Supervisor's Open Golf Outing 5-5-2008

The Friends of Supervisor Nick Woerner

Invite you to attend...

The Third Annual Supervisor’s Open
Golf Tournament

Monday, May 5, 2008

The Wiltwyck Country Club
404 Steward Lane, Kingston , NY

8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast
9:00 AM Shotgun Start

18 Holes of Golf

Breakfast

BBQ Lunch

Hole-In-One Contests and Prizes

$ 125.00 Per Golfer

For more information e-mail

ulstersupervisor@yahoo.com

Ulster aims to boost energy efficiency

I am happy to have had the ability to lay the ground work for continued efficiency that the Town of Ulster has lacked for over 20 years.

Supervisor Woerner


By William J. Kemble, Correspondent

04/08/2008

TOWN OF ULSTER - The Town Board is developing a request for energy performance-based contract proposals to upgrade the Town Hall, highway complex, water and wastewater treatment plants, and water meters. The project was proposed by Amherst consulting firm Wendel Energy during a Town Board meeting last week. "Many of the projects that we identified are currently on the town's capital project list," said company General Manager Scott Smith. In an April 3 letter, the company recommended that controls for interior and exterior lighting should be install for all buildings. Town Hall and water treatment plant improvements would include heating and cooling controls based on time of day and rehabilitation of the heating and cooling systems. Upgrades at the wastewater treatment plant would include installing premium efficiency motors on the sludge handling pumps; installation of a specialized gas storage tank to accommodate boiler upgrades; and converting a propane system to a natural gas system. Recommended upgrades to the Whittier Sewer District are installation of a new primary treatment tank to increase capacity; increasing capacity of the existing aeration tank; adding a supplemental biological treatment system; and increasing capacity of sludge handling. Smith wrote that replacements are also needed for some of the 2,500 water meters used by town systems. "Approximately 25 percent of these meters are over 15 years old," he wrote. "A portion of the remaining 75 percent have been replaced as part of a program instituted in 1994 to upgrade the existing water meters. From our experience, meter inaccuracy or under-reading has proven to be approximately 0.5 percent for each year the meter is in service." Town Supervisor Nick Woerner said the company would be asked to help draft a request for proposals that can be approved during the April 17 Town Board meeting.


©Daily Freeman 2008

'Rain garden' planned at Ulster Town Hall

Keeping with our commitment to improving our environment the Town of Ulster is proud to be part of this innovative project.

Supervisor Woerner


By William J. Kemble, Correspondent

04/08/2008

TOWN OF ULSTER - Master gardeners are planning to use a portion of the Town Hall parking area for a 33-by-60-foot "rain garden" to use diverted stormwater runoff to sustain plants and flowers and to filter water before it reaches streams. The project was reviewed during a Town Board meeting last week, when officials said the funds for the $30,000 project will come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program. "We're putting in a retention pond that will accept the rain runoff from over the walkway and a portion of the roof, capture that water to prevent it from running across the parking lot and in front of everybody," said Frank Almquist, a master gardener and town Planning Board member. "The planting material that will go in there will be native plants and will absorb high water table as well as low water needs during dry periods." Cornell Cooperative Extension Community Horticulture Assistant Dona Crawford said the project will demonstrate ways to maintain esthetic appeal while conserving natural resources and improving water quality. "We have for the past seven years had a demonstration Xeriscape garden at (Ulster County Community) College, which involves using plants that don't use a lot of water and thereby conserve water," she said. Crawford said the Xeriscape program preceded the rain garden project as an effort to filter water before it reaches creeks and streams. She said decisions about plants to be used will be made after soil tests are completed but could include Summer Sweet shrubs, lobelia perennial flowers, blue flag, iris, Joe-Pye weed, and the shrub red twig dogwood. "If anything this will attract bees," she said. Crawford said other rain gardens will be established at the Saugerties Town Hall and Rosendale Library.

©Daily Freeman 2008

Blog Update

Hello friends,

Over the last few weeks many of you have been asking me when will the blog have some new info? Well my apologizes. It has been a busy few weeks at Town Hall. So tonight you will start to see some updates as to what has been going on. Thank you for your continued support.


Supervisor Woerner