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Votes at a glance: Trustee approvals on budget dates, hires, transfers and contracts
Summary
At its March 17 meeting the Fredonia Board of Trustees adopted a local law updating parking-violation rates, approved budget-hearing dates and multiple personnel and contract actions, including a four-year animal-hospital agreement and a donor-funded payment for cable-room relocation.
The Fredonia Board of Trustees took a series of formal actions March 17, voting on a local law, budget-hearing schedule, budget transfers, personnel items, and contracts. Below are the actions recorded by the board and the outcomes as reflected in the meeting minutes.
- Local Law No. 3 of 2025 (parking-violation rates): The trustees adopted the local law amending section 208-36b of the village code to change parking violation rates. The board directed the clerk to file the local law with the secretary of state as required. Vote: unanimous (trustees present recorded as aye).
- Budget hearing schedule (2025-26 budget): The board approved dates and times for departmental budget presentations and public hearings: April 3 at 1 p.m., April 10 at 1 p.m., April 11 at 9 a.m., April 14 at 9 a.m., April 15 at 9 a.m., and public hearing to be called at the April 14 meeting. Vote: unanimous.
- Payrolls and bills (Claims numbered 7522 through 755): The trustees approved regular and overtime payrolls and the finance committee's recommended bills. Vote: unanimous.
- Budget transfers: The board approved a package of budget transfers (detailed in the clerk's file) covering sewage treatment repairs, water purification line items, legal and insurance reallocations, fire and snow-removal funds, and a $5,000 transfer for driveway repairs at the water-treatment facility. Vote: unanimous as recorded.
- Appointments and personnel actions: - Appointment: Cassandra Blake appointed provisional dispatcher trainee, start date 04/07/2025 at $17.69/hour, pending civil service requirements. Vote: unanimous. - Training: Chief operator Louis Fred approved to attend Chautauqua County Water Works Association workshop on 04/09/2025 at a cost of $200; additional plant staff authorized to attend. Vote: unanimous. - Permanent hire (walk-on): Matthew Edwards permanently hired as water-treatment operator trainee, effective 01/06/2025 at $19.13/hour. Vote: unanimous. - Retirement: Retirement of Officer Brian Testa (effective 03/28/2025) was approved; trustees directed the mayor to write a letter of thanks for 23 years of service. Vote: unanimous.
- Food-truck rules: Trustees approved restrictions on non-event food trucks (no setup before 5 a.m., depart by 10 p.m., no overnight parking unless part of multi-day event). Vote: unanimous.
- Fredonia Animal Hospital contract: The board approved a four-year agreement (commencing immediately and running through 2029) with Fredonia Animal Hospital for care of seized dogs, setting the village payment at $40 per day for boarding and $75 for disposal of unclaimed animals. Vote: unanimous after clerk corrected the stated contract length in the record.
- Payment from donation for cable-room relocation: The trustees authorized a $1,500 payment to Daniel Reeboldt to compensate for hours worked relocating the cable office; the funds came from an anonymous donor who also contributed $20,000 for police evidence-room needs. The motion prompted debate about precedent for compensating overtime from donations; the recorded vote was 4-1 (one trustee opposed).
Several items were discussed but left for future action, including the planning board's draft vendor law, battery-storage zoning and solar projects, and the summer concert-series coordination and funding.
The board adjourned to executive session on contract negotiations following the formal business. The next regular meeting is scheduled for April 14, 2025, at 6 p.m.; budget hearings and public notices will be posted on the village website.
