[1:51] Oh, I'm sorry.
I pledge of allegiance to the flag of
[1:55] the United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
[2:01] under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
[2:12] Sorry for the delay. Um, we are we're
recording it, but it won't go live until
[2:19] after we're all done tonight.
[2:25] Alicia, go ahead, honey.
Roll call. Um, let's see. Megan Borland
[2:32] here.
>> Jennifer Chapman.
[2:36] Dan Degan
>> here,
[2:37] » Michael Reichenberg
>> here,
[2:39] » Mary Alrech
>> here,
[2:44] » and Warren Repli.
>> Hi.
[2:49] » Thank you.
Okay. So, um I'd like a motion to amend
[2:56] the agenda under items for special
consideration
[3:00] 15A resolution 447 of 2026.
Should I read it out loud?
[3:06] » Well, it's already on the agenda.
>> It's Yeah, that one is You
[3:09] » want me to just add the one I just
brought?
[3:11] » Yeah, the one you
>> So, I'll make a motion to amend the
[3:13] agenda to add resolution 449 of 2026
under items of special consideration, a
[3:20] resolution for free soccer clinic for
female athletes and also amend the
[3:24] agenda to add a discussion under 12E.
Same title.
[3:29] » Second.
>> All in favor? I
[3:32] » Naz
>> and then anybody uh present at the
[3:35] meeting the resolution is located on the
back table there if you want to see it.
[3:41] » Okay. There are no public hearings. Um
there are no minutes to accept. All
[3:45] official correspondence is on file in
the town clerk's office. Tonight we have
[3:51] Sandra Larkin who is going to do a
climate smart presentation.
[3:56] So the floor is yours.
>> Hi. How was your
[4:04] I should have made you do it.
Anyway,
[4:09] um back in November, I sent you all an
email with a letter from Climate Smart,
[4:14] which nobody responded to except Megan
Borland and Scott Cookingham,
[4:20] but both of them just said thank you.
They really didn't add anything else on
[4:23] the fact. So since you ignored that, it
was suggested that I come do a
[4:29] presentation.
Do you all remember the email? Okay. And
[4:34] you remember you didn't respond to it.
Okay. So here I am. I got to wait for
[4:40] Alicia now.
[5:04] In the meantime, I'll do what I was
going to do at the end. Um the um
[5:09] plastic film challenge that we're doing
with the library is wonderful and I want
[5:14] to thank all the residents for going
dropping their stuff off at the library
[5:18] and at the transfer station. We are only
199 pounds away from our 1000 goal to
[5:25] get the bench. I also want to remind
everybody that on Saturday, May 16th is
[5:30] repair cafe. It's going to be in the old
town hall to go along with the reuse
[5:36] ideas that we'd like. So, we're staying
there because we feel comfortable there
[5:39] and nothing else is happening there. So,
we will be there. And the garden has
[5:45] their normal monthly meeting on Thursday
at the library at 6:00 to 8. Um, come
[5:51] maybe become a member. Garden is
flourishing. It's doing great. Or you
[5:55] can just come and you'll definitely walk
away learning something. Okay, Alicia, I
[5:59] stalled enough.
[6:07] So, our air media right now.
>> What's that?
[6:09] » Our air media, which is our TV
connection, is not working as well as
[6:13] we'd like. We have somebody fixing it in
the moment. So, um I'm trying to pull it
[6:18] up on my email so that way I can play it
on the TV. Uh they will in about two
[6:22] seconds.
>> So, if they have copies and I don't care
[6:27] about that.
>> Oh, okay. If you don't mind,
[6:29] » follow along then with me. Unless you it
hooks up then it's fine.
[6:31] » Do you want me to pull it up on my phone
so that way you can see it all while
[6:34] you're doing it?
>> No, I have printed it out.
[6:37] » I just forwarded that to them so the
board should have a copy.
[6:42] » And I apologize for the technical
difficulties.
[6:44] » Yeah. Yeah, no problem.
[6:51] » I am such trouble.
>> I break things.
[7:19] Are they all okay? Everybody okay? Okay.
So,
[7:25] the DEC definition of climate smart is
that climate smart communities is a New
[7:29] York state program that helps local
governments take action to reduce
[7:33] greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to
changing climate. The program offers
[7:37] grants, leadership, recognition, and
free guidance from regional
[7:40] coordinators. Registered communities
have made a commitment to act by passing
[7:45] the CSC pledge, which we did. Uh,
certified communities are the foremost
[7:49] leaders in the state. They have gone
beyond the CSC pledge by completing and
[7:53] documenting a suite of actions that
mitigate and adapt to climate change at
[7:57] the local level. I want to make it
clear, it is not a committee because
[8:01] many people think it is a committee. It
is not. It is part of the government.
[8:10] The next shows the pledge that you took
where you pledge to be a climate smart
[8:14] community. Set goals, inventory
emissions, plan for climate action,
[8:18] decrease community energy use, increase
community use of renewable energy,
[8:22] realize benefits of recycling and other
climate smart solid waste management
[8:26] practices. Reduce greenhouse gas
emissions through the use of climate
[8:30] smart land use tools. enhance community
resilience and prepare for the effects
[8:35] of climate change. Support development
of a green innovation economy, inform
[8:40] and inspire the public, and commit to an
evolving process of climate action.
[8:47] Then there's a definition of what is
climate change, but I'm pretty sure all
[8:50] of you kind of know that.
Um otherwise, we wouldn't be involved in
[8:56] this to begin with. So, you can read
that out at your leisure.
[9:03] And then why be a certified climate
smart community? Climate impacts affect
[9:08] public health, the underprivileged,
infrastructure, and municipal costs.
[9:12] Local actions improve resilience and
long-term sustainability. Being a CCSC
[9:17] helps position the town for future
planning and funding opportunities.
[9:24] So what we did if you didn't know um we
became bronze and to get that the
[9:31] initial level level of certification for
local governments that have enacted
[9:34] their commitment to climate action and
taken steps to implement climate smart
[9:38] policy and projects. It is a point
system. The requirements um for a bronze
[9:44] is 120 points.
They are done by actions
[9:49] pledge elements. at least one action is
completed under four different pledge
[9:55] elements. There are mandatory actions we
had to do. Um the first one being that
[10:01] the board
passed a resolution to be a climate
[10:05] smart community and also to pick a
coordinator and a climate task force.
[10:10] Not a committee again, a climate task
force acting for you, the town, the
[10:16] government, the board.
Um there are three priority actions and
[10:22] then there's other actions.
[10:27] So I've been talking about the process
of what you have to do. So of course you
[10:30] have to find an action that fits you and
then go after that. And there is a lot
[10:36] of documentation.
The documentation has to be uploaded
[10:40] to um the DEEC's website.
There's explanations. There's backing
[10:48] documents. It's a lot. It's a lot to
document and it's not fun. But there's
[10:54] more fun doing the action than uploading
it to the DEEC.
[10:59] The kicker though the DEEC has which I
personally and I don't think anybody in
[11:02] climate agrees with is that
certification is only valid for 5 years.
[11:08] We have I believe just reached the
wonderful 5year mark or we're coming
[11:12] very close to it.
During those five years, you can do
[11:17] nothing and stay bronze. But once those
five years are up, that's the end of
[11:22] your not certified anymore, which I
think is very wrong because we did all
[11:27] those actions and to get move on to the
next step. You have to do half those
[11:31] actions again anyhow because you need
the points.
[11:36] So the next slide is just that action
point submit, review, resubmit, certify,
[11:41] expire, resubmit, repeat. It's just a
process that goes on and on and on.
[11:48] And there's an example of a completed
action. It's not just you have to
[11:52] summarize it and then you have to put
things like the minutes.
[11:56] So everything really has like five
different steps to it.
[12:01] So here we are. We're bronze. We're
pretty much in the expiring thing.
[12:06] What needs to be done now?
[12:11] All of you need to actually familiarize
yourself with what we actually did
[12:14] because I don't think you know what we
actually did unless you went to the
[12:19] website which again I don't think you
did even though I asked for that in we
[12:23] all asked for that in the letter. So, we
had a greenhouse gas inventory that we
[12:28] did, a climate action plan, a shade
policy, a comp complete streets policy,
[12:35] a recycling and municip building policy.
I think it's now time for you to look at
[12:41] those and at least implement what we
did.
[12:45] You also need to rebuild the task force.
We're tired.
[12:50] We're very tired. We can't go out and
say to people, "Hey, be on the task
[12:54] force." That's something that has to
come from the board.
[12:58] So, you need to put a call out if you
choose to continue to want to do this
[13:02] for people to join us. We will mentor
them. We will stay with them. We will
[13:06] still be there because we love what we
do and and we're passionate about we
[13:11] would do, but we cannot do all this work
alone. We are eight, but we're slowly
[13:17] getting down to less than eight.
[13:22] And in order to get the points, a lot of
the information that we used, a lot of
[13:27] the plans that we now have here are too
old. I mean, one of them just like
[13:32] squeaked by and we were very lucky. But
the comprehensive plan, the open space
[13:36] and farmland protection plan, and the
natural resource inventory all need to
[13:41] be updated.
And you also need to reinstate the
[13:46] conservation advisory council which
somehow disappeared and no one has
[13:50] looked for anyone for that.
They actually are more important than
[13:55] the climate smart task force because
when they were active they looked into
[13:59] every single thing that occurred in this
town and did offer advice to the
[14:03] planning board that was actually taken.
But now we have no climate advisory
[14:08] council.
[14:11] the decisions you need to make like soon
I think is if you first of all if you
[14:17] want to be a a climate smart community
and if you're willing to update all of
[14:23] those wonderful things
and if you will become more involved
[14:28] with the task force and let them know
what what you want done look at the
[14:32] actions know the actions I actually gave
Phil a b bunch of actions that I think
[14:37] this building could get points for he
needs to review them he's busy right now
[14:42] and he doesn't know we're in limbo right
now. So,
[14:46] but I gave them to him. He will look
through them. I know Phil and he will
[14:49] work with me. He has worked with me and
he will go through them and hopefully
[14:53] get more points. But again, we're
missing a lot of the other points we did
[14:58] already that because the plans are too
old.
[15:02] I mean, and again, you have to decide if
you want to get to silver. And I
[15:06] actually have to check to see if we have
to get bronze again or we just go right
[15:10] to silver. That's another interesting
thing I did not check and I apologize
[15:13] for that. And then you have to play an
active role which when we were here and
[15:19] we were doing things there was really
bad communication to us about things the
[15:26] shade policy you know in the playgrounds
the complete streets and the bus stop
[15:32] that was put in. I mean there's you got
to talk to us. A simple email is really
[15:37] not that hard to do. We don't want phone
calls. We don't want a whole big to-do.
[15:41] We don't want this whole big thing. All
we want is an email to say, "Hey, we're
[15:45] looking to do this. Did you know climate
does anything with this help get you
[15:49] points?" And so that's why we're here to
say, "Please don't forget about us. Pay
[15:55] attention to us and and give us some
direction because right now we are very
[15:58] much in limbo. Even though we are still
doing many of the things that we set up,
[16:02] repair cafe, and we're still educating
people. We're still doing things but not
[16:06] getting the points at the moment.
That's it.
[16:10] Thanks, Sandra.
>> Any questions, comments?
[16:13] » I have to I have to say that I really
think there's quite a few things in this
[16:18] building that would go towards
>> Yeah. No, like I said, I gave them
[16:21] things I thought
>> I know there's because I use some of
[16:24] them every day.
>> Yeah.
[16:25] » So, I know that that's going to help
also.
[16:28] » Um, but we're just going to have to talk
about where we should go from here with
[16:33] it. I, you know, this is up to
everybody, not just up to one person.
[16:37] So, um, now you said that there needs to
be a resolution for the climate task
[16:43] force.
>> Well, if you're going to move on, then
[16:46] you have to do a resolution and name who
what the new t who's on the new task
[16:50] force. Actually, the chair of the task
force was Ellen Cutner, and that never
[16:55] actually changed from the original, but
I took on the role, but it was never
[17:00] very official. So, if you're going to
move forward, you have to do exactly
[17:04] what you did last time.
>> Okay?
[17:06] And I know just name the people on the
test.
[17:09] » I know there was a lot entailed with the
with the bronze because
[17:13] » and we had a wonderful young lady that
worked.
[17:16] » Yeah, she's gone a lot but she's gone
>> and they're still a little I'm not
[17:20] really sure who ours is anymore because
they
[17:23] somehow wound up with myerta. I I don't
know. It's a little confusing but like I
[17:28] said I haven't actively looked because
there was no reason to. So, do they do
[17:33] they treat this every five years as if
it's a new application?
[17:35] » What's that?
>> Do do you get credit for already being
[17:37] in the program or do they make basically
make you reapply every five years?
[17:41] » Yeah, you just start from the beginning.
>> Really?
[17:44] » Yeah. It's ridiculous.
>> Like I said, the things we did, we have
[17:47] to resubmit it. It's messed up. And I
complained already about it.
[17:51] » You get no credit for already being in
the program.
[17:53] » You have to just resubmit what you did.
>> Okay.
[17:57] You have to resubmit what you did. But
then there's a whole line of other new
[18:01] stuff. Right. Then there's other things
>> you have to do for the
[18:05] » but like the pledge you took. We have to
resubmit that even though you took the
[18:08] pledge. It's it's not a good system.
>> Yeah.
[18:12] » Thank you.
>> Can I ask one question? How many members
[18:16] uh does the climate task force have?
Like how many are they supposed to have
[18:21] by
>> I don't think that there's a number of
[18:24] supposed to have.
>> Okay. Okay.
[18:25] » Like I said, we were eight. Well, we
were nine when Ellen was there and then
[18:28] eight. Actually, we fluctuated, but
people that really worked on this, there
[18:33] was eight of us sort of.
>> So, if we were, you're saying, you know,
[18:36] it'd be good to get some new members to
refresh the task force. So, if we were
[18:40] advertising for that, um, we just make
it open-ended and then determine at that
[18:46] time how many.
>> Yeah, I don't think you're going to get
[18:48] 100 million people to say the good one,
too.
[18:53] » You know, just a few more people would
be great. We did it with eightish.
[18:57] » Okay.
>> Does have anything else to eat?
[19:02] » We're about five now. You're seeing four
now. What are we
[19:05] » saying? Four.
>> Okay. So, we're about five or four
[19:07] towards the end. So, I think um at least
one thing if we can get in writing to
[19:12] the board of like how many who's
actually actively on the task force and
[19:17] the number you're looking to get to
because I think like from our standpoint
[19:21] like I think I know who's on the task
force but um the letter you sent back in
[19:25] November says there's eight active
members but you're looking for more. So,
[19:29] » well, they're not active anymore. Well,
I think that we need at least some
[19:32] communication of who's on it and how
many more people you want. Uh so we can
[19:37] put out there, hey, we're looking for
four or five or six, whatever. Um maybe
[19:42] you take everybody and you just open it
up for um everyone. I think to your
[19:46] point as well is that maybe I'm missing
one of them, but the original resolution
[19:50] for this was back in 2016. Um I don't
think any of us were on the board. Um,
[19:55] so I think there needs to be a
conversation of uh is this the direction
[19:58] the town wants to continue? Well, in the
presentation it has the resolution from
[20:04] 2016, the pledge. So there might have
been a pledge since then, but in the
[20:07] presentation that's
>> No, that was the pledge.
[20:09] » Yeah. So the pledge was taken uh 10
years ago.
[20:12] » Yeah. And I think the task force was
2019 or 2020.
[20:16] » 2020.
>> Yeah.
[20:17] » So I think this is a conversation that
needs to be had. Um
[20:22] I do think that overall um the task
force was created in 2020 during COVID.
[20:28] Um I want to start off by saying I
applaud everybody for getting the
[20:32] bronze. I know how much work that was.
Um I think the town board um at least
[20:37] from what I've seen um was supportive of
all the initiatives that you brought
[20:43] forward and it has been part of the
discussion. So, you know, the we adopted
[20:49] uh a program that New York State
recommended for green uh detergents and
[20:56] stuff like that if we can use it. I know
like the um the bus stop, we had
[21:01] discussions about the bus stop, the town
hall, I mean, you guys were very
[21:05] involved with that um and walking the
building and giving Phil and I input on
[21:11] that. So, I just want to make sure that
you guys understand like from my
[21:15] standpoint, I'm not going to speak for
everybody else, is that um I believe in
[21:20] this and anytime I've been asked to
help, I've tried to help and I'd be
[21:26] supportive of continuing it. I
understand that we need new people, but
[21:29] um yeah, I mean I think it's definitely
not something that the town the five of
[21:36] us are going to be very active in
physically going out and completing
[21:40] tasks.
>> No, that's not what we're asking. No, I
[21:42] know. We need but we do need a liaison.
>> Well, you do have we just I don't we and
[21:48] a backup is making.
>> Yes, I'm also
[21:50] » Yeah. So, we've had discussions in the
beginning of the year. So your your
[21:54] letter that you sent um asked us to
reconvene when the new board took uh
[22:01] place this year. Um and there have been
discussions and we did initially discuss
[22:06] the lison which was one of your concerns
in your your letter. Um you know we
[22:12] can't we got to keep checking off things
that you put in your letter but know
[22:16] that it wasn't ignored. Uh the letter
was asking us when the
[22:19] » like I said Scott Cookingham just said
thank you. Yeah,
[22:22] » I would have we all would have
appreciated that.
[22:24] » Yeah. So, um
>> it's common courtesy.
[22:27] » So, yeah, I think we uh have to continue
having these conversations and um going
[22:34] from there, but um
>> I mean, you really should familiarize
[22:37] yourself with the app.
>> So, can you actually send us the website
[22:40] because the website you sent us?
>> I will send it again.
[22:42] » It doesn't work. So, try clicking the
link. It doesn't go anywhere. So,
[22:46] » um if you can send us a new link, I
can't get to it. Um I'm very familiar
[22:51] though because we've had many
conversations and you guys have done
[22:53] many presentations about the work you've
done and the different initiatives. Um
[22:58] so um I've gone to seminars at
Association of Towns. I've sat in many
[23:04] climate smart uh classes before. So um I
appreciate it but like some of us have
[23:11] taken the time to look at it. Um the
assumption that nobody knows any of the
[23:14] things you guys have done is just
disingenuous. But
[23:18] » well, it's more about what we what's
>> we're here to support moving forward.
[23:22] » Yeah. And that we're I'm just saying is
there's a lot of assumptions being made
[23:25] that just are not true. So, um I'm here
to support you guys. You tell me what
[23:30] you need me to do and I I'm here to help
you. So, if you need stuff on the
[23:34] agenda, if you need us to discuss stuff,
send me an email and I'll get it on the
[23:38] agenda and we'll talk about
>> All you need is guidance. I
[23:41] » I have a question. Do you have a meeting
coming up?
[23:44] » No, because we're kind of in limbo.
>> Okay. I think that would be what would
[23:48] be helpful for me um is if we could sit
down outside of a meeting, you know,
[23:53] since I'm a you know, alternate liaison
to be happy with the uh supervisor
[23:58] Alrech also wants to attend uh to sit
down to make kind of an action item list
[24:04] of what the board could do um and maybe
share some of the resources that you
[24:09] have as far as um you know the the
resolution. Um, I've I have seen it
[24:16] because sometimes I just do deep dives
into old minutes and resolutions and I
[24:22] see uh see these things but they can be
very challenging to find within our
[24:26] system to pull up a resolution from
8 10 years ago is is pretty hard to do.
[24:32] Um, so if you have all of that that you
could you know that we could share
[24:36] documents and then
>> the pledge is in the presentation so you
[24:39] have that resolution.
>> Okay. And yeah so that we can then step
[24:43] out. Okay. Okay. The first task would be
um uh you know to advertise for for new
[24:49] task force members. The second step
would be to um pass a resolution forming
[24:55] the climate action committee, right?
Really step out exactly the actions that
[25:00] the town board would need to do to
support you because I absolutely, you
[25:04] know, support you. So I, you know, I've
worked with you on the climate smart
[25:07] survey even when I wasn't a town board
member and I did jump in and become a
[25:11] secondary liaison because I want to, you
know, and the supervisor has a lot on on
[25:16] her plate. So I'd be happy to meet with
you anytime and start making that list
[25:21] and checking it off.
>> Okay. I we'll be in touch and we'll let
[25:25] you know when we're meeting.
>> Great. Thank you so much.
[25:28] » Thank you, Sandra.
>> Thank you.
[25:34] Okay. This time I'd like a motion to
open the public comment portion of the
[25:39] meeting. Three minutes per person, one
time only for agenda items.
[25:43] » So moved.
>> Second.
[25:45] » All in favor?
>> I
[25:46] » I.
>> Would anybody like to speak?
[25:53] Okay. Not seeing any, I'd like a motion
to close the public comment portion of
[25:57] the meeting.
>> So moved.
[25:59] » Second.
>> All in favor? Hi.
[26:01] » Hi.
>> Okay. New business discussion. Um
[26:05] activity 12A activities at the mill site
on Memorial Day weekend. Um we're going
[26:12] to have our the normal Memorial Day
weekend celebration at the mill site and
[26:18] um today Todd spoke to the commissioners
about um who was going to take care of
[26:25] where the fence was and make sure that
we were going to at least have it
[26:29] covered up and have grass as much as
possible. The fence has been taken down
[26:34] and it's behind the monument now so that
everything can get done there without
[26:39] any kind of issue.
Um 12B 57th annual professional
[26:46] municipal cir clerk's week. I guess I
got to read this.
[26:52] Okay. The town of Pleasant Valley Town
Board proclamation 57th annual
[26:56] professional municipal clerk's week May
3rd through the 9th of 2026.
[27:02] Whereas the office of the professional
municipal clerk, a time timehonored and
[27:07] vital part of local government exists
through the world. And whereas the
[27:11] office of the professional municipal
clerk is the oldest among public
[27:15] servants. And whereas the office of the
professional municipal clerk provides
[27:19] the professional link between the
citizens, the local government bodies,
[27:22] the agencies of the government at other
at other levels. And whereas
[27:27] professional municipal clerks have
pledged to be ever mindful of their
[27:31] neutrality and impartiality,
rendering equal service to all. And
[27:37] whereas the professional, excuse me,
whereas the professional municipal clerk
[27:42] stirs serves as the information center
of functions, local government, and
[27:48] community. And whereas the professional
municipal clerks continually strive to
[27:53] improve the administration of the
affairs of the office of the
[27:56] professional municipal clerk through
participation in education programs,
[28:00] seminars, workshops, and the annual
meetings of their state, provincial,
[28:05] county, and international professional
organizations.
[28:10] Whereas it is most appropriate that we
recognize the accompl accomplishments of
[28:16] the office of the professional municipal
clerk. Now therefore, I, Mary Alchre,
[28:21] supervisor of the town of Posa Valley,
do hereby recognize the week of May 3rd
[28:25] through 9th as professional mun
municipal clerk's week and further
[28:29] extend appreciation to our professional
municipal clerk Mary Beth Mure and her
[28:35] deputy municipal clerks Kathy Miller and
Deborah Dooall and all professional
[28:39] municipal clerks for the vital services
they perform and their exemplary
[28:44] dedication to the communities they
represent. dated today, May 4th, 2026.
[28:54] Okay. Uh 12 C. Um a discussion regarding
proposed local law B to reschedule town
[29:02] of board assessment review from the 4th
Tuesday in May to Wednesday after 4th
[29:08] Tuesday in May and scheduling a public
hearing for Monday 5:18.
[29:15] So this is because our assessor is not
available that day. He does a few couple
[29:20] of towns and it um conflicts and
sometimes we get him first and sometimes
[29:27] we don't. So this that's all this is is
to change the date but we have to do a
[29:32] local law in order to do it. Um, so it's
a local law changing the date from the
[29:38] town of Pleasant Valley, Pleasant Valley
Board of Assessment Review to hear real
[29:42] property tax complaints to the Wednesday
following the fourth Tuesday in May of
[29:48] each year. So many days a so many days
after as the board of assessment review
[29:54] deems necessary.
>> Can I just ask Warren a quick question?
[29:58] » Yeah, absolutely. So, um,
[30:04] how does this get, if we pass this law,
how does this get communicated to the
[30:08] public? Because
>> we're going to have to disseminate it to
[30:11] the public.
>> Yeah. So, how is that, what's going to
[30:14] be the requirement of that?
>> You know, you put it on your website,
[30:17] » Facebook,
>> on your your town board,
[30:22] communications board,
>> right?
[30:25] » I mean, that's the only way. And this
would be after the normal date. So if
[30:29] somebody showed up here on the normal
date, they would they would come back to
[30:34] come back the next day. It's the next
day.
[30:35] » Pass one last year or
>> I don't think so. No, I've never seen
[30:39] this before.
>> Once you pass it, this remains in
[30:42] effect. So it will
>> So that was my second question. Is this
[30:45] only good for this year or is it always
going to be
[30:48] » in effect for next year?
>> Oh, that's because we've never done it.
[30:50] That's right. Okay.
But yeah, I was going to mention that to
[30:55] you that you really have to make sure
people know about it. So we have
[31:00] » So we'll put it on the legal boards all
over that we normally do.
[31:04] » Right. Right.
>> Put put it on Facebook and put it on way
[31:07] the the website. Right.
>> Okay.
[31:08] » You might want to put a few signs around
maybe at the library things like that,
[31:13] you know, public places.
>> Okay. Can I ask is it um is it then May
[31:20] 27th since that's the Wednesday after
the fourth Tuesday?
[31:25] » No, it's the day after.
>> It says the Wednesday after the fourth
[31:30] Tuesday in May, which I think would be
the 27th, right? Because the fourth
[31:35] Tuesday in May is May 26th.
Wait a second. So, is that what we're
[31:41] intending?
[31:46] the Wednesday following the fourth
Tuesday of each year.
[31:52] » So for this year,
it's going to be the 27th.
[31:56] » Okay.
>> Just so people know clearly now and then
[31:59] we'll announce it again at future
meetings.
[32:02] » Yeah, we'll do this at the definitely at
the next meeting.
[32:08] Okay. 12D discussion regarding request
to invite the Duchess County Water
[32:15] uh authority to present the Valley Dale
to Hyde Park Regional Water System
[32:21] Interconnection proposal.
Uh Councilman Borland,
[32:25] » thank you. Um so we all know that that
water is vital to Pleasant Valley's
[32:30] future. Um, and I've been focused really
on Main Street with beautifification and
[32:35] economic development, and I want to keep
moving that forward. Um, so, uh, I'd
[32:40] like to ask the board to invite the D
the Duchess County Water Authority to
[32:46] present a proposal that they have, uh,
that right now is conceptual, um, to
[32:51] bring water from Hyde Park, um, through
town to the Valley system. uh they
[32:58] already manage the valleyell system and
so this would be an interconnection and
[33:02] regionalized water plan. It wasn't
really possible to do this uh five years
[33:07] ago. The Hyde Park system has been
expanding um over and over. Uh but now
[33:13] they have a pretty clear actionable plan
uh that would bring water uh down West
[33:18] Road across Main Street. It would serve
our schools and potentially if uh there
[33:24] were other users that wanted access to
it, uh they could request access. Um and
[33:29] then it would connect to the Valley
community uh which has an aging small
[33:33] plant. Um and the homeowners there are
are having difficulty with very high
[33:38] bills as that that plant ages. Um and
there's also a significant issue with
[33:43] POS in the water um in the Valley area
as well as countywide that needs to be
[33:48] addressed. Um the water authority
project
[33:52] um would uh at this time they
conservatively estimate would be 70%
[33:57] grant-f funded and possibly more both
because of uh need-based grants um as
[34:03] well as uh grants that are now available
because of emerging contaminants in the
[34:08] area. Uh and it would it could help take
care of some of the emerging
[34:13] contaminants that we have in some of our
public water systems already in town.
[34:18] Um, obviously we also have a proposal
from Delaware Engineering. Um, I'd love
[34:23] to hear an update on that proposal as
well. Um, the intent of this is not to
[34:28] choose one over the other. Um, it is
just to make sure that we uh are working
[34:33] on our our water issue and keeping it on
the front burner. Um, so I think the
[34:39] public should look at this proposal,
invite the water authority to come here
[34:44] and present. they are more than willing
to uh you know have a um discussion with
[34:49] the community about the option that they
are proposing what may or may not work
[34:55] for our community. Um so I'd like to
invite them and have them come out and I
[34:59] would also love to uh get an update on
the um Delaware engineering project so
[35:05] that we can move forward and choose a
plan that fits our community. Thank you.
[35:11] Well, actually, they were supposed to be
here tonight, but I put them off because
[35:15] of this.
>> Okay.
[35:16] » Because I didn't I wasn't going to step
on any toes. I didn't know anything
[35:21] about this, so I wasn't told ahead of
time.
[35:24] » We talked about it a couple months ago
in February.
[35:27] » Um, I mentioned to you that that they
had I had talked to them about Valley
[35:31] Dale.
>> Um, and and I said I would like to meet
[35:35] with them. Well, I probably would have
had them here tonight if I had known
[35:39] what this was actually about, but I will
have them here the next time.
[35:43] » Okay, that would be great.
>> Um, so should we do would should we do a
[35:48] motion to invite the Duchess uh water
authority or should I make that?
[35:54] » So, move forward.
>> All in favor?
[35:58] » We need a second.
>> Second.
[36:02] » All in favor? I
>> I
[36:03] » Naz
may I ask um I did check with them about
[36:08] their availability. They could come to
the 18th. Um should we do a a water a
[36:14] water party on the 18th and have both
presentations come?
[36:18] » Well, I'd like I'd like to talk to um
Delaware that I the people that I work
[36:24] with first.
>> Okay. So, I'll speak with them about the
[36:27] 18th and then we'll see where Delaware
lands and and that would be great. I'd
[36:32] recommend you do them on different
nights.
[36:34] » It might it might be lengthy. Um
>> well, we already have a couple things on
[36:40] the agenda for the next meeting anyway.
So,
[36:44] okay. Um old business.
>> Hold on. We have that free soccer clinic
[36:49] that we added the discussion.
>> Oh, it's going on 12. I'm sorry.
[36:54] » As a discussion. Yeah. I'm just going to
refer to Tracy, the soccer director, to
[36:58] explain this.
[37:05] Hey everybody. Um, we've historically
held um, soccer clinics for our existing
[37:13] uh, registered players in the past. Um,
it's usually something that I just would
[37:18] work out with the recreation director
and we would offer it to already
[37:22] registered kids. Um that's been anything
from skills and personal player
[37:28] development clinics to uh goalkeeper
clinics. The the need for this specific
[37:35] clinic and why it's hopefully going to
be offered for female athletes is I've
[37:40] been approached by some of the coaches
in our coaching community who have
[37:44] daughters who are about to age up into
the LDT age group.
[37:49] Um this is a critical age for female
athletes. This is uh 10 and 11 year old
[37:54] uh girls who are playing in co-ed
divisions. When we are inhouse, it's
[38:00] they're playing with their friends and
their friends know them. It is a safe
[38:04] and inclusive environment. once they age
out and we are playing in the LDT um
[38:09] which is limited distance travel. We are
playing against other towns
[38:15] um predominantly boy teams because the
larger programs in the surrounding clubs
[38:20] are able to offer female uh teams at a
younger age than we are. We are
[38:27] respectively a pretty small program. So
we don't have enough girls to start um
[38:33] female only teams at 8 or 9 years old.
So we wait until they divide to that LDT
[38:39] age. Um this year we currently have a
co-ed team but they are playing mostly
[38:44] boy onlyly teams because these larger
clubs are able to have the numbers to
[38:48] sustain girl only teams and the girl
only teams play other girl only teams.
[38:55] um
developmentally wise, uh social wise,
[39:00] it's important to give girls a very
inclusive and safe space and encourage
[39:04] them to not be discouraged by the
physicality that boys start to play at
[39:08] this age. Um boys really start to get
very physical and and girls tend to want
[39:14] to play a more strategic teamwork-based
game. Um, and it's it's in the rare
[39:21] occasion where we've been able to
nurture that, it has proven to be very
[39:25] successful. Um, a few years ago, my
daughter was one on on on one of the
[39:29] first female girl teams in Pleasant
Valley, and it was really great to see.
[39:34] Um, historically, LMS and Arlington High
School would only choose athletes from
[39:42] Lraange Soccer Club. and they chose 18
girls the year that my daughter was able
[39:48] to play sports and 12 of her teammates
from Pleasant Valley were on that team.
[39:53] We were more than half of the team. So,
we are developing players here. You
[39:58] don't need travel soccer to develop
players. You don't need travel soccer um
[40:03] and and large clubs to be able to do for
kids what soccer can do for them. But I
[40:10] see a group similar to the group that my
daughter played in. And I have coaches
[40:15] that are motivated. And right now there
are clubs advertising for girl only
[40:20] tryyous. And that draws people away from
our club and our ability to support and
[40:26] nurture girls in girl programming. So by
having a clinic, it's kind of almost
[40:32] similar to another club holding a
tryyout. It's just letting them know
[40:35] that we have a safe and inclusive space,
that they're going to be supported and
[40:39] nurtured, and they can also get a sense
of uh what their team will feel like and
[40:44] develop chemistry before they hit the
fields when they all age up in the next
[40:49] soccer year. So, that specific age group
is to target the kids who are either
[40:54] currently going to remain in that age
group, um who are currently playing on a
[40:58] co-ed team, and include the girls who
are about to age up into that division.
[41:04] So
[41:07] » awesome. Thank you so much.
>> Yeah. Any questions?
[41:18] Okay. Old business discussion. Um a
discussion of uh economic development
[41:24] advisory committee appointments.
Councilwoman Borland.
[41:28] » Uh thank you. Um so I do have a
resolution for the appointments. um in
[41:34] the packet. Um and uh we had five
applicants. They're all excellent
[41:40] applicants. Um so I would just like to
say, you know, I sent the town board a
[41:45] letter about each of them, but I'd like
is it all right if I say a little bit
[41:48] about each of them so that the public
kind of has the confidence of knowing
[41:52] who is on the committee. Um so after we
appoint them tonight um so we will have
[41:58] uh Gary Serin who is a communications
professional uh who is getting a
[42:03] master's in sustainability
um and has a strong academic lens for
[42:08] local economic development. Mary Meyer
uh who has solid business experience and
[42:14] a familiarity with the town's existing
plans including the comprehensive plan
[42:18] and recreation master plan. Um so she's
very focused on making better use of
[42:23] what we have to implement ideas. Uh we
have Heather Ravenet who is a policy um
[42:29] writer for IBM. So she has a corporate
background but her husband owns a small
[42:35] business. So she has an insight into
both large scale and small business
[42:38] needs. U Melissa Arpino who's a lifelong
resident um and a small business owner
[42:44] uh who has strong skills in event
planning and community outreach. Um and
[42:49] then Keith Doyle who has a degree in
economics and finance um and lives uh
[42:56] has lifelong Pleasant Valley resident as
well um and he has experience in
[43:01] government and policy. So we have some
really great people who applied um so
[43:05] I'm happy to have the board consider
appointing them tonight.
[43:11] » Awesome. Very exciting. Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[43:16] Okay. Um, personnel committee profile of
recreation director candidate,
[43:21] discussion of vacancies, interviews.
Councilwoman Borland.
[43:25] » Um, so first I sent to the board the
suggestions for the survey for the
[43:31] recreation director. Um, really it would
just be a survey of the community to say
[43:37] what qualities are we looking for? What
should we prioritize in looking at the
[43:41] candidates? you know, how important it
is to you that they're connected to the
[43:45] community, etc. And then that um once it
would be complete, it would be used as a
[43:51] lens for our interviews. Um
I didn't want to send that to the
[43:56] personnel attorney until everyone had
looked at the draft and and made any
[44:01] tweaks to it that we wanted to make so
we wouldn't, you know, pay for multiple
[44:05] revisions. Um so I'm happy to get any
feedback on that. Um, and I did kind of
[44:11] time it out if we, um, you know, make a
motion tonight to send it to the
[44:17] personnel attorney to review and after
that, you know, post it to the for
[44:22] community the community to complete the
survey um, with a deadline before um,
[44:28] May 16th, then we would definitely have
it in hand. Um if I think at the
[44:34] personnel committee level we had kind of
timed out maybe that we'd be looking at
[44:38] the first meeting in June for an
appointment for rec director um if we
[44:43] had enough applicants and all that went
well. So that would at least make sure
[44:47] that that survey was complete and wasn't
holding anything up. Um so I would
[44:52] request uh you know that motion to um
send send the the survey to the
[44:59] personnel attorney as well as a post
once once reviewed by the attorney to uh
[45:06] post to the website and and Facebook for
community input.
[45:10] » Make a motion. I
>> will make Oh, go ahead.
[45:14] » A second. Just a question. Um, where's
the data going from the survey when it's
[45:19] done?
>> To the personnel committee, I would
[45:22] think.
>> Okay.
[45:23] » You want to add that to the motion?
>> Well, I'm just wondering who's
[45:25] collecting like when I fill the survey
out, where's it going?
[45:28] » Um, so we could do a couple of options,
but I mean, I think the easiest thing
[45:33] would be to do Google a Google form and
then that data would go into that.
[45:39] » Okay. Can we just
>> Can we do it to a town
[45:43] » account? I just think it we just want to
make sure it's going.
[45:47] » Maybe we could have the legislative aid.
>> The legislative aid
[45:50] » the survey.
>> Perfect.
[45:52] » Yeah, that would be great.
>> So, just to be clear, it's going to
[45:55] personnel committee and the board.
>> Well, I think I'm fine with the um
[46:01] » the legislative aid could create
>> the results going to the personnel
[46:04] committee, but all the survey responses
will go to the legislative aid and then
[46:08] go to you guys.
>> She could compile them. That would be
[46:11] that's a great idea. Thank you. and I'll
make sure it gets sent to Brooke
[46:14] tomorrow morning.
>> Thank you so much. Um and then um the
[46:20] regarding vacancies for the personnel
committee um
[46:24] » just a quick point about we just have to
finish the vote on that motion quick.
[46:27] » Oh yeah.
>> All in favor?
[46:29] » I naz.
>> No problem. Um so um as I believe that
[46:37] we have uh vacancies on the planning
board, one on the planning board, one uh
[46:44] zoning board alternate.
Um the beautifification committee did
[46:49] ask if we could um repost
the vacancy on the beautifification
[46:56] committee. Um, and then I don't know if
while we're at it, we want to do the
[47:02] conservation advisory council, wait on
that for a future meeting. Um, that's I
[47:07] have looked into that. That's supposed
to have seven members and at least on
[47:11] our website, we have uh four posted, but
I don't believe they have current
[47:16] appointments. Um, by resolution, I think
they expired um December 31st of last
[47:21] year. So I don't know if we want to
choose to advertise any of these
[47:26] vacancies at this time. I would ask for
the beautifification one because the
[47:29] committee did
>> I'm sorry you wanted to advertise for
[47:32] which ones the
>> we have planning board because Mr. Fra
[47:36] passed away. Um zoning um board
alternate.
[47:42] Um and then the beautifification asked
to repost to seek a more applicants for
[47:49] that um before their next meeting.
>> Can I ask a legal question? It's more of
[47:55] a procedural like just to make this
easier. is like uh Warren, do we like
[48:01] for example, we're going to end up
appointing most likely an alternate on
[48:04] the planning board to fill up uh the the
vacancy?
[48:09] What is the legal reason that we have to
come before the town board to make a
[48:13] motion to allow people to advertise for
like volunteer positions? If there's a
[48:20] vacancy, do we have to I'm just thinking
like we have all these different things.
[48:24] Wouldn't it be a lot easier just if we
legally are allowed to do it to just
[48:28] have the personnel committee and the
supervisor figure out the vacancies and
[48:32] just put them out?
>> I don't know if there's any legal
[48:34] requirement for you to do.
>> I I had asked I think Emily about this a
[48:39] couple of weeks ago because of this had
happened that we hadn't had a motion to
[48:43] advertise something and I said is that a
requirement? She she agreed with with
[48:48] Warren that it isn't. It's just been the
practice of the board to do so. And so
[48:54] at that time she said we'll just do the
request in the meeting. Um but we could
[48:58] change that practice and say okay if the
committee itself for let's say uh the
[49:03] chair of the planning board committee
has a vacancy planning board has a
[49:07] vacancy they could request a town board
member to I I don't know how
[49:12] » so I'm I'll make a motion moving forward
that if there's any vacancies within the
[49:17] town that have already been established
by the town board that the town clerk
[49:21] the legislative aid and the supervisor
have the right and obligation to
[49:26] advertise them without having to wait
for the town board to give them
[49:29] permission.
[49:32] » Second.
>> All in favor?
[49:34] » I
>> And can we just make sure that that is
[49:38] translated to the legislative aid's
obviously here, but can we make sure
[49:42] that's communicated to the clerk's
office because there has been confusion
[49:45] in the past.
>> Yeah.
[49:46] » Okay. Awesome. Thank And and that that
said, should we just we should could we
[49:53] have a discussion um supervisor about
the conservation advisory council and
[49:58] how to proceed with that and then you
can have the legislative aid advertise
[50:03] it if it's appropriate to do so.
[50:13] » Should we have a meeting with Climate
Smart first? Well, the the conservation
[50:17] advisory council is a separate body. Um
that it's a seven member body. It's been
[50:22] formed by resolution. Um it's but it
hasn't had appointments
[50:28] of late. So it needs probably needs a
whole new advertisement for all the
[50:33] members. I'm not sure. There were there
are four members on our town website.
[50:37] I'm not sure if they're active or not.
So we'd have to check.
[50:44] » Okay.
You're up.
[50:47] » Oh,
>> discussion.
[50:49] Uh 13C regarding authorizing the
attorney to the town to sign a consent
[50:55] and order judgment in the matter of 199
West Road LLC versus Pleasant Valley
[50:59] Board of Assessment Review. And I'm
going to hand it over to you, Warren.
[51:03] » Not much to discuss. This is a
taxertiary oop sorry.
[51:08] This is a tax certiary proceeding that
um for for one year um and we've been
[51:14] working on this um and through the
courts uh and uh reached a resolution
[51:22] uh where the original request was a
reduction in the assessment uh from
[51:27] 2,870,000
to 717,494.
[51:33] Um the Arlington School District
intervened in this action which means
[51:38] that they have to consent to whatever we
do and we have negotiated a settlement
[51:44] which provides for reduction in the
assessment uh to 2,758,200
[51:52] uh constituting a reduction of $111,800
which we think is a good solution for
[52:00] the town. and they have waved all all
refunds. So they waved refunds not only
[52:07] from uh to for us or but also for the
school district. So
[52:12] » can I just ask ament question for you?
So I'm looking at the um terms of this
[52:21] here, right? I think I don't know what
you would call this, but I'm looking at
[52:25] the resolution
and
[52:33] Sorry, I was looking at the wrong one
here. Um, the second paragraph,
[52:39] the petition saw a reduction in the
assessment of 2.8 million to 717.
[52:45] » That's just saying that that's what they
were looking for. And then paragraph
[52:48] four is what we're agreeing to.
>> Yeah.
[52:50] » Okay.
>> Thank you. Um, so I've prepared a um um
[52:56] uh a well the
petitioners council has prepared a
[53:02] consent order and judgment. It's been
approved by the uh our assessor. So um
[53:08] just like some authority to settle this
case and we vote on it.
[53:13] » Thank you. Thank you. I almost said G.
Thank you Warren.
[53:19] » Okay. Um, we will move on to
resolutions.
[53:24] Um, I'd like a motion for resolution 442
of 2026, a resolution authorizing town
[53:30] supervisor to execute an agreement for
joint neighborhood recreation center
[53:34] between the town of Pleasant Valley and
the Arlington Central School District.
[53:38] » So moved.
>> Second.
[53:40] Um, do you want to say anything about
this or?
[53:43] » Yeah, I mean this is a um a very simple
agreement that the uh town and the
[53:49] school district have been following for
quite some time. I think it's been
[53:54] rather informal. Um, and apparently it's
worked out without any problems. Uh this
[54:01] was brought to our attention because uh
the little league uses one of the fields
[54:06] and they wanted an agreement uh between
the town and the school district to
[54:12] allow the uh little little league to uh
have advertisements on their field and
[54:18] to solicit for those advertisements. And
the way we've negotiated this
[54:25] resolution and agreement is that the
little league uh will be able to keep
[54:30] the proceeds of the advertisement and I
made a few tweaks to the um original
[54:36] agreement. Uh nothing major. Um I didn't
want to if it's been working well, I
[54:43] didn't want to uh hamper that. So, um,
just some minor things that I don't
[54:48] think the school district will have any
problems with. So, we would urge you to,
[54:54] uh, adopt that resolution.
>> Thank you, Warren.
[54:58] » I just have a question on that. Um, with
the basketball program, I know one thing
[55:02] that had helped is we we had town
employees
[55:06] like staffing during the games. That
made a big difference because a couple
[55:09] years ago, we were about to lose access
to the schools and when we started
[55:12] putting those kids in there as like
guards, so to speak. Are we going to do
[55:15] that again?
>> We are. Okay.
[55:17] » That I don't think we would still be in
the school if we hadn't done that.
[55:21] » The only thing I added
>> to to this was a little bit more
[55:25] formality in scheduling uh the the times
when we can use the various facilities.
[55:32] Um so I put that into the writer also.
>> I mean to to give a little more color so
[55:36] what what those employees were doing.
They were essentially high school kids,
[55:39] but they were keeping
parents were letting their kids go and
[55:43] they were letting them run all over the
school and they were doing not awesome
[55:46] things in the building. So the these
kids were keeping those other little
[55:51] kids out of the rooms and whatever. It
helped, but
[55:55] yeah, that's all.
>> No, it definitely helped.
[56:00] Okay. All in favor?
>> I naz.
[56:05] Okay. Uh motion for uh resolution 443 of
2026, a res resolution authorizing the
[56:12] attorney to the town to sign a consent
order and judgment in the matter of 199
[56:18] West Road LLC versus Pleasant Valley
Board of Assessment Review.
[56:22] » So moved.
>> Second.
[56:23] » All in favor?
>> I naz.
[56:27] » Okay. I'd like a motion for 444 2026
appointing members of the Economic
[56:32] Development Advisory Council.
>> Oh, sorry.
[56:38] » Second.
>> Um, I just wanted to say that it's uh
[56:41] this this resolution includes the
members of Mary Meyer, Melissa Arpino,
[56:48] Heather
Revan,
[56:51] » Revenette,
>> Revenette, Gory Sarin, and Keith Doyle.
[56:56] All in favor? I
>> I
[56:58] » Naz
and I need a um motion for 445 of 2026
[57:06] authorizing payment of abstract number
5P of 2026.
[57:09] » So move
>> second.
[57:12] » All in favor? I
>> I naz.
[57:15] » And I'd like a motion for 446 of 2026, a
resolution commencing the local law
[57:21] adoption process for proposed local law
B of 2026, changing the date of the
[57:26] board of assessment reviews grievance
day.
[57:29] » So moved.
>> Second.
[57:32] » All in favor?
>> I.
[57:34] » Nays.
And
[57:37] » I'll make a motion to allow resolution
447 to 2026 on the agenda.
[57:42] » Second.
>> All in favor?
[57:45] » I. Nays.
>> I'd like a motion for 447 to 2026, a
[57:51] resolution authorizing the attorney of
the town to execute a stipulation of
[57:55] settlement in order Milestone Square E
equities LLC uh versus the assessor of
[58:02] the town of Pleasant Valley for a tax
searcherary proceeding. So moved.
[58:06] » Second.
>> I just have a question.
[58:09] » Um on page three, Warren, um
>> what
[58:13] » of
whatever the stipulation settlement
[58:17] order?
>> Yes. So page three of it, it has
[58:20] different charts or tables
>> that show each year and the original and
[58:25] final.
>> Um the bottom one there says parcel
[58:29] number and address final 2026 2027
assessment 2.4 4 million.
[58:35] Um I'm I guess I'm just having Can you
explain how the table above that has
[58:42] 2026 as the final being 4.2,
but down there it has it as 2.4.
[58:48] » This is just the projected for 20. We
don't have the 2026
[58:53] yet. Um so we're we're projecting what
that will be for 2026. the idea. I'd
[58:59] really not prefer not to discuss this
settlement in public because this was a
[59:04] difficult case to settle.
>> Okay.
[59:06] » Um I could explain it to you in
executive session.
[59:09] » Can I make a motion to table this
resolution?
[59:12] » Yeah.
>> Second.
[59:15] » Thank you. All in favor?
>> I
[59:17] » I
>> Okay.
[59:19] » I make a motion to allow resolution 449
2026 on the agenda.
[59:24] » Second.
>> All in favor? I
[59:27] » I
>> Okay. Motion for 449 of 2026, a
[59:33] resolution for free soccer clinic for
female athletes.
[59:38] » So moved.
>> Second.
[59:40] » Okay. Just one note on this. I in the
future I would like to be discussed on
[59:46] this kind of stuff ahead of time again.
I mean, you were just in my office a
[59:50] week ago. No one's ever mentioned this
to me. So if you could do that in the
[59:55] future, I'd appreciate it.
All in favor?
[59:58] » I nays.
>> Okay. Um I'd like to uh have a motion to
[1:00:05] open up the public comment portion of
the meeting. Three minutes a person. Any
[1:00:09] business?
>> Some moved.
[1:00:11] » Second.
>> All in favor?
[1:00:12] » I
would anybody like to speak?
[1:00:20] » Okay. Uh not seeing any, I'd like to
close the public comment portion of the
[1:00:24] meeting.
>> So moved.
[1:00:26] Second.
>> All in favor?
[1:00:28] » I.
>> Okay. Town board comments.
[1:00:35] » Well, there's only one thing I have and
that is we have the Southern This is
[1:00:40] going to be put out on the um my recre
page and all of the pages. Uh the
[1:00:46] Southern Duchess Concert Band um will be
playing on 6:18 from 6 to 8:00 PM in
[1:00:53] Katy Field and hopefully we will have a
food truck and maybe a dessert truck and
[1:01:00] they are absolutely amazing. There's
like 75 of them and it's just it it's
[1:01:07] really a wonderful concert. But I just
wanted to let people know as soon as
[1:01:10] possible. Can I actually ask one
question and it's just a followup from
[1:01:14] two weeks ago because somebody did
approach me about it. Is the um
[1:01:21] call it from the county the um is the
application live for
[1:01:26] » No, it is not. And I'm glad you brought
it up because they really don't have the
[1:01:31] application put through yet. So, it will
be be done. They're hoping to have it
[1:01:37] done and to me on Friday, which will go
up on their county website and our
[1:01:43] website, and they're taking care of it,
and we set up special numbers for each
[1:01:49] of the kids. And can I just ask if um if
somebody registers to hold their place
[1:01:57] and they apply and they get into the
program through the county are they
[1:02:03] eligible to get a refund from the town
or the difference or count as one of the
[1:02:07] 50?
>> Yes. If they qualify for the
[1:02:09] » because I know there's been concerns of
>> Yes. And we will have problems filling
[1:02:13] it because we are like almost 100% full
for camp one through three sessions. So
[1:02:20] it's Yeah.
I'm sorry. So
[1:02:24] » So it would be advisable then for people
to if if they expect they might get the
[1:02:29] scholarship to register now and then get
the refund once they qualify. Well,
[1:02:38] it's going to be difficult to get them
in on right now because of the way the
[1:02:42] program's set up for 100 people, but
there's a couple there's a couple of
[1:02:47] spots I think in the second one for the
regular camp. Um, and but yeah, they can
[1:02:55] try to absolutely I can I can talk to
Charlene and and have her try to get
[1:03:01] that bypassed so we don't have a
problem.
[1:03:03] » Okay. And we're are we keeping a wait
list for
[1:03:06] » Yes, we are. We are keeping a wait list.
She has one.
[1:03:11] » Um I did have a my town board comment.
Um so yesterday we had an amazing
[1:03:18] amazing day at the mill site. Um 20
volunteers came out for the mills site
[1:03:24] work day. Uh I calculated a quick
calculation was probably 50 hours of
[1:03:30] work that were put in. Um some of the
volunteers like Mary Meyer and Terry
[1:03:35] Alrech stayed for four or five hours. Um
we had uh you know weeding and um
[1:03:42] mulching. We mulched the entire site so
it looks beautiful. Um there was if
[1:03:48] anyone on the town board else wants to
come, we're going to be planting some
[1:03:52] more beonas tomorrow at noon. Um so the
site looks absolutely fabulous. So big
[1:03:58] kudos to the beautifification committee
um for putting it together. There was
[1:04:03] snacks and refreshment and sunshine and
pack 33 was there so they made everybody
[1:04:08] laugh. Uh you know wielding shovels and
picking weeds. Um so it was a a great
[1:04:14] day of community. Uh we got a lot done.
So if you guys walk through the mill
[1:04:18] site, make sure you give a a thank
thanks to the beautifification
[1:04:21] committee.
Um, I'm when you have all of those forms
[1:04:28] that if you could please make sure that
they get to Alicia.
[1:04:32] » Okay. Thank you very much.
>> Thank you to everybody who volunteered.
[1:04:39] » Um, so you
>> Sorry.
[1:04:41] » Did I cut you off?
>> Did I cut you off, Councilman Wenberg?
[1:04:45] » No.
>> Oh, all right. Um,
[1:04:49] » yeah. Hu huge huge appreciation to the
beautifification committee. Councilwoman
[1:04:53] Borland for setting it up and for 20
people to show up. Um
[1:04:57] it's a nice feeling. I was up in
Massachusetts where it was almost
[1:05:00] snowing yesterday, but the to get the
the the um the text knowing that people
[1:05:06] were down here working hard, making our
town look nice was uh that's what it's
[1:05:09] all about, getting people out and doing
something. Um
[1:05:13] on that note, just another update. Um so
the the basketball court is closed for
[1:05:18] the week. It's being painted right now.
The playground is still open. Uh if
[1:05:23] anybody is familiar with the site, there
was a small portion of the old tennis
[1:05:27] court that was exposed. Um where the
rubber
[1:05:32] flooring uh didn't go out to the edge,
which kind of looked ugly. Um but it's
[1:05:36] now painted uh this nice bright blue. So
it's it's amazing. If the weather holds
[1:05:40] this week, I'm hoping they're going to
be done by the end of the week and we
[1:05:43] can we can open that court up on on the
weekend. But um and the other the other
[1:05:48] nice thing is that uh thanks to the help
from Alicia and supervisor um we have
[1:05:53] the the lights ordered in our town hall
or groundskeepers office and we have the
[1:05:58] contract signed with V. So as soon as
this the court is painted the light
[1:06:04] project will start. So uh folks will be
able to play basketball after hours.
[1:06:09] People will be able to bring their kids
on the playground until about 9:00 at
[1:06:11] night. Um and that should be by by June
if not earlier. So, good stuff
[1:06:16] happening. And, um, shout out to Tracy's
comments. Whatever we got to do to get
[1:06:22] more sports for girls in this town,
let's do it. You got a lot of athletes.
[1:06:25] Like, I I my question would be, how do
we get more girls to play? We've seen it
[1:06:29] in basketball. We've seen it in all the
other sports. How do we get more girls
[1:06:32] out there? Uh, last time I checked, the
only Olympic medal in soccer in this
[1:06:36] country was from girls, not boys. So,
that's the sport they dominate. So, why
[1:06:40] aren't we getting more girls playing,
right? So whatever we got to do to
[1:06:43] foster that because we might have some
Olympian in our Olympians in our midst
[1:06:48] here that we're missing. So let's do
whatever we got to do.
[1:06:57] Okay. Um I would like to um have a
motion to go into executive session for
[1:07:03] 101.5F
personnel items and any items with our
[1:07:09] um attorney being here. Uh so moved
>> all in second.
[1:07:14] » All in favor?
>> I naz.
[1:07:16] » Thank you everyone.
>> Okay. Thank you for coming.
[2:12:10] Hey, don't complain.
[2:12:21] » You serious? I I make a motion to come
out of executive session at 9:15 where
[2:12:29] action uh action was taken uh in regards
to employee 348.
[2:12:37] » Need a second.
>> Second.
[2:12:38] » Second.
>> All in favor?
[2:12:40] » I nays.
>> I make a motion to unt resolution 447 of
[2:12:45] 2026.
>> Second.
[2:12:50] » All in favor? I
>> just
[2:12:55] » and yeah, we did
>> we just need a vote.
[2:12:58] » All in favor?
>> I
[2:13:00] » I
[2:13:04] make a motion to adjourn the No, we have
to Yeah. Journ the meeting at 9:15.
[2:13:10] » So moved.
>> Second.
[2:13:12] » All in favor? I I