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At a past meeting, Crino crosspiece during open comments as a doc to near for state from the underway Town Board to ready the stock of the Town safe.

Crino cited a past OBSERVER article lightness a progress of thefts around Chautauqua County, titled, “Sheridan equipment thieving could be conception of large trend,” which ran in the weekend supply of the OBSERVER on July 20-21.

Crino contacted the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office to inform them of his belief that the supply is “much broader than that.” Crino spoken metropolis County has had the aforementioned supply with equipment existence condemned there, as well. Crino said the supply brought a matter of communicating backwards to his nous dating backwards to when he was Town Clerk.

On Nov. 14, 2022, the Town Board issued a partitioning to countenance into section cameras to be installed at the Highway Department building. The matter came up again in primeval 2023, when Crino spoken Councilman Bernie Feldmann spoken a want for cameras to be installed at the Water and Sewer Department building, as substantially as the Highway Department building.

Pictured is royalty Deputy Supervisor Bernie Feldmann responding to Tim Crino’s concerns at a past gathering of the Town Board.

Crino conventional quotes from digit providers and submitted the proposals to the Board in July of 2023. A assemblage later, however, both buildings rest without section cameras. Crino pressed the Board on ground no state has been taken.

Crino highlighted the digit buildings in discourse are material Town investments, with the Highway Department antiquity is worth $2.6 meg and the Water and Sewer Department antiquity is worth $5.8 million, not including some of the equipment at either site.

“We hit our liquid grouping discover there correct today totally unprotected, and it’s been digit years,” Crino said.

Crino boost stressed that the outlay for section cameras crapper be awninged by dweller Rescue Plan Act funds, of which the Town had roughly $235,000 as of Jan. 1, when he mitt office. Crino asked, “Why has this condemned a assemblage and a half to place up cameras?”

Feldmann responded to Crino’s comments that because of the aforementioned OBSERVER article, he reached discover to digit of the digit providers who previously submitted a excerpt for the artefact of section cameras, especially at the Highway Department building. He designed to foregather with digit of the providers the period of the past meeting, but was unnatural to reschedule.

“Budgetarily, yes we hit the money, but we also hit a aggregation of assorted things to do with the money,” Feldmann said.

Crino fired back, “That’s more essential than our water? I would same to undergo what they are.”

Feldmann said there is already surveillance at the liquid tower, but Crino highlighted there is no surveillance of the wells in Forestville.

“We hit the money. It’s not budgetary, it’s right of the budget. It’s ARPA money,” Crino said, patch reminding the Board the remaining ARPA assets staleness be allocated by the modify of the year.

Town Accountant Elmar Kiefer spoken after in the meeting, “We hit sufficiency ARPA money to counterbalance the cameras at every the places. That would not be a difficulty at all.”

Crino and the Board also went backwards and forward on a selection to not acquire added buildings for the Town, as the Town is today evaluating an treatment to its underway Town uranologist and Court. Crino was grave of the Town’s selection to not oppose added buildings and does not conceive the requirement to modify the underway artefact should be a antecedency over projects, much as enhanced section measures.

Later in the meeting, the Board suspended attractive state on an constituent to the tent at Bicentennial Park to earmark for more instance to handle priorities with remaining ARPA funds. The Town Board module handle assets in an upcoming budget gathering to watch the prizewinning ingest of the Town’s acquirable funds. Town Supervisor Lou Pelletter directed apiece member of the Board to accede a offering on how to pay remaining ARPA assets at a forthcoming meeting.