Croton-on-Hudson Fire Department

John Gilbert from the current fire department, captain of chemical engine. I'm here tonight requesting the board's approval for our fundraiser, Friday, October 16 from seven to 11PM. One of our members, Mike Ricky, got diagnosed with stage three lung…

And I spoke to the idea committee about, you know, giving them some of the feedback that we learned during this session as they think about Hispanic Heritage Month, just how, you know, taking into consideration some of what we learned. And you know, …

Coming up, by the way, on this coming Sunday, speaking of events, is our fire fair, a fire department fire fair on October 4 from eleven to three. And I hope everyone will will have an opportunity to participate in that, particularly the kids that it…

I'd like to draw people's attention to projects like this, one of which, the Industrial Development Authority in the state of New York, in Yonkers, and so forth. It took what the the history and the smell from those organizations has been over time. …

It's important to note too, as Tony has told me, that he received village approval before he built his coop. And Tony doesn't live in his house full time because he is renovating it, but he will be moving into the house and living there full time wit…

Tony's coop is immaculate, and anyone with a bird feeder knows that seed has to be properly stored or rats will become a problem. Two. Two of the six. Only do the two of this petition, May 29 petition. Sizable coops it's not that big, by the way. Siz…

That's the first thing, the rule of neighborliness. So and I think you should take that into into into consideration. My at stance, I'm very sympathetic with this gentleman. He's got a history of doing these things, raising but if he can't guarant yo…

Good evening, manager, mayor, and members of the board. I'm Tom Kaplan. I'm a captain in the fire department, and I have the privilege of chairing our fire prevention committee. I'm here tonight to provide a brief update on our upcoming fire preventi…

Ed Riely from, Truesdale Drive. Thank you to the chief for bringing those two items up. It's a shocker to know that the fire department has has to respond everywhere and more than usual to a government run railroad and and and the facilities nearby d…

Dwayne Jackson and Joe Serrato are are great reenactors doing that in blistering heat, you know, just wearing wearing these heavy cotton, you know, or whatever they were, burlap colonial uniforms. And it was especially I'm so grateful to the village …

Shifting quickly to community updates. This past Tuesday, August 5, members of the board of education and families from across our district attended National Night Out, a community event hosted by the Croton Police Department with support from Croton…

Relating to blasting or rock removal, we are requesting information on whether blasting or rock removal will be, happening at the site, and if so, what mechanism is proposed to remove the rock. Related to emergency access, we noted that, one of the t…

I'm sure trustee Simon will talk more about that, but one of the things that I brought up, was helping to recruit for the fire department. You know, our department is a 100% volunteer and in need of new members. And so I just wanna thank, trustee for…

months ago, probably back in well, we're already in June. It had to be January. We did multiple tours with the fire department to bring them through the building and the volunteers be familiar with the building, our systems that we have there so that…

Yeah. No. I can tell you the last building I did, we had we had them at the entrance, and we actually built a wall. We built a concrete wall specifically to kind of encase the electric charging stations in case there was a fire, and the fire departme…

Of, like, e e powered life blowers and e powered Yeah. Right. I mean, we already have a lot of that in the between e bikes and and people that already use electric blowers and electric cars. Right? I mean, you know, I I tell you the fire department h…

Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nicholson. Trustee Maria Slippen? Aye. Trustee Nachtaler? Aye. Trustee Nicholson? Aye. Trustee Simon? Aye. Mayor Pugh? Aye. A resolution authorizing subject for missive referendum the issuance of $92,250 bon…

Yes. Absolutely. And as trustee Nicholson alluded to, this did is the product product of a suggestion from a citizen. It is now, believe it or not, more than six almost six years since we received that, to speak to, what trustee Simon said of, the th…

One of the things we look out for is our emergency services and their ability to find this location. I don't know if you have on a mailbox that there's another residence there or if a 911 call were to come from from there, or that address is referenc…

On the April 27, we had just a wonderful event at Croton Landing with the Open Space Institute, which is now put on a revised and updated sign where there's sort of a fork and the the the walkway splits in two. It's actually very near our Peace Pole.…

I I I think that, you know, at this, like, we should probably study how much that could potentially cost. It's probably not that much at the end of the day. I mean, I'm I'm willing to to discuss that if that's what the board wants. I just think it's …

I like I said, I just think that it would be very difficult for this board to implement that. And then, you know, I mean, if the fire department comes here and says you know, which I mean, to to be frank, they have. They've asked for this and we've t…

Yeah. It's just it's just reviews. Right? I mean, you know, there's and, you know, Paula, not that she probably wants to talk about this, but she could. What what's you know, there's very specialized insurance for fireworks and you have to have the f…

I know we're gonna thank all of everybody, but I I do wanna thank the fire department leadership and all the volunteers, including all the students for incredible service and work to keep us safe. You know, as our population grows, in reading up on t…

And I'll just bring up trustee Slippen. Also had one, comment on the fire department. She was commenting that the vehicle repairs came in at a $136,234 in 2025 against an $80,000 budget. And, you know, that she was hoping that there would be some ass…

Yeah. And I mean, the the fire department does have some Real. Yeah. We're still yeah. The fire department does have some explorers. That's what they call their 14 to 16 year olds. And then the PAFs, the probationary members. So, you know, but as wit…

I mean, this is No. I mean, listen. It it is and it's not just I mean, obviously, can the residents are very important, but this is a major inconvenience for the fire department Right? As It's a public safety issue as well. So, you know, we have a re…

Thank you to the manager and DPW superintendent Balbi, bicycle and pedestrian committee chairman Matt Arnold, and association of businesses in Croton, president Brian Dayo for their work on on the location of the expansion sites. And we're looking fo…

3.5 of that is an infrastructure, 117,000 in the garage, 492,000 for equipment, 740,000 for the fire department, 108,000 for EMS, 734,000 in parking, 205,000 for the municipal building, $41,000 for planning, $1,087,000 for police, and $258,000 for re…

who get a temp And I mean, I already gave I already gave the inform I mean, the fire department in EMS is pretty easy because I'm less worried about I am concerned about them, of course. But I I've just I'm worried about senior citizens who might rea…

has taken the first bite at the single bite. Yes. Yeah. Thank you, mayor. And I I should I should say both the mayor and the manager have been, you know, very helpful in terms of insights and a few edits and and and and thoughts. So I really apprecia…

We have rivers to the East, west, south, and hills to the North, which has helped give the village a distinct geographical character. Far more important than geography, however, is the fact that we've always had our own institutions. We have our own …

Whereas the Croton-on-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…

Discussion? Oh, mayor, I would just say that at our work session last two weeks ago now, we had an excellent dialogue with chief Strini and chief Colombo on how how we get here and what's the nature of the existing equipment and what we can expect fr…

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…

But we anticipate that funding to continue into the next year as well so that we could potentially, submit some additional projects. And then last is the federal grants, which I'm not gonna go into detail, but there's a lot of different agencies. And…

Yeah. I mean, you know, one of the one of the things Far from it. Is Yeah. Are false alarms. Right? That's a lot of that's a lot of the calls. And, I mean, you know, on I mean, thankfully, they're false alarms. Right? You know? But a lot of it has to…

Thanks very much. Yep. So just a a few things here. Again, congratulations to Elton Robinson for receiving our key to the village and for designing our logo, which is, I think, served us so well. Speaking of recognition, on Friday, at noon, we'll be …

I think, our public safety departments, you know, we we know that, the police are obviously a department that we would like to, have an evaluation done on as well as fire and EMS, which, the county is actually conducting an EMS county wide plan, whic…

Correct. Yeah. There's two type there's two type of referendums. Right? There's a mandatory referendum such as the LOSAP. Right? When you change the LOSAP for the fire department Mhmm. That's a topic of mandatory referendum that had to go to the vote…

Ed Riely, Tristeldra. I'd like to commend the the EMS, the fire department, and DPW for their exceptional service, especially appreciated in the wintertime when the water mains break and you're operating with water in subzero weather. It goes the sam…

There were signs out in front of this building that said, god bless our emergency service providers. We love our emergency and they're talking about fire department, police department. And they were out in front of this building, so they're talking a…

And that is typically for paying out sick days and other accruals that or rather vacation days? No. Low LOCEF is for the fire department. No. No. I'm not talking about LOCEF. I'm talking about the the main retirement, fund.

we may have to come up with additional money because that grant was several years ago, and everything has gone up. So, but we're gonna try and find out what we can afford and what we can do with the money we have. And, also, like I said, the operatio…

So happy New Year, everyone. I just wanna congratulate. I was, honored to be at the fire department induction last night with the mayor, trustee Nachtaler, and trustee Simon. Just wanna congratulate. Thank Phil Dinkler, chief Dinkler, for his service…

As trustee Nicholson said, it was great to be there with the incoming team at the fire department installation last night with thanks to outgoing chief Tinkler and incoming chief Chris Colombo and assistant chiefs Chris Catarino and Joe Strini, as we…