By ANDY GARDNER

MASSENA -- The village will take action on the derelict house at 204 East Orvis St., the Board of Trustees decided Tuesday.

The building, owned by Christopher Tyler, burned in 2012 and has since been declared a public nuisance.

In October, the board agreed to let Tyler await the outcome of an insurance lawsuit. He attended the meeting and told them he settled in February but hasn’t taken any steps toward remediation.

“I think we had a very good faith effort … to let this go until February,” Trustee Tim Ahlfeld said. “I don’t have any hope there’s going to be any movement if we wait. My vote is to proceed with what the court order said we can do.”

Mayor Tim Currier said the town has a court order former State Supreme Court Justice David Demarest issued during his time on the bench that allows the village to remediate a nuisance.

Village Attorney Matthew McArdle recommended the motion say the village will “take steps to eliminate the public nuisance, whatever that involves.” Ahlfeld made the motion and it passed unanimously.

Currier said the Code Enforcement Office and Department of Public Works will meet to determine if it should be fixed or torn down. The property is slated to be auctioned for non-payment of taxes.

Tyler asked the board to give him time to get an estimate and suggested he turn it over to the village to be used for fire department training.

“Personally, I wouldn’t be putting anybody in that building. It’s a safety issue,” Massena Fire Department Foreman Ken McGowan said.