Board of Trustees

Good evening, and welcome to the October 29 regular meeting of the on the 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,

• Our first item of business, the approval of vouchers.

Tonight

• $473,070.47.

• The water fund we have $56,902.40.

• The sewer fund has

• $7,015.76.

• The capital fund has $640,143.05.

• And the trust fund has 8,500.

Do I have a motion? So moved.

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

• Now our future presentation or recognition of

• responders for the Curtin on Hudson Volunteer Fire Department. Would members of the board like to join me?

• I will read out the names and

• record of the top responders and then invite the members who are here with us tonight to join us. Okay.

• Alright. So this is the top 10 from

• 10 on up to the top. James Ferguson at a 149,

• David Altamira,

• to be clear, at four a 149 calls. David Altamira

• at a 51.

• Adrian Cardenas at a 74.

• Lyle Scalzo at 177.

• Joe Dimes at 180.

• John Munson at 197,

• John Gilbert, 207,

• William Gallagher, 209,

• Zan Cohen, 225,

• and Joe Strini, number one responder,

• 281.

• So

• more than one call every two days.

• Can we have a round of applause?

• Sorry. Sorry. There we go. Okay.

• And we recognize that, you know, there are others in the department who couldn't be here tonight. There was a very rousing fire council meeting, and I'm sure people are still recovering from that. But

• thank you so much for all that you do in coming out here tonight to represent the rest of the department. We're really grateful for your service to our village.

As the mayor said, it's been a rough week so far. This is the third night out with the fire department. But

• I thank you to the to the board and certainly to the manager, the mayor, and the whole administration

• to the extent that, you know,

• what we do, you support us greatly in every deed,

• whether it's, you know, budget time

• or repairs to

• the buildings and things like that. But in any event,

• a lot of dedicated men and women.

• And this year, it it it appears that we're going to probably come close to 500 calls, which, again, is another first,

• in the community.

• Obviously,

• it's growing, but at the same time,

• responses and our need for service are growing. So again, thank you for your report and greatly appreciate this.

Yes. Yep.

• Smoke

• detectors.

Thank you. Bye, everyone.

You're welcome. Have a good night.

• Thank Future explorers. Yeah. Future explorers. Okay.

• Next item

• of business is the LWRP

• consistent

• review for the consistency review for the application of epoxy and preformed

• pavement markings over existing markings and re markings and reapplying

• long line pavement remark markings to restore marking visibility on various state highways in the village of Curtin on Hudson. I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? Yes. No. No. I won't. Alright. Thank you, Mary. So this was one of the

more interesting requests that we have gotten for consistency review.

• You know, I don't know exactly why it came to us because it seems like plenty we've you know, the state has done plenty of other pavement markings in the past that did not get to us, most recently along 9A. But in any regards,

• we got it. So the WAC reviewed

• it, and they determined that a number of the is you

• know, we're applicable and consistent,

• including policy seven, policy seven a, policy seven b, policy seven c, policy seven d, policy

• seven g, policy policy E, policy 30, policy 33,

• policy 33A,

• policy 44, policy 44.

• And most of these policies and trustee Simon can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the WACS

• interest in most of those policies had to do with the potential for any line striping that took place on Route 9 getting into the Hudson River. Yeah. So Yeah. And I I have to take my hat off to the our our WACC members,

myself not included,

• because they they they did a wonderful job

• in in taking this project, which by definition, the mayor, you know, read it so well. You would think wouldn't have the typical things that we're concerned about in terms

• waterfront

• quality issues. But actually, when you dive into the 40 or so,

• 44

• policy areas,

• they were able to find a whole bunch, as you noted, that were relevant.

• And happily,

• they're both applicable but also consistent. So I think it ends up being,

• you know, right in line with what we're looking for. And

• hopefully,

• it ends up as good project.

Okay.

So if there are no other policies that the board wants to add, we'll read the resolution. Whereas the village of Cardinal Hudson has adopted a local waterfront revitalization program to guide the use of its waterfront in adjacent areas in a manner consistent with sound waterfront planning and environmental protection principles.

• Whereas the Village of Cortlandt Hudson has received a referral for a review of the New York State Department of Transportation's proposed projects

• involving federal funding for the application of epoxy and preformed pavement markings existing markings and remarking and reapplying long line pavement markings

• to restore marking visibility on various state highways. And whereas on 10/14/2025,

• the village's waterfront advisory committee

• proposed project for consistency with the policies of the LWRP.

• And whereas the WAC has evaluated the coastal assessment form and the policies of the LWRP and determined the following policies are relevant to the proposed project.

• Those were the policies I just read. And whereas the WAC has found that the specifications for the proposed work are protective of the environment and that the project will extend the life of the infrastructure in a manner consistent with the LWRP,

• and whereas the WAC has issued its recommendation of consistency with the LWRP,

• it may therefore be resolved in the Village Board of trustees hereby declares the proposed projects the application of epoxy and preformed pavement markings over existing markings and remarking and reapplying long line pavement markings to restore marking visibility

• on various state highways to be consistent with the village's local waterfront revitalization

• program.

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

• All in favor? Aye. Alright.

• Responses to questions submitted via email, manager. No questions. Okay. Public comment on agenda items. Anyone wishing to comment on agenda items, this is your opportunity.

• Please state your name and address. You have five minutes.

My name is Ed Riley. I live in

• 110 Drive.

• I need to come first in the fire department.

• It's a pretty cheesy award

• for a guy that turned out

• 75%

• of the days,

• I assume, this year or last year. 27175%

of the days a year.

And I assume when you go out,

• sometime you may go out for two hours. Sometimes you may go out for a long time. And then you leave a wife, maybe children, grandchildren behind.

• That's incredible.

• But those awards are pretty damn cheesy at the time.

• I've seen it before. Just a freaking form.

• You gotta spend some money in the fire department for awards.

• And that's incredible. There were 10 people that spent

• two hundred or more

• days of the year responding to emergencies.

• And especially as we enter the winter season

• when going out in the cold and the snow

• is particularly unpleasant.

• And maybe it'd be very difficult to get there.

• So

• I know you do

• take pretty good care of the fire department,

• but

your awards suck.

Item two.

• Eight a

• subparagraph

• two

• is recreation fees. Your recreation fees are trusty,

• especially when it deals with single family homes, which I know you hate.

• And you do everything to penalize just like you do everything to penalize

• water.

• No. They have a right to use our air and their air and their water.

• Your fees are atrocity. It's just another tax, and it's also an example

• of democratic party social policy in the state.

• And you ought to be repealed. I understand only you

• item six.

• That's eight a sub paragraph six.

• You need better representation on your arts councils.

• They tend to be

• progressive left wing people,

• which is a tendency in many artists.

• Balance.

• And I'll give you an example of that.

• On nine, subparagraph d,

• is the Lorraine Hansberry Coalition.

• The programs they tend to sponsor, and the artists they tend to promote,

• tend to be either extremely

• liberal, progressive, or communist.

• Now I love this communist Hansberry

• because she produced one of the greatest greatest plays in American history.

• Black, white, for everybody, especially for black men

• and men in general

• and on the subject of abortion.

• So I love her even she was gums.

• But you need a

• you need balance this art group.

• One example was she had only one of those artists dare to stick up for the state of Israel

• against the

• against the mob of her artistic

• friends.

• That's typical of many things that you do, many committees you appoint.

• And and in terms of

• prejudice,

• discrimination,

• community

• shunning,

• your biggest problem is not race.

• It's not color. It's not sex.

• It's people

• who hold different political views.

• Here's a serious problem this time.

• And this board is

• and this

• administration is guilty of that. Plain and simple.

• So

• you ought to think about that when appointing these boards.

• A perfect example of that, by the way, is when you go to the

• committee to see that. I wish they should be forced to have a public

• comment. They may learn something

• without the meeting being broken up.

• One or more item here.

• And that is by the way, on this

• on the

• the sponsorship of artistic banners, I think that's a fantastic idea.

• It's just that in the selection of banners,

• needs to be

• more

• open to a wider variety of people. For instance, Dalvia. You have her pictures all over.

• And lastly,

• on

• DUI,

• I wonder what you're going to do when you find out most of DUIs are for certain ethnic groups.

We proceed to the consent agenda.

• Do I have a motion on the consent agenda?

• So moved. Do I have a second? Second.

• Motion by Trustee Simon, second by Trustee Discussion?

I don't think that it has to be pulled out, but I did just want to comment on the Arts and Humanities Advisory.

Sure.

• Yeah. No, that's what the discussion is for. I

can't pull it up because I can't get it online.

• So I don't remember exactly what it said. But I'm liaison to that committee.

• And the committee oh, it was about the banners.

• I apologize.

• So

• the committee did work very hard on the banners that are already up and the ones that are coming up next. And I'm really looking forward to having a work session with this committee

• in the very near future to discuss what they're suggesting in this

Mayor, I just wanted to we'll be talking about our local businesses, you know, later on in the evening when we do our trustee reports. But since it's in our consent calendar, I did want to welcome

• Lucky D Thai restaurant

• at

• the location of the Old Ocean restaurant.

• And they apparently are doing a soft opening on October 4, I think it is. So I

• know everyone's

• eager to

• try it out, and I look forward to opening up.

Trustee Simon,

• did you mean to

• have another date in mind?

• You said October I think you said Oh, I'm sorry. I heard October. Yes. I think

I saw it. It's October 31 at Yes. Four

• Yeah. 04:00. That's what you were. Yes. So

• this Friday at four. Very,

• very exciting.

Okay.

• Anything else to comment on the

• consent agenda?

• All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye.

• We proceed to proposed resolutions, Manager.

Whereas a project for the paving in Downtown Court in Westchester County village of Courtland, Hudson, town of Portland, and 8763.03

• and

• made available to cover the cost of participation in the above phase of the project, and it is further resolved that in the event that full federal and nonfederal share of cost of the project exceeds the amount appropriated above, the village board shall convene as soon as possible to appropriate said excess amount

• city

New the

of

• New

of

on behalf of the village of Cortland Hudson with the New York York City, State Department of Transportation in connection with the advancement or approval of the project and providing for the administration of the project and the municipality's first instance funding of project costs and permanent funding of the local share of federal aid and state aid eligible projects cost,

• and all project cost within appropriations,

• that are not so eligible. And it is further resolved that in addition to the village manager of the following municipal titles,

• superintendent of public works, village engineer, village treasurer, and village clerk are also hereby authorized to execute any necessary agreements or certifications

• on behalf of the municipality sponsor with NYSDOT

• in connection with the advancement or approval of the project identified

• in the state local agreement, and it is further resolved that a certified copy of this resolution be filed with the New York State Commissioner of Transportation

• by attaching it to any necessary agreement in connection with the project, and it is further resolved, this resolution shall take effect immediately.

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

Well, Mayor,

• the

• manager did an able job in reading the resolution. There's a lot of governmental

• language in there, but I wanted to point out for everyone that's interested in what we're about to do. I hope

• there's from our project page on our agenda today, there's a good description of

• what this project entails, which is

• mostly Cleveland Avenue, but some

• side streets as well. And

• this is,

• as the memo also indicates, or as the project page also indicates, indicates, this is repurposed

• federal

• earmark dollars from a number of years ago. We credit the manager with being able to rescue these dollars from

• their original purpose

• to this much needed purpose of the Cleveland Drive resurfacing

• project. So we look forward to

• that happening. And I think that we're talking about bids in

• the early late winter, early spring.

I

• in

• the

would just add in that

• this has been you know, this was money that was originally given to the village way back when

• Congressman John Paul was in office, which was, I think, fifteen years or maybe even a little bit more than that.

• And former village manager King was very instrumental in starting this process of getting the money reappropriated.

• And then we had some years where they weren't doing appropriations.

• And then, you know, when the appropriations

• came back,

• you know, we were able to rescue this money. So

• so we're happy to be able to put it to good use finally.

All in favor?

Is chapter two zero six telecommunication towers of the village code was adopted in 1998,

• whereas cellular technology has changed significantly over the past twenty seven years, whereas the village board of trustees desires to adopt a revised telecommunications

• chapter of the village code, whereas Cohen Law Group has provided the proposal in an amount not to exceed $3,750

• to assist the village in reviewing a draft local law to replace chapter two zero six of the village code and therefore be it resolved that the village board of trustees hereby accepts the proposal from Cohen Law Group of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in an amount not to exceed $3,750

• and be it further resolved that the village managers hereby authorize to sign the engagement letter with Cohen Law Group.

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

Well, getting our code up to date, our telecommunications

• code up to date, and getting it properly aligned with the federal statutes that have come about in the decades since our code was last looked at,

• I think is a predicate for us moving forward in terms of any kind of technology

• to improve

• our cell service here in the village. So look forward to the work of

• our existing firm and this specialized

• firm that

• is going to help us make sure that we've got the right language that we need and that we have the flexibility

• and the approach, whether it's small cells or other

• types of innovations, to try to bring those about as well. So I'm looking forward to what I've heard from a number of people in the community that

• they're just grateful that we're moving forward on this, and I as well.

Agreed. Okay.

• All in favor? Aye. Whereas

in 2022, the village board of trustees authorized general code to conduct a complete review of the village code to identify archaic language inconsistencies

• and recommended changes.

• Whereas general code recommended that four chapters of the village code be reviewed by technical specialists.

• Whereas these chapters were identified as chapter one thirteen, electrical, chapter one seventy five, plumbing, chapter one ninety one, sewers, and chapter two twenty three, water. Whereas La Bella Associates, DPC of White Plains, New York has submitted the proposal and agreement for their review of these chapters of the village in the not to exceed amount of $6,950.

• Now therefore be it resolved that the village board of trustees hereby authorizes the village manager to execute the agreement with Lavela Associates DPC for services related to the review of the aforementioned chapters of the village code in the not to exceed amount of $6,950

Do I have a motion? So moved.

• Do I have a second? Second.

• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Guoiti.

• Manager,

it's, I think, fair to say we looked at the

• bulk of the remainder of our code that's more general code

• did that for us. This is more technical and more specific,

• and particularly

• on environmental and energy side, and that's why we're engaging with

La Bella to help us on bringing those up to date as well. Correct. Yeah. When we first got the report from general code in 2022,

• we had 144

• items that needed to be reviewed.

• And some of those items were, you know, just things that did not require board action,

• but a lot of them did. And, you know, we spent the past three years going through all of those and making

• changes, making recommendations

• for the Board to consider.

• So we're down to about the last 20

• or so at this point, and these are four of those 20. Some of the other things are just

• more whole chapter rewrites,

• that we need to look at

• with regards to streets and sidewalks.

• We're down to the things that are going to take time.

• We've addressed all the easy cleanup things, And

• this is one of the things that's going to take a little bit of time.

All in favor?

Coalition was established in 2021 as a subcommittee of the idea advisory committee. Whereas the coalition serves to celebrate the life of playwright, author, and activist Lorraine Hansberry who lived just outside the village boundaries in the nineteen sixties and is buried at Bethel Cemetery. And whereas Westchester County has provided an

• agreement to support the programs and activities of the LHC in the amount of $5,000,

• now therefore be resolved that the village manager is hereby authorized to execute an agreement

• with Westchester County related to funding for the Lorraine Hansberry coalition

• in the amount of $5,000

• would be further resolved until treasurer is hereby authorized to make the following budget

So,

• unfortunately, the members of the Lorraine

• community coalition were not here tonight

• to comment, but they submitted

• a summary of the events, and I'd like to read that for them, if that's okay.

• So Lorraine Hansberry Coalition event

• happened

• October

• 2025

• celebrating the life work and friendships of Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin,

• and Nina Simone. It was held in the Croton Free Library. Library. Both events were stand room only from what I understand.

• On October 4, conversation October 4, the Lorraine Hansberry Coalition hosted a dynamic conversation at the Croton Library that reached capacity.

• The event featured Soyukka

• Colbert, a noted author and interim provost at Georgetown University

• Rich Blint, a prominent James Baldwin scholar and Aja Borrell Wood,

• managing director of the Jazz and Gender Justice Center at the Berkeley College of Music.

• Together, these distinguished speakers explore the profound lives, works, and enduring friendships

• of Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin,

• Nina Simone. The discussion offered deep

• personal connections, artistic collaborations,

• and the ways their legacies continue to shape American culture and the arts.

• On October 5, there was a musical tribute.

• Continuing

• celebration,

• the 10/05/2025

• event transformed the previous day's conversation into a vibrant musical experience,

• once again filling the Croton Library to capacity.

• Led by acclaimed vocalist and musical director Sharnee Wade,

• ensemble featured Mimi Mimi Jones on bass, Oscar Perez on piano,

• Jerome Jennings on drums, and Andy Farber on saxophone.

• The performance paid homage to Hansberry, Baldwin, and Simone

• through expressive musical interpretations

• underscoring

• music.

• The

• example

a great

• The

conversation and performance.

• Here are a few of the the comments.

• Thank you for a splendid program informing and inspiring us about the ways people can inspire each other to imagine and create and make a difference.

• I learned about the significance of the village and the Westchester County as sites of Hansberry's,

• Baldwin's and Simone's friendships,

• and personal professional growth.

• Thank you for such a stimulating conversation.

• Everyone should know Croton,

• not just New York City, is a cultural and intellectual hub of New York. Please continue bringing us all together for such motivating meeting motivating motivating

• events. Excuse me.

• The Lorraine Hansberry coalition is great grateful

• to Emiliano Ulaei, Westchester County legislator in the village of Croton on Hudson for sponsoring the two events. Thanks to our colleagues colleagues in the arts and humanities advisory council of Croton and the many attendees from Westchester, Putnam, New York

• from

get

from the the county county to to support support this this vision, and it was a really fantastic event. So

• it's great that we're being reimbursed by the county for this

• event,

• but, you know, the Lorraine Hansberry coalition is very grateful and worked really very, very hard in organizing this. So it was a great success.

Thank you for the report.

• All in favor? Aye. Aye.

• All right. We proceed to public comment on non agenda items. If you wish to comment on anything, this is your opportunity.

I will just say that there is also

• on non agenda items that's part of the agenda backup.

• We

• do not. It's just it's available for people to review.

I have Riley in Shrewsdale Drive.

• Perhaps the

• village manager can comment on

• why item

• 90 is on the agenda. I assume the county sent the check not, but we can deal with that later. I'd like to know what the why why you need a separate item for that. The event's already taken place.

• You might think about putting on the play itself.

• Item

• that I'd like to talk about is there's a continuing

• boycott

• of CVS Pharmacy

• because the CVS Corporation, which is a terrible corporation,

• a front for big pharma for years,

• very highly profitable. It's run by a pro abortion board and pro abortion executive

• who are promoting r u forty six

• as as much as they can, as recklessly as they can.

• And as I've described here,

• the injury rate, the serious injury rate from RU-forty six, a combination of two lethal drugs, is

• eleven percent to twelve percent.

• And it's not talked about because

• the left controls the mainstream media in this country, and the right really doesn't have a media. They have

• political commentary, but they don't have a very good reporting system.

• True reporting systems would be worried about women's health. The feminists aren't,

• and the left is not.

• And I'll talk about that a little bit more later. This state, as a matter of fact, under this

• leadership of this terrible and this state has had

• four terrible

• attorney generals in a row. Four.

• They either wound up in jail or just missed out on going to jail because they stepped aside.

• Four in a row,

• including the current one,

• who's not on brags about her own abortions,

• but suppresses

• pregnancy care centers,

• who who rescued

• one of my friends over his lifetime rescued 25,000

• babies.

• Think about that, that you can be responsible for saving

• 20 not one life, 25,000

• lives.

• And they persec every one of those attorney generals persecuted them every

• step of the way,

• sued,

• fined,

• tailed them, etcetera.

• And you would think that would terrible

• in a country that is starved for children.

• This children this this country has the lowest birth rate in the recorded history of The United States.

• Starved for children. That's why you're importing so many illegal people because you don't have children ourselves.

• So here we have CVS

• and their allies in the Democratic Party

• promoting the death of children may have a shortage of children, our greatest gift to the next generation, the most important thing we work for,

• because all other glory fades quickly.

• Item two, there's an election going on. It's a chance for Croton

• to change the direction

• from a progressive leveling direction where we become the test tube for every state, every crazy idea in the state. And I assume we're gonna import some from New York City soon.

• This

• this election day goes over ten days, which is much too long, but

• it could be Virginia where we vote in September.

• So we only have a limited number of days left to vote.

• And I noticed downstairs,

• among the

• because we're voting, people anywhere can vote here in pro

• that the Democratic Party has proposed in the village of Pleasantville

• and the village of Bronxville, two two villages

• where it's possible, still possible,

• to elect a nondemocrat

• to a village board that they are asking to change the election day

• from March to November, where it would get lost in county county executive,

• county clerk,

• courts, county courts,

• state Supreme Court,

• governors races,

• president races way down the end of the ballot

• where 50% of the people never even make it to the end of the ballot, if you know elections.

• That is that is a formula for disaster.

• Like the school board, local elections deserve the attention

• of local people on a separate day.

• School board in May, local elections for village, etcetera,

• where you can separate it from mega politics

• in March.

• Those villages are going in the wrong direction because the Democrats

• don't want people thinking when they go to the polls.

• Lastly,

• the idea committee needs more more reform.

• They do not have Zoom calls in the last two meetings I have, but they have their own members calling in by telephone.

• So if their own members can call in by telephone,

• the public should be allowed to call in by telephone. Thank you. Thank you.

• Alright. We proceed to reports. Trustee Slipin. Thanks.

• I

our residents. And so I was wondering

• and hoping that we could

• find a prominent spot on the website to put the information for those organizations ahead of Saturday so that people who

• don't know where else to go when this becomes an issue. Although, carrying committee and the food pantry, I think, are quite well known,

• I would like to ask

• that we can make it prominent on the website,

• hopefully, just temporarily. Yeah. But just in the meantime,

• because people may become

• needing

• this service. Sure.

• So I I'll leave that to you. I don't have a I don't spot mine for it on the website, but I'll leave it up to you. Yeah. And and just as a suggestion, sorry, not to interrupt, Miranda, but that but those food the food pantry

the current food pantry is the first and third Saturday of every month. I mean, that could be placed on our calendar.

• And then the current carrying committee sponsors

• the

Yeah. That's fine. And we did

• I did do some outreach directly to them when we got the flyers from Westchester County

• to ask if they share that information,

• which they said that they would. So

yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yep. And then the other thing is

• I obviously, early voting is going on right here in the fiscal year, which is fantastic.

• And there is a composition on the back of the ballot that I feel has not gotten a whole lot of

• publicity.

• So I just wanted to I know that my colleagues are gonna give lots of updates about other things that are happening in the village, but I just wanted to use my time to just read something that Bedford twenty thirty put out

• about

• prop one on the back of the ballot.

• If I may use my time to do so. Sure. Here's a breakdown of prop one. This is exactly what Bedford twenty thirty put out. It

• says,

• here's a breakdown of prop one, the amendment to allow construction at the Olympic Sports Complex in the Adirondack

• Forest Preserve in Essex County. Prop one has caused some confusion among environment environmentally minded voters. On the surface, it appears to permit construction on protected land,

• but the reality is much more nuanced. The Olympic Regional Development Authority has already built and maintained ski and diathlon facilities at

• Mount Bonn for

• decades,

• some of

• the New York City of Conservation Voters know that this amendment

• projects the integrity of New York State's, quote, forever wild clause,

• prevents further encroachment, and expands protected habitat overall. So sorry for everyone with my

• mediocre reading, but I do wanna try to get it on people's radar because it

• I will just admit that it was not on my radar when I went to go vote. So

• meeting. But if they are,

I want to bring that back. Well, I just wanted to add. I appreciate that because it was I found it unusual.

• Typically, you get some promotional information

• or radio ads or something

• about our referendum. But this one was

• almost nothing.

There was a little bit of discussion on the Brian Meyer show at WNYC.

• But if you don't spend as much time driving around in the car or listening to it while you're working as I do, then you might have completely missed it. So

thank for a lot for our voters. Thank you. And just to add on to that, we do have sample ballots available in the office. So if anybody wanted to

• take get come get a copy and, you know, peruse the amendment before they go vote, they are they're available. It's also on

• we posted it on Facebook, and it's on the website also. So Yeah. I'm not suggesting that we didn't do a promotion. No. No. I know. I know. I'm just telling people. Yeah. Because we have Yeah. There haven't been any. Yeah. Haven't been any.

Thank

you.

• And I'm not gonna report anything.

• Okay.

• I am gonna do

• I know that trustee Simon is gonna cover all of various events in detail. But

• I just wanna give a really special shout out to our recreation

• department and our DPW.

• We have hosted some phenomenal

• fall events,

• kind of summer going into fall,

• have just been phenomenal. So I just wanna thank them for all of their hard work in bringing the community together. We have been very, very blessed to have some wonderful weather for all of these events as well. So it's been great to see

• families coming out, The family fun

• fair at

• Visalo Park was great. We did a touch a truck, so thanks to the first responders for being there as well. Kids were able to climb into

• ambulances

• and fire trucks

• and paint pumpkins.

• We also had shop right there that was giving away free giveaways,

• so that was a really fun event.

• And then for the following weekend, we had the goblin walk, which was very fun.

• Again,

• wonderful to see the community out.

• And I'll let trustee Simon talk about the

• other events that happened in the village over the past couple of weeks. Happy to. Thank you. Thank you, Trustee Nicholson. A few items. And we

haven't had an actual

• board meeting since

• October 8. There's an accumulation of

• some of these. But I'll I'll let the manager, you know, talk about

• the Brook Street drainage,

• you know, project and what it what it means and all of that. But my my small role was on the evening on of October 20 when the

• county board of legislators was considering

• our our proposed the proposed funding

• for Brook Street drainage.

• I was able to provide

• some comment there in the form of testimony,

• and I was

• was very nice to be able to do that. I hadn't done that at the county level before, so it

• was great to see.

• As I said, I'll let the manager talk some more about that.

• On October 11, we did have the Hispanic Heritage

• celebration

• at the library, and our idea committee, I think, did a wonderful job. It was just a great great event. Also,

• a standing room only for that, and I really appreciate

• them doing such a great job on that. On October 18, our heart committee,

• latest

• in celebrating

• those that have made great contributions

• to Croton over the years. This was a very unique

• opportunity.

• The mayor was there as well for celebrating

• three great doctors

• of

• of the past, doctor Samisa,

• doctor Vogel,

• and and doctor Hill,

• as well as celebrating

• our current

• veterinary

• practices

• here here in the village.

• We had the family

• of the daughters of Doctor. Samisa, and both Doctor. Samisa, Doctor. Vogel, Doctor. Hill, they practiced

• just about forty years around

• here, and

• each of them were heroes. And

• doctor two of them, doctor doctor Hill

• and well, actually, all all of them provided some service overseas

• during World War two. So it was it was just just incredible to to see. And I

• should mention Doctor. Brooks as well. The great story about Doctor. Brooks is that because these other doctors all went overseas

• during World War II, Doctor. Brooks was left as pretty much our sole doctor at time.

• Very great stories, and I wanna congratulate the heart committee and our chair of the heart committee, Carolyn Whiting, for doing a great job. We had this past weekend just I thought just fantastic

• Halloween

• parade and dog parade, wonderful

• crowds, incredible

• creativity on the on the part of the costumes,

• and and I think a real growth of family

• themed costumes. You know, we had every everyone from being DPW

• to the post office, you know, just all all sorts of things and and,

• you know, the the biker dogs at at the at the dog parade. So we thank our recreation department, our our DPW,

• and our police for for helping to make those possible. And, of course, Harry Chapin

• on October 19. Just October is just an incredible

• month of of great celebrations.

• It

• was Harry shaped. The weather is beautiful, just wonderful

• participation.

• I want to thank all the volunteers that worked on that, including our

• EMS folks

• and the folks who came from other jurisdictions. I think it's great to see. Harry

• Chapin really ends up being

• a regional event that takes place in Croton, so grateful

• for all of that. We had a pretty terrific ABC,

• if you don't know what that means, that's Association of Businesses in Croton,

• new organization.

• They

• had a board meeting on Monday morning.

• And there is going to be, on Monday, November 17, there will be a meeting of all businesses

• in Croton to brief them

• on the creation of the ABC and goals and objectives,

• and including some activities that are going to take place

• this year. And they've got some very good ideas about some joint

• Christmas and holiday activities that they'll be rolling out and discussing at that point.

• On October 7,

• we it was very gracious of

• Congressman George Latimer to invite us to sit in on his monthly call of

• communities that he has. And actually, I have to say, was rather poignant.

• You know,

• every

• member of his staff

• is not getting paid and hasn't for the last, you know, twenty plus days.

• Great discussion

• about what's happening

• in the grants world with

• government shutdown,

• and very specifically

• on on SNAP. And, you know, keeping in mind, by the way, it's not it's not just SNAP when it comes to our our these kind our our feeding programs.

• It's also with women,

• infant, and the the women women's infant and children's programs. So, you know, I I think it really gets into

• into, you know, crisis proportions fairly soon.

• Mayor and I were at the fire council along with the manager

• last night, and they continue to do great work for our

• village.

• Also yesterday,

• participated

• in an event with our assemblywoman,

• Dana Levenberg and our neighbor Assemblywoman

• Mary Jane Shimsky,

• sponsored

• by the mothers out front focusing on the 100 foot rule,

• which

• I should say the repeal

• of the 100 foot rule. This is a piece of legislation that has passed

• both the assembly and the senate. It's on the governor's desk, and the purpose of the gathering was to urge the the governor to sign it. This

• this would

• repeal the requirement that utilities

• provide

• natural

• gas service to

• any

• building or home within 100 feet of gas main.

• And then just three

• quick events that are upcoming just for folks to think about possibly

• putting them on their calendar.

• We're having a

• ribbon cutting on November 7 for

• I always mispronounce it, but

• Barr.

• I can't see. I always mispronounce it. Barr with an Indian. Yeah. The wonderful group

• on

• Grand Street. They've been they've been in business for a number of months and and wanted to wait until they'd were able to catch their breath before they we do the ribbon cuttings. That's gonna be Friday, November 7 at 6PM.

• And I I might have mentioned this previously, but we've got some more details now. But we Rotary is doing

• the Thanksgiving morning turkey trot on Thanksgiving

• morning.

• It was big for a while, sort of stopped

• during COVID.

• We did a small version of it. Now I think we're we're getting back to the more more traditional one. It's gonna be at Spencer Field. Thank you,

• Croton Harmon School System, for allowing us to use that beautiful Spencer Field.

• It's gonna be a $5

• admission

• to to be in the turkey truck. There'll there'll be lots of awards for both adults and kids,

• and every penny of it will be going to

• the Maria Ferreri Children's Hospital. So this is a big rotary thing, but all of all of the funding goes to the children's hospital. So we're we're very excited about that. And, actually, the hospital

• itself

• has

• has volunteered to do all the promo for it. They're putting together

• a website, and that will all be

• probably

• rolled out next week. And last but not least,

• we're having another

• bike skills class

• brought to you by

• Project Mover. It's going to be in this very building in the community room on November

• 22,

• Saturday morning at 10AM.

• Like the one that we did in July, it'll be part classroom and then part

• part demonstrations

• and and actually riding a bike, which will happen mostly in the parking lot on on on the the

• side of the parking lot side, community room side of the parking lot. So we look forward to that. And the the forms are out there, and there's there's a barcode

• that'll get you all registered.

• We do ask that everyone be registered to that. And of course, it's free.

That's it.

• Alright. I just wanna thank the heart committee again for its

• wonderful commemoration of our village's healers, both for humans and for animals, and also its preventative health

• education work.

• There was a vaccine clinic,

• and we also had a number of informational tables from a variety of providers and organizations in the area, including NAMI,

• the National Alliance for

• Mental Illness

• and Open Door and

• talking to Open Door.

• They mentioned that and, again, this isn't precise because they can't break it down the village level, but

• Opendoor served 600

• people from the one zero five two o area.

• So as changes in federal policy affect our local clinics, this is going to be one of them, and it's going have an impact

• in our community, to be sure, sadly.

• Speaking of

• public health measures, I also just want to flag that there will be a vaccine clinic to be held at the library as well

• in November. So that's another opportunity

• for people to protect themselves as we go into a cold and flu season.

• And with that

• oh,

• wait. No. That's not quite right. I'd like to congratulate Karen

• Bogle on her first goblin walk. She was representing the

• Hudson Valley Gateway Chamber

• and

• congratulate Kathy Quinn and thank her for another amazing Halloween

• where money was raised, of course, for paws crossed, which helps

their

to back

• vehicle.

And permits are needed after November 1 to get any early season snow or whatnot.

• And that can all be done online through our parking portal website. So

• if you need assistance with that, reach out.

• Leaf pickup will be starting next week,

• so we'll send out an email on Friday with the schedule.

• You know, it'll be the same general schedule as in previous years.

• Approve

• advancing us funding for the Brook Street drainage project, which we very much appreciate.

• That will be and and we'll be getting another IMA from the county at some point that the board will have to formally

• approve.

• And then we have to

• allocate our own funding for that project, which we will hopefully be able to do during the

• upcoming budget process for 2627.

• And then lastly,

• that project along with many others are on the village project page, which has

• kind of been expanded recently.

• So we have a lot of additional

• projects on there that hadn't been listed previously,

• and they're kind of broken down. They're moved into what they what they are, whether they're public works or

• parks or utility projects, that sort of thing. So