[0:00] as we begin will you please join us in
the pledge I pledge aliance to the flag
[0:05] of the United States of America to
the stands
[0:12] na
[0:17] indivisible thank
[0:21] you I'm sure that we're all aware of
what's happening in our world right now
[0:25] and I think as we start our meeting I
would like to ask that we just take a
[0:28] couple minutes of silence just to
reflect on what's Happening Pray for
[0:32] Peace if that's part of who you are um
and contemplate peace if it's not um
[0:38] we're in a pretty shaky situation for a
lot of people and I think it's very
[0:43] appropriate for us to start our meeting
and our deliberations with just a moment
[0:47] to reflect on on what's going on and to
pray and consider people as they're
[0:54] going through some very very difficult
times so please join me in a moment of
[0:58] SS
[1:17] thank you our culture doesn't do well
with with f times as we're all going
[1:23] wind thank you though for joining me in
that um I would entertain a motion and
[1:30] second for um was everybody here for
both of these meetings well we can't
[1:34] have the minutes for the 12th because
we're having the minute 12th it says
[1:39] we'll do the minutes next meeting
because because Jennifer's not
[1:43] here and we have
[1:49] changes okay so we will defer the
adoption of minutes um Steve Nolton has
[1:54] been um stuck at work um I got a call
from him about uh 20 minutes ago he will
[2:01] not be able to join us today so we will
continue our land use technical
[2:05] committee discussions about affordable
housing um on October
[2:11] 26th um if he's available he to check
his um his schedule he will be sending
[2:18] to us board um an email outlining um the
the different issues that the lutc has
[2:26] been discussing so that we'll have a
chance to review them this meeting
[2:31] okay um we'll Now open up for public
comment on any of our action items
[2:37] um um there are several places where we
have public comment so if you do have a
[2:42] public comment about something else what
we normally try to do or what we always
[2:46] do is have public comment on any of our
action items so we can finish them and
[2:51] then we can move on to um any other
public comment on any issue so our
[2:56] action items for tonight are for the
board to accept our audited voucher
[3:03] summary uh the second is for us to um
accept the vacancy survey um that would
[3:09] um relative relating to the emergency
tenant protection
[3:15] act the third is way back
here the third is to
[3:24] um approve a just compensation for
property owners for the easeman um
[3:29] related to our sidewalk project the Safe
Streets to school project where we will
[3:34] be um having to do some some work with
with property owners to um take some of
[3:41] their properties take some of their some
of the fences off replace things so
[3:46] we're trying to work on a process that
limits the um the cost and exposure for
[3:52] our
residents um the next resolution is for
[3:57] us to authorize um pilot agreement for
Rockland Gardens um when we get to that
[4:04] um we'll we'll talk a little bit more
about that um I understand that the town
[4:08] of Orangetown has tabled their approval
um and so for further discussions they
[4:13] wanted to ask some questions of their
assessor um the next one is for us to
[4:22] approve um the installation of a
commemorative plaque um naming the
[4:26] Gazebo Memorial Park after Bert and
Chris Hughes
[4:31] the next is for us to approve um a
stargazing in Memorial Park on the
[4:37] Memorial Park viewing Pier um for for
the week of 20 October 22nd to 27th at
[4:44] least once hopefully the skies are clear
for for Joe Carlin to lead and the last
[4:49] is for us to um award um another of our
sidewalk repair projects to Belleville
[4:58] Landscaping um for Main
Street any comments on any of those
[5:09] items yes if you could please stand and
give us your name and your where you
[5:13] come from for the record thank you I Joe
Carlin
[5:19] um7 Second
Avenue just a quick note regarding the
[5:24] uh
stargazing obviously it's Contin on the
[5:28] weather and and since we haven't had too
much lately a lot of rain cloudiness so
[5:35] I just wanted to know if um we could add
another possible week after the
[5:41] Halloween parade or after Halloween
sometime early November and hopefully we
[5:47] can make it happen
sometime um I would say
[5:53] November November 2nd to the
6 or November November 9th to
[6:02] the
15th Joe I honestly don't see any issue
[6:06] with us reapproved this if it doesn't
work during that week um so why don't we
[6:11] wait just so that we can get it the way
it is we wait until the week is over and
[6:15] then we'll if if it doesn't work just
let let Andy know and we'll we'll redo
[6:19] it okay thank
you any other
[6:26] comments okay hearing none let's move
through our action
[6:30] items um I need a motion in a second for
us to accept our audited voucher
[6:36] sumary motion from Marie second from
Donna um oh by the way Jen won't won't
[6:42] be joining us so we'll be trying to make
sure that we're a little bit
[6:46] demonstrative about who's making motions
in seconds so that it ends up on the on
[6:51] our tape for for the minutes to be to be
transcribed so forgive me if I'm
[6:56] overbearing on that issue so motion from
Marie second from Donna any
[7:02] discussion all in favor I opposed motion
carried let's get this next one on the
[7:08] table and then Dennis if you want to
walk us through um what your what your
[7:12] expectations or what we need to think
about um this is for uh I need a motion
[7:17] in a second to uh accept the um the
vacancy study conducted by The Village
[7:23] administrator relating to the emergency
tenant protection act Declaration of
[7:28] housing emergency so Mo second motion
from Donna second from Pascal um let's
[7:35] give Dennis an opportunity to give us
his thoughts and then we can ask
[7:38] questions well um from a legal
perspective
[7:44] uming confidentialities that
we shared over the past few months um I
[7:53] counsel The Village administrator Andy
Stewart uh and to the mayor and that may
[8:01] be it and maybe some of you in executive
session because there's been a threat of
[8:07] litigation um that in my legal opinion
we have conducted this survey correctly
[8:14] with compliance with the applicable law
there's not a ton of law out there but
[8:18] from what I've uh researched and
reviewed carefully and also spoken to uh
[8:24] some colleagues in the municipal
attorney sphere
[8:29] um I'm comfortable that we The Village
through Andy um have performed this
[8:36] survey study for vacancy rates in
compliance with the law as it stands
[8:43] today that's all I can really share
about that thank you and um of course
[8:48] Andy can talk about the mechanics of
conducting the survey which was his well
[8:54] I I think we've actually done that a
couple times in public session I think
[8:58] the one thing thing that we did do was
um we did receive additional information
[9:04] and the reason for tabling this motion
at the last meeting was for us to
[9:08] consider it to give fair look at it and
then and then to decide whether we
[9:13] should move forward we've done that
we've added a section into the
[9:17] resolution regarding that which anybody
can look at if they want to is there any
[9:24] other clarifications or questions of the
yes than please I'm assuming all the
[9:30] trustees have read the draft resolution
the proposed resolution um if not maybe
[9:37] suggest that we take a minute or two to
review it now I just like sure this is
[9:43] an important one so yeah so if you
haven't reviewed it if you could just
[9:47] read it over real quickly if you have
you have any questions about legal
[9:51] question or mechanical for Andy
regarding the conducting of the survey
[9:55] Andy's
[9:58] here
[10:03] and the the new additional information
that that Don was apping to is the
[10:09] paragraph where is that paragraph
see I think it's the bottom of page two
[10:17] in your agenda you print out bottom of
page
[10:20] two page top page
[10:26] three so starts at the bot
[10:39] over top of Page Three second paragraph
on page three as
[10:47] well refen additional
[10:51] information are we all good we read
through yeah any further questions I
[10:57] just wanted to make a note of the fact
that we did get some as the resolution
[11:01] indicates we got some responses that
came in or at least one response that
[11:05] came in after time and was not completed
the way that the survey requested um and
[11:12] though that was not included in the
survey but even if it were it would not
[11:16] change the result where the result
clearly showed a vacancy rate of under
[11:21] to 5% which is what's contemplated to
declare a housing emergency in the
[11:25] btpa um and so I I want to say that
to the Village administrator and
[11:32] everybody that worked on this this was a
very careful painstaking and extended um
[11:39] approach that they took and very
disciplined and I appreciate the work
[11:43] they did to make sure that it was done
precisely and um that we got good
[11:49] information reliable information that we
can act upon so thank you Andy and
[11:54] that here here anything else
hearing nothing all in favor I opposed
[12:02] motion carried
[12:07] um The Next Step you made thinking Don
is no I was actually considering whether
[12:12] we should um I I want to let the public
know that we did receive uh an
[12:18] additional email from from an attorney
of a coalition of landlords um which
[12:24] suggested that we were not willing to
consider a proposal that they had sent
[12:29] to us and I want to make sure for the
record that it's stated that we are
[12:33] willing and will continue to work
through that process um as we move
[12:39] forward so that um just I just want to
make sure that the public is aware that
[12:43] we have received that um and that we
will um consider it just like we've
[12:48] considered anything that's come before
us about this issue just want trustees
[12:53] the next step is to schedule an actual
public hearing on whether or not to
[12:58] declare a housing emergency in the
village of n act that's by public
[13:02] hearing I'll prepare that a with vany
get that published and uh so we have not
[13:07] declared tonight we have not declared a
housing emergency this not this is not a
[13:12] declaration of a housing emergency it is
simply the accepting of the survey um
[13:18] that demonstrates a housing emergency
based on us do we need a resolution to
[13:23] set the um public yeah let's go through
these we'll do that after remind me if I
[13:28] forget
um so we
[13:36] are3 we're 5.3 right yes y to approve um
the just compensation um this is for the
[13:44] easements for the um safe roots to
school I need a motion second so may
[13:49] second um any questions I think we've
gone over this fairly several times in
[13:54] the past um for those in the public this
is about um working with residents along
[14:01] Dew and some of the side streets on on
Lower Dew we're going to be widening
[14:07] those sidewalks to make it safer for
kids to get up and down to school so and
[14:13] that will require us to do some work
with uh with residents about making
[14:18] taking over some of their land talking
with them about hey you're on Village
[14:22] land and just that whole process of
working through that we've already begun
[14:26] that we've talked with residents we've
had a couple meetings with them that
[14:30] process will continue this just gives us
the ability to um to use Grant funds to
[14:35] to do to make that
happen any
[14:40] questions hearing none all in favor I
oppos motion
[14:45] Carri no we're not you had a question no
we're not we're not we we had it place
[14:51] for open comments we're moving through
our resolutions now there'll be a place
[14:55] for public comment after we're done with
our
[14:57] resolutions
our next resolution is to um authorize
[15:03] the mayor to sign a pilot agreement with
Rockland
[15:06] Gardens um housing Partners limited
partnership um the town of Orangetown
[15:12] Union Free School District of nyak um
regarding 84 North Franklin Street which
[15:20] is basically rocking Gardens let's get
it on the table and then if we have any
[15:24] questions we can get clarification
second motion from Donna from
[15:29] Pascal um Andy you want to add anything
to what I said earlier about this and I
[15:35] hope I got that
right I think that it's important people
[15:39] to understand that the assessor
evaluated this um the agreement is to
[15:46] hold their current um assessment level
for another year or so and then increase
[15:53] it given the amount that's be invested
in that property and then hold that for
[15:57] a certain number of years
um it's not a tax impact right so
[16:02] there's no impact on our taxes um only
on the assessment of the building so our
[16:08] taxes will remain the same we just won't
have the assessment of the building will
[16:14] not go up until the Pilot is is finished
and it will phase in if I understand it
[16:20] correctly when I read it I believe it
goes
[16:24] 6.8 so um any questions I I understand
the town of Orange
[16:29] asked for um some clarification from the
assessor before they wanted to vote on
[16:34] it um we can vote on it before they do
don't yeah I would recommend that we do
[16:40] to show um to show the the the owner
that we this is a positive thing for for
[16:47] our subsidized housing to get it
completely um refurbished and and and
[16:53] worked on and it will be a positive
thing for our residents and it will not
[16:57] be increased act end up in an increase
in their rent so this is quite an
[17:02] accomplishment and we should really I
think be thanking on rock and Gardens
[17:07] for for the idea and the process to get
us here so I would suggest that we vote
[17:13] on it tonight um and then let the town
of Orangetown make their determination
[17:18] can I just ask I'm assuming that the
school district and the town because
[17:23] it's a
tax I believe the school passed pass
[17:28] school board has a town of Orangetown
just had a couple questions they wanted
[17:33] to
[17:37] ask hearing no other questions all in
favor I oppos motion
[17:43] Carri
um I need a motion in a second to
[17:47] approve the um naming of the Gazebo
after B second Mar read the motion
[17:53] second from Donna um any further
discussion on this
[17:59] um It's just sad that we need to do it
but appropriate that we
[18:03] do um all in favor opposed motion
carried and could we also just add um
[18:11] sending a note of thanks to Chris for
all everything she's done for the
[18:15] village and and notifying her of this
it' be a nice touch to have it come from
[18:21] us as the
trustees the next is a resolution to
[18:26] approve the stargazing in which Jo
permission we'll do it just for the time
[18:30] that's in the resolution and if for some
reason we have clouds we'll we'll just
[18:35] add dates on so that's all right
everyone I need a motion a second I got
[18:41] a motion from Donna a second from Joe
any um further discussion hearing none
[18:47] all in favor opposed motion
carried for stargazing yeah I feel going
[18:54] this is I I shouldn't digress but when
when my grandson gets gets out on the
[18:59] porch in the morning he wants to lay
down on the porch and look up at the sky
[19:03] and point at the clouds so I know
exactly what you're gonna
[19:09] do during the day I just want to note
for the record that for my 13th birthday
[19:13] one of the stars were name was named
after me just for my 13th birthday one
[19:17] of those Stars was named after me so if
you can find it figure out your picture
[19:22] of somewhere up there our next
resolution is for us to approve a
[19:29] um an award for Main Street sidewalk
repair to Belleville
[19:34] Landscaping um let's get a motion in
second and then if Andy wants to explain
[19:39] to us exactly what's happening motion
motion from vascal second second from
[19:45] Marie
Andy I'm sure everybody has noticed that
[19:51] the sidewalk between the hesai Easter um
square square and the River State Park
[19:58] is really deteriorated in a number of
locations and um I would love to be able
[20:04] to fix that um it won't cost a lot of
money we have sufficient funds in our
[20:10] Paving and Road
fund um and we have the three quotes in
[20:15] compliance with our procurement policy
which is any Public Works project under
[20:19] $35,000 you get three written
[20:24] quotes and I think we got some pretty
competitive votes there i' like to move
[20:29] forward the project as soon
as any
[20:34] questions hearing none all in favor I
oos motion carried we will now open up
[20:40] for um public comment on any item um we
will limit our discussions to the best
[20:46] we can to three minutes I'll remind you
at 2 minutes and 30 by putting my hand
[20:51] up if we need to go over um we'll see
what the sense is and you may have to
[20:56] come back up again if anybody that wants
to make public comment that hasn't
[21:00] signed in um Andy do you want me to get
that for you um when you come up to make
[21:07] your public comment um since we are
reporting and we are live if you would
[21:11] give us your name and your um address
and um then please have that whatever
[21:17] the issue is that you want to bring
before
[21:25] us the first person is
[21:47] all right hello how you doing my name is
Amir resent
[21:51] of all probably know me lot of other
people around here know me as well and
[21:57] uh we were uh talking a while back and I
had I Disappeared for a
[22:02] while I'm sorry things stuff um and uh
wanted to touch up on the basis of
[22:10] what's happening with the fines that
were happening with 197 CLE out uh the
[22:17] fire fines and also at the same time
what's is going on with the legal
[22:23] building that they've been doing and
everything else that uh
[22:28] has passed after the Kingston just be a
little louder I
[22:33] can't after the Kingston law oh so
you're talking about the emergency
[22:37] tenant protection act and what are you
talking about for the
[22:41] fire um from what I've uh been informed
that the fire department find uh the the
[22:48] management of 197 sickles for improper
uh management of uh equipment so they
[22:56] were using illegal will
uh varnish and things like that uh in
[23:02] the building and also without the uh
permit for the
[23:10] town I am not aware of those violations
so we don't normally get those
[23:16] violations sent to us those are normally
handled through the Justice Court um so
[23:20] I don't know if we can actually respond
but we can certainly find out and let
[23:23] you know
unless um we did have S will fire
[23:29] excessive false along cases excessive
false along cases it sounds like you're
[23:34] referring to a different type of
violation they were in court a couple of
[23:38] weeks ago sadly or
disappointingly none of the defendants
[23:42] showed up I've been I've been working
with the building department fire
[23:46] inspector to try to address that that
problem of lack of appearance by code
[23:54] violation defendants but there were set
sets of false alarms uh not something
[23:58] that you just described I I'm not sure
you're talking about no you're talking
[24:03] about7 C Avenue I don't alarms that we
do have uh from the fire department was
[24:10] a lot of times with the time Hotel the
time hotel we have excessive alarms that
[24:15] went off and there was no reason for the
alarms to go off but with uh the uh 19
[24:22] 197 sickles it was about varnish and the
contractors us
[24:28] things that were not supposed to be used
and was toxic to people
[24:34] that that may have been on the court
calendar but if it was the defendant did
[24:39] not show up but I don't think it was um
as as the mayor pointed out
[24:45] uh Village administrator and I will will
contact Building Department fire
[24:50] inspector and see what's happening 197
second can you leave a email address so
[24:56] that we can or or phone number that we
can correspond with you after we find
[24:59] get to the bottom of it absolutely
because the fire department you normally
[25:04] is not in the business of issuing
summonses that's usually done by our Co
[25:08] enforcement fire inspector so this was
this was back in the time when Dana
[25:12] Nichols was still the was 101 of
the and now it's changed over to J pill
[25:22] right so as J came then you start
cracking down on the things that were
[25:29] going wrong sure well have have Jim give
either Andy or I a call but we'll get
[25:34] the information for you if there's
something that he needs from us he I'm
[25:38] not aware of him I haven't been in
contact with Jim for a couple weeks
[25:43] about any of these issues so I'm not
aware of the specifics that you're
[25:47] talking about so if you want to have Jim
either contact myself or Andy he has our
[25:53] cell phones well the reason I the reason
that I was asking is because since I've
[25:58] been a resident there for the last 15
years and I've seen all everything
[26:04] changing back and forth that's why I'm
concerned with a lot of other residents
[26:09] that are here with me and so there
is I don't want to say that there's you
[26:18] know sliding of the hands but uh we all
do know that there is sliding of the
[26:23] hands going across the board so I want
to see if that is something think
[26:28] because this is I'm a person that lives
in the neighborhood I worked in the
[26:33] neighborhood I was I left the
neighborhood because I was pushed out
[26:37] because I fell out of
business and I still live in the
[26:41] neighborhood but the most important
thing is the safety for our children and
[26:46] our community we we agree with you 100%
I um so we'll we let us let us do some
[26:52] research to find out um well I'm not
going to agree with you or disagree with
[26:56] you about slight of hand on anything but
let us do the research and we'll figure
[27:00] out um the issues that you're bringing
we can trade information across the
[27:05] board with uh emails and uh everything
else so that we we can stay in
[27:10] communication with each
other we we will be happy to email you
[27:15] any of the information you of course can
email us anytime or come to any meetings
[27:19] and raise them again but we're not I'm
not just not familiar with the issues
[27:22] you're bringing up so I can't really
respond we talked about it three months
[27:25] ago three months ago before I
disappeared and it was all about the
[27:29] housing and the legal building and
everything else that was happening and
[27:33] that was only the beginning of uh well I
don't recall that discussion so and we'
[27:39] about church the church came and Wasing
as well about the uh situation about the
[27:46] rent increase across
[Music]
[27:50] town violations are different that that
requires a different type of response
[27:54] the response the issue that you brought
up about the rent increase has been
[27:58] something we've been meeting about
regularly since then culminating in
[28:02] today accepting the vacancy study on the
etpa been some advice about information
[28:07] that I need to figure
out but at the same time like so if they
[28:13] have violations how do they pay a a fine
and the village doesn't know about the
[28:18] fine no The Village doesn't know it's
said I don't know I wouldn't I don't
[28:24] there's lots of fins that are given out
in the village and I have no idea who
[28:27] they're giving to um so it's that I
don't know it's not that the village
[28:31] doesn't know I'm sure the Village Court
is very aware of every fine that's been
[28:35] given out the building Department's
aware of every of every code violation
[28:40] that they've made but I don't have that
information to give to give you feedback
[28:45] and this is I'm s unless I'm completely
forgetting the only thing that I
[28:50] remember you bringing to us was the rent
increases and we have been working we've
[28:54] been working diligently on them and
building they didn't use any permits
[28:59] they reuse one permit and and our
building inspector went up our building
[29:03] inspector and fire inspector did go up
but I don't know what the results of
[29:07] that
was but we will find
[29:10] out thank you because as as a member
of to go into a building and other
[29:18] buildings where people are doing things
illegally and I'm GNA put my life on the
[29:22] line as I PID completely agree with and
I don't get paid anything to
[29:28] uh you know go save someone's life I'll
save anyone's life at any moment at any
[29:32] time you know this is from Chelsea
L and being a prominent member of the
[29:39] community but at the same time needing
to know and understand what's going on
[29:43] so that way our lives are not just
wasted completely agree we're doing we
[29:50] we I think we well let us find out
what's going on and we'll get back to
[29:54] and we can we can we can talk about it
in public at the next meeting meeting
[29:57] but we just don't have the information
for you
[29:59] today thank
[30:04] you
[30:08] next why you just bring that back down
see give it to me and I'll I'll call
[30:12] them
up the only sign up is Mr John
[30:19] J
[30:24] Daniel you want to wait for the next
session
[30:28] okay
um we are now at um Department reports
[30:35] if there's no other public
comment right now please come up and
[30:39] tell us give us your
[30:46] name hi my name is mar lingon and I live
at 33rd Avenue in nyak and I'm here I
[30:51] spoke last time we met to discuss 11th
Avenue I'm here again to talk about it
[30:57] um again the person who bought this
property did so as an investment never
[31:01] lived at the property um as a right you
know it's a two family Zone and he could
[31:07] certainly upsize the property he has
right now and probably bu more than one
[31:12] but not being satisfied with that he
wants to put multif family housing there
[31:16] he obviously has good lawyers and
understands that if he just ask for SE
[31:19] Amendment based on one it's back
summoning we not going to do that so he
[31:23] carved out a niche of six about six
properties of a certain size
[31:27] and he saying to well let's change it
and up Zone that and everyone knows
[31:31] affordable housing is good and therefore
we should do this to these six
[31:35] properties and that won't have a huge
impact but the truth is it would have a
[31:39] huge impact in our neighborhood you'd
end up with smaller properties in
[31:43] between multif family housing on gney it
is a small block um as people have
[31:49] testified beforehand there are lots of
parking issues in the neighborhood
[31:54] although it's a two family Zone it's
mainly one family housing and we are not
[31:59] interested in having neighborhood change
n has a master plan if you're going to
[32:04] change the zoning in the community you
should do it through a master plan we
[32:08] see no reason why you should spend money
on the resources NX resources because
[32:12] someone individual wants to change the
zoning with his property and it does not
[32:18] benefit any of the neighborhoods and any
of our neighbors and we're all V opposed
[32:24] I think a lot of people aren't here
tonight there's a lot going in world in
[32:27] the world at the moment but they
certainly all showed up at the zba
[32:31] meeting and they signed a petition and
they let you know loud and clearly that
[32:35] they did not want up zoning in our
neighborhood that we har our property
[32:40] values that we love our neighborhood
that we want to live in this
[32:43] neighborhood we bought homes knowing
that it was two family residential
[32:47] neighborhood and we're very satisfied
with that and we would like to keep it
[32:51] that way and we ask you to vote no and
to represent the community and your
[32:56] community does not want you to up Zone
these blocks so thank you thank you
[33:02] thank
[33:08] you
discuss you want to wait until we open
[33:15] discuss um Ju Just you know that that
issue is on our agenda to discuss um we
[33:21] have not um made any action to move any
consideration I've asked the board at
[33:28] our last meeting to make sure they came
to this meeting ready to discuss it
[33:32] about whether we would move forward or
not so um that that is our agenda so
[33:37] thank you for your
comments um we will open up now to um
[33:42] our business our reports our department
reports um we have not met initially uh
[33:49] since our last meeting with the um
oround Police Department um we did have
[33:53] one interaction with them um about a a
um an incident of um of graffiti on a
[34:04] stop sign um they responded very quickly
and are doing an investigation on it um
[34:10] we removed the stop sign and put up a
new one um and it was related to um to
[34:16] the to the Jewish community so we wanted
to make sure we acted quickly and and to
[34:22] try to help people to kind of get
through where we are right
[34:25] now um
[34:29] Dennis nothing that except that
I happy to have received report from
[34:36] Andy that our Fine Collection in the
Justice
[34:41] Court this through my
prosecutorial work has brought in
[34:49] significantly higher numbers than I
guess the past and I only say that
[34:55] because it it's something that I think
I've heard over the past n months or so
[35:03] about quality of life people speeding
not coming to complete stop stop signs
[35:07] going through red lights and by being a
little bit more aggressive with the
[35:11] findes U maybe the word gets out that
hey slow down come to a complete stop
[35:16] the stop sign stop with red lights maybe
it
[35:21] will eventually improve the quality of
life when it comes to Traffic Safety so
[35:26] I'm happy to accept that report from the
village administrator and I hope to
[35:31] continue to uh send the message out on
the street that a new
[35:36] sheriff well thank you Dennis and I
think it also speaks to what we heard
[35:42] about making sure that we're that we're
following through on our finds and
[35:46] Notting not allowing people to just do
things that they shouldn't be doing in
[35:51] their vills and being very very diligent
about that and making sure that we have
[35:55] the the process
to let this gentl know I missed your
[35:58] name I'm sorry um I have been in
communication with the uh attorney
[36:03] representing the board of fire
Commissioners and um expressing to me
[36:07] the board of fire Commissioners very
serious concern about the excessive
[36:11] false alarm problem and I'm treating
that very very very seriously and um
[36:18] unfortunately these last several
defendants that were supposed to appear
[36:22] for excessive false alarms a couple
weeks ago cour none of them showed up
[36:26] but my int was to be pretty harsh on
fines and I will continue to do so yeah
[36:31] I think we I think we need to we need to
this is important for our volunteer
[36:35] service that we do
this okay um thank you Dennis
[36:41] Andy just a couple items uh just
following up on that we had intended to
[36:45] have a finance report from our C
Treasurer tonight but she was taking
[36:48] Hill unable to appear
so I look forward to Bringing full
[36:53] information to the board at our next
meeting um you did have in your packets
[36:57] and posted online a um a year to date
for the first quarter um
[37:03] and in terms of fines through the court
system um dramatic Improvement compared
[37:10] to last year I know there's a backlog I
think Dennis has really been working
[37:14] hard so again I want to also commend
Dennis for his hard work working with
[37:18] Ryan and Alexandria and judge Noble and
others to um to run a tight ship there
[37:25] so thanks for that
um so we'll have a full planishing
[37:29] report for you on the
26 while you have that in hand if you
[37:34] have any questions or things you want us
to focus on for that report please let
[37:37] me know I can talk and the same goes for
the public it's on it's on the website
[37:42] if you review it and you have any
questions please feel free to let us
[37:46] know what they are and we'll address
them in our next
[37:50] meeting so we won't go into that right
now um just from the bookback in capital
[37:56] project
right now we've been we had two things
[37:59] going on this week one was a piece of
the tap Broadway sidewalk project which
[38:04] was a burying of of electrical lines
between light poles in front of P book
[38:09] shop and south of Bird Street that was
completed this week and um they have a
[38:14] couple little things to do to finish up
their
[38:17] project um we may have enough money left
after all the billing we're waiting to
[38:22] see to do more next year so we obtained
proactively an extension on that
[38:28] contract with the state in case after we
pay the remaining bills to attack hva
[38:34] and play and that we're we can assess
whether we have enough to take on
[38:37] another section of the
sidewalk which would be nice of course
[38:42] um we also have sidewalk work going on
heading down South Broadway in front of
[38:46] tman towers the brick house and a nyak
center that cdbg funded um Tera Firma
[38:52] has doing a great job they're working
fast they're about to turn the corner
[38:56] onto few originally we had bid out just
the South Broadway section but they came
[39:00] in with a really good price so it's was
enough money to make probably all the
[39:04] way up to Franklin on the sections that
are that are deteriorated there there's
[39:08] a couple sections that were done fairly
recently they're in good shape up by the
[39:12] Franklin
Corner it's on Pew Avenue so so we were
[39:17] we're talking with the um man Plaza
Housing Authority n Center and others to
[39:23] coordinate um that project will be going
up to pew started um probably not Friday
[39:29] but certainly early next week that's
great so so that's going on the marina
[39:35] Paving project we're really excited
about that's starting this week yeah um
[39:38] because of the rain this weekend um
they're not going to go full boore today
[39:43] tomorrow um but they're definitely
rallying their forces and mobilizing to
[39:48] to pave that lot which hopefully we'll
improve the drainage as well because we
[39:53] get some big puddles down there and
we're hoping to see that situation
[39:57] mitigated a
[40:00] bit I wanted to just mention also the
mayor mentioned this the last meeting is
[40:05] there's going to be unveiling of a new
Memorial sign right here on the corner
[40:08] of Broadway and ler um commemorate
commemorating the victims of the Brinks
[40:13] robbery that's on October 20th at 2 o'
right before the annual event that takes
[40:20] place at one mountain un I don't know if
you want to say more about that but
[40:23] that's it no that's perfect I just um we
have date again October 20th at 2:00
[40:29] right out here right outside um we use
the Village Hall steps as sort of the
[40:35] the
U de and U it's I'm I'm really excited
[40:40] about we've got the sign we're ready to
go um and it's it's I think it'll be a
[40:46] great event and then it'll be followed
by the by the normal memorial service
[40:50] we've worked very closely with Bob vuro
um under Secret Under secretary under
[40:55] sheriff for for Rockman County who has
been very active in following up with
[41:00] the families that were affected by that
since almost since the day it happened
[41:05] um and uh he's he's been working with
the families to make sure that they'll
[41:08] be able to be here for so it's it's will
be a nice event you know this is where
[41:14] this is the building that the um police
um station was in during that time um so
[41:21] they were actually in our jail here for
a while before they were transferred to
[41:26] to the county Jil so very significant
event on October 20th that's just so I
[41:33] hope hope lot of people from the public
come join
[41:37] us one other item mayor I have for you a
draft of our 2024 calendar work on with
[41:44] Amar with circles on the dates proposed
for village board
[41:49] meetings and everybody can just check
out with their calendars and make sure
[41:53] that you don't have any you can avoid
conflict
[41:56] we're going want to approve this
calendar before the end of the year so
[41:59] people know what's going on in January
February
[42:02] time yeah as the board will remember we
usually adopt the calendar at our
[42:07] organizational meeting um we have we're
still working through the details so Joe
[42:11] and I have not we have to wait for Joe
to actually be elected before the UN I
[42:15] and start talking about it but um we're
we'll work on an organizational meeting
[42:21] um to ensure that all of the mayor
appointments are made for next year in
[42:25] the time
way but that's part of it so please look
[42:30] look it over make sure we've got it
right and that you're available on those
[42:35] days one other reminder mayor on the 26
uh we invited the um the leadership of
[42:42] our climate action plan to a workshop at
645 and they had already shared
[42:49] extensive documents drafted to The
Village's climate action plan so now is
[42:54] a great time to re-review that any
questions you want to email me out
[42:57] forward to Marcy and Steve and the team
we try to make sure we're prepared
[43:02] anything the board wants to know when
they come in Andy one of the things that
[43:06] I that I think we really need to think
about I've read through it when first
[43:12] got it and I was skimming through it as
I was looking at all the SM climate
[43:16] smart stuff that is coming through a
mayor's conference or fin um and um
[43:23] we're ahead of a lot of
people and we I we need a marketing plan
[43:28] to ensure that this is publicized and in
a public way um and then we we take the
[43:33] leadership
that's what level
[43:42] we this SL clent smart plan will I think
put us
[43:46] over but we we you know we've been
taking leadership on this and I really
[43:50] think we that we ought to ask them to
come up with the way that they would
[43:54] like to see us really put this
out last week
[44:00] I just got
[44:03] there spaces so yeah Hastings got their
bronze just before we did
[44:11] as yeah this is something that we should
be proud of as a village should really
[44:17] put it out there what we're
doing certainly with that with the
[44:22] presentation and then the edits and
ultimately the adoption of this plan
[44:26] um it's a a lot has been done to get
there but the plan includes a lot more
[44:33] to do and there's been a good deal of
Engagement by members of the community
[44:38] some very active
committees and so I think there's going
[44:42] be a lot more to try it's
great anything else that's all I got for
[44:48] now thanks okay um old business is the
request for us to consider um uh text
[44:56] Amendment um that's exactly what we're
doing we're not considering the text
[45:02] Amendment we're considering whether we
want to consider the
[45:06] text
so two two considers in
[45:12] there
um so maybe we could just um get a sense
[45:18] of the um Dennis can you give us the
options again you gave us what our
[45:23] options are our options are to
the
[45:27] proposed fourth your option is to just
decline to consider it and like i' said
[45:34] as long as your reason for declining um
is not based upon a
[45:40] unconstitutional and unconstitutional
ground um you don't have that's your
[45:47] legislative discretion you can say you
just not interested thank you um one of
[45:52] the reasons could be that you think
you're zoning in that particular n
[45:55] neighborhood is good the way it is
that's a perfectly valid reason to say
[46:00] we're not interested in considering this
proposed text Amendment or the village
[46:05] has other priorities right now that
we're focusing on and we uh not to say
[46:09] that another several months this is
something that we might consider but
[46:13] right now we have other priorities focus
on and if and if we are contemplating
[46:18] considering it our next move would it be
to ask for for some advisement from our
[46:23] planner from our village planner yes
probably ultimately we have that that's
[46:29] a more formal
step would be the village plan get his
[46:34] thoughts so what what's the sense of the
board thinking of the board at this
[46:38] point on this you have a question yeah I
just had a question I know from I think
[46:43] a couple meetings back one Community
member who lived in that area had
[46:49] mentioned the person as um not meeting
with them or any or talking with them
[46:54] about any of the plans and they're
pursuing I just wanted to know if
[46:57] anything has changed has whoever the
owner of this is reached out to the
[47:03] community members in that area talk to
them at all I'm just curious if any of
[47:08] you guys know I have no idea
yeah out at all
[47:13] no and he's he's U we have not had any
representation of the text Amendment
[47:19] itself okay to the board either or to
the staff just the just the doctor okay
[47:26] [Music]
go next to anybody anybody we don't need
[47:32] to go down the
line just as far as I understand it um
[47:37] this involves a proposal that was
already put forth I think to the was
[47:41] planning
board CBA that's the CBA for I guess
[47:48] approval on a building plan
that was a pretty ambitious pretty
[47:55] ambitious uh plan uh when that was
turned down they then came to us for a
[48:00] text amendment that would allow by right
the ability to build um I think multif
[48:06] family I'm not sure what the one it
would be but multif family but again we
[48:09] would not be approving that we would
just be referring it for
[48:14] consideration um I I don't know to me I
don't I think this is not right for us
[48:19] and I don't think it's something that we
should submit to the planning board um I
[48:23] think that I from what I know um and
have seen of the plan that was presented
[48:29] to the zoning board I think it's
something that the person who has
[48:34] petitioned for both the zoning change
text Amendment as well as propos the
[48:39] building to the building department did
not have a realistic approach to what he
[48:44] was trying to build and I think that you
know if he wants to do something that is
[48:48] beyond what the zoning allows he should
perhaps propose something that would be
[48:52] a little bit more acceptable to the
zoning board as as well as to the local
[48:56] community even if that was more than a
two family this was six family with a
[49:00] pool I and things like that which was a
little a
[49:05] little ambitious put it that
way um and so I don't think that this is
[49:11] something we need to consider right now
we have a lot on our plate the planning
[49:13] board has a lot on their plate I think
that the the the person can go back and
[49:17] try to get another plan for that
property approved um in the normal
[49:22] course of uh of trying to get projects
St can that be my opinion can I just ask
[49:28] to because it was a mentioned that it's
not just that lot it's like the
[49:31] surrounding Lots how does that work what
they're saying is that there are other
[49:36] he's he's trying not to say I want a
text Amendment from my own lot right so
[49:40] he's saying there are number of lots
that are large
[49:43] enough in the in the area to accommodate
larger than two family homes
[49:49] theoretically none of them have bigger
Lots but they could and so what what
[49:53] he's saying is we should allow Parcels
of this size to allow more than two
[49:58] family homs the street Frontage of this
amount with the side bulk size of this
[50:02] amount that's that's basic I guess
followup is can you do that without the
[50:09] consent of the owners of those property
like it does or that doesn't change
[50:13] anything it would allow them to do more
than they currently do so it wouldn't
[50:16] need to they wouldn't need we wouldn't
need their consent to pass the zoning
[50:21] change um they could certainly come and
talk about it if they want
[50:26] we wouldn't necessarily need it's our
decision if we wanted to move
[50:31] forward any
thoughts I I completely agree with Jo we
[50:37] have so
[50:41] much there this and this will take this
will take a lot of study to to make sure
[50:47] that we do it right that it doesn't leak
into other zones it's it's not it's not
[50:52] just as simple as the document sounds
there's a lot of considerations that
[50:57] need to be made we're working through
the etpa we're working through stuff
[51:01] with the LC we're working through stuff
with Rock and Gardens um and other
[51:06] entities and and working on affordable
housing I I just think that we're we
[51:11] just can't deal with
this we make a vote on
[51:18] this is that we're not going to take any
action
[51:21] yeah okay um new business was the land
use technical committee and the sidewalk
[51:27] repair project which we already approved
so I don't think you need to tell us
[51:31] about that um the land use technical is
an
[51:35] item right and I I explained what we're
doing okay so just it's a little bit
[51:41] different from I don't know if you
talked about the the they proposed a
[51:46] change to our sign code what what Steve
said was he was sorry he couldn't make
[51:53] it um he would come on the 26th and
present everything but he would give us
[51:58] an email explaining all the changes that
the
[52:02] lutc so do you think we should move the
sign thing faster than that um I don't
[52:08] think it's urgent mayor I just want to
distinguish that because what Steve I
[52:12] think is intending on presenting has to
do with affordable housing and
[52:15] Abus and he mentioned the he mentioned
the sign thing told me he didn't want to
[52:21] he didn't want on the side law question
okay what do you propose how do we move
[52:27] this forward well that the The Village
trustee should review the the draft
[52:33] amendments to the uh the sign law to the
sign law which I can summarize quickly
[52:39] okay why don't you do that and then
we'll decide whether we want to move it
[52:41] forward to legislation is that what you
want right okay
[52:45] so quick summary yeah it boils down to
um lessening the load on the
[52:52] ARB that anytime anybody
comes in with any kind of change to an
[52:58] existing legally existing sign it has to
go ARB so ARB is saying look if it's
[53:04] only going to be a simple or basic
design change to a legally existing sign
[53:10] you don't need to go you don't need to
go to the ARB and basic or simple design
[53:16] change is defined I bur you with the
definition here it's pretty simple
[53:21] definition but you can figure out it's a
basic or simple design change does not
[53:26] need to go that's all has the ARB said
signed off on this yeah I think they
[53:33] were one of the
progenitors this was slowing them down
[53:37] because they're getting approvals for
minor variations to I just want to make
[53:41] sure that's on the
record okay so any questions about
[53:46] that so why don't we go through getting
it set for legislation we'll put a
[53:51] public hearing out notot to do public
hearing we'll do a public hearing um at
[53:57] the 26 we'll set a public hearing for it
and then we'll that for hearing would
[54:01] not be 26 no no no no we'll consider it
on
[54:05] the um yeah we've got a lot of stuff on
the 26 I feel like we're going to be
[54:09] here till the
[54:12] 28th um so
[54:16] um before we move on with any other
Communications to the communications
[54:21] piece um there's two items that I would
like to um move for um adoption one is
[54:28] an executive session to discuss
potential litigation and Personnel
[54:32] issues need a motion in
second second all in favor I oos motion
[54:39] carried motion from Donna second from
Joe um and the second is for us to set
[54:46] public hearing for October
26 at
[54:49] 800m for the opting in of considering
the opting in of the etpa legislation
[54:58] second that was that said right yeah I
would just only supplement with the
[55:03] technical term is Declaration of a house
a declaration of a local housing
[55:08] emergency which means consider that just
to open a public hearing for the
[55:13] consideration of of that soov second
motion from Donna second from all in
[55:19] favor I I oppose ter thank you for
indulging me on that I completely forgot
[55:25] those two things
um Communications um you've all seen the
[55:32] back and forth with um concerning
thepa um you've seen the document with a
[55:38] proposal from the landlords which we
will
[55:42] discuss um and our responses back and
forth um on it I think they're think
[55:48] they're it's great process we're really
following a good process we've we're
[55:54] moving I think think in a very very good
way and I'm looking forward to the
[55:58] conversations with the landlords once we
have a chance to decide what what we
[56:02] think is the Right Way Forward um the
rest of the communications are
[56:09] basically um notices to us I'm not sure
that we have to take any action on any
[56:14] of them at this point you don't need to
take action so these are just notices of
[56:20] um from the office of cannabis
management um for an application for an
[56:27] adult used retail dispensary within our
village limits um we have we have no
[56:33] reason to take any action at all they're
just notifications there Daniel I know
[56:38] that this is where you wanted to say
something so um is there any questions
[56:43] of the board first and then we'll go to
public
[56:46] comment
[56:50] except okay we're not um Dennis I need
your help here since we're not
[56:55] considering anything um her um members
of her family are going to speak to one
[57:00] of the notices which she need to recuse
herself and from that discussion from
[57:06] even the presentation or are we okay to
move forward there's no there's no
[57:11] action that the board can take on these
notices that received from the office of
[57:17] C you probably get once in a while from
the state Li Authority we get them all
[57:21] the time yeah wasn't time probably all
the time they're ignored because there's
[57:26] really not much for you guys to do with
anything so what we should do is put
[57:30] into the rec which I think you've
already done
[57:33] that so that's in the record there's no
question about
[57:37] that I will I will not make any comments
even though we just we're not going to
[57:42] make any comments we're happy to hear
everything that anybody has to say but
[57:46] there's no there's no no reason for us
to have comments at this point we'll
[57:50] take anything under advisement that
people bring to us but there really we
[57:53] don't have anything to consider so I I
also can I also P to the record that I
[57:58] have a vague sense that one of these
properties might
[58:01] involve um some sort of relationship
with rant commercial which is a real
[58:06] estate company that I have a financial
interest in I don't actually know if we
[58:10] do but on the possibility that there
might be I just want to have on the
[58:14] record that um if any action was taken I
would recuse from the action and um that
[58:20] I don't have any personal knowledge of
any any of the actions being
[58:24] contemplated here
[58:28] okay public comment what does that
[58:37] me yeah um recuse recusals are if you're
going to vote on something that you have
[58:43] a financial or fiscal um you can gain
something from it then you would recuse
[58:49] yourself from the vote the fact that
we're not having any votes now where
[58:53] these both individuals have
said what they might recuse themselves
[58:57] from if we did consider something but
there's no purpose or reason for there
[59:02] to be a recuse does that answer your
question sir okay sir good evening my
[59:08] name is Daniel an 863 Avenue in N so I'm
I'm talk I'm coming to make a request to
[59:15] you again um in terms of the bmu one and
two zones and as it relates to
[59:26] permitting cannabis
facilities um the
[59:31] law Zing laws is written currently
um basically says everything
[59:39] complemented in the dmu1 is permitted in
dmu2 except for three things first one
[59:46] is dmu2 zones allows for um apartments
on the ground floor it's not allowed in
[59:53] the dmu1
but that's an incentive there's an
[59:58] incentive for people in that part of the
zone to perhaps um put apartments on the
[1:00:04] ground
floor then you have a height um
[1:00:10] incentive in exchange for affordable
housing in the dmu1 it's not allowed in
[1:00:16] dmu2 but again you're
incentivizing creative uses of housing
[1:00:21] so you're rewarding the uh
the property owners in a certain way um
[1:00:29] by those things whereas with the
cannabis use you're actually prohibiting
[1:00:35] specific just one specific commercial
use to property owners in
[1:00:41] dmu2 um why reading them differently for
that one specific use and I think that's
[1:00:48] unfair so I'm asking you again I would
urge the board to pass a resolution
[1:00:54] stating that the Cannabis facilities
that are permitted in the mu1 zones are
[1:00:59] also permitted in the mu2 zones thank
you thank you Daniel we we will review
[1:01:05] that and um and discuss it with but not
tonight thank you any other public
[1:01:11] comments on any
[1:01:17] item hearing none on board reports Marie
you want to start us off I usually pick
[1:01:23] on Pascal Marie want to start nothing to
report it's only been nothing since last
[1:01:31] week we we have one sign thing went to
all three of us
[1:01:39] actually the um the
cand yes there was a candle light
[1:01:46] Memorial at city courthouse on Tuesday
Tuesday night right which was a very
[1:01:52] well-run event and very
Sol very sad
[1:01:58] situation
yes that's Donna you want to go next go
[1:02:04] down we can go next I have a question in
my whatever we going I have um I haven't
[1:02:12] been to a Housing Authority meeting in a
while there hasn't been any and I heard
[1:02:16] today that they changed the
day you know no that would be up to
[1:02:22] their board they should inform
[1:02:26] represent okay I'll check
[1:02:32] with um just sort of a quas eye
announcement which I'm sure we all talk
[1:02:37] about is The Rockin Riverway Trail
visibility study I'm very excited about
[1:02:42] it I like to ride my bike on the KN
Beach Trail and it would nice it would
[1:02:46] be nice to see that expand and also make
our Roose a little bit safer get less
[1:02:50] bikes on Broadway decongest that area
oning the weekends so so everyone should
[1:02:55] try to attend it's on October 17th um
you can drop in between 6:30 and 9:00
[1:03:00] p.m. at Roth bosies the gymnasium also
known as I believe the old night high
[1:03:05] school for those o people the date again
um it's October 17 are you calling me an
[1:03:11] OG is that what she just called me
sure only OG swim in
[1:03:18] the so um I'm really it's um between
6:30 and 9:00 p.m. um I'm excited about
[1:03:25] it so I think everyone should also be
excited about it too and as we said
[1:03:31] earlier you know praying for peace um
praying for all the victims um and you
[1:03:36] know hoping to see better days in the
future
[1:03:41] than um I've been talking the whole time
so I don't have anything to to add to
[1:03:46] what I've said um so um I will entertain
a motion to move into next session some
[1:03:55] second all in favor motion carried thank
you thank you everyone for joining us
[1:04:00] tonight I hope we were
[1:04:09] entertaining next meeting I should say
not next
[1:04:16] meeting