VILLAGE OF FAYETTEVILLE – At its May 24 meeting, the village of Fayetteville agreed that employees, volunteers and any other people will not be required to wear a face mask when inside or outside of a designated village of Fayetteville building or public space if they have been deemed adequately vaccinated for COVID-19. This policy echoes Governor Andrew Cuomo’s mandate and adheres to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.
According to Fayetteville mayor Mark Olson, a person entering or occupying one of these buildings or spaces who is not wearing a mask may be asked to show proof of vaccination. Anyone unable or unwilling to provide proof of vaccination will be required to wear a mask, or else they could foreseeably be urged to leave the premises.
In other news
– Before adopting a law amending the noise ordinance chapter of the local code, the village held a public hearing on the subject.
The Town of Manlius had recently adopted modifications to its noise control regulations, and to ensure that the separate localities flip to the same page, the three villages have also taken the issue into consideration, village attorney Ted Spencer said.
The changes involve the incorporation of more objective standards for defining what constitutes objectionable or unnecessary noise, as measured in decibels.
In the writing of the local law, “unnecessary noise” has been defined as “any excessive or unusually loud sound or any sound which either annoys, disturbs, injures or endangers the comfort, repose, health, peace or safety of a reasonable person or which causes injury to animal life or damage to property or business.”
Distress imposed on animals due to noise would be considered in addition to such results as eardrum damage.
Fayetteville’s local law differs from the Manlius town law as far as decibel maximums for certain time intervals go. Between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on Sundays and federal holidays, a sound level of 70 dB is the maximum allowed in Fayetteville. The cutoff during the remaining hours of each week is 50 dB at max in the village.
– Clerk-Treasurer Lorie Corsette has resigned in order to be reappointed to her position with slightly different terms of employment, effective June 1.
– The Fayetteville board plans to have “non-obtrusive” signs installed around Beard Pond that would read “No Fishing.” Trustee Michael Small said that fishing lines and hooks have gotten stuck on nearby fountain infrastructure, while the carp presently living in the pond had been purchased by the village not to be caught, but for algae consumption.
– The village approved the purchase of an LED upgrade for streetlights along Genesee Street and Mott Road, and Olson was authorized to sign the general fund tax warrant for 2021-2022.
The May 24 board meeting can be found and viewed on the village’s website, fayettevilleny.gov, in the “Livestream Links” section.
