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Regular Meeting 22 May 14, 2026 limited to ten female victims of Abuse. We don’t need to get into the various categories of what is abuse. They are victims of abuse; they are people that need assistance. Number two: The variance approval is specify to the resident for restoration of woman 18 years of age and older who have experienced and been victims of abuse. Condition number three: Owner to enter into a Pilot agreement to pay taxes equivalent to the taxes being paid based on the present assessment. I want to make that clear while this would qualify for tax exemption under New York State Law, we are not seeking one. Leave the tax bill the way it is and pay full market value or enter into a Pilot and pay the equivalent, we are not seeking to be subsidized by the Town or the County. Criteria number four: Condition number four: Night security to be on the premises from 11:00pm through 7:00am. On site program staff will be available and there will be at least four team members on site during the day. Question came up during the Planning Board meetings, well who will be the security? Our goal as far as security would be someone from either an existing or retired law enforcement officer. That someone that will go through training, that someone who is very capable of providing adequate security services and we are fine with that. Criteria number five: All residents will have quiet hour between 10:00pm through 7:00am. They need to be in the residence by 10:00pm. Allowable reasons to be off site include appointments, appointments with providers, seeing mental health and mental care. Condition number six: Pertains to safety and having to call 911, there will emergency buttons, there will be cameras in the property for security and law enforcement will have access to the cameras that patrol the residence and finally residents will not be allowed, because this came up last summer in front of the Zoning Board of Appeals personal vehicles. So, all those conditions would be acceptable in connection with the Town Board review. We also did provide the Planning Board and the Town Board with copies once again with a series of rules and regulations, fourteen rules and regulations and the concern has come up and I’ve heard it voiced this evening. Well, this is worse than Attica, this is worse than that prison and that simply is not true. We are doing that to maximize their protection of these women. That is the reason we are doing that, we are not doing this to penalize them, the goal is to help and to suggest otherwise I think it is somewhat illogical. The sole reason we are providing this program and again it is through the generosity of the William Hein Foundation and others that will be involved in the project. We think based on the code, based on the fact this clearly qualifies as family that this qualifies for the requested Special Use Permit. We believe the proper decision and the legal decision that it should be issued by this Town Board is grant the Special Use Permit, again we welcome discussion in terms of appropriate conditions. If you want me to address other questions I can, if you would like me to wait until the end and address other questions, I don’t want to take up more time needed but I would welcome that opportunity. So, I don’t know if the Board any questions that I can answer. Resident Chuck Blanchard of Winde Lane the part that bothers me is that people like this want to come in and do this stuff, but they don’t have them there area. Go put them in someone else’s. It is like all the politicians are the same. Once we screw this up because we are not doing ours its alright for me to have at my house but not at their house. Which is a lot of Bullshit. We came out here because we like it out here, we have been paying Taxes out here because we love it out here, we don’t need people to come out here to change everything they want it. Let them go back to the city where they belong. Resident Lynn Blancard of Winde Lane I don’t want it here. The people on Stolle Road are right there with it. You don’t know what these ten women are going to do or their abusers, they will find them. We don’t want it here, we have a nice rural community, nice and quiet. I’m older, I’m a Senior Citizen, my husband is a little bit older than I am. If he passes away first what in the world is going to happen to me, when these woman that have to in the house by 10:00pm, out from 7:00am to 10:00pm and where ever there going and there abuser finds them and they decide oh look at this we can go and break into this women’s house and rape her and kill her. I don’t want that; I don’t want that for any of these people that live on Stolle Road, and they have children and it’s going to bring our property value down. I don’t want this at all, go back to Buffalo or someplace else, but I do not want it. I won’t feel safe here, I love this Town of Marilla. I have been here and got married July 29th, 2000, and that’s when I became a Marilla resident here, I will have been a resident for 26 years in July and I don’t want things to change. It’s nice and quiet we are peaceful here, it’s beautiful, we have farmland, we have a lot of nice things, and I don’t need those ten women, I feel bad for them, I can’t help that, but they don’t need to be here. Go someplace else, see all these people here the people on Stolle Road especially, you don’t know what those women will do, they can’t have a cell phone, no cars there abused but they can find ways to