Valerie Monastra

Thank you. Thank you. Yes. It's been since September 2 since we had our last board meeting, so lots to catch up on. First of all, the Croton Council of the Arts annual annual fair was just terrific, and I was very pleased to be there. And also to hea…

Sure. I'll kick that off. Again, Bill Brady from Nelson Pope Voorhees. My colleague, as as noted in the memo, Valerie Monastra, worked on this, and we're looking at this for several other communities that we work with. Earlier this year, as stated in…

Thank you very much. My name is Valerie. I'm a Principal Planner at Nelson Pope and Voorhis. And I also have a history of working I actually We are the consultants for the downtown room revitalization initiative, which is a $10,000,000 process. We wo…

And so a couple examples, you know, I provided some examples of projects, like for example, in the village of Montgomery, they had a mixed use development that ended up ultimately getting funded. And then I know the mayor will talk about her projects…

You can go to the next slide. Alright. So we're gonna talk a little bit about I spent a couple of minutes talking about so what Croton On Hudson would like to put forth as the the New York forward boundary area. Let me just explain again this New Yor…

She's she's described it in full, but it was an innovative approach. And I've been on the WAC now for almost six years since the first time we actually brought in someone from the outside to to to try to enlighten us. And they they didn't quite get t…

But what the new seeker or the new environmental conservation law amendments, they don't they don't override any other federal, state, or local law. So as long as you have local laws already in place, those will still any project still has to abide b…

Thank you. Yep. Okay. Then on page so so geologic features, steep slopes, soils, you do actually have submission requirements, for those elements and specifically dealing with topographic contours and profiles, and you do have a whole steep slopes pr…

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Alright. So the other the the state law does allow municipalities to regulate hours of operation, but they specifically say that dispensary shall not be operating from 2AM to 8AM, but municipalities cannot restrict to le…

communities to communities. So Mhmm. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. And, also, excuse me, I wanted to wanted to thank, both the manager and our our grant writer, Valerie Monastra, for items four through six where we're four through seven where we're submit…

During the work session, the Village Manager also presented an update from Valerie Monastra on grant opportunities available under the Consolidated Funding Application, the Board continued discussion on changes to the Village Code related to fowl and…

Please. Yep. It's a monthly grant monthly grant. There. Okay. So I'm presenting this for, Valerie Monastra who was not able to be here this evening. So as the board is probably aware, the state has released the consolidated funding application for th…

Well, just for actually both letter f and letter g, thank the county for their their support of this as well as Valerie Monastra wearing her grant writer hat Yes. For as opposed to her planner hat. Although, actually, wearing both hats, but, she was …

And there is a whole public outreach process, that ends up being undertaken and projects, what they call an open call for projects, where both private property owners as well as the the village themselves can put forth projects, and then the committe…

application with seven projects So in that's a good that's a really good question. So the way the application process will work is they wanna make they wanna make sure that that if they word the 4,500,000 to the village of Corona and Hudson, that you…

I think some of their some of their comments relate to some of our comments in the memo as well. Okay. So, if you'd like, I can kind of highlight both if that might be. That'd be great. If if you can do that, that would be wonderful. So, so what both…

Planning consultant Nelson Pope & Voorhis has provided detailed analysis identifying several areas needing attention. In their April 10, 2026 memo, consultants Valerie Monastra and Bill Brady note "there is a discrepancy in the definitions" and recom…

Then there's also the brownfield opportunity area through that particular project and then, through that particular department of state. And, again, that tends to be a lot of private, developments, but you also can have public space that you know tha…

Environmental bond act, this one has, this particular act was passed by. It was a referendum that was passed, a few years ago. And a lot of the grants that have been coming out recently associated with this bond act focus on recreation and habitat an…

But we anticipate that funding to continue into the next year as well so that we could potentially, submit some additional projects. And then last is the federal grants, which I'm not gonna go into detail, but there's a lot of different agencies. And…

And I assume they're all doing that. They are all doing that. Yes. Yep. We make sure of that. You know, there's a there's a lot of jobs that I I thought I'd like to do some time in municipal government. This is not one of them. So I really have to ta…