The Board of Trustees had barely settled in for their first budget work session of the year when DPW Superintendent delivered a dramatic update: a water main had ruptured on Alcott Avenue just hours earlier, cutting water service across the village.

Sure. As we usually do, I'll read the resolution first, and then we'll open it for discussion. Okay? Whereas the colonel Hudson Police Department has been investigating the implementation of a police department body worn camera program, and whereas i…

The Board of Trustees opened its March 25 meeting with a public hearing on the proposed $20 million village budget for fiscal year 2026-27 — and not a single resident showed up to comment. The hearing was opened and closed in under a minute.

=== HEADLINE === Chicken coop rules draw fire as village eyes $7.2 million capital plan === SUMMARY === A Truesdale Drive resident urged the Board of Trustees to reconsider a zoning change that would reduce the minimum distance for fowl pens from 50…

Matthew Rubenstein of Truesdale Drive came to Tuesday's Board of Trustees meeting to challenge a zoning change that would allow fowl pens as close as 15 feet from a property line, down from the current 50 feet. Under the proposed rules, a quarter-acr…

Good evening, and welcome to our March 25 regular meeting of the Curtin on the Hudson Board of Trustees. I'm mayor Brian Pugh. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the repu…

I'll just ask the treasurer if she'd like to open up the the presentation, and then just we'll go slide by slide if you can, please. Okay. So this is our tentative budget for the fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. As a reminder, the …

Whereas the village of Cortland Hudson is acting as the municipal sponsor for the Van Cortland Manor entrance project to reconfigure the entrance, enhance site safety, and improve visitor experience at the National Historic Landmark. Whereas the vill…

I know some changes were incorporated already in terms of the the referral process back, forward, forward. And I know Karen and Vinny and I sent the memo over to the board of trustees. Obviously, the parking issues that you guys raised might be there…

Yeah. I mean, Karen, to confirm as well, she made memos and drafted them and sent them to the board of trustees, based on the discussion. Correct?

of the board of trustees for discussion once we Well, the the board of trustees doesn't have to take it up. They could they could do whatever they want. They can just receive it. It's up to them. They they have statutory control.

=== HEADLINE === Croton prosecutor seeks new tools to punish code violators who ghost the village === SUMMARY === Village Prosecutor Casey Raskob told the Board of Trustees that Croton's code enforcement has a "dead letter file" of cases where viola…

=== ARTICLE === Village Prosecutor Casey Raskob stood before the Board of Trustees Wednesday night and admitted something you don't often hear from someone in his position: "I feel really stupid asking for a warrant for arrest for a dog ticket." Tha…

Thank you, mister mayor, mister manager, ladies and gentlemen of the board. My name is Casey Rascob. I'm the village prosecutor. I'm here to discuss with the board an issue which occurs occasionally and believe ranges just from an oversight in our vi…

So if this sensitive topic forward, how do we Yeah. How does it move forward? Does it have to go in front of the board of trustees again? Or yeah. Okay. If you Thank you. Yeah. If you I mean, if I was to just, you know, con just conjecture on it is, …

In a 5-0 vote, the Board of Trustees rejected Resolution #57-2026, which would have hired CGR of Rochester for a $19,750 study of the court's operations — a step many residents feared was a prelude to consolidating the court with the Town of Cortland…

=== HEADLINE === Residents flood meeting to block village court study === SUMMARY === Croton residents packed the March 11 Board of Trustees meeting to oppose a proposed $30,000 study on dissolving the village justice court, prompting Mayor Brian Pu…

That was Joel Gingold's message to the Board of Trustees Tuesday night, one of nearly a dozen residents who showed up to denounce a proposed study on dissolving the village justice court — a study Mayor Brian Pugh ended up tabling before it ever reac…

Good evening, and welcome to the March 11 regular meeting of the curtain on Hudson Board of Trustees. I'm mayor Brian Pugh. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

John Dew, would you like to say a few words? No. Members of the board? Members of the board, say thank you. And since I didn't know it, we are actually joined by Lindsey Auden. Can everyone cheer for Lindsey and the sustainability committee in person…

Okay. So if there are no other policies that people would like to review, I will proceed with the resolution. Whereas the village of Colonel Hudson has adopted a local waterfront revitalization program to guide the use of waterfront in adjacent areas…

Whereas the colonel Hudson fire department fleet contains three apparatus including engine I don't know why. You have more than three apparatus. I don't know why I said that. Okay. Including engine one nineteen, a 2,006 Seagrave pumper. And whereas t…

Whereas the village website was last completely redesigned in 2018 and whereas the website hosting company Civic Plus is requiring the village to upgrade to a new platform. Whereas the new platform will have added capabilities such as the addition of…

Whereas the village justice court is led by the village justice, an elected official whose term of office ends on 12/07/2026. Whereas the village board of trustees would like to review the efficiency of operations within the village justice court. An…

Whereas the Westchester Municipal Consortium, including the village of Hudson, hired Joel r Dichter of Dichter Law LLC to represent participating Westchester County municipalities in Con Edison's electric and gas rate case before the New York Public …

So while those technical issues are being worked out, I'll just orient us on the agenda. This is a further discussion of an operation of the possible operational study for the village court. This would be in theory with the the Center for Government …

=== EXECUTIVE BRIEF === • Opened public hearing for Temple Israel Northern Westchester portico entry (applicant absent; hearing kept open, continued to next meeting) • Board member recused from Temple Israel application due to membership and involvem…

But the main event was Local Law 3, a village-wide cleanup of zoning inconsistencies triggered by last year's shift of special permit authority from the Board of Trustees to the Planning Board. Board member Joshua, who had clearly done his homework, …

Other changes include allowing larger solar and battery storage systems on RA-60 lots, moving sidewalk dining from special permit status to a simpler resolution process (which has been the practice since 1993 anyway), and requiring four hours of prof…

Okay. We got a motion by John Giegen to open, the public hearing second. Alright. Second. All in favor? Right. Okay. So, like I just mentioned, we're gonna keep it open. Keep this public hearing open, and we will adjourn this matter to their next sch…

I'm just trying to get a sense of, you know, with this coming from being, put on us rather than the board of trustees, what we're dealing with quantitatively. And I don't have any sense of that. It it might be helpful. Is this something we're gonna b…

maybe, Jeff, you might know the answer to this. The ones that were previously passed by the board of trustees, is it now our purview on those renewals? Whereas before, it was renewal, not they're coming to you. Right. So that's why some of this infor…

Since we're sort of going through this document Sure. Page by page, which makes all the sense in the world, I have some notes. So I'm gonna ask a question on page three. Talks about Metro North in the second full paragraph. Is that a change? Or No. I…

Okay. So number five, it it has to do with the tier four solar energy again, and this is just to say these bigger systems are, not allowed in any district except RA 60. 6, we're now in a commercial district, C 1. The changes in the, proposed law say …

Well, if it so if the so I'm I'm just to understand, the board of trustees set a minimum for a district, and you wanna be able to waive the dish the the requirements. Is that what we're talking about?

you know, but we scenarios. I assume the floor Vincent, just to be clear, the vent the floor is set by the billboard of trustees. Right? Like like a normal zoning requirement. Yeah. I would imagine. I believe so. So I don't think you could go lower t…

Okay. Well, then I would like to make recommendation back to the board of trustees that we have the flexibility to decrease it. I'm partly not trying to be difficult about this. The reason I'm bringing it up is, we've talked about this internally whe…

Yes. I think I I see the request. I mean, the just from my experience other other jurisdictions, even if if they were to allow a waiver of a certain parking requirement, usually, there's a limit on that waiver even in the most generous parking circum…

so I checked page 15. Yeah. I'm looking at it. This one's South Side. But I know that the village this isn't me talking. This is the board of trustees and and the bike and ped committee. I know that, I'm not sure the applicability. They wanna build a…

Alright. Number 10. Oh, yeah. This is important. Page 22. We'll move on. We need to change just a definition or I'm sorry. We just a scratch out. Let's see. Where is this? Okay. If you go down to page 22 down to section 36 near the bottom the page, T…

scratch out referred. Referred. Josh, is that is that right to you? Yeah. If you're gonna do that, do you wanna also take out by the planning board and you just wanna make it but the building department's distributing it? Okay. Yep. Is that is that t…

zoning districts. Right. Which which could be a separate law also, like, you know, hypothetically. But could that be rolled into these these changes? If the board of trustees wishes it to be, I mean, it it is kind of a separate matter. But yeah. Beca…

Moving on to the next item on the agenda. The, again, a referral from the board of trustees. This is, draft law five of 2026, to amend provisions relating to affordable housing to allow certain occupational preferences. Okay. So this is, this is inte…

Local Law Introductory 3 of 2026, referred to the WAC by the Village Board of Trustees, addresses a number of inconsistencies scattered throughout the village Zoning Code, updates certain definitions, and amends the permitted number of fowl on reside…

The WAC's recommendation now goes back to Mayor Brian Pugh and the Village Board of Trustees, which will consider the local law as part of its regular legislative process. Residents interested in the specifics of the fowl ordinance or other zoning de…

The Croton-on-Hudson Board of Trustees met behind closed doors on the evening of February 18 for a brief executive session focused on a criminal investigation. The meeting, held in the Georgianna Grant Meeting Room of the Stanley H. Kellerhouse Muni…

Residents should note that while the law allows boards to discuss certain sensitive matters privately, any final decisions or formal actions resulting from executive session discussions must ultimately be taken in a public session. No such actions ha…

Croton's short-term rental hosts will begin collecting a 3% occupancy tax starting April 1, following a unanimous Board of Trustees vote on Wednesday that formalized the new local law. The tax, authorized by state legislation signed last October by G…

=== ARTICLE === It was a moment of high drama at Tuesday's Board of Trustees meeting when a resident used a public comment period about honoring Lorraine Hansberry to deliver an impromptu lecture on the history of Soviet communism, the Nazi-Soviet pa…

Where yep. Whereas in 2025, the village of Cordon Bleu Hudson Board of Trustees requested home rule legislation to enact an occupancy tax on hotel and motel rooms. And whereas this tax, which is statutorily set at 3%, would also be levied upon short …