Maria Slippen

Well, thank you trustee Simon for volleying me the the ability to make the motion on this since this has been project that I've been working on for about a year. We originally got a request from the high school last year to the arts and humanities co…

It was overall incredibly positive. But, you know, as was suggested, engaging student members in things is not necessarily, you know, that it could get complicated. So I think that we've laid this out in a way that's going to make sense. I've spoken …

it will either be mailed to you, which I mean won't help you for now. But if you you could do it tonight online and come pick it up tomorrow. Okay. Or you can just come in. If you've never had one and need to have your picture taken, you can just com…

Trustee Maria Slippen, who lives in the neighborhood and has represented it for 22 years, credited the family for raising the issue. "I appreciate the Schwartz's you know, bringing this to everybody's attention", she said before pressing village sta…

The Croton-on-Hudson Board of Trustees re-adopted a home rule request for the third time in as many weeks on June 2, seeking state authorization for a school speed zone camera demonstration program, and approved a $15,000 contract to recruit an assis…

No. I think I mean, I think that makes I think that makes sense. Yeah. Well, to I I agree with what trustee Nachtaler is saying. And I do think, you know, every time cameras come up, people are concerned about I'm concerned about cameras as as are o…

It will come as no surprise to my colleagues that I disagree with them. I think that the assistant village manager position is extremely important. And I am a consultant myself. I am highly in favor of when necessary and appropriate hiring consultant…

Thank you. So thank you to everyone. Everyone's really said a lot that I was about to say, but I will just do a quick quick shout out to the CAC and Eva Thaddeus. The Earth Day celebration was wonderful. You know, great partnership between the DPW, m…

Very excited to see Friends of Croton Park double mentioned here in the audience tonight. Really proud of that organization getting off the ground. So thank you very much. And thank you, mister Corwin, for your pointing out of Kaplan's Pond. My quest…

Well, I look forward to hearing a report back from DPW on the Yep. Status of the ban. And just to allude to the library, so we had an off night last Thursday night, so I was able to attend the annual meeting of the library, which was very interesting…

Okay. There are so many events coming up this weekend, and because we don't have another meeting next week. Right? So I'm sure everything's on the calendar, like the blood drive and the national take back day and the book and bake sale at the library…

It's still a security, it's a safety as far as I'm concerned. It's a safety situation here, as well as an inconvenience. So, but I think that letting people know what that update is is important. So I don't know how we move that forward if we need to…

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…

Oh, I appreciate the timeline and the update and because that's all really important information. And anybody who was watching the meeting last night was not ex myself included, was not expecting that statement to be given to be shared right now. So…

Wow. So the thought is there's a huge wealth of artistic talent in the village. Yeah. And this would be a great way for the Arts and Humanities Committee to tap into the resources we have and make it available to residents. In a space that's not we d…

Any fee involved? There's not any fee involved. It it took a lot of, coordinating to try to I don't know what other what other work has been done, but for the arts and humanities team that's really is looking for other spaces to run programming, It w…

and there's a lot of people on these emails. Right. I'm sure. So I just I guess I just wanna sort of say I wanna you know, you and I had this conversation earlier today. Yeah. And we talked about having this conversation here because having this conv…

But I I I would I would I would like to understand why we're doing things the way we are when other communities are doing it them the way they are. And maybe what we find out is what we're doing is perfectly fine for a variety of reasons, but I don't…

Oh, maybe it is. Maybe I maybe I just was well No. It's it's a blood donation on Oh, yeah. You're right. Whatever date it is. So I will share that, and maybe you I know that we have blood drives here also. It's on April 13. That's right. We can we ca…

Second.

Alright. Public comp oh, sorry. Before we leave the resolutions, would it be possible to just I just have a comment on, resolution b number three, local law introductory number seven on signage. So before this law goes to all of these departments, I …

a good idea. Just have the the women of village artists at the library. So it could be women village government related volunteers or workers event. Good idea. Okay. So I, along with, deputy mayor Simon, are, have the privilege to be liaisons to the …

And it's really the planning board that conducts this comprehensive assessment and more of a of a comprehensive site plan overall. So, you know, I think I think that, chairman Jim Toman and the ZBA did, you know, a great job, and now it's going to th…

there's a deadline in I think in a this April for school districts of a certain size to make sure that there are not any PDFs that aren't readable. There's, like, that extra level of ADA compliance about some of the things that are and I wondered if …

The I know that it's easy to equate the analysis that was done of the engineering department, although I wasn't on the board when it happened, and the decision to move the assessor's office to Cortlandt with moving the court. I think it's a false equ…

Thank you. I will be brief. I really would just wanna applaud, Croton one hundred and the amazing quilts. It's it's always great to come to this room and see a gym filled with people, whether they are coming to voice their concerns or they're coming …

Well, I guess I'll just jump in to say, first of all, I appreciate all the work that has been done on this. I know that, this was something that was very important to me. Certain people sitting at the stairs may have been annoyed by how long we've sp…

It was kind of a short timeline the way we did this. So although I don't I'm not opposed to making some changes right now. I do think that, if there's some way for us to pass this and say, you know, we wanna we want to accept the work that we've alre…

that's what we're really just trying to adhere to. Yeah. But I think because we have gotten some feedback on this, I don't wanna dis I don't I don't wanna just pass this and sort of discount the fee. I I think No. No. Absolutely not. Yeah. I think I …

No no specific questions, manager. Although, I just wanted to wind it back to four years ago. In fact, one of one of the outcomes of, four years ago when this was last considered was, our, determination that if we were to consider it again, it would …

then then this conversation goes to 2030. Correct. This the term yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is a baseline study that's taking a look at the court operations, including even staffing and, and and, timing and and other issues in terms of, the day to day wo…

We have. We did that for the hundred twenty fifth. Oh, right. Okay. So right. Okay. It's in the it's in the office. Right. Because NICOMP NICOMP suggested that as one of the activities also. But since we did one so recently, I didn't Right. Okay. Yea…

Okay. So I just wanted to talk a little bit about the I wanted to point out the there are two memos from, the police advisory committee on here. And I, you know, I was at the meeting where these two topics or maybe it was even two meetings where thes…

I'm saying is that I do think that it's it warrants a little bit more discussion, and it warrants a little bit more discussion both at the committee level and probably at this at at at this level. So I I know you don't have the the opportunity to res…

It would just give the opportunity for once the space at Kubeya is open to the public, more programming would the the current staff would be able to run more programming and more robust programming because they're located in a spot where that can hap…

Know that seven seems like a small number, but 100% of the kids that live on that street have to walk to school because they do not get a bus. Right. So Okay. You have if you are a family with children that go to PVC or the high school, you have no c…

You know, but I I do I don't know what the other you know, I I don't know what the other I know that in the past, there have been there were studies done about, you know, walking from the Sunset Park area, you know, because that's another area where …

I agree, with with, everything you said, trustee Nicholson. But I also wanna think about how, you know, all along I've sort of been saying things will happen at Govea if things start happening at Govea. So I love this overall concept, you know, all t…

Police Advisory Committee Minutes January 15, 2026 Attendance: Carolyn Whiting, lan Murtaugh, Miles Kafka, Teri Lukin, John Nikitopoulos, Trustee Maria Slippen Resident Ed Reily 1. Latino outreach e Chief Nikitopoulos will discuss with manager Healy …

I will just echo everyone else's comments, in saying, how impressive the facility is. There's so much going on in there. There's such the pride of everyone who works there is so evident walking through. I don't know if it looks that neat every single…

about that. I thought that was great. I I don't I wish I could come up with some very clever question about what's happening, but I think we can all see what's happening. You guys are knocking it out of the park all four seasons whenever there's some…

Yeah. Okay. I think that if for this type of question, a rank a ranking of those will give us instead of just having to pick one, it'll give us a better overall outcome for that question. And for a couple of the other ones, I think for spending prior…

And I was gonna say it during my report, but I I think it might be appropriate to We can segue right into your report. But we are the village has engaged with a communications firm Yep. And, you know, the which is gonna be taking a holistic look at h…

Okay. So also with the arts and humanities, meeting last night, we were talking about the second phase of the banners. And so not for discussion at this meeting, but I did touch base with the mayor about it. I would like to, at the work session, disc…

So I just wanted to, you know, take a take a minute to remember him and and be grateful to all he has brought to the village over his one hundred years. I the manager said it before, but I think the cold have seen a lot more water main breaks than I …

So this is gonna seem like a much more frivolous question than trustee Nachtailers. But I am thinking about all the traffic that goes to Senasqua Park during the summer months for the different recreation activities that happen. And so I just I I kno…

I I mean, I guess it's both. There are concerts at the park on Friday nights, and during the week, there are some other recreation activities. And but it's very busy. The the landing is very, busy with soccer. Every Saturday is a soccer Saturday in C…

Yeah. I had no fee I figured it was part of the planning. I just wanted to make it part of the record. Yep. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Tristan. Not much of a report. Just wanna wish everybody a happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy New Year, happy Hanukkah, and I hope everyone has a cheer and joy. All

I don't need to belabor this very much longer, but I did just wanna say that I thought that the communication we did around this was very comprehensive. We, you know, we we did the survey. The results were very solid from that. We had a lot of people…