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Town Board approves minutes, fee updates, hires and financial abstracts in unanimous votes
Summary
At its Feb. 25 meeting the Rhinebeck Town Board unanimously approved meeting minutes, fee schedule changes, several hires, and multiple accounts‑payable and capital abstracts; executive session discussed pending dog control appointments to be placed on a future agenda.
The Rhinebeck Town Board approved a slate of routine items unanimously at its Feb. 25 meeting, including minutes, an updated fee schedule, multiple personnel hires for recreation and cemetery work, and several accounts payable and capital abstracts. The board also discussed appointing dog control officers in executive session and said the matter will appear on a future agenda.
Votes at a glance (all recorded as passing unanimously in the meeting transcript):
- Approval of Feb. 10, 2025 regular town board meeting minutes (motion moved/seconded during the meeting; outcome: approved unanimously).
- Approval of Feb. 13, 2025 special town board meeting minutes (approved unanimously).
- Resolution 2025‑080: Update of fee schedule (escrow, building, planning) — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑081: Allowing the Landsman Kill Trail Association to park on town land for annual rides — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑082: Recreation new hires — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑083: Recreation Aquazumba classes — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑084: Seasonal part‑time hire for cemetery — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑085: Preliminary accounts payable abstract 14A — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑086: 2025 preliminary accounts payable abstracts — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑087: Capital projects abstract — approved unanimously.
- Resolution 2025‑088: Fiscal cleanup resolution (2024 to 2025) — approved unanimously.
The board went into an attorney‑client executive session to discuss potential appointments of two dog control officers. After the executive session the board said it had discussed appointing Leslie Hill as dog control and Patricia Wind as deputy dog control; the board will place the appointments on a future agenda for formal action.
Other administrative items on the agenda included scheduling of attorney client Zoom meetings to discuss roadway and zoning matters and a reminder about upcoming community meetings and presentations.
For records: motions, seconds and the unanimous tallies as recorded in the meeting transcript will be reflected in the town minutes. Specific movers and seconders were stated during the meeting for some items (for example, attendees called for and recorded motions and seconds by board members such as Alan, Chelsea, Chad and others); the transcript records the passage of each motion as unanimous.
