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Town of Wheatland Legal Notice
Notice is hereby given that on October 17, 2019 the Town Board of the Town of Wheatland adopted Local Law Number 6 of 2019 entitled a “Local Law Amending Chapter 130 §130-75 Notice of violations; penalties; remedies. (A copy of the complete Local Law is filed in the Town Clerk’s Office)..
By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Wheatland
Dated: October 18, 2019
Laurie B. Czapranski, Town Clerk
TOWN OF WHEATLAND LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Town Board of the Town of Wheatland sets Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 7:00 P.M. at the Wheatland Municipal Building, 22 Main Street, Scottsville, NY as the time and place for a Public Hearing on the 2020 Special Districts’ Budgets.
By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Wheatland
Dated: October 18, 2019
Laurie B. Czapranski, Town Clerk
LEGAL NOTICE – TOWN OF WHEATLAND NOTICE OF HEARING UPON PRELIMINARY BUDGET
Notice is hereby given that the Preliminary Budget of the Town of Wheatland for the fiscal year beginning January 1, 2020 has been completed and filed at the Office of the Town Clerk in Scottsville, New York, where it is available for inspection by any interested person during regular business hours.Further notice is hereby given that the Town Board of the Town of Wheatland will meet and review said Preliminary Budget and hold a Special Hearing thereon at the Wheatland Municipal Building, 22 Main Street, Scottsville, New York at 7:00 P.M. on the 7th of November, 2019 and that at such Hearing any person may be heard in favor of or against the Preliminary Budget as completed, or for or against any item therein contained.
Pursuant to Section 133 of the Town Law, the proposed salaries of the following Officers of the Town of Wheatland are hereby specified as follows:
Town Supervisor–$30,600
Deputy Supervisor–$1,291
Councilpeople (4)–$7,586
Town Justice (2)–$18,024
Town Clerk–$56,913
Highway Superintendent–$78,017
By Order of the Town Board of the Town of Wheatland
Dated: October 18, 2019
Laurie B. Czapranski, Town Clerk
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING:
The Planning Board of the Town of Wheatland, pursuant to Sections 116-1 and 116-22 of the Code of the Town of Wheatland, will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7:00 P.M. in the Wheatland Municipal Building, 22 Main Street, Scottsville, NY to consider the following:
The application of Shultz Associates as agent for Angelo DeAngelis to seek a Subdivision and Alteration of Lot Line (combination to adjacent lot) of approximately 15.8 acres from original approximate 26.8 acre parcel. The property, located at 1482 North Rd., 14546 is in an AR-2 Zoning district. The Tax I.D. number 199.01-1-6.1 and 199.01-1-3.11.
All interested parties are asked to attend and be heard or to submit written comment concerning this application.
Jay D. Coates, Chairman Wheatland Planning Board
Dated: October 10, 2019
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING:
The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Wheatland will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7:00 PM in the Wheatland Municipal Building, 22 Main Street, Scottsville, NY to consider the following:
The application of Kathleen & David Merton, to seek an area variance of Section 130-23.A.(3) of the Code of the Town of Wheatland to allow an accessory structure in a required front yard and side yard, in the AR-2 zoning district. The property address is 9810 Union Street, 14546. The Tax ID# is 199.03-1-49.
All interested parties are asked to attend and be heard or to submit written comment concerning this application.
Michael J. Grasso, Chairman Wheatland Zoning Board of Appeals
Dated: October 10, 2019
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING:
The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Wheatland will hold a Public Hearing on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 7:00 PM in the Wheatland Municipal Building, 22 Main Street, Scottsville, NY to consider the following:
The application of George Sewar, to seek an area variance of Section 13023.B.(1) of the Code of the Town of Wheatland to allow an addition to an existing garage in a rear yard, closer than the required 20’setback in the AR-2 zoning district. The property address is 4540 River Road, 14546. The Tax ID# is 200.031-14.
All interested parties are asked to attend and be heard or to submit written comment concerning this application.
Michael J. Grasso, Chairman Wheatland Zoning Board of Appeals
Dated: October 10, 2019
by Linda Dobson, Town Supervisor
During the month of June, the Wheatland Town Government experienced the loss of our long time Town Attorney, John W. Glavin, ESQ. Many in the area simply knew him as “their attorney”. John was the attorney who made house visits to those who were unable to leave their home, or the attorney who met them in his own home to prepare legal documents because “it saved them the trouble of driving into the city”. He was the legal equivalent of the “country doctor”. He received his education at the University of Notre Dame and Fordham Law School. While attending both schools he embraced their guiding principles of fairness, humbleness, honesty, respect of privacy and service to others.
I had the pleasure of working with John both as a councilwoman and as supervisor. After his beloved wife Joan passed in 2013, it was my privilege to become a “family friend” to him and his four daughters. Rather than deciding to move near one of his children, John made the decision to stay in the community that was near and dear to him and which held so many warm memories. We are a community that benefited from his decision. He continued to provide legal counsel to clients and the Town, while later also struggling with his own health issues. His strong faith and love of all things Wheatland provided him the opportunity to live out his remaining years actively involved in the community while still living independently in his own home on Browns Ave. in Scottsville.
As I began to gather information for this article, I soon realized the full extent of how much service John had provided to the greater Wheatland community. Through communication with the Village of Scottsville and the Wheatland-Chili School District, it was clear that John had spent a large portion of his professional hours dedicated to supporting the leadership of our three major public entities. He served as Wheatland Chili School District Attorney from 1975 – 1997 (22 years), Village of Scottsville Attorney from 1966 – 1976 (10 years), and Wheatland Town Attorney from 1971- 1972, 1977-1993 and 1996-2019 (40 years).
Through the years, so many of us in our community gained significantly from knowing John, enjoying his wit and humor, benefiting from his significant depth of knowledge related to the inner workings of our community, along with his downright, down-home honest approach to all matters associated with the people he took pleasure in serving. He will be missed but will always have a place in the history of Wheatland.
Indian Allan Park is a nearly 60 acre parcel of land owned by the Town of Wheatland, located along the southerly banks of Oatka Creek, to the east of Canawaugus Park in the Village of Scottsville, also to the east of the Genesee Valley Greenway State Park trail near the “George” bridge and directly adjacent to the former location of the Wheatland water treatment plant and now Monroe County pump station. The park stretches more than 1/2 mile east from the edge of the former water treatment plant property and includes the bed of the creek which follows a winding course through deep pools and gravelly ripples toward the nearby Genesee River. Huge willows and cottonwoods shade the stream where trout and other fish species can be found.
The park land is largely undeveloped at the current time with public usage limited to occasional fishermen. The Park’s convenient location and natural setting, which includes the Oatka Creek provides a substantial opportunity for the incremental design and development of a beautiful new recreation area for the community. Envision a picturesque public park which can support a number of diverse activities and interests, such as wooded creek-side trails for walking, sitting and fishing, open space for running and cycling among other activities, and public picnic areas with associated amenities.
The land for the park was provided to the Town of Wheatland as a gift in 1975 by Col. Carey H. Brown for the purpose of creating a municipal park. Col, Brown was a Wheatland resident and farmer who was active in Scottsville Village and Town of Wheatland affairs at the time. The idea of preserving this area along Oatka Creek was originally suggested by a group of local Wheatland residents, including Wheatland Supervisor at the time, James C. Guthrie. Brown’s farm was part of a large tract of land deeded by the Iroquois Indian Nation to Ebenezer ‘Indian” Allan. Allan built a log cabin in 1787 near where Oatka Creek flows into the Genesee River, from there, for years he supplied the British at Fort Niagara with stock and produce. The park was dedicated in April 1990 by the Town of Wheatland as Indian Allan Park, recognizing one of the earliest frontiersmen to settle in this area.
Ebenezer “Indian” Allan was the first, and probably the most famous and fascinating character in Wheatland history. In 1786, when he was about 42 years old, he relocated from Gardeau, near present Mt. Morris, NY, where he had been staying with Mary Jemison, the “White Woman of the Genesee.” He built a log cabin on the flats near the confluence of Oatka Creek and the Genesee River just east of the present village of Scottsville. He had acquired 170 acres of land, horses and cattle, and he began clearing and cultivating property for his homestead here.
In 1789, when Peter Sheffer and his sons, Peter Jr. and Jacob, were making their way north from Pennsylvania and looking for land in the Genesee Country, they came upon Ebenezer Allan’s cabin where he was living with his Indian wife, Sally, their two daughters, Mary and Chloe, and his other wife Lucy Chapman Allan. Since winter was fast approaching, the Sheffers were invited to stay on. In the spring of 1790, a deal was made, and the Sheffers became the owners of the homestead and the first permanent settlers in the town. The Allans moved to the present site of Rochester.
The Phelps and Gorham Purchase included over two million acres east of the Genesee River and the 100 Acre Tract on the west side of the river that became the location of the City of Rochester. As part of their agreement, Phelps and Gorham had promised the Senecas that mills would be built to satisfy the needs of both the anticipated settlers and the natives. They chose “Indian” Allan for the job. He built a sawmill and a flourmill on the Genesee River, but with the population increasing very slowly, he had very few customers. In 1794 he moved back to Mt. Morris and from there to Upper Canada where he died in 1816.
Allan was not a popular man. Originally from New Jersey, he had been a British soldier and a member of Butler’s Rangers, an army that, along with their Indian allies, attacked and massacred settlers. Local history author Arch Merrill described Allan as “violent, audacious, lawless and sometimes cruel.” Besides his Indian wife Sally and white wife Lucy Chapman, Allan took as wives, at various times, the widow of a man who had died in Allan’s home; Millie Gregory, who bore him six children; and the daughter of an escaping slave who had taken shelter at his home. Rochester historian Donovan Shilling named him a pioneer rogue, Seneca blood brother, guerilla warrior and irascible lover. Peter Sheffer Jr. remembered Allan as tall, erect, energetic and usually courteous and affable. As far as he knew, Allan’s chief offense against society was “his insane passion for matrimony.” E.H.T. Miller, a Scottsville chronicler of history, wrote that, in spite of his distaste for civilization “Ebenezer Allan stands conspicuous on the pedestal of our first white settler in the lower Genesee River country.”
There are accounts of Allan’s life that credit him with improving relations between the native tribes and the colonies. At one time he stole a wampum belt from an Indian chief and presented it to the Indian Commissioner as a pledge of peace. In 1783, he carried a message of peace from the Iroquois chiefs to the Continental congress. For this he was captured by British agents and jailed in Montreal. He was released when the Treaty of Stanwix was signed with the tribes the following year.
Morley B. Turpin was a researcher who spent many years during the 1930s and 40s collecting information about Ebenezer “Indian” Allan. He had a kinder, most respectful opinion of the man than most of the others who had recorded his life. He attributed the outrageous tales about Allan to his own bragging or to fabrications of his enemies. Turpin wrote, “although shrewd, and possibly unscrupulous . . . . he was an outstanding personage in the history of Western New York.” Turpin uncovered information about the later lives of Mary and Chloe as well as Seneca Allan, son of Ebenezer and Lucy, who was born in Rochester. Seneca became a respected citizen of Perrysville, Ohio, a surveyor and a member of the Masons and the Episcopal Church.
Many of the original documents that Morley B. Turpin discovered and collected were given to his friend, Scottsville attorney George Skivington, and are now housed in the Wheatland Historical Association library.
On August 29th NYSDOT will have a single lane closure with flaggers for Micro Surfacing/Pavement Marking Removal in preparation for Resurfacing and Paving Operations in the Town of Wheatland from 8:00AM – 4:00 PM. The single lane closure will be in two locations, please see below.