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Alright. So the rapid flashing beacon on Maple Street, we finally received approval from New York State DOT to move forward with the installation. DPW is set to begin work next Monday, October 5. One lane of traffic will be closed during the week whi…

let's establish that I'm a supporter of everyone up there. But there are some questions I have, and I didn't wanna leave the house. I had a day today. Believe me. I lost it patchy on top of it. Uh-huh. Wonderful. But here we are. I can title this I w…

Thank you, mayor, and thanks for your patience, everyone. So this local law, as it says, is being or was drafted to create the position of assistant village manager. This is a position that the village had previously from 2008 to 2015. And then in 20…

I'd like to make a suggestion, but I'll take my time. I suggest that you pass the microphone around if it works, and people can ask a question, maybe follow-up on it, then the next person can ask their question as opposed to allotting time. I came he…

I'd like to draw people's attention to projects like this, one of which, the Industrial Development Authority in the state of New York, in Yonkers, and so forth. It took what the the history and the smell from those organizations has been over time. …

Yeah. Bryan, before we break up, I just wanted to personally thank the mayor for her time. I mentioned to her before we got started, I said, my goodness, you have enough evening meetings in Sleeping Hollow. You you don't need to add one more to Croto…

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…

If I were somebody that was building something to, let's say, house ducks, I'm gonna ask my neighbors, hey. What do you think if I start doing this? I need to take into consideration what my neighborhood is going to think about. Many things get done …

Ed Riley from Truesdale Drive. Just to make a comment on some issues, which I don't think are critical issues, but they they're brought up here again and again every week, is if a if a person's making an argument, you don't have to use hyperbole, esp…

Okay. So let's look at the six responders. In alphabetical order, they are luminase, microgrid networks, Newly Elected Energy, Nine Dot Energy, Aurinta Power, and RIC Energy. And I'm sure you've never heard of any of them. Suffice to say that all are…

I understand there's obviously some growing concerns about privacy and data retention and things of that nature. So I just wanna clarify that the cameras that we use are not flock cameras. Okay? It's not a a private company that manages data of where…

K. So, just a few items this evening. The first item I wanted to talk about was PFAS and the water supply. I understand that there was, some, commentary about this late last week. Our water supply is safe. It does have some low levels of PFAS contami…

My name is Ed Riely from Truesdale Drive. I'd like to bring to the board's attention a couple of items because, hopefully, this will be a reform board. In the past twelve months, I've heard at least on two occasions, the chief executive of the Court …

Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Andrew Cortese. I'm the applicant Carmel Riverside LLC. I have my managing partner here, Robert Leggio. We're here to present our multi family project. A little bit about myself, I've been doing developm…

As already mentioned, this project will be, the application will refer to Westchester County Department of Planning, Westchester County, due to its, due to the special use permit. There are also additional local land use permits. We list them in here…

So there's a notice that goes to Westchester County Planning Board, but I don't think that goes to them until we declare declare an I a public hearing. So I think that that wouldn't start we that we wouldn't send it to the Westchester Department of P…

the increase of rent that they can do? Yeah. Although, that's what the ETPA so those five buildings that are under so ETPA, trustee Murtaugh, right, is the emergency tenant protection act, and that governs the the Westchester County rent guidelines b…

Yeah. We don't need to go into that right now. Okay. Mhmm. Be here all night. Well, we can give also credit, but while we're here, we can give credit to Westchester County planning for giving us the original model ordinance. That is true. We were it …

Okay. Yeah. Let's talk about that for a second again just for the benefit of our two new trustees because we haven't had a chance to go over all this in detail. We don't have write ups on all these. It's a that could be a new job for board developmen…

Westchester County has officially started the Quaker Bridge replacement project that started officially last week on July 6. The commemorative plaques that had been on either side of the bridge, which I know people had a lot of interest in preserving…

The repaving project along Cleveland Drive is scheduled to begin July 13. The project came in significantly underbid, so we are working with the contractor to see if we can include Cleveland Drive from Gerstein Street to Jacoby Street in addition to …

Con Edison did not notify the village, the school district, or emergency services prior to the start of this project, which constituted numerous violations of the permit issued to them, and we will be seeking penalties accordingly. Our offices are cl…

Because I saw that the county put an announcement on social media, But I think that some people got our emails, some people like, I I want people to know because this was, you know, something I've been talking about for a long time. People ask about …

Okay. You can hear me now. Right? Yep. Yep. Very good. Just checking. Okay. You never know. I'm here tonight to talk to you about a revenue opportunity for the village, which might also help support future sustainability efforts, and that is the use …

Okay. I pushed didn't push the button hard enough. Okay. Here we go. Once again, hello. I'm Lindsay, and I'm gonna talk to you about money. Okay. Thank you, Lindsay. Alright. Sorry about that. I thought I'd push that button. Okay. Local governments h…

And I also checked with our our our local department of health, Westchester County Department of Health, and, you know, they said that they don't have anything in the sanitary code for the county that deals specifically with pigeons. They do they do …

Trustee Slippen? Aye. Trustee Nachtaler? Aye. Trustee Nicholson? Aye. Trustee Simon? Aye. Mayor Pugh? Aye. A resolution authorizing the issuance of an aggregate $86,100 bonds of the village of Croton-on-Hudson, Westchester County, New York to pay the…

Inform new buyers or renters their right to access our wonderful Croton resources that are unique in Westchester County and the need for modest fees and licensing. We all know moving is overwhelming. Do we really expect new residents to read pages an…

John Sasso, Morningside Drive. I'm not gonna remind you that we have the only dog park that closes at 04:00 on weekends in Westchester County, and explanation of that is beyond. I live on Morningside Drive. Houses are close together, and we talk abou…

You wanna go ahead. Leads me to a question. Just listening to Ethan and Jim, it's pretty clear that there is no specific definition of what a foul is. I was not able to find a definition of foul under New York law. There was nothing in New York state…

Uh and in terms of regional comparison, certainly there are folks um who are of course interested in how we're comparing to districts uh within our region. And so for purposes of tonight, we've again done that comparison relative to put northern West…

That was in the the capital budget that was approved by the board, and, we applied to a AARP for a grant, and we were successful. So, you know, it's just a very nice, it's not gonna cover the whole cost, but it will cover almost half of it. So, you k…

I'm not going very far. Yeah. I I'll just I'll just point out here because there's a there's a lot on the consent agenda, but, you know, it's all it's all good stuff. You know, we are applying for two more grants. We're applying to Westchester County…

Yeah. In the existing camera systems used by our police department, are there's a certain brand to avoid, any commercial issues or whatever. I won't name names, but there's one that's been in the news lately. You can look it up if you're curious. We …

Condominium. For sale. Yeah. For sale condos. Correct. Thank you. Yep. Okay. Next is on Con Edison. So Con Edison is continuing to work along All Post Road North as part of the gas main replacement project that they're undertaking. You may see that t…

Cornell Cooperative Extension is reviewing the proposal, and I look forward to receiving their comments. Regarding the Quaker Bridge, I've continued to ask Westchester County for a project update but have not received a response as of today. Per the …

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…

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…

And we did also suggest that on the exempt signs that you provide yourselves an opportunity to require a sign. So, say you you determine that it's important to post a sign that this property is a subject for zoning board application to be heard. I yo…

has taken the first bite at the single bite. Yes. Yeah. Thank you, mayor. And I I should I should say both the mayor and the manager have been, you know, very helpful in terms of insights and a few edits and and and and thoughts. So I really apprecia…

we have all league and all section with Vivian Chen who also headed up to states to represent Krogan Harmon. She finished 17th while she was there. she also won the section one sportsmanship award which is given to only only one swimmer in the entire…

If you call 911 here and quote them with the problem, the quick response is evident. If your police is, well, I guess, shuffled off to the county police, they could be anywhere in Westchester County. And if then that, on a case already, they're down …

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 …

Thank you. Thank you, trustee Nicholson. I got a wonderful surprise, this afternoon. I was over at the County Building, for a meeting, which I'll talk about, at some future session, but, with our, wonderful county legislator, Emiliana Ulaei. And at t…

And this morning, they began snow removal in the business districts, and the goal is to have most of those areas complete by Friday. Snow is being removed to an area of Croton Point Park, and we thank, Westchester County Parks for their, assistance i…

So with the state of emergency, there's not necessarily any funding that becomes available. What the state of emergency does, it allows us to circumvent our purchasing policy. And circumvent's probably not the right word. But, you know, normally, whe…

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…

The board also authorized a project labor agreement for the publicly funded portions of the 100-unit affordable housing development at Lot A on Croton Point Avenue. The PLA covers infrastructure work — including a water main extension and new sewer l…

Whereas the village of Cordonan Hudson has owned a parcel located on the North side of Cordon Point Avenue at its intersection with Veterans Plaza, also known as TaxMap Parcel 79 Dot 17 Dash 1 Dash 5 since the nineteen sixties. And whereas in 2023, t…

Thanks very much. Yep. So just a a few things here. Again, congratulations to Elton Robinson for receiving our key to the village and for designing our logo, which is, I think, served us so well. Speaking of recognition, on Friday, at noon, we'll be …