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Votes at a glance: key Cheektowaga Town Board actions and outcomes (Oct. meeting)
Summary
Summary of formal resolutions and actions considered at the meeting, with outcomes and next steps for each item.
The Town of Cheektowaga Town Board took votes and procedural actions on a range of resolutions. Below are the key items, outcomes and follow-up steps as recorded on the meeting record.
- Resolution 2025-703 — Appointments of public safety dispatchers: Passed. Resolution appointed four dispatchers (Haley Grasick of Cheektowaga; Paige Jegerski of Alden; Nicholas Allman of Orchard Park; Julia Woods of Buffalo) effective Oct. 15, 2025. The resolution orders three appointees to move into Cheektowaga within one year to comply with the town residency law. Sponsor: Council member Thompson; second: Supervisor Nowak. Vote: unanimous on voice vote. Follow-up: new hires to be onboarded by Police Department.
- Resolution 2025-628 — Local Law No. 3 of 2025, sewer connection inspection: Adopted. See separate story for details. Sponsor: Council member Phillipski. Vote: roll call, carried (7-0).
- Resolution 2025-716 — Award for storm-sewer equipment and operators to CMH Company: Defeated (roll-call: 1 yes, 6 no). The board asked engineering and highway staff to provide a detailed bid tab and scope per site before reconsideration; staff estimated equipment-and-operator bid at about $28,004 and materials could raise total to roughly $55,000 for three sites.
- Resolution 2025-704 — Appointment, Senior Code Enforcement Officer (Mark Biederfield): Passed. Resolution appoints Biederfield to the provisional position in the Building and Plumbing Department, effective Oct. 15, 2025. Board discussion clarified supervisory duties are limited to building/plumbing functions and training of junior inspectors.
- Resolution 2025-706 — Appointment, Motor Equipment Operator B (Anthony J. Hammer): Passed as amended. The board amended the effective date to Sept. 9, 2025, to make the appointee whole for prior service; the amendment carried and the resolution passed.
- Consent agenda and pulled items: The board approved the bulk consent agenda; several items were pulled for separate consideration or tabling, including resolutions involving highway micropaving agreements (tabling of rescind/amend action), certain paving/drainage lists and other items the sponsors asked to be removed for further review.
- Budget- and tax-cap resolutions: The board debated three linked resolutions to call public hearings on exceeding the tax cap and to notice preliminary-budget hearings. The resolution to call a public hearing to exceed the tax cap (Resolution 2025-669) was defeated by roll call. Two related resolutions (2025-670 and 2025-671) on preliminary budgets were pulled from the agenda for later reintroduction after staff prepares a revised preliminary budget and timing consistent with statutory notice requirements.
- Shared-services and other late additions (waiver of rules): The board approved a NYSDOT shared-services agreement (Resolution 2025-713) that will allow training and equipment sharing; retained outside labor/employment counsel (Resolution 2025-714) and set a public hearing on an occupancy (hotel) tax local law (Resolution 2025-715).
Ending: Several administrative hires were completed; a local sewer code change was adopted; a contested procurement for storm-sewer work was defeated pending clearer scope and training timelines; and budget/tax-cap hearings were left unsettled pending additional staff work and a possible special meeting.
