Web site has real-time Crime Blog, plus you can pick favorite police patch.

Solvay Police Website - http://www.solvaypd.com

The Solvay Police Department has a new interactive Web site that it will use to fight crime – and pick a new patch for the police uniform.

The Web site – http:// solvaypd.com – features an anonymous crime tip form that residents can use to send tips to the Criminal Investigation Unit. Officers will be able to manage their own Web site pages and post information immediately to a real-time crime blog.

Visitors who want to vote for the uniform patch should click on “Take Our Patch Poll” on the home page. The three finalists were designed by students from Steve Devendorf’s technology classes at Solvay High School.

Last fall, police asked the students to design a new patch. The three finalists are more detailed than the current patch, which is black and lined in yellow, with “Solvay Police” and the New York state Excelsior symbol.

The new Web site and patch project are the department’s latest steps in using new technologies to upgrade its service. The department has also started using surveillance cameras and license plate-reading cameras.

In other village news

Village officials on May 27 unveiled a new hybrid bucket truck, which will be used by the electric department to work on overhead lines.

The $203,000 truck, made by Navistar International Corp., has both an electric motor and a diesel engine. The combination provides better mileage on the road than straight diesel, but that’s only part of the benefit.

The truck’s hydraulic system operates the 60-foot aerial bucket for up to 90 minutes using just the electric motor and batteries, eliminating not only diesel emissions but the noise of an idling truck engine. Running the diesel engine for five minutes recharges the batteries for another 90 minutes.

The vehicle is expected to use as much as 80 percent less fuel than a standard bucket truck, officials said.

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Independent Energy Efficiency Program is offering rebates and deals that will help Solvay Electric Department customers save money and cut their energy costs.

“If you’re living in Solvay or a member of the system, you should be taking advantage of these,” said John Montone, superintendent of Solvay Electric.

The IEEP is comprised of several municipally owned electric departments in New York state that are committed to energy efficient technology. Solvay, which serves 5,300 customers, is the third largest public power system in the state.

Here’s a look at what the IEEP has to offer:

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The Solvay Swimming Pool is getting ready to open for the Summer.

For more information, visit there department page – CLICK HERE.

It will be located at the Woods Road Field next to the Village Hall every Friday starting June 26, 2009 and lasting into the early fall.

The hours will be  Friday’s from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

*  It will be free for the vendors in 2009

*  FUN for us to shop with FREE Parking and Admission.

*  Featuring food, fruits, vegetables, plants, beverages, arts and crafts.

***  Contact Charles Quaglia at Casey’s Deli at 952-4269 for a vendor application.

East Syracuse, LaFayette, Tully projects part of Community Development Grant requests

Posted by John Mariani/The Post-Standard June 08, 2009 5:21PM

Onondaga County’s annual request for federal Community Development funding started moving through the legislative pipeline today as the County Legislature Planning and Economic Development Committee approved a bill aimed at securing more than $4.6 million in grants.

The request includes $3.6 million for Community Development Block Grant activities, including more than $1.1 million for 15 construction projects around the county and a Cooperative Extension forestry program.

Three of the projects are from the eastern suburbs. They are:

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Milton Avenue Streetscaping (south side), from Caroline Avenue east to the village line, Solvay, $100,000. The village will install 1,200 square feet of brick paver walkway, plus additional conventional and reinforced sidewalk, granite curbing and a village entrance sign. The project is part of a long-term makeover.
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The county also will seek $900,299 in HOME Grant funds for housing rehabilitation, lead abatement and similar activities, and $96,210 in emergency shelter aid.

If passed by the entire Legislature in July, the bill would go to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Renewal for approval. The grants, if extended, would become available Sept. 1, said Linda DeFichy, the county’s Community Development administrator.

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