Budget

Good evening. Name is Rick Craig. I live on Lownsbury Road. I'm here to comment on... In the consent agenda, resolution number nine about the water fund and capital fund budget to account for a change in funding source for the Lionsbury Road water ma…

Increases? Yeah. So the transfer for the increased senior programming, right, that was a discussion item that we had towards the end of the budget process in the spring. There was a request from, Mark Duncan, superintendent of recreation, to have an …

Well, as the manager just read, I served on the... I... You know, I'm the liaison to the police advisory committee and also served on this committee that reviewed the proposals for this project. We have been... This is something we've been talking ab…

And then in the budget, you know, if if you needed the additional help, the board would see those details in the budget in terms of salary line. Mhmm.

And in terms of the budget, when we were with this this wasn't

during the budget period. So the budget right now account has space for the assistant bill. Can you can you speak to that? Correct. I mean, good. The board right. We have been we've been discussing this now for a number of months. Right? And so the b…

I do. Yes. Thank you, mayor. So this is a a little convoluted process here where the state legislature adopted this exemption. Could you put my memo up, please? And, they adopted this exemption in 2025, and there was a chapter amend amendment, which …

although the funding for this program has been allocated in the state budget, there has been no formal announcement of this grant as of yet. Yep. So we don't know if the we're assuming that the regulations and the requirements and the application are…

Sure. I'll kick that off. Again, Bill Brady from Nelson Pope Voorhees. My colleague, as as noted in the memo, Valerie Monastra, worked on this, and we're looking at this for several other communities that we work with. Earlier this year, as stated in…

Well, the applications is what I'm saying. Yeah. The seeker law change, that took effect with the budget Some time ago. Yeah. Mhmm. January 1, was it? April.

Because quite frankly, the entire up state New York needs this money more than anybody in the Hudson Valley, including Elmsford and, Sleepy Hollow. So but but but Westchester's been very cooperative with this sub suburban housing, development, And ou…

Thank you. Thank you, Anamika. I think that was obviously incredibly well put in a in a great segue, along the theme of ambitious goal setting on behalf of students. Whether it's technology or, our curriculum and instructional goals, all of them shar…

I wanna thank the entire team who devoted a significant amount of time to this. I wanna thank the board and especially Anamika and Omar who met with us, communicated with us numerous times, in feedback, revision, refinement to get to the product, tha…

wanna thank you both before we open it up for questions just for a really excellent presentation of what we have to look forward to in 2627, and beyond. And to reiterate again that this is this although there's a there's some new elements to this col…

Whereas the New York state budget for twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven included legislation that increased the income limits for the senior citizen, rental income exemption, and disabled persons rental income exemption programs from 50,000 to $7…

Thank you, mayor. Whereas the village board of trustees adopted the twenty twenty six twenty thirty one capital budget plan on 04/22/2026, whereas since that time, it has been necessary to add additional funding for the 0.5 Moon Bay Bridge and Brook …

So we will have probably by the next meeting, we'll have a list of the areas that are being repaved. So, you know, due to the board's support for infrastructure improvements in the capital budget, you know, we received we were able to include

Now there's like, oh, but maybe it would have better if it wasn't through this format. You know? So and I know, one of the things that I've heard is that, you know, one of the reasons why, we were, as educators, encouraged to use educational technolo…

And as a $4,040,000 additional dollars over your budget, like, how did we plan sales tax?

Because it covers April, May, and June. Got it. So, but we were we generally have been somewhere around a 250,000 or slightly more over our, projections. So, like, in last year's budget, we had 2,125,000 budgeted, and we brought in 2,399,000. So try …

Whereas the replacement of traffic signals on South Riverside Avenue at its intersection with Benedict Boulevard and its intersection with Croton Point Avenue was included in the twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six capital budget, whereas the level…

Do do I wanna talk about NYSSBA? Yes. I did. Thank you, Denise Bisaccia, who reminds me of the things that I forget about. No. No. No. Because there's so there is a so there is a deadline, and there is something approaching. And it's coming up before…

Oh my goodness. Sorry about that. Don't know why that happened. So Okay. So number 7. So the proposed budget not meet this requirement is seeking a waiver from the planning board per so I'm assuming that this is, when we talk about waivers from the p…

And what budget would it come out of?

Sorry. I did calculate. I did not that right. It added six and seven together. It's a 131 units that are covered. It gets charged to the refund of real property that we it's basically the budget line that we use for tax certiorari. So, like, if someb…

Alright. So I know there's a lot in your agenda tonight, but I think once we start moving through some of these items, you'll see that a lot of it is, it's more information than, you we necessarily have to go through page by page. Some of it is actua…

and just talk about the priorities and where it falls amongst the competing priorities for the district. I would add, I think, one of the things that we have talked about in a robust way, even past two or three budget cycles is support. Intervention …

Yeah. I think that goes back to the timeline about budget and broad staffing support. We certainly can put that together for the the beginning of the budget process and do it. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Absolutely. Thank you. Just quickly, is there anything i…

are on top of No. That is correct. That is correct. And so, actually, audit committee just as it's it is chartered, actually, and has in its charter the ability to conduct business under executive session. Yep. Because it is a it is a mandated and an…

But, you know, it it was just a confluence of factors this year between the Half Moon Bay Bridge, the Brook Street work, you know, all these different infrastructure. Lot of infrastructure, which was a direct result of the budget priority survey that…

Thank you. Yep. And I'll I'll also note that, you know, going back to our budget priority survey earlier this year or the yes. That was published on the village website earlier this year. It asks we asked residents, how should the village manage its …

Whereas the village of Cortlandt Hudson acquired the Kaplan's Pond property on Lounsbury Road in 1991, and whereas the village has undertaken various projects over the years to improve the area around the pond, including the replacement of the outlet…

Whereas pursuant to section one fourteen in the agriculture and market laws of the state of New York, each municipality that issues dog licenses shall establish and maintain a shelter for dogs or may contract with an agency to provide such service. A…

thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So just a few things here. Our Westchester Municipal Officials Organization met on June 18, the executive committee. It was the first meeting since the legislature had wrapped up in Albany, and we spent a good amount …

So on June 23, mayor and I were honored to be at the library as one of our wonderful residents, Ali Fraes, Alana Frays, got the an award from senator Harkom for pride month for all of the work that she does in our community and including heading up f…

Thank you, Neal. Okay. So this is basically a visual representation of fund balance. We have the big and I'm gonna go back to this. So just stay with me here. I do not take any responsibility for the names of these things because they are probably th…

The first column are all of our reserves. We're not gonna get too deep into that. You can look at them. Second column represents our beginning year balance. This was a beginning year balance, $18.03 $32.02 67. Second column rep and I'm not going too …

No. Like, that underwriting process and Sure. I don't think it's Yeah. Significantly longer. Yeah. In one of my former districts, we had to do rands annually, and it becomes, a very bad fiscal problem. Because once Yeah. Once you're in that cycle, yo…

you know, I think in terms of the grant applications, I think the sidewalk one is is somewhat difficult to to do under those under those terms, I'll call them. You know, a lot of it a lot of it has to do a lot of our sidewalk issues have to do as the…

I don't No. We we do. But I mean, you know, the thing I'm not saying that it's not a project to do ever. I'm just saying for the in this year's focus with all the other projects that we have going on. There are other things to focus on, then I think …

I think it's super helpful. I mean, is not the really the way I can't remember exactly when Valerie came on board, but this is a much I feel like this is a much better way to be, you know, taking the grants on in bite sized pieces, being able to have…

the with the changes, that came with the, the adoption of the budget, the governor signed into law amendments directly to the statute itself, the, environmental conservation law, New York State. So one of the new provisions of the law, not regulation…

That's a good question. I think it honestly, it was probably because of the prohibition on the on the use of leaf blowers. So, I mean, that's well, we looked back at the last time we did this. We got, I believe, it was five bids. So, you know, we've …

And one of the things I did like about your presentation is how you talked about the progression and how, you know, we're looking at how students are progressing over a period of time through the curriculum and how different things are experiencing u…

Can I just piggyback on that because it's um that's where I was going to go with with my comments. This is very helpful to have. Um it kind of describes where we were and where we're going. Um, but it doesn't doesn't tell us why. And that's the next …

>> 2.1 The results of the budget vote and school board election. Recommended action, the result of the board of education hereby accepts the results of the May 19th, 2026 school budget vote and the school board election as presented.

>> 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…

>> Uh we're going to have some conversations about where that can come from from the district budget as well as we need to make any modifications to how the implementation of that looks like from a classroom perspective. We can look at that, too.

Whereas the village board is desirous of creating the position of assistant village manager to assist the village manager with administrative duties, capital project planning, and grant administration among other duties. Whereas the village manager h…

Well, mayor, first, going back to, our budget, consideration in the in the spring leading up to adoption of the budget. At the end of April, I'm I'm very grateful that we set aside funding for the future hiring of of an assistant village manager. I t…