Court Consolidation
Resolved
9 meetings ·
2026-01-15 to 2026-04-08
Proposal to merge Croton's village court with another municipality. Studied, debated, and ultimately tabled after public opposition.
Timeline (9 meetings)
Jan 15, 2026
Police Advisory Committee (PAC)
e Additional information about the Village police website page and PAC
page, listing some items on those pages along with directions for
translation on the website. Information about resources in the main
Village office along with the Police Departme…
Feb 4, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Riley from Truesdale Drive. Few few quick comments before we get down to business. The human rights presentation at the library, which was done by an outstanding presenter, mister Mayo Gregory Bartlett, a lawyer. And the Human Rights Commissioner was…
Feb 4, 2026
Waterfront Advisory Committee
Ed Riely, 110 Truesdale Drive, Croton on Hudson, stated that the Human Rights
presentation at the Library was an excellent presentation, does not support
putting the Recreation Department at Gouveia Park, the Village Court should
…
Feb 11, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
do respect and I agree with you. Also, we sorry. We abol we did abolish the position of village assessor on the recommendation of the Liberge report. And, again, so we this was a we still don't know how that worked. So now Croton residents do not hav…
Feb 18, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Yes. That's correct. Sorry about that. I wanted to, congratulate one of our DPW employees, Andrew Recipio, who has been promoted to motor equip equipment operator as of this week. So that's, filling a vacancy that was created when, one of our former …
So, anyone who is reasonable should be on be alert to what perhaps they have in mind. I'd like to commend the trustees who defended our court. Hopefully, we'll retain our village court, and we'll have a decent judge. I'm not optimistic about the curr…
Feb 24, 2026
Planning Board
Ashton just scrolled up. Yeah. So this this helps. So this has some more information back of the, EAF. Village court has been studying the possibility of adding occupational preferences for new affordable housing units to the village code for some ti…
Feb 25, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
So while those technical issues are being worked out, I'll just orient us on the agenda. This is a further discussion of an operation of the possible operational study for the village court. This would be in theory with the the Center for Government …
Derek, looks like it's working. Especially given the limitations we have on the volume, can we limit outside noise? Away. Yes. Awesome. Can you see my screen here? Yes. Yes. We can. Yep. Great. So just a little bit of background on CTR. We're based o…
Mar 11, 2026
Board Of Trustees
I wanna express my opposition to the proposal to move the village court to the town of Cortlandt. While this move is intended to save cost, projected savings, minimal, compared to the significant inconvenience this would cause for both our residents …
Good evening. If there's anyone from Croton one hundred still here, I'd like to just let you know I have a whole bunch of quilting fabric. I'd be happy to donate if you folks could use it. I'm Joel Gingold. I live at 55 Nordica Drive. Let me begin by…
And the appointment of like minded people to all boards and committees. Have we learned nothing from that? The obvious problem with the proposed study is that while it can address costs incurred and avoided by the village, it cannot effectively recog…
We have rivers to the East, west, south, and hills to the North, which has helped give the village a distinct geographical character. Far more important than geography, however, is the fact that we've always had our own institutions. We have our own …
The presence of a village police department and village court that had a clear understanding of their own local community was critically important to many parents in those days. I expect it still is. It also seems to me that the village has a moral o…
Gary Eisinger. 210 Cleveland Drive. Mister mayor, your willingness to chip chip away at the fabric of village life astounds so many of us here. The walkability, the sense of community, and the ignoring of broad based support that goes against the ech…
And why is that? They have a court. They have a DPW that takes away the garbage, and they have a very fine police department. Now that's one of the things that distinguishes Croton, and it makes it special. I submit to you that this whole proposal is…
I don't know where else to get it. Where else do you want me to get it? And that, of course, is the hard job you have to find where to get it. And, as a 30 year resident, I am saying, don't try to get it out of our local village court. Now four years…
You're gonna lose that if you send it out to Cortlandt. That is, to me, was providing a great service to the people, not just the people that were caught in the sting operation, but for the rest of the citizenry to know that, you had a judge that was…
Good evening. My name is Regina Montana. I live at 5 Ackerman Court. I wasn't planning to say anything tonight, but when I heard mister Lipson speak about the day that he was in front of mister Watkins, judge Watkins, regarding a speeding ticket that…
My name is Hannah Robbins at 6 Fox Road. I've been a resident of the village for eight and a half years, and I've been a practicing attorney in front of the village court for nearly six years at this point. So I'm both a resident, and I experience in…
Yeah. You know, mayor, the the word table, I think, is you know, some folks interpret it different ways, but I think it's our intent to to put this aside for for a period. And how and under what circumstances we return to it, I think, is at this poin…
I just wanna say I I feel like this is a proud moment. Number one, you know, I was completely moved by this whole evening. I we need some tissues here for future meetings because starting with a quilt that was just I was blown away, art with purpose,…
Yeah. I have some quick comments. First, I wanna thank my colleagues for their very thoughtful statements, and I wanna thank everyone that came out here tonight to speak their minds. You know? And I appreciate that some people were here, four years a…
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Ali Jaffery, 72 Irving Avenue, Croton on Hudson, stated that he is running for
Village Justice…
Joel Gingold, 55 Nordica Drive, Croton on Hudson, opposes moving our Village
Court to the Town of Cortlandt and spending money on a study. Mr. Gingold
stated that the Study would not show the extra expenses both our residents
…
Casey Raskob, Lounsbury Road, Village Prosecutor, stated that local
government is here to provide services to its residents, and while he
understands the budgetary pressures the Board is under, the Village Court is
two percent…
Sam R. Watkins, Lounsbury Road, Village Justice, stated that he has been the
elected Village Justice for twenty years, and does not believe moving the Court
to the Town of Cortlandt will save any money, and does not believe that the
…
Jay Sherman, 94 Grand Street, Croton on Hudson, stated that he is a local
attorney that appears in our Village Court often, and does not support moving
our Court services to the Town of Cortlandt, it will make it more difficult for
…
Ira Lipton, 55 Old Post Road, Croton on Hudson, stated that he understands
that when this first came up it may have been a result of lost funds from the
sale of our train station parking permits, but parking permit sales are up and
…
Sherry Horowitz, 119 Maple Street, Croton on Hudson, stated that we in Croton
like having our amenities close by, we love the intimacy of living in a small
Village and we do not want to lose it.
Donald Blum, Croton on Hudson, asked w…
Trustee Nachtaler stated that the “Quilt” presented earlier this evening represents
pillars of our community, and an important pillar of our community includes our court
and she was never in favor of court consolidation, but as a Trustee she has an
i…
Mayor Pugh stated that four years ago we initially looked at court consolidation with
the Town of Cortlandt in the context of the tremendous fiscal challenges as a result
of the Covid Pandemic. Mayor Pugh emphasized that these challenges are not all
…
Trustee Nachtaler stated that she is grateful to the “Croton 100” volunteers
for putting together a magnificent quilt, thanked everyone who came out this
evening to share their thoughts on the court consolidation proposal, thanked
…
Apr 8, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Whereas it is in the best interest of the village of Courtland Hudson to take such actions as may be necessary and proper to administer the enforcement of summonses returnable to the Courtland Hudson village court and to provide for the collection of…
Village Manager Healy said that we are hoping to have this on our agenda for a work
session in May.
Resolution #74-2026
On motion of TRUSTEE SIMON, seconded by TRUSTEE NICHOLSON, the following
resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the …