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At our meeting last night Derick Buell brought up that our sewer ordinance states that all laterals has to be 6 inches. I don't remember where that came from but it's in the ordinance. According to Derick and Jim Chamberlain who was at the meeting also said this size pipe will make all our hookups much more expensive and most places that have sewer systems use 4 inch laterals for their hookups. I contacted our engineer and asked him about this. and his reply is there are no regulation that state or Oneida County that says 6 inch laterals must be used except for Onondaga County which call for 6 inch laterals. Since this is not required our engineer states that it would be safe to use 4 inch laterals I am going to talk with the board member to see if they agree that we should change the ordinance to read 4 inch laterals.

Below is our January meeting minutes.

Jack

January 5,2026
The regular monthly meeting of the Oneida Castle Village Board was called to order by Mayor John Deschamps at 7:00pm in the village office. Also present were Trustee Ackerman, Clerk Canada, and Treasurer Meyers. (Absent: Trustee Gwilt). Those residents in attendance were Kathy Wojciechowski, Denise Laube, Diane Willey, Dean Stoker and Joe Walpole. Also present was Oneida County Legislator Keith Scheible.
A. MINUTES
A motion was made by Trustee Ackerman and seconded by Mayor Deschamps to accept the December minutes.
B. REPORTS
Mr. Scheible, Oneida county Legislator gave a report from the County.
Oneida County passed a resolution allowing school children to view the movie ELF. They were also treated to popcorn and a drink.
Oneida County also approved a lease with Chobani at the airport to allow them to support the construction and outfitting of their dairy processing facility. The rent will be $25,812.50 per month.
Mr. Scheible also reported that Governor Hochul had vetoed two bills related to EMS Services. She vetoed allowing local government to fund emergency medical services outside the property tax cap and rejected exempting ambulances, fire vehicles, etc. from NYS Thruway tolls while responding to emergencies.
C. PUBLIC CONCERNS
Dianne Willey of E. Second St. reported that she has had damage to her septic system and to her invisible fence line from the construction work being done on the sewers. The Mayor advised her to check with the fence company and see if a whole new line needs to be installed or if it can be spliced.
D. BUSINESS
The meeting began with the clerk announcing that a village election will be held on March, 18 2026. She asked for a resolution from the Board stating that the election will take place in the Village office between the hours of 12 noon and 9PM. Trustee Ackerman introduced this resolution which was seconded by Mayor Deschamps. The clerk then asked for another resolution accepting the election inspectors to be Martha Mallery and Mary Gwilt. This resolution was made by Trustee Ackerman and seconded by Mayor Deschamps.
Mayor Deschamps introduced a resolution mandating that all residents within the Village of Oneida Castle who are attempting to do their own hook up as well as any business or commercial user hooking up are required to carry a minimum policy of liability of one million dollars. A public hearing on this will be held on February 2, 2026 at 6:30pm.
Mayor Deschamps reminded those present about this hearing to be held.. He gave a brief explanation of why this liability insurance is necessary and urged all interested parties to attend.
Mayor Deschamps asked the Board for permission to sign the contract with the TOV Codes Officers at the rate of $41.00 per hour. This is an increase of $3 per hour. Motion to accept was made by Trustee Ackerman and seconded by Mayor Deschamps.
In final business, Mayor Deschamps stated that he will be on vacation and will be unable to attend the March meeting.
E. TREASURERS REPORT
Mrs. Meyers began her report with the cash flows from December. Inflows were $740.30 while outflows were $6,098.25 making a general fund net monthly total of -$5,357.95.
The Sewer/Capital Project has inflows of $732,908.71 and outflows of $673,460.91 making the sewer project net monthly total of $59,447.80. The overall net total is $54,089.85.
Year to date inflows are $100,864.94 while outflows totaled $70,843.15 making a general fund net total of $30.021.79. The Sewer/Capital Project year to date total inflows are $2,617,572.67 . The total outflows for this project are $2,617,736.33 making a sewer project net total of -$163.66. The overall sewer project net total is $29,858.13.
There currently is $105,732.15 in savings and $219,304.87 in checking making a combined general fund balance of $294,625.85.
he Sewer/Capital Fund has revenues of $732,908.71and expenditures of $673,460.91 making the sewer fund balance of -$98,579.39. The combined general fund balance is $226,068.25.
A motion was made by Trustee Ackerman and seconded by Mayor Deschamps to accept this financial report.
ADJOURNMENT
A motion was made by Mayor Deschamps and seconded by Trustee Ackerman to adjourn at 7:30pm. The next meeting will take place on February 2, 2026 at 7:00PM with a hearing at 6:30PM.
Respectfully submitted, Jean Canada, Clerk