Tree Law memo

resolution 1 page

Meeting: portal event 1076 (no meeting page on file)

Agenda item: Consent Agenda — Resolutions — Consider scheduling a Public Hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 12 of 2025 to amend Chapter 208, Trees, of the Village Code to clarify provisions related to the Tree Preservation Fund for September 10, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. in the Georgianna Grant Meeting Room of the Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building.

Resolution, 1 page. Attached to agenda item: “Consent Agenda — Resolutions — Consider scheduling a Public Hearing on Local Law Introductory No. 12 of 2025 to amend Chapter 208, Trees, of the Village Code to clarify provisions related to the Tree Preservation Fund fo”

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Also attached to this agenda item: LL Intro 12 of 2025 Tree Preservation Fund Resolution 191-2025 LL Intro 12 of 2025 PH

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To: 
Cc: 
Daniel O’Connor, Village Engineer 
From: 
Date: 
July 19, 2025 
Re: 
Adopted Tree Law 

As Village staff begin to implement the tree law adopted by the Village Board of Trustees on July 9, 
2025, a couple of questions have arisen regarding the Tree Preservation Fund that need direction from 
the Board. 

1. Does the Board wish to have all fees required under this Chapter (include tree removal permits) 
go into the tree preservation fund (as envisioned in Section 208-24A), or only payments in lieu of 
replacement, fines and forfeitures (as envisioned in Section 208-24B)? If the former, the Board 
could set a limit (e.g., up to $5,000 received annually from tree removal permits shall be 
deposited). 
2. Section 208-24C requires the Board to establish a fee for payments in lieu of replanting. However, 
Section 208-22D states that the payment shall be based on the sum or sums equivalent to the value 
of the trees which cannot be planted. Which basis does the Board wish to implement for these 
payments? 

Once these questions are answered, we can prepare an update to the Code for these two specific items 
and move forward with publicizing the new law. 

Mayor 
Brian Pugh 
Trustees 
Nora Moriarty Nicholson 
Cara Politi 
Len Simon 
Maria F. Slippen 
Village Manager 
Bryan T. Healy 
Village Treasurer 
Genette Toone 
Village Clerk 
Pauline DiSanto 
Village of         Croton-on-Hudson New York 
Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building  
One Van Wyck Street 
Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520-2501

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