CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING

Minutes

City of Beacon Council Meeting

August 1, 2005

REGULAR MEETING

The regular meeting of the Beacon City Council held at the Municipal Center, One Municipal Plaza on August 1, 2005 was called to order at 7:30 p.m. by Mayor Clara Lou Gould with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.

Council Members Present: Deanna Leake, Eleanor Thompson, Sam Way, Lee Kyriacou, Fred Antalek and Michael Fasano.

Absent: Eleanor Thompson and Lee Kyriacou

Also Present: City Administrator, Joseph Braun

City Attorney, Gerard Pisanelli

Media represented by: Goldee Greene, Beacon Free Press

Residents at Beginning of Meeting: 15

Public Hearings:

1. Proposed Local Law Amending Chapter 223, Zoning, of the City of Beacon Code with Respect to Artist Live/Work Spaces. Adjourned at the July 18, 2005 Meeting

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the City Council of the City of Beacon will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 18, 2005 at the City of Beacon Municipal Center, One Municipal Plaza, Beacon, New York at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter is reached on the agenda, to consider a proposed local law amending Chapter 223, Zoning, of the City of Beacon Code with respect to artist live/work spaces. The intent and purpose of the amendment is to make the renewal inspection procedure for such spaces the same as for accessory apartments.

This local law would take effect immediately upon its filing with the Secretary of State. Complete copies of the proposed local law are available at the Municipal Center for inspection during regular business hours.

All interested persons and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposals at the date, time and place aforesaid.

Public Comments:

Motion to Adjourn Public Hearing to a future date: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Fasano. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

2. Capital Plan Highlights read by Joseph Braun

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the City Council will hold a public hearing at the Municipal Building, One Municipal Plaza, Beacon, New York on August 1, 2005 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter is reached on the agenda, to review and discuss the proposed 2006 Capital Plan for the City of Beacon. A summary of the highlights follows:

City of Beacon

CAPITAL PLAN HIGHLIGHTS

Fire Fire station improvements $2,000,000

Public Buildings Public Works Facility $2,000,000

Recreation Resurface three basketball courts $ 140,000

Street Department 2006 Fishkill and Teller Avenues $1,040,000

2007 Franklin, Caroline, Laurel, Orchard Place Talbot, Oak, and Miller $1,600,000

2008 South Ave., Ralph, East Willow, Spring $2,400,000

2009 Rombout, Spring Valley $1,400,000

Waste Water Treatment Security System $ 45,000

Water and Sewer Interceptor investigation and replacements $1,400,000

Copies of the entire Capital Plan are available to the public in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Beacon, One Municipal Plaza, Suite One, Beacon, New York during regular office hours.

All interested persons and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed capital plan at the time and place aforesaid.

Public Comments:

The following letter signed by Dennis Pavelock Dated August 1, 2005 was read by Mayor Clara Lou Gould:

To Whom It May Concern:

I’m writing this letter to comment on the Capital Plan Highlights especially the item of recreation of resurfacing three basketball courts.

I can remember back in the fall of 2003 I presented an outdoor handball court for consideration. It has been 2 years and counting.

I talked to Tom Kirulan about the situation two years ago and it was stated to me that all the city had to do was contact his office and he would put a member item in his agenda and get the money for the handball court.

As it was stated this wasn’t even the city’s money. It would have been county money. As a volunteer for Beacon for many years this puts a bad taste in many of the people who volunteer their time.

It wasn’t even on a workshop agenda for discussion. I’m only asking for the same consideration that everyone else is getting.

Thank you for your time and for hearing me out. Respectfully Submitted, Dennis Pavelock.

Norman Macleod, 921 Wolcott Avenue – I am here representing the Tioronda Garden club. My concern is about the Department of Works Building that is in the Capital Plan. Please make sure there is a room for storage and a room for working

City Administrator, Joseph Braun: As we move forward and this becomes more real, plans will be put out and at that time we can become involved with the details.

Don Gallo, 28 South Walnut Street - I read the list of capital projects and it is a good list. I took some pictures of a rain fall in June after 15 minutes. (Pictures were passed out to the Council). As for Capital projects, I am asking that Walnut Street be added to your list of the Capital Plan. These are things that drive taxpayers nuts. I have been having this problem for years. This problem has gone on long enough. If this problem were in front of your house, it would have been addressed before now. My only other comment, I would like to thank Lee, Way and Antalek for their many years of service to the community. I understand that they are not running for office again.

Fritz Ohlhoff – I still been down at the water treatment plant. We need a new location.

Shannon Murphy – I am here to speak about the five hundred people who signed a petition to save Hiddenbrooke. Please think about the open space fund as being a part of the Capital Fund.

Shannon Murphy read the following email:

Attention Land Conservation Advocates in Southern Dutchess County: As you are aware, Southern Dutchess County is under tremendous development pressure, as the Hudson Valley prospers and development spreads out from New York City.

Dutchess County has established an open space fund to match Town efforts to protect open space through acquisition, but by and large the Towns in the county have not generated their own funds. Meanwhile, voters in neighboring Putnam County will have the chance to approve a $20 million fund for land conservation this November.

If advocating for open space funding in Southern Dutchess County is something you can get behind, please consider attending a briefing and organizing meeting on August 4, at 2 pm, at the East Fishkill Public Library on Route 376, next to the Town Hall (348 Route 376, Hopewell Junction). *

At that meeting, we will provide materials concerning ways for local government in New York to generate open space funds, as well as analyze the financial capacity of Pawling, Beekman, East Fishkill, Fishkill, Beacon, LaGrange and Wappinger to generate open space protection funds. We will also provide information on successful advocacy efforts in Putnam County, and among seven different towns in northern Westchester (2000). Please join us as we work to promote the conservation of southern Dutchess County’s fast disappearing open landscapes. We are limited to 15-20 people at the Library, so please RSVP to angela.eichhorst@tpl.org

Email sent by: Erik Kulleseid, The Trust for Public Land

Matt Zieper, The Trust for Public Land

Seth McKee, Scenic Hudson

Becky Thornton, Dutchess Land Conservancy

No further comments:

Motion to close Public Hearing: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Fasano. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

3. Proposed Local Law to Create Chapter 200 of the City of Beacon Code entitled “Taxicabs

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the City Council will hold a public hearing at the Municipal Center, One Municipal Plaza, Beacon, New York on August 1, 2005 at 7:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as the matter is reached on the agenda, to review and discuss the proposed local law to create Chapter 200 in the City of Beacon Code entitled “Taxicabs.” The intent and purpose of this local law is to provide an ordinance in the “Code of the City of Beacon” book for the regulation and licensing of taxicabs and taxicab drivers.

This ordinance recodifies “An Ordinance to Regulate and License Taxicabs and Taxicab Drivers of the City of Beacon” which took effect May 16, 1960, and continues said ordinance without interruption.

Complete copies of the proposed local law are available to the public for inspection during regular business hours in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Beacon, at the Municipal Center, One Municipal Plaza, Suite One, Beacon, New York.

All interested persons and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard on said proposed local law at the time and place aforesaid.

Public Comments: None

Motion to close Public Hearing: Council Member Antalek. Seconded: Council Member Fasano. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

Mayor Clara Lou Gould asked for a motion to approve minutes of July 18, 2005

Motion to approve: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Leake. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

Reports: Texts from these reports for August 1, 2005 is at the end of these minutes.

Mayor’s Correspondence read by Mayor Clara Lou Gould

City Administrator, Joseph Braun read his Report of Activities

City Attorney, Gerard Pisanelli read his Report of Activities

Mayor Clara Lou Gould read her Report of Activities

Council Members gave their Reports of Activities

Public Comments: Pertaining to This Agenda Only

Tom Baldino, 19 North Street – I would like to register my disappointment with the city ordinance regarding clean property. It has been over a year that I have been dealing with the Building Dept concerning the trash in my neighbor’s yard. His grass is higher than 7”. In addition, he stood here before the city council, and told the city that they could not enforce the city ordinance and he was right because the yard has not been cleaned and his grass has not been cut. He has appeared in court but I have not heard what the results were.

Shannon Murphy, I just want to encourage you to consider adding funding for open space in your 2006 Capital Plan for the City of Beacon.

No further comments

UNFINISHED BUSINESS:

Resolutions:

1. Resolution No. 82 of 2005 - Approve Transfer of Community Development Funds. Read by City Administrator, Joseph Braun

Authorize Mayor to transfer $12,740 in Community Development Funds from Administration

WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on July 5, 2005 on the transfer of a total of $12,740 in Community Development Funds from Administration to the following: $8,240.00 for landscaping Dennings Avenue and $4,500 for Main Street security cameras.

RESOLVED, that the Mayor is authorized to transfer $12,740 in Community Development Funds from Administration to the following: $8,240.00 for landscaping Dennings Avenue and $4,500 for Main Street security cameras.

Motion to Transfer Community Development Funds: Council Member Fasano. Seconded: Council Member Antalek. On a roll call vote, all voted in favor. Motion carried.

Local Laws and Ordinances:

1. - Amending Chapter 223, Zoning, of the City of Beacon Code with Respect to Artist Live/Work Spaces. Tabled on July 18, 2005 until August 1, 2005.

Motion to table to future date: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Fasano. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

2. Resolution No. 83 of 2005 adopting Local Law No. 08 of 2005 - to Create Chapter 200 of the City of Beacon Code entitled “Taxicabs. Contents Read by City Administrator, Joseph Braun:

BE IT ENACTED by the City Council of the City of Beacon as follows:

SECTION 1. TITLE

This local law shall be entitled, “A Local Law creating Chapter 200 of the City of Beacon Code entitled, “Taxicabs.”

SECTION 2. INTENT AND PURPOSE

This local law is intended to regulate and license taxicabs and taxicab drivers in the City of Beacon.

SECTION 3. AMENDMENT

The new chapter shall read as follows:

SECTION 1.

No person or person, a firm, co-partnership or corporation shall keep for hire or for use as owner or otherwise within the limits of the City of Beacon, any taxicab or motor vehicle used for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire or operate the same along any street, avenue, or public place in the City of Beacon without having the same in charge of persons duly licensed as provided in this Chapter. And it shall also be unlawful for any person to operate or permit to be operated a taxicab upon the streets of the City of Beacon without first having obtained therefore a taxicab license as provided in this Chapter. And all such owners, drivers and other persons in charge or control of any such taxicab shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter.

SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS.

(a) The word “taxicab” shall mean and include any motor vehicle engaged in the business of carrying persons for hire, whether the same be operated from a street stand or subject to calls from a garage or otherwise operated for hire, except vehicles subject to the provisions of the transportation corporation law, or used by undertakers in carrying on their business.

(b) The words “Driver’s license” shall mean and include permission granted by the City of Beacon to any person to drive upon the streets of such City any licensed taxicab.

(c) The words “taxicab license” shall mean and include permission granted by the City of Beacon to any person to operate or keep for hire any taxicab in such City.

(d) The words “taxicab driver” shall mean any person who drives a taxicab whether such person be the owner of such taxicab or employed by a taxicab owner or operator.

(e) The word “operator” shall mean and include any person owning or having control of the use of one or more taxicabs used for hire upon the streets of the City of Beacon or engaged in the business of operating a taxicab or taxicabs.

SECTION 3. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.

It shall be unlawful for any person to drive, operate or keep for hire or pay within the limits of the City of Beacon any taxicab or taxicabs without first having obtained and paid for a license to drive, a license for operating or keeping for pay or hire, or both, and having the same in force and effect, under the provisions of this Chapter.

SECTION 4. DRIVER’S LICENSE REQUIRED.

No person shall drive a taxicab, and no person shall permit anyone to drive a taxicab within the limits of the City of Beacon without such driver having first obtained and paid for and having in force and effect a driver’s license under the provisions of this Chapter.

SECTION 5. APPLICATION FOR DRIVER’S LICENSE.

Each applicant for a driver’s license must:

(a) Have obtained and be in possession of a New York State Class E Chauffeur’s

license;

(b) Be of the age of eighteen (18) years or over;

heart trouble or any other infirmity of body or mind, which might render him, unfit for the safe operation of a taxicab;

(d) Be able to read and write the English language;

(e) Be clean in dress and person and not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors or drugs;

(f) Fill out in duplicate, upon a blank form to be provided by the Chief of Police through the office of the City Clerk, a statement showing that the applicant has the qualifications set forth above, which statement in addition shall set forth the full name and place of residence of the applicant, whether or not he or she is a resident of the United States, married or single, whether he or she has ever been convicted of a felony, misdemeanor or traffic infraction and if so, the circumstances of such conviction; whether applicant’s taxicab driver’s license, New York chauffeur’s or operator’s license has ever been suspended or revoked and such other information as the Chief of Police of the City Administrator may reasonably require. Such statements shall be numbered and signed and sworn to by the applicant; and one copy thereof shall be filed with the City Clerk and the other copy retained by the Police Department as permanent records.

SECTION 6. PHOTOGRAPH OF DRIVER.

Each applicant for driver’s license must file with the application two unmounted,

unretouched photographs of himself, taken within the thirty days preceding the filing of

his application. Photographs shall be of the same size as attached to the applicant’s

Chauffeur’s license. The photograph shall be so attached to the license that it cannot be

removed and another photograph substituted without detection.

SECTION 7. FINGERPRINTS OF DRIVER – DELETED.

SECTION 8. FORM AND TERMS OF DRIVER’S LICENSE.

Upon satisfactory fulfillment of the foregoing requirements and upon the written

approval of the issuance of a license by the Chief of Police and the City Administrator, the City Clerk shall sign and issue to the applicant a license which shall be in such form as to contain a photograph and signature of the licensee, and blank spaces upon which a record shall be made of any arrest of or serious complaint against him. Each license shall be stamped by the seal of the City upon at least a portion of the photograph. All licenses shall be numbered in the order in which they are issued and shall contain the name and place of residence of the licensee and the dates of issuance and expiration of the license. Any licensee who defaces, removes or obliterates any official entry made upon his license shall be punished by the revocation of his license. Driver’s licenses shall be issued as of May 1^st of each year, and shall be valid to and including April 30^th next succeeding, unless previously suspended or revoked. No temporary permit shall be issued except when an extraordinary public emergency arises effecting transportation of the public upon the streets of the City; such temporary permits when issued shall be upon such terms and conditions as the Chief of Police and the City Administrator shall provide, but such temporary permit shall in no event be granted for a longer period then ten days, and may be renewable for similar periods, from time to time as may be necessary, only upon the written recommendation of the Chief of Police and the City Administrator. The fee for such temporary permits shall be the same as for a driver’s license as provided in this Chapter. Such license or permit shall be carried by the licensee at all times when operating or in charge of any taxicab.

SECTION 9. FEES FOR DRIVER’S LICENSE.

The license fee for driver’s license shall be $25.00 per year.

SECTION 10. SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF DRIVER’S LICENSE OR PERMIT.

Upon complaint of any person a driver’s license or permit may at any time be suspended or revoked for cause after a hearing by the City Judge. Any such suspension shall be noted on the license together with a statement of the reason therefore, and the license or permit shall be forthwith taken from the licensee and be delivered by the City Clerk. No driver whose license or permit has been suspended or revoked shall be again licensed as a taxicab driver in the City of Beacon unless upon presentation or reasons satisfactory to the Chief of Police and the City Administrator.

SECTION 11. LICENSE OF VEHICLES; APPLICATION.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, co-partnership or corporation to operate or permit to be operated, a taxicab upon the streets of the City of Beacon without first having obtained therefore a taxicab license under the provisions of this Chapter from the Chief of Police and City Administrator. Such license shall be issued as of May 1^st and shall expire on April 30^th next succeeding, unless sooner suspended or revoked. Application for a taxicab license shall be made by the owner upon blank forms furnished by the Chief of Police through the office of the City Clerk. Such application shall contain:

(a) The name, date of birth and residence of the person applying for the license.

(b) The type of motorcar to be used, the factory number, the state license number, the number of years the vehicle has been driven, and the seating capacity according to its trade rating.

(d) Whether license to operate a taxicab has ever been revoked, and if so, for what cause.

(e) Such other information as the Chief of Police and City Administrator may deem necessary.

(f) The applicant must attach to his application a schedule showing the rates of fare to be charged to and from points within the City limits, and to and from points outside City limits. In addition thereto, said schedule shall set forth the amount charged for waiting time, any special charges, and amounts charged per/mile outside the limits of the City of Beacon.

SECTION 12. INSPECTION BEFORE LICENSING VEHICLE.

No vehicle shall be licensed until it has been thoroughly and carefully inspected and examined and found to be in a thoroughly safe condition for the transportation of passengers; clean, fit, of good appearance and well painted and varnished. The Chief of Police and City Administrator shall designate who shall make such examination and inspection before a license is issued, and shall have the right to make such inspection of such licensed vehicle at any time they deem the same necessary. The Chief of Police and City Administrator shall refuse a license to, or if already issued, revoke or suspend a license of any vehicle found upon inspection and examination to be unfit or unsuited for public patronage. No license shall be issued under the provisions of this section unless and until the Chief of Police and the City Administrator have indicated in writing their approval thereof on the face of the application thereof. The signature shall not be facsimile.

SECTION 13. LICENSE CARD.

If, upon inspection, a taxicab is found to be of lawful construction and in proper condition, in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance and if the issuance of a license therefore is approved by both the Chief of Police and City Administrator, and upon the payment of the license fee hereinafter set forth, the same shall be licensed by delivering to the owner a card of such size and form as may be prescribed by the Chief of Police. The card shall contain the official license number of the taxicab, together with the date of inspection of the same. Such card shall be signed by the City Clerk and shall contain blank spaces upon which an entry shall be made of the date of every inspection of the vehicle. The license card shall be a distinctly different color each year. Any licensee who defaces, obliterates or changes any official entry made upon his license shall have his license revoked. If a taxicab shall be disabled, disqualified for service or sold, the City Clerk may in his discretion permit the use of a license granted for such taxicab to be transferred to another taxicab or to the new owner thereof, provided such taxicab or such owner complies with the provisions of this ordinance. The owner or operator of said taxicab may, at any time, file with the Chief of Police a statement showing that new or different rates are to be charged thereafter for the use and hire of any taxicab so owned by him.

SECTION 14. LICENSE FEES FOR VEHICLES.

The fee for each taxicab license under this Chapter shall be $25.00 per annum. The fee for transferring such license shall be the sum of $25.00.

SECTION 15. SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION OF TAXICAB LICENSES.

Upon complaint of any person, taxicab licenses may be revoked or suspended at any time for cause after a hearing by the City Judge if the vehicle shall be used for immoral or illegal business, or for a violation of any ordinance or state law governing the operation of motor vehicles or if a fare in excess of the rate of fare on file for said taxicab shall knowingly be charged for the use of said taxicab. When the license is suspended or revoked, the taxicab license shall be forthwith taken from the licensee and the City Clerk shall be notified of such suspension or revocation.

SECTION 16. REGISTER OF LICENSED DRIVERS AND TAXICABS.

The City Clerk shall keep a record in his office of each license or permit issued to a driver and all renewals, suspensions and revocations thereof, which record shall be kept with the original application of the driver for a license, and the said City Clerk shall also keep a register of the name of each person owning or operating a taxicab licensed under this Chapter, together with the license number and the description and the make of such vehicles, with the date and the complete record of inspection made of it, the record of driver’s license and permits and licensed taxicabs shall be opened to inspection of the public at all reasonable times.

SECTION 17. PLACING OF LICENSES.

Each licensed driver, while operating a taxicab, and the owner of such taxicab, shall cause the driver’s license and photograph, and the taxicab license and schedule of fares to be kept in a conspicuous place within such taxicab where the same will be in view of the passenger and easily read.

SECTION 18. LOSS OF PROPERTY.

Every driver of a taxicab, immediately after the termination of any hiring, must carefully search the taxicab for any property lost or left therein, and any such property, unless, sooner claimed or delivered to the owner, must be taken to the police station and deposited with the officer in charge within twenty-four (24) hours after the finding thereof, and the officer to whom such report shall be made shall make a written record thereof.

SECTION 19. BUSES.

Nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or restrict any person, firm, co-partnership or corporation operating and maintaining a motor bus transportation system upon regular routes and schedules upon the streets of the City of Beacon providing such owner or operator of such motor buses or motor transportation system has been duly authorized by the Public Service Commission of the State of New York to maintain and operate such transportation system.

SECTION 20. LIMITATIONS OF PASSENGERS.

No taxicab driver shall carry more that five (5) passengers in a taxicab commonly known as a five-passenger taxicab, and no taxicab shall carry more than seven (7) passengers in what is commonly termed a seven-passenger taxicab.

SECTION 21. REPEAL.

All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this Local Law are hereby repealed.

SECTION 22. PENALTIES.

Any person, firm, co-partnership or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance or chapter shall upon conviction be subject to a fine not to exceed the sum of $25.00 for the first offense, and not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00 for the second offense, or by imprisonment for not exceeding 30 days, or both such fine and imprisonment. In addition to the punishment herein provided, the City Judge may upon conviction of a violation of any provision of this Local Law suspend or revoke the license of the person so convicted for the balance of term of said license.

SECTION 23. CONSTITUTIONALITY.

The fact that any Court of competent jurisdiction may hereafter declare unconstitutional or invalid any part or section of this Local Law shall not affect nor invalidate the remaining provisions of this ordinance or Chapter.

SECTION 24. EXCEPTIONS.

The provisions of this chapter or ordinance shall have no application to taxicabs while in use at funerals, christenings or weddings.

SECTION 25. EFFECTIVE DATE.

Motion to dispense with reading of entire document except for headings Re: Taxicabs and Drivers: Council Member Fasano. Seconded: Council Member Leake. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

Motion to adopt Local Law regarding Taxicabs: Council Member Fasano. Seconded: Council Member Way. On a roll call vote, all voted in favor. Motion carried.

NEW BUSINESS:

Resolutions:

1. Resolution No. 84 of 2005 - Approve and Adopt City of Beacon Five Year Capital Plan. Read by City Administrator, Joseph Braun

RESOLVED that the Mayor and City Council of the City of Beacon hereby adopt the Five Year Capital Plan with projected expenditures as follows:

Fire Fire station improvements $2,000,000

Public Buildings Public Works Facility $2,000,000

Recreation Resurface three basketball courts $ 140,000

Street Department 2006 Fishkill and Teller Avenues $1,040,000

2007 Franklin, Caroline, Laurel, Orchard Place

Talbot, Oak, and Miller $1,600,000

2008 South Ave., Ralph, East Willow, Spring $2,400,000

2009 Rombout, Spring Valley $1,400,000

Waste Water Treatment Security System $ 45,000

Water and Sewer Interceptor investigation and replacements $1,400,000

*South Walnut Street drainage *Open Space funding

Motion to Amend* Five Year Capital Plan adding South Walnut Street drainage and Open Space funding: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Antalek. All voted in favor. Motion carried.

Motion to Approve Five Year Capital Plan as *Amended: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Leake. On a roll call vote, all voted in favor. Motion carried.

2. Resolution No. 85 of 2005 - Clarifying Family Health Coverage for the City Administrator Joseph Braun During His Employment and Upon His Retirement read by City Administrator, Joseph Braun

WHEREAS, the City Administrator Joseph Braun was hired March, 1992 at which time one of his terms of employment provided as follows: “hospitalization, surgical and comprehensive medical insurance for the Administrator and his dependents with premiums to be paid by the City;” and

WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City and Administrator Braun to clarify that the term of employment was and is intended to cover Administrator Braun when and if he retires, now therefore, be it

RESOLVED, City Administrator Joseph Braun shall be covered with hospitalization, surgical and comprehensive medical insurance for himself and his dependents with premiums to be paid by the City during his employment and during his retirement.

Motion to clarify Family Health Coverage for City Administrator: Council Member Way. Seconded: Council Member Leake. On a roll call vote, all voted in favor. Motion carried.

3. Resolution No. 86 of 2005 - For the Removal / Destruction of Rabid Animals. Read by City Administrator, Joseph Braun.

WHEREAS, the danger posed by rabid animals is a concern of the Beacon City Council; and

WHEREAS, the need to have a procedure in place for the removal and/or destruction of rabid animals is a matter of importance to public safety, now therefore, be it

RESOLVED, the City Council authorizes the transfer of up to $1,000.00 to cover the cost of the removal/destruction of rabid animals, and be it further

RESOLVED, the Beacon animal control officer and/or Beacon Police Officers are directed to arrange for the removal/destruction of rabid animals within the City of Beacon at the cost to the City.

Motion to approve resolution for the removal/destruction of rabid a