EAST HARTFORD TOWN COUNCIL
TOWN COUNCIL CHAMBERS
APRIL 20, 2010
PRESENT Chair Richard F. Kehoe, Vice Chair William P. Horan, Jr., Majority Leader Marcia A. Leclerc, Councillors Marc I. Weinberg, Barbara-Ann Rossi, Linda A. Russo, Eric Thompson and Susan P. Skowronek
ABSENT Minority Leader Donald H. Pitkin
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Kehoe called the meeting to order at 7:43 p.m. He announced the exit locations in
accordance with Connecticut General Statutes § 29-381, after which the Council joined him in the pledge of allegiance.
OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON AGENDA ITEMS
Mayor Currey (1) stated that in preparation for the start of single stream recycling on July 1st, informational packets will be attached to the new barrels that will be sent to all homeowners. Contained within that packet will be the pick-up schedule for both recycling and normal garbage collection, and what is considered acceptable recycling items; and (2) announced that spring clean up on Main Street – Bridge to Bridge – will be on Saturday, May 15th.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
April 7, 2010 Regular Meeting
MOTION By Marcia Leclerc
seconded by Eric Thompson
to approve the minutes of the April 7, 2010 Regular Meeting.
Motion carried 8/0.
COMMUNICATIONS AND PETITIONS
Assistance at Kleen Energy Plant, Middletown
Mayor Currey acknowledged a letter from Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano, that
praised the efforts of East Hartford’s Fire Department and CERT members who
participated in the search and rescue operation at the site of the tragic explosion of the
Kleen Energy plant. Assistant Fire Chief Will Perez read the names of those volunteers
who were recognized as Mayor Currey distributed Town of East Hartford pins to those
volunteers who were present. The following is a list of those people involved in the Kleen
Energy plant rescue operation:
Region 3 Incident Management State of Connecticut Urban Search & Rescue from East Hartford
John Oates, East Hartford Fire Chief Tim George, Sean Kinkade, Rick Mailhot,
Dan Dube, Emergency Management John Spaulding, Tim Taylor
CERT Team Members
Steve Hammond Laurie Beley
Terry Meares Raul Ayala
Paul Belanger David Pelletier
Mike Brinius Rainalda Ayala
John Morrison Bev Plefka
Gladys Kielb Marie Frederickson
Rich McCarthy Elizabeth Rosa
Anand Higorini Peter Beley
John Windley Brian Taylor
Kathy Charon Kristen Dube
The Council, along with the Mayor, thanked all of the volunteers for a job well done.
NEW BUSINESS
Outdoor Amusement Permit Application: Abelon Memorial Walk/Car Show
Approval of Application
MOTION By Marc Weinberg
seconded by Eric Thompson
to approve the outdoor amusement permit application from Rachel Buck,
CIBA Student Advisory Board, to conduct a car show and fundraising walk
to raise public awareness of the cause and effects of pancreatic cancer on
the grounds of the Connecticut International Baccalaureate Academy, 857
Forbes Street, on Saturday, May 15, 2010 from approximately 8AM to
5PM, as follows: the walk will commence at 10AM beginning at CIBA and
following Forbes Street to the Sunset Ridge School and then back to CIBA;
the car show portion will begin at noon; subject to compliance with adopted
codes and regulations of the State of Connecticut, the Town of East
Hartford, and any other stipulations required by the Town of East Hartford
or its agencies.
Motion carried 8/0.
Waiver of Permit Fee
MOTION By Marc Weinberg
seconded by Susan Skowronek
to waive the associated permitting fee.
Motion carried 8/0.
Recommendation from Investigation & Audit Committee: Appointment of Town Auditor
MOTION By Barbara Rossi
seconded by Susan Skowronek
to appoint Blum Shapiro as the auditors for Fiscal Year 2009-2010
to perform required financial audits consistent with the most recent
proposal of $65,000.
Motion carried 8/0.
Refund of Taxes
MOTION By Marc Weinberg
seconded by Eric Thompson
to refund taxes in the amount of $15,418.34
pursuant to Section 12-129 of the Connecticut General Statutes.
Motion carried 8/0.
Bill |
Name |
Prop Loc/Vehicle Info. |
Int |
Over Paid |
|
|
|
|
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2008-03-0055129 |
CAB EAST LLC |
YV1SJ527552494343 |
|
$ (473.78) |
2006-01-0002524 |
CHAD ASSOCIATES LTD PRTNSHP |
490 TOLLAND ST |
|
$ (930.80) |
2006-01-0002533 |
CHAMBERLAND DELINA T |
421 TOLLAND ST #213 |
|
$ (732.97) |
2006-01-0003074 |
CITYSIDE MANAGEMENT |
94 LARRABEE ST BLDG |
|
$ (933.89) |
2006-01-0014769 |
CITYSIDE MANAGEMENT |
94 LARRABEE ST LAND |
|
$ (557.88) |
2002-01-0002800 |
COHEN DEBRA, CONSERVATOR |
18 NAVAHO RD |
|
$ (544.65) |
2004-04-0082086 |
COONEY EDWARD TIMOTHY OR |
914TYB |
|
$ (258.95) |
|
COONEY DEBRA P |
|
|
|
2008-03-0059634 |
DCFS TRUST |
463UBY |
|
$ (474.74) |
2008-03-0059646 |
DCFS TRUST |
823USS |
|
$ (535.44) |
2006-03-0062287 |
FALVEY LINEN AND UNIFORM |
J46487 |
|
$ (101.00) |
|
SUPPLY OF CT INC |
|
|
|
2008-01-0005453 |
FINAN MATTHEW R |
213 NAUBUC AVE |
|
$ (17.18) |
2008-01-0012170 |
GMAC |
31 HOLLISTER DR |
|
$ (1,621.03) |
2008-03-0065470 |
GRIESDORN DONALD E |
723KYL |
|
$ (13.65) |
2008-03-0065513 |
GRILLO GEORGE V JR |
963WTM |
|
$ (106.41) |
2008-02-0040826 |
HEWLETT PACKARD FINANCIAL SERVICES |
VARIOUS |
|
$ (372.44) |
2008-03-0067023 |
HILL LAWRENCE CLAUDETTE |
418REE |
|
$ (7.36) |
2008-04-0083133 |
HIMMEL TROY L |
92CN28 |
|
$ (66.29) |
2006-01-0006920 |
HOWARD APARTMENTS OF E HTFD LLC |
9-19 HOWARD CT |
|
$ (510.38) |
2008-03-0067923 |
HYUNDAI MOTOR FINANCE CO |
5NPET46C27H212790 |
|
$ (50.46) |
2004-01-0006213 |
JARDA THIERRY & JEAN CARL |
30 HILLSIDE B-2 |
|
$ (436.14) |
2005-01-0007173 |
JARDA THIERRY & JEAN CARL |
50 HILLSIDE ST B-15 |
|
$ (377.32) |
2008-03-0068464 |
JENKINS JEREMY D |
825835 |
|
$ (47.50) |
2008-03-0068511 |
JESKI ASHLEY J |
677UXW |
|
$ (60.09) |
2007-01-0009408 |
KIZITO SALIM |
61-63 AMY DR |
|
$ (34.66) |
2008-01-0009408 |
KIZITO SALIM |
61-63 AMY DR |
|
$ (300.00) |
2007-03-0071336 |
LAVOIE MARK L OR |
243NEU |
|
$ (31.39) |
|
LAVOIE MICHELLE |
|
|
|
2008-01-0008947 |
MAGNOTTA BARBARA T |
37 BODWELL RD |
|
$ (58.77) |
2007-03-0073201 |
MALOOF JEANNE A |
921TYB |
|
$ (79.01) |
2006-01-0009383 |
MAYNARD KENNETH M & GLORIA I |
1505 FORBES ST |
|
$ (10.83) |
2005-03-0074583 |
MAZZADRA ALDO P |
AC6223 |
|
$ (65.43) |
2006-03-0074378 |
MAZZADRA ALDO P |
AC6223 |
|
$ (54.18) |
2007-03-0074161 |
MAZZADRA ALDO P |
AC6223 |
|
$ (47.50) |
2008-03-0073818 |
MCCARRY JEAN A |
PK808 |
|
$ (57.04) |
2006-03-0074872 |
MCNAMARA DAVID |
DAVIDM |
|
$ (6.00) |
2008-03-0074937 |
MILLSTEIN ELENA |
JERLEE |
|
$ (49.31) |
2003-01-0010572 |
NGUYEN TRONG |
42 SALEM RD |
|
$ (1,446.03) |
2006-01-0001817 |
OCWEN LOAN SERVICING LLC |
442 BURNSIDE AVE |
|
$ (2,629.16) |
2008-03-0077772 |
OUELLETTE EUGENE H |
2CS146 |
|
$ (9.72) |
2008-03-0081581 |
RIVERA DANNY O |
158NVF |
|
$ (20.08) |
2008-03-0081965 |
ROBINSON LONALD C |
VZ6290 |
|
$ (11.21) |
2008-03-0082563 |
ROMEO JOSEPH M |
971VAM |
|
$ (11.18) |
2006-03-0084577 |
SCELZA FRANK G |
881RGL |
|
$ (29.80) |
2008-03-0084285 |
SERRANO EBONY C |
248WSY |
$5.55 |
$ (46.24) |
2008-03-0084473 |
SHAW DONNA C |
68CH87 |
|
$ (18.78) |
2006-03-0085908 |
SMITH MICHAEL C |
605123 |
|
$ (6.33) |
2008-03-0085416 |
SOTO ELBA I |
975WSY |
|
$ (28.81) |
2008-03-0085970 |
STOLTZ SAMUEL OR |
215TAU |
|
$ (17.67) |
|
WILDMAN MARY M |
|
|
|
2006-03-0086743 |
ST PIERRE KATHLEEN M |
558TDE |
|
$ (44.75) |
2006-04-0089101 |
UNITED STEEL INC |
K52038 |
|
$ (102.11) |
2007-03-0088645 |
UNITED STEEL INC |
H94257 |
|
$ (29.90) |
2008-04-0087103 |
VAZQUEZ ANGIE |
795XHJ |
|
$ (15.00) |
2005-03-0089920 |
VIOLA JONES KATHLEEN |
161TRC |
|
$ (22.86) |
2005-03-0090020 |
VOLKSWAGEN CREDIT |
3VWRK69M43M171648 |
|
$ (70.76) |
2007-03-0089615 |
VOLVO FINANCE NA INC |
YV1RS61T742356396 |
|
$ (334.56) |
2008-03-0089340 |
WASHINGTON CRYSTAL C |
299WTG |
|
$ (30.24) |
2008-03-0089620 |
WETMORE MATTHEW J |
739MAF |
|
$ (8.14) |
2003-03-0090128 |
WIERSMA MARTHA M |
962DOJ |
|
$ (16.05) |
2008-03-0089839 |
WILDER JOHN P OR |
524NAO |
|
$ (208.39) |
|
WILDER EVELYN C
|
|
|
|
2008-03-0089840 |
WILDER JOHN P OR |
50CS85 |
|
$ (209.02) |
|
WILDER EVELYN C |
|
|
|
2008-03-0090812 |
ZIEGLER STEPHEN J OR |
398SKP |
|
$ (21.53) |
|
ZIEGLER CATHY |
|
|
|
SUBTOTAL |
|
|
$(5.55) |
$(15,412.79) |
TOTAL |
|
|
|
$(15,418.34) |
Recommendations from Real Estate Acquisition & Disposition Committee:
Acquisition of Interest in Property Owned by the State of Connecticut (Easterly Section of Right-of-Way Along Route 2)
MOTION By Linda Russo
seconded by Barbara Rossi
to recommend that the Town Council authorize the Mayor to execute a
license agreement with the State of Connecticut, upon such terms as the
Mayor deems most favorable to the Town, allowing the Town to maintain a
sheet pile cutoff wall as part of its flood control system along a portion of
the State-owned Route 2 Right of Way as shown on a May 2009 map
prepared by GEI Consultants, Project 081210, entitled “PROPOSED
MEADOW HILL PUMP STATION CUTOFF WALL.”
Motion carried 8/0.
Burnside Avenue Drainage Outfall Reconstruction Easement Acquisitions: 3-33 Church Street
MOTION By Linda Russo
seconded by Barbara Rossi
to recommend that the Town Council accept an Easement and Drainage
Rights Agreement between The St. Rose Church Corporation of Burnside,
as Grantor, and the Town of East Hartford, as Grantee, which Easement
and Drainage Rights run on, across and under a portion of the property
owned by The St. Rose Church Corporation of Burnside and known as No.
3-33 Church Street, which Easement and Drainage Rights are more
particularly described on a map entitled:
EASEMENT MAP MAP DEPICTING PROPOSED EASEMENT IN FAVOR OF:
THE TOWN OF EAST HARTFORD ACROSS THE PROPERTY OF:
HARTFORD CATHOLIC DIOCESAN EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Motion carried 8/0.
Burnside Avenue Drainage Outfall Reconstruction Easement Acquisitions: 621-623 Burnside Avenue
MOTION By Linda Russo
seconded by Barbara Rossi
to recommend that the Town Council acquire for the sum of $6,400.00 an
Easement and Drainage Rights Agreement between 621-623 Burnside
Avenue, LLC, as Grantor, and the Town of East Hartford, as Grantee,
which Easement and Drainage Rights run on, across and under a portion
of the property owned by 621-623 Burnside Avenue, LLC and known as
621-623 Burnside Avenue, which Easement and Drainage Rights are more
particularly described on a map entitled:
EASEMENT MAP MAP DEPICTING PROPOSED EASEMENT IN FAVOR OF:
THE TOWN OF EAST HARTFORD ACROSS THE PROPERTY OF
621 BURNSIDE AVENUE, EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.
Motion carried 8/0.
Subordination of Drainage Rights/Land Abutting Willow Brook at 400 Main Street
MOTION By Linda Russo
seconded by Barbara Rossi
to recommend that the Town Council authorize the Mayor to execute a
subordination agreement through which the Town will subordinate a certain
easement granted by Joseph J. Peltz and J. H. Tichenor to the Town
(recorded April 18, 1951 in Volume 173 at Page 509 of the East Hartford
Land Records) and a certain easement granted by Stone and Goldberg
Associates to the Town (recorded November 20, 1979 in Volume 715 at
Page 280 of the East Hartford Land Records) to the lien and operation of
Declaration of Environmental Land Use Restrictions to be executed
between the State of Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
and United Technologies Corporation.
Motion carried 8/0.
Municipal Tax Exempt Lease Purchase Financing for the 5-year Capital Improvement Plan
MOTION By Bill Horan
seconded by Marcia Leclerc
to adopt the following resolution:
WHEREAS, the Town of East Hartford intends to purchase various capital equipment as part of the Town of East Hartford’s Approved 5-Year Capital Improvement Plan for the Years 2010-2011 through 2014-2015; and
WHEREAS, the cost of the various capital equipment and replacement furniture designated for lease-purchase financing totals $2,148,850; and
WHEREAS, the Town will budget $383,564 for two years, $436,542 for three years and $145,162 for two years beginning in fiscal year 2011-2012 in the General Operating Fund to pay principal and interest for the purchases.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Mayor of the Town of East Hartford is authorized to enter into a master lease purchase agreement and related documents with Chase Equipment Finance, Inc. in the principal amount not to exceed $2,148,850. The interest rate, payment schedule and other details of the financing shall be mutually determined between the company and the Mayor, whose signatures will indicate approval of specific terms and conditions.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town declares its intent to be reimbursed for any temporary advances from the General Fund to pay for any part of the equipment from proceeds of the lease financing in accordance with Treasury Regulation 26 CFR 1.103-18 and/or 26CFR1.150-2.
On call of the vote, motion carried 8/0.
Arbitration Award: East Hartford Police Officers’ Association July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2012
MOTION By Bill Horan
seconded by Barbara Rossi
to approve the arbitration award regarding the East Hartford Police
Officers’ Association – Case #2008-MBA-48 (Sworn Police Officers) for the
period July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2012, as referenced in a memo from
Frank Cassetta, Assistant Corporation Counsel to Richard Kehoe, Town
Council Chair dated April 19, 2010.
Motion carried 8/0.
Note: Once fully executed, a copy of the police contract will follow these minutes.
OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNCILLORS TO DIRECT QUESTIONS TO THE ADMINISTRATION
Susan Skowronek stated that she has received several calls regarding the need for some spring clean up at Dwyer Park, especially with spring and summer approaching. Also, the neighbors would like more police presence in that area at night.
Rich Kehoe said that it was brought to his attention by a resident that there is a pothole on the corner of Balsam and Wildflower Roads.
COUNCIL ACTION ON EXECUTIVE SESSION MATTERS
AUM Realty LLC v. Town of East Hartford
MOTION By Marcia Leclerc
seconded by Susan Skowronek
to accept the recommendation of the Corporation Counsel’s
office to settle the tax appeal case entitled AUM Realty, LLC v.
Town of East Hartford and to authorize the Town Assessor
to reduce the fair market value of the property located at
333 Roberts Street, owned by AUM Realty, LLC, to the sum of
$3,000,000.00, subject to rounding, beginning with the Grand
List of October 1, 2008; further that neither party will be entitled
to fees or costs of any kind; further that if the plaintiff is entitled
to a refund of taxes paid, the refund will be deducted from the
next installment of taxes.
Motion carried 8/0.
Somnath Inc. v. Town of East Hartford
MOTION By Marcia Leclerc
seconded by Eric Thompson
to accept the recommendation of the Corporation Counsel’s
office to settle the tax appeal case entitled Somnath, Inc. v.
Town of East Hartford and to authorize the Town Assessor
to reduce the fair market value of the property located at
490 Main Street, owned by Somnath, Inc., to the sum of
$1,413,125.00, subject to rounding, beginning with the Grand
List of October 1, 2008; further that neither party will be entitled
to fees or costs of any kind; further that if the plaintiff is entitled
to a refund of taxes paid, the refund will be deducted from the
next installment of taxes.
Motion carried 8/0.
Eugene Ofori v. Town of East Hartford
MOTION By Marcia Leclerc
seconded by Barbara Rossi
to accept the recommendation of Corporation Counsel to
fully and finally settle the case entitled Eugene Ofori v. Town
of East Hartford, for the total sum of $13,500.00.
Motion carried 8/0.
OPPORTUNITY FOR RESIDENTS TO SPEAK
Bill Horan announced the opening day for East Hartford Little League is Saturday, April 24th at Gorman Park and urged all to attend.
ADJOURNMENT
MOTION By Eric Thompson
seconded by Bill Horan
to adjourn (9:14 p.m.).
Motion carried 8/0.
The Chair announced that the next meeting of the Town Council would be on May 4, 2010.
Attest________________________________
Angela M. Attenello
TOWN COUNCIL CLERK
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