PUBLIC HEARING
PROPOSED LOCAL LAW #2
Monday, April
4, 2022 @ 9:30 a.m.
Shaun Gillilland, Chairman
James Monty, Vice-Chairman
Chairman Gillilland called
this Public Hearing to order at 9:30 a.m. with the following supervisors in
attendance: Clayton Barber, Robin DeLoria, Derek Doty, Shaun Gillilland, Charles
Harrington, Roy Holzer, Ken Hughes, Steve McNally, Tom Scozzafava, Matthew
Stanley, Michael Tyler, Davina Winemiller, Meg Wood and Mark Wright.
Noel Merrihew and were
absent. Stephanie DeZalia, Jim Monty and
Joe Pete Wilson were excused.
Department heads present
were: James Dougan, Judy Garrison, Michael
Mascarenas and Daniel Palmer.
New media present: SUN – Tim Rowland.
GILLILLAND: I will call this public hearing to order and
we will save the pledge for the next meeting, reading of the public notice
please.
GARRISON: Notice of
public hearing of proposed Local Law No. 2 of 2022.
Please
take notice that the Essex County Board of Supervisors will hold and conduct a
Public Hearing at the Supervisors’ Chambers at the Essex County Government
Center, 7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York on the 4th of
April, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., on the proposed Local Law No. 2 of 2022 adopting a
plan of apportionment of the Essex County Board of Supervisors based upon the
2020 United States Census pursuant to Municipal Home Rule Law §10,
subdivision 1(ii) a (13).
Please
take further notice that at said public hearing to be held at the time and
place set forth above, the Essex County Board of Supervisors will consider this
proposed Local Law and hear all persons interested therein concerning the same.
Please
take further notice that a copy of the full text of such proposed Local Law No.
#2 of 2022 may be obtained upon request from the Clerk of the Board’s Office,
7551 Court Street, Elizabethtown, New York 12932.
Judith
A. Garrison, Clerk
Essex
County Board of Supervisors
7551
Court Street, Elizabethtown, NY 12932
(518)
873-3353
Dated: March 10, 2022
GILLILLAND:
We have no guests. Does any
member of the board want to comment on this?
SCOZZAFAVA:
I think we’re shy about twenty votes but I’ll let it go. No, but I do want to say I can’t remember
what year census it was but the county hired this out and it cost a
fortune. So, I just want to commend, you
know we did this in house and that saved a significant amount of money.
PALMER:
Yeah, I think we paid, back when we did that it was about $25,000 so I
mean, and I guess I want to publically say thank you to Warren County because
they actually gave us the formula and Jonathan, my programmer is the one that
did the calculations. It’s a pretty
involved process every combination has to be determined so if like Tommy votes
yes and everybody else votes no you have to calculate that scenario and then
you have to calculate if a second person votes yes and everybody else votes no
so you have those combinations run through and when your ultimately done you
have to make sure that percentage of weighted vote is equal to the voting power
within, not less than 2 points so that’s the numbers you see within those
formulas is how that weighted vote population is determined and that based upon
the Supreme Court ruling a long time ago that said, the Board of Supervisors is
legal provide that everybody has an equal voting power based upon their
population.
SCOZZAFAVA:
You did a good job.
PALMER: Thank you.
GILLILLAND: Any further comments from the
board, any members of the public? Being
none, thank you. We are adjourned.
As
there was no further discussion to come before this public hearing it was
adjourned at 9:35 a.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Judith Garrison, Clerk
Board of Supervisors