2025-1792025-179
Resolution Setting Public Hearing on Proposed Budgets, O&M Charges, Rates and Rents for Special
Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas for Fiscal Year 2026
At a Regular Meeting of the Town Board of the Town of Wappinger, Dutchess County, New York, held
at Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls, New York, on October 14, 2025.
The meeting was called to order by Joseph D. Cavaccini, Town Supervisor, and upon roll being called,
the following was recorded:
✓ Vote Record - Resolution RES -2025-179
Yes/Aye
No/Nay
Abstain
Absent
Q Adopted
❑ Adopted as Amended
Joseph D. Cavaccini
Voter
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Defeated
William H. Beale
Voter
Q
❑
❑
❑
❑ Tabled
Angela Bettina
Voter
❑
❑
❑
Q
❑ Withdrawn
Christopher Phillips
Mover
Q
❑
❑
❑
Al Casella
Seconder
Q
❑
❑
❑
The following Resolution was introduced by Councilman Phillips and seconded by Casella.
WHEREAS, the Town Board annually establishes budgets for the financing of all capital improvements
of all Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas within the Town of Wappinger for the
ensuing year, and as part of the budget process the Town Board establishes Operation and Maintenance Charges
(O&M Charges), Rates and/or Rents, to be charged against those properties within said Special Improvement
Districts or Special Improvement Areas; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board will have completed the proposed budgets for the financing of capital
improvements for the proposed quarterly O&M Charges, Rates and Rents in accordance with said budget, to be
charged against those properties within said for the Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvements
Areas for Fiscal Year 2026; and
WHEREAS, the Town Board, as required by Town Law, hereby schedules and orders a Public Hearing
to be held on October 27, 2025, for the purposes of hearing and considering any objections which may be made
to the aforementioned proposed budgets, and the proposed quarterly O&M Charges, Rates and Rents for the
Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas for Fiscal Year 2026.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Town Board hereby schedules a Public Hearing to be held
at a regular meeting of the Town Board on October 27, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. at Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road,
Wappingers Falls, New York for the purposes of hearing and considering any objections which may be made to
the proposed budgets and the proposed quarterly O&M Charges, Rates and Rents to be levied against the
properties within the Special Improvement Districts and Special Improvement Areas in the Town of Wappinger,
as noted below, for Fiscal Year 2026.
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS:
Town -wide Ambulance District
United Wappinger Water District
Fleetwood Manor Water District
United Wappinger Sewer District
Wildwood Sewer District
Fleetwood Manor Sewer District
Mid -Point Park Sewer District
Cameli Lighting District
Chelsea Lighting District
Hughsonville Lighting District
The Regency at Wappinger Lighting District
Keenan Acres Drainage District
Blackwatch Farms Drainage District
Meadowood Drainage District
Tuscany Subdivision Drainage District
The Hamlet Conservation Park District
Fieldstone Conservation Park District
Kendall Farms Conservation Park District
Chelsea Farms Drainage District
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT AREAS:
WST/TIA - Phase 3A
Sewer Improvement Area 45
Wappinger Sewer Improvement Area No
Watch Hill Sewer Improvement Area
Watch Hill Water Improvement Area
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Town Clerk is directed to publish a Notice of Public Hearing in the
form annexed hereto in the Town's official newspapers, the Southern Dutchess News and Poughkeepsie Journal,
not less than five (5) days prior to said public hearing date and is further directed to post the Notice of Public
Hearing on the Message Board of the Town and on the Town website as set forth above.
The foregoing was put to a vote which resulted as follows:
RESULT: ADOPTED [UNANIMOUS]
MOVER: Christopher Phillips, Councilman
SECONDER: Al Casella, Councilman
AYES: Joseph D. Cavaccini, William H. Beale, Christopher Phillips, Al Casella
ABSENT: Angela Bettina
Dated: Wappingers Falls, New York
10/14/2025
The Resolution is hereby duly declared Adopted.
P.PAOLONI, TOWN CLERK