Sep 22, 2021 Town Board- Regular

THE LAST, UH, MEETING OF, UH, SORRY.

UM, AT

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PAST SUPERVISOR PAUL FINDER.

HERE.

COUNCIL DAVID JACKSON, PRESENT, COUNCIL WO AND NER PRESENT.

COUNCILMAN KEN JONES.

PRESENT.

COUNCILMAN FRANCIS SHEEN PRESENT.

AND, UM, TURNING TO LEWIS.

I KNOW HE'S PRESENT SOMEWHERE AROUND HERE.

UM, I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT AFTER THE LAST MEETING OF THE TOWN BOARD, UM, SOMEBODY ADVISED OF PEOPLE ON FACEBOOK THAT, UM, THAT THEY HAD TESTED POS, THEY ATTENDED A MEETING OF THE TOWN BOARD TESTED POSITIVE.

SO IF YOU'RE NOT FAILING, GREAT.

OR YOU HAVEN'T BEEN VACCINATED OR HAVE, HAVE, HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WHO HAVE TESTED POSITIVE, PLEASE, UH, UH, DON'T PARTICIPATE AT THIS MEETING.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, THE TOWN BOARD IS DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF, UH, REQUIRING EVERYONE, UM, WHO ATTENDS MEETINGS OF THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, BOARD, UH, TO BE VACCINATED, OTHERWISE, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO ATTEND.

AND WE'RE ALSO DISCUSSING THE POSSIBILITY OF REQUIRING EVERYONE WHO GO ENTERS INTO A GOVERNMENT BUILDING TO BE, UH, TO BE VACCINATED EMPLOYEES AND, UH, AND VISITORS.

NO DECISIONS WERE MADE YET, BUT YOU KNOW, THE, THE VIRUS IS SPREADING AND PEOPLE ARE DYING.

AND I PERSONALLY THINK WE HAVE TO NOT BE CARELESS.

THAT'S MY OWN PERSONAL FEELING.

UM, I DO WANNA POINT OUT THOUGH THAT THE PERSON WHO DID TEST POSITIVE WAS VACCINATED, WOULD'VE HAD A VACCINATION CARD, AND WAS FULLY MASKED, AS WAS EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE AUDITORIUM THAT NIGHT.

AND IT SEEMS LIKE BY HAVING EVERYBODY FULLY MASKED ALL THE TIME, EVEN WHEN YOU'RE SPEAKING, UH, THERE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE, HAVE BEEN, UH, ANY ADDITIONAL SPREAD FROM THAT PERSON.

NEXT, UH, WE, UH, HAVE, UM, NALA RA, UM, WHO'S GONNA CELEBRATE THE HINDU, UM, CULTURAL FESTIVAL OF ROCK, SHABA AND HAN.

UH,

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UM, UH, EMPEROR, AND THEN SAY THAT, YOU ARE MY BROTHER.

THANK YOU PAUL.

AND ALL THE GREENBERG TOWN, UH, BOARD MEMBERS, UH, I REALLY APPRECIATE, UH, FROM HINDU ANG, UH, WE ARE HERE TO CELEBRATE, UH, UNIVERSAL ONENESS, UH, FESTIVAL CALLED AKHA MANAN IN INDIA.

WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE, UH, OUR H S S UH, UH, TEAM HERE.

AND, UH, I'M REQUESTING J R G TO COME HERE AND PLEASE EXPLAIN IN BRIEF, ABOUT WHAT IS UNIVERSAL ONENESS AND RHA MANAN FESTIVAL.

GOOD EVENING.

ALL.

UM, I'LL EXPLAIN, UH, VERY BRIEFLY, WHAT IS BAN? WE ARE ALL FROM INDIA.

UM, IT HAS BEEN A VERY ANCIENT, UM, TRADITION THAT WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING.

UM, IT'S IT THE NOBLE THAN THE DEEPEST EMOTIONS IN YOU.

SO I WILL JUST BRIEFLY EXPLAIN LIKE THREE, 300 BC ALEXANDER THE GRADE WAS COMING, CONQUERING ALL THE COUNTRIES, AND THEN HE CAME TO INDIA, UH, CAME TO THE INDIAN CONTINENT AT THAT TIME.

AND, UH, HIS WIFE, THEY HEARD ABOUT THE TRADITIONS OF RESHA BAND.

THEN AT THAT TIME, UH, WHAT THEY DID WAS THAT SHE REALIZED HOW DANGEROUS THIS WAS, BECAUSE AT THE EMPEROR AT THAT TIME IN THAT CONTINENT WAS VERY POWERFUL.

SO SHE DECIDED TO SEND IRAQI TO THIS,

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YOU SHOULD BE PROTECTING ME.

THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS.

SO WHAT HE, WHAT? SO SHE SEND IT, AND THEN IT WAS TIED TO HIM THE NEXT DAY WHEN THE, UM, HER, I MEAN, HER HUSBAND, ALEXANDER DEGRADE, WAS FIGHTING AGAINST, THEY MET IN THE WARFIELD, AND THEN THE KING PORUS, HE JUST RAISED HIS HAND TO, UM, WITH THE SWORD.

AND THEN HE JUST SAW HIS ROCK.

HE, HE SUDDENLY, HE JUST DROPPED IT.

SO THIS IS WHAT I SAID, WHATEVER, THAT WE CARRY THAT IN OUR HEART.

IT'S NOT JUST THE, IT'S A SYMBOL OF, UH, UNIVERSAL ONENESS.

AS, UM, HAD MENTIONED, IT'S ALSO MEANS PROTECTION.

UM, ABANDON MEANS BONDING.

SO THIS, THIS BONDING OF PROTECTION.

SO HERE YOU MIGHT SAY, WHY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IT HERE? BUT TRADITIONALLY, WE BECAME, THE SISTERS ARE TYING THE ROCK INTO THE BROTHER, SO THAT THE SISTERS WILL BE PRAYING AND LOOKING OUT FOR THE BROTHERS.

BROTHERS IN RETURN WILL PROTECT THEIR SISTERS.

BUT NOW THAT THERE IS NO DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN.

SO THIS IS IN THE SOCIETY, WE ARE LIVING IN THE SOCIETY.

SO WE SHOULD BE LIVING IN HARMONY, LOOKING OUT FOR EACH OTHER, SERVING EACH OTHER.

SO EVERY YEAR DURING THIS TIME, DURING THE RHA ABUNDANT TIME, UH, WE JUST RECHARGE WITH THE COMMITMENT TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO TO, UM, HOLD EACH OTHER SO THAT WE ARE THERE TO PROTECT EVERYBODY.

SO WHY ARE WE HERE? SO WE USUALLY GO, WE ARE, UM, LIKE WE ARE IN, WE ARE FROM OUR MOTHERLAND IN OUR SAY BOOM, WHERE WE LIVE.

SO IN THIS SOCIETY, WE WANNA BE, UH, ONE WITH THE SOCIETY.

WE WANNA ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU.

SO WE USUALLY GO TO THE POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS, AND ALSO THE LAWMAKERS.

SO JUST MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE SERVING US.

AND THEN IN RETURN, WE ARE JUST, UH, WE WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE WITH YOU.

UM, SO, UH, WE ARE, UM, MORALLY AND WHATEVER THE WAY THAT WE CAN SERVE, WE WILL BE THERE FOR YOU.

SO THEREBY, WE ARE JUST HERE TO DO THE RHA A ABANDON.

DURING THIS RHA A ABANDON, WHAT WE DO IS LIKE, WE HAVE A THREAD.

WE JUST TIE THAT, WHICH IS NOT JUST A THREAD, BUT THIS IS A BONE OF PROTECTION, WHICH WE MEAN IT DEEPEN OUR HEART AS, AS I SAID.

AND WE ALSO DO THE I D BECAUSE WE MOVE ALL THE OCCASIONS THAT WE LIGHT THE LAMPS IN, WHICH IS SYMBOLIZES, WE ARE ERADICATING THE DARKNESS OR THE IGNORANCE, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, GIVING, UM, A, UH, HARMONIOUS AND, UH, UH, PEACEFULNESS.

AND ALSO WE WILL BE, UM, HAVING THE , WHICH WE JUST PUT THE T ON THE, UH, FOREHEAD, WHICH IS, WHICH ALSO IS A, UM, AUSPICIOUS THING TO DO.

SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE, UM, IF YOU ARE NOT, UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU, IF YOU DON'T WANNA DO THIS, PLEASE LET US KNOW, BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA FORCE IT.

THIS IS, UM, TO TO, TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE WITH YOU.

SHOULD I STAND? WE NEED TO, SO HERE IS THIS.

, DO YOU WANT, DO WE WANT YOU WANT US TO GO, COME DOWN? NO, NO.

IF YOU CAN REACH, THAT'S FINE.

WE DON'T WANT TO DISCONNECT.

SO DO YOU WANT TO PUT THIS, IT'S LIKE A FACE YOU'RE NOT ALLERGIC TO.

SO THE PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU WANT TO COME.

MAYBE WE SHOULD ALL GO DOWN.

COME DOWN.

ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE SHOULD GO DOWN.

THAT WILL MAKE IT EASIER.

I REALLY APPRECIATE.

AND FROM HERE ALSO, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN UNIVERSAL ONENESS DAY CELEBRATION, PLEASE COME OUT.

YEAH, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE.

I'LL JUST PUT LITTLE BIT.

THAT'S PERMANENT , IS IT JUST POWDER SHOULD ON THE RIGHT.

AND WHAT IS THE SYMBOL? SEE THAT? SO, AND CONNECTION.

SO THIS IS THE CONNECTIONS WE ARE MAKING FOR LOVE AND PROTECTION

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TO EACH OTHER.

THIS YOU FROM THE S AND THAT'S WHAT, LIKE, THE WE CALL IT, BECAUSE, SO IT, IT'S A CONCEPT LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE IN THE SOCIETY, WE DO WORK FOR EACH OTHER NOW, YOU KNOW, DOCTORS, UH, OUR POLICE OFFICERS, THEY'RE, THEY ARE DOING THEIR DUTIES, BUT THEY GO BEYOND THEIR DUTIES.

YOU KNOW, THEY SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE SOMETIMES FOR DOING ALL THOSE THINGS.

SO WE HAVE TO EXPRESS OUR FEELINGS, LOVE FOR THEM, BECAUSE THIS IS THAT BEYOND THE, YOU KNOW, DUTY, EVERYBODY'S DOING SOMETHING FOR EACH OTHER.

AND, UM, WHAT, YOU KNOW, DAYS IS THIS USUALLY CELEBRATING, HEY, CAN YOU, YOU SPEAK FROM THE MIC SO WE CAN LET THE PUBLIC KNOW AND THEY CAN UNDERSTAND.

SO THIS IS THE UNIVERSAL HELLO? HELLO.

NOT TOO CLOSE BECAUSE THE SOUND.

SO THIS IS THE UNIVERSAL ONENESS DAY CALLED, UH, RANDAN IN INDIA, WHEREIN, UH, THIS, UH, SACRED THREAD IS BEING, UH, TIED TO THE PERSON, AND THAT HELPS YOU TO PROTECT FROM AILS, AND IT CREATES A BOND BETWEEN, UH, IS A BROTHERLY BOND OR BROTHER, SISTER, OR BROTHER, BROTHER ALSO.

AND WHICH WILL HELP YOU IN, UH, GETTING THE POSITIVE WIPES AND, UH, PROTECT OUR ENTIRE LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND SOCIETY FROM.

SO WE SHOULD HAVE A GOOD MEETING TONIGHT.

NOW, ? YES, DEFINITELY.

ISN'T THIS NORMALLY ON THE AUGUST 22ND IS DEPEND UPON THE POSITION, IS DEPEND UPON THE POSITION OF THE MOON AND SUN.

SO THERE IS A SACRED DAY THIS YEAR.

IT WAS, HE'S RIGHT, THIS YEAR IT WAS ON AUGUST 20.

BUT YEAH, THIS YEAR IT WAS ON AUGUST 22.

YEAH, YOU'RE RIGHT.

BUT HIN MONTH SHOULD BE ALWAYS LIGHT, ALL THE DARKNESS.

SO HOPEFULLY WE HAVE VERY SMOOTH, UH, MEET, UH, TOWN HALL MEETING TODAY WITH THIS, UH, UNIVERSAL ONENESS, UH, CELEBRATION.

WE, WE WILL SAY, SO BA BA BASICALLY, UH, THE POLITICIANS AND THE FIREMEN AND THE POLICE OFFICERS AND DOCTORS, ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE CONNECTED TO THE COMMUNITY AND THEY'RE HELPING TO THE COMMUNITY.

AND YOU ARE THE ONE PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY.

SO WE ARE PUTTING THE IRAQI THAT IS THREAT.

THAT MEANS YOU PROTECT US IN THE FUTURE.

THAT IS THE BOND YOU ARE, WE ARE GIVING, YOU ARE GIVING TO US.

WHOEVER IS, UH, DOING THE IRAQI IS THE BOND THAT YOU ARE PROTECTING THE COMMUNITY.

THAT'S THE MAIN THING.

WELL, THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH.

SO, UH, THANK YOU EVERYONE, UH, FOR PARTICIPATING, AND WE'LL DO A SMALL PRESENTATION, UH, IS PLANNED.

UH, AND, UH, WITH THAT, UH, I WILL JUST, YEAH, THIS IS, UH, OKAY, AGAIN, NAMA.

AND WE ARE STARTING A PRESENTATION FROM HINDU SANG.

SO THIS IS ABOUT WHAT WE ARE AS A H S S HINDU SANG.

SO WE ARE VOLUNTARY NON-PROFIT, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION, INCORPORATED IN 1988, PRESENT IN 33 STATES, AND TWO 50 CHAPTERS IN 1 71 CITIES.

UH, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, IN OUR, UH, WESTCHESTER AREA, EVEN IN GREENBERG ALSO, WE HAVE THREE CHAPTERS RUNNING.

AND, UH, OUR, UH, VIBRANT HINDU COMMUNITY IS INVOLVED IN THAT.

THEN A HINDU ANG INSPIRED BY THE IDEA OF THE WHOLE WORLD IS ONE FAMILY, LIKE IT'S IN , WE CALL IT ENTIRE WORLD IS ONE FAMILY AND CONDUCTS WEEKLY PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES FOR BUILDING CHARACTER, UH, BUILDING CHARACTER, AND DEVELOPING A PERSONALITY.

THE ACTIVITIES ARE DIS, UH, DESIGNED FOR PARTICIPANTS OF ALL AGE GROUPS, UH, EMPHASIZING OVERALL WELL, UH, EVERYONE'S WELLBEING, SAFE DISCIPLINE AND SAFE COMPETENCE, AND A SPIRIT OF SELFLESS SERVICE.

SO WITH THIS, UH, I WILL, UH, HAND IT OVER, UH, TO THE NEXT SLIDE TO, UH, RA.

ADULTS, PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES, UH, WHICH IN INCULCATE AND PRACTICE HINDU VALUES.

SO EXACTLY WHAT WE DO, UH, IN H S S.

SO FEW ACTIVITIES I'LL MENTION.

SO WE ARE MEETING WEEKLY.

SO EVERY WEEK, ONCE A WEEK, WE MEET AS A FAMILY, LIKE ALL KIDS AND YOUNG AND ADULT, ANYONE ANY AGE GROUP CAN MEET THERE.

AND THERE ARE ACTIVITIES, SPECIAL ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG ADULTS AND

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SO WHAT IS THE AIM? THE AIM IS IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE, CHARACTER, UNITY, SELFLESS SERVICE AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT.

THESE ARE THE BACKBONES WHICH WE TRY TO DEVELOP, UH, IN ALL THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE ACTIVITIES.

ONE OF THE EXAMPLE IS LIKE BRASS BAND.

WE HAVE LIKE TRADITIONAL KIND OF BANDS.

UH, IT'S A MUSIC BAND.

AND THROUGHOUT THE NATIONAL TEAM, UH, THROUGHOUT THE NATION, MORE THAN 500 TEENAGER AND YOUTH PARTICIPATE IN THIS.

UH, SO THE INSTRUMENT, UH, WHICH WE PLAY ARE FLUTE, VIOLIN, DRUM, SAXOPHONE, CLARINET, ET CETERA.

AND ALL THE KIDS AND ADULTS ENJOY THIS ACTIVITY A LOT.

UH, SO, UH, THOSE WERE THE WEEKLY ACTIVITIES, BUT WE ALSO HAVE IN, IN A YEAR, YEARLY, ONCE IN A YEAR, WE HAVE THE ACTIVITY FOR CAPACITY, STRENGTH, BUILDING ACTIVITIES.

SO THOSE ARE KIND OF TRAINING CAMPS, WHICH ARE FOUR DAYS OR NINE DAYS.

TRAINING CAMP CONDUCTED FOR THE AGE GROUP OF 13 TO 60 PLUS, AND THOU 1000 PLUS PEOPLE AT ATTEND THIS PROGRAM EVERY YEAR THROUGHOUT US.

ONE OF THE MORE, UH, ONE OF THE POPULAR PROGRAM, UH, IS LIKE HEALTH FOR HUMANITY YOGA, HON.

UH, SO NORMALLY, UH, HERE IN WESTCHESTER ALSO WE CONDUCT, UH, 24 HOUR YOGA HON, UH, IN WHICH SOMEONE DO SUN SALUTATION FOR THE GIVEN POINT OF TIME.

AND VARIOUS LOCAL, UH, LOCAL PEOPLE AND LOCAL, UH, DIGNITARIES VISIT THIS EVENT.

SO, UH, ONCE, ONCE, UH, SHELLY MAYER, UH, THE NEW YORK STATE SENATOR CAME FOR THE EVENT, AND EVERYONE ENJOY AND LEARN HOW TO DO YOGA AND UNDERSTAND THE BENEFIT BEHIND IT.

SO YOGA FOR HEALTH AND HEALTH FOR HUMANITY, YOGA HAN ARE CALLED SUR NAMASKAR, OR SUN SALUTATION, UH, IS AN, UH, INITIATIVE BY, UH, H S S, UH, STARTING FROM 2006 AND THE 16 DAYS EVENT AIMED TO CREATE THE AWARENESS ABOUT THE YOGA AND ITS ADVANTAGE IN ACHIEVING THE HEALTHY BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT.

SO SUN SALUTATION INTEGRATES SIMPLE YOGA POSTURES IN 10 STEPS, THAT ALONG WITH EASY BREATHING TECHNIQUES, CAN PROVIDE THE IMMENSE HEALTH BENEFITS TO BODY, UH, TO BOTH BODY AND MIND, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS COVID TIME TO INCREASE THE IMMUNITY LIKE WE NEED THE EXERCISE, AND NOT ONLY PHYSICAL, BUT THE MENTAL HEALTH ALSO.

SO, I WILL HAND OVER NOW TO, UH, ISH, UH, DE HELLO.

HELLO.

WE HAVE DONE IN LIKE DISTRIBUTING THE MASKS, UH, HELPING FAMILIES WHO ARE QUARANTINED, GIVING THEM LIFE ESSENTIAL GROCERIES AND WHATEVER STUFF THEY NEED.

SO, UH, I'LL CONTINUE FROM HERE.

SO, GURU ANA, GURU ANDANA IS ONE OF THE EVENT THAT H S S CARRIES OUT EVERY YEAR.

SO WHAT IS THIS GURU WANA? SO, GURU WANA IS A HINDI WORD, AND GURU MEANS TEACHER, AND WANA IS APPRECIATION.

SO IT IS TEACHER'S APPRECIATION.

SO IN US ALSO, WE FOLLOW TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK IN THE MONTH OF MAY AND TUESDAY OF THAT WEEK, WE CONSIDER AS NATIONAL TEACHER'S DAY.

SO HINDU PHILOSOPHIES ON THE SAME LINES, THEY HAVE GIVEN IMMENSE IMPORTANCE TO THE GROUP BECAUSE GURUS GIVES EVERYONE WISDOM, KNOWLEDGE, AND THEY ELIMINATE THE DARKNESS OF IGNORANCE.

EVERY PART OF OUR LIFE IS TOUCHED BY, TOUCHED AND INSPIRED BY NUMEROUS TEACHERS THAT COMES INTO OUR LIFE.

WHEN WE ARE IN THE SCHOOL, WHEN WE ARE IN THE COLLEGES, OR WE ARE DOING ANY ACTIVITIES, NOT ONLY, YOU KNOW, ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES, ANY ACTIVITIES WE HAVE, THE GURUS AND GURUS HAVE A LOT OF CONTRIBUTION IN OUR LIFE, IN OUR SOCIETY.

SO TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, THAT CONTRIBUTION, H S S IS VOLUNTEERING GURU ANDANA, LIKE TEACHER APPLICATIONS, EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE US AND THESE EVENTS ARE CARRIED IN THE MONTH OF MAY AND JUNE.

THEN C OVID 19 REALLY WORKS.

SO, H S S HAS CONTRIBUTED HEALTH INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN COVID 19 PANDEMIC.

SO IF YOU SEE 2000 VOLUNTEERS ACROSS THE US HELP 45,000 FAMILIES, AND THIS HELP

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THEN FOR SENIOR CITIZENSHIP, UH, TAKING THE APPOINTMENTS FOR THEIR VACCINATIONS.

SO THIS KIND OF CONTRIBUTION HAS BEEN DONE IN THE LAST, UH, 2020, UH, YEAR 2020.

SO YOU KNEW YOURSELF ONE NEXT DAY.

SO THIS IS THE TODAY WHAT WE ARE CELEBRATING.

SO THIS IS A AKAN EVENT, ACTUALLY.

SO IN INDIA, TRADITIONALLY THIS EVENT IS FAMILY BASED EVENT, WHERE IT IS BETWEEN SISTER AND BROTHER.

SO SISTER TIES A STRING TO A BROTHER AND AS A SYMBOL FOR HER LOVE TO HIM AND BROTHER IN THAT RESPONSE PROVIDE HER A LOVE AND PROTECTION.

SO SINCE 2004 H S S EXTENDED THIS EVENT, AND THEY HAVE BROADENED THE SCOPE, IT IS NOT ONLY NOW AT THE FAMILY LEVEL, IT IS AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL.

AND SIMPLE IDEA BEHIND THAT IS THAT WE ARE CONNECTING WITH EACH OTHER.

WE SHOULD LOVE EACH OTHER, AND WE SHOULD PROTECT EACH OTHER.

SO WE HAVE, UM, REACHING OUT TO, YOU KNOW, UM, POLICE OFFICER, PUBLIC OFFICERS, UH, FIREFIGHTERS, AND OFFERING THIS, UH, IRAQIS TO THEM, UH, FOR, UH, PROTECTION AND LOVE.

AND H S S ALSO CONDUCT YEARLY, LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALI'S BIG HINDU FESTIVAL.

SO H S S ALONG WITH COLLABORATING WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS FOR COLLECTING AND DONATING FOOD.

SO IF YOU SEE, LIKE LAST YEAR, WE HAVE DONATED APPROXIMATELY, UH, THREE, THREE 70,000 POUNDS OF FOOD ACROSS THE US ALL OVER US.

AND WITHIN THE WESTCHESTER CHAPTER AND THEN NEW YORK CHAPTER, WE HAVE COLLECTED AND DONATED 6,000 POUNDS OF FOOD.

OKAY, SO I WILL HAND IT OUT TO RES FOR THE NEXT SLIDE.

UH, THE NEXT, UH, SLIDE, UH, TALKS ABOUT HINDU YUBA.

SO HINDU YUBA IS SHORT FOR HINDU YOUTH FOR UNITY VIRTUES IN ACTION.

AND THIS IS, UH, A BRANCH OF H S S THAT FOCUSES MORE WITH COLLEGE STUDENTS AND COLLEGE LIFE IN GENERAL, AS WELL AS LIKE YOUNGER ADULTS.

AND, UH, WHAT SOME OF THE PLANS OF HINDU UVA ARE TO PROVIDE KIND OF LIKE A PLATFORM IN A COMMUNITY, UM, AND TO KIND OF INTRODUCE, UM, HINDU CULTURE AND OUR HINDU DHARMA TO OTHER PEOPLE AND TO KIND OF JUST EMBRACE IT AND TO CONTINUE PRACTICING WITH EACH OTHER.

AND, UH, SOME THINGS THAT THEY DO, UH, THEY CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MANY, UH, STUDENTS AND STAFF AND KIND OF JUST INTRODUCE TO OTHER STUDENTS, KIND OF JUST LIKE THE HINDU WAY OF LIFE.

AND THEY CONTINUE TO CELEBRATE IT.

AND A LOT OF THE CELEBRATIONS AND THE EVENTS THAT ARE DONE, UM, BY H SS SS, UM, ARE ALSO DONE BY HINDU YUBA.

AND, UH, THEY DO OR SOUTHWEST SERVICE, UH, AROUND CANNABIS AND TO HELP BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY.

AND, UH, A LOT OF THIS IS DONE, UH, ALSO JUST AS DONATIONS OR TO, UM, FOOD DRIVES AND AS WELL AS STORM RELIEF OR COVID RELIEF AS WELL.

AND, UH, HINDU YUVA ALSO INTERESTING RAISES AWARENESS ABOUT ANY KIND OF SOCIAL ISSUES IN INDIA OR REGARDING ANY SOCIAL INDU, UH, SOCIAL ISSUES TOWARDS, UH, HINDUS IN GENERAL.

AND, UM, IF YOU GO ON THE NEXT SLIDE, HERE ARE SOME, HERE ARE SOME OF THE UNIVERSITIES THAT, UM, THERE'S A HINDU UVA PROGRAM IN, UH, THESE AREN'T ALL THE SCHOOLS, BUT HERE ARE SOME OF THE SCHOOLS THAT ARE LISTED THERE.

A LOT OF THESE ARE PRETTY WELL WELLKNOWN.

SO I BELIEVE THERE'S A, YOU, A SMALL VIDEO RUN IT.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO RUN ONE SMALL VIDEO LIKE ONE AND A HALF MINUTES? SURE.

GARY'S, YES.

GARY.

GARY, GARY, CAN YOU HELP US PLEASE TO RUN THE SMALL VIDEO? OH, THERE HE IS.

YEAH, HE IS.

THANK YOU, SIR.

SIR, IN RESPONSE, BEING AFTER NEIL, UH, YOU HAVE TO GIVE THE THANK YOU NOTE AFTER THE VIDEO, A 5 0 1 VOLUNTARY NON-PROFIT SOCIAL CULTURAL ORGANIZATION, WHICH

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MEANS TO COORDINATE NEW AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO PRACTICE, PRESERVE AND ADVANCE IDEALS AND VALUES.

HSS CONDUCTS EDUCATIONAL AND SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN BRANCHES IN 33 STATES, CIVIC TEAMWORK AND THE SPIRIT OF SELF.

OVER THE YEARS, WE PROGRAMS SUCH AS HEALTHCARE, HUMANITY, YOGA, TEACHER APPRECIATION EVENTS, SAVE EVERYBODY THROUGH THESE PROGRAMS. WE HAVE INVOLVED ELECTED OFFICIALS TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THE PAST YEAR AROUND THREE OF FOOD THE NATION DISTRIBUTED OVER HALF A MILLION, 45 FAMILIES IN TWO CITIES AS PART OF OUR COVID EFFORTS.

HSS SIX SITES, VACCINATIONS IN TO OTHER VISIT HSA.

ALL RIGHT, SO WITH THAT, WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE PRESENTATION.

SO, UM, ONCE AGAIN, WE, WE, ON BEHALF OF H S SS, WE'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO BE WITH, WITH US HERE TODAY AND, UM, UND OR UNIVERSAL ONE THIS DAY.

YOU LEARNED A LOT AND WE REALLY THRILLED THAT YOU'RE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY AND, UM, AND HOPE YOU'LL CONTINUE TO, UH, STAY INVOLVED AND GIVE US INFORMATION ABOUT, UH, YOUR CULTURE.

AND WE WANT TO HELP, YOU KNOW, SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE GREAT THINGS YOU'RE DOING.

UH, PAUL AND BOARD MEMBERS, I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT, UM, THIS SUMMER WAS OUR 14TH YEAR OF THE GREENBURG TOWN HALL SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.

AND I, I JUST WANT TO NOTE THAT OF THE 34 STUDENTS, APPROXIMATELY ONE THIRD WERE FROM THE EAST INDIAN COMMUNITY, AND, UM, THEIR CONTRIBUTION WAS, UH, SIGNIFICANT IN TERMS OF SHARING AND TEACHING, UM, OTHER INTERNS ABOUT YOUR CULTURE.

AND IT'S ALSO INTERESTING, UH, IN RECENT, UM, YEARS, WE'VE, UM, INVITED OUTSTANDING STUDENTS TO, TO, YOU KNOW, TO SPEAK.

AND SO MANY, UH, STUDENTS FROM THE INDIAN COMMUNITY HAVE, UH, MADE PRESENTATIONS TO, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TOWN BOARD, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE WON, UH, SIGNIFICANT COMPETITIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, REALLY HAVE SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE BACKGROUND.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE WE'RE GONNA BE READING A LOT ABOUT, UH, THEIR, ABOUT SOME OF THE GREAT THINGS THEY'RE GONNA DO, NOT ONLY FOR THIS COMMUNITY, BUT FOR THE WORLD, BECAUSE THEY'RE DEFINITELY THE BRIGHTEST OF, OF THE BRIGHTEST AND SO IMPRESSIVE, UH, TO, UH, TO LISTEN TO THEIR PRESENTATIONS AT FREQUENT TOWN BOARD MEETINGS.

THANK YOU, PAUL.

I'M LOOKING FORWARD FOR THE SAME COOPERATION.

NEXT, UH, WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO WELCOME A NEW BUSINESS IN HARTSDALE, UM, UH, BREAKTHROUGH FIT CO.

UH, THEY'RE LOCATED ON CENTRAL AVENUE, UM, AND, UM, THEY ARE DOING SOME AMAZING, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, THINGS THEY'RE SERVING, UH, THE NEEDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL, UH, DISABILITIES.

UH, THOSE WHO ARE DISABLED DESERVE TO BE FIT AND TO GET THE TRAINING, UH, THEY NEED.

SO I WAS GONNA ASK STEVE, UM, GOODMAN, IF YOU COULD, UH, START WITH THE, AND, AND JUST INTRODUCE US TO, UH, THIS AMAZING, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, NEW BUSINESS.

THANK YOU, PAUL.

GET STARTED.

WELL, FIRST OFF, WE FIGURE LET'S, UH, GET EVERYONE MOVING A LITTLE BIT.

'CAUSE WE DO BELIEVE IN HEALTH AND WELLNESS.

LET'S ALL STAND UP AND JUST GIVE A NICE GOOD STRETCH OUT.

I PROMISE IT'S GONNA FEEL GOOD.

Y'ALL WEREN'T EXPECTING THIS TONIGHT.

GIVE IT A GOOD STRETCH.

WE'RE GONNA BE SITTING FOR A WHILE.

YEAH, YOU SHAKE IT A LITTLE BIT.

WE CAN HAVE SOME FUN BECAUSE THIS IS THE VIBE, VIBE OF BREAKTHROUGH FIT.

GO.

ALRIGHT, YOU GUYS CAN SIT DOWN.

OF, UH, BREAKTHROUGH FIT CO.

SO ACTUALLY, THIS IS THE 1 1 5 SECOND WORKOUT.

THAT WAS OUR FIVE SECOND WORKOUT.

WE HAVE OUR TEN SECOND COMING SOON.

UM, BUT NO, UH, OVERALL, BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR LITTLE, UM, SPIEL AND PRESENTATION, THAT'S, THAT'S OUR VIBE

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KEEP IT FUN, KEEP IT EFFECTIVE, AND OUR, UH, MISSION THAT PAUL HAD ALREADY MENTIONED.

BUT NOW WE'LL START.

SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR HAVING US TODAY.

MY NAME IS JAKE.

AND I'M STEVE.

AND TOGETHER WE ARE THE CO-OWNERS OF BREAKTHROUGH FIT CO.

UM, IT'S A BRAND NEW, UH, PERSONAL TRAINING FACILITY LOCATED IN HARTSDALE, NEW YORK.

WE ACTUALLY JUST OPENED 10 DAYS AGO TODAY.

AND, UH, PAUL FINER WAS GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO COME TO OUR OPENING EVENT AND SAY A FEW WORDS.

SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THAT.

UM, AND BEFORE WE GET TOO MUCH INTO BREAKTHROUGH FICO AND, AND ITS MISSION ITSELF, JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ABOUT JAKE AND I.

UM, SO OUR PATHS KIND OF MERGED ACTUALLY, WHEN COVID HAPPENED.

UM, ALL THE GYMS SHUT DOWN AND, UH, WE LIVED IN THE SAME APARTMENT DEVELOPMENT.

AND I SLOWLY NOTICED THIS GUY CONVERTING HIS GARAGE INTO A GYM.

SO I'M THINKING TO MYSELF, ALL RIGHT, I GOTTA GET IN THERE.

UH, I GOTTA MAKE FRIENDS WITH THIS GUY.

UH, IT WAS A LITTLE WEIRD AT FIRST, BUT, UH, WE ENDED UP, YOU KNOW, HITTING IT OFF A BIT.

AND, UH, AFTER HE STOLE MY GARAGE CODE, AFTER I GOT HIS GARAGE CODE, UM, AND WE ENDED UP STARTING TO WORK OUT TOGETHER.

AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE OUR RELATIONSHIP STARTED.

LITTLE DID WE KNOW AT THE TIME, YOU KNOW, OUR PATHS ARE ABOUT TO GET A LOT MORE INTERTWINED.

SO NOW REWINDING ABOUT 10 YEARS AGO WHEN MY CAREER IN FITNESS STARTED, I WAS WORKING IN, UH, MANHATTAN AND I INHERITED A SPECIAL NEEDS FITNESS PROGRAM THAT, UH, THE FACILITY I WAS AT ACTUALLY WANTED TO GUT.

AND I HAD A CONNECTION WITH SOME OF THESE KIDS THAT I WAS WORKING WITH AND DIDN'T WANNA SEE THAT PROGRAM GO BECAUSE I FOUND THAT THERE WAS A LOT OF LIMITED OPTIONS TO AN ACTUAL FITNESS FACILITY, UM, FOR THIS POPULATION.

AND I STARTED TO EDUCATE MYSELF MORE IN FITNESS AS IT RELATES TO THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY.

AND, UM, ABOUT SEVEN YEARS LATER, WHEN MY WIFE AND I MOVED HERE TO WESTCHESTER AND I CONTINUED MY FITNESS CAREER HERE IN THE CORPORATE FITNESS WORLD, UM, I CONTINUED TO GROW THAT NICHE, UM, IN ADDITION TO ALL MY OTHER PERSONAL TRAINING.

UM, BUT WHAT I FOUND WHEN THE PANDEMIC HIT AND IT SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN WAS, FIRST OFF, WE FOUND A PATH FORWARD VIRTUAL, GETTING THE FAMILIES INVOLVED.

WE DID THINGS DAY BY DAY, WEEK BY WEEK, UM, VIRTUALLY AND WITH THE FAMILIES IN THE HOMES TO KEEP ACTIVE, UM, AND TO KEEP MOVING.

AND, UM, AS WE STARTED TO, YOU KNOW, THINGS STARTED TO REOPEN, I HAD BEEN BUILDING MY GARAGE INTO A GYM.

AND WHEN MY CLIENTS AND I STARTED TRAINING AGAIN, ESPECIALLY, UM, MY CLIENTS WITHIN THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY, THE RESULTS WITHIN MY GARAGE GYM AND THE PARKS, AND AWAY FROM A LOT OF THE DISTRACTIONS THAT THE CORPORATE, UH, FITNESS CENTER'S OFFER, I HAD A CLIENT LOSE 40 POUNDS IN ABOUT A SIX MONTH PERIOD RUNNING FROM BARELY BEING ABLE TO WALK ON A TREADMILL TO A FIVE K DISTANCE WEEKLY.

I HAD ANOTHER CLIENT GO FROM NO HAND-EYE COORDINATION TO NOW DOING SINGLE LEG BOX JUMPS.

AND HE JUST IN JUNE TOOK FIRST PLACE AT THE SPECIAL OLYMPICS IN THE 200 METER DASH.

UM, AND IT'S IMPACTED THEIR FAMILIES, UM, TENFOLD.

SO OUR GOAL WAS TO CREATE EQUAL ACCESS TO HEALTH AND WELLNESS, TO THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY, AND REALLY A FITNESS, AN APPOINTMENT ONLY FITNESS CENTER THAT CATERS TO ALL BECAUSE DIVERSITY IS A BIG CONVERSATION, BUT WE BELIEVE THAT DIVERSITY ALSO INCLUDES DISABILITIES.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, UH, I'M ALSO A COACH FOR A LOCAL SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEAM BASED OUT OF LARCHMONT, THE, UH, SOUND SHORE STARS.

AND SO JAKE AND I STARTED HAVING THIS CONVERSATION AS WE'RE WORKING OUT AND, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF HAVE THIS UNIQUE BACKGROUND THAT WE'RE BOTH INVOLVED IN SOME CAPACITY WITH THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY.

SO THAT GOT US THINKING, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO OUT, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS BIGGER THAN JAKE'S GARAGE AND REALLY MAKE A BIG IMPACT, A POSITIVE IMPACT ON THIS COMMUNITY? AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THIS IDEA OF BREAKTHROUGH FIT CO GOT STARTED.

UM, SO JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A FEW FACTS TO, I THINK REALLY KIND OF DRIVE HOME THE, THE POINT AND REALLY THE NEED THAT'S UNDERLYING THIS POPULATION.

A STUDY IN THE UK FOUND THAT, UH, INDIVIDUALS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES HAVE AN AVERAGE LIFESPAN 16 YEARS LESS THAN THEIR NON INTELLECTUALLY DISABILITY, UH, COUNTERPARTS 16 YEARS.

IT'S A PRETTY NOTABLE, UH, UH, STATISTIC.

UM, INDIVIDUALS WITH I E D ARE, UH, FOUND TO BE TWICE AS LIKELY TO BE OBESE.

AND THE AVERAGE, UH, 20 YEAR OLD WITH AN INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY ON, AGAIN, ON AVERAGE, HAS THE SAME AMOUNT OF CHRONIC UNDERLYING HEALTH CONDITIONS AS A, UH, NON ID COUNTERPART DOES IN THEIR MID FIFTIES.

UM, SO THAT REALLY DROVE HOME THE POINT THERE'S A NEED, UH, FOR, YOU KNOW, UH, INCREASED ACCESS TO HEALTH AND FITNESS FOR THIS POPULATION.

AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE ABOUT.

SO, TO, TO DRIVE HOME THAT POINT, YOU KNOW, I SAID, WE ALL ARE WELCOME IN OUR FACILITY.

IT'S APPOINTMENT ONLY FOLLOWING COVID SO THAT WE COULD ALSO CONTROL THE ENVIRONMENT.

BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE WHOLE CONCEPT

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OF BREAKTHROUGH IS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU IN THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW.

AND IF, IF THIS LITTLE PRESENTATION COULD EVEN LEAVE AN IMPACT, WE ALL GOT SOMETHING GOING ON RIGHT NOW.

AND THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF BREAKTHROUGH IS A LOT OF US GIVE UP HOPE OR TRY TO QUIT WHEN THINGS GET HARD.

BUT IF YOU PUSH THROUGH JUST A LITTLE BIT LONGER, YOUR BREAKTHROUGH'S GONNA COME RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.

'CAUSE IT'S INEVITABLE.

IT'S GONNA GET HARD RIGHT BEFORE THAT BREAKTHROUGH COMES.

AND THAT HOLDS TRUE FOR US.

IT HOLDS TRUE FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY.

WE ALL HAVE GOALS, WE ALL WANNA WORK TOWARDS THEM, AND WE WANT EVERYONE TO HAVE THAT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.

AND SO JUST TO WRAP IT UP, I'D LIKE TO AGAIN, THANK THE BOARD AND THANK PAUL PAUL FINER FOR, UH, GETTING US ON THE AGENDA.

AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, WORKING WITH THE TOWN MORE SO TO REALLY HELP SPREAD THE WORD AND MAKE US POSITIVE AN IMPACT ON THIS WESTCHESTER AND GREENBURG COMMUNITY AS WE CAN.

AND WE HAVE A FEW BROCHURES AND STUFF THAT WE'LL, WE'LL LEAVE ON THE BACK TABLE.

AND IF YOU EVER NEED A REALLY BAD DAD JOKE, COME IN AND SAY HI.

AND ILL, I'LL LEAVE IT WITH YOU.

IT'S TERRIBLE, YOUR HONOR.

I JUST WANNA, UH, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR, UH, CHOOSING GREENBERG AS A LOCATION FOR YOUR, UH, NEW BUSINESS.

UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS, UH, THINKING WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING, I SAID TODAY WE'RE, UM, APPROVING, UM, A SITE PLAN FOR, UM, REGENERON.

AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING, UM, INITIATIVES IN THE TOWN.

AND FOR ME, YOUR BUSINESS IS, UM, LIKE ALMOST LIKE A RUNNER UP BECAUSE THEY ARE SAVING LIVES THROUGH THEIR, UH, THROUGH COMING UP WITH, UM, CURES FOR ILLNESSES.

AND, UH, YOU'RE, UM, UH, ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR, UH, FOR PEOPLE WHO, UM, WHO REALLY DESERVE TO HAVE A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE.

AND WITHOUT BUSINESSES LIKE YOURS, UH, THEY, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.

SO I AM LIKE SO EXCITED THAT YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU'RE HERE.

AND YOU KNOW, I HOPE THAT, UH, PEOPLE IN GREENBURG WHO, UM, WHO KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE CHILDREN WITH, UH, SPECIAL NEEDS, UH, WILL, UM, WILL SHARE, UM, THE WORD ABOUT, ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.

AND AS I SAID, DURING YOUR OPENING, I HOPE THAT, UH, 10 YEARS FROM NOW, UH, YOU HAVE A LOT OF FRANCHISES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.

SO GREENBERG, THIS WILL BE LIKE, I THINK CARVILLE STARTED ON CENTRAL AVENUE, SO YOUR BUSINESS COULD ALSO START ON CENTRAL AVENUE, YOU MOUTH TO DOWN EARS, RIGHT? WE'LL MAKE THIS THE FLAGSHIP LOCATION.

YEAH, FOR SURE.

JUST REALLY QUICKLY, I DON'T REMEMBER YOU MENTIONING THE LOCATION WHERE YOU'RE EXACTLY LOCATED AT.

YES, EXACTLY.

LOCATED CONVENIENTLY RIGHT UP THE ROAD FROM TRADER JOE'S, WHICH A LOT OF MY CLIENT'S MOMS REALLY LIKE, BUT IT'S 2 51 SOUTH CENTRAL AVE.

UM, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE SHOPPING CENTER? UH, MIDCENTRAL SHOPPING CENTER, RIGHT BY GREENS.

GREEN'S MARKET.

YEAH, IAN DELIA AND ALL THAT.

REALLY GOOD PIZZA THERE TOO.

AND YOU COULD, UH, WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO BIKE OR WALK ON, UH, FROM WEST HARTSDALE AVENUE TO, UH, UH, TO YOUR BUSINESS BECAUSE THE SIDEWALK SHOULD BE COMPLETE BY YES.

IT'S COMING ALONG.

NEXT, UH, I JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE GREENBERG UH, POLICE DEPARTMENT.

WELL, THANK YOU GUYS.

[ 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. Greenburgh has been designated a ”Tree City of the World”: 1 of 38 municipalities in the United States, and 1 of 2 municipalities in the State of New York. Tree Cities of the World is a program of the United Nations and the Arbor Day Foundation. Any individual or group interested in a visit from the Town Board should email the Board at TownBoard@GreenburghNY.com ]

UH, NEWS 12 DID A REALLY, UH, FANTASTIC, UH, STORY TODAY, UM, ABOUT A PROGRAM THAT, UM, UH, THEY'VE, THEY'VE STARTED, UM, UH, TRAINING.

UM, NORM IS HERE.

WHY WON'T YOU LET HIM TALK ABOUT IT? WHAT, I'M SORRY.

UM, NOR NORM IS HERE.

LIEUTENANT LIEUTENANT HALL IS HERE.

TALK ABOUT, YOU WANNA MENTION, UH, MENTION THE, THE PROGRAM, THE SAFE, UH, STREETS INITIATIVE THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THAT, THAT'S MORE OF A TRAFFIC DIVISION STARTED IT WITH, UH, CAN YOU COME PLEASE TO THE MIC, , WHATEVER, WHATEVER YOU CAN JUST SHARE WITH US, THAT'LL BE GREAT.

SO IT'S AN INITIATIVE STARTED BY OUR TRAFFIC DIVISION, THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT.

YOU USUALLY SEE THE TRAFFIC DIVISION OUT THERE, KEEPING YOUR STREETS SAFE.

I'M WITH THE COMMUNITY AFFAIRS UNIT, SO WE WORK IN CONJUNCTION, WE'RE STILL ONE POLICE DEPARTMENT, BUT THEY HAVE AN INITIATIVE OUT THERE WHERE PEDESTRIANS CROSSING, YOU SEE THE CROSSWALKS, BUT THEY WANNA MAKE IT SAFE FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.

A LOT OF THE, THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT WE HAVE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THE KIDS ARE GETTING HOME SAFELY AND THEY'RE GETTING BACK TO SCHOOL SAFELY.

SO THAT'S ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.

AND BASICALLY, UH, TODAY, UH, NEWS 12 DID A, A A, A REALLY GREAT STORY, WHICH, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA PUT ON, UH, THE WEBSITE.

THEY WERE, UH, AT THE SEALY PLACE SCHOOL AND, UM, THE, THEY MENTIONED THAT 268 NEW YORK PEDESTRIANS WERE KILLED IN 2019.

AND THE NUMBER HAS, UM, UM,

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HELD STEADY SINCE 2018.

UM, AND BASICALLY WHAT THE POLICE ARE DOING IS, UH, REMINDING STUDENTS TO USE SIDEWALKS RATHER THAN STREETS.

ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO LOOK BOTH WAYS BEFORE CROSSING THE CROSSWALK, KEEPING DISTRACTIONS AWAY, THINGS LIKE CELL PHONES AND HEADPHONES.

AND PART OF THE INITIATIVE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS, UM, THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS PARTNERED WITH LOCAL RESTAURANTS TO GIVE GIFT CARDS TO KIDS WHO FOLLOW SAFETY GUIDELINES.

AND, UM, UH, THE GOAL IS TO NOT ONLY EDUCATE STUDENTS TO CROSS THIS ROAD SAFELY SINCE SCHOOL STARTED, BUT, UM, THEY ARE TRYING TO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, FOOT TRAFFIC.

STUDENTS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL FULL TIME, AND THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, UH, KIDS ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE SAFE.

UM, SO WHILE GREENBURG IS BUILDING, UH, MORE SIDEWALKS ALL OVER THE TOWN, UM, AND MORE AND MORE KIDS ARE WALKING TO SCHOOL, IT'S IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS TO KNOW HOW TO CROSS THE STREET AND TO BE, UH, CAREFUL.

AND THE POLICE ARE GIVING, UH, THE STUDENTS A REFLECTIVE BRACELET AND A WALK SAFE GREENBERG, UH, GIFT CARD.

AND THEY'RE DOING THIS THROUGHOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE TOWN TODAY, THEY WERE AT SEALY, BUT THEY'RE GOING ALL OVER, UH, THE TOWN TRYING TO, UM, PROMOTE, UM, UM, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

SO I JUST, THEY DID STANLEY AND RJ BAILEY.

AND THEY DID, YOU SAID R RJ BAILEY.

YES, THEY DID.

UM, AND YEAH, JUST AS, JUST AN EXAMPLE OF THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT AT ITS, UM, AT ITS BEST, UM, YOU KNOW, GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE SAFE.

SO I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK THE DEPARTMENT.

THE AGENDA, THERE IS A, UM, UH, CATEGORY ENTITLED TOWN CLERK COMMENTS.

OKAY, NEXT, UM, WE WILL, UM, HAVE, UM, OUR PUBLIC HEARING.

UH, UH, PAUL, UH, ON

[ TOWN CLERK COMMENTS]

AND AT THIS POINT, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME COMMENTS FOLLOWING THE LAST MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021.

I WAS APPROACHED, UM, BY, UH, RESIDENTS REGARDING A PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME, UH, AND ON A CELL PHONE AT THE END OF THE MEETING.

AND I WAS ASKED TO, TO READ IT.

I DID NOT HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE PUBLIC COMMENT.

UM, AND I READ IT WORD FOR WORD AS I READ EVERY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENT WORD FOR WORD.

I WAS CONTACTED BY A RESIDENT WHOSE NAME HAD BEEN MENTIONED DURING THAT PUBLIC COMMENT.

AND SHE WAS OFFENDED BY THE FACT THAT HER NAME WAS INCLUDED IN A DISPARAGING WAY IN THAT COMMENT THAT HAD BEEN WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WELL, GEE, WHY ARE YOU UPSET WITH ME? BUT THEN I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WITH RESPECT TO THE GOLDEN RULE, DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE OTHERS DO UNTO YOU.

AND I ASKED MYSELF, WOULD I FEEL OFFENDED IF MY NAME WERE USED IN THAT MANNER? AND I HAD TO ANSWER TO MYSELF.

SEE, I I, I CAN'T SAY TO SOME RESIDENTS, OH, YES, I'LL READ YOUR STATEMENT AND TO OTHERS, I WILL NOT.

AND SO I THANK THAT RESIDENT AND HER FRIEND, AND ONE OF OUR LEADING RELIGIOUS LEADERS IN THE TOWN, BISHOP PRESTON, FOR BRINGING THAT MATTER TO MY ATTENTION.

I CONSIDER MYSELF A LIFELONG LEARNER NO MATTER HOW OLD I AM.

AND SO WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS WAS THAT I MUST PUT IN PLACE A PROCEDURE THAT REQUIRES A PROCEDURAL POLICY THAT REQUIRES THAT ANYONE WHO WISHES FOR ME, THE TOWN CLERK, TO READ A PUBLIC COMMENT, MUST SUBMIT IT TO ME BY 5:00 PM ON THE DAY THAT THE MEETING IS HELD ON ANY TOWN BOARD MEETING DAY.

BECAUSE YOU

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HOWEVER, I CAN REFER TO THE STATEMENT THAT THE TOWN BOARD MAKES ON THIS AGENDA, WHICH SAYS, OUR GOAL IS TO MAINTAIN A ROBUST AND CONSTRUCTIVE AGENDA, WHICH MEANS THAT WE DO NOT MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT INDIVIDUALS IN A DISPARAGING MANNER.

AND SO I'VE ALSO BEEN ADVISED BY OUR TOWN OFFICIALS, NOT TO MENTION ANY NAMES THIS EVENING, BUT TO SAY, I APOLOGIZE TO THAT PERSON WHO KNOWS WHO SHE IS FOR MENTIONING HER NAME IN A STATEMENT THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME TO READ.

AND WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM HER BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION WAS THAT I WILL REVIEW ANY PUBLIC COMMENT THAT IS GIVEN TO ME PRIOR TO READING IT.

AND I THANK THAT PERSON FOR RAISING MY LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING AND CONSCIOUSNESS WITH REGARDS TO HOW SHE FELT.

UH, NEXT, UM, PUBLIC HEARING MOVE.

EXCELLENT.

THANKS.

[ To consider an Application by Frank Lapetina to extend the North Ardsley Sewer District to a property located at 245 Secor Road between Ivy Place and Eastway in the Town of Greenburgh]

YOU WANNA MAKE THE MOTION? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UM, OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AN APPLICATION BY FRANK LAPINO TO EXTEND THE NORTH LEY SEWER DISTRICT TO PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2 45 SECRET ROAD BETWEEN I V PLACE AND EAST VIEW IN THE TOWN, EAST WAY IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

DO THAT ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

DOES ANYONE WANNA SAY ANYTHING? I CAN'T.

I CAN'T REALLY HEAR VERY WELL.

MY APOLOGIES.

I I DO WANNA SAY BEFORE YOU BEGIN THAT, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T SEE A, SEE A STENOGRAPHER HERE, THERE IS A STENOGRAPHER THAT IS TAKING DOWN THIS AS A TRANSCRIPT AND IT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ANYONE WHO WANTS IT.

THE SUBMITTED DOCUMENTS, UM, ARE REQUESTING THAT THE TOWN INCLUDE A PARCEL OF LAND THAT, UH, IS OWNED BY MY CLIENTS AS, UH, TO BE INCLUDED INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT, UH, ONE OF THE SEWER DISTRICTS OF THE TOWN.

WE CAN TALK MORE ABOUT THE DETAILS OF IT, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE AT THIS MOMENT TO DO SO.

BUT IT'S A PARCEL OF LAND THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, UH, INCLUDED WHEN IT WAS, UH, LEGALLY TREATED AS A SUBDIVISION BY THE PLANNING BOARD.

SO I'M BRINGING FORTH, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE TOWN TO CATCH UP WITH THAT CLERICAL ERROR THAT WAS MADE 28 YEARS AGO, AND TO ALLOW THE OWNERS OF THIS PROPERTY TO ENJOY THE BENEFITS OF BEING ABLE TO FLOW INTO THE SEWERS OF THE TOWN.

DOCUMENTS SHOW THE, THE IN SCHEDULE A THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU.

IT, IT DEFINES THE AREA, THE TOTAL AREA THAT IS BEING ASKED FOR INCLUSION INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT.

I'M OPEN TO ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.

AND MR. ESCALADE, YOU AMENDED YOUR PETITION TODAY, I UNDERSTAND, RIGHT? YES.

YOU MADE SOME AMENDMENTS, CORRECT? YES.

ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NO.

ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO TESTIFY? MS. WILL? YEP.

UM, CAROL WIL? YES.

SORRY.

CAROL.

CAROL, PLEASE COME FORWARD.

GOOD EVENING.

GOOD EVENING, CAROL.

GOOD.

AND WIL, UH, AL HOMES CIVIC ASSOCIATION, UH, CAROL AS I FOR, THIS IS FOR THIS, FOR THIS STENOGRAPHER.

COULD YOU, I, I'M, I'M GONNA STOP RIGHT HERE, UH, UM, FROM, UM, TIMING, YOU, CAN YOU HEAR ME? I'M JUST GOING TO SPELL YOUR LAST NAME FOR THIS.

STENOGRAPHER.

W W I E L K.

FOUR HOMES, IF THE LOTS CAN ACCOMMODATE THAT, IT'S NOT JUST A CLERICAL ERROR.

THANK YOU, WIL.

AS I COMMENTED, UH, LAST TIME, THIS SEWER EXTENSION, UH, WHICH IS PROPOSED TO BE SERVICING MAYBE

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UM, I WON'T GO THROUGH THE WHOLE PROCESS AGAIN, BUT IT'S, UH, THEY GOT THE APPROVAL FROM THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD 50 YEARS AGO.

UM, SO FAR, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THEY HAVE NOT SUBMITTED BUILDING PLANS.

UM, BUT I WANNA JUST DRIVE HOME A FEW POINTS BEFORE MY, UH, COLLEAGUE DOREEN LIFTS AND SPEAKS ON BEHALF OF THE CO, UH, COUNCIL OF GREENBURG CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS.

AND JUST TO DRIVE HOME THIS POINT, AND I CAN'T DRIVE IT HOME ENOUGH, ANY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT OR ROAD CONSTRUCTION OR WHATEVER IN THIS TOWN MUST BE IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE, FOR EXAMPLE, THESE SEWER EXTENSIONS THAT THE APPLICANT REQUIRES TO SERVICE.

THE HOMES ARE NOT GOING TO BE PUT IN THE GROUND AS THEY WERE 50 YEARS AGO.

TOWN ENGINEERING WILL CONFORM, UH, WILL REQUIRE CONFORMITY TO THE CURRENT CODE REQUIREMENTS.

I BELIEVE PRISE OF THE COUNCIL OF GREENBURG CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS HAS COME UP WITH SOME DETAILED ANALYSIS BASED ON THE DOCUMENTATION THAT'S AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, WHICH IS NOT, UH, UH, COMPLETE.

AND DOREEN WILL SPEAK TO THAT, BUT I THINK THAT THIS BOARD AND ANY OTHER BOARD IN THIS TOWN, PLANNING, UM, PLANNING, ZONING, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, MUST TAKE INTO ACCOUNT SOME OF THESE, UH, RESERVATIONS.

AND THE COMMUNITY HAS SPOKEN AT THE, AT THE TIME THAT THEY'RE ALLOWED TO, BECAUSE THIS, AT THIS POINT, THIS APPLICATION ONE HAS NOT BEEN SUBMITTED, I DON'T THINK, TO THE, TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

UM, AND NO PLANNING BOARD OR ZONING BOARD OR, UH, HAS BEEN APPROACHED, I THINK TO REVIEW THIS SUBDIVISION.

THE APPLICANT IS RE UH, RELYING ON 50 YEAR OLD APPROVAL.

UM, AND WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT APPROVAL, WE ASSUME THAT APPROVAL, UH, IS NOT GONNA CONFORM IN LARGE PART WITH THE CURRENT TOWN ZONING CODE.

SO, AND THEN IT, IN ADDITION TO THAT, I AM ASKING THIS BOARD TO HOLD, KEEP THIS PUBLIC HEARING OPEN AND, UH, HOLD OFF ON, UH, APPROVING THIS RESOLUTION BECAUSE WE JUST RECEIVED THE NEW ATTACHMENTS, SIX 30, ABOUT SIX 30 TODAY.

AND THAT'S NOT GARRETT'S FAULT.

THE, OUR COMMISSIONER, THAT'S NOT HIS FAULT.

UM, THEY HAVE BEEN ASKING TO MY KNOWLEDGE 'CAUSE I REVIEWED THE FILES IN, IN THE OFFICE, UH, SOME TIME AGO, BACK IN DECEMBER, 2020, THE, UH, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, UH, UM, DEPARTMENT ASKED FOR CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS, AND THEY HAVE YET TO GIVE THOSE REQUIREMENTS.

THE, THIS PARTICULAR NEW, UM, ATTACHMENT DOES SAY THAT THE APPLICANT WILL FILE THE DEVELOPMENT PLANS ALONG WITH A FULL ZONING COMPLIANCE CHART FOR THE REVIEW OF THE LAYOUT AS PROPOSED AND FOR THE DETERMINATION WITH RESPECT TO THE TOWN OF GREENBERG PROCESS.

THAT'S GOOD, BUT THAT'S LIKE NINE, NINE MONTHS LATE.

BUT IT'S GOOD THAT HE'S MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION.

THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS FULL ZONING COMPLIANCE CHART WILL PASS MUSTER.

WE DON'T KNOW.

SO ON THESE, THIS PARTICULAR SEWER EXTENSION, THEY ALSO RELY ON, AND I REALIZE THIS IS ONLY A TAX MAP, AND I'M TOLD THAT THE TAX MAP MAPS ARE NOT NECESSARILY, UH, DISPOSITIVE, BUT THEY DO RE RELY ON THEIR SUBSEQUENT, YOU KNOW, TODAY'S, UM, ATTACHMENTS, THEY RELY, OH, OH, I'M, THEY RELY ON FOUR LOTS.

IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE FROM OUR, UM, REVIEW THAT FOUR LOTS CAN FIT THERE.

SO PLEASE HOLD, HOLD THIS PUBLIC HEARING OPEN AND PLEASE DO NOT APPROVE THIS RESOLUTION TODAY.

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DOREEN LIPSON, SPELLING MY NAME, D O R R I N E, LIPSON, L I V S O N.

I'M GOING TO BE READING A DOCUMENT WRITTEN BY ELLA PZA, THE SECRETARY OF THE GREENBERG CIVIC ASSOCIATION, ALSO KNOWN AS C G C A, THE COUNCIL OF GREENBERG CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS.

THE C G C A HAS REVIEWED THE INFORMATION PROVIDED ELECTRONICALLY REGARDING THE SUBJECT APPLICATION FOR TONIGHT'S HEARING AND WISHES TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING CONCERNS, ONLY A LIMITED NUMBER OF DOCUMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE, ELECTRONICALLY HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY TO THE PUBLIC.

SO IT IS DIFFICULT TO DETERMINE IF THIS SUBDIVISION, WHICH WAS GRANTED 50 YEARS AGO IS VALID TODAY.

IN A MEMO TO THE Z B A DATED SEPTEMBER 30TH, 1970, THE PLANNING BOARD STATED IT HAD GIVEN PRE-APPLICATION APPROVAL FOR A PROPOSED PROPOSED SUBDIVISION OF THE PROPERTY CONDITIONED UPON THE DRIVE EASEMENTS BEING WIDENED AND EXTENDED PER THE ATTACHED SKETCH.

THE ATTACHED SKETCH ILLUSTRATED WITH RED INK, A WIDENING IN THE DRIVE EASEMENT FROM 15 FEET TO 30 FEET ALONG THE SIDE, LOT LINES OF LOTS THREE AND FOUR, AND AN EXTENSION OF 15 FEET TO LOT TWO IN CASE NUMBER 70 DASH 83.

THE Z B A GRANTED A VARIANCE ON DECEMBER 17TH, 1970 TO PERMIT CONSTRUCTION OF THREE ONE FAMILY RESIDENCES ON PROPERTY, NOT ABUTTING A PUBLIC HIGHWAY PROVIDING THERE WAS A 30 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY TO BENEFIT THE THREE LOTS BEING CREATED BEHIND THE FLOOR SHOP ON LOT FOUR.

IT IS PRESUMED THAT THE Z B A APPROVAL WAS BASED ON THE SKETCH THAT THE PLANNING BOARD RECOMMENDED IN ITS SEPTEMBER 30TH MEMO.

THE ORIGINAL 1971 SIGNED SUBDIVISION LINEN PRESENTED WITH THE CURRENT APPLICATION WAS SIGNED APPROVED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE PLANNING BOARD ON JULY 21ST, 1971 BY THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH ON SEPTEMBER 10TH, 1971, AND BY THE SECRETARY OF THE PLANNING BOARD ON OCTOBER 20TH, 1971.

HOWEVER, IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS ORIGINAL LINEN DOES NOT CONTAIN THE EXTENSION OF THE 15 FEET TO LOT NUMBER TWO, THAT WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE PLANNING BOARD AND PRESUMABLY APPROVED BY THE Z B A CASE NUMBER 70 DASH 83.

THE PUBLIC NEEDS ELECTRONIC ACCESS TO ALL Z B A AND PLANNING BOARD FILES REGARDING FINAL SUBDIVISION FOR THESE PARCELS TO UNDERSTAND WHY THE EXTENSION OF 15 FEET TO LOT NUMBER TWO WAS NOT INCLUDED ON THE SUBDIVISION PLATT FILLED WITH WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

IF THAT, IF THAT FILE PLATT IS WRONG, THIS SUBDIVISION IS INVALID.

THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT CONDITIONS WERE INCLUDED WITH FINAL SUBDIVISION APPROVAL AND WHETHER A PERFORMANCE BOND WAS REQUIRED FOR THE GRADING, PAVING INSTALLATION OF WATER MAINS, SEWER PIPES, STORM DRAINS, AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS.

THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THAT PERFORMANCE BOND, WHICH BY TOWN LAW COULD ONLY BE IMPOSED TO RUN FOR THE PERIOD OF THREE YEARS.

WERE THERE ANY EXTENSIONS THIS SUBDIVISION WAS GRANTED HALF A CENTURY AGO, MANY YEARS BEFORE CURRENT SECRET LAWS, STEEP SLOPE AND WETLAND LAWS, SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS, PARKLAND AND OR CONTRIBUTION TO RECREATIONAL ESCROW FUND REQUIREMENTS.

A A S H T L STANDARDS FLAG LOT REQUIREMENTS AND OTHER ZONING ORDINANCE CHANGED WERE ENACTED AFTER RECEIVING Z B A APPROVAL AND PLANNING BOARD SUBDIVISION APPROVAL.

THE OWNERS CHOSE NOT TO BILL TO THE STANDARDS OPERATIVE 50 YEARS AGO, 40 YEARS AGO, OR NOT EVEN 10 YEARS AGO.

CAN THE CURRENT OWNER CLAIM THE RIGHT TO BUILD ON CONDITIONS IMPOSED A HALF A CENTURY AGO? WILL THE AMOUNT OF A PERFORMANCE BOND BE THE SAME 50 YEARS LATER? WILL CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS ALLOWED 50 YEARS AGO BE PERMITTED TODAY? THE Z B A DECISION IN CASE NUMBER 70 DASH 83.

GRANTED, THE RELIEF SOUGHT, PROVIDED THAT THE 30 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY BE IMPROVED TO A MINIMUM TOWN SPECIFICATIONS.

MINIMUM TOWN SPECIFICATIONS TODAY REQUIRE THAT ALL RIGHT OF WAYS HAVE A MINIMUM OF EIGHT FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THE ROADWAY, AND SHALL BE NO LESS THAN 50 FEET WILL CONSTRUCTION TAKE PLACE TO THIS SPECIFICATION AND REQUIRE AT LEAST EIGHT

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FEET ON EACH SIDE OF THE 30 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY VARIANCE.

GRANTED 50 YEARS AGO, THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW HOW THIS DRIVEWAY EASEMENT TO LOTS.

ONE, TWO, AND THREE.

CURRENT LOT SEVEN, EIGHT, AND NINE WILL BE TAXED.

WILL LOT NUMBER FOUR, CURRENT LOT SIX CONTINUE TO BE TAXED FOR THE MISSING APPROXIMATE.

I JUST HAVE ONE MORE, TWO MORE THINGS I HOPE I CAN FINISH GOOD TAX FOR THE MISSING APPROPRIATE 3,750 PLUS SQUARE FEET WILL LOT NUMBER THREE, CURRENT LOT SEVEN BE TAXED FOR THE MISSING 3,375 SQUARE FEET.

WHO WILL PAY FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF THE DRIVEWAY EASEMENT? WILL AN H O A BE REQUIRED? WILL THE A WILL THE APPLICANT BE REQUIRED TO PAY RECREATION ESCROW FUNDS? THE TOWN BOARD MUST REFRAIN FROM GRANTING APPROVALS TO EXTEND THE SEWER DISTANCE WITHOUT FIRST REVIEWING THE FILES AND PROVIDING ANSWERS TO THE CGCAS CONCERN AND CONCERN RAISED BY THE OTHERS.

IN THE INTEREST OF FAIRNESS, 21ST CENTURY REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED ON OTHER PROPERTY OWNERS SEEKING SUBDIVISION TODAY SHOULD ALSO APPLY TO THE OWNERS OF THE TWO OF 2 4 5 CCO ROAD PROPERTY.

THIS WAS WRITTEN BY ELLA PRIZE SECRETARY.

WE RECEIVED TONIGHT AT 6 39 THE APPLICATION REVISION REGARDING THIS SEWER D DISTRICT.

MS. LIPSON, WE, WE KNOW WE GOT IT.

WE WE REALLY DO.

AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO OVER BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE THE TOWN BOARD UNDERSTANDS, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU STAY WITHIN THE TIMEFRAME.

ALL RIGHT? I JUST WANT, I'M REQUESTING THAT THIS BE ADJOURNED.

AND MAYBE YOU MIGHT WANNA SUBMIT MS ER'S LETTER.

WE GOT IT.

I WILL.

IN FACT, THE, A LETTER THAT I HAVE JUST READ WILL BE SUBMITTED TO YOU RIGHT NOW.

WE'RE MAKE BY BY.

I ALSO HAVE A COPY FOR THE STENOGRAPHER, BUT SHE'S NOT HERE, SO I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.

ONE SECOND MR. ESCALADES.

SO DO WE WANT A SECOND? FIVE MINUTES FOR EVERYBODY? HOW WOULD THE BOARD LIKE TO PROCEED? WELL, ACTUALLY THERE'S ONE MORE PERSON TO SPEAK ON THIS, SIR.

HEARING MARY BODEN, HE LEFT.

OH, OKAY.

AND THEN HE LEFT.

THEN WE HAVE NO ONE ELSE TO SPEAK ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING.

CAN I HAVE A SECOND ROUND? YES.

DON'T WE ALWAYS HAVE A SECOND? WE DO IF THEY WANT IT.

OF FENCES, ALL KINDS OF THINGS.

YOU HAVE ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES, MS. DELA, IF YOU NEED IT.

WELL, IT'S OBVIOUS WHAT HAPPENED HERE.

I'VE BEEN SET UP.

UM, LET ME JUST RESPOND TO A FEW OF THESE COMMENTS.

FIRST OF ALL, UM, WHEN, WHEN WE STARTED THIS WHOLE PROCESS, EVERY, EVERY DEPARTMENT OF THE, UH, OF THE, OF THE TOWN, GREENBERG, I THINK THAT'S OKAY, WAS CONFRONTED WITH THE FACTS, WITH THE ENGINEERING REALITIES, WITH THE DETAILS THAT WE WERE GOING TO DO.

AND WE WERE TOLD RIGHT AWAY THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE A SEWER TO DRAIN INTO.

SO THE APPLICATIONS OF COURSE DON'T EXIST OFFICIALLY BECAUSE WE HAVE, WHERE THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO BE ACCEPTED BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD WE COULD NOT FLOW INTO THE SEWER, WHICH WAS QUITE A SURPRISE.

OBVIOUSLY THAT WAS A MISTAKE BY THE BOARD, BY THE STAFF OF THE, OF THE PUBLIC WORK.

SOMEBODY MADE A MISTAKE BECAUSE THIS WAS A FILED DOCUMENT FILED AND REVIEWED.

WE HAVE, WE HAD ALL THE VARIANCES THAT WE NEEDED AT THE TIME WHEN IT WAS APPROVED AND IT WAS FILED.

AND, AND WE HAVE A, UH, , A VERY LEGAL POSITION TO STAND ON.

UM, I I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY OF THE NEIGHBORS HERE, BY THE WAY.

I'VE ONLY SEEN POLITICIAN POLITICAL VOICES AND, AND, AND, AND ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN PLANNED FOR SOME REASON.

I DON'T KNOW WHO'S TO GAIN ANYTHING FROM THAT.

I THINK, I THINK THE TOWN WOULD BENEFIT FROM HAVING FOUR BEAUTIFUL HOMES THERE AND GET THE TAX FOR THAT AND ALL THAT.

THAT'S NOT GOING INTO ANY OF THAT.

I AM READY, OF COURSE, AFTER THE, IF, IF THE BOARD APPROVES THE, UH, THE, UH, WHAT IT, WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN APPROVED.

IF THEY CORRECT THE MISTAKE THAT THEY MADE 50 YEARS AGO, THEN WE ARE READY THEN TO BEGIN TO APPLY OFFICIALLY TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

AND IF THERE ARE ANY OF THOSE ISSUES OUTSTANDING, WE WILL DEAL WITH THE PROPER, UH, UH, FORM AND WAY OF DOING IT.

LIKE GOING TO THE PLANNING BOARD.

IF WE, IF WE FIND THAT IT'S NECESSARY, IF THE BOARD'S, IF THE, IF THE STAFF DETERMINES THAT THAT IS THE CASE, WELL OF COURSE WE WILL GO AND DO THE PROPER, UM, RE-APPROVAL AS WE CALL IT, UM, UH, TO, TO MAKE, TO MAKE THE UH, UM, UM, EVERYTHING PROPER.

IF, AGAIN, AGAIN, I'M NOT IN THE POSITION TO SAY THAT WE ARE NOT IN THE POSITION TO DEMAND A BUILDING PERMIT.

I THINK WE ARE.

BUT, UH, I'M SURE THE STAFF HAS SEEN THESE KINDS OF CASES BEFORE.

UM, I DON'T SEE ANY OF THE MEMBERS HERE OF THE, OF THE, OF THE NEIGHBORS.

WE HAVE DEALT WITH THEM.

WE WERE VERY HAPPY.

THEY'RE VERY HAPPY WITH US.

WE ALREADY BUILT A HOUSE.

IT WAS NOT PART OF THE SUBDIVISION.

THERE ARE OTHER ISSUES WHICH WE ARE TRYING TO HELP THEM WITH, LIKE DRAINAGE, INTRUSION

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BUT THEY'RE NOT HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE FRIENDS AND WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM AND WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THEM.

UM, I HOPE THE BOARD GIVES US PERMISSION, GIVES THE LAND THAT WE OWN PERMISSION TO FLOW INTO THE SEWER, WHICH IS A SEPARATE ISSUE ALTOGETHER FROM ALL THE OTHER ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED HERE BEFORE, WHICH I THINK HAVE NO VALUE.

BUT I'M NOT, I'M NOT GOING TO ARGUE ABOUT THAT.

I THINK THE STAFF IS QUITE CAPABLE.

UH, THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS QUITE CAPABLE OF DECIPHERING, UH, THAT IN THE FUTURE.

SO IF YOU WILL ALLOW THAT PROCESS, UH, WE CAN BEGIN TONIGHT BY APPROVING, UH, THE, THE INCLUSION INTO THE SEWER.

AND THEN WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THE OTHER ITEMS LATER.

THANKS.

AND, AND I JUST WANNA SAY AGAIN THAT I REALLY FEEL LIKE WE UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE ISSUES.

I CERTAINLY DO.

I THINK THE BOARD DOES.

I UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL ISSUES.

I UNDERSTAND THE FACTUAL ISSUES.

I KNOW THAT YOU HAD AN APPROVED SUBDIVISION, 1971, SO WE, WE GET IT.

WE, WE REALLY UNDERSTAND AND I THINK WE REALLY HAVE A FULL RECORD AT THIS POINT.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY NO, I'M NOT INVITING YOU TO SPEAK AGAIN.

I'M JUST MENTIONING THAT'S WELL, I DO, I DO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAID AND I AGREE.

SO WE COULD CONTINUE, BUT WE, WE GET IT AS A BOARD.

I WOULD LIKE TO GET, YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO GET A VOTE TONIGHT AND DECIDE THE FUTURE OF THIS ACTION.

CAROL WILKE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AGAIN.

SECOND TIME.

CAROL WILKE, WILKIN SEKER HOME CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

I JUST MUST, UH, COMMENT.

UM, MR. ESCALADES, I THINK HIS NAME IS, UM, WASN'T HERE, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO WHEN THE NEIGHBORS WERE HERE AND SPOKE ABOUT THIS AND WERE, HAD PROBLEMS ABOUT THIS, UH, PARTICULAR, UH, UH, APPLICATION, THIS DEVELOPMENT.

UM, SO HE SHOULD NOT SAY, WELL, THE NEIGHBORS ARE NOT HERE, SO THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED.

UH, I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE SQL HOME CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

I HAVE BEEN FOR MANY YEARS.

I REPRESENT THESE NEIGHBORS.

THEY HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH ME CONSTANTLY.

AND THE FIRST TIME I BECAME AWARE OF THIS WAS SOME MONTHS AGO WHEN THE APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE KNOCKED ON EVERYBODY'S DOOR AND WANTED THEM TO SIGN SOMETHING.

SO THE NEIGHBORS ARE VERY INVOLVED AND THEY ARE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT FLOODING PROBLEMS. AND, UH, SO I JUST WANNA DEFEND MY NEIGHBORS.

THEY ARE INVOLVED AND, UH, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, NOT ONE OF THEM HAS SPOKEN FAVORABLY ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR PRO PROJECT.

BUT WE DON'T WANT TO CREATE A, UH, MUDDIED RECORD BY HAVING A FOUR LOT SUBDIVISION, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE BUILT DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S CODE COMPLIANCE WHENEVER YOU GET TO SUBMIT YOUR CODE COMPLIANCE CHART INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT EXTENSION.

I, I, DOREEN, DID YOU WANNA SPEAK A SECOND TIME? DO YOU WANT ME TO LISTEN? FIRST OF ALL, I AM NOT A POLITICIAN.

I RESENT BEING CALLED A POLITICIAN.

I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION IN MY COMMUNITY.

WE ARE PART OF THE GREENBERG CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS.

WE ALL TEND TO HELP EACH OTHER.

WHEN A DEVELOPER WANTS TO COME IN, PUT FORTH AN APPLICATION, NO ONE IS AGAINST AN APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPING PROPERTY.

IT'S WHEN THEY DON'T FOLLOW THE RULES AND THE REGULATIONS THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO FOLLOW.

THAT'S WHAT WE WANNA KNOW, WHAT IS GOING ON.

THE SECOND THING IS, IS THE CLIENT HERE OR JUST MR. ESCALADE? I'D LIKE TO SEE IF THE CLIENT'S HERE, HE'S SAYING THE RESIDENTS AREN'T HERE OR WHERE'S HIS CLIENT, UH, DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SPEAK? WHAT I'VE BEEN HEARING IS THAT THERE ISN'T OPPOSITION TO EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT.

THE ISSUE IS THAT IT SEEMS LIKE, AND IT'S IT'S AN IMPROVEMENT, IMPROVEMENT FROM WHAT I SAW, UH, THIS EVENING, IS THAT THERE SEEMS TO BE A TIE IN OF A DOCUMENTS THAT INDICATE A FOUR LOT SUBDIVISION CAN BE BUILT ON THERE AS PART OF THE SEWER DISTRICT EXTENSION.

SO I, I THINK WHAT WE NEED IS TO BASICALLY DIVORCE THE TWO TOPICS.

'CAUSE AS YOU CORRECTLY, STATE MEANING THE APPLICANT, IS THAT THE OTHER ISSUES WILL BE TAKEN CARE OF LATER AND ADDRESSED LATER.

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SO IF WE GET, CAN GET A RESOLUTION WITH ATTACHMENTS THAT ARE SOLELY ASKING FOR EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT, I THINK THAT THIS WOULD BE A MUCH EASIER HEARING TO HOLD.

BECAUSE WHEN YOU FIRST GOT UP TO SPEAK, YOU TALKED ABOUT THIS LEGALLY, LEGALLY LEGAL LEGAL SUBDIVISION AS THE START OF YOU DISCUSSING EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT, IF WE COULD LIMIT IT TO EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT, SOLELY THE SEWER DISTRICT AND WHAT YOU HAVE IN SCHEDULE A, WHICH IS THE MEETS AND BOUNDS FOR THE EXTENSION, I THINK THIS BECOMES A VERY EASY DECISION TO MAKE.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO STRIVE FOR.

I DON'T THINK WE'RE THERE YET.

YOU KNOW, I'M NOT, I'M NOT GOOD FOR THESE THINGS.

I'M AN ENGINEER.

I, I ESCAPE COMMUNISM.

AND IN THE COMMUNIST COUNTRY, THEY WOULD SAY THINGS LIKE THIS, AS LONG AS YOU SAY WHAT I WANT YOU TO SAY, WE WILL VOTE.

I SAID, WHAT I SAID, I SAID, WHAT IS TRUE? I SAY, WHAT I KNOW IS TRUE.

I SAID, WHAT WAS FILED? THE DISMEMBERMENT OF THIS TRUTH IS UP TO THE BOARD LATER ON.

IT'S UP TO THE STAFF.

IT'S UP TO THE TOWN.

THE TOWN STILL HAS THE TIME TO AGREE WITH YOU AND TO AGREE WITH YOU.

RIGHT NOW, YOU ARE VOTING ON INCLUDING OR NOT, OR EXCLUDING A PIECE OF PROPERTY, WHICH IS DULY DEFINED BY SCHEDULE A.

YOU EITHER VOTE YES OR YOU VOTE NO.

ANY OTHER TALES ATTACHED TO THIS DONKEY.

I'M NOT GONNA PLAY THAT.

OKAY? I'M NOT GONNA COMMENT AS CUBA ANYMORE.

I TELL THE TRUTH AND I EXPECT THE BOARD TO SPEAK THEIR THEIR MINDS.

THAT'S IT.

WE'LL VOTE AND WE'LL KNOW, AND THEN WE WILL, BECAUSE OF THAT VOTE, WE WILL TAKE ACTION ACCORDINGLY.

THAT'S IT.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

I FIND YOUR COMMENTS TO BE OUTRAGEOUS, IRRELEVANT, AND AN EXAMPLE OF SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT WILLING TO CREATE A RECORD, WHICH IS SOLELY ON THE TOPIC AT HAND.

AND I HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU.

I'M NOT GOING TO AGREE WITH YOU.

YOU JUST, I NEVER INTERRUPTED YOU.

DID I? I GAVE YOU THE RESPECT TO SPEAKING.

RIGHT? BUT YOU'RE NOW BRINGING COMMUNISM INTO NEIGHBORS SEEKING A CLEAN RECORD ON EXTENDING A SEWER DISTRICT, WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE THEY'RE OPPOSED TO.

I DIDN'T HEAR THEM SAY THEY'RE OPPOSED TO EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT, BUT YOU CONSTANTLY INCLUDE IN EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT A SUBDIVISION FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT YET SUBMITTED A CODE COMPLIANT CHART.

SO SINCE YOU HAVEN'T DONE THAT, ALL THAT'S BEING ASKED, WHICH YOU SEEM TO RESIST, IS TO PROVIDE DOCUMENTS THAT LIMIT ITSELF SOLELY TO THE SEWER DISTRICT EXTENSION.

AND AS I SAID BEFORE, I HAVE NO DOUBT YOU WOULD GET YOUR APPROVAL.

WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THAT? I DON'T KNOW.

I DON'T WANNA REFUSE TO DO ANYTHING.

I'VE SUBMITTED DOCUMENTS TO THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

I HAVE SUBMITTED ENGINEERING DRAWINGS.

I HAVE SUBMITTED DRAWINGS OF DETAILS THAT ADJU ADJUSTED TODAY'S REALITY.

I'VE SAID TO EVERYBODY, WE ARE WILLING TO COMMIT OURSELVES TO ALL THE DETAILS OF TODAY'S REQUIREMENTS BY THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

BY THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

WE HAVE NEVER, WHEN YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THAT, YOU UPSET ME BECAUSE IT IS NOT TRUE.

I'VE SUBMITTED ALL THESE DOCUMENTS.

WE HAVE HAD THESE CONVERSATIONS.

AND IT IS BECAUSE SOMEONE IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT CORRECTLY IDENTIFIED THE FACT THAT, OH, BY THE WAY, WE CANNOT ISSUE ANY PERMITS BECAUSE YOU ARE OFFICIALLY NOT INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT.

THAT'S IT.

SO ALL THE DOCUMENTS THAT YOU ARE INFERRING THAT WERE NOT SUBMITTED, OF COURSE WERE SUBMITTED.

AND MORE THAN THE ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS THAT WERE USED FOR THE APPROVAL, I SUBMITTED ALL OF THAT.

THAT IS NOT AT ALL.

IT SHOULD NOT BE AT ALL BE MENTIONED AS PART OF THIS RECORD.

AND I DON'T WANT TO MUDDLE THE RECORD.

I DON'T WANT CHANGE THE RECORD.

IN FACT, I WANT, I WANT THE RECORD TO BE CLEAR.

WE'RE HERE FOR WHAT I ALREADY SAID.

I, I DON'T WANT TO, UH, MAKE THIS CAVEAT OF, WELL, YOU DIDN'T DO THIS YET.

NO, WE DID EVERYTHING.

AND WE ARE HERE TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THE TOWN TO CORRECT THE MISTAKE THAT THEY DIDN'T, THAT THEY COMMITTED BACK THEN.

AND, AND WHATEVER THE DRAINAGE ISSUES ARE WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHICH WE KNOW 'CAUSE THE WATER IS BEING DUMPED

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ON US, THE WATER OF ALL THOSE NEIGHBORS COME UNTO US.

NOW THAT WE, WE MENTIONED THAT.

I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA HELP THE NEIGHBORS FIX IT.

BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA HAVE OUR EQUIPMENT THERE, AND WE'RE GONNA GO TO THEIR PROPERTIES AND DIG A HOLE AND HELP THEM WITH THEIR PROBLEMS. AND, AND WHAT YOU'RE CAUSING IS YOU'RE CAUSING THEM TROUBLE BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA COST THEM MORE MONEY.

BECAUSE WHEN WE SAY TO THE ENGINEERING DEPART, BY THE WAY, YOU HAVE TO GO TO THAT, TO THAT NEIGHBOR AND TELL 'EM THAT YOU CAN'T DUMP WATER ON ME.

'CAUSE THAT'S THE TOWN RULE.

SO THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO HIRE AN ENGINEER LIKE ME, PAY THEM A THOUSAND DOLLARS OR $1,500, GET A MACHINE, AND GET, UH, UH, UH, EVERYBODY TO DIG ALL ON THEIR PROPERTIES, WHICH WE CAN EVEN DO FOR THEM.

I, I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT AND OFFER THAT BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S KIND OF, IT'S KIND OF SILLY.

'CAUSE WE WILL HELP THEM, WE WILL HELP THEM WITH ANYTHING THAT WE CAN.

AND WE'RE TRYING DESPERATELY TO GET PAST THIS, THIS ERA THAT WAS MADE IN THE PAST IN A VERY SUBTLE WAY.

WE COULD, WE COULD HAVE GONE TO COURT AND SAID, WE'VE LOST TWO YEARS OF, OF PROFIT.

MAYBE WE'LL MISS THIS WHOLE BUSINESS OF, OF, OF BUSINESS WITH THE MARKET BECAUSE OF SOMETHING THAT WILL HAPPEN WITH CHINA.

IT'S SO DELICATE NOW.

IT'S SO WE'RE TRYING TO BEAT THAT.

WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD THOSE HOUSES.

WE BUILT ONE.

EVERYBODY LOVES IT.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, I THINK WE HAVE A CONTRACT TO BE SOLD FOR 1,000,002.

THE TOWN WILL PROFIT FROM IT.

EVERYBODY, THE WHOLE AREA'S BEING BENEFITED.

IT'S BEAUTIFUL.

IT, IT, I JUST DON'T SEE THE ENERGY BEHIND THIS NEGATION.

I DON'T SEE IT.

AND IT UPSETS ME BECAUSE YOU ARE ASKING ME TO SAY, SAY THIS, AND THEN WE WILL AGREE WITH YOU.

IT JUST DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T CUT IT WITH ME.

I'M IN THE FREE COUNTRY.

I CAN'T DO THAT.

AND, AND, AND IF I TALK TOO MUCH, I, I'M KNOWN TO, TO TALK TOO MUCH JUST BECAUSE I TALK OUTTA MY HEART AND I'M GIVING THE BOARD.

AND I KNOW THE BOARD MEMBERS WANNA VOTE YES ON THIS.

AND WE, BUT I DON'T LIKE TO HEAR ALL THESE THINGS THAT IT'S JUST NOT TRUE.

IF IT WAS NOT TRUE, I WOULD SAY YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

I'LL GO CORRECT IT.

BUT I AM SURE THAT ALL THESE DEFICIENCIES, IF THEY EXIST, WILL BE ADDRESSED BY THE PROPER AUTHORITIES IN THE TOWN.

THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

THEY, YOU HAVE AN EXCELLENT STAFF HERE.

THEY CATCH EVERYTHING.

THEY CAUGHT SOMETHING THAT NOBODY HAD.

YOU KNOW, THEY GO THROUGH EVERYTHING VERY DETAILED AND WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS.

OKAY, SO WE HAVE THIS HEARING.

DO WE WANT TO CLOSE THIS HEARING AND MAKE A DECISION, WHATEVER THAT DECISION IS, BECAUSE THIS IS OUR THIRD PUBLIC HEARING, I BELIEVE SO, IF YOU FEEL THE RECORD, IS THIS THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING? SECOND? I'M SORRY, THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING.

WELL, I, I THINK THERE WAS AN INITIAL PRESENTATION, AND THEN I THINK THE LAST ONE, MR. ESCALADES WAS NOT HERE FOR, I THINK THIS WAS THE THIRD, I BELIEVE.

WE HAD, WE HAD A HOLDOVER, RIGHT? SO WE HAD A HOLDOVER, AND THEN WE HAD THE HEARING, AND THEN WE HAD, YEAH, WE HAD THREE MEETINGS AND THERE WERE THREE TIMES THAT THIS WAS DISCUSSED AT THE MEETING.

I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.

RIGHT? BUT WE, WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION.

BUT THE FIRST MEETING WAS WHEN THE NEIGHBORS HADN'T BEEN NOTIFIED BECAUSE IT SAID THE NORTH ARDSLEY SEWER DISTRICT.

I UNDERSTAND ON SEACO ROAD.

I UNDERSTAND.

THE SECOND MEETING WAS WHEN MR. ESCALADES DIDN'T SHOW UP.

HE WAS ON HIS WAY AND HE DIDN'T GET HERE IN TIME.

AND THE THIRD MEETING WE NOW HAVE, UM, SO YES, THERE'VE BEEN THREE TIMES, BUT WE'VE NEVER HAD BASICALLY ALL THE PARTIES, UH, EXCEPT FOR, I GUESS BASICALLY TONIGHT.

NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I'M SAYING AT THIS POINT, IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THERE'S GONNA BE ANY MORE INFORMATION SUBMITTED.

SO I DON'T SEE THE NEED TO ADJOURN THE HEARING.

WE SHOULD CLOSE IT.

WE SHOULD MAKE WHATEVER DECISION THAT THE BOARD FEELS COMFORTABLE WITH, AND THEN WE CAN MOVE ON FROM THERE.

WELL, WE DID GET DOCUMENTATION THOUGH THIS AFTERNOON.

WE DID.

AND IN THE, AND THE WAY THAT THE BOARD HAS DECIDED TO GO IS IF WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE MATERIALS MM-HMM.

, RIGHT? WE DON'T DO THINGS ON A WHIM MM-HMM.

RIGHT? AND SO IT MAY BE THAT THE DOCUMENTS WE HAVE TODAY SEPARATE OUT THE SUBDIVISION.

AND CONTRARY TO THE APPLICANT'S COMMENTS, NO ONE'S ASKING HIM TO SAY SOMETHING THAT HE DOESN'T WANT TO SAY.

THE PROBLEM IS THAT HE KEEPS LINKING IT TO A SUBDIVISION, WHICH IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY AND COMPLICATES THE MATTER.

BUT I DON'T KNOW, SITTING HERE WHETHER OR NOT THE DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED ACTUALLY BIFURCATE THE TWO AS WE'VE BEEN ASKING HIM TO DO FOR QUITE SOME TIME.

MAYBE HE ACTUALLY DID IT TODAY OR DID NOT.

I DON'T KNOW.

I UNDERSTAND.

I'M SAYING THIS, I DON'T WANT TO SAY, I WANT TO CLOSE THE HEARING WHEN, FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO GET A COPY OF ELLA PRIZE'S LETTER TO GO THROUGH THAT.

THE EXTENSION OF THE SEWER DISTRICT AND NOT GET INTO ANYTHING HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE SITE ITSELF OTHER THAN THE MEETS AND BOUNDS.

BUT AGAIN, IF, AND IT MAY BE THAT AFTER, AFTER THIS HEARING, UH, THE APPLICANT WILL REALIZE THEY JUST WANT TO APPROVE A SUBDIVISION, UH, THE, UH, EXTENSION OF THE SEWER DISTRICT.

THEY'RE WILLING TO DO THAT.

ALL I HAVE TO DO IS TO MAKE THE APPLICATION SOLELY ABOUT

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THAT'S ALL WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.

NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT.

BUT I THINK YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION AND THE EVIDENCE TO DO THAT WITHOUT HAVING ANOTHER HEARING.

IF WE CLOSE THE HEARING, YOU ANALYZE THE EVIDENCE, YOU MAKE A CONCLUSION ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, THEN AT LEAST WE ARE DONE.

I JUST DON'T WANT TO ADJOURN THE HEARING AGAIN.

MAYBE MR. ESCALADE PRESENTS INFORMATION.

MAYBE HE DOESN'T, AND THEN WE ADJOURN IT.

YOU KNOW, I JUST, I, I FEEL, I ACTUALLY, I DON'T, I HAVE A SUGGESTION.

I DON'T ACTUALLY, I HAVE A SUGGESTION.

WHAT IF, UM, WE AD ADJOURN THE CLO CLOSE THE HEARING, LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU, MR. ESCALADES, UH, THE TOWN ATTORNEY COULD SIT DOWN LIKE YOU'VE DONE, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST.

AND THEN YOU COULD SEE IF, UH, YOU KNOW, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD WORK OUT, UH, SOME OF THE ISSUES BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE EVERYBODY'S VERY, VERY CLOSE, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THIS ANYWAY.

AND THEN IF YOU SIT DOWN, UM, THEN, YOU KNOW, UH, WE COULD HOPEFULLY REACH AN ACCOMMODATION AND, AND FIGURE OUT SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, COULD LIVE WITH AND THEN PASS IT AT, PASS SOMETHING AT THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, NEXT MEETING WITHOUT YOU.

I MEAN, BECAUSE NO, THEN NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU COULD PARTICIPATE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL ALL PARTICIPATE IN, AND THEN WE COULD GET THIS RESOLVED.

WE'VE DONE THIS ON A MILLION OTHER, UH, YOU KNOW, OVER WHAT I SAID BEFORE YOU STARTED TO SPEAK IS I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH WHAT THE TOWN ATTORNEY IS SUGGESTING.

UM, BECAUSE IT GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY, NOTWITHSTANDING THE COMMUNISM AND, AND ALL THE REST TONIGHT, IT GIVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO THE APPLICANT IN THE PERIOD OF THE 10 DAYS YES.

TO KEEP THE RECORD OPEN TO EITHER BIFURCATE THEM TO ENTIRELY MM-HMM.

, UH, OR HAVE THE VOTE AT THE NEXT MEETING UP OR DOWN ON WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT THEM TIED OR NOT WANT 'EM TIED.

AND THEN WE'LL BE DONE WITH IT.

THE SUBDIVISION WHATSOEVER.

'CAUSE THE SUBDIVISION ISSUE IS A SEPARATE ISSUE.

TOTALLY SEPARATE.

ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.

AND IT, AND SO WE JUST WANT TO END THE SEWER DISTRICT ISSUE EXACTLY.

WITH WHAT'S ON THE TABLE.

AND WE WANT NO LINK TO RIGHT.

IN SIMPLY EXTENDING THE SEWER DISTRICT, THE, UH, YES.

THE SEWER DISTRICT.

UM, BECAUSE THERE'S NO OPPOSITION TO DOING THAT.

IT'S JUST THAT WE'RE, I, I FEEL FRUSTRATED THAT THE APPLICANT HASN'T BEEN ABLE TO GIVE US DOCUMENTS THAT WOULD MAKE THAT A CLEAN APPROVAL.

I KNOW HE THINKS HE HAS, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE 10 DAYS TO FIGURE THAT OUT.

RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY.

SO MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A MOTION TO AT LEAST CLOSE THE HEARING.

WE LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR 10 DAYS AND RESOLVE ANY OUTSTANDING ISSUES IN THAT TIME.

KIND OF, YOU KNOW, STUCK IN NEUTRAL.

OR NOT.

BUT AT LEAST, AND, AND THERE'LL BE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC LATER, UH, AFTER, AFTER THE SEWER DISTRICT DOES GET EXTENDED.

'CAUSE WE, I, I CAN ASSURE YOU, WE WILL BE VOTING TO EXTEND THE SEWER DISTRICT.

UH, AND THEN THE ISSUES WILL, WILL COME UP AS TO, WELL, NOW WHAT CAN BE BUILT THERE AS OPPOSED TO THE SEWER DISTRICT NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED AND NOT BE EXTENDED.

CAROL CAROL WIL IS ASKING TO ADDRESS THE BOARD.

OH.

SEE, NORMALLY WE DON'T HAVE A THIRD ROUND, BUT BECAUSE THIS ALASKA OUT IS KEPT COMING UP, MS. WIL, MS. WIL, WE TOTALLY UNDERSTAND.

WE, WE, YEAH.

BUT, BUT ONCE I DO THAT, THEN WE BREAK THE RULES.

I DON'T WANT RULES.

I UNDERSTAND.

BUT MR. S HAS COME UP FOUR TIMES NOW.

SO LET HER MAKE TWO SENTENCES.

OKAY? OKAY.

TWO.

BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW.

BUT, BUT YOU SEE, WE HAVE OTHER PEOPLE HERE AND THEY HAVE BUSINESS.

ONE THING, MS. WHY DON'T YOU WALK TO THE MICROPHONE AND MAKE THE, UH, WE READ THE COMMUNITY READS YOUR RESOLUTIONS CAREFULLY, AND YOU ARE GOING TO BE VOTING ON SOMETHING NOW WHERE THE RESOLUTION, NO, WE'RE NOT VOTING TONIGHT.

WE'RE NOT VOTING NOW.

WE'RE NOT GONNA VOTE UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING AFTER THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIX THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED WITH WHAT THEY SUBMITTED SO THAT THERE'S A TOTAL BIFURCATION BETWEEN THE EXTENSION OF THE SEWER DISTRICT AND WHAT THEY CAN DO LATER, .

AND WHAT IF THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN? IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN, WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN UP OR DOWN VOTE AT THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST ON THAT, UM, COMPLEX, UM, PROBLEMATIC, UH, APPLICATION THAT HAS THE TWO TIED.

I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT I'M NOT GONNA VOTE FOR A APPLICATION FOR A SEWER DISTRICT THAT TIES IN AN INFERENCE AS IF THE SUBDIVISION THAT WAS, UH, DONE MEETS ZONING WITHOUT THEM HAVING A ZONING COMPLAINT.

I ONLY POINT OUT TO YOU, AND I DON'T HAVE TO POINT THIS OUT TO YOU, 'CAUSE YOU THE BOARD KNOWS ABOUT IT ALREADY, IS THAT, UH, THE APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE APPEARS TO BE

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AND, UM, HE SUBMITTED SOMETHING TONIGHT, UH, AT SIX 30.

UH, WE REALLY HAVEN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH IT.

CERTAINLY THE BOARD HASN'T HAD AN OPPORTUNITY, OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH IT.

SO THE ISSUE IS KIND OF STILL OPEN, AND I DON'T SEE WHY YOU JUST CAN'T KEEP THE ME THE, UH, FOR ONE MORE PUBLIC HEARING SO WE CAN COMMENT ON THAT.

THAT'S ALL.

THERE ARE LEGAL ISSUES HERE, AND I DON'T WANT TO GET SUED OVER THIS ISSUE.

AND WE HAVE A FULL RECORD AND WE HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO MAKE A DECISION, AND WE HAVE 10 DAYS TO RESOLVE THIS.

SO I REALLY JUST WANT TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, GIVE THE BOARD AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONSIDER YOUR COMMENTS, MS. LIPSON'S COMMENTS, MR. ESCAL COMMENTS, BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO BE FAIR TO BOTH SIDES.

AND I KNOW WHAT YOUR CONCERN IS, AND YOU HAVE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THAT ISSUE.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO WELL, WHEN THE BUILDING SPECTRUM MAKES A DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THE SUBDIVISION APPLICATION IS SUFFICIENT.

SO YOU'RE GONNA HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY.

RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST CREATING LITIGATION, WHICH I DON'T WANT ALL, ALRIGHT.

UNDERSTAND.

I JUST, I'LL SEND WITH THIS.

AND THAT HAS, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO OKAY.

WITH, WITH THE DETAILS.

IF THIS BOARD COWS BEFORE ANY DEVELOPER, APPLICANT COMES BEFORE AND, AND, AND DECIDE AND SAYS, WE ARE GONNA SUE YOU.

WE'VE LOST OUR REPRESENTATION.

WE'RE NOT COWERING, WE'RE NOT, YOU ARE NOT COWER, WE'RE NOT COWERING.

THIS, THIS BOARD HAS BEEN VERY GOOD IN STANDING UP TO PEOPLE.

UM, A BIG CEMETERY, UH, NEXT TO ME.

YOU STOOD UP MM-HMM.

AND YOU WON.

ALL RIGHT? RIGHT.

SO WE HAVE A GOOD REPUTATION, RIGHT.

FOR PROTECTION.

SO DON'T COWER.

WE WON'T COWER, PLEASE.

SO, SO I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION THAT WE, UH, CLOSE THE HEARING.

WHY DON'T WE DO THIS? WHY DON'T WE CLOSE THE CLOSED THE HEARING, LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR SEVEN DAYS WITH A COMMITMENT THAT A RESOLUTION WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE IN 10 DAYS.

SO THE PUBLIC HAS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SEE IT IN ADVANCE OF OUR MEETING, WHICH IS IN TWO WEEKS.

UH, HOW ABOUT THAT IS OCTOBER, WHAT? 13TH IS IT THREE WEEKS? IS IT THREE WEEKS? I THINK WE HAVE A FIFTH WEDNESDAY.

THIS I, I BELIEVE SO.

RIGHT? WELL, IF IT'S THREE WEEKS, UH, LET'S SEE.

WE DO, IT'S OCTOBER 13TH, RIGHT? IT IS.

SO THEN WE COULD LEAVE IT AS 10 DAYS MM-HMM.

AND THEN WE WILL POST THE RESOLUTION FOR THIS THE FRIDAY PRIOR TO THE, UM, TOWN BOARD MEETING.

THAT'S YOUR MOTION, RIGHT? THAT IS ANOTHER MOTION.

HEARING IS CLOSED AND WE'LL BE IN TOUCH.

PUBLIC COMMENT? JU THANK YOU.

BARBARA, YOU DONE ANY

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YOU'RE WELCOME.

THANK YOU, BARBARA.

GOODNIGHT.

HOW'S SAM? IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING, THAT'S A STENOGRAPHER.

I WAS VERY TOUCHED BY MR. FINERS REFERENCING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT REGARDING SIDEWALKS.

NOT ALL OF YOU ON THE TOWN BOARD WERE PRESENT AT THE TIME, BUT EDGEMONT FOR 10 YEARS TRIED TO GET A SIDEWALK ON SEALY PLACE.

AND IT WAS MR. FONDER THAT OPPOSED IT.

TODAY HE'S SINGING HOW MUCH HE WAS IN SUPPORT OF SIDEWALK SAFETY CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS.

AND FOR 10 YEARS HE FOUGHT AGAINST THAT SIDEWALK ON SEALY PLACE.

HE DIDN'T MENTION THAT.

DID DIDDY ON THE AGENDA TOWN BOARD THREE RESOLUTION ADOPTING A STANDARD WORKDAY AND REPORTING RESOLUTION FOR NON-EXEMPT ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THERE IS NO BACKUP ON THE TOWN WEBSITE.

THIS HAS BEEN HELD OVER FOR SEVERAL MEETINGS NOW, AND THERE'S STILL NO EXPLANATION OF WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.

IN THE PAST, YOU'VE ALWAYS HELD OVER AGAIN, FAILING TO PROVIDE SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION TO THE PUBLIC.

SO I'M ASKING YOU AGAIN TO HOLD IT OVER UNTIL YOU CAN PROVIDE SUFFICIENT EXPLANATION TO THE PUBLIC AND GIVE THEM TIME TO CONSIDER WHAT IT IS YOU'RE

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EXPLAINING.

IT'S WHAT YOU'VE DONE IN THE PAST.

ATTORNEY ONE RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CONTINUED RETENTION OF LAW OFFICES OF VINCENT TOOMEY TO REPRESENT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IN THE MATTER OF KRISTEN STI STEIN V.

LIEUTENANT GREENBERG, FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $25,000.

WELL, THIS IS A FAST RISING OPPORTUNITY FOR THE ATTORNEY BECAUSE NOT FOUR WEEKS AGO YOU VOTED 25,000, AND THEREAFTER YOU VOTED ANOTHER 25,000, AND NOW WE'RE AT 75,000.

I THINK THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS THIS LAWSUIT ABOUT? IS IT A SUIT FOR DAMAGES FOR MONEY? AND IF SHE IS SUING YOU FOR MONEY, WE'D LIKE TO KNOW THE AMOUNT.

THIS IS PUBLIC INFORMATION.

IT'S PUBLIC RECORD.

IF I WANTED TO RESEARCH CASES, I COULD FIND IT OUT.

BUT I THINK YOU COULD TELL US EASILY HOW MUCH SHE IS SUING THE TOWN FOR.

THAT WAY WE COULD MAKE A DETERMINATION HOW MUCH THE COSTS OF LITIGATION ARE AGAINST WHAT THE END RESULT WOULD BE.

THIS FOLLOWS DR.

MOORE, FOR EXAMPLE.

UM, 100 HILLSIDE.

MR. FINER TOLD US IN JUNE THAT HE WOULD GET BACK TO US SEPTEMBER 15TH.

THIS IS THE MATTER OF WHAT THEY SELECTED AT THAT TIME AS THE BILLING ACROSS THE STREET FOR THE NEW TOWN HALL, FOR THE NEW TOWN COURT AND POLICE STATION, WHICH I DON'T OPPOSE THE CONCEPT, BUT THEY WERE TOLD BY THEIR CONSULTANT IN JANUARY THAT THE COST WOULD BE 85 MILLION AND THEY HAD BUDGETED 35 MILLION.

ALL RIGHT, THANKS MR. SO I'M JUST ASKING MR. FINER NOT TO WAIT TILL THE END OF OCTOBER.

JUST TELL US WHERE THINGS STAND RIGHT NOW.

THERE'S BEEN NO DECISIONS AND, UH, I THINK I MENTIONED TO YOU THAT IT WAS GONNA, UM, I THINK THE, WE'RE GONNA GET MORE INFORMATION IN OCTOBER.

RIGHT? OKAY.

LATEST LATE OCTOBER.

THAT'S SIX WEEKS AFTER YOU PROMISED IT INITIALLY.

WHO'S NEXT YEAR? SIDNEY HAS NO IDEA.

NO, NOTHING NEW TO TELL THE PUBLIC.

LET'S BRING UP THE NEXT SPEAKER.

SIDNEY ANTHONY.

AND BY THE WAY, MR. SSS, THE LITIGATION DOES NOT HAVE A A DOLLAR AMOUNT ATTACHED TO IT.

UM, YOU KNOW, APPROACH BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE PEOPLE, BT COURT, FLORENCE AVENUE, UM, YOU KNOW, WARREN MANHATTAN AVENUE, UM, UH, IN, THROUGHOUT IN HARTSDALE, THERE WERE, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME STREETS, YOU KNOW, I, I, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE TOWN.

UH, JUST HERE WITH, UH, OTHER NEIGHBORS TO TALK ABOUT THE FLOODING ON, UH, BA COURT.

SO THIS IS MY SECOND TIME GOING THROUGH IT.

UH, MY NEIGHBOR JOHN'S SECOND TIME, AND THIS IS THEIR FIRST TIME GOING THROUGH IT.

SO WE WANNA TALK ABOUT HELP LIFTING OUR HOUSES UP TO AVOID THE, UH, IF THIS HAPPENS, AGAIN, TO AVOID THE FLOODING.

SO I KNOW MR. FINE WAS, WAS TALKING TO US EARLIER ABOUT GOING THROUGH FEMA TO GET A GRANT, WHICH IS FINE, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS APPLYING WOULD BE A LOT FASTER THAN US GOING THROUGH IT.

YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAVE MORE OF A DIRECT CONTACT.

UH, PART OF THE OTHER ISSUE IS THE TIMING.

YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS WERE PROBABLY GETTING A LOT FASTER AND IT TOOK SEVEN MONTHS THE LAST TIME FOR US TO GET BACK INTO THE HOUSE, SO WE NEEDED THE MONEY YESTERDAY.

SO WE'RE HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GUYS CAN GET A DIRECT CONTACT, WE COULD PROBABLY GET THE MONEY, HOPEFULLY BEFORE WINTER, BECAUSE THE PROCESS TAKES ABOUT SIX WEEKS TO RAISE A HOUSE.

AND WE WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE TO GET THAT DONE BEFORE WINTER COMES AND NOT TAKE SEVEN MONTHS TO GET BACK INTO THE HOUSE.

SO, COULD YOU GIVE US A TIMELINE OF HOW FAST YOU GUYS COULD GET A CONTACTED TO FEMA AND TO GET THE GRANT MONEY TO US SO WE COULD BEGIN THE PROCESS OF RAISING OUR HOMES? UM, I'VE BEEN MEETING WITH FEMA, UH, I MET WITH, UM, UH, THEIR GOVERNMENT LIAISON, UM, YESTERDAY AND THE SS B A AND THEY INDICATED THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD APPLY FIRST.

YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO APPLY FOR FEMA.

UM, WHAT I'M, I'M DOING IS I'M REACHING OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND WE'RE KEEPING A LIST OF EVERYBODY WHO, UM, WANTS THEIR PROPERTIES, UH, YOU KNOW, RAISED.

AND THEN I'M GONNA SEE IF, UM, THERE'S A WAY WHERE, YOU KNOW, FEMA WOULD LET A, WOULD WORK WITH A COLLECTIVE, YOU KNOW, GROUP.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE, THE PROCESSES OF FEMA BECAUSE, UM, I I WILL ALSO REACH OUT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL, UM, OUR SENATORS AND, UH, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, DO WHATEVER I CAN TO EXPEDITE, UH, THE PROCESS.

BUT THEY MAY NEED, UM, INDIVIDUAL, YOU KNOW, APPLICATIONS.

BUT AT THIS, BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, TO ME, UM, THE RAISING OF, UM, YOU KNOW, OF HOLMES IS A REAL SENSIBLE,

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UM, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL THAT IF WE COULD GET LIKE A, A A LIST OF A BUNCH OF PEOPLE AND THEN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH EVERYBODY, SO THIS WAY WE COULD, YOU KNOW, GET THIS EXPEDITED, YOU KNOW, I'LL DO WHATEVER I CAN TO, YOU KNOW, TO HELP.

YOU MENTIONED A 75 25 SPLIT.

SO THAT WAS THE LAST TIME IN 2004.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD ALSO REACH THE, THE COUNTY HAS A FUND FOR FLOOD MITIGATION, BUT THEY'VE USED IT FOR, THEY'VE USED IT FOR LIKE FLOOD, YOU KNOW, RELIEF, YOU KNOW, UH, DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS.

AND UH, AND MAYBE WE COULD ASK THE COUNTY IF THEY WOULD CONSIDER, UH, ALLOWING, YOU KNOW, LOCAL LOCALITIES TO USE THE FUNDS TO OFFSET SOME OF THE COSTS THAT RESIDENTS ARE GONNA HAVE.

UM, BUT AGAIN, THE FIRST THING I WANT TO DO IS GET LIKE A LIST OF PEOPLE WHO WANT THEIR PROPERTY, YOU KNOW, ARE INTERESTED IN HAVING THEIR PROPERTIES UPLIFTED.

AND I SHOULD MENTION, UM, THERE'S PROBABLY LIKE 10 OR 11 PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONTACTED ME, YOU KNOW, SO FAR.

AND I'M SURE THERE'LL BE MORE.

I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTOR AND THE TOWN ENGINEER AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.

WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING TOMORROW AND I'M GONNA FOLLOW UP.

AND I'M HOPING THAT YOU COULD JUST LEAVE YOUR NUMBER WITH THE SECURITY GUARD.

COREY AND I WILL CALL YOU AT ABOUT 1130 TOMORROW AND JUST FOLLOW UP WITH YOU ON WHERE WE'RE AT.

BUT COULD YOU MAYBE E COULD YOU MAYBE EMAIL, UM, YOU KNOW, EMAIL, UM, YOU KNOW, ME AND EVERYBODY IN BABAT COURT JUST SAYING YOU'RE INTERESTED SO I COULD KEEP RECORDS.

AND, AND THEN I, YESTERDAY I SPOKE TO CARL PFEIFFER, WHO LIVES ON BT COURT, AND HE INDICATED THAT HE WOULD ALSO BE WILLING TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO, UM, UM, TO THE COMMUNITY, TO THOSE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO UPLIFT THEIR HOMES, HIGHLIGHTING HOW IT CHANGED HIS LIFE.

BECAUSE I REMEMBER BEFORE, BEFORE THAT WE NEEDED ROW BOATS TO GET TO, UH, HOMES ON BABA COURT.

AND PEOPLE LOST A LOT.

AND AFTER THE RECENT STORM, YOU KNOW, HE WAS NOT AS STRESSED OUT AS HE WAS, YOU KNOW, IN THE EARLY TWO THOUSANDS WHEN WE HAD OTHER STORMS. YEAH.

BUT AGAIN, JUST LEAVE YOUR NUMBER, I PROMISE TO CALL YOU ABOUT 1130 TOMORROW.

LEAVE ME A CELL PHONE NUMBER IF YOU'RE NOT AVAILABLE, THEN I'LL LEAVE MY NUMBER AND YOU CAN CALL ME BACK.

WELL HAVE OTHERS ON THE BLOCK WHO WANT TO SPEAK, SO, OKAY.

SURE.

SOUNDS GOOD.

BUT YOU KNOW, I, I, MY, UM, OFFICE, WE, WE ARE, WE HAVE A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS, ABOUT 25 VOLUNTEERS WHO OFFER TO, UH, WORK WITH INDIVIDUALS GETTING, UH, HELP FROM, FROM FEMA AND THE S B A BECAUSE THEY'RE VERY CUMBERSOME, UH, YOU KNOW, PROCESS.

SO WE'RE, UH, STARTING THAT, YOU KNOW, NOW.

AND MY ASSISTANT KRISTEN MATSON IS FAMILIARIZING HERSELF WITH, UM, WITH THE WHOLE FEMA APPLICATION PROCESS.

AND ANYONE WHO NEEDS THE HELP OF, YOU KNOW, MY OFFICE WILL GIVE, UM, INDIVIDUAL HELP, UH, FILING APPLICATIONS, UM, MAKING APPEALS, UH, IF, IF THEY'RE REJECTED.

I WANNA DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO MAKE THIS AS STRESSLESS AS AS POSSIBLE FOR, FOR RESIDENTS.

I'VE ALSO BEEN WORKING WITH THE COUNTY TO GET A LOCATION OF FEMA LOCATION SO WE CAN HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE COME AND HELP RESIDENTS FILL OUT THE PAPERWORK AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

SO, UM, I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH THEM AGAIN.

I WAS HOPING THAT I WOULD HAVE AN ANSWER TODAY SO I CAN, UH, MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT AT THIS MEETING, BUT I DIDN'T GET THE INFORMATION.

SO I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH THEM, UH, WITH THE COUNTY AGAIN TOMORROW.

SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE THE LOCATION.

I AM, I'LL, I'LL SAY I AM LOOKING AT THE GREENBURG LIBRARY SO WE CAN HAVE ENOUGH SPACE, ENOUGH ROOM.

I ALREADY SPOKE TO THE LIBRARY SO WE CAN HAVE RESIDENTS COME IN, SPEAK WITH THEIR FEMALE REPRESENTATIVES SO THEY CAN WALK YOU THROUGH THE PROCESS.

'CAUSE I KNOW THIS IS A CHALLENGING PROCESS, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE FULLY EDUCATED AND YOU FULLY UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THE PROCESS ENTAILS.

AND ALSO, UH, OH, JUST ONE OTHER THING BEFORE I FORGET.

JUST WHEN YOU SEND THE EMAIL, JUST MAKE SURE YOU INCLUDE THE TOWN BOARD, NOT JUST DIRECTLY TO, TO THE SUPERVISOR, SO WE'RE ALL AWARE OF, UM, YOUR INFORMATION SO WE CAN HAVE YOUR INFORMATION AS WELL.

THE SS B A, UM, TENTATIVELY AGREED, UM, TO IT YESTERDAY.

AND, UH, UM, TWO WEEKS FROM YESTERDAY, I INVITED BOTH FEMA AND, UM, AND, UM, THE S B A, UM, TO, UM, ATTEND A WORK SESSION OF THE TOWN BOARD AND, UM,

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UM, AND, UH, FEMA SAYS THEY NEED CLEARANCE FROM, UH, FROM THEIR SUPERIORS.

UM, BUT I WANNA MAKE IT SORT OF LIKE A QUESTION AND ANSWER, UM, SESSION AND THE PRESENTATION.

SO THIS WAY, IF RESIDENTS HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROCESS, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL, THEY'LL GET ANSWERED AT THE, AT THE WORK SESSION.

HOPEFULLY FEMA WILL, WILL, WILL PARTICIPATE, BUT IT'S A VERY, I MEAN, THEY MET WITH ME FOR OVER, OVER AN HOUR, AND THEY'VE MET WITH MY ASSISTANT THE, THE DAY BEFORE FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF.

AND IT'S A, IT'S VERY, VERY, LIKE, CONFUSING THE WHOLE PROCESS.

YOU HAVE TO GO TO FEMA, YOU HAVE TO GO, THEN POSSIBLY GO TO THE SS B A, AND IT'S JUST VERY, UH, YOU KNOW, VERY AGGRAVATING.

THEY ALSO INDICATED THAT SOMETIMES YOU SHOULD GET AN S B A LOAN, WHICH IS VERY LOW INTEREST, WHICH SOMETIMES GETS, UH, FORGIVEN BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

AND, UM, AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE, SOME, SOMETIMES PEOPLE, UM, GET THAT SSS B A LOANS AND THEY PAY IT BACK WITH GRANTS THAT THEY'LL EVENTUALLY GET FROM, UM, FROM FEMA.

BUT WE'LL DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO HELP PEOPLE GET THE MAXIMUM FUNDS POSSIBLE.

IF YOU WRITE TO TOWN BOARD, NO SPACE BETWEEN THE WORDS TOWN BOARD AT GREENBERG Y COM, ALL FIVE OF US GET EVEN TOWN T O W N B O A R D TOWN BOARD.

BUT WRITE IT AS ONE WORD, NO SPACES, NO HYPHEN@GREENBERGNY.COM.

ALL FIVE OF US GET THAT EMAIL.

OKAY, ANANDI SOTO.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

GOOD EVENING, TOM BOARD.

MY NAME IS ANANDI SOTO.

UM, I JUST MOVED INTO BAAB NINE BABBITT COURT, ELMSFORD THREE MONTHS AND A HALF AGO.

OH, I, AND, UM, I RAISED MY CHILDREN IN THE TOWN OF WESTBURY FOR OVER 20 YEARS, DECIDED TO SIZE DOWN AND TO MOVE INTO WESTCHESTER FOLLOWING MY DAUGHTER, WHO IS A TEACHER IN WHITE PLAINS HIGH SCHOOL.

SHE OWNS HER, UM, CONDO, UM, ON BRONX RIVER PARKWAY IN YONKERS.

AND SHE AND I SEARCHED FOR A HOME, OF COURSE, WITH MY PARTNER.

AND WE MOVED IN THREE MONTHS AND A HALF AGO.

ALL NEW FURNITURE, ALL NEW APPLIANCES.

I NOTICED IT IN THE, ON THE STREET IN THAT COURT.

ONLY FIVE HOUSES WERE LOWER THAN THE OTHERS.

ALL THE OTHER HOUSES ARE RAISED.

IT WAS TRAUMATIC.

IT WAS HORRIBLE.

I'VE NEVER BEEN THROUGH THIS.

UM, THE WATER GUSHED IN, IT WAS LIKE A WATERSHED COMING FROM THE SAWMILL RIVER.

UM, THERE IS AN IRRIGATION PROBLEM.

THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH WATER IN THAT AREA.

AND WITH THE SAWMILL RIVER.

I, I'M NOT AN EXPERT, BUT, UM, WHAT I SAW AND ENDURED AND HAD TO SAVE MOST OF MY THINGS, WHICH I COULD NOT BECAUSE OF THE, THE VELOCITY OF THE WATER, UM, AND THE THICKNESS AND THE BACKUP THAT WAS IN THAT WATER.

IT WAS HORRIBLE.

MY PARTNER, UM, HAD BRUISES.

I HAD BRUISES IN MY LEGS.

WE, UH, CALLED, WE MADE IT TO THE UPSTAIRS ROOM WITH NO WATER, NO FOOD.

UM, WE CALLED VARIOUS TIMES.

9 1 1, 2, 1, 1, 3, 1 1.

AND FINALLY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CALLED ME BACK.

THEY ADVISED FOR US TO PICK UP OUR THINGS THE LEAST POSSIBLE, AND THAT THEY WOULD COME IN A RAFT TO PICK US UP.

THIS COURT BECAME, UM, I SAY A LAKE.

IT'S HORRIBLE.

AND SO MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVE THEIR HOMES RAISED THERE, THEY JUST CLEAN UP THEIR BASEMENT, TAKE OUT ALL THEIR FURNITURE,

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AND THEY STAY QUIET.

IT'S NOT RIGHT.

THEY'RE ELDERLY PEOPLE THERE.

I AM, YOU KNOW, I WORK FULL-TIME, BUT I SEE A LOT, AND I WANT TO BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.

WE NEED ACTION, AND WE NEED, UM, SOME TURNAROUND, SOME QUICK TURNAROUND TO GET US BACK AND TO GET OUR HOMES BACK, OUR OWN LIVELIHOOD.

AND, AND SOMETHING TO BE DONE WITH THE SAWMILL RIVER IN THAT AREA.

WELL, I WILL COMMIT THAT I WILL GIVE PRIORITY TO EXPEDITING, YOU KNOW, THE THEME OF, UM, YOU KNOW, PROCESS.

SO THIS WAY YOU COULD UPLIFT YOUR HOME LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER HOMES.

I MEAN, WE DID THIS, UH, IN 2004.

UH, THERE IS A PROCESS AND WE DON'T CONTROL FEMA, BUT I WILL DEFINITELY, YOU SAID YOU'RE GONNA EMAIL ME, UH, AND I WILL DEFINITELY REACH OUT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL, YOU KNOW, TO SENATOR SCHUMER'S OFFICE, TO SENATOR GILLIBRAND, TO, UH, CONGRESSMAN MONDAY JONES AND SEE IF, UM, WE COULD REALLY GET THEM TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS.

UM, AND I WILL ALSO REACH OUT TO THE GOVERNMENT LIAISON FROM FEMA AND HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT YOU ARE, YOU'RE NOT LIVING NOW.

WE'RE HOMELESS, AND YOU WE'RE HOMELESS.

WE CAN'T, YOU REALLY NEED TO PROCESS THIS, YOU KNOW, VERY, VERY QUICKLY.

SO IF YOU COULD EMAIL ME TODAY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EMAIL ME TONIGHT, I'LL DO IT BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP.

UM, IF YOU OTHERWISE, YOU KNOW, I'LL WORK ON IT ALL, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW.

BUT YOU COULD CALL ME LIKE EVERY DAY AND I'LL GIVE YOU PROGRESS REPORT.

I'LL BE, WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, AND I KNOW I'M, IT'S PAST MY TIME, MR. FINER, UM, THE, UM, INSURANCE, THE FLOOD INSURANCES, ALL THESE COMPANIES, THEY HAVE SUCH RED TAPE GOING ON.

THEY REALLY TAKE A VERY LONG TIME.

THEY, I KNOW THAT THEY'RE OVERWHELMED.

THEY'RE, IT WAS A BIG HIT.

IT WAS LIKE SANDY, BUT I THINK THIS WAS WORSE.

UM, BUT IT'S JUST A LONG PROCESS AND THEY DON'T CONNECT.

SO THE, THE INSURANCE, UM, FEMA RED CROSS ARE NOT IN ONE PAGE.

THEY ARE OFF BALANCED.

AND IF WE, IF WE GET AN SS B A LOAN, AND WE DO THINGS WITHOUT THE COUNTY KNOWING IT'S WRONG, BECAUSE WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT OUR OTHER, UH, OTHER PEERS, AND THESE ARE ALL OUR NEIGHBORS.

DO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING.

WHAT WHAT I'M THINKING OF IS, I SENT NOTES, UH, YOU KNOW, RICH FUND, THE COMMISSIONER OF, UH, PUBLIC WORKS YESTERDAY, GAVE ME, UH, THE LIST OF, WHAT IS IT, PROBABLY RICH, ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT STREETS IN THE TOWN THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT'S BEEN REALLY, YOU KNOW, HORRIBLE.

SO I SENT A LETTER TO EVERYONE ON THOSE STREETS TODAY, AND I BASICALLY ASKED THEM IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN LIFTING UP THEIR HOMES.

UH, I'M GETTING A LIST, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A BUNCH, YOU KNOW, A BUNCH OF PEOPLE.

THEN WHAT I'LL DO IS, UM, WE WILL HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL TRY DOING SOMETHING COOPERATIVELY WITH, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH THE COMMUNITY.

I'LL, WE WILL, I'LL REACH OUT TO FEMA, I'LL REACH OUT TO SS B A, YOU HAVE TO REACH OUT TO EVERYBODY.

UM, I'LL, AND, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL TRY COMING UP WITH A, A PLAN TO GET THIS EXPEDITED, EXPEDITED.

AND WHEN I SPEAK TO SENATOR SCHUMER'S OFFICE, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH 'EM ON A BUNCH OF THINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, I'LL HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE YOU'RE OUT, YOU'RE HOMELESS.

UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU KNOW, EVERY DAY THAT YOU'RE OUT, IT'S COSTING, YOU KNOW, FUNDS YOU INDICATED BEFORE THE MEETING THAT YOU'RE NOT GETTING, YOU KNOW, REIMBURSED FOR THE HOTELS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

SO MY NEIGHBOR IS NOT RIGHT THAT, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I REALLY WANNA WORK ON.

SO THIS IS GONNA BE REALLY, YOU KNOW, PRIORITY.

AND I'M, I'M REALLY THRILLED THAT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, THE RESIDENTS OF BABAT COURT SHOWED UP TONIGHT, BECAUSE I THINK IT REALLY HIGHLIGHTS, YOU KNOW, THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING THIS PROCESS EXPEDITE, YOU KNOW, EXPEDITED.

I MEAN, YOU CAN'T WAIT, YOU KNOW, MONTHS.

AND FEMA SOMETIMES TAKES FOREVER.

TODAY.

UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS SPEAKING TO, UH, THE OWNER OF, UM, ENRICO'S ON HARTSDALE.

YOU KNOW, WE HAD A MEETING, AND THEN I WENT AND I WAS TALKING TO SOME OF THE MERCHANTS.

YOU, THE PROCESS IS SO CUMBERSOME AND IT'S, IT'S LENGTHY, AND YOU FILL OUT AN APPLICATION, AND THEN YOU GET REJECTED, AND THEN YOU HAVE TO APPEAL.

UM, AND THEN THERE'S SBAS INVOLVED, AND FEMA, IT'S, IT'S NOT LIKE A ONE ONE APPLICATION THING.

SO WE, I WANT THEM TO BE THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO BE AWARE THAT PEOPLE ARE REALLY SUFFERING, AND THANK YOU.

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THERE'S A HUGE PROBLEM, RIGHT? YES.

IT'S IRRIGATION.

THERE IS, THERE IS REALLY A HUGE PROBLEM WHERE THERE'S WATERSHED.

THE WATER IS JUST FRIGHTENING, FULLY AWAY, AND THERE'S MILES AND MILES AWAY FROM OUR HOME.

BUT THIS WATER JUST TAKES OVER.

THERE'S NO TUBING, THERE'S NO, THE IRRIGATION, THE, I'M NOT SURE WHAT'S GOING ON, THAT IT ALL COMES TO ONE COURT, WHICH IS BABBITT COURT, AND I'M IN THE CENTER OF THE COURT, AND IT JUST GOES UP TO 10 FEET.

AND PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE THEIR HOUSE OR, OR, OR HOUSES ARE RAISED ALREADY, THEY STAY SHY.

THEY MOVE THEIR CARS, THEY PARK THEIR CARS AT THE, UH, AT THE LOCAL, UM, TEAMSTERS, THANK YOU, AND THE TEAMSTERS.

AND THAT'S WHERE WE SAVED OUR WHY FAMILIAR WITH THIS ISSUE, MS. SOTO.

AND THAT'S WHY THEIR HOUSES ARE RAISED.

BECAUSE BACK IN 2011, THIS WAS AN ISSUE, RIGHT? SO WE'RE VERY FAMILIAR.

2004.

SURGES, THE WAVE OF SEVERAL FEET HIGH COMING FROM NOTHING TO ALL OF A SUDDEN, IT JUST CAME.

KNOW, I, I WAS INVOLVED IN GETTING THE, THE HOMES RAISED IN 2004.

SO I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESS, AND I GUARANTEE YOU THAT WE'RE GONNA DO EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE TO GET THIS EXPEDITED.

UH, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK YOU'LL FEEL THE TOWN IS DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, WORKING REALLY HARD.

AND WE'LL GET RESULTS AND YOU'LL GET THE FUNDING TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE, TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.

THANK YOU, MR. BROWN.

UM, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING IS, WE'LL, WE COULD SET UP A MEETING, YOU KNOW, I'LL CALL CONGRESSMAN JONES AND, YOU KNOW, WE COULD SET UP A MEETING WITH THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ALSO, YOU KNOW, TO PUT PRESSURE.

BUT WE CAN DO THAT TOMORROW IF YOU WANT.

EVEN MEET WITH ME, SET UP ANOTHER MEETING.

WE'RE ALL UNITED.

WE'RE ALL TOGETHER.

WE, IT'S ALL A TEAM HERE.

WE'LL, WORK'S ALL, WE WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD ON THIS, JUST AS JUST, I, I, UM, AND AGAIN, I JUST WANNA AGAIN, EXTEND MY APOLOGIES AND MY SYMPATHY.

I'M SO SORRY THAT YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GOING THROUGH THIS.

I, YOU KNOW, I SAW THE PICTURE AND I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE IT.

IT'S, I'M HOLDING BACK MY EMOTION RIGHT NOW 'CAUSE, AND I'M SO SORRY, .

UM, ONE THING I JUST WANT YOU JUST TO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SAVE EVERY CENT, EVERY RECEIPT, EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE SPENT ON THIS, ON THIS TIME.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE FIND A, AN ENVELOPE, A FOLDER, ANYTHING.

MAKE SURE YOU KEEP YOUR DOCUMENTATION.

'CAUSE THAT'S ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT FEMA.

I WORK FOR A STATE AUTHORITY.

WE HAVE TO HEAD EVERYTHING.

SO PLEASE MAKE PLEASE THE LITTLEST THING.

WHETHER DO YOU THINK YOU BROUGHT A PIECE OF GUM, PLEASE, PLEASE.

AND IT'S RELATED.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP THAT RECEIPT, BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA NEED ALL THE PAPERWORK.

THEY'RE GONNA REQUIRE A TON OF PAPERWORK.

PAPERWORK.

AND AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, I WILL BE WORKING AGAIN WITH THE COUNTY SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE CAN HAVE THAT REPRESENTATIVE COME OVER TO, UM, THE LIBRARY.

AND AGAIN, PLEASE ACCEPT ALL OF OUR, I, YOU KNOW, SYMPATHY FOR WHAT YOU GUYS ARE EXPERIENCING.

JANELLE, IN THE CONTROL ROOM, ARE YOU ABLE TO DISPLAY THE PICTURE THAT I HAVE OF BAIT CORD, UH, FROM THE DRONE SHOT THAT WE HAVE ON THE, UH, SCREEN BEHIND IT? WHILE, WHILE SHE'S LOOKING FOR THAT, UH, WE HAVE A FEW MORE SPEAKERS.

JEANETTE RODRIGUEZ.

OTHERWISE, MAYBE SHE CAN D HERE IS, MAYBE SHE CAN ZOOM IN ON THIS PICTURE.

AND IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES.

I DON'T, ONE SECOND.

MAYBE SHE CAN PICK IT UP WITH THAT CAMERA.

THE WATER.

WHAT MAKES THAT PICTURE SO DRAMATIC IS THE WATER JUST CAME WITHIN FRACTION OF AN INCH OF THE HEIGHT OF MANY OF THE ABOVE GROUND POOLS.

AND SO IN THIS SEA OF MUD, MUDDY WATER, YOU HAVE THE CRYSTAL BLUE WATER INSIDE THE POOL ON A NUMBER OF POOLS.

IT'S SURREAL.

YOU CAN'T TELL THAT THE OXFORD LITTLE LEAGUE IS THERE.

I'M HOPING SHE CAN GET THAT SHOT.

AND I HOPE THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON SOME OF THE ZOOM ROOM FEATURES.

UM, IT'S ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING TO SEE THE MAGNITUDE.

I BELIEVE THIS IS WORSE THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE.

AND WHAT MADE THIS ONE PARTICULARLY WORTH WORSE IS HOW QUICKLY IT OCCURRED.

FOR EXAMPLE, WE LOST SIX D P W VEHICLES, AND FRANKLY, WHEN I HEARD THAT WE LOST SIX D P W VEHICLES, OUR DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY, OR THE ONES THAT KNOW THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM, RIGHT? HOW DID WE NOT GET THE VEHICLES OUT OF THERE? AND IT TURNS OUT THAT THE, THE

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WE'RE LUCKY WE DIDN'T HAVE MORE FATALITIES.

FORGET ABOUT THE VEHICLES.

WE'RE LUCKY WE DIDN'T HAVE MORE FATALITIES.

THIS WAS TRULY, TRULY AN UNBELIEVABLE, HOPEFULLY NEVER TO BE REPEATED, BUT YOU'D NEVER KNOW, UH, STORM EVENT.

UM, BUT WE WERE OUT TO HELP WITH DOCUMENTATION FOR EMA.

WE, WE PUT UP OUR ZONE, OUR, OUR DRONES.

THESE HAPPEN TO BE POLICE, UH, A POLICE DRONE.

UH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE PARKS AND REC WITH A DRONE TO HELP WITH THE, AM I NOT? OH, OH GEEZ.

YOU DON'T NEED TO START.

THAT'S OKAY.

UH, BUT BASICALLY, UH, WHAT I, UH, WAS SAYING IS THAT, UH, WE HAVE A PICTURE OF BABBITT COURT.

WE HAVE OTHER DRONE PICTURES THAT WE TOOK.

AND THE PURPOSE OF US TAKING THE DRONE PICTURES DURING THE STORM, OR RIGHT AFTER THE STORM, IS TO HELP YOU WITH DOCUMENTATION THAT YOU MAY NEED.

BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO PUT A DRONE UP AND SAY, THIS IS THE, YOU KNOW, FEMA, WE'RE NOT KIDDING HERE, RIGHT? AND THEY'LL SAY, OH, YES, EVERYBODY'S SAYING THEY GOT FLOODED.

THEY GOT FLOODED, THEY FLOODED.

AND THEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

AND SO WE ARE HOPING THAT THAT WILL HELP US HELP THE RESIDENTS TO RECOVER MORE, UM, FROM THIS JUST DEVASTATING, DEVASTATING LOSS.

OKAY, SO MY NAME IS JEANETTE RODRIGUEZ, AND I WAS OUT ON BABA COURT.

UM, THE NIGHT OF THE FLOOD, SOMETHING SAID TO ME, GO TAKE A PEEK OUT THE WINDOW.

AND WHEN I DID, UH, I REALIZED THAT I HAD ABOUT AN INCH BEFORE THE WATER WAS LEVEL TO MY CAR.

SO I HAVE AN SS U V, I JUMPED IN THE CAR, SAW ONE OF MY OTHER NEIGHBORS OUTSIDE, AND I COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I WAS SEEING.

AND IT WAS ABOUT ALMOST TWO IN THE MORNING, MAYBE AT THAT POINT, I WOKE MY BROTHER UP, WHO LIVES IN YONKERS, AND I EVACUATED MY HOME.

MY CAMERAS PICKED UP 10 MINUTES AFTER I LEFT, GOT WATER FLOODED.

I'M A REGISTERED NURSE IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

IT TOOK ME AN HOUR TO GET FROM ELMSFORD TO YONKERS BECAUSE OF ALL THE STREET CLOSURES.

I STILL REPORTED TO WORK THE NEXT DAY.

THIS PANDEMIC HAS HAD A LIFELONG EFFECT ON ME, AND NEVER WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT THAT I WOULD BE HOMELESS.

WE'RE NOT FIGHTING BECAUSE WE LOST OUR BASEMENT STUFF.

WE LOST OUR HOMES.

AND FOR ALL OF US, WE STILL HAVE TO WORK THROUGH IT.

I GOTTA GO TO WORK.

I STILL HAVE TO HELP THE SICK.

I HAVE TO DO MY JOB WITH CLARITY.

IT'S VERY HARD TO DO THAT WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ANSWERS.

WE STILL HAVE TO PAY OUR MORTGAGES.

CANNABIS EMAILED ME AND SAID, YOU'RE USING 539% MORE ELECTRICITY BECAUSE MY HOME IS BEING DRIED OUT.

SO IN ADDITION TO $3,000 THAT I'M PAYING THAT TO STAY AT A HOTEL THAT'S CLOSE TO MY JOB, I'M STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL OF MY OTHER LIVING EXPENSES.

I'M STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR MY UTILITIES.

I'M STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR MY MORTGAGE, CAR PAYMENTS.

EVERY SINGLE THING IN LIFE IS STILL IN EFFECT.

AND I STILL HAVE TO GO FORWARD AND HAVE TO BE STRONG.

I HAVE TO DO WHAT I HAVE TO DO, GO TO WORK, REPORT TO WORK WITH CLARITY, AND TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE AND PEOPLE'S LIVES IN MY HAND ON A DAILY BASIS.

AND I DON'T HAVE A HOME TO COME TO.

THE WINTER MONTHS ARE AMONGST US SHORTLY, AND WE DO NOT KNOW HOW LONG THIS IS GONNA TAKE.

AGAIN, WE'RE NOT FIGHTING FOR A BASEMENT.

WE LOST EVERYTHING.

EVERYTHING, OUR WHOLE FIRST FLOOR LIVING SPACE, THE SOTO, THEY LOST EVERYTHING ON THEIR WAY UP.

WE NEED ADEQUATE ELEVATION.

WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANYTHING FANCY.

WE JUST NEED WHAT WE NEED.

UM, TWO DAYS AFTER THE FLOOD WHEN WE WERE CLEANING UP, THERE WAS A WATER BREAK.

SO, AND AGAIN, TO UM, TO, UH, PIGGYBACK ON WHAT SMOKE, WHAT MS. SODA WAS SAYING.

UM, SOMETHING NEEDS TO HAPPEN WITH OUR SEWER SYSTEM BECAUSE WE COULDN'T EVEN CLEAN UP ANYMORE BECAUSE THE WATER BREAK HAPPENED.

WE HAD NO RUNNING WATER, COULD'VE USED THE TOILET, COULDN'T DO ANYTHING.

JUST TWO DAYS AFTERWARDS UNTIL MIDNIGHT WHEN THEY WERE ABLE TO GET IT GOING.

GRANTED,

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THEY KNOCKED ON EVERY PERSON'S DOOR.

THEY LET US KNOW THEY WERE WORKING DILIGENTLY.

THANK GOD THEY GOT IT GOING AT MIDNIGHT, BUT WE COULDN'T EVEN CLEAN ANYMORE.

SO THE CLEANUP HAS BEEN NONSTOP.

ACTUALLY, THIS SUNDAY WAS THE FIRST DAY IN TWO WEEKS THAT I ACTUALLY WAS ABLE TO SLEEP LATER, WHERE I DIDN'T HAVE TO WAKE UP TO THROW OUT MY BELONGINGS TO GO THROUGH PERSONAL ITEMS, PHOTOS, SEE WHAT MY SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER IS ON, AND WERE NOT ON PAPER, EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE THAT MY IDENTITY IS NOT STOLEN IN THIS PROCESS.

SO IT'S BEEN TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS OF MISERY AND WATCHING MY NEIGHBORS THROW OUT ALL OF THEIR BELONGINGS, IT'S JUST HEARTBREAK.

I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH.

YOU HAVE A PHOTO OF THE FLOOD, BUT ACTUALLY SEEING THE AFTERMATH AND THE CLEANUP THEREAFTER, IT'S SOMETHING THAT NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO EXPERIENCE.

AND WHEN FEMA CAME OUT TO DO THEIR ASSESSMENT, THEY MENTIONED THAT, UH, THE HOME WAS FLOODED, AND THEY SAID, OH, THIS MUCH WAS ALLOTTED FROM THE FOUR WITH THE PREVIOUS OWNER.

AND, UM, I WAS LIKE, WELL, THAT WAS A PREVIOUS OWNER.

SO I DON'T KNOW HOW FEMA WORKS.

I'M A FIRST TIME HOMEOWNER AND, UM, I'M LEARNING WAY TOO MUCH IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.

I PURCHASED IN 2019.

UM, BUT NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE AT THE POINT, HONESTLY, THAT WE'RE BEGGING FOR ALL THE SUPPORT THAT WE CAN GET.

HAVE YOU BEEN IN TOUCH, UH, ALSO WITH DIRECT CROSS AT ALL? I HAVEN'T.

I, I, BECAUSE THE RED CROSS HAS ALSO PROVIDED SOME, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME HELP.

YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT A LOT, BUT IT COULD BE SOME.

BUT, UH, WHEN I SPOKE TO THE FEMA, YOU KNOW, REPRESENTATIVE, UM, WHO'S ALSO LIKE A REPRESENTATIVE TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, SHE STRONGLY SUGGESTED THAT PEOPLE GO TO THE WOOL LIBRARY, UM, IS ON TUCKER, YOU KNOW, ON CENTRAL AVENUE.

AND THEY'RE OPEN EVERY DAY TILL 7:00 PM.

AND YOU KNOW, THE SUGGESTION THAT I WOULD MAKE, YOU KNOW, AS SORT OF LIKE AN TO EXPEDITE THIS IS, UM, YOU SHOULD GO TO FEMA, TO THE FEMA CENTER IN YONKERS.

UM, TELL THEM THAT YOU WANT TO LIFT UP, YOU KNOW, THE HOMES.

UM, THEY WILL HAVE PEOPLE FROM EVERY DIFFERENT AGENCY AT THAT SITE.

UM, AND THEY SAID THAT IT'S NOT ALWAYS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT CROWD.

SO YOU COULD HAVE A WHOLE GROUP OF PEOPLE SAY, YOU KNOW, GOING ON BABA, YOU KNOW, BABBITT COURT, UM, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVEN WON AND YOU LET ME KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'D GO, I COULD EVEN, I'D BE HAPPY TO GO WITH YOU.

UM, YOU KNOW, AND WOULD LIKE A CONTINGENT FROM, YOU KNOW, FROM BA YOU KNOW, FROM BABBITT COURT.

SO THIS WAY I COULD PERSONALLY, YOU KNOW, GET A BETTER HANDLE OF, UM, THE FRUSTRATIONS THAT PEOPLE ARE HAVING OR WHETHER OR NOT, YOU KNOW, I I DO, MAYBE THIS IS WHAT WE, I'M TALKING OUT LOUD.

MAYBE WE SHOULD COME UP WITH A DATE THAT WE WILL GO AND I'LL GO ALSO, I'LL NOTIFY, UH, CONGRESSMAN JONES THAT YOU'RE GOING AND I'LL TELL, I'LL TELL THE MEMBER OR CON, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, WHAT TIME YOU'RE GONNA BE THERE.

I'LL TELL THE FEMA PEOPLE IN ADVANCE WHAT TIME YOU'LL BE THERE.

AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I'LL MENTION THAT.

I'LL BE THERE.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IN THIS WAY, INSTEAD OF EVERYBODY GETTING A RUN AROUND, WE'LL ALL GO TOGETHER.

AND THEN WE WILL.

AND THEN, AND THEN IF THERE'S ANY PROBLEMS I COULD GET ON THE PHONE WITH SOMEBODY FROM THE CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE AND OR FROM THE FEMA REPRESENTATIVE AND, AND SPEED IT UP, I THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY, UH, GIVE US THE BEST CHANCE OF HAVING AN EXPEDITED, UM, YOU KNOW, PROCESS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN HAVE SOMEBODY FROM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, PART, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA MAKE, I'M GONNA MAKE THIS LIKE REALLY, YOU KNOW, WE COULD ALSO ASK THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO LOOK AT THE RECORDS FROM 2004, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERE WERE ARCHITECTS AND THERE WAS A WHOLE PROCESS.

AND UM, AND MAYBE THAT COULD SPEED IT UP AS AS WELL.

BUT, YOU KNOW, UNAVAILABLE ANYTIME YOU WANTED.

THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.

WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR SUPPORT AND JUST FOR, YEAH, NO, I WANT DO MORE THAN MAKE SURE YOU GET IT QUICKLY.

THAT'S, IT'S TIMELY.

IT'S A TIME, IT'S A TIME THING.

'CAUSE IF WE GET SNOW, LIKE WE GOT LAST YEAR MM-HMM.

, IT'S JUST GONNA SLOW EVERYTHING UP.

AND HOW SYDNEY WAS SAYING LAST TIME IT TOOK SEVEN MONTHS.

IF IT, NOW WE'RE IN SEPTEMBER AND THE WINTER MONTHS ARE AMONG US.

SO THEN HOW MUCH MORE DOES THAT PUSH EVERYTHING BACK? SO THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO, INTO, INTO ACCOUNT FOR, AND YOU KNOW, JUST REPRESENTATION IN NUMBERS AND THE PROPER REPRESENTATION IS WHAT HELPS US.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PLEADING FOR RIGHT NOW.

I, I'M JUST LOOKING AT, IN MY CALENDAR, THE FEMA OFFICE IN YONKERS IS OPEN TILL SEVEN

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O'CLOCK EVERY NIGHT.

UM, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW, IF YOU WANNA GO TOMORROW, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO WORK.

UH, I JUST HAVE A MEETING AT FIVE O'CLOCK.

FIVE O'CLOCK ON FLORENCE AVENUE AND THEY PROBABLY WANT, UM, UPLIFT THEIR HOMES ALSO, UH, YOU KNOW, OVER THE WEEKEND, UH, YOU KNOW, I'D BE AVAILABLE.

UM, YOU KNOW, I'M AVAILABLE LIKE SATURDAY, I'M AVAILABLE SUNDAY, I'M AVAILABLE, YOU KNOW, FRIDAY.

JUST GIVE ME A TIME THAT YOU WANT TO GO AND I'LL, I'LL BE THERE WITH YOU.

THANK YOU FOR COMING.

YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE MIC.

YOU HAVE TO COME TO THE MICROPHONE.

'CAUSE WE TO MEDIATE.

TO MEDIATE WITH FEMA DIRECTLY.

I'M SORRY.

I'M GONNA BE DOING THAT ALSO JUST BECAUSE IF WE GO AND YOU REPRESENT US IS ALL WONDERFUL.

BUT WHEN YOU GET TO FEMA, I'VE BEEN THERE ALREADY IN THE RED CROSS, THE FIRST THING THEY ASK YOU IS DO YOU HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE? HAVE YOUR FLOOD INSURANCE AWARDED YOU THE AMOUNT TO FIX YOUR HOME? WHAT ARE THE FUNDS THAT YOU'VE RECEIVED? NOTHING YET.

SO THEN THEY'RE PAUSING MM-HMM.

AND THEY SAY, UNTIL THAT IS RESOLVED, WE CANNOT MOVE FORWARD.

THE WHOLE INCENTIVE HERE, AND WHAT WE HOPE TO RECEIVE YOUR SUPPORT THAT ENTIRE, UM, GROUP, IS TO MEET WITH FEMA AND DIRECT FEMA TO THE AREAS THAT ARE REALLY, REALLY HURT BADLY.

NO, BUT I'M GONNA FOCUS ON FOCUS, FOCUS ON THAT AND GET US, GET US IN WITH FEMA ALL AT ONCE.

BUT WE'RE NOT WITH THE REPRESENTATIVES OF FEMA, THE FEMA, THE FEMA REPRESENTATIVES THAT CAN SIGN OFF AN AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY IN CONJUNCTION TO FUND US OR GIVE US THE GRANT OR HELP US WALK THROUGH THIS.

JUST BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE MITIGATING IN OUR HOMES.

WE ARE, HER HOUSE IS STRIPPED DOWN ALREADY.

MY HOME IS FILLED WITH MOLD AND IT WILL BE STRIPPED DOWN NEXT WEEK.

ALL THE WALLS ARE GOING TO BE TAKEN OUT, ALL THE FLOORS.

AND IT TOOK ME ALMOST A MONTH TO HAVE MY INSURANCE, MY FLOOD INSURANCE, ALLOW THIS, ACCEPT IT.

SO JUST A WHOLE MONTH FOR US TO GO TO FEMA AND YOU MEAN? WELL, AND WE THANK YOU.

BUT FOR US TO GO TO FEMA TOMORROW WITH YOU, IT'S OKAY.

WE NEED A, WE NEED THE FEMA, PE YOU KNOW, THE REPRESENTATIVES, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE GIVING SIGNATURES.

WE NEED THE COMMITTEE, BUT, AND WE NEED THEM WITH YOU TO RIGHT.

BUT, BUT WHEN I SPOKE, WHEN I SPOKE TO THEM YESTERDAY, I ASKED THEM IF THEY DO THAT.

AND THEY SAID THAT'S NOT THE WAY THEY, I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT THEY SAID TO ME.

AH, I, THEY SAID, THAT'S NOT THE WAY THEY WORK.

I WAS LIKE BEGGING THEM BECAUSE LIKE TODAY, RIGHT BEFORE THIS MEETING I HAD, WE WERE ON, UH, COUNCILMAN SHEEN AND MYSELF, WE UH, AND UM, AND KEN, UH, YOU, UH, JONES, WE WERE ON EAST DALE.

I KNEW EVERYBODY LOST THEIR, UH, THEIR, THEIR CARS.

SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET FEMA TO GO, YOU KNOW, TO GO THERE.

THEY'RE HAVING A MEETING NEXT WEEK.

I HAVE TO REACH OUT TO FEMA, WHICH I'M GONNA DO.

I HAVE TO REACH OUT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL OFFICE, WHICH I'M GONNA DO.

IF THEY DON'T DO THAT, THEN WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THEIR, YOU KNOW, THEIR PROCESSING.

ALL WE COULD DO IS OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THE PRIORITY.

WELL THAT PRIORITY SETH, AND I'M GONNA, I'VE DONE THE WILL BE THE BIGGEST PAINS IN THE NECK.

THAT'S THE THING.

SO THE MAIN THING, AGAIN, WHAT, AND ANDY WAS SAYING WHAT I WAS SAYING, OUR HOMES ARE STRIPPED DOWN TO THE BEAMS RIGHT NOW.

SO THIS REALLY IS THE OPPORTUNE TIME FOR TO, WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE GONNA DO, LIKE, I'M GONNA TREAT YOU LIKE, BECAUSE WE'RE ALREADY GONNA HAVE THE WINTER MONTH.

LIKE I'M LIKE, I'M DREADING THE WINTER IF THIS WINTER'S ANYTHING LIKE LAST WINTER, I'M LIKE, FORGET IT.

WE'RE GONNA TREAT EVERYBODY THAT EVERYBODY HERE IS GONNA BE TREATED LIKE FAMILY.

UNDERSTAND.

SO, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA, YOU KNOW, THE THING IS YOU'RE GONNA GET THE HIGHEST PRIORITY.

YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO, IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT WE'RE GONNA DO, IT'S GONNA BE TO FOCUS ON GETTING YOUR HOMES UPLIFTED AND GETTING THE FUNDING REALLY QUICKLY.

AND I'M NOT GONNA, WE'RE NOT GONNA LEAD ANY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE AND WE'RE GONNA PUT THE MAXIMUM PRESSURE ON EVERYONE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND FEMA AND THE SS B A TO EXPEDITE THIS.

YOU, SO THERE'S NOT GONNA BE, IT'S NOT GONNA BE LIKE RHETORIC, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO REALLY GET YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GET ACTION, WHATEVER IT TAKES.

[02:10:01]

AND WE APPRECIATE IT.

UM, SO WE DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE REQUESTS FOR THE FIRST ROUND OF PUBLIC COMMENT.

WE DO HAVE ADDITIONAL REQUESTS FOR THE FIVE MINUTE.

SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO SPOKE DURING THE THIRD MINUTE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AGAIN.

WELL, LET'S DO THEN THE AGENDA NOW.

ONE RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN, UM, BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AUTHORIZING THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO A PAYMENT, UM, UM, IN LIE OF A TAX PILOT AGREEMENT FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM PURSUANT TO REAL PROPERTY TAX LOSS SECTION 4 87 WITH HARTSDALE CG S UH, L L C AND THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UH, LOCATED AT 2 5 5 3 7 1 3 1 3 83 4 0 1 4 25 NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE TO BE KNOWN AS DEL DALEWOOD SOLAR.

UM, SO TB

[ TB 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into a Payment-In-Lieu-of-Tax (PILOT) Agreement for a Solar Energy System pursuant to Real Property Tax Law Section 487 with Hartsdale CSG LLC, and the Town of Greenburgh located at 355-371, 381-393 and 401-425 North Central Avenue to be known as “Dalewood Solar”]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT AS SECOND AS AMENDED.

SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.

TWO WAS, UH, DELAYED RESOLUTION

UH, TB

[ TB 2 - 9/22/2021 Resolution approving the Petition by Frank Lapetina Parcel ID Nos. 8.170-103-6; 8.170-103-7; 8.170-103-8 and 8.170-103-9 to extend the North Ardsley Sewer District on property located at 245 Secor Road in the Town of Greenburgh after a Public Hearing. (Voting the same evening as the Public Hearing conditioned on there being no objection at the continued Public Hearing)]

[ TB 3 - 9/22/2021 Resolution adopting a Standard Work Day and Reporting Resolution for Non-Exempt Elected and Appointed Officials]

ADOPTING A STANDARD WORKDAY AND REPORTING RESOLUTION FOR NON-EXEMPT ELECTED AND APPOINTED.

I'M UH, GONNA HOLD THAT OVER TO A SPECIAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY.

RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CONTINUED RETENTION OF THE LAW OFFICE OF VINCENT TOOMEY TO REPRESENT THE TOWN OF GREENBERG IN THE MATTER OF, UH, STEIN VERSUS GREENBERG.

UH,

[ AT 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution approving the continued retention of the Law Office of Vincent Toomey to represent the Town of Greenburgh in the Matter of Kristin Stein v. the Town of Greenburgh, et al., for an amount not to exceed $25,000 ($75,000 in total)]

UM, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

AUTHORIZING TAX TERTIARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER MACK HALL REALTY ASSOCIATES, UM, REFUNDS FROM ALL, UH, SOURCES 2 72 5 6 9.

RESOLUTION

[ AT 2 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC / Clearbrook Cross, LLC f/k/a Mack-Cali CW Reatly Associates, LLC for property located at 100 Clearbrook Road. The Town’s share of the refund is $73,155±; the County’s share is $49,860±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $6,949±; the N. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $9,904±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc District’s share is $2,804±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $129,898±. Refunds from all sources total $272,569±.]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX ARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER MATT HALL REALTY ASSOCIATES REFUNDS FROM ALL SOURCES.

[ AT 3 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC / Clearbrook Cross, LLC f/k/a Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC for property located at 85 Executive Blvd. The Town’s share of the refund is $40,181±; the County’s share is $26,751±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $3,726±; the N. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $5,329±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc District’s share is $1,476±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $69,459±. Refunds from all sources total $146,921±.]

UH, 1 46 9 2 1.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

OH, SORRY, SECOND.

TAX O SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER MATT CALL REALTY ASSOCIATES.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING

[ AT 4 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC / Clearbrook Cross, LLC f/k/a Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC for property located at 300 Executive Blvd. The Town’s share of the refund is $79,277±; the County’s share is $63,681±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $8,869±; the N. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $12,433±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc District’s share is $3,868±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $168,697±. Refunds from all sources total $336,826±.]

TOTAL AMOUNT, THREE THIRTY SIX EIGHT TWENTY SIX.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX ARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER MCALLY REFUNDS FROM WAL, UH, SOURCES TOTAL 5 9 9 7 0 4.

RESOLUTION I WILL SAY THAT SINCE THERE'S FOUR MATT CALL'S, WE JUST, UH, CLARIFY THAT A T TWO, WHEN WE VOTED ON THAT, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT 100 CLEARBROOK ROAD FOR A T THREE.

WE WERE TALKING ABOUT 85 EXECUTIVE BOULEVARD FOR A T FOUR, IT'S 300 EXECUTIVE BOULEVARD.

YOU WERE DOING IT A T FOUR, RIGHT? WE DID A FOUR, YEAH, WE DID A FIVE.

SO NOW YOU'RE AT A T FIVE, A T FIVE

[ AT 5 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC / Clearbrook Cross, LLC f/k/a Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC for property located at 1-3-5 Westchester Plaza. The Town’s share of the refund is $179,148±; the County’s share is $110,119±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $16,003±; the N. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $21,696±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc District’s share is $4,999±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $267,739±. Refunds from all sources total $599,704±.]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

AND THE LOCATION IS 1 35, WHICH JUST APPLIES.

OH, WE, WE NEED A SECOND ON THAT.

IS THAT 85? 85? CORRECT.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TERTIARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER 39 51 NORTH BROADWAY ASSOCIATES FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 39 51 NORTH BROADWAY HILL ON MOUNT 180 3 6 86.

UH, 86

[ AT 6 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner 39-51 North Broadway Associates for property located at 39-51 North Broadway. The Town’s share of the refund is $3,248±; the County’s share is $24,313±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $3,388±; the Tarrytown Union Free School District’s share is $152,738±. Refunds from all sources total $183,686±.]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING FILE.

[ AT 7 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing final payment for the retention of the Law Firm of Landman Corsi Ballaine & Ford, P.C., as Special Counsel for the Town of Greenburgh regarding federal litigation stemming from the zoning classification of a property known as “One Dromore Road,” at a cost not to exceed an additional $300,000]

I I SPOKE TO THE, UH, TO THE, THE FIRM INVOLVED IN THIS AND WITH THE, UH, WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE BOARD.

I'M GONNA HOLD THAT OVER ONE MORE MEETING BECAUSE THEY NEED TO WORK SOMETHING OUT.

87 87 HOLDING THAT OVER TO 1313, UH, RESOLUTION

[ AT 8 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing an agreement with WestCOP to provide Social Services to the Town of Greenburgh for calendar year 2021, at a cost not to exceed $16,837, plus up to $400 reimbursement for meal delivery mileage expenses documented to the satisfaction of the Town Comptroller]

AUTHORIZING AGREEMENT CUP TO PROVIDE SOCIAL SERVICES TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2021 AT A REQUEST NOT TO EXCEED 16,000.

I'M HOLDING THIS OVER TO A SPECIAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY.

UM, I HAVE SPOKEN WITH, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 18 EIGHT RIGHT NOW, RIGHT? YEAH, YEAH.

I'VE SPOKEN TO THEM AND, UH, WE JUST HAVE TO WORK ON, UH, SOME LANGUAGE, UH, DEALING WITH THE PANDEMIC AND THAT WOULD, THAT'LL, I'M SURE WE'LL BE ABLE TO VOTE ON THAT ON TUESDAY RESOLUTION

[ CL 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing permission to go to bid for the printing and typesetting of the Town of Greenburgh's Spring/Summer 2022 and Fall/Winter 2022/2023 Guide to Programs, Activities and Services]

AUTHORIZING PERMISSION TO GO TO V FOR PRINTING AND TYPE SETTING OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, SPRING SUMMER 2022, AND FALL WINTER 2022 2023 GUIDE TO PROGRAMS. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

AUTHORIZING PERMISSION TO CLOSE STANDARDS PLACE FROM JOYCE ROAD TO THE BORDER OF THE VILLAGE OF ARDSLEY.

[ CL 2 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing permission to close Standish Place from Joyce Road to the border of the Village of Ardsley (near Farm Road) and close Arden Drive from Huntley Drive to Standish Place, on Saturday, October 30, 2021, from 3:00 PM until 10:00 PM (Rain date: November 6, 2021), for the residents to hold a Halloween Block Party]

UM, ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30TH, 2021.

CLOSING, UM, ARDEN AND HUNTLEY.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

AND THERE'S A RAIN DATE OF NOVEMBER 6TH, RIGHT.

ALL IN FAVOR? A AYE.

AUTHORIZING THE CLOSING OF THE FOLLOWING, ROADS AND PARKWAY GARDENS SOUTH ROAD AND ALL SIDES STREETS.

[ CL 3 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing the closing of the following roads/streets in Parkway Gardens: South Road and all side streets – Washington Place, Adams Place, Jefferson Place, Madison Place, Monroe Place, Jackson Place, Van Buren Place, Harrison Place, Tyler Place and Polk Place – off South Road between Hillside Avenue and Lincoln Place, of which will remain closed to vehicular traffic for the Second Annual Parkway Gardens Social Action Committee (“PGSAC”) Halloween Parade to take place on Sunday, October 31, 2021 between the hours of 1:00 PM and 8:00 PM]

WASHINGTON PLACE, ADAMS PLACE.

JEFFERSON PLACE.

MADISON PLACE.

MONROE PLACE, JACKSON PLACE.

[02:15:01]

VAN BUREN PLACE.

HARRISON PLACE, TYLER PLACE, AND POE PLACE.

UM, WHOLE SOUTH ROAD BETWEEN HILLSIDE AVENUE AND LINCOLN PLACE.

UM, ON HALLOWEEN, UH, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31ST, BETWEEN ONE AND 8:00 PM I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

[ CD 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution approving, with conditions, an Amended Site Plan and Tree Removal Permit Application by Old Saw Mill Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Regeneron”), for property located at 777 Old Saw Mill River Road (P.O. Tarrytown) and designated on the tax map of the Town of Greenburgh as Parcel ID: 7.71-6-1..1]

WITH CONDITION AND AMENDED SITE PLAN AND TREE REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION BY OLD SUMAL HOLDINGS.

A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDY OF, UM, UH, REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS FOR PROPERTY.

LOCATED AT 7 7 7 OLD SUMAL RIVER ROAD.

UH, PO BOX, UH, TAR PO.

TARRYTOWN AND DESIGNATED ON THE TEXT MAP OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AS PARCEL.

UM, ID 7 71.

UM, SIX ONE, UH, ONE.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT AS AMENDED.

AS AMENDED.

UM, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

WITH CONDITION, SITE PLAN, AND PRE REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION BY LOOP ROAD HOLDINGS, UH, HOLLY'S OWN SUBSIDY OF REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, UM, AND DESIGNATED ON THE TAX MAP OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AT PARCEL ID 7 71 6, UH, TO TWO.

AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT, UH, REGENERON EXPANDING.

THIS IS DEFINITELY, UH, THE BEST NEWS IN THE TOWN.

UM, A SHAME THERE AREN'T ANY REPRESENTATIVES HERE.

HERE.

AND WE JUST HOPE THAT YOU DO ANOTHER MILLION SQUARE FEET, WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE YEARS.

UH, WE HAVE THE VOTE ON RESOLUTION APPROVING

[ CD 2 - 9/22/2021 Resolution approving, with conditions, a Site Plan and Tree Removal Permit Application by Loop Road Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Regeneron – Loop Road”), for property located at 555 Saw Mill River Road (P.O. Tarrytown) and designated on the tax map of the Town of Greenburgh as Parcel ID: 7.71-6-2.2]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT AS AMENDED.

UM, AND AGAIN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING PART OF OUR TOWN AND, UM, CHOOSING TO EXPAND WITHIN, UH, WITHIN GREENBURG.

THIS IS BEYOND EXCITING.

WE'RE REALLY SO APPRECIATIVE, AND WE ALSO THANK REGENERON FOR, UH, DOING WONDERFUL WORK AND, UH, HELPING TO, UH, SAVE LIVES AND ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE THROUGH, UH, ALL THE WORK YOU DO.

AND YOU PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT TO MANY RESIDENTS OF GREENBURG.

I THINK, UH, YOU'VE INCREASED PROPERTY VALUES, YOU MAKE, UH, GREENBERG A DESTINATION FOR, FOR PEOPLE, AND YOU PUT THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, ON, ON THE, YOU KNOW, ON THE MAP.

SO, UM, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR BEING PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.

THANK, THANK YOU PAUL.

AND JUST ON BEHALF OF REGENER, I WANTED SAY THANK YOU FOR, UM, TO THE TOWN.

WELL, IF YOU'RE GONNA SAY THANK YOU, COULD YOU COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE, ? I KNOW IT'S LATE.

UM, JUST FOR THE RECORD, JANET HARRIS WITH DELBELLO DANNEL AND WEINGARTEN WISE AND WHITTAKER HERE THIS EVENING, ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANTS, JUST ON BEHALF OF REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, WE JUST LOOK AT THANK THE TOWN BOARD, UH, FOR ALL ITS ASSISTANCE WITH THIS, THE PLANNING BOARD, THE ZONING BOARD, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR TOWN PROFESSIONAL STAFF WHO HAS JUST BEEN TIRELESS IN TRYING TO GET THIS DONE FOR US.

SO WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO BREAKING GROUND ON, ON THESE PROJECTS.

SO THANK YOU AGAIN, GARRETT.

DUANE, UH, JUST WANNA THANK YOU FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, YOUR HARD WORK AND, UH, AND EXPEDITING, YOU KNOW, UH, THE PROCESS.

IF YOU WEREN'T COMMISSIONER, THIS WOULD'VE TAKEN ANOTHER FIVE YEARS.

[ CO 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution approving a budget amendment for Fiscal Year 2021 to the Risk Retention Fund and the Town Outside Villages Fund]

RESOLUTION APPROVING A BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 TO THE, UH, RISK RETENTION FUND AND THE TOWN OUTSIDE VILLAGE FUND.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

AUTHORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF THE 2021 2022 JUSTICE COURT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM GRANT APPLICATION FOR THE NEEDED REPLACEMENT OF THE SPECIFIED OFFICE FURNITURE, UM, FOR THE GREENBERG JUSTICE COURT IN AMOUNT OF $4,600.

RESOLUTION

[ JC 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing the submission of the 2021-2022 Justice Court Assistance Program (JCAP) Grant Application for the needed replacement of the specified office furniture for the Greenburgh Justice Court, in the amoutn of $4,600]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE DEAD.

FIREWALL, UH, FOR THE RECENTLY AUTHORIZED ROUTER AND SECURITY APPLIANCE WITH LICENSE AND SUPPORT FOR THE GREENBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY TO PROVIDE SECURE WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS AT THE REQUEST NOT TO, UM, EXCEED $2,800.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE AND INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION OF A

[ LB 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing the purchase and installation and configuration of a firewall for the recently authorized router and security appliance with license and support for the Greenburgh Public Library to provide secure wireless internet access, at a cost not to exceed $2,800]

[ PW 1 - 9/22/2021 Resolution authorizing an amendment of a Professional Services Agreement with Arcadis of New York, Inc., for Design, Construction Management, Support, and Inspection to the Consolidated Water District for a Rremote Compliance Monitoring Station, for a cost not to exceed an additional $49,250]

AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT, UM, OF A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH OUR A OF NEW YORK FOR DESIGN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT AND INSPECTION, UH, TO THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT FOR REMOTE COMPLIANCE MONITORING STATION FOR REQUEST NOT TO EXCEED AN ADDITIONAL 49,250.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.

AND WOULD LIKE TO INVITE PEOPLE, UH, SITTING ON THE RIGHT SIDE, THE FIRST SIX ROWS TO, UH, SPEAK .

I KNOW THE HOUR IS LATE AND IT HAS BEEN EMOTIONAL AND IT'S BUSY, SO I WILL TRY TO KEEP MY, UH, TIME SHORT ACTUALLY.

WE ACTUALLY HAVE, UM, TWO, UM, SPEAKERS.

BOB WIN.

[02:20:09]

SO I'M ROB WINGATE.

UM, I THINK ALL OF, YOU KNOW, I USED TO MANAGE A HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION, BUT MY ENTRY INTO THAT FIELD WAS ACTUALLY THROUGH THE AMERICAN RED CROSS, UM, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS IN NEW YORK CITY.

SO, UM, I LISTENED OBVIOUSLY TO WHAT'S TAKING PLACE WITH HURRICANE IDA.

UM, AND I WOULD LIKE CERTAINLY TO BE ABLE TO OFFER A FEW ADDITIONAL RESOURCES FOR ANY LIST THAT YOU MIGHT BE CONSIDERING PROVIDING, UM, OR WORKING WITH.

AND I DISCUSSED IT WITH A COUPLE PEOPLE HERE JUST NOW WHO ARE DISPLACED.

ONE OF THOSE IS TO BE SURE TO THINK ABOUT, UM, WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE DISPLACED FROM HURRICANE IDA.

UM, TO REMEMBER THE UNITED WAY AND THE 2 1 1 SYSTEM.

I THINK ONE OF THE SPEAKERS MENTIONED THAT SHE HAD CALLED 2 1 1 DURING THE EVACUATION PROCESS, BUT IT'S ALSO PRIMARILY AS MUCH AS ANYTHING A SOCIAL SERVICES AND CHARITABLE SUPPORT TELEPHONE HOTLINE.

I DON'T KNOW IF UNITED WAY IS DOING ANY PARTICULAR PROGRAMMING IN THE COUNTY IN A COORDINATED WAY.

THEY PROBABLY ARE, AND YOU MAY KNOW AS MUCH AS I DO.

UM, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THESE MEETINGS, I HOPE YOU INCLUDE SORT OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT LIAISON WORK MIGHT WORK WITH, WITH UNITED WAY, BECAUSE THAT COULD BE SOME SUBSTANTIAL BENEFIT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE EVACUATED.

UM, I'LL ALSO MENTION FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, UM, BECAUSE I'VE HELPED SOME NONPROFITS MANAGE SOME OF THEIR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF FINANCING.

UM, SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE, THE FUNDS THAT YOU'RE SEEING MADE AVAILABLE TO HURRICANE IDA VICTIMS MAY, ESPECIALLY IF THOSE WHO ARE OPERATING BUSINESSES MAY BE HIGHER INTEREST LOANS THAN SOME OF THE CORONAVIRUS CONNECTED S B A LOANS.

SO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE TO LOOK AT A LOAN FUND CALLED THE, THE NEW YORK FORWARD LOAN FUND, WHICH IS LIKE A TWO OR 3% INTEREST LOAN YOU COULD RUN AT A LONG TIME IN THE FIRST YEAR.

IS, IS INTEREST ONLY PAYMENTS? UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, LIKE THE DISASTER FOCUSED LOANS MAY BE HIGHER INTEREST.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'VE BEEN HEARING, BUT SOMETIMES THOSE CAN BE FOUR OR 5% THAT THE S B A OFFERS.

SO THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT LOAN CATEGORIES OUT THERE THAT CAN BE ACCESSED RIGHT NOW.

THAT'S GREAT.

AND SO JUST, BUT THERE MAY BE SOME CRATE, YOU KNOW, YOU MAY HAVE TO TIE IN, LIKE, YOU KNOW, FOR LIKE THE FIRST CATEGORY, THE LOWER INTEREST, YOU MAY HAVE TO HAVE A CORONAVIRUS TIE IN.

I, YOU KNOW, YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT A LITTLE BIT, BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF SS SS B A LOANS AND THAT'S UNIQUE RIGHT? IN THE LAST YEAR.

SO FROM YOUR EXPERIENCES, IS SS B A FASTER THAN, UH, FEMA? THERE ARE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF RELIEF.

LIKE FEMA MAY GIVE YOU GRANTS, BUT SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION'S LOANS, TYPICALLY YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET A GRANT FROM THE SS B A.

HAVE YOU HAD SUCCESSES WITH FEMA GETTING GRANTS? UM, THEY, THEY WILL ISSUE GRANTS LIKE UP TO DIFFERENT AMOUNTS.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR LID LOOKS LIKE FOR IDA OR IF IT'S CATEGORICALLY THE SAME ACROSS THE BOARD RIGHT NOW NATIONALLY, BUT, YOU KNOW, FEMA IS MORE FOCUSED ON GRANTS, BUT ALSO INFRASTRUCTURE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY.

SO DEALING WITH NINE A AND, YOU KNOW, REPLACEMENT OF VEHICLES THAT WERE DESTROYED AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO FEMA IS AVAILABLE TO YOU AS THE TOWN, YOU KNOW, THAT ALREADY, BUT, BUT ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS, YES, THEY DO GIVE GRANTS, BUT, BUT FOR LOANS THAT WILL TYPICALLY GO TO THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, SO THEY SORT OF COMPLIMENT EACH OTHER.

BUT COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON'S RIGHT, THE PAPERWORK IS VOLUMINOUS FOR FEMA AND IT CAN BE SLOW.

IT'S DIFFICULT TO BREAK THAT NEWS TO PEOPLE.

UM, BUT THERE MAY BE SOME, LIKE, SOME STATUS.

THAT'S WHERE I WONDER LIKE IF 2 1 1 IN THE UNITED WAY MIGHT BE ABLE TO LIKE PLUG IN SOME LIKE SHORTER NOTICE LIKE CASH DISBURSEMENTS AND THERE'S SOME UNIONS ALSO THAT CAN LIKE ASSIST WITH THAT KIND OF THING.

SO THERE, THERE'S OTHER SOURCES OF SUPPORT AND WEST TAB LIKE FOR EMERGENCY HOUSING CAN SOMETIMES HELP TOO.

UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T WANNA LIKE LET THAT INFORMATION NOT GO TO YOU AS YOU'RE STARTING THESE MEETINGS.

UM, 'CAUSE SOMETIMES THAT'S DOESN'T, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT WILL COME OUT IN THE SERVICE CENTERS, BUT SOME OF IT MIGHT, SOME OF IT MIGHT NOT.

UM, SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TAKE THE LAST MINUTE, OBVIOUSLY AND TALK JUST BRIEFLY ABOUT THE COVID EXPOSURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, A NUMBER OF US HAD HERE IN THE BUILDING A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.

WE TOOK OUR TESTS, WE DID OUR QUARANTINES WHERE WE HAD TO, UM, AS BEST I KNOW ANYBODY WHO WAS EXPOSED HERE, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYBODY ELSE CAME, TESTED OUT POSITIVE.

UM, I, I THINK I WOULD, YOU KNOW, HAVE ONE WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT, WHICH WOULD BE GOING FORWARD IF THERE IS A WAY TO START SETTING SOME CONSISTENT SYSTEMS ABOUT WHAT THE MEETING STRUCTURES ARE GONNA LOOK LIKE IN THIS BUILDING AND OTHER PLACES.

CERTAINLY, UM, I'M A PROPONENT PERSONALLY OF, OF A HYBRID SYSTEM.

UM, SO WE HAD A PRETTY FULL ROOM TONIGHT, SO, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY WE'VE BEEN HERE TWO OR THREE HOURS AND, YOU KNOW, SO THERE IS SOME QUESTION AGAIN OF WHETHER THAT VIRUS IS LIKE OPPORTUNISTICALLY LOOKING FOR US AGAIN.

SO I THINK IF THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO LIKE CREATE A STANDARDIZED SYSTEM, MAYBE GOING FORWARD FOR SAY HALF A YEAR, A YEAR, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, UNIVERSALLY HYBRID PERHAPS TO LET AS MANY PEOPLE PARTICIPATE CAREFULLY, EITHER AT HOME OR HERE, UM, AND TO BE ABLE TO CHOOSE THEIR OWN MODE OF SAFETY, I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW.

SO OBVIOUSLY I HAVE SOME OTHER THOUGHTS AND YOU'VE SEEN SOME MATERIALS FROM ME ONLINE ABOUT A POSSIBLE

[02:25:01]

PROPOSAL FOR SORT OF LIKE SOME JOINT EDUCATION ABOUT WHAT THE PANDEMIC LOOKS LIKE, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, AND THAT WE NEED TO RESPOND IN A HOLISTIC WAY FOR ALL PEOPLE IN THE TOWN AND, YOU KNOW, RESPECT RACIAL EQUITY ISSUES AND REGARDLESS OF RESIDENT STATUS.

SO, AND YOU KNOW, I I MADE IT WITHIN LIKE TWO SECONDS PRETTY CLOSE, RIGHT? AGREE.

GAVE IT A SHOT.

I, I, I SORT OF, THE ONLY THING THAT I, I FEEL IS I THINK THAT EVERYBODY'S GETTING CARELESS AND I FEEL THE TOWN IS GETTING CARELESS AND I FEEL THAT THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE I KNOW WHO ARE GETTING COVID, WHO ARE DYING, WHO ARE BEING HOSPITALIZED.

AND I CAN'T UNDERSTAND, I THINK WE SHOULD BASICALLY BE MOVING BACK TO THE, UH, TO THE ZOOM MEETINGS UNTIL, UH, UNTIL THE CRISIS IS OVER.

YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LOT OF PARTICIPATION WHEN WE MET BY ZOOM.

UH, WE GOT ALL THE WORK.

THERE WERE ACTUALLY MORE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE MEETINGS WHEN WE, WE DID IT BY ZOOM.

UM, AND TO ME, EVERY TIME WE MEET HERE, THERE'S A RISK THAT SOMEBODY IS GONNA GET SICK AND, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY BE HOSPITALIZED OR, OR DIE BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW FAST THIS IS SPREADING.

SO I THINK THAT, UM, THERE'S NO PUBLIC INTEREST SERVED BY, UH, EXPOSING PEOPLE TO CO TO COVID, UH, UH, HAVING A RISK.

AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S CITIZENS WHO THERE COULD BE CI A CITIZEN WHO SHOWS UP HERE, THEY COULD GET SICK, UM, AND THEY COULD LOSE THEIR LIFE.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT, UH, FEEL HORRIBLE.

AND IF WE JUST MET BY ZOOM, THAT PERSON WILL BE AROUND MUCH LONGER.

UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, IF IF COVID IS REALLY DEAD AND IT'S DANGEROUS, THEN WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.

AND THAT'S WHY I'VE, I'VE SAID FROM THE BEGINNING, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR, FOR WEEKS, I, I REALLY BELIEVE THAT TOWN SHOULD REQUIRE VACCINATION OF ALL EMPLOYEES AND ALL RESIDENTS OR MAKE PEOPLE TAKE A TEST.

UM, YOU, OTHERWISE, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED IN THIS BUILDING.

AND WE, WE ALREADY LOST ONE EMPLOYEE, UH, I THINK EARLIER THIS YEAR, UM, IN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO C O I DON'T WANNA LOSE A SECOND ONE.

ON, ON THIS.

I'M SORRY, BOB, WERE YOU DONE? OKAY.

UM, IF I COULD JUST ADD ON TO THAT, THAT I THINK THAT THE SOONER THAT THAT KIND OF DECISION, AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM ME ALREADY COULD BE MADE COMPREHENSIVELY AND THAT WE, WE'D BE THINKING ABOUT THIS IN TERMS OF LIKE HEALTH EDUCATION ALSO, WHICH IS PART OF MY, LIKE, EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL, BUT IT ALSO COMES INTO PLAY IN TERMS OF HOW DO WE SET SYSTEMS ACROSS ALL COMMITTEES AND ALL DIFFERENT AGENCIES AND HOW WE DO THAT, BOTH IN TERMS OF ACCESS TO THE BUILDING, BUT IN TERMS OF ALSO EDUCATING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO RELY ON TOWN SERVICES AND TOWN CONNECTED SERVICES.

SO IT'S A HOLISTIC PACKAGE AND OBVIOUSLY HOW WE, HOW WE DO THAT IN RELATION TO UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IS, IS, IS IMPORTANT.

RIGHT NOW, CERTAINLY WE TALK ABOUT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, BUT WE, WE HAVE VICTIMS HERE OF HURRICANE IDA AND WITH EVERYTHING ELSE THAT THEY'RE THINKING OF, THEN, YOU KNOW, HOW HOW DO THEY DEAL WITH THE PANDEMIC ALONG THE WAY? MM-HMM.

SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A TOUGH CONVERSATION.

WE HAVE SOMEBODY HERE WITH A SIGNIFICANT HEALTH CONCERN, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE SITTING HERE, YOU KNOW, FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF.

SO THAT'S A, IT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION TO YOUR POINT, RIGHT? SO IF WE HAVE IT ON ZOOM, THEN IT DOES ALLOW SOME KIND OF ACCESSIBILITY WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE IN PERSON.

SO ANYWAY, THAT'S, BUT I THINK THESE ARE IMPORTANT DECISIONS AND I AGREE.

I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE SOONER THAT THOSE COULD BE MADE AND, AND, AND SORT OF MAKE IT COMPREHENSIVELY, THEN WE CAN SORT OF MOVE ON TO OTHER CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE ALSO DIFFICULT, BUT GET ONE OUT OF THE WAY.

RIGHT? THAT'S A HARD ONE OR SOMETHING.

ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR, THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME SORT OF CHITCHAT HERE.

AND ON THAT TOPIC, WE HAVE A REQUEST FROM RESIDENT MICHELLE BROWN, UH, REQUESTING THAT, UH, STATEMENT RELATED TO THIS TOPIC.

BE READ, UH, MR. SAMS, IF YOU WANNA MOVE, START MOVING UP FRONT.

I'M GOING TO CALL ON YOU AFTER I READ THE STATEMENT.

HAVE YOU PRE-READ IT? UH, YES.

I, I DID, YES.

AND, UM, I SHARED IT WITH THE PERSON WHOSE NAME IS MENTIONED IN HERE AND HE SAID HE'S FINE WITH IT.

I THEN WAS CONTACTED BY THE TOWN SUPERVISOR, PAUL FINER, WHO BEGAN TELLING ME I WAS IRRESPONSIBLE FOR NOT NOTIFYING HIM DIRECTLY.

, I, AS A STATEMENTS FROM MICHELLE BROWN, I'M NOT COMFORTABLE ATTENDING TONIGHT'S TOWN BOARD MEETING KNOWING THAT THERE ARE NO COVID PROTOCOLS IN PLACE.

THE PRIOR REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, 2021, MANY IN ATTENDANCE WERE EXPOSED TO AN INTEN, AN ATTENDEE THAT TESTED POSITIVE FOR C OVID 19.

ONCE I BECAME AWARE OF THIS ON SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2021, I SENT OUT EMAILS DIRECTLY TO PEOPLE THAT I SAW THAT WERE NEAR THIS PERSON TO INCLUDE POSTING THIS POTENTIAL EXPOSURE ON THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S FACEBOOK PAGE.

[02:30:02]

AS, AS HE LEARNED OF THIS POTENTIAL EXPOSURE FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S WEBSITE AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, I INFORMED THE PEOPLE THAT MAY HAVE BEEN EXPOSED AND IN NO WAY SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED IRRESPONSIBLE AND HAVE BLAME PUT UPON ME FOR GIVING NOTIFICATION OF THE POTENTIAL EXPOSURE.

WHAT I RAN THROUGH NUMEROUS EMAIL EXCHANGES IS THAT THE TOWN BOARD HAS YET TO NOTIFY THEIR RESIDENTS OF THIS POTENTIAL EXPOSURE AND THAT THEY DO NOT EVEN HAVE A PROTOCOL FOR WHEN THIS HAPPENS.

I BELIEVE THAT IT IS THE TOWN'S RESPONSIBILITY TO CREATE A SAFE AND INCLUSIVE WAY FOR THEIR RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROCESS IN THEIR TOWN.

I KNOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER OPTIONS THAT THE TOWN CAN USE TO ENSURE THAT THIS HAPPENS DURING THEIR TOWN BOARD MEETINGS TO INCLUDE ZOOM PARTICIPATION AND OR HYBRID PARTICIPATION FROM THEIR RESIDENTS WHILE THEY FIGURE OUT A PROTOCOL THAT WILL HELP THEIR RESIDENTS SAFE TO INCLUDE THAT.

CURRENTLY THEY DO NOT HAVE A PROTOCOL TO DO JUST THIS.

THIS IS NOT POLITICAL, THIS IS PUBLIC SAFETY THAT DESERVES 100% TRANSPARENCY, WHICH IS NOT HAPPENING AT ALL.

WE'RE IN A PANDEMIC THAT IS ROUNDING THE CORNER INTO YEAR TWO WITH NO PROTOCOL FOR THE RESIDENTS FROM THE TOWN, NOT EVEN REQUIRING PEOPLE THAT ATTEND IN PERSON TO SIT SIX FEET APART TEMPERATURE CHECKS OR PROOF OF COVID VACCINE OR A NEGATIVE TEST.

I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT ALL MEETINGS ARE DONE VIA ZOOM TO KEEP THE RESIDENTS SAFE, THE CITIZENS SAFE, AND TO PERMIT PEOPLE TO BE 100% IN INCLUDED IN THE DECISIONS THAT ARE AFFECTING THEIR LIVES BY CREATING A SAFE SPACE AND WAY TO DO IT.

MICHELLE, WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER.

I KNOW IF IT'S SOUNDED, CAN I SAY SOMETHING? ABSOLUTELY.

REVEREND PASTOR OR BISHOP PRESTON.

TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES.

UM, I, I THINK THIS IS THE, TO THE BOARD AND TO, UH, THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING THROUGHOUT THE TOWN, I, I THINK THIS IS A VERY APPROPRIATE SUBJECT TO, UH, BE ADDRESSING RIGHT NOW.

I WAS, UH, SOMEWHAT TAKEN WHEN I HEARD ABOUT SOMEONE FROM THE LAST BOARD MEETING, UH, TESTING POSITIVE.

UM, AND I, I'M NOT FOR, I, I'M NOT PUSHING THE IDEA OF SHUTTING THE BUILDING BACK DOWN OR CLOSING OFF, OFF THE, UH, PUBLIC MEETINGS.

BUT I THINK THERE ARE CERTAIN MEASURES, CERTAIN PROTOCOLS THAT NEED TO BE IN PLACE THAT, THAT, THAT AS MUCH SAFETY CAN BE PRACTICED AS POSSIBLE.

AND, AND I'M OFFERING AS A SUGGESTION THAT YOU COULD USE SOMETHING LIKE THE SYSTEM I HAVE AT MY CHURCH.

WE CAME BACK TO OUR CHURCH AND WE HAD ONE INCIDENT SINCE MAY, THE 2ND OF MAY WHEN WE WENT BACK INTO OUR CHURCH AS A CONGREGATION.

AND, AND, UH, WE HAD ONE INCIDENT WHEN ONE PERSON TESTED POSITIVE.

BUT WE HAVE A PROTOCOL IN PLACE THAT WHEN EVERYBODY, WHEN ANYBODY COME TO WORSHIP WITH US, THEY HAVE TO, UH, TEST, UH, TAKE A, UH, TEMPERATURE TEST.

THEY HAVE TO SIGN A DOCUMENT, PUT THEIR TEMPERATURE ON IT, AND A CONTACT PHONE NUMBER THAT IF THERE IS ANYONE THAT TESTS POSITIVE, THEN WE HAVE A TEAM AT MY CHURCH THAT WILL CONTACT EVERYBODY THAT WAS IN THAT SANCTUARY THAT DAY SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE THE DETERMINATION WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT TO QUARANTINE FOR 14 DAYS OR SEE A DOCTOR OR MAKE OTHER ARRANGEMENTS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE, THEY ARE NOT, UH, CONTAMINATED.

AND I WAS REALLY SURPRISED WHEN I ARRIVED TONIGHT BECAUSE I'VE BEEN WATCHING ON ZOOM AND OTHER, UH, OTHER, UH, WAYS OF TALKING TO THE BOARD.

AND WHEN I ARRIVED TONIGHT, I WAS EXPECTING TO BE TESTED FOR MY TEMPERATURE.

I WAS EXPECTING TO SIGN OFF THAT I WAS HERE.

AND THESE ARE C D C RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REOPENING BUILDINGS.

AND I THINK THIS WILL BE A, A GOOD PRACTICE BECAUSE, UH, TO, TO NOTIFY PEOPLE TONIGHT THAT SOMEONE TESTED POSITIVE TWO WEEKS AGO IS VERY LATE.

UH, BUT IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE AND THAT YOU CAN CONTACT THOSE PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY, THEN IMMEDIATE, UM, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS OR IMMEDIATE ADJUSTMENTS CAN BE MADE FROM THE INDIVIDUAL

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SO I RECOMMEND THAT WE GO TO THAT.

I WAS SURPRISED I WALKED IN AND, AND THE, AND THE GUARD JUST SAY, GO RIGHT IN.

I WAS LOOKING FOR A THERMOMETER.

SEE ONE OUTSIDE, YOU MUST'VE WALKED BY IT.

BUT, BUT THEN I WAS LOOKING FOR, NOBODY USES IT.

NO, NOBODY'S USING IT.

IT SHOULD BE, SHOULD BE A REGULATION.

THE OTHER THING IS, I THINK THAT, UH, I THINK YOU NEED TO HAVE ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT.

THAT WAY YOU LIMIT THE, THE ACTIVITY OF GOING ALL OVER THE BUILDING AT THESE TYPE OF MEETINGS.

YOU GOTTA PUT SOME SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN PLACE AND HAVE SOME CONTROL.

IF WE ARE GOING TO, MAN, THIS POSITIVE NEWS IS I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN KEEPING UP WITH HOSPITALIZATIONS AND TESTING IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY, FORTUNATELY, THANKS BE TO GOD.

OUR TESTING AND HOSPITALIZATIONS ARE GOING DOWN.

WE WANT TO KEEP THAT GOING.

AND THE WAY WE KEEP THAT GOING IS KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON EVERYBODY THAT WE COME, COME IN CONTACT WITH.

AND I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST THAT TO TAKE THIS SUGGESTION IN PLACE, DON'T JUST PUT THE, THE THERMOMETER OUT THERE.

YOU NEED SOMEONE THERE TO SAY, GET IN FRONT OF THIS THERMOMETER, SIGN HERE, PUT YOUR TEMPERATURE HERE AND YOUR CONTACT NUMBER HERE.

BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO CONTACT PEOPLE IF THEY ARE EXPOSED.

AND, YOU KNOW, I ALSO THINK THAT IF THE BOARD CHOOSES THAT THEY WANT TO MEET HERE, WHICH I THINK WE SHOULDN'T, UM, I THINK THAT AT THE MINIMUM, IN MY OPINION, THERE SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT THAT ANYONE ATTENDING A BOARD MEETING MUST HAVE A VACCINATION CARD.

BECAUSE, BECAUSE TO ME, I THINK WE'RE JUST BEING CARELESS AND I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE, UH, ASSUMING THAT NOBODY'S GONNA SKIP SICK OR DIE, AND JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY SHOWS UP AT THE BOARD MEETING, THEY'RE GONNA BE SAFE.

AND THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

I SAW A REPORT SAYING BY NOVEMBER, UH, MANY OF THE HOSPITALS IN WESTCHESTER ARE EXPECTING MANY, MANY, UH, BEDS TO BE FILLED UP.

UM, SO YOU PROBABLY ANOTHER TWO, THREE WEEKS, THE RATES OF THE COVID, UH, INCIDENCES ARE GONNA GO UP AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO? WE'RE GONNA WAIT UNTIL SOMEBODY GETS SICK AND DIES, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA TAKE SOME ACTION.

LET'S DO IT NOW.

BE PROACTIVE.

NOT WAIT UNTIL THERE'S A TRAGEDY.

AND I, I REALLY BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, I'M SPEAKING BECAUSE I, I PERSONALLY THINK, YOU KNOW, I'M SPEAKING FROM MY HEART.

I, I BASICALLY AM REALLY NERVOUS, YOU KNOW, EVEN COMING HERE, UH, TO A MEETING LIKE THIS, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE.

I MEAN, LOOK AT IT.

YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SAY SIX FEET FROM PEOPLE.

WE'RE NOT SIX FEET FROM EACH OTHER.

SO DO YOU REALIZE YOU WERE INVITED 18 PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT IN A CEREMONY THAT WE HAD TO GO DOWN THERE, THEY HAD TO TOUCH US.

WE'RE ALL CARELESS.

DO YOU REALIZE THAT? I'M, I'M SAYING, OKAY, I JUST WANT YOU TO, I'M, I JUST WANT YOU TO NOT BE A HYPOCRITE.

NO, I'M SAYING THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING.

I'M SAYING I FEEL WE'RE ALL CARELESS, INCLUDING MYSELF.

THEN THE USHERS OR MYSELF WILL TELL YOU TO MOVE.

I DON'T WANT TO BE CARELESS IN THE FUTURE.

AND I WANT TO SAY THAT EVERYBODY NEEDS A VACCINATION CARD TO ATTEND THE TOWN BOARD MEETING.

BUT PAUL, BUT PAUL JUST, JUST, AM I ON JUST TO THAT, JUST TO THAT POINT.

THE PERSON WHO WAS POSITIVE WAS VACCINATED.

SO EVEN IF WE HAD A CARD AND WE SHOWED PROOF THAT WE WERE VACCINATED, THE PERSON STILL WAS POSITIVE.

SO WE JUST HAVE TO FIGURE THE, THE CONCERN THAT WE HAVE HERE, ANYTHING THAT WE DECIDE ON, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT AFFECTS THE WHOLE TOWN.

WE CAN'T JUST PUT OURSELVES IN THE SAFE.

THERE'S OUR OWN HOME, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR EMPLOYEES, OR WE HAVE OUR CUSTOMERS WHO COME IN AND TO DO BUSINESS WITH US OR AT RISK TOO.

HOW THAT'S NOT FAIR TO ME.

I SAID EVERYBODY, I'M NOT FINISHED.

I'M, I'M, I'M NOT FINISHED CONSISTENT.

I'M NOT FINISHED.

I JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A POLICY THAT'S GONNA WORK FOR, THERE'S NO PERFECT ANSWER TO THIS.

AND THIS IS A, THIS IS A REALLY HARD PROCEDURE TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT ANYTHING THAT WE DO HERE, THAT IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD FOR EVERYONE.

THAT EVERYONE IS SAFE, EVERYONE.

AND THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY REASON FOR ASKING TO SPEAK TONIGHT BECAUSE I WAS, I WAS, UM, REALLY ROYALLY SURPRISED TO HAVE THAT MANY PEOPLE AND HAVE YOU ALL COME DOWN AND THEY TOUCHING YOU.

UH, THAT WAS NOT PLANNED.

IT WAS, IT WASN'T.

THIS IS VERY, UH, IN MY OPINION, VERY DANGEROUS.

WHILE I'M SITTING HERE TONIGHT.

I GOT A CALL FROM VIRGINIA, ONE OF MY FIRST COUSINS WAS BEING FLOWN FROM ONE HOSPITAL TO A SPECIALIZED HOSPITAL FOR COVID.

HE WAS PUT ON RESPIRATOR THIS MORNING AT 34 YEARS OLD.

AND HE WAS ONE OF THOSE THAT BELIEVE IT'S A HOAX.

WE GOTTA DEAL WITH THAT.

THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE, THAT THE VIRUS IS A REAL DEAL.

THEY BELIEVE HE BELIEVED THAT IT WAS A HOAX.

NOW HE'S SUFFERING AT THE POINT OF DEATH.

NOW WE, I I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST THAT YOU MARK THE SEATS.

MY CHURCH IS MARKED OFF.

YOU SIT HERE.

IF YOU SIT IN THE PLACE ELSE,

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IF YOU DON'T MOVE, WE ASK YOU TO LEAVE THE BUILDING.

WE'VE GOT TO PUT PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES IN PLACE IF WE WANT TO SEE THIS TURN AROUND.

, WE HAVE TO TAKE CONTROL OF IT.

SOMEONE SHOULD BE OUT FRONT TO, TO MONITOR EVERYONE THAT COMES IN, PUT THEIR TEMPERATURE, THE PHONE CONTACT NUMBER DOWN.

DON'T, BECAUSE WE ARE NOT GOING TO, EVERYBODY'S NOT GOING TO OBEY THE RULE UNLESS THE RULE IS ENFORCED.

AND WE NEED TO TAKE, IN MY OPINION, WE NEED TO TAKE THOSE PRECAUTIONS AND PUT THEM IN PLACE.

THIS IS OUR LIVES THAT WE PUT IT IN JEOPARDY.

YEP.

NO THANK YOU.

HOUSE SAMUS VACCINATION CARD.

DO I HAVE TO SHOW IT NEXT TIME? MOST OF YOU KNOW MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MR. JONES, BUT I HAVE TO CELEBRATE WHAT HE DID AND SAID TONIGHT QUITE COURAGEOUSLY.

MR. FINER IS A MASS OF GOING, RUNNING AROUND IN CIRCLES, CONTRADICTIONS, YOU CAN'T EVEN CONTROL ONE CITIZEN WHO SHOWS UP FOR THESE MEETINGS ON WEARING A FACE MASK DESPITE HOW MANY POLICEMEN YOU HAVE ACCOMPANYING HIM.

I ACTUALLY BELIEVE THAT MR. FINER IS QUITE SINCERE IN HIS CONCERNS, BUT HE DOES NOT FOLLOW THROUGH ON ANY OF THEM.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHY MR. JONES WAS VERY ACCURATE.

YOU HAD A BUNCH OF PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT AT YOUR INVITATION TO CELEBRATE A HINDU HOLIDAY, WHICH ENDED AUGUST 18TH.

WHAT DID YOU SERVE? WHAT PURPOSE WAS SERVED BY THAT? MR. FINER? CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? I THINK THAT IT'S, UH, WHEN I INVITED THEM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY'RE DOING, YOU KNOW, SOME GREAT THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY.

AND I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR, UH, PEOPLE TO APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENT CULTURES AND SOME GREAT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AROUND THE TOWN.

YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ONLY, UH, PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT MAKE THE TOWN A GREAT COMMUNITY.

AND ONE OF THE AREAS OF THE WORLD, WHICH IS SUFFERING MOST FROM C IS INDIA, FROM A LACK OF VACCINES, A LACK OF ATTENTION.

AND YOU'RE CELEBRATING THOSE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY CONTRIBUTED THIS TO THIS COMMUNITY.

WELL, WHY DON'T YOU FINISH YOUR COMMENTS, MR. THOMAS, AND THEN MR. FATHER CAN RESPOND IF HE WANTS TO, TO IN ADDITION TO THAT, YOU KNOW, HINDU IS A RELIGION.

WHY ARE WE USING TOWN HALL TO PRODU TO PROMOTE A RELIGION? IS THAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS PUBLIC BUILDING? MR. FINER, WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE MEETING YOU FOR BLACK LIVES MATTER, YOU DIDN'T SAY A WORD ABOUT ANTISEMITISM.

SO YOU PICK AND CHOOSE WHOEVER IS THE BEST AUDIENCE FOR YOU, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU PUT ON THE SHOW.

YES, I KNOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MEETINGS CONDUCTED IN ZOOM BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T REALLY SHOW UP AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WHEN THEY'RE ON ZOOM.

AND WHAT YOU FEAR MOST IS PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO RISK OUR LIVES AFTER YOU WOULD HAVE IT TO COME TO THESE MEETINGS AND CRITICIZE YOU, OF WHICH YOU LEARN MUCH, MUCH OF IT.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO RE REMEMBER THAT I NEVER WENT TO THAT CLASS THAT DID ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF.

SO I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT MAKES IT MORE CONVINCING OR NOT, OR WHETHER YOU'RE PERSUADED BY THAT.

BUT THE REALITY IS, TOWN HALLS SHOULD CONTINUE TO FUNCTION.

YOU SHOULDN'T BE SITTING SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER.

YOU SHOULDN'T BE SITTING AT THESE TABLES THE WAY YOU DO DURING YOUR WORK SESSIONS.

IF YOU HAVE GENUINE CONCERNS ABOUT THIS, THEN THESE ARE THINGS THAT YOU CAN IMPLEMENT VERY EASILY, BUT DON'T.

AND THE ADVICE YOU GAVE TO THOSE POOR PEOPLE WHO HAD PROBLEMS THAT DA AT BABBITT COURT DURING THE FLOODING, THAT WAS VERY SAD.

HERE.

ONE MOMENT.

YOU'RE TALKING TO THEM ABOUT HOW YOUR SECRETARY IS LEARNING ALL THE FEMA ROPES AND HOW TO HELP PROCESS APPLICATIONS.

THE NEXT MOMENT YOU'RE TELLING EVERY THEM THAT FEMA IS INEFFECTIVE, YOU KNOW, THAT MANIPULATING THESE PEOPLE'S FEELINGS, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THEIR MISERY TO TURN TO YOUR POLITICAL GAIN.

AND THAT IS VERY LOW HANDED.

WHAT ARE YOU ACTUALLY GOING TO DO? YOU MAKE IT SEEM LIKE YOU AND FEMA ARE THIS

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CLOSE.

HOW QUICKLY DO FEMA CONTACT YOU AND TELL YOU, YOU NOT GOING TO USE OUR NAME FOR FEMA ANGELS.

THEY DON'T KNOW YOU FROM ADAM OR A HOLE IN THE WALL.

YOU HAVE NO SPECIAL ACCESS TO THEM.

AND THE PROBLEM WITH THE COURT IS ONE THAT IS AT LEAST 30 YEARS OLD AND ALL YOU TELL THEM TO DO IS TO ELEVATE THEIR HOUSES.

THAT'S NOT AN ATTRACTIVE SITE TO A HOUSE BUYER TO SEE HOUSES ON ELEVATIONS BECAUSE THAT INDICATES THERE'S A PROBLEM HERE.

WHY AREN'T YOU WORKING TO SOLVE THE ORIGIN OF THE PROBLEM, WHICH IS THE RIVER, WHICH YOU KNOW, EVERYONE HERE KNOWS, HAS BEEN REACTING IN A SERIOUS MANNER FOR YEARS.

I'VE GIVEN MY TIME UP.

OKAY, THERE ARE NO FURTHER REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT THIS EVENING.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT YE ADJOURN.

SECOND IN FAVOR.