The village's Bicycle-Pedestrian Committee spent its February meeting on an unusually concrete question: which Croton street improvements could capture a share of more than $600,000 in regional funding now on the table. The money flows through Project MOVER, the six-community e-bike share program Croton joined last year, and is earmarked for "bike boulevards" — also called neighborhood greenways. Eligible uses include materials, supplies or equipment for street improvements such as construction, signage and other upgrades that make streets more bikeable, with more than $600,000 available across the six municipalities and a 30 percent local match, according to the committee's Feb. 26 minutes. Committee members were asked to settle on one or two projects to recommend, preferably tied to the village's Bike-Ped Master Plan, though new ideas not in the plan were also welcome. Chair Matt Arnold noted that many candidate improvements are already included in the master plan. Deputy Mayor Len Simon, the committee's ex officicio board liaison, suggested members send the village manager a memo laying out their recommendations. Once the committee decides, Simon and Arnold are to brief the village manager and Superintendent of Public Works Frank Balbi, who could offer guidance on which projects would be most practical to implement. Arnold will draft the memo and share it with the committee before it is released. Simon asked whether it could be ready by the week after next, saying a letter to Project MOVER should go out by March. The discussion weighed real constraints: improvements requiring physical objects are hard to install on state-owned roads, where signage is the easier lift, and while speed humps drew pushback in the past, the minutes note some appetite for exploring pilot locations. Mayor Brian Pugh could not attend the meeting, but Simon said Pugh is supportive of seeking the funding for a good project. The meeting opened with a quieter request. Guest Julie Evans, who attended to observe the committee at work, wanted the group to remember cyclist and Croton resident Deborah Ramsey (sp) with a biking event or another commemoration. A memorial service was scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 28, at St. Augustine from noon to 1 p.m. Members also brought Evans up to date on the committee's activities and focal points. Elsewhere on the grants front, the committee's letter of support for the village's Transportation Alternatives Program application went to the village manager the week of Feb. 23. The Board of Trustees authorized that application on Feb. 18, seeking state funding to improve pedestrian safety along Cleveland Drive with a 20 percent local match. Simon told the committee the village previously had no planner on its team and brought one in on a part-time basis within the past eight or nine months; the planner has made a presentation to the village on grant strategies and has been knowledgeable and helpful in obtaining grants and resources, according to the minutes. A village staff member has been assigned to reach out to the community to gather support letters. The committee is also caught up in a village-wide effort to sharpen how advisory bodies operate. Committee chairs are expected to meet with the Board of Trustees, or a subset of it, sometime in March to go over a final draft of village committee guidelines. Simon said board members are seeking better coordination among committees, staying within budget, and adherence to committee missions. On the e-bike share, season two is set to begin in April, weather permitting. There is strong interest in adding hubs in North Riverside and Senasqua, and Simon wants to gather a committee representative and the program's operations director to review that area. The Dobbs hub came up as underutilized, and there was talk of the ShopRite neighborhood, where municipal parking spots are used principally by Van Cortlandt Manor during the Blaze. The Metro-North station remains the system's most popular hub, with the Grand location second. Looking further out, April 2027 is the deadline by which the village would need a combination of leftover NYSERDA funds and public support to keep the program running — and the consensus recorded in the minutes is that the village would support it. The Project MOVER consulting team is assessing private sponsorship, and about $300,000 remains in the e-bike voucher program for additional bike purchases. The Slow Down Croton safety campaign is down to its last dozen lawn signs — 12 remain of the 100 the police department stocked. The committee asked for a budget proposal for the next fiscal year, due June 1, and will vote at its March meeting on how to spend roughly $750 left in the current budget. The options on the table: more signs, magnets, static decals, and — as an idea for a later phase — panels on village trucks. Spring events with the Croton-Harmon schools, including a bike bus program and a Bike Rodeo, are in the works, with follow-up planned with the school district and with a physical education leader at the village elementary school. Among other items: the village scheduled a webinar on Gouveia Park for the following Monday at 7 p.m.; the Quaker Bridge project is hoping for completion by summer 2026, with no promises; and Croton Dam Road's condition was described as bad, with New York City's Department of Environmental Protection responsible for its maintenance. The minutes record no reason for optimism that the road will be remedied, and Simon plans to reach out to a contact at the DEP. The committee's March meeting is shaping up as the consequential one: a vote on campaign spending, final review of the committee guidelines with the board, and project recommendations that could bring six-figure street improvements to village roads.