AGENDA

Monday, January 23, 2012

             Meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

in Lumbard Hall

1.  Selection of Chair and Vice Chair

 2.  Calianese Auto Sales, Elliot J. Calianese PB Case #25-11

7567 State Route 5                         Zoning: C

Change to existing business.            Site Plan Review

Additional 60 vehicles to used car lot, gravel to parking lot, 10′ X 12′ storage shed/add change to existing lighting and add new light poles.

Discussion Items:

Hamilton College                       PB Case #1-12

Theatre and Studio Arts Building       Zoning:  PC

Harold & Elegia Heintz            PB Case # 14-10

Utica Street/NYS Route 12B            Zoning:  PD

Development Office and Storage Units

Revised Landscape Plan submitted January 11, 2012 for review.

David Lane on behalf of                  Zone Change

Hamlin House, Ltd.              Tax Map #346.000-1-52.2

3406 State Route 12B, Clinton  

(Clinton, NY – Jan. 17, 2012) The New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Marcy has concluded a three month investigation into the theft of cable television service in the Village of Clinton.

Time Warner Cable contacted State Police to report what they believed was an individual using other people’s social security numbers to obtain cable service. Subsequent investigation by Time Warner Security and Investigator Todd Grant led to the arrest of James Bevan, 43, of 19 Chenango Ave., South, Clinton who was charged with fourth-degree Felony Grand Larceny for stealing more than $1,000 worth of cable television service.

Bevan was issued an appearance ticket returnable to the Town of Kirkland Court on Jan. 24, 2012.

(Clinton, NY – Jan. 3, 2012) The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund Committee distributed $62,000 to eight organizations in the Town of Kirkland, the largest disbursement since grants were first made in 2001.

The Clinton Central School District received $18,331, which it will leverage with funding from the local BOCES to provide wireless access throughout its three-building campus. The project includes purchasing and installing 81 access points and the accompanying firewall protections and licensing. This is the largest grant made by the committee in its 11 years of existence.

The committee also provided $15,000 to fund the Kirkland Town Library’s proposal to purchase furnishings for the Bristol Room and to resurface the parking lot and driveway.

“Many of these grants are directed to projects that were unlikely to be funded any other way,” said Hamilton President Joan Hinde Stewart, who also chairs the committee. “It is gratifying to support the fine work of our local non-profit and public safety organizations, especially in a time of fiscal constraint.”

Other local organizations to receive funding from the Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund include:

Clinton Fire Department, $8,469 to support EMS priorities

Kirkland Art Center, $7,500 to create a wheelchair accessible art studio

Clinton Central School Foundation, $6,200 for its annual appeal

Clinton Historical Society, $3,000 for programming during its 50thanniversary

Kirkland Police Department, $2,500 for general operations

Clinton Chamber of Commerce, $1,000 to support the Art & Music Festival

The Hamilton College Town-Gown Fund was created in 2001 by anonymous donors to foster goodwill and better communication among the college, the Town of Kirkland and the Village of Clinton. Since its founding, the endowed fund has received more than $1 million in gifts. Each year, the income earned from investing the donations is used to make grants to organizations in the Town of Kirkland.

To date, the Town-Gown Fund has provided more than $380,000 to organizations in the town.

In addition to Stewart, members of the Town-Gown Committee include local businesspeople John Fehlner of the Clinton Cider Mill, Tom Owens of ACCESS Federal Credit Union and Linda McHarris of the Artists Corner; Clinton Mayor and Clinton Shoe Center owner Jack Lane; Clinton Central Schools Superintendent Matt Reilly; Hamilton Professor of French John O’Neal; Hamilton alumnus and Hamilton Point Investment Advisors President Andrew Burns; electrical contractor and Town of Kirkland Councilman Mike O’Neill; and Hamilton trustees Amy Owens Goodfriend and Jack Withiam. Goodfriend is a native of Clinton.

Hamilton Vice President for Communications and Development Dick Tantillo and Assistant Vice President of Communications Mike Debraggio sit on the committee as ex officio members. Donations to the fund can be made by contacting Tantillo or Debraggio.

 AGENDA

Monday, December 19, 2011

             Meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

in Lumbard Hall

 1.  Calianese Auto Sales, Elliot J. Calianese PB Case #25-11

7567 State Route 5                         Zoning: C

Change to existing business.            Site Plan Review

Addition will add 60 cars, gravel to parking lot,

10′ X 12′ storage shed/add change to existing lighting and add new light poles.

Discussion Item:

Anita Vitullo & David Morris          PB Case #26-11

3533 Craig Road                                 Zoning: RR    Sign – Rocky Pond Farm                  Site Plan Review

Pictured from left, Assemblyman Brindisi – (behind him) NYS Police Capt. Mark Lincoln – NYS Police Troop D Commander Major Donald L.X. DePass Jr., Sen. Griffo, Sheriff Robert Maciol and Town of Kirkland Police Chief Daniel English.

Submitted Release

(Utica, NY – Dec. 15, 2011) Calling for swift, bipartisan action to protect the public, State Senator Joseph A. Griffo (R-C-IP, Rome) and Assemblyman Anthony J. Brindisi (D, Utica),  joined by local and regional law enforcement officials, outlined a three-point plan to remedy gaping holes in the system exposed by the case of Robert Blainey, a released sex offender who has been accused of murder.

“The first responsibility of government is to protect the people by protecting innocent people from those who would do them harm,” said Brindisi. “The Blainey case showed very tragically that there are some terrible holes in the system that require action. I know there is always concern for the rights of everyone. In this case, my greatest concern is for the right of an innocent person to be safe from being preyed upon by a criminal. Nothing can fix the damage that was done, but we can and must acknowledge the system’s flaws and act to remedy them.”

The plan addressed serious flaws with existing rules regarding:

*Conditional release. In the Blainey case, and those like it, the power to put the offender back on the street ultimately rested with them, and not the system.

“The most egregious aspect of this situation is that you have an individual saying he’s dangerous and the parole board saying ‘we’re not going to let you go,’ but under the existing policies they allow it to happen,” said Griffo, a member of the state Senate’s Crime and Corrections Committee.

*Lack of current photographs of those out on parole. Although current rules require a picture annually, the file photo in the Blainey case bore no resemblance to the actual suspect after he broke his parole.

“At the very least, updating the images on file should be done more often, and the system needs to bring in those offenders who do not keep up their photos. No one searching for this man with the photo released to the public would have ever imagined he was the man who was being sought. Any time there are high-risk people on the streets, we need to be more vigilant, not less so,” said Brindisi.

*Civil confinement. Both legislators agree that the process of civil confinement, which deals with the confinement of sex offenders upon expiration of their prison sentences, needs overhauling.

“The process for making decisions is flawed, and it is done without strong input from a community such as ours,” Griffo said. “Putting people on the street who still pose a risk is wrong, and we need to tighten up the system, “added Brindisi.

Griffo and Brindisi outlined a package of five pieces of legislation that they have vowed to push in the new legislative session:

Senate 1199 (Griffo) / Assemblyman Brindisi to sponsor  - changes the law to provide that discharge of a offender from confinement or strict and intensive supervision by the court to include a discharge plan that ensures the offender is discharged to the community of their residence prior to conviction or commitment and shall include the use of electronic monitoring for a period to be determined by the court.

Senate 6073 (Griffo) / Assembly 1115  -  will require sex offenders who fail to register in a timely manner or verify their registration requirements under New York State’s  Sex Offender Registration Act to wear GPS transmitting devices.

New legislation (Griffo / Brindisi to sponsor) – would require all parole interviews with sex offenders to be reviewed by a State Office of Mental Health civil commitment review panel.

New legislation (Griffo / Brindisi to sponsor) – to require that high-level sex offenders provide a current photo on file every 90 days.

New legislation (Griffo / Brindisi to sponsor) – would authorize the Parole Board to require a felony sex offender to serve their maximum term, if their release would pose an imminent threat to society.

Griffo said, “In late October and early November, the people of Oneida County were subjected to some very serious fears because the system failed.  I made a promise to the people of Oneida County that we would take the swiftest possible action to change the system, and with this legislation we are doing that. I do not want any community anywhere in this state to be gripped by the kind of fear that gripped Oneida County because of gaping holes in existing policies.  This legislation is common sense, and protects the people who look to us to protect them from predatory, violent offenders.”

Brindisi said, “This package of legislation is designed to make sure that violent, serial sex offenders are kept in prison for the rest of their lives.” He added, “Everything possible must be done to make sure that if these violent offenders do not report to parole, that they can be quickly and easily tracked and located by law enforcement officers.”

The legislation accepts that there is no magic bullet to protect the public, but that we need to do more in terms of keeping people confined who are a danger to society and ensuring that high-risk offenders who have been released are tracked regularly. Protecting the people requires action, and this legislation is the right response.”

The bills build upon Griffo’s bill S.1199, which was designed to improve the discharge planning process for individuals being released after civil confinement. Former Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito had introduced an Assembly bill in support of Griffo’s effort.

“Even before the Blainey case, it was clear that the system was flawed and had the potential for tragedy,” Griffo said. “I am hopeful that in light of our recent local murder, this bill, which passed the Senate, will be approved by the Assembly as part of this package of legislation and signed by the Governor so that State Government can live up to its obligation to protect the people of New York from predators.”

(Clinton, NY – Nov. 26, 2011) State Police in Marcy arrested Christopher Burns, 42, of Clinton for Criminal Obstruction of Breathing, a Class A misdemeanor.

Burns was arrested following an investigation of a domestic dispute with his wife at their home in the Village of Clinton.

Burns was arraigned in the Town of Kirkland court and released on his own recognizance with a return date of Nov. 29.

 AGENDA

Monday, November 28, 2011

             Meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.

in Lumbard Hall

 1.  Dan MacCubbin, Contractor on behalf of    PB Case #21-11

Verizon Wireless/                      Zoning: R-TC & RR

American Tower Cell Site                Site Plan Review

     7865 Brimfield Street

Replace 3 existing antennas with 3 new antennas  

 2.  Suzanne Stanton                           PB Case #24-11       

    3811 Harding Road                             Zoning: PD                                              

     Replace a 20′ X 10′ deck and add        Site Plan Review

a 10′ X 10′ second floor deck

(Clinton, NY – Oct. 2011) Glaciologist Richard Alley, a member of the UN climate change committee that was awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, will present a lecture, “Ice Sheets and Sea Level Rise,” on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 7 p.m., in the Kennedy Auditorium, Taylor Science Center at Hamilton College. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Alley, the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

He is the host of the PBS program on climate change, “Earth: The Operators’ Manual,” and is the author of a book by the same title. The book asserts that humans are causing global warming and offers a path to the future. Publishers Weeklycommented, “This optimistic book ought to convince even the most obstinate climate-change denier.”

Alley also wrote The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future, which won the 2001 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science and was one of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001.

Alley is a member of the IPCC, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has testified to Congress on climate change issues.

The lecture is sponsored by the Hamilton’s Geoscience Department and Environmental Studies program.

(Clinton, NY – Oct. 2011) Hamilton College will host the 2011 Fall Meeting of the New York State-Ontario Chapter of the Music Library Association on Friday, Oct. 14, on the Hamilton campus.

The NYSO MLA chapter consists of a diverse group of librarians, music librarians, students, and music scholars from around New York and parts of Canada. Anyone interested in topics of music scholarship or librarianship is welcome and encouraged to attend the meeting.

The program for this one-day meeting features musicological topics including a profile on bluesman Robert Johnson and a paper on banjo instruction methods from the 19th-century. Topics of interest to librarians include a “Hot Topics” in music librarianship session, an update on the planned implementation of the new RDA cataloging standard, and a presentation by Christian Goodwillie, director of special collections at Hamilton College, providing an overview of the collection of Shaker music imprints and manuscripts held at Hamilton.

Past meetings of NYSO have been held at Reed Library at SUNY Fredonia, the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music, and at the University of Toronto.

The registration fee of $15 includes lunch.

For more information, please visit the meeting website (http://conferences.hamilton.edu/nyso2011) or contact Lisa McFall, metadata and catalog librarian at Hamilton College, via email (lmcfall@hamilton.edu) or telephone(315-859-4788).

(Oneida County, NY – Oct. 2011) October 2-8 is National 4-H Week, and Oneida County is celebrating the 4-H youth who have made an impact on the community, and are stepping up to the challenges of a complex and changing world.

Recent findings from Tufts University’s 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development indicate that young people in 4-H are three times more likely to contribute to their communities than youth not participating in 4-H. Notably, the Tufts research discovered that the structured learning, encouragement and adult mentoring that 4-H’ers receive play a vital role in helping them actively contribute to their communities.

In Oneida County, more than 300 4-H members and 120 volunteers are involved in 4‑H.  The Oneida County 4-H program reaches over 3000 total youth through after-school programs and other 4-H sponsored activities throughout the year.

Oneida county 4-H members are involved in a wide variety of projects from animals to robotics.  They actively participate in public communication events, community service and project specific shows and competitions.  4-H volunteers guide youth by using their individual expertise and mentoring them throughout the year.  An abundant amount of local, state, and national opportunities are available to those involved in 4-H.  These opportunities and more are available through the 4-H program and help us build our leaders of tomorrow.

Learn how you can become involved in 4-H by calling Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oneida County at (315) 736-3394, extension 122 or email Kristi Cranwell at kac292@cornell.edu