Electric Vehicles & Green Fleet

Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Let's see. Subsequent to our last meeting, on July 20, our bike pedestrian committee met and we were able to discuss the Safe Streets for All grant in development with Emily Mancini doing a great job in pulling that toget…

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Closing of the Meeting Report: 7.1 Hearing of the Public Mr. Riely requested written agendas, offered congratulations for allowing students to go to Taiwan, mentioned electric vehicle problems in Croton, sex education health teachers, and the treat…

Every student should be urged to comment on this policy. Miles Kafka stated that it is a lost opportunity not having more discussion, frustrated that the meeting could've gone better. Christina Alvarez noted that she was disappointed in lack of disc…

Full electrification would allow decommissioning of the 45+ year old underground oil tank. During a 12/8/24 chat with Bronxville’s sustainability coordinator, Lindsay learned that both of that village’s municipal oil tanks (40-50 years old) were fo…

payment to $325K. - Other Reports 4 Re: the draft renewable diesel (RD) memo attached to Nov.’s meeting minutes. Jon made valuable adjustments to its math and content. Dan found the memo acceptable. We await RD pricing on the State fuel contract, e…

If OK, we can then propose RD use for Village diesel vehicles and DPW oil-fired boilers. Regarding RD, the NY League of Conservation Voters’ 2025 Policy Agenda includes these goals: “For diesel trucks and equipment in public fleets, adopt a state p…

Funding sources are expected to be New York State's Affordable Homeownership Opportunities Program as well as Westchester County New Home Land Acquisition Program and Westchester County's Housing Implementation Fund. The private parcel is currently i…

One of the funding sources that was mentioned is the new home land acquisition funding that is specifically awarded to purchase the land upon which affordable housing is built, and other funding sources that are to be used for infrastructure improvem…

to compliment the administration the presentation of the budget always do a good job over the several months preparing the budget and enlightening the public to precisely what's going on your process should be copied by all the other meetings that I …

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This issue will be added to the draft RFP re: proposed vendor pricing. Due to problems getting a local electrical contractor to review the firehouse’s existing electric service, Jon will ask an electrical engineer at OLA (his employer) to do so. DP…

He reviewed various projects, the grants secured last year to pay for them, and the status of the train station canopies. A PDF copy of his slides was sent to committee members. On 2/10/25, we got pricing for Renewable diesel (RD) on the State fue…

that's not really my question the question is we if the voters approve a new 66 passenger vehicle and the other vehicles that you're going to talk about in a moment and we will have a time delay before the order is delivered yes I know that time dela…

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yeah I gu the question I'm asking is smes of trenching yeah but to the extent that it's not just the actual cost of the bus it's also the cost of the infrastructure to be able to accommodate the electric vehicles is there

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Rich Williams also confirmed an increase in the number of electric vehicle charging stations, with 10% of the spaces (10 spaces) having level one charging stations and another 10% of the spaces (another 10) having level two charging stations. The app…

Chairman Luntz asked for accuracy on the renderings, including numbers on the drawings. Eva Thaddeus asked if parking spaces would be assigned to the units, and John Ghegan asked about rules for electric vehicle parking spaces, and the applicants sai…

We await response to our 3/7/25 email on the issue. If NRG fails, we’ll enroll the charger account with GridRewards, which shares a lower % of the incentive than NRG. Village staff are in process for approving the draft RFP and bidder list for the …

6 Carly’s report on how buying renewable diesel fits with Croton’s Green Purchasing resolution Page 6 section 9 of the document is on “Environmentally Preferable Purchasing”

Greenhouse Gas Reduction Goals: The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act has set ambitious climate protection goals aimed at limiting “statewide greenhouse gas emissions to 60% of 1990 levels by 2030 and 15% of 1990 levels by 2050.” Ci…

Fuel is noted in that list, which would include Renewable Diesel as a cleaner alternative. --- Editorial note (croton.news): name spelling(s) in this copy were corrected against official records: ‘Dan Colombini’ corrected to ‘Dan Colombini’. The ori…

Michael Bevivino believes that there is additional fire suppression for the electric vehicle chargers inside the garage, but confirms that everything will meet building code standards. Michael Bevivino also mentioned the updates on the architectural …

Michael Mamone did not think that four were enough handicapped spaces. Michael Mamone asked if the handicapped parking spaces counted in the overall number of required parking spots. Michael Mamone also asked about fire suppression systems, wondering…

Thank you, Paul. So, what are our budget drivers? So, we have anticipated from a revenue perspective, anticipated increases in building aid and transportation aid. increase in foundation aid approximately 2%. slight decreases in Bosey's aid and stabl…

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I was just going to ask you, did I hear that one of the other electric vehicle companies went out of business?

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This change order provides funds for all labor, equipment and materials related to pouring concrete pads for the EV Charging Stations and the electrical service cabinet and excavating the LP tank due to relocation of the existing tank. The original …

Lastly, John Ghegan asked for clarification as to the number of parking spaces and the applicants confirmed that there are 105 parking spaces, including the electric vehicle spaces, and that the number was updated as they found space for an additiona…

3 Eva Thaddeus made a motion to open the Public Hearing, seconded by Geoff Haynes, and the motion carried, 4 - 0, with Steve Krisky being absent. Michael Mamone of 19 Young Avenue spoke first about spreading out the electric vehicle chargers, and ask…

Lastly, Tony Granger asked if the building will have residential sprinklers, or standpipe connections. Tony Granger believes that self-closing hallway doors are still mandated by code. Tony Granger says that apparatus placement is another point to di…

Regarding the gallons of water per minute question regarding fire safety, John Bainlardi said that the plans will be put together for fire safety be a licensed engineer who will run all the calculations and the plans will be compliant, and will be pe…

John Bainlardi is open to a discussion as to whether it is prudent to spread out the chargers, or keep them together, but the bottom line is that the electric vehicle chargers will be designed in accordance with the codes that govern them. Chairman L…

Work would run through the summer with completion by Labor Day. On 4/9/25, Lindsay asked Bryan Healy and Frank Balbi what technical information or references they would need (other than was sent to them on 3/21/25) to consider renewable diesel (RD)…

- John Bainlardi stated that the applicants submitted an updated site plan, and an updated stormwater pollution prevention plan. John Bainlardi also provided written responses to some questions that came up during the last public hearing, which are a…

Mr. Riely asked to know exactly how high this building would be. Next to speak was Michael Mamone of Young Avenue who also believes that the building is ugly. Mr. Mamone said that there have been zoning laws in place for years for the good of the Vil…

John Bainlardi RE: 1 Croton Point, Croton Point Ave, Croton-on-Hudson, NY Page 2 of 5 May 1, 2025 Mitigation Visual and Aesthetic Impacts, December 13, 2019), the project (5-story building including maximum height of the rooftop elevator bulkhead) …

(EV Chargers, Project 004-009) Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the change order for $6,741.95 (EC-12-BG, Solar Electric Systems, Inc., Project # 004-009) as presented. This change order provides funds to connect ex…

To ensure that many MWBE and veteran-owned 2 contractors would get to bid (as per NY DEC rules), the RFP was distributed to 43 firms, 26 of which were MWBE. Two proposals were received and are being reviewed. On 5/21/25, Lindsay again asked Bryan…

John Bainlardi was present in support of the application. Geoff Haynes stated that this project has been under review for two years and the Village Boards did a lot of due diligence and are coming out with the best that they could. Chairman Luntz que…

Regular Meeting Procedural: 6.01 Hearing of the Public Mr. Ed Riely spoke to welcome the new BOE member.  He noted that conservatives are not well represented on the board...any fellow traveler is welcomed on the board.  He also commended Assistant…

10.Memo from Village Manager Bryan Healy regarding Village initiatives: crosswalk safety signs, renewable diesel fuel for select DPW vehicles, Dobbs Park upgrades and the DPW solar canopy project. 11.Memo from Village…

Commuters that start charging by 8 AM are thus unlikely to notice a 4-8 PM power drop. An 8-hour charge (until 4 PM) would yield ~170 miles per workday if a charger is used by one EV or ~90 miles on a shared charger. For details, go to https://www.co…

Thank you. Important comments from all my colleagues. Really appreciate it. Hope everyone's listening. Just a just a few notes. And first of all, we we came from from Spencer Field here. We were all there, and it was it's beautiful. I hope people get…

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for hosting the BBQ at Senasqua on August 21st, this past Sunday he attended the Sustainability Committee meeting where they talked about expansion of our composting program, a renewable diesel program, the possibility of inst…

Construction should start next month, with a goal of completing the facility by year’s end. Total cost will be ~$300K, fully funded by grants and other non-taxpayer sources. Mayor Pugh said the Renewable Diesel (RD) pilot test (begun 9/29/25) is “so …

Our sustainability committee met on October 5, got some great briefings and had some wonderful discussion on things like our train station solar array, our renewable diesel pilot, and also what solar solarize west Solarize Westchester campaign, which…

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Alright. Well, as my other as some of my colleagues have pointed out, you know, the attempt to basically demonize a small minority, I think, is very unfortunate to come up with these tenuous conspiracy theories about, you know, even someone having so…

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So in addition to limiting global warming impact means less local air pollution. And manager, correct me if I'm wrong, but the renewable diesel is being paid for out of our sustainability fund. Okay, that has been fed into for many years now at this …

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Thank you, everyone. I really, really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope that it continues. I think that it's really important to hear, everyone's voice and to have such a full room. Thank you. I will speak up. This administration and the Democrat…

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one is the renewable diesel pilot program. So at the September September 23, we had renewable diesel delivered to our fuel station. We had initially four vehicles fill up with the renewable diesel. They've been driving around. We haven't had any issu…

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Well, and we saw I think you you saw this as well. The the airport is now using the the renewable diesel for all of its operational equipment. Yeah. They they had a planes yet. Yeah. They had a pilot program similar to ours Yeah. Yeah. Which I was I …

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Other issues related to erroneous enrollments and/or failure to promptly de-enroll customers that wanted to quit CCA.] - EV/EVSE/RD The contract with PISO (a/k/a Plug-In Stations Online) to install 18 EV charge ports at the train station is expected …

Well, thank you, trustee Nicholson. A few things here. On November 6, our heart committee met following up on the first four Croton luminaries that were honored, Pete Sakerakis, Ed Ron Thaler, Cornelia Cotton, and of course, the collection of great d…

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Len reported that the Project MOVER e-Bike program has been very successful so far: 1,088 rides initiated in Croton between July 9 and October 31. The program goes into hibernation on December 19 and restarts in early April with 2 new hubs, bringing …

This Ed Riely from Treesdale Drive. That was quick. On six a, paragraph three, memo from the village manager, Bryan Healy, regarding newer renewable diesel initiatives. Hopefully, that we give her the opportunity that village manager will go into mor…

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Thank you, mayor. To start with the question that was raised during the public comment period, as I detailed a little bit in my memo, we are switching over all of our diesel vehicles to the renewable diesel, fuel that, we have been piloting for the p…

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5. REPORT FROM THE VILLAGE MANAGER: Village Manager Healy advised that the Village will be switching over all DPW vehicles to renewable diesel, the Village expects to see an annual reduction of approximately 186 metric tons of CO2 per year which acco…

3. Memo from Village Manager Bryan Healy regarding the renewable diesel initiative for the Village's vehicle fleet. https://play.champds.com/AT T/crotononhudsonny/2026- 01/f6d449480072fec8e502bedc4405ca22cc9e5b47.pdf 4. Annual report from the Conser…

Filing for the record the memo from Village Manager Bryan Healy on the renewable diesel initiative for the Village’s vehicle fleet. c. Approval of Minutes: Motion to approve the minutes of the Regular Meeting held on December 17, 2025, was made by Tr…

I wish to ask questions that [clears throat and cough] were not on the agenda, including the progress of the lunches, mandatory lunches, more on phones, renewable diesel, if we're going to follow the village, portable classrooms for mandatory pre-K, …

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There. And there he is. Superintendent, thank you very much, for the tour. We really, really appreciate it. It's always good to be back there and to see, you know, how things have evolved since since the last visit. So I wanted to just mention that, …

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Yeah. Keeping Yeah. Up with the the keeping up renewable diesel is a great example. Right? Like, all this new stuff always comes up. Right? And and you see you see New York City do it. You see Yonkers do it. And and and and I'll say, in my experience…

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So I think the plan is to offset some of the the the cost of that renewable diesel from the the renewable fund that we get from the the panels Yeah. On top of the DPW facility. Mhmm. So that actually will help. There is a little bit of a a price incr…

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Renewable Diesel (RD): Len reported that the 3-month pilot test was successfully completed this month. RD will now fuel our 18 diesel vehicles, cutting the Village’s municipal carbon footprint by ~12.5%. He said DPW Supt. Frank Balbi was “upbeat” o…

4 Accomplishments & activities of the Sustainability Committee during 2025 - promoted use of Renewable Diesel in all municipal diesel trucks - developed and sought a contract for a ~60 kW DPW solar canopy - secured contractor for installation of EV …

The possible locations for red light cameras, if we should go forward with that. And then some partnership activities that the committee is considering with Croton-Harmon Schools. Similarly, our sustainability committee met on the eighteenth. Mayor a…

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Okay so next steps we'll be waiting for the legislative budget and updated safety projections. we're going to be digging in even deeper into the budget to refine our salaries and budget projections. we do a very deep dive into looking at where we sta…

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- EV/EVSE/RD EV charger project at the train station: Filings continue with Con Ed toward installing the necessary new transformer and electric service to power the 18 charge ports. Completion of the installation is expected during the coming summ…

Jon updated us on his ongoing experience with the Grid Rewards demand response program. Despite his early efforts to minimize his electric usage when asked, he received $0 for his effort, due to his use of solar panels. However, upon doing nothing …

All of the Village’s diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles (e.g., garbage trucks and snow plows) now run on Renewable Diesel (RD). Unlike traditional biodiesel, RD is a distinct fuel made from fats and oils (such as soybean or canola oil). These byprodu…

Sure. So, every April we approve the ballot propositions for our vehicle replacement needs. So, it includes any ballot propositions plus vehicle including vehicle replacement needs. So, for 2627 we are proposing the following vehicles. 166 passenger …

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Yeah. And Joe you can speak to this as well but we are going with the recommendation that let's look at where we are today. We've also because of the costs of the electric vehicles we have slowed down our inventory purchasing. So we are kind of far b…

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So what I understand is although we see it on this slide the first of the two I guess we call them bullets but they have stars are that's really may not even be proposed and that's going to depend on whether what you want to what you identified as ar…

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Well, the it it's like a a completely different beast. But I will say and I I will commend Bird Bus. They they opened up their facility in Yorktown and thank goodness for that because it's right around the corner and they're very responsive. but agai…

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I mean I I will say it's not too much that I do that but the board actually had to deal with that and come up with those solommonic solutions long time and that that that's one of the reasons why we do from the basic drive where it meets the road to …

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Okay. Great. And, for our feature presentation, would the members of the board, join me in the vicinity of that, shrouded rectangle as well as the members of, Croton one hundred who have joined us here today? Okay. Members, I I think it's better if y…

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And so these white squares that you see, on the quilt and then coming around here represent 12 household actions that, we identified by 30 households who are listed here on the quilt, and I think several of them are here in the audience tonight. So l…

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Liaison Reports: Ms. Bhatnagar reported as the SEPTA liaison that they are excited to announce the appointment of a parent member to board of special education. It allows parents in the community to have an advocate when they have a CSE meeting. Than…

- performing a Clean Energy Innovation Demonstration that could involve use of an “alternative low carbon fuel”, e.g., our renewable diesel pilot test We have likely already performed 6 (maybe 7) of those HIAs but neither their individual points,…

There's a lot of data there. Yeah. And it also gives a different look. You can slice the budget many different ways. This is our program component, which is about 70%, which includes all of our teaching and learning expenses and And on our ballot, we…

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Correct. Okay. 2035 for it would shift I'm sorry. '20 so '20 it would move from 2028 to 2032 Okay. For the no new purchases of it, and then the shift to full electrification would be about five years from that. About 2037. '37. Okay. I'm just startin…

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So congratulations to Cloth and Curate. Everyone go visit Cloth and Curate. And our sustainability committee met on May 31, and as always, a bunch of issues are EV charging, our train station solar array, DPW solar, balcony solar, which is very inter…

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Alright. All in favor of that? Yep. Okay. So we'll leave the public hearing open at this point, and when the applicant has it together, we'll bring them in. Alright. Moving along. The next item on the agenda is Croton Riverside LLC, the Hudson Condos…

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months ago, probably back in well, we're already in June. It had to be January. We did multiple tours with the fire department to bring them through the building and the volunteers be familiar with the building, our systems that we have there so that…

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somehow they get a message from the system that tells them to come down? I I believe they do automatically. Because, like, if you go to Blink, we use Blink. Unfortunately, I don't have electric vehicles, so I don't know. But I think if you're on the …

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Rob Luntz made a motion to adjourn the public hearing, because the applicant was not prepared to present, until the next regularly scheduled meeting, or the next regularly scheduled meeting after that, seconded by Steve Krisky, and carried, 5 – 0. b…

Ralph Rossi of Croton Riverside, LLC was present in support of the application. The applicant stated that the developers did multiple tours of this new building with the fire department to make them familiar with the building and its systems. When th…

1 The outdoor parking area is for both residents and visitors. The applicant stated that the parking lot would always need to be plowed in the event of snow, so the charging stations would always be clear. The applicant reiterated that this change i…

There was a brief discussion about some landscaping being added behind the building in an area that is visible if you are driving down Van Wyck Street. There was a discussion about possibly adding a barrier before the fence, and it was left off by sa…

There is a best in nearby Ossining at the Saint Augustine church, another one in Yorktown at a the the back lot of a automotive repair shop in Yorktown, and there are numerous others that have been developed or are being developed. In essence, what I…

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Well, the first thing is that they stabilize the grid. We have problems right now, especially in the downstate area where we are, where the electric system is very stressed. As we add more load to it, electric vehicles, heat pumps, you know, charging…

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The award will be presented at the AEE World Energy Conference & Expo in Orlando, FL on 9/15/26. On 6/25/26, Lindsay zoomed with 3 Columbia Univ. grad students regarding Croton’s experience with renewable diesel (RD). They are doing a market analys…

And, you know, I'll leave it up to Valerie whether or not she thinks it's worth putting it or not. But electric vehicle charging. Know we have a lot of charging capacity slated to be added to the train station, but that is for, basically, for commute…

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So, I mean No. I I I There's a there's a lot to take into consideration. But I think finding a a public EV charging facility for that area would be very valuable, especially because, as you noted with the, you know, the tenants who park there and so …

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The most active hub remains the Metro-North train station. Dave asked if an area at the station wherein a few dead trees may be removed could become a larger hub to accommodate more e-bikes. Len said he’d check it out. Regarding funding after the p…