Notice of Permissive Referendum
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Cochecton Fire District at a scheduled meeting held on the 11th day of May 2010, duly adopted the following Resolution, subject to a permissive referendum.
RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Cochecton Fire District, under the obligation and authority to purchase apparatus for the extinguishment and prevention of fires and for the purpose of emergency rescue (Town Law §176.13), determined there to be such a need to purchase a certain fire apparatus, more specifically a Utility Truck 4×4, now therefore, it is;
RESOLVED by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Cochecton Fire District that the District shall purchase a Utility Truck 4×4, and it is further;
RESOLVED that the purchase shall be made with monies withdrawn from the Truck Reserve Fund not to exceed the sum of $41,000.00 and it is further;
RESOLVED that this Resolution is adopted subject to a permissive referendum.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the adoption of this Resolution is subject to permissive referendum pursuant to Section 6-g (4) of the General Municipal Law and shall take effect thirty (30) days after its adoption, unless there shall be filed in the interim with the Fire District Secretary a petition signed and acknowledged or approved in the same manner as a Deed to be recorded by resident tax payers of the District owning taxable real property aggregating at least ¼ of the assessed valuation of all taxable real property of the Fire District as such valuations appear on the latest completed assessment of the Town of Cochecton, protesting against such Resolution and requesting that it be submitted to the qualified electors of the Fire District for their approval.
By order of the Commissioners of the Cochecton Fire District.
May 11, 2020 James R. Farrell, Secretary Board of Fire Commissioners Cochecton Fire District