FULTON – Dilapidated vehicles; including RV and boat storage on city properties, was a large topic of discussion during the public session portion of the Fulton Common Council meeting last night, Tuesday, March 21.
A Fulton resident, (name unknown) asked the council if there were any laws on the Code Enforcement books that would allow something to be done for abandoned, neglected and unsightly vehicles; including boat and RV storage on city properties.
Mayor Deanna Michaels explained the process council members and legal experts must go through to create new laws targeting blight and unsightly storage throughout the city.
“When we do our block blitzes; and I know this came up in the Fourth Ward – the Fourth Ward had mentioned the same thing about boats and trailers and campers. And we’ve talked about that in several wards regarding that,” Mayor Deanna Michaels said.
“Now what that would require is for the Common Council at their legislative meeting – is to work with legal to come up with a new law. If they choose to want to bring that forth and create that law, and then it gets voted on on the floor. It comes forward to the legislative meeting and then it has to come here, and we would do a public hearing and then they would vote on it. If it’s passed, it goes to the state and then gets put in as a code. Obviously if it doesn’t pass then we start all over again.”
Michaels went on to say discrepancies come into play when trying to pass code as it usually negatively affects those who adhere to the rules when parking large recreational vehicles on properties.
“There are some people who park them and they look nice and neat and so on, and then there’s other’s that maybe don’t have that same look and feel, and that’s the problem. And, so I think that depending on what we were looking at, some people are going to have to pay the price for those who don’t necessarily maintain them well,” Michaels said. “And I think that that’s where the fine line came in and the Council was on the fence on how do we move that forward.”
According to Michaels, code enforcement law allows car covers to be put in place throughout the winter, the covers having to be taken off by May. The Council said they will address this during their next legislative meeting.
Oswego County Legislator (D-25) and Fulton Resident Frank Castiglia also spoke during public session, addressing some of the items voted on during the last County Legislature meeting.
Castiglia said Mobility Management will no longer service Oswego County, the company asking for advance payment up front. According to Castiglia, “the county was not going to work that way,” with Mobility Management choosing to pull out from serving Oswego County; also saying the work formally done by the company will now be serviced by the Trailway Tourism Department.
“So, you will be able to get the Curb to Curb, and also for our special events we’ll still be able to go through them and try to schedule things for our different events that we have through the city like the Fall Festival we had over at Recreation Park, and all the different events,” Castiglia said, also saying that the County Transportation Committee should be able to work something out.
After public session, the core Common Council meeting was brief, with all resolutions passing. To view the agenda, please click here.
All Fulton Common Council meetings are held the first and third Tuesday of every month, the next meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 4 at 7:00 p.m.
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The code laws in this city is another slap on the hand style. Maybe just Maybe OUR next mayor GET it DONE.