Board of Trustees

Okay. Good evening, and welcome to our October 8 regular session of the Curtin on Hudson Board of Trustees. I'm mayor Brian Pugh. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands,

• one nation under God, indivisible,

• with liberty and justice for all.

Our first item of business is the approval of vouchers.

• Deputy treasurer.

Thank you.

• The vouchers

• are general fund, $119,609.14,

• water fund, $5,035.98,

• sewer fund,

• $1,491.36,

• capital,

• $300,408.65,

• and trust fund, $2,670.63

Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Motion by Trustee Simon, second by Trustee Nicholson. Discussion?

• Favor? Aye. Okay.

• Hearings. First public hearing of the evening, local law number 13 of twenty twenty five to create a rental registry for landlords.

• Do I have a motion to open the public hearing? So moved. Second. Motion by Trustee Simon, second by Trustee Nicholson.

Manager, would you like to briefly present the proposed local law? Sure. Thank you, mayor. So this is a law that came to the board's attention,

• from the housing task force that was created by the board.

• They published a report back in November 2021 that

• had the creation of the rental registry

• as,

• one of the recommendations.

• And,

• the reason for this,

• proposal is that the village currently does not have any solid data on the number of rental units in the village.

• And

• currently, are not subject to any sort of

• inspection

• regime.

• Our multifamily properties, which are defined as three or more units, are inspected on a regular basis,

• but, rental units or two family units that are not owner occupied are not currently,

• inspected. And the reason for that you would want to have those units inspected

• are to make sure they have proper ingress and egress,

• make sure that they have working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors,

• and that there are other certain minimum standards such as light and ventilation,

• that are being met.

• This the rental registry is not, a new concept. Many other communities in our area have them.

• The town of Cortland, the village of Ossining,

• Bedford, Mount Kisco, Peekskill, Port Chester, Tuckahoeward are just, some of the few.

• So

• that is,

• the law. Okay.

Alright. The floor is open. Anyone wishing to speak on local law 13 of 2025,

• this is your opportunity.

• Seeing no one wishing to speak, do I have a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second.

• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson.

• All in favor?

• Aye. Aye.

• Alright. Would you like to read the resolution?

Whereas the village of Colonel Hudson desires to create a rental registry for landlords to protect the health and well welfare of its residents who rent, and whereas this recommendation arose from the housing task force report submitted to the village board of trustees, and whereas local law introductory number thirteen twenty twenty five has been drafted for such purposes. And whereas a public hearing was opened and closed on 10/08/2025,

• now therefore be it resolved, the village board of trustees hereby adopts local law introductory number 13 of twenty twenty five to amend chapter one eighty six rental housing in the village code to create a rental registry for landlords,

• which upon adoption becomes local law number 16 of 2025.

Do

• I have a motion? So moved. Second.

• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Discussion?

Manager,

• having read local law number 13, I I believe that it's our engineering department that will have the responsibility

for

• administering

• the the rental registry as this is a first time effort on on their part.

• I believe it's about ninety days for them to to come out with the the appropriate guidelines and materials

• for to begin the registration process by the landlords. Is is that correct? Correct. And

I think this is a really great step forward.

• We're having the conversation around Just Cause.

• We really we're trying to identify how many

• rentals there were, and there just wasn't

• the data.

• So this will allow us to do that. It's also a good step in the right direction for short term rentals to understand how many of those there are in the village.

• And then for safety, just to understand how many people are living in in rental apartments and, you know, the the safety inspections that should be occurring. So I'm in favor of this, and we'll be voting for it tonight. It is it is interesting how when you read the legislation,

how often the words health and safety come up. And and also when you look at the literature from what other communities have done, it's almost always

• for a health and safety basis.

• I'm glad we're doing this.

• Have done it.

Further discussion?

I'll just say briefly.

• Think that people get

• concerned when they think we're trying to keep a list of

• you know, keep closer tabs on what is going on. But I think the ability to communicate

• with you know, know our neighbors

• fall into different,

• you know, areas of being able to need to communicate with them.

• This this will enhance communication with the renters.

• And I think that, you know,

• that will end up being a benefit even to those people who might be concerned about being on a list.

Well, it's the units that are on the list, not the humans. Right.

• I mean, for better or worse, the notion that this is the thing that puts you on the list.

• We're all on lists. That that ship sailed a long time ago, for better or worse. Sure. This

• is about the property, not about people.

• I think that this is not a unique

• issue

• as it relates to what we're proposing tonight. I think it's true just across the board probably in property maintenance, but in a situation where inspection finds that the

• unit is not habitable, is not safe,

• what is the tenant to do?

If if the if the unit is found to be uninhabitable, then they would have to vacate. Yeah. Yeah. A lot of times, there would be damages Mhmm. From a landlord under those circumstances,

• especially if there's a lease. And Mhmm.

Yeah. But that that's the same challenge as it exists in

• multifamily, and we're, unfortunately Anywhere. Yeah. Yeah. We or any landlord tenant relationship. And, unfortunately, we've seen that play out before as well. Yep. Yeah. I mean, and there's an obligation by a building inspector to if under certain circumstances to

make sure places that aren't habitable are placarded and protect the public. So

• And,

you know, the is

• a verification at the time of construction at the time of the issuance of a certificate of occupancy,

• right, that that the egress

• and ingress exists, but this is really to make sure that can change. Absolutely.

• And,

• you know, without going into too many details, homes homes are dynamic environments.

• Things can happen that make them unsafe. And

• in the absence of a program of periodic review,

• you know, there's no way of knowing.

• Mhmm.

• K.

• Further discussion?

• K.

• All in favor?

• Aye. Aye.

• Thank you.

• Alright.

• On to our next public

• hearing, local law 15 of 2025,

• amending chapter 50 regarding residency requirements of the village code to reflect changes in state law.

• Can I have a motion?

• So moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson.

• All in favor? Aye. Aye. The floor is open.

• Anyone wishing to speak on local law 15 of 2025,

• this is your opportunity.

• Seeing no one wishing to speak, do I have a motion to close the public hearing? So moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Manager, would you like to read the resolution? Whereas

the village of court of Hudson desires update the residency requirements in chapter 50 of the village code in accordance with state law, and whereas local law introductory number 15 of 2025 has been drafted for such purposes, and whereas the public hearing was opened and closed on October

• therefore be it resolved that the village board of trustees hereby adopts local law introductory number 15 of twenty twenty five to amend chapter 50 residency requirements in the village code in accordance with state law, which upon adoption becomes local law number 17 of 2025.

Alright.

Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Ankleson. Discussion?

Well, first, want to thank our our state delegation

• for, making,

• our ability to, introduce and consider this law possible. It is always amazing

• how many

• things that typically would would be

• normal things that you could handle at the local level require state approval. But

• assemblywoman Levenberg and and senator

• hark Harkom were able to get this

• passed for us and with governor signing it, which enables us to to pass this law. So I want to thank them, and and I I think it's

• it's it's designed to to ensure that

• our our employee that has that unique status is can can continue. So we're we're we're glad we're able to do this.

Alright.

• Any further discussion?

• Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you.

• Alright. Responses to questions submitted via email manager? No questions, mayor. Alright. Public comment on agenda items. Anyone wishing to comment on any agenda item, this is your opportunity.

Ed Riley from Shrewsdale Drive,

• regarding item

• 4A, rental registry.

• One of the trustees just articulated

• it.

• The registry could be seen by some as another

• way for the village board to

• inventory housing

• and then

• inspect and crack down on violations and establish fees

• as part of a

• armada of fees

• and parking tickets and violations

• that seem to be happening in our village, almost like it's a way of raising

• large amounts of revenue.

• Now it's understandable

• in light of things that have happened

• in overcrowding

• and deaths,

• fire hazards,

• to one inspect multifamily units.

• Perhaps later, the

• village manager can clarify as part of this registration,

• will two will two family houses

• be inspected if they're owner occupied, meaning the owner lives in one half or downstairs in the

• and the tenant lives upstairs.

• So,

• you know, this is interesting.

• It is has tremendous safety implications, but it also has

• political taxing and

• punishment fee based implications.

• In regards to

• In regards to item

• seven a, item four,

• regarding the proposed rifle Jack Peterson monument,

• this is not to confuse

• two different subjects. One is the permission

• we've since established that

• the village owns

• deep into cemetery property along Cleveland Drive, the Cleveland Drive extension from the five corners Veterans Memorial to

• the corner of

• where the library is,

• just prior to the library, that part of the cemetery. The village owns deep into the cemetery property, twenty, twenty five feet, something like that, 17 feet, whatever it is.

• So the proposed memorial it's not a memorial. It's a proposed historic sign, a two sided

• historic sign

• to commemorate our only that we as far as we know, the only revolutionary war veteran

• still buried in

• Croton and Hudson. We lost a couple

• when the Van Cortlands moved their cemetery from Wayne Street

• to memorialize this veteran who was a,

• you know, a veteran of many years of combat in the Revolutionary War. We

• have arranged for the primary

• foundation to have a two sided historical sign

• in state colors that's blue and yellow or blue and orange, wherever they are,

• to be put along that

• Cleveland Drive. Only we need the village's permission since the village owns the land.

• There was until recently, we didn't know that, and the village didn't know that, and the and the cemetery didn't know that.

• But between a village manager and village engineer, we now know it's your property.

• The the Bethel Cemetery signed off on it because it's right adjacent to their property,

• so it's up to you to make a decision.

• Item two was is that that

• a large committee, most of the members of the Foxhawk American

• Legion,

• also petitioned a village for that passive

• piece of property, village property,

• opposite

• the memorial adjacent to Radnor Avenue,

• that bend. There's a park bench in there and there's two crosswalks.

• Is it that, whether it be a passive or active park,

• because there's three different entities contending for that piece of property within the village,

• named for rifle Jack Peterson

• and that there be an appropriate memorial there to him, whether that be a picture board, a panel board, what whatever it is.

• And,

• of course, this is particularly

• apropos

• since this is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Bunker Hill,

• Lexington, Concord,

• and next year is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of

• America as declaring its independence. Thank you.

Thank you.

Anyone else wishing to speak on agenda items?

• Okay.

• Alright. Then we proceed to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion?

So moved. Second.

Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Politi.

Discussion?

• Mayor, I just wanted to point out, particularly

• since

• he appears twice, just both to congratulate,

• Vic Conte for his,

• his designation

• into,

• forthcoming into the senior hall of fame. I can't imagine anyone who, deserves it, more. So congratulations

• to Vic, and we look forward to

• celebrating with you in person. And then secondly, to thank Vic, and and through Vic, all of the lions for their their great work annually

• in in selling Christmas trees and

• in addition to all the other great work that they do throughout the year. So look forward to another great year of lions

• selling trees

• in

• in the village.

• Yeah.

And I would just like to pull out the

• rifle jack monument. Thank

• you, mister Riley, for

• talking

• through that. It's interesting that we own that land in the cemetery.

It's yeah. If I I was just I was gonna explain a little bit. So it's it we don't own land in the cemetery. It's just the right of way. That's the right of way. Yeah. Correct. So it's Deep right of way. Depending on Like, we could put a sidewalk there.

• Right? We could. Yes. In theory. But,

• yeah, there the right of ways differ in, you know, in some areas of the village, the right of way is only four feet wide. Right? In other areas, it's 50 feet. Right? It's it's just how the lines were drawn at at the time. Got it. But

• the

• sign that mister Riley was talking about

• is not before the board

• that

• the the code allows for the village engineer to issue permits for improvements within the the street lines. Right? So, the village engineer,

• was able to issue the permit for the sign. I don't I should say, we discussed it. I don't know if Dan issued it before he left or if it's awaiting the new engineer, But,

• this board does not need to issue the permit for the sign. For that sign. So we are we are working through that. And, if it wasn't issued, it will be issued very soon. It's the cemetery. It's functionally the cemetery has made a request to or The request was made by members of the Fox Eckloth Post. I

• met with them as well as the cemetery. The cemetery has provided a letter of support for the sign. Yeah. And, you know, we have approved it. Yeah. Okay. Yep. And then in terms of the passive passive park

and having a memorial there, I would I'd like to have the village historian weigh in as well as the RAC

• committee on that

• so that they're aware.

I agree with that. Yeah. Do you wanna do wanna make a motion to refer it? Think that was our intention. Yes. So yeah. Absolutely. Well, Nora asked for it to be pulled out, so let's pull it out and then do that separately. Does that make sense? Yep. Okay.

• Alright. With the consent agenda so amended.

• All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay.

Then I make a motion to

• refer the rifle jack memo to the village historian

• and Recreation Advisory

• Committee for

• comment.

Second.

• Alright.

• Motion by trustee Nicholson, second by trustee Simon.

• Further discussion?

• All in favor? Aye.

• Alright. Proposed resolutions.

Whereas flooding issues along Brook Street have existed for many years in the village, and whereas in 2023,

• the village board of trustees adopted resolution one forty two of 2023 to accept the proposal from D and B engineers to conduct an updated drainage study along the Brook Street drainage basin. And whereas the study has been completed and a preferred alternate has selected to improve drainage along Brook Street and Terrace Place. And whereas the village has applied for funding from this project

• for this project from Westchester County, whereas 09/10/2025,

• the village board of trustees declared itself lead agency for seeker purposes. Whereas on 09/24/2025,

• the village board undertook the process and review described in detail in parts two and three of the short EAF determination of significance attached here too.

• Whereas the village board has received a recommendation of consistency from the waterfront advisory committee with the village's local waterfront revitalization program, and whereas the village board must make its own determination of consistency

• with the LWRP policy standards and conditions. And whereas on 09/24/2025,

• the village board reviewed the LWRP policy standards and conditions, now therefore be it resolved as follows. The village board of trustees makes the following findings regarding the applicability of the LWRP policies and the consistency of the proposed action

• with those policies and conditions of the LWRP.

• Policy one, policy seven e, policy seven f, policy seven g, policy 12, policy 13,

• policy 14, policy 30, policy 33,

• policy 33

• a, and policy two from section four.

• And whereas the remaining policies and conditions of the LWRP were found not to be applicable, now therefore be it resolved that based upon the above, the village board of trustees confirms its determination that the proposed action, the Brook Street drainage improvement project complies with the policy standards and conditions set forth in the village's LWRP

• and be it further resolved that the village board of trustees

• hereby issues and adopts EAF parts two and three determination of significance attached tier two and adopts a negative declaration in connection with this action.

Do I have a motion? So moved. Second.

• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Discussion?

Mayor, the I just wanted to mention the Waterfront Advisory Committee did work diligently on this and and did note these 11 policies, I think, altogether,

• finding them both applicable and consistent. So I just wanted to thank the WAC for their hard work on this.

Good.

• Manager, is am I correct in your calling that there's a parallel secret process going on with the accounting for the grant funding? Correct. Yes. Okay.

Yeah. So once Do we know the status of that? I don't know the status of it at the moment. The last I heard, they were going through the process at the board of legislators.

• Once they

• have gone through their their secret process,

• they're going to approve the bond funding that will

• provide us with the with the funds.

Okay.

• Alright.

• All in favor? Aye. Aye.

Whereas the Department of Public Works has installed stormwater drainage at the end of Lecanto Street to reduce flooding and washout conditions that occur during heavy rainfalls.

• Whereas the drainage system extends onto the property of 8 Lecanto Street and whereas the utility easement agreement has been to provide access for maintenance and repair of the system when necessary, now therefore be resolved that the village board hereby authorizes the village manager to execute the utility easement agreement with the owners of 8 Lecanto Street to allow access for maintenance and repair of the storm water drainage system.

Do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Discussion?

I believe this is self explanatory.

Said a Yankee fan. Very clear. Yes.

Never mind that transparent.

• Okay.

All in favor? Aye. Aye.

Whereas the village of court of the Hudson is undertaking the Harmon firehouse project located at 30 Wayne Street, and whereas the village entered into a contract with Tierney and Cortney overhead door sales co co inc to furnish the garage doors for the project under bid number 7 of 2025.

• And whereas an additional scope of work, a second row of windows in each door was added to the bid necessitating a change order, whereas the total cost of the additional work outlined in change order number one totals $3,500.

• Whereas the superintendent of public works has reviewed the proposed change order and has determined that the additional work is necessary for the successful completion of the project.

• And therefore be it resolved that the village board of trustees hereby authorizes the village manager to approve change order number one with Tierney and Courtney Overhead Door Sales Co Inc. For the Harmon Firehouse addition project in the total amount of $3,500.

• Be further resolved that funding for such work is available in account H4540Dot2102Dot23445.

Do I have a motion? So moved. Second.

• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson.

• Discussion?

Oh, mayor, was gonna mention this,

• in my trustee reports, but since it's relevant to this, I might as well mention it now. Just having been to the fire fair on Sunday and having a chance to walk around the the EMS Annex. It looks fantastic.

• Look forward to its completion.

• Fully support the the windows for

• for that purpose. And, and it looks like everyone between our contractors and all of the great initial work done by DPW, it just looks fantastic.

• Very good. Alright. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye.

Alright. Public comment on non agenda items. Anyone wishing to comment on anything? This is your opportunity.

Ed Riley from True Jail Drive.

• Last week, we discussed the death of a

• by the way, this is in relation to

• the boycott against CVS,

• which is one of the

• largest corporate sponsors of chemical abortions in The United States.

• One of their competitors just withdrew

• selling this garbage

• to the public, but they persist because of the nature of their chief executive officer.

• So follow-up to that,

• we're talking about 19 year old Renea

• Laderoot who was discovered dead as a result of his interview 46,

• 100 miles north of Buffalo.

• It was interesting.

• I bring this up because

• the Biden administration

• lying

• just like their leader

• when they liberalized

• the using COVID as an excuse, any excuse will do,

• the distribution of r u forty six, which is a dangerous combination of drugs,

• said that they had a

• they had a, injury rate of two percent, which was an absolute freaking lie.

• As we find out now,

• there is a eleven percent serious injure injury rate with r u 40 six

• as as,

• based upon the records of eight hundred thousand women who took it.

• And in this specific

• death, while The United States was lying about

• the injury rate for r u 46

• in The United States,

• Canada,

• for years,

• on their package inserts, if you know what a package insert has all the dangers of a drug,

• was saying that there's a ten percent injury rate.

• So Canada,

• in spite of how crazy that place is and lack of the First Amendment rights in that in that

• country

• By the way, they had until the Liberals got in charge up there, they banned r u 46 in Canada and also in Australia.

• But when they took over, at least they didn't lie in a package inserts. Right?

• And now

• twenty five years later,

• the hard way, in an independent study, private study

• of 800,000

• people, we have to find out that it's got an eleven percent injury rate. By the way, this is typical

• of what the government does with abortion

• and contraceptive.

• They will put whatever they got on the market.

• It will injure the hell out of women like high doses contraceptives.

• They will not admit anything is going on until they have a substitute for that, and they don't care how many women die or women in. It's a pattern with them.

• Safety coil,

• the

• the the IUD,

• several of the IUDs, implantable contraceptives.

• It's a pattern with our government,

• and that's why the FDA

• and the medical establishment

• the government medical establishment has to be shook up big time.

• The second item I'd like to bring up, since

• this village is bound and determined

• to fly a transgender flag

• along with the entire Episcopal church,

• which represents

• the sterilization

• of children,

• mastectomies for children,

• all those evil things,

• you have to take into consideration the fact

• that of the last two convictions

• for terrorism in The United States,

• an estimated 20% of antifa

• and of the of

• five of the last 10 mass murders

• in The United States were conducted by people who were

• directly

• transgender themselves or claimed to be, or they were in love with a transgender individual.

• This village should take that into consideration when they fly that flag because when that flag is fun, it says to the public,

• we believe in everything that flag stands for. By the way, I don't believe you know how to define what's on that flag now. Some have a zero on it. I know. Some don't.

• But

• transgenderism

• is a mental problem. It has a serious mental problem that goes along with that. And evidently, part of that, at least in this environment,

• is violence,

• and you have to take that into consideration. Why? If it indeed is a mental disorder,

• you have to take that into consideration about what symbols you fly,

• just like you've begun to take into consideration the fact that high dosage marijuana

• in a clinic selling such stuff maybe doesn't belong in Croton. Thank you.

Seeing no one else wishing to comment, we proceed to reports.

I have nothing to report.

I have little to report.

• The this weekend at the library, Saturday,

• is the Hispanic Heritage Celebration.

• It's gonna be a really great event. We'll be playing

• Volateria,

• which is a, like, bingo

• type game. And

• we have a Peruvian dancer who's gonna come and

• show us some dance and teach people how to do a little dance,

• music, food, all the local restaurants in Croton.

• So please go to the library

• just to address a couple of the things that were just said.

• Unclear on why we're talking about the Biden administration at all.

• Wanna make sure that

• anyone here is aware that the Trump's FDA just approved the generic version of misoprostone five days ago.

• So I'm not sure why we're here talking to village government, which has nothing to do with any of this,

• when the Republicans have the White House, Senate, and the House. So full control to do whatever it is they wanna do. Me, no control. None. None whatsoever.

• Also curious

• what people think Antifa is. If it's a group, it's an abbreviation for antifascism.

• There is no group. There is no headquarters.

• Transgender shooters.

• Again, this is actually the second time in a row, I think, that

• men

• men being violent has been brought up.

• The vast majority,

• more than 99%

• of shootings of mass shootings, sorry. I think it's 8085%

• of regular shootings,

• are committed by white men,

• not transgender,

• not

• anything else, just plain old white men. So

• just when we're out kinda

• spewing

• stats,

• I I wish that we were as concerned about our

• cisgender men who are clearly

• in crisis

• as we are about the less than one percent of the population that is transgender.

• It's all for me. Thank you. Thank you, trustee.

I'm gonna yield my time to trustee Simon. Oh, thank you. Thank you, trustee.

Nicholson,

• let's see. Bunch of things that have happened in the last since our our last meeting are

• Oktoberfest,

• very well attended. The weather cooperated.

• Thank you,

• Taps Smith, for all your hard work in pulling that together.

• We had, at the same time, over at Croton Point Park, we had Red Fest two fifty in in

• in anticipation

• of our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.

• Two hundred and fifty is,

• semi

• quincentennial,

• by the way, as opposed to our hundred and twenty fifth anniversary, which was quasquicentennial.

• So

• We have a year to learn that. Fun facts. Fun fun facts. You know? But

• there was one done last year as well, and this but you could see this was two days, lots of growth, more more participation

• from, visitors,

• and every everyone's

• booth grew

• and our our own, Mark Cheshire, our own historian, very involved in that. The, the Croton

• booth looked terrific

• and was getting a lot of attention. By pure coincidence, our county director of tourism,

• was there, Natasha Caputo, and, she's involved in in filming for the county. I was able to quickly brief her and even in in in that festive

• environment on the reduction of our film fees that we did in our last budget, and we're gonna be following up to talk about the possibility of getting

• movie and TV production here in Croton.

• On the twenty eighth,

• that the neck very next day, busy weekend, Rotary car show.

• It was I think everyone had a great time. Again, it was wonderful weather.

• Sharp contrast from last year when it was raining. This, of course, is Rotary's major fundraiser for the year, so we're just very glad that it worked out so well.

• On the thirtieth,

• I had the honor

• of

• of not

• only bagging groceries at ShopRite to raise funds for Croton Caring, but to do so with our own village manager who turns out to be a very, very capable

• beggar, knows knows how to put the heavy stuff in the bottom and the bread and the eggs on top. So it was a that was that was fun. And we

• we got to spend some time with our our new

• ShopRite

• general manager, Al Cimino, and, of course, Elizabeth

• Alvarez, who's been there and worked worked with us for many years. The Lorraine

• Hansberry coalition had a weekend event this past Saturday and Sunday.

• I was able, along with the mayor, to be there for

• the the the Saturday part, which was

• sort of

• three three great writers talking about each one talking about

• Lorraine Hansberry,

• the great James Baldwin, the great Nina Simone, and their friendship and relationship over the years, which had a lot of lot of ramifications

• culturally and politically in many other ways. This was actually funded by Westchester County, so I think it it came off

• very good packed

• packed crowd there in the Ottinger Room. Our sustainability

• committee met on October 5,

• got some great briefings and had some wonderful discussion

• on things like our train station solar array, our renewable diesel pilot,

• and also what solar solarize west Solarize Westchester campaign,

• which just quick

• numbers there. There were about 400

• folks that made initial inquiries

• about about going solar with with Solarize Westchester

• under sustainable Westchester.

• About 80 of them went forward to do that, and we believe about 20 might might have been in Croton. We're still getting the final numbers on that.

• Firefare, I mentioned. I should mention also that ShopRite was was there as well. Both Al and Elizabeth

• and

• did substantial

• contributions

• to in terms of the food that was there. And I mentioned how wonderful the EMS

• looked and and just hope everyone gets a chance to take a take a look at it. It looks I think the best thing we can say about it in addition to how helpful it's gonna be to our EMS service is it looks like it's always been there or or or will when it's completely finished.

• Our ABC

• group, Association

• of Businesses

• in Croton, is now official.

• It's all of its paperwork

• has been filed with the appropriate

• authorities.

• There was a board meeting on on Monday morning, and that board is just

• is just moving forward on lots of lots of areas, dues

• and and website

• and and so many other other fields. I know trustee is helping out on that as well. They'll the the next big step, I think, now that all the organizational stuff is done is there'll be a big meeting of as many

• Croton businesses as can join,

• probably

• mid November before Thanksgiving

• to to brief them all on on the ABC and its

• forthcoming programs.

• Planning board met last night.

• Amendments,

• very positive ones related to ADA to

• 25 South Riverside,

• and then the

• the planning board will be getting back to us on their thoughts on on both

• the question of whether there should be an alternate member

• to the planning board as well as

• ADU

• recreational

• fees. And that's it.

I don't wanna jump on the village manager's toes at all, but,

• in regards to the question from the audience about,

• the rental registry, I think if you go to 1865

• A 1,

• it lists the exemptions. One of those is owner occupied for two or fewer

• with not not applying to short term rentals. So that's

• all I have to answer. Thank you.

Alright.

• Well, as my other as some of my colleagues have pointed out, you know, the

• attempt to basically demonize

• a small minority, I think, is very unfortunate

• to come up with these tenuous conspiracy theories about,

• you know, even someone having some kind of relationship with a trans individual being a connection of precursor to violence is

• preposterous.

• It's particularly upsetting in the context of a society where transgender

• individuals are far more likely to be the victims of violence, much more so than cisgender individuals.

• And I I don't see what purpose a brand like that really has.

• I could say more, but I won't.

• I do wanna as the

• trustee Simon mentioned, we have begun our renewable

• diesel pilot.

• Very exciting.

• We are now in day eight of the pilot.

• As a kind of a,

• you know, happy coincidence yesterday, which is the one week anniversary of the start of the pilot, Westchester County reported on its own pilot, which is going on at the airport where they reported very favorable results in terms of savings.

• Honestly,

• that was not. And I mean, it's way too soon for us to tell, but

• that is not necessarily the pursuit of what monetary

• savings is not necessarily the point of this. This is

• about,

• you know, climate and air quality

• for us as the

• chair of our sustainability committee made clear

• in a presentation a few weeks ago, this is a fuel that emits less greenhouse gas

• or in its life cycle produces less greenhouse gas

• and also burns cleaner at the point of ignition.

• So in addition to limiting

• global warming impact

• means less local air pollution.

• And

• manager, correct me if I'm wrong, but the renewable

• diesel

• is being paid for out of our sustainability fund. Okay,

• that has been fed into for many years now at this point by our DPW solar array.

• So we're looking at potentially years before any conversation even needs to be had about taxpayer resources.

• Alright, and I just as Trustee Simon said,

• job by Lorraine Hansberry,

• I was able to go to one of their presentations.

• He was interested,

• in, one was a spoken word if you will, and the other was musical and I got to go to the spoken word one, but not the musical. And then also great work by the fair, the volunteer fire department, the fire fair.

Thank you, mayor.

• A couple things.

• Our new engineer is starting tomorrow, so we're very excited to welcome him on board.

• His name is Vincent Salinitro,

• and he's coming to us from another municipality.

• And we are very happy to

• bring him on board and help

• get the engineering department back to full capacity.

• DPW

• completed

• the annual

• resurfacing

• project

• on Monday.

• We had

• Scenic Drive West

• paved,

• Lower North Highland paved,

• Cleveland between Benedict and Piney Point paved, and Penfield between Benedict and Oneida. So those were our streets for this year.

• And just thank you everyone for their

• cooperation and understanding as we got that work done.

• Just a reminder that the offices will be closed on Monday for Columbus Day,

• and garbage will be picked up village wide on Tuesday.

• And we got word

• yesterday from our workers' comp

• provider,

• Perma,

• that we were awarded a grant of $3,400

• for

• confined space training that the DPW employees will get to take.

• You know, mainly

• people dealing in working in the storm the catch basins

• or

• meter pits for the water department. Those are considered confined spaces. And so,

• you know, there's certain

• potential hazards there, buildup of gases or, you know, things like that that they may may need to to handle. So thank you to PERMA for recognizing our

• our training

• needs and to Frank Balby who wrote the grant, so I appreciate that.

• And

• there will be this was included in the newsletter, and we'll be sending out an email probably tomorrow on this. But

• the current yield sign on Morningside

• will be converted to a stop sign as of next Tuesday.

• So there is a message board that's been there since last week alerting drivers to this pending change.

• But, you know, driver starting next Tuesday, October 14, you will need to come to a complete stop

• at on Morningside at the intersection with Trousdale.

• And,

• lastly,

• there's some rumblings that there will be pretty

• significant storm this weekend nor'easter.

• So the message board will be going out on Cornpoint Avenue tomorrow,

• letting people know about the potential for flooding in the parking lot, especially because it's a holiday weekend. People may be leaving and leaving their car parked for multiple days at the train station.

• So if you do, please just

• heed the heed the signs, avoid the spaces that are marked in red,

• if you're doing long term parking,

• and,

• you know, just pay attention to to the weather forecast.

• Obviously, we will be doing the same and sharing any updates through our communication channels as needed.

• And that is it.

K. Do I have a motion to close? So moved. Second.

• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. All in favor? Aye. Aye.