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EVENING EVERYBODY.[ TOWN OF GREENBURGH OFFICE OF THE TOWN BOARD 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh, NY 10607 Tel: 914-989-1500 Fax: 914-993-1541 Email: JDudek@Greenburghny.com https://ny-greenburgh.civicplus.com/485/Watch-Live-Board-Meetings]
TO OUR TOWN BOARD, UM, MEETING.IT'S, UM, MARCH 23RD AT 6:10 PM AND WE'RE GONNA START THE MEETING WITH, UM, AN EXECUTIVE, UM, SESSION, UH, TO CONSIDER THE APPOINTMENT OF, UH, SOMEBODY IN THE HARSDALE CONTEXTUAL COMMITTEE.
SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
UM, WELCOME BACK TO OUR BOARD MEETING.
AND NOW WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS, UM, SOME STEPS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING TO, UM, MAKE IT EASIER, UM, FOR SENIORS, LESS ISOLATED, AND TO PARTICIPATE IN SOME OF THE, UH,
WE ALSO ABOUT, UM, REOPENING UP TOWN HALL.
I SENT A MEMO TO ALL DEPARTMENT HEADS, UM, AND THE TOWN BOARD EARLIER ON.
MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE TOWN BOARD IS THAT WE OPEN TOWN HALL ON, UH, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY REOPEN TOWN HALL, UM, ON MAY 1ST, UM, AND HAVE ALL THE TOWN EMPLOYEES, UM, RESUME WORKING ON, YOU KNOW, FROM FROM TOWN HALL.
EVERY EMPLOYEE, UM, OF THE TOWN, UM, IS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR THE VACCINE.
UM, I THINK, UH, THIS WEEKEND WE VACCINATED, UM, OVER SIX, I THINK OVER ABOUT 63 EMPLOYEES, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MORE, HAVE BEEN GOING AROUND THE BUILDING A TOWN HALL.
PRACTICALLY EVERYONE I SPEAK TO HAS BEEN VACCINATED.
SO BY MAY 1ST, UM, IT WOULD BE SAFE FOR THE EMPLOYEES, UM, TO WORK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, AT TOWN HALL.
I, UM, UM, ALSO THOUGHT THAT SINCE, UH, SOME EMPLOYEES MAY BE A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT DEALING WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS WHO MAY OR NOT BE VACCINATED, THAT WE, UM, UH, WE, UH, MAYBE SET CONSIDER SETTING UP A TENT OUTSIDE TOWN HALL, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH DESKS AND CHAIRS.
AND IF THE DEPARTMENT AND EMPLOYEE, A RESIDENT WANTS TO MEET WITH AN, AN EMPLOYEE, UH, THEY CAN MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AND THEN THEY COULD SPEAK TO THEM, YOU KNOW, OUT OUTSIDE.
UM, I, UM, SPOKE TO JERRY BYRNE AND TERRANCE, UM, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT MAYBE JERRY AND TERRANCE COULD, UM, COULD MAYBE TELL US THEIR PLANS.
I, I, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF 'EM CAME UP WITH VERY GOOD, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GOOD ACTION STEPS.
AND I SHOULD MENTION, YOU KNOW, I SPEAK TO LIKE A LOT OF SENIORS, UM, AND MANY SENIORS, THEY'VE ALL BEEN VACCINATED.
UM, THEY REALLY NEED, UM, SOME OUTDOOR, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMMING OR EITHER LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING BINGO, UM, AND SOCIALIZING.
AND THIS PANDEMIC HAS CREATED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FOR A LOT OF PE AND DEPRESSION FOR A LOT OF, UM, PEOPLE WHO JUST ARE STUCK IN THEIR HOME AND UNABLE TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS.
SO I, I FEEL VERY, VERY STRONGLY THAT, UM, WE NEED TO, UM, RESUME PROGRAMMING.
I ALSO, UH, EMAILED, UH, JOHN SEXTON FROM THE LIBRARY, AND HE INDICATED THAT THE LIBRARY BOARD IS MEETING TONIGHT TO, UH, DISCUSS THIS AS WELL.
PAUL, IN TERMS OF ALLOWING PEOPLE INTO THE BUILDING, WOULDN'T WE BE DOING THAT AS WELL? OR ARE WE JUST TALKING ABOUT EMPLOYEES? YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, MY MAJOR CONCERN IS HAVING PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S MY, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GOAL.
I ALSO FAILED AT THE TIME HAS COME TO OPEN, UH, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN HALL, YOU KNOW, FOR THE EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE WORKING, SHOULD BE WORKING OUT THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, TOWN HALL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE FACT THAT THEY'RE NOT, ALTHOUGH IT WAS IMPORTANT DURING THE PANDEMIC WHEN PEOPLE, WHEN MANY OF THE EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING REMOTELY, I THINK NOW, UH, THAT PEOPLE CAN GET THE VACCINE, THINGS ARE SORT OF CHANGING.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE ONLY THOUGHT THAT I HAVE WITH, UM, WITH OPENING UP, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING, I THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE SHOULD SAY IF SOMEBODY IS VACCINATED AND THEY SHOW THE
BUT AGAIN, FOR TODAY'S MEETING, THE TWO CONCERNS I HAVE IS I WANNA SEE THE PROGRAMS OPENED UP FOR THE SENIORS AT BOTH ANTHONY GOVERNOR PARK AND AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE, UM, UH, ALL
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THE EMPLOYEES, UM, TO KNOW THAT BY MAY 1ST HAVE TO COME BACK.DO YOU WANNA DO MAY 1ST OR MAY 3RD, WHICH IS A MONDAY? COULD BE MAY 3RD.
JUST SO THE PUBLIC IS CLEAR ON THAT.
SO WHAT'S THE, I GUESS, UM, I GUESS WHAT, SO WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR THE EMPLOYEES? I, I MEAN, IS THERE GOING TEMPERATURE GOING TO BE TAKING, I MEAN, WHAT IS THE PROCESS? WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR? HOW RESOLVE THAT? WELL, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, EVERYBODY'S GONNA HAVE, EVERY EMPLOYEE IS ABLE TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, THE VAC THE VACCINE RIGHT NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE YOU.
IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T TAKE IT, YOU KNOW, THE VACCINE, UM, THEY STILL SHOULD COME, YOU KNOW, TO WORK.
I MEAN, IF, IF YOU WANT TO DO THE TEMPERATURE, WE CAN DO THE TEMPERATURE ALSO, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE, UH, THE EMPLOYEES FEEL SAFE.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK IT'S WORTHWHILE.
WE SPENT A BUNCH OF TIME COMING UP WITH A DOCUMENT A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT SHOULD GUIDE THE REOPENING PROCESS.
SO, SO DEPARTMENT HEADS AND MANAGERS SHOULD REFER TO THAT DOCUMENT.
UH, WITH RESPECT TO REOPENING OF TOWN HALL AND OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE TOWN.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING, LIKE, ATTEMPT OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING, UM, SO THIS WAY EMPLOYEES CAN MEET WITH RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE? OR DO YOU FEEL THAT, UM, THAT'S REALLY NOT NECESSARY? I MEAN, THE OTHER OPTION IS THEY, CAN YOU, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, ANY CITIZEN OF THE IS ABLE TO WALK INTO THE LOBBY OF TOWN HALL AND THERE'S A OPEN DOOR GOING TO THE AUDITORIUM.
SO, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER OPTION WOULD BE TO LIMIT, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, TO JUST THE AUDITORIUM OR OF THE LOBBY, BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, JUST A COUPLE SECONDS AWAY FROM THE WINTER ANYWAY.
AND THEN THEY, AND THEN THEY MAKE A CALL, UH, THE DEPARTMENT HEAD, THE DEPARTMENT SAID THEY WERE MEET AND THEN SOMEBODY COULD COME DOWN AND SPEAK TO THEM.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT? I THINK IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE NEED IS GOING TO BE.
SO IF IT'S WARRANTED THAT WE NEED TO HAVE THE TENTS OUT, THEN WE SHOULD HAVE THE TENTS OUT.
'CAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TRAFFIC IS GONNA COME DOWN TO, RIGHT.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO JUST, WE ANALYZE AND SEE WHAT, WHAT THE NEED IS GOING TO BE, RIGHT? WE NEED TO BE PREPARED IF WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, NEED TO BE PREPARED.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WELL, WE HAVE LIKE A, WE HAVE OVER A MONTH TO PREPARE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WE'RE GIVING EVERYBODY, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BASICALLY ON SAY, MAY 3RD.
IT'S ONLY, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MARCH 23RD, UH, EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN THE VACCINE.
AND, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE, I THINK, UH, THEY, YOU KNOW, ARE ON NOTICE THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME BACK AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL TAKE THE VACCINES.
AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY ELSE IS OPENING UP.
AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD TOO.
I SENT EARLIER TODAY, UM, MY ASSISTANT, UM, SENT EVERYBODY A LIST OF WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES IN, IN THE AREA ARE DOING.
SO PAUL, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IN MY EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE, UM, THE PUBLIC ACCESS PUBLIC COMING INTO THE BUILDING IS PROBABLY THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, MAYBE, UM, THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE, THE TAX RECEIVER'S OFFICE, AND, UH, PERHAPS THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
I DON'T SEE ALL OF THOSE DEPARTMENT HEADS ON, ON THE CALL, BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF SPEAKING TO THEM.
AND I, I GUESS THE GENERAL CONCERN THAT I'VE HEARD IS, IS THERE A METRIC SUCH THAT IF THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE RATES INCREASE, THAT THERE WILL BE SOME REEVALUATION PROCESS.
OBVIOUSLY THE CLUSTERS THERE, BUT THAT'S THE GENERAL CONCERN, RIGHT? HEAR PEOPLE EXPRESSING, I, I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF THINGS CHANGE, THEN OBVIOUSLY THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF EMPLOYEES IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, THEN WE WILL, WE COULD ALWAYS MAKE ADJUSTMENTS THAT, BUT THAT NEEDS TO BE STATED.
IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE TO TIE THIS TO TRANSMISSION RATE.
AND ALSO YOU HAVE TO TRY, UH, TRY IT, UH, TIE IT TO THE, UH, THE VARIANCE, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU GIVE A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY TO SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN VACCINATED.
IF A VARIANT, UM, IS AN ESCAPE VARIANT, WHICH MEANS THAT THE VACCINE DOESN'T REALLY HANDLE IT.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M NOT
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IN FAVOR OF A HARD AND FAST DATE THAT DOES NOT HAVE CAVEATS TO IT ABOUT TRANSMISSION RATES IN THE AREA.THEY'RE GOING UP, THEY'RE GOING DOWN, UM, THEY'RE NOT GOING DOWN.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY PLATEAUING AT A, AT A FAIRLY HIGH RATE.
AND SO ALL THOSE THINGS HAVE TO BE TAKEN IN CONSIDERATION, PARTICULARLY BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS BRINGING THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION, THE SENIORS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN, UH, IT APPEARS WE HAVE FOR THE JOHN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, UM, RESOLVED THE ISSUE OF CAN YOU REQUIRE, UH, PEOPLE TO SHOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN VACCINATED? AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS WITH HIPAA LAWS, BUT APPARENTLY NEW YORK STATE IS DOING THAT, TIM, IF, IF, IF YOUR RESEARCH IS CORRECT.
THEY'RE LIMITING PROGRAMS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.
UH, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE EMPLOYEE YEAH.
THAT WHO'S GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THE VACCINATED SENIORS IS NECESSARILY VACCINATED, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A, THAT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT.
AND SO ARE THE COMFORTABLE, ARE THE SENIORS GONNA BE COMFORTABLE WITH AN EMPLOYEE WHO'S NOT VACCINATED WORKING WITH THEM DURING BINGO OR, OR WHATEVER.
BUT I'D RATHER, INSTEAD OF HAVING WORDS THROWN BACK AND FORTH, I'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THE DOCUMENT THAT WE WERE WORKING ON DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY ON REOPENING MONTHS AGO, THAT KEN MENTIONED, UH, AND UPDATED AS NECESSARY TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION VARIANCE, THE POSSIBILITY OF VARIANCE AND WORK FROM SOMETHING THAT'S IN WRITING.
'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO WANT TO KNOW.
UH, AND SO WE'RE ASKING INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS TO COME UP WITH REOPENING PLANS, AND THERE NEEDS TO BE GUIDANCE FROM, FROM, FROM THE TOWN BOARD THAT IS AN UMBRELLA ACROSS ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
BUT WHAT, BUT NOT FEELING RIGHT NOW IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I'M, I'VE BEEN IN TOUCH ALSO, WE'VE MADE SOME CONTACT WITH, UM, UH, MR. F FAUCI IS IN OFFICE.
WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME, SOME ANSWERS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO BE SUPER, YOU KNOW, CAREFUL.
UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, MY CONCERN, YOU KNOW, I FEEL OF THE TOWN HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB, PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDING MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT OF MAKING THE BUILDING SAFE.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S THE VENTILATION SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE, UM, WHETHER WE HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE ASKED, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING IS BIG ENOUGH, WE CAN MOVE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SOCIAL, YOU KNOW, DISTANCING.
UM, AND IF IT TURNS OUT, YOU KNOW, TWO WEEKS OR THREE WEEKS FROM NOW THAT THE PROBLEM'S GETTING, YOU KNOW, WORSE, THEN WE WILL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE WERE HOPING
BUT AT THIS POINT, IT SEEMS THAT, YOU KNOW, MANY OTHER GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE, AROUND THE STATE ARE DOING IT.
AND I CERTAINLY WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH THE COUNTY AND THE STATE COMMISSIONERS OF HEALTH, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT PUTTING ANY EMPLOYEE, YOU KNOW, AT RISK.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO THIS IS REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I, I AM, I, I THINK WE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, FROM JERRY AND TERRANCE, BECAUSE I THINK THEY HAVE PLANS THAT WILL MAKE A LOT OF, UM, SENIORS YOU VERY, VERY PLEASED.
BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IF A SENIOR IS ISOLATED, UM, AND THEY'VE TAKEN THE VACCINE AND, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE ABLE TO OPEN UP SOME PROGRAMS, IT REALLY WILL MAKE A WORLD OF A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.
SO, CAN WE HEAR FROM JERRY AND TERRANCE, JUST LIKE YOU HAVE IN LINE, JERRY? YEAH.
I, THE FIRST THING I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO BE AWARE OF, UM, I, I DON'T SEE, UH, MY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE WITH MY, UH, YOU KNOW, 10, 12 FULL-TIMERS IN THERE, ANY DIFFERENT FROM TOWN HALL.
AND WE'VE BEEN OPEN SINCE, UH, JUNE OF, UH, 2020.
AND WE HAVE FILED ALL THE C D C GUIDELINES.
UM, WE, ONCE WE IMPLEMENTED IT, WE HAVE EVERY STAFF MEMBER FILLING OUT A DAILY PRE-ENTRY ASSESSMENT.
UM, IF ANYONE WAS EXPOSED TO SOMEONE TO COVID, WE SENT THEM HOME.
UH, AND IT, IT'S WORKED OUT REALLY WELL.
UM, SO I SEE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, WE HAVE NOT, UH, TAKEN TEMPERATURES.
UM, WE HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, MONITORING, YOU KNOW, ABOUT, ABOUT THE, THE DISEASE AS, AS IT, UH, UH, PROGRESSES.
AND IF IT GOT BAD, WE WOULD SHUT DOWN.
UH, WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING, YOU KNOW, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
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WANNA ASSURE THE TOWN BOARD THAT WE HAVE DONE IT.I'VE BEEN VERY CONFIDENT BECAUSE I AM LIKE THE, UH, MASKS ARE REQUIRING EVERYONE TO WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES, UM, UH, WHEN THEY'RE IN CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
IF THERE'S ANY WAYS TO IMPROVE IT, UH, I'M MORE THAN, UH, WILLING TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
UM, UH, I, I WROTE A MEMO, UH, TO, TO THE TOWN BOARD TODAY, AND I COPIED THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
UH, I CAN JUST READ IT 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN VERY BUSY, ALL OF YOU, AND PROBABLY HADN'T HAD A CHANCE TO READ IT YET.
BUT I, I'LL JUST READ IT, UH, TO GO THROUGH IT.
UH, IT'S A MEMO DATED TODAY, PROPOSED REOPENING PLAN FOR INDOOR SENIOR PROGRAMMING AT THE AF VETERAN PARK MULTIPURPOSE CENTER FOR APPROVAL SUPERVISOR FINER REQUESTED THAT I DEVELOP A REOPENING PLAN FOR INDOOR SENIOR PROGRAMMING AT THE AF VETERAN PARK MULTIPURPOSE CENTER.
BELOW IS MY PROPOSAL PLAN THAT I WOULD LIKE THE TOWN BOARD MAJORITY APPROVAL BEFORE REOPENING.
THIS PLAN CONSIDERS C D C AND NEW YORK STATE GUIDELINES FEEDBACK FROM OUR SENIOR PARTICIPANTS, WHICH WE REACHED OUT TO SENIOR STAFF, A SENIOR SURVEY MANAGEMENT, AND SUGGESTIONS FROM OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS ON THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH.
UH, THE CENTER WOULD, UH, REOPEN FOR CARD PLAYING AND TABLE TENNIS PINGING PONG ONLY.
IT WILL NOT, IT'D BE A VERY, VERY SMALL GROUP.
WE ANTICIPATE, UH, THE BUILDING WILL ONLY ALLOW UP TO 50% CAPACITY PER ROOM AFTER SURVEYING THE SENIORS.
THE MAJORITY OF THEM AT THIS TIME, UH, PREFER TO MEET OUTDOORS ON THE PATIO, SUCH AS THE BOOK CLUBS, SEVEN OUTDOOR EXERCISE CLASSES, VERY SMALL SPECIAL EVENTS, INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES, AND LECTURE PROGRAMS WHEN COVID INFECTION RATES DECLINE AND PART-TIME PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS AND MORE SENIORS ARE COMFORTABLE RESUMING INDOOR PROGRAMMING.
MORE INDOOR ACTIVITIES, UH, COULD BE OFFERED.
ALL INDOOR PROGRAMMING WILL REQUIRE ADVANCED REGISTRATION.
ALL PEOPLE ENTERING THE BUILDING WILL HAVE TO FILL OUT A CORONAVIRUS DAILY PRE-ENTRY ASSESSMENT, SIMILAR TO WHAT ALL OUR TOWN EMPLOYEES ARE PRESENTLY DOING.
ALL PEOPLE IN THE CENTER WILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A FACE MASK AT ALL TIMES.
NO EATING OR DRINKING IN THE CENTER WILL BE INITIALLY ALLOWED.
EATING AND DRINKING OUTDOORS ON THE PATIO WILL BE PERMISSIBLE.
THE CENTER FOR SENIORS WILL BE OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAYS FOR TWO SESSIONS, EACH SESSION BEING 9:30 AM TO 12:30 PM UH, AND ONE 30 TO 4:40 PM A 4:30 PM THAT WAS A TYPO.
THE BUILDING WILL RECEIVE A DEEP CLEANING BETWEEN THE SESSIONS.
SENIORS WANTING TO PLAY CARDS AND OR PINGING PONG WILL HAVE TO BRING THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT, UH, UH, WITH THEM AND SUPPLIES.
HAND SANITIZER WILL BE AVAILABLE IN EACH ROOM.
AND THE RESTROOMS, UH, SENIORS WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE ACTIVITIES WILL ONLY, WITH ONLY FELLOW SENIORS THAT HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED, WILL BE ACCOMMODATED IN A DESIGNATED ROOM.
OUTDOOR CLASSES WILL BEGIN ON SITE, UH, APRIL 19TH, AND THE PLAN WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATED AND ADJUSTED AS NEEDED.
I THINK YOU DID A REALLY GOOD JOB.
AND TERRENCE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCUSS YOUR PROPOSAL? SURELY, UH, IT, MINE WAS ALSO SENT IN TO YOU ALL A LITTLE LATER, UM, THIS AFTERNOON, THIS EVENING.
UM, UH, TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS, ALL OF THE SPECIFIC GUIDELINES OF SAFETY BASED UPON THE C D C AND NEW YORK STATE, UH, AS JERRY MENTIONED, HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED AND WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
I TOOK THIS FROM A PHASED APPROACH BASED ON DIFFERENT TYPE OF PROGRAMMING AND OR EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT WE WILL BE HOLDING, UM, OUR FIRST EVENT, AND NONE OF THIS HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO THE PUBLIC THUS FAR, WANTED YOUR INPUT.
BUT, UM, IT HAS DEFINITELY BEEN TALKED ABOUT BY OUR SENIOR PROGRAMMING SO MUCH.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A GOOD NUMBER OF THOSE THAT ARE WILLING TO COME BACK, BUT ARE INTERESTED IN BEING OUTSIDE IN THE BEGINNING WITH THE INTENTION OF COMING INSIDE AT A LATER DATE.
AND SOME ARE JUST NOT COMFORTABLE AT THE MOMENT, WHICH OF COURSE IS FINE.
WE WANNA START, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN WITH, UH, UM, WALKS.
WE WANNA GET OUR, OUR SENIORS MOVING AROUND A LITTLE BIT.
AND WE HOPE TO MOVE THIS PROGRAM IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF, UH, GREENBERG TO FACILITATE A LOT MORE PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH ALL THE WAY OUT.
BUT THIS FIRST ONE WE'RE THINKING ABOUT AT, UM, YOSEMITE PARK.
UM, AND YOU WILL SEE THESE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS.
THERE'S A SCHEDULE THERE FOR THEM FOR PHASE ONE THAT GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH MAY 7TH.
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PHASE TWO, WHICH AGAIN, IS OUTDOORS, BUT IS NOW FALLING INTO PROGRAMMING THAT HAS, UM, GENERALLY BEEN INSIDE THE FACILITY.THIS INVOLVES OUR EVERGREEN PROGRAM, UM, WHICH HAS WAS THE FIRST PROGRAM TO LEAVE THE CENTER, UH, WHEN CORRO HIT.
AND THEY, UH, A NUMBER OF THEM ARE INTERESTED IN COMING BACK, UH, AS WELL AS OUR BRIDGE CLUB, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN COMING BACK.
BUT THEY ARE, AT THIS POINT, UM, INTERESTED AND WILLING TO WORK OUTSIDE.
WE PLAN ON USING THE PAVILION UP IN YOSEMITE PARK, UH, WITH THIS SCHEDULE THAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU, AS WELL AS ALL THE PROGRAMS FOR THE EVERGREEN CLUB.
IT GOES FURTHER INTO PHASE THREE.
AND ALL OF THIS IS PREDICATED ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH CORONA AND ANY OTHER SITUATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN OUR LOCAL AREA.
UM, BUT IT REALLY GOES THROUGH A STAGNANT OF, TO PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE HAD BEFORE THAT OUR SENIORS LOVE AND WANT TO RETURN AND, OR NEW PROGRAMS. AND WE HAVE ALL THE WAY UP TO A PHASE FIVE THAT GOES INTO SEPTEMBER THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO START PLANNING YET.
SOME OF IT IS THE THEATER TRIPS AND ALL THAT.
BUT, UH, WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING TO GET OUR, OUR SENIORS BACK INVOLVED.
WE HAVE PROGRAMS THAT WILL TAKE SENIORS TO, UH, WALMART AND POSSIBLY OTHER FACILITIES ON OUR BUSES.
THEY MUST BE VACCINATED AT THAT POINT, AND WE WOULD STILL HAVE SOCIAL DISTANCING WITHIN THE BUSES, BUT WE ARE LOOKING TO REALLY START OUR PROGRAMMING UP A LITTLE BIT MORE.
BUT IT WILL BE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING AT FIRST, BECAUSE OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT I HAVE IN THE BUILDING AT THIS TIME, WHICH INCLUDES THE WESTCO FEEDING WESTCHESTER PROGRAM, AS WELL AS THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY REMOTE LEARNING PROGRAM, WHICH ALL MUST REMAIN SEPARATE AND APART.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, PLEASE LET ELISE, SOME OUTDOOR, UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS, YOU KNOW, INITIALLY.
UM, IS THERE ANY, ANYBODY ON THE TOWN BOARD HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TO JOE OR TERRACE? I DO NOT.
I THINK WHAT WE NEED IS SOME GUIDELINES DEVELOPED REGARDING WHAT IS THE ACCEPTABLE TRANSMISSION RATE, AND, UM, WHAT ARE THE CONTINGENCIES, IF THERE ARE VARIANCE.
YOU'VE BEEN ASKING MEDICAL PERSONNEL REGARDING WHAT DO YOU THINK IS SAFE? AND SOME OF THEM ARE COMING BACK AND SAYING THAT THEY WOULD NOT DO INDOOR AT THIS TIME.
NOW, IF WE IGNORE THAT ADVICE THAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN THAT DID NOT DO INDOOR AT THIS TIME, UM, WHAT IS THE BASIS FOR IGNORING IT? SINCE YOU ASKED FOR THE OPINION? WELL, YOU KNOW, I, I HONESTLY, I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT THERE'S A VERY, VERY BIG, UH, YOU KNOW, QUALITY OF LIFE PROBLEM FOR SENIOR CITIZENS WHO, UM, HAVE TAKEN THE VACCINES AND ARE NOT GETTING THE ADVANTAGE OF THE PROGRAMS. UM, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT PEOPLE, THE SENIORS ARE ISOLATED.
THEY, UM, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT THEY REALLY, UM, WOULD LOVE TO TAKE PART IN, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME PROGRAMS. UM, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT, UH, I WOULD BE HAVE, UH, BEING GOING TO SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA OPEN UP, YOU KNOW, SAY BINGO GAMES, ONLY SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE VACCINATED.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT IF EVERYBODY'S BEEN VACCINATED, UM, THEN THERE'S REALLY NO RISK, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY CAN SIT A LITTLE FAR AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE BRINGING FOOD.
UH, THEY'RE, UM, NOT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE SUPPLIES.
THEY COULD, AS JERRY HAD SAID, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD BRING THEIR OWN SUPPLIES.
IT'S JUST A WAY OF MAKING LIFE BETTER FOR THEM.
YOU KNOW, IF IF A SENIOR IS BY THEMSELVES A WHOLE DAY, UM, AND THEY'RE NOT BEING OUT AND NOT SOCIALIZING, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE MEDICAL PROBLEMS. THEIR MENTAL HEALTH IS GONNA DETERIORATE, THEIR HEALTH COULD DETERIORATE.
SO, I, I REALLY FEEL THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING IT GRADUALLY.
AND, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT YOU, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE REOPENING FOR MONTHS, AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENED.
SO RIGHT NOW, THERE'S ENOUGH VACCINES THAT, UM, ARE BEING AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE.
IT'S VERY EASY NOW TO GET A VACCINE, CORRECT ME, EVERYBODY CALLS ME, I'M ABLE TO GET AN APPOINTMENT FOR THEM WITHIN TWO, THREE, YOU KNOW, THE, WE ARE GETTING APPOINTMENTS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY NOW.
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GONNA BE EVEN EASIER.UM, THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE SHOULDN'T OPEN UP.
THERE'S NO REASON WHY, UM, EMPLOYEES SHOULDN'T BE TOLD THAT THEY HAVE TO COME TO WORK, UH, WHEN EVERYBODY COULD GET VACCINATED.
I MEAN, WE, AGAIN, IT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR ABILITY, UH, TO FUNCTION, TO GET, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, FOR DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS TO, UM, GET INFORMATION QUICKLY.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, UM, IF THERE'S ANY, YOU KNOW, IF WE FEEL, UH, OR THE COUNTY OR THE STATE, OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IF THEY FEEL THAT'S UNSAFE, WE ARE NOT GONNA DO IT.
BUT RIGHT NOW, THE TREND SEEMS LIKELY THAT ON MAY 1ST WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, TO DO THIS AND JERRY, UM, AND TERRANCE'S UP PLANS.
AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD, UH, ALLOW, ENCOURAGE THEM TO NOT DELAY.
I'M JUST ASKING, I'M SORRY, JUST, WELL, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR, FOR TERRENCE.
UM, TERRENCE, I JUST SAW IN YOUR PLAN, UH, THE INVOLVEMENT, UM, SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE EVERGREEN CLUB.
NOW, WILL THE SENIORS WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES ON, UM, MANHATTAN AVENUE, WILL THERE BE A BUS THAT WILL GO AROUND TO PICK THEM UP TO BRING THEM BACK TO THE CENTER SO THAT THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE SENIORS PROGRAMS AS WELL? IS THERE A, IS THERE A PLAN FOR THEIR INVOLVEMENT? YES, THERE IS.
UM, CURRENTLY WE'VE, OH, EXCELLENT.
WE'VE BEEN, UM, STILL, UH, FEEDING MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE IN OUR, IN OUR DAILY FOOD PROGRAM.
UM, AND IF THEY ARE ONES THAT ARE INTERESTED, UH, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
UH, CAN I ATTEMPT TO, UH, ANSWER MAYBE, UH, QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DECREASE IN THE VARIANCE? UM, AS, AS WE KNOW, THAT IS A, A REAL POSSIBILITY, THAT CAN DEFINITELY HAPPEN TO US.
UM, THE APPROACH THAT I'VE TAKEN IS THAT, UH, AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF US, OR, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTIFIED AS EPIDEMIOLOGISTS, AND THEY'RE THE EXPERTS, NOT REGULAR INTERNISTS OR OTHER ONES.
THEY'RE THE ONES THAT, YOU KNOW, STUDY INFECTIOUS, YOU KNOW, UH, DISEASES LIKE THIS AND PANDEMICS.
AND, UH, THE APPROACH THAT I WAS GOING TO TAKE IS, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE THE PANDEMIC BROKE OUT, IS TO FOLLOW THE C D C AND THE STATE REGULATIONS.
SO, IT IS MY BELIEF THAT IF THESE VARIANTS START TO INCREASE, WE WILL BE RECOMMENDED OR MANDATED BY THE STATE TO START SHUTTING DOWN.
BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS ACCEPTABLE ACCORDING TO THE STATE, YOU KNOW, GOVERNOR'S GUIDELINES THAT HE'S GIVEN US.
SO WE'RE ACTING ON THAT, AND I, I THINK THAT'S THE GUIDELINE THAT WE SHOULD GO ON.
THE OTHER THING, BUT WE CAN CONTROL AND DO ANY BREAKOUT.
ANY, ANY PERSON THAT, YOU KNOW, COMES INTO THE CENTER OF ANY OF MY EMPLOYEES THAT WE KNOW HAS GOTTEN CONTRACTED WITH CONVI, WITH, UH, CORONAVIRUS, UH, UM, WE, I THINK HAVE AN OBLIGATION NOT TO SAY WHO THAT INDIVIDUAL IS, BUT TO SAY THAT SOMEONE THAT ATTENDED A PROGRAM OR WAS IN THE BUILDING WHILE WE WERE WORKING, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING BROKE OUT.
AND I THINK WE CAN CONTROL THAT, YOUR HONOR.
I MEAN, WHY DON'T WE JUST GIVE IT A CHANCE AND THEN, UH, UNDERSTAND THAT IF THERE'S A PROBLEM, UM, YOU AT ANY TIME, WE COULD ALWAYS GO BACKWARDS, BUT AT THIS POINT, YOU LIKE, I REALLY, I MEAN, THE DEPARTMENT HAS NEED TO KNOW THAT WE COULD GO AHEAD AND I WOULD ASK ALSO RICH, UM, FIND IF HE WOULD CONSIDER PUTTING A TENT, UH, SOMEPLACE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING.
SO THIS WAY IF PEOPLE WERE, UM, SPEAK TO TOWN EMPLOYEES, THEY COULD MEET OUTSIDE.
UM, RICH ISN'T RESPONDING TO THAT.
UH, PAUL, SOMETHING ELSE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BRING UP AS YOU BRING UP, UM, UH, BRINGING SENIORS INSIDE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS NEVER TOTALLY ADDRESSED EARLY ON, UM, I KNOW, UH, COMMISSIONER EARLY REACHED OUT TO YOU ALL ASKING ABOUT IT WITH NOW THE, UM, WORK BEING DONE ON THE SENIOR LIVING FACILITY RIGHT NEXT TO THE CENTER.
IT HAD A, UH, COMMUNITY ROOM IN IT WHERE THE SENIORS FROM OUR PROGRAM WENT DURING THE SUMMERS TO HAVE THEIR BINGO AND EVERGREEN WENT OVER THERE.
AND EVERYTHING ELSE, A TEMPORARY SPACE WAS NEVER APPOINTED.
WE DON'T HAVE ONE AS FAR AS I KNOW OF.
UM, AND, UH, THAT IS JUST SOMETHING TO BRING TO LIGHT AGAIN, AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WOULD BE.
SO COVID AGAIN, WOULD BE A SITUATION, BUT, UM, IT, IT, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO DEFINITELY THINK ABOUT, UM, AS TO IF THERE
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IS A SPACE OR IF WE SHOULD EVEN HAVE IT.AND IT JUST FALLS RIGHT INTO THE TIMEFRAME OF OUR PROGRAMMING, WHERE IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO BRING THEM BACK IN, WE'RE HEADING RIGHT TOWARDS, UM, UH, THE SUMMERTIME, UH, WHEN I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BRING THEM BACK IN.
UH, SO JUST SOMETHING ELSE I NEED TO MAKE SURE GETS ON THE DOCKET TO BE DISCUSSED.
MY, MY MAIN POINT IS I DON'T WANNA MAKE FALSE PROMISES TO THE SENIORS AND, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY HAVE THEM A YO-YO, YOU KNOW, FOR POLITICAL OR OTHER REASONS.
UH, THE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S CLEAR TO ME, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'S A MAJOR POLITICAL PUSH, UH, NATIONWIDE TO OPEN UP WHEN ALL THE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ARE STILL SAYING, BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THE VARIANTS ARE GOING TO SURGE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE GENERALLY FOLLOW EUROPE, AND EUROPE IS GOING THROUGH A TOUGH TIME, AND THE EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT WE'RE THREE WEEKS AWAY FROM THAT SITUATION.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT I'M OBJECTING TO IS HAVING A HARD AND FAST DATE THAT THIS IS WHEN WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP WITHOUT ANY CAVEATS IN IT, WHICH IS WHY I PREFER SOMETHING THAT'S WRITTEN UP.
LIKE WE HAD WORK WE WERE WORKING ON, AND IT WAS MOSTLY THE COUNCIL MEMBERS KEPT, WE KEPT WORKING ON THIS OPENING UP PLAN.
AND, UH, WE, WE, AND BY THE WAY, WHEN WE SAY OPENING UP, IT REALLY MEANT OPENING IT UP FOR THE EMPLOYEES WHO ARE WORKING FROM HOME TO COME BACK AND WORK IN THE OFFICE.
AND SO WHEN, WHEN THE AVERAGE PERSON, THE TYPICAL PERSON HEARS THE REOPENING TOWN HALL, THEY THINK THEY CAN COME BACK.
BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING, PAUL, BUT THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN, IN THE OTHER BUILDINGS.
SO WE, WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT.
WELL, WHY DON'T WE, THERE'S A DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS.
IT'S EITHER THE SENIORS ARE VERY DEPRESSED BECAUSE THERE ARE NO PROGRAMS, AND THEY NEED TO HAVE PROGRAMS STARTED.
BUT WE'VE NEVER STOPPED HAVING PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS, UH, EITHER AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER OR AT ANTHONY VETERAN PARK.
THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN EITHER ZOOM OR SOMETHING.
NOW, OF COURSE, ZOOM IS NOT IN PERSON, BUT THERE ARE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN RUNNING ALL ALONG.
MY MY CONCERN IS THAT WHEN YOU SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE, AND THE MEDICAL ADVICE SAYS, I WOULD NOT OPEN UP INDOOR PROGRAMMING FOR SENIORS AT THIS TIME, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN JUST IGNORE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR, BECAUSE YOU, YOU KNOW, DON'T ASK FOR, DON'T ASK FOR DATA IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT IT WHEN YOU GET IT.
AND SO YOU HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT, THAT WE DON'T UNINTENTIONALLY PUT SENIORS IN HARM'S WAY.
THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN VACCINATED, REMEMBER EVEN AT BEST, THE 95% DEFICIENCY.
UM, AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE VARIANCE.
SO WE JUST STILL, STILL HAVE TO BE MINDFUL THAT THIS PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER.
AND WE NEED, WE, WE, WE NEED TO HAVE MAYBE GO AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE PLAN THAT WE HAD BEFORE MODIFY IT AT, BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ACTUAL GOALPOST, UM, OR THRESHOLD OF, OF TRANSMISSION RATE THAT WILL GUIDE US.
WE CAN OPEN, MAYBE TOMORROW WE CAN'T, OH, THIS GROUP WE REALLY LIKE, SO WE'RE GONNA SAY THAT THIS GROUP WE DON'T LIKE SO MUCH.
SO NO, WE CAN'T, WE DON'T NEED THAT.
BUT IT'S, IT'S CREATING A NEEDLESS CONTROVERSY, BUT IT'S NOT A ROLE OR NOTHING.
IT'S NOT, THERE ARE NO PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS, OR WE OPEN THEM UP, HAVE EVERYBODY COME IN DOORS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPE FOR THE BEST.
WELL, WHAT DOES OTHER BOARD MEMBERS, I MEAN, I, I'D LIKE TO PROCEED WITH, YOU KNOW, MY RECOMMENDATION.
UM, AND THE DEPARTMENT HEADS NEED, NEED TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OPTION WOULD BE TO HAVE A, UM, THE GOAL OF OPENING UP ON MAY 1ST.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT
AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, UH, UM, ENCOURAGE JERRY AND TERRANCE TO PROCEED WITH THEIR PLANS, WITH THE PROVISION THAT, UM, IF, UH,
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THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UH, OR THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, UM, INDICATES THAT IT'S, UM, NOT SAFE, THEN WE WILL CLOSE DOWN THE PROGRAM.AND I WOULD, UM, BE HAPPY TO, UH, CONTACT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, UM, ON A REGULAR BASIS AND, AND ASK, YOU KNOW, JUST ADVISE THEM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, LET THE COUNTY OFFICIALS KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD TO OPEN IT UP.
BUT IF THEY RECOMMEND THAT WE SHUT DOWN, EVERYTHING WILL BE SHUT DOWN.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT IS NOT REALLY, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH THE COUNTY, IF WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH THE STATE, UM, IF WE'RE, UM, AND IF THEY'RE TELLING US TO CLOSE DOWN, THEN WE BASICALLY HAVE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN.
AND MAYBE, MAYBE IT'S JUST PUT A PROVISION THAT, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS DONE, BUT, UH, WE WOULD, THERE'S REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE AND THE COUNTY THAT, THAT THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MUST BE CONSULT, YOU KNOW, UH, WOULD'VE THE ABILITY, OR IF THEY RECOMMEND THAT WE NOT PROCEED WITH ANY OF THIS, THAT WE, UH, WE WOULD IMMEDIATELY CAN'T FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTIONS AND, AND THEN JERRY YEAH.
THEN WE CAN PLAN AND MOVE FORWARD AND, UM, MOSTLY HAVE SOMETHING IN WRITING.
PAUL, LET'S MAKE SURE WE HAVE SOMETHING IN WRITING.
BUT JUST LIKE FRANCIS SAID, WE SHOULDN'T KEEP TO A DATE.
'CAUSE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
LET'S JUST WRITE IT OUT AND THEN, AND THEN HAVE IT CONTENTION ON WHAT THE TEMPERATURE AND WHAT'S GOING ON.
UM, AS FAR AS THE DIFFERENT VARIANTS, CAN I, CAN I ASK YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING WRITTEN OUT FROM BOTH JERRY AND I WHEN IT COMES TO THE SENIOR PROGRAMMING, UM, SO THAT WE CAN START MOVING FORWARD OR NOT, UH, GET APPROVAL ON THOSE? AND I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT, UM, WHAT I'M, UH, PROPOSING IS UNDER 10% ARE NORMAL PROGRAMMING.
MAYBE IT'S REALLY ONLY TWO PROGRAMS AT THIS POINT.
JUST THE, UH, THE CARD PLAYING, WHICH IS, UH, PODS THAT WILL BE SORT OF TOGETHER, OR GROUPS THAT WILL BE TOGETHER.
AND IT'S ON A VOLUNTEER BASIS.
AND THE SAME THING FOR THE PINGING PONG PLAYERS.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS GONNA BE DONE EITHER ON ZOOM OR OUTDOORS ON OUR PATIO.
SO IT'S, IT'S A VERY MINIMAL GROUP.
BUT IF THE BOARD IS UNCOMFORTABLE, I JUST NEED TO GET DIRECTION.
WELL, FRANKLY, I, I WAS GUIDED BY MY UNCOMFORTABLENESS BY YOU BEING UNCOMFORTABLE HAVING A PROGRAM FOR SENIORS AND DOORS WHEN TOWN HALL IS NOT OPENED UP.
THE TOWN EMPLOYEES, UH, WHICH WAS A CONCERN OF MINE AS WELL.
HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE SAY IT'S OKAY FOR SENIORS TO MEET THE VULNERABLE POPULATION TO MEET, BUT DOWNTOWN EMPLOYEES? UM, AND SO IF, IF, IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH, UH, YOUR, YOUR, UM, WRITEUP, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THE EMAIL FROM THE PHYSICIAN THAT PAUL WROTE TO FOR ADVICE WHO CAME BACK AND SAID SHE WOULD NOT DO INDOOR PROGRAMMING, BUT IF YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW BETTER THEN AND CAN DO IT SAFELY, THEN, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT THE DOWN BOARD HAS TO HAVE.
I WOULDN'T SAY I KNOW BETTER, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT THERE'S SOME DOCTORS OUT THERE, UH, SPOUTING THINGS ABOUT THE PANDEMIC THAT ARE NOT CERTIFIED.
IF THE PERSON'S AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST THAT STUDIES THIS, THEN I WOULD, YOU KNOW, GO BY THEM.
UM, WE'RE ALSO FOLLOWING THE OTHER GUIDELINES.
I THINK THE OTHER END ABOUT TOWN HALL WAS MORE OF A THING WHERE MY FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES HAD BEEN GOING A HUNDRED PERCENT IN MY OFFICE.
AND WHILE AT TOWN HALL, THEY'RE NOT.
SO I THINK THAT'S A SEPARATE ISSUE.
UH, I AM COMFORTABLE WITH THIS, UM, BUT IF THE TOWN BOARD ISN'T, AND, UH, I WILL DEFINITELY GO BY YOUR DIRECTION.
SO WHAT, WHAT, IN YOUR WRITEUP, YOU DON'T DEAL WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VARIANTS OR TRANSMISSION RATE, AT WHAT TRANSMISSION RATE WOULD YOU SAY YOU SHUT DOWN? I, I, I DON'T THINK I, I DON'T THINK I'M, UH, AN EXPERT TO SAY THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ON THE BOARD IS AN EXPERT TO SAY THAT I THINK WE NEED TO GO TO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS OR GET GUIDANCE FROM THE STATE TO TELL US, YOU KNOW, WHAT SHOULD WE GO BY? I DO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WHEN THERE HAS BEEN UPSURGE, PEOPLE HAVE CLOSED DOWN, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, OUT OF ABUNDANCE OF, OF CAUTIOUS.
WE'RE NOT GONNA, WE, WE HAVE NEVER, UH, WE HAVE ALWAYS ERR ON THE SIDE OF A CAUTION AND SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR EMPLOYEES.
THE ONLY REASON I'M BRINGING THIS UP, YOU KNOW, NOW IS BECAUSE I FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, THE CO WHEN CAROL ALLEN, UM, EMAILED ME, UM,
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UH, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR WEEKS AGO, SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, SHE'D BEEN WORKING, WE HAD OFF ON THE COVID ANGELS PROGRAM, UM, AND THEY'VE BEEN MAKING CALLS AND SAID, WHAT'S THE POINT OF GETTING EVERYBODY VACCINATED IF YOU'RE NOT DOING, YOU KNOW, THESE PROGRAMS? AND SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, SHE, SHE'S A DOCTOR.YOU HIGHLIGHTED THE FACT THAT, UM, THERE'S ISOLATION PROBLEMS. AND IT REALLY GOT ME VERY UPSET BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I FELT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SENIORS WHO REALLY DEPE, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE PROGRAMS. YOU KNOW, I, UM, I REALLY FEEL BAD THAT THERE'S MENTAL HEALTH, UM, ISSUES.
I, I'VE FELT SO STRONGLY, I, AFTER, UM, YOU KNOW, READING WHO COMES ON, TO BE HONEST, I NEVER WOULD'VE EVEN THOUGHT OF THIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, I NEVER WOULD'VE PUSHED SO HARD WITH THAT IF SHE HADN'T, UM, IF SHE HADN'T EMAILED ME.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I JUST FEEL WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
AND THEN AFTER, AFTER I GOT HER EMAIL, I STARTED GETTING, UM, PLEASE FROM A LOT OF SENIOR CITIZENS THROUGHOUT THE TOWN SAYING, WHEN ARE YOU GONNA OPEN UP? WE REALLY ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, AND I FEEL I'LL BE IT FOR THEM.
AND AGAIN, IF, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE VACCINATION, YOU KNOW, IF IT WASN'T GOING AS WELL AS IT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW I WOULD NOT BE PUSHING THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S SMALL.
IF, AND AGAIN, IF IT WAS UP TO ME, IF, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE JUST DIFFER, I FEEL THAT WE CAN LIMIT SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.
UM, BECAUSE I FEEL THAT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, IN WHAT IF, YOU KNOW, THEY SOCIAL DISTANCE, IF THEY WEAR MASKS, UM, IT'S VERY, VERY UNLIKELY THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET COVID.
HEY, JERRY, I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION.
UM, ANY POSSIBILITY? I KNOW YOU HAVE ONE TENT YOU NORMALLY PUT UP ON YOUR PATIO, BUT, UH, IT SEEMS LIKE SOME OF THE CONVERSATION HERE IS ABOUT INDOOR.
AND AS YOU NOTICE IN MY PLAN, EVERYONE, UH, I'M NOT LOOKING TO BRING ANYBODY INDOOR, UH, FOR NUMEROUS REASONS, BUT MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE GRANT PROGRAMS I HAVE RUNNING.
BUT THAT MIGHT GIVE US SOME SPACE AND SOME TIME HERE, UH, TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER ON WHERE WE MIGHT GET SOME MORE OF THESE ANSWERS FROM THE GOVERNING BODIES.
ONE WE HAVE, UH, OUTSIDE FOR THE TENNIS PROGRAM WHEN WE RUN OUR SUMMER, UH, CAMP PROGRAMS FOR TENNIS THAT THEY USE, YOU KNOW, FOR SHADE.
AND THEN WE DO HAVE ANOTHER ONE ON THE PATIO, UH, THAT'S FRAMED.
IT'S LIKE, I THINK 30 BY 40 FEET, AND IT'S PRETTY BIG.
UM, BEFORE THE SUMMER PROGRAM, WE, IF THERE'S A WAY TO SET IT UP, WE COULD POSSIBLY, YOU KNOW, HELP YOU OUT ON THAT.
UH, OTHERWISE WE MAY WANNA LOOK AT IT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN REALLY GOOD INVESTMENTS TO HAVE, UH, EITHER TO RENT OR TO POSSIBLY, UH, PURCHASE ANOTHER 10.
UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I, I THINK THERE'S TWO ISSUES.
THERE'S THE, UH, THE EQUITY BETWEEN THE EMPLOYEES THAT SHOULD BE ALMOST KEPT SEPARATE.
BUT ON JERRY'S EMAIL, ONE OF THE THINGS WE DEFINITELY PUT IN WAS THE VERY LAST SENTENCE.
THIS PLAN WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATED AND UPDATED AS NEEDED.
AND I, I CAN'T STRESS HOW WE DISCUSS THIS ON A DAILY BASIS, IF NOT HOURLY.
UM, HOW WE'RE GONNA HANDLE THESE THINGS AND HOW WE'RE GONNA CHANGE.
AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE GOT OUR EAR, UH, TO THE NEWS CONSTANTLY, JUST LIKE YOU DO.
UM, WE'RE NOT WRITING ANYTHING IN STONE.
WE'RE JUST, WE JUST WANT TO BEGIN SOMETHING.
AND THEN IF THE THE GROUND CHANGES, THEN WE WILL CHANGE TOO.
IT'S, IT'S THE PART OF STARTING OFF INDOORS, EVEN ON A SMALL BASIS AS OPPOSED TO, TO DOING IT OUTDOORS, UM, INITIALLY, AND THEN SEE HOW IT GOES AND THEN GO, UH, FURTHER.
AND, AND FRANKLY, PAUL, YOU SAID WE ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR EMPLOYEES, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S A BIT DISINGENUOUS.
I DON'T AGREE WITH THE POLICY, BUT THE TOWN, TOWN HAS A POLICY OF ANY EMPLOYEE WHO GETS COVID, WE AUTOMATICALLY DENY THEM WORKERS' COMP, AND THAT'S WRONG.
YOU KNOW, HAVING A POLICY THAT IF AN EMPLOYEE, UM, I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT IF JUST, YOU KNOW, MOST EMPLOYEES, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHERE THEY GOT IT FROM.
BUT IF YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS EXPOSED TO SOME, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND THE TOWN SAYS YOU HAVE TO QUARANTINE, AND THEN FOUR OR FIVE DAYS INTO THAT ISOLATION QUARANTINE PERIOD, THEY GET COVID THE SYMPTOMS OF COVID.
I DON'T THINK IT TAKES MUCH OF A STRETCH TO FIGURE OUT THAT THEY GOT IT FROM TOWN HALL.
SO THEN
AND I HAVE A POLICY THAT COMMEND THE POLICY, AUTOMATICALLY DENY WORKERS' COMP CLAIMS FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE COVID OR ARE TOWN EMPLOYEES.
SO THEN, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M WILLING TO CHANGE THE
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POLICY IF YOU, IF IF THE BOARD WANTS TO CHANGE YOUR POLICY, WE COULD CHANGE YOUR POLICY.THE THING IS, I FEEL THAT THE EMPLOYEES AT THE TOWN HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD.
UM, I FEEL THAT THEY'RE VERY DEDICATED.
UH, SADLY WE LOST ONE EMPLOYEE, UH, YOU KNOW, TO COVID.
AND AGAIN, IF YOU WANNA SPEAK TO MAROS CROSS AND YOU KNOW, ROBERTA AND, UM, AND, UM, AND YOU FEEL THAT THE POLICY SHOULD BE CHANGED, I'M DEFINITELY OPEN TO, UM, DOING WHATEVER WE CAN, UM, TO HELP OUR EMPLOYEES.
THERE'S NO SIDE OFF, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M, I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO, UH, UM, TO DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO SHOW THE EMPLOYEES THAT WE CARE ABOUT THEM.
'CAUSE I THINK THAT I, BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I ALSO FEEL THAT, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO OPENING UP THE TOWN HALL, I, I FEEL, YOU KNOW, WE, MY ASSISTANT AND I, WE SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF THIS WEEK, UH, ARRANGING FOR VACCINATIONS FOR THE EMPLOYEES.
WE HAD OVER 60 TOWN EMPLOYEES, UM, WHO, UM, UM, GOT VACCINATED.
AND ON, ON THURSDAY, I WENT AROUND THE BUILDING, THE TOWN HALL, YOU KNOW, BUILDING, AND I SPOKE TO INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES, AND I ASKED 'EM, UM, YOU KNOW, TO SPEAK TO MY ASSISTANT, UH, KRISTEN, YOU KNOW, MADISON.
AND WE, WE BASICALLY, UM, UH, SCHEDULED APPOINTMENTS ON THE SPOT FOR PEOPLE.
SO I, UH, I THINK ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAD APPOINTMENTS ON FRIDAY FOR PEOPLE AND APPOINTMENTS ON, YOU KNOW, ON SATURDAY, PEOPLE WHO HAD APPOINTMENTS, UH, UH, SCHEDULED FOR, UM, THE END OF APRIL OR THE END OF MAY.
WE SCHEDULED IT, UH, A DAY LATER.
UM, SO I KNOW THAT THE TOWN IS DOING EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE, UH, TO SHOW OUR EMPLOYEES WE CARE ABOUT THEM.
BUT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WELL, YOU KNOW, I I, I REALLY FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD TRY, WE COULD IMPLEMENT, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING, AND IF IT, IF IT TURNS OUT THAT THE VARIANCES ARE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, ARE CREATING PROBLEMS, THEN WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA CANCEL IT.
YOU KNOW? AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL BE IN TOUCH WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND THE COUNTY, BE IN TOUCH WITH THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE'S OFFICE.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND THE MINUTE THEY SAY RECOMMEND, IF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, IF THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAY, CLOSE DOWN, THE PROGRAMS IS CLOSED DOWN A MINUTE, WE WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, NOBODY'S GONNA WANT US TO HAVE THESE PROGRAMS IF IT'S NOT SAFE.
SO I JUST WOULD WANT MOVE, MOVE FORWARD ON, ON THIS.
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS AGREE OR DISAGREE.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING IN MORE DETAIL IN WRITING.
WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR MONTHS ALREADY, AND EVERY DAY, EVERY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WE SHOULD BE DELAYING IN THE COUNCIL HAVEN'T PARTICIPATED.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT'S, WE MAY HAVE TO REVISIT THE WORK THAT THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS DID AND COMING UP WITH THE, UH, THE REOPENING PLAN THAT WAS NEVER USED.
WHAT DOES OTHER BOARD MEMBERS SAY? YOU, YEAH, LET'S DUST, LET'S DUST OFF THE PLAN SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT AND EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME PAGE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO GOING FORWARD.
I, I JUST WANT, I JUST WANT, I WOULD NOT SAY THAT THE REOPENING HAS NOT BEEN USED.
I THINK THAT WHAT THE DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE DOING AND BREAKING UP IS GOING BY GUIDELINES THAT WE SET UP.
YOU'RE BREAKING UP YOUR VOICE.
UH, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU
IT'S, UH, I, I, I DON'T WANT TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH, SO, UH, NO, YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE RIGHT.
IT'S, YEAH, I THINK THAT THEY'RE USING IT, BUT IT'S JUST THAT, THAT THIS, THAT WE HAVEN'T
BUT THAT, THAT DOCUMENT WAS FOR REOPENING, UH, BRINGING EMPLOYEES BACK.
IT WASN'T FOR REOPENING TOWN HALL TO THE PUBLIC, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY.
IT WAS, IT WAS BRINGING ALL EMPLOYEES.
UH, WE KEEP USING THE TERM REOPENING TOWN HALL, BUT TOWN HALL HAS ALWAYS, ALWAYS BEEN OPEN, UH, BUT NOT TO THE PUBLIC EXCEPT FOR
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THE LOBBY.SO WHY DON'T WE PUT THIS BACK ON FOR NEXT TUESDAY, UM, AND SEE WHETHER OR NOT, UH, WE CAN HAVE SOME KIND OF A STANDARDIZED POLICY.
'CAUSE WE HAVE TWO DEPARTMENTS, TWO DIFFERENT POLICIES.
WHAT WE CAN DO IS, IS HAVING SOMETHING, SOMETHING THAT IS BACKED UP, AND THEN MAYBE RIGHT BACK TO THAT PERSON WHO YOU'VE RELIED ON.
AND I KNOW IF THAT PERSON CAME BACK AND SAID, YES, IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE SENIORS INDOORS, UH, YOU WOULD BE ANNOUNCING, LOOK, WE HAVE BACKUP FOR BRINGING SENIORS INDOORS.
UH, WE JUST DON'T HAVE A, SO, BUT LET'S, LET'S, I THINK, UH, WE'VE BELABORED THE POINT AND, UH, WE CAN DISCUSS THIS AGAIN NEXT TUESDAY, BUT NOW EVERYBODY KNOWS, UH, WHAT'S ON THE TABLE.
AND, UM, SO JERRY AND JOE ARE NOT, COULD THEY START THE OUTSIDE PROGRAMS NOW FOR SENIORS? I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH OUTDOOR PROGRAMS. OKAY.
SO LET ME SAY, UH, UM, UH, JERRY AND JOE, WOULD YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO, UH, STARTING OUTSIDE PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, NEXT WEEK WE'LL DISCUSS THE, UM, THE OUTSIDE, UM, THE INDOOR PROGRAMS, BECAUSE I SORT OF FEEL WE COULD, UM, WE COULD AT LEAST MOVE FORWARD AND PROVIDE SENIORS WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME PROGRAMMING THAT, THAT EVERYBODY THINKS IS SAFE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE COULD DO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE SHOULD, UH, DO THE SAME THING FOR THE, UH, THE TOWN AND HAVE A TENT OUTSIDE.
SO PEOPLE WANNA MEET WITH EMPLOYEES.
THEY COULD, UM, THEY COULD MEET OUTSIDE.
IF, IF THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD IS OKAY FOR OUTDOOR PLANNING, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, TODAY IS, UH, MARCH 23RD AND WE, UH, PROPOSING TO DO APRIL 19TH.
SO WE STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIMES.
AND LIKEWISE, IF THE VARIANCE GETS WORSE AND WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER, THEN WE WILL IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN EVEN BEFORE, UH, THE 19TH.
UM, UH, JUST KEEP IN MIND, WE HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING, YOU KNOW, AT THE POOL WHERE WE HAD SENIORS THERE, AND IT WORKED OUT REALLY WELL.
SO, UH, I, I THINK WE ALL CAN BE IN AGREEMENT THAT IF YOU WEAR A MASK AND SPATIAL, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND KEEP YOUR DISTANCE, UH, 'CAUSE LIKE ON THE PATIO, UM, YOU, YOU COULD PROBABLY HAVE ABOUT A HUNDRED, 150 PEOPLE THERE.
WE'RE GONNA DO PROGRAMMING WHERE THERE BE SPACED OUT WITH A MAXIMUM ONLY 15 IN THE PATIO AT ONE TIME, AND THAT COVERS, UH, 18, UH, 2000 SQUARE FEET.
SO THEY WOULD BE, IT'D BE VERY, UH, SAFE ON THAT.
SO, UH, AND THEN I THINK WE GOT PLENTY OF TIME BETWEEN NOW AND THE 15TH OF APRIL, UH, TO, TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, TO DECIDE.
AND KEEP IN MIND, UH, THE SENIORS ARE VERY SMART.
UH, THE MAJORITY OF 'EM RIGHT NOW HAVE EVEN TOLD US THEY'RE NOT COMFORTABLE.
THE ONLY ONES COMING BACK IN THE CENTERS ARE THE ONES THAT WOULD BE COMFORTABLE, AND MOST LIKELY, THE MAJORITY OF THEM WILL PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE HAD THE, UH, VACCINES.
SO WE DON'T EXPECT A BIG TURNAROUND AND, UH, UM, WE CAN DELAY THAT OPENING IF YOU'RE NOT READY TO MAKE A DECISION, UH, BY BEFORE THE 15TH.
SO THEN, OKAY, SO THEN, UM, SO THEN TERRANCE, HIS PROGRAMMING TERRANCE, IS, TERRANCE HAS STARTED HIS PROGRAM OUTSIDE, SO YOU CAN DO HIS PROGRAMMING.
IS THAT WHAT YOU JUST ASKED FOR, TERRENCE? UH, YES.
OUR STARTS, UH, OUR FIRST EVENT IS APRIL 16TH.
UM, AND, UH, NOW I'M READY TO ROCK, READY TO GO FORWARD.
NO, I THINK THIS IS GREAT, PAUL.
I LIKE YOUR IDEA OF, UM, OF SETTING UP A TENT OUTSIDE TOWN HALL, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE WEATHER IS GETTING WARM, UM, BECAUSE WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS, UM, GET RESIDENTS COMING INTO THE LOBBY ASKING TO SPEAK WITH SOMEONE FROM ONE OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
THEY, THEY HAVE QUESTIONS, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, E EVEN THOUGH STAFF OF EVERY DEPARTMENT OR THEIR, AND WILLING AND AVAILABLE TO HELP PEOPLE, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE JUST FRUSTRATED THE RESIDENTS.
I MEAN, AND SO NOW THAT THE WEATHER'S GETTING WARM, THAT YOU'RE JUST OFFERING A, A SAFE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, STAFF TO MEET OUTDOORS WITH PEOPLE.
I MEAN, OF COURSE, ON A RAINY DAY, THEY'D HAVE TO MEET INSIDE, BUT AT LEAST IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY YOU'RE OFFERING AN, AN, AN ALTERNATIVE TO MEETING INDOORS IN THE LOBBY.
AND YOU'RE SAYING, LOOK, STAFF WILL BE THERE TO MEET WITH YOU.
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EXCELLENT IDEA.SO, UM, SO THE CONSENSUS IS OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.
WE'LL START IN THE PARKS AND THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA MEET NEXT WEEK ON TUESDAY, AND WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, INDOOR ACTIVITIES.
I WILL ALSO REACH OUT TO, UM, UM, THE COUNTY AND THE STATE AND TRY GETTING THEIR GUIDANCE AS WELL TO HELP THE TOWN, UH, BOARD MAKE A DECISION ON YOUR ACTIVITIES.
ANYBODY OBJECT TO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? MR. THESE NUMBERS ARE TWO DAYS OLD, SO THEY'LL BE UPDATED FOR TOMORROW.
IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME, IS THIS OLD ONE PRESENTATION? WELL, UH, THE SECOND ONE, UH, REX, HE'S, UH, UM, A LOCAL, UH, YOU KNOW, PHARMACIST.
SO, UH, YOU, WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAY ANNA REX, UH, DISCUSSING THEIR, UH, DISCUSSING THEIR, UM, NO.
DOES HE HAVE SOMETHING, THE VACCINE PROGRAM, BUT WHY? WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH FOOD SCRAPS? THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE.
THE FOOD SCRAPS IS, IS SEPARATE.
SO EVERYBODY LET ME, CAN I JUST, UH, RECOMMEND THAT GREENBERG TOWN COUNCILWOMAN SONYA BROWN, THE PRESENTATION TO SONYA, WE'RE GOING TO FOLD THAT INTO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
SO SHE'S GOING TO BE ONE OF THE HONOREES.
AND, UM, THROUGH THAT PRESENTATION, WE WILL READ HER TRIBUTE THAT SHE ASKED, YOU KNOW, THAT DID SHE SUBMIT IT TO THE TOWN TO BE READ? AND SO THAT'LL BE PART OF A WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION.
NOW WE HAVE A VERY SHORT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ONE OF OUR, UH, UH, HONOREES, AND SHE IS ONLY GONNA BE AVAILABLE BETWEEN SEVEN 30 AND 7 45.
SO I'M JUST RECOMMENDING THAT WE DO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION FIRST, AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WHERE IT'S GONNA BE WELL ORGANIZED.
WE ALREADY HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE AGREED TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND BE, UH, AND DO THE RECOGNITION.
SO I THINK THAT WE'LL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THAT WITHIN THE FIRST 15 TO 20 MINUTES IF WE START ON, WE'RE ABLE TO START ON TIME, BUT WE HAVE TO DO THE MOMENT OF SILENCE BEFORE THAT.
SO IS THIS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE? YEAH, I, I HAVE TO CONFIRM, UH, WHO'S, WHO'S GONNA BE SPEAKING FROM, FROM THAT.
IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME THAT, UH, THAT'S THE SEPARATE THING.
YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY, THIS IS ACTUALLY A GOOD PROGRAM BECAUSE, UH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, FOOD SCRAP, CURBSIDE PICKUP, AND WE KNOW IT'S GONNA START, UM, SLOW.
AND SOME HASTINGS STUDENTS BASICALLY, UH, OR FOR, ARE DOING THIS AS A BUSINESS.
JUDITH, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS FOR TAMARA? NO, I THINK THE WOMEN'S THANK YOU, FRANCIS, FOR ASKING.
I THINK THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM WILL, WILL, UM, REPRESENT, WILL CONSTITUTE THOSE COMMENTS.
AND WE HAVE TWO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, UH, AGREEMENTS TO VOTE ON, UH, THE LONG AWAITED SCARSDALE GOLF CLUB, UH, PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT NUMBER OH ONE.
WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO IS TO EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE WATER DISTRICT TO INCLUDE THE SCARSDALE GOLF CLUB.
FOR WHATEVER REASON, THE SCARSDALE GOLF CLUB IS AN ISLAND SURROUNDED BY THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT.
WE HAVE THEM LISTED AS OUT OF DISTRICT.
THE D E P HAS THEM LISTED AS IN DISTRICT.
UM, THERE ARE SOME FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF EXTENDING THE WATER DISTRICT TO INCLUDE THEM.
UH, BUT, UH, THERE'LL BE A PRESENTATION, A DISCUSSION, OR A PRESENTATION, I GUESS IT IS FROM OUR D D W TOMORROW NIGHT, EXPLAINING THAT THE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS ARE, ARE, ARE, UM, ARE NOT
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THAT SIGNIFICANT.SO THAT'S WHY I WAS HELD OVER ACTUALLY TWICE, UH, TO GET MORE AND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FINANCES INVOLVED IN PUTTING THEM INTO THE WATER DISTRICT.
BUT FRANKLY, THEY'RE ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY THE WATER DISTRICT.
BUT FOR SOME REASON OR ANOTHER, WE DON'T HAVE THEM LISTED AS IN THE, THE WATER DISTRICT.
AND WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
HERE'S WHERE WE VOTE ON TWO ELMSFORD, FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT CONTRACTS.
AND THEN TB THREE IS A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD ACCEPTING THE POLICE REFORM REPORT OF THE GREENBERG AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM BOARD ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE, AND ADOPTING A PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT.
THEY, THEY'VE BEEN, UH, WORKING ON THAT REPORT VERY DILIGENTLY, AS WE KNOW, KNOW FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS.
GINA'S THE CHAIR OF THE TASK FORCE AND THEY, THEY, THEY REALLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EFFORT INTO IT.
UH, WE CAN DECIDE IT'S, IT'S OVER A HUNDRED PAGES, WHETHER OR NOT WE VOTE ON IT TOMORROW NIGHT.
IF YOU HAVE, EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE TO READ IT, OR WE CAN DO A SPECIAL MEETING ON TUESDAY.
LET ME ASK A QUESTION IN TERMS OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, ONCE SAYS, ADOPTING A PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT, UH, DO WE WANNA, UH, HAVE A DISCUSSION, SAY WITH THE POLICE CHIEF AND WITH THE COMMITTEE AND GO OVER EACH OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UM, WHAT THE CHIEF, UH, HAS TO SAY? OR DO WE JUST ADOPT IT? YOU KNOW, WHAT, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE GONNA WORK ON THE IMPLEMENTATION? WE COULD, WE COULD DO THAT, BUT IT WOULD'VE TO BE BY NEXT TUESDAY, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO FILE THIS WITH THE GOVERNOR BY APRIL 1ST.
UH, DO YOU KNOW IF THE, UH, THE CHIEF AND THE POLICE, UH, IN THE DEPARTMENT ARE, UM, IN AGREEMENT WITH ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS? UH, I'LL LET JAYNA SPEAK TO THAT.
SHE'S THE CHAIR, THE CHIEF HAS BEEN PART OF THE COMMITTEE FROM THE, THE BEGINNING OF, UM, START THE, THE, OF THE COMMITTEE.
SO HE, HE'S GIVEN, HE'S DEFINITELY GIVEN HIS RECOMMENDATIONS.
HE'S ALSO VOICED TO THINGS THAT WE DEFINITELY HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT HE WAS NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH, BUT UNDERSTOOD, UM, WHAT WAS BEHIND IT.
AND HE CAN SPEAK TO IT AS WELL.
'CAUSE HE IS ON A, HE IS IN A MEETING WHERE HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE RECOMMEND HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE MEETING.
IF WE WANNA HAVE A DISCUSSION, UM, AGAIN, WE CAN, WE CAN GO WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
WE ALREADY MADE TWO PRESENTATIONS, BUT WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION PRIOR TO TUESDAY.
UM, BUT AGAIN, WHATEVER CONCERNS, UH, CHIEF HAS DEFINITELY VOICED THOSE CONCERNS DURING A COMMITTEE MEETING.
THERE'S SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE POLICE CHIEF, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTS.
COULD WE, UM, COULD WE ADOPT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT HE DEFINITELY SUPPORTS AND THEN HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE CHIEF ON THE ISSUES THAT, UM, THAT HE MAY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT.
AND THEN WE COULD TAKE A VOTE AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GOING ALONG WITH THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS, OR WE'RE GONNA, UM, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THERE'S 10 RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE'RE IMPLEMENTING SEVEN AND THERE'S THREE THAT HE HAS CONCERNS AND HE TELLS US WHY.
SO, PAUL, LEMME PAUL, LEMME LEMME JUST STOP YOU THERE TO, JUST TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
SO TOMORROW'S RESOLUTION IS TO ADOPT A REPORT AND ADOPT A PLAN TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WE STILL HAVE TO PUT A PLAN TOGETHER TO PUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN.
AND WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED THAT PLAN.
SO THAT CONVERSATION IS ONGOING THIS IS WHY I SAID THIS IS, THAT WAS PHASE ONE, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD THE REPORT DONE, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO PHASE TWO.
SO YES, SO CHIEF WILL BE A PART OF THAT CONVERSATION, AND ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE A PART OF THAT CONVERSATION IS WELCOME TO BE PART OF IT.
BUT TOMORROW'S REC, TOMORROW'S, UM, RESOLUTION IS, AGAIN, TO ADOPT THE PLAN AND TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AND TO ADOPT THE PLAN, UM, FOR THE RECOMMENDATION TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ADOPTING A PLAN, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND, CAN YOU HIGHLIGHT WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT MEANS? SO WE ADOPT THE
SO ONCE WE LOOK AT THE, ONCE WE LOOK AT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE, SO NOW WE ARE ADOPTING A TIMELINE AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE CAN ON OUR END AS, AS FAR AS GREENBERG CONCERNED, WHAT WE CAN, WE CAN IMPLEMENT, AND THEN THE RECOMMENDATION, THE
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TIMEFRAME.SO WE CAN RECOMMEND WHATEVER WE WANNA, UM, HAVE CHANGED AND GET, NEED APPROVAL FROM THE STATE.
SO THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, THAT WE WILL PUT A TIMELINE IN PLAN, AND THAT WILL, AGAIN, BE A PART OF, THERE IS A, A TIMELINE ATTACHED TO THE RESOLUTIONS, WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR TOMORROW, THAT WILL OUTLINE EXACTLY WHAT THE STEPS ARE GOING, WHAT WOULD BE TAKEN GOING FORWARD.
SO THAT I JUST SEE THE WORDING AGAIN ON THE AGENDA.
I'M SORRY, I'M JUST, LET'S SEE.
SO, UM, SO WOULDN'T IT MAKE SENSE TO SAY ADOPT, UH, WE, UH, WE'RE ACCEPTING THE POLICE REPORT, YOU KNOW, NOBODY HAS OBJECTIONS TO THAT.
UM, UM, AND THEN WE WOULD SAY, UM, UM, COMING UP WITH, I'M, I'M JUST, I'M, SO I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR RESERVATION IS.
SO WHAT THIS IS, I'M, I'M NOT, I'M NOT, THERE'S NO RESERVATION.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT THE ONLY ISSUE THAT I'M, UH, SAYING IS THAT, UM, IF THERE IS, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE HEARING YOU HEARD FROM, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC, FROM THE PUBLIC, UM, THE, YOU INDICATED THAT SHE'D HAVE SOME RESERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, NOT ALL OF THEM.
UM, SO I, I'M SORT OF THINKING THAT MAYBE THE WORDING SHOULD SAY, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ACCEPTING THE REPORT AND, UM, UM, AND COMING UP WITH SOME SORT OF LIKE, UH, PLAN OF ACTION, UH, AND TIMETABLE.
UM, WELL, THAT'S WHAT THAT SAYS, PAUL, BUT I'M JUST, I'M, THERE'S NO DISAGREEMENT.
I'M JUST SAYING, I JUST WANTED IT A LITTLE CLEARER, OR I'M JUST RECOMMENDING A LITTLE CLEARER, UM, YOU KNOW, PARAGRAPH WHERE WE'RE BASICALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, STATING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO, OVER A PERIOD, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A TIME PERIOD WHEN WE'RE GONNA REVIEW ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND THEN, UH, THERE'LL BE A VOTE, LIKE UP OR DOWN ON EACH OF THE SPECIFIC, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDATIONS AFTER WE'VE CONSULTED WITH, UM, UH, WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THE POLICE CHIEF, THERE MAY BE A, A RECOMMENDATION THAT THE, UM, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THERE MAY BE A RECOMMENDATION THE 20 MADE CHIEF MAY HAVE HAVE, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS, YOU SHOULD SPEAK TO US.
UH, WE COULD THEN SPEAK TO THE COMMITTEE, UM, AND, UM, AND SEE IF THEY THINK THE CHIEF'S, UH, COMMENTS ARE, UM, VALID OR, OR NOT.
AND THEN, UM, UH, THEM TO, UH, EITHER TWEAK IT OR TWEAK THE RECOMMENDATIONS OR, UM, MAKE SOME MODIFICATIONS OR APPROVE OR REJECT IT.
UM, I'M JUST SAYING, I JUST WANNA, UM, INSTEAD OF SAYING ADOPTING, WELL, WE'RE ADOPTING, I SAY ADOPTING BECAUSE WE WE'RE NOT RIGHT NOW COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTING ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
WE'RE COMMITTED TO COMMITTED, WE
AND THIS IS JUST THE YES, AND THIS IS THE PLAN.
SO THIS IS WHAT THE TIMELINE THAT, THAT WILL BE ATTACHED, OUTLINE WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE GOING TO BE, RIGHT? SO THIS IS THIS ADOPTING THAT TIMELINE PLAN EXACTLY WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED.
AND IS THERE A WAY THAT WE, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD THINK OF JUST CHANGING THE LAST, UH, THE LAST WORD JUST TO BE A LITTLE CLEARER.
UM, BECAUSE, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT, AND AGAIN, IT'S NOT SOMETHING, I JUST THINK THAT IT WOULD, UM, YEAH, IT'S JUST A RECOMMENDATION THAT I HAVE.
I, I, I THINK MAY BE CREATING A CONTROVERSY THAT DID NOT EXIST.
I, I
PLEASE, PLEASE, PAUL, JUST LEMME FINISH.
UH, I RAISED CONCERNS LAST NIGHT AT THE G A S R MEETING THAT HAVING THIS, THE REPORT RELEASED TODAY AND US VOTING ON THIS A HUNDRED, UH, PLUS PAGE REPORT TOMORROW THAT WE WOULD BE CRITICIZED FOR NOT HAVING READ THE FINAL, THE FINAL REPORT AND, AND VOTING ON IT.
UM, AND, AND, AND, AND NOW FROM THIS DISCUSSION, I CAN SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS, THIS IS SOMEWHAT GONNA GET A LIFE HERE.
UM, I THINK, I THINK WE SHOULD HOLD, HOLD THIS OVER TILL TUESDAY, WHICH IS WHAT I RECOMMENDED LAST NIGHT.
ANYWAY, HOLD IT OVER TILL TUESDAY.
WE'LL STILL PUT THE, UH, REPORT UP.
UH, I, I, I DON'T SEE THE CONCERNS YOU HAVE.
I I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
UM, THERE ARE LOTS OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THESE,
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UH, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE REPORT ITSELF, BUT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD RUSH THIS AT THE LAST MINUTE.I KNOW IT'S VERY CLOSE, BUT WE ALSO BUILT IN A EXTRA, YOU KNOW, THE POSSIBILITY OF A SPECIAL NEEDED ANYWAY, APPARENTLY, BECAUSE THERE'S A RESOLUTION THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT ON THE AGENDA AND, UM, UH, FOR NEXT TUESDAY.
SO THAT'S WHAT, UH, CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? UNDERSTAND, CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? WHY CAN'T WE, UM, AT THE NEXT TOWN BOARD MEETING ON THE, ON NEXT TUESDAY, UM, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE POLICE CHIEF AT THE MEETING? AND I, I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HIM ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THIS.
SO THIS IS JUST, I, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE POLICE CHIEF, UM, UH, MEET WITH THE TOWN BOARD, UM, NEXT TUESDAY AT A PUBLIC WORK SESSION WHERE WE COULD GO OVER THE REPORTS.
HE COULD INDICATE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HE'S, YOU KNOW, BEHIND RIGHT NOW, HIS, THERE COULD BE A MINORITY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HE COULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, PROBLEMS. WE COULD START IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATION, YOU KNOW, THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT NOBODY HAS ANY, THAT NOBODY HAS ANY OBJECTIONS TO.
YOU COULD DO THAT IMMEDIATELY, WHICH IS PROBABLY MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, MOST, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MOST COMMUNITIES ARE DOING.
AND THEN WE COULD HAVE A DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, WITH HIM ON, YOU KNOW, ON SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT EVERYBODY, UH, UH, THAT YOU KNOW, THAT HE MAY DIFFER WITH.
AND, AND THEN WORK WITH, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND, AND, AND THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF, UM, UH, ADDRESSING SOME OF THE OTHER, SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES.
BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY, THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, REPORT, AND THERE'S A LOT OF EXCELLENT RECOMMENDATIONS IN THERE.
AND WE WANT, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD.
WE DON'T WANT A COMMITTEE, A REPORT TO GET TOGETHER DUST.
AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST FELT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE GO LIKE RECOMMENDATION BY RECOMMENDATION, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, FROM THE CHIEF, YOU KNOW, THEN WE'RE REALLY, UH, DOING MORE OF OUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE, YOU KNOW, PUBLICLY.
I THINK, I THINK, UH, I, I THINK THE ISSUE IS THAT YOU'RE TAKING IT AS IF WHEN WE VOTE ON THIS, THAT'S THE END OF THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS, OR THE RECOMMENDATIONS EXACTLY AS THEY ARE WORDED RIGHT NOW IN THE DOCUMENT.
AND THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE BECAUSE THE COMMITTEE, UH, IS GOING TO BE ONGOING AND CONTINUING ITS WORK.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING WHAT THE GOVERNOR ASKED, UH, IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, UH, RELATIVELY SPEAKING IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISHMENT ACCOMPLISH IT.
AND SO I THINK WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO IT TONIGHT.
I, I SUGGESTION, JUST SO WE COULD VOTE ON THIS TOMORROW IF YOU, IF YOU LIKE, WHAT IF WE ACCEPT THE REPORT ON, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW AND WE BASICALLY, NO, WE, WE ACCEPT THE, IF WE, WE FIRST PART, WE, WE BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, ACCEPT, AND THEN WE SCHEDULE FOLLOW UP MEETINGS, UH, TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, OF THE REPORTS.
SO IS TO DISCUSS SPECIFIC, EACH OF THE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, OR DIRECT DATA WITHIN THE NEXT, IT COULD BE THREE MONTHS, FIVE MONTHS, WHATEVER YOU WANT, UH, THAT EACH OF THE, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN BOARD BASICALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, VOTE ON, ON THE SPECIFIC MATTERS, UH, THE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING.
SO THIS WAY WE DON'T HAVE TO, BECAUSE IF WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ADOPTING THE INDIVIDUAL RECOMMENDATIONS TOMORROW, WE'RE BASICALLY MOVING AHEAD.
THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE REALLY HAVE TO HOLD IT OVER, UH, YOU KNOW, TILL TILL NEXT WEEK BECAUSE IT IS A PUBLIC MEETING TOMORROW.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE ALL, WE HAD THE HEARINGS, WE, WE HEARD FROM THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK.
AND, UM, AND THIS WAY WE COULD, UM, YOU KNOW, MOVE THIS MATTER ALONG AND LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE'S GONNA BE MORE DETAILED ON YOU ON, UH, A MORE DETAILED REVIEW LATER ON.
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT IS JUST, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.
I MEAN, YOU ALWAYS DO A LITTLE EDITING.
I'M DOING JUST A LITTLE EDITING, AND IF THE BOARD BASICALLY WANTS TO JUST PHRASE IT A LITTLE BIT, JUST MAKE A LITTLE TWEAK HERE OR THERE, THEN WE COULD, THERE'S NO PROBLEM VOTING ON IT TOMORROW, RIGHT? BUT, BUT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU READ THE FINAL REPORT, WHICH HASN'T GONE TO THE TOWN BOARD YET.
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UM, YES, IT HAS BEEN GO, YES, IT WENT, IT WENT THIS MORNING.OH, I DIDN'T SEE THE TOWN BOARD ON THAT 11 O'CLOCK GO, THAT WAS, IT WENT TO THE TOWN BOARD.
ALRIGHT, I, I, THIS, THIS IS WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN TOMORROW NIGHT, UM, AS WELL ON THIS ISSUE.
AND I DON'T KNOW, 11, 12, WHAT'S THAT? I SENT IT 11, 12.
SO, I MEAN, I WOULD, I, I WOULD LIKE THE BOARD, I WOULD LIKE THE BOARD'S COMFORT TO MAKE SURE THE DATE, I MEAN, WE PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO IT.
HE EXPRESSED, YOU KNOW, HIS CONCERNS.
WE MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS AND FOR WHAT HE, UM, RECOMMENDED.
UM, AND I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT PAUL WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING IS WHAT WE, WHAT WE'VE DONE FOR THE LAST, UM, TWO TO THREE WEEKS AFTER WE HAD PUT THAT DRAFT REPORT UP.
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
SO THAT, AND THERE'S NOT MANY CHANGES FROM WHAT THE DRAFT HAS THAT'S BEEN POSTED UP ON THE WEBSITE TO WHAT THE FINAL REPORT WAS.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S TAKING CONSIDERATION FROM EVERYONE WHO HAS PROVIDED FEEDBACK.
SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I WANT THE BOARD TO FEEL COMFORTABLE.
SO I KNOW KEN'S BEEN A PART OF IT.
PERHAPS AS YOU'RE FULLY YOU'RE FULLY AWARE OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT DIANA, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY.
DIANA, I THINK I KNOW DIANA, YOU HAD ALREADY READ THE DRAFT.
UM, IF YOU COULD, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.
UH, YOU KNOW, IF THE BOARD, SINCE THE BOARD IS BASICALLY GOING TO GIVE THE CHIEF AND EVERYBODY, IF YOU KNOW, AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, COMMENT AND WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH HE MADE, UH, UH, AND I WANT TO LIKE HEAR, YOU KNOW, HIS THOUGHTS, THEN YEAH, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM, YOU KNOW, MINIMIZE THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE IN THE REPORT, EITHER IT, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THOUGHT THAT WENT INTO IT, AND THE CHIEF DOES HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SOME OF THAT, STILL HAS SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SOME OF THEM, AND HE COULD CERTAINLY VOICE THOSE.
BUT THAT WASN'T THE, UH, THAT WASN'T THE OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE AFTER DISCUSSING IT.
UH, SO I DON'T THINK THAT VOTING ON IT, VOTING ON IT TOMORROW MEANS THAT YOU CAN CHANGE WHATEVER YOU WANT.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE, ARE A WORK, UH, THEY'RE GOING TO BE, THEY'RE BASICALLY A WORK IN PROGRESS FOR THE COMMITTEE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TAKE THIS EVEN FURTHER.
UM, AND THE TOWN WARD, OF COURSE, WANTED TO TAKE THE WHOLE ISSUE OF SYSTEMIC RACISM EVEN FURTHER.
AND THAT'S WHY THERE ARE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF THIS, WHICH THE GOVERNOR NEVER ENVISIONED WITH, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION AND HOUSING AND, UM, EMPLOYMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND SO HEALTHCARE, SO, UH, UH, WE WERE ALREADY TAKING IT FURTHER THAN WHAT THE GOVERNOR, UH, EXPECTED US TO TAKE.
BUT FOR THE GOVERNOR, WE NEED TO SAFELY ADOPTED A PLAN.
AND SO, BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S REAL WORK TO BE DONE.
IT'S BASICALLY THAT PLAN IS A TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.
WHY DON'T WE, WHY DON'T WE THINK ABOUT IT? YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE, I HAVE NO, WHATEVER DECISION, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, I CAN VOTE TOMORROW, WHATEVER THE BOARD BASICALLY WANTS.
AND IF I CAN JUST, UH, COMMENT ON THAT, I, UM, TO THE SUPERVISOR'S POINT, I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD AT SOME POINT ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
NOBODY SHOULD INTERRUPT THE CHIEF.
YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS, UH, RIGHT.
I, I, I HIT THE CURSE IN THE PAGE FOR UP.
ON THE AGENDA ALSO IS, UH, TAX CERTS.
CAN I JUST ASK A QUESTION? UH, WOULD WE WANNA, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE, LET'S SAY WE VOTED ON THIS, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW, WOULD WE WANT TO LIKE, PUT IN AS A SCHEDULE WHEN WE WOULD HAVE THE CHIEF, UM, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS? SO THEN IT'S CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THESE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS AND MAYBE WE COULD WORK WITH THE CHIEF ON COMING UP WITH A PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, THAT HE SUPPORTS.
SO, UM, IF WE, LIKE EVEN SCHEDULED A TIME, UH, MAYBE HAVE A WORK SESSION WHERE THE CHIEF
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BASICALLY COULD SAY, I SUPPORT THIS RECOMMENDATION.I'M HOPING TO IMPLEMENT THIS, UH, MAY 1ST I SUPPORT THIS RECOMMENDATION.
I'M HOPING TO IMPLEMENT THIS, UH, BY, UH, SEPTEMBER 1ST.
AND THEN WHEN WE BASICALLY, THEN WE'RE SHOWING THE PUBLIC THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY, THAT IT'S NOT GATHERING DUST, AND WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING THINGS ON, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENTLY.
AND I'M, I'M JUST SAYING MAYBE ON THE AGENDA TOMORROW, IF WE VOTE TOMORROW, YOU JUST SAY, PLEASE, CHIEF WILL DISCUSS, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, TWO WEEKS FROM, UH, TOMORROW.
AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN THERE'S GOING, EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL THAT THE, THE WORDING OF THE, THE RESOLUTION COULD BE, COULD HAVE BEEN TWEAKED THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S FAIR.
THEN IT'S CLEAR THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE CLEARER, YOU KNOW, TO THE PUBLIC.
WE PICK A DATE AND WE PUT IT RIGHT UNDER THERE.
WE JUST, AND WE, WE DEVOTE THE WORK SESSION TO THE REPORT.
AND ACTUALLY, IT'S GONNA BE BETTER BECAUSE, UH, THEN WE'RE GIVING OURSELVES A, A TIMETABLE FOR ACTUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, PROCEEDING WITH ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING, UH, YOU KNOW, MANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT.
AND WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT PROCRASTINATING AND WE'RE NOT DELAYING.
YOU WANNA SAY TWO WEEKS FROM TOMORROW? FROM TODAY? I, I GUESS I'M NOT BEING CLEAR AS TO, I, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY BECAUSE I, I DON'T, I REALLY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY, HONESTLY.
NO, I'M JUST, I'M JUST
JUST PLEASE HOLD IT OVER, PLEASE.
WE'RE CREATING, WE'RE CREATING A CONTROVERSY WHERE THERE'S NO CON THERE'S NO CONTROVERSY, THERE'S NO CON BASICALLY WHAT I'M DOING IS I'M JUST SAYING THE POLICE CHIEF THAT HE WANTS TO SPEAK.
UH, SO WE SHOULD HAVE, WE SHOULD, UH, GIVE HIM THE CORRECT.
NO ONE'S DENYING NO ONE'S SAYING THAT HE CAN'T SPEAK AT ALL.
AND WE, WE WELCOME, WE WELCOME, WE WELCOME ANYTHING THE CHIEF HAS TO SAY, AS WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS WHOLE SIX TO SEVEN MONTHS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING, OR FOUR MONTHS THAT WE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT.
SO, BUT IF, IF, LET'S HOLD IT OVER.
I JUST, WE, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE DO IT THIS RIGHT.
SO WE HAVE, UH, TWO TAX CERTS AND A, UH, WE'RE RELEASING FROM CONSIDERATION AND A THIRD PARTY AND AN ACTION.
THIS INVOLVED A, UH, A LAWSUIT THAT SOMEBODY FILED STATING THAT THE TOWN WAS RESPONSIBLE, UM, FOR NOT PROPERLY PAVING A ROAD ON EAST DALE AVENUE.
AND THE WOMAN FELL AND WE SUBCONTRACTED THAT WORK, AND WE WERE INDEMNIFIED.
AND SO, UH, WE ACTUALLY ARE GETTING PAID FOR OUR, UH, AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO PAY IT OUT.
UM, DARREN, DO YOU WANNA SPEAK ABOUT CD ONE? YES, SURE.
CD ONE IS A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD APPROVING A PART-TIME ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT.
AND WITHIN THAT, UM, RESOLUTION THERE CONTAINS THE, UM, DELIBERATE PROCESS THAT WE TOOK, WHICH INCLUDED A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR CONSULTANTS, FOLLOWED BY A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS.
IT DETAILS THE, UM, THE, THE EXCELLENT INPUT WE RECEIVED FROM, UM, AN AD HOC, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE COMPRISED OF RESIDENTS AND, UH, BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE TOWN.
AND ULTIMATELY, THIS WOULD BE FOR A, A, AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT THAT WOULD BE AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR DEPARTMENT, AND FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEEDS IN THE TOWN, WHICH, UM, I THINK I WOULD BEST DESCRIBE AS, YOU KNOW, DOING ANY AND EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO, YOU KNOW, IMPROVE THE, UM, EXISTING BUSINESSES IN THE TOWN OR EXISTING BUSINESS CORRIDORS.
AND, UM, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY LOOKING TO BRING IN NEW BUSINESSES.
AND I THINK MOST IMPORTANTLY, WITH THE, UM, PROSPECT OF SIGNIFICANT, UM, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL FUNDING, I THINK THAT WE WOULD STAND WELL POSITIONED WITH THE USE OF THIS CONSULTANT TO, UH, GET FUNDING TO DO SOME OF THE THINGS I JUST NOTED.
SO, UM, I PERSONALLY, UH, I THINK THE PROCESS WAS, WAS WELL DONE.
I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF THE TOWN BOARD, AND I FEEL THAT, UM, THIS IS A LOW COST, UM, POTENTIAL HIGH REWARD FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
SO I WAS GLAD TO BE A PART OF THE PROCESS.
AND, UH, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REALLY GOOD CONSULTANT ON BOARD AND, UM, THINK THAT'S GONNA DO GREAT THINGS FOR THE TOWN AND THE ER, UH,
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AS WE COMMONLY DO, UH, HAS BUDGET TRANSFERS, UH, MOVING MONEY FROM ONE LINE TO ANOTHER.UM, AND THE DETAILS OF THAT, UM, WE'LL BE UP ON THE WEBSITE IF IT'S NOT ALREADY.
UM, IT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS, AND IT BREAKS DOWN WHERE THE MONIES ARE BEING MOVED FROM ONE LINE TO ANOTHER WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT TO HANDLE BUDGET, UM, BUDGET CHANGES.
UM, UH, C L TWO, ROBERT, REGARDING, YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT C C? YES.
SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS LAST YEAR WHEN WE INPUT THE BUDGET, IT WAS PUT IN AS A POSITIVE RATHER THAN A NEGATIVE.
SO THIS IS JUST TO CORRECT THAT INPUT ERROR.
JERRY, YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT ONE?
I HAD TO, HAD TO UNMUTE MYSELF.
YEAH, THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO RELEASE, UH, $23,000 OF PARKLAND FUNDS.
UH, I WENT BEFORE THE PARK AND REC ADVISORY BOARD, THEN THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, WORKING WITH ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
UM, THEY PROPOSED A BUILDING, A, UH, SORT OF COMMUNITY BUILT PLAYGROUND, AND THE FUNDING WOULD BE BY THE MATERIAL, UH, PLUS SOME OF THE MISCELLANEOUS STUFF FOR WOOD CHIPS AND THE CONCRETE TO PUT IN THE FOOTINGS.
UH, THIS WOULD BE A, UH, UH, A, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? UH, STATE CONTRACT PURCHASE.
WE WOULD LIKE TO BUILD A SMALL PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN AGES FIVE THROUGH 12 AT WEST BROOK.
THAT'S THE HOME OF ELWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE, UH, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT, UM, EVEN THOUGH THE ELWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE COULD BE HAVING GAMES WHENEVER THE PARK IS OPEN, WHICH IS BASICALLY, UH, SUNRISE TO SUNSET, UH, THE PLAYGROUND WILL BE OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY AT ALL TIMES, WHETHER THEY'RE PARTICIPATING AT THAT PARK FOR, UH, ELFORD LITTLE LEAGUE COMM V.
COUNCILMAN, HOW ARE YOU?
SO WE HAVE, UH, FOUR ITEMS IN FRONT OF THE BOARD FOR TOMORROW NIGHT'S MEETING.
THE FIRST ONE IS, UH, FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE CURBING.
UM, AS EVERYBODY'S AWARE LAST YEAR DURING THE COVID, UH, OR THE HEAVY PART OF THE COVID, WE REALLY DID NOT DO ANY WORK.
SO THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF, OF THE, UH, CURBING CONTRACT.
WE'VE SUBMITTED A LIST OF ROADS THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UH, WILL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
THEY'RE ACTUALLY OUT THERE NOW DOING SOME WORK, GOING VERY WELL.
THE, UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE? NOPE.
I, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WHEN WE EXTEND THE CONTRACT, I MEAN, HERE WE'RE EXTENDING A CONTRACT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS.
WHEN DO WE GO OUT TO BID AGAIN? UH, YOU KNOW, WE GO OUT EVERY, SORRY, DEBBIE, TWO YEARS IS WHAT WE TRY TO DO THAT WITH THIS AND THE PAVING.
SO IN, IN SOME OF THE WRITINGS, I SEE THAT, THAT THE AMOUNT ISN'T FIXED.
AND IN OTHERS, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE ACCEPTING THE PREVIOUS, THE, THE PREVIOUS, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE EXTENDING THE ACTUAL RATES THAT THEY WERE CHARGED, BUT THERE'S SOME INCONSISTENCY IN THE ACTUAL CONTRACT ITSELF.
UH, ARE THEY HONORING THE COST OF 2020 CONTRACT? YES.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENTS.
THEN THE, UH, SECOND ITEM IS AT OUR, UH, PUMP STATION.
I KNOW I SENT, UM, KEVIN AN UPDATE OF WHAT WE WENT THROUGH LAST WEEK, AND VERY THANKFUL FOR THE, THE, UH, PEOPLE WE HAVE WORKING AT THE WATER DEPARTMENT AND THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
THIS IS ALL, THIS MATERIAL IS TAKEN OFF A COUNTY OR PURSUANT TO COUNTY CONTRACT 20 DASH ZERO 10.
UM, AND IT'S FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, OF NECESSARY PUMPS TO KEEP THE WATER FLOWING.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE? NO.
SO WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND I'M SURE AT SOME POINT EVERYBODY'S SEEN THESE, THESE TRAINS THAT GO THROUGH, THEY TAKE THE EXISTING ASPHALT, CHEW IT UP, HEAT IT UP, THEY SHOOT MATERIAL INTO IT, THEY PUT IT BACK DOWN, THEY COMPACT IT, AND THEY COME BACK AFTER WITH THE SEAL COATING OR A MICROSURFACING.
UH, THIS IS GOING TO SAVE US MONEY, UH, COMPARED TO MILLING AND RESURFACING, WHICH WE HAVE TO DO ON SOME ROADS THAT'LL BE IN A FUTURE CONTRACT.
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BUT THIS, THIS NUMBER COMES OFF NEW YORK STATE, UH, BIDDING.UM, THIS CONTRACTOR HAS DONE WORK IN THE TOWN BEFORE AND WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITH IT.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE? UH, WITH THE NUMBER OF MILES OF ROADS THAT WE HAVE, WOULD IT BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN THE LONG RUN FOR US TO HAVE OUR OWN EQUIPMENT TO DO THIS? OR DO YOU THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE TO FARM OUT? NO, THIS IT, I'LL GET YOU A, A VIDEO OF WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THE COST OF THE EQUIPMENT THAT THEY, UH, THEY'VE, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE SPENT ON THIS AND THE EXPERTISE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE ON THE BACK OF A PAVER OR SOME OF THESE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT THESE PEOPLE DO DAY IN AND DAY OUT, AND THERE'S A REAL LEVEL OF EXPERTISE TO IT.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD JUST RUN OUT AND DO.
SO, NO, I THINK THOSE DAYS HAVE HAVE PASSED.
SO HOW, HOW, HOW MANY, WHAT THE, WHAT'S THE DISTANCE THAT YOU THINK WE'LL GET FOR THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS? OKAY, SO WITH THE SEAL COATING, IT'S, UH, BASICALLY, UH, WE'RE LOOKING TO GET TAXI ROAD, SEACOR ROAD, WORTHINGTON ROAD, PART OF ARDSLEY ROAD, WHITE HOUSE ROAD, MENDO AVENUE, HEATH PLACE, DONALD DRIVE, EDITH WAY, AND I BELIEVE HASTING CLOSE.
NOW, SOME OF THE LAST MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF, BUT, UH, I CAN GET YOU THE MILEAGE.
IT'S, IT'S QUITE AN AMOUNT OF ROAD AND THE ROADS.
WE, WE, WE WORKED WITH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE CONTRACTOR GO OUT AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE ROADS WE WERE THINKING ABOUT, AND THEY'RE BASICALLY STRAIGHTAWAYS MOST OF THEM BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THIS TRAIN THAT GOES THROUGH.
AGAIN, THIS ISN'T MILLING AND THEN PAVING ASPHALT BACK.
THERE'S A REAL PROCESS TO THIS.
UM, WE'VE BASICALLY COPYING WHAT WHITE PLAINS AND HARRISON HAVE BEEN DOING OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
UM, IT'S REALLY SOMETHING TO SEE.
BUT I, I CAN GET YOU THE, UH, THE DISTANCE OF THAT.
IF THERE'S A VIDEO OF THAT, IT WOULD BE NICE THAT, OH YEAH, THERE'S A VIDEO YEAH.
UH, P W FOUR IS, THIS IS, UH, BASICALLY WE'RE REDOING SOME DRAINAGE.
WHEN WE DID THE WORK UP AT PLYMOUTH ROAD, UM, THORN CLIP LANE IN BUENA VISTA, I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS BACK WHEN WE REDID THE WATER WORK, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A LOT OF THE DRAINAGE OUT THERE, THE OLD CORRUGATED METAL PIPE, HAD, UH, ROTTED AWAY AT THE BOTTOM, PROBABLY DUE TO THE SALT THAT'S PUT ON THE ROADS AND HAS ALL FAILED.
SO, AS A CONTINUATION OF THAT PROJECT, AS THEY CAME ON THESE THINGS, WE, WE NOTED THEM, UH, OBVIOUSLY LAST YEAR WE, WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, BUT THIS IS GONNA BE FOR THE DRAINAGE.
SO THE WATER WORK IS DONE, WE'RE NOW COMPLETING THE DRAINAGE.
AFTER THAT, THE CURBS WILL BE RESET AND IN THE ROAD PAVED, AND GOD WILLING, WE WON'T HAVE TO BE OUT THERE FOR 20 SOMETHING YEARS.
SO THIS IS A KIND OF A CONTINUATION OF THE WATER, THE WORK THAT WAS DONE OUT THERE SOME YEARS BACK.
ANY QUESTION LAST WEEK? UH, WE PROMISED THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE A VOTE ON THE PARKWAY GARDENS, UH, PARKING RESTRICTIONS.
AND I DON'T SEE THAT ON THE AGENDA.
THAT, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I SAID WE, WE WERE GONNA NEED A SPECIAL MEETING NEXT TUESDAY ANYWAY.
UH, WE PUT OUT A PRELIMINARY AGENDA OR TENTATIVE AGENDA ON WEDNESDAYS.
WHOEVER SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO PUT THAT ON THERE, IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY.
IF THERE WAS, IF IT WAS MISSED TO, TO TALK ABOUT IT THEN OUT AGAIN ON THURSDAY, THEN AFTER IT'S PUBLISHED, UH, ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S A, THERE'S A, THERE'S A RESOLUTION MISSING.
IT, IT, IT WOULD BE A VERY BAD POLICY IF WE MISLEAD THE PUBLIC INTO THINKING THAT AT THE LAST MOMENT, WE CAN POP A RESOLUTION ON THERE, PARTICULARLY ONE THAT AFFECTS SO MANY PEOPLE.
AND SO WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING IS EVEN IF WE VOTE ON THAT, WE, WE HAVE IT ON TUESDAY AT A SPECIAL MEETING AND VOTE ON IT.
UM, SO THAT WE DON'T, WE DON'T DEVIATE FROM THAT POLICY.
UH, ONCE THE AGENDA GOES OUT TO THE PUBLIC, WE DON'T PUT SURPRISE RESOLUTIONS ON THERE.
SO I KNOW THAT THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION WAS PLANNING ON, YOU KNOW, HAVING REPRESENTATION AT THE MEETING TO SUPPORT THE PASSAGE OF THE RESOLUTION.
SHOULD I JUST LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY DON'T NEED TO DO THAT, THAT IT'S GONNA BE, WHEN DID YOU SAY THE SPECIAL MEETING WAS GONNA BE? TUESDAY.
TUESDAY EVENING AFTER, AFTER, DURING THE WORK SESSION TIME PERIOD.
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ASSOCIATION KNOW THAT IT'S TABLED UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY.IT'LL, IT'LL, IT'LL BE THERE, UH, ON TUESDAY.
I'M JUST, I'M JUST EMAILING, UH, RIGHT NOW.
SO, SO AT SIX, 6:00 PM SHOULD SAY, UH, THEREABOUTS, RIGHT? UM, I SPOKE TO YOU.
TELL AT SIX O'CLOCK THEY'LL BE, UH, THEY'LL BE HEARD.
AND, UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT HE, THERE'S SOME RESIDENTS HAVE SOME SMALL PARKING, UH, UH, YOU, UH, YOU KNOW, DRIVEWAYS AND LLOYD HAD, UM, SUGGESTED, UM, THAT, AND YOU KNOW, I THINK IT MAKES SENSE THAT WE WOULD, WE CONSIDER PROVIDING, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS WITH THE SAME, UM, OVERNIGHT PARKING, UH, YOU KNOW, PERMANENT EXEMPTIONS THAT WE DO IN THE WINTER MONTHS.
AND WHY I ASK THAT IF THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED FOR, FOR NEED RESIDENTS, I, I DON'T FOLLOW THAT.
ARE THE SIGNS GONNA BE NO PARKING ANYTIME? ARE THE SIGNS GOING? RIGHT.
BUT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UM, YOU, WE HAVE, UM, IN THE WINTER MONTHS IT SAYS NO PARKING ANYTIME.
AND IF SOMEBODY HAS A SMALL, UH, DRIVEWAY, WE LET PEOPLE PARK, THEY GET A PERMIT.
THERE'S NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE ASKED PERMITS, BUT YOU KNOW, WHERE HE'S BASICALLY RECOMMENDING, UM, THAT WE PROVIDE THE SAME COURTESIES THAT WE PROVIDE, UM, TO, UM, PEOPLE DURING THE WINTER MONTHS.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THOSE STREETS.
I, I DIDN'T THINK WE LIMITED IT TO ANY AREA OF THE TOWN.
IF SOMEBODY HAS A HARDSHIP THAT THEY CAN JUST DEMONSTRATE TO THE, TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEY GET A PERMIT.
I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THEY WERE EXCLUDED.
I JUST THINK THAT WE, JUST MAKING SURE THAT IT'S NOT EXCLUDED AND THAT ANYBODY WHO IS INCONVENIENCED BY THE PARKING RESTRICTIONS CAN GET THE SPECIAL PERMIT.
BUT THERE SHOULDN'T BE A BLANKET, A BLANKET, EVERYBODY ON THE STREET.
UH, IT SHOULD BE JUST LIKE, AND FRANKLY, EVERYBODY ELSE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A SINGLE LANE FOR TWO CARS.
'CAUSE THAT'S THE WAY MOST OF THE HOMES WERE BUILT WAS A SINGLE LANE DRIVEWAY.
BUT FOR THAT HANDLES TWO CARS.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A GARAGE, BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE USING IT FOR STORAGE.
UM, BUT, UH, CHIEF, YOU'RE ON, YOU'RE STILL HERE.
UH, CAN PEOPLE ON NORTH ROAD OR SOUTH ROAD, IF THEY HAVE A HARDSHIP, GET ONE OF THOSE PERMITS IN THE WINTERTIME? IN THE WINTERTIME, YES.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE, I THINK THE, THE QUESTION HERE IS IF WE'RE GONNA IMPLEMENT IT YEAR ROUND, THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR IT YEAR ROUND.
WE'RE GONNA GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT.
NOW, WE'RE GONNA GIVE EXCEPTIONS.
IT KIND OF RUNS CONTRARY TO WHAT WE'RE DOING.
WE, THERE'S NOTHING IN THE LAW THAT PROVIDES FOR EXCEPTIONS YEAR ROUND.
I THINK IT'S SPECIFICALLY, UM, TAILORED TO THE SNOW PARKING AND EXCEPTIONS FOR SNOW ORDINANCE.
THEY CAN'T PARK UNTIL, WHAT, 10 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO TAKE CARE OF COMMUTERS.
IT'S, IT'S ONE, THE COMMUTERS REALLY WEREN'T THE ISSUE.
IT, IF THEY BECOME THE ISSUE, IT WOULD SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE'D ADDRESS.
BUT THE ISSUE IS OVERNIGHT PARKING.
SO THIS IS A CONTINUANCE OF THE, THE PARKING RESTRICTION THAT'S FOR THE SNOW WINTER MONTHS TO BE YEAR ROUND.
AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I DON'T LIKE TO PUT A RESOLUTION ON IT.
THE LAST MOMENT THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T GET TO SEE, UH, IN ADVANCE, BECAUSE THERE MAY BE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT THESE SIGNS BECAUSE WE'RE, WHAT I'M HEARING NOW IS THEY WANTED TO, THEY WANT TO HAVE AN EXEMPTION TO THE SIGN WE'RE ABOUT TO BE PUT PUTTING UP IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THAT, THAT'S GONNA BE DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE.
I THINK THIS SHOULD BE REALLY SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED BECAUSE THERE, THERE, UH, ON NORTH ROAD, SOUTH ROAD IS NOT AS DANGEROUS.
BUT ON NORTH ROAD, THERE IS A POINT AT WHICH THERE IS ZERO VISIBILITY, UM, TO, UH, WITH REGARDS TO ONCOMING PAUSE, EITHER GOING DOWN NORTH ROAD OR COMING UP NORTH ROAD.
AND I, I REALLY, AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS NOT BEING SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED A SAFETY ISSUE WITH REGARDS TO, UM, UH, GRANTING, UM, UH, THIS KIND OF, UM, UH, JUST, YOU KNOW, OPEN NO RESTRICTION PARKING ALONG NORTH ROAD.
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IT IS DANGEROUS EVEN WHEN THERE'S NO SNOW, OR EVEN WHEN THE ROADS ARE NOT SLIPPERY, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SEE THERE IS A POINT ON NORTH ROAD WHERE YOU CANNOT SEE ONCOMING CARS GOING IN EITHER DIRECTION.THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE A SIGN OUT THERE THAT SAYS, SLOW 15 MILES AN HOUR COMING UP THAT HILL, OR GOING DOWN THAT HILL AT A CERTAIN POINT.
WELL, JUDITH, YOU KNOW, I, I WILL TALK TO YOU OFFLINE ABOUT THAT.
I, I DON'T THINK THAT I, THE OVERNIGHT PARKING RESTRICTION WOULD ADDRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS, BUT I THINK WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT OFFLINE.
SO THAT WAS THE AGENDA REVIEW.
SO DID PAUL OR FRANCIS MOVE TO SCHEDULE A, UM, MEETING ON TUESDAY AND, AND WAS THERE A SECOND?
I, I, NO, I WAS GONNA DO THAT TOMORROW NIGHT ACTUALLY.
UH, SO PAUL, YOU HAVE A MOTION FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION HERE.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE FOR AN EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR, FOR PERSONNEL AND LEGAL ISSUES AND CONTRACTUAL SECOND.
AND WE'LL NOT BE COMING BACK THIS EVENING, BUT WE WILL BE COMING BACK TOMORROW NIGHT AT SEVEN 30.
UM, WELCOME TO OUR TOWN BOARD, UM, MEETING.
IT'S, UM, MARCH 23RD AT 6:10 PM AND WE'RE GONNA START THE MEETING WITH, UM, AN EXECUTIVE, UM, SESSION, UH, TO CONSIDER THE APPOINTMENT OF, UH, SOMEBODY TO THE HARSDALE CONTEXTUAL COMMITTEE.
SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I, HOW LONG DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE? MAYBE, MAYBE FIVE MINUTES.
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OKAY.UH, WELCOME BACK TO OUR BOARD MEETING.
AND NOW WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS, UM, SOME STEPS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TAKING TO, UM, MAKE IT EASIER, UM, FOR SENIORS TO FEEL LESS ISOLATED AND TO PARTICIPATE IN SOME OF THE, UH, PROGRAMS. WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT, UM, REOPENING A TOWN HALL.
I SENT A MEMO TO ALL DEPARTMENT HEADS, UM, AND THE TOWN BOARD EARLIER ON.
MY RECOMMENDATION TO THE TOWN BOARD IS THAT WE OPEN TOWN HALL, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY REOPEN TOWN HALL, UM, ON MAY 1ST.
UM, HAVE ALL THE TOWN EMPLOYEES, UM, RESUME WORKING, UM, YOU KNOW, FROM FROM TOWN HALL.
EVERY EMPLOYEE, UM, OF THE TOWN, UM, IS NOW ELIGIBLE FOR THE VACCINE.
UM, I THINK, UH, THIS WEEKEND WE VACCINATED, UM, OVER SIX, I THINK OVER ABOUT 63 EMPLOYEES, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MORE HAVE BEEN GOING AROUND THE BUILDING A TOWN HALL.
PRACTICALLY EVERYONE I SPEAK TO HAS BEEN VACCINATED.
SO BY MAY 1ST, UM, IT WOULD BE SAFE FOR THE EMPLOYEES, UM, TO WORK AT, UM, YOU KNOW, AT A TOWN HALL.
I, UM, UM, ALSO THOUGHT THAT SINCE, UH, SOME EMPLOYEES MAY BE A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT DEALING WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS WHO MAY OR NOT BE VACCINATED, THAT WE, UM, UH, WE, UH, MAYBE SET CONSIDER SETTING UP A TENT TO OUTSIDE TOWN HALL, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH DESKS AND CHAIRS.
AND IF THE DEPARTMENT, IF AN EMPLOYEE, A RESIDENT WANTS TO MEET WITH AN, AN EMPLOYEE, UH, THEY CAN MAKE AN APPOINTMENT AND THEN THEY COULD SPEAK TO THEM, YOU KNOW, OUT OUTSIDE.
UM, I, UM, SPOKE TO JERRY BYRNE AND TERRANCE, UM, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT MAYBE JERRY AND TERRANCE COULD, UM, COULD MAYBE TELL US THEIR PLANS.
I I, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF THEM CAME UP WITH VERY GOOD, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GOOD ACTION STEPS.
AND I SHOULD MENTION, YOU KNOW, I SPEAK TO LIKE A LOT OF SENIORS, UM, AND MANY SENIORS, THEY'VE ALL BEEN VACCINATED.
UM, THEY REALLY NEED, UM, SOME OUTDOOR EITHER PROGRAMMING OR THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO PLAYING BINGO, UM, AND SOCIALIZING.
AND THIS PANDEMIC HAS CREATED MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES FOR A LOT OF PE AND DEPRESSION FOR A LOT OF, UM, PEOPLE WHO JUST ARE STUCK IN THEIR HOME AND UNABLE TO SEE THEIR FRIENDS.
SO I, I FEEL VERY, VERY STRONGLY THAT, UH, WE NEED TO, UM, RESUME PROGRAMMING.
I ALSO, I EMAILED, UH, JOHN SEXTON FROM THE LIBRARY AND HE INDICATED THAT THE LIBRARY BOARD IS MEETING TONIGHT TO, UH, DISCUSS THIS AS WELL.
PAUL, IN TERMS OF ALLOWING PEOPLE INTO THE BUILDING, WOULD WE BE DOING THAT AS WELL? OR ARE WE JUST TALKING ABOUT EMPLOYEES? YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW, MY MAJOR CONCERN IS HAVING PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S MY, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GOAL.
I ALSO FEEL THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO REOPEN, UH, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN HALL, YOU KNOW, FOR THE EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE WORK, SHOULD BE WORKING AT THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, TOWN HALL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE FACT THAT THEY'RE NOT, ALTHOUGH IT WAS IMPORTANT DURING THE PANDEMIC WHEN PEOPLE WERE, WHEN MANY OF THE EMPLOYEES WERE WORKING REMOTELY, I THINK NOW, UH, THAT PEOPLE COULD GET THE VACCINE, THINGS ARE SORT OF CHANGING.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE ONLY THOUGHT THAT I HAVE WITH, UM, WITH OPENING UP, UM, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING, I THINK THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE SHOULD SAY IF SOMEBODY IS VACCINATED AND, YOU KNOW, THEY SHOW THE GUARD THE, THE CARD THAT, UH, WE WOULD LET THAT ANNUAL, THEY PASS A TWO WEEK PERIOD, UM, YOU KNOW, SAY, THEN I WOULD SUPPORT LETTING THEM IN THE BUILDING.
BUT AGAIN, FOR TODAY'S MEETING, THE TWO CONCERNS I HAVE IS I WANNA SEE THE PROGRAMS OPENED UP FOR THE SENIORS AT BOTH ANTHONY VETERAN PARK AND AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE, UM, UH, ALL THE EMPLOYEES, UM, TO KNOW THAT BY MAY 1ST HAVE TO COME BACK.
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SO MAY 1ST IS A SATURDAY.DO YOU WANNA DO MAY 1ST OR MAY 3RD, WHICH IS A MONDAY? COULD BE MAY 3RD.
JUST SO THE PUBLIC IS CLEAR ON THAT.
SO WHAT'S THE, I GUESS I'M, I GUESS WHAT, SO WHAT'S THE PLAN FOR THE EMPLOYEES? I, I MEAN, IS THERE GOING, UH, TEMPERATURE'S GOING TO BE TAKEN? I MEAN, WHAT IS THE PROCESS? WHAT IS THE PLAN FOR? HOW IS ALL THAT? WELL, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, EVERYBODY'S GONNA HAVE, EVERY EMPLOYEE IS ABLE TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, THE VAC THE VACCINE RIGHT NOW.
AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY DOESN'T TAKE IT, YOU KNOW, THE VACCINE, UM, THEY STILL SHOULD COME, YOU KNOW, TO WORK.
I MEAN, IF, IF YOU WANT TO DO THE TEMPERATURE, WE COULD DO THE TEMPERATURE ALSO.
YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE, UH, EMPLOYEES FEEL SAFE.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK IS WORTHWHILE.
WE SPENT A BUNCH OF TIME COMING UP WITH A DOCUMENT A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT SHOULD GUIDE THE REOPENING PROCESS.
SO, SO DEPARTMENT HEADS AND MANAGERS SHOULD REFER TO THAT DOCUMENT.
UH, WITH RESPECT TO REOPENING OF TOWN HALL AND OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE TOWN.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING LIKE A TENT OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING, UM, SO THIS WAY EMPLOYEES COULD MEET WITH RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE? OR DO YOU FEEL THAT, UM, THAT'S REALLY NOT NECESSARY? I MEAN, THE OTHER OPTION IS THEY COULD YOU, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, ANY CITIZEN OF THE IS ABLE TO WALK INTO THE LOBBY OF TOWN HALL AND THERE'S A OPEN DOOR GOING TO THE AUDITORIUM.
SO, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER OPTION WOULD BE TO LIMIT, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, TO JUST THE AUDITORIUM OR THE LOBBY BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, JUST A COUPLE SECONDS AWAY FROM THE AUDITORIUM ANYWAY.
AND THEN YOU, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD CALL, UH, THE DEPARTMENT HEAD THE DEPARTMENT.
SO THEY WANTED TO MEET, AND THEN SOMEBODY COULD COME DOWN AND SPEAK TO THEM.
ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT? I THINK IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE NEED IS GOING TO BE.
SO IF IT'S WARRANTED THAT WE NEED TO HAVE THE TENTS OUT, THEN WE SHOULD HAVE THE TENTS OUT.
'CAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TRAFFIC IS GONNA COME DOWN TO, RIGHT? SO I THINK WE NEED TO JUST, WE NEED TO ANALYZE AND SEE WHAT, WHAT THE NEED IS GOING TO BE, RIGHT? WE NEED TO BE PREPARED IF WE'RE GONNA DO THAT, NEED TO BE PREPARED.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WELL, WE HAVE LIKE A, WE HAVE OVER A MONTH TO PREPARE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WE'RE GIVING EVERYBODY, UH, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF TIME, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BASICALLY, UM, SAYING MAY 3RD.
IT'S ONLY, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MARCH 23RD, UH, EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE NOT TAKEN THE VACCINE.
AND, YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE, I THINK, UH, THEY, YOU KNOW, ARE ON NOTICE THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME BACK AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL TAKE THE VACCINES.
AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE JUST, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY ELSE IS OPENING UP.
AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD TOO.
I SENT EARLIER TODAY, UH, MY ASSISTANT, UM, SENT EVERYBODY A LIST OF WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES IN, IN THE AREA ARE DOING.
SO PAUL, I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, IN MY EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE, UM, THE PUBLIC ACCESS PUBLIC COMING INTO THE BUILDING IS PROBABLY THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, MAYBE, UM, THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE, THE TAX RECEIVER'S OFFICE, AND, UH, PERHAPS THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
I DON'T SEE ALL OF THOSE DEPARTMENT HEADS ON, ON THE CALL, BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT IN TERMS OF SPEAKING TO THEM.
AND I, I GUESS THE GENERAL CONCERN THAT I'VE HEARD IS, IS THERE A METRIC SUCH THAT IF THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE RATES INCREASE, THAT THERE WILL BE SOME REEVALUATION PROCESS.
OBVIOUSLY THE CLUSTERS ARE THERE, BUT THAT'S THE GENERAL CONCERN RIGHT HERE.
I, I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF THINGS CHANGE, THEN OBVIOUSLY THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF EMPLOYEES IS OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE, THEN WE WILL, WE COULD ALWAYS MAKE ADJUSTMENTS THAT, BUT THAT NEEDS TO BE STATED.
IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE TO TIE THIS TO TRANSMISSION RATE.
AND ALSO YOU HAVE TO TRY IT, TRY IT, UH, TIE IT TO THE, UH, THE VARIANTS, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU GIVE A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY TO SOMEBODY WHO HAS BEEN VACCINATED.
IF A VARIANT, UM, IS AN ESCAPE VARIANT, WHICH MEANS THAT THE VACCINE DOESN'T REALLY HANDLE IT, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M NOT FA IN FAVOR OF A HARD AND FAST DATE THAT DOES NOT HAVE CAVEATS TO IT
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ABOUT TRANSMISSION RATES IN THE AREA.ARE THEY GOING UP? THEY'RE GOING DOWN, RIGHT? UM, THEY'RE NOT GOING DOWN.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY PLATEAUING AT A, AT A FAIRLY HIGH RATE.
AND SO ALL THOSE THINGS HAVE TO BE TAKEN IN CONSIDERATION, PARTICULARLY BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IS BRINGING THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION, THE SENIORS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.
UH, IT APPEARS WE HAVE THROUGH THE TOWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, UM, RESOLVED THE ISSUE OF CAN YOU REQUIRE, UH, PEOPLE TO SHOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN VACCINATED? AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS WITH HIPAA LAWS, BUT APPARENTLY NEW YORK STATE IS DOING THAT, TIM, IF IF, IF YOUR RESEARCH IS CORRECT.
THEY'RE LIMITING PROGRAMS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.
UH, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE EMPLOYEE THAT WHO'S GOING TO BE WORKING WITH THE VACCINATED SENIORS IS NECESSARILY VACCINATED, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A, THAT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT.
AND SO ARE THE COMFORTABLE, ARE THE SENIORS GONNA BE COMFORTABLE WITH AN EMPLOYEE WHO'S NOT VACCINATED WORKING WITH THEM DURING BINGO OR, OR WHATEVER.
BUT I'D RATHER, INSTEAD OF HAVING WORDS THROWN BACK AND FORTH, I'D ACTUALLY LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THE DOCUMENT THAT WE WERE WORKING ON DAY AFTER DAY AFTER DAY ON REOPENING MONTHS AGO, THAT KEN MENTIONED, UH, AND UPDATE IT AS NECESSARY TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION VARIANT, THE POSSIBILITY OF VARIANCE AND WORK FROM SOMETHING THAT'S IN WRITING.
'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE EMPLOYEES ARE GOING TO WANT TO KNOW.
UM, AND SO WE'RE ASKING INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS TO COME UP WITH REOPENING PLANS, AND THERE NEEDS TO BE GUIDANCE FROM, FROM, FROM THE TOWN BOARD THAT IS AN UMBRELLA ACROSS ALL OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
BUT MY, BUT MY FEELING RIGHT NOW IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I'M, I'VE BEEN IN TOUCH ALSO, WE'VE MADE SOME CONTACT WITH, UM, UH, UH, MR. FAUCI ISS, YOU KNOW, OFFICE.
WE'RE TRYING TO GET SOME, SOME ANSWERS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO BE SUPER, YOU KNOW, CAREFUL.
UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, MY CONCERN, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT THE TOWN HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB, PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDING MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT OF MAKING THE BUILDING SAFE.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S THE VENTILATION SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE, UM, WHETHER WE HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL THE PLEXIGLASS, UH, YOU KNOW, THE BUILDING IS BIG ENOUGH, WE CAN MOVE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAKE SURE PEOPLE ARE SOCIAL, YOU KNOW, DISTANCING.
UM, AND IF IT TURNS OUT, YOU KNOW, TWO WEEKS OR THREE WEEKS FROM NOW THAT THE PROBLEM'S GETTING, YOU KNOW, WORSE, THEN WE WILL JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, WE WERE HOPING TO OPEN ON MAY 1ST, BUT WE'RE UNABLE TO.
BUT AT THIS POINT, IT SEEMS THAT IT KNOW MANY OTHER GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE, AROUND THE STATE ARE DOING IT.
AND I CERTAINLY WILL BE IN TOUCH WITH THE COUNTY AND THE STATE COMMISSIONERS OF HEALTH, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT PUTTING ANY EMPLOYEE, YOU KNOW, AT RISK.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO THIS IS REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I, I AM, I, I THINK WE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR, YOU KNOW, FROM JERRY AND TERRANCE, BECAUSE I THINK THEY HAVE PLANS THAT WILL MAKE A LOT OF, UM, SENIORS, YOU KNOW, VERY, VERY PLEASED.
BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IF A SENIOR IS ISOLATED, UM, AND THEY'VE TAKEN THE VACCINE AND, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE ABLE TO OPEN UP SOME PROGRAMS, IT REALLY WILL MAKE A WORLD OF A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE.
SO, COULD WE HEAR FROM JERRY AND TERRANCE, JUST LIKE YOU HAVE IN MIND, JERRY? YEAH.
I, THE FIRST THING I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO BE AWARE OF, UM, I, I DON'T SEE, UH, MY ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE WITH MY, UH, YOU KNOW, 10, 12 FULL-TIMERS IN THERE, ANY DIFFERENT FROM TOWN HALL.
AND WE'VE BEEN OPEN SINCE, UH, JUNE OF, UH, 2020.
AND WE HAD FILED ALL THE C D C GUIDELINES.
UM, WE, ONCE WE IMPLEMENTED IT, WE HAVE EVERY STAFF MEMBER FILLING OUT A DAILY PRE, UH, ENTRY ASSESSMENT.
UM, IF ANYONE WAS EXPOSED TO SOMEONE TO COVID, WE SENT THEM HOME.
UH, AND IT, IT'S WORKED OUT REALLY WELL.
UM, SO I SEE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UM, WE HAVE NOT, UH, TAKEN TEMPERATURES.
UM, WE HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, MONITORING, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE, THE DISEASE AS, AS IT, UH, UH, PROGRESSES.
AND IF IT GOT BAD, WE WOULD SHUT DOWN.
UH, WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING, YOU KNOW, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
SO, UH, I, I JUST WANNA ASSURE THE TOWN BOARD THAT WE HAVE DONE IT.
I'VE BEEN VERY CONFIDENT BECAUSE I AM LIKE
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THE, UH, MASTERS ARE REQUIRING EVERYONE TO WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES, UM, UH, WHEN THEY'RE IN CONTACT WITH OTHER PEOPLE.IF THERE'S ANY WAYS TO IMPROVE IT, UH, I'M MORE THAN, UH, WILLING TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
UM, UH, I, I WROTE A MEMO, UH, TO, TO THE TOWN BOARD TODAY, AND I COPIED THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
UH, I CAN JUST READ IT 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN VERY BUSY, ALL OF YOU, AND PROBABLY HADN'T HAD A CHANCE TO READ IT YET.
BUT I'LL, I'LL JUST READ IT, UH, TO GO THROUGH IT.
UH, IT'S A MEMO DATED TODAY, PROPOSED REOPENING PLAN FOR INDOOR SENIOR PROGRAMMING AT THE AF VETERAN PARK MULTIPURPOSE CENTER FOR APPROVAL SUPERVISOR FINER REQUESTED THAT I DEVELOP A REOPENING PLAN FOR INDOOR SENIOR PROGRAMMING AT THE AF VETERAN PARK MULTIPURPOSE CENTER.
BELOW IS MY PROPOSAL PLAN THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TOWN BOARD MAJORITY APPROVAL BEFORE REOPENING.
THIS PLAN CONSIDERS C D C AND NEW YORK STATE GUIDELINES FEEDBACK FROM OUR SENIOR PARTICIPANTS, WHICH WE REACHED OUT TO SENIOR STAFF, A SENIOR SURVEY MANAGEMENT, AND SUGGESTIONS FROM OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS ON THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH.
UH, THE CENTER WOULD, UH, REOPEN FOR CARD PLAYING AND TABLE TENNIS PINGING PONG ONLY.
IT WILL NOT BE, IT'LL BE A VERY, VERY SMALL GROUP.
WE ANTICIPATE, UH, THE BUILDING WILL ONLY ALLOW UP TO 50% CAPACITY PER ROOM AFTER SURVEYING THE SENIORS.
THE MAJORITY OF THEM AT THIS TIME, UH, PREFER TO MEET OUTDOORS ON THE PATIO, SUCH AS THE BOOK CLUBS, SEVEN OUTDOOR EXERCISE CLASSES, VERY SMALL SPECIAL EVENTS, INSTRUCTIONAL CLASSES, AND LECTURE PROGRAMS WHEN COVID INFECTION RATES DECLINE AND PART-TIME PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS AND MORE SENIORS ARE COMFORTABLE RESUMING INDOOR PROGRAMMING.
MORE INDOOR ACTIVITIES, UH, COULD BE OFFERED.
ALL INDOOR PROGRAMMING WILL REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION.
ALL PEOPLE ENTERING THE BUILDING WILL HAVE TO FILL OUT A CORONAVIRUS DAILY PRE-ENTRY ASSESSMENT, SIMILAR TO WHAT ALL OUR TOWN EMPLOYEES ARE PRESENTLY DOING.
ALL PEOPLE IN THE CENTER WILL BE REQUIRED TO WEAR A FACE MASK AT ALL TIMES.
NO EATING OR DRINKING IN THE CENTER WILL BE INITIALLY ALLOWED.
EATING AND DRINKING OUTDOORS ON THE PATIO WILL BE PERMISSIBLE.
THE CENTER FOR SENIORS WILL BE OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAYS FOR TWO SESSIONS, EACH SESSION BEING 9:30 AM TO 12:30 PM UH, AND ONE 30 TO 4:40 PM OR 4:30 PM THAT WAS A TYPO.
THE BUILDING WILL RECEIVE A DEEP CLEANING BETWEEN THE SESSIONS.
SENIORS WANTING TO PLAY CARDS AND OR PINGING PONG WILL HAVE TO BRING THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT, UH, UH, WITH THEM AND SUPPLIES.
HAND SANITIZER WILL BE AVAILABLE IN EACH ROOM IN THE RESTROOMS. UH, SENIORS WANTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE ACTIVITIES WILL ONLY, WITH ONLY FELLOW SENIORS THAT HAVE BEEN FULLY VACCINATED, WILL BE ACCOMMODATED IN A DESIGNATED ROOM.
OUTDOOR CLASSES WILL BEGIN ON SITE, UH, APRIL 19TH, AND THE PLAN WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATED AND ADJUSTED AS NEEDED.
I THINK YOU DID A REALLY GOOD JOB.
AND TERRANCE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCUSS YOUR PROPOSAL? SURELY, UH, IT, MINE WAS ALSO SENT IN TO YOU ALL A LITTLE LATER, UM, THIS AFTERNOON, THIS EVENING.
UM, UH, TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS, ALL OF THE SPECIFIC GUIDELINES OF SAFETY BASED UPON THE C D C AND NEW YORK STATE, UH, AS JERRY MENTIONED, HAVE BEEN FOLLOWED AND WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
I TOOK THIS FROM A PHASED APPROACH BASED ON DIFFERENT TYPE OF PROGRAMMING AND OR EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES THAT WE WILL BE HOLDING, UM, OUR FIRST EVENT, AND NONE OF THIS HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO THE PUBLIC THUS FAR, WANTED YOUR INPUT.
BUT, UM, IT HAS DEFINITELY BEEN TALKED ABOUT BY OUR SENIOR PROGRAMMING SO MUCH.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A GOOD NUMBER OF THOSE THAT ARE WILLING TO COME BACK, BUT ARE INTERESTED IN BEING OUTSIDE IN THE BEGINNING WITH THE INTENTION OF COMING INSIDE AT A LATER DATE.
AND SOME ARE JUST NOT COMFORTABLE AT THE MOMENT, WHICH OF COURSE IS FINE.
WE WANT TO START, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN WITH, UH, UM, WALKS.
WE WANNA GET OUR, OUR SENIORS MOVING AROUND A LITTLE BIT, AND WE HOPE TO MOVE THIS PROGRAM IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF, UH, GREENBURG TO FACILITATE A LOT MORE PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH ALL THE WAY OUT.
BUT THIS FIRST ONE WE'RE THINKING ABOUT AT, UM, YOSEMITE PARK.
UM, AND YOU WILL SEE THESE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS.
THERE'S A SCHEDULE THERE FOR THEM FOR PHASE ONE THAT GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH MAY 7TH.
IT MOVES FURTHER ON TO PHASE TWO, WHICH AGAIN, IS OUTDOORS, BUT IS NOW FALLING INTO PROGRAMMING
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THAT HAS, UM, GENERALLY BEEN INSIDE THE FACILITY.THIS INVOLVES OUR EVERGREEN PROGRAM, UM, WHICH HAS WAS THE FIRST PROGRAM TO LEAVE THE CENTER, UH, WHEN COR COVID HIT.
AND THEY ARE A, A NUMBER OF THEM ARE INTERESTED IN COMING BACK, UH, AS WELL AS OUR BRIDGE CLUB, WHO ARE INTERESTED IN COMING BACK.
BUT THEY ARE AT THIS POINT, UM, INTERESTED AND WILLING TO WORK OUTSIDE.
WE PLAN ON USING THE PAVILION UP IN YOSEMITE PARK, UH, WITH THIS SCHEDULE THAT YOU SEE IN FRONT OF YOU, AS WELL AS ALL THE PROGRAMS FOR THE EVERGREEN CLUB.
IT GOES FURTHER INTO PHASE THREE.
AND ALL OF THIS IS PREDICATED ON WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH CORONA AND ANY OTHER SITUATION IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN OUR LOCAL AREA.
UM, BUT IT REALLY GOES THROUGH A STAGNANT OF TWO PROGRAMS THAT WE'VE HAD BEFORE THAT OUR SENIORS LOVE AND WANT TO RETURN AND, OR NEW PROGRAMS. AND WE HAVE ALL THE WAY UP TO A PHASE FIVE THAT GOES INTO SEPTEMBER THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO START PLANNING YET.
SOME OF IT IS THE THEATER TRIPS AND ALL THAT.
BUT, UH, WE ARE DEFINITELY LOOKING TO GET OUR, OUR SENIORS BACK INVOLVED.
WE HAVE PROGRAMS THAT WILL TAKE SENIORS TO, UH, WALMART AND POSSIBLY OTHER FACILITIES ON OUR BUSES.
THEY MUST BE VACCINATED AT THAT POINT, AND WE WOULD STILL HAVE SOCIAL DISTANCING WITHIN THE BUSES, BUT WE ARE LOOKING TO REALLY START OUR PROGRAMMING UP A LITTLE BIT MORE.
BUT IT WILL BE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING AT FIRST, BECAUSE OF THE OTHER PROGRAMS THAT I HAVE IN THE BUILDING AT THIS TIME, WHICH INCLUDES THE WESTCO FEEDING WESTCHESTER PROGRAM, AS WELL AS THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY REMOTE LEARNING PROGRAM, WHICH ALL MUST REMAIN SEPARATE AND APART.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I'M PLEASED THAT LEAST IS SOME OUTDOOR, UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS, YOU KNOW, INITIALLY.
UM, IS THERE ANY, ANYBODY ON THE TOWN BOARD HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TO JERRY OR TERRANCE? I DO NOT.
I THINK WHAT WE NEED IS SOME GUIDELINES DEVELOPED REGARDING WHAT IS THE ACCEPTABLE TRANSMISSION RATES AND, UM, WHAT ARE THE CONTINGENCIES IF THERE ARE VARIANTS.
YOU'VE BEEN ASKING MEDICAL PERSONNEL REGARDING WHAT DO YOU THINK IS SAFE? AND SOME OF THEM ARE COMING BACK AND SAYING THAT THEY WOULD NOT DO INDOOR AT THIS TIME.
NOW, IF WE IGNORE THAT ADVICE THAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN THAT DID NOT DO INDOOR AT THIS TIME, UM,
THEY, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL THAT THEY REALLY, UH, WOULD LOVE TO TAKE PART IN, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME PROGRAMS. UM, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT, UH, I WOULD BE HAP I BE WILLING TO SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA OPEN UP, YOU KNOW, SAY BINGO GAMES ONLY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE VACCINATED.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT IF EVERYBODY'S BEEN VACCINATED, UM, THEN THERE'S REALLY NO RISK.
YOU KNOW, THEY SIT A LITTLE FAR AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE BRINGING FOOD.
UH, THEY'RE, UM, NOT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO GIVE THEM THE SUPPLIES.
THEY COULD, AS JERRY HAD SAID, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD BRING THEIR OWN SUPPLIES, IS JUST A WAY OF MAKING LIFE BETTER FOR THEM.
YOU KNOW, IF, IF A SENIOR IS BY THEMSELVES A WHOLE DAY, UM, AND, AND THEY'RE NOT BEING OUT AND NOT SOCIALIZING, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE MEDICAL PROBLEMS. THEIR MENTAL HEALTH IS GONNA DETERIORATE, THEIR HEALTH COULD DETERIORATE.
SO, I, I REALLY FEEL THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING IT GRADUALLY.
YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE REOPENING FOR MONTHS AND NOTHING EVER HAPPENED.
SO RIGHT NOW, THERE'S ENOUGH VACCINES THAT, UM, ARE BEING AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE.
IT'S VERY EASY NOW TO GET A VACCINE.
PRACTICALLY EVERYBODY CALLS ME, I'M ABLE TO GET AN APPOINTMENT FOR THEM WITHIN TWO, THREE.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING APPOINTMENTS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY NOW.
UM, BY MAY 1ST IT'S GONNA BE EVEN EASIER.
UM, THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE SHOULDN'T
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OPEN UP.THERE'S NO REASON WHY, UM, EMPLOYEES SHOULDN'T BE TOLD THAT THEY HAVE TO COME TO WORK, UH, WHEN EVERYBODY COULD GET VACCINATED.
I MEAN, WE, AGAIN, IT DOES HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR ABILITY, UH, TO FUNCTION, TO GET, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, FOR DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS TO, UM, GET INFORM.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, UM, IF THERE'S ANY, YOU KNOW, IF WE FAIL, UH, OR THE COUNTY OR THE STATE, OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IF THEY FEEL THAT IT'S UNSAFE, WE, IT'S UNSAFE.
BUT RIGHT NOW, THE TREND SEEMS LIKELY THAT ON MAY 1ST WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, TO DO THIS.
AND JERRY, UM, AND TERRANCE HAVE PLANS, AND I THINK THAT WE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD, UH, ALLOW, ENCOURAGE THEM TO NOT DELAY.
JUST, WELL, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR TERRENCE.
UM, TERRENCE, I JUST SAW IN YOUR PLAN, UH, THE INVOLVEMENT, UM, SEVERAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INVOLVEMENT OF THE EVERGREEN CLUB.
NOW, WILL THE SENIORS WHO HAVE BEEN DISPLACED FROM THEIR HOMES ON, UM, MANHATTAN AVENUE, WILL THERE BE A BUS THAT WILL GO AROUND TO PICK THEM UP TO BRING THEM BACK TO THE CENTER SO THAT THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE SENIORS PROGRAMS AS WELL? IS THERE A, IS THERE A PLAN FOR THEIR INVOLVEMENT? YES, THERE IS.
WE'VE BEEN, UM, STILL, UH, FEEDING MOST OF THOSE PEOPLE IN OUR, IN OUR DAILY FOOD PROGRAM.
UM, AND IF THEY ARE ONES THAT ARE INTERESTED, UH, WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
CAN I ATTEMPT TO, UH, ANSWER MAYBE, UH, FRANCIS' QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INCREASE IN THE VARIANCE? UM, AS, AS WE KNOW, THAT IS A REAL POSSIBILITY, THAT CAN DEFINITELY HAPPEN TO US.
UM, THE APPROACH THAT I'VE TAKEN IS THAT, UH, AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF US ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTIFIED AS EPIDEMIOLOGISTS, AND THEY'RE THE EXPERTS, NOT REGULAR INTERNISTS OR OTHER ONES.
THEY'RE THE ONES THAT, YOU KNOW, STUDY INFECTIOUS, YOU KNOW, UH, DISEASES LIKE THIS AND PANDEMICS.
AND, UH, THE APPROACH THAT I WAS GOING TO TAKE IS, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING SINCE THE PANDEMIC BROKE OUT, IS TO FILE THE C D C AND THE STATE REGULATIONS.
SO, IT IS MY BELIEF THAT IF THESE VARIANTS START TO INCREASE, WE WILL BE RECOMMENDED OR MANDATED BY THE STATE TO START SHUTTING DOWN.
BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS ACCEPTABLE ACCORDING TO THE STATE, YOU KNOW, GOVERNOR'S GUIDELINES THAT HE'S GIVEN US.
SO WE'RE ACTING ON THAT, AND I, I THINK THAT'S THE GUIDELINE THAT WE SHOULD GO ON.
THE OTHER THING, BUT WE CAN CONTROL AND DO ANY BREAKOUT.
ANY, IF ANY PERSON THAT YOU KNOW, COMES INTO THE CENTER OF ANY OF MY EMPLOYEES THAT WE KNOW HAS GOTTEN CONTRACTED WITH, WITH, UH, CORONAVIRUS, UH, UM, WE, I THINK HAVE AN OBLIGATION NOT TO SAY WHO THAT INDIVIDUAL IS, BUT TO SAY THAT SOMEONE THAT ATTENDED A PROGRAM OR WAS IN THE BUILDING WHILE WE WERE WORKING, THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING BROKE OUT.
AND I THINK WE CAN CONTROL THAT.
YEAH, I MEAN, WHY DON'T WE JUST GIVE IT A CHANCE AND THEN, UH, UNDERSTAND THAT IF THERE'S A PROBLEM, UH, YOU KNOW, IN AT ANY TIME, WE COULD ALWAYS GO BACKWARDS.
BUT AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, I, I REALLY, I MEAN, THE DEPARTMENT HEADS NEED TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD GO AHEAD AND I WOULD ASK ALSO RICH, UM, FINE IF HE WOULD CONSIDER PUTTING A TENT, UH, SOMEPLACE OUTSIDE THE BUILDING.
SO THIS WAY IF PEOPLE WANNA, UM, SPEAK TO TOWN EMPLOYEES, THEY COULD MEET OUTSIDE.
UM, RICH ISN'T RESPONDING TO THAT.
UH, PAUL, SOMETHING ELSE, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BRING UP AS YOU BRING UP, UM, UH, BRINGING SENIORS INSIDE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS NEVER TOTALLY ADDRESSED EARLY ON, UM, I KNOW, UH, COMMISSIONER EARLY REACHED OUT TO YOU ALL ASKING ABOUT IT WITH NOW THE, UM, WORK BEING DONE ON THE SENIOR LIVING FACILITY RIGHT NEXT TO THE CENTER.
IT HAD A, UH, COMMUNITY ROOM IN IT WHERE THE SENIORS FROM OUR PROGRAM WENT DURING THE SUMMERS TO HAVE THEIR BINGO AND EVERGREEN WENT OVER THERE.
AND EVERYTHING ELSE, A TEMPORARY SPACE WAS NEVER APPOINTED.
WE DON'T HAVE ONE AS FAR AS I KNOW OF.
UM, AND, UH, THAT IS JUST SOMETHING TO BRING TO LIGHT AGAIN, AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WOULD BE.
SO COVID AGAIN WOULD BE A SITUATION, BUT, UM, IT, IT, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO DEFINITELY THINK ABOUT, UM, AS TO IF THERE IS A SPACE OR IF WE SHOULD EVEN HAVE IT.
AND IT JUST FALLS RIGHT INTO THE TIMEFRAME
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OF OUR PROGRAMMING, WHERE IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO BRING THEM BACK IN, WE'RE HEADING RIGHT TOWARDS, UM, UH, THE SUMMERTIME, UH, WHEN I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BRING THEM BACK IN.UH, SO JUST SOMETHING ELSE I NEED TO MAKE SURE GETS ON THE DOCKET TO BE DISCUSSED.
MY, MY MAIN POINT IS I DON'T WANNA MAKE FALSE PROMISES TO THE SENIORS AND, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY HAVE THEM A YO-YO, YOU KNOW, FOR POLITICAL OR OTHER REASONS.
UH, THE, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S, IT'S CLEAR TO ME, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'S A MAJOR POLITICAL PUSH, UH, NATIONWIDE TO OPEN UP WHEN ALL THE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ARE STILL SAYING, BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THE VARIANTS ARE GOING TO SURGE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE GENERALLY FOLLOW EUROPE, AND EUROPE IS GOING THROUGH A TOUGH TIME, AND THE EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT WE'RE THREE WEEKS AWAY FROM THAT SITUATION.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT I'M OBJECTING TO IS HAVING A HARD AND FAST DATE THAT THIS IS WHEN WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP WITHOUT ANY CAVEATS IN IT, WHICH IS WHY I PREFER SOMETHING THAT'S WRITTEN UP.
LIKE WE HAD WORK WE WERE WORKING ON, AND IT WAS MOSTLY THE COUNCIL MEMBERS KEPT, KEPT WORKING ON THIS OPENING UP PLAN.
AND, UH, WE, WE, AND WELL, BY THE WAY, WHEN WE SAY OPENING UP, IT REALLY MEANT OPENING IT UP FOR THE EMPLOYEES WHO WERE WORKING FROM HOME TO COME BACK AND WORK IN THE OFFICE.
AND SO WHEN, WHEN THE AVERAGE PERSON, THE TYPICAL PERSON HEARS WE'RE REOPENING TOWN HALL, THEY THINK THEY CAN COME BACK.
BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING, PAUL, BUT THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN, IN THE OTHER BUILDINGS.
SO WE, WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THAT.
WELL, WHY DON'T WE, THAT THERE'S A DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS.
IT'S EITHER THE SENIORS ARE VERY DEPRESSED BECAUSE THERE ARE NO PROGRAMS, AND THEY NEED TO HAVE PROGRAMS STARTED.
BUT WE'VE NEVER STOPPED HAVING PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS, UH, EITHER AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER OR AT ANTHONY VETERAN PARK.
THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN EITHER ZOOM OR SOMETHING.
NOW, OF COURSE, ZOOM IS NOT IN PERSON, BUT THERE ARE PROGRAMS THAT HAVE BEEN RUNNING ALL ALONG.
MY MY CONCERN IS THAT WHEN YOU SEEK MEDICAL ADVICE, AND THE MEDICAL ADVICE SAYS, I WOULD NOT OPEN UP INDOOR PROGRAMMING FOR SENIORS AT THIS TIME, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN JUST IGNORE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR BECAUSE YOU, YOU KNOW, DON'T ASK FOR, DON'T ASK FOR DATA IF YOU, IF YOU DON'T ACCEPT IT WHEN YOU GET IT.
AND SO YOU HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT, THAT WE DON'T UNINTENTIONALLY PUT SENIORS IN HARM'S WAY.
THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN VACCINATED, REMEMBER EVEN AT BEST, THEIR 95% DEFICIENCY.
UM, AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE VARIANCE.
SO WE JUST STILL, STILL HAVE TO BE MINDFUL THAT THIS PANDEMIC IS NOT OVER.
AND WE NEED, WE, WE, WE NEED TO HAVE MAYBE GO AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE PLAN THAT WE HAD BEFORE, MODIFY IT AT, AT, BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ACTUAL GOALPOST, UM, OR THRESHOLD OF, OF TRANSMISSION RATE THAT WILL GUIDE US.
WE CAN OPEN, MAYBE TOMORROW WE CAN'T, OH, THIS GROUP WE REALLY LIKE, SO WE'RE GONNA SAY THEY CAN COME.
THIS GROUP WE DON'T LIKE SO MUCH.
SO NO, YOU CAN'T, WE DON'T NEED THAT.
BUT IT'S, IT'S CREATING A NEEDLESS CONTROVERSY, BUT IT'S NOT AN ALL OR NOTHING.
IT'S NOT, THERE ARE NO PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS OR WE OPEN THEM UP, HAVE EVERYBODY COME IN DOORS AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPE FOR THE BEST.
WELL, WHAT DOES OTHER BOARD MEMBERS, I MEAN, I, I WOULD LIKE TO PROCEED WITH, YOU KNOW, MY RECOMMENDATION.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THE DEPARTMENT HEADS NEED, NEED TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OPTION WOULD BE TO HAVE A, UM, THE GOAL OF OPENING UP ON MAY 1ST.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IT'S MAY 3RD, MAY 3RD, I'M SORRY, MAY 3RD, UM, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS OVER A MONTH, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, BY THEN, BY MAY, THERE'LL BE MORE VACCINATIONS.
MORE PEOPLE WILL HAVE, UH, THE, THE DOUBLE VACCINATIONS AND VACCINATIONS.
AND I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, UH, UM, ENCOURAGE JERRY AND TERRANCE TO PROCEED WITH THEIR PLANS, WITH THE PROVI PROVISION THAT, UM, IF, UH, THE STATE OR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, UH, OR THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, UM, INDICATES THAT IT'S,
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UM, NOT SAFE, THEN WE WILL CLOSE DOWN THE PROGRAM.AND I WOULD, UM, BE HAPPY TO, UH, CONTACT THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, UM, ON A REGULAR BASIS AND, AND ASK, YOU KNOW, AND JUST ADVISE 'EM AND LET THEM KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, LET THE COUNTY OFFICIALS KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE MOVING FORWARD TO OPENING UP.
BUT IF THEY RECOMMEND THAT WE SHUT DOWN, EVERYTHING WILL BE SHUT DOWN.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT IS NOT REALLY, YOU KNOW, THEY, IF WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH THE COUNTY, IF WE'RE IN TOUCH WITH THE STATE, UM, IF WE'RE, UM, AND IF THEY'RE TELLING US TO CLOSE DOWN, THEN WE BASICALLY HAVE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN.
AND MAYBE, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST PUT A PROVISION THAT, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS DONE, BUT, UH, WE WOULD, THERE'S A REQUIREMENT OF THE STATE AND THE COUNTY THAT, THAT THE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH MUST BE CONSULTED, YOU KNOW, UH, WOULD HAVE THE ABILITY, OR IF THEY RECOMMEND THAT WE NOT PROCEED WITH ANY OF THIS, THAT WE, UH, WE WOULD IMMEDIATELY CAN'T FOLLOW THEIR DIRECTIONS.
AND THEN, AND THEN JERRY, YOU KNOW, THEN WE COULD PLAN AND MOVE FORWARD AND, UM, MOSTLY HAVE SOMETHING IN WRITING.
LET'S MAKE SURE WE HAVE SOMETHING IN WRITING.
BUT JUST LIKE FRANCIS SAID, WE SHOULDN'T KEEP TO A DATE.
'CAUSE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME.
LET'S JUST WRITE IT OUT AND THEN, AND THEN HAVE IT CONTINGENT ON WHAT THE TEMPERATURE AND WHAT'S GOING ON.
UM, AS FAR AS THE DIFFERENT VARIANTS, CAN I, CAN I ASK, AND YOU DO HAVE SOMETHING WRITTEN OUT FROM BOTH JERRY AND I WHEN IT COMES TO THE SENIOR PROGRAMMING, UM, SO THAT WE CAN START MOVING FORWARD OR NOT, UH, GET APPROVAL ON THOSE.
AND I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT, UM, WHAT I'M, UH, PROPOSING IS UNDER 10% ARE NORMAL PROGRAMMING.
MAYBE I WANT, IT'S REALLY ONLY TWO PROGRAMS AT THIS POINT.
JUST THE, UH, THE CARD PLAYING, WHICH IS, UH, PODS THAT WILL BE SORT OF TOGETHER, OR GROUPS THAT WILL BE TOGETHER.
AND IT'S ON A VOLUNTEER BASIS.
AND THE SAME THING FOR THE PINGING PONG PLAYERS.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS GONNA BE DONE EITHER ON ZOOM OR OUTDOORS ON OUR PATIO.
SO IT'S, IT'S A VERY MINIMAL GROUP.
BUT IF THE BOARD IS UNCOMFORTABLE, I JUST NEED TO GET DIRECTION.
WELL, WELL, FRANKLY, I, I WAS GUIDED BY MY UNCOMFORTABLENESS BY YOU BEING UNCOMFORTABLE HA HAVING A PROGRAM FOR SENIORS INDOORS WHEN TOWN HALL IS NOT OPENED UP.
THE TOWN EMPLOYEES, UH, WHICH WAS A CONCERN OF MINE AS WELL.
HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE SAY IT'S OKAY FOR SENIORS TO MEET THE VULNERABLE POPULATION TO MEET, BUT DOWNTOWN EMPLOYEES? UM, AND SO IF, IF, IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE WITH, UH, YOUR, YOUR, UM, WRITEUP, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THE EMAIL FROM THE PHYSICIAN THAT PAUL WROTE TO FOR ADVICE WHO CAME BACK AND SAID SHE WOULD NOT DO INDOOR PROGRAMMING, BUT IF YOU THINK THAT YOU KNOW BETTER THEN AND CAN DO IT SAFELY, THEN, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT THE TOWN BOARD HAS TO HAVE.
I WOULDN'T SAY I KNOW BETTER, BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT THERE'S SOME DOCTORS OUT THERE, UH, SPOUTING THINGS ABOUT THE PANDEMIC THAT ARE NOT CERTIFIED.
IF THE PERSON'S AN EPIDEMIOLOGIST THAT STUDIES THIS, THEN I WOULD, YOU KNOW, GO BY THEM.
UM, WE'RE ALSO FOLLOWING THE OTHER GUIDELINES.
I THINK THE OTHER END ABOUT TOWN HALL WAS MORE OF A THING WHERE MY FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN GOING A HUNDRED PERCENT IN MY OFFICE, AND WHILE AT TOWN HALL THEY'RE NOT.
SO I THINK THAT'S A SEPARATE ISSUE.
UH, I AM COMFORTABLE WITH THIS, UM, BUT IF THE TOWN BOARD ISN'T, AND, UH, I WILL DEFINITELY GO BY YOUR DIRECTION.
SO WHAT, WHAT, IN YOUR WRITEUP, YOU DON'T DEAL WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF VARIANCE OR TRANSMISSION RATE, AT WHAT TRANSMISSION RATE WOULD YOU SAY YOU SHUT DOWN? I, I, I DON'T THINK I, I DON'T THINK I'M, UH, AN EXPERT TO SAY THAT.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ON THE BOARD IS AN EXPERT TO SAY THAT I THINK WE NEED TO GO TO EPIDEMIOLOGISTS OR GET GUIDANCE FROM THE STATE TO TELL US, YOU KNOW, WHAT SHOULD WE GO BY? I DO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY WHEN THERE HAS BEEN UPSURGE, PEOPLE HAVE CLOSED DOWN, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, OUT OF ABUNDANCE OF, OF CAUTIOUS.
WE'RE NOT GONNA, WE, WE HAVE NEVER, UH, WE HAVE ALWAYS ERR ON THE SIDE OF, UH, CAUTION AND SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR EMPLOYEES.
THE ONLY REASON I'M BRINGING THIS UP, YOU KNOW, NOW IS BECAUSE I FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, THE CO WHEN CAROL ALLEN, UM, EMAILED ME, UM, UH, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR WEEKS AGO, SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, SHE'S BEEN WORKING HER HEAD OFF
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ON THE COVID ANGELS PROGRAM, UM, AND THEY'VE BEEN MAKING CALLS.AND SHE SAID, WHAT'S THE POINT OF GETTING EVERYBODY VACCINATED IF YOU'RE NOT DOING, YOU KNOW, THESE PROGRAMS? AND SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, SHE, SHE'S A DOCTOR.
SHE HIGHLIGHTED THE FACT THAT, UM, THERE'S ISOLATION PROBLEMS. AND IT REALLY GOT ME VERY UPSET BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I FELT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SENIORS WHO REALLY DEPE, UH, LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE PROGRAMS. YOU KNOW, I, UM, I REALLY FEEL BAD THAT THERE'S MENTAL HEALTH, UM, ISSUES.
I, I'VE FELT SO STRONGLY AFTER, UM, YOU KNOW, READING HER COMMENTS.
AND I, TO BE HONEST, I NEVER WOULD'VE EVEN THOUGHT OF THIS.
UM, AND I NEVER WOULD'VE PUSHED SO HARD WITH THAT IF SHE HADN'T, UM, IF SHE HADN'T EMAILED ME.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I JUST SORT FEEL WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.
AND THEN AFTER, AFTER I GOT HER EMAIL, I STARTED GETTING, UM, PLEASED FROM A LOT OF SENIOR CITIZENS THROUGHOUT THE TOWN SAYING, WHEN ARE YOU GONNA OPEN UP? WE REALLY ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, AND I FEEL I'LL BE IT FOR THEM.
AND AGAIN, IF, IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE VACCINATION, YOU KNOW, IF IT WASN'T GOING AS WELL AS IT IS, UH, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW, I WOULD NOT BE PUSHING THIS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S SMART IF, AND AGAIN, IF IT WAS UP TO ME, IF IT, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE JUST DIFFER, I FEEL THAT WE COULD LIMIT SOME OF THESE PROGRAMS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN VACCINATED.
UM, BECAUSE I FEEL THAT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, IN WHAT IF, YOU KNOW, THEY SOCIAL DISTANCE, IF THEY WEAR MASKS, UM, IT'S VERY, VERY UNLIKELY THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET COVID.
HEY, JERRY, I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION.
UM, ANY POSSIBILITY? I KNOW YOU HAVE ONE TENT YOU NORMALLY PUT UP ON YOUR PATIO, BUT, UH, IT SEEMS LIKE SOME OF THE CONVERSATION HERE IS ABOUT INDOOR.
AND AS YOU NOTICE IN MY PLAN, EVERYONE, UH, I'M NOT LOOKING TO BRING ANYBODY INDOOR, UH, FOR NUMEROUS REASONS, BUT MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE GRANT PROGRAMS I HAVE RUNNING.
BUT THAT MIGHT GIVE US SOME SPACE AND SOME TIME HERE, UH, TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER ON WHERE WE MIGHT GET SOME MORE OF THESE ANSWERS FROM THE GOVERNING BODIES.
ONE WE HAVE, UH, OUTSIDE FOR THE TENNIS PROGRAM WHEN WE RUN OUR SUMMER, UH, CAMP PROGRAMS FOR TENNIS THAT THEY USE, YOU KNOW, FOR SHADE.
AND THEN WE DO HAVE ANOTHER ONE ON THE PATIO, UH, THAT'S FRAMED.
IT'S LIKE, I THINK 30 BY 40 FEET, AND IT'S PRETTY BIG.
UM, BEFORE THE SUMMER PROGRAM, WE, IF THERE'S A WAY TO SET IT UP, WE COULD POSSIBLY, YOU KNOW, HELP YOU OUT ON THAT.
UH, OTHERWISE WE MAY WANNA LOOK AT IT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN REALLY GOOD INVESTMENTS TO HAVE, UH, EITHER TO RENT OR TO POSSIBLY, UH, PURCHASE ANOTHER TENT.
UH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I, I THINK THERE'S TWO ISSUES.
THERE'S THE, UH, THE EQUITY BETWEEN THE EMPLOYEES THAT SHOULD BE ALMOST KEPT SEPARATE.
BUT ON JERRY'S EMAIL, ONE OF THE THINGS WE DEFINITELY PUT IN WAS THE VERY LAST SENTENCE.
THIS PLAN WILL BE CONTINUOUSLY EVALUATED AND UPDATED AS NEEDED.
AND I, I CAN'T STRESS HOW WE DISCUSS THIS ON A DAILY BASIS, IF NOT HOURLY.
UM, HOW WE'RE GONNA HANDLE THESE THINGS AND HOW WE'RE GONNA CHANGE.
AND WE, YOU KNOW, WE GOT OUR EAR, UH, TO THE NEWS CONSTANTLY, JUST LIKE YOU DO.
UM, WE'RE NOT WRITING ANYTHING IN STONE.
WE'RE JUST, WE JUST WANT TO BEGIN SOMETHING.
AND THEN IF THE THE GROUND CHANGES, THEN WE WILL CHANGE TOO.
IT'S, IT'S THE PART OF STARTING OFF INDOORS, EVEN ON A SMALL BASIS, AS OPPOSED TO, TO DOING IT OUTDOORS, UM, INITIALLY, AND THEN SEE HOW IT GOES AND THEN GO, UH, FURTHER.
AND, AND FRANKLY, PAUL, YOU SAY WE ALWAYS LOOK OUT FOR EMPLOYEES, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S A BIT OF DISINGENUOUS.
I DON'T AGREE WITH THE POLICY, BUT THE TOWN TOWN HAS A POLICY OF ANY EMPLOYEE WHO GETS COVID, WE AUTOMATICALLY DENY THEM WORKERS' COMP, AND THAT'S WRONG.
YOU KNOW, HAVING A POLICY THAT IF AN EMPLOYEE, UM, I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT IF JUST, YOU KNOW, MOST EMPLOYEES, YOU WOULD NOT KNOW WHERE THEY GOT IT FROM.
BUT IF YOU HAVE AN EMPLOYEE WHO IS EXPOSED TO SOME, ANOTHER EMPLOYEE AND THE TOWN SAYS YOU HAVE TO QUARANTINE, AND THEN FOUR OR FIVE DAYS INTO THAT ISOLATION QUARANTINE PERIOD, THEY GET COVID THE SYMPTOMS OF COVID.
I DON'T THINK IT TAKES MUCH OF A STRETCH TO FIGURE OUT THAT THEY GOT IT FROM TOWN HALL.
SO THEN WHY
SO THEN, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M WILLING TO CHANGE THE POLICY IF YOU, IF THE, IF THE BOARD WANTS TO CHANGE THE POLICY, WE COULD CHANGE THE POLICY.
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IS, I FEEL THAT THE EMPLOYEES AT THE TOWN HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD.UM, I FEEL THAT THEY'RE VERY DEDICATED.
UH, SADLY WE LOST ONE EMPLOYEE, UH, YOU KNOW, TO COVID.
AND AGAIN, IF YOU WANNA SPEAK TO MILAGROS CROSS AND YOU KNOW, ROBERTA AND, UM, AND, UM, AND YOU FEEL THAT THE POLICY SHOULD BE CHANGED, I'M DEFINITELY OPEN TO, UM, DOING WHATEVER WE CAN, UM, TO HELP OUR EMPLOYEES.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M, I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO, UH, UM, TO DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO SHOW THE EMPLOYEES THAT WE CARE ABOUT THEM.
'CAUSE I THINK THAT I, BUT, YOU KNOW, I, I ALSO FEEL THAT, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO OPENING UP THE TOWN HALL, I, I FEEL, YOU KNOW, WE, MY ASSISTANT AND I, WE SPENT A GOOD PORTION OF LAST WEEK, UH, ARRANGING FOR VACCINATIONS FOR THE EMPLOYEES.
I, WE HAD OVER 60 TOWN EMPLOYEES, UM, WHO, UM, UM, GOT VACCINATED ON, ON ON THURSDAY.
I WENT AROUND THE BUILDING, THE TOWN HALL, YOU KNOW, BUILDING, AND I SPOKE TO INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES, AND I ASKED 'EM, UM, YOU KNOW, TO SPEAK TO MY ASSISTANT, UH, KRISTEN, YOU KNOW, MADISON.
AND WE, WE BASICALLY, UM, UH, SCHEDULED APPOINTMENTS ON THE SPOT FOR PEOPLE.
SO I, UH, I THINK ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAD APPOINTMENTS ON FRIDAY FOR PEOPLE AND APPOINTMENTS ON, YOU KNOW, ON SATURDAY, PEOPLE WHO HAD APPOINTMENTS, UH, UH, SCHEDULED FOR, UM, THE END OF APRIL OR THE END OF MAY.
WE SCHEDULED IT, UH, A DAY LATER.
UM, SO I KNOW THAT THE TOWN IS DOING EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE, UH, TO SHOW OUR EMPLOYEES WE CARE ABOUT THEM.
BUT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, ALL, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT, I, I REALIZE FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD TRY, WE COULD IMPLEMENT, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING.
AND IF IT, IF IT TURNS OUT THAT THE VARIANCES ARE, UM, ARE, YOU KNOW, ARE CREATING PROBLEMS, THEN WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA CANCEL IT.
YOU KNOW? AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL, I'LL BE IN TOUCH WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AND THE COUNTY BE IN TOUCH FOR THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE'S OFFICE.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND IF THE MINUTE THEY SAY RECOMMEND, IF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, IF THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SAY CLOSE DOWN THE PROGRAMS, IT'S CLOSED DOWN IN A MINUTE.
WE WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND NOBODY'S GONNA WANT US TO HAVE THESE PROGRAMS IF IT'S NOT SAFE.
SO I JUST WOULD WANT TO MOVE, MOVE FORWARD ON, ON THIS.
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS AGREE OR DISAGREE.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING IN MORE DETAIL IN WRITING.
WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR MONTHS ALREADY, AND, OH, EVERY, EVERY COUNCIL DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE DELAYING AND DELAYING COUNCIL HAVEN'T PARTICIPATED.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING IS LET'S, WE MAY HAVE TO REVISIT THE WORK THAT THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS DID AND COMING UP WITH THE, UH, THE REOPENING PLAN THAT WAS NEVER USED.
WHAT DOES OTHER BOARD MEMBERS SAY, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, YEAH, LET'S DUST, LET'S DUST OFF THE PLAN SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT AND EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME PAGE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO GOING FORWARD.
I JUST WANT, I JUST WANT, I WOULD NOT SAY THAT THE REOPENING HAS NOT BEEN USED.
I THINK THAT WHAT THE DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE DOING IN OPENING THEIR DEPARTMENT, BREAKING UP, DAN, IS GOING BY VITAL LINES THAT WE SET OUT.
YOU'RE BREAKING UP YOUR VOICE.
UH, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU IN PLACE, BUT I THINK I CAN MAKE OUT, I THINK YOUR, YOUR POINT IS THAT IT HASN'T, IT'S NOT THAT IT HASN'T BEEN USED, IT'S, IT'S, UH, I, I, I DON'T WANT TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH, SO, UH, NO, YOU'RE RIGHT.
IT'S, YEAH, I THINK THAT THEY'RE USING IT, BUT IT'S JUST THAT, THAT THIS, THAT WE HAVEN'T REOPENED AT ALL.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THE GUIDANCE IS THERE FOR THEM TO USE, AND I'M SURE THEY'RE USING IT.
BUT THAT, THAT DOCUMENT WAS FOR REOPENING, UH, BRINGING EMPLOYEES BACK.
IT WASN'T FOR REOPENING TOWN HALL TO THE PUBLIC, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY.
IT WAS, IT WAS BRINGING ALL
UH, WE KEEP USING THE TERM REOPENING TOWN HALL, BUT TOWN HALL HAS ALWAYS, ALWAYS BEEN OPEN, UH, BUT NOT TO THE PUBLIC EXCEPT FOR THE LOBBY.
SO WHY DON'T WE PUT THIS BACK ON FOR NEXT TUESDAY,
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UM, AND SEE WHETHER OR NOT, UH, WE CAN HAVE SOME KIND OF A STANDARDIZED POLICY.'CAUSE WE HAVE TWO DEPARTMENTS, TWO DIFFERENT POLICIES.
UH, LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AS, AS HAVING SOMETHING, SOMETHING THAT IS BACKED UP.
AND THEN MAYBE RIGHT BACK TO THAT PERSON WHO YOU RELIED ON.
AND I KNOW IF THAT PERSON CAME BACK AND SAID, YES, IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE SENIORS INDOORS, UH, YOU WOULD BE ANNOUNCING, LOOK, WE HAVE BACKUP FOR BRINGING SENIORS INDOORS.
SO, BUT LET'S, LET'S, I THINK, UH, WE'VE BELABORED THE POINT AND, UH, WE COULD DISCUSS THIS AGAIN NEXT TUESDAY, BUT NOW EVERYBODY KNOWS, UH, WHAT'S ON THE TABLE.
AND, UM,
SO LET ME SAY, UH, UM, UH, JERRY AND JOE, WOULD YOU HAVE ANY OBJECTIONS TO, UH, STARTING OUTSIDE PROGRAMS FOR SENIORS? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, NEXT WEEK WE'LL DISCUSS THE, UM, THE OUTSIDE, UM, THE INDOOR PROGRAMS, BECAUSE I SORT OF FEEL WE COULD, UM, WE COULD AT LEAST MOVE FORWARD AND PROVIDE SENIORS WITH, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME PROGRAMMING THAT, THAT EVERYBODY THINKS IS SAFE.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE COULD DO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE SHOULD, UH, DO THE SAME THING FOR THE, UH, THE TOWN AND HAVE A TENT OUTSIDE.
SO PEOPLE WANT TO MEET WITH EMPLOYEES.
THEY COULD, UM, THEY COULD MEET OUTSIDE.
IF, IF THE MAJORITY OF THE BOARD IS OKAY FOR OUTDOOR PLANNING, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, TODAY IS, UH, MARCH 23RD, AND WE, UH, PROPOSING TO DO APRIL 19TH.
SO WE STILL HAVE PLENTY OF TIMES.
AND LIKEWISE, IF THE VARIANCE GETS WORSE AND WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER, THEN WE WILL IMMEDIATE SHUT DOWN EVEN BEFORE, UH, THE 19TH.
UM, UH, JUST KEEP IN MIND, WE HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING, YOU KNOW, AT THE POOL WHERE WE HAD SENIORS THERE, AND IT WORKED OUT REALLY WELL.
SO, UH, I, I THINK WE ALL CAN BE IN AGREEMENT THAT IF YOU WEAR A MASK AND SPATIAL, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND KEEP YOUR DISTANCE, UH, 'CAUSE LIKE ON THE PATIO, UM, YOU, YOU COULD PROBABLY HAVE ABOUT A HU 150 PEOPLE THERE.
WE'RE GONNA DO PROGRAMMING WHERE THERE BE SPACED OUT WITH A MAXIMUM ONLY 15 IN THE PATIO AT ONE TIME, AND THAT COVERS, UH, 18, UH, 2000 SQUARE FEET.
SO THEY WOULD BE, IT'D BE VERY, UH, SAFE ON THAT.
SO, UH, AND THEN I THINK WE GOT PLENTY OF TIME BETWEEN NOW AND THE 15TH OF APRIL, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, TO DECIDE.
AND KEEP IN MIND, UH, THE SENIORS ARE VERY SMART.
UH, WE SURVEYED THEM, UH, THE MAJORITY OF 'EM ARE RIGHT NOW HAVE EVEN TOLD US THEY'RE NOT COMFORTABLE.
THE ONLY ONES COMING BACK IN THE CENTERS ARE THE ONES THAT WOULD BE COMFORTABLE, AND MOST LIKELY, THE MAJORITY OF THEM WILL PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE HAD THE, UH, VACCINES.
SO WE DON'T EXPECT A BIG TURNOUT.
AND, UH, UM, WE CAN DELAY THAT OPENING IF YOU'RE NOT READY TO MAKE A DECISION, UH, BY BEFORE THE 15TH.
SO THEN, UM, SO THEN TERRANCE DO HIS PROGRAMMING, TERRENCE IS, TERRENCE HAS STARTED HIS PROGRAM OUTSIDE SO HE CAN DO HIS PROGRAMMING.
ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU JUST ASKED FOR, TERRENCE? UH, YES.
OUR STARTS, UH, OUR FIRST EVENT IS APRIL 16TH.
UM, AND, UH, NOW I'M READY TO ROCK, READY TO GO FORWARD.
NO, I THINK THIS IS GREAT, PAUL.
I LIKE YOUR IDEA OF, UM, OF SETTING UP A TENT OUTSIDE TOWN HALL, ESPECIALLY NOW THAT THE WEATHER IS GETTING WARM, UM, BECAUSE WE DO ON A DAILY BASIS, UM, GET RESIDENTS COMING INTO THE LOBBY ASKING TO SPEAK WITH SOMEONE FROM ONE OF THE DEPARTMENTS.
THEY, THEY HAVE QUESTIONS, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THEIR QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, E EVEN THOUGH STAFF OF EVERY DEPARTMENT ARE THERE AND WILLING AND AVAILABLE TO HELP PEOPLE, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE JUST FRUSTRATED THE RESIDENTS.
I MEAN, AND SO NOW THAT THE WEATHER'S GETTING WARM, THAT YOU'RE JUST OFFERING A, A SAFE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, STAFF TO MEET OUTDOORS WITH PEOPLE.
I MEAN, OF COURSE, ON A RAINY DAY, THEY'D HAVE TO MEET INSIDE, BUT AT LEAST IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY YOU'RE OFFERING AN, AN, AN ALTERNATIVE TO MEETING INDOORS IN THE LOBBY.
AND YOU'RE SAYING, LOOK, STAFF WILL BE THERE TO MEET WITH YOU.
UH, I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA.
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GREAT.SO, UM, SO THE CONSENSUS IS OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES COULD, WILL START IN PARKS AND THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA MEET NEXT WEEK ON TUESDAY, AND WE'RE GONNA DISCUSS, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, INDOOR ACTIVITIES.
I WILL ALSO REACH OUT TO, UM, UM, THE COUNTY AND THE STATE AND TRY GETTING THEIR GUIDANCE AS WELL TO HELP THE TOWN, UH, BOARD MAKE A DECISION ON INDOOR ACTIVITIES.
ANYBODY OBJECT TO THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE? MESSAGE?
IT'S NOT CLEAR TO ME, IS THIS ALL ONE PRESENTATION? PAUL? UH, THE SECOND ONE, HE, UH, THE AMMA, UH, REX, HE'S, UH, UM, A LOCAL, UH, YOU KNOW, PHARMACIST.
SO, UH, YOU COULD, WHY DON'T YOU JUST SAY AMMA REX, UH, DISCUSSING THEIR, UH, DISCUSSING THEIR, UH, UM, NO.
DOES HE HAVE SOMETHING TO DO THE VACCINE PROGRAM, BUT WHAT, WHAT DOES HE HAVE TO DO WITH FOOD SCRAPS? THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE.
THE FOOD SCRAPS IS, IS SEPARATE.
SO EVERYBODY LET ME, CAN I JUST, UH, RECOMMEND THAT GREENBERG TOWN COUNCILWOMAN SONYA BROWN, THE PRESENTATION TO SONYA, WE'RE GOING TO FOLD THAT INTO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
SO SHE'S GOING TO BE ONE OF THE HONOREES.
AND, UM, THROUGH THAT PRESENTATION, WE WILL READ HER TRIBUTE THAT SHE ASKED, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT SHE SUBMITTED TO THE TOWN TO BE READ.
AND SO THAT'LL BE PART OF THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION.
NOW WE HAVE A VERY SHORT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ONE OF OUR, UH, UH, HONOREES, AND SHE IS ONLY GONNA BE AVAILABLE BETWEEN SEVEN 30 AND 7 45.
SO I'M JUST RECOMMENDING THAT WE DO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION FIRST.
AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE WHERE IT'S GONNA BE WELL ORGANIZED.
WE ALREADY HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE AGREED TO STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND BE, UH, AND DO THE RECOGNITION.
SO I THINK THAT WE'LL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH THAT WITHIN THE FIRST 15 TO 20 MINUTES IF WE START ON, WE'RE ABLE TO START ON TIME, BUT WE HAVE TO DO THE MOMENT OF SILENCE BEFORE THAT.
SO IS THIS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE? YEAH, I, I HAVE TO CONFIRM, UH, WHO'S, WHO'S GONNA BE SPEAKING FROM, FROM THAT.
IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME THAT, UH, THAT'S A SEPARATE THING.
YOU KNOW, THEY MADE, THIS IS ACTUALLY A GOOD PROGRAM BECAUSE, UH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, FOOD SCRAP, CURBSIDE PICKUP, AND WE KNOW IT'S GONNA START, UM, SLOW.
AND SOME HASTING STUDENTS BASICALLY, UH, OR FOR, ARE DOING THIS AS A BUSINESS.
JUDITH, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS FOR TOMORROW? NO, I THINK THE WOMEN'S THANK YOU, FRANCIS, FOR ASKING.
I THINK THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM WILL, WILL, UM, REPRESENT, WILL CONSTITUTE THOSE COMMENTS.
AND WE HAVE TWO FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, UH, AGREEMENTS TO VOTE ON, UH, THE LONG AWAITED SCAR, SCARSDALE GOLF CLUB, UH, PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CONSOLIDATED BORDER DISTRICT.
NUMBER ONE, WHAT THEY WANT TO DO IS TO EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE WATER DISTRICT TO INCLUDE THE SCARSDALE GOLF CLUB.
FOR WHATEVER REASON, THE SCARSDALE GOLF CLUB IS AN ISLAND SURROUNDED BY THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT.
WE HAVE THEM LISTED AS OUT OF DISTRICT.
THE D E P HAS THEM LISTED AS IN DISTRICT.
UM, THERE ARE SOME FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF EXTENDING THE WATER DISTRICT TO INCLUDE THEM.
UH, BUT, UH, THERE'LL BE A PRESENTATION, A DISCUSSION, OR A PRESENTATION, I GUESS IT IS FROM OUR D P W TOMORROW NIGHT, EXPLAINING THAT THE FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS ARE, ARE, ARE, UM, ARE NOT THAT SIGNIFICANT.
SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS HELD OVER ACTUALLY TWICE, UH, TO GET MORE
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AND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FINANCES INVOLVED AND PUTTING THEM INTO THE WATER DISTRICT.BUT FRANKLY, THEY'RE ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY THE WATER DISTRICT.
BUT FOR SOME REASON OR OTHER, WE DON'T HAVE THEM LISTED AS IN THE WATER DISTRICT.
AND WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
HERE'S WHERE WE VOTE ON TWO ELMSFORD, FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT CONTRACTS.
AND THEN TB THREE IS A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD ACCEPTING THE POLICE REFORM REPORT OF THE GREENBURG AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMITTEE, AND ADOPTING A PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT.
THEY, THEY'VE BEEN, UH, WORKING ON THAT REPORT VERY DILIGENTLY, AS WE KNOW, KNOW FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS.
GINA'S THE CHAIR OF THE TASK FORCE, AND THEY, THEY, THEY REALLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, PUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF EFFORT INTO IT.
UH, WE COULD DECIDE IT'S, IT'S OVER A HUNDRED PAGES, WHETHER OR NOT WE VOTE ON IT TOMORROW NIGHT.
IF YOU HAVE, EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE TO READ IT, OR WE CAN DO IT AT A SPECIAL MEETING ON TUESDAY.
LET ME ASK A QUESTION IN TERMS OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, UH, ONE SAYS, ADOPTING A PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT.
UH, DO WE WANNA, UH, HAVE A DISCUSSION, SAY WITH THE POLICE CHIEF AND WITH THE COMMITTEE, AND GO OVER EACH OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UM, WHAT THE CHIEF, UH, HAS TO SAY? OR DO WE JUST ADOPT IT? YOU KNOW, WHAT, YOU KNOW, HOW ARE WE GONNA WORK ON THE IMPLEMENTATION? WE COULD, WE COULD DO THAT, BUT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE BY NEXT TUESDAY, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO FILE THIS WITH THE GOVERNOR BY APRIL 1ST.
DID WE, DID, UH, DO YOU KNOW IF THE, UH, THE CHIEF AND THE POLICE, UH, YOU KNOW, DEPARTMENT ARE, UM, IN AGREEMENT WITH ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS? UH, I'LL LET JAYNA SPEAK TO THAT.
THE CHIEF HAS BEEN PART OF THE COMMITTEE FROM THE, THE BEGINNING OF, UM, STARTED THE, THE, OF THE COMMITTEE.
SO HE, HE'S GIVEN HIS, HE'S DEFINITELY GIVEN HIS RECOMMENDATIONS.
HE'S ALSO VOICED TO THINGS THAT WE DEFINITELY HAVE RECOMMENDED THAT HE WAS NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH, BUT UNDERSTOOD, UM, WHAT WAS BEHIND IT.
AND HE CAN SPEAK TO IT AS WELL.
'CAUSE HE IS ON A, HE IS IN A MEETING, BUT HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE RECOMMEND HE HAS BEEN PART OF THE MEETING.
IF WE WANNA HAVE A DISCUSSION, UM, AGAIN, WE CAN, WE CAN GO WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
WE ALREADY MADE TWO PRESENTATIONS.
WELL, WE CAN HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION PRIOR TO TWO.
UM, BUT AGAIN, WHATEVER CONCERNS, UH, CHIEF HAS DEFINITELY VOICED THOSE CONCERNS DURING A COMMITTEE MEETING.
KAI, YOU KNOW, MAKE A SUGGESTION.
THERE'S SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE POLICE CHIEF, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT.
COULD WE, UM, COULD WE ADOPT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, THAT HE DEFINITELY SUPPORTS.
AND THEN HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE CHIEF ON THE ISSUES THAT, UM, THAT HE MAY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT.
AND THEN WE COULD TAKE A VOTE AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GOING ALONG WITH THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS, OR WE'RE GONNA, UM, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THERE'S 10 RECOMMENDATIONS AND WE'RE IMPLEMENTING SEVEN, AND THERE'S THREE THAT HE HAS CONCERNS.
AND HE TELLS US WHY HAS, SO, PAUL, PAUL, PAUL, LET ME, LET ME JUST STOP YOU THERE TO, JUST TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
SO TOMORROW'S RESOLUTION IS TO ADOPT A REPORT AND ADOPT A PLAN TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WE STILL HAVE TO PUT A PLAN TOGETHER TO PUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN.
AND WE HAVE ALREADY STARTED THAT PLAN.
SO THAT CONVERSATION IS ONGOING.
THIS IS WHY I SAID THIS IS, THAT WAS PHASE ONE, TO MAKE SURE SURE.
THAT WE HAD THE REPORT DONE, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO PHASE TWO.
SO YES, SO CHIEF WILL BE A PART OF THAT CONVERSATION, AND ANYONE WHO WANTS TO BE A PART OF THAT CONVERSATION IS WELCOME TO BE PART OF IT.
BUT TOMORROW'S REC, TOMORROW'S, UM, RESOLUTION IS AGAIN, TO ADOPT THE PLAN, TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AND TO ADOPT THE PLAN, UM, FOR THE RECOMMENDATION TO IMPLEMENT THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT ADOPTING A PLAN, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND, COULD YOU HIGHLIGHT WHAT YOU KNOW, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT MEANS? SO WE ADOPT THE, WE
SO ONCE WE LOOK AT THE OP, ONCE WE LOOK AT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE, SO NOW WE ARE ADOPTING A TIMELINE AND WE'RE LOOKING AT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE CAN ON OUR END AS, AS FAR AS GREENBERG CONCERNED, WHAT WE CAN, WE CAN IMPLEMENT, AND THEN THE RECOMMENDATION, THE TIMEFRAME.
SO WE CAN RECOMMEND WHATEVER WE WANNA, UM, HAVE CHANGED AND GET NEED APPROVAL FROM THE STATE.
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SO THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, THAT WE WILL PUT A TIMELINE IN PLAN, AND THAT WILL, AGAIN, BE A PART OF, THERE IS A, A TIMELINE ATTACHED TO THE RESOLUTIONS, WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR TOMORROW, THAT WILL OUTLINE EXACTLY WHAT THE STEPS ARE GOING, WHAT WE BE TAKING GOING FORWARD.SO THAT, I JUST SEE THE WORDING AGAIN ON THE AGENDA.
I'M SORRY, I'M JUST, LET'S SEE.
SO, UM, SO WHEN IT MAKES SENSE TO SAY ADOPT, UH, WE, UH, WE'RE ACCEPTING THE POLICE REPORT, YOU KNOW, NOBODY HAS OBJECTIONS TO THAT.
UM, UM, AND THEN WE WOULD SAY, UM, UM, COMING UP WITH A, I'M SORRY.
I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR RESERVATION IS.
SO WHAT THIS IS NO, I'M, I'M NOT, I'M NOT, THERE'S NO RESERVATION.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT THE ONLY ISSUE THAT I'M, UH, SAYING IS THAT, UM, IF THERE IS, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE HEARING YOU HEARD FROM, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC, FROM THE PUBLIC, UM, THE, YOU INDICATED THAT SHE'D HAD SOME RESERVATIONS ON SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, NOT ALL OF THEM.
UM, SO I, I'M SORT OF THINKING THAT MAYBE THE WORDING SHOULD SAY, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ACCEPTING THE REPORT AND, UM, UM, AND COMING UP WITH SOME SORT OF LIKE, UH, PLAN OF ACTION, UH, AND TIMETABLE.
UM, BUT THAT'S WHAT THAT SAYS, PAUL.
BUT I'M JUST, I'M JUST, I'M, THERE'S NO DISAGREEMENT.
I'M JUST SAYING, I JUST WANTED IT A LITTLE CLEARER, OR I'M JUST RECOMMENDING A LITTLE CLEARER, UM, YOU KNOW, PARAGRAPH WHERE WE BASICALLY, UM, IS STATING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO, OVER A PERIOD, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A TIME PERIOD WHEN WE'RE GONNA REVIEW ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND THEN, UH, THERE'LL BE A VOTE, LIKE UP OR DOWN ON EACH OF THE SPECIFIC, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDATIONS AFTER WE'VE CONSULTED WITH, UM, UH, WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE AND, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THE POLICE CHIEF, THERE MAY BE A, A RECOMMENDATION THAT THE, UM, THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THERE MAY BE A RECOMMENDATION BETWEEN AN EIGHT CHIEF MAY HAVE HAVE, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS, YOU SHOULD SPEAK TO US.
UH, WE COULD THEN SPEAK TO THE COMMITTEE, UM, AND, UM, AND SEE IF THEY THINK THE CHIEFS ARE COMMENTS ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, VALID OR, OR NOT.
AND THEN, UM, THE OF THEM SAID EITHER TWEAK IT OR TWEAK THE RECOMMENDATIONS OR, UM, MAKE SOME MODIFICATIONS OR, UM, APPROVE OR REJECT IT.
UM, I'M JUST SAYING, I JUST WANNA, UM, INSTEAD OF SAYING ADOPTING A, WELL, WE'RE ADOPTING, I SAY ADOPTING BECAUSE WE WE'RE NOT RIGHT NOW COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTING ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE COMMITTED TO COMMITTED.
WE'RE ABSOLUTELY, AND THIS IS JUST THE YES, AND THIS IS THE PLAN.
SO THIS IS WHAT THE TIMELINE THAT, THAT WILL BE ATTACHED TO OUTLINE WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE GOING TO BE, RIGHT? SO, AND THIS IS ADOPT THIS, ADOPTING THAT TIMELINE TO PLAN EXACTLY WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED.
BUT IS THERE A WAY THAT WE, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD THINK OF JUST CHANGING THE LAST, UH, THE LAST WORD JUST TO BE A LITTLE CLEARER.
UM, BECAUSE, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT, AND AGAIN, IT'S NOT SOMETHING, I JUST THINK THAT IT WOULD, UM, YEAH, IT'S JUST A RECOMMENDATION THAT I HAVE.
I I I, I THINK WE MAY BE CREATING A CONTROVERSY THAT DID NOT EXIST.
I I, THERE'S NO CON THERE'S NO CONTROVERSY.
JUST PLEASE, PLEASE, PAUL, JUST LET ME FINISH.
UH, I RAISED CONCERNS LAST NIGHT AT THE G A S R MEETING THAT HAVING THIS, THE REPORT RELEASED TODAY AND US VOTING ON THIS A HUNDRED, UH, PLUS PAGE REPORT TOMORROW, THAT WE WOULD BE CRITICIZED FOR NOT HAVING READ THE FINAL, THE FINAL REPORT AND, AND VOTING ON IT.
UM, AND, AND, AND, AND NOW FROM THIS DISCUSSION, I CAN SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS, THIS IS SOMEWHAT GONNA GET A LIFE HERE.
UM, THINK, I THINK WE SHOULD HOLD, HOLD THIS OVER TILL TUESDAY, WHICH IS WHAT I RECOMMENDED LAST NIGHT.
ANYWAY, HOLD IT OVER TILL TUESDAY.
WE'LL STILL PUT THE, UH, REPORT UP.
UH, I, I, I DON'T SEE THE CONCERNS YOU HAVE.
I I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
UM, THERE ARE LOTS OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THESE, UH, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE REPORT ITSELF, BUT I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD RUSH THIS
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AT THE LAST MINUTE.I KNOW IT'S VERY CLOSE, BUT WE ALSO BUILT IN A EXTRA, YOU KNOW, THE POSSIBILITY OF A SPECIAL MEETING, UH, WHICH WE'RE GONNA NEED ANYWAY, APPARENTLY, BECAUSE THERE'S A RESOLUTION THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT ON THE AGENDA AND, UM, UH, FOR NEXT TUESDAY.
SO THAT'S WHY, UH, CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? WHY CAN'T WE, UM, AT THE NEXT TOWN BOARD MEETING ON THE, ON NEXT TUESDAY, UM, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE POLICE CHIEF AT THE MEETING? AND I, I DIDN'T SPEAK TO HIM ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THIS.
SO THIS IS JUST, I, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE THE POLICE CHIEF, UM, UH, MEET WITH THE TOWN BOARD, UM, NEXT TUESDAY AT A PUBLIC WORK SESSION WHERE WE COULD GO OVER THE REPORTS.
HE COULD INDICATE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, HE'S, YOU KNOW, BEHIND RIGHT NOW.
'CAUSE THERE COULD BE A MINORITY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT HE COULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, PROBLEMS. WE COULD START IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATION, YOU KNOW, THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT NOBODY HAS ANY OBJECTIONS TO.
WE COULD DO THAT IMMEDIATELY, WHICH IS PROBABLY MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, MOST, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MOST COMMUNITIES ARE DOING.
AND THEN WE COULD HAVE A DISCUSSION, YOU KNOW, WITH HIM ON, YOU KNOW, ON SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT EVERYBODY, UH, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT HE MAY DIFFER WITH AND, AND THEN WORK WITH, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OR, AND, AND THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF, UH, UM, ADDRESSING SOME OF THE OTHER, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES.
BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY, THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT, UH, REPORT, AND THERE'S A LOT OF EXCELLENT RECOMMENDATIONS IN THERE.
AND WE WANNA, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD.
WE DON'T WANT TO COMMITTEE A REPORT TO GET TOGETHER THUS, AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST FELT THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE GO LIKE RECOMMENDATION BY RECOMMENDATION, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, FROM THE CHIEF, YOU KNOW, THEN WE'RE REALLY, UH, DOING MORE OF OUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE, YOU KNOW, PUBLICLY.
I THINK, I THINK, UH, I, I THINK THE ISSUE IS THAT YOU'RE TAKING IT AS IF WHEN WE VOTE ON THIS, THAT'S THE END OF THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS, OR THE RECOMMENDATIONS EXACTLY AS THEY ARE WORDED RIGHT NOW IN THE DOCUMENT.
AND THAT MAY NOT BE THE CASE BECAUSE THE COMMITTEE, UH, IS GOING TO BE ONGOING AND CONTINUING ITS WORK.
YOU KNOW, IT'S A MASSIVE UNDERTAKING WHAT THE GOVERNOR ASKED, AND IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, UH, RELATIVELY SPEAKING IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISHMENT ACCOMPLISH IT.
AND SO I THINK WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO IT TONIGHT.
I HAVE ANOTHER SUGGESTION TOMORROW, ANOTHER SUGGESTION, JUST SO WE COULD VOTE ON THIS TOMORROW IF YOU, IF YOU LIKE, WHAT IF WE ACCEPT THE REPORT, UH, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW, AND WE BASICALLY, UH, NO, WE, WE ACCEPT THE, IF WE THE FIRST PART, WE, WE BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, ACCEPT, AND THEN WE SCHEDULE FOLLOW UP MEETINGS, UH, TO DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, OF THE REPORT.
SO IMPLE IS TO DISCUSS SPECIFIC RE EACH OF THE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, OR A DIRECT DATA, UH, WITHIN THE NEXT, IT COULD BE THREE MONTHS, FIVE MONTHS, WHATEVER YOU WANT, UH, THAT EACH OF THE, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN BOARD BASICALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, VOTE ON, ON THE SPECIFIC MATTERS, UH, THE SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, SO SOMETHING, SO THIS WAY WE DON'T HAVE TO, BECAUSE IF WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ADOPTING THE INDIVIDUAL RECOMMENDATIONS, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW, BUT WE'RE BASICALLY MOVING AHEAD, THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE REALLY HAVE TO HOLD IT OVER, UH, YOU KNOW, TILL TILL NEXT WEEK BECAUSE IT IS A PUBLIC MEETING TOMORROW.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE ALL, WE HAD THE HEARINGS, WE, WE HEARD FROM THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, LAST WEEK.
AND, UM, AND THIS WAY WE COULD, UM, YOU KNOW, MOVE THIS MATTER A ALONG AND LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE'S GONNA BE MORE DETAILED, UM, YOU, UH, UH, A MORE DETAILED REVIEW LATER ON.
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IT IS JUST, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS.
I MEAN, YOU ALWAYS DO A LITTLE EDITING.
I'M DOING JUST A LITTLE EDITING, AND IF THE BOARD BASICALLY WANTS TO JUST PHRASE IT A LITTLE BIT, JUST MAKE A LITTLE, A LITTLE TWEAK HERE OR THERE, THEN WE COULD VOTE.
THERE'S NO PROBLEM IN VOTING ON IT TOMORROW, RIGHT? BUT, BUT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF YOU READ THE FINAL REPORT, WHICH HASN'T GONE TO THE TOWN BOARD YET.
WHEN DID IT GO? YES, IT WENT, IT WENT THIS MORNING.
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OH, I DIDN'T SEE THE TOWN BOARD ON THAT 11 O'CLOCK GO, THAT WAS, IT WENT TO THE TOWN BOARD.ALL I I, THIS, THIS IS WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN TOMORROW NIGHT, UM, AS WELL ON THIS ISSUE.
AND I DON'T KNOW, 11, 12, WHAT'S THAT? I SENT IT 11, 12.
SO I MEAN, I, I, I WOULD LIKE THE BOARD, I WOULD LIKE THE BOARD'S COMFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY, I MEAN, WE PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO IT.
HE EXPRESSED, YOU KNOW, HIS CONCERNS.
WE MADE SOME ADJUSTMENTS FOR WHAT HE, UM, RECOMMENDED.
UM, AND I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT PAUL, WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING IS WHAT WE
THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON.
SO THAT, AND THERE'S NOT MANY CHANGES FROM WHAT THE DRAFT HAS THAT'S BEEN POSTED UP ON THE WEBSITE TO WHAT THE FINAL REPORT WAS.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S TAKING CONSIDERATION FROM EVERYONE WHO HAS PROVIDED FEEDBACK.
SO, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I WANT THE BOARD TO FEEL COMFORTABLE.
SO I KNOW KEN HAS BEEN A PART OF IT, FRANCE, AS YOU'RE FULLY, YOU'RE FULLY AWARE OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON, YOU KNOW, SO PAUL, DIANA, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, DIANA, I THINK I KNOW DIANA, YOU HAD ALREADY READ THE DRAFT.
UM, IF YOU COULD, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM.
UH, YOU KNOW, IF THE BOARD, SINCE THE BOARD IS BASICALLY GOING TO GIVE THE CHIEF AND EVERYBODY, IF YOU KNOW, AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, COMMENT AND WE'RE NOT ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH SHE MADE, UH, WHICH SHE, AND, UH, AND I WANT TO LIKE HEAR, YOU KNOW, HIS THOUGHTS, THEN YEAH, I DON'T REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM.
YOU KNOW, I MINIMIZE THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE IN THE REPORT.
EITHER IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THOUGHT THAT WENT INTO IT, AND THE CHIEF DOES HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT, SOME OF THEM STILL HAVE SOME CONCERNS ABOUT SOME OF THEM, AND HE COULD CERTAINLY VOICE THOSE, BUT THAT WASN'T THE, UH, THAT WASN'T THE OPINION OF THE COMMITTEE AFTER DISCUSSING IT.
UH, SO I DON'T THINK THAT VOTING ON IT, VOTING ON IT TOMORROW, MEANS THAT YOU CAN CHANGE WHATEVER YOU WANT.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE, ARE WORK, UH, THEY'RE GOING TO BE, THEY'RE BASICALLY A WORK IN PROGRESS FOR THE COMMITTEE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO TAKE THIS EVEN FURTHER.
UM, AND THE TOWN BOARD, OF COURSE, WANTED TO TAKE THE WHOLE ISSUE OF SYSTEMIC RACISM EVEN FURTHER.
AND THAT'S WHY THERE ARE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF THIS, WHICH THE GOVERNOR NEVER ENVISIONED WITH, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION AND HOUSING AND, UM, EMPLOYMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND SO HEALTHCARE, SO, UH, UH, WE WERE ALREADY TAKING IT FURTHER THAN WHAT THE GOVERNOR, UH, EXPECTED US TO TAKE.
BUT FOR THE GOVERNOR, WE NEED TO SAFELY ADOPTED A PLAN.
AND SO, BECAUSE THERE'S, THERE'S MORE WORK TO BE DONE.
IT'S BASICALLY THAT PLAN IS A TIMELINE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.
WHY DON'T WE, WHY DON'T WE THINK ABOUT IT? YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE, I HAVE NO, WHATEVER DECISION, UM, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, I COULD VOTE TOMORROW, WHATEVER THE BOARD BASICALLY WANTS.
AND IF I COULD JUST, UH, COMMENT ON THAT, I, UM, TO THE SUPERVISOR'S POINT, I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THE BOARD AT SOME POINT ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
NOBODY, NOBODY SHOULD INTERRUPT THE CHIEF.
YOU KNOW, AS LONG AS, UH, RIGHT.
I, I HIT THE CURSOR AND THE PAGE BLEW UP.
ON THE AGENDA ALSO IS, UH, TAX CERTS.
CAN I JUST ASK A QUESTION? UH, WOULD WE WANNA, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE, LET'S SAY WE VOTED ON THIS, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW, WOULD WE WANT TO LIKE PUT IN AS A SCHEDULE WHEN WE WOULD HAVE THE CHIEF, UM, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATION? SO THEN IT'S CLEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THESE ARE RECOMMENDATIONS AND MAYBE WE COULD WORK WITH THE CHIEF ON COMING UP WITH A PLAN OF ACTION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, THAT HE SUPPORTS.
SO, UM, IF WE LIKE EVEN SCHEDULE THE TIME, UH, MAYBE HAVE A WORK SESSION WHERE THE CHIEF BASICALLY COULD SAY, I SUPPORT THIS RECOMMENDATION.
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UH, MAY 1ST I SUPPORT THIS RECOMMENDATION.I'M HOPING TO IMPLEMENT THIS, UH, BY, UH, SEPTEMBER 1ST.
THEN, THEN WHEN WE BASICALLY THEN WE'RE SHOWING THE PUBLIC THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY, THAT IT'S NOT GATHERING DUST AND WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING THINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENTLY.
AND I'M, I'M JUST SAYING MAYBE ON THE AGENDA TOMORROW, IF WE VOTE TOMORROW, WE JUST SAY, PLEASE, CHIEF WILL DISCUSS, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, TWO WEEKS FROM, UH, TOMORROW.
AND THEN, AND THEN IT'S, AND THEN, AND THEN THERE'S REALLY, EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL THAT THE, THE WORDING OF THE, THE RESOLUTION COULD BE, COULD HAVE BEEN TWEAKED THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY, THEN IT'S CLEAR THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE CLEARER, YOU KNOW, TO THE PUBLIC PICK A DATE AND WE PUT IT RIGHT UNDER THERE, AND WE JUST, AND WE, WE DEVOTE THE WORK SESSION TO, UH, TO THE REPORT.
AND ACTUALLY, IT'S GONNA BE BETTER BECAUSE, UH, THEN WE'RE GIVING OURSELVES A, A TIMETABLE FOR ACTUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, PROCEEDING WITH ACTUALLY IMPLEMENTING, UH, YOU KNOW, MANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT.
AND WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT PROCRASTINATING AND WE'RE NOT DELAYING.
SO YOU WANNA SAY TWO WEEKS FROM TOMORROW? FROM TODAY? I GUESS I'M NOT BEING CLEAR AS TO WHO.
I, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY BECAUSE I, I DON'T, I REALLY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY.
NO, I'M JUST, I'M JUST SAYING NO, I, I JUST, I DO THINK WE NEED TO HOLD IT OVER TO TUESDAY.
JUST PLEASE HOLD IT OVER, PLEASE.
WE'RE CREATING, WE'RE CREATING A CONTROVERSY WHERE THERE'S NO CON THERE'S NO CONTROVERSY, THERE'S NO CON BASICALLY WHAT I'M DOING IS, I'M JUST SAYING THE POLICE CHIEF SAID HE WANTS TO SPEAK.
UH, SO WE SHOULD HAVE, WE SHOULD, UH, GIVE HIM THE COURAGE TO SPEAK.
NO ONE'S SAYING THAT HE CAN'T SPEAK AT ALL.
AND WE, WE WALK, WE WELCOME, WE WELCOME ANYTHING THE CHIEF HAS TO SAY, AS WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH THIS WHOLE SIX TO SEVEN MONTHS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING, OR FOUR MONTHS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT.
SO, BUT IF, IF WE, LET'S HOLD IT OVER.
I JUST, WE JUST DID TO MAKE SURE WE DO IT THIS RIGHT.
A LOT OF WORK COMES INTO THIS.
SO WE HAVE, UH, TWO TAX CERTS AND A, UH, WE'RE RELEASING FROM CONSIDERATION A THIRD PARTY AND AN ACTION.
THIS INVOLVED A, A LAWSUIT THAT SOMEBODY FILED STATING THAT THE TOWN WAS RESPONSIBLE, UM, FOR NOT PROPERLY PAVING A ROAD ON EAST DALE AVENUE.
AND THE WOMAN FELL AND WE SUBCONTRACTED THAT WORK, AND WE WERE INDEMNIFIED.
AND SO, UH, WE ACTUALLY ARE GETTING PAID FOR OUR, UH, AS OPPOSED TO HAVING TO PAY IT OUT.
UM, GARRETT, DO YOU WANNA SPEAK ABOUT CD ONE? YES, SURE.
CD ONE IS A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD APPROVING A PART-TIME ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT.
AND WITHIN THAT, UM, RESOLUTION THERE CONTAINS THE, UM, DELIBERATE PROCESS THAT WE TOOK, WHICH INCLUDED A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR CONSULTANTS, FOLLOWED BY A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS.
IT DETAILS THE, UM, THE, THE EXCELLENT INPUT WE RECEIVED FROM, UH, AN AD HOC, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE COMPRISED OF RESIDENTS AND, UH, BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE TOWN.
AND ULTIMATELY, THIS WOULD BE FOR A, A, AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT THAT WOULD BE AN INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR, WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR DEPARTMENT AND FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEEDS IN THE TOWN, WHICH, UM, I THINK I WOULD BEST DESCRIBE AS, YOU KNOW, DOING ANY AND EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO, YOU KNOW, IMPROVE THE, UM, EXISTING BUSINESSES IN THE TOWN OR EXISTING BUSINESS CORRIDORS.
AND, UM, AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY LOOKING TO BRING IN NEW BUSINESSES, AND I THINK MOST IMPORTANTLY WITH THE, UM, PROSPECT OF SIGNIFICANT, UM, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL FUNDING, I THINK THAT WE WOULD STAND WELL POSITIONED WITH THE USE OF THIS CONSULTANT TO, UH, GET FUNDING TO DO SOME OF THE THINGS I JUST NOTED.
SO, UM, I PERSONALLY, UH, I THINK THE PROCESS WAS, WAS WELL DONE.
I APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT OF THE TOWN BOARD, AND I FEEL THAT, UM, THIS IS A LOW COST, UM, POTENTIAL HIGH REWARD FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
SO I WAS GLAD TO BE A PART OF THE PROCESS AND, UH, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE A REALLY GOOD CONSULTANT ON BOARD AND, UM, THINK THAT'S GONNA DO GREAT THINGS FOR THE TOWN AND THE CONTROLLER, UH, AS WE COMMONLY DO, UH, HAS BUDGET TRANSFERS, UH, MOVING MONEY
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FROM ONE LINE TO ANOTHER.UM, AND THE DETAILS OF THAT, UM, WILL BE UP ON THE WEBSITE IF IT'S NOT ALREADY.
UM, IT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND IT BREAKS DOWN WHERE THE MONIES ARE BEING MOVED FROM ONE LINE TO ANOTHER WITHIN A DEPARTMENT TO HANDLE BUDGET, UM, BUDGET CHANGES, UM, UH, C TWO REGARDING, YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT C C C TWO.
SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS LAST YEAR WHEN WE INPUT THE BUDGET, IT WAS PUT IN AS A POSITIVE RATHER THAN A NEGATIVE.
SO THIS IS JUST TO CORRECT THAT INPUT ERROR.
JERRY, YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT B R ONE? JERRY? YEAH, SORRY ABOUT THAT.
I HAD TO, HAD TO UNMUTE MYSELF.
YEAH, THIS IS A RESOLUTION TO RELEASE, UH, $23,000 OF PARKLAND FUNDS.
UH, I WENT BEFORE THE PARK AND REC ADVISORY BOARD, THEN THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, WORKING WITH ELMSFORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
UM, THEY PROPOSED A BUILDING, A, UH, SORT OF COMMUNITY BUILT PLAYGROUND, AND THE FUNDING WOULD BE BY THE MATERIAL, UH, PLUS SOME OF THE MISCELLANEOUS STUFF FOR WOOD CHIPS AND THE CONCRETE TO PUT IN THE FOOTINGS.
UH, THIS WILL BE A, UH, UH, A, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? UH, STATE CONTRACT PURCHASE.
WE WOULD LIKE TO BUILD A SMALL PLAYGROUND FOR CHILDREN AGES FIVE THROUGH 12 AT WEST RUM BROOK.
THAT'S THE HOME OF ELWOOD LITTLE LEAGUE, UH, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT, UM, EVEN THOUGH THE ELFORD LITTLE LEAGUE COULD BE HAVING GAMES WHENEVER THE PARK IS OPEN, WHICH IS BASICALLY, UH, SUNRISE TO SUNSET, UH, THE PLAYGROUND WILL BE OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY AT ALL TIMES, WHETHER THEY'RE PARTICIPATING AT THAT PARK FOR, UH, ELFORD LITTLE LEAGUE.
COUNCILMAN, HOW ARE YOU?
SO WE HAVE, UH, FOUR ITEMS IN FRONT OF THE BOARD FOR TOMORROW NIGHT'S MEETING.
THE FIRST ONE IS, UH, FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE CURBING.
UM, AS EVERYBODY'S AWARE LAST YEAR DURING THE COVID, UH, OR THE HEAVY PART OF THE COVID, WE REALLY DID NOT DO ANY WORK.
SO THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF, OF THE, UH, CURBING CONTRACT.
WE'VE SUBMITTED A LIST OF ROADS THAT ARE, THAT ARE, UH, WILL BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
THEY'RE ACTUALLY OUT THERE NOW DOING SOME WORK.
THE, UH, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE? NOPE.
I, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WHEN WE EXTEND A CONTRACT, I MEAN, HERE WE'RE EXTENDING A CONTRACT FOR A MILLION DOLLARS.
WHEN DO WE GO OUT TO BID AGAIN? UH, YOU KNOW, WE GO OUT EVERY, SORRY, EVERY TWO YEARS IS WHAT WE TRY TO DO THAT THIS AND THE PAVING.
SO IN, IN SOME OF THE WRITINGS, I SEE THAT IT, THE, THE AMOUNT ISN'T FIXED.
AND IN OTHERS, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE ACCEPTING THE PREVIOUS, THE, THE PREVIOUS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE EXTENDING THE ACTUAL RATES THAT THEY WERE CHARGED.
BUT THERE IS SOME INCONSISTENCY IN THE ACTUAL CONTRACT ITSELF.
UH, ARE THEY HONORING THE COST OF 2020 CONTRACT? YES.
SO WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S CLEAR THROUGHOUT THE DOCUMENTS.
THEN THE, UH, SECOND ITEM IS AT OUR, UH, PUMP STATION.
I KNOW I SENT, UM, KEVIN AN UPDATE OF WHAT WE WENT THROUGH LAST WEEK, AND VERY THANKFUL FOR THE, THE, UH, PEOPLE WE HAVE WORKING AT THE WATER DEPARTMENT AND THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
THIS IS OFF, UH, THIS MATERIAL IS TAKEN OFF OF COUNTY OR PURSUANT TO COUNTY CONTRACT, 20 DASH 10.
UM, AND IT'S FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, OF NECESSARY PUMPS TO KEEP THE WATER FLOWING.
ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE? NO.
SO WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND I'M SURE AT SOME POINT EVERYBODY'S SEEN THESE, THESE TRAINS THAT GO THROUGH, THEY TAKE THE EXISTING ASPHALT, CHEW IT UP, HEAT IT UP, THEY SHOOT MATERIAL INTO IT, THEY PUT IT BACK DOWN, THEY COMPACT IT, AND THEY COME BACK AFTER WITH THE SEAL COATING OR A MICROSURFACING.
UH, THIS IS GOING TO SAVE US MONEY, UH, COMPARED TO MILLING AND RESURFACING, WHICH WE HAVE TO DO ON SOME ROADS.
THAT'LL BE IN A FUTURE CONTRACT.
BUT THIS, THIS NUMBER COMES OFF NEW YORK STATE, UH, BIDDING.
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UM, THIS CONTRACTOR HAS DONE WORK IN THE TOWN BEFORE AND WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL WITH IT.ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT ONE? UH, WITH THE NUMBER OF MILES OF ROADS THAT WE HAVE, WOULD IT BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN THE LONG RUN FOR US TO HAVE OUR OWN EQUIPMENT TO DO THIS, OR DO YOU THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE TO FARM OUT? NO, THIS IT, I'LL GET YOU A, A VIDEO OF WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DO.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THE COST OF THE EQUIPMENT THAT THEY, UH, THEY'VE, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE SPENT ON THIS AND THE EXPERTISE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE, WHEN YOU'RE ON THE BACK OF A PAVER OR SOME OF THESE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT THESE PEOPLE DO DAY IN AND DAY OUT, AND THERE'S A REAL LEVEL OF EXPERTISE TO IT.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD JUST RUN OUT AND DO.
SO NO, I THINK THOSE DAYS HAVE HAVE PASSED.
SO HOW, HOW, HOW MANY, HOW, WHAT THE, WHAT'S THE DISTANCE THAT YOU THINK WE'LL GET FOR THREE QUARTERS OF A MILLION DOLLARS? OKAY, SO WITH THE SEAL COATING, IT'S UH, BASICALLY, UH, WE'RE LOOKING TO GET TAXI ROAD, SEACO ROAD.
WORTHINGTON ROAD, PART OF ARDSLEY ROAD, WHITE HOUSE ROAD, MENDO AVENUE, HEATH PLACE, DONALD DRIVE, EDITH WAY, AND I BELIEVE HASTINGS CLOSE.
NOW, SOME OF THE LAST MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAKEN OFF, BUT, UH, I CAN GET YOU THE MILEAGE.
IT'S, IT'S QUITE AN AMOUNT OF ROAD AND THE ROADS.
WE, WE, WE WORKED WITH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE CONTRACTOR GO OUT AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE ROADS WE WERE THINKING ABOUT, AND THEY'RE BASICALLY STRAIGHTAWAYS, MOST OF THEM BECAUSE OF THE LENGTH OF THIS TRAIN THAT GOES THROUGH.
AGAIN, THIS ISN'T MILLING AND THEN PAVING ASPHALT PACK.
THERE'S A REAL PROCESS TO THIS.
UM, WE'VE BASICALLY COPYING WHAT WHITE PLAINS AND HARRISON HAVE BEEN DOING OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.
UM, IT'S REALLY SOMETHING TO SEE.
BUT I, I CAN GET YOU THE, UH, THE DISTANCE OF THAT.
IF THERE'S A VIDEO OF THAT, IT WOULD BE NICE THAT, OH YEAH, THERE'S A VIDEO YEAH.
UH, P W FOUR IS, THIS IS, UH, BASICALLY WE'RE REDOING SOME DRAINAGE WHEN WE DID THE WORK UP AT PLYMOUTH ROAD, UM, THORN CLIP LANE IN BUENA VISTA, I REMEMBER A FEW YEARS BACK, WE REDID THE WATER WORK.
IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT A LOT OF THE DRAINAGE OUT THERE, THE OLD CORRUGATED METAL PIPE HAD, UH, ROTTED AWAY AT THE BOTTOM, PROBABLY DUE TO THE SALT THAT'S PUT ON THE ROADS AND IS ALL FAILED.
SO, AS A CONTINUATION OF THAT PROJECT, AS THEY CAME ON THESE THINGS, WE, WE NOTED THEM, UH, OBVIOUSLY LAST YEAR WE, WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, BUT THIS IS GONNA BE FOR THE DRAINAGE.
SO THE WATER WORK IS DONE, WE'RE NOW COMPLETING THE DRAINAGE.
AFTER THAT, THE CURBS WILL BE RESET AND IN THE ROAD PAVED, AND GOD WILLING, WE WON'T HAVE TO BE OUT THERE FOR 20 SOMETHING YEARS.
SO THIS IS A KIND OF A CONTINUATION OF THE WATER, THE WORK THAT WAS DONE OUT THERE SOME YEARS BACK.
LAST WEEK, UH, WE PROMISED THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE A VOTE ON THE PARKWAY GARDENS, UH, PARKING RESTRICTIONS, AND I DON'T SEE THAT ON THE AGENDA.
THAT, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I SAID WE, WE WERE GONNA NEED A SPECIAL MEETING NEXT TUESDAY ANYWAY.
UH, WE PUT OUT A PRELIMINARY AGENDA OR A TENTATIVE AGENDA ON WEDNESDAYS.
WHOEVER SAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO PUT THAT ON THERE, THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY.
IF THERE WAS, IF IT WAS MISSED TO, TO TALK ABOUT, IT WENT OUT AGAIN ON THURSDAY.
THEN AFTER IT'S PUBLISHED, UH, ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE'S A, THERE'S A, THERE'S A RESOLUTION MISSING.
IT, IT, IT WOULD BE A VERY BAD POLICY IF WE MISLEAD THE PUBLIC INTO THINKING THAT THE LAST MOMENT WE CAN POP A RESOLUTION ON THERE, PARTICULARLY ONE THAT AFFECTS SO MANY PEOPLE.
AND SO WHAT I'M RECOMMENDING IS EVEN IF WE PUT IT ON THAT WE, WE HAVE IT ON TUESDAY AT A SPECIAL MEETING AND VOTE ON IT, UM, SO THAT WE DON'T, WE DON'T DEVIATE FROM THAT POLICY.
UH, ONCE THE AGENDA GOES OUT TO THE PUBLIC, WE DON'T PUT SURPRISE RESOLUTIONS ON THERE.
SO I KNOW THAT THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION WAS PLANNING ON, YOU KNOW, HAVING REPRESENTATION AT THE MEETING TO SUPPORT THE PASSAGE OF THE RESOLUTION.
SHOULD I JUST LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY DON'T NEED TO DO THAT, THAT IT'S GONNA BE DO.
WHEN, WHEN DID YOU SAY THE SPECIAL MEETING WAS GONNA BE? TUESDAY.
AFTER, AFTER, DURING THE WORK SESSION TIME PERIOD.
SO I'LL LET THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION KNOW THAT IT'S TABLED UNTIL NEXT TUESDAY.
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IT, WELL, RIGHT.IT WILL, IT WILL, IT WILL BE THERE, UH, ON TUESDAY.
UH, YEAH, I'M JUST, I'M JUST EMAILING, UH, LLOYD NOW TO SAVE YOUR TIME.
SO, UH, SO AT SIX, AT 6:00 PM SHOULD I SAY, UH, THEREABOUTS? RIGHT.
UM, IT ALL DEPENDS ON, I SPOKE TO OTHER PEOPLE YOU TELL TO AT SIX O'CLOCK THEY'LL BE, UH, THEY'LL BE HEARD.
I SPOKE TO, UH, LLOYD AND, UM, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT HE, THERE'S SOME RESIDENTS HAVE SMALL PARKING, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, DRIVEWAYS AND LLOYD HAD, UM, SUGGESTED, UM, THAT, AND YOU KNOW, I THINK IT MAKES SENSE THAT WE WOULD, WE CONSIDER PROVIDING, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS WITH THE SAME, UM, OVERNIGHT PARKING, UH, YOU KNOW, PERMIT EXEMPTIONS THAT WE DO IN THE WINTER ONCE.
AND LLOYD HAD ASKED THAT IF THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED FOR, FOR THE IMMEDIATE RESIDENCE.
ARE THE SIGNS GONNA BE NO PARKING ANYTIME? ARE THE SIGNS GONNA
BUT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UM, YOU, WE HAVE, UM, IN THE WINTER MONTHS IT SAYS NO PARKING ANYTIME.
AND IF SOMEBODY HAS A SMALL, UH, DRIVEWAY, WE LET PEOPLE PARK.
THERE'S NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE ASKED FOR PERMITS.
BUT, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE BASIC.
HE'S BASICALLY RECOMMENDING, UM, THAT WE PROVIDE THE SAME COURTESIES THAT WE PROVIDE, UM, TO, UM, PEOPLE DURING THE WINTER MONTHS.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO LIVE ON THOSE STREETS.
I DON'T, I DIDN'T THINK WE LIMITED IT TO ANY AREA OF THE TOWN.
IF SOMEBODY HAS A HARDSHIP THAT THEY CAN JUST DEMONSTRATE TO THE, TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEY GET A PERMIT.
I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT BROUGHT IN NORTH ROAD WAS EXCLUDED FROM THIS IS WHAT HE WAS ASKING FOR.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THEY WERE EXCLUDED.
I JUST THINK THAT WE'RE JUST MAKING SURE THAT IT'S NOT EXCLUDED AND THAT ANYBODY WHO IS INCONVENIENCED BY THE PARKING RESTRICTIONS CAN GET THE SPECIAL PERMIT.
BUT THERE SHOULDN'T BE A BLANKET, A BLANKET, EVERYBODY ON THE STREET.
UH, IT SHOULD BE JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, FRANKLY, EVERYBODY ELSE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE A SINGLE LANE FOR TWO CARS.
'CAUSE THAT'S THE WAY MOST OF THE HOMES WERE BUILT WAS A SINGLE LANE DRIVEWAY WITH, FOR THAT HANDLES TWO CARS.
AND THEN THERE'S ALSO A GARAGE, BUT MOST PEOPLE ARE USING IT FOR STORAGE.
UM, BUT, UH, CHIEF, YOU'RE ON, YOU'RE STILL HERE.
UH, CAN PEOPLE ON NORTH ROAD OR SOUTH ROAD, IF THEY HAVE A HARDSHIP, GET ONE OF THOSE PERMITS IN THE WINTERTIME? IN THE WINTERTIME, YES.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE, I THINK THE, THE QUESTION HERE IS IF WE'RE GONNA IMPLEMENT IT YEAR ROUND, THE COMMUNITY IS ASKING FOR IT YEAR ROUND NOW.
WE'RE GONNA GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT, WE'RE GONNA POST IT, AND NOW WE'RE GONNA GIVE EXCEPTIONS.
IT KIND OF RUNS CONTRARY TO WHAT WE'RE DOING.
WE, THERE'S NOTHING IN THE LAW THAT PROVIDES FOR EXCEPTIONS YEAR ROUND.
I THINK IT'S SPECIFICALLY, UM, TAILORED TO THE SNOW PARKING AN EXCEPTION FOR SNOW ORDINANCE.
THEY CAN'T PARK UNTIL, WHAT, 10 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO TAKE CARE OF COMMUTERS.
IT'S, IT'S ONE, THE COMMUTERS REALLY WEREN'T THE ISSUE.
IT, IT, IF THEY BECOME THE ISSUE, IT WOULD SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE'D ADDRESS.
BUT THE ISSUE IS OVERNIGHT PARKING.
SO THIS IS A CONTINUANCE OF THE, THE PARKING RESTRICTION THAT'S FOR THE SNOW WINTER MONTHS TO BE YEAR ROUND.
AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHY I DON'T LIKE TO PUT A RESOLUTION ON AT THE LAST MOMENT THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T GET TO SEE, UH, IN ADVANCE.
BECAUSE THERE MAY BE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT THESE SIGNS BECAUSE WE'RE, WHAT I'M HEARING NOW IS THEY WANT TO, THEY WANT TO HAVE AN EXEMPTION TO THE SIGN WE'RE ABOUT TO BE PUT PUTTING UP IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THAT, THAT'S GONNA BE DIFFICULT TO ENFORCE.
I THINK THIS SHOULD BE REALLY SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED BECAUSE THERE, THERE, UH, ON NORTH ROAD, SOUTH ROAD IS NOT AS DANGEROUS.
BUT ON NORTH ROAD THERE IS A POINT AT WHICH THERE IS ZERO VISIBILITY, UM, TO, UH, WITH REGARDS TO ONCOMING PAUSE, EITHER GOING DOWN NORTH ROAD OR COMING UP NORTH ROAD.
AND I, I REALLY, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS NOT BEING SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED A SAFETY ISSUE WITH REGARDS TO, UM, UH, GRANTING, UM, UH, THIS KIND OF, UM, UH, JUST, YOU KNOW, OPEN NO RESTRICTION PARKING ALONG NORTH ROAD.
IT IS DANGEROUS EVEN WHEN THERE'S NO SNOW,
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OR EVEN WHEN THE ROADS ARE NOT SLIPPERY, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT SEE THERE IS A POINT ON NORTH ROAD WHERE YOU CANNOT SEE ONCOMING CARS GOING IN EITHER DIRECTION.THERE REALLY NEEDS TO BE A SIGN OUT THERE THAT SAYS, SLOW 15 MILES AN HOUR COMING UP THAT HILL, OR GOING DOWN THAT HILL AT A CERTAIN POINT.
WELL, JUDITH, YOU KNOW, I, I WILL TALK TO YOU OFFLINE ABOUT THAT.
I, I DON'T THINK THAT, UM, THE OVERNIGHT PARKING RESTRICTION WOULD ADDRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS, BUT I THINK WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT OFFLINE.
SO THAT WAS THE AGENDA REVIEW
SO DID PAUL OR FRANCIS MOVE TO SCHEDULE A, UH, MEETING ON TUESDAY AND, AND WAS THERE A SECOND?
I, I, WELL, I WAS GONNA DO THAT TOMORROW NIGHT ACTUALLY.
UH, SO PAUL, YOU HAVE A MOTION FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION HERE.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE FOR AN EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR, FOR PERSONNEL AND LEGAL ISSUES AND CONTRACTUAL SECOND.
I, WE WILL NOT BE COMING BACK THIS EVENING, BUT WE WILL BE COMING BACK TOMORROW NIGHT AT SEVEN 30.