Sloan Mayor Leonard C. Szymanski said Tuesday that leaders hope to set an August vote on whether to dissolve the village.

In a special session, the Village Board will meet at 5 p. m. today to decide on an election date, he said.

“The sooner the better,” Szymanski said.

How voters will greet the idea is any-one’s guess. On Tuesday, in nearby Brockport, Monroe County, voters overwhelmingly defeated a measure to disolve their village, 911 to 645.

At home, Sloan, along with Williamsville and Farnham, are the first targets of activist Kevin Gaughan’s campaign to dissolve governments here. Williamsville trustees voted Monday to set the dissolution vote for Aug. 17.

“I’d like to do it, too,“ Szymanski said of the date selected by Williamsville. “Let’s get this over with.”

Meanwhile, Farnham Mayor Terry L. Caber Sr. said the Village Board has been having “informal discussions” about what date to set for the vote but has made no decision.

He said the board has until July 9 to set the vote. Its next meeting is scheduled for June 28.

Like officials in Williamsville and Sloan, though, Farnham has no interest in holding the election on primary day. Gaughan has argued that it should be held on primary day because it would draw the biggest turnout. Caber said he prefers a standalone election so the voters can focus solely on the dissolution question.

Officials in all three villages are opposed to dissolution.

The news that Sloan is looking to follow in Williamsville’s footsteps prompted an angry response from Gaughan. He argued that selecting August, when many people are on vacation, is an attempt to “undermine” the vote.

Because they are the first on Gaugh1an’s list, the three villages are test cases here of a new law that makes it easier to dissolve villages by requiring just 10 percent of residents’ signatures on petitions calling for a referendum on the issue.

Gaughan and his volunteers had little trouble collecting more than enough signatures to put the matter to a vote. In Williamsville, they collected 625 signatures, 553 of which were determined to be valid, or far more than the 367 required by law.

In Sloan, 420 signatures were submitted and 384 certified. And in Farnham, 90 of 103 signatures were found to valid.