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SORRY, UM, THAT THE TOWN BOARD IS STARTING THE MEETING A LITTLE LATE.
UM, WE APPRECIATE YOUR, UH, YOUR PATIENCE.
TODAY IS, UM, FEBRUARY 10TH AND IT'S 7:44 PM AND, UM, OUR MEETING IS, UM, STREAMED, UM, LIVE ON PUBLIC ACCESS TV.
THE NEXT MEETING IS GONNA BE FEBRUARY 24TH.
WE HAVE A MEETING MARCH 10TH, MARCH 24TH, AND APRIL 14TH.
[ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
I'D LIKE TO NOW DO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE FLAG, THE UNITED STATES AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
[ ROLL CALL: Town Clerk]
WE'LL HAVE THE ROLL CALL FROM THE TOWN CLERK COUNCIL SUPERVISOR PAUL FINER HERE, COUNCILWOMAN GINA ACTON.PRESENT COUNCILWOMAN DIANA NER, PRESENT, COUNCILMAN KEN JONES.
PRESENT AND COUNCILMAN FRANCIS SHEEN, PRESENT TOWN ATTORNEY TIM LEWIS.
[ MOMENT OF SILENCE In memory of Doris (Dori) Friedman, member and former chair of the Greenburgh Board of Ethics and former Town Justice]
NEXT.UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND, UM, HONOR AND A MEMORY OF DORIS STORY FRIEDMAN, A MEMBER AND FORMER CHAIR OF THE BLOOMBERG BOARD OF ETHICS AND A FORMER TOWN, JUSTICE AND QUOTING JUSTICE, UH, FRIEDMAN.
UH, SHE SAID, SERVING AS A GREENBERG TOWN JUSTICE IS NOT A JOB, NOT AN ADVOCATION, AND NOT ONLY AS A DEDICATION, BUT RATHER IT IS A PASSION.
I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT MY WORK AS A JUDGE, ATTEMPTING TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND MAKING A LOT BETTER FOR ALL THOSE WHO COME BEFORE ME AND FOR THE ENTIRE, UM, COMMUNITY.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UM, EXPRESS MY DEEPEST IES TO HER, UM, HER FAMILY.
UM, DORIS WAS NOT ONLY, UM, VERY PASSIONATE PUBLIC, UM, SERVING HER, CARED ABOUT HER JOB, AND CARED ABOUT EVERYONE WHO CAME BEFORE HER AS A TOWN JUDGE.
YOU KNOW, SHE TOOK EVERY ONE OF THE, UM, THE CASES SHE HAD VERY, VERY SERIOUSLY AND PERSONALLY, AND SO MANY PEOPLE WHO I MET OVER THE YEARS WHO TOLD ME THAT HER THEIR LIVES WERE BETTER BECAUSE OF THE WAY SHE HANDLED, UM, JUSTICE.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MENTION, UM, SPEAKING PERSONALLY, WHAT I ADMIRED THE MOST ABOUT, UH, DORIS FRIEDMAN WAS HER MODESTY.
UH, HER, THE FACT THAT SHE JUST WAS A REALLY NICE PERSON.
SHE WAS A, WHEN YOU SAY A BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING, SOMEBODY WHO'S KIND, COMPASSIONATE, CARING, TREATED PEOPLE WITH RESPECT AND REALLY, UM, WANTED TO MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE.
AND SHE DID MAKE LIFE BETTER FOR OTHER PEOPLE, SO SHE WILL BE ENORMOUSLY MISSED, UM, AND NEVER, UH, FORGOTTEN.
WELL, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING, UH, ALSO, NOT ONLY, UH, FOR MYSELF AS A MEMBER OF THE TOWN BOARD, BUT ALSO AS A FACULTY MEMBER AT MERCY COLLEGE.
UM, DORIS WAS, UH, WAS A FACULTY MEMBER AND TAUGHT, UH,
SHE ALSO SPENT TIME WITH US ON THE LEGAL STUDIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND IT WAS ALWAYS GREAT, UH, SEEING HER AND, UM, APPRECIATING HER CONTRIBUTIONS THAT SHE MADE TO THE LEGAL STUDIES PROGRAM.
I'D LIKE TO, UH, EXPRESS MY CONDOLENCES AND THE CONDOLENCES OF THE FACULTY, THE DEAN AND FACULTY OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ON THE PASSING OF DORIS.
I'D LIKE TO SAY ON BEHALF OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, AT LARGE AND, UH, BOTH THAT WE ARE INTRICATELY WORK WITH, UM, WITH, UH, JUDGE FREE, THAT WE EXPRESS OUR SYMPATHIES TO THE FAMILY AND CERTAINLY OUR PRESS GO OUT FOR THEM.
I ALWAYS WILL REMEMBER HER AS ONE THAT KEPT THE CONCERNS AND THE, AND THE DREAMS OF THE COMMUNITY IN THE FOREFRONT OF ORDER ALL OF HER ADJUDICATIONS.
AND IT WAS ALWAYS A PLAY TO GO BEFORE HER AND WORK WITH HER WITH THE DIFFERENT AVENUES THAT WE, UH, ENCOUNTERED WITH HER.
AND, AND NOT THE COOK, BUT HE WENT ACROSS TOWN GROCERY STORES AND SHOPPING AREAS.
SHE ALWAYS HAD A VERY PLEASING PERSONALITY AND WAS ALWAYS CONCERNED
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ABOUT HOW WE WERE DOING AS A COMMUNITY.SO MY PRAYERS AND MY CONDOLENCE, AND CERTAINLY WE KEEP YOU LIFTED UP IN JESUS' NAME.
WELL, IF I COULD JUST SAY, UM, THIS IS JUDGE OL.
I, I THANK THE TOWN BOARD FOR DOING THIS FOR DORY.
AS YOU KNOW, SHE, UM, SERVED THE TOWN COURT IN AN EXCELLENT FASHION.
I'LL SURELY MISS HER, BUT I KNOW THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL ALSO MISS HER FOR JUST HER KINDNESS, HER GENTLENESS, AND THE WAY SHE PRESIDED OVER THE COURT.
SHE IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT TRUE, UH, JUSTICE IS.
JUST SEEING EVERYONE AS BEING EQUAL, NEVER AN UNKIND WORD ABOUT ANYONE.
JUST A WONDERFUL VIEW OF KNOW.
SO I WILL ALSO MISS HER LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.
IF I MAY SAY SOMETHING QUICKLY, I'M ACTUALLY, UH, DORIS FRIEDMAN'S GRANDSON, UM, AND HER ENTIRE LIFE WAS DEDICATED TO JUSTICE, WHETHER IT WAS INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE COURTROOM.
UM, JUSTICE FOR EVERYONE, AND TO SEE HER HONORED HERE AND TO BE HERE, UM, VIRTUALLY IN THIS MOMENT, UH, TO HONOR HER LIFE IS TRULY A TESTAMENT TO ALL SHE DID AND ALL SHE CARED ABOUT, WHICH WAS TRULY EVERYONE.
WELL, IF I COULD JUST SAY A COUPLE OF WORDS AS WELL.
UM, I, I MET JUDGE FRIEDMAN WHEN I FIRST STARTED HERE AS A PROSECUTOR ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO.
AND FROM DAY ONE, SHE MADE YOU FEEL WELCOME.
UM, SHE, SHE MADE EVERYONE FEEL WELCOME.
SHE WAS TRULY IGNORED BY BOTH THE PLAINTIFF'S BAR AND THE DEFENSE BAR BECAUSE EVERYONE KNEW WHEN YOU APPEARED IN HER COURTROOM, YOU WERE GONNA BE TREATED FAIRLY AND WITH THE UTMOST RESPECT, UM, JUDGE TRUDEN VALIDATED PEOPLE'S FEELINGS AND THEIR SENSE OF SELF NO MATTER WHO THEY WERE.
WHAT WITH DEFENDANT, A LAWYER, A CLERK, A CUSTODIAN, A POLICE OFFICER.
SHE EXUDED WARMTH, KINDNESS, GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT.
UM, SHE TRULY LOVED AND CARED ABOUT PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE.
WHEN SHE TOOK THE BENCH, YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE IN FOR MIXED BLESSING BECAUSE YOU KNEW THE DAY WAS GONNA BE VERY LONG BECAUSE EVERYONE GOT TO TELL THEIR STORY.
YOU, YOU, YOU APPEARED THERE, YOU WERE THERE.
SHE WAS GOING TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS A PROSECUTOR, I WOULD OFTEN ARGUE FOR A DIFFERENT OUTCOME BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'D LOOKED FOR THE HIGHER FIND OR A QUICKER SENSE OF JUSTICE, BUT I KNEW THAT JUDGE FRIEDMAN, SHE MOVED FROM THE HEART, AND HER ROLE OF DISPENSING JUSTICE WAS NEVER, EVER TAKEN LIGHTLY.
UM, I FEEL LIKE BECAUSE OF THIS PANDEMIC, WE'RE NOT REALLY AS A COMMUNITY ABLE TO GIVE HER THAT SEND SENDOFF THAT SHE SO DESERVES.
AND MY ONE SENSE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE NAMING A STREET AFTER HER.
UM, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY NOT JUDGE FRIEDMAN DRIVE BECAUSE EVERYONE KNEW ABOUT HER DRIVING SKILLS,
MAY I ADD THAT SHE WAS VERY ENCOURAGING AND EMPOWERING TO WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONAL WORK ENVIRONMENT.
SHE ALWAYS HAD A WORD OF SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT.
THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER AND CHERISH THE MOST ABOUT JUDGE DORIS FRIEDMAN.
IF I COULD JUST REITERATE, UH, WHAT PEGGY TAGLIA HAD SAID, UH, FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, JUDGE FRIEDMAN IS A BIG LOSS.
IT DIDN'T MATTER WHICH SIDE OF THE BENCH THAT YOU WERE ON.
UH, SHE TREATED EVERYBODY WITH RESPECT, COMPASSION, AND SHE WAS FAIR TO EVERYBODY.
AND EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS A BIG BOSS IN RED SOX FAN, WE STILL ADORED HER.
AND WE HOW
AND SHE WAS, UM, SHE WAS A MENTOR TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.
SHE WAS ONE OF MY REFERENCES WHEN I APPLIED TO LAW SCHOOL.
UM, SHE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE SUPPORTIVE OF ME PERSONALLY IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WHILE STILL BEING SO FAIR IN THE COURTROOM.
UM, WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL AGAIN.
I'M DORIS'S GRANDDAUGHTER AND THIS IS HER YOUNGEST DAUGHTER.
UM, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ALL
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OF YOUR KIND WORDS.UM, GROWING UP, SHE WOULD ALWAYS BRING US INTO THE COURTROOM WHEN I WOULD SIT IN THE, IN THE JURY BOX IN WASH, WOULD DO HER WORK, AND EVERYBODY LOVED HER THE WAY WE LOVED HER, AND WE, WE DIDN'T MAKE ANYONE COME UP MORE THAN WE DID AS A FAMILY.
AND WE REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU GUYS TAKING YOUR TIME OUT OF YOUR BUSY SCHEDULES AND OUTTA THIS BUSY MEETING TO, UM, SAY SUCH KIND WORDS SHE LOVED, LOVED WORKING, UM, FOR YOU WITH YOU.
UM, SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR KIND WORDS.
UH, JUDGE BODY MORGAN COULD
SO THIS IS, UH, SPEAKING AS IF I'M JUDGE, UH, BODY MORGAN TO RUTH JAIL, LAURA AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE JUDGE FREEMAN'S FAMILY, THE HONORABLE TOWN BOARD OF TOM GREENBERG AND GUESTS, I APOLOGIZE, BUT I CANNOT BE HERE THIS EVENING TO PERSONALLY PARTICIPATE IN HONORING JUDGE FREEMAN.
BUT THERE IS A SHORT STORY THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU.
LAST FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH, THE COURT HELD THE FIRST CRIMINAL CALENDAR IN THE GREENBERG TOWN COURT FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF JUDGE FREEMAN.
I KNOW SHE WAS DORIS TO SOME DORY TO MANY, BUT SHE WAS JUDGE FREEMAN TO ALL AS YOU DURING THIS EVENING.
LAST FRIDAY, THE COURT HELD A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN HER HONOR AND THE CHIEF CRIMINAL CLERK, AND I SPOKE OF JUDGE FREEMAN'S MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND ONE
SEEING THEREAFTER, THE FIRST CRIMINAL CASE WAS CALLED ON THE CALENDAR, A VETERAN DEFENSE LAWYER, VISIBLY SHAKEN BY THE NEWS, SPRINKLED HIS WONDERFUL MEMORIES OF JUDGE FREEMAN.
AND THEN, TO EVERYONE'S SURPRISE, THE DEFENDANT SPOKE AS WELL.
THE DEFENDANT SAID THAT HE WAS VERY SADDENED TO HEAR THE NEWS AND SPOKE AT SOME LENGTH ABOUT HOW COMPASSIONATE JUDGE FREEMAN WAS, AND THAT HE WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HER FONDLY.
I LEARNED THAT JUDGE FREEMAN HAD PREVIOUSLY SENTENCED THIS DEFENDANT TO JAIL.
ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION, THERE WERE, THESE WERE ACTS OF LAST RESORT BEFORE EACH SENTENCE, SHE SPOKE TO THE DEFENDANT ABOUT WHAT COULD BECOME AND FOCUSED ON HIS ATTRIBUTES TO HEAR DEFENDANT SPEAK SO GLOWINGLY ABOUT A JUDGE WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY SENT HIM TO JAIL.
IN MY MIND'S EYE SPOKE VOLUMES TO THE COMPASSION SHE DEMONSTRATED TO ALL WHO APPEARED BEFORE HER, ALWAYS RESPECTING EACH PERSON'S DIGNITY, NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCE TO BE JUDGE FREEMAN WAS GRACIOUS, DIGNIFIED, AND HUMBLE.
SHE VOLUNTEERED IN TIME, WHENEVER AND WHEREVER SHE COULD AS SHE INTERNALLY, UH, AS SHE WAS INTERNALLY DRIVEN TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND TO THOSE IN NEED.
SHE NEVER SOUGHT, UH, SOUGHT ACCOLADES OR PRAISE FOR THE MULTITUDE OF GOOD SHE DID ON THE BEHALF OF OTHERS.
AS I NOTED IN COURT LAST FRIDAY AS PETITE AND STATURE STATUTES AS JEAN, UH, JUDGE FREEMAN WAS, SHE WAS A TRULY A GIANT.
THE TOWN JUSTICES AND FORMAL JUSTICE JUSTICES OF THE COURT WILL BE HONORING JUDGE FREEMAN'S TENURE ON THE BENCH IN THE FUTURE, AND WE WILL KEEP THE FAMILY POSTED.
MAY HER MEMORY BE A BLESSING, AND MAY SHE REST IN PEACE, JUDGE BODY GORDON.
UM, IF I COULD JUST FINISH, UM, I'M RUTH HUR, ELT DAUGHTER.
UM, MY SON SAM NAMED SAMUEL CHI OSA FRIEDMAN WASSERMAN SPOKE FAR MORE ELOQUENTLY THAN I COULD, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW ALL THE COMMUNITY.
MY MOM GREW UP LOVING THE LITTLE TOWN SHE GREW UP IN CHELSEA, MASS.
SHE WAS A REAL PLACE PERSON, AND GREENBURG BECAME THAT PLACE FOR HER IN HER ADULT LIFE.
SHE KNEW A LOT ABOUT THE STRENGTHS AND THE CHALLENGES OF GREENBURG, BUT SHE WAS HONORED TO BE PART OF SUCH A DEVOTED COMMUNITY, UM, OF PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO RISE UP AND CONTINUE TO GROW.
MY ONLY QUESTION FOR YOU IS, SINCE YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT HER DRIVING, ARE THERE ANY OUTSTANDING TICKETS THAT WE SHOULD WORRY ABOUT? UM,
UH, WE DON'T HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS.
I I AM A LAWYER, BUT I, I DON'T WANT TO GO BEFORE THE JUDGES, SO THANK YOU FOR THIS HONOR FOR HER.
AND I REALLY WAS TRYING, BECAUSE THE ONE I WOULD SEE, I ALWAYS ASKED HOW THE YANKEES ARE DOING, AND OF COURSE, YEAH, WE ALL KNOW THAT THAT WAS, THAT WAS
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ALMOST FUNNY WORDS.UM, AND I REALLY WANTED TO DISPLAY A PICTURE OF HER IN THE OX AT, UM, BUT I'M HONORING THE FAMILY'S WISH TO DISPLAY
MANY TIMES WHEN PEOPLE PASS AWAY, PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY NICE THINGS, AND I, I FEEL THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I WANT THE FAMILY TO REALIZE THAT WE'RE PROBABLY UNDERSTATING OUR, UM, OUR RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR, UM, FOR DORIS.
YOU KNOW, SHE WAS REALLY LIKE A, ONE OF THE KINDEST, NICEST PUBLIC SERVANT I EVER MET IN MY, UH, IN MY, IN MY LIFE.
SOMEBODY WHO NEVER, UH, GOT ARROGANT, UH, NEVER WAS CAUGHT UP WITH HER OWN IMPORTANCE, YOU KNOW, JUST WAS ABLE TO TREAT PEOPLE WHO WERE, YOU KNOW, HAD RECORDS OR, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M TALKING ABOUT CRIMINAL RECORDS, UM, OR PEOPLE WHO WERE SUPER SUCCESSFUL WITH THE SAME AMOUNT OF RESPECT.
AND, YOU KNOW, SHE TREATED EVERYBODY LIKE A HUMAN BEING.
AND THAT'S WHAT I, YEAH, THAT WAS HER.
UM, MY SISTER, UH, LAURA'S ALSO ON, JUST SO YOU KNOW, OUR, HER HUSBANDS ARE ON.
SO, UM, AND, AND NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT YOU TAPED, YOU HAVE THESE MEETINGS, STREAMING LIVE, WE'RE ALL GONNA COME TO GREENBURG TOWN MEETINGS EVERY TWO WEEKS FROM NOW.
THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE, TOO.
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SO NOW WE, UM, HAVE SOME PRESENTATIONS.UH, OUR FIRST, UM, PRESENTATION IS FROM
SO I DO, UH, FIRST LEGO LEAGUE WITH, UH, SOME OTHER TEAMMATES.
SO THEY'RE ALSO HERE, AND THEY'RE GONNA PRESENT WITH ME, TOO.
UM, MAYA, DO YOU WANNA START US OFF? YES.
THE TIME, MEMORIES AND EVERYONE ELSE.
SO, WE ARE THE GOLDEN FORESTS CONSISTING OF KHI IISHA AND MYSELF.
MY BAR MAJOR WE'RE TEAM MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS FROM ARTSY MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL.
IN EDGEMONT JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, WE'RE COMPETING IN FIRST LEVEL, ALSO KNOWN AS F L, WHICH IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CHILDREN.
F L FOCUSES ON DIFFERENT RURAL TOPICS RELATED TO SCIENCE.
OVERALL, MORE THAN 23,000 TEAMS PARTICIPATE EVERY YEAR.
IT'S MADE IN FOR THREE PARTS, CORE VALUES, INNOVATION PROJECT, ALSO KNOWN AS SCIENCE PROJECT AND ROBOT IN ROBOT.
WE COMPLETE MISSIONS BY PROGRAMMING AND TESTING.
AN E THREE ROBOT CORE VALUES IS ALL ABOUT APPRECIATING TEAM, THE COMPETITION ABOUT EACH OTHERS, AND COACHES AND EVERYONE ELSE.
IN THE PROJECT SECTION, WE THINK OF AN INNOVATIVE SOLUTION TO SOLVE A PROBLEM RELATED TO THE THEME EACH YEAR.
BUT IN F L, WE DON'T JUST THINK OF A SOLUTION, BUT WE ALSO SHARE THE SOLUTION WITH THE COMMUNITY AND EXPERTS.
BY STARTING SMALL, WE CAN SPREAD OUR IDEA AND MAKE IT WORLDWIDE.
REPLAY IS ALL ABOUT TRYING TO MOTIVATE PEOPLE TO BECOME MORE ACTIVE.
WHILE DOING OUR RESEARCH, WE FOUND THAT OBESITY WAS A LARGE PROBLEM, ESPECIALLY WITH LOW RATED PEOPLE.
OBESITY CAN LEAD TO HEART DISEASE, TYPE TWO DIABETES, CANCERS, AND MANY OTHER PROBLEMS. ACCORDING TO A STUDY BY THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, OF THE NUMBER OF MILITARY USERS, 37.7% ARE OB.
WHILE 41.1% ARE EXTREMELY ABUSE, AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER OBESITY RATES THAN THOSE WITHOUT.
WHEN B M I HAS BEEN USED AS THE INDICATOR OF WEIGHT STATUS, OBESITY ESTIMATES FOR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES WITHIN 25 TO 31%, COMPARED TO 15%, 19% FOR ADULTS WITHOUT DISABILITIES.
BASED ON THESE FACTS, WE HAVE DECIDED TO NARROW OUR FOCUS TO HELPING THE WHEELCHAIR BUILDING POPULATION BECOME MORE ACTIVE.
EXERCISING IS ALREADY HARD BECAUSE OF THE LACK OF MOTIVATION, SUPPORT, BAD WEATHER, NO ENERGY, NO TIME, FEAR OF FAILING AND HAVING NOBODY TO EXERCISE WITH.
BUT FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS, IT'S EVEN WORSE.
THERE'S LACK OF HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE PATHWAYS, OUTDOOR SAFETY ISSUES, LIMITED
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EXERCISE GROUPS, AND LASTLY, TRAVEL DIFFICULTIES.EVEN IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY, THERE'S A LACK OF HANDICAP ACCESSIBILITY, FOR EXAMPLE, PLACES TO EXERCISE OR SIDEWALKS FOR WALKS, A CURRENT SOLUTION THAT HELPS HANDICAPPED PEOPLE EXERCISE AT HOME IS THE INVICTUS ACTIVE TRAINER, WHICH IS A WHEELCHAIR TREADMILL WITH AN ADDED FEATURE OF A HEALTH TRACKING APP.
THE WHEELCHAIR BURDEN CAN ALSO EXERCISE BY DOING UPPER HEAVY WORKOUTS.
EXERCISE EQUIPMENT IS A GOOD START, BUT STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT PEOPLE EXERCISE MORE WHEN THEY HAVE A REAL WORLD ENVIRONMENT AND A SUPPORT GROUP.
WE DECIDED TO PROVIDE THIS BY USING VIRTUAL REALITY.
OUR SOLUTION PROVIDES A FULLY IMMERSIVE VR EXPERIENCE FOR WHEELCHAIR USERS, BUT THEY CAN SAFELY CLIMB MOUNTAINS, TRACK DESERTS, OR PLAY GAMES.
IN ORDER TO DO SO, WE HAVE INTEGRATED AN OMNIDIRECTIONAL WHEELCHAIR T TREADMILL WITH THE VR HEADSET.
THE VR HAS MANY ADVANTAGES AND HAS MANY ADVANTAGES, WHICH INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE ABILITY TO EXPLORE NEW PLACES IN THE SAFETY OF YOUR HOME, AND TO ENJOY THE ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR FRIENDS.
IN THE SAME VIRTUAL WORLD, WHICH PROVIDES A STRONG SUPPORT GROUP, OUR SOLUTIONS DESIGNED WILL INCLUDE A MICROPROCESSOR WITH MOTION SENSORS ON A WHEELCHAIR TREADMILL.
THE MOTION SENSORS WILL MEASURE HOW MUCH MOVEMENT THE USER CAUSED ON A WHEELCHAIR WHEEL, AND THE MICROPROCESSOR WILL ACCORDINGLY ADJUST THE VR ENVIRONMENT TO SHOW HOW MUCH THE USER MOVED.
IN ADDITION, THE VR WILL HAVE ADVERTISED TO SHOW THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE ENVIRONMENT ALSO IS BETTER THAN THE INVICTUS ACTIVE TRAUMA.
BECAUSE OUR SOLUTION HAS THE FUTURE OF VIRTUAL REALITY, WHICH NOT ONLY MAKES THE EXPERIENCE FUN AND REALISTIC, BUT IS SCIENTIFICALLY, SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN THAT VR HELPS WITH THERAPY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, SUCH AS CEAL POLICY.
ONE EXAMPLE OF POWER SOLUTION IS BETTER THAN THE CURRENT SOLUTION IS BECAUSE OUR SOLUTION IS EVERY DIRECTIONAL WOMEN MOVES IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO US AT GOLDEN FLAS101@GMAIL.COM FOR ANY FEEDBACK OR QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU FOR, UH, YOUR ADVOCACY AND BEING REAL LEADERS IN, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY REALLY APPRECIATE, UM, THE FACT THAT WE'RE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, UH, SOME OF THE EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS IN HER TOWN.
AND I SHOULD ALSO MENTION MY, UH, ESHA.
UM, THERE, SHE, SHE SPOKE, UH, TO THE TOWN BOARD ABOUT THE NEED FOR FORT HILL SIDEWALK AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHICH FUND, UH, COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS AND JIM, AND THEY'RE WORKING ON, UM, UH, THE FIRST LEG OF THE, UH, THE SIDEWALK FROM, UM, UH, LONG VIEW ON FORT HILL TO, UM, UH, TO LEY ROAD, AND THEN FROM, FROM LEY ROAD TO, UH, TO THE SCHOOLS.
SO THAT COULD BE DONE, UM, AS EARLY AS THIS YEAR.
SO, UM, MAYA STARTED HER ADVOCACY IN SIXTH GRADE AND IS ALREADY AN EFFECTIVE, UM, ADVOCATE FOR, UM, LEGISLATION AND IT SHOWING THAT SHE HAS THE ABILITY OF GETTING GOVERNMENT TO LISTEN TO HER.
SO, YOU KNOW, I EXPECT GREAT THINGS FROM ALL THE STUDENTS WHO MADE PRESENTATIONS.
YOU'RE GONNA BE GREAT SUCCESSES.
NEXT ON THE AGENDA, NEXT, CAN YOU JUST PULL UP THE AGENDA? YEP.
NOW WE HAVE, UM, LEHI
IT'S A REALLY EXCITING INITIATIVE.
GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, AND THANKS FOR HAVING US HERE.
MY NAME IS NHI PILORI, AND I'M A JUNIOR AT EDGEMONT HIGH SCHOOL.
TODAY WE'LL BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT PIPING, A NONPROFIT THAT I FOUNDED.
PIPING OFFERS FREE WRITING CLASSES TO KIDS IN GRADES K THROUGH FIVE, AND IT IS POWERED BY AI OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
MY NAME IS SOYA SANG, AND I'M A FRESHMAN OF THE WHITE PLAINS HIGH SCHOOL.
I'M THE LEAD INSTRUCTOR AT PIEING.
I'M A JUNIOR AT EDGEMONT HIGH SCHOOL, AND ALSO AN INSTRUCTOR AT PIEING.
WRITING EDUCATION IS INTEGRAL TO EVERY CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT.
TO QUOTE BILLIONAIRE WARREN BUFFET, THE ONE EASY WAY TO BECOME WORTH 50% MORE THAN YOU ARE NOW IS TO HONE YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS, BOTH WRITTEN AND VERBAL.
HOWEVER, IN ORDER FOR STUDENTS TO IMPROVE THEIR WRITING ABILITIES, THEY NEED CUSTOMIZED FEEDBACK WITH, SADLY, A LOT OF EDUCATORS AREN'T ABLE TO GIVE
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DUE TO THE TIME AND EXPENSE INVOLVED.I'M VERY INTERESTED IN EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, ESPECIALLY AI, AND HAVE FOUND THAT AI CAN BE TRAINED TO PROVIDE WRITING FEEDBACK ON TEXT SAMPLES.
THIS IS HOW THE IDEA FOR PIPING A CLASS WHERE EACH CHILD GETS INDIVIDUALIZED FEEDBACK FROM AI WAS BORN.
OUR PROGRAM HAS DIFFERENT CLASSES LEADING FROM SIX TO SEVEN, EITHER ON THURSDAYS OR SUNDAYS THROUGH ZOOM.
THE CLASSES HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED BASED ON YOUR LEVEL SO FAR.
BUT MOVING INTO SESSION THREE, WE ARE PLANNING ON HAVING CLASSES BASED ON SKILL LEVEL TO BETTER SUIT THE STUDENT'S NEEDS.
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE ABOUT 25 PARTICIPANTS IN OUR PROGRAM.
WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE GROWTH WE'VE HAD GOING FROM 10 KIDS IN SESSION ONE TO 25 KIDS.
IN SESSION THREE, WE HOPE TO CONTINUE EXPERIENCING GROWTH IN COMING SESSIONS.
OUR LESSON PLANS ARE BASED ON THE KIDS' INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.
IF WE FEEL THAT THEY NEED PARTICULAR HELP WITH SOMETHING, WE TAILOR OUR LESSON PLANS TOWARDS THEM BASED ON THE FEEDBACK GIVEN FROM OUR AI TOOL.
FOR EXAMPLE, IN ONE OF THE CLASSES I'VE TAUGHT, WE'VE REVIEWED HOW TO WRITE PERSUASIVE ESSAYS.
AT THE END OF THESE LESSONS, THEY SHOWN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MENT IN THEIR ABILITY TO PERSUADE AUDIENCES TO AGREE WITH THEIR POINT OF VIEW.
OTHER PROJECTS WE'VE DONE INCLUDE HOW TOS, A MOCK DEBATE, AND HALLOWEEN AND HOLIDAY SHORT STORIES.
OUR PARTICIPANTS ARE FROM THE TRI-STATE AREA AND SPAN THE SOCIOECONOMIC SPECTRUM.
THE PROGRAM RECEIVED POSITIVE FEEDBACK FROM THE KIDS AND PARENTS.
NOT ONLY HAVE THEY IMPROVED IN THEIR WRITING ABILITIES, BUT AS ONE PROUD PARENT TELLS US, IT SHOWED IN HER SON'S REPORT CARD BRINGING HIM THE HIGHEST GRADE GIVEN OUT.
THE KIDS ALSO SEEM TO ENJOY IT AND LOOK FORWARD TO BEING IN CLASS.
THUS FAR, WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN THE TRI-STATE AREA.
RECENTLY, HOWEVER, I FOUND THAT THERE IS A REFUGEE COMMUNITY FROM BHUTAN, A SMALL COUNTRY BORDERING INDIA AND TIBET LOCATED IN CENTRAL OHIO.
MOST OF THE PARENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH, SO WE ARE NOW WORKING TO PIPING TO TEACH WRITING TO THE CHILDREN OF THIS COMMUNITY.
IN ORDER TO HELP THESE FAMILIES, WE ARE ALSO HOLDING A TABLET DRIVE TO COLLECT NEW OR GENTLY USED TABLETS FROM PIPING FAMILIES AND DISTRIBUTE THEM TO THIS COMMUNITY TO MAKE ACCESSIBILITY TO PIPING EASIER.
THROUGH THESE EFFORTS, WE HOPE TO FULFILL PIPING'S MISSION, DEMOCRATIZING WRITING EDUCATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY.
THIS IS REALLY AN AMAZING INITIATIVE THAT YOU'RE DOING, AND, UM, WE'RE REALLY SO GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE SO MANY BRIGHT, UH, YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO ARE GIVING BACK, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY AND HELPING TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT YOUNGER PEOPLE HAVE, UH, THE BEST POSSIBILITIES OF SUCCESS.
AND THIS IS REALLY WHAT COMMUNITY IS ABOUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS AND RESIDENTS HELPING, UM, YOU KNOW, HELPING THEIR, UH, YOU KNOW, THEIR NEIGHBORS.
AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO MENTION, BEFORE WE GO INTO, UM, THE, UM, UH, THE POLICE REPORT, I'D JUST LIKE TO ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE CAROL ALLEN FOR HEADING UP OUR COVID, UM, ANGELS, UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM.
UM, THANKS TO CAROL'S EFFORT, UM, WE, UM, THERE WERE OVER A HUNDRED, UM, ABOUT OVER 180 VOLUNTEERS, AND THERE'S STILL MORE EVERY SINGLE DAY HELPING, UM, UH, SENIOR CITIZENS, UM, GET, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, GET THE, YOU KNOW, VACCINATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT CAROL'S HELP, WE NEVER WOULD'VE BEEN ABLE TO, UM, MAKE, YOU KNOW, MAKE THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, HAPPEN.
I JUST WANNA READ A VERY SHORT EXCERPT FROM, UM, SOMEBODY WHO GOT HELP.
HE SAID, I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR REFERRING ME TO INTERVIEW VOLUNTEERS.
I'M NOT GONNA MENTION THE PERSON'S NAME.
SHE REACHED OUT TO ME JUST TWO DAYS AGO, AND LAST NIGHT SHE FOUND A SPOT FOR ME AT A PRIVATE PHARMACY IN ELMSFORD FOR FEBRUARY 16TH.
I'M OVERJOYED AS I'M A WIDOWER.
I TEXTED HELEN THIS MORNING AND I TOLD HER SHE WAS OFFICIALLY IN MY VALENTINE, AND WE'VE GOTTEN NONE, SO MANY, UM, UM, LETTERS AND EMAILS, UM, FROM, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM PEOPLE WHO, UM, APPRECIATE LIKE, YOU KNOW, CAROL, UH, DID, UM, TONIGHT, UH, LES HOLT ON, UH, THE N B C NATIONAL NEWS ON PROFILE, THE GREENBERG COVID ON ANGELS ON, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO, UH, AGAIN, THANK CAROL FOR BEING AN EXCEPTIONAL, UH, LEADER.
YOU KNOW, VERY, VERY GOOD ORGANIZER.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF THE TOWN WAS CHARGED, UM, FOR ALL THE EFFORT WE WOULD'VE TO FILE BANKRUPTCY, BECAUSE, UH, THE VOLUNTEER, IT'S JUST AN AMAZING JOB OF TEAM LEADERS, ORGANIZERS, PEOPLE, UH, FOLLOWING UP.
CAROL, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK YOU'RE JUST AN AMAZING, UH,
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HUMAN BEING.AND I JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR, UH, EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE TO REDUCE THE STRESS LEVELS OF SO MANY, UH, SENIORS IN THE TOWN.
YOU KNOW, WOULD YOU JUST LIKE TO MENTION ANYTHING THAT YOUR COMMITTEE, WELL, FIRST I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION, BUT THE HARD WORK IS REALLY BEING DONE BY ALL OF OUR VOLUNTEERS.
I'M SIMPLY ONE OF THE ORGANIZING TEAM WHO HAS BEEN WORKING ON THIS CLOSE TO ROUND THE CLOCK FOR THE PAST MONTH.
ELISE KERAN LAKE AND MASTERSON AND KATE LASIK ARE THE ONES WHO'VE BEEN DOING MOST OF THE BEHIND THE SCENES WORK, WHICH HAVE MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH OUT TO THE SENIORS AND TO TRY AND MAKE APPOINTMENTS FOR THEM.
SO I THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING ALL OF OUR HARD WORK.
IT IS GREATLY APPRECIATED, AND PEOPLE APPRECIATE YOU.
SO THANK YOU AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
NOW, UM, WE'RE GONNA, UM, HEAR FROM, UH, COUNCILWOMAN, UH, GINA, UM, JACKSON, WHO I THINK DID AN INCREDIBLE JOB, UH, DURING THE PAST, UM, YOU KNOW, COUPLE MONTHS WITH HER, UM, UH, GREENBERG COMMITTEE AGAINST SYSTEMIC, UH, RACISM.
UM, REALLY TOOK THE JOB, UH, SERIOUSLY.
UM, AND WE'RE GONNA HEAR ABOUT HER REPORT, UH, TODAY, SO THANK YOU.
UM, SO BEFORE I GET INTO TALKING ABOUT, UM, THE GREEN BOOK AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM TASK FORCE, I WANTED TO SHARE A DEFINITION.
I FOUND, UM, WHAT IS SYSTEMIC RACISM? WHAT IS DEFINED AS A FORMALIZATION OF A SET OF INSTITUTION, HISTORICAL CULTURE, AND INTERPERSONAL PRACTICES WITHIN A SOCIETY THAT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, PUTS ONE SOCIETY OR AT GROUP IN A BETTER POSITION TO SUCCEED, AND AT THE SAME TIME DISADVANTAGES OTHER GROUPS IN A CONSTANT AND CONSTANT MANNER THAT DISPARITIES DEVELOP BETWEEN GROUPS OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.
AND LISTENING TO THAT AND READING THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN IS WHAT CHARGE ME TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO ENSURE THAT AS A COUNSELING PERSON, AS WE CONTINUE TO TAKE PRIDE IN THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF GREEN, THAT WILL ALSO ENSURE THE EQUALITY LIFE OF GREENBERG AND EQUALITY INCLUDES IMPORTANT AREAS SUCH AS HOUSING, HEALTHCARE, EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.
SO, GREEN WORK AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM TASK FORCE, IT WAS ESTABLISHED BY RESOLUTION PASSED ON JULY 21ST, 2020.
OUR MISSION IS TO IDENTIFY AND ERADICATE THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF SYSTEMIC RACISM, INCLUDING, AND NOT ONLY IN THE FIVE AREAS I JUST MENTIONED, AND THE TASK FORCE.
AND THE TASK FORCE ALSO HAS A STEERING COMMITTEE, WHICH CONSISTS OF SEVEN MEMBERS, A CHAIR FOR EACH COMMITTEE, AND A C MEMBER AND MYSELF.
SO WITH THE UNREST CHALLENGE IN OUR COMMUNITY, IT WAS EVIDENT THE IMPORTANCE TO BEGIN WITH THE AREA OF LAW ENFORCEMENT.
ITS MISSION IS TO IDENTIFY AND TO ADDRESS THE DISPARITIES FOUND IN THE TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS THROUGHOUT THE FULL LAW ENFORCEMENT PROCESS.
THIS MEANS FROM THE TIME THE INDIVIDUALS ENGAGED BY A POLICE OFFICER THROUGH THE COURT SYSTEM, THE FIRST OF THE BUSINESS OF THIS COMMITTEE WAS TO ADDRESS GOVERNOR CORNER'S EXECUTIVE ORDER 2 0 3, NEW YORK STATE POLICE REFORM REINVENTION COLLABORATIVE INITIATIVE ISSUED FOLLOWING THE HORRIFIC MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD AND OTHERS.
IN A FEW MOMENTS, YOU'LL HEAR FROM OUR CHAIR OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENTS OF ITS RISK OF OUR RESEARCH FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
IN SEPTEMBER, WE INTRODUCED THE HOUSING COMMITTEE AND BEGAN TAKING A HOLISTIC LOOK AT, AT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND ITS CONCERN WITH OUR UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING EXPRESSED BY OUR RESIDENTS.
AND IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WE'LL LOOK TO START BEGINNING WORK ON OUR ADDITIONAL, UM, REMAINING COMMITTEES, HEALTHCARE, EMPLOYMENT, AND EDUCATION.
BUT BEFORE I CAN TURN THIS OVER TO THE CHAIR OF OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE, I JUST WANNA STRESS TO EVERYONE, THIS TASK FORCE IN THESE COMMITTEES ARE NOT JUST POPUP POPUP COMMITTEES, THESE ARE ONGOING COMMITTEES BECAUSE THE WORK IS ONGOING.
SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT EVERYONE HAS A VOICE IN THIS.
IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW EVERYONE'S, EVERYONE'S VOICE.
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ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW THAT IS AFFECTING YOU, YOU WANNA HEAR ABOUT IT.WE WANNA FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN ADDRESS THAT, BECAUSE I SAID, SAID, AS I STATED EARLIER, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE AND ENSURE THE EQUALITY LIFE OF GREENBERG.
SO WHAT I'LL FIND, DO, I'LL HAVE TO TURN IT OVER TO MY CHAIR OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE, MR. CHA, MR. HOWARD TROUBLE, AND ALSO LIKE TO GIVE A BIG, BIG THANKS TO ALL OF THE MEMBERS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS HARD, HARD WORK.
IT WAS A, IT WAS ACTUALLY A GREAT TIME.
IT WAS BUNCH OF BROTHERS AND SISTERS, COUSINS AND EVERYONE JUST FIGHTING AND, AND, AND LAUGHING AND, AND REALLY COMING TOGETHER AND REALLY POURING THEIR HEART OUT AND REALLY TAKING ON SUCH A TASK THAT REALLY IS, UH, IT'S JUST, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S UNFORTUNATE.
I WOULD JUST SAY THAT TO SAY THE LEAST.
UM, AND ANOTHER BIG SHOUT OUT TO MS. CAROL ALLEN.
SHE WAS OUR COORDINATOR OF THIS TASK FORCE, AND I LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THIS TASK FORCE.
AND HOWARD, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, WELL, GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON.
UH, GOOD EVENING, MR. FINER TOWN BOARD MEMBERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
I AM HOWARD TROUBLE, CO-CHAIR OF THE GREENBERG AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TASK FORCE.
BACK IN NOVEMBER, WE PRESENTED AN OUTLINE OF OUR WORK.
THE COMMITTEE HAS FINALIZED OUR REPORT, WHICH WE SUBMIT TO YOU TONIGHT.
WE REQUEST THAT THE REPORT IN ITS ENTIRETY BE PLACED ON THE TOWN WEBSITE FOR PUBLIC REVIEW AND COMMENTS.
COMMENTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO US BY EMAILS AS WE ASK THAT YOU SCHEDULE A PUBLIC COMMENT SESSION AT AN UPCOMING TOWN BOARD MEETING TO REVIEW, TO RECEIVE COMMENTS IN PUBLIC AFTER RECEIPT AND REVIEW OF ALL COMMENTS, THE COMMITTEE WILL DETERMINE IF REVISION TO OUR RECOMMENDATIONS SHOULD BE MADE PRIOR TO THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE BOARD.
I WOULD LIKE TO START BY POINTING OUT THAT NONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMEND CUTS TO THE POLICE STAFFING OR FUNDING.
I REPEAT NONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS RECOMMENDS CUTS TO THE POLICE STAFFING OR FUNDING.
WE BELIEVE THAT IMPLEMENTING OUR RECOMMENDATIONS WILL RESULT IN IMPROVING OUR HIGH QUALITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS ALSO SEEK TO IMPROVE THE QUANTITY AND QUALITY OF POLICE RECRUITS.
THEY SEEK TO TRAIN OUR POLICE OFFICERS TO MORE EFFECTIVELY MANAGE THE TYPES OF ENCOUNTERS THAT OCCUR MORE FREQUENTLY WITH OUR CITIZENS.
RECOMMENDATIONS, ALSO SEEK TO IMPROVE AND STRENGTHEN RELATIONS RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE COMMUNITY IT SERVES.
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS SEEKS TO IMPROVE THE ABILITY OF THE DEPARTMENT TO IDENTIFY AND REMOVE ANY OFFICERS THAT MIGHT DAMAGE THE REPUTATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OR WILLFULLY CAUSE HARM TO THOSE, UH, THE POLICE ARE SWORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT.
LEMME MOVE ON TO THE CONTENTS OF THE REPORT.
FOLLOWING FOUR MONTHS OF RESEARCH SOLICITATION OF COMMUNITY INPUT AND DISCUSSION, IT WAS DETERMINED THAT FEAR OF INTERACTION WITH OUR POLICE OFFICERS EXISTS AMONGST MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
ARMED POLICE OFFICERS, ARMED UNIFORM POLICE OFFICERS CAN BE INTIMIDATING.
MANY EXPRESS THAT OVER POLICING OCCURS IN CERTAIN INSTANCE, AND THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN THE TREATMENT RECEIVED BY PEOPLE OF COLOR.
MANY EXPRESSED A DESIRE TO GET TO KNOW THE POLICE THAT WORK IN THE, IN OUR COMMUNITY.
IN A NON-CONFRONTATIONAL SETTING, RESIDENTS WELCOME THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO KNOW THE POLICE AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
THERE'S ALSO A STRONG DESIRE TO ADDRESS MANAGEMENTS OF SITUATIONS INVOLVING PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISORDERS.
SOME OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES INCLUDE IN THE AREA OF RECRUITMENT, HIRING AND TRAINING,
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CREATING WRITTEN DIVERSITY GOALS, ENHANCING RECRUITMENTS THROUGH MENTORING OUR YOUTH VIA POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE, AND THROUGH EDUCATIONAL INTERACTIONS IN OUR SCHOOLS, IN ORDER TO CREATE A POSITIVE YOUTH INTERACTION THAT MIGHT STIMULATE INTEREST IN CAREER AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.DEVELOPING A RECRUITMENT TEAM TO IN CONCERT WITH NEIGHBORING MUNICIPALITIES, TO SEEK OUT QUALITY INDIVIDUALS TO SHEPHERD THOSE MEMBERS THAT ARE TESTING AND SELECTED, UH, THROUGH THE TESTING AND SELECTING PROCESS.
LOBBYING ON THE STATE LEVEL FOR CHANGING THE LEGAL REQUIREMENT FOR HIRING, PROMOTION, AND DISCIPLINING THAT WILL IMPROVE THE ABILITY OF THE DEPARTMENT TO SELECT THE BEST QUALIFIED CANDIDATES AND ALLOW REMOVAL OF ANYONE FOUND TO BE UNSUITABLE FOR POLICING.
LOBBYING ON THE STATE LEVEL FOR CHANGING AND TRAINING, AND DE-EMPHASIZING THE USE OF FORCE.
AND TO EMBRACE USE OF SOCIAL SKILLS AND DEESCALATION, CHANGING LOCAL TRAINING AND EMPHASIZING DEESCALATION TECHNIQUES, PROVIDE CULTURAL SENSITIVITY AND ANTI-RACISM TRAINING, AND IMPROVE RECOGNITION AND MANAGEMENT OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS.
INCREASING PROCEDURAL JUSTICE SO THAT INDIVIDUALS NO LONGER SUFFER ARREST IMPRISONMENT OR EXCESSIVE PENALTIES FOR MINOR NON-CRIMINAL OFFENSES.
IN THE AREA OF OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
UNDERGOING A DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE TO MAKE FULL USE OF THE CAP, UH, CAPABILITIES OF EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES.
USE THE CAPABILITIES OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TO INCREASE TRANSPARENCIES OF DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS AND INCREASE ABILITIES OF OUR RESIDENTS TO IDENTIFY OUR POLICE OFFICERS.
IT ALSO CREATES A CITIZEN TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY BOARD TO ASSIST IN THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE AND PROVE THE PROCESS FOR FILING AND INVESTIGATING OF COMPLAINTS MADE BY CITIZENS.
REMOVE THE APPEARANCE OF A BLUE WALL OF SILENCE BY CREATING A CIVILIAN REVIEW BOARD FOR POLICE MISCONDUCT.
CREATE A PEER INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR OFFICERS TO INTERCEDE WHEN FELLOW OFFICERS REQUIRE INTERVENTION, BOTH ON AND OFF DUTY.
THIS SHOULD BE CO WITH FORMAL FITNESS FOR DUTY PROGRAMS. REVISIT THE ROLE OF THE EXISTING POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD WITH THE GOALS OF CREATION OF A MORE RELEVANT CIVILIAN POLICE REVIEW BOARD WITH AUTHORITIES TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE INPUT INTO THE ISSUES CONCERNING POLICE, OPERATIONS AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT IN THE AREA OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
ALL OFFICERS SHOULD HAVE THE DESIGNATION OF COMMUNITY RELATIONS AND BE, AND BE REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.
THE DEPARTMENT SHOULD REEVALUATE THEIR PROTOCOL FOR RESPONDING TO CALLS FOR SERVICE.
IN ORDER TO AVOID EXCESSIVE POLICE PRESENCE, GREENBERG SHOULD PARTNER WITH OTHER MUNICIPALITIES TO SUPPORT A CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM TO RESPOND TO 9 1 1 CALLS INVOLVING MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES.
THIS IS A SYNOPSIS OF OUR RECOMMENDATION.
A FULL LIST OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IS GIVEN IN SECTION SIX OF OUR REPORT.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO A HEALTHY DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE PREPARED FOR YOU.
BEFORE I CLOSE, I NOW WISH TO PRESENT THE MEMBERS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEES WHO WORKED ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS.
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THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR RECRUITMENT, HIRING AND TRAINING ARE AS FOLLOW, CAROL ALLEN, BRIDGETTE BROWN, LYNN GOODMAN, KEN JONES, LEON SMITH, THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR OVERSIGHT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.DONALD WILLIAMS, CLAIRE DEMAN, WIL PRESTON, PAT REEMS, TARA MARO, AND LES JOHNSON.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE FOR THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IS JAN FORTE DEL MAXIS.
I THANK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR VOLUNTEERING AND TIRELESS WORK.
WE ALSO THANK CHIEF MCNERNEY AND HIS STAFF FOR THE INPUT AND THE HELP IN PUTTING THIS REPORT TOGETHER.
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME COMMUNICATION.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO ADD IN MY REPORT, UH, THERE WERE SURVEYS THAT WE SUBMITTED.
THE RESULTS ARE IN THE REPORT, AND WE HAVE FULL RESULTS THAT WILL BE POSTED SEPARATELY IN ADDITION TO THE REPORT.
SO YOU CAN SEE EVERYONE'S RESPONSES.
UH, GENERAL, UM, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU.
UM, UM, WHAT SOME, LIKE THE NEXT STEPS, UH, NOW THAT YOU MADE THE PRESENTATION, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT FOLLOWS UP IN TERMS OF, UH, POSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION, RIGHT? SO NOW THAT THE REPORT WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE, WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION IN BETWEEN US.
AS PEOPLE ARE REVIEWING THE REPORT, WE ASK TO PLEASE SUBMIT ALL OF YOUR QUESTIONS, ANY, ANY CONCERNS THAT YOU HAVE A REPORT.
AND THEN PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK.
DO YOU WANT WRITING? OR THEY CAN DO, THEY CAN DO A VIA EMAIL IN PUBLIC HEARING.
SO WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THE TOWN WILL SCHEDULE LIKE A PUBLIC HEARING? LET'S SAY SOMETIME IN, MAYBE SOMETIME IN MARCH? UH, UM, I MARCH, GO AHEAD, FRANCE, MARCH 10TH IS WHAT WE SCHEDULED TO LOOK AT, I THINK FRANCE, MARCH, MARCH 10TH.
IT'S ALREADY IN THE TWO FROM MARCH 10TH AND AS A FALLBACK MARCH 24TH.
UM, AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE TASK FORCE HAS, THE TASK FORCE HAS BEEN GETTING PUBLIC COMMENT ALL ALONG.
AND, AND THIS IS NOW A REQUIREMENT THAT THE FINAL DOCUMENT ALSO NEEDS TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT ON IT.
SO THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THEY'RE SEEKING PUBLIC COMMENT ON THE REPORT.
THEY'VE BEEN DEVELOPING IT ALL ALONG AND NOW, UH, THAT THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, DETERMINED FROM THE DETAIL, SO TO SPEAK.
SO THE PUBLIC HAS THE OPPORTUNITY NOW TO LOOK AT THE ACTUAL, FINAL, FINAL VERSION.
UM, AND THEY MAY MODIFY IT BASED ON THE, THE PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT THEY GET.
PAUL, EVERYONE IS OPEN TO REVIEW THE REPORT.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK FROM EVERYONE.
OH, I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO ALSO THANK, UM, UH, UH, I'M SORRY, ALFREDO WILLIAMS, MARY JAMES KY, AND TOM ATI, WHO ALSO SUPPORTED AND PARTICIPATED IN OUR MEETINGS IN ADDITION TO, UH, LEMME SAY HIS NAME WRONG, UH, HOWARD FROM THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
ADE MEER, WHO IS NO LONGER WITH THE ATTORNEY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, BUT HE WAS, UH, HE PARTICIPATED US.
SO I WANNA SAY THANK YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TOO, FOR AND YOUR STAFF, FOR YOUR HONEST FEEDBACK.
UM, WE TRULY APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU HAD GIVEN TO US.
I KNOW THAT THE COUNTY COMMITTEE HAS COME UP WITH, UM, THEIR OWN RECOMMENDATIONS AND, YOU KNOW, I'M SORT OF WONDERING IF, AND, YOU KNOW, ALL THE COMMUNITIES IN NEW YORK STATE ARE GONNA DOING THE SAME THING, WONDERING IF, UM, YOU, THERE'S GONNA BE LIKE MEETINGS, EVEN A FORMAL MEETINGS WITH SOME OF THE PARTICIPANTS, THEY WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE COUNTY REPORT OR EVEN, UH, OTHER COMMUNITIES REPORTS.
AND THEN WE COULD, UH, SO SHARE WHAT EACH COMMUNITY OF THE COUNTY IS DOING AND PERHAPS EVEN GET ON, YOU KNOW, ADDITIONAL, UM, SUGGESTIONS OR THOUGHTS BASED ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT OTHER, UH, COMMITTEES ARE RECOMMENDING.
UM, DURING THE PROCESS, MR. FINE, WE ACTUALLY MET WITH, UM, SOME OF THE, UM, MEMBERS OF THE, UH, COUNTY, UM, UH, COMMITTEE.
SO WE MET WITH MAYOR BRADLEY, CAME AND MET WITH THE COMMUNITY, MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.
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YOU.WELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.
I KNOW THIS TOOK MANY, MANY, YOU KNOW, HOURS.
AND I, I READ THE REPORT, UM, YOU HAVE COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON SENT IT TO US AND REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.
MAY I MAKE ONE COMMENT, PLEASE? THE ONE NAME THAT WE DID NOT CALL THAT WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE IS JANICE GRIFFITH.
PROJECT TO HEAD NOT TO THE HEART, PLEASE.
AND JANICE IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE WHITE PLAINS GREEN BIRD CHAPTER OF THE NAACP.
[ TOWN CLERK COMMENTS]
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE, UH, WE JUST LIKE TO SHARE THAT, UM, A 400 YEARS PROJECT, A COUNTYWIDE COLLABORATIVE HAS AN EVENT COMING UP.
UM, WE WERE APPROACHED BY A PROFESSOR, A PROFESSOR OF JOHN JAYS SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, WHO, UM, WILL BE SHARING HER ONE ACT PLAY CALLED SHOCKED COLON, OR CAUGHT SOUL, AND IT'S ABOUT A YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN, UM, MALE TEENAGER WHO WAS, UM, UH, UNARMED TEENAGER WHO WAS KILLED BY A CAUCASIAN POLICE OFFICER, AND THE TEENAGER COMES BACK TO TROUBLE.
UM, THE OFFICER'S, UM, CONSCIENCE IN TERMS OF SPEAKING ABOUT WHO HE REALLY IS AND YOU KNOW, WHAT HIS POTENTIAL WAS IN LIFE AND, YOU KNOW, WHY WAS THIS DECISION MADE TO SNUFF OUT HIS LIFE NOW, UM, I I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IT, IT WAS JUST, UM, COINCIDENTAL THAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN APPROACHED WITH THAT, UM, EVENT, BUT HOWEVER, IT'S SO MUCH IN LINE WITH THE CONVERSATION AND THE NARRATIVE THAT'S GOING ON AROUND THE COUNTRY.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT.
I WILL SHARE THAT WITH YOU AND HOPE THAT YOU WILL ATTEND IT'S NEXT TUESDAY THE 16TH AT SEVEN O'CLOCK AND SEVEN TWO TO EIGHT 30.
THE ONE ACT PLAY IS ONLY 30 MINUTES LONG, AND THEN THERE WILL BE A DISCUSSION FOLLOWING THAT.
AND SO HOPEFULLY, UM, YOU WILL ATTEND AND BE A PART OF THAT DISCUSSION.
NEXT, UM, UM, WE'RE GONNA CONSIDER A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC HEARINGS.
CONSIDER A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PREPARED UP BY J M C ON BEHALF OF BRIDGEWOOD ELWOOD, HONOR THE APPLICANT IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT OF EIGHT 15 OFFICER ROAD.
UM, OKAY, PAUL, ACTUALLY I DO HAVE A COMMENT TO MAKE DOWN QUICK COMMENT.
SO SHOULD WE GO AHEAD AND, AND, UM, HAVE YOU VOTE ON, UH, CAN WE DO THAT BEFORE OPENING THE PUBLIC HEARING? HAVE YOU HAVE A COMMENT BEFORE PUBLIC HEARING YEAH.
ISN'T NEXT, ISN'T IT? NEXT ON THE AGENDA? IS IT TOWN, TOWN CLERK'S COMMENTS NEXT ON THE AGENDA? YOU CAN JUST COMMENT.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS YOUR COMMENT TALKING ABOUT THE, UH, THE PLAY
UM, SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC, UM, THAT OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, WE HAVE BEEN GOING THROUGH A TRANSITION PERIOD IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK, UM, FROM THE FORMER, UM, UH, TOWN REGISTRAR TO THE NEW TOWN REGISTRAR, AND, UM, THE FORMER TOWN REGISTRAR SERVED THE TOWN, UM, OVER MANY YEARS, 10, 12 YEARS AT JOAN ETTE.
AND, UM, I AM NOW THE NEW TOWN REGISTRAR.
IT IS, IT IS NOT REQUIRED, IT'S NOT A POSITION REQUIRED OF TOWN CLERK, HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY TOWN CLERKS AROUND THE STATE WHO ARE ALSO REGISTRARS, AND IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE REGISTRAR TO REGISTER, UM, DEATHS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRODUCING DEATH CERTIFICATES AND MAINTAINING A RECORD OF DEATHS AND BIRTHS AND MARRIAGES, UH, IN OUR TOWN.
SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT OVER THE PAST FEW WEEKS, UM, WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH A TRANSITION AND, UM, I'M JUST SO EXCITED, UH, BECAUSE WE HAVE, WE WILL HAVE THREE NEW PEOPLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK WHO
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WILL BE SKILLED TO PROCESS, UM, THESE REQUESTS.AND, UM, IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS OR ANY PROBLEMS, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO SEND ME AN EMAIL.
DAVE BEVILLE, B E V I L L E@GREENBERGNY.COM.
BUT TO CALL ME ON THE OFFICE PHONE NINE EIGHT NINE ONE FIVE OH FOUR, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT, UM, TASK AND, UM, OF, OF THE TOWN, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY RESIDENT AND EVERY FUNERAL HOME FUNERAL SERVICE IS SERVED IN AN EXCELLENT MANNER.
IT'S REALLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT, UH, UH, THE, UH, THE INITIATIVE WILL BE, UH, YOU KNOW, A GOOD ONE AND SUCCESSFUL AND WISH YOU GOOD LUCK.
THANK YOU, UM, TO COME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS IN TAKING ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, TASK.
UH, AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK, THANK YOU, PAUL, FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND I'D LIKE TO THANK OUR TOWN ATTORNEY, TIM LEWIS, FOR HELPING TO FACILITATE THIS TRANSITION BETWEEN THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF OF HEALTH IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, WITH, WITHOUT, WITHOUT HIM.
I'M, I JUST, I, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST GONNA SAY THAT HE WAS A MAJOR PLAYER IN FACILITATING THIS TRANSITION AND BRINGING IT TO THE POINT OF EXCELLENCE THAT WE ARE AT THIS AT RIGHT NOW.
THANK YOU, TIM, AND THANK YOU ALL.
[ To consider a Draft Environmental Impact Statement prepared by JMC, on behalf of Ridgewood Elmwood Owner, LLC (“the Applicant”), in connection with the proposed residential redevelopment of 850 Dobbs Ferry Road (P.O. White Plains) (Public Hearing documents can be found: https://greenburghny.com/603/_-Active-Applications---Town-Board)]
SO THANK NEXT, UH, TO CONSIDER A DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PREPARED BY J M C ON BEHALF OF RIDGEWOOD ELWOOD, HONOR IN CONNECTION WITH A PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT.I'D LIKE TO MOVE VERY OPEN THE HEARING MARK.
SUPERVISOR FINDER, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD FOR THE RECORD, GARY QUE, COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION.
THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS A CONTINUATION OF THE HEARING HELD FOR THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT REGARDING THE PROPOSED PRESIDENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL AT THE ELLENWOOD COUNTRY CLUB ON DOBBS FERRY ROAD.
AT THE LAST PUBLIC HEARING, TOWN BOARD HAD REQUESTED THAT STAFF COORDINATE WITH THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ON RECEIVING D E I S COMMENTS.
I'M GLAD TO NOTE THAT THOSE COMMENTS WERE RECEIVED TODAY.
THEY'RE POSTED ON THE TOWN'S WEBSITE.
I'VE REVIEWED THE STATE'S COMMENTS AND FEEL THAT THE D O T HAS RAISED SEVERAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS AND QUESTIONS THAT WHEN ANSWERED, WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL IN THE PROCESS AND HELP CONTRIBUTE TO A GOOD PROJECT AT THE SITE.
SINCE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON JANUARY 27TH, THE TOWN BOARD HAS RECEIVED D E I S COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSIONER OF PARK AND RECREATION AND A SUPPLEMENTAL LETTER FROM THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL.
THESE ARE ALSO POSTED TO THE TOWN WEBSITE.
ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE FROM RESIDENTS HAS ALSO BEEN RECEIVED VIA EMAIL, ALL OF WHICH ARE PART OF THE PROJECT RECORD.
I KNOW WE HAVE A GOOD NUMBER OF SIGNUPS FOR PUBLIC SPEAKERS THIS EVENING, SO I WILL CON CONCLUDE WITH A REMINDER THAT ALL COMMENTS ON THE PROJECT ARE CONSIDERED BY THE TOWN BOARD, BY TOWN STAFF, THE TOWN'S CONSULTANT, AND THE APPLICANT.
ALL OF THOSE COMMENTS ARE APPRECIATED REGARDING THE D E I S COMMENTS.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COMMENTS RECEIVED THAT ARE QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS FOR MITIGATIONS ARE THE TYPES OF COMMENTS MOST APPLICABLE TO RECEIVE FORMAL RESPONSES AT THE SUBSEQUENT FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PHASE AND RELATED DOCUMENT.
ANYONE LIKE TO, UH, SPEAK? THERE ARE MANY.
OUR FIRST REQUEST IS FROM DOREEN LIPSON.
UM, I LIVE AT 83 WINDHAM STREET, WHICH IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER FROM THE ELMWOOD COUNTRY CLUB.
LAST WEEK I SPOKE ABOUT A FEW ITEMS THAT MY WORTHINGTON WOODLAND CIVIC ASSOCIATION HAD CONCERNS ABOUT AS WELL AS RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN.
THE FIRST, UH, TOPIC THAT I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT IS THE POND ON THE DOBBS FERRY ROAD.
THIS MANMADE POND HAS BEEN FLOODING DOBBS FERRY ROAD FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, AND I'VE BEEN LIVING HERE ALMOST 50 YEARS.
IT SPILLS OVER TO BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD.
IT EVEN CREATES A FLOODING PROBLEM ONTO THE GOLF RANGE ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE PICTURES SHOWN IN VOLUME TWO OF THE D E I S, THERE ARE NUMEROUS PIPES EMPTYING INTO THIS POND FROM THIS PROPERTY.
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EVIDENTLY, THIS POND IS NOT STRUCTURED OR WAS EVER BUILT CORRECTLY, OR JUST NOT LARGE ENOUGH TO HANDLE ALL THE WATER FROM THE RAINSTORMS WITH CARS AND SCHOOL BUSES FROM THREE DIFFERENT SCHOOL BUSES, DISTRICTS, BEELINE BUSES, SANITATION TRUCKS, FOUR TIMES PER WEEK BACK AND FORTH, WHICH TRAVEL THIS ROAD.FIRE TRUCKS FROM THE WORTHINGTON, FROM THE FAIRVIEW FIRE STATION ON THE CORNER AS WELL AS POSSIBLE.
THE, WELL, IT IS THE MUTUAL, UH, THE, UH, HARTSDALE, WHICH WOULD HARTSDALE FIRE DISTRICT, WHICH TAKES OVER FOR THE NEW CHELSEA AND THE CARLSON'S NURSERY, ALL TRAVEL ON THE STATE ROAD THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
WHAT ARE THE MITIGATION PLANS TO ALLEVIATE THIS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS CONDITION? NEXT, THE FAIRVIEW FIRE STATION AT WORTHINGTON ROAD AND DOBBS FERRY ROAD IN THE D E I S, THE DATA FOR THIS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FIREHOUSE RIGHT ON THE CORNER IS ALL FORGOTTEN ABOUT OR TOTALLY NON-EXISTENT AS TO THE CALL VOLUME.
NOT ONLY IS THIS FIRE STATION RESPONSIBLE FOR CALLS IN THE AREA, WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE TO GO ONTO DOVES FER ROAD, BUT THEY ASSIST FAIRVIEW FIREHOUSE ONE AND DO MUTUAL AID WITH THE ELMSFORD FIRE DEPARTMENT, THE HARTSDALE FIRE DISTRICT, THE TWO STATIONS, SCARSDALE FIRE DISTRICT, WHITE PLAINS FIRE DISTRICT, ET CETERA.
AT THE SCOPING SESSIONS, WE ASKED TO HAVE DATA FOR THE CALLS MADE BY THE FAIRVIEW FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS.
WHERE IS THE DATA FOR THE CALL VOLUMES OF THIS FIREHOUSE? WE KNOW THAT WHATEVER IS GOING TO BE BUILT AT THIS SITE, BOTH FAIRVIEW CHIEFS OF THE FAIRVIEW AND OF THE HARTSDALE FIRE DISTRICT HAD CONCERNS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING TO INCREASE THIS STAFF AND EQUIPMENT DUE TO AN INCREASE, DUE TO AN INCREASE OF CALLS TO THIS AREA.
HOWEVER, IF THIS OCCURS, HOW DO YOU JUSTIFY HAVING THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES PAY 100% OF THE COSTS, BUT THE CONDOS WILL ONLY PAY 60%, YET THEY WILL RECEIVE 100% OF ALL FI FIRE DEPARTMENT SERVICES.
IT'S NOT FAIR THAT THE FAIRVIEW FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE HARTSDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESIDENTS HAVE TO SUBSIDIZE THE CONDOS FOR THESE SERVICES.
ACCORDING TO THE DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BY THE C A C TWO LETTERS AND THE WESTCHESTER PLANNING BOARD, TWO LETTERS, THEY DO NOT SUPPORT THE CONDOS FOR THIS SITE AND IS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 2016 GREENBURG COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN AND THE 2025 WESTCHESTER PLAN RESPECTIVELY.
IN ADDITION, THE WORTHINGTON WOODLAND CIVIC ASSOCIATION, WHOSE RESIDENTS ARE MOST IMPACTED, THE FULTON PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION, BAOT CIVIC ASSOCIATION, THE SEACOR HOME CIVIC ASSOCIATION, THE MEMBERS OF THE C G C A AND RESIDENTS FROM ALL OVER PARTS OF THE TOWN DO NOT SUPPORT HAVING CONDOS BUILT AT THIS SITE.
TAX REVENUE, DENSITY ISSUES, TRAFFIC ARE ALL CONCERNS.
LET'S NOT FORGET THAT THE ELMSFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE GREENBERG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT WANT SINGLE FAMILY HOMES INSTEAD OF THE AGE RESTRICTED 55 PLUS CONDOS AT A GREENBERG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING, TERRY WILLIAMS, A TRUSTEE, A BOARD TRUSTEE, STATED MONEY IS THE LIFELINE OF THE DISTRICT.
AS I STATED BEFORE, THERE'LL BE NO SCHOOL DISTRICT IF YOU DO NOT HAVE PROGRAMS TO OFFER THE KIDS.
GIVE US THE KIDS, GIVE US THE MONEY.
WITHOUT VIABLE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THE REAL ESTATE VALUES OF OUR AREA WILL DROP CONSIDERABLY, CONSIDERABLY PRESERVE OUR QUALITY OF LIFE AND THE CHARACTER OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
HOW MUCH MORE TIME, TIM? 22 SECONDS.
ALRIGHT, I'LL WAIT FOR MY NEXT FIVE MINUTES BEFORE I START MY NEXT TOPIC.
AND I JUST WANTED TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, AGAIN, SAYING THAT THIS IS, UH, NOT A HEARING ABOUT WHETHER PEOPLE FOR OR AGAINST THE PROJECT.
THIS IS WHETHER OR NOT YOU THINK THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT OR D E I SS IS SUFFICIENT.
AND IF YOU DON'T THINK IT'S SUFFICIENT, THEN ARTICULATE THINGS THAT YOU THINK SHOULD BE CHANGED.
I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT.
IS MELANIE AVAILABLE? SHE'S NOT A SPEAKER.
WE'LL GO TO, UM, TO JOHN MALONE.
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SUBMITTED A STATEMENT AND IT READS AS FOLLOWS.AS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF GREENBERG, IT IS EVIDENT THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR MORE RECREATIONAL SPACE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.
WITH THE ELLENWOOD PLAN, WE'LL RECEIVE 14 ACRES OF LAND PLUS A PARK BUILT AT NO EXPENSE TO THE TOWN.
I FEEL THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND EAST LUMBROOK PARK TO MEET THE GROWING NEEDS OF OUR YOUTH, WHICH SPACE CREATES SPORTS FIELDS FOR SOCCER, LACROSSE, BASEBALL, AND MORE.
THAT WILL INCLUDE WALKING PATHS AND A PLAYGROUND WHICH WILL MEET THE RECREATIONAL NEEDS OF OUR RESIDENTS IN ALL AGE GROUPS.
NEXT LETTER STATEMENT IS FROM FRANK AND LYNN ROBEL WROTE ROB ROBUSTELLI, AND THAT'S SPELLED R AS IN RICHARD, O B AS IN BOY, U S T E L L I.
DEAR SUPERVISOR, FINER AND TOWN BOARD, I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF BERG FOR 50 YEARS PLUS.
MY CHILDREN ALL USE THE LOCAL SCHOOLS AND USE THE PARKS THROUGHOUT THE TOWN AS WELL.
OUR DAUGHTER AND HER HUSBAND DECIDED TO RAISE THEIR FAMILY HERE IN GREENBURG AS WELL.
THEY NOW USE ALL OF THE WONDERFUL PROGRAMS THAT THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT OFFERS.
WHEN I HEARD THE PROJECT, UH, AT THE OLD GOLF COURSE, I WAS EXCITED TO HEAR THAT THERE IS A POSSIBILITY OF EXPANDING BROOK PARK AT NO COST TO THE RESIDENTS.
WHAT A HOME RUN, NO PUN INTENDED.
THIS IS UNHEARD OF, ESPECIALLY IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENT.
PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIP ON BY.
I LIVE ON HARTSDALE ROAD AND TRAVEL DOBBS FERRY ROAD EVERY DAY.
I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC ON THE ROADWAY BECAUSE UNDER THE PROPOSED PLAN, THERE WILL BE LESS CARS IN THE DEVELOPMENT.
I'M ALSO NOT CONCERNED WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
THEY WILL GET MORE MONEY THAN WHEN IT WAS A GOLF COURSE AND HAVE LESS KIDS TO USE THE MONEY FOR.
PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE AND BUILD SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WITH NO PARK DONATION.
THAT WOULD BE A, A HUGE MISTAKE FOR THIS TOWN.
AGAIN, FRANK AND LYNN, ROB ROBUSTELLI.
THE NEXT LETTER IS FROM ALAN RATNER, R AS IN ROBERT, A T E R TO SUPERVISOR FRYER IN GREENBERG TOWN BOARD.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, I'M A RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG.
IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT THERE IS A PROPOSAL REGARDING A POTENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMER ELMWOOD COUNTRY CLUB.
MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT A DEVELOPER IS REQUESTING A VARIANCE FOR GREATER DENSITY ON THIS SITE, AND IN EXCHANGE HAS OFFERED TO BUILD ATHLETIC FIELDS IN PARENTHESES BASEBALL AND SOCCER FOR USE BY TOWN RESIDENTS.
WHILE I UNDERSTAND ALL VARIANCES MIGHT BE MADE CAREFULLY IN THIS SITUATION, I BELIEVE THE BENEFITS OF CREATING ADDITIONAL ATHLETIC FIELD SPACE FOR OUR COMMUNITY WILL PROVIDE AN ENORMOUS BENEFIT TO TOWN RESIDENTS AND SHOULD BE APPROPRIATELY WEIGHED AGAINST CONCERNS FROM OTHER PARTIES.
FOR STARTERS, THE LOCATION OF THIS PROJECT IS IDEAL CONSIDERING ITS ADJACENCY TO EAST BROOK PARK.
BY IMPROVING THE TRAFFIC FLOW OF THAT AREA AND EXPANDING IT TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL FIELDS, THIS WOULD BE A HUGE
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BENEFIT TO ALL TOWN RESIDENTS THAT PARTICIPATE IN ATHLETICS.I HAVE HEARD A COUNTERARGUMENT FROM SOME THAT THE CONSTRUCTION OF THESE FIELDS WOULD COME IN LIEU OF A PAYMENT TO THE TOWN'S RECREATION DEPARTMENT.
WHILE THOSE FUNDS CERTAINLY MAY BE UTILIZED FOR FIGURE BENEFIT, ONCE THIS PROJECT IS DEVELOPED, WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO GET THIS LAND BACK.
THIS IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THOSE, I'M SORRY, THERE.
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT THOSE FUNDS WILL BE USED TO INCREASE FIELD CAPACITY, WHICH IS SOMETHING OR A TOWN DESPERATELY NEEDS.
BOTH OF MY CHILDREN ARE MEMBERS OF THE ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
AND WHILE I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT IS A GREAT, THAT IT IS GREAT THAT THE LEAGUE IS FLOURISHING WITH INCREASED ENROLLMENT IN RECENT YEARS, FINDING FIELD SPACE IS BECOMING AN INCREASING CHALLENGE.
THE CURRENT FIELD SUPPLY SLASH DEMAND IS NOT SUSTAINABLE.
OUR TOWN NEEDS MORE FIELD SPACE DESPERATELY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION RESPECTFULLY.
ALAN RATNER, R A T N E R, UH, JUDITH.
THERE ARE ALSO SOME, UH, SPEAKERS THAT ARE, THAT ARE PRESENT THIS EVENING AND I WONDER OKAY.
TO TRANSITION TO, UH, SOME OF THOSE SPEAKERS.
AND I KNOW IT'S DIFFICULT BECAUSE I, I THINK THE LIST I GAVE YOU MIGHT NOT DECIPHER THAT.
SO IF IT'S OKAY, I CAN KIND OF CALL OUT SOME OF THOSE SPEAKERS.
AND, AND WE'LL COME BACK TO ANY OTHER WRITTEN STATEMENTS.
I'LL LET YOU SIGNAL ME ON THAT.
UH, AS A LONG TIME RESIDENT AND, UH, SOMEBODY THAT CAME THROUGH, UM, A LOT OF THE ATHLETIC DEPARTMENTS IN, IN THE AREA, I MEAN, I THINK THE OPPORTUNITY, THIS PROPERTY IS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, AND I THINK WE HAVE A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT RIGHT.
AND I THINK EXPANDING THE ATHLETIC FIELDS AND GIVING US, UM, A COMPETITIVE WEDGE IN, IN TRAINING OUR YOUTH.
I HAVE TWO KIDS AND MYSELF, BUT I, I JUST THINK IT'S GREAT THAT THEY'RE GONNA POTENTIALLY HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY ALSO AS A REALTOR.
I MEAN, I THINK IT, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP THE REAL ESTATE VALUES IN THE AREA AND, UM, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT.
JORDAN BRENNER? YEAH, YOU KNOW, MR. BRENNER, BEFORE MR. BRENNER SPEAKS AGAIN, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T AGAIN MENTION THAT THERE'S A DOCUMENT THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING AT THIS HEARING AND WE ARE TRYING TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE DOCUMENT IS SUFFICIENT BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE A FINAL DOCUMENT.
SO IT'S REALLY NOT A HEARING ABOUT WHETHER PEOPLE LIKE THE PROJECT OR DON'T LIKE THE PROJECT.
IT'S ABOUT FINALIZING THIS DOCUMENT.
SO I THINK IT WOULD REALLY BE HELPFUL IF WE CAN HEAR COMMENTS ABOUT THE SUFFICIENCY OF THE DOCUMENT.
AND BY SUFFICIENCY YOU MEAN WHETHER OR NOT IT ADEQUATELY ADDRESSES THIS, THIS, THE SCOPE.
IS THAT, UM, ADEQUATELY ADDRESS, UH, MR. LEWIS? MM-HMM.
SO, UH, WE WERE NOT ACTUALLY AWARE OF THAT.
THIS WAS LIMITED JUST TO THE, UM, SUFFICIENCY OF THE DOCUMENT.
WE HEARD THIS WAS OUR ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY SPEAK ON THE PROJECT, SO I'M HAPPY TO WITHDRAW MY COMMENTS, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO, UM, SPEAK ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
YOU KNOW, BE ASHAMED NOT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF, OF OUR PRESENCE IN THE, IN THIS TIME.
YOU KNOW, GARY, YOU MAY WANNA JUST BRIEFLY OUTLINE WHAT THE PROCESS IS AND WHERE THE OPPORTUNITY WOULD BE FOR PEOPLE TO SPEAK ABOUT WHETHER THEY LIKE THE PROJECT OR NOT, JUST SO EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THE PROCEDURE WHERE WE'RE RIGHT.
SO, UM, DEFINITELY, I, I WOULD NOT CLASSIFY THIS, THIS PUBLIC HEARING THIS EVENING IS THE LAST OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IN THIS PROCESS.
RIGHT NOW, WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT PROCESS, AND THEIR DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT IS AVAILABLE ON THE WEB.
SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE ANYONE WHO HASN'T VIEWED IT TO VIEW IT.
IT TALKS ABOUT ALL THE ALTERNATIVES, UM, PROS AND CONS AND MITIGATIONS WITH REGARD TO EACH ALTERNATIVE.
UM, PROCESS WISE, FOLLOWING THE D E I S PUBLIC HEARING, UH, THE APPLICANT WILL, UH, ASSEMBLE ALL THE QUESTIONS AND MITIGATIONS THAT WERE GIVEN BY STAFF, UH, D O T INVOLVED AGENCIES, UH,
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THOSE FROM RESIDENTS AND COMPILE RESPONSES THAT WILL BE LOOKED AT BY THE TOWN AS PART OF WHAT'S KNOWN AS THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.THAT PROCESS WILL LIKELY HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING, SO THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REACT SPECIFICALLY TO THAT DOCUMENT.
UH, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UH, THE, THE, UH, SECRET PROCESS CONCLUDES WITH WHAT'S KNOWN AS AN, UH, A FINDING STATEMENT, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY THE TOWN BOARD AND VARIOUS INVOLVED AGENCIES MAKING CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW THAT THEY'VE DONE OF THE PROJECT, AND CONCLUDING WHAT IS THE PREFERRED AND BEST DEVELOPMENT FOR THE SITE, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY A VARIETY OF FACTORS INVOLVED THERE.
SO, UH, THERE, THERE'S EVEN INPUT AVAILABLE AT THAT, THAT OPPORTUNITY.
SO, UM, I, I, I DO, I WOULDN'T WANT RESIDENTS TO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T STATE THAT YOU LIKE THE PROJECT OR, OR DO OR DO NOT LIKE CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT, UM, I DO AGREE THAT THIS IS REALLY NOT THE, THE BEST TIME TO MAKE THOSE TYPE OF COMMENTS.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, YOUR EMAILS, WE, WE DO COLLECT THEM ALL.
AS I NOTED IN MY OPENING STATEMENT, WE DO SEND THEM TO THE TOWN BOARD, THE TOWN BOARD'S AWARE OF THEM, THE TOWN BOARD READS THEM.
BUT I DO AGREE WITH, UM, UM, TO NOTICE THAT THE APPROPRIATE COMMENT RIGHT NOW IS REALLY SPECIFIC TO THE D E I S AND THE ADEQUACY OF THAT DOCUMENT, AND WHETHER, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE, UM, ADDITIONAL, UH, MITIGATIONS THAT YOU THINK MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE PROJECT POINT OF INFORMATION.
MR. THE SUPERVISOR BEFORE MR. BRENNER SPEAKS, UM, DAVID STEIN'S, THE, THE APPLICANT'S ATTORNEY, UM, I JUST WANNA CORRECT THE COMMISSIONER AND THE KIND ATTORNEY AND REMIND THEM THE ADEQUACY OF THE DOCUMENT HAS ALREADY BEEN DETERMINED BY YOUR BOARD'S LEAD AGENCY.
YOU CONCLUDED AND ADOPTED A RESOLUTION THAT THE DOCUMENT WAS ADEQUATE WITH REGARD TO SCOPE CONTENT AND THE MATERIAL IN IT, AND YOU'VE OPENED UP A PUBLIC HEARING NOW FOR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS ON THE DOCUMENT.
SO THE DOCUMENT ITSELF HAS ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED BY YOUR BOARD WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF YOUR CONSULTANTS.
AND I WANNA MAKE ONE OTHER COMMENT IN RESPONSE TO SOMETHING THAT COUNCILMAN SHE AND I DISCUSSED AT THE LAST SESSION.
WE WERE QUITE MINDFUL, MY CLIENT AND OUR TEAM, THAT MANY PEOPLE SPOKE AT THE LAST SESSION AND JUST MADE COMMENTS.
AND COUNCILMAN SHANE WILL RECALL THAT I SAID, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE ARE COMMENTS, WE WILL ADDRESS THEM IN THE F E I S.
WE WILL TREAT THEM LARGELY WHERE WE CAN AS QUESTIONS.
AND IN FAIRNESS TO THE FOLKS LIKE MR. BRENNER WHO HAVE MADE AN EFFORT TO SHOW UP TONIGHT AND SPEAK, HAVING WATCHED HIS FELLOW CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS AT THE LAST SESSION MAKE COMMENTS, IT'S ONLY FAIR THAT MR. BRENER AND ANYONE ELSE THAT WISHES TO COMMENT, UH, SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMMENT.
WE WILL GROUP THEM IN OUR F E I S, WE WILL GROUP THE COMMENTS.
WE WILL NOT DO A RIGHT COMMENT NOTED ON EVERY SINGLE ONE, AND WE'LL INCORPORATE THEM WHERE APPROPRIATE INTO ANSWERS.
WHO'S OUR NEXT SPEAKER? UNLESS MR. BRENDAN WANTS TO SPEAK? WELL, I MEAN, I, I I GUESS IT'S STILL NOT CLEAR.
WOULD YOU PREFER THOSE OF US, AND THERE'S, AGAIN, QUITE A LOT OF US, WOULD YOU PREFER WE ALL JUST LEAVE AND COME BACK ANOTHER TIME? WHAT IS THE PREFERENCE OF THE, OF THE BOARD AT THIS, AT THIS POINT? UH, I, I, I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT IF YOU, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT THE D E I S AND YOU FIND THAT THERE, IT'S, IT, THERE'S SOMETHING MORE THAT YOU WOULD LIKE, MAKE YOUR COMMENT, AND AS, UH, MR. STEINMAN SAID, UH, THE ATTORNEY FOR THE APPLICANT, THEY WILL THEN WORK THAT INTO THE F E I SS THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, RIGHT? SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE ON THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT, AND BY THE NAME DRAFT, IT MEANS THAT IT'S SUBJECT TO REVISION.
SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU THINK NEEDS TO BE REVISED IN THE D E I S, IN THE F A I S, NOW IS THE TIME TO SAY, AND SADLY, UH, MY CAREER AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST NEVER REALLY TOOK OFF.
SO I, I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ON THIS DOCUMENT.
UM, BUT AGAIN, UH, I, I WOULD APPRECIATE IN THE FUTURE FOR THIS MANY PEOPLE TO TAKE TIME OUT OF THE EVENING THAT YOU COULD BE CLEARER ON THAT.
THE, UH, THE COMMENT SESSION IS FOR A VERY NARROW SCOPE, UM, AS OPPOSED TO THE PROJECT AS A WHOLE.
UM, I, I JUST WANT TO, FOR THE RECORD, I JUST WANT TO SHARE THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY SIX ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS WHO HAVE, UM, SUBMITTED STATEMENTS TO, UM, BE READ INTO THE RECORD.
UM, HOW WOULD THE TOWN ATTORNEY AND THE TOWN BOARD RECOMMEND THAT THOSE VOICES BE RESPECTED AND HEARD? JUDITH, IF I COULD, I KNOW KAREN LAB, BRUNO OF CHAZEN, THE TOWNS, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT FOR THIS PROJECT.
UH, I, I BELIEVE WANTS TO DISCUSS SOMETHING AND, AND PROCESS WISE MAKE SOME CLARIFICATION.
SO, CAMERON, YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK BRIEFLY.
UM, THE D E I S WAS, UH, DEEMED ADEQUATE AND COMPLETE ALL THE STUDIES THAT WERE REQUESTED AND INFORMATION THAT WAS REQUESTED AS PART OF THE SCOPE, UH, WERE,
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UM, PROVIDED WITHIN THE D E I S.THE, THE PURPOSE OF THIS HEARING IS FOR THE PUBLIC AND, YOU KNOW, INVOLVED AGENCIES, INTERESTED AGENCIES TO PUT OUT THE QUESTIONS THAT THEY HAVE ON THE PROJECT THAT REMAIN QUESTIONS THAT WEREN'T ANSWERED.
UM, AS PART OF THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE DOCUMENT, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO HEAR, UM, THE, THE THOUGHTS, THE COMMENTS, THE CONCERNS OF EVERYBODY, OBVIOUSLY.
AND I WOULD JUST SUGGEST THAT IF YOU CAN REVISE THOSE COMMENTS IN YOUR MIND INTO QUESTIONS, UH, IT WILL BE MORE PRODUCTIVE FOR YOU IN THE LONG RUN, AND THAT THE APPLICANT WILL BE POINTS TO RESPOND TO THOSE QUESTIONS.
SO, I, I MEAN, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN READ INTO THE CONTEXT OF YOUR COMMENT AND BE RESPONSIVE TO THAT, BUT IF YOU CAN ALTER IT TO BE A QUESTION, IT'LL BE MORE FUNCTIONAL IN THE LONG RUN.
SO BASICALLY, UM, IS, UM, ANYONE THAT'S SIGNED UP, WE ABSOLUTELY CALL ON THEM.
AND, UM, BY ALL MEANS, IF YOU WANNA SPEAK, WE, WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
AND IF YOU SIGNED UP AND YOU DON'T WANNA SPEAK AFTER HEARING WHAT YOU'VE HEARD, YOU KNOW, IT'S IF THAT'S YOUR CHOICE AS WELL.
UM, SO I, I WOULD JUST CONTINUE TO CALL ON, UH, SPEAKERS, IF IT'S OKAY.
UH, HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE? UH, I BELIEVE SIX MORE.
UM, I, I HAVE TO ADMIT, I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT I SHOULD, I SHOULD SPEAK
I AGAIN, PLEASE, YEAH, IF YOU'D LIKE, I'M HAPPY TO EMAIL MY REMARKS IN, UH, TO, UH, UH, I THINK YOUR ADDRESS, FRANCIS, IS THE ONE THAT, THAT, UH, SENT US THE INFORMATION ABOUT TONIGHT, IF THAT'S EASIER.
UM, WE HERE, WHY DON'T YOU SAY WE DO BOTH ACTUALLY.
YEAH, I THINK WE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SHOULD BE SPEAKING BECAUSE THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING, AND I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO FEEL, OH, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS ISN'T LIKE A TOTAL COURT OF LAW WHERE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, UH, ARE SPEAKING A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN YOU SHOULD, THAT WE'RE GONNA JUST TELL YOU YOU CAN'T SPEAK.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE REALLY WANT HEAR.
SO, UM, I WILL, UH, SEND IN THE REMARKS AND IN THE INTEREST OF TIME, SINCE THERE ARE SO MANY MORE SPEAKERS, I WILL, UH, CUT SOME OF IT OUT IN VERBAL REMARKS ABOUT THAT.
UM, SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US, UH, A FEW MINUTES, UH, THIS EVENING, UH, TO TALK ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT PROJECT.
AND I JUST WANNA VOICE MY, UH, SUPPORT, UH, FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT PLAN, UH, PARTICULARLY THE PORTION OF THE PLAN, UH, THAT ADDS, UH, UH, AN EXPAND EXPANSION TO EAST RENBROOK PARK, UH, FOR, UH, NEW FIELDS AND A PLAYGROUND, AN ACCESS ROAD.
UM, I HAVE, UH, I'M A FORMER, UH, ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE, UH, EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, UM, SPENT MANY YEARS IN CHARGE OF ACTUALLY SCHEDULING, UH, FOR NOT ONLY THE LEAGUE AND FOR, UM, UH, FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL, BUT ALSO FOR OUR TRAVEL BASEBALL TEAMS IN TOWN.
SO, UM, I AM VERY, VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE, UM, THE FIELD AVAILABILITY SITUATION.
AND WOULD JUST NOTE THAT OUR, OUR TOWN IS IN, IN DIRE NEED OF ADDITIONAL FIELDS FOR RECREATIONAL SPORTS.
UM, THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY OF EDGEMONT DOESN'T HAVE A SINGLE TOWN PARK.
UM, AND WHILE PERIODICALLY WE GET ACCESS TO, UH, SCHOOL FIELDS, THOSE FIELDS ARE CONSTRAINED.
THEY'RE NOT AS WELL MAINTAINED AS TOWN PARKS.
UH, THEY'VE BEEN UNAVAILABLE DURING COVID.
UH, COUNTY PARKS ARE VERY, VERY HARD TO ACCESS.
THE COUNTY'S NOT NEARLY AS EASY TO WORK WITH AS THE TOWN.
UH, SOME OF THE PARKS THAT ARE IN THE INCORPORATED VILLAGES ARE NOT AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS OF, UH, TOWN OF GREENBURG, AND THEY JUST SIMPLY PUT, ARE NOT ENOUGH FIELDS.
AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NUMBERS ARE WORKING AGAINST US ON THIS.
UM, IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS, UH, ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE'S SPRING ENROLLMENT HAS GROWN FROM ABOUT 500 PARTICIPANTS TO 700 AND IN A SPRING SEASON, UH, WHICH NOW INCLUDES GIRLS SOFTBALL AND T-BALL.
UH, WE'RE, WE'RE NOW SCHEDULING FOUR 500 GAMES, UH, IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
UH, AND, UH, NOT ONLY IS THAT TRUE IN THE SPRING SEASON, BUT OUR SUMMER SEASON HAS GOTTEN MORE POPULAR.
UH, FALL SEASON, WHICH USED TO HAVE 30 OR 40 PARTICIPANTS, PROBABLY HAD OVER 200, UM, THE LAST TIME WE DID A NORMAL FALL SEASON TWO YEARS AGO.
UM, AND THERE'S ONE SORT OF, UH, HIGHLIGHT I WOULD GIVE TO THE FIELD CONSTRAINT, UH, BEFORE I SORT OF WRAP THINGS UP.
UM, UH, WHICH IS, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK PUTS A A FINE POINT ON IT.
SO THE ENTIRE TOWN OF GREENBURG UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG HAS ONE BASEBALL FIELD THAT IS REGULATION ADULT SIZE, ONE IN THE ENTIRE TOWN, UH, OTHER THAN A COUPLE ON SCHOOLS, WHICH AGAIN, UH, ARE NOT GENERALLY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
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ADULT SIZE, THAT'S ACTUALLY THE REGULATION SIZE FOR PLAYERS STARTING IN SEVENTH GRADE AT AGE 12.SO ANYONE IN TURN, GREENBERG THAT WANTS TO PLAY ORGANIZED BASEBALL ABOVE AGE 12 HAS ONE FIELD, WHICH IS LOWER BROOK, UH, EAST BROOK PARK LOWER FIELD.
AND, UH, THE DEMAND ON THAT ONE FIELD HAS JUST EXPLODED.
UM, IT'S USED BY ADULT BASEBALL LEAGUES, ADULT SOFTBALL LEAGUES.
IT'S THE HOME FIELD FOR EDGEMONT JUNIOR HIGH'S MODIFIED PROGRAM.
AND, UH, AGAIN, TO TALK ABOUT THE EXPANSION IN YOUTH BASEBALL, UH, AT THE ADULT SIZE LEVEL.
UH, FIVE YEARS AGO, UH, THOSE DIVISIONS FOR US HAD THREE TEAMS THAT WERE PLAYING ON THAT FIELD IN, IN THE SPRING ONLY.
UH, THIS SPRING WE WILL HAVE EIGHT TEAMS VYING FOR THAT ONE FIELD.
AND IN THE FALL WHEN SOMETIMES THAT FIELD'S NOT EVEN AVAILABLE, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO USE IT FOR SOCCER, WE'LL HAVE FIVE TEAMS VYING FOR IT IN ADDITION TO THE ADULT LEAGUES.
UM, SO I JUST CAN'T PUT A FINE ENOUGH POINT ON, UH, ON IT, HOW MUCH WE NEED ADDITIONAL FIELD SPACE FOR ALL SPORTS.
UM, AND THERE'S ANOTHER BENEFIT OF THE PROJECT, WHICH MAY BE A LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO, UH, THE, THE TOPIC WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SPEAK ON TONIGHT, WHICH IS THE IMPROVED ACCESS ROAD INTO THE PARK.
AND I'LL, I'LL JUST SAY, AS SOMEONE WHO IS CONSISTENTLY, UM, EITHER VERBALLY OR WRITING DOWN DIRECTIONS OF HOW TO GET TO EASTBROOK TO TOWN TEAMS FROM OTHER TOWNS WHO ARE COMING TO PLAY US IN OUR TRAVEL LEAGUE, UM, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE BIT EMBARRASSING, UH, THAT I ALWAYS HAVE TO, UH, WARN PEOPLE NOT TO TURN ONTO THE ONCOMING HIGHWAY TRAFFIC, UH, COMING OFF THE SPRAIN.
SO, UH, THAT'S ANOTHER BENEFIT HERE.
SO AGAIN, I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE.
UH, I'LL SEND IN, UM, UH, THE FULLER VERSION OF THE REMARKS, AND I DO, UH, ECHO, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO'VE SPOKEN THAT THIS IS REALLY A, A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY, UH, TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF NEEDED DEVELOPMENT AT NO COST.
UH, JOHN, I KNOW YOU HAD PROCESS QUESTIONS BEFORE, BUT DID YOU WANT TO COMMENT ON SPECIFIC TO THE PROJECT? I, I'LL BE BRIEF.
UM, I, I THINK IT'S VERY EASY SOMETIMES TO DISMISS SOMETHING AS A PARKS AND REC ISSUE.
IT'S JUST GAMES, IT'S JUST KIDS.
AND I CAN'T SPEAK TO THE OTHER ISSUES THAT YOU'RE CONSIDERING IN THIS PROJECT, BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT WE LEARNED ANYTHING FROM COVID IN THE SUMMER, ORGANIZED TEAM SPORTS FOR YOUTH.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT GOES SO FAR BEYOND LEARNING TO SWING A BAT OR KICK A BALL.
UM, MY SON IS A REALLY, REALLY HAPPY, JOLLY FOURTH GRADE BOY.
HE WAS A THIRD GRADER IN THE SPRING, AND WHEN WE LOST SCHOOL IN THE SPRING, I'D NEVER SEEN HIM IN THE STATE.
AND THE ONLY THING THAT PULLED HIM OUT OF IT WAS THIS SUMMER WHEN HE WAS ABLE TO JOIN HIS FRIENDS AND BE SOCIAL AGAIN ON A FIELD AND BE PART OF SOCIETY AGAIN.
AND I JUST REALLY WANNA IMPRESS UPON YOU, AS OTHERS HAVE SAID, THAT FIELD SPACE IS LACKING, AND THE ABILITY TO SHARE IN THAT ETHOS IS A PROBLEM ALL OVER.
THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE A LOT OF LIVES, TO EXPAND OPPORTUNITIES FOR A LOT OF KIDS.
AND I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THIS ISN'T LOOKED AT AS MERELY A PARKS AND REC OPPORTUNITY.
THIS IS YOUTH DEVELOPMENT AND, AND REALLY SERVING OUR COMMUNITY IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.
IT'S NICE TO SEE ALL OF YOU AGAIN.
UM, I THINK I, I RECOGNIZE MANY OF YOU, UM, AS A, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF BLOOMBERG, UM, FROM A FAMILY THAT'S VERY COMMITTED TO THIS TOWN.
UM, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT INCREASING OUR RECREATION SPACES.
UM, AT EAST BROOK, I, UH, GREW UP PLAYING SPORTS IN THIS TOWN, UM, FROM SEACOR TO RENBROOK, UH, AND YOSEMITE AND, AND ALL OVER.
AND OUR KIDS NEED MORE SPACES WHERE THEY CAN PLAY SPORTS.
AND THE IMPACT THAT SPORTS WILL HAVE ON THEIR OUR LIVES IS INVALUABLE.
UM, IF WE THINK ABOUT WHAT RECREATION CAN DO FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, I THINK IT IS THE ONE THING THAT UNITES THIS TOWN.
THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT DRAW US APART THAT I THINK THAT OUR RECREATION UNITES US.
UM, WHENEVER WE PLAY SPORTS TOGETHER, I ALWAYS THINK TO MYSELF ABOUT THE REPRESENTATION ON EVERY TEAM FROM EVERY PART OF OUR TOWN.
UM, SPORTS ALSO INSTILL CONFIDENCE, LEADERSHIP, UH, DISCIPLINE, ACCEPTANCE, UH, ALL OF THESE WONDERFUL THINGS IN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
AND I THINK THAT HAVING A SPACE FOR THEM TO DO THAT IS INVALUABLE.
AND THIS IS, LIKE IT SAID BEFORE, A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE PERFECT SPACE TO GROW OUR RECREATION DEPARTMENT AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR, OUR YOUNG CHILDREN.
AND THIS MAY BE A PROJECT THAT IS
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COMPLETE AFTER MY CHILDREN HAVE GROWN OUT OF RECREATIONAL SPORTS, BUT IT'S BIGGER THAN THAT.AND I REALLY HOPE THAT, UM, ALL OF YOU WILL CONSIDER THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING THIS SPACE FOR OUR CHILDREN AND FOR, YOU KNOW, THE FUTURE OF OUR TOWN.
SO, GARRETT, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WHO HAVE WRITTEN STATEMENTS ARE ALSO HEARD.
WHY DON'T WE, WHY DON'T ARGUE, DO A WRITTEN STATEMENT NOW AND THEN WE'LL GO BACK TO A, UM, A PHYSICAL PRESENCE.
SO THIS STATEMENT IS FROM BRIAN CUNNINGHAM, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD.
AS A GREENBERG RESIDENT, OUR CHILDREN HAVE GROWN UP WITHIN THE GREENBERG YOUTH ATHLETICS.
WHILE DOING SO, WE HAVE NOTICED A LACK OF THE FIELD SPACE AS OUR CHILDREN HAVE GROWN OLDER, RESULTING IN THEM HAVING TO LOOK FOR OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
IT WOULD BE IDEAL IF GREENBERG COULD OFFER HIGHER QUALITY FIELDS FOR OLDER ATHLETES IN BOTH SOCCER AND BASEBALL, SPECIFICALLY MORE 60 BY 90 FOOT BASEBALL FIELD AND FULL SIZE PERF FIELD FOR SOCCER.
THERE'S CURRENTLY ONLY ONE 60 BY 90 FIELD IN PARENTHESES, BROOK LOWER, TRYING TO SERVE THE NEEDS OF APPROXIMATELY 10 DIFFERENT TEAMS WHO ARE ALL TRYING TO PLAY OVER THE WEEKEND.
AND I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY FULL-SIZED TURF FIELD FOR SOCCER OR FOOTBALL.
AS SUCH, PLEASE CONSIDER ALLOWING THIS MEASURE TO BE APPROVED.
UH, RISHI? YES, THANK YOU, UH, SUPERVISOR.
UH, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD, UH, WE'LL START OFF BY SAYING THANK YOU.
I'VE BEEN RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF B SINCE 2005.
I KNOW AS, AS LONG AS SOME OF YOU HERE, BUT, UH, I TELL YOU, I DON'T PLAN ON LEAVING.
I TOLD MY WIFE THE OTHER DAY, I'M LIVING IN THIS HOUSE FOR THE LESS OF MY LIFE, AND THAT'S WHY I FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT WHAT GOES ON IN MY COMMUNITY.
UM, WELL, SPEAKING SIDE, TO SHOW MY SUPPORT FOR THE UNWORK PRESERVED PROJECT, UH, SPECIFICALLY THE EXPANSION TO EAST BLE PARK.
UM, ONE OF THE REASONS I CHOSE TO LIVE THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IS A FEELING OF COMMUNITY REGARDS OF WHERE GREENBURG LIVE, WHETHER IT'S EDGEMONT, IRVINGTON, EL STREET, ET CETERA.
WE HAVE MANY THINGS IN COMMON IN MUTUAL APPRECIATION FOR WHAT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG MEANS TO US.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BRINGS A LARGER COMMUNITY TOGETHER IS THE ABILITY TO ENJOY, EXCUSE ME, SHARE THE PARK AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES THAT THE TOWN PROVIDES.
OUR SEVEN FAMILY MEMBERS RESIDE GREENBURG.
CURRENTLY I'M RAISING THREE CHILDREN HERE, AGES 12, 10, AND EIGHT.
AS MY CHILDREN CONTINUE TO GROW AND USE MORE AND MORE OF WHAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS TO OFFER, I'M REALIZING THERE'S JUST NOT ENOUGH OUTDOOR FIELDS FOR US.
AND IT'S NOT JUST FOR MY CHILDREN, IT'S FOR THE OTHER CHILDRENS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND
THESE PARTS OF RECREATION AREAS ARE NOT ONLY BENEFICIAL FOR OUR CHILDREN, BUT FOR OUR ENTIRE FAMILIES AS WELL.
THESE AREAS SERVE AS A PLACE WHERE WE CAN ALL GO TO ENJOY NATURE, EXERCISE, OR GATHER WITH CLOSE FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
THESE FILMS ARE A PLACE THAT BRING TOGETHER THE GREATER GREENBURG COMMUNITY, AND AS A RESULT ARE EXTREMELY VALUABLE TO THE RESIDENTS WHO RESIDE WITHIN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
I BELIEVE WE'VE ALL BECOME AWARE OF THE BENEFITS OF OUTDOOR SPACE DURING THIS PANDEMIC.
NOT ONLY ARE THESE OUTDOOR SPACES IMPORTANT FOR OUR PHYSICAL WELLBEING, BUT ALSO FOR OUR MENTAL WELLBEING.
MANY OF US HERE CAN AGREE THAT THE OUTDOOR, UH, EXCUSE ME, SPACES PROVIDED BY OUR COMMUNITIES HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO OUR DAILY LIVES OVER THE PAST 11 MONTHS.
AS WE WE MOVE FORWARD PAST THIS PANDEMIC, I TRULY BELIEVE ONE OF THE POSITIVE OUTCOMES OF THE PANDEMIC WILL BE MORE AND MORE OF US WILL SPEND MORE TIME OUTDOORS.
UM, AS I MENTIONED ABOVE, AS WE TRY TO FIND MORE TIME FOR OURSELVES TO BE OUTDOORS, WE'RE FINDING A LACK OF SPACE FOR ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY TO USE.
UM, I WANT THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD TO THINK ABOUT THIS AS YOU PROCEED WITH THEIR DECISION ON THIS PROJECT.
I ALMOST THOUGHT WE WANNA CONTINUE TO INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES IN WAYS THAT BRING ABOUT POSITIVE IMPACTS TO ALL THE MEMBERS.
I BELIEVE THE ELMO PROJECTS ACHIEVES JUSTICE.
THIS ISN'T AN ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT WE PERSONALLY HAVE CHILDREN WHO BENEFIT FROM THIS PROJECT.
IT'S ABOUT THE BENEFIT OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
FOR ALL OF OUR FRIENDS ARE RELATIVES OR PEERS, THEY'RE FOR THE GENERATIONS TO COME.
IT'S NOT OFTEN THEY'RE GIVEN SUCH A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, LIKE THE ONE WE'RE BEING GIVEN THEM.
WE MUST SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY IS, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'LL HAVE THIS CHANCE.
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EL PRESERVE PROJECT TO INCLUDE THE EXPANSION OF EAST RUMBLE PARK.NOT ONLY ARE WE GAINING TWO BASEBALL FIELDS, A SOCCER FIELD THAT CAN BE USED AS THE CROSS, BUT AS MR. BLOOMBERG MENTIONED, THE ENTRANCE TO THE EAST RUMBLE, UH, RUMBLE PARK IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
AND I'VE PERSONALLY SEEN PEOPLE DRIVE ONTO THE EXIT RAMP OF THE SPRING PARKWAY.
I MEAN, IF THAT'S SOMETHING OUR COMMUNITY SHOULDN'T BE LOOKING AT, I DON'T KNOW.
WHAT IS THE FACT THAT THIS PROJECT INCLUDES THE RENOVATION OF THAT, WHAT I CONSIDER EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AREA.
UM, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THE TIME.
WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM ANDY FERGUSON.
AND JUST FOR THE RECORD, UH, EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT READING THE ADDRESSES, UH, THESE COMMENTS ARE COMING FROM ALL OVER THE TOWN, UNINCORPORATED AS WELL AS THE VILLAGES.
I HAVE TWO BOYS WHO ARE ACTIVE ATHLETES IN THE COUNTY, AND WE HAVE SPENT MANY AN HOUR PARTICIPATING IN GAMES AND PRACTICES AT RUMBLE PARK.
AS ANY COUNTY RESIDENT KNOWS, OPEN SPACE AND QUALITY FIELDS ARE BOTH A PREMIUM.
I BELIEVE THAT MORE FIELDS WILL ENCOURAGE MORE PARTICIPATION IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL ATHLETICS FOR OUR KIDS.
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT INITIATIVES LIKE THE ELMWOOD COUNTRY CLUB REDEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT WILL INCREASE THOSE SPACES AND KEEP OUR KIDS ACTIVE FOR YEARS TO COME.
ANDY FERGUSON, FERGUSON, F AS IN FRANK, E R G U SS O N.
I JUST WANNA MAKE A QUICK NOTE, UH, AS FAR AS SPEAKERS THAT, THAT I UNDERSTAND ARE ON THE ZOOM, THEY INTEND TO SPEAK STILL.
I HAVE, I JUST WANNA CALL OUT THE NAMES SO THAT IF YOU DO NOT HEAR ME CALL YOUR NAME RIGHT NOW.
I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND A CHAT OR PUT YOUR HAND UP VIA THE ZOOM AND LET ME KNOW THAT YOU INTEND TO SPEAK.
SO IF YOU DON'T HEAR YOUR NAME, PLEASE DO THAT.
SO, UM, JEFF SHERWIN MURRAY BOWDEN.
I DO HAVE A STATEMENT FROM VAR OSHA THAT I WILL READ.
SO IF I DID NOT JUST CALL OUT YOUR NAME AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ELMWOOD, JUST PLEASE SEND ME A CHAT AND WE'LL GET TO YOU.
JUST REALLY QUICK, CAN YOU, I ASSUME YOU CAN HEAR ME, UM, IN LOOKING AT THE D I S UH, AT THE, THE, THE DRAFT SCOPE, UH, DATED SEPTEMBER 25TH, WHICH I DON'T KNOW IF IS THE LAST ONE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS.
I, I'M WONDERING, AS I, AS I READ ABOUT THE, THE BASEBALL FIELDS IN THE MULTIPURPOSE FIELD, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S, IT'S A PART OF A, THAT'S A PART OF A DONATION, BUT THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS, IS THE DEVELOPER OBLIGED TO ACTUALLY FULLY BUILD OUT THOSE FIELDS AND GET THE FACILITIES READY FOR PLAY? OR IS IT JUST TO TOP SOIL AND THEN THE NET, THE BUILD OUT OF, OF THE FIELD ITSELF AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THAT, UH, OF THAT BUILD OUT IS ALL ON THE TOWN.
SO, SO IS THERE A SET OF PLANS FOR THE, FOR THE ENTIRE BUILD OUT WITH BATHROOM FACILITIES AND, AND ALL THE REST OF THE, THE, THE AMENITIES THAT WOULD BE NECESSARY THERE? THE
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL KNOW WHAT WE'RE GETTING.
UH, THIS NEXT STATEMENT IS FROM ROBERT FRIEDMAN.
DEAR COUNCIL MEMBERS, MY NAME IS ROBERT FRIEDMAN.
I'M HI, UH, THANK YOU EVERYONE.
AND FIRST TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UH, THIS IS MY FIRST TIME ON ONE OF THESE, UH, CALLS FROM ONE OF THESE MEETINGS.
FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
UH, I KNOW SOMETIMES EVERYONE'S QUICK TO SAY WHAT YOU SHOULD DO OR WHAT YOU SHOULD DO DIFFERENTLY, BUT THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
UM, MY NAME IS ROB FRIEDMAN AND I LIVE IN EDGEMONT WITH MY WIFE ELLEN, AND OUR TWO KIDS.
I HAVE A FOURTH GRADE SON AND A EIGHTH GRADE DAUGHTER.
UM, I GREW UP IN THE ORCHARD HILL SECTION OF GREENBURG IN ONE OF THE FEW CENTRAL SEVEN HOMES THAT GOT CUT OFF FROM THE PARK WHEN THEY PUT THE SPRINGBROOK PARKWAY IN.
SO I WAS ON THE ELFORD SIDE, BUT IT ENDED, UH, ALL OF THE GREENBERG SCHOOLS ALL THE WAY FROM WARBURG MANOR KINDERGARTEN THROUGH HIGHVIEW, THROUGH BAILEY, UP THROUGH WOODLANDS, WHERE I GRADUATED IN 82, VERY CONNECTED TO RENBROOK.
WE USED TO PLAY IN WHAT WAS REALLY THE RENBROOK.
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AND WHEN I SAY IT WAS A DUMP AND THERE WAS A LANDFILL, THERE WAS NO PARK THERE.UH, WHILE AS THE CHILD, THEY BUILT THE PARK AND I ATTENDED, UH, REC CAMPS ON THE FACILITIES, UH, BOTH TENNIS AND, UH, BASEBALL.
I CADDIED AT ELMWOOD ON THE BERRY LAND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I USED TO CARRY THE BAGS AROUND THE GOLF COURSE THERE.
UM, SPORTS, YOU KNOW, I'M GO WAY BACK INTO TOWN WITH SPORTS.
UH, BEFORE THERE WAS A YOSEMITE PARK, MY FATHER AND A BUNCH OF OTHER, A HANDFUL OF COMMUNITY LEADERS, UH, FOUNDED THE FAIRVIEW ATHLETIC CLUB.
SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW ABOUT THIS MAY NOT, BUT THEY BUILT THE FIELD THAT IS NOW YOSEMITE PARK.
THIS IS LONG BEFORE THERE WAS A CENTER.
NOW THE THEODORE YOUNG CENTER, UH, I SUPPORT THE TOWN FIGHTING TO FIND A WAY TO HAVE THESE SPORTS FIELDS.
I DON'T WANNA PERTAIN TO KNOW THAT ALL THE TRADE-OFFS ENVIRONMENTALLY, ALL THE TRADE-OFFS ECONOMICALLY ABOUT SINGLE FAMILY HOMES VERSUS, UH, VERSUS TOWN HOMES.
BUT THIS LAND FOR SPORTS IS IMPORTANT.
AND THIS TOWN HAS AN INCREDIBLE HISTORY OF BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER THROUGH SPORTS.
UH, IT SERVES AS A VEHICLE FOR OUR KIDS TO LEARN IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS, WHETHER IT'S BEING TEAMMATES, WHETHER IT'S LEADERSHIP, JUST TEAMWORK, GRANT RESILIENCE.
BUT SIMPLY PUT, AS MANY PEOPLE SAID, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE SAID THIS, SO WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH BALL FIELDS, WE DON'T, BUT IT'S GETTING WORSE AND IT'S GONNA CONTINUE TO GET WORSE.
AND THIS ISN'T JUST SOME CHICKEN LITTLE, THE SKY IS FALLING.
I THINK ANYONE WHO FOLLOWS THIS TOPIC KNOWS THAT YOUTH SPORTS HAS UNDERGONE A SEA CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY, AND IT CONTINUES TO.
SOCCER AND FOOTBALL WERE PLAYED IN THE FALL.
BASEBALL WAS PLAYED IN THE SPRING WHEN I GREW UP PLAYING HARTSDALE DADS CLUB SPORTS.
WE PLAYED SOCCER IN THE FALL AT C FOUR, AND THEN WE PLAYED ON THOSE FIELDS IN THE SPRING FOR DADS CLUB BASEBALL.
NOW, THESE SPORTS ARE YEAR ROUND, WHETHER PERMITTING, WE WILL GO ALL YEAR ROUND, BUT AT LEAST THREE SEASONS.
AND THESE SPORTS ALSO HAVE MORE KIDS PARTICIPATING, AND THERE ARE MORE SPORTS.
SO LACROSSE DIDN'T EXIST IN THIS AREA.
I MEAN, IT'S EXISTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS, BUT IT DIDN'T EXIST IN THIS AREA WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.
I PLAYED SOCCER GROWING UP, BUT SOCCER WAS A TINY, IT WAS A TINY JUST FRACTION OF WHAT IT IS TODAY.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO REMEMBER, LIKE PELE COMING IN THE SEVENTIES TO THE COSMOS IN NEW YORK.
I MEAN, SOCCER BACK THEN WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT.
UM, IF YOU LOOK, I LOVE THE FACT THAT THE TOWN WENT AND BUILT A CRICKET FIELD AT RICHARD PRESLER PARK.
I MEAN, THIS IS IN FRONT, ON THE FIELD, IN FRONT OF THE TWO SCHOOLS I WENT TO WEBB AND HY.
UH, BUT, AND I HOPE THERE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MORE CRICKET FIELDS.
BUT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S NOT JUST THAT THE SPORTS ARE BEING PLAYED YEAR ROUND.
IT'S NOT JUST THAT MORE KIDS ARE PLAYING SPORTS.
THERE'S ALSO THIS ECHO, IF YOU WILL, OF THE TITLE I NINE GENERATION GIRLS.
PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS IS SOARING.
GIRLS LACROSSE, GIRLS SOCCER, SOFTBALL, WHICH HAS GROWN BY LEAPS AND BOUNDS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I THINK, AND I'M NOT TOO FAR OFF ON THESE PROJECTIONS, WE WILL HAVE AT LEAST AS MANY GIRLS, AT LEAST HALF AS MANY GIRLS PLAYING SOFTBALL AS WE DO BASEBALL.
MATT LUMBER ON THIS CALL WAS TALKING ABOUT 800 KIDS.
WE COULD HAVE A THOUSAND KIDS IN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS, JUST IF THE, IF THE CURRENT TRENDS IN SOFTBALL CONTINUE.
SO SPORTS PARTICIPATION IS GROWING.
SO IT'S NOT JUST THAT THE KIDS ARE PLAYING MULTIPLE SPORTS AND PLAYING THEM YEAR ROUND.
SOME OF THE KIDS ARE PLAYING THE SAME SPORT FOR MORE THAN ONE TEAM IN THE SAME SEASON.
I GUESS ALL I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THERE AREN'T ENOUGH FIELDS, AND AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE SAID, IT'S, IT'S NOT JUST, IT'S A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY.
THERE AREN'T OTHER PARCELS OF LAND.
IT'S JUST THAT WE CAN ALL SEE THE TRENDS, WE CAN ALL SEE WHERE THERE'S JUST GOING.
AND THE NUMBER OF TOWN FIELDS RIGHT NOW IS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS, I MEAN, I HATE TO ADMIT I'M SHOWING MY AGE, BUT 50 YEARS AGO, MAYBE 48 YEARS AGO, ATWELL YOSEMITE WAS BUILT WHEN I WAS A REALLY LITTLE KID.
WHEN I WAS IN MAYBE FOURTH OR FIFTH GRADE, THEY BUILT, UH, WE BUILT BROOK.
BUT SINCE THEN, WE HAVE NOT ADDED THE TOWN FIELD YET.
THE PARTICIPATION IN TALENT IN THESE SPORTS IS PROBABLY MORE THAN TRIPLED, AND IT'S GONNA DOUBLE AGAIN.
UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF INITIATIVES.
WE HAVE A LOT OF INITIATIVES GOING ON RIGHT NOW TO TRY TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION AT, UM,
SO AGAIN, I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO VOTE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, BUT JUST PLEASE, WHATEVER WAY YOU VOTE, PLEASE CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF HAVING THESE DEALS.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION.
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ERIC, DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE ELSE ON YOUR LIST? UH, I DO MORE, UH, MADELINEMADELINE, IF YOU'RE ON, JUST PLEASE, UH, UNMUTE YOURSELF.
AS A FORMER PRESIDENT FOR THE FIVE YEARS, FOR FIVE YEARS OF ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE AND A BOARD MEMBER OF EIGHT YEARS, I KNOW PERSONALLY FIRSTHAND WHAT RECREATION SPORTS MEANS TO OUR COMMUNITY.
YES, THERE ARE THE BENEFITS OF GETTING THE KIDS OUTSIDE IN THE FRESH AIR AND PARTICIPATING IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, SOMETHING THAT IS DEFINITELY LACKING DURING THESE COVID TIMES.
BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, BLOOMBERG IS A MELTING POT OF COMMUNITIES THAT COME TOGETHER AND TEACH OUR CHILDREN AND PARENTS THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING ALONG WITH EVERYONE AND WORKING AS A TEAM.
RACE, COMMA, GENDER AND PHYSICAL ABILITY IS OVERCOME WITH PASSION AND COMPASSION AS KIDS JUST ACT LIKE KIDS.
IT ALSO OPENS THE DOOR FOR THE ADULTS TO BRANCH OUT AND BEFRIEND PEOPLE THAT THEY WOULD NOT COME ACROSS IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.
MY KIDS, MY WIFE AND I HAVE ENJOYED EVERYTHING BLOOMBERG HAS OFFERED US FROM LITTLE LEAGUE RECREATIONAL BASKETBALL AND RECREATIONAL SOCCER.
OUR BEST MEMORIES AND BEST FRIENDS WERE MADE ON THE BATTLEFIELD'S, I'M SORRY, AND COURTS OF GREENBURG.
AND THEY RANGE FROM PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN EDGEMONT, ELMSFORD, HARTSDALE, IRVINGTON, AND WHITE PLAINS.
OUR KIDS AND OUR FAMILIES ARE BETTER PEOPLE IN SOCIETY DUE TO THE PROGRAMS THAT GREENBERG OFFERS.
THE NAME IS SPELLED W AS IN WATER, U R T Z, B AS IN BOY, U R G E R.
UM, I KNOW COUNSELING JENNER YOU'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH MADE OSHA.
DID SHE IDENTIFY IF SHE WAS HAVING ZOOM PROBLEMS OR DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? YEAH, SHE WAS HAVING SOME CONNECTION.
SHE SAID THERE WAS SOUND ISSUES.
UM, DO YOU KNOW IF SHE DESIRES TO HAVE US READ FOR HER OR IS SHE GOING TO CONTINUE TO TRY AND GET ON? UH, I DON'T KNOW GARY, BUT I KNOW SHE DID WANNA SPEAK THOUGH.
SO I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE HER TO CALL WHEN JUDITH'S READING THE NEXT STATEMENT, SHE CAN CALL ME AND I'LL TRY AND WORK HER THROUGH A PROBLEM THERE.
UM, SO MURRAY BODEN SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
THE, UH, STATE OF NEW YORK HAS SOMEWHAT OVER A HUNDRED, 200 MILES OF SHARED TRAILWAYS, SHARED MEANING BETWEEN BICYCLES AND PEDESTRIANS PEOPLE.
AND THEY'RE ADDING MORE AND MORE OF THESE SHARED TRAILWAYS MONTHLY.
THEY JUST LAST MONTH ADDED SOME ON UPPER WESTCHESTER, OR MAYBE IT WAS ROCK, UH, PUTIN COUNTY.
MY QUESTION TO THE DEVELOPER IS, WILL YOU REPLACE THE SIDEWALKS AND CURBS WITH WHAT IS COMING IN TO BE ALL OVER SHARED ASPHALT TRAILWAYS? THE SAFETY ISSUE IS THEY JUST KEEP ADDING 'EM.
UH, LAST TWO WEEKS AGO, I WAS IN CONFERENCE OF THE NATIONAL TRAFFIC ENGINEERS AND THEY WERE PLANNING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS FOR THOSE SHARED TRAILWAYS ENVIRONMENTALLY.
AN AS FOR ALL TRAILWAY IS MUCH BETTER THAN A CONCRETE CURB AND A CONCRETE SIDEWALK.
SO MY QUESTION TO THE DEVELOPERS, WILL YOU CHANGE FROM CURBS AND SIDEWALKS TO A SHARED ASPHALT TRAILWAYS? AND IF NOT, WHY NOT? BECAUSE THAT QUESTION ENVIRONMENTALLY FOR THE FUTURE BECOMES A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.
WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM MARK AND SUSAN BRU.
LEMME SPELL THAT FOR THE SONOGRAPHER.
B AS A, B AS IN BOY, R U N AS IN NANCY, E N AS IN NANCY, A V AS IN VICTORY.
SS GOOD EVENING BOARD MEMBERS.
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WE ARE WRITING IN TONIGHT TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR THE ELMWOOD PRESERVED PROJECT.WE HAVE LIVED IN IRVINGTON FOR THE PAST 11 YEARS, AND ONE OF OUR MAIN JOYS HAS BEEN THE PARKS AND RECREATION IN THE AREA WITH THE PANDEMIC OUTDOOR SPACE HAS PROVEN TO BE EVEN MORE VITAL TO EVERYDAY LIFE.
WE SEE THIS PROJECT AS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BUILD UPON THE CURRENT FOUNDATION.
BEST REGARDS, MARK AND SUSAN BRU.
I HAVE A, UH, A QUESTION REGARDING, UH, THE F E I S.
UH, I, I APPRECIATE, UH, LISTENING TO THE COMMENTS THAT THERE IS, UM, A GROSSLY, UH, UH, UNMET DEMAND FOR, UM, ADDITIONAL BALL FIELDS IN THE TOWN.
THAT'S A PROBLEM THAT'S EXISTED FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, I'M AWARE, UH, THAT THE DEVELOPER HERE HAS OFFERED SPACE FOR THOSE BALL FIELDS IN EXCHANGE FOR A ZONING ACCOMMODATION, WHICH, UH, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS INVOLVED HAVE SAID WOULD ADVERSELY IMPACT THEM.
MY QUESTION IS THIS, UM, WHERE IN THE F E I S IS THE COST OF THE BUILD OUT IDENTIFIED FOR BOTH THE BALL FIELDS AND THE MOVING OF THE ROAD, THE RELOCATION OF THE ROAD, WHICH I, I UNDERSTAND IS SOMETHING THAT, UH, HAS BEEN PROPOSED AND SOME PEOPLE WANNA SEE.
SO HOW MUCH IS GONNA THAT GOING TO COST? AND WHAT GUARANTEES IS THE DEVELOPER GIVING THAT THAT COST WILL BE WORN SOLELY BY THE DEVELOPER AND NOT BY THE TAXPAYERS OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG? SHOULD THE DEVELOPER, FOR WHATEVER REASON, NOT BE ABLE TO FULFILL THE OBLIGATION IT IS UNDER AGREED TO UNDERTAKE? THAT'S MY QUESTION.
HEY GARRETT, DO YOU HAVE ANYONE, UH, WHO IS, UH, PRESENT IN THE ZOOM? UH, NO.
UNTIL MADELINE CONNECTS, I THINK AT THIS POINT IT'S, UH, READING WRITTEN.
SO WE HAVE, WE HAVE, HAVE, OKAY, I'M SORRY.
HI, UH, I, I'M GERARD BYRNE, COMMISSIONER APPRO AND RECREATION, AND I HAVE A FORMAL STATEMENT I'D LIKE TO READ, UH, AS THE, UH, GREENBOARD PARKS AND, YOU KNOW, GREENBERG DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AS AN INTERESTED AGENCY ALONG WITH THE GREENBERG PARKS AND RECREATION RISE BOARD.
INTERESTED, INTERESTED AGENCIES.
AND I HAVE THREE QUESTIONS, AND THEN IF I HAVE TIME, I HAVE A COMMENT OR I'LL DISCUSS THAT AFTER.
UH, THIS IS DATED FEBRUARY 8TH, SUPERVISOR FINER AND A TOWN BOARD MEMBERS AS COMMISSIONER OF PARKS AND RECREATION FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION.
I AM IN RECEIPT OF THE NOTICE OF THE D E I S COMPLETION AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND AS RECEIVED LINKS TO THE RELATED D E I S DOCUMENTS ON DECEMBER 10TH, 2020, THE ELEMENT PRESERVE APPLICANT APPEARED VIA ZOOM VIDEO CONFERENCE AT A REGULAR SCHEDULE ADVISORY BOARD MONTHLY MEETING, AND PRESENTED THEIR PROJECT IN RELATED ALTERNATIVES.
AT THE MEETING PLANNING COMMISSIONER GARRETT DUANE GAVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE SEEKER PROCESS AND HIGHLIGHTED THE ADVISORY BOARD'S ROLE AS AN INTERESTED SEEKER AGENCY.
THIS PROPERTY BORDERS TOWN OWNED PARKLAND KNOWN AS EAST BROOK PARK AT PRESENT, THE GREENBERG PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD, AND I OFFERED THE FOLLOWING SUBSTANTIVE D E I S QUESTIONS AND COMMENT IN THE APPLICANT'S PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE PEDESTRIANS PATH.
OUR PROPOSED ON SITE LEADING TO A DIRECT CONNECTION TO EAST BROOK PARK IN THE RELATED PROPOSED PARK EXPANSION AREA.
THIS WOULD PROVIDE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS EXISTING RESIDENTS RESIGNING NORTH OF THE SITE WITH SAFE PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO THE PARK.
QUESTION, WOULD THE APPLICANT CONSIDER EXTENDING THE PROPOSED SIDEWALK ALONG THE SITE'S FRONTAGE ON DOBBS ROAD IN AN EASTERLY DIRECTION, TO ADDITIONALLY PROVIDE ENHANCED PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO BROOK PARK EAST FOR RESIDENTS OF THE EL PRESERVE COMMUNITY AND THOSE RESIDING WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE SITE? NEXT QUESTION.
IT IS IDENTIFIED THAT ALTERNATIVE B DEPICTS A ZONING COMPLIANT ONE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION.
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OF LOTS CONTAINING ONE FAMILY DETACHED RESIDENCE IN THIS AREA DOES NOT PROVIDE FOR ANY ONSITE RECREATIONAL LAND, AS PER THE TOWN CODE 2 50 19 PARKS.OPEN SPACE NATURAL FEATURES UNDER A RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE ONE, IN ORDER TO PROVIDE ADEQUATELY FOR THE COMFORT, CONVENIENCE, SAFETY, HEALTH, AND WEALTH OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN, IT IS NECESSARY TO ESTABLISH RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE FOR THE PUBLIC USE.
THE PLANNING BOARD HAS SET A STANDARD THAT WILL PROVIDE FOR THE EVENTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF ADEQUATE SPACE OF PLAY, LOTS, PLAYGROUND, NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS, PLAY FIELDS, AND LARGE PARKS OR OPEN SPACE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN.
TWO, THE PROSPECT SUBDIVIDED OR RESIDENTIAL SITE PLAN OR RESIDENTIAL PLAN DEVELOPER SHALL PROVIDE RECREATIONAL LAND WITHIN THE SUBDIVISION OR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITE OF SUITABLE SIZE AND TOPOGRAPHIC AND, AND TOPOGRAPHY AND SUITABLY LOCATED.
THE QUESTION, DOES THE APPLICANT AGREE IF THE TOWN DECIDE DECIDES TO REQUIRE THE DEVELOPER TO PROVIDE RECREATIONAL LAND THAT IT WOULD PROVIDE? IT WOULD BE THE 14.2 ACRES SIMILAR TO THAT PROPOSED IN THE OTHER ALTERNATIVES.
IF THE APPLICANT'S PREFERRED PROPOSAL TO REZONE R THREE, R 20 TO R TO AN R 20 AND THEN TO A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT WITH 175 TOWNHOUSE MULTI-FAMILY UNITS, AGE RESTRICTED 55 PLUS OFFERED OFFER OF LAND DEDICATION AND TO DEVELOP THE LAND FOR ACTIVE RECREATION IS ACCEPTABLE BY THE TOWN BOARD, WILL THE APPLICANT DONATE THE LAND TO THE TOWN AND IMMEDIATELY BEGIN THE PROCESS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT, UH, FOR DEVELOPING THE FACILITIES AT THEIR COST? WHILE AT THIS TIME, THE ADVISORY BOARD AND I DO NOT HAVE A POSITION ON SUPPORTING THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST OF ANY OF ITS ALTERNATIVES, THE ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE HELPFUL IN A GIVEN FUTURE RECOMMENDATION AS TO THE FORMAT OF TONIGHT'S MEETING.
UM, I DO, I HAVE HEARD SOME COMMENTS, UH, AT THE LAST PUBLIC HEARING IN THIS.
I THINK THERE'S SOME MISUNDERSTANDING OF SOME THINGS ABOUT GOING FOR, UH, MONEY IN LIEU OF LAND AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE TIME NOW OR IF I WAIT TILL LATER.
UH, THERE, THERE IS SOME STRONG OPINIONS THAT I DO HAVE ABOUT, ABOUT THIS PROJECT THAT, UH, I'M HOLDING BACK UNTIL THE APPROPRIATE TIME.
BUT I HAVE MADELINE OE WHO WANTS TO SPEAK AS WELL, SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
HEY, MADELINE, OSHA, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW, GARY? YES.
UM, I'M, I'M SPEAKING AS CHAIRMAN OF THE HISTORIC AND LANDMARKS PRESERVATION BOARD.
AT THIS MOMENT, I DO HAVE PRIVATE CITIZENS QUESTIONS.
THE HISTORIC AND LANDMARKS PRESERVATION BOARD IS LISTED AS AN INTERESTED AGENCY IN THE ELMWOOD PRESERVE PROJECT.
FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON, THE CRITERIA FOR LARGE TRAP DEVELOPMENT THAT H AND L P B CREATED AND WHICH HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN OTHER SCOPING DOCUMENTS AND DEISS HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF THE ELMWOOD DOCUMENT.
THE INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC SECTION OF THE D E I S IS WOEFULLY INADEQUATE AND DOESN'T BEGIN TO TOUCH ON WHAT THE HISTORIC BOARD EXPECTS.
THEREFORE, ON BEHALF OF THE HISTORIC AND LANDMARKS PRESERVATION BOARD, I WILL READ INTO THE RECORD THE FOUR CRITERIA THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED, BUT NEVER INCLUDED.
H AND L PB WILL EXPECT THEIR INCLUSION IN FUTURE ELMWOOD DOCUMENTATION, NOT JUST AS ANSWERS, AS WELL AS PROVIDING H AND L P B WRITTEN STATEMENTS WITH THE ANSWERS.
FOR EACH ONE, PROVIDE A CHAIN OF TITLE AND DOCUMENTED HISTORY OF THE ELMWOOD SITE, WHICH INCLUDES ITS ORIGINAL USE, I E A FARM.
GOING BACK TO NATIVE AMERICAN CAMPGROUNDS, PROVIDE A PLAN THAT ENCOMPASSES THE HIRE OF A HISTORIC ARCHEOLOGIST.
SHOULD THE TITLE SEARCH INDICATE THE ORIGINAL USE IS HISTORIC.
PROVIDE A PLAN FOR THE ARCHEOLOGIC ARCHEOLOGIST TO AUTHENTICATE PHOTOGRAPH IN PLACE AND CATALOG ITEMS PROVIDE
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A PLAN TO PROTECT, KEEP, GIVE AWAY ANY ARTIFACTS FOUND THAT IS THE STATEMENT FROM THE HISTORIC AND LANDMARKS PRESERVATION BOARD, WHICH MET LAST NIGHT.TIM, I ALSO HAVE QUES, UH, SOME QUESTIONS AS WAS ASKED OF ME LAST TWO WEEKS AGO.
UM, BUT I'LL WAIT UNTIL OTHER PEOPLE HAVE GONE AND THEN YOU CAN CALL UPON ME AGAIN.
UH, THIS, THERE, THERE ARE TWO MORE WRITTEN STATEMENTS.
UM, THIS STATEMENT IS FROM DANIEL CTI, SS AS IN SAM, C O V AS IN VILLAGE, O T AS IN TOM, T AS IN TOM, I, GOOD EVENING.
I'M A FATHER BASEBALL COACH AND BOARD MEMBER OF THE ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF GREENBERG.
THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I HAVE FOUND MEMORIES OF VISITING MANY GREENBERG PARKS.
I ENJOYED GOING SWIMMING AND PLAYING TENNIS AT ANTHONY VETERAN PARK, IN ADDITION TO LEARNING ABOUT THE MANY ANIMALS AT THE GREENBURG NATURE CENTER, AND MOST OF ALL PLAYING BASEBALL AT WEBB FIELD.
AS AN ADULT, HAVING TWO CHILDREN OF MY OWN, I WANT THEM TO BE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE SOME OF THE SAME THINGS THAT I DID GROWING UP HERE, HAVING GREAT PARKS AND RECREATIONAL AREAS THAT GREENBURG HAS TO OFFER TO THEIR RESIDENTS AS THE COMMUNITY GROWS AND WE SH AND WE SHOULD PRESERVE GREEN SPACES FOR PEOPLE TO GET OUT AND ENJOY BEING OUTDOORS.
COVID HAS REALLY EMPHASIZED THIS NOW MORE THAN EVER SINCE.
PEOPLE REALLY NEED TO GET OUTSIDE AND BE OUTDOORS WITH THEIR FAMILIES.
THIS PAST SUMMER, THANKFULLY THE ELMS FOR A LITTLE LEAGUE PLAYED BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL.
AGAIN, MANY DID NOT THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN, BUT WE WERE REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL IN HAVING A SAFE FOUR MONTHS OF MUCH NEEDED BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL FOR MANY CHILDREN.
I SAY THANKFULLY BECAUSE WHEN THE PANDEMIC HIT, I WATCHED MY CHILDREN SLIP INTO A DEPRESSION LIKE MANY OTHERS, OF NOT BEING ABLE TO INTERACT AND CONNECT WITH THEIR FRIENDS AND PEERS IN SCHOOL OR PLAYING A TEAM SPORT.
AS THE WEEKS WENT ON, AS, AS THE WEEKS WENT ON COACHING, I WATCHED SO MANY OF THE CHILDREN COME BACK TO BEING THEMSELVES AGAIN, SIMPLY SEEING THEM SMILE WITH ORGANICALLY TURN TO LAUGHTER.
IN ADDITION TO WATCHING THE CAMARADERIE WITH THEIR TEAMMATES.
I WATCHED 20, I WATCHED 14 OF MY KIDS THAT I WAS COACHING BOND WITH ONE ANOTHER AND FORGET ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE OUTSIDE WORLD.
IF IT WERE NOT FOR THE GREENBERG PARKS AND RECREATION, WHERE WOULD THESE CHILDREN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY SPORTS? IN MY HEART, I FEEL THAT SPORTS PLAY SAFELY, OUTDOORS, SAVE THE SANITY OF MY CHILDREN, AND I CAN CON CONFIDENTLY SAY MANY OTHER CHILDREN AS WELL.
THE PROPOSAL OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 14 ACRE PARK FOR ELMS FORD PRESERVE IS SO IMPORTANT TO THIS COMMUNITY.
THIS IS NOT JUST FOR OUR TOWN, BUT IT'S FOR OUR CHILDREN AND THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
IN THE DAY OF TECHNOLOGY, IT BECOMES HARDER AND HARDER TO GET CHILDREN OUTSIDE TO PLAY.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, SPORTS HAVE BECOME SO VITAL TO OUR COMMUNITY.
WITH THE DEMAND OF TEAM SPORTS GROWING, THE ADDITION OF THE PARKS IS INSTRUMENTAL, AND ESPECIALLY WITH VIRTUAL LEARNING, I THINK IT IS ESSENTIAL TO ADD SPORTS FIELD TO BREAK THE MONOTONY OF CONTINUOUS USE OF ELECTRONIC DEVICES.
ADDING THESE FIELDS ARE MORE THAN JUST SPACE AND A PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO GATHER.
THEY ARE WHERE MANY CHILDREN LEARN THE IMPORTANCE OF TEAM BUILDING, DEDICATION AND DETERMINATION THAT THEY WILL FOREVER HAVE IN THEIR ADULT LIVES.
YOU SAID YOU ADD ONE MORE? YES, THERE'S ONE MORE.
THIS STATEMENT IS SUBMITTED BY BRIAN, B R I A N, FIELD, F AS IN FRANK, I E L D.
FROM 2006 TO TO 2018, I WAS A COACH BOARD MEMBER AND PRESIDENT OF THE ELMSWORTH LITTLE LEAGUE.
DURING THOSE YEARS, WE WATCHED THE SIZE OF THE LEAGUE GROW SIGNIFICANTLY, WHICH PUT A STRAIN ON THE RESOURCES TO SERVE THE PARTICIPANTS, ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF FIELDS AND FACILITY AVAILABILITY, AT A TIME WHEN KIDS NEED MORE SUPPORT THAN EVER TO
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MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.AND EVERY COMMUNITY IS SEARCHING FOR WAYS TO COME TOGETHER.
I CAN'T THINK OF A BETTER OPPORTUNITY TO LEVERAGE AND OFFER LIKE THIS TO ACCEPT A DONATION OF EXACTLY WHAT THE LEAGUE NEEDS MOST TO KEEP THRIVING INTO THE FUTURE.
I WHOLEHEARTEDLY SUPPORT THE DONATION OF LAND AND DEVELOPMENT OFFERED BY THE ELMWOOD PRESERVE REGARDS BRYANT FIELD, AND THAT'S IT THAT I HAVE, WELL, DEFINITELY DON'T HAVE AN APATHETIC COMMUNITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY, UM, HAD CALLED ME, UM, YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK, UM, AND THEY MENTIONED THAT, YOU KNOW, WITH ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS, UM, BEING, UM, UM, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING INTERESTED IN IS, UM, WOULD YOUR CLIENT BE, YOU KNOW, RECEPTIVE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, CREATING SOME ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS, PLACING SOME ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS AT, YOU KNOW, AT THE COMPLEX IF IT'S APPROVED? AND MR. SUPERVISOR, YOU MEAN FOR RESIDENTS OF THE COMPLEX OR RIGHT.
I, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD DEFINITELY BE SOMETHING THAT, THAT THE BUILDER WOULD ENTERTAIN IS INCORPORATING INTO INDIVIDUAL UNITS.
AND IT WOULD BE SOMETHING LIKE, LIKE ANY OTHER ASPECT OF THE UNIT, YOU COULD, YOU COULD, UH, ULTIMATELY HAVE THAT INSTALLED.
SO I THINK THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES.
AND IN TERMS OF LIKE SOLAR OR OTHER GREEN INITIATIVES, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL TAKE UP DURING OUR FINAL SITE PLAN REVIEW WITH, UH, WITH YOUR BOARD AND THE PLANNING BOARD.
WE'RE, WE'RE NOT UP TO ALL SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES.
WE REALLY, AT THIS POINT NEED TO KNOW WHERE WE STAND RELATIVE TO THE REZONING.
THE OTHER, UH, YOU KNOW, QUESTION THAT SOME PEOPLE HAD ASKED IS, IS IT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE TOTALLY AGAINST ONE OR TOTALLY AGAINST THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, APPROACH.
AND I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S, UM, ANY, UM, UH, ANY SOMETHING TOWARDS A COMPROMISE WHERE IT COULD HAVE BEEN SORT OF A MIX, A LITTLE, A MIXTURE OF BOTH SINGLE FAMILY AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THE TOWNHOUSES.
I THINK THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE HAD ASKED ME IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD BE OPEN TO DISCUSSING.
WELL, I THINK THAT'S AN ISSUE THAT WE'D PROBABLY BEST ABLE TO RESPOND TO IN WRITING IN THE F E I S.
YOU SHOULD KNOW MR. SUPERVISOR THAT CAME UP DURING THE SCOPING PHASE.
UM, AND THAT WAS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE THAT WAS SCOPED FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
SO I, I THINK IN, IN, IN, IN ATTEMPT TO BE COMPLETE, IN RESPONDING TO YOU, LET US RESPOND TO THAT IN WRITING.
AND I HAVE, UH, NINE MORE, MOST OF WHICH ARE SHORT.
AND I THINK JUDITH, I MIGHT NOT HAVE SENT THOSE TO YOU, SO IF IT'S ALL RIGHT, I WILL JUST, UH, READ THEM AND TO THIS STENOGRAPHER, I HAVE THESE LITTLE TYPED SO I CAN EMAIL THEM TO YOU, BUT IF YOU NEED ME TO SLOW DOWN, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.
TOM BUCK, PRESIDENT FULTON PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
THE FULTON PARK CIVIC ASSOCIATION IS CATEGORICALLY AGAINST THE PROPOSED 175 CONDOMINIUMS VERSUS THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
WE BELIEVE THE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WHICH WILL YIELD MORE TAX REVENUE AND NOT ADD TO OVERPOPULATING OF THE AREA, THE ROADWAYS AND THE SCHOOLS WOULD BE THE MOST JUDICIOUS, THE SMARTEST WAY TO PROCEED.
WE WANT TO MAINTAIN OPERATING WITHIN THE WORKING ZONING LOSS CURRENTLY IN PLACE.
NEXT, MICHELLE AND JOEL WAGMAN.
AS 20 YEAR RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, WE ENTHUSIASTICALLY SUPPORT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROPERTY THAT WAS ONCE ELWOOD COUNTRY CLUB, AS IT INCLUDES THE DEVELOPMENT OF 14 ACRES OF LAND ADJACENT TO BROOK PARK THAT INCLUDES BADLY NEEDED DEVELOPMENT OF BASEBALL AND SOCCER FIELDS.
TOGETHER WITH BATHROOMS AND PLAYGROUNDS THAT ARE NEEDED.
PLEASE DO NOT WASTE AWAY THIS OPPORTUNITY.
FROM ANTHONY, UH, REGANS, I AM ALL IN FOR THE DEVELOPER TO HAVE THIS PROJECT APPROVED.
IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE ENGAGED IN ATHLETIC ACTIVITY, ESPECIALLY THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY GREAT AMERICAN SPORTS SUCH AS BASEBALL AND SOCCER.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY BASEBALL FROM THE AGE OF FIVE TO THE AGE OF 18.
WITHOUT THIS DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, IT COULD HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
MY NAME IS CHRIS EPEL, AND I'M WRITING TO GIVE MY SUPPORT FOR THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THE ELMWOOD COUNTRY CLUB FOR RESIDENTIAL HOUSING AND DONATION OF MULTIPLE SPORTS FIELDS AND FACILITY UPGRADES.
WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FOUR YEARS OF COLLEGE AND THREE YEARS IN N Y C, I HAVE LIVED MY ENTIRE LIFE IN THE SURROUNDING GREENBURG COMMUNITY.
MY FIRST 18 YEARS IN THE WALKING DISTANCE TO BLOOMBERG PARK PLAYED SOCCER AND BASEBALL.
GROWING UP AND FIELD ACCESS WAS ALWAYS A PROBLEM.
AS I NOW HAVE KIDS OF MY OWN, I FIND ACCESS TO THE FIELDS EVEN MORE DIFFICULT WITH THE
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PROLIFERATION IN TRAVEL LEAGUES, COMPETING WITH LEAGUES AND REC FIELDS.AS I THINK ABOUT THE BENEFIT OF MORE SPORTING FACILITIES FOR KIDS TO GET THEM OFF THEIR PHONES AND XBOXES AND FURTHER TEAM SPORTS AND YOUTH COMRADERY, I CAN THINK OF NO BETTER, UH, GIFT HORSE THAN SOMEONE OFFERING TO DONATE MORE SPORTS FACILITIES TO OUR COMMUNITY AND OUR KIDS.
AS A PARENT, I AM BOMBARDED WITH MESSAGES ABOUT CYBER BULLYING AND CHILDHOOD OBESITY.
HERE'S A CHANCE TO DO SOMETHING POSITIVE TO COMBAT THESE WITH MORE SPORTS FACILITIES FOR KIDS TO PLAY AND BE SAFE OUTSIDE WITH FRIENDS AND TEAMMATES.
I HOPE THAT YOU CONSIDER THIS AS A WAY FOR US ALL TO GIVE SOMETHING ME MEANINGFUL BACK TO OUR KIDS AND BE REMEMBERED FOR HELPING PROVIDE SAFETY AND HEALTHY ENTERTAINMENT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS TO COME.
OKAY, UH, THIS IS FROM JOHN M GREENBERG, RESIDENT WRITING TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT OF THE ELWOOD ELWOOD PRESERVE PROJECT.
OUR TOWN DESPERATELY NEEDS ADDITIONAL SPORTS FACILITIES FOR THE KIDS WITH COVID RESTRICTIONS.
THE NEED FOR MORE OUTDOOR SPORTS FACILITIES IS EVEN MORE APPARENT THAN EVER.
I COMPLETELY SUPPORT THE PROJECT THAT WILL BE PROVIDING THE TOWN WITH MUCH NEEDED ATHLETIC FIELDS FOSTERING POSITIVITY THROUGH SPORTS FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
JOHN LAST IS A 20 YEAR GREENBERG RESIDENT AND FORMER BOARD DIRECTOR FOR ELMS FORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
I'D LIKE TO VOICE MY STRONG SUPPORT OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLANS TO INCORPORATE 14 ACRES OF RECREATIONAL SPACE INTO THE FORMER ELMWOOD COUNTRY CLUB PROPERTY BUDDING ROMBERG PARK, PROVIDING AMPLE AND SUITABLE SPACE FOR OUR TOWN CITIZENS TO ENJOY OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES HAS ALWAYS BEEN A CHALLENGE IN GREENBURG.
AND THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT USE STRIKES ME AS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY AND COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE WHILE INCREASING PROPERTY VALUES.
LOOKING BACK FONDLY ON MY FAMILY'S JOURNEY THROUGH GREENBERG RECREATION PROGRAMS IN ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE IN PARTICULAR, THE AVAILABILITY OF DEDICATED SPACE TO PROMOTE PHYSICAL FITNESS AND ENCOURAGE FORMAL PARTICIPATION IN YOUTH SPORTS YIELDED A SIGNIFICANT RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR THE WELLBEING AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT OF MY FAMILY.
AND MULTIPLE GENERATIONS OF GREENBERG RESIDENTS, BOTH OF MY CHILDREN, UTILIZED LIMITED GREENBURG FIELDS, DEVELOPING A LOVE FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL RESPECTIVELY THAT CONTINUED THROUGH THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE SPORTS AT BOTH THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGIATE LEVEL.
TO BE ABLE TO SHARE THESE EXPERIENCE WITH MY CHILDREN AND WITH THEIR GRANDPARENTS ON THE FIELDS OF GREENBURG ARE AMONG MOST POIGNANT RECOLLECTIONS I WILL CHERISH FOREVER.
BUT BEYOND FOSTERING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLNESS, THE YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMS ON GREENBERG FIELDS FACILITATED FRIENDSHIPS ACROSS THE TOWN'S DIVERSE COMMUNITIES THAT ENDURE TODAY.
ABSENT THESE PROGRAMS, MY CHILDREN WOULD HAVE LIMITED EXPOSURE TO OTHER PERSPECTIVES AND LIFE SITUATIONS NOT AS EVIDENT WITHIN THE CONFINES OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.
GREENBERG WITH SPORTS PROMOTED AN APPRECIATION FOR TEAMWORK, FAIR PLAY, RESPECT OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, AND THE RECOGNITION OF TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND PUTTING IN HARD WORK ARE IMPORTANT LIFE LESSONS THAT ARE UNIQUELY DEMONSTRATED THROUGH ORGANIZED SPORTS.
IT TAUGHT THEM HOW TO BE GOOD WINNERS AND TO BE GRACIOUS USERS.
IMPORTANT LESSONS NOT EASILY CONVEYED OUTSIDE OF SPORTS AT THESE TIMES.
SECURING THE NECESSARY VARIANCES TO ALLOW THIS LAND TO BE DEVELOPED TO BENEFIT THE FOSTER AND FOSTER THE GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF SPORTS AND RECREATION ON PART OF THE FORMER ELMO PROPERTY IS A LOW COST, HIGH RETURN INVESTMENT THAT THE TOWN SHOULD MAKE TODAY TO THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS OF RESIDENTS.
AND THAT WAS JOHN LAST AND, UM, AT THIS POINT I, I SPOKE WITH, UH, PATRICIA AMES.
PATRICIA WOULD, YOU'D LIKE TO COMMENT, PATRICIA, IF YOU'RE OUT THERE, YOU'D UH, UNMUTE YOUR MIC PLEASE.
AND IF YOU'RE HAVING DIFFICULTY, UH, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CALL ME.
UM, OTHERWISE I HAVE THREE MORE TO READ.
MAY I ASK YOU TO UNMUTE AND THAT OKAY.
PATRICIA, UH, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE AND SEE WHERE HER BOX IS.
I DO, DO, I TRIED TO, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? WELL, THANK YOU.
UM, MY, MY STATEMENT IS BASICALLY TO THE BOARD I BELIEVE BECAUSE, UM, WHAT I AM AGAINST IS, UH, DOUBLE STANDARDS INEQUALITY.
IF ANYBODY CAN HAVE AN APARTMENT AND PAY LESS TAXES THAN I, WHEN I HAVE A HOUSE BECAUSE OF THEIR AGE, THEN I WANT THE SAME CONSIDERATION GIVEN TO THOSE PEOPLE IN TOWN, UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG, WHO ARE PAYING TAXES AT FULL PERCENT, 100% AS AN OPPOSITION TO THE PEOPLE WHO, IF THEY HAVE APARTMENT BUILDINGS, WILL BE PAYING LESS THAN THAT 100%.
SO NOW IF EVERYBODY DOESN'T PAY IT, THEN AS
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FAR AS I'M CONCERNED IS DISCRIMINATION.NOW DO I THINK THAT IT'S ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC THAT CHILDREN ARE GONNA COME TOGETHER AND BE ABLE TO PLAY? EVERYBODY'S LOOKING AT SPORTS, BUT I LOOK AT IT AS COMRADERY.
THEY HAVE LIFETIME FRIENDS, ALL OF DIFFERENT COLOR, DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, DIFFERENT CULTURES.
AND AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, THAT'S ONE THING ABOUT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG THAT I CAN APPRECIATE, ALWAYS HAVE, I'M A LIFELONG RESIDENT HERE AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY I'M STILL HERE.
IT WASN'T MY INTENTION TO GROW UP IN GREENBURG AND LEAVE HERE AND THEN COME BACK AND DIE HERE.
BUT WHAT I DO HAVE IS LIFELONG FRIENDS, WHEN I SEE THEM, WE GO RIGHT BACK TO WHEN WE WERE TEENAGERS AND, AND THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE.
THAT'S WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT RUM, BROOKE.
THAT'S ABOUT IT BECAUSE WHEN IT GETS DOWN TO ME PAYING TAXES, IT HAS TO BE ACROSS THE BOARD.
WHAT'S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER.
IF I'M GOING TO PAY, THEY PAY.
NOW THAT'S DISCRIMINATION RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD AND IT'S HERE IN THE TOWN.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE WORST THINGS IN ANYBODY'S AREA IS DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES, WHICH ARE IN HOUSING.
THAT'S BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.
AND THEY JUST HAVE NOT TAKEN IT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO WHERE I'M DISCUSSING THE ISSUE.
NOW I WANT THE TAXES TO CHANGE SO THAT EVERYBODY IS PAYING THE SAME THING.
AND I BELIEVE MADELINE, AS A RESIDENT, YOU HAD COMMENTS? YES, PLEASE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL GET TO FINISH THEM.
I'LL WRITE THEM OUT, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT WHAT I LIKE TO DO.
I HAVE SOME NAGGING QUESTIONS BASED ON, UH, THE MEETING OF TWO WEEKS AGO.
ONE, IS RIDGEWOOD COMMITTED TO DEVELOPING THIS PROPERTY OR AS SOON AS THEY GET APPROVAL AND WHEN CONCESSIONS, WILL THEY SELL TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER? TWO.
WHAT SPECIFIC STATISTICS SHOW THAT LOWER WESTCHESTER IN GENERAL IS LOOKING FOR AN OVER 55 COMMUNITY? THREE OTHER THAN SCARSDALE AND RYE, BOTH HIGH-END PROJECTS.
WHERE IN LOWER WESTCHESTER HAS AN OVER 55 COMMUNITY BEEN PROPOSED? WAS IT BUILT? IF NOT, WHY? WHAT FOUR? WHAT IS THE PLAN IF THE UNITS DON'T SELL TO THE 55 PLUS CROWD? WE GET ANOTHER PON SIDE FIVE BASED ON CURRENT TRENDS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO DOWNSIZE TO LIVE IN A BETTER AREA, TO AGE IN PLACE, WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC SIZES FOR THE UNITS.
THIS IS SPECIFIC NUMBER OF BEDROOMS, BATHROOMS, TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE.
DRIDGE WOULD COMMIT TO THOSE FIGURES WITH NO CHANGE AFTER RECEIVING APPROVALS.
WHAT IS THE ANTICIPATED PRICE RANGE FOR THESE UNITS? SEVEN.
WHOM DO YOU EXPECT TO BUY INTO THIS PROJECT IF THE ASKING PRICES ARE HIGHER THAN THE MEDIUM PRICE OF BLOOMBERG HOUSES? EIGHT.
IF THERE IS A POSSIBILITY THAT THE ASKING PRICE IS TOO HIGH FOR MANY GREENBERG SENIORS, HOW CAN YOU SAY THE PROJECT IS NEEDED IN GREENBERG THAN WHAT GREENBERG NEEDS ARE YOUNG FAMILIES WITH SCHOOL CHILDREN? NINE.
WHAT GUARANTEES WILL BE WRITTEN TO ENSURE THAT THE H O A WILL CREATE AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC WALKING TRAILS AND NOT DEFAULT AS WINDING RIDGE AND ODDSLY PROPOSED.
WHERE IS THE LETTER FROM CON ED, WHICH SAYS WALKER'S MAY CROSS THEIR PROPERTY? 11 BEFORE APPROVALS.
WHERE IS THE D O T AGREEMENT ON REBUILDING THE ENTRANCE TO EAST RENBROOK? 12.
WHAT SPECIFIC STATISTICS SHOW THAT 55 PLUS DOES NOT GO TO WORK AT REGULAR HOURS AND THEREFORE DOES NOT ADD TO TRAFFIC? 13.
WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC PLAN TO HELP ORIGINAL BUYERS WHO ARE TRAGICALLY FORCED TO RAISE THEIR GRANDCHILDREN? 14.
WHY AREN'T THE DEVELOPERS LISTENING TO THE TWO INVOLVED SCHOOL DISTRICTS WHEN THEY SAY THEY NEED AND WELCOME SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN? 15.
WHY IS THIS AGE RESTRICTED GHETTO WHERE UNIT S A R IS LARGER
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THAN MOST GREENBERG HOUSES BETTER AND MORE BENEFICIAL FOR THE TOWN THAN ONE FAMILY FULLY ASSESSED HOUSES? 16.WHY WHEN 119 HOUSES CAN BE BUILT? AS OF RIGHT IS THE DEVELOPER AND HIS CONNECTIONS CONTINUING TO PURSUE OVER 55 TOWNHOUSES IN A P U D THAT AREN'T WANTED BY THE RESIDENTS OR THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THIS? THAT THIS AGE RESTRICTED DEVELOPMENT MEETS THE STANDARDS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? WHERE IN THE PLAN DOES IT SPECIFY, SPECIFICALLY, SAY, AGE RESTRICTED 18.
WHERE IS THE WALKABLE COMMUNITY? HOW DOES INCREASED DENSITY CORRELATE WITH THE PLAN'S CONCEPT THE SAME OR LESS, NOT MORE DENSITY? I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS IN PRINT.
SO, UM, I HAVE, I THINK THAT'S IT ON THE SPEAKERS.
I DO HAVE THREE MORE WRITTEN COMMENTS, SO I'M JUST GONNA GET RIGHT INTO IT.
AND, UH, I'M GONNA DO SHARE THIS, UM, IN CASE IT'S EASIER TO FOLLOW ALONG, BUT I WILL RECITE IT.
UH, THIS IS FROM ROBERT LIA ON BEHALF OF THE ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
THE ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE FAMILY IS MADE UP OF OVER 650 PLAYERS FROM NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG PLAYERS, FROM FAMILIES THAT LIVE IN EDGEMONT, HARTSDALE, FAIRVIEW, ELMSFORD, IRVINGTON, AND TARRYTOWN.
FAMILIES THAT KNOW THE IMPORTANCE OF ORGANIZED RECREATIONAL SPORTS THROUGH OUR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL PROGRAMS, WE ARE NOT ONLY ABLE TO TEACH THE RULES OF THE GAME AND HOW TO PLAY IT, BUT WE ARE ABLE TO INSTILL VALUES AND TEACH LIFE LESSONS THAT OUR PLAYERS CAN USE AS THEY BECOME TEENAGERS.
PLAYERS ARE ABLE TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH OTHER CHILDREN FROM ALL OVER THE TOWN, NOT JUST IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS, FRIENDSHIPS THAT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SCHOOL DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND FRIENDSHIPS THAT LAST A LIFETIME.
THE ELFORD LITTLE LEAGUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS IS MADE UP OF 16 TOWN OF GREENBURG RESIDENTS.
THE BOARD PLANS RUNS AND OPERATES ALL BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL PROGRAMS IN THE TOWN.
EACH YEAR, FROM APRIL TO OCTOBER, WE'LL AFFORD THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE DEVELOPMENT FIRM THAT IS DEVELOPING THE ELMWOOD PRESERVE ATTEND OUR LAST REGULAR MONTHLY BUSINESS MEETING VIA ZOOM AS A BOARD, AS A BOARD, WE WANTED TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS AND SEE THE PROPOSAL THAT THEY HAVE SUBMITTED FOR ACCEPTANCE BY THE TOWN BOARD.
NUMEROUS QUESTIONS WERE ASKED IN LENGTHY CONVERSATIONS WERE HAD DURING AND POST MEETING.
ONE QUESTION WE DID ASK THE APPLICANT WAS, DID THE DEVELOPER DONATE AND CONSTRUCT THE LAND PRIOR TO BUILDING THE HOMES ON THE REST OF THE SITE? WOULD HE BE WILLING TO DEVELOP THE LAND ADJACENT TO EAST ROMBURG PARK? IN THE BEGINNING OF THE PHASE ONE OF THE PROJECT, WE DID RECEIVE AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS, BUT AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE THE QUESTION TO BE ANSWERED ON THE RECORD AT YOUR MEETING TO BE HELD ON FEBRUARY 10TH, 2021.
AT THIS TIME, THE ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MADE UP OF MEMBERS WHO REPRESENT OVER 550 FAMILIES AND OVER 650 PLAYERS WHO RESIDE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, SUPPORTS THE PROJECT AS SUBMITTED BY THE APPLICANT.
THAT INCLUDES THE DONATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF 14 ACRES ADJACENT TO EAST BROOK.
IF APPROVED, WE LOOK FORWARD TO ASSISTING THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION IN DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR THE PROPERTY TO BE UTILIZED FOR ORGANIZED TEAM SPORTS.
THERE WAS DEVELOPMENT AND OWNERSHIP.
THIS IS FROM DANIEL FESTER, MD.
I AM A RESIDENT IN THE TOWN OF GREENWOOD AND A PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE PHYSICIAN WHO HAS BEEN ON THE FRONT LINE IN 19 PANDEMIC.
I'M ALSO A VOLUNTEER YOUTH BASEBALL COACH, PARENT OF THREE ATHLETES AND A BOARD MEMBER IN ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
AS A PHYSICIAN WHO WORKS IN A LARGE PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IN NEW YORK CITY, I HAVE SEEN FIRSTHAND HOW THE SOCIAL ISOLATION OF THE C OVID 19 PANDEMIC HAS INCREASED MENTAL ILLNESS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS.
EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS HAVE INCREASED FOR MENTAL HEALTH EMERGENCIES.
IF WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF OUR COMMUNITY BY OFFERING A SAFE OUTDOOR VENUE TO PLAY SPORTS, THEN THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AMONG OUR HIGHEST PRIORITIES AS A COMMUNITY.
AS AN ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE BOARD MEMBER AND BASEBALL COACH, WE ARE LIMITED BY BASEBALL FIELD SPACE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AS THE COMMUNITY GROWS AND PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS FOLLOWS, IF WE DON'T INCREASE OUR CAPACITY TO ACCOMMODATE THIS GROWTH, WE WILL NEED TO EITHER REDUCE THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS OR THE NUMBER OF RECREATIONAL
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OPPORTUNITIES FOR EACH PARTICIPANT.WHY WOULD WE DO THAT TO OUR CHILDREN OR OUR COMMUNITY? I STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT THE TOWN IMPROVES THIS PROJECT.
THE CURRENT AND FUTURE CHILDREN OF THE TOWN ARE DEPENDENT ON MORE GREEN SPACE FOR THEIR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL WELLBEING.
AND LASTLY, SHARE SCREEN HERE ONE LAST TIME.
THIS IS, UH, ALSO FROM ROBERT GRAM MAGIA AS A TOWN RESIDENT, HELLO, DRESSED TO THE TOWN BOARD.
I HAVE BEEN A TOWN GREEN BOARD RESIDENT FOR 49 YEARS.
FIRST LIVING IN THE COLLEGE CORNER SECTION OF TOWN, AND NOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF POETS CORNERS.
ONE OF THE REASONS I DECIDED TO STAY AND RAISE MY FAMILY IN THE TOWN WAS BECAUSE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY PARK SYSTEM AND RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT THE TOWN HAS TO OFFER JUSTICE.
I HAVE A 12 YEAR OLD SON TEETERING ON HIS TEENAGE YEARS AND A NINE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, BOTH WHO ARE AVID USERS OF THE PARKS IN THE TOWN, AS WELL AS PARTICIPANTS IN THE NUMEROUS RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS THE TOWN HAS TO OFFER EACH YEAR.
OVER THE YEARS, THE TOWN HAS BEEN ABLE TO ACQUIRE AND MAINTAIN HUNDREDS OF ACRES OF UNDEVELOPED OPEN SPACE OR PRESERVES SUCH AS HEARTS, BROOK PARK, THE TAXI ROAD PRESERVE, AND GLENVILLE WOODS, ALL OF WHICH ARE VISITED BY RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN TO WALK, HIKE, OR JUST OBSERVE THE BEAUTIFUL UNDISTURBED, MAJESTIC SCENERY.
ALTHOUGH NATURAL UNDISTURBED OPEN SPACE PARKLAND IS ABUNDANT IN THE TOWN, WE ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING INTO A SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF DEVELOPED PARKLAND, PARKLAND THAT CAN BE USED FOR ORGANIZED SPORTS SUCH AS CRICKET, SOCCER, BASEBALL, SOFTBALL, AND LACROSSE.
AS WE HAVE ALL WITNESSED OVER THE PAST YEAR DURING THE ONGOING PANDEMIC, OUTDOOR ORGANIZED SPORTS HAVE BEEN A LIFESAVER FOR THE YOUTH ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
WHILE WE ALL SAW SCHOOLS GOING REMOTE AND BIRTHDAY PARTIES BEING CANCELED AND TURNED INTO DRIVE-BY CELEBRATIONS, CHILDREN WERE STILL ABLE TO SOCIALIZE WITH OTHER CHILDREN WHILE TAKING PART IN OUTDOOR ORGANIZED TEAM SPORTS SOCIALIZATION.
SORRY, I'M GONNA MUTE SOMEONE OUT THERE.
SOCIALIZATION THROUGH ORGANIZED SPORTS HAS NEVER BEEN SO IMPORTANT FOR OUR YOUTH.
IT CREATED A MUCH NEEDED WINDOW OF NORMALCY FOR THE CHILDREN DURING SUCH TRYING UNCERTAIN TIMES WHEN YOUNG HOME BUYERS WITH CHILDREN OR THOSE WHO ARE PLANNING TO START A FAMILY ARE DECIDING WHAT MUNICIPALITY TO PURCHASE A HOME IN RECREATIONAL FIELDS PLAY LARGE PART IN THEIR DECISION MAKING PROCESS.
IF YOU MOVE INTO A COMMUNITY THAT HAS AMPLE SPORTS FIELDS, YOU KNOW THAT THE MUNICIPALITIES ORGANIZED RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES ARE PLENTIFUL.
THUS, YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE ABLE TO PARTAKE IN ORGANIZED TEAM SPORTS.
BOYS AND GIRLS THAT PLAY ORGANIZED SPORTS DEVELOP FRIENDSHIPS WITH OTHER CHILDREN THAT LAST A LIFETIME.
FRIENDSHIPS THAT TRANSCEND SCHOOL DISTRICTS, NEIGHBORHOOD LINES AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, BUT AGAIN, USABLE RECREATION SPACE FOR OUR YOUTH SPORTS AND CURRENTLY LIMITED IS CURRENTLY LIMITED IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE CHILDREN WHO PLAY ORGANIZED SPORTS AND ARE PRE-HIGH SCHOOL AGE, KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN.
TOWN OF GREENBURG RESIDENTS CONSISTENTLY HAVE TO LEAVE THEIR OWN COMMUNITY TO TRAVEL TO OTHER COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, TO UTILIZE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES, RECREATIONAL FIELDS FOR ORGANIZED SPORTS.
AS EAST AS PROPOSED BY THE DEVELOPER.
THROUGH THE DONATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE 14 ACRES ADJACENT TO EASTBROOK PARK, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS OF GREENBURG RESIDENTS.
THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND BROOK INTO EVEN MORE OF A JEWEL THAN IT, THAN IT CURRENTLY IS, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE IT SAFETY CHANGES.
FOR EXAMPLE, MOVING THE CONFUSING ENTRANCE TO THE PARK, WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADD MUCH NEEDED SIDEWALKS ALONG DOBBS FERRY ROADS SO PEDESTRIANS CAN SAFELY WALK TO THE PARK NEARBY BUS STOPS.
I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE PROGRESS OF THIS PROPOSAL SINCE LATE 2018, EVEN SPEAKING BEFORE THE TOWN BOARD ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS.
AND AS WE GET CLOSER TO A DECISION BEING MADE, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS.
HOW CAN A COMMUNITY SUCH AS OURS NOT BE OPEN TO THE DONATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LAND THAT COULD BE USED BY ALL RESIDENTS SPACE THAT WE CURRENTLY LACK IN THE TOWN? HOW IN WHAT WE HAVE ALL WITNESSED OVER THE PAST YEAR DURING THE PANDEMIC, COULD WE NOT ACCEPT THE DONATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF LAND FOR RECREATIONAL TEAM SPORTS WHEN WE ALL KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO THE WELLBEING OF THE YOUTH OF GREENBURG? IT'S A RESIDENT THAT USES GREAT BERG PARK WITH HIS CHILDREN, A RESIDENT WHO KNOWS THE VALUE AND BENEFITS THAT COMES WITH THE EXPANSION OF EAST ROMBERG PARK AND IS A RESIDENT THAT KNOWS WHAT SAFETY MEASURES HAVE BEEN PROPOSED BY THE DEVELOPER.
HOW COULD I NOT BE IN FAVOR OF THE PROPOSAL SUBMITTED BY THE DEVELOPER? THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY FOR A COMMUNITY AND OPPORTUNITY TO PASS SOMETHING ON TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.
AND I HOPE WE DO NOT MISS OUT ON IT.
JUST IMAGINE IF WE PASSED ON BROBERG PARK IN 1963.
SO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL OF THE COMMENTS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED.
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I ASKED TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME.WHEN WE WERE INVOLVED, A WHOLE BUNCH OF US AT THE SCOPING MEETINGS AT THE SESSIONS, ONE THING THAT CAME UP WAS A COMPROMISE AND WE PUT FORTH ONE CALLED AS ALTERNATIVE C AS IT'S NOTED IN THE D E I SS, THIS IS CALLED CLUSTER HOUSING WITH A PARK CLUSTER HOUSING FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.
THESE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WILL BE ASSESSED AT 100%, THEREFORE THEY'LL BE PAYING 100% THEIR TAX REVENUE FOR TO THE TOWN, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, THE TWO OF THEM, THE ELMSFORD AND THE GREENBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT TO THE FIRE DISTRICT, TO TO THE COUNTY.
WE ARE NOT AGAINST HAVING A PARK.
WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF RECREATION.
WE UNDERSTAND THE EMOTIONAL COMPONENT OF RECREATION.
WHAT WE WANT IS TO HAVE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES FOR OUR TAX SPACE IN THE TOWN AS WELL AS ALL THE OTHER DISTRICTS.
WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO NOT HAVE CONDOS BECAUSE THE CONDOS ARE ONLY GOING TO BE GIVING US 60% OF THEIR ASSESSMENT FOR TAX REVENUE.
PLEASE CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE C CLUSTER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES WITH A PARK.
GARY, CAN I JUST ADD ONE MORE COMMENT? I DON'T MIND, SIR.
THIS, THIS IS, UH, UH, JERRY AGAIN.
UM, I I JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT AT THE LAST MEETING I HEARD SOME PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT OUR PARKS AND ABOUT GETTING MONEY IN LIEU OF LAND.
AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THAT, UH, IN MY 34 YEARS, YOU KNOW, SERVING FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AS A PARKS COMMISSIONER, THIS IS THE FIRST DEVELOPMENT WHERE THERE IS A LARGE BUILDABLE OR DEVELOPABLE PARKLAND AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF WHAT FINAL, UH, WHETHER IT'S REZONED OR NOT.
AND I, I, I WANT THE PUBLIC TO FULLY UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE REQUIRED OVER 300 ACRES OF PARKLAND, BUT MOST OF IT WAS IN A, IN A SITUATION WHERE WE DIDN'T WANNA TAKE DOWN TREES.
UH, THE SLOPES WERE NOT SUITABLE.
THIS IS A PIECE OF LAND, UH, THAT THE DEVELOPER IS PROPOSING FOR US TO DEVELOP, WHICH IS REALLY IDEAL.
ALSO, IN FACT THAT IT'S CONNECTS TO AN EXISTING PARK.
SO REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER THE OUTCOME COMES, I JUST WANT US TO BE COGNIZANT.
'CAUSE SOME PEOPLE SAY TAKE THE MONEY IN LIEU OF LAND, THAT IS USUALLY THE SECOND OPTION.
BUT IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, MOST, UH, PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IS USUALLY FOR SMALL TRACK OF LANDS, AND IT'S NOT ENOUGH LAND TO LIKE ADEQUATELY DEVELOP.
WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, BEFORE US NOW, AND AT THE FUTURE MEETINGS.
SO, UM, JUST IN TERMS OF PROCEDURE, I JUST WANT TO REMIND THE BOARD THAT, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY IF THE PUBLIC HEARING'S CLOSED, YOU, YOU WOULD EXPECT TO HAVE A DECISION, UM, MADE, UH, IN THIS INSTANCE, UH, IF THE PUBLIC HEARING'S CLOSED, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE, UM, A, A WRITTEN RECORD PERIOD AND THAT, UM, THERE'S ACTUALLY NO VOTE TO BE TAKEN.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS WE'LL TAKE ALL THE GOOD COMMENTS THAT WE'VE HEARD, UH, TONIGHT AT THE LAST MEETING, AND, UH, THOSE THAT IF MS RECORD AND, AND THAT WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE F E I S.
SO I JUST PROCESS-WISE, I WANTED TO, UH, HIGHLIGHT THAT FOR YOU AND KAREN, IF YOU FEEL LIKE, UM, YOU'D WANT TO, UH, ELABORATE ON ANY OF THAT OR CLARIFY IF I MISSPOKE, UM, PLEASE FEEL FREE.
NO, I, I THINK YOU'VE GOT THAT RIGHT.
AGAIN, THE F E I S IS THE TOWN'S DOCUMENT.
SO THE FINDINGS, UM, AND THE, AND THE TONE OF THE F E I S WILL BE IN THE TOWN'S VOICE, SO TO SPEAK.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU, THE TOWN AND THE PROCESS WITH THE APPLICANT AND, AND PUBLIC INPUT WILL, YOU'LL CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGH THIS PROCESS UNTIL THE TOWN COMES TO A PLACE WHERE THEY HAVE DETERMINED THAT THE IMPACTS ARE, HAVE EITHER BEEN AVOIDED OR MITIGATED, UM, TO THE, TO, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE OKAY WITH.
AND, AND THAT WILL BE, UM, FORMALIZED IN THE FINDING STATEMENT.
ERIC, DID YOU INDICATE THAT IN THE RESOLUTION CLOSING THE HEARING, THAT YOU WERE GONNA LEAVE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OPEN FOR WRITTEN COMMENTS AS REQUIRED BY SECRET? YEAH, SO THAT'S, THAT'S TYPICAL PROTOCOL, BUT I BELIEVE THERE, THERE'S A MANDATORY, UH, WRITTEN PERIOD, WHICH EITHER SEVEN OR 10 DAYS, I DON'T RECALL OFFHAND.
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WOULD BE THE RECOMMENDATION TO KEEP THE WRITTEN RECORD OPEN.UM, SO HOW DOES THE BOARD MISSION PROCEED AT THIS POINT? UM, WE'RE CLOSING DIRECT THE HEARING AND, AND THAT'S FINE.
DO WE MAKE THAT PROMISE, UH, AT THE LAST MEETING? SO I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP THE PROMISES THAT WE MADE YOU MAKING THE MOTION.
I'D LIKE TO, UH, MAKE THE MOTION TO KEEP THE PRO TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, THE PUBLIC HEARING, TO KEEP THE RECORD OPEN.
WHAT DAY? 10 DAYS, BECAUSE WE HAVE A MEETING IN 14 DAYS.
IT'D BE GOOD TO BE ABLE TO COMBINE OKAY.
DOCUMENTS, IF THAT'S OKAY WITH EVERYBODY.
UH, THEN THE SECRET STIPULATES 10 DAYS, RIGHT? IT GETS TO A SATURDAY.
SO WE'RE GOING GET THE STUFF BY MONDAY.
WE CAN DO THAT IF THERE'S ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT.
YES, WE KEEP RECORD OPEN FOR 10 DAYS AS REQUIRING FROM
WE GET IT ON MONDAY, RIGHT? 10 DAYS WILL BE A SATURDAY.
AND I THINK MOST COMMENTS WILL COME IN VIA EMAIL.
UM, YOU KNOW, IF SOMETHING COMES IN MONDAY, I, I DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW, THERE WOULD BE AN OBJECTION TO INCLUDING IT, BUT, UM, IF IT COMES IN OVER THE WEEKEND AND IT GETS DELIVERED ON MONDAY, I DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE.
BUT YEAH, WE WOULD RECOMMEND 10 DAYS, WHICH PUTS IT AT, UH, 20TH AND KEEP IT OPEN UNTIL MONDAY THE 22ND.
SO THERE'S NO ISSUE ABOUT THE WEEKEND CONCERN THAT YOU'VE GOT AND JUST, I WOULD ALL DATES JUST TRANSMIT THOSE WRITTEN COMMENTS TO US PROMPTLY.
'CAUSE I KNOW OUR TEAM IS ANXIOUS TO BEGIN ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS IN WRITING.
12 DAYS THEN WOULD BE THE RECOMMENDATION.
SECOND, ALL FAVOR, FAVOR, AYE.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, COMING BACK WITH AN F E I S AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE DATE.
APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S TIME AND PATIENCE AND, UH, THE CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS THAT WE RECEIVED.
AND WE CAPTAIN ROBINSON THE LAST MEETING, CORRECT? WE CERTAINLY DID.
PAUL WASN'T GONNA LET ANYBODY FORGET IT.
AND WE ALSO, UH, TOLD EVERYBODY THIS MEETING WOULD BE LIKE A HALF HOUR.
SO I THINK WE KEPT OUR WORD TELL, TELL IT TO THE NEXT APPLICANTS.
[ To consider a one-year agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the Village of Tarrytown for Fire Protection Services to Unincorporated Greenburgh residents of the Glenville Fire Protection District for the year 2020 (To be held over to February 24, 2021 Town Board Meeting; awaiting data from Village)]
WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR, UH, SECOND PUBLIC HEARING.UM, BY THE WAY, I, WE HAVE THE FIRE CHIEF FROM CHINATOWN.
YOU MAY BE HERE, UM, BECAUSE OF THIS.
CHIEF, ARE YOU HERE FOR THIS? YES.
SORRY THAT YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THREE HOURS.
I'M IN, I'M INSIDE A MUNICIPAL BUILDING.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE REQUIRED STILL TO KEEP THE MASK ON.
UM, UM, SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE ANY STATEMENTS SIGNED ON THIS MATTER? SO PAUL, YOU ARE MOVING TO OPEN.
WELL, I, I, THIS, THIS, THIS YEAR, THIS HEARING ACTUALLY HOLDING OVER AND, BUT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE DATA FOR 2022, WHAT DATA ARE YOU LOOKING FOR, SIR? UH, INTERNAL ACCOUNTS, THE USUAL INFORMATION.
I CAN SUPPLY YOU WHATEVER YOU NEED.
I WAS JUST HERE TO LISTEN AND COMMENT AS NEEDED, IF TO JUST SHED SOME LIGHT ON WHATEVER YOU GUYS NEED.
SO, UH, AT THE LA LAST MEETING AND THE MEETING BEFORE THAT, WE WOULD, WE WERE DEALING WITH THE 2019 CONTRACT.
WE GOT THE DATA FOR THE 2019 CONTRACT ON NOVEMBER 24TH, 2020.
UM, THERE WAS AN EMAIL THAT MADE AN INDICATE THAT WE WERE SITTING ON TAR TOWN'S MONEY FOR OVER A YEAR, BUT FOR THE 2019 CONTRACT, WE GOT THE INFORMATION ON NOVEMBER 20TH, 2020.
WE THEN PUT IT IN THE KEY TO GET IT ON FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
WE THEN HAD THAT PUBLIC HEARING.
THE QUESTION WAS RAISED REGARDING THE COMP, THE CALCULATION INVOLVING, UM, THAT CONTRACT, THE 2019 CONTRACT.
AND UH, OBVIOUSLY WHEN IT, WHEN, UH, WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING AND SOMEBODY MAKES, UH, RAISES A QUESTION, WE LOOK INTO IT.
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AND SO, UH, THE CONTROLLER HAS ASKED FOR SOME INFORMATION FROM TARRYTOWN IN THE 2019 CONTRACT, THE 2020 CONTRACT I HAVE WRITTEN TO YOUR VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR ASKING FOR THE, THE DATA AND CALCULATIONS FOR THAT.AND WHEN WE HAVE THAT, WE WILL ABLE, WE'RE GONNA KEEP THIS ON THE AGENDA SO WE DON'T HAVE TO RE-NOTICE THE MEANING.
AND SO WE CAN OVERRUN THIS ONCE WE GET THAT DATA.
WELL, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT ALL OF THE CALCULATIONS FOR EACH YEAR BASED OFF OF THE REAL ESTATE ASSESSMENTS, UM, IN 2019, WE WERE PAID FOR CALENDAR YEARS 27 AND 2018.
UM, IT'S NOW 2020 AND WE WERE, YOU KNOW, WE PROVIDED THE, THE SERVICES RENDERED UNDER THE CONTRACTS FOR 2019 AND 2020.
AND WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR THE NORMAL COURSE OF BUSINESS AS IT'S GONE OVER THE YEARS.
HOW, YOU KNOW, FOLLOWING THROUGH THE NORMAL PROTOCOL.
UM, PRIOR TO THE QUESTION BEING RAISED, I DON'T THINK IT WAS EVER QUESTIONED REGARDING THE GLENDALE DISTRICT'S, UM, ASSESSMENTS OR HOW WE COME UP WITH THE FIGURE THAT'S ALLOTTED UNDER THE CONTRACT.
BUT JUST TO GIVE THE, THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND WHOEVER ELSE IS LISTENING, UH, AN IDEA OF WHAT SERVICES WE DO PROVIDE.
THE GLENVILLE FIRE DISTRICT ENCOMPASSES AT ITSELF AND THE NEW YORK STATE THROUGHWAY IN EAST IRVINGTON AS FAR WEST TO THE HACKLEY SCHOOL AS FAR EAST TO DUNNING DRIVE, WHERE ELMSFORD PICKS UP.
AND IN THAT AREA THAT INCORPORATES, UM, THREE HOTELS, THE COURTYARD MARRIOTT, SPRING HILL SUITES, THE SHERIDAN, THE STOP AND SHOP SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH IS AT SIX 50 WHITE PLAINS ROAD, THE PROPERTY OF SIEMENS, WHICH IS THE OLD BAYER CORPORATION, THE B I S F CHEMICAL CORPORATION.
ALSO AT 500 WHITE PLAINS ROAD, 5 25, 45, 55, 5 60, AND FIVE 80 IS OFFICE BUILDINGS.
UM, UH, BENEDICT AVENUE ENCOMPASSES 188 UNITS OF RESIDENTIAL AREA ON OLD WHITE PLAINS ROAD.
WE HAVE THE BRIGHTVIEW ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY, WHICH IS A FOUR STORY 90 UNIT FACILITY AND DUNNINGS DRIVE, WHICH IS RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY.
UM, THE NEAREST FIREHOUSE TO THE FURTHEST SECTION OF THAT GLENVILLE AREA IS AT 1 57 RED PLAINS ROAD.
AND THAT'S ONE MILE FROM THE FURTHEST AREA IN THE GLENVILLE DISTRICT AS FAR AS WELL AS THE FIREHOUSE LOCATED AT 1 77 SHELDON AVENUE, WHICH IS ALSO ROUGHLY ONE MILE FOR THE FURTHEST PART OF THE DISTRICT.
PUTTING THAT INTO PERSPECTIVE, OTHER VILLAGE FIRE DEPARTMENTS SUCH AS ELMSFORD AND IRVINGTON ARE MUCH FURTHER, UM, IF YOU WANTED TO CONSIDER THEM FOR USING SERVICES, JUST TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW, I JUST INTERRUPT YOU FOR A MOMENT.
ONE IS QUESTIONING THE SERVICES YOU PROVIDE, THE QUALITY OF THE SERVICES YOU PROVIDE, OR SHOULD SOMEBODY ELSE PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES, UH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR NOT SOMEBODY COULD BETTER PROVIDE IT.
NONE OF THAT WAS ASKED AT THE, AT THE HEARING.
I JUST WANTED TO DICTATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENLIGHTEN PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T KNOW AS TO, YOU KNOW, JUST WHAT ENCOMPASSES, UM, WHAT GOES ON WITH THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, JUST TO FURTHER JUST GIVE YOU ONE MORE BACKGROUND, A LITTLE INFORMATION, UH, WE, UH, WE AVERAGE ABOUT 650 CALLS PER YEAR.
ABOUT 15% OF THAT FUND COVERS THE GLENVILLE DISTRICT.
SO JUST, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR ALONE TO 2020, WE HAD 50 CALLS OUT OF OUR 546 PRIOR YEAR OUT OF 615 CALLS, 77 WERE IN THE GLENDALE DISTRICT.
SO I UNDERSTAND THERE MIGHT BE A DELAY WITH THE VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR GETTING YOU FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT NUMBERS.
I JUST WANTED TO ENLIGHTEN PEOPLE AS TO THE SERVICE THAT'S PROVIDED BY THE VILLAGE.
AND IN YEARS PAST, I KNOW THAT THE, UH, TOWN OF GREENBURG HAS BEEN, YOU KNOW, VERY HAPPY WITH OUR, OUR SERVICE AND I JUST WANTED TO CONTINUE FORWARD WITH THAT SAME POSITIVE RELATIONSHIP GOING FORWARD.
RIGHT? AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DID WHEN I BECAME A COUNCIL MEMBER WAS THAT I WENT TO AND SPOKE WITH ME S AND CAME UP WITH A FORMULA BASICALLY FOR, UH, DOING THE FIRE DISTRICT, UH, CALCULATION.
AND PRIOR TO THAT, THERE, THERE WERE A LOT OF DELAYS AND, AND GETTING THE CHECKS AND PAYMENTS THROUGH THE VILLAGES, UH, THOSE BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, BECOME NON-EXISTENT.
THOSE DELAYS, AS SOON AS WE GET THE INFORMATION, WE ACT ON IT, WHICH IS WHAT WE DID HERE.
AND IT'S TRUE THAT THE WAY WE'RE DOING IT NOW IS THE WAY IT WAS DONE OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS.
HOWEVER, WHEN SOMEBODY RAISES A QUESTION AT A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING, AND IT'S NOT REGARDING THE ASSESSMENTS, IT'S, IT'S REALLY WHAT IS WHAT, WHAT MATIC UH, COSTS ARE IN THE 4 1 4 LINE, WHICH WAS THE QUESTION I WAS RAISED.
AND SO WE, WE WROTE TO THE VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR AND THE VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR,
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UM, UM, DIDN'T KNOW FOR SURE.AND SO WE ACTUALLY APPROVED THE 1919 OF THE 2019.
BUT IN OUR STANDARD LANGUAGE OF THE RESOLUTION, IT'S SUBJECT TO THE CONTROLLER, UH, UH, BELIEVING THAT THERE'S INADEQUACY OF DOCUMENTATION.
SO SHE HAS CONTACTED THE VILLAGE TO FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT THE 4 1 4 LINE, WHAT IS IN THE 4 1 4 LINE.
'CAUSE IF THAT WAS ITEMIZED, THAT COULD BE ABOVE THE, THE TOP OF THE LINE, THE FOUR, INDEED THE 35% CARVE OUT THAT GOES TO THE FIRE COMPANY.
BUT THIS IS, THIS IS, WE'RE GETTING INTO THE WEEDS HERE OF THE CALCULATIONS THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH.
UH, BUT AS YOU CAN TELL US, UH, DO YOU HAVE THE DATA REGARDING THAT 4 1 4 LINE? UH, I THINK I WOULD ADDRESS THE PERSON WHO ASKED THE QUESTION.
YOU ALSO ADDRESS THE CONTROL CONTROLLER'S, UH, INQUIRY.
AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT TONIGHT, IF YOU CAN PROVIDE IT, THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.
WELL, I'D LIKE TO GET THIS TAKEN CARE.
I'D LOVE TO GET IT TAKEN CARE OF IN THIS MEETING TO PREVENT MYSELF FROM HAVING TO SNIFF THE FURTHER MEETINGS.
WELL, IT'S NICE TO HEAR FROM ALL, YOU KNOW, UH, PEOPLE IN THE TOWN, WE'RE ON THE VILLAGE LEVEL, WE'RE A LITTLE MORE CLOSE KNIT, BUT TO, WHEN WE BRANCH OUT INTO THE TOWN, WE'RE READY TO PROVIDE ANYTHING WE CAN.
UM, I KNOW OUR VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR HAD SENT YOU AN EMAIL TODAY, UM, BASICALLY OUTLINING THAT ONCE THEY RECEIVE THE MONIES, THEY'RE NO LONGER WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF TARRY TOWN'S POSSESSION.
THEY GET DISTRIBUTED TO THE FIRE COMPANIES INDIVIDUALLY, WHICH BREAKS DOWN INTO SIX FIRE COMPANIES.
AND THEIR MONIES ARE USED FOR VARIOUS PURPOSES, SPECIFICALLY, WE COULD GO BACK AND AUDIT EACH COMPANY AS TO THEIR THINGS.
BUT JUST GENERALLY SPEAKING, YOU KNOW, OPERATIONAL COSTS OF EACH FIREHOUSE, YOU KNOW, LIGHT REPAIRS, UM, FURNITURE, THINGS LIKE, UM, SORRY, EXCUSE ME.
'CAUSE I, UM, BUT IF YOU WANTED OUTLINE DETAILED, I'M SURE THAT OUR VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR COULD GET THAT TO YOU.
WELL, THEY PROVIDED SOME CONTROLLER, IT'S DON'T GET IN TOUCH.
THEY KNOW THEY'RE TALKING BACK AND FORTH AROUND WITH EACH OTHER.
AND SO INITIALLY THEY ASKED FOR A TWO YEAR CONTRACT.
WE DON'T DO TWO YEAR CONTRACTS BECAUSE IT'S BASED ON RECESS VALUE OF THE PREVIOUS YEARS.
AND SO YOU WOULDN'T KNOW AND NORMALLY GET CAUGHT UP QUICKLY.
WE WANTED TO DO A TWO YEAR CONTRACT, BUT WE SPLIT IT AND DID TWO ONE YEAR CONTRACTS.
WE JUST NEED THAT SECOND CHART OF ACCOUNTS AND DATA FOR THE 2020.
AND THIS'LL, THIS WILL GO RIGHT BACK ON THE AGENDA.
NOTICE WE'RE NOT TAKING IT OFF THE AGENDA.
'CAUSE THEN WE'D HAVE TO RE-NOTICE IT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO AS SOON AS WE HAVE IT, IT GOES BACK ON AGENDA OFF A BIG MY PARDON BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'M NEW TO THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE MEETINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT I'M JUST, UM, MY QUESTION WAS IS, YOU KNOW, SERVICES RENDERED FOR 2020 GET BILLED IN 2021.
AND THEN SERVICES FOR 2019 GET BILLED IN 2020.
SO THAT, THAT LAG THERE WHEN YOU BREAK THIS DOWN, WHEN I GO BACK TO MY PEERS AND MY CONSTITUENTS AND I EXPLAIN TO THEM THAT WE DID X, Y, AND Z AND WE RESPONDED TO 675 CALLS OF WHICH 20% OF 'EM WERE DOWN IN GLENVILLE, YADA, YADA, YADA, THEIR QUESTION TO ME IS, WELL, WHERE'S OUR MONEY? WE PERFORMED THE SERVICE.
WHERE'S OUR MONEY? I UNDERSTAND THE, THE, THE RATIONALE OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BETWEEN GETTING THE ALLOTMENTS OUT AND ANSWERING EVERY QUESTION THAT'S POSED TO YOU BY WHOEVER COMES TO THESE BOARD MEETINGS.
BUT I I JUST WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, THE LOGISTICS OF IT IS, YOU, YOU, YOU PERFORM A SERVICE AND YOU, YOU GET PAID FOR WHAT YOU WERE CONTRACTED WITH RATHER THAN WRITE A CONTRACT POST FACTO AND THEN GO BACK AND PAY FOR THE SERVICES YOU ALREADY RENDERED.
THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
THAT'S NOT WHAT, SORRY, THAT'S NOT WHAT HAP THAT'S NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NUMBER OF CALLS.
WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING YOUR CONTRACT, YOU WANTED TO DO IT BASED ON YOUR VILLAGE, WANTED TO DO IT BASED ON ASSESSED VALUE, NOT ON CALL VOLUME.
THERE ARE OTHER VILLAGES THAT ACTUALLY DO IT BASED ON CALL VOLUME, BUT THAT'S NOT THE WAY IT WORKS IN, WELL, IT'S BASED ON ASSESSED VALUE, WHICH WE UNDERSTAND.
AND AS YOUR SCHEDULED RESOLUTION FOR JANUARY 27TH TO CONSIDER THE ONE YEAR AGREEMENT, AND NOW WE'RE IN, YOU KNOW, FEBRUARY 10TH AND WE'RE LOOKING TO POSTPONE IT, YOU KNOW, INDEFINITELY NOW TO HEAR MORE INFORMATION.
MY QUESTION IS, IS COULD WE IN THE FUTURE GET THESE CONTRACTS TAKEN CARE OF PRIOR TO THE END OF THE SERVICES BEING RENDERED THAT WERE GIVEN FOR THE CONTRACT? WELL, WELL, THAT'S A LEGAL ISSUE.
AND IT'S BASED ON YOU, YOU HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SEPTEMBER 15TH IN ORDER TO GET THE ASSESSED VALUES.
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UH, AND SO FOR 20 20, 20 20 WASN'T THE ISSUE EXCEPT THAT, UH, WE DON'T HAVE THE CHARTER ACCOUNTS FOR 2020 AND WHAT WE'RE NOT HOLDING OVER IS THE 2019.THE 2019 SIMPLY HAVE TO PROVIDE THE DOCUMENTATION TO THE CONTROLLER.
IT'S ALREADY BEEN THROUGH THE TOWN BOARD.
CAN, CAN WE GET AN ACCOUNTING OR MAYBE OFFLINE TO SPECIFICALLY BETWEEN ME AND YOU OR EXACTLY WHAT'S NEEDED TO, TO GO DOWN FURTHER DOWN THIS ROAD? IT'S THE BREAKDOWN OF 4 1 4 THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE MONEY THAT THEN GETS SPLIT.
I BELIEVE FOR LAST YEAR AFTER THE 2019, IT WAS SOMEWHERE AROUND 15%, UH, SPLIT.
SO WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU KEEP SAYING IT'S BASED ON ASSESSED VALUE, NO ONE'S QUESTIONING THE ASSESSED VALUES, UM, WHAT'S BEING QUESTIONED IS THE COST OF OPERATING THE DISTRICT AND WHICH IS WHAT CAME UP AT THE PUBLIC HEARING.
AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE GENTLEMAN WHO ARRANGED IT IS ACTUALLY ON, AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANNA SPEAK OFFLINE WITH HIM OR IF HE WANTS TO SPEAK, UH, DURING THIS PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD OR WHATEVER.
BUT, UM, THAT'S WHAT WE NEED IS WHAT, WHAT WHAT GOES INTO THE 4 1 4 LINE THAT PUTS IT BASICALLY ABOVE IN THE TOP PART OF THAT CALCULATION.
UM, AND, UH, THE TOP PART, I'M SORRY, THE TOP PART OF WHICH CALCULATION, IN OTHER WORDS, WHY ISN'T THE QUESTION THAT CAME UP WITH THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS WHY ISN'T THE HUNDRED $2,000 THAT SPILL INTO
AND YOU HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, HOSES AND, YOU KNOW, EQUIPMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT, UH, THAT ARE AS CLEANLY RELATED TO PROVIDING FIRE SERVICES.
YOU ADD ALL THAT UP AND THEN 35% GOES TO THE FIRE COMPANY.
BUT BUILT INTO THAT IS, UH, THIS OTHER COST IN THE 4 1 4 LINE AND IT'S NOT IDENTIFIED AS WHAT, WHAT THAT, WHAT THAT'S RELATED TO.
AND SO I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS A DISCUSSION THAT WOULD BE BEST HELD, UM, OFFLINE.
I I THINK WE'RE AWARE OF SOME OF THE ISSUES SPOKEN TO THE VILLAGE MANAGER.
I THINK IF WE HAVE THE DISCUSSION AND EXPEDITE THINGS AND DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO, UH, RESOLVE THIS BETWEEN NOW AND, UM, THE NEXT MEETING? WE CAN RESOLVE THIS, THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED? QUICK QUESTION.
WHY DID IT NEED TO BEGIN OFFLINE? I CAN'T PRESENTING.
WELL, WELL FIRST OF ALL BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S CLOSE TO 10 30 AND WE HAVE TWO OTHER PUBLIC HEARINGS AND I JUST REMEMBER HOLDING THOSE PUBLIC HEARINGS UP AND WE HAVE ADJOURN IN THIS HEARING ANYWAY.
WASN'T DIALOGUE, WASN'T IT SUPPOSED TO BE HELD OVER ANYWAYS? THAT WAS WHAT WAS RIGHT.
BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW THE CHIEF WAS GONNA BE HERE AND WE WANTED TO MAXIMIZE THE USE OF THIS TIME.
THE CENSUS IS GETTING EXTENDED.
WE'LL HAVE A SEPARATE CONVERSATION AND MOVE THINGS ALONG THAT WELL IT BE THREE HOURS.
WANT TO JUST SAY WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK SEVEN 30.
WE JUST NEED TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT IT.
I'M A FIRE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER.
UM, YEAH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GET BETWEEN YOUR VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR AND THE TOWN COUNCIL AND STUFF.
AND WE KNOW YOU NEED YOUR CREDIT.
UM, YOU KNOW, JUST TO MOVE THIS ALONG, UM, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO SCHEDULE A WORK SESSION, UM, AND PUT THIS ON THE WORK SESSION AND THEN, YOU KNOW, INVITE, YOU KNOW, THE CHIEF AND THE VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THE WORK SESSION AND UM, AND YOU KNOW, HAVE A QUESTION AND THEN WE COULD JUST MAKE A DECISION ONE, YOU KNOW, MAKE A DECISION AND THEN MOVE, MOVE ON.
BECAUSE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ALSO DEPENDS ON AND THE VILLAGE, THEY DO HAVE A CONTRACT AND THEY DEPEND ON THE, UM, ON, ON BEING REIMBURSED.
AND YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, IF WE SCHEDULE A A WORK SESSION, WE COULD SPEND AS MUCH TIME AND THEN WHEN WE LEAVE, WE'LL WE'LL HAVE IT RESOLVED.
SO THAT MEANS THAT THIS KICKS UP THE NEXT TUESDAY.
IT SHOULDN'T TAKE UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY RESOLVED.
I'M JUST SAYING WE, WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE PUT THIS ON A WORK SESSION FOR TUESDAY BETWEEN NOW AND TUESDAY WE TRY RESOLVING, UM, YOU KNOW, ANY ISSUES YOU COULD SPEAK TO RICH SLAND OR THE MERRIT VILLAGE BOARD, ANYONE YOU WANT.
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YOU KNOW, WE, WE COULD DO AS WE'VE DONE WITH OTHER PROJECTS AND THEN, UH, THE CHIEF COULD GO BACK, UM, SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU KNOW, WE ANTICIPATE THAT WITHIN THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS, UM, WE'LL FIGURE OUT A WAY OF RESOLVING ANY, ANY DISPUTE.YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE THIS A MILLION TIMES IN THE PAST AND USUALLY, YOU KNOW, USUALLY WORK BECAUSE I DON'T WANT, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, BRIAN TO FEEL THAT, OH, YOU KNOW, HE SPENT THREE HOURS AND YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW.
THAT'S, THAT'S JUST MY OWN RECOMMENDATION.
AND AS SOON AS WE HAVE THAT, THEN AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, WE ALREADY APPROVED IT.
THEY CAN GO TO CUTTING THE CHECK.
WE'RE JUST WAITING FOR THE DATA AND, OKAY.
SO IF YOU CAN JUST EMAIL US SPECIFICS ON WHICH SPECIFIC DATA YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
WE'LL GLADLY OBLIGE WHATEVER'S NEEDED.
YOU KEEP REFERRING TO THE 4 1 4 THAT GOES OVER MY HEAD BECAUSE I'VE NEVER DEALT WITH A, A TOWN BUDGET, VILLAGE BUDGET.
I'VE DEAL WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGET THIS YEAR FOR THE FIRST TIME IS MY FIRST TIME BEING THIS CHIEF.
AND YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN CUT WITH COVID AND EVERYTHING.
SO WHEN YOU JUST SAY 4 1 4, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE ROOM THAT MIGHT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT IT'S, IT'S ALMOST, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
JEFF SHERWIN KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, UH, BECAUSE HE IS THE ONE THAT RAISED IT AT THE PUBLIC HEARING.
BUT WHAT WE, WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS MAYBE HAVE, HAVE A SMALL ZOOM BETWEEN THE VILLAGE ADMINISTRATOR, THE CONTROLLER YOURSELF.
UM, I, I CAN JOIN YOU WITH ENGLISH AND UH, UH, BRING YOU UP TO SPEED AS TO WHAT'S BEING LOOKED FOR.
AND AGAIN, NO ONE'S QUESTIONING THE WORK DO AND THE VALUE THAT YOU, UM, THAT YOU GIVE TO THE TOWN.
AND IT HAS BEEN WHAT I HEARD YOU SAYING, HOW FAR YOU ARE FROM THE DIFFERENT PROPERTIES.
THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE RAISED AT THESE FIRE PROTECTION HEARINGS AS TO WHY DON'T YOU GO OUT TO BID? ACTUALLY, I GUESS THAT WAS RAISED THE LAST MEETING TOO.
WHY DON'T YOU GO OUT TO BID AND SEE IF THERE'S SOMEBODY ELSE CAN PROVIDE A CHEAPER, UM, BUT THAT'S NOT THE REAL ISSUE HERE.
THE REAL ISSUE HERE IS, IS THE, HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THE NUMBER, UM, FOR, UH, BEING PAID AND IT'S A, IT'S A VERY, IT SHOULD BE A SIMPLE ANSWER.
SO YEAH, THE PUBLIC HEARING, THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING IS BEING HELD OVER TO FEBRUARY 24TH.
SO WE GOING ONTO THE THIRD PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AGENDA AT THIS POINT.
[ To consider a Special Permit and related applications by Brightview Senior Living Development, LLC for property located at 289 Dobbs Ferry Road (P.O. White Plains) for a proposed 155-unit, 186-bed Continuum of Care.Facility. (Public Hearing documents can be found: https://greenburghny.com/603/_-Active-Applications---Town-Board)]
THE THIRD PUBLIC HEARING IS, UH, TO CONSIDER A SPECIAL PERMIT, UM, AND RELATED APPLICATIONS BROUGHT PROVIDE FOR YOUR SENIOR, UH, LIVING DEVELOPMENT FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2 89 BUCKS FERRY ROAD.LIKE TO MOVE THAT BACK IN FAVOR.
MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD FOR THE RECORD GUARANTEE KANE COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION.
THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS RELATED TO A PROJECT INVOLVING THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A FOUR STORY 155 UNIT 186 BED, APPROXIMATELY 174,000 SQUARE FOOT CONTINUUM OF CARE FACILITY ON A, ON AN APPROXIMATELY FIVE ACRE LOT, WHICH IS PROPOSED LOT TWO OF WHAT IS CURRENTLY PART OF THE METROPOLIS COUNTRY CLUB PROPERTY.
THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING AN APPROXIMATELY 3.17 ACRE LOT, WHICH IS PROPOSED LOT THREE CONSISTING OF AN ADJACENT AND CONTIGUOUS CONSERVATION EASEMENT AREA FROM THE TOWN BOARD.
THE APPLICATIONS APPLIED FOR ARE A SPECIAL PERMIT FOR THE C C F USE PLAN APPROVAL.
THE APPLICANT ALSO HAS ACTIVE SUBDIVISION AND STEEP SLOPE PERMIT APPLICATIONS BEFORE THE PLANNING BOARD FIRST C C F PROPOSAL IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG SINCE THE RECENT ADOPTION OF THE LOCAL LAW APPROVED, WHICH ALLOWS THIS USE BY SPECIAL PERMIT IN ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE DISTRICTS, THE SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLAN APPLICATIONS WILL REFERRED BY THE TOWN BOARD TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
PLANNING BOARD DISCUSSED THIS MATTER ON JANUARY 6TH, 2021 AND JANUARY 20TH, 2021.
ON JANUARY 20TH, 2021, THE PLANNING BOARD ISSUED A POSITIVE SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLANNING RECOMMENDATION, POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION ALSO IDENTIFIED SUPPORT FOR THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST FOR A WAIVER FROM SECTION 2 85 39 C NINE OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE TO
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PERMIT SHARED DRIVEWAY ACCESS TO THE METROPOLIS COUNTRY CLUB.AND THE PLANNING BOARD IDENTIFIED SUPPORT FOR THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST FOR A BUILDING HEIGHT INCREASE RELATED TO CRITERION 2 85 10 A FOUR H SIX, AND THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST FOR A REDUCTION IN THE SETBACK OF THE PARKING AREA TO THE NORTHERLY PROPERTY LINE RELATED TO 2 85 10 A FOUR H SEVEN.
THE APPLICANT'S SUBMISSION IS CONSISTENT WITH THE SEEKER MITIGATIONS OUTLINED IN TOWN BOARD'S NEGATIVE DECLARATION ASSOCIATED WITH THE CREATION OF THE C C F LAW AND RELATED SITE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT HERE ON DOBBS FERRY ROAD.
THE PLANNING BOARD FOUND THAT THE AMEN SITE PLAN SUBMISSION SATISFIES ALL APPLICABLE SITE PLAN STANDARDS SET FORTH IN SECTION 25 DASH 54 STANDARDS A THROUGH K.
AND I'D LIKE TO NOTE THAT MR. DAVID STEINS, ATTORNEY ON BEHALF OF BRIGHTVIEW, THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO PRESENT ADDITIONAL DETAILS WITH REGARD TO THE PROPOSAL.
GOOD EVENING, MR. SUPERVISOR MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD.
WE PROMISE TO BE AS QUICK AND EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE.
WE JUST WANT TO MAKE THE RECORD AND MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S CLEAR.
GARRETT DID A TERRIFIC JOB OF EXPLAINING, UM, WHY WE'RE HERE.
I'M JOINED THIS EVENING FOR THE RECORD, UH, BY THREE REPRESENTATIVES OF BRIGHTVIEW.
MARIA MILLER MORGAN MILES, UH, MY PARTNER DAVID COOPER, OUR PROJECT ENGINEER, DIEGO VILLA REAL.
AND, UM, AS GARY INDICATED, WE ARE HERE THIS EVENING SPECIFICALLY WITH REGARD TO THE PUBLIC HEARING ON THE SPECIAL PERMIT, THE SITE PLAN APPROVAL.
UM, AND TECHNICALLY ALSO WITH REGARD TO, UM, ADDRESSING ANY ISSUES CONCERNING STEEP SLOPES AND TREE REMOVAL.
WE'VE, WE'VE COMPLETED THE SECRET PROCESS AND RECEIVED A NEGATIVE DECLARATION.
YOU ADOPTED THE AMENDMENTS FOR THE SPECIAL PERMIT TO ALLOW THE C C F AS GARRETT INDICATED, WE RECEIVED A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE PLANNING BOARD AFTER SEVERAL MEETINGS THERE.
AND I'M GOING, GOING TO NOW TURN IT OVER TO DIEGO.
HE'S GOING TO VERY BRIEFLY JUST WALK THROUGH THE SITE PLAN SO THAT YOU ALL SEE WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE IT ENDED UP.
UH, AND DAVID COOPER IS JUST GOING TO BRIEFLY HIT WHY WE SATISFY THE SPECIAL PERMIT CRITERIA.
WE'RE THEN HAPPY TO, UH, HEAR THE PUBLIC COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.
MR. SUPERVISOR, THIS IS NOT A D E I S TYPE HEARING, SO THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT FOR WRITTEN RESPONSES.
SO IF WE GET QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD WANTS US TO ADDRESS, WE'RE HAPPY TO DO SO.
WE THANK THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE TOWN STAFF FOR GETTING US TO THIS POINT.
UH, DIEGO, IF YOU COULD UNMUTE PLEASE.
HOW ABOUT NOW? CAN YOU HEAR ME? GOOD.
DIEGO VI WITH J M C, THE CIVIL ENGINEERS AND PLANNERS FOR THE APPLICANTS.
UM, GARRETT, IF IT'S OKAY, CAN YOU GIVE ME THE ABILITY TO SHARE MY SCREEN SO I COULD SHARE OR, UH, OR EXCUSE ME, WHOEVER CAN SHARE, UM, GIMME THE ABILITY TO DO SO.
CAN EVERYBODY SEE MY SCREEN? YEAH.
SO JUST A COUPLE OF SLIDES THAT I'LL TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS EVENING.
REALLY STARTING WITH THE OVERALL EXISTING CONDITIONS AS GARRETT HAD DESCRIBED, UM, UH, THIS IS, UH, ALSO A SUBDIVISION, THE BRIGHTVIEW PARCEL LOT TWO AS WHAT HE DESCRIBED HERE IS THIS AREA THAT I'M HIGHLIGHTING IN THIS RED LINE, DOPPS FERRY ROAD IS ALONG THE BOTTOM PORTION OF THE PAGE.
AND THEN THE METROPOLIS GOLF CLUB IS LOCATED ON THE TOP PORTION OF THE PAGE, AND IT'S CUT OFF BY THE TOP PORTION THERE.
UM, THE CONSERVATION EASEMENT OR LOT THREE IS THAT STRIP OF LAND THAT ABUTS THE METROPOLIS, UH, COM, OR EXCUSE ME, THE METROPOLIS COUNTRY CALLED LOT AS WELL AS THE BRIGHTVIEW PARCEL, AND THEN EXTENDS IN THAT NORTH EASTERLY DIRECTION ALONG THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES.
THAT REPRESENTS THE THREE ACRE CONSERVATION AREA.
UH, THIS SUPERIMPOSES THE SITE PLAN, AND WE'RE GONNA GET INTO A ZOOMED IN SITE PLAN IN JUST A MINUTE.
UH, THAT JUST SHOWS THE VARIOUS IMPROVEMENTS, BUT THIS STARTS TO SHOW HOW THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN FITS WITHIN THAT FIVE ACRE PARCEL.
UH, THAT WAS CREATED FOR THE BRIGHTVIEW PROJECT.
ZOOMING IN A BIT TIGHTER, THIS JUST ILLUSTRATES THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ON THE PROPERTY.
AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE, THIS OCCUPIES THE EXISTING MAINTENANCE FACILITY FOR THE GOLF COURSE, SHOWS THE EXISTING MAINTENANCE BUILDING THEIR STORAGE YARD, UH, AS WELL AS THE MAIN ENTRANCE THAT COMES OFF OF DOBBS FERRY ROAD AND ACCESSES THEIR EXISTING PARKING LOT.
LOOKING AT THE SITE PLAN ITSELF, THIS PLAN REALLY REPRESENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A COMBINATION OF THE PROCESS THAT WE'VE GONE
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THROUGH TO DATE.UM, THIS PLAN INCORPORATES ALL OF THE COMMENTS, ALL OF THE WORK THAT THIS BOARD AND THE OTHER BOARDS HAVE PUT IN DURING THE ZONING PROCESS, THE MODIFICATIONS TO THE OVERALL BUILDING HEIGHT, THE REDUCTION IN THE HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING, TO THREE STORIES ALONG DOBBS HILL ROAD AND THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES TO THE NORTHEAST.
UM, THE INTERCONNECT BETWEEN THE DRIVEWAY AND THE GOLF COURSE DRIVEWAY, THE TRAFFIC IMPROVEMENTS ALONG THE FRONT PORTION OF THE ROADWAY.
THE SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS, 1800 LINEAR FEET OF SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS ALONG DOBBS FERRY ROAD.
THIS PLAN REALLY JUST INCORPORATES ALL OF THE COMMENTS AND, UH, UH, WORK THAT'S BEEN PUT IN BY THE TOWN AND THE APPLICANT.
UM, THE BUILDING IS CENTRALLY LOCATED ON THE PROPERTY.
YOU COULD SEE IT IN THIS BEIGE AREA HERE AS, UH, WE'VE INDICATED BEFORE.
UM, AND THE TOTAL FOOTPRINT IS ABOUT 55,000 SQUARE FEET.
ACCESS IS OFF OF DOBBS FERRY ROAD.
THIS DRIVEWAY IN THIS LOCATION HERE, IF YOU COULD SEE IT, IS THE COMMON DRIVEWAY THAT PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE GOLF COURSE.
AND THEN THERE IS ALSO THE INTERCONNECT TO THE, UM, BRIGHTVIEW COMMUNITY.
THE SECOND DRIVEWAY LOCATED ON THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE PROPERTY IS A RIGHT IN RIGHT DRIVEWAY ONLY.
SO YOU CAN COME IN AND MAKE A RIGHT IN AND A RIGHT OUT.
AND THIS PROVIDES ACCESS TO THE BRIGHTVIEW COMMUNITY IN THE PARKING LOT AS WELL.
THERE ARE 99 PARKING SPACES THAT ARE PROPOSED, UH, TO SUPPORT THE BRIGHTVIEW COMMUNITY.
A MAJORITY OF THOSE SPACES ARE LOCATED ALONG THE FRONT PORTION OF THE PROPERTY.
AGAIN, WORKING, UH, THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, WE'VE DEVELOPED AN EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPING PLAN, UH, BOTH ALONG THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES TO THE NORTH.
UM, UH, WE'VE, WE'VE PUT IN A RETAINING WALL FENCING AND A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF LANDSCAPING TO PROVIDE SCREENING, UH, FOR ALL OF THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES.
AND SOMETHING WORKING WITH THE PLANNING BOARD ON IS REALLY THE SPECIFIC LOCATION OF ALL THOSE PLANTINGS, UH, TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING SCREENING FOR EACH OF THOSE INDIVIDUAL RESIDENTS THAT EXIST.
UM, THERE ARE SEVERAL GARDEN AREAS THROUGHOUT THE PROJECTS, SEVERAL RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE RESIDENTS.
THERE ARE SEVERAL GARDEN AREAS JUST ON THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN SIDE OF THE COMMUNITY THAT THE RESIDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO.
AND THEN THERE'S A NETWORK OF SIDEWALKS TO ENCOURAGE WALKING AND CONNECTIVITY THROUGHOUT THE PROPERTY.
AND IT TIES INTO THE SIDEWALK ALONG DOBBS FERRY ROAD THAT EXTENDS FROM OUR PROPERTY FRONTAGE TO EAST HARTSDALE AVENUE AND NORWOOD ROAD, UH, FOR A TOTAL OF 1800 LINEAR FEET OF NEW SIDEWALKS, UH, ALONG DODGE FERRY ROAD.
UM, AS DAVID COOPER, I'M SURE WE'LL GET INTO.
NOW, THE PROJECT SATISFIES ALL THE SPECIAL PERMIT CRITERIA AND THAT WAS DEMONSTRATED ON, UH, THE SITE PLAN DRAWINGS THAT WERE SUBMITTED.
DAVID, I THINK I COULD TURN IT OVER TO YOU AT THAT POINT.
UM, JUST QUICKLY, UH, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD, UH, AS PART OF THE, UH, SPECIAL PERMIT PROCESS, YOUR BOARD DOES HAVE TO FIND THAT, UH, THE PROJECT MEETS, UH, 16 STANDARDS FOR, UH, SPECIAL PERMIT ISSUANCE.
IF IT WERE SEVEN 30, I'D GO THROUGH ALL 16.
BUT, UH, INSTEAD, UH, WE DID SUBMIT A, UH, COVER LETTER TO YOUR BOARD, UH, UH, UH, ALONG WITH THE APPLICATION, WHICH WENT THROUGH EACH OF THE 16 CRITERION.
UH, THEY, THEY COVER EVERYTHING FROM LOT, UH, AREA, WHICH IS WHICH WE MEET, UH, FIVE ACRES PLUS A THREE ACRE CONSERVATION EASEMENT, UH, AREA, UH, ALL THE WAY TO HEIGHT, ET CETERA.
UM, AND SO, UH, HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT, UH, ANY OF THE CRITERION, BUT, UH, WOULD REFER BACK TO THE, TO THE, THE COVER LETTER.
UH, IN ADDITION, I WOULD NOTE, I THINK, UH, GARY ALSO NOTED THAT THE PLANNING BOARD DID ISSUE A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION, WHICH INCLUDED THE RECOMMENDATION OF ISSUING THE SPECIAL PERMIT, AS WELL AS, UH, ISSUING THE, THE, UH, THREE, UM, WAIVERS OR, OR, UH, EXERCISE OF JURISDICTION UNDER YOUR, UM, SPECIAL PERMIT, UH, AUTHORITY RELATING TO HYATT, UM, MULTIPLE USERS OF, OF THE, UH, DRIVEWAY, UH, AS WELL AS ALLOWING THE PARKING AREA TO BE, UH, UH, WITHIN 50 FEET OF, OF THE, UH, FRONT YARD, FRONT YARD.
UM, THAT BEING SAID, I'M HAPPY TO DEFER, UH, OVER TO, TO OUR, OUR COVER LETTER AND ANSWER ANY, ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
UH, OTHERWISE WE'RE HAPPY TO OPEN UP THE, UH, THE PUBLIC HEARING TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
MR. SUPERVISOR MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD, WE HAVE NO FURTHER AFFIRMATIVE, UH, PRESENTATION.
UM, ANYBODY LIKE TO TALK? UM, MAD
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THE IMPACT OF THAT AND HOW MUCH IT HAS CHANGED THE WORLD.WHAT YOU HAVE EXPLAINED WAS BASED ON E'S WORLD, THE NEW WORLD IS GOING TO CHANGE MUCH OF WHAT YOU HAD.
IT WOULD BE IMMORAL TO IGNORE WHAT'S GOING ON.
IF GENERAL MOTORS AND TOYOTA, AND VOLKSWAGEN AND TESLA AND OTHERS ARE ALL GOING TO BUILD ELECTRIC CARS, THAT MEANS THE ENVIRONMENT HAS TO BE CHANGED.
AND THE WAY YOU DEAL WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, WHICH BASICALLY MEANS, WHICH I BROUGHT UP BEFORE, THAT THE CONCEPT OF CONCRETE SIDEWALKS AND CURBS IS VIRTUALLY OVER BECAUSE IT'S ENVIRONMENTALLY VERY BAD.
WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT NEW YORK STATE'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THEIR TRAFFIC CONTROL, WHICH TURNS OUT TO BE RATHER INCONSISTENT WITH SAFETY.
AND THAT'S BEING EXPLORED ON EVERY LEVEL WITH EVERY MAJOR ORGANIZATION GOING UP TO THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION, PAUL TROTTENBERG WILL BE THERE.
AND SHE AND I HAVE DISCUSSED THIS ISSUE.
AND BECAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING, IT CHANGED THE WAY OF PLANS.
NOBODY KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO HAPPEN.
YOU FOLLOWED ALL OF THE RULES AT THE TIME.
YOU FOLLOWED THEM WHEN YOU WEREN'T LOOKING.
YOU JUST HAVE TO WATCH THE WORLD, THE STORMS, THE COLLAPSE OF AVALANCHES.
IT MEANS THAT THIS COMMUNITY HAS TO DO CHANGE AS WELL.
AND THE WAY YOU BUILT LAST YEAR WILL NOT BE THE WAY YOU BUILD THIS YEAR.
YOU CAN JUST GO TO THE NEWSPAPERS AND READ THE GLOBAL NEWSPAPERS.
IF VOLKSWAGEN IS GOING TO STOP BUILDING TRANSMISSIONS, INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES, AND THAT PROBLEM IS GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO SOLVE, WHAT ARE ALL THOSE TRAINED PEOPLE GOING TO DO TO MAKE A LIVING? SORRY GUYS.
THE PLANS THAT YOU MADE WERE GOOD FOR THE TIME YOU MADE THEM.
IF YOU APPROVE THIS NOW, NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT.
BUT YOU'RE AFFECTING THE WORLD THAT YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, MY GRANDCHILDREN, WILL LIVE IN.
THERE WILL BE NORMAL GAS STATIONS BUILT.
GO INTO THE HILTON ON, ON ONE 19 AND YOU CAN SEE A ROW OF ELECTRIC CHARGING STATIONS FOR THE PEOPLE THAT COME THERE, RUN BY THIS SHARED TRAILWAYS WHERE BICYCLES AND PEDESTRIANS SHARE IS QUITE SUCCESSFUL.
I SAID THAT BEFORE, MADE THEM NOT HEARD IT.
YOU ARE IN A VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY DIFFICULT POSITION.
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU DO PROJECTS AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANY TIME TO DO IT.
JUST LOOK AT THE DIRECTORS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON WITH REGARD TO GLOBAL WARMING.
EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD IS COOPERATING.
YES, YOU'VE DONE IT THAT WAY FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS, BUT IT'S OVER.
THERE'S NO REASON FOR YOU TO BELIEVE ME.
JUST DON'T READ THE NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS, READ THE ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS, READ THE PARIS NEWSPAPERS, READ THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS, READ THE TRANSLATION OF THE CHINESE NEWSPAPER INDONESIA.
IT'S VERY DIFFICULT FOR DEVELOPERS OF YOUR CHARACTER WHO HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL TO FIND OUT THAT WHAT YOU PLANNED IS IMMORAL TODAY.
MR. BONNIE, YOU HAVE 15 SECONDS, TIM, WE WILL DISCUSS THIS ALL FINE.
I WILL USE MY TIME UP VERY WELL.
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BELIEVE THAT? I BELIEVE SO.I KNOW THAT THERE'S NO, THERE'S NOT GOVERNMENT MONEY INVOLVED IN THIS, BUT WOULD THE, UH, APPLICANT CONSIDER ENTERING INTO PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENTS OR, UH, UM, COMMUNITY WORKFORCE AGREEMENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT? SO, UM, TO, IT'S AN EXCELLENT QUESTION AND, UM, HERE'S THE BEST WAY FOR ME TO ANSWER IT AT THIS POINT.
UM, THE APPLICANT IS EVALUATING ALL OF ITS, UM, CAPITAL MARKETS OPTIONS AND, AND FINANCING OPTIONS.
ONE OF WHICH WOULD BE TO POTENTIALLY, UM, CONTACT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY I D A TO SEE IF THERE ARE, UM, BENEFITS AVAILABLE THERE TO HELP FACILITATE THE PROJECT.
AS YOU, AS THE BOARD PROBABLY KNOWS, OUR COUNTY I D A DOES REQUIRE, UH, THAT, UH, ALL I D A APPLICANTS SEEK OUT AND MEET WITH, UM, LOCAL ORGANIZED LABOR AND ATTEMPT TO NOT ONLY OPEN SHOP NEGOTIATE WITH ANYONE WHO'S WILLING TO PARTICIPATE, BUT ALSO, UM, SECURE ARRANGEMENTS WITH LOCAL CONTRACTORS WERE AVAILABLE.
SO, UM, FRANCIS, I THINK THE BEST ANSWER IS STEVE'S NOT AT THAT POINT YET, BUT, UH, WE'LL BE SHORTLY.
AND, UM, AND I WOULD THINK THAT THAT THAT IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT, UH, BRIGHT BRIGHTVIEW WILL BE EVALUATING.
AND I, AND THE IDEA IS GONNA HAVE HIM DO THAT.
UH, UH, I HAD, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER ACTUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, TWO QUESTIONS.
ONE IS THE SAME QUESTION I ASKED AT THE LIST, UM, YOU KNOW, HEARING, UH, ABOUT DID PAUL, UM, BENEFICIAL AND, UM, THERE WAS, UM, A WOMAN WHO'S ACTIVE, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY, ROCHELLE STEENBERG, AND SHE, SHE SUGGESTED THAT FOR LIKE ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, INDEPENDENT, UM, UH, LIVING FACILITIES THAT PERHAPS, UM, THERE COULD BE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UH, THE DEVELOPMENTAL, UH, DISABLED AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE EVEN OPPORTUNITIES WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE HIGHER FUNCTIONING DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED MAY EVEN BE ABLE TO LIVE, UH, IN ONE OF THE, UH, YOU KNOW, FACILITIES NOT, I ALSO THOUGHT THAT WAS AN INTRIGUING AND CREATIVE, UM, IDEA BECAUSE WE REALLY WANNA GIVE, UM, OPPORTUNITIES TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, DISABILITIES.
AND I THINK WE COULD COME UP WITH LIKE A MO A, A PROGRAM THAT COULD BE, UH, A NATIONAL MODEL IF WE DID SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE, WE WE DID OUTREACH TO THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED, I THINK WE WOULD DEFINITELY BE INTERESTED IN HEARING, UM, WHATEVER SUGGESTIONS AND, AND OPPORTUNITIES ARE OUT THERE.
AND ON THE EMPLOYMENT FRONT, I THINK, AND STEVE, PLEASE STOP ME AND IF I'M INCORRECT, IF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG, UM, BEGINS GETTING CONTACTED BY INDIVIDUALS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT, I THINK THE OPERATIONS FOLKS AT, UH, BRIGHTVIEW WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO START GETTING LISTS OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT, UH, BE INTERESTED IN WORKING WHEN THE FACILITY IS UP AND RUNNING.
SO WE'VE DONE THAT IN OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE, UH, WE'VE EFFECTIVELY PARTNERED UP WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO, TO SEE IF THERE ARE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS.
AND UH, YEAH, IF WE COULD GIVE LIKE, JUST LIKE A LOOK, IF WE COULD TRY AND, YOU KNOW, I'D BE HAPPY TO EVEN, UM, SPEAK TO, UH, THE PEOPLE AT BRIGHTVIEW AND WE COULD SIT DOWN AND, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST REALLY VERY INTERESTED IN SEEING IF WE COULD DO A LITTLE BIT, GO A LITTLE BIT MORE, UM, DO SOMETHING FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED WHERE WE COULD HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITIES WHERE WE COULD, UM, SHOW FAMILIES WHO LIVE IN GREENBURG THAT THEY HAVE, UH, CHILDREN THAT WE'RE GIVING THEM HOPE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST A, A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE AT A CARING FACILITY THAT, YOU KNOW, IS REALLY GONNA HELP THEM, YOU KNOW, HELP THE COMMUNITY AND HELP THEM AS WELL.
SO I WOULD BE LIKE SO EXCITED AND SO GRATEFUL IF YOU WOULD, YOU KNOW, CONSIDER THAT.
AND I COULD EVEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WE COULD SET UP EVEN A MEETING.
UH, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, ROCHELLE, YOU KNOW, BROUGHT THIS UP A FEW TIMES TO ME.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE COULD EVEN SIT DOWN WITH HER AND, AND GET HER THOUGHTS.
BUT MR. SUPERVISOR WOULD BE THRILLED TO CONTINUE THAT CONVERSATION WITH YOU AND, AND MEMBERS OF THE TOWN.
IT WOULD BE TERRIFIC TO FIND OPPORTUNITIES TO EMPLOY NOT ONLY GREENBERG RESIDENTS IN GENERAL, BUT UH, DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INDIVIDUALS, UH, IN OUR COMMUNITY.
IF WE CAN FIND THE RIGHT, UH, KIND OF MATCH FOR, FOR POSITION WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS.
SO WE, WE SHOULD DEFINITELY EXPLORE IT.
IT WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR BOTH THE TOWN AND US.
I, I FEEL THAT WE SHOULD HAVE APPROVED THIS YESTERDAY INSTEAD OF, UH, I MAY VOTE AGAINST, UH, UH, HOLDING THE RECORD OPEN 'CAUSE I DON'T WANNA RUSH IT, BUT, UH, ANYTHING ELSE THAT
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I ASK THE QUESTION, IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, RESIDENT, UH, CLIFF ABRAMS HAS A A, A COMMENT, A QUESTION.SO, UM, AS FAR AS DEVELOPMENT AS YOU'RE BUILDING IT OR YOU'RE HIRING PEOPLE FOR JOBS, LIKE IS ANY JOBS FOR THE COMMUNITY CAN LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY WHEN YOU'RE BUILDING THE, UM, PLACE OR YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ONCE YOU'RE BUILDING TO HAVE JOBS? UH, I WAS SPEAKING SPECIFICALLY TO ONCE WE'RE OPEN AND OPERATIONAL, UH, DURING CONSTRUCTION, WE'LL HIRE A GENERAL CONTRACTOR THAT WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIRING, UM, THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION WORKERS.
BUT ONCE WE ARE OPEN FOR OPERATIONS, UH, THEN OUR INTERNAL OPERATING TEAM WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF THE HIRING, UH, PRACTICES.
BUT JARED, THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS I ALWAYS TALK TO YOU ABOUT, THAT UM, WE ALLOW PEOPLE TO COME DEVELOP STUFF IN THE FAIRVIEW AREA AND WHY CAN'T PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE, IF PART OF THAT JOB, WHETHER 10% OR 15%, THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HIRE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE TO HELP BUILD AND, AND THAT THAT CAN GIVE 'EM A TRADE AND LABORING WHAT IT GONNA TAKE ABOUT 18 MONTHS OR BETTER TO BUILD? WHY CAN'T THAT BE A PART OF IT? JERRY, I'M ASKING YOU THAT QUESTION.
'CAUSE Y'ALL GONNA ALLOW THEM TO COME BUILD AND THEY TALKING ABOUT THEY GONNA HIRE CONTRACTORS THAT WE GOT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE WHO CAN USE SOME WORK BEFORE, NOT, NOT ONCE IT GET BUILT, BEFORE IT GET BUILT.
SO, SO, GARRETT, LET ME, LET ME ANSWER MR. ABRAS, 'CAUSE HE MAY HAVE MISSED MY EARLIER ANSWER.
UM, YEAH, I GOTTA BE A LATE NO PROBLEM AT ALL, SIR.
AND I'M, AND I'M, I'M GLAD YOU GOT YOUR QUESTION OUT THERE.
AND, AND, UM, MY CLIENT IS LIKELY, UM, I, I'M, I'M THE ATTORNEY FOR BRIGHTVIEW, MR. ABRAMS. AND, AND BRIGHTVIEW IS MOST LIKELY GOING TO BE WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY, UM, I D A AND IF YOU'RE A, A CONTRACTOR HERE IN THE COUNTY, YOU PROBABLY KNOW THAT OUR COUNTY I D A WORKS VERY HARD TO ENCOURAGE BUILDERS, MUCH LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING, TO HIRE LOCAL, UM, TO OPEN UP OPPORTUNITIES, UH, FOR UNIONS AS WELL AS FOR LOCAL EMPLOYMENT.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I BELIEVE BRIGHTVIEW WILL BE DOING WITH AND THROUGH THE COUNTY ONCE WE GET TO THAT NEXT PHASE OF THE PROCESS.
SO, UM, I HAVE EVERY EXPECTATION THAT THERE WILL BE, UH, ENCOURAGED OPPORTUNITIES THAT THE COUNTY WILL, UH, REQUIRE THAT BRIGHTVIEW EXPLORE AND THAT IT'S GENERAL CONTRACTOR EXPLORE.
SO, UH, IF YOU ARE OUT THERE, HOPEFULLY THAT CREATES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU AND OTHERS IN FAIRVIEW.
BUT, UM, JARED, CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO 'EM THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M REALLY TALKING ABOUT? YEAH, I JUST WANNA SAY, UM, DAVID AND, AND STEVE, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK I DO KNOW WHAT MR. MOND IS TALKING ABOUT, AND I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE A MEETING BETWEEN THE FOUR OF US, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAVE MORE TIME.
AND, YOU KNOW, A NOT LIKE THIS TO TO BE FORGOTTEN, SO IF WE COULD HAVE ONE OF THOSE TYPE OF MEETINGS AND MEETING BEFORE THE TIME WE MAKES A DECISION, THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
DEREK, JUST PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS BEFORE YOU MAKE, BEFORE THE, UM, COMBO MAKE A DECISION.
AND, UH, THANK YOU DAVID AND STEVE.
WILL THERE BE ANY AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS, UH, AT THE, IN THE PROPOSED, UM, LIVING ENVIRONMENT OF METROPOLIS? I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THAT MONTHS AGO AND, UM, SO NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, AS THE PLAN HAS DEVELOPED, UM, IS THERE ANY, UH, ANY CLOSER TO A COMMITMENT TO A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS? SO THE ANSWER, UM, JUDITH, IS THAT THERE WAS A WRITTEN COMMITMENT THAT WAS PROVIDED TO THE TOWN BY BRIGHTVIEW.
THERE WILL BE FAIR AND AFFORDABLE, UM, UNITS.
THERE WAS AN ENTIRE PROPOSAL AND A PROGRAM THAT WAS SUBMITTED TO, UH, TO GARRETT AND THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
AND, UH, WE EXPECT THAT TO BE PART OF OUR APPROVAL.
NOT AFFORDABLE WITH ASSISTED LIVING IS, UH, WHAT YOU COULD AFFORD.
AND IT'S, IT'S VERY, IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE, EVEN IF IT'S DISCOUNTED, IT IS.
BUT AT AT LEAST BRIGHTVIEW IS PREPARED TO COMMIT TO MAKING A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THEIR UNITS FAR MORE AFFORDABLE THAN THEY OTHERWISE WOULD BE.
SO, UM, THAT, THAT IS CLEARLY THE GOAL AND THE OBJECTIVE OF WHAT, UH, GARRETT HAS ASKED FROM US.
AND, YOU KNOW, I SHOULD ALSO MENTION THAT THROUGH THE BRIGHTVIEW, UM, IN TARRYTOWN, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOTTEN, SINCE IT WAS BOTH, I DON'T THINK WE'VE HAD ONE CO I'VE RECEIVED ONE COMPLAINT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S EVEN MI LIKE MINOR CONCERNS OR WHATEVER AND, AND I CALL, THEY USUALLY VERY QUICKLY, YOU KNOW, RESPONDED TO GOOD TO HEAR.
WE'VE HEARD ONLY GOOD THINGS AND AND THAT'S WHY BRENT
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FEELS BACK TO DO MORE.AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, THIS AN OPENNESS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT MENTALLY DISABLED BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I REALLY FEEL THAT IT'S AN ISSUE, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE REALLY NEEDS, YOU KNOW, MORE ATTENTION AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEE SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED, THEY WORK AT SUPERMARKETS OR AROUND, YOU KNOW, THERE A LOT OF THE, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING, THEY'RE ALWAYS SO UPBEAT AND THEY APPRECIATE LIFE AND THEY DON'T COMPLAIN.
AND EVEN LITTLE THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST ALWAYS ARE DOING THINGS WITH, UH, WITH A GOOD ATTITUDE.
AND I THINK THAT THEY WOULD RELATE WELL WITH MANY SENIOR CITIZENS AS WELL BECAUSE THEY'RE SO FRIENDLY AND PERSONABLE.
UM, SO I'M REALLY VERY, VERY APPRECIATIVE.
SO WE WOULD HOPE, UM, MR. SUPERVISOR, THAT THE TOWN BOARD IS IN A POSITION TO CLOSE TONIGHT'S PUBLIC HEARING ON THE SPECIAL PERMIT AND THE SITE PLAN APPROVAL, WHICH ALLOWS US TO CONTINUE FORWARD, GO BACK AND COMPLETE OUR SUBDIVISION, UM, PROCESS IN FRONT OF THE PLANNING BOARD AND COMPLETE OUR REMAINING APPROVAL.
SO, SO WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE TOWN BOARD CLOSE TONIGHT'S PUBLIC HEARING.
WE'LL LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR 10 DAYS THAT WE LEAVE THE OTHER ONE NO, YOU FOR A HALF HOUR.
UM, UM, SO, UH, MOTION WAS MADE AND I'D LIKE TO SECOND IT.
JUST, JUST, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, THE FIRST ONE WAS, WAS, UH, LEFT OPEN FOR 12 DAYS.
SO IS THIS ONE BEING, UH, YOU ARE MOVING, THIS IS LEFT OPEN FOR 10 DAYS, FRANCIS, SHE, SHE CAUGHT US THERE.
WELL ACCORDING TO, ACCORDING TO THE MINUTES, UM, THERE WAS A DISCUSSION WITH REGARDS TO THE 10TH, 10TH DAY LANDING ON A SATURDAY.
AND THEN IT WAS AGREED THAT THE RECORD WOULD BE OPEN UNTIL MONDAY, WHICH WOULD BE MONDAY THE 22ND, WHICH WOULD BE 12 DAYS.
UM, GINA SECOND AND ALL AGREED? YEP, THAT'S CORRECT.
I DON'T DO 12 DAYS BECAUSE IT MAY TURN OUT THAT IF WE GET SOMETHING AT THE LAST MOMENT, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE WEDNESDAY.
IS THERE A SECOND? ALL IN FAVOR? ALL IN FAVOR? NO, NO, THERE'S, IS THERE A SECOND? FIRST THAT MOTION WHETHER OR NOT OKAY.
WE HAVE ONE MORE PUBLIC HEARING, RIGHT PAUL? UH, YES, I THINK SO.
WHERE IS IT? COULD YOU PUT UP THE AGENDA? SO RELATED TO CHECK.
[ To consider a Local Law repealing Code of the Town of Greenburgh Chapter 373, entitled “Hotels, Motels, Rooming Houses, etc.,” which contains provisions either obsolete or more concisely regulated in other chapters of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh and/or the NYS Building Maintenance Code]
OKAY, THE LAST ONE TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW REPEALING THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.UM, I MOVED IT UP ON CHAPTER 3 73 IN PETAL HOTELS, MOTELS, ROOMING HOUSES, WHICH CONTAINS PROVISIONS EITHER OBSOLETE OR MORE CONCISELY REGULATED IN OTHER CHAPTERS OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
I'LL START BY SAYING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A, A CHAPTER IN THE TOWN CODE THAT REGULATES HOTELS AND, UM, MOTELS AND, AND ROOM HOUSES.
AND AGAIN, IT WAS, UM, ADOPTED IN 1953 AND IT HAS SOME ARCHAIC, UM, TERMS SUCH AS YOU CAN'T STAY IN A HOTEL UNLESS YOUR FAMILY AND HAVE BEATED BY BLOOD AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, OUTDATED.
UM, CAN'T, UH, A MAN, A WOMAN CAN'T STAY IN A HOTEL UNLESS THEY MARRIED.
SO, UM, THOSE PROVISIONS ARE OUTDATED AND THERE ARE OTHER PROVISIONS PERTAINING TO OCCUPANCY THAT ARE ADDRESSED IN OTHER AREAS OF, OF, UH, YOU KNOW, OTHER CODES LIKE THE UNITED STATE BUILDING CODE INTERNATIONAL, UH, PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE.
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UM, SO THAT'S WHY WE GOT IT APPROPRIATE, UH, THAT THIS, UH, THIS CHAPTER OF THE TOWN CODE REPEALED THE BUILDING INSPECTOR HERE.I THINK WE HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL COMMENTS.
ALMOST EVERYTHING IS COVERED BY, UM, THE FIRE CODE OF NEW YORK STATE AND THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODE OF NEW YORK STATE.
UM, AS FAR AS GETTING LICENSES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, I DON'T REMEMBER EVER THAT WE GIVE OUT A LICENSE TO A MOTEL HOTEL AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN IN TOWN, BUT WE DO GIVE OUT OPERATING PERMITS FOR THEM AND THEY GET INSPECTED ANNUALLY.
UM, AND A LOT OF THE OTHER, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, SECTIONS OF THE CODE, UH, THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO ABOLISH ARE JUST WEIGHING, YOU KNOW, WAY OUTTA LINE.
THEY, IT'S, IT'S JUST AN OLD CODE THAT NEEDS TO GO.
NOW, I WOULD ADD THAT MS. KAISER HAS, UH, ELLA P HAS RAISED THIS ISSUE, KNOW MANY TIMES HILL, AND, UM, YOU, I JUST APOLOGIZE IT'S TAKEN SO LONG TO, FOR US TO READ THESE PROVISIONS CODE.
UH, THIS IS THE ACTUAL CODE YOU HIGHLIGHTED FAMILY FOR A PARTICULAR REASON, TIM.
WELL, BECAUSE, UM, THAT DEFINITION OF A FAMILY IS, IS NO LONGER, UH, ACCURATE.
UM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE, UM, RELATED BY BLOOD OR MARRIAGE IN THESE DAYS AND TIMES TO BE WITH YOUR FAMILY.
SO THE WHOLE THING GOES, YEAH, I, I, I RECOMMENDED IT GOES.
I KNOW ELLA AND I HAVE HAD MANY OF A OVER THESE PROVISIONS IN HERE BECAUSE IF, IF WE EVER TRIED TO ENFORCE THEM, WE WOULD BE SPENDING OUR TIME IN COURT MORE OFTEN THAN NOT.
ALRIGHT, DOES ANYBODY WANT TO SPEAK ABOUT THIS FROM THE PUBLIC? WELL, THE LOCAL LAW BASICALLY REPEALS THIS IN ITS ENTIRETY, RIGHT? OKAY.
SO NOBODY WANTS TO SPEAK ON IT.
WE'LL, UH, CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR 10 DAYS.
MR. MARSHALL, THANK ALL IN FAVOR.
[ PUBLIC COMMENT Advance signup via PublicComment@GreenburghNY.com is required. See instructions on first page. A three minute limit per speaker will be strictly enforced. No interruptions by Town Board members, the Town Clerk or the public will be permitted. Any questions on agenda items should be asked at this time. Department Heads have the option of leaving the meeting following Public Comment. Therefore, if anyone has questions that are related to resolutions/items on the agenda involving a specific Department Head, those questions should be raised at this time]
NOW THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF THE MEETING.SO FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, WE HAVE, UM, DURING LIPSON, VERY BOLD.
UM, AND WHY DON'T WE START WITH WAYNE SISON SINCE HE'S BEEN WAITING FOR SO LONG.
HE'S BEEN HERE SINCE THE BEGINNING.
JUDITH, I'M ON THE LIST TOO, I BELIEVE, AND YOU? YES, YOU ARE.
HE'S BEEN HERE SINCE THE BEGINNING AS WELL, SO, SO YOU, YOU TOO.
SO WHY DON'T WE START WITH WAYNE AND THEN YOU AND THEN UM, UH, DOREEN AND MURRAY.
HOW'S THAT? OKAY, THREE MINUTES.
IS THAT WE'LL DOING TONIGHT, RIGHT? THIS IS THE FIRST ROUND.
AND HOW, HOW DOES THE BOARD WISH TO HANDLE THAT? THREE MINUTES, BUT THE ONE THING SECOND ROUND, I'LL, I'LL BE BRIEF.
UH, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK THIS EVENING.
UH, I AM HERE WITH REGARD TO THE TOWN BOARD'S DECISION AND ORDER, UH, DATED DECEMBER 11TH, 2020, REGARDING MY APPEAL FOR FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST.
IN THE CONCLUSION OF THAT DECISION, IN ORDER, UH, THE BOARD ISSUED CERTIFY A TWO-PRONGED PROCESS.
THE FIRST PROCESS, THE TOWN BOARD PROVIDED THE ASSESSOR WITH 30 DAYS TO REVIEW THE RECORDS THAT I WAS SEEKING.
THE SECOND PRONG, THE TOWN BOARD ORDERED THE STAFF TO WORK A MINIMUM OF TWO HOUR INTERVALS ONCE A WEEK, COMMENCING 30 DAYS AFTER DECEMBER 11TH, 2020, UNTIL THE INSPECTION OF RECORDS IS COMPLETE.
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BE UNTIL I BELIEVE JANUARY 11TH, 2020.IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY, THE ASSESSOR PROVIDED ME WITH A TOTAL OF 101 FILES.
OF THE 617 FILES I REQUESTED TO INSPECT THESE FILES CONSIST OF ONLY THE GRIEVANCE APPLICATION AND THE DECISION OF THE BOARD OF ASSESSMENT REVIEW.
IN OTHER WORDS, THESE FILES WERE NOT VOLUMINOUS.
IF YOU LOOK AT IT MATHEMATICALLY AND TAKE THE 101 FILES THAT WERE PROVIDED AS AN INDICATOR OF WHAT THE MONTHLY AVERAGE WOULD BE, IT WOULD INDICATE THAT THE REMAINING 501 FILES THAT ARE ARE THERE LEFT TO BE REVIEWED, UH, THAT IT WOULD TAKE UNTIL JUNE OF 2021 FOR THE INSPECTION TO BE COMPLETE.
KEEP IN MIND THAT MY INITIAL REQUEST WAS NEVER TO RECEIVE COPIES OF THE APPLICATION OR AN ADDITIONAL COPY OF THE DECISION FROM THE BOARD OF ASSESSMENT REVIEW, WHICH I ALREADY HAVE WITHIN MY POSSESSION.
MY REQUEST WAS SIMPLY TO INSPECT THE FILES.
HOWEVER, BECAUSE THE DECISION AND ORDER GIVES THE ASSESSOR THE DISCRETION TO EITHER PROVIDE THE COPIES ELECTRONICALLY OR TO MAKE AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION OF THE FILES, THE ASSESSOR HAS CHOSEN TO COPY THE RECORDS CONTAINED WITHIN THE FILES, WHICH PUTS A TREMENDOUS BURDEN ON HER TIME, PUTS A BURDEN ON THE STAFF'S TIME AND UTILIZES MUNICIPAL, MUNICIPAL RESOURCES.
I DID NOT REQUEST COPIES OF THE APPLICATION.
I, I REQUESTED TO SIMPLY INSPECT THE FILES AND IF THE SESSION WAS GIVEN 30 DAYS TO REVIEW THE FILE BEFORE ANYTHING EVEN HAPPENED, WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED WAS AT THE COMPLETION OF THOSE 30 DAYS, I SHOULD HAVE THEN BEEN GIVEN COPIES OF THE FILE WHILE ALLOWED TO COME IN AND INSPECT WHAT WAS DONE THIS PROCEEDING COULD HAVE BEEN OVER WITH AND CONCLUDED INSTEAD, WHAT WE HAVE IS A SITUATION WHERE I HAVE BEEN GIVEN ONLY 101 FILES IN IT DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
I RECEIVED 15 FILES TODAY, I WILL POINT OUT THAT FROM JANUARY 23RD TO TODAY, I HAVE RECEIVED NO FILES AND THIS PROCESS IS GONNA BE DRAWN OUT AND, AND, AND, AND DRAGGED OUT UNNECESSARILY.
AND IT CAN BE RESOLVED RATHER QUICKLY IF THE ASSESSMENT WILL JUST ALLOW ME TO COME IN AND INSPECT THE FILES.
SO I'M ASKING THIS BOARD TO MODIFY YOUR DECISION AND INSTRUCT THE ASSESSOR TO ALLOW ME TO COME IN AND INSPECT THE FILES.
SHE'S BEEN GIVEN 30 DAYS ALREADY TO REVIEW THE FILES.
I SIMPLY JUST WANT TO LOOK THROUGH THE FILES.
I DON'T NEED COPIES OF THE APPLICATION AT THIS TIME.
I DON'T NEED COPIES OF THE DECISION, WHICH I'VE ALREADY POSSESSED.
AND I, I'M JUST ASKING YOU TO, IN, IN THE INTEREST OF TIME AND IN INTEREST OF, OF YOUR OWN RESOURCES TO ALLOW ME TO DO THIS.
OKAY? SO I THINK THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER A REQUEST AND, AND DISCUSS IT AND, AND WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU.
GOOD EVENING OR GOOD NIGHT, I GUESS, OR GOOD MORNING.
FIRST, I, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE TOWN BOARD FOR, UH, FOR APPROVING THE ORGANIZATION OF, OF THE CREATION OF THE, UH, BATTERY LAW COMMITTEE.
WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING LAST WEEK AND IT APPEARS TO BE A GREAT GROUP OF PEOPLE AND I THINK THE TOWN BOARD CAN LOOK FORWARD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE LAW TO REGULATE THESE KIND KIND OF FACILITIES.
WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING TOMORROW THAT I THINK SHOULD BE VERY, VERY PRODUCTIVE, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT.
UH, SECOND, I'D LIKE TO CORRECT THE RECORD.
UM, ON JANUARY 19TH, COUNCILMAN SHEHAN MADE SOME STATEMENTS THAT WERE INACCURATE AND FRANKLY DEROGATORY.
HE STATED THAT A MEMBER OF THE PER UH, PLANNING BOARD, AND I BELIEVE IT WAS MEANT TO BE ME, UH, BROUGHT, BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE OF PROTECTING VOLUNTEERS FROM PERSONAL LIABILITY.
UH, I NOR ANY MEMBER OF THE PLANNING BOARD ACTUALLY INITIATED THAT CONVERSATION, ALTHOUGH, UH, AS A VOLUNTEER, I BELIEVE THAT CONCERNED TO BE A REASONABLE ONE.
I DID SUPPORT THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT THAT UP, BUT I DIDN'T BRING IT UP.
HE ALSO STATED THE PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS WERE AUTOMATICALLY PROTECTED, UH, WHEN SERVING AS A VOLUNTEER IN ANOTHER CAPACITY FOR THE TOWN.
LEGALLY, MEMBERS OF BOARDS ARE ONLY COVERED, UH, WHEN THEY'RE ACTING IN THEIR CAPACITY AS A, THE BOARD MEMBER BOARD THAT THEY'RE APPOINTED TO AND THAT, SO THAT WAS INACCURATE.
FINALLY, MR. SHANE STATED THE PLANNING BOARD CAUSED A DELAY IN MOVING AHEAD ON THE EAGLE
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ENERGY, UH, PROJECT.NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
THE PLANNING BOARD ISSUED A RECOMMENDATION TO FORMULATE THE COMMITTEE FOR, UH, BATTERY STORAGE ON DECEMBER 3RD.
IT TOOK SIX WEEKS FOR THE COMMITTEE TO BE APPROVED BY THIS BOARD ON DECEMBER 9TH.
THE PLANNING BOARD RECOMMENDED TO THE TOWN BOARD.
IT APPEALED THE BUILDING INSPECTOR'S OPINION BECAUSE IT WAS THE PLANNING BOARD THAT ACTUALLY ASKED FOR A WRITTEN OPINION.
NO ONE ELSE HAD DONE THAT BEFORE.
AND AS LEAD AGENCY, THE PLANNING BOARD FELT IT WAS THE OBLIGATION, THE TOWN BOARD TO APPEAL IT WHEN THE TOWN BOARD DIDN'T.
THE PLANNING BOARD DID APPEAL IT AT ITS NEXT MEETING.
IF THE TOWN BOARD ACTED QUICKER, THAT MADE THAT DECI THAT HEARING WOULD'VE BEEN ALREADY.
NOW IT'S SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 18TH FOR THE RECORD.
UH, I REACHED OUT TO MR. SHEEN ON THREE OCCASIONS TO CORRECT THIS RECORD AND NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE.
THIS LACK OF RESPONSE HAS NOT IN KEEPING OF GREENBERG'S TRADITION, OFFA GOVERNMENT, AND I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT FROM MR. SHEEN.
IT DOES A FANTASTIC JOB, I THINK, ON OUR BOARD.
BUT I THINK THE WAY HE HANDLED THIS WAS VERY, VERY POOR.
AND I WOULD LIKE THE RECORD TO BE CORRECTED WITH THE, WITH FROM WHAT HE SAID.
UM, YES, I, UH, I'M JUST WONDERING HOW TO PROCEED WITH WHAT MR. SCHWARTZ IS REQUESTING.
UM, YOU WANT THE RECORD, A RECORD TO BE CORRECTED? UH, CAN YOU SUBMIT IN WRITING, UM, YOU WHAT YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT TO.
UM, IT WAS SUBMITTED IN WRITING JUDITH.
IT WAS SUBMITTED TO MR. SHEEN AND THE TOWN BOARD SEVERAL WEEKS AGO.
IT'S ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED IN WRITING.
FOLLOW UP WITH THREE EMAILS AFTER THAT AND NO RESPONSE FROM ANYBODY ON THE TOM BOARD OR MR. SHEHAN.
IT WAS SPELLED OUT VERY SPECIFICALLY WHAT THE ERRORS WERE AND, AND WHAT WAS SAID ON, ON JANUARY NINE, ON, UH, JANUARY 19TH.
OKAY, SO THEN I GUESS IT WOULD BE UP TO THE BOARD TO CORRECT THAT RECORD.
THANK YOU DOREEN LIPSON, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HAS TO BE CORRECTED.
OH, OKAY, FRANCIS, IT'S A MATTER OF FACT.
IT'S NOT A MATTER OF OPINION WHAT YOU DID.
I'M SORRY IT WAS NOT, IT'S A MATTER OF FACT NOT OPINION.
OKAY, UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, I'M SAYING GOODNIGHT.
I'LL SEE YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
THIS RAISES AN INTERESTING QUESTION.
IT APPEARS THAT FRANCIS IS OVERWORKED.
YOU CAN'T BE A COUNCILMAN AND STILL ON THE ZOOM MEETING, YOU CAN'T DIVIDE YOUR ATTENTION.
SO MANY PLACES, IF ANYBODY WRITES AN EMAIL TO YOU, UH, KIND OF SAID IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE MEETING, THEN I GO TO FRANCIS SHEEN FRANCIS AND COUNCILMAN SHEEN OVERLOADED.
THE TOWN HAS CAPABLE PEOPLE TO HANDLE THE STAFF WORK RUNNING THE ZOOM MEETING IS STAFF WORK.
IT'S NOT THE PROVINCE OR IT SHOULDN'T BE THE RESPONSIBILITY.
THEY WERE JUST TELLING ME BEFORE HE RAISED AN ISSUE.
YOU GET SO MANY EMAILS THAT THEY DON'T GET ANSWERED.
'CAUSE I DIDN'T TO YOU AND I DIDN'T GET AN ANSWER EITHER.
THE QUESTIONS TONIGHT SHOULD HAVE GONE TO ONE OF THE STAFF OF GREENBERG WHO WOULD THEN DEAL WITH IT AT A STAFF LEVEL.
YOU ARE A COUNCIL PERSON, YOU'RE NOT A STAFF PERSON.
AND, AND THIS SEPARATION HAS TO BE CLEAR.
IT'S GOTTEN VERY INVOLVED WITH ZOOM.
THERE ARE DOZENS AND DOZENS OF EMAILS.
YOUR ATTENTION CAN'T BE SPLIT BETWEEN GETTING THE AGENDA ON A SCREEN AND DEALING WITH THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE COMING IN.
AND I, I POINT OUT TO THIS, ALL OF YOU LISTENING TONIGHT, YOU, YOU'VE HAD THE EXPERIENCE DIRECTLY WHERE YOU HAVE SENT EMAILS AND FRANCIS IS SO OVERLOADED THEY GOT LOST IN THE, IN THE SHUFFLE.
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IT'S NOT THE QUESTION OF WHETHER YOU WERE RIGHT OR WRONG.IT'S THE QUESTION THAT THE EMAIL THAT'S THE FRANCIS IS OVERLOADED.
HE'S DOING STAFF WORK INSTEAD OF COUNCILMAN WORK.
IT HAPPENED PREVIOUSLY IN A COUPLE OF OTHER ONES.
YOU WERE ANSWERING QUESTIONS ON VARIOUS THINGS.
ANSWERING QUESTIONS IS FINE, BUT NOT DOING STAFF WORK AT THE SAME TIME.
YOU CAN'T BE SEEING IF THERE'S ANYBODY'S CHATTING A QUESTION AND, AND GETTING SOMETHING UP ON A SCREEN THAT'S STAFF WORK.
AND, AND BECAUSE ZOOM HAS GOTTEN SO COMPLICATED AND IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY, YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT THE FUNCTION OF STAFF IS DIFFERENT FROM THE FUNCTION OF COUNCIL PERSON.
YOU'RE A VERY TALENTED COUNCIL PERSON.
YOU'VE ANSWERED QUESTIONS AT LEAST EIGHT TIMES TONIGHT.
I DIDN'T KEEP EXACT QUESTION, BUT YOU CAN'T ANSWER QUESTIONS CORRECTLY.
AND THEN KEEP TRACK OF THE CHAT AND THEN THE QUESTIONS THAT I GOT AN EMAIL TODAY.
IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION SEND UP TO FRANCIS.
I CAN'T EXPECT YOU TO DEAL WITH EVERYTHING.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHOSE DECISION IT IS, BUT THE FUNCTION OF RUNNING A STAFF MEETING, WE HAVE NUMEROUS COMPETENT PEOPLE HERE BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TO NUMEROUS ZOOM MEETINGS AND DIFFERENT, I'VE BEEN TO HUGHES MEETING ANY NUMBER OF TIMES AND I'VE HAD QUESTIONS AND THEN BEEN DISCUSSIONS.
BUT THE ACTUAL RUNNING OF THE MEETING IS A STAFF FUNCTION AND NOT A PERSON'S FUNCTION.
AND THAT HAS TO BE CLEAR AND IT HAS TO BE DONE IMMEDIATELY.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T THAT HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY IN A MEETING WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO COME TO TOWN HALL AGAIN EVEN WHEN IT'S OPEN.
SO THIS IS A STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN THE WAY THE TOWN IS RUN.
JEWS, YOU GOT A NEW JOB AND YOU HAVE NEW PEOPLE IN YOUR OFFICE AND YOU'RE NOW THE REGISTER.
IF I HEARD YOU SAY IT CORRECTLY, I'M LOOKING AT IT BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU ARE ON MY SCREEN UP THERE.
I'M HUH? YOUR TIME'S UP WHEN I SAY THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY.
I, I HAVE HAD RENEWABLE HELP FROM PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN.
THEY'VE BEEN EXCEEDINGLY FREE WITH THEIR MENTORING AND CORRECTING ME AND HELPING ME LEARN WHAT I'VE LEARNED.
OKAY, SO WE'RE DONE WITH OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS, RIGHT? WE'LL JUST HAVE THE AGENDA NOW.
WE'LL JUST START THE MEETING NOW.
OKAY, SO DO WE HAVE THE AGENDA? NO.
YOU DON'T HAVE A SECOND UH, PUBLIC COMMENT? NO, I WILLS DON'T PROVIDE FOR HER.
[ AT 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Continental Manor Condominium, LLC for property located at 240 South Broadway. The Town’s share of the refund is $1,866±; the County’s share is $14,003±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $1,989±; the Tarrytown Union Free School District’s share is $87,525±. Refunds from all sources total $105,383±]
ONE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX TERTIARY SETTLE TAX S SETTLEMENT.PETITIONER CONTINENTAL MANOR CONDO FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT TWO 40 SOUTH BROADWAY.
THE TOWN SHARE OF THE REFUND IS 1,866.
THE SOMO, UH, VALLEY SEWER DISTRICT SHARE 1 9 8 9.
FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT SHARE IS 87 5 2 5.
[ AT 2 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Akzo Nobel Chemicals Inc. for property located at Saw Mill River Rd. & Lawrence Rd. The Town’s share of the refund is $15,143±; the County’s share is $8,838±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $1,192±; the Ardsley Union Free School District’s share is $55,956±; the Chauncey Fire Protection District’s share is $2,532±. Refunds from all sources total $83,660±]
AUTHORIZING TAX OR SHARE SETTLEMENT? PETITIONER ASCO NOBLE CHEMICALS FOR PROPERTY LOCATED SO RIVER ROAD ON LAWRENCE ROAD.UM, AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT, UH, IS 83 6 60.
[ AT 3 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC for property located at 250 Clearbrook Road. The Town’s share of the refund is $6,254±; the County’s share is $3,954±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $604±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $8,936±; the No. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $755±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc. Districts share is $143. Refunds from all sources total $20,648±]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX.SHERRY SOLOMON WITH PETITIONER MATT KELLY CW REALTY ASSOCIATES.
UM, THE TOTAL AMOUNT IS 20,648.
[ AT 4 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC for property located at 399 Executive Blvd. The Town’s share of the refund is $22,567±; the County’s share is $13,408±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $1,908±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $32,722±; the No. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $2,707±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc. Districts share is $615. Refunds from all sources total $73,928±]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER ALLY CW REALTY ASSOCIATES L L C FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3 9 9 EXECUTIVE BOULEVARD.UM, REFUND FROM ALL SOURCE TOTAL 73 9 2 8 I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.
[ AT 5 - 2/10/2021 Resolution to amend previously approved Town Board Resolution AT 1 –1/27/21 for the settlement of property damage related Claim, File No.: 253/19C, by Travelers Insurance Company a/s/o Lisa Laurenzi, for an amount not to exceed $6,000 to an amount not to exceed $6,100]
RESOLUTION TO AMEND PREVIOUSLY APPROVED TOWN BOARD RESOLUTION BY PRIVILEGE INSURANCE ALI EY FOR ANYONE NOT TO EXCEED 6,001 NOT TO EXCEED 10 TH 6,100.[03:50:01]
RESO[ AT 6 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing the continued retention of the Law Firm of Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford, P.C., as special counsel for the Town of Greenburgh regarding Federal litigation stemming from the zoning classification of a property known as “One Dromore Road”, at a cost not to exceed an additional $335,000 all of which the Town Board anticipates will be reimbursed by its insurance carriers]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CONTINUED ATTENTION OF THE FIRM OF LANDI'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.
[ AT 7 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing the continued retention of Allen R. Wolff of the Law Firm of Anderson Kill, P.C., as special counsel for the Town of Greenburgh regarding insurance coverage matters at a cost not to exceed $100,000]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CONTINUED RETENTION OF ALAN WOLFE OF LAW FIRM OF ANDERSON KILL AS SPECIAL COUNSEL TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG REGARDING INSURANCE MATTERS.UH, NOT TO EXCEED A HUNDRED THOUSAND.
[ AT 8 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing the continued retention of Robert A. Spolzino, Esq. of Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP., in connection with the review and evaluation of a petition for village incorporation submitted by residents of the Edgemont section of the Town for an amount not to exceed $50,000]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CONTINUED RETENTION OF ROBERTS FINO, UH, ABRAMS FESMAN FESMAN EISMAN FROM FERRARA WOLF.UM, IN CONNECTION WITH REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF PETITION FOR VILLAGE AND CORPORATION NOT TO EXCEED 50,000.
[ CL 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution scheduling a Public Hearing for Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 7:30 PM to consider a Local Law amending Chapter 380 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh, entitled “Noise," to restrict/prohibit the use of leaf blowers in the Town of Greenburgh while allowing their use during specified spring and fall clean-up periods]
RESOLUTION, UM, SCHEDULING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR MARCH 10TH, UH, TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER THREE 80 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG ENTITLED NOISE TO RESTRICT THE AHEAD WITH THE USE OF LEAFBLOWER IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WILL ALLOWING THE USE DURING SPECIFIED SPRING AND FALL CLEANUP PERIODS.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.
[ CL 2 - 2/10/2021 Order of the Town Board setting a Public Hearing for Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 7:30 PM, to consider a petition by the Scarsdale Golf Club, to extend the boundaries of Consolidated Water District No. 1 in the Town of Greenburgh]
OF THE TOWN BOARD SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR FEBRUARY 24TH TO CONSIDER A PETITION BY GARZA GOLF CLUB TO EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES OF CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.
[ CD 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing the retention of Arup, as engineering consultant for the Town of Greenburgh, for services related to the preparation of a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility Local Law, for an amount not to exceed $7,000]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING RETENTION OF AND ENGINEERING CONSULTANT FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR SERVICES RELATED TO THE PREPARATION OF A BATTERY ENERGY, UH, STORAGE SYSTEM.BEST QUALITY LOCAL LAW FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $7,000.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.
[ CO 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing fiscal year 2020 budget transfers]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZED AND FISCAL YEAR 2020.[ PH 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to execute a grant agreement in an amount not to exceed $368,720 between the Town of Greenburgh Department of Community Resources and Westchester County for its Remote Learning Center ("Program") at 32 Manhattan Avenue (P.O. White Plains, NY), for the period of January 11, 2021 through June 30, 2021]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TAX EXECUTE GRANT AGREEMENT IN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 360 7 2 OH BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES IN ROCHESTER COUNTY FOR ITS REMOTE LEARNING CENTER AT 32 MANHATTAN AVENUE.UM, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.
[ PO 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing the Police Department to award bid for Various Medical Supplies to be used in 2021 to the lowest responsible bidder per item, at a total cost not to exceed $27,000]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING POLICE DEPARTMENT TO AWARD BID FOR VARIOUS MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO BE USED IN 2021 TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE BIDDER PER ITEM AT A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $27,000.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.
[ PW 1 - 2/10/2021 Resolution authorizing a contract with CBRE, Inc, for Project Management Services to further assist the Town and the Town's Architect in Value Engineering for the proposed new Police and Town Court Facility, at a total cost not to exceed $6,000]
RESOLUTION AUTHOR RESIDENT CONTRACT WITH C B R E FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES TO FURTHER ASSIST TOWN AND TOWN ARCHITECTS IN VALUE ENGINEERING FOR PROPOSED NEW POLICE IN TOWN COURT FACILITY THAT COSTS NOT TO EXCEED $6,000.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.