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Regular Meeting of the Mayor and Village Board of Trustees was held on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 in the American Legion Hall, 7 Spring Street, Wappingers Falls, NY 12590 Meeting was called to order 7:15 P.M. Pledge of Allegiance. Moment of Silence was held in remembrance of President Gerald Ford. Roll Call: Mayor Lawrence, present; Tr. Weitlich, present; Tr. Chase, present; Tr. Alexander, present; Tr. Cerino, absent; Tr. Visentin, present; Tr. Hilderbrand, present. Action on Minutes: December 13, 2006 Motion by Tr. Weitlich to accept the minutes as written. Seconded by Tr. Chase. All in favor. Carried. Authorization to pay bills as per approved Warrants. Mayor Lawrence stated all bills had been signed. Tr. Weitlich asked if Tr. Cerino came in to sign the warrants and Clerk replied Tr. Cerino did come in this afternoon and did approve the Warrants. Motion by Tr. Weitlich to authorize payment of bills as per approved Warrants. Seconded by Tr. Chase. All in favor. Carried. Department & Agency Manager Reports. Treasurer Jennifer Brown stated she has begun work on the year end reports and W-2's for Village employees and she hopes to get them out next week. The 30 day CD will be renewing for the 4`h time on January l l~h and they have earned approximately $8,000 in interest so far. She will have to start "dipping" into this money for expenditures but she is happy with how this went and will keep a portion of this money in a CD as long as possible. She then said they have completed the 7`h month of the fiscal year and through December approximately $80,000 has been collected in court fines, net payment they need to make to the State. It looks like they will meet or exceed the budget amount of $110,000.00. Police Commissioner Capra stated the Police Department handled 5,381 complaints this past year. They had 215 accidents; they issued 3,106 uniform traffic tickets; they arrested 313 people. He then said the last person out of the academy was Kevin Reggero. He is the newest member of the department. He went to Kingston Police Academy and he got tops in his performance. He also got top cop for the entire academy. He did an excellent job. He was the oldest member there. He had a lot of young bucks he was competing against and he got top cop. He put the Village of Wappingers Falls on the map. Building Inspector Kevin Brutting stated he is giving a quarterly report. It covers the period of October 2006 to December 2006. There are 561 outstanding building permits. In that 3 month period they issued 25 certificates of occupancy or certificates of compliance. In order to issue the 25 CO's it took 175 inspections. In 2007 the State is requiring almost 4 more inspections per certificate of occupancy. The number of inspections to issue a CO is going to go up in 2007. Right now before he can issue a building permit, the State is requiring him to go out and make apre-site visit. He said this is good because he will see the condition before. Enforcement wise in that 3 month period they issued 18 appearance tickets and those tickets resulted in $2,000 in fines. Highway Superintendent Marshall was not present at this time.