The Planning Board of the Town of Danby is seeking applicants to fill the now vacant position of Secretary to the Planning Board.

Duties include: attendance at Planning Board Meetings and Public Hearings (generally two hours, on the fourth Thursday of each month), and the taking of and timely preparation of meeting minutes which include Planning Board motions and resolutions. Pay for this position is $20 per hour and will include time spent preparing minutes.

Applicants should submit a letter of interest to the Town Clerk at

Town of Danby
1830 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850

For additional information, call 607.277.4788.

For more information, contact PAMELA_GODDARD

A new law has recently gone into effect in New York State, requiring Public Bodies to make records (documents) discussed during meetings available to the public.

• Disclosure of Records Scheduled for Discussion at Open Meetings
• Questions and Answers Regarding Records Discussed at Open Meetings

The Town of Danby has a trial implementation of this law on its web site. As always, Town Board meeting agendae can be viewed via links on the Town Board page of the web site. The 13-Feb-2012 Agenda contains several links to documents scheduled to be discussed.

In addition to viewing (and, if you prefer and if you have the paper and ink handy, printing) the information at home, you can bring a laptop computer to the Town Hall meeting room and "read along" using the room's wireless network. If you don't have a laptop handy, two public access computers are available in the room.

For more information, contact PAMELA_GODDARD

During its 16-January-2012 meeting, the Danby Town Board approved a resolution to waive the building-permit-related fee for Renewable Energy installations. Covered projects include solar PV (photo-voltaic), solar hot water, geothermal, and wind turbines. The waiver is intended to encourage the use of renewable energy sources within the Town.

Building permits fees for other residential projects remain at either $0.25/sq.ft or $4.00/thousand dollars. The minimum fee has been raised to $50.

More information can be found online in the Building Permit Fee Schedule.

For more information, contact SUE_BEENERS

A wireless "HotSpot" is now available in Town Hall.

If you have your own portable computer (laptop), you can now connect to the Internet anywhere within reach of the hotspot radio signal. Signup is not required, but you must accept and abide by the Town's Internet Access Services Policy, which is currently in draft form.

You are responsible for configuring your equipment to access the hotspot.

For more information, contact TED_CRANE

Attention all dog owners in the Town of Danby

Every dog over the age of four months, owned or harbored in New York State for longer than 30 days, must be registered and licensed in the town where they are harbored. A renewal license must be purchased every year.

The Town of Danby is conducting a door-to-door dog enumeration. If you have a licensed dog, you will need to show its license (or signed renewal form) and a current rabies certificate. Please have them available. If any unlicensed dogs are found, you will be required to obtain a license for each one and a $5 penalty fee will be added to the regular licensing fee. In addition, if the dog's license has lapsed (not renewed for more than a year), back fees will be collected. This is required by NY State Law.

The current dog licensing fees are:

A valid Rabies Certificate is required to register your dog. A certificate of proof of spaying or neutering is required to qualify for the reduced fee for Spayed/Neutered dogs.

You may obtain a license for your dog(s) at the Town Clerk's office.

For more information, contact PAMELA_GODDARD

Town of Danby Dog Law Summary

The Town of Danby has a local law regulating and controlling the activities of dogs. The purpose of the law is to promote the public health, and the safety and welfare of the community, including the protection and preservation of the property of residents of the Town and its inhabitants, and of the peace and good order therein by regulating and controlling activities of the dogs within the Town of Danby and providing for enforcement thereof.

A resident shall be in violation of this law if:

1. Such dog is not restrained by an adequate collar and leash when not on the property of the owner or any other person harboring or having custody or control of the dog
2. Engages in habitual or continued barking, howling or whining so as to cause a person's rest to be broken, sleep interrupted or reasonable use or enjoyment of his home or property
3. Causes damage or destruction to property, or defecates, urinates, or otherwise commits a nuisance other than on the premises of the person owning or harboring such dog.

Residents may pick up a copy of the Dog Law at the Town Clerk's Office during regular office hours or request a copy my mail.

For more information, contact PAMELA_GODDARD

For more information, contact PAMELA_GODDARD

News Flash-
Danby, NY. Our correspondent, Bea Hogben, reports from Downtown Danby: On June 15, after attending an informative training session describing treatments for allergies, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke, conducted by Peter Goodman at the Danby Fire Station, I left the station for home around 8:30pm.

Much to my amazement, I saw a black bear go "lumbering" across NYS Rt.96B from the Hornbrook Road area, and then across the lawn of the Danby Fire Station.

Another stunned witness to the incident, standing on all four spindly legs, was interviewed. "There I was, minding my business and staying out of traffic on the Fire Station lawn. I looked up, and couldn't believe my eyes," reported the unnamed, wide-eyed deer. "I was looking at a bear. A bear!"

I had heard there were bear in the area. Now I believe it.

For more information, contact Bea Hogben

Every household in the Town of Danby should receive the current issue of the Danby Area News just before the beginning of the month.

If you don't receive the Danby Area News regularly, or if one of your neighbors doesn't get copies, please contact us!

We use the US Postal Service to deliver the Danby Area News. Most copies are delivered by the Carrier Route service, addressed to "Postal Patron." The rest receive individually-addressed copies with an address sticker in the name of "Danby Resident." Unfortunately, the Carrier Routes change over time, new residences are built, house numbering changes, and gaps appear in the delivery list.

Extra copies are available in the Danby Town Hall.

For more information, contact TED_CRANE

For more information, contact RIC_DIETRICH

The existing Town of Danby web site is still online at town.danby.ny.us.

For more information, contact TED_CRANE

The supply is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please, Danby residents only.

For more information, contact CARL_SEAMON