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Mayor Don Hartill told Village Trustees Monday that he still hasn't received a copy of the engineer's report from Town officials.  Without seeing the specific plan, he said he can not respond to questions the Town has raised about including  Autumn Ridge in the service area.  While most of Autumn Ridge is in the Township, parts of it plus access to the development are in the Village.


Additionally, Trustees mulled the question of ownership of portions of the trunk sewer that will traverse the Village.  While Trustee Frank Moore suggested that these details be settled by the municipalities' attorneys, Village Attorney David Dubow suggested that a one-on-one meeting of the principals from both the Town and Village would be his recommendation.

"My opinion is you should put the two parties together in one place," Dubow told the Trustees.  "Doing it in person is a much more effective way, because very often you will come up with a result that neither one of you came in with.  It's the product of discussing the merits of a situation, and what the interests are of either party.  It's very difficult to do that by exchanging letters of intent or memoranda."

Deputy Mayor Larry Fresinski asked what the legal position would be if the Village and Town come to an impasse.  Hartill noted that the Town has eminent domain over the Village.  But Dubow noted that the Town can not use Village right of way without the consent of the Village Board.  Hartill explained that the Town could work with individual landowners if it came to that kind of impasse with the Village.

"I think Don's (Hartill) feelings about this are stronger than Steve's (Farkas, Town Supervisor)," said Trustee Frank Moore.  "They want to see the project go ahead.  That's their main concern.  We're the ones that are more focussed on local impact."

But nobody suggested that it would actually come to that.  Dubow was optimistic that a face to face meeting will be successful at working out the details of an agreement that the Town and Village have largely agreed upon already in principal.  Hartill said he would call town officials to offer a face to face discussion as Dubow had advised.

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