dog park

let's establish that I'm a supporter of everyone up there. But there are some questions I have, and I didn't wanna leave the house. I had a day today. Believe me. I lost it patchy on top of it. Uh-huh. Wonderful. But here we are. I can title this I w…

Okay. Before I get into my report, I did... I do wanna take a moment to remember Bruce Odlandt. I don't think we've met since he passed. Bruce was a composer and sound artist whose installations were heard in public spaces around the world, and he ch…

I just wanna circle back to two things. One was about the dog park because I I don't believe any of us said that the door was closed. We... Well, we... Well, I mean, that... Oh, yeah. Was... I think it was... I didn't mean to suggest that. I just wan…

Gwen Cianfaglione, Mountain Trail. And so I did come once before asking questions about the dog park, trying to get it open to more people outside of Croton or outside of the village of Croton. That's number one. Number two, I'm thrilled that they've…

I'm not looking for the the village to supply poop bags or anything like that, but I would like it to be more inclusive. I go to other dog parks and actually people from the village who are part of the dog park, I'm running into at other places in Yo…

I'm Gwen Cianfaglione. I'm on Mountain Trail right now. I grew up in Croton my whole life. I know I already said that. I lived across the street from the Black Rock Dog Park from 1958 to the year 2000. And I was a member of Black Rock for all those y…

Hi. My name is Margaret Conner. I live on 36 Grant Street. I also have a dog and have been involved with the dog park. First of all, I'd like to say, as I said before, the world has changed. People, value their dogs much more, wanna treat their dogs …

John Sasso, Morningside Drive. I'm not gonna remind you that we have the only dog park that closes at 04:00 on weekends in Westchester County, and explanation of that is beyond. I live on Morningside Drive. Houses are close together, and we talk abou…

So we so we have to have permission from the state DOT to it's it's oh, sorry. Authorization to proceed to construction. That's the technical phrasing that they use. So that's so basically, that means is that we're allowed to go out to bid. Mhmm. So …

Yes. Okay. Hi. I'm Judy Lewis. 49 Sunset Drive, Croton. As the chair of Friends of Croton Parks, I'm here to request the extension of the dog park on the weekends from 04:00 changing till 06:00. I would like to read part of, Judy Rayer's letter that …

So, one of her examples in her letter was to of somebody from the MTA that rushes by 03:45 just to give his dog a fifteen minute bit of exercise because they work on the weekends. And having the dog park available to the Croton residents, which we al…

So this is a very this is, like, very meaningful to me, but I would just like to encourage everybody who's here to go out because it's also a wonderful event. I will the last thing I will say is and then I will hand it over to my colleague who was at…

Thank you, mister mayor, mister manager, ladies and gentlemen of the board. My name is Casey Raskob. 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,…

So there would seem to be a need for some additional community garden space and potentially relocating the dog park. Either relocating the dog park to Govee or perhaps opening a second dog park area is something that can be looked at as well. So as i…

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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…

And we know you didn't have time to get together and talk about any of this because our hope was once we knew that the decision laid just with Brian, we wanted to have the trustees who represent the community to have input and perhaps sway the decisi…

And I'll I'll let, I'll let my colleague to the right sort of talk about it, but, that that final decision was made in 2023. So I think that I had several conversations with neighbors and they were not quite ready to to support a lengthening of dog p…

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

Hello. 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 …

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…

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 …