10/08/1998 BOARD OF HEALTH Minutes

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MINUTES October 8, 1998 5 BOARD OF HEALTH of the building permits on the condition no occupancy permits would be issued or signed- off on without the treatment plant being fully approved by the D.E.P.." "Apparently, it turned out Mr. Bonvie has been pressuring the building department for occupancies and that resulted in our meeting." "We're planning a meeting again tomorrow to deal with the building and fire departments because the building and fire departments have serious issues with occupancies out there_" "Our concern is the fact that the wastewater treatment plant is not on line and is not approved by the D.E.P. at this point." "It just so happened that the morning of our meeting, within minutes Mr. Bonvie called me and said that D.E.P. was going to be down yesterday to give final approval of the treatment plant." "He called me first thing this morning and said he had bonding problems and that the D.E.P. would not sign-off on the treatment plant until at the earliest next Wednesday so the meeting is scheduled next Wednesday at 10:00 a.m.." "We went through this six years ago." "We somehow were convinced he could use the holding tanks, put up a bond in case he had to pump the holding tanks until he had enough occupancies to get the treatment plant going." "In my opinion, it's no where near that, we should not grant occupancy permits until D.E.P. approves the treatment plant to be on line." "If the D.E.P. approves the plan to be 100% functional and issues a discharge permit they can still use the holding tanks until he gets enough occupancies to warrant the activation of the plant." "I want the D.E.P. to approve the plant as operational, then he can shut it down." Board members agreed no action shall be taken at this time. Transfer Station Schedule Mr. McQuaid relayed, "Part of Mr. DiMaggio's contract was that he be clos4,,gp_:: both Tuesdays and Thursdays from November through March." "There was distasion;;. last spring about changing the contract, putting in more money to leave the transfer stion., open on Tuesdays in the wintertime." "My last recollection in these discussions with Mr:. Whritenour was that if he could find the money would we stay open on Tuesdays and it was left like that." "Well, apparently he found the money to stay open on Tuesdays." "None of us acted upon it." "Now it's getting close to November I' and Mr. Whritenour is expecting us to stay open on Tuesdays through the winter." Mr. Cram commented, "This was a contract agreement with Mr. DiMaggio from two years ago." "In order for the contract to be revised there must be some sort of agreement between the contractor and the Board as far as whatever fee is going to be paid for that additional day for this extra period of time." i