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…

And I just would like to thank on behalf of the recreation advisory committee Capriccios for donating a bench to Black Rock Park, which is, will be a wonderful addition to the dog park, and also to holy name of Mary, Knights of Columbus for donating,…

The dog park debate also resurfaced. John Sasso of the Recreation Advisory Committee urged the board to resume discussions, advocating for sunrise-to-sunset hours rather than the current 4 PM cutoff. Trustee Simon, who noted a protracted negotiation …

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You know, I mean, I I it's it's very hard when you think that things are progressing as they should, and then you find out that that wasn't the case. Yeah. And then my second question is around the dog park hours. So the recreation advisory

John Sasso, 87 Morningside Drive. I'm a member of the Recreation Advisory Committee. I think everyone knows I'm a big supporter of everyone on the board, including the mayor and the manager. But I'm really here Debbie Braddock, the chair of our commi…

Okay. I am just wanna start by responding to a couple things that people said during the comment session. I want mister I wanna say something about the the dog park.

All all I can say about the where we are with the dog park right now is, in the past when the discussions about the dog park were had and I was the I can't remember if I was the chair of the recreation advisory committee at the time or if I was just …

This will just take one second, man. Just that no decision has been made, manager, regarding the additional participation of the dog park by schools

I'm gonna start with snow removal and parking. So trustee Simon and I were up in Albany yesterday and the day before meeting with other municipalities. The hot topics are the same no matter where you go. It's parking and it's housing. So, you know, I…

For dog owners, there are no immediate changes on the horizon; Braddick confirmed that weekend Dog Park hours will remain the same for the time being. Residents interested in the Gouveia Park improvements should mark their calendars for the March 2n…

Yeah. Can I would ideas like this be included in this scope as far as concepting out? So including a sculpture garden or I know that there's been a lot of interest in in the role that art, right, and and music and all of that can play in the house, b…

you know, how how it how it gets there be space for a dog park just so we have another

We I mean, we had an extensive conversation about that We did. A couple of years ago where we where I mean, we were going we we even toyed with the idea of having two dog parks. Yeah. Having one there and one on I think Frank did some sketches on tha…

at the at the last board meeting, we had this item on as correspondence. The RAC had sent in three recommendations, which were the installation of an AED at BlackRock Park, reviewing the dog park hours and, allowing for nonresidents a limited number …

Go ahead, trustee Simon. Oh, well, with respect to the BlackRock dog park, I just wanted to clarify. You you were saying both the hours of operation and the school districts are within administrative,

Well so no. No. The the, the hours of operation are under my purview. But but you have already authorized in the law, school district residents. I don't think the laws I don't think the dog park is I don't think the law specifically says school distr…

Well, I'm I'm at Bocce every day. And so part of my, we selected parks to go and interview people to see if there were issues at all the parks. And one of the issues that came up well, there were two. One was we heard from people who are not village …

Well and and like I said, the people have have been more than kind Yeah. In giving their their thoughts. And I don't know, you know, there were conversations that, there used to be a a heavy fear, a concern about being there, because maybe people wer…

Yeah. But there's no cost for people for the dog park. There if you're talking about the rec ID cards, there's a cost. Right. They have to get that first. Yeah. I know. But there's many more people that have rec ID cards than have dog park. But in or…

There's just one. Yeah. Please. Decision. Because I think there was a comment that we haven't heard from people about the dog park in in years. But I know I've heard from several people who live adjacent to the dog park. So, you know, right right acr…

school residents as a possibility and breaking out the hours for the Yeah. And I'm and, you know, if we can I'm I didn't mean to stifle discussion there. I mean, I'm more than happy to continue the conversation on the hours if we wanna do that. But w…

And in terms of dog population and sort of usage on the dog park, you know, what what's been the trend over the past, couple years?

Two years, I'm there every day. Never seen more than five cars for this Sorry. Into the microphone, please. In the two years, I'm there every day. Never seen more than five cars for that dog park ever. And truth be told, there is a neighbor who, I do…

I I think the piece of data that we do have are people that number of people that have registered, families that have registered. And that seems like from 2023, we've seen a pretty significant decrease in the amount of families that are registered do…

much as we can. I think as trustee slip and said, let's see what what the numbers are and and and what they mean. I wanna say just in in general, you know, we're we're we're holding off on this, but I do wanna thank the recreation committee for Mhmm.…

It was it was an equal number of residents and and and dog park users that were at the table. Mhmm. Yeah. Yep. So I I think that respecting that,

Croton’s Black Rock Dog Park is getting a new bench, courtesy of a local restaurant, and could see extended weekend hours as the village explores ways to improve the popular off-leash area.

At its January 12 meeting, the Recreation Advisory Committee accepted an offer from Capriccio’s Pizzeria & Restaurant owner Mike Macchia to donate a bench inside the dog park. Committee member John Bouchard will coordinate with Macchia on costs and l…

The bench discussion came alongside an update from Karen Pecora and John Sasso, who recently attended a Village Board work session focused on Black Rock Park. Among the items discussed: extending weekend dog park hours from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., in…

Dog park access drew considerable public comment. Residents Judy Rayer and John Sasso praised the proposed extension of park hours to 6:00 p.m., but Rayer asked if guests or out-of-town dog sitters could use the facility. Healy clarified that current…

=== HEADLINE === Dog park hours may expand after weekend complaints === SUMMARY === Croton trustees discussed extending Black Rock Dog Park weekend hours, allowing nonresident dog sitters, and switching village diesel vehicles to renewable fuel. The…

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=== ARTICLE === Judy Rayer of Gerstein Street came to Tuesday's Board of Trustees meeting with a simple plea: let working people walk their dogs on weekends. Currently, the Black Rock Dog Park closes at 4 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays — a restrictio…

"What's the other thing? Oh, and as far as the residents who are not village residents being able to use the dog park, I think that is a good step in the right direction," Rayer said, before raising another practical problem. If she goes on vacation …

John Sasso of Morningside Drive, who plays bocce near the dog park daily, offered unsolicited testimony: "Barking is not an issue at the dog park. In two years, I heard one dog barking, except for this one dog that yaps. We call it the yappa. And the…

My name is Judy Rayer. I'm on 3 Gerstein Street. I'm talking about the dog park. I'm very happy to see that hours may be extended till 6PM on the weekends. It's very difficult for some people to get to the dog park on the weekend. Some people do work…

I just wanted to add a piece. I'm on the recreation council, and I play bocce as most people you know. I'm there every day. Barking is not an issue at the dog park. I can tell you that. We have several groups that play. Debbie, the chair of the commi…

Then, just also, a point that was raised, by one of the commenters. People, residents who have the park's ID cards are entitled to bring guests with them to the parks. So if you wanted to if you had a visitor from out of town who who was visiting you…

And the situation, I I I could probably refresh on this myself, but the equivalent of a dog sitter, say say it was, as I I think our our speaker mentioned, if it was a child, son or a daughter, that was watching your dog properly registered and you a…

Do I have a motion on consent? So moved. Do I have a second? Mayor, would it be possible to pull out six a number two, the memo regarding the black dog, the Black Rock dog park. I just want some context on why the time

So just to answer trustee Nachtali's question, the dog park hours were set after a a long period of, deliberation between the dog park users and the neighbors of Quaker Bridge Road. The compromise solution that was developed was to have longer hours …

the the use of the limited use of the park dog park by the school system residents.

Well, Black Rock Park or the dog park is the only park currently that

would be there, you know, because there were a lot of complaints at that time about noise from the dog park. Yeah. I I don't think we've ever allowed school district residents. I think it's always been village residents only because the as at least a…

Dog park users could see longer weekend hours next year, while village officials are weighing the costs of bringing back adult softball, according to the Recreation Advisory Committee’s December 8 meeting.

The committee voted to recommend extending Dog Park weekend and holiday hours to 6:00 p.m., up from the current closing time. The panel also backed a plan to allow 12 additional households from the Hendrick Hudson school district—outside village limi…

Committee members fanned out across Croton to personally inspect local facilities. While the overall verdict was positive, the walkthrough yielded a targeted to-do list for the Department of Public Works. At Black Rock Park's dog park, John Sasso poi…