The Grand

And I spoke to the idea committee about, you know, giving them some of the feedback that we learned during this session as they think about Hispanic Heritage Month, just how, you know, taking into consideration some of what we learned. And you know, …

who are proposing housing development could make their applications. Nothing that would be I think that's an excellent point, attorney. And I think, you know, not to put words in, Valerie's mouth, but I think, you know, part of the reason why we wann…

Just in terms of just so people kinda understand, when we pick this area when we look at sort of the Grand Street Upper Village area, which is really the true downtown of the Yes. Village, why isn't that a great candidate? Like, if we just circled so…

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…

Um, and probably most importantly, our students have shared with us that they feel our implementation has been respectful and that they don't have a problem putting away their devices for classes and honestly do so willingly recognizing the positive …

I think that for me I felt very lucky to be a parent who was also a board trustee to be able to be in that room, but I know for a lot of students they also said, "I wish my mom could have been here to hear some of this stuff or I wish no parent could…

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.…

You can get all the information on either the village website or the rotary website, and, this is this is all based on contributions. And and, we had a rotary meeting yesterday, and the planning for that is going very well. Anyone who contributes $50…

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you is know, the postage costs are spread out among the three budgets. So, you know, this is not the full number. But, yeah, it's in the grand scheme of things. It's not it's not a huge there. It's not a huge cost. Does the this w…

Um, in real life, we are really seeing that difference in club attendance. That's something that we're tracking. Um we've seen a huge increase in participation in clubs. So that that piece of the plan absolutely worked. Um Tiger Tuesdays were new thi…

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 …

I should manager, do do you wanna talk about the rotary DBW, or do want me to mention it? Okay. I'll just go ahead. The we we are looking we were looking for a an organization to sponsor an event and and undertake, you know, whatever fundraising was …

And and I you know, as far as the theater is concerned, I know that the grand is being used for that. But, you know, it it's been you know, I've been a volunteer at the Croton Council for the Arts now since probably September, October, and we're just…

you know, we have we have big wins and little wins. Right. And, certainly, we have our share of disappointments as everyone does, you know, when you get engaged in the grand business. But I just wanted to point out that, you there's about a million b…