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The regular meeting of the Vdl!age Board was held at the Mesier Homestead on March 6,1962 at 7:30 P.M. Those present~ Mayor McCloskey, Trustee , Reilly, Van$oor his, Temple, Fitzpatrick, Treas. Mcdonald, Atty. Schofield. Absent; Trustee S~lvestri, Canale. The minutes of the last regular meeting were read, and on motion of Trustee Retlly, seconded by Trustee Fitzpatrick the minutes were accepted as read. carried. A motion by Trustee R.illy, seconded by Trustee Fitzpatr to dispence with the reguiar order of business was carried. ~. Fries, Water Board Chairman came before the Board t¢ talk on the water softner, and the need to enlarge the softner plant He told board that ther had been about $5000. ~pent gn salt ~n processing to soften water, and tha~ with the present set up~ we were not getting our value out of t~ present softner plant. Mr Fries stated that the estamated cost for this project would be $24,000. He said the Water Board felt t~ey co~ld take care of about'half the cost~ from excess f~nds~ r~st cou].d b- on a Bond issue. He also stated that in the near future the Village would ne-d more storage space on the Town of Wapp~ng~rs s~de of'the bridge. Mr. A~kerman, ~illage Eng. on this project, then backed up Mr. ~ries Statements~ and a<~ded that with this done: and both sofhner workin~ we could nroduce soft wat~,r up to 1,OOO,O00 gal per day. after sc~e questions~ and d~scussion by the Board me~bers, it was tabled until the board .returned to the regular order of business. Mr. Foster, of ~Oster Bros. Const.~came before the board to talk about putting in of a gas tank for the Villag, This was requested by the Board. He state~ that he felt the Village would need a ~000 gal tank, to take ca.re, of the Police Dept., Highway etc. the price for tank and pump installed was , tank ~28~.00, Pump $W34.00, the compl,te price of the job $1265.00, after some suestton and discussion on this matter~ the board also tabled this until regular order of business. Mr. R. Laffin , Laffin Pl. came before board asking them to help him by plowing, Laffin Pl., private property, on real heavy snow storus. The Atty. was asked about the of this, he told board that they could not do 'it,~n!ess some agreement could be reached by all living their clearing the Village of liability. This was also tabled until Regular order of Business Jim ODell, FireChief, New Hamburg, spoke to board on fire alarm system betwaen four neighbering towns, after discussion on this it too was tabled till regular order of business. The Cit~zen Band Club~ Radio Mobil Service, asked the board if they could get a Village Building to m~t in once a month: about 30 menbers.~ this was also tabled until regular order of business, after some discussion this matter. A motion by Trustee VanVoorhis seconded by Trustee Fitzpatrick, to ~eturn to the regular order of business was carried. The tabled matters~ of above were all put over lek hat egality