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[Board of Trustees Budget Work Session on March 23, 2026.]
EVERYONE.THIS IS THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON, NEW YORK BOARD OF TRUSTEES BUDGET WORK SESSION.
TODAY IS MONDAY, MARCH 23RD, 2026.
PLEASE RISE FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PLEDGE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES FROM AMERICA, THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
MR. CLARK, IF YOU COULD DO A ROLL CALL, TRUSTEE.
WELL, UM, I DID GIVE EVERYBODY A COPY OF THE BUDGET, UH, AT THE LAST MEETING AND ALSO SHARED WITH YOU A SYNOPSIS OF, UH, CHANGES THAT WERE MADE BY ME, UM, IN, IN DISCUSSION WITH THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS.
UM, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT, UH, IN REVIEWING THE BUDGET AGAIN, UH, THAT, UM, I NOTICED, AND, AND, AND ANTHONY ALSO NOTICED, UH, THE LIBRARY REVENUES.
WE HAD A, WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A MISCOMMUNICATION ON, UH, HOW MUCH REVENUE THEY WERE GOING TO GET FROM THE, UM, FROM, FROM THE, UH, UH, UH, ELECTIONS THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE VOTING THAT WE HAVE THERE.
SO WE, WE NEED TO REDUCE THEIR REVENUES BY $5,400.
IS THAT, UH, IS THAT OKAY WITH THE BOARD? BECAUSE THEY'RE ONLY HAVING TWO SESSIONS INSTEAD OF THREE? THEY USUALLY HAVE THREE, BUT THIS YEAR THEY'RE ONLY HAVING TWO.
THEIR REVENUE LINE IS ONLY 18,000, AND IT'S GONNA BE REDUCED BY $5,400, UM, TO REFLECT WHAT'S, WHAT'S AFTER.
AND IT'S GOING FROM TWO SESSIONS OF WHAT TO ONE, THE TWO SESSIONS OF VOTING.
THEY'LL HAVE EARLY VOTING AND THEY GET PAID BY THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS FOR EARLY VOTING, BUT THEY WILL ONLY BE TWO INSTEAD OF THREE THIS YEAR.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT CHANGED THAT A LITTLE BIT.
AND THEN, UM, I HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS ALSO WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, AND THEY HAD ASKED BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED, UH, TIME THAT THE FIRE INSPECTOR IS SPENDING, UH, DOING HIS TASKS, IF WE COULD, UM, UH, A LITTLE BIT OF AN ADDITIONAL INCREASE IN HIS SALARY OF $2,000.
AND I, I THINK THAT THAT'S REASONABLE GIVEN THE, UH, THE TASKS THAT HE'S REQUIRED TO PERFORM.
SO I WANTED TO JUST, UH, ADD TO HIS, HIS SALARY LINE THAT $2,000.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE FIRE PREVENTION OFFICER LINE, CORRECT? THAT YOU WERE ASKING FOR 30, YOU WANT TO GO TO 32? CORRECT.
UM, SO THOSE ARE JUST CHANGES THAT YOU DON'T SEE IN THE BUDGET.
WE DID TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GAS AND OIL, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THE CURRENT, UM, UH, CIRCUMSTANCES THAT, THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.
I DID REVIEW THE VARIOUS GAS AND OIL LINES, AND I, I SEE I HAD REDUCED A COUPLE OF THEM, BUT, BUT, UH, NOT BY VERY MUCH.
AND, UM, THEN THE OTHERS I HAD ACTUALLY LEFT FLAT.
AND I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT WE LEAVE THE GAS AND OIL AS IT IS.
AND, UM, WE DO HAVE A CONTINGENCY LINE.
IF WE, IF WE, YOU KNOW, IF WE NEED, IF WE NEED TO USE IT, WE CAN USE IT AT THAT.
HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO THE CAP ALREADY? IT'S LIKE, NOT EVEN 10 GRAND.
WE'RE PRETTY CLOSE TO THE CAP, BUT WITH THIS, WITH THESE TWO CHANGES, I THINK, WHAT IS IT, THREE OR $3,000? UM, $4,000, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO THE CAP.
HOW MUCH IS OUR CONTINGENCY? 75,000.
SO THAT SHOULD BE KEEP US IN A, IN A COMFORTABLE PLACE.
UM, THOSE WERE THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION OTHER THAN, UM, YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE NOW TO REALLY, YOU KNOW, DIVE INTO THE BUDGET AND, UH, TO LOOK AT MY, MY NOTES.
AND WE HAVE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS HERE ALSO THAT ARE, ARE HERE.
AND AARON, I THINK SHOULD BE HERE SHORTLY.
UM, AND, UH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU WANTED TO ASK THEM OR ME ABOUT THE BUDGET, WE'RE, WE'RE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANYTHING.
I MEAN, LET'S JUST START WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
KEITH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FOR ALL FOR US, KEITH? NO.
WE'RE ANY QUESTIONS? ANY QUESTIONS? I MEAN, ACTUALLY THE ONLY QUESTIONS I REALLY HAVE ARE JUST DPW AND THAT'S IT FOR TONIGHT.
UM, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT? HAVE YOU HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW? NO, I MEAN, IT'S, IT SEEMS LIKE A, I MEAN, I ALREADY, THE WHOLE BUDGET SEEMS VERY REASONABLE, SO, UM, I GUESS WHAT I'VE, WHAT I'VE ALWAYS ENJOYED IS JUST HEARING ABOUT YOUR DEPARTMENT AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THE, THE COMMUNITY ALSO LIKES TO UNDERSTAND LIKE THE, YOU KNOW, IN THE DETAILS.
SO WITHOUT BEING TOO, YOU KNOW, EXHAUSTIVE,
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I JUST, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL JUST TO, IF THERE'S ANY MAJOR CHANGES FROM LAST YEAR AND THAT YOU'RE FACING, OR ANY THINGS THAT YOU WANT US TO BE AWARE OF, BECAUSE WE'RE ALSO GONNA TALK ABOUT THE CAPITAL PLAN.I MEAN, THERE WAS AN INCREASE OF $3,000.
THAT BUILDING IS, IS EXTREMELY OLD.
UM, THE ROOF NEEDS PATCHING UP AGAIN.
GOT THAT SLATE ROOF THAT, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY IMPOSSIBLE FINANCIALLY TO REPLACE.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, EVERY YEAR WE PATCH UP WITH LEAKY, A LOT OF POINTING NEEDS TO BE DONE, AND WE TRY AND DO IT IN SECTIONS, YOU KNOW, THIS WAY WE'RE NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, DOING A SHINGLE HERE, A SHINGLE AIR.
WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO SEAL IT UP THE LAST YEAR WE DID THE INTERIOR.
AND, UH, THE ROOF HAS NOW LOST SOME SHINGLES ABOVE IT.
SO WE'RE GONNA PATCH THAT IN ORDER TO GET, YOU KNOW, STRETCHES AS FAR AS WE CAN WITH THAT BUILDING.
UM, THEN WE GOT, UH, UM, WHERE IS IT? CAPITAL? CAPITAL? DOES IT TRAVEL THAT WAY? YEAH, THAT WAS, NO, YEAH, WE, WE ACTUALLY REDUCED IT BY $3,000.
UM, FIGURING, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD MAKE UP FOR THE ROOF, TRYING TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.
HOW DOES THAT MAKE UP FOR THE ROOF? WELL, WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE LISTEN IF WE DON'T THINK WE'LL SPEND IT NEXT YEAR, OH, OKAY.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT, IT JUST, IT'S, WE HAD EXTRA MONEY, BUT WE NEED IT HERE, UP, UP IN THE HOOK AND LADDER CAPITAL, UM, UH, UH, AND OR TREASURER TINI, UH, JUST GAS AND OIL STUFF.
IS THAT JUST NOT CAUGHT UP YET? FIRE DEPARTMENT? IT'S, UH, IT IS, IT DOES NOT SEEM TO BE YET.
WE MIGHT BE A FEW BILLS BEHIND.
THIS BUDGET THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS AS OF JANUARY? YES.
IT'S TWO THIRDS OF, YEAH, IT'S TWO THIRDS OF SEVEN QUARTER.
SO WE'VE HAD A COUPLE BILLS AND THERE WAS A DELAY IN BILLING, UH, MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLES.
THAT'S PROBABLY THE BIGGEST INCREASE SO FAR IN EVERYTHING.
WE'RE ALREADY OVER WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR NEXT YEAR.
WE HAVE, UH, SEVERAL APPARATUS THAT ARE, UH, PAST, UH, OR ONE PAST THE 20 YEARS AND ONE SOON APPROACHING, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE BEATING UP A LOT OF MONEY.
UM, BUT, UH, THAT'S RIGHT NOW I BELIEVE WE'RE AT 75,000 FOR THE YEAR FOR, UH, UM, YOU PROBABLY HAVE A, UH, MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT.
MAINTENANCE OF IN WHAT? IN WHICH LINE? UH, MAINTENANCE OF AUTOS.
BUT, UM, WE HAVE, WE HAVE MAINTENANCE OF AUTO IN SEVERAL, SEVERAL, OH, IN LINES.
FIRE DEPARTMENT, FIRE DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.
DOES IT HAVE A 61 WE'RE AT NOW, RIGHT? OH, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GIVEN.
WE SPENT 25,000 ON ONE ENGINE.
UM, AND THAT WAS THE THIRD, THIRD OR FOURTH MONTH TO GO OFF.
SO, UM, AND THAT WASN'T EVEN FOR THE MAINTENANCE? THAT WAS FOR THE REPAIRS.
IS THAT LIKE, LIKE THAT BROKEN WINDOW THAT YOU WERE TELLING ME? NO, NO, THAT'S SEVEN.
OR IS AN INSURANCE DOLLARS FOR THE LITTLE CAB ON THE BACK OF THE HOOK.
AND THE LADDER THAT WAS LAST YEAR, THAT IS FULLY COVERED BY INSURANCE.
THIS ONE WAS, UH, UM, ISSUES WITH THE TANKS, THE LINE, THE FUEL LINES, THE CONTAMINATED, IT WAS ALL CONTAMINATED.
THE AGENT EQUIPMENT ATED? YEAH, IT IS.
IT'S UNDER, UNDER, IT'S UNDER FIRE DEPARTMENT PROJECTS.
UNDER, OH, IT WENT IN, WHERE DID IT GO? UNDER FIRE DEPARTMENT AUTOMOBILES.
AUTOMOBILE, AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE.
AND, UH, AND THEN ALSO THE RADIOS.
DID YOU TAKE DELIVERY OF THE RADIOS? WE HAVE DELIVERY OF THE RADIOS THAT WERE OUT OF THE VILLAGE CAPITAL.
YES, WE HAVE 'EM, THEY'RE BEING PROGRAMMED ENGRAVED, UH, AND ALL THAT.
AND SO, MAINTENANCE OR RADIOS, IS THAT JUST FEES? THAT'S A DIFFERENT LINE.
THAT'S JUST OUR REGULAR OPERATING LINE.
WHEN WE GET THE PAGERS EVERY YEAR, WE'VE BEEN BUYING A, UH, TRUNK PORTABLE, WHICH IS THE COUNTY PORTABLE, BECAUSE WHEN THEY SWITCHED THE SYSTEM, THEY GAVE US ALL VEHICLE MOUNTED RADIOS AND PORTABLES FOR THE CHIEF'S CARS AND THE TWO AMBULANCES, BUT NONE FOR THE APPARATUS.
SO OVER THE YEARS THIS YEAR IS, WE'LL HAVE ALL THE APPARATUS OUT OF THIS BUDGET.
WE'LL FINALLY HAVE PORTABLE RADIOS THAT CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE COUNTY, WHICH WE USE ON EVERY SCENE, YOU KNOW, AND GIVE PEOPLE MOBILITY BECAUSE THEY'RE PORTABLES.
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SO, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, PAGERS, REPAIRING, RADIOS, REPAIR, YOU KNOW, ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF THAT COMES OUT.DO THEY ACTUALLY COME OUT OF THE COUNTY? NO, NO.
THE, THE OTHER ONES ARE VE EVERY, WE GOT FREE, ALL VEHICLE MOUNTED.
AND THESE GO FOR ALMOST $9,000 A PIECE, THE COUNTY RADIUS.
UM, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT AND AUTO, I MEAN, AN AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE? I KNOW WE HAVE THIS CONVERSATION EVERY YEAR, AND THEN I FORGET WHAT YOU TELL ME.
THE, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UH, AUTOMOBILE MAINTENANCE AND MAINTENANCE OF A EQUIP.
WE HAVE TO, UH, DO, UH, HOSE TESTS, LADDER TESTS, PUMP TESTS.
WE, UM, UM, THE, UH, AIR FILLING, UH, FILLS THE SCBA, THE AIR BOTTLES WE USE THAT HAS TO DO MAINTENANCE, UH, THE, UH, EXHAUST SYSTEM THAT'S ON CONTRACTOR SERVICES.
BUT IF THERE'S, UH, THE MASKS, THE AIR MASKS WE WEAR HAVE TO ONCE A YEAR FLOW TESTED EVERY ONE OF 'EM TWICE A YEAR.
WE HAVE THE BATTERIES CHANGED OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING WE USE IS REQUIRED TO BE TESTED.
UM, AND IT, IT ADDS UP YEARLY.
UM, JUST YOU WANT, JUST CURIOUS ABOUT, UM, MM-HMM
UNDER FIRE, POTENTIAL PREVENTION.
SERVICE CONTRACTS, WELL, THAT'S UNDER, UH, SHOULDN'T BE UNDER FIRE PREVENTION FOR AMBULANCE.
UNDER THE AMBULANCE, WE HAVE, UM, THE, UH, EPCR SYSTEM, WHICH IS PCRS ON EVERY CALL.
THAT'S LIKE, INSTEAD OF A NIER, A FIRE REPORT, WE HAVE TO FILL OUT, THEY HAVE TO FILL OUT A MUCH MORE DETAILED REPORT.
IT HAS TO BE COMPUTERIZED AT THIS POINT.
IT ALSO, UM, IF THE PARAMEDIC GETS THERE AND STARTS THE PCR, AND THEN WE TAKE THE CALL OVER, IF IT'S JUST A BASIC LIFE SUPPORT CALL, THEY CAN FORWARD ALL THAT SAME REPORT WITH ALL THE AMBULANCES IN THIS AREA, USE THE SAME SYSTEM SO THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE FIRST AND THEY START IT, AND THEN IT WINDS UP BEING OURS, OR IF WE GET IT AND IT'S A, UH, A LS CALL AND OUR PEOPLE STARTED IT, THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, UH, TALK TO EACH OTHER, GIVE EACH OTHER THE INFORMATION.
THERE'S ALSO A, UM, UH, A TRAINING, UH, PART OF ECO, ANOTHER CONTRACT WE HAVE WITH THEM.
UM, SO THOSE ARE TWO OF THE CONTRACTS WE HAVE.
UH, PRO I THINK IT'S CLINICAL, CLEAN OR PROCLAIM.
THEY COME IN EVERY TWO MONTHS AND STERILIZE, UH, THE TWO AMBULANCES.
UH, AND THAT'S, I THINK IT'S LIKE SIX, $700 EVERY TWO MONTHS JUST TO STERILIZE THEM, YOU KNOW, KEEP CLEAN THEM MORE THAN WE'VE DONE.
WE'VE BEEN DOING 'EM SINCE, UH, YEAH.
AND PATIENTS, UM, AFTER EVERY CALL, UH, THERE'S, AND, UH, OFFHAND THERE'S SEVERAL OTHER, UH, UM, UH, CONTRACTUAL, UH, THINGS WE HAVE WITH THEM, I THINK, UH, ALSO THERE.
OH, THAT WAS AT, UH, WITH, UH, I THINK IT'S SAVE A LIFE.
UH, IT'S $3,000 A YEAR FOR TO DO THEIR, UH, WHAT'S THE TRAINING? UH, WEEKLY TRAINING, MONTHLY TRAINING.
THEY DO, UH, CONTINUING ONE CCP, UH, THE, UH, CMES CME CME TRAINING.
AND, UH, THEY COME IN INSTEAD OF OUR PEOPLE KEEP OUR, IT'S A KEEP OUR, UH, EMTS ON, ON, YOU KNOW, CERTIFIED.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO RECERT BY THE BIG LONG TEST THEY HAVE TO TAKE TO INITIALLY BECOME AN EMT.
IT JUST KEEPS THEM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A COMPANY THAT COMES IN, THEY DO IT ON ZOOM AND STUFFING ELSE, AND IT'S DONE EVERY SINGLE MONTH.
SO I'M, I'M JUST CURIOUS WHY THE, I GUESS IT'S BECAUSE OF THE PAYMENT SCHEDULES FOR THE CONTRACTS THAT THEY'RE, THAT THE PAYMENT IS ONLY SO FAR AS OF JANUARY 6 44.
IT'S CURRENTLY AT 7,000 AND CHANGE.
AND THAT, I GUESS IT'S SIMILAR FOR AMBULANCE TRAINING.
YEAH, IT, WELL, AMBULANCE TRAINING.
AND IT ALSO GETS A LITTLE TRICKY ON THAT ONE.
WE GO THROUGH THIS EVERY, UM, EVERY YEAR.
UM, UH, FOR THE, UH, EMTS, WHEN THE NEW MEMBERS COME IN, I THINK WE'VE HAD NEW 10, AT LEAST 10 NEW MEMBERS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR FOR THE AMBULANCE, WHICH IS GREAT FOR US.
UM, THEN THEY HAVE TO GO GET THEIR EMT TRAINING.
THEY TAKE IT AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE, BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T PASS, THEY KNOW OR THEY DON'T FOLLOW UP.
SO THEY PAY, THEN THE TOWN REIMBURSES THEM, AND THEN THE TOWN GETS REIMBURSED
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FROM THE STATE FOR THE TRAINING.UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, IF THEY SUBMIT THE PROPER PAPERWORK, MAYBE TAKE A LITTLE TIME, BUT THEY, THEY DO GET REIMBURSED.
AND THEN THERE'S, UH, UM, WE DO THE, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT GETS C-P-R-A-D-P, BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS, THE WHOLE LITANY OF STUFF, WHICH COMES OUT OF THEIR TRAINING LINE TOO.
UM, THERE'S PROBABLY A FEW OTHER THINGS.
I MEAN, THAT ALL MAKES SENSE TO ME.
JUST EVERYTHING ELSE LOOKS GOOD TO ME FOR THE RENTAL BUILDINGS.
ARE WE UP TO DATE NOW ON THE, ON ALL THE LEASES? UM, WE INCREASED THE, THE, UH, DEPARTMENT REQUESTED THAT WE PUT A 2% INCREASE, BLESS YOU.
WHICH WE INCLUDED AND, UH, RECOMMENDED THAT WE DO THAT ANNUALLY.
OBVIOUSLY CAN'T FIND FUTURE BOARDS, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT BOARD CONSIDER ON.
BUT, BUT THE QUESTION, I GUESS I WAS, LAST YEAR WE WERE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE LEASES WERE VERY, ARE THEIR AGREEMENTS WERE VERY ANCIENT.
THEY, THEY ARE, UM, STILL ANCIENT.
I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOME INTEREST IN TRYING TO, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE LANGUAGE BEING ANCIENT OR THE LEASES EXTREMELY LONG? BOTH THE LEASES ARE OLD.
THEY'VE BEEN, WE'VE HAD, WE'VE HAD, THEY DON'T REALLY DEAL WITH, I THINK WHAT, WHAT THE, THE REAL INTEREST WAS, IS MORE MONEY FROM THE VILLAGE.
UM, THAT WAS, THAT, THAT WAS THE CORE ISSUE.
THAT WAS THE CORE OF THE ISSUE.
I MEAN, JUST SO YOU KNOW, OVER THE CORE, I, I'VE LOOKED AT THIS A LITTLE BIT AND, YOU KNOW, OVER THE COURSE OF TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, I LOOKED AT THE BUDGET THAT WAS IN PLACE AT THE TIME THAT THE AGREEMENT WAS FIRST MADE AND THE, THE BUDGET TODAY OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
SO, UM, I MEAN, I, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT'S A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT SERVICE THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE VILLAGE.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DO, WE DO SUPPORT THE DEPARTMENT WITH THE, THE THINGS THAT THEY NEED, THE, THE EQUIPMENT THAT THEY NEED.
UM, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, AND PRETTY MUCH EVERY, EVERYTHING THAT THEY NEED.
AND, YOU KNOW, IF, IF A SITUATION ARISES, LIKE WITH THE AMBULANCE, WE, WE STEPPED IN TO HELP WITH SOME, SOME, SOME ISSUES WHEN, WHEN NECESSARY.
WE'VE DONE SOME, UH, IMPROVEMENTS THERE FOR, UM, ENERGY CONSERVATION, UH, AND, AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
WE PUT A NEW DRIVEWAY, UH, ON PROTECTION.
WHEN, WHEN, UH, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN EITHER THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THAT THAT IS A GOOD FIT OR, OR, UH, OR THERE'S A NEED THAT, THAT THEY CAN, WE HAVE.
IS THAT IN THE BUDGET? I HOPE THAT YOU'RE, I HOPE YOUR FLIGHT DIDN'T GET BECAUSE OF EVERYTHING GOING ON.
IS THAT WHAT HAPPENED? IS THAT WHY YOU'RE HERE? YEAH.
WELL, I'M GLAD WE HAD YOU, BUT, UM, I'M SORRY TO HEAR THAT.
HOPEFULLY YOU'RE GOING TOMORROW.
YOU CHIEF
AND MY ONLY QUESTION, WELL, I HAVE A, I HAVE TWO, BUT, UH, MR. TREASURER, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT THE SNOW IS NOW? NEW SNOW REMOVAL IS, IT WAS DEFINITELY A, LAST I LOOKED, WE WERE ABOUT 120 OVER BUDGET AND THAT DIDN'T INCLUDE THE PAYROLLS.
SO THAT'S NOT, IS THAT CONCLUDE? SO OVERTIME, WE'RE AT 120 OVER.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S MAINLY, UM, MOVING THE SNOW OUT OF THE VILLAGE.
IT'S MACHINERY AND, AND, UH, CONTRACTORS, YOU KNOW, WE, BUT WE RENT, WE RENT TRUCKS AND MACHINERY.
WELL, YOU COULD TELL BETTER THAN I CAN WORKS.
I MEAN, WE HAVE ALL COMES OUTTA RENTAL EQUIPMENT THERE.
IT DOESN'T GO FAR WHEN YOU HAVE A, WE JUST HAD, WE HAD TWO SNOW EVENTS WHERE WE HAD TO DO SNOW, YOU KNOW, I MEAN SNOW REMOVAL FIRST IN OUR DOWNTOWN TO, YOU KNOW, PLEASE OUR MERCHANTS AND STUFFING ELSE, WHICH THEY WERE MOST LIKELY GRATEFUL INSTEAD OF CLIMBING OVER SNOW BANKS LIKE THEY DONE SOMETIMES IN THE PAST.
BUT, UH, YEAH, I, FOR A LONG TIME I'VE BEEN OUT HERE, YOU
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KNOW, UH, RELY ON ONE CERTAIN CONTRACTOR WHO'S LI HE'S, UH, HE'S, UM, UH, SAYING HE'S FOR THE VILLAGE.IF I CALL HIM UP, HE'LL TELL ME WHAT YOU NEED.
BUT THE, THE LAST STORM, THE FIRST STORM WAS IN THE LAST STORM WAS THE AMOUNT OF SNOW AND OUR PARKING PLAN.
EVERYBODY WAS, 'CAUSE WE DID A LOT OF POSTING OF THE STREETS BEFORE, PRIOR TO, WHICH HELPED OUT A GREAT DEAL THE FIRST TIME IN A LONG TIME.
AND THERE'S ALL, I MEAN, I THANK ALL THE PARTIES INVOLVED WITH THE STICK AND THE STEINS ON THE POLES AND THE, YOU KNOW, THE STICKS AND STUFFING ELSE.
THERE WAS A LOT OF MOVING PARTS TO GET THIS DONE.
YOU KNOW, WE, MARY BETH, BETWEEN THE EMAILS AND STUFF, AND ANTHONY AND EVERYBODY.
UM, BUT, UH, AND WE GOT IT DONE.
I MEAN, I'M NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, ADD A BOY OR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT WE MOVED BETWEEN, I FIGURE BETWEEN THE TWO STORMS, BETWEEN 15 AND 20,000 CUBIC YARDS OF SNOW THAT WAS SITTING IN ZINZER BETWEEN ZINZER AND HILLSIDE POOL.
FORGET ABOUT THE IDLE TIME AND STUFF ELSE.
BUT THAT IS AN INCREDIBLE, I MEAN, I'VE BEEN HERE THE LONGEST.
JUST, BUT YOU GET THE EQUIPMENT WHICH COSTS, I MEAN, AS YOU COULD SEE, MARY BETH TOLD YOU THE NUMBERS AND STUFF ELSE.
BUT, UM, FIRST STORM, WAS IT NECESSARY? EXACTLY.
IF WE HADN'T MOVED THAT SNOW IN THE FIRST STORM AND THAT SECOND STORM CAME, YEAH, WE'D STILL BE, YOU KNOW, WE'D STILL, YOU STILL WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET INTO A STORE.
SO IS THAT COMING UNDER CAPITAL OUTLAY? IT'S, IT COMES UNDER, UM, A FEW DIFFERENT LINES.
IT'S IN, IT'S IN THE, UM, THE SNOW REMOVAL BUDGET.
IT'S NOT UNDER CAPITAL OUTLAY.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S MAINLY UNDER RENTAL OF EQUIPMENT AND, UM, OVERTIME, UH, AND SUPPLIES.
'CAUSE WE ALSO HAD, YOU KNOW, A TON OF SALT THAT WE NEEDED TO GET THIS YEAR TO ADDRESS VARIOUS ISSUES.
THE WHOLE THING OVERALL, PLUS 150.
NOW, I, I, LAST I LOOKED, I THOUGHT WE WERE 120 OVER.
AM I CLOSE? AM SUPPLIES IS AT 1 21.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING UP THERE.
BUT OVERTIME IS ONLY 5,000 OVER.
IS THAT, IS THAT, IS EVERYTHING IN YEAH, EVERYTHING IS IN.
AND THEN ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS ARE STAYING THE SAME BECAUSE THIS WAS SUCH AN OUT OUTLINE.
YES, THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
AND IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN NEXT YEAR, UM, I, I, MIKE, I I, I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT
SO THE, UM, YOU SAID THAT THE, WHEN DO YOU NEED LIKE, OUTSIDE CONTRACTOR, LIKE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF SNOW OR IS IT EVERY YEAR? YES.
WHEN WE DO SNOW REMOVAL, USUALLY WE DO SNOW REMOVAL.
IT PROBABLY EIGHT INCHES OVER.
IT DEPENDS ON THE WEATHER TOO.
IF IT'S REALLY COLD AND THE SNOW'S ON MELTING, WE GOTTA ROOM SWEEP EVERYTHING I CALL IT JUST CLEAR.
BUT WHEN YOU GET A FOOT OVER IT JUST, THERE'S NO ROOM TO PUSH IN OUR PARKING LOTS AND STUFF.
'CAUSE EVERYTHING, THERE'S ALL PARKING SPACES.
WE DON'T WANNA TAKE PARKING SPACES AWAY 'CAUSE WE REALLY DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF SECTION OF THE PARKING SPOT THAT WE'RE NOT USING PARKING LOT LOTS THAT WE'RE NOT USING.
SO EVERYTHING HAS TO BE HAULED OUT THERE.
WE ONLY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MACHINERY.
WE ARE USING ONE OF OUR MACHINES TO PUSH THE SNOW UP.
WE USE ONE OF OUR OTHER SNOW MACHINE TO LOAD SNOW.
I HAVE TO BRING IN THREE OTHER MACHINES OR TWO OTHER MACHINES TO HELP IN THE LOADING PROCESS OF EVERYTHING.
SO WHERE DOES IT GO? SNOW? WE STARTED WITHER.
WE, WE, WE FILLED CINDER ON A SECOND STORM AND THEN WE HAD TO GO TO HILLSIDE SCHOOL.
I DON'T LIKE TO GO TO HILLSIDE.
I LIKE TO GO TO HILLSIDE POOL DURING THE DAY WHEN THERE'S SCHOOL SESSION.
'CAUSE USUALLY WE, YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO LEAVE THAT FAR LANE DRIVE OPEN.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, NOWHERE NEAR THE SCHOOL WITH THE, YOU KNOW, CHILDREN COMING TO SCHOOL AND STUFF WITH THE TRUCKS GOING BY.
BUT, UH, YEAH, HILLSIDE POOL WAS PROBABLY THREE QUARTERS FULL.
SO THE SNOW ACTUALLY LIKE NEVER LEAVES THE VILLAGE? NO.
THERE'S NO, IF YOU, YOU THINK THESE NUMBERS, YOU'D BE
I, THERE'S, THERE'S NOT ENOUGH ROOM IN A PAPER FOR THE ZEROES.
IT WAS A QUESTION YEARS AGO ABOUT WHEN WE HAD A STORM.
I MEAN, I'M NOT GONNA SAY, BUT IF WE COULD, IF YOU COULD TRUCK IT OUT, I GOT LAUGHED AT.
I, I LITERALLY ENTERTAINED AND THE GUY GOES, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA SAY
I, I, THAT WAS, IT'S INTERESTING TO KNOW.
IT JUST, WE CENTRALLY LOCATED IT SO IT'S NOT IN ANYBODY'S WAY.
AND PLUS, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE THE PARKING LOTS, YOU KNOW, THEY, IT MELTS EVERY SINGLE MORNING WE GO OUT.
'CAUSE IF YOU LEAVE SNOW IN THE PARKING LOTS, IT MELTS A LITTLE BIT.
WE HAVE PEOPLE COMMUN COMMUNITIES AND STUFF AND HE GOES, PEOPLE STRIP AND ONE.
SO, BUT TRY OUR BEST PRAYING FOR MELT.
LITERALLY COMING, PRAYING FOR RAIN.
WEATHER RAIN LAST NIGHT, 10 YEAR CYCLE.
THEY SAY IT'S A 10 YEAR CYCLE.
WE GOT A 96, WE GOT A 16, WE GOT A 2016.
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I'LL SEE YOU IN 10 YEARS.AND JUST A PROCESS QUESTION, UH, OUTSIDE THE BUDGET MM-HMM
UM, I KNOW THE CHIEF POSTED A LOT OF SIGNS AROUND THE VILLAGE AND STUFF.
DID ANY ANY TICKETS HAVE TO BE ISSUED AT ALL FOR PEOPLE STAYING ON THE STREETS? FOR THE MOST PART, I THINK WE DID.
THEY, ANY OF OUR OVERNIGHT ALTERNATES, THEY'RE ALL TICKETED.
ANYTHING WE POSTED, THEY WERE TICKETING.
BUT I THINK AFTER THE FIRST STORM PEOPLE DID, WE DIDN'T HAVE TO TOW A SINGLE CAR.
NO, WE DIDN'T HAVE TO TOW A SINGLE CAR.
YOU KNOW, WE DID THE, THE OFFICERS WERE AROUND THERE LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE CUTTING ME OFF AT THE TIME WE GET PLATES AND MOVE CARS AND CONTACT PEOPLE AND STUFF.
SO, I MEAN, IT WAS, IT WAS A, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A GROUP EFFORT.
IT WAS A DEFINITELY A TEAM EFFORT TO GET THIS WHAT WE CONT YOU KNOW, WHAT WE COMPLETED IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME AND STUFF.
AND WE REALLY, YOU KNOW, I SAID WE DIDN'T TOW ANYTHING.
YOU KNOW, WE GOT WALBURN AVENUE WAS, IS MY BIGGEST NIGHTMARE.
AND YOU KNOW, OUR RESIDENTS PARKED THERE.
YEAH, WE'VE BEEN DOING IT AND YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO DO IT.
WE, I MEAN, WE DID BOTH SIDES OF WILBURN AVENUE FROM WASHINGTON TO THE YONKERS LINE IN FOUR HOURS RENTING THIS QUICK, AGAIN, THE COSTS.
SO, BUT YOU KNOW, I'D LOVE TO SEE NO PARK AT ALL EVER, YOU KNOW.
BUT IT'S, I THINK THIS PLAN WE HAD THIS YEAR, I MEAN, TALK WITH THE CHIEF, TURN TO THE CHIEF AND SAY, LISTEN, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE BRIDGE? WELL, AVENUE BRIDGE IS OUR BIGGEST NIGHTMARE AS FAR AS, YOU KNOW, YOU GET CARS PARKED THERE AND PUSHING THIS WALLS OF SNOW AND STUFFING ELSE, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE BUSES CAN'T GET BY AND STUFFING ELSE.
WE JUST PUSHED IT AS FAR AS WE CAN TO MAKE IT, THE ROADS PASSABLE.
WENT BACK LATER ON WHEN WE CAN, WHEN I GOT THE CONTRACTOR IN TO START REMOVING SNOW, YOU KNOW, AND THEN A LOT OF CARS, THEY, THEY WERE, THEY WERE MOVED.
BUT IF WE CAN KEEP THAT PLAN IN PLACE, OR HAVE A PLAN INSTEAD OF GOING AROUND AND PAPERING EVERYTHING, IT IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE TALK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME, BUT WE ALL, EVERY, EVERY, NO, EVERY NOVEMBER I PRAYED FOR NO SNOW, BUT PRAYERS WEREN'T ANSWERED THIS YEAR.
WERE YOU ABLE TO, DID PEOPLE COMPLY WITH, OR WERE YOU, WERE YOU ABLE TO ENFORCE THE SNOW EMERGENCY ROUTES FOR THE MOST PART, YEAH.
IT'S KIND OF, IT'S KIND OF WHERE OUR SNOW EMERGENCY PLAN AND OUR PARKING PLAN KIND OF LIKE, IT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF BUTTED HEAD IN, IN CERTAIN AREAS AND STUFF.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT ONLY, IT'S JUST, IT'S FOR THE MOST PART, YES.
PEOPLE DID FOR THE MOST PART, MOVE.
AND WE KIND OF, WE DID, THE CHIEF HAD AROUND AND RE ADDED A LOT OF THE STREETS, ESPECIALLY AROUND THE SCHOOL, UM, POSTED 'EM.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T GET OXIDATED UNTIL FRIDAY.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR THE MOST PART, PEOPLE WERE VERY COOPERATIVE 'CAUSE MOVING THEIR CARS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY SEEN ALL THESE MACHINES AND STUFF AND MOVING AROUND AND MAKING ALL THE NOISE AND OR WE LOCATE IT.
A LOT OF 'EM DIDN'T COME OUT AND MOVE DURING, SO, YOU KNOW, PRIOR TO THE STORM IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE.
BUT I, I THINK FOR THE MAJORITY, I MEAN, I, I'VE SEEN A LOT, A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, PUBLIC HELP WITH HELPING, YOU KNOW, HELPING US MOVING THEIR CARS.
SO I KNOW RAF PUT OUT A BUNCH OF REMINDERS WITH ALL THE STREETS AND EVERYTHING.
I'M SORRY IF I FORGET ANYBODY.
I WAS CALLING HIM AT 10 AT NIGHT.
YOU GONNA PUT OUT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AND STUFF? IT WAS DEFINITELY, I, I THINK THAT THE ONLY AREA I'D SAY WITH, WITH THAT, IT'S JUST THE SIGNAGE.
UH, 'CAUSE A LOT OF IT'S JUST OLD AND PHASES AND YEAH.
WE HAVE, I KNOW WE HAVE A STOP SIGN PLAN TO DO THIS YEAR.
I MEAN, WE JUST GOTTA COMMIT THE GUYS TO DOING IT AND HOLD OFF ON THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE PENDING.
SO, ANYBODY, ANY QUESTIONS? I JUST HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.
ONE IS THE SAME QUESTION I PROMISED TO STOP, I THINK I PROMISE TO STOP ASKING THE SAME QUESTION, UM, AFTER THIS TIME.
AND, BUT I'LL START WITH A NEW ONE ACTUALLY.
UH, UNDER STREET LIGHTING, UM, THAT NUMBER LAST YEAR IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET WAS REDUCED TO LIKE A THIRD OF THE YEAR BEFORE.
AND NOW WE'RE ALMOST BACK UP TO THAT SAME NUMBER ALREADY.
WHAT LINE ARE YOU LOOKING AT? UH, UH, MAINTENANCE.
UM, WELL, WHAT I DID IS I KIND OF TOOK A FOUR YEAR AVERAGE FOR THE, FOR THE, FOR THE YEARS THAT WE HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, ACTUALS FOR THE 16, 21, 37, AND 49.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS REALLY USING TO TRY TO DETERMINE WHAT, UM, WHAT, WHAT A GOOD MAINTENANCE NUMBER WOULD BE.
I RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, TAKING THE MOST EXPENSIVE YEAR.
BUT I DO SEE THAT THIS YEAR IS ALSO PRETTY EXPENSIVE.
SO THIS YEAR HAD A FEW OUTLIERS.
WE HAD ONE STREETLIGHT, UH, IN FRONT OF VILLAGE HALL THAT WAS KNOCKED INTO BY A TRUCK.
SO THERE'S AN INSURANCE RECOVERY FOR THAT.
AND THIS ALSO INCLUDES INSTALLING POWER DOWN IN THE COMMUTER LOT.
THAT WHAT THE ISSUE WAS ALONGSIDE THAT WAS $18,000 TO PUT THE POWER IN THE COMMUTER
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LOT.IS THAT WHAT THE ISSUE WAS ALONGSIDE SOUTH SIDE DOWN IN THAT AREA? THOSE LIGHTS SEEMED TO BE OUT FOR A WHILE.
HAS THAT, THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE.
YEAH, THERE, THERE'S A, THERE'S A, UH, LOU HAS EXPLAINED THIS TO ME SEVERAL TIMES THERE.
THERE'S A WIRE THAT GOES UNDERNEATH, UH, WASHINGTON AVENUE FROM ONE SIDE OF THE STREET TO THE OTHER DOWN AT THE LOWER PART OF, OF WASHINGTON.
AND THAT WIRE SOMEHOW GOT DAMAGED.
AND SO IT, IT, IT SERVICES, UM, THAT WHOLE STRIP OF LIGHTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET TALKING LOWER WASHINGTON AVENUE.
THERE'S STILL AN ISSUE AT LOW WASHINGTON AVENUE WITH A LOT OF, WE HAVE ONE SIDE, I THINK THE NORTH SIDE OF WASHINGTON AVENUE WORKING, LIKE MARY BETH JUST EXPLAINED, THE WIRE GOING TO FEED THE SOUTH SIDE OF WASHINGTON AVENUE IS COMPENSATED.
SO WE'RE THINKING ABOUT DOING AN OVERHEAD, UH, AND NOT A QUICK FIX, BUT DIGGING.
THERE'S A LOT OF UTILITIES IN A WAY WHERE WE WANT TO PUT THIS NEW LINE.
SO I HAVE A GUY ALREADY COULD HAVE COME IN THROUGH THE WEATHER BREAKS TO PUT AN OVERHEAD IN TO GET POWER, THOSE LIGHTS.
AND THEN THAT WOULD FIX THE LIGHTS ON SOUTH SIDE AVENUE TOO? YES.
I THINK MOST OF 'EM SIMPLY BE WORKING.
THERE MIGHT SEEM BE, I GOTTA DOUBLE CHECK WITH LOU, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF BULB ISSUES TOO.
WE GOT, THEY'RE STILL THE OLDER LIGHTS, THEY'RE NOT THE LED LIGHTS THAT WE SWITCHED INTO DOWNTOWN.
SO THERE'S STILL THE OLDER, UH, UH, HIGH PRESSURE SODIUMS THAT ARE BURN OUT.
WE, WE ARE WAITING TO CHANGE 'EM ALL OVER ONCE WE GET POWER TO 'EM ALL.
SO THE, SO THE LEDS ARE ACTUALLY, THEY'RE BEHAVING WELL.
BUT MINUS THAT NUMBER STILL IS LARGER THAN THE BUDGET FOR, FOR NEXT YEAR.
THE, BUT THE, THE, THE, UM, WE DID HAVE THE, THE, THE ONE LIGHT THAT WAS HIT BY, UH, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH IT IS.
I DON'T HAVE MY, IT WAS 15,000 AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER 18,000 FOR OVER WITH THESE TWO.
YOU KNOW, SO, UH, THOSE, THOSE ARE SORT OF HOPEFULLY ONE OFF SITUATIONS.
BUT AS LONG AS WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT OF, OF LIGHT, UM, IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED TO ME THAT MAYBE WHILE WE ARE GETTING READY FOR THE, UM, AMERICA TWO 50, THAT, UH, WE, WE USE LIKE MAYBE RED, WHITE AND BLUE LIGHTS OR WRAP THEM AROUND THE LIGHT POLES IN THE DOWNTOWN.
UH, MAYBE ALSO ON THE BRIDGE, WHICH LOOKS SO FABULOUS AT THE HOLIDAYS EVERY YEAR WHEN YOU GUYS DO IT.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GUYS FEEL ABOUT THAT, BUT THINK ABOUT IT AS YOU THINK IT MIGHT BE NICE TO PUT RED, WHITE, AND BLUE LIGHTS ON ALL OF THE, UM, LIGHT POLES THAT, OR PICK AN AREA OF LIKE, THE BRIDGE WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA.
WE LET THAT BRIDGE UP EVEN WHEN WE, WE DO ALSO DO RAVENSDALE BRIDGE TOO.
THE RAVENSDALE BRIDGE WOULD, RAVENSDALE BRIDGE.
YES, WE CAN, THAT CAN, I MEAN, WE TOOK 'EM ALL DOWN.
I MEAN, UNFORTUNATELY THE LIGHTS WE USE THAT, WE'VE USED THEM FOR SEVERAL YEARS 'CAUSE THEY'RE LEDS, BUT WE BURN 'EM ALL THE TIME.
THEY'RE ON ALMOST ALL THE TIME.
SO I THINK WE'RE AT THE FIVE YEAR MARK.
WE HAVE TO REPLACE THEM SO WE DON'T HAVE 'EM GOING OUT.
'CAUSE WE DID HAVE THIS PROBLEM THIS YEAR, MUCH SOME BURNED OUT.
THEY, THEY DON'T LAST, YOU KNOW, THE 10 YEAR MARK.
TECHNICALLY OUR STREETLIGHTS DO.
BUT YEAH, WE CAN PICK A LOCATION OR I MEAN, IF THE POLES, IT'S ONCE WE GET A
IT'S, I MEAN, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, I MEAN IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT IT THAT WAY.
WELL WE CAN GIVE IT, GIVE THAT SOME THOUGHT.
SO YEAH, NO, THE, THE, THE BROKEN RECORD PART, AGAIN, I MIGHT NOT BRING THIS UP, IS THE, UM, UNDER GAS, OIL AND UTILITIES, LIGHT AND POWER FOR CENTRAL GARAGE.
AND THEN IF YOU COMPARE THAT NUMBER TO THE SAME CATEGORIES FOR STREET LIGHTING, YEAH, WE'RE GOING UP CONSIDERABLY ON STREET LIGHTING, LIGHTING POWER.
BUT FOR THE LIGHT AND POWER FOR THE BUILDING CENTRAL GARAGE, IT'S ALREADY OVER THE 8,500 AND WE'RE GOING UP JUST A SMALL AMOUNT.
AND I'M JUST WONDERING KIND OF WITH BOTH ALL OF THOSE, IF WE SHOULDN'T JUST, IF THAT'S, IF WE, WHY WE THINK THAT'S SUFFICIENT.
THE WHAT I, WHAT I DID TO COMPUTE THE, THE, THIS, THE NUMBER WAS, I, I TOOK THE FOUR YEARS OF ACTUALS THAT YOU SEE THERE AND I JUST DIVIDED BY FOUR.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW I COMPUTED A, A NUMBER THAT I THOUGHT WAS, WOULD BE, UM, WOULD BE REASONABLE.
I, I THINK WITH THAT METHODOLOGY THOUGH, MARY BETH, YOU'RE ALWAYS GONNA BE CHASING AVERAGE BEHIND THE EIGHT BOLT BECAUSE WE, BECAUSE WE'RE, WELL, JUST BECAUSE GAS AND OIL IS NOT GOING DOWN.
WELL, I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, I THOUGHT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT UTILITIES.
OH, BOTH LIGHT AND POWER AND, AND, UM, AND, UH, GAS AND OIL.
WELL, BOTH OF 'EM ARE TRYING TO, GAS AND OIL I DON'T SEE IN CENTRAL GARAGE.
UM, WHAT'S THE ACTUALS ON THAT? THE ACTUALS ON THOSE ARE, UH, 66, 66, 56, 47.
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UM, WITH OUR ACTUALS, UH, THIS YEAR AT THE, YOU KNOW, AT THIS, AT THIS TIME, AT THE TIME OF THIS, UH, THIS WAS PREPARED, YOU KNOW, THE TWO THIRDS AND WE WERE AT 56 BUDGETED.UM, YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE A FAIR AMOUNT OF NEW, WELL, SOME NEW EQUIPMENT ANYWAY, WHICH HOPEFULLY IS, IS, UM, YOU KNOW, BETTER, BETTER, UM, YOU KNOW, GIVES US BETTER MILEAGE AND, AND THAT SORT OF THING.
BUT I MEAN, I'M, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IF WE NEED TO, UH, MOVE THESE NUMBERS UP, I THINK WE, WE CAN DO THAT.
BUT I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE IT OUT OF, UH, CONTINGENCY IF WE'RE GONNA DO THAT LOWER CONTINGENCY.
IF YOU FEEL THAT YOU WANNA INCREASE THESE NUMBERS.
I DON'T REALLY WANT TO LOWER THE CONTINGENCY 75, ALTHOUGH, ALTHOUGH I'M JUST WONDERING ABOUT THE FLEXIBILITY OF LIKE, THE UTILITIES LIGHT AND POWER NUMBERS, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? LIKE, AS WE KIND OF MOVE FORWARD IN TERMS OF ALL OF, YOU KNOW, USING, USING ELECTRICITY AND SO FORTH, RIGHT? 'CAUSE THAT WOULD BE WHAT THESE NUMBERS WERE BEFORE.
THE THE, YES, THE THE UTILITIES LIGHT AND POWER IS, IS RIGHT.
I'M JUST SAYING LIKE, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO, IF WE, IF THEY'RE, IF THEY ARE UNDER, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO KEEP TRACK OF THAT? OR HOW WOULD WE WELL, WE, IF, I MEAN WE PAY, WE, WE, WE'LL STILL PAY THE UTILITY BILL.
UM, AND UH, YOU KNOW, AND WHAT HAPPENS IS THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU LOOK AT THE OVERALL LINE AND THERE'LL BE A LINE THAT'S UNDER AND A LINE THAT'S OVER.
AND YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF HAVE THAT DISCUSSION AT THE END OF THE YEAR WITH THE AUDITOR.
AND GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN OUR REVENUES AND OUR, AND OUR, UM, IN OUR EXPENSES, WE USUALLY, WE, WE ALWAYS COME BACK, COME OUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE BLACK.
UM, SO, UH, I, I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S A CON, AT LEAST I DON'T HAVE A CONCERN THAT THIS BILL IS NOT, THAT THIS BUDGET WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ABSORB THAT.
BUT IF YOU WANT TO BE MORE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT TO BE MORE PRECISE THAT, AND, AND YOU KNOW, IN ADVANCE AND SAY, LOOK, WE DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE $56,000.
WE THINK IT'S GONNA BE MORE LIKE WHATEVER, $65,000 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE CAN, WE CAN DO THAT.
BUT AS I SAID, WE WILL HAVE TO LOOK ELSEWHERE.
'CAUSE I, WE, WE DON'T WANT TO GET ANY CLOSER TO THE CAP.
DOESN'T IT COME OUT OF CONTINGENCY ANYWAY? IT WOULD COME OUT OF CONTINGENCY IF WE, IF IF IT, IF WE, IF, IF, IF, IF EVERY LINE WAS SPENT AND EVERY REVENUE CAME IN EXACTLY AS WE FORECAST IT AND EVERY LINE CAME IN EXACTLY AS WE FORECAST IT, THEN IT WOULD COME OUT OF CONTINGENCY.
BUT IF EVERY LINE, IF EVERY LINE ISN'T SPENT TO ITS FULLEST CAPACITY OR SOME REVENUES COME IN HIGHER THAN WE ANTICIPATED, THEN THAT WOULD, THAT ABSORBS IT.
AND, AND YOU DON'T REALLY EVER GO INTO CONTINGENCY.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? MM-HMM
I'M STILL JUST WONDERING IF IT SHOULD GO UP AND I'M, I'M, UH, NOW MAYBE THE SAME SIMILAR PERCENTAGE THAT THE OTHERS.
I MEAN, I, YOU KNOW, I, I'LL I'LL BE DI YOU KNOW, I'LL BE GUIDED BY WHAT THE BOARD TREASURER CONSTANTIN, DO YOU HAVE THE ACTUALS FOR THAT LINE? I GUESS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, 51, UH, 51, 32, 4 14.
YEAH, JUST A MORE CURRENT ACTUAL FOR THAT ONE.
UH, 41,000 AS OF AS OF, I MEAN THAT'S LIKE AS OF TODAY, LAST BOARD MEETING.
IT SEEMS IF WE'RE AT 41,000 WE'RE THREE QUARTERS OF THE WAY THROUGH THE YEAR.
I FEEL LIKE WE'RE PROBABLY FINE.
BUT WE CAN WATCH IT THOUGH AND WE'LL BE CONSCIOUS OF IT NEXT YEAR ALSO.
WE'LL, WE'LL, UH, NEXT YEAR, I, I, WHEN I DO MY FOUR YEAR AVERAGE, I'LL, I'LL PUT ON AN ESCALATOR AS WELL.
ALSO, WE DID GET AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE IN THE, UH, DPW, SO THAT, UM, MAY HELP A LITTLE BIT TOO.
IT HELPS ON THE GAS AND OIL LINE, BUT THEN IT HURTS ON THE, ON THE UTILITIES LINE.
I MEAN, I GUESS THE ONLY OTHER AREA THAT I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT WAS THE ARBORIST.
UH, AND THAT WAS JUST BECAUSE WE'RE LOW ON THE FEES ARBORIST, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S COMBINED WITH QUARRY PARK.
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YES.AND THEN, UM, DO YOU HAVE A REDUCTION THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE QUARRY PARK FEES? IT'S BECAUSE OF THE QUARRY PARK FEES.
AND IT'S ALSO BECAUSE WE HAVE, WITH OUR GRANT THAT WE'VE GOT FOR THE WHOLE SOUTHERN PART OF THE PARKS, KIND OF SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE, OF THE, UH, PARKS FROM THE, UM, USDA THAT COMES WITH FUNDING FOR AN ARBORIST.
SO WE HAVE, WE, WE SPEND THE GRANT MONEY FOR THE ARBORIST THAT'S HELPING US DO THE TREE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE IN QUARRY PARK HAS BEEN PART OF THAT.
AND WE ARE PAYING FOR THAT ARBORIST THROUGH THAT GRANT.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE A GRANT FOR HILLSIDE WOODS, WHICH IS ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, FOREST WHERE WE NEED AN ARBORIST GUIDANCE.
AND, UH, THAT, THAT GRANT THAT WE GOT FOR HILLSIDE WOODS ALSO COMES WITH AN ARBORIST.
SO THIS IS FOR, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING EXTRA THAT MIGHT COME UP THAT, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT NEED.
I MEAN, ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THE, OUR TREE, OUR TREE SERVICE, WHICH YOU SEE ON THE BOTTOM LINE, THEY'RE ARBORISTS AS WELL.
BUT THOUGH WE USE THAT LINE MAINLY FOR TREE REMOVAL.
AND WE'VE HAD OVER, YOU KNOW, WHILE I'VE BEEN HERE, THERE'S JUST BEEN A LOT OF, UM, IN FACT I INCREASED THAT LINE BECAUSE WE UH, SEEM TO HAVE A LOT OF, IT MUST BE JUST THE TIMING THEN WHEN A LOT OF THESE TREES WERE PLANTED AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE AGING OUT IN THE STREET TREES AND WE GET, YOU KNOW, WE GET CALLS FROM RESIDENTS THAT ARE PROBABLY, PROBABLY SOMEBODY THAT LIVED IN THAT HOUSE, PLANTED THE TREE, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
IT'S A VILLAGE TREE 'CAUSE IT'S ON VILLAGE PROPERTY.
SO WE, WE, WE HAVE TO ADDRESS IT.
WHEN YOU SAY A GRANT COMES WITH AN ARBORIST, IT ACTUALLY COMES WITH A PERSON WHO IS AN ARBORIST OR MONEY TO IDENTIFY AN ARBORIST? NO, THAT'S THAT THE LATTER.
UM, YEAH, IT, IT, WE, WE RETAIN SOMEBODY LOCAL, BUT IT, WE, WE INCLUDE IT IN THE GRANT APPLICATION AS A, AS SOMETHING WE NEED FUNDING FOR.
SO YOU TRACK THAT AS A SEPARATE PROJECT.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU WOULDN'T SEE A TRACK HERE.
YOU WOULDN'T SEE A TRACK THERE STREET.
ONE OTHER, UH, QUESTION I HAD, IT COULD JUST BE A CONTRACTUAL THING, BUT IS THERE, I'M TRYING TO, I DON'T SEE A LINE FOR TRAINING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR THE STAFF DOWN THERE.
UM, I THINK THERE IS A, DO WE HAVE THAT IN THE CONTRACT SOMEWHERE? UH, IT IS NOT IN THEIR CONTRACT.
WE ARE, WE'RE PARTNERING THOUGH WITH, UM, OUR WORKERS' COMP PROVIDER TO DO SOME IN-HOUSE TRAINING.
THEY'LL COME IN TO DO SOME TRAINING.
THERE IS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LINE, BUT IT'S ZERO.
THEY DON'T HAVE SOMETHING BUILT INTO THE CONTRACT OR NOT.
THERE'S NOTHING BUILT INTO THE CONTRACT.
UM, BUT YEAH, BUT AS ANTHONY WAS SAYING, WE, WE HAVE USED OUR INSURANCE COMPANY, WHICH WE'LL COME IN AND DO ALL KINDS OF TRAININGS AND UM, WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHATEVER WE NEED IN TERMS OF TRYING TO, UH, BUILD THEIR SKILL SETS.
AND THEN OF COURSE WE HAVE THE REQUIRED TRAININGS THAT THE VILLAGE REQUIRES OF ALL EMPLOYEES.
ANYBODY ELSE? THANK YOU MR. SUPERINTENDENT.
IT'S NICE WARM YOU FIGURE OUT A WAY TO, BUT MIKE, THANK YOU YOU FOR ALL THE HARD WORK ON THANK YOU.
AND I KNOW YOU GOT NO, THANKS FOR GETTING THAT FARMER'S MARKET OPEN, BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYBODY COMING IN AT 5:00 AM TO DO THAT AFTER PROBABLY THE LONGEST WEEK OF THEIR CAREERS.
I GONNA LOAN YOU A SNOWBLOWER TOO.
I WAS GONNA GO DOWN WITH A SNOWBLOWER.
I'D BE WORKING FOR ANOTHER TOWN.
HOW ARE YOU? HEY, HOW'S EVERYBODY? VERY GOOD.
DO YOU HAVE ANY TYPE OF AN OVERVIEW CHIEF OR ANYTHING? OR YOU'RE GOOD THIS YEAR? UM, WELL I, I WAS, WASN'T PREPARED FOR AN OVERVIEW, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU A BRIEF SYNAPSE
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OF, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT, A LOT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET IS CONTRACTUAL.THERE ARE SOME LINES THERE SUCH AS HOLIDAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO, THEY HAVE THE CHOICE OF TAKING IN CASH OR TIME, SO YOU HAVE TO DO A ESTIMATE ON WHAT THEY'RE GONNA TAKE.
AND I ALWAYS ERR ON THE SIDE OF CAUTION.
UH, 'CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO.
THOSE ARE SOME OF THE LINES OF SICK BONUS, UH, THE EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ASKED FOR, UM, NEEDED.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GET INTO THE RADIO ISSUE THAT WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WE'LL DEAL WITH THAT WHEN WE GET TO IT.
THAT'S GONNA BE A CAPITAL ISSUE ANYWAY.
I MEAN, I, I CAN TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS.
I MEAN, MY ONLY AREA, SAME EXACT QUESTION OR SAME AS THAT COMMENT WITH THE, UH, DPW, JUST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND IN THOSE AREAS, I MEAN, I, I ASSUME EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THESE ARE THERE AND THAT THERE'S MONEY AVAILABLE AND TUITION REIMBURSEMENT AVAILABLE AND UH, I JUST WOULD LOVE IT IF THEY WERE TAKING MORE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
YEAH, WE HAVEN'T HAD, UM, OFFICERS GO BACK TO COLLEGE, UM, IN A RECENT YEAR OR TWO.
UM, WE DO HAVE THAT TUITION REIMBURSEMENT.
WE ARE ALSO FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE, UM, THE ACCREDITATION REQUIRES CERTAIN TRAININGS EVERY YEAR AND MINIMUM 21 HOURS.
AND WE ARE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO PARTNER WITH WESTCHESTER COUNTY, UM, POLICE ACADEMY.
AND THEY PROVIDE, UM, THREE DAYS OF IN-HOUSE TRAINING, WHICH COVERS EVERY, UH, ACCREDITATION POINT.
SO WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE THAT ONE, WE ALSO ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE, UH, LEAST ONE ACADEMY, WHICH IS A SUBSCRIPTION THAT THE VILLAGE PAYS FOR, FOR THE OFFICERS.
AND WE DO OUR, UM, OUR TRAINING, SOME TRAININGS THROUGH, UH, THROUGH THERE.
IT'S, UH, VIDEO TRAINING AND, UH, THEY TAKE TESTS AND EXAMS AND GET GRADED AND GET A CERTIFICATE.
UH, WE ARE ALSO FORTUNATE TO HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT LINE, WHICH PROVIDES OFFICERS TO GO OUTSIDE AND, AND GET TRAINING ON THEIR OWN.
UM, YOU KNOW, POLICE RELATED OBVIOUSLY.
AND, UM, JUST THE, UH, THIS YEAR FOR SOME REASON IT JUST DIDN'T, THERE WASN'T THAT MANY CLASSES THAT WERE, WERE OFFERED AND BEING SHORT STAFFED THERE WAS HARD TO GET ACCOMPLISHED TRAINING.
BUT, UM, I AM VERY BIG INTO TRAINING, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT.
SO, UH, WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN.
WELL, I APPRECIATE YOUR SPENDING THE COMMUNITY EVENTS.
YOU AT, WE WENT A LITTLE OVER.
OVER, UH, YEAH, THIS YEAR WE WENT A LITTLE OVER, BUT NEXT YEAR I'LL BE MORE MINDFUL.
UH, LIKE I BELONG TO THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY CHIEFS POLICE ASSOCIATION, WHICH IS A MEMBERSHIP FEE.
THE, UM, THE YOUTH OFFICERS, UM, BELONG TO THE YOUTH OFFICER ASSOCIATION, WHICH IS A MEMBERSHIP FEE.
THE DETECTIVES, UM, DETECTIVE ASSOCIATION, UM, ALSO A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHIEFS POLICE ASSOCIATION INVESTIGATION.
I JUST HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DELTA BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENTAL REQUEST AND THE MANAGER'S REQUEST.
I THINK THE FIRST ONE IN THE HOLIDAYS, THAT'S 20,000.
YEAH, SO THE, YEAH, MYSELF AND THE VILLAGE MANAGER HAD A, HAD A, UM, DISCUSSION.
UH, IT'S JUST HARD TO DETERMINE THE, THE OFFICERS WHO, THERE'S OFFICERS THAT WORK THE 12 HOUR TOUR AND THERE'S A FEW OF US THAT WORK THE EIGHT HOURS AND THE OFFICERS THAT WORK THE 12 HOUR TOUR, THEY ARE, UM, THEY GET FOUR HOLIDAYS EVERY SIX MONTHS.
SO IT'S A TOTAL OF EIGHT HOLIDAYS A YEAR.
AND THEY CAN USE THEM OR THEY CAN GET PAID FOR.
THEY CANNOT CREATE OVERTIME IF THEY GO TO USE THEM.
SO, UM, A LOT OF TIMES THEY WON'T USE THEM AND THEY'LL GET CASH OUT FOR THEM, BUT SOMETIMES THEY'LL USE THEM.
SO IT'S KIND OF A, YOU HAVE TO GUESSTIMATE ARE THEY GONNA USE THEM, ARE THEY NOT GONNA USE THEM? AND WE, WE'VE HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS THAT WE WENT BY PRIOR YEAR PAST AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH, UH, THE WAY THE
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LINE IS ENDED UP.YOU COMFORTABLE BUT YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THE 130? YEAH.
AND THERE'S ALSO SUPER HOLIDAYS, WHICH, UM, IS COMBINED IN THAT LINE.
SUPER HOLIDAYS ARE OFFICERS THAT WORK, UM, CHRISTMAS, EASTER, THANKSGIVING AND NEW YEAR'S.
THEY RECEIVE EXTRA PAY FOR THAT.
AND SO THAT LINE WE WENT THROUGH AND, AND THE LIEUTENANT HAS TO SCHEDULE OUT.
SO WE HAVE THAT LINE IS TO THE T WE ALREADY KNOW NOW EASTER OR JULY 4TH EASTER IT IS.
UH, NOW CAN THOSE TOURS ARE FULL AND SOMEBODY TAKE THE TAKE OFF.
BUT UM, RIGHT NOW THE TOURS ARE FULL AND WE, WE WORK WITH, WE CALCULATING.
AND I JUST WAS WONDERING, AND MAYBE THIS IS COINCIDING WITH IT WHAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, BUT IN TERMS OF LIKE OVERTIME, HOW DOES THAT, LIKE, WHAT ARE, NOT LIKE REASONS, BUT WHAT ARE COUPLE, UM, REASONS OR, UH, SEARCH, UH, CIRCUMSTANCES THAT SURE.
IF, IF THE BOARD WOULD LIKE, I I DO A SPREADSHEET, EVERY PAYROLL, I CAN TELL YOU WHERE EVERY HOUR OF OVERTIME WENT.
UM, I JUST AN EXPLANATION OF, OF THE NEED.
THERE NO STORMS AND, YOU KNOW, YEAH.
UM, WE HAVE, WELL, I, I CAN START RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE JUST DEVELOPED ANOTHER ISSUE WITH THE PAD.
UM, AND UM, THERE'S, THERE'S JUST THESE KIDS JUST DON'T GET IT.
AND UM, I HAVE TO GO UP THERE AGAIN.
'CAUSE THIS PAST WEEKEND, UM, KIDS FROM OUT OF TOWN WERE UP THERE AGAIN FIGHTING.
AND UH, THAT'S JUST ONE REASON, YOU KNOW, UH, STORMS OBVIOUSLY.
WE'VE BEEN SHORT STAFFED AND WE HAVE AN OFFICER OUT INJURED RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, BUT WE HAVE JUST HIRED A NEW OFFICER AS YOU'RE ALL AWARE, AND HE'S IN TRAINING.
SO ONCE HE COMES OUTTA TRAINING, HOPEFULLY THAT WILL STOP SOMEONE'S BLEEDING WITH THE OVERTIME.
UH, THERE'S UM, THERE'S SOME REIMBURSABLES AT THE TIME THAT IS, IS ALSO WE, WE BELONG TO THE, UH, TRAFFIC, UH, POLICE TRAFFIC SAFETY GRANT WHERE OFFICERS ARE, UH, GO OUT FOR, UM, TROUBLED AREAS AND THEY GET REIMBURSED THROUGH THE GRANT.
THEY ALSO DO THE SCHOOL BUS DETAIL, WHICH IS REIMBURSABLE.
UM, THEY ALSO, UH, CON ED WHEN CON ED COMES IN AND THEY, THEY PAY FOR THE OFFICERS OVERTIME OR SOME OF THE OVERTIME IS REIMBURSED MOVIES.
UH, BUT THERE IS A NEED FOR, FOR, FOR OVERTIME.
OH YEAH, NO, I WAS JUST CURIOUS.
LIKE, LIKE WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT LIKE THE SCHOOL SITUATION.
SO THAT WOULD LIKE JUST ONLY AS AN EXAMPLE.
SO YOU WOULD NEED TO CALL IN ANOTHER YEAH, I HAVE TO CALL IN ANOTHER OFFICERS SEE COME IN.
AND, UH, I, I DON'T LIKE LAKELAND
NO, I WAS JUST MORE CURIOUS LIKE HOW OVER TIME, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, LIKE HOW IT HAPPENS OR HOW IT EVENTS.
YEAH, LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE EVENTS WHERE WE CLOSE STREETS OR EVENTS, PRIDE DAY.
I DO HAVE A SPREADSHEET I'D MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE WITH YOU GUYS.
UH, SHOW YOU WHERE EVERY, EVERY HOUR, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THE PAD, IS THAT A REACTIVE OVERTIME EVENT OR IS IT MORE THAT YOU KNOW, THE PAD IS AN ISSUE AND YOU'RE GOING TO ASK PEOPLE TO GIVE YOU MORE HOURS SO YOU CAN SEND OFFICERS UP THERE? I'M NOT GONNA ASK FOR AN INCREASE IN HOURS OF OVERTIME.
THE OVERTIME LINE IS, IS WHAT IT IS.
BUT, UM, RIGHT NOW WE'VE HAD THREE UNEXPECTED EVENTS THAT HAVE, UM, WITH PERSONNEL THAT HAVE CAUSED OUR OVERTIME LINE TO GO OVER.
AND I DON'T THINK THIS IS PROPER VENUE TO DISCUSS THOSE REASONS, BUT I THINK YOU'RE AWARE OF WHY, UM, THOSE THREE SEPARATE EVENTS HAVE CREATED AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF SHORT SHIFTS.
UH, OTHERWISE OUR OVERTIME LINE WOULD BE RIGHT ON TARGET FOR THE, FOR THE YEAR.
BUT I GUESS, BUT REGARDING THE PAD, YES, I AM GOING TO, UH, ASK OFFICERS.
WE, WE NEED TO GO UP THERE AND WE NEED TO CONTROL THAT.
'CAUSE IT'S, UH, GOD FORBID SOMETHING'S GONNA YEAH, IT SOUNDS LIKE THE QUESTION WAS, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE VERY PLANFUL ABOUT IT AND YOU'RE MONITORING IT AND THERE'S ALSO THE TIMES WHERE YOU EVER HAVE TO ASK SOMEONE TO EXTEND THEIR SHIFT 'CAUSE OF AN EMERGING ISSUE THAT'S HAPPENING.
I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION FOR YOU.
SO WE STILL HAVE THE LEASE CARS PROGRAM DOWN HERE AT THE BOTTOM.
AND I REMEMBER YOU WERE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT AT ONE POINT.
THAT WE DON'T PARTAKE IN THAT ANYMORE.
NO, WE HAVEN'T PARTAKED IN THAT, UH, MANY, MANY YEARS.
I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S STILL THERE.
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TALKING ABOUT THE PURCHASING PROGRAM THAT LIKE TWO YEARS AGO WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT WAS A PURCHASING PROGRAM.THERE WAS A, UM, THERE WAS A, UM, UH, YES AND THAT ALSO THERE WAS A MINIMUM AMOUNT OF CARS WE HAD TO BUY.
IT WAS KIND OF HIGHER THAN WE REALLY, THIS THIS LEASE LINE IS FROM, IT USED TO BE THAT I THINK THE FORMER CHIEF HAD A LEASED VEHICLE AND GOT IT.
THERE USED TO BE THE DETECTIVE'S CAR IS THE VILLAGE MANAGER'S CAR, AND THE POLICE CHIEF'S CAR CAME OUTTA THAT.
HE, HE'S REFERRING, REMEMBER THE PROGRAM YOU HAD RESEARCHED THAT WE WERE GONNA BE ABLE TO START GETTING NEW CARS? YEAH.
AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THEY WERE FOR BIGGER AGENCIES, SMALLER AGENCIES, YOU HAVE TO GET, WE JUST COULDN'T DO IT.
I, UM, I JUST HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION THAT THE, THE, UM, CAPITAL OUTLAY THAT A HUNDRED THOUSAND COMPARED TO BASICALLY 27TH.
UM, WHY IT WAS REDUCED, A LOT OF THAT WAS MOVED TO THE CAPITAL BUDGET.
WHICH, WHICH IT'S, UH, IN KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE THERE AT 31, 2300.
AND WHAT IS THE, WHAT ARE THE CAPITAL PROJECTS? I SHOULD KNOW THIS, LIKE I SHOULD KNOW.
I HAVEN'T GIVEN YOU THE CAPITAL BUDGET YET, SO, BUT IT'S, IT'S IN THE CHIEF STREET REQUEST.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO, IT'S LIKE THE SIMULATOR, THE TRAINING SIMULATOR IS THE MAIN ONE, RIGHT? THAT'S THE YEAH.
THERE'S ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DEVELOPED A, UM, AN ISSUE WITH THE RADIOS THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS.
THAT WASN'T HERE THOUGH TO BEGIN WITH.
THE RADIOS, MAN, EVERY YEAR THERE'S A RADIO ISSUE, NOT JUST WITH YOU SOMEWHERE
AND IS THIS, UM, I, THERE'S A OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUS THIS REFERENCING UNDER SEPARATION PAYOUTS, BUT IS THIS MAY NOT BE THE VENUE.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE A DEDICATED FUND FOR PERSONNEL FOR SEPARATIONS.
SO, UM, THAT COMES OUTTA THAT FUND RATHER THAN BEING PART OF THE OPERATION OPERATIONAL BUDGET.
SO WE HAVE, YOU HAVE A BOARD HAS SET ASIDE A FUND FOR THINGS LIKE SEPARATION PANELS.
IT'S JUST A LINE THAT, SO OKAY.
THE CHIEF PUTS IT HERE BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO BE AWARE THAT THIS IS A POTENTIALITY.
UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S A POSSIBILITY THAT IT COULD HAPPEN.
HE, HE'S JUST, YOU KNOW, ALERTING, ALERTING US TO THAT.
BUT WE, HE KNOWS FOR THE LAST, YOU KNOW, YEARS SINCE WE HAVE CREATED THAT FUND, WE DON'T ACTUALLY FUND THAT.
WE COULD FUND THAT THROUGH THIS OPERATIONAL BUDGET AND IT WOULD NEVER HA AND IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN.
SO THIS WAY IT'S, IT'S SET ASIDE IN A SEPARATE FUND THAT WHEN IT DOES HAPPEN, WE HAVE THE MON THE MONEY TO PAY FOR.
YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THE ENTIRE MANAGERS.
I AM, I APPRECIATE VILLAGE MANAGERS UNDERSTANDING AND PATIENCE WITH ME, AND YOU KNOW, WE WORK TOGETHER WELL, SO, AND VICE VERSA.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE WITH ALL OF US.
AND I ASSUME JUST THE, UM, THE PATROLMAN LINE THAT, THAT'S THE CONTRACTUAL LINE, ONE OF THE CONTRACTUAL LINES YOU WERE REFERRING? YES.
FOR THE RECORD, IF ANYONE HEARS THE STREAM, LAUGHTER IN THE BACKGROUND.
THERE'S ANOTHER MEETING IN THE BUILDING.
THESE ARE SENSITIVE LIKES TONIGHT IN CASE PEOPLE HEAR IT.
YOU COULDN'T SAY WE WERE HAVING SUCH A GREAT TIME.
I THINK IT WAS ABOUT PAD AND HE SAID HE WAS SHUTTING IT DOWN AND THEN THERE WAS EXTREME LAUGHTER.
AND THERE WAS EXTREME LAUGHTER AND, AND YEAH.
EXCITED FOR THE PARTY TOMORROW.
IT'S GONNA BE A, UH, VERY, VERY NICE EVENT.
HOPEFULLY IT'LL BE WELL ATTENDED.
THIS LEAST WANTS AI AND YOU KNOW, JUST BE ABLE TO INTER INTERMINGLE WITH AS MANY AS SHE CAN.
I NOTICE THIS IS JUST GOING COMPLETELY VILLAGE WIDE, SO IT BETTER BE ATTENDED TO THE ENTIRE VILLAGE.
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WIDE.UH, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO START WITH? SO THE, UH, THE OVERALL BUDGET THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON, UM, THE BIGGEST CHANGES THAT THE BOARD IS AWARE OF IS THAT WE HAVE SOME STAFFING CHANGES BECAUSE OF LISA ARRIVED AS RETIREMENT.
SO I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE VILLAGE MANAGER ON, UH, WORKING ON A REPLACEMENT FOR HER.
UM, AND WE'VE BEEN, UM, SEEKING A RECREATION, A SENIOR RECREATION LEADER POSITION THAT WILL BE SUPPLEMENTED BY A RECREATION LEADER OR A RECREATION ASSISTANT.
ANOTHER AREA THAT I THINK YOU BROACHED ON WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT EARLIER, UH, I WASN'T HERE ADJOURNING, SO I'M NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE.
UH, IS AN ADMINISTRATIVE, UH, ASSISTANT POSITION THAT'S GONNA BE SPLIT BETWEEN THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
SO THE SENIOR RECREATION LEADER, IT'S BEEN A POSITION THAT'S FULL.
AND THEN ARE WE ADDING ANOTHER OR, UM, WE RETITLED THAT LINE ACTUALLY TO REFLECT THE NEW POSITIONS TITLE.
OH, SO THIS LAST YEAR'S BUDGET DID NOT HAVE IT LISTED, RIGHT? IT HAD, CORRECT.
AND THESE ARE, THESE ARE PLACEHOLDERS, REALLY? YEAH, BECAUSE WE, WE HAVEN'T YET, UM, HIRED OR, OR, UH, YOU KNOW, ASSIGNED PEOPLE TO THESE PO POSITIONS.
BUT WE NEED, WE NEED THE POSITIONS IN THE BUDGET SO THAT WE CAN DO THAT.
SO WILL THERE POSSIBLY BE MORE CHANGE ON THAT AREA, OR NO? UM, WELL, I'M, I'M HO I'M HOPING THAT WE'LL FILL THOSE TWO POSITIONS, UH, PRETTY SOON, THE THREE POSITIONS ACTUALLY, UM, THERE.
BUT I MEAN, WE, YOU KNOW, WE EXPECT OUR, OUR, UM, CURRENT EMPLOYEE TO, TO, TO STAY ON BOARD WITH US.
BUT THERE MAY BE SOME, SOME MOVEMENT WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT.
WE'LL BE FILLING THEM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
WE'LL BE FILLING THOSE POSITIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
I MEAN, THE ONE GOOD THING IS YOU SEEM TO BE, YOU KNOW, YOUR DEPARTMENT IS USING THE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, IT SEEMS MORE THAN THE REST OF THEM.
WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR EXAMPLES THAT, DO YOU HAVE ANY? YEAH, SO PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, UM, IN, IN MY CASE, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, I GO, UH, TO CONFERENCES AND, UH, SEMINARS FOR, UH, CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS.
UH, I'M A-C-P-R-P, WHICH IS CERTIFIED RECREATION PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL.
UH, AS WELL AS, UM, I BELONG TO, UH, WRAPS.
IT'S CALLED WESTCHESTER PARKS AND RECREATION SOCIETY.
AND WE DO MONTHLY MEETINGS WHERE A LOT OF MY COLLEAGUES GET TOGETHER AND THERE'S A TOPIC THAT WE'LL BE DISCUSSING, WHICH COULD BE, UH, POOL RELATED, PARK RELATED, RECREATION RELATED.
SO, UM, THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT, UM, OPPORTUNITIES TO BE ABLE TO BRING BACK SOMETHING THAT WE LEARNED ELSEWHERE TO THE VILLAGE AND BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, WITHIN OUT THE RANKS THIS YEAR, WE ALSO SENT ONE OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS TO, UM, GET, I BELIEVE IT WAS, UH, CERTIFIED TO BE A INSTRUCTOR.
YEAH, W-S-I-T-A, UM, AN INSTRUCTOR WHO TEACHES PEOPLE TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW TO SWIM.
SO, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF BENEFIT TO THAT BECAUSE, UH, EVERY KID SHOULD KNOW HOW TO SWIM.
FIRST OF ALL, I'M A BIG ADVOCATE FOR THAT.
AND, UM, WE CAN NOW TRAIN OUR OWN, UH, OUR LIFEGUARDS TO TEACH CHILDREN HOW TO SWIM.
UH, AND, AND WE DO GET A LOT OF, UM, A LOT OF, UH, PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING THAT.
WE THINK IT'LL DEFINITELY ENHANCE, UH, OUR SWIM PROGRAM, BEING ABLE TO TRAIN OUR PHONE INSTRUCTORS, THE EQUIPMENT LINE IS EMPTY.
WAS THAT, THERE'S A FEW, THERE'S A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT, WE GOT MOVED AROUND, LIKE IN EACH PART, IN EACH DIVISION THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S A EQUIPMENT LINE.
WE CAN, WE CAN TAKE THOSE OUT.
WE CAN TRY TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, NEXT, NEXT YEAR.
IS THERE NO EQUIPMENT NEEDED OR WERE THEY REALLOCATED IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES? IT, IT'S, IT'S PROBABLY ALLOCATED, YOU KNOW, INTO, INTO OTHER AREAS.
UM, UH, I, I SEE THAT IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT BEEN USED FOR, YOU KNOW, SINCE BEFORE 20 21, 22.
SO MEAN REC ADMINISTRATION'S, LIKE THEIR OFFICE YEAH.
STAFF AND OFFICE SUPPLIES KIND OF COVERS THAT EQUIPMENT THAT IT MIGHT BE.
IT'S JUST WE TRY TO LEAVE AN EQUIPMENT LINE OR A CAPITAL ALLY LINE IN ALMOST EVERY CATEGORY CASE.
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GOT IT.YEAH, YOU'LL NOTICE IN OTHER AREAS OF THE BUDGET THAT THERE IS MM-HMM
UM, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT PERSONAL SERVICES UNDER THE DAY CAMP.
I'M, WHAT DID YOU SAY? UNDER THE, UH, DAY CAMP? IT'S 30, UH, 7, 3 1, 1 POINT.
THE, USUALLY WITH PERSONAL SERVICES, UM, WE, WE PUT A FLAT AMOUNT IN, AND THEN WHAT HAPPENS IS THE REVENUES ARE SUPPOSED TO COVER THE EXPENSES.
UM, THERE HAS BEEN THE LAST FEW YEARS, I THINK THAT IN THE CAMP, PARTICULARLY THE REV, WE DO THAT WITH ATH WITH, UH, THE ATHLETICS PROGRAM, THE, THE CAMP PROGRAM, UH, SWIM PROGRAM AFTER, AFTER SCHOOL AS WELL, AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM.
AND, UM, THE, WITH THE DAY CAMP, WE KIND OF FELL BEHIND A LITTLE BIT, BUT THIS YEAR, UH, THE BOARD ACTUALLY RAISED THE, UH, RATES FOR DAY CAMP AND THAT, UH, SHOULD HELP TO ADDRESS THE, THAT.
BUT WHAT WE USUALLY DO WITH THE BUDGET IS WE, WE, WE KIND OF USE THE SAME NUMBERS EVERY YEAR BECAUSE THESE ARE, THESE ARE REVENUE DRIVEN LINES.
THE, THE, THE, UH, DAY CAMP ATHLETICS, UM, DAY, UH, AND, UH, AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU JUST SAID THAT'S WHY THE ACTUALS ARE, THAT'S WHY IT STAYS 200,000.
THAT'S WHY IT STAYS 200,000 BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A, IF WE, THE MORE KIDS YOU GET, THE MORE OBVIOUSLY STAFF THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.
AND THEN THE MORE REVENUE THEY GET AND THE ACTUALS KIND OF ALL OVER.
ACTUALLY THEY'RE TWO PRECISE NUMBERS.
KIND OF TWO 60 SOMETHING, 260 SOMETHING, AND THEN 3, 320 SOMETHING.
ANYWAY, I'M JUST, JUST, WELL, THERE WERE A LOT OF KIDS AT CAMP LAST YEAR.
AND YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SEEING PROBABLY IN, IN, IN, WELL, 21, 22, WE WERE CLOSED.
WE DIDN'T OPEN THE CAMP BECAUSE OF COVID.
AND EVEN IN THE NEXT YEAR, YOU PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, SEE A LITTLE BIT OF PEOPLE MAYBE BEING STILL A LITTLE BIT OF HESITANCY TO PUT THEIR KIDS IN A, IN THAT KIND OF A, A ENVIRONMENT.
I DON'T, MY KIDS ARE GROWN, SO THEY DO WHAT THEY WANT, BUT I COULD SEE THAT HAPPENING IF I, IF, YOU KNOW, IF THEY WEREN'T.
AND, UH, BUT THAT'S, BUT YEAH, WE ALWAYS, WE'VE ALWAYS BUDGETED THE 200,000 AND THEN THE, THE REVENUES AND THE, AND THE EXPENSES OFFSET EACH OTHER.
AND, AND I ASSUME THE ACTUALS AS OF JANUARY 30TH ARE, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH DONE FOR THE YEAR, RIGHT? YEAH.
WE WILL START BUYING THOUGH SOME CAMP SUPPLIES FOR NEXT YEAR, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE CLOSE OF THIS YEAR, BECAUSE CAMP STARTS IN LATE JUNE, EARLY JULY.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE ACTUAL START DATE.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR BUDGET CYCLE STARTS ON JUNE 1ST.
AND WE MA YOU KNOW, WE ARE, WE'RE MAKING, UH, TRIP PLANS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT ALREADY FOR CAMP.
AND THOSE, THOSE THINGS ARE ALREADY PUT BEING PUT IN PLACE NOW.
YOU KNOW, IN ANTICIPATION OF THE CAMP.
UM, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT, UM, ABOUT, UM, UNDER PARKS, THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PARKS? AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT, UM, 71 1 0 0.488.
UM, AND IS THAT, DOES THAT INCLUDE, UM, THE FENCE MAINTENANCE IN HILLSIDE WOODS? AND IF IT DOES, OR, OR JUST IN GENERAL? UM, CAN YOU JUST REMIND ME HOW MUCH YOU KIND OF USUALLY IS A YEAR? YEAH, SO MAINTENANCE OF PARKS, UM, IT IS TO BE USED IN ALL THE PARKS, BUT PRIMARILY IS HILLSIDE, WOODS.
UM, THE EXPENSES THAT ARE INCURRED FOR THIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, 12,000, UH, ACTUAL, UM, WAS UPKEEP AND REPAIRED FENCE.
SO IT IS THE 12,000 WAS FOR YEAH.
UM, SO DO YOU THINK LIKE IN THE NEXT 8,000, WE'LL PROBABLY ALSO GO TO THE FENCING? IT'S HARD TO SAY.
UM, RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, THE WINTER WAS PRETTY ROUGH, AS WE ALL KNOW.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE, UM, REEVALUATING THE GATES TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE OPERATING PROPERLY.
UM, AND WE'RE UP THERE VERY, YOU KNOW, AS OFTEN AS POSSIBLE JUST TO TRY AND MAKE SURE THAT THE INTEGRITY OF THE FENCE IS STILL THERE BECAUSE ALL THE WIND THAT'S BEEN COMING THROUGH ON THESE STORMS, THE LIKELIHOOD THAT A TREE OR A LIMB, YOU
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KNOW, IS GONNA COME DOWN AND COMPROMISE THAT IS PRETTY HIGH.SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT THAT NUMBER WILL HOLD.
AND WHAT DOES, UM, THE ONE RIGHT ABOVE IT, 4 64, WHAT WOULD THAT INCLUDE? THE OTHER SERVICES? YEAH, SO, UM, THAT'S WHEN WE BRING IN INDEPENDENT, YOU KNOW, COMPANIES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THE, UM, REASON WHY THAT LINE IS OVER, FOR EXAMPLE, IS, UM, WE HAD A PRETTY BIG EXPENSE TO FINISH THE UNION TOWN PROJECT, THE DRAINAGE.
SO THAT WAS OVER $14,000 ON THAT LINE THAT, UM, WAS TO CONDUCT THE, THE BASINS, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THE INFILTRATION SYSTEM AT, AT THE END.
AND NOW, YOU KNOW, I'M HA UM, PLEASED TO, UH, SAY THAT THE WATER MAIN WAS ADDRESSED FROM VIOLA, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK AND DO ANY MORE WORK, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY
SO IS THAT, IS THAT LINE FOR WHEN YOU HAVE TO BRING SOMEONE ELSE IN TO DO THE WORK VERSUS THE ONE BELOW IT? LIKE REPAIRING THE HILLSIDE FENCES IS LIKE INTERNAL OR WELL, WELL, NO, IT, IT'S OVERALL WHEN WE'RE BRINGING IN OUTSIDE, UH, FOLKS TO DO THE WORK, BUT THE OTHER SERVICES, IT IS, UM, INCORPORATING EVERYTHING, IRRIGATION.
UH, AGAIN, THE FENCE IN HILLSIDE WOODS, YOU KNOW, WE SAID WHAT WAS, WAS SEPARATE, UM, THE, UH, PARKS OF THE SERVICES LAST YEAR WE RAN INTO A UTILITY POLE WITH THE POOL THAT NEEDED TO BE REPLACED.
SO IT, IT'S A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THINGS AND OFTEN IT ALSO FALLS INTO A CATEGORY OF EMERGENCY ACTIONS, LIKE SOMETHING THAT WE WEREN'T ABLE TO PLAN AHEAD FOR.
MAY I HAVE A MORE CAPITAL QUESTION, BUT DO YOU ANTICIPATE ANY OF YOUR PLAYGROUNDS FOR NEXT YEAR THAT YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT OR ANYTHING? UH, I, I DO.
UM, UH, I KNOW THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE CAPITAL, YOU KNOW, REQUEST IN FRONT OF YOU, SO, UH, I DON'T HAVE 'EM SPECIFICALLY IN FRONT OF ME, BUT I DO REMEMBER A FEW OF THEM.
THE, UH, ZZA PARK PLAYGROUND HAS BEEN REQUESTED TO BE REPLACED, UM, OVER THE YEARS.
UM, IT, IT'S JUST AGING, REACHING ITS END OF, YOU KNOW, LIFE EXPECTANCY.
PARTS ARE BECOMING MORE DIFFICULT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, GET WHEN WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, UPKEEP AND REPLACEMENTS.
SO, UM, THAT'S ONE THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, THE BUILDING MANAGER HAS IN THE, UH, CAPITAL.
UH, ANOTHER ONE THAT I WANT TO, UH, BRING TO THE BOARD'S ATTENTION, UM, IS REQUESTING A REPLACEMENT FOR, UH, OUR WORK TRUCK.
IT'S VEHICLE NUMBER 10 AND IT'S A 2016, UH, FORD.
I DON'T REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, SO I APOLOGIZE.
AND, UM, YEAR AFTER YEAR WE'VE DOING A LOT OF MAINTENANCE TO IT AND PUTTING, UH, UM, UH, JUST IN THE SHORT TIME OF 2026, WE JUST SPENT ANOTHER 6,400 HOURS ON IT.
SO FROM YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, WE'RE CONTINUING TO PUT IN THE UPWARDS OF BETWEEN SIX AND $10,000, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE REPAIR IS.
'CAUSE IT NEEDS TO GO OUT TO BOARD AND THEN COMES BACK.
UM, I'M HOPING THAT WE'RE ABLE TO REPLACE IT.
WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET A TRUCK THAT WON'T HAVE AS MANY PROBLEMS GOING FORWARD.
THAT MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLE FALL UNDER THE DPW, UM, WELL SOMETIMES THEY SEND IT OUT AND SOMETIMES IT, IT, YOU KNOW, IT IT, THE DPWI DON'T.
DOES DP DPW DOESN'T CHARGE YOU WHEN THEY DO MAINTENANCE ON YOUR VEHICLES? NO.
IF, UM, DPW, UM, DOES ANY THINGS, SOMETIMES THEY SEND THE VEHICLES OUT, WE'LL GET THE PARTS LIKE WE'LL GET THE BILL FIRST PAGE AND THE PARTS AND SUPPLIES MIGHT BE CHARGED PARTS.
I JUST DIDN'T EXACTLY, I WASN'T LOOKING AT THE FIRST PAGE.
SO YOU'RE SAYING MOST OF THIS $8,000, IS THAT ONE TRUCK? UNFORTUNATELY, YES.
UM, I MEAN, WE, WE, WE DON'T, UH, HAVE, UM, THE SAME COMPLIMENT OF VEHICLES AS, YOU KNOW, DPW, BUT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, UH, WHAT OUR COMPLIMENT OF VEHICLES ARE.
TWO SECONDS AGAIN, THE, THE, UH, TRUCK NUMBER 10, WHICH IS OUR WORK TRUCK, IS IT GOT A DUMP, UM, ON IT SO WE CAN UTILIZE IT FOR OIL GRAVEL, ALL THE GARBAGE CANS THAT WE'RE PICKING UP.
UM, SO ON, WE HAVE THE, UH, SENIOR BUS, UH, WE HAVE THE VEHICLE, UM, THAT, UH, I DRIVE.
WE HAVE THE, UM, OTHER PARKS VEHICLE IS A, UH, F TWO 50 FORD.
WE HAVE AN ELECTRIC UTILITY VEHICLE THAT,
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UH, WE PURCHASED A COUPLE YEARS AGO, THE GREENWORKS, AND IT'S NOT DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH ME, BUT IT'S UNDER PARKS AND RECREATION'S, UM, INVENTORY.IT'S THE, UH, MINI BAND CHRYSLER PACIFICA THAT THE, UH, YOUTH ADVOCATE AND SAFE RIDE.
SO THOSE ARE ALL THE VEHICLES THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING ON JUST THE PARK SIDE.
ANYBODY ELSE? I JUST ASK ONE FOLLOW UP QUESTION, SORRY.
JUST IN TERMS OF MAINTENANCE OF PARKS, DO YOU THINK THAT 20 IS SUFFICIENT FOR, BECAUSE I KNOW MOST OF IT'S FOR THE HILLSIDE WOODS FENCING AND THEN THE, I DUNNO, JUST ANYTHING FOR ANY OF THE OTHER PARTS.
SO IT, IT'S TOUGH BECAUSE IT'S AN UNKNOWN NUMBER.
LIKE, UH, I SAID BEFORE, IT'S A LOT OF EMERGENCY WORK.
SO, UM, AS UM, MARY BETH MENTIONED, WE HAVE A GRANT FOR DOING SOME WORK WITHIN HILLSIDE WOODS.
SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY GOING TO BE FOR FENCE WORK, BUT MAYBE IT'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO ABSORB SOME UNKNOWN COSTS THAT WOULD'VE FALLEN UNDERNEATH THIS POSSIBLY.
THERE WAS ALSO SOME OUTFIELD WORK, I THINK IN YOUR, UH, AND SOME WORK.
YEAH, I THOUGHT IN PRINT MORE CAPITAL PROJECTS.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL FRONT WORK IN YOUR CAPITAL PROJECTS, WHICH NO, I KNOW.
I JUST WAS JUST FOR GENERAL MAINTENANCE OF ALL THE PARTS WE, WELL, WE KNOW WE ALSO HAVE AN OUTSIDE LANDSCAPER THAT DOES ALL OF OUR, YOU KNOW, MOWING AND, AND ALL THAT.
THE GENERAL, LIKE WEEKLY CARE.
AND THEN THAT'S UNDER THE DPW, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S UNDER, UH, THE SHADE TREES LINE.
WHERE WERE THE, THE, BUT THEY DO ALL THE PARKS.
REMEMBER THERE WAS SOME A, UH, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TREES AT UNION TA OR ZINZER? UM, UH, THAT IS ALSO IN, IN, UM, IT'S PART OF THE CAPITAL PLAN, BUT THE, THE, THE WALL IS REALLY, THE TREES WILL COME IN UNDER OUR OPERATIONAL BUDGET.
OUR TREE, YOU KNOW, OUR TREE LINE THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BEFORE THAT I INCREASED.
UH, THAT'S WHAT YOU HAD PROPOSED IN THE CAPITAL PLAN.
AND THEN THE, THE WALL ITSELF, THE REPAIR OF THE WALL, WHICH I I'M REMEMBERING CORRECTLY, IS AROUND $36,000 IS, UH, GONNA BE A CAPITAL.
I'M SURE YOUR TWO PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN HELPING DPW WITH SNOW STUFF AND EVERYTHING.
UH, BUT I KNOW WE'D HAD A REQUEST, UH, FROM PEOPLE AT ZINZER JUST FOR SOME ASSISTANCE TO CLEAN UP, UH, AROUND THE GARDENS AREA.
UH, THERE'S SOME REFUSE THAT NOT SO MUCH GARBAGE GARBAGE, BUT LIKE MORE TREES THAT ARE FALLING AND THEY'VE BEEN ASKING JUST FOR SOME ASSISTANCE.
UM, THEY ASKED ME TO COME UP AND SEE IT LAST YEAR.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, ANY, ANY HELP THAT YOU CAN GIVE 'EM, EVEN JUST A DAY OF LABOR, UM, WOULD BE GREAT.
AND IF MIKE HAS A WOOD CHIPPER, HOPE THERE WITH A WOOD CHIPPER.
'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF TREES IN THE AREA.
THANK, I HOPE YOU CAN HELP THAT THERE ARE, AND UH, EVERY CHANCE WE CAN, WE DO GET IN THERE.
WE DID DO SOME OF THE CLEANUP, UH, IN THE FALL, UM, THAT YOU'RE MENTIONING.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, UM, THERE ARE AREAS THAT WE DO HAVE TO DO TREE WORK AND ONCE THE TREE WORK IS COMPLETED, UM, IN ADDITION TO THE WORK THAT, UH, MARY BETH WAS JUST MENTIONING ABOUT THE RETAINING WALL, THERE'S SOME IN THE GARDENS ITSELF THAT GOES WELL AND, UM, UH, WE'RE GETTING IN THERE.
BUT YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO HOPE FOR SOME WARMER WEATHER.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN ACCESS, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, AREA BETTER.
THANK YOU EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD EVENING.
UH, AND ALSO ANY OTHER PART OF THE BUDGET THAT YOU WANT TO DISCUSS, I'M HAPPY TO DISCUSS WITH YOU.
UH, BUT I CAN, I CAN TRY TO PINCH IN FOR PINCH IN FOR HIM ON THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND, AND ALSO ADDRESS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
UH, JUST I WANTED EVERYONE TO KNOW ON, ON THE YOUTH ADVOCACY SIDE, THEY, THEIR GRANT, UH, IS EXPIRING NEXT YEAR.
AND AS OF RIGHT NOW, THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE PROGRAM.
UM, SO WE'VE PUT IN A REQUEST TO CONGRESSMAN LATTIMER'S OFFICE 'CAUSE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS EXTENDED IT ANOTHER FIVE YEARS.
THEY JUST BUILT AN EXTENSION IN IT.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO ORIGINALLY END EVERYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY AT 10 YEARS, WHICH IT HAS IN OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AROUND US.
UH, BUT WE'VE ACTUALLY ASKED, BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE MAYBE WE'RE, WE'RE A LITTLE BEYOND THEM.
SO WE'VE ASKED TO SEE IF HASTINGS CAN BE INVOLVED WITH THE, THE EXTENSION OF THAT FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS.
AND WE'RE WAITING TO HEAR FROM THEM AT THIS POINT ON THAT.
'CAUSE UM, I HAD MENTIONED, I THINK
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IN THE LAST MEETING WE'RE LOOKING TO HAVE A MEETING, A COMBINED MEETING OR NOT, I CAN'T REMEMBER, COMBINED MEETING WITH THE BOARD OF EDUCATION, INSTEAD OF HAVING THE YOUTH ADVOCACY GROUP GO TO THEM AND DO A PRESENTATION TO THEM AND THEN COME TO US AND DO A PRESENTATION TO US ON THE STATISTICS.UH, THEY JUST DID A RECENT SURVEY OF STUDENTS.
UH, WE WERE SUGGESTING MAYBE JUST HAVE ONE EVENING OF ALL OF US DOING A WORKSHOP.
SO, AND, AND BASED ON THE MOST RECENT SURVEY, IT SEEMS LIKE THEIR WORK IS WORKING.
SO WE DEFINITELY WANT THEM HERE FOR ANOTHER FIVE YEARS AND WE'LL SEE WHERE THOSE NUMBERS GO IN FIVE MORE YEARS IF WE CAN GET IT.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU HAVE JUST SPECIFICALLY THAT YOU WANNA BRING OUR ATTENTION TO AT ALL ON IT? UM, NO.
I, I TRIED TO, ARE YOU JUST GONNA MAKE US WORK? NO, I DON'T MEAN I DON'T WANNA MAKE YOU WORK.
UM, I, I TRIED TO PROVIDE YOU, YOU KNOW, A KIND OF A WRITTEN SUMMARY OF THE, THE HIGHLIGHTS THAT I THOUGHT WERE, WERE OF SIGNIFICANCE AND THAT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS ALWAYS HAVE A LITTLE SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT I HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, SPARKS YOUR INTEREST.
SO WHAT'S THE NUMBER OF WHAT FOR, FOR, UM, WE LOOK AT BUILDING, BUILDING INSPECTOR.
UH, IT'S IN, IT'S IN, UH, IT'S RIGHT AFTER PUB AT THE END OF PUBLIC SAFETY AFTER THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
UM, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S REALLY PRETTY.
I, YOU KNOW, HIS, HIS DEPARTMENT IS PRETTY, PRETTY, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF CUT AND DRY.
THE, UM, I THINK WE, WE, UH, DID THE, ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES THERE, THE, THE, UM, PART-TIME CLERK IS, UH, SHARED WITH THE DPW.
SO I, I PUT SOME OF, OF, UH, THAT EMPLOYEE IN THE DPW THIS YEAR AS WELL AS, UH, LEFT IT INTO, YOU KNOW, LEFT, LEFT IT IN THE, UM, IN THE, IN THE BUILDING INSPECTOR OFFICE.
UH, WE ARE STILL, WE ARE CANVASSING THE LIST AGAIN FOR A NEW ASSISTANT BUILDING INSPECTOR.
WE STILL HAVE NOT FILLED THAT POSITION, WHICH IS THANKFULLY SOME OF OUR PRIOR ASSISTANT BUILDING INSPECTORS HAVE BEEN WILLING TO KIND OF HELP US OUT.
BUT WE REALLY DO NEED TO FILL THAT POSITION.
SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT WITH THIS NEW, UH, CANNABIS.
UM, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, THERE'S NOT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU KNOW, SAFETY EQUIPMENT, OFFICE SUPPLIES.
I MEAN, THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, VERY STANDARD.
UM, UH, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY THE PRIMARY, THE PRIMARY EXPENSE IN, IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS, UH, SALARIES REALLY.
UM, THE THIRD PARTY REVIEW, I THINK WE REMEMBER DISCUSSING THAT.
THAT THE THIRD, THAT THIRD, THERE'S THE THIRD PARTY REVIEW.
UM, WE DID HAVE A, AN EMPLOYEE, UH, UH, THE, THAT WAS OUT, UM, HAD HAD AN ACCIDENT AND WAS OUT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
AND WE HAD, WE BROUGHT IN SOMEBODY TO, UH, ACT AS, AS THE BUILDING INSPECTOR FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, UH, WHERE THAT WERE NOT, THAT HAS, THAT HAS CONCLUDED.
BUT, UH, IT WAS, IT WAS NOT, UM, CHEAP, BUT IT WAS NECESSARY.
OTHERWISE EVERYTHING WOULD'VE COME TO A SCREECHING HALT.
AND THEN THERE'S ONE JUST A COUPLE ABOVE THAT BUILDING DEPARTMENT, AND THEN IT'S CUT OFF, UM, 36 BUILDING DEPARTMENT SOFTWARE.
HOWEVER WE CAN ENCOURAGE THAT TO GET BETTER.
UH, WE ARE ALL, THAT'S A CAPITAL EXPENSE.
UM, BUT IF THERE'S A WAY, EVEN IF THERE'S SOME WAY WE CAN FIND A GRANT THAT MIGHT HAVE A CONSULTANT COME IN AND DO A FULL EVALUATION OF OUR, UH, SYSTEMS AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS.
WELL, THIS IS A NEW SOFTWARE THAT WE, THAT WE, I KNOW I'M TALKING OUTSIDE OF THAT, I'M JUST WELL, THAT'S A, YEAH, THAT'S A SEPARATE.
BUT HOW, HOW COME IF IT'S A BRAND NEW SOFTWARE, WHY DID IT GO OVER AND HOW DOES IT GET BACK TO 15 NEXT WEEK? SO THIS ALSO INCLUDES, UM, TRAINING OR SOMETHING AS YOU, LET'S SEE.
SO, UH, PART OF THIS EXPENSE WAS THE CONVERSION FROM THE PRIOR SOFTWARE INTO THE NEW SOFTWARE.
AS YOU ALL MAY RECALL, WE HAVE LASER BEACH AS OUR INTERNAL DATABASE NOW, ALMOST EVERYTHING ON THE WEBSITE, CLICK A LINK, IT GOES TO LASER BEACH FOR A DOCUMENT.
SO THAT'S HOSTING OUR PERSONNEL RECORDS, HISTORIC PERSONNEL RECORDS.
IT'S HOLDING OUR PARCEL RECORDS THAT BOTH THE NEW SOFTWARE USES AND THE BUILDING PERMIT USES.
SO WE HAD TO GET THE STUFF FROM THE OLD SYSTEM OVER, AND THE VENDOR WAS NO LONGER SUPPORTING US.
AND SO WE HAD TO HAVE THE LASER VISA VENDOR COME AND CREATE LIKE A BOT OR ANYTHING.
IT WAS LIKE A WHOLE, BUT IT, IT WORKED OUT.
SO THAT'S WHY IT'S OVER IN THIS INSTANCE.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE? I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.
ONE IS, UM, WHAT IS UN UNALLOCATED INSURANCE? THIS IS, YOU WERE EARLY IN THE BUDGET.
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ITEMS. THAT IS BASICALLY OUR, UM, INSURANCE.THAT THE INSURANCE IS LIKE OUR, YOU KNOW, TRA UH, CYBERSECURITY, UM, LIABILITY, LIABILITY CRIME.
UH, YOU KNOW, UH, EVERY, EVERYTHING THAT IS NOT UNDER EMPLOYEE BENEFITS, A PARTICULAR OR UNDER A PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT MATTERS.
I SEE, SO IT'S NOT EMPLOYEE BENEFIT INSURANCE? THAT'S CORRECT.
YES, IT'S OUR GENERAL INSURANCE.
AND THEN ONE OTHER SOFTWARE QUESTION, THIS IS PROBABLY FOR
IS THIS SO THE DEPARTMENT WE, ARE YOU LOOKING, I'M SORRY.
UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE IN IT AA 1650.
SO, UM, I SEE THE DEPARTMENT REQUEST 112,000 MM-HMM
AND THE MANAGER REQUEST IS 30.
SO IS THIS, IS THIS SOMETHING WE'RE GONNA SEE AS A CAPITAL EXPERIENCE? YES.
UM, RAF IS, UH, UH, DOING A PROJECT INVOLVING, UM, INCREASING OUR CAPABILITIES WITH FIVERR.
AND HE, WE, WE DISCUSSED THAT DURING OUR, YOU KNOW, PRE-MEETINGS AND, AND DECIDED THAT WE WOULD PUT THAT IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET.
IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT PROGRAM, UH, SIGNIFICANT, UM, PROJECT, I'M SORRY, MY BRAIN IS A LITTLE FOGGY TODAY.
SO, AND FIREWALLS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
SO IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE WORKING ON.
WE MAY BE SWITCHING OUR WHOLE NETWORK OVER TO A UBIQUITY NETWORK.
SO, UM, WE'RE WORKING THAT ALL OUT NOW, BUT OUR SONIC WALLS HAVE HIT THEIR END OF LIFE.
SO IT'S A LOT OF REDOING EVERYTHING.
ANYBODY HAS ANY INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO BACK AND REVIEW HER SYNOPSIS, UH, GIVE HER A CALL.
BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT MEETING, I MEAN, IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS, WE COULD, UM, JUST SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC HEARING IF WE, IF YOU GUYS HAVE A RESOLUTION BEFORE YOU TO DO THAT.
UH, RESOLUTION 29 OF 26, UH, SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PROPOSED 20 26 27 VILLAGE BUDGET.
UH, BE RESOLVED AT THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 7TH, 2026 AT 7:00 PM OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSED 26 20 27 VILLAGE BUDGET.
MAY I HAVE A MOTION, OR EXCUSE ME, DISCUSSION ON THE MATTER? SORRY, MAY I HAVE A MOTION? SECOND.
I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING.