_Editor’s note: This article previews a scheduled meeting based on the published agenda. After the meeting is held and video is released, coverage will be updated with the actual discussion and any votes taken._ The Conservation Advisory Council is scheduled to meet Tuesday, July 21, at 7:30 p.m. with a ten-item agenda, and the item likely to draw the most attention is a single line near the bottom: an update on leaf blowers. The council is the body now formally holding Croton's long-running gas-powered leaf blower question. On May 27, the Village Board voted 4-0 to refer approximately 40 resident comments on gas-powered leaf blower regulation to the council, along with guidance on how to approach the issue. The advocacy group Quiet Clean Croton had made its case directly to the council the night before, pitching a year-round ban at the May 26 meeting. Residents have kept the pressure on at Village Board meetings since, returning to the podium as recently as the board's July 1 session. Tuesday's update is the council's next public accounting of where that work stands. The agenda opens with approval of minutes from the council's prior meeting, followed by an update on Black Rock Park. The park has figured in village discussions repeatedly this year: usage is up since the bocce facility opened, and questions about supervision and security there reached the trustees during this spring's capital planning. Three standing initiatives follow. The Trails Crew, the volunteer group that maintains the village's trail network, will report on its work. A Dark Skies update continues the council's push on outdoor-lighting practices, a topic it has been developing since the spring. And the council will hear updates on the Natural Resources Inventory, the document cataloguing the village's environmental assets that feeds village planning work. Rounding out the agenda are updates from the CLEAN sub-committee, the Garden Club, and the Mayor's Monarch Pledge — the pollinator-habitat commitment the village has taken on — before the council turns to an internal matter: a discussion of its vice chair position. No agenda packet documents were published with this meeting's listing; the preview above reflects the agenda as posted. The council meets at the Stanley H. Kellerhouse Municipal Building, 1 Van Wyck Street.
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