So then on to the water fund. The water fund, there's no, budgeted increase in the rates for this year. This is the second year in a row that we've been able to hold the rates steady. Alright. That's that's what the next slide says too. Then onto the…

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…

I'm Paul Doyle. I live at 121 Old Post Road North. I've lived in Croatan for forty nine years. I served on the planning board in the early nineteen nineties. I served on the comprehensive planning committee, which produced a 2003 comprehensive plan, …

Whereas the colonel 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 t…

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…

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…

the representative. Actually, two things. One is that we had no knowledge of the lease purchase that the village allowed to do, but that has an impact on your budgeting. It's you don't have to bond. You know? So the it's a different thing. But there'…

Yeah. They buy one like, you know, ones that are being retired from other communities. The situation is so bad. If anybody filed the stuff that happened in California with the huge fires, they had 50% of their fire apparatus out of service for one re…

Well, I mean, it's a significant amount. You'd be taking on a significant amount of debt right at in one year. Our our total debt is, right now, $27,000,000, and, you know, you're talking about almost $4,000,000 in 20% in two years. Yeah. Right. Well…

Yeah. Having more. Yeah. And so, you know, before and this is what I said to the chiefs earlier. Before we commit to purchasing, you know, two engines right now that we have for the next twenty to twenty five years, you know, I think we get one now b…

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…

Yeah. Eva, go ahead. I was just I was curious about the emergency services, and I wonder your thoughts on this, John, since it's talking about professionals, employees. Right? We have volunteer fire department and other first responders. Right? But t…

So if any peep people watching, they can, understand what these definitions are. And also know that there is a priority among these three definitions. First on the priority list would be the emergency service workers, followed by medical service indu…

Now if they're applying and they're joining our fire department,

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 …

for the village manager. Would you like to present on that topic? Sure. Thank you, mayor. So as I outlined in the memo that accompanies this agenda item, the village undertook an operational study of the engineering department in 2024, and I found th…

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 Riley, 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…

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 Nachteller, and trustee Simon. Just wanna congratulate. Thank Phil Dinkler, chief Dinkler, for his servic…

That's it. Thank you. And, just as long as we were talking about our communications efforts, I just did wanna point out the latest edition of our village newsletter has a new feature. And I wanted to thank our communications team and as well as the m…

The letter, addressed to Metro-North's Andrew Buder, reveals that between January and October of this year, the Croton Fire Department responded to 50 calls inside the yards—an average of five per month—while Croton EMS handled 39 calls. While 28% of…

As the the fire started from the car in the garage. Yeah. I remember seeing pictures at the time of fire. You know? I've seen his pictures. It looked like the fire department had saved it. You know, the the garage definitely was was damaged, but I gu…

During public comment, Ed Riely of Truesdale Drive criticized the village's fire department awards and recreation fees, while David Lowell of Farrington Road submitted a written request for a permanent ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.