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Village Budget 2026-2027

Active 24 meetings · 2024-02-15 to 2026-09-30

Annual budget process including tax cap override, department work sessions, and capital plan.

Feb 15, 2024
Board of Education
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Action (Consent), Minutes: 5.10 Minutes - February 1, 2024 Motion by Omar Mayyasi, second by Neal Haber. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Ana Teague, Theo Oshiro, Anamika Bhatnagar 6. …
Jan 9, 2025
Board of Education
Transcript Denise Harrington-Cohen (Assistant Superintendent for Business) 75:57 →
so tonight is the first in our series of budget presentations for 25 just wait a moment right getting steps into my this will be a good time for gon begin with the budget development timeline oops see I don't seem toing might be slightly delet longit…
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Feb 27, 2025
Board of Education
Transcript Denise Harrington-Cohen (Assistant Superintendent for Business) 0:45 →
good evening I'm just gonna wait till our slide presentation is up good evening it's it's and you right yeah thank you so good even evening tonight is a budget work session where we'll review operations maintenance transportation and general services…
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Work Session (Thursday, February 27, 2025) Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Friday, February 28, 2025 Members present Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Ana Teague Meeting called to order at 7:34 PM 1. Ope…
Sep 10, 2025
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Bryan Healy 105:38 →
K. Whereas the purchase of a command vehicle for use by Croton EMS was included in the twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six capital plan, whereas the village of Croton solicited bids for solicited sealed bids for this purchase under bid number thirt…
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-The Village Board hereby refers the Draft Law, the EAF and the CAF to the Village Waterfront Advisory Committee for a recommendation back to the Village Board in accordance with Village Law. -The Village Board hereby directs Village…
Oct 15, 2025
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Bryan Healy 36:06 →
Just just a note with Grand Street. So this is a very old building. Yeah. Very old. And it needs a lot of exterior work. You know, the the roof, the all the framing around the windows, the gutters. We just did the floor as a major project. Yes. Right…
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Nov 13, 2025
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Bryan Healy 22:42 →
Con Edison has agreed to have annual Westchester capital investment meetings. They'll meet annually to review capital plan projects and, importantly, to compare their investment levels in Westchester versus New York City. Because as we learned throug…
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Transcript Bryan Healy 85:00 →
you know, those two, the DPW, Half Moon Bay Bridge, that's obviously specialized stuff that's not going to No. No. No. That's not going be done by our guys. You know, Brook Street will depend on what the capacity is. But, yeah, we have to you know, t…
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Dec 4, 2025
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Bryan Healy 137:28 →
Okay. So we've received some additional funding this year from state senator Harcom. It's an additional $100,000 through the Crest program. We've already received $100,000 that was put towards Dobbs Park, and then we also received $100,000 from state…
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Transcript Bryan Healy 153:21 →
there'll be I mean, it happens every year practically. From what you the what you adopt in the capital plan in April, by the time we do the bond resolutions in June, it's almost certainly different because we've been lucky enough to either identify a…
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Jan 14, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Bryan Healy 55:20 →
Which of the five municipal services do you believe have should have its current funding reduced or held flat to create resources for higher priority areas? Right? So the first question will kind of inform the second question. And then on to revenue …
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Jan 28, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Nora Nicholson 68:54 →
flex that. But Right. You get the idea. Right. Yeah. But I just think a mechanism for that to happen. Well, I think the manager needs to, you know, kind of this needs to sort of be prioritized and thought about as in in phases. Right? So you can thin…
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Feb 25, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Valerie Monastra 21:21 →
But we anticipate that funding to continue into the next year as well so that we could potentially, submit some additional projects. And then last is the federal grants, which I'm not gonna go into detail, but there's a lot of different agencies. And…
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Feb 26, 2026
Board of Education
Transcript Brad Kennedy 140:27 →
Yeah. You know, it allows you to make data data based decisions. It's it's pretty cool. So, and then lastly also we spoke about this or I spoke about this last year, Viking Pure Solutions. after the budget work session, we ended up doing a trial at t…
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Mar 3, 2026
Gouveia Park Project Meeting
Transcript Bryan Healy 7:44 →
And then in phase three in 2024, three outbuildings on the property, which were, a caretaker's office and, two garages, were taken down due to safety reasons, and that cost about $13,000 from the endowment. So currently, in this, current year, the bo…
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Mar 12, 2026
Board of Education
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Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the minutes of the February 26, 2026 work session as presented. Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Allison Samuels. Final Resolution: Motion Carried Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Ca…
Mar 18, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Speaker 5 61:45 →
feel that they're less effective. Yeah. You know? But we would really need to get some expert judgment in here. And that's why I think Yep. You know, it's I think I think we should get as much money as we can Yep. From this opportunity. It's just ali…
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Mar 25, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Bryan Healy 33:22 →
So then on to the water fund. The water fund, there's no, budgeted increase in the rates for this year. This is the second year in a row that we've been able to hold the rates steady. Alright. That's that's what the next slide says too. Then onto the…
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Transcript Bryan Healy 36:15 →
the next not go one more. Yeah. So then nope. Go back. Sorry. Okay. Alright. And then so the, the slide after this one goes into the breakdown of what, how we're how we're proposing to fund this, but, we also have a $1,000,000 capital, project for th…
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Transcript Bryan Healy 41:03 →
Yes. Versus, right, other places. Absolutely. As we saw, you know, infrastructure has the highest allocation in the capital plan. And, you know, for example, with our road our road paving program, we normally allocate, you know, between 400 and $500,…
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Transcript Bryan Healy 42:41 →
Alright. We proceed. I'll just say before we go on to the, the next public hearing, we do have, four budget work sessions. This is that we're not adopting. Yeah. Yeah. We're in one of the we're actually getting confused. We're not my budget tonight. …
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Transcript Nora Nicholson 89:40 →
Yep. I think that's a really good point. And we really haven't I mean, this is just allowing us to have the option to have speeding cameras, right, by doing that. But we haven't really had the debate around red light cameras yet. Which is also on the…
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Village Manager Healy stated that we all value Senasqua and we want to try to do what we can to ensure its stability moving forward. Trustee Nachtaler stated that she is pleased that the input we received from the budget survey was r…
Mar 26, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Brian Pugh 0:07 →
Good evening, and welcome to our first budget work session for the 02/2627 budget. Our first meeting will be this evening with the Department of Public Works. But before we get to that, a special update on the Watermain break.
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Transcript Len Simon 68:15 →
Chief policing in today's day and age. Yeah. Yeah. Chief, I was wondering what you know, of course, this will be in in our capital plan, the actual funding. But what's Axon telling you in terms of delivery time?
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Apr 9, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Brian Pugh 0:05 →
Alright. Good evening and welcome to our April 9 budget work session. Our first presentation or discussion of the evening will be with the police department chief Nick Natopoulos. Would you like to begin? Yes. Okay. Okay. Hello, everyone. So,
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Apr 16, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Brian Pugh 0:03 →
Alright. Good evening and welcome to our April 16 work session. We'll begin by reviewing the capital plan and the first department will be the Department of Public Works. Superintendent Balbi, would you like to join us?
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Transcript Bryan Healy 6:04 →
So is it so the total cost is the $1.50 that was budgeted last year plus the $2.50 that was budgeted this year, or you're trying to get thinking that you're gonna get a lower contract this year? We didn't we didn't actually we didn't do the bond last…
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Transcript Bryan Healy 49:57 →
So yeah. And when we I'm gonna when we have the final capital plan to adopt next week, I'm gonna reflect that it would that we'll only be needing $1.30 because, you know, we're fairly confident that the that the county will award that that money to u…
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May 20, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Bryan Healy 25:36 →
So, Gueva. Yeah. This is for the site work that was budgeted in the in the capital plan Mhmm. Previously. Mhmm. You know, we have gone up there and done some initial work, which has since been paused because of the, documentation of an active, eagle'…
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Jun 24, 2026
Board of Trustees Work Session
Transcript Bryan Healy 67:34 →
count toward this or no? No. The overpass. Yeah. No. I I know I know what we're talking about, but I don't think that that would necessarily fall into this because I don't really know what I mean, we're obviously, we wouldn't be able to put trees the…
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Transcript Stacey Nachtaler 68:07 →
So you have sidewalks in the capital plan for municipal place in South Riverside? Correct. Yep. So those wouldn't qualify
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Jul 15, 2026
Topics
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3 WHEREAS the policy has been revised to align with this year’s capital plan adopted 4 by the Village Board and continue the Village’s program of making infrastructure 5 improvements, 6 NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Trust…
Jul 15, 2026
Board Of Trustees
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WHEREAS, since that time, the Village’s total outstanding debt has decreased by more than $10 million, and WHEREAS the policy has been revised to align with this year’s capital plan adopted by the Village Board and continue the Village’s program o…
Sep 2, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Brian Pugh 103:02 →
We proceed to proposed resolutions. First resolution is in the proposal for a revised capital a revision to the capital plan for 2631.
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Transcript Bryan Healy 103:11 →
Thank you, mayor. Whereas the village board of trustees adopted the twenty twenty six twenty thirty one capital budget plan on 04/22/2026, whereas since that time, it has been necessary to add additional funding for the 0.5 Moon Bay Bridge and Brook …
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12 9. PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS: 13 Resolution #209-2026 14 On motion of TRUSTEE NICHOLSON, seconded by TRUSTEE SIMON, the following 15 resolution was adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Croton-on-Hudson, 16 New York with a…
Sep 30, 2026
Board Of Trustees
Transcript Brian Pugh 53:05 →
Yeah. I mean, the one twenty nine is regularly part of our legislative packet. I don't wanna be unduly optimistic here, but, I think that, you know, there is some cause for hope in the sense that there... Next year will will be a new capital plan, an…
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Transcript Speaker 3 61:33 →
Whereas the village board included funding for a police department staffing and operational study in the twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven capital plan, and whereas on 05/28/2026, the village of Croton And Hudson issued a request for proposals f…
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Transcript Speaker 3 70:56 →
Yeah. And that's... I mean, you know, we've done probably a dozen bids in RFPs this year, if not more. And, I mean, it... There's just only so much time in the day. Right? So if, you know, we have we have a very robust capital plan, which is Yeah. It…
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