Ossining

the village of Cortlandt Hudson is acting as a municipal sponsor for the Van Cortlandt Manor entrance project to reconfigure the entrance, enhance site safety, and improve visitor experience of the National Historic Landmark. And whereas the village …

And bikes and bike safety, but I'm not gonna talk about that. I'm gonna talk about your pot shop. Pot was invited into this town, and I believe they're invited to be cool. The administration wanna be cool and have one and be first, and then they thou…

Now this is a this is a rebirth, and and I think they will take it to to great new heights. And I wanted to thank, I guess, mister was here earlier. It's in his building, so we're glad that he's he's part of this. But it was just a great morning, and…

and I have an Ossining mailing address. And literally,

Whereas The Village issued an invitation to bid on 08/06/2026 for the annual street resurfacing program, and whereas six bids were submitted by the deadline of 08/27/2026. Whereas the lowest bid received was from Lewis Ronald, the Inc. Of Ossining, N…

Okay. So let's look at the six responders. In alphabetical order, they are luminase, microgrid networks, Newly Elected Energy, Nine Dot Energy, Aurinta Power, and RIC Energy. And I'm sure you've never heard of any of them. Suffice to say that all are…

I But that anyway I think it would be helpful to have, a site visit for the board of trustees to go and visit some of the bestes that are out there, Lindsay, that you had shared whether whether in in Ossining Ossining or, you know, just to look at th…

It's behind the church. Yeah. Behind Saint yeah. Saint Augustine's Church in Ossining, just over the border from Croton. It's, like, five minutes from here.

So I am seriously concerned about any relationship that this school board would have with an organization like Planned Parenthood. Secondly, I'm dealing with the new pot store that's going in. First of all, you may know that a place that can lease th…

are in the code right now? In in a couple in a couple communities, they have adopted for, like especially for site plan approvals that if you are taking down trees, you have to replace 50% of the diameter breast height that you're removing. So it kin…

That's fine. About where the intensive ones would go. Right. And I was gonna I was also gonna say that if you if you decide to move forward with intense and start adding it, you're definitely gonna want some regulations associated with that, you know…

You. So all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Same. Motion carries. Congratulations to Barry. Looking forward to having her join us. Next on the agenda, transportation cooperative agreement. Recommended action. Resolved that the Board of Education hereby appro…

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…

There is a best in nearby Ossining at the Saint Augustine church, another one in Yorktown at a the the back lot of a automotive repair shop in Yorktown, and there are numerous others that have been developed or are being developed. In essence, what I…

So I believe that if we went ahead and put out the RFI, request for interest, and RFP, we could, by the end of summer or early fall, complete this work and find out, are any developers interested? Are any sites viable? Are we anywhere near the right …

So this is a little bit of a change from the way we've done this in the past. Previously, we've had tow contracts with multiple companies, and they've been on a rotation service, you know, based on some of research that we've been doing. You know, th…

on 04/30/2026, The Village published bid number 42026 for the 2026 lawn maintenance program. And whereas on 05/18/2026, the village received one bid for the 2026 lawn maintenance program, which includes spring cleanup, mowing, and trimming for select…

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…

I know that's that's the biggest complaint that the landscapers have. Right, is that, you know, when they get when engineering goes out to enforce the ban, they go, you know, we don't know what's allowed in Ossining versus Cortlandt versus Croton ver…

I I know it wasn't on our list. Do you know if Ossining has anything

similar? The I believe the town of Ossining allows for chickens. I think the village of Ossining has

So just to clarify the setup that we have. Right? We have a contract with Ossining EMS and the Mid Hudson Ambulance District. And so they they actually hire the employees and and send them to us. Mhmm. And then we just we pay them a monthly contractu…

We've we've the insurance reimbursements are have done very well this year. They have for the past couple of years. And, you know, based on the feedback that we've received from Proclaim, which manages the billing for for EMS, Ossining, Briarcliffe, …

Whereas the village of Cortlandt Hudson is acting as the municipal sponsor for the Van Cortlandt Manor entrance project to reconfigure the entrance, enhance site safety, and improve visitor experience at the National Historic Landmark. And whereas th…

Thank you. My name is Dave. I live on Farrington. Thank you for this time to speak. Have you noticed the increase in noise and air pollution since I was last here? Yeah. We all have. Trustees, mayor, it does not have to be like this. Every time I'm h…

And I know that Kaplan Pond is fabulous the way it is, but there is probably some room for improvement and work by working with the neighbors, we're definitely gonna get there. The oh, I'm excited to go to Little League Parade on Saturday because I'v…

But just in looking at our neighboring community of Ossining, you know, they're banned on under half acres now, year round. So I think there's an opportunity for us to step up here. And I, just wanna note tomorrow evening, I, I unfortunately will not…

of the other Yeah. I mean, that was always, I think, the Yeah. The the one that I compare that I compare us to the most just because it's similar in terms of size and usage is Tarrytown. Mhmm. And there were those rates are similar. Tarrytown is a do…

yeah. I mean, frankly, I would have like I said, I would have put this I would have scheduled an increase in this a long time ago if I, you know but my concerns with the people paying cash have been pretty much allayed by the fact that so few people …

Well, thank you, trustee Nachtalerl. I'll I I will just say I was looking back at some of my material from 2022 earlier today, and I did find a memo to file where I had detailed the conversation I had with the village of Ossining because they have co…

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…

Sure. Yes. So in our last discussion, I know one of the one of our sort of goals was to have a landscape architect take a look at it and come up with just an overall sort of site layout on on both what we have currently and what we can have, you know…

So what we'll really be saying there is okay will will you accept how will you know how many will you do with it? How many seats are you How many seats you willing to do in bid on in one or the other location? I mean private or in at CTE and then bas…