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Mill Dam Rd Bridge To Be Replaced
Car-Charging Station And LEDs Approved

COTTEKILL – The Town of Marbletown held a board meeting lasting just under an hour on Tuesday, September 19. In attendance were chair and supervisor Michael Warren, Pat Clarke, Doug Adams, Joe Borzumato, and Tim Sweeney.

Highway Superintendent George Dimler informed the board that 5,000 tons of blacktop had been laid this year, and that a fall project replacing the Mill Dam Road Bridge over Stone Ridge Pond Outlet was planned.

The project was expected to take two or three months to complete without blacktopping. Contingency plans were being made so that the roads could continue to be used through the winter until blacktop was laid in the spring.

The board approved the immediate placing of a call for bids on the Mill Dam Bridge project; bids were expected to be chosen within weeks. Tom Konrad presented an overview of Highway Department LED lighting proposals. Konrad recommended a bid from Lit Green rather than the bid from LIME Energy.

"Using my floor savings estimate of $36/MWh, the LIME proposal would save $1,008 a year and pay for [itself] in at most ten years," Konrad said in his overview. "The Lit Green proposal would save at least $4,608 a year and pay for itself in less than three years."

Konrad said he was confident that Lit Green's proposal would produce substantially improved lighting both inside and outside the highway department buildings, while paying for itself in one to three years of electricity bill savings.

Konrad thought that the retrofit would probably take a week to install.

The proposal was approved.

A proposal that a stand-alone car-charging pedestal station be built out front of the Town of Marbletown office was approved.

In the Supervisor's Report, Warren noted that the Ulster County Film Commission was building a database of county film facilities. As well as listing sites, said the supervisor, the list needs "holding areas," places where actors, film crew, and equipment could gather when not on the filming sites.

Also, listings of available local contractors able to construct and develop sets are required. The film commission, said Warren, is looking forward to the state earning several hundreds of millions of dollars from the film industry each year.

"It'll be good for our business," Warren said. "Good for our bed and breakfasts, good for our restaurants. Good for our contractors. Good for everybody."

The supervisor noted that the Charter Communications Spectrum cable television franchise expires next year. Spectrum has offering nothing extra, except a deal worse than Time Warner's, he said.

As part of the merger deal, however, said Warren, Spectrum is offering inexpensive high-speed broadband to means-tested K-12 students of low-income families and seniors on Supplemental Security income.

It was, said the supervisor, a deal not to be missed.



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