This paper recently printed editorial columns requesting that the village of Fredonia spell out its Sept. 10 water plans. There’s more than a hint of the plans in a resolution the Board of Trustees passed Aug. 4.

The trustees set a meeting for Wednesday, Sept. 10 to supposedly make a decision on buying water from the North County Water District, and approving bonding related to the decision. Mayor Michael Ferguson said Friday afternoon that the resolutions which trustees will consider would be posted later in the day on the village website.

The board seemingly set a framework in place Aug. 4 for an affirmative decision on buying water from the district.

At a meeting that day, it approved going ahead with a State Environmental Quality Review of “certain proposed improvements (Alternative 2),” according to the resolution. That refers to a study of the Fredonia water system by village engineers of record LaBella, where “Alternative 2” would lead Fredonia toward buying water from the district, and decommissioning its current treatment plant.

Indeed, “the decommissioning and demolition of the village’s existing water treatment plant” was listed among the “proposed improvements” to be covered by the SEQR. Here are the other items:

— “The installation of distribution system piping (to 24″, 12″ and 10″ diameter piping along Water Street) as necessary support to proposed infrastructure”;

— “the installation of three interconnection structures along the border between the town of Pomfret and the village of Fredonia”;

— “the construction of a new water storage tank (completed under SEQR review by the Town of Pomfret as lead agency)”; and

— “modifications to the village’s existing dam and reservoir to comply with New York State Dam Safety regulations.”

The Aug. 4 SEQR resolution passed 4-1, with Trustee Michelle Twichell the lone “no” vote.

While Twichell is friendly to LaBella’s “Alternative 1,” which would keep Fredonia’s water-producing system after extensive renovations, none of the other members of the Board of Trustees have made any proposals or statements to back that plan.

The proposed Sept. 10 resolutions were not made public until Friday, irking some. Prominent Village Hall critic Sam Drayo, who worked there for many years as attorney, demanded in an OBSERVER editorial column that the resolutions get released so the public can have a chance to debate them. The OBSERVER’s View column subsequently echoed that sentiment.