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Ogdensburg council approves consent agenda, adopts stormwater inlet retrofit ordinance
Summary
At its July 10 meeting the Ogdensburg Mayor and Council approved a consent agenda that included support for the statewide Drive Sober Labor Day enforcement effort, liquor-license renewals, a civil-service appointment and a tax-certificate redemption, and adopted Ordinance 08-2023 adding private storm drain inlet retrofitting to the borough code.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Ogdensburg voted July 10 to approve a consent agenda that included a resolution backing the state’s Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Labor Day enforcement campaign, renewals of borough liquor licenses for 2023–24, ratification of a civil service appointment, and redemption of a third-party tax sale certificate.
The council adopted Resolution 59-2023, which cites statewide alcohol-involved crash statistics and records that the Division of Highway Traffic Safety has asked agencies to increase impaired-driving enforcement from August 18 through September 4, 2023. Mayor George P. Hutnick said the borough “pledges to increase awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.”
Also approved in the consent agenda was Resolution 60-2023 authorizing renewals of plenary and club liquor licenses for the 2023–2024 licensing year, and Resolution 62-2023 authorizing payment of $1,194.17 to redeem tax sale certificate #2022-012 for Block 16 Lot 3 (8 Kennedy Ave.), naming PRO Cap 8 FBO Firstrust as the certificate holder. The council ratified Resolution 61-2023 memorializing the Civil Service appointment of Thomas Dixon as zoning officer/code enforcement officer effective Feb. 13, 2023.
In a separate roll-call vote the council adopted Ordinance 08-2023, an amendment to Chapter 18 (Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System, MS4) adding Section 18-6 titled “Private Storm Drain Inlet Retrofitting.” Mayor Hutnick opened the ordinance for public comment and none was offered before the council voted to adopt. Councilmembers voting yea were Alvarez, Ciasullo (via phone), Cowdrick, Poyer and Ruitenberg; DeMeo was absent.
The meeting record shows routine financial business approved later in the session, including payment warrants listing a $228,970.67 payment to the Ogdensburg Board of Education and a total current-fund warrant list of $245,385.79.
The adopted and approved items take immediate effect as noted in the meeting minutes; the borough indicated the Drive Sober enforcement window runs Aug. 18–Sept. 4, 2023, and the stormwater ordinance amendment will be codified in the borough code.
