Every 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM
Anyone interested in joining our active volunteer committee contact mooersbeautification@mooersny.com
Beautification Committee Meeting was Nov. 21, 2024
Members Present: Vicki Brassard, Lisa DeLong, Myrtle Hawksby, Scarlet Sample. Mark Trombley, Wanda Trombley, Sheila Arruda, and Rebecca Louden. Guest: Donald Duprey
Meeting called to order at 6:45
Minutes read from Oct. 17, 2024 by Myrtle Hawksby
Financials reported by Scarlet Sample
Discussions and votes led by Vicki Brassard
Discussions and votes for playground and Recs. led by Lisa Delong
Meeting closed at 7:45 PM
When donating to our Veterans Park Brick program the Town Clerk has requested the checks be written to "Town of Mooers". My suggestion is to write Veterans Park or Beautification at the bottom of your check in the memo line.
We will be purchasing four more benches with engravings on them which will be installed in the Spring of 2025. These benches will be set along our walkways with additional Paver platforms under them. This will give eight new opportunities for sponsoring a bench. These will be the same donation as the original 8 benches in the Park now. There will be 4 bench plaques and 4 engraving plaques. At this time 4 of these sponsorship donations are available. The donation is $750 for a sponsorship and we will design a plaque with a memorial or honoree of your choice. Contact Vicki Brassard if you would like to sponsor a bench or engraving at 518-572-2597.
Playgrounds: At this time the Beautification Committee has been restoring the playground at the Mooers Recreation Park. We have cleaned and urethane the playground units, cleaned and painted the 15 picnic tables, pressure washed, and started painting the Rest Room building, we used red paint which matches the picnic tables. We have been talking with multiple specialized playground companies and Recreation Directors about what we can do to improve our playgrounds and make them safe for the children. When the plans are complete, we will post an update.
We will be adding five additional lights this year on Route 11 through Mooers. To add additional lights, we needed to purchase special plug-in boxes for the NYSEG Poles we plan on using, and then NYSEG linemen will install those boxes. The boxes have been ordered and a work order has been initiated.
Flower pots will not be seen throughout the Town next year. They will be used but in locations that work best for watering. This will also create more funds for other improvements we plan for our town.
The six welcome signs on the boundaries of our Town were all re-painted last year. Unfortunately, we will be discussing a plan to restore or replace the welcome signs entering Mooers from Champlain and entering Mooers from Ellenburg. These are very large welcome signs. They have stood well against our North Country weather but sadly are breaking down. After discussion with the highway and our Town Board, we will be making plans to replace them next Spring 2025.
We had a great Clean-up day last year on May 11 with about 15 volunteers. We started at 10 Am. Dunkin Donuts donated coffee, hot chocolate, and donuts for this event. The Town was not cluttered with debris or garbage so we were able to clean up by the old bridge, rake and trim the main street medium, and clear some leaves and brush out of the Old riverside cemetery. We finished up around 1 PM.
Due to financial restraints, we will not be hosting the Christmas decorating contest this year. We will be using all of our funds for the Veterans Park and other improvements in our Town. Thank You everyone who has entered this program in the past and added beauty to our Christmas Season. We look forward to these decorations every year.
Help a neighbor who may be struggling with their lawns in the summer, avoid discarded items piling up outside, maybe your neighbor is struggling with sickness and can't get their garbage to the curb or landfill. If there is a garage sale, find a way to clear items that didn't sell, rather than have metal items or broken-down unregistered vehicles sit in the yard bring them to the salvage yard and get cash for them, sometimes they will even arrange to have them picked up. If the sidewalks get overgrown with branches and weeds call the Town office to have them removed not everyone has the ability or means to take care of this type of work. This year we have seen an increase of people walking throughout the town, this is nice to see, and we will continue working towards getting these sidewalks rebuilt or re-surfaced. This is an expensive project and takes much planning.