* 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. [I.CALL TO ORDER] [00:00:04] EVERYONE, I'M SORRY FOR THE DELAY OF RESTARTING OUR, UH, PUBLIC HEARING AND REGULAR BOARD MEETING OF THE VILLAGE, UH, OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON. WE'VE ALREADY CONDUCTED OUR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND ROLL CALL AND ENTERED INTO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND HAVE NOW RETURNED TO THE MEETING. UM, WE'RE GONNA BEGIN WITH THE PUBLIC [IV. PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW K OF 2025 ] HEARING ON PROPOSED LAW, LOCAL LAW, K OF 2025, 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 TO INCLUDE THE INTERSECTION OF GLENWOOD AVENUE AT HORNER AVENUE, LINCOLN AVENUE AT FAIRMONT AVENUE, WASHINGTON AVENUE AT SOUTH SIDE AVENUE. DO WE HAVE ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON THIS PROPOSED LOCAL LAW? DO I HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LOCAL LAW? SO, SECOND. SECOND, SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. THANK YOU. [IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES ] APPROVAL OF MINUTES. UH, MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES? DECEMBER 16TH, 2025. SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. [V. APPROVAL OF WARRANTS ] APPROVAL OF WARRANTS GENERAL FUND AA $278,682 AND 39 CENTS DRAPER FUND, EM $5,955 AND 68 CENTS POOL FUND, ER $352 AND 50 CENTS CAPITAL FUND, HH $41,983 AND 75 CENTS LIBRARY FUND, LL $6,881 AND 51 CENTS BETTERMENT FUND, TT $3,682 AND 39 CENTS. PROFESSIONAL ESCROW TT $4,698 AND 75 CENTS PAYROLL FUND, TT $3,563 AND 56 CENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. [VI. ACCEPTANCE OF TREASURER’S REPORT ] ACCEPTANCE OF THE NOVEMBER, 2025 TREASURER'S REPORT. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION, MR. TREASURER? DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? UH, NO. UM, THIS IS A NEWER THING THAT WE'VE BEGUN NOW, RIGHT? IN THE LAST TWO MEETINGS? YEAH. THIS, YEAH, THIS WILL JUST BE EVERY MONTH. AND THEN, UH, NEXT MEETING, I WILL HAVE THE QUARTERLY THAT I DO FOR YOU. I WAS GONNA HAVE IT FOR TONIGHT. I JUST DIDN'T GET IT ALL DONE IN TIME. UM, BUT'S THE AVERAGE MONTH NEXT YEAR, YOU'LL SEE, UH, NEXT MONTH YOU'LL SEE GENERAL FUND GO UP BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN TAXES THIS MONTH. GOT IT. HOPEFULLY COMPLIANCE IS HIGH ON OUR TAXES. YES, IT'S ANY QUESTIONS? DO WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS OR NO? YEAH, YOU JUST MOVE TO ACCEPT IT. OKAY. I HAVE A, A MOTION. SO MOVE. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. MOVING ON TO [VII. PUBLIC COMMENTS ] PUBLIC COMMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC? YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS THE BOARD. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS. THIS GOT BIGGER. GOOD EVENING. DAVE SKOLNIK, 47 HILLSIDE. WELCOME. UM, HAPPY NEW YEAR. UM, I JUST WANT TO, UH, COMMENT THAT THANKFULLY OUR FIRST WEEK OF THE NEW YEAR IS TOTALLY UNEVENTFUL, SO WE CAN FOCUS ON WHAT GOES ON HERE LOCALLY. UH, THERE, THERE ARE A COUPLE ITEMS THAT I WANT TO JUST FLAG THAT I'M GOING TO BE CONCERNED THAT SHOW UP IN THE INFORMATION FEED, UH, IN A TIMELY WAY, HAVING TO DO WITH RAVENSDALE ROSEDALE, THE MAIN STREET PROJECT AND ROUTE NINE. UM, I KNOW ALL OF THOSE INVOLVE SOME SORT OF PUBLIC, UM, INPUT, BUT I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, RAISING MY HAND TO MAKE, ASKING THAT IT'D BE, IF IT'S GONNA COME UP, IT'D BECOME A, IT'D BE BROUGHT UP, UH, SOON ENOUGH. MOSTLY THOUGH, MY COMMENTS, UH, THIS EVENING RELATE TO THE SKATE PARK ITEM, UH, RESOLUTION NUMBER FIVE. AND I HAVE TO SAY I STRUGGLED WITH THAT DOCUMENT, UH, QUITE A BIT. UM, TO SOME DEGREE THE SKATE PARK IS YET ANOTHER ONE OF THE ISSUES LIKE THE ONES I MENTIONED, BECAUSE I'VE, I'VE FELT LIKE I'VE HAD TO STRUGGLE ALL ALONG TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE PROCESS AND THE PROGRESS OF THAT IS, UH, BECAUSE IT'S LOCATED IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES. BUT TO BE VERY HONEST, I AM, I'M CONFUSED BY THE DOCUMENT, UM, PARTLY BY THE DATES THAT ARE INDICATED THERE, UM, WHERE THE REFERENCES ARE, LIKE SCHEDULE A SCOPE OF WORK. UM, IT'S RELATING TO 2025. UM, I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE DOCUMENT IS SUPPOSED TO BE. IT REFERENCES, IT SEEMS TO REFERENCE IN PART, UH, AN AGREEMENT RELY REGARDING THE CONSTRUCTION. UM, WELL, I, I APPRECIATE CAN EXPLAIN IT THOUGH GOOD, BECAUSE [00:05:01] MOST OF IT IS LEGALESE OR, OR LEGAL, BUT TO ME, LEGALESE, UM, THERE'S INSURANCE ISSUES, BUT THERE'S ALSO, UH, THIS, THE SCOPE OF WHAT THE PROGRAM THAT'S BEING DESCRIBED. SO YEAH, I, I DO HOPE THAT BY THE TIME THE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT COMES AROUND, I'LL SAY, YEAH, I UNDERSTAND IT. UM, I'LL GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT. OKAY, THANK YOU. THAT'S WHAT I, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THAT. WOULD YOU LIKE TO JUST ADDRESS THAT NOW? UH, SURE, YEAH, I CAN DO THAT. UM, SO, UM, THE, UH, RIVERTOWN SKATE SOCIETY, UH, APPROACHED ONE OF OUR LEGISLATORS, THE COUNTY LEGISLATORS, ABOUT FUNDING FOR THE, UM, LESSONS, THE SKATE LESSONS THAT THEY PROVIDE, UH, BASICALLY FREE OF CHARGE TO DIFFERENT, UM, YOUTH IN THE COMMUNITY. AND THEY USE OUR PARKING LOT AS A, AS A PLACE TO PROVIDE THOSE LESSONS. AND THIS, UH, SO, UM, THE LEGISLATOR IMMOR WAS ABLE TO, UH, GET INTO THE COUNTY BUDGET, A $10,000, UM, FUND THAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE TO THE RIVERTOWN SKATE FOR SOME EQUIPMENT THAT THEY NEED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SKATE PARK LESSONS THAT THEY GIVE. BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT A 5 0 1 3 C, THE FUNDING HAS TO FLOW THROUGH THE VILLAGE. AND SINCE THEY USE THE VILLAGE FACILITIES IN ORDER TO PROVIDE THESE SKATE LESSONS, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CAN, WE CAN DO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE GIVING THEM IN OUR OWN PARKING LOT AND WE ARE INSURING THEM. UH, YOU KNOW, WE, I'VE, I'VE TALKED TO OUR INSURANCE COMPANY ABOUT THIS MULTIPLE TIMES. THEY ARE COVERED UNDER OUR INSURANCE, UH, WHEN THEY GIVE THESE SKATE LESSONS IN THE, UM, PARKING LOT, THE, IN THE, IN THE COMMUTER LOT. SO THE FUNDING, UH, IS A AVAIL IS, IS BASICALLY WHEN THE COUNTY WHEN PROVIDES US WITH THE $10,000 IN FUNDING THROUGH THIS IMA, WHICH IS A LEGAL AGREEMENT THAT IT'S CALLED AN INTERM MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE, THE VILLAGE AND THE COUNTY. AND THEY WILL PROVIDE US WITH THE $10,000, AND THAT WILL BE BASICALLY A PASS THROUGH TO, UM, TO THE, UH, UH, RIVERTOWN SKATE. AND BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN GIVING THE LESSONS, AND THEY WILL USE THAT TO PURCHASE A, UH, STORAGE CONTAINER TO KEEP THEIR, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER NOTICED IN THE BACK OF THE PARKING LOT AT THE COMMUTER LOT, THERE'S SOME RAILS AND, UH, RAMPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. THEY'RE RIGHT NOW UNDERNEATH TARPS. AND THEY WILL GET A SMALL CONTAINER THAT THEY CAN KEEP THAT IN. AND THEY ALSO PROVIDE, UH, SKATEBOARDS AND HELMETS AND PADS AND THINGS LIKE THAT FOR THE CHILDREN THAT ARE TAKING THE LESSONS. AND THOSE, THE FUNDS WILL BE USED FOR THEM TO, TO, UH, PURCHASE THAT EQUIPMENT FOR THEIR, FOR THEIR PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE OFFERING TO, UH, THE YOUNGSTERS. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ACTUAL SKATE PARK. UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, IS, HAS BEEN A SUBJECT OF OTHER, OF OTHER CONVERSATIONS. DOES THAT YEAH. MAKE IT MORE CLEAR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. . IT'S UP TO YOU UNLESS YOU WANNA STAY FOR THE SECOND PUBLIC COMMENT. UH, MOVING ON TO RESOLUTIONS, [VIII. RESOLUTIONS] UH, RESOLUTION ONE OF 26 AWARD OF PROPOSAL DESIGN ENGINEERING AND, AND PROJECT ADMINISTRATION OF GEOTHERMAL PROJECT AT VILLAGE HALL AND LIBRARY. UH, WE'VE OBVIOUSLY DISCUSSED THIS AND COVERED THIS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, UH, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE PROPOSAL FOR THE DESIGN AND ENGINEERING OF THE GEOTHERMAL PROJECT AT THE VILLAGE HALL AND THE LIBRARY TO FELON ZER ENGINEERING LLP IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,500. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AWARD THE WORK FOR PROJECT ADMINISTRATION OF, OF THE GEOTHERMAL THERMAL PROJECT AT THE VILLAGE HALL AND LIBRARY TO CAPITAL PROJECTS ENERGY SOLUTIONS, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL CONTRACTS AS NECESSARY SUBJECT TO VILLAGE ATTORNEY APPROVAL. DID ANYBODY HAVE ANY DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS ON THIS RESOLUTION? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. THANK YOU. TWO OF 26 ADOPTION OF PROPOSED LOCAL LAW K OF 2025, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 6 82 VEHICLES IN TRAFFIC. ARTICLE SEVEN, STOP AND YIELD INTERSECTIONS OF THE CODE OF THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON TO ADD NEW STOP INTERSECTIONS. DO I NEED TO REREAD THEM? NO. SO THIS IS THE SAME LAW THAT, THAT WE JUST HAD IN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON, UH, THE INTERSECTIONS EVOLVED, LIKE I SAID EARLIER IN THE MEETING, ARE GLENWOOD AVENUE AT HORNER AVENUE, LINCOLN AVENUE AT FAIRMONT AVENUE, WASHINGTON AVENUE AT SOUTH SIDE AVENUE. UM, JUST ON DISCUSSION ON THE TOPIC, OBVIOUSLY THERE IS ANOTHER BOARD DISCUSSION TOPIC, UH, IN, IN COMMENT PERIOD RELATING TO [00:10:01] UPDATING THIS ENTIRE SECTION IN THE FUTURE. THIS IS ONLY SPECIFIC ABOUT THOSE THREE INTERSECTIONS. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION OR ON THE MATTER? DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. THANK YOU. THREE OF 26 PUBLIC, UH, SCHEDULED PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LAW, LOCAL LAW, A OF 2026, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 6 82, VEHICLES IN TRAFFIC. 2 82. 2 82, SORRY, TO AMEND VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC TO AMEND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TH AT 7:00 PM OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER TO CONSIDER PROPOSED LOCAL LAW A OF 2026, A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 2 82 VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC TO AMEND PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE CHARGING OF ELECTRIC VEHICLES. ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER? THIS IS JUST SETTING UP A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE MATTER. YEAH, AND JUST A REMINDER, THIS IS, IT'S DELETING THE SECTION THAT HAD BEEN ADOPTED, UM, PREVIOUSLY THAT SAID YOU CAN ONLY PARK IN THESE SPACES WHEN YOU'RE ACTUALLY CHARGING. UM, IT'S DELETING THAT GIVEN THE NUMBER OF SPACES WE'RE ADDING. UM, AND THEN IT'S ALSO PROVIDING THAT THE FEE FOR CHARGING CAN BE SET BY RESOLUTION. ARE YOU GONNA GIVE US THE, THE STRIKE THROUGH TRUE? I THINK WE DID. THAT'S NOT, THAT ONE DOESN'T REALLY HAVE ANY STRIKETHROUGH. YOU SAID WE WERE DELETING. WE'RE DELETING. I I CAN GIVE YOU THE SECTION THAT'S ARE WE'RE DELETING THE SAME SECTION. WE'RE NO, WE'RE, WE'RE DELETING THE SECTION THAT SIMPLY SAID, UM, THAT YOU CAN ONLY PARK IN THOSE SPACES WHEN YOU'RE CHARGING. OKAY. AND THEN WE'RE ADDING THE NEW SECTION AND WE'RE REARRANGING IT ALSO. SO IT WORKS. YEAH, IT SAID ELECTRICAL VE ELECTRIC VEHICLES ONLY, RIGHT? THAT THAT'S WHAT THERE'S BEING DELETED. I THINK ONE OF THE POINTS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE PAST WAS, UM, ABOUT THE COMMUTER LOTS VERSUS THE STREET PARKING, UH, THE CHARGING AREAS ON THE STREET. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING IN THE FUTURE WE SHOULD EVALUATE IF WE DO FIND THAT THERE'S A NEED IN THE COMMUTER LOTS THAT WE SHOULD MAKE IT ELECTRIC ONLY. LET, LET'S REOPEN THIS. WE'RE GONNA, LET'S MAKE IT ELECTRIC ONLY. JUST TEST IT FOR NOW. ALRIGHT, THAT'S FINE. DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. I'M SORRY. DO I HAVE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? I JUST, WE HAVE ONE POINT MAYBE OF ORDER THAT MAYBE I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO'S CONFUSED BY THIS, BUT THE HANDOUTS THAT WE HAVE HERE ON HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ELECTRIC CHARGING. NO, THIS IS ALL THE STOP SIGN. THIS IS ALL THE STOP SIGN. THERE IS, THERE IS A LOCAL LAW, A HAND FOR CHARGING, BUT HE'S LOOKING, THIS IS, THIS IS LOCAL LAW A OF 2026, WHICH IS THE ELECTRICAL VEHICLE. RIGHT. THIS IS ALSO CALLED LOCAL LAW. IT'S NOT, IT'S GONNA BE B. IT'S GONNA BE B. OKAY. THANK YOU. I DIDN'T AMEND THE TOP OF IT THAT I APOLOGIZE. THANK YOU. SORRY. GENERALLY IT WAS ALSO THOROUGHLY CONFUSED. THIS IS LOCAL LAW. SO THIS HAS TO BE, THIS HAS TO BE ADJUSTED REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE DETERMINE, LIKE LET'S SAY SIGNS OR SO FORTH THAT APPEAR AT THESE SPOTS. THE SIGNS ARE GOING TO SAY, UH, PREFERRED EV. RIGHT. BUT IS, BUT THAT'S IN CONJUNCTION WITH WE NEED THIS LOCAL LAW BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAD A LOCAL LAW THAT SAID EV CHARGING ONLY AT EV CHARGING STATIONS. RIGHT. SO WE HAVE TO THE BLANKET I, OKAY, I UNDERSTAND. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE. RIGHT. OKAY. I UNDERSTAND THAT WAS APPLICABLE TO THE, JUST THE TWO CHARGING STATIONS THAT WE HAD AT THAT TIME. OKAY. I UNDERSTAND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'RE WELCOME. AND THE PREFERRED DOESN'T REQUIRE A LAW BECAUSE IT'S NOT A LEGAL LEGALLY BINDING MM-HMM . TYPE OF PROVISION. OKAY. OKAY. AND THIS ONE, THIS ONE WOULDN'T STAY LOCAL LAW K, IT'S GONNA TWO FIVE OR IT CHANGES TO B OF 2026. IT'S GONNA BE B OF 20. THAT'S NOT THE ONE YOU JUST ADOPTED. KAY. ONLY DEALT WITH THOSE THREE. GOT IT. AND THIS IS THE OVERALL . THIS WILL BE FOR NEXT YEAR. THAT'S, SO THIS IS THE ENTIRE OKAY. GOT IT. THANK YOU. IT'S GONNA BECOME B AFTER WE GO THROUGH IT. VERY GOOD. THAT THAT'S GONNA BE IN THE FUTURE. GOTCHA. UM, DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. THANK YOU. FOUR OF 26 AUTHORIZATION TO EXECUTE INTER MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH WESTCHESTER COUNTY FOR ADMINISTRATION OF RIVERTOWN SKATE PROGRAM BE RESOLVED THAT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES AUTHORIZE THE VILLAGE MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN INTER MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH WESTCHESTER COUNTY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE RIVERTOWN SKATE PROGRAM SUBJECT TO VILLAGE ATTORNEY APPROVAL. THANK YOU VILLAGE MANAGER FOR YOUR EXPLANATION UP INTO THIS POINT. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION? NO, IT'S CLEAR. AS AN UN MUDDIED LAKE, DO I HAVE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. RIGHT. THANK YOU EVERYONE. MOVING ON TO THE VILLAGE [IX. VILLAGE MANAGER’S REPORT ] MANAGER'S REPORT. UM, OKAY. I'LL BE QUICK. UH, SO WE HAD, I, UM, TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE POTENTIAL FOR FEES FOR, UH, CHARGING. AND, UM, IT SEEMS THAT KIND OF A, UM, A 35 CENTS PER KILOWATT SEEMS TO BE A, A REASONABLE AMOUNT. [00:15:01] UH, WE HAVE, UH, SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS ARE DOING 50 CENTS, 25 CENTS, 30 CENTS, AND 35 CENTS. THOSE WERE THE, THOSE WERE THE, UH, RATES THAT WE, UM, WERE, WERE SEEING. SO 35 WAS, WAS KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE THERE AND SEEMED LIKE A, A FAIR, FAIR PLACE TO START. UM, THE PARKING FEES WILL STILL APPLY FOR AS LONG AS THERE ARE PARKING FEES RELATED TO THE PARKING SPACES. WE REALLY CAN'T DO AN UNPLUGGED FEE BECAUSE, UM, WE DON'T MANDATE THAT IT'S AN EV CHARGING CAR. WHAT, WHAT IS AN UNPLUGGED FEE? AN UNPLUGGED FEE IS IF YOU'RE IN YOUR, IF YOU PUT YOUR EV THERE AND THEN YOU'RE CHARGED FULLY AND YOU STAY THERE ANYWAY, THEN YOU GET, THEN USUALLY IN ORDER TO, UM, DETER PEOPLE FROM USING THE SPOT UNNECESSARILY, UH, YOU GET AN UNPLUGGED FEE AND IT'S USUALLY SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN WHAT IT COSTS. WHAT, WHAT IT WOULD OTHERWISE CAUSE YOU TO PA PART THERE BECAUSE IT'S A DETERRENT TO DOING THAT. GOT IT. BUT RIGHT NOW WE DON'T FEEL THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANDERING THE VILLAGE TRYING TO FIND AN EV CHARGER ONCE WE GET ALL THESE EV CHARGERS IN PLACE. OKAY. WHICH, UH, TOMORROW, JUST SO YOU ALSO KNOW ON THIS TOPIC, UH, TOMORROW, UM, THE VILLAGE CLERK AND I WILL BE MEETING WITH, UH, INF AND TO TALK ABOUT, UM, THE WORK PROGRAM BE STARTING HERE AT THE VILLAGE HALL AND THEN, UH, DOWN AT THE MUNICIPAL LOT. SO WE SHOULD BE SEEING SOME MOVEMENT VERY SHORTLY ON THE, IN INSTALLATION OF THE, OF THE, THE, UH, EV CHARGERS. AND CAN YOU JUST, ACTUALLY, I DO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE UNPLUGGED FEE. WELL, ABOUT GOING BACK TO THE, ACTUALLY TO THE, TO THE LOCAL LAW THAT WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS NEXT TIME, UM, ABOUT ELECTRIC VEHICLES. SO YOU, YOU GUYS WENT AND MET WITH, WITH OTHER VILLAGE OFFICERS IN NEIGHBORING MUNICIPALITIES. RIGHT. AND THEIR EXPERIENCE WAS THAT IT, 'CAUSE I DO THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT CONVERSATION JUST TO HAVE FOR THE COMMUNITY. THEIR EXPERIENCE WAS THAT IT WAS NOT PRODUCTIVE TO MAKE IT AN ELECTRIC ONLY SPACE. RIGHT. EVEN IF THERE'S A CHARGER THERE, RIGHT? CORRECT. SPECIFIC S SPECIFICALLY ARDSLEY SAID THAT THEY DIDN'T SEE THE USE, THEY DIDN'T SEE THE USAGE, UH, THAT IT'S NOT AS HIGH AS THEY HAD EXPECTED IT TO BE. MM-HMM . AND THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE, AND THEY, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF THEY SAID THEY RECEIVED COMPLAINTS OR NOT, BUT THEY FELT LIKE THEY, I THINK THEY GOT PUBLIC COMMENT SAYING LIKE, CAN YOU OPEN THESE SPOTS UP TO REGULAR, THEY WERE JUST LIKE EMPTY SPOTS. RIGHT. OKAY. AND THEY WERE JUST SITTING THERE WHILE EVERYTHING AROUND THEM WAS FULL. GOT IT. ESPECIALLY WHEN PARKING IS LIMITED. RIGHT. UM, IT GIVES PEOPLE OPTIONS. OKAY. AND THEN IN THAT TABLE THAT YOU SENT US OF PARKING FEES, THAT, THAT WAS CONFUSING TO ME BECAUSE THAT'S JUST THE PARKING FEES IN THOSE MUNICIPALITIES FOR THOSE SPACES, RIGHT? NOT, YES. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE KILOWATT HOUR. THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S PARKING FEE. THEY CHARGE FOR PARKING. OUR PARKING FEE WILL JUST REMAIN THE SAME. IT'S LIKE YOU NEED TO GET A, A VILLAGE PERMIT TO PARK THERE. CORRECT. IN THE PERMIT LOT. IN THE, IN THE COMMUTER LOT. YEAH. IN THE COMMUTER LOT ON THE STREET. IT DOESN'T MATTER. RIGHT, RIGHT. OKAY. GOT IT. SO IS 35 CENTS, UM, AGREEABLE TO EVERYBODY OR SHOULD WE, CAN WE REMIND WE ADD THAT AS A RESOLUTION AT THE NEXT MEETING? OR DO YOU NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT MORE? I THINK IT'S THE MIDDLE BETWEEN ALL THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. WHICH ONE? WHAT WAS YONKERS 50? YONKERS IS IS 35. OKAY. YEAH, I THINK THAT'S FINE. OKAY, FINE. ALRIGHT, GOOD. SURE. SO WE CAN DO A RESOLUTION FOR YEAH, WE'LL DO THAT AT THE NEXT, AT THE NEXT, UH, AT THE NEXT MEETING. OKAY. UM, AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO GIVE A, A, A SHORT UPDATE ON SOME OF OUR GRANTS. UM, WE APPLIED FOR, UH, SEVERAL GRANTS IN THIS LAST ROUND OF CFA. YOU KNOW HOW THE STATE NOW ASKS US TO APPLY FOR ALL THE GRANTS PRETTY MUCH AT THE, ALMOST, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THEM ANYWAY, AT THE SAME TIME. THEY GO TO DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, OF COURSE, THEY GO TO PARKS DEPARTMENT, THEY GO TO THE CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES. THEY GO TO, YOU KNOW, DEC AND VARIOUS DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. BUT, BUT THEY'VE KIND OF CONSOLIDATED THE PROCESS. UM, SO WE, WE DID, WE WERE AWARDED THE RAVENSDALE ROAD, UM, PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE GRANT. AND THAT WAS UNDER THE CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES COMPLETE STREETS, UM, GRANT, UH, OPPORTUNITY. THAT WAS FOR $1,156,895. SO WE WERE SUCCESSFUL THERE. AND JUST SO THE BOARD IS AWARE, WE HAVE ALSO APPLIED TO THE COUNTY WHO HAS ALSO A COMPLETE STREETS GRANT TO PROVIDE MATCHING FUNDS FOR THIS GRANT. SO, UM, FINGERS CROSSED WE GET THAT AS WELL. TO BE CLEAR, THAT ONE, ROUGHLY 1.2 MILLION REQUIRES A 100% MATCH FROM US, RIGHT? IT, IT'S A 50% MATCH. SO YES, WE HAVE TO MATCH THAT AMOUNT. SO IT'S A $2.4 MILLION PROJECT OVERALL PROJECT, CORRECT? YES, THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. UM, WE DID [00:20:01] NOT RECEIVE, UH, THE GRANT APPLICATION TO THE PARKS, THE STATE PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR THE SKATE PARK. UNFORTUNATELY, WE DID NOT. WE ALSO APPLIED FOR A BRICKS GRANT FOR THE JHCC, UH, FOR VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS AT THE JHCC. WE DID NOT RECEIVE THAT GRANT. UM, WE ALSO APPLIED FOR A SWIMS GRANT FOR THE POOL. WE DID NOT RECEIVE THAT GRANT. AND WE APPLIED ALSO, UH, AS PART OF A CONSORTIUM WITH, UH, SLEEPY HOLLOW, TOOK THE LEAD ON THIS FOR STORM WATER MAPPING. AND THAT GRANT, UH, APPLICATION WAS ALSO UNSUCCESSFUL. UM, I WILL BE WORKING WITH OUR, UH, GRANT COORDINATOR, OUR GRANT, UH, WRITER AND AND ADMINISTRATOR FOR MANY THINGS, UH, TO, UH, FOLLOW UP ON THESE GRANTS THAT WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE HOW WE CAN DO BETTER WITH THEM, UH, MOVING FORWARD. UM, WE'LL, WE'LL SPEAK TO THE PEOPLE IN THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN HELP US EVALUATE HOW, HOW WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB. DO YOU EVER, YOU DON'T HAVE, YOU DON'T ACTUALLY GET FEEDBACK? WE CAN GET FEEDBACK. IT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. OH, OH, OH. WE, WE, WE WILL, AFTER WE GET THE RESULT, WE'LL, WE CALL AND WE ASK FOR AN APPOINTMENT AND WE, FOR FEEDBACK, IS YOU AN APPELLATE PROCESS FOR THE GRANTS? AN APPELLATE PROCESS? NO, NO, NO. UNFORTUNATELY NOT. WELL, BUT APPLY AGAIN NEXT YEAR. IT'S NOT, BUT THEY OFTEN WILL. WE'LL TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, IT WAS A GOOD PROJECT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS JUST ISN'T THE TIME FOR IT. PLEASE, YOU KNOW, APPLY AGAIN NEXT YEAR. SO, UM, AND THAT WE'LL FIND OUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER ALSO IN THE KIND OF DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVE WITH THEM AFTER, AFTERWARDS. THANK, UM, JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION ALSO, UH, WE, UM, HAD BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR SUBMITTING A GRANT TO THE COUNTY FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THE TWO YEARS BROOK PROJECT. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE WET DETENTION POND AT THE END OF FARGATE, UH, PARKWAY THERE. AND WE WANNA, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT THAT ENTIRE AREA WAS EVALUATED IN OUR, IN OUR FLOOD STUDY. SO WE HAVE SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT WOULD PROVIDE FOR A MATCH FOR THAT GRANT AND ALSO FOR, UH, THE ADDITIONAL WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, UH, WITH REGARD TO BROOK GOING UP INTO, UM, UH, ASHLEY AVENUE AND, AND, AND THOSE STREETS UP IN THAT, IN THAT AREA. UH, SO, SO THAT IS, IS CURRENTLY WITH THE COUNTY. THEIR PROCESS IS, IS THAT WE PUT KIND OF LIKE A PRELIMINARY GRANT APPLICATION IN, WE MEET WITH THEM, THEY TELL US WHAT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THEY NEED. UM, SO WE'RE IN THE VERY EARLY STAGES WITH THAT. WE HAVE NOT YET MET WITH THEM. UM, AND SO YOU'RE AWARE I'VE REACHED OUT TO, UH, A NUMBER OF THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE ON ROSEDALE AVENUE, UH, UH, WITH REGARD TO THE ROSEDALE AVENUE GRANT THAT, UH, WAS MENTIONED EARLIER. UH, AND, UH, THAT'S FOR SIDEWALKS ON BOTH SIDES OF ROSEDALE. AND IN SPEAKING WITH THE ENGINEER, WE THOUGHT MAYBE IT'D BE, IT WOULD BEHOOVE US TO MEET WITH THE, WITH THE RESIDENTS AND KIND OF JUST GET THEIR INITIAL INPUT BEFORE WE EVEN START THE DESIGN PROCESS. 'CAUSE THERE'S A COUPLE OF HOMES THERE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT IMPACTS. SO, UM, I'VE REACHED OUT TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT I HAD CONTACT INFORMATION FOR AND THEY'VE, YOU KNOW, GOT REACHED OUT TO THEIR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES. SO I HAVE NOW A MILLION IN, IN EMAILS IN MY INBOX THAT I HAVE TO SORT THROUGH TO TRY TO GET, UH, THIS GROUP A LITTLE BIT, UM, COALESCED. AND, AND I'LL BE DOING THAT OVER THE NEXT, UH, A LITTLE WHILE. AND, AND HOPEFULLY TO HAVE A MEETING END OF JULY, END OF JANUARY EARLY, UM, OR EARLY, UH, FEBRUARY. JUST FOR KIND OF A, THIS IS EVEN BEFORE ANY DESIGN WORK, YOU KNOW, HAS BEEN DONE WITH REGARD TO THE PROJECT. ARE YOU GONNA DO THAT ON SITE OR ARE YOU, I THOUGHT ABOUT, I WAS THINKING OF DOING IT ON SITE INITIALLY, BUT WITH, IN, IN GETTING SOME OF THE RESPONSES FROM THE RESIDENTS, I FEEL LIKE IT MIGHT BE ACTUALLY BETTER TO DO IT IN SOME KIND OF A ZOOM WEBINAR, AT LEAST INITIALLY. AND, AND USE, UM, USE GOOGLE MAPS TO KIND OF WALK DOWN THE STREET TOGETHER FOR A LITTLE WHILE. BUT THERE ARE GOING TO BE, I THINK, CERTAIN AREAS WHERE WE REALLY DO HAVE TO GO RIGHT OUT ON THE STREET, UH, AND MEET WITH THE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE ENGINEER, MEET WITH THE RESIDENT. THE RESIDENT. UH, SO IT'S GONNA BE PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH, BUT POTENTIALLY MAYBE THE FIRST MEETING JUST BY ZOOM. AND YOU'LL HAVE THE ENGINEER IN YEAH, THE ENGINEER WILL BE PRESENT. I, THAT'S, THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MORE IMPORTANT PRESENT THAN, THAN ME. UM, I MEAN, I WOULDN'T GO THAT RARELY ADMIT THAT, BUT , BUT, UM, NO. 'CAUSE WE WANNA REALLY KIND OF GET IN FRONT OF ISSUES AS OPPOSED TO, YOU KNOW, DESIGNING IT AND THEN FINDING OUT THERE'S ALL THESE OTHER CONCERNS AND HAVING TO REDO IT. SO, SO CAN I JUST ASK A QUESTION IF, UM, IF THERE'S [00:25:01] NO DES WHICH I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND, THERE'S NO DESIGN YET. SO WHAT WOULD THE, WHAT WOULD THE CONVERSATION, LIKE, WHAT DO YOU ANTICIPATE THE CONVERSATION WOULD BE WITH RESIDENTS AND THE ENGINEER? LIKE WHERE THE CAR, I KNOW ONE RESIDENT THAT'S VERY CONCERNED ABOUT FLOODING, THAT THEY'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK TO INCREASE THE HEIGHT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY. YEAH. RIGHT. AND THEY'RE VERY WORRIED ABOUT THIS. OKAY. SO WE'D BE MORE VERY SPECIFIC TO A CERTAIN, IT'LL BE LISTENING TO WHAT THEY, WHAT THE RESIDENTS CONCERNS ARE GREAT. SO THAT WE CAN BE KIND OF PROACTIVE IN ADDRESSING THAT. OKAY. GREAT. UM, AND THEN ONE OTHER THING THAT I JUST WANTED TO, UH, RAISE WITH YOU, UM, THE TAP GRANT PROCESS IS NOW OPEN. THE TAP GRANT IS THE GRANT THAT WE HAVE FOR BOTH, UM, BROADWAY AND THE SIDEWALKS ON BROADWAY. AND THE SIDEWALKS ON, UH, ON, ON, UM, ROSEDALE. AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO, UH, IF EVERYBODY'S ON BOARD WITH THAT, IS WE, WE MADE, AS YOU MAY RECALL, WE MADE APPLICATIONS FOR ALL OF MAIN STREET WITHIN THE CDBG APPLICATIONS, AND WE DID NOT GET THE TOP OF MAIN STREET, BOTH SIDES OR MAPLE AVENUE. SO I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, APPLY FOR A TAP GRANT FOR THOSE LOCATIONS. UH, AND WE'VE ALREADY BASICALLY DONE THE WORK. YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF REDOING THE, THE, YOU KNOW, FIONA WILL REDO THE GRANT APPLICATION TO FIT INTO, UH, THEIR, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, UM, THEIR, THEIR QUESTIONS AND, AND, AND, AND, UH, FORMAT. BUT, UM, BECAUSE I, IT, IT WOULD JUST BE GREAT IF WE COULD GET MAIN STREET FINISHED. SO, UM, IF EVERYBODY'S ON BOARD WITH THAT, I'LL, I'LL GO AHEAD WITH FIONA AND, AND, UH, AND WE'LL GET THAT. UH, WOULD IT BE ONLY SIDEWALKS OR DO YOU THINK YOU COULD WRAP IN THIS, THIS CROSSING QUESTION INTO THE GRANT TOO? I'M SORRY? UM, AT THE BASE OF MAIN STREET, YOU MEAN? WELL, I MEAN THE, THE ISSUE THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO SAM SCHWARTZ ABOUT THAT I REALIZE IT'S NOT 100% RESOLVED. YEAH. WELL, THAT, I MEAN, I THINK THAT THOSE, THAT THOSE TWO AREAS SHOULD, SHOULD ALREADY BE IN THE MAIN STREET CDBG GRANTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED, BECAUSE THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER WEST, UH, THAN THESE TWO, THESE, THE, THESE AREA, YOU KNOW, THAN THE MAIN STREET AREA THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, WHICH I THINK IS, I'LL LOOK, I THINK IT'S FROM, BUT, BUT THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS YES. IF IT'S IN, IF, IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE IN THAT AREA. OTHERWISE, WE SHOULD WRAP IT INTO THE EX THE OTHER TWO CDBG GRANTS. WELL, AND THE, THE CROSSWALK AT FOOD TOWN WOULD BE IN THAT FURTHER EAST PORTION OF THE SIDEWALKS. YES. IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY FROM THE HOOK AND LADDER TO THE INTERSECTION TO FIVE CORNERS, ACTUALLY, NOW THAT YOU BRING IT UP. UM, IT'S ACTUALLY GOOD TO INCLUDE THE OTHER TWO GRANTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED, BECAUSE THEY'RE 50% GRANTS. OKAY. FROM THE, FROM THE COUNTY. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL DO ALL THE MAIN STREET, UH, BECAUSE WE ALREADY MADE THE APPLICATIONS, IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, LIKE WE HAVE TO REINVENT THE WHEEL HERE. SO THERE COULD BE SOME, THERE, SOME DESIGN WORK COULD BE CONTEMPLATED IN THIS, IN THIS TAP GRANT. YES, ABSOLUTELY. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE DO. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH, WITH, UH, BOTH ROSEDALE AND BROADWAY. OKAY. IT'S DESIGN AND BUILD. SO IF WE WE'RE STILL DEBATING ABOUT EXACTLY WHERE THESE CROSSWALKS GO, WE CAN, WE CAN WORK THROUGH THAT IN THAT PROCESS. WE CAN, YES. OKAY, PERFECT. SO YES. THANK YOU. OKAY, GREAT. UM, SO THAT'S WHAT I HAD ON GRANTS, UNLESS THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY ELSE ON THAT. UH, AND, UM, YEAH, THOSE WERE, THOSE WERE THE, THE MAIN THINGS THAT I REALLY WANTED TO RAISE WITH EVERY ANYBODY, UNLESS THERE'S SOME OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE. MTA SIDEWALK, , SHE SAID, I WENT, I WAS DOWN THERE TODAY. AND, UM, THEY'RE POURING, UH, THEY'RE POURING ROCKS. UM, I GUESS YOU WOULD CALL IT GRAVEL IS PROBABLY THE PROPER WORD, UH, INTO THE, THE, THE HOLE SLOWLY. UM, IT'S COMING, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S COMING OUT OF A CEMENT MIXER. I'VE NEVER SEEN THEM DO ROCKS OUT OF CEMENT MIXER, BUT IT DOES REQUIRE A LOT OF HAND WORK TO HELP THE ROCKS GET DOWN THE, THE CHUTE THERE. HMM. SO, UM, SO YEAH, THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE DOING THAT. AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO BE GETTING A NEW CURB, THE GRANITE CURBING, THEY'RE GETTING GRANITE CURBING, WHICH IS REALLY NICE. AND ONCE THEY GET APPROVAL FROM, I GUESS THE MTA TO ACTUALLY INSTALL THE GRANITE CURBING, THEY WILL BE DOING THAT. AND THEN THEY'LL BE POURING THE CONCRETE AND THEY EXPECT TO BE FINISHED BY THE END OF FEBRUARY. YES. THIS IS LIKE THE MOST IMPRESSIVE SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION I'VE EVER SEEN HAVE. NOBODY SHOULD BE A RIBBON CUTTING. YES. WE SHOULD HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING, FOR SURE. THANK YOU, VILLAGE MANAGER. I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. DOES THE GRANITE MATCH [00:30:01] THE REST OF YES, IT DOES. OKAY. YES. AND THEY ALSO, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MATCHING THE, IN THAT PARTICULAR AREA, BECAUSE THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A WHOLE STRETCH OF SIDEWALK ON THAT SIDE OF THE STREET. AND THE BRICK WORK IS, IS ALREADY THERE. AND WE DON'T HAVE TREES THERE. SO THE BRICKWORK HAS NOT HEAVED LIKE IT HAS EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE VILLAGE. SO, UM, I, I, I THOUGHT WE WOULD WANNA CONTINUE THAT BRICKWORK OVER THERE. WE DON'T HAVE TO. 'CAUSE WE HAVEN'T, WE'VE BEEN REMOVING IT IN OTHER PARTS OF THE VILLAGE, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO SUFFER THE SAME, UH, PROBLEMS THAT IT SUFFERS IN, IN THE PARTS OF THE VILLAGE WHERE WE HAVE TREES. WE DON'T HAVE ANY TREES ON THE SIDE. BUT THAT'S STAMPED CONCRETE. I'M SORRY, THAT'S WHAT I MEANT. STAMPED CONCRETE. YEAH. OKAY. I MISP, I, I MISSPOKE. I'M SORRY. UM, SO DO YOU WANNA GO AHEAD WITH THE STAMPED CONCRETE THERE, OR, OR WOULD YOU RATHER JUST DO STREET SIDEWALK? I MEAN, I, I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF THE STEM CONCRETE, BUT I'VE SEEN A CRUMBLING YEAH. IN OTHER SPOTS. SO I'M WONDERING IF WE JUST DO A STRAIGHT SIDEWALK, STRAIGHT SIDEWALKS. OKAY. AND THEN TRY TO REPEAT THAT FOR REPLACING WHENEVER THE OTHER SECTIONS HAVE TO GET REPLACED. WE'LL DO THAT JUST A STRAIGHT SIDEWALK. LIKE WHAT'S OUTSIDE? JUST A FLAT CONCRETE, POOR CONCRETE. CONCRETE TO THE CURB. MIDDLE BRED FAKE BRICK STRIFE. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, ONTO BOARD [X. BOARD DISCUSSION AND COMMENTS ] DISCUSSIONS AND COMMENTS. UH, THE FIRST BOARD DISCUSSION, ONE THAT I, UH, HAD ADDED, UH, FOR THIS EVENING, RELATING TO DOWNTOWN PARKING OPTIONS AND RESIDENTIAL PARKING OPTIONS FOR THE DOWNTOWN AREA OF THE VILLAGE. UM, I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, AND THIS IS JUST AN OPEN DISCUSSION. UH, I DON'T HAVE A PREPARED SPEECH, UH, IN FRONT OF ME, BUT I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO MEET WITH AND TALK WITH RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS OVER THE LAST, UH, SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR. AND ONE OF THE STRESSES THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE SEEM TO SHARE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA IS CONFUSION AROUND OUR PARKING RESTRICTIONS, UH, RELATED TO THE PARKING METERS AND THE APPS AND CONFUSION AND, AND LOSS OF REVENUE, UH, DUE TO THESE DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE IN THE VILLAGE, THAT, THAT PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED THAT TO JUST GONNA STAY AWAY AND, AND SHOP ELSEWHERE, UM, OUTSIDE OUR VILLAGE. AND RECENTLY IN THE LAST, UH, YEAR OR SO, THE VILLAGE OF ARDSLEY HAS GONE TO FREE PARKING IN THEIR DOWNTOWN WITH TIME RESTRICTIONS, UH, INCLUDED IN THAT. AND VILLAGE OF IRVINGTON, AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, HAS BEEN FREE. UH, AND I KNOW DOBBS FERRY STILL CONTINUES WITH THE SIMILAR METER SYSTEM THAT WE ALREADY USE AND AN APP SYSTEM THAT WE, WE ALREADY USE. BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I'D LIKE TO BRING UP TO THE BOARD FOR CONSIDERATION. IN ADDITION TO THAT WOULD ALSO BE RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONES. UM, THAT THIS HAS BEEN A COMPLAINT OF, OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA FOR, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, AS LONG AS I CAN ACTUALLY REMEMBER. UM, THAT, UH, THERE ARE CARS IN THE UN UNRESTRICTED AREAS CLOSE TO THE TRAIN STATION WHERE CARS ARE JUST LEFT FOR AN ENTIRE DAY BECAUSE IT'S AN UNRESTRICTED AREA THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE ANY TYPE OF PERMANENT PARKING, WHICH THAT REQUIRES A LOT MORE. AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO GO TO A HOME RULE. AND, AND I HAVE ALREADY TALKED TO ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHIKE, UH, WHO'S NOT COMPLETELY OPPOSED TO IT. NOW, OBVIOUSLY THERE HAS TO BE A LOT MORE CONVERSATIONS WITH HER IF WE DECIDE WE ARE GONNA GO FORWARD WITH SUCH A PROGRAM. BUT I THINK THERE ARE MANY AREAS IN THIS SURROUNDING, UH, DOWNTOWN AREA THAT MIGHT BENEFIT FROM GOING TO SOME TYPE OF A RES RESIDENTIAL ZONE, WHERE IT MIGHT BE JUST A ONE HOUR BLOCK OF TIME IN THE MORNING WHERE YOU CAN ONLY PARK THERE IF YOU HAVE A PERMIT. UM, MAPLE AVENUE COMES TO MIND, UH, SOME PARTS OF WASHINGTON AVENUE, PARTS OF WAR BURTON AVENUE, MAYBE LOWER END OF VILLARD. THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE THINGS I'M THROWING OUT THERE, UH, THAT COME TO MIND FOR ME. AND I JUST WANTED TO SEE WHAT THE TEMPERATURE OF THE BOARD WOULD BE ON THAT, INCLUDING GOING TO FREE PARKING WITH A TWO OR THREE HOUR MAXIMUM, UH, TIME LIMIT, WHICH THEN THERE WOULD STILL BE AN ENFORCEMENT ANGLE TO THAT. UH, UH, THE VILLAGE OF ARDSLEY USES LICENSE PLATE READER ON THEIR, UH, PARKING ENFORCEMENT VEHICLE. THAT VEHICLE THEN DRIVES AROUND AND GOES THROUGH ALL OF OUR LOTS AND IS READING THE PLATES AND GEO TAGGING THE LOCATION AND THE TIME OF THAT VEHICLE. AND THAT'S HOW THE ENFORCEMENT ASPECT DOES WORK. AND AS THEY CONTINUE TO PATROL THROUGHOUT THE DAY, THEN THEY'LL KNOW THAT A VEHICLE IS NOW THERE, BEEN BEEN THERE FOR THREE HOURS AND 15 MINUTES, AND THEN THEY'RE ISSUED A SUMMONS, UH, AT THAT POINT. SO THAT, THIS IS A PROPOSAL THAT I'D LIKE TO BRING UP IN THE SOMEWHAT NEAR FUTURE. OBVIOUSLY, THE RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONES TAKES A STATE LAW, IT TAKES A HOME RULE, AND THAT WILL TAKE LONGER. BUT I'D LIKE TO JUST OPEN IT UP TO BOARD DISCUSSION TO SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY OPINIONS ON IT OR COMMENTS OR, OR WARNINGS, UH, ABOUT A ROAD THAT WE SHOULDN'T GO DOWN. NO, I MEAN, I'M, I'VE BEEN PRETTY CLEAR THAT I'M IN SUPPORT OF IT. , I, I GUESS THE ONLY THING I WOULD SAY IS, I MEAN, ONE THING, I THINK THE [00:35:01] LICENSE PLATE READER IS A GREAT IDEA. THE, YOU CAN'T CHUCK VEHICLES ANYMORE, RIGHT? THAT'S CONSIDERED BATTERY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR VANDALISM. UM, IT'S FINE. I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT. I THINK THAT WAS IRVINGTON. I THINK IRVINGTON RAN THROUGH THAT. YEAH. UM, THE, THE, I DON'T KNOW, I THINK TWO HOURS PROBABLY WOULD BE FINE, BUT I'D BE OPEN TO, TO GOING TO THREE ALSO, I THINK YOU NEED ENOUGH TIME FOR SOMEONE TO HAVE A DECENT MEAL, YOU KNOW, BE DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT AREAS, RIGHT. LIKE THE LOTS COULD BE, YOU KNOW, WELL, I GUESS THE LOTS THOUGH, ARE WE STILL GONNA PRESERVE THE, THE COMMUTER LOT AS A COMMUTER LOT OR COMMUTER LOT WOULD CONTINUE. THAT WOULD BE PERMANENT PARKING, BECAUSE I'VE ALSO HEARD THAT PEOPLE ARE USING, UM, WHAT IS THE PARKING, THE, THE PARKING LOT AT ZINZER PARK AS A COMMUTER LOT. MM-HMM . SO WE MAY WANT TO TURN THAT IN OR, OR ACTUALLY PUT IN A REQUIRE THAT IT HAS A HASTINGS PERMIT ON IT. AT LEAST THAT HAS BEEN A COMPLAINT. I KNOW OF SOME OF THE ATHLETIC GROUPS BECAUSE THEY GO IN IN THE EVENING AND THERE'S ALREADY 20 CARS IN THE LOT BEFORE THEY'VE EVEN STARTED SPORTS. RIGHT. UH, AND I, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE KIND OF OVERLOOKED. UH, THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED AS WELL. BUT DO WE, DO YOU THINK, OR DO THEY THINK THAT THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN HASTINGS OR THEY'RE FROM OUT OF TOWN? I BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WALKING TO THE TRAIN FROM THERE. YEAH. IN, IN YEARS PAST. THEY HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THE VILLAGE TO PARK THERE. IF THEY DON'T GET A SPOT OR THEY DON'T WANNA BUY A PERMIT. IT'S BEEN A, JUST A VERBAL POLICY. YEAH. I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE GEO TAGGING EQUIPMENT. DO WE HAVE IT AND WHAT'S ITS COST? IT'S A LICENSE PLATE READER, AND WE HAVE THEM. YES. AND SO THE, JUST TO SIT, WE MIGHT HAVE TO PURCHASE A NEW SET. MM-HMM. OR SYSTEM. MM-HMM. IT'S, IT'S ON BOTH SIDES OF THE TRUNK OF THE VEHICLE. AND IT'S THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. ALL THEIR CARS ARE ALREADY FULLY EQUIPPED WITH THEM, AND THEY'RE JUST DRIVING THROUGH THE LOT, AND IT'S JUST READING PLATES AS IT GOES. UM, OR DOWN THE STREET. HMM. OR DOWN THE STREET. YES. AND SOMETIMES FOR POLICE MATTERS, THEY ARE PROGRAMMED DIFFERENTLY. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR SUSPENDED REGISTRATIONS. ALSO. THIS WOULD JUST BE GEO TAGGING FOR THAT, BUT IT WOULD ALSO PROBABLY SHOW EXPIRED REGISTRATIONS WHERE THAT BECOMES AN ENFORCEMENT ANGLE AS WELL. SO THEY WOULD GET OUT AND ISSUE A SUMMONS FOR AN EXPIRED REGISTRATION, I GUESS. UM, MAYOR DRAKE, I, I WOULD SAY ONE THING IS, I, I DID TALK TO ASSEMBLYMAN, UM, ANTE YEARS AGO ABOUT THIS ISSUE. AND HE SAID THAT HE NEEDED US TO DO, UM, ESSENTIALLY A TRAFFIC STUDY , WHICH WE SEEM TO ALWAYS, WE JUST DO WAY TOO MANY TRAFFIC STUDIES. BUT HE'S LIKE, I WILL NEED A TRAFFIC STUDY THAT EXPLAINS WHERE THESE, WHERE THESE RESIDENTIAL PARKING AREAS ARE GONNA GO. I NEED THAT DOCUMENT SO THAT I CAN CONVINCE OTHER ASSEMBLY MEMBERS THAT THIS IS NECESSARY. AND TO, TO CONVINCE THE SPEAKER TO ACTUALLY, UM, HAVE, HAVE IT VOTED UPON. SO I THINK, I MEAN, I'M SURE THE, THE VILLAGE ATTORNEY KNOWS THE STEPS, BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE THERE WAS, THERE'S A, WE HAVE TO DO A LOT OF HOMEWORK BEFORE WE CAN GET THERE. AND SO THE ONLY THING I WORRY ABOUT, 'CAUSE I REMEMBER LIKE DURING THE CAMPAIGN WHEN I WOULD TALK ABOUT FREE PARKING, A LOT OF PEOPLE CAME TO ME AND THEY SAID, WELL, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO ABOUT THE RESIDENT ISSUE? BECAUSE IF WE JUST OPEN IT UP TO FREE PARKING, WE, WE ARE CREATING A POTENTIAL PROBLEM FOR THE RESIDENTS. AND I THINK WE JUST NEED TO TALK THROUGH HOW WE RESOLVE THAT. WELL, NOT IF YOU'RE TIME RESTRICTING EXCEPT SOME RESIDENTS OR YOU TIME RESTRICT DURING THE DAY YOU'RE SAYING. AND THEN DON'T TIME RESTRICT AFTER LIKE 6:00 PM AND IT'S ALSO NOT SOMETHING THAT I'M PROPOSING, UH, JUST BE, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE DOING THIS FOREVER. NOW. I THINK AT THE END OF THE FIRST YEAR, UH, THERE CAN BE A, SOME TYPE OF A QUANTITATIVE APPROACH TO THIS, POSSIBLY BY OUR VILLAGE TREASURER. UH, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE RELATING TO, UH, SALES TAX. IF WE SEE AN INCREASE IN SALES TAX COULD ALSO JUST BE QUALITATIVE AND MEETING WITH OUR BUSINESS OWNERS TO SEE IF THEY'RE VIEWING AND SEEING A INCREASE IN, IN, IN THEIR BUSINESS, OR AT LEAST HAPPY CUSTOMERS IN, IN A RETURN OF FORMER CUSTOMERS THAT HAVE NOW LEFT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT NOT SEE A REAL IMPACT IN THE SALES TAX, BUT YOU MIGHT HEAR A QUALITATIVE, UH, ASSESSMENT OF IT FROM THEM SAYING, YES, THIS HAS DEFINITELY HELPED ME AND HELP MY BUSINESS. AND, AND I ASSUME WE WOULD HOPEFULLY GET, YOU KNOW, POSITIVE, UH, COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC AS WELL, UH, RELATING TO IT. AND THEN AS FAR AS THE, THE HOME RULE, UH, THAT'S GONNA BE EXTENSIVE. AND I THINK, UM, THAT'S WHERE YOU NEED THE BACKUP. YEAH. AND ASSEMBLYWOMAN SHAMSKY THAT ALSO MENTIONED THAT TO ME, THAT, THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE, IT, IT'S A PROCESS. IT TAKES A LOT LONGER. HOPEFULLY WE DON'T HAVE TO DO A TRAFFIC STUDY. UH, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD INTEND TO DO, IF THE BOARD IS AMENABLE TO IT, IS I WOULD ACTUALLY ASK, I'M GONNA, I WOULD PUT OUT A, A COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMUNITY ASKING FOR INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY, UH, FROM THE AREAS IN THE, SPECIFICALLY THE AREAS OF THE DOWNTOWN. UH, I KNOW MAPLE AVENUE RESIDENTS DEFINITELY HAVE A LOT OF COMMENTS ABOUT PARKING AND, AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS, UH, OR THE POSSIBILITY OF RESTRICTING PARKING IN THEIR AREA TO RESIDENTIAL ONLY. AND, UH, I THINK I WOULD OPEN THAT UP TO THE [00:40:01] COMMUNITY AND, AND ASK FOR FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY AS WELL. I'VE HEARD A BUNCH OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT, UH, LONG-TERM PARKING ON WASHINGTON AVENUE CARS JUST BEING LEFT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND WE ALREADY KNOW HOW JAMMED WASHINGTON AVENUE AND WARBURTON AVENUE ARE TO A POINT DOWN WARBURTON AVENUE AS WELL. SO I HAVE HAD LOTS OF COMMENTS ABOUT THOSE TWO AREAS AS WELL. SO I, I, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE BOTH HAVE SAID SO FAR, THAT IT'S A GREAT IDEA TO, UM, GET RID OF THE, YOU KNOW, TO THE PARKING, UM, COST IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. BUT I'M WONDERING, FROM WHAT I'M HEARING DOES, IT'S TWO THINGS. ONE IS PROBABLY REALLY BASIC QUESTION. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE HOME RULE PROCESS THAT TAKES A LONG TIME IS COMPLETED BEFORE WE CAN INSTITUTE THE FREE PARKING, THE RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONES, THE RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONES, FREE PARKING IS ON US. RIGHT. BUT IF YOU DO THE FREE PARKING WITHOUT DOING THE RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONES, HAVEN'T YOU CREATED RIGHT. AND THE DOWNTOWN OR EXACERBATED A PROBLEM THAT'S KIND OF ALREADY THERE. THAT'S, THAT'S PART A. AND THEN PART B IS, IS THERE A WAY TO DO A PARTIAL ROLLOUT AND NOT MAKE CHANGES IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS? THE AREAS THAT WE'RE THINKING OF AND ONLY MAKE THE CHANGES IN THE AREAS THAT WE'RE, THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER NON-RESIDENTIAL? THE PROBLEM TRUSTEE ALLIGATOR IS WE'VE MADE THE WHOLE CENTRAL COMMERCIAL DISTRICT RESIDENTIAL ON THE UPPER FLOOR. SO IT'S ALMOST RESIDENTIAL EVERYWHERE THAT I UNDERSTAND. DON'T TO THE RESIDENTIAL PARKING PERMIT PLAN IN COMMERCIAL AREAS, YOU CAN ONLY DO IT IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS. OH. OH, THAT'S INTERESTING. OKAY. THANK YOU. . DON'T WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY, SEE , I DON'T SEE HOW THE TWO COULD OVERLAP AND, AND CREATE A CONFLICT. UM, I DON'T SEE CREATING, JUST TALK IT OUT. IF, IF YOU HAVE FREE PARKING IN BOLLINGER PLAZA, I DON'T SEE HOW THAT WOULD NOW AFFECT MAPLE AVENUE PARKING. I DON'T SEE IF ANYTHING, MAYBE SOMEBODY MIGHT TAKE THEIR CAR FROM MAPLE AND PUT IT IN BOLLINGER FOR THREE HOURS. I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT. I'M IN MY OWN MIND, I CAN'T SEE THE EFFECT. RIGHT. THAT'S MY POINT AND SUGGESTION IN A WAY TO MM-HMM . TO TO, TO LOCALIZE. YEAH. GO, JUST GO. CASE BY CASE IN THE RIGHT. I THINK WE, WE WOULDN'T HARM ANYONE IF WE DID BEGIN WITH JUST FREE PARKING IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. ELIMINATE THE METERS. RIGHT. IN CERTAIN AREAS. SO PLACES THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING FOR RESIDENTIAL PARKING HOME RULE, WE WOULDN'T EVEN CHANGE THAT TO FREE PARKING RIGHT NOW. GOT IT. SO RIGHT. MAPLE AVENUE HAS METERS. RIGHT, EXACTLY. RIGHT. YEAH. UM, WELL, WE'RE GOING TO A MAXIMUM OF THREE HOURS THOUGH, OR TWO WE, WHAT WE AGREE ON. SO IF, EVEN IF IT'S A NON ME OR NOW, IT'S NO LONGER METERS, THEY CAN ONLY STAY THERE TWO TO THREE HOURS. BUT IF IT'S, IF IT'S A RESIDENTIAL ZONE, IF I PARK MY CAR THERE AND I GO TO WORK ON THE TRAIN, THEN I, I THEN IT DOESN'T COUNT FOR ME. THAT'S NOT A RESIDENTIAL PARKING. I THINK YOU JUST WOULD NOT MODIFY, I, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THE EAST SIDE OF MAPLE AVENUE IS LIKE A RESIDENTIAL, THERE'S NO METERS THERE. MM-HMM . THERE'S METERS ONLY ON THE WEST SIDE OF MAPLE AVENUE. AND I THINK, SO NOTHING WOULD CHANGE ON THE EAST SIDE AND THEN ON THE WEST SIDE, THAT WOULD GO TO THREE HOUR MAXIMUM PARKING. I SEE. I, OKAY. SO I WOULD JUST WANT TO MAYBE KEEP THINKING OF DIFFERENT SCENARIOS WHERE, WHERE IT WOULD HAVE AN IMPACT. RIGHT. I GET IT. I UNDERSTAND. QUESTION ABOUT THE, I'M SORRY. THE, THE METERS ON THE WEST SIDE OF MAPLE THOUGH, CAN THEY BE RE-UP THROUGH THE APP IF SOMEONE GOES INTO THE CITY? NO. NO, THERE'S NOT. THEY'RE NOT. THEY'RE, THEY'RE DELIBERATELY, UM, DESIGNS THAT YOU CANNOT, REUP CANNOT A FULL DAY IN DOWN SOUTH SIDE AVENUE TO, AS YOU GET CLOSER TO THE TRAIN STATION, THE METERS ALONG THE LIBRARY WALL, ACTUALLY ALL THE, ALL THE DOWNTOWN METERS, YOU CANNOT RE-UP ON PARK MOBILE WITHIN A REASONABLE WINDOW SO THAT YOU COULD BE TICKETED. OKAY. IT'S OTHERWISE YOU COULD PAY FOR TWO HOURS CONTINUOUSLY AND GO TO THE CITY AND PARK IN BOLLINGER. MM-HMM . DOES IT LET YOU DO A NEW, LIKE, IF YOU WAIT 10 MINUTES, CAN YOU START A NEW SESSION? I MADE THE WINDOW REALLY, REALLY LONG. , YOU'RE NOT DELIBERATELY TO PREVENT COMMUTERS FROM ABUSING IT. I WAS ALSO GONNA ASK ABOUT, UM, UH, IF I'M PARKING, IF I'VE PARKED FOR MY, WHATEVER, MY TWO OR THREE HOURS AND THEN I MOVE MY CAR LIKE TO AN ADJACENT SPOT, IS THAT LIKE, IS IT PER DAY PER CAR? YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. NO, I KNOW. I THINK IF YOU MOVE, YOU MOVE AND THEN YOU GET GEOTAGGED IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION. SO IF YOU'RE SAVVY AND YOU'RE SCAMMING THE SYSTEM, THEN YOU'RE GONNA SCAM THE SYSTEM. BUT WE CAN DISCUSS THAT, CAN SEE THE OTHER COMMUNITIES, JUST LIKE THINKING THERE WILL BE CONCERN WITH EMPLOYEES IN THE DOWNTOWN. I KNOW THAT INSTEAD OF BUYING THE VIRTUAL BUSINESS PARKING STICKER, MANY OF THEM JUST GO AND FEED THE METER AND THEY PARK RIGHT OUTSIDE THE DINER OR, YOU KNOW, THE STORES THAT THEY WORK AT. AND THAT'S A CONCERN THAT YOU GUYS WILL HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ALSO. OKAY. WEREN'T SOME OF THEM USING THE ZINZER PARK LOT FOR SOME OF THEM? WERE ALL USING ZINZER. THERE'S ONE PERSON WHO WORKS IN THE DOWNTOWN AND PARKS IN WASHINGTON EVERY DAY, BECAUSE I'VE HEARD ABOUT IT FROM MY NEIGHBORS , BUT ON EGGERSS LANE, I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S, THERE'S A LONG EXPANSE THERE. AND, AND THAT'S NOT RESTRICTED AT ALL. RIGHT. SO YOU COULD PARK ALONG EGGERSS LANE, [00:45:01] LONG ZINZER PARK. YEAH. I MEAN, IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU GUYS WIND UP PUSHING, BUT DOING THIS PUSHES IT, YOU JUST HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHERE IT'S PUSHING THE CARS. MM-HMM . WELL, THAT'S PART OF WHY I WANT PUBLIC INPUT ON IT AS WELL. UH, SO I THINK AND THE EMPLOYEES, DOWNTOWN EMPLOYEES. YEAH. MM-HMM . OKAY. I MEAN, JUST HEARING YOU TALK ABOUT MAPLE THOUGH, I, I WANNA BE CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T JUST KEEP PERPETUATING THE CONFUSION. SO I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO WHAT TRUSTEE ALL IS TALKING ABOUT AND SORT OF THINKING ABOUT AN AREA. YEAH. AND TRYING, BECAUSE I MEAN, I HAVE HAD PEOPLE, AND I KNOW THE PARKING SYSTEM IS VERY CLEAR TO ALL OF US RESIDENTS, BUT I HAVE HAD PEOPLE TELL ME THAT THEY'RE NEVER GONNA SHOP IN HASTINGS AGAIN BECAUSE THEY GOT A PARKING TICKET. SO I, I DO THINK, LIKE WE ALL JUST SORT OF THINK THAT IRVINGTON IS, IS ALL FREE. AND MAYBE IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE, BUT IT DOES SEEM SIMPLER. YOU KNOW, IT IS ALL, THERE'S TWO HOUR, THERE'S SIX HOUR IN SOME AREAS. UM, BUT IT'S, IT'S ALL FREE EXCEPT FOR THE TRAIN STATION. RIGHT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO IT SEEMS LIKE WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH RESEARCHING THIS. OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN NEXT MONTH, UH, ESPECIALLY WITH THE RESIDENTIAL PARKING ZONES, BUT, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL BEGIN. WE ACTUALLY HAVE A, A FOLLOW UP MEETING SOON WITH THE OTHER MUNICIPAL LEADERS. UM, WE'LL BRING THAT UP AT THAT MEETING IF THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU. OF COURSE. UH, NEXT DISCUSSION, UH, IS PROPOSED LAW, LOCAL LAW TO CORRECT CODE IN INCONSISTENCIES THAT FALLS ON OUR VILLAGE ATTORNEY. GOING BACK TO NOW THE, THE LONG LIST OF, SO WHEN, WHEN WE STARTED, UM, LOOKING AT ADDING SOME STOP SIGNS AND DOING SOME THINGS, WE REALIZED THAT, UM, THERE WERE SOME PROBLEMS WITH THE WAY THE CODE HAD BEEN WRITTEN AND THEN ADDED TO PIECEMEAL OVER THE YEAR, OVER THE YEARS. SO WE'VE GIVEN YOU, UM, PROBABLY THE BEST THING TO LOOK AT IS THE RED LINE VERSION. SO THAT'S RED LINE FROM THE EXISTING CODE. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TIME SPENT BY ANTHONY, UM, BY ME KIND OF GOING ON GOOGLE MAPS, LOOKING TO SEE WHERE STOP SIGNS ACTUALLY EXIST. UM, BUT THE OTHER THING WE DID WAS WE SPLIT IT UP. SO IT USED TO BE THAT EVERYTHING REFERRED TO THROUGH HIGHWAYS, BUT THAT IT JUST STARTED LISTING STOP INTERSECTIONS. SO WE BROKE IT INTO TWO PARTS. SO THE FIRST IS THE THROUGH ROADS, THE THROUGH HIGHWAYS, BROADWAY, ROGATE. THE CORRECTED STUFF WAS ON THE WRONG INTERROGATE EVERYWHERE. UM, WAR BURTON, RAVENSDALE ARD, MOUNT HOPE, MOUNT HOPE, AND WE IDENTIFIED WHERE THE STOP SIGNS WERE AT TOMPKINS AND HIGH STREET. AND THE STOP SIGNS ALONG THOSE, UM, THESE ARE NOT ADDING NEW ONES. THIS IS REALLY TRYING TO PUT PROPERLY INTO THE CODE WHERE STOP SIGNS EXIST. UM, THERE'S A COUPLE THAT ARE ADDED NOW. I CAN POINT THOSE OUT. UM, THEN YOU GET TO THE SECOND PART, WHICH IS THE INTERSECTIONS THAT AREN'T ON A THROUGH ROAD, BUT ARE, UM, DESIGNATED AS STOP OR YIELD INTERSECTIONS. UM, SO A BUNCH OF THINGS GOT MOVED. A BUNCH OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SEE THAT LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE DELETED WERE ACTUALLY MOVED BECAUSE THEY BELONGED ON ONE OF THE THROUGH HIGHWAYS. UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING WE DID WAS MAKE THE LANGUAGE CONSISTENT, WHICH IT WAS NOT. SO WE USED CONSISTENT LANGUAGE, UM, AND NAMES OF STREETS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, WE'VE, SO FAR AS OF TODAY, WE FIGURED OUT ONE THAT WE MISSED. UM, I'M, I'M GONNA, UM, ASK PD TO CHECK AND DPW TO THOROUGHLY REVIEW THIS BEFORE, UH, OUR NEXT MEETING WHEN HOPEFULLY THE BOARD WILL BE IN A POSITION TO, UM, SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING ON IT. SO, UM, WHAT CAN I ASK ONE, WHAT CONSTITUTES A THROUGH HIGHWAY? I MEAN, IT SEEMS INTUITIVELY OBVIOUS, BUT I JUST, I'M THINKING IT THROUGH AND THEY'RE JUST, YOU'RE JUST DESIGNATING, SO THERE'RE A LOT OF IT. THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO FROM THE BOUNDARY OF THE MUNICIPALITY. NO, BUT WHAT THE WAY IT'S USED IN HERE, IT'S, IT'S REALLY YOUR MAIN ROADS WHERE THE STREETS COMING INTO IT HAVE STOP SIGNS WHERE THEY INTERSECT WITH IT. THEN WE'VE ADDED UNDER SOME OF THESE, WE'VE ADDED THE SORT OF BEES, WHICH IS WHERE THERE'S ACTUAL STOP SIGNS ALONG THOSE ROADS. RIGHT. UM, WHICH THERE DIDN'T USED TO BE ON MOST OF THEM, BUT NOW YOU DO HAVE SOME. SO FOR INSTANCE, UM, ON FARGATE AT ALINDA WHERE THERE'S NOW A STOP SIGN ACTUALLY ON FARGATE [00:50:01] IN BOTH DIRECTIONS AT THE INTERSECTION WITH OLIN. UM, SO, UM, ON, ON RAVENSDALE WHERE, SO RAVENSDALE IS THROUGH, SO MOST OF THE STOP SIGNS ARE JUST WHERE THE SIDE STREETS COME IN. BUT THEN WE ADDED THE STOP SIGN ON RAVENSDALE AT THE INTERSECTION WITH KENT. MY ONLY ONE OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS WHEN I WAS REVIEWING IT FOR VARD AVENUE, UH, NUMBER SIX, IT'S JUST OUT OF ORDER. UH, WHITMAN STREET SHOULD JUST BE MOVED UP TO ONE. YEAH. SO THE REASON WHITMAN STREET GOT ADDED AT THE BOTTOM IS BECAUSE ORIGINALLY THIS ONLY DEALT WITH THE UPPER PART OF THE LORD. RIGHT. UM, SO WE MADE IT JUST DEAL WITH ALL OF THE LORD. SO YEAH, IF YOU'RE GOING FROM BOTTOM TO TOP, UM, WE CAN CERTAINLY MOVE WHITMAN TO THE TOP. SO YOU'RE GOING FROM BOTTOM RIGHT TO TOP. UM, SOME OF IT WAS ALSO DONE BY MY ASSOCIATE TARYN, WHO DOESN'T KNOW THE VILLAGE LIKE WE ALL DO. GOT IT. ALL GOOD. SHE'S LEARNING AFTER THIS. SHE'LL BE A PRO . UM, BUT, SO IF ANYBODY THINKS THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE MISSING AS AS, UM, THE MANAGER SAID SHE'S GONNA HAVE PD AND DPW LOOK AT IT. UM, NO, I, NOT TO OPEN CANS OF WORMS, BUT THAT IS WHAT WE DO. UM, GO, GO AHEAD. I HAVE HAD SOME PEOPLE ASK FOR OTHER STOP SIGNS, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS. AND UM, I'M JUST WONDERING, JUST IN TERMS OF PROCESS THOUGH, SO THAT WE CAN KEEP THIS MOVING, AS YOU SAID, THIS IS, THIS SECTION IS NOT ABOUT ADDING NEW STOP SIGNS, RIGHT? SO THERE ARE A COUPLE THAT ARE BEING ADDED AND, BUT WE'VE, THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN DISCUSSED HERE AND THAT WAS CROSSBAR AND JORDAN. RIGHT? SO THEY'RE ADDED AT THE END. UM, BUT IF THERE'S OTHERS THAT PEOPLE WANNA ADD, ALSO BY HAVING THIS SET UP IN THE NEW FORMAT, IT'LL MAKE IT EASIER WHEN WE GO TO ADD THEM IN THE FUTURE, RIGHT? MM-HMM . 'CAUSE WE KNOW WHERE WE'RE PUTTING THEM AND WE KNOW THE RIGHT LANGUAGE AND WE'RE CONSISTENT. UM, BUT IF THERE'S OTHERS THAT ANYBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT ADDING AT THIS POINT BEFORE WE FINALIZE THE LAW, WE CAN DO THAT. THE ONLY ONES THAT ARE ADDED IN HERE ARE CROSSBAR AND JORDAN, AND A COUPLE THAT I FOUND THAT EXIST THAT WEREN'T IN THE CODE. WELL, NOT TO NOT, SORRY, GO AHEAD TRUSTEE. NO, JUST THE, ALSO THE ONES THAT WE ARE, THAT WE TALKED ABOUT GLENWOOD AND HORNER AND YEAH. THAT YOU JUST ADOPTED. THEY DOWN LOG. SO THEY, THEY'RE NOW IN HERE. YEP. SO ON, ON HIGH STREET, UH, SOME PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME IF WE COULD ADD IN. SO IN SECTION NINE B ERECT STOP SIGNS ON HIGH STREET AT AMHERST IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. NOW MY UNDERSTANDING FROM WHEN WE DEALT WITH SAM SCHWARTZ ON THIS ISSUE IS, IS THAT YOU CAN ONLY ERECT IT IF THERE'S A SIGHT LINE DISTANCE ISSUE. THERE'S NO SIGHT. YEAH. THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE JUST FOR SPEED CONTROL. RIGHT? SO THE ONES WE ADDED ROSE JAMES FOR SIGHT, JAMES HUDSON AND WARREN AND HARVARD ALL HAVE SIGHT LINE ISSUES. HARVARD A LITTLE BIT LESS, BUT THEY ALL HAVE SOMEWHAT OF A SIGHT LINE ISSUE. I THINK THE PROBLEM IS THAT ONCE PEOPLE HAVE LEFT THE HARVARD STOP, THEY JUST FLOOR IT DOWN TO BROADWAY OR IT'S NOT THAT FAR OR VICE VERSA, YOU KNOW? BUT ANYWAY, UM, I DUNNO HOW MUCH THEY COULD FLOOR IT. IT'S NOT VERY FAR . WELL, IT'S FUNNY ACTUALLY 'CAUSE PEOPLE ALSO HAVE BEEN COMPLAINING TO ME THAT PEOPLE ARE FLOORING IT FROM, FROM UH, IN BETWEEN, NO STOP SIGNS, FROM WARREN STREET UP THE HILL TO HARVARD. WELL, THERE'S THAT CURVE. THE CURVE. THEY HIT THE CURVE AND THEY'RE GOING WAY TOO FAST INTO THAT CURVE. SO THEY TURN. SO THAT'S BECOMING, THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN A DANGEROUS LOCATION. WE'VE HAD THE POLICE PUT UP SPEED SIGNS THERE FREQUENTLY, AND THEN THEY'RE, THEY'RE RUNNING DOWN HIGH STREET AND THEN THEY HIT THE STOP SIGN. AND I THINK THERE'S SOME OF THAT ISSUE IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION AS WELL. BUT I'VE ALSO BEEN TOLD BY PEOPLE THAT IF I HAD ONE MORE STOP SIGN ON HIGH STREET, THEY'RE GONNA PERSONALLY KILL ME. SO , I MEAN, THERE'S BEEN TRAFFIC CALMING ON BROADWAY ALREADY DONE BEYOND WARREN STREET WHERE WE REDUCED IT DOWN TO ONE LANE, RIGHT? MM-HMM . UM, AND YOU COULD PROBABLY PROPOSE ASK THE STATE TO CONSIDER TRAFFIC CALMING BEFORE WARREN AS YOU'RE COMING FROM TOMPKINS. IT, IT, IT'S STILL TWO LANES THERE. IT'S NOT, THE ISSUE'S LESS ON BROADWAY, ALTHOUGH YOU'RE RIGHT, PEOPLE ARE GOING PRETTY FAST THERE. BUT, BUT ON THE ROUTE NINE PROJECT, WE HAVE A SEPARATE , RIGHT, RIGHT. THING THAT WE ARE, I THINK, I THINK IT IS GONNA RESULT IN PEOPLE GOING MORE SLOWLY RIGHT ON ROUTE NINE. UM, ANYWAY, I THINK THIS IS A LARGER ISSUE THAN JUST FOR THIS, THIS CONVERSATION. SO I'M GOING TO TELL THOSE PEOPLE THAT IF THEY [00:55:01] WANT TO PUSH THIS, THEY SHOULD BRING IT TO THE SAFETY COUNCIL, SAFETY COUNCIL FIRST. OKAY. YEP. GREAT. ANYBODY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS AT ALL? SO WHAT WOULD BE THE TIMING IF WE'RE, IF, ARE WE DONE WITH THIS OR ONE, DO WE HAVE TO KNOW IF WE, IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED OR JUST TWEAKED? UM, AS SOON AS, AS SOON AS, YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO, UH, PROVIDE IT TO PD AND DPW AND ASK THEM TO HAVE IT REVIEWED BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING SO THAT, UH, WHICH IS I THINK ON THE 20TH OF FEBRUARY, SO THAT WE CAN, UM, SCHEDULE IT FOR PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE 20TH. THE 20TH OF JANUARY. YEAH. JANUARY. JANUARY, SORRY. YEAH. OKAY. I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. OKAY. AND, UM, SO, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GET A CHANCE OVER THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, UH, SEVEN TO 10 DAYS TO OKAY. REVIEW IT AND, UH, JUST EITHER SHARE IT WITH ME OR ME, UH, LINDA, SORRY. UH, ATTORNEY WHITEHEAD AND, UM, ALSO, UH, UH, VILLAGE CLERK TREASURER. MM-HMM . CONSTANTINE, WHO ACTUALLY, THE TWO OF THEM TOGETHER HAVE WORKED VERY HARD ON THIS, SO I'D LIKE TO THANK THEM FOR ALL THEIR EFFORTS IN THAT REGARD. I DEFINITELY APPRECIATED. SO IS IT, THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC DOCUMENT OR IS IT AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC TO LOOK? I MEAN, I'M ONLY SUGGESTING THAT IF, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF SOMEONE HAS A, IF A RESIDENT DOES HAVE A, KNOWING THAT THIS IS, WE'RE GONNA GO TO A PUBLIC HEARING AND THEN THEY'LL BE ABLE TO SEE PUBLIC HERE, THEN THEY WILL BE ABLE TO, AT THAT, AT THAT MOMENT, THEY WILL BE ABLE TO SAY MY STREET OR CORRECT. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YES. OKAY. OKAY. THE CLEAN VERSION OF THIS LAW WAS UPDATED. THE WAY, UM, THE CLEAN VERSION OF THIS WAS UPDATED ORIGINALLY BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL FORMAT WAS YOU GUYS ARE GONNA SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING. RIGHT. OKAY. AND THEN WE REALIZED WE NEEDED A LITTLE MORE REVIEW TIME. OKAY. SO IT IS UP THERE, IT IS OUT, IT IS PART OF THIS MEETING'S DOCUMENT SET. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO SEVEN TO 10 DAYS IS THE REQUEST FROM THE VILLAGE MANAGER FOR EVERYONE TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT. UH, GIVE IT A ONE TO OVER PLEASE. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER ITEMS FOR BOARD DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS? ALRIGHT, MOVING ON TO UPCOMING EVENTS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6TH. IT'S ALREADY DONE TODAY. OH, SORRY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 9TH, THE HASTINGS LITTLE LEAGUE, UH, SOFTBALL, TRYOUT DAY 20 26, 3 40 5:00 PM HILLSIDE SCHOOL, THE BIG GYM. IF YOU HAVE ANY YOUNGSTERS INTERESTED IN PLAYING SOFTBALL AND DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT, TAKE 'EM TO THAT INFORMATION SECTION. KIDS UPCYCLING CLUB 4:00 PM JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER ON JANUARY 9TH. SORRY. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10TH, RIVER ARTS JEFFREY LEWIS LIVE IN CONCERT, 8:00 PM AT HUD CO AND DOBBS FERRY. SUNDAY, JANUARY 11TH. HASTINGS, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT GARAGE. TILLY 11:00 AM TO 3:00 PM AT ANDRE ON HUDSON. SUBJECT TO WEATHER. SUNDAY, JAN, UH, JANUARY 11TH. SUNDAYS AT THE LIBRARY. THE FABULOUS FOUNTAINS OF NEW YORK AT 2:00 PM IN THE LIBRARY. WE ALSO RELEASED A FLYER RELATING TO THAT, TO THE ENTIRE VILLAGE TODAY. THANK YOU TO OUR TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR FOR BLASTING THAT OUT. TODAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15TH, SENIOR THURSDAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15TH, SENIOR NEW YEAR'S BRUNCH, 12:15 PM AT THE JAMES HARMONY COMMUNITY CENTER. REGISTER WITH ANNE RUAK. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17TH IS THE WINTER FARMER'S MARKET. 9:30 AM TO 1:00 PM AT THE ZINZER COMMUTER LOT. SUNDAY, JUNE 9TH, OR JANUARY 19TH OR JANUARY 18TH. MODS TOAST TO 2 53 TO 7:00 PM AT MODS. UH, THIS IS THE, THE FIRST STAGE OF OUR CELEBRATION OF THE, OF 250 YEARS THAT THE GROUP THAT IS ORGANIZING IT. UM, EILEEN, UM, OH MY GOSH, CHARLES, CHARLES CHARLES, UH, WILL BE COMING TO OUR NEXT MEETING TO PRESENT TO US ON JUST ALL THE DIFFERENT, UM, UH, ITEMS THAT THEY HAVE BEGUN TO PLAN, UH, FOR, FOR THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, UH, UH, TO CELEBRATE 250 YEARS. SO SHE WILL BE AT OUR FIRST MEETING IN FEBRUARY AND PRESENT, UH, UH, TO US. AND I THINK THERE WILL BE A REQUEST FOR SOME FUNDING AS WELL, FOR SOME OF, FOR SOME ASSISTANCE FOR SOME OF THESE EVENTS. AND THEN MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH, THE 14TH ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMUNITY CELEBRATION BREAKFAST NINE 15 AT THE JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER. YOU HAVE TO REGISTER ONLINE. TRUSTEE, UH, SUNBURG IS THE KEYNOTE SPEAKER. AND TRUSTEE ALLGOOD, I HEAR IS, IS ALSO ASSISTING PLAYING IN SOMETHING, PLAYING MUSIC ON THE BASE. YES, ON THE BASE. VERY GOOD. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE RUNNING. UM, WHAT IS THAT? UM, MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY. SO IF YOU WANNA HEAR THE TALENTS OF TRUSTEE OOD, PLEASE ATTEND. IF YOU WANNA HEAR THE KNOWLEDGE OF TRUSTEE, TRUSTEE SUNDBERG, PLEASE ATTEND. UH, MOVING [XII. PUBLIC COMMENTS ] ON TO PUBLIC COMMENTS. OUR SECOND ROUND OF PUBLIC COMMENTS. DO WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC PRESENT THAT WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT? UH, DAVE SKOLNIK 47 HILLSIDE. I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THIS EXPERIMENT, AND I HOPE I, UM, UH, DON'T MAKE YOU FEEL THAT I'M ABUSING IT. UM, I FEEL THIS IS IN THE SAME SPIRIT AS THE WAY I TRIED TO USE THE TIME [01:00:01] AT THE END OF THE COMP PLAN MEETINGS WHERE I, UM, GENUINELY OFFERED, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN PERSPECTIVES. UM, I'M GONNA MENTION THIS ONCE NOW WITH REGARD TO THE, THE MICROPHONES, AND THEN I'M NOT GONNA SAY IT AGAIN UNTIL I BRING BACK THE RESULTS OF A HEARING TEST. UNTIL THEN, I JUST HOPE YOU'LL TRY TO BE CONSIDERATE. BUT ONCE I KNOW THAT IT'S NOT MY HEARING THAT'S CAUSING THE PROBLEM, I'LL, I'LL GET, UM, I'LL SPEAK UP AGAIN. UM, ONE OTHER ITEM, UH, PROCEDURALLY I'M WONDERING IF YOU WOULD CONSIDER, UH, IN, IN THE SEPARATION, I, I NEVER UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY HOW YOU DEFINE UPCOMING EVENTS FROM ANNOUNCEMENTS. UH, THE, THE, UH, UPCOMING EVENTS COME FROM OUR WEBSITE AND THERE ARE EVENTS THAT ARE NOT VILLAGE COMMITTEES OR BOARDS. OKAY. THEY'RE JUST MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE OCCURRING IN THE COMMUNITY THAT HAVE BROUGHT, BEEN BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION, BUT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE ONE OF OUR COMMITTEES OR BOARDS THAT ARE UNDER OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS. OKAY. BUT YES, IT IS CONFUSING. I, I WELL, NO, IT'S ONLY THAT, UH, UH, I DIDN'T KNOW OTHERWISE WHETHER IT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE TO HAVE THE PUBLIC COMMENTS BEFORE THOSE, BUT YOU'RE RIGHT. I I UNDERSTAND IT NOW. SO, ABSOLUTELY. UM, THE, A QUESTION ABOUT THE RAVENSDALE, UH, GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED, AND I WASN'T CLEAR WHICH OF THE TWO ENTITIES, UH, WE ACTUALLY GOT THE GRANT FROM. WE RECEIVED THE GRANT FROM, UM, THE NEW YORK STATE CLIMATE. SMART DDEC, CLIMATE SMART COMMUNITIES, UH, WAS UNDER THAT, THAT PROGRAM. THE STATE, NOT THE COUNTY, CORRECT. STATE. RIGHT. UM, I'LL POINT OUT AGAIN THAT AS, AS, UM, I THINK, UH, TRUSTEE MERTON REFERENCED, THERE STILL IS NO, AS FAR AS I KNOW, THERE'S NO DESIGN. THERE'S, WE, WE HAVE, I HAVE SORT OF THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE ROSEDALE AS THEY DO WITH RAVENSDALE IN THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO HAVE INPUT ARE STILL BEING, UH, LEFT IN A CERTAIN VAGUE SE. IT'S VERY ETHEREAL. IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT AT ALL SPECIFIC. SO IT'S VERY HARD TO, TO THEN MAKE COMMENT TO SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, IS JUST CONCEPTUAL. RIGHT. WELL, BECAUSE WE, WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY YET TO DESIGN IT. WE GET THE MONEY IN THE GRANT TO DO THE DESIGN, THAT'S WHERE WE GET THE MONEY TO PAY THE ENGINEER TO RIGHT. TO, TO PREPARE THE DESIGN. BUT WE, WE ARE GOING TO BE MAKING SURE WITH BOTH RAVENSDALE, AS WE'RE DOING WITH ROSEDALE, TO HAVE VERY EARLY INTERACTION WITH THE RESIDENTS SO THAT THEY CAN HAVE PARTIC, YOU KNOW, WELL KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT TO THAT, TO THAT POINT, UM, MY CONCERN THAT I THINK I VOICED LAST MEETING, AND AGAIN, THE, UH, REACHING OUT TO THE RESIDENTS IS, IS IN MY VIEW, DEFICIENT, UM, IN THAT IT'S NOT JUST THE RESIDENTS OF ROSEDALE, OR NOT JUST THE RESIDENTS OF RAVENSDALE THAT ARE IMPACTED BY THESE, UH, PROPOSALS, UM, NOR, UH, MAIN STREET. UM, SO I'M VERY, I'M CONCERNED, UH, THAT WHATEVER IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE AT THE END OF JANUARY. UH, THE CONVERSATION THAT YOU, UH, MENTIONED HAVING WITH THEIR RESIDENTS ABOUT ROSEDALE, UH, THAT, THAT BE, I THINK FIRST OF ALL, ZOOM WOULD BE A MISTAKE. UM, MY EXPERIENCE WITH ZOOM AS IT'S, UH, INTRUDE ITSELF, BUT ALSO THAT IT, IT NEEDS TO BE, UH, A WIDER, A WIDER, UH, REACH. UM, THAT'S, THAT'S MY FEELING ABOUT IT. UM, THE MAIN STREET CROSSWALKS, UH, I'LL, UM, JUST MENTION, UH, I WAS DOWN AT, UH, WAR BURTON, THE CROSSWALK AT DIVISION AND WAR BURTON RECENTLY, JUST, UM, BECAUSE IT WAS BROUGHT UP. I THINK YOU NEED TO REALLY TAKE A GOOD LOOK BEFORE YOU START TALKING ABOUT, UM, CROSSWALKS ON MAIN STREET. SEE WHAT THE EFFECT IS THERE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN, I DON'T THINK IT'S ENTIRELY WHAT YOU WOULD'VE HOPED FOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THIS EXTRA TIME. I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE TRUSTEE MERTON IS NOT MISQUOTED. SHE WAS ONLY QUOTING, YOU WERE ONLY TALKING ABOUT ROSEDALE. THAT WAS NOT DESIGNED, YOU WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT RAVENSDALE. RIGHT. I, I HAD ASKED ABOUT WHAT THE ANTICIPATED CONVERSATION WOULD BE WITH THE RESIDENTS OF ROSEDALE, UH, JUST BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT THAT THERE'S NO DESIGN, BUT THAT WHAT THEY WERE GONNA DO, SORT OF PRELIMINARILY PRIOR TO THE, UM, TO THE DESIGNS. SO I THINK THAT THAT WAS WHAT SHE WAS, I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE VILLAGE MANAGER WAS DISCUSSING, BUT, BUT YOUR, YOUR POINT IS HEARD. FOR SURE. THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS? OKAY. MOVING [XIII. ANNOUNCEMENTS ] ON TO ANNOUNCEMENTS. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8TH PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MEETING, 7:00 PM JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER. THURSDAY, JANUARY 8TH. AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMUNITY, A COMMITTEE MEETING, 7:30 PM AT JAMES HARMON COMMUNITY CENTER. [01:05:01] TUESDAY, JANUARY 13TH, CONSERVATION COMMISSION MEETING. 8:00 PM VIA ZOOM. I BELIEVE THAT'S IN PERSON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15TH. PLANNING BOARD, WHICH IN PERSON I BELIEVE IT IS. OH, BECAUSE I THINK I'M ATTENDING IT. I MISSED THAT. OKAY. SORRY. UH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15TH. PLANNING BOARD, REGULAR MEETING, 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL. MEETING ROOM. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15TH. SAFETY COUNCIL MEETING. 7:00 PM VILLAGE HALL. CONFERENCE ROOM. MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH. VILLAGE OFFICES ARE CLOSED. MONDAY. GARBAGE PICKUP IS TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TH. TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 20TH IS THE NEXT BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING 7:00 PM HERE IN THE VILLAGE HALL MEETING ROOM. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SO MOVED. SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. THANK YOU EVERYONE. HAPPY NEW YEAR. * 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.