MINUTES
SPECIAL JOINT MEETING
BOARD OF COUNCILMEN &
BOARD OF FINANCE
SEPTEMBER 8, 2003
A SPECIAL JOINT MEETING of the Board of Councilmen and the Board of Finance was held in the Council Chambers on Monday, September 8, 2003, to discuss / vote on nonresidential solid waste disposal fees / budget transfers.
Those in attendance included Mayor Owen J. Quinn, Jr., City Councilors Thomas C. Jerram, Paul F. Samele, Jr., Marie P. Soliani (left at 7:48 p.m.), David M. Bascetta (arrived at 7:45 p.m.), Richard E. Dalla Valle, and James D. Reginatto. Board of Finance members Theodore Miasek, James A. Zeller, Diane Libby (left at 8:00 p.m.), Roger Dickinson, and Bruce Cornish, along with Corp. Counsel Albert Vasko, Comptroller Alice Proulx, and Public Works Director Gerald Rollett.
Mayor Quinn called the meeting to order at 6:35 p.m.
The boards had no objection to public comment.
Alan Borghesi stated that his newest project to build a 50,000 square foot building at Technology Park was in jeopardy if the city didn’t move forward with a traffic light on Torringford Street at Technology Park Drive. This project was a manufacturing facility that would bring revenue in taxes and jobs to the City of Torrington. It was his understanding that the traffic light project was one of the items being considered for elimination as a way for the City to recover the cost of rescinding the Council’s vote to have trash haulers pay for tipping fees. The state had given Mr. Borghesi a mandate to widen the road and install a traffic light before any additional buildings were built in the Industrial Park.
Mr. Borghesi felt the city fathers made a mistake in the way they approached the matter of tipping fees. He stated that many small businesses could be pushed out of business by having to pay their own tipping fees. It was his opinion that the public should have had some input prior to the first vote being taken.
Councilor Dalla Valle indicated that the list of items mentioned in the newspaper as a means to recover the cost of having the city pay the tipping fees came from city hall and not from the city fathers. He and several other Council members had requested time to identify where cuts could be found prior to holding a joint meeting with the Board of Finance. During the last several days they scrambled to identify areas that would not put any additional tax burden on the citizens of Torrington, and they were prepared to list them during this meeting.
Mr. Miasek requested more concrete information in regard to companies in danger of going out of business due to having to pay their tipping fees.
Mr. Borghesi said he wasn’t in a position to divulge any specific information, however he could inform the boards that several of his tenants in the Industrial Park were delinquent in their rent payments.
Mr. Rollett defined LOCIP funds as funds given to the city by the State of Connecticut, and he designates projects that are to be funded by this money in his capital plan once a year. The current year’s budget has $270,000.00 identified in capital projects. They include $105,000.00 for the traffic signal that Mr. Borghesi was talking about, $40,000.00 for the Forest Street Bridge removal, and $125,000.00 for the East Pearl Street wall reconstruction.
Bill Lamoin, owner of the car wash on East Main Street, stated that the tipping fees wouldn’t put him out of business but it would be one more thing added to his burden of owning a business.
He read in the newspaper that Torrington was one of the last towns that was subsidizing businesses and he felt it was important for the town to support businesses. He stated that he did business in Torrington, Terryville, and Winsted, and his refuse bill was highest in this town for the same amount of collection. He also stated that this was a Torrington problem and not a business problem since more than 50% of his refuse came from residents who chose to drop off their trash in his dumpsters. Placing the burden on the businesses was merely moving the problem around and not solving it.
Andrew Nargi, asked Mayor Quinn what he had done during his administration to reduce the expenditures in the City of Torrington.
Mayor Quinn indicated that he had held the city side of the budget to an expenditure approximately the same as last year’s budget.
Ms. Proulx indicated that the current budget saw no increases other than contracted labor increases and fixed costs that the city had no control over.
Addo Bonetti, inquired whether any research had been conducted on how other towns handled this matter. He suggested appointing a committee to conduct that investigation.
Mayor Quinn informed Mr. Bonetti that a Solid Waste Committee was formed in May. It was made up of business leaders and residents to look at all municipal waste including commercial, residential and industrial.
Mr. Rollett indicated that other towns were researched, and the DEP furnished information stating that more than 90% of the towns and cities in Connecticut do not pay commercial solid waste fees. He pointed out that Winsted started charging 50% for solid waste fees to residents and commercial establishments about a year ago. Torrington had seen a 25% increase in commercial generation rates, which was a half a million-dollar impact to the city. The city was inviting abuse by being the only town in the area paying tipping fees. He spoke briefly about the committee and the work they were doing.
Peter Melillo, who works for USA Haul, indicated that CRRA would continue to increase their tipping fees at a rate of 7% for the next nine years due to the Enron fiasco. The estimates are that tipping fees will have increased by 84% by the 9th year. He stated that the haulers would have much preferred keeping it the way it was, noting that they had become bankers.
Gerald Wiellette of Mountain Road thought the city should aggressively go after the people who bring trash to Torrington. There should be a way to stop it.
DISCUSS/VOTE ON NONRESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL FEES #810
On a motion by Councilor Jerram, seconded by Mr. Dickinson, a discussion took place on the nonresidential solid waste disposal fees / budget transfers.
Corp. Counsel Vasko supplied the boards with a memorandum.
RECESS #830
On a motion by Councilor Dalla Valle, seconded by Councilor Jerram, the boards voted unanimously to recess briefly to read and digest the memorandum.
On a motion by Councilor Dalla Valle, seconded by Mr. Miasek, the boards went back into Open Session at 7:03 p.m.
Corp. Counsel Vasko read the memorandum into the record. #870 (Attached to the minutes.)
In summary of the memorandum, Corp. Counsel Vasko’s opinion was that the actions by the Board of Councilmen on September 2, 2003 to rescind the resolution adopted on May 20, 2003 was void ab initio as the Board of Councilmen did not have the power or authority to do so.
Councilor Dalla Valle inquired whether Corp. Counsel’s ruling applied to the line item transfers more than $100,000.00 as well.
Corp. Counsel Vasko said yes.
Councilor Dalla Valle inquired why the Council was allowed on August 19 and September 2 to approve the transfers of $164,000.00 from regular wages to overtime, $208,000.00 from Contingency to Disposal, $159,000.00 from Contingency to Additions and Deletions, and $180,000.00 for Officials Wages to Contingency without a referendum.
Corp. Counsel Vasko indicated that those items were done to balance the budget of 2002/2003.
Ms. Proulx explained that those transfers were done to cover the budget overdrafts for this fiscal year, but we did have money in the budget to cover those line items to the transfers.
Councilor Jerram indicated that the Council approved tipping fees or disposal but didn’t approve enough money to cover it. He suggested working a few moments to determine whether the number as of September 1 was actually $1.4 million or some other number substantially less.
Mr. Rollett indicated that Torrington set a record for the amount of garbage coming into the city in the past three months, and the numbers he put together projected a $1.5 million shortfall if we paid the commercial tipping.
Councilor Jerram referred to Mayor Quinn’s budget presentation, page six, which stated:
Waste Removal: Solution
Estimated 2004 MSW Management Costs:
Tires $ 145,000.00
Commercial MSW $1,054,000.00
Residential Collection $1,270,000.00
Residential MSW $ 936,000.00
Landfill & HHW $ 55,000.00
According to Mayor Quinn’s numbers, the actual solid waste tipping fee in May was $1,054,000.00 and now the number was close to $1.4 million. He asked for clarification,
since we were two months into the budget, the $1,054,000.00 figure should be reduced even further.
Mr. Rollett indicated that the $1,054,000.00 was based on the approved budget where the commercials were paying the tipping fee. He pointed out that the option to “Do Nothing” was given in the presentation and that estimate for the commercial solid waste was $1,364,000.00. The difference in numbers resulted when we changed to the 100% user-based system because there was less waste coming to Torrington. When the city paid the commercial tipping fee in July, the tons represented about $350,000.00 more annual
expense than in August, when the commercials were paying.
Councilor Jerram indicated that in his business he was very aware of who came into town and who left, and those numbers led him to believe that Torrington was indeed getting trash from elsewhere. He thought it was unfair to ask commercial taxpayers in Torrington to pay for trash from someone who may not even be in Torrington. If we were to look at savings based on what Torrington generated, we would be working with the $1,054,000.00 figure.
Mr. Rollett indicated that the $1.4 million figure would have to be used if the city paid 100% of the tipping fees based on the trash that comes to Torrington.
Councilor Jerram stated that determining a hard number would be essential. That was one of the reasons the Council asked for more time prior to holding this joint meeting.
Councilor Dalla Valle asked Corp. Counsel Vasko “If you vote on a budget today, can you take $1,364,000.00 out of it tomorrow?”
Corp. Counsel Vasko said “You probably could do that, but the effect would be that you would be taxing, you would have set the mill rate based upon the original budget. You can’t amend the mill rate after it’s approved by the boards.”
The mill rate was set on May 28, 2003.
According to the minutes of May 19, Councilor Dalla Valle stated that a vote was taken to approve the city budget which passed 4-2, and on May 20, a meeting was held to stop the city from paying tipping fees, which according to these figures was $1,364,000.00.
Mrs. Libby stated that the Board of Finance only votes on the budget once it’s approved by the City Council.
Councilor Dalla Valle pointed out that Mr. Rollett’s “Do Nothing” scenario, showed commercial municipal solid waste at $1,364,000.00, and his scenario taking the tipping fees away and making the businesses pay them only dropped by $310,000.00.
Mr. Rollett said it dropped the “impact.” It dropped the budget by $1.3 million but he also presented what the impact was to the businesses in Torrington, which was $1,054,000.00.
Councilor Dalla Valle stated that the city paid for July and the commercial businesses paid August and still before them, the number was $1.4 million dollars.
Mr. Rollett stated that as of last week, the city was now paying 100% of the tipping fees. He put together his best estimate of what the city would need to fund that line item in the budget.
Councilor Dalla Valle asked if the payments for July and August, totaling $170,000.00, had been deducted from the $1.4 million.
Mr. Miasek indicated that 11/12ths of the cost should be allocated and paid for by the commercials.
LEGAL OPINIONS #1630
Councilor Dalla Valle pointed out that the two legal opinions he had requested from Corp. Counsel Vasko had not been provided. He asked once more for legal opinions on the vote of May 20th and September 2nd. He was looking for a reason as to why all six members of the City Council were able to vote on May 20th , however, several members of the Council had to recuse themselves from the September 2nd vote because they owned businesses. Atty. Vasko’s answer that the May 20th meeting was a budget hearing, was incorrect. It was an emergency meeting to adopt two resolutions regarding trash registration and tipping fees.
Councilor Dalla Valle admitted to making the motion to pass the resolution to make haulers pay for the tipping fees, however he pointed out that he makes about 85% of the motions to place items on the agenda up for discussion, and he wanted to clarify the fact that the idea to make haulers pay for their own tipping fees was Mayor Quinn’s and that Mayor Quinn had brought the proposal forward in his budget presentation.
Mayor Quinn stated that Councilor Dalla Valle was absolutely correct.
Secondly, Councilor Dalla Valle pointed out that the cuts listed in the newspaper were attributed to Councilors Jerram, Reginatto, and him. That was incorrect. They never made one comment as to what their specific cuts were going to be. They said they would look at capital projects and try to take that money so there would be no impact to the public if the vote was reversed. On September 2, they asked for a little time to look at particular areas to take this money. Although they had very little time to do so, they were able to come up with some ideas, and none of them were those listed in the newspaper with the exception of one. Out of the $815,000.00 for resurfacing of the roads, they would ask for $124,635.28,
effectively reducing that to a point where, if the weather held, the city would have six good months between now and the end of the budget to work on roads, which would still give the Street Department $115,000.00 a month to work on city roads. They never said they were going to stop any park projects, and they never looked at eliminating projects funded by state or federal monies like the traffic light at Technology Park. They only looked at taking funds from the general fund. They proposed taking funds from the Anthem account. He informed the public that $619,000.00 sat in the Anthem account, $4.5 million in the Undesignated Fund Balance, and $600,000.00 in a Vehicle Replacement Account. It was his belief that some of these funds should be used to keep the taxes down.
Mr. Rollett indicated that it was a summary of capital projects from Public Works, and at that meeting, Councilor Dalla Valle stated that capital projects were suspended.
Councilor Dalla Valle indicated that he never said they were suspended. He said they were looking to suspend capital projects if they found enough money to cover this balance.
Mr. Rollett stated that the newspaper asked him what would happen if he had no capital money and he explained what would happen to them.
Councilor Jerram said, “To follow up with the legal opinion, if we have a disposal account that has not been appropriately funded and we have experience from the Board of Council and the Board of Finance approving line item transfers to cover budget shortfalls in excess of $100,000.00 without going to referendum, then how can we manage to make those same type transfers to go into the disposal line item in our budget so we can manage our trash issue for this fiscal year, fully understanding that we’re coming into a revolution on how we manage our trash hauling, collection and disposal?” He asked Corp. Counsel Vasko how they could appropriate the funds as the disposal line item in this budget has been underfunded?
Atty. Vasko said he would look into this matter as well as the one requested by Councilor Dalla Valle. He would furnish the Board of Councilmen with answers during their next meeting.
Mayor Quinn asked Mr. Rollett if he agreed with Councilor Jerram’s summarization that the disposal line item was underfunded?
Mr. Rollett said he agreed. He pointed out that his second memo asked for additional monies to fund that line item. The figure was $1.5 million. (Memo attached to minutes.)
Mr. Rollett indicated that the original budget had $2,300,000.00 which included the commercial solid waste tipping fees. The landfill budget for disposal was revised after the May 20 meeting to $996,000.00. If they were to take the total projected costs for disposal, the way it stands now, back to $996,000.00, they would be short by $1.5 million.
Councilor Jerram reiterated the fact that their work focused on going through the capital improvement projects only to get an idea on what was catalogued as general fund issues. Any LOCIP or federally funded projects would proceed as planned. The traffic signal was never in their scope of items to eliminate. Bridges and Christmas Village wouldn’t be touched, however, $5,000.00 for the skate park, which everyone knows Councilor Dalla Valle is working on, was targeted for removal. Additionally, savings from several positions which haven’t been filled and receipts of revenues in excess of budgeted items by certain departments could be looked at. Most important, before anything can be done, a legal opinion from Atty. Vasko is needed to see if those funds can be transferred. If not, they
would ask the Board of Finance to work with the Council to look at identifying the savings.
Councilor Dalla Valle pointed out that the businesses were willing to negotiate. He stated that the matter was voted on without any input from business owners or residents, and that it should have been done in public whereby anyone would have had a chance to respond. He asked that the following item be added to their next agenda: That the Board of Finance set a referendum date to bring this issue to the voters, should it have to go that route.
Mrs. Libby stated that clear explaining to the taxpayers would have to be given to the taxpayers of the city on what it would mean for each of them in terms of increased taxes.
Councilor Dalla Valle stated that public hearings would be held.
Councilor Jerram disagreed with Mrs. Libby in that the cuts that were identified would be transfers from line items and wouldn’t affect anyone’s tax bill. They would work within the dollars identified within the current operating budget and perform those line item transfers that he was asking a legal opinion on.
Mrs. Libby reminded everyone that using funds from Anthem and /or the Undesignated Fund Balance, would create an automatic increase to next year’s budget to the tune of one mill, even before they started the budget process.
Councilor Jerram indicated that the City Clerk’s Office and the Building Department’s monthly projections for income for the first two months of this fiscal year exceeded $100,000.00 combined.
Mrs. Libby pointed out that those numbers varied from month to month.
Councilor Jerram continued to list ways to get the funds. There was $20,000.00 available for positions that weren’t filled to date, $600,000.00 in the Vehicle Replacement account, Anthem funds, Contingency, and capital improvements. Funds coming from a number of places would be better than taking it all from one place.
Councilor Jerram asked Mr. Rollett to enlighten the public on who may be subject to the commercial moniker.
Mr. Rollett indicated that commercial establishments included apartment complexes of five units or more, and any type of business or institutional establishment. Residential included single and multi family dwellings up to and including four units and condominium associations.
Councilor Jerram pointed out that the city had many subsidized housing units that would have no other alternative but to raise the rents on their tenants who couldn’t afford any increase.
Councilor Dalla Valle indicated that every non-profit in the city had also been hit.
Councilor Dalla Valle stated that the Council asked Mayor Quinn to come in with a zero budget and he accomplished that, not by cuts in the budget, but by adding $1.364 million on the back of every business person in Torrington. He added that the Board of Finance increased the budget by giving raises to vacant positions and by $60,000.00 for a Finance Director.
Mrs. Libby stood behind the decision to hire a Finance Director 110% because it will save the city money time and time again in the future. She further indicated that she had suggested following the same process for residential solid waste because Torrington was one of a few towns who handled trash the way we did.
Councilor Jerram had to imagine that the commercial establishments would feel better paying 100% of their trash collection if the residentials were paying 100% of their own as well. He thought the city should work earnestly toward that goal but didn’t think the commercials should have the unfair burden until we reached that point. Not only were the commercials paying for their own, but paying for the abusive residential trash collection and he had to believe that the haulers found that to be offensive.
Councilor Dalla Valle added that some of the haulers had to be educated as well in terms of recycling. The haulers may have been more receptive to the concept had a public hearing been held and if they were made to pay 40 or 50% of the tipping fee instead of 100%.
Councilor Jerram asked for a written opinion from Atty. Vasko by next Monday’s Council meeting on whether the transfers were appropriate so they could identify some hard numbers and submit them to the Board of Finance for approval. Should a referendum be necessary it should be done as quickly as possible.
Atty. Vasko said “Yes.”
Councilor Dalla Valle asked Corp. Counsel Vasko to explain his written opinion dated September 8, 2003.
Corp. Counsel Vasko indicated that his decision meant the action taken by the Board of Councilmen on September 2 was not legal and void ab initio, which meant it was void from the time of the decision, so that essentially, today the city was not paying for the commercial tipping fees.
Councilor Jerram suggested that perhaps they could appropriate under the $100,000.00 for the month of September because they wouldn’t be exceeding the authority, so they could work with it and make the necessary changes.
Mrs. Libby indicated that there was still monies in the Disposal line item.
If that was the case, then nothing would change for September said Mr. Rollett. When they got close to extending the line item, further direction would be needed by the boards.
The Council wanted to know how long the city could go on paying the tipping fees.
Mayor Quinn stated that Atty. Vasko had declared the Council’s vote null and void. The Council could discuss this issue on Monday, September 15th to see if there was a way to expedite this matter. Atty. Vasko would provide two legal opinions.
Councilor Jerram stated that the commercial haulers should still be paying the bill, according to Atty. Vasko’s legal opinion. He said “He declared the vote we took illegal. If that vote is illegal, then whatever we did last time, we did something that he’s declared that we shouldn’t have done, so in theory the commercial users should still be paying the bill.” “If we find that we can transfer the item because it’s a disposal line item, not a residential disposal or a commercial disposal, then that disposal line item is underfunded and he’s declared by his ruling, or the ruling we’re going to get on those five items more than $100,000.00, that, if the line item is underfunded, then we can make those transfers without going to referendum. And
therefore, we can legally transfer money in excess of $100,000.00. So that’s the key ruling we need to wait on from Corp. Counsel.”
Councilor Dalla Valle said that would mean Corp. Counsel Vasko would be changing the ruling he gave us tonight, based on the fact that they had five transfers more than $100,000.00.
Councilor Jerram pointed out that the line item stated “Disposal,” and not “Commercial Disposal.”
Corp. Counsel Vasko indicated that it ultimately needed to go back to the Bd. of Finance. It was his opinion that the haulers should be paying the tipping fees, as of August 1.
Councilor Dalla Valle stated, based on that opinion, the 242 transfers done last week, totaling $5.3 million dollars, would need to be transferred back.
Ms. Proulx explained that those transfers were within the approved budget. They did not overdraw the budget, nor did they add to the final budget dollar amount. She said, “Now, if there were transfers within the budget made to cover the solid waste removal based on what the Board of Finance decides, based on what is presented to them, I don’t see an issue with that myself because that’s how I see the Charter is reading. But if the transfers are not approved or it’s not something that’s feasible, and it adds more than $100,000.00 to the bottom line of the budget, it has to go to referendum.”
Councilor Dalla Valle said they were proposing money that was already there, and not adding money to the budget.
Mr. Cornish said Councilor Dalla Valle’s suggestion was a revenue enhancement. The budget would actually increase by an amount more than $1 million. The transfers were coming from “other revenue sources.” The Anthem money was a revenue, not an expense.
Mrs. Libby stated that the Anthem funds were in the Undesignated Fund Balance and not part of the budget.
Councilor Jerram stated that they could still achieve the cuts they needed with monies in the budget. The Capital Improvement Plan had more than $1 million that didn’t affect LOCIP or any state or federally funded projects. Without the million, there were still many Public Works’ projects that could take place. They could achieve the results and still get the one month relief until they had the final decision from Corp. Counsel, without changing the bottom line, without changing the mill rate and without getting a supplemental tax bill.
Mr. Rollett confirmed that there was $1,098,000.00 capital improvement general fund money in the Public Works budget.
Councilor Jerram stated that the people needed a decision. Did we have a thirty-day window to work and wait for Corp. Counsel’s opinion? If his opinion was in favor of the transfer, not only would the Council need to identify them, they would also have to get together with the Board of Finance for their review and approval or rejection.
MOTION #3640
Councilor Jerram made a motion to go for one month, transferring $120,000.00 from the capital improvement projects to be determined by Mayor Quinn as to where it would be cut, limited to general fund only, for the month of September, with an October 1 decision to be made by the Board of Councilmen and the Board of Finance as to whether or not they will re-institute charging commercial tax payers to remove their own trash. There was no second.
Councilor Dalla Valle felt they should abide by Corp. Counsel Vasko’s legal opinion at this time. The matter could be revisited once he rendered his second legal opinion on September 15. Perhaps the Council needed to determine whether an outside attorney should be hired for their own legal opinion. He felt they would be in a worse light if they violated Atty. Vasko’s legal opinion, then if they chose to abide by it and challenged it later.
The haulers reported that the burden on them had been terrible with the decisions being flipped and flopped. They needed a decision one way or another.
Councilor Jerram indicated that the city bears some responsibility because Mr. Rollett was instructed to send out letters to the haulers prematurely prior to Atty. Vasko’s ruling.
For the record, Mayor Quinn stated that Mr. Rollett had worked very hard on this matter and that he was merely following the dictates of the Council and / or the Mayor.
Councilor Dalla Valle stated that the city was going to spend $8 million to redevelop downtown Torrington to bring new businesses in, but wouldn’t spend $1 million to keep the 600 businesses we already had.
Mayor Quinn said “For those people that have been inconvenienced by any of the decisions or the lack of decisions, certainly we want to say that, for any inconvenience, there is an apology that should go out to you. It’s been frustrating for city government workers, City Council, Board of Finance, haulers, and the residents and businesses of Torrington. On that note, we want to say ‘We apologize for any inconvenience, let’s move forward in a positive way, which I think we’re on the brink of’.”
Andrew Nargi inquired about the legal implications of the letter sent out.
Mayor Quinn indicated that was his argument on September 2. He didn’t feel the vote should have been rescinded until it was fully researched.
Mr. Borghesi pointed out that, while the September 2 vote may have been illegal, they were unsure at this time whether the original vote to have the haulers pay for their own tipping fees was legal. He suggested suspending everything for one more week.
Councilor Dalla Valle pointed out that Corp. Counsel Vasko was being asked for a written legal opinion on the original vote of May 20, as well.
Mike Bergeron asked whether the city would be willing to reimburse the haulers if the city was to pay the bill.
Mr. Rollett indicated that he could wait until Monday.
Mr. Bergeron, owner of a trash company, indicated that a resolution was essential, because CRRA could shut them down if their bills weren’t paid while they were waiting for a decision.
Mayor Quinn asked everyone to wait until next Monday. He stated that Corp. Counsel Vasko would render a decision as soon as possible.
Jim Lefebre, Eastwood Road, asked if it would be possible for the City of Torrington to appeal to the CRRA for a temporary moratorium on the tipping fees.
Gerald Zordan, business owner in Torrington, said it was very unfair that he had to pay taxes that went toward residential trash pick up and yet he had to pay for his own pick up, especially since business owners were never given an opportunity to speak on the matter.
Mayor Quinn said “For anybody that is upset, let me take the opportunity as the Mayor of this community to say ‘I apologize’, and, not taking credit or blame or anything else, but there is a lot of misinformation that is out there and it is not the way we want to do business in the City of Torrington. So, therefore, I’m going to direct Jerry to send those letters tomorrow to the haulers and CRRA (copy attached to minutes), I’m going to ask publicly that Al Vasko make a decision as fast as humanly possible while considering all legal ramifications and I want to thank everyone for coming here this evening and participating.”
ADJOURNMENT #760
On a motion by Mr. Miasek, seconded by Mr. Cornish, the boards voted unanimously to adjourn at 8:30 p.m.
ATTEST: JOSEPH L. QUARTIERO, CCTC, CMC
CITY CLERK
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