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Article Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Read →
"About 1:45, we started receiving many phone calls at the DPW office regarding people all around the village experiencing no water," the superintendent told the board. A DPW staffer driving down Alcott had spotted the problem moments before the calls…
Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 1 0:20 →
a special update on the Waterman break. Sure. Thank you, Matthew. So, yeah, this afternoon, about 01:45, we we started receiving many phone calls at the DPW office regarding, people all around the village actually experiencing no water. It's funny. J…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 1 18:53 →
trimming. Yeah. So You basically finish. You gotta start start from the beginning. Yeah. It it's it's a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 4 24:58 →
When we replaced them back so many years ago, LED didn't come out yet. Induction was the the newest thing that replaced the metal halide lights. So that's why they we changed them over to the induction system. And that only lasted a couple of years, …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 1 50:46 →
So some of this equipment is is actually why it's in this budget this year is because we do sort of run a ramp up, replace, and upgrade some of our equipment that we do use for this leak detection and and, you know, for when there are leaks. In capit…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 5 61:00 →
Second. Second by trustee Slippin. And, chief, do you have anything you wanna share? Well, I mean, I just wanted to say that, you know, we have, embarked on this body cam project because of the request from the board and the PAC committee, many years…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 4 65:26 →
The contract the contract, it spells out in the contract. And Right. I did confirm that with the account rep about Okay. Twenty minutes before this meeting started. Yeah. Okay. Alright. That's perfect. That was just as you know, that was my concern e…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-26 Speaker 5 66:25 →
if there is somebody who can speak to that, who's present in the meeting go over that now. I'm I mean, these cameras record when they're put on. They they will automatically go on if the taser's drawn. That's why we wanna get the axe on the same one.…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 1 17:28 →
I'll just ask the treasurer if she'd like to open up the the presentation, and then just we'll go slide by slide if you can, please. Okay. So this is our tentative budget for the fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. As a reminder, the …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 1 23:09 →
by the controller's office. So we're we're we're not making this up. Yeah. We don't the the state controller's office provides those numbers to us. Yeah. We don't have any any way to differ from what they give us. Thank you. Yep. So with that, so com…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 1 33:22 →
So then on to the water fund. The water fund, there's no, budgeted increase in the rates for this year. This is the second year in a row that we've been able to hold the rates steady. Alright. That's that's what the next slide says too. Then onto the…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 1 61:14 →
Okay. So I'm going to read over the questions here. Yep. It's a short EAF part two. Okay. And so we'll just answer well, let me start with my usual. So this is not involving any specific project. Right? This is just a local law, and you can answer ei…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 6 63:49 →
Good evening. My name is Ed Riley from Drive. On the agenda, I noticed in a previous meeting under nine b, consider adopting a resolution for support of the village of legislative programs and project priorities. Most of these are directed to the sta…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 1 69:08 →
Thank you, mayor. So I just have a couple of items for tonight. Work is continuing along at Dobbs Park. So, they have been, continuing to remove some of the, old pieces of the the park and the playground equipment, some new items. The water fountain …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 1 94:42 →
Well, I mean, as as we talked about earlier today, I've asked the planning consultant to include the comments on both the the size of the of signage. Right? Because that was one big topic as well as the attachment to the trees. I've asked the plannin…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 6 101:12 →
Wanna thank the mayor for making my point on public health care. We used to have a rule in the army. And as veterans, unless you were broke and could not afford it, never go to an army hospital unless you got shot. They were very good at that. And ne…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 3 115:05 →
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…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-25 Speaker 4 117:22 →
and trustee Nixon, good good thoughts on, I think, on the on the leaf blowers as well as from from our participants. And it's it's it's on our list. We know it's on our list, and it's just a question of of of addressing it at some point. But soon, I …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 2 20:36 →
I think I think we should maybe try to break this down just a little bit. So let's if we can start with the penalties themselves, right, the the existing penalties that are in our code. In my in my research, it seemed like pretty much all the municip…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 2 32:05 →
And then That works. We also with regards to default judgments for parking tickets, right, there was a memo that was put in the backup that came from Josh Subin, our our village attorney, and explained how that process works under state law. Right? A…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 2 37:11 →
I mean, I think I think we need to ensure that the scaffold is being applied by the court. And then, you know, maybe we try that first before we start looking at default judgment because I think, yeah, especially for if it's just one or two tickets, …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 6 39:44 →
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 …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 6 50:28 →
inquiry be Well, you know, we're we're the the the team's gonna start getting busy, you know, with with the new season starting on on April 6. And so I I I think it'd be to our benefit to to try to get a letter into
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 6 51:10 →
Yeah. Yeah. We've got the So it would be, yeah, it would be important to to tap that money before this changes in the next year. And then, you know, in the in the calendar year or or the the sea let's call it the season, the the 2720 the '27 season, …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 3 56:56 →
all the municipalities participating today would continue without NY CERTA money. That's important. But you don't know what the future brings. True. You know? And so it it would be helpful at some point. Doesn't have to be the next ninety days, but j…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 2 59:29 →
shows up and starts doing work. No. And was that for the was that the dummy light Yes. Upgrade? Okay. Yeah. That was that's not related to project mover. That's just No. And I and I think and I credit the It was in the memo. The bike. Bike path. No. …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 6 60:59 →
So if this sensitive topic forward, how do we Yeah. How does it move forward? Does it have to go in front of the board of trustees again? Or yeah. Okay. If you Thank you. Yeah. If you I mean, if I was to just, you know, con just conjecture on it is, …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 4 77:07 →
Yeah. Comprehensive look on general code and and certainly took advice from NICOMS restrict restrictive and cautionary tales and guidance. Yes. So but, again, it's not meant to to increase. It's not meant to create nonconformities. It's, you know, it…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 6 102:53 →
Good start.
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-18 Speaker 6 120:58 →
I believe, justice Simon always that was always in there. You know? And actually Is it the things we need from them Well, and actually, you know, this year, we're actually making progress. Right. We were you know, we've we've made contact. You know? …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 0 0:01 →
K. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the zoning board of appeals meeting for Croton And Hudson. Today is Tuesday, March 17. Before we start, just so you know, we're well, we have a lot of people here. We have two exits, one out there and one here in…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 3 25:24 →
Right. So a lot of what you're saying goes into effect when we're when we're designing the whole project. So as somebody has been doing this for thirty five years, we always look at that. Those are the first steps in develop designing development. A …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 18 57:47 →
Hello. My name is Ori Daily. I live at 67 Mount Airy Road South right across the street from 52 Mount Airy. And I do have to say, I wasn't going to speak tonight, but, a couple things came up that I just wanted to reiterate and, and repeat that, ther…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 19 61:12 →
Hi. My name is Ashley Steele. I live at 56 Mount Airy Road, is right next door to what's going on here. I live there with my husband David Steele and my children, Tallulah and Nico, and we moved to Mount Airy thirteen years ago. And my kids were two …
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 24 77:01 →
Okay. Yes. My name is Claire Hilbert. I live at 60 Mount Airy. And, I just want to say that last year, my house turned a 100 years old and I got interested more than ever before, we've there for over twenty years. I got interested in the details abou…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 0 100:13 →
We can take a break. It's on. If you haven't Just wait for Matt to get back, and then we'll start. Do we have the sheet, Stephanie, for the voting for this one? We have the I've got it. Okay. You got it? We have one. Oh, that was left on that was lef…
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Transcript Zoning Board of Appeals 2026-03-17 Speaker 13 114:22 →
Bernard Jaswick. I'm at 64 Sunset Drive. We're right across the street kinda catty corner from, Meredith and Eric. We also used to live at 61 Sunset Drive, which is the house to their right on the East side. We came in front of the board twenty years…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-11 Speaker 18 39:40 →
Evening. Sam Watkins, 30 Lownsbury Road. I have been the elected Croton justice for almost twenty years now. In the court, when we try to decide guilt or innocence of a defendant, we tend to look at facts. So let's look at a few of the facts in the i…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-11 Speaker 14 85:13 →
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…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-11 Speaker 14 108:01 →
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,…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-11 Speaker 7 119:19 →
Whereas the Westchester Municipal Consortium, including the village of Hudson, hired Joel r Dichter of Dichter Law LLC to represent participating Westchester County municipalities in Con Edison's electric and gas rate case before the New York Public …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-03-11 Speaker 3 126:30 →
Thank you. And I will be brief. I just wanna note that the recreation catalog for recreation programming has come out. Camp sign ups will start next week. It is fantastic to think that summer is almost here. I'd like to thank the con conservation adv…
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Article Board of Trustees Work Session 2026-02-25 Read →
The big prize on the horizon is New York Forward, a state downtown revitalization program. Croton applied last year and was rejected, with the state signaling that its multiple "quasi downtowns" didn't fit the program's preference for geographically …
Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 7 26:13 →
October when when the new round is announced. Absolutely. And that's correct. And I think, if the village really wants to submit this round, I do think, you know, we talked about some potential projects. We should go back and look at those projects, …
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 5 37:13 →
So we can start digging in on that. Yes. What about New York bricks?
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 0 49:22 →
Thank you. So if I can kind of provide an outline perhaps or work as a group, we can work towards an outline of how we're gonna move forward. I would it seems to me, like, in the near term, we have a CFA, the consolidated funding application. Correct…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 7 51:05 →
Mhmm. Again, and, also some trail projects looking at, you know, especially in some of your parks if they wanna develop new trails or rehabilitation of some trails or expansion of trails, that seems to be a very big thing. And then also the local wat…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 11 60:49 →
Derek, looks like it's working. Especially given the limitations we have on the volume, can we limit outside noise? Away. Yes. Awesome. Can you see my screen here? Yes. Yes. We can. Yep. Great. So just a little bit of background on CTR. We're based o…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 11 77:13 →
Sure. I I mean, I you know, I would say when it so we proposed a a four month timeline, as we said, you know, completion by the June. That that's the time we think we need to manage everything and file everything. So, you know, we're not picking a pa…
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Transcript Board Of Trustees 2026-02-25 Speaker 2 78:30 →
of one of your reports does a board spend on a topic like this? I'm just saying I I'm happy to have this conversation. Conversation. I'm I'm happy happy to to have have all the conversations, but I just feel like if we talked about this in, you know,…
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