Scott told me that, I’m just telling you what they told me, am I wrong?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yes, you are wrong, yes you’re wrong, what if they told you they didn’t want to plow the snow, is that ok too?”
Superintendent Mallory said, “No, they’re highway department”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “They are laborers”.
Kathy Mellody, town resident spoke out and said, “If they plow snow they have to do this?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Audience, nobody needs to talk, you don’t have a speaking role today, I’m sorry, now the meeting comes back to order. John be quiet please. John be quiet, I’m taking charge of the meeting again. Alright, we have made a request that we want the highway guys to fix that minor issue and take care of the whole thing”.
Town attorney Tal Rappleyea said, “The bottom line is that the men have a definition of their work in their collective bargaining agreement. If this falls outside of that, then they have the right to say no. They don’t have to but they can say no if they want to”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “This doesn’t fall outside of it”.
Town Attorney Tal Rappleyea said, “Well, I would have to look at the definition in the collective bargaining agreement”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Richie doesn’t run the town of Jewett, bottom line, so that’s that.
Superintendent Mallory said, “If them guys have a problem with something I ask them to do, he could go to them and say no, you don’t have to do that and that’s what they told me”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The more immediate concerns can be handled in house until a larger project can be completed”. I’ve worked to get a grant for a $133,000”.
Superintendent Mallory asked, “What does the grant include”?
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The grant is for the final design phase of the storm water prevention”.
Superintendent Mallory asked, “Which includes what, does it include the road down there on Beaches Corners Rd.?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That’s a separate project. That has nothing to do with this, it’s a separate project”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’ll entertain a motion to ask the Highway Superintendent to fix the building and take care of the immediate concerns”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I make a motion”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I second”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All in favor?”
All said aye.
Councilman Giordano said, “May I add one more thing to this”?
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Absolutely John”.
Councilman Giordano said, “It needs to start outside the building, you have to have a pipe, perforated pipe, below the floor of the building and day light it to the stream with some crushed stone in it, temporarily”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And why not dig out that whole building and water proof the foundation as well”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “The foundation is all falling apart Greg”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Waterproof it ok”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It’s all painted and falling apart, I’m a mason all my life you just got done telling everybody”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It doesn’t look like its falling apart from my eyes”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Well we won’t know until you dig it up I guess”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Johnny we’ve been thru there several times and dug it by hand, there’s pipes in there now. We do it Johnny we’ve done it and done it and done it”.
Supervisor Kroyer suggested that a culvert be put in and Superintendent Mallory said there was one in there already.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The boiler is shot. Friday I went in to check the boiler, I’ve been checking the boiler every day because I knew it was leaking. I’ve been checking it every day for the last four years to be honest. But I went in and checked it on Friday and there was a couple inches of water in there, I cleaned it up, sopped it up. I called the plumber, they came, he diagnosed it, in short order he took the covers off and the boiler itself is shot. It’s a 25 year old boiler and it was rusted through the cast iron part of it. So, we needed a new boiler. I’m standing here with the plumber in the room on Friday, I make a couple of calls to a couple of board members to make sure I got a majority of the board agreeing with me, that yes we need a new boiler. I tell him to go ahead and replace it. He was supposed to come Monday but they showed up Tuesday, took them all day, he put a new boiler in, it’s installed, it’s done. So, I’m gonna entertain a motion to pay, by the way it’s a very professional job, nice new boiler, and the zone valves all replaced, so we should be set to go for another 20 years. I’ll entertain a motion to pay Huber Mechanicals bill.
Councilman Pumilia asked to see the bill.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Entertain a motion to pay, to pay the Huber bill for a new boiler”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make the motion to pay the bill”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second”?
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked if all were in favor.
Everyone said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed hearing none the motion passes, we’ll pay that bill tomorrow. And it was actually a good deal and they came right away and got it done. And now we have hot water again in the Senior Center and the waters working as well.”
The Town Attorney asked, “And it was done on an emergency basis?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It was done on an emergency basis, the floor was full of water and they
were going to have to shut down the Senior Center if it wasn’t done”.
The Town Attorney said, “The motion should be that you are moving to pay it on an emergency basis and that you are dispensing with bidding or anything.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m gonna remake that motion. Can you give me the words Tal please”.
The Town Attorney said, “The motion is to pay that bill on an emergency basis because you had to dispense with the bidding and procurement policy because of the emergency”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’ll make that motion, do I have a second?”
Councilman Giordano said, “I second the motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked if all was in favor.
All said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Ok, so that’s a done deal. We’ll pay the bill tomorrow. It was a good deal. And Huber is our, they’re the ones that work on like when the toilet breaks, they come and fix it, right away. That’s what’s good about them. They are a very professional company”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John you have something you want to discuss with fuel tanks?”
Councilman Giordano said, “I do, I have prices to replace a 1000 gallon, 40 year old fuel tank out here and a proposal on a 500 gallon gasoline tank and a 1000 gallon diesel tank that are 40 years old and don’t know if we can just purchase the tanks and I think it should be considered an emergency so it didn’t have to go out to bid. Just purchase two new tanks and hire somebody to, I guess I don’t know you got to pump the fuel from one to another and just set them where they are now on our concrete slab. They are double wall containment tanks. I have pricing here, different style tanks, I tried to keep the same size so that we didn’t have to pour concrete and do a new pad. But I just think those tanks are vulnerable and that we should replace them without spending $80,000 dollars to do it”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “What kind of money are you looking at there?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Well again, one of the tanks is, I believe it was $6,000 dollars for a 1000 gallon double wall tank. And the 500 gallon for gas, I don’t know if we need, do we need a 1000 gallon gas Bob?”
Superintendent Mallory said no.
Councilman Giordano said, “Not really right, good. So you’re talking, you know without a computer system pretty much single digits just to buy a couple new tanks.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Under $10,000?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yeah, for two new double wall tanks”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That don’t require any containment, correct?”
Councilman Giordano said, “They have their own containment, double wall tank”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So these are free standing, they don’t have to sit inside of a well that’s containing them, correct?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Well, I have different literature here and ah, that’s correct, they’re enclosed tanks”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So, I guess my only question is, is it something we can skip the bidding process?”
Town Attorney Tal Rappleyea said, “Again if you declare that it’s an emergency, if you think that there’s a potential that there would be a catastrophic failure”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “There would be a tragedy if one of those tanks spilled out a 1000 gallons of diesel fuel onto the ground, that would certainly be a tragedy, you know”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Excuse me, those prices are installed, delivered and installed?”
Councilman Giordano said, “No, those are delivered. Those would be delivered, there would be hook ups, there would be vent pipes that would have to be hooked up and ah, so I mean if you want them to install. So this tank, fuel management run meter, $6,000 dollars, $200 dollar digital read out including delivery would be, fuel management meter ah, it seems like the meter is $6,000 dollars of it, um”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It sounds like it’s a far cry cheaper than $80,000 dollars. But $80,000 was for two 1000 gallon tanks, it was for a computer system and card reader”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “It’s all different, it’s not the same”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well here’s the thing, every other town basically has that. Like, we’re the only ones, we don’t keep track of our fuel, we don’t even have like a notebook”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Most towns have computerized?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah, yup”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “What’s computerized on it?”
Supervisor Kroyer answered, “It’s a card, you say I’m putting in 50 gallons in, it tells you what truck did it go in”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Oh, what comes in and what comes out? So you keep track of it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It tells you what truck did it go in, you know I mean what keeps somebody from pulling up there filling up their truck and driving away? You know we don’t keep track of it now”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “The fact is that they are shut off all the time, that’s one reason they don’t do that”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I suggest you keep track of it at a minimum of a book where they say 25 gallons in truck number 9 um Josh, you know.”
Councilman Pumilia asked, “So what options are there to keep track of it, how would that work?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You could easily just set up a book”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “No, you can’t. Now I’m going to intervene. We’ve done this for 30 years, I’ve been here, we come in at midnight and we plow the snow and it’s still snowing, you go to get the book out and it’s raining or snowing, you take the book, the book turns blurry. When you get into the business of the highway superintendent stuff, it’s a lot different than everybody might think. It’s not simple like you think. We have tried several times, we’ve been thru this conversation, Tal’s been here 30 years, he knows we’ve done it. So it needs to have a system, its need to have accountable, it needs to have cards”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So, I brought this forth 2, 3 years ago Bob and you said no it’s too expensive”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “No, I’m the one who came to you and told you that we need to do it Greg. But that was too much money, didn’t you think?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So let’s figure out what we can do”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “We need to figure out a way to get two more trucks in the barn you know and keep them warm because we can’t plow our snow because we go out in the mornings, we got other things to talk about here too Greg, we got a barn to talk about. We got to fix the barn”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m not, I’m not. If you want to talk about these things, please come contact me and get on the agenda. In fact from now on, that’s how I’m running the meeting; I’m not having this anymore. It’s not a free for all, ok? I’m the Supervisor, I’m in charge of the meetings, I’m in charge of the agenda. All right? In order to maintain order and avoid any confusion, I’m going to run these meetings in an organized manner. Anyone who wants to address The Board, needs to be placed on the agenda. To be placed on the agenda please contact my office 10 days prior to the meeting. The agenda will be sent out to The Board a week prior to the meeting. That’s how I intend to do it moving forward. I don’t like the way it’s going lately. Ok? So there you go, there you have it. As far as this meeting goes, the fuel tank replacement I think we need to get a little further on it, if we’re gonna have to have some sort of computer monitoring, let get a quote on that whole thing again and if it ends up being, and that really is the way it needs to happen ”.
The discussion then turned to whom or what gets assigned the cards. Supervisor Kroyer says it’s the men and Superintendent Mallory said it’s the trucks that have the cards.
Councilwoman Scotti asked Councilman Giordano if he can get a price that includes everything as well as installation.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And some sort of monitoring John, let see if we can get it for under the $80,000 that I said. Because $80,000 is a big nut. I get it,
we got to replace the tanks anyway; it’s probably time to do it. I said it was a couple of years ago and I’m the one who presented it and everybody declined to do it at that time. So now I’m not taking any heat from anybody on this.
I already gave you a way to do this from somebody that had the state bid, I spent a lot of time on it. I met with the guy and nobody wanted to do it. So here we are again, so come back with a proposal that has a, includes a computer system, includes key cards and whether it’s per truck or per man, I believe it’s per man and then a, we will take a look at that. That’s my thought on that”.
Councilman Giordano thanked Supervisor Kroyer.
Supervisor Kroyer asked Councilman Giordano if he had anything else he would like to bring up.
Councilman Giordano said, “I wanted to discuss security cameras for the municipality. I think we should get up to date, um just a thought”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Can I just say something about that, so if you want to look into that, I’m gonna entertain a motion to form a committee and I think I’ve heard from Jeanie and you on this so I’d like to entertain a motion to form a committee to look into a security system/ cameras ah, for the building and then you can report back to the board. I would do it in executive session because this isn’t something I want out in the public domain. I don’t think they should be in the minutes. If it’s a security system you don’t go tell everybody what it is. You just go ahead and figure it out and then do it. Alright and of course we will vote on it as a board because it will cost something but ah, I’m going to entertain a motion to form a security committee, I’ll call it ah, Councilperson Giordano and Councilperson Scotti ah, two members that way there’s not a quorum, two members of the board looking into it and you guys can come back and whether it’s this month or next month or the month after, come back and report to the board and then we’ll take a look at what we got as far as that goes. So that’s that and the fuel tank basically is the same thing but that’s, there’s no reason for that to be anything but public, ok? Ah Greene EMS, do we have something tonight? ”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Are you asking for a motion?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Didn’t we do it already, ok my bad, I lost track, ok. Entertain a motion to form a security committee of Councilperson Giordano and Councilperson Scotti”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I make a motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked for a second and Councilman Pumilia seconded it.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All in favor?”.
Everyone said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Hearing none, congratulations you’re on a committee; let us know what you find about that and ah, and then we will move from there.
Greene EMS, is there something for this month Jeanie?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “August, we didn’t have a meeting so, I really have nothing to report.
They did do, we did pay the bills, financials, we did that thru email. I did one new hire, is all I did for a new paramedic to come on board. So, he’s going thru his OJT and um Steve will keep me up to breast of how his progress is progressing. So that’s all I have, but I go to the meeting next Tuesday. So next month, I’ll have minutes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah I think the same thing, I don’t have anything either. They seem like their sitting on it for another month”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yeah, I didn’t hear anything from the county plan, they stopped having meetings”.
Supervisor Kroyer then thanked Councilwoman Scotti.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Planning Board liaison, I spoke with the Chair of the Planning Board, they had a one decision rendered at their last meeting last week for a lot line adjustment for a property on Wright Rd. Two lots, he just moved the line to make it into conformance, alright so at this point I will entertain a motion to pay the bills”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make a motion to pay the bills”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked for a second.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked if all were in favor.
All said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? The motion passes, we’ll pay those bills tomorrow.
I will entertain a motion to accept the financials”.
Councilman Pellitteri said, “I make a motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Jimmy, do I have a second?”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll second the motion”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, all in favor?
All said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Ok, motion passes. All right, that’s all I have. Bill, I know you’re here and again I really need you to like, I don’t know what you want to talk about but you got to call me if you want to be on the agenda. I’m talking to Bill in front of you Bill, sorry about that. You know I mean I just really don’t like to not let you say what you want to say so I’m gonna give you a chance right now”.
Resident Bill Mead took the floor and said, “Maybe I’m going to write a letter to the paper maybe, of what I wanted to say. Because I was on the town board for twelve years, more than that fourteen years, you had 15 minutes, half an hour set aside from anyone who come from the public. How come you have to be on the agenda to talk at this public meeting?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That’s what you want to know? So I can keep an organized meeting, so I don’t have people just shouting stuff out and derailing and hijacking the meetings. Ok?”
Mr. Mead said, “That’s what they’ve been doing ever since I’ve been here”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Look, I’m not sitting here for you or peoples pleasures so you can take shots at me. I’m here to run the town and to represent the tax payers Bill”.
Mr. Mead said, “I had some questions to ask”.
Supervior Kroyer said, “What would you like to ask, I’m asking you. Is that your criticism?
That there’s nobody”.
Mr. Mead said, “I’m not criticizing anybody. I had questions, I want answers. Why can’t I get an answer to a question?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You haven’t asked a question, you just criticized us and said we’re not letting you speak, I let you speak. Now you’re saying Oh, nobody’s letting me speak. That’s it?”.
Mr. Mead said, “Anyway it’s been probably 25 years since I’ve been involved with politics. But, years ago, when you got elected to an office, before you took office, you held your right hand up in front of a judge and swore you would do everything in your power to do the benefit of the tax payers and make sure that all the laws were enforced and what have you. And they don’t do that anymore?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yeah, I held my hand up to take the oath”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We all took an oath Bill, that wasn’t it the one that you said, but we did take an oath, yes”
Mr. Mead said, “I don’t know exactly what the words are but anyway in 1974, I was Supervisor, we passed the building ordinance, trailer ordinance and the junk ordinance. Now, if I want to build a house today, I got to get a building permit. Is that right?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said “Correct”.
Mr. Mead asked, “Why, because you say so?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “No, because it’s in our town code”.
The Town Attorney said, “Because the State of NY says so”.
Mr. Mead asked, “If I want to put a trailer on a piece of property, I got to get a permit?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Trailer, what kind of trailer are we talking?”.
Mr. Mead said, “A trailer to live in”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “Like a single wide or double? I mean, because a trailer can be like a camper to me, like a trailer”.
Mr. Mead said, “No, it’s not a camper trailer, it’s a live in trailer”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “If somebody puts a single wide trailer on a property, they would need a permit, yes”.
Mr. Mead said, “If I want a junk yard, I don’t have to have any permit, junk yards are open to the public, you can have a junk yard anytime you want”.
The Board said no.
Attorney Rappleyea said, “Only if it meets the zoning law”.
Mr. Mead said, “I was here a year ago with a petition with a hundred signatures and you threw them in the waste basket”.
The Board said they did not throw it away and explained that they have been working on that project.
Mr. Mead said, “Working on it? How long does it take?”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Long as the owner is taking right now, I guess”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It took 50 years to make that mess”.
Mr. Mead said, “I want to build a house and don’t get a permit and if I take 3, 4 years to build it, your gonna let me go? Are you gonna make me do something? Your gonna make me pay a fine? Or are you gonna make me get a permit?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So in other words Bill, are talking about the one on 23A?”.
Mr. Mead said, “I’m talking about that one and Jack Rappleyeas too”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok we’re not gonna talk about Jack’s but the one on 23A”.
Mr. Mead asked, “Why not talk about Jack?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Because he’s grandfathered in, we already determined that. So the one at 9806 23A, progress on the removals is continuing, it’s been addressed, the code enforcement guy, who you’re free to come talk to, is in communication. The guy is, actually his house was basically falling apart too, so he’s having his house renovated. The gentleman got married since he was in here, right so he’s”.
Mr. Mead said, “I don’t give a $#@* about his personal life”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m just stating the facts, you don’t care, I know. You don’t care about his relationship”.
Mr. Mead said, “I care about the law. What good is the law if you don’t enforce it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We are addressing it”.
Mr. Mead said, “No you’re not, you’re not addressing it. Listen, how many years ago did Billy Matthews get all of his cars taken away?
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I don’t know Bill”.
Mr. Mead said, “Well, ask the lawyer”.
Attorney Rappleyea said, “It’s probably been 25 years”.
Mr. Mead said, “Ok, it didn’t take 2 or 3 years to do that, did it?”.
Attorney Rappleyea said, “I don’t remember”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I do, it took about 2 weeks”.
Mr. Mead said, “You don’t remember because you don’t want to”.
Attorney Rappleyea said, “I don’t remember because it’s been 25 years Bill, come on. This is why he wants to have people come and tell us ahead of time because then I could have had an answer for you. Instead of you ambushing me and trying to make me look stupid”.
Mr. Mead said, “Why does it take 4 or 5 years to get rid of a junk yard?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I think the gentleman is in good faith trying to get the stuff removed, he got rid of a bunch of stuff already. I don’t know the exact number but numerous vehicles are now gone, off the property. Junk is gone; he’s got a big dumpster over there. Last I saw he’s kind of cleaning out”.
Councilwoman Scotti agreed as she had passed the property last week and saw much more space.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It’s a work in progress. I mean, you know, United States of America sir,
I mean”.
Mr. Mead said, “The house I’m building is going to be a work in progress. I’ll start and it may take me 4 or 5 years to build it but I won’t get a permit because I’m in progress, is that what your telling me?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “No, you get a permit if your permit expires after an annual, after each year you would have to renew it”.
Mr. Mead asked, “Does he have a permit?”
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “Who?”.
Mr. Mead said, “The guy with the junkyard”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “No, it’s not a legal junkyard Bill, I think you know that, that’s why we’re making him get rid of his stuff”.
Mr. Mead asked “What is it?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It’s somebody’s mess that they collected over the years while everybody else kept their eyes shut and now it’s my problem even though that guy was collecting cars when you were Supervisor Billy”.
Mr. Mead said, “He was not, I bet you don’t even know who lived over there when I was Supervisor”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I don’t know, well then he collected them pretty quick. Listen, we see it and he’s working on it. And you can get a further report from the code enforcement guy. And if you want to be on the agenda moving forward, please contact me 10 days in advance because I send out the agenda to the board members a week in advance. Alright and as far as talking, did I ever keep you from speaking?”.
Mr. Mead answered, “No, you haven’t”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, thank you and that’s the truth of it”.
Mr. Mead went on to describe his time as Superintendent of Highways and shared how he and his highway crew built the townhouse, with the electrician being the only one that got paid.
Mr. Rod took the floor and said, “Greg, I have one follow up question to something already discussed. And that was the grant, the grants awesome that we’re getting money for the storm water. But, is that $133,500 for the proposal design or does that include?”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That’s the design, the actual design. The conceptual design, we had a separate grant, I can’t say the exact number, it’s 22 or 26 thousand. That’s done, the conceptual design, now we’re moving on to the actual design phase. That’s $133,500 and once the project and again this is all subject to DEP approvals, CWC each time and that’s how it works. And I keep emailing, I’ve been doing it for, I’m gonna say 12, well at least 8 years, ok and you know we’ve been successful. We’ve already gotten probably 4, 5 hundred thousand dollar grant to do this culvert. We’re working on another one and it’s been approved already, we just received a $92,000 dollar grant and they just did the test borings and etc. on the town road over here.
And this $133 is a separate grant that will lead to another 3 to 4 or $500,000 dollars project to kind of deal with the situation we are having to prevent any issues going forward and I’m asking that we also work as a town for the best interest of our town and for our, you know I’m balancing the budget every year, I’ve balanced it four years in a row and I’m going to balance it again this year. We’re the only town on this mountain top that balances the budget and stays under the tax cap. Everybody else exceeds it. We don’t. I’m staying under it, right and everybody should understand that, that the money we’re getting to do these projects is outside money, grant money. We have to be a little patient, right other towns, Lexington, new highway garage, let’s just build a new highway garage, ok how much does that cost, oh 3 million dollars right? We’ve got a thousand people in town. You want to, you want to foot that bill, 3 or 4 thousand dollars each person? To pay for that? I think that we can work with what we have, maintain our building, spend some money and if we need more bays for our trucks, we have a building with 2 doors that needs 2 more doors actually. And some little frame work. I think we should work on that. We’ve talked about it. We should do things to improve our town that are reasonable, that don’t put us over budget. I’m never gonna, you know put out a millions of dollars of bond for our taxpayers. It’s gonna have to be someone else, it will never be me, I’m never doing that, I’ll tell you right now. It’s not happening. Not with me here. I am not doing that to our tax payer. I will do what’s reasonable and what’s necessary. I don’t think we shouldn’t improve, I think we should improve, absolutely. So that’s where I’m at right now”.
Councilman Giordano and Councilwoman Scotti both thanked Supervisor Kroyer.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m going to make a motion to adjourn”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make the motion to adjourn the meeting”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked for a second.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked if all was in favor and everyone said aye and the meeting was adjourned at 8:45pm.
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Maya Carl, Town Clerk
Added: September 15, 2025
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday August 13, 2025. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Board Member James Pellitteri was absent.
Public present was Bill and Carolyn Rod, Kathy Mellody, Al Olivieri, Michael Ryan Mountain Eagle Reporter and Sheila and Paul Trautman.
Also present was the Highway Superintendent, the Town Clerk and the Town Attorney.
The Supervisor’s financial report for July was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So, the minutes were sent out in plenty of time, everybody’s had a chance, you’ve got them from the last two months. I’ll entertain a motion to accept the minutes from June 11, 2025 and July 9, 2025. Anybody want to make that motion? No? Ok, that matter will not be considered,”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ah, alright salt barn roofing update. Ah, they took the roof, um, basically um, they were paid off. They came back for the day to clean up some nails; it was pointed out to them. Um, he said they got them all. So anyway he’s been paid and we have a new salt barn roof. Jeanie, EMS update? Jeanie we have anything for that?”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yes, we do. Um, I can tell you that our call volume stayed the same for the Town of Jewett for Greene County EMS. So we are still at the number 9 for the year, which is good, that’s good. Um, so no change in that. We did go thru our budget, um for 226, let me just grab those numbers because I didn’t get a chance to write those down. So last year to just bring you up to speed from last year to this year, last year we, the budget stayed low at 1.7% increase and this year it does go up and its 14.6%. Mark did go to the meeting, to the whole board county legislature meeting; they got to ask their questions. We presented, presented the whole budget. Ah, they had a few little questions and their fine with it.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So their up 14.6%?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yes, 14.6%. That’s including everybody getting the dollar amount, a dollar an hour raise. Um and I talked to you last month about the night and weekend differentials, so hard to get people on those hours. So they get a little bit more, it gives them an incentive to come in. I did one new hire, a medic about 4 years, 3 to 4 years, a little somewhere in between. Seems like good, he worked for two other agencies across the river, Greenport and Valatie. Know both of them they are pretty busy agencies, so I’m sure he got his experience. Ah Steve, you know will put him on OG, OJT on the job training. Um and I told him to keep me abreast of his on the job training. Cause then I would like to report back to The Board each month that their doing good or they finished, if their out in the cars or out on the road. So I know where their at in their status, so I follow them through. Um, oh the IV pumps that I talked about last month are all in and um training will go on starting, the training started and will be done and completed by the end of September. It takes a while to get everybody trained cause they work several jobs and you got to have several training sessions to accommodate
everybody, in different times, different days. So, that’s happening. And what else is happening on here. The county plan, you probably know just as much as I do ah Greg, as we both keep up with that. Ah no more meetings, there’s not going to be any more meetings. They say that all the towns would like to sign aboard, I beg to differ, not that’s not really what I heard I mean but.”
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “Who, who doesn’t want to?”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Well, I think the agencies that are doing well, they feel like they are doing well, they got good billing recovery. Their budgets are, you know their budgets are up there just like anybody else’s, but meanwhile they get recovery and they get good recovery.
Such as Catskill, such as Coxsackie, Cairo. So you know, I don’t know, I mean I see this going forward but I feel like it’s going to be stretched out. So, I’m gonna say, you know they might start working on some things in 226, 227. They still got a long way to go to implement a plan like this. You know and you can’t take away what’s doing well unless you know what your gonna replace it with is gonna do better. So, um with that said, that takes a long process to do.
You know it’s not an overnight thing, so you know um I think they felt like no more meetings because they have been like hashing over the same stuff and they need to hire a director.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It seems like that’s the biggest thing here”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I think they need to hire more than one director. I think they need to hire, you know, a director and maybe a deputy to go over, you know, you got a lot of things to consider. You got um, all the individual ambulance squads and their equipment. Now are they a rescue squad, do they own their equipment? There is so much involved, so so much.
You know are they gonna turn over their equipment? You know, there’s a lot. They are gonna be doing, I believe they are gonna be bringing, you know eventually the public into it and you know, and I, you know saying, let’s hear some concerns, let’s hear some, you know feedback.
So, I think it’s a long way off. I really do.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Right, right it sounds like you got bumped back about a year clearly in the last couple of months”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Although a year or two years, it goes by, it goes fast so. But you know in hopes to have a better plan, you know a more efficient plan, I mean we do have a good plan now. It’s just we need more, you know population increases, houses increases, towns get more population. So, um anything else, nope I don’t have anything else.”
Councilman Giordano said, “You got your new vehicles on the road?”.
Member of the public, Bill Rod raised his hand to comment. Supervisor Kroyer said, “No I’m not taking questions, we gonna go thru our board meeting, maybe at the end you’ll get a chance”.
Mr. Rod said ok.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Vehicles I believe, did I have that on here, I thought I said that last month”.
Councilman Giordano said, “I think you did, yeah ok”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Oh no that was highest mileage on what car. I think we’re still,
I think one is still out there, getting outfitted.”
Councilman Giordano thanked Councilwoman Scotti for her report.
Councilwoman Scotti thanked The Board.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So that’s interesting a 14.6% increase is very interesting in the budget, in one year that’s an enormous increase um and the fact, it seems like they, they decided to hire a, a whatever the titles gonna be, a, a ambulance coordinator or something. I think that decision is made, they’re gonna do that.”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Oh to get for the EMS plan?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “But they don’t know who it is yet.”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Oh they don’t know, no.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “But they have decided they are gonna hire somebody as a first step as a first step”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “A director.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That’s the two things we could take out of what’s happening in the last month or two, ah yeah.”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “And I think quite honestly before you know he gets up to speed with learning everything that’s in the county now and all the contacts and everything, that alone I think is gonna take at least, if they hire him tomorrow, the end of the year, you know that’s not a, that’s not an easy task to take on, you know. That’s why I said, I think that they need, you know at least two people. So one can depend on the other and you got more um, you know you got more brain power in there for what you need to do.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Are you all set with that?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Oh yeah, I’m all set.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Thank you very much”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Um, planning board, um I spoke to the planning board chair, they had one case, a public hearing on it as well, correct me if I’m wrong they approved the subdivision over off of Meadow Lane”.
The town clerk said yes.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So it’s a 3 lot, 1 lot becomes 3. I think the intention, the gentleman’s gonna, his son is gonna build a house on the lot that was subdivided. I think their all fairly large lots. Also, um ok I will entertain a motion to pay the bills.”
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make a motion to pay the bills.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Um, All in favor?”
All said Aye.
Superviosr Kroyer said. “Any opposed? Ok motion passes. We’ll get those bills paid tomorrow.”
General Fund was $65,468.76 on abstract #8, claim numbers 171-198.
The Highway Fund was $11,642.32 on abstract #8, claim numbers 133-143.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Entertain a motion to accept the financials?’
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make the motion to accept the financials.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, do I have a second?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’ll second it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “John, all in favor?”
Everyone said aye.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Any opposed? Hearing none, the motion passess”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Alright um Bill, did you have a question or concern about the ambulance?”
Resident Bill Rod said, “We were at a meeting and Catskill was pretty out of it, they were very clear that they wanted no part of it. So I don’t know if that’s going to, I don’t know what that’s going to do. The other thing is we have a very favorable agreement with Windham for support. I don’t know how that’s going to change to our benefit or detriment given the call volumes when it goes and becomes more of a county tax assessment than a Jewett township.”
Supervisor Kroyer said “Yeah, it would come out of our budget. It would go under the county; ah there will be a line item on your tax bill. Ah, my prediction, your right it’ll actually cost us more per resident but I think it will be more sustainable system and it’s not like we will have a choice, if Windham goes for it, we’re going for it. Right? Because we don’t have our own ambulance service. So, I think that’s how its gonna play out ah Bill, you know. And as far as what you said about Catskill, I don’t agree with you necessarily, I think that ah from speaking with the supervisor in Catskill, you know just 2 short months ago, he was very positive about it.
So I think, I think it goes like this and we’ll see what ends up happening on that, you know.”
Bill Rod said, “And also I think what Jeanie was saying about the time frames, they don’t have the job description. That hasn’t been completed yet, so they have to hire, they have to find somebody and hire them”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “It’s a lot of logistics that have to go on to put a system like this together”.
Bill Rod said, “That’s all I have to say”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yup, so we’ll stay tuned on all that, we keep track of it and hopefully ah, I mean we have to be in favor of something that’s sustainable if we have something that isn’t sustainable, that’s the thing”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “And we have to get more than what we have now, you know, um because we’re just making it through with what we have. So, if we don’t continue to increase and population keeps increasing, you know we are gonna to be at a loss you know with that and it won’t work. You know and where do you find all the people, that the biggest thing. I just, before I left home, I looked at a list of the people that we have in the county for all the ambulance services and all of Greene EMS and to put a system like that together and the amount that we have on that paper, we don’t have enough. And if you run the numbers, you just don’t have the people and then you have all the other things that come and involved which is like somebody gets sick, another gal gets pregnant, somebody gets married they move away, um you know they take a different job, got a better job, so like I said last month we lose 2, we gain 1, we lose 2, we gain 1 so it seems like we’re always behind you know. And where do you find the, you know so that’s the whole thing”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok, John you got something?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “Yeah, I wanted to bring something to The Board’s attention about the town employee’s health and safety issue that was going thru my head since we had this mold problem in the building. I know it was taken care of, we paid them the bill and it’s done, my concern it what are we doing? Is there a plan in place so it doesn’t happen again? What I mean is, I was in the building and I went and looked and its obvious to anybody, you can see daylight from the inside looking out. There’s gaps in the walls and the way the grade is pitched outside over here with heavy rains, the waters going to go in. So, my concern is we got rid of the mold, is it coming back? I would take a bet here now that it started already because we already had some heavy rains. Now, it may not be critical at this point but of course if it’s not attended to it will get out of control. So, my question really is do we have a plan in place to address that or has anyone been talking about this? Have you talked to anybody about maybe changing grades, doing something out there?”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yes, we have a big thing going on”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yes, we have a big plan involved with all this, we have a large engineering grant that’s addressing that very thing, ok and ah in the meantime ah we paid Servpro ah remediation, they cut away the sheet rock and ok when you say you’re seeing daylight now that the sheetrock is gone, that definitely needs to be patched up ok”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Actually that’s not where I see daylight. It’s in the wall themselves, the siding I’ll call it, the board and baton if you know what I’m saying, it doesn’t seem to be any baton”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “There is no baton”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Yeah, so there’s a gap between the boards that you can stick your fingers in. You know what I’m saying, you probably saw it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Absolutely, yeah”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “So that’s my concern”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, ”Yeah, I think we should address that actually yeah and I think we should do it in house because I think that would be the most economical for the town you know um”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Economical, absolutely”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “We have to divert the water because you can see the way it goes down. I see there is some kind of a trench but it looks like it’s been filled in with mud, it has to be attended to again”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Hopefully the engineering, not hopefully, the engineering study and about the um, the concept phase is done. Now we are looking at the actually design phase.
So, we are proposing a trench drain in front of the entire building, meaning ah a culvert pipe below grade lower than the floor in there with ah, ah, ah grade on the top. And that, we’ve seen the design for that but it’s, it’s in the process of, you know we’re looking for the next engineer whether it’s going to be SLR Engineering or somebody else, um you know we don’t quite, we’re not quite there yet, right. But in the meantime I think we certainly could patch those walls up, use some pressure treated um. Listen you know and I know that that could be done. Get some pressure treated 2×4’s, sister up the framing that’s bad, replace the sills, um calk any gaps there is”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “It would all be temporary but it wouldn’t have to be temporary”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Calk any gaps there is, or you could get some metal siding put it across the area that’s needed on the outside maybe 2 to 3 feet”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Like a flasher?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Like a little wainscot detail on the outside. So, yeah that can be done and that’s, you know, come to me with the proposal. We could sub it all out and it will cost the town a lot more”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “No, no because the water, I’ve taken 1600 pictures of my office every time it rains, I get an inch of 2 or water, so your gonna put, I’m gonna put, come on Greg.
We got to stop the water, no I can’t put up the walls again, it floods every time it rains.
But if it’s engineered, there’s an engineering plan you just mentioned that, when is that engineering plan going to be put in place so they can do this because it’s going to be subbed out obviously. The engineering plan for the water, the water has to be fixed before you put the walls back together, I mean, I have never heard anything like that. What you just said was nice, but it’s not nice, no”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Listen, if you took a small back hoe and directed that water and ah, it’s absolutely very doable, it’s really not rocket science”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “But there’s an engineering plan you said, so where is it?
Let’s get it done”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We’re working on getting it done”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Well that’s what we need then because I can’t put my, I have no office, my men have no office, so we are utilizing, we are utilizing a bay that we need in the winter time”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I think the mold, there’s no mold in that office Bob, that’s from the remediation”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “There probably is going to be again soon”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well I’m saying, let’s, let’s resolve it. You, you, you know what should happen”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I don’t have the power to resolve it, we need to get the engineering plan then. Let’s get this done Greg”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It’s a wall with cracks in it, that, that you don’t need an engineer for it to say that that needs to be repaired, you know”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It’s not a wall with cracks in it, it’s a wall that doesn’t even exist over there. The silt plates gone, everything’s gone, it’s rotted right out”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok get some pressure treated 2 x 4’s, it’s not the whole thing, there are spots that are rotted out”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “Greg, have you had anyone come in and look at it? I mean I know you have the eye for it too”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yes I have, it was Servpro when they remediated it and they said they’re gonna get back with an a estimate, ok and I haven’t heard back. But a as to Bob’s point if you don’t direct the water out of there and to your point, your right it will reoccur, I agree so we are working on that engineering plan, we’re looking to choose an engineer. The quote came in and it was very high for the engineering and CWC was reluctant to approve it so they wanted us to shop around a little, so that’s been the intent. I’ve already passed it off to ah to two engineering firms and haven’t heard back yet. It’s all a work in progress at this point so yes it’s being done, now in the meantime could something be done to tighten it up for the winter, absolutely. Absolutely, go across with metal siding 3 feet high and get it down as deep as you can to block any, you’re laughing but that’s what needs to happen”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I’m laughing because it’s my office, if it was flooded in here it would have had to be hired out and you would fix it. It’s flooding in my office and I have no office, wait a minute allow me, I’m being nice, I have no office. And the men have no office we have no place to go Johnny, come over and look”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Yeah, I will.”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Maybe we should go over there and take a look”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “You should, please do”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Wasn’t there any other recommendations”?
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Listen the walls can definitely be patched up, they need to be anyway”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yeah of course”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So they can be patched up with pressure treated lumber ah foam insulation, not fiberglass right cause fiberglass will hold the water. The 2 inch insulation put that in and ah and patch it up with a mold resistant sheet rock on the inside. And then you’ll have your office again at least temporarily and I’m not saying your problems completely solved the exterior part the water absolutely has to flow downhill and get into this creek over here. So I understand that and I would appreciate a heads up next time and I’ll put you on the agenda. I’ll do some research”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “It really just came to me”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah it was last week when you were over there, right? Just saying”.
Councilman Giordano said, “You could get some closed cell spray foam maybe”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That’s a possibility also but also it could be calk and”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Hey guys the walls are rotten, you’re missing the point, the buildings rotten”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The bottom of the walls is rotten, the bottom bit like a sill it’s rotten sometimes right and it does need to be replaced nobody is disputing that”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I know you looked at it, I looked at it, Johnny I don’t know if you looked at it, you have a back ground, you’ll understand what you’re looking at I think you should try to take a look at it too, you know because it’s a problem.”
Councilman Giordano said, “Yup, I would be happy to, certainly, the buildings are our responsibility”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “My concern is the employees, health, insurance, God forbid somebody gets sick, law suits. I don’t want to be in a position where we are not doing anything you know, it’s a problem”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Well there’s a lot of things that need to be addressed with that, safety meetings um”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Say that again Johnny”.
Councilman Giordano said, “These two bills Maya are these, they’re not identical right even though the numbers are, their two different voucher numbers but yet is it one for one building and?”
The town clerk said, “No, one is for $396.66 and the other is for $390.75. They might be kind of similar month to month because the numbers just change slightly due to the federal taxes.
Councilman Giordano said thank you.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I just seen two and now I don’t know where to put them back, I’m sorry”.
The town clerk said, “Oh that’s ok, I can put them back”.
Councilwoman Scotti said thank you.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “All of this is going to be addressed, 100%, ok? We’ll come up with a plan and we’ll move forward with it”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Has the tint been removed from the highway garage? The one way tint, that doesn’t look right, the windows are all tinted, that was mentioned during the Servpro?”
Superintendent Mallory said, “That was done a couple years ago”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Taken off? Removed?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Taken off?”
Superintendent Mallory said, “No, they’re not taken off”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Oh well, it was mentioned in the report that there was no light”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “There was moisture”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “You want more ventilation in there, you want more light in there”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “You want sunlight”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “So the tint is the reason we got mold?”
Everyone said no.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Ok, alright because that is what you are trying to insinuate”.
Councilman Giordano said, “You want to let more light in to help the mold”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “More light, more warmth”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “The suns on that side of the building”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Mold needs darkness and moisture and thats why they are saying that, would just help put more light in there”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “And we should do every little thing that we could to rectify the problem”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We should be able to help ourselves over here in the Town of Jewett and and, our, our ah, crew, ah, should a be able to do minor repairs and maintenance on the building to keep this from getting to this situation”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Absolutely”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “And the crew has done minor repairs forever, we’ve always done it, we’ve never stopped.”
Councilman Giordano said, “Would Wednesday be a good day, next week to go in the building, next Wednesday? Would you like to meet like next Wednesday and go and walk thru it?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Good, that’s fine, good, we’ll be in touch with each other over that”.
Town resident Carolyn Rod asked, “Greg, my question is, so Servpro came in and they say they remediated it, is there any kind of document that the public can read thru to see actually how they did it? Because, as soon as you walk in the door here, you could just feel it in your lungs, just thru the carpets that there’s, maybe it’s not black mold but there’s definitely mold in the building. It’s a horribly bad mildew smell”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’m saying that we had the inspection and a, the guy, ah gave clearance to occupy the building again and said its mold free. The mold has been remediated”.
Carolyn Rod said, “But then what’s the smell here?”
Councilman Pumilia said, “How that works here, I think it’s a state law, how that works is after its cleared up another independent has to come in and verify it was done according to the way it was written up”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And that happened John”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “We had someone who did that and we have the written report”.
Carolyn Rod asked, “Is that written report something that the public is allowed to look at?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Absolutely, it’s no problem, it’s a clearance report, sure”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Also just to make another point about mold, I know just very little about it but I do know somethings, mold don’t grow overnight. They don’t grow in a week and they don’t grow in a month, ok and we were just notified of this just a few months I think ago and then we acted correctly, swiftly, got them in, had Servpro come in.”
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’m going to disagree with that, I’ve seen mold grow very fast. Especially, I’m thinking of an incident right now, within a few days it started”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “The mold problem has been apparent”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “When the hurricane came thru, Irene, one of the houses I was working on in the town was flooded and 4 or 5 days, within a weeks’ time we started noticing it on the walls on the low end where it was wet”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “That was a lot of water, hurricane Irene, that was a lot of water.
But, I just want to get back to their point and being that I said that you know it don’t grow overnight, and maybe from it being here for a while, whatever, maybe that’s the residual that you’re smelling?”
Carolyn Rod said, “Well, you just get whacked in the face with it when you come thru the door”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “What’s up Bob?”
Superintendent Mallory said, “I was at an x Board Members home recently, who is a very well respected board member; I won’t mention the Board Members name and the conversation come up about this and the Board Member said, “We’ve had mold in the buildings for the last 25 years.” So, it didn’t come up in the last year, it’s been going on and it’s been in the building, and we’ve know about it and we’ve talked about it for years. With you Greg, with Jimmy and Carol. You know, so people know about it. It’s not new, just so you know”.
Councilman Giordano said, “It should have been worked on a long time ago. You’ve been living in it, working in it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Ok and I’ll say it again; you got to maintain it, you got ah, you got to do what you gotta do to keep it from happening”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “Can I suggest that maybe Bob, that you keep lights on at night, not to waste electricity but it will help prevent?”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah its ventilation, humidity, you know a humidifier for example works, ah, ventilation, let some light in there, right, ok alright we’re good with the mold now and our Board will get together and come up with a, a plan and everyone’s got to be willing, that’s all I’m gonna say. Alright, that’s it on the mold. Um, alright, a, that’s it, I’m gonna entertain a motion to adjourn, anybody make that motion?”
Councilman Giordano said, “I’ll make a motion to adjourn the meeting”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Do I have a second?”
Councilwoman Scotti said, “I’ll second”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Meetings adjourned, thank you”.
The meeting was closed at 7:28pm.
Added: August 14, 2025
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday July 9, 2025. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano, Jeanie Scotti and John Pumilia.
Public present was Andrew Wrabel, Roger Hannigan Gilson, Amit Mehta, Rural M, Al Olivieri and Michael Ryan.
Also present was the Highway Superintendent, the Town Clerk and the Town Attorney.
The Supervisor’s financial report for June was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Supervisor Kroyer tabled the minutes of June 11, 2025 for the August general meeting.
Salt Barn Roof Bid: Bids were opened on June 18, 2025 at 2:30pm. Present was Supervisor Kroyer, Councilman Giordano and the town clerk. The following sealed bids were received for the Roofing replacement of the town’s salt barn:
Steve Rossignol $46,750.00
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We kind of know he’s a good builder and I don’t think we have any worries about that one, I would like to entertain a motion to accept the bid and have the work performed”.
Councilman Giordano asked if he had all the correct credentials for it. Supervisor Kroyer answered yes.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “What exactly is the work, just the shingles? Or any sheathing or anything”?
Supervisor Kroyer said, “He will have to replace the sheathing. There is sheathing damage we know it already, so he will have to replace the sheathing, he’s seen it”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “Is he stripping it or covering it”?
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Yeah they have to strip it, the whole thing”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “Did he tell how much square it was up there”?
Supervisor Kroyer answered, “He knows how many, I don’t know”.
Councilman Pumilia said, “I’m just trying to justify the number”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We only got one bid, you know we want to get it done or we don’t at this point so we said, honestly I don’t see the reason to put it out again it’s a, he’s reputable, several of our board members all know that”.
Councilman Pumilia asked, “Who is the guy”. Supervisor Kroyer answered, “Its Steve Rossignol of Rossignol Builders, he’s from Lexington. He’s got the equipment, he’s looked at the job, he’s actually ready to start it, he wanted me to text him and let him know if he could start so”.
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Pellitteri and carried, The Board moved to accept Steve Rossignol’s bid of $46,750.00 to replace the roof of the Town of Jewett salt barn.
Supervisor Kroyer said he would contact him later and let him know.
Servpro Remediation: Supervisor Kroyer said, “Servpro remediation, we had the work, the remediation work done. Everybody’s seen this thru emails, so it’s time to pay up as far as they are concerned, they are done. They passed the final inspection, you know we haven’t mailed the check it’s a $7,000 and some change all together so um, I will entertain a motion to pay Servpro for the remediation work”.
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilwoman Scotti and carried, The Board moved to pay Servpro $7000 and some change for the remediation work.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Safe and Sound Property Services, Brian Colletti mold assessor. We were requested to have post remediation inspection and ah a clearance, so this gentleman came. He ah inspected the initial round of work, he found a couple of other issues, um Servpro came back, took care of those issues. Then he came back for a second inspection and ah I emailed everybody this morning ah the clearance, so work is complete and the um the clearance has been given by the NYS licensed mold assessor. So, he needs to get paid too, its $350 a visit, 2 visits, that’s $700 total, so I will entertain a motion to pay Brian Colletti for post remedial inspection”.
Councilman Pellitteri made a motion, 2nd by Councilwoman Scotti and carried, The Board moved to pay Brian Colletti $700 for post remedial inspections.
Supervisor Kroyer said they will send that out tomorrow.
Planning Board Liaison Report: Supervisor Kroyer said, “Um, Planning Board um Liaison report. I attended the planning board meeting ah last Thursday. They have 2 um subdivisions, one was approved and the second one is in the works, I believe they will have a public hearing for it next month. Um, that’s pretty much what happened there”.
Greene EMS Update: Councilwoman Scotti said, “Just updates really, basically, employees, we’re still scrambling for people. We had 2 full timers leave at the end of June. We moved one part-timer up to full time so that covered one of the spots. We’re waiting for another medic to come back on from parental leave and that’s at the end of July. So, we’ll see. They’ll probably call me down for some more interviews. The one that we did interview, the paperwork is being completed and the on the job training is beginning, so there will be another one on the road.
So we lose 2, we get 1, we lose 2, we get 1. We’re always like behind the eight ball there.
Equipment outstanding on those ventilators, 42 uses to date.
Just an update on CPR reversals, 4. Two survived, discharged and walked out of the hospital out of 7. I don’t know, I didn’t get a report on the other 4 but 2 did survive to be discharged, that’s a good thing.
Vehicles, the new medic 7 is being outfitted, that should be done by now, that was from the last meeting. We did sell some of the spare vehicles to Athens, Town of Athens for $12,000.
We wouldn’t have gotten much more at auction for that, so that is a good thing.
Let’s see, health insurance, naturally every year a rep comes by for health insurance where we decide if we are keeping the same companies. We’ve got about 5 employees that use the health insurance, yeah so it went up a little bit, it didn’t go up outrageous, so that’s a good thing.
We already looked at a budget for 226, 2026 rather. You know they are looking at maybe dollar raise. They are looking at some differentials for weekends and nights. That’s like the hardest time to find people, you know they can’t work, you know they got family issues there, you know and to fill those shifts are real bare.
New business, I gave everybody but I didn’t give you Greg a county report that was very well written, I thought it was good reading for the guys but you’re all up to speed on everything, because you see the zoom meetings and everything. I figured these guys don’t. You know, we do. So, I just printed it up and gave it out.
Just in case you heard anything about something that happened in Cairo, with one of the Greene County medics because she also works for Cairo was in the paper. It was for payroll fraud. The husband worked for Cairo, was the administrator, something was happening with payroll. It’s none of our business; she was not working for Greene County EMS, I just put it out there in case anybody seen it and said, oh what’s this. You know it was a pretty big thing.
You know they were ah, you know they’re charged, you know for what they did, which they shouldn’t be doing. Ok, so, yes, they did ask Greene County EMS for the payroll records for her to see if like she was working then and working there and that means, you know the two.
Other than that, what else, no I don’t think anything else about the hours she worked.
Our call volume remains the same this month, year to date, 9 for Jewett and that’s it.
Any questions?”.
The Board then thanked Councilwoman Scotti for giving her report.
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilwoman Scotti and carried to approve the bills. General Fund was $39,358.70 on abstract #7, claim numbers 149-170.
The Highway Fund was $43,110.61 on abstract #7, claim numbers 113-132.
Councilman Pellitteri made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Giordano and carried to accept the Supervisors financial report for June 2025.
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilwoman Scotti and carried to adjourn the meeting at 7:10pm.
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Maya Carl, Town Clerk
Added: August 14, 2025
The general meeting of the Jewett Town Board was held on Wednesday June 11, 2025. Supervisor Kroyer called the meeting to order at 7pm.
Present were Board Members James Pellitteri, John Giordano and Jeanie Scotti.
Board Member John Pumilia was absent.
Public present was Al Olivieri and Michael J Ryan.
Also present was the Highway Superintendent, the Town Clerk and the Town Attorney.
The Supervisor’s financial report for May was given to the Board prior to the meeting and the bank statements were reviewed by Board Members after the signing of the bills.
Councilman Pellitteri made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Giordano and carried the Board moved to accept the minutes of May 14, 2025.
Highway Superintendent Report: Councilman Giordano asked Superintendent Mallory when paving will begin. The Highway Superintendent answered that he has contacted Kyle Thorington of KCK Paving and gave them the roads to pave and he is waiting for them to respond. He said the rain has been crazy and everyone got so far behind but it will be taking place soon, anytime now. Superintendent Mallory also mentioned that he is happy to have more time as he has been working on Jeremy Glick Way and his crew has been able to pack more material down. He said the rain has been great and hopefully it settles some.
Councilman Giordano confirmed that the town is not going to pave on the edge of Jeremy Glick Way and Superintendent Mallory said that was correct and he also mentioned that he is getting a great price for the paving.
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilwoman Scotti and carried, the Board adopted Resolution #10 of 2025. Subject: ADDITIONAL SEPTIC COST AGREEMENT
“WHEREAS, the CWC Septic Program Manager, Mitch Hull has requested a resolution agreeing to the additional cost from the Septic Project in the amount of $5,003.12.
This is to be paid by CWC.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, The Jewett Town Board agrees to authorize the CWC to make the payment in the amount of $5,003.12”.
AYES: Kroyer, Giordano, Pellitteri and Scotti. Councilman Pumilia was absent.
Salt Barn Roof Update: Supervisor Kroyer said the project is currently being advertised for bid and that the bids would be opened on June 18, 2025 at 2:30pm.
Councilman Giordano then asked if Superintendent Mallory had seen anyone across the street looking at the salt barn and the Superintendent answered saying that he saw two different trucks stop by to look at the barn, one of them being Steve Rossignol and he could not read the name on the other truck.
Councilwoman Scotti, Town of Jewett representative to the Greene County Paramedics Board gave her monthly report.
Planning Board Liaison Report: The town clerk gave the report. She said that there were two cases and each were two lot minor subdivisions. Both subdivisions were awaiting the final vote, as all comments were received back from the different agencies that were involved. The Planning Board voted to approve both subdivisions. The first one is located on the left of 23C where there is a clearing going towards the stone church and the second one is located on Shadow Mtn. Rd.
Councilman Giordano asked if there was an application from Wright Rd. and the clerk answered yes. She said that the applicant was looking to do a 2 lot minor subdivision and was there for the sketch plan review but received a denial because there were no distances or measurements drawn on the map and the Planning Board couldn’t tell if the subdivision would meet the towns code regarding minimum lot width in the rural residential district of 200 feet.
It was also denied because the subdivision that the applicant is proposing would create two flag lots. The Planning Board told the applicant to draw a more detailed map. Supervisor Kroyer said, “It does look like it is wide enough actually. It’s just over 400 plus feet, 402 or 409 or something”. The clerk related to the Town Board that the Planning Board denied the application and the applicant requested to appeal the decision to the Zoning Board of Appeals, he was then given an application for the ZBA.
The clerk said, “The town did call up the applicant and gave him other options so he may not have to go to zoning and if you say he has enough feet then he won’t”.
Supervisor Kroyer then said, “The other issue becomes the driveway because you can share your driveway for two lots only and not three, so he has to figure it out. They are going to have to put in another driveway and the other driveway already has a second house that it goes to”.
The town clerk then went on to describe an additional application for a 3 lot minor subdivision sketch plan review on Windy Lane. The town clerk said, “As the Board reviewed the sketch plan, they realized that this map too is missing must needed information and not detailed enough to make his case. The Planning Board recommended that the applicant contact his surveyor to update the map”.
The town clerk related that the following week after the meeting, the applicant did come into the Town Hall and showed his map to the Code Enforcement Officer and asked him for advice.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It looks like the applicant has enough there to do it, he just has to redraw the map”.
Zoning Board of Appeals Liaison Report: There were no cases that came before the ZBA.
Code Enforcement Officers Report: Supervisor Kroyer said if anyone had any questions about the report to call the Code Enforcement Officer directly.
Councilman Giordano made a motion, 2nd by Councilwoman Scotti and carried to approve the bills. General Fund was $10,994.78 on abstract #6, claim numbers 125-148.
The Highway Fund was $10,156.86 on abstract #6, claim numbers 98-112.
Councilman Pellitteri made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Giordano and carried to accept the Supervisors financial report for May 2025.
Before closing the meeting Supervisor Kroyer asked Councilman Giordano if he had something he wanted to bring up. Councilman Giordano said yes and brought up the fuel cell issue, trying to lower the cost from $80,000 and discussing double wall tanks vs. containment systems. Councilman Giordano then asks Superintendent Mallory where he would put them. Superintendent Mallory says that he doesn’t know because at the moment there is a mold problem in the Highway garage and in the utility room of the townhouse, located next to the town clerk’s office.
Superintendent Mallory said, “We have a mold problem in the building. I had a company come and test the areas. There is a lot in the highway garage. My office, my office bathroom, the highway workers breakroom and their bathroom as well as the area by the water system outside of the breakroom. I am awaiting the testing results. I spoke to the Supervisor a couple of years ago, I thought the building should be moved and taken down anyhow because how are you gonna fix it? That’s why I was against the fuel tanks a couple of years ago, because I really don’t know and that’s my opinion, how to do it and where. Are we going to get a building, are we going to go for something like that Greg? Are we going to try to move it”?
Councilman Giordano said, “Move the fuel station or leave it where it is”?
Superintendent Mallory said, “I don’t know, it needs to be discussed, we need to have a meeting about it, all of us”.
Councilwoman Scotti asks if the mold can be removed. Superintendent Mallory said that he didn’t know exactly but said we will find out when they send the report.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I think for the short term, I mean you’re never going to build a building like that so you need to use it in the meantime. So, for the short term I think you need to look at remediating the mold with like what Councilwoman Scotti said with Servpro or one of these other companies”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “They mentioned Greg, digging up this foundation, on the outside”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “In our new study they are talking about digging out the whole front of that foundation and running the pipe, that’s what we have a grant for. They are currently designing a system that would do that, to take the water and run it directly into the brook here versus letting it go into the building. And maybe if we could remediate the problem, and again I’m not saying a new building, whatever, yeah of course. In the meantime, if we could just remediate the mold, either way I don’t think you’ll hurt this site”.
Superintendent Mallory answered, “We will know in a day or two what it is and I will send a copy of the report to you. But they are telling me that whole block front wall, they found it everywhere, the whole front of our building on the inside.”
Councilwoman Scotti asked, “Will CWC be the ones paying for the digging and diverting of the water”?
Supervisor Kroyer answered, “Its CWC but it’s the Strom Water Division. But that’s already in the works, we already have a conceptual design and we are approved to have funding for the actual design. So, if it’s that cinderblock wall, there’s different ways to handle it but one way would be to get Servpro in here to bleach it, kill the mold”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I was told that once we get the mold analyzed, once they give us that, then they are going to give us and its up to the board, I’m not going to hire them people, then they say we have to go find a person, Servpro maybe Greg, I don’t know”.
The town clerk said, “The mold tester told me that once the report comes back, they will give us recommendations of what steps to take”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So maybe we’ll just take them, let’s take the recommendations, you went and did the work on it so let’s see what the report says and if we have to do it right away, we’ll see how much it costs”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “You have to get bids, but I don’t think you have to get bids in this case because they are a professional service”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “It’s an emergency situation if its mold, I think we could pretty much call the mold remediation to get them in there, because we’re occupying the building right now.
I don’t think we need to put that out to bid, what do you think Tal”?
Town Attorney, Tal Rappleyea said, “I think that you could clearly call that an emergency, you are in the building and like you said, you need to continue to use it, so yes. If the board classifies it as an emergency, then that’s it there’s no other answering authority to that”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So that makes sense, lets see the report and we’ll take the next step. And our Board I’m assuming is behind this, getting this remediated”.
All answered yes, except Councilman Pumilia who was absent.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And I don’t think this is going to be a huge sum for remediation but we will see”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “According to them, replace the block wall, that’s what they said in this building in here, over by the boiler room. Dig it apart and take that wall out of there. Greg, I’m not trying to scare you”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “I’ll have to see the report and to me, I’m thinking, the outside is underground and we are going to deal with that anyway with this trench drain and, in the inside,”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “On this building, I’m talking about this building, the boiler room, mine also but I’m talking about this building. They only recommended it on this building”.
Supervisor Kroyer asked, “On this building”?
Superintendent Mallory said, “Yes, on this building, absolutely”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well I don’t know, I will have to see, I haven’t seen it, smelled it,
I mean yeah there is a tiny bit of moisture in a couple spots sometimes, I do see that.
Superintendent Mallory said, “No its mold, they took it, they found it”.
Councilman Giordano asked if a dehumidifier is running in the utility room.
The town clerk answered that there isn’t one because there is already an air conditioning system running along with the heat from the boiler and because of that, condensation builds up.
She related to the board that her historical files that have been stored in the boiler room was discovered to have mildew and mold on the documents. She had the file cabinet immediately removed from the room and tried to clean the records the best she could. She will contact a document cleaning company.
Superintendent Mallory said, “Maybe you should have the board vote on that tonight Maya so you could hire somebody to fix the records. Just a fact, I’m bringing it up because we are talking about mold, right”?
Councilman Giordano said, “I thought we were talking about fuel cells”.
Superintendent Mallory apologized and Councilman Giordano then asked what size fuel tanks does the highway garage currently have. Superintendent Mallory said the town has
two 1,000-gallon tanks.
Supervisor Kroyer then asked if Councilman Giordano had a price for the self-contained fuel tanks. Councilman Giordano said yes, $6,000 for a 1000-gallon tank.
Councilman Giordano said, “But it’s a double wall tank, it’s not like the one, this is what the county has. And the one I showed you and Bobby last year when I was upstate in Albany, I couldn’t find those on line today or to talk to a company. These tanks are just a tank inside of a tank”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “That counts. I don’t think you need a containment system if you have that double wall tank”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Yes, it is a containment system at $6,000 a piece”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “You need to contact DEC”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Ok, because we’re so close to a swamp and a stream”?
Superintendent Mallory said, “DEC came here 10 years ago/ 8 years ago and made me hire Richie Tompkins, the closest guy to come and pump out a quarter inch of water and they were going to shut us down. So, I think that we would probably need to have their blessings”.
Councilman Giordano said, “The things like I showed you a picture of they are enclosed and rain water can’t get into them. That’s a tank inside of a tank and that has a dome where water can’t get in them. But Bobby you guys have a roof over it right? And you’d build a new one probably”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It’s probably ready for a new one”.
Councilman Giordano said, “Yes and we had to address this”.
Superintendent Mallory then thanked Councilman Giordano.
Councilwoman Scotti confirmed that the tanks are inside of the tanks.
Councilman Giordano said, “Yes, there is a round tank inside of there. Now these tanks that I got prices for, this is not, that tank you actually see is a containment tank and the fuel tank is inside of that one. But its not as good as this I don’t think”.
Councilwoman Scotti asked if these are the tanks that are $6,000 each and Councilman Giordano said yes. Councilwoman Scotti then asked what the other types of tanks are and Councilman Giordano said that he did not have that information at this time”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Lets get a little more information I think and as far as actually how we could buy these, is this the same as the mold situation? Is it an emergency that we could just go buy a couple of tanks and put them in? Forget about the computer? I’m thinking if we’re going to be putting in new tanks, we need to definitely have some sort of”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “At least the hardware so you could eventually add the computer to it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well either that or have some type of ledger that you keep track of it somehow. I know that’s not popular and I think”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “It doesn’t work, we’ve tried it for 30 years, at 1am in the morning, it just doesn’t work. You can’t write it on a piece of paper when it’s snowing or raining”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well that’s why when I looked at it, I looked at the full thing with the computer and the cards and everything else and that was $80,000 and now its going to be a $100, 000 I can promise you. That was a year and a half, two years ago. Ok so you have to tell me how to proceed on this guys, are we going to do some more research and come back or”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yes, we need that report to see what they’ll cover for the mold”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “The mold is a separate issue. If we get that report and the report says that we need to do some type of remediation, that can be done, I’m not talking about tearing down the building, I’m talking about some sort of bleach or chemicals to clean the mold and some sort of a coating of paint like a bin to enclose it and encapsulate it inside. Can we go ahead with that you guys? Can we make a motion for that”?
Superintendent Mallory said, “I’m saying no because we have to have the Servpro people whatever tell us what to do, we can’t say we’re going to put mold paint on it”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “So you want to let it go another month”?
Superintendent Mallory said, “No, I want to let you know tomorrow or the next day as soon as I get that report”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Well, we’re meeting tonight”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I know but we don’t know what kind of mold we got and we don’t know what they are going to recommend, don’t we need to know”?
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Yes, they tell you what you’re going to do. I had them and I used them before and they did everything; I didn’t clean anything. They came with their fans, the bleach, their cleaners, everything. It took about a good two weeks to do all that they did and those fans ran for a long time but no evidence of anything after they got finished”.
Councilman Giordano asked what the cost was and was it calculated by square footage.
Councilwoman Scotti said her cost was $65,000 but that was not the cost for Servpro alone, it was the total amount of all her belongings in her home that was ruined plus the cost of a new roof.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “Lets see the initial report, if the report has some suggestions we can do, then we can call somebody like a Servpro or somebody equal to them”.
Superintendent Mallory said, “I would like to forward that immediately as soon as I get it right to you, I will forward it right out and everybody can look at it.”
Supervisor Kroyer said, “And then what I would do with that is whatever the recommendations are, get somebody to give us a price at least so we have it sitting here next month to where we can approve it and just have them come and do the work unless it needs to be done prior to that. Listen, for something like this, I’ll call a special meeting if we have to. But let’s look at the first report”.
Councilwoman Scotti said, “Can’t we just do this by emailing, if it’s an emergency or do we need a meeting”?
The town clerk said, “No because if you’re having a group email, it still counts as a meeting and I would have to give the public notice of it and take the minutes”.
Supervisor Kroyer said, “We can do it, like you know it’s not perfect but we can do it thru the phone and then approve it next month type of thing but lets just see what the recommendations are and then take our next steps there. But I can see we are all willing of course to take care of this problem right”?
The board said absolutely.
Councilwoman Scotti made a motion, 2nd by Councilman Giordano and carried to adjourn the meeting at 7:40pm.
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Maya Carl, Town Clerk
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