Town Supervisor David Tessier was absent Monday, so Deputy Supervisor Joseph Bick called the Clay Town Board's regular meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. and gaveled it closed 51 minutes later, at 8:21 p.m. In between, the board's attention split unevenly: one item drew a running back-and-forth among three councilors, while contracts, zoning changes and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fund transfers each passed with a motion, a second and a unanimous vote, and nothing recorded in between. The item that drew the questions was a special permit application from Cheryl D. White to build a horse barn with a two-family dwelling on 39.87 of the 87.89 acres she owns on Black Creek Road, in the RA-100 Residential Agricultural district. Her representative, Tim Coyer, told the board the structure would include two apartments for employees along with a training facility. Councilor Eugene Young asked whether the RA-100 zoning allowed the use; Councilor Deborah Magaro-Dolan checked the zoning code herself and said it did. Young then asked whether White needed three separate special permits or one; Bick and the town's legal counsel agreed one application should cover it. Magaro-Dolan asked how many horses would be boarded and how many employees; White said 20 stalls for 16 to 18 horses, a head trainer and two to three farm hands, with no horse shows planned but educational clinics possible. Young asked whether all the horses would be boarded on site and ridden there; White said riding would happen in an indoor ring, and the board discussed how much the pastures would be lit, with lighting limited to the pathway and the building. Councilor Ryan Pleskach asked about the permitting history of an existing barn on the property; White said none had been required. With no further questions, Bick closed the hearing without a vote. A second land-use hearing, on EquipmentShare.com Inc.'s request to install two 1,000-gallon diesel tanks on Henry Clay Blvd. to fuel its rental equipment, drew a handful of questions about zoning overlays and tank limits before it also closed without a vote. Everything after that moved quickly. The board voted 6-0 to schedule July 21 hearings on two zone changes: one shifting Marc Lebiedzinski's Morgan Road parcel from R-15 to R-40 (the minutes note R-40 does not require sewer service, unlike R-15), the other reclassifying a McDonald's USA property on West Taft Road, currently split between two zoning districts, into a single Regional Commercial designation. The board named Molly Thorn Deputy Tax Receiver, filling the unexpired term of Robin Joss. It approved a lease with the Liverpool Central School District for summer use of school facilities for the town's athletic programs, at a cost not to exceed $3,554.00. It awarded S.J. Thomas Co. Inc. a $452,723.00 contract for Phase II general contracting work, including plumbing, flooring and electrical service, on the New Green Education Center. And it authorized advertising for bids on a new roof for the Highway Department building, due back by July 16. Then came the money. In two back-to-back resolutions, the board voted to move federal American Rescue Plan Act funds the town had obligated, plus interest those funds had earned, into eight separate General Capital Fund projects: $112,437.50 for a Town Hall boiler replacement, $149,805.00 for field lights at Clay Park North, $11,052.38 for a Town Hall roof installation, $22,498.91 for a Town Hall HVAC review, $49,900.19 for a town land use study, $5,130.00 for other Town Hall improvements, $59,705.82 for a restroom project at Clay Park Central, and $148,795.00 for field lights there as well. Neither resolution drew a recorded question. Both passed 6-0. The board also voted 6-0 to extend, through April 30, 2026, a $220,900.00 contract funded by a New York State Department of State grant for the town's Brownfield Opportunity Area pre-development work at 3 Rivers Point. The board's next regular meeting, set for July 21, is due to take up the rescheduled Goguen Drive Realty hearing along with the two new zone-change hearings for the Lebiedzinski and McDonald's properties.