Wernick trustees approve consent agenda, authorize Resilient Watersheds grant application and several budget items

At its May 27 meeting the Village of Wernick Board of Trustees approved several routine and legislative items on a single motion and then took separate votes on grant authorization, personnel and finance items.

The board approved the consent agenda in a single vote. The consent package included a block-party street closure, changes to parking-meter times on Phillips Park Road and the Hunter Tier lot, several alcohol-permit requests for community events and the scheduling of two public hearings on proposed local laws to change Board of Architectural Review requirements and special-permit requirements for restaurants and year-round recreation.

Trustees unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the village manager's office to prepare and submit an application for the New York State Resilient Watersheds Grant Program, a flood-mitigation grant that staff said could help cover roughly $3 million toward a larger $10 million mitigation initiative if awarded (staff presentation, speaker 20). The motion was made, seconded and approved; the transcript does not record individual roll-call votes or counts.

The board also adopted a non-represented staff salary schedule (cost-of-living adjustment), and approved an end-of-year budget transfer of $11,000 reallocating retirement-system surplus to electric utilities and contract services lines to cover over-budget accounts. Trustees moved, seconded and approved the audited vouchers and the abstract of audited vouchers.

The meeting closed with a motion to adjourn that carried.