Jun 09, 2021 Town Board- Regular

IN MEMORY OF THE 598,332 PLUS INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS OF C OVID 19 WHO HAVE DIED IN THE UNITED STATES.

NOW WE HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE

[ MOMENT OF SILENCE In memory of the 598,305+ individual victims of COVID-19 who have died in the United States, 2,940,000+ deaths worldwide, each leaving family members and friends too soon]

3,744,408, UH, PLUS DEATHS WORLDWIDE EACH LEAVING FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS TOO SOON.

UH, AUGUST 11TH AND SEPTEMBER 8TH.

UM, WE HAVE UPCOMING TOWN BOARD MEETINGS JUNE 23RD.

UH, THAT'S TODAY.

UM, UH, THE TOWN BOARD MEETING IN JULY IS TO BE DETERMINED.

AND NOW WE HAVE, UM,

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A BUNCH OF, UH, YOU KNOW, SHORT PRESENTATIONS.

UM, I'D LIKE TO START WITH ALEXANDRA CUTLER, WHO IS GONNA TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TOURETTE AWARENESS, UM, MONTH.

AND WE'VE HAD ALEXANDRA, UM, HERE IN PREVIOUS YEARS.

AND ALEXANDRA, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TELL US ABOUT YOUR EFFORTS? ALEXANDRA? HERE.

LET ME SEE.

APPARENTLY NOT.

OKAY, THEN LET PULL THE SCREEN.

AND .

UM, NEXT, UH, WE HAVE A HERO IN THE TOWN.

UH, WE HAVE A C OVID 19 VACCINE HESITANCY, UM, GRANT, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE THEATER YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER, AND I MENTIONED THAT, UM, ANY, UH, STUDENT WHO IS, UM, UM, WHO WAS SUCCESSFUL IN, UM, IN, UH, PERSUADING PEOPLE TO GET THE VACCINES WOULD BE HONORED AS A HERO.

SO, UM, UH, SIA, UM, ARE YOU HERE? YES, I'M HERE.

AND YOU'RE OUR FIRST, UH, COMMUNITY HERO.

UH, WE'RE SO PROUD OF YOU.

UM, YOU, UM, HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD AND I HEARD, UH, THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO PERSUADE ANYONE, UM, EVEN PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANNA TAKE THE VACCINES TO, UH, TO TAKE IT.

SO YOU ARE ONE OF THE TOP, UH, PERSUADER.

YOU, YOU HAVE A FANTASTIC ABILITY TO PERSUADE PEOPLE AND TO CHANGE PEOPLE'S ATTITUDES.

COULD YOU TELL US WHAT YOU'VE DONE? SO, WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING WITH THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WAS CALLING PEOPLE IN OUR TOWN, LOCAL AREAS TO SEE IF THEY HAVE BEEN VACCINATED OR NOT.

AND SO WHAT I DO IS MAKE THE PHONE CALLS AND WRITE DOWN DATA.

AND SO FAR I HAVE RECEIVED TWO PER TWO PEOPLE TO TAKE THE COVID VACCINE AND MAKE APPOINTMENTS TO GET THEM DONE.

THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT IS REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, AMAZING.

COULD YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF? UM, I AM A RESIDENT OF WHITE PLAINS.

I GRADUATED IN CLASS OF 2020 AND NOW I AM ATTENDING MERCY COLLEGE, AND I AM STUDYING PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION.

AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN, UH, WORKING WITH THE YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER? UM, I'VE BEEN GOING TO THE THEATER DE YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER SINCE I WAS LIKE A LITTLE KID, LIKE AROUND THREE.

I'VE STARTED BEING MORE ACTIVE WHEN I WAS NINE.

AND, UM, THE OTHER QUESTION THAT I HAD FOR YOU IS, WHAT'S THE MOST DIFFICULT PART OF YOUR TASK?

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ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO, UH, TAKE THE VACCINE? UM, MY DIFF MY DIFFICULTIES DOING IT IS MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO ANSWER THE PHONE AND WHEN THEY DO ANSWER, MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE INTERACTING WITH US SO THAT THEY'RE NOT JUST FEELING CONCERNED AND WORRIED.

UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WERE YOU ABLE TO CHANGE ANYBODY'S MINDS? UM, YES, I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CHANGE PEOPLE'S MINDS AND ALSO KNOW AT SOMETIMES, SO IT'S BEEN DIFFICULT, BUT NOT THAT DIFFICULT.

UM, I WAS THINKING OF, UM, BECAUSE I'M LIKE SO IMPRESSED, WE'RE ALL SO IMPRESSED WITH YOU THAT, UH, UM, AND I KNOW PRESIDENT BIDEN AND, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, THE WHITE HOUSE, THEY'RE HAVING DIFFICULTY, UH, ALSO GETTING PEOPLE TO TAKE, UH, THE VACCINE, THEIR VACCINES.

AND WOULD YOU MIND IF I, UM, SENT THEM A NOTE AND TOLD THEM, UH, THAT WE'RE FORTUNATE IN GREENBURG TO HAVE A HERO LIKE YOU, AND MAYBE, UH, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU COULD GIVE, UH, PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON TIPS THAT COULD HELP THEM BECOME SUCCESSFUL.

WOULD I HAVE YOUR PERMISSION TO SHARE YOUR STORY WITH THEM? YES.

YOU HAVE MY COMPLETE OH, YES, YOU HAVE MY ABSOLUTE PERMISSION TO SHOW.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST, UH, TREMENDOUS ASSET TO OUR COMMUNITY.

WE'RE SO THRILLED THAT YOU'RE PART OF OUR, OUR TEAM AND YOU'VE, UH, BEEN SUCCESSFUL, YOU KNOW, GETTING, YOU KNOW, I WAS ON MY BICYCLE AND I WAS SPEAKING TO SOME PEOPLE AND I WAS ASKING THEM TO TAKE THE VACCINE, AND I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF LUCK WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE VACCINE HESITANT.

SO YOU HAVE SKILLS THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE REALLY, UH, WITH M V N YOU SHOULD BE REALLY PROUD OF YOURSELF.

I I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA BE A GREAT SUCCESS IN, UM, YOU KNOW, IN LIFE.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA FOLLOW YOUR CAREER WITH THE GREATEST OF INTERESTS.

WE'RE REALLY SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU IN OUR COMMUNITY.

TERRIFIC.

AND WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO BY ? I WAS JUST CURIOUS, , WHAT'S YOUR GOAL IN LIFE AFTER YOU GRADUATE? UM, I WANNA BE IN THE BUILDUP TO PSYCHOLOGY.

SO EITHER WORKING WITH KIDS OR ADULTS EVEN.

SO, YEAH, SO MAYBE THAT'S WHY YOU'RE GOOD AT PERSUADING PEOPLE SINCE YOU HAVE A PSYCHOLOGIST MINDSET.

AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA ALSO MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE APPLYING FOR JOBS, YOU KNOW, I HOPE YOU'LL FEEL FREE TO, UH, GIVE THEM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MY NAME AND OUR NAME BECAUSE I'M SURE THAT ANY PERSON WHO'S HIRING WILL BE REALLY LUCKY TO HIRE SOMEBODY, UM, AS, UH, AS SMART AND COMMITTED AS YOU ARE.

BE ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS, AND WE HOPE TO FIND SOMEONE THAT WOULD TRULY BENEFIT FROM THIS INTERNSHIP.

THANKS SO MUCH.

OKAY, NEXT DEXTER IS HERE.

UH, WE ARE ALSO VERY, VERY LUCKY TO HAVE WITH US AN AMAZING, UM, EXTERN FROM EDGEMONT HIGH SCHOOL, DEXTER SEALEY.

UM, AND HE'S GOING TO TELL US ABOUT, UM, UH, SOME SUCCESSES HE'S HAD, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH, UH, SOME CAR DEALERSHIPS AND THAT HAS EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM.

UH, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

SO, AS PAUL JUST SAID, MY NAME IS DEXTER SEALY AND I'M A SENIOR AT EDGEMONT JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, AS WELL AS A RISING FRESHMAN AT ST.

LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY.

UH, SORRY ABOUT THAT.

AND FOR THE PAST FOUR WEEKS, I HAVE BEEN INTERNING WITH TOWN SUPERVISOR PAUL FINER, HIS ASSISTANT KRISTIN MADSON AND TOWN CLERK JUDITH BEVILLE.

UNDER THEIR LEADERSHIP, OVER THE PAST WEEKS, I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON MANY PROJECTS TO TRY AND GIVE OPPORTUNITIES TO YOUNG ADULTS LIKE MYSELF.

AND I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH JUDITH ON THE ANNUAL TOWN FALL, SUMMER INTERNSHIP, WHERE WE HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN AROUND 10 RESPONSES FROM STUDENTS BOTH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE INTERESTED IN INTERNING WITH US.

I ALSO HAVE WORKED WITH BOTH PAUL AND JUDITH ON THE FARMER'S MARKET PROJECT, IN WHICH I REACHED OUT TO ALL OF THE DISTRICTS IN THE TOWN TO TRY AND GET YOUNG MUSICIANS TO COME OUT AND PERFORM FOR THE MARKET.

AND FINALLY, I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON GETTING AN APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS SET UP WITH SOME OF OUR LOCAL CAR DEALERSHIPS.

I WENT OUT TO SOME OF THE DEALERSHIPS IN THE PAST WEEKS, AND WE WERE ABLE TO SET UP A PAID INTERNSHIP FOR ONE PERSON AT THE CENTRAL AVENUE HYUNDAI DEALERSHIP.

THEY WILL

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AND WHILE ONE PERSON MAY BE A SMALL NUMBER, I THINK THAT THIS CAN BE THE START OF MANY MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING IN GREENBURG.

AND I SHOULD MENTION THAT, UH, LATER, UH, TODAY I GOT, UM, ANOTHER, UH, EMAIL FROM, UM, ANOTHER CAR DEALERSHIP, UH, MERCEDES-BENZ.

UM, AND THEY BASICALLY, UM, INDICATED THAT THEY WOULD ALSO LIKE TO, UM, UM, WORK WITH US IN RECRUITING, UM, NEW HIRES.

AND, UM, THEY ARE GOING TO SPEAK TO US, UH, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW.

UM, YOU KNOW, I WANNA, UM, ALSO COMPLIMENT, UM, CLIFF ABRAMS, WHO FOR YEARS HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE NEED FOR, UM, APPRENTICESHIP, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UM, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

AND, YOU KNOW, A FEW YEARS AGO, CLIFF, UH, SPOKE AT A TOWN BOARD MEETING RECOMMENDING THAT, UM, WE, UM, REACH OUT TO CAR DEALERSHIPS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, TRY CREATING, UM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR STUDENTS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED TO GET WORK.

AND SO I THINK DEXTER, WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS YOU SET THE FOUNDATIONS, YOU'LL, IF WE HAVE ONE DEALERSHIP DOING THIS, THEN THERE'LL BE ANOTHER DEAL.

AND NOW WE'RE GETTING, NOW WE HAVE TWO, UH, UH, DEALERSHIPS.

I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WILL FOLLOW.

AND WE'RE GONNA ALSO BE ABLE TO FOLLOW THAT WITH REAL JOB ON, YOU KNOW, CREATION OPPORTUNITIES, UH, TRAINING PEOPLE HOW TO, UH, UM, HOPEFULLY REPAIR, UH, ELECTRIC CARS.

UM, WE COULD BE, YOU KNOW, I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, WORK WITH TESLA IN THE SUMMER.

UH, JUDITH, WE COULD WORK ON, UH, CONTINUING THE WORK THAT DEXTER DID AND REACH OUT TO SOME OF THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, CAR DEALERSHIPS AND, YOU KNOW, THE BUSINESSES AND REALLY PROVIDING A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

SO, DEXTER.

ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY.

PAUL, I'M JUST SO SORRY TO SEE DEXTER LEAVE, UH, ON MONDAY.

I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE HE HAS COMPLETED HIS FOUR WEEK INTERNSHIP, UH, AS REQUIRED BY EDGEMONT, UH, HIGH SCHOOL FOR HIS GRADUATION.

AND IF ANYONE WERE TO CALL ME AND ASK ME WOULD I HIRE HIM, MY RESPONSE WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY YES.

HE HAS JUST BEEN AN FANTASTIC INTERN FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

I WAS, UH, THINKING OF, UH, WRITING TO YOUR HIGH SCHOOL ADVISOR, TELLING THEM THAT, UH, YOU WEREN'T GOOD BECAUSE I FIGURED TO HAVE YOU FOR ANOTHER COUPLE MONTHS, YOU'D HAVE TO, UH, REPEAT THE, THE SIMON.

BUT YOU REALLY, UH, HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE BEST, UM, UH, UH, INTERNS OR EXTERNS THAT WE'VE HAD OVER, UH, OVER THE YEARS.

AND, UH, I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A REALLY BRIGHT, UM, FUTURE.

AND AGAIN, AS YOU'RE, UM, PURSUING, UH, JOB APPLICATIONS IN THE FUTURE, YOU KNOW, I HOPE THAT YOU'LL, UM, UH, FEEL FREE TO GIVE JUDITH AND MY, UH, NAMES AS, UM, REFERENCES BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE, UH, YOU KNOW, A GREAT SUCCESS.

IT WAS YOU, YOU, YOU TOOK THE INITIATIVE.

UM, YOU, YOU FOLLOWED UP ON ALL THE ASSIGNMENTS AND WE'RE REALLY VERY, VERY GRATEFUL TO YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.

ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY.

SO TOMORROW YOU COULD CALL, UH, ENCINA AND OF, UM, MERCEDES-BENZ, AND THEY WANT, UH, AND PAP GROUP, AND THEY BASICALLY WANNA, UM, BE NUMBER, NUMBER TWO.

ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND, UM, I DON'T SEE ALEXANDRA OR SHIRLEY HERE YET, AND I KNOW THE ZUCKERBERGS ARE EXPECTING EIGHT O'CLOCK, WHICH IS ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES AWAY.

LET ME, UH, JUDITH, DO YOU WANNA GIVE US LIKE A LITTLE UPDATE ON THE FARMER'S MARKET? OKAY.

YES, I, I CERTAINLY WILL.

AND, BUT ASK THEM, INVITE, INVITE, UH, TOWN ATTORNEY TIM LEWIS, UM, BARRETT, AND, UH, IS BRIAN WITH US THIS EVENING? BRIAN SIMMONS? NO.

I KNOW THAT, UM, THE TOWN BOARD IS, IS STILL, UM, REVIEWING THE PLAN AND, UM, THEY MAY MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS WITH REGARDS TO HOW THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, THE FARMER'S MARKET, UM, UH, STRUCTURED, UH, WITH RES WITH RESPECT TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND, UM, AND THE LOGISTICS.

BECAUSE WE ARE A TEAM AND WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TOGETHER OVER THE PAST SIX WEEKS TO BRING THIS, UM, PROJECT INTO FRUITION.

UM, WE PLAN TO OPEN THE FARMER'S MARKET AT TOWN HALL USING THE FAR BACK RIGHT-HANDED, UH, PARKING LOT.

WE PLAN TO OPEN THE FARMER'S MARKET ON THURS THE FIRST THURSDAY IN AUGUST.

UH,

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HOWEVER, WE ARE REALLY GEARING UP AND READY.

WE, AS, AS THE EXPRESSION GOES, WE ARE READY TO GO THE FIRST THURSDAY IN AUGUST.

AND SO, UM, AT THIS POINT, UM, THE ORGANIZER, THE, THE, UM, VENDOR ORGANIZER, HIS NAME IS JOSEPH CATONA, WHO COMES TO US WITH A WIDE RANGE OF EXPERIENCE IN MANAGING FARMER'S MARKETS FROM NEW YORK CITY TO GOSHEN, NEW YORK.

UM, HE IS GOING TO BE REACHING OUT TO VENDORS, AND WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE IT KNOWN TO RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT OUR TOWN OF GREENBURG ENTIRE THAT THEY ARE WELCOME TO BE OF ANYONE WHO HAS, UM, PRODUCE OR PRODUCTS THAT THEY WOULD, OR FOOD PRODUCTS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE.

PART OF THIS FARMER'S MARKET ARE, ARE, ARE WELCOME TO CONTACT JOE CATONA, AND THEY MAY DO SO BY CONTACTING EITHER OUR TOWN ATTORNEY, LI TIM LEWIS, UM, OR PAUL'S ASSISTANT, KRISTEN MADDEN.

CHRISTA MADDEN, OR MYSELF, JUDITH VE.

SO, UM, WE'RE JUST EXCITED ABOUT THIS AND WE'RE ALSO, I'M, I SEE CHIEF MCNERNEY HERE.

THE, UM, POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS ALSO BEEN PART OF PLANNING FOR THIS BECAUSE WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT OUR OFFICERS, UH, ARE PRESENT.

I MEAN, WE, YOU KNOW, THROUGH OUR CHIEF, OUR OFFICERS WILL BE PRESENT AT EVERY, UM, THURSDAY EVENING TO ENSURE SAFETY AND PROTECTION DURING OUR FARMER'S MARKET EVENINGS.

QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS.

I JUST THINK THIS IS REALLY EXCITING AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THIS CAN BE WELL RECEIVED AND PEOPLE LOVE FARMER'S MARKETS.

UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO SOCIALIZE, TO, UH, MEET INTERESTING PEOPLE TO GET GOOD PRODUCE.

UM, AND I THINK SOME OF THE EMPLOYEES ARE ALSO GONNA LOVE IT BECAUSE THEY'LL BE ABLE TO COME TO WORK AND THEN BEFORE THEY GO HOME, UM, BUY SOMETHING FRESH AND HEALTHY AT THE FARMER'S MARKET.

YOU'VE DONE A REALLY GOOD JOB, UH, COORDINATING THIS.

SO DO WE HAVE ANY OF OUR, UH, OTHER, UH, I DON'T SEE THEM HERE.

I'M CHECKING TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANY PHONE NUMBERS THAT WE CAN CALL.

YEAH, PAUL, THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR JUDE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT EARLY VOTING, WHICH IS COMING UP PRETTY SOON, AND, UH, I THOUGHT THAT MIGHT BE A, A GOOD TOPIC.

SUNDAY, JUNE 20TH, AND THEN THERE'S A ONE DAY BREAK, WHICH WOULD BE MONDAY THE 21ST, AND THEN PRIMARY DAY ON THE 22ND.

UH, THANK YOU, TIM.

WHILE WE ARE, ARE WAITING FOR, UM, THE, UH, PRESENTERS, UH, I'M LOOKING AT THIS AGENDA AND I'M REALLY BAFFLED TO SEE THAT POUND CLERK COMMENTS, WHICH IS A, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, A STANDARD, UM, UH, PART OF THIS AGENDA IS NOT ON HERE, SO I'M SURE THAT THE OMISSION MUST HAVE BEEN AN INADVERTENT MISTAKE.

AND GOING FORWARD, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS A BOLD PRINT THAT SAYS TOWN CLERK'S COMMENTS.

SO THIS EVENING, UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE THAT, AND REMIND EVERYONE THAT EARLY VOTING BEGINS THIS SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH.

AND THE, UM, SPECIFIC SCHEDULE IS ON OUR TOWN'S WEBSITE.

THERE ARE ONLY TWO LOCATIONS IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR EARLY VOTING GREENBURG TOWN HALL AND DOBBS FERRY VILLAGE HALL.

HOWEVER, RESIDENTS OF GREENBURG, JUST LIKE RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT WESTCHESTER, MAY VOTE AT ANY ONE OF THE POLLING PLACES LISTED IN THE TOWN IN THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER FOR EARLY VOTING.

SO WE HAVE NINE DAYS OF EARLY VOTING, STARTING SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH, ALL THE WAY TO

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NOW ON THE 22ND, YOU CAN ONLY VOTE AT YOUR DESIGNATED POLLING PLACES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO BY THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.

SO IN, IN ADDITION TO THAT COMMENT, I'D ALSO LIKE FOR US TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO, UM, AND I MENTIONED THIS TO THE TOWN BOARD ALMOST TWO WEEKS AGO, UH, TO GIVE RECOGNITION TO DR.

OLIVIA J H****R, WHO WAS A LONG TIME RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

UH, DR.

H****R WAS ONE OF THE SURVIVORS OF THE TULSA, UH, OKLAHOMA RACE MASSACRE OF 1921, AND SHE IS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO SERVE ACTIVE DUTY.

SHE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN TO SERVE ACTIVE DUTY IN THE UNITED STATES COAST GUARD.

AS A YOUNG GIRL, DR.

OLIVIA JULIET H****R WITNESSED ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT AND DEADLY RIOTS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY, THE TULSA RACE MASSACRE OF 1921 A HUNDRED YEARS AGO, WHICH HAS BEEN COVERED IN OUR MEDIA.

UH, WHOEVER HAS THEIR, UM, MICROPHONE OPEN OR, OR PLEASE MUTE IT.

UH, WE ARE GETTING A LOT OF NOISE FEEDBACK HERE.

UH, THE MASSACRE OF 1921, A HUNDRED YEARS AGO LEFT AS MANY OF AS 300 AFRICAN AMERICANS AND SOME CAUCASIAN, UH, RESIDENTS, UH, OF, OF THAT AREA DEAD MORE THAN A THOUSAND HOMES AND BUSINESSES DESTROYED.

AND 10,000 AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE WERE LEFT HOMELESS IN THE GREENWOOD SECTION OF OKLAHOMA ONCE REFERRED TO AS THE BLACK WALL STREET.

NOW, THIS AREA COULD HAVE BEEN THE STANDARD.

THE BUSINESSES IN THIS AREA COULD HAVE BEEN THE STANDARD SETTERS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESSES AND GENERATIONAL PROSPERITY IN THIS COUNTRY.

UM, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S TO BE NOTED BECAUSE THERE WERE, THERE, THERE WAS THE, THE ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN HOTEL IN, IN GREENWOOD SECTION OF TULSA, OKLAHOMA.

THERE WAS SEVERAL, SEVERAL BUSINESSES, AND DR.

OLIVIA J HOOKER'S FAMILY OWNED A DEPARTMENT STORE.

NOW, WHO IS TO SAY AT HER FAMILY'S DEPARTMENT STORE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN AKIN TO A MACY'S, A SEARS, A LORD, AND TAYLOR'S A NEIMAN MARCUS, A NORDSTROM'S, A SACS FIFTH AVENUE, WHO'S TO SAY THAT HER FAMILY BUSINESS WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN SIMILAR TO ONE OF THOSE DEPARTMENT STORES THAT CONTINUED THROUGHOUT THE CENTURIES, THROUGHOUT THE DECADES.

BUT THOSE AFRICAN-AMERICAN OWNED BUSINESSES, HUNDREDS OF THEM WERE DESTROYED, AND THEY JUST DID NOT HAVE THE CAPITAL WITH WHICH TO, TO SPRING BACK.

DR.

H****R WENT ON TO, UM, ACHIEVE HER BACHELOR'S DEGREE FROM OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.

SHE WAS A TEACHER, SHE LATER EARNED HER DOCTORATE DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER.

AND HERE IS A QUOTE THAT I'D LIKE TO LEAVE US WITH THIS EVENING BY DR.

OLIVIA J H****R.

IF YOU DWELL ON YOUR MISERY, YOU ARE NOT HELPING YOURSELF OR ANYBODY ELSE.

SO IF YOU THINK WE, WHAT IF, IF YOU THINK, WHAT CAN I DO TO KEEP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN, THAT HELPS YOU TO GO FORWARD RATHER THAN SPENDING YOUR LIFE PITYING YOURSELF.

H****R WAS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

SHE MADE HERSELF AVAILABLE TO THE CHILDREN

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IN OUR AFTERSCHOOL EXPOSURE AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM FOR AN INTERVIEW THAT WE HAVE IN OUR CABLE ACCESS TV ARCHIVES.

SHE WAS AN AMAZING WOMAN.

SHE PASSED AWAY AT 103 AND JUNIPER HILL ROAD HAS A COMMEMORATIVE SIGN IN HER NAME AND HONOR.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR ATTENTION IN THIS, ON THIS TOPIC.

WONDERFUL, THANKS, BRIAN.

UM, NEXT, UH, I'D LIKE TO, UM, MENTION THAT DURING, UM, THE SPRING, UH, THE TOWN, UH, BASICALLY, UM, UM, WORKED WITH THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE AND PROVIDING, UM, YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THE, THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, UH, WORK WITH, UM, STRUGGLING, UH, BUSINESSES AND TO INTERACT WITH, UM, UM, UH, RESPECTED, UM, SOME NATIONALLY KNOWN, UM, BUSINESS LEADERS, UM, ON A, ON A ZUCKERBERG POST PANDEMIC INITIATIVE.

AND WE WANTED TO PROVIDE, UM, UH, THE TOWN BOARD AND RESIDENTS WITH AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT HAPPENED, UH, DURING THE PAST, UH, FEW MONTHS.

AND NOW WE'RE BEGINNING OUR SUMMER POST PANDEMIC, UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM.

SO I'D LIKE TO, UH, WELCOME, UH, BRIAN MURPHY, UH, TO TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WAS, YOU KNOW, ACCOMPLISHED.

UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU SO MUCH, SUPERVISOR.

FINE.

MY NAME IS BRIAN PATRICK MURPHY, AND I'M, I'M ONE OF THE CO-FOUNDERS OF THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE, ALONG WITH MICHAEL LIDDY, WHO'S ON THIS CALL, UM, IN THE BACKGROUND SOMEWHERE.

AND, UH, RANDY ZUCKERBERG, WHO IS FROM, UM, YOUR AREA, DOBBS FERRY AREA ORIGINALLY.

ALSO, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I CAUGHT THE END OF THAT, JUDITH.

AND SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THAT, UM, VERY INSPIRING STORY.

UM, SO, UH, WITHOUT GOING TOO LONG, I HAD, BECAUSE I AM THE FURTHEST THING FROM THE STAR OF THE SHOW TONIGHT, I HAVE, UH, TWO, UH, GREENBERG AREA BUSINESS LEADERS ON THE CALL WITH US TONIGHT THAT, UH, WILL BRIEFLY TELL YOU ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH THE STUDENTS AND THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTES POST PANDEMIC TASK FORCE.

THAT WAS A 12 WEEK PROGRAM WHERE WE TOOK SOME OF THE BEST STUDENTS IN THE GREENBERG AREA SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOLS, AND WE PUT THEM ON TEAMS TO WORK WITH BUSINESSES THAT WERE, HAD BEEN, OF COURSE, NEGATIVELY AFFECTED THROUGH THE COVID TO 19 PANDEMIC.

AND THEY WORKED DIRECTLY WITH THESE BUSINESSES TO HELP THEM COME UP WITH SOME INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS OF SOME WAYS THAT THEY MAY BE ABLE TO HELP THESE, UH, SMALL BUSINESSES IN ONLY 12 WEEKS OF WORK.

SO, WITH US TONIGHT, WE HAVE TWO, UH, LOCAL BUSINESS LEADERS AND TWO OF OUR STUDENTS.

BOTH OF THESE, UH, ALL FOUR OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO SPEAK TONIGHT ARE GONNA SPEAK FOR ABOUT TWO TO THREE MINUTES EACH.

THEY'RE ALL FOUR VERY ENGAGING, UH, HUMAN BEINGS.

UM, AND I THINK THE BEST PLACE TO START IS I WOULD LOVE TO BEGIN TONIGHT, UH, WITH JENNIFER AND JENNIFER LEADS THE MEDITATION LAB, WHICH IS JUST A WONDERFUL SMALL BUSINESS.

SO JENNIFER, WHAT I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO DO IS FIRST, UH, TELL US HOW YOU CAME INTO THIS PROGRAM.

'CAUSE A LOT OF THE FOLKS ON THE CALL PROBABLY DON'T EVEN KNOW THE, THE PROCESS OF HOW, HOW YOU GOT INTO BE ONE OF THE SMALL BUSINESSES.

AND MAYBE IN ABOUT 30 SECONDS, TELL US WHAT YOUR BUSINESS IS, HOW IT'S AFFECTED, AND THEN YOUR EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH THE TASK FORCE.

SO I WAS INVITED, UH, INTO THIS PROCESS THROUGH ONE OF THE, UH, PARTICIPANTS.

HIS NAME IS JAKE ERMAN.

AND JAKE KNEW ME THROUGH THE WORK THAT I HAD DONE, UM, IN IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.

I LEAD, UH, INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS MEDITATION WORKSHOPS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS ALL THROUGHOUT WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

AND I'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS.

SO I KNEW JAKE, UH, FAIRLY WELL.

HE WAS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE WORK THAT I HAD DONE, AND OBVIOUSLY HE WAS AWARE THAT IN THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 20 19, 20 20, THAT WHEN EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, BEGAN, UH, SHELTERING IN PLACE AND SCHOOL BECAME VIRTUAL, THAT I WAS NO LONGER A PART OF, UH, THE PROGRAM AND OBVIOUSLY INTO, UH, THE FALL AND, AND WINTER OF 2020 AND 2021, THAT I WAS NO LONGER PART OF THE PROGRAM.

SO HIS SENSE WAS THAT MY BUSINESS WAS, WAS ONE THAT WOULD BE, UH, SAFELY IDENTIFIED AS ONE THAT WAS STRUGGLING AND HAD REACHED OUT TO ME TO SEE IF I WOULD CONSIDER, UM, ALLOWING HIM TO ALLOW, YOU KNOW, PLAYING A ROLE.

AND I WASN'T EVEN REALLY SURE EXACTLY WHAT THAT MEANT, BUT I LOVED JAKE AND HE HAS SUCH A NICE WAY ABOUT HIM.

SO I WAS CERTAINLY EAGER AND CURIOUS TO, TO LEARN MORE.

AND ONCE I GOT, AS A PART OF THE PROGRAM, I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS INCREDIBLE GROUP OF TEENAGERS.

THE INITIATIVE WAS REALLY PRETTY AMAZING.

UM, ALL THE GROUP THAT, UH, THE TEENAGERS THAT WERE IN MY GROUP WERE SO CREATIVE AND, UM, HONEST AND FLEXIBLE.

THEY WERE SO BRILLIANT IN THEIR THINKING, AND THEY REALLY

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LISTENED TO MY STORY, WHAT I HAD TO SAY.

AND THEY WERE VERY CURIOUS AND EAGER TO BETTER UNDERSTAND MY COMPANY, WHY I DO WHAT I DO TO GET TO BETTER UNDERSTAND ME AND WHO I AM.

UM, AND WHEN THEY ASKED ME QUESTIONS, THEY REALLY LISTENED TO, UM, WHY IT WAS THAT MY BUSINESS WAS NOW STRUGGLING AND TRIED TO HELP ME COME UP WITH CREATIVE SOLUTIONS OR IDEAS TO NAVIGATE THROUGH OBVIOUSLY THESE VERY, UM, CHALLENGING AND UN UNFAMILIAR TIMES.

YOU WERE ABLE TO, UH, COME UP WITH CHANGES AS A RESULT OF THIS.

THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

SO THE, THE GROUP AS A WHOLE IDENTIFIED A LOT OF DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS IN WHICH I COULD CONSIDER, YOU KNOW, REDIRECTING, UH, MY ENERGY, SOME OF WHICH I HAD SHARED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE IDEA OF ENTERING INTO THE CORPORATE SPACE OR CONSIDERING THAT.

AND THEY, THEY TOOK THAT IDEA AND REALLY RAN WITH IT.

THEY WERE OPEN, UM, AND, AND EAGER TO SUGGEST EXPLORING DOING THAT WITH PARTNERS, DOING IT OUTSIDE RATHER THAN INSIDE TO ATTRACT, YOU KNOW, MORE COMPANIES WORKING WITH LOCAL CATERING COMPANIES, POSSIBLY TO DO SOME SORT OF JOINT PROJECT OR PRESENTATION, AS WELL AS PITCHING THE IDEA OF MY PROGRAM INTO A FEW NEW DISTRICTS FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR, 20 20, 20 21.

SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS, BUT CERTAINLY A LOT OF GOOD IDEAS ON THE TABLE.

YEAH, AND I, AND I THINK PAUL, WHAT YOU'RE ABOUT TO HEAR ABOUT, UH, SUPERVISOR FINE, IS THAT JAKE IS HERE WITH US AND HE'S GOING TO TELL US SPECIFICALLY, UH, WHAT HIS GROUP CAME UP WITH AND WHAT THEY'RE, UH, WORKING ON.

SO I WANNA WELCOME, JUST TO TRULY, ACTUALLY, I'LL LET JAKE INTRODUCE HIMSELF.

JAKE TELL, UH, YOUR NAME, WHAT, UH, WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO, UM, AND, UH, WHAT YEAR IN SCHOOL YOU ARE, AND THEN TELL US ABOUT LEADING THIS TEAM.

NOW, UM, AND HE IS PIVOTAL OR YEAH, PIVOTAL IN EVERYTHING THEY DO.

UM, WELL FIRST THANK YOU ALL FOR INVITING ME TO COME SPEAK, UM, TO YOU ALL.

IT'S REALLY AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE.

UM, BUT ALSO THANK YOU, JEN, FOR WORKING WITH US.

I KNOW YOU WERE A LITTLE BIT RELUCTANT AT FIRST, BUT, UH, YOUR MESSAGE TO ME WHEN YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE WILLING TO DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS REALLY RESONATED WITH ME, AND I MADE SURE THAT YOU KNEW THAT THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE WAS GOING TO DO THAT FOR YOU.

UM, SO I'M GONNA NOW TAKE YOU THROUGH LIKE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT THIS PROGRAM WAS, UM, WHERE IT WAS MEANINGFUL TO ME, AND THEN WHERE THE LESSONS WE LEARNED TIED INTO WHAT WE DID.

UM, SO THE FIRST FOUR WEEKS OF THE PROGRAM WAS TARGETED ON LEADERSHIP WORK.

UM, SOMETHING THAT REALLY STOOD OUT TO ME WAS TALKING ABOUT OUR ROLE MODELS.

UM, AND THAT SEEMS LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING LIKE PASSIVE, LIKE JUST TALKING ABOUT OUR ROLE MODELS, BUT IT REALLY FORCED US TO IDENTIFY THE QUALITIES WE WANTED TO SEE IN OURSELVES BECAUSE WE HAD SEEN THEM AND PEOPLE WHO HAD, HAD MADE AN IMPACT ON US.

UM, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE PEOPLE I THOUGHT OF IMMEDIATELY WAS AN OLD CROSS COUNTRY CAPTAIN, UM, SINCE I RUN FOR SCHOOL, AND THIS CAPTAIN REALLY TOUCHED ME BECAUSE OF HIS PASSION.

UM, AND THAT'S JUST A QUALITY I WANTED TO KIND OF SHOW YOU ALL, IT'S JUST A PASSION, THE LOVE FOR WHAT I DO.

UM, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE LESSONS I TOOK AWAY FROM THAT SEGMENT WAS JUST UNDERSTANDING WHO I WANTED TO BE AND EXEMPLIFYING THOSE QUALITIES.

UM, DURING THIS PROGRAM, WE ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH MANY, MANY BUSINESS LEADERS, UM, AND THEY TAUGHT US AMAZING LESSONS.

UM, AND SO THE FIRST ONE WOULD BE RUBEN POLEDO.

HE IS THE DEAN OF N Y U TISCH.

AND HE SAID SOMETHING THAT I HOPE STICKS WITH EVERYONE HERE.

UM, YOU'LL ALWAYS RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT NEVER RUN OUT OF QUESTIONS.

UM, AND WORKING WITH THE TEAM TO HELP A BUSINESS IN A TIME, WE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT, UM, ON LIKE A NATIONAL AND PANDEMIC SCALE.

WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS HOW ANYTHING WAS GONNA AFFECT JEN'S BUSINESS, BUT WE KNEW THAT WE JUST HAD TO KEEP ASKING QUESTIONS AND KEEP ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS, UM, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY QUESTIONS TO ANSWER, BUT YOU CAN NEVER RUN OUT OF QUESTIONS WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. UM, THAT BRINGS ME INTO THE NEXT THING.

UM, SO WE LEARNED ABOUT THE FOUR BUSINESS TRUTHS, AND I'M GONNA TIE IN THOSE FOUR BUSINESS TRUTHS INTO, UM, MORE THINGS WE LEARNED ABOUT, UM, AND THEN MORE THINGS WE DID.

SO THE FIRST ONE IS THAT BUSINESS IS ABOUT SOLVING PROBLEMS. AND, UM, ONE BUSINESS LEADER WHO REALLY SHOWED THIS IS RANDY ZUCKERBERG.

UM, SHE CAME ON, HEARD ALL OF OUR PITCHES, AND THEY WERE LIKE 11 GROUPS PITCHING TO HER.

BUT EACH AND EVERY TIME SHE CAME UP WITH GENUINE FEEDBACK ON HOW THEY COULD BETTER, UM, THEIR APPROACH TO HELPING THEIR BUSINESS AND HOW THEY COULD ACTUALLY HELP.

UM, AND THAT STUCK, UM, AS LIKE AN ASPIRING BUSINESS LEADER.

I WANNA BE ABLE TO HAVE THAT SAME ADAPTABILITY, UM, TO WHATEVER THE SITUATION IS AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE PEOPLE WITH GENUINE FEEDBACK SO THAT THEY CAN ACTUALLY IMPROVE, UM, AND NOT JUST FEEL LIKE I ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT THEY HAD TO SAY.

UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT RANDY DID.

AND THE NEXT BUSINESS TRUTH IS THAT THERE'S A ROOT TO THESE PROBLEMS. UM, AND WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO HARRY LEY ACTUALLY WORKS FOR ZOOM, AND THAT SAME FRAMEWORK IS SOMETHING THEY USE AT ZOOM.

UM, AND THAT WAS REALLY PHENOMENAL HEARING FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS CHANGED THE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES.

WE ARE MEETING ON ZOOM RIGHT

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UM, AND HE'S THERE TELLING US THIS FRAMEWORK THAT WE GET TO USE.

UM, THAT WAS JUST AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY.

IS IT, HE, YOU ALSO, UM, SOMEBODY WHO'S ONE OF THE HIGHEST RANKING PEOPLE AT ZOOM? UH, YEAH, HE'S THE C I O OF ZOOM INTERNATIONAL.

DIDN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY FOR THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMS NOW, BUT BUSINESSES WERE STRUGGLING WITH PEOPLE HAVING, LIKE, THE ADDED STRESSORS OF THE AT HOME ENVIRONMENT.

AND DID YOU FEEL, UM, OR DID THE STUDENTS FEEL, UM, LIKE A LITTLE AWKWARD, UM, OR, UH, SPEAKING TO SOMEBODY WHO'S, UH, SO INTERNATIONALLY, YOU KNOW, KNOWN, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW DID YOU FEEL? DID YOU FEEL CONFIDENT, LIKE JUST TALKING TO HIM, UM, WHEN HE'S SO SUCCESSFUL, UH, AND DID HE, WAS HE ARROGANT OR, OR DOWN TO EARTH? WHAT, WHAT WAS HE FEELING? YEAH, AND THAT'S ANOTHER KIND OF LESSON THAT I LEARNED FROM THIS PROGRAM IS HOW ACCESSIBLE THESE BUSINESS LEADERS REALLY ARE.

UM, THEY SEEM LIKE THEY'RE SO FAR AWAY AND THAT THEY LIVE IN A, IN A DIFFERENT WORLD THAN US, BUT THE TRUTH IS, THEY ALL LIVE IN THIS WORLD.

AND HE TALKED ABOUT HOW ZOOM, THEY REALLY WANTED TO START SOLVING THE EDUCATION PROBLEM.

UM, AND THAT'S A PROBLEM WE ALL STRUGGLED WITH.

NOW, LIKE, I'M A STUDENT, I STRUGGLED WITH THE EDUCATION PROBLEM TRANSITIONING TO ONLINE SCHOOL.

UM, AND HE WASN'T ARROGANT.

HE LIKE, OBVIOUSLY HE KNEW THE IMPACT OF ZOOM, BUT UM, HE ALSO TAUGHT US THAT AT ZOOM THEY HAVE LIKE A, THEY HAVE LITTLE MENTALITY FRAMEWORK THAT LIKE, IF YOU AREN'T HAPPY, YOU'RE NOT LIKE POSITIVE, JUST DON'T COME TO WORK.

UM, AND HE SHOWED THAT TO US.

HE WAS POSITIVE, UM, REINFORCING AND JUST LIKE SHOWED THAT THESE ARE LIKE THE WAYS THEY SOLVE PROBLEMS ON THESE NATIONAL SCALES, HOW THEY DO IT.

UM, AND NONE OF IT WAS LIKE UNACCESSIBLE TO US.

IT REALLY MADE SENSE SINCE WE HAD LEARNED THESE FRAMEWORKS ALREADY.

UM, AND NOW WE GOT TO HEAR IT FROM SOMEONE WHO DOES THIS FOR A LIVING IN ONE OF THE HIGHEST STAKE JOBS IN THE WORLD.

UM, AND THAT WAS TRULY AMAZING.

UM, AND THEN THE THIRD BUSINESS TRUTH HERE IS LIKE, THERE'S A WAY TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS. UM, AND THAT WAY IS, I MEAN, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THE PROBLEM IS, BUT THAT STARTS WITH COMMUNITY AND SHOWING UP.

AND THOSE ARE TWO REALLY VALUABLE LESSONS WE LEARNED FROM THIS PROGRAM.

UM, JUST THE IDEA OF SHOWING UP, BE THERE FOR YOUR TEAM, FOR YOUR COMMUNITY, FOR YOUR BUSINESS, UM, AND JUST IT, THAT WAS AN OVERARCHING THEME AND, UM, IT REALLY TOUCHED ME.

THAT'S ONE THING I REALLY WANT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS IS JUST SHOW UP FOR WHATEVER IT IS, UM, WHENEVER IT IS OR WHEREVER IT IS, BE THERE, SHOW UP AND DO WHAT I HAVE TO DO.

UM, AND THEN THE LAST AND FINAL, LIKE THE FINAL BUSINESS TRUTH IS THE WAY TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS IS TO FOLLOW A PATH.

UM, AND THAT PATH INVOLVES BUILDING COMMUNITY.

AND ALEX BUSSER, THE SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK AMERICA PRIVATE BANK, WHICH IS, IT'S CRAZY.

WE EVEN TALKED TO HIM, UM, BECAUSE HE WAS JUST TELLING US, HE TALKING, HE WAS TALKING TO A CELEBRITY LIKE RIGHT BEFORE TALKING TO US.

BUT HE CAME, SPENT SOME TIME WITH US AND TALKED TO US JUST ABOUT BUILDING COMMUNITY AND HOW IMPORTANT THAT IS, UM, IN EVERY, IN EVERYTHING YOU DO.

UM, AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAD TO DO.

WE HAD TO BUILD A COMMUNITY, UM, AROUND THE MEDITATION LAB SO THAT PEOPLE RECOGNIZE, YOU KNOW, THIS BUSINESS IS STRUGGLING, BUT WE CAN HELP, WE CAN PARTICIPATE BECAUSE IT MATTERS TO US.

MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS MATTERS MORE THAN EVER.

UM, YOU KNOW, SITTING AT HOME ON A SCREEN IS, IT'S DRAINING, IT'S STRESSFUL, UM, BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS. UM, AND MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS IS ONE OF THOSE.

SO PART OF OUR JOB IS TO CONNECT TO THAT COMMUNITY THAT IS STRUGGLING BECAUSE OF THE INACCESSIBILITY OF MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS SERVICES, AND SHOW THEM THAT IT REALLY ISN'T IN INACCESSIBLE.

UM, AND THEN ALSO WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF TALKING TO LINDY ELKINS TANTON, ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANT PEOPLE I EVER TALKED TO.

SHE'S RUNNING A NASA MISSION AND CAME AND TALKED TO US FOR ALMOST TWO HOURS JUST ABOUT BUILDING TEAMS, UM, AND BUILDING TEAMS WITH PURPOSE AND WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH A REASON.

IT'S BEHIND EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON YOUR TEAM SHOULD HAVE A REASON, AND THAT'S MEANINGFUL.

UM, SHE ALSO TALKED ABOUT GIVING CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE AND WHAT SHE CALLS DISPELLING THIS HERO MODEL, UM, WHICH IS REALLY JUST A REALLY FASCINATING CONCEPT OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE DOES THEIR PART GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THEIR PART.

LIKE NO ONE SHOULD BE ABOVE, UM, THE GROUP WHEN IT COMES TO TAKING CREDIT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, NO ONE IS ABLE TO DO IT ALL.

AND THE TRUTH IS THAT WE'RE MORE POWERFUL WHEN WE WORK TOGETHER AND WE'RE INTERDEPENDENT.

UM, AND PART OF THAT IS GIVING EACH OTHER CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE, BECAUSE I KNOW, LIKE PERSONALLY WORKING WITH THESE TEAMS, I HAD THE PLEASURE WORKING WITH AMAZING STUDENTS WHO, YOU KNOW, HAD KNOWN THOSE LESSONS, BUT THOSE LESSONS WERE REINFORCED BY LINDY, AND THEY MADE AN EFFORT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE WAS NOT ONLY INCLUDED, BUT EVERYONE MADE SURE THAT THEY KNEW THAT THEY WERE INCLUDED AND THAT THEIR WORK MATTERED TO THE GROUP.

UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE BROUGHT ALL THIS TO MEDITATION LAB.

JEN, UM, TALKED ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE REALLY PUSHED FOR LIKE A CORPORATE PROGRAM, UH, FOR THE MEDITATION LAB, UM, JUST BECAUSE WE SAW THAT, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS

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LIKE BEING AROUND, LIKE HAVING A LACK OF LIKE CHILD CARE IS STRESSFUL FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF PARENTS, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVE TO MANAGE WORK ON TOP OF IT.

UH, NOT BEING ABLE TO MEET WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO THEIR WORK IS ALSO ANOTHER STRUGGLE.

AND ALL THIS BUILDS UPON EACH OTHER, UM, FOR, TO CREATE STRESS AND CREATE THINGS THAT MEDITATION AND MINDFULNESS CAN SOLVE.

AND SO WE WANTED TO KIND OF BREAK INTO THAT KIND OF MARKET THAT WE SAW AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR JEN TO EXPAND HER BUSINESS, UM, POSSIBLY PERMANENTLY OR EVEN TEMPORARILY UNTIL SHE CAN GET TO WHAT SHE REALLY CARES ABOUT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, TEACHING IN SCHOOLS.

UM, AND HAVING WORKED, HAVING BEEN PART OF JEN'S PROGRAMS MANY TIMES AT IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, UM, I KNOW IT'S A TRULY AMAZING EXPERIENCE.

UM, AND I, YOU KNOW, I ENCOURAGE ALL THESE STUDENTS HERE TO KIND OF REACH OUT TO THEIR SCHOOLS AND, YOU KNOW, ASK THEM AND THEY CAN GET JEN INTO THEIR SCHOOL BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S A GREAT EXPERIENCE.

UM, VERY RELAXING, VERY CALMING.

AND YOU KIND OF COME OUT OF THOSE SESSIONS REALIZING THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A WAY TO KIND OF RESOLVE ALL THE STRESS, ESPECIALLY IN LIKE TIMES LIKE THE END OF THE YEAR.

A LOT OF STUDENTS HAVE LIKE FINALS, UM, AND OTHER EXAMS AND AND STUFF, AND THAT'S A STRESSFUL TIME.

UM, AND JEN ALWAYS HAPPENED TO COME LIKE, DURING THOSE STRESSFUL TIMES, SO RIGHT BEFORE THOSE STRESSFUL TIMES, TIMES WHEN WE NEEDED IT MOST.

UM, AND I KIND OF WANTED, AND MY RATIONALE FOR BRINGING JEN ALONG TO THIS PROGRAM WAS NOT ONLY DID SHE COMMUNICATE TO ME THAT SHE NEEDED IT, BUT I KNEW THAT OTHER PEOPLE NEEDED TO BE TOUCHED BY HER WORK.

AND, UM, THIS WAS A TRULY AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.

UM, AND LIKE, OVERALL TO SOME OF WHAT MY COLLEAGUES AND I LEARNED, WE LEARNED ABOUT LIKE, TEAMWORK, COMMUNICATION, UM, I MEAN PROBLEM SOLVING.

AND WE LEARNED TO KIND OF JUST BREAK EVERYTHING DOWN AND BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE.

SO MANY LESSONS THAT WILL KIND OF BE EVER VALUABLE IN EVERYTHING I DO.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE, I KNOW THAT TALKING TO EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY TEAMMATES, UM, WE'VE ALL BEEN JUST TRULY GRATEFUL TO WORK WITH THIS PROGRAM AND WORK WITH JEN AND WORK WITH EACH OTHER BECAUSE OF THE IMPACT WE'RE ABLE TO CREATE.

SO, LIKE, ONCE AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL FOR LETTING ME PRESENT TO YOU ALL.

UM, I HOPE, AS I SAID BEFORE, THAT, YOU KNOW, MY PASSION FOR THIS PROGRAM SHOWS, UM, BUT IF I COULD LEAVE YOU ALL WITH ANY WORD TO DESCRIBE WHAT THIS EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE, UM, I WOULD SIMPLY SAY IT HAS BEEN INSPIRING.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

LIKE CLASSIC AND OLD, BUT WE TRY OUR BEST TO DO MORE, LIKE SANITIZE, ESPECIALLY ON THE WORKERS STAFF AND ALSO MORE IMPORTANT CUSTOMERS.

JAKE IS JUST A, AS, AS WE ALL KNOW, YOU'VE PROBABLY MET HIM BEFORE.

IF YOU'RE IN THE GREENBERG AREA, ONE OF THE MOST SPECIAL, UH, YOUNG STUDENTS THAT I'VE EVER BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH IN MY LIFE, AND I'M SURE HE COULD GIVE YOU A 25 BULLET POINT, UM, UH, THING ABOUT ALL THE LITERAL SPECIFIC THINGS.

EVERY REACH OUT THEY DID, EVERY PERSON THEY COMMUNICATED WITH, EVERY, UH, JOURNEY ALONG THE WAY.

SO IF ANYBODY WANTS A DEEP DIVE INTO ALL THOSE THINGS, REACH OUT TO JAKE OR ME AND HE CAN GIVE YOU LIKE, UH, SPREADSHEETS PROBABLY OF ALL THE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATIONS THEY HAVE.

I WANNA MOVE ON QUICKLY.

WE HAVE ONE MORE BUSINESS HERE, UM, THAT IT WAS SUPER INSPIRING AND ONE OF THE STUDENTS, UH, THAT WORKED, THAT HEADED UP THAT BUSINESS.

TIFFANY, WELCOME, TIFFANY'S WITH TOP ASIA MART, UH, JUST A BUSINESS THAT WE ABSOLUTELY FELL IN LOVE WITH.

SO TIFFANY, MAYBE YOU COULD GIVE US ABOUT TWO MINUTES, UH, TO TELL US WHO YOU ARE AND THEN WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE.

UM, THERE YOU ARE, UH, WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCE WAS LIKE, UH, GOING THROUGH THIS PROGRAM WITH THESE STUDENTS.

HI EVERYONE.

THANKS FOR INVITING, ESPECIALLY FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBERG AND ALSO ZUKERBERG INSTITUTE.

AND, UM, WE ARE, SO IT'S OUR PLEASURE TO PARTICIPATE WITH THIS PROGRAM AND, UM, NUMBER REPRESENT TOP ASIAN MAR, WHICH IS LOCATED IN SCOTTSDALE.

AND UM, UH, WE ARE A SPECIALTY, UM, ASIAN SUPERMARKET, AND USUALLY WE SELL A LOT OF STUFF IN REGARDS TO, UM, SOUTH FOOD AND ALSO SOME CHINESE AND JAPANESE AND ALSO SOME, UM, WESTERN FOOD, WHICH IS LIKE THE COMBINATION AND WHAT'S THAT ADDRESS OF THIS STORE? SCOTTSDALE? NO, THE ADDRESS.

WHERE ON STREET? OH, UM, 365 CENTRAL PARK AVENUE.

THAT'S OUR ADDRESS.

YEAH, I THINK IT'S NEXT TO THE NEW BARBER, UH, BARBER SHOP, UM, UH, BARBER SHOP, UM, STORE, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THAT.

IF YOU GUYS COME FROM THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND NEXT TO IT IS THIS SUPERMARKET.

AND, UH, BASED ON THE EXPERIENCE OF THE, UM, CUSTOMER, UH, WE ARE LIKE THE GENERATION OF THE OWNER WHO TOOK OVER AND, AND ESPECIALLY, UM, PANDEMIC THAT'S REALLY HIT US.

PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY A RETAIL STORE SUPERMARKET, THEY'RE REALLY DOING VERY GOOD BUSINESS.

BUT ACTUALLY BEING A ESSENTIAL WORKERS IN THE SUPERMARKET, YOU ACTUALLY TAKE A LOT OF RISK, ESPECIALLY YOU HAVE TO SERVE A LOT OF, UM, DIFFERENT, UM, CUSTOMERS COME IN AND YOU HAVE TO LIKE, UM, BE VERY CAREFUL, LIKE SANITIZE AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

EVEN THOUGH OUR STORE, IT'S KIND OF LIKE HAVING LIKE SOME HISTORY AND KIND OF

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AND ALSO THE DISTANCE, DISTANCE AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

WE WORK SO HARD FOR LIKE, UM, WHEN WE SERVE CUSTOMER, EVERYBODY WILL LIKE, UM, COME AND BUY A LOT OF STUFF JUST TO MAKE SURE TO BE SAFE AND STAY HOME, AND THEN KEEP THE SELF LIKE MORE QUIET AND CALM AT HOME AND JUST TO PROVIDE, UM, JUST TO PROVIDE EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO, UM, MOST OF THE TIME, UM, DURING THE PANDEMIC, UM, IT, IT REALLY HELPED US TO BOOST A LITTLE BIT OF THE BUSINESS, BUT THEN THE SCARY PART.

AND EVERY DAY WHEN, UM, ESPECIALLY WE ARE LIKE FAMILY BUSINESS, WE HAVE THE ENGAGED, UM, THE SCARY WITHIN US BECAUSE WE HAVE TO FACE DIFFERENT PEOPLE EVERY DAY AND WITH LONG HOURS.

SO PEOPLE GET PANIC AND THEN CAME IN AND THEN YOU DON'T KNOW IF THE CUSTOMER HAVING A DIFFERENT SITUATIONS.

SO, AND ESPECIALLY, UM, WE HAVE TO BE MORE SECURE AND EVERYTHING ELSE, AND GETTING FOOD, UH, GETTING LIKE RESOURCE FROM A DIFFERENT WHOLESALER AND PUT AND PROVIDE THAT TO THE CUSTOMER IS ALSO A TOUGH TIME BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LIKE CRAZILY LIKE TAKING ALL THOSE LIKE RESOURCES.

AND WE ARE NOT LIKE BIG, UM, COMPETITION COMPARED TO H MART, SHOPRITE EVERYTHING ELSE.

UM, IT'S ALSO ANOTHER COST FOR US BECAUSE WE ARE SMALL BUSINESS, WE DON'T REALLY GET MUCH OF THE RESOURCE TO PROVIDE, YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE FOODS TO YOUR CUSTOMER TO GAIN, LIKE TO, UH, KEEP YOUR PROFIT.

BUT THEN IN OTHER HAND, IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF CONTINUING RESOURCES, THAT'S REALLY, UM, UM, MAKE US REALLY, UM, STRUGGLE A LITTLE BIT.

BUT THANKS FOR THE PROGRAM.

AND THEN, UM, THE, THE STUDENTS IS ACTUALLY GIVE US A LOT OF LIKE HELPFUL RESOURCE BECAUSE THEY, UM, HELP US TO ESTABLISH A LOT OF LIKE, IDEAS, ESPECIALLY ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND, UM, INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, AND THEN HELP US TO CLEAN UP THE STORE, SANITIZE EVERYTHING ELSE BECAUSE WE HAVE LIMITED LIKE WORKERS IN THE STORE, UM, WE REALLY APPRECIATE.

AND THEN THEY GIVE US BRILLIANT IDEAS HOW TO WORK ON THE STORE AND JUST TO CONTINUE HOW TO GROW UP AND GET A LITTLE BIT MORE IMPROVE.

SO, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT, AND, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, FOR THE PROGRAM.

I JUST WANNA, UH, ASK A QUESTION, JUST A CLARIFICATION.

SURE.

THERE'S AN ASIAN MARKET, UH, AT THE FOUR CORNERS IN HARTSDALE RATHER THAN SCARSDALE.

IS THAT A, THAT'S, WAS, WAS THAT YOUR STORE? UM, IT'S IN SCOTTSDALE'S ONLY, NOT IN SCARSDALE HARSDALE.

I THINK IT'S, UM, IF YOU ARE REFERRING TO UM, UH, H MART OR ANOTHER JAPANESE, NO, NO, THERE, THERE'S ONE AT THE FOUR CORNERS IN HARTSDALE, NEAR A BARBER SHOP.

UM, NO, NOT THAT ONE.

THE OTHER ONE IS DALE.

THIS IS IN EDGE, THE EDGEMONT SECTION OF, OF GREENWOOD.

MM-HMM.

SO I DON'T KNOW, UH, BEFORE THEY HAVE LIKE CALIFORNIA PIZZA, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THE PLACE, BUT THEN THEY ALSO LIKE, UM, GONE OVER THE BUSINESS.

WE ARE ON THAT LOT.

THAT'S, UM, THAT'S OUR STORE LOCATION.

THAT IS, THAT IS GREAT.

MM-HMM.

AND, UM, IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN, UM, PATRONIZING YOUR STORE, HOW DO THEY, UH, COULD YOU GIVE THEM A PHONE NUMBER, UM, AND JUST GIVE A FREE COMMERCIAL TO YOUR STORE? SURE, SURE.

WE HAVE NAME CALL AND THEN WE TRY TO LIKE, UH, PROMOTE OUR STORE A LITTLE, AND ALSO THE STUDENT ALSO A BEST RESOURCE THAT I ADVOCATE AND TRY TO PROMOTE OUR STORE AND THEN TRY TO, UM, DO SOME ADVERTISEMENT MAYBE OVER THE HIGH SCHOOL AND GET SOME SNACK, THAT'S FINE TOO.

AND THEN WE ALSO, UM, SUCCESSFULLY BECAUSE OF THEIR EFFORT AND, UM, WE, UM, ATTRACT SOME, UM, CUSTOMER FROM CONNECTICUT BECAUSE INSTEAD OF TRAVEL TO NEW YORK CITY AND WE ACTUALLY CUT HALF OF THE TIME AND THEN THEY COME TO OUR STORE TO GET WHATEVER THAT FEELS LIKE FIT FOR THE SCENARIO.

SO, WHICH IS VERY HAPPY BECAUSE, UM, THAT'S REALLY, UH, VERY CONVENIENT FOR THEM.

AND ALSO KEEP US LIVING BECAUSE IN SCOTTSDALE DOING BUSINESS IS NOT, IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE TOO.

SO, YEAH.

SO, UM, I'M HAPPY THAT, UH, WE KIND OF LIKE WORK IT OUT A LITTLE BIT, UM, LITTLE BY LITTLE, HOPEFULLY IN THE FUTURE WE CAN IMPROVE.

DAL, I'M A SOPHOMORE AT SCARSDALE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF JOINING BRIAN AND MICHAEL IN THE POST PANDEMIC TASK FORCE.

AND UH, AND BRIAN, COULD YOU MENTION SOME OF THE ACTUAL INITIATIVES THAT THE STUDENTS TOOK? YEAH, I COULD, BUT IT WOULD BE DONE BETTER BY DAVID WHO'S ABOUT TO DO THAT.

UM, UH, JAKE AND DAVID, DAVID OW, WHO YOU'RE ABOUT TO MEET, UH, WAS ONE OF THE TEAM LEADERS OF TOP ASIA MART.

AND, UM, HE IS ALREADY BEYOND MY YEARS, UH, AS FAR AS A BUSINESS LEADER, AND HE'S ONLY A SOPHOMORE.

SO, DAVID, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF, YOUR NAME, WHAT SCHOOL YOU GO TO, THE YEAR IN SCHOOL THAT YOU ARE, AND, UH, TELL US THE SPECIFIC THINGS AND GET VERY SPECIFIC BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW I AM ABOUT SPECIFICITY, UM, BECAUSE SUPERVISOR FEER WANTS TO KNOW THE LITERAL EVERY SINGLE THING THAT YOU DID TO HELP OUT TIFFANY'S AMAZING BUSINESS.

UH, SO REALLY QUICK AS AN INTRODUCTION.

HI EVERYONE, MY NAME IS DAVID

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SO REALLY QUICK BEFORE I GET STARTED, I JUST WANTED TO PASTE THE ADDRESS AND THE WEBSITE FOR TOP ASIA MARTIN, IN CASE ANYONE WAS INTERESTED IN PATRONIZING THIS BUSINESS.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF ANY OF YOU MIGHT WANT TO TRY OUT SOME SOUTHEAST ASIAN CUISINE OR ANY CUISINE FROM THE, UH, ASIAN REGION, THAT THERE'S YOUR PLACE RIGHT IN SCARSDALE.

AND SO REALLY QUICK, I JUST WANNA START BY SAYING ONE OF THE, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY TIME HONORED TRADITIONS OF OUR PROGRAM WAS AT THE END OF EVERY MEETING EVERY WEEK, WE WOULD GIVE A MOMENT OF THANKS, AND THAT HAS BECOME A DEFINING MOMENT FOR MY LIFE IN THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

AND I'D LIKE TO START OFF THIS BY GIVING A COUPLE OF, UH, THANK YOUS.

SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU TO THE TOWN OF GREENBERG FOR HELPING TO SPONSOR THIS AMAZING PROGRAM AND GIVING ALL OF US STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN SO MUCH FROM BRIAN, MICHAEL, AND ALL OF OUR GUEST SPEAKERS.

THEN OF COURSE, THANK YOU TO BRIAN AND MICHAEL FOR PUTTING ON THIS AMAZING PROGRAM FOR FOUNDING THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE.

AND LASTLY, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO JAKE, ONE OF MY FELLOW COLLEAGUES WHO HAS DONE I KNOW AN AMAZING JOB AND JUST RIGHT NOW I THINK YOU'VE ALL HEARD HOW AMAZING OF A SPEAKER HE IS.

HE'S TRULY INCREDIBLE AND HE'S TOOKEN A LOT OF THE POINTS THAT I WAS GONNA TALK ABOUT AND SO THEM IN A WAY THAT IS WAY BETTER THAN ANYTHING THAT I COULD HAVE COME UP WITH.

SO, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE BRIAN ASKED SO POLITELY, AND SAME THING WITH MR. FINER.

I WANNA TALK TO YOU ALL A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT WE TOOK UNDER THE POST PANDEMIC TASK FORCE OFF WITH A QUICK PREFACE DURING THE POST PANDEMIC TASK FORCE.

I WOULD SAY THAT TO SUM UP WHAT WE LEARNED, I WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS A NEW FORM OF THINKING BECAUSE WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THINGS LIKE, WELL, THERE'S A PROBLEM, NOW WE GOTTA FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION.

BUT THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO I THINK ABOUT A PROBLEM? HOW DO I THINK ABOUT A WAY TO DEVELOP A SOLUTION TO SET PROBLEM? THAT IS WHAT WE LEARNED UNDER THE POST PANDEMIC TASK FORCE.

AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THAT, WHICH IS WE DEVELOPED WHAT IS KNOWN AS A COMMUNITY ACTION QUESTION, A FOCUSED, DIRECTED QUESTION AIMED AT ANALYZING THE PROBLEMS THAT OUR BUSINESS WAS FACING AND CREATING A SOLUTION THAT WOULD BE THE MOST BENEFICIAL AND MOST ACTIONABLE FOR THAT BUSINESS.

AND SPECIFICALLY THE COMMUNITY ACTION QUESTION THAT WE DEVELOPED FOR OUR BUSINESS, WHICH IS, AGAIN, TOP ASIA MART WAS WHAT ARE, OH, SORRY, THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT ONE.

HOW CAN WE HELP TOP ASIA MART BUILD AND IMPROVE THEIR SOCIAL CONNECTIONS TO INCREASE CONSUMER INTEREST? SO WE STARTED OFF ANALYZING HOW WE CAN BUILD SOCIAL CONNECTIONS GROUNDWORK FOR ANY SMALL BUSINESS IN AMERICA.

AND WE DECIDED THE BEST WAY TO DO SO WOULD BE THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.

SO SOME OF THE INITIATIVES THAT WE TOOK, WE DEVELOPED A SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE FOR TOP ASIA, MARK, AND WE STARTED NETWORKING WITH OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN ORDER TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY, REALLY QUICKLY, I JUST WANNA GIVE A PIECE OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION ABOUT TOP ASIA MART, WHICH IS TOP ASIA MART IS A BUSINESS THAT WAS STARTED DURING COVID, AND THAT MAKES IT ALL THE MORE UNIQUE BECAUSE SOMETIMES PEOPLE AREN'T EXACTLY OUT SHOPPING DURING COVID.

SO SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT THIS WAS A NEW BUSINESS THAT HAD POPPED UP.

IT WAS PROVIDING NEW GOODS THAT HAD A NEW LOOK, NEW DESIGN, NEW PHILOSOPHY.

AND THAT WAS REALLY SOMETHING THAT WE TOOK INTO ACCOUNT WHEN DEVELOPING OUR SOLUTIONS.

WE WANTED TO LET THE WORLD KNOW, HEY, THERE WAS A GREAT NEW BUSINESS IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY THAT YOU SHOULD BE HELPING AND SUPPORTING BECAUSE IT NOT ONLY IS A GREAT BUSINESS, BUT IT ALSO GIVES BACK TO COMMUNITY HELPS AND SUPPORTS YOU.

AND SO WE AGAIN, DEVELOPED SOCIAL MEDIA.

WE ALSO WORKED WITH GOOGLE BUSINESS PROGRAM TO GET IT DISCOVERABLE BECAUSE IT USED TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE PREVIOUS BUSINESS.

AND THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, A BIG ISSUE BECAUSE LET'S SAY I WENT TO THAT PREVIOUS BUSINESS, DIDN'T LIKE IT, HOW DO I KNOW THAT THEY'VE CHANGED? THAT'S WHAT WE WERE, UH, OUR GOAL WAS.

IN ADDITION TO THAT, HOWEVER, WE ALSO WANTED TO IMPROVE UPON CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE, WHICH IS ANOTHER THING THAT WE LEARNED FROM OUR EXCELLENT GUEST SPEAKERS.

THEY TALKED ABOUT THE IDEA OF SHOPPING FROM A POINT OF EMOTION, WHAT DO I FEEL WHEN I SHOP AT A BUSINESS? WHAT IS THE EMOTION THAT IT GIVES ME? HOW DO I FEEL ABOUT SHOPPING THERE? AND DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR A SOLUTION IN, UM, NO, SORRY, NOT IMPLICATING, INCLUDING THAT CONCEPT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO WHAT WE DID.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF OUR BIGGEST INITIATIVES WITH TOP ASIAN MART WAS, I BELIEVE IT WAS ON A SUNDAY EVENING, A LOT OF OUR TEAM MEMBERS, THE MAJORITY OF THEM CAME TOGETHER, BOUGHT THE CLEANING SUPPLIES, WENT INTO THE BUSINESS, AND SPENT HOURS JUST WORKING TO GET THE PLACE CLEANED UP.

HOW MANY VOLUNTEERS? THAT WAS REALLY, UH, GO AHEAD, MR. FEINER.

SORRY.

HOW MANY STUDENTS, UH, DID THE CLEANUP? I I WANNA SAY LIKE 15? YEAH, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS SPECIFICALLY WITH THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE, A LOT OF THE STUDENTS GOT THEIR FRIENDS INTERESTED AS WELL, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO BRING ALONG MORE PEOPLE TO HELP OUT THIS BUSINESS.

AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY SOMETHING IMPORTANT.

AND I'LL, I'LL TOUCH A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT LATER, BUT SPECIFICALLY, WE WENT IN,

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WE CLEANED UP THE BUSINESS, WE GAVE IT A NEW LOOK.

AND ANOTHER KEY THING THAT I WANT TO MENTION IS THAT OUR WORK WITH TOP ASIAN MARK, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IT'S DONE.

I THINK THAT THE FRIENDS AND THE CLOSE KNIT COMMUNITY I'VE MADE ALONG THE WAY AT THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE, WE WANNA KEEP HELPING THIS BUSINESS.

WE WANT TO KEEP DOING OUR PART IN PROPPING UP A REAL IMPORTANT MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY.

AND SO I THINK THAT WE'RE ALREADY PLANNING FOR MAYBE CONTINUING TO COME IN ON ANOTHER DAY AND HELPING OUT AGAIN.

WE ALSO WANNA DEVELOP MORE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES WITH THIS BUSINESS, GET IT MORE KNOWN TO THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

AND I GUESS IF I WOULD BE ABLE TO, BRIAN, DO WE HAVE THE TIME? I JUST WANNA GIVE OUT KIND OF LIKE A FINAL MESSAGE OF WHAT I THINK THIS PROGRAM HAS MEANT FOR ME.

THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL.

DAVID.

YES, YOU HAVE A MOMENT? GREAT.

SO REALLY QUICKLY, WHAT I BELIEVE THIS PROGRAM HAS MEANT FOR ME IS I'VE NOT ONLY LEARNED ABOUT BUSINESS, AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

I'VE LEARNED TO BECOME A BETTER CITIZEN, A BETTER COMMUNITY MEMBER, AND A BETTER PERSON BECAUSE REALLY THE LESSONS THAT HELP A SMALL BUSINESS, I TOP ASIAN MART HAVE ALSO HELPED ME TO LOOK AT MY PROBLEMS IN LIFE, TO LOOK AT MY WAY THAT I APPROACH CERTAIN ISSUES, LOOK AT MY PHILOSOPHIES IN REGARDS TO CERTAIN THINGS.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY HELPED ME, AND I HOPE THAT MAYBE THE TOWN OF BLOOMBERG IS WILLING TO SPONSOR THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE AGAIN AND GIVE THIS OPPORTUNITY MORE STUDENTS.

IS TRULY THE MOST FULFILLING EXPERIENCE A STUDENT CAN HAVE.

I'LL JUST ASK YOU A QUESTION, UM, BECAUSE I, I WANNA, UM, LIKE CREATE, I, I WANNA REACH OUT TO FOUNDATIONS AND SEE IF WE COULD, UM, YOU KNOW, ITS EXPAND THE PROGRAM AND YOU KNOW, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WOULD YOU SAY, SAY TO A FOUNDATION THAT MIGHT BE RELUCTANT TO, YOU KNOW, TO GIVE TO THE SAY, OH, THERE'S A MILLION OTHER, UH, PROGRAMS THAT HELP, UH, HELP YOUNG PEOPLE OR HELP BUSINESSES.

YOU KNOW, COULD YOU SEE THIS PROGRAM BEING DESERVING OF SAY, FEDERAL STIMULUS GRANT OR AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANT OR KNOWS FROM THE COUNTY? AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WERE ME AND YOU WERE TRYING TO SELL IT TO LAWMAKERS AND FUNDERS, WHY WOULD YOU SAY? BECAUSE I WOULD SAY, OH, SORRY, GO AHEAD.

UM, I'M SORRY.

OH, YEAH.

SO I WOULD SAY THAT FIRST OF ALL, YES, I DO BELIEVE THAT THIS PROGRAM HAS MEANT THE WORLD TO ME, AND I HAVE TRULY LEARNED SO MUCH FROM GOING TO IT.

AND I THINK THAT YES, IT IS DESERVING OF FUNDING.

AND I WANNA GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF REASONS FOR THAT.

FIRST OF ALL, I KNOW BRIAN AND MICHAEL PERSONALLY, THESE ARE SOME OF THE MOST DEDICATED, ENERGETIC, ENTHUSIASTIC PEOPLE I HAVE EVER MET.

AND , I KNOW BRIAN'S A LITTLE BIT EMBARRASSED BY THIS, BUT TRULY, I GET UP EVERY THURSDAY MORNING AND I GET EXCITED BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IN THE AFTERNOON I'M ABLE TO CONNECT WITH AMAZING PEOPLE LIKE BRIAN AND MICHAEL, WHO PERSONALLY HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN MY LIFE.

AND I'M ABLE TO CONNECT WITH ALL OF MY AMAZING COLLEAGUES AND DO WORK THAT ACTUALLY SUPPORTS OUR COMMUNITY.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT, WHICH IS THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE'S GOAL IS NOT ONLY TO DEVELOP STUDENTS, ANY CLASS COULD DO THAT, BUT IT'S TO DEVELOP STUDENTS WITH REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE IN A MEANINGFUL WAY.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S ANOTHER IMPORTANT FACTOR AS WELL.

AND LASTLY, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE WITH ITS ABILITY TO CONNECT INDIVIDUALS, WHICH IS ANOTHER THING THAT WE LEARNED ABOUT, BUT I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET TOO MUCH INTO THAT HAS TRULY GIVEN ME COMPLETELY UNPARALLELED EXPERIENCE.

I REMEMBER THAT YOU ASKED JAKE A QUESTION ABOUT THIS EARLIER IN REGARDS TO HARRY MOSLEY.

WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE IN THE PRESENCE OF SOMEONE WITH SO MUCH, I DON'T WANNA SAY POWER, BUT THAT'S, I GUESS, A WAY THAT YOU COULD PUT IT WHERE SO MUCH COMMANDING OF RESPECT.

THAT POSITION IS SO HIGH UP.

THE WAY I SEE IT IS I FEEL INSPIRED BY THAT.

AND I THINK THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS TRULY POWERFUL TO ME AND CAN BE TRULY POWERFUL TO ALL STUDENTS, NOT ONLY NECESSARILY IN THE TOWN OF GREENBERG, BUT ACROSS THE NATION AS WELL.

AND JAKE, UH, JAKE, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO FUNDERS WHO MAY SAY, I DON'T THINK, WHY SHOULD I GIVE MONEY TO, TO FUND THIS TYPE OF PROGRAM IN THE FUTURE? YEAH, YEAH.

AMAZING QUESTION AND THANKS FOR ASKING IT.

UM, SO WHAT I'D SAY IS THAT, LIKE DAVID SAID, IT'S IT'S COMMUNITY-BASED ACTION.

AND I THINK THE IMPORTANT WORD THERE IS ACTION.

UM, I THINK THE FIRST WORDS BRIAN SAID TO US WAS, THIS IS NOT THEORY.

THIS IS NOT A CLASSROOM.

THIS IS ACTION.

YOU'RE MAKING IMPACT ON AN IMPACT ON REAL PEOPLE, ON REAL LIVES, ON REAL BUSINESSES.

UM, AND I MEAN, LIKE, YES, I'VE BEEN IN THE CLASSROOM FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS, BUT I'VE ALSO DONE THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND I CAN TELL YOU CERTAINLY THAT BEING IN THE COMMUNITY AND MAKING IMPACT ON REAL PEOPLE, UM, IN REAL WAYS

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UM, LIKE FOR ME, IT HAS OPENED MY EYES TO WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

IT HAS SHOWN ME THAT THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT I CAN DO BECAUSE THERE ARE, THERE'S A COMMUNITY AROUND ME.

AND ESPECIALLY AS A STUDENT, UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS COMMUNITY IS SO WILLING TO COME AROUND, WHATEVER INITIATIVES I AM ABLE TO COME UP WITH TO BETTER THE COMMUNITY IS A TRULY INSPIRING FACT.

UM, IT'S TRULY INSPIRING TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY, WHETHER IT BE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, WHETHER IT BE SOMEONE WHO IS LIKE ELECTED OFFICIAL, WHETHER IT'S SOMEONE WHO JUST RUNS A BUSINESS, WHETHER IT'S SOMEONE WHO IS CONNECTED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE THROUGH SOME SOCIAL WORK, THAT THEY'RE WILLING TO TAKE THE TIME OUTTA THE DAY TO HELP ME BECAUSE I'M A STUDENT TRYING TO BETTER THE COMMUNITY, A COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE ALL A PART OF THAT HAS MEANING.

UM, AND I'D SAY THAT TO ANYONE WHO IS LIKE CONSIDERING, YOU KNOW, FUNDING FURTHER PROGRAMS HERE IN GREENBURG OR IN OTHER PLACES THAT, YOU KNOW, GIVING STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THESE IDEAS.

WE ALL HEAR ABOUT THESE IDEAS.

WE ALL HAVE THIS IDEA THAT I WANNA MAKE AN IMPACT ON MY COMMUNITY, BUT GIVING THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ACTION IN SUCH A MEANINGFUL WAY, IT'S A POWERFUL EXPERIENCE.

IT SHOWS US, OH YEAH, WHAT'S YOUR QUESTION? NO, THAT'S FINE.

YOU CAN CONTINUE.

SO LIKE, IT'S A POWERFUL EXPERIENCE AND IT SHOWS US, YOU KNOW, THAT OUR FUTURES ARE NOT BOUNDED BY ANYTHING.

AND IT, IT'S THAT TYPE OF EXPERIENCE THAT I HOPE THAT OTHER STUDENTS CAN HAVE IN THE FUTURE.

I, I, I'M WONDERING, UM, HOW MANY DIFFERENT BUSINESSES, UH, WERE HELPED DURING, UH, THIS, UH, PAST COUPLE MONTHS? PAUL, MAY I JUST, UH, INTERRUPT FOR A MINUTE AND ASK THAT YOU ASKED TIFFANY THE SAME QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED OF DAVID AND JAKE OKAY.

SO THAT WE CAN GET HER PERSPECTIVE ON, ON THE RESPONSE TO THAT QUESTION.

TIFFANY? YES.

HI.

YEP.

UM, I THINK, UM, I THINK THIS PROGRAM IS VERY VALUABLE.

I THINK, UM, BEING A SMALL BUSINESSES IS NOT EASY AND ESPECIALLY, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, I CAN FIND THAT IT'S KIND OF DIFFERENT, LIKE THE BONDING AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

AND, UM, GETTING TO KNOW THE COMMUNITY CAN HELP A LOT BECAUSE LIKE, UM, WE KNOW SOME, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE SOME RESTAURANT OWNER, THEY ALSO SUFFER A LOT DURING THE PANDEMIC.

AND WE WOULD TRY TO HELP THEM OUT TO, UM, PROMOTE THEIR BUSINESS.

LIKE WHAT IS THE STORE LOCATION AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

SO I THINK, UM, THE BONDING, IF THE PROGRAM KEEP, KEEP, KEEP HELPING THE SMALL BUSINESSES, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD POINT TO BUILD UP AND ALSO DEVELOP THE TOWN AND GET TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE TOWN.

I THINK, UM, THAT WILL HELP OUT WITH THE ECONOMIC AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

THAT'S FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, OF COURSE, MORE, UM, POPULATIONS, WHICH MEANS MORE GETTING TO KNOW HERE AND MOVING IN.

AND THAT'S HELPS A LOT FROM MY ECONOMY SIDE OF PERSPECTIVE.

UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE STUDENTS DID? MY FEELING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU DID TODAY SORT OF HIGHLIGHTS IT.

SO, UH, BRIAN, I JUST WANTED TO GET A SENSE HOW MANY BUSINESSES WERE HELPED AND OTHER BUSINESSES THAT YOU WORKED ON? UM, LET ME SEE HERE.

UH, I COULD MESS THIS NUMBER UP AND IF MICHAEL'S PROBABLY GONNA CHAT ME IN THIS SECOND AND TELL ME, I SAY THE WRONG NUMBER.

I WANT TO SAY THAT WE WORKED WITH, UM, THAT WAS GROUPS OF, I'M TRYING TO DO DIVISION IN MY HEAD, UM, SIX DIFFERENT BUSINESSES FROM THE GREENBERG AREA SO FAR.

I COULD, I COULD TRY TO NAME THEM.

UM, AND THEN WE JUST STARTED LAST NIGHT WITH OUR NEXT GROUP, WITH OUR SUMMER GROUP, AND WE'LL BE WORKING WITH, UH, SIX MORE BUSINESSES.

SO WITHIN SIX MONTHS, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE WORKED WITH ABOUT, UH, I THINK 12 BUSINESSES FROM THE GREENBERG AREA IS, SO THIS IS REALLY LIKE AN OPPORTUNITY THAT IF WE HADN'T DONE THIS, SOME OF THE BUSINESSES COULD HAVE POSSIBLY NOT SURVIVED.

SO, UM, TIFFANY, DO YOU FEEL THAT, UH, THIS, UM, UM, PILOT PROJECT WILL HELP YOUR BUSINESS SURVIVE THE POST PANDEMIC, UH, YOU KNOW, ERA? YES, DEFINITELY.

AND, UM, MEETING MORE YOUNG PEOPLE, WE, WHICH HAS SOME MORE CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE WAY TO DO BUSINESS BECAUSE, UM, AFTER PANDEMIC, EVERYTHING'S CHANGED.

SO WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE BUSINESS MODEL, HAVE TO CHANGE ALONG WITH THE SOCIETY, THE COMMUNITY, AND ALSO THE WHOLE THING.

UM, I THINK IT'S WORTH IT AND IT'S VERY PRICELESS, UM, EXPERIENCE, NOT JUST ABOUT THE BUSINESS, BUT THE EXPERIENCE WITH, UM, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY AND ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE AND ALSO THE STUDENTS HAVE, UM, ENLIGHTENED MY WAY OF THINKING AS A BUSINESS OWNER.

AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.

AND THANK YOU.

THANK YOU ALL.

'CAUSE I'M, YEAH.

SO WHAT, SO WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO MENTION ANY OF THE OTHER BUSINESSES?

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OH MY GOSH.

LET ME SEE.

YES, I, OH GOSH.

ONE OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD.

UM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO NAME EVERYONE.

OH MY GOSH.

MICHAEL, MICHAEL CHATNEY RIGHT NOW I AM, I'M DRAWING A BLANK.

CURIOUS ON PRESSURE.

I GOT IT.

CURIOUS ON HUDSON RANDOM FARMS. UM, UM, UM, TASTY TUESDAYS.

TASTY TUESDAYS, OH, UH, AT TT SEASONINGS.

I LOVE THAT WOMAN SO MUCH.

I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN.

TALK TO HER.

IF YOU, IF YOU WANNA, IF YOU WANNA TALK TO SOMEBODY THAT, UH, REALLY HEARD SOME THINGS, TALKED TO, UH, DID SOME THINGS, TALKED TO COLBY JENKINS.

UM, I WANNA QUICKLY, UH, AND I'LL, I PUT MICHAEL'S SENDING ME MESSAGES ABOUT ALL THE THINGS I'M FORGETTING, BUT SOMETHING DAVID QUICKLY SKIPPED OVER.

UM, WE'RE GETTING READY TO WORK WITH GOLDEN CRUST.

MICHAEL'S TEXTING ME RIGHT NOW, UM, AMONGST SOME MANY OTHERS.

UM, BUT DAVID SKIPPED OVER SOMETHING AND I'M TRYING NOT TO SAY MUCH BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE ON THESE CALLS FOR A LONG TIME.

AND I, UH, PROMISED ATTORNEY LEWIS THAT I WOULD NOT KEEP US ON, UH, VERY LONG TONIGHT.

UH, BUT DAVID DEO, WHO'S, UM, ABSOLUTELY CAN, BY THE WAY, CAN WE JUST TALK ABOUT DAVID DEO AND JAKE ERMAN FOR A SECOND? I'VE NEVER BEEN AROUND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE.

I WAS A COLLEGE PROFESSOR.

I HAVE FOUNDED FOUR BUSINESSES AND I'M IN BUSINESS WITH RANDY ZUCKERBERG.

AND I'M TELLING YOU, I'VE NEVER MET YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE THESE TWO, TWO SPECIFIC, UH, YOUNG PEOPLE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

, I WILL BE WRITING THEIR COLLEGE LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION.

UM, THEY HAVEN'T ASKED ME TO DO THAT.

I DEMAND THAT I GET TO DO THAT.

THERE IS NOT A SINGLE ADMINISTRATOR TO SINGLE SCHOOL THAT WILL NOT GET ON THE PHONE WITH ME.

NOT BECAUSE OF WHO I AM, BUT BECAUSE OF WHO I'M FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE INVOLVED WITH IN MY CAREER.

AND I PROMISE YOU, I WILL CALL OR PERSONALLY WALK TO THEIR DOORSTEP TO GET THESE TWO STUDENTS INTO ANY SCHOOL OR ANY INTERNSHIP THEY COULD EVER WANT TO DO.

THAT'S WHAT I THINK OF THESE TWO PEOPLE.

AND I PROMISE YOU THAT IS THE TRUTH.

BUT DAVID SKIPPED OVER SOMETHING SPECIFIC THEY DID THAT I DIDN'T EVEN COMPREHEND HOW BIG OF A DEAL IT IS.

'CAUSE I'M KIND OF A TECHNOPHOBE, WHICH IS WEIRD BECAUSE I WORKED FOR THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE.

HE TALKED ABOUT HOW THEY FOUND, MADE TOP ASIA MART, UH, ESSENTIALLY GOOGLEABLE.

SO IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHAT THAT MEANS, I WAS ON THE CALL WITH THEM WHEN THIS SUCCESS HAPPENED.

WHEN THE SUCCESS HAPPENED WITH ONE OF THEIR TEAM MEMBERS WITH WAS TASKED WITH FIGURING OUT, HAVING TO GO INTO THE GOOGLE'S ALGORITHM TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE TOP ASIA MART ACTUALLY SHOW UP FIRST.

IF YOU GOOGLED TOP ASIA MART, YOU CAN'T BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND HOW HARD THAT IS TO DO AND HOW MANY TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS A BUSINESS WOULD HAVE TO SPEND TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

AND DAVID'S TEAM DID THAT, AND I WAS ON THE CALL WITH HIM, AND IT WAS LIKE A CELEBRATION AS IF THEY JUST WON THE SUPER BOWL BECAUSE THESE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS HAD FIGURED OUT SOMETHING THAT WOULD TAKE ADULTS WEEKS AND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO DO.

AND HE JUST SKIPPED OVER IT LIKE IT WAS A NORMAL THING.

WELL, IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE DAVID AND JAKE KNOW HOW TO DO STUFF LIKE THIS.

AND FRANKLY, 90% OF US ON THIS CALL WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT.

AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OF BENEFIT FOR TIFFANY'S BUSINESS.

UM, SO I AM HUMBLED BY WORKING WITH JAKE AND DAVID, AND IF YOU COULD FIND MORE OF THEM, SEND THEM TO ME AND THEY CAN WORK WITH ME FOR FREE .

BUT, UH, THEY DON'T GROW ON TREES.

UM, I WISH THEY DID.

SO BRIAN, DAVID WAS ONE OF OUR 20, 20 SUMMER INTERNS AT GREENBERG TOWN HALL, WEREN'T YOU? DAVID? WHERE ARE YOU? RIGHT HERE? YES, I WAS, YES.

IT WAS ANOTHER AMAZING EXPERIENCE FOR ME.

, THANK YOU, DAVID.

WHERE YOU WORKED ON PROBLEM SOLVING, LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK AND, AND, UM, UH, WAS IT PRO TEAMWORK, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND, UM, WHAT WAS THE FOURTH ONE? WELL, ANYHOW, THE FOUR PILLARS, OKAY, SO ANYHOW, , I JUST ASK LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK.

BUT ANYHOW, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO, BRIAN, WE WANNA BE ABLE TO, UM, CALL ON TIFFANY AND DAVID AND JAKE TO BE SPEAKERS TO OUR SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.

THAT'S GOING TO START ON JULY 6TH.

SO CAN I WORK THROUGH YOU IN GETTING IN TOUCH WITH THEM TO BE GUEST SPEAKERS TO THEIR PEERS? I MEAN, JUST THINK ABOUT THAT.

JUST THINK ABOUT HOW AWE INSPIRING THAT WILL BE FOR THESE THREE YOUNG PEOPLE TO SPEAK TO THEIR PEERS.

COULD COULD I ALSO ASK ANOTHER QUESTION? BECAUSE WE BASICALLY ARE, YOU KNOW, FUNDED FOR THE SPRING, WE FUNDED IT FOR THE SUMMER, AND NOW WE HAVE TO, UH, START OVER TO GET FUNDING FOR THE FALL AND WINTER.

WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO, UM, LIKE GIVE US LIKE, LIKE SOME, UH, WRITTEN LIKE SUMMARY OF, UM, YOU KNOW, THE NAMES OF THE BUSINESSES THAT WERE HELPED?

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BUT THEN WHAT I COULD DO, IF YOU COULD HAVE LIKE A PACKAGE, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, SAYING WE DID THESE EIGHT THINGS, WE DID THESE FIVE THINGS FOR THIS BUSINESS, WE DID THIS FOR , UM, AND THEN MAYBE HAVE SOME TESTIMONIALS FROM EACH OF THE BUSINESSES, THEN I WILL, UM, USE THAT, UM, AND REACH OUT TO, UM, LAWMAKERS, UM, SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME, UH, FEDERAL, UM, YOU KNOW, STIMULUS GRANTS.

BECAUSE WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE GOALS OF PRESIDENT BIDEN'S STIMULUS GRANT IS TO HELP LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, UM, KEEP, UH, STRUGGLING BUSINESSES AROUND.

AND THIS MODEL, UH, WHERE YOU HAVE STUDENTS WORKING WITH, WITH, UM, WITH, WITH, UH, BUSINESSES THAT ARE STRUGGLING COULD BE SORT OF AN ANSWER, UM, AND PART OF A SOLUTION.

SO WE COULD AVOID MORE VACANCIES.

AND IF THERE'S ANOTHER BUSINESS THAT'S COMING IN, UM, WHETHER IT'S HARTSDALE OR ONE 19 OR CENTRAL AVENUE, SOME OVER ROAD, UM, YOU KNOW, AND WE COULD SAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE A WHOLE TEAM OF OUTSTANDING STUDENTS WHO ARE GONNA HELP YOU WITH CREATIVE IDEAS.

I I THINK THAT THEY'RE, THAT, YOU KNOW, IF THEY FEEL THIS IS THAT WE'VE HAD SOME SUCCESSES, I THINK THAT IT GIVES US A LOT OF POTENTIAL TO GET MORE MONEY.

SO DO YOU THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU, YOU COULD, YOU COULD DO FOR US? IT'S ALREADY IN PROCESS.

WE GOT YOUR SUPERVISOR FINER.

YES, YOU HAVE.

UM, MICHAEL AND I ARE, UH, DILIGENTLY WORKING ON A TO MAKE IT, WE HAVE ALL OF THIS INFORMATION ALREADY THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.

WE'RE JUST WORKING ON PUTTING IT IN A, UH, PRETTIER PACKAGE FOR YOU TO MAKE IT.

THAT'S WHAT I WANT.

YEP.

SO YES, WE HAVE ALL THAT.

I HAVE MORE TESTIMONIALS FROM STUDENTS AND BUSINESSES, UH, THAT I CAN COUNT.

UM, I HAVE LISTS OF, OF ALL THE THINGS THAT THEY DID.

AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST GLAD, UH, I'M WONDERING IF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG ALLOWS, UM, PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 18 TO RUN FOR OFFICE.

'CAUSE I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE UP FOR REELECTION, , AND IF DAVID AND JAKE WERE RUNNING AGAINST YOU, YOU WOULD BE, YOU WOULD BE IN A PROBLEM IN YOUR, UH, RUNNING FOR ELECTION.

SO THAT, THAT REMINDS ME THAT YOU JUST GOT, UH, YOUR FUNDING CUT THE FOURTH KILLER.

THERE'S NO FUNDING FOR YOU ANYMORE .

UM, BUT, UH, BUT BECAUSE I KNOW JAKE IS, UM, A RESIDENT OF IRVINGTON.

DAVID, YOU, YOU SAID YOU LIVE IN SCARSDALE, SO HE'S NOT A THREAT, UM, TO ME.

UM, BUT, UH, BUT, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, BUT, BUT BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, OUR GOAL IS TO CREATE LEADERS OF TOMORROW.

AND HOW MANY, YOU HAD, WHAT IS IT? 40, YOU KNOW, ABOUT 40 STUDENTS? YEAH, WE HAD, UH, 40 IN THOSE GROUPS, AND NOW WE HAVE 30 MORE, SO 70 TOTAL STUDENTS FROM THE GREENBURG AREA.

OH, I'M SORRY.

AND VERY FEW WERE REALLY FROM SCARSDALE AND SURROUNDING, YOU KNOW, AND OUT OF GREENBERG.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE PUBLICIZE THIS, UM, THERE WERE SOME STUDENTS FROM, UH, FROM SCARSDALE.

IT, IT WAS REALLY A HANDFUL, UH, BUT NOT THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.

AND, AND WE BASICALLY FELT THAT IF SOMEBODY'S REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE PROGRAM, WE WANTED TO GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY.

THAT'S RIGHT.

SO PAUL, I JUST REMINDED ME, UH, UH, BRIAN REMINDED ME OF THE FOURTH PILLAR OF OUR PROGRAM.

UM, THAT ALSO SOUNDS, UH, AS IF THESE WERE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF THE ZUCKERBERG INSTITUTE, COMMUNICATIONS, TEAMWORK, PROBLEM SOLVING, AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.

THOSE ARE THE FOUR PILLARS OF THE GREENBERG TOWN HALL SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.

AND, UM, I JUST LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING DAVID, JAKE, AND TIFFANY, UM, SPEAK AS GUEST SPEAKERS IN OUR PROGRAM THIS SUMMER.

UM, MS. VEAL, IF I MAY INTERJECT REAL QUICK, ACTUALLY, I ALSO THINK THAT MS. NESS WAS, I'VE JUST HEARD HEAPS OF PRAISE PILED UPON HER BY JAKE, AND I THINK IT'D BE REMISS IF WE DID NOT INCLUDE HER AS WELL.

WHO IS THIS? DAVID? UH, MS. MANES.

JENNIFER MANNESS.

OH, ABSOLUTELY.

IN THE MEDITATION ONE.

ABSOLUTELY.

THANK YOU, DAVID, FOR THE RECOMMENDATION.

SO I WILL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH, WITH, WITH EVERYONE VIA BRIAN.

YOU KNOW, WORK WITH US AND SEE IF WE COULD GET FUNDING FOR, YOU KNOW, FALL AND WINTER PROGRAM.

I GOT, I GOT IT HANDLED AND, AND, AND SUPERVISOR FIND.

IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO FOR YOU THIS EVENING BEFORE I LET, UH, I'VE JUST ACTUALLY BEEN ON A CALL WITH JAKE AND DAVID FOR THE LAST TWO HOURS, UM, UH, WORKING ON SOME OTHER PROJECTS, SO, OKAY.

SO THAT'S GOOD.

I JUST WANNA MENTION THE LAST THING IS GARY GARRETT.

SO COULD WE MAYBE REACH OUT? UH, WE COULD, I'M GONNA ASK JANELLE WALLACE TO CREATE A YOUTUBE, UH, VIDEO OF THIS, UH, PRESENTATION.

AND COULD WE SHARE IT WITH OUR, OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR? BECAUSE I REALLY THINK THAT THIS IS A PERFECT, YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR CREATIVE IDEAS, HOW WE COULD KEEP, UH, BUSINESSES AROUND THAT ARE STRUGGLING RIGHT NOW.

AND IF WE DON'T, IF WE'RE NOT PROACTIVE, WE'RE GONNA LOSE MORE BUSINESSES AND THEY'RE GONNA BE VACANT.

SO I SAID THE, THAT, UM, HE COULD WATCH THIS,

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I'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT.

AND, UH, ALSO THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION WITH THE, UH, INTERNSHIP AND THE APPRENTICESHIP, THE CAR DEALERSHIPS, UH, IT'S VERY MUCH GOING TO BE A THRUST OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, TEAM AND, UH, CONNECTING RESIDENTS WITH JOBS.

SO I THINK BOTH ARE GREAT INITIATIVES AND I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO SHARE THEM.

WANNA TALK ABOUT JUNETEENTH? GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

THANK YOU, GARRETT.

AND WE'VE GOTTA MEET UP GARRETT AND I LIVE IN THE SAME TOWN.

YOU'RE LIKE, YOU'RE LIKE A HALF MILE FROM ME.

I SHOULD JUST COME KNOCK ON YOUR DOOR RIGHT NOW.

, UH, THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR FINDER, AND IF ANYBODY FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBERG OR THE SURROUNDING AREAS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU CAN REACH OUT TO ME, BRIAN, B R I A N@ZUCKERBERGINSTITUTE.COM.

IT WOULD BE MY PRIVILEGE, UH, TO, UH, HELP YOU IN ANY WAY.

JENNIFER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE AND, UH, WORKING WITH LETTING US WORK WITH THE MEDITATION LAB, JAKE ERMAN, UH, DAVID DAL.

YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK OF YOU TWO AND, UH, I EXPECT MORE OUT OF YOU TWO THAN ANY OTHER STUDENTS I'VE EVER WORKED WITH.

SO, UH, I WILL KEEP DEMANDING MORE AND MORE OUT OF YOU.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.

HAVE A WONDERFUL NIGHT.

[ SUPERVISOR & TOWN COUNCIL REPORTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS GOOD NEWS...The Town continues (since 2008) to have the highest possible bond rating from Standard & Poors (AAA) and (since 2010) (Aaa) from Moody's. Less than 1% of communities in the nation have this record of financial stability. Recently, on 3/23/2021, Moody's reaffirmed the Town earned Moody's highest rating and, on 03/26/2021, Standard & Poors once again reaffirmed the Town earned Standard & Poors highest rating. Any individual or group interested in a visit from the Town Board should email the Board at TownBoard@GreenburghNY.com ]

SO, UM, FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH, WE WILL HAVE A MOAY, UM, CELEBRATING, UH, JUNETEENTH, WHICH IS THE TWO, WELL, JUNETEENTH IS CURRENT, THE END OF SLAVERY, THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HAPPENED ON JUNE 19TH AND 1865.

SO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WILL BE CELEBRATING BY HAVING A MOTORCADE THAT WILL LEAVE FROM TOWN HALL ON AT 6:00 PM ON FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH.

AND WE WILL HAVE A, UH, MOTORCADE WILL GO DOWN THROUGH TERRYTOWN ROAD TO CENTRAL AVENUE, AND THEN WE WILL END AT WEB PRESSURE, UH, RICHARD PRESSURE PARK AT WEB FIELD.

UM, SO WE WILL HAVE FOOD, WHICH WILL BE, UH, COOKED BY OUR, UH, FIREFIGHTERS IN GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WE HAVE, UM, SOME MUSIC WE WANNA HAVE, UM, A FRIEND, AND WE JUST WANNA JUST CELEBRATE AND COME TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY AND CELEBRATE, UM, THIS TIME.

SO PLEASE COME OUT, WE ARE LEAVING AGAIN, PLEASE.

WE WILL EM ASSEMBLY AT TOWN HALL AT FIVE 30, AND FROM FIVE 30 AT MOVIE, LEAVING PROMPTLY AT 6:00 PM AND HEADING DOWN TO, UH, WEB FIELD.

[ To consider a Local Law amending Chapter 285 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh, entitled “Zoning,” as it relates to Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) uses]

THE ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE.

NEXT, UH, WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 2 85 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, ENTITLED ZONING AS IT RELATES TO BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM BEST USES.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE VALUE OPEN TO HEARING.

FINER FROM TOWN BOARD MEMBERS.

FOR THE RECORD, I'M GARY , COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION.

THIS PUBLIC HEARING WILL PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR COMMENTS ON THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S DRAFT LOCAL LAW PERTAINING TO BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS OR BES, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS BES.

THE TOWN OF GREENBERG HAS BEEN A LEADER IN SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES FROM A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE AND FROM A TOWN POLICY PERSPECTIVE.

AND I BELIEVE THIS LOCAL LAW REPRESENTS A CONTINUATION OF TOWN BOARD SUPPORT IN THIS REGARD BASED ON PRIOR PRESENTATIONS TO THE BOARD.

AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF BOARD MEMBERS WE'RE VERY ACTIVE IN WORKING WITH THE BEST COMMITTEE.

I KNOW THE TOWN BOARD IS WELL VERSED ON THIS USE, BUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, I WILL PRESENT AN OVERVIEW OF THE DRAFT LOCAL LAW AND TOUCH ON THE PROCESS THUS FAR.

I'D LIKE TO START WITH SOME BEST BASICS.

ALL REFERENCES TO BEST REFER TO ENERGY STORAGE AS OPPOSED TO GENERATION OF ENERGY.

BEST SYSTEMS CAN RANGE FROM A SMALL CABINET SYSTEM IN THE GARAGE OF A ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE TO A COLLECTION OF ENERGY STORAGE CABINETS ON THE SITE OF A SHOPPING PLAZA, OFFICE PARK, MUNICIPAL BUILDING SCHOOL, ET CETERA, TO A LARGER SCALE INSTALLATION ON A MULTI ACRE SITE, WHETHER WE'RE DISCUSSING THE SMALL SCALE RESIDENTIAL MODEL, THE MID-SCALE COMMERCIAL MODEL, OR A LARGE SCALE PROPOSED INSTALLATION ON A LARGER SITE, THE ELECTRICITY OR POWER WOULD BE TRANSFERRED FROM CON EDISON'S NETWORK OF TRANSMISSION LINES, DISTRIBUTION LINES, OR SUBSTATIONS TO AN APPROVED BEST SYSTEM ON THE PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SITE FOR USE NEEDED BY THE GRID.

WHILE THE VARIOUS EXISTING CON EDISON INFRASTRUCTURE COULD FACILITATE MASSIVE NUMBERS OF BEST SITES OF VARYING SCALES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, LOCAL LAW HAS BEEN DRAFTED TO DO THE FOLLOWING.

ENSURE COMPREHENSIVE AND STRINGENT STANDARDS FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE ALLOW FOR A VERY LIMITED APPLICABILITY IN

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DISTRICTS ALLOW FOR SMALL SCALE INSTALLATIONS IN THE TOWN'S MIXED USE CORRIDORS AND NON-RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICTS, AND FACILITATE INSTALLATIONS THAT WILL NOT BE HEARD OR SEEN FROM SENSITIVE VIEW SHEDS, NAMELY EXISTING RESIDENTIAL USES.

THE LOCAL LAW THAT IS THE SUBJECT OF THIS PUBLIC HEARING WOULD REGULATE THIS BEST USE ESTABLISHING PROTOCOL FOR AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS FOR THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, FOR THE SMALL SCALE RESIDENTIAL BEST UNITS OR SMALL SCALE COMMERCIAL BEST UNITS.

THIS WOULD BE KNOWN AS THE TIER ONE SYSTEM.

LOCAL LAW WOULD ESTABLISH A SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLAN PROCESS FOR BEST FACILITIES TO BE APPROVED BY THE PLANNING BOARD FOR WHAT IS KNOWN AS TIER TWO BEST SYSTEMS, WHICH ARE THOSE SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE PROPOSALS THAT WOULD BE EXPECTED AT CHOPPING PLAZAS, OFFICE PARKS, AND GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONAL USES, ET CETERA.

THE LOCAL LAW WOULD ESTABLISH A SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLAN PROCESS FOR BEST FACILITIES TO BE APPROVED BY THE TOWN BOARD FOR WHAT IS KNOWN AS TIER THREE BEST SYSTEMS, WHICH ARE THE LARGER SCALE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS THE SYSTEMS SOUGHT AT NORWOOD COUNTRY CLUB.

AND IN A FEW MOMENTS, I WILL DIS DISPLAY SOME PHOTOS OF BEST FACILITIES TO GIVE A SENSE OF WHAT THE IN INSTALLATIONS LOOK LIKE AND ENTAIL.

BUT FIRST I'D LIKE TO GO THROUGH A FEW POINTS ON WHY THIS LOCAL LAW IS IMPORTANT.

LOCALLY AND REGIONALLY, ENERGY NEEDS ARE INCREASING DESPITE NEW ENERGY EFFICIENT BUILDINGS AND ENERGY EFFICIENT RETROFITS COMING ONLINE.

THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT ENERGY DEMANDS IN ALL SECTORS.

THE PROJECTED PROPORTION OF NEW VEHICLES IN THE MARKET ARE EXPECTED TO BE HEAVILY SKEWED TOWARDS ELECTRIC OVER THE NEXT FIVE TO 10 YEARS AND BEYOND.

HONDA, AS AN EXAMPLE, PLANS TO PHASE OUT ALL TRADITIONAL FUEL VEHICLES WITHIN THE NEXT 20 YEARS.

INDIAN POINT READ LOCALLY HAS CLOSED ITS LAST NUCLEAR REACTOR IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, AND WITH SIGNIFICANT NEW YORK STATE GOALS OF LESS RELIANCE ON FOSSIL FUELS AND SIGNIFICANT FUNDING INCENTIVES FOR BEST ENERGY STORAGE, BEST FACILITY PROPOSALS ARE A REALITY AND I BELIEVE WILL BE MORE AND MORE PROMINENT IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

WHILE BESS IS NOT A SOLUTION TO ENERGY RELATED NEEDS, AFTER CONSULTING WITH MANY, INCLUDING CON EDISON, THE NEW YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, WESTCHESTER COUNTY INDUSTRY PROVIDERS, I BELIEVE IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT BEST IS AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF THE ENERGY SUPPLY NEEDS AND RELIABILITY FOR OUR NETWORK.

ALTHOUGH THE BEST USE IS REGULATED BY NEW YORK STATE AND BUILDING AND FIRE CODE, IT'S APPARENT THAT A LOCAL LAW IS NECESSARY TO INCORPORATE BEST P PRACTICES FROM A NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER AND SAFETY PERSPECTIVE.

CREATING A SPECIAL PERMIT PROCESS AND REQUIRING SITE PLAN APPROVAL WILL ALLOW THE TOWN'S PLANNING BOARD AND TOWN BOARD WITH THE AID OF AN INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE OF WHY A SITE WAS SELECTED, WHY THE PARTICULAR PARTICULAR LOCATION ON A SITE WAS SELECTED, AND CREATE A PROCESS FOR PARTICIPATION OF OTHER AGENCIES, SUCH AS THE APPLICABLE FIRE DISTRICT, THE TOWN'S TRAFFIC AND SAFETY CONTROL UNIT.

AND FOR RESIDENTS, THIS TYPE OF PROCESS LEADS TO BETTER PROPOSALS THAN THOSE ORIGINALLY RECEIVED.

I'D LIKE TO GO THROUGH A BRIEF TIMELINE.

ON JANUARY 27TH OF THIS YEAR, THE TOWN BOARD BY RESOLUTION APPOINTED A BEST ADVISORY COMMITTEE OF RESIDENTS TO ASSIST IN THE PREPARATION OF A BEST LOCAL LAW.

THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE PUT IN SUBSTANTIAL EFFORT MEETING A MINIMUM OF ONCE WEEKLY, AND WITH INPUT FROM NICE THE NYSERDA MODEL, LOCAL LAW INPUT FROM CON EDISON.

THE TOWN'S ENGINEERING CONSULTANT FOR THIS TASK, WHICH IS KNOWN AS AUP TOWN STAFF, ALL CULMINATED IN A DRAFT LOCAL LAW DATED APRIL 12TH, WHICH WAS PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BOARD APRIL 13TH AT A WORK SESSION ON APRIL 14TH, THE TOWN BOARD APPROVED A RESOLUTION DECLARING LEAD AGENCY INTENT AND REFERRAL OF THE BEST COMMITTEE LOCAL LAW TO THE PLANNING BOARD, AND INVOLVED IN INTERESTED AGENCIES FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT.

THE LOCAL LAW IS REFERRED TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY CON EDISON, NYSERDA BEST INDUSTRY DEVELOPERS, THE C A C, ALL FIRE DISTRICTS AND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS, ALL ADJACENT MUNICIPAL, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, COUNCIL OF GREENBURG, CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS, AND ARU.

SINCE THE REFERRAL OF THE LORD OF THESE ENTITY ENTITIES, CORRESPONDENCE OR COMMENTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM THE GREENVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT, ERDA WESTCHESTER COUNTY BEST INDUSTRY DEVELOPERS, INCLUDING PEAK POWER, I P P, SOLAR AND EAGLE ENERGY.

THE PLANNING BOARD ON JUNE 2ND, 2021 MADE A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION ON THE LOCAL LAW AND ISSUED A RELATED REPORT, WHICH I'LL COVER IN A FEW MOMENTS, NO CHANGES TO THE BEST COMMITTEE DRAFT DATED APRIL 12TH, WHICH IS THE VERSION OF THE LOCAL LAW HAVE BEEN MADE TO THIS, TO THE LOCAL LAW, WHICH IS THE VERSION OF THE LOCAL LAW THAT WE, WE WILL SOON HEAR COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC.

THE COMMENTS THAT WE HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC TONIGHT, ALONG WITH THOSE RECEIVED TO DATE, WILL BE, BE REVIEWED BY VARIOUS TOWN STAFF

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AND AUP, RESULTING IN AN UPDATED AND IMPROVED LOCAL LAW.

NOW GONNA DISPLAY A SERIES OF GRAPHICS TO ASSIST WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE LAW.

OKAY, I WILL ENLARGE THAT.

DOES THAT SEEM TO BE A DECENT SIZE? NO.

BIGGER, BIGGER, CAN DO.

ALL RIGHT.

DOES THAT SEEM OKAY? NO.

TRY AND GET RID OF THE GRAY ON THE SIDE.

ONE MORE.

IT'S GETTING THERE TO IT.

, YOU WERE CLOSE.

I WENT FROM, UM, WHAT SEEMED TO BE GREAT TO, UH, OFF THE CHARTS.

ACTUALLY LOOKS GOOD.

I I THINK THAT'S AS GOOD AS I CAN DO IF IT'S ALL RIGHT.

YEAH, THAT LOOKS GREAT.

OKAY, GREAT.

ALL RIGHT.

SO WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN IS, UH, IS IS WHAT'S KNOWN AS A EXAMPLE OF A TIER ONE FACILITY.

AND, UH, THIS IS THE TYPE OF SYSTEM THAT RESIDENTS IN THE TOWN HAVE INSTALLED ALREADY, UH, IN, IN THEIR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

AND THE PRESENT PROCESS FOR SYSTEMS LIKE THIS IS ADMINISTRATIVE, MEANING IT REQUIRES A BUILDING PERMIT, BUT NO LAND USE APPROVALS.

AND WHAT THE LOCAL LAW WOULD NOT DO IS CHANGE THIS PROCESS.

THE PROCESS WOULD STILL BE ADMINISTRATIVE.

UM, I WILL SAY THAT THE PLANNING BOARD AND THE GREENVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAVE, UH, PROPOSED SOME LANGUAGE THAT WOULD INCREASE AWARENESS TO THE FIRE DISTRICTS WHEN THESE ARE APPROVED ADMINISTRATIVELY.

AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK, UH, CERTAINLY WOULD BE ADDED TO THE LOCAL LAW, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.

UH, SO THIS IS, THIS HERE ON THE SCREEN IS AN EXAMPLE OF A, UH, INTERIOR ROOF MOUNTED OR INTERIOR, UH, TIER ONE, UH, BATTERY.

AND, UH, THAT, THAT WOULD BE IN, LIKE, IN A GARAGE.

AND WHAT WE SHOW NOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF A TIER ONE, UH, EXTERIOR.

AND THIS WOULD BE A SMALL CABINET, UM, THAT, THAT THINGS LIKE THIS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED IN THE TOWN AT, AT THE RESIDENTS, UM, AT SOME OF OUR RESIDENTS HOMES.

AND, UM, YOU SEE THIS HERE.

SO AGAIN, THIS WOULD BE TIER ONE, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS.

SO I'M GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH, UH, EXAMPLES OF, UH, TIER TWO SYSTEMS. OKAY.

FOR TIER TWO FACILITIES, THIS TIER WOULD BE APPLICABLE TO THE MIXED USE DISTRICTS OF THE TOWN, SUCH AS THE CA DISTRICT, THE OFFICE BUILDING DISTRICTS MIXED USE DISTRICTS.

ON ROUTE ONE 19 AND NINE A, IT WOULD BE CITED ON QUALIFYING PROPERTIES THAT TYPICALLY CONTAIN OFFICE BUILDINGS OR COMMERCIAL STRIP PLAZAS AND SHOPPING CENTERS.

THIS TIER WOULD ALSO HAVE LIMITED APPLICABILITY AS A SPECIAL PERMIT USE IN THE ONE FAMILY RESIDENCE DISTRICTS ON INSTITUTIONAL LANDS, LIKE PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND RELIGIOUS USES AND SENIOR HOUSING AS EXAMPLES, SETBACKS FROM PROPERTY LINES ARE PROPOSED AS 100 FEET.

SETBACKS FROM EXISTING BUILDINGS WOULD BE 100 FEET, UNLESS A HAZARD MITIGATION ANALYSIS, WHICH IS A REQUIREMENT FOR ALL APPLICATIONS, CONFIRMS THAT THE BEST COULD SAFELY BE CITED CLOSER TO AN EXISTING BUILDING.

THE SPECIAL PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR BEST USES ARE COMPREHENSIVE, COVERING ALL ASPECTS OF SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER, INCLUDING SIGNAGE, LIGHTING, LANDSCAPING, NOISE, DECOMMISSIONING PLAN, DECOMMISSIONING FUND, COMMISSIONING PLAN, FIRE SAFETY, COMPLIANCE PLAN, EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN SYSTEM CERTIFICATION, SITE ACCESS, HAZARD MITIGATION ANALYSIS, TRAFFIC, CIRCULATION PLAN, INSURANCE, BONDING, AND SECURITY.

SO I'M GONNA GLOSS THROUGH, THESE ARE ACTUALLY, UM, FACILITIES IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

THIS IS SIX 60 WHITE PLAINS ROAD ADJACENT TO AN OFFICE BUILDING.

AND THERE ARE TWO OTHER BEST FACILITIES IN THE TOWN ON TAXI ROAD IN THE OB DISTRICT.

UM, AND, AND, AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALONGSIDE THE BUILDINGS.

AND A PHOTO EXAMPLE WOULD BE, UH, THIS ONE HERE.

SO YOU GET A SENSE OF, OF, OF THE SCALE, THE FOOTPRINT FOR, UH, THE TYPES OF FACILITIES THAT, UM, WOULD BE TIER TWO AND IN, IN THE MIXED USE DISTRICTS, UH, CENTRAL AVENUE ONE 19, UH, SOME OFFICE PARKS.

UM, OKAY, SO NOW I'M GONNA, OH, AND THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE.

THIS IS OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN, I BELIEVE THIS IS IN, UH, YORKTOWN IN A SHOPPING CENTER, THE REMOTE PORTION OF THE PARKING LOT SHOPPING CENTER.

SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO NOW IS WALK US THROUGH, UH, TIER THREE FACILITIES.

I'M CHANGE THE ZOOM HERE AND, UH,

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SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO TRANSITION TO THE THREE FACILITIES TOWN.

THE TOWN OF GREENBURG NEEDS TWO EXISTING CON ED SUBSTATIONS.

ONE IS LOCATED IN THE VILLAGE OF ELMSFORD ON ROUTE ONE 19 OR TARRYTOWN ROAD, AND THE OTHER IS LOCATED IN THE TARRYTOWN PO LOCATED ADJACENT TO THE SAW MILL RIVER PARKWAY, SOUTH OF COLD SAW MILL RIVER ROAD.

RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE POTENTIAL FOR A BEST CONNECTION FROM THESE SITES, BUT SIMILARLY PLACING SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTER AT THE FOREFRONT OF PLANNING.

THE LOCAL LAW ASSOCIATED WITH SUBSTATIONS WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS, A MAXIMUM OF ONE TIER THREE BEST CAN BE INSTALLED PER SUBSTATION FOR A MAXIMUM OF TWO TOTAL IN THE TOWN.

IF APPROVED VIA THE SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLAN PROCESS, THE HOST SITE MUST BE WITHIN 3000 LINEAR FEET OF THE SUBSTATIONS, LESS THAN A MILE, AND AT LEAST 25 ACRES IF CONTAINING AN EXISTING USE TO REMAIN, OR 10 ACRES IF PROPOSED ON A STANDALONE SUBDIVIDED LOT.

THESE LIMITING CRITERIA REDUCE THE POOL OF AVAILABLE SITES TO ONE PRIVATE RECREATION SITE, ONE INSTITUTIONAL USE, AND A FEW INDUSTRIAL AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SITES.

AN ADDITIONAL 500 FOOT SETBACK FROM THE NEAREST ONE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE WOULD BE REQUIRED.

AND THERE ARE PROVISIONS IDENTIFYING A PREFERENCE FOR UNDERGROUND LINES AND A MINIMIZATION OF TREE REMOVALS.

AND THIS MAP SHOWS THE TWO SUBSTATIONS, THE DISTRIBUTION LINES EXIST, I'M SORRY, THE TRANSMISSION LINES ARE SHOWN IN RED, BUT ACTUALLY, UH, THEY WOULD HAVE, UH, NO APPLICABILITY TO BE, UH, THERE, THERE REALLY, UH, IS NO LOGICAL CONNECTION THAT YOU COULD MAKE OFF OF THE TRANSMISSION LINES.

SO, UH, THE PURPOSE OF THIS MAP IS TO SHOW THE TWO SUBSTATIONS AND THAT YOU COULD HAVE ONE TIER THREE FACILITY, UH, FROM EACH OF THESE SUBSTATIONS.

AND I'M GOING TO, UH, ZOOM IN AGAIN AND SHOW A, A GRAPHIC.

UM, AND THIS GRAPHIC IS ACTUALLY A PROPOSAL IN THE TOWN, WHICH MOST OF US ARE AWARE OF.

UH, AND IT'S THE, UH, NORWOOD COUNTRY CLUB.

AND THIS GIVES YOU A SENSE OF WHAT A, WHAT A TIER THREE FACILITY WOULD LOOK LIKE.

UM, AND IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE FOOTPRINT, THERE WE GO AGAIN, I JUST WENT OFF THE MAP.

IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE FOOTPRINT OF CABINETS WOULD BE, UM, IN A DIFFERENT WAY HERE.

SO HO HOPEFULLY THIS IS, OKAY.

IN THIS EXAMPLE, THE FOOTPRINT OF CABINETS WOULD BE, UH, LESS THAN AN ACRE AND, UM, BE FENCED IN AND SCREENED.

AND, UM, THE SPECIAL PERMIT CRITERIA, AS I MENTIONED IT, IT, IT, IT REALLY PROMOTES SEEKING A PORTION OF A SITE, UH, THAT, UM, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE DOWN, UH, LARGE SKINS OF TREES.

AND, UM, THIS JUST GIVES YOU A SENSE OF, OF, OF THE SCALE OF, OF A, OF A TIER THREE FACILITY.

IN SMALLER OR COMPARABLE BEST EQUIPMENT, BUT WOULD ALSO ENSURE THAT SYSTEMS DO NOT HAVE A LARGE SCALE INDUSTRIAL AESTHETIC.

WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO NOW IS CONCLUDE WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE PLANNING BOARD RECOMMENDATION, AND THEN, UH, DEFINITELY LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM, UH, TOWN BOARD.

ANY QUESTIONS? AND, UH, HEARING FROM THE PUBLIC.

SO AS NOTED PRIOR, THE PLANNING BOARD RENDERED A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION ON JUNE 2ND, 2021.

SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS ARE AS FOLLOWS.

THE PLANNING BOARD IS SUPPORTIVE OF THE BEST LEGISLATION AND THE ENERGY, ENERGY SUSTAINABILITY GOALS THAT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW WILL HELP TO FACILITATE.

BEST TECHNOLOGY IS RAPIDLY EVOLVING WITH IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF THE USE FROM A SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY PERSPECTIVE.

AS SUCH, THE PLANNING BOARD FEELS THAT THE LAW SHOULD BE REVIEWED PERIODICALLY EVERY TWO YEARS, AS AN EXAMPLE, FOR CONSISTENCY WITH BEST PRACTICES IN THE INDUSTRY PLANNING BOARD, IDENTIFIED THAT THE LOCAL LAW WILL BE MOST SUCCESSFUL WHEN IT STRIKES A GOOD BALANCE IN SUPPORTING SAFETY STANDARDS, BUT NOT PRECLUDING BEST DEVELOPMENT THAT IS IN CONCERT WITH NEIGHBORHOOD AND TOWN CHARACTER.

BEST TECHNOLOGY IS ANTICIPATED TO BE IN HIGH DEMAND WITH EVER INCREASING STRESS ON THE EIGHTH GRID, IN PART, AS A RESULT FROM PROJECTED PROPORTION OF ELECTRICAL VEHICLE USE.

A COUPLE OTHER POINTS.

THE PLANNING BOARD IS SUPPORTIVE OF THE THREE TIER SYSTEM PROPOSED, WHICH INCLUDES AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS FOR TIER ONE, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT, AND A SPECIAL PERMIT AND SITE PLAN PROCESS FOR TIERS TWO AND THREE.

THE PLANNING BOARD RECOMMENDS THAT THE TOWN BOARD CONSIDER MODIFYING OR REPLACING THE TIER TWO KILOWATT HOUR AND TIER THREE MEGAWATT HOUR STORAGE CAPACITY LIMITATIONS IN THE LAW WITH A MAXIMUM INFRASTRUCTURE FOOTPRINT LIMITATION BY SQUARE FEET.

AS AN EXAMPLE, PLANNING BOARD IDENTIFIED THAT A FOCUS ON SQUARE FOOTAGE AND FOOTPRINT MAXIMUM WOULD ALLOW FOR MORE STORAGE WITHIN A DEFINED AREA TO ACCOUNT FOR UPGRADES IN TECHNOLOGY THAT COINCIDE WITH BETTER BATTERY STORAGE

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I, I ACTUALLY, I, I THOUGHT QUITE A BIT ABOUT THIS RECOMMENDATION AND, UH, IT'S SOMETHING THAT I, I'M GOING TO RECOMMEND THAT THE TOWN BOARD STRONGLY CONSIDER.

UM, IF YOU RECALL THE, UH, PHOTOS I SHOWED OF, OF, OF ONE OF THE SYSTEMS ON TAXI ROAD, UM, I BELIEVE THAT WAS INSTALLED IN 2019 AND ONLY TWO YEARS LATER.

UM, THE SAME FOOTPRINT OF CABINET.

UH, I THINK ON THE ORDER OF MAGNITUDE, THE, YOU CAN GET THREE TO FOUR TIMES AS MUCH STORAGE.

SO, UM, TO HAVE A KILOWATT HOUR MAXIMUM MIGHT NOT MAKE THE MOST SENSE.

AND, UM, YOU COULD ACTUALLY, UH, LIMIT MORE STORAGE IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF FOOTPRINT.

SO, UM, CERTAINLY THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THINK WE SHOULD ALL BE THINKING ABOUT.

AND I, I THINK THAT'S A, A GOOD CONSIDERATION OF THE PLANNING BOARD.

UM, COUPLE MORE POINTS.

UH, BY FOUR THREE MAJORITY VOTE OF THE PLANNING BOARD FOR TIER TWO BEST FACILITIES.

THE PLANNING BOARD IS SUPPORTIVE OF PROPERTY LINE SETBACKS BEING ESTABLISHED THROUGH A HAZARD MITIGATION ANALYSIS WHEREBY THE PRINCIPLE BUILDING SETBACK OF THE UNDERLYING ZONING DISTRICT, WHICHEVER IS GREATER THOUGH IN NO INSTANCE SHALL INSTALLATIONS BE CLOSER THAN 50 FEET FROM A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY LINE.

JUST FOR A FRAME OF REFERENCE, IF YOU RECALL, UH, THE LOCAL LAW, UM, REQUIRES A HUNDRED FOOT SETBACK, UH, FROM PROPERTY LINES.

SO THE PLANNING BOARD, UH, MADE THAT RECOMMENDATION, UM, AND TO, TO FOLLOW UP ON THEIR RECOMMENDATION APPROPRIATELY.

FIRE RATED CONCRETE FIREWALLS SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED AS A MITIGATION MEASURE.

THOSE MEMBERS WHO DISSENTED AGREED THAT THERE MAY BE SCENARIOS WHERE 50 FEET MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE, AND THAT EITHER A GREATER OR LESSER SETBACK MAY BE APPROPRIATE BASED ON THE RESULTS OF A HAZARD MITIGATION ANALYSIS.

FURTHER, THESE DISSENTING MEMBERS AGREED THAT A 50 FOOT SETBACK FROM A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY LINE MIGHT APPEAR ARBITRARY AND NOT BASED ON SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS.

SUCH MEMBERS SUPPORTED SETBACKS BEING ESTABLISHED THROUGH A HAZARD MITIGATION ANALYSIS OR BY THE PRINCIPAL BUILDING SETBACK, THE UNDERLYING ZONING DISTRICT, WHICHEVER IS GREATER.

SO THAT, THAT, THAT'S A, UM, A RECOMMENDATION OF THE PLANNING BOARD THAT DEFINITELY INTRODUCES A LEVEL OF FLEXIBILITY WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THE HUNDRED TO THE, UH, 50, UM, OR TO THE UNDERLYING, UH, ZONING DISTRICT.

UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, I REALLY DON'T HAVE, UH, A COMMENT ON RIGHT NOW.

I, I, I, I, I PERSONALLY NEED TO THINK MORE ABOUT THIS AND I NEED TO SPEAK WITH OTHERS, UH, INCLUDING A GROUP.

UM, AND, AND I, I, I WOULDN'T EXPECT THE, THE TOWN BOARD TO, UH, RENDER ANY OPINIONS ON, ON THIS TONIGHT.

UM, SO I, I THINK IN THIS REGARD, UH, I WILL BE CHECKING BACK AT LEAST, UH, AS FAR AS MY, MY THOUGHTS ARE CONCERNED IN THIS REGARD.

AND, UH, LASTLY, UH, THE PLANNING BOARD, ONE OF THEIR OVERRIDING, UH, OVERARCHING AND MOST IMPORTANT COMMENTS WAS, UM, WHILE SUPPORTIVE OF THE BEST, THEY WANT TO ENSURE THAT IT'S ABSOLUTELY DONE IN THE SAFEST WAY POSSIBLE.

UM, SO THE PLANNING BOARD HIGHLIGHTED, UH, THEIR SAFETY BASED RECOMMENDATIONS AND, UM, I'M GONNA RECITE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THAT, AND THAT WILL CONCLUDE MY REMARKS.

UH, IT IS RECOMMENDED BY THE PLANNING BOARD THAT TOWN STAFF AND THE TOWN BOARD CONTINUE TO SOLICIT FEEDBACK FROM THE FIRE DISTRICTS, THE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS, REGARDING THE LIFE SAFETY ASPECTS OF THE LOCAL LAW.

PRIOR TO ADOPTION, THE PLANNING BOARD SUPPORTS ADDING A REQUIREMENT THAT THE FIRE CHIEF OF THE RELEVANT FIRE DEPARTMENT OR FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT SHALL BE CONSULTANT CONSULTED.

AND THAT WRITTEN DETAILED FEEDBACK SHALL BE SOUGHT REGARDING A FEW ITEMS, NUMBER OF PERSONNEL OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DISTRICT TRAIN IN RESPONSES TO, UH, BATTERY FIRES AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE TRAINED, SUFFICIENCY OF APPROPRIATE P P E AND OTHER EQUIPMENT TO HANDLE A FIRE INVOLVING A VEST SYSTEM LOCATION OF THE BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM ON THE SITE REGARDING ITS ABILITY TO BE ACCESSED BY THE DEPARTMENT'S PERSONNEL AND EQUIPMENT.

AND LASTLY, WITH REGARD TO, UH, HYDRANT ACCESS AND SUFFICIENT WATER.

THEN THE LAST CONCLUDED WITH PARTICULAR CONCERN IS NOTED WITH RESPECT TO THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTS THAT WILL BE ASSISTING WHO MAY NOT RECEIVE THE TRAINING AND PERHAPS THE FUNDING FOR EQUIPMENT THAT MAY BE AVAILABLE TO OTHER PAID FIRE DISTRICTS.

SO I THANK YOU, UH, FOR YOUR ATTENTIVENESS.

AND, UM, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD OR THE PUBLIC MAY HAVE.

ANYONE ELSE? OH, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

SO THERE, THERE ARE SPEAKERS FROM THE PUBLIC, UH, IF THERE ARE NO QUESTIONS FROM THE BOARD, AND, UM, I'M JUST GONNA CHECK MY LIST HERE.

I KNOW, UH, HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE? I BELIEVE,

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UH, MINIMUM THREE.

SO OUR THREE OR FOUR, I BELIEVE.

UM, SO I SEE IS MR. BERNSTEIN PREPARED TO SPEAK GARRETT? I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THE OTHERS SPEAK FIRST, UH, BEFORE I GIVE ANY OF MY COMMENTS.

UM, AND I WOULD LIKE SOME ASSURANCE THAT THIS WILL NOT BE, UH, VOTED ON TONIGHT BECAUSE, UH, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF COMMENTARY THAT'S BEEN PUT IN AND, UH, THERE'S A LOT TO REVIEW AND I DON'T THINK WE CAN COVER IT ALL IN ONE HEARING.

SO I'LL, I'LL PAUSE FOR NOW AND LET OTHERS SPEAK FIRST.

UM, MR. WE DON'T VOTE ON THE SAME, WE DON'T VOTE THE SAME NIGHT AS A PUBLIC HEARING, I KNOW.

IS, UH, MR. DINO RETTA AVAILABLE TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME? HEY, I'M GARRETT.

THANK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

UH, MR. A SUPERVISOR, MEMBER OF THE BOARD, UH, CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME OKAY? YES, YES.

LI SHERETTA PARTNERED WITH THE LAW FIRM, BLAKELEY PLATINUM SCHMIDT.

I'M HERE THIS EVENING, UH, MR. SUPERVISOR, MEMBER OF THE BOARD TOWN STAFF, TOWN ATTORNEY ON BEHALF OF EAGLE ENERGY STORAGE.

UH, AS GARRETT MENTIONED IN THIS, UH, DETAILED PRESENTATION, WE HAVE THE APPLICATION AT THE, UH, NORWOOD COUNTRY CLUB SITE FOR A TIER THREE, WHAT WOULD BE A TIER THREE APPLICATION UNDER THIS LOCAL LAW.

AND REALLY, MY COMMENTS TONIGHT ARE JUST, UH, ARE JUST BRIEFED WITH RESPECT TO THE LOCAL LAW ITSELF.

AND I KNOW, UH, STAFF HAS BEEN AWARE, MADE, BEEN MADE, MADE AWARE OF THIS.

SO I JUST WANNA REITERATE A COUPLE OF POINTS.

UH, THE, THE DRAFT THAT YOU HAVE, UH, IN, IN YOUR HANDS, THE APRIL 12TH DRAFT, JUST TO THE BOARD'S AWARE, AND I KNOW GARRETT'S AWARE OF THIS, BUT THAT CURRENT LAW AS DRAFTED WOULD NOT PERMIT THAT FACILITY AT THAT SITE AS CURRENTLY DRAFTED.

UH, WHETHER IT WAS A TYPO, AN OVER OVERSIGHT, UH, THE, THE APRIL 12TH LOCAL LAW, UH, WOULD NOT ALLOW THE FACILITY AT NORWOOD COUNTRY CLUB AS CURRENTLY DRAFTED.

SO WE DID HIGHLIGHT, UH, THAT COMMENT AS WELL AS OTHERS IN A, UH, EMAIL THAT WE SENT TO GARRETT BACK ON MAY 7TH, WHICH INCLUDED OUR COMMENTS ON BEHALF OF, UH, EQUAL ENERGY WITH RESPECT TO THAT LOCAL LAW.

AGAIN, I WON'T GO THROUGH IT, UH, BUT GARRETT AND STAFF DO HAVE IT.

I HOPE SOME OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE MADE AND SUGGESTIONS TO THE LOCAL LAW WILL BE INCORPORATED.

UM, WITH RESPECT TO THE COMMENTS OF THE PLANNING BOARD, WE DO APPRECIATE IT.

WE DID READ THAT MEMO.

UH, WE THINK THE IDEAS ARE IN THERE ARE, ARE GOOD ONES, AND WE HOPE THAT SOME OF THOSE GET IMPLEMENTED AS WELL TO THE LOCAL LAW.

WITH RESPECT TO JUST A COUPLE OF POINTS, AGAIN, ASIDE FROM THE, THE, THE TEXT AMENDMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED TO ALLOW THIS TIER THREE FACILITY AT NORWOOD.

UH, A COUPLE OF DEFINITIONS IN THE PROPOSED LOCAL LAW, WE, WE SUGGEST MODIFYING, UH, SAME THING WITH RESPECT TO SETBACKS.

UH, THIS FACILITY HAS PROPOSED AT NORWOOD, UH, THE, THE ACTUAL, UH, DISTANCE FROM A SINGLE FAMILY, UH, RESIDENCE IS ABOUT, UM, ALMOST 800 FEET AWAY.

SO I KNOW THERE WAS TALK ABOUT BUFFERS AND, AND SETBACKS.

SO WE WOULD ASK, AND THE TOWN BOARD AS WELL AS STAFF TO, TO REALLY TAKE A LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE IN AN INSTANCE LIKE OURS WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE THE ISSUE OF, OF HOMES, UH, UH, ADJACENT TO THE PROPERTY, WE THINK, UH, EXCESSIVE SETBACKS OR BUFFERS OR EASEMENTS, UH, YOU KNOW, CONSERVATION EASEMENTS, WE JUST DON'T THINK, UH, WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA WITH RESPECT TO THAT.

SO WE WOULD HOPE THAT THE TOWN BOARD, UH, LOOK AT THAT AND HOPEFULLY MODIFY THOSE, THOSE ITEMS WITH RESPECT TO THE LOCAL LAW.

UH, AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE THE TOWN LOOKING INTO THIS, INTO THIS LOCAL LAW.

UH, ALSO ARUP AND, AND TOWN STAFF WHO'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS.

UH, BUT THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL I HAVE THIS EVENING.

AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR LETTING US SPEAK THIS EVENING.

AND WE WOULD HOPE, UH, WITH, WITH THE HELP OF, UH, TOWN STAFF, UH, THE TOWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND YOUR BOARD, WE CAN GET A LOCAL LAW THAT AGAIN, WOULD, WOULD ALLOW THIS FACILITY, UH, WHICH WE BELIEVE IS A GOOD PROJECT.

AND AS GARRETT STATED, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF REASONS WHY THIS IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE WITH RESPECT TO BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE, AND WE WOULD HOPE THIS BOARD LOOKS FAVORABLE ON THIS LOCAL LAW.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I APPRECIATE, UH, THE TIME.

AND, UH, THANK YOU.

ANYBODY ELSE? YES.

UM, ME, MEIA, DEY ARE, ARE YOU AVAILABLE, SIR? YES.

HI.

UH, CAN, UH, CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME OKAY? YES.

AT THE GREENVILLE SHOPPING CENTER, THE SECOND ONE IS AT THE MIDWAY SHOPPING CENTER.

UM, YES.

UH, MY NAME IS MAIA DEY.

I'M ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF I P P SOLAR, AND WE HAVE, UH, UH, THREE PROJECTS, ACTUALLY TWO HAVE BEEN FILED, AND ONE, UH, THAT WOULD COME, UH, UH, SOON, UH, IN, IN YOUR TOWN.

UH, ONE IS

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AND THEN, UH, BASED ON THE RESULTS OF, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DECISION MADE, UH, WITH THE LOCAL LAW, UH, WE MAY HAVE A THIRD PROJECT AT THE CROSSROAD SHOPPING CENTER AT 4 23 THAI TOWN.

SO, UH, WE HAVE BEEN, UH, VERY, UH, UH, PLEASED TO, UH, HAVE BEEN, UH, UH, INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS.

AND, UH, UH, GARRETT AND ALL THE OTHER, UH, BOARD MEMBERS HAVE BEEN AMAZING AND, UH, MUCH, UH, MANY THANKS FOR TAKING OUR VIEWS INTO CONSIDERATION.

WE HAVE PROVIDED A NUMBER OF INPUTS AND WE HAVE EXPERIENCE, UH, WITH THIS KIND OF PROJECTS.

AND WE HAVE DONE ONE, UH, IN YORKTOWN THAT GARRETT SHOWED EARLIER.

UH, AND I THINK, UH, BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE, WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO, UH, MAKE, UH, PROPOSALS THAT COULD ADDRESS THE CONCERNS THAT, UM, UH, THE TOWN AND ALSO THE RESIDENTS MAY HAVE.

AND, UH, IN THAT REGARD, I JUST WANT TO GIVE A QUICK OVERVIEW ON THAT.

AND, UH, AND, AND SO, UH, LET ME JUST GO ON, ON SEVERAL POINTS.

FOR US, IT SEEMS LIKE THE KEY, UH, REALLY THE KEY, UH, ELEMENT IS THE SAFETY.

UH, AND, UH, WE THINK THAT, UH, IN TERMS OF SAFETY, THERE ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A, THERE IS A POTENTIAL FIRE RISK, AND THERE IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DONE HERE TO ADDRESS THAT, WHICH IS, UH, TO PROPOSE A, A, A CONCRETE BARRIER, FOR EXAMPLE.

UH, AND I THINK THAT WILL ADDRESS IT.

IN ADDITION, THE, UH, THE VISIBILITY, UH, ASPECT THAT, UH, SOME PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT.

THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE SOMETHING THAT IS INDUSTRIAL.

UH, I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF WE TAKE THOSE MEASURES, IT WOULD SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCE ANY FORM OF SAFETY.

AND HAVING, UH, A 50 FEET SETBACK WILL, UH, UH, WILL BE MORE THAN ENOUGH, IN FACT, IT WOULD BE EVEN TOO MUCH.

UH, AND I WILL, UH, IN A SECOND JUST, UH, BRING IN, UH, OUR ENGINEER, DAMIAN , WHO CAN, UH, BRIEFLY, UH, EXPLAIN WHY, UH, THE RISKS ARE INCREDIBLY LIMITED.

UH, JUST, UH, TO ADD ANOTHER POINT IS THAT, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF PROJECTS IN NEW YORK STATE RIGHT NOW AT MANY DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES.

AND, UH, WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS THAT, UH, THE APPROACH OF OTHER TOWNS ARE, THEY ARE JUST NOT AS CONSERVATIVE AS, UH, AS A TOWN OF GREENBURG IS.

I'M SURE THAT THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, VALID DYNAMICS HERE, BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, IN LONG ISLAND IN PORT WASHINGTON, THEY DON'T EVEN REQUIRE ZONING OR PLANNING BOARD APPROVAL.

WE GET STRAIGHT TO A BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO GET AN APPROVAL FOR, UH, FOR, UH, THE PRO THE TYPE OF PROJECT WE ARE PROPOSING.

SO JUST TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION.

NOW, HAVING SAID THAT, I JUST WANNA, UH, INTRODUCE OUR, UH, ENGINEER DAMIAN DECARE, WHO WAS A NYSERDA INSPECTOR FOR THREE YEARS.

HE'S A ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, AND, UH, HE KNOWS BATTERY STORAGE, UH, QUITE WELL.

AND DAMIAN, CAN YOU JUST GIVE US IN FEW WORDS WHY YOU THINK THAT THE, THE RISKS OR THE SAFETY RISKS HERE ARE INCREDIBLY LIMITED? UM, UH, AND JUST GO AHEAD.

ALRIGHT, SO, MR. , I'M GONNA GIVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE THAT STATEMENT, BUT HAVE A PROCEDURE HERE WHERE YOU GET TO SPEAK FOR FIVE.

OH, OKAY.

AND HE GETS TO SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES, AND YOU HAVE ABOUT A MINUTE LEFT.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANTED TO SAY ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE THAT, THAT GENTLEMAN SPEAKS.

UH, NO, I, I MEAN, IF IT'S A TIME, UH, LIMITED TIME, I, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT.

UH, I, I, I WOULD, I GUESS, UH, LEAVE IT TO DAMIEN NOW.

DAMIEN, YOU WANNA JUST JUMP IN QUICKLY? THANKS.

HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES.

BUT DISTANCE OF A PROPERTY LOT, I DON'T CARE HOW FAR I AM FROM THE PROPERTY LINE, IT CARRIES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PROPERTY LINE.

AGAIN, LIKE WHERE THE MEMORIES ARE DESIGNED TO SAFELY SELF EXTINGUISH.

UH, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, TESLA HAS A LOT OF EXPERIENCE GIVEN THAT THEY WERE THE FIRST COMPANY TO ACTUALLY DEVELOP LITHIUMS FOR THE EV MARKET THAT THEY'RE DESIGNED IN TERMS OF THE TIER TWO PLUS BATTERIES, BUT CERTAIN SAFETY FEATURES THAT GO BEYOND, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY CREATED THE STANDARDS.

UM, YOU KNOW, IN PARTICULAR, LIKE READING THE TEST REPORTS THAT, UM, WITHIN TWO FEET OF A BATTERY FIRE, THE TEMPERATURE ON THE WALL WAS REGISTERED AT 95 FAHRENHEIT, OR 30 C AT TWO FEET.

WHEN WE HAVE A 50 FOOT SETBACK BASED ON WHAT APPEARS TO BE NO SET STANDARD, I MEAN, THE SETBACK SHOULD BE BASED ON DISTANCE OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIAL,

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IS THAT A WOODEN BUILDING? AM I IN THE MIDDLE OF A FOREST? YOU KNOW, ADJACENT COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS ACTUALLY CAUSALITY TO A FIRE.

UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S DIFFERENT IF YOU HAVE A FIRE ON A BUILDING IN THE MIDDLE OF AN OPEN FIELD THEN WHERE THERE'S NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES, RIGHT? AND, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, LIKE TESLA HAS SETBACKS IN THEIR STANDARDS, AND, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD CONSIDER THAT THE SETBACKS BE BASED ON SCIENCE RATHER THAN JUST A 50 FOOT SETBACK BASED ON, YOU KNOW, FEAR.

I, I THINK, UH, WE CAN CERTAINLY DISCUSS IN MORE DETAIL IF YOU GUYS, UH, UH, UH, WANT, BUT, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, TO, TO, THAT YOU GAVE US TO BRING UP OUR POINTS HERE.

OKAY, THANKS.

AND, UH, TIM, IF I COULD JUST, JUST TO MAKE A QUICK CLARIFICATION, UM, UM, MR. DELLY HAS, UH, THE TWO SITES THAT HE MENTIONED, GREENVILLE AND MIDWAY.

UM, THERE, THERE'S NOT A PROPOSAL, UH, FORMAL PROPOSAL, BUT, UH, SHOULD THE LOCAL LAW, UH, BE APPROVED, UM, THEN THAT WOULD ENABLE PROPOSALS AT THE SHOPPING CENTER.

SO THERE'S NOT A FORMAL PROPOSAL ON FILE RIGHT NOW.

I JUST WANNA MAKE THAT CLARIFICATION.

FAIR.

UM, MR. COLIN MCCARTHY, ARE YOU AVAILABLE? DID YOU INTEND TO SPEAK? HEY, GARRETT? YEAH, I DON'T, I'M NOT GONNA, I DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THIS AT THE MOMENT.

OH, OKAY.

THANKS.

THANKS FOR BEING HERE.

UM, MURRAY BOWDEN WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, I BELIEVE, YES.

UM, I HAVE TWO, UH, DEVICES TODAY.

ONE IS MY IPHONE AND ONE IS THE COMPUTER.

UM, HAVE A HEARING PROBLEM.

AND I'M NOW LISTENING TO THIS THROUGH MY HEARING AIDS.

MY COMMENTS ARE ONLY ABOUT TIER THREE.

IT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION BY ONE OF THE OTHER MEETINGS THAT IF THAT UNIT CATCHES FIRE, IT WILL BURN FOR 24 HOURS, REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER ELSE YOU DO.

THAT TOXIC FUMES WILL BE OVER THE AIR OF GREENBURG FOR 24 HOURS.

THERE IS NO WAY TO PREVENT THAT TOXIC ERROR FROM GOING OVER SOME PART OF THE RESIDENTIAL PART OF GREENBURG.

SECOND, THERE NEEDS TO BE AN EVALUATION OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TIER THREE UNIT.

I'VE BEEN TO ENOUGH PLANNING BOARD MEETINGS AND OTHER MEETINGS AND OTHER MEETINGS TO UNDERSTAND THAT A APPLICANT IS REQUIRED TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE IS BEING CAUSED BY THE PROPOSED PLAN.

THIS PLAN INVOLVES THE USE OF DUB TRUCKS MOVING FROM EARTH, A LARGE AMOUNT OF EARTH, HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS CAUSED BY THE DUMP TRUCKS DRIVING WHEREVER THEY'RE GOING.

HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS CAUSED BY THE CUTTING DOWN OF TREES? HOW MUCH POLLUTION IS CAUSED BY THE INSTALLATION OF OTHER TREES? THIS IS A GLOBAL WARMING ENVIRONMENT WE'RE IN, AND THINGS NEED TO BE EVALUATED ON A DIFFERENT BASIS.

WHAT IS THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED BY A TIER THREE CONSTRUCTION THAT NEEDS TO BE BETWEEN THESE TWO ITEMS? IT WOULD SEEM THAT NO SITE IN GREENBURG SHOULD BE A THREE TIER THREE SITE.

UM, I LEARNED THIS FROM WATCHING MANY MEETINGS, AND MY THINKING HAS EVOLVED.

DO YOU WANT YOUR GRANDCHILDREN TO BE UNDER A 24 HOUR CLOUD OF TOXIC FUMES? NO CONCRETE WALL WILL STOP THAT CLOUD.

DO YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO HAVE THE RESULTS OF THE DAMAGE OF DOZENS OF DUMP TRUCKS DRIVING BACK AND FORTH FOR, FOR A FACILITY THAT'S UNNECESSARY? I REPRESENT MY GRANDCHILDREN'S GENERATION.

I SAY THIS BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE SAID, WHAT YOU DO, I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER.

I'LL BE 88 NEXT WEEK.

MY TIME'S OVER.

IT'S MY GRANDCHILDREN'S TIME, NOT MINE.

THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO ME.

WANT US TO BEGIN WITH THE, UH, MR. SHEA'S COMMENT THAT THE DRAFT AS PROPOSED, WOULD NOT PERMIT THE EAGLE APPLICATION TO GO FORWARD.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

UH, BOB BERNSTEIN.

I WILL OFFER JUST A FEW COMMENTS TONIGHT AND, UH, THEN, UH, RESERVE MY COMMENTS LATER AS THIS DRAFT EVOLVES.

I, I

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UM, IN THE INTEREST OF TRANSPARENCY, I THINK IT SHOULD BE MADE CLEAR BY HIM WHY THAT IS THE CASE.

UH, BECAUSE, UH, IF THERE IS TO BE A NEGOTIATION HERE, WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT IT PROVISION, UM, HE FINDS OR WHAT PROVISIONS HE OR HIS CLIENT FINDS UNACCEPTABLE.

UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STRIKES ME, UH, AND I'VE REVIEWED HIS COMMENTS, UH, IS THAT, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AS MURRAY BOTIN POINTS OUT THE INTRODUCTION OF TIER THREE, WHICH IS A MAJOR, UH, ENERGY, UM, FACILITY IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.

NOW, THE DRAFT DOES LIMIT TIER THREE TO TWO, UM, SITES, ESSENTIALLY, UH, AND, AND THERE ARE REQUIREMENTS, UH, THAT LIMIT THEM FROM BEING PLACED ELSEWHERE.

SO RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT GENERALLY AT RISK FOR TIER THREE, UNLESS OF COURSE YOU LIVE IN PROXIMITY TO THE KNOLLWOOD COUNTRY CLUB.

UH, AND, UH, IF YOUR HOMES ARE IN, UH, UH, SAY THE OTHER SIDE OF NORWOOD ROAD, UM, IN THE MAINFRAME NORWOOD SECTION, UM, YOUR HOMES WILL BE ABOUT 1200 FEET, UH, DOWNWIND FROM A FIRE OF THE TYPE THAT MURRAY DESCRIBES.

UH, BUT THERE ARE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THAT, UH, WHICH MAY MITIGATE IT.

AND AS LONG AS THE FIRE PROTECTION PEOPLE ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT AND THOSE PROTECTIONS, I THINK THAT'S A REASONABLE RISK.

THE THING THAT CONCERNS ME, UH, IS THE REQUIREMENT THAT, UH, THE PROPERTY BE ON A MINIMUM 10 ACRES AS A PRIMARY USE FOR TIER THREE, OR IF IT'S A SECOND PRINCIPLE USE, IT SHOULD BE AT LEAST 25 ACRES.

THE, UH, EAGLE APPLICANT HAS ASKED THAT THE PART OF THIS THAT BE REMOVED BE THE PART THAT SPECIFIES, UH, THAT, UH, THE PROPERTIES BE OWNED BY THE APPLICANT AT THE TIME.

UH, THE ACREAGE BE OWNED BY THE APPLICANT AT THE TIME OF THE APPLICATION, AT THE TIME OF THE LAW IS ENACTED.

UH, THE QUESTION I HAVE IS EAGLE'S APPLICATION IS THAT OF A LESSEE OF NORWOOD'S PROPERTY.

UH, AND I WOULD THINK THAT BEFORE THE TOWN OF GREENBURG INTRODUCES A TIER THREE FACILITY OF THE, A FACILITY OF THIS MAGNITUDE, UH, INTO LAND, UH, IN THE TOWN, THAT THE FACILITY SHOULD BE OWNED BY THE APPLICANT ON LAND THAT THE APPLICANT OWNS, AND NOT THAT BE THAT OF A LESSEE.

UM, UH, THE, UH, IF, IF I'M MISTAKEN AND A LESSEE CAN PROVIDE AS THE SAME PROTECTIONS AS AN OWNER, THEN THE, THE LAW SHOULD MAKE CLEAR WHY THOSE PROTECTIONS ARE THERE AND THE TOWN WOULDN'T BE, UH, IN ANY WORSE POSITION OR ITS RESIDENCE, PARTICULARLY THOSE DOWNWIND IF, UH, THE, THE, THE ENTITY THAT IS, UH, ESTABLISHING THE TIER THREE IS A MERE LESSEE.

UH, THE OTHER THING THAT I'M CONCERNED ABOUT, UH, FOR NOW IS WE KNOW THAT THE EAGLE APPLICANT'S, UH, ORIGINAL NAME WAS, UH, HAD SOLAR IN ITS NAME, NAME, AND THAT IT'S, UH, UH, WE, WE BELIEVE THAT WHAT THEY REALLY INTEND TO DO IS OPERATE A TIER THREE SYSTEM HERE, UH, IN CONJUNCTION WITH A SOLAR FARM.

UH, AND, UH, THERE'S NOTHING IN THIS LAW THAT DEALS WITH SOLAR OTHER THAN TO SAY THAT, UH, A SOLAR FARM WOULD NOT BE PERMITTED, UM, UNDER THE EXISTING LAW WHERE THIS LAW TO BE ADOPTED THAT, BUT THE PLANNING BOARD IN ITS RECOMMENDATION, UM, SAID, UH, THEY WOULD LIKE THE TOWN TO BEGIN WORKING ON A SOLAR LAW TO DEAL WITH THE INSTALLATION OF SOLAR FACILITIES.

SO A CONCERN THAT I HAVE, UH, IS WERE THAT TO BE HAPPEN, UH, AND THIS LAW WERE TO BE ADOPTED AND THE ISSUES WITH RESPECT TO LESSEE OR, OR, OR THE OWNERSHIP BE, BE ADDRESSED.

WHAT HAPPENS IF AFTER THIS IS ADOPTED AND THE SPECIAL PERMIT IS GRANTED, EAGLE THEN SEEKS TO, UH, UH, HAVE ITS ADDITIONAL LAND THAT BUFFERS THIS SITE USED AS A SOLAR FARM TO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH THIS FACILITY THAT'S NOT ADDRESSED HERE.

AND IT'S CONTEMPLATED THOUGH BY WHAT THE PLANNING BOARD SUGGESTS SHOULD BE DONE, WHICH IS

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AN ACT OF LAW TO DEAL WITH THAT.

ALRIGHT, MR. SO THAT'S YOUR, UH, THAT'S YOUR FIVE MINUTES AND WE MIGHT HAVE A SECOND OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, TO COME BACK.

LET'S JUST SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO SPEAK.

YES, PAT WEEMS. MORE SPEAKERS.

OKAY, MS. WEEMS, WELCOME.

PLEASE, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

UH, MS. WEEMS, ARE YOU, ARE YOU ALL SET, SET TO SPEAK AT THIS TIME? YES.

AND I'M GOING TO BE VERY SHORT.

I WANNA TELL MARY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, AND ASK YOU TO GIVE ME A CALL TOMORROW MORNING AT YOUR CONVENIENCE.

IS THAT POSSIBLE? UH, YOU'RE LOOKING FOR MARIE MARIE TO CALL YOU OR ME? NO, I'M FOR YOU.

I WANTED TO TELL MARY, JUST THANK YOU FOR THAT INFORMATION AND I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GIVE ME A CALL IF YOU CAN.

SURE.

I'LL CALL YOU TOMORROW.

NO PROBLEM.

UM, OKAY.

AND, UH, JAMES, UH, ROBINSON, I THINK YOU'RE ON.

YOU MIGHT BE ON MUTE THERE.

SORRY ABOUT THAT.

UM, CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME NOW? YES.

HI EVERYONE, THIS IS JAMES ROBINSON.

I'M WITH STRAT CLEAN ENERGY, AND I JUST WANTED TO BRIEFLY ADDRESS MR. BERNSTEIN'S QUESTION ABOUT THE SOLAR PROJECT.

AND I, I CAN SAY THAT WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF DEVELOPING ANY SOLAR PV ON THAT PARCEL, UM, OR IN GREENBERG.

UH, SO, UM, CAN'T, I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHAT, WHAT THE SOLAR LAW OR ZONING LAW IS, BUT THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE PLANNING TO DO.

UM, OUR COMPANY WAS NAMED STRATA SOLAR.

WE'VE RECENTLY REBRANDED THE STRATA CLEAN ENERGY, AND THAT'S PRECISELY BECAUSE MORE OF OUR PROJECTS WITH EACH, UH, YEAR ARE NON-SOLAR PROJECTS, AND IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE PLANNING ON DOING AT THIS SITE.

SO JUST WANTED TO, UM, STATE THAT.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

AND, UM, SO I GUESS AT THIS POINT IT WOULD BE SPEAKERS, UH, THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME.

AND I BELIEVE MURRAY AND MR. BERNSTEIN BOTH WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME.

UH, SO MURRAY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? YES.

UM, THERE ARE OTHER ITEMS WHO BEARS THE COST OF TRAINING.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS, THE TIME AND ENERGY, THE TOWN OF GREENBERG, UH, PEOPLE BEAR THAT COST, THAT'S AN ENORMOUS COST IN TRAINING.

UM, AND THE SECOND THING BOB BERNSTEIN REFERRED TO WAS, UH, DOWNWIND.

DOWNWIND IS THE ENTIRE AREA OF GREENBURG.

THE WIND SHIFTS, IT WILL BE THERE FOR 24 HOURS.

SO THERE IS NO DOWNWIND.

MY HOUSE, WHICH IS DOWN NEAR ODDSLY, IS IN DANGER.

EVERYONE WITHIN 20 MILES, MAYBE MORE IS IN DANGER.

THERE IS NO DOWNWIND.

THE WHOLE AREA WITHIN 20 MILES IS IN DANGER OF A TOXIC FIRE BURNING FOR 24 HOURS.

THAT CANNOT BE PUT OUT.

THAT'S DIRECT INFORMATION FROM ONE OF THE TOWN BOARD MEETINGS.

SO, BOB, IT'S NO DOWNWIND.

IT'S 20 MILES, MAYBE MORE.

AND THE QUESTION IS, WHO PAYS FOR THE FIRE TRAINING? WHO PAYS THOSE COSTS? THE PEOPLE OF GREENBURG? NOBODY ELSE.

THEY'RE NOT REIMBURSED.

BOB, KEEP GOING.

THANK YOU, .

AND BEFORE MR. BERNSTEIN SPEAKS, UH, MR. DALI AND MR. DESER, YOU ALSO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ONCE AGAIN IF YOU, IF YOU CHOOSE TO DO SO.

UH, MR. MAY I, WE'RE READY FOR YOU? YES.

AND HIS PLEDGE THAT HIS COMPANY HAS NO INTEREST IN DOING SOLAR AT THE KNOLLWOOD SITE.

UM, THANK YOU MURRAY.

UH, I APPRECIATE THAT.

UH, THE, UH, MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE DRAFT IS THAT THE COSTS OF TRAINING, UH, AND OTHER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE, UH, UH, POTENTIAL REMEDIATION, UH, WILL BE BORN BY THE APPLICANT.

IN FACT, THEY MUST BE BORN BY THE APPLICANT, AND THE TOWN SHOULD ENSURE THAT THAT'S THE WAY THE LAW IS ENFORCED.

UM, THESE COSTS SHOULD NOT BE BORNE BY THE TAXPAYER, BUT BORNE BY THE APPLICANT.

UH, AND, AND, UH, UH, I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S WHAT THE INTENT OF THIS LAW DOES.

AND IF I'M MISTAKEN, IT SHOULD BE CORRECTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR, UH, THE, UH, RECOMMENDATION THAT I WOULD MAKE IN LIGHT OF MR. ROBINSON'S COMMENT

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IS THAT THERE BE A MORATORIUM BUILT INTO THE LAW FOR T THREE APPLICANTS WHO MAY SEEK TO ADD SOLAR TO THEIR, UM, UH, TIER THREE FACILITY.

UM, IT CLEARLY WON'T BURDEN EAGLE BECAUSE THEY HAVE SAID THEY'RE NOT PLANNING TO DO IT.

UH, BUT THERE'S POTENTIAL FOR OTHERS, UH, AT LEAST ONE OTHER SITE.

AND I THINK WE SHOULD, UH, UM, USE THE PRECEDENT, UH, THAT WE HAD IN OUR SUBDIVISION LAW, UH, WHERE WE HAVE A MORATORIUM, I THINK, OF AT LEAST FIVE YEARS.

IF YOU SEEK A SUBDIVISION, YOU CAN'T SEEK A FURTHER SUBDIVISION.

UM, AND THE SAME PRINCIPLE SHOULD BE APPLICABLE HERE, THAT WHEN A SITE IS REVIEWED, UH, ADMINISTRATIVELY AND THEN BY THE PUBLIC AND THEN BY THE LAND USE BOARD THAT WILL DECIDE, UH, WHETHER THE SPECIAL PERMIT CRITERIA ARE SATISFIED, THOSE, THAT ANALYSIS SHOULD BE CONFINED TO THE APPLICATION IN FRONT OF IT, WHICH IS THE, THE, IN THIS CASE, THE TIER THREE FACILITY, AND SHOULD NOT BE, UM, UH, ADDRESSING POTENTIAL SOLAR USES.

AND THAT THE IDEA OF A POTENTIAL SOLAR USE SHOULD BE ADDRESSED WAY IN THE FUTURE WHEN A, WE HAVE A LAW IN PLACE THAT DEALS WITH THAT.

AND, UH, B SUFFICIENT TIME HAS ELAPSED.

SO WE KNOW HOW WELL THE TIER THREE FACILITY IS WORKING OUT, UM, UH, AS, AS AS IT HAS BEEN ENACTED.

SO I WOULD SUGGEST A 10 YEAR MORATORIUM ON THAT.

UM, LASTLY, UH, I WOULD, UH, I, I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF THE IDEA RECOMMENDED BY THE PLANNING BOARD THAT THE TOWN ADOPT IN LIEU OF, UH, OR INSTEAD OF, UH, THE WATTAGE OR KILOWATT HOUR LIMITS RESTRICTIONS, A SQUARE FOOTAGE, UH, RESTRICTION, UM, IN THE CONT IN THE HOPE THAT, UH, IMPROVED TECHNOLOGY WILL IMPROVE EFFICIENCY AND ALLOW FOR GREATER, UH, ENERGY STORAGE IN SMALLER SPACES.

UH, I THINK THE TOWN CAN, UH, ADDRESS THOSE IMPROVEMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY BY AMENDING ITS LAW UPON A DEMONSTRATION THAT THE IMPROVED EFFICIENCY WILL RESULT IN, UM, UH, NO DIMINUTION IN SAFETY, UH, OR IN FACT ENHANCE SAFETY.

BUT OPENING THE DOOR TO ALLOW SUCH, UM, UH, IMPROVEMENTS TO, TO BE IN PLACE, UM, TO, BASED ON JUST A SQUARE FOOTAGE, UH, TO ME, UH, IS VERY RISKY.

AND I WOULD URGE THE TOWN BOARD NOT TO GO IN THAT DIRECTION.

UH, SO WITH THAT, I'LL RESERVE MY COMMENTS UNTIL I SEE WHAT THE LAW LOOKS LIKE AFTER THE NEXT, UH, HEARING.

ANYBODY ELSE WISH TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME? YES.

CAN I INTERVENE FOR A QUICK SECOND? YEP.

MORE THAN A QUICK SECOND.

TESLA HAS NOT SEEN AN ACTUAL INCIDENT IN THE FIELD OF ONE OF THESE UNITS ACTUALLY CATCHING FIRE.

UH, FIRST OF ALL, UH, REGARDING THE TRAINING, UH, UH, WE, UH, WE WILL, FOR OUR PROJECTS, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO PAY FOR THE COST OF THE TRAINING OF, UH, FIRST RESPONSE.

AND WE HAVE DONE IT IN YORKTOWN.

UH, WE PAID FOR THE COST OF, UH, THE TRAINING, AND WE WILL DO IT HERE AS WELL.

UH, THAT'S, UH, ONE THING.

AND, AND THE SECOND THING, CAN I SHARE A SCREEN, MY, MY SCREEN WITH YES.

TO SHOW A PICTURE? OKAY.

UM, OKAY.

UH, HERE IS A PICTURE THAT SHOWS INSIDE, UH, A TESLA UNIT.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO, AT THIS POINT, THAT DAMIEN, CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN HOW THESE PODS ARE AND HOW THEY ARE SEGREGATED AND, AND THAT FIRE CANNOT MIGRATE? GO AHEAD.

UH, YES, ESSENTIALLY, WELL, WHAT, WHAT THIS UNIT THAT YOU'RE SHOWING IS ACTUALLY THE INVERTER UNIT, BUT THE BATTERY UNIT AND THE INVERTER UNIT ARE BUILT THE SAME IN THAT THERE ARE WITHIN THE ROCK.

THIS IS, THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE RAMP BATTERY? YES, WE CAN.

SO ONE OF THOSE BATTERY PACKS IS ONLY 3.8 KILOWATT HOUR.

SO ESSENTIALLY, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S FIREWALLS BETWEEN EACH OF THE, THE UNITS AS WELL AS A, A LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM.

SO TYPICALLY THE LIQUID COOLING SYSTEM IS WHAT PREVENTS AN OVERHEATING EVENT.

UM, THE CHARGER IS SHUT OFF, SO IT'S NO LONGER ABLE TO CHARGE THAT BATTERY UNIT, AND IT'S GONNA BE CUT OFF AND COOLED SEPARATELY FROM THE REMAINING BATTERIES.

THIS TECHNOLOGY MEANS THAT

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BUT IF IT SHOULD CATCH FIRE, BECAUSE EACH OF ONE OF THESE AMMO CANS PREVENTS FIRE MITIGATION AND THE FIREWALLS GOING, THE, THE TOTAL POWER IN A FIRE IS ONLY ABOUT 3.8 KILOWATT, WHICH IS ROUGHLY 86 CELLS IN SERIES WHERE A TYPICAL LAPTOP IS FIVE TO EIGHT CELLS IN SERIES.

SO IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE IDEA OF, BECAUSE THIS PLANT IS A TIER THREE, THE FIRE'S GONNA BE THAT MUCH HOTTER, SIMPLY ISN'T TRUE, PROVIDED THAT THE FIREWALLS DO THEIR JOB.

AND, AND TO ADD TO THAT, YOU CAN SEE THAT EVERY OF THOSE PODS, IT'S MONITORED ELECTRONICALLY ONLINE, UH, AT THE MANUFACTURER'S OFFICE.

AND WHAT WE HAVE DONE WITH, UH, THE YORKTOWN PROJECT, WE HAVE GIVEN ACCESS TO THE MONITORING, TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, WHOEVER ELSE IN THE, IN THE TOWN WANTED SO THAT, UH, THEY CAN GET THE ALERTS RIGHT AWAY.

AND IF THERE IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT IS UNUSUAL, UH, THEY CAN, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY GET THE ALERTS, THEY CAN TAKE ACTION PRETTY QUICKLY AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PUT THE PEOPLE IN ON SITE, UH, YOU KNOW, OUT OF DISTANCE SO THAT THERE IS NO, UH, THE HAZARDS.

AND, AND AGAIN, ONE LAST THING ABOUT THE, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IF YOU THINK ABOUT HAVING, POTENTIALLY, GOD FORBID, THE FIRE AT ONE OF THESE PARTS, THE, THE QUANTITY OF FUMES THAT YOU ARE GOING TO GET, IT'S NEGLIGIBLE.

AND, AND SO, UH, IT, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THE ENTIRE, YOU KNOW, UTILITY SCALE, UH, WITH ALL THE BATTERIES GONE, GOING, GOING ON FIRE.

THAT IS JUST NOT TRUE.

IS THERE ANYBODY WHO, UM, HAS SPOKEN A FIRST TIME AND WANTS TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME WHO HAVE NOT HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY? NO.

HOW WOULD THE TOWN BOARD WISH TO PROCEED AT THIS POINT? UH, WE'RE GONNA, UH, CLOSE THE WAIT, WE GONNA, DURING THE HEARING AND OR DO WE WANNA CONTINUE, UM, THE HEARING FOR ANOTHER, UH, UH, SAY TWO WEEKS FROM NOW AND THEN POSSIBLY, OR, OR FOUR WEEKS FROM NOW? AND THEN INCORPORATE SOME OF THE COMMENTS YOU MAKE? SOME TWO WEEKS IS DEFINITELY, UM, TOO SHORT BECAUSE I THINK WE, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT HAVE SOME, YOU NEED TO REVIEW A LOT OF THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE, SO WHEN IT MAKE SENSE TO MAYBE SCHEDULE IT FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR J UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE JULY MEETING, WE DON'T HAVE A DATE FOR THE JULY YET.

UM, I, I HAS A WISDOM ON THIS .

WELL, UH, , I'M NEVER AFRAID OF A LOT OF WORK.

I THINK WE'VE HEARD SOME GOOD COMMENTS, UM, THIS EVENING, AND I'VE BEEN THINKING A LOT ABOUT THE COMMENTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED.

UH, ARU HAS BEEN THINKING ABOUT THOSE COMMENTS.

SO, UH, I WOULD SAY, UH, MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO CONTINUE THIS PUBLIC HEARING ON JUNE 23RD.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A, UH, AN UPDATED DRAFT THAT INCORPORATES A LOT OF THE GOOD COMMENTS THAT WE'VE HEARD AND, UH, MAKE THAT AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC TO COMMENT ON, ON THE 23RD, YOU MEAN BEFORE THE 23RD? YEAH, THE LOCAL LAW WILL BE, UH, AVAILABLE WELL BEFORE THE 23RD.

AND I THINK, UH, IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO HEAR FROM, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC AGAIN ON THE 23RD.

ALRIGHT.

SO WHY DON'T WE MAKE A MOTION TO, UH, ADJOURN THE FOR ALL PURPOSES TO JUNE 23RD.

THAT'S FINE.

I WOULD LIKE TO SECOND, DO YOU HAVE MOTION? I GUESS A FINE MOTION, PAUL, SECOND IT.

RIGHT.

I WAS SETTING THE BALL UP FOR PAUL, BUT I'LL, I'LL TAKE IT.

FINE.

DO WE HAVE, UH, NOW THE PUBLIC COMMENT? OF COURSE, OF COURSE.

IS THE TOWN CLERK THERE? JUDITH, DO YOU HAVE ALL OF THAT?

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I'M HERE, TIM.

UM, WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.

UM, UH, I HAVE PAT WEEMS WHO HAS INDICATED AN INTEREST TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.

AND, UM, GARRETT, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHERS? YES, I BELIEVE, UH, MAYBE THREE OTHERS, MS. SWAN, IF SHE'S ON, AND, UH, MR. MCCARTHY AND MR. ABRAMS. OKAY.

CAN I, UH, MAKE A SUGGESTION, SINCE IT'S ALREADY 10 O'CLOCK? WOULD IT, WOULD, UH, THE BOARD PREFER TO HAVE, UM, MAYBE EIGHT

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MINUTES? UM, AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK AND THEN WE JUST FINISH THE BOARD MEETING AFTER THAT? YOU MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE RULES, PAUL, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE, I THINK HE'S ASKING WHAT THE BOARD'S DESIRE IS BEFORE HE MAKES A MOTION.

YEAH, I MEAN, THIS WAY WE, I DON'T HAVE AN OBJECTION IF ANY OF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS, BUT OUR RULES ARE THREE AND THEN FIVE.

BUT IF WE WANT TO AMEND THE RULES FOR THIS PURPOSE, THEN I HAVE NO OBJECTION TO DOING THAT.

SO THERE'S ONE, PEOPLE HAVE ONE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.

ALRIGHT.

SO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE RULES SO THAT WE HAVE ONE EIGHT MINUTE COMMENT PERIOD INSTEAD OF A FIVE MINUTE A, UM, THREE MINUTE AND FIVE MINUTE COMMENT.

THIS, SO JUST SO I'M CLEAR, SO I'M, I DIDN'T HEAR THAT VERY CLEARLY.

UH, PAUL IS MOTIONING TO AMEND THE RULES TO ALLOW EVERYONE TO SPEAK FOR, UM, UP TO HOW MANY MINUTES, UP TO HOW MANY MINUTES? EIGHT MINUTES, AND ONE AT, AT ONE TIME AS OPPOSED TO THREE MINUTES AND THEN FIVE MINUTES.

NOW, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, EDGEMONT IS PLANNING ON SUING.

SO LET'S BEGIN WITH PAT WILLIAMS. A MOTION.

WAIT, WAIT, SOMEONE, SORRY, DID SOMEONE SECOND THAT MOTION? MOTION? I'LL SECOND THE MOTION.

OKAY, MS. WILLIAMS, THERE.

I GET ALL OF EIGHT MINUTES AND I ONLY WANTED ONE AND A HALF AT THE LAST MEETING.

, IT AMAZES ME, YOU KNOW, AND, AND AS I SAID, TO BE A COUNCIL PERSON HERE IN GREENBURG IS REALLY VERY DIFFICULT.

UM, AND I, AT THE LAST MEETING, I WAS DISCUSSING, UM, PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE HERE IN GREENBURG.

AND I GET EIGHT MINUTES AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW, UH, MR. LEWIS, WHEN I GET FINISHED WITH MY FIVE MINUTES, CAN I GET ANSWERS FROM THE, UH, BOARD THE COUNCIL THAT'S WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD, OKAY.

DISCRETION OF THE BOARD.

THEN I'LL COME BACK NEXT WEEK AND EXPECT EIGHT MINUTES.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH EIGHT MINUTES, FRANCIS.

I WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU CAN IGNORE MY, UM, MY EMAIL TO YOU BECAUSE AS YOU CAN SEE, SOMEBODY ELSE SENT ME A LINK.

I HAD NO INTENTIONS OF COMING TONIGHT, BUT I'M HERE.

I'M GLAD I DID.

UM, PAUL ALWAYS MET.

I I HOPE YOU APPRECIATED MY RESPONSE.

I DIDN'T SEE THAT , I DIDN'T CHANCE SEE IT.

I DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT.

'CAUSE YOU KNOW, I SAID, I, I SAID YOU HAD ENOUGH OF A BREAK AND I SENT YOU THE LINK .

OKAY? UM, WHAT I DON'T LIKE IS, UM, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PAUL GOES ON A ROLL.

AND HE WENT ON A ROLL LAST WEEK ABOUT HOW GREAT HE DID, FINDING THAT, UM, GENTLEMAN TO MAKE A LIFT, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS WONDERFUL, BUT I WANNA KNOW HOW MANY OTHER PEOPLE IN HOUSING, PUBLIC HOUSING DON'T HAVE THAT.

AND INSTEAD OF DOING IT FOR ONE PERSON, AS HE ALWAYS DOES, AND COMES BACK AND DISCUSSES IT FOR FOUR WEEKS, UM, IT'S WRONG.

YOU CANNOT IGNORE ALL THE NEEDS THAT IS HELD.

NOW, HOUSING IS ONE THAT FOR PAUL, PAUL'S BEEN HERE FOR 30 SOMETHING YEARS.

THAT'S 30 YEARS TOO LONG.

AND DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME, 21 YEARS SINCE BISHOP PRESTON HAS BEEN ON THAT LIST FOR HOW, ON THE, UH, HOUSING COMMISSION, THE BOARD ITSELF, THERE WERE NO IMPROVEMENTS.

SCATTER SITES, SENIOR CITIZENS HOUSING.

NOW THERE'RE, I I, I KNOW THERE WAS NOT A MORATORIUM SET ON SENIOR CITY HOUSING THAT'S OVER THERE NOW, JUST SITTING IDLY BECAUSE OF WATER.

I'M QUITE SURE THAT'S WHAT IT IS.

BUT EVERYBODY KNEW THAT EVERYBODY BUT THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY STARTED DIGGING, AND I GUESS THEY FOUND OUT SOONER OR LATER, BUT IT JUST GOES ON AND ON FROM ONE ERA TO ANOTHER.

WE WENT FROM SUING ARDSLEY.

I WAS AGAINST THIS.

IT WASN'T THE ARTS LEAGUE THAT WE SUED, THAT, UM, THAT WE SUED.

AND, UM, IT WASN'T HONOR DORY, ONE OR THE OTHER.

AND GUESS WHAT? THEY WON.

THEY HAD NO RIGHT TO SUE A SISTER VILLAGE.

WE HAD THE PROBLEM WITH THE, UM, WITH THE, UM, THE FIRETRUCK, THE, THE EMERGENCY VEHICLE.

THEY WON FORTRESS BATTLE, WHICH WAS A PENTECOSTAL CHURCH.

I GUESS PAUL DECIDED THAT A PENTECOSTAL CHURCH WOULD NOT SUE HIM.

THEY DID.

THEY WON.

WE HAD ON TOP OF THAT.

NOW JOE MILLER IS SUING, HAS SUED, AND THEY WON.

WHERE'S THE MONEY COMING FROM?

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AGAIN.

I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ALL OF THIS.

I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY FOR 20 MILLION, 15 MILLION, WHATEVER, HUNDRED THOUSANDS AND OTHER MILLIONS FOR PAUL'S ERRORS.

UM, I REALLY WANT THE, UM, I WANT THE TOWN COUNCIL.

YOU KNOW, Y'ALL NEED TO GANG UP AND JUST SAY, NO, WE ARE NOT GONNA DO CERTAIN THINGS BECAUSE AT THE RATE HE'S GOING, NOBODY IN MY COMMUNITY WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO PAY THEIR TAXES.

I DON'T SEE ANYTHING HE'S DOING TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO HAVE THEM PAID OTHER THAN BY US.

WELL, WHEN WE ALL MOVE OUT, BECAUSE WELL, HEY, CAN'T PAY TAXES, ALL OF THAT IS GONNA FALL ONTO THE VILLAGES.

IT'S A, IT'S A DOMINO EFFECT.

AND WITH THAT DOMINO EFFECT, THE TOWN LOSES ALL THE WAY AROUND.

NOW, PAUL, IF YOU DON'T WANNA DO YOUR JOB, AND YOUR JOB MEANS COMING TO WORK, NINE TO FIVE, NOT RIDING YOUR BICYCLE UP AND DOWN THE STREET, GOING OVER THE SHOPRITE LIKE YOU DID TODAY, AND HAND OUT MATERIALS FOR YOUR ELECTION, WHEN DO, WHEN, WHEN, WHEN DO WE STOP? ELECTIONEERING, WHEN DO YOU BECOME ACCOUNTABLE, PAUL, FOR DOING YOUR JOB? YOU GO ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT HOW YOU LIKE HELPING PEOPLE.

IF YOU WANTED TO HELP PEOPLE, HELP US COLLECTIVELY GIVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, PAUL, YOU'RE MAKING A MISTAKE, DON'T DO THAT.

WHEN WE ARGUE AGAINST IT, YOU DON'T CARE.

YOU JUST GO BULLHEADED RIGHT ON IN THERE.

AND WE HAVE TO END UP PAYING.

AND WHAT HAPPENS IS, WHEN IT COMES TIME TO VOTE, WELL, GUESS WHAT? I CAN'T VOTE FOR ANY OF THE MAYORS IN THE VILLAGES, BUT EVERYBODY IN THE VILLAGE CAN VOTE FOR YOU.

AND IF THEY DON'T WANNA VOTE FOR YOU, THEY JUST DON'T VOTE.

BUT THAT MEANS A NO VOTE AT ALL IS A VOTE FOR PAUL.

HOW DO WE CIRCUMVENT THAT? I'M ASKING THE TOWN COUNCIL, CAN Y'ALL COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS THAT, UM, IF THE VILLAGERS CAN'T VOTE FOR US, WE CAN'T VOTE FOR THEM.

I ALSO WANNA STACY THAT I GOT EIGHT MINUTES, UM, THAT, UM, EDGEMONT SAYS THEY WANNA SECEDE FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND BECOME A VILLAGE.

WELL, THEY CAN BECOME A VILLAGE.

I DON'T MIND THAT, BUT THEY HAVE TO BECOME A VILLAGE TOTALLY THIS CONNECTED FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

THEY CAN DO THAT.

THEY CAN PAY TO HAVE THEIR OWN EVERYTHING THEY WANT.

BUT DON'T TELL ME AFTER YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR THIS MANY YEARS, WHY I NO LONGER WANNA BE HERE BECAUSE MY TAXES ARE TOO HIGH.

SO I'M GOING TO LEAVE AND LET Y'ALL ROT, FLOAT, SINK, WHATEVER.

THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

BERNSTEIN.

I HOPE YOU'RE STILL ON HERE BECAUSE I WILL, I WILL BE THE FIRST ONE OUT THERE TO STATE.

IF YOU WANNA LEAVE, LEAVE, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE THE OPTION TO SELECT, THEN YOU ARE GOING TO GO AND BE A VILLAGE.

YOU WANNA LEAVE, YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY IN YOUR COMMUNITY, THEN PAY YOUR OWN TAXES.

GET YOUR OWN, UH, GARBAGE, DISPOSALS, WHATEVER THAT YOU NEED TO FORM YOUR LITTLE TOWN, DO IT, BUT DON'T DO IT AT MY EXPENSE.

AND IF YOU DO SUCCEED, I'M QUITE, I'M QUITE SURE YOU SHOULD BE PAYING SOME BACK TAXES.

NOW IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GREEN THING.

AND THAT'S MONEY.

SO NOW WITH THAT, RECOGNIZE THAT I AM 100% AGAINST YOU SAYING THAT I DON'T WANNA BE UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG BECAUSE OF THE TAXES.

I'M NOT BUYING THAT.

ESPECIALLY AFTER WITHROW MOORE.

YOU GOT, YOU GOT PAUL FINER TO SAY THAT YOU SAY YOU WANTED TO FIND OUT WHAT THE IMPACT WAS ON YOUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

YOU ARE ALREADY AT 100% DIVERSITY, BUT THE DIVERSITY DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE DIVERSIFIED WITH DIFFERENT COLORS OF STUDENTS IN YOUR SYSTEM.

IT'S 90 SOMETHING PERCENT JEWISH AND 2% OTHER.

NOW YOU COULD, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO TELL ME THAT I'M WRONG, BUT I BET YOU IT'S NOT MORE THAN 95%.

SO NOW DON'T SELL ME THAT YOU WANNA SEPARATE AND WANNA SELECT WHERE YOU WANNA GO.

YOU DON'T HAVE THAT OPTION AND YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE THAT OPTION.

YOU WANNA LEAVE? I'LL COME HELP YOU PACK, BUT LEAVE.

HEY, MS. REAM, THAT'S YOUR, THAT'S YOUR EIGHT MINUTES.

THAT'S EIGHT MINUTES.

AND I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T EVEN NEED THEM.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND I, I AM TIRED AND I'M FINISHED.

STEPHANIE SW THANK YOU VILLE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

TOWN CLERK.

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UH, I'D LIKE TO THANK, UH, PAUL FINER TOWN SUPERVISOR, THE COUNCILMAN COUNCILWOMAN AND TIM LEWIS, COUNSELOR AND GAR.

I'M SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF MYSELF.

I'VE BEEN BEFORE THIS BOARD.

I LIVE AT 3 7 6 SAWMILL RIVER ROAD, UNIT 62 DASH ONE.

THIS IS MY FOURTH TIME COMING BEFORE THIS BOARD.

AND I HAVE HUMBLED MYSELF AND I HAVE TOLD WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME.

AND I HAVE ASKED PAUL FINER AND HOPEFULLY THE BOARD TO APPOINT AND INVESTIGATE AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE, IN, IN AND HUMANE CONDUCT OF VERBAL MENACING HARASSMENT TOWARDS ME THROUGH THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ROGER ABRAMS. WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE CRITERIA THAT I NEED TO HAVE THIS DONE AND IMPLEMENTED? AND ALSO, IS IT DULY PAUL FINE'S DECISION? BECAUSE PAUL, YOU HAVE ASKED ME, WHAT IS IT THAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE MY LIFE LESS STRESSFUL AND MAKE ME FEEL SAFE IN MY COMMUNITY? PAUL, YOU CAN DO THIS MR. FINDER, BY LISTENING TO ME AND APPOINTING AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT HAPPENED SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2018 IN FRONT OF MY UNIT.

IT WAS DONE, PAUL, WHEN YOUR FAMILY WAS BEING MINISTERED AND HARASSED BY ANTISEMITIC STATEMENTS, IT SEEMS AS IF IT'S A TALE OF TWO CITIES.

IF YOU LIVE ON ONE SIDE OF GREENBURG, YOU GET THINGS DONE.

WHEN YOU LIVE ON THE FAIRVIEW GREENBURG ELMSFORD SIDE, NOTHING IS DONE.

I CAN'T EVEN CALL THE GREENBURG POLICE WITHOUT THEM COMING AND BEING DISRESPECTFUL TOWARDS ME.

I CAN RECALL WHEN A ROCKING CHAIR WAS MISSING FROM MY PORCH.

I CALLED THEM, AND THIS WAS THE EXACT DAY THAT BREONNA TAYLOR WAS MURDERED IN HER HOME.

ONE OF THE OFFICERS SAID TO ME, PERHAPS YOU MOVED IT INSIDE YOUR UNIT.

LET'S GO INSIDE AND CHECK.

MAYBE YOU FORGOT.

THAT'S NOT FUNNY.

AND THEN ANOTHER EPISODE, IT'S WHEN PAUL WAS DOING A DEBATE, ONE MAY 25TH.

AND YES, I STATED WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO ME BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BE HEARD.

I AM A VICTIM OF VERBAL ABUSE AND INHUMANE TREATMENT TOWARDS ME.

I SUFFER FROM A DISABILITY AND FOR TWO MEN TO COME ON MY PORCH UNANNOUNCED AND A HAIRLINE FRACTURE FROM USING THE N WORD TOWARDS ME.

NOW, IF THAT'S NOT CONSIDERED TO BE A HATE CRIME, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS I'M ASKING, WRITING OUT WHAT EXACTLY ARE THE PROCEDURES IN GETTING AN APPOINTED INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.

AND ALSO I'M LISTENING TO WHAT'S HAPPENING BEHIND NORWOOD ROAD, UH, WITH MAURY.

YES, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, BUT WHAT ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING OVER HERE AT THE MOVIE COMPLEX BLASTING TWICE A DAY I'VE BEEN IN AN EARTHQUAKE.

IT'S FRIGHTENING.

YOU CAN'T EVEN GO OUTSIDE.

CAN YOU IMAGINE THE ASBESTOS AND WHATEVER CHEMICALS THAT ARE BEING BLASTED FROM THAT DEVELOPMENT THAT ARE COMING OVER TO WHERE WE ARE.

WE HAVE CHILDREN THAT LIVE HERE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE NO ONE CARES.

THERE ARE NO BLASTING SIGNS NOTED, UH, DISPLAYED ANYWHERE.

THE TRUCKS GOING UP AND DOWN THE HIGHWAY.

WE HAVE CHILDREN THAT LIVE HERE.

THIS IS A BLACK AND BROWN COMMUNITY.

BUT EVIDENTLY IT DOESN'T MATTER.

IT TRULY DOES NOT MATTER.

MY QUESTION TO THE TOWN BOARD OF GREENBERG, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY PAUL FEER FEELS AS IF HE'S ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS

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AND BEING ON THAT MAY 25TH DEBATE THAT HE HAD WITH THE CANDIDATE THAT WAS RUNNING TASHA YOUNG.

YES, I VOICED WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO ME.

YOUR CAMPAIGN MANAGER, ANDY LOEB, CAME AFTER ME LIKE TRUMPSTER STYLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND SAID TO ME, MY SWAN SONG WILL BE ENDING VERY SOON.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? A SWAN SONG.

A SWAN SONG IS LIKE IN A BALLET.

THE SWAN DOES NOT SURVIVE.

MY LAST NAME IS SWAN.

WAS THAT A DEATH THREAT THAT YOUR CAMPAIGN MANAGER, ANDY LOEB, SAID TO ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA? I DEMAND A WRITTEN APOLOGY FOR THAT STATEMENT.

IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT I HAVE BEEN TRAUMATIZED AND THE PAST THREE, FOUR YEARS SINCE LIVING HERE AT THE GREENBURG HOUSING AUTHORITY, AND IT STILL CONTINUES AS OF TODAY, I DON'T HAVE A GUARANTEE OF COMING BACK BECAUSE WHEN THEY DID THE FLOOR PLANS, THERE WAS NOT ONE FLOOR PLAN OF A ONE BEDROOM UNIT OR EVEN A HANDICAPPED ACCESSIBLE UNIT.

THEY ACTUALLY SAID THEY DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER COMING INTO MY UNIT.

BUT THEN AGAIN, 10 MINUTES LATER, THEY DID.

BUT THEY SAID THERE WERE NO FOUR PLANS FOR THAT.

SO WHO'S RIGHT OR WRONG? SO I'M DEMANDING THAT I FIND OUT HOW DO I GO ABOUT GETTING AN APPOINTED INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION INTO WHAT HAPPENED TO ME? BECAUSE I WAS TOLD ON THAT DAY THE REASON WHY THEY DESTROYED MY GARDEN AND THE PREMISES WHERE I LIVE AT IS BECAUSE ROGER ABRAMS, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NEEDED THE FUNDS TO MAKE THE PROPERTY BETTER BECAUSE MY UNIT LOOKED TOO GOOD.

AND IF MY UNIT LOOKED TOO GOOD, THEY WOULDN'T GET THE FUNDING.

SO PAUL, YOU'RE NOT GOD, YOU CANNOT PICK AND CHOOSE WHO YOU WANT TO HELP.

YES, YOU HAVE HELPED ME AND MY FAMILY IN THE PAST, BUT PAUL, THAT WAS OVER 30 YEARS AGO.

IT WAS APPRECIATED.

I'M ASKING FOR YOUR HELP NOW AND YOU'RE NOT GIVING IT, BUT YET YOU ALWAYS SEND OUT REALLY NICE EMAIL SAYING WHATEVER IT IS, I CAN HELP, LET ME KNOW.

WELL, I'M TELLING YOU, PAUL, THIS IS THE FOURTH TIME AND AS SOON AS I FINISH, YOU BRUSH IT OFF AND YOU SAY NEXT YOU DON'T COMMENT AND YOU DON'T SAY ANYTHING.

YOU DON'T EVEN GET BACK.

YOU DON'T EVEN, ALRIGHT, MISS ONE THAT, THAT'S YOUR EIGHT MINUTES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

CLIFF ABRAMS. HELLO? HELLO.

I CAN HEAR YOU, CLIFF.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

YOU HAVE TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT LOUDER THOUGH.

UM, ABOUT A MONTH AGO.

UM, A BLACK GUY.

HE'S STILL KIND OF LOW.

OKAY, LEMME SEE IF I CAN, UM, YOU CAN'T HEAR.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE LOUDER? ALRIGHT, GIMME A SECOND.

THAT'S BETTER.

YOU CAN HEAR ME NOW? YES.

ALRIGHT, THANK.

SORRY, I'M TRYING TO FIND THE E OKAY.

UM, ABOUT A MESSAGE.

BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN WAS, UM, VANDALIZED IN WHICH I CALLED WAS A HATE CRIME ON OVER ROAD.

AND I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT THE CHIEF IS HERE BECAUSE MAYBE HE CAN, UM, ANSWER, HAVE ANY ARREST BEEN DONE? UM, WHAT'S THE PROGRESS OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SIGN? AND YOU FIND THE TAPE YET THE CASE.

GIVE UP THE TAPE.

SO WE HAD A MEETING ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER, UM,

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COMMITTEE.

AND ED DEVITO, THE PRESIDENT OF THE POLICE UNION WAS ON THE MEETING.

AND I WAS WONDERING WHAT'S HE BEING ON THIS MEETING FOR? I THOUGHT HE WAS COMING TO GIVE AN UPDATE OR MAYBE, YOU KNOW, TELL US THAT THEY ARREST SOMEBODY, BUT INSTEAD HE WANTED TO BE DISRESPECTFUL TO ME BECAUSE I'M ASKING QUESTIONS.

AND THAT YOUNG MAN THAT WAS A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, JAKE, HE SAID THAT THERE'S NEVER TOO MANY QUESTIONS.

THERE'S NEVER TOO MANY QUESTIONS TO SOLVE A PROBLEM.

WOW.

THAT WAS POWERFUL.

AND IT SEEMS LIKE WHEN WE ASKED QUESTIONS AND THERE'S CERTAIN IF THE TOWN OR A HALL, Y'ALL DON'T LIKE WHAT WE ASKED YOU JUST SHUT US DOWN.

SO AS I'M TALKING ABOUT THE SIGN NEED TO BE PUT BACK UP.

HE SAID, I WAS GRANTING RAVING HOW DISRESPECTFUL.

SO, SO I ASKED HIM, CAN HE GIMME AN APOLOGY? I'M A DISTRICT LEADER.

I'M A COMMUNITY ACTIVIST AND LEADER.

I'M ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE.

I'M ON THE GREENBURG SYSTEMATIC AGAINST RACISM HOUSING COMMITTEE.

AND HERE GO A OFFICER, A POLICE UNION.

AND HE SAID, I'M RANTING AND RAVING.

AND HE IS THE SAME PERSON THAT TOLD ME THAT 10 YEARS AGO I WAS VIDEOTAPING HIM HANDCUFFING A YOUNG BLACK MAN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET ON MANHATTAN AVENUE WITH HIS HAND BEHIND HIS BACK WHERE THE MURAL GOING TO BE AT AS UNCOMFORTABLE, LIKE TRAFFIC WAS COMING AND GOING.

AND HE THOUGHT I WAS BEING DISRESPECTFUL TO HIM BECAUSE I WAS VIDEOTAPING.

AND THEN SOMEBODY LIKE THAT GOING TO GO AHEAD AND TELL US WHAT WE SHOULD DO.

WHAT BLACK LIVES MATTER.

I DON'T THINK SO.

SO THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, THEY DIDN'T SEND A LETTER YET.

'CAUSE I TALKED TO THE CHAIRPERSON LYNN, AND THEY WROTE A LETTER THAT'S GONNA GET TO THE BOARD THAT SAY DEAD TOWN BOARD MEMBERS.

IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT ONGOING VANDALISM AGAINST BLACK LIVES MATTER ACROSS GREENBERG, WE BELIEVE IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EVER TO STAND UP FOR OUR BLACK BROTHERS AND ENSURE THAT THEY ALWAYS FEEL WELCOME AND SAFE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

ALONG THESE LINES, WE HOPE YOU WILL ACT QUICKLY TO REPLACE THE TOWN SECTION BLACK LIVES MATTER, SIGNED ON NOVA ROAD IN CENTRAL AVENUE.

IF YOU FEEL TO DO SO, YOU WILL EFFECTIVELY ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO CRIMINALIZED VANDALIZED TOWN PROPERTY IN ORDER TO INTIMIDATE BLACK RESIDENTS WERE SUCCESSFUL IN THEIR EFFORTS AND SENT A SIGNAL THAT RACISM AGAINST MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS WILL NOT BE CONFRONTED OR ADDRESSED SERIOUSLY.

WE WILL URGE YOU TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORK TO REPLACE THESE SIDES IMMEDIATELY.

COUNTER OFFICIALS AND OTHER LOCAL LEADERS SHOULD ALSO PARTICIPATE IN A CEREMONY, UNVEILING THE NEW SIGN IN ORDER TO MAKE VERY CLEAR THAT RACISM AND HATRED HAVE NO PLACE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG THAT BLACK LIVES DO.

INDEED, MATT, IN GREENBURG.

WE WILL URGE YOU TO MAKE THAT VERY CLEAR BY REPLACING THESE SIGNS, AFFIRMING THAT THEY DO ANY OTHER RESPONSE WILL FEEL ALL BLACK RESIDENTS AT A TIME WHEN THEY FEEL SCARED, INTIMIDATED, AND VULNERABLE TO INTOLERANT ACTS OF HATRED.

THIS IS NOT A MESSAGE YOU SHOULD WISH TO SEND.

SOME JEWELS, SOMETHING HAPPENED.

THE GREENBERG HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY BOARD.

AND ALSO WHAT UPSETS ME IS THAT THIS IS A HATE CRIME TO ME.

AND I'M TALKING ABOUT BLACK LEADERSHIP.

Y Y'ALL NOT UPSET ABOUT THIS, BUT I KNOW I SAW THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY ON NEWS TRIAL THE OTHER DAY.

SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH SOME JEWELS.

THEY HAD A BIG RALLY.

I'M, I'M SHOUTING OUT TO THE BLACK LEADERSHIP THAT'S IN GREENBERG, STEP UP.

AND, AND I HEARD THAT PAUL IS GETTING ALL TYPE OF EMAILS ABOUT THEY DON'T WANT THE SIGNS UP IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

SO IT IT TELLS ME THAT, AND I KNOW

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PAUL AND THE CHIEF WANTED TO SAY THAT.

OH, I DON'T THINK IT'S MY WIFE FROM GREENBURG.

YES IT IS BECAUSE THE GUY FROM THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE TOLD ME HE TRIED TO TALK ON PEOPLE OVER THERE WHERE THE SIGN WAS TORN DOWN.

HE SAID THAT NECK WILL BULGING THE VEINS OF SAYING THAT BLACK LIVES MATTER MEAN HATE THE POLICE.

I'M ASKING THE TOWN BOARD WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A TOWN HALL MEETING UP AT YOSEMITE PARK BEHIND THE CENTER OF LET'S GET REAL ABOUT RACISM IN GREENBURG.

WE CAN SOCIAL DISTANCE.

I TALK TO LINDA, THE CHAIRPERSON, AND I HOPE THAT TO BE WILLING TO DO THIS BECAUSE, UM, CRITICAL RACE THEORY BEING TELLING THE TRUTH.

AND IF YOU CAN'T TALK THE TRUTH ABOUT IT, WE AIN'T GOING TO NEVER GET THIS RIGHT, BUT WE NEED TO CONNECT THE DOTS.

I'M TALKING TO A MEMBER NAMED STU, I FORGOT HIS LAST NAME.

WE TALKING ABOUT, HEY, WE CAN HAVE OUR INDIFFERENCE.

I GOT NO PROBLEM WITH IT.

YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE I LOVE MY PEOPLE WON'T MEAN I HATE ANYBODY ELSE.

THE UNAPOLOGETIC BLACK IN AMERICA AND GREENBURG PEOPLE MAKE YOU THINK THAT YOU HATE THEM.

AND YOU HAVE A LOT OF POLITICIANS WHO ARE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP, WHO LOOKS LIKE ME WHEN CRIMES AND VANDALISM HAPPENS, HAPPENS LIKE THAT AND DISGUSTED ME THAT THE BLACK RACE DEFINITELY IN GREENBURG AND IN WESTCHESTER IS NOT UPSET ABOUT THIS.

THANK YOU POLAND.

MCCARTHY, UH, JUDY, CAN I GET A, MY EIGHT MINUTES NOT UP.

CAN THE CHIEF LET US KNOW IF ANYTHING HAPPENED? HEY, GOOD EVENING, CLIFF.

IT'S THE CHIEF.

UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE IS, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME INFORMATION I CAN GIVE.

THERE'S SOME THAT I CAN, I KNOW I'VE UPDATED THE TOWN BOARD AS THE INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN PROGRESSING.

WE'VE HAD, UH, SUBPOENAS ISSUED AND SERVED.

WE'VE RECOVERED SOME EVIDENCE.

UH, WE'RE AWAITING A DECISION BY THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR A SEARCH WARRANT TO, UH, TO TRY TO GATHER MORE EVIDENCE.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT WHEN WE HAVE A, A CRIME LIKE THIS, THERE, THERE COULD VERY WELL BE, UM, A BELIEF OR A PERCEPTION THAT IT'S A HATE CRIME.

THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS NOT DESIGNATED THIS A HATE CRIME YET.

UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE, WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THE INVESTIGATION OR INVESTIGATORS ARE, ARE STILL VERY ACTIVE ON THE CASE.

AND, AND THAT'S, THAT'S ABOUT AS MUCH AS I CAN SAY TO IT RIGHT NOW.

I APPRECIATE YOU AT LEAST GIVING ME SOME INFO, SOME UPDATE.

GOOD.

ALL RIGHT, MR. MCCARTHY.

HIGHLY DIVERSE, GENEROUS COMMUNITY.

GOOD EVENING.

UH, COLIN MCCARTHY, PRESIDENT OF THE EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COUNCIL.

UM, I TUNED INTO THE TOWN BOARD WORK SESSION LAST WEEK, UM, AND WAS VERY DISMAYED TO SEE THE TOWN HAD GATHERED A GROUP OF PEOPLE AND FORMALLY SUPPORTED, UH, THE SENATE BILL 1657, WHICH WAS THE ANTI INCORPORATION LEGISLATION.

UM, DESPITE BEING THE LARGEST CIVIC ASSOCIATION, CIVIC ASSOCIATION IN EDGEMONT, UH, WE WERE NOT INVITED AND EXCLUDED FROM THIS MEETING.

UM, AND WHILE THE E C C IS NEUTRAL ON LOAN INCORPORATION, UH, WE STRONGLY OPPOSE ANY BILL THAT REMOVES CITIZENS' RIGHTS.

AND WE STRONGLY OPPOSE THE TOWN USING TAXPAYER RESOURCES TO SUPPORT AND LOBBY FOR THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION.

UH, THIS IS JUST ANOTHER MISSTEP AND SETBACK IN THE EDGEMONT GREENBERG RELATIONSHIP AND THE FURTHER ALIENATED EDGEMONT RESIDENTS BY DOING THIS.

UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF MY WIFE WANTED TO DIVORCE ME, I WOULD GO TALK TO HER.

I WOULDN'T GO TRY TO CHANGE THE LAW TO PREVENT HER FROM LEAVING ME.

UH, IT'S, IT'S THE WRONG APPROACH.

SO WE CALL ON THE TOWN BOARD AND THE SUPERVISOR TO STOP USING TAXPAYER RESOURCES TO SUPPORT AND LOBBY FOR THIS TYPE OF LEGISLATION.

THE BILL ITSELF CALLS FOR A FIVE YEAR PROJECTION ON CAPITAL AND OPERATING BUDGETS, UH, FOR A, ANY NEWLY FORMED VILLAGE.

W WE CALL ON THE TOWN TO PRODUCE THE SAME THINGS.

UH, WE'VE BEEN CALLING ON IT FOR A LONG TIME AND, AND WE THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT START.

THE BILL ALSO CALLS FOR AN IMPACT STUDY, UM, FOR, FOR THE TOWN AFTER EDGEMONT WERE TO LEAVE AS A VILLAGE.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE HEAR ALL THESE DOOMSDAY PROJECTIONS AND HOW EDGEMONT RESIDENTS ARE LEAVING EVERYONE HIGH AND DRY.

SO WE CALL ON YOU TO PRODUCE SOME EVIDENCE BEHIND THIS.

UH, INSTEAD OF JUST SAYING THIS, THEN WE CAN FOCUS ON ISSUES AND ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT HOW TO SOLVE PROBLEMS INSTEAD OF JUST, YOU KNOW, SPREAD THIS, THIS, THIS TYPE OF, UH, UH, OF TALK.

UM, AND LASTLY, WE, WE CALL ON YOU TO CHANGE THE TONE OF THE CONVERSATION.

UH, THE TRUMP STYLE DIVISION, WHERE IT'S PIT ONE SIDE OF OF, OF GREENBERG AGAINST THE OTHER, IT, IT'S JUST NOT GOOD.

UH, WE'RE, WE'RE AN ACTIVE,

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UH, WE CARE ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORS.

WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH, WITH ALL THE DEPARTMENTS OF GREENBERG.

UM, YOU KNOW, EDGEMONT WAS, IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE PART OF GREENBERG.

UH, SO WE, WE, WE SAY, STOP THE RHETORIC.

LET'S BE CONSTRUCTIVE.

UM, LET, LET'S WORK TOGETHER AND, AND, BUT THE BALL'S IN YOUR COURT AND WE, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME CHANGE.

THANK YOU, COLIN.

I APOLOGIZE FOR MISPRONOUNCING YOUR NAME.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.

HOW ARE YOU? UM, I DO SUPPORT YOU, CLIFF.

UM, I SAW THAT IN A NEWSPAPER.

IT WAS EMAILED TO ME.

IT WAS IN RYE THAT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN WAS TAKEN DOWN AND IT WASN'T TAKEN DOWN WITH LOVE.

IT WAS RIPPED DOWN, TORE DOWN, AND THE WHOLE SIGN WAS TAKEN DOWN.

AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S AN INVESTIGATION.

I UNDERSTAND THAT NOBODY IN THE DA'S OFFICE HAS CALLED IT A HATE CRIME, BUT WE'RE BLACK.

THAT'S A HATE CRIME THAT WAS DIRECTED TOWARDS US, NOT TOWARDS THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

GREENBURG SIGNS HAVE BEEN UP FOREVER.

WELCOME TO GREENBURG.

WHO TORE THOSE DOWN.

AS SOON AS A BLACK LIVES MATTER, BLACK PEOPLE, THAT SIGN WENT UP AND IT CAME DOWN.

YOU HAVE SIGNS EVERYWHERE THROUGHOUT GREENBURG.

YOU CANNOT SAY THAT WAS JUST AN ACT OF VANDALISM THAT WAS TARGETED TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE.

AND AGAIN, HERE WE ARE AGAIN.

I HEAR TWO SIDES, GREAT THINGS ON ONE PART OF TOWN AND THEN OTHER THINGS ON ANOTHER PART OF TOWN.

AND THAT'S REAL.

AND I DON'T SEE ANY COHESIVENESS.

AND THAT'S OUTSIDE OF EDGEMONT.

'CAUSE THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER THING.

I'M TALKING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE THAT ARE IN FAIRVIEW, THAT HAVE A VOICE THAT, THAT MATTER, THAT LIVE THERE, THAT HAVE GIVEN THEIR BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS.

I MEAN, WE'RE THE FIRST SETTLERS IN GREENBURG WHITE.

I DON'T KNOW.

THIS IS REALLY A PROBLEM.

BEING DIS HOUSED, BEING DISPLACED, BEING FEARFUL.

YOUR VOICE ISN'T HEARD.

RIPPING DOWN SIGNS.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? NOBODY HAS TO CALL IT HATE CRIME OR RACISM.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

AND IN SUIT.

AND IT COMES FROM ABOVE BECAUSE PEOPLE ONLY ACT THE WAY YOU PERMIT THEM TO TREAT YOU.

THERE'S NO BOUNDARIES BEING SET BY GOVERNMENT.

YES, WE CAN SAY DON'T DO IT AS A PEOPLE, BUT WE GO OUT THERE AND WE STOP THEM OURSELVES.

NOW WE'RE CRIMINALS OR WE'RE IRATE, OR WE ARE ANGRY BLACK PEOPLE.

WE'RE TIRED.

I DON'T NEED TO ASK YOUR PERMISSION TO BE HUMAN, BUT YOU GOTTA BE REAL THAT YOU ARE RACIST BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT THIS, NOTHING'S GONNA CHANGE.

IT'S RACIST.

GREENBURG WESTCHESTER, THE UNITED STATES IS, HAS RACISM AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE WOVEN IN THE FABRIC OF THIS FLAG, PERIOD.

AND IF YOU FIND IT A PERSONAL ATTACK AGAINST YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE WHITE, WELL THEN MAYBE IT'S, BUT IF YOU HAVE THE POWER TO AT LEAST LET PEOPLE KNOW IT'S UNACCEPTABLE, WHY WOULDN'T YOU USE THAT VOICE? IT'S JUST A VOICE.

NO.

LET'S SEE.

HOW MANY PEOPLE WANT IT? HOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T WANT IT? YOU KNOW, BLACK PEOPLE ARE TIRED OF ASKING WHITE PEOPLE TO BE HUMANE.

AND THAT'S WHY I KNOW THERE ARE NOT A LOT OF BLACK ADVOCATES ADVOCATING FOR THIS.

JUST LIKE PAUL, YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 30 YEARS.

MANY RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN IN GREENBURG FOR THAT LONG OR LONGER.

THEY'RE TIRED OF ASKING.

THEY'RE NOT BLIND.

THEY SEE IT AND THEY KNOW IT'S NOT RIGHT.

BUT I'M NOT GONNA SAY I'M TIRED IS WRONG.

AND THE FACT THAT THE

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SIGN DID NOT GO BACK UP IS EVEN MORE.

IT'S LIKE YOU'RE, YOU'RE GIVING TO THAT GIVING, GIVING INTO TERRORISM.

WE'RE GONNA BULLY YOU.

WE'RE GONNA TEAR YOUR SIGNS DOWN.

WE'RE GONNA TELL YOU YOU'RE NOT WORTHY AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU'RE GONNA DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE TOWN SUPPORTS US.

AND, AND THAT'S JUST WHAT IT IS.

YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU LEAVE.

THAT'S ONE ASPECT OF IT.

THE HOUSING SITUATION'S A WHOLE NOTHER ASPECT BECAUSE AGAIN, WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT THIS HERE BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT A PART OF THE, OF GREENBERG HOUSING AUTHORITY, YET YOU APPOINT THE PEOPLE.

LIKE THERE'S A WHOLE RHETORIC THERE.

I'M NOT GETTING ON THAT HAMSTER WHEEL WITH YOU GUYS, BUT HOWEVER YOU DO HAVE THE POWER TO PUT THE SIGN BACK UP AND WE CAN COME TO YOU FOR THAT.

SO I'D LIKE TO KNOW, IS A SIGN GONNA GO BACK UP? THAT'S THE QUESTION FOR THE BOARD.

ARE YOU GUYS PUTTING A SIGN BACK UP? IF YOU HAVE TO REFLECT ON JUST UNTIL THERE IS PLANS, THERE IS PLANS FOR A SIGN TO GO BACK UP.

SO WHEN IS THE PLAN GOING TO, WHEN IS IT GONNA HAPPEN? GINA? HI.

HOW ARE YOU? THERE ARE THERE ARE MEET THERE, THERE ARE MEETINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WITH REGARDS TO THIS.

REALLY? SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE MEETINGS TO PUT A SIGN BACK UP THAT WAS TAKEN DOWN ILLEGALLY.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MEETING ABOUT THAT.

GINA, HOW'S THAT SOUND TO YOU? I GET IT, BUT I DON'T BECAUSE WE GOTTA STAND FOR SOMETHING.

ARE WE GONNA FALL FOR EVERYTHING LIKE THAT SIGN? YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO HAVE MEETINGS BECAUSE OF AN ACTIVE VANDALISM.

ACTUALLY, A HATE CRIME, ACTUALLY.

A HATE CRIME DIRECTED TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MEETING.

I GUESS YOU'LL KEEP US POSTED.

WOW.

I I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY LIKE THAT STATEMENT.

WE HAVE TO STAND FOR SOMETHING OR WE'LL FALL FOR EVERYTHING.

WHAT A POWERFUL STATEMENT THAT HAS UNIVERSAL APPLICATION.

THANK YOU, MICHELLE.

THERE ARE NO OTHER, THERE ARE NO OTHER, UM, YES, THERE WERE REQUESTS.

YES, THERE ARE.

OH, OH, I'M SO, I'M SO, I'M SO SORRY.

I'M SORRY.

I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET ON.

OKAY, SO, UM, PAT RENEE ROBINSON.

OH, RENEE.

HI, RENEE.

HELLOS.

SO LET'S, LET'S, LET'S GO WITH, UM, I HEARD BOB SAY YES, THERE ARE.

SO LET'S GO WITH BOB.

AND, UM, MARY WAS YOUR HAND UP? YES.

OH, REALLY QUICK.

OKAY, GO AHEAD, RENEE.

GO AHEAD.

UM, BASICALLY, UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT, UM, PAUL, WHAT YOU'RE DOING WITH THE, THE YOUTH OF, UH, OUR TOWN IS WONDERFUL.

UH, THEY'RE ENERGETIC, THEY'RE WELL SPOKEN.

UM, THEY'RE STRIVING TO SUCCEED AND BE INNOVATIVE.

SO I WANNA GIVE YOU KUDOS FOR THAT.

UM, THANK YOU.

UM, CHIEF, UH, CHIEF CHRIS, ARE YOU THERE? I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S THERE, BUT ANYWAY, I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS GOING AND NOW HE'S BACK.

SO I PRIMARILY JUST WANTED TO WELCOME HIM BACK.

AND AS FAR AS THE OTHER ISSUE GOES, I KNOW THE BOARD KNOWS THAT I WILL BE EMAILING THEM.

SO EVERYONE HAVE A GOOD EVENING AND BE SAFE.

CHIEF, CHIEF, WERE YOU ABOUT TO SPEAK? YEAH, I HAD TROUBLE ON MUTE AND WANTED TO SAY, UH, HI TO RENEE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING HER.

THANK YOU FOR THE, UH, FOR THE WELCOME.

UH, I WANTED TO, UM, SPEAK BECAUSE PAT WEEMS INVITED ME TO SORT OF, AND WHAT I WANTED TO FIRST SAY W WAS SHE ASKED ME TO CORRECT HER IF HER STATISTICS WERE WRONG.

UM, THE STATISTICS FOR EDGEMONT ARE THAT EDGEMONT IS, UM, 45% WHITE, UH, 36% ASIAN OR NATIVE AMERICAN, 10% HISPANIC, 2% BLACK,

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AND 7% MULTIRACIAL.

UM, EDGEMONT IS DIVERSE.

UH, AND, AND THOSE STATISTICS COME FROM THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR EDGEMONT.

UM, THE, THE ISSUE THAT, UH, MICHELLE BROWN RAISED AND ARTICULATED SO WELL, UH, IS, IS ONE THAT I SHARE AND MY NEIGHBORS IN EDGEMONT SHARE WITH HER.

YOU KNOW, ACCORDING TO TOM, A OUR ASSEMBLYMEN, DECADES AGO, THE TOWN BOARD MADE EXCLUSIONARY ZONING DECISIONS AND TREATED DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE TOWN DIFFERENTLY BASED ON DEMOGRAPHICS, BASED ON RACE.

IN 2014, AND AGAIN LAST MONTH, THE TOWN BOARD SETTLED LAWSUITS FOR THIS TYPE OF ODIOUS BEHAVIOR.

WE IN EDGEMONT WANT NO PART OF THAT, AND WE, WE CONDEMN IT.

I MEAN THE, THE, UH, UH, I JUST WANNA GET MY COMMENTS CLEAR HERE.

WE, WE, WE ARE TRYING TO DO IN EDGEMONT IS INCORPORATE SO THAT WE CAN CREATE A GOVERNMENT THAT'S NOT SEEKING TO, UH, REDUCE PROPERTY TAXES OR EXCLUDE ANYONE.

WE'RE SEEKING TO CREATE A LOCAL GOVERNMENT THAT THINKS AND ACTS DIFFERENTLY FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBERG.

UH, WE WANT NO PART OF WHAT GREENBERG'S PAST WAS ABOUT.

IT'S WRONG TO GOVERN IN THAT MANNER AND EQUALLY REPREHENSIBLE TO SUPPORT THOSE WHO DO.

SO THAT IS WHY I SUPPORT EDGEMONT INCORPORATION, AS DO MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS.

WE ARE NOT LOOKING TO SECEDE FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBERG.

WE WILL BE PART OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG.

AS COLIN SAID, WHETHER WE INCORPORATE OR NOT WILL STILL BE THERE JUST AS THE OTHER VILLAGES ARE THERE.

BUT EDGEMONT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ENGAGED WITH THE TOWN.

WHETHER THE TOWN ACCEPTS OUR ENGAGEMENT OR NOT.

EDGEMONT LEADERS SUPPORTS SUPPORTED THE PEOPLE IN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WHEN THEY WERE DISPLACED.

WE CALLED FOR A PRIVATE INVESTIGATION, AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF WHAT HAPPENED.

WE TOO WERE IGNORED, BUT WE ROSE OUR VOICES.

WE, WE, WE SAID WHAT WAS ON OUR MIND ABOUT THAT.

AND WE ARE NOT ABANDONING THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN BECAUSE WE ARE NOT LEAVING THE TOWN.

BUT INCORPORATING AS A VILLAGE SO WE CAN OPERATE A GOVERNMENT THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IN EVERY RESPECT.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.

ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS RECENTLY SAID THERE'S NO DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN THE WHITE PLAINS LINE AND THE YONKERS LINE.

HMM.

MARY BOWDEN.

SO WHO IS THE REAL SUPERVISOR OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG? ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WATCH THE TAPE OF THE WORKING SECTION SESSIONS.

WHO MAKES ALL THE DECISIONS? FRANCIS SHEHAN, WHO HANDLES THE AGENDA? FRANCIS SHEHAN.

JOHN ICK, WHOSE JOB OFFICIALLY IS TO TAKE CARE OF THE, UH, AGENDA.

HAS TO ASK FRANCIS HOW HE CORRECTED IT SO SHE CAN CORRECT THE OFFICIAL ONE.

WHO'S THE TOWN ATTORNEY? TIM LEWIS.

BUT FRANCIS SAYS, I THINK THE LAW SAYS, WHICH HAS ZERO VALIDITY.

TIM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LEGAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN.

A DAN GROUP WANTED TO HAVE A DANCE OUTSIDE.

PAUL SAID, WELL, AND FRANCIS SAID, WELL, LET'S HAVE A MEETING WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

AND IN FACT, I KNOW CHRIS'S DEPARTMENT, FRANCIS, UH, TRAFFIC VIOL AS AN INCIDENT, THOUSANDS OF TIMES A YEAR, THEY'RE TRAINED TO GO IN AND HANDLE TRAFFIC.

THE CROSSING GUARDS ARE TRAINED TO HANDLE TRAFFIC.

SO FOR FRANCIS TO DECIDE THERE HAS TO BE A MEETING TO SET UP A PROTOCOL IS OBSTRUCTION.

HOW COME THERE'S NO TRANSIT ORIENTED HOUSING IN THE FOUR CORNERS?

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THE REASON FRANCIS SHEEN MAKES IT SO DIFFICULT FOR ANYTHING TO GET DONE IN THIS TOWN THAT NO DEVELOPER WANTS TO COME HERE.

PAUL HAD TO BE COAXED BY FRANCIS YESTERDAY AT THE MEETING.

WHAT TO DO NEXT? WELL, I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE TALK TONIGHT AND THEY ALL SAID ANN'S NOT RUNNING RIGHT, WHICH ESSENTIALLY MEANS FRANCIS ISN'T RUNNING THE TOWN.

RIGHT? IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT FRANCIS AND I DISAGREE OVER A NUMBER OF ISSUES.

AND YET WHEN I WANTED TO COME TO THIS MEETING TONIGHT, IT TOOK THREE EMAILS BEFORE I GOT AN EMAIL GIVING ME PERMISSION TO AT LEAST REGISTER.

AND THEN WHEN I REGISTERED, IT WAS FRANCIS SHEEN'S SOLE RESPONSIBILITY TO LET ME INTO THE MEETING.

AND IF FRANCIS DECIDED UNILATERALLY NOT TO LET ME INTO THE MEETING, I WOULD NOT BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION WITH YOU TONIGHT.

SO THE REAL SUPERVISOR OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG IS NOT PAUL FILER, BUT FRANCIS SHEEN.

ANYBODY CARE TO DISPUTE THAT? HOW MUCH TIME DO I HAVE LEFT HIM? FIVE MINUTES.

OH.

UH, I'VE BEEN HAVING TROUBLES LATELY, HEARING CORRECTLY.

AND SO THIS PRESENTATION IS ON MY CELL PHONE BECAUSE THE HEARING GOES DIRECTLY TO MY HEARING AIDS AND IT'S CLEARER, IT'S WELL KNOWN THAT I DON'T MAKE TELEPHONE CALLS 'CAUSE I CAN'T HEAR IT.

AND SECOND, I CAN'T DOCUMENT IT.

EVERYTHING I DO IS ON THE RECORD.

I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERY WORD I SAID HERE TONIGHT.

IT'S ON THE VIDEO TAPE.

WHETHER OR NOT FRANCIS RUNS THIS MEETING OR NOT IS ON THE VIDEO TAPE.

WHETHER OR NOT FRANCIS DID SOMETHING WITH THE TAPES OF THE AND ANTENNA REVIEW BOARD IS IN THE RECORD.

IT'S NOT MY WORD.

IT'S SOMEBODY ELSE'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CHECK IT OUT.

I HAVE NO, I HAVE NO ABILITY TO VERIFY THIS.

AS OTHER PEOPLE SAID TONIGHT, SOMEBODY HAS TO COME IN FROM THE OUTSIDE AND LOOK AT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.

A NUMBER OF PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS, THANK YOU FOR TALKING TO ME.

I LEARNED SOMETHING.

MY JOB TODAY IS TO ASK QUESTIONS AND TO HAVE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THINGS THEY HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT BEFORE.

MY TIME'S ALMOST UP.

I'M FAILING.

I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT I SAID AND WHO I SAID IT TO, BUT I DID SAY IT AND I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.

MARY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I APPRECIATE THE INFORMATION THAT YOU DO GIVE AND YOU GIVE IT AND I LISTEN TO IT.

AND I ALSO WANNA THANK BOB BERNSTEIN FOR GIVING ME, OH WAIT A SECOND.

WAIT A SECOND.

MARY, DID YOU FINISH YOUR COMMENTS? NO.

WERE YOU HERE? BUT I WAS GLAD TO HEAR PAT.

WELL YEAH, BUT WE GOTTA, WE'RE NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES BECAUSE WE HAVE EVERYBODY GOT FOLLOW THE RULES.

EIGHT MINUTES AND THAT'S IT.

SO BASICALLY NOW WE HAVE TO GO.

EVERYBODY GOT ONE UH, ROUND? WE SAID IT WAS EIGHT MINUTES, WE CHANGED THE RULES AND NOW WE SHOULD GO ON THE AGENDA.

IT'S ALREADY ALMOST 11 O'CLOCK.

SO I, I UM, TIM, SO LET'S GO.

SO MARIA, MARIA, ARE YOU DONE? ARE YOU DONE? NO, I'M NOT.

TELL PAUL MARIA HAS, UH, TWO IS, UH, TWO MINUTES AND 16 SECONDS.

THAT'S THE POINT.

PAUL, YOU MAKE UP THE RULES TO SUIT YOURSELF.

EXACTLY.

YOU HAVE THE RULES YOU ASK.

NO, THE RULE WAS I HAD EIGHT MINUTES.

I JUST TOLD YOU I HAD TWO MINUTES LEFT AND YOU INTERRUPTED ME.

YOU WERE WRONG.

YOU SHOULD KEEP YOUR MIC MUTED WHILE I'M TALKING.

YOU WERE WRONG AND YOU JUST PROVED HOW YOU ARE TWO SETS OF RULES.

THANK YOU FOR PROVING ME.

CORRECT.

OKAY, TIM, GIVE IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE.

UH, I THINK YOUR LAST SPEAKER MURRAY.

OKAY, LET'S GO NOW TO THE AGENDA.

MAYOR'S AGENDA.

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APPOINTMENT OF DAVID REGINA AS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES EFFECTIVE APRIL 7TH.

[ Appointment of David Reggina, as Deputy Commissioner of Department of Community Resourses, effective April 7, 2021]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

UM, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

[ TB 1 - 6/09/2021 Resolution authorizing the payment of $26,393.00 to Harfenist Kraut & Perlman for services rendered related to an ongoing independent evaluation of Building Department practices]

RESOLUTION SIX, UH, OH NINE, UH, 21.

ALL AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF 26 3 93 TO HAR, UH, PEN, CROWD AND T FOR SERVICES RENDERED RELATING TO INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF BUILDING DEPARTMENT PRACTICES.

WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT IN FAVOR? AYE.

TB ONE.

IT'S NOT RESOLUTION.

6 9 21 JUST FOR THE RECORD.

[ TB 2 - 6/09/2021 Resolution in support of New York State Legislation Bill S1657 (Incorporation)]

UH, TB TWO IS HELD OVER.

SAY THAT AGAIN.

KEN.

E V TWO IS UH, HELD OVER.

WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.

HOLD ON A SECOND.

I'M STILL CONFUSED RIGHT NOW.

KEN, WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? PAUL SAID IS RESOLUTION 6 9 21 OH OH OH OH.

HE SAID THE DATE.

JUST A MOMENT.

I WANNA MOVE THIS OVER SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORTABLE FOR ME TO SAY.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT FOR GENERAL CODE AND IMAGE DATA FOR INDEXING AND SCANNING SERVICES FOR BUILDING DEPARTMENT RECORDS THAT REQUEST NOT TO EXCEED $30,000 AND AMOUNT APPROPRIATE FOR PURPOSE IN 2021.

UH, OKAY.

SO NOW TB TWO IS BEING HELD OVER.

RIGHT.

WE'LL SET THE HEARING LATER.

THE MEETING LATER.

UH,

[ BD 1 - 6/09/2021 Resolution authorizing an agreement with General Code and Image Data Inc. for Indexing and Scanning Services for Building Department Records, at a cost not to exceed $30,000, the amount appropriated for this purpose in 2021]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT A ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

RESOLUTION SCHEDULING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR 7:30 PM WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23RD TO CONSIDER IT AN AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION BY FERN CLIFF CEMETERY, WHICH IS LOCATED AT TWO 80 SECRET ROAD.

[ CL 1 - 6/09/2021 Resolution scheduling a Public Hearing for 7:30PM, Wednesday, June 23, 2021, to consider an Amended Site Plan Application by Ferncliff Cemetery Association, which is located at 280 Secor Road (P.O. Hartsdale)]

HARTSDALE, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

SCHEDULING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR JUNE 23RD TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER FIVE 20 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG ENTITLED CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL TO EXPAND THE COUNCIL OF UP TO NINE MEMBERS WITH STAGGER TWO YEAR TERMS. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

THOSE

[ CL 2 - 6/09/2021 Resolution scheduling a Public Hearing 7:30 PM, Wednesday, June 23, 2021, to consider a Local Law amending Chapter 520 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh entitled “Conservation Advisory Council” to expand the Council up to nine (9) members with staggered two year terms]

RESOLUTION AUTHOR AUTHORIZING FISCAL YEAR 2021 BUDGET TRANSFER.

[ CO 1 - 6/09/2021 Resolution authorizing fiscal year 2021 budget transfer]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

RESOLUTION APPOINTING TO ED TAYLOR, GREG AS PROBATIONARY POLICE OFFICER, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

[ PO 1 - 6/09/2021 Resolution appointing Taylor Braig as Probationary Police Officer]

AUTHORIZING POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 49,000 FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2019 EXPLOSIVE DETECTIVE CANINE GRANT PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES.

RESOLUTION

[ PO 2 - 6/09/2021 Resolution authorizing the Police Department to accept a grant in the amount of $49,000 from the fiscal year 2019 Explosive Detection Canine Grant Program administered by the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

SECONDED.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ACCEPT A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 75,000 FROM FISCAL YEAR 2019 TACTICAL TEAM GRANT PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DIVISION OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES.

[ PO 3 - 6/09/2021 Resolution authorizing the Police Department to accept a grant in the amount of $75,000 from the fiscal year 2019 Tactical Team Grant Program administered by the New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services]

I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

[ PW 1 - 6/09/2021 Resolution approving Additional Professional Services in connection with the replacement of the Boiler Plant at the Theodore D. Young Community Center (TDYCC) with OLA Consulting Engineers (OLA), for an amount not to exceed $14,500]

PUBLIC WORKS.

RESOLUTION APPROVING ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH REPLACEMENT OF BOILER PLANT AT THE YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER, UM, FOR AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 14,500.

I'D LIKE, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

IN FAVOR, AYE.

AND SETTING A PUBLIC, UH, UM, SPECIAL MEETING FOR FRIDAY AT 1:00 PM FOR PURPOSES OF VOTING ON A LATE SUBMITTED STREET CLOSING REQUEST, UH, TO BE HELD OVER TB TWO RESOLUTION I'D LIKE TO MOVE OUT SECOND.

AYE AYE.

AND, AND WE REALLY URGE ANYONE WHO'S THINKING OF HAVING SOME KIND OF A BLOCK PARTY, YOU KNOW, IT'S WARMER.

EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET OUTSIDE.

PLEASE, WHEN YOU'RE FIRST THINKING ABOUT THAT, GIVE THE TOWN TWO WEEKS NOTICE BECAUSE WE CAN'T KEEP HAVING SPECIAL MEETINGS BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT OF IT AS THE LAST THING THAT YOU NEEDED.

YOU WERE PROBABLY ALREADY, YOU KNOW, HAD THE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE JUMPING, THE JUMPING ROOM OR WHATEVER THEY CALL IT.

ALL THESE OTHER, WHAT IS IT? BOUNCY HOUSE? YES.

THE BOUNCY HOUSE.

OF COURSE.

HOW COULD I NOT KNOW THAT WITH GRANDKIDS? AND SO, UH, AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

AND THEN, OH

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