[I. CALL TO ORDER]
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WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NEW YORK BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 2025.PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
[IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
ON TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.THIS IS FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR JANUARY 21ST, 2025.
ANY ADDITIONS, DELETIONS, EDITS OF ANY KIND? IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
[V. APPROVAL OF WARRANTS]
TO APPROVAL OF WARRANTS GENERAL FUND, AA $264,408 AND 9 CENTS FEDERAL DRUG GRANT CD $3,640 CAPITAL FUND, HH $32,663 AND 57 CENTS LIBRARY FUND, $7,036 AND 73 CENTS.PROFESSIONAL ESCROW TT $3,311 AND 25 CENTS PAYROLL FUND TT $3,467 AND 32 CENTS.
[VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS]
COMMENTS.IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? UH, GOOD EVENING, DAVE SKOLNIK, 47 HILLSIDE.
UH, I ABANDONED YOU FOR A MONTH.
UM, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF THINGS, UM, THAT ARE JUST KIND OF LINGERING, UM, FROM THE LAST FEW MEETINGS AND ISSUES THAT, UM, I'LL EITHER JUST MENTION, BUT THEN PROBABLY NEED TO FOLLOW UP WITH SOME SORT OF FOIL.
I, I'D RATHER I DIDN'T HAVE TO, BUT IT'S THE WAY IT IS.
UM, THE, UM, THE ROSEDALE, UH, PROJECT, UM, IT WAS REPORTED OUT AND YOU MAY BE DISCUSSING, DISCUSSING IT AGAIN.
UM, I'M HOPING, UH, WITHOUT, I'M HOPING YOU KNOW, WHICH PROJECT, THE, THE SIDEWALKS AND THE, UH, THE DRAINAGE.
UM, I'M HO I'D LIKE, I'M, I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS ANY SPECI ANY SPECIFIC, UM, DOCUMENT, PROPOSAL, DRAWINGS, DESIGN THAT HAVE, UM, COME FROM THE, UM, THE CONTRACTOR, UM, THAT ARE, UH, AVAILABLE TO BE VIEWED ANY, ANY MORE SPECIFIC THAN WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY AVAILABLE, UM, IN THAT PLAN.
UM, ALSO, UH, AT THE LAST MEETING, UM, TRUSTEE FLEISIG, UH, REFERENCED THE, UM, UH, WHAT IS IT? THE, UM, STORMWATER PLAN? WELL, NO, I DON'T CARE ABOUT THAT.
UM, NO, IT WAS THE, UM, THE BROADWAY, THE, THE NINE ROUTE NINE ROUTE NINE, AND GAVE A BIT OF A REPORT AS TO WHERE I, I DON'T REMEMBER WHETHER, UM, THE VILLAGE MANAGER ALSO SPOKE TO THAT.
UM, BUT I WAS, AS YOU KNOW, UM, I, THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT FOR BETTER OR WORSE I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING AND TRYING TO BOTHER YOU AT MANY TIMES.
UM, AND I'M CONTINUE TO BE, YOU KNOW, PUT OUT SOMEWHAT THAT THE ACTUAL DETAILS OF THIS, UH, PROJECT, WHETHER IT WILL EVER ACTUALLY HAPPEN OR NOT, ESPECIALLY NOW IN TERMS OF FUNDS.
BUT THAT AT THIS POINT, WHAT YOU SAID WAS THAT THE, IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, THE PLAN IS MOVING THEN TO WHERE YOU, THE COMMITTEE WILL BE, UM, GIVEN MORE OR LESS THE FINAL DRAFT, AND THEN IT WON'T BE UNTIL MARCH.
AND, AND CORRECT ME IF, IF IT IS CHANGED, I WOULD BE HAPPY THAT, BUT IT WON'T BE UNTIL MARCH THAT THE PUBLIC IS, HAS ACCESS TO WHATEVER THIS NEXT ITERATION IS GONNA BE.
AND, YOU KNOW, TO PUT IT SIMPLY THAT THE WHOLE PROCESS IN THIS, AND IN MANY OTHER OF THESE KINDS OF PROJECTS, I'VE SEEN THEM ENOUGH AND YOU'VE SEEN THEM ENOUGH SO THAT THE ACTUAL PUBLIC INPUT, UM, IS, UM, PERFUNCTORY SO THAT THE, UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS AT THE MEETINGS EARLIER, UM, BY THE TIME IT GETS
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TO THAT MARCH, THIS IS MY, MY CONCERN THAT BY THE TIME IT GETS TO THE MARCH VERSION, UH, OF THE FINAL DRAFT, THERE REALLY IS VERY LITTLE ROOM, UH, TO, FOR ANY FURTHER INPUT.SO ON, ON THAT, UH, ISSUE, AGAIN, TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU CAN OVERRIDE THE STATE AND GET SOME OF THE ONGOING, UM, PLANNED AS, AS YOU'RE AWARE OF IT, THAT WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
UH, ANYONE ELSE WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? MOVING ON TO
[VII. RESOLUTIONS]
RESOLUTIONS EIGHT OF 25 SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING OR ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW, A OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING THE ZONING MAP OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO REZONE CERTAIN PARCELS OF DEDICATED PARKLAND TO THE PR ZONING DISTRICT.RESOLVED THAT THE MERRIEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING FOR TUESDAY, MARCH 4TH, 2025 AT 7:00 PM OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER TO CONSIDER PROPOSAL LOCAL LAW A OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING THE ZONING MAP OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO REZONE CERTAIN PARCELS OF DEDICATED PARKLAND TO THE PR ZONING DISTRICT.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES REFER THE PROPOSED LOCAL LAW TO THE PLANNING BOARD AND ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS FOR ADVISORY REPORT.
UM, JUST, UH, JUST TO SORT OF SET THE STAGE A LITTLE BIT, THIS IS SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
UM, YOU'LL RECALL THAT FIRST ON FEBRUARY 16TH, 2021.
AND THEN ON SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2023, WE DEDICATED VILLAGE OWNED OPEN SPACE AS PARK LAND TO PRESERVE IT IN PER PERPETUITY.
SO THAT'S THE ACTION THAT REALLY PRESERVES THE PARKLAND AND THE AMOUNT OF PARKLAND DEDICATED WAS A TOTAL OF 164 ACRES, OR 89% OF ALL OPEN SPACE OWNED BY THE VILLAGE, AND MORE THAN 8% OF THE 1,882 ACRES THAT COMPRISE THE VILLAGE AS A WHOLE.
AND AT THAT TIME, WE NOTED WE WOULD ALSO REZONE THIS PARK LAND, WHICH HAS ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT, THE, THE LAND ITSELF HAS ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT DESIGNATIONS AS PER ZONING.
UH, ITS ZONING SO THAT THE STATUS OF THE LAND IS CLEAR, UM, ON THE COUNTY AND TOWN GIS MAPS AND TO ANYONE WHO IS INTERESTED IN THAT LAND.
UM, AND SO I'M REALLY EXCITED THAT WE'RE FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO DOING THIS.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT FOR A LONG TIME, AND ALL WE ARE DOING TONIGHT IS SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING SO THAT ANY MEMBERS OF THE COM UH, PUBLIC CAN COME AND COMMENT IF THEY WANT TO.
BUT TO JUST BE CLEAR TO EVERYONE, THIS IS PRO FORMA.
WE'VE ALREADY DEDICATED THE LAND AS PARKLAND.
NOW WHAT WE ARE DOING IS GOING THROUGH THE STEP OF MAKING IT VERY CLEAR THROUGH THE ZONING THAT IT IS PARKLAND.
SO I HOPE THAT'S CLEAR TO EVERYONE.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD OR VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY.
SO IS THERE A MOTION MOVE ANY DISCUSSION FROM ANYONE? OH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
UM, UH, DOES ANYBODY WANT TO DISCUSS? ANYONE WANNA DISCUSS ANYTHING? IS THERE ANYTHING? NO, I THINK IT'S FAIRLY SELF SELF.
IT'S VERY EXCITING THAT THIS HAS BEEN A LONG TIME, UM, IN THE, IN THE, IN THE KIND OF PLANNING, I GUESS.
AND THANKS TO OUR CLERK FOR PROVIDING US WITH, UM, UH, DOCUMENTS AND A MAP THAT SHOWS ALL OF THE PIECES OF PARKLAND TOGETHER.
SO YOU CAN SORT OF SEE THAT I THINK VERY CLEARLY.
SO IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
UM, THE NEXT RESOLUTION IS, UH, 20 IS NINE OF 25.
AUTHORIZATION TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT FOR TWO KENWORTH T EIGHT FOUR, SORRY, T 4 8 0 TANDEM AXLE GARBAGE TRUCKS RESULT THAT THE MAREN BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH GABRIELI TRUCK SALES THROUGH THE SOURCE WELL COOPERATIVE PURCHASING PROGRAM AS PART OF SOURCE.
WELL CONTRACT NUMBER 0 3 2 8 2 4 DASH KTC FOR THE PURCHASE OF TWO KENWORTH T 4 8 0 TANDEM AXLE GARBAGE TRUCKS AS ATTACHED.
WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS AT SEVERAL PRIOR MEETINGS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE? IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
[VII. VILLAGE MANAGER’S REPORT]
VILLAGE MANAGERS REPORT.UH, FIRST ITEM IS ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING.
UM, AFTER OUR LAST MEETING WHERE THERE WAS A LOT OF, UH, COMMENT AND DISCUSSION FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING,
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UM, LOCAL LAW THAT HAD BEEN UNDER DISCUSSION, UH, I MET WITH THE, UM, DPW SUPERINTENDENT AND, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE THAT, UH, RATHER THAN, UM, WHAT HAD BEEN PROPOSED THAT WE, UH, LOOK AT, UH, ONLY MAKING WAR BURTON SOUTH OF PINE CREST FROM 9:00 AM TO 12:00 PM IN ORDER TO GIVE, UH, DPW TIME TO GET DOWN TO THAT END OF THE STREET.NOT IN THE ACTUAL DOWNTOWN AREA WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF RESIDENTIAL PARKING THAT, UH, PEOPLE RELY ON.
UM, AND ADDITIONALLY, UH, I'D LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT WE, UM, ADD THE BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET TO MAIN STREET.
CURRENTLY, THERE'S NO PARKING ONLY ON THE SOUTH SIDE.
THIS PROBABLY STEMS BACK FROM TO THE TIME WHEN THERE WAS NO PARKING AT ALL ON THE, UM, NORTH SIDE OF THE STREET UNTIL I THINK IT'S, UH, THE CONDOMINIUM WAS BUILT AND THEN THEY KIND OF PUT A LITTLE INSET IN THERE AND, AND MADE PARKING.
SO, UM, THE PRACTICE IS NOW THAT THEY DO CLEAN THAT AREA, IF THERE ARE NO CARS THERE, BUT IF WE, UH, IF WE U IF WE DO NO PARKING 3:00 AM TO 6:00 AM ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET, UH, THAT'LL, THAT'LL ALLOW FOR ALL OF MAIN STREET TO BE, TO BE DONE ON BOTH SIDES.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UH, THERE WERE QUITE A FEW, UH, CONTRADICTIONS AND INCONSISTENCIES THAT THE VILLAGE ATTORNEY HAD FOUND, AND THOSE, YOU KNOW, WOULD BE INCLUDED JUST AS A, AS A CLEANUP MEASURE.
ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM ANYONE? I JUST REMEMBER A RESIDENT ON MAIN STREET, UH, ASKING THAT IF WE WERE GONNA DO THAT, WOULD THE PARKING LOTS BE INCLUDED OR WOULD THEY BE OPEN SO THEY COULD PARK THERE? I WAS JUST MAKING A NOTE THAT WE SHOULD MAKE SURE THAT THE PARKING LOTS ARE NOT THE SAME, SAME, SAME TIME MM-HMM.
DAYS AND TIMES AS THAT PART OF WAR BURTON AND MAIN STREET, SO THAT THOSE PEOPLE HAVE SOMEWHERE THE PARKING LOTS ARE, UH, WELL, LET'S LOOK SPECIFICALLY PERHAPS A WHOLE INJURY.
UM, I MEAN, IS IT, IS IT ALSO POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD ALTERNATE THE TWO SIDES SO THEY DON'T HAPPEN IN THE SAME NIGHT? NOT FEW PARKING SPACES ONE SIDE I KNOW, BUT IT'S STILL, THERE'S NOT MANY ON THE SIDE.
I THINK THEY'RE LIKE FOUR PARKING SPACES.
SO IT'S MORE, IT'S JUST, IT'S HARDER TO CLEAN IT.
BOLLINGER IS PROBABLY THE WAY TO GO.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM ANYONE? I, I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT, UM, ALL OF THE THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS AND UH, UM, CONCERNS OF THE PUBLIC WERE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AND, AND THIS ADJUSTMENT WAS MADE, AND THE AREA THAT IS BEING PROPOSED IS AN AREA WHERE THERE ARE VERY FEW HOMES, AND THE HOMES THAT ARE THERE DO HAVE, UM, DO HAVE, UH, DRIVEWAYS.
SO IT SHOULDN'T AFFECT PEOPLE.
IT MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY INCONVENIENT IF THEY DON'T LIKE GOING INTO THEIR DRIVEWAYS, BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE TOO INCONVENIENT FOR, FOR PEOPLE IN THAT AREA.
JUST IN TERMS OF THE INCONSISTENCIES THAT WERE, UM, FIXED, IDENTIFIED AND, AND FIXED.
THERE WAS NOTHING IN THERE THAT WOULD BE AFFECTING PEOPLE IN, IN THIS, IN A SORT OF A SIMILAR WAY AS THE OTHER ONES.
NOW MOST OF THEM ARE EITHER CHANGING THEM TO MAKE THEM WHAT REALLY IS RIGHT.
UM, AND THEN, UM, JUST SOME THINGS THAT THERE WAS DUPLICATION OR INCONSISTENCIES.
SO IT WAS, IF YOU ACTUALLY APPLIED THE CODE, SOMETHING WAS VERY WRONG, SO YOU HAD TO PICK ONE OR THE OTHER.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE NOW WITH THIS.
SO, UM, WE'LL REDRAFT THE LAW BASED ON THIS AND BRING IT BACK TO YOU FOR THE NEXT MEETING.
AND, AND MAYBE IT'S WORTH CIRCULATING IT, I THINK IN THE PAST.
VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY, YOU'VE CIRCULATED KIND OF DESCRIPTIONS OF THINGS.
MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S WORTH SHARING WITH PEOPLE.
UM, I THINK THAT WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE EXISTING LAW IS THINGS WERE ADDED AND THEY CHANGED PREEXISTING THINGS, BUT THEY NEVER DELETED THE PRIOR OVER THE YEARS YEAH.
OVER THE, OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEARS.
AND THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE INCONSISTENCIES I THINK ARISE FROM.
I JUST, I GUESS PART OF WHAT I MEANT BY THAT IS THAT IF, IF, DEPENDING ON WHAT, WHAT THE PUBLIC ASSUMES IS THE CURRENT AND CORRECT, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, RULES, WILL THE CHANGES AFFECT THE PERCEPTION OF THAT OR THE UNDERSTANDING OF THAT? THAT, THAT WAS, THAT WAS REALLY MY QUESTION, WHICH IS WHY I'M SUGGESTING THAT IF WE CIRCULATE IT MM-HMM
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THEN PEOPLE CAN LOOK AND SEE.AND THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF A PUBLIC HEARING IS, YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE, WE'LL BE IN THE POSITION WHERE WE CAN, WE'LL HAVE TO DO A NEW PUBLIC HEARING 'CAUSE IT WILL BE A NEW LAW, BUT PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO COME AND COMMENT AND HOPEFULLY WHAT THEY'LL MOSTLY BE SAYING IS, THIS IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE LAST VERSION.
SO THEY MAY NOT LOVE IT PARTICULARLY, BUT, UM, PEOPLE HOPEFULLY WILL APPRECIATE THAT THE ROAD ARE BEING CLEANED.
THE TWO BIG ISSUES THAT WE HEARD WERE THAT THAT THREE HOUR BLOCK WAS TOO LONG.
UM, AND ALSO THAT ISSUE OF MAKING SURE THAT THE PARK ON THE DAYS THAT THE DOWNTOWN STREETS HAVE NO PARKING BETWEEN THREE AND 6:00 AM THAT THE PARKING LOTS ARE AVAILABLE.
I MEAN, AS I REMEMBER, THOSE WERE THE TWO BIG THINGS.
AND I, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THOSE ARE, UM, ADDRESSED NOW.
AND THAT MAKES SENSE ALSO, THAT, THAT IT WAS STAGGERED.
SO IF WE HAVE SITUATIONS WHERE IT'S ALL HAPPENING ON MONDAY FROM NINE TO 10, IT SHOULD REALLY BE STAGGERED FROM NINE TO 10 IN SOME PLACES, 10 TO 11 IN OTHER PLACES, AND 11 TO 12 IN OTHER PLACES.
THAT WAS THE OTHER THING THAT WAS A, A RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS MADE AND YEAH.
IT ACTUALLY DOES HAVE, UH, STAGGER SOME STAGGER NOW.
LIKE FOR INSTANCE, ON MONDAY, UM, BETWEEN THREE AND 6:00 AM EAST SIDE OF SOUTH SIDE, EAST SIDE OF WAR, BURTON MAPLE NORTH, UH, NORTH SIDE OF SPRING STREET.
AND THAT'S THEN AT, THEN BEFORE SEVEN THEY GO UP TO BROADWAY.
BROADWAY IS ALWAYS NO PARKING, SO IT DOESN'T HAVE AN ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET.
UM, AND THEN, UH, FROM NINE TO 10 THEY DO THE WEST SIDE OF WAR BURTON AND THE SOUTH SIDE OF WASHINGTON.
UM, SO, UH, AND THEN, UM, NINE TO 11 IS, UH, THE DEAD END OF MAPLE AND THE NORTH SIDE OF ARD.
AND THESE ARE ALL EXISTING MM-HMM
YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE EXISTING RULES THAT PEOPLE ARE USED TO AND HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, FOLLOWING ALL, ALL ALONG.
SO THEY, THERE IS SOME EXISTING STAGGERING, UM, IN HERE, IN HERE NOW.
WE WERE JUST, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE MAIN COMPLAINT WAS RUNNING DOWN WARTON FROM THE VILLAGE YEAH.
AND COULD WE JUST STAGGER THAT SINCE WE WERE BEING TOLD THEY NEEDED THREE HOURS TO DO THAT? RIGHT, EXACTLY.
INSTEAD IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE THE DPW COMMISSIONER HAS BACKED OFF ON THAT.
SO THE STAGGERING IS NOT AS ONE.
BUT THERE ARE A FEW, ANYWAY, I THINK THIS JUST, IF YOU CAN JUST TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT THE STAGGERING ISSUE.
AND I, I FOUND THAT, BY THE WAY, THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING THE MAP AND THE, UM, THE, UM, LEGEND.
I HAVE TO GIVE THE CREDIT TO MY ASSISTANT FOR DOING THAT.
HE, UH, HE WORKED QUITE HARD ON IT, BUT HE DID A GOOD JOB,
SO ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THAT? UM, NEXT, ANY OTHER UPDATES THAT YOU WANNA PROVIDE? UM, YEAH, I JUST DID WANNA VERY BRIEFLY, UM, BRIEFLY, UH, UM, JUST COMMENT ON WITH REGARD TO THE ROSEDALE.
UH, THAT PROJECT IS JUST AT ITS EARLY, VERY EARLY STAGES.
UM, AND THE PROJECT ITSELF IS TO PREPARE THE DESIGN AS WELL AS DO THE CONSTRUCTION.
SO OTHER THAN WHAT WAS IN THE INITIAL, UM, UH, GRANT, YOU KNOW, GRANT APPLICATION THAT WE MADE, WE DO NOT HAVE DRAWINGS AND DESIGN, BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS SET UP ON THE WEBSITE A, UH, A DEDICATED SPACE FOR THAT PROJECT.
AND WE CAN DO THE SAME THING FOR THE BROADWAY PROJECT, UH, WHERE WE DO HAVE MORE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON, ON THAT AT THIS POINT.
'CAUSE IT'S FURTHER ALONG IN THE PROCESS.
YOU MEAN THE BROADWAY TAP GRANT? YES, THE BROADWAY TAP GRANT.
NOT THE, NOT THE BROADWAY, UH, COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT.
UM, SO WE'LL DO THAT FOR THOSE TWO PROJECTS SO THAT WHAT THE INFORMATION THAT WE DO HAVE WILL BE AVAILABLE.
UH, AND JUST WITH REGARD TO THE BROADWAY TAP PROJECT, UM, WE, WE, WE ARE AT THE, YOU KNOW, MERCY OF THE STATE'S COMPLETE STREETS PROCESS.
UM, UH, SO THEY, THEY DICTATE, THEY HAVEN'T GIVEN US THEIR REPORT YET, SO WE, WE DON'T HAVE IT TO, TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC.
UM, AND, UH, BUT, AND, AND YOU KNOW, THEY'RE STRUGGLING TO GET IT DONE AS QUICKLY AS THEY CAN TOO.
AND THEN THEY HAVE TO GIVE IT TO THE STATE AND THE STATE REVIEWS IT, AND THEY, YOU KNOW, HAVE THEIR, THEY WERE ON THEIR OWN TIME SCALE.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN IT'S AVAILABLE, WE'LL, WE'LL CERTAINLY MAKE IT AVAILABLE THROUGH OUR WEBSITE AS WELL.
BUT THE, THE DATES THAT I GAVE LAST TIME, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT MOVE OUT.
IT SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT MOVE OUT A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE FURTHER OUT INTO, INTO THE SPRING BEFORE, BEFORE THEY RELEASE IT
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TO THE PUBLIC.ANYTHING ELSE? VILLAGE MATTHEW MURPHY.
UM, THAT'S ALL I HAD, UNLESS THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING? NO.
[VIII. BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS]
DISCUSSIONS.UH, FIRST ITEM IS GRANT ANNOUNCEMENTS, WHICH, UM, IN THE LIGHT OF THE SECOND DISCUSSION IS ACTUALLY VERY EXCITING,
UM, UH, AND I'M THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THAT HASTINGS HAS BEEN ACCEPTED INTO ROUND TWO OF THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES YOUTH, YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION FUND, OR YCF AS WE CALL IT, UM, PROGRAM, WHICH MEANS WE'LL RECEIVE A GRANT THIS TIME AROUND OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
UM, UH, AND JUST AS WAS THE CASE THE LAST TIME, THE AWARD IS TO BE USED TO DISTRIBUTE IN SMALL MICROGRANTS TO YOUTH AGES 15 TO 24, WHO SUBMIT COMPELLING PROPOSALS THAT ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE.
AND THE GRANTS HAVE TO BE BETWEEN 1000 AND NO MORE THAN $5,000.
UM, THE GRANT IS AN INITIATIVE UNDER THE MAYOR'S CLIMATE YOUTH COUNCIL, AND THE ASSISTANT TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER AGAIN, UM, UH, IS IN THE PROCESS OF UPDATING THE WEBSITE WHERE WE WILL MAKE THE NEW APPLICATION FORM AVAILABLE.
UH, AND WE WILL MAKE OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS HOPEFULLY BEFORE EARTH DAY, BUT CERTAINLY NO LATER THAN EARTH DAY.
SO, UH, HOPEFULLY WE CAN, WE CAN DO THAT IN ACCELERATED TIME.
AND THEN ALL THE PROPOSALS WILL BE DUE, UM, AS OF OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR, UM, WILL BE DUE TO BE FINISHED, LET ME PUT IT THAT WAY.
THE MONEY WILL HAVE BEEN, UH, WILL HAVE TO HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED, THE PROJECTS WILL HAVE TO HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED BY OCTOBER.
SO WE ARE ENCOURAGING ALL OUR YOUTH TO BEGIN THINKING ABOUT WHAT THEY'D LIKE TO WORK ON.
I'M VERY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT EVERYONE COMES UP WITH.
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER SMALLER, BUT STILL, UM, IMPORTANT IS THAT WE LEARNED LAST WEEK THAT WE RECEIVED A $10,000 REBATE UNDER THE NEW YORK STATE ZEV PROGRAM FOR OUR ELECTRIC VEHICLE THAT WE PURCHASED.
SO THESE, THESE REBATES ARE MAKING THOSE, UM, THOSE VEHICLES EVEN MORE AFFORDABLE.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY GOOD.
SO THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS RELATING TO GRANTS.
UM, THE NEXT ITEM IS THE DISCUSSION OF THE STATUS OF FEDERAL GRANTS.
SO, AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, LAST WEEK, THE WHITE HOUSE BUDGET OFFICE ORDERED A PAUSE ON THE PAYMENT OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF FEDERAL GRANTS AND LOANS.
UM, AND ALL FEDERAL AGENCIES WERE ASKED TO TEMPORARILY PAUSE ALL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO OBLIGATION OR DISBURSEMENT OF ALL FINANCIAL, FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
THE PAUSE ALSO BLOCKED NEW GRANTS BEING ISSUED.
UM, HOWEVER, RESTRAINING ORDERS HAVE BEEN ISSUED BY THREE DIFFERENT FEDERAL JUDGES AT THIS POINT.
ONE ONE RELATES TO NOT FOR ACT, THE ACTIVITIES OF NOT PRO UH, PROFITS, WHICH IS THE ONE THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY, AND THEN TWO HAPPENED LAST WEEK.
UM, IN RESPONSE, THE, UH, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, UH, UH, NOTED THAT THE ORDER WAS PUBLISHED WITHOUT BEING VETTED BY KEY OFFICIALS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
AND SO THE DIRECTIVE HAS BEEN RESCINDED.
UM, BUT I JUST RETURNED FROM A MEETING OF THE NEW YORK CONFERENCE OF NAS, AND MANY MUNICIPALITIES LIKE OURS ARE CONCERNED ABOUT WHETHER FUNDING THAT THEY HAD COUNTED ON WILL BE FORTHCOMING.
AND WE HEARD FROM THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES WHO TOLD US THAT, AT LEAST FOR NOW, IT LOOKS AS IF THE PROMISED FUNDING WILL FLOW FOR GRANTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN OBLIGATED.
I THINK PEOPLE KNOW THAT THE, UM, OBLIGATION OF THAT KIND OF, UH, ACTIVITY, OBLIGATING FUNDS IS AN ACTIVITY OF CONGRESS.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE, UH, ARGUABLY, UH, DONE IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
SO AT LEAST FOR NOW THAT FUNDING IS, UM, FORTHCOMING AND IT'S LESS CLEAR WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
SO ANYTHING THAT WE ARE, WE'RE, UM, APPLYING FOR IN THE FUTURE, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARDER TO SAY.
SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR US? WE BELIEVE THAT MOST OF OUR GRANTS WILL BE UNAFFECTED EXCEPT PERHAPS ONE GRANT, WHICH IS THE AMERICAN FOREST GRANT AS A RESULT OF A VERY PARTICULAR WAY IN WHICH IT'S FRAMED.
UM, SO WE ARE FOLLOWING THIS VERY CLOSELY AND WE'LL LET YOU KNOW WHAT WE HEAR.
UM, BUT FOR NOW, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE DOING OKAY
SO, UH, WE PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO, UM,
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TO ACCESSING GRANTS, AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT ARE, UH, COMING IN TO HELP, UM, IMPROVE OUR VILLAGE.AND IT WOULD BE A SHAME IF, UM, THAT FUNDING IS NOT AVAILABLE.
THE OTHER PORTION OF FUNDS THAT IS, UH, AFFECTED IS FEMA MONEY.
AND FOR US, LUCKILY, MOST OF OUR FEMA MONEY, WE MANAGED TO, THANKS TO THE GOOD WORK OF OUR VILLAGE MANAGER AND HER TEAM, OUR TREASURER AND, AND THE REST OF THE TEAM, WE'VE MANAGED TO, UM, TO, HOW CAN I SAY, HOOK THAT MONEY IN
THERE'S A LITTLE BIT THAT'S OUTSTANDING ABOUT, UM, I DON'T KNOW, 230,000 SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE ARE STILL OWED IN FEMA FUNDING.
SO WE HOPE THAT WE GET THAT SOON.
AND, UH, I KNOW THAT THE STAFF WHO ARE, UM, WORKING ON THESE ISSUES REALLY WANT, DON'T, DON'T WANT MUNICIPALITIES AND NOT-FOR-PROFITS TO BE, UM, UH, FEELING AS IF THEY'RE UNDERMINED.
AND SO THEY'RE WORKING REALLY HARD TO, TO PROCESS THIS FUNDING, OBVIOUSLY, IF THEY'RE ALLOWED TO UNDER THE LAW.
SO, UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE THINGS STAND.
AND, UH, THE, THE OTHER NEWS FROM, UM, I'LL DO ACTUALLY MAYBE AT THE NEXT MEETING, I'LL GIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A SUMMARY OF WHAT, UH, WHAT I LEARNED AT THE NYCOM MEETING.
I JUST CAME BACK LATE LAST NIGHT, BUT ONE THING THAT DOES STAND OUT THAT'S BEEN IMPORTANT FOR US AS A SOURCE OF FUNDS IS THAT IT LOOKS LIKE THE CLEANER ENERGY COMMUNITIES PROGRAM IS IT'S GONNA COME BACK MM-HMM
IT'S NOT CLEAR EXACTLY HOW IT WILL COME BACK, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE ENDED UP GETTING MORE THAN $650,000 THROUGH THAT PROGRAM.
SO THAT'S ACTUALLY BEEN A REALLY GREAT SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR US FOR ENERGY RELATED PRODUCT PROJECTS.
UM, THE, ANY QUESTIONS ON EITHER OF THOSE TWO ITEMS? UM, THE NEXT ITEM IS, IS THE CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF THE UNSAFE BUILDINGS CHAPTER OF THE VILLAGE CODE.
AND YOU'VE ALL FEELS LIKE WE'RE DOING BUILDINGS AND ZONING PRETTY MUCH EVERY MEETING AT THIS POINT.
UM, THE, OUR ATTORNEY HAS SENT ALL OF YOU COPIES OF THE REVISIONS.
UM, I DON'T, IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO TO SORT OF HIGHLIGHT WHAT'S CHANGED IN IT FOR PEOPLE NOW? YOU KNOW, THE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS LAW, UM, IS REALLY TO DEFINE WHAT CONSTITUTES AN UNSAFE BUILDING AND THEN SET FORTH THE PROCESS, WHICH IS VERY MUCH ABOUT NOTICE AND DUE PROCESS.
UM, TO PROTECT THE VILLAGE, YOU HAVE TO DO THINGS CERTAIN WAY.
YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE AN OWNER WITH DUE PROCESS BEFORE YOU COULD GO IN AND TAKE DOWN THEIR BUILDING OR PLACARD THEIR BUILDING OR FORCE THEM TO TAKE A BUILDING DOWN.
UM, SO THIS, THIS LAW FOLLOWS WHAT A NUMBER OF OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, UM, HAVE DONE IN TERMS OF THE PROCESS.
UM, I THINK YOUR CURRENT CODE, UM, HAD SOME ISSUES.
IT DIDN'T REALLY DEFINE WELL ENOUGH.
UM, IT ALSO UTILIZED THE BUILDING BOARD, UM,
SO, UM, AND I KNOW THAT YOUR BUILDING INSPECTOR AT TIMES, UM, FOUND WAYS TO DO THIS SORT OF AS AN EMERGENCY WITHOUT GOING EVEN THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
AND I THINK THIS PROVIDES, EVEN WHEN IT'S AN EMERGENCY AND IT'S IMMINENT DANGER, IT SETS FORTH THE PROCESS TO BE FOLLOWED.
UM, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY AN ABBREVIATED PROCESS IF THERE'S IMMINENT DANGER.
SO I THINK THIS JUST MORE CLEARLY SETS FORTH, UM, HOW UNSAFE BUILDINGS, UM, ARE DEALT WITH.
AND TO BE CLEAR, PART OF THE DEFINITION INCLUDES IF YOU LOOK AT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT ARE ENUMERATED, ONE OF THE CATEGORIES THERE INCLUDES HOARDING AND OTHER KINDS OF, UH, KIND OF ACTIVITY THAT CAN CREATE A FIRE, FIRE DANGER, NO OTHER KINDS OF SAFETY CONCERNS.
SO IT'S NOT THAT WE, IT'S THE SAFETY CONCERN ASPECT THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY YOU'RE BUILDING INSPECTOR WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE HAD IN THERE, BECAUSE HE HAS HAD SOME INSTANCES, UM, WHERE THERE WERE, UM, PROPERTIES WHERE THE HOARDING REALLY HAD BECOME A VERY SERIOUS FIRE HAZARD AND DANGER.
AND I, I THINK LAST TIME I ASKED, THIS APPLIES TO SITE AND BUILDINGS.
SO SITE IS REALLY HANDLED UNDER THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE.
AND HAS, THIS IS REALLY ABOUT BEING ABLE TO PLACARD OR EVEN TAKE DOWN OR FORCE REPAIR OF A BUILDING OF A BUILDING.
SO DOES THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE GET UPDATED IN TERMS OF, UM, HOARDING AS WELL?
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PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE IS A STATE CODE, AH, CAN'T CHANGE THAT.THIS ISSUE OF ABANDONED, NEGLECTED UNSAFE BUILDINGS IS A BIG ISSUE FOR MANY, MANY MUNICIPALITIES IN NEW YORK STATE.
LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE BUILDINGS THAT LOTS OF MUNICIPALITIES HAVE BUILDINGS THAT ARE, UM, THAT HAVE BEEN ABANDONED OR ARE NOT PROPERLY KEPT UP, OR ARE A SAFETY HAZARD BECAUSE OF THE WAY PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN THEM.
SO EVERY SINGLE TIME I GO TO NYCOM, THERE ARE SESSIONS ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE, WHICH IS WHY I'VE SORT OF SURFACED IT.
AND WE HAVE NOT AS MANY AS SOME OTHER MUNICIPALITIES.
KINGSTON HAS TONS AND TONS OF THESE KINDS OF BUILDINGS, BUT WE DO HAVE A FEW.
SO IT IS SOMETHING, IT, I THINK IT'S HELPFUL FOR THE PROCESS TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR FOR OUR BUILDING INSPECTOR, SO THAT HE FEELS HE'S FOLLOWING A PROCESS THAT IS, UM, SUPPORTED BY, BY THE CODE.
UM, THE ONLY QUESTION I ASKED WAS RELATED TO PENALTIES.
DO YOU WANT TO TO SAY HOW YOU ANSWERED THAT, THAT QUESTION TO ME? SURE.
SO, UM,
UM, THERE WAS ANOTHER THING THAT YOU HAD SORT OF DIRECTED ME TO LOOK AT, UM, IN KINGSTON, WHICH WAS A DIFFERENT LAW ON JUST ABANDONED PROPERTIES.
AND THEY, THEY HAVE A BIG PROBLEM THERE WITH ABANDONED PROPERTIES THAT ARE JUST VACANT, FAKE, NOT EVEN ABANDONED VACANT PROPERTIES.
AND THEY HAVE A WHOLE SEPARATE CODE CHAPTER ON THAT.
THEY REQUIRE A REGISTRY OF THEM, THEY REQUIRE, UM, FEES BECAUSE THEY'RE KIND OF HAVING TO KEEP AN EYE ON 'EM.
THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY UNSAFE MM-HMM
UM, AND THEY RAISE OTHER ISSUES.
SO THAT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF FEE SCHEDULE THAN THIS.
SO THIS REFERS YOU BACK TO THE PENALTIES, NOT REALLY FEES, IT'S PENALTIES.
UM, IN THE BUILDING CODE SECTION, WHICH ARE AGAIN, UM, SORT OF SET BY THE STATE.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE ON THIS? ARE YOU HAPPY FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD AND SET UP? WELL, I HAD, I DID HAVE ONE QUESTION, BUT I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE A COPY OF IT IN FRONT OF ME, BUT IT, UM, I THINK THE, YEAH, I KNOW WHAT YOUR QUESTION IS.
IT'S, I DON'T NEED TO, SO IF YOU WANNA JUST, YEAH, THERE'S JUST, THERE'S, THERE'S SOME WORDING THAT THEY MAY CLEAN UP A LITTLE.
THEY USED SOME ODD WORDING THAT I DON'T THINK IS NEEDED.
I, I HAD ONE QUESTION, WHICH IS THE PROCESS, ACTUALLY, IT SEEMED VERY, VERY CLEAR, BUT WHAT WASN'T CLEAR TO ME WAS THE TIMEFRAMES.
LIKE IF IT'S GOING TO THE SUPREME COURT, THERE IS NO SUCH THING.
I MEAN, YOU, THE WAY WE WOULD TRY TO BRING IT INTO THE COURT YEAH.
WOULD BE, WE WOULD TRY TO BRING, UM, AN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHICH GETS US A MORE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE FROM A COURT, NOT JUST FILE SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA SIT FOR MONTHS.
SO WE WOULD BRING IT TO COURT BY ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE OKAY.
AS AN EMERGENCY TO TRY TO GET AN EMERGENCY ORDER.
SO WHEN, WHEN YOU SAY THERE'S NO SUCH THING, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A TIMEFRAME SET TIMEFRAME.
WE CAN'T SET A TIMEFRAME FOR THE COURT, BUT IT WOULD BE DONE THROUGH AN EMERGENCY ORDER TYPE OF PROCESS.
SO IS EVERYONE COMFORTABLE WITH THIS BEING PUT ON FOR, UM, FOR TO SET SCHEDULE, TO SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING AT THE NEXT MEETING? MM-HMM
UM, AND THEN THE NEXT ITEM IS THE DISCUSSION, UH, OF THE UPDATE TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE NEXT STEPS.
SO TO JUST SORT OF RECAP FOR EVERYONE, WHAT'S BEEN DONE IS THAT, THAT THE COMPREHENSIVE, UH, PLAN HAS BEEN DRAFTED.
THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMMITTEE HAS HELD A PUBLIC MEETING, PUBLIC HEARING, UM, FINAL CHANGES AND EDITS.
THE PLAN HAVE BEEN MADE, THE PLAN HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO US, TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, AND WE'VE HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW IT AND MAKE FURTHER EDITS.
SO THAT'S SORT OF WHERE WE STAND.
AND THE NEXT STEP IS THAT WE MUST HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH, UH, SHARES OUT OUR EDITS.
UM, AND I SUGGEST THAT WE SET THAT FOR OUR NEXT MEETING SO THAT THIS, THIS PROCESS IS LONG.
SO IT KIND OF ENABLES THAT TO, TO MOVE FORWARD AND AT THE SAME TIME REFER THE COMP PLAN OUT TO THE COUNTY FOR REVIEW.
UM, IT NEEDS TO BE SENT OUT TO THE, TO THE COUNTY AND ALSO TO PLANNING AND ZONING.
NO, THEY'VE ALREADY, IT DOES NOT, IT DOESN'T NEED, WE, I GUESS WE CAN DO THAT AS A COURTESY.
BUT THE, THE REQUIREMENT OF THE LAWS, IT DOES REQUIRE A COUNTY PLANNING BOARD REFERRAL AND THEN TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION
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ESTABLISHING US AS THE LEAD AGENCY FOR CCRA.SO I DON'T THINK YOU, YOU NEED TO DO THAT.
YOU ARE, YOU ARE THE LEAD AGENCY BECAUSE YOU'RE THE ONLY AGENCY WITH APPROVAL AUTHORITY.
UM, BUT YOU WILL NEED TO DO SEEKER.
AND SO THE CONSULTANT WILL PREPARE THE MATERIAL FOR US AND THEN WE'LL NEED TO GO THROUGH THAT REVIEW.
UM, AND ASSUMING THAT IT'S A NEGATIVE DECLARATION, WHICH AFTER ALL OF THE OVERSIGHT THAT EVERYONE'S HAD IS WHAT I EXPECT WILL BE THE CASE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, HOPEFULLY THAT'S THE CASE.
WE WILL NEED TO FILE THE NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
AND ONCE THAT'S BEEN FILED WITH THE DC THE DEC AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOTICE BULLETIN, THEN CCRA WILL BE CONSIDERED COMPLETED.
UM, AND THEN ONCE ALL OF THAT HAS BEEN DONE, THEN THE BOARD COULD ADOPT THE PLAN VIA RESOLUTION.
AND THEN THE FINAL PLAN WILL BE REPORT THAT WILL BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE AND A COPY WILL BE KEPT WITH THE CLERK.
AND WE'LL ALSO SEND A COPY TO THE COUNTY.
AND BECAUSE YOU'RE WORKING UNDER DOS FUNDING AND THEY'LL WANT A COPY.
AND, UM, JUST, UM, A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU HEAR COMMENTS DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING, YOU CAN STILL CHANGE THE DOCUMENT MM-HMM
UM, YOU STILL HAVE THAT, THE ABILITY TO DO THAT RIGHT UP, UM, UNTIL YOU'RE GETTING READY TO ADOPT IT.
DO WE NEED TO RESUBMIT IT TO THE COUNTY IF WE CHANGE IT? NOT, NO.
UM, BUT DO DON'T, NOT UNLESS YOU MAKE MAJOR.
ARE, DO WE HAVE TO OPEN IT UP, REOPEN IT UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT IF WE MAKE CHANGES? YEAH.
COULD YOU, WOULD YOU MIND JUST REPEATING THE TRUSTEE'S QUESTION? HE SAID IF WE, UM, DO WE NEED TO REOPEN IT UP TO PUBLIC COMMENT IF WE MAKE ADDITIONAL CHANGES? AND THE ANSWER IS NO, WE DON'T NEED TO DO THAT.
SO IT'S ALREADY BEEN THROUGH MANY, MANY ITERATIONS OF PUBLIC COMMENT, I THINK IS THE POINT.
AND UNLESS WE ARE REWRITING THE WHOLE THING, IT'S, IT'S CONSIDERED KIND, YOU KNOW, IF WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE EDITING AND WE'RE MOVING A PARAGRAPH FORWARD OR BACKWARDS, OR YOU RE WE'RE REWORDING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE MINOR CHANGES.
SO IF YOU HEAR COMMENTS DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING AND YOU SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA MAKE THESE LITTLE CHANGES, YOU CAN ALWAYS KEEP THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN.
AND GIVE THE PUBLIC THE OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO COMMENT FURTHER.
UM, AND I, I KNOW WE JUST GOT IT.
I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY'S HAD THE CHANCE TO READ IT.
UM, BUT THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE, UM, TO SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING.
SO I'VE HAD A CHANCE TO READ IT, AND I THINK IT ACTUALLY LOOKS REALLY GOOD.
SO I JUST WANNA COMMEND EVERYONE WHO IS INVOLVED IN IT.
I THINK THERE MAY BE, THERE ARE SOME SMALL EDITS THAT NEED TO BE MADE, SOME MOVING FORWARD AND BACKWARDS OF, OF, THERE ARE SOME FLOATING CHARTS OR REFERENCES TO CHARTS THAT AREN'T EXACTLY WHERE THE REFERENCES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UH, BUT THOSE ARE ALL VERY MINOR.
SO, UH, MY VIEW IS THAT WE CAN SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THE NEXT MEETING.
THREE, I GUESS TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS.
THAT YOU WOULD BE SCHEDULING IT FOR.
WELL, YOU WOULD END UP WITH THREE HEARINGS ON MARCH 4TH.
'CAUSE YOU JUST SCHEDULED THE PARKLAND FOR MARCH 4TH.
PARKLAND, I, I DON'T THINK IT BE, IS VERY QUICK.
AND I ACTUALLY DON'T EXPECT THERE'LL BE A LOT OF COMMENTS ON THIS OR THE UNSAFE BUILDINGS OR THE UNSAFE BUILDING.
NONE OF THEM ARE, NONE OF THEM ARE HIGHLY CONTROVERSIAL, BUT YOU NEVER KNOW.
SO, UM, DOES EVERYONE FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? SO SORRY, THE PUBLIC.
SO THE, WE WOULD SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE COMP PLAN FOR WHICH, I'M SORRY, FOR MARCH.
WE WOULD SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THE NEXT MEETING.
AND SO THE PUBLIC HEARING WOULD ACTUALLY TAKE PLACE, PLACE.
ALL OF THESE WILL BE SCHEDULED, WOULD TAKE PLACE ON MARCH 4TH.
SO JUST ONE OTHER THOUGHT IS YOU MAY ALSO HAVE THE ALTERNATE SIDE PARKING HEARING THAT'S GONNA HAVE TO BE SCHEDULED, AND THAT ONE MAY HAVE MORE PEOPLE.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT THAT'S FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS.
WE'RE NOT REQUIRED TO SCHEDULE THEM ALL FOR MARCH FOUR IS NEXT.
SO WHY DON'T WE JUST LET, LET'S BRING THAT BACK FOR THE BOARD TO BOARD.
AND YOU DO SOME OF LET'S DO PARKING LATER IN MARCH.
WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE, WE'LL BRING THEM ALL TO YOU AT THE NEXT MEETING AND WE'LL HAVE RESOLUTIONS.
THEY CAN EVEN HAVE BLANK DATES.
THEY CAN EVEN HAVE BLANK DATES, SCHEDULE, PUBLIC HEARING, NEXT MEETING.
AND, AND AT THAT TIME WE CAN SAY, LET'S DO THESE ON THE FOURTH.
BUT THE, YEAH, THE TWO THAT FOR ME ARE LESS PRESSING ARE UNSAFE BUILDINGS AND THE PARKING, BECAUSE THE UNSAFE BUILDINGS IS SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GOING FOR A REALLY LONG TIME.
I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO GET THE ZONING DONE, BECAUSE IF THAT, IF
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THAT CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO THE COMP PLAN, THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.THAT MIGHT BE TOO FANTASTICAL TO IMAGINE.
UM, ANY OTHER COMMENTS FOR, FROM ANYONE? NO.
UM, SO, UH, SO WE HAVE THE NEXT ITEM IS UPCOMING EVENTS.
UM, ON FEBRUARY 6TH, THERE IS A VIRTUAL TOUR OF LINDHURST FOR SENIORS AT, UH, 12:30 PM AT THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER ON FEBRUARY 7TH IS FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE.
IT'S THE MIDWINTER WARMUP, WHICH WILL BE FROM SIX TO 9:00 PM IT'S SUPER FUN.
I THINK THERE WAS A CHILLY CONTEST LAST TIME THAT THERE IS THIS TIME TOO.
UH, NO, BUT I'M SAYING LAST TIME, WHICH WAS HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AND THE CHILI ALL DISAPPEARED WITHIN ABOUT 30 MINUTES OR SOMETHING.
UM, SO THAT'S, IT'S REALLY WORTH GOING TO.
AND OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT HAVE PLAYED A FANTASTIC ROLE IN THAT, AS WELL AS, UH, THERE'S MUSIC AND, AND OUR DOWNTOWN ADVOCATE DOES AN AMAZING JOB ON THAT.
UM, HASTINGS SCEPTER LOVES NIGHT OUT, UH, FEBRUARY 7TH, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT IS AT 7:00 PM.
UM, AND THEN ON FEBRUARY 9TH, THERE IS, UH, THE OPENING OF EDWARD BEAR MILLER'S, UM, SHOW, WHICH IS ICONS RE RECONSTRUCTED.
AND THAT IS AT THE GALLERY HERE IN VILLAGE HALL, UH, FROM 3:00 PM THERE'S A RECEPTION AND IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET THE ARTISTS AND, UH, LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ARTS COMMISSION.
AND THEN ON FEBRUARY 10TH IS THE SENIOR VALENTINE'S LUNCHEON FEATURING TOM SPINELLA, WHO IS HILARIOUS.
HE SINGS IN THE STYLE OF FRANK SINATRA AND ALL OF THE SENIORS, I THINK LOVE HIM.
UM, SENIOR THURSDAY IS ON FEBRUARY 13TH.
UM, AND THAT'S AT 1230, FROM 1230 TO 3:00 PM AND JUST A REMINDER TO EVERYONE, THAT'S WHEN SENIORS GET DISCOUNTS IN THE VILLAGE IF THEY'RE SHOPPING AT CERTAIN SHOPS ON THAT DAY.
AND THEN ON, UM, FEBRUARY THE 13TH ALSO, OUR ASSEMBLY WOMAN IS HAVING AN OPEN HOUSE FROM FOUR TO 6:00 PM IN HER OFFICES, AND EVERYONE IS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
UM, AND I THINK THE OTHER ITEMS ARE LATER IN THE MONTH.
[IX. ANNOUNCEMENTS]
ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS TUESDAY.OH, AND I SHOULD, I SHOULD MENTION THAT THERE IS A SPECIAL ELECTION ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY THE 11TH FOR COUNTY EXECUTIVE.
IT'S FROM SIX TO 9:00 AM UM, AND EARLY VOTING IS, UM, POSSIBLE NOW 6:00 AM TO 9:00 AM TO 9:00 PM WHAT DID I SAY? SIX TO 9:00 AM OH, YOU'RE RIGHT.
THAT'S A NARROW WINDOW WHEN EVERYONE'S ASLEEP ASLEEP.
EVERYONE WILL BE VOTING WHEN THEY'RE ALL ASLEEP.
6:00 AM TO 9:00 PM AND THERE'S EARLY VOTING NOW THROUGH, UM, I GUESS SUNDAY NIGHT, SUNDAY EVENING, UH, HERE IN HASTINGS.
SO IT'S INCREDIBLY CONVENIENT AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO BE PARTICIPATING IN THESE ELECTIONS.
SO WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PARTICIPATE.
UM, MOVING ON TO ANNOUNCEMENT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY THE 11TH, CONSERVATION COMMISSION AT 8:00 PM HOSTED VIA ZOOM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, PARKS AND REC COMMISSION MEETING 7:00 PM AT THE JHCC.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE MEETING 7:30 PM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH.
PLANNING BOARD, REGULAR MEETING AT 7:30 PM UH, IN THE VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH.
UH, VILLAGE OFFICES ARE CLOSED BECAUSE IT'S PRESIDENT'S DAY MONDAY.
GARBAGE WILL BE PICKED UP ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH AND TUESDAY.
GARBAGE WILL BE PICKED UP ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH, UH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH.
THE, THE HASTINGS VILLAGE ARTS COMMISSION IS HAVING ITS MEETING AT 7:30 PM IN THE VILLAGE HALL CONFERENCE ROOM.
AND ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING WILL BE HERE IN THE VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM AT 7:00 PM UH, THE BOARD WILL NOW ADJOURN INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS MATTERS OF PARTICULAR PERSONNEL NOT TO RETURN TO THIS MEETING.