Stacey Nachtaler

agree with deputy mayor Simon on, you know, definitely. I know we talked about this role previously in previous meetings. Manager, you have so much on your plate that having a a really strong number two, you know, would would be great for the village…

And we're making a law for this role, though. Is it an opportunity to for Croton, is there a a home role opportunity here for, like, Croton to say, you know what? This is such an important role that, you know, this person would backfill you if you're…

Yep. And a question, just to clarify one of the laws that some of the the drafting there, it says, is it my understanding that we're saying you can't smoke cannabis right outside of the store outdoors? I know that's come up like the public has asked.…

Thank you. And I just wanna say that I'm grateful for all the residents who came out tonight. I'm sure you're here for various reasons, but I I'm grateful that you're all here. And, I'm grateful for the people who submitted letters concerning local l…

Okay. Well, on August 25, as a a member of the Water Fund Advisory Committee meeting, I attended the August 25 meeting with deputy mayor Simon. We reviewed, the major Metro North Railroad project for consistency with our local waterfront revitalizati…

on September 1, I attended the May with the mayor and trustee Nicholson and the manager, the reopening of the Farrington Steps. So I know that work was a long time coming. It was just really well done and beautifully done. And I know DPW is looking f…

The work will, occur within, you know, the active rail corridor. There'll be in water river work, going on at several locations for the placement footings for platforms, lots of steel work. And when I reviewed this, you know, we're asking the WAC, th…

So, you know, basically, you know, we don't really know how large this project is, what the height is, what the footprint, the dimensions, the foundations. There's in water work being done. We don't know how the footings will be installed, what equip…

Yes. And also comments I heard from here, which were upsetting, so we don't have to get into that. But thank you for noting it, Judy. I appreciate what you do. Okay. So Sunday, this past Sunday, August 16, I attended the fiftieth Annual Jewish Music …

So I just wanted to add some additional thoughts for discussion here because I think when I look at the steep slopes and, you know, the environment within Croton, there seems to be some opportunity to strengthen tree protection. And I think first, th…

and Yeah. They get a permit. Mhmm. But the amount of clear cutting has been significant and shocking to residents in certain instances. And so I'm questioning whether we need to strengthen the code that we have. I mean, it's fine to give the planning…

minor site plan. Yeah. So I think it's the clearing of trees that gets at least affects me the most because I feel like that affects the character of the village. It affects the character and the landscape, the vista, the you know, it's you get accus…

I'm used to trustee Slippen starting. So there's been a lot of news in the media about committees and I just want to say that the village board published guidelines to committees in May. So our new guidelines came out in May. And, committee chair dot…

Having a daily local newspaper online, drives civic engagement. It promotes greater government transparency, our art, and cultural activities. And, you know, while I get criticized from the Chronicle, I still appreciate that it's here. So I just want…

So I don't know in in if the right opportunity to discuss it as a board, what that might look like, if it's vice of counsel or an exact I don't I don't know. But hearing, you know, that it was the wooden bridge, we heard from Mark Cheshire that Georg…

That's great. And on the second resolution, consider determining the site work at Govea Park to be a type two action under SECRA. I know that we're now operating under the new SECRA reforms. And, before the reforms, this would have been considered, a…

Thank you. So, Cristian, my heart goes out to thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'm driven by it, but I don't live on the road, so I was unaware of the magnitude of this. I can't tell you how frustrated this makes me because if I add up a…

But we've got we've got a bunch of big issues going on in our village with entities that are really don't have accountability to us. So I hope we can change that. I know we're we're trying. So thank you. I do want to say today's event, the Patriot wh…

I really appreciate your thought leadership on on this subject matter. It's new to me, and so I've had to do a lot of research around it, you know, to to learn more. But I know we're getting this your your expertise is, you have tremendous credential…

Right. Thank you. I guess if I take a step back, what I would have loved is a discussion. I don't know if it's an advice of council meeting or a different work session meeting where the topic is we have 72 parcels of village land, x amount are usable…

I I've done some research on this. I know there are there are villages that allow hens and ducks, chickens and ducks, and there are also villages like I believe it might be Tarrytown that only allows hens. No ducks. And, yeah, it's the village of Tar…

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Thank you. So the, the summary of leaf blower discussion that was added today on the agenda. Well, first, thank you for pulling the summary together from our work session. I mean, there was we had a lot of discussion around it. So thank you, manager,…

Blessings. Thank you. Blessings. Yes, I wanna thank everybody who came out this evening. I see a lot of new faces that both I've never met, and, thank you for having the courage to speak out. I really appreciate everyone's voices. On the dog park iss…

I saw so many people from the village, outside the village. I mean, it was just incredible. So manager and DPW and everyone that worked on it, all the vendors, it was it was fantastic. So thank you. I know there was a question around, can we have mor…

Thank you. Yep. Right. I'd thank you. I I just wanna add because I in speaking to residents, they don't really understand what home rule means. And so I think many folks think that, you know, we're adopting procedures and are definitely going to do t…

Well said. Thank you. Yeah. I think recruiting, attracting top talent for the village is a key duty that we have, you know, as a board and manager. You have a full plate, a huge plate. So I think if we can help, you know, you attract great talent to …

Well, and I I just wanna say I understand what you're saying. I We can disagree. We can disagree, but I just wanted to add too that timing is of the essence in trying to recruit this position. So we do have some element of time pressure for transitio…

I I think it's important that we started start. I mean, I think having a committee for this is really kind of the way to start tackling it and making sure that we have the right stakeholders at the table. I think that some of the landowners, property…

I mean, I think that working with Hudson Historic Hudson Valley and their business model, bringing more people to the village will support businesses. Right? So, like, right now, it's historically been well, not historically. Over the last decade, it…

or if there's an exception, then we call out those exceptions in that section. Okay. So that it's clear on which, you know, what are the size limitations. Yeah. And then, like, this is sort of practice versus code, but I just want to bring this up. S…

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And just to reiterate, the developers paying for this outsourcing service. Correct. Yes. That's what the escrow is. Correct. And my understanding is that the reason that we're hiring or that we've made this decision is that our current engineering de…

Well, and I just wanna answer that because one of the big concerns with data centers is the amount of energy that they use and the trend of increasing energy expenses for residents around them. So we would need to understand if that were to happen, w…

speaking of businesses in the village, I know this past Saturday, I attended the Monday's gift shop ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony, ceremony, and that was with the ABC, is it? Yes. And it was I think it was it was really a wonderful event.…

DRAFT Planning Board Meeting Minutes May 12, 2026 8:00 p.m. PRESENT: Rob Luniz John Ghegan Geoffrey Haynes Steve Krisky Eva Thaddeus ALSO PRESENT: Vincent Salanitro, P.E., Village Engineer Jeannette Koster, Village Attorney (via Zoom) Bill Brady, AIP…

The proposed legislation would "amend the provisions of Chapter 179 'Property Maintenance' and Chapter 230 'Zoning' of the Village Code to revise the law governing posted signs," according to the referral memo from Mayor Stacey Nachtaler dated March …

Okay. And I do just wanna thank mister Corwin because he has done a tremendous amount of research on several bodies of water within the village over the course of the last couple weeks. And I think that there is space to have a bigger discussion abou…

And, speaking of Eva Thaddeus and her great work, the Garden Club, did a planting around it. So that, I appreciate all of those. It's great that so many of the committees that I'm a liaison to did such great work that we're gonna celebrate this week.…

Who were working at this weekend. The weather was, not completely cooperative, but it was a very nice event. So thank you to everybody who presented there, to the CAC, of course, but also to all our village staff who really made the day. Two other sm…

Yeah. Well, first, I wanna thank trustee Slippen and trustee Nicholson for a lot of their work on these guidelines and and the manager. This has been going on since I joined the board, which is fairly recent, but a lot of work has gone into this. And…

thank you. Are you Yep. I'm done. Yep. Okay. Thanks. So okay. So thank you, Quaker Bridge. My understanding is we need a permit that the county is waiting on a permit from the the and the Army Army Corps. Corps of Engineers. And that's federal and we…

One was Port Chester, which was you know, that was really a turnaround story on how a kind of declining you know, I'll call it a city, that is at least what it is to me, was in decline and how, you know, development and, you know, riverfront revitali…

Yeah. I guess I'm gonna come back closely. There was a lot of discussion around why they were green. We haven't found we haven't been able to find anything wanting to change them from green if people felt strongly that That was me. What do you mean? …

Can I ask a question about that? The new crossing that's near I guess it's Wood Street or Gerstein, one of those streets. So when you come up to that stoplight, it, like I think it isn't flashing until you come No. It'll it flashes when it's activate…

I mean, I think the intersections that are of more concern or of as much concern to me are the ones where the students are walking to school. Because, you know, all the kids within a certain distance aren't getting a bus, and there are a lot of you k…

So I would like to propose an increase, and this is kind of un un un unbudgeted at this point of kind of what the line item and where it will fall, but I'd like to see us, really with more focus on team programming and increasing team programming. So…

I fully support, you know, adding additional hours into your office. I mean, I think that that is something that the board, you know, we've talked about, it hasn't happened. You know, Joanna's getting some additional hours in senior services this yea…

Lindsay Lupicello, who is the program director in Cortlandt Mhmm. Does have a good relationship with the PBC principal, and they do marketing, and they do back to school, you know, school nights and whatever. It does come down to a lot of people say …

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