Construction of the Northwest Family YMCA is nearly complete, according to a presentation given to the Lysander Town Board Monday night.
Code Enforcement Officer Tim Wolsey gave the board an update on the construction of the facility at the public work session preceding its April 27 meeting.
Lysander Supervisor John Salisbury and Wolsey recently toured the 100,000-square-foot facility on River Road. Wolsey said the Northwest Family YMCA (NWFY) sought a temporary certificate of occupancy (TCO) so staffers can begin working in the offices there. The TCO was set to go into effect April 28.
While the downstairs portion of the building is nearly finished, construction continues on the upstairs running track, a balcony in the upstairs cancer survivors’ center and the pools. Wolsey said contractors are installing tiles in the facility’s three pools, which should take about three weeks.
Wolsey said the NWFY was also considering a “curtain wall” to divide a teen room upstairs, but he said the wall would eliminate the room’s second point of egress, which building codes require.
Aside from the finishing touches of installing the last doors and windows, paving and land grading, the Y is nearly ready for its grand opening in June.
“Other than that, they’re good to go,” Wolsey said.
Stop sign hearing May 11
Town engineer Al Yager submitted a letter to the town board responding to Highway Superintendent Gene Dinsmore’s comments about two proposed stop signs in the Talamore subdivision.
At the April 13 work session, Dinsmore said installing one stop sign at the intersection of Talamore Way and Patchett Road and another at Talamore Way’s T-shaped intersection would violate state and federal Department of Transportation regulations that seek to reduce excessive stop signs.
“It’s certainly warranted from a sight distance perspective, as well as a pedestrian traffic perspective,” Yager said.
Yager cited the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices to support his case for the two stop signs.
According to Section 2B.04 Right-of-Way Intersections, a yield or stop sign should be used to control “the direction that conflicts the most with established pedestrian crossing activity or school walking routes.”
In his letter, Yager said the Baldwinsville Central School District will put a school bus stop at the T-shaped intersection, and neighborhood children will be walking and riding their bicycles.
Yager also pointed to Section 2B.06 STOP Sign Applications, which states that a stop sign is warranted on a minor street with a “restricted view exists that requires road users to stop in order to adequately observe conflicting traffic on the through street or highway.”
Snow banks and parked cars could block a driver’s view, Yager said, so a full stop would be wise.
Dinsmore consented to Yager’s findings for the Talamore stop signs, but said he believed the issue still “warrants investigation.”
“But I don’t want to leave [this] intersection barenaked because there are already people living there,” Dinsmore said.
A public hearing on the Talamore stop signs has been scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, May 11.
Also on the agenda
-The town board approved a bond resolution for $155,400 for water meter replacement, which the board discussed in December 2014.
The bond will cover the costs of $91,140 to Ti Sales for 465 Neptune T-10 integrated water meters, $59,280 to T&S Mechanical for installation of the meters and $4,960.80 to Martisco Corporation for replacement parts.
-The Lysander Town Board will present two financial reports on the Lysander Radisson Community Arena at its May 11 meeting. Supervisor John Salisbury said the reports would cover final sale numbers and the expenses the town incurred while it controlled the ice arena.
Salisbury did not disclose any specific numbers, but said during the public work session that the numbers look “very favorable” for both the sale and the expenses, which include paying off the bond, legal fees and other costs.
“We may have a couple hundred thousand dollars left there,” he said. “On income and expenses, we might break even or may have a little.”
