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Below is a transcript from the 11/13/2014 Town Board meeting from 4m59s to 7m3s.
It seems to me that (1) Susan expresses clear intent that full emphasis is on the South Putt site, and (2) Susan avoids naming the site but in the context of her explanation, it seems highly unlikely that she doesn't know that it is next to the HS. Also, (3) it also seems unlikely that Susan doesn't know who owns the land, considering that it has been publicly discussed in the past that Kevin owns the land next to the HS (this fact came up as an ethics issue back in 2012 when Susan and Kevin made overtures to Maria Rice about buying the Town buying the Middle School.)
Start: 4m59s
Question from person making public comment: The IDA is expecting a letter from the town, um ...
SZ: I can explain to you exactly what that is ...
Q: ...regarding a feasibility study.
SZ: Yeah, what happened was a number of years ago prior to me being supervisor, the town had applied for a feasibility study for South Putt Corners Road and it never got, um, submitted properly and all that, so when I first came into office back in three years ago, we reapplied and got in all the paperwork and stuff so we had this feasibility study... a lot of it had to do with sewer and seeing what we can do with sewer on South Putt, and we were working on a particular piece of property - we thought that everything was going to be okay with that, then the DEC said that, um, they didn't think we could use that property so we have been trying to search for other places for sewer in order to be able to do the feasibility study, and um, there were other sites that we were looking at and of course, we had to talk to the landowners and whatever, but what has happened is the property that we're looking at now seems to be, um, favored by the DEC and there's meetings going on right now with the DEC in regards to a site to do sewer on South Putt and the DEC seems to be happy, so we will be getting a letter back to the IDA with the update and the information because now we can proceed to do the study now that we think we really finally solved the sewer problem on South Putt Corners Road.
Q: So do you have a timeframe on that?
SZ: Well they want the letter back in three weeks so we will have a letter back to them within three weeks. In terms of the sewer situation, it's being worked on right now and there's a number of developments that are involved in helping us to figure out how we are going to, you know, create the sewer system and how it's going to get paid for and we're waiting for some final things from the DEC and then we have to talk to the landowners about, you know, purchasing the property so there's still some work to be done but at least we finally think we have a solution for how we can get sewer on South Putt.
Q: Okay, thank you.
SZ: Okay, that's what that is.
End 7m03s
Below is a transcript from the 11/13/2014 Town Board meeting from 4m59s to 7m3s.
It seems to me that (1) Susan expresses clear intent that full emphasis is on the South Putt site, and (2) Susan avoids naming the site but in the context of her explanation, it seems highly unlikely that she doesn't know that it is next to the HS. Also, (3) it also seems unlikely that Susan doesn't know who owns the land, considering that it has been publicly discussed in the past that Kevin owns the land next to the HS (this fact came up as an ethics issue back in 2012 when Susan and Kevin made overtures to Maria Rice about buying the Town buying the Middle School.)
Start: 4m59s
Question from person making public comment: The IDA is expecting a letter from the town, um ...
SZ: I can explain to you exactly what that is ...
Q: ...regarding a feasibility study.
SZ: Yeah, what happened was a number of years ago prior to me being supervisor, the town had applied for a feasibility study for South Putt Corners Road and it never got, um, submitted properly and all that, so when I first came into office back in three years ago, we reapplied and got in all the paperwork and stuff so we had this feasibility study... a lot of it had to do with sewer and seeing what we can do with sewer on South Putt, and we were working on a particular piece of property - we thought that everything was going to be okay with that, then the DEC said that, um, they didn't think we could use that property so we have been trying to search for other places for sewer in order to be able to do the feasibility study, and um, there were other sites that we were looking at and of course, we had to talk to the landowners and whatever, but what has happened is the property that we're looking at now seems to be, um, favored by the DEC and there's meetings going on right now with the DEC in regards to a site to do sewer on South Putt and the DEC seems to be happy, so we will be getting a letter back to the IDA with the update and the information because now we can proceed to do the study now that we think we really finally solved the sewer problem on South Putt Corners Road.
Q: So do you have a timeframe on that?
SZ: Well they want the letter back in three weeks so we will have a letter back to them within three weeks. In terms of the sewer situation, it's being worked on right now and there's a number of developments that are involved in helping us to figure out how we are going to, you know, create the sewer system and how it's going to get paid for and we're waiting for some final things from the DEC and then we have to talk to the landowners about, you know, purchasing the property so there's still some work to be done but at least we finally think we have a solution for how we can get sewer on South Putt.
Q: Okay, thank you.
SZ: Okay, that's what that is.
End 7m03s
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