[0:03] To the flag of the United States of
America
[0:07] for it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice
[0:14] for all. Thank you. My apologies for
being a few minutes late here. We were
[0:20] kind of immersed in some business.
Uh, first of all, before we all get
[0:28] settled and everything,
I have a very good friend who happens to
[0:33] be my deputy
as a birthday.
[0:37] Happy birthday,
[0:40] birthday.
[0:53] Happy birthday.
Thank you.
[1:00] 3 hours longer than Cal Ripton Jr. We're
born on the same day.
[1:07] Thank you. Public comment on agenda
items. Anybody have anything?
[1:10] [clears throat]
Public comment agenda items.
[1:17] All right, we'll take one step further.
Public comment on anything. Anybody have
[1:21] anything they want to bring up?
>> Yes.
[1:28] » Okay. Uh, hello everybody. Um, yeah, I
want to take a couple of minutes to um
[1:36] let people know about some things that
are coming up.
[1:40] I specifically want to invite the entire
board to the uh annual meeting and
[1:47] picnic that the citizens environmental
advisory committee holds every year. And
[1:51] this year we're having it uh on
September 12th
[1:56] at [laughter] Brooks's.
And uh we do try to talk about some
[2:01] business. We have some new leadership
announcements to make and some plans.
[2:06] And then we're going to have some fun.
So please uh it's open to anybody who
[2:11] wants to attend and learn more. Um
second
[2:15] » what time?
>> Uh 11 to 3.
[2:20] » Um let's see. Okay. On uh the 5th on
September 15th at the library from 2 to
[2:27] 6 um Central Hudson uh is going to have
what they're calling an energy savings
[2:35] simplified program.
um where they're going to be discussing
[2:40] all kinds of energy assistance programs
uh from both the both utilities from the
[2:49] Cornell Cooperative Extension. There's
energy advisors that work with the
[2:53] cooperative extension
um and other support services will be
[2:58] there. So, it's a great opportunity to
learn about weatherizing
[3:04] as we get into winter. It's a good thing
to know. The library is also
[3:09] participating with other local libraries
in um a program sponsored by
[3:17] called homeost thermal camera. And uh
it's kind of I don't really want to
[3:24] explain the technology, but uh it's it's
a way of using your smartphone and
[3:29] plugging into their tech to uh really do
a survey of um and pockets in your home
[3:36] where you're losing air where you know
where you could benefit from um some
[3:42] work. So those two things I'd like to
just make sure everybody's aware of.
[3:47] » Thank you.
>> Thank you. Any questions? That was at
[3:51] Brooks's Park, right? Like last year. So
last year there was a conflict. Someone
[3:56] else had booked the park, but we pulled
it off anyway. So this year it's us from
[4:01] 1 to 3 on September the 12th. 11 to 3.
Citizens of Fire Committee is vote for
[4:10] Brooks's Park. Okay.
[4:16] as well.
[4:19] » President of the Highlanders. Thank you.
Welcome.
[4:22] » Thank you so much, Janess. Janette
Scott, resident of Highland Falls. I
[4:27] just wanted to find out any updates on
the dial.
[4:31] » You want to know what you have?
>> Well, I didn't see on the agenda. That's
[4:34] the only reason I was asking.
>> No, that's part of my report. I'm going
[4:38] to have to let you go to my notes. All
right. So, uh,
[4:44] all of us, um, had a few people ask me
about it. Michael is doing an excellent
[4:50] job as their leaison, uh, his
assignment, and I'm happy to um, for
[4:57] myself. So, what's going on? Our
2-year-old dials require park that was
[5:04] on national back order rear end. We
already stated that a particular vehicle
[5:10] is out in go at a specialized truck
dealership and there is reason to
[5:15] believe that will be back into service
in the not too distant future. I've
[5:21] learned not to give a specific date.
When I say not too distant, that means
[5:25] less than 2 weeks, but more than a day.
Okay, so that's that bus. Now, as for
[5:30] the $27 bus that we purchased from the
county for a dollar, is that what we
[5:35] paid for it or just free? Just free.
Okay. All right. That bus um
[5:41] uh that bus is in Uber and that bus had
some things wrong with it. So, our
[5:46] mechanic Chris went up there today to do
some repairs on it. It also needs an
[5:52] exhaust system. He'll do that here when
they drive it down here. I'm not sure
[5:57] the status of the registration, all that
other stuff. That's June's apartment.
[6:02] So, when we get the registration and the
insurance and all that stuff, they'll
[6:06] slap a set of plates on it. They'll
bring it down here. And now, the subject
[6:10] came up of decals. The county does the
decaling, okay? Or they provide them to
[6:16] us. If it doesn't have the proper decals
on it, it will not pass the DOT
[6:21] inspection. The DOT sends somebody to do
that inspection. We don't. So that's how
[6:26] the dial bus works. So to answer that
question, it's in Newberg. It's ready to
[6:30] go depending all the things I just told
you. As far as getting the DOT special,
[6:35] I think they'll come within a day or
two. And uh so the county has decal. We
[6:40] got a new one 2 years ago. They had a
decal for Curious Jewel. We had to send
[6:44] it back and they had to put them back
and have our put on there. So I know we
[6:48] can do it. We can get them made up, but
I can tell you until the decals are on,
[6:53] it's not going to pass the DOT
inspection. So that's where we're at
[6:56] with the old one. So it could be 3 days
from now or it could be next week. So
[7:01] we're going to have two of them for the
rest of the year at least once we get
[7:04] them both going. Um that's my best
answer, Jack.
[7:09] I did send you an email today that the
bus is completely.
[7:13] » Okay. So they're all set. It's on them
now. They'll go get it tomorrow. Bring
[7:17] it down here and get the DOT inspection
and um I can't answer right now. It'll
[7:23] be ready by Wednesday. It could be.
>> All right, that sounds great. So, now
[7:28] that you have two buses, I know in the
past there used to be a dial bus that
[7:32] would go to Monroe or Newberg for people
to go shopping, Christmas, go to the
[7:38] casino trip. Can that come back into
play somehow?
[7:42] » So, I did speak to Aaron about that. He
said, "Uh, if you speak with Ann Molina,
[7:48] she has a form to fill out, like a
request for the bus and just to give it
[7:54] to him."
>> I'm sorry, that's not what she
[7:56] [clears throat]
was on Saturdays. Always went to New
[8:00] York for everybody to go shopping. So,
that's what Janette's talking about. Not
[8:04] a special, right? Like also, we
mentioned school,
[8:12] right?
>> Yeah. And Debbie also says she's willing
[8:15] to drive on Saturdays also. So we have
two buses and two part-time drivers. The
[8:21] rest is just money. So
>> So that's wonderful. So how would we
[8:24] request that you'll get a protocol
together once the buses are up and
[8:27] running and all that?
>> I'll get with you.
[8:28] » Perfect. Sounds great. Thank you so
much.
[8:30] » Thank you, J.
Anyone else?
[8:35] I'd like to welcome our members of the
board.
[8:46] Okay.
[9:04] Second favor. Okay. Thank you.
I transunications
[9:13] don't have anything special
[9:23] transfer $49,873
from consolidated account
[9:30] this week
larger items were
[9:37] for 9,424
4 hours
[9:41] service $9,385
[9:45] points for recreation troops in 2026
6,000
[9:52] $875
[9:56] communications for radio ports $4,30
[10:02] environmental services for water testing
$3,900 $100
[10:09] and the further is our reports beginning
with Nancy. Nancy,
[10:17] please.
>> Sure. Thank you, Mr. Supervisor. Um,
[10:22] the only meeting that we've had since
that I was at since last since our last
[10:28] board meeting was the consolidated
planning board and that took place last
[10:33] Thursday and there was a public hearing
for Mr. Keller's
[10:40] um property which is two three lots down
here between there and um there was no
[10:46] public comment on that subject to some
coordination with the village because
[10:52] there's some drainage and it backs onto
parking uh lot two or parking one here.
[10:59] Um so there's a little bit of
coordination but it's moving on. It's
[11:03] going to be a multi-use building. It's
going to have um I think parking like
[11:07] that. So, it's going to be tiered,
right? The actual basement's going to be
[11:10] on the parking lot. Um, it's going to be
at the parking lot level and then at
[11:15] sidewalk level, it starts with
commercial building and then
[11:19] number of residential pieces above that.
Five, six. So, six apartments above
[11:26] that. So, we look forward to to that. He
seemed to have everything squared away.
[11:31] Um
so that was and then they talked about
[11:36] um some which also was in coordination
with the village some uh drainage in um
[11:42] andora park andor or kragston. No in
Hudson Drive in Andor right some doing
[11:49] some lot line changes to accommodate
some village drainage down there. Um
[11:56] and that is it for meetings. I just want
to remind you that the back to school
[12:02] block party is this Saturday, the 29th,
from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. in front of St.
[12:08] John's Church on Muller Avenue. Um, it's
usually a lot of fun. We have a good
[12:14] time. There's DJ, there's bouncy house.
They the Buffalo Soldier Motorcycle Club
[12:19] comes in with all their stuff and brings
backpacks and [laughter]
[12:23] um backpacks and school supplies and the
church supplies and hamburgers and hot
[12:29] dogs. and it's just a lot of fun for a
couple hours. So celebrate that kind of
[12:33] the last harrah of summer and that again
is this Saturday from 2:00 to 5:00.
[12:39] The uh great American Fourth of July
doover is coming up on Sunday, September
[12:45] 6th. That all everything there's no
parade. We are still doing fireworks and
[12:50] some activities that will be at Row Park
on Sunday. Um games in that begin at 4
[12:57] pm. So there will be the grand marshall
announcement at 4. Then bike stroller
[13:02] and wagon decorating contest. Um a
couple of tugof-wars between the Fort
[13:07] McGomery and High Falls Fire departments
and the police departments that are on
[13:11] schedule for that. Um pie eating contest
and a youth watermelon eating contest.
[13:17] Um and there will be some bl basketball
games, food trucks, vendors. So any
[13:22] vendors who are out there um that are
listening to this or see that, we are
[13:27] happy to invite anybody who wants to
come to be a vendor for that. Um
[13:32] fireworks because again it's later on in
the in the season will begin at 8:00
[13:37] p.m. That's why cuz it gets dark a
little earlier in September. Um
[13:44] and I think that's what I have. So
that's
[13:48] » I'm sorry. That's all I have. What about
animals? We did well we did all their
[13:52] calls so I did that at the last meeting.
>> Oh yeah, stop thinking. So last week
[14:00] there was senior recognition day or
older Americans recognition day down at
[14:06] uh down at Little Richie and we had very
nice programs. So the um Debbie um
[14:13] Debbie McCabe was honored our one of our
dialer bus drivers. Mike and Sue Slap
[14:18] were honored. Um Joe Kalori was honored
and um and Mary Lou and Kenny Connley
[14:25] were also honored and it was very nice.
We had a nice time. It's it was uh it
[14:30] was really [clears throat] a good time
to just be together and recognize some
[14:33] people. There were 40ome people 47 so
close to 50 people that were there. So
[14:39] that was a nice day.
Now I'm finished. Thank you.
[14:45] What do you call a female MC?
[14:49] » A mistress.
>> Mistress is excellent. Excellent.
[14:53] Kristen. Yeah.
Do a great job. I just did one last time
[14:59] since he's not here.
>> So for the presentation, that was fun. I
[15:04] I It's nice when you get to honor people
that you really like and know for a long
[15:08] time. So that was fun.
>> Michael, you're a senior wellness
[15:14] Oh, yes. You can take that. When is it
that? Because I'm not going to be here
[15:18] the night.
>> September 19th.
[15:21] » Yes.
>> Attended to Holy Innocence Church.
[15:25] » Correct.
>> Right.
[15:27] » Yes.
>> All right.
[15:30] Uh I just have a couple things for the
recck department.
[15:34] Uh Wreck was finished up over 100 kids
for the WCK department for the wreck
[15:39] program this year.
Uh the summer track and field program
[15:45] that is led by Brian Frederickson is
coming to an end. Another incredible
[15:50] first year program with a lot of kids
participating.
[15:55] Uh soccer registration is open till this
Friday. He has a good turnout already,
[16:01] but the more the merrier for the kids.
Uh, you covered the Fourth of July stuff
[16:08] and that's about all for the rec
department, the dial bus.
[16:13] We had that already. I'll get back to
Mrs. Scott. That's all I got. That's all
[16:18] you got. Thank you.
Councilman,
[16:24] Michael, thank you. Michael didn't
cover. The dial bus ridership for the
[16:28] last 3 weeks has been zero. Okay. So,
that's I'm not proud to say that, but
[16:33] you know,
as well. It's important. Okay. And then,
[16:38] you know, we can philosophize on the
whole thing. Years ago, it was 2/3
[16:41] funded and a third by the town. That has
changed, but there's still 500 people a
[16:47] month riding it. And as far as I'm
concerned, it's going to stay going
[16:50] forever. So, you know, um, can I just
say one more thing? At the senior
[16:55] wellness thing at the church in
September, we're going to try to have a
[16:59] table set up for the Dallas bus. So, you
know, hope I'll give out be giving out
[17:03] pamphlets. Okay. Hopefully, we can get
the wrership aboard. Okay. Very good.
[17:10] Um, all right. So, I'll try and
abbreviate mine.
[17:16] Try. Uh, last week I had this up in
Corbin Hill where somebody up on Eagle
[17:22] Crest called and said they have low
pressure.
[17:26] Corbin Hill is the only place in our
entire water system village in town
[17:31] where there's pumping involved except
for back fill back filling the uh back
[17:35] washing the filters of the plant.
Everything else is gravity. So when
[17:39] electric goes out up there, which it
did, we had that problem over the
[17:43] winter, they call up, we can revalve it,
so they get about 25 PSI, which is
[17:49] enough hardly to take a shower. And so
we I called my Perulo and V up and um in
[17:56] a sense of urgency I kind of like went
up with my own meter and checked it and
[18:00] I knew that one of the three phases one
of the lights was blown out. Orange and
[18:05] came 10:00 that night. I'm not sure what
they did. It was back online the next
[18:10] morning. So that takes care of that.
uh our water uses last month, the last
[18:16] month and a half has been up quite a bit
and uh we know that there's a 15 to
[18:22] 20,000 gallon leak. I'm not going to say
where the amount of time that it's been
[18:26] happening has generated, what I'm going
to say is about $7,000 worth of lost
[18:31] revenue. So that account holder, it is
imperative that we contact the person
[18:36] again and let them know the account's
going to be shut off if something's not
[18:40] done by the end of the month. We can't
let it linger anymore and we know where
[18:44] it's at. Um,
also we had a lot of rain uh last month
[18:50] and I want to just, you know, the
village people are here and thank you
[18:52] all for being here with their plant.
When they get a lot of rain, it produces
[18:57] turbidity, not so much in the glycerin
hollow side, but in the Highland Brook
[19:01] side, they have to shut down the plant
for a day or two or three sometimes and
[19:05] feed off the water tanks when that
happens. So, uh, in doing all this, when
[19:11] they chlorinate, they can't chlorinate
too high because it'll turn brown water
[19:17] up in the village. By the time it gets
down to Fort McGomery, by law, it has to
[19:22] be at least 2.2 mg per liter or2 parts
per million do the same thing. Um, and
[19:30] we generally have readings of about 31.
So, I wanted to lead to is Dale talked
[19:35] to me and said, you know, we're losing
water and I think it's making water turn
[19:40] brown. I was like, well, we're using 90
to 95,000 gallons a day now a little bit
[19:46] more. We have a contract for 150,000 and
if we have to boost the chlorine that
[19:52] goes up to 200,000 gallons a day. So, as
everybody moves forward in the village
[19:56] of Highland Falls, subtract 200,000 from
your numbers. It's already guaranteed to
[20:02] the town of Highlands. Okay, just
remember those numbers exist. We're not
[20:06] built out yet down there. And I said
that to Dale and he's been very
[20:09] cooperative at trying to find leaks and
all that other stuff. And uh once we fix
[20:14] this one leak, we'll be back down below
85,000 gallons a day.
[20:20] Uh sewer. What do I have on sewer? Uh I
don't have a lot on sewer. The sludge
[20:26] building's budget climb. Sludge building
need a roof last year. We use that money
[20:30] cuz the EPA was on our back about
cameraing the pipes along the IW
[20:34] Hardware. We did that. It still needs a
roof. So, I have to put money into that.
[20:39] I put forward a little pump station.
That's a uh 220. It's on pre-phase.
[20:44] That's going to need a $10,000 plus
rebuild. That'll have to win next year
[20:49] budget with the building department. I'm
glad the building personal here. Uh, so
[20:55] I I kind of sent their budget out to
Kelly tonight and it's a little bit iffy
[21:00] because what we need to know in the
agreement, which is an excellent
[21:03] agreement by the way, it has a provision
that before December 31st, you have 90
[21:09] days to say we don't want to do this
anymore. That doesn't help us. Now, at
[21:14] budget time, our budget's going in now.
So, I either have to scale back if the
[21:20] village is going to have a building
inspector or make the other guy
[21:23] fulltime. The budget I submitted is to
make the other guy fulltime. We have
[21:28] time to cut that if need be. I sent
Jimmy an email. I haven't heard back
[21:32] from him. I need some type of a
handshake commitment telling us what you
[21:36] intend to do so we can do what we have
to do. There's no ego on my part. I'm
[21:40] just saying I got some decisions. We
have decisions to make and we need to
[21:43] know so we can make them. Um
DBW I have uh Okay, the dial bus already
[21:51] went over. Um we uh
let me catch up here. Oh, so I sent out
[22:00] a report to everybody on the projection
of what they're going to do for the rest
[22:04] of the year. And I know since feeling
all that they're busy, I just want to
[22:09] say I'm over for the last 10 years how
many catch bases they installed in a
[22:13] typical year. The most they've ever done
is five. This year so far they've done
[22:18] 13. So wherever they're at, they're
doing their work. They're getting stuff
[22:22] done. They have shortages of personnel
cuz we have a garbage truck out of
[22:26] service of which there are two of them
right now. You have to dedicate a guy to
[22:31] a rear loaded truck. So you lose
personnel. So have a DPWI goes to
[22:36] sanitation and that hurts the crew. But
they have work to do on Mock Road on
[22:41] Mine Road's going to get paved and some
other projects. I sent that out to
[22:45] everybody with a timeline schedule
including down the sewer plan and then
[22:49] after that's over with our DPW
superintendent going to be retiring.
[22:53] Okay. Um
so the dial OVER
[23:01] um
the senior lunchon went over that. I
[23:06] attended that also. I had they were all
great. Joe Car, Lori, Kenny, Mary
[23:11] Connley, Debbie McCabe, Mike and Slap
are my neighbors, so I had the pleasure
[23:15] of giving them their certificates. So,
so that was a lot of fun.
[23:21] Emergency preparedness
was there and the chief was there last
[23:26] Friday at noon. I had a little bit of
spare time to go to that. Ty King um was
[23:31] even chaired for the most part. I think
that was her fourth meeting. Jen was
[23:35] there. Tommy Armstrong, the assistant
chief of forgo was there. Jeff G was
[23:39] there. Logan Genie was there. And I
think there's somebody I'm forgetting.
[23:43] Was someone else there? Kathy was there.
Okay. And so here's the notes that Tai
[23:48] sent me cuz he's not here tonight. Uh
the public should be aware that Friday
[23:52] was our fourth meeting and the initial
goal was to formulate a solid committee
[23:56] to include all our leaders and emergency
management roles and use that time to
[24:01] identify
along with developing courses of action
[24:06] to mitigate man-made and natural
disaster risk.
[24:10] Mickey Lee and Kurt Han kept detailed
notes of the first meeting. Uh the
[24:15] second and third meetings was low
attendance so no notes and you you
[24:20] thankfully kept notes on the last
meeting. I have a little AI thing so I
[24:24] recorded it and shared them. Um so we
have now have some new folks like Olga
[24:30] and Janette Scott and I call you Genie
after all these years. So I'm sorry
[24:34] about that. Um and upon having a very
robust and fruitful discussion that
[24:39] leads us to the next phase of our
operation, which is to review and update
[24:43] our current disaster preparedness plan.
Thank you all again for your teamwork.
[24:48] Um I'm going to deviate here for just a
second. So that was Tai's notes. I had
[24:53] Jan and a few other people. So I I
rekindled kind of the cemetery
[24:57] committee. We're doing a lot including
actually physically laying out the crem
[25:02] section Eagle Valley. We're that far
from having that done. We have five
[25:06] people that have paid, four of which are
still alive, one of which is waiting for
[25:11] a spot up there to be created cuz it
doesn't exist yet. The cemetery
[25:15] committee has brought to my attention
that evangelism mostly at Highland
[25:19] Union. So, the chief and I, we spoke
about this and I think you now have a
[25:23] patrol dedicated once a shift or
whatever, taking a drive down there. And
[25:28] I think we're going to look to get some
solar powered lights to hang in a tree.
[25:33] A camera would be expensive though. So I
have one that costs money for the
[25:37] cellular service. We're going to have it
where if someone feels like trespassing,
[25:41] we're going to have a light come on and
shine right on up there to at least
[25:44] scare them off. There's a couple of
recently I'm say within the last half
[25:47] year old stones that have been broken.
We're aware of it. The police department
[25:52] is aware of it. So um that subject is
known.
[25:57] um the sitting chat comes back in
September to offer the summer. Uh and
[26:03] Mr. Frank Taylor will be the speaker on
I think it's September 2nd will be the
[26:10] um first Wednesday of the month and his
subject is George Washington backyard.
[26:15] He gave it at the library. It's a very
high-end presentation. He put a lot of
[26:20] time into it. So uh that'll be at the
American Legion Hall. They have them at
[26:24] 6:00 on September the 2nd, whatever the
first Wednesday of the month is. I think
[26:30] it's September the 2nd. All right. I've
been asked to do a couple of them. I
[26:34] think I've done four or five of them. I
was asked to do one in October. I'm not
[26:39] really sure if I'm going to be ready for
it because in a fit of rage last month,
[26:43] I punched one of my iPads, so it's out
of service. I got to get a new one and
[26:47] upload everything. This is a town. I
didn't punch that one, but uh so if I'm
[26:52] ready, then I'll probably do it on
Constitution Island or something like
[26:55] that. Um and with history, so I want to
everybody know that Ronnie Coffee let us
[27:02] know that she has been asked to do a
presentation for the Association of
[27:05] Public Historians of New York State at
the annual conference. The conference is
[27:10] in Udica. So she will not be here on
Monday, September 28th. and she says, "I
[27:16] think it's a great opportunity to
network with other local historic
[27:22] and stimulate the interest in history in
the town of Highlands and elsewhere.
[27:26] History's on fire. You have Peter here
and you have Mark here. They're heavily
[27:29] involved with Woodberry and all those
other places. There's just a ton of
[27:33] events. I went down to Long Pond Iron
Works this weekend which is down at the
[27:37] Montreal Reservoir which is Baron Hansen
Cleaver and Robert Ernsky built it.
[27:42] They're still there. the ruins are there
from 300 years ago. So, it was pretty
[27:46] interesting. Um, and finally, the
Patriot Garden. So, the 911 ceremony is
[27:51] only a few weeks away and I and a few
others have been about the only ones
[27:57] down there doing anything. 20 years ago
when that whole thing came together cuz
[28:02] I was involved in that heavily, the
police trailer used to be there. We made
[28:06] it so they moved away and went to the
ambulance core and it was vision that
[28:11] was pretty much doing everything. They
wanted no part of highway guys touching
[28:15] flowers. They weed whack everything. So
it was basically the vision people that
[28:20] took care of that part of it. The town
guys didn't even cut the grass in the
[28:23] beginning. Me and a few other people
did. We're not getting volunteers to
[28:27] show up. I've sent out emails. Some of
them assertive. And so there's the star
[28:33] itself isn't too bad, but there's two
islands coming in that are loaded with
[28:38] spyhea and they have this I call it
thistle or cactus weed all over the
[28:43] place. I'm going to try and have it
cleaned up for the ceremony. If anybody
[28:46] has any spare time, uh they can call me
or Darling or maybe even older if she's
[28:52] want to take a call. There's labor work
to be done down there. And after this
[28:57] year, if we can't get volunteers to go
there, I'm going to recommend that those
[29:02] spy be removed. We plant grass seed and
all the guys do is cut grass. No more
[29:07] plantings down there except for the star
point, which is a shame because there's
[29:12] uh I think it was John Rose's son of the
Boy Scout Eagle Scout project. All those
[29:16] brick pavers are down there. It really
is have a bunch of them down there with
[29:20] their names on it. And then it's
starting to fall into a state of
[29:23] disrepair. And so this I think is in the
20 or 21st year it's existed. Uh we'll
[29:29] have the ceremony and we'll have it
looking nice, but as we go forward we
[29:33] need some people to step up because all
the old people have no one to pass the
[29:37] torch to and a great number of
organizations. Um and that's all I have
[29:41] to say.
Thank you sir.
[29:51] Excuse me Mr. President Chief, is there
anything that you would like to report
[29:56] from yesterday?
>> Uh, no.
[29:59] » Are you sure? the uh whatever you call
that there 5k and 10k was very well
[30:07] attended
>> attended by the chief who won his age
[30:10] bracket and
[30:14] we just went over 70 or
[30:19] anyway
would like to buy a 2026 Dodge
[30:26] » excuse me supervisor chief has some
revised numbers
[30:32] I'll give numbers.
Okay. So, the total purchase price for
[30:38] the vehicle is $66,713.661.
[30:42] All the add-ons, as in, you know, the
lettering, the radios, um the computers,
[30:49] all that jazz is an additional
$20,85653.
[30:54] So, I'd be asking the board to take
$42,570.14
[31:00] from our equipment line and the
additional 45,000 from our reserve line
[31:05] for the vehicle.
>> 42 42 and 45, right? 42
[31:10] » 42,570
[31:14] out of the equipment line and then
45,000 out of the reserve line.
[31:21] I have a motion for the board to remove
that money as stated. Motion
[31:28] in favor.
[31:31] And now you don't have to race. You can
just move your car.
[31:44] Okay. I understand
[31:54] and
[31:58] I just felt to mention that the Orange
County legislature
[32:05] proposed
a resolution which urging the US
[32:13] Department Homeland Security and US
immigration and customs enforcement hold
[32:20] plans for proposed processing and or
detention facility
[32:28] and reiterating his
opposition to the establishment of such
[32:35] facilities within the county.
I think I saw on
[32:42] Facebook and someone said don't worry
about that place
[32:49] that I don't know where it is or who put
that on
[32:55] Facebook.
[33:08] They're looking for a resolution of
support or that just an informative
[33:11] thing. That was their resolution of
support
[33:15] as for a resolution of support.
If they get to the same
[33:24] resolution for us.
[33:29] Okay. Yeah.
[33:35] I've been banging my head against the
wall here for a while having to do
[33:40] nothing wrong. Trust me. uh the special
counsel and chief administrative judge
[33:49] uh state New York
district visited our court. We come up
[33:55] with some recommendations
and
[34:00] a number of the recommendations that's
why we downstairs we up an executive
[34:05] session. Uh, I spent almost 2 hours,
which I'll never get back in my life,
[34:11] but it was it was a good 2 hours with
Ariel Brian, who is the special counsel
[34:19] town village courts in the ninth
judicial district.
[34:25] She had some recommendations, pass them
on to me as town supervisor. I pass them
[34:31] on to the board.
Uh first of all, she suggested that we
[34:36] have a what is the title? Chief
administrative clerk for our court. We
[34:45] don't have that title right now
presently. And I'm not sure if we can
[34:50] get that title. Kelly is going to check
into the county to see if that is a a
[34:57] title that we [music] are allowed to use
or is the title be an inhouse title such
[35:04] as
they have an inhouse.
[35:08] This will be an in-house title. Uh
why was recommended uh to take that job
[35:17] and the town board
that would be a good position for her.
[35:25] So I would ask the town board for a
motion to make Eve Ryan the chief court
[35:35] clerk for towns.
at the pay of 2639.
[35:42] I'll make that motion.
>> I'll second. All
[35:46] » in favor?
>> I opposed.
[35:58] Okay.
Another
[36:01] thing we need approval of the
court system wants to send a
[36:09] court clerk
that is highly experienced
[36:14] and is a full-time court clerk in
another place. But they want to send her
[36:19] down here to help our court clerk adjust
to a new position.
[36:25] Uh they want us to pay $30 an hour. This
would be on in the evenings probably on
[36:33] a Friday evening for 3 or 4 hours and it
would last until our budget lasts when
[36:40] we run out of money which we have
approximately $11,000
[36:44] to pay this. So I'll ask for a motion
from the board to allow us to uh hire a
[36:55] for generating
[36:59] clerk at
$30 an hour for 3 or 4 hours per night
[37:07] per Friday night and uh until our budget
runs dry. That's $30 an hour per game.
[37:15] No benefits, just a raw $30 an hour.
>> Yes. I'll make that motion. Second.
[37:19] » All in favor?
>> I carried. Thank you.
[37:24] So just as you know they are also going
to send down a judge
[37:28] um to work with our judges. Uh this will
be at the cost of $400 a day which the
[37:37] system will pick up that cost
[37:44] and I have to get position of the
county.
[37:48] » I decree position of the county
work.
[37:52] » Okay. All right.
>> So, I'll do that tomorrow.
[37:57] » So, we'll add that in motion
once created and then we'll hire them at
[38:04] $30 an hour.
[38:10] Right.
[38:15] Thank you. Thank you.
[38:22] I have a police officer that has
resigned. Please accept this letter as a
[38:27] formal notification for my resation from
the position as police officed
[38:37] immediately as of August the 20th.
I wish you
[38:43] this is to the chief by the way. I wish
you the members of the town police
[38:47] department success. Please let me know
if there are any additional steps that I
[38:52] have to do. Respectfully, Nicholas
[38:59] ask.
[39:06] Thank you.
[39:28] I don't have a but
[39:39] recommended to be a court clerk from two
judge two judges. Uh so I'm asking to
[39:48] uh hire her at the
salary as this salary schedule
[40:00] probation.
I ask for a motion to hire them.
[40:08] Second all in favor I so carry.
[clears throat]
[40:12] OKAY.
[40:24] LET'S SEE WHAT ELSE WE HAVE HERE.
RESIGNATION.
[40:31] I think everything
[40:35] I think you covered everything
else.
[40:39] I got a couple things from him. I
forgot. Uh, the Hudson Valley Women's
[40:44] Association and Friends,
they present the Ark Encounter and
[40:49] Creation Museum May 10th to 15th, 2027.
It's 6 days, 5 nights for 740 bucks.
[41:00] Uh, you can call Ann Molina at 5
4465983.
[41:05] The senior wellness fair.
Uh,
[41:10] Saturday, October 24th, doing a day trip
down to the 911 9/11 museum in New York
[41:18] City.
Lunch in at the Dallas Barbecue in the
[41:24] Hershey's Chocolate Tour in Time Square.
Uh, 8:00 a.m. departure from 353 Main
[41:31] Street, 5:00 return in the afternoon.
The It's $145 a person.
[41:39] and the 2026
chili cookoff
[41:44] on October 9th at the Church of the Holy
Innocence
[41:49] 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Reach out to Anna
to
[41:54] enter your chili.
Thank you.
[42:05] Um, I just want to number one, I just
want to thank the uh our my fellow
[42:09] village board members for being here. If
it's not one of us, it's all of us being
[42:13] here. And it's important that we all
kind of support each other and we
[42:16] appreciate you guys coming to the
village board member board meetings just
[42:20] to, you know, support us, too. It's it's
a tough time right now. we're really
[42:24] kind of navigating things and to come
without insult and really support us is
[42:28] really important. I just want to echo
with Rich is um with the emergency
[42:33] preparedness, the one thing that I did
want to mention is that one of the
[42:36] components that we talked about was our
seniors getting on board with um getting
[42:40] on the safe me program or getting on the
morning program with the police
[42:44] department. Just call in. I know Janette
Scott and Olga have actually I've
[42:49] actually called them out on Facebook if
anyone wants to contact them. If you're
[42:52] vulnerable, if you live alone, if you
have medical compromise, it's a good
[42:56] list that we have again because the fire
department and the police officers don't
[43:01] always know. So, if power and things
like that go out, it's good for us to
[43:04] have a list. Um, Wy Green, we've already
actually coordinated with the office
[43:08] there at uh point after the flood to so
the office will call us if there's
[43:14] anybody that's really in need or the
electric goes out so we don't have an
[43:16] issue where we don't know and all that
kind of goes on on Facebook. So that's
[43:21] just what I wanted to add to that and I
appreciate Rich. Thanks for coming to
[43:24] the meeting. It's important and we do
have monthly meetings. So anybody who
[43:26] wants to be involved in that, please
come out.
[43:30] Justin, do you have anything?
>> No sir. Okay. Um tomorrow
[43:36] there's a meeting of the Orange County
Supervisors and Mayors Association right
[43:42] across the street. Right across the
street.
[43:50] I want to tell you it's been a long time
since we had here
[43:56] and it's going to be
about
[44:04] progress
[44:11] in town
15 20 years ago I haven't been president
[44:16] at the time and now my Yes.
[44:36] I can't make tomorrow night because I'm
going to the library to subject myself
[44:41] to meditative therapy. So maybe we'll
punch my pants in the future.
[44:50] motion. I'll make a motion to adjourn.
[44:57] Thank you all for coming.