Board of Trustees Meeting 9/26/11
Bayville Village meeting: Monday Sept 26, 7:30 pm.
(NEXT meeting is Monday October 24th—please come!)
Issues brought up in public discussion:
- House on Greenwich Ave., burned out, for over 18 months. Resident complaining what is being done? Village response is that the owner is thinking about what to do, Bayville has no action other than to wait for some application to come down the pike to them. Meanwhile building that could be nearly condemned is left sitting going in two year, no fines, no action. Residents annoyed that lot being used to park cars. Residents in past were told lot could never be used as parking. Now the Mayor is saying that he was wrong about the measurements of the lot and it can be used as parking. Not what residents want. Two meetings ago the Mayor daid the people who own the property were talking about submitting plans for a two-family home. No plans yet.
- Woman living near Crescent Club has been complaining about 5-6:30 am garbage pickup of Crescents several dumpsters that disturbs residents, and is earlier time than Village ordinance allows. One year later with countless calls to Mayor and Code Enforcer Al Cruchillo (only there some Mondays?) this woman has gotten nowhere. Mayor told her to call Al again. She screamed.
- A resident was complaining why Bayville Village is repairing holes in a private road in front of Viteretti’s home on Shore (aka Washington Ave) Road, when other private roads in Bayville (Arlington) are getting no where asking for Bayville assistance in drainage issues that need to be addressed by the Village and many users of the road before the Arlington residents can pay themselves to re pave their “private” road.
- Owners of the Bayville Deli (Joe Florio) and owner of the Bayville Beverage asked about the Gulf Station and possible convenience store there. Mayor explained that a fuel company has purchased the Gulf Station. The current repair operations will remain, and a refurbished building, tanks, and site landscape PROPOSAL will include a convenience store in that proposal. To be aired publicly at an advertised date sometime in a month or so. ( Will it be a nice looking Hampton’s style convenience store proposed? I’ve seen some that look pretty nice. Is a little competition a good thing?)
- Bayville Firehouse was listed on meeting agenda, then tabled. A resident asked about what was happening with the firehouse budget item. Trustee Rupp, accountant and CPA, answered that he led the budget cutting last fall when he cut all department budgets, closed library on weekends, fired p/t staff. Rupp looked closely at Firehouse budget request. To look for cuts, as with all items, he noticed high percent increases given each year to Firehouse budget item for all of past 10 years. He then looked at past three years of actual expenditures. He looked at last year’s actual expenditures, in line with past three. So he gave them a budget item that matched last year’s expenditures. This was $60,000 less than requested by Firehouse. Firehouse is now suing the Village. Paul Rupp was very saddened to say that he has lost several friends and received threats to his home and family over his trying to do his job on the Firehouse budget item.
- Peter Ronzetti asked the mayor what is being done about the sewage-tinged water being pumped out of the front of Ralph’s Pizza, since Peter’s umpteenth complaint, and official complaint at the Village meeting in August 22nd , when the mayor said the illegal effluent connection would be removed in 24 hours. Nothing ever done. Last night’s answer-- nothing Village can do.
Background: Ralph has pumped to the rear lot for years and years. DEC put a stop to that, so now for the past 18 months he’s pumping out the front. He is legally allowed to pump his basement water into the Nassau County street drain, however that is 100 feet from his pizza building, so his sewage tinged water is running across the sidewalk, down along the frontage of Jeff’s Chowder House building. Ronzetti has to shovel sludge from curb each week. Ronzetti has the water tested. 2 ppm fecal coliform is considered acceptable for clean runoff. Sample taken this Sept 6th had 1600ppm fecal coliform. Nassau County Health Dept and Nassau County DPW say Village of Bayville must enforce code. Nassau County DPW issues a letter that if Ralph’s Pizza puts in for such an UNDERGROUD pumping to the NC drain, they would conditionally approve it if the permit application includes a list of conditions such as soils test, sanitary engineer plan, construction plan, etc. Ralph’s Pizza had not moved to do any of these thus far. But Ralph’s Pizza claims “they have a pending permit to pump, that was conditionally accepted by NC DPW.” The Village is accepting this, and issuing a violations to Ralph’s Pizza only about “staining the sidewalk” with the pumping. Is there really nothing the Village can do? Audience members said if proper and serious nuisance and sewage fines were imposed, financially Ralph’s Pizza would be moved to correct the problem. The mayor’s response was “it’s the oldest business in town.” The audience thinks SO WHAT! So not sure if anything will be done to stop Ralph’s Pizza pumping effluent into our street, while the Village waits (how much longer??) for Ralph Pizza to start a construction permit/project and spend 10s of thousands of dollars.
7. Cell towers: Two current cell tower company contracts, Verizon and AT&T, are up for renewal. It was discussed where to put cell towers in bayville if not on water tower (too close to schools), is there any other location? The mayor asked residents to think about what is the alternative? Resident brought up law that eliminated residental and private property from having cell towers, and resident asked the board to eliminate those two companies from the water tower use for cell antennas.
LAST MEETING’S BUSINESS: NOT MENTIONED AT THIS MEETING:
1. What is the result of the Mayor’s speaking to business owners on the Avenue and presenting the Beautification Committee’s letter of request for clean up, sweeping, signage unity, painting using chosen specified colors. (Any one game to mention to owners of paint-peeling buildings to go splurge on a few gallons of paint?)
Also not mentioned, Mayor’s result is asking landlords of buildings for lease or for sale to put up resident-supplied (Donna Rizzo) large-scale posters of old Bayville photographs in the windows, to upgrade the look while the buildings are for sale.
2. Can the Mohring building (former Pig & Whistle) shell of concrete be condemned? Can the water pond/stairs-to-nowhere project in front of the Bayville Animal Clinic corner be condemned or deemed unsafe?
There is much more…..
COME TO A MEETING, BE IN THE AUDIENCE AND SUPPORT FELLOW CITIZENS as we communication and assist our government to work together to get the best out of everyone for a better Bayville.
Next meeting dates: Mondays 7:30 pm
October 24th, November 14th, and 28th, December 12th.
What is being done about the drainage problem on Arlington Road? It presents a health hazard (breeding ground for mosquitoes) and a driving hazard. The residents on the road are unable to repair the road until the village address the drainage problem. This has been going on for far too long and is an example of our representatives seeming lack of care to address important health issues in our community. The Bayville elected officials continue to ignore or put off important issues in Bayville, perhaps we should consider letting Oyster Bay be our government or elect responsive village persons who respond to the needs of Bayville.
Arlington Rd. has been a problem since before Saltaire was built. The residents bought homes for less money than the average home in Bayville because there was a problem and now you want the village to come in and fix the problem on a private rd. When we had a problem on the East End streets, the residents paid in excess of $1500/ home to take care of the water problems. Why should Arlington get the streets done by the village/tax payers when the other private roads cannot.
THANK YOU for posting these minutes. I think it is a fabulous idea, a great way to get the word out about the goings ons at our public meetings.
MANY more residents have been attending meetings since the August meeting, it is great to see community awareness and more people in attendance, instead of the usual 3 attendees.
Keep the information flowing, information is powerful and it is great that you posted these for those who could not attend. I hope that you keep it up biweekly!!!
Correction ..the next Village Board Meeting has been rescheduled to Tuesday ,October 25th instead of Monday .. Please be sure and be there this is a very important meeting and everyone should be there ...
Once again, the lack of code enforcement and ability for this Village to put into effect codes of how they want their businesses to appear on the outside regarding signage and awnings, is glaringly evident!!!
I am not against businesses coming into this town. I support as many local businesses as I can by shopping there. However, when a business whose sole purpose is to sell gold comes into town it is sending a message out to anyone who comes into this community that we are low class. What is next? Check cashing???
The woman who wrote a letter to the Leader last week about people in this town voicing their opinion about the blight that is in our commercial districts said, if these people keep saying how bad things are no one will come to buy and open a business in Bayville. Well guess what, you do not need anyone to say anything to anyone, just drive around and look around. This place needs help now!! That woman was worried that we may look like Queens or Freeport. Guess what, they look better than we do!!!
Wake up Bayville, attend matings and voice your concerns. One day maybe these elected officials will hear us and open their eyes!!
Next Village meeting October 25th at 7pm.
Save our town before the people who run it, run it straight intot the ground.
There is nothing wrong with wanting our Village to look and be the best that it can be.
I am saying NO! to more gas stores competing for ice cream and fun-stick sales! How many can sell fun-sticks in such a small town!?
VILLAGE HAS NEVER LOOKED THIS HORRIBLE
THE GAS MAINS WERE REPLACED BUT THE STREETS WERE NOT PATCHED CORRECTLY THE CURBS THEY DESTROYED WERE FILLED WITH ASPHALT(EVEN ON VICKY CORNER) ARE THEY GOING TO REMAIN THIS WAY??? THE BUILDINGS ARE A DISCRACE AND THE NEW GOLD BUSINESS WELL WHAT CAN ONE SAY ABOUT THAT.UNINCORPORATING THE VILLAGE IS TRULY STARTING TO SOUND LIKE A GOOD IDEA. CHANGE IS GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!
WAKE UP BAYVILLE!!!! This town has lost it's seaside charm, from the new gold store in town to the HUGH flashing neon sign at the lawyers office near Oak Neck deli to the possible 7/11 type gas station plans if I wanted to live in Freeport I would have. This place looks like a dump and for to many years, the business by the stands are discusting looking it's been to long for them to look like that give them summons,Our home values are going down, there's a reason no one comes here anymore it's a dump!!!!! I for one will be attending the town meeting and speaking up ,this is a disgrace to any of us that grew up here. It's anyting goes around here and no one is manning the place.
Hey Buzzy - where do you get your info. from people on Arilington Lane did not buy their homes for less then other homes in Bayville because they knew there was problems that's the stupidest thing I ever heard,think about what you just wrote there's a family that has lived there since the 50's they know the changes, I don't think the town should pay for the street to be fixed but they could help with the drainage problems, since they did approve the Salitaire project. Besides the homes on the east end have always been cheaper.
The We Buy Gold Store -- take note the owner sits behind a bullet proof enclosure to protect himself from the *(&^*()3*(&) he attracts with this type of business. This place and his signs must go. Ghetto pawn shop with bullet proof enclosures why here??????? fight this one.
The "7/11" type sotre is a scar tactic used by local peopel who oppose the gas station having a mart. The mart will be a dry establishment, which means it cannot make any prepared foods. The owner has plans to make the enitre gas station look beautiful fitting a south hampton type architecture, not Freeport or Hempstead or Queens. Which by the way the main streets in all of those places look better than us, so it is comical that people do not want to look like us!!!
Give hte guy a chance and see what he proposes before you say not here.
AS for the gold place, the bottom line is that people come to this town and think that anything goes here and they feel comfortable opening a low life business here, why wouldn't they? ?if you look around it looks like suburban blight, so there you have it.
PEOPLE need to get to the next meeting which is October 24th and keep going every other Monday there after to the regular Board of Trustee meetings.
You will be amazed at the demeanor of our elected officials and their lack of answers, a plan or any indication that action is forth coming.
Now is the time to speak up, or at least come and listen you will be enlightened!
The We Buy Gold store right on the corner sure caught me by surprise. What's next? A pawn shop?
As to the code enforcement officer, he sure was quick enough to cart away my Open House sign 2 weeks ago and rip the House for Sale sign off the pole in front of my house. Still no return call from the Mayor regarding the discriminatory sign regulations.
The next Vilage meeting was CHANGED to Tuesday October 25th!! Pass that information around in email.
Re: gas station--The Village Board said that a full public hearing would take place on the gas station renovation in the near future, and I'm sure it will be informative and I hope people come out to support the concept of improvements!
Was so happy to see that the big V is once again taking an interest in local politics! Who thinks her presence was to keep everyone on the board(well, almost everyone) in line!
When you say the big V are you talking about the big V who used this village as her personal piggy bank?The big V who loades this village with overpriced patronage jobs? The big V who singlehandedly ruined two neiborhoods by giving the scream park free rein to disturb the peace?The big V who cooked the books and left us with a 19% tax increase?Or was that the big V who allowed the water tower to be turned into a nightmare of radiation exposure to our Youngest residents in exchange for covering the rich in mill neck so they would name a bridge for her?
The Big V was there with her golden , Snifen, Kita, and another man. She went to make sure that the past two secret mandatory TIP party meetings that she held at her home were effective. She told Doug what to say and how to say it. Doug even told the group that he has been generous in letting them speak in the past. Well, Gee Doug, how nice of you!! You decided to allow us to have freedom of speech..you are almost as good as our founding fathers!!
The Big V is trying to still control this Village and the trustees are letting her. Why?? I do not know.
Lets not forget, Doug may not be effective, but he did not get us into this pit we are in. she did. 30 years of the same politics as usual and we have reaped what she sowed here, a pit of a Village going no where but down and into bankruptcy.
Kinda makes you wonder why of all things a bridge was named after her. A brick wall, a gaping hole, a fountain with a staircase to nowhere, those I would understand.
I heard about the 2 secret meetings too. She's a piece of work.
Ooooo, secret TIP meetings. I bet they were planning their Occupy Wall St. strategy .... LMAO!
A "little birdie" told me that you have always been one of Vickie's ralliers. I would think that wanting to sell your house would make you want to see our Village improve. The meeting was to make sure that HER trustees don't step out of line. Most of the trustees are puppets.
Anonymous,
I just want to sell my house and move away from all of the Bayville BS. I attended one meeting to ask for a change in the signage requirements and have been ignored. I am just not interested in fighting anymore. I simply don't care one way or the other. Don'y you have any relatives who would like to buy my house? It's one of the nicest blocks in Bayville, or so I've always thought for 21 years.
I know, my new name doesnt even fit in the name field!
Board of Trustee Meeting
Event starts at 7:30 PM
Location: Bayville Village Hall
A regular meeting of the Village of Bayville Board of Trustees will be held on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 7:30pm at Bayville Village Hall, 34 School Street, Bayville.
Can we get a new post for the November 14 meeting?