Maria Slippen

So I guess my question is what has the communication with those families been? It feels like there's been a large periods of time in between with a... Like, we're getting an update now. Mister Craig is getting an update now. Yeah. But I think that th…

Whereas the village board included funding for a police department staffing and operational study in the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven capital plan, and whereas on 05/28/2026, the village of Croton And Hudson issued a request for proposals f…

I agree. I and so I'm the liaison or I'm one of the liaisons to the VEV, so I've spent a decent amount of time with them over the course of the last eighteen months. And I think they would want to review the signs. They would not want to be passed ov…

Right? So I I don't I, you know, I watched the town hall and I appreciated everybody who came out during the last week of summer. And I was you know, the people who were there had a lot, you know, had strong opinions. I am really interested in captur…

And every idea is not gonna be an idea we can move forward, but I think hearing from a lot of people and there were people who live right in this area who spoke and people who live very far away, who spoke. And there are also questions about, you kno…

I just wanna start by thanking all of the residents that came out to speak tonight. It is so great to see a full room of people. I'm glad that we are going to be able to have another conversation a further conversation, regarding Local Law 10 because…

I do sort of question the number of summonses that are being written. I mean, know that the that we're out of the quiet period or whatever you call it. But it's hard for me to believe there are only four since the last meeting because like I hear a l…

It's amazing. It's a piece of really impressive art that has that is was with a little bit of financial support from the village basically gifted to us. You know, the DPW did a tremendous amount of work. Bruce Holland was at the Arts and Humanities C…

what all this says to me is and people have questions. People talk I mean, we talk about this at PAC Yeah. That's why we're here. Every single meeting. But I sort of the way when I saw this the way it was set up on the agenda, I kind of thought we we…

Right. So there's a great great amount of distrust of the government right now, to be clear. You know? And I I also think that I mean, you know, when we we got that communication from our county legislator regarding the q and a that the county is in …

Trustee Nicholson and I spent a lot of time on the guidelines and how that was all gonna work and what that's gonna look like, and we have certainly not perfected it yet, but in my meeting with the manager this week, I probably much to his annoyance …

I I'm thinking also about the it's, you know, you can say this is the size of the trees that you're gonna cut down and it's this value and you're gonna replace it with these trees and so the values are equal. But the actual impact of cutting down the…

But, you know, and saying that there's an emotional value to it is probably the wrong way to say it, but I think that there is an emotional value to what we're doing here. And I think that a lot of my concern around the relaxation of these laws to in…

of what Right. I think once a business owner realize if a business owner, regardless of what you're selling, realizes you're not getting any business from 09:30AM to 1PM, then you're probably gonna start opening at 1PM. So I think that, you know, the…

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…

the category that we're talking about here. Okay. So are there are there examples of other municipalities municipalities that have done this? Because if I just do a very cursory Google of this, there's a lot of coverage of municipalities that have ar…

that's why we've, you know, after reviewing that and discussing it, we've decided to look at this. Cast a broader net. Correct. Okay. Yeah. I mean, it it wasn't specific in the minutes talking about what the questions were. The other thing I just wan…

Okay. It's not is an answer.I didn't know what the answer was. Yeah. And I feel very satisfied by the answer. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. Should I go into my other things? I don't I don't I don't necessarily wanna exclude somebody because …

Alright. So I'm Yeah. I guess I guess I'm it this is I don't I'm in favor of considering that. You know, we're here. There are several topics that come up over and over and over again for us, and dog park is one of them, and leaf blower is one of the…

I learned today as a result of an email that the parade was the theme of the parade was the two hundred and the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the of the country. I I didn't I missed that somehow, but I would like us to ge…

It was about it was months and months and months to make that happen. I know it was not as well attended as they would have liked, but it was a some type of I don't know. I think it was a sketch class that I think for and, trustee Nicholson, I meant …

Oh, jeez. You could've just called me Maria, but how are you? Hi. Hi. So I appreciate everybody weighing in. I I appreciate the Schwartz's you know, bringing this to everybody's attention, and I appreciate so many people coming on. I just wanna say t…

Okay. So Yeah. It's a very low percentage of people who are in favor of of the blinking light, but I think we all wanna do something. So I know that there was, you know, the the can we reframe the like, it feels like we don't have the right solution …

Yeah. I don't I mean, I don't maybe I misspoke, but I don't I don't I'm not asking for the stop sign to slow down traffic. As I said, like, I don't even if the cars are going 15 miles an hour, I don't wanna get I don't wanna get hit. So, I I mean, di…

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…

No. No. Okay. Or however you respond to Yeah. Opposing, which doesn't happen a lot up here.

The other thing I wanted to say is just in terms of because you're talking about things going to the engineering department from the at the last VEB meeting when we talked about this, there was concern by the members of the VEB about sometimes the pl…

The the other thing is not to beat a dead horse, but you though, in the last media or the last couple meetings when we're we were reviewing a gas station sign. And so that was this is a huge corporation that, like, those gas station things are all th…

be specific because fowl kind of is still ambiguous, and we need to be clear as to what we mean by foul. In the communities that only allow chickens, is there I mean, I get I get I guess, how can you answer this question? But, like, is there confusio…

the emails are coming. We're reading them. It's moving at a snail's pace, but it is moving. I understand that this is an important topic to this community and to a lot of my friends and neighbors, and I'm looking forward to getting the recommendation…

because we're so pro bike, I wanted to bring it up. Okay. Couple other things. The, I will get to my committee to update on my committees in a minute. I also wanted to mention that I know that some of our constituents have seen in the news or on soci…

So thank you for bringing it up. So I don't know what the right way for us to stay plugged into that is, but I would like to be doing so. Mhmm. You know, I I also wanted to mention that, you know, a couple meetings ago we had a hearing and then passe…

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…

Okay.

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 …