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Alright. Good evening. I'm mayor Brian Pugh. Welcome to our regular Croton on Hudson Board of Trustees meeting. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which…

I'll leave it to you. Okay. Thank thank you, mayor. So, yeah, it it was a good time because the attorney and I were just speaking this afternoon. I had asked her if we were going to, have this tax exemption law ready for the next meeting. So we had d…

Okay. So we had... We did have this position previously from 2008 to 2015. Correct. Whenever you all positions in the village government are classified under civil service, right, whether they're elected exempt labor, competitive, non competitive. Ri…

Motion by trustee Simon, second by trustee Nachtaler. All in favor? Aye. Alright. Now we proceed to public hearing on local law number 15 of 2026 to amend chapter 31. Manager, village code I just helped you deal for one. Create the position of the as…

So that's that's why we have are having this public hearing tonight. And this is a true deputy position, so it requires a certain level of confidentiality as well. So in other words, the deputy stands in for you when you're not available or or you're…

Okay. Whereas the village board of trustees are desirous of creating the position of assistant village manager and whereas local law introductory number 15 of 2026 has been drafted for such purposes and whereas a public hearing was opened and closed …

K. Thank you very much. We'll open the public hearing. Does anyone else in the audience wanna speak on this application? Okay. Now let's close the public hearing. Members, any comments?

Okay. How interesting. Okay. Any more questions for the applicant? Thank you. We'll open the public hearing. Anyone wanna make a comment on the application? Okay. Thank you. We'll close the public hearing. And board members, comments, thoughts? One o…

Okay. So Any other questions for the applicants before we open the public hearing? Okay. Let's open the public hearing. Thank you, John. Anyone wanna speak from the public? Doesn't look like anyone's here. So we'll close the public hearing. And peopl…

Alright. Good evening, and welcome to our work session. The first item of business, will be considering the rescheduling of a public hearing on local law 14 of 2026, from 09/23/2026 to 09/30/2026. Do I have a motion? No.

Whereas the village board of trustees desires to update the language in the village code to provide clarification in the review of land use applications for consistency with the local waterfront revitalization plan. And whereas local law introductory…

Now, this this is being this is being looked at very closely. Yep. I'm sure. So, okay. So any other comments on this? So I think we're ready to schedule this for a public hearing so we can bring it so it could be on the agenda for the next meeting. T…

and things that you can ask for. Just just to be persnickety on that point, and I'm playing devil's advocate just a little bit for my own clarity. The only thing the applicant's done on that project is file an application. There hasn't been a public …

And then where it says the same paragraph, the last line, Lori Lee Dickson actually it should be I'm suggesting instead of Lori Lee Dickson said it should be acting Chairman Haynes said that the Planning Board was not ready to call for a public heari…

I'm So, as trustee Simon kinda gave a brief synopsis on the law, I'll just say that, you know, the board has had numerous discussions on this law. Much of the information is included in the backup, documentation that is available on the village websi…

In this case, a redesign could have pleased all sides, but our mayor and deputy mayor, with less concern for other neighbors' backyards or street front in this case, ignored their pleas. And with Kathy Hochul's Let Them Build package, we have exempte…

Whereas the village code requires that property owners clear their sidewalks of snow and ice within twelve hours after the end of a snow event. And whereas the village court also provides an exemption for certain areas where geographical limitations …

Hi. Thank you. My name is Nora Regis Audin. I'm on, Van Wyck Street. I am speaking today about the I know it's a to schedule the public hearing on Local Law 10, but I did wanna just address it now so that because I have concerns, and hopefully, we ca…

Yes. We would discuss that as part of the I mean, although, I mean, the laws if you wanna discuss we could discuss it now as well because if if a majority of the board wants to do it, we might as well add it to the law now so we don't have to rehold …

And just the seniors club, you know, the senior club, I'm I'm a liaison with deputy mayor Simon, and they meet every Friday, eleven to one, and their meeting's from twelve to one. And they have a pizza party coming up at the yacht club, September 11.…

President's report is gonna be is gonna cover a few areas that needs to complete reports on in the update on your future. I'm gonna open with a preview of some key items on the agenda for tonight's business meeting. In addition to our monthly hearing…

folks. We're moving on to item three. I think some of my promises about the end time of this meeting were premature. Yes. Hearing district wide safety plan item 3.1 on the agenda. Opening the public hearing of the district wide safety and emergency m…

Any additional comment from the public? Alright. Then I'll go to before we have sort of, like, our discussion, go to item 3.3, adjourning the public hearing on the the American management plan. Do you resolve that the Board of Education hereby adjour…

So there's a lot of supporting documentation that came with this. This is, you know, a a six inch high packet of information that the planning board gets for this. So we're gonna be going through that tonight, asking questions about that supporting i…

So you can see in its entirety the areas to be considered by the planning board, and the applicant is aware of the responsibilities to meet the minimum requirements. And the project, once it's determined to be the project and presented publicly Mhmm.…

Yeah. Run down the list. Great. Thank you very much, Jared. Again, as you noted, our memo was in the materials that are online. And if you wanna review those, you'll you'll kinda can play along. We put together this memo to kinda also give the board …

Well, it would have to be after the law was adopted. Right? So it would be we August 19, we call for the public hearing at potentially the first meeting in September. You would adopt the law at that point, and then we'd have to file it with the state…

So that just means in in instead of just going for a tree removal permit, they do require planning board review of it as well. Okay. So the planning board then could ask for additional information as part of that, you know, which could include erosio…

this is through a normal zoning law review process. Right? Somewhat ironically, this is going to have to go through Seeker. Seeker. So it will it will be sent to the planning board for their review. Mhmm. They're gonna send you back a memo with their…

Yeah. Circuit the notice of hearing needs to be circulated with a copy. Yeah. Hypothetically, if, like, the town was changing their zoning to allow a transfer station to be on the village's border, Right? You know, you may wanna you may wanna send co…

earliest just running through the calendar in my head. Right? The the earliest that you would be able to adopt the law is the second meeting in September. Correct. So because you're gonna need, you're gonna refer this tonight to the WAC and the plann…

Yep. When they're looking at this and certainly explaining that it takes, sixty days at least. And, for a zoning again, you know, the zoning code is sacrosancted. There are certain requirements you have to do. So I just had advised to date certain in…

We'll be having a public hearing to to extend to approve a 120,000 for the steam boiler number two at the Millstone.

Explain it so clearly. You. Thank you. We will now move into item 3.1. Open the public hearing on proposed usage of the repair reserve. Recommended action be it resolved. The board of education hereby open the public hearing regarding the proposed us…

All in question? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? I'm sorry. Closing of the public hearing on the proposed usage of the repair reserve. Recommended action be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby closes the public hearing regarding the proposed u…

having protests and pushing for a moratorium. I would also just note the actual history in our village, right, which is, you know, I was there for the public hearing on our best law. It was not an incredibly contentious affair. We have two best syste…

I mean, it would there would be opportunity for public comment as part of the regular public comment? And, you know, going back to the land use process, this being both a special permit and also site plan, I mean, I don't know the specific statutory …

park? It doesn't It would be it would be an right. So our parking restrictions go into effect at two inches, but this would just be it would just be you'd be allowed to park from seven to seven regardless. Okay. Yeah. That's good. Yep. So how what's …

If you have noticed the public hearing until this board acts to open the public hearing, the public hearing is not open. So you would have to open the public hearing with a vote, and then you'd have to adjourn it to a date certain if you didn't want …

I mean, if we if we say that we wanna open the public hearing and then adjourn it to our next regularly scheduled meeting and That might be the only agenda, and then we're just all gonna reconvene here just to do the same thing. You could put it off …

say, okay. We're still not prepared. Well, right now, you haven't even voted to open the public hearing. Yeah. We're just discussing opening the public hearing. So just to be clear. And so if you open the public hearing and adjourned it to the next m…

the village's law regarding the prior notice of defects was adopted in 1977 and has not been amended since that time, and whereas new methods of communication have developed over the past forty nine years to share notices with the village, and wherea…

have, like the maps and the and the current, state laws. And I have it tentatively scheduled for the July 22 work session. So, you know, that gives us a little more than a month to get that material together. And it will it will be on a work session …

Alright. Very good. I'll keep going. Okay. Whereas the village board of trustees supports the development of affordable housing in the village of Croton-on-Hudson, and whereas under the direction of the village board, village the manager studied the …

That's it. Okay. Okay. So let's close the public hearing, and I think we have a few things to talk about. Number one, with regards to the interpretation of the code. Number one, are pigeons considered domestic animals? Number two, are pigeons conside…

Excuse me. I'm sorry to interrupt. There was a couple that just arrived a few minutes late for the public hearing. And so there's an ask whether you could possibly consider letting them speak.

Can we reopen the public hearing? Yes. Okay. So we can reopen if you guys have want us have anything to say. As I said, we're not talking we're not talking about a specific situation. We're talking about the interpretation of the code. So anything yo…

Well I don't know. You know, the the forum that, you know, they did last time back in 2021 or whatever, I think that would be analogous to what happened with Half Moon Bay or Guevaia Park. In terms of a public hearing, you know, I not to put words in…

Then Very soon. Resume. Sorry to interrupt Right? And and first of all, it's so great having Valerie here issue after issue. So glad glad you're here. Lined up. Yeah. And I I think you very very good job on this. I got some specific points on that. I…

Yeah. I mean, that's, again, that's ultimately up to you if you wanna close the public hearing and vote on it. Yep. You know, I mean, that's generally what the board does. Yep. And it's exempt from CEQA as a type two action. Yes. So can you just say …