state.
Okay, please.
rise to pledge allegiance.
>> Hey, Rabbi Ray
to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.
and welcome to the second regular
meeting of August 2026 for the village
uh board of trustees. This is August
24th, 2026.
Uh can I get a motion to approve the
August 10, 2026 meeting minutes?
>> Trust second.
>> Trustee Duncar I guess on that. Uh
discussion. All in favor?
>> I opposed. Motion carries. No
presentations tonight. public comment on
agenda items only. If you're on Zoom,
this will be the time to raise your hand
to speak about agenda items only for up
to three minutes. So, please do raise
your hand if you do intend to do so.
Anybody inside the room would like to
speak, please raise your hand.
>> Well, hold on. Mike may have beaten you.
So, you I'm give I'm give you guys the
selection.
>> Mike will be very quick. I don't need
>> Go for it.
>> Well, just to name yourself, you know,
the location, all that stuff. Dylan Wood
6 Avenue spot. I know it's not on the
agenda for tonight from the National
Bottle Museum and we truly thank you for
your generosity. We had Bob Kavanagh
from the museum
with the fire chiefs. They gave us
multiple pointers to keep the museum
safe from emergencies and fire and
that's where the money's going for.
>> Very good. Thank you, Melly. and Mike.
» Thank you. Good evening. Mike,
um just a comment question with respect
to consent agenda items 3, four, and
five, the agreements with various local
organizations. Um with the agreement
that was posted online so far, there was
no dollar figure on on that. that will
be corrected already.
>> There was no what? I'm sorry.
>> Gotcha.
>> And language. I don't know if this
language is new in this type of
agreement or not, but it points out that
in the event programs run by the
organization are substantially reduced,
cancelled, not take place because the
organization chooses to private
activities. Then said fund shall be
corporated and not paid by the village
or paid that we have as an organization.
So my question basically is
do the village and each organization
have a list of programs that are
expected to be presented and who will
determine whether there's any
substantial reduction in programs
offered by any of the
Anybody else?
Seeing none, seeing nothing on Zoom, let
us go to the consent agenda. Would
anybody like to remove an item from the
consent agenda?
Hearing none, can I get a motion to
approve the consent agenda items?
>> Trusty Debuke, trustee from discussion.
All in favor?
>> Opposed? Motion carries. Mike, just to
answer your question there, since it
kind of got lumped in, I should have
done it discussion, but um in the case
of Bark, yes. uh because we're provided
a list of different uh aspects of what
they're going to do. So we do
technically have something from them. Uh
we rely on our liaison for uh Boston
area seniors to make sure that they're
maintaining you know actively and with
respect to uh National Bing Museum
because of the sum we assume that
they're putting it to good use and Ellie
usually gives us a report. So it it's a not a hard and fast scenario, but
it's just to protect the village in case
something really does go wrong and the
money gets redirected against what we
would have normally given it for. So
hopefully that makes sense.
Okay. Now uh to seven. Uh can I get a
motion to approve Alco Mediterranean
Restaurant to hold fundraiser supporting
children with autism on August 30th,
2026 from 9 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. The
event will utilize the adjacent parking
lot for the event. certificate of
insurance is on file.
>> Trusty P. It's a second
>> trustee Price Bush discussion and uh
just want to thank them for doing this.
I was trying
>> I was trying to introduce them to the
supervisor in Iskuna who I'm friends
with uh and didn't realize they're like
one property or a couple properties
outside of Niskuna actually in Skenctity
proper believe it or not even though
they're on Union Street uh in that
location but uh she was working to get
her uh in front of the neighborhood uh
contingent over there. So they might do
something similar out in Nina, but it's
great that what they're doing here. So
thank you to them. All in favor?
Opposed? Motion carries. I get a motion
to approve Special P to host an October
Fest block party on September 19th, 2026
from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. closure of
Washington Street from Milton Avenue to
17 Washington Street will be in effect.
Certificate of insurance is on file.
>> Trusty Funda. Trusty Duncar. Discussion.
>> Can we add that mayor has
>> only if he's in town and I cover
football? that Saturday. I I was talking
to R.J. actually about that the other
day. I would like to go to one of these
because I think I missed uh the ones so
far, but if uh I am in town, you know
me, I'm always up for a good time.
>> All in favor?
» Okay.
» Too awkward. Sorry.
>> I think the motion carried. We're just
going to keep going. Can I get a motion?
Adam Zalman be appointed as a part-time
police officer.
>> Make a motion.
>> Trusty Dunabar.
>> Second.
>> Trustee to be discussion. All in favor?
>> Opposed? Motion carries. Somebody should
put a press release on when the leatory
about that one actually by the leader
hosen. Uh can I get a motion to approve
the 911 memorial ceremony to be held
outside from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Front Street from science to bath street
will be closed for the service and
services and reopened immediately
following the ceremony.
motion.
>> Trustee Price Bush, trustee uh
Fandaina.
Uh discussion.
>> All in favor?
>> Opposed? Motion carries. There's
announcements. Uh
specifically here uh the monopole uh so
far I believe AT&T and T-Mobile have re
uh recommissioned decommissioned and all
the uh above and actually removed most
of their equipment off of the giant
street water tower. So for all the, you
know, not so prettiness of the monipole,
the water tower looks a lot better right
now with only Verizon's equipment still
on. I believe they are working over the
next week to take theirs off and
commission over to the Monipoles, I
think, sector by sector. So sometime
next week, uh all three carriers should
be fully operational from the Monipole
uh in that position. uh was spoke
speaking with uh
Senator Tisco's office and uh we are
working to see if we cannot get a
another uh chance at $100,000 or
thereabouts with respect to the pool and
the pool reconditioning that's
necessary. As you know, we have stored
away about $50,000 uh related to trying
to get the pool surface uh rejuvenated
uh because it is in need of that. And uh
we did have a price of in the $137,000
range I believe for that. Uh currently
it's uh next year probably hits the 150
mark thereabouts. And so uh that would
be probably just perfect if we uh were
able to secure that because I understand
the Senate uh minority was able to get
some uh funding released or the access
to some of it. So uh we we will continue
to work with Senator Toiscoco. I put in
a narrative uh with respect to it
consistent with what we had years ago
from uh that whole situation where the
money got trapped basically uh inside uh
the state. So we'll see where this one
goes but we are hoping uh that that is
successful and we thank him for his work
on that
uh family fun day. not to steal uh Mary
Thunder uh rousing success uh and just
want to uh thank everybody uh that came
out for that event. I'll let her kind of
go more into that in a couple minutes
here uh in her liaison report, but just
want to emphasize how uh it was a
tremendous event and thank you to
everybody uh volunteer-wise,
merchants and or vendors and everybody
that volunteered. Chris did a great job
at the bubble booth. I can attest,
but uh everybody uh thank you again and
Barry will have more on that. I think
that's all I have. Let me go to the
treasures report
somewhere in here. Um, we didn't get
charts and graphs unfortunately this
time, but we did get little pictures at
the bottom. I did notice and
ends with the final days of summer break
bring a mix of slow mornings and nervous
excitement, which sounds like my life.
But anyway, uh, we get a really good uh,
look at our balance sheet and revenues
and expenses in this one. I'm not going
to go uh line by line, but uh, she
breaks down where we stand uh, as of
right now. uh year-to-day expenses in
general fund are about 20% of the
budget. Uh for sewer fund about 14% of
the budget and for library fund about
16.8% of the budget. Uh the sales tax
distribution looks like June once again
was very good thanks to Belmont weekend
which is obviously the final Belmont
weekend. So, uh, the village
distribution for August, which is
usually a two-month leading, uh,
scenario. So, it goes back to June, uh,
was 147,214.
That is up from 127393. So, $20,000 gain
there. Um, that's that's a nice, uh,
chunk of change uh, differential. So, we
appreciate that. And thanks to Melissa
for all the great information. Year-to
date. Uh so 6 months essentially of the
year to date we're up uh at least
countywide by about 10.6%.
So a healthy uh show there. Who knows
what's next? Who knows how much of that
is also gas related uh because of the
price of fuel and there's been a gas
holiday or it's a gas tax holiday on
that. So things to think about uh about
whether or not that continues or not and
economic conditions could always change
but nice to see it at least holding up
for now.
The news on reports
um yes the business association they
recently had their uh second annual
peachfest. It was very busy and um I was
told that all the vendors had sold out
which was fantastic. Um, but one of the
things that they remarked is that people
stayed in town. They stayed at the
market. They stayed downtown. Uh, which
is kind of the point. Business
association works really hard to get
people in the village shopping and um,
very thankful for their efforts. Uh, the
market's continuing on Saturdays until
October 3rd uh, from 9:00 to 1. And then
concerts, the last two concerts are
coming up this Thursday and the next
Thursday, Proton and Cersei. That's at
Iron Springs Park. Uh the final movie in
the park is more of a date night. It's
on first Friday in September. It's going
to be 51st dates and um generally that's
all it's got now for the business
association and we're plugging along.
>> So you're saying that Peach Fest was
peachy?
» You're my favorite audience member of
all time, Ellie. Okay, come on.
>> Frank, you're spending too much time
with Paul. Yes, clearly I am.
>> Sad jokes.
>> Okay,
>> Mary, save me.
>> Sure.
» We're ready.
>> The Boston area senior, their upcoming
trip is October 6th. It's going to be
October Fest at Gavins. And sign up this
September 3rd and 10th. So that's going
to be upon us very soon. Resident
members $45. Non-resident members 55.
Guest pay full price. And for more trip
information, you can contact Mary Eaggan
at 518-630-6322.
And Wednesday, this Wednesday, the
afternoon book discussion group will be
discussing We Solve Murders by Richard
Osman. That's um August 26, 3:30 to
4:30.
And Family Funday. I'm gonna let
encourage Gina to give more details
about the numbers and all of that, but
it was a success and volunteers. Ellie
was there volunteering and
there were a lot of I saw I think I saw
Liz there and Mike um
Rebecca and her kids
>> with you and the cotton candy.
>> Six hours straight. Have you gotten all
the cotton candy coloring off your hands
yet?
>> It was it was fun and there was a
constant line and people seemed to
really be enjoying themselves. Parents
just kept saying thank you. You know,
they were so happy with the whole event.
So,
>> you did a great job. Oh, yeah. And
that's all,
>> Charlie.
>> All right. So, the next committee on the
arts uh meeting is September 9th, 7 p.m.
right here in the library. And I have a
little note from George Long. Um, he
wrote, "On behalf of the Village
Committee on the Arts, a sincere thank
you to everyone who helped make our
first Front Street Art Fair a success.
From the BSBPA to the Lions, Curtis
Lumber, the Village Government, and of
course our many talented artists,
musicians, and businesses, you put your
trust in us to put on this event, and I
hope you feel we delivered. We learned
many lessons that will make future
events smoother and more successful. But
this was a great first step to putting
us on the map as a genuine and unique
community. We have so much potential and
we look forward to the next event and
again thank you and I would just like to
mirror that. It was a nice event. Um we
all know how hard George and the rest of
the committee work to put it together.
So it's just going to get better every
year and I'm looking forward to it next
year. And then um HDC September 10th, 90
East High Street. They'll have their
meeting at 700 p.m. and Park and Tree
will meet September 15th. The Cornell
Cooperative Conference Room at 7:00 p.m.
>> And uh just want to thank you for being
my date along with your husband Chris uh
at this year's uh Balsa Spa Stakes on
Saturday for the uh Alabama. And uh the
winner was in one more time, which was a slight upset. And uh in true Boston
spa form, there was an objection that we
had to uh withstand for about 4 minutes
or so and uh no changes were made. So I
mean
>> are for the course I guess.
>> Yep. Absolutely.
Paul uh DPW they were helping with
setting up and tearing down for family
funday. They have three more streets to
go for prepping before they can start to
pave. And note for the folks on
Fairground Avenue, this Wednesday, your
street will be mil and it will be paved
on Monday the 31st. For the folks on
Minute Man Lane, your street will be mil
on Thursday the 27th and paved on
Tuesday the 1st. We want to add that lot
A will be uh available uh thanks to the
fairgrounds uh folks uh for uh people on
fair grounds that uh need to park uh and
can't park obviously on fair grounds or
in that vicinity. So, uh, thank you to
the fairgrounds for making that offer to
us on that.
>> And the contract for the traffic coming
study was signed on Friday. They'll be
setting up a kickoff meeting within the
next couple of days.
>> Sounds good.
>> And lastly, on zoning, I believe this
zoning zoning board meeting this
Wednesday.
>> I I never knew didn't see a lot of news
about it, so I don't really
confirmed.
Old business zoning code update. Uh, one
thing that's, uh, pressing, uh, Chris
just got back, Chris Crucial, uh, from
Fisher Associates got back from vacation
and sent Carl and myself an email, uh,
stating that he's ready to, uh, make the
final changes and everything else. Uh,
but two things I want to talk about
briefly here. Uh, number one,
uh, Chris uh, revealed that next month
he leaves Fiser and goes to another, uh,
consulting firm. Now, he asked a
question, which is a relevant question.
uh which was essentially do you want me
to take this with me essentially um
because he has been pretty much the
principal and only you know at least
major participant at Fiser with respect
to the zoning code. Uh I said uh you
know we did have a bidding process per
se an interview process in focused on
consulting firms so I need to talk to
the board to make sure what their
intentions are on this and we can maybe
move forward from there at the next
meeting if we uh end up in that
direction. Go ahead.
>> I think it's wise to continue working
with him
that
I'd rather have his eyes on it.
>> Everybody else too far deep then to
I I did ask him in the meantime keep
going on this uh and you know gave him
uh some thoughts from the last uh since
the last draft of what fix and
everything else from what we had seen as
still problematic. One other thing I'm
going to be sending uh the board uh some
info um was uh talking to Scott Berling
game on this uh with respect to uh the
idea of adaptive reuse and uh filling
some holes in the code with respect to
uh buildings that might
that we might want to keep, you know, in
place in some form or another, at least
most of the building. and uh allowing
uses that might not otherwise fit the
code but would be still conducive in the
neighborhoods or locations that they're
located. Uh thinking the South Street
School area perhaps the Lakewood Manor
say existing shell if that were to be uh
reused and others uh out there as well.
Uh you know not every building qualifies
for this. We're talking like in
institutional type uses, uh, school type
uses, churches, stuff like that that
might be able to still stand with the
different use inside if they were ever
abandoned for the intended use, but the
desire to keep those buildings in place,
but not hinder what could happen
necessarily inside them if it's again
conducive. And it's a lot of words that
have to be placed in it to build the
guard rails and guide rails in it. So
that's why I wanted to send to the board
before I ever sent it to Chris to say,
you know, this is something we should
do. So look forward to that. Uh
basically, go ahead.
>> To the code or
>> inside folding into the code. Uh this is
some seeming to be an omission really
from us because we do see buildings that
have that character that might not
otherwise fit and they don't fit into
pre-existing non-conforming mentality
necessarily either. So, uh, Scott was
pretty clear that this was something
that he thinks that would give us an
opportunity to protect a lot of, uh,
structures that would want to be
protected or we want would want to be
protected down the line. So, uh, I
thought it was a good, uh, use of some
time to go through that and like I said,
uh, leave in your hands ultimately to
look at and see what you think about it.
Will that how long will that process
>> in terms of getting
>> it into the draft? And
>> uh I don't think very long because if
you like what's written, we can just
hand it right over to them. If you don't
or you want alterations, we can do that
in a few days probably if you can take
the time to look at it. It's it's a like
I said, it's a lot of words for the
guardrail. Say you need to apply into
something like that because again, you
don't want it to be a runaway train. And
that's the whole idea here. There's a
limited number of properties probably
would apply to in the village, but
enough to matter I think in this respect
and it's not spot zoning because there
are enough to matter in that respect.
>> So be prepared for that. Anything you'd
like to include as an update on that?
>> No,
I was on vacation.
>> Yeah.
>> I came back for you guys.
>> Were there drinks with umbrellas in
them?
>> There were no umbrellas.
>> Okay.
>> There were drinks.
No umbrellas.
>> No new business from anybody.
>> Public comment on any issue. If you're
on Zoom, this will be the time for
public comment on any issue and to raise
your hand for up to three minutes to
speak on that any issue. And if there's
anybody in the room that would like to
speak, now would be the time to raise
your hand.
>> Ellie, I'm back.
>> Are you going to comment about my leader
Hosen?
>> No.
I'm wearing this museum hat. As I've
said before, you did a fantastic job and
I want to publicly thank you. Um, the
museum had a wonderful mix of adults and
children where we could keep the
children entertained and interested and
I could work on the adults.
So, it was really a nice day for us and
I thank you and look forward to
>> Are you guys repainting the top area
there or was my were my eyes deceiving
me uh with the bottle museum? Uh
>> is it say something? I couldn't tell. I
was looking up. I couldn't see exactly
where I was looking. Somebody's
repeating I think something around your
zone up.
>> It's a different building.
>> Different building.
Um, and the other thing is just sort of
a a confusion question. I'm taking my
museum hat off and now I'm
>> Oh, yeah.
>> On the zoning code, the new one, the one
that's in the draft now. Is tenoring the
project being held to the old one or is
that why we're not getting the new one
in place?
>> No. No, it has nothing to do with that.
>> Not which one? They're going to be held
to the old one
>> because they filed under the old one.
Yes.
>> Okay. Y the new one will not affect
>> unless it got pulled and then uh refiled
later or something like that.
>> Yep. No, no problem.
>> Thank you.
>> You got it, Liz.
» Liz,
I just had a couple of questions. What
is the status of DPW and uh Village Hall
as far as
placement
of I mean village hall has the
structural issues and I' just like to
know where where these buildings stand.
I mean, looks like the fire department
is, you know, doing a lot of repairs and
fixing everything up and you don't see
anything, you know, and the police
department is, you know, I think pretty
well set after after their acquisition
and what the changes they made, but
these other two buildings, you know,
driving by taking the DPW.
» Thank you.
And Mike, did you have your hand up? I
didn't see. No. Thank you. Appreciate
it. Gina, go ahead.
Rosie,
Ellie, I say you're here. It's It takes
a whole team to put that back down. I
appreciate the props, but you know, I I
know like your old super rabbiting bing.
Well, uh, in honor of Mary's request, my
little report on Family Fun Day, uh, it
was our largest one yet. We had, all
estimates point to close to 2,000 people
event
mother nature went, so that's a little
bit. We had a couple showers come
through. Um
the fun box that program for the cigar
underprivilege that they compete
uh again was a huge success. We had
several of the coupons turned back back
in which thank you to Michael Zado and
St. Mary's church for that program
>> and Deb Dugan obviously for
>> Deban who just came out of being ill. We
were her first outing which was awesome
to see her out and about again. some
guests. So, she worked with us. Um, the
number of vendors, the number of
volunteers, uh, the Balsy Spot Fire
Department, um, the task force who clips
up with me this time of year.
>> By spot police departments
department, um, they actually had a
booth and were making I believe at one
point, right?
>> Almost.
Um the your staff the cat and candy
queen over there you've been replaced.
>> That's okay.
» She was done too. So
>> even though I brought her a special
chair
>> the uh the groups that benefited the the
girl scouts, the cub scum
» elks
>> the elks did phenomenal in the kitchen.
That was one of our best moves that I
think we made. Right. get a medication.
Um, it was just a great day and to see
kids, little kids, so excited to get a
backpack with full supply and you think
that they got gold. I mean, it was
amazing. Why we do it? We do it for the
community and the community really
turned out and hopefully next year
mother nature gets back on our meds and
we have a good Oh, and the fireworks in
San Fort I got to thank them. They they
gave us a show well worth beyond what
they charge us. There's a ball and spot
ti there. The woman that did the
booking, born and raised in Boston
spots. She had a soft spot for balls and
spots. They take really good care of us.
Just everybody was phenomenal. All of
our sponsors. We took in a nice sum of
money to actually pay the fireworks.
And um yeah, that's it. It was a great
day. If anybody has any questions, feel
free to ask. I'm here to help. Thank you
very much. Anybody else? Rayton
16.
I want to thank from the task force. I
want to thank Gina. Um crazy just crazy.
Uh but
>> I know her.
>> She's like she's like a ping pong ball
all day long. You know, who knows? Who
knows? Um, but great job. You know, the
vendors uh nothing but compliments as
they were leaving. I was the uh the
pylon
here and they all went by me and they
were uh thrilled with what happened. And
I I just want to mention one of the
vendors. I mentioned the Bucks, the the
Scotty Bucks. Uh one of them had a stack
about that thick. Uh probably what 35 or
so.
>> Yeah, I think
>> maybe more than that. I know that. Yeah,
I think you I know what you're talking
about.
>> He he hands them to me and I said, "All
right, I'll I'll make sure get you." And
he goes, "No, that's my donation."
>> So, you know,
>> the attitude
>> and Oh, yeah. He put another 50 bucks
in. So, uh that's the attitude that that
most of the folks have.
>> That was the kettle corn folks to be
specific.
>> My wife brought this bag home.
>> It's good stuff.
Um so yeah, thank you and thank you to
all those uh of us that were there uh
helping and uh it just went it went very
well. It went very well. Uh second thing
I have is uh I want to thank you for
making sure that the uh Route 50 got
paved.
I know that's all on your shoulders. I I
heard so much about that and uh you're
just a miracle worker when it comes to
that.
>> Oh yeah.
Um, lastly, now I really do need your
help. And this is something I brought up
to many administrations, but it
continues to go on. Uh, we have a a
noise ordinance in this village. Um, and
the earliest hours trying to read the
thing is a little weird, but, uh, the
earliest hours that noise, if you will,
is allowed
is around 6:00 a.m. Okay. In most cases,
I think it's 7.
uh depends on whether it's a a
residential area or a commercial area,
but I happen to live in an area
commercial area. Actually, my my
property is commercial. Um
but there's a problem because every week
our our friends from uh County Waste are
emptying the dumpsters at 5:00 a.m. So
at 5:00 a.m. it sounds like explosions
going off. And if you sit there and
listen, it goes bang up by my place. And
then the next one, it goes all the way
down through the town. And then at 6:00,
they got another round that comes
through.
I know enforcement of that is supposedly
done by the police department, but if
the village could maybe make a call to
the county waste and say, "By the way,
as we've said in the past, the ordinance
says nothing before. for at 6:00 a.m. It
would just make it easier for the
residents to maybe get in the morning on
Thursday.
>> Yeah,
» your three minutes are up, but uh we'll send that to Jen to uh get that
message across if she hasn't already
tried a few times. Yeah, but it's an
>> ongoing I need to call
understand.
Thank you.
>> Thank you. Anybody else?
Yes, Chris.
» All right.
>> Thank you for being my dates date, if
that makes any sense. I'm sorry.
So, Chris Scaling Drive. Uh, thank you
for the props to the bubble table, but
he took it over from somebody who's much
more capable than me. Gave you strict
marching orders.
>> Watch out that the balls don't escape in
the tots area. No pour bubbles here.
make sure bubbles if they get nested
over here. You clean them up. So I
>> did he do it after
>> he did a great job.
>> Okay.
>> And we will need more bubbles for next
year. But um I wanted to thank obviously
for again family funday is always
phenomenal to see it's phenomenal for
the community phenomenal for uh for
families and I said we saw all
demographics there uh during family fun
day. It's just good to have that in the
community. I also want to thank you for
you know the Boston pre and it just it
got me thinking about a few things you
know sometimes has a nice positive
meaning sometimes I know a little bit
negative give a little bit of passion
and it makes you think back to you know
what represents boss spa I know it's fun
to joke that there's an objection at the
race it's almost typical fashion for
boss spa and then you know this purple suit and shoes phenomenal u but you know it goes little
of the village of friends and you know
probably the best thing of that day was
there was a young man that was
recognized uh at the end of the race um
and you know forgive him I'm a little
bit of a storyteller but um of my four
children and I have one who sort of
moved to the beat of his own drum uh and
I remember this young man one time we uh
said hey go out and invite some people
to you know date a bus like the last
picture on his birthday party nobody
showed up except for this one young man
who showed up and he sort of knew he
goes nobody's showing up for your son he
goes well you know I'm doing the right
thing to show up for your
I'm that was just amazing. He had that
sense. This was if I could probably
elementary school. He had that sense
back then and I sort of followed him
throughout the years. He was also
friends with my other son. They were in
robotics together and he just was a very
talented young man and he was at that
race and he was invited back to where
normally the owners would be celebrate
their winnings and the celebr
and and to see that that is what it
means again to you know be in this
village to be a village craft. He was a
friend to my son when my son needed him
the most and he was recognized as a
truly outstanding young man that he is
to this day and what he's going through.
And yesterday was would have been the
birthday of my mother who passed a
couple years ago and she was a third
grade teacher and she'd tell you she was
still alive to this day. He gives you
impact. They are the future. When they
become adults, they remember those
little moments where you gave them a
chance to truly truly shine. So of all
the things I saw of that uh again it was
a great time but those lucky greatest
impact and I have to thank you for that
mayor because again that's the impact
you have on the future generations of
the village and it's those little quiet
moments nobody sees no cameras there's
no spotlight there's no social media
it's just giving that young man a chance
to shine he truly deserved that after
you know but I'm sure he's done with
countless people not just myself so
>> 10 seconds
>> absolutely and again thank you to all of
you because again I noticed out there is
not always the easiest thing to do and
whether you're going around at the hot
sun during the art fair to make sure
George is doing good or showing up to
family fun day and putting through
everything each and every one of you do
is it's always appreciated. Thank you.
>> Thanks Chris. And uh Bryce deserves
congratulations. He came back also for a
$3,500 uh scholarship from New York
Racing Association and he's attending
University of Louisville uh and came
back for that uh award. So it was great
to see him. uh he was actually in our
picture last year in uh the winter
circle because he was working with them
uh in that uh area and uh this year came
back just to celebrate with everybody
and get his uh money from uh the
scholarship. So congratulations to him.
Anybody else?
Seeing none hearing none.
We have time for other business
including but not limited to board
response to public comment. Paul, I
always put you in the hot seat first.
So, I'm going to go to Bernie Debt first
this time. How's that for throwing this
off?
>> Um, just just want to applaud everybody
for family fun day. I'm sorry I had to
miss it this year. We were celebrating
the life of my aunt who passed away. But
I think she'd be overjoyed at how how
well it went. Um, cuz she worked with
children with special needs. Um, but
anyway, very glad that
>> Well, you were.
>> I know.
>> You indeed were.
>> All right, I'm going to crack this
camera.
Uh, Mary, save us again.
>> You were with us in spirit, Bernardet.
We did miss you and I'm glad you were
able to
pay tribute to your family.
>> Thank you. Uh, Charlene, I guess
>> agree with Mary Bernardet. Um, you know,
we missed you, but we're happy that, you
know, you got to take that time with
your family. Um, I'd also like to say
that this is such a small little agenda
and the meeting went so quick, but I
felt like tonight was really impactful
because if you look at like a huge
portion of our agenda items, they're all
community oriented events, right?
Whether that's, you know, approving
future events or paying some of our
organizations to or helping them, you
know, financially to do all of the hard
work that they do. So, I really think,
you know, it's just a testament to who
we are as a village. And I don't know,
tonight makes me super proud.
>> Amen. Paul,
>> no comment.
>> First or last, I can't get him to go too
far on that. Uh, with respect to DBW,
uh, we are working with Malta on what to
do in that situation to try to get a
storage building there uh, built so that
we can uh, stage it. But if not, if we
can't, we'll work down roads to figure
out uh you know, how to proceed from
there and then we'll see if uh we're
going to uh need to do a contract with
uh Lege with respect to next steps and
design and engineering, all that stuff.
Uh with respect to Village Hall, uh
first would love to get it painted also.
Uh and I've talked to Randy Elliot about
helping us figure out who we can get to
do it for a reasonable price. And some
of the structural stuff appears to be
overstated uh with respect to the
retaining wall from folks we've talked
to, but uh we do want to still do the
vault and also look at refacing that
wall uh to at least uh contain the
little bit of the stuff that was
starting to fall off of it. Uh so we'll
uh you know continue down that path as
well. Uh and just in general, and I said
it yesterday on Facebook, I'm going to
say it again. Wednesday is an
opportunity for this village to really,
you know, voice their opinions, voice
their thoughts on a controversial topic.
There's no doubt about it. And I always
say two things and one I said especially
yesterday, but I'll say uh another part
generally integrity matters in terms of
you know stay on facts, stay on
reasonable opinions, don't inflame, you
know, it's it's a discussion at the end
of the day. It's not an indictment. And
I think that's the biggest thing I
always ask of folks in those uh moments
is to stay calm, stay rational, stay
full of integrity in what you say and do
in those situations. And you know, just
be respectful in general to your
neighbors, to the boards who really they
might as well be volunteers for a little
bit of money. We give them a stipen uh
on the planning and zoning boards zoning
board on Wednesday. Uh respect is key
because it doesn't help anybody to
inflame toward those members. It's it is
hard enough of a job. We feel it
ourselves from time to time, but you
know, we take this on as responsibility.
They're appointed and essentially, you
know, give up their time for these
situations because they love their
community as much as you might as well.
And you may not believe that just
because they might hold a different
position from you on this, but respect
is so necessary in these uh situations.
You know, we had the whole residency
question back when because we do
struggle sometimes to get people to sign
up for these boards. And the best thing
we can do to invite others inside of our
own community, if that's the way we want
to continue going down the line, is to
make sure we treat them with respect so
others will want to become part of that
organization, that board, that
committee, whatever. have you. So,
please remember that. That's the only
thing I uh really ask of anybody. Again,
your opinions are yours. Your your facts
are yours to present. Do it. You've got
your time to do that in those uh public
hearing moments. And we applaud that
fact. That's what makes us the village
of Boston spa besides just our community
uh you know interest in the way that you
uh spoke of Charlene but also the way we
respect each other or supposed to
respect each other and always carry
ourselves with that integrity that I
think is so important. So that's my
thought on that. Uh that is uh 7 p.m. is
it at the uh Elks on Wednesday night.
>> And at this point no need for executive
session. Correct.
>> I don't need one.
>> I am
Fine. You mean that way?
>> You don't have one.
>> No thanks. Got to get a motion that the
vouchers be audited and the meeting be
adjourned at 7:41 p.m.
>> I'll make that motion.
>> Trustee Price Bush.
>> Second.
>> Trustee Dunclear discussion. All in
favor?
>> Oppose.
>> Everybody have a great Labor Day. We
will see you in three weeks.
>> Yes, three weeks. Have a great time.