[2:52] Good evening and welcome to the September 1st, 2026 Town Board meeting. If we get all rise for the pledge

[3:00] of allegiance,

[3:05] we're going to read us today.

[3:11] And to the Republic, which stands one nation under God, into this rule.

[3:20] And if we get all remaining standing for moment of silence, as we pray for those who protect our freedoms, our first responders, and a special prayer.

[3:29] Last week we lost Bob Sassir, those of you that may not know him.

[3:35] He was the man who ran the Rex all, his family owned it since 1930.

[3:40] five passed away after battle with Parkinson's, but he was, I believe, 92 years old, a

[3:49] blessed life, and he really did a lot for our community, our count for the years.

[3:54] I would also...

[3:56] Yes, I'll thank you for the melt handsman the week before yesterday.

[3:59] I would also add the hundreds of souls that were lost in Nepal in a surreal incident

[4:09] and the flooding that occurred in that nation.

[4:12] Yes, and...

[4:13] How long have you been in the Grand Canyon?

[4:15] Yes, yes, those lost in the Grand Canyon.

[4:17] That week, it's been a bad week.

[4:18] Yes.

[4:26] Thank you.

[4:31] We'll start with introductions to my right.

[4:35] Good evening, Dan, of course, town clerk.

[4:37] We need Patrick Murphy, town councilman.

[4:40] Supervisor Red Lyreckerman.

[4:42] Sir, do you want to proceed with Deputy Supervisor?

[4:44] Sir, the Siegel, town councilwoman.

[4:46] The lawn Gilbert town council meeting at a Rodriguez territory.

[4:52] All right.

[4:54] For my report for the town,

[4:56] a few things and we'll get moving along to an outside.

[5:00] I do hope everyone enjoyed the fireworks display on August 23rd after the last Lions concert.

[5:06] It was truly a great end to the summer concerts and a fantastic way to help celebrate the 250th anniversary of our country.

[5:18] But please remember that it doesn't stop there. We still have a few things going on.

[5:22] I know I read one of the things coming up at the Presbyterian Church. There's a concert coming up this month.

[5:28] but we also have a T-Town, a day of a revolutionary story telling with Jonathan Crook and they're going to have two different sessions.

[5:41] That Saturday, September 26, two to three T-Town tales for families and from six to seven, 30 revolutionary T-Town for adults.

[5:51] T-Town actually gets its name from the Revolutionary War times when a T-merchant down in New York City wanted to hold his T for the value and sell it at higher tax rates.

[6:06] So he shipped it up to what's now referred to as T-Town and stored it there.

[6:13] and then a group of women in the city who couldn't get their tea found out about it.

[6:19] And I did not realize how important tea was back then, but they literally came up, they marched

[6:25] onto tea town and they demanded that it be sold and got it onto the market without the

[6:31] taxation.

[6:33] So, great, great little story, and they'll be, I'm sure, plenty of those at tea town, a little

[6:40] So more on the somber side, as we come up on the 25th anniversary of 9-11, we will be doing

[6:47] our annual ceremony at the 9-11 Memorial at 4 p.m. The Grange will also be doing one with

[6:55] their opening ceremonies the same day. I know that this year is a little strange with two events

[7:02] at the same time and Russia-Shanus starting that evening as well so you know if you can't

[7:09] make it please remember those who parish those who continue to to fight the illnesses caused

[7:17] by 9-11 in your prayers and just remind again we will be doing some major renovation work at the

[7:32] also be limited use of the facilities at times. It will create some

[7:37] inconveniences which we apologize for but these changes will make a huge

[7:41] difference in your experience and service service in the library and they're

[7:46] also working out a deal with the Jefferson Valley malls we spoke about last

[7:50] time to be able to do some programming in some of their community areas so the

[7:56] programming will not end.

[7:59] All right, Wani, you want to go next?

[8:02] Yeah, thanks.

[8:03] Pretty much reiterating what you've indicated, Ed.

[8:08] I got a lot of wonderful feedback on the night of the fireworks by those attending the event

[8:13] as I was leaving, and it was great to, it was gratifying knowing that it was really appreciated

[8:20] by those individuals in the town.

[8:24] And secondly, it is hard to believe that it's been 25 years since the

[8:30] fateful day of 9-11, but what's even harder for me to conceive is a whole

[8:38] generation of people have been born who were not alive at that time and it's

[8:52] past after Pearl Harbor and World War II and D-Day and how we commemorate those days.

[9:00] It's so important for us to continue and never forget the events of 9-11.

[9:08] I will add on that I do hope that the State Assembly will sign on.

[9:16] I know Assemblyman Slater has been working on a bill to try to make sure that 9-11 is taught

[9:23] within our schools and not forgotten and it has received some considerable headwinds for different

[9:32] reasons.

[9:33] But I think that it's extremely important that we never forget and I urge anyone to talk

[9:40] to your state assembly people and ask them to please push this and try to get this into

[9:47] our schools.

[9:47] got to remember no one in school was alive during this and most of the people that were alive

[9:53] have graduated college so it's really we can't let this become a thing of the past.

[10:01] So, thank you, Monica. Thank you. Susan?

[10:04] I can still remember exactly what I was doing and where I was. This shock was like, you couldn't believe it.

[10:13] I just have two announcements and quick updates. One says in a Harkham is having a senior fair at Jefferson Village on Friday, September 18th from 10am to 2pm.

[10:26] It's free, kind of, there'll be lots of vendors offering whatever services there are for seniors and also a reminder for people in the

[10:33] Halix, meal steward district in the Halix, meal area who are on septic systems that are aging and possibly in need of repair, there is a county program that will pay the full cost of the repair or repair or replacement.

[10:51] The only cost to the homeowner is about $500, something dollar initial title search.

[10:58] The town did send some letters out to some homeowners who are close to a store line, because

[11:03] it's also a possibility if they were within 100 feet of an existing store line, the county

[11:10] program will pay for that connection.

[11:13] But there are more, there are hundreds and hundreds of homeowners in the HALX mills, a basin

[11:19] that are on septic systems and who are not going to have any chance for Sue is in the foreseeable future.

[11:24] So this is a one-time chance to possibly get that.

[11:28] The information is on the town website with the phone number.

[11:32] It also like to give some updates about eBikes.

[11:35] There's been a lot of talk about that.

[11:37] And I want to thank the police department and the unit for putting together this very informative

[11:42] is on poster that I think they're hopefully putting up throughout the town explaining where

[11:49] e-bikes and putting to the state law are allowed and we're more importantly with they're

[11:55] not allowed and also about wearing helmets of things like that. But as with this is education,

[12:02] which is one part of it, there's also enforcement. I think I keep getting emails about people who say,

[12:08] I saw them doing this tradition, and I saw them doing that with this, and I've been doing

[12:12] some education that's needed, which is why I am working on legislation to aspects of legislation,

[12:22] one dealing with e-bikes, because the state law prohibits mountain bikes on to land,

[12:28] and we have some very valuable mountain biking trails in Georgia, which we want to encourage,

[12:33] because that's good to bring people into Yorktown.

[12:36] So state law says it's illegal.

[12:38] So we have to make sure that they're legal,

[12:40] and I talk to Jim Marron at the Parks Department.

[12:43] I've identified where the trails are,

[12:46] and how we can legalize that.

[12:47] But we also have to talk about regular bicycles,

[12:51] especially on the sidewalks in our hamlet areas,

[12:53] which have been a problem for a long time.

[12:56] So I've reached out to the police department,

[12:58] I've tried to work with the, with their bike unit,

[13:02] And I want to put together legislative changes for both the e-bikes and also for the regular

[13:07] bikes with the enforcement mechanism that we need.

[13:11] And I will present that to my colleagues here.

[13:15] Also, Seltower is another issue.

[13:18] We now have six sample laws, three that were provided by Doug Fishman, Towns, Consultant, and

[13:25] three that I identified five of the six are all of Westchester communities.

[13:30] I'm looking at all of them side by side and basically cutting and pasting what I think works best for

[13:36] Yorktown and what this community wants and what the board wants and where there are issues that I can't decide I'm going to put a highlight and say you have

[13:44] options here. Do you want to option A, B or C and then the board can discuss it and we can propose some legislation.

[13:51] I also want to bring to the board's attention that last year, I raised the issue about the

[14:00] need to take a fresh look at our overlay districts, both Yorktown Heights and Lake

[14:05] Asiola, based on our experience processing one for underhill farms, you kind of learn

[14:12] what maybe needs to be tweaked.

[14:14] And I suggested some tweaks, it was ignored.

[14:18] Let's come to my attention that when the major parcels

[14:21] at Lake Inlay, in Lake Oslo, in Jefferson Valley,

[14:24] is now up for sale.

[14:26] And that's the form of Ciela Manor,

[14:28] which was for a short time of the Jefferson Resterund.

[14:34] That is in the Lake Oslo district.

[14:36] It's currently zoned for commercial use.

[14:40] I think now before an application actually comes in,

[14:43] We should take a look at the overlay law, the lake, our seal and see if anything needs to be changed, especially concerned about the density.

[14:53] Because some of the provisions in the original overlay law really dealt with density in terms of residents.

[15:00] Financial development, but this is commercial. Although I'm confused could be used. So I'd like the board to talk to the planning and director Rob and Stinder and get some feedback in terms of what we need to look at. I do have some comments about the pump station repair, but I'll wait and for for Nancy RCR engineer to make his presentation and I'll bring up those issues then. Thank you.

[15:28] I think that's going to go.

[15:30] All right.

[15:32] So just a few things.

[15:33] Welcome back everybody.

[15:35] Hope everybody had a, I don't want to say it.

[15:37] Wonderful summer.

[15:40] But so we've got a couple of things that are coming up.

[15:42] That are fun stuff.

[15:44] The Grange Fair is coming.

[15:46] It's coming up soon.

[15:47] I believe it's.

[15:49] It's going to be a lot of fun.

[15:50] And then you have right immediately following that.

[15:54] You have the your time piece of change in error.

[15:56] So we got a lot of cool stuff coming just around the corner.

[16:01] The granite nose paving was finally completed and it looks absolutely fantastic.

[16:07] There's a Facebook post on it, you can see the pictures and one of the most important

[16:11] things is we were able to actually squeeze in some more spots, which is one of the issues

[16:16] that we have there, it's such a heavily used facility, it's such a beautiful facility and

[16:21] we continue to expand on that facility and the volleyball courts are set to be finished

[16:30] in short order.

[16:31] I don't know the exact date.

[16:32] I have an idea when it is, but I don't want to, I don't want to step on anybody's toes,

[16:38] but watch for the volleyball.

[16:40] We continue to expand there.

[16:41] We have the basketball courts.

[16:42] We have the volleyball courts.

[16:43] We have the pickleball courts.

[16:44] We have the pavilion.

[16:46] You know, the football fields.

[16:47] You all purpose fields.

[16:48] I mean, it's just a wonderful facility and we're also looking at doing something with the trailhead there and a sense we walk away.

[16:59] We talked about that, right?

[17:01] Sort of.

[17:02] They did with the millings.

[17:04] You know, so, you know, they took the millings out of the parking lot and they moved them across the street to make another parking lot for the trailhead going in.

[17:14] So everything was used.

[17:16] It was a very efficient way of doing the parking lot.

[17:21] But I just wanted to just make sure that everybody knows

[17:25] that 100% of the waste went back to use.

[17:28] And now the trailhead probably has what?

[17:31] 20 parking spots?

[17:32] Yeah, the trailhead has 20 parking spots.

[17:33] And it'd be like an upper and lower section there.

[17:36] Jim and Matt are on great job.

[17:37] Yeah, there were two entryways to the trailhead.

[17:41] If you look at it, we haven't posted anything

[17:44] about that yet but it really came out, it really came out fantastic. So, you know,

[17:49] just another great addition which is going to tie into the other stuff we want to do

[17:54] with the sensory walkway and that kind of stuff. So, really, really good and you're right.

[18:01] You know, they used all the waste or the millings and stuff like that to create this other area.

[18:07] So, it really didn't cost a much or anything at all.

[18:11] You clarify the trailhead, I don't know that many people understand whether trailhead is and

[18:18] how the trailhead is one thing and separate from the additional parking, which the millions

[18:23] created the additional parking lot, but the trailhead deals with the trail that crosses over

[18:29] from from the bridge over the teconic, all across what known as granite nose east, across

[18:35] a stony street, and then it goes through granite nose west, which is a sports complex, which

[18:40] goes all the way into silding Glen. Somebody can go from woodlands, park all the way over,

[18:48] from like 132 to Lexington Avenue all on the town trail. It's really amazing. And the trail

[18:54] is where legacy field is. Some people know it. No one has the legacy, you know. But the trail

[18:58] head is where the start of the trail. And that's what he's referring to for us people who didn't

[19:03] know what a trailhead was.

[19:04] Thank you.

[19:05] I learned.

[19:06] We had a grand opening, era of nails and shrub oak.

[19:09] They have a great new nail salon there, great people.

[19:15] And I wish them the very best of luck.

[19:18] It was great being there and celebrating their successes and their new venture.

[19:24] And I wish them everything that they could possibly get in life that's wonderful.

[19:30] The fireworks were spectacular.

[19:31] I mean, it was really an amazing show, great way to end our concert series, great way to celebrate

[19:38] Rev. 250, which is why, you know, we put that together.

[19:42] And, sir, I do want to thank you publicly for doing a lot of like work on that, making sure

[19:47] that you know, you found the best, best people for the job at the best price and, you know,

[19:53] thank you, because it really moved pretty quickly and you did some great work there.

[19:57] Thank you so much, yeah, it was really beautiful.

[20:00] It was at Lakeland High School, and I had a conversation with one of the board members, the Lakeland

[20:07] School Board members, and we were talking about what we call the Vietnam Memorial there, right

[20:14] on campus. And so we were looking at that, and here approach, we said, you know, I really like to get

[20:20] this cleaned up, and you know, make it shine as it's supposed to. And so what I did was, he goes, I

[20:28] What did you have in mind?

[20:29] Well, maybe we could do some plant things, maybe we could clean up the stone, maybe we

[20:33] could get it all cleaned up, modernize, make it look beautiful and give it the due respect

[20:40] that it deserves.

[20:41] So with that, I was able to pull together, 2173, who's going to do all the legwork, cleaning

[20:47] the stone up, resetting the stone, the actual monument, move the little bit, so we're going

[20:53] to reset it and we're going to try to make it so the way it doesn't move again.

[20:58] Why was able to pull a landscape or a local landscape and he's going to do all the work

[21:04] for free and he's going to work with the troop with the kids in the troop to power wash

[21:08] the stone and do all that stuff and he's going to be donating some plants.

[21:12] I am looking for there are some purple heart veterans there on the stone so I'm looking to

[21:19] And there's these little purple heart metals that are stuck at the stone by the person's

[21:24] name, by the vets name.

[21:26] And so we're looking to looking for replacements for that, so we're going to grab those.

[21:31] And we're really going to clean up that whole area and just revive it, especially now I know

[21:38] it's the Vietnam Memorial, but with the memory of 9-11 and everything, it's really coming

[21:45] together and I look forward to working with the troop who are just a wonderful bunch of people

[21:52] that do a lot of good things. That troop is very active and I'm always impressed by them.

[21:59] Speaking of high school, what the panace football, there are varsity football team is now section one.

[22:07] So this is the first time they've entered into the section one realm. I think in their history,

[22:14] They invited me to go to their celebration.

[22:17] I couldn't make it.

[22:18] I really regret not being there.

[22:20] Buckingradulations of Walter Panis and their section one sounds pretty cool.

[22:25] Section one for Paul team.

[22:27] Lastly, we talked about a few weeks ago about the streetscape RFP.

[22:32] I believe where we're getting close to actually being able to evaluate it and I think

[22:38] it's going to be on our desk soon.

[22:41] So this way we could look at it and and see what done I know we had something and it was more of a traffic study that it converted

[22:49] You had some issues with that. I had some issues with that everybody here at issues with that. So I believe it's almost it's almost completed and

[22:57] I will follow up and hopefully have it on in our email on your desk quote unquote in your email

[23:04] soon where we're going to

[23:06] to re-invision the center of Yorktown, the center of the Commerce Street, the Yorktown Heights

[23:14] Hamlet, Business Hamlet, with some impressive stuff.

[23:18] I think it'll be something that will transform our downtown.

[23:23] And then from that point we'll move on to other places as well around town and in other

[23:28] sections in other business hamlets.

[23:30] But that should be coming soon.

[23:32] Okay, I just wanted to give you guys an update.

[23:34] Thank you very much.

[23:36] I just wanted to welcome back Lakeland, Panis and Yorktown, the school districts, welcome

[23:43] back all the kids.

[23:44] Hope you have a great academic and sports year and just welcome back to reality if everybody

[23:50] enjoys their summer.

[23:53] So on September 26, at the FDR Park, what is it?

[24:03] recovery list Albert's not here so she's going to miss the courtesy of the floor but she

[24:09] helps runs. This is their big fundraiser and he supports a 5K. It's a 5K run walk slash at

[24:17] the lot one in FDR Park at 9 o'clock and if you could support him that'd be great. It's one

[24:25] of their bigger and only fundraisers they have and they do a great job. Like I said, the library

[24:32] doing a big renovation the first time in 40 years that they've done something this substantial

[24:37] they're getting new carpets, new tiles, you know it came from a grant that they're doing this

[24:43] but they're going to be shot the 29th and 30th of September they're sort of hoping that everything

[24:48] will be done by the end of October and since they don't have any room they're not taking any

[24:55] donations in any book donations this month. So, hold up.

[25:00] If you're booked donations for the following month, okay?

[25:05] And the Elx and Jefferson Village is also doing a 9-11 celebration, that's your ceremony.

[25:14] So, the Elx will be starting at 8-30 in the morning, and I thank the Jefferson Village.

[25:20] 11 AM, it's 11 AM. And Susan, just to reiterate what you had said about the e-bike, so I took a walk over

[25:28] Hudson Bridge and you know the middle lane is supposed to be for bikes. You walk on the outside the bike lanes

[25:35] supposed to be 10 miles an hour. There wasn't one bike on 10 miles an hour. They were everywhere between 20 and 30 miles an hour.

[25:42] And if they hit anybody they're going to hurt someone. So yes, we have to

[25:46] seriously look at the laws and regulations for you. I had missed that, but I have had

[25:53] very, very detailed discussions with Chief Foley, with Officer Oul, we're looking at

[26:01] a J.H. had sent some stuff, we are unfortunately sort of

[26:09] what we have can affect the

[26:11] town that could be registries, registrations, but if it's not on a, the same question pops

[26:17] up, what do you do for the kids from Portland, from peak skill, from Mount Kisco, that

[26:21] still writing all over. So if there's not a conglomerate of towns that that go in on this and try to get us,

[26:29] some of these, some of these laws like a licensing law doesn't really work. New Jersey is doing it as a state,

[26:36] and we're also talking with some of the state to see, but it needs to be addressed, but it also needs to be

[26:51] the way the state in E-bike law was written. They're like three sections. One applies to

[26:59] only I think it's just possibly South Ecuador and North Ecuador and North Ecuador. One applies

[27:05] only to Westchester and then the third one applies to the rest of the state. So when I started looking

[27:11] at some interesting laws in Orangeburg across the river and I think have a straw. I said,

[27:16] oh these are good ideas. Then I realized that when you read the Westchester section we are limited.

[27:21] because Westchester has first dibs on making any changes in the state law.

[27:26] And my comments and my calls in context with Westchester Parks is that they're not regulated.

[27:33] They're not regulating anything and because some of our trails would go across municipalities.

[27:40] It would be very problematic for Yorktown to have one set of regulations.

[27:44] So, there's another bed for another and so forth.

[27:47] I just, yeah, that's, that's what I think.

[27:49] So we are very limited in what we can do, and that's why my goal is to, and we're also limited in terms of the penalties, because the state law sets the penalties.

[27:59] All right, so I don't think, and this will all be subject to Adams verification that I don't think we can change the penalty,

[28:05] but at least we can first certainly make mountain biking legal, we're right now it would be illegal, and we won't encourage that.

[28:12] But we also then have to do the regular, the regular bicycles.

[28:16] So it's a combination, but eBikes, and eSchooled is, our hands are somewhat tied by the way the state law was just written.

[28:24] And it's a total order, because you know, you don't want to overregulate, but as Councilman Murphy said, something has to be done, and you know, you don't want to kind of, you know, eBikes will also use for people that are disabled.

[28:40] people are now who couldn't write a bike because of their their whatever

[28:45] disability they may have made they may have now we're able to enjoy the outdoors

[28:50] enjoy the bike path on a bicycle like you know and so it's a it's a it's a very

[28:56] tough thing you don't want to you don't want to crush like little kids either

[29:00] you know as they write their bikes but it's such a complicated issue you don't

[29:05] think it is but when you look at the whole thing you're looking at it you're like

[29:09] I do, it's a very difficult thing to address and enforce as well and the repercussions by not doing anything

[29:20] Could result in severe injuries too. Yeah, so young people that we're trying to you know

[29:28] So once a year is back I bought my brother and I bought my brother and he bike because he's disabled and he couldn't afford a car

[29:35] So I have my oldest brother I bought him an ebike. I have it now

[29:38] It's been in my basement as a gathering cobwebs, but that being said.

[29:44] You know, it was his mode of transportation.

[29:46] He used it for a go-in of store, for a go-in of the pharmacy.

[29:51] That's what they want to do.

[29:52] The big dog Jay is that way your phone's parked in there.

[29:55] It's a medication dog.

[29:58] There you go.

[30:00] One thing I would just like to add, and I think I'd be remiss not to again a reminder, not hearing that it, kids are going back to school, focusing and we're focusing on public safety. Please stay alert, be safe, follow the school, drop off rules, the schools own limit rules and all issues with the buses and pedestrian kids walking to school.

[30:30] school as well. We could possibly choose to build something into the low, so a lot of these

[30:34] a lot of these bikes. I don't know if they all do, I haven't looked at you.

[30:37] I'll take laws and writing. I don't want to go into something.

[30:41] Just let me finish please. Thank you. So, you know, you can regulate these bikes come with

[30:47] apps. And so maybe there is something that we built into the law somehow where, you know,

[30:53] you have to, you can regulate govern, it's what it's called, govern through an app. How

[30:59] best of bike to go. So you might have a bike that goes 30 miles an hour, but you could

[31:03] govern it as a parent and say, all right, this bike can only, you know, not exceed

[31:08] for 15 miles. Now, maybe that's something that, you know, we put into building this

[31:13] part of a law, just an idea to think about it.

[31:15] How long would they take you to break that? How long would it take you to break that

[31:19] app? And I'm loving it. I'm working on that. I'm hoping that possibly by the third meeting in

[31:27] September I will have a draft to share with all of you and as I say it's I thought it was mine

[31:33] e-bikes within the constraints that we have and also regular bicycles which I think have been

[31:38] ignored over the years and there was a problem but both issues alright so Laurie did you have something

[31:44] from. Yeah, I do. All right, this is from John F. Mullen,

[31:51] Gauber, the soul, poem is called Ted. September 28, 1941, 85 years ago, the

[31:57] last day of the baseball season, Ted Williams went six-eight in a double

[32:02] head of to finish at 406. That was his batting average. The last play had to

[32:07] hit 485 years ago. 16 years later, he hit 388 to win his fifth batting

[32:14] championship beating the run about Mickey Mantle by 23 points and won his sixth and last championship

[32:20] the year after. He won two triple crowns, batting average home runs and runs batting in.

[32:26] In 1942 and 1947, and in his career, he had the highest batting average and most home runs

[32:33] an RBI's of any player who played in those years. He had a triple crown career. What was the most

[32:43] in World War II in Korea, landing a burning jet in Korea, getting pneumonia in the process.

[32:51] Another American hero, Colonel and astronaut John Glenn called Baseball Hero Williams,

[32:57] the best wingman I ever had, Williams is also the only man in both the Baseball Hall of Fame

[33:02] and the fly fishing Hall of Fame. It is fashionable today to call people goats, greatest of all

[33:08] time. I never saw a tie-cop, baby, or Roger Horn's be. All I can say is that the Edo Samuel

[33:15] Williams is the best I ever saw. John McMollon, you wrote this in 2022.

[33:22] Yeah, the splendid, the great, he loves sports. He did. He did. And I'm rightfully so.

[33:29] All right. So now we come to presentation. We have clear to mail. Is it clear? Great.

[33:39] This

[33:39] This is what I'm looking for with Claire.

[33:41] You want to play with the doll?

[33:43] Don't listen to him, die.

[33:46] Claire, you're going to talk to us at the microphone,

[33:49] introduce yourself, and what you're talking about, OK?

[33:54] Hi, my name is Claire Tamale.

[33:56] You can pull that down towards you.

[33:58] There you go.

[34:00] She's good.

[34:01] She's going for a silver ward.

[34:02] She can figure out a mic.

[34:04] Hi, my name is Claire Tamale.

[34:06] I'm a member of Girl's Got Troop 2812,

[34:08] And I'm working with the Johnson Heart Library for my Silver Award Project Books and Buddies.

[34:14] We're working to get American Girl Dolls in the Library so that younger patrons can check them out and have a friend to read with.

[34:21] And it also helps get dolls to people who may not be able to afford them.

[34:27] And so far we have two historical dolls, one girl, the year doll, and two truly mees.

[34:35] this is one of them and there's also this plush doll as well that I donated today and it

[34:43] comes with a book for younger readers so the only thing we were looking for hair brushes so that

[34:57] Anybody who checks out the dolls?

[35:00] And take care of them as well. And also, carriers. So when people check out the dolls, they can carry them out of the library. And there will also be a walk-in activity, September 23rd. So people can learn more about the program. And they can learn how to take care of their dolls as well.

[35:24] And yeah, thank you for taking your time to learn more about my project.

[35:31] Well, you can't run off yet, Claire. I have some questions. I don't know about anyone else.

[35:36] So I think it's a great program. I actually responded. You unfortunately emailed me at an email.

[35:42] I don't really check that often, but I did respond to, I think yesterday.

[35:46] I'd love to talk more about the program.

[35:48] I also spoke a little bit with Ivana about somewhere where she's doing a light, trying to do a library of things, so the doll will fall very well into this.

[35:58] But say I wanted to help support that with a doll donation. How can I do that?

[36:04] So, you would reach out to the library and they would give you the information and I guess we would meet up in, yeah.

[36:20] Okay, so we'll talk to Vanna about that.

[36:23] And what is your goal? How many dolls would you like to see at the library?

[36:27] Well, I'm looking to complete the rest of the historical collection,

[36:32] because right now there's only two, maybe also one more plus stall too.

[36:39] How many are in the historical collection? I, my subscription for American Doll has lapsed.

[36:45] I used to get the emails from my goddaughter all the time. I'm not joking, so.

[36:50] Yeah?

[36:51] I thought you were joking.

[36:52] No. We have breakfast for American girls.

[36:54] Yes.

[36:55] They have, I almost worked for them, actually.

[36:57] But go on, I'm sorry. How many years or about? You don't have to give me an exact answer.

[37:03] Maybe this may be about five more.

[37:06] Okay, great. And that one is a Girl Scout doll in your hand?

[37:11] Yeah, she is a Girl Scout outfit.

[37:13] And what else do they have? Do they have a revolutionary war or is it more?

[37:19] I think they do have one from around the revolutionary war time.

[37:23] I think they also have, they have a lot of different ones.

[37:33] How did you come up with this idea?

[37:36] Well, I went to the American Roles store a lot when I was younger and I really enjoyed going there

[37:43] and then I also enjoyed reading the stories that they came with as well.

[37:47] And so when I was thinking about my project I was thinking how I also enjoyed reading

[37:52] So I thought maybe something at the library,

[37:54] and then I remember that the dolls, they have stories,

[37:57] and it would be good for younger readers.

[38:00] Fantastic.

[38:02] So I think your project is amazing,

[38:03] and I did get your email from the other day.

[38:07] I'd happy to help you do anything,

[38:10] and accomplish anything.

[38:11] I think your project's fantastic,

[38:13] and I think your heart is adorable, by the way.

[38:15] I just gotta tell you, put me down for a doll.

[38:18] All right?

[38:18] I am going to reply to your email and you're going to go to Amazon, you're going to send me the link.

[38:25] I'm going to order it for you, put me down. I'm all in and if you need any help,

[38:30] I'm going to reply, but I figured you were here tonight, so I'd speak to you in person.

[38:34] But if you need any help, I'm here to help you and I think all of us are by the way,

[38:39] but I'd be happy to help and put me down for one. All right. All right. Thank you.

[38:43] Anyone else saw any? I think it's a wonderful, wonderful project and thank you. Thank you for doing that.

[38:49] Good luck, thank you so much.

[38:57] It is so great to see your youth take charge and have a project this so passionate about.

[39:05] I'm looking on Amazon right now.

[39:08] Look at this.

[39:10] Oh, absolutely.

[39:12] It's crazy.

[39:14] Have a great night.

[39:14] Thank you so much.

[39:22] We will go to personnel,

[39:27] promote Ian Richie to the position of provisional planner in the planning

[39:30] department that will be from CSEA salary schedule A1 group 17 step one, 98,000 and

[39:41] 87,000 annually with benefits such as sick days, personal days, voting holidays, follow the

[39:46] the SCA agreement, and that let's see, he will have a probation

[39:51] period of minimum of 12 weeks to a maximum of 52 weeks.

[40:00] Be it further resolved that Ian Richie, shall retain all leave and reinstatement rights to the former permanent position of assistant planner, should the incumbent position, should he not be reachable on the civil service eligible list, resulting from the examination, or should the probationary period not be successfully completed, with all rights afforded under applicable civil service law, and then with this one I'll give a little explanation,

[40:28] with your point Catherine Richie as a member of the John C. Hart Memorial Library Board of Trustees

[40:35] to fill the unexpired term of Kathy Lee in Pirato. Oh, sorry, law. Yes. Let me use my eyes.

[40:46] Kathy and Pirato. I know. Let me borrow those glasses. The John C. Hart Memorial Library announces

[40:52] that Library Board President Kathy Law in Pirato resigned from the Board of Trustees effective

[40:58] August 31st, 2026, as she assumes additional professional responsibilities in her current role

[41:05] at City College Maggett School of the Arts in Manhattan.

[41:08] The Board of Trustees has appointed local resident Kathy Richie as a member at large to

[41:14] complete Ms. Law and Prato's unexpired term.

[41:19] Trusty Vice President Jean Zapia will serve as acting president until the Board of

[41:24] it's officers at the September meeting. On behalf of the town, the library trustees and the

[41:31] library staff, we extend our sincere appreciation to Kathy Law and Prado for her dedicated service

[41:37] to the John C. Hart Memorial Library. Ms. Law and Prado has served the library board for a combined

[41:44] total of 11 years, including her leadership as board president. We thank her for her commitment,

[41:51] floodful guidance and many contributions to the library and the community. Kathy, thank you so much,

[41:57] I know it's a very hard decision but your work was greatly appreciated in the town and wish you

[42:05] nothing but luck and I'm sure that you will not be a stranger to the library.

[42:10] I'm just going back get a message.

[42:13] All right, so may I have a motion?

[42:16] Fall in favor?

[42:17] Aye.

[42:18] All right.

[42:19] We will now open the floor to public comment.

[42:21] Please one time, three minutes per speaker.

[42:25] You will come to the mic and introduce yourself.

[42:27] You do not need to wait for courtesy to floor.

[42:30] If you have an issue that you'd like to talk to the town board about, we're available via

[42:33] email, via phone, in person, I get stopped a lot in the market, whatever works.

[42:40] We're here to serve.

[42:43] Good evening Chuck Newman, Field Stone Court.

[42:46] We're talking about e-bikes before and how difficult that is.

[42:50] I got another one for you.

[42:52] I was watching Squawk Box in the morning in July,

[42:56] and I was interested because the CEO of Wonder was on.

[43:01] And having just recently opened the town, I listened with interest.

[43:04] And at the very end of his comments, he said,

[43:06] and in January, we're going to start drone delivery.

[43:08] So I looked into drone delivery, as I heard a little bit about that, now Amazon is doing drone delivery and a lot of municipalities around the country already believe it or not.

[43:19] But the drone delivery companies that are currently doing drone delivery, including Amazon, are wing, which is Google, zip line, door-dash, and drone up.

[43:33] and that's created a noise and quality of life complaints.

[43:37] There are some quotes.

[43:39] I can hear them in my home, even when I'm inside

[43:41] the TV is on.

[43:44] Drone's passing over my house every three to five minutes.

[43:48] They've taken away the piece in our neighborhood,

[43:50] the piece in our streets, drones are barely 100 feet

[43:53] above our homes.

[43:54] Now, I really listen to this with interest

[43:56] because a lot of times, depending upon the flight pattern

[43:59] for the county airport, we get some very low flying planes.

[44:02] From the launch site, drones are around 80 pounds, take up multiple times a day.

[44:10] Residents say that means flying over their homes or even nearby schools on a regular

[44:13] basis, and they have described this drone traffic as a drone highway.

[44:19] Common themes that are merging in communities of Michigan, Colorado, Nebraska, New York,

[44:23] and Texas, noise by far the most dominant theme.

[44:27] persistent and high pitch buzzing, some describes it as a flying leaf

[44:32] blower. Multiple flights per hour disturbance while sitting outside in the

[44:37] comfort of your own backyard, disruption of otherwise quiet neighborhoods. One

[44:42] concern is the concern is not necessarily that one drone is too loud, but

[44:48] multiple drones flying over your home on a repeated basis. All day long. All day long.

[44:57] The neighborhood character is changing.

[45:00] And they're becoming aerial logistics corridors. Safety, there have been crashes, there have been battery fires. I saw one video of a dog being impacted by a drone that was landing in someone's yard.

[45:12] So there's noise, there's visual clutter, privacy concerns, wildlife impacts, property value concerns. So I'm going to leave these notes with the board if that's okay.

[45:24] But town boards, municipalities can do very little.

[45:28] Our airspace is controlled by the FAA.

[45:31] But there are things that we can demand.

[45:33] Noise, frequency, decibel levels.

[45:37] Number of flights per hour, number of flights per day.

[45:41] And flight corridors, are they flying over schools, parks,

[45:45] playground, senior housing, historic districts.

[45:48] So the municipalities can, at least, encourage specific flight corridors.

[45:53] Okay, so I'm going to leave this with the town that was pretty much it Dordesche one month ago just announced that they're starting drone delivery

[46:01] So this is something that I view as a real clear and present danger to our quality of life

[46:06] Thank you, Chuck. Thank you very much for your time

[46:09] Thank you

[46:13] Good evening, Jay Cobb stay

[46:16] those of us who were in law enforcement or previously in law enforcement have red books by

[46:24] W Wilson and George Kelleyne talking about the broken windows theory.

[46:30] Well, it's here in Yorktown.

[46:33] E-Bites have now grown.

[46:35] We have unregistered motorcycles and quads on the streets.

[46:39] All over town.

[46:41] What do we get from the town board?

[46:44] Nothing.

[46:45] Inaction for months on end.

[46:49] We have comments, we have to coordinate with our jurisdictions joining us.

[46:57] Why? Why? We talk about the vehicle and traffic law.

[47:03] We shouldn't talk about civil enforcement.

[47:06] Something that we can do, but we have done nothing.

[47:10] I have sent emails, haven't gotten any responses from members of the town board.

[47:17] Somebody's going to get killed, or hurt, and it's going to be the responsibility of the

[47:25] town board for that happening because the town board has done nothing.

[47:33] I'll repeat, the town board has done nothing.

[47:37] This has been going on for at least six months, maybe more, that has been brought up

[47:43] town board meeting, and nothing has happened, nothing has been done. Thank you.

[47:53] Thank you, Jay.

[48:00] Peter Cleary, a four year resident of Yorktown. Just a few things to raise. I'd like

[48:07] to request that somebody from the town take a hard look at the intersection of Poplar

[48:12] and Forest Court, about a block East of Curry, maybe three quarters of a mile north of Sparkle Lake.

[48:18] I'm often in this area and drivers routinely run the three stop signs they are often failing to even slow down.

[48:26] Somebody's going to get heard, there's a ton of kids in that neighborhood, so if you could take a look at it, I'd appreciate it.

[48:32] I'd also like to know how and when safety upgrades and measures are tracked and prioritized.

[48:38] Next, I was disappointed to learn, a court denied the town's request for an injunction to stop

[48:44] your former friend and donor Mr. Kutuchi, from continuing to use town property to operate

[48:50] as commercial parking lot allegedly because the town attorney failed to file a basic document

[48:56] with the court. Could you clarify the discrepancy between the town attorney's statement and

[49:02] most recent photos of the site. According to the town attorney's statement to the media,

[49:07] Mr. Coutucci removed all the vehicles, dumpsters, and garbage from the lot. But when

[49:13] a journalist visited the site after the statement was made, the photos showed all the junk was still there.

[49:21] I'd also be interested to know how much money the town has spent on lawsuits and court filings

[49:26] related to this matter that seems to go on for years. It's a shame that while the developer

[49:31] is allegedly making money operating a commercial parking lot on town land.

[49:37] The town is spending tax payer dollars on losing lawsuits.

[49:43] How much is the town paying?

[49:44] Does the town's legal council contract cover all of these expenses or are there new fees

[49:51] related to the lawsuit that taxpayers will foot?

[49:55] Finally, I was saddened to see yet another hate symbol in Europe.

[50:02] It seems every year since I moved here, another swastika appears in this town. It doesn't seem to happen in other towns, at least not with the regularity that I've seen it here. It's very disappointing. I'd love to know what you're going to be doing about it, why this is happening, and what can be done as a community to address and prevent this in the future.

[50:23] Finally, whoever mentioned Mel Tansman's passing, thank you very much.

[50:29] He was a friend of ours, an amazing advocate for the disability community.

[50:35] So, so, whomever that was, thank you.

[50:39] Thank you, Peter.

[50:44] Good evening, Jan Mishon Donny, your ten heights.

[50:48] I just wanted to add to the whole conversation about the e-bikes, bikes, mountain bikes, whatever.

[50:56] So, and I just wanted a clarification around when you said mountain bike, you know, all of

[51:02] these classifications are very different.

[51:04] A mountain bike is different than a road bike, which is different than a hybrid bike, which

[51:08] is different than a time trial bike, there's a million different iterations in there.

[51:12] So my question to the board and my suggestion to the board is, as we start to try to address

[51:19] the issue, perhaps we're putting the cart before the horse and a pun intended, and we really

[51:24] focus on what the problem is that we're trying to solve for if it's accidents, it's not

[51:28] a matter of what you're writing, it's a matter of how fast you're going and where you are.

[51:34] So, you know, Susan, you were thinking when you said a mountain bike, I'm thinking, well,

[51:37] it's less about the bike, but it's the terrain that you're writing on.

[51:41] So that would be my suggestion for the board, as we try to address the issue, address the

[51:45] issue and not the vehicle.

[51:48] So that's my suggestion for that.

[51:50] And then also I wanted to commend the young woman who was here earlier, and I know somebody was mentioning something about scouts.

[51:58] We actually had a very robust scouting community here in town.

[52:03] Now is the time actually a lot of these troops, girl scouts, and boy scouts are recruiting.

[52:08] And I say boy scouts is really scouting America now.

[52:12] We have male and female troops and packs available.

[52:16] So, if anybody is interested in a fabulous activity for your school-aged child, beascout.org,

[52:23] BE, A, Scout.org is what you'll find all kinds of troops here locally for scouting

[52:30] America at all age groups and Girl Scouts, Heart of the Hudson Girl Scouts, H, H,

[52:36] .org.

[52:37] And where you can find local Girl Scout troops.

[52:39] I just wanted to put that out and encourage parents to find those units because they're

[52:43] both great organizations,

[52:47] and then lastly, I want to actually acknowledge Sarah Wilson.

[52:52] There was some obvious disappointment that the Grange overlaps with the Grange Fair this

[52:58] year overlaps with Rosh Hashanah that is an unfortunate timing, Sarah actually dug into

[53:02] it for some of us and what she pointed out was that the Grange Fair is always the second weekend

[53:08] in September, someone fortunate with the Jewish holidays kind of shifting around year to year.

[53:14] On occasion, it does unfortunately overlap and this just happens to be one of the years.

[53:19] So I just wanted to remind our community members that it wasn't anything that the Grange Fair did.

[53:24] It just is an unfortunate salute of the timing and I want to thank Sarah for pointing that out.

[53:30] Thank you.

[53:31] Thank you.

[53:35] Sarah Wilson.

[53:36] You're excited.

[53:37] Hi, sir.

[53:38] Thank you, Chan.

[53:39] Actually.

[53:42] Actually, I did look into the next 10 years, and there is no conflict over the next 10 years.

[53:51] And the Grange Fair Committee has also taken that into consideration that, at some time, in the future, if there is a conflict that they'll make sure to avoid that.

[54:01] So there wasn't done on purpose.

[54:03] No, not at all, not at all.

[54:05] So thank you for mentioning the Grange Fair.

[54:08] You mentioned goats, the theme this year

[54:10] is goats, games, and good times at the fair.

[54:14] It doesn't need start on Friday, 9, 11.

[54:18] But I mentioned last time at the tambored meeting

[54:22] during comments that the contests don't just

[54:25] attend the fair, but enter the contests.

[54:28] And the contests start collecting drop-offs

[54:31] As early as Monday Labor Day, depending on what contest it is, so, you know, baking, photography, art,

[54:40] needlework, you know, you name it, flowers and produce are the things that I focus on.

[54:48] I'm looking forward to hearing from Tim Foley from the Building Realty Institute later this evening.

[54:56] and I want to say thank you to the refuse.

[55:00] and recycling department for finally cleaning the food scrap drop-off bins. It makes a big difference.

[55:08] It's only the exterior of the bins, but that's a good start. So I appreciate that.

[55:14] And then lastly, on the topic of the bikes, what should we as residents do when we see something that is clear violation?

[55:24] You know, it's a young child.

[55:26] Somebody clearly under 16, you know,

[55:29] zipping along the street.

[55:32] You know, because there's some advice,

[55:35] should we take a photo or, you know,

[55:37] somehow, I mean, what should we do?

[55:40] Because, as you've all said,

[55:41] I mean, it's an accident waiting to happen.

[55:44] So, what can we as residents

[55:46] when we see these things do?

[55:48] Thank you.

[55:49] Thank you.

[55:56] How are you, guys?

[55:57] Good evening, guys.

[55:58] Good evening board members. I'm here tonight as I'm here tonight as I'm here tonight as I

[56:06] have a resident and parent, but most of all I'm here as a son. Right beginning school has

[56:10] been an educational fixture in this town for 43 years. From more than 18 to those years my mother

[56:15] worked there. The Albert A. Kappellini Community and Cultural Center or sixth grade school has been

[56:19] her second home for as long as I can remember. The summer her dream came true when my three

[56:23] son began attending school upright beginnings. Today, that dream came to a crashing halt. The school

[56:29] suddenly closed after eight in a town of Cannot region agreement on its lease. There are two

[56:33] size to every story, and a business has every right to end its lease on its own terms, but it's

[56:37] not a period to be what happened here. My concern is how a decade-old school in a town owned building

[56:43] closed with little knowledge or insight from this town board. Town employees have their roles

[56:47] and responsibilities, but they are elected. They're not elected officials. They're sculpted

[56:51] and the answer up the chain of commands.

[56:53] That is not, this was not handled correctly in my opinion.

[56:56] So I have the five or six questions I'm sorry for this board.

[56:59] One was this board aware the school was struggling and did

[57:02] discussion about it's rent.

[57:04] Two, why was at least an autonomous building being discussed

[57:07] or negotiated while this board was on summer

[57:09] recess for lack of a better term?

[57:11] Three, the town employees tell you the school

[57:13] is in danger of closing over right issues

[57:15] or did you have to hear it from the school first?

[57:17] for why was the school given nothing in writing so they can make an informed decision?

[57:24] Since the school's closure, officially, has any member of this board going to break

[57:28] beginnings to speak with them or speak with the staff, ask what happened and wish them

[57:32] well?

[57:33] And 6.

[57:33] Is this common place for a negotiation to occur with a lease or a attendant without the

[57:38] town supervisor or a town board member present?

[57:42] Mr. Supervisor, I thank you personally for calling me to speak through this.

[57:46] really do truly appreciate it. But two wrongs do not make her write in the situation, telling

[57:51] me, let's speak with the employees, so we hope this never happens again, is simply not

[57:54] an acceptable answer, given the gravity of the situation and how many people are hurt by it.

[57:59] A 40-year school has gone, parents, including myself, were given two days notice to find

[58:04] the other school in place for our children to go. Teachers are suddenly out of work, including

[58:09] my mother after 18 years of occupation here. This board says it supports small business, and

[58:14] situation it appears that this is not the case. The staff, students, and and

[58:19] community has a whole of break beginnings, there's also much better.

[58:22] Thank you. Thank you, Matt. Thank you.

[58:31] Good evening, Ken Vell for mostly with my Mohiegen Lake shirt on which you can't

[58:35] seek. Anyway, a couple of things. One, I wasn't aware of Mel Tan's

[58:43] minst passing, which I'm very sorry to hear of. I had worked with him in

[58:48] situations over many years. Some of those adversarial as he was advocating for disabled persons

[58:56] who were residents in housing that I managed, but I always had the utmost respect for him

[59:01] and his dedication to working with the disabled community was unparalleled. I just came from

[59:13] something very interesting,

[59:16] the Putnam Valley Town Supervisor hosted a meeting of what she's

[59:21] called a commission of lakes. They have a lot of lakes in Putnam Valley and had invited

[59:27] me to speak about one thing, but it was great seeing that forum and how many issues and

[59:36] and lakes have and how getting together in one place and having a discussion, you know,

[59:45] helps with the sharing of information, and so it was, it was a great experience.

[59:51] Last of all, the last time I spoke at courtesy of the floor, I was stimulated to speak

[59:56] by the discussion of bad e-bikes and so I've been...

[1:00:01] I spoke about an issue we were having around Lake Mohigen and I just had a follow-up discussion on that with Jim Margarano today and I think we have some solutions in mind, but on a piece of town on property right at the along the edge of the lake, they've actually built a track for e-bikes and another motorized bikes. They dug into them, the mud and all of them.

[1:00:30] there. They've actually built a bridge over a stormwater channel for the bikes to go over.

[1:00:37] We got Jim and I met on site. We actually got the opportunity to see a kid come on his e-bike

[1:00:43] and he saw a car with a town logo on the side parked right in front of where it was about to go in

[1:00:48] and he likes. Steve, they're looking and paused and then he went into a house that was right across

[1:00:54] street and next thing is his mom came out with them and soon she had her husband on the

[1:01:00] phone who was at work and we talked to all three of them and had a very good dialogue

[1:01:07] and they had no idea that they weren't supposed to be doing that. I was a little concerned

[1:01:15] because he couldn't his brother then at the end of the conversation when racing down the street

[1:01:20] on there to e-bikes, and I thought goodness if I was a parent, I'm not sure I would feel that comfortable with kids on the streets around Mohegan Lake, but anyway, it's a work in progress, but I do think it's growing exponentially as a problem.

[1:01:38] Yes.

[1:01:39] Thank you, Ken.

[1:01:41] Anyone else for courtesy of the floor?

[1:01:45] Motion of close courtesy of the floor?

[1:01:46] Motion.

[1:01:47] Second.

[1:01:48] All in favor?

[1:01:49] All right.

[1:01:50] All right, I'm going to start at the bottom work up.

[1:01:54] Ken, you right, Mel was a phenomenal advocate through my time, you know, in the communities,

[1:02:01] not only in New York town, but I've run into many people that he's worked with and passion.

[1:02:06] He's like the word to describe on how he was and we have the front parking to, you know,

[1:02:12] to his credit that the here for the, for the handicap spots and that whole section.

[1:02:17] And so, just an amazing advocate,

[1:02:23] the e-bikes, and you just sort of brought up one of the

[1:02:28] true realities is the parents not being involved, not knowing, not even, you know, you

[1:02:39] watched those kids drive off and your thought was exactly what mine was.

[1:02:42] I would hate to see my kids speeding around a lake, God forbid they fall in or whatever, and

[1:02:50] I come back, and I really keep preaching this.

[1:02:59] And unfortunately as we see it's not there, we could legislate to the cows come home, but if the parents don't step in, the parents don't understand.

[1:03:08] One of the things that we were talking about in legislation is putting together a package for any of the stores.

[1:03:14] it's so within our town with all the rules, regulation laws, so they could hand that to the

[1:03:20] parents.

[1:03:21] But, you know, what do you do if I buy my bike in Mount Kisco or on Amazon and the

[1:03:25] drone comes and drops it off?

[1:03:29] So we have, you know, we're really facing a situation that, you know, every time we cut off

[1:03:36] one head to grows back, it's like a hydrate, it really is, so, you know, we'll keep plugging

[1:03:41] way, and I'll hit J's comment on this just that, you know, yes, it's taken a while.

[1:03:47] We have had some e-bike laws, a matter of fact, the last time it came up.

[1:03:52] We had a group of the people from the Trail Committee complaining that we should not be

[1:03:57] limiting the e-bikes because of the fact that people do use them to experience the afterwards

[1:04:02] it can't.

[1:04:04] So, Adam and I were talking about some of those in one of our last conversations regarding

[1:04:08] it, not, I don't know if you have any more on that, but I'll have a couple of things

[1:04:12] if you anyway,

[1:04:15] but, you know, we want to get it right and, you know, it does seem like

[1:04:19] inactivity that it's not been inactivity. It's been a lot of conversation to make sure

[1:04:24] we're there and, you know, multiple people doing research and contributing, so we will keep

[1:04:31] working it, hopefully by the end of September, have something, getting stuff out to the school,

[1:04:37] the resource officers. We've been talking about some enforcement with our bike team, the E-bike team,

[1:04:46] that's out there. And from the civil point of view, you know, you're right, we can confiscate,

[1:04:53] we can teach, we can warn, we just can't take it, the kids is, you know, there's no mechanism for that.

[1:05:00] But we will keep pushing.

[1:05:04] Matt, you and I had a long conversation. And as you started, there are two parts to every story. And, you know, unfortunately, as I looked back and as I was reading some of the emails to you, there was a conversation about it. And then they went into a meeting. And immediately after the meeting was a notice that there was going to be closure. It wasn't brought to the board. I think Lonnie has been over. Do you want to?

[1:05:28] you know, I would add matter. I really, I did meet with your mom after after the fact and quite

[1:05:38] frankly, I think that it was handled poorly. And I mentioned, but I think it was handled poorly.

[1:05:47] In that, the board not being advised what was going on and part of that and I told her that

[1:05:58] You don't want to I don't want to blame the victim such a speak, but I told her I think that it would have been I I only wish that a month

[1:06:07] Book when she realized she was having difficulty or they were having the they were having difficulty.

[1:06:13] They asked to make a presentation before the board.

[1:06:16] We all would have been I believe were open to having a discussion and it just it wasn't done.

[1:06:25] again, I don't want to blame. I think it was handled poorly by everyone and I apologize to her

[1:06:35] and I asked her if there was any way that we could see if we could move forward in any event

[1:06:44] and any way and she indicated they had already made the decision that, you know, at this stage

[1:06:49] it didn't make sense to go forward, and the last thing that she, I left her with was that we

[1:06:57] would consider any issues that to try to make the transition of the closing as painless

[1:07:06] as possible. And I mentioned that maybe we can try to accommodate that. But I agree that

[1:07:14] was I really have deep regrets for how this was handled.

[1:07:19] Thank you, honey.

[1:07:23] Sarah, the grains, and I've had, I guess, being Jewish, quite a few people reached out to

[1:07:29] me and I did tell them the exact same thing that, you know, I'm aware of the floating holiday

[1:07:35] and the perfect lineup of labor-daving, so late for the second weekend as well as Russia

[1:07:42] on a being so early. Doesn't happen that often. I know you said you look 10 years out and I know

[1:07:51] it's probably a lot further than that. I haven't gotten through the Jewish calendar yet, but

[1:07:57] you know, I notice that with lighting your sights as well, just sometimes it's really crazy

[1:08:02] two in a year, one in none in one year, but you know it's as explained the the Granges not and I think

[1:08:12] there actually in their bylaws, specifically not a religious organization,

[1:08:19] and with the state

[1:08:22] of Judaism being that you have so many different sects that being reformed myself, I will

[1:08:30] be visiting, but I can understand those that can't let follow the religion, but that

[1:08:36] is a choice in our everyday, as just as keeping kosher, observing the Sabbath, those

[1:08:42] all choices that in our heart we make for our religion and if that's a case and you know it is a shame

[1:08:49] but I am sure that there are people who understand through the town and and I'm hoping for a great

[1:08:56] range of air this year. One of my favorite lines about the Jewish holidays is the people say they're

[1:09:03] either they're either earlier they're late but they're never on time so it's it's very difficult to

[1:09:08] to make plans in advance.

[1:09:11] Right, absolutely.

[1:09:12] I think one year though, you speak on time

[1:09:15] it lined up with Christmas.

[1:09:17] Well, for Hanukkah.

[1:09:18] Thank you.

[1:09:19] Thank you.

[1:09:21] Hanukkah actually was Thanksgiving weekend

[1:09:24] to at one point.

[1:09:25] There you go.

[1:09:30] So you did forget to mention this,

[1:09:32] I know you've been an advocate,

[1:09:34] and we have the framework done,

[1:09:35] but we will be doing food scraps at Mohegan Lake Park as well,

[1:09:40] the over by the Brian J.5 and aquatic facility.

[1:09:45] So we're waiting on the containers to come in.

[1:09:47] I'm glad you noticed the clean tub we got a special power washer

[1:09:53] for that.

[1:09:54] We do need to figure out the inside if you have ideas

[1:09:56] on what they're doing, please let me know in other towns.

[1:09:59] .

[1:10:00] Because that insight really does when I was putting my scraps on the other day as I move.

[1:10:08] So, and I know we spoke about e-bikes. Scouting is a great way for your kids to learn, to learn some great, great habits.

[1:10:17] And as we saw that with the young lady today with Claire, drive determination, bringing your dreams to realization.

[1:10:26] really is a great thing for our children so you know for those

[1:10:32] volunteer with scouting we definitely appreciate it I've quite a few friends or

[1:10:36] scout masters we have one of my friends sitting in the back there Kevin has been

[1:10:42] a scout master for years and you know what I know the dedication that it

[1:10:49] takes.

[1:10:52] Pete, I will definitely talk to our police about checking out that three

[1:10:59] way stop and seeing what they could do to get a little enforcement over there. I'm going

[1:11:08] to let Adam speak about the lawsuit, but I will say that people love to point out

[1:11:15] that some of them made a donation to my campaign and he's my friend, but if you read his

[1:11:20] article that you guys posted on your Facebook page, he does not consider me a friend and

[1:11:25] rightfully so.

[1:11:27] I've always said that people can contribute to whatever person they want to.

[1:11:31] Some contribute to multiple parties.

[1:11:34] It does not buy favoritism or should not buy favoritism and, you know, I thank you for pointing

[1:11:40] it out, but I wish you would point out the fact that he was adamant about the fact

[1:11:46] that why thought I would get something for that.

[1:11:48] And he hasn't donated for a while.

[1:11:55] I don't really watch that, but I will assume that David McCay Wilson did his homework,

[1:12:01] but you know, people can do that and I just hope that all people in politics public office

[1:12:10] take the heart that a donation is based on belief, it should not be based on favoritism.

[1:12:19] And as for the SWAT stickers, yeah, you know, it has popped up in our town.

[1:12:25] I do see it all over when I read the news.

[1:12:29] I get quite a few things.

[1:12:31] I don't think it's something that is a runaway train in Yorktown, one every year, year and

[1:12:41] a half, two years, whatever it is, is too many.

[1:12:45] One is too many, but you know what, there are some sick people out there and it's unfortunate.

[1:12:54] I saw one post on Facebook, someone criticizing our congressman Mike Lawler and the post was at 6 million more or hashtag 6 million more.

[1:13:10] How someone puts that up, how someone thinks that that's acceptable? I don't know.

[1:13:15] What is the answer?

[1:13:19] And it's definitely not the town government going to your children and telling them you can't do this, but we will continue to do our education.

[1:13:27] I do the Holocaust Remembrance.

[1:13:30] We do the October 7th Remembrance.

[1:13:33] We also had out of this group form, a Talia Pearson, has been very active in the community.

[1:13:41] she's actually not only our communities, she talks through health, the state from what I understand.

[1:13:48] And we just need people to keep advocating. I do work with the Holocaust and Human Rights Commission.

[1:13:55] I've had Millie Jasper reach out about this in particular. We are doing programs within our schools

[1:14:02] that we don't have control over per se, but we do help assist with Holocaust and Human Rights

[1:14:09] getting in there and they've been very, very welcome to it. But a lot of these we go back to what I

[1:14:16] said before a lot of these come from parenting. Although one of the cases was not so much parenting,

[1:14:21] it was actually a Jewish kid, did a swastik or tried blaming it on someone else, which is a shame,

[1:14:28] because we should understand those of us that are Jewish with that means and how hateful that is

[1:14:35] how poor of a symbol that is for people, but, you know, I think I wrote something in my

[1:14:44] post that I pray for a time that we don't have this, but we will keep doing the educational

[1:14:52] know is much as possible.

[1:14:58] See Jay, we spoke about you, Mike.

[1:15:00] So, Chuck, drone delivery, thank you. You know, it's funny because I was watching the news the other day and they showed a drone dropping a package into someone's pool.

[1:15:10] So, I will definitely sit down, get a little research, but like you said, it is FAA approved and there are definitely I already popped up a little research while while you were talking to open it and make sure I could get it later.

[1:15:26] But, yeah, thank you for bringing it to our attention.

[1:15:29] They are super noisy, very loud.

[1:15:32] The amount of, to get lift, the amount of air that the NS of this place is just, it, they

[1:15:41] are really loud and they're flying around and I, I don't know, you know, I mean, we really

[1:15:45] got to look into it.

[1:15:46] I'm not sure there's anything we could do at the local level here, but we might be able to

[1:15:50] put up some noise ordinance type things, but we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll

[1:15:55] It's going to point it out, you made a good analogy, it sounds like a lawnmower, and you know that you could do something with maybe with a noise ordinance.

[1:16:04] Adam, I know you addressed for us earlier, the, the, it's not a loss of the lawsuit, but the, yeah, yeah.

[1:16:14] I mean, the two, three guys.

[1:16:16] So to clarify, the lawsuit is pending, the lawsuit's going to be answered, the lawsuit will be litigated or settled.

[1:16:23] What the judge did was deny the motion for preliminary injunction and so just to kind of go through it quickly.

[1:16:32] Well, think of step backwards.

[1:16:34] Well, I'll not go in that order.

[1:16:36] So what the judge said was there had been no proof of service and that the affirmation was not sufficient for the application.

[1:16:44] taking reverse order. I agree that the affirmation wouldn't be sufficient, but we had a verify

[1:16:50] complaint, which is 10 amounts of an affidavit, which should have been considered by the judge.

[1:16:55] In terms of proof of service, we had in fact obtained waiver of service. The reason we had

[1:16:59] not loaded it or addressed any of these issues, because we were working out an extension because

[1:17:05] we were trying to talk about resolution, so we agreed to give an extension of time. Based on various

[1:17:10] representations that were made to me, which I'll get to in a second, turned out to be incorrect, false.

[1:17:18] And so, we are not precluded from going back to the judge for reconsideration, or re-filing a motion, which we may in fact be doing.

[1:17:25] But to answer one of the questions about, you know, I said that the guy's stuff was up property, that's what I was told.

[1:17:32] I have it in black and white, and then they're not being true.

[1:17:35] I'm just returning.

[1:17:36] Yes, that's what I can say.

[1:17:37] And I'll also put in that the board had asked that a conversation go on because we would

[1:17:44] rather find a resolution than jump into a lawsuit that's going to cost everyone money.

[1:17:52] But you know, sometimes you meet an impact.

[1:17:57] So we did have discussion about that, which we can't share because it was in our closed

[1:18:02] session, but we will be moving forward with some different options.

[1:18:09] I just got a couple of things real quick. We got some stuff that we still got to get

[1:18:14] on to what the meeting. So Ken, thank you for sharing your story. I just visited

[1:18:22] another place, I'm not going to disclose the location, that there is an issue where

[1:18:28] kids on e-bikes have made their own path, this is the ground property, it's on private property.

[1:18:37] And it's something that I'm going to try to address for the property owner and take the steps that I deem, you know,

[1:18:47] but the neighbors are complaining, so that's what, and I got to call about it.

[1:18:52] So it's something that that's definitely needs to be addressed.

[1:18:57] You said one very important thing, just like I picked up on on Chuck's analogy with

[1:19:03] lawnmowers.

[1:19:06] You said that you just happened to be there when the kid showed up on his e-bike.

[1:19:13] And that is the challenge.

[1:19:16] The challenge in creating a new law is how do you identify, like a car you could take

[1:19:21] license plate. A motorcycle, you can take the license plate. Yeah, you get a description and all that stuff.

[1:19:28] But how do you identify, you know, a kid on an e-bike, and how do you, you know, do some enforcement action,

[1:19:39] unless you just, you know, quote unquote happen to be there, you know, at the time when something's going on.

[1:19:44] That's the difficulty and that's the challenge and that's one of the critical things we have to address

[1:19:50] in a new law. Like what do we do? How do we identify these things? And how do we know

[1:19:56] who, you know, the alleged perpetrator, looks...

[1:20:02] That's being reckless on these things. That is the quintessential question that we have to answer if we're going to have really significant and effective enforcement.

[1:20:20] And that's something that we're going to have to delve into.

[1:20:23] I spoke to work up with people on this side about, you know,

[1:20:27] possibly doing a registration.

[1:20:29] You know, you have to register to buy your, you know, something to that effect.

[1:20:33] Because you have to answer the question of identification.

[1:20:37] You can't ID the bike.

[1:20:39] If there's no significant thing that's going to take you back,

[1:20:42] you see a card doing something wrong.

[1:20:43] You take the license plate, you report it to police to police.

[1:20:45] When the plate, they show up at your house.

[1:20:47] right? You're speeding and you go through an area where they have cameras. You know, speed cameras. You get a ticket in the mail because it takes a picture of you.

[1:21:00] You blow the easy pass of a checkpoint. It takes a picture of your license plate. You get a fine in the mail. How do we get to that place with eBikes?

[1:21:15] And I think that's really the question that we have to answer, and we've taken steps by having a bike unit,

[1:21:21] you know, because that's, that's where, but you still happen, you still have to happen to be there when the thing occurs,

[1:21:26] and that's really where it gets, you know, a little in the weeds and how we're going to be able to get to an endpoint where we have effective enforcement.

[1:21:39] not just a forcement, where you just happen to be there, right?

[1:21:42] And you can't have a cop on every corner either, right?

[1:21:44] We don't want that, right?

[1:21:45] So that's really where we're going to go.

[1:21:49] The swastika, disgusting.

[1:21:52] I don't even understand what people are.

[1:21:56] I'm going to shut up because I'm going to probably

[1:21:59] get myself into trouble because when somebody does something like that,

[1:22:06] I mean, I just don't understand the mentality.

[1:22:08] I don't understand how you could get there. I don't understand how you can have that much hate in your heart

[1:22:12] I'm just not that type of person. What I will say is that our pork supportment and our supervisor responded

[1:22:19] Almost immediately when we were a prize of this situation. I was out of town, but

[1:22:24] And they took care of it practically to erase the blight

[1:22:30] For lack of a more passionate better term that would describe it. So

[1:22:35] Really really really disheartening

[1:22:40] Okay, a couple of things regarding Mel Tansman. He was a true asset to the town, to the handicap community.

[1:22:55] And many people don't may not realize but we actually was considering running for public

[1:23:05] office at one time.

[1:23:07] And the two of us had a very, very good relationship with one another and he'll be missed.

[1:23:15] Jay, I apologize for not specifically answering your email on the subject.

[1:23:21] I saw the subject matter, and I know that we've had informal conversations about it, so I

[1:23:27] didn't feel that it was necessary to necessarily respond to the email, but I do apologize

[1:23:34] because you should have gotten a response.

[1:23:38] Sergio, you're absolutely right in terms of the issue of how you enforce this.

[1:23:46] I was writing on 132 the other day and behind two kids on e-bikes, one of them popping wheelies

[1:23:55] in front of me. And when we got to Wildwood Street, you know, off of 132 and there's the light

[1:24:03] when you exit off of the Tecanic onto 132. The kids just blew by a red light and almost had a terrible

[1:24:16] incident that the car actually had to veer off who was making the left-hand turn.

[1:24:24] And within a few seconds they were gone, so I don't know how you like you say in terms

[1:24:31] of maybe we can require some sort of plate that at least they can be identified by.

[1:24:37] But even there I don't know whether or not they would have been identified, so it's very

[1:24:44] difficult to enforce.

[1:24:45] But we need to address it as best we can, and thank you for bringing up the issue of the drones.

[1:24:52] I think, you know, we have to keep moving forward.

[1:24:56] For every mouse trap, there's a better mouse and for every...

[1:25:00] The issue that we deal with, we have to keep abreast of all of every issue that's a quality of life issue in the town.

[1:25:10] And thank you for bringing it forward. That's it for me.

[1:25:15] I'll try to be quick, but there are 11 interesting items that we brought up.

[1:25:19] Beater in terms of the traffic and you're concerned about the stops.

[1:25:23] I think if perhaps the supervisor can talk to the chief, they do, I think, maintain something called a hot list or something like that,

[1:25:32] where to the extent that the traffic unit has the available time, they could sit there and possibly give tickets.

[1:25:39] And if it free people who usually use that corridor, they get a ticket, that might teach them a lesson.

[1:25:47] So I think if Ed, if you could let you totally know on that, I'm looking to achieve an issue

[1:25:55] because it's said this is a litigation, it's a legal issue, we can talk much publicly

[1:26:04] but I have to say as a board member, I am thoroughly frustrated at how this has been handled

[1:26:11] for going on two years.

[1:26:13] And I wish I could say more, but I can't, but it's been two years and I'm just not, not happy.

[1:26:21] Drones, I can't believe, of all of the years I've been watching town government.

[1:26:26] There are always new issues that we never thought about.

[1:26:28] We had, now we're dealing with e-vikes.

[1:26:31] Last year it was the cell towers and now it's drones.

[1:26:35] Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

[1:26:36] I don't know what we can do about it, but Sergio, I think you've been looking at the noise ordinance.

[1:26:42] and we were talking about updating it and tweaking it to deal with the base noise from the base

[1:26:48] frequencies dealing with the from the the T-bar maybe there's something we can do about

[1:26:53] drone noise again we have to deal with the FAA but you've let us know that there's one more issue

[1:27:01] how played is overflowing but we will try to deal with it. I think I hit the nail on the head

[1:27:06] I mean, I think that may be a way into addressing the issue, but I don't know anything about this.

[1:27:17] I'm constantly learning. For as long as I've been sitting here, there's never any end to it.

[1:27:23] The new things that I have to learn about and how you deal with them.

[1:27:28] On the mountain bikes, there are many issues to your point Jan about definition.

[1:27:34] I'm not a cyclist, but I'm learning all about different bikes and I've gone back and forth with the

[1:27:40] family, who's the head of the Westchester Mountain Bike Association, learning how you'd define it

[1:27:46] and also with the Westchester Bike Club we're going back and forth.

[1:27:50] According to his latest exchange, we won't talk about mountain bikes, we're going to be talking about off-road bikes.

[1:27:59] And that's what we're talking about because we're talking about the bikes that are used on the trails

[1:28:05] which are typically called mountain bikes and there's basically a class one mountain bike that are e-mountain bikes.

[1:28:14] So everything is in the definition.

[1:28:16] We learned this when we were dealing with the ATV law two years ago

[1:28:20] the problem with defining these things.

[1:28:22] And it's evolving, there's always some new kind of thing, and I had contested that I have to learn what's a dirt bike, which category is a dirt bike, and then they're the east scooters, and then they're the personal mobility devices like the wheelchairs, and we have to define those, and if we say bicycles can't go on sidewalks, but we want to allow personal mobility vehicles.

[1:28:44] So they're all of these complications and definitions become very critical, so we know what we're regulating.

[1:28:49] In terms of enforcement, it's been talked about, okay, and the problem.

[1:28:54] One of the things that I'm looking into and I trying to dialogue with the town of

[1:28:59] turning, it's looking at our existing law, for example, in the ATV law, it says the

[1:29:05] enforcement is the chief of police and anybody else who he designates.

[1:29:10] I don't know what that means, okay, and how do you, do you have to officially designate

[1:29:14] somebody?

[1:29:15] It's any cop, basically, that works for him.

[1:29:18] Well, then in the section that I think Jay pointed out about the signage with the bicycles

[1:29:25] and the parks, it says parks personnel.

[1:29:30] So who at least can we identify as who with the potential people, certainly, if they're

[1:29:36] staff from the parks department, working around the track, which is one of the problems

[1:29:41] with regular bikes and e-bikes.

[1:29:43] If a parks department person sees something, can they take whatever is the appropriate action?

[1:29:50] In terms of the public, we've got to be careful to many of us will remember what happened to Mr. Mothit.

[1:29:56] When he had a confrontation with some ATV users.

[1:30:00] All right, we don't want that to get involved. I don't know whether a license plate will do anything because they're going by 20 miles an hour and who's who can read it bad enough at a car with a big license plate, right in fact. I don't know what you can see on the thing. We do the best we can granted with with the limitations, but we will try and this is what we will look at and again with with civil penalties and and pounding one of the things I want to talk about.

[1:30:28] And again, within the constraints for the e-bike law and what the state says how much more

[1:30:34] we can do here in Yorktown, it's a very legal issue.

[1:30:41] Right beginnings,

[1:30:47] Matt, totally no knowledge from the town board.

[1:30:51] And his line he said, I don't know how this was handled, but it was mishandled because

[1:30:56] we had no idea. Whether we could have done something or not, I can't say. But certainly

[1:31:01] an issue like that, whether you like that, it should have come to the town board to see

[1:31:06] if the town board could make some accommodation. We totally blindsided until I got an

[1:31:12] email from the owner right beginning saying, I have to say goodbye. So again, this is a lesson

[1:31:18] on how we communicate, I think those are the issues that I wanted to deal with.

[1:31:27] So, coming last is everything's been covered.

[1:31:32] But going back to it, you know Matt, Susan just said, it could have been handled better.

[1:31:37] You know, just as a, it shouldn't have happened that way, you know, and I'm sorry for your

[1:31:43] mom, your kids, and all the parents that had to deal with that.

[1:31:46] I had three girls myself and it would have been tough to find something in, you know, 48 hours.

[1:31:53] How do you get it?

[1:31:54] Yeah.

[1:31:55] But as I get say, you know, it could have been handled better.

[1:32:00] But going back to the, you know, the drones are going to start kicking up.

[1:32:04] We know that, you know, the e-bikes.

[1:32:08] You know, I told you my story of walking over the Hudson.

[1:32:10] They're going 30 miles an hour.

[1:32:12] And there's the Ranger, two Rangers there, just said slow down. There's a lot of people

[1:32:18] today. That's the enforcement that they did on the bridge. It all comes down to enforcement.

[1:32:27] You know, you make all the laws you want, but it comes down to enforcement. And our job

[1:32:31] is to do as much as we can legally and give the enforcement arm the tools that they need

[1:32:41] hopefully enforce it as best they can you know so that's it everything else

[1:32:48] been covered right it's a difficult thing because you know if you if you

[1:32:53] chase or or try to chase a kid yeah it's gonna run right and that that

[1:33:00] creates it creates even a you know a more dangerous it's a tough thing we really

[1:33:05] really got to consider it and something doesn't need to be done but I think if we

[1:33:11] in force where we can force okay and the word gets out okay that could be a lesson so

[1:33:18] if we get some of them if even if we get 10% 15% that begins to possibly add up

[1:33:24] people learn. When I was 10, 11 years old there was I grew up next to the

[1:33:31] botanical gardens in the Bronx and there was one wrong that was missing and it

[1:33:35] was just wide enough to turn your hand the bars this way go like this and boom

[1:33:40] You end up boredom on your bike with my friends.

[1:33:45] There's no statute of limitations.

[1:33:48] You guys can talk about me in the newspaper.

[1:33:52] I can see the letter to be added now.

[1:33:55] And what ended up happening is we would inevitably one of the Rangers and they would

[1:34:01] see us riding on bike's where we were supposed to be.

[1:34:03] And he would lay Chase and we would do.

[1:34:06] It's wrong.

[1:34:06] We thought it was a game.

[1:34:08] It was ten years old.

[1:34:09] You know what?

[1:34:09] But now I didn't have any bike, so you know who are going that fast, but, you know, we treated it as a game, and it stopped when my mother found out that I crossed the street with my bike.

[1:34:26] So my bike was gone. I'm not going to say what happened to me, but it wasn't pretty.

[1:34:31] And, you know, it took my point as it took my parents stepping in and it ended quick.

[1:34:44] Thank you.

[1:34:46] And Sarah, that was a question, and I think Sarah just sort of answered about what do you do.

[1:34:50] Unfortunately, by the time you call the police they're on, after probably yelling some things at you.

[1:34:57] I don't know how much it's going to help without a play.

[1:35:21] I don't know if I would want to. Our law enforcement is trained in handling that. I do not think, you know, as you mentioned, I don't know if I would want to.

[1:35:30] I went to school with his wife and, you know, I know them fairly well and to see what would happen to him because someone, you know, someone who was not trained in dealing with it might to deal with it.

[1:35:45] I think that I would not want to deputize our parks department people from a safety point of view.

[1:35:52] that in the, in the, I would not, I would not want to deputize.

[1:35:57] That, that is what I'm trying to do.

[1:35:59] Yeah, that's point.

[1:36:00] Yeah, versus versus, you know, if they say something and the kids ignore them, what are they supposed to do? I don't want it escalating.

[1:36:08] Sergio and I had a, had a, a problem with a kid riding on movie night on the field.

[1:36:15] And Sergio went over to talk to the parent and it was like, well, that's okay. It's my kid.

[1:36:20] So it's okay.

[1:36:21] And I'm saying to me, that's my bike.

[1:36:23] I'm like, yeah, you kids riding the bike.

[1:36:26] Because yeah, but that's my bike.

[1:36:27] I said, all right, I said, I need you,

[1:36:30] there's little kids around and I need it to stop.

[1:36:33] I said, yeah, but that's my bike.

[1:36:35] So I turned around and I said, you're going to lose your bike

[1:36:38] unless there's stops.

[1:36:40] But then why couldn't I'm sure they were parked

[1:36:42] to parking people, staff there at that, at the mood.

[1:36:45] Yes, Marissa was there from parks.

[1:36:48] And I don't think that we're going

[1:36:49] Was it just right evening was it just the risk of this somebody else there? No, just Marissa

[1:36:57] Building maintenance now they don't do any set up. It's done by by a fun time amusement when they come in and

[1:37:03] Part of the building department comes out and empty the garbage cans

[1:37:06] So, you know Susan trust me, you know, I'd love it for but you you've you've mentioned Ed Muffett and you saw what happened

[1:37:15] What do you think but then it

[1:37:19] more complicated with the color of authority from one of our employees and then the question

[1:37:25] is, then, do you subject yourself to a potential loss if the individual is one of our employees

[1:37:34] and that's something improper beyond the way that.

[1:37:36] Not only that, or if that person is injured, in line with a job for something that's not really

[1:37:42] a job description.

[1:37:43] you know, I'm description area. So it's less lessly I've been trained. I'm a piece officer. So, you know, I mean, it's it's it's a little different. I understand what you're saying, you know, you're trying to figure out how we could, you know, happen to be there. Right?

[1:38:01] Somebody.

[1:38:01] I got it.

[1:38:02] I got it.

[1:38:03] Please.

[1:38:04] There isn't going to be there.

[1:38:05] All right.

[1:38:06] Guys, let's let's let's move on. We get to have this argument all night.

[1:38:10] Is Tim Foley here yet?

[1:38:13] Well, we can give them a minute. I can move to the next thing. Let's get into our

[1:38:19] Crest Grant conversation. So, Von, I'm glad you showed up because I left all my notes

[1:38:26] at home and I did not remember if you had anything on the security for Crest Grant. Did

[1:38:32] you go for more meetings? So, why don't you come up to the podium and then I'll go through

[1:38:37] the other things that I have from my memory that I recalled.

[1:38:45] Best you can. Because right

[1:38:46] It's just a very generalized conversation. I want to throw the ideas at everyone if there's something that jumps out for everyone right away

[1:38:54] We could look at that if not we will come back and and revisit

[1:38:59] So Matt have a good night

[1:39:02] Thank you Matt

[1:39:04] Ivan check. I'm the library director for the John C. Hart Memorial Library and for the

[1:39:10] security grant for the crest grant my

[1:39:12] request for the library was to install monitors downstairs in the administrative office because

[1:39:23] right now they're in a storage closet and I don't think that's very helpful and so we did

[1:39:29] get an estimate for that and I think it was about $3 or $4,000 to install the monitors and

[1:39:38] the other bigger piece to security for the library is we made some good advances a couple of years

[1:39:47] ago by installing some additional security cameras outside the building, especially after the

[1:39:53] and so we have still many blocks.

[1:40:00] Line spots around the outside of the building and the inside of the building. And we, you know, as a public building, we often have referred to our security camera footage to track down people who are doing things that were not okay.

[1:40:16] And so it has been very helpful.

[1:40:20] And so we'd like to sort of complete the 360 visual inside the building and outside the building.

[1:40:26] So more security cameras and moving the monitors down to the administrative office instead of the supply closet upstairs.

[1:40:35] Well, what would you estimate if you had everything that you wanted?

[1:40:39] What would you tell them?

[1:40:40] I'm just both.

[1:40:41] I would say I know that the moving the monitors was about

[1:40:46] like I said around $4,000 to move the monitors and the extra cameras, we're probably looking at another

[1:40:57] maybe 18 to 20,000 there. So you've already have on the monitor thing, you already have the monitors,

[1:41:04] they're already operating. So there's only needs to relocate. There's one monitor for, so the

[1:41:10] library has an old security system and then as part of the arbor grant several of the town

[1:41:19] buildings had more cameras installed. So we actually have two security systems. They don't

[1:41:26] speak to each other because one's really old. And so there's only a monitor for the old

[1:41:31] cameras which are now failing. We've got three failed cameras on the old system. So we have

[1:41:37] line spots within the building and so this would be to install to move one of the

[1:41:43] monitors and for the old system and we have no monitor for the new system.

[1:41:48] I can watch it on my phone, but there's no monitor in the building.

[1:41:52] Is the new system in the location where you want the old systems monitor to be?

[1:41:59] There is no there is no there is no monitor yeah there is system has a monitor.

[1:42:05] the old system has a monitor we'd like that one moved to the administrative office and the

[1:42:11] the new system that doesn't have a monitor that we're talking about the NBR is the actual

[1:42:16] digital recording devices right so are they are they located in the same room the old system

[1:42:21] and the new system no they're not is there is the just just because I think I might be able to

[1:42:26] help you right so do you want to help the new system is it in the room where you want the old

[1:42:32] systems monitor to be. Because that would be really great. The NVR

[1:42:36] parks. It's, it's a few feet away, but yeah. So in the basement, we have our data

[1:42:45] rack and that's where also the new system sort of brings live. The recorder. Yeah,

[1:42:54] but then we have no, like I said, no visual, no monitor. So I would like that in the

[1:43:02] administrative office, which is right down the hall.

[1:43:04] Do you have the monitor?

[1:43:06] Okay, so you need the monitor and the whole go.

[1:43:09] The monitor is, you know, on a box, on a 50-less.

[1:43:12] But, so why don't you give me a quote tomorrow?

[1:43:15] We'll talk, well, I want to continue this discussion.

[1:43:17] But give me a quote tomorrow and let me get some time.

[1:43:19] Let me, I'll come over and show me what you got and,

[1:43:22] and I'll see, see what we can do.

[1:43:25] Absolutely, thank you.

[1:43:27] Okay, now my understanding is that this is a hundred thousand

[1:43:30] to all the grand.

[1:43:30] Yeah, I was going to, so this is a 100, 100, 100-thousand baller,

[1:43:34] a crest grant that was awarded to our town and each of Pete

[1:43:39] Harkham's municipalities.

[1:43:42] So he was given the money from the state in the budget.

[1:43:45] He allocated $100,000 per town, as well as,

[1:43:51] I think he has a county program in there as well.

[1:43:55] So, the caveat of these are that it is utilized for security.

[1:44:05] I had asked our department had to come in with some ideas that our last department had meeting.

[1:44:11] This is the first meeting back since then.

[1:44:14] So, I had the ideas that were typed up.

[1:44:17] I actually, that was the meeting was the day of the swastika incident.

[1:44:20] So I instead of being at the meeting went hiking and I took my notes and I took them home to read them and

[1:44:27] I forgot them this this morning when I left to come in, but I do remember

[1:44:33] At least five others

[1:44:35] So I wanted to present them to the board if they we you want to have a short discussion about some of them

[1:44:41] Or if you want to sit back and think on them and get some more details, whichever works best

[1:44:47] Because we do have a little time to to claim this

[1:44:51] As well as security of the library, that was a similar request from Filmerino for the Aberdeen.

[1:45:00] A cabalini community and cultural center to try to get some increase security. He also spoke about

[1:45:10] possibly putting a security guard there during the evenings when some of the kids' kid traffic

[1:45:16] comes. I do not, you know, and I don't think the grant would work for that. It has to be something

[1:45:21] specific that's material, if I'm not mistaken, and it would be a build-up of time, but from a camera

[1:45:28] point of view with things going to be able to be monitored.

[1:45:33] It basically helps us in identifying that

[1:45:36] have been kids riding e-bikes in the Capileini Center.

[1:45:41] They try to catch them.

[1:45:43] They bolt.

[1:45:45] Some cameras that could catch identify photos

[1:45:49] and then go back to these SROs

[1:45:53] to try to identify the children would be a very good thing.

[1:45:58] You're saying the E-Backs in the building?

[1:46:00] Well, Bikes, not necessarily E-Bikes, but yeah, they've been running around the building.

[1:46:06] They've been using that.

[1:46:07] Our guys try to stop them and this comes back to the point about, you know, the proper training.

[1:46:15] And they do not feel comfortable at times, especially if it's three or four kids with one person.

[1:46:21] And especially after what happened with Ed Muffet,

[1:46:27] a new canine car is a request from the police station,

[1:46:31] so canine car.

[1:46:34] So both of our dogs are sort of reaching their retirement age.

[1:46:39] We do have two offers.

[1:46:41] One is through a canine agency that,

[1:46:47] like I think it's a country wide,

[1:46:51] that they're interested in trying to donate, well, they would do a matching grant of 7,500.

[1:47:02] And then we have someone who is interested in getting the dog.

[1:47:06] So if they take 7,500, give it to the agency, they'll match that for that dog,

[1:47:11] and we'll be able to do that.

[1:47:14] They want for the dog that they would, the next dog they'd like to get in the hospital

[1:47:18] me the next two because both Dallas and Spar are pretty much getting to retirement age, I think

[1:47:24] they're both about 70 in dog years.

[1:47:29] With that, they want to make sure, because we do...

[1:47:32] They get pension and benefits. They do, they get three milk phones a month.

[1:47:37] That's not bad. No, you know what, they deserve, they deserve these dogs have been invaluable

[1:47:44] for us. So we have one person wanting to do that and then we have another person who wants to

[1:47:54] organize a group of people to raise the money and donate. So I've engaged with both of them as we

[1:48:02] think about it, but one of the issues is going to be the K9 cars are very old. We won't be able to get

[1:48:10] the cages and all that fit in. It's a whole kit for a canine. So I think just the vehicle

[1:48:18] alone is 75,000 without the kit. And the kit's going to depend on, you know, when we're ready

[1:48:25] to go with it, but the special police car that's needed? Oh yeah. Yeah. So, and you're saying

[1:48:31] the current, how many cars do we have now? There's a fit for the kit. We have two canine cars.

[1:48:37] One of them, I don't even want to tell you what they told me is happening with the started this week.

[1:48:44] But, but anyone who's had a starter problem could probably imagine going out there with a hammer to get it going.

[1:48:51] So both the existing cars.

[1:48:53] The existing cars are both going to be out, well, they're outdated anyway.

[1:48:57] One of them is over 10 years old.

[1:49:00] And you got to remember our police cars run the entire ship they're out there.

[1:49:06] That's why we have to invest in our fleet as often as we do right now.

[1:49:11] Most of our cars are in operation at least 16 hours a day.

[1:49:16] The K9 cars are in operation 8 to 10 depending because they do other things with them

[1:49:21] with the training, with the vets.

[1:49:23] They do a lot of community outreach with our K9 crew.

[1:49:27] So, you know, it's something that we're going to have to look at as we get, get the new dogs.

[1:49:35] And as I said, I think next year is going to be at least at least one retirement for Dallas, who's the older of the two.

[1:49:44] What are the other options?

[1:49:46] The other ideas,

[1:49:50] Parks and Rec, was thinking that automatic gates for Granite Knows Park

[1:49:54] to prevent some of the kids that go up there with cars, tearing up things, riding around.

[1:50:00] I don't think it really helps with the motorbikes and the quads, unfortunately.

[1:50:06] So that would help with people going up there, drinking, doing whatever, but they'll just utilize another park or the trailhead, or unfortunately that's something we'd have to look at every place eventually.

[1:50:22] So they're looking at an automatic gate that opens and closes because they have to send somebody out there specifically

[1:50:34] Something that has come up before and and especially with high profile cases and things happening bulletproof gas glass for the courthouse

[1:50:45] for the window where the court clerks are.

[1:50:51] I think there's a film, I did ask, I asked one of our officers today, Tony actually

[1:50:59] to look at Anthony, well, they call him alphabet all of his friends, because he has almost

[1:51:04] every letter to the alphabet in his last name, but Tony was going to look into that form.

[1:51:10] I know we had gotten some done for the police department as a donation back in the

[1:51:15] day, but we would definitely, I think that's another really good thing. And then the last

[1:51:23] one, when you walk in for the clerk. Yeah, yeah, the glass window, when you walk in the front

[1:51:29] or all the way across, the right and across. And the last thing that I remember of the list for the

[1:51:38] water department cybersecurity for the skater system, now our engineering department just got a

[1:51:44] 35-36-4, Dan, and I think it's $36,000, $400 grant for cybersecurity for the sewer plant.

[1:51:58] With the water plant, we don't have much on mind, but we use a skater system that does a lot

[1:52:02] of the reporting, and that's come up in the recent conversations that there are some vulnerabilities

[1:52:11] to those and it's something that we may want to consider. So those are the six items including

[1:52:20] Avans.

[1:52:23] So, you know, Paul Parker, he's one of those what we call it. No idea about the gates.

[1:52:30] Bulletproof glass is expensive. I think there's a, and Jane, you might know, is there like some type of

[1:52:35] film that they put over the glass now yeah so I think that might be a little less expensive than

[1:52:42] replacing everything it's a 35 thousand dollar grant for the student plant sufficient to do what

[1:52:49] needs to be done there Dan replied affirmative for those and she's not coming up to the microphone

[1:52:57] what about this is the problem in the past I don't know whether it still is a problem

[1:53:03] Bandalism at the gazebo at the track, and there was always talk about putting cameras there.

[1:53:08] Well, I think that was part of the the Capulini Center security that Phil wants to do.

[1:53:15] He's talking about the whole the whole kit and communal and the build and the outer

[1:53:19] of cameras and useless without some active monitoring.

[1:53:23] That's well, they're not useless. They help us in investigation.

[1:53:28] and it's sort of like, how we use license plate readers,

[1:53:34] they're used in active investigation.

[1:53:36] I think that back, yeah, all right.

[1:53:38] That's somebody actively monitor cameras, you know,

[1:53:41] it's about 27.

[1:53:42] Yeah, you're talking about manpower, pension, benefits, you know,

[1:53:47] the license, you're having a monitor

[1:53:49] so that you see somebody when somebody's doing something.

[1:53:51] Well, when you're looking at the monitor, right,

[1:53:54] that's typically how you put these systems in.

[1:53:56] put a monitor, they have all the cameras, you know, in a grid style pattern, depending on how

[1:54:01] large the monitor is, that's how large the grid is. And, you know, you go watch it or you

[1:54:06] could have it flipped through a camera at a time, and, you know, almost like a slide, but then,

[1:54:12] you know, while somebody's doing something, you might not be seeing it. So that's what, that's what

[1:54:16] they are talking about. Well, library is also set hours, not a 24-7 like the Casibo. The idea is

[1:54:24] You're sitting there, your monitors right there with all the cameras and you look up, you know, but most most of the stuff is is after the fact then then you come you go back and you pick up a license plate. You get, you know, and then and then that's part of the police investigation.

[1:54:39] I don't know how to take the show.

[1:54:43] She's ready.

[1:54:44] Can I suggest that you flesh out and ask the department head to a made this recommendation

[1:54:49] to flesh out estimated costs?

[1:54:52] Well, let me ask a question.

[1:54:53] Is there anything that anyone here saying that this should be a priority?

[1:54:58] That this isn't a priority.

[1:55:01] Well, the dogs are multifaceted thing because you've got the car issue. Then you've got the dog issue. Then we also have a stipend for the officer. So if we're going to replace our retired dogs, we have to look at the total picture of what the cost would be.

[1:55:20] And the stipends built into the budget, the car is what we need to buy, and we have someone who wants to donate the doves.

[1:55:30] So we're in the same.

[1:55:30] It was fundraising for the doves.

[1:55:31] No, we have one who wants to donate one who wants to donate through a fundraiser.

[1:55:36] So we have two.

[1:55:37] And I think I might have, you know, jumped my thoughts.

[1:55:41] They might have jumped the rail there a little bit, but because of the amount of missing person cases that come up,

[1:55:48] they want to focus on a dog that's able to track this time around because that dog will also,

[1:55:56] they don't want an attack dog per se, like Spar is pretty intimidating when you look at him with his

[1:56:04] teeth barred, but they do want to make sure that they have a dog who can track because that's also

[1:56:10] useful in drug enforcement as well.

[1:56:14] So that's like the main thing they want to look at with this next

[1:56:20] K9 officer.

[1:56:21] Several constituents mentioned to me, and I think we had a brief

[1:56:25] discussion and you indicated that it's really not town property, but

[1:56:31] lighting for that area of when you leave the track and you go down

[1:56:36] towards the Acme parking lot, you know, for the, you know, it's very dark at that

[1:56:41] nice. And for public safety purposes, if we can somehow, on the area that is town property

[1:56:49] put lighting that will eliminate those areas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't come right off the building.

[1:56:56] That I don't think that would be that. No, it shouldn't be that expensive, but I, but I,

[1:57:00] but it's like there's no building for to come off at the stairs. And if we have to put it

[1:57:04] But Lonnie, I'm not waiting for a text from Carol for the whole thing.

[1:57:08] I'm holding someone to come off the back of the Capitolini building.

[1:57:13] It's too far over because it's midfield and you have all the trees.

[1:57:17] You have the playground, the trees and then the staircase.

[1:57:21] No.

[1:57:22] Oh yeah, that's right.

[1:57:23] It's a lot.

[1:57:24] It's a lot further.

[1:57:25] In terms of looking at the total for the for the canines,

[1:57:29] I would also like to have some data on the

[1:57:33] have the canines that we have have been used, and if we didn't have a canine, we're else could be

[1:57:41] who?

[1:57:42] Susan, I don't have a canine.

[1:57:43] And are lending at our canines?

[1:57:45] Okay, our canines have assisted in other things, and I think if you read some of Miranda's

[1:57:50] wonderful articles, you'll see that our canines have been very involved in law enforcement

[1:57:57] drug fines bringing a lot of money.

[1:58:00] Yeah, I'm just saying I'd like to see their usage if we're spending our money and

[1:58:06] It's being used outside of your account. I would just like to know that well, we are part of the real crime

[1:58:13] The real time crime unit, so if they ask for resources, yeah, I would and I think they used it for a

[1:58:20] Search and rescue and somers on a on a slight see. Yeah, but you don't you don't kind of like send the K9 the K9

[1:58:27] is, is, is joined at the hip with, with the handler. Right. So, we, we, we belong to our law enforcement.

[1:58:35] I would just, it's a question of how our resources are used. Mutual aid is, is an essential part of,

[1:58:42] of Westchester, whether it's ambulance, and everything. So, we do help each other and our police help, help all the other communities.

[1:58:50] I, I'm not disputing the importance of the value of that. I'm just saying that if we're looking to spend,

[1:58:57] it looks like this could be close to the $100,000 grant for these two dogs. I would like to know how they're being used.

[1:59:06] No problem. We could get the chief to give you to send you emails on that.

[1:59:11] But, you know, I think as far as moving the monitors and stuff like that, I think I can help you with that.

[1:59:18] And they won't question your time, I'll do to work myself, you know, so, but, you know,

[1:59:25] I think, as far as the best bang for your buck, you know, the canines, or, you know,

[1:59:32] like you said, multifaceted, they can assist in so many different aspects of crime fighting.

[1:59:41] They really do.

[1:59:42] But we have to keep seeing these and they're all valuable.

[1:59:46] Yeah, absolutely.

[1:59:46] They're all valuable and it's a time decision.

[1:59:49] Let's get more information.

[1:59:50] I think we need more information.

[1:59:53] Is there anything that you like, don't bother?

[1:59:57] Anyone?

[1:59:58] No, let's get more information.

[2:00:00] I just don't want to send someone out for the room stick of the wicked witch of the West.

[2:00:04] I would like more information about where Philis is suggesting cameras at the community center.

[2:00:11] Yeah, specifically.

[2:00:12] So I would say a few years ago, myself and Craig Skatolo who's retired now, we evaluated that building.

[2:00:25] One of the, one of the things that we were talking about,

[2:00:29] we're putting up doors in certain strategic areas to stop night,

[2:00:35] you know, after hours access to certain parts of the building on top of cameras.

[2:00:42] And we, and we will be at, and so we had a few meetings with Craig and we had a lot of great ideas.

[2:00:47] Part of the camera system we wanted to put in there.

[2:00:49] It actually followed you around and tracked you,

[2:00:52] You know, almost like you're active monitoring, but without a live body, you know, but that got very expensive.

[2:00:59] But one of the things that we identified there was security doors in certain areas, where when you walk into the building,

[2:01:06] let's say from the back where the stage is, you know, you don't have access to the entire building cake or up to the third floor.

[2:01:13] And that was very valuable, and we had picked the locations.

[2:01:17] We can revisit that.

[2:01:19] I remember the discussion.

[2:01:22] All right.

[2:01:23] Let's move on on Susan and Cindy.

[2:01:40] All right.

[2:01:41] So with that, we will now ask Dan the man to come to the microphone.

[2:01:52] Just a quick question on the press grant.

[2:01:56] Are we under any deadline for coming up with that?

[2:01:59] I'd like to have something in the next month or so, but I don't.

[2:02:02] you know but you know it's really hard to cash those big checks takes a while

[2:02:07] we got them.

[2:02:11] Daniel. Danny mi boy how are you? Take care Jay.

[2:02:16] All right so we we're trying to tidy up all the loose ends on our project for the

[2:02:23] pump station rehabilitation. This would be the five pump stations. It's a 7.2

[2:02:29] million dollar project. We've secured a grant, I believe, for 5.6, but we're also trying

[2:02:36] to get a subsidized bond for the difference, which I think was 1.444, I believe, is the number.

[2:02:45] So we're working with the Environmental Facilities Corporation to do the financing. So it'll

[2:02:51] be a two-part thing. We'll get a bond anticipation note for the period of construction

[2:02:57] through them, and that will ultimately be rolled over into a long-term 30-year note.

[2:03:04] So as part of trying to check all the boxes of EFC, we submitted materials to them, there

[2:03:12] are some issues about the Seeker process.

[2:03:15] So we're doing a Seeker reboot here.

[2:03:18] Trying to make sure we're touching on all the issues, including that the coordinated review,

[2:03:26] one of the things we didn't do was the environmental notice bulletin. So that's part of the

[2:03:34] circulation on this and so we're circulating to see if anybody else wants to be lead agency,

[2:03:41] which nobody will likely step up for. So the town board is going to likely lead agency on this

[2:03:47] shocker. And then after declaring yourselves lead agency, we'll hear everybody wants to be heard on

[2:03:53] matter and ultimately hopefully we'll do a negative declaration and then documentation will

[2:04:00] be provided to the F.C. So that's it. I have some questions and comments on the 7.2 million

[2:04:11] dollars for the cost. That's based on the 2020 or 2021 cost estimate. I think we have the

[2:04:20] realistic and assume it's going to cost a little bit more, right? The 20% of the town that

[2:04:27] the town's tax payers will have to pay. So I mean in the hall, it smells to a district

[2:04:33] and the peak seal will have to pick up as we're redoing the peak seal system. They will

[2:04:38] have to pick up the cost for farm walk. But I think we have to be cautious in saying 7.2

[2:04:44] million because it ain't going to be that anymore.

[2:04:47] It's a little bit different, because we changed around the program.

[2:04:52] We changed a bunch of stuff on it.

[2:04:54] The value engine.

[2:04:55] We value engineered it, and buildings and facilities.

[2:05:00] We're going to be demolished. We're now rehabilitating. And we revisited the budget. And that's why we went from four stations to five.

[2:05:09] We talked about this. You had a whole resolution.

[2:05:12] Yeah, I remember.

[2:05:13] And the bottom line is if we're getting 80% of the money to fix four pump five pump stations that are rough shape, you don't want to blow it. You don't want to pay 100% of the cost.

[2:05:24] That's ultimately, and some of these stations are chronic issues where we're spending money

[2:05:30] on over time and replacing things, haven't we?

[2:05:33] So Dan, where are we with the plans on getting them in?

[2:05:37] I know we have one approved from Board of Health, correct?

[2:05:40] Yeah, one is, we're back and forth, yeah, we're just back and forth, I think the final

[2:05:46] issues we resolved, we're going to change a pump around, we haggled with them over, which, which,

[2:05:53] This is a farm look, so we're changing that, so I think we're pretty close to getting

[2:05:58] that approved, and we can, the health department really doesn't care about the electrical

[2:06:04] side, so we can actually start purchasing electrical equipment, so things like generators and

[2:06:11] transfer switches, control panels, which are all expensive, and have long lead times on

[2:06:17] them, so we also, we got an extension on the grant, but we don't want to find ourselves

[2:06:22] position where. So just for like an education and clarification type of thing. When did this

[2:06:31] back and forth on the on the farmwalk pump station start with Board of Health? Because I know

[2:06:37] some people saying how come this didn't happen yet? I mean it was a few weeks ago. I mean we had vacations

[2:06:45] and everybody was busy with it. Was it weeks or I thought it was a little longer than that? Maybe it's

[2:06:49] three weeks. Yeah. And I just went in three weeks ago. No, I went in months ago. Right. That's my question.

[2:07:01] They got back to us and I believe, yeah, I think last week, I spoke to the engineer at the

[2:07:07] health department. So Heather worked on some calculations this week to address one of the

[2:07:14] And the long and short of it was, we wanted to go with a different pump, but after we crunched the numbers, we felt we weren't going to prevail on that issue, so we went ahead with a larger pump.

[2:07:28] But that gets me to the other question when you started and with the farm walk, and when we brought Heather on as a set as a deputy engineer.

[2:07:38] One of the reasons for bringing that second person on is that we could do more work in

[2:07:42] house and we wouldn't have to go outside for that.

[2:07:46] I was also told that once we did the farm walk, we would have a template and the other

[2:07:51] four for how the smell would come faster.

[2:07:55] That doesn't seem to be happening and I'm a little concerned.

[2:07:58] No, I mean, I mean, they don't.

[2:08:00] Well, I'm concerned because we have a two-year extension.

[2:08:02] No, I understand.

[2:08:03] And I want to start ordering stuff ASAP, but I also have other issues on the funding side that I need to resolve.

[2:08:12] The stuff farmwalk stuff were a little bit better shape with money.

[2:08:16] I could start ordering some of that equipment.

[2:08:20] The Halix Mill stuff we've worked on Mohansik.

[2:08:23] I think we got that pretty much figured out how we're going to do it.

[2:08:27] We started doing the build.

[2:08:30] We're going to put a new building in for saddle ridge.

[2:08:34] Because that was the one station where the existing building we felt wasn't salvageable.

[2:08:40] So that one we're going to do a new building.

[2:08:44] Well, they're not done with farm walk yet.

[2:08:46] And each one has its own set of challenges.

[2:08:50] Everyone's a little different correct answer.

[2:08:52] I don't it won't per se be a template that fits for everything.

[2:08:56] I'm just using the term that was Louis Vuitton, that the others would go faster and from what I'm hearing from you.

[2:09:04] I'm concerned because I'm concerned they already gave us a two-year extension.

[2:09:09] And the latest exchange I had with you is that the project has to be completed by May of 2028.

[2:09:16] We're working on multiple pump stations.

[2:09:19] But you need to know, too, that isn't the only thing that comes across my desk every day.

[2:09:24] We have to address real-time situations.

[2:09:27] We've had a bunch of problems with some of our pump stations.

[2:09:31] We had a big problem at the plant.

[2:09:33] We had to address that became a whole thing we had to deal with.

[2:09:36] So with those things come up.

[2:09:38] We just, we have to deal with them.

[2:09:40] I realize that.

[2:09:42] And having having had there has helped him to be able to keep the project rolling,

[2:09:48] Even though it's not completed while he handles the other things if that's I know you made you alluded to that

[2:09:55] But unfortunately from years past many years past

[2:10:00] We're dealing with issues at the sewer plant that need to be addressed. We're dealing with issues with the pump stations that need to be addressed, and there are other things on the table, including new developments that they need to look at.

[2:10:15] So, and the Halex mills sewer district extension that we wanted to do.

[2:10:18] Can we then ask them to rent well?

[2:10:21] But they are working as a tune.

[2:10:23] I was down there.

[2:10:24] They actually even had Kyle from the plant helping out with some stuff and Charlie in there.

[2:10:31] So, I think that there's a understanding that we want to get this done, get the stuff

[2:10:38] done in house that we can, the stuff that needs an expert, that we need to get out gets

[2:10:43] out. But, you know, I know you were in your implication of that, well, you guys should be

[2:10:51] getting it all knocked right out, because Heather's now here. You know, there's a lot

[2:10:56] of issues from years gone by that are trying to get solved. And I think that I know that.

[2:11:03] And, but granted that you have to deal with all these unexpected, unexpected issues that

[2:11:09] have to take priority. So does that raise the issue of it since we are on a deadline to get

[2:11:15] these pump stations done? At some point, would it be more efficient to get it done to

[2:11:21] form out some of the work? I shouldn't use the word form, but the contract out. Okay, and go back

[2:11:27] to EDR that did some of the original work with the value engineer changes that you want. Just so

[2:11:34] We know that by some date, but some date certain we're going to have plans that we can send

[2:11:40] to the Department of Health because we're seeing how long it takes and then, like, it's

[2:11:45] good for the summer.

[2:11:46] We're going to have to go out to bed so there's bed specs that have to be prepared and that

[2:11:50] this is the whole bidding process and then negotiate the ones we select the better than

[2:11:55] till the agreement gets signed until the contract that you know is ready to start work.

[2:12:01] again I'm looking at a deadline we didn't do anything for the five years that we had the

[2:12:06] grant and now we've got two more years to take advantage of this wonderful, wonderful 80%

[2:12:13] grant and I'm just saying that what's the most efficient way to deal with it because I

[2:12:17] know you have problems with the civil streetland plan which is another question which I forgot

[2:12:23] to bring up with you the question of do we have to hire a consultant to do the study and

[2:12:29] And what's the status to that?

[2:12:31] It's like off topic, but it's a related topic.

[2:12:34] And if you update us on that,

[2:12:37] that we need to do a study of what changes

[2:12:40] and what upgrades might be necessary

[2:12:42] at the sewer.

[2:12:43] How about we focus on the R, the R.

[2:12:47] Well, I think that we have, of course we do something about it.

[2:12:50] I'm sending the constraints that the department has.

[2:12:54] Absolutely, but Susan, you asked for an update

[2:12:57] on the pump station.

[2:12:58] Yeah, I keep asking.

[2:12:59] Dan, what else do you have that, because I see the environmental assessment form here?

[2:13:06] So, we just need to circulate that.

[2:13:11] And it's technically got a declarer.

[2:13:13] I've got to declare your intent to be lay agency and then authorize the clerk to do the circulation.

[2:13:22] Was that added at the end?

[2:13:24] because of the for consideration.

[2:13:28] Was it that the end was your environmental assessment form?

[2:13:32] Right.

[2:13:33] And I saw that.

[2:13:41] Thank you.

[2:13:44] All right.

[2:13:45] Is there anything else?

[2:13:48] Dan, do we have any idea on when the next.

[2:13:52] When the next study will be coming.

[2:13:56] The next plan will be going into the Board of Health.

[2:13:58] I'd say I'd say we'd hope like in two weeks we should be able to get my hands

[2:14:04] like down.

[2:14:05] I think we pretty much got all the four corners figured out now, it's just-

[2:14:09] So that's providing it up.

[2:14:10] That's plant three or two.

[2:14:14] No, I mean, that's the next one to go.

[2:14:16] Okay, so that'll lead too.

[2:14:18] And we're talking about.

[2:14:19] I think at least, I don't want to speak for Susan, but I guess in a nutshell,

[2:14:25] You anticipate, unless, you know, we have some extraordinary situation, you anticipate being able to, within the next year, we have two year window, but within the next year, having plans for all five.

[2:14:47] Well, but it was in that that's that that is better than starting to go out to bid for other individuals

[2:14:56] In some things we don't have to bid

[2:15:00] For example, the generators, the source, well, contract with caterpillar.

[2:15:07] Do you anticipate being able to fulfill our obligations and get this done?

[2:15:13] The part of the problem is, right now, what's available to me, I believe, is about $100,000.

[2:15:19] out of the five point or the out of the seven point two million set it again. I have

[2:15:24] a hundred thousand dollars about I figure what the number is available. So that would allow

[2:15:30] me to purchase a generator and some of the electrical work that needs to be done at farm

[2:15:35] walk. Is that coming from which fund? Well that would be coming from the OS now which is more

[2:15:47] So, then, everybody, what is the next step?

[2:15:50] But you said that we had something with,

[2:15:54] that you had to clear up with the funding issue.

[2:15:57] What is on next step, too?

[2:15:58] Well, all these balls are in the air, right?

[2:16:01] So, the funding and the money in place to do this stuff.

[2:16:08] I mean, the health department stuff and the approvals

[2:16:10] to build are one thing.

[2:16:12] Some of this stuff, one of the other issues

[2:16:16] we did is in our funding we put in for force account. So I have some guys that are very capable

[2:16:24] of doing some of this stuff. So we're actually figuring on some of this pump replacement

[2:16:29] we'll be done in house and we can actually even get our salaries reimbursed for doing work

[2:16:36] with what's called force account as opposed to hiring contractors to do the work. So that's a component

[2:16:43] what's going on. So that's that's one tool. So you get salaries potentially reimbursed.

[2:16:48] Yes. That would not be part of the the 7.2.

[2:16:54] No, the 7.2 includes that. Okay. But what would be it would be it would be. It was the

[2:17:00] old people that even on the grand side, I would be reimbursed. So I could even claw back some

[2:17:06] the salaries of people that worked on that project.

[2:17:12] So there's that whole financing this and trying to stay ahead of, because even though

[2:17:19] it's 7.2 million, we're never going to be out 7.2 million.

[2:17:23] With the grant program, we're going to spend money, submit documentation to be reimbursed

[2:17:30] And this time, on this lap in several times through the process,

[2:17:34] to Susan's concern and Lonnie's comments, right?

[2:17:38] You fully anticipate that we're going to be able to complete

[2:17:43] this entire thing.

[2:17:44] However, it's done.

[2:17:45] However, it's reimbursed.

[2:17:46] However, whatever we're out at any given time,

[2:17:49] out of the 7.2 in the two years.

[2:17:52] One of the big great assets in hiring Heather,

[2:17:57] her being a former employee of the health department who reviewed all this stuff, she knows exactly

[2:18:03] what they're looking for. So our applications have less issues that they would flag if, you know,

[2:18:11] you're just no one there. That is much hang time. That's because she knows all the ins and outs

[2:18:15] exist. That's what we're saying. I mean, that's our secret weapon right there. What is your very next

[2:18:20] step, which is what we're doing tonight is part of the whole financing thing.

[2:18:28] Okay, several in the part from that is the approvals and the construction.

[2:18:33] Since we're doing the designs in-house, we're not doing one bid for the whole thing.

[2:18:39] We're going to bark on each of these projects as we get approvals, and some of them we don't

[2:18:45] and have to wait because really redo and Mohansik,

[2:18:49] it's really a matter just having the funding available.

[2:18:53] So that's, so I've got, like, say, for example, Mohansik,

[2:18:56] and some, you know, Mohansik and personal lake,

[2:19:01] we have very oil tanks.

[2:19:03] I want to get that going right away.

[2:19:07] You know, thank you, Dan.

[2:19:09] But another question, you said that you think you'll have

[2:19:11] the plans for the handsick to ready to send to the Department of Health in about two weeks.

[2:19:18] Yeah, I want to go tell this month.

[2:19:20] I want to go tell this month.

[2:19:22] For Saddle Ridge, Crystal Lake, and Hanover, what's your time frame on that?

[2:19:27] Again, barring any un...

[2:19:28] Love it.

[2:19:29] Let me let him get one done at a time.

[2:19:31] We're just going to keep going through them.

[2:19:35] I'd like to say we never have other things that happened,

[2:19:39] but sometimes we got to just, you know,

[2:19:42] especially in the sewer we know what happens.

[2:19:44] We've got a wastewater treatment plant to operate.

[2:19:48] We have to deal with all the land use stuff.

[2:19:49] We have to do inspections on the projects that are ongoing.

[2:19:53] All these permits that come in for wetlands and so on.

[2:19:56] Thank you.

[2:19:57] Thank you.

[2:19:57] Then get me.

[2:20:00] We're not trying to complain, but it's just the reality. We try and stay on top of this stuff.

[2:20:05] I know. I'd rather you go down to your office and start working.

[2:20:10] So it's a damn real quick. So if you got the 7.2 million, how long would it take to do the five stations?

[2:20:16] Well, that's what we're doing. No, I understand.

[2:20:19] Yeah, we don't really, we really got to be pushing this. We got to get it pretty much done next year.

[2:20:26] Yeah, that that's the real all in a green we don't want to wait to 2028. Yeah, right. Yes, I want to do that still two hours in ten minutes left in the day, Dan

[2:20:37] Can I just ask for what's not on the agenda, but since Dan is here

[2:20:42] The issue of the sewage treatment plant needing to renew its its permit and it needs I've been told that we need to do a

[2:20:56] done to upgrade so that we couldn't get our permit renewed. What's the status of getting?

[2:21:00] Two separate things. The permit renewal, I mean, our, technically, our permit, I think

[2:21:06] were expired probably like four or five years ago, which isn't unusual. They, you know, in

[2:21:12] the absence of renewing your permit, your old limits remain in place. So we've been going

[2:21:18] back with the DC. We do not have a new permit.

[2:21:24] It's not unusual, but that's one thing.

[2:21:28] I thought to say sometimes what happens is when a new permit comes out that they may put

[2:21:34] new requirements in there. So for example, like years ago, the money became an issue.

[2:21:42] So that in when they issued, they renewed the permit, a new ammonia limit was proposed and

[2:21:52] as part of that it laid out a time frame for building the improvements to achieve that

[2:22:01] discharge limit.

[2:22:03] So that's how the RBCs happened.

[2:22:05] The RBCs were a function of a modification when a permit was renewed.

[2:22:09] So, as of right now, nobody's told me like anything is going to be added to that permit.

[2:22:16] But they are asking questions like for, you know, like PFOS, forever chemicals.

[2:22:21] If that showed up, I don't know what we would do about it because the treatment to remove

[2:22:27] that would just be, you know, as it is, we have the microfilters.

[2:22:32] But until I see the renewed permit, I don't know that.

[2:22:34] Now, separate on part from that, we have an ordering on consent with DC, which we have not signed yet.

[2:22:42] But once we finish negotiating that, one of the things that's going to come out of it is one of the conditions is going to be that we do a study to evaluate the plant.

[2:22:54] So that's going to require hiring an outside consultant.

[2:22:58] And what's holding up signing that consent order?

[2:23:01] Negotiations.

[2:23:01] That we're pretty close to being resolved.

[2:23:04] I think most of the stuff's going to be resolved.

[2:23:06] All right.

[2:23:07] Dan, thank you.

[2:23:08] Thank you.

[2:23:09] Thank you.

[2:23:10] We are going to jump into this.

[2:23:13] What the consent order is for what we're not violating something so this has to be

[2:23:17] a consent order.

[2:23:19] What's wrong that we need to do?

[2:23:21] It's going back, I think, to like 2000 I believe, for destroyed violations, you know,

[2:23:31] exceedances of BOD, I think copper, maybe carbonaceous oxygen demand, I think

[2:23:40] everything were, but they tabulated all the violations.

[2:23:45] But it goes back about 26 years.

[2:23:49] Even before the plant was upgraded?

[2:23:52] No, not before the upgrades.

[2:23:54] Exactly.

[2:23:55] The violations occurred after the upgrade, which was like the mid-2000s.

[2:23:58] So, Susan, can we move on?

[2:24:00] Thank you.

[2:24:02] Well, it was an important part, it's right, but it's very important part.

[2:24:06] Absolutely.

[2:24:07] My father-in-law worked in the sewer, so I'm very familiar, how sexy they are and how

[2:24:14] necessary they are.

[2:24:15] I was working for something else that I came across a letter from Charlie this week.

[2:24:19] Not to do.

[2:24:20] Let me see that one.

[2:24:21] You can win.

[2:24:21] You have a chance.

[2:24:23] I can use to say the people you meet on the way up is the same people that you meet

[2:24:27] on the same way.

[2:24:28] All right, from the building in maintenance department, authorizing extension for the annual electrical work on town buildings bid from the Comptroller's office author as a Comptroller to pay mark a mark a McLennan

[2:24:43] The cash value of unused time is every date of retirement is a numerator below and be it further is out of the control is here by authorizing the transfer the funds for the purpose of the pay at a retirement as a numerator below

[2:24:55] authorized to control it, to pay Michael Mattis, the Cash Value Money.

[2:25:00] We use time as a date of retirement, as an unmarried below, and be it further resolve the control as year by

[2:25:06] authorized to transfer funds for the purpose of this payout at retirement, as follows,

[2:25:12] an unmarried below. From the John C. Heart Memorial Library, authorize a supervisor's sign

[2:25:18] agreement with the law office of Stephanie Adams, PLLC for extraordinary legal services for the

[2:25:25] UNC Heart Memorial Library, and that is an attorney who specifically does New York State

[2:25:35] Library Law.

[2:25:37] From the Parks and Recreation Department, authorize a supervisor to sign an amendment agreement

[2:25:42] with site design consultants for the Engineering Services for Parking Lot Paving Project,

[2:25:47] at Time Day and a Park at Granite Null Sports Complex, from the Planning Department, authorize

[2:25:54] supervises sign agreement with Guvwell Technologies Inc.

[2:25:58] for the implementation of municipal land use application

[2:26:00] management software for the planning department.

[2:26:10] From the office of the town clerk approve the final order

[2:26:13] for the establishment of a water district extension in the town of York

[2:26:16] town, west of the county, New York to be known as extension number

[2:26:19] one to York town consolidated water.

[2:26:24] From the water department, authorized water department to purchase 1, 20, 27, 4, transit cargo van R2C, T250 of source well contract 081325-NAF, authorized to supervise and assign a change order for ray burn consulting to perform additional consulting service with regards to billing data accuracy analysis in the amount of 1,000.

[2:26:53] 1,237 dollars and 50 cents, authorize your 10, what a district to purchase, a used

[2:27:04] Wacker Newson RD12A-90 double drum roller as specified in source well contract number 040924.URI for a total amount of 15,250 dollars.

[2:27:23] Let me go back and just ask you on the Rayburn thing, they did the billing assessment.

[2:27:29] Are they going to come?

[2:27:29] Yes, they're going to come.

[2:27:31] I believe it's next week.

[2:27:32] Not next meeting. I believe it's next week during the work session, but I'll check with Paul. He was supposed to arrange that because they're

[2:27:40] I know. I think we're going to do some interesting recommendations on how to upgrade the buildings.

[2:27:47] Susan, I'd rather than say much until they come on their presentation.

[2:27:53] So can I have a motion on those?

[2:27:55] I make that motion.

[2:27:57] Thank you.

[2:27:57] All in favor.

[2:27:58] All right.

[2:28:00] I did neglect to mention that we did originally have a public hearing schedule for today on

[2:28:05] a proposed local law to amend Chapter 219 for peddling and soliciting by adding a do not

[2:28:10] knock register.

[2:28:12] That has been rescheduled to September 15th, 2026.

[2:28:17] Diana, thank you for your work on that.

[2:28:20] I think it's an issue that is important to our people.

[2:28:25] On the back of the agenda, we'll see appendix A for the water district, and then we have

[2:28:31] for consideration by the town board of Yorktown, a pump station, EAF, secret referral.

[2:28:38] Dan, thank you for not being a 17-page read-in, resolved that the town clerk is here

[2:28:46] by authorized refer out the environmental assessment form received from the engineering department

[2:28:52] for the sewage pump station rehabilitation project, pursuant to state environmental quality review

[2:28:59] act, SIGRA, to the agencies listed below for their review and or recommendation, and it

[2:29:05] be it further resolve the town board to class its 10 to act as lead agency and be it further

[2:29:10] resolve that the town board would like your comments and to our recommendations by October 13,

[2:29:16] 2020-26, and this will be referred out to the New York State Department of Transportation, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3.

[2:29:31] Westchester County Planning Board and Department, the Yorktown Planning Department and the Planning Board,

[2:29:38] Advisory Board on Architectural and Community Parents of Baca, the Conservation Board,

[2:29:43] the Highway Department, the Town Attorney, Environmental Notice, Bolton, the E&B, and the Westchester County

[2:29:49] Department of Health. Can I have a motion on this?

[2:29:53] You forgot to add more.

[2:29:55] Motion.

[2:29:56] All in favor.

[2:29:58] Hi.

[2:29:59] All right.

[2:30:00] Worktown, thank you for those that don't tune in next week, that will be celebrating Russia,

[2:30:08] Shana, and the Jewish holidays. Please have a very happy and healthy new year and any other

[2:30:17] further. All right. May I have a motion to adjourn?

[2:30:21] Motion. Second. All in favor?

[2:30:24] Aye. Thank you, Yorktown.

[2:30:26] Yes. Good night, Yorktown.

Town Board Meeting - Sep 1st, 2026

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