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Hanover clerk won’t seek re-election

OBSERVER Photo by J.M. Lesinski Hanover Town Clerk Janine Salzman announced Monday she won’t be seeking re-election after serving 41 years as town clerk.

HANOVER — A familiar face at Hanover Town Board meetings will soon be leaving.

At the board’s workshop meeting, Town Clerk Janine Salzman declared she would not be re-running for her position, much to the disappointment of the board.

“After great deliberation and 41-plus years serving as Town Clerk, I have decided to not seek re-election,” Salzman stated. “Thank you.”

In other business, Supervisor Louis Pelletter also brought up the bids for new surveillance equipment for Hanover Town Hall. “The court grant was approved,” Pelletter said. “To me, the best price for the best system would be DFT for what we want to do.”

Bids for the new surveillance equipment came from four different sources in total: DFT Security at $9,800, Amherst Alarm at $13,536, two separate bids from FSC at $7,700 and $5,110 and Senitrol at $15,895.

“Amherst Alarm and Senitrol want monitoring,” Pelletter went on to say. “You can buy the system, but they have to monitor it. The other two, we can do it ourselves.”

Hanover Town Supervisor Todd Johnson then inquired about the monitoring fees, to which Pelleter replied, “They (Amherst Alarm and Senitrol) want $300 a month on top of what you’re paying now. With DFT and FCS, there won’t be any fee at all. … We monitor it ourselves.”

Before moving from the workshop to the regular meeting, Pelletter also noted that a grant for Forestville basketball is moving forward, then also expressed some concern over the proposed, incoming LED lights. “I’m concerned about NYSEG,” Pelletter said. “When they said if we do something on a road, we have to have special traffic control. That’s kind of open-ended. … I think we should put this on hold. I thought when you change a light bulb, that’s kind of your problem, not our problem. I don’t want to get involved with, and pay within 30 days, any special traffic control that they decide they need, but I don’t know what it is.”

Town Attorney Jeffrey Passafaro had input on that issue as well. “You have no real authority in certain places, like Routes 5 & 20, and I think you need to talk about that with the highway superintendent, as it applies to town right and county rights,” Passafaro noted. “The issue is, they need to elaborate on what the circumstances would be that require more (traffic control), the time duration. … They need to give us more factual information.”

Shifting from workshop to meeting, the town board officially approved the bid from DFT, to be paid on a split bill between the court grant and the town. Pelletter motioned to authorize DFT for the bid, “because they’re the most responsible bid for what we want to do for the camera security in the town hall.”

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