NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION

SUBJECT TO PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a meeting held on the 6^th day of July, 2023, the Town Board of the Town of Philipstown, Putnam County, New York, duly adopted a Resolution entitled: “Resolution Approving Transfer Or Exchange Of Certain Real Property Owned By The Town Of Philipstown”, an abstract of which follows, which Resolution was adopted subject to permissive referendum pursuant to New York State of Town Law §64(2) and §91.

Abstract: The purpose and effect of the said Resolution is to declare the below listed vacant lots owned by the Town of Philipstown to be surplus property and to authorize transfer of title to the said lots to the Hudson Highlands Land Trust to be conserved in perpetuity as an extension of the Canopus Creek Preserve in consideration for a waiver by the Open Space Institute of certain restrictions of a conservation easement held by the Open Space Institute on the Town’s Highway Garage property.

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Pursuant to Town Law §91, the said resolution shall not take effect until at least thirty (30) days after its adoption; nor until approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the Town voting on a proposition for its approval if within thirty (30) days after adoption of the said resolution there be filed with the Town Clerk a petition signed, and acknowledged or proved, or authenticated by electors of the Town qualified to vote, in number equal to at least five per centum of the total vote cast for governor in the Town at the last general election held for the election of state officers, but which shall not be less than one hundred in a town of the first class nor less than twenty-five in a town of the second class, protesting against the said resolution and requesting that the proposed transfer of the said real property be submitted to the qualified electors of the Town for their approval or disapproval.

A copy of the resolution is available for public inspection on the Town’s website and at the Town Clerk’s Office, Town Hall, 238 Main Street, Cold Spring, New York 10516, during normal business hours.

Dated: July 10, 2023                                  BY ORDER OF THE TOWN BOARD

TOWN OF PHILIPSTOWN

TARA K. PERCACCIOLO

TOWN CLERK

 

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