[I. CALL TO ORDER]
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TO THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NEW YORK BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING FOR TUESDAY, MAY 20TH, 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.
BEFORE WE GO, UM, ON INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE REST OF THE AGENDA, THERE ARE TWO ITEMS
[IX. BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS (Part 1 of 2)]
FROM BOARD DISCUSSION THAT I WANTED TO BRING FORWARD SO THAT YOU ARE FREE TO, UM, LEAVE US, UNLESS OF COURSE YOU FEEL COMPELLED TO STAY AND WE WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU.UM, THE FIRST IS TO WELCOME TO THE VILLAGE OUR NEWEST, UM, OUR NEWEST BUSINESS, WHICH IS VANISHING INC.
JUST VANISHING INK BOOKS BOOKSTORE.
UM, AND WE HAVE WITH US ALLISON MCCABE, WHO, UH, JUST OPENED ON SATURDAY.
I THERE WAS, WHEN I WAS THERE.
IT WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY FILLED WITH PEOPLE.
AND IT SOUNDS AS IF BUSINESS HAS BEEN GOING WELL SINCE THEN.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY, I, I THINK WE ALL THINK OF OUR VILLAGE AS FILLED WITH, UH, BOOK LOVERS, INTELLECTUALS, WRITERS, AND WE ALL REALLY MOURNED WHEN GALAPAGOS SHUT ITS DOORS, UM, UH, IN 2023, WHICH WAS NOT THAT LONG AGO.
AND WE WERE THRILLED WHEN WE HEARD THAT YOU WANTED TO OPEN A SHOP.
PLEASE COME AND SAY SOME WORDS IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH THE BOARD.
PLEASE ALSO THANK YOU FOR, UM, WELCOMING ME.
UM, ALLISON MCCABE, IF WE HAVEN'T MET, UM, A JOURNALIST AND, AND AUTHOR AND, AND I DECIDED TO OPEN THIS BOOKSTORE.
I WENT ON A TOUR FOR MY OWN BOOK, AND I GOT TO GO TO BOOKSTORES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
AND, AND I WAS REALLY JUST MOVED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE CAME TO THESE BOOKSTORES, NOT JUST TO BUY BOOK, BUT TO FIND COMMUNITY.
AND SO WHEN WE LOST OUR BOOKSTORE HERE IN 2023, I, UH, BEGAN BY JUST TALKING WITH MY PUBLISHER ABOUT HOW I COULD GO ABOUT DOING IT.
AND SO, FOR THE LAST YEAR, THIS HAS BEEN IN THE WORKS, AND I'M SO DELIGHTED TO FINALLY OPEN ON SATURDAY.
OUR BOOKSTORE IS REALLY A COMMUNITY BASED BOOKSTORE FOR ALL AGES.
WE'RE IN A SMALL SPACE, AND WHILE WE CAN'T, UH, CARRY EVERY GREAT BOOK, WE LIKE TO SAY THAT EVERY BOOK WE CARRY IS HOPEFULLY GREAT
AND WE DO, WE WILL DO SPECIAL ORDERS.
WE'RE JUST GETTING OFF THE GROUND.
THIS WAS DAY THREE, BUT, UM, THE MAYOR GRACIOUSLY CAME OUT TO OUR OPENING.
AND, UM, YEAH, IT WAS REALLY, I WAS MOVED BY HOW MANY PEOPLE, NOT JUST FOR HASTINGS, BUT FROM THE NEIGHBORING TOWNS, FROM AS FAR AWAY AS NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY, CAME OUT FOR IT.
AND I'M JUST REALLY GRATEFUL, AND I WANNA WELCOME YOU ALL PLEASE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME AND SAY HI.
WE'LL BE SELLING BOOKS, BUT WE'LL ALSO BE HAVING EVENTS AND WORKSHOPS AND REALLY MAKING IT A PART OF WHAT MAKES THIS VILLAGE SO WONDERFUL.
AND YOU ARE AT TWO SPRING STREET, WHICH IS RIGHT AT THE CORNER OF SPRING AND MAPLE.
YEAH, THAT'S, I GUESS TECHNICALLY IT TURNS TO SOUTH SIDE, SOUTH, SOUTH SIDE, I GUESS EXACTLY THE ENTRANCE, BECAUSE OUR ADDRESS IS TOO SPRING, BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY, OUR ENTRANCE IS ON SOUTH SIDE.
WE'RE RIGHT BENEATH THE SEWING STUDIO, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT SPACE.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU COMING.
AND THE SECOND ITEM IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, COULD NOT, THE TIMING COULD NOT HAVE BEEN BETTER IN THE SENSE THAT THIS IS NATIONAL EMS WEEK.
AND, UH, IT'S THE WEEK WHERE WE THANK, UH, AND, UM, JUST REALLY THANK OUR E OUR VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICE, UM, UH, RESIDENT WHO, WHO SAVE LIVES ON A DAILY BASIS.
AND WE HAVE, UM, I RECEIVED A VERY LOVELY EMAIL FROM MICHELLE KROCK GUARD, HAVE I SAID YOUR NAME PROPERLY, UM, UH, REALLY WANTING TO SP SEND THE MESSAGE TO ALL OF YOU WHO ARE HERE ABOUT HOW GRATEFUL SHE WAS FOR THE VERY KIND ATTENTION THAT YOU PAID TO HER, HER STEPFATHER, UM, PETER, UM, BERG, WHO, UH, WHO I THINK, I THINK, ANYWAY, YOU CAN, YOU CAN SPEAK MICHELLE TO, TO WHAT THE SITUATION WAS, BUT I, I WAS SENT A LIST OF EVERYONE WHO'S INVOLVED.
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AND WE THANK YOU ALL.BUT PARTICULAR THANKS FOR THIS EVENT GOES TO OFFICER STEPHANIE MINER, OFFICER SARAH HUGHES, EMT, UH, AMY KO, UH, EMT, ZACHARY MAZU, GREENBERG PARAMEDIC, MATTHEW WOLF, GREENBERG PARAMEDIC, PARAMEDIC, ANDREAS FELL, WHO'S ALSO A FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEER.
AND GREENBERG, EMT, MEGAN GEARY.
AND, UM, AND OF COURSE, THE CHIEFS, MICHAEL GUNTHER, UM, UH, AND THE AMBULANCE CORPS CAPTAIN RON COHEN.
UM, AND THE GREENBERG PARAMEDIC SUPERVISOR, JARED ROSENBERG.
IT HAPPENED TO BE THAT CAST OF CHARACTERS THAT DAY, BUT WE THANK YOU.
IT'S A DIFFERENT CAST OF CHARACTERS EVERY TIME.
AND SO WE REALLY WANNA THANK ALL OF YOU FOR, FOR ALL OF THAT.
AND I KNOW MICHELLE WANTED TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
UH, I'M MICHELLE KAR, AND PETER IS MY STEPDAD, AND HE WAS VISITING FOR MY GIRL'S CONGREGATION, UM, THAT WAS IN THE CHURCH IN BROOKLYN, THE DANISH CHURCH IN BROOKLYN, WHERE AMES? UH, I'VE LIVED HERE SINCE 1999, UH, AND I'VE LIVED IN HA SINCE 18.
MICHELLE, I THINK YOU HAVE TO TALK TO THE MIC.
I KNOW THAT FEELS WEIRD WHEN YOU'RE ADDRESSING PEOPLE.
UM, AND I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU.
UM, HE'S IN WESTCHESTER MEDICAL AND HE'S IMPROVING EVERY DAY.
UM, HE, THEY'RE WORKING ON GETTING HIM OFF THE BREATHING TUBE AND, UM, HE'S DOING REALLY WELL, AND I'M SURE HE WILL RECOVER.
I WAS AT GRAND CENTRAL, UM, WHEN MY MOM CALLED ME AND SHE SAID, THERE'S SOME ISSUES HERE.
AND I CALLED THE 9 1 1 IMMEDIATELY, AND I WAS DISPATCHED BECAUSE I WAS IN NEW YORK CITY, BUT VERY QUICKLY TRANSFERRED TO HASTINGS AND TALKED TO A VERY NICE POLICE OFFICER THAT QUICKLY SENT SOMEONE TO THE SITE I COULD WATCH ON MY RING CAMERA.
AND, UH, SOON AFTER I SAW THE, UH, EMS ARRIVE AND EVERYBODY WAS FAST, UH, I WAS ON FACETIME WITH MY MOM, AND SHE EXPRESSED HOW COMFORTABLE AND SAFE SHE FELT BECAUSE ALL OF YOU WERE THERE AND YOU HELPED HIM.
AND, UH, HE GOT TO THE HOSPITAL VERY QUICKLY.
UM, HE'S RECEIVED THE BEST TREATMENT HE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE.
AND I THINK WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS AMAZING.
AND, UM, I WASN'T EVEN AWARE THAT IT WAS ALL VOLUNTEER HERE
SO I HOPE THAT OTHER PEOPLE, I'M TELLING EVERYBODY I KNOW WHAT A WONDERFUL JOB YOU DID.
AND I JUST WANNA THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND THANK YOU AGAIN, ALL OF YOU FOR COMING.
AND, UM, JUST WHILE WE ARE THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO THANK, LAST WEEK WAS NATIONAL POLICE WEEK.
UM, AND THAT IS A SPECIAL WEEK WHERE WE, UM, HONOR THE MEMORY OF THOSE OFFICERS WHO HAVE, UM, LOST THEIR LIVES WHILE IN SERVICE.
AND IN, IN HASTINGS, THERE ARE TWO, UH, TWO POLICE OFFICERS WHO WE REMEMBER.
ONE IS PATROLMAN ANTHONY EO, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1979.
AND THE OTHER IS SERGEANT AND ALEXANDER POLLISH POLLISH, WHO PASSED AWAY IN 1954.
AND TO HONOR THEM, TWO OF OUR, UH, POLICE TEAM, UM, TRAVELED FROM, UM, FROM THE, UH, FROM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER TO THE NATIONAL POLICE MEMORIAL IN WASHINGTON, DC.
AND, UH, ONE TRAVELED ON A MOTORBIKE AND ONE TRAVELED ON A BICYCLE.
UM, AND, UM, A FEW OTHER MEMBERS OF THE POLICE, OR AT LEAST ONE OTHER MEMBER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, WENT WITH THEM.
AND HE WAS TELLING ME TODAY THAT, UM, IT WAS REALLY QUITE EXTRAORDINARY TO SEE THE PEOPLE WHO WENT ON THAT KIND OF PILGRIMAGE, REALLY TO HONOR THEIR FALLEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
UM, SO, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL TO THEM.
AND ALSO LAST WEEK, UM, THERE WERE THREE MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHO WERE AWARDED A WESTCHESTER COUNTY LIFESAVING MEDAL FOR PERFORMING CPR AND PROVIDING OTHER CRITICAL CARE TO REVIVE A PERSON WHO HAD STOPPED BREATHING.
AND THAT WAS, UM, UH, THOMAS GUNTHER, AMELIA ROJAS, AND KEVIN BARRY.
AND THEY WILL BE RECOGNIZED AT THE POLICE SERVICE THAT WILL HAPPEN EARLY ON MEMORIAL DAY.
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THANKS TO THEM.IF ANYONE'S LISTENING, FEEL FREE TO WRITE TO RON AND THANK HIM AND THE TEAM.
FEEL FREE TO WRITE TO POLICE CHIEF DOCENT AND THANK THEM.
I KNOW THAT THOSE MESSAGES ARE ALWAYS VERY WELL RECEIVED.
SO THANKS TO ALL OF YOU AGAIN FOR, FOR COMING.
AS I SAID, YOU ARE WELCOME TO STAY, BUT DON'T FEEL AN OBLIGATION.
UM, AND WE WILL CARRY ON WITH THE REST OF OUR MEETING.
SO THE NEXT ITEM IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
UH, AND OH, DID YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING, RON? YEAH.
BEFORE YOU GO, RON WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
SO, UM, FIR FIRSTLY ON, ON THIS EMS WEEK, UH, WHICH STARTS, UH, STARTED ON MAY 18TH, ENDS ON MAY 24TH.
UH, TO RECOGNIZE EMSI, I WANT TO OFFER, UM, OUR APPRECIATION FOR YOUR RECOGNITION.
UM, I'M INCREDIBLY PROUD OF OUR TEAM AND THE WORK THAT WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS.
AND IN PARTICULAR, I, IN FOR THE, THE EVENT THAT OCCURRED, UH, WITH YOUR STEPFATHER, I WANNA POINT OUT THAT, UH, IT WAS AMY KO EMT AND ZACH MAER, UH, WHO DID, AH, A TREMENDOUS JOB IN, IN HELPING, UH, SAVE A PERSON'S LIFE.
UH, BUT ALSO I WANT TO BRING TO ATTENTION, UM, THAT WE ARE ALWAYS WELCOMING OF OUR COMMUNITY TO COME TO OUR FIREHOUSES AND OUR AMBULANCE STATION TO SEE WHAT IT IS THAT WE DO AND HOW WE DO IT.
AND, UM, AND TO ALSO TALK ABOUT CPR AND, AND HOW IMPORTANT CPR IS FOR ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS TO KNOW SO THAT WE CAN INTERVENE, UH, IN A MOMENT'S NOTICE IF, IF NECESSARY.
IT'S LITERALLY A LIFESAVING SKILL.
AND, UH, WE ARE ACTUALLY HAVING A COMMUNITY CPR EVENT.
IT'S THE SECOND ONE OF ITS NATURE, UH, COMING UP IN JUNE.
UM, BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THAT INFORMATION, PLEASE.
WHERE WE CAN KIND OF REVITALIZE THIS CONNECTION BETWEEN OUR AMBULANCE AND THE COMMUNITY SO THAT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT IT IS THAT WE DO AND HOW WE DO IT.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR RECOGNITION.
I GUESS WE CAN ALSO THANK, UH, WE CAN ALSO THANK SENATOR COUSINS WHO I WILL BE PROVIDING US WITH A NEW AMBULANCE OR THE AMBULANCES ON ORDER.
SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED THAT THAT'S COMING AS WELL.
[IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.THAT'S FOR THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, MAY 6TH, 2025.
ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS, UH, DELETIONS, CHANGES OF ANY KIND? IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
[V. APPROVAL OF WARRANTS]
APPROVAL OF THE WARRANTS GENERAL FUND AA $392,725 AND 71 CENTS, FEDERAL DRUG GRANT CD $800 DRAPER FUND, EM $741 AND 67 CENTS POOL FUND, ER $13,490 AND 82 CENTS CAPITAL FUND, EIGHT H $19,278 AND 41 CENTS LIBRARY FUND, LL $14,786 AND 57 CENTS BETTERMENT FUND, TT $37 AND 87 CENTS.PROFESSIONAL ESCROW TT $4,638 AND 75 CENTS.
[VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS]
TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS PUBLIC COMMENTS.IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? OKAY.
GOOD EVENING, KER 4 27 WAR BURTON AVENUE.
THE FIRST IS, UM, I WENT TO GO VOTE JUST NOW UP TO SCHOOL, AND I'M SITTING AT THE TOP OF MAIN STREET, WAITING TO MAKE THE TURN ONTO FARGATE.
AND THREE CARS IN THE LEFT LANE DECIDED TO CUT ME OFF, MAKING THE TURN ONTO FARGATE.
I WANT TO KNOW WHEN THE VILLAGE IS GONNA TAKE THIS, THIS CRAZINESS OUT OF OUR LIVES.
LEFT TURN ONLY FROM GO STRAIGHT OR LEFT TURN ONLY FROM THE LEFT LANE AND RIGHT TURN ONTO BROADWAY, A FARGATE FROM THE RIGHT LANE.
UM, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR THE 25 YEARS I'VE LIVED HERE.
I FIND IT INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS AND I CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAVEN'T ADDRESSED THIS ISSUE YET.
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COMMENT I HAVE, WHICH IS ACTUALLY MORE OF A QUESTION.UM, IT APPEARS THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE VOTING ON A, A TWO PASS, A NEG DECK RESOLUTION ON THE SECRET ON THE COMP PLAN.
AND REGARDLESS OF HOW YOU CAME TO THAT DECISION, I WANT TO KNOW WHEN DID THE BOARD CONVENE A QUORUM TO DISCUSS THIS ISSUE IN PUBLIC, AS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO BEFORE DECIDING THAT THEY'RE GONNA VOTE FOR THIS THING AS AN NEG DECK? I DON'T BELIEVE IT'S APPROPRIATE TO HAVE THIS VOTE WITHOUT HAVING HAD A PUBLIC DISCUSSION OR A DISCUSSION AMONG THE BOARD MEMBERS IN PUBLIC.
I WANT TO KNOW WHEN YOU ALL GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED ON THIS OUTSIDE OF PUBLIC VIEW.
UM, I FIND IT VERY DISTURBING.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? I'M STILL HAPPY.
DANIELLE GOODMAN, 4 4 5 WAR BURTON.
IT'S, I DON'T LIKE TO BE CRITICAL.
I REALLY DON'T, AND I AM, I GUESS, MORE PERPLEXED THAN ANYTHING.
SO THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SET FORTH FOR YOU BEST PRACTICES WITH RESPECT TO COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND CCRA ON PAGE NINE, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THE SITE, UM, FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
THE DOCUMENT IS DATED 2024, ISSUED AND SIGNED BY KATHY HOEL.
WHILE IT IS POSSIBLE TO ISSUE A NEGATIVE DECLARATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE ADOPTION OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THE GENERIC EIS MEANING A GENERIC STUDY IS THE MOST APPROPRIATE WAY TO ANALYZE THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
ONE OF THE REASONS THE STATE GIVES FOR THIS IS BECAUSE THE PASSING OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT LAND USE ACTIONS A VILLAGE OR A MUNICIPALITY CAN TAKE.
SO I LOOK AT ALL OF YOU, YOUR PROFESSIONALS IN YOUR DAY-TO-DAY WALKS OF LIFE.
SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THIS WENT OFF THE RAILS, I JUST DON'T, AND I'M SORRY I WAS NOT PRESENT AT THE INCEPTION BECAUSE I WOULD'VE BEEN ASKING FOR A GENERIC STUDY, A GENERIC EIS THAT WOULD'VE ALLOWED YOU, AS THE STATE SAYS, TO, TO MAKE A MORE FULSOME EVALUATION OF THE ACTIONS THAT ARE GONNA BE REQUIRED BY THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO WHEN YOU TAKE YOUR ECK VOTE TODAY, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO ASK YOURSELVES WHY, WHAT'S INFORMING YOUR OPINION THAT THERE ARE NO POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS BROUGHT FORTH BY THE PLAN? NOW, I'VE HEARD YOUR COUNCIL'S ADVICE THAT, OH, YOU WAIT FOR THE ZONE, YOU WAIT FOR THE PROJECT, THEN YOU DO THE STUDY.
WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK IF WE LOOKED AT, IF WE DID AN AUDIT OF THIS VILLAGE ON CCRA, YOU'RE GONNA FIND MORE NEX THAN STUDIES.
YOU KNOW, YOU'RE JUST, UH, YOU SPEND ALL THIS TIME ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES PROUDLY AND ON SECRA, WE JUST MISSED THE MARK.
SO I ASK YOU, IN THE FUTURE, DO BETTER.
LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID ON THE MRO ZONE.
YOU NEG DECK THE ZONE WHERE STEEP SLOPES THE MOST, UH, DENSELY POPULATED PART OF THE VILLAGE, AND YOU NEG DECK THE ZONE.
AND YOU SENT TRUSTEE ICK AND RAY VAL TO A BACK ROOM TO DRAFT THE ZONE WITHOUT NEIGHBOR INPUT, WITHOUT RESIDENT INPUT.
AND I HEARD MORE ABOUT FLOOR RATIO, FLOOR AREA RATIO THAN I DID ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO'D LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD?
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UH, GOOD EVENING, DAVE SKOLNIK 47 HILLSIDE.UH, I WANTED TO FIRST JUST MAKE A BRIEF MENTION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S, UH, MEETING WITH THE SENIOR CITIZENS, UH, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
UH, IT WAS A REMARKABLE MEETING IN ONE RESPECT, PARTICULARLY, WHICH WAS THAT FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT GOT UP AND SPOKE, THERE WAS NO THREE MINUTE LIMIT.
PEOPLE WERE ALLOWED TO SPEAK, SAY WHAT THEY NEEDED TO SAY.
AND IT WAS, IT WAS REFRESHING AND REMARKABLE.
AND I THINK, UH, WHOEVER IS REMAINING ON THIS BOARD SUBSEQUENTLY SHOULD DEFINITELY KEEP IN MIND WHAT THE DYNAMIC LIKE THAT IS.
THE NEXT THING, THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT ACTUALLY I TRY TO TAKE CARE OF OFF OF THIS, UH, BY COMMUNICATING WITH THE VILLAGE MANAGER.
BUT UNFORTUNATELY I DIDN'T HEAR BACK, SO I'M ONLY GONNA MENTION IT.
THE STREET CLEANING MEMO THAT WENT OUT, UH, AND I EITHER YOU GOT IT, MY, MY RESPONSE OR NOT.
UM, THERE WAS A LETTER THAT THAT WENT OUT THAT, UM, UH, ANNOUNCED STREET CLEANING IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND THE SCHOOL.
UM, BUT AS IT TURNS OUT, UH, APPARENTLY, UH, THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY GONNA GET DONE.
THE SCHOOL WAS NOTIFIED BECAUSE I WROTE BACK AND I SAID, HOW CAN YOU, UH, BLOCK, UH, YOU KNOW, 10 HOURS OR RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY WHEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TEACHERS AND STUDENTS? AND I WAS INFORMED THAT IN FACT, THE SCHOOL HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT THAT WAS NOT GONNA BE DONE TOMORROW, BUT IT WAS GONNA BE DONE SOMETIME IN THE SUMMER.
UH, I WOULD REALLY THINK IT APPROPRIATE TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THE RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA AND LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO GET UP EARLY AND MOVE THEIR CARS, UH, TOMORROW.
LET, IF I COULD JUST ADDRESS THAT.
WELL, CAN YOU STOP? YEP, GO AHEAD PLEASE.
THE, THE, THERE WILL BE STREET PLEADING TOMORROW, WEATHER DEPENDENT.
UH, THE SAME MEMO ACTUALLY WENT OUT LAST WEEK FOR STREET CLEANING IN THAT AREA.
UM, THE SCHOOL PARKING IN THE STUDENT PARKING MAKES CERTAIN PARTS OF THAT AREA DIFFICULT TO CLEAN.
SO IN CONVERSATION WITH DPW, UM, WE DIDN'T WANNA INTERFERE WITH THE SCHOOL PARKING.
IT'S NOT MANDATORY THAT YOU, YOU MOVE YOUR CAR, IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, REQUESTED THAT YOU MOVE YOUR CAR BECAUSE WE WANT TO CLEAN THE STREET, BUT IF YOU DON'T MOVE YOUR CAR OR YOU CAN'T MOVE YOUR CAR, THEY'LL JUST GO AROUND YOU.
SO IT'S, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT IS A, YOU KNOW, IS A COMPULSION FOR YOU.
WE WERE ASKED, AND, AND ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN ASKED, UM, TO NOTIFY PEOPLE OF THE AREAS THAT ARE BEING, UH, ARE BEING CLEANED WHEN THEY'RE BEING, WHEN THEY'RE BEING CLEANED, SO THAT PEOPLE, 'CAUSE THEY WANT TO MOVE THEIR CARS, SO THIS THIS AREA, YOU KNOW, ON, SO THEIR STREET GETS CLEANED IN THEIR AREA.
SO I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU IS IF YOU DON'T WANNA MOVE YOUR CAR, YOU CAN'T MOVE YOUR CAR.
IT YOU, THERE'S NO PENALTY FOR DOING THAT.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO NOTIFY PEOPLE OF THE AREAS THAT THE, THAT THE CLEANING WILL BE WITHIN IN CONVERSATION WITH THE SCHOOL BECAUSE IT'S SO DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO HAVE PARKING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
THE DPW AFTER SCHOOL IS OVER IN JUNE.
THE DPW WILL GO BACK TO DO THE AREAS THAT THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO DO, BUT THE, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE GPW DOES THEIR SWEEPING IN, YOU KNOW, IN IN TRIES TO DO THEM IN GENERAL AREAS AT THE, AT THE SAME, YOU KNOW, AT THE SAME TIME.
SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S GOTTEN, YOU KNOW, MOUNT HOPE AND, AND YOU KNOW, THE, THE SURROUNDING STREETS THAT, THAT, UH, ALRIGHT, THAT ECHO OFF OF MOUNT HOPE, BUT IF YOU CAN'T MOVE YOUR CAR, IT'S NOT OBLIGATED THAT YOU DO.
SO, AND THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO YEAH, AND I'LL, I'LL, I'LL EXTEND THIS CONVERSATION BECAUSE ULTIMATELY I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO, BASICALLY IT'S STILL, I APPRECIATE THAT INFORMATION.
IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AS A SYSTEM.
I KNOW IT WAS YOU, YOU CAME UP WITH THIS A WHILE BACK 'CAUSE PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING, UH, YOU KNOW, DOWN BACK MORE IN JIM'S NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOMETHING, THE, THE IDEA THAT YOU HAVE THAT MANY STREETS, THAT COVERING THAT MUCH OF A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT'S BEING TOLD, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT, THAT LENGTH OF TIME NOT TO PARK IS NOT, IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME, BUT I WILL BE HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT AT A DIFFERENT TIME.
THE ROUTE NINE INFORMATION WAS THE OTHER THING THAT I HAD BEEN HOPING I WOULDN'T HAVE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, UH, HERE, BECAUSE I'VE TRY, EITHER YOU'RE NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT IT IS I'M ASKING FOR, UH, OR SOMETHING ELSE IS WRONG.
BUT THE ROUTE NINE, WE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE AND WE SAID, OKAY, WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT OFFLINE.
CAN YOU TELL ME EITHER WHY YOU ARE UNABLE TO GIVE ME ANY INFORMATION THAT'S GOING TO BE PRESENTED IN TWO WEEKS AT THE, UH, AT THE PRESENTATION, OR IF THEY ARE NOT, ARE TELLING YOU NOT TO GIVE OUT ANY OF THE INFORMATION BEFOREHAND.
WHEN WE RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM THE STATE THAT WE CAN DISTRIBUTE, I WILL GIVE IT, WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE SURE WE, YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS WE GET IT, IT'LL GO OUT.
YOU HAVE HAD MEETINGS WITH YOUR
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COMMITTEE, ANDY RADSKIN YOU, UM, UM, UH, WHO ELSE? THE OTHER, THE OTHER, UM,YOU ARE, THAT IS THE, OUR COMMITTEE THAT COMMUNICATES.
AND I'VE ASKED FROM THE BEGINNING, COULD YOU TRY TO CREATE A CONVERSATION WITHIN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT SOME OF THESE, UH, THINGS? NOT TO MENTION THAT WHEN IT FINALLY COMES DOWN TO IT, JIM AND I WILL PROBABLY NOT AGREE ON THEIR SOLUTION FOR, UM, FOR FIVE CORNERS, BUT WE'VE GONE FOR TWO YEARS AND THE COMMUNITY HAS NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK JUST AMONGST US.
I DON'T CARE ABOUT WHAT GOES ON AT DOBBS OR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT WE HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO HAVE IT.
AND MEANWHILE, YOU'VE HAD THE STATE COME IN, TALK TO THE FEW FAMILIES AT, UH, AT FIVE CORNERS THAT LIVE THERE.
AND IF IT'S EITHER YOU OR IT'S, WHAT'S HER NAME, JENNY, UH, FROM THE STATE THAT NEEDS TO SAY DEFINITIVELY NO, WE ARE NOT GONNA LET YOU SEE ANYTHING UNTIL THE EVENT ON JUNE 4TH WHEN SUDDENLY EVERYONE'S SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO ABSORB THE INFORMATION ALL AT ONCE.
IT'S NOT, IT'S THE WAY IT'S DONE, BUT IT, IT ISN'T APPROPRIATE.
UM, I THINK I APPRECIATE THAT.
UH, I'M NOT GONNA STRETCH MY TIME EVEN THOUGH I WOULD LOVE TO DO IT.
UM, THAT'S MY CONCERN IF YOU AND DEFINITIVELY TELL ME, UH, NEITHER YOU NOR THE STATE WILL PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION BEFOREHAND.
I SENT YOU AN EMAIL, BY THE WAY, I SENT ALL OF YOU SOMETHING, WHICH YOU MAY NOT HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE.
SOMETHING THAT CAME ACROSS MY SCREEN TODAY HAS TO DO WITH ROUTE NINE, HAS TO DO WITH THE COMPANY, THE VERY LARGE ENGINEERING COMPANY THAT IS PART OF THAT PROJECT.
AND SO IT HAS TO DO WITH THE BUILDING A VERY LARGE BUILDING IN MANHATTAN, AND THEY'RE BEING SUED RIGHT NOW.
SO APART FROM ANYTHING ELSE, I'M CONCERNED, IF I'M BEING TOLD TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY TELL ME, I NEED MORE, MORE TIME AND MORE FACTS.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? OKAY.
[VII. RESOLUTIONS]
MOVING ON TO RESOLUTIONS.WE HAVE QUITE A FEW RESOLUTIONS THAT ARE LONG, AND WHAT I WILL DO IF, IF THE BOARD IS IN AGREEMENT IS SUMMARIZE THE RESOLUTIONS.
UM, YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE, I THINK, TO LOOK AT THEM AND IF THERE ARE, THERE MAY BE ONE OR TWO WHERE I READ THEM OUT IN MORE DETAIL, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, UH, IF IT SUITS THE BOARD, I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO JUST SUMMARIZE THEM.
SO THE FIRST IS 53 OF 25 RESOLUTION, EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO TALK, YOU'RE WELCOME TO GO OUTSIDE.
53 OF 25 RESOLUTION FOR HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, NEW YORK SCENIC BYWAY NOMINATION AND CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT PLAN ADOPTION.
THIS IS A REQUEST BY A GROUP THAT WOULD LIKE TO, UM, NAME ROUTE NINE AS THE HARRIET HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, UM, SCENIC NEW YORK SCENIC BYWAY.
IT'S, UH, IT'S, IT WILL, IT'S A VERY INTERESTING IDEA.
UM, ALL OF THE MUNICIPALITIES THAT, UH, ARE PART OF THE, UM, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ROUTE HAVE BEEN INVITED TO PART TO PARTICIPATE AND, UH, INCLUDE A RESOLUTION TO THE EFFECT THAT THEY SUPPORT THAT INITIATIVE.
UM, IT'S ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED IN THE SOUTHERN STATES AND NOW THEY'RE KIND OF WORKING THEIR WAY UP TO NEW YORK.
AND OUR SISTER COMMUNITIES ARE, WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN THE MUNICIPALITY THAT'S KIND OF SHARED THE RESOLUTION WITH A NUMBER OF SISTER COMMUNITIES AND THEY'RE ALREADY IN THE PROCESS OF ADOPTING IT.
SO, UM, IT'S, I'LL READ THE, UM, AND I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT THING FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT THAT'S THE ROOT OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD.
I DON'T THINK PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTOOD THAT.
THERE'S A, THERE'S, UM, SOMETHING WHICH I'M SURE AS A PART OF THIS RESOLUTION WILL COME OUT, UM, WHICH IS THAT ONE OF THE HOUSES THAT IT IS AT FIVE CORNERS ALLEGEDLY HAS AN UNDERGROUND PASSAGEWAY THAT GOES INTO THE RAVINE.
WHERE, UM, WHERE, UH, THIS IS ACCORDING TO THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, NOT, NOT ACCORDING TO ME, UM, UH, WHERE, UM, FUGITIVE SLAVES WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE IF THEY WERE BEING PURSUED BY, UM, BY THE PEOPLE WHO HAD OWNED THEM AND THEY'D MADE THEIR WAY INTO NEW YORK.
SO IT'S A REALLY, REALLY INTERESTING PIECE OF HISTORY AND I I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE ALL COULD DO, DO WELL TO LEARN MORE ABOUT.
AND, UM, IT'S A, IT'S A, A, A WONDERFUL, UM, A WONDERFUL, UH, UM, INITIATIVE.
THERE ARE 22 COUNTIES THAT ARE IN, IN THE, IN THE, ON THE EAST COAST THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THIS.
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I THINK IN NEW YORK STATE, THERE ARE 22 MUNICIPALITIES THAT ARE ACTUALLY ALONG THE ROUTE OF, OF ROUTE NINE.SO, UM, I'LL READ THE LAST, UM, THE LAST BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED.
SO THE RESULT, I'LL READ THE RESOLVE PART NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON SUPPORTS THE DESIGNATION OF THE HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, NEW YORK SCENIC BYWAY, WHICH INCLUDES PROGRAMS FOR STEWARDSHIP AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE SCENIC BYWAY AND GUIDANCE TO MANAGE FUTURE ACTIVITIES ALONG ITS CORRIDOR.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON CONFIRMS THAT THEY WILL NOT APPROVE ANY REQUESTS FOR NEW OFF-PREMISES OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGNS ALONG THE HAR DESIGNATED HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, NEW YORK SCENIC BYWAY ROUTE, AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON WILL WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES ALONG THE HARRIET TUBMAN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, NEW YORK SCENIC BYWAY AND LOCAL REGIONAL STAKEHOLDERS IN ORDER TO SUPPORT FUTURE BYWAY PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND COLLABORATE WITH THESE INTERESTED ENTITIES TO EXPLORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR COOPERATION AND METHODS TO ADVANCE THE SCENIC BYWAY.
THAT THE, THAT MIDDLE RESOLUTION IS ABOUT NOT HAVING MASSIVE BILLBOARDS ALONG ROUTE NINE, WHICH I THINK WE'RE ALL IN VIOLENT AGREEMENT WITH.
UM, BUT THE, THE, THE SIGNAGE IN AT FIVE CORNERS IS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE PART OF THAT BILLBOARD.
SO THOSE, THOSE WOULD BE ALLOWED.
UM, 54 OF 24 IS THE PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE FIRST FRIDAY IN JUNE TO BE NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY.
UM, THIS RESOLUTION INCLUDES A LOT OF STATISTICS ABOUT GUN VIOLENCE AND ITS PREVALENCE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF, UM, REMEMBERING, UH, UH, THIS DAY AND FOR ALL OF US TO, UM, WEAR ORANGE IN, UM, IN, IN MEMORY OF, UM, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN, UH, HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES AS A RESULT OF GUN VIOLENCE, UH, VICTIMS AS WELL AS SURVIVORS, UH, OF, OF GUN VIOLENCE.
AND SO THE LAST, WHEREAS CLAUSE READS, WE RENEW OUR COMMITMENT TO REDUCE GUN VIOLENCE AND PLEDGE TO DO ALL WE CAN TO KEEP FIREARMS OUT OF THE WRONG HANDS AND ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP TO KEEP OUR CHILDREN SAFE.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT IMAN NICO OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON DECLARE THE FIRST FRIDAY IN JUNE, JUNE 6TH, 2025, TO BE NATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE AWARENESS DAY.
I ENCOURAGE ALL CITIZENS TO SUPPORT LOCAL EFFORTS TO PREVENT THE TRAGIC EFFECTS OF GUN VIOLENCE AND TO HONOR AND VALUE HUMAN LIVES.
AND WE'VE DONE THIS FOR, FOR MULTIPLE YEARS NOW.
55 OF 25 RESOLUTION DEDICATING JUNE 25 AS LGBTQ PLUS PRIDE MONTH IN THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON.
THIS IS ANOTHER, UM, RESOLUTION, WHICH IS FAIRLY LONG AND IS ONE THAT WE HAVE, UM, HAVE BEEN IN THE HABIT OF ADOPTING SINCE I'VE BEEN MAYOR.
UM, I THINK WE STARTED IT, UH, THEN.
UM, AND I'LL READ THE LAST TWO SECTIONS, THE LAST TWO CLAUSES.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON DECLARE THE MONTH OF JUNE 25TH AS LGBTQ PLUS PRIDE MONTH IN THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, AND URGE RESIDENTS TO RECOGNIZE THE CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY AND TO ACTIVELY PROMOTE THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUALITY, LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT AS AN EXPRESSION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS, ON HUDSON'S COMMITMENT TO CELEBRATING, STRENGTHENING AND PUBLICLY AFFIRMING OUR VILLAGE AS A PLACE OF WELCOME FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY.
THE VILLAGE WILL HOST A PRIDE CELEBRATION DOWNTOWN ANNUALLY ON THE FIRST FRIDAY IN JUNE, EXCEPT I THINK THIS YEAR IT'S GONNA BE THE SECOND.
IS THAT RIGHT? IS THE 13TH THAT I IS IT THE FIRST? WELL, THE 13TH IS NOT THE FIRST FRIDAY, SO I THINK IT'S, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
YOU COULD MAYBE JUST SAY IN JUNE INSTEAD OF FIRST FRIDAY.
BECAUSE I THINK THEY ADJUSTED THAT DATE.
UM, UH, UM, SO IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
56 OF 25 RELU RESOLUTION DECLARING JUNE, 2025 POLLINATOR MONTH.
UM, THIS IS A RESOLUTION WHICH HAS LOTS OF LOVELY THINGS ABOUT POLLINATORS WHO, WHICH WE ALL SUPPORT.
AND THE END SEGMENT READS NOW THEREFORE IT BE RESOLVED IN RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANCE TO HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS OF POLLINATORS AND THEIR HABITATS AND OF THEIR VALUE TO THE NATION'S ECONOMY THAT I, NICOLA KOS, MAYOR OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON
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DO HEREBY PROCLAIM JUNE, 2025 NATIONAL POLLINATORS MONTH IN THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON.I CALL UPON THE HASTINGS ON HUDSON PUBLIC TO JOIN THE VILLAGE IN RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF POLLINATORS AND THE STEWARDSHIP ROLE EACH PERSON PLAYS IN PROVIDING VALUABLE POLLINATOR HABITATS THROUGHOUT THE VILLAGE.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I HERE TO FOR SET MY HAND AND CAUSE TO BE AFFIXED THE SEAL OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON THIS 20TH DAY OF MAY, 2025 IN VERY FANCY ANTIQUATED ENGLISH, WE MAKE THAT DECLARATION.
UM, AND WE'VE HAD LOTS OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE BEEN, UH, AND NOT JUST YOUNG PEOPLE, THE, THE POLLINATOR PATHWAY GROUP THAT HAVE DONE LOTS OF GREAT WORK ON THIS.
SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK HAS REALLY CAUGHT ON IN THE VILLAGE AND IS MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE.
IS THERE A, A MOTION? SO MOVED.
UM, UH, 57, UH, OF 25 RESOLUTION ADOPTING CCRA NEGATIVE DECLARATION ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
I'D JUST LIKE TO INVITE OUR ATTORNEY TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND TO CLARIFY ANY CONFUSION THAT THERE MIGHT BE ABOUT THIS AND EXPLAIN THE NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
FIRST, I, I'D LIKE TO, EXCUSE ME, UM, JUST CLARIFY THAT RESOLUTIONS THAT APPEAR ON THE AGENDA ARE PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS.
AND IN THIS INSTANCE, THE IDEA WAS LET'S PUT IT ON AND THE BOARD COULD HAVE THE DISCUSSION AND WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT TONIGHT BEFORE THEY VOTE.
JUST BECAUSE THE RESOLUTIONS ON THE AGENDA DOESN'T MEAN THEY ARE VOTING TO APPROVE IT.
AND IN FACT, THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES IN THE PAST WHERE THE BOARD HAS ACTUALLY DECIDED NOT TO APPROVE A RESOLUTION THAT WAS POSTED WITH THE AGENDA OR PUT BEFORE THEM, UM, FOR THAT MEETING.
SO WHAT'S BEEN PROVIDED TO THE BOARD, UM, PREPARED BY MJ, THE PLANNING CONSULTANTS WHO WORKED ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS, EXCUSE ME, AN EIF PART ONE.
THE PART ONE IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE BASIC FACTS AND INFORMATION ABOUT THE ACTION, THE ACTION IN THIS CASE BEING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
THE BOARD CAN, AND IT'S A TOOL, IT'S A TOOL TO HELP THE BOARD IN MAKING ITS DETERMINATION OF SIGNIFICANCE.
AGAIN, THE DETERMINATION OF SIGNIFICANCE IS A DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER THE ACTION, MEANING THE ADOPTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COULD RESULT IN ANY POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.
SO THE PART ONE SETS FORTH, UM, A SERIES, YOU KNOW, THERE'S QUESTIONS AND IT'S TO, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE YOU WITH A NUMBER OF FACTS.
YOU DON'T ONLY CONSIDER THAT PART ONE BECAUSE IN THIS KIND OF A DOCUMENT, IT, BECAUSE IT'S A PLANNING DOCUMENT AND NOT A PROJECT WITH PHYSICAL IMPACTS, ALL THE INFORMATION ISN'T THERE, IS NOT NECESSARILY THERE.
BUT YOU HAVE THE WHOLE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND ALL THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE THAT YOU'RE REALLY LOOKING AT AND CONSIDERING, UM, AND ALL THE PUBLIC COMMENT THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED.
AND THE PART TWO AGAIN, IS, IS A FORM THAT SERVES AS A TOOL.
IT REALLY GOES TO, AGAIN, IDENTIFYING, UM, THE AREAS THAT ARE SET FORTH IN THE REGULATIONS, IN THE SECRET REGULATIONS.
AND TO IDENTIFY THOSE WHERE THERE MAY BE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.
IF YOU IDENTIFY ANYTHING IN THE PART TWO THAT HAS A MODERATE TO LARGE IMPACT MAY OCCUR, THEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO SOME FURTHER ANALYSIS ON IT.
IN THIS CASE, THE CONSULTANTS PROPOSE FOR YOU WHERE THERE, NONE OF THESE ARE EVEN CHECKED YES.
IN TERMS OF WHAT THE PROPOSED ACTION COULD RESULT IN.
AND AS THEY HIGHLIGHT LATER, THAT'S BECAUSE THERE IS NO, UM, PROPOSED PHYSICAL CHANGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT AS A RESULT OF THE PLAN.
UM, THE PART THREE IS WHERE YOU MAKE YOUR DETERMINATIVE NATION OF SIGNIFICANCE.
AND IN THIS CASE, WHAT THEY'VE PROPOSED IS A NEGATIVE DECLARATION, MEANING THAT THE PROJECT WOULD NOT RESULT IN ANY POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, AND THEY'VE INCLUDED SOME ANALYSIS IN THIS PART THREE ATTACHMENT.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IT TALKS ABOUT IS THAT THE PROPOSED ACTION DOES NOT AUTHORIZE UNDERTAKING OF ANY SPECIFIC PROJECTS OR COMMIT THE VILLAGE TO ANY AMENDMENTS OF THE ZONING CODE.
FUTURE ACTIONS WILL BE SUBJECT TO SECRET AND REVIEWED FOR ANY ASSOCIATED IMPACTS.
UM, IN FACT, YOUR PLAN AND EVERY PLAN IS DIFFERENT.
SOME PLANS ACTUALLY HAVE VERY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS FOR VERY
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SPECIFIC ZONING AMENDMENTS.YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING THAT SPECIFIC, IN FACT, IN MANY AREAS IT RECOMMENDS FURTHER STUDY.
UM, IT GIVES SOME MORE GENERIC RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, AND THEN A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATION RECOMMENDATIONS IT MAKES ARE ACTUALLY PROTECTIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, ALL OF THE RESILIENCY PROVISIONS, THE SUSTAINABILITY, UM, PROVISIONS OR INTENDED TO BE MORE PROTECTIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, I CAN TELL YOU THAT AROUND WESTCHESTER COUNTY, MOST OF THE, UM, COMPREHENSIVE PLANS, I WON'T SAY ALL, BUT MOST OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN ADOPTED IN THE LAST 10 TO 15 YEARS HAVE, UM, DONE WITH A NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
UM, THE SECRET HANDBOOK TALKS ABOUT, IN MOST CASES, NOT ALL, A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WILL SET FORTH A SERIES OF FOLLOW-UP ACTIONS SUCH AS ZONING AMENDMENTS AND MORE SPECIFICALLY.
AND IT ALSO SAYS THAT IT CAN BE A DOCUMENT THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT, IT'S THE SECRET REGULATIONS KNOW WHERE, AND EVEN THE SECRET HANDBOOK PREPARED BY THE DEC DOES NOT SAY YOU HAVE TO DO A POSITIVE DECLARATION AND DO A GENERIC EIS FOR A, UM, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST SORT OF WANTED TO EXPLAIN, YOU KNOW, SO WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT, AND I I THINK IN THE PART THREE ATTACHMENT, IT'S, IT'S SPELLED OUT PRETTY CLEARLY SORT OF THE REASONS WHY YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF YOUR CONSULTANT, WILL NOT RESULT IN ANY POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
AND THEREFORE YOUR DETERMINATION SHOULD BE A NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
UM, IT'S ULTIMATELY UP TO THE BOARD.
UM, BUT THEY'VE PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS ANALYSIS AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE? I THINK EVERYONE'S HAD A CHANCE IN THE, IN THE DOCUMENT WHICH WE ALL RECEIVED, WHICH IS THE FULL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM.
IT IS THE VERY LAST TWO PAGES, WHICH INCLUDE THE PART THREE ANALYSIS.
AND THE, THE T TAKEAWAYS FOR ME IS THAT THE DOCUMENT DOES NOT RECOMMEND ANY PHYSICAL CHANGES AND, UM, OR PERMIT.
YES, THANK YOU FOR SING WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO ASSERT, BUT THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
UM, AND THERE ARE NO COMMITMENTS THAT ARE EMBEDDED IN THE DOCUMENT.
SO FOR ME, THE ANALYSIS OF THE, UM, OF THE CONSULTANTS MAKES COMPLETE SENSE.
IS THAT, IS THAT FAIR? THAT'S CLEAR AND I AGREE.
I THINK THAT IT'S, UM, WHEN I READ THE DOCUMENT, I CAN'T SEE IT SAYING THAT WE ARE GOING TO EMBARK ON A SPECIFIC PATH.
AND THERE ARE STUDIES THAT ARE RECOMMENDED.
AND THAT'S THE CASE WITH MOST PLANNING DOCUMENTS.
PLANNING DOCUMENTS ARE, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE A FRAMEWORK MM-HMM
UM, THEY'RE NOT THE ENGINEERING DESIGNS OR THE IMPLEMENTATION STUDIES.
IT'S A DIFFERENT KIND OF THING.
THERE ARE NO OUTCOMES THAT ARE PRESUMED.
AND, AND YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DOESN'T EVEN RECOMMEND SPECIFIC ZONING CHANGES, RIGHT.
IT, IT SORT OF GIVE SOME MORE GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND SAYS, CONSIDER DOING THIS AND STUDY IT FURTHER.
AND I THINK WHAT IT DOES DO IS IT HIGHLIGHTS THE FACT THAT THERE ARE INCONSISTENCIES, IT FLAGS, UM, IT FLAGS AREAS WHERE, UH, YOU KNOW, TREATMENT IS DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE VILLAGE, WHICH, YOU KNOW, RAISES FAIRNESS CONCERN.
SO I THINK IT FLAGS A LOT OF THINGS TO BE STUDIED OVER A FAIRLY LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
UM, SO ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR THOUGHTS AROUND THAT? I WAS GONNA MENTION THE FLAG, UH, PORTION ALSO.
I'VE SEEN SOME BEFORE WHERE THERE ARE SOME INTERESTING RED FLAGS THAT MIGHT COME UP.
UH, IN THIS ONE I DIDN'T SEE ANY WHEN I REVIEWED IT.
AND, AND ACTUALLY I'M SORRY, I WOULDN'T BE OPPOSED TO HAVING SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE, IN THE NEXT COMP COMP PLAN THAT WOULD TRIGGER AN EGG DECK OR A POSITIVE DECLARATION.
IT IT'S, BUT IT'S NOT IN THIS ONE.
I'M NOT SAYING EXACTLY THAT, THAT IS A CRITICISM OF THIS ONE.
I'M SAYING THAT I'M, THAT I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THAT IN THE FUTURE.
I THINK THAT THAT COULD BE PART OF A PLAN TO SAY WE REALLY BELIEVE THIS SHOULD HAPPEN AND ARE MAKING A SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S FAIR.
I THINK THAT IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE TO WRESTLE WITH IN THIS MOMENT.
IS THAT I THINK WHAT TRUSTEE ALLGOOD SAID SPEAKS TO WHAT I, WHAT I FEEL TOO.
SO, UM, GIVEN THAT, UH, THERE IS A LONG RESOLUTION HERE, UM, MAYBE I WILL JUST READ THE RESULTS PART.
UM, OR SHALL I READ THE, SHOULD I JUST READ IT? GIVEN THIS ONE? GO FOR IT.
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SUMMARIZE THE WAREHOUSES.SO 57 OF 25 RESOLUTION ADOPTING SECRET AND NEGATIVE DECLARATION ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
WHEREAS THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON HAS CONSIDERED THE PROPOSED VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
AND WHEREAS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE IS A TYPE ONE ACTION PURSUANT TO THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY REVIEW ACT, CCRA, UM, SIX N-Y-C-R-R 9 1, 7 0.4 B ONE.
AND WHEREAS COORDINATED REVIEW IS REQUIRED FOR TYPE ONE ACTIONS, AND WHEREAS THERE ARE NO OTHER INVOLVED AGENCIES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PROPOSED ACTION, AND THEREFORE THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS DECLARED ITSELF AS LEAD AGENCY.
AND WHEREAS A PUBLIC HEARING WAS NOTICED AND DULY REMAINED OPEN BETWEEN APRIL 1ST, 2025 TO MAY 6TH, 2025, TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROPOSED ACTION.
ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE SUBJECT THEREOF WERE DULY HEARD.
AND THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS CAREFULLY CONSIDERED AND WEIGHED THE INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC.
AND WHEREAS PURSUANT TO SECRET OF THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS PREPARED AND COMPLETED PARTS ONE, TWO, AND THREE OF THE FULL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM.
UH, AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES HAS DULY REVIEWED THE EAF AND CONSIDERED THE CRITERIA CONTAINED IN SIX N-Y-C-R-R SECTION 6 1 7 0.7 C TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE PROPOSED ACTION WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT RESOLVED.
ONE THAT THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON DOES HEREBY DETERMINE THAT THE PROPOSED ADOPTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE WILL NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT.
AND TWO, THAT THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPTS THE FINDING AND CONCLUSION RELATING TO THE PROBABLE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS CONTAINED WITHIN THE ATTACHED FULL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FORM AND THE NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND AUTHORIZES THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE EAF AND FOR THE VILLAGE CLERK TO FILE THE NEGATIVE DECLARATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF LAW.
NOW MOVING ON TO 58 OF 25, WHICH IS THE RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
UH, BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, UM, JUST TO NOTE THAT TRUSTEE MERTON TOOK AN ADDITIONAL READ, WHICH WE THANK HER FOR AND SHE NOTICED, UM, UH, A FEW SPELLING MISTAKES AND I THINK COMMAS IN THE WRONG PLACE AND A FEW OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND, UM, SO WE WOULD LIKE TO ADOPT THE BORE THE, THE RESOLUTION THERE WERE, DO YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN WHAT YOUR REVIEW INVOLVED? IT WAS FAIRLY MINOR.
UM, I THINK IT WAS, IT WAS QUITE, I PASS IT ALONG TO YEAH, I THINK IT WAS, IT WAS QUITE MINOR.
I MEAN, THERE WASN'T ANY CHANGE OF, UM, I THINK ANY SUBSTANCE, THERE'S NOTHING SUBSTATIVE THAT THAT'S CORRECT.
REYNOLDS DOESN'T HAVE AN APOSTROPHE.
THAT'S, I THINK THERE WAS A REFERENCE TO CREST INSTEAD OF PINE RIVER CHAMBER SPELLED INCORRECTLY IN E SIX.
I THINK WE'D LIKE THE DOCUMENT TO BE AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE.
WELL, I, YES, I I FEEL, I FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT IT, SO I I DID REVIEW IT AN EXTRA TIME.
AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT THAT.
SO MY VIEW IS THAT THE EDITS ARE MINOR AND HELPFUL AND SHOULD NOT AFFECT OUR ABILITY TO, UM, TO, TO ADOPT IF EVERYONE IS IN AGREEMENT.
UM, SO THE RESOLUTION, UM, IS AGAIN, QUITE LONG AND INCLUDES, UM, QUITE A LOT OF, UH, UH, INFORMATION ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT, UM, HISTORY EVENTS, HISTORIC EVENTS ASSOCIATED WITH IT, WHEN IT WAS, WHEN THE COMMITTEE, UH, WAS CONVENED AND WHEN THE PUBLIC HEARINGS HAPPENED, AND VIRTUAL AND STAKEHOLDER GROUP MEETINGS AND SURVEYS AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE INVOLVED.
UH, THE PROCESS OF THE CPU, UM, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REFERRING THE DRAFT TO THE COUNTY PLANNING BOARD AND THE ZONING BOARD AND TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND THE FACT THAT THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REVIEWED THE DRAFT AND MADE MODIFICATIONS AND THE MOST RECENT PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH WAS OPEN FROM APRIL 1ST TO MAY 6TH.
UM, AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE THE, THE LEAD AGENCY, SO NOW COMING TO THE NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVE SECTION ONE, THAT THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON HEREBY ADOPTS THE MAY, 2025 DRAFT OF THE PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
TWO, THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTS THAT THE PLAN BE PERIODICALLY REVIEWED PER VILLAGE LAW SECTION SEVEN TO 2 7 22.
AND WE NEED TO DECIDE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT IT
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BE EVERY 10 YEARS, FIVE SEEMS TOO LITTLE AND 15 SEEMS TOO MUCH.UM, IT'S BEEN 14 YEARS SINCE OUR LAST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WAS ADOPTED, AND FOUR OF THOSE YEARS WAS PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, GETTING THE GRANT AND MOVING THE PROCESS FORWARD.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND 10 IS DO, DOES ANYONE HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEW ON THAT? I JUST, UM, MY ONLY THING IS IS THE, AGAIN, JUST SEMANTICS PERHAPS, BUT JUST THE WORD, UM, REVIEWED ONLY BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THE, THE ACTUAL REFERENCE TO IT AND REV HENCE REVIEW OF IT IS A, IS AN ONGOING PROCESS.
BUT I THINK, AM I CORRECT THAT WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS MORE, IS AN UPDATE? YEAH.
I THINK, I THINK THAT'S A VERY FAIR POINT AND THAT THIS WORD SHOULD BE CHANGED TO UPDATED BECAUSE THERE IS GOING TO ACTUALLY BE ONGOING ACTIVE REVIEW BASED ON THE, UM, THE MATRIX THAT WAS CREATED, WHICH IS ENCOURAGING THAT KIND OF ONGOING REVIEW.
THE VILLAGE MANAGER WILL NOT LIKE US AT ALL WITH THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT'S INVOLVED IN THAT REVIEW PROCESS, BUT THAT'S QUITE IMPORTANT.
SO IF WE CHANGE THE WORD REVIEW THERE TO UPDATE, UM, ANY VIEWS ON 10 OR A DIFFERENT NUMBER OF YEARS.
UH, BUT SHOULD WE MAKE MORE CONCRETE THAT AT EIGHT YEARS WE WILL BEGIN THE PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, FORMING A COMMITTEE, RESEARCHING GRANTS AND, AND THEN SO AT 10 YEARS WE'RE GOING INSTEAD OF STARTING AT 10, WHICH THEN GETS A COMMITTEE TOGETHER WITHIN A YEAR.
LIKE, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE CAN CODIFY THAT? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE NECESSARILY NEED TO TIE THE HAND OF A FUTURE BOARD.
WE, WE, SOME OF US MAY STILL BE ON THAT BOARD.
I WILL NOT, SO THAT WILL BE A DECISION, BUT WHOEVER IS ON THE BOARD AT THAT POINT.
SO I FEEL LIKE WE DON'T NEED TO NECESSARILY TIE THE HAND.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS INTERESTING ON THE PREVIOUS BOARD, I ACTUALLY, WHEN IT WAS GETTING CLOSE TO THE 10, WAS REALLY PUSHING THAT PROCESS FORWARD AND THERE WERE A NUMBER O OF OTHER BIG PLANNING EXERCISES THAT THE VILLAGE WAS GOING THROUGH AT THE TIME.
AND SO WE ENDED UP PUSHING THAT.
SO THE BOARD WASN'T AGREED IN TERMS OF HOW SOON THAT PROCESS SHOULD HAPPEN.
AND THAT COULD HAPPEN AT THAT POINT.
I THINK IT WILL REALLY DEPEND ON WHAT'S, WHAT'S GOING ON, UM, IN, IN THE VILLAGE AT THAT TIME.
AND COVID HIT TOO, AND COVID HIT.
SO THERE WERE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON AND THAT THAT KIND OF ELONGATED THE PROCESS A LITTLE BIT.
IT DOES SAY AT LEAST EVERY 10 YEARS.
SO YOU, YOU CAN ALWAYS DO IT EARLIER, EARLIER OR LATER IF YOU DO IT EARLIER, I'LL FALL OFF MY CHAIR WHEREVER I'M HAPPILY LOOKING AT YOU FROM, FROM A DISTANCE.
AND I JUST, IN, IN PARAGRAPH ONE, CAN, CAN WE JUST SAY ADOPT THE MAY, 2025 DRAFT AS AMENDED? YEAH.
WITH, WITH THE, WITH THE PROPOSED MINOR CHANGES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
CORRECTIONS BECAUSE IT'S NOT WITH RECOMMENDED CORRECTIONS.
THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON HEREBY ADOPTS THE MAY, 2025 DRAFT WITH THE RECOMMENDED CORRECTIONS OF THE PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DRAFT OF THE PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
WITH THE RECOMMENDED CORRECTIONS.
IT READS BETTER TO HAVE IT THERE.
THE VILLAGE BOARD OF TRUSTEES DIRECTS THAT THE PLAN BE PERIODICALLY UPDATED PER VILLAGE LAW SECTION SEVEN DASH 7 22, AT LEAST EVERY 10 YEARS.
THREE, THE PLAN SHALL BE FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE VILLAGE CLERK AND A COPY THEREOF FILED WITH THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY PLANNING BOARD AS REQUIRED BY VILLAGE LAW SECTION SEVEN DASH 7 22 0.12.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY TAKE THIS MOMENT TO THANK EVERYONE INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS.
UM, SO I THINK, UH, YOU, UH, TRUSTEE MERTON GET TO BE A COMMITTEE MEMBER AND ALSO NOW AS A TRUSTEE, YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS IN THAT WAY.
UM, TRUSTEE DRAKE, TRUSTEE FLEISIG, VILLAGE MANAGER, MURPHY, UM, ALL THE OTHER, UM, CHAIRPERSON DOVAL, ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO TOOK AN INTEREST IN THIS AND SHARED THEIR VIEWS, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE SURVEYS, WHO ATTENDED THE MEETINGS, UM, WHO SENT IN COMMENTS, WHO ATTENDED MEETINGS IN PUBLIC WITH US TO SHARE YOUR VIEWS.
WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THAT INPUT.
AND, UM, WE, WHILE NOT EVERY SINGLE THOUGHT THAT EVERY PERSON HAD ENDED UP BEING INCORPORATED,
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I THINK A LOT OF THE, THE, UM, IDEAS THAT WERE SHARED REALLY HAVE ENRICHED THE DOCUMENT AND MADE IT STRONGER.SO, UM, THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO, WHO PARTICIPATED IN THAT.
ANYTHING ANYONE ELSE WANTS TO ADD? THIS IS, AND I DO WANNA SAY, I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY STRONG DOCUMENT.
IT'S, UH, I THINK IF WE, AS I SAID BEFORE IN A PREVIOUS MEETING, IF WE'RE ABLE TO DO THE VILLAGE IS ABLE TO DO HALF OF WHAT'S INCLUDED IN IT, THAT WILL BE A BIG ACHIEVEMENT.
BUT HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY MORE THAN THAT.
UM, MOVING ON TO 59 OF 25 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX IZED SETTLEMENT, HASTINGS HOUSE TENANTS CORPORATION.
UH, THIS IS FOR A PROPERTY LOCATED AT 7 65 NORTH BROADWAY.
UM, UH, ON THE MAP IT'S FOUR POINT 10 DASH ONE DASH 13 AND THIS IS FOR 2020 TOWN TO 2024.
UM, TOWN, UH, TAXES, UM, HOW MUCH OF THIS DO I NEED TO READ? SHOULD I READ THIS CHART? YOU CAN JUST, UM, JUST RE SAY THE REFUND.
SO THE REFUND I WOULD DO JUST THE TWO YEARS THAT WERE REDUCED.
SO THE TWO YEARS THAT WERE REDUCED WERE 2023.
UM, UH, AND THE CURRENT, UM, THE CURRENT AMOUNT IS 10,000,090 7,100 AND IT WAS REDUCED TO 9,750,000 WITH A REDUCTION OF 347,000 ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWENTY FOUR WAS $10,731,700 REDUCED TO $9,800,000 WITH A REDUCTION OF $931,700.
SO THE REFUND OF TAXES, UM, AMOUNTS TO $6,904 AND 93 CENTS.
AND WE'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THIS.
I THINK EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS AND IS IN AGREEMENT.
THE NEXT ITEM IS 60, 60 OF 65 OF, OH, DID WE DO A ROLL CALL? VOTE WE NEEDED TO DO A ROLL CALL.
YEAH, FOR THIS ONE, ONE, THE ROLE ON THE BOND RESOLUTION, YOU HAVE TO DO A ROLL CALL.
SO 60 OF 2020 OF 25 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF 500 BONDS OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK, TO PAY FOR A PORTION OF THE 650,000 ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF VARIOUS ROAD IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OR RECONSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALKS AND CURBS, PAVING AND DRAINAGE IN AND FOR SAID VILLAGE.
THIS IS A VERY LONG RESOLUTION, BUT, UM, UH, I THINK THE MAIN BITS ARE INCLUDED IN WHAT I JUST READ OUT.
UM, IMPORTANT POINT WE'RE WE ARE DOING THIS NOW IN ORDER TO ALLOW FOR THE, UM, FOR THE PAVING AND SIDEWALKS TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT THERE WILL BE, UM, UH, MORE ISSUES THAT WILL COME UP YES.
ON, ON THIS IN, IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
SO IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD? VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY.
UM, JUST THAT THIS IS, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, YOU, IF YOU'LL RECALL THAT OUR CAPITAL PLAN CALLS FOR, UM, 500,000 IN BONDING FOR, FOR, UH, CURBING AND PAVING.
AND THIS IS EXACTLY THAT, THAT, THAT'S IN OUR CAPITAL PLAN.
WE ALSO PUT 150,000 INTO OUR OPERATIONAL BUDGET FOR, UM, PAVING AND CURBING.
AND THERE'S TWO RESOLUTIONS THAT WILL FOLLOW, UH, THIS RESOLUTION, UM, FOR, UH, AWARDING THE PAVING AND CURBING BIDS.
AND WE WILL ALSO, WE ARE EVALUATING, UM, WHAT ADDITIONAL WORK WILL BE DONE, UH, IN THE VILLAGE TO AMOUNT TO THAT $650,000.
AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THE BOARD WITH THAT INFORMATION WHEN IT'S, WHEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT'S COMPLETE.
ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYONE? UM, SO THIS SORT OF EXPEDITES THAT PROCESS IS THERE, DO I NEED TO READ ANYTHING ELSE? I THINK WE'RE GOOD, RIGHT? UM, IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
MAYOR, YOU NEED A ROLL CALL? OH, ROLL CALL VOTE AFTER HAVING JUST RAISED IT.
UM, 61 OF 25 AWARD OF CONTRACT 2025 MILL AND PAVING RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE 2025 MILLING AND PAVING CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF 105,510 TO PETRILLO CONTRACTING INC.
AS RECOMMENDED BY THE VILLAGE CONSULTING ENGINEER.
IS THERE A MOTION TO MOVE? SECOND.
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25 AWARD OF CONTRACT 2025.CURB INSTALLATION AND REPLACEMENT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE 2025 CURB INSTALLATION AND REPLACEMENT CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF $301,780 TO LV BONILLA CONSTRUCTION CORP AS RECOMMENDED BY THE VILLAGE CONSULTING ENGINEER.
63 OF 25 AUTHORIZATION TO SOLICIT BIDS FOR CLEANING SERVICES FOR VILLAGE BUILDINGS.
RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO SOLICIT BIDS FOR CLEANING SERVICES FOR VILLAGE BUILDINGS.
IS THERE ANYTHING YOU WANT US TO KNOW BEFORE WE VOTE ON IT? UH, NO.
JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS, UM, TO GET THE BEST PRICE FOR CLEANING, FOR CLEANING OUR BUILDINGS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CIRCULATE IT TO EVERYBODY IN THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANNA ADD OR IF THEY HAVE ANY COMMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, ON, ON, YOU KNOW, TO DATE ON THE, ON THE CURRENT CONTRACTOR.
SO, UM, UH, YEAH, THIS IS JUST SORT OF ROUTINE, FAIRLY PRO FORMA.
64 OF 25 ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE ENERGY FUND.
UM, YOU'LL RECALL WE SET UP A, A SPECIAL FUND TO COLLECT MONIES THAT CAME IN RELATED TO ENERGY GRANTS THAT WE RECEIVED.
AND WE RECENTLY RECEIVED, UH, ON THE STRETCH TO ZERO GRANT A, UH, THERE WAS, UM, WE WERE ACTUALLY WONDERING WHAT OUR DELIVERABLE WAS GONNA BE ON THIS DOCUMENT.
AND IT TURNED OUT THAT AFTER HAVING ADOPTED THE GREEN BUILDING CODE, THAT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE AN A DELIVERABLE BECAUSE NEW YORK STATE HAD ACTUALLY ALREADY ADOPTED THE ALL ELECTRIC ACT.
SO IT REALLY COULDN'T BE BETTER THAT SOMETHING WE WERE DOING ALREADY,
SO WE HAVE RECEIVED 250,000 FOR THAT.
SO THIS RESOLUTION IS REALLY ALLOCATING THOSE FUNDS TO THE ENERGY, TO THE ENERGY FUND BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE USE NEEDS TO BE FOR, FOR THESE FUNDS.
SO I'LL JUST READ THE, THE RESOLVED, UM, SECTION, UH, RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZED THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO ASSIGN FUNDS FROM AA 9 0 9 FUND BALANCE TO AA 8 82 ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE ENERGY FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF 250,000.
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES ESTABLISH THE VILLAGE MANAGERS AUTHORITY TO ASSIGN FUNDS FROM ENERGY RELATED GRANT FUNDING TO AA 8 8 2 ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE ENERGY FUND.
SO THAT ENABLES THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO DO THAT WITHOUT HAVING TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS EVERY TIME SHE, SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE NEEDS TO DO.
UM, IS THAT CLEAR TO EVERYONE? IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
SORRY, CAN WE GO BACK TO, UM, 62, UM, OF 25? I WAS, I HAD A NOTE TO SELF AND I DIDN'T FIND IT IN TIME AND I ALREADY SAID YES.
THAT'S THE CURBING, THE CURBING ONE OF THE BID.
UH, I JUST WANTED SOMEBODY TO EXPLAIN THE NUMBER THAT WAS IN THE BID OF 3 83 5 80 AND THEN THERE'S A DIFFERENT NUMBER LATER.
AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER NUMBER AT THE BOTTOM.
UM, THE TOTAL ESTIMATED IS 3 0 1 7 80, BUT THE, THE, IN THE TEXT OF THE WHEN ALL THE CONTRACTORS ARE LISTED, IT'S 3 83 TELL, AND THEN THE NUMBER LATER IS THREE 70 SOMETHING.
TELL THE, THE REASON IS, UH, WE DO A JOINT BID WITH OTHER MUNICIPALITIES.
AND THAT'S JUST OUR PORT IN OUR RESOLUTION IS ONLY OUR PORTION OKAY.
IN THIS INSTANCE, IT WAS JUST ONE OTHER MUNICIPALITY THAT JOINED WITH US FOR CURBING THIS YEAR.
UH, USUALLY, UM, IRVINGTON TAKES HAS BEEN TAKING THE LEAD ON THE CURVING BID AND ALL OF THE RIVER TOWNS WILL PUT THEIR, YOU KNOW, JUST, WE'RE TRYING TO GET A BETTER PRICE BY HAVING A MORE VOLUME UHHUH.
AND, UM, ALTHOUGH WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT, BECAUSE WE'RE, YOU KNOW, IT'S SUCH A LARGE GEOGRAPHIC AREA THAT THEY HAVE TO JUMP AROUND IN, WHETHER OR NOT THAT THAT IS OR ISN'T EFFECTIVE, WE MAY, WE MAY, UH, CHANGE THAT UP A LITTLE BIT IN THE FUTURE TO MAYBE DO DOBS AND, AND, AND, AND HASTINGS AND, AND, BUT, BUT THE REASON, BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THE REASON WHY YOU'RE IN THE RESOLUTION, YOU'RE SEEING JUST THE HASTINGS PORTION.
THAT YOUR DESCRIPTION MAKES SENSE.
I, I JUST CAN'T MATCH IT TO 'CAUSE IT, IT, IT SAYS 3 83 AT THE TOP 3 83 5 80.
THEN WHAT, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? UH, THE ATTACHMENT, UH, THE RECOMMENDATION FROM JAMES.
LET ME, LET ME LOOK AT THAT TOO WITH YOU.
AND, AND THEN AT THE, AT THE END OF IT, IT SUMMARIZES IT, IT ATTACHES A BID ANALYSIS ALONG WITH THE INDIVIDUAL COST FOR THE VILLAGE.
IT MATCHES WHAT YOU JUST SAID.
THE TOTAL ESTIMATED COST FOR HASTINGS IS 3 0 1 7 80.
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AND I CAN NEVER, I JUST WASN'T ABLE TO FIND HOW THAT NUMBER WAS DERIVED.THAT NUMBER WOULD'VE BEEN DERIVED FROM THE, THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, IT'S BASICALLY WE PUT IN THE BID DOCUMENTS, THE LENGTH OF THE CURB, AND THEN THEY GIVE A SERIES OF, OF PRICES, UM, FOR THE DIFFERENT, UH, ASPECTS OF THE WORK THAT THEY'RE GONNA DO ON THIS, ON THIS SHEET HERE.
BUT IT TELLS YOU ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT YOU HAVE, WHETHER YOU HAVE CATCH BASINS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE, WHETHER YOU HAVE, UM, UH, UH, ANY, ANY KIND OF ANYTHING ELSE IN THE ROAD THAT'S GOING TO IMPACT IT.
UH, THE LENGTH OF THE CURB THAT THEY'RE PUTTING IN.
AND, UM, AND THOSE, THESE, THESE NUMBERS FOR THOSE DIFFERENT ITEMS ARE WHAT, WHAT THE, WHAT OUR, UM, OUR ENGINEER USES TO COMPUTE THE AMOUNT OF, OF THE COST TO THE VILLAGE ITSELF.
NOW, IT ALL, IT ALL MAKES SENSE.
I WOULD JUST LOVE IT IF THEY COULD MATCH, IDENTIFY THIS, THIS PORTION IS FOR HASTINGS, THIS PORTION IS FOR DOBBS, THIS OF IRVINGTON.
AND THEN YOU COULD ACTUALLY DO THE MATH USING THE DOCUMENT.
I MEAN, I CAN ASK THEM TO MAKE THAT MORE CLEAR IN THE FUTURE FOR US.
I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S A FAIR POINT, BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT'S IN EVERYONE'S HEAD.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT, IT, IT'S NOT SO TRANSPARENT TO SOMEONE ELSE.
WHO MIGHT BE LOOKING AT THINGS, SHOW THEIR MATH.
SORT OF MAYBE JUST KIND OF DRILL DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE DIVISION OF RESPONSIBILITY BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES.
SO THE MEMO'S LESS STANDARD IN THAT SENSE.
IT'S KIND OF MORE TAILORED TO THE MOMENT.
SO ARE YOU GOOD THAT HAVING ADOPTED IT? I'M GOOD AT, YOU'RE AGREEING WITH? YES.
I THINK WE HAVE TO RE UM, VOTE.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS AT LEAST SOME SOMETHING I COULD TO UNDERSTAND.
I'LL MAKE SURE IN THE FUTURE THAT WE, WE SHOW OUR MATH AND, AND YOU CAN SEE WHERE EXACTLY, WHERE THE NUMBER COMES FROM IN TERMS OF THE, THE PIECES THAT ARE INCORPORATED TO ME TO, I APPRECIATE THAT.
AND THEN THE FINAL, I THINK THIS IS THE FINAL RESOLUTION.
65 OF 25 APPROVAL OF 2025 CAMP AND POOL SALARIES.
RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES ESTABLISHED THE FOLLOWING SALARIES FOR THE FOLLOWING HASTINGS DAY CAMP AND CHIMP KAPO PERSONNEL FOR THE 2025 SEASON.
HASTINGS DAY CAMP, ASSISTANT CAMP DIRECTOR, $36 AND 25 CENTS AN HOUR.
HEAD COUNSELOR SPECIALIST, $18 AN HOUR CAMP COUNSELOR, $16 AND 50 CENTS AN HOUR.
CAMP MAINTENANCE, $18 AN HOUR.
AND FOR THE CHIMP POOL, ASSISTANT POOL DIRECTOR, 20 TO $25 AN HOUR.
AQUATICS DIRECTOR, 18 TO $22 AN HOUR LIFEGUARD $16 AND 75 CENTS TO $19 AN HOUR.
WATER SAFETY INSTRUCTOR, 20 TO $25 AN HOUR LAP LANE ATTENDANT, 15 TO $50, 50 CENTS, $15 AND 50 CENTS AN HOUR.
CASHIER $16 AND 50 CENTS TO $17 AN HOUR.
SWIM AID, $15 AND 50 CENTS AN HOUR.
POOL MAINTENANCE, $17 AN HOUR.
TENNIS ATTENDANT, $15 AND 50 CENTS AN HOUR.
HEAD SWIM TEAM COACH 7,150 FOR THE SEASON ASSISTANT SWIM TEAM COACH.
AND THE, IF YOUR RESOLUTION HAS FURTHER POINTS, THOSE GET REMOVED.
THOSE, THOSE WE'VE ACTUALLY ALREADY AGREED TO.
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS THAT? NO, IT, IT'S ON ALL OF THEM.
I, SO FOR BASICALLY WHERE IT SAYS FORM OF RESOLUTION, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T YEAH.
PARK JUNIOR CHAUFFEUR CROSSING GUARD.
WE'VE ALREADY DONE IT IN ANOTHER CONTEXT.
UM, IS THERE, ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS? I THINK TRUSTEE DRAKE, YOU USED TO BE ONE OF THESE PEOPLE AT ONE POINT IN YOUR LIFE.
SO MORE, A MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE HERE HAVE BEEN IN THIS ROLE, SO IT'S CLEARLY LEADS TO GOOD THINGS IN THE FUTURE.
YOU, I WAS GETTING $2 AND 35 CENTS AN HOUR.
UM, IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED.
[VIII. VILLAGE MANAGER’S REPORT]
THE NEXT ITEM IS THE VILLAGE MANAGER'S REPORT DISCUSSION OF REQUIRED TRAINING FOR EMPLOYEES MANAGER MURPHY.UH, SO, UM, THE, CURRENTLY, THE, THE, THE STATE REQUIRES THAT WE, EVERYBODY ANNUALLY DO, UM, UH, SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION
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AND WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION, UM, TRAINING ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES, UH, THE VILLAGE HAVE HAS EXPANDED THAT TO INCLUDE, UM, DIVERSITY TRAINING AND IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING, UH, IN, IN THAT KIND OF SUITE OF, OF ANNUAL TRAININGS THAT WE REQUIRE OF EMPLOYEES.
AND, UM, IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT IT IS SO, AND WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY OUR LABOR COUNCIL THAT OUR STATUTORY BOARDS SHOULD ALSO DO THE REQUIRED TRAININGS, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THESE, UH, SEXUAL HARASSMENT, UH, PREVENTION AND WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION, UM, BECAUSE THOSE ARE REQUIRED BY THE, BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
UH, AND SO, SO WE DO, BUT WE HAVE ALSO INCLUDED THE OTHER TRAININGS, DIVERSITY TRAINING AND IMPLICIT BIAS TRAINING, UH, TO OUR STATUTORY BOARD.
SO, UM, IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED THAT WE, THAT THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ONEROUS FOR THE STATUTORY BOARDS SINCE THEY ARE VOLUNTEERS.
UM, AND ALSO FOR, YOU KNOW, UM, BOARDS THAT MAY GET A SMALL STIPEND, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR, UH, FOR, FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO.
AND SO WHAT I, UH, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO DO IT BY RESOLUTION.
'CAUSE I I DON'T THINK ANY OF THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY RESOLUTION PARTICULARLY.
BUT I, THAT IS WHAT, WHAT WHAT I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST IS THAT FOR, UM, FOR BOARDS, UH, WE DON'T REQUIRE THAT THEY DO THE, UH, OPTIONAL TRAININGS THAT WE ONLY REQUIRE, THAT THEY DO THE MANDATORY TRAININGS.
UM, WHICH WILL RELIEVE, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF THE BURDEN ON THE, ON, ON BOARD MEMBERS WHO ARE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, GIVING SO MUCH OF THEIR TIME FOR REALLY, YOU KNOW, FOR, UH, EITHER A SMALL STIPEND OR, OR NOTHING.
UM, SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT TO THE BOARD'S ATTENTION MAKE, I KNOW I'VE, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS ISSUE BEFORE, BUT MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS, IS, YOU KNOW, OKAY WITH, WITH PROCEEDING IN THAT MANNER.
I MEAN, THE, THE REQUIRED SHOULD BE REQUIRED, REQUIRED IS, IS REQUIRED.
ABOUT THAT IS JUST OPTIONAL FOR DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
AND IF YOU CAN JUST MAKE, COMMUNICATE THAT TO, TO JUST REMIND EVERYONE, THE ZONING BOARD IS A STATUTORY BOARD.
THE PLANNING BOARD IS STATUTORY.
WE ARE OBVIOUSLY OF A STATUTORY BOARD LIBRARY, A RB LIBRARY, LIBRARY, AND A RB.
SO THOSE ARE THE STATUTORY BOARDS.
SO I WILL MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ALL AWARE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO, UH, OKAY.
THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT.
UM, AND THEN THE CON UH, THE NEXT THING THAT I WANTED TO JUST, UH, TALK WITH YOU ABOUT, UM, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I, THAT IF, IF YOU AGREE, UM, I'D LIKE TO PUT ON THE NEXT AGENDA, UH, FOR ADOPTION.
WE CURRENTLY HAD BEEN, WE HAD CONCLUDED IN OUR BUDGET A, UM, AN AMOUNT OF $5,000 FOR NON-REPRESENTED EMPLOYEES WHO ARE FURTHERING THEIR EDUCATION.
AND, UM, WE'VE CO PRETTY MUCH HAD BEEN, UH, IMPLEMENTING IT.
WE ACTUALLY, NOT PRETTY MUCH, WE HAD BEEN IMPLEMENT IMPLEMENTING IT, UH, SIMILAR TO THE WAY THE POLICE, UH, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT PROVISION IS IMPLEMENTED.
BUT IT HAS COME, IT HAS COME UP THAT ONE OF OUR, ONE OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS, UH, WOULD, IS INTERESTED IN TAKING A COURSE THAT I THINK WOULD BE REALLY A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO ENHANCE THEIR ABILITIES IN THE AREA OF WORK THAT THEY DO HERE IN THE VILLAGE.
BUT IT IS NOT A CREDIT COURSE, IT'S THROUGH WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, BUT YOU COME OUT WITH A CERTIFICATION AS OPPOSED TO A CREDIT.
AND, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST, UH, AMEND I'D, I'D LIKE TO, I'D LIKE TO HAVE THE BOARD ADOPT A POLICY THAT REFLECTS THAT, THAT CERTIFICATION AS WELL AS, UM, YOU KNOW, COLLEGE CREDIT FROM A RECOGNIZED INSTITUTION, UH, IS, IS ACCEPTABLE.
UM, IN TERMS OF THE REIMBURSEMENT, THIS REIMBURSEMENT IS, IT'S A MAXIMUM OF $5,000 A YEAR IF THERE'S MORE THAN ONE PERSON THAT IS APPLYING FOR IT.
UM, WE, THE, THE, THE VILLAGE NEVER PAYS MORE THAN 5,000.
IT GETS SPLIT AMONGST, UM, WHATEVER STAFF, YOU KNOW, FOUR PEOPLE ALL APPLY.
IT WOULD GET, YOU KNOW, UH, DIVIDED AMONGST THE FOUR PEOPLE.
UM, BUT I, IT'S, IT'S, IT HAS BEEN USED ON OCCASION AND IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO REALLY ENHANCE THEIR SKILLS THAT THEY USE HERE IN THE VILLAGE.
UM, SO, UH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT, HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM.
UM, IF THERE SEEMS TO BE AS A SENSE THAT WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH IT, I'LL PUT IT ON AS A, A POLICY FOR THE NEXT, UM, NEXT MEETING.
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION FOR ADOPTION IN, IN MY PAST LIFE, I HAD TO DEAL WITH INVESTIGATIONS RELATING TO THIS AND ABUSE.
I THINK WE JUST, IT'S GOTTA BE CONCRETE LANGUAGE.
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IT'S NOT GONNA BE A CREDITED COLLEGE, THERE SHOULD BE SIMILAR LANGUAGE TO THAT.'CAUSE I'VE SEEN IT ABUSED IN THE PAST AND OKAY.
AND IF IT'S NOT CONCRETE LANGUAGE, YOU FAIL TO HAVE A RECOURSE OF, YOU KNOW, GETTING REIMBURSED FOR THE MONEY THAT YOU SPENT ON THE COURSE BE DONE.
THE WRONG, YOU MEAN AS THE EMPLOYEE? AS THE EMPLOYER PROVIDING THE BENEFIT.
SO WHAT I'LL DO IS I DRAFTED THIS BASED PRETTY MUCH ON THE, UM, THE POLICE, UH, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROVISION WITH THE, WITH WHAT, WHAT, WHAT I WANTED TO ADD.
I WILL MAKE SURE THAT OUR LABOR ATTORNEY REVIEWS IT.
THAT WOULD BE GOOD FOR THAT CRITERIA SO THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UM, NOT, YOU KNOW, SHOOTING OURSELVES IN THE FOOT AND, YOU KNOW, ABUSE, ABUSE IS ASIDE, WHICH OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO, UM, BE CONCERNED ABOUT AND VIGILANT ABOUT.
I REALLY DO THINK WE WANT TO TAKE THE STANCE OF ENCOURAGING OUR EMPLOYEES TO, UM, UH, TAKE CONTINUING EDUCATION AND IMPROVE THEIR SITUATION.
I THINK IT BENEFITS US AND IT BENEFITS THEM.
SO IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S ONE OF THOSE WIN-WIN SCENARIOS.
ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH US? UM, YEAH, THERE WAS ONE OTHER THING THAT I JUST WANTED TO, UH, CHAT WITH YOU ABOUT.
UM, I HAVE HAD BEEN HAVING, UH, SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH, UM, CP ENERGY CAPITAL PROJECTS, ENERGY SOLUTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THE GEOTHERMAL SOLAR PROJECT THAT, UM, THE VILLAGE HAS, UH, IS, IS, YOU KNOW, IS, IS UNDERTAKING.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU, YOU MIGHT REMEMBER THAT WE HAD THREE RESPONSES TO THE RFP, UH, UH, FOR THE DESIGN FOR A DESIGN ENGINEERING CONSULTANT.
AND THOSE, THOSE ARE THOSE, THEY RANGED, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM ABOUT APPROXIMATELY $200,000 UP TO OVER $800,000.
AND, UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S VERY, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT LEVELS OF SERVICE, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT IS BEING OFFERED, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT KIND OF A SPREAD.
AND CAPITAL PROJECTS, ENERGY SOLUTIONS, THEY PROVIDE, UM, COMPREHENSIVE CAPITAL PROJECT ASSESSMENT.
THEY ALSO PROVIDE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES.
UM, THEY FOCUS PARTICULARLY ON ENERGY BASED SCOPE OF WORK, AND THEY HELP YOU, UM, EVALUATE REIMBURSEMENT.
IF YOU MAY ALSO REMEMBER THAT WITH REGARD TO THIS PROJECT, WE HAVE SIX DIFFERENT GRANT SOURCES, STATE, FEDERAL, UM, AND WE HAVE ALSO CREDITS AND, UM, INCENTIVE SOURCES, UH, THROUGH UTILITIES AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UM, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO IT'S REALLY PRETTY COMPLICATED IN TERMS OF WHAT MONEY CAN BE USED, WHERE, AND HOW TO USE IT AND WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO USE IT.
AND SO, UM, I WHAT I, I REALLY THINK THAT IT IS IN THE VILLAGE'S BEST INTEREST TO RETAIN, UM, SOMEBODY LIKE ENERGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT OR ENERGY PROJECT MANAGEMENT, UH, TO HELP IN THAT PROCESS OF EVALUATING THESE DIFFERENT SOURCES, EVALUATING, HELPING US EVALUATE THE, UH, ENGINEERING PROPOSALS AND WHAT THEY'RE OFFERING.
UM, AND, AND, AND HELPING US, YOU KNOW, KIND OF MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD BECAUSE WE REALLY, WE NEED SOMEBODY THAT'S GOT THAT KIND OF EXPERTISE TO WALK US THROUGH THOSE, THOSE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF IT.
UM, THEY HAVE, UH, FOR WHAT I THINK IS A PRETTY REASONABLE FEE OF, UH, UH, $5,700.
UM, THEY WOULD, UH, AGREE TO, UM, HELP US, HELP US EVALUATE THE BIDS THAT WE HAVE, LOOK, MAKE AN ASSESSMENT OF THE, OF THE PROJECT AS A WHOLE, EVALUATE THE BIDS, LOOK AT WHAT OTHER, WHETHER IF THERE ARE OTHER, UH, OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UM, FUNDING IN, IN, IN DIFFERENT, IN DIFFERENT, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM DIFFERENT UTILITIES AND THINGS THAT WE HAVEN'T, YOU KNOW, HAVEN'T SEEN YET.
UM, AND ALSO, UH, YOU KNOW, HELP HELP US TO KIND OF ORGANIZE THIS PROJECT IN A WAY THAT IS GOING TO MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING THAT WE CAN USE FROM OTHER RESOURCES.
AND, AND, AND EVEN HELP US EVALUATE THE, THE FUNDING THAT WE HAVE AND, AND WHETHER, YOU KNOW, AND HOW, HOW IT, HOW IT'S GONNA BE ADEQUATE.
BECAUSE I'VE, EVEN WITH, WITH SOME OF THE, THE PROPOSALS, I'VE EVEN, YOU KNOW, GOTTEN THE, THE SENSE THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE THE, THE, THE DOLLAR I WANT.
I WANT SOMEBODY TO LOOK AT THESE DOLLAR AMOUNTS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, AND THAT WE KNOW THAT IT'S GOING, WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR THE, THE, THE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE.
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IF, IF WE NEED MORE THAT WE KNOW WE NEED MORE, SO THAT WE'RE GOING INTO IT, WE HAVE OUR EYES OPEN ON THE PROJECT.UM, THIS, THIS PARTICULAR FIRM, UH, WAS INVOLVED WITH THE, UM, ANDRES, UH, NURSING HOME, AND THAT'S HOW ACTUALLY THEM MAYOR TOGETHER, MAYOR AND I MET THEM WHEN WE WERE THERE AT THEIR, UH, AND THEY WERE, UH, SPOKE VERY HIGHLY OF THEM.
UH, I HAVE MET WITH THEM AND, AND FEEL THAT THEY'RE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE REALLY VERY GOOD.
AND I ALSO, UM, THINK THAT THIS KIND OF SMALL START WITH THEM IS A GOOD WAY TO, UH, EVALUATE WHETHER WE WANT TO THEN GO ON TO, TO, THEY, THEY WILL ACTUALLY HELP MANAGE YOUR PROJECT AND HELP YOU GET YOUR MONEY BACK FROM THE VARIOUS SOURCES, UH, THAT THE, THAT THE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE FROM.
SO, UM, LIKE A TEST TO SEE WHAT'S, YEAH, IT'S ALMOST LIKE A, TO SEE IF THEY'RE AS GOOD AS THEY WERE RECOMMENDED AS BEING BY ANDREW.
SO, UM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE, I CAN SHARE THE, YOU KNOW, UM, THE PROPOSAL WITH THE REST OF THE BOARD, I WILL DO THAT.
UH, BUT I'D, UM, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE THE BOARD TO CONSIDER, UH, THAT WE RETAIN SOMEBODY THAT CAN REALLY PROVIDE US WITH SOME, SOME PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANCE IN THE ENERGY FIELD OF, UH, 'CAUSE THERE'S JUST, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF MOVING PARTS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW, UM, IN, IN THIS, IN THIS, UH, ARENA.
AND THE LANDSCAPE IS CHANGING A LITTLE BIT.
AND WE'LL, EVEN WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, YOU KNOW, WHAT COMES OUT OF THIS BUDGET PROCESS THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ENGAGED IN NOW, COULD ALSO, YOU KNOW, IMPACT THINGS AS WELL.
PLEASE SHARE THE, UM, THE, THEIR, UM, PROPOSAL.
I WILL, I ONLY HAVE ONE QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THE BIDS WERE BASED ON.
WERE THEY BASED ON THE SAME SPEC SPECS? YES, YES.
AND THEY STILL INTERPRETED THEM DIFFERENTLY WITHOUT VERY ASKING QUESTIONS.
THERE WERE NO RFIS DURING THE PROCESS THAT CLARIFIED.
UH, YOU KNOW, I, I, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN, BUT WE WOULD'VE ANSWERED THEM.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHETHER THERE WAS ANY, WE, WE, WE HAD TO, UM, PREPARE AN ADDENDUM IN FOR THAT PROJECT.
BUT THERE WAS ALSO A VERY, A VERY THOROUGH STUDY, WHICH IS AVAILABLE ON THE VILLAGE WEBSITE.
SO THEY, AND THEY WERE GIVEN THAT, THEY WERE GIVEN THAT, AND THEY ALL WERE GIVEN THAT.
SO THAT THE KIND OF RANGE, YOU KNOW, NORMALLY THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN WHEN YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING LIKE THAT DONE.
AND THEN, AND THEN, UM, FOLLOW UP QUESTION, IS THIS PROPOSAL IS FOR BID LEVELING SPECIFICALLY, OR THAT'S WHAT WE'LL REVIEW WHEN YOU SEND IT TO US? OR DO YOU IT'S THE, THE PROPOSAL IS FOR IS, IS FOR DOING SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS.
IT'S FOR REVIEWING THE CURRENT PLAN PROJECTS AND REPORT AND MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS ON PROP ON PROJECT PERFORMANCE AND ANNUALIZED RETURN, UH, ANA ANALYSIS OF THE BUDGET AND REIMBURSEMENT FOR GRANTS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS, TAX CREDITS, UTILITY REBATES AND AVAILABLE REIMBURSEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, AND POTENTIALLY IDENTIFYING ADDITIONAL AREAS OF POTENTIAL FUNDING.
UM, IT'S TO DEVELOP A WORKING LIST OF PROJECT REQUIREMENTS, UH, UH, UPON, BASED UPON KNOWN FUNDING SOURCES.
IT'S A REVIEW OF THE ENGINEERING PROPOSALS, UH, TO, UM, UH, REVIEW THE EXPERIENCE SCOPE, SCHEDULE FEES, CERTIFICATION AND EXCLUSIONS RELATED TO THE PROPOSALS, AND, UH, TO A COLLABORATION WITH THE VILLAGE, MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, UH, FOR SELECTION AND ONBOARDING OF AN ENGINEERING FIRM.
THIS FIRM IS NOT THE ENGINEERING FIRM.
THIS IS, THEY'RE GOING TO HELP US GET THE BEST PROFESSIONAL FOR THE JOB.
IT'S VERY, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE A PROJECT MANAGER ALMOST.
SO THIS IS KIND OF STEP ONE, BUT THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD MOVE IF, IF WE CHOSE, THEY WOULD ALSO MOVE FORWARD WITH US TO HELP, UM, HELP WITH, YOU KNOW, LOOKING OVER THE, THE, THE, THE WORK THAT THE ENGINEER HAS DONE IN TERMS OF, UM, THEIR ANALYSIS AND PREPARATION OF THE BID DOCUMENTS.
AND THEN, UM, ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PROJECT.
WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE, THE, THE, UM, PROPOSAL, YOU'LL SEE IT HAS TWO PARTS.
SO THE, THE PHASE ONE PART, WHICH IS WHAT THE VILLAGE MANAGER JUST DESCRIBED, IS REALLY GETTING US THROUGH THE PROCESS OF SELECTION OF THE OKAY.
AND THEN THERE'S A PHASE TWO FOR WHICH THERE ISN'T A FUNDING ESTIMATE YET, BECAUSE AH, OKAY.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROJECT'S GONNA BE.
SO THAT PHASE TWO, DEPENDING ON HOW THEY PERFORM IN PHASE ONE, WE CAN DECIDE IF WE WANT THEM FOR PHASE TWO, IF WE DON'T WANT ANYONE FOR PHASE TWO OR IF WE WANT SOMEONE ELSE FOR PHASE TWO.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY REALLY NICELY SET UP, I THINK, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO MAKE INFORMED CHOICES ALONG THE WAY.
SO I WILL SHARE THIS WITH, WITH EVERYBODY.
AND UM, THEN, UH, IF, IF, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANNA MOVE AHEAD WITH IT, WE CAN, WE CAN,
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UH, PUT IT ON A FUTURE AGENDA.UM, ANYTHING ELSE? THAT WAS THE MAIN THINGS.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING GOING ON? NO.
THAT WAS THE MAIN THINGS I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT.
[IX. BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS (Part 2 of 2)]
DISCUSSION, THE NEXT ITEM IS THE CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF VILLAGE CONSTRUCTION HOURS.AND WHAT WE DID, UM, AS YOU WILL HAVE SEEN FROM THE NOTES WE'VE SENT YOU, IS SOME RESEARCH ON OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING, MUNICIPALITIES NEAR US.
UM, AND THE PROPOSAL THAT WE'VE KIND OF COME UP WITH IS MOST CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH DOBBS, BUT IT, IT PINCHES A BIT FROM SOME OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, NOTABLY IRVINGTON.
AND SO THE, THE THOUGHT WOULD BE THAT ON HOURS, THE, THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE NO PERSON SHALL ENGAGE IN CONSTRUCTION WORK EARLIER THAN 7:30 AM OR LATER THAN 6:30 PM PREVAILING TIME ON ANY WEEKDAY.
UM, THEN FOR WEEKENDS AND SUNDAYS, UH, AND NO EARLIER THAN 9:00 AM OR LATER THAN 5:00 PM ON SATURDAY.
AND CONSTRUCTION WORK IS PROHIBITED AT ALL TIMES ON SUNDAY.
SO THE ONE THING I WANTED YOU TO BE AWARE OF IS THAT THE SATURDAY, UM, TIMING IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR LEAF BLOWER LAW, WHICH IS NICE.
SO THE, THE, THE NOISE FACTOR WILL, WILL BE ALIGNED THERE.
AND THEN, UH, DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES HAVE DIFFERENT SORT OF VIEWS ON, UM, HOLIDAYS AND, UM, IT SEEMED, UH, SO HOLIDAYS, ANY OF THE FOLLOWING HOLIDAYS, NEW YEAR'S DAY, PRESIDENT'S DAY, MEMORIAL DAY, INDEPENDENCE DAY, LABOR DAY, THANKSGIVING DAY AND CHRISTMAS DAY, THAT'S SEVEN OF THE HOLIDAYS.
WE COULD CHOOSE TO MAKE IT ALL THE HOLIDAYS, WHICH I THINK IRVINGTON DOES.
BUT DOBBS FERRY, UM, NOTES THOSE.
SO THAT'S SORT OF WHAT WE'VE RECOMMENDED.
SO ANY THOUGHTS FROM ANYONE ON THAT? AND THEN, UH, UH, IN THE, IN THE, IN THE EMAIL, UH, TO ALL OF YOU, THERE IS WHAT THE HASTINGS LAW CURRENTLY IS.
THERE'S THE DOBBS LAW, THERE'S THE IRVINGTON LAW, THERE'S THE TARRYTOWN LAW, AND THEN THERE'S YONKERS, WHICH IS, WE'VE DECIDED IS A BIT LOOSE.
AND SO, UM, THE OTHERS WERE BEING IN MORE IN ALIGNMENT WITH DOBBS AND IRVINGTON SEEMS TO MAKE MORE SENSE TO, TO US AS WE WERE PULLING THE PROVISIONS TOGETHER.
SO, ANY THOUGHTS FOR ANYONE? THE, THE ONLY COMMENT OR QUESTION I WOULD HAVE IS THERE AN ABILITY TO, SO, UM, TO LIMIT CERTAIN TYPES OF NOISE PRODUCING WORK LIKE, YOU KNOW, EX UH, NOT, NOT, UH, NOT EXCAVATION, BUT BLASTING OR, UM, YOU KNOW, ROCK REMOVAL OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, OF THAT NATURE THAT CAUSED A LOT OF NOISE OR VIBRATION.
THE BUILDING, I INSPECT THAT'S, THAT'S A PERMANENT ACTIVITY.
AND THE BUILDING INSPECTOR I THINK LIMITS IT, YOU KNOW, PRETTY, UH, IN THE ACTUAL PERMIT THAT THEY GET FROM THE BUILDING INSPECTOR TO DO THAT.
THEY, THERE, THERE ARE, THERE ARE LIMITS CONTAINED IN THE PERMIT.
BLASTING IS A WHOLE SEPARATE, UM, THERE'S A SEPARATE CHAPTER ON, ON BLASTING, I HAVE TO GET A BLASTING PERMIT AND THERE'S ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS.
AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE LIKE NOISE, UM, MONITORS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THAT'S NOT AFFECTED BY THIS, BUT THAT'S IN ADDITION.
WOULD THAT STUFF BE PROHIBITED ON SATURDAYS
ULTIMATELY THE QUESTION, I'M SURE THAT THEY DON'T ALLOW THEM TO DO THAT ON SATURDAYS.
IT, IT MAY BE WITHIN THE SAME TIMEFRAME AS WHAT YOU DO HERE.
I'M NOT, I, I CAN'T PROMISE THAT I THINK THAT THAT, UH, BUDDY BUDDY SETS IT, PUTS IT RIGHT IN THE PERMIT WHAT THEY'RE ALLOWED AND NOT, DON'T KNOW IF HAS TO, I WOULD HOPE THAT IT'S A, IT'S JUST JUST A MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
AND THAT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE WAITED ALL NIGHT LONG FOR THIS MOMENT, MAYBE THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING OF COMFORT TO, FOR THEM TO, TO KNOW, EVEN IF WE'RE NOT CHANGING THAT PORTION OF THE CODE, THAT WE COULD JUST, SO THERE IS NO, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY PROPOSED BLASTING ON THE ELECTRICAL SITE.
THE, UM, THE SECTION THAT DEALS WITH BLASTING IN OUR CODE IS UNDER FIREWORKS AND FIREARMS. SO I DON'T THINK IT'S THE SAME.
I DON'T THINK IT'S THE SAME SECTION.
UH, BUT I'M NOT SEEING BLASTING, IS THERE ANOTHER WORD THAT COULD BE USED FOR BLASTING? CAN YOU THINK OF CHIPPING, CHIPPING? WELL, CHIPPING IS DIFFERENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S IN OUR CODE.
I'M JUST, NO, THAT'S NOT, YEAH.
I MEAN, IF THERE'S A WAY THAT IT CAN BE BUILT IN THAT, THAT THAT TYPE OF ACTION IS PROHIBITED ON SATURDAYS.
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I MEAN, I DID SEE THAT, THAT THERE ARE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES THAT ALLOW CONSTRUCTION ON SATURDAY STARTING AT EIGHT 30.SO I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE GOING TO 9:00 AM UH MM-HMM
WE, WE CHOSE TO BE THE MOST CONSERVATIVE ON SATURDAYS, AND WE ACTUALLY ARE PRETTY CONSERVATIVE ON THE OTHER DAYS NOW.
AND WE APPRECIATE YOU FOR BRINGING THIS TO OUR ATTENTION BECAUSE WE WEREN'T VERY CONSERVATIVE IN THE PAST.
SO I CAN SEE WHY YOU WOULD'VE BEEN CONCERNED AND WORRIED.
I THINK EVERYONE IN HASTINGS WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR YOU, UH, HAVING BROUGHT THIS TO OUR ATTENTION.
UM, LET ME, LET ME GET YOU ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE BLASTING.
I WANNA TALK TO THE BUILDING INSPECTOR AND, UM, PROVIDE YOU WITH, YOU KNOW, SOME SPECIFICS AS TO WHAT TYPICALLY IS IS DONE.
I THINK THAT WE WE'RE, UM, WE NEED TO, I'LL, I'LL PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO, AND, AND SOME MUNICIPALITIES, BECAUSE TYPICALLY ORDINANCES ONLY TALKED ABOUT BLASTING, NOT CHIPPING.
AND SOME MUNICIPALITIES HAVE STARTED ADOPTING ORDINANCES, UM, TO TRY TO LIMIT, I THINK OURS IS BLASTING AND CHIPPING, OR AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT BUDDY IS PERMITTING.
PERMITTING THAT IT'S NOT IT CODE, WE, WE MIGHT WANNA STRENGTHEN IT.
SO THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD MAY WANNA TAKE A LOOK AT AND CONSIDER.
WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL PULL THE SECTION OF THE CODE, THE, AND THE PERMITTING PROCESS.
AND, AND SO YOU HAVE A MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT.
DO, DO YOU THINK IT COULD HAVE A RECOMMENDATION BY THE NEXT MEETING? 'CAUSE I KNOW THEY'RE ANXIOUS AS THE CLOCK IS TICKING ON THE APPROVAL PROCESS FOR THIS.
I THINK WE CAN, I'LL DEFINITELY INSTRUCTION NOT STARTING TOMORROW.
SO A LITTLE BIT TO THAT, TO THAT POINT.
MY, UM, I JUST WANTED TO ASK, I THINK YOU COULD MOVE ON THIS SEPARATELY BECAUSE I DON'T THINK CONSTRUCTION HOURS WE WILL HAVE GOT NOTHING DO WITH THE LASTING.
UM, SO MY QUESTION IS, WHEN WE DO DO THIS, UM, IS THERE, UH, WOULD THERE BE LIKE A START DATE OR IS IT EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY? AND THEN ALSO I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT, UM, WHICH ABOUT, UM, MAYBE, UH, THE IDEA OF LIKE GRANDFATHERED, LIKE IF, IF SOMEONE'S ALREADY ARRANGED SOMETHING WITH A CONTRACTOR, I, I AM JUST, JUST THROWING THAT OUT THERE.
NORMALLY, NORMALLY IT'S EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY FILING AND IT'S WITH FILING OF THE FILING OF, WITH THESE SECRETARIES OF, OF STATE.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IF THERE'S AN ADVERSE IMPACT AND SOMEBODY'S IN THAT SITUATION WHERE THEY, YOU KNOW, A CONTRACTOR IS COMING ON A SATURDAY AND OR ON A SUNDAY, AND NOW THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT CAN PROBABLY, BUDDY TENDS TO BE, CHARLES TENDS TO BE FAIRLY, YOU KNOW, HE TENDS TO BE REASONABLE ABOUT THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
SO MAYBE THAT CAN BE EASED IN.
UM, BUT I THINK WE CAN'T, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.
ARE YOU ASKING FOR A LATER START DATE? I THINK? OH, NO, I JUST WAS MORE WONDERING LIKE HOW IT GET, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, WHEN IT GETS, UM, FINALIZED, LIKE HOW I THINK WHAT SHOULD, WHAT TRUSTEE MERTON IS SAYING IF I'M TOTALLY WRONG, BUT, UM, IS, IS IF WE PASS THIS AFTER THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN APPROVED, IS THERE A GRANDFATHER CLAUSE IN THERE? SO I DON'T, SO IF WE'VE APPROVED IT, THEY'VE ALREADY, OR WE'VE APPROVED IT AFTER THEIR PLANS HAVE ALREADY BEEN APPROVED, DOES IT AFFECT THEM OR DOES THE OLD BOSS STILL AFFECT THEM? I THINK THE CONCERN ISN'T SO MUCH ABOUT A PROJECT THAT'S BEEN APPROVED, IT'S ABOUT A PROJECT WHERE SOMEBODY'S ALREADY HIRED A CONTRACTOR AND THEY'RE ALREADY WORKING AND THEIR CONTRACT DON'T PROVIDE, I MEAN, MAYBE IT'S A BIT OF A SLIPPERY SLOPE, RIGHT? IF THEY'RE ALREADY APPROVED, THEY'RE STILL SUBJECT TO, THEY HAVEN'T STARTED WORKING YET.
THEY'RE SUBJECT TO WHATEVER THE LAW IS WHEN THEY ACTUALLY START WORK.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT CAN BE A FAIR SOLUTION, BUT, BUT IT SURE.
I THINK IT WOULD BE NOT IN OUR BEST INTEREST TO DELAY ADOPTING IT.
BUT WE CAN FIND OUT, WE CAN FIND A SOLUTION FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND OF IN PROCESS.
AND THEN, UM, SO IRVINGTON DOES HAVE AN EXCEPTION FOR EMERGENCY REPAIRS.
UM, AND IT ALSO REQUIRES THAT THE WORK BE WORK, AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE LAST TIME, WORK BEING DONE BY A HOMEOWNER AS OPPOSED TO NOT.
SO, UM, THEY DEFINE CONSTRUCTION WORK AS WORK PERFORMED BY ONE OR MORE EMPLOYEES AND OR INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS PURSUANT TO AN ORAL OR WRITTEN AGREEMENT FOR COMPENSATION.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO GET AT.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HAS ANY INTEREST IN, I THINK THAT'S REALLY CONFUSING AND I WOULDN'T INCLUDE IT MYSELF, BUT, OKAY.
BUT THEN THEY ALSO, THEY DEFINE CONSTRUCTION WORK AND, AND THIS CONSTRUCTION RECONSTRUCTION, DEMOLITION OR REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS OR MAJOR REPAIRS TO BUILDINGS, EXCAVATION, CLEARING, FILLING OR CREATING OF LAND OR PLACEMENT OR REMOVAL OF EARTH STONE OR BUILDING MATERIAL OF ANY KIND, WHETHER OR NOT INVOLVES MACHINERY OR POWER TOOLS.
AND THEN IT ACCEPTS EMERGENCY REPAIRS.
SO THERE IS ONE THING WHICH WE ARE NOT DOING IN THIS, WHICH IS MOVING IT TO ANOTHER SECTION.
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THINGS THAT COULD BE IMPROVED, GENERALLY SPEAKING IN THIS AREA, AND IT COULD BE PUT IN ANOTHER SECTION, BUT MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO ADOPT THIS AND THEN MAKE THAT DECISION AT ANOTHER TIME AND INCLUDE THE OTHER ELEMENTS THAT COULD DO WITH, WITH UPDATING AND MAYBE LEAVE THAT DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTION TO THAT TIME.UH, I'M FINE WITH THE HOURS AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED, BUT WHAT, UM, ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD IS SAYING ABOUT EMERGENCIES IS ACTUALLY OF INTEREST TO ME TO INCLUDE, EVEN IF IT'S VAGUE TONIGHT, SOME EXCEPTION FOR THAT EMERGENCY WORK ISN'T NECESSARILY ACTUALLY CONSTRUCTION WORK.
THIS DOESN'T APPLY TO IF A TREE FALLS IN YOUR HOUSE AND YOU NEED A CREW TO DO SOMETHING.
I MEAN, I THINK YOU ALMOST HAVE TO, LIKE, DEAD OF WINTER YOUR BOILER BREAKS.
THEY'RE COMING ON SUNDAY
JUST TRYING TO FIND WHERE'S THE EMERGENCY LANGUAGE, HOW DID THEY SAY IT? THEY JUST SAID, UH, THE TERM CONSTRUCTION WORK SHALL NOT MEAN THE PERFORMANCE OF NECESSARY EMERGENCY REPAIRS, BUT THAT'S, AGAIN, PART OF THE DEFINITION OF CONSTRUCTION.
I, I FEEL LIKE WE CAN, WE REALLY NEED TO DO, IF YOU START LOOKING AT THIS SECTION, THERE'S QUITE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED AS WELL.
UH, THAT'S THE ONLY ONE TO ME.
I MEAN, THAT'S JUST ANY WAY MAY BE A WAY TO JUST EXCLUDE EMERGENCIES, EXCLUDING, WITHOUT WORDING IT THE SAME WAY THAT THEY WORD IT HERE, I THINK.
I THINK IT'S ACTUALLY JUST EVEN SOMETHING VAGUE, EXCLUDING.
SEE IF YOU CAN FIND A WAY TO DO IT.
I'LL, I'LL LOOK AT THE WORDING AND HOW IT WORKS.
SO WE'LL GET A, BASED ON THIS, I THINK THERE'S ENOUGH FOR ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD TO COME UP WITH A SUGGESTION AND THEN WE CAN REVIEW IT AT THE NEXT MEETING.
SO WE'LL HAVE A LOCAL LAW FOR YOU, AND IT WILL BE ON TO SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING, BUT YOU CAN MAKE ANY CHANGES TO IT, UM, AT THAT TIME BEFORE YOU SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UM, THE NEXT ITEM IS THE DISCUSSION OF THE LOCAL WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION PROGRAM.
THIS WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY INCLUDED BY OUR VILLAGE MANAGER UNDER BOARD DISCUSSION, UM, UH, WHERE WE COULD REALLY, IN A WAY, HAVE WAITED TILL THE NEXT MEETING SINCE WE'VE JUST ADOPTED THE COMP PLAN.
BUT I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS THAT THAT'S THE NEXT ITEM FOR US AND REQUIRES A THOROUGH REVIEW.
AND I'M LOOKING AT, UM, TRUSTEE MERTON FOR A VERY SERIOUS EDIT OF THAT DOCUMENT.
UM, I THINK EVERYONE'S PROBABLY GONNA RUSH OFF ON HOLIDAY IMMEDIATELY AS THIS IDEA COMES UP FOR US TO FOCUS ON.
BUT, BUT THAT'S THE NEXT ITEM.
DO YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH THE ELEMENTS OF IT? I'M SORRY.
MAY I INTERRUPT YOU? OH, SURE.
BEFORE I LOSE MY RIDE? UM, YEAH, COULD YOU COME TO THE MIC, PLEASE? SURE.
UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE A COUPLE OF REQUESTS.
ONE, CAN YOU HAVE DIFFERENTIATE IN YOUR CONSTRUCTION CODE BETWEEN AN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND A RESIDENTIAL? THERE'S A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
THIS IS, I DON'T KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN THE ONE IN EX EXECUTIVE BOULEVARD, BUT THAT WAS SO NOISY.
WE SIT OUTSIDE, WE HAVE WINDOWS, SATURDAYS, AND ALL THE HOURS YOU'RE DOING, CAN YOU DIFFERENTIATE WHAT CAN BE DONE DURING THE WEEK AND ON THE WEEKENDS? OKAY.
WHAT'S YOUR SECOND QUESTION? SORT THAT WAS IT, SORT ONE.
UM, BUT IT SHOULD BE, WE'RE NOT SEEING THAT IN OTHER CODES.
SO, BUT IF THE BOARD WANTS TO, BUT YOU HAVE CONSIDER THAT, HAVE YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE, YOU'RE SUBJECTING TO 300 PEOPLE TO SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, BASICALLY? NO, NO SUNDAYS, NO SUNDAYS, THOSE TO SIX DAYS A WEEK.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT GOING ON SIX DAYS A WEEK NEXT DOOR TO YOU? I MEAN, THE NOISE LEVEL IS GOING TO BE INTENSE.
UM, SO THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING.
IF YOU CAN DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE TWO, BECAUSE THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
IT'S NOT A HOUSE BEING BUILT NEXT DOOR TO YOU.
UM, SO YEAH, I, I SENT OUT, UH, JUST, UH, THE LWRP AND, AND, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A DESCRIPTION AS TO THE PROCESS.
UM, SO I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO BRING EVERYBODY, UH, ON BOARD A LITTLE BIT AS TO WHAT WE CAN EXPECT.
THERE ARE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF THE LWRP, UM, AS, AS SAMANTHA KNOWS, OR SORRY, AS TRUSTEE MERTON KNOWS, SORRY, UM, UH, THAT ARE PRETTY MUCH REQUIRED BY THE STATE.
AND THE STATE, UH, HAS THE, WHAT, WHAT'S KNOWN AS THE PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF THE LWRP AT THIS POINT.
UM, WE, THEY WILL BE GETTING COMMENTS BACK TO US ON THAT, WHATEVER, WHENEVER THEY GET TO THE GET IT, GET IT TO US, WELL FULLY BY THE END OF THE YEAR,
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I DID TALK TO JOSH.HE, HE SENT ME A TEXT THIS WEEK.
UH, BUT, BUT WHILE THEY'RE DOING THAT, WE SHOULD ALSO BE LOOKING AT THE DOCUMENT FOR CHANGES THAT THE BOARD WANTS TO MAKE.
AND SO, UM, MAYBE WHAT WE DO IS WE JUST TAKE, THERE'S SEVEN SECTIONS.
MAYBE WE, UH, COMBINE SOME OF THE SECTION, LIKE IT'S DID, MAYBE WE TAKE TWO AND TWO A MEETING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND, AND GO THROUGH THEM OVER THE NEXT FEW MEETINGS.
UM, I THINK WE MIGHT FIND THAT OVER THE NEXT FEW MEETINGS PEOPLE ARE, SOME PEOPLE ARE NOT GONNA BE AROUND.
SO WHAT WE COULD DO, WHICH OTHER MUNICIPALITIES DO, IS HAVE A DEDICATED WORK SESSION ON IT, IF YOU WANNA DO THAT.
WE DID THAT WITH THE, WITH THE, UM, WITH THE COMP, WITH THE COMP PLAN.
SO THAT'S A WAY TO HANDLE IT, BUT I THINK OTHERWISE YOU'RE GONNA FIND IT'S A QUITE IMPORTANT DOCUMENT AND I, I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS.
SO WHAT, YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN DO THAT.
LET'S, LET'S HAVE A, A DEDICATED WORK SESSION AND, AND MAYBE, MAYBE WE, WE'LL HAVE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE CAN, EVERYBODY NEEDS TIME TO ABSORB IT.
UM, BUT I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF MAKE SURE EVERY, EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE PROCESS, WHICH AT THIS POINT IS THE BOARD REVIEWS IT, THE STATE IS DOING A PRELIMINARY REVIEW, THEY'RE GONNA SEND THEIR COMMENTS TO US.
WE ARE GOING TO INCORPORATE BOARD COMMENTS AND WHATEVER RESPONSE WE HAVE TO THE STATE'S COMMENTS, AND THEN WE'LL PROBABLY SEND IT BACK TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT IT.
AND THEN WE'LL SEND IT FOR WHAT THEY CALL A 60 DAY REVIEW, WHICH TAKES APPARENTLY, YOU KNOW, MORE, A LOT LONGER THAN 60 DAYS
UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE PROCESS RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO IF YOU CAN ALL KIND OF START TO READ AND REVIEW THE DOCUMENT, AND THEN WHEN, WHEN YOU'RE READY, WE CAN HAVE A, A WORK SESSION MEETING AND DISCUSS IT.
AND AS I SAID, THERE ARE CERTAIN SECTIONS THAT ARE ALMOST REQUIRED BY THE STATE AND THEN OTHER SECTIONS, UH, THAT DESCRIBE THE PROJECTS THAT THE VILLAGE WOULD LIKE TO DO UNDER THE LWRP THAT, UH, ARE, ARE, ARE MORE, UH, LOCALLY DRIVEN.
LINDA, DID YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING TO THAT? NO, I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA FIND THERE ARE CERTAIN CHAPTERS, AND I, CHUCK MERTON PROBABLY KNOWS THIS SINCE SHE WAS ON THE COMMITTEE.
THERE ARE CERTAIN CHAPTERS WHERE YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE A LOT OF COMMENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE, I WASN'T THERE.
WELL, HE WAS TECHNICALLY A LIAISON, BUT YES.
UM, BUT THERE, THERE ARE CERTAIN CHAPTERS WHERE THERE'S NOT REALLY A LOT TO COMMENT ON.
UM, THEY ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED BY THE STATE.
UM, SO IT'S REALLY THE, THE BIG ONE IS THE PROJECTS CHAPTER.
UM, SO SOME WILL READ QUICKLY, SOME WILL READ MORE SLOWLY, SOME WILL READ VERY DRYLY.
UM, AND SOME WILL READ BADLY AND SOME WILL READ WELL
BUT, UM, YEAH, I THINK, UM, IN TALKING ABOUT THE PROCESS, WE, THE STATE TAKES A VERY LONG TIME TO REVIEW THESE.
THERE'S DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE THAT RE IS REVIEWING IT, SO IT CAN TAKE A YEAR TO GET THEIR COMMENTS BACK.
SO WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO SORT OF WORK ON THE BOARD COMMENTS AT THE SAME TIME SO THAT WHEN WE MAKE THEIR REVISIONS, WE ALSO MAKE YOUR REVISIONS.
UM, YES, AND I THINK THERE ARE SOME ITEMS SORT OF SEPARATE POINT THAT WE, WE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE ON IN THE COMP PLAN.
LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, UM, PRO HOUSING RESOLUTION.
SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON AND, UM, WHAT I JUST THINK WE NEED TO DO IS SET SOME DEADLINES AND SET SOME DATES SO THAT WE KNOW, WE KNOW EVERYONE CAN JUST ACCOMMODATE INTO THE, THE WAY THAT THEIR SUMMERS ARE UNFOLDING, HOW THEY WANNA DO THIS WORK.
SO IF EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE DEADLINE IS, WHEN THE DATE IS THAT WE'RE COMING TOGETHER TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION, THEN UM, PEOPLE CAN ADJUST AND DO IT EARLIER OR LATER, DEPENDING ON, ON HOW THEIR SCHEDULES ALLOW.
DOES THAT SEEM FAIR? YEAH, I DID YOU ALSO WANNA HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE JULY MEETING DATE? UM, WE'VE ALREADY HAD THAT DISCUSSION, SO I THINK WE KNOW, I'VE GOTTEN SOME RESPONSES, SO I THINK, UM, I THINK WE KNOW WHERE WE STAND ON THAT.
UM, SO ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD? UM, NO, JUST THAT I, I SHOULD HAVE ALSO MENTIONED THAT TRUSTEE DRAKE ALSO KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE LWRP, BECAUSE WE'RE JUST JOKING.
HE, HE TOO, UH, WRONG WAS, UH, SERVED ON THE, ON THE C ON THE COMMITTEE.
AND, UM, AND, AND THE E-L-W-R-P IS IS, YOU KNOW, AS, AS LINDA MENTIONED, IT'S IT'S DRY, UM,
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AND THEN THE STATE SAYS THERE, THERE'S REALLY TWO, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE A BODY OF WATER ON EITHER SIDE OF THE VILLAGE, YOU HAVE THE RIVER ON ONE SIDE, AND THE SWA, THE HUDSON RIVER ON ONE SIDE AND THE SAWMILL RIVER ON THE OTHER.
SO THE STATE WOULD CONSIDER BOTH OF THOSE AREAS.
UM, AND MAYOR, JUST TO YOUR POINT, WE HAVE THE HILL, TO YOUR POINT, UH, ABOUT THE SUMMER, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN COMMENTS ABOUT US CONVENING WORK SESSIONS IN JULY, OR, YOU KNOW, DURING BREAKS AND STUFF.
MAYBE WE JUST, THIS WORK SESSION SHOULD BE SEPTEMBER, YOU KNOW, BEYOND THE SUMMER.
SO, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY CAN'T SAY THAT THEY, WE DID IT AND EVERYBODY'S AWAY.
UH, BUT I I, I DO THINK THAT ON THIS PARTICULAR ONE, I UNDERSTAND THAT, AND THAT ACCUSATION WILL ALWAYS BE LEVELED.
AND THERE ARE SO MANY HOLIDAYS IN THE YEAR THAT IT'S REALLY HARD TO SORT OF GET THINGS DONE.
OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, GREENBERG, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS THEY HAVE, UH, UH, TWO BOARD MEETINGS, AND THEN IN BETWEEN THEY HAVE WORK SESSIONS, SO THEY'RE HAVING FOUR MEETINGS A MONTH.
MANY OTHER MUNICIPALITIES DO THAT KIND OF THING TOO.
SO IF THIS IS FOR US TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH ONE ANOTHER, THIS IS NOT FOR US TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PUBLIC, THEN I THINK IT REALLY IS ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO CONVENE OURSELVES.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE THAT WE CAN'T FIND A TIME BETWEEN NOW AND SEPTEMBER TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT, BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY ABOUT OUR ABILITY TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION BECAUSE THE PUBLIC'S ALREADY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO COMMENT OR NOT.
I MEAN, IT'S A BIT COMPLICATED.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S A PART OF ME THAT IS NOT WILD ABOUT THE STATE DOING ALL ITS REDLINING BEFORE WE'VE EVEN LOOKED AT IT.
YOU KNOW, THAT PART DOES NOT FEEL AS IF WE'RE, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT A PROCESS I AM FAMILIAR WITH IN TERMS OF THE WAY WE'VE OPERATED ON ANYTHING ELSE IN THE VILLAGE AND ONE THAT I PARTICULARLY LOVE.
BUT IF THIS IS THE PROCESS, THEN THAT'S THE WAY WE'LL DO IT THIS TIME.
BUT I REALLY THINK IT'S ABOUT US.
SO IF WE ARE AS A GROUP, YOU KNOW, IF THE STATE IS KIND OF RECOMMENDING CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE AS A GROUP DON'T, DON'T WANT, WE SHOULD KNOW THAT SOONER THAN LATER.
YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HOPEFULLY HAVE DONE THAT VETTING FOR US ALREADY.
SO AT LEAST THREE, AT LEAST THREE OF THEM SHOULD BE IN AGREEMENT, RIGHT? JUST OOD
I MEAN, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT THE BOARD AT THIS POINT, OR IS IT? YEAH, WELL, THE, THE PUBLIC, I MEAN, THE PUBLIC COULD ALWAYS COME.
IT'S THE PUBLIC MEETING, SO, SO SURE.
UM, YOU KNOW, BUT I I, I, I HONESTLY FEEL THERE'S A LOT, THERE'S A LOT OF CONTENT THERE.
SO, UM, WHY DON'T WE, UH, MAYBE GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE TO KIND OF GET A FEEL FOR THE DOCUMENT A LITTLE BIT, AND THEN MAYBE, UH, IN A COUPLE OF WEEKS, I WILL SEND OUT, UM, YOU KNOW, TRY TO GET YOUR, EVERYBODY'S SCHEDULES TOGETHER.
I'LL HERD THE CATS AS BEST I CAN.
AND, UH, WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN COME UP WITH, UM, SOME DATES AND WHAT, WHEN THOSE DATES WILL BE OKAY.
UM, AND THEN THE NEXT ITEM IS VERY LOVELY.
IT'S THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE YC AF, THE YOUTH CLIMATE ACTION FUND AWARDEES.
I THINK EVERYONE KNOWS THAT WE WERE GIVEN A GRANT LAST YEAR FOR 50,000 BY BLOOMBERG PHILANT PHILANTHROPIES, AND THIS YEAR IT'S A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
AND WE RECEIVED SOME REALLY LOVELY, UM, UH, APPLICATIONS.
UM, AND WE'VE SELECTED, I THINK, I THINK IT'S 31 WHEN WE LOOK AT THEM ALL.
UM, AND SO I'M GONNA READ OUT THE NAMES OF THE AWARDEES AND THE NAME OF THEIR PROJECT, WHICH SOMETIMES IT'S VERY CLEAR WHAT'S HAPPENING, AND SOMETIMES THEY'VE GOT VERY COOL NAMES.
BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ASK ME WHAT THE PROJECT IS ABOUT
SO, UM, THE FIRST IS EDEN AND SYDNEY GREENBERG, AND THEY ARE, THEIR PROJECT IS CALLED DIGGING DEEPER, A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR HILLSIDE STUDENTS.
AND THIS ONE'S REALLY FOCUSED ON THE GREENHOUSE AND USING THE NEW GREENHOUSE THAT WAS BUILT LAST YEAR BY SASHA FULLER AND HIS DAD, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER STUDENTS AS A, A TEACHING CENTER AND, AND PARTICULARLY FOR, FOR SORT OF YOUNGER KIDS, WHICH WILL BE REALLY GREAT.
UM, THE NEXT IS WILLIAM WEBER.
UH, AND THIS IS THE RESTORATION OF THE WAR BURTON
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POCKET PARK, WHICH HE CALLS THE CHESS PARK.AND THERE'S WORK THAT HE WANTS TO DO THERE TO, TO RENOVATE THAT PARK.
THEN THERE IS SE ZAMORE, UM, AND SHE IS INSTALLING A COMMUNITY BEEHIVE AT ZIZI GARDENS WITH THE APPROVAL AND SUPPORT OF OUR PARKS AND REC TEAM, AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE DOING THE, UM, THE ZIDER GARDENS AND
AND, UM, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO REACT IN ANY WAY
UM, UH, AND IT IS TO ENCOURAGE POLLINATORS IN THE AREA.
UM, AND THEN MARCUS GELMAN AND WILL ANDRUS AND GA GABRIEL NACHT ARE DOING A THING PROJECT, WHICH THEY'RE CALLING THE ECO SHED.
AND THAT WILL BE, UM, AT THE BKE ESTATE.
AND MARCELO GONZALEZ AND RYAN DEMAR BILLMAN WILL BE, UM, DOING A GARDEN TO SUPPORT THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION.
NOAH BERKOWITZ AND JONAH GOLDBERG WILL BE DO DOING A COMMUNITY WIL MILKWEED PLANTING PROJECT.
SOPHIA BALLARD WILL BE DOING A SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES ZZA GARDENS INITIATIVE.
SO THAT BILLS ON THE PROJECT THAT SHE DID LAST YEAR, WHICH WAS REALLY BEAUTIFYING AND KIND OF BUILDING OUT A LOT OF THE GARDENS IN ZZA.
COLIN SEXTON WILL BE DOING A PROJECT TO SOLARIZE THE ZZA GREENHOUSE TO PUT IN A PUMP SO THAT THERE'LL BE THE ABILITY TO BRING WATER INTO THE GREENHOUSE, WHICH WILL BE VERY COOL.
UM, AND JACOB KESSMAN, WHO IS A GOOD FRIEND OF HIS, WILL BE DOING A MICRO FOREST FOR RESILIENCY IN THAT SAME AREA IN ZZA.
THERE'S AN AREA WHICH IS VERY MARSHY, AND THEY WILL BE PUTTING IN, UM, A MICRO FOREST THERE WITH PLANTS THAT ABSOR, I THINK YOUR SON WAS INVOLVED WITH KAI'S PROJECT THAT WAS LIKE THAT, THAT, THAT HAVE EXTRA ABSORBATIVE CAPACITY, SWAMP OAKS, AND THEY HAVE COOL NAMES, THOSE KINDS OF PLANTS.
SO THEY'LL BE BUILDING THAT THERE.
AND BOWIE MCNEIL AND MATILDA VISHA WILL BE DOING A DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PROJECT, WHICH IS A, THERE'S A GARDEN THAT IS NEAR EM, WHICH THEY WILL BE BRINGING INTO GORGEOUSNESS, UM, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PLANT SHOP ACROSS THE STREET AND SOME OTHER BUSINESSES.
SO THAT'S GONNA BE QUITE LOVELY.
UM, FRANCESCA LACES IS, HAS HER PROJECT IS CALLED RUN IT BACK, AND IT'S ABOUT EDUCATING PEOPLE ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THROWING AWAY YOUR SNEAKERS.
SHE'S GONNA COLLECT ALL THE SNEAKERS.
SHE HAS A GOAL OF THE NUMBER SHE WANTS TO COLLECT, COLLECT, GET PEOPLE TO DONATE THE SNEAKERS TO HER, AND THEN SHE WILL GET THEM TO A RECYCLING PLACE THAT WILL, UM, THAT WILL, UH, UH, GET RID OF THEM IN A MORE SUSTAINABLE WAY.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE YANA LATONA, ZOE GONZALEZ, FIONA CASEY AND EMERSON STEWART, WHO ARE DOING A PROJECT CALLED WATERWISE, WHICH IS REALLY ABOUT PROMOTING WATER CONSERVATION, UM, IN PEOPLE'S GARDENS AND, UH, VARIOUS THINGS LIKE THAT.
ADELAIDE SLEDGE WILL BE DOING, HER PROJECT IS CALLED SMALL BUSINESS AND SIGNIFICANT IMPACT, WHICH IS ABOUT PROMOTING BY LOCAL AND THE VALUE OF, OF THAT.
UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY, THERE IS A PROJECT BY BRIDGET EVANS, GENESIS CHACHA, AND MARGARET EVANS CALLED LET'S GET BEY, ANOTHER BEE PROJECT, WHICH I KNOW THE VILLAGE MANAGER IS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT.
UM, HANNAH AND SIRI LAMBERT, UH, WILL BE DOING A COMMUNITY REFORESTATION PROJECT.
UM,
RUBEN VELASCO WILL BE DOING A STUDENT VILLAGE VINE SQUAD, SQUAD COLLABORATION GROUNDWORK HUDSON.
SO WE HAVE THREE OUTSIDE ENTITIES THAT, THAT HAVE WORKED IN OUR VILLAGE.
ONE OF THEM IS, UM, THEY'RE OUTSIDE TO OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
SO GROUNDWORK HUDSON HAS DONE, HAS A YOUTH TEAM, AND, UM, THEY HAVE A, UH, WHAT'S CALLED A GREEN TEAM, AND THEY'VE DONE A LOT OF THE PLANTING THAT YOU SEE ALONG FARGATE AVENUE.
AND SO THEIR PROJECT IS CALLED SAWMILL RIVER PLANTING AND RESTORATION.
SO THEY WILL DO THAT WORK, UM, WHICH WILL BE FANTASTIC.
UM, AND IT'S A WAY OF US ACKNOWLEDGING THE SUPPORT AND VALUE OF GROUNDWORK HUDSON.
BUT THE, THE YOUTH, THE, THE PERSON WHO IS RUNNING IT IS A AIRE WHO'S A YOUTH LEADER FROM THAT GROUP.
THEN THERE'S ELLIE ESPOSITO AND
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SARAH DEGAN.UH, AND THEY WILL DO A PROJECT CALLED ROOTS OF RENEWAL, WHICH I CAN'T REMEMBER THE DETAILS OF THAT ONE.
UM, UH, AND THEN ALINA ABRAMS AND SIMRAN, UH, E UND WILL BE REPURPOSING RAIN WATER TO IRRIGATE LOCAL GARDENING.
UM, RONAN UH, LER AND NATE SOLARS WILL BE DOING A PROJECT CALLED WATERWISE, COMPOSTING FOR CHANGE, RECYCLING WASTE INTO FRESH GROWTH.
UM, AND ANNA LEVINSON AND EMMA BORES WILL BE DOING COMMUNITY BIRD BOXES, WHICH SOUNDS REALLY LOVELY.
UM, UH, GIA LEVINSON, GEORGIA SCHMIDT SCHMIDT AND OLIVIA LEON WILL BE DOING A PROJECT CALLED SEEDLING SOCIETIES, WHERE I THINK THEY'LL BE PASSING SEEDS OUT TO, TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY TO ENCOURAGE AND HELPING THEM ACTUALLY GROW THE PROJECTS.
UM, AND THEN FRANCESCA ASHER AND ELLA CHU WILL BE DOING A PROJECT CALLED TINY GARDENS, AND THEY WILL BE ADOPTING LITTLE TINY, UH, VACANT SPOTS IN THE VILLAGE TO PUT IN GARDENS WHERE TREES HAVE NOT, UH, HAVE BEEN REMOVED TEMPORARILY.
UM, SAMUEL KASNER WILL BE IMPROVING ACCESS TO IRRIGATION FOR ALL AT ZZA.
UM, ANOTHER PUMP PROJECT IN A DIFFERENT PART OF ZZA KAI GLIB WILL BE DOING AN A COMMUNITY TREE PLANTING PROJECT WHERE HE'S ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY PLANT TREES IN THEIR OWN GARDENS, WHICH WILL BE VERY COOL.
UM, JALEN ECKLER BITTERMAN AND JO JO KEEN TOLEDO CHA WILL BE DOING THE RAIN CYCLE PROJECT.
UM, AND THEN FROM ANDRUS, TRACY MOORE WILL BE DOING A PROJECT, WHICH IS CALLED GREENING THE GROUNDS FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE, WHICH IS A, UM, GREENHOUSE PROJECT AND GEN GENESIS.
ESPINAL RIO WILL BE DOING A PROJECT CALLED YOUTH VOICES FOR ENVIRONMENT AND EDUCATION AND ACTION.
UM, AND THE GRAHAM SCHOOL, ISABELLA LASU WILL BE DOING A PROJECT CALLED CULTIVATING RESISTANT RESILIENCE THROUGH STUDENT LED AGRICULTURE AT GREENBERG GRAHAM.
AND JOSEPH SMOOT WILL BE DOING A PROJECT CALLED A THERAPEUTIC AND SUSTAINABLE ZEN GARDEN AT THE GRAHAM SCHOOL.
SO OUR, SOME OF OUR KIDS WHO HAVE GRADUATED FROM LAST YEAR WILL BE SUPPORTING THE, THE KIDS AT GRAHAM AND ANDRUS, WHICH IS REALLY LOVELY TO SEE THAT.
AND, UH, WE FELT THAT IT WAS NICE TO BE ABLE TO, TO EXPAND THE BENEFITS OF THE PROGRAM TO THESE OTHER KIDS WHO LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND, UH, AND, AND OR COME TO SCHOOL IN OUR COMMUNITY, THAT, THAT MAYBE WON'T HAVE NECESSARILY HAD ACCESS TO THESE KINDS OF OPPORTUNITIES.
THE KIDS' PROPOSALS ARE ALL GREAT.
I'LL REMEMBER ALL THE PROJECTS BY THE NEXT TIME I HAVE TO DESCRIBE THEM.
AND WE ARE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THE RESULTS.
UM, UPCOMING EVENTS, THE COMPOST GIVE BACK, UH, AND COMMUNITY COMPOSTING BIN.
RAIN BARREL SALE IS TOMORROW, MAY 20TH FROM FOUR TO 7:00 PM AT THE SPROUT BROOK DEF FACILITY.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WESTCHESTER COUNTY DOES.
UM, I THINK TWICE A YEAR TODAY, THE 20TH, 21ST, DIDN'T I SAY 21ST, I THINK? OH, I THOUGHT YOU SAID THE 20TH.
TODAY IS THE 20TH THOUGH, RIGHT? YEAH, THIS IS THE 21ST.
UM, SENIOR TH SENIOR THURSDAY IS MAY 22ND.
UH, THAT'S AT 8:00 AM AND GOES THROUGH THE DAY, AND IT'S THE DAY WHEN SENIORS GET ACCESS TO ALL SORTS OF COOL DEALS IN THE VILLAGE.
THERE'S BINGO AT 1:00 PM AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, AND I THINK A FILM IS BEING SHOWN.
BUT, UM, UH, THEN ON THE 22ND, THERE'S REAL BODIES, REAL TALK, HELPING PARENTS NAVIGATE SOCIAL MEDIA, MEDIA AND TEENAGE BODY IMAGE.
FROM SEVEN TO 8:00 PM IN THE LIBRARY ON THE 25TH, THERE IS THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE WITH, WHICH STARTS AT 2:00 PM BUT AT 11, WE'RE HAVING A CELEBRATION, RECOGNIZING OUR POLICE OFFICERS HERE AT VILLAGE HALL.
UM, ON THE 29TH, THERE'S THE SENIOR TRIP TO WEST POINT AT 9:30 AM PEACOCK IS PRESENTING JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS ON JUNE 1ST THIS YEAR FROM ONE TO 5:00 PM IN THE ZZA COMMUTER LOT.
THE HASTINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING IS
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ON JUNE 1ST FROM TWO TO 4:00 PM IN THE HASTINGS ON HUDSON PUBLIC LIBRARY.AND THE COOKING CLASSES WITH LITTLE SAGES IS ON JUNE 2ND FROM 3:30 PM TO 5:00 PM AT WILD CULTURE AND BRAIN HEALTH WITH DR. DAVID DICKOFF.
NEUROLOGIST IS JUNE 3RD FROM ONE TO 2:00 PM IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
WHICH ONE? OH, THE, THE LAST ONE HAS BEEN CANCELED.
OKAY, SO THE LAST ONE HAS BEEN CANCELED.
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ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS.UM, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21ST, CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES TASK FORCE MEETING AT 6:00 PM VIA ZOOM, THURSDAY, MAY 22ND, ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS REGULAR MEETING AT 7:00 PM CANCELED IS CANCELED.
WELL, IT CANCELED AFTER THIS WAS STILL
AND ON MONDAY, MAY 26TH, THE VILLAGE OFFICES ARE CLOSED FOR MEMORIAL DAY.
MONDAY'S GARBAGE COLLECTION IS TUESDAY, MAY 27TH, AND TUESDAY'S, GAR GARBAGE COLLECTION IS WEDNESDAY, MAY 28TH.
UM, AND TUESDAY, JUNE 3RD IS THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING AT 7:00 PM HERE IN VIL, THE VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM.
SO, WISHING EVERYONE A VERY HAPPY AND FUN MEMORIAL DAY.
HOPEFULLY WE GET TO SEE ONE ANOTHER AT THE PARADE.
IS THERE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOVED.