JEFFERSONVILLE -— The Callicoon Town Board appointed Ryan Bose as Acting Highway Superintendent at their regular meeting on Monday, June 10 following the resignation of Mike Haff last month. The son of Town Supervisor Tom Bose, Ryan has 21.5 years of experience in the Town of Callicoon Highway Department. 

With Tom Bose recusing himself from the appointment, Deputy Supervisor Scott Gabel made the motion to make Ryan Bose the Acting Highway Superintendent of the Town of Callicoon. 

“Ryan has 20-plus years of experience on the job,” Gabel said. “He has worked under four Highway Superintendents and three Supervisors, and I think he is very qualified for the job.”

Councilman Charles Schadt seconded the motion and the appointment passed unanimously with the Supervisor recusing himself.

“Ryan, I wish you luck,” said his father. “Every superintendent has had the support of this board. We’ve got a very good relationship and I think this town is very lucky. I know you have the qualities to do this job. You’ve been stepping up to do this, and you have some very good men who will help you.”

Ryan Bose has been unofficially working in the position for about the last month. He said it was something he was planning on doing eventually, and the opportunity arose now. The position of Highway Superintendent is an elected office, so there will be an election in November to fill it. 

With New York State instituting the change of local elections to be held in even years, whoever wins in November will have to run the following year for another one-year term. 

“If the change stays in place,” Tom Bose said, “there would be another election for the same office. So three consecutive years in a row, unless that’s changed with the state. But I don’t think that’s gonna change.” 

While there has a bit of a learning curve with part of the position, the younger Bose said that he was already kind of in the loop with a lot of the bigger projects within the Highway Department. 

“I’ve worked with previous superintendents like Kris [Scullion] and Mike [Haff],” he said. “So I would feel like I was right there with someone when certain decisions were made or things were looked at… whether it’s paving or bridgework. I feel like even my opinion was considered into those jobs as well.”

Highway Superintendent Report

Before he was officially appointed as Acting Highway Superintendent, Ryan Bose presented the Highway Superintendent report. In the report, he said paving will be done through the Village of Jeffersonville during the week of Monday, July 8 and the following week of July 15, paving will begin for the Town of Callicoon. Ryan Bose said they will begin the paving on Buck Brook Rd and work their way to Obernburg Rd and Cattail Rd in the town.

Ryan Bose also said that he received some quotes for a dump body, one from RTS Truck Center and the other from Reed Systems based in Ellenville. He also said that Robert Green was interested, but they had not sent him a quote as of the meeting. 

“The one from RTS, the only thing he didn’t have an actual number on was the freight,” he said. “He kind of assumed between $1,500 and $2,000 for the freight. So the toal estimate would be about $17,500.”

Ryan Bose said that Reed Systems quoted two different manufacturer bodies. He said that the first body would have the same install rate as what RTS would do, but the overall quote is at $22,875. The other body, an Everest body, is at a cost of $34,605 according to Ryan Bose. 

“That’s install price for basically the same as RTS,” he said. “They’re all comparable and at that exact spec we are looking for.”

Town Attorney Marvin Newberg advised the board that the lower rate of RTS with comparable specs of the dump body was the way to go. 

Tom Bose made the motion for Ryan Bose to go forward with the RTS dump body and the board voted unanimously for the motion to pass. 

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