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Town Board of the Town of Hamburg October 5, 2026 Meeting 4.7. Establishing Town of Hamburg Drainage and Stormwater Management WHEREAS, the Town of Hamburg, New York, County of Erie (“Town”) manages a drainage system which provides collection of the rainfall and snow melt runoff for properties within the Town and controls the quantity and quality of runoff into local, state, and federal waterways; and WHEREAS, the Town has determined it will need a dedicated sole source of funding to continue to construct, operate, and maintain sufficient stormwater infrastructure to comply with increasingly stringent permit requirements, to provide sufficient capital to repair/replace aging infrastructure, and to address the effects of increasing precipitation as a result of climate change; and WHEREAS, the Town Board of the Town, pursuant to Article 12-a of the New York Town Law, desires to create a Town-wide Drainage and Stormwater Management District (the "District") to manage and fund the entire stormwater system; and WHEREAS, the Town directed the Town Engineer to prepare a general map, plan and report in such detail as required by Section 209-c of the Town Law to support the establishment of the District (“Report”); and WHEREAS, after the Report was filed in the office of the Town Clerk, the Town Board, on September 14, 2026, duly adopted an order reciting a description of the boundaries of the District, the maximum amount estimated and proposed to be expended by the District for the first year of services, the fact that a map, plan and report describing the needs, boundaries, and costs of the District is on file in the Town Clerk's office for public inspection, and specifying that the Town Board shall meet at the Town Hall on September 28, 2026, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the establishment of the District and to hear all persons interested in the subject thereof concerning the same (the “Order Calling Public Hearing” or “Order”); and WHEREAS, copies of the Order were duly published and posted according to law, and the Town Board did, at the time and place specified in said Order, duly meet and consider such proposal and heard all persons interested in the subject thereof, who appeared at such time and place, concerning the same; and WHEREAS, the evidence offered at the public hearing supports the Town Board making the determination hereinafter made; and 28