[Adopted 4-2-2012]
The following list of agencies, commissions, associations, universities,
persons, and other organizations are approved to provide training
to meet the state requirements when the training they provide pertains
to municipal planning, zoning, community design, environmental issues,
economic development, and local government functions and practices:
A.
The New York State Department of State, Office of the State Comptroller,
Department of Health, Department of Transportation, Department of
Environmental Conservation, Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic
Preservation, Hudson River Valley Greenway; and
B.
The New York State Association of Towns, the New York Conference
of Mayors, the New York State Association of Counties, the New York
Planning Federation, the American Planning Association, the Upstate
New York Chapter of the American Planning Association and its sections,
and the Metro New York Chapter of the American Planning Association
and its sections; and
C.
Nassau County, Nassau County Planning Federation, Nassau County Planning
Commission, Nassau County Attorney's Office, Nassau County Planning
Department, and any other Nassau County department; and
D.
Albany Law School Governmental Law Center and Institute for Legal
Studies, Pace Law School and Land Use Law Center, Hofstra University
School of Law, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, and the
Lincoln Institute of Land Use Policy, New York Municipal Insurance
Reciprocal; and
E.
Village Attorney, Special Counsel to the Village, and on-line planning
and zoning training programs offered by any of the above entities,
organizations or persons;
Other training activities may be approved on a case-by-case
basis by the Village Board of Trustees upon the request of a Planning
Board or Zoning Board of Appeals member.
Any new member appointed to fill the last six months of a term
shall not be required to have attended training to be reappointed
to a first full term, but must thereafter comply with the municipal
training policy as provided elsewhere herein.
Training received by a Planning Board or Zoning Board of Appeals
member in excess of four hours in any one year may be carried over
by the member into succeeding years.
The one-year period shall be based on the Village's fiscal
year, and one hour of such training shall consist of at least 50 minutes
of instruction, exclusive of introductory remarks, meals, breaks,
or other noneducational activities.
The Village Clerk shall create and maintain a system of tracking
the training individual members complete annually, and such information
shall be presented to the Board of Trustees prior to considering a
member for reappointment.
A Planning Board or Zoning Board of Appeals member considered
for reappointment for a term commencing in or after 2012 need not
complete all required hours in the member's previous term to
be eligible for reappointment provided that such member completes
four hours of training within:
