Project Mover

Yeah. What I was gonna say is, I think for Sleepy Hollow, have a smaller geography than than you do, but we really leaned into the connectivity between our neighborhoods. And as we were building this, you know, very affluent enclave on the the river,…

Well, thank you very much. And and I think, like we've all said, it's been a it's been a month or so since we've sat in these seats. So just a few things to catch up on. On July 16, our bicycle and pedestrian committee met. Mayor was there, and so wa…

Okay. Okay. You're very good. Thank you. Just a a couple of small things and then a couple of somewhat larger, but I'll I'll try to be brief. On yesterday, our rotary meeting, we we were honored to host six high school students from around the countr…

Hi. Dave Farrington Road. First good news is DPW chooses less pollution for Croton. All of our lungs, especially our kids' lungs. Thank you. Now let's have some fun, a little thought experiment. How many gas leaf blowers do you think are working in a…

thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So just a few things here. Our Westchester Municipal Officials Organization met on June 18, the executive committee. It was the first meeting since the legislature had wrapped up in Albany, and we spent a good amount …

She's outstanding when it comes to these ribbon cuttings for our business community that that she's doing more and more of, and she's working great with our with our ABC, which is going on all cylinders. But, also, if folks get a chance, go go and sa…

We foster connections through weekly mahjong, our grief support group, and we even cater to your kitchens with our spice of the month kits, which essentially sell out every month. Neal knows about it as well. For our younger patrons and families, we …

She she put together an excellent textile recycling program, and and, I was I was impressed by how much was there and how ambitious her plans were for that. So, thank you to Matt and Dana on the bicycle pedestrian side and to Cheryl on the sustainabi…

And project mover, DPW has started pouring the, concrete base in front of Sonosqua. And weather permitting, work should be done by the end of the week. The one on North Riverside, because the state is involved, will naturally take much

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…

Yeah. For no. Two more hubs, but, you know, those are paid for by by project mover. And there's there's, you know, there there's always some infrastructure funding out for more signage

that we can put up. Yeah. But not the signage is not necessarily is not directly correlated with project mover. It's more like share the road Yep. Signs with yeah. Yep. Yes. So the I mean, what another thing that's in this line is the annual funding …

There's actually work towards a bike rodeo that the that the schools there's a wonderful phys ed teacher in the schools that's pulling that all together, and we'll have we'll have more information on that, I think, you know, fairly soon. But it was a…

We'll be once I, have a chance to talk to the manager about his schedule for next week, we're gonna we're gonna be, trying to pinpoint, where our expansion will be both in Senasco Park and North Riverside. And as we look towards the future of what th…

Thank you, mayor. Just some very brief comments on project mover. We'll start with a recap if we can. Project mover launched in Croton on July 9 and went into winter hibernation on December 19. So it was up and running a little more than five months …

And the vouchers have been redeemed at Croton Ebikes on Riverside, so it's it's been good for Croton business as well. And, of course, the voucher program will continue. Roughly speaking, there are about 300 more vouchers to to be given out over the …

How does how does that work? If you're you're talking about the infrastructure money? Yeah. Yeah. And it's, you know, without without, you know, thinking that we can just, you know, get get it instantaneously, it's enticing. There's about $600,000 le…

And they created their own square and contributed it to the quilt, which captures the clean electricity that they use at their parish hall. And they're also a green sanctuary congregation, which means they do a lot of education and outreach and progr…

And as the heart committee in the future honors additional Crotonites, their names will go up on that plaque. And so the heart committee had a wonderful cake for the seniors, and it was it was a great great early afternoon. On that same day, the mayo…

So there's, there's funding, from project mover that is set aside for what they call bike boulevards, and we were able to or I should say the bike committee was able to find a couple of projects, that could potentially, meet what they're looking for …

But I did wanna say the governor was, you know, kind enough to invite us to her home, which is, you know, always always nice nice to be there. She talked about her budget, and then she talked about some regulatory reforms, particularly in the SECRA a…

We're we're gonna be looking at ways that that the project goes on after 2027, which we'll we'll have more details on as we as we go forward. And there is a a village press release that went out just this afternoon that that summarizes what our first…

He does this on a quarterly basis with the municipalities in in his district, and we there are about 20 communities, I imagine, that were on on online with us. We talked about the congressional appropriations process, community projects, one of which…

As trustee Nicholson said, it was great to be there with the incoming team at the fire department installation last night with thanks to outgoing chief Tinkler and incoming chief Chris Colombo and assistant chiefs Chris Catarino and Joe Strini, as we…