The Clay Town Board pushed decisions on all three of its pending battery energy storage permit applications to Aug. 17, according to unapproved minutes of the board's July 20 regular meeting, while the town's planning commissioner disclosed that a moratorium on new storage-system applications has left five projects waiting. The board took up three separate battery storage cases in a row. In the first, Case #1243, NexAmp, Inc., doing business as Wetzel Road Storage, LLC, is seeking a utility substation special permit for a battery energy storage system using Tesla Megapack batteries on 0.92 acres at 4664 Wetzel Road, with an interconnection to the National Grid distribution system. The case had already been adjourned five times since February. NexAmp representative Olivia Sproviero told the board the application has been updated to reflect the town's newly established Battery Code and asked to keep working within that code rather than start over; Councilor Joseph Bick agreed the applicant should not have to restart. Sproviero also asked whether a moratorium would be lifted for her client's application because it was already in process. Councilor Ryan Russell asked Commissioner of Planning and Development Brian Bender whether a six-month moratorium could be suspended. Bender said the moratorium began in April and runs through October, meaning the town could resume accepting new battery storage applications in September. He said five applications are currently "in limbo," that he is not ready to accept new ones, and that the board should close out the hearings already underway before taking on more. He suggested future applicants apply only after the town decides how many applications it will allow at once, who pays for the review costs, how much power the systems draw from the grid, and what benefit they provide the town. Commissioner Bender also said the town's legal counsel should weigh in before the board acts further on the Wetzel Road case. Supervisor Damian Ulatowski said he was comfortable closing the public hearing pending an opinion from counsel, and the board agreed the process could move forward on that basis. Resident Janet Rathburn asked whether the board would need to reopen the hearing if it later wanted to amend the application. Councilor Bick then moved to adjourn the Wetzel Road hearing to Aug. 17 at 7:44 p.m.; the board voted 5-0 to carry the motion. The board then adjourned the two remaining battery storage cases at the applicants' own request, both also to Aug. 17: Case #1244, NexAmp's Long Branch Storage, LLC application, adjourned 5-0 at 7:47 p.m., and Case #1245, an application from Carson Power, LLC, adjourned 5-0 at 7:50 p.m. No battery storage local law or permit was adopted at this meeting. Earlier in the meeting, the board heard from the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office on e-bike enforcement. Supervisor Ulatowski said the town had fielded numerous complaints. Lt. Siddell, Deputy Greenwood and Deputy Badman explained that e-bike laws have not kept pace with the technology and are difficult to enforce, particularly when riders cut through yards to evade officers. Riders under 16 cannot legally operate an e-bike or e-scooter on public roads; helmets are required for riders 16-17 on e-scooters and Class 3 e-bikes; the vehicles are allowed in bike lanes and on roads posted 30 mph or under, but not on sidewalks. Several residents cited two recent fatalities involving e-bikes and pressed for tougher measures, including one suggestion that parents be arrested for endangering the welfare of a child if police are called more than once. One resident said riders cross his property to reach an easement and asked about posting no-trespassing signs; officers said anyone 15 or older can be arrested for trespassing. Ulatowski said the town is partnering with the Sheriff's Office for increased patrols and that a local law "may be a possibility," but no ordinance was introduced at this meeting. In other public comment, Mark Goettel asked whether the town had decided to modify the LOSAP benefit for fire departments; Ulatowski said quotes cannot be finalized until 2026 annual valuations are completed. Freddie Harris asked the board to amend Town Code Section 197-3 to cover snow shoveled from a roof onto a neighbor's property, not just onto a driveway, describing a dispute with her neighbor; Ulatowski said he would raise it with the Commissioner of Code Enforcement. Neither request went to a vote. The board also closed a public hearing on an AT&T Mobility utility substation special permit for an antenna installation on 3.61 acres at 7200 Henry Clay Blvd without further discussion or a recorded decision, after Councilor David Capria said the project had already been explained well at a prior meeting. The board voted 5-0 to schedule an Aug. 17 public hearing on a zone change for Sand Hill Acres, which would rezone 17.54 acres on Henry Clay Boulevard from Residential Agricultural to Residential Apartment to allow future multi-family apartment development. It also voted 5-0 to establish Chapter 210 of the Town Code, codifying Local Law No. 7 of 2026, the "Large-Scale Development Permit and Community Host Agreement Authorization Law," which the board had adopted 6-0 at a special meeting on July 7. Separately, the board voted 5-0 to schedule an Aug. 17 hearing on Local Law No. 8 of 2026, which would amend the zoning ordinance to allow indoor and outdoor concerts in the Neighborhood Commercial and Limited Use Restaurant districts, and a 5-0 vote to schedule an Aug. 17 hearing on renaming Plantation Boulevard to Owen P. Honors Boulevard. Routine business approved unanimously, 5-0 in each case, included a sanitary sewer lateral connection for Calocerinos Engineering, PLLC at 4793 Buckley Road; a grant application to the Empire State Development Strategic Planning and Feasibility Studies Program to fund a Parks and Recreation Master Plan; and a set of resolutions advancing the Michael's Farm Subdivision, including sewer and drainage district extensions and an agreement with LOK Development, LLC. The board appointed Mary Lou DesRosiers as an alternate member of the Zoning Board of Appeals, filling the unexpired term of Michael Becker, 5-0, and appointed Supervisor Ulatowski as the town's liaison to the Public Employer Risk Management Association Board, 4-0 with Ulatowski abstaining. The meeting adjourned at 8:39 p.m.