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An Irondequoit Communications Advisory Council will replace the former Irondequoit Cable Commission. The Irondequoit Town Board formally approved formation of the council at its meeting Tuesday, April 20.
“The idea is to have a kind of think tank of residents,” town staffer Brian Bell told the board. “We’re hoping to bring in people with web design and development experience, photography and marketing knowledge, and more.”
The former cable commission, said colleague Nate Stone, didn’t encompass the town’s Web site or other social media like Facebook, which would be covered by the new council. It would still cover content and policies for the town’s two cable access television channels, 12 and 15.
“We need people to examine what needs to be done,” Supervisor Mary Joyce D’Aurizio said. “We’ve discovered that some of our policies are outdated.”
Bell said the council will only serve in an advisory capacity, and that decision-making will be left to the Town Board.
Stone said the council would be a seven-person board comprised of all Irondequoit residents, plus two town staffers and one Town Board member as a liaison but nonvoting member.
Stone said the council is accepting applications for the council now. Applications are available on the town Web site, www.irondequoit.org, or by calling 336-7273.
In other board action April 20:
• The board called a public hearing for its May 18 meeting on how the town’s nearly $2 million federal Community Development Block Grant will be spent this year. Since longtime CDBG consultant Ron Sassone is retiring, the board also hired Stuart Brown Associates, an affiliate of LaBella Associates, to provide consultant services for the program. The grant includes administrative expenses that will cover the consulting costs. Stuart Brown staffers Barbara Johnston, project manager; Kathleen Dear, program manager, and the director of LaBella’s planning division introduced themselves at the beginning of the April 20 meeting.
• The board accepted a state grant of $11,844.81 that will be used by the Town Court for a new audio and recording system, computers, printers, furniture and judges’ robes.
• The board approved a three-year lease for a new car, a six-cylinder Chevrolet Impala, for Police Chief Richard Boyan, whose current car is 10 years old and has 104,000 miles.
• The board promoted Filomena Amedeo, a civilian clerk for the past 10 years at the Irondequoit Police Department, to the police office records manager.
• The board approved the purchase of two pieces of equipment, a vacuum sewer cleaner with chassis and a mini excavator with trailer, at a total cost of more than $300,000, for the town’s Department of Public Works.
• The board authorized an agreement with Blue Springs Energy to help administer and write quarterly reports for a $440,000 federal grant it already has received, and to help the town seek other federal and energy efficiency grants.
• The board authorized adoption of an Equal Employment Opportunity Plan, required as a condition of a $47,894 federal grant it has received.
An Irondequoit Communications Advisory Council will replace the former Irondequoit Cable Commission. The Irondequoit Town Board formally approved formation of the council at its meeting Tuesday, April 20.
“The idea is to have a kind of think tank of residents,” town staffer Brian Bell told the board. “We’re hoping to bring in people with web design and development experience, photography and marketing knowledge, and more.”
The former cable commission, said colleague Nate Stone, didn’t encompass the town’s Web site or other social media like Facebook, which would be covered by the new council. It would still cover content and policies for the town’s two cable access television channels, 12 and 15.
“We need people to examine what needs to be done,” Supervisor Mary Joyce D’Aurizio said. “We’ve discovered that some of our policies are outdated.”
Bell said the council will only serve in an advisory capacity, and that decision-making will be left to the Town Board.
Stone said the council would be a seven-person board comprised of all Irondequoit residents, plus two town staffers and one Town Board member as a liaison but nonvoting member.
Stone said the council is accepting applications for the council now. Applications are available on the town Web site, www.irondequoit.org, or by calling 336-7273.
In other board action April 20:
• The board called a public hearing for its May 18 meeting on how the town’s nearly $2 million federal Community Development Block Grant will be spent this year. Since longtime CDBG consultant Ron Sassone is retiring, the board also hired Stuart Brown Associates, an affiliate of LaBella Associates, to provide consultant services for the program. The grant includes administrative expenses that will cover the consulting costs. Stuart Brown staffers Barbara Johnston, project manager; Kathleen Dear, program manager, and the director of LaBella’s planning division introduced themselves at the beginning of the April 20 meeting.
• The board accepted a state grant of $11,844.81 that will be used by the Town Court for a new audio and recording system, computers, printers, furniture and judges’ robes.
• The board approved a three-year lease for a new car, a six-cylinder Chevrolet Impala, for Police Chief Richard Boyan, whose current car is 10 years old and has 104,000 miles.
• The board promoted Filomena Amedeo, a civilian clerk for the past 10 years at the Irondequoit Police Department, to the police office records manager.
• The board approved the purchase of two pieces of equipment, a vacuum sewer cleaner with chassis and a mini excavator with trailer, at a total cost of more than $300,000, for the town’s Department of Public Works.
• The board authorized an agreement with Blue Springs Energy to help administer and write quarterly reports for a $440,000 federal grant it already has received, and to help the town seek other federal and energy efficiency grants.
• The board authorized adoption of an Equal Employment Opportunity Plan, required as a condition of a $47,894 federal grant it has received.
