Alright. Good evening, and welcome to the November 19 regular meeting of the Carton on Hudson Board of Trustees. I'm mayor Brian Pugh. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
• Alright. The first item of business is the approval of vouchers treasurer.
• The Water Fund, we have $19,018.23.
• The Sewer Fund is for $5,891.02.
• The capital fund is for $49,663.35.
• And the trust fund is $2,604.18.
• All in favor? Aye.
• everybody could just move the mics as close to you as possible. Thank you.
• Alright. And now for our feature feature presentation,
• the traffic hero traffic safety hero award from AAA Northeast
• to
• Lawrence Tramolini, who's a school crossing guard.
• Mister Tramolini, why don't you stand up by the podium and the rest of the board and I will join you down there.
• So
• you are Lawrence, you're what we literally call an everyday hero. I mean, the triple a
• calls you a traffic safety hero, and it's so great that we get to honor someone who's on the frontlines in the fight for public safety.
• You are there from the crack of dawn or this time of year, probably the crack of dark, so to speak,
• and then back again for the twilight.
• And it's just
• there are few jobs in our society more important than what you're doing. So thank you for your service to our community.
• as
• someone who
• raised three kids who
• had to walk to school or did walk to school for both elementary school and
• high school. The job that we do is
• so important. And
• had
• a chance to spend some time around those
• corners looking at some of the safety improvements that we've made. They're all terrific. But nothing can replace
• a crossing guard that knows what he's doing. So I appreciate that, Ethan. Absolutely.
• Great.
• And so anyone that came here for the presentation, you're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting or you can stay for the public hearing.
• Speaking
• of which, we proceed to the public hearing on local law number 16 of 2025
• to expand the residential parking permit system on Hastings And Young
• Hearing. So moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. All in favor? Aye. Manager,
• do you want to briefly summarize the local law before we take comment? Sure. Thank you, Mayor. So,
• another local law at the village adopted back in 2021 that originally established the residential parking permit system.
• At that time, we did a see
• city
• we're 're
block of Hastings between Benedict and Devon were in going favor of the permit system, and the other blocks were not in favor of the permit system. So at that time, the board only enacted the permit system on those two blocks.
• Since that time, there have been a number of mails and public comments made and
• other
• phone calls that we've received, you know, asking for that decision to be reconsidered.
• And so in September
• 2025
• treasurer, if you want to click on the third survey letter there. Thank you. In September 2025, we conducted another survey of the
• 77
• homes in the area that currently didn't have the permit. So those are the two northernmost
• blocks between
• Oneida and Crest,
• and the
• block of Hastings between Oneida and Benedict, the block of Young between
• Benedict and Devon, and then the southernmost block of Hastings from Devon to the dead end there. So we sent out these letters,
• 77 of them, as I said. We received 41
• responses
• to the survey letter,
• and
• those responses were presented in graph form,
• which is part of the agenda design, and they were also presented to the board
• October.
• At that time,
• all the
• blocks,
• with the exception of the southernmost block of Hastings,
• had a majority
• who were in favor of
• enacting the residential parking permit system.
• So the board directed that
• we prepare a local law to enact the parking permit system. And so we're having the public hearing on that tonight.
• The permit system, if it was to be enacted, would be in effect Monday through Friday from 7AM to 7PM.
• Residents who have the permit system can park on the
• ir
• car.
• The permits are provided
• two permits household are provided free of charge,
• and then if you needed a third permit or additional permits after that, it's a $10
• charge, and the permit is good for a two year period.
• The permits are going to all be done through
• LPR technology, so there will not be a physical permit.
• It's all done through your license plate.
• And I think that's that pretty much explains
• explains the system. So Very good. Do we have a map we can pull up? Yes. Can we go to Google Map, Jack? Yeah.
• Enough.
• Well,
• it's good enough. Okay.
• So the hearing is open. Members of the public wishing to comment, this is your opportunity.
• Please state your name and address.
Good evening, everyone. Janet Monahan, 116 Young Avenue. I just have a couple of quick questions regarding this. Mhmm. It says Monday through Friday
• for four hours.
• What about holidays that fall
• during the week? For instance, myself, being Italian, I have a lot relatives that come for Thanksgiving, Christmas, etcetera.
• Do they have to keep moving their car?
• And to up but up against that,
• if this is for a two, four, six block area,
• plus all the people on Oneida, plus all the people on Benedict Boulevard,
• if we they can't park on our streets,
• where's everybody going to park?
• That's my first question.
• You see, with if it's like this like, Thursday is Thanksgiving.
• Thanksgiving next year, nobody can park on your street for four hours. Thanksgiving dinner takes longer than four hours.
• Is there any exception for holidays that fall
• during the week is my question. Okay.
• Do you wanna go through try to go through all your questions? Okay. And then my second I only have two. No problem. My second question is,
• for instance, I recently had contractors contractors at at my my house, and it lasted about a month. This says three day permit. Do I have to keep coming every three days to get a new permit
• or what? I mean, they can't carry all their tools down the street.
• That is my second question.
• Okay? Okay. Thank you. Thank you very much. You got it. Good to see you all. Thank you. Good
• holidays are excluded,
• so the permit system would not be in effect on holidays.
• And
• Oneida and Benedict are not included in the permit system,
• so
• they you know, those streets would be available for parking. And This
• permits,
• you would have to renew them. But it's you could just email if you needed to. I mean, it's like it's it's again, it's it's done by license plate technology, so there's no physical permits or anything that you would need to to pick up. So
Yeah. And and parking by nonresidents is not totally excluded. They they as the managers It's four hours. Yeah. It's four hours. So people who are visiting for short stretches or, you know, visiting a store or whatever it shouldn't be an issue. Anyone else? Come on now.
• I did not respond to that survey,
• and my answer was no. I do not want this resident permit parking.
• I don't see cars parking on my street that are used to go to Metro North.
• So I really don't see a need for this.
• All I see is this being an issue for family and friends that come.
• I come I work locally. I come home during the day
• and for my for lunch.
• Every car that I see on my street, I know.
• So pretty much, there's a there may be a lot of cars, but they're all residents that live there. I see problems during the summer
• because people will be coming to visit. It's only four hours, so people aren't thinking about their friends coming over. They're now gonna get ticketed. So I see that as being a problem.
• I'm also stating when you're saying about holidays, you don't think about, like, you have a half day of school, kids in high school.
• When they get home at, like, twelve,
• their friends come over.
• They're gonna get tickets. They have enough problems getting tickets already at the high school. Now they're gonna get ticketed at their house because they're visiting their friends. So I'm concerned about this as being more harmful
• for our residents that are living where I live on Hastings, which is all the end at the end of Hastings,
• which is further away from the train station. So I just wanted to bring that up. I mentioned it to a number of people that that are not here today,
• but a number of residents go, like, oh my god. I didn't even know about that. And they're concerned
• about getting ticketed. So that's what I wanted to talk about. And just to clarify, can you say so you live between Haste Oneida and Crest on Hastings? Yes. Okay. So, I mean, even to the train, it's about a twenty minute walk and eighteen minutes to twenty minutes. So it's not really a place where people park
• for the commuter parking that you're kinda saying. So I don't know if people were looking at this saying, oh, there's too many cars, but they're all people that live there.
• So pretty much, like, everybody who lives on our street
• is there. So I don't think it's a problem on my area. So I vote no.
• Alright.
• So it wasn't put in there, but I want to vote no. Okay. Thank you.
• My
• It's
• couple houses
• from Muriel at the end of
• Newcrest.
• So I really don't have any questions. I just support
• a lot of the neighbors that I me and my husband spoke to this week,
• and no one's in favor of this.
• I left the house today at 10:30.
• You would think commuters
• would already be in New York City.
• The block was empty. There were four cars on our entire block.
• So
• to look at this, to think of it as
• solving
• problem that's not that doesn't even exist
• on our section of the street.
• The only thing it's doing is creating
• a burden,
• administrative
• burden for our families.
• I mean, life is very busy these days for us to, you know, plan a graduation party and be like, oh my god. Do we have to get permits? Did mine expire?
• Did you know, my sister's in town for a week. What do I have to do?
• It's just an added stress and burden.
• It also comes across,
• like,
• that this is privatizing
• a public
• street.
• When we pay very high taxes
• that we feel that that should support parking in front of our house houses for free.
• So, you know, my husband and I and many of our neighbors,
• some of who have not
• responded because we don't have a parking issue. So you look at the letter and you think, oh, yeah. Well, we don't have a problem.
• You just don't pay mind to it. So now that everyone realizes that this is a little more serious and something might be put in place,
• you know, we just many of us oppose this.
• Echo pretty much what everyone said so far. If not for it,
• I emailed Brian back and forth.
• You're Brian. Yeah. I see you nodding. Thank you for your responses. I mean, there's some technical questions about the four hours. How will that work? And, you know, you go from the East side to the West side to the East side. I presume that you're not gonna get ticket the second time that you're now on the West Side for two times. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah. I mean, it would be every time you move your car, it would count as a new four hour window. Right. Yep. And that's
I guess once we do this, it sounds a little bit foregone. Maybe I'm misreading the letter that I received.
• Like, what's the cost? You're gonna have to put up signs. And if you have no tickets
• for the commuters,
• at some point, will we then go back?
• Because it almost feels like it's foregone conclusion. Maybe I'm wrong. Is is that the case? It's not a foregone conclusion? Well, that's great. So
• I guess would there be signs that need to be put up? How will that impact the folks that park there today legally or, you know, allowed on the street
• shoveling snow. They're in the way. You know, people have fire hydrants and and then the like. How how will that work? And what's the cost? And what's the benefit? Because I I don't see an issue. I've been on the street
• twenty four years.
• And as mentioned,
• no cars. I mean, the cars are there. We know every single car that's there. So those are just some of the questions. And Brian, thank you for your responses really. Sure.
• have an answer as to what the cost would be. The
• street signs, we get relatively
• cheap. You know, I don't know I don't know exactly what it would be, but there are there are certain regulations. The signs need to be spaced a certain number of feet. So based on the length of the street would dictate how many signs we would need to have,
• And that's
• Clarify. There is no cost to the individual
• homeowner
• for the first two cars. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah. Each
household is eligible for two free permits. And then if you needed a third or more, then there would be a small charge. Yeah.
• we're is
• we're their
• then we're a on of of of that. Correct. So
• It's
been going on for so long. That's the root the root of this. Yeah. I'm sorry, Mr. Krebs. It's one comment per person. Oh, I Okay. I'm So
• for certain blocks of Young And Hastings, we left out the blocks that had not
• responded favorably
• at that time. And pretty much since we enacted it over the past couple of years, we have gotten a number of emails, phone calls, people at
• public meetings
• asking us, please expand the system. Please add it to my block. You know,
• we have problem. Yeah. So, I mean, the board was responding to
• comments that have been made to it over the years.
• Yeah.
And I have some questions, but I won't wait for Yeah. We should we should Yeah. Yeah. No. I just I just We'll have our wanted to make sure that was as We'll we'll have our discussion, but we should this is the public's opportunity to speak. So is there anyone who's not spoken on the proposed local law that would like to? Here we go.
• 3 Young Avenue. I know this started a few years ago because Brian and his predecessor walked up and down the street, and there were no cars on the street that day but mine. And
• I said, you know, there's better things you can do. First of all, there's maybe four cars that park park on the street for a few hours
• whether wherever they're going is their business. There's no car in front of my house but mine or if my family visits.
• And I'm probably the third house down.
• There is no problem with trucks getting through or anybody else parking.
• And I don't understand
• why all of a sudden after forty seven years on that street
• that this has come that we have come to, you know, parking with a permit. I mean, it's it's ludicrous.
• I I don't know where these people are coming from, and nobody is parked there at night unless somebody has company for dinner.
• So and night to me is 05:00 because I'm a senior.
• So I think that it's something the board really has to take a look at. You had a few people that weren't happy.
• Had they come from the city? Did they want a whole new
• open street parking plan? Did they live there forever and now don't have a car and just sit and look out the window? I mean, where did this come from that all of a sudden Young Avenue
• shouldn't have cars parked on the street?
• Thank you. Thank you.
Sorry. Can I did you say what do you live in that on that same block of Hastings?
• Do I? Sorry. I missed the address. What what 23
• off Benedict Boulevard. It's the 123
• 4th House on the right hand side.
Good evening. My name is Jose Martinez. It's my wife, Dawn. She just came up here before. I live at 140 Hastings Avenue.
• Our
• street is bare. I take pictures. I have pictures here.
• Four cars down the street.
• Plenty of parking for everybody.
• Holidays, everybody comes over. The Grimes, us, everybody, and there's still plenty of parking. So this issue with these so called commuters, the people that complain, that's their problem over there.
• Give them the park, the the the permits. We don't need it. We have nobody on the street. And let's say
• girlfriend's got a boyfriend, comes over the house all the time, hangs out there all night long, and Howard you know, I mean, they're supposed to get a
• resident or a
• pass to to stay there. It just to me, it just
• ridiculous.
• And that's it. Thank
• I don't see any problem on the street.
• Anyone else wishing to speak on this topic?
My name is Sue Fagan. I live at 144 Hastings Avenue in the same general vicinity of all the people that have spoken,
• and it's it's us. It's the same families that live there. No one else is parking there. It's
• I could tell you every single person's car,
• when they come to work, when they go to work,
• there really isn't an issue.
• We're not really for it. It seems to be
• more work than it's worth. We have three cars between my husband and I, and it's gonna be an issue for us to move cars or have to get multiple permits, and it's just not something that we support. So thank you. Thank you.
First of all, it seems like a very, very close knit Yeah. Block. So that's nice to see. Yeah. We should we should wait till we close the public I'm just little
• levity,
• you know?
I think everyone has spoken, though, so we can close. Do I have a motion to close no.
• Okay. 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. So
• too, but we also got a couple from the maybe we can address them kind of separately of the Hastings block and the Young block because
• we also received
• emails from, I assume, the neighbors of yours that couldn't be here
• about Hastings.
• So I think, you know, if we're talking about I
• think it's pretty clear that
• survey results. Right? So we heard there's 15 houses on that block of Hastings. And
• we have received seven
• yes votes. And I'm sorry, we received four yes votes and three no votes.
• One of those yeses reversed themselves,
• and then we got
• six additional
• comments saying no. Right? So we have
• I'm sorry. We got three
• additional comments saying no. So we have seven seven of those houses are now against it, and three
• would be in favor of it. So, I mean, it's Yep. So this is the block, just to clarify, between 121
Hastings and 146 Hastings. That's correct. Yes. So then the survey results was 57%
• yes, 43%
• no.
• So now with the new votes and the change of votes, what's the It would be 70% no. 30%
• yes. So that seems like the majority of that street is Yeah.
• toed out. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. The I think the the others there's some other more complicated things when we get into the where we're having very hearing very different things than the survey is telling us. Correct. But for that block of Hastings
that the majority of our speakers tonight live on, I think Yeah. I don't think anyone would be in favor of moving forward with So just just in case, I don't know if everybody was hearing that, but it sounds like the board does not wanna move forward with the permit system on that block of Hastings. From 121 Hastings to 146 Hastings. Yeah.
• We
hear you. Thank you. We appreciate you Thank you for coming. Telling us. Thank you. So
I guess the question is how do we move forward procedurally? Yeah. Well, just before go to that, if we want to just talk about the Southern Block Of Yonge,
because the speakers that you heard from tonight did participate in the survey. So those results
• the survey results don't change
• from
• what they were, right? You still have 11
• houses on that block of Young that were in favor and four
• that were not.
• So That's one to 40 on you? One to 40 on you. Yes. So and you heard 30%.
• I mean, you heard that there's 18 houses on that block, and you heard from 15 of them. So you heard from almost everybody.
• Yeah.
• Yep.
• And then same thing with the next with 100 to one twenty five.
• We didn't did we hear
• Janet Monahan spoke from that block. Right? And her her vote was counted in here already. So you just had
• four yes and two no.
• And there are
• there were 12 households on that block. So you heard from half of them.
These are tough because it's like, are we supposed to go, like, bang on the doors? I mean, I just feel I you know? I mean, there were we sent the we sent the original survey.
• That was sent in September.
• And then we did
• a follow-up,
• you know, robocall text email reminding people about the survey. Mhmm. And then we sent another letter at the November
• advising people about this public hearing. Right. Right? I mean, that's not normally, we don't go to that line. And I know. Just it's it's Yeah.
People are clearly people clearly feel very strongly about it. I I just but it is hard to deny that if 73%
• say yes and 27 say no, we, you know, we do what's in the best of the most people. So Yep. And the Clear Street is 73 Hastings Avenue to hunt 112 Hastings Avenue. I mean, that's 82%
• not in favor. Did we have good results on on that
• particular block between Oneida and Benedict?
• For those of you that don't know the
The numbering. The numbering. So I I mean, you there are 22 households there. You heard from 11. So It's half. So, like, half responded to the survey for the most part. Correct. So which I mean, listen. You know, when you do it a good survey result. Gonna say Yeah. To get to get a 50% survey response is is pretty good because, you know, most times survey responses are, like, 10%. Right? So
• but
• out of the 11 that responded, right, nine of them were in favor of it. So it's pretty Yeah. Right. And just, you know, just to, you know, make a a clear point,
• the survey was repeated requests
Yeah. In in this room, generally, through public comments. Yeah. And they were not all they were the requests were from various blocks. They weren't all just from one block. Asking us to adopt
• so I think, you know, the, you know, the question is
• just being able to navigate the streets here and determine, you know, which are the ones that make the most sense, you know, to apply this to and and which are the ones that make the least sense to apply this to. Yeah.
I mean, I I think if you wanted if if you wanted to this evening, I mean, if you've you've made the decision already to
• take out that the block at the the Northern End of Hastings. Right? Yeah. Yeah. If you wanted to, you could wait
• two more weeks and see if you get any additional feedback from the other four blocks. I
think that's reasonable. Yeah. As I yeah. That's what I'm in favor of. I think that
• people are now talking about this. I think people got the letters, and people responded to the
• You know, with strong results, I think that people are more likely
• respond. I think those results were good, but I also think that it wasn't a random survey, you know, about a
• this is very specific. Mhmm. You know, I think that if people
• the more people become aware, the more people
• will have an opinion. This is something that's gonna directly impact them. Sure.
• Hastings folks that have on that particular block that have discussed this with us this evening. I
• I think we're of of a mind not to include you. What we're what we're talking about is decisions that we need to make with respect to other blocks in in the surrounding area where where there's appears to be very strong interest in doing this. And we want to try to certify that by keeping us open for just a little bit longer. But you're okay. Yeah.
• do we I'm sorry. No. I was just gonna say, do we is there that's something we should
• we need to I guess then we don't need to vote on it. We just take that out of the resolution. And
mean, do you wanna hold the do you wanna I guess you wanna hold well, you actually already closed the public hearing. So Mhmm. If they wanted to vote, they could reopen it. We
can Just reopen just to formalize that we're taking it. Just just, you know, for for peace of mind. Public hearing. So moved. Second.
Now do you wanna now do they need a motion to hold the public hearing open until the next meeting? Generally, you wanna do it to a date specific or to the next
• to the next available meeting. I mean, would that be the seventeenth then? I mean, you could you could have it on the first because you're not renoticing it because the Yeah. Legalizational meeting. You could have it on the first if you wanted to or you you could wait until the seventeenth, but we already have two public hearings that we're scheduling for the Alright. We'll go with the first. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
• Moved. Second. Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson in favor? Aye. Aye. Alright. Okay. Is there anything
• I'd like to see Google map or a map
• noting what the restrictions are. So for for example, like,
• the one the from Oneida now to
• Crest on Hastings,
• like, we're not considering that block.
• So I would highlight the blocks that we are considering changing to residential,
• like a color coded map Okay. So people are clear. Like,
• our prior discussions,
• we also excluded Hastings
• The South Of Devon.
• Right? So that's not included. Correct. So, like, if we can sort of clarify for people in color code,
• I think that would help. Okay.
• outreach,
• I mean,
• I don't really know if we need to do another mailing because we've already done two. I don't know if that's the best way to reach. But I think that people are obviously talking about it. Yeah. Yeah. More
• And I do I also I have the emails of the people that responded.
• Right. Right? So I could email I could email them and say, please, you know, ask if there are neighbors that haven't sent in comments, please ask them to do something. Just as simple as, like, if you are like, post on your personal Facebook.
Like, we we can post it on the village page, but it's not this it's not gonna have the same impact as a neighbor posting it on Yeah. You know? So
• Okay. So I can That's that's, you know, that's how you get people to come to a public hearing. Word-of-mouth. Word-of-mouth.
Yeah. Yeah. And they don't have to they don't have to necessarily come to the public hearing. They can just send in their comments. Yeah. Yeah. You know? Right. What we don't wanna do is make people less happy with the solutions. We Right. Like Yeah. Again, to but, like, we this came from trying to Right. You know? But this is a respond to a request. So it's not a situation, though, where it's not gonna a 100% of people are No. You're old. I mean, even even the blocks to try best to make the most people happy that we have. Yeah. Right. Even the blocks that have the strongest
support, there's still people that aren't one. Right? So Exactly. Right. So if we hear from this volume of people who feel strongly it's a no, then That's it's a no. Yeah. Better a better a location.
• Alright. Thank you for coming. You're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting if you'd like.
• Alright. I'm gonna you wanna go? I'm just gonna walk her across the street. I'll be right back. Okay. Okay.
Alright. We proceed to public comment on agenda items. Anyone wishing to comment on any agenda item? This is your opportunity.
• 110 Truesdale
• This county and this state and this village
• need a lot of work on developing small business. The state has a reputation, especially during the COVID crisis,
• of crushing more small businesses than almost any state union other than California.
• And on a normal basis, they do it several ways.
• By taxes,
• any number of taxes, multiplicity of taxes and fees.
• They do it by minimum wage legislation.
• They have they do it by
• the cost of energy.
• And and and perhaps
• you should convene special committees.
• You used to have a business development committee.
• Special committees to hear from
• small business and developing business
• what the problems are of starting a small business in the state rather than bringing people in to talk to them.
• In other words, an old story. I'm not sure what's true. It's it's too good to be true. But if
• you were applying for a business in Singapore when it was the business capital of the Far East,
• all you need to have is one piece of paper to do that. I suggest
• that probably in the state of New York, you need about 250
• pieces of paper.
• So I find, you know, the small business
• song and dance rather
• rather
• amusing.
• And I draw your attention to one thing. We have a member of congress who's a democratic socialist. She's the loudest,
• most inexperienced
• congressman we have except perhaps one from Texas.
• When once she was elected by the democratic socialist
• with no experience,
• she went back to her old place of business, which was a coffee barista in Manhattan,
• to say hello and, you know, celebrate her victory, etcetera, etcetera.
• Come to find out, because of the minimum wage increase in New York,
• that the business she was baristing at was going out of business because of New York State's
• increased minimum wage law.
• Similar experiences in places like Seattle
• and elsewhere where they increased the minimum wage so badly,
• nobody tipped anymore, and they had to withdraw
• the minimum wage to a lower number.
• So
• I I just I I find this number one hilarious.
• Number two, I'd like to talk about resolution
• double I, alternate board members
• for the planning board and zoning board. I'm I'm
• trying to make it a habit in the last year since
• I remember when it grow to the
• zoning board and
• planning board meetings. You don't need first of all, you don't need an alternate member. It's insulting.
• Let's say you're
• doing it because other towns and villages are doing it. It's a cool way to
• water down
• the rulings of zoning boards, which are really sort of quasi judicial boards have to operate under law, but they have a lot of leeway. And and when they're when they're when they're put together like ours are, they actually have some moral authority.
• So this is a way to water down and pack the court.
• Because in going to these meetings, I've showed up.
• Once it's on the calendar, go to
• find out on three occasions there was no there was no planning
• board meeting because they had nothing to they had no nothing on the agenda.
• And it's happened at least once with the zoning board of appeals.
• So this is a
• this is a solution in in search of a problem, and I believe you're doing it because everybody else is gonna do it. I'll address that later
• today.
• And in attending those meetings,
• one, there were some misrepresentations
• about from the village engineer, not maliciously, I don't believe, as to what that alternative
• member would do and what his rights were in participating in the meeting.
• Not voting, but participating.
• And lastly, because of running out of time,
• the item six, which deals with the recreation department.
• Hopefully,
• this
• idea of moving your recreation department
• to a place you can't find a use for, Devea,
• it has potential, but right now, it has nothing
• to do.
• It's totally
• inconvenient for the citizens of this town when you have this huge building here.
• Time's expired. Thank you. One shot. Thank you.
• Okay. Seeing no one else wishing to comment,
• we proceed with the consent agenda.
• Do I have a motion on the consent agenda?
• I'd like to pull out for separate consideration
• the item regarding the housing task force.
• Just for discussion.
• the housing task force sunsetting
• resolution.
Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay.
• Alright.
• Do I have a motion on the consent agenda as amended? So moved. Second.
• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Discussion?
local law number 14, right, regard that's talking about the alternate board members. As part of the backup before we schedule the public hearing, we have memos from the planning board and the zoning board
• sharing their
• thoughts after you referred it to them. The
• zoning board
• had brought up about the terms
• for
• the
• alternate members.
• They felt that one year term was too short.
• The appointed
• members of the zoning board have five year terms. You
• know, I don't I don't know if you wanted before we need to know what we wanna do before we
• notice the law. So if we wanted to make a change,
• if we wanted to do something, you know, two years or three years,
• four years, five, whatever it would be. We just need to know that before we move forward.
• Right? I mean, there's a there because reading the memos from all three boards, they have different opinions
• about
• alternates.
• Right? So
• make some
• changes to the law that are not substantive? This is really only substantive substantive change. Change. The other changes do address some of their comments, so which I can talk about afterwards. Would the alternate term
be the same for all three billboards if we decided to change it from one year to But we're only doing two boards. It's only the planning board and the Planning and zoning board.
It would be. Yes. So it would be the same Same term. Yeah. I mean, I guess in theory, you could set them up separate. You could set it up
• differently if you wanted to, but the way that it's written now is they would both have You mean one year? Yeah. Correct. Yeah. Okay. I
• but the whole point, I think, of the alternate is that they're not
• they're
• participating, you know, when they need to. And, hopefully, they won't need to participate for five years. I mean, there's a really good chance, honestly, if someone wants to, they can continue to get reappointed. But,
• you know, we don't want,
• you know, the idea that you'll get someone to volunteer
• for five years for a position to be an alternate
• is, I think, a little optimistic. Yeah. That's true.
• So I I'm in favor of leaving it for one year.
I I don't feel super strongly either way. I think one I think two years will be fine too. I don't I think I mean, if it's just reduction of
• work, I mean, one year is a very short term. But
Of course, there's there's there's no no limitation on reappointment. Now the same initial term on it. Yeah.
• summarize, you know, we did receive some feedback,
• as Trustee Nixon mentioned, from
• specifically, we received the most feedback from the zoning board.
• I did make a change in
• Section 165 in the definitions.
• I added the word
• either,
• right, because there was a concern that the language may imply that the same alternate member would serve on both boards. I don't know why anyone would want to do that to themselves.
• up those evenings. Yeah, really. So
• then
• authorization,
• saying just making it clear
• that
• alternate members are able to attend meetings,
• which includes work sessions, regular meetings, and executive sessions, but they're attending as an observer. They don't sit with the board, and they don't participate in deliberations
• unless they have been designated by the chair
• to
• substitute for a member. Right? So if somebody
• is traveling
• and they can't come to the meeting or if they have taken ill and they can't come to the meeting,
• the chair would, you know, reach out or the secretary on behalf of the chair would reach out to the alternate member and say, you know, you're needed at next week's meeting and, you know, we'll send you the materials.
• And then you can you would come, and you would actually fill the position of the of the absent member.
• But it's not it's not like that if the full board is here, that member is not able to participate
• in
• in the board's
• deliberations or vote on anything.
• So we just we wanted to make that that was a that was a clarification
• that the zoning board asked as well.
• You
• know, and just in full transparency,
• the planning board was not in favor of it, right, in their memo.
• But
• they did not really provide any suggestions one way or another. They just kind of said that they were not
• that they didn't think it was necessary. So
• authority that we would provide to the mayor and the board
• to to appoint
• an alternate, but not a requirement
• yourselves the ability to do so, right? This is not a mandatory.
• You do not have to appoint this. This is just giving you the opportunity to do so
• if it was if the board felt like it was it was in the best interest to do so. Excuse
• me. The
• last thing that the zoning board asked for, right, is to clarify the purpose and the need. And I mean, I think you've might have done that, right, saying that, you know, if there are times when members are
• out of town, they take ill,
• they're stuck at work, whatever it is,
• specifically with the zoning board,
• when
• you have less than the full complement of the board there,
• especially when you only have three members there,
• you need a unanimous decision from the zoning board.
• Zoning boards are known for not always giving unanimous decisions. Right? They
• deliberate, which is good. Right? I mean, what you want a board to do. So
• a lot of times when there's only three members,
• an applicant will choose to defer
• to the next meeting
• because they want to make sure that they have the best possible odds at getting the variance that they're requesting.
• So that, you know that now that's a choice that the applicant is making, but it still requires them to wait a whole another
• month because
• the zoning board only meets once a month. So it still requires them to wait a whole another month before they could potentially get their variance.
• So by having the alternate member, that at least
• kind of solves that
• quorum adjacent issue.
• So
• hopefully that answers the the questions that was already working.
We are getting some feedback that the sound quality is really rough at home. Oh.
• It's buzzing.
equipment is scheduled to be replaced very, very soon. It's here. The equipment is here. We're just trying to schedule
• apologize for those who are having to deal with the buzzing.
• But there's nothing
• I can do. I can't there's nothing to fix with that. It's just the equipment is in
• failing stage.
• So
• sorry.
• Alright. All in favor?
• Aye. Aye. Okay.
• Good.
• On to the proposed resolutions.
sunsetting the housing task? Oh, goes into proposal. Yeah. I guess we can start with that proposal.
• Sure.
• Alright.
• Where whereas
• the housing task force was originally constituted in 2020 and whereas the housing task force was charged with examining all aspects of housing, you quoted on Hudson with special of
• law. The
• The
• Board of Trustees hereby sunsets the housing task force with thanks to all the members of the community who served on this task force.
• Do I have a second? Second.
Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Bellini. Discussion? Yeah. Mayor, I just wanted to take a moment to,
• in addition to the very well written
• resolution to further praise the work of the housing housing task force.
• As the resolution indicates, it was assembled
• right before COVID, as I recall, worked through COVID, brought us an
• excellent report
• in
• 2021.
• And that report
• has helped to guide us in very significant way
• in
• a number of areas regarding housing. The task force was
• composed of Nancy Schatz Schatzkin,
• Adam Decker.
• Nancy and Adam acted essentially as co chairs of the task force, but it also included Julie Evans, Greg Marr,
• the late wonderful Carol Shanzy who passed away earlier this year, and Jana Bluestein.
• And when we when we look at some of the work that this board has done over the last five years,
• I'm probably
• missing a few items, but
• just
• looking at our efforts
• with respect to accessory dwelling units,
• rental registration,
• which we just did earlier this month,
• the work that we've done on
• both tenant protection
• and
• eviction policy,
• transit oriented development
• with respect to housing,
• the use of some of our
• unused public properties to deploy them for more housing opportunities,
• affordability,
• multi family.
• Almost
• almost
• well, actually, every one of those can be found in the in the pages of the housing task force report, which we got in in 2021.
• It's not just my opinion that
• that
• that task force did exemplary work for the village. It's also the opinion
• of the New York State Planning Association because earlier this year,
• both
• annual
• award that they give for leadership in
• community and planning development.
• So we
• are sunsetting
• the task force as a recognition that unlike, say, the sustainability
• committee or the bicycle and pedestrian committee,
• their their
• agenda is not on an ongoing basis. They don't meet on a monthly basis. But I I can tell you just, you know, speaking as
• one individual here, each one of these,
• would continue to regard as a valued advisor on housing issues and look forward to their continued
• participation
• in our discussion
• and their contributions
• to whatever happens within our village in housing.
• We've got work to do in the future, and I look forward to their being involved.
• Thank you, Trustee Simon.
• Further discussion?
• I will say that the task force's
• work is concluded, but ours is not. And we thank them again for their service, and I don't have anything to add to what Trustee Simon said.
• Thanks again. All
• in favor? Aye. Aye.
Whereas the Village of Cortlandt Hudson owns and maintains emergency generator systems at various buildings and facilities throughout the village, whereas the village desires to perform periodic prevent
• preventive maintenance on the systems and to provide twenty four hour emergency service for the systems when needed. Whereas on 10/23/2025,
• the village advertised
• or is it through reviewing amount the responses received, of the recommendation to award the contract to the lowest responder, Gentech Ltd of New Windsor, New York, has been made by Frank Valvey, superintendent of public works. Now therefore be it resolved that the village board hereby authorizes the village manager to award the contract for generator maintenance services to Gentech Ltd in the amount of $11,250
• All in favor? Aye. Aye.
• Yeah.
• Great.
• Okay. I think I can skip some of this stuff. But where this is resolution of the village board of the village of Cortlandt Hudson proposed volunteer ambulance worker service award program for Cortlandt Hudson EMS.
• Whereas the proposal has been made to establish a service award program for the volunteer members of Colonel Hudson EMS.
• Now therefore be it resolved that the village board of the village of Colonel Hudson as authorized by a war article 11
• triple a of the New York State general municipal law in its capacity as the governing body of the village of Corona Hudson, directs that there shall be a public referendum of eligible voters of the village of Corona On Hudson on 11/03/2026
• to be held at polling locations as determined and announced by Westchester County Board of Elections to determine whether such service award program shall be established effective 01/01/2026.
• The type of program shall be a defined benefit plan as described in Article 11 AAA.
• Under the proposed defined benefit service award program, Proton on Hudson EMS volunteer members shall have the opportunity to earn pension like and pre entitlement age death and disability benefits.
• The pension like benefit shall be a lifetime monthly service award commencing to eligible participating
• volunteer members upon application
• after attainment of age 60, the entitlement age. The monthly service award shall be equal to $30 for each year of service award program service credit earned not in excess of forty years.
• When a participant dies after attaining vested status in the program but before monthly service awards have effectively commenced,
• a death benefit shall be payable to the participant's designated beneficiary.
• The death benefit shall be actuarially
• equivalent to the the participant's earned service award and shall be based on his or her earned service credit at the time of death.
• When a participant shall become totally and permanently disabled before service awards effectively commence, a disability benefit shall be payable.
• Disability benefit shall be actuarially equivalent to the participant's earned service award based on his or her earned service credit at the time of application for the disability benefit.
• A year of service award program service credit shall be earned by a volunteer member of Corona Hudson EMS for each calendar year of 2026 during which the volunteer member earns at least 50 points for participating in volunteer ambulance worker activities
• under the rules set forth in the attached written service award program point system.
• Such point system must be accordance with Article 11 AAA of the New York State General Municipal Law. The Village of Cardinal Hudson Village Board has the authority to change the point system by board resolution,
• but may do so only if the changes comply with all governing rules, regulations, and laws.
• Should a participant continue to be a volunteer member of Cornell Hudson EMS after attaining age 60 and having commenced
• receiving monthly service awards, he or she shall continue to have the opportunity to earn service credit under the point system. The additional service awards earned during a calendar year after the calendar year of attainment of the entitlement age and after service awards have commenced
• shall commence be paid as of January 1 in the next succeeding
• calendar year.
• In accordance with Article 11 AAA of the general municipal law, the village of Colonel Hudson shall be the service award program sponsor, the New York State Comptroller or his designees
• shall be the administrator and or trustee of the Croton and Hudson EMS Volunteer Ambulance Worker Service Award program.
• The total twenty twenty six annual cost payable in 2027 of funding the on Hudson EMS Volunteer Ambulance Worker Service Award program benefits
• is estimated to be as much as $35,000
• or about $2,700
• per volunteer member, including the cost of administration.
• The estimated annual cost to administer the program for 2026 is about $2,750.
• All provisions of the Coronel Hudson EMS Volunteer Ambulance Worker Service Award Program shall be in accordance with Article 11 AAA of the general municipal law, as amended from time to time in the applicable rules and regulations for service award programs promulgated by the New York State Comptroller and with this resolution.
• The appropriate officers of the village of Cardinal Hudson are authorized to and shall take the necessary actions to carry out this resolution.
• Oh, motion by Trustee Simon, second by Trustee Nichols in discussion.
• work in advance, both to determine eligibility
• and desirability.
• And I think this is a great step forward
• as
• as the resolution indicates. We are we are not approving this, but rather putting it on the ballot so that the residents and our voters
• can give us their judgment.
• But I think we've
• had the comparable program for the fire department for many years, and I think it's appropriate that we strongly consider
• the
• comparable program for EMS.
• I just I'm sure you said this, but I just wanted to clarify. Is it a simple majority of the public that would vote in favor? Yes. I I don't I don't think that was in there, but, So it just needs a majority vote. Got it. Yeah.
• All in favor? I'm sorry. Mayor, I think I need to do a vote call. Okay. Okay.
• Trustee Slimon?
• Aye. Okay. Trustee Politi? Aye. Trustee Nicholson? Aye. Trustee Simon? Aye. Mayor Pio? Aye.
• I remember the last time
• it will obviously need to go on the ballot. Right? So we have to undertake
• a Spanish translation so that it's available in both English and Spanish on the ballots.
• And,
• you know, the
• village will do certain publicity of it through its normal legal channels.
• But in terms of
• personal
• of
• we're we're
• the
• yeah. And it seemed as though the fire department announcement that's kind of a spot of outreach regarding that. So Yeah. I mean, when we we recently
• I believe. Yep.
• And I that passed with over 80%
• of of the vote. So, I mean, I don't Expanding the number of years, Bill. Yeah. So I would imagine a similar result
• Yep. Would be possible with with this one.
• Whereas the village of Courtland Hudson sold the parcel located at 4345
• Maple Street to Regan Development Corp in 2022 for the development of Maple Commons, and whereas the village in Regan entered into a payment in lieu of taxes agreement for Maple Commons for a period of thirty years.
• And whereas as part of the approval process, Regan entered into an agreement with the village to pay an additional annual fee of $20,000
• for the term of the pilot,
• whereas conditions have necessitated an amendment to the fee agreement, which are more fully detailed in the memo from village manager Brian Healy attached here too. Now, therefore, be it resolved, the village board hereby authorizes the village manager to execute the amendment to the fee agreement from April Commons subject to village attorney's final approval.
• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Discussion?
• your your memorandum,
• I think, explains
• this very well. The
• additional
• note that's included in the backup materials from Maple Commons is as
• well helpful.
• I think this is appropriate for us to do in recognition
• the unanticipated
• costs and also the opportunity to bring organized
• labor
• into
• this project. So I hope that we'll go forward with this. And obviously, it's been I'd also say it's been very good working with with Maple Commons, you know, from and Riegand Development from the start. You know, we're just about
• a little over a year from
• the
• 2024
• when when the
• the the residents moved in. So
• I'm grateful that we're able to make this adjustment and
• look forward to many years of
• Maple Commons being an important part of our community.
• Further discussion?
• fund program to provide infrastructure and other improvements to encourage and support the development of affordable housing. Whereas WBP Development LLC has received a special permit authorized by the village board on 12/18/2024,
• the resolution number 260 of 2024,
• and site plan approval by the Planning Board on 06/17/2025,
• to develop 100 affordable homeownership housing units and related amenities at 1 Proton Point Avenue.
• And whereas, Westchester County HIF
• program funding in an amount not to exceed $6,000,000
• has been sought by the developer to be utilized to fund construction of various infrastructure improvements associated with the development necessary to support the creation of affordable housing and to make the development financially viable.
• And whereas the village
• construction of the infrastructure improvements shall be performed through a competitive pub public bid issued by the village of Courtland Hudson pursuant to section one zero three of the general municipal law. And whereas the village will submit an application to the county department of planning for HIF funds up to $6,000,000
• and whereas the county department of environmental facilities will provide input to the department of planning regarding the operation of such infrastructure investments prior to approving HIF funds
• and whereas pursuant to the IMDA,
• the county and village shall be granted necessary easements for the areas upon which the infrastructure improvement shall be constructed.
• Now therefore be it resolved that the village manager is hereby authorized to enter into an IMDA with Westchester County and WBP Development LLC for the development in the amount not to exceed $6,000,000,
• and be it further resolved that the IMDA is subject to the review and approval of the village manager and the village attorney,
• and be it further resolved that the village manager is authorized to take all necessary steps to facilitate and implement the terms of the IMDA
• and be it further resolved that this resolution shall take effect immediately.
• Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson.
• Discussion?
• your
• reading this and the background material. The
• fair to say
• that we'll be acting
• as, effect, a pass through agent with with a certain amount of oversight, you know, to to make sure that everything is proper of funding
• from the county
• through through the village to WBP,
• and no no cost at all to to the village. No additional cost. Yeah. So these so the county has this housing implementation fund
• that is available
• for affordable housing projects,
• and,
you know, they use the money for infrastructure improvements like the resolution stated. That
• that has to involve the village as,
• like you were saying, kind of like a a fiscal agent, like, a pass through. So there's
• no it's not any of our funds that are being used. Right. And of course, all these infrastructure
improvements are actually part of the approved site plan that the planning board has
• approved in June. Yeah.
• the the sewer line,
• you know, those sort of infrastructure.
Yes. I think this could be a good opportunity just to update the board and public on kind of where we're at with and,
• you know,
after this agreement, where do we go from here? Yeah. You know, we we did sign the purchase and sale agreement
• that's available on the project page that was signed at the October.
• We're moving forward
• to get to a closing date
• with the developer to actually exchange
• the property.
• You know, we're still working with
• Metro North on the
• of
• I think that's
• presentation.
• Week, so that's a good news. Question.
• know, the the water the water main extension that's gonna go through
• that we're getting an easement for on
• at the end of Wayne Street is moving along as well.
• You know, there's a lot of lot of moving parts to this project, but everything seems to be coming together. Yeah. And it looks like the AHOP funding for the project has come through? That is correct. The state approved
• the AHOP funding. Yes.
• So that was good because there
• was a concern, at least in the beginning, that, you know, we know how much funding was going to be left in the program, but we were able to reserve our
• share of it. Great.
• Further discussion?
• Almost
• exactly eleven months and one day since we approved the special permit. So glad to see this is moving along.
• All in favor?
• Aye. Aye. Eleven months.
• Alright. Public comment on non agenda items. This is your opportunity.
• Your system of
sound Can you just state you have state your name again. Even though we know who you are. Debbie Brownie. 23
• I the sound system, last last week, it came in and out and those that has to be fixed or you're gonna have people sitting here every week.
• I mean move it, okay? Get it going.
• I listened to
• trustee slip and I don't think I've ever told you that.
• Last week talk about committees.
• And of
• opened up my laptop and I went through and I saw lots of openings on committees.
• And I saw some people were on three committees and some people were on two committees
• and some were chair of a few committees.
• And I think now that we had this election and everything we hope is good for everybody
• and with some new eyes coming in, as we go through, you all, not me,
• as you go through
• with the committees, this is a great opportunity to bring some other people in
• to invite them to apply. I don't want anyone to think that you choose somebody because you don't.
• People volunteer to do these jobs.
• And it would be great opportunity for people to see how much time and energy go into a committee.
• And that it's not just, you know, friends of this or that.
• So that's my suggestion that we
• look through the committees and see where there's openings and then maybe take some action.
• The other brings me to
• Lade.
• It'll be three weeks on Friday that there was some kind of accident
• and I happened to be down in front of Pronto.
• And I got stuck there for half an hour. Couldn't move up, couldn't move back.
• There I I actually called the police because I couldn't figure out what was wrong and the police were all there. And I think with lot a, we're gonna have to really think about that with a 100
• housing units
• because it was traffic coming from the train and from
• going to The Blaze. The Blaze. Thank you. So, you know, it was really you know, if you were sitting in the car, you didn't you know, what was gonna happen? What do you do? Where's the how do you get out of here? So we need to think about that with the the
• going forward with the the building that's gonna be there on Lot A because it was really frightening. You When you think, now what do I do? What's an alternative route? And if it was more serious, what would all the residents in the
• Harmon area do? So that's
• gotta be maybe one way, one way down, one way back, or
• make a different exit. Don't know. But something has to be looked at before people move in there.
• And last is
• the way that close to my heart.
• I was converted. I wasn't in favor of it. But as my dear my dear friends have, you know, we've had committees and we've moved. But we need to start using it. We need to make it a little more. Even if we have a snowman
• contest
• in the winter there. Even if we,
• you know, have a kite day in the summer, you know, we have to start using that park. Not sending out to the people what do you want, but inviting them to come. And from them being there, there could be more suggestions as what could be done with it. And I know it's a lot of work and I know that,
• you know, people are looking to see what could be done with it. And when you have that information,
• share it at a meeting like this so
• people can say, okay, it's eleven years and we're doing something. Okay? That's it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I like the snowman contest again.
• A boycott against CVS,
• the largest proponent of chemical abortions in The United States.
• It's referred to as r u forty six. It's a double
• pill combination.
• Second bill, the manufacturer specifically said it should never be used in pregnant women.
• It's now being distributed distributed by to boyfriends,
• husbands who wanna get rid of their children.
• It's being distributed to teenagers,
• girls as low as young as 12 years old,
• and the stupidity of New York State's governor and its legislature
• shields criminal
• doctors
• who prescribe these pills
• to children who could not possibly ever know what the ramifications
• of these pills are, including some that have died
• and twelve percent who have experienced serious injury.
• Later, I'm gonna go into the Dalkon shield to give you a copy of this.
• The shield is a perfect example of safety coil,
• high dosage contraceptives.
• It's a perfect example of
• public
• we're so
• ir
• do
• that. Women
• And to cover up the medical effects
• of the crap they've pushed in public for the last fifty years.
• One wag
• who I knew,
• but Bert Nathanson said,
• this has been the largest uncontrolled
• medical experiment
• in the history of the world.
• When you read the stuff on,
• one of the
• the
• one of the IUDs,
• you will see the entire the the outright disregard
• and almost hatred for minorities
• in Baltimore
• on coordination with the developers,
• population
• council,
• and the
• not population counts, zero population,
• and OrthoLabs
• in the way it distributes the number
• of injuries, the ineffective tests.
• It looks like a smaller version of 46.
• More more mundane items, and these are mundane
• compared to the big issues.
• These are mundane,
• but everybody gets excited about them. One, the election's over. This is one of the largest turnouts
• in the history of Croton. It's a fifty fifty election decided by '22
• seems like it it will change the trajectory
• of this board to be a new member on this board. Hopefully, won't be overwhelmed.
• And, hopefully, we'll abode for more
• joint action
• or togetherness in the village of Croton.
• I'd like to say that on stuff that's been built in Croton,
• Spagnola's
• built stuff before, and he's a Croton resident.
• Stuff in Armen really looks good.
• The what he built on Riverside Avenue is well built. The guy built stuff well.
• It is ugly now because of the facings he put in that building, and it's too high. It should never been approved for that high.
• Those two towers sit there. I know when it's a water tower and a a elevator
• tower. It's too high for the residents around. They should have sued him over that.
• They can't now, but it was too high. It's really a four story building if you include the garage.
• But he builds it's well built,
• but it's ugly. He could have made a beautiful face on that. He didn't.
• He chose an inferior face.
• So
• so he's got a mask on a on a beauty.
• So
• you should monitor what happens on Lot A.
• If you wanna see a monumental piece of garbage in terms of the building, go up to court opposite
• Henry cut Henry Hudson High School and see that monstrosity
• that the town of Courtland authorized right there.
• And hopefully,
• your intervention
• and suggestions on Lot A
• will make sure we don't have something as equal equally
• abominable.
• In the in the conversation of last week,
• you mentioned one committee. You can't hear this because in a work session because you're talking amongst yourselves just like you can't see this up here, but you can't hear your microphones.
• You mentioned one committee that need not have
• a majority of village residents.
• No committee of the village of Croton should
• have
• more than one or two non village residents. Alright. Time's expired. Thank you.
• I wanted
• well, I wanted to start with if you went down to Landing last week,
• and
• I think there was some talk about a new installation that was done by the DPW on behalf of the arts and humanities committee,
• which is a peace poll.
• I think there is gonna be more information on that forthcoming,
• but it was done it was done by the DPW with all the proper permits
• and
• only thoughtfully
• discussed the languages that would be included
• on the peace pole,
• but also
• coordinating
• the unveiling with the winter solstice. Just a lot of hard work and and energy and effort went into that. So I was
• I'm glad that people are
• aware of it, and I look forward to the village a lot of people from the village joining on the twenty first when it's unveiled.
• I just wanted to also mention
• that I know there was a
• there was a
• car accident
• situation on Glengarry that a lot of people are aware of,
• and a lot of those neighbors reached out to us
• even before that unfortunate accident happened
• regarding
• the traffic safety on that road. And I don't think that we've given any update on it, but the village is we did get an update. I have that. Okay. Have it on my list. Okay. Yeah. But, I mean, we are aware of it. You know, pedestrian and
• pet and
• bicycle safety is very important,
• especially around the schools.
• So I'm glad that the manager's gonna give an update because
• a lot of thought and conversation has gone into it. There's only and there are some solutions forthcoming.
• I also want to mention that the
• library,
• along
• with some of the other food security
• options that are in town or in the village,
• including Croat Caring and the food pantry. The library set up a sharing shelf.
• We have information about it on our website. There's a lot of information about it on the on the library website. But, basically, it is just a
• shelf set up. It's not monitored. People can donate
• or take whatever they want.
• So I think that people should
• use it and donate to it. It's right at the back door. If you go in the back door, like, as if you're going to the auditorium.
• I wanted to give a shout out to the
• fall athletic teams at the at the high school.
• I think the boys' volleyball team had had a historic run. I think there was a there was a game on Friday. I think they're going to states. I think we might have a swimmer in states
• or competing or that did compete at states, and the boys soccer coaches were named coaches of the year. So,
• you know, there's mixed
• success of the sports teams at Croton High School, but I know that the athletes and coaches work very hard. So I really just want to shout them out.
• Finally,
• I will be I'm sad to see my friend Kara
• leaving the board.
• We've only had a year together, but
• we've been together before.
• And I think that you brought some
• you know, your perspective.
• This board is better when we have
• a lot of
• when we have perspectives from different
• village in different ways and are engaged in different ways and are here for different reasons.
• And I
• appreciate that we
• did not always agree on everything, but always
I will say a a few things. So just text me why you said that. See what she said. I will miss her.
• I'm gonna tell her what you said.
• You're not accusing me of stealing her pencil.
• I mean, what worst crime is there?
• I will say this is my last this is my last meeting as a trustee, so I will say
• just a couple things. I'll try to keep it brief, but,
• you know,
• I love a good rant.
• You know, I'm I'm definitely I'm leaving with the same, you know, love and affection for the village that I that I came in with and perhaps a a deeper understanding of her people.
• You know, in choosing not to run for another term, it was, you know, it was not to to give less time to the community, but just to give in in different ways. And as Maria kind of said, you know, I do think it's important to have different voices, and I, you know, I hope going forward,
• you know, it's it's very challenging, and I that's where we talk about committees. It's it's a huge time commitment. It's a very, you know,
• hard thing for working people
• parents and
• to commit to. And I think, you know, just always try to keep that in mind of who's able to be in the room and who's not
• as as you go forward.
• You know, we're living in a country and a society that is
• more
• I wanna say more divided than ever, which is obviously not true from, you know, hundreds of years ago, but more divided than in my thirty four years and in, I think, most people alive's
• time on Earth.
• You know, we just experienced that as as microcosm
• here in the village.
• You know, people across the political spectrum are
• uncomfortable,
• and
• prices are rising.
• We've got predators predators in in power. Power. We've We've got got the police forces kidnapping people. People who have social media is rotting our brains, and AI is threatening our way of life. There's threats to reproductive
• civil rights.
• You know, all of these things that we are facing in the country matter very much and are things that we should care and pay attention to. Most of them are also not things that we have the power to tackle here on a village board.
• We don't have the power to stop ICE. We we can't bring the cost of groceries down.
• As I remind my friend, mister Riley, weekly, we do not make the choice about what drugs CVS sells.
• What we do and can do is make our little community safe. We can make our residents feel comfortable and welcome,
• make sure they know about the resources available to them, and, you know,
• fix their parking permit situations and their retaining walls,
• you know, their cell phone service. Hopefully,
• we can give them, you know, events and services and programming. And,
• you know, I just think it's
• I I guess as
• I was watching kind of from the outside this last cycle
• unfold,
• and I think I've said it here before,
• that the the people in power
• want us divided. They want us to be fighting over
• who deserves health care and which oppressed group has it harder. And, you know, when we give into that, you know,
• when we're talking about that versus
• what we actually have the power to do,
• you know, we're we're giving them exactly what they want. So I would just urge
• my colleagues and my neighbors and everyone to just not not give in to their game.
• I think we're we may be divided
• on many things, but I think we all agree. Anyone who is volunteering to serve on this board or on a committee or in you know, volunteering their time to be here in any way, you know, I think we all agree on the most important
• goals of local government, is, you know, we wanna have a safe and beautiful and affordable place that we
• can all, you know, call our quirky little home. So thank you for listening to my two years of rants, and
• I will miss you all as well. And thank you.
Thank you, trustee Politi. And it has been an honor and a privilege to sit next to you and be elected with you over the past couple of years.
• You know, as trustee Slippin said, we didn't always agree, but we always came
• at the issue with passion
• and coming coming really from the right place of thinking through kind of what what was the best for the village residents. So I really appreciate you and your dedication
• and everything you did. You are my sister in
• transportation
• here in the village.
• Let the shuttle bus live.
• Let the connector
• grant happen,
• but we will continue
• to fight the good fight of making sure that our community continues to be as accessible as possible
• to all of its residents. So and I am excited to hopefully continue to work with you on various projects here in the village. Still getting your rounds. Maybe. Maybe.
• That's right. And there may be an opportunity to be on a committee.
• And
• then just in terms of my reports, I just wanted to say,
• we police advisory,
• Matt, will be looking forward to having the chief here
• at our work session in December.
• Is that right? Village manager?
• I'll
have to confirm on the schedule. You can confirm on the schedule on that, but that that will be you know, they they he talked a lot about kind of the the work going on at the police department
• in terms of the accreditation
• and policy work. So I that would be a great opportunity.
• He also gave an update on body cams that we're still looking for some additional funding
• for to to roll that program out. So
• kind of more to more to come on on from the pack.
• We had a great committee meeting at IDEA.
• There is a lot of interest in the IDEA committee to support our neighbors in need.
• So I met today with Croton Food Pantry, so we have some ideas of how the village may be able to help. But, you know, just to kind of call out the,
• you know, the two food distribution
• entities in the village, Croton Caring and Croton Food Pantry, who just do incredible work, all volunteer staffs,
• and they really are seeing quite quite a spike
• in participation
• due to the rising food costs
• that are that are happening. So, you know, just a shout out to all of the volunteers in those organizations
• as we head into the very busy holiday season.
Well, thank you, trustee Nicholson. A few things here. On November 6, our heart committee met following up on the first four
• Croton
• luminaries that were honored,
• Pete Sakerakis,
• Ed Ron Thaler,
• Cornelia Cotton, and of course, the collection of great doctors
• from Croton's past. There's some great ideas on how to proceed in the next year ahead, and we'll be going over those and bringing them forth to everyone. But I think the Heart Committee is going to have another
• good year. On November 7,
• Mayor and I participated
• in the bar ribbon
• cutting. It was a great event, ribbon cutting at night, 06:00 at night with the lights shining on us. First nighttime ribbon cutting, I think, we've done.
• Bar was represented by lots of their
• customers.
• Folks are involved in dance and and all sorts of wonderful
• exercises that they do there. The staff, the family, patrons.
• We have representation
• from our new Association of Businesses and Growth. So it was just a great event. And I want thank
• Lori Weiss
• from our team for helping put that together. On November 9, we had our sustainability committee and great updates and discussions on our EV chargers, on our renewable diesel, train stations, solar
• commissioning,
• the sadness of us losing
• losing Westchester power,
• our DPW solar
• canopy, our our new composting shed, and lots of others. So as always, sustainability
• is a very busy committee.
• Veterans Day last week, thank you, American Legion
• post Fox,
• post Eclof five zero five and for a wonderful ceremony, and thank you to the Yacht Club for the great follow-up
• lunch. So we,
• I think,
• celebrated
• Veterans Day in great style.
• Last week on thirteenth,
• I participated in a Zoom with our our all our NICOM friends, the New York Conference of Mayors and Municipal Officials as they try to get their priorities
• settled for the year ahead. Now I've got some information that I'll be sharing among the colleagues here just on what some of their issues are that they're dealing with in finance,
• energy and environment, government operations and community development,
• employee relations and public safety.
• It's gonna be a busy busy year for for NICOM and us in Albany.
• This past Monday,
• we had a really important
• meeting of
• the ABC, Association of Businesses in Croton. It was the first meeting of the new board and officers
• with
• all of the businesses that were invited. So was a large right in this very room, we had about 30 businesses altogether.
• And again, thanks to
• Lori for helping to put that together. But it was an opportunity for the businesses to learn directly from
• from their own colleagues,
• which is essentially the the officers and the board led by president Brian Deo
• about what the plans and ideas are for the ABC. And it was just a lot of lot of great back and forth, and they're putting together a fantastic agenda. So we're just very pleased with that and look forward to them doing some great stuff. This coming Saturday,
• from ten to one I've mentioned this earlier, but now it's just a couple of days away.
• Our our our latest
• bike skills training session from ten to one
• in the community
• room downstairs,
• and it'll be, you know, in first in the classroom,
• sitting sitting there, there, and and then then there'll there'll be be some some demonstrations demonstrations and practice
• actually on
• our Project Mover bikes.
• And that's the fun one. I'm just very pleased to announce, and this is just
• hours old, but we got our October data
• for Project Mover.
• And I'm just so happy to let everyone know that Croton had the most trips of all of the municipalities
• in October.
• And the m we
• we beat them all, and the MTA hub, our train station hub, was the most used hub in the entire system. So a great a great month for
• for Croton with respect to Project Mover, but that just follows all the wonderful months we've had since our launch
• on July 9. Since July 9 through the October,
• we've had ten
• eighty eight
• Project Mover rides initiated in Croton,
• and 74
• of those have been intermunicipal,
• which means they started in Croton
• and went to another municipality
• in the system. So just feel really, really able
• then
• that that
• for then the Maria Ferreri Children's Hospital, dollars 5 to trot around Spencer Field.
• It starts at $9 but registration,
• if you haven't done that in advance online,
• and the QR code is,
• as I said, available at rotary.com,
• then you can register at 08:30.
• Last couple of items. Congratulations
• to our mayor and
• trustee
• for your reelection. And to
• trustee to be Stacy Nachthaler,
• congratulations
• on your election
• if you're watching. And I look forward to working with you. And to Karen Pecora
• and Gary Eisinger and Nigel Robello,
• anyone who runs for office deserves our thanks and respect Winnerblood. So
• send those sentiments along.
• And finally, Kara.
• So
• I just wanna let you know how much I've appreciated
• your energy,
• your fresh perspectives,
• your new ideas,
• the courage
• of your convictions,
• how great a partner you've been to me
• in us working to build what is now the ABC,
• which you're going to be an important part of as
• we go forward.
• You'll be missed in this room, but this is really just one chapter
• in what will be many contributions that you'll make over the years to Proton.
• So I look forward
• to your next ones. And,
• you know, I've just found in observing over the years how people serve in different positions.
• For service to be effective, it does not have to be returned.
• So you made
• a very significant impact, a lasting
• impact in in two years. So
• we wish you and Celia all the best. But based on what Celia
• has shown us so far,
• I expect she will be sitting in either one of these chairs or that chair.
• One of age requirement for trustee. One of these days soon. You know? So so thank you. Thank you.
• as the deputy mayor noted,
• you know, I have been reelected
• on Monday after the mail arrived at the board of elections, which is the last day for military and overseas ballots to arrive. The unofficial counting had been completed.
• And thank you to the voters of the village for granting me another term and another two year opportunity to serve the community.
• I wanna congratulate
• Nora on being reelected
• along with me and congratulate
• Kara on finding a way to serve the community that doesn't involve
• dedicating your Wednesday nights to these meetings
• as meaningful as we may find them.
• Yeah.
• Yeah. It's hard for me to add to what my colleagues have said about
• how great it was to serve with you, so I will try to keep my remarks short.
• We're definitely going to miss your perspective and your passion.
• You've done a lot of work on the transportation front. The shuttle bus is going to be a living legacy from your time on the board.
• And my goodness, if the commuter bus through Circuit ever gets funded by New York State, it's only been fourteen months since
• Circuit submitted its grant application, but who knows? But if that moves forward, we will definitely bring you back for
• what
• it's not a ribbon cutting. When they break the champagne on the bus No.
• No. No.
• Christening. There we go. We'll
• bring you back for the Christening Yeah. Of the gonna break the champagne.
• Oh, Celia is. My own champagne. I was gonna say Celia is. Right? Yeah. Anyway,
• I would say that I would miss Celia except I'm not
• Celia, I will see at least twice a week
• when I'm walking my dog in the neighborhood. So
• other than that, thank you again for your service, and we look forward to your continued contributions
• to our village in a different capacity. Thank you.
• So just a couple of updates.
• As Trustee Slipin noted, we have
• been looking at ways to try to
• slow down traffic on Glengarry Road.
• Glengarry is
• curvy, Windy
• Country Road basically that leads to
• a bustling
• temple and school.
• And so those two things kind of counteract each other. And so we're looking at ways that we can
• improve the safety there. One of the items that
• will hopefully be done by the end of next week is the installation of the 15 mile per hour signs
• that will be placed below the
• curved road
• signs. Right? So there's one of those in each direction on Blankary,
• and so there'll be 15 mile an hour speed signs
• underneath
• them
• advising the public that that's the recommended speed on that road.
• We're also looking at ways that we can install a speed monitor.
• Unfortunately,
• it wasn't as clear cut as we originally thought it would be,
• so there's going to be a little more work involved in actually running some conduit and
• putting it on a separate pole rather than a telephone pole. That is something that we're still looking into to see if it's feasible.
• You
• know, in the meantime, we're continuing to work with
• Children's Space North
• and the Temple on messaging and trying to just remind people about the
• roadway limitations and that,
• you know, just please take it take it slow up there. It's not, you know, it's not
• a road that's meant for for even
• 30 miles an hour. Right? It's it's
• it's a very narrow, windy road.
• Also,
• on road
• communications, we're looking at based on resident feedback,
• we're looking at
• installing another
• speed monitoring sign on Old Post North near Brook Street
• to,
• you know, people people seem to come down that hill fast
• as they as they approach Street.
• So we're gonna look to put a sign there. Again, we're running into the same issue with the
• speed signs not being able to go on the telephone pole there, but we're hopefully, we'll work on that.
• And then
• we're going to and I think this may come up as part of
• the budget discussions, where we're going to look about look at installing
• our third
• rapid flashing beacon
• crosswalk in Maple Commons. So,
• you know, there was a
• close call there, I would say, a week or two ago with somebody walking to school. And so,
• you know, it would complement the other two that we already have on
• Maple Street. So I think that that would be something that we would
• be recommending as part of the upcoming budget
• discussion.
• Some good news. The building permit for the AT And T Tower was issued today, so that's exciting. So hopefully, they
• will start work on that. That's so just to refresh everyone's memory.
• AT and T received a telecommunications
• permit from the board to install an antenna on this building.
• And now they've been granted their building permit from the engineering department so they can start actually working on that.
• You know, they're also, as part of that process, they've agreed to replace the generator that powers this building in need you know, when it's needed.
• So that is going to be a significant cost savings for the village because that generator was nearing the end of its life.
• So so it's great that that they're going to cover that replacement cost.
• The bid for the DPW solar canopies is going to go out tomorrow.
• So that's a this is a rebid.
• The first bid that we did, the board had to reject for noncompliance
• with the terms.
• So we're rebidding so that will go out tomorrow, and then the bids are due back on December 8. So, hopefully, we get
• some more some more bids on that
• on that solicitation.
• And then Dobbs Park, the work in the on the field is pretty much completed at this point.
• The fencing work has been done. The back stop has been repaired.
• The sod
• has been laid. The dirt has been fixed.
• Right?
• So right now, DPW is just spending some time, like, watering the field, letting the grass kinda take hold,
• and then
• it will be covered. The infield will be covered for the winter.
• So
• apparently, lets the grass keep growing.
• So,
• yes, that's exciting.
• And
• with regards to the playground and the basketball court, everything is still on track that we won't see much action there until after the New Year. But
• that don't be alarmed if you don't see anything going on there for the next, you know, six to eight weeks. It's just there we have to wait for the playground equipment to come before we can before we can do much of anything. But it's still on track? Everything is still on track. Yeah. Yep.
• So
• that was it for my updates. Just thank you, trustee Lee. It's been fun
• working with you these past two years. So we