VILLAGE OF BALDWINSVILLE – At the March 2 Baldwinsville Village Board of Trustees meeting, Mayor Richard Clarke had nothing but praise for the work of the village’s Department of Public Works and Water Department.
The evening of Friday, March 24 a major water main break on Water Street shut off the water to much of the Van Buren side of the village. The break happened after business hours, so while the mayor contacted the media to alert residents that the village was working to fix the issue, Chuck McAuliffe called in the DPW and Water Department crews to get to work on the issue.
Most residents had their water service restored within a few hours.
“When you’re the mayor, you get to see the good stuff and the bad stuff, and you hope you don’t see too much of the bad, but boy did last week we see the good with our water department,” Clarke said. “We have a special group of people working for our DPW and our water department.”

More body cameras for PD
Police Chief Mike Lefancheck notified trustees that the Baldwinsville Police Department has received a $20,000 state grant which will allow the department to purchase additional body worn cameras.
Lefancheck said currently the department has seven or eight body worn cameras – one was lost to the bottom of the Seneca River during a water rescue – not enough for everyone to have one during large events. This new grant will allow everyone in the department to have a camera, he said.
Lefancheck also told the board that in the next couple of years, the village will need to invest in cloud data storage for the footage from body worn cameras. Currently, that data is stored locally on a server, but as more data comes in, it will exceed that server’s existing capacity.