Nora Nicholson

Trustee Nora Nicholson drew a comparison to the village's red light camera authorization, which the governor signed into law in October 2025 but has not yet been implemented locally. "We have the authority, but we haven't actually even begun the impl…

Yeah. And I think I think a perfect analogy is the red light camera. We we did a similar home rule request last year to authorize the village to have red light cameras. The governor did sign that bill in October 2025, but as of yet, the board has not…

You know, think I it's important that we spend the money in a careful way. To trustee Simon's point, this was part of our contingency when we passed the budget back in April. And then this, you know, because this is a new position, not only will prac…

Yep. I agree with deputy mayor Simon, on congratulating Robert Luntz, chair of planning board, for his outstanding work and congratulating Ava for her chair position in the conservation advisory committee and all and her outstanding work that she did…

Okay. Thank you. On that note, it would be great if the business council could monetize all that traffic and generate revenue at all of our wonderful business establishments in Croton. You know, maybe they could somebody could be there with a nice fl…

I know you also flagged the, burst pipe that happened, as well. So you were first on the scene there, so thank you. Also, I'm looking forward to to police week and the flag raising ceremony, so thank you to those that sit on the pack that work on tha…

And I just wanna call out to my colleagues a couple of things. So, you know, one of the bigger investments that we made in this budget was public safety. The digital radio system for the police department was a really significant investment and somet…

Thank you. I just wanna give, a shout out to the a couple committees. The recreation advisory committee met, last week, and they are working on doing a kind of a scouting report of all of our parks and calling out to our, parks department any things …

and then our clean volunteers will pick it up this Saturday. And, apparently, they pick up pounds and pounds and pounds of trash. So something to think about. Don't litter. Don't litter. Don't litter at everybody on Earth Day. I also just want to cal…

And then the other crosswalk that we've kind of gotten some feedback on is by the train stations when people are crossing 9. Oh, wow. Okay. And then when they're crossing up at the top between Croton Point Avenue and Riverside. Right? That's another …

superintendent, know that you were not such a fan of the signs being in the middle of the crosswalk because it's a I know it's challenging from a snow removal perspective, but we've gotten a lot of good feedback about the one on Cleveland. That, you …

I was not here for the celebrations budget because it was under DPW. Yes. I just wanted to call out, you know, we have historically had a fall fest, and then that sort of morphed into the CBC sponsored Oktoberfest, which I think is, you know, a great…

Manager, there was also a statement made by, Mickey Weiss. I almost said Mickey Mouse. I'm sorry. I was it was a long night last night. I'm sorry. The attorney. And, it was basically, I think led the public to believe that he had was given, two parki…

Okay. So And then this is it is complicated on the commercial side, the building permit commercial multifamily. Is there a call a core building permit fee? Are there unit based fee components? Just and is there opportunity to raise the prices on the …

It I mean, it just it didn't it when I ran the numbers in my own head, it didn't seem to make that much sense because I think seems like what happens at night court is potentially you're negotiating and lowering, you know, a fine. And now if we're ge…

Yep. Topic. I also think, you know, we had a conversation. I wasn't here. I listened to your conversation last week when we did the approval of the body worn cameras. I'm in agreement. I think that, you know, it's something that we need as a departme…

And I think that's why we, you know, I think that's why we need to do a study. Right? I mean, I think that that's what we kind of need to understand is the amount of workload that's being generated. Yeah. And and and really, like, is that still a pri…

I think it's a very interesting idea because your recruitment you know, we've done, I think, a lot of good things in terms of the low SAP program and trying to do kind of Yeah. You know, a policy perspective in in giving people initiatives. But all o…

And, manager, I just have a quick question. Sure. Actually, I I it's a little bit unfortunate there there was no public comment here just because I think this is really bless you. Sorry. Yeah. Interesting issue that Yeah. I, you know, would have woul…

I'd like to I would second that motion. I also think that there is an opportunity here to you know, I I have some real concerns about the location of the applicant from a school perspective. I know that there is some legislation from at the state lev…

you. I appreciate that. I think that, you know, from a, you know, we've gotten a lot of feedback and email, and there's been some conversation in the community. So I think it's nice to have a conversation in public Agree. About this this this topic b…

So I just wanted to highlight, a couple of things. Would like to thank trustee Simon for his hard work on this legislative agenda. I also wanna highlight that part of the, communication here is to, strengthen our relationship with the MTA, sort of a …

Yep. I think that's a really good point. And we really haven't I mean, this is just allowing us to have the option to have speeding cameras, right, by doing that. But we haven't really had the debate around red light cameras yet. Which is also on the…

Thank you. So I just have a couple of things. I was able to to attend the trash conversation last night and, unfortunately, needed to duck out a little bit early before they kind of got to the main event, which is conversation around composting in sc…

Thank you. Thank you. And thank you, deputy Simon, for giving me some of the context for how the WAC operates because it is a unique type of committee that we have. One of the questions I had, manager, was do you share any of this information? So I k…

I just wanna say I I feel like this is a proud moment. Number one, you know, I was completely moved by this whole evening. I we need some tissues here for future meetings because starting with a quilt that was just I was blown away, art with purpose,…

Yeah. I think we need a DPW appreciation week as well. We can make a fly. So I don't if we can make a we're on the v v together, so we'll add that to the agenda. But, yes, I don't wanna repeat everything I said earlier, but I just I'm grateful to the…

Thanks, Brian. Thank you everyone for being here. You know, I just wanted to take the opportunity to thank everyone for, coming out and listening. You know, this is a work in progress for the village. So, you know, we're we're here to hear your feedb…

So this group has been meeting kind of, ad hoc for about a year, and we are just starting to form the organization now. So we've got two two folks that are will are leading the organization, but we've got several community members that are part of th…

Just extending thanks, especially, to Sullivan arc the architecture firm, Sullivan Architects, for their really thoughtful, presentation and design. I was part of the working group that kind of talked through the building and the various uses, and th…

With the mayor's indulgent, if we can have the court clerk come up, I think she's probably the best Sure. Person to speak to that. I'd agree. Lisa, do you wanna just come up and answer trustee Nicholson's question? Oh,

good. Thank you. Sounds good. Yeah. And not prolong this any further, but just trustee Nicholson, you had some very good process questions here, and I think it's worth emphasizing that, like, the New York Conference of Mayors is very supportive of th…

Trustees moved on without engaging the commentary. Trustee Karen Nicholson then made a motion to approve the co-naming immediately, calling Hansberry "an important cultural figure here in Croton." Nicholson also suggested pursuing a historical marker…

So these member guidelines were circulated amongst our, board chairs earlier in the week, and we did get some feedback that I think is valid. So my question is, you know, I I want us to, you know, think about kind of do we have enough time to kind of…

Yeah. Which it feels like is taking a long time. So I I don't But, again, we haven't had a physical meeting with our chairs. I don't disagree. Great. We have not. So we can either commit to having physical meeting with our chairs in the near future a…

Thank you. So I'll just speak to, the idea committee. So, I'm the liaison for that committee. And, you know, it's interesting when two people can be in a room and have a very different sense of what happened in that room. But, you know, from my persp…

is not around the efficiency of the court, the accessibility of the court, the the for lack of a better word, the community support of the court. All of this conversation has been around whether or not we're gonna get rid of the court and what's the …

what, if any, public part you know, participation they had in their in their, study. You know, I do understand that we keep going back to Port Chester as an example. Port Chester and like, comparing Port Chester merging with Rye and Croton merging wi…

work on the agendas and take the minutes. Could I could we stop for a minute? Are we do you wanna go through the whole thing before we interject? Or You wanna take comments as they come? I just well, I just wanted to talk about and the mayor and I ha…

Trustee Karen Nicholson noted the irony: "Every year, this comes up and people are like, oh my god, we're gonna override the tax cap." She urged staff to communicate more proactively about the law's purely precautionary nature.

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…

These numbers were striking to me. I just wanted to share. And since 2020, auto insurance has gone up 50%, homeowners insurance has gone up 70%, and health insurance has gone up 395. Just staggering numbers in terms of affordability. So that, you kno…

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…

flex that. But Right. You get the idea. Right. Yeah. But I just think a mechanism for that to happen. Well, I think the manager needs to, you know, kind of this needs to sort of be prioritized and thought about as in in phases. Right? So you can thin…

Mhmm. I mean, I think I I think this is very exciting very exciting to sort of, you know, as we're continuing kind of down the path of making investments in Guevea. And I just wanna say out loud, you know, we're gonna be having a public meeting on Gu…

And we seem like we had some money. Right? Because we had gotten some money from Senator Harkom. So we were like, oh, we've got a $100,000. Like, maybe we should just throw something up. And then we talked to Frank and, you know, we were like, where …

And I, you know, I just wanna say it's this is my second time that I've visited the facility. And, you know, the stewardship of the village residents' tax dollars is evident when you walk through that building just in in terms of how organized and cl…

Yeah. Yeah. Pleased to point that out. Or you might have to just put it in more than one plate, you know, just like in parentheses in some somewhere else to remind people that it's not schools. I think that's very local government. We we provide, you…

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…

Master Fee Schedule Review: The Recreation Advisory Board reviewed the Recreation Department’s master fee schedule and reached the following conclusions: e Day Camp and Tiny Tots Camp fees for the most part will remain unchanged except for the non-r…