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Marbletown Move Gets Gov's OK!
Final Paperwork Still Needed First Though

STONE RIDGE – Governor Cuomo's office called Marbletown supervisor Michael Warren Tuesday, Warren reported at his town's board meeting later that day, just to check if the town had any objection to the okayed Senate bill to move the town's offices to the Rondout Municipal Center. "We've been waiting for three years. Yes, we're fine with it," the supervisor said he told the governor's people. "We've got the big scissors and the ribbon and everything else."

In other business, Jen Metzger of Citizens for Local Power asked for a letter of support to the Mid-Hudson Regional Economic Development Council to select the Ulster County Community Choice Aggregation as a priority project for 2015, and to support Citizens for Local Power's application to NYSERDA's Cleaner, Greener Communities Program.

In theory, power from the High Falls station could be used locally if the CCA is successful.

"We would be the demand for that particular power," Warren said. "That's the benefit of a CCA — you get to make the decision of where your power comes from."

Also, as of the time of the board meeting, the future of the towns' of Ulster County contract with the Resource Recovery Agency was undecided. The RRA could stop doing business with the towns.

"It's less than ten percent with their business, but fifty percent of their hassle," Warren said. "But it is part of their charter to be a public resource."

The RRA was to vote Wednesday on whether to continue doing business with the towns.

Warren gave his monthly financial report saying, "We're in very nice financial shape so far this year."

Carl Pezzino, chair of the town's Rail Trail Committee, also said the rail trail is in great shape.

A member of the committee goes to the trail about once a week to check it out, Pezzino said, adding how one section that had three levels of gravel has been resurfaced. The trail committee also has bright new yellow work t-shirts with a logo that they hope to have up along the whole O&W trail. Pezzino is also working on a plan to get a mural painted on the two silos on Marcott Road.

Highway superintendent George Dimler reported that the weight limit for the Mill Dam Road Bridge has been lowered to eight tons because the soundness of the old bridge is in question, but that is a short term fix. Right now the weight limit is a problem for the fire department getting trucks across, and in the winter plowing will be an issue.

Finally the question of Route 213 bridge repairs was raised. According to Warren, the time frame has again been moved back because designs were not finished. The supervisor said that the traffic closure will now likely take place in spring of 2017.



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