Croton trustees reviewed a proposed rental-property registry at their September 17, 2025, work session, discussing how to identify rental units and check their safety. The proposal remained under review; the board’s formal action that evening was a 3–0 vote to join a cooperative purchasing program intended to help obtain playground equipment for Dobbs Park. The meeting also covered possible alternate members for the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals, a potential farmers market and a handbook for village volunteer committees. This report covers the September 2025 discussion and does not establish which proposals were implemented afterward. Village Attorney Joshua Subin described the registry as an inventory to support health and safety monitoring, supplementing existing housing codes. The draft legislation in the packet would require owners of nonexempt rental units to register and obtain a certificate, with existing units’ owners applying within 90 days after the law took effect. The draft covered short-term rentals of one to 30 days as well as longer rentals. It exempted owner-occupied properties with two or fewer dwelling units that were not short-term rentals. Other proposed requirements included a housing-code inspection, current property taxes and a contact in Westchester or Putnam County when an owner lived outside those counties. Village Manager Bryan Healy explained that the proposal’s basic health and safety requirements would also cover short-term rentals. In that exchange, Subin said more substantive rental restrictions would be a separate matter. The draft provided for longer-term rental certificates lasting up to three years and short-term certificates lasting one year. Registration and inspection fees would be set separately by the board. Trustee Len Simon supported moving the registry proposal to the referral stage. After Trustee Nora Nicholson arrived and asked about next steps, Mayor Brian Pugh said the proposal would return at another meeting to begin that process. No rental-registry law was adopted during this work session. Trustees also reviewed a draft allowing one alternate on each of the Planning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals. Alternates would have one-year terms, meet the same training requirements as regular members and vote when designated by the chair to replace an absent or recused member. Subin explained that alternates could help with quorum problems and provide continuity when a member had a conflict. Simon favored seeking both boards’ views on the proposal. For a possible farmers market, Healy reported that Down to Earth Markets could potentially start a Croton market in June 2026. His September 12 memo described a June-through-November season, with the operator selecting vendors and charging them fees. The village would provide a location with restroom access and some equipment storage, under an agreement for use of the space. Location remained unsettled. Trustee Cara Politi favored a site that people would naturally walk past. Pugh identified the Asbury lot, the municipal building and Vassallo Park as possible priority sites for the operator to consider, while noting competition for space at Vassallo. Other ideas included South Riverside Avenue and the library lawn. Healy said the next step would be a site visit to walk through the options. A 2020 Recreation Advisory Committee letter included in the packet warned of conflicts with existing park uses. The committee disliked both Croton Landing and Senasqua Park as sites, though its letter said it would choose Senasqua if forced to pick between them. Simon pushed back when the parks were described as the committee’s suggestions. The September 17 meeting did not select a market location or approve a reopening date. The proposed committee handbook brought together guidelines, an event-request form, a chart of committee responsibilities and a process for moving ideas into programs or recommendations. The draft called for chairs, vice chairs or co-chairs, secretaries, advance agendas, meeting minutes, written recommendations and annual reports. Proposed deadlines for submitting agendas and minutes were still blank. Pugh expressed concern about adding administrative work for volunteers and urged a shared way to retain records when committee leadership changed. Simon called for more useful committee webpages showing current work and documents. Nicholson described the guidelines as a way to make communication and responsibilities clearer and reduce the questions volunteers had to resolve separately. A proposed limit of one committee membership per resident also remained under discussion. Pugh favored allowing a year before such a change took effect, and Nicholson supported giving volunteers time to choose. Pugh proposed returning to a future work session with a revised handbook before the next round of committee appointments. The evening’s adopted measure, Resolution 226-2025, authorized Healy to execute an agreement with OMNIA Partners, Public Sector, Inc. There was no charge to join. Simon moved the resolution and Politi seconded it; Nicholson had not yet arrived and Trustee Maria Slippen was absent for that vote, according to the official work-session minutes. Healy explained that Dobbs Park playground equipment was available through OMNIA’s cooperative purchasing program. Joining would allow the village to use qualifying contracts already bid by other governments. The resolution did not itself set a playground purchase price. Separate official executive-session minutes record no formal action during that session.