Mr. Sweet. Yes, sir. You're up, sir. Thank you very much. So we'll call the Aviation Committee to order. No communications. Resolutions, motion, and notice. Without objection, I'll do one, two, three, and four. Resolution one, resolution adopting 2026 airport schedule of fees on behalf of the Elmira Corning Regional Airport. Two, resolution authorizing advertisement agreement with route builder 360 on behalf of the Elmira Corning Regional Airport. Three, resolution extending agreement with Finger Lakes South Enterprises on behalf of the Elmar Corning Regional Airport. And four, resolution amending task order number 11 with McCarland Johnson on behalf of the Elmar Corning Regional Airport. Is there a motion please? All in. Any questions or discussion? Just one comment from me. Resolution number two is fantastic. That might increase air travel with Allegiant. And it looks to me, reading it over, that... Orlando Airport wants to go in partners with Shimon County. Well, that's Elmira Corning Regional Airport. And I'm sure we're not the only airport they want to go in partners with or, you know, have an Allegiant. No, Allegiant. I just said their name. But a relationship with Allegiant. So, no, it's good news. You said it twice. No, I don't dare to say it. I'll give my check. I won't. Anybody else? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Carried. Thank you. Old business? New business? Thank you, Scott. You want to adjourn, right? No, I'm not on your committee. Okay, you've got a new business. I have a question. It's been a while since Tom has come and kind of given us an overview. I always find that very helpful, kind of tell us what's going on. So if we could get one of those in the near future, I'd appreciate it. Sure, we'll give them an invite. Thank you. Yep. ANY OTHER NEW BUSINESS? I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK THE SAME THING. WE HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT EMPLOYMENTS OR ANYTHING, SO WE'RE GOING TO THINK A LOT. It'd be nice with that question if we hear that Allegiant is overbooked. Did I say Allegiant? And you know what, it's okay, because I see that sign there on Grand Central Avenue by the fairground every once in a while advertises Allegiant, so there you go. That's it every day. Fairground sign? Yeah. Okay, hearing no more new business, can I have a motion for adjournment, please? Thank you, Jim, and we are adjourned. I call the building and grounds committee to order. We have one communication. Corrections and refunds approved by the Director of the World Property Tax Office. We have four resolutions. Without objection, I'll read out four. Resolution number one is resolution extending agreement with various vendors for lumber, HVAC supplies, and miscellaneous building materials on behalf of the Schmunk County Department of Building Grounds. Number two is a resolution authorizing reimbursement agreement with New York Unified Court Systems on behalf of of Building and Grounds. Number three is a resolution authorizing an agreement with American Red Cross on behalf of the Chemung County Department of Building and Grounds. And number four is a resolution authorizing a purchase agreement with Bay Automations on behalf of the Chemung County Department of Building and Grounds. Do we have a motion, please? Aye. Nothing. Thank you. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Resolutions are carried. Any alternatives? New business? Motion to adjourn. We are adjourned. Thank you. I'll call the county corrections and law enforcement committee to order. There's no communications, resolutions, motions, and notices. There's five. If there's no objection, I'll read all five. Number one, resolution authorizing inter-municipal agreement with the city of Elmira on behalf of the Shimon County Office of Fire and Emergency Management. Number two, resolution authorizing an agreement with Patrick Sullivan, Sullivan Professional Landscaping, on behalf of the Schmoen County Office of Fire and Emergency Management. Number three, resolution authorizing an agreement with Elliott, LaBeouf, and McWane, PC, on behalf of the Office of Fire and Emergency Management. Number four, resolution amending agreement with Med Lab Inc. on behalf of Schmuck County Probation Department. And number five, resolution authorizing purchase agreement with Goodyear Auto Service on behalf of Schmuck County Sheriff's Office. Do we have a motion? Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion to pass. Any old business? Any new business? Motion for adjournment. Strange. We'll bring the Chemung County Health and Human Services Committee together. There's no communications. We have 16 resolutions. Groups of four if anybody has a problem. Too bad. Number one, resolution confirming appointments to the Chemung County Board of Health. Number two, resolution authorizing agreements with various providers of fiscal intermediaries on behalf of the Schmuck County Departments of Social Service and Aging and Long-Term Care. Number three, resolution authorizing agreements with various providers of personnel emergency response systems on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Aging and Long-Term Care and Social Services. And number four, resolution authorizing memorandum of understanding the Western New York Independent Living INT and AIM Independent Living Center on behalf of the Schmuck County Departments of Aging and Long-Term Care and Social Services. Do I have a motion? All in favor? Aye. Number five, resolution authorizing memorandum of understanding with the Schmuck County Department of Aging and Long-Term Care on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Social Services. Number six, resolution authorizing a memorandum of understanding with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Schmuck County on behalf of various Schmuck County departments. And number seven, resolution amending agreement with Council of Alcohol and Substance Abuse of Livingston County Trinity, on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Social Services and Mental Hygiene. And number eight, resolution authorizing agreement with Council Alcohol and Substance Abuse of Livingston County, Trinity, on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Social Services and Mental Hygiene. Do I have a motion? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Number nine, resolution extending agreements with various vendors of supplemental staffing service on behalf of the Schmong County Nursing Facility. Number 10, resolution authorizing agreement with Ronco Specialized Systems on behalf of the Schmong County Nursing Facility. And number 11, resolution authorizing agreement with the Salvation Army on behalf of the Schmong County Department of Social Service and Mental Hygiene. And number 12, resolution authorizing agreement with the Catholic Charities Incorporated on behalf of the Schmuck County Departments of Social Services and Mental Hygiene. Do I have a motion? All in favor? Aye. Number 13, resolution authorizing various provider agreements of assisted living and respite services on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Social Services. And number 14, Resolution authorizing memorandum of understanding with the Schmuck County Sheriff's Office on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Social Services. Number 15, resolution authorizing acceptance of additional funding from New York State Office of Temporary Disability Assistance on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Social Services. And number 16, resolution authorizing agreement with New York State Office of Children and Family Services on behalf of the Schmuck County Department of Youth and Recreational Services. Do I have a motion? Second. All in favor? All right. Any old business? Any new? I have a question. Go ahead. No? Thank you. If I may ask Mindy a question. I recently attended an inter-county meeting in A representative from NYSAC was there, and they were talking about the federal government reducing social service aid to states that have a certain percentage of air in their social service and Medicaid programs. Being that New York City has the highest and over the target of the air, it doesn't matter, they're going to penalize the whole state. Have you heard anything about that and maybe how it's going to impact us? Yes, I've heard some things about it. And probably for the next fiscal year, we can expect limited to no impact as a result of the error rate. Because it sounds like the appropriations were intended for the state to cover that on behalf of everybody and those costs wouldn't be shifted to the county. There are other costs being shifted to the county as a result of some of the federal shifts, but not related to the error rates for at least the next year. However, this is a topic that we're closely following. And what we anticipate is that a portion of whatever the fiscal sanction would be, would be invested back into efforts to improve quality and reduce error rates over the next year as part of the planning around getting things on track to where they need to be. And so that's what I have so far. Okay, you sound a lot more positive than what the representative said. It was pretty scary the way they explained it, so. Well, there are some cost shifts that we should be- You're saving me, aren't you, from that? I'm what? You're sparing me from that. But that's okay. A lot of things can change, though, between now and then. And I know a lot of things are being shuffled and some things that we haven't quite expected to work out the way they have worked out. So I thought it was originally very scary, too. And then I was relieved when I went to the recent night book conference and they talked about the appropriations being covered. But also I'm very hopeful that the quality improvement efforts that are going to be put into play will really help us with our systems and enhancing our efforts around quality and accuracy. And again, they weren't accusing this upstate counties. They come out and said most of it's down in New York City. Well, I don't want to blame New York City, but I can tell you that it appears as though all counties have some work to do in this area. And it's a very complicated and nuanced way they go about assessing errors. And so even getting a great handle on that and internal controls for counties, even large places like New York City, it's incredibly complicated and not an exact science. So going back to the whole quality assessment efforts and quality control across the state, I'm really hoping that the funds that go back into those efforts really end up being fruitful for all counties across New York State. Thank you, Mindy. Anything else? No. All right, thank you. Mindy, I have a question. As far as sheltering individuals in the community through the winter time, I know that we do get some reimbursement back from the state. Are we in pretty good shape with that? How many folks have we been sheltering in hotels in the cold weather and what not? So you want to know specifically and only about hotels? No, just- Okay, all right. Well, I am pleased to report that the census at the Dormitory Style Shelter over on High Street that we contract with Catholic Charities for has seen an increase in the number of individuals that they're serving. So I'm very pleased that they are almost near capacity or at least much higher towards their max capacity in the past couple of months. So as a reminder, they can serve up to 47 individuals at any given time. Separately, we have been housing anywhere from about 25 hotel rooms right on up to about maybe like 35, 36 hotel rooms on any given night, especially since it's been colder, okay? That's a pretty low amount of hotel rooms compared to what we have had in the past, okay? So again, as a reminder, primarily families. are always going to the hotels because they can't go to the dormitory style shelter. And so usually there's somewhere between 18 to 22, 23 families on any given night in the hotels. Then we have other individuals who are exempted for various reasons and then of course we are still in the position of putting the offenders in hotel rooms as well. That's who makes up the majority of those in hotel rooms. Whenever there's overflow, meaning people can know that the shelter, the dormitory style shelter is at maximum capacity. What happens then is that individuals then are shifted to hotel rooms. Okay, so they'll stay there. And then when there's a vacancy back at the dormitory style shelter, it will be moved back out of the hotel and back into there. So usually individuals only stay there maybe one or two nights. And there's really been a minimal need. for use of those overflow hotel rooms for that purpose. So it's an improvement over the past number of years. Substantial. It's dramatic. Substantial. But then also don't forget that we also have code blue operations and so we have the warming station contracted again through Catholic Charities. And I'm pleased to report that, you know, compared to last year that they've also seen an increase in the number of individuals that are being served on any given night there. So what I'm glad about is more people are open to going there and getting warm and getting the services. And then we also have it set up whereas community service providers are supposed to be going there to try to make a connection with individuals to see if there's some way we can assist them better or meet their needs in a different way and hopefully get them set up with some more supports in the community. Thank you. That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Okay, I mean sometimes those nights end up being in about 30 people, 27 to 30 people, which is a lot more than we served last year. Right. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. So I have a question now based on that. Do you happen to know what is the average stay? The average length of stay? Yes. Oh my. For an individual. Okay. If you don't know, that's fine. In the hotels? Well, either one. OK. So the average length of stay is a little bit more difficult. I'd be happy to get you the most recent numbers. I can tell you that it's very, very hard to sort that out because an individual might come in, say, at the shelter, come to a cell shelter. They might come in for a couple of days, leave, come back a little while later, a couple weeks later. come back in and out, in and out, in and out. So if we were going to calculate it based on the people who have used it throughout the year and then total up their entire stay, that number might be different than the average length of stay at the shelter alone, if I was just looking at it on a monthly basis. You know what I mean, Rick? Yeah. For hotels, I'd be happy to get you those numbers. They've ranged anywhere from several months down to like 70 days as an average. There's many, many barriers and nuances attached to homeless housing. So if they're there for months, there's constant work trying to improve that so they don't have to be there on our side, because they're probably not on their side because they're staying in a hotel. Well, I can tell you since August of 24, there have definitely been much more concerted efforts around trying to figure out options for people. I will tell you that some individuals have so many barriers that it's almost impossible for us to find somebody to rent to them and stuff like that. We have had some success recently, kind of widening our scope of where we search for housing for people, and so we're pleased about that. We've been able to open up housing out of the area, which we to stay in the area for some individuals. They would be close to their connections if they were here and stuff like that. So we have had that. We've had some success with that. I think that some individuals, because of their backgrounds, because of their history, it is way more complicated to find housing for them. But I will tell you, there's a lot of success going on with homeless housing. A lot of people getting housing in a very short period of time. We're trying to look at all sorts of creative ways to pull together the monies that are existing in the community in a way that's strategic to try to help people advance forward and hopefully secure stable housing. There are some resources that we have not fully tapped into yet, but that's not because of any particular agency's fault in town or our fault. It's because of a larger system issue. And hopefully we'll start seeing some change with that in the next month or two, because I'm starting to hear some very positive things about accessing some funds that we've been trying to access for over a year now. So this is a hot topic. something that grabs a lot of attention at the Department of Social Services especially. We have a large investment of our team members working on these housing efforts and trying to figure out options for people. We have people now working on trying to get people employed, trying to get them on Social Security if they're appropriate. For people who are not appropriate and aren't going to get Social Security, we're trying to help them transition into understanding that they're going to have to go back to work. And then we're trying to figure out where they can work, where they'll be successful. So I don't know if that answers your question. If you want the specific data, I'll provide those to you. I've got Mindy standing. Want to segue into trying to go back to work? A lot of buzz about March 1st coming. Thank you. Well, I have to tell you, I've had the same notes in my folder since, I think, September. wondering if this would be brought up at some point. Because these were some of the work requirements that were supposed to kind of take effect back in, in the fall before the shutdown. And then there was that injunction inter-stay. I'm not sure if I got the word right on that. And so that kind of pushed things off. And now as we approach March 1st, the ABOD work requirements go into effect for a portion of individuals who are receiving SNAP benefits. So I know there's been a lot of buzz in the media about this. But I want you to know that out of, you know, the thousands of people that receive SNAP, I'm not standing right now. I'm just, we need to grab something right now. Out of the, say, December stats, there were about 7,691 households receiving SNAP, which equated to 13,300 people, okay? And that would be authorizing 2.6 to $7 million worth of SNAP benefits each for that month anyway. I will tell you that out of that essential caseload, really what we're looking at is about 800 households that will be impacted by these changes. And that means that some people just might need to pursue getting an exemption, might qualify for that already. But some people will be expected to seek out work the approved work activities, volunteering, gaining employment, those sorts of things. There's a whole list of things that they can do. And what will happen is if individuals who are not exempted from work requirements and are expected to participate in them, if they don't for a period of three months, then what happens, they'll be able to receive the SNAP benefits for that three month window. But then after that, they would not be able to receive it thereafter. Now, what you need to know is that there is a period of time under which these rules are in effect for. And they're going like three year periods. Well, this period happens to end at the end of September. So really what will happen is individuals, first case scenario, would receive their SNAP benefits for three months, so March, April, May. If they didn't comply with requirements, then what would happen is they would lose those benefits. But then the new period starts in October, which means they would be eligible to receive another three months for the 36-month period. And that's how it works out. So the timing is interesting here, that we'll have to do all of this. kind of taper back, and then probably we'll get, you know, a bunch of new applications starting for the new period. But does that answer your question? So that leads me to another one. Are we going to be able to handle this, try to enforce this, try to monitor this? Yes, we're required to. I understand that, but what the hell? Well, I mean, I look at it in terms of, you know, if we have, you know, 76% well, we'll say 7,700 people that are totally receiving, households totally receiving SNAP benefits, and only maybe about 800 of them are going to be impacted by these work requirements. A number of them, you know, are probably going to be exempted, okay, for whatever, for many, there's many criteria, okay? What I'm hearing from other counties is that when they've brought individuals in to talk to them about the work requirements and stuff like that, they've been pleased to find out that many people have reported that they're gainfully employed at that point in time. And so then they might not be needing to comply with the work requirements cuz they're already working. And then of course my understanding is that some individuals will probably not want to just you know, comply with the work requirements, and then what would happen is their case would close. So I really estimate that the actual number of people that will be impacted and comply with work is going to be much smaller than the 800, which again is really a small fraction. Does that make sense to you? I can tell you that we, when we, When we started to hold orientation sessions back in, I can't remember if it was October or November, what we found is, and we couldn't mandate people attend, but what we found is we were pleased because so many people did come and report that they had found employment. And so they wanted to let us know that they were employed at that time. So we were pleased to hear about that. If someone is denied after three months, they get their benefits for three months and then they don't get a job or whatever. Can they go to another county and sign up for benefits and receive them? So that's a great question. Thank you. And really, really that's one of the hot topics out there is we really have to be mindful of how an individual might have received that in other counties and make sure somehow we're gathering that information and assessing that information before we do an authorization. So that's another avenue of tracking, just like we would have to track somebody's work activities as a requirement of this that we'll have to do going forward. And I just want you to know that sometimes I call them new changes or new requirements, and I know the media does too. But really, some of these ABOD requirements were a thing several years ago too. Okay, and so we maneuvered through them. I mean, I was just, earlier today I was looking at some old stuff in filing cabinet, and it looks like we had to ask for exemptions, and it's like sometimes requirements didn't apply to the folks that lived in the city of Elmira, but they applied to people who lived outside the city of Elmira and stuff like that. We've been here before, tracking some of these requirements in a similar way. It's just many of our team members have not worked at the department that long, so they don't have experience with it. And so it's a new process. We're going to probably make some mistakes. But we're doing everything we can to get things in order and make things smooth going forward. We've put a bunch of the forms on our website. and to try to direct the public about the ins and outs of this so they can get their forms easily and accessible and stuff like that. And then we've set up a way for them to submit those forms electronically to us. One more question. I believe you said we have 13,000 people? 13,313 people as of December. And we have a population of like 81,000 right now. Yes. And so I think that's, what would it be, 16, 17% of our population, someplace in there. How does that compare to our neighboring counties, like Stuban, Schuyler, Tioga? I bet your hands were getting tired carrying them for all these months, weren't they? Well, this one's only been around since recently. This is the December one. All of this here, so let me just go to the proper page here. Are you wondering if, sorry, table 16. I'm just curious. Yeah, all right. So for December, Steuben had about 11,300 households and, no sorry, people. had that many people. Tioga, of course, is always much smaller, had 4,800. What was the other county you had asked about? Schuyler. Well, Schuyler, and their population's so much smaller than ours, yeah. 1,600 households, 1,677. Those were the ones that I had asked about. I'm just curious how we ranked, because I know it's an issue. Is 16% the norm? I don't know about that. I'm sorry. I don't know. I didn't average out the percent. It's a lot of people. Compared to population here. Is Broome County right handy there? Yes, Broome County has 25,000 people. And they're quite a bit bigger than us. I usually look at... And they have seven, almost 7,700. And then I think Sullivan is another. Okay. One that I often look at and they have about 12,100. I can tell you that the number of households receiving SNAP has been decreased from July 2025 to December 2025 here in this county by 374 households. Oh, great. Do you want another county? Yeah. I have one question. We're going to talk to more questions. So what happens if you have a family of five, three kids, mother, father, and if the father doesn't comply or whoever's supposed to comply? That's part of the exemptions. Do they still get it for the kids? That's a good question. I'm going to have to ask some clarifying questions around that. I don't want to give you the wrong answer. Okay, because I mean it's just that I don't know what I'm saying. I will ask about that. The person who is required to comply doesn't comply. Because I'm assuming there are benefits based on how many people are in the family, right? Yes. So if he or she doesn't comply, What do they do about the rest of the people who are getting... I did see a thing with exemptions, like how many are under a certain age. So I understand that, but so the what, so... So there's no work requirement if they're all under a certain age, for instance. Right, but the father, if the father doesn't do it, do they still get the money for the rest of the family? Yeah, I would say so. I will double check on that. Okay. I can tell you with some of our other programming, like... For example, if we have a family in homeless housing and one of the parents does not comply with whatever they're supposed to comply with, that does not change our ability to provide housing for the children. It might modify how much the family receives in their cash benefits or something like that, but as far as the housing piece, we're still providing that. I mean, I just don't, I wouldn't expect that the If the head of household doesn't comply, it would cost the children not to be able to have any food. Let me read this. Thank you. Thank you. Anything else? I think we're all set with that. I do have one. I want to put Mr. Bozzetti on notice. I want to see if there's anything exciting you need to make us aware of in your world over there. Exciting? Yes. Viruses coming down the pike. Impressing. Whatever it might be. Well, I just talked to Megan today to do a presentation at the March meeting. We came before the legislature a year or two ago to talk about the lead rental registry. Chemone County was awarded like $539,000. How the state is doing the program is they've identified communities of concern across the state. And Elmira 14901 and 14904 are two of those areas. So it provides money for lead testing for a lead rental registry. So the state does a portion of providing the database with all the rental properties in there. It's taken just a long time to get this thing up and running. They're still not totally done with their half. But what we found in working with the state on that is that we're going to need to get the staff. Unlike anything else that we ever get at the Health Department, it's a mandate with money. So with the staff that I need, it accounts for maybe a little bit over half of what the money is, which is really unheard of. We're very lucky to have this. It's modeled on the Rochester law. We have a lot of, I think, about 1,500 properties in 14901 and 14904 that do meet the requirements. So the requirements for the rental registry are two or more units built prior to 1980. So there's a lot of them there. So to do these inspections, we're gonna need some staff to go in there and do the inspections. It builds upon other lead programs and grants that we've taken over the last few years. This program doesn't give any money for abatement, but the city was successful in getting another round of grant funding through HUD for abatement. In addition to the leading and lead grant, which is separate, One or two years ago, leading in lead was only available for counties. We got the grant and we worked through the city cuz they already have this infrastructure for doing this and it worked out perfectly. We spent that money down much more responsibly than we did in 2009 with the Kennedy valve money. So we worked with them, they took it on for the next round so that we didn't have to apply for it. So that's the big thing coming down the pipe for us is leading in lead. Does it include lead pipe? No, that's a totally separate animal. Okay. Yep, the lead service line replacement is a completely separate animal. But I do believe that the governor put forth more money this next year for service line replacement. I didn't know if this was on top of that or not. Well, this is a totally separate thing, so it would be on top of that. And you'll appreciate this, we do have an old pipe that we took out of the ground probably 10 or 15 years ago out of wood. It was initially installed in like the late 1800s. It's sitting right in our water guy's office. It's fascinating. Enjoy. I'm glad it's out of the ground. That's what we ask. Okay, good. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. Don't sit down. Uh-oh. Mr. Chalk and I were speaking earlier this evening about when any one of the water districts or water supplying entities in the county does a shutoff, non-payment or whatever reason. I understand that you're notified. What do you do with that information? Sometimes. Sometimes we're notified. Okay. When you are notified, what do you do with it? We'll get something usually in the mail or for some of the bigger places, they'll call us. Unfortunately, a lot of times they don't give us a lot of lead time. So usually what we'll do is we'll call the person. Specifically if it's a place we regulate, mobile home park, a hotel, things of that nature, we'll call the owner and say, hey, just got off the phone with the water board. what's going on with your water. So sometimes we can help get something like that. Other times we can't. And we've had to work with Mindy and her staff and go over there and provide education information to them because those places, for the ones that we regulate, would be uninhabitable. Now for a regular home, like a regular person's home, we wouldn't really get those. But it's usually for places that we regulate, hotels, motels, things of that nature. So we try to help them out and get on a payment plan. Sometimes it gets to the point where the owner isn't talking to the water board and the water board throws up their hands. So if we, the permit holder, you know, because we permit and regulate all those facilities, call them, we can usually kind of get something to help it. Nobody wants it to close because of lack of water, but they do need to get their money. Mike, we also have... program with EOP, anyone who is an EOP client, and he knows this, they call. We've worked it out at the water board. As soon as they get a shutoff notice, they call EOP and we take care of it. At one time, they were getting shut off, and then we were finding out, oh, they don't have water, and you guys were getting calls. So now we have set up a program. As soon as they get a shutoff notice, they can call the water board, and Payment arrangements are made. So we're not shutting that water off. The particular interest I have is in a mobile home park that's . . . It happens regularly. We've had one, at least when I was an inspector, every three months. It's under new ownership now and has been for a while, but every three months. And I'm not kidding. The check is in the mail. It wasn't, so a lot of times we'd have to just kind of meet with them. But we have had to go over to mobile home parks with MND staff before, hand out flyers for services and things for the people who live there, because they're uninhabitable. Usually we do that with code, EMO, and MND staff. Okay, thank you. All righty, thank you. All right, I guess we're back to making a motion to return. Okay, I'd like to call the Highway Committee meeting to order. Under communications, we have none. Resolutions, motions, and notices, we don't have any there either. Is there any old business? Any new business? I think it should be pointed out to Mr. Donovan that that's how you run it. Can I have a motion to adjourn? Thank you. All right. All the services committee to order. There are no communications. Resolutions, motions, and notices, we have seven, and if there are no objections, it'll go one through four, and five, six, and seven. Number one, a resolution relative to the annual review of the Chemung County Agricultural District. Number two, resolution calling for a public hearing on the eight-year review of the proposed modifications of real property of the Chemung County Agricultural District. Number three, resolution extending agreement with New York State Board of Elections on behalf of the Schmung County Board of Elections. And number four, resolution authorizing agreement with Phoenix Graphics Incorporated on behalf of the Schmung County Board of Elections. Is there a motion, please? Sweet. Motion is seconded. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? I wish resolutions were hearing. Number five, resolution directing the Schmung County Sewer District's Administrative Board hold a public hearing regarding proposed changes to the scale of charges for the sewer districts. Number six, resolution authorizing application for and acceptance of the U.S. Department of Transportation better utilizing investments to leverage development grant on behalf of the Schmunk County Planning Department. And number seven, a resolution authorizing purchase agreement with Sturgill Coney USA Incorporated on behalf of the Schmunk County Transit Board. Is there a motion, please? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Any old business? New business? Mr. Chair, just an announcement. The land bank was just awarded over $1.9 million for housing rehabilitation in Chabon County. Awesome. Yeah, it's awesome because $500,000 of that is eligible for people that already own their own home. but don't have enough to do updates. And there'll be an allowance for that. And then right now, we have three brand new homes under construction. And at 419 Smith Road demolished. But that's an undertaking for I don't know why. I do. But I'm not going to stay here. But yeah, so I just want you to know we got I got over $1.9 million. Is any of that money eligible for demos? Yes. Yes, it is. In fact, I'm glad you asked that question because we have to use it for demolition. As you well know, sir, as a past member of that board. And the DEC now is taking appointments to start inspecting these places, starting when they can get out there, maybe March or April. In this particular dwelling is on the bank of the Catherine Creek, and it's very touchy. And just waiting for permission from the county so the land bank can go on the county's property and take that building down. Are there other criteria for these demolitions? You know, the city's got so many burnouts that where the owners have just walked away. I wonder if we could... Well, first of all, the land bank has to have control of the property. In Smith Road, we don't. We've got to get permission from the owner. That's important. And why we're not taking ownership, we can't do anything with it and eventually be given to the town veteran. That's what I've heard as a plan. These burnouts, we don't own the property. We've got to go through the foreclosure process so that some government entity owns them. It gets a little complicated because some of the burnouts are privately owned. The owners walked away. The foreclosure process takes two to three years, and they sit. So it's an issue, but that's why I asked the question because there are always properties in that situation that need to be demolished that aren't being demolished, and the funds are. typically hard to come by. These grants a lot of times don't include demolition funds. That's true, but in this case it does. And if you recall, the one down on the south side of the river, it used to be a store, I believe, on the corner? Yes, it was Miller and Erie Street. See, that burned out. It's not there anymore. We took that down. The land bank took that down. That must have been on a foreclosure, wasn't it? Probably. Yes. He sat there long enough to pitchers. Yeah. Must have been three years. On Horner Street, too. Yes. Something is happening to Miller and Erie. Yeah. I've seen the plans for a new house. Yeah, and that was touchy, too, because of the code, you know, the zoning and whatnot. But the city's been good to work with. You know, Tom, you do a very good job chairing that board, the land bank board. And it's been... or five years since the land bank has come and gave us any type of presentation, that might be something to think about. Because they do a great job. Yeah, I'll mention it to Danielle, and I'll ask her. And she'll be glad to come in with her team. Tom, first of all, thanks to the land bank. I think we've worked together on three houses in the past 10 years or so. We talked about that house on Washington Avenue. Yes. It's really not in bad shape, but it's getting worse and worse and the owner will not respond to us. Is there a way to circumvent that situation? I mean, if she won't respond to us, it's just sitting there and the neighbors are becoming really frustrated. There was a program years ago that we looked at going into a neighborhood and offering to buy houses from the owners so that we could rebuilt, and John, I think you were on the board. I was, yeah. No one responded. No, not one. Like 500 letters went out, something like that. Not one response. That's all we can do, Marty, just send a letter and ask if they're interested. And short, I say this shortly, is to buy the house. I'll give you an example. There's two houses now that we just took ownership of here two weeks ago that the owner owned back taxes and amounted to... 6,000? You've got to forgive me on the numbers because I see a few of them. It was either 6,000 apiece or 12,000 apiece. And the two of them together, that's what it was. In fact, right at the last minute they said, well, it's been a month or two and the taxes have gone upside. And they called me because somebody had to make a decision. I said, no more. But anyway, we bought them because of people. It wasn't a owned by one person. It was owned by an LLC. And it took a little bit to get to that. But we took over the houses. And we're going to smash them down. Is that Mount Zoar? Is that mine? You know what? I can't tell you where the properties are right now because, again, I've got too many addresses in my head. Because I've got an interesting situation, Tom. I was told that an individual wanted to donate the house to Habitat. Habitat was hoping they could get the taxes forgiven so they could acquire the homes. The county said no. Yeah, that's a different issue. But do you guys have any kind of avenue of tax forgiveness? We don't forgive. No, no, no, no, no. In fact, we're paying. Right. Before the Supreme Court ruling, We would get homes for free from the county. We bid on homes on the tax sale just like anybody else. And we lose. There's houses, yeah, we can use this one. We don't get it. I'm rooting for you. Well, thanks, because it's a good program. And I'll tell you, too, when we started this, I think some of you heard me say that we're around that. About six years ago? No, a bit more than that. About 10 years ago, maybe. 16? I think it was in 16. They said that this program was set up to fail because you just couldn't make any money to go on and on. Well, now that's changed. And I'll give the state a lot of credit for that because this is the second round of funding we've gotten from the state, and it's huge. And then there's another round. I think right now it's a $50 million that is available. to spread out, and they're looking to push that to $100 million. So we're trying to get homes for people. And the board is very much in favor of putting them on the tax roll and also keeping corporations from buying the home and selling them to individuals. Thank you for the time. Is there any other business? I have a motion to adjourn. Second? You're adjourned. All personnel, committee meeting to order under committee motions. We have our monthly vacancy report. Under resolutions, motions, and notices, we have five. We have no objections. We'll read all five. Number one, resolution confirming appointments to the Fish and Wildlife Management Board. Number two, resolution confirming appointments to the Chemung County Sewer District number one administrative board. Number three, resolution confirming appointments to the Southern Tier Central Regional Planning and Development Board. Number four, resolution authorizing agreement with Clinical Social Work and Counseling of the Finger Lakes on behalf of the Chemung County Personnel Department. And number five, resolution authorizing agreement with Southern Tier Healthcare Credit on behalf of the Chemone County Personnel Department. Can I have a motion, please? Second. Second. Any questions or comments? All in favor, aye. Aye. Motions are carried. Thank you. Any old business? Any new business? Motion to adjourn. Second. Thank you.