HENDERSON — The Town Council did not touch a resolution giving the Henderson Harbor Yacht Club charge of the administrative duties of the town's mooring area.

Instead, it voted 3-2 Thursday night to disband the Mooring Committee and allow a new group of five to meet and hash out problems with the town's special anchorage area. Deputy Supervisor David E. Perry and Councilwoman Carol A. Hall voted against the motion to disband.

"I'll go with the fact that we should disband the committee," town Supervisor Clyde E. Moore said. "It hasn't done what the committee was supposed to do."

Councilwoman Julie A. West proposed the idea of disbanding the committee and using a smaller group of five to look at the options.

"This will give the community the opportunity to resolve this," she said. "Both sides will provide two people to serve and the harbormaster will be part to provide the expertise."

The five are William J. Arnold, new commodore of the Yacht Club, Robert E. Ashodian, club member, Raymond S. Walty, Ronald Benoit and Harbormaster David C. VanBenschoten.

"This is very surprising to me," said Barbara Weber, former commodore of the Yacht Club, who had presented the idea of the club's administering the mooring area at the council's September meeting.

Councilman Raymond A. Walker responded to Mrs. Weber.

"I am not comfortable with a private organization running a function of the town," he said.

Town Clerk Charlotte K. Richmond reminded the board that the administrative duties are included in the law governing the mooring area and cannot be changed by a resolution.

"This problem has been going on for a number of years. It was not the original intent of the Yacht Club to take it on. But the Yacht Club is willing to do it," Mr. Arnold said.

Meanwhile, Mr. Moore was sent an application for a permit from the state Office of General Services for the town mooring area. The office oversees all state-owned land underwater. All marinas and mooring areas must receive a permit from the office.

The town has until Nov. 6 to file an application, complete with aerial photographs and GPS data on the mooring area. Otherwise, it will incur fines of $3,000 to $5,000 a day.

The council also agreed Thursday to apply for a terrestrial invasive weed eradication grant from the state Department of Environmental Conservation to combat swallowwort.

The grant is a three-year matching grant.

Susan J. Gwise, a horticulturist with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Jefferson County, said, "If we just let it go, it's just going to get worse."