advisory committees

On motion of TRUSTEE SLIPPEN, seconded by TRUSTEE SIMON, the following resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York with a 4-0 vote. Village Board of Trustees July 1, 2026 Page 9 WHERAES from time to …

Trustee Maria Slippen, who has received heavy community feedback on the topic, asked that enforcement details and the proposed local law page on the village website be kept current. She said she received "a tremendous amount of feedback on this topic…

Whereas from time to time, students have served in an official or unofficial role on the advisory committees in the village of Hudson, and whereas the village board of trustees is desirous of establishing guidelines for students to officially partici…

During the work session, the Village Manager also presented an update from Valerie Monastra on grant opportunities available under the Consolidated Funding Application, the Board continued discussion on changes to the Village Code related to fowl and…

you don't have to you don't have to do anything with it, but you have you're encouraging your advisory committees to come to you with ideas.

And then, you know, I would say most of our advisory committees would be suitable for student members, but,

Trustees raised concerns about overlap with the district's existing technology committee, which includes administrators, teachers, community members, students, and board representatives. One board member noted that the district committee's focus has …

Thinking about how the work will be done and how the time pressures are there for everything else that the board does and has on its plate, you know, that kind of that kind of I think will will inform what um what path uh the board desires to take, a…

>> See, before we go on there Yeah, but the only thing there is something about that, which is simply because some of the things that that community advisory committee might surface as things to consider would be in the bailiwick of the board, establ…

I mean, you you you and I, right, you as the board, me as the village manager, right, we're the ultimate authorities, right? But you have advisory committees to advise you, right? So it was referred to the bike ped committee to get there Mhmm. To get…

So what we've done here, we got we got a lot of feedback from the various chairs of our committees, which was appreciated very much. And we, or I tried to take all of that into consideration when revising this document. Right? So, you know, I think o…

formations. Right? So it varies on committee. No. I mean, there's really no I mean, in terms of your advisory committees, there's really no legislated residency requirement. We did we had some, like, ambiguous well, there was some ambiguous language …

You know, we've now superseded that with the resolution that was adopted at the last meeting that said the committee is supposed to have between five and nine members. And it doesn't say anything about a minimum number of residents or nonresidents. I…

Okay. So we've had a number of conversations about these guidelines for the boards and committees. And based off of those conversations and the existing document that we had, I've put together this draft of guidelines for all of our advisory boards a…

Okay. So I don't know exactly where I'll put that in here, but I'll put that in somewhere. Think about that. Okay. Administrative requirements. Yes. So all advisory committees have a chair appointed by the mayor, committees designate secretary to dra…

Compliance and enforcement. All advisory committees are expected to operate in accordance with these guidelines. Failure to comply with the administrative requirements may result in temporary suspension of committee activities. Persistent noncomplian…

Whereas the village board of trustees creates advisory boards, committees, and councils from time to time to provide guidance on certain topics or areas of expertise. And whereas in the recent past, two such committees were created, the Bicycle Pedes…

So myself, trustee Slippen, and trustee Nicholson have been discussing the committee, how we can help committees improve their processes so that everybody is more in line with each other, more communicative, and just basically, you know, help people …

And, you know, the agenda should have, you know, the normal date, time, location, the topics that are gonna be discussed, if there's any action items that they want to take at the meetings, and then any materials that they have. And then those could …

Proceed. Okay. It's unfortunate because she really did take a lot of time in terms of talking about these committee guidelines and kind of what they are. She's kind of a key key person. So, I mean, I think, you know, overall, like, where this is comi…

But that's not why I'm here. Actually, I was at home watching, and I heard the committee that I'm part of the idea committee mentioned. And I thought it was a wonderful opportunity for me to share with the board and to anyone watching what we're what…

Policy 1000-R--Community Relations Goals Regulation (revision) Policy 1220--Relations With Community and Business Organizations (revision) Policy 1240--Visitors to the Schools (revision) Policy 2110-R--School Board Powers and Duties (revision) …

Policy 1000-R--Community Relations Goals Regulation (revision) Policy 1220--Relations With Community and Business Organizations (revision) Policy 1240--Visitors to the Schools (revision) Policy 2110-R--School Board Powers and Duties (revision) …

Thank you, Laura. On the agenda for the first meeting, five, six, seven, eight, Each of them address and it's good to report by a member of the community that there are certain policies in which the word citizen is contained, where, in fact, the poli…