The Village of Croton-on-Hudson's e-bike program logged 210 rides in the 24 days after it restarted on April 6, Deputy Mayor Len Simon told the Sustainability Committee at its May 31 meeting, held by Zoom. A bike station opened at Senasqua Park on May 2, and another site at the base of the North Riverside Avenue overpass awaits approval from the state Department of Transportation, which owns the spot. This article is written solely from the meeting's official minutes; croton.news had no reporter present, and no video or transcript of the meeting exists. The ridership update came amid a run of progress reports on the village's clean-energy projects. The state Department of Environmental Conservation agreed on April 29 to extend the village's grant for electric-vehicle chargers at the train station by another year, to Sept. 30, 2027; the contract extension arrived May 29. The current grant would have run out Sept. 30, 2026, and DEC told the committee that other grantees have faced similar delays getting electric service for charger projects. The charger installation calls for replacing a utility pole more than 60 years old and adding a roughly 1,700-pound transformer and underground service connection, all required by Con Edison. That plan would have cost one of the lot's 18 parking spots, but re-striping the spaces and using 12-foot charger cables will free enough room to avoid the loss, a solution Village Manager Bryan Healy approved. On solar, Con Edison gave the train station canopy project permission to operate on May 10, and the project was featured in a SUNY Binghamton graduate student's thesis on that school's solar options. For the planned solar canopy at the Department of Public Works, Rivertown Solar filed paperwork on April 30 to secure the 30 percent federal IRA tax credit, worth about $78K, and the village paid an invoice for 5 percent of the project cost to show payment occurred before the federal July 4 deadline. Paperwork has also been filed to lock in the project's roughly $39K NY-SUN incentive and for a building permit, and preliminary structural drawings were developed for the foundations. The committee's battery energy storage effort, called BESS 2.0, hit a snag. A draft consulting agreement referencing Luminace's draft letter of intent went to the village attorney for review; the draft was not acceptable, and on May 11 the attorney sent the issue back to Healy. Committee chair Lindsay Audin is now assembling a request for information and a request for proposals to push the process forward, with Keiko Niccolini agreeing to assist with the bidders' list and related tasks. Audin also presented on battery storage issues to the Orange County Municipal Planning Federation on May 29. The committee weighed a new offer from Sustainable Westchester, whose Dan Welsh asked Croton on May 5 to participate in Green My Power, a program in which electricity customers, including municipal governments, would voluntarily buy renewable energy certificates to support renewable generation. At the quoted price of $10 per megawatt-hour, certificates covering all of the village government's electricity use would cost about $16,000 a year. Because the program's carbon avoidance was not quantified, the committee concluded it could not determine the potential carbon footprint reduction and that the program needs further development before it could be properly vetted. The village once bought wind certificates covering a quarter of its usage but stopped more than a decade ago. In other business recorded in the minutes: Cheryl Wong reported that 1,386 pounds of textiles were collected at Croton's May 2 Earth Day, 8 percent more than last year's haul, and were recycled and donated to charity through Helpsy. Simon attended a meeting at Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School on composting food scraps at Croton's schools; the Mothers Out Front group wants the schools to pair the effort with a year-old state-supported school meals program, and a follow-up meeting was planned for July. The state budget that passed May 26 did not mention the Clean Energy Communities program, though it may be covered under what the New York League of Conservation Voters described as an additional $1 billion for the Sustainable Future Fund; Simon agreed to seek clarification. Simon also reviewed a budgeted $1 billion state program offering a $200 electric-bill rebate for residential customers with incomes below $150K a year, or $150 for those with higher incomes. The Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line began operation May 14, bringing 1,250 megawatts of Canadian hydropower into the Con Edison grid, a project that took roughly 15 years. Under final committee-procedure guidance issued May 4 by Healy, members need not live in Croton as long as a majority are residents, and the committee may designate subcommittees whose members are exempt from some rules that apply to full members. Because the village does not allow membership on more than one committee, Carly Shanks resigned from the Sustainability Committee to remain on the Water Control Commission. The committee's summer internship fell through twice, with both candidates taking full-time opportunities; Audin concluded recruiting should start about two months earlier next year. The committee set its next Zoom meeting for Sunday, June 28 at 10 a.m., to be followed by its usual summer recess, with meetings resuming Sept. 20.