Agenda
Regular Meeting of the Board of Selectmen
Monday, June 27, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.
Town Office Building

1. Call to Order
2. Approve Minutes of Meeting held June 13, and Special Meeting held June 15, 2005, Minutes of Meeting held May 9, 2005
3. Visitors: Senator Edward Meyer, Donna Shanoff, PAYT Committee
4. Tax Abatements & Refunds
5. Appointments/Vacancies:
    1. Field Study Committee
    2. H-K Recreation: S. Hollander, M. Cumpstone, J. Machold
6. Old Business:
    1. PAYT/Transfer Station Operation
    2. Reservoir Road Bridge
7. New Business:
    1. Map Machine
    2. Conservation Commission/Bosco Property
    3. Schedule Town Meeting/Rachel's Court, H-K Rec. Authority
8. DLD Announcements:
9. Selectmen's Concerns
10. Executive Session: KMEA Contract Negotiations
   Land Acquisition
11. Adjournment
Agenda as of 1:45 p.m., Friday, 6/24/05
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It's too hot to slave over a stove this weekend, so have a pizza dinner delivered to your door this Sunday, June 26 from 5-8 for a $5 delivery fee and support the Mikayla Nuhn Fund. To order your pizza, call Apizza Tuscana at 663-2256.

If you would like to make an additional donation to Mikayla's Fund, please contact Nadine Cabrera at Banknorth at (860) 663-3894 or stop by the Killingworth branch to make a deposit to the account "KWO FBO Mikayla Nuhn Fund."

Killingworth resident Ray Celmer writes to comment on a recent Board of Selectmen's decision.

As reported in the local press the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Killingworth voted 2 to 1 against petitioning the DEP for approximately $180,000.00 for a conservation easement on part of the Town-owned "Bosco" property. The sum of $180,00.00 is not insignificant and would have provided painless funding for much of the currently discussed playing fields. First Selectman David Denvir also expressed uncertainty, based on a previous vote at a Town Meeting, as to whether there was a clear interest in Town to pursue the DEP grant. Read Celmer's Letter.

The Town of Killingworth's Pay As You Throw Committee, charged with looking into and making recommendations regarding the use and needed improvements to the Town Transfer Station, has submitted its recommendations to the Board of Selectmen and are requesting to have these changes voted upon at Monday's Board of Selectmen's Meeting.

The Committee is recommending immediate expansion of recycling at the Town Transfer Station. These recommendations are in response to residents' requests on PAYT surveys and the projected savings are estimated at 30 thousand dollars annually in Transfer Station expenditures.

The recommendations include utilization of the third compactor that is currently unused; moving cardboard disposal to the compactor, and accepting 'mixed paper' recycling.

The Board of Selectmen have already approved a change in the Transfer Station Hours to shift some waste volume from Saturday to Thursday. Starting July 1, Saturday hours will be 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.; Thursday hours will be 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Tuesday hours will remain the same.

The BOS has also approved the addition of a "white paper' only recycling bin. This addition was in direct response to the user surveys.

For complete details on the PAYT recommendations and for contact information please read PAYT Recommendations

Cynthia Fusco, R.N., a resident of Killingworth, was among 96 employees inducted into the Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) Quarter Century Club. The honor recognizes the dedicated members of the YNHH team who have reached their 25th anniversary with the hospital.

The inductees, from the hiring class of 1979, were honored during a banquet at the Omni-New Haven Hotel at Yale. Together, with over 650 members of the Quarter Century Club who are still employed at the hospital, they represent 10 percent of the YNHH workforce and almost 2,500 years of combined service.

Fusco is a registered nurse on the Surgery Unit.
photo courtesy YNHH Public Relations

This fall, the Killingworth Nursery School will be celebrating it's 50th year of educating our town's youngest residents. If you are a KNSA alumnus or relative of a KNSA alumnus and would like to participate in organizing the big 50th anniversary celebration, please contact the school via e-mail at knsa50years@yahoo.com or by phone at 663-2950.
photo courtesy J. Wilson

The Town of Killingworth will hold a Special Town Meeting, Monday, June 27 at 8:00 p.m. at KES to approve funding for the ball field planned on Bethke Road. Resident Eric Auer and a dedicated group of volunteers have completed their testing, gained approvals from the necessary Town Commissions, and are prepared to break ground. Auer is seeking a special appropriation of $45,000 for materials and services. The majority of the funds will be spent on the professional installed backstop and fencing. Read a review of the project in today's New Haven Register.

Region 17 Schools Superintendent Gary Mala has provided the text of his address from Tuesday's Haddam-Killingworth High School Graduation Ceremony. Please find the complete text here.

Congratulations to the Gersz Law Offices sponsored Red Sox for defeating the Apizza Tuscana Mets, 9-5, yesterday for the Killingworth Youth League Minors Baseball Title. The hard-fought game culminated the Championship season for the 9 and 10 year-old boys, their coaches and their families.

The Champion Red Sox were coached by Mark Gersz, Peter Tripodi and Chris Senechal. The runner-up Mets were coached by Les Burns and Bill Velez.

On the first day of summer, the Haddam-Killingworth High School Class of 2005 embarked on their new lives as high school graduates. Principal Charles Macunas presented the class with visible pride in their accomplishments and potential. Valedictorian Amber Gode talked about the need to keep learning, whether it was in college, military service or just in the everyday activity of reading the newspaper. Schools Superintendent Gary Mala spoke of the graduates' new responsibility as role models and Salutatorian Elizabeth Magleby read the thoughtful musings of Dr. Seuss from 'Oh, the Places You'll Go'.

The 126 graduates were led by Class Officers Elizabeth Kozlowski, President; Jessica Litevich, Vice President; Christopher Landano, Secretary; Brett Zanardi, Treasurer and Historians Heather Warren and Jamie McDermott. This year's class gift is a gazebo for the school grounds, designed and constructed by members of the class. At last night's Awards Ceremony Adam Rembisz and Peter Venuti were honored for their role in the project.

Principal Macunas also honored the five District teachers who are retiring this year: Margaret Luecke, High School World Language; Michael Bower, Director of Counseling; Pam Brockway, High School English; Sharon Ledoux, third-grade at Burr Elementary and Michael Kish, High School Mathematics.

Please watch for more graduation photos later this week. Additional photos from Monday's Awards Night are available here.

Haddam-Killingworth High School held its Annual Awards Night, last night, to honor its scholarship winners and highest achieving students. The evening highlighted the best and the brightest that the Towns of Killingworth and Haddam had to offer. Here are highlights of just four of the most honored students. More highlights will follow.

Among the honorees was Killingworth's own Kristen Hetsko, who graduates 5th in her class and will attend the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy next fall. She was awarded the Kent Healy Scholarship; the John Marshall Award for Excellence in Justice; the Carl Anderson Award; the Martin Luther King Award for Excellence in Speech and Debate; Excellence in Physical Education; a CAPT Scholar; the Marshall McLuhan Award for Excellence in Media Literacy and the Tilcon Good Citizen Award.

Valedictorian of the Class of 2005 is Killingworth's Amber Gode. She will attend Dartmouth next year. Last night she was awarded a Killingworth Scholarship Association Award; the prestigious Mark Twain Award; the New Haven Register Youth of the Year; the George Fitch Memorial Scholarship; Excellence in AP Spanish, Business Law, AP Calculus and Computers and a CAPT Scholar.

Killingworth's Matthew Albrecht was honored for his commitment to the community. He received the Killingworth Lions Community Service Award; the Killingworth Ambulance Association Scholarship; the Bertolini Scholarship; the Melinda Parahus Memorial Scholarship; a CABE Leadership Award and Achievement in Applied Geometry.

Haddam's Lauren McKinnon was recognized for her appointment to the U.S. Air Force Academy by Col. Perry Forgione. A special arrangement had been made to have Lauren's sister Molly call and congratulate her on her appointment, but Molly was out of contact while in transit home from Baghdad. Molly, a 1999 HKHS graduate is a First Lieutenant in the 10th Mountain Division. She graduated from West Point in 2003. Lauren, who earned 12 Varsity letters while at HK, was honored for Achievement in Decorative Arts and named a CAPT Scholar.

Special recognition was given to the three members of the Class of 2005 who have enlisted for military service: Keith Petrulis, Marines; Adam Wakefield, Army and Andrea Rivera, Air Force.

The Top 10 Students in the Class of 2005 are: 1. Amber Gode; 2. Elizabeth Magleby; 3. Amy Lavorgna; 4. Kelly Devlin; 5. Kristen Hetsko; 6. Joshua Booth; 7. Chelsea Brookes; 8. Rachel Langevin, 9. Margaret Smith and 10. Danielle Funaro.

This week, Killingworth Democratic Town Committee member Gwenne Lally discusses the Killingworth Democratic Committee Platform for 2005.

Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or independent, we consider ourselves your Killingworth Democratic Town Committee. Yes, we want our candidates to win the offices they run for. But our reason is not to seize power. It's to share it, openly and honestly, so that Killingworth can regain control of its future. full story.

Images from the St. Lawrence Church Strawberry Festival and Auction, Saturday.

Town of Killingworth
Notice of Special Town Meeting
The Electors of the Town of Killingworth and all those qualified to vote in meetings of said Town are hereby notified and warned that a Special Town Meeting will be held in the All Purpose Room of the Killingworth Elementary School on Monday, June 27, 2005 at 8:00 p.m. to consider and act upon the following items of business:

1. To authorize the Board of Selectmen to accept on behalf of the Town a transfer (for no consideration) of land to the Town from the Killingworth Land Conservation Trust; said land being located on Bethke Road; and, such authorization being contingent upon Town Meeting approval of a special appropriation of $45,000.00 to construct a "little league" field upon the land.

2. To consider and act upon a special appropriation, as approved by the Board of Finance, in the amount of $45,000.00 for use in funding construction of one "little league" baseball field on property currently owned by the Killingworth Land Conservation Trust and located on Bethke Road.

The 2005 Killingworth Library Summer Reading Program, "Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds", kicked off, Saturday with an appearance by Minstrel storyteller, Mary Jo Maichack.

Children interested in the summer reading program can stop by the Library or or contact Gayle at 663-2000.