Electric Vehicles & Green Fleet
Active
12 meetings ·
2025-10-05 to 2026-03-11
Transition of DPW fleet to renewable diesel and electric vehicles.
Timeline (11 meetings)
2025-10-05
Sustainability Committee
The BESS discussion comes as the committee races to finish existing projects before federal and state incentives expire. The village is preparing to install 18 EV charging ports at the train station next month. The $300,000 project is fully funded by…
Meanwhile, a separate $300,000 solar canopy project at the DPW is facing paperwork delays. Prior to a roughly $90,000 IRA rebate and other grants, the 59.4 kW project will cost the village nothing.
On the operational side, Mayor Brian Pugh reported …
2025-11-09
Sustainability Committee
There was positive news regarding transportation: a contract to install 18 EV charging ports at the train station is expected to be signed this month, with a goal of completion by spring. Additionally, a Renewable Diesel pilot test is showing promise…
2025-12-07
Sustainability Committee
The meeting also brought updates on the village’s expanding EV infrastructure. A contract with Plug-In Stations Online (PISO) was signed on November 18 to install 18 EV charging ports at the train station. Installation will focus on sections D and E,…
2026-01-07
Board Of Trustees
This Ed Riley from Treesdale Drive. That was quick. On six a, paragraph three, memo from the village manager, Brian Healy, regarding newer renewable diesel initiatives. Hopefully, that we give her the opportunity that village manager will go into mor…
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…
Croton's fleet of Department of Public Works vehicles is going green. At the January 7 Board of Trustees meeting, Village Manager Bryan Healy announced the municipality will switch entirely to renewable diesel, a move expected to slash the Village's …
2026-01-07
Board of Trustees
Mayor Brian Pugh had a rare definitive answer: the industrial tenant's lease was renewed for more than five years, so "there will not be a change in use for the remainder of this decade."
On the sustainability front, the village is switching all die…
2026-01-14
Board Of Trustees
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, …
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…
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…
2026-01-14
Board of Trustees Work Session
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DPW boss asks board to let bigger cities break new tech first
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Croton's DPW superintendent told trustees he'd rather let New York City and Yonkers "break" new technologies like electric vehicles before the village ado…
Balby did acknowledge the department's renewable diesel program — which has cut the village's carbon footprint by an estimated 12% — has exceeded his own skeptical expectations. "I was going skeptical. I think anybody would, and I think anybody shoul…
2026-01-18
Sustainability Committee
On a brighter note, the committee celebrated the successful completion of a renewable diesel (RD) pilot program. The village will now fuel all 18 of its diesel vehicles with RD, a move Simon said will slash the municipality's carbon footprint by roug…
2026-01-21
Board Of Trustees
Oh, thanks. And, ditto to, trustee, Nak Taylor on both Christine and Jim and, and Ethan. Last night was Jim's first zoning board chairmanship. And, I actually watched it on television for the sole purpose of examining channel seventy eight on my own.…
2026-02-22
Sustainability Committee
On a brighter note, the committee highlighted the village’s switch to renewable diesel across all 18 heavy-duty diesel vehicles, including garbage trucks and snow plows. The transition reduces the village’s carbon footprint by 186 metric tons of CO2 …
2026-03-11
Board Of Trustees
Members, I I think it's better if you stand in front rather than concealed behind the board behind this. So in shrouded behind me is the good good evening, everyone. Shrouded behind me is a quilt prepared by the members of Croton one hundred. It is a…
Thank you so much. So, yeah, I'm Patty Buchanan from Croton one hundred. I want to introduce, the team that created this quilt. First, Audrey Supple, who was really the lead crafter, this fabric artist that has done tremendous work on this quilt, and…