Town of Brant:

County of Erie:

State of New York:

RESOLUTION #021202-5

PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO RULES, REGULATIONS AND POLCIIES

 OF THE NEW YORK DRINKING WATER STATE REVOLVING FUND.

            At a regular meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Brant, Erie County, New York, held at the Brant Town Hall, Brant North Collins Road, Brant, New York, in said town on the 12^th day of February, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. there were present:

            Samuel J. Chiavetta Jr.                                   Supervisor

            Ellen Bowman                                                Councilwoman

            Dennis Rubeck                                                Councilman

            Martin Rosiek                                                 Councilman

            Eugene Czyz, Sr.                                            Councilman

WHEREAS, numerous rural townships in New York State are experiencing a significant need to extend public water systems to residents suffering inadequate quantity and/or poor quality of drinking water from existing groundwater wells, and

WHEREAS, the only two (2) funding programs available to rural townships for the construction of water system extensions are the Federal Rural Utilities Services (RUS) Program of Rural Development/U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the New York Drinking Water State Revolving Fund (NYDWSRF), and

WHEREAS the Federal RUS Program is insufficiently capitalized to be able to fund all of the projects submitted by rural towns for funding in any fiscal year, and

WHEREAS the current rules, regulations and policies of the NYDWSRF program significantly limit the ability of many rural water projects and new districts projects to qualify for NYDWSRF funding, and often make such funding unaffordable to residents due to the unique circumstances affecting towns in New York State,

RESOLVED that the Association of Towns urges the Governor and Members of the State Legislature to modify the rules, regulations and polices of the NYDWSRF for town water projects to: 1) provide for ‘equal payment series’ bond repayment; 2) decrease the Equivalent Dwelling Factor (EDU) assessment from 0.5 to 0.2 for vacant property parcels; 3) increase the point scoring capability for rural water projects relative to other projects funded under the program, and; 4) increase the debt repayment term to at least 30 years for rural water projects.

            I, JAMIE S. NOLAN, Town Clerk of the Town of Brant, County of Erie, New York DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a full and true transcript of a resolution duly adopted at a regular meeting of the Town Board held in Brant, New York on the 12^th day of February 2002, as it appears in the minutes of said meeting and that said meeting was a regular meeting called and constituted and that a quorum was present.

            IN WITNESS HEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and seal in the Town of Brant, this 15^th day of February 2002.

                                                                                                Jamie S. Nolan, Town Clerk

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February 12 Resolution