In Knox
Town salaries get 3-percent raise



KNOX — The town appointed its officials at its re-organizational meeting on New Year’s day at noon.

The board unanimously voted to authorize Highway Superintendent Gary Salisbury to purchase equipment, materials, and tools for the highway department not to exceed $1,500 without the town board’s prior approval.

All town salaries have increased by at least 3 percent.

The town’s officials, boards, committees, and designations for 2007 are:

Supervisor: Michael Hammond;

Town Board: Joseph Best, Dennis Decker, Patricia Gage, and Nicholas Viscio;

Highway Superintendent: Gary Salisbury;

Town Attorney: John Dorfman;

Town Clerk: Kimberly Swain;

Deputy Town Clerks: Mary Alice Geel and Mary Ellen Nagengast;

Registrar of Vital Statistics: Helen Quay;

Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics: Deborah Little;

Deputy Tax Collector: Lee Martin;

Town Historian: Frieda Saddlemire;

Emergency Preparedness Coordinator: Dennis Decker;

Deputy Supervisor: Nicholas Viscio;

Building/Sanitary Inspector & Zoning Administrator: Robert Delaney;

Assistant Building Inspector: Daniel Sherman;

Animal-Control Officer: John Norray;

Parks Superintendent: Louis Saddlemire;

Youth Director: Dennis Decker;

Court Clerk: Deborah Liddle;

Court Officer: John McGivern;

Deputy Highway Superintendent: Loren Shafer Jr.;

Bookkeeper: Catherine Bates;

Auditor: Beryl Grant;

Transfer Station Attendants: David Quay, John Oliver, and Richard Dexter;

Zoning Board of Appeals: Earl Barcomb (chair), Kenneth Kirik, Robert Edwards, Amy Pokorny, Larry Wilson, Robert Simpson, and David Holley;

Planning Board: Robert Price (chair), Thomas Wolfe, Brett Pulliam, Michael Scott, William Bellerjeau, Daniel Driscoll, and Robert Gwinn;

Board of Assessment Review: Tim Frederick (chair), Howard Zimmer, Gerald Irwin, Robert Whipple, and Vall Pulliam;

Youth Committee: Dennis Decker (ex-officio), Charles Conklin, Grace Cunningham, Jean Gagnon, Jean Forti, Rich Matlock, Brett Pulliam, Laurie Picinich, Ed Schmidt, Sue VonHaugg, and Janet Viscio;

Conservation Advisory Council: Cheryl Frantzen (chair), Patricia Irwin, Rick Wilson, Hank Donnelly, Stephanie Baron, Betty Ketchum, and Joseph Best (ex-officio).