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NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

Release Date: November 19, 2025

 

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ELECTION

 

Plattekill Fire District

in the Town of Plattekill

Ulster County Town of Newburgh Orange County, New York

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Election of the Plattekill Fire District will take place on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 between the hours of 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm at the Plattekill Fire District Firehouse located at 50 Old Firehouse Road, Plattekill, New York 12568 for the purpose of electing one (1) Commissioner for a five (5) year term commencing on January 1, 2026 and ending on December 31, 2030. All duly registered residents of the Plattekill Fire District shall be eligible to vote. By the provisions of Town Law, Section 176(7), the Board of Fire Commissioners has provided by resolution that the candidate for the Fire District Office shall file their names with the Secretary of the Plattekill Fire District at 50 Old Firehouse Road, Plattekill, New York 12568, no later than November 19, 2025. 

 

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Fire Commissioners, a special election of the qualified voters of the Plattekill Fire District in Plattekill, New York, County of Ulster will be held at the Plattekill Fire Department’s Firehouse located at 50 Old Firehouse Road, Plattekill, New York 12568 on the 9th day of December, 2025, between the hours of 6 p.m. and 9 pm. to vote on whether to approve the following one resolutions adopted by such Board of Fire Commissioners:

 

RESOLUTION NO. 1

 

RESOLUTION FOR FINANCING OF A TANKER-PUMPER

 

RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE PLATTEKILL FIRE DISTRICT, IN THE TOWN OF PLATTEKILL, ULSTER COUNTY, NEW YORK (THE “DISTRICT”), AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING OF A TANKER-PUMPER AND RELATED EQUIPMENT, THE MAXIMUM COST OF WHICH IS ANTICIPATED TO BE $1,400,000; APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT THEREFORE; AND AUTHORIZING THE FINANCING BY ISSUANCE OF A SERIAL BOND OR STATUTORY INSTALLMENT BOND OR INSTALLMENT PURCHASE AGREEMENT, UP TO TWENTY (20) YEARS FOR THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF $1,400,000 PRINCIPAL, AND TO ISSUE BOND ANTICIPATION NOTES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ABOVE, FOR UP TO FIVE (5) CONSECUTIVE YEARS. 

 

All persons registered to vote in the district and residing in the fire district for at least thirty (30) days prior to the day of the vote may vote in such special election.

 

Pursuant to Local Finance Law Section 80, the validity of such bonds or notes or any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of the sale of such bonds may be contested only if such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which the fire district is not authorized to expend money; or if the provisions of law which should be complied with as of this date are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity, is commenced within twenty days after the date of such publication; or such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution.

Nancy Papo

Secretary

         BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS

        Plattekill FIRE DISTRICT