* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. THE ORDER AT 6:00 PM [00:00:01] ENTERED INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. UH, WE ALSO COM COMPLETED OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND ROLL CALL. UH, THE FIRST [IV. PRESENTATIONS ] ORDER OF BUSINESS THIS EVENING WILL BE A PRESENTATION FROM JUSTIN WOOD, OUR ACCOUNTING FIRM, MOGEN HAUSLER, UH, TO TELL US HOW GREAT OUR VILLAGE FINANCES ARE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, EVERYBODY HEAR ME OKAY? YES, SIR. YES. MICROPHONE'S WORKING. GREAT. UH, QUICK INTRODUCTION ON MYSELF AND MY FIRM. UH, MY NAME'S JUSTIN WOOD. I AM THE AUDITOR HERE AT THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON THE HUDSON. UM, I AM WITH NEWGEN AND HAUSER PC. WE ARE BASED IN MONTGOMERY, NEW YORK. THAT'S UP IN ORANGE COUNTY, NEW YORK. WE ARE ACTUALLY CELEBRATING OUR HUNDREDTH YEAR OF EXISTENCE NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT. AND, UH, I'VE ONLY BEEN THERE FOR 23 OF THOSE HUNDRED, AND I'VE BEEN A PARTNER FOR EIGHT, AND I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR 15 YEARS. UM, SO I'VE BEEN VERY, ME MYSELF, VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE VILLAGE'S FINANCES OVER THE YEARS. UM, AND I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. I'M GONNA BOUNCE AROUND A BIT. UH, I'LL BE PATIENT, GIVE EVERYBODY THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO THE PAGE. I FLAGGED MY PAGES. YOU HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. SO I'LL, UH, BE PATIENT AS I BOUNCE AROUND. UM, BEFORE I DO GET STARTED, I DO JUST WANT TO THANK MARY BETH AND ANTHONY AND JOE AND DON AND HANNAH, AND ALL THE STAFF HERE AT THE VILLAGE. EVERYBODY WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL AND, AND CHRIS ALSO IN THE COURT. UM, EVERYBODY'S EXTREMELY HELPFUL IN PROVIDING US THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEEDED TO PERFORM THE AUDIT IN A TIMELY MANNER SO THAT I COULD BE HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT IT TO YOU. UM, AND ALSO GET IT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE STATE COMPTROLLER FOR THE A FR AND THE SINGLE AUDIT TO THE DATA COLLECTION THROUGH THE FEDERAL AUDIT CLEARING HOUSE FOR THE SINGLE AUDIT INFORMATION. UM, SO HAVING SAID THAT, I'M GONNA BOUNCE AROUND. I AM JUST GONNA START ON PAGE ONE, WHICH IS THE OPINION ON THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. UM, SO THIS IS THE, WE'VE GIVEN WHAT IS CALLED, WHAT IS REFERRED TO AS AN UNMODIFIED OPINION, ALSO KNOWN AS THE CLEAN OPINION. UM, IT IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF ASSURANCE THAT WE CAN GIVE FOR AN AUDIT. AND THIS IS THE ONLY TIME I'LL READ FROM THIS ALL NIGHT, IS THAT IN OUR OPINION, THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS REFERRED TO ABOVE PRESENT, FAIRLY IN ALL MATERIAL RESPECTS, THE RESPECTIVE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES, EACH MAJOR FUND, AND THE FIDUCIARY FUND OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON THE HUDSON AS OF MAY 31ST, 2025, AND ALSO IN THE BACK, NOW THAT YOU HAVE TO TURN TO IT ON PAGE 66, IS OUR, IS OUR OPINION ON THE SINGLE AUDIT, WHICH IS OUR FOCUS. UM, SO THE VILLAGE RECEIVED MORE THAN $750,000 IN FEDERAL AWARDS DURING THE 24 25 FISCAL YEAR, AND THEREFORE REQUIRED TO DO WHAT, WHAT'S REFERRED TO AS A SINGLE AUDIT. IT'S A FOCUSED AUDIT ON A SPECIFIC GRANT. UM, THAT PARTICULAR GRANT THAT WE WERE FOCUSED ON THIS TIME AROUND LAST YEAR WAS FEMA THIS YEAR WAS THE ARPA, WAS THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS THAT CAME IN, AND WHAT THOSE FUNDS WERE USED FOR TO ENSURE THAT THERE WERE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THAT GRANT. UM, AGAIN, HIGHEST LEVEL OF ASSURANCE, CLEAN OPINION ON THE SINGLE AUDIT AS WELL. UM, AND NOW I'M JUST GETTING INTO SOME OF THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION. I'M JUST GONNA TOUCH ON SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS. THE MAIN FOCUS ON, UM, YOU KNOW, THE FINANCES OF THE VILLAGE AND ANY NEW YORK STATE MUNICIPALITY IS ON FUND BALANCE FOR EACH FUND. NOW, IF WE GO TO PAGE 20, I'M JUST GONNA HAVE A QUICK DISCUSSION ON THE DIFFERENT FUND BALANCES OF EACH FUND AND WHERE THEY MEASURE AS FAR AS THE COMPTROLLER GUIDELINES AND THE DISTRICT'S, I MEAN, AND THE VILLAGE'S OWN POLICIES. UM, SO THE VILLAGE DOES HAVE A MINIMUM FUND BALANCE POLICY FOR UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE OF 10%. AND I'M JUST GONNA DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO THE BOTTOM THIRD OF THIS PAGE ON PAGE 20, THE BALANCE SHEET FOR GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS, UM, WHERE IT LISTS FUND BALANCES AND THEIR CLASSIFICATIONS. SO FIRST COLUMN IS THE GENERAL FUND. YOU'LL SEE THAT THE, SO JUST AS A, AS A UH, BASIS FOR THE DISCUSSION. UM, THE VILLAGE'S POLICIES AT 10% MINIMUM OF UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE. AND THE COMPTROLLER STARTS TO ASSESS FISCAL STRESS WHEN THE GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE FALLS BELOW 20%. TOTAL FUND BALANCE FALLS BELOW 20% OF THE FOLLOWING YEARS, UM, BUDGET. SO IN BOTH CASES, THE VILLAGE IS WELL ABOVE THOSE AMOUNTS. UM, FOR TOTAL FUND BALANCE, GENERAL FUND, THAT'S AT 39.23%. AND FOR UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCES, [00:05:01] IT'S AT 24.41%. SO BOTH VERY FINANCIALLY STABLE AND, AND HEALTHY IN BOTH CASES. UM, WHAT'S IN ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE IS, UM, ARE DESCRIBED IN THE NOTES AND IT'S ITEMS THAT ARE ASSIGNED FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES AT, FOR, AT THE VILLAGE. UH, THE SECOND COLUMN IS THE CAPITAL PROJECTS. YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE 4.2 MILLION, 4.186 MILLION IN, UH, FUND BALANCE IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS. THE CAPITAL PROJECTS IS UNIQUE IN THAT THE REST OF THESE FUNDS ARE ON A 12 MONTH BUDGET, RIGHT? THE, THE FISCAL YEAR THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING JUNE 1ST, 24TH THROUGH MAY 31ST, 25. THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND, HOWEVER, ARE, IS MADE UP OF 25 OR 30 SEPARATE PROJECTS. THERE'S A SCHEDULE IN THE BACK IF YOU, YOU WANTED TO REFER TO IT, UM, THAT MAKE UP THIS $4.2 MILLION. AND THEY'RE ALL AT DIFFERENT TIME PERIODS OF THEIR SPECIFIC PROJECTS. SOME OF THESE PROJECTS ARE JUST STARTING AND RECEIVE FUNDING AND HAVEN'T HAD EXPENDITURES YET. AND SOME OF THESE PROJECTS HAVE HAD EXPENDITURES, BUT HAVEN'T GOTTEN THE REIMBURSEMENT FOR THOSE EXPENDITURES YET IN THE FORM OF A GRANT OR FROM A NEW FUND TRANSFER, WHATEVER IT MAY BE. UM, ME, MARY BETH, AND ANTHONY SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THAT SCHEDULE AND THE CAPITAL PROJECTS. WHEN I COME FOR THE AUDIT AND GO ONE BY ONE, WE ALWAYS SIT TOGETHER AND SPEND A COUPLE HOURS JUST GOING PROJECT BY PROJECT. WHERE ARE THEY? WHAT'S THE FUNDING SOURCE? WHERE EXACTLY IN THE PROJECT ARE THEY? THEY HAVE A GREAT HANDLE ON IT. UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY IMPROVED AND PROGRESSED OVER THE YEAR AS FAR AS, UH, ANTHONY'S TAKEN, REALLY TAKEN THE BALL AND RUN WITH IT AS FAR AS EACH AND EVERY CAPITAL PROJECT AND WHAT THOSE FUNDING SOURCES AND PLANNING AND EVERYTHING IS HAS GONE ON. UM, THE NEXT FUND IS THE POOL FUND THAT, THAT AND IS OVER THESE LAST SO MANY YEARS. THE POOL FUND, UH, FOUGHT BACK FROM A DEFICIT POSITION AND IS NOW CURRENTLY HAS A SURPLUS OF $56,000. THAT IS 12.33% OF THE 25 26 BUDGET. THE LIBRARY FUND ALSO HAS A SURPLUS FUND BALANCE OF $93,000. THAT'S AT 7.7% OF THE FOLLOWING YEAR'S BUDGET. THE SPECIAL PURPOSE FUND HAS OVER A MILLION DOLLARS IN, UM, IN FUND BALANCE, AND THAT'S FOR SPECIAL PURPOSES, UM, INCLUDING DRAPER PARK. AND THE DEBT SERVICE HAS $87,000 ACCUMULATED IN IT. AND THE DEBT SERVICE FUND BALANCE IS MADE UP OF, UM, WHEN CAPITAL PROJECTS RECEIVE FUNDING AND, UH, ALSO RECEIVE EITHER A PREMIUM FOR DEBT OR INTEREST ON THE MONEY THAT THEY RECEIVED THROUGH DEBT THAT ACCUMULATES IN THE CAPITAL PROJECT FUND. WE MOVE THAT OVER TO THE DEBT SERVICE FUND WITH THE IDEA BEING THAT THE INTEREST THAT IT EARNED WILL HELP PAY FUTURE DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS. UM, SO THAT KIND OF TAKES US THROUGH THE FUND BALANCE FOR EACH GOVERNMENTAL FUND. I'M GONNA JUST BACKTRACK TWO PAGES JUST TO 0.1 THING OUT. UM, ON PAGE 18, IT'S A STATEMENT OF NET POSITION. SO GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD REQUIRES THAT WE ACCUMULATE ALL THE GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS TOGETHER, WHICH ARE REPORTED ON A MODIFIED ACCRUAL BASIS, WHICH IS LIKE A MEASUREMENT FOCUS, MEANING THAT THE FUNDS THAT WE JUST WENT OVER ARE REPORTED ON A, UM, LIKE A 12 MONTH PERIOD. THERE'S NO LONG-TERM ASSETS AND LIABILITIES THAT ARE RECORDED ON THOSE, ON THOSE BALANCE SHEETS FOR THE STATEMENT OF DEPOSITION. THE GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD REQUIRE US TO COMBINE ALL OF THOSE FUNDS AND THEN PUT ON THE LONG-TERM ASSETS AND LIABILITIES, SUCH AS THE CAPITAL ASSETS AND THE CAPITAL AND THE ASSET SECTION. UM, ONE LIABILITY THAT I ALWAYS LIKE TO POINT OUT IS ON THE, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE, UNDER THE LIABILITY SECTION TOWARDS THE BOTTOM, THE OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS PAYABLE OF $31 MILLION. THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT REPRESENTS AN ACTUARIAL CALCULATION AND IS REQUIRED BY THE GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD FOR US TO REPORT. IT'S AN ACTUARIAL CALCULATION OF ALL OF THE RETIREE HEALTH INSURANCE THAT WILL BE PAID OVER THE NEXT 30 YEARS. NOW, THE QUESTION THAT COMES UP A LOT, AND WHY I BRING THIS UP A LOT IS THAT CAN THIS AMOUNT BE FUNDED BY THE VILLAGE? CAN THEY START PUTTING MONEY ASIDE? SO THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FUND THIS LONG TERM. YOU REALLY, YOU CAN ONLY FUND THE NEXT 12 MONTHS IN THE CURRENT YEAR BUDGET, RIGHT? SO YOU CAN ONLY LOOK OUT AT THE NEXT 12 MONTHS, WHAT'S THE RETIREE HEALTH INSURANCE EXPENSE FOR THAT 12 MONTHS. HOWEVER, THE GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD REQUIRES THAT THE LIABILITY BE REPORTED ON THIS, ON THIS SCHEDULE. SO THAT'S WHY I LIKE TO GO OVER THAT. UM, OTHER THAN THAT, LOOSE IN [00:10:01] THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IS GONNA BE WHAT WE CALL THE MANAGEMENT LETTER. UM, THE REASON THAT I BRING THIS UP IS THIS IS WHERE WE REPORT OUR AUDIT ADJUSTING JOURNAL ENTRIES, AND REALLY JUST WANT TO GIVE, UH, JOE THE CREDIT WHERE THE CREDIT IS DUE. UM, HE STARTED HERE IN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER OF 2024. SO HE STARTED LIKE MIDDLE OF THIS FISCAL YEAR AND HAD DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB, NOT, AND, AND SHELLY DID GREAT WORK BEFORE, BEFORE HIM TOO, BUT JOE REALLY TOOK IT OVER AND DID AN EXCELLENT JOB AND HAD CUT THE JOURNAL ENTRIES THAT I NEEDED TO RECORD IN HALF, UM, AND LOOKS TO PROGRESS IN THE FUTURE. YOU KNOW, WE HAD DISCUSSIONS ABOUT EACH AND EVERY JOURNAL ENTRY THAT WE RECORDED THIS YEAR AND HOW HE COULD GET OUT IN FRONT OF IT AND HAVE THOSE RECORDED BEFORE I COME, AND WHAT INFORMATION I COULD PROVIDE HIM TO HELP HIM HELP HIM ALONG. UM, AS MARY BETH AND ANTHONY KNOW I'M AVAILABLE AND JOE, UH, KNOW I'M AVAILABLE YEAR ROUND FOR QUESTIONS. I'M NOT JUST THE AUDITOR DURING THE AUDIT. I WELCOME THE QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. THEN THAT GOES TO ANYBODY HERE AT THE BOARD, IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO GO OVER ANYTHING, UH, ONE-ON-ONE OR HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ANYTHING THAT I JUST WENT OVER, UM, AND THEY WANT TO GIVE ME A CALL OR SHOOT ME AN EMAIL, I'D BE HAPPY TO, HAPPY TO DISCUSS OR GO OVER ANYTHING. UM, BUT IF THERE'S, OH, I'M SORRY. ONE OTHER THING I'D LIKE TO MENTION IS THE COURT REPORT AS WELL. UH, WE ISSUED THE COURT LETTER WITHOUT ANY FINDINGS, UM, WHICH IS GREAT. YOU KNOW, CHRIS DOES REALLY GOOD WORK UPSTAIRS WITH HIS, WITH THE CLERK AS WELL. UM, AND THE COURT AUDIT ALSO WENT VERY WELL, AND I KNOW THAT THE BOARD IS ALSO GONNA REVIEW THE BUDGET TRANSFERS TONIGHT AND APPROVE THOSE. UM, SO IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THOSE, I COULD TAKE IT. I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE THING TO MAYBE GIVE SOME ADDITIONAL TRANSPARENCY WITH WAS THERE WAS AN INCREASE IN THE FEDERAL AND STATE REVENUE BECAUSE THE ARPA MONEY WAS RECORDED AND WASN'T BUDGETED FOR. SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE AN AN, A SIMULTANEOUS INCREASE IN THE INNER FUND TRANSFERS FOR THE BUDGET BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT ARPA MONEY WAS TRANSFERRED OVER TO THE CAPITAL PROJECTS TO HELP PAY FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS. AND ALSO THERE WAS FUNDS TRANSFERRED FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE CAPITAL PROJECT FOR STREET RESURFACING AND VEHICLE PURCHASES. UH, BUT IF ANYBODY NEEDS ANY FURTHER CLARITY ON THAT, UH, I'D BE HAPPY TO GO OVER THAT AS WELL. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. OH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, THE REPORTER OF A CENTURY WITH THE COMPANY. YES, THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, HAPPY HOLIDAYS. HAPPY HOLIDAYS. THANK YOU. TAKE CARE. THANK YOU. THANKS, JUSTIN. NEXT PRESENTATION, WILL BEBO ENEMY. IS THAT CORRECTLY PRONOUNCED? YES, UH, FROM THAILAND, UH, REGARDING MAIN STREET SAFETY IMPROVEMENT STUDIES. GOOD. YEAH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, AND GOOD EVENING. UM, GOOD MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE. AGAIN, MY NAME IS TAB FROM TY LANE. I'M A TRAFFIC ENGINEER BY PROFESSION, AND I'M A SENIOR ASSOCIATE AT THE TY LANE ENGINEERING, WHICH USED TO BE, UH, WE WERE ACQUIRED BY, UH, NO TY LANE ACQUIRED SOME SCHWARZ, SO I USED TO BE EMPLOYED FOR SOME SCHWARZ FOR THOSE WHO KNOW SOME SCHWARTZ ENGINEERING. UM, THIS IS, I THINK MY SECOND TIME PRESENTING IN FRONT OF THIS BOARD, AND IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE EVERY TIME. UM, I WAS HERE THE FIRST TIME, I THINK, UH, WHEN WE HAD, I WAS RETAINED TO REVIEW A TIS TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY FOR THE ELECTRIC HOUSE STUDIO. AND THEN I'VE ALSO DONE SOME, UH, STUDIES HERE IN THE VILLAGE ALONG WALTON AVENUE TO ADDRESS SOME CROSSWALK, UH, ISSUES, AND, UM, AS WELL AS A VILLAGE WIDE SPEED STUDY, WHICH WAS RESULTED TO THE, UH, UH, REDUCTION OF YOUR, OF THIS, OF THE SPEED LIMITS WITHIN, WITHIN THE VILLAGE. SO ON THIS CAP IN THIS CAPACITY, I'M HERE AGAIN TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT MAIN STREET, SOME OF THE CHALLENGES, AND, UM, UM, AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT THAT. SO, UM, I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND JUST RUN THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. THERE WAS A REPORT WHICH I SENT TO MARYBETH, [00:15:01] AND I, I'M ASSUMING THAT SOME OF YOU, IF NOT ALL, HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW IT, BUT WE CAN, AT LEAST, I KNOW THERE ARE LOTS OF QUESTIONS. WE'LL HAVE SOME CHA WE'LL HAVE A CHANCE TO GO THROUGH IT. SO, AGAIN, THE, THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY, AGAIN, WAS JUST TO REVIEW ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES. YOU KNOW, THERE WERE A LOT OF COMPLAINTS, LACK OF PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALKS, UM, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS ABOUT SAFETY AND YOU NAME IT. SO WE CAME IN, REVIEWED THE ENTIRE CORE CORRIDOR FROM A HOLISTIC STANDPOINT, SO DID SOME DATA COLLECTION, UM, AND THEN SOME SIDE OBSERVATIONS JUST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON AND THEN, UH, AND THEN COME UP WITH SOME PROPOSED IDEAS, RIGHT? AT LEAST USING D UH, UH, YOU KNOW, STATE AND LOCAL STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES AS WELL. SO, UM, THIS, THIS, WHAT YOU SEE HERE RIGHT NOW IS THERE WERE THREE LOCATIONS WHERE WE, WE COLLECTED TRAFFIC DATA. WELL, WE COLLECTED A LOT OF TRAFFIC DATA, BUT THERE WERE THREE LOCATIONS WHERE WE OBSERVED PEDESTRIAN CROSSING MOVEMENTS. AND BECAUSE WE, WE ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE PEOPLE GOING TO AND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM, LOCATION NUMBER ONE OVER THERE, OF COURSE, YOU'LL SEE IT'S RIGHT BY THE, UH, FOOT TOWN OVER THERE. TABLEAU, DO YOU MIND GRABBING THE MICROPHONE? I'M SORRY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MY, MY APOLOGIES. SO, UH, LOCATION NUMBER ONE IS RIGHT BY THE FOOT TOWN LOCATION NUMBER TWO, WHERE YOU HAVE THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER, THEN THE BOER PLAZA, UH, LOCATION NUMBER THREE. AND WHAT WE DID WAS WE WERE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHO WAS CROSSING AT THESE VARIOUS LOCATIONS WITHIN A HUNDRED FEET OFF APPROXIMATELY WHERE WE HAVE THE NUMBERS RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE THE IDEA WAS TO, YOU KNOW, WE SELECTED THOSE LOCATIONS, NOT ARBITRARY, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT IF SOMEONE IS LOCATED, SAY FOR EXAMPLE, AROUND THIS AREA, THERE'S A MORE LIKELIHOOD YOU'LL USE THIS CROSSWALK. AND LIKEWISE, LIKEWISE, TO, WELL, THAT WAS THE ONLY CROSSWALK WITHIN THE, UH, STRETCH AND THAT AT, UM, UM, AT THE INTERSECTION OF BROADWAY. SO, UM, I'LL JUMP OVER TO SOME FINDINGS. OF COURSE, LIKE THE GOOD NEWS IS WE DIDN'T REALLY NOTICE A LOT OF SPEEDING ALONG THE ROADWAY. LIKE MOST OF THE SPEEDS WHERE WE, THE SPEED LIMITS. UM, WHEN YOU ARE, WHEN YOU GO TO THE EASTERN PART OF THE STUDY AREA TOWARDS FOODTOWN MARKET, THEN YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF SPEED BASE. IT WAS JUST PROBABLY ABOUT TWO OR THREE MILES MORE THAN THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT. NOTHING OUTRAGEOUS TOWARDS THE BOER PLAZA AREA. I MEAN, SPEED LIMITS WERE WAY BELOW, UH, THE, THE, THE, UH, THE, THE, UH, THE POST-TEST SPEED LIMIT TRAFFIC, UH, YOU KNOW, TRAFFIC ON A TYPICAL DAY, I MEAN, SATURDAY WE TOOK TRAFFIC, WE COLLECTED TRAFFIC COUNTS ON THE SIDE SIDE ON A, ON A, IN SEPTEMBER WHEN SCHOOLS WERE BACK IN SESSIONS. BUT WE KNOW THIS SATURDAY, OF COURSE, WAS THE MOST BUSY DAY I HAD ANTICIPATED. A WEEKDAY WILL BE MORE BUSY, BUT, UM, BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY THERE ON A WEEKDAY, THEN, YOU KNOW, I CAME THERE ON A LATER SATURDAY, NOT ON THE DAY OF THE DAY THAT COLLECTION, BUT SATURDAY IS THE MOST BUSY DAY. BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, ON AVERAGE ABOUT 5,000 VEHICLES, 5,500 VEHICLES GO EAST, EASTERN WEST ON THAT CORRIDOR. UM, UM, ON A TYPICAL DAY, UM, COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS. LET'S SAY WE OBSERVED ALSO, LIKE THE SIDEWALKS, OF COURSE, THE CONDITIONS ARE NOT THE BEST. THEY ARE PRETTY NARROW. UM, YOU KNOW, NOT THE BEST FOR PEDESTRIANS WALKING COMFORTABLY. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS, THERE WERE, THERE WERE A LOT OF THE DAY I ACTUALLY CAME THERE TO DO SITE OBSERVATIONS. IT WAS A HOLIDAY I'VE JUST FORGOTTEN, BUT I NOTICED A LOT OF KIDS, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS WERE, SCHOOL WAS OFF. WE DIDN'T COLLECT DATA ON THAT DAY, BUT A LOT OF KIDS RIDING THEIR BICYCLES, JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME, RIGHT? AND WHICH, WHICH IS SOMETHING WHICH WE, WE, WE OBSERVED AS WELL. THEN PEOPLE CROSSING JAYWALKERS AND, UH, AT NON, UM, REGULATED LOCATIONS. THEN, UH, THIS, THIS NOW SHOWS YOU, UM, THE, THE TOTAL, WHAT WE DID HERE WAS, I MEAN, WE COLLECTED DATA, YOU KNOW, AND WE LOOKED FOR THE PEAK R CROSSING DEMAND, THE HIGHEST CROSSINGS AT THE VARIOUS LOCATIONS. SO THE BLUE, WHICH IS RIGHT BY THE BOULANGER PEARL PLAZA, YES, THAT'S THE MOST BUSY AREA. THE DATA SHOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, ON, YOU KNOW, DURING THE BUSIEST HOUR, DURING THE TIME WHEN WE COLLECTED THAT DATA, WE OBSERVE A HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN, A HUNDRED FIFTY FIVE PEOPLE CROSSING BACK AND FORTH AT THESE LOCATIONS, FOLLOWED BY, UM, CLOSE TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE YOU HAVE LIKE, AT THE BUSIEST HOUR, 50 PEOPLE CROSSING. AND THEN, UM, UM, THE LIST, BUT NOT THE, UH, LAST IS THE, UH, I JUST SENT TO THE, UH, UH, FOOD TOWN AREA WHERE YOU HAVE ABOUT 36, BUT YOU ONLY NEED, YOU KNOW, BASED ON TYPICAL GUIDELINES, YOU KNOW, UH, FOR, TO PUT A CROSSWALK AT A LOCATION, ALL OF THESE LOCATIONS MEET THAT [00:20:01] THRESHOLD, YOU TYPICALLY NEED, AT LEAST TO SHOW AT LEAST 20 PEOPLE CROSSING AT A LOCATION. OR IF IT'S LIKE A SCHOOL, YOU NEED AT LEAST 15 SCHOOL STUDENTS. SO THAT MEETS THE THRESHOLDS FOR, FOR CROSSING CROSSWALK. BUT HOWEVER, UM, I, I'LL GET TO SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS. JUST BEAR WITH ME NOW. THIS WAS ONE OF THE BIG ISSUES WHICH WE OBSERVED THE SIDELINES, ESPECIALLY DRIVING DOWN. UM, AND WE'RE HE HEADING WESTBOUND, HEADING WESTBOUND TOWARDS WARTON AVENUE. IT'S THE, THE, OF COURSE, THERE'S SIDELINE RESTRICTIONS WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING ON THE CURVE DUE TO THE CURVE AS WELL, THE HORIZONTAL CURVE, AS WELL AS THE VERTICAL CURVE. AND THAT WAS THE, PRIMARILY THE, THE SIDELINE IS DUE TO, I THINK THIS IS CITIBANK, YOU KNOW, THAT BUILDING OVER THERE. IT REALLY AFFECTS, YOU KNOW, UH, SIDELINES. AND TECHNICALLY WHEN WE LOOK AT DESIGN MANUALS FOR A SPEED OF THAT ROADWAY OF ABOUT 30 MILES PER HOUR, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S POST 25, BUT WHEN YOU'RE DOING DESIGN AND DOING ALL OF THAT, YOU TYPICALLY GO, UM, FIVE MILES AN HOUR TO GET WHAT THE, THE DESIGN CRITERIA SHOULD BE. SO WE USE 30 MILES PER HOUR TO IDENTIFY WHAT THE, UH, THE IDEAL STOPPING SIDE DISTANCE. SO THE STOPPING SIDE DISTANCE WILL BE WHAT, HOW MUCH DISTANCE YOU NEED TO REACT TO SEE AN OBJECT, THEN REACT TO IT, AND THEN BRING YOUR CAR TO A COMPLETE STOP. SO THAT STOPPING SIDE DISTANCE IS 210 FEET REQUIRED. AND WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO MEASURE ON THE SIDE, I MEAN, THIS, I JUST PUT IT FOR IN GOOGLE, UH, FOR DEMONSTRATION PURPOSES, BUT WE ACTUALLY DID SITE MEASUREMENTS USING EQUIPMENT TO, TO SEE HOW MUCH DISTANCE WE CAN SEE IN THE AHEAD OF US AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS. SO WE ARE ABLE TO, THE, THE, THE, THE, THE CRITICAL LOCATION WAS THIS LOCATION AT ONE WHERE WE ARE ABLE TO SEE ABOUT 172 FEET AHEAD DUE TO, UH, UH, THIS BUILDING, WHICH OBSTRUCTED SOME, SOME, UM, UH, VISIBILITY. AND THE ASSUMPTION HERE IS, OF COURSE, IF SOMEONE IS WALKING, CROSSING OVER HERE, AND THEY'RE RIGHT HERE, YOU'LL SEE THEM. BUT NOW, IF SOMEONE IS RIGHT HERE AND JUST ABOUT TO CROSS THE ROAD, AND THIS CAR IS RIGHT AT THIS LOCATION COMING AT 30 MILES PER HOUR, 25 MILES PER HOUR, THEY WOULD NOT SEE THEM RIGHT AT THAT SPOT. MAYBE THEY WOULD SEE THEM OVER HERE, BUT THEN IT WOULD BE TOO LATE. IT MAY BE TOO LATE. SO THAT, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE CONCERNS WE HAD WITH REGARDS TO THE OIL, SOME OF THE CONSTRAINTS WE HAVE AT THAT LOCATIONS, AT THAT LOCATION. SO WE REVIEWED OUR CRASH DATA, YOU KNOW, HISTORIC CRASHES ALONG THE SIDE, ALONG THE CORRIDOR. UM, I MEAN, THERE WERE THREE INJURY CRASHES, NOT ACCOUNTING FOR THAT, WHICH HAPPENED THIS PAST AUGUST WHEN THE LADY WAS UNFORTUNATELY HIT BY A VEHICLE ON, I THINK AUGUST 13, UM, BECAUSE WE LOOKED AT CRASHES BETWEEN 20, TYPICALLY WE LOOK AT THE LAST PREVIOUS THREE YEARS, BUT THEN IN MY REPORT, I DID ACCOUNT FOR THAT EVENT AS WELL. SO THREE INJURY CRASHES. TWO OF THEM HAPPENED AT THE INTERSECTION OF, UH, WARTON AVENUE AND, UH, MAIN STREET. ONE OF THEM HAPPENED, I THINK I, I'M, I DON'T, I DON'T RECALL, BUT ALONG, ALONG THE ROADWAY, ALONG THE CORRIDOR ITSELF, UM, A LOT OF CRASHES, BUT A LOT OF THE CRASHES WERE LIKE FENDER BENDERS, SOMEONE TRYING TO BACK IN, SOMEONE TRYING TO PULL OUT OF THE PARKING LOT. IT WAS, YOU KNOW, IT WAS NOT, YOU KNOW, BUT, BUT, BUT THOSE INJURY CRASHES, OF COURSE, THEY GET YOU CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING, RIGHT? AND HOW CAN WE FIX, FIX IT? SIDESWIPED COLLISIONS, AS WELL AS SOMETIMES SOME VEHICLES, SOME, SOME MOTORISTS JUST, IT WAS FIXED SINGLE VEHICLE COLLISIONS, THAT'S HOW WE CALL IT, WHERE YOU JUST ACCIDENTALLY HIT A TREE OR SOMETHING. UM, SO THEN MOVING OVER TO THE INTERSECTION AT ROBERTON AND, AND MAIN STREET WHERE WE DID LOOK AT THIS TRAFFIC SIGNAL, AND I UNDERSTAND THE VILLAGE IS CONCERNED ABOUT AND IS KEEN ON WHAT TO DO AT THAT INTERSECTION. SO WE FIRST OF ALL JUST WANTED TO LOOK AT IT TO SAY, OKAY, LET'S SEE IF THE WARRANT MEETS, IF IT MEETS WARRANTS. AND TO BE HONEST, WE COLLECTED DATA ON A WEEKDAY, ASSUMING THAT THERE'LL BE MORE TRAFFIC, MORE PEOPLE GOING TO THE, UH, TO USE THE TRAINS GOING DOWNTOWN BECAUSE OF THE HASTINGS OR HUDSON STATION, RIGHT? RIGHT. IN PROXIMITY. BUT THEN THE DATA DID NOT REALLY SHOW THAT THE, THE INTERSECTION IS WARRANTED, RIGHT? BUT LET'S KEEP IN MIND THAT THAT WAS ON A, MAYBE IF WE'RE TAKING THAT DATA ON THE SATURDAY AND WE SAW HIGHER VOLUMES ON SATURDAYS, IT WOULD'VE SHOWN DIFFERENTLY. SO, UM, ONE THING WHICH I NOTICED WAS EVEN JUST BEING THERE, UH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, I WAS [00:25:01] VERY CONFUSED TRYING TO CROSS THE INTERSECTIONS. I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN TO CROSS. UH, I HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LIGHT. IT WAS CHALLENGING, DEFINITELY PET SIGNAL, UH, HEADS WOULD HELP. UM, SO, BUT OUR RECOMMENDATION WAS, UM, NOT TO DO ANYTHING. THERE'S MORE WORK TO BE DONE AT THIS INTERSECTION AS, AS IN MORE COORDINATION. I UNDERSTAND THIS, THIS INTERSECTION IS UNDER THE DIRECT JURISDICTION OF THE, UH, COUNTY. SO THE COUNTY WOULD HAVE TO BE GETTING, GET INVOLVED AND WOULD HAVE TO COME UP WITH WHAT MEASURES NEED TO BE DONE. BUT DEFINITELY I'M RECOMMENDING, UH, THAT, UM, UM, PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL HEADS SHOULD BE PLACED AT THE INTERSECTION. BECAUSE ONE OF THE COLLISIONS THAT HAPPENED THERE HAPPENED BECAUSE, UM, THERE WAS A LADY WAS CROSSING, AND SOMEONE I THINK IN MOTORIST WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN. IF I GET MY JOB, YOU KNOW, SOUTHBOUND LEFT, SOUTHBOUND LEFT FROM, UM, FROM WA FROM WABO AVENUE, MAKING A LEFT TURN ONTO MAIN STREET, AND THEN THERE WAS A COLLISION. SO THE REPORTS, YOU KNOW, SHOWED THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS AN ISSUE. THEN. UM, I'M, I'M TRYING TO THINK. ANOTHER REASON WHY I THINK THIS TRAFFIC SIGNAL MAKES SENSE IS BECAUSE, LET'S KEEP IN MIND, UM, THE BUS ROUTE, B LINE BUS ROUTE SIX MAKES A TURN AT THAT INTERSECTION. NOW, IF YOU OBSERVE THAT INTERSECTION, THERE'S A RECESS STOP BAR. THE STOP BAR ON, UH, ON THE SOUTHBOUND APPROACH TO, TO ON WALTON AVENUE IS, IS PLACED WAY BACK. THAT'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE TURNING MOVEMENT FOR THE BUSES. IF ANY, IF WE WERE TO CHANGE THAT INTO A STOP SIGN, IT WOULD REALLY AFFECT THE BUSES. BECAUSE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS SOMEONE WILL PULL UP, YOU STOP SIGN OPERATIONS IS FIRST CONFESS SERVE. YOU PULL UP AT THE, UH, STOP SIGN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE BUS TURN AND ALL OF THAT STUFF, RIGHT? BUT I'M, YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOKED AT THE NUMBERS, EVEN THOUGH THE NUMBERS WE USED AND COLLECTED DID NOT SHOW THAT THE WARRANTS MEET. AND AGAIN, ANOTHER THING WHICH I WANT THE ROOM TO TAKE AWAY IS EVEN IF A WARRANT IS MET OR NOT, EVEN IF THE WARRANT WAS MET, IT DOES NOT REALLY JUSTIFY THAT A SIGNAL SHOULD BE PLACED. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS, USING ENGINEER ENGINEERING JUDGMENT, HAVE TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. A WARRANT IS JUST ONE OF THE TOOLS. IT'S NOT THE, IT'S NOT THE SOLUTION. SO, UM, BASED ON ALL OF THAT, MY RECOMMENDATION FOR THIS INTERSECTION IS ONE, FOR MORE COORDINATION WITH THE CITY, WITH THE COUNTY TO, TO ASSESS, YOU KNOW, NEXT STEPS ON WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. BUT DEFINITELY PET HEADS AND PET SIGNALS HEADS WOULD NEED TO BE DONE AT THAT LOCATIONS. I KNOW THERE WERE, THERE WAS, UH, THERE WERE IMPROVEMENTS DONE ALONG WARTON AVENUE, AND I CAN SEE THAT, UH, I THINK THE COUNTY DID, UH, IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THAT AVENUE AND THEN MADE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE PET RAMPS. WE COULD JUST, YOU KNOW, WE COULD CONFIRM TO MAKE SURE THOSE ARE A DA COMPLIANT. THEY LOOK TO BE A DA COMPLIANT, THEY HAVE TACTILE PLATES AND THE SLOPES LOOK OKAY. WE DID NOT MEASURE THEM, BUT THEY LOOK TO BE. BUT DEFINITELY LIKE THE OTHER MEASURES WHICH CAN BE PLACED TO, TO MAKE IT IMPROVE, TO MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE. UM, SO GOING INTO OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS. SO I RECOMMENDED A RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BACON, UH, BA, UH, BACON AT, AT THE CROSSWALKS, AND AS WELL AS CURB EXTENSIONS. NOW, I'M TRYING TO BE CONS. I, I UNDERSTAND THE, UH, THE VILLAGE IS TRYING TO LOOK FOR QUICK SOLUTIONS, WHICH ARE EFFECTIVE AND EASE, NOT EASY PER SE, BUT QUICK TO IMPLEMENT AND EFFECTIVE AS WELL. SO THOSE WERE SOME OF THE THINGS WE, WE KEPT IN MIND WHILE WE'RE GOING THROUGH OF, THROUGH SOME OF THESE AND COMING UP WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, ADVANCE WARNING SIGNAGE AND IN, YOU KNOW, TO ALERT ALERT MOTORS THAT THERE'S A FIRE STATION AND EMERGENCY STATION AHEAD. I KNOW I'VE RECEIVED COMMENTS ABOUT, UH, CONCERNS OF MOTORISTS NOT SEEING THE, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT THE INTERSECTION AT, IN FRONT OF THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER. OF COURSE, WE CAN ALWAYS, UH, INSTALL EVEN ADVANCED FLASHES TO NO NOTIFY MOTORISTS UPON A APPROACHING THE INTERSECTION THAT THERE IS A CHANGE IN SIGNAL. IT'S NO LONGER GREEN, IT'S RED, YOU KNOW, AND ALL OF THOSE ENGINEERING MEASURES CAN BE PUT INTO PLACE. UM, AGAIN, UH, YOU KNOW, INSTALLING COM, UH, CURB BUMP OUT, MONITOR THE, UH, AND AGAIN, MAINTAIN AND MONITOR THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL HEADS. UH, I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE DYNAMIC TRAFFIC SIGNAL AHEAD SIGNS, BUT THEN WHEN THOSE ARE SHORT TERM MEASURES, [00:30:01] WHEN YOU START LOOKING INTO THE LONG TERM, NOW WE WANT TO, UM, THE SIDEWALKS, SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT THE SIDEWALKS, LIKE WE BE THE, UM, REPRIEVED AND WE, THEY WERE VERY UNEVEN, THE TRIP HAZARDS. AND THEN AT INTERSECTIONS AND AT CROSSWALKS, THEY WERE NOT EDA COMPLIANT CROSSWALKS. SO THERE, THERE WERE NO RAMPS, RIGHT? AND IF, IF WE'RE THINK THINKING OF PEDESTRIANIZE, THIS AREA, THOSE ARE SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN THE LONG TERM TO THINK ABOUT. UM, THEN OF COURSE, I MENTIONED UPGRADING THE WHOLE SIGNAL, AND I KNOW SPEAKING WITH MARY BETH, THERE'S A CONCERN ABOUT KEEPING THE, UH, VILLAGE FILLED AND THE, UH, THE, WITH, WITH THAT INTERSECTION, THERE'S A CONCERN ABOUT NOT HAVING BIG MASS ARMS OUT THERE, WHICH WOULD REALLY TAKE AWAY THE AESTHETICS AND THE, UH, THE, THE FEEL FOR THE, UH, DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY. OF COURSE, THERE ARE, THERE, THERE ARE VARIOUS, UM, UH, ELEMENTS THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED IF THEY HAVE TO DESIGN A SIGNAL TO ACCOMMODATE THE SURROUNDING LANDSCAPE OF THE AREA. UM, AGAIN, SO THE, THERE WERE, THERE WERE QUESTIONS TOO ABOUT, UM, WHY NOT PROVIDE A CROSSWALK AT BOER PLAZA. THERE ARE A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS GOING OVER THERE, AND YES, I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEDESTRIANS GOING OVER THERE. BUT WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT, THERE IS, THERE IS A, THERE'S A LIGHT POLE. THERE'S A LIGHT POLE RIGHT HERE, UH, THE CREATIVE LIGHT POLE, WHICH IS, YEAH. AND OVER HERE, THERE ARE TWO, THERE'S AN ENTRY RAMP, THERE'S AN EXIT RAMP FOR VEHICLES. THE MOST FEASIBLE LOCATION WOULD HAVE TO BE HERE, BUT WE WOULD HAVE TO MOVE THAT LIGHT POLE. NOW, YOU CAN THINK ABOUT BUILDING AROUND MAYBE DOING A CURB EXTENSION, BUT THAT BURN BUMPS INTO THE ROADWAY. SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE, UH, NUANCES. AGAIN, WHAT WE PRESENTED HERE IS JUST A CONCEPT. IT'S NOT A FINAL DESIGN OR WHAT TO TAKE FORWARD. UH, BUT THOSE ARE SOME OF THE NUANCES WE OBSERVED. THEN ON THE SOUTH SIDE, THESE STORES OF LOCAL BUSINESSES, IF, UM, YOU, YOU, AS YOU OBSERVE, THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, SIT OUTDOOR SITTING AREAS, WHICH IS GOOD FOR THEIR BUSINESS, IS A GOOD BOOSTER FOR THE BUSINESS. BUT THEN IF YOU PUT A CROSSWALK HERE, THEN YOU MIGHT HAVE TO PROVIDE A, YOU KNOW, BUMP OUT A CURB FOR, FOR PEOPLE TO STAND AND CROSS OR WHATEVER, BECAUSE IF NOT, THEY'RE WALKING DIRECTLY INTO THE CURBS, INTO THE SIDEWALK, WHICH THESE, UH, BUSINESSES HAVE USED TO USE FOR, FOR OUTDOOR SPACE. I MEAN, UM, THOSE WERE SOME OF THE CONSTRAINTS WE USED. WE THOUGHT ABOUT WHEN WE WERE, UH, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE LOOKED AND WE DETERMINED THAT BECAUSE OF THE CONSTRAINTS OVER AT, UH, IN FRONT OF THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER PEOPLE TRYING TO CROSS WHEREVER THEY'RE COMING FROM. AND THEN THERE'S A DEMAND OVER HERE. WE, WE, WE, WE, WE, WE RECOMMENDED THIS LOCATION BECAUSE IT WOULD BE A GOOD MIX BETWEEN CAPTURING SOME OF THE, THE DEMAND FROM THIS, FROM, FROM COMING FROM IN FRONT OF THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER AS WELL AS DEMAND THAT MIGHT BE COMING OUT FROM THIS LOCATION. SO, UM, THAT THOSE, THOSE, THOSE WERE SOME OF THE, UH, UH, REASONS WHY WE, WE PROPOSED THAT LOCATION. UM, AND OF COURSE, GOING FURTHER EAST TOWARDS, UH, BROADWAY, WE ARE HAVE BEEN PROPOSING MORE CURB BUMP OUTS THERE. IF YOU SEE THE LIGHT, WELL, THIS IS GREEN. IF YOU THINK OF THE OLIVE GREEN, AND THAT'S GREEN, UM, THIS WILL BE LIKE MORE CURB BUMPOUTS. AND THE IDEA THERE IS TO NARROW THE ROADWAY SO THAT PEOPLE, UH, MOTOR CAN, YOU KNOW, ARTIFICIALLY REDUCE YOUR SPEED. AND THIS COULD BE STARTED FIRST WITH JUST USING BULLETS, FLEXIBLE BULLETS. YOU DO SOME OBSERVATIONS, AND THEN BEFORE LONG TERM, YOU, WE, WE, WE, WE, WE, WE POUR OUT SOME CONCRETE OUT THERE, RIGHT? UM, WE ARE PROPOSING, OF COURSE, YEAH. BECAUSE ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE, YOU KNOW, THIS LOCATION THOUGH, IT HAD THE LIST, ALTHOUGH IT HAS A LIST NUMBER OF DEMAND, BUT THEN THERE'S A BUS STOP OVER HERE, WHICH, UH, OF COURSE, JUST BY NATURE, IT BEING A BUS STOP AND THE GROCERY STORE RIGHT THERE, PEOPLE WILL BE CROSSING BACK AND FORTH TO, FOR, FOR VARIOUS REASONS. SO, UM, THE BUS STOP IS CURRENTLY LOCATION LOCATED ABOUT YEAR, BUT WOULD HAVE TO MOVE IT OVER. AND WE ARE PROPOSING, I KNOW IT'S NOT SHOWN ON THIS PLAN, THERE'S A TAXI STAND OVER HERE, WHICH I, I, I DOUBT IF IT HEAVILY GETS USED AGAIN, BUT IF THAT TAXI STAND, [00:35:01] UNLESS IF WE COULD MOVE THE BUS STOP FURTHER FROM WHERE IT IS RIGHT NOW, JUST TO GIVE SOME ADDITIONAL CLEARANCE FOR VISIBILITY. AND THEN WE DO OUR CURB BUMP OUTS SO THAT AT LEAST, UH, PEDESTRIANS HAVE, ARE VISIBLE WHEN THEY STAND OVER THERE. AND ALL OF THIS, WE ARE PROPOSING, I'M SURE SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN THIS RAPID RECTANGULAR FLASHING BEACONS, WHICH, UM, YOU KNOW, ALTERNATE WHEN THEY'RE PRESSED, ACTIVATED, SORRY. UM, ESSENTIALLY THOSE WILL BE GOOD HERE TOO AS WELL, BECAUSE THOSE ARE EFFECTIVE FOR THESE TYPE OF CASES WHERE THE E THE, THE VEHICLE, THE VEHICLE SPEED IS BELOW 30 MILES PER HOUR, MORE OR LESS, AND THE VOLUMES ARE LOW. AND THEN FOR LIKE A TWO LANE ROADWAY LIKE THIS, THESE ARE VERY EFFECTIVE TO DRAW ATTENTION TO MOTORISTS WHEN, WHEN, WHEN A PEDESTRIAN, UH, ACTIVATES THEM. SO, UM, VO CAN I JUST ASK ONE QUESTION ON THIS? YES, YES. I JUST DON'T WANNA LOSE THIS ONE SLIDE. UM, DID YOU CONSIDER AT ALL SHIFTING TRAFFIC? SO THEN THE WESTBOUND LANE WOULD HAVE A BETTER SIGHT LINE, UH, TO THE FRONT OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER? SO INSTEAD OF WHEN YOU'RE COMING EASTBOUND IN TRAFFIC THERE, EVENTUALLY YOU OPEN UP THE RIGHT TURNING LANE AS YOU'RE APPROACHING BROADWAY. OKAY. COULD YOU REVERSE THAT? AND SO IT, IT WOULD BE THE, THE RIGHT LANE WOULD BE OPEN. WE COULD REVERSE PARKING TO THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROAD TO ACCOMMODATE THE LOSS OF PARKING. AND THEN AS YOU'RE APPROACHING EASTBOUND TO THE BROADWAY INTERSECTION, THEN YOU OPEN UP THAT LEFT TURNING LANE AS WELL. AND THEN, THEN YOU CAN MAYBE SHIFT OVER THE WESTBOUND LANE SO YOU HAVE A LONGER SIGHT LINE TO POSSIBLY ACCOMMODATE A CROSSWALK. SO, UM, I, I, I MISSED YOU THERE. SO THIS IS THE WESTBOUND YEAH. DIRECTION. SO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS SHIFTED SOUTH, SHIFTED NORTH, SOUTH, NORTH. WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M ASKING IS, COULD THIS LANE SHIFT TO HERE AND THIS BE THE TRAVEL LANE EASTBOUND, AND FROM HERE, THIS BECOMES THE WESTBOUND TRAVEL LANE, WHICH THEN GIVES YOU A MUCH BETTER SIGHT LINE TO THIS AREA. I'M JUST TRYING TO LOOK AT THIS FROM A GROWING UP IN THIS TOWN, IN THIS VILLAGE ANGLE THAT EVERYONE CROSSES RIGHT HERE, AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE WE'RE GONNA PUT A CROSSWALK, THEY'RE GONNA CROSS RIGHT HERE. AND, AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF THAT THIS LANE COULD SHIFT INTO HERE, AND THIS BECOMES THE TRAVEL LANE, AND THEN THAT BECOMES THE TURN LANE. IF THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED, THAT WOULD, IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK INTO, BUT IT WOULD, I CAN TELL YOU OFF, WE WOULD NEED TO DO A LOT OF RECONSTRUCTION TO MOVE THE CURBS TO DO ALL OF THAT. SO WE ALL MORE OR LESS SHIFTING THE ALIGNMENT OF THE ROADWAY TO THIS SIDE AND CARRY IT ALONG. SO IT WOULD INVOLVE A LOT OF, SO IT'S, IT WOULD INVOLVE BUMPING OUT MORE OR LESS THE CURB LINE FROM PROBABLY STARTING OVER THERE. AND, UM, WITH, WITH AN, WITH AN, A AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC OF JUST 5,000 VEHICLES, I THINK PROVIDER WILL PROVIDE ENOUGH CAPACITY AT THIS LOCATION. IT WILL NOT AFFECT TRAFFIC FLOW. TRAFFIC WILL FLOW, BUT FROM A CONSTRUCTABILITY STANDPOINT, THAT'S WHERE THE CHALLENGE WILL COME IN. NOW, LET'S TAKE A STEP BACK AND ONE THING WE COULD LOOK INTO, WE COULD LOOK INTO PROVIDING A CROSSWALK HERE, RIGHT? I'M SORRY, WHERE, WHERE IS THAT? I CAN'T, SORRY. THAT'S JUST, YEAH, WE COULD LOOK INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF PROVIDING A CROSSWALK HERE. IT'S JUST BELOW THE AMBULANCE BUILDING, JUST BELOW THE AMBULANCE BUILDING AND THE COMMUNITY. UM, AND THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, THAT, I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THAT IF WE PROVIDE ONE THERE, TEVA, ISN'T THAT TOO FAR AROUND THE CURVE THOUGH? DON'T YOU THEN HAVE SIGHT LINE PROBLEMS BECAUSE OF CITIBANK? NO. AT THAT LOCATION, FURTHER AWAY, IT'S FARTHER AWAY. SO THE, YEAH, THE, THE, THE, UH, THE CONSTRAINT LOCATION, I'M SORRY IF I'M JUMPING AROUND. UM, SORRY. YEAH. THIS, THIS IS A TIGHT ANGLE. THIS, THIS BUILDING, THIS CITY. OH, NO. CITY BANK. IT'S NOT THE CITY BANK IS IT? THIS, IT'S, YEAH, YEAH'S ONE OF THE BUILDINGS. YEAH, IT'S ONE POINT TO THE CORRECT ONE. IT'S JUST NOT THE CITIBANK. IT'S NOT THE CITIBANK, OKAY. IT'S THE PODIATRIST. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO YEAH, THIS, THIS IS THE ISSUE, BUT, AND YOU KNOW, THE MOMENT OF VEHICLES HERE, THEY HAVE THIS INSIDE [00:40:01] DISTANCE, AND SO I THINK THAT COULD BE, THAT COULD SOLVE OUR ISSUE A PROBLEM. SO I ACTUALLY, UM, IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT PREVIOUS ONE, THIS, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THAT FOR, UH, THAT SPOT FOR OVER A YEAR, AND I, I'M CERTAIN IT'S GOING TO FIT THERE, SO I'M VERY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING THAT ONE. THERE, THERE, THE SEWER, THERE'S A SEWER, I THINK THERE'S A POLE, THERE'S A BUNCH OF COMPLICATIONS, BUT I THINK WE ACTUALLY CAN JUST BARELY FIT THE, UM, A DA, UM, RAMP. YEAH. TO THE SIDEWALK. YEAH. SO WE COULD, YEAH, YEAH, WE COULD LOOK INTO THIS LOCATION AND EVEN IF IT MEANS JUST BUMPING, EXTENDING THE CURB, BUMP OUT A LITTLE BIT TO ACCOMMODATE THAT, THAT COULD BE A FEASIBLE LOCATION RIGHT THERE. RIGHT. AND THEN, THEN THERE WOULD BE AN ISSUE WITH THE, I THINK IT'S A DA PARKING IN FRONT OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER THERE, THERE MIGHT HAVE TO BE A SPOT THAT'S MOVED. AND THEN ANOTHER SPOT THAT'S LOST. I KNOW THERE'S AN, A NEXT TO THE, THE SPOT NEXT TO THE HASH MARKS IS THE ONE WE USED FOR LIKE THE, IT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT HANDICAP. I THINK IT'S THE ONE BEHIND THAT WHITE CAR TO THE, TO THE WEST OF THAT CAR. THAT'S WHERE YOU'D LAND. OH, THAT'S WHERE WE'D LAND. BECAUSE YOU'D GO AS AS PERPENDICULAR AS YOU COULD. YEAH. THAT'S WHERE WE LAND. AND YOU WOULD LAND INTO A HANDICAP SPOT. YEAH. SO WE JUST WITH THE REVERSE IT WITH THE RECREATION CAR YEAH. HANDICAP UPON THAT. SO, UM, YEAH, OVER THERE COULD BE A POTENTIAL LOCATION FOR, FOR THIS. UM, OVER HERE IT'S STILL TRICKY BECAUSE OF THESE TWO DRIVEWAYS. AND THE GOOD THING IS THERE ARE ALL THESE, I'M SURE SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN IT, THE IN, IN STREETS, UM, YIELD SIGNS TO SLOW ABOUT TWO, ABOUT A FOOT. AND NO, THERE'S NOT A FOOT AND A HALF. THIS IS ABOUT A THREE FEET, UH, HIGH SIGNS WHERE IT'S LITERALLY IN, IN, IN ON THE ROADWAY YIELD TO PEDESTRIANS. UH, THOSE CAN ALSO BE INSTALLED. SO THIS COULD BE FACED IN A COUPLE OF APPROACHES PROVIDED, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HAVE A DA RAMS IN THERE, AND YOU HAVE YOUR HEEL TO PEDESTRIAN IN STREET SIGNS. THESE REC REC RECTANGULAR BEACONS COULD BE, COULD BE ADDED LATER ON AS PART OF, YOU KNOW, UM, YOUR PROCESS. BUT IF YOU HAVE AT LEAST THIS SIGNS IS PEDESTRIAN WALKING SIGNS AND THE IN IN STREET, UM, HILL TO PEDESTRIAN SIGNS COULD BE A START, UH, TO, TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO GET SOME AWARENESS OUT THERE. AND THEN WHEN, ONCE THE CROSSWALK IS IMPLEMENTED. AND THEN, UM, AGAIN, I'M JUST THINKING FROM A COST SAVINGS PERSPECTIVE AND HOW DO YOU FACE THINGS IN AT WHAT TIME COULD WE, WOULD YOU, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK IF WE JUST PAINT, UM, PAINTED A WHITE STRIPE AT THE, INSTEAD OF MOVING THE CURB, OR INSTEAD OF PUTTING IN BOLLARDS OR SOME, WHATEVER THE OTHER SUGGESTION YOU HAD, COULD WE JUST PAINT A WHITE STRIPE THAT, THAT, ON THAT INDICATES THE NAME, THE, THE WIDTH, THE NEW WIDTH OF THE LANE, NOT THERE, BUT ON THE, UH, THE IN FRONT OF, UM, YOU WERE DESCRIBING, UH, BUMP OUT BUMP OUTS, UH, ON THE WET, UH, EASTERN PART IN FRONT OF FOOD TOWN. OH, IN FRONT OF FOOD TOWN. AND YOU WERE DESCRIBING THAT YOU WOULD PUT SOMETHING PHYSICAL, SOME PHYSICAL BARRIER THERE IN THE SHORT TERM. COULDN'T WE JUST PAINT A WHITE STRIPE? YES. YES. SO YOU COULD USE PAINT. UM, HOWEVER, NOW THE, THE, THE A DA RAMS, THAT'S MORE OR LESS A TRICKY PART WHERE YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE IT WITH TIME INCUR YES. INDEFINITE. YEAH. YEAH. YOU COULD PROVIDE YOUR RAMS AND USE THIS AS PAINT FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR WHILE YOU PHASE IN. UM, I RECOMMEND INSTALLING AT LEAST BULLETS JUST TO GIVE MOTORISTS AN IDEA THAT, UM, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, UH, A, A GEO, A FENCED AREA, RESTRICTED AREA. UM, YEAH, YOU IMPLEMENT YOUR CROSSWALKS, AT LEAST THESE SIGNS, THESE, UH, SIGNS HAVE TO BE THERE AT THE START. THE FLASHING BEACONS COULD COME IN LATER. THEY'RE OPTIONAL, BUT THEY'RE GOOD TO, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY DO DEFINITELY BRINGING A LOT OF ATTENTION. AND WE CAN INSTALL A, AN IN STREET, UM, HEEL TO PEDESTRIAN CROSSING IN CROSSWALK. SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS, UM, FOR THAT LOCATION. SO IF YOU ARE IN THE FOOD TOWN PARKING LOT AND IN A, IN A VEHICLE AND YOU ARE EXITING AND YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A LEFT, YOU'RE GONNA GO EASTBOUND. YEAH. UM, WHAT IS, I I AM, I'M NOT SEEING HOW, IF I WAS THE DRIVER, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW I WOULD SEE THE CROSSWALK FROM THE, YOU KNOW, THE, BECAUSE I AM, MY CAR IS PARALLEL TO THAT CROSSWALK, RIGHT? SO I AM NOT SEEING LIKE THE BEACONS OR THE, OR THE CROSSWALK NECESSARILY ITSELF, AND THEN I'M MAKING A LEFT, AND IT'S [00:45:01] JUST, SO, IT'S JUST RIGHT THERE. SO I AM TRYING TO, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK HOW WOULD THAT YEAH, YEAH. HOW WOULD THOSE DRIVERS SEE SOMEONE IN THE CROSSWALK THERE? SO, GOOD QUESTION. SO, UM, I, WE, WE THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING THE CROSSWALK OVER HERE FIRST, BUT THEN THERE, I THINK THERE'S A POOL OVER THERE, AND THE SIDEWALK THERE IS VERY NARROW MM-HMM . UM, I MEAN, THIS CAN BE BUMPED OUT NOW. SO THE IDEA IS WITH THIS BUMP OUT, IT WILL JUST, AND MOVING THE, THE BUSES FURTHER, IT WILL, AND WITH THE PAINT, AND THEN WITH LIGHT, HOPEFULLY AT NIGHT, IT WOULD ENHANCE VISIBILITY, UH, DURING THE DAYTIME. UM, GENERALLY MAKING A LEFT TURN, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, MOTORIST TEND TO BE MUCH MORE PRUDENT WHEN MAKING LEFT TURNS VERSUS MAKING RIGHT TURNS, BECAUSE, SO WE ARE, WHAT WE HAVE OBSERVED FROM VARIOUS CRASH ANALYSIS AND STUDIES IS LEFT HAND BY MOTORIST. YOU'RE ALWAYS CONSCIOUS THAT YOU'RE MAKING A TWO STEP, TWO STEP PROCESS, RIGHT? SO I WOULD'VE BEEN MORE CONCERNED IF IT WAS A RIGHT TURN, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS YOU'RE COMING OUT AND YOU'RE LOOKING, YOU'RE LOOKING LEFT TO SEE IF A CAR IS COMING, RIGHT? AND SO THAT'S WHY WE DIDN'T ALSO PUT IT OVER HERE. IT COULD BE, BUT YOU ARE RIGHT. YEAH. I MEAN, I THINK, I THINK UNFORTUNATELY, I THINK THE PERSON WHO WAS HIT WAS THAT WAS WHAT, THAT WAS THE SITUATION THAT WAS HAPPENING. THIS, I BELIEVE THE CAR WAS EXITING THE SUPERMARKET IN. OKAY. UM, BUT ANY, I JUST, YOU KNOW, MY CONCERN ABOUT THAT LOCATION THERE WAS, WAS BOTH THE PEOPLE EX UH, THE CARS EXITING FROM THE FU TOWN. AND THEN ALSO I THINK KIND OF TO MAYBE WHAT WAS ALLUDED TO BEFORE IS, IS THE, UM, SORT OF THE BLINDNESS COMING, UH, WESTBOUND AT WEST AS YOU LEAVE FIVE CORNERS AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT IS KIND OF BLIND AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE KIND OF PICKING UP SPEED BECAUSE YOU'VE JUST GONE THROUGH THE LIGHT. IT'S KIND OF A DOWNHILL. UM, SO I, I, I MEAN I JUST, YEAH, I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, WONDERING ABOUT THAT. UM, I THINK THOSE, THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THESE ENHANCEMENTS WILL COME INTO PLACE TOO. AND KEEP IN MIND ALSO, IF WE PUT IN A, UM, AN IN, UH, STREET, UH, HEEL TO PEDESTRIAN SIGN, AT LEAST, YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THE PEDESTRIAN RIGHT AWAY, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE AN OBSTACLE ON THE ROAD THAT WILL MAKE YOU REDUCE YOUR SPEED AND NOT SPEED UP. RIGHT. SO I, I ACTUALLY AGREE WITH TRUSTEE MERTON THAT, THAT I DON'T ACTUALLY REALLY DON'T THINK THAT'S A GREAT LOCATION FOR THE CROSSWALK, BUT FOR A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT REASON. I THINK THAT PEOPLE COMING, GOING WESTBOUND, UH, DRIVING WESTBOUND ON, UH, MAIN STREET ARE GOING TO TURN, THEY ALMOST CREATE A TURN LANE WHEN THEY'RE GOING INTO THE SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT. AND WHETHER THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING THAT INTENTIONALLY OR NOT, THEY PULL OVER ENOUGH THAT PEOPLE CAN DRIVE PAST THEM. AND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, 'CAUSE IT'S A, IT'S A DOUBLE WIDE LANE. SO I THINK THE OTHER LOCATION YOU POINTED TO THAT'S ALMOST DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE CHURCH STAIRS IS A MORE INTUITIVE LOCATION, EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO SEE AND, AND PEOPLE TO, UM, WALK TO. AND ALSO, IF YOU WERE TO MOVE THE BUS TO THE EAST AS THE BUS STOPS TO THE EAST AS YOUR, AT LEAST THE, THE NORTH SIDE BUS STOP, NO, THE OTHER ONE, THAT ONE, MOVE THAT ONE AND THEN MOVE THE CROSSWALK. BOTH OF THOSE TOGETHER I THINK ACTUALLY SOLVED THAT ISSUE. I'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO, TO SEE A STUDY ON THAT. MOVE THE CROSSWALK YES. AND MOVE THE BUS STOP. SO TO YOUR FIRST POINT ABOUT, I MEAN, PART OF THE REASON WHY WE'RE RECOMMENDING THIS CURB BUMP OUT IS TO INCREASE PEDESTRIAN VISIBILITY AND NARROW THE ROADWAY. YEAH. SO THE CURB BUMP OUTS NORMALLY WOULD ASSIST, IT WOULD HELP DO THAT. WE COULD LOOK INTO THE PHYSI. YEAH, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, PUTTING A CROSSWALK HERE, IT WAS MORE ABOUT THE EASE WITH THE CONSTRUCTABILITY, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, HOW EASY WOULD IT BE TO PUT IT, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AS I SAID, THIS IS A VERY NARROW CORNER AND SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WE FACE, LIKE, UH, COMING OUT OF HERE, THERE'S REALLY NO SIDEWALK EITHER. SO PEOPLE ARE WALKING ON THE ROAD, AND THEN THERE'S JUST A SMALL CORNER OVER HERE. SO IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK INTO. AND HOW EASY WILL IT BE IMPLEMENTED? THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, SOMETHING WHERE IT COMES INTO OTHER CONSTRAINTS, WHICH WOULD BE OUTSIDE. I THINK IN THE SHORT TERM, MY OPINION IS THEY WOULD BOTH BE ABOUT THE SAME IMPLEMENTATION ON DAY ONE, BECAUSE WE WOULD, IF YOU PAINT THE, THE ROAD, YOU HAVE TWO, UM, RAMPS ANYWAY. UM, AND THEN THE SIDEWALK THAT DEAD ENDS INTO THE SUPERMARKET, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO PLACE TO WALK ONCE YOU ENTER THE SUPERMARKET ON EITHER SIDE. SO IT DOESN'T, IT, IT DOESN'T REALLY HELP ME GET INTO, I STILL HAVE [00:50:01] TO, YOU KNOW, PUT MYSELF AT RISK TO GET TO THE SUPERMARKET FROM EITHER ONE OF THOSE LOCATIONS. YEAH. BUT AT LEAST, BUT AT LEAST, UM, THIS WILL PROVIDE YOU, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR THE BUS, FOR PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THE BUS AND THEY AT LEAST HAVE A LANDING PLACE AND TO CROSS AND RIGHT AWAY AND NOT GOING OVER HERE AND CROSSING. THOSE WERE SOME OF THE CONSIDERATIONS THAT WE TOOK INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL. OKAY. WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO MAYBE GIVE US A SECOND DESIGN, UH, STUDY ON THAT, WHICH WOULD ALSO INCLUDE THE ONE JUST SOUTH OR WEST OF THE AMBULANCE BUILDING, UH, THAT YOU HAD MENTIONED ON THE OTHER SLIDES? YEAH, YEAH. WE, UM, SOME OF, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS HAS JUST BEEN DONE ON SKETCHES AND CONCEPTS WITHOUT A DETAILED SURVEY, RIGHT. TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THERE RIGHT NOW WE COULD, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A CIVIL ENGINEERING TEAM. WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK INTO DETAILS TO IDENTIFY WHERE THESE IDEA IDEAL LOCATIONS. THE GOOD QUE THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS STUDY IS WE JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF A CROSSWALK WAS EVEN FEASIBLE. NOW WE KNOW. YES. NOW IT'S ABOUT WHERE DO WE REALLY PUT IT. NOW WE'RE NAVIGATING ALL THE ENGINEERING CHALLENGES AND ALL OF THAT. SO YES, I CAN PROVIDE A PROPOSAL FOR THAT. AND MAYBE WE ARE GETTING AHEAD OF OURSELVES BECAUSE WE ARE APPROVING A TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEY THIS EVENING AS WELL, THAT WOULD BE RELATED TO THIS AS WELL, THE MAIN STREET. RIGHT. THAT WOULD PROBABLY PROVIDE US WITH SOME INFORMATION THAT WE WOULD NEED IN TERMS OF, I'M SORRY. YES. UM, MAYOR, THAT WOULD ACTUALLY PROVIDE US PROBABLY WITH SOME OF THE INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE NEEDED IN ORDER TO A CERTAIN, WHETHER OR NOT THE LOCATIONS ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, ARE ACTUALLY, I USUALLY WHEN YOU DO IT CONCEPTUAL, YOU KIND OF THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE GONNA BE GOOD, BUT YOU HAVEN'T ACTUALLY MEASURED, MEASURED EVERYTHING OUT. YEAH. UM, SO IS THE BOARD NOW THINKING THREE CROSSWALKS ON MAIN STREET? OR WERE YOU THINKING OF REPLACING THE AMBULANCE CROSSWALK WITH, I MEAN, I, I, WITH THE FOOD TOWN CROSSWALK, I DON'T THINK, MY, MY THOUGHT IS THAT I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS, THAT THE CROSSWALK THAT WAS PUT IN AT WHITMAN STREET WAS PUT IN THERE, UM, BECAUSE THAT WAS FUNDAMENTALLY THE SAFEST PLACE. BUT, UM, I, YOU KNOW, I JUST SORT OF WROTE A NOTE FROM WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, AND I THINK IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU SAID THAT WHITMAN STREET WAS PUT THERE BECAUSE IT WAS A, IF YOU WILL, MIDPOINT ISH BETWEEN BOLLINGER AND THE JHCC. AND I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S, IF THAT MAKES SENSE FOR, FOR, I'M NOT SURE IF, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. SO IF PEOPLE WILL BE USING IT, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, VERSUS, YOU KNOW, ONE OR THE OTHER. THE MOST, THE, THE MOST. THANK YOU. UM, THE MOST CROSSED AREA, OF COURSE, IS OVER HERE. NOW WHERE DO PEOPLE GO DO 155 PEOPLE IN AN HOUR ACROSS AND GO INTO THESE SHOPS? I DON'T THINK SO. BUT DO THEY GO THERE AND PACK THE CAR AND BUY BAGELS OR WHATEVER IS THERE YES, THEY DO. YOU KNOW, SO WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO. I'LL NOT SAY, LET'S DO A STARTING FOR THAT. WE CAN SPECULATE LIKELY THE CROSSING AND WALKING OVER THERE. UH, IF THEY WERE GOING THIS WAY, THEY WOULD JUST STAY OVER THERE AND WALK. RIGHT? SO MOST LIKELY THEY ARE, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY OF THAT 155 DURING THE PEAK HOUR, MAYBE A HUNDRED ARE PROBABLY GOING SOMEWHERE OVER THERE. I'LL GIVE 50 55 TO THIS LOCATION. SO, WHICH IS STILL WARRANTS ACROSS CROSSWALK STILL ON THAT NUMBER. MY POINT BEING THAT THOSE PEOPLE, THERE WILL BE A BENEFIT FOR THIS LOCATION, RIGHT? AND IT WOULD BENEFIT THOSE PEOPLE. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF AGING POP, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR, FOR THE ELDERLY POPULATION. I THINK, OF COURSE, TO HAVING ONE OVER THERE. UM, WE, AND, AND, AND TO, TO BE HONEST, YOU CAN SEE WE DIDN'T HAVE IT OVER THERE BECAUSE OUR FIRST THOUGHT WAS, OKAY, THIS LOCATION HERE WITH THE, UH, SIGNALS, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE BIT TOO COMPLICATED BECAUSE THE SIGNAL OVER THERE IS CONTROLLED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS LOOK INTO HAVING ONE OVER HERE BECAUSE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT MAKES ONLY SO MANY CALLS PER DAY ON THOSE SIGNALS. SO, UM, I THINK THIS SHOULD STILL STAY FOR CONSIDERATION. UM, COULD I ASK A QUICK QUESTION? UM, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET, IN THE AREA OF, UH, WHITMAN AND, AND, UH, BOLLINGER PLAZA, UH, WILL WE LOSE PARKING ON THAT SOUTH SIDE OF THE STREET? A COUPLE? WILL WE LOSE, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF SPACES FOR THE DISTANCE THAT YOU NEED FROM THE CROSSWALK OR, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND DOES THE PLACEMENT OF THE CROSSWALK HELPED TO MINIMIZE THE LOSS OF PARKING [00:55:01] SPACES? SO YEAH, I LOOKED AT, THERE'S A DRIVE, THERE'S A, UH, PRIVATE DRIVEWAY AND, UH, WE ARE GOING TO, TO YOUR QUESTION, WE'LL LOSE A SPOT. SO THE TYPICAL CROSSWALK, WE ABOUT AT LEAST MINIMUM FIVE FEET WIDE, AN AVERAGE CAR, CAR, WE, YEAH, WE WILL LOSE A SPOT, AT LEAST AN AVERAGE CAR WITH, UH, PACKING SPACE IS ABOUT 20 FEET. SO PLUS MINUS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING LIKE 10 FEET, BUT IT COULD BE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW ALL THE PACKING SPOTS HERE. AND PROBABLY IF YOU, IF YOU'RE RESERVING 10 FEET OF PACKING SPOTS, UH, IF YOU'RE TAKING AWAY 10 FEET FROM THE PACKING SPOT, THEN YOU SEE HOW THE REMAINING 10 FEET, YOU CAN SPLIT IT AMONGST THIS. SO I THINK YOU CAN STILL ACCOMMODATE IT. MAYBE TAKE, YOU KNOW, REVIEW, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL, WAS TO DO A, UH, YOU KNOW, A, UM, PAVEMENT MARKING BECAUSE THERE WERE A LOT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, JUST SIDE BOMBS, PEOPLE NOT, YOU KNOW, KNOWING WHERE THEIR VEHICLE IS POSITIONED AND THEY SCRATCH INTO ANOTHER ONE. SO IN THE PROCESS OF DOING THAT, YOU CAN ACTUALLY REVIEW THE, UH, THE, UH, ALLOCATED SPACES FOR EACH PACKING CAR. BECAUSE REMEMBER, CARS ARE AS BIG THESE DAYS, BUT THEY'RE ALSO SMALLER ONES, YOU KNOW, SO WE, IT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO, TO DO THAT. SO YOU, YOU, YOU MIGHT END UP NOT REALLY LOSING THE SPOT PER SE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. I, I THOUGHT THERE HAD TO BE A CLEARANCE FROM THE CROSSWALK TO, LIKE, YOU CAN'T HAVE A CAR PARKED RIGHT IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO THE CROSSWALK WHEN YOU HAVE A CURB BUMP OUT. IF YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE A CURB BUMP OUT LIKE THIS, YOU DO NOT NEED A CLEARANCE. OKAY. BUT IF A, UH, IF THERE WAS NO BUMP OUT, THEN YOU NEED AT LEAST, UH, 15 FEET CLEARANCE OR SO TO THE CROSSWALK. DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THAT I, WE'RE KIND OF HITTING YOU, UH, UH, RAPID FIRE HERE WITH LOTS OF DIFFERENT QUESTIONS AND I DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP YOUR ENTIRE EVENING THIS EVENING. 'CAUSE I MEAN, I THINK WE, WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND, AND WOULD LIKE YOU TO CONSIDER SOME OF THE, THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED THIS EVENING AND MAYBE COME BACK WITH ANOTHER DESIGN, OR, OR IS THERE MAYBE A WORK SESSION WE SHOULD BE HAVING ON THIS? UH, AND, AND THAT COULD INCLUDE MORE OF THE PUBLIC INPUT AS WELL. OKAY. I MEAN, THAT CERTAINLY IS, IS, YOU KNOW, IS UP TO THE BOARD. IF WE, WE HAVE THE, THE DESIGN, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A WORK SESSION WITH TABLEAU HERE OR WITH, WITH JUST THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, WE CAN DO ANY ONE OF THOSE THINGS. WELL, AU SLIDE THAT HE JUST HAD UP, UH, DOES RECOMMEND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY INSTEAD. YEAH. AND THAT THIS IS, THIS IS ALREADY PART OF IT ALREADY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HAVING WORKED WITH, I'VE WORKED FOR A CITY AGENCY BEFORE AND I'VE GONE THROUGH THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS AND I'M FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF THESE, UH, UH, CHALLENGES THAT MUNICIPALITIES FACE WHEN MAKING DECISIONS WHEN IT COMES TO TRANSPORTATION. UM, YOU KNOW, SO TYPICALLY I ALWAYS RECOMMEND GIVE IT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND SEE THERE ARE THINGS OUT HERE. AS YOU CAN TELL, I DID NOT THINK ABOUT IT WITHOUT TALKING TO YOU GUYS. SO I THINK ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK TO THE COMMUNITY, ALSO, THE COMMUNITY WILL GET MORE INPUT ON THIS. AND THEN THAT'S HOW THE PROCESS WILL GET IDEALLY, UM, WHAT WE, WE ARE AIMING TO GET FOR. SO, I, I, I SECOND THAT, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST EVEN IF WE DO NOT GET INVOLVED JUST HAVING THE PLAN AND SHARED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE GIVING THEIR FEEDBACK, THEN WE CONSOLIDATE THAT AND THEN ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE COMMENTS. PERSONALLY, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE, UM, SKETCHES OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED TONIGHT IN THE SAME, TO THE SAME LEVEL OF, OR OF CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU ALREADY HAD IN YOUR PREVIOUS, UH, REPORT. AND THEN HAVE TIME TO CIRCULATE THAT TO THE COMMUNITY AND THEN HAVE THE ABILITY FOR THIS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSION WHERE WE RESPOND AND THEN WE, HE'S ABLE, UH, TOBO IS ABLE TO PROVIDE, UM, OKAY. TECHNICAL ANALYSIS AND FEEDBACK BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE HAD TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE SKETCHES AND NOT JUST PUT A SKETCH OUT. AND THERE'S ALSO ONE IMPORTANT GROUP THAT TRUSTEE MERTON HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH, AND I'M SURE THERE'S PROBABLY MORE INPUT THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED. UM, I MEAN, A LOT OF, A LOT OF THE STUFF WAS COVERED, I THINK, YOU KNOW, SORT OF TO THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT POINT. I THINK JUST, UM, I THINK THERE WAS SORT OF JUST A NEED TO FEEL THAT, UM, WHILE OF COURSE LIKE THE SAFEST SPOTS FOR THE CROSSWALKS ARE, ARE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, BUT ALSO THE, YOU KNOW, THE USABILITY AND WHAT, AND WHERE, UH, PEOPLE WILL BE, YOU KNOW, WOULD TEND TO USE THE CROSSWALKS VERSUS WHERE, WHERE THEY JUST MAYBE WOULDN'T AND WHY, YOU KNOW, AND, AND JUST NOT PUT SOMETHING IN BECAUSE YEAH. YOU KNOW, WITHOUT, WITHOUT SORT OF TALKING TO THE COMMUNITY. YES. I, I DO UNDERSTAND. [01:00:01] WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER LIKE A SYNOPSIS? CAN YOU SEND THAT TO HIM? YEAH, YEAH. I'VE ALREADY, I, I, WE, I HAD A COUPLE POINTS DID, HE DID COVER MOST OF, AT THIS, AT, I THINK AT THIS STAGE I THINK HE'S COVERED OR WE, THIS, UH, KIND OF COVERED A LOT OF WHAT THANK YOU. YEAH. AT THIS, AT THIS STAGE. ALRIGHT. YEAH. SO, UM, WHY DON'T WE, UH, DO AS, AS, UH, TRUSTEE OOD SUGGESTED AND GET THE CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS. WE CAN SHARE THAT OUT, YOU KNOW, THROUGH OUR RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE. AND THEN, UH, CIRCLE BACK WITH ANOTHER MEETING TO, UH, YOU KNOW, HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC AND HEAR FROM THE BOARD. ALRIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT'S, IT'S ALWAYS, IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE, UH, COMING OVER TO THIS PART OF THIS, UM, HASTINGS, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. UH, ONTO [IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ] APPROVAL OF MINUTES, UH, APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DECEMBER 2ND, 2025. WE HEAR A MOTION? SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. DECEMBER 2ND, 2 25 OF MAYOR, WE, WE CAN GET ONE MOTION FOR THAT. OH, I'M SORRY. WELL, WE'RE DOING IT TWICE. OKAY. I MEAN, WE CAN , CAN I CARRY OVER THE SAME MOTION, THE SAME SECOND, THE SAME APPROVAL FOR THE NEXT, UH, MINUTES APPROVAL. YOU GOOD WITH IT? YES. GOOD. UH, APPROVAL [V. APPROVAL OF WARRANTS ] OF WARRANTS GENERAL FUND AA 440 3009 OR $443,092 AND 97 CENTS. FEDERAL DRUG GRANT TD $9,023 DRAPER PARK FUND, EM $691 AND 67 CENTS POOL FUND, ER $1,437 AND 28 CENTS CAPITAL FUND, HH $356,590 AND 12 CENTS LIBRARY FUND, LL $17,111 AND 15 CENTS BETTERMENT FUND TT $6,418 AND 43 CENTS. PROFESSIONAL ESCROW TT $3,437 AND 20 CENTS. I HAVE A MOTION. SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. ON THE PUBLIC COMMENTS? MAYOR, CAN YOU JUST MOVE YOUR MIC A LITTLE CLOSER? I'M SORRY. ON THE PUBLIC [VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS ] COMMENTS. UH, DO WE HAVE ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? IF YOU WOULD PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND STATE YOUR ADDRESS. GOOD EVENING, DAVE SKOLNIK, 47 HILLSIDE. CAN YOU HEAR? YES. OKAY. OKAY. SO ACTUALLY, UH, I DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH TO CONTRIBUTE THIS EVENING, WHICH IS PROBABLY THE LAST TIME YOU'RE GOING TO EXPERIENCE THAT, BUT SINCE I WASN'T ABLE TO BE HERE AT THE LAST MEETING TO CONGRATULATE YOU ALL AND WISH YOU WELL, THEN I WOULD TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY. I WAS CONCERNED THAT YOU WERE GOING TO, UM, MOVE A LITTLE, UH, FOR MY TASTE TOO FAST ON THIS PROJECT, BUT I WAS PLEASED TO HEAR THE DISCUSSION AND THAT SEEMS WILL ALLOW FOR AN ACTUAL, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF COMMUNITY INPUT. UH, SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD GOING FORWARD. UM, I REALLY, UH, THE ONLY I'M LOOKING AT, AT THE AGENDA ITSELF AND THE, UM, THE ONLY THING I REALLY WISH YOU WELL ON, UH, PARTICULARLY IS YOUR DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SECOND COMMENT PERIOD. I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DOES ANYBODY ELSE WISH TO ADDRESS THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC? HELLO, UH, LAUREN BERMAN, 45 MAIN STREET WHEN THE CANNABIS LICENSE WAS APPROVED AT 45 MAIN STREET IN SEPTEMBER. AND I WROTE TO OUR PREVIOUS MA MAYOR WITH COMMON SENSE OB OBJECTIONS AND DID NOT GET A RESPONSE. I BEGAN TO PURSUE CONVERSATIONS WITH ELECTED OFFICIALS BEYOND OUR VILLAGE UP TO AND INCLUDING THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. AS A RESULT, LAST WEEK AT THE COORDINATION OF FROM GOVERNOR KO'S OFFICE, I SPOKE DIRECTLY WITH CHELSEA DAVIS, NEW YORK ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF GAMING AND CANNABIS VIA ZOOM, ALONG WITH THREE OTHER HASTING RESIDENTS REPRESENTING THE MANY WHO SIGNED A PETITION TO OBJECT TO THE LICENSE LOCATION. THE GOAL OF THE MEETING WAS TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE STATE GRANTED A CANNABIS DISPENSARY LICENSE AT 45 MAIN STREET, DESPITE TWO SUBMISSIONS OF OBJECTION TO THE LOCATION BY OUR VILLAGE GOVERNMENT [01:05:01] IN 2023. AN OBJECTION SUBMITTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM AT 45 MAIN STREET IN 2023. AN ADDITIONAL NOTICE OF THE CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN 2024 AT 52 MAIN STREET OUTSIDE OF OUR GOVERNOR, MS. DAVIS IS THE HIGHEST RANKING PERSON IN NEW YORK WITH OVERSIGHT ON CANNABIS, AND SHE WAS UNABLE TO PROVIDE US ANY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING WHY THE CANNABIS CONTROL BOARD GRANTED A LICENSE THAT WHOLLY IGNORED MUNICIPAL OBJECTION. FURTHER, SHE HAD NO EXPLANATION FOR ANY AVENUES OF RECOURSE. IT WAS OUR IMPRESSION FROM THIS DISCUSSION THAT NEW YORK HAS NO CONTROL OF THE CANNABIS BUREAUCRACY IT CREATED AND NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR NEW YORKERS. AT MS. DAVIS'S SUGGESTION, SHE SAID SHE WOULD FOLLOW UP WITH A CONTACT AT THE CANNABIS CONTROL BOARD SO THAT WE COULD MEET DIRECTLY WITH THEM. SHE DID NOT SAY SHE PROVIDES OVERSIGHT TO THE CCB ALL APPOINTEES AND NOT ELECTED, AND IS ENTIRELY UNCLEAR WHO DOES, DESPITE HER CABINET POSITION IN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. SO WE AWAIT GETTING AN APPOINTMENT WITH THE CANNABIS CONTROL BOARD, THOUGH BASED ON THE CONVERSATION WITH MS. DAVIS, I ANTICIPATE ANOTHER CIRCULAR DISCUSSION WITH NO CLEAR PATH TO CORRECT A HORRIFIC DECISION TO PUT A POT STORE ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR COMMUNITY CENTER. WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF NORMALIZING DRUG USE AT A SCHOOL BUS STOP AND WITHIN FEET OF KIDS DROPPING OFF THEIR LETTERS TO SANTA. AND WHERE PARENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE THEIR CHILDREN TO WATCH MOVIES WHILE PARENTS SHOP IN TOWN. IN THE, IN ADDITION TO MEETING WITH THE NEW YORK ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF GAMING AND CANNABIS, I HAD A 35 MINUTE PHONE CONVERSATION WITH JOHN JONATHAN ALVARENGA, DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS FOR THE STATE SENATE MAJORITY LEADER ANDREA STEWART COUSINS. ON NOVEMBER 25TH, MR. ALVARENGA TOLD ME THAT THE SENATOR HAS NO OVERSIGHT OF CCB OR AT THE OFFICE OF CANNABIS MANAGEMENT, AND THAT HE WOULD CONVEY OUR SITUATION DIRECTLY TO STEWART COUSINS AT A LOSS TO OFFER ANY AVENUES OF RECOURSE. HE ALSO SEEMS TO DEFEND THE FACT THAT THE, THE LOCATION MUST BE WITHIN REGULATIONS OR LAWFUL, OTHERWISE IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN APPROVED. I TOLD HIM THAT THE CANNABIS LAWS ARE NOT SERVING THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK, IF IT IS LAWFUL TO, FOR, TO OPEN A DISPENSARY WITHIN 100 FEET OF A FEDERALLY FUNDED YOUTH DRUG PREVENTION PROGRAM AT OUR COMMUNITY CENTER. THANK YOU. DO I HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? STAN ABDON 21 RAVENSDALE ALSO SITS ON THE SAFETY COUNCIL. I THINK WHAT WE'VE DONE TODAY HERE WITH THE MAIN STREET IS GOOD. WE NEED TO GO DEEPER, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE DOING AND I APPRECIATE ALL THAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE. MOVE ON TO [VII. RESOLUTIONS ] RESOLUTIONS. FIRST RESOLUTION IS 1 71 25 INTER FUND TRANSFERS. FISCAL YEAR 2024. 2025 RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE TREASURER TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING. BUDGETARY INTER FUND TRANSFERS FISCAL YEAR 2024 TO 2025, GOVERNMENT GENERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT TRANSFER TO $50,374. PUBLIC SAFETY TRANSFER FROM $105,701. HEALTH TRANSFER TWO 150 TO $159,792. TRANSPORTATION, $49,668 ULTRA AND RECREATION TRANSFER TWO $209,137. COLEMAN COMMUNITY TRANSFER FROM $241,686. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS TRANSFER FROM $475,994. ENTER FUND TRANSFER OUT, TRANSFER TWO $2,167,689 STATE AND FEDERAL AID TRANSFER FROM $1,813,299 FOR A TOTAL OF $2,636,000 $680. MAY I HAVE A MOTION OR DISCUSSION ON THE RESOLUTION? DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THE TREASURY? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR. A 1 72 25 AWARD OF BID FOR TREE WORK BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE BID FOR TREE REMOVAL, TREE PRUNING AND STUMP GRINDING SERVICES TO OLMSTEAD TREE AND SHRUB CARE COMPANY LLC AND AUTHORIZED THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY CONTRACTS. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION RESOLUTION? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO [01:10:01] MOVED. MAY I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. 1 73. UH, 25 AWARD A PROPOSAL FOR MAIN STREET TOPOGRAPHIC RIGHT OF WAY SURVEY. IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE PROPOSAL FOR MAIN STREET TOPOGRAPHIC RIGHT OF WAY SURVEY TO TECTONIC ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS, GEOLOGISTS AND LAND SURVEY SURVEYORS, DPC AND THE AMOUNT OF $13,000. AND TO AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL NECESSARY CONTRACTS. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL? VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? UM, NO, JUST THAT THIS IS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CDBG GRANTS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED AND, UH, WE'RE DOING ALL OF THE REST OF MAIN STREET EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T GET THAT LAST TIP. WE, WE DID RE REAPPLY FOR THAT. SO, UM, UH, THAT'LL SET US UP FOR WHEN THE COUNTY IS READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, FUNDING THOSE CDBG GRANTS AND DOING THAT SIDEWALK WORK ON MAIN STREET, WHICH, UH, TEBO INDICATED IS SORELY NECESSARY. AND, UH, KIND OF SIMILAR TO THE DISCUSSION WE HAD EARLIER, WERE THERE VERY TIME CONSTRAINTS, UM, ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO CONSIDER WHAT TABLEAU PRESENTED ON THIS EVENING AS WELL? WELL, WE'LL BE HAVING THIS DONE. USUALLY IT TAKES, ONCE YOU AUTHORIZE IT, IT TAKES MAYBE A MONTH OR SO BEFORE, YOU KNOW, TO GET INTO THE, INTO TECT TECTONICS SCHEDULE. SO I WOULD IMAGINE WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS WE'LL HAVE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY. ANYBODY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. 1 74 25 AUTHORIZATION TO EXECUTE INTERIM MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH WESTCHESTER COUNTY FOR SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL BE RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN INTERMI MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH WESTCHESTER COUNTY FOR SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL FOR THE TERM OCTOBER 1ST, 2025 TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2030, SUBJECT TO VILLAGE ATTORNEY APPROVAL. GOOD. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? WE'RE BACKDATING THIS ONE ONLY BY TWO MONTHS. THIS IS, IT'S THE SAME AGREEMENT THAT WE VOTE, YOU KNOW, WE, THIS IS A REGULAR RENEWS EVERY FIVE YEARS AND THIS JUST ONLY ENCOMPASSES US REMOVING SNOW FROM COUNTY ROADS IN OUR BUILDING. THAT'S CORRECT. SO MOVED. DO I HAVE MOTION? SO SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. 1 75 25 AUTHORIZATION TO EXECUTE PROPOSAL FOR PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK ASSESSMENT STUDY MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO EXECUTE A PROPOSAL, UH, WITH THAILAND FOR A PEDESTRIAN CROSSWALK ASSESSMENT STUDY ON VILLARD AVENUE BETWEEN EUCLID AVENUE AND SOUTH COUNTY MED AVENUE AND RAVENSDALE ROAD AND ROSEDALE AVENUE IN THE AMOUNT OF $14,500. ANY QUESTIONS? THE ONLY ONE COMMENT, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT MAKING THIS COMMENT BEFORE WE PUT IT IN THE AGENDA. UM, THAT THERE IS, WELL IT'S MISSPELLED TYPO, BUT ANYWAY. NO, THE, UM, THE, UM, THERE'S A TYPO IN THE, IN THE YES IN THE THING, SORRY. UM, BUT THE, THE, THAT, UM, THERE ALREADY IS A, A CROSSWALK AT RAVENSDALE AND ROSEDALE AND WHAT THE SPECIFIC REQUEST HERE IS TO STUDY, UH, FOUR-WAY STOP SIGN THERE ALREADY. THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE ARE STOP SIGNS ON GRANTFORD AND ROSEDALE, BUT TO ADD THEM ONTO EACH DIRECTION OF ROAD OF, UH, RAVENSDALE, UM, AND PERHAPS ANOTHER CROSSWALK, BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY, YOU KNOW, BUT THERE'S ALREADY ONE CROSSWALK THERE. CAN WE ADD THAT INTO THE LANGUAGE THAT WE'D LIKE TO ASK THEM FOR FEASIBILITY OF A FOUR-WAY STOP? UM, THAT WAS CONVEYED, UH, IN MY ORIGINAL REQUEST. UM, I THINK PART OF IT IS THAT SAM SCHWARTZ HAD DONE A, UH, STUDY WITH REGARD TO THAT, UH, WHICH I ALSO SHARED WITH THEM, AND THEY OF COURSE WERE AWARE OF IT SINCE THEY USED TO BE SAM SCHWARTZ. UM, I CAN, WE, YOU CAN CERTAINLY EDIT IN THE RESOLUTION AND I CAN REAFFIRM IT WHETHER WE WANT THEM TO LOOK AT THAT ISSUE, UH, ONCE AGAIN. BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE FOUR-WAY STOP IS APPROPRIATE WHEN THERE'S TRAFFIC FROM BOTH, LIKE BOTH THIS WAY AND THAT WAY FOR LACK OF PERPENDICULAR AND, YOU KNOW, THE PER THE PER BOTH PERPENDICULAR DIRECTIONS AND THAT BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC ON BRANFORD AND, AND ROSEDALE IS, IS NOT, YOU KNOW, AS HEAVY AS THE TRAFFIC IS ON, ON OBVIOUSLY ON RAVENSDALE. UM, THAT'S WHY THE FOUR WAY STOP IS NOT RIGHT. NO, BUT WHY, I THINK WHY THEY, THEY, YOU KNOW, BUT YOU WERE TALKING THANK YOU FOR SENDING THAT REPORT. I DID UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, WHEN WE DISCUSSED IT, BUT THIS WAS MAINLY REQUEST FOR PEDESTRIAN SAFETY WHERE THE PEDESTRIANS TRYING TO CROSS RIGHT. RAVENSDALE. AND THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD NEED THE, IT'S NOT, SO IT'S NOT ABOUT A FOUR-WAY STOP. IT'S REALLY ABOUT STOP SIGNS ON RAVENSDALE. OKAY. WHICH IS NOT IN THIS STUDY PRIOR. [01:15:01] AND AT TWO TIMES A DAY, THERE IS SIGNIFICANT TRAFFIC THAT THOSE RUN NORTH TO SOUTH OR SOUTH TO NORTH, DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF THE DAY ON BRANFORD AND ROSEDALE, UH, INTO THAT INTERSECTION. UM, I I WILL CERTAINLY, UM, YOU KNOW, BRING, BRING BACK TO, UH, THAILAND THAT THE BOARD WANTS THAT ISSUE LOOKED AT AGAIN, AND I HAD ALWAYS READ THIS ASSESSMENT STUDY IS INCLUDING THE POSSIBILITY OF OF SIGNAL SIGNALIZATION, BUT LIKE YOU MEAN A TRAFFIC LIGHT? NO, NO, NO. AT THE STOP SIGN. OH, OKAY. UM, LIKE ANY KIND OF SIGNALIZATION. UM, BUT YOU HAD BROUGHT THIS UP AT THE LAST MEETING AND I, AND I THINK THIS WOULD BE WORTH TALKING TO, TO, TO, UM, SAM TO TYLER SOME MORE ABOUT, WHICH IS, UM, THE EXCEPTIONS MM-HMM . SO THE POSSIBILITY OF SIGHT LINE DISTANCE ISSUES, BRINGING THAT UP, CERTAINLY ON BELLARD AVENUE, BUT I THINK EVEN THERE ARE LOCATIONS ON RAVENSDALE WHERE THERE ARE SIGHTLINE ISSUES TOO. I WILL, I WILL HIGHLIGHT THAT, UM, TO, TO, UH, TEBO. UM, I ALSO, YEAH. OH, SO I ALSO HAD A COMMENT ON, UM, THE VILLARD. UM, IT SAYS IN HIS, IN THE TASK TWO ON LAR, WE WILL ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF INSTALLING A CROSSWALK BETWEEN EUCLID AND SOUTH CALUMET. UM, AND IS WORTH NOTING IT DOESN'T INCLUDE THE INTERSECTION OF CALUMET AND SOUTH CALUMET BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT, UM, THEY'RE NOT ATTACHED OR THEY'RE NOT PERFECTLY ALIGNED. THEY DON'T LINE UP. UM, THEY'RE NOT, YEAH. UM, SO TWO PARTS TO THAT. SO I, I FEEL LIKE, UM, IF THEY LOOK TO PUT ACROSS, IF THEY'RE JUST LOOKING BETWEEN EUCLID AND SOUTH CALUMET, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S TOO FAR DOWN VILLARD FOR IT TO MAKE SENSE FOR CHILDREN WHO WERE WALKING TO SCHOOL. UM, SO I, MY SUGGESTION WAS WHETHER THEY COULD EXTEND THAT, UM, AT LEAST DETERMINING WHERE CROSSWALK MIGHT GO TOWARDS, UM, LIKE TERRACE. AND I KNOW THERE'S A CURVE THERE, BUT I'M JUST THINKING, YOU KNOW, THE KIDS ARE NOT GONNA WALK PAST TERRACE OR OR SOUTH CAL MAP. THEY'RE NOT GONNA WALK DOWN TO EUCLID. BUT I THINK MY, MY WAY OF READING IT IS EUCLID TO SOUTH CAE COULD INCLUDE IN BETWEEN SOUTH CAE AND CALUMET. OH, ED IS CLOSER TO EUCLID. SO THE, RIGHT, SO I'M THINKING PERSONALLY, JUST 'CAUSE I LIVE THERE. YEAH. THE INTERSECTION, THE CROSSWALK MAKES MOST SENSE TO BE ON THE WEST SIDE OF SOUTH CALUMET TO THE EAST SIDE OF CALUMET, YOU KNOW, IN BETWEEN THEM. YEAH, IN BETWEEN THOSE TWO. YOU'RE RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING TOO. THAT'S WHAT, SO, AND I GUESS THE LANG, I WAS JUST, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS GONNA BE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT COMMUNITY IN THAT AREA IS ASKING FOR SOMETHING TO BE CLOSER TO THOSE, THE WEST SIDE OF CALUMET AND THE EAST SIDE OF YEAH, BECAUSE THERE'S A LITTLE, THE WEST SIDE OF SOUTH CALUMET, THE EAST SIDE OF CALUMET. 'CAUSE THEY'RE KIND OF NOT DIRECTLY ACROSS, RIGHT. THEY'RE, I KNOW THEY'RE NOT, THERE'S A LARGE GAP BETWEEN THEM. SO THAT WOULD BE A GOOD SPOT. SO BY SAYING BETWEEN, BUT IN SOUTH CALUMET IT ENCOMPASSES THAT IT SHOULD JUST BE CALUMET AND SOUTH CALUMET MAYOR WOULD, WOULD YOU, WOULD IT BE DIRECTLY PERPENDICULAR ACROSS THE ROAD THERE OR WOULD YOU HAVE TO GO TO ACT? NO, WOULD BE DIRECTLY PERPENDICULAR. OKAY. OKAY. GOT IT. I THINK SO, RIGHT? YES, I THINK SO. ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO JUST SO THAT THE, UM, WHEN IT WAS DONE THAT IT WOULD BE INCLUDED. MY LYNN'S GETTING A LOT OF QUESTIONS FROM US TONIGHT. UH, SO WE, I'M SORRY. THAT'S ALRIGHT. DO WE, DO WE SHELVE THIS TO SEE IF THEIR, THEIR AMOUNT IS THE SAME? OR DO WE FEEL WE COULD APPROVE IT WITH THESE? I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD APPROVE IT WITH THE AMOUNT AND THEN IF THE VILLAGE MANAGER COMES BACK BECAUSE OF A CHANGE, THEN WE MAKE THAT CHANGE. UH, SUPER. THAT MAKES SENSE. YOU'RE GOOD? YEAH. ALRIGHT. UH, MAY I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. 1 76 25 AUTHORIZATION TO SOLICIT PROPOSALS FOR CONSULTING ENGINEER THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZED THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO SOLICIT PROPOSALS FOR CONSULTING ENGINEER IN CONNECTION WITH THE REMEDIATION WORK ON THE BP RCO SITE. IT WAS MANAGER MURPHY. DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? UM, UH, JUST THAT, UM, WE HAVE, OH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE LONG HAD A, AN ENGINEER FOR THE WATERFRONT TO, TO HELP, TO ASSIST US WITH EVALUATING THE MATERIALS THAT WE GET FROM THE, FROM ARCOS ENGINEERS. AND, UM, THERE HAD BEEN SOME CHANGE IN PERSONNEL WITH THE FIRM THAT WE HAD BEEN USING AND THE IN, YOU KNOW, SOME CASUAL CONVERSATION WITH SOME OF THE BOARD MEMBERS. UH, WE THOUGHT THAT [01:20:01] IT MIGHT BE A GOOD TIME TO GO OUT, FORBID OBVIOUSLY INCLUDING THOSE FIRMS AS, AS, YOU KNOW, RECIPIENTS OF THE, OF THE PROPOSALS. NOT TO BID, BUT BUT OUT FOR, FOR PROPOSALS, UH, TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE CAN FIND THE BEST FIT. UM, THERE DOES SEEM TO BE MORE ACTIVITY, UH, FROM ARCO IN TERMS OF THEIR, THEIR REMEDIATION PROCESS IN MOVING IT FORWARD. SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE BRING SOMEBODY ON BOARD TO ASSIST US WITH THAT PROCESS. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YOU HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND? SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 1 77 25 SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING AND PROPOSED LAW. LOCAL K UH, LOCAL LAW K OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 2 82, VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC. ARTICLE SEVEN, STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS OF THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO ADD NEW STOP INTERSECTIONS BE RESOLVED. THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 6TH, 2026 AT 7:00 PM OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER TO CONSIDER PRO PROPOSED LOCAL LAW K OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 2 82 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC. ARTICLE SEVEN, STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS OF THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO ADD NEW STOPS, UH, INTERSECTIONS. THE INTERSECTIONS THAT WE WERE DISCUSSING ARE GLENWOOD AVENUE AND HORNER AVENUE, LINCOLN AVENUE AND FAIRMONT AND WASHINGTON AVENUE AND SOUTH SIDE AVENUE, WASHINGTON AVENUE AND SOUTH SIDE. WE ADDED, IT WAS NOT PART OF WHAT WAS DISCUSSED, BUT WE DISCOVERED THERE IS A STOP SIGN THERE AND IT IS NOT IN THE CODE, SO WE ADDED IT. SO IT'S IMPORTANT. . YEAH, JUST WE ALSO, UM, SO THE, THE CLERK AND I, IN GOING THROUGH THE LAW AS IT EXISTS, WE FOUND A NUMBER OF ERRORS, UM, A NUMBER OF DUPLICATION AND THE LAW'S NOT SET UP RIGHT. SO WE DIDN'T WANNA HIT YOU WITH A WHOLE REDO. NOW WE WANNA GET THESE DONE, BUT WE'D LIKE TO COME BACK TO YOU PROBABLY NEXT MONTH, UM, WITH THE WHOLE STOP SIGN SECTION CLEANED UP. OKAY. OKAY. AND I'M JUST CONFIRMING THESE ARE ALL, UM, I LOOKED ON THE MAP, THEY'RE ALL T STOPS. YES. SO IT'S JUST ONE SIGN PER LOCATION, CORRECT? YEP. AND THEN JUST ONE, JUST ANNOYING COMMENT. SO IT SAYS 2055 ON THE SHEET HERE. I'M SURE THAT'S JUST OUR COPY. SO ANTHONY, ON THE LAW ITSELF, ON THE, WE'RE GONNA TAKE OUR TIME. I JUST DIDN'T READ THAT BARN. THANK YOU. ANYBODY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVE. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. . USUALLY IT'S, THAT WASN'T ME. . [VIII. VILLAGE MANAGER’S REPORT ] MOVING ON TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER'S. UH, REPORTS, UH, YES. UM, THE EV CHARGING STATIONS, UH, THE STATIONS HAVE ALL BEEN DELIVERED AND ARE WITH INF. UM, WE HAVE ISSUED THE, PER THE VILLAGE ITSELF HAS ISSUED THE PERMITS NECESSARY FOR THE STATIONS TO BE INSTALLED. AND, UH, THE PROGRAM AGREEMENTS WITH CON ED HAVE BEEN, UH, OR HAVE BEEN MADE WITH, WITH, UM, FOR THE VILLAGE HALL AND FOR THE METRO NORTH STATION OR THE, THE COMMUTER LOT STATION. WE'RE WAITING FOR, UH, THOSE INCENTIVE LETTERS OR PROGRAM AGREEMENTS FROM CONED, UH, FOR THE OTHER LOCATIONS. WE EXPECT THAT BY YEAR END. AND, UM, WE, THE, THE INF IS, UH, IS HOPING TO MOBILIZE NEXT WEEK IN, IN THE AREA OF THE VILLAGE HALL AND THE COMMUTER LOT. I THINK THEY'RE STARTING WITH THE COMMUTER LOT. SO, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S IT ON THE, ON THE EV STATIONS. UM, I, I, UH, JUST AS A LITTLE ASIDE, THE WORK IS PROGRESSING ON THE ROOF. UH, AT AND T UH, HAS BEEN MOVED ON TO THE SLEDS THEY CALL THEM. AND, UH, THEY'RE MOVING THE BRICK AND, AND REPLACING THE, THE BRICK, UH, ON THE PARA PITT. SO THAT WORK, UH, HAS BEEN MOVING AHEAD THIS WEEK. IT'S, UH, AND THEN ONE OTHER THING I JUST WANTED TO ADD, UM, I HAD A REC REQUEST SIMILAR TO THE STOP SIGNS THAT WE ARE, UH, PUTTING THAT ARE, THEY'RE IN LOCAL LAW 1 77 25. UM, I'VE BEEN REQUESTED AT, UM, STOP SIGNS ON CROSSBAR AT ITS WESTERLY END AND ON JORDAN, UH, AT ITS, UM, AT ITS EASTERLY END, UH, WHERE INTERSEX CROSSBAR, THERE'S T INTERSECTION, SIMILAR T INTERSECTIONS, BUT THE, THE RESIDENTS IN THAT AREA THINK THAT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE A REMINDER AT THOSE T INTERSECTIONS, UH, FOR PEOPLE TO STOP. SO, UM, I DID MAKE A DRAWING, BUT I, I FORGOT TO MAKE COPIES FOR EVERYBODY. I CAN SEND IT TO YOU TOMORROW SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE WHERE EXACTLY, I MEAN, BUT IT'S THE TWO T INTERSECTIONS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. SO WITH YOUR PERMISSION, I'D LIKE TO [01:25:01] GET THAT ON THE AGENDA FOR, UH, AT OUR NEXT MEETING. COULD WE INCORPORATE THAT INTO THE BIGGER CLEANUP WALK? THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA ASK. IF WE JUST, WE CAN ADD THOSE MEAN THAT WILL BE AT OUR NEXT MEETING ANYWAY. YEAH. IF IT'S AT THE NEXT MEETING, THAT'D GREAT. YEAH. SO THAT, THAT WILL CLEAN UP AND REARRANGE AND ADD A FEW, THERE WAS A FEW OTHERS THAT WE SAW. YEAH, WE FOUND A FEW OTHERS. DO YOU MIND JUST ADDING A NOTE TO THE SAFETY COUNCIL, UH, ABOUT THAT? SURE. SO THEY'RE AWARE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE BRINGING THAT ON. SO JUST IN CASE THEY'RE GETTING EMAILS ALSO AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A MEETING ABOUT IT. YEP. SO, SORRY, JUST SO I UNDERSTAND, LIKE TECH, THE LIKE CLEANUP MEANS? OH, UM, YEAH. I, I, YEAH. SO I'LL JUST EXPLAIN SOME OF THE THINGS WE FOUND. THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT REFERENCE FARGATE PARKWAY THAT SHOULD BE FARGATE AVENUE AND VICE VERSA, THINGS LIKE IT. STOP SIGN LOCATION. LOCATION. IT'S LOCATION. OH, OKAY. IT A CODE LIST. STOP SIGN LOCATIONS. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. THE OTHER THING IS, IS THE CODE IS SET UP NOW. THE TITLE IS SECTION IS ACTUALLY THROUGH ROADS, AND IT STARTS THAT WAY. IT SAYS LIKE, WASHINGTON IS A THROUGH ROAD AND THERE SHALL BE STOP SIGNS AT, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE SIDE ROADS ALL COME IN AND IT LISTS THEM, BUT AT SOME POINT IT JUST STARTED LISTING STOP SIGN LOCATIONS WITHOUT CHANGING THAT REFERENCE TO THROUGH ROADS. AND THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THROUGH ROADS. SO IT NEEDS TO BE BROKEN INTO TWO SUBSECTIONS. THERE'S SOME OF THE THROUGH ROAD THINGS THAT GOT ADDED AT THE END, NOT UNDER THE THROUGH ROAD. YOU'LL SEE IT WHEN IT COMES TO YOU. WE'LL TRY TO RED LINE IT SO YOU CAN SORT OF SEE WHERE WE'RE MOVING THINGS AROUND AND CLEANING THINGS UP. OKAY, THANK YOU. UM, I HAVE NOTHING ELSE UNLESS THERE'S QUESTIONS. I, ANYTHING TRUSTEE? TRUSTEE FLEISIG HAS A QUESTION. MTA , COME ON. HOW WOULD WE NOT ASK? I ALREADY ASKED HER ABOUT IT. , WE DID MEET WITH A REPRESENTATIVE FROM GOVERNOR HO'S OFFICE FOR THE HUDSON VALLEY LAST WEEK, WHO HOPEFULLY WE'LL START POKING A LITTLE HARDER FOR US, BUT WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM. RIGHT. I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM AND I HAD NOT SEEN MUCH ACTIVITY, BUT TRUSTEE FLEISIG DID REPORT TO ME THAT HE HAD SEEN AT LEAST ONE PERSON, UM, MEANDERING AROUND DOWN BY THE, THE WORK SITE. I THINK IT'S PROBABLY TOO COLD TO POUR CONCRETE THIS WEEK. . YEAH, THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE. CAN I GO BACK TO THE EV CHARGING STATIONS JUST FOR ONE MOMENT? UM, BACK IN 2019, WHEN WE PUT THE CHARGING STATIONS IN STEIN SCHNEIDER, WE DID AMEND THE CODE AT THAT TIME AND WE ADDED A PROVISION THAT SAID, NO PERSON SHALL STOP, STAND OR PARK A VEHICLE OTHER THAN AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE WHILE CHARGING WITHIN ANY SPACE MARKED OR SIGNED AS ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING STATION. AND I KNOW AT THE LAST MEETING WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT IT, YOU WERE INDICATING THAT YOU DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT. YOU WANTED TO ALLOW I THINK ANYBODY TO PARK THERE. SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO AMEND THE CODE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE TONIGHT. WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT AT THE NEXT MEETING, BUT IT'S GONNA REQUIRE A CODE AMENDMENT. AND WE, WE DID HAVE A DISCUSSION ON IT, AND I THINK IN THE VERY LEAST MY OPINION ON THE STREET PARKING ON, ON MAPLE AVENUE SHOULD BE PREFERRED PARKING, NOT SOLELY ELECTRIC UHHUH, BECAUSE THERE'S PLENTY OF RESIDENCES ALONG THERE THAT RELY ON THAT PARKING AS WELL. UM, BUT I KNOW THE POINT WAS BROUGHT UP BY TRUSTEE FLEISIG ABOUT THE PARKING LOT, THE COMMUTER LOT AND STUFF, AND WHETHER THAT SHOULD JUST BE DESIGNATED ELECTRIC ONLY AND WE SHOULD HAVE A DISCUSSION SO WE CAN KEEP THIS PROVISION APPLYING TO IN THE LOTS, THE OFF STREET. UM, BUT WE CAN MAKE THIS STREET, WE CAN MAKE IT NOT APPLY TO THOSE THAT ARE ON THE STREET. WHERE, WHERE ARE THEY GOING ON MAPLE? LIKE IN FRONT OF THE, IN FRONT OF VILLAGE HALL, RIGHT? YEAH. SO I MEAN, THAT'S GONNA BE USED MOSTLY BY PERSONNEL. BY PERSONNEL. I MEAN, RIGHT NOW THEY, BUT THE RESIDENCE, IDEALLY THEY WOULD SHIFT YEAH. DURING, BUT IN THE EVENING, DURING THE DAY IT GOES TO RESIDENTIAL USUALLY. YEAH, RESIDENTIAL AT NIGHT. MM-HMM . THERE WAS ALSO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER TO MAKE ONE OF THE ONES ON MAPLE ALSO A HANDICAP SPOT. I MEAN, IN THE EV HANDICAP EV EV OR HANDICAP HANDICAPPED EV SPOT. I MEAN, WE WILL HAVE ONE IN THE LOT AT THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING FOR ANYONE USING THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING IN THE LIBRARY. THERE JUST WOULDN'T BE ONE ON THE STREET. I MEAN, IS THERE A CALL OR, OR A NEED FOR IT? HAVE WE BEEN ASKED? IT WAS RAISED BY ONE OF THE RESIDENTS ON MAPLE. IT, IT WOULD, YES. I, THAT ONE PERSON HAS RAISED IT. DOES THAT DECISION HAVE TO BE MADE TONIGHT? NO. NO, BUT I DOES, SO EVERYBODY CAN BE THINKING ABOUT IT AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT IN JANUARY. YEAH. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? VILLAGE MANAGER? UH, THAT IS ALL THAT I HAD. OKAY. MOVING ON TO BOARD [IX. BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS ] DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS. UH, I TURNED THIS OVER TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER AND, UH, TRUSTEE FLEISIG. AND TRUSTEE ALLGOOD, UH, FOR A RECAP OF THE LAND USE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE, UH, TRAINING. [01:30:01] ANYBODY ? UM, WELL I'LL START. OKAY. UM, SO THE, THE LAND USE LAW CENTER, UM, WHICH IS OVER IN WHITE PLAINS, UH, HAS A REGULAR, UM, AND OUR ATTORNEY IS, IS AFFILIATED WITH THEM AS WELL. ARE YOU NOT, IS THAT THE RIGHT WAY TO DESCRIBE IT? YOU'RE AFFILIATED, I, I, I LECTURE WITH FOR THEM, YOU WORK WITH THEM, YOU LECTURE THEM AND FOR THEM, BUT THEY, THEY HAVE A, THEY HAVE A PROGRAM WHERE THEY, UM, ENCOURAGE MUNICIPALITIES TO COME AND, AND, AND GO THROUGH A, ESSENTIALLY A THREE SESSION TRAINING PROGRAM, UH, TO UNDERSTAND PLANNING AND GENERAL PLANNING AND ZONING ISSUES. UM, AND THEN MEET WITH DEVELOPERS, HOPEFULLY WITH A, WITH A SITE IN THE VILLAGE IN MIND, AND COME UP WITH A, SOME SORT OF PROJECT TO WORK THROUGH ESSENTIALLY THE PACES OF DEVELOPING A MIXED USE OR, OR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, PROJECT IN THE VILLAGE. AND I THINK WE LEARNED A COUPLE THINGS AND I, I ACTUALLY WOULD LOVE TO HEAR, UM, VILLAGE MANAGER AND, AND TRUSTEE ALL GOODS INPUT ON IT. BUT, UM, ONE IS, IS, YOU KNOW, IT WAS JUST A GREAT EXERCISE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING SOMETHING AND TO, AND TO, AND THEN TO RUN IT UP THE FLAG POLE WITH THE LAWYERS AND THE, THE PLANNERS AND, AND THE ATTORNEYS JUST TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THESE IDEAS THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR YEARS WOULD WORK. AND I'LL COME TO WHAT THEY WERE IN A SECOND. BUT I, BUT WHAT WAS MORE INTERESTING ALSO IS I THINK WE ALSO LEARNED JUST THE PROCESS THAT WE COULD BRING BACK TO THE VILLAGE AND REPLICATE WITH THE COMMUNITY AGAIN. SO, I MEAN, FOR STARTERS, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE, THEY ASKED US WHAT SITE WOULD YOU SELECT? SO WE INITIALLY, WHEN WE ALL TALKED ABOUT IT, WE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE VILLAGE OWNS A NUMBER OF PARKING LOTS AND A LOT OF PARKLAND. YOU CAN'T USE THE PARKLAND ANYMORE, BUT WE, WE OWN A LOT OF OPEN SPACE. SO WE, WE TALKED ABOUT A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PARKING LOTS, UM, AND PICKED, I WOULD SAY THE MOST ADVENTUROUS ONE FIRST, WHICH WAS, UM, ZINZER PARKING LOT, JUST TO TAKE A LOOK AT BECAUSE IT'S A CLOSE TO THE, TO THE TRAIN STATION. IT, UH, IT ACTUALLY HAS A LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT URBAN PLANNING PROBLEMS TO IT THAT WOULD, IF WE COULD USE IT AS A DEVELOPMENT SITE, COULD END UP HELPING TO, TO IMPROVE THE LINKAGE BETWEEN THE DOWNTOWN AND THE TRAIN STATION. UM, THERE'S, IT'S, IT'S REALLY VERY UNDERUTILIZED PUBLIC SPACE RIGHT NOW. I MEAN, IT GETS USED A LOT BY A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT FOR, FOR WHAT IT IS, IT'S LIKE ON A SORT OF A RANDOM SUNDAY AFTERNOON, FOR INSTANCE, IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF ASPHALT . SO QUESTION IS, CAN IT BE USED MORE INTENSIVELY? AND, YOU KNOW, FOR SURE WE DID NOT WANT TO ELIMINATE THE PARKING. SO, UM, NUMBER ONE, AND I MEAN, BEFORE I GO TO THAT, WE DID CONSIDER A COUPLE OF OTHER PARKING LOTS. AND WHAT WAS FUNNY IS WHEN WE STARTED DOING THE DESIGN EXERCISES ON ZINZER PARKING LOT, THE, THE ARCHITECT THAT WAS ASSIGNED TO OUR GROUP, IT WAS LIKE, YOU GUYS SHOULD TRY SOMETHING THAT'S LIKE LESS AMBITION. SO HE WAS PROPOSING THESE VERY SMALL BUILDINGS, YOU KNOW, IN THE MIDDLE OF ZINZER PARKING LOT OR ALONG THE EDGES. AND OUR ATTITUDE WAS, YOU KNOW, EITHER GO BIG OR GO HOME, OR IF WE'RE GONNA TRY SOMETHING AS SMALL, WE'LL TRY A DIFFERENT PARKING LOT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S, WE HAVE SMALLER PARKING LOTS TO TRY SOMETHING. UM, SO WE CAME UP WITH ABOUT FOUR DIFFERENT SORT OF VERY CONCEPTUAL SCHEMES. AND THEN TRUSTEE ALLGOOD SPENT A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF TIME DRAWING THEM UP. UM, THEY ARE VERY , WE VERTICAL MODELING IN THE BUSINESS MODELING, SORRY, , HE MODELED THEM. UM, AND WHAT WAS INTERESTING IS ACTUALLY WE CAME UP WITH, I THINK THE TWO FINAL SCHEMES THAT WE LANDED ON WERE, THEY WERE ALL MIXED USE, SO THEY WEREN'T FULLY HOUSING. UM, THEY SAT ON TOP OF A PARKING DECK, SO THERE WAS PARKING UNDERNEATH. WE DIDN'T LOSE ANY PUBLIC PARKING. THERE WAS ADDITIONAL ACCOMMODATION FOR MORE PARKING FOR THE UNITS. SO THERE WAS LIKE A DOUBLE LEVEL PARKING SPACE. THE, THE TOP OF THE PARKING DECK BECAME A, AN OPEN PARK THAT, UM, THAT WAS CONNECTED EITHER BY A SET OF STAIRCASES OR IN, IN THE MOST AMBITIOUS SCHEMES, ACTUALLY, THAT THE HOUSING ITSELF OR THE SORT OF TERRACE DOWN WITH GREEN ROOF ON TOP OF IT DOWN TO THIS PARK, WHICH THEORETICALLY, EVENTUALLY COULD BE CONNECTED OVER THE TRAIN TRACKS AND CONNECTED TO THE RIVER. UM, AND I THINK WE CAME UP WITH ABOUT A HUNDRED TO 150 UNITS MM-HMM . ROUGHLY IN THERE. AND IT, IT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WE RAN, THEY DID A, A SORT OF, UM, A PRO FORMA FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF IT, AND IT, IT, IT WORKS FINANCIALLY. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT, WHAT DID YOU THINK WERE SORT OF THE, THE DOWNSIDES OF IT? NO, ACTUALLY I ACTUALLY, I WOULD WANT TO STEP BACKWARDS A LITTLE BIT BEFORE I GET TO THE, UM, FURTHER [01:35:01] DETAIL. BUT, UM, SO THE, THE PEOPLE WHO ATTENDED WERE, UM, UH, IN THIS ROOM, UH, VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY, TRUSTEE FLEISIG, UH, ME, TRUSTEE ALLGOOD, AND, UH, ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD WAS ONE OF THE PRESENTERS AT THIS, UM, THREE DAY, UM, SESSION. AND, UH, WE ALSO HAD MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD, RICHARD BASS, UH, JOHN PATRICK DIGGINS, AND, UH, ANDREW SMITH, AS WELL AS ARTHUR ELLO, THE LOCAL, UH, REALTOR. AND DID I LEAVE SOMEBODY OUT? TOM SPIRE, TOPI, SORRY. TOM SPIRE, ALSO PLANNING BOARD. BOARD. AND THE OTHER TWO WERE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE. AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UM, UH, UM, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE SESSIONS WHERE WE WERE TALKING TO THE DEVELOPERS, SEVERAL DIFFERENT DEVELOPERS CAME TO OUR TABLE. THEY WERE REALLY TALKING ABOUT THE, THE, UM, THE, UM, FINANCING BEHIND THE PROJECT. AND WHAT WE ALL STARTED TO REALIZE WAS THAT OUR, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, REQUIREMENTS PROBABLY MISSED ONE END OF THE DEVELOPER'S WAY OF LOOKING AT A, UH, FINANCING A PROJECT IN TERMS OF GETTING GOVERNMENT FUNDING. UH, FUNDING SOURCES ARE FOR, UH, A HIGHER DEGREE OF, OF, UM, AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR A DIFFERENT DEGREE OF, OF A MI AFFORDABILITY. AND THE OTHER END WOULD BE TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF, TO LOWER THE REQUIREMENTS SO THAT YOU CAN INCREASE THE, UM, NUMBER OF, UH, MARKET RATE UNITS, WHICH WOULD HELP FINANCE. SO WE ARE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF 10 PLUS FIVE, SO WE'RE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF 15% MISSING THE , THE GREATEST FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, WHICH ARE BELOW OUR THRESHOLD OR ABOVE OUR THRESHOLD. SO I THINK THAT'S A, A HUGE TAKEAWAY THAT IN ORDER TO, IN, TO INCENTIVIZE, TO HELP DEVELOPERS INCENTIVIZE THEM, AND TO HELP THEM OPEN UP, UH, AVENUES TOWARDS FUNDING, UH, UH, OPPORTUNITIES, WE SHOULD REEVALUATE OUR OWN AFFORDABILITY GUIDELINES. IN OTHER WORDS, TO, TO PHRASE IT A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WAY, BECAUSE WE REQUIRE IT YES. THEY, THEY GAIN NO BENEFIT. RIGHT. WHEREAS IF WE REQUIRED LESS, THEY WOULD GAIN A BENEFIT BY OFFERING MORE AND THEN THEY COULD GET FUNDING FROM OTHER SOLUTIONS. EXACTLY. RIGHT. SO I THINK THAT THAT ALL, ALL TOLD, WE ARE, UM, ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT WHAT WE LEARNED. AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A STUDY, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE MANY STEPS, AND I THINK I WANT TO TURN IT OVER TO THE ATTORNEY AT THIS POINT TO, TO SAY WHAT THOSE STEPS ARE. UNLESS VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY, YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THOSE ARE, BUT MAYBE ONE OF YOU TWO COULD HELP US IDENTIFY WHAT POTENTIAL STEPS WOULD BE IF THIS PARTICULAR SITE WERE TO, WERE THE ONE THAT WE WERE TO, UM, TRY TO ADVANCE. OR IF WE DECIDED TO DO GO MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT WE'VE LEARNED ON A DIFFERENT SITE, THE STEPS TOWARDS MOVING FORWARD WOULD BE THE SAME. DO YOU WANNA HAVE ANYTHING? UM, I MEAN, I WAS ONLY THERE ONE DAY, SO YEAH. IN TERMS OF THE STEPS TO MOVE FORWARD, IF WE WANTED TO MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD, I THINK THE FIRST THING WE'D HAVE TO DO IS, YOU KNOW, HAVE A, A KIND OF A BROAD DISCUSSION WITH THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THE PROJECT, YOU KNOW, POTENTIALLY COULD BE OR, AND SEE WHETHER THERE'S, THERE'S AN APPETITE FOR IT IN THE, IN THE VILLAGE. UM, YOU KNOW, THE ADVANTAGES THAT WE OWN THE PROPERTY. SO, YOU KNOW, THE PROPERTY ITSELF IS, IS A PRETTY EXPENSIVE PART OF IT. BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THERE IS AN APPETITE TO MOVE FORWARD, THEN I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO BRING IN SOME PROFESSIONALS TO, YOU KNOW, DESIGN IT AND CHARETTE THAT AND SEE HOW THE PUBLIC, UH, RESPONDS TO IT. AND ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, YOU'D BE PROBABLY, UM, WANTING TO, YOU KNOW, SEND OUT AN RFQ TO, TO HAVE SOMEBODY TO, YOU KNOW, TO DESIGN IT AND THEN AN RFQ TO, YOU KNOW, SOME, SOME, TO SEE WHAT WHAT DEVELOPER MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, IN, IN BUILDING IT. OR MAYBE EVEN YOU WANT THE DEVELOPER FIRST SO THAT THEY PAY FOR ALL THE DESIGN WORK. MM-HMM . WASN'T THERE SOMETHING ABOUT REZONING PRIOR TO ALL OF THIS THING? ? I MEAN, I'M NEVER, I'M NOT A BIG FAN ABOUT REZONING PRIOR, AS I, WE DISAGREE ON THAT AS, YOU KNOW, , . BUT I, I UNDERSTAND THE, THE, THE THINKING BEHIND IT. MY, MY, MY THOUGHT, WHICH DOES RECOMMEND REZONING FIRST IS IT GIVES THE VILLAGE MORE CONTROL. AND I WOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU FORM A COMMITTEE OR HOW YOU DO IT, BUT IT'S REALLY ABOUT HAVING THE VILLAGE DECIDE YOU DON'T HAVE TO DESIGN THE PROJECT, BUT WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE THERE? UM, WELL, I AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT PART, BUT ONCE YOU REZONE IT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE TO SOME EXTENT LOSING CONTROL, NOT IF YOU OWN THE PROPERTY. WELL, WE CAN AGREE TO DISAGREE BECAUSE YOU OWN THE PROPERTY, YOU DON'T LOSE CONTROL. SO WHAT YOU DO [01:40:01] IS OTHERWISE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A DEVELOPER COME IN AND THEY'RE GONNA ASK YOU FOR THE ZONING THAT THEY WANT. MM-HMM . UM, SO I, IN MY MIND, BECAUSE YOU OWN THE PROPERTY, SO YOU DON'T LOSE CONTROL. YOU, YOU WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT, UM, LOOK AT DOING, CHANGING THE ZONING, AMENDING THE ZONING, UM, AND THEN PUT IT OUT FOR RFQ OR RFP, UM, AND GET DEVELOPER, YOU KNOW, AND IN THAT YOU CAN BE VERY SPECIFIC. YOU CAN SAY, WE WANNA INCLUDE OBVIOUSLY THE, YOU KNOW, KEEP THE PARKING, THE PUBLIC PARKING, UM, PROVIDE BETWEEN X AND Y NUMBER OF UNITS, HOWEVER, WHATEVER PERCENT AFFORDABLE, YOU CAN OUTLINE WHAT YOU WANT IN THAT RFP AND LET THEM PRESENT SORT OF THEIR VISION, THEIR DESIGN, THEIR PROPOSAL, UM, AND ANY OTHER, UM, COMMUNITY AMENITIES OR COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT YOU MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR. YOU CAN REQUEST IN THE RFP, YOU CAN TELL 'EM RIGHT UP FRONT IN THE RFP, WE WANT YOU TO INCLUDE A COMMUNITY ROOM. WE WANT YOU TO INCLUDE SPACE FOR THE FARMER'S MARKET, UM, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT, THAT YOU WANT, UM, INCLUDED AS PART OF IT. AND THEN SEE WHAT, YOU KNOW, SOME DEVELOPERS COME BACK TO YOU WITH IN TERMS OF PROPOSALS. UM, AND THEN YOU REVIEW THOSE. IF YOU HAVE A COMMITTEE, THEY REVIEW 'EM, THEY MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO YOU, YOU CAN MEET WITH THE DEVELOPERS, INTERVIEW THEM, SEE WHO YOU LIKE. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF, IF SOMEBODY COMES IN WITH SOMETHING THAT, THAT YOU LIKE, YOU CAN THEN MOVE FORWARD, UM, NAMING THEM AS A PREFERRED DEVELOPER AND, AND STARTING ON THE PROCESS WITH THEM IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, VALUE. UM, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR IN COMMUNITY BENEFITS, YOU BALANCE WHAT YOU MIGHT GET IN PURCHASE PRICE FOR THE PROPERTY WITH WHAT YOU WANT IN COMMUNITY BENEFITS. MM-HMM . UM, SO, UM, WE'VE DONE A BUNCH OF THESE. WE'VE DONE A COUPLE IN CROTON, WE'VE DONE SOME THAT WEREN'T, THOSE WERE BOTH ENDED UP BEING AFFORDABLE. WE'VE DONE, UM, SOME THAT WEREN'T AFFORDABLE IN BRONXVILLE AND SCARSDALE. SO, UM, YEAH, THEY'RE PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS AND DOBBS FERRY IS ENGAGED. DOBBS FERRY DOING IT RIGHT NOW ON, ON THE CEDAR STREET PARKING LOT. UM, THEY WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS. THEY DID AN RFP, UM, KEN CARNEY IS, IS DOING THAT ONE. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S WAYS TO TALK ABOUT IT. THE, THE FIRST THING IS FOR YOU ALL TO DECIDE THIS IS SOMETHING YOU'RE INTERESTED IN, IN MOVING FORWARD WITH. UM, AND IF YOU ARE, THINK ABOUT HOW YOU WANNA ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY. UM, IS IT BY FORMING A COMMITTEE? IS IT HAVING CHARETTES? IS IT, UM, DO YOU WANNA HAVE A CONSULTANT WORK WITH YOU ON THAT? UM, BUT THAT'S WHERE YOU START. WELL, I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE TIME AND EFFORT THAT IT TOOK ALL OF YOU. UH, 'CAUSE I KNOW THIS TOOK CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF YOUR OWN PERSONAL TIME, UH, AND, UH, TO ATTEND ALL THE MEETINGS AND, AND ALSO THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE OTHER COMMITTEES FROM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE AND THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, FOR ATTENDING AS WELL. I, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. AND I KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S VILLAGE ATTORNEY, YOU PROBABLY REMEMBER, BUT I MEAN, THIS DISCUSSION HAS GONE BACK MANY YEARS, ESPECIALLY THAT SPECIFIC LOCATION, AND THERE'S BEEN THOUGHTS AND IDEAS AND THEY'VE KIND OF FADED AWAY, SO MM-HMM . UH, I, ONE THING THAT I FOUND PARTICULARLY INTERESTING, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF YOU HIT IT OR NOT, BUT I KNOW YOU HAD TOLD ME ABOUT IT, WOULD THE ROOFTOP COULD ACTUALLY BE INTEGRATED TO THE BRIDGE. CONNECT TO THE BRIDGE. I LOVE THAT IDEA. AND THAT WOULD BE A VILLAGE PARK. YES. UH, AND I THINK THAT'S JUST AN AWESOME IDEA. TAKING A POSSIBLE PAVED AREA AND CREATING A PARKING A VILLAGE PARK ON TOP OF IT WITHOUT BLOCKING THE CORP WELL, AND KEEPING OUR VIEW CORRIDOR AND BE ABLE TO CONNECT THE TRAIN STATION LEVEL WITH THE WAR BURTON BRIDGE LEVEL. I THINK IT'S, THAT REALLY CONNECTS THE DOWNTOWN WITH THE TRAIN. I THINK IT'S A REALLY CREATIVE AND GREAT USE OF SPACE, UH, AND I THINK IT IS WORTH SOMETHING TO CONSIDER. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME ALL OF YOU HAVE SPENT, UH, ON THAT. I KNOW IT'S A LOT. I JUST HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS. DOES CROPS HAVE ANY STICK IN THIS IN ANY WAY? DO WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN THE ACCESS TO CROPS? JUST THE ACCESS. NEWINGTON CROPS OWNS THE SMALL PORTION OF THE COMMUTER LOT WHERE THE DOUBLE GATE IS. MM-HMM . THAT WE'VE BEEN USING. THEY'VE BEEN LETTING US USE IT FOR COMMUTER PARKING. SO RIGHT WHERE THE FARMER'S MARKET GOES, WE WOULD WANNA INCLUDE THEM AS A, THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE SOMETHING WE WOULD HAVE TO, TO CONSIDER. THEY OWN THAT PORTION, YOU SAID? THEY THEY DO, BUT THEY WOULD BE IMPACTED. SO WE WOULD KEEP MAINTAIN THE FIRE LANE PROXY LANE AND ACCESS TO THE SITE, UM, AS WELL AS BEING GOOD NEIGHBORS. I THINK THAT'S JUST THE RIGHT THING TO DO. AS I SAID, THEY, THEY WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE DISCUSSIONS AS, AS A STAKEHOLDER. WELL, I BELIEVE THIS IS A GREAT SEGUE INTO THE NEXT TOPIC THAT I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS THIS EVENING, BECAUSE SORRY, BEFORE WE, BEFORE WE [01:45:01] MOVE ON. SO I, I THINK THAT, I DON'T THINK THIS IS A VOTE, I THINK IT'S JUST A DISCUSSION, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE TO, UM, MAP OUT THE DIFFERENT, UM, STRATEGIES, LET'S SAY, OR, UM, PATHS POTENTIALLY FORWARD DIFFERENT SITES. AND SO THAT THE COMPETING, WE COULD DO IT THIS WAY, WE COULD DO IT THAT WAY, AND WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE THAT AS A FUTURE FOR FUTURE DISCUSSION. OKAY. AGREED. AND, AND A FUTURE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PROS AND CONS OF CHANGING OUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOALS. YES. AND WHAT WE MIGHT CHANGE THOSE TO. I THINK THAT'S THOSE PROS AND CONS OF CHANGING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING GOALS FOR THE FUTURE. UM, I, AND I'M HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, DISCUSS THAT WITH YOU GUYS. I'VE HAD SOME THOUGHTS, UM, SOME, THERE'S SOME THINGS IN THERE THAT NEED TO BE CLEANED UP AS WELL, BUT WHAT YOU GUYS LEARNED FROM THE DEVELOPERS, UM, IT MAY BE USEFUL, UM, TO LOOK AT THAT, LOOK AT IT WITH THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE AND, AND, YOU KNOW, START LOOKING BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA AFFECT NOT JUST THIS, THAT, THAT AFFECTS EVERY DEVELOPMENT YES. UM, IN THE VILLAGE. ABSOLUTELY. I MEAN, MAYBE IT'S NOT JUST A FLAT PERCENTAGE, YOU KNOW, IT COULD, IT COULD CHANGE DEPENDING ON THE SIZE OF THE DEVELOPMENT. YOU, YOU CAN ALSO DO THINGS LIKE, YOU CAN, UM, YOU CAN INCORPORATE, UM, BONUSES, DENSITY BONUSES OR OTHER BONUSES. SO IF THEY DO MORE AFFORDABLE, THEY GET MORE MARKET. UM, BECAUSE THE, THE ISSUE IS THAT THE, THE MARKET PAY ON THE, NOT ON, OBVIOUSLY ON AN ALL AFFORDABLE PROJECT, BUT ON A MIXED, SO WHERE IT'S THE, UM, INCLUSIVE UNITS WHERE YOU'RE PUTTING THEM IN THE MARKET PAYS FOR THE AFFORDABLE, RIGHT? MM-HMM . UM, SO THE PROJECT HAS TO HAVE ENOUGH MARKET TO COVER THE AFFORDABLE YOU WANT, MORE AFFORDABLE, IT'S THE BALANCE. MM-HMM . SO IT, I CAN ALSO BRING THAT UP TO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE AND, UM, GET THEIR FEEDBACK AND TALK AND BRING THAT TO YOU. YEAH. THE OTHER THING THAT'S IN, IN YOUR CODE RIGHT NOW, ONE OF YOUR NUMBERS DOES NOT LINE UP WITH, UM, SOME OF THE HUD NUMBERS. UM, YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING AT 70% WHERE WHAT'S GENERALLY BEING USED IS 80. YES. SO THERE, THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT, UM, BECAUSE YOUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING ORDINANCE IS ACTUALLY VERY OLD. OKAY. YOU'RE GONNA CLEAN THAT UP ALSO. THAT'S REFERRING TO THE A MAMI. SO WE HAVE TO CHANGE THAT. YEAH. GOOD. YEP. UH, JUST TO SEGUE INTO THE NEXT, 'CAUSE I'M SURE THE MEMBER OF PUBLIC THAT'S HERE RIGHT NOW HAS A THOUSAND QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED. UM, I'VE, I'VE DONE JUST A LOCAL REVIEW. UH, I KNOW OUR CURRENT SCHOOL BOARD ALLOWS FOR A SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD AFTER OR TOWARDS THE END OF THEIR MEETING. I'VE ALSO REVIEWED SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES AROUND THE COUNTY, AND, AND I, I SEE THAT MANY MUNICIPALITIES ALSO INCLUDE A SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, LATER IN THE MEETING. AND I, I'VE ALSO JUST HEARD SOME OF THE, THE COMMENTS FROM OUR OWN PUBLIC HERE IN THIS MEETING AND, AND HOW THEY WOULD HAVE A DESIRE TO HAVE A SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD TOWARDS THE END OF THE MEETING FOLLOWING BOARD DISCUSSION. AND I WANTED TO BRING IT UP THIS EVENING TO SEE WHAT EVERYBODY FELT ABOUT THAT. UM, I AM, I AM IN FAVOR OF ADDING A SE A SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD, UH, TO OUR MEETING. I, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD EXTEND OUR MEETING TO GREAT LENGTHS. UH, AND IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT ENDS UP NOT REALLY BEING USED OR SOMETHING THAT'S, WE ARE NOT SEEING AS SOMETHING THAT'S A VERY, UH, PRODUCTIVE PART OF OUR MEETING, WE CAN REMOVE IT FROM OUR MEETING BECAUSE WE CAN DECIDE, UH, ABOUT OUR PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. SO JUST WANT TO OPEN IT UP TO BOARD DISCUSSION IF ANYBODY HAS ANY OPINIONS OR, OR, YOU KNOW, SERIOUS OPPOSITION TO IT. UM, 'CAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO ADD IT, UH, STARTING IN JANUARY. I'M IN SUPPORT OF IT. OKAY. YEAH. I'M IN SUPPORT OF IT. I'M ALSO IN SUPPORT OF IT. AND, AND ESPECIALLY IF WE ONLY HAVE ONE PERSON HERE, IT'LL ADD THREE, MAYBE THREE MINUTES AND 10 SECONDS BECAUSE HE ALWAYS GOES OVER. UM, WOULD BE WHETHER YOU COULD MOVE THE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT UP, WOULDN'T YOU WANT IT AFTER BOARD DISCUSSION? AFTER BOARD DISCUSSION? NO, NO, NO. WE CAN GO. OKAY. YEAH. NO, I THINK I, I AGREE WITH ADDING IT AND ADDING IT AFTER BOARD DISCUSSION. THAT'S MY PREFERENCE. THAT'S WHERE I'VE HEARD THE, THE CRITIQUE FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE SAID, AFTER YOUR BOARD DISCUSSION, I HAVE A THOUSAND QUESTIONS I WANT TO ASK. UH, SO, OKAY. THANK YOU EVERYONE. I APPRECIATE THAT. UH, ONTO THE NEXT TOPIC. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I CIRCULATED WITH EVERYONE. UM, I WANT TO CREATE A TRUSTEE LIAISON POSITIONS TO EACH OF OUR BOARDS, OUR COMMITTEES, AND OUR DEPARTMENTS. UM, AND I KNOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THIS. SOME OF YOU ARE ALREADY NATURALLY DOING THIS, UH, BUT, UH, AND, AND WE'VE ALREADY KIND OF TESTED IT OUT WITH THE SENIOR COUNCIL AND THEY'RE SUPER APPRECIATIVE OF SAMANTHA'S, UH, [01:50:01] PRESENCE, RIGHT? IS THAT THE BEST WAY TO SAY IT? YEAH. UH, AND, AND REALLY WHAT I'M ASKING OF AS YOUR MAYOR IS, IS NOT FOR EVERYONE IN THIS, UH, ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ATTEND EVERY SINGLE MEETING OF THEIR BOARD OR THEIR COMMITTEE OR, OR, UM, OR THEIR BOARD OF THEIR COMMITTEE, BUT JUST TO BE IN LO IN, IN REGULAR TOUCH WITH THE CHAIR, UH, PEOPLE FROM THOSE COMMITTEES. UH, THAT'S JUST SOME FEEDBACK THAT I'VE GAINED OVER THE LAST SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS, UH, THAT THEY FELT LIKE THERE'S A, A LITTLE BIT OF A DISCONNECT, UH, WITH, WITH THEIR COMMITTEE AND THE BOARD. AND THEY JUST WANT SOMEBODY THAT THEY CAN REGULARLY CONTACT WITH, UH, VERSUS JUST GOING DIRECTLY TO THE MAYOR ALL THE TIME. UH, SO MY PROPOSED LIST THAT WE PUT TOGETHER FOR THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE DISABLED WOULD BE TRUSTEE OOD. AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE WOULD BE TRUSTEE OOD ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD WOULD BE TRUSTEE FLEISIG, VILLAGE ARTS COMMISSION WOULD BE TRUSTEE SUNBURG BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE CHIEF VOLUNTEERED FOR IT. TRUSTEE SUNBURG, UH, CLIMATE SMARTS COMMUNITY WOULD BE BE ME, DRAKE, UH, CONSERVATION COMMISSION WOULD BE TRUSTEE FLEISIG DRAPER PARK REVIEW BOARD WOULD BE TRUSTEE MERTON. UH, AND I FELT THAT WAS MOST OF, UH, APPROPRIATE BECAUSE SHE'S ALREADY WITH PARKS AND REC AS WELL. UM, ETHICS BOARD WOULD BE ME. UH, THAT JUST ONE NOTE ON THAT, UH, VILLAGE MANAGER MURPHY ACTUALLY APPOINTS FOR THAT BOARD. AND I'D LIKE TO GET BACK TO THAT WHERE YOU'RE APPOINTING FOR THE BOARDS THAT YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR APPOINTING TO, UM, OH MY GOSH. I WROTE ALLIGATOR. THAT ALLIGATOR . THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A, UH, AUTOMATIC. UH, SO LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES, TRUSTEE ALI. GOOD. UM, SORRY. PARKS AND REC, UH, COMMISSION WOULD CONTINUE WITH, UH, TRUSTEE MERTON PLANNING BOARD. BOARD TRUSTEE ALI, GOOD BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS. DRAKE, UH, WHAT AM I MISSING HERE? UH, SAFETY COUNCIL, OOD SENIOR COUNCIL, MERTON TREE PRESERVATION BOARD. TRUSTEE FLEISIG. SORRY. TRUSTEE MERTON AND TRUSTEE OOD. AND TRUSTEE FLEISIG, UM, YOUTH COUNCIL, TRUSTEE BERG ZONING, BOARD OF APPEALS, TRUSTEE FLEISIG COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE. TRUSTEE MIKE, UH, FLEISIG AND TRUSTEE MERTON, UH, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS. MAYOR DRAKE FIRE DEPARTMENT MAYOR DRAKE AND DOWNTOWN ADVOCATE, TRUSTEE MERTON. EVERYBODY GOOD WITH THAT? GOT ALL THAT? YEP. UH, THIS IS JUST A SHAREABLE DOCUMENT THAT LIVES WITH US. AND, UH, IF ANYBODY, IF, IF YOU DO SEE IN THE FUTURE THAT THIS IS NOT REALLY SERVING A PURPOSE, LET'S BRING THIS BACK TO DISCUSSION. UH, BUT I REALLY BELIEVE THIS WILL BE A BENEFIT TO THE, THE DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMITTEES, UH, WHO WERE KIND OF ASKING FOR THIS ALREADY. SO I APPRECIATE EVERYONE BEING ON BOARD WITH THAT. UH, ANYBODY HAVE ANY COMMENTS, QUESTIONS ONTO THE NEXT? UH, OUR MUNICIPAL EQUITY INDEX RATING, THE MEI EXAMINES HOW INCLUSIVE MUNICIPAL LAWS, POLICIES, AND SERVICES ARE OF LGBTQ PLUS PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK THERE. CITIES ARE RATED BASED ON NON-DISCRIMINATION LAWS. THE MUNICIPALITY IS AN EMPLOYER, MUNICIPAL SERVICES, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND LEADERSHIP ON LGBTQ PLUS EQUALITY. THE LARGEST MUNICIPALITIES IN EACH STATE ARE EVALUATED, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT, BY THE MEI TEAM. AND SMALLER MUNICIPALITIES LIKE US CAN SELF SUBMIT IF THEY CHOOSE TO. THE GOAL IS TO ACCUMULATE A HUNDRED POINTS UNDER THE MEI RATING SYSTEM IN 2024 AND ALSO 2025. HASTINGS ON HUDSON DECIDED TO SELF SUBMIT TO BE EVALUATED ON HOW, HOW LGBTQ PLUS FRIENDLY OUR MUNICIPALITY IS. WE JUST FOUND OUT LAST MONTH, UH, THAT WE WERE GIVEN A RATING OF A HUNDRED OUT OF A HUNDRED, A HUNDRED OUT OF A HUNDRED, ACTUALLY 109 BECAUSE WE HAD BONUS FLEX POINTS THAT WE, UH, WERE, UH, ALLOWED TO GET THANKS TO, UH, FORMER MAYOR ARMCO. AND AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, I'D LIKE TO CONTINUE MAINTAINING THE CERTIFYING STATUS AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO RESEARCH WAYS TO IMPROVE ON OUR INDEX RATING IN THE FUTURE IF WE CAN, IF WE EVEN CAN. UM, AND THEN ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL? ANY COMMENTS, UH, ONTO UPCOMING EVENTS? WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, UH, SENIOR COUNSEL HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT AND DINNER, UH, HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL, 4:30 PM YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP WITH ANN RUAK. THIS IS TOMORROW. AND YOU CAN SEE JOSEPH DRAKE ON THE SAXOPHONE WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL BAND. . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, SENIOR THURSDAY, DOWNTOWN 1145 TO 3:45 PM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18TH. RIVERTOWN THRIFT, HOLIDAY POPUP AT THREE SPRING STREET FROM 11:00 AM TO 7:00 PM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18TH. SHOP AND DROP MOVIE NIGHT. THE GRINCH AT THE JHCC AT 6:00 PM SIGN UP WITH THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH. RIVERTOWN THRIFT, HOLIDAY POPUP AGAIN AT THREE SPRING STREET FROM 11:00 AM TO 7:00 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19TH. KIDS UPCYCLING CLUB AT THE JHCC AT 4:00 PM [01:55:01] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20TH. THE HASTINGS PBA BREAKFAST WITH SANTA WILL BE HELD AT HARVEST ON HUDSON. YOU DON'T HAVE TO RSVP FOR THAT. IT'S AT 8:30 AM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20TH. THE WINTERS FARMER'S MARKET SENDS OUR COMMUTER LOT. 9:30 AM TO 1:00 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20TH. THE RIVERTOWN THRIFT. HOLIDAY POPUP AT THREE SPRING STREET FROM 11:00 AM TO 5:00 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20TH. THE COMMUNITY HOLIDAYS SING ALONG AT FIRST REFORM CHURCH AT 4:00 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21ST. THE TILLY GARAGE. WEATHER PERMITTING. UH, ANDRES ON HUDSON, THEY TAKE HER TO LEAVE THE GARAGE FROM 11:00 AM TO 3:00 PM AND SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21ST, THE RIVERTOWN THRIFT HOLIDAY POP-UP AT THREE SPRING STREET. 11:00 AM TO 5:00 PM ONTO [X. ANNOUNCEMENTS] ANNOUNCEMENTS. WHOOPS. LOST ANNOUNCEMENTS. UH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, PLANNING BOARD, REGULAR MEETING. 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM. IT'S IN THE ROOM IN THE, IF YOU COULD GO OFF THE AGENDA, THAT'S ON THE, I DID NEGLECT TO ANNOUNCE THAT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING WHILE THERE WAS MANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, UH, THE REASON FOR THE ROOM CHANGES IS 'CAUSE THE ELEVATOR HAS BEEN BROKEN AT VILLAGE HALL. AND WE DON'T ANTICIPATE A FIX TO AT LEAST JANUARY 2ND. WE HOPE SO. SO THE PLANNING BOARD MEETING WILL BE HERE, HERE, UH, AND THE SAFETY COUNCIL MEETING. THERE IS NO SAFETY. I THINK THEY CANCELED. THAT WAS CANCELED. OKAY. SO THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, VILLAGE OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED. THURSDAY. RECYCLING PICKUP IS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24TH. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1ST. VILLAGE OFFICES ARE CLOSED. THURSDAY. RECYCLING PICKUP IS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31ST, MONDAY, JANUARY 5TH. GOD WILLING, THE ELEVATOR IS WORKING. ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD, REGULAR MEETING, 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL, CONFERENCE ROOM. AND TUESDAY, JANUARY 6TH. BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING. 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. THANK YOU EVERYONE. AND I WISH EVERYONE, AND HAPPY AND MERRY HOLIDAYS IN A HAPPY NEW YEAR. THANK YOU FOR. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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