by Alex Brooks
Incoming Petersburgh Town Supervisor Siegfried Krahforst said he would like to set up some committees to move the Town forward. He hopes that interested citizens will join these committees. He suggests that each committee have two citizens and one Town Board member on it. He would like to appoint a committee to look into economic development and attracting business into town, one to go over Town Laws, to revise and reconcile them to create a unified set of Town laws, one to look into the feasibility of using alternative energy to light and power the Town Buildings and an ethics committee to revise and update the Town’s ethics policy.
[private]Krahforst has scheduled a Town meeting for Wednesday, January 25, at 7 pm to appoint these committees, and he encourages any citizens who may be interested in serving on one of these committees to call the Town Hall and make their interest known.
Some of the other things Krahforst plans to explore are making the Veterans Memorial Community Center an emergency shelter, with a generator for emergency power, and he would like to contact the Sheriff’s Department about the room in the Town Hall basement that they use occasionally, and he would like to investigate the possibility of having a Senior housing project brought to Town.
Krahforst said he will be available to the public once a month for eight hours so that anyone who would like to speak to him about Town issues will find him easily accessible. He proposes to hold these office hours pretty much all day on the second Wednesday of the month.
RESOLUTION #1 for 2012
RESOLVED, that the salaries and/or wages of Town Officers,
Officials, and Employees be as follows:
Town Supervisor – Siegfried Krahforst – $ 10,000 per year
Town Councilmen (4) – $1,654.50 (each) per year (William Seel, David Alderman, Richard Snyder and Duane Goodermote Jr.)
Town Clerk – Callie Crisp – $11,776.00 per year
Registrar of Vital Statistics – Callie Crisp – $500 per year
Superintendent of Highways – Ray Harrison – $40,055 per year
Deputy Hwy. Superintendent – Steven Harrison – $922.47 per year
Town Justice (2) – $4,700 (each) per year (Paul Montgomery and Amy Manchester)
Court Clerk – Callie Crisp – $7,300 per year
Tax Collector – Emily Harrison – $3,100 per year
Assessor – Craig Surprise – $15,200 per year
Assessor’s Clerk – Anne Schnoop – $11 per hour
Board of Assessment Review – $100 (each) per year (Dennis Smith, David Miller, Anne Bossoni, Brandon DeWaal, Barbara Snyder
BAR Secretary – Callie Crisp – $110 per year
Dog Control Officer – Lynne Torello-Burns – $3,000 per year
Code Enforcement Officer – Doug Hull – $9,600 per year
Town Attorney – Kevin Engel – $7,000 per year
Town Hall Custodian – Emily Harrison – $50 per week
PVMCC Custodian – Katie Dastoli – $60 per week
Water District Superintendent – Todd Stradinger – $12 per day
Water District Tax Collector – Callie Crisp – $1,200 per year
Highway Dept. Employees range from $15.66 per hour to $10 per hour
Town Secretary – Callie Crisp – $6,611 per year
Bookkeeper – Charles Guntner – $6,500 per year
Other Appointments:
Deputy Supervisor – Barbara Snyder
Deputy Town Clerk – Anne Schnoop
Deputy Registrar – Anne Schnoop
Town Historian – Peter Schaaphok
Town Board Representative to Rescue Squad – Richard Snyder
HUD Coordinator – William Seel
Veterans Service Officer – David Alderman
Official Newspaper – The Eastwick Press[/private]