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Resolution and Order Calling Public Hearing regarding Increase and Improvement of Water District Facilities for Water District No. 1

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Expiredformal_resolutionone_timeThe Town Board calls a public hearing for January 13, 2026 at 7:35 p.m. to consider the rehabilitation of the Water District No. 1 water tank at an estimated cost not to exceed $1,672,600, with $400,000 to be funded from the existing reserve fund and the remainder to be financed pursuant to the Local Finance Law.
First seen
2025-12-09
Latest event
2025-12-09
adopted
Expires
2026-01-13

Resolution text

RESOLVED

  1. A public hearing of the Town Board of the Town shall be held at the Town Hall in the Town on January 13, 2026 at 7:35 o'clock p.m. (Prevailing Time) pursuant to Section 202-b of the Town Law to consider said proposed improvement and modification of facilities of the District and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same and for such other action on the part of the Town Board with relation thereto as may be required by law
  2. The Town Clerk shall publish at least once in the Poughkeepsie Journal, a newspaper having a general circulation in the Town and hereby designated as the official newspaper of the Town for such publication, and post on the signboard of the Town maintained pursuant to subdivision 6 of Section 30 of the Town Law, a notice in substantially the form attached hereto, the first publication thereof and posting to be not less than ten (10) days or more than twenty (20) days before the date of such public hearing
  3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately
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  • WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Red Hook (herein called "Town Board" and "Town", respectively), in the County of Dutchess, New York, on behalf of Water District No. 1, in the Town (herein called "District"), requested that T&B Engineering, P.C., engineers duly licensed by the State of New York (herein called "Engineer"), prepare a report assessing alternatives for the improvement of facilities of the District including the rehabilitation or replacement of the existing water tank
  • WHEREAS, the Engineer prepared an Engineering Report dated as of August 24, 2022, updated June 27, 2023
  • WHEREAS, following completion of a 2024 tank inspection and sediment removal project in 2024, at the request of the Water Board, the Engineer has prepared a further report update dated March 10, 2025 describing the rehabilitation project and providing an opinion of probable cost for the rehabilitation option and the tank replacement option (such report update, together with the Engineering Report, the "Preliminary Report", a copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk)
  • WHEREAS, the cost of the rehabilitation of the tank is estimated not to exceed $1,672,600
  • WHEREAS, a portion of such cost in the estimated amount of $400,000 is proposed to be paid from the Water District's existing SW Reserve Fund, and the remaining project cost is proposed to be financed pursuant to the Local Finance Law
  • WHEREAS, the aforesaid purpose constitutes repair or replacement in kind, which constitutes a Type II action as defined under the State Environmental Quality Review Regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617

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2025-12-09adoptedvote: unanimous
Call a public hearing for January 13, 2026 regarding the increase and improvement of Water District No. 1 facilities, including water tank rehabilitation.
moved by Hamel · seconded by Kane
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Resolved
  1. A public hearing of the Town Board of the Town shall be held at the Town Hall in the Town on January 13, 2026 at 7:35 o'clock p.m. (Prevailing Time) pursuant to Section 202-b of the Town Law to consider said proposed improvement and modification of facilities of the District and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same and for such other action on the part of the Town Board with relation thereto as may be required by law
  2. The Town Clerk shall publish at least once in the Poughkeepsie Journal, a newspaper having a general circulation in the Town and hereby designated as the official newspaper of the Town for such publication, and post on the signboard of the Town maintained pursuant to subdivision 6 of Section 30 of the Town Law, a notice in substantially the form attached hereto, the first publication thereof and posting to be not less than ten (10) days or more than twenty (20) days before the date of such public hearing
  3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately
Whereas
  • WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town of Red Hook (herein called "Town Board" and "Town", respectively), in the County of Dutchess, New York, on behalf of Water District No. 1, in the Town (herein called "District"), requested that T&B Engineering, P.C., engineers duly licensed by the State of New York (herein called "Engineer"), prepare a report assessing alternatives for the improvement of facilities of the District including the rehabilitation or replacement of the existing water tank
  • WHEREAS, the Engineer prepared an Engineering Report dated as of August 24, 2022, updated June 27, 2023
  • WHEREAS, following completion of a 2024 tank inspection and sediment removal project in 2024, at the request of the Water Board, the Engineer has prepared a further report update dated March 10, 2025 describing the rehabilitation project and providing an opinion of probable cost for the rehabilitation option and the tank replacement option (such report update, together with the Engineering Report, the "Preliminary Report", a copy of which is on file with the Town Clerk)
  • WHEREAS, the cost of the rehabilitation of the tank is estimated not to exceed $1,672,600
  • WHEREAS, a portion of such cost in the estimated amount of $400,000 is proposed to be paid from the Water District's existing SW Reserve Fund, and the remaining project cost is proposed to be financed pursuant to the Local Finance Law
  • WHEREAS, the aforesaid purpose constitutes repair or replacement in kind, which constitutes a Type II action as defined under the State Environmental Quality Review Regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617
Subject key: water_district_tank_improvement_hearing