Other DPW budget highlights included a decrease in building maintenance costs as the village defers a second-floor bathroom renovation to combine it with a larger engineering department revamp, and the completion of a five-year duct-cleaning cycle ac…

a special update on the Waterman break. Sure. Thank you, Matthew. So, yeah, this afternoon, about 01:45, we we started receiving many phone calls at the DPW office regarding, people all around the village actually experiencing no water. It's funny. J…

Very good. And with that, we return to the budget. So we get to kick off the budget season again, which is exciting. So, you know, as we've done in in years past, we have, I think, it's 16 line items in the budget itself that we go through. So I like…

So that helps. Superintendent, is a a five year duct cleaning, the right number for every every public every municipal building? Like Yeah. And and that's we we got the

So the next one is fifty one ten. So that's street maintenance. So the way, we budget salaries at DPW, they're all budgeted in the fifty one ten items. So all, you know, all the DPW staff is budgeted here. Through the year, depending on the, you know…

Know I talked about this last year. I'm so skeptical about recycling. I love the idea of recycling. I think it's fantastic, but I think that I don't I'm I'm cure you know, I just I'm I'm very curious about how we're are we sorting things correctly? A…

K. Next one is street cleaning, $81.70. So this funds the street sweeper repair and maintenance. This one had no change. Our street sweeper is, relatively new. It's it's doing a pretty good job. We do have some money in there for, you know, what it i…

So some of this equipment is is actually why it's in this budget this year is because we do sort of run a ramp up, replace, and upgrade some of our equipment that we do use for this leak detection and and, you know, for when there are leaks. In capit…

then the the final line is the this in the sewer fund, G8120. So that it that funds well, the the the sewer line, mostly the salary and contractual expenses for for everything having to do with our sanitary sewers. This actually decreased by just ove…

Yes. It is good news. Yeah. Yeah. Plus it's the sewers of Yeah. Reducing the funding for the cleaning of the pump station and and odor control, but that means we we have it under control. Yes. Exact yeah. We're not doing less of it. We're just doing …

The real fireworks came during the second hearing, on Local Law No. 3, a sweeping zoning code cleanup that would, among other things, slash the minimum distance for chicken coops from 50 feet to 15 feet from property lines and scale the number of fow…

this local law was put together, with the village engineer, our planning consultant, the village attorney, and, we spent a number of months looking at the zoning code to see, what items needed to be cleaned up and what potential, items needed to be u…

are they are not subject to our zoning code in any way, shape, or form. Right. So, you know, they don't they're not required to apply for special permits. In terms of increasing or decreasing the parking requirements at all zoning districts, I think …

And you have five minutes. Hi. I'm Dave. I'm on Farrington Road. Can you hear me? Mhmm. Mhmm. Thank you for this time. I'm sorry. Can you just state your last name? Lowell. Thank you. Thank you for this time to speak. I'm here to talk with you about …

Wanna thank the mayor for making my point on public health care. We used to have a rule in the army. And as veterans, unless you were broke and could not afford it, never go to an army hospital unless you got shot. They were very good at that. And ne…

So, again, my colleagues have done a very, great job of summarizing all the important news and the work of our various committees. I'll note that I was at the Conservation Advisory Council meeting last week, speaking for women's history month, one of…

I think you guys have done a very, very nice job. I think that architecturally, it's feels very compatible with the existing building. And I think that the entrance confusion when I've been there before is real and and and not good for anybody, reall…

I can give a quick up engineer's report update on this. Sure. Because some things actually apply if people are listening in the audience as well somewhere. Rental registry letters went out. I'm not sure if anyone's aware or has one, but if you rent y…

"We have a dead letter file with some cases that we can't do anything with, that just fall into this hole," Raskob said. "There's no way to run a railroad." The irony? Nobody from the public showed up to comment on a proposal that could directly aff…

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 I'll just add to what, Casey was saying about the lean process. Right? So we have in addition to the items that weren't mentioned, we also can lean for the alarm permit renewals for water and sewer charges, for snow removal, property cleanups. Mhm…

the section on exempt signs, which we're getting to in l, it says they can't they have to be maintained in a clean and safe condition. They can't be in the right of way. They can't obscure sight lines. So there are further conditions. They have to me…

I mean, it just section h here says all signs and components thereof shall be constructed in a manner and with such materials as shall not to cause the sign or components to constitute a hazard to pedestrians or vehicles. And then it says all all sig…

And then so section k is now temporary commercial signage. Mhmm. Right? So temporary temporary commercial signs that follow these regulations don't require a signed permit. So they're allowed for forty five days, have to be attached, rigged, or fixed…

So then prohibitions. Right? So this is, we're just putting a date in for when the original billboard exemption was enacted. Right? So that's the first change there. It just makes it clear. Yeah. Because People don't know the effective date of It was…

Thank you. So alright. So we'll, we'll work on some of those other changes. And, you know, ideally, I I don't know how people feel about this, but what my thoughts were was to have this on the agenda for next week so that you could refer it refer it …

a clean draft for you,

The I'm gonna ask. The chambers, stormwater chambers, how often do they have to be cleaned?

Really? The maintenance schedule on those, the it's maybe, like, once a year or once every two years. They're really not supposed to be it's not like a manhole that you're opening it up. It's a small inspection port. Right. You go in there and that's…

A short documentary about Croton's clean energy leadership, "The Little Village That Could" by Archipelago Films, is expected to premiere during Earth Month in April. **What to watch for:** The tabled justice court study could return to a future age…

Members, I I think it's better if you stand in front rather than concealed behind the board behind this. So in shrouded behind me is the good good evening, everyone. Shrouded behind me is a quilt prepared by the members of Croton one hundred. It is a…

Thank you so much. So, yeah, I'm Patty Buchanan from Croton one hundred. I want to introduce, the team that created this quilt. First, Audrey Supple, who was really the lead crafter, this fabric artist that has done tremendous work on this quilt, and…

Okay. Thank you. So it's been a fun couple of days here in the village of Croton for our DPW and all our staff. The DPW put in thirty one hours of of time. They've got here on 4PM Sunday, and they were here until 11:00 Monday night. So, you know, the…

to talk a little bit about how grants and how to decide when to pursue a particular grant, talk about a little bit on the anticipated state grants, for this year. Grants for potential cap village capital projects that have already been identified, by…

Well, yeah, I I guess depending on so looking back to, you know, 2022 or so in my mind, I mean, maybe there's still kind of a a hangover from COVID and the pandemic at that point. We we just wanna make sure we have you know, we're not just looking at…

The board reviewed draft Local Law Introductory No. 3 of 2026, a 27-page cleanup of the village zoning code. Among other fixes, the law would amend the number of fowl permitted on residential properties, transition certain special permit authority fr…

=== HEADLINE === Planning Board demands parking flexibility as zoning overhaul advances === SUMMARY === Croton's Planning Board reviewed a sweeping 27-page zoning code cleanup, pushing back on language that restricts their ability to reduce parking …

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, …

And then, you know, just to summarize what these changes are, and Vince might need some of your help with this. So, basically, what these what the cleanups are, there's a bunch around, transitioning the special permits from the village board to the p…

A proposed zoning code cleanup that would adjust the number of fowl allowed on residential properties in Croton-on-Hudson cleared a key hurdle on February 18, winning a consistency recommendation from the Waterfront Advisory Committee.

Because yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. Well, because its primary activity is trails cleanup, and, you know, it's basically done on ad hoc basis. I mean, I've been at trails cleanups. There's, you know, some some repeat customers, but it doesn't…

that was the end of the trails committee. It would yeah. Fair enough. And I mean, it was also that they weren't they didn't host meetings. Right? Like, their meetings were their trail cleanups. So they were not really you know, they weren't having, a…

Clean. And clean. Yeah.

Yeah. I I mean but I think I I don't think anyone is suggesting it at this point, but it would just be very difficult. I mean, take it clean for an example. Right? I mean, there's literally new different people at every single one of those. We have n…

okay. So it sounds like Yeah. I mean, at the risk of belaboring the point. Right? Like, these are typically exist to perform one off or ad hoc things like the cleanup or the case of Lurie in Hansberry, like one of their, you know, like the birthday k…

Croton's Board of Trustees took a major step toward renewable energy on February 4, awarding a $302,940 contract to Rivertown Solar of Dobbs Ferry for the installation of a solar canopy at the DPW Garage. The project, funded entirely through NYSERDA …

3 of 2026: created Chapter 9 (Auditor) in village code; appointed village manager to the role with no additional compensation • Approved consent agenda including National Police Week recognition, zoning code cleanup shifting special permit reviews to…

And under eight b four, the changes to the zoning code, the the cleanup Yep. Because it's not in the text. I just wanted to call out that these changes also involve shifting all special permit reviews from the elected board of trustees to the appoint…

So it's this is it's just a clean That's why it wasn't called out in the text. Yeah.

Thank you, trustee Nixon. And just, just because you ended with that, I'll just, you know, say one word. The the approach we took on a lot of those issues, whether signage, time of day, even, you know, shrubbery for insulation, it was dog owners and …