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Town Of Newport: News: News [Digital Towpath]
A special meeting is being called to order approve the 2018 Town Budget at 3PM 11/16/17
PUBLIC HEARING FOR DISSOLUTION oF NEWPORT FIRE DISTRICTS (160 & 170)
NEWPORT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS (FD 160 and FD 170)
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT the Town Board of the Town of Newport will be conducting a Public Hearing pursuant to General Municipal Law Section 776 to provide all interested persons reasonable opportunity to be heard on any aspect of the Proposed Dissolution Plan to dissolve the Newport Fire Protection Districts (FD 160) and (FD 170) prepared pursuant to General Municipal Law Section 774 and adopted by the Town Board on September 11, 2017. The Public Hearing will be held on Oct. 18th, 2017 at 07:00 PM at the Newport Town Office. A Descriptive Summary of the Proposed Plan of Dissolution is as follows:
Newport Fire Protection Districts (FD 160) and (FD 170) Plan of Dissolution provides for the dissolution of the Protection Districts effective December 31, 2017. The provision of fire protection and emergency services will be unaffected and will continue to be provided to the area comprising the Protection Districts by the Newport Volunteer Fire Company Number 4, Inc. under the auspices of the Board of Fire Commissioners of the newly created Newport Joint Fire District (“NJFD”). All tax revenue collected by the Protection Districts pursuant to the 2017 tax levy has already been remitted to the Newport Volunteer Fire Company Number 4, Inc. as payment for services through December 31, 2017. The Protection Districts do not possess any cash assets or own any property. The Protection Districts have no employees. Once, the Board of Fire Commissioners of the NJFD is established and the NJFD becomes functional, NJFD will become the authority having jurisdiction over Newport Volunteer Fire Company Number 4, Inc. and will be obligated to provide for the provision of fire protection and emergency services to those properties within the Protection Districts that are now deemed to be included and incorporated within the boundaries of the NJFD. The Protection Districts will be dissolved effective December 31, 2017, absent any contingency impeding the NJFD from implementing a 2018 budget and tax levy.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the Proposed Dissolution Plan may be viewed in its entirety during normal business hours at the Office of the Town Clerk Monday, Tuesday and Thursday between the hours of 9AM and 4PM The Proposed Dissolution Plan may also be viewed on the Town of Newport website located at www.townofnewport.net
Dated: September 11, 2017 Nanette Roesler, Town Clerk
Proposed Plan of Dissolution of Newport Fire Districts (FD160) and (FD170) in the Town of Newport
NEWPORT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS
(FD 160) AND (FD 170)
Newport Fire Protection Districts (FD 160) and (FD 170) (collectively referred to “Protection Districts”) in the Town of Newport (“Town”) were established by resolutions of the Town Board of the Town to provide a means to collect tax revenue to provide for fire protection and emergency services to the persons and properties within the Protection Districts. The Town Board of the Town has always been and continues to be the “governing body“ of the Protection Districts. The levy of taxes upon the taxable parcels in the Protection Districts has been the means utilized by the Town for providing tax-based funding for fire protection and emergency services within the boundaries of the Protection Districts. The fire protection and emergency services for all times relevant hereto have been provided to the Protection Districts by the Newport Volunteer Fire Company Number 4, Inc. (“Department”) by means of fire protection contracts negotiated between the Department and the Town pursuant to Town Law §184.
By resolution dated June 21, 2017, the Town Board of the Town agreed to form the Newport Joint Fire District (“NJFD”) in cooperation with the Village of Newport and the Town of Norway. The determinations establishing NJFD have been filed with the New York State Department of Audit and Control and recorded in the office of the Clerk in and for the County of Herkimer as required by Town Law §189-d.
The Board of Fire Commissioners for NJFD is scheduled to take office effective October 2, 2017. The first tax levy for NJFD is planned for 2018. With the transition to NJFD, the Protection Districts are no longer needed. Therefore the Town brings forth the within Governing Body Initiated Dissolution Plan to comply with the legal mandates in compliance with General Municipal Law Article 17-A.
(A) The name of entity to be dissolved is the Newport Fire Protection Districts (FD 160) and (FD 170), collectively hereinafter referred to as the “Protection Districts”.
(B) The territorial boundaries of the Protection Districts exist as designated by the Town Board of the Town of Newport as “FD 160” and “FD 170”, including all properties included in the 2017 final tax roll for FD 160 and FD 170. The boundaries are generally described as follows: the entirety of FD 160 and FD 170 and more generally understood to be that portion of the Town of Newport with the exception of Newport Fire Protection District (FD 175) served by the Poland Volunteer Fire Department. A map depicting the Protection Districts is available for inspection the office of the Town Clerk. The boundaries of the Protection Districts and the parcels included therein are identical to the boundaries of and parcels within the Town of Newport that are included in the newly formed Newport Joint Fire District.
(C) The type of entities are “fire protection district(s)” as described in Town Law §184.
(F)       The Protection Districts do not own any physical assets. The Protection Districts do not have any long-term liabilities or indebtedness. The Protection Districts do not own cash assets.
(G) The Protection Districts have no actual or contingent liabilities or indebtedness as of the date of the proposed Dissolution Plan. The Protection Districts do not anticipate incurring any liabilities before dissolution apart from those costs reasonably and necessarily incurred in bringing about the dissolution; which costs are expected to be less than $500.00. The Protection Districts do not have any bonded indebtedness and do not intend to incur any obligations prior to dissolution.
(H) Except as otherwise noted herein, the Protection Districts have not entered into any agreements with any other municipal entities. The only agreement contemplated being entered into is with the NJFD for the continuation for fire protection and emergency services by the Department through December 31, 2017, as per the contract currently in effect between the Town and the Department pursuant to pursuant to Town Law §184. As the tax revenue collected in 2017 from the property owners in the Protection Districts and previously conveyed to the Department may be loosely construed to be an asset, the Department, and ultimately NJFD, is responsible for the obligation to assure that services continue and that proper credit is made to 2017 tax levy for those parcels that were assessed and paid the 2017 Protection Districts tax levy.
(I) The residents and businesses of the areas included within the Protection Districts will continue to be provided fire protection and emergency services through December 31, 2017 pursuant to the contract between the Town and the Department.
(2) There are no liabilities or indebtedness. It is expressly provided that there shall be no further tax levies made by the Protection Districts provided that the NJFD 2018 tax levy proceeds as expected. In the unlikely the event that NJFD is prevented or precluded from instituting a 2018 tax levy, the Protection Districts will be deemed to continue to exist past December 31, 2017 for a sufficient period of time and solely as a means to implement a 2018 levy to fund fire protection services by NJFD.
(L) The effective date of the proposed dissolution is December 31, 2017.
In the unlikely the event that NJFD is prevented or precluded from instituting a 2018 tax levy, the Protection Districts will be deemed to continue to exist past December 31, 2017 for a sufficient period of time so as to implement a 2018 levy to fund fire protection services on behalf of NJFD.
(M) The date, time, and location of the statutorily required Public Hearing on the proposed dissolution plan is: Oct.18, 2017 commencing at ***7:00 PM at the Town of Newport Town Hall 2788 Newport Road Newport, NY 13416.
(1) Prior to and upon dissolution, that the NJFD will undertake such actions as may be reasonable and prudent to provide for the continued provision of fire protection to the area formerly known as the Protection Districts.
(2) The Newport Town Clerk on behalf of the Town Board of the Town of Newport shall cause this proposed Plan of Dissolution to be published in accordance with General Municipal Law §775 and conduct a public hearing concerning the proposed dissolution pursuant to General Municipal Law §776.
Notice of need for Fire Commissioners
The Town of Newport is looking to appoint a person to the Board of Fire Commissioners for the Newport Fire District.
Anyone interested must be a town resident and eighteen years of age.
This position is voluntary and there is no pay. Please contact the Town clerk @315-845-8340 if you are interested on or before Sept. 11th, 2017.
Town of Newport Town Board
Nanette Roesler, Town Clerk
Establishment of the Newport Joint Fire District
Resolution Authorizing Establishment of Poland Fire District
Notice of Joint Public Hearing - Fire District
NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING CONCERNING THE FORMATION OF A
JOINT FIRE DISTRICT IN A PORTION OF THE TOWN OF NEWPORT, A PORTION
OF THE TOWN OF NORWAY, AND IN THE VILLAGE OF NEWPORT
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, that the Town Board of the Town of Newport, the Town
Board of the Town of Norway, and the Board of Trustees of the Village of Newport, have
agreed by joint resolution dated June 6, 2017 to consider proposing the establishment
of a joint fire district and that said boards shall hold a Joint Public Hearing on
Wednesday June 21, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Town of Norway Community Center
3114 Military Rd. Newport, NY 13416, for the purpose of hearing all persons interested
in the establishment of a joint fire district and for considering if the establishment of a
joint fire district is in the public interest.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the boundaries of the proposed joint fire
district are briefly described as follows: all that area and properties within the Town of
Newport currently designated and referred to as constituting and comprising Newport
Fire Protection Districts FD160 and FD170; all that area and properties within the Town
of Norway currently designated and referred to as constituting and comprising the
Newport Fire Protection District; and the entirety of the area and properties constituting
and comprising the Village of Newport.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the objects for which it is proposed that
a joint fire district be established is to provide for a uniform, equitable, and stable
system for the governance and funding of fire protection and emergency services as
provided by law and the purposes for which it is proposed that a joint fire district be
established is to ensure the continued provision of fire protection and emergency
services by the dedicated volunteers serving the community by establishing a board of
fire commissioners of the joint fire district to serve as the authority having jurisdiction
over the provision of such services and operations as provided by law.
Lora Grower, Town Clerk
Tricia Foster, Village Clerk
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