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BY ZOOM BECAUSE, UM, I GOT AN ADVISORY AROUND TWO O'CLOCK THAT I WAS AT A DINNER OF THE WESTERN STATE MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS AND SOMEBODY AT THE DINNER HAD TESTED POSITIVE.
AND I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT NOT TO GET OTHER MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD, UH, SICK.
UM, EVEN IF I DON'T THINK I HAVE COVID OR WILL GET COVID, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE A CHANCE AND RISK THEIR HELP.
AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO MAKE A STATEMENT THAT ANYONE IN A SIMILAR SITUATION, IF YOU FIND OUT THAT YOU WERE, UM, NEAR SOMEBODY WHO TESTED POSITIVE, YOU KNOW, STAY HOME AND, AND GET TESTED AND, AND BE CAREFUL BECAUSE THE ILLNESS IS SPREADING, UH, QUICKLY.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GETTING GETTING IT.
WE HAVE, UM, COUNTY EXECUTIVE, UH, GEORGE LATIMER HERE, UM, YOU KNOW, TODAY, AND HE'S TESTED POSITIVE, BUT HE'S DOING THE RIGHT THING AND HE'S ADVISING RESIDENTS OF, UM, WESTCHESTER TO ALSO BE CAREFUL.
AND HE'S WORKING FROM HOME AND ALL OF US CAN WORK FROM HOME.
SO I WANT TO THANK YOU, GEORGE, FOR, UM, FOR LEADING BY, UM, BY EXAMPLE.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA START THE MEETING, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT NOW.
AND FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD FOR PROVIDING ME WITH THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE BY, BY ZOOM.
SHE AND, UM, SPENT SOME TIME, YOU KNOW, WORKING ON THE ARRANGEMENT, SO THANK YOU, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT.
[ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
SO, UM, WE'LL START WITH, UM, THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, UH, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
[ MOMENT OF SILENCE In memory of the 797,346+ individual victims of COVID-19 who have died in the United States, 5,304,248+ deaths worldwide, each leaving family members and friends too soon]
AND, UM, PLEASE STAY STANDING PLEASE FOR A MOMENT.SILENCE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN MEMORY OF THE 797,346 INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS OF COVID THAT HAVE DIED IN THE UNITED STATES.
5,304,248 DEATHS, UM, WORLDWIDE.
EACH, UH, LEAVING FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS TO SOON.
UM, PAUL, NEXT UP, MR. SUPERVISOR WILL DO THE ROLE, THE SUPERVISOR, BEFORE I DO THE ROLL CALL, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, LIKE PAUL, IN ADDITION TO PAUL, I WAS ALSO PRESENT AT THE WEST CHESTER MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS ASSOCIATION DINNER ON THURSDAY.
HOWEVER, I WAS NOT SITTING AT THE TABLE OF THE PERSON WHO TESTED POSITIVE.
I WAS, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY FURTHER AWAY FROM HER.
AND, UM, I HAVE, UH, THREE VACCINATIONS, MY FIRST TWO AND MY BOOSTER, AND THE INDIVIDUALS WHO I WAS SITTING AROUND ALSO HAVE BOOSTERS.
AND SO I JUST WANT, UM, THE, THE PUBLIC AND THE DEUS TO KNOW, UH, THAT, UM, I AM NOT PLACING ANYONE AT RISK, UH, GIVEN THE FACTS JUST STATED.
[ ROLL CALL: Town Clerk]
CALL TOWN SUPERVISOR PAUL FINER VIA ZOOM HERE.HERE, COUNCILWOMAN GINA JACKSON PRESENT.
AND COUNCILMAN FRANCIS SHEEN PRESENT.
[ CEREMONY Police Department Appointments and Promotions (See PO 1 and PO 2 below) Honoring Councilwoman Diana Juettner for her many dedicated years of service to the Town]
UH, NEXT, UM, ON THE AGENDA, WE HAVE SOME POLICE, SOME PROMOTIONS, AND I'D LIKE TO ASK, UH, UH, CHIEF LONGWORTH IF HE COULD, UH, MAKE SOME COMMENTS AND INTRODUCE US TO, UM, NEW APPOINTEES AND, UM, AND PROMOTIONS.UH, HAVE THE HONOR OF PRESENTING TO YOU THIS EVENING, THE FUTURE LEADERSHIP OF THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UH, UH, THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE ALL OUTSTANDING POLICE OFFICERS, AND THEY NO DOUBT WILL TAKE THE DEPARTMENT INTO THE FUTURE WITH GREAT PROFESSIONALISM, PRIDE, AND A STRONG SENSE OF WORK ETHIC.
UM, AT THIS TIME, I'M, I'D LIKE TO CALL UPON SERGEANT ALEX RODRIGUEZ, WHO PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT TO COME UP AND STEP TO THE FRONT.
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LIEUTENANT ALEX RODRIGUEZ GREW UP IN, IN, AND HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR 40 YEARS.HE GRADUATED FROM HACKLEY SCHOOL PRIOR TO ATTENDING IONA COLLEGE, WHERE HE GRADUATED ON A DEAN'S LIST WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.
LIEUTENANT RODRIGUEZ HAS BEEN WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR 25 YEARS, THE LAST 16 OF WHICH IS A PATROL SERGEANT.
IN ADDITION TO BEING BILINGUAL AND ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
HE HAS SERVED 21 YEARS ON THE, ON THE SPECIAL WEAPONS AND TACTICS TEAM, 15 YEARS AS A TEAM LEADER AND FIVE YEARS AS THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
HE'S JOINED TONIGHT BY HIS WIFE OF 23 YEARS.
LESLIE, THEIR 14 YEAR OLD TWIN SONS, MATTHEW AND MICHAEL, DO WE HAVE YOUR FAMILY WITH YOU? YES.
WHAT? YEAH, YOU WENT TO THE END.
I DON'T WANNA GET IN THAT PHOTO.
DO YOU WANT MAKE, SHOULD WE DO THE MOTION FIRST, FRANCIS? YEAH, WHY DON'T WE DO THAT? DIANA, YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION? YES.
I, I, I MOVE, UM, THE RESOLUTION PROMOTING SERGEANT AL ALEX RODRIGUEZ TO LIEUTENANT SECOND.
UM, THE LIEUTENANT IS THE COMMUNITY FOR MANY YEARS AND ROLE THAT, UM, UM, YOU'RE BEING RECOGNIZED AND WE DO APPRECIATE ALL YOU'VE DONE OVER THE YEARS, UH, FOR OUR ATTEMPT.
YOU'VE MADE, UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND GREENBURG A MUCH BETTER PLACE.
SO, CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UH, YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE.
NEXT, I'D LIKE TO CALL UPON DETECTIVE DIANA ALBANO TO COME FORWARD.
SHE'S BEING PROMOTED TO THE RANK OF SERGEANT THIS EVENING.
SERGEANT DIANA ALBANO HAS BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG SINCE SHE WAS ONE YEAR OLD.
AFTER GRADUATING FROM WOODLANDS HIGH SCHOOL, SHE ATTENDED PACE UNIVERSITY, EARNING A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN MARKETING ON JULY 24TH, 2006.
SHE JOINED THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT IN 2013, BECAME ONE OF THE FIELD TRAINING OFFICERS, IN ADDITION TO BEING PROMOTED TO DETECTIVE IN AUGUST OF 2020.
SERGEANT ALBANO HAS ALSO SHARED RESPONSIBILITY IN MANAGING THE DEPARTMENT'S SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS.
TONIGHT SHE'S JOINED BY OUR PARENTS, MORTY AND JEAN ALBANO AND HER NEW HUSBAND.
AND I'M TALKING LIKE, BRAND NEW
THIS FOLKS, I HAD SOME EXTRA GIFTS.
SO YOUR HONEYMOON IS, UH, AT THE GREENBURG TOWN HALL.
UM, SO AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THE RESOLUTION PROMOTING, UH, SERGEANT DIANA ALBANO.
PROMOTING HER TO SERGEANT, PROMOTING DETECTIVE DIANA.
AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UH, UH, SERVICE.
AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A LONG, HEALTHY AND HAPPY, UH, GIVEN A MARRIAGE AND YOU CONTINUE TO LIVE A NEW TOWN,
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TOWN BOARD.NEXT, I'D LIKE TO ASK DETECTIVE BENJAMIN FONTELLA TO STEP FORWARD.
HE'S BEING PROMOTED TO SERGEANT THIS EVENING.
SERGEANT FONTELLA STARTED HIS CAREER IN PUBLIC SAFETY WITH THE DOBBS FREE VOLUNTARY AMBULANCE CORPS, REALIZING A PASSION FOR E M S.
HE ENROLLED IN ROCKLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE PARAMEDIC PROGRAM IN 1997.
AND IN 2003, HE JOINED THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT AS A CIVILIAN PARAMEDIC.
IN 2006, HE WAS HIRED AS A POLICE OFFICER.
FOUR YEARS LATER, BENJAMIN WAS PROMOTED TO DETECTIVE PARAMEDIC.
IN ADDITION TO HIS REGULAR DUTIES, BENJAMIN HAS WORKED WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S TRAINING UNIT AND HAS BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE DEPARTMENT'S ONLINE LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DEPARTMENT VIDEOS AND PUBLIC SERVICE.
HE, HE'S JOINED HERE TONIGHT BY HIS WIFE JODY, AND THREE CHILDREN.
KAYLA, JOSEPH AND ALEX, MAYBE WE COULD HAVE THEM COME UP AND JOIN US.
SO AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO MOVE, UH, RESOLUTION PO O ONE PROMOTING, UM, SERGEANT, UH, BENJAMIN FONTAN ELLIS, UH, I'M SORRY.
PROMOTING DETECTIVE BENJAMIN FONTAN ELLIS TO SERGEANT SECOND.
NEXT I'D LIKE TO CALL POLICE OFFICER JEFFREY HART UP.
HE'S BEING PROMOTED TO SERGEANT THIS EVENING.
SERGEANT HART GREW UP IN THE MAYFAIR ACRES SECTION OF THE TOWN AND JOINED THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT IN JANUARY, 2014.
DURING HIS TIME, HE'S BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE PATROL DIVISION AND WAS CHOSEN TO BECOME A FIELD TRAINING OFFICER.
SERGEANT HART IS A THIRD GENERATION POLICE OFFICER.
HIS GRANDFATHER HAVING SERVED HIS FATHER AND HIS GRANDFATHER HAVING SERVED AS INSPECTORS IN THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT.
HE'S JOINED BY HIS WIFE, CHRISSY, DAUGHTER KALEY, HIS PARENTS, JEFF AND DIANE, SISTERS, ERICA AND MELISSA, AND HIS GRANDFATHER RAYMOND, WHO IN ADDITION TO BE BEING A RETIRED MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT, IS ACTUALLY A WORLD WAR II MARINE VETERAN.
SO, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
UH, AT THIS TIME I'D LIKE TO MOVE PO ONE, UH, PROMOTING POLICE OFFICER JEFFREY HART TO SERGEANT SECOND.
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TAKE ONE.I DIDN'T, ARE THERE MORE? WE ASK ALL OF THOSE WHO JUST EITHER APPOINTED OR PROMOTED TO AS A GROUP.
THE CLOSER YOU GET IN, THE BETTER WE DON'T BUY.
SO I HAVE TO SAY, THIS IS GREENBERG'S COMMITMENT AND MAKING SURE THAT WOMEN CONTINUE TO GROW AS WE CONTINUE TO PROMOTE DIANA TO A DETECTIVE.
SO THIS IS SHOWN GREENER COMMITMENT TO GROWING AND MAKING SURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO BE DIVERSE.
STEVE, YOU DID A GREAT JOB, UH, WITH THE PROMOTIONS AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
UH, THE DEDICATION OF, UH, THE MEN AND WOMEN.
I SAID THE CAKE WASN'T FOR US.
UM, NEXT ON THE AGENDA, WE'RE GONNA HONOR, UM, AN EXCEPTIONAL, UM, TOWN BOARD MEMBER, DIANA NER.
DIANA, WELL, I THINK WE MAY NEED A MINUTE.
P O TWO RESOLUTION APPOINTING, UH, SEVERAL.
OFFICERS, SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS AS ENTRY-LEVEL OFFICERS.
OH, LET ME JUST, PO O TWO RESOLUTION.
ARE THEY HERE? ARE THEY HERE? WAIT A MINUTE.
WHERE'S, WHERE'S THE CHIEF? I ASKED HIM IF WE WERE DONE.
WHERE'S THE CHIEF, CHIEF? ARE THE, ARE THE, IS JOSEPH KELLY OR JONATHAN WOLF? DAVIDSON HERE? I DON'T THINK THEY'RE HERE.
YOU WANT TO DO, UH, DO THOSE UH, APPOINTMENTS NOW? NO, WE CAN DO, PROBABLY DO THOSE, MIKE, ARE ANY OF THEM HERE? MIKE? ARE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING APPOINTED AS ENTRY LEVEL HERE? NO.
SO WHY DON'T WE DO THOSE LATER THEN? OKAY.
[ TB 1 - 12/13/2021 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh Naming the Anthony F. Veteran Park Multipurpose Center Lounge the “Diana D. Juettner Lounge,” and authorizing the Commissioner of Parks And Recreation to effectuate the naming ]
YOU KNOW, MAYBE, UH, WE SHOULD START, I'M WONDERING IF WE COULD TAKE OUT OF ORDER, UM, THE RESOLUTION, UM, THAT WOULD, UH, DEDICATE, UM, THE LOUNGE AT THE, UM, MULTIPURPOSE CENTER IN HONOR OF, UM, DIANA, UM, YOU KNOW, JOHN NER.WE COULD VOTE ON THAT NOW BEFORE DIANA TELLS US NOT TO.
SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT, THAT'S TV.
AND ALL OF THESE ARE AS THEY APPEAR ON THE WEB.
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WE WERE VOTING ON? IF PEOPLE UNDERSTAND? 'CAUSE I KNOW THERE'S A WHOLE LOT GOING ON.DIANA ABSTAINED FROM, UH, VOTING TO, UH, NAME, UM, THE LOUNGE AT THE, UM, MULTIPURPOSE CENTER IN HONOR OF, UM, OF DIANA.
AND TODAY'S, UM, TONIGHT'S THE FINAL MEETING OF THE GREENBERG TOWN BOARD FOR 2021.
IT'S ALSO A COUNCILWOMAN DIANA NERS LAST MEETING AS A COUNCILWOMAN.
DIANA, UM, HAS SERVED THE TOWN FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS.
SHE NEVER LOST AN ELECTION, AND SHE DID AN AMAZING, UM, JOB.
VERY, VERY DEDICATED, VERY HARDWORKING.
THE LOUNGE AT THE MULTIPURPOSE CENTER WOULD PROBABLY NEVER HAVE BEEN BUILT WITHOUT DIANA'S, UH, LEADERSHIP.
UH, THE LIBRARY EXPANSION PROBABLY NEVER WOULD'VE HAPPENED.
LEMME SEE IF I, WITHOUT DIANA'S, UM, INVOLVEMENT, UH, THIS TOWN HALL, UM, WOULD PROBABLY NOT HAVE HAPPENED WITHOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT, UM, WITHOUT DIANA.
DIANA PLAYED MANY, MANY, UM, KEY ROLES, UM, IN, IN TERMS OF, UH, MAKING OUR TOWN BETTER.
THE LIBRARY EXPANSION, OPEN SPACE ACQUISITION, GOING FROM 200 ACRES TO SIX, OVER 600 ACRES.
OUR AAA BOND RATING, THE MILES OF ADDITIONAL SIDEWALK AND SAFETY ENHANCEMENT SPIN BUILT AROUND THE TOWN, THE NATURE CENTER, BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AROUND THE TOWN, AND MUCH, MUCH, UM, MORE.
UM, WHEN I FIRST GOT ELECTED AS A TOWN SUPERVISOR, DI ONE OF DIANA'S FIRST INVOLVED EFFORTS WAS SHE STARTED A R U TODAY PROGRAM.
SHE, UM, RAISED UP PRIVATE DOLLARS, UM, I BELIEVE FROM THE KIWANIS CLUB, AND SENIORS WERE CONTACTED ON A DAILY BASIS JUST TO FIND OUT IF THEY WERE OKAY.
UM, AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, SOME OF US ARE MORE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET AND EMAILS AND OTHERS.
UM, YOU KNOW, DIANA MADE ME A INTERNET ADDICT AND AN EMAIL ADDICT,
AND, UM, I REMEMBER, UM, I WAS VERY PLEASED WITH MY TYPEWRITER AND DIANA SAID, YOU HAVEN'T LEARNED YOU, YOU'RE GONNA REALLY LIKE IT.
SO, UM, WE, WE, SHE WAS PART OF A TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE, AND GREENBERG WAS THE FIRST COMMUNITY IN THE REGION TO HAVE A GOVERNMENT WEBSITE, A LOCAL GOVERNMENT, UM, WEBSITE.
AND I REALLY APPRECIATE DIANA'S EFFORTS OF BRINGING THE TOWN INTO THE 21ST, UM, CENTURY.
SHE DESERVES, UH, THE RECOGNITION AND A BIG THANK YOU FOR HER HARD WORK, HER DEDICATION, AND HER NUMEROUS, UM, YOU KNOW, ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
AND BEFORE WE HEAR FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, I WONDER IF ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS WOULD LIKE TO, UM, SAY ANYTHING ABOUT DIANA.
UH, I THINK WE, WE SHOULD LOOK WE'LL DEFER TO THE, UH, COUNTY, COUNTY EXECUTIVE AND OTHERS WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FIRST.
SO, GEORGE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING? THANKS VERY MUCH PAUL AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UM, I SPECIFICALLY WANTED TO COME ON TO THANK DIANA FOR HER SERVICE.
NOW PEOPLE LIVE IN GREENBURG, UH, KNOW WHAT SHE'S DONE OVER AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.
BUT THOSE OF US WHO DON'T LIVE IN GREENBURG ALSO KNOW FOR DEDICATION, HER HARD WORK, AND ALSO THE LEVEL OF, OF, UH, INTELLIGENCE AND THOUGHTFULNESS THAT SHE BRINGS INTO PUBLIC OFFICE.
WE ALL KNOW THAT PEOPLE HAVE A, UH, LOW OPINION OF US, YOU KNOW, WE'RE POLITICIANS AND WE DON'T GET, AND ALL THAT TYPE OF STUFF.
BUT DIANA WAS, UH, FROM A DIFFERENT, A DIFFERENT ROLE.
AND, UH, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT HER FAN CLUB IS, IS WIDER THAN THE TOWN THAT IT INVOLVES MANY OF US WHO'VE WATCHED HER OVER THE YEARS IN PUBLIC OFFICE AND, AND COMPLIMENT HER FOR THE HARD WORK THAT SHE'S DONE.
AND JUST WANTED TO BE HERE TO THANK HER.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A WHOLE MEETING TO GO THROUGH, DIANA, SO YOU'RE NOT QUITE DONE YET, BUT CONGRATULATIONS ON THE JOB WELL DONE FROM YOUR FRIENDS ALL ACROSS WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
THANK, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MARY.
WELL, LET ME JUST SPEAK, UH, TO, UM, TO THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE FOR, UH, FOR HIS KIND WORDS AND, UH, TO THANK HIM SO MUCH AND TO THANK HIM FOR, FOR THE PROCLAMATION THAT, UM, UH, ELLEN HENDRICKS BROUGHT TO, TO THE, UM, IT'S HERE, MULTIPURPOSE PURPOSE CENTER.
AND I BELIEVE JERRY'S GOT IT, BUT, UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, HE ISN'T FEELING THAT WELL.
AND SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS THAT HE MADE TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PAUL.
UM, JUST A WORD ABOUT COVID, I'M ATTENDING REMOTELY AS WELL.
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GEORGE AND I DID A, UM, A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION EVENT IN DOBBS FERRY OVER THE WEEKEND.SO BETTER BEING SAFE THAN SORRY.
AND I'D LIKE, BEFORE I SING DIANA'S PRAISES, I'D LIKE TO TELL EVERYONE THAT IF YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN YOUR THIRD SHOT YET, YOUR BOOSTER SHOT, PLEASE GO OUT AND GET YOUR BOOSTER SHOT.
UM, THE GREENBERG HEALTH CENTER AS, UH, WALK IN CLINICS TWICE A WEEK.
UM, I DON'T REMEMBER THE DAYS OF ANYONE ELSE DOES.
I'M SURE THEY'LL MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
UM, VACCINES.GOV, I BELIEVE IT IS, IS A WEBSITE WHERE YOU COULD ALSO SCHEDULE BOOSTER SHOTS.
UM, THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO KEEP EACH OTHER SAFE OVER THE HOLIDAYS.
WITH THAT SAID, WHEN YOU WALK AROUND THE VILLAGES, LOTS OF PEOPLE KNOW DIANA, AND THEY ALL THINK THE WORLD OF HER, DIANA IS VERY CALM.
SHE'S VERY KIND, SHE'S VERY WELL ADJUSTED.
AND AS GEORGE SAID, SHE IS VERY SMART AND SHE IS POSSESSED OF GOOD SENSE.
IN FACT, DON'T TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY, GUYS.
I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO HER MORE.
UM, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR A JOB WELL DONE IN YOUR, IN YOUR, UH, NEARLY 30 YEARS OF SERVICE.
AND WE HOPE THAT AFTER YOUR LAST MEETING, THAT WE'LL STILL BE SEEING YOU AROUND A LOT OF VARIOUS EVENTS AND THE VARIOUS PLACES AROUND TOWN BECAUSE WE WANT TO CONTINUE, UM, TO SEE YOU AROUND AND VIEW YOU AS THE TOWN TREASURE THAT YOU ARE.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING OVER THE YEARS, DIANA.
AND I'M NOT, I JUST WANTED TO SAY TO, TO MARY JANE, I, I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
I STILL LIVE IN THE VILLAGE OF ARDSLEY AND I WILL BE AROUND AND I WILL PARTICIPATE IN, IN MANY THINGS BECAUSE I, I LOVE THIS COMMUNITY.
AND WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE LUNCH ONCE IT GETS A LITTLE SAFER.
WELL,
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU OPENED YOURSELF UP, DIANA, BECAUSE WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY IS THAT YOU'RE NOT OFF THE HOOK BECAUSE I WILL BE CALLING YOU FREQUENTLY AND NOW YOU WILL BE A, UM, LESS BIASED OBSERVER.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY BECAUSE I REALLY HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO TO CATCH UP.
AND I DON'T THINK I'LL EVER CATCH UP TO YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS JUST AMAZING.
BUT YOU'VE SET THE BAR VERY HIGH AND, UM, AND I'LL KEEP STRIVING.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE.
THANK YOU FOR MENTORING ME AS WELL, UM, WHICH YOU DID FOR THE SEVEN MONTHS IN 2019 THAT I WAS ON BOARD.
AND, UM, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT ONGOING CONVERSATION.
AND IF YOU DON'T MIND ME DROPPING IN FOR A CUP OF COFFEE AT THE DOS DINER WITH THE TWO OF YOU, I'LL BE THERE.
AND I KNOW YOU'RE GONNA DO A GREAT JOB.
ANYBODY ON THE TOWN BOARD, I'D LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING.
I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU, DIANA, FOR BEING A LEADER AND A ROLE MODEL FOR US ALL.
I GREATLY APPRECIATE IT, AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOU IN THE COMMUNITY AND JUST HANGING OUT AND, AND HAVING THAT CUP OF COFFEE AND, AND CONTINUING TO GLEAN YOUR WISDOM FOR MANY YEARS TO COME.
I KNOW ME AND YOU HAVE HAD CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE JUST SO UNFORGETTABLE, AND I THANK YOU FOR THE WISDOM THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO ME.
YOU'VE GIVEN SO MUCH INSIGHT IN THIS ROLE, UM, AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR THAT 30 YEARS.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO THE TOWN.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO THE BOARD, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH, ESPECIALLY WHAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO ME.
SO I WILL STILL CALL YOU AT SEVEN FORTY FIVE IN THE MORNING,
I TRULY APPRECIATE YOU FOR THAT.
AND, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PHONE CALLS.
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AND, UM, WHEN I WAS FIRST STARTING TO RUN, UM, I WAS JUST GETTING MY FEET WET AND DIDN'T REALLY KNOW MUCH ABOUT ANYTHING.I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT THERE WAS A TOWN HALL.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THERE WAS SUCH A THING AS DISTRICT LEADERS AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING.
UM, AND THEN THERE CAME A TIME WHERE, UH, UH, THE SUPERVISOR WASN'T TOTALLY IN FAVOR OF DIANA.
CERTAINLY DIDN'T WANT ME, CERTAINLY DIDN'T WANT ME ON THE BOARD.
AND SO I, UH, CALLED UP DIANA, UH, AND OF COURSE I USED TO BE ON THAT SIDE OF THE DAYS.
AND, UH, I CALLED UP DIANA, I SAID, I'D LIKE TO MEET WITH YOU.
AND SHE SAID, FINE, WHERE DO YOU WANNA MEET? OF COURSE YOU CAN GUESS IT'S THE DOBBS DINER
AND SO DURING THAT CONVERSATION, I SAID, DAN, I'D REALLY LIKE TO RUN AND I'D REALLY LIKE TO RUN WITH YOU AND HER HUSBAND, PAUL.
GOD BLESS HIM, AND MAY YOU REST IN PEACE.
HE SAID, FRANCIS, YOU'RE NOT AS DUMB AS I THOUGHT YOU ARE
AND THAT'S, THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A RELATIONSHIP.
AND DIANA SEEMS QUIET, AND SHE IS, SHE'S VERY RESERVED.
UH, SHE LISTENS A LOT, WHICH IS, WHICH IS A REALLY GREAT QUALITY TO HAVE.
SOME PEOPLE TAKE THAT AS WEAKNESS.
SOME PEOPLE TAKE THAT AS NOT BEING AGGRESSIVE ENOUGH.
AND THEN, WHICH YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, UH, BECAUSE YOU MAY NOT HAVE EXPERIENCED THIS WITH HER, IS SHE BECOMES OUR CONSCIOUS.
SHE, UM, SO DURING THAT PERIOD, UH, DAN AND I KNOCKED ON 4,000 DOORS.
THERE WAS NO, NO EXAGGERATION WHATSOEVER IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMER, UM, BATTLING THE HEAT STROKE.
AND HER HUSBAND GOT, GOD BLESS HIM, HE WOULD KEEP THE CAR AIR CONDITIONER RUNNING SO THAT WHEN HE GOT OUT OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING, AFTER KNOCKING ON DOORS, WE CAN GET IN THE BACK AND BRING DOWN OUR BODY TEMPERATURE.
THAT IS THE TYPE OF CAMPAIGN THAT DIANA RUNS WHEN SHE HAS TO RUN.
AND THAT'S WHY SHE WAS NEVER DEFEATED.
AND IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE, AND I LEARNED A LOT.
AND WHAT I REALLY ADMIRED ABOUT HER, AND I, I I I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT, IS SOMETIMES YOU GO OUT AND YOU HOPE YOU CAN HIT 20 DOORS, AND THEN YOU HIT SOMEBODY WHO THEY HAVEN'T SPOKEN TO.
THEY OBVIOUSLY IN DAYS, AND THEY JUST WANT YOU TO COME IN, SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CONVERSATION.
AND THAT IS HOW YOU WIN ELECTIONS.
WE DIDN'T GO IN BECAUSE WE WANTED THAT VOTE.
WE WANTED TO GO IN BECAUSE HER HEART IS SO BIG, SHE JUST WANTED TO GIVE SOME TIME AND SPEND SOME TIME WITH SOMEBODY WHO JUST WANTED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION.
AND PEGGY DIDN'T HAVE ANOTHER CONVERSATION FOR, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL MY DAYS OF PEOPLE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR.
DIANA, UH, HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING THE MULTIPURPOSE CENTER WHEN IT WASN'T EASY TO GET AND THE LIBRARY WHEN IT WASN'T EASY TO GET.
AND SO SHE WAS GOING TO BE SORELY MISSED.
UM, I'M VERY PROUD TO CALL HER FRIEND.
UM, BEFORE DOBS DINER, WE DIDN'T REALLY KNOW EACH OTHER AT ALL.
AND I'VE GOTTEN TO LEARN, NOT DIANA THE POLITICIAN, NOT DIANA, THE PERSON WHO GETS UP AND SPEAKS AT DIFFERENT MEETINGS.
I GOT TO LEARN DIANA AND HER FAMILY AND THE GOOD STOCK, WHICH SHE CAME FROM, AND WHO SHE HAS HAS AS NOW AS OFFSPRING.
AND, UH, I'M HOPING SHE STAYS AROUND.
I'M GONNA BEGGAR TO STAY AROUND, UM, BECAUSE WE STILL NEED THAT VOICE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THIS AFTERNOON SHE CALLED ME AS SHE SAID, FRANCIS, I'M GONNA TEACH YOU HOW TO MEDITATE
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AND I SAID, WHO HAS TIME FOR THAT? NO, I'M NOT KIDDING.
UM, I'M GONNA MISS YOU, DIANE, DIANA, OR, BUT I'M NOT GONNA MISS YOU BECAUSE I'M NOT LET GOING TO LET YOU GET AWAY.
THANK, I HAVE A VIDEO THAT, UH, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT JOEL PUT TOGETHER.
DO WE WANNA WATCH FIGHTER? I JUST WANT TO NOTE THAT ASSEMBLY IS IN THE, UH, ATTENDEE ROOM.
JUST BEFORE HE DOES, LET ME, LET ME JUST, UM, SAY THANK YOU TO FRANCIS FOR, FOR HIS, UH, KIND WORDS.
AND WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME JOKING WITH EACH OTHER AND, UH, AS IF WE DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER, WHICH IS ANYTHING FAR FARTHEST FROM THE TRUTH.
AND THAT, UH, THE OTHER THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS NO ONE DOES THIS ALONE.
I DID IT WITH A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THIS TOWN.
AND PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW WILL HELP TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
SO AND MANY MORE THAT ARE NOT HERE TONIGHT.
SO I'M GRATEFUL TO THEM AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO SAY, DIANA, THAT, UM, I'LL SPEAK TO YOU MORE PRIVATELY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW HAPPY I, I AM, YOU KNOW, ABOUT YOU BEING THE LIAISON TO MY DEPARTMENT, BUT I SEE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE STANDING IN THE BACK, RIGHT? I KNOW THAT, UM, JERRY BYRNE AND EDIE MCCARTHY ARE HERE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION TO YOU ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS.
AND I'D JUST LIKE TO DO THAT BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE PEOPLE STANDING IN THE BACK.
AND THEN WE CAN TAKE SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE.
SO, EDIE, DID YOU WANT TO COME UP? JERRY, DID YOU WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS? I'M GONNA SHOW A VIDEO.
UM, I JUST S THE ACCOLADES THAT YOU RECEIVED TONIGHT ARE MORE THAN WELL RESERVED.
UM, YEAH, IT'S HARD FOR ME TOO.
SO I KNOW THAT YOU'VE DONE A LOT IN 29 YEARS, BUT I HAVE TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, I THINK ONE OF THE BEST THINGS THAT YOU'VE DONE WAS HIRE ME ABSOLUTELY.
OH, AND BY THE WAY, I NOTICED THAT EVERYBODY'S MADE THE COMMENT ABOUT YOU NOT DISAPPEARING.
SO I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S AN OPENING ON THE BOARD OF ASSESSMENT REVIEW.
ANYWAY, JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT HEADS AND THE STAFF HERE.
UM, I'VE ONLY EVER HEARD GOOD WORDS ABOUT YOU, SO, UM, I KNOW I'M GONNA MISS YOU AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE GONNA MISS SEEING YOU EVERY DAY.
A LITTLE GIFT THAT WE'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU.
THAT'S, THERE'S A GIFT IN THERE.
UM, IF YOU DON'T MIND OPENING IT UP.
DO YOU WANT ME TO OPEN IT? MM-HMM.
OH, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FROM ALL OF US ON THE ARTS.
I'M DEEPLY TOUCHED AND I WEAR IT WITH PRIDE.
DO YOU WEAR, I THINK AS YOU KNOW, THAT I LOVE TO WEAR, I LOVE TO WEAR PENS, SO THIS IS REALLY BEAUTIFUL.
AB IS IN, UH, IS THIS ONE? YEAH.
UM, WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO ON, UH, DECEMBER 1ST, UH, THE PARKS AND REC DEPARTMENT HAD OUR ANNUAL, UH, YEAR IN REVIEW WHERE WE HAVE THE PARK AND REC ADVISORY BOARD.
TOWN BOARD COMES, UH, WE DID THAT.
WE SHOWED A SIX MINUTE VIDEO THAT WAS PARK RELATED OF A LOT OF PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS THAT DIANA HAS TOUCHED DURING THE 29 YEARS.
LIKE I MENTIONED AT THAT NINE DURING YOUR JOURNEY, I FEEL PRIVILEGED TO HAVE BEEN WITH YOU DURING THOSE 29 YEARS.
UH, NOT ONLY HAS SHE GIVEN OUR DEPARTMENT AND ME GREAT ADVICE, UH, SHE'S BEEN LIKE AN OUTSTANDING LISTENER.
UH, LIKE I SAID, UH, THAT EVENING, SOMETIMES PEOPLE SAY, WHY DOESN'T DIANA JUTTER SPEAK? WELL, SHE LISTENS.
AND WHEN IT'S TIME TO SPEAK WITH SOMETHING WITH SUBSTANCE, SHE SPOKE.
SHE DID A LOT OF WORK BEHIND THE SCENES.
AND WE WILL ALWAYS ETERNALLY BE GRATEFUL FOR THE SERVICE YOU PROVIDED TO ALL OF US IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
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THIS TIME, IF IT'S OKAY, I'D LIKE TO SHOW FOR THE AUDIENCE OUT THERE A SIX MINUTE VIDEO THAT HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE WONDERFUL THINGS AND, UH, PEOPLE THAT DIANA HAS TOUCHED.DO YOU WANNA BE ON THE BOARD OF REVIEW?
AND, AND LIKEWISE, UH, IF, IF FOR THE PEOPLE OUT IN THE PUBLIC, IF YOU GET A CHANCE, READ THE, UH, RESOLUTION ABOUT DEDICATING THE LOUNGE.
UH, THE DIANA D HUTTNER LOUNGE, IT ALSO STATES IN THAT, UM, SHE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN SEEING A PARK SYSTEM GO FROM 256 ACRES TO 634 ACRES.
AND WE WOULDN'T BE HERE WITHOUT YOUR SUPPORT.
ALL THESE, AND I LOVE, I I LOVE YOU IN MY LIFE.
LOVE AS, AND THAT'S HOW, THAT'S YOU.
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THANK YOU, ANDERSON.WE'RE GONNA, TOM, ROBIN, I THINK YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? UH, THANK YOU, MR. SUPERVISOR.
UH, I'LL BE VERY BRIEF TONIGHT.
I JUST WANT TO SAY, UM, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME JOIN YOU.
I'M SORRY I COULDN'T DO IT IN PERSON.
I HAD SEVERAL OTHER COMMITMENTS AND, UH, WAS GLAD TO BE ABLE TO JUST CATCH THE TAIL END OF THIS TO JOIN YOU IN HONORING A PERSON WHO REALLY DOES DESERVE A LOT OF HONORS.
UM, I THINK BACK 30 YEARS AGO TONIGHT, I WAS SITTING IN THAT, SITTING IN THAT VERY SEAT.
I WAS RETIRING FROM THE GREENBURG TOWN BOARD, UH, IN CREATING A VACANCY, UH, FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO TAKE MY PLACE.
AND OF COURSE, WE ALL THINK THAT NOBODY CAN DO IT BETTER THAN WE CAN.
WELL, DIANA, YOU PROVED ME WRONG.
YOU DID A GREAT JOB ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR KEEPING UP THE TRADITION OF THE TOWN BOARD, SERVING THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SOME CONNECTIONS OUTSIDE OF THE, UH, UH, OF THE TOWN.
UM, I ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU.
WE'VE WORKED TOGETHER ON SEVERAL THINGS TO HELP THE PEOPLE OF GREENBURG, BUT THE PERSONAL INTERACTIONS WERE ALSO VERY NICE.
I KNOW YOU WORKED AT MERCY WITH MY FATHER-IN-LAW.
YOU WERE TEACHING THERE THE SAME TIME HE WAS TEACHING THERE.
AND THAT'S WHEN I FIRST HEARD OF YOU WAY BACK THEN.
AND, UH, WE, WE HAD A CHANCE TO INTERACT SOCIALLY.
I REMEMBER GOING SAILING WITH YOU AND PAUL, UH, AND WE HAD A CHANCE TO BECOME FRIENDS THAT WAY.
SO LET ME JUST SUM UP AND SAY, UH, YOU ARE A GREAT STATESWOMAN AND YOU'RE A GREAT PERSON.
THANK YOU FOR DOING SO MUCH ON BEHALF OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND I, I APPRECIATE, UM, YOUR, YOUR KIND WORDS.
AND, UM, YES, IT'S BEEN GREAT FUN BEING FRIENDS WITH YOU AND, AND, UM, OVER THE YEARS.
AND WE HAD GREAT TIME SAILING WITH YOU AND, AND, UH, AND JANET.
SO WE, WE DID HAVE SOME FUN TIMES AND, UH, I DID TRY REALLY HARD TO FILL THE SH FILL THE SEAT IN A DIFFERENT, BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
THE SAME WAY THAT ELLEN WILL COME AND FILL HIS SEAT IN ANOTHER WAY.
AND I THINK THAT EACH PERSON WHO COMES BRINGS HIS OR HER OWN GIFTS TO THIS BOARD.
IS THERE A BEFORE? IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE? I, I WANT, I WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE ON ZOOM, ZOOM, FRANCIS, OR NO? NO, THERE'S NOBODY.
I, I, I REALLY WANNA SAY THANK YOU
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TO, UH, TO EVERYONE FOR THE EFFORTS THAT THEY'VE PUT OUT.I AM DEEPLY TOUCHED BY, UH, ALL OF YOUR THOUGHTS AND YOUR KIND WORDS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO CELEBRATE THE COMMUNITY THAT I LIVE IN AND WORK IN.
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS WHO SERVE ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
THE AMOUNT OF EXPERTISE YOU PROVIDE TO THIS TOWN IS ENORMOUS.
WHEN MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED, YOUR MAIN REASON FOR SERVING IS TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH YOU LIVE AND YOU LOVE.
AND THAT I ALWAYS FOUND THE MOST IMPRESSIVE FEELING THAT PEOPLE HAVE.
AND IT WAS GENUINE 'CAUSE YOU COULD FEEL THAT THAT GENUINE, THE COMMUNITY WE ALL LOVE, THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO COME OUT WHO EXPRESS THEIR POSITIONS, THEIR PASSIONS, THEIR OPINIONS, THEIR DISAGREEMENTS, THE WAYS THAT THEY MAY, THEY DON'T ALWAYS LIKE WHAT WE DO, BUT WE DO LISTEN.
AND YOU HAVE HELPED TO MAKE THIS A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE.
THANK YOU TO OUR WONDERFUL EMPLOYEES.
YOU SPEND EVERY DAY HERE SERVING THE RESIDENTS OF THIS TOWN WITH YOUR HEART AND YOUR ENERGIES.
AND I TRULY, TRULY APPRECIATE IT.
AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, YOU DO IT WITH ZEST.
THANK YOU TO OUR COMMISSIONERS AND DEPUTY COMMISSIONERS WHO SPEND COUNTLESS HOURS TO MAKE GREENBERG A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE.
AND THE AMOUNT OF TIME THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE SPENT, INCLUDING OUR EMPLOYEES DURING C O V I, WHEN THIS WAS A REALLY HARD THING TO DO.
SO I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.
THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES ON THE TOWN BOARD, THOSE WHO CURRENTLY SERVE RIGHT NOW, AND THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED BEFORE.
NOW A JUDGE, COUNCILMAN PAT PILLER, WHO I SAT NEXT TO AND USED TO WHISPER THINGS IN MY EAR TO TRY TO KEEP ME GUIDED WHEN I FIRST SAT ON THIS BOARD.
I THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR DEDICATION.
FOR ALL THOSE WHO WORK SO HARD.
DO WE ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT? WE DON'T.
WE DO WHAT WE BELIEVE WILL IMPROVE THIS TOWN.
AND WE TRY OUR BEST AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
AND I KNOW THAT THIS, EVERY MEMBER OF THIS BOARD WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
AND THOSE WHO HOLD OTHER ELECTED OFFICERS, WHETHER IT'S OUR TOWN CLERK WHO, WHO GIVES HER ALL, WHEN SHE WENT, UH, TO HER JOB, WHETHER IT'S OUR TOWN JUDGES WHO REALLY DO, AND THEY, THEY'VE TAKEN ON A TREMENDOUS WORKLOAD.
AND TO, AND, UH, I JUST SEE OTHERS SITTING HERE AND, AND THE POLICE OFFICERS THAT WE PROMOTED TODAY, IT WAS SO WONDERFUL TO SEE THEM WITH THEIR FAMILIES, TO SEE EVERYONE WITH THEIR FAMILY.
IT'S, IT'S JUST, IT, IT JUST MAKES MY HEART, UH, SMILE.
GREENBERG IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF EVERY PERSON WHO HAS SERVED.
THANK YOU GINA JACKSON, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP TO END SYSTEMIC RACISM.
THIS IS A REALLY DIFFICULT THING, AND GINA HAS TAKEN THIS JOB ON, AND SHE'S GOTTEN THE SUPPORT OF KEN AND OF FRANCIS AND OF JUDITH AND OTHERS.
IT'S JUST, IT'S, IT'S WONDERFUL TO SEE THIS GOING ON.
THANK YOU KEN JONES, WHO HAS SPENT TIME TO ADDRESS HOUSING NEEDS, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, AND TO BRING US TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU FRANCIS HAN, FOR NOT ONLY YOUR FRIENDSHIP, BUT FOR THE COUNTLESS HOURS THAT YOU SPEND GOING OVER RESOLUTIONS, DETAILS OF AGENDAS, CONTRACTS, AND NOTICES TO MAKE SURE THAT THINGS ARE DONE RIGHT SO THAT OUR CITIZENS ARE BEING PROTECTED.
THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR, YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS BEFORE.
AND I REALLY, I REALLY APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU ALL THESE YEARS.
YOU AND I HAVE HAD OUR, OUR DIFFERENCES, BUT YOU CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THIS TOWN AND YOU SPEND ALL OF YOUR TIME DEDICATED TO IT.
AND WE MAY DISAGREE, BUT YOUR HEART IS ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT PLACE.
BEST WISHES TO YOU, ELLEN, WHO WILL REJOIN THE BOARD TO BRING HER EXPERTISE AND ENERGY TO HELP THIS TOWN.
SHE CAME AND TOOK AND, AND, AND
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WAS HERE AFTER KEVIN MORGAN PASSED AWAY.AND ALL OF US HAD, HAD BEEN GRIEVING FOR QUITE A WHILE AND ELLEN WORKED HARD TO, TO FILL THAT SPOT.
LISTENING IS AN IMPORTANT SKILL.
AND IF WE ALL SPEND MORE TIME LISTENING, WE MIGHT LEARN HOW TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER BETTER.
WE NEED TO HEAR WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING.
EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY.
WE MAY NOT AGREE WITH THAT PERSON, BUT LET'S HEAR IT.
THAT DIALOGUE IS SO IMPORTANT AND THAT IS SO IMPORTANT IN WHAT GINA AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE TRYING TO DO TO END SYSTEMIC RACISM.
WE ALL HAVE A PERSPECTIVE AND WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER'S PERSPECTIVE.
WE GET, WE GET THAT BY LISTENING TO WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY.
SO WE NEED TO GIVE EACH OTHER RESPECT.
AND I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THIS TOWN.
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BEGIN, UH, THE PUBLIC COMMENTS PORTION OF THE MEETING.UM, ANYBODY LIKE TO COMMENT ABOUT ANYTHING? YES, WE HAVE BRIDGETT BROWN, JUDITH, HOW MANY SPEAKERS DO WE HAVE? ABOUT, UH, SIX.
AND A COUPLE OF STATEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE READ AND A COUPLE OF STATEMENTS.
AND JUST FOR, JUST FOR FURTHER DISCLOSURE, THIS IS, UH, DIANA NERS LAST REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING.
YOU'RE STILL GOING TO SEE WE'RE AT SOME WORK SESSIONS 'CAUSE WE'RE A BUSINESS WE DO BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR, BUT IT'S THE REGULAR TOWN BOARD MEETING.
FIRST I'D LIKE TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO COUNCILWOMAN NER.
BEST OF LUCK AND I APPRECIATE YOUR SERVICE.
I HAVE BEEN A TAXPAYER IN THE TOWN FOR 30 YEARS.
MY HUSBAND AND I INVESTED IN OUR PROPERTY AND PARKWAY HOMES BECAUSE OF THE PROPERTY VALUE, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, THE QUALITY OF SERVICE IN THE TOWN, AND THE FACT THAT WE LOVE OUR HOME NAME FOR ITS CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE BRONX RIVER PARKWAY.
PARKWAY HOMES, A SINGLE FAMILY OCCUPANCY COMMUNITY HAS BEEN AN UPPERLY MOBILE MIDDLE CLASS COMMUNITY SINCE ITS INCEPTION NEARLY A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
IT HAS COME TO MY ATTENTION IN THAT OF SEVERAL OTHER RESIDENTS THAT DURING LAST TUESDAY'S TOWN BOARD WORK SESSION, A REALTOR APPROACHED THE BOARD AND REQUESTED THAT OVER $350,000 IN TAXES AND LIENS BE WAIVED ON A PROPERTY THAT SHE RECENTLY PURCHASED IN THE COMMUNITY FOR $55,000.
YES, THE PROPERTY IS A FIXER UPPER, THE ROLE TO LEARN FROM SOME TOWN OFFICIALS THAT HER CHANCES OF HAVING THE TAXES AND LIENS FORGIVEN ARE INCREASED IF THE TOWN IS WILLING TO DESIGNATE THE PROPERTY AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING SUCH DESIGNATION WITHSTAND FOR, FOR 99 YEARS, ANY SUCH WAIVER WILL SET A PRECEDENCE AND COULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF LOWERING THE PROPERTY VALUES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
THIS REALTOR AND SEVERAL OF HER FAMILY MEMBERS ARE PRESENTLY RENOVATING ANOTHER PROPERTY IN THE COMMUNITY.
IT IS APPARENT THAT THIS REALTOR HAS NO REAL INTEREST IN MAINTAINING THE PROPERTY VALUES OF THIS COMMUNITY, AS IT WOULD BE TO HER ADVANTAGE FOR PROPERTIES TO BE DESIGNATED AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR HER TO BUY ANY OTHER SUCH PROPERTY SHE REFERENCED IN PARKWAY GARDENS ON NORTH ROAD THAT MAY BE IN FORECLOSURE IN EITHER OF THESE SISTER COMMUNITIES, PARKWAY HOMES AND OR PARKWAY GARDENS, THEREBY REDUCING THE PROPERTY VALUE ACCORDING TO SEVERAL SOCIAL MEDIA SITES WHERE SHE IS NAMED AS THE OWNER.
SHE IS IN THE BUSINESS OF FLIPPING HOME.
SO HER INTENT SEEMS TO BE ONE OF PROFIT AND NOT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OUR COMMUNITY.
YES, WE RECOGNIZE THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS GREATLY NEEDED.
HOWEVER, IT HAS BEEN THE PRACTICE FOR MUNICIPALITIES TO ASSOCIATE AND DESIGNATE AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO MULTI DWELLING DWELLING HOUSING UNITS, NOT CLEARLY AND HISTORICALLY DESIGNATED SINGLE FAMILY OCCUPANCY NEIGHBORHOODS.
WE UNDERSTAND THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING MEANS WE DO NOT WANT ANY SUCH LABELS.
WE UNDERSTAND WHAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING MEANS, AND WE DO NOT WANT ANY SUCH LABELS OR DESIGNATED PROPERTIES
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IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT MAY SERVE TO COMPROMISE OUR PROPERTY VALUES IN ANY WAY.WE DO NOT WANT ANY PROPERTY AND PARKWAY HOMES TO BE DESIGNATED OR LABELED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND WE ARE APPEALING TO YOU TO NOT AGREE TO THE REQUEST TO DO SO.
MY NAME IS ALICIA FORD AND I RESIDE IN PARKWAY HOMES AND I'M CURRENTLY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PARKWAY HOMES CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
I LIKE WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU COUNCILWOMAN JETER FOR YOUR 30 YEARS OF SERVICE.
I'VE, WE'VE SET MANY MEETINGS AND YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN FAIR.
AND I SEE YOU AT THE TOWN MEETINGS.
I SEE YOU AT THE POOL AND YOU DO GET AROUND GREENBURG.
UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR, YOU ARE WELCOME.
VE FOR ALL THAT YOU DO FOR THE TIME.
I APPRECIATE YOU AND YOU'RE MY NEIGHBOR, SO THANK YOU.
BUT I WANNA PIGGYBACK OFF OF, UM, BRIDGETTE BROWN THAT I'M AGAINST THIS, UM, WAIVER FOR THIS PROPERTY AS IT IS THE SAME OWNER THAT THE REALTOR TO THE, WHERE THIS PROPERTY HAS ANOTHER PROPERTY IN PARKWAY HOMES, FOUR BLOCKS DOWN THE STREET, TWO HOUSES IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE THAT THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST YEAR.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE FAMILY.
SO IF THIS IS A PRECEDENT, IF IT'S TAKING THEM THIS LONG TO FIX THIS ONE HOUSE, WHICH IS ONE PERSON WORKING ON IT A WEEK, SOMETIMES IT'S TWO AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO START IN ANOTHER HOUSE.
WE DON'T WANT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
I WORKED WITH THE CITY, I'VE WORKED WITH HOUSING FOR 40 YEARS, DON'T WANT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND PARKWAY HOMES.
IT WILL CHANGE THE DIMENSION OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND, UM, AGAINST IT.
AND THE SAME OWNERS THAT HAVE THIS PROPERTY, THEY'RE BREEDING CATS.
WE HAVE NINE IN 10 CATS RUNNING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE HAVE NEW NEIGHBORS THAT'S MOVING IN THAT FEEL THAT THEIR CATS ARE SUPPOSED TO ROAM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF EMAILS TELLING ME THAT I'M NOT CAT FRIENDLY AND WE SHOULD DO MORE.
THE TOWN SHOULD DO MORE FOR THE HOMELESS CATS INSTEAD OF THE HOMELESS PEOPLE.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHO, WHAT RELATIVES ARE COMING INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
NOT THEY'RE CHANGING THE WHOLE DIMENSION.
THEY'RE COMING IN WITH A LOT OF DEMANDS AND, AND WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE IT.
I'VE BEEN IN THIS COMMUNITY, MY FAMILY SINCE 1960.
I'VE BEEN IN PARKLAND HOMES SINCE 1988.
I PLAN ON BEING THERE UNTIL THE GOOD LORD CALLS ME HOME.
AND I WILL NOT BE RUN OUTTA MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
I DO NOT WANT AFFORDABLE HOUSING LISTED AS PARKLAND HOMES.
YOU KNOW, UM, I'VE BEEN KNOWING YOU CLIFF.
YOU KNOW, UM, THANK YOU CLIFF.
YOU KNOW, UM, I'M SO TIRED OF COMING UP HERE.
YOU KNOW, I'M SO TIRED OF COMING UP HERE TO ADVOCATE AND I SPOKE ABOUT THE LAST BOARD MEETING FOR EIGHT MINUTES OF HOW THE MANHATTAN AVENUE MERRILL THAT STARTED AND THEN FRANCE SAY THAT A COMMITTEE STARTED TOMORROW, I'M LOOKING BACK THE AT RICH FINE F WHO IS A COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS.
HE KNOW THE WORK I DONE PUT IN BECAUSE HIS, HIS EMPLOYEES CAME AND PICKED THE ROCKS IN FOR ME.
THEN THEY PICKED THE PAINT COLORS FOR ME, THEN THEY POWER WASH THE WALLS DOWN FOR ME.
THIS JUST DON'T HAPPEN WITH A MIRACLE.
SOMEBODY HAD THE SPEARHEADS, DID THE TOWN SUPPORT IT? OF COURSE THEY DID.
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EVERYBODY THIS COULDN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT THE TOWN.AND THAT THE TOWN, I GET THE TOWN COURAGE BECAUSE AIN'T NOBODY ELSE DOING THIS.
BUT FOR FRANCIS TO LOOK ME IN MY FACE AND TELL ME IT'S A COMMITTEE THAT DID IT.
LIKE, LIKE HE CAME UP WITH RED, BLACK AND GREEN ROCKS THAT HE CAME UP WITH 600 NAMES OF THE PEOPLE WHO GOT MURDERED BY POLICE IN AMERICA.
AND THEY SAID THEY WANT THAT ONE THING.
FRANCIS AND KING DID DO WHAT THEY DONE.
THEY DID GET PERMISSION FOR PEOPLE TO HELP OUT.
AND I SAID TO HER, HOW MUCH CREDIT DO YOU WANT? BUT SOMEBODY HAD TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
THEY MADE IT A SCHOOL PROJECT THE LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL IN THE SUMMER.
I CAME UP HERE IN 2020 OR JULY AND ASKED FOR THE MAIL TO BE DONE.
THEN AFTER THAT, THEN YOU'LL COME UP WITH A THREE PART PROJECT.
AND MR. FINE, NO, BECAUSE MR. FINE ALWAYS SAID, CLIFF, I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU.
YOU DESERVE TO GET ALL I ASKED.
I DIDN'T HAVE TO GIVE ME ALL THE CREDIT.
I SAID THIS PUT IN AN AMENDMENT THAT IT WAS ORIGINATED AND SPEARHEADED BY ME.
AND THEN YOU COULD ADD A MANY NAMES AS YOU WANT ON IT.
YOU KNOW? I MEAN, AND, AND IT JUST AMAZED ME THAT THAT'S A DIFFICULT, I ASKED GINA, I ASKED KEN, I ASKED THE P YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THE SAME DAY THAT REVOLUTION THEY GOT CAME BECAUSE OF ME.
BECAUSE WHEN MICHAEL DEN CAME TO US TO THAT COMMITTEE, HE SAID, HEY, I PICKED THE SIGN UP AND THE NEXT DAY IT WAS GONE.
IT WAS FIVE BLOCKS ON THAT COMMITTEE.
I CALLED NEWS 12 UP AND THEY ASKED ME TO COME SPEAK.
BUT I WAS DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR SOMEBODY.
AND THAT SAME, ALL LIVES CAME MATTER TO BLACK LIVES MATTER.
IT WAS RIGHT ON MANHATTAN AVENUE AND NOBODY TOUCHED IT YET.
AND IT WAS TWO 10 DAYS THAT YOU DIDN'T PUT IT BACK UP.
UH, MY NAME IS SALVATORE MORINO.
I AM CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT BIG BUILDING INSPECTOR IN TOWN OF GREENBURG PART-TIME.
FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK DIANA.
UH, I HAD A GUT FEELING ABOUT YOU WHEN I MET YOU FOR ONLY ONCE AND UH, FROM THE SUPPORT YOU HAD HERE.
I FIRST PERSONALLY WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICES FOR THE TIME OF GREENBERG.
I WAS GOING THROUGH THIS IS A BUDGET HEARING TONIGHT, CORRECT? YES.
NO, THE BUDGET, THE HEARING IS CLOSED.
YEAH, SO I WAS READING THE, UH, BUDGET FOR 2022.
AND I HAPPENED TO GO THROUGH IT AND I DID SEE SOMETHING IN THERE ABOUT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
AND THEN I HAPPENED TO GO THROUGH IT ONE MORE TIME AND I SAW A LINE ITEM OF EXPENSES.
I GO DOWN THE EXPENSES AND THERE I SEE PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT.
AND I SEE IT WAS BUDGETED FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS, OBVIOUSLY.
'CAUSE I'VE BEEN HERE SEVEN YEARS IN JANUARY IN 2022, IT'S, THERE'S ZERO BUDGETED FOR A PART-TIME EMPLOYEE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
SO I SAID TO MYSELF, OH, I GUESS I'M NOT GONNA HAVE A JOB IN JANUARY.
I LOOKED AT ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
THEY ALL HAVE PART-TIMERS, ALL GOT BUDGETED.
BUT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT THIS YEAR DID NOT GET BUDGETED FOR A PART-TIME BUILDING INSPECTOR FIRST.
I KIND OF, I FIND IT KIND OF FUNNY THAT I'M IN THE EXPENSE CATEGORY, NOT IN THE SALARIES WHERE THE, THAT OTHER LIST WAS.
BUT I GUESS THAT'S THE WAY YOU GUYS ARRANGE THE BUDGETING SEQUENCE ON THAT 200 PAGES OF, UH, BUDGETING.
I'M NOT SURE IF YOU GET TO READ ALL THIS.
UH, BUT I FEEL THAT ME AS A PART-TIME BILL INSPECTOR, I'M AN ASSET TO THIS COMMUNITY.
I HAVE TO PAY FOR MY OWN TRAINING.
I HAVE TO DO THE TRAINING ON MY OWN TIME.
I GET NO VACATION DAY AND I HAVEN'T HAD A RAISE IN SEVEN YEARS.
AND FOR SOME REASON THEY ELIMINATED, UH, A PART-TIME BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, ARE YOU GUYS AWARE OF THAT? NO ANSWERS AWARE.
ARE YOU, ARE YOU AWARE THAT THAT WAS ELIMINATED THIS YEAR? I WAS NOT AWARE.
THE BUILDING BOARD DECIDED THAT THE BOARD HAD DECIDED THAT, UH, PART-TIME IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT CREATES A CONFLICT AND THERE'S A REORG STRUCTURING OF THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT,
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UH, AS YOU KNOW, AFTER EXTENSIVE EXTENSIVE REVIEW.AND SO THE DECISION IS TO NOT HAVE PART-TIME PEOPLE WORKING IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
WELL, I DEFINITELY FIND THAT AS A KIND OF LIKE A COINCIDENCE, UH, GOING FORWARD HERE.
UM, AND I CAN PROBABLY TELL YOU, I PROBABLY DO AS MUCH WORK AS A FULL-TIME.
I CAN'T SAY AS A FULL-TIMER BECAUSE I'M ONLY THERE FOR TWO AND A HALF DAYS A WEEK.
BUT I BET YOU I PUT A GOOD THREE DAYS A WEEK IN SERVICES TO THIS COMMUNITY.
I'M GONNA STOP YOU ONE SECOND, SAL.
UM, JU YOU JUST HAVE TO STOP THE CLOCK.
I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT YOU WILL HAVE AN ADDITIONAL FIVE MINUTES IF WE GET STOPPED WHEN IT, OKAY.
SO I JUST THINK THAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW I, YOU ARE GETTING THE BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK AS HAVING A PART-TIMER IN THIS WORKING FOR THIS COMMUNITY.
UM, I, UH, I AM, I JUST CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
AND, AND NOW YOU ARE TELLING ME, FRANCIS, UH, THAT, UH, YOU SAID THE BOARD CAME TO THIS CONCLUSION AND THERE'S TWO BOARD BOARD MEMBERS HERE ALREADY STATING THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
SO NOW I'M KIND OF LIKE, SO HOW CAN THAT BE, UH, PAUL, ARE YOU AWARE OF THIS? I KNOW THAT THE, THE, THE BOARD BASICALLY DISCUSSED POLICY OF SAYING THAT EVERYBODY HAS TO WORK FULL-TIME.
UM, BUT WE HADN'T HAD TO MY, UH, RECOLLECTION, WE HAVEN'T DISCUSSED, UM, ELIMINATING ANY, ANY POSITIONS, YOU KNOW, IN THIS BUDGET.
WE HAVEN'T, WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY DISCUSSIONS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT BUDGET AS, AS A BOARD.
AND AS, AS MR. SHEEN HAD STATED, HE, HE STATED THAT BEING A PART-TIMER WAS SOMEWHAT OF A CONFLICT IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
YOU CAN ASK ANYBODY IN THIS TOWN ABOUT A SECOND IF PEOPLE HAVE A SECOND JOB.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE TRYING TO PUT AN END ANSWER THAT AND WE WANT, UH, AS A BOARD, UM, WE'RE ALL BUILDING INSPECTORS TO BE FULL-TIME.
SO SAL, CAN YOU JUST STICK AROUND FOR A MINUTE AND WE CAN GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK A LITTLE FULLER? YES.
I JUST WANNA HOLD YOU TO THE THREE MINUTES.
GIVE ANYBODY ELSE A CHANCE TO SAY OKAY.
KEITH LAWSON, THIS AFTERNOON WE GOING TO SPEAK ON JUSTICE AND THE TOWN OF GREENBERG IS NO JUSTICE.
ANYBODY THAT'S EDUCATED, KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY JUSTICE, OKAY? WE'RE GONNA START WITH AN INDIVIDUAL THAT WAS BORN AND RAISED IN GREENBURG.
HE HAVEN'T BEEN ALL THAT GOOD ALL THE TIME, BUT HE HAD DONE SOME GOOD.
AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CLIFF ABRAMS WHO STARTED THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PEARL.
AND THE REASON I BRING THAT UP IS BECAUSE LAST WEDNESDAY AT THIS MEETING, WE SAW THAT THIS BOARD, WHEN JUDY REVEALED BROUGHT UP, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM.
THIS BOARD RIGHT HERE FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBURG SIGNED ON THE DOTTED LINE, FALSIFIED A STATEMENT.
THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED IF YOU KNOW THE PEN LAW.
ANOTHER THING IS WHEN JU WHO COWORKS WITH Y'ALL, WHO IS NOT ONLY COLE WORKS WITH Y'ALL, SHE WAS VOTED IN JUST LIKE YOU ALL WAS.
BUT WHEN JU ASKED FOR SOMETHING, OH, IT SAID NO.
OKAY? WE GONNA BRING UP ANOTHER INCIDENT TONIGHT TO SHOW YOU HOW INJUSTICE THAT FRANCIS HAN JUST LIE ALL THE TIME.
A MAN IS A PART-TIMER SITTING RIGHT THERE AND ASKING EVERYBODY ON THIS BOARD.
DID YOU HEAR ABOUT MY JOB BEING, OH NO.
NOBODY ON THE BOARD HEARD IT, BUT FRANCIS SHEHAN DID.
SO I GUESS HE USED THE TOWN GREENBERG BOY.
BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, GO THERE WHERE HE LIVED, I BET YOU HE DON'T PARTICIPATE IN NOTHING BLACK OVER
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THERE BECAUSE THE ONLY THING BLACK OVER BIRD IN CEMETERY, AND IT'S NOT FAIR.IT'S NOT FAIR BECAUSE THE WHOLE BOARD IS RACIST.
STRAIGHT UP BLACK LIVES MATTER.
YOU GOT TWO BOARD MEMBERS ON THE COMMITTEE.
SO WHAT Y'ALL DO, THE TWO BOARD MEMBERS VOTES ON THE THING AND BRING IT BACK AND I GUESS THEY COMMITTED ITSELF.
EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE DOING IN THIS BOARD IS JUST STRAIGHT UP ILLEGAL.
YOU GOT TWO BLACKS, THEY OUTSIDE THE, BECAUSE THEY WHITE.
WHITE AND THERE'S NO JUSTICE IN THE TOWN OF BLOOMBERG.
OKAY, WE HAVE A STATEMENT FROM RICHARD SAVINO.
MR. FRYER, I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS WHICH HOPEFULLY YOU WILL FINALLY ANSWER TONIGHT.
WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO BE SILENT REGARDING THE 35 MILLION IN PROCUREMENT COST OVERRUNS? AND SPECIFICALLY, WHAT IS THE TOWN BOARD DOING TO RECOUP THOSE FUNDS, WHICH COULD BE USED TO ADDRESS THE CONCERNS OF FAIRVIEW AS WELL AS GREENBERG PROPER IN THE OTHER UNINCORPORATED VILLAGES? I ALSO THINK YOU HAVE BEEN VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO JUDITH BEVILLE.
MS. BEVILLE IS A VALUED PUBLIC SERVANT WHO TAKES PRIDE IN HER WORK.
WHY ARE YOU DENYING $40,000 IN FUNDS FOR HER DEPARTMENT? PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION, WHY HAVE I NOT RECEIVED RESPONSES FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS CONCERNING MY NUMEROUS FOIL REQUESTS? IT IS PUBLIC INFORMATION.
WHY IS THERE NO OVERSIGHT ON PROCUREMENT MATTERS? MS. PERIL EXPEDITES THE FOIL REQUEST TO DEPARTMENT HITS AND NOTHING HAPPENS.
SIR, WHY IS THAT? SIR? FINALLY, WHY DID YOU DISSOLVE THE PROCUREMENT STEERING COMMITTEE? I HELPED YOU CREATE, WE WERE MAKING SOME STRIDES ON THE PROCUREMENT OVERRUNS AND THEN WE PULLED THE PLUG ON THE PROJECT DURING EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I BELIEVE THIS IS THIS TO BE AN HONEST AND SINCERE QUESTION.
SPECIFICALLY, WHY DID YOU RES DISSOLVE THE PROCUREMENT STEERING COMMITTEE? I BELIEVE THE PUBLIC DESERVES ANSWERS TO WHERE THEIR TAXPAYER MONEY IS GOING.
WOULD YOU NOT AGREE, SIR? RESPECTFULLY, RICHARD SAVINO, THANK YOU.
I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT THE TOWN, WE ALWAYS, UH, MADE AN EFFORT TO, UM, UM, ENCOURAGE MORE BIDDING, BETTER PROCUREMENTS.
UM, AND I DISAGREE WITH, UH, YOUR ASSESSMENTS THAT, UH, WITH THE DOLLAR AMOUNTS THEN THE, THE POINTS YOU RAISED IN YOUR, YOUR NOTE ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLICY AND, UM, AND ALL BUDGET ITEMS ARE DECISIONS OF THE TOWN BOARD.
OKAY, THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS FROM ROB WINGATE OF TARRYTOWN.
I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER THIS BRIEF WRITTEN PUBLIC COMMENT FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING AS MAY BE FEASIBLE ON THE TOPIC OF IMPROVING SAFETY AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASE FOR RESIDENTS OF THE GREENBERG HOUSING AUTHORITY AND ITS RELATED ENTITIES.
REGRETTABLY, I AM NOT ABLE TO ATTEND IN PERSON TONIGHT.
I URGE ALL ENTITIES INVOLVED IN OFFERING HOUSING AND RELOCATION SERVICES TO RESIDENTS OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY TO CONSIDER ENACTING A REQUIREMENT THAT ALL MAINTENANCE STAFF AND VISITING PROFESSIONALS AND VENDORS AND CONTRACTORS MUST BE REQUIRED TO SHOW PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION WITHIN THE PRIOR EIGHT MONTHS TO AUTHORITY STAFF LEADERSHIP PRIOR TO SEEKING ENTRY INTO ANY RESIDENT HOME.
I URGE TOWN AND AUTHORITY AND RELATED ENTITY LEADERSHIP TO CONSIDER THE DECISION MADE BY NEW, MADE BY NEW YORK CITY, WHICH REQUIRES FULL VACCINATIONS BE COMPLETED BY ALL CITY EMPLOYEES AND INCLUDING THOSE WHO WORK WITH THE NEW YORK CITY HOUSING AUTHORITY, GREENBERG CONNECTED HOUSING ENTITIES SHOULD FOLLOW SUIT AND IF NECESSARY, DO SO IN TANDEM WITH A POLICY ALLOWING FOR A TEST OUT OPTION.
YEAH, EARLIER TONIGHT I WROTE TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, UM, THE RESIDENT, UM, YOU KNOW, HAD
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EXPRESSED SIMILAR CONCERNS.AND THEN I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT IT'S BETTER TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF BEING EXTRA, UH, YOU KNOW, CAREFUL.
AND YOU KNOW, I, I AGREE THAT, UM, IF SOMEBODY'S DOING WORK ON SOMEBODY'S, UM, YOU KNOW, HOME, THEY SHOULD SHOW PROOF, PROOF OF VACCINATION.
THEY SHOULD SHOW THAT THEY'RE, THEY DON'T HAVE, UH, COVID AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT AT THIS MEETING TODAY BECAUSE, UM, SOMEBODY TOLD ME THAT, UH, I WAS SITTING THERE THEN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY TESTED POSITIVE.
I DON'T KNOW IF I, UH, CAUGHT IT OR IF I DIDN'T.
YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS, BUT, UM, I'M TRYING TO BE CAREFUL AND I JUST THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST GETTING VERY, VERY CARELESS.
AND I WOULD HATE TO SEE, UM, ANYBODY'S LIFE BE JEOPARDIZED OR THEIR HEALTH BE JEOPARDIZED BECAUSE OF CARELESSNESS.
SO I, I DO BELIEVE THAT TENANTS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO, UM, UM, IN THE END THAT SOMEBODY SHOW A VACCINATION CARD AND PROOF THAT THEY, THEY DON'T HAVE COVID IF THEY'RE ENTERING THEIR HOME.
WE GOT PEOPLE WHO HAVE, UM, FRAIL RELATIVES.
THEY COULD HAVE, UM, MEDICAL ISSUES AND, YOU KNOW, COVID, COVID IS NOT THE FLOW.
UM, THESE VARIANTS IS, UH, SOMEBODY'S NOT, DOESN'T, IS NOT BOOSTED.
UM, WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE VACCINES.
AND THERE'S RESIDENTS OF GREENBURG WHO HAVE DIED FROM, UM, FROM COVID.
YOU KNOW, MANY RESIDENTS HAVE DIED ALL OVER THE COUNTY.
THE FINAL STATEMENT IS FROM ELIZABETH BROWN.
DEAR TOWN BOARD MEMBERS, MY NAME IS ELIZABETH BROWN, THE DAUGHTER OF DARYL AND MICHELLE BROWN.
I COME TO YOU WITH THE KNOWLEDGE PASSED DOWN TO ME FROM MY PARENTS AND MY ANCESTORS IN 2021, WE MUST STILL ASK FOR PERMISSION OF WHO MAY ENTER OUR HOME.
THIS IS THE TRUTH NOW, AND IT IS THE TRUTH OF THEN, AND IT WILL REMAIN THE TRUTH.
UNTIL HUMAN RIGHTS LAWS WERE WRITTEN, ENFORCED, AND INCLUDE THE HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS WORLD THAT ARE BLACK, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF COLOR, BLACK PEOPLE, I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS AS MY MOM ALWAYS SAYS, JUST THINK ABOUT IT.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF GREENBERG, THE NO, THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN GREENBERG IS 91,338.
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WITH COVID IN GREENBERG IN THE LAST 14 DAYS FROM NOVEMBER 29TH TO DECEMBER 12TH IS 293 PEOPLE ACCOUNTING FOR 0.0 0 3, 320 1% OF GREENBURG RESIDENTS WHO HAVE CONTRACTED COVID IN THE LAST 14 DAYS, 17% OF BLACK PEOPLE RESIDE IN GREENBURG, MAKING THE PERCENTAGE OF BLACK PEOPLE THAT HAVE COVID IN THE LAST 14 DAYS.
IN GREENBERG, APPROXIMATELY 0.16679% OF GREENBERG'S POPULATION.
THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE LIVING IN THESE COMPLEXES ARE BLACK, WHICH WE KNOW IS PART OF THE HIGH RISK POPULATION THAT DIE OR BECOME SERIOUSLY ILL ONCE THEY CONTRACT COVID.
NOW I ASK WHY IS THERE A NEED TO ASK THE TOWN THE HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR PERMISSION ON WHOM THESE TENANTS LET INTO THEIR HOME AT ALL? BUT DURING A PANDEMIC, PLEASE SPEAK.
PLEASE THINK ABOUT THAT AND KEEP THE TENANTS IN YOUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
SHOW US THAT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION IS MORE THAN JUST A PIECE OF PAPER.
BUT AGAIN, AS MY MOTHER SAYS, A WORKING DOCUMENT.
FEW SPEAKERS ON THE ZOOM, UH, SUPERVISOR FIRE AND COUNCIL.
OKAY, SO WHO'S THE FIRST SPEAKER? MS. HI, GOOD EVENING.
UM, WHAT A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT.
UM, SEEMS LIKE YOU'VE DONE MUCH THERE AND THAT THAT'S A GREAT LEGACY.
TO LEAVE, I'M SPEAK, I WANTED TO SPEAK
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ABOUT THE, UM, RESIDENTS OF THE SCATTERED SITES AS THEY'RE REFERRED TO THE FIVE COMPLEXES, GREENBURG AND GREENBURG.CURRENTLY, AS YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING THROUGH A REDEVELOPMENT AND ALSO A RELOCATION DURING A PANDEMIC.
THEY ARE NOT GIVEN THE RIGHT TO ASK WHO THEY LET INTO THEIR HOME IF THEY ARE COVID VACCINATED OR IF THEY HAVE A NEGATIVE COVID TEST.
THEY COME IN TWO AND THREE PEOPLE.
THEY ARE NOT WEARING GLOVES, THEY'RE NOT WEARING BOOTIES.
THEY DON'T EVEN WEAR AN ID BADGE.
THEY ARE JUST COMING IN AND MEASURING AND, YOU KNOW, UM, PUTTING PEOPLE AT RISK.
NOW, NO ONE IS SAYING THAT ANYBODY HAS TO GET A VACCINE.
IT'S A CHOICE, AND THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE.
HOWEVER, IN THE PRIVACY IN OF YOUR HOME, YOU HAVE AN EXPECTATION OF SAFETY IN YOUR OWN HOME.
AND IF YOU WANNA MOVE FORWARD IN THIS REDEVELOPMENT, YOU HAVE TO PERMIT PEOPLE TO COME IN TO MEASURE, WHICH, AGAIN, I DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND AND WHY.
YOU CAN MEASURE WINDOWS FROM OUTSIDE AND THERE ARE FLOOR PLANS FOR EVERY UNIT AT THOSE SITES.
HAVING HAD SAID THAT THERE IS NO MANDATE OR PROTOCOL, WE ARE IN THE HEIGHT OF THE WINTER SEASON WHERE THIS VIRUS IS MUTATING.
NOT SAYING THAT A VACCINE WILL PROTECT YOU, NOT SAYING THAT THERE'S ANY LEVEL OF PROTECTION WITH THIS VARIANT, BECAUSE THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW.
HOWEVER, IF YOU CAN'T BE SAFE IN YOUR OWN HOME, WHERE CAN YOU BE SAFE? I MEAN, IT'S NOT UNREASONABLE TO ASK A MAINTENANCE WORKER, A CONTRACTOR, ANYBODY WHO COMES INTO YOUR HOME IF THEY HAVE BEEN VACCINATED OR IF THEY HAVE A NEGATIVE TEST.
WE ARE ASKING FOR THE BOARD SUPPORT.
THIS IS A PRIVATELY OWNED COMPANY.
IT IS AN L L C THAT CONTRACTS WITH GREENBURG HOUSING AUTHORITY.
THEY ARE NOT HELD UNDER THE SAME GUIDELINE I'VE CONTACTED SECTION EIGHT.
THERE IS NO LAW ON THE BOOKS THAT SAYS THAT THE L L C CANNOT REQUIRE THEIR EMPLOYEES TO HAVE A NAME TAG, TO HAVE A MASK, TO HAVE GLOVES, TO HAVE BOOTIES, TO HAVE PROOF OF A NEGATIVE TEST OR PROOF OF VACCINATION.
ALRIGHT, MICHELLE, I GOTTA STOP YOU THERE.
YOU'LL GET ANOTHER FIVE MINUTES.
CAN I JUST ASK A QUESTION TO THE BOARD? YEAH, BECAUSE I, I FEEL THAT, UH, THIS IS A DEFINITELY A VERY LEGITIMATE ISSUE THERE.
AGAIN, AS I SAID BEFORE, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO, UM, HAVE HEALTH ISSUES AND, UM, AND IF SOMEBODY GOES TO THEIR HOUSE DOING WORK AND THEY DO HAVE MEDICAL ISSUES, IT COULD BE VERY, UH, UNSAFE FOR THEM.
FROM A STANDPOINT OF HEALTHWISE, I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT, UM, UH, WE, UM, AS A BOARD, UM, SCHEDULE A MEETING WITH, UM, UH, THE DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND, UM, AND, UH, THE INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE FOR RUNNING THE OPERATION AND, AND THE CONTRACTORS AND SEE IF WE COULD WORK SOMETHING ON UNIT ROUTE.
BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I JUST FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE LOSE A LIFE BECAUSE SOMEBODY'S BEEN CARELESS, IT'S JUST NOT WORTH IT.
AND I, I JUST REALLY, I REALLY FEEL THAT, UM, UH, THIS IS A VERY, UH, THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
THIS IS ABOUT PEOPLE'S LIFE AND PEOPLE'S, UM, SAFETY AND PEOPLE'S, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE'S, YOU KNOW, HEALTH.
I, I HONESTLY HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT, YOU KNOW, I, I I BELIEVE THAT EVERYBODY'S GETTING VERY CARELESS WITH COVID.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GO TO A RESTAURANT AND NOBODY'S WEARING MASKS, YOU KNOW, I GO TO EVENTS AND MOST OF THE TIME LAST WEEK, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, I WAS ALMOST EMBARRASSED TO WEAR A MASK BECAUSE NOBODY ELSE WAS.
UM, AND, UM, AND I, I REALLY THINK THAT WE HAVE TO START SENDING A MESSAGE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TOUGHER ON EVERYBODY AND EVERYBODY'S GONNA HAVE TO BE EXTRA CAREFUL.
OTHERWISE THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF ADDITIONAL LIVES THAT ARE GONNA BE LOST.
SO, I'D LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT THE TOWN BOARD PUT THIS ON A, FOR A WORK SESSION, INVITE THE HOUSING AUTHORITY
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TO SPEAK.I MEAN, PAUL, I MEAN, YES, WE SHOULD DO THAT, BUT I THINK IN THE, BEFORE THEY COME AND MEET WITH US, WE SHOULD ASK THEM TO SEND US, AS THEY SAID, THEY WERE GOING TO DO THE PROTOCOLS THAT THEY HAVE SENT OUT AND HAVE GIVEN OUT TO THE RESIDENTS REGARDING THE CONTRACTORS COMING ON THE PROPERTY.
SO WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS GET THE INFORMATION FROM RAJU, THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE INFORMATION THAT WAS SENT OUT TO THE RESIDENTS ON WHAT THE PROTOCOLS ARE.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'VE SEEN THE
SO WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO START, WE NEED TO CONTACT THEM FIRST AND START THEN, THEN HAVE THEM BRING, BUT WE NEED TO SEE THE PROOF OF WHAT THEY WERE SENT OUT TO THE RESIDENTS.
SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OTHER SPEAKERS, PAUL, THAT MAKES SENSE TO HAVE A MEETING, UM, WITH, FOR ME TO SPEAK TO RAJU.
I EMAILED HIM A COUPLE HOURS AGO, BUT ASKED IF WE COULD, UM, YOU KNOW, SIT, UH, GET THE INFORMATION IN, IF, IF NOT HAVE THEM AT A, A MEETING A WEEK FROM TUESDAY.
AND, BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT BETWEEN NOW AND THEN.
SPECIFIC, UM, COUNCILWOMAN, UM, I'M SORRY, I, I I DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT IN.
THEY CAN BRING THAT WITH THEM TO THE MEETING.
MICHELLE, WE GOTTA, WE GOTTA MOVE ON 'CAUSE THERE'S SOME OTHER PEOPLE WHO WANNA SPEAK AND SO WE WANT THOSE PEOPLE TO SPEAK.
SO JUDITH, I THINK YOU MENTIONED, THANK YOU STEPPED OUT, FRANCIS.
THERE ARE A COUPLE OTHER SPEAKERS.
UM, I THOUGHT THAT, UM, DEPUTIES AND SOMEBODY, RIGHT, RIGHT.
THEN DO WE WANNA GO TO THE AGENDA AND THEN COME BACK TO THEM IN THE FIVE MINUTE PERIOD? SURE.
UM, WE COULD DO THE, WE COULD DO THE AGENDA IF THEY'RE THEN COME BACK.
UM, OKAY, SO, UH, THE FIRST ITEM, THERE'S APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT DAM AS DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR.
IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK, YOU NEED TO RAISE YOUR HAND ELECTRONICALLY, AND I'M NOT READY TO DO THAT.
YOU KNOW HOW TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU'VE DONE IT BEFORE.
SO, MARY BOWDEN APPARENTLY WANTS TO SPEAK BECAUSE HE SAID WE'RE IGNORING HIM EVEN THOUGH HIS HAND ISN'T UP.
I THINK STEPHANIE, OH, NOW THE HANDS ARE GOING UP.
SO I THOUGHT THAT GARRETT SAID THAT, UM, WAS MICHELLE AND WHO ELSE? MARY BOWDEN.
OH, MARY AND PATRICIA WILLIAMS, I THINK, RIGHT? YES, STEPHANIE AND PATRICIA.
SO DID, DID MICHELLE SPEAK? MICHELLE SPOKE, YEAH, MICHELLE SPOKE.
SO NOW, MARY, OKAY, SO JUST A MOMENT.
MARY, ARE YOU THERE? WE CAN COME BACK TO HIM.
UH, FRANCIS, WHEN THEY MENTIONED MY NAME, AS OF BEING A SPEAKER, THERE'S NO REASON FOR ME TO RAISE MY HAND.
I WAS ALREADY SAID TO BE A SPEAKER.
I CAN'T EVEN SPEAK ABOUT DIANA JUMAN.
I MET DIANA MANY YEARS AGO ON THE M I S COMMITTEE.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THE SS IS.
THE FIRST WAS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION AND THAT'S WHEN THE, UH, COMPUTERS AND THE THINGS FOR BLOOMBERG WERE DESIGNED.
AND GEORGE WISENER WAS THERE, AND JERRY BY WAS THERE.
AND JERRY, UH, GEORGE, UH, DIDN'T WANT TO COMPLETE.
PAUL WAS THERE, AND, AND I CAN'T REMEMBER WHO ELSE.
AND FROM THAT MEETING EVOLVED THE SYSTEM WE HAVE NOW.
AND I JUST WANTED EVERYBODY TO KNOW, AND DIANA TO KNOW SPECIFICALLY.
IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE ALL THESE YEARS TO HAVE KNOWN YOU TO WORK WITH YOU.
AND YOU HAVE REACHED ALLIES, BOTH MY WIFE AND I, BECAUSE MOST OF YOU ALL KNOW THAT DIANA AND MY WIFE, UH, WORK TOGETHER IN I GUESS NURSE SCHOOL OR SOMETHING.
IT'S BEEN AN INTERESTING DAY TODAY.
I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS FOR, UH, SOME PEOPLE TO ACCEPT THAT.
AND I JUST TOLD, UH, JERRY THAT, UH, THAT VIDEO HE HAD THE PEOPLE IN THERE THAT I
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REMEMBER VERY WELL.AND, UH, THEY'RE NOT HERE ANYMORE.
AND, AND WHEN GEORGE LONGWORTH, UH, INTRODUCED THE, UH, NEW MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, I WOULD VERY MUCH LOVE LIFE.
I'VE BEEN THERE AND DONE IT IN PERSON.
I COULDN'T, UM, THINGS WORK OUT THAT WAY.
BUT TO THE MANY PEOPLE THAT I'VE WORKED WITH AROUND DIANA AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, STAFF MEMBERS IN GREENBURG, THANK YOU ALL.
THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU TAUGHT ME AND THE GUIDANCE YOU GAVE ME, IT WAS WORTH IT.
AND, UH, I APPRECIATE THIS OPPORTUNITY AND THIS IS THE WAY I LIKE IT.
I NEED TO SEE PEOPLE, UM, MY HEARING HAS BEEN, AND I NEED TO SEE THE LIPS AND COORDINATE IT.
IT MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR, TO UNDERSTAND IT.
WHEN YOU SPEAK THROUGH A MASK, YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT WHAT THE MEANING OF YOUR WORDS ARE OFTEN GO RIGHT BY ME.
AND WHAT I FOUND OUT ROCKEFELLER ESTATE AT ONE, THEIR PROGRAMS RECENTLY, THERE WERE AT LEAST A HALF A DOZEN PEOPLE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE SPEAKERS 'CAUSE THEY HAD A MASK ON.
BECAUSE YOU CAN UNDERSTAND PEOPLE, DOESN'T MEAN PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO ARE OLDER AND HAVE HEARING AIDS.
I APPRECIATE YOUR KIND REMARKS.
AND UM, I DO REMEMBER WE GO BACK A LONG TIME AND JEAN AND I GO BACK YES TO WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS IN NURSERY SCHOOL.
I, PATRICIA WILLIAMS. GARRETT.
WAS THERE SOMEONE ELSE THAT WE SHOULD CALL ON WHILE WE'RE WAITING FOR PAT? PAT'S COMING IN.
UM, I'M GONNA TRY TO MAKE THIS FAST BECAUSE I HAVE FIVE POINTS I WANNA SPEAK ON.
AND THE LAST ONE, THE FIRST ONE WE LEAVE, I WAS CUT OFF LAST MEETING AND I DIDN'T GET MY FIVE MINUTES AND I'D LIKE TO HAVE HIM ON THIS MEETING, BUT I WANTED TO TELL DIANA, WE'VE GONE A LONG WAY TOGETHER DOWN THIS ROAD FOR GREENBURG.
AND NOW I EXPECT EVEN MORE FROM YOU BECAUSE I WANNA SEE YOU AT THE NEXT MEETINGS.
AND THIS TIME YOU DON'T HAVE TO REACT AS A WHOLE GROUP AND YOU CAN GIVE YOUR OPINION.
AND I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT COME UP IN THE NEXT, UM, MEETINGS.
AND I KNOW YOU'LL BE THERE AND I'D LIKE YOU TO GIVE ME A CALL.
'CAUSE YOU HAVE MY TELEPHONE NUMBER,
UM, I WANTED TO GO BACK TO, UM, BRIDGET BROWN AND PARKWAY GARDENS AND PARKWAY HOMES.
AND THEY'RE SUFFERING FROM THE SAME PROBLEM THAT MY, UM, AREA IS SUFFERING FROM FAIRGROUNDS FAIRVIEW.
AND YOU CANNOT REDLINE WITHOUT OUR LOCAL POLITICIANS KNOWING THAT WE ARE REDLINING.
I THINK WE HAVE SOME OF THE BEST REPRESENTATIVES THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET IN THE, UH, IN, UH, WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
WE HAVE FOUR LAWYERS SITTING UP THERE, FIVE WITH YOU, PAUL, FIVE LAWYERS, FIVE ATTORNEYS.
YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN WHAT YOU WERE DOING.
I HAD 83 PEOPLE TO VOTE IN THE 45TH ELECTION DISTRICT.
AND I SAID, WOW, THIS IS WORSE THAN WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS.
WHEN YOU RED LINE, YOU'RE NOT ONLY JUST HURTING THE THE POPULACE, BUT YOU'RE TAKING AWAY THE LITTLE BIT OF POWER THAT WE HAVE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
HOUSES ARE BEING BOUGHT BY REAL ESTATE PEOPLE.
YOU KNOW THAT BRIDGET BROWN, I WANT YOU TO RECOGNIZE IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BEING DONE WITH FORETHOUGHT, KNOWLEDGE AND MALICE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S MALICE OR GREED, I HAVE NO IDEA.
BUT I DO KNOW WITHIN A GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME, THERE WILL BE NO BLACK PEOPLE IN, UM, FAIRVIEW FAIRGROUNDS.
IT'S GONNA BE ALL COMMERCIAL AND IT'S SCHEDULED THAT WAY.
YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? WE, Y'ALL HAD THE, I TRIED TO GET ON FOR THE, UM, THE 25 YEAR COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM,
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TOOK THE LAND USES PROGRAM TRAINING FOR THE, UM, COUNTY, NOT ONE BLACK PERSON ON IT.AND I DIDN'T KNOW IT UNTIL THE VERY END.
I FIGURED Y'ALL JUST DIDN'T WANT ME ON IT.
BUT YOU HAD NOBODY REPRESENTING MY COMMUNITY.
AND NOW YOU LOOK AT IT, PARKWAY GARDENS, PARKWAY HOMES CAME IN, ASKED ABOUT PARKING.
PAUL TURNED THE WHOLE PARKING SITUATION AROUND OVERNIGHT, ASKED MCNERNEY, HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO GET THAT PARKING, UH, NOT JUST FOR A HARSDALE, BUT FOR ALL OF UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG.
I'D LIKE MY FIVE MINUTES FROM LAST WEEK AND MY FIVE MINUTES COMING UP BECAUSE I STILL WANNA TALK ABOUT INJUSTICE.
ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE.
IT WAS A NEW HANUKKAH GIFT THAT I GOT FROM MY, UH, A LAPTOP AND, YOU KNOW, THESE NEW, UM, OBJECTS AND SO FORTH.
UM, MS. JENNER, YOU PERSONALLY PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ME BECAUSE I WAS YOUNG GROWING UP IN, UM, HIGH SCHOOL AND, UH, SO FORTH.
I WAS AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WHEN, UH, THELMA CON AND ROBERT RELOW.
UM, AND THAT'S WHEN THEY REIGNED THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
AND THAT'S WHERE I WORKED AT FROM 78 THROUGH ALL THE WAY TO 85 IN THE SCHOOL YEAR.
SO THAT'S, OH, HOW FAR BACK FROM GREENBURG.
AND I GREW UP IN PARKWAY GARDENS ALSO, AND MY FATHER STILL LIVES IN THE SAME HOUSE.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT THE PANEL, YOU ARE THE MOST SERENE LOOKING PERSON AS IF, AS THIS YOU'RE MEDITATING.
AND MY GRANDFATHER ALWAYS SAID, IF YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN A ROOM, YOU ATTENTIVELY LISTEN.
AND I'VE NOTICED THAT YOU HAVE DONE THAT AT GOING PIGGYBACKING OR MISS PATRICIA LEAVES.
THERE IS A TIME THAT WHEN YOU NEED TO TALK, THAT'S WHEN YOU TALK.
AND I THINK THAT YOU DO IT PRIVATELY, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE BEST WAY.
AS IN THE 12 ANGRY MEN WITH HENRY FONDA.
THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES.
I WISH YOU THE VERY BEST IN YOUR ENDEAVORS AND SO FORTH.
AND AS YOU SAID, WE DID LOSE A VERY BELOVED COUNCILMAN AND IT WAS VERY HARD BREAKING FOR ME BECAUSE I PER PERSONALLY KNEW HIM.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING THEM UP THIS EVENING.
NOW GETTING TO JUDITH VILLE, MS. MRS MS. JUDITH VILLE, PLEASE GIVE HER HER 40, WHATEVER IT IS THAT SHE'S ASKING.
THE 40, UH, UH, THOUSAND, 40, WHATEVER, GIVE IT TO US.
SHE, WHEN SHE BRINGS SO MUCH TO THAT POSITION AND SO MUCH DECOR AND HONOR AND REPRESENTATION.
AND SHE IS A GREAT ORATOR AND A HISTORIAN.
SO PLEASE GIVE HER WHAT SHE WANTS.
I PAID ENOUGH TAXES INTO THIS COMMUNITY FOR MRS. JUDITH BEVILLE TO GET WHAT SHE WANTS.
ALSO, ANOTHER, UH, THING THAT I'D LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT MAUR, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR, UH, TALKING ABOUT THAT, THAT MASS ISSUE.
I WAS VERY UPSET OVER THAT, HOW THAT WENT DOWN WITH YOU.
'CAUSE YOU'RE ONE OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE WHEN I WATCH YOU ON ZOOM AND IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOUR FACE.
UM, I'D LIKE TO SAY GOOD EVENING TO THE REST OF THE PANEL.
TO KEN JACK, UH, KEN JONES, UH, MS. GINA, UH, JACKSON, AND OF, OF COURSE MY BELOVED MISS JUDITH DEVILLE AND MR. FRANCE, FRANCIS
I HAD AN INCIDENT THAT HAD HAPPENED QUITE A, A WHILE, WELL, NOT SO FAR BACK, BUT IT
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HAPPENED AROUND, UM, UH, EPTEMBER 29TH.I HAD ONE OF THE GREENBERG, UH, HEIGHTS LICENSED L L C MAINTENANCE MAN COME TOWARDS ME WITH A WEEDED WHACKER.
AND THEN THE NEXT THING I KNOW, HE WAS GETTING READY TO PUT THE WEEDED WHACKER BY MY ANKLE AND I JUST CUT MY ANKLE OFF.
I'M HAD, DO I GET FIVE MINUTES AFTER LATER? AM I, AM I MINUTES UP LATER? LATER.
YOU HAVE TO COME BACK, MS. YOU HAVE TO COME BACK, MS. FINE.
SO I THINK THAT'S THE LAST, UM, SPEAKER PAUL, RIGHT? IF I'M CORRECT AGENDA AT, AT THIS POINT, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO THANK MS. SWAN, UH, MR. SAVINO AND KEITH LAWSON FOR SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE NEEDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK.
[ TB 2 - 12/13/2021 Resolution appointing Assistant Building Inspector Robert Dam as Deputy Building Inspector ]
UH, APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT DIANO AS DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR.EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 21ST, CTV TWO
UM, CAN, CAN I ASK, CAN, CAN I ASK THAT WE HOLD, HOLD THAT OVER AND, AND HOLD OVER T V TWO AND CAN WE HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING TOMORROW? UM, 'CAUSE I, I, I REALLY WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, UM, APROPOS PAUL, OF WHAT YOU SAID IN YOUR EMAIL EARLIER AND OUR DISCUSSIONS GENERALLY AROUND WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
SO I AT LEAST HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE, ARE I JUST, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I, I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT, WHAT'S HAPPENING.
SO I SUGGEST THAT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE ACTUALLY HOLD OVER THE BUDGET BECAUSE ONCE YOU CHANGE SOME LINES, YOU'RE CHANGING OTHER LINES.
UM, BUT I, I REALLY RESPECTFULLY ASK, ASK AND NOT BE TOMORROW.
'CAUSE TOMORROW'S A MAJOR EXAM DAY AND THERE'S NO WAY, WELL, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT HAPPENED BEFORE THE DEADLINE.
IT CAN BE ANYTIME AS THE 20TH.
AS LONG AS IT, AS LONG AS WE, WE DO IT BEFORE THEN.
UM, I JUST WANNA JUST CLARIFY, MY IN MY MIND HAPPENS.
YEAH, THE 20TH BOB DAM CAN'T STAY AS INTERIM RIGHT AS THE 20TH.
SO WE HAVE TO DO IT BEFORE THE 20TH, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO DO THE BUDGET BY THE 20TH.
BUT WE DON'T WANNA GO TO THE LAST DAY IN CASE THERE'S A SNOW STORM.
SO WHATEVER, WHATEVER DAY IS BEST FOR, WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT DAY WE CAN HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING.
UM, SO YOU'VE HAD BETWEEN TOMORROW AND MONDAY.
SO IT'D HAVE TO BE TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY OR FRIDAY.
SO WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY OR FRIDAY.
MATTER OF FACT, I'D LIKE TO START OUR WORK SESSION AT FIVE O'CLOCK IF POSSIBLE.
TOMORROW, TOMORROW, WEDNESDAY.
WELL, I'M SORRY, DID YOU SAY TOMORROW? YEAH, I HE COULDN'T DO TOMORROW? NO, NO, HE CAN'T CAN'T DO TOMORROW.
HE JUST CAN'T DO WANTS AND HE WANTS TO START AT FIVE.
HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO A TIME BOARD MEETING, A SPECIAL MEETING.
CAN WE HAVE A CLEAR, UH, MOTION HERE? I THINK THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT.
UH, JUDITH, AM I TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A CLEAR MOTION? OKAY.
DOES, DOES FRIDAY WORK FOR PEOPLE? FRIDAY THE 17TH? THAT'S FINE.
CHECK WHAT, WHAT TIME AFTER WORK HOURS? YEAH.
ARE WE, SO WE LOOKING AT FOUR 30 OR NORMAL HANG FOUR 30.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE DIANE'S JUST CHECKING.
IS THAT OKAY WITH YOU FRANCIS? SURE.
DOES THAT WORK FOR YOU, PAUL? FOUR 30 ON FRIDAY? YEAH, SO I MATCHES THE 17TH, FOUR 30.
IT'S, AND I SEE ELLEN ON THE SCREEN AND I'M SURE SHE WORKS FOR HER AS WELL.
DOES THAT WORK FOR YOU, ALAN? YES.
SO THAT'S A, YEAH, TOMORROW'S, I'M GONNA GET TESTED FOR, UH, THE, THE COVID TOMORROW'S, SO SHOULD I PARTICIPATE AGAIN? UH, YOU KNOW, REMOTELY BY, BY ZOOM AT THE WORK SESSION TOMORROW? UH, IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR RESULTS, I WON'T GET 'EM, BABE.
YEAH, I'M SURE I'M NOT GONNA HAVE THE RESULTS TOMORROW.
ARE ARE YOU ONLY GONNA GET TESTED TOMORROW? IS THAT IT? YEAH, I, I JUST FOUND OUT TODAY AT TWO AND, UH, FROM, UH, MEREDITH ROBSON THAT YEAH, YOU, THAT THERE WAS, THAT SOMEBODY WAS, UH, POSITIVE.
SO HAD ENOUGH TIME TO, TO GO AND GET TESTED.
EVEN THOUGH YOU ARE VACCINATED AND YOU HAVE YOUR BOOSTER, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU CAN, CAN'T BE A TRANSMITTER.
SO YOU COULD, I I DON'T MIND, YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE NO SYMPTOMS BUT YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA GET ANYBODY ELSE SET.
SO CAN YOUR MOTION, IS THAT THE BOARD, UM, HAVE, WE CAN SET THIS UP AGAIN FRIDAY? YES.
SO WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THE BUDGET.
SO WE'LL VOTE, VOTE ON THE BUDGET ON FRIDAY AT THE SAME TIME, RIGHT? CORRECT.
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THERE.ELLEN HAS TO APPEAR BY WARRANTED TB TWO TWO AND I GUESS THE BUDGET WE COULD HAVE ANOTHER, UM, UH, CEREMONY HONORING DIANA BECAUSE THAT'S, THIS WAS NOT THE LAST MEETING.
COULD YOU, YOU, YOU'RE STRAIGHT ON THE MOTION DECISION ON THE BUDGET AND THE SECOND, OKAY, HOLD ON.
IS THIS, UM, IS THIS THE MOTION? CAN JONES MOVE TO HOLD OVER TB TWO AND THE VOTE ON THE BUDGET UNTIL FRIDAY 1217 DURING WHICH A SPECIAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 4:30 PM YES.
SECOND, AND WE MAY MAY ALSO CONSIDER TB THREE AND T Y ONE, WHICH IS BEING HELD OVER GINA SECONDED IT JUDITH.
OKAY, SO WE'RE OVER T TB THREE TB.
IT'S TB TWO AND TB THREE AND THEN T Y ONE.
AND TO BE CLEAR, TOMORROW IS GONNA BE A FIVE 'CAUSE FRANCIS CAN'T MAKE IT AT FOUR 30.
SO THE WORK, SO, SO WE MAKE SURE.
SO IS IT NOTICED ON THE WEBSITE THAT IT'S AT FOUR 30 FOR THE, FOR THE WORK SESSION? YEAH, BUT WE CAN CHANGE THAT.
YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE IT LATER.
I JUST WANNA MAKE EVERYBODY ELSE IS AWARE THAT'S GONNA START AT FIVE AND NOT AT 4:00 PM TOMORROW'S WORK SESSION WILL START AT 5:00 PM AND TOMORROW'S WORK SESSION IS ONLY, UH, THE BUILDING INSPECTORS RIGHT? THAT WE'RE INTERVIEWING.
IT'S GONNA BE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
I DON'T BELIEVE THERE'S ANY OPEN SESSION ITEMS UNLESS I KNOW I DON'T OKAY.
AN APPOINTMENT FOR VICE CHANDLER TO THE ORDER ADVISORY BOARD RETURN TO EXPIRE DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.
OKAY, PAUL? I'M SORRY, PAUL, I'M SORRY, WHERE ARE YOU ON THE SECOND APPOINTMENT? THE SECOND APPOINTMENT.
SO YOU'RE MOVING THE APPOINTMENT FOR LAURA SPICE SANDLER? YES.
ALL IN FAVOR, PAUL? AYE, AYE, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO EXECUTE A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT WITH R M C DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
THAT'S BEING, THAT'S BEING HELPFUL, RIGHT? WE HAVE NO INFORMATION WHATSOEVER REGARDING THIS.
WE'VE NEVER DISCUSSED IT AT A WORK SESSION AND IT'S TALKING ABOUT US MAINTAINING SOMETHING IN PERPETUITY.
IT SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING THAT THIS SHOULDN'T BE THROWN ON IN AGENDA.
[ AT 1 - 12/13/2021 Resolution approving the retention of Thomas J. Troetti, Esq., to represent Greenburgh Police Officer Joseph Falcone in the matter of Tina Scolpini v. the Town of Greenburgh, et al, for an amount not to exceed $25,000]
APPROVING THE ATTENTION OF THOMAS TRADY, UH, TO REPRESENT GREENBURG POLICE, JOSEPH D COLLIN IN THE MATTER OF, UM, TINA NEY VERSUS TOWN OF GREENBURG IN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 25,000 BACK.[ AT 2 - 12/13/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner 2269 SMRR LLC for property located at 2269 Saw Mill River Road. The Town’s share of the refund is $47,746±; the County’s share is $27,000±; the Bronx Valley Sewer District’s share is $3,604±; the Fairview Fire District’s share is $37,444±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc District’s share is $1,610±; the Elmsford Union Free School District’s share is $153,949±. Refunds from all sources total $271,354±]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SIR ARI SETTLEMENT OF PETITIONER, UM, T 2 6 9 SS M R R, THE PROPERTY LOCATED THERE, 2 2 6 9 SOWELL RIVER.OUR ROLE, THE TOWN SHARE OF THE REFUND IS 47,746.
SO SOURCE SERVE, UH, 270 1003 54 BY TO THAT SECOND.
SO I'M NOT SURE IF WE DID TB ONE.
CAN YOU JUST GO BACK TO TB ONE? WE DID A TB ONE OVER AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MEETING.
DIANA, UM, ABSTAINED AND, UH, KEN.
[ AT 3 - 12/13/2021 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Grayrock Associates, LLC for property located at 531 Central Avenue. The Town’s share of the refund is $15,805±; the County’s share is $10,312±; the Bronx Valley Sewer District’s share is $1,183±; the Greenville Fire District’s share is $9,318±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc District’s share is $541±; the Edgemont Union Free School District’s share is $52,323±. Refunds from all sources total $89,482±]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX,PETITIONER GRAY ROCK ASSOCIATES FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5 31, UH, CENTRAL AVENUE.
THE TOWN SHARE OF REFUND IS 15,000 8 0 5.
REFUNDS FROM ALL SERVICES 89 4 8 2.
[ CD 1 - 12/13/2021 Resolution adopting a Local Law creating Chapter 335 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh entitled “Cannabis” which relates to opting out of allowing Adult-Use On-Site Cannabis Consumption Sites from locating within the Town of Greenburgh as authorized under Article 4 of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act]
UH, PROCEED.DID WE WANT TO HAVE A DISCUSSION AT A, AT A WORK SESSION ON, YOU KNOW, ON THAT? YOU KNOW, I, I AGREE WITH THE CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS THAT WE SHOULD, THAT THIS IS REALLY, WE NEED MORE INFORMATION.
UM, I KNOW SOME PEOPLE DISAGREE WITH ME.
I RESPECT YOUR RIGHT TO DISAGREE.
I JUST WANNA KNOW IF I, YOU WANNA VOTE ON IT NOW OR YOU WANNA VOTE IT ON FRIDAY? I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
WELL, I, I I, I DID ADD, UH, THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IS THAT ANY, ANY REVENUE THAT COMES FROM THIS WOULD GO TOWARDS DRUG, UM, SOCIAL SERVICES.
SOCIAL SERVICES, INCLUDING DRUG
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TREATMENT PROGRAMS. UH, AND IT DOES, IT DOES, THE RESOLUTION DOES STATE THAT, YEAH.UM, WE HAVE TO DETERMINE WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY'RE GOING, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
I WOULD'VE JUST LIKE, GET EVERYTHING DONE ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
UM, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST SORT OF FEEL THAT MY, I I BUT IT CAN'T BE DONE AT THE SAME TIME.
YOU COULD DO IT AT THE SAME TIME IF WE OPT OUT.
ARE YOU LOOKING TO HOLD IT OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING OR, OH, YOU WANNA DO IT TONIGHT? YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO NO, I'M, I'M NOT HOLDING IT OVER.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT IT'S OKAY.
UM, YOU KNOW, I, I PERSONALLY WOULD RATHER MOVE MORE CAUTIOUSLY, BUT A LOT OF COMMUNITIES IN WESTCHESTER ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE OPTING OUT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'RE BASICALLY GONNA SEE WHAT THE STATE REGULATIONS ARE SAYING.
THEY RECOGNIZE THAT THE STATE IS MOVING CAUTIOUSLY WITH THE ROLLOUT OF GUIDELINES.
UH, EVEN IF WE OPT IN, UM, YOU KNOW, RIGHT.
AND ALLOW THE, UH, DISPENSARIES, UM, IT'S PROBABLY NOT GONNA BE, UH, IMPLEMENTED FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER YEAR.
SO I I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THERE'S NO DOWNSIDE TO, UM, TO TAKING OUR TIME, UM, UH, TO GET MORE INFORMATION TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE, WHAT OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE DOING, AND THEN TO MAKE, UM, A DECISION.
AND I ALSO FEEL THAT, UM, WE COULD WORK WITH THE CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS AND, UM, IF, YOU KNOW, AND BASICALLY ROLL OUT EVERYTHING AT, YOU KNOW, AT THE, YOU KNOW, AT THE SAME TIME, I DO HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOME CONCERNS, UM, WHEN POLICE CHIEF INDICATED THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CAN'T, IT'S DIFFICULT TO, UH, TEST PEOPLE WHO ARE HIGH ON, ON CANNABIS, UM, UH, WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING, YOU KNOW, HE HAD EXPRESSED CONCERNS AT THE LAST MEETING ABOUT, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, SAFETY.
YOU KNOW, I JUST AM NERVOUS ABOUT, UH, SOME OF THE SAFETY ISSUES.
I'D JUST LIKE TO REACH OUT TO, UM, STATE OFFICIALS AND MOTOR VEHICLES, THE STATE, THE STATE POLICE, JUST GET A LITTLE BIT MORE, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION.
AND WHEN IT BECOMES CLEAR THAT WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS THE OBSTACLES AND ISSUES REGARDING SUCH DISPENSARIES, UH, UM, THEN I, I WOULD FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE, YOU KNOW, REVISITING, UM, YOU KNOW, THE MATTER.
AND AGAIN, UH, I MEAN, WE DID HEAR FROM THE COUNCIL OF CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS AND IN GREENBERG THEY WERE OVERWHELMINGLY, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY OVER OVERWHELMINGLY THOUGHT THAT WE SHOULD, UM, YOU KNOW, SHOULD DELAY AND, AND DO A LITTLE BIT MORE DUE DILIGENCE.
AND, YOU KNOW, I SUPPORT THEIR, UM, THEIR, UH, YOU KNOW, THEIR PHILOSOPHY.
BUT AGAIN, EVERY BOARD MEMBER HAS TO DO WHAT THEY HONESTLY THINK IS IN THE INTEREST OF THE TOWN.
I, I FEEL, YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL THAT PEOPLE COULD, REASONABLE, PEOPLE COULD DIFFER ON THIS.
AND OBVIOUSLY IN MOST COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, JUST PEOPLE WHO ARE FOREIGN AND THE PEOPLE ARE AGAINST IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I RESPECT YOUR, YOUR VIEWS ON THIS.
SO JU JUST SO I'M CLEAR, IS THERE A MOTION AND A SECOND? THERE WAS NOT.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND AND THEN A DISCUSSION.
YEAH, BUT SO PAUL, YOU NEVER MADE THE MOTION ON THAT? NO, I'M NOT MADE BECAUSE I'M, UH, I'M GONNA BE VOTING.
HE'S STILL GONNA MAKE THE MOTION.
SO IS THERE A MOTION? SO, SO I'LL MAKE THE MOTION.
SO, SO CD ONE, UH, RESOLUTION ADOPTING A LOCAL LAW, CREATING CHAPTER 3 35 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG ENTITLED CANNABIS, WHICH RELATES TO OPTING OUT OF ALLOWING ADULT USE ON SITE CANNABIS CONSUMPTION SITES FROM LOCATING WITHIN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, AS AUTHORIZED UNDER ARTICLE FOUR OF THE MARIJUANA REGULATION AND TAXATION ACT, I HEREBY MOVE CD.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND.
SO DO YOU HAVE DISCUSSION OR NO, NO, NO, NO.
OH, UH, I DIDN'T HEAR THE SAME THING AS YOU HEARD, UH, MR. SUPERVISOR AT THE LAST MEETING FROM THE TOWN CHIEF, UH, FROM THE POLICE CHIEF.
SO I CALLED HIM AND I ASKED HIM WOULD THERE BE ANY GREATER RISK TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IF A DISPENSARY WAS LOCATED INSIDE THE BORDER OF GREENBURG VERSUS BEING IN WHITE PLAINS OR IN ONE OF THE VILLAGES THAT HAVE CHOSEN TO, UH, TO HAVE DISPENSARIES.
RIGHT? AND SO, UM, THE RESOLUTION THAT WE HAVE, WE HAVE BEFORE US ADDRESSES ALL THE THINGS THAT WE CAN'T REGULATE.
WE CAN'T REGULATE PEOPLE SMOKING POT ON THE SIDEWALK WALKING DOWN THE STREET.
AND THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, NEW YORK STATE HAS PRESENTED A PRE PREEMPTED US FROM DOING
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THAT.WE CAN'T PREEMPT SOMEBODY FROM GROWING POT IN THEIR HOME OR APARTMENT.
NEW YORK STATE HAS PRE PREEMPTED US FROM DOING THAT.
AND SO THERE WILL BE MARIJUANA IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
THERE'S NOTHING THIS BOARD CAN DO TO STOP THAT.
THE QUESTION REALLY IS FOR ME, AND IT CAME FROM THE PUBLIC HEARING, IS DO WE WANT TO HAVE STATUS QUO AND HAVE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T NECESSARILY TRAVEL, UH, DON'T HAVE A CAR, DO WE WANT THEM TO HAVE DIFFICULTY IN GETTING PURE MARIJUANA THAT'S REGULATED AND TESTED BY PROFESSIONAL CHEMISTS? OR DO YOU WANT THEM TO JUST GET THE STREET MARIJUANA, WHICH WE KNOW IS COMMONLY LACED WITH FENTANYL AND OTHER OTHER DRUGS THAT CAN KILL THEM? AND SO I, I THINK THERE'S AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE THAT A DISPENSARY WHERE THERE'S NO SALE, NO, UH, UH, ON ONSITE CONSUMPTION.
UM, UH, I, UH, AFTER SPEAKING WITH THE POLICE CHIEF, THERE'S NO GREATER RISK TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, THE REGULATIONS.
THERE ARE REGULATIONS REGARDING DISPENSARIES.
IT SAYS THAT WE CAN SET TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER.
WE WERE ALSO FACED WITH TIME, PLACE, AND MATTER WHEN IT WAS DEALING WITH ADULT USE FACILITIES.
AND WE DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF COMING UP WITH TIME, PLACE, AND MATTER FOR THOSE.
'CAUSE YOU DON'T SEE THOSE ALL OVER THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
SO I THINK WE CAN HANDLE THIS.
AND SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, UH, SOME OF THE COMMENTS SO THAT WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY I VOTE YES, UM, THAT'LL BE WHY.
AND THAT WAS A VOTE YES, BY THE WAY.
AND YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT, UM, UH, THERE'S, UM, A STATEMENT FROM THE MID-HUDSON ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE, UM, YOU KNOW, EXPRESSING, YOU KNOW, CONCERNS, UM, ABOUT, ABOUT CANNABIS.
AND, YOU KNOW, AS, AS, UH, POLICE CHIEF, UH, LONGWORTH SAID, RIGHT NOW, THERE'S NO, UM, NO ABILITY, UM, TO TEST IF SOMEBODY'S HIVE WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY MAKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY MAKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU MAKE THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY MAKE AN ARREST OR SOMEBODY'S DRIVING, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ERRATIC ERRATICALLY.
UM, YOU, I HAVE, BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, YOU MADE THE DECISION AND WE CAN, I MEAN, THERE'S SOME COMMUNITIES IN WESTCHESTER THAT ARE ALLOWING, UM, CANNABIS, SOME THAT, THAT, THAT AREN'T.
SO IF IT'S HAPPENING, WHETHER WE WERE ADOPTED OR WE'RE NOT, AND WE DID ADOPT IT RIGHT NOW, SO, UM, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL DO THE BEST WE CAN.
WELL, I WOULD, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY SAY ABOUT, UH, WHETHER OR NOT THE, UH, CANNABIS SHOULD BE LEGAL BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY BEEN DECIDED BY THE STATE LEGISLATURE.
WE ARE JUST GOING TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT WE SHOULD HAVE A, A PLACE THAT WE WOULD WORK ON LATER ON THROUGH OUR ZONING REGULATIONS.
SO, UH, AND I AND I DO AGREE, UH, WITH, UH, FRANCIS, THAT IT IS A BIG ISSUE IN TERMS OF WHAT IS IN, ON STREET MARIJUANA AND HOW IT CAN HARM SO MANY PEOPLE.
AND THAT, THAT IS A BIG, BIG CONCERN.
AND THE, THE CONCERNS THAT THE POLICE CHIEFS HAVE ABOUT, UH, TESTING THOSE TESTS DON'T EXIST YET.
THERE'S, THERE ISN'T ANYTHING OUT THERE THAT CAN BE DONE AT THIS POINT.
SO, UH, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT THAT POINT CLEAR.
AND WE ALSO HAVE IN OUR RESOLUTION THAT ANY REVENUE THAT IS GENERATED FROM THIS, UH, WILL BE USED FOR SOCIAL, SOCIAL PROGRAMS INCLUDING, UM, DRUG, DRUG, UH, TREATMENT PROGRAMS. RIGHT? AND I THINK THAT ON A POSITIVE, UH, NOTE, THE TOWN BOARD IS NOT PLANNING TO, UH, PUT, UH, THE DISPENSARY ALLOW DISPENSARIES ON EAST DALE AVENUE ON CENTRAL AVENUE ON ONE 19.
UM, YOU KNOW, MOST OF SUN RIVER, UM, ROAD, YOU WERE BASICALLY LOOKING AT, UM, INDUSTRIAL, YOU ARE LOOKING AT INDUSTRIAL AREAS PROBABLY CLOSER TO WHERE, UH, CAPTAIN LAUREN, THE CAPTAIN LAUREN'S NEIGHBORHOOD IS, UM, RATHER THAN RESIDENTIAL, RESIDENTIAL AREAS.
WE'RE NOT THERE YET, RIGHT? BUT I JUST WANT PEOPLE WHO ARE, UH, WHO HAVE SOME CONCERNS TO REALIZE THAT THE INTENT OF THE BOARD IS NOT TO PUT IT, YOU KNOW, ON THIS SHOULD BE PROBABLY A GOOD TIME.
THIS SHOULD BE A, PROBABLY A GOOD TIME
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TO GO INTO CD TWO.PAUL, SINCE YOU'RE SO PAUL, I JUST WANNA GET CLEAR.
MAKE, UH, UNDERSTAND YOU VOTED NO TO CD ONE, RIGHT? OKAY.
AND, UH, UH, SO C AND ACCESS, I JUST HAVE TO SAY THIS 'CAUSE I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO REALLY BE THAT NAIVE.
HAVING A CAR TO GET TO PURE, PURE DRUGS IS NOT THE ISSUE.
DO YOU HAVE THE MONEY TO BUY A MORE ADVANCED PURE DRUG OR DO YOU NOT HAVE THE MONEY? IT'S NOT ABOUT HAVING TRANSPORTATION TO GET TO IT.
[ CD 2 - 12/13/2021 Resolution directing the Department of Community Development and Conservation to draft a Local Law regulating time, place, and manner, associated with Adult-Use Recreational Cannabis Dispensaries]
RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION, UM, UH, TO, WE HAVE TO LOCAL LAW, UH, REGULATING, UM, TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER ASSOCIATED WITH ADULT USE.RECREATIONAL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES.
AND WE'RE NOT ALLOWING LOUNGES, ONLY DISPENSARIES, RIGHT? THERE ARE NO LOUNGES.
[ CO 1 - 12/13/2021 Resolution authorizing Fiscal Year 2021 budget transfers]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING FISCAL YEAR 2021.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.
[ CO 2 - 12/13/2021 Resolution authorizing binding various Liability, Property, Crime and Workers' Compensation coverages for 2022]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING BINDING VARIOUS LIABILITY, PROPERTY PRIME AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION COVERAGE FOR 2022.[ PR 1 - 12/13/2021 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh Department of Parks and Recreation to go out to bid for paper goods, athletic supplies, T-shirts, landscape supplies, grounds maintenance supplies, turf & landscape equipment, pool supplies, professional tree service, turf fertilization, arts & crafts supplies, security guard services, outdoor clock for DeSanti Plaza and bus transportation services]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION, UH, TO GO OUT TO BID FOR PAPER BIDS.ATHLETIC, UM, UH, SUPPLIES, T-SHIRTS, LANDSCAPES, SUPPLIES, GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES, TURF AND LANDSCAPE EQUIPMENT, UH, POOL SUPPLIES, PROFESSIONAL, UH, TREE SERVICES, TURF FERTILIZATION PARTS AND CRAFT SUPPLIES.
SECURITY GUARD SERVICES, OUTDOOR CLOCK FOR DESCENTING PLAZA AND BUS TRANSPORTATION SERVICES.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE, ADD SECOND IN FAVOR? AYE.
RESOLUTION AWARDING, UH, QUOTATION FOR SELF, UH, LEVELING, UH, SILVER.
PO ONE PO TWO A PO TWO PO TWO TWO PO.
[ PO 2 – 12/13/2021 Resolution appointing Gennaro Cerqua, Joseph Kelly and Jonathan Wolf-Davidson as Entry-Level Police Officers]
RE RESOLUTION APPOINT, UH, JAN S KAY, JOSEPH KELLY, AND JONATHAN WOLF.AS INJURY LEVEL POLICE OFFICERS, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.
[ PW 1 - 12/13/2021 Resolution awarding quotation for Self-leveling Sewer Camera Head and Cable to Alliance Technology, L.L.C., the lowest quotation, for an amount not to exceed $7,292]
AYE.AWARDING QUOTATION FOR SELF-LEVELING SILVER CAMERA, ADDING CABLE TO ALLIANCE TECHNOLOGY FOR LOWEST QUOTATION FOR AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 7,000 TO NINE.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE, ADD SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.
[ PW 2 - 12/13/2021 Resolution authorizing a Five-Year Water Rate Plan for the Greenburgh Consolidated Water District No. 1 to ensure funding for infrastructure improvements]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A FIVE YEAR WATER RATE PLAN FOR GREENBERG'S CONSOLIDATED WATER, UH, DISTRICT NUMBER ONE TO ENSURE FUNDING FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS.AND RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING YOUR CONTRACT WITH WEST COUNTY DEPARTMENT BEING HELD OVER? HELD OVER.
AND, UH, BEFORE WE, UM, HAVE THE SPEAKERS FOR A SECOND, UH, TIME.
I JUST WANNA, AGAIN, THANK THE BOARD FOR, UH, LETTING, UM, ME PARTICIPATE BY, UM, BY ZOOM.
AND, YOU KNOW, I HOPE, UH, IN THE COMING YEAR AS COVID BECOMES MORE PREVALENT, ANYONE WHO HAS EVEN THE SLIGHTEST, THERE'S EVEN A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY OF HAVING THE FLU OR A COLD OR A COUGH OR SICKNESS THAT, UH, YOU'LL DO THE SAME THING AND, UH, MEET REMOTELY.
BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S PEOPLE WHO HAVE HEALTH ISSUES AND, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANNA GET ANYBODY SICK.
SO I, I THINK THAT THIS WORKED OUT REALLY GREAT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I HOPE THAT EVERYBODY ON THE BOARD DOES THE SAME THING.
UM, WHEN, YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU FIND THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE EXPOSED, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT PROBABLY EVERYBODY HERE IS GONNA AT SOME POINT BE EXPOSED, UH, TO COVID BECAUSE IT'S SO, SO PREVALENT.
I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UM, GREENBURG HEALTH CENTER FOR DOING AN AMAZING JOB.
THEY REALLY ARE TREMENDOUS ASSETS.
AND WE GIVE, UM, VACCINES, NO APPOINTMENT BOOSTERS, NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY EVERY MONDAY AND, AND WEDNESDAY, UH, FROM 10, YOU KNOW, TO THREE.
WE ARE SO LUCKY THAT THE GREENBURG HEALTH CENTER IS SUCH A TREMENDOUS ASSET TO OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, PAUL, UM, THE TOWN CONTROLLER, ROBERTA ROMANO RAISED AN ISSUE ABOUT MUNI AND THE BUDGET.
AND ROBERTA, MAYBE YOU SHOULD COME UP THAT MAY AFFECT THE TOWN'S, UM, ABILITY TO, UM, ADOPT THE BUDGET, UM, AFTER, UM, THURSDAY.
SO SHE'S GONNA EXPLAIN WHY AND IS SUGGESTING THAT PERHAPS WE WANT TO HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING ON WEDNESDAY.
ROBERTA, WHY DON'T YOU EXPLAIN THAT? THEY ARE STARTING A MUNI UPGRADE STARTING ON THURSDAY AT 12 O'CLOCK, AND THEY WILL BE WORKING THROUGH THE WEEKEND
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WITH THE UPGRADE.IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG, WE MIGHT NOT GET IT OUT IN TIME.
SO WE'LL PROBABLY DOING SO WHEN YOU GET WHEN OUT IN TIME, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? HOW, HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO THE PRINTING OF THE BUDGET, THE PRINTING OF IT, WE'VE GOTTA BRING IT ALL TOGETHER.
SO, SO THAT WAS GONNA BE, WHAT'S GONNA BE THE, IF WE DON'T, SO IF WE DON'T VOTE ON, IF WE VOTE ON WEDNESDAY, WE'LL, I'M, I'M SO CONFUSED WITH THOSE DELAYED.
IF YOU VOTE ON WEDNESDAY, WE CAN GET IT DONE HOPEFULLY IN THE MORNING.
THE BUDGET BOOK, THE BOOK TO PUT IT ALL TOGETHER TO PRINT IT OUT.
WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE A BUDGET BOOK? WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE PRINTED OUT? WELL, WE SHOULD BE FILING THE BUDGET WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE, BUT IT HAS TO BE BEFORE THE 20TH.
IT HAS TO BE AN ACTUAL PHYSICAL PAPER BOOK.
IT'S GOTTA, IT'S GOTTA BE THE BUDGET, BUT IT'S GOTTA BE, SURE, IT COULD BE THE BUDGET, BUT DOES IT HAVE TO BE A PAPER BOOK? NO, I THINK HE'S SAYING IF, IF WE ADOPT A BUDGET ON FRIDAY MM-HMM.
AND YOU'RE SAYING YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PREPARE IT BY THE 21ST BECAUSE THE 20TH T THE 20TH.
IF WE MAKE CHANGES, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE'S FILING? YES.
SO YOU'RE SAYING THE PHYSICAL DOCUMENT CAN'T BE FILED BECAUSE IT WON'T BE CREATED BY THE 20TH.
AND, AND YOU THINK THAT'S A LEGAL IMPEDIMENT BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE FILED PHYSICALLY 200 PAGES.
I'M NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE, BUT THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT I NEED TO FILE IT.
I THINK THAT'S A 20TH TEN'S QUESTION WHETHER IT COULD BE FILED ELECTRONICALLY.
THAT ELECTRONICALLY IS THE QUESTION.
CAN IT BE FILED ELECTRONICALLY? IT WOULD BE ADOPTED.
BUT IS IT FILED ELECTRONICALLY? NOT A HARD COPY.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE, THAT'S THE, OH, I THOUGHT, I THOUGHT THE ISSUE WAS, BECAUSE IF UNI IS DOWN, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A HARD TIME IF WE MAKE CHANGES TO RERUN ALL THE NUMBERS BECAUSE WHEN WE MAKE A CHANGE, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? RIGHT? I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YEAH.
WE, SO WE LITERALLY THOUGHT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PRINTING A PHYSICAL BOOK TO GIVE TO THE TERM CLERKS TO TOWN CLERK OFFICE.
PRINTING A BOOK THAT'S ACCURATE.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE CAN DO A HANDWRITTEN ONE.
EVERYBODY, WE DON'T WANT DELAY.
SO THAT MEANS WEDNESDAY, WEDNESDAY NIGHT, WEDNESDAY, EXCUSE ME.
IS WEDNESDAY THE ONLY DAY REALLY? IF, IF WE CAN'T DO IT TOMORROW, RIGHT? CORRECT.
BECAUSE THEY'RE STARTING ON THURSDAY.
SO COULD WE MEET WEDNESDAY? UH, WHAT TIME? WHENEVER YOU WANT.
AND AGAIN, WHAT WAS THE REASON THAT WE CAN'T DO IT TOMORROW SINCE WE'RE MEETING ANYWAY? BECAUSE FRANCIS HAS, FRANCIS HAS, HE'S UNABLE TO DO IT.
THEN WE MEET UP HIS REGULAR JOB.
HE NEEDS TO, YEAH, HE'S HE'S GETTING EXAMS AND STUFF.
NOT, WE'LL BE HAVING A, A A WORK SESSION, CORRECT? YES.
FIVE O'CLOCK WE'RE HAVING A WORK.
IS IT, IS IT POSSIBLE TO DO IT LIKE SEVEN ON WEDNESDAY? 7:00 PM PM PM 7:00 PM TO DO WITH THE BUDGET? NO, I GET, I CAN DO THAT.
CAN YOU DO 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, DIANA? YES.
SO WE HAVE TO REDO THE MOTION, RIGHT? YES.
OKAY, SO IT IS GONNA BE WEDNESDAY AT 7:00 PM THAT'S THE MOTION THAT HAS TO BE MADE.
I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO DO THOSE OTHER RESOLUTIONS, BUT WE CAN GIVE 'EM A TRY.
ARE YOU MAKING THAT MOTION, PAUL? YES.
SO EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
IF SOMETHING CAN'T GET DONE, SO EVERYBODY'S, UH, FULLY AWARE OF WHAT'S MAY, WELL, WHAT MAY NOT DONE WELL, IT CAN'T BE THEN IT WON'T, IT JUST WON'T APPEAR.
IN OTHER WORDS, THE RESOLUTIONS THAT ARE BEING HELD OVER, UH, ONE OF THEM IS VERY SUBSTANTIVE BECAUSE IT'S TALKING ABOUT A PERPETUAL, UH, MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT THAT CAN BE HELD OVER.
I MEAN, THAT'S NOT TIME SENSITIVE.
SO THAT'S, YOU HAVE A MEETING ON THE 21ST AS WELL OF DECEMBER, CORRECT? RIGHT.
BUT THAT'S BUDGET HAS TO BE FILED BY THEN.
SO WE NEED A SECOND FOR THE MOTION FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING ON WEDNESDAY.
AND PUBLIC COMMENT, RIGHT? SO PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO ARE WE WITHDRAWING THE OTHER MOTION FOR YES, THERE'S NO MEETING FRIDAY NOW.
YEAH, THAT MOTION IS SUPERSEDED BY THE MOTION THAT WE JUST MADE FOR WEDNESDAY.
OKAY, WELL WHO SECONDED THE OTHER MOTION? SECOND.
OTHER MOTION TO CANCEL FRIDAY'S MEETING? NO, SECONDED THE MO TO MAKE THE OTHER MOTION TO MAKE I DID SO FOR FIRST WEDNESDAY.
YOU WITHDRAWING YOUR SECOND AND THEN WHOEVER MADE THE MOTION, WITHDRAWS THE MOTION AND THAT'S IT.
OKAY, JUDITH? YEAH, LET'S HEAR FROM YOU.
OKAY, SO LET'S, LET'S START WITH THE, SO THIS IS FRIDAY IS CANCELED.
LET'S THE MOTION THAT THAT THAT THE ORIGINAL MOTION KEN MOVED TO HOLD, TO HOLD OVER TB TWO, RIGHT? TB THREE
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AND T Y ONE, RIGHT? AND VOTE ON THE BUDGET ON, ON FRIDAY 1217 DURING WHICH A SPECIAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AT 4:30 PM NOW, NOW WHO SECONDED THAT? GINA SECOND.RIGHT? AND ALL THERE WAS A, AYE.
SO NOW GINA IS WITHDRAWING HER SECOND AND KEN IS WITHDRAWING HIS MOTION AND IT'S NO LONGER ON THE FLOOR.
GINA WITHDREW MOTION, I MEAN A SECOND WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF THE BOARD.
KEN WITHDREW HIS MOTION WITH CONCURRENCE OF COURT.
PAUL MOVED TO HOLD THE SPECIAL MEETING ON WEDNESDAY, 1215 AT 7:00 PM RIGHT? OKAY.
OKAY, SO IT'S 10:30 PM AND WE'RE GONNA ALLOW PEOPLE TO SPEAK FOR A SECOND TIME FOR FIVE MINUTES IF THEY FEEL COMPELLED TO DO SO.
SO IS THERE ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK AGAIN FOR UP TO FIVE MINUTES? OKAY, SO FIVE MINUTES MY TIME RAN OUT.
I JUST WANNA GET THE BOARD'S TAKE ON HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING, HOW, UM, OUR COMMUNITY WILL BE INFORMED ON, UM, THE REQUEST OF THAT, UM, UH, OWNER OR REALTOR.
AND SO THAT IS WHAT I, I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS AT THE WORK SESSION.
AND, UM, THE FEEDBACK OF WHAT IT, HOW WE PROCEED AS FAR AS THAT REQUEST TO BE GRANTED THIS LIEN ON THE AMOUNT 350,000 PLUS TAX AND, AND, UH, LIEN.
MS. BROWN, CAN I JUST SAY ONE THING? THE REQUEST WASN'T TO WAIVE ALL OF THE TAXES, IT WAS JUST THE INTEREST AND PENALTIES ON THE TAXES, I BELIEVE.
SO THERE WOULD BE AN AMOUNT OF TAXES THAT THAT PERSON WOULD HAVE PAID, BUT AS I MENTIONED TO YOU, I KNOW THE BOARD HAS DISCUSSED THAT.
I'M MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE OTHER PROPERTY THAT YOU MENTIONED.
AND I WISH THE BUILDING INSPECTOR WERE STILL HERE SO HE COULD ADDRESS THAT SOONER THAN LATER.
BUT I WILL ADDRESS IT WITH HIM TOMORROW.
BUT IF YOU COULD ALSO, OR MS. FORT ADDRESS IT WITH HIM, MAYBE WE CAN DEAL WITH THAT DIRECT ISSUE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I COULD JUST, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT YOU GENERALLY, WHEN WE DEALT WITH EITHER AFFORDABLE ING OR OUR PROPOSAL, WE ALWAYS, UH, REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
UH, THERE'S NO PROPOSAL RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE AN AFFORDABLE, UH, HOUSING DEVELOPER.
AND THE TOWN HAS NEVER WAIVED, UH, PENALTIES.
UM, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, AND AND INTEREST, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS IN THE PAST, BUT THE BOARD HAS BASICALLY, UM, NOT, YOU KNOW, OUR DECISIONS HAVE BEEN NOT TO WAIVE PENALTIES IF, IF PEOPLE, UH, YOU KNOW, OWE A LOT OF MONEY.
AND IF SOMEBODY SPENT $55,000 ON A HOUSE THAT'S WORTH 700, $700,000, OUR GOAL IS NOT TO, UM, MAKE SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WEALTHY.
YOU KNOW, WE ALSO, WE ALSO DIRECTED HER TO REACH OUT TO THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION DIRECTLY AND SIT DOWN WITH YOUR CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT BEFORE WE WOULD CONSIDER HER REQUEST.
SHE HAS NOT DONE THAT TO MY, TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
SO THE REASON WHY I GET, AND I DON'T WANNA KEEP PUSHING THIS, AND, AND I DID SPEAK WITH PAUL AND, AND OTHER PEOPLE IN REFERENCE TO THIS PARTICULAR PERSON.
SO I, MY REALLY MAIN CONCERN IS THAT WE DON'T SET A PRECEDENCE FOR SOMEONE AND THAT WE ARE NOT LEFT IN THE DARK ON SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO AFFECT US.
IT IS AFFECTING US, IT'S AFFECTING, UM, UH, THE COMMUNITY.
AND THIS REALTOR IS, IS THE PROPERTIES THAT SHE OWNS ARE IN DISARRAY.
SO IT'S NOT ONLY THAT SHE'S REQUESTING THIS, YOU KNOW, THIS LIEN OR OR FAVOR FROM THE THE TOWN, WE NEED THIS TO BE ADDRESSED.
I DID GIVE HIM, HE GAVE ME HIS INFORMATION 'CAUSE I WENT OVER TO HIM.
BUT I WANT THIS TO BE A RECORD PARKWAY HOMES.
UM, WE, WE DON'T WANNA BE IN THE DARK ON THIS AND WE'RE NOT GONNA LET IT GO.
WE'RE GONNA BE HERE AND WE'RE GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, IT'S PARKWAY GARDENS AND THIS, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO US.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M BACK UP HERE AND I'LL BE UP HERE, YOU KNOW, AS MANY TIMES AS I, I NEED TO BE.
I TAKE ANY ACTION WITHOUT THE INPUT, UM, OF, UH, YOU KNOW, OF THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE THAT'S THE WAY WE'VE, WE ALWAYS DEAL WITH, UH, WITH LAND USE, YOU KNOW, ISSUES.
SO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ONE DAY, UH, FIND THAT WE'RE
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VOTING ON SOMETHING WITHOUT, WITHOUT YOUR, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE.AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS SOMETIMES A LITTLE FRUSTRATING IS ANYBODY HAS A RIGHT TO COME TO THE TOWN BOARD AND MAKE A PROPOSAL.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THE TOWN BOARD HAS TO APPROVE IT.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO, YOU KNOW, WE LISTEN TO EVERYBODY WILL WAIVE THE PLUSES AND MINUSES AND THEN WE MAKE OUR, OUR, OUR DECISIONS.
BUT JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY MAKES A PROPOSAL DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE TOWN IS, UM, IS MOVING AHEAD WITH IT.
I JUST THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TOO TO, UH, BRIDGET, BRIDGET AND ALICIA TO, UH, TO UNDERSTAND THAT ANY REDUCTION OF THE TAXES OR LIENS IS NOT AS MUCH THE ISSUE AS ALLOWING THE PROPERTY TO BE LABELED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
WE DO NOT WANT ANY PROPERTIES IN PROPERTY HOMES OR PROPERTY GARDENS AS ONE OF THE HOUSES THAT SHE PROPOSED WAS ON NORTH ROAD IN PARKWAY GARDENS TO BE LABELED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND I'M CERTAIN THAT THE RESIDENTS IN PARKWAY GARDENS WOULD NOT WANT SUCH ANY PROPERTY LABELED AS SUCH EITHER.
AND SO I THINK THAT THE, THE ISSUE HERE IS NOT ONLY THE REMOVAL OR, OR, OR, OR REDUCING OF TAXES AND LIENS, BUT NOT ALLOWING THE PROPERTY TO BE LABELED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
THANK YOU ALL AND HAVE A GOOD EVENING.
PAUL, YOU JUST STATED THAT YOU LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW WHEN THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE.
YOU KNOW, YOU AND I GO WAY BACK, WE GO BACK TO 1991 WHEN WE HAD THE PROBLEM WITH THE, UM, NURSERY IN THE BACK UP ON VIRGINIA ROAD.
BUT IN ANY EVENT, THIS JUST WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THIS WEEK.
I HAD NO IDEA THAT NO ONE CAME, THAT YOU HAD A WORKSHOP.
'CAUSE I GUESS I NEED TO BE MORE ACTIVE.
IT WAS TUESDAY, YOU KNOW, WORK SUNDAY.
TODAY IS MONDAY, TUESDAY TODAY.
BUT WE WERE NOT MADE, I WAS NOT MADE AWARE OF THIS HOUSE ISSUE UNTIL FRIDAY.
THERE'S NOTHING, THERE'S, OH, I'M SORRY.
I UNDERSTAND IT WAS A PROPOSAL, BUT NO ONE CAME TO PARKER HOMES AND SAID ANYTHING.
IF I DIDN'T GET AN EMAIL ABOUT THIS REAL ESTATE LADY, I WOULD'VE NEVER KNOWN.
AND I FOUND OUT AND I SHARED IT WITH MS. BROWN AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE TODAY.
SO AS FAR AS YOU LETTING THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE.
AND THE SECOND THING IS WHEN YOU BUILT THAT HOUSE OVER THERE ON NORTH ROAD AND THAT WAS ALREADY A DONE DEAL.
AND THEN WE FOUND OUT THAT THAT WAS A NOT-PROFIT, NOT-FOR-PROFIT HOUSE.
SO WE ARE NOT ALWAYS MADE AWARE UNTIL AFTER THESE DEALS ARE DONE.
I'M NOT, I'M RETIRED, I HAVE NOTHING BUT TIME AND I WILL NOT LET THESE HOMES BE LISTED AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
I'M GOING TO STAY ON TOP OF Y'ALL WITH THESE CAP.
I'M GONNA STAY ON TOP OF Y'ALL WITH THAT 53 BRADFORD AVENUE.
I'M GOING TO GO THERE TOMORROW.
I'M GOING TO WALK IN THAT HOU WALK TO THE HOUSE.
AND IF I DON'T SEE ANY SIGNS POSTED, I WILL BE EMAILING YOU.
BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.
WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THESE CATS, THIS HOUSE SINCE LAST YEAR, NOVEMBER.
THERE'S ONE PERSON BUILDING THIS HOUSE.
I HAVEN'T SEEN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT OUT THERE.
I'M NOT GOING TO LET OUR NEIGHBORHOOD JUST BE TAKEN OVER AND MADE INTO A FLOP HOUSE.
OKAY, CLIFF, UM, KEITH, FIVE MINUTES, NO CLIFF, DID YOU ALSO WANNA SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES? OKAY.
AND MR. MARLINA, YOU'RE GONNA SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES, ALRIGHT? YES.
BACK TO THE POINT WE WAS MAKING ABOUT, UH, CLIFF ABRAMS. GETTING THE CRITIC LOOKED LIKE TO ME, THE BOARD SHOULD PUT IN WRITING JUST LIKE YOU GAVE THE NCAA SOME OF A PIECE OF PAPER, UH, CREDITING THEM FOR SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T DO.
YOU SHOULD GIVE CLIFF ABRAM WHO HAD THE BALLS IN THE NERVE TO PUT HIS PERSPECTIVE ONLINE.
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CALLED TOWN 12 NEWS WHEN ALL OF Y'ALL SUDDEN UP THERE KNEW ABOUT IT AND YOU KEPT IT HUSHED AND THEY COME FROM TOWN 12.I DO THE INVESTIGATION BEFORE I COME HERE AND SPEAK, LET YOU KNOW I'M SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
AND I, IN DUE DILIGENCE, A MAN THAT PUT HIS SKILLS TOOK TIME OUT FROM HIS BUSY SCHEDULE TO GET A BUNCH OF ROCKS THEY HAVEN'T PAINTED AND HAD THE NERVE AND THE ABILITY TO GO AND CALL TOWN 12 NEWS ON A HATE CRIME IN GREENBURG WHEN THE TOWN BOARD AND THE SUPERVISOR AND THE COMMISSIONER OF THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT KNEW ABOUT IT, BUT DID NOT CALL CHANNEL 12.
AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN FRANCIS SHEHAN WANTED TO START SOME BANNER AND SIGN, BUT THE FRANCIS SHEHAN DIDN'T CALL AND TELL HIM THAT THE SIGN WAS REMOVED.
AND THAT'S WHY HE SHOULD BE GIVEN HIS DUE DILIGENCE THAT YOU'RE GIVING EVERYBODY ELSE WHEN IT COMES TO BLACKS.
ALL THE COMMISSIONERS IN GREENBURG.
HOW MANY BLACKS, HOW MANY ALL THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONERS IN GREENBURG, HOW MANY BLACKS ON THE POLICE FORCE YOU GO TO DOG FERRY AND GET OR NO NAME, NOBODY TO COME OVER HERE AND BE THE ACTING CHIEF.
AND WHY COULDN'T YOU HAVE ONE PERSON FROM THE BOARD TO HAVE A COMMITTEE FROM THE TOWN TO INTERVIEW POLICE PEOPLE THAT APPLIED FOR THE JOB AND LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE ON WHO SHOULD BE THE CHIEF BECAUSE THEY ARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN.
THIS, THAT MAN IN VER IF HE WAS DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB IN FERRY, HE WOULD'VE STAYED IN FERRY.
LET THESE PEOPLE THAT SHOULD GET RESPECT, GET RESPECT.
Y'ALL WON'T RESPECT, BUT YOU DON'T GIVE IT TO GET RESPECT.
LAST WEEK, LAST WEDNESDAY, Y'ALL SAID PUBLIC.
OH, THEY WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET.
SHE STOOD RIGHT UP HERE, A WHITE ONE AND, AND TALKED ABOUT SOME LICENSE PLATES.
I AIN'T HEAR NONE OF Y'ALL STOOD UP ON THAT BOARD AND CUT OFF AS SOON AS WE GO ONE SECOND OR TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.
OH, WE GONNA HAVE A, WE GONNA TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND Y'ALL, WHEN THREE OR MORE PEOPLE TOGETHER, IT'S AN EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING.
AND JEFF, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WHO PAY YOUR SALARY AND YOU HOLDING ME FOR FRANCIS HAN BECAUSE HE WAS LATE.
Y'ALL GETTING 45,000 THEN AT 12 O'CLOCK, PAUL, FINE.
IF WE STANDING THERE AND TALK TO THE COWS, COME HOME.
WHAT YOU DID LAST WEEK WAS WRONG.
DO YOU WANT MR. ABRAMS OR MR. MOLINO? MR. ABRAMS, UH, I'M SORRY.
I THINK THAT WAS THE ORDER IN WHICH WE WENT FOR YOU.
ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT? SO I'M EASY.
YOU GOTTA BE OKAY WITH IT, YOU KNOW.
UM, I'M NOT REALLY TALKING TO THE BOARD BECAUSE I'VE BEEN COMING UP HERE FOR THE LAST
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FIVE YEARS.EVERY SECOND OR FOURTH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH ADVOCATING FOR MY COMMUNITY.
AND, AND I SAID TO MYSELF, WHY DO I SHOW UP? BECAUSE I KNOW THE BOARD REALLY AIN'T LISTENING AND I KNOW I CAN'T GET PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY.
USUALLY THEY WANT TO COME BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I GOT THEM TO COME UP HERE, THE BOARD MAKE PEOPLE WAIT TILL 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT TO 10 30 AT NIGHT TO GET THREE MINUTES COMMENTS.
AND I BRUNG THIS UP BEFORE WHEN I USED, WHEN I FIRST STARTED COMING UP HERE, WHILE I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF COREY, CARRIE, MS. OLIVER, HARRY LAWSON, I USED TO WATCH THEM COME UP HERE.
SO AT SEVEN 30 WHEN THE MEETING FIRST STARTED, THEY GET THREE MINUTES.
THEN IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR FIVE, YOU HAVE TO WAIT TILL THE TILL IT'S OVER WITH AT THE END, AFTER YOU PASS ALL YOUR RESOLUTION OF WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING.
BUT TO HAVE SOMEBODY COME UP HERE, IF YOU'RE REALLY KID, I HAD MS. JACKSON SAID THAT WE NEED TO LISTEN.
YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE, YOU KNOW? AND IF THAT'S TRUE, YOU WOULDN'T WANT TO PUBLIC TO WAIT UNTIL 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT TO GET THREE MINUTES.
SO I'M REALLY NOT TALKING TO THE BOARD.
I'M TALKING TO THE PEOPLE WHO'S WATCHING.
'CAUSE I WANT IT ON RECORD THAT SOMETHING SO SIMPLE, YOU KNOW? AND I DON'T EVEN ASK FOR NO CREDIT.
'CAUSE I'VE BEEN COMING UP HERE AND I'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF WORK FOR MY COMMUNITY BECAUSE OF THE LOVE OF MY COMMUNITY.
ON OLD TERRYTOWN ROAD, YOU HAVE A DIGITAL CLOCK.
I ADVOCATED FOR THAT FOR THREE YEARS.
GARRETT KNOWS ABOUT IT ON MANHATTAN AVENUE.
THERE WAS NO SPEED LIMIT SIGNS.
I CAME UP HERE AND ADVOCATED FOR THAT.
KIDS WERE GOING ACROSS THE STREET ON MAPLE STREET TO TERRY HILL AND ON MANHATTAN AVENUE TO TO, UM, WE CALL IT KITTY LAND.
I THINK Y'ALL CALL IT WASHINGTON PARK.
THERE'S CROSS NOW THERE'S CROSSROADS WITH LIGHTS ON IT.
I DIDN'T COME BRAGGING SAYING GIMME CREDIT, GIMME CREDIT.
I PUT A LOT OF WORK IN AND YES, FRANCIS, YOU DID DO, YOU DID A LOT.
AND I SAID THAT I DON'T SEE WHAT'S THE, I MEAN, IT JUST AMAZED ME THAT I JUST, I'M GONNA SHOW YOU THIS.
THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL, WHAT GARRETT SENT TO ME WHEN IT FIRST JUMPED OFF RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD, OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG, SUPPORTING THE PLAN AND IMPLICATION OF BLACK LIVES MATTER, EXPIRED PAINTED MURAL ALONG MANHATTAN AVENUE AND THE VARSITY OF THE I 2 87 OVERPASS.
WHEREAS RESIDENTS AND CIVIC ASSOCIATION LEADERS AND THE TOWN OF GREENBERG.
SO MS. FORD IS A CIVIL ASSOCIATION PERSON.
MS. PAT, WE IS A CIVIL ASSOCIATION PERSON.
SO WHERE DID THAT LINE COME FROM? SO I, I'M GONNA PULL MY MASK UP.
SO I'M LIKE SAY TO MYSELF, OKAY, SO THEN IT WAS HERE, THAT REVOLUTION OF THE TOWN ON BOARD OR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG SUPPORT THE PLANET AND IMPLEMENTATION INSPIRED BY RESIDENT COMMUNITY LEADER CLIFTON OR LIBRAS THING.
NOW IT'S THE SECOND ONE THAT 'CAUSE FRANCIS GET THE LAST SALE.
I'M JUST LOOKING AT THAT CAMERA ON HIS PHONE.
BUT FRANCIS GET THE LAST SALE ON THE RESOLUTIONS AND DID NOT SEE ONE EXPIRED BY THE COMMITTEE.
THAT COMMITTEE AND NOT DESERVE IT.
I'M NOT SAYING THAT, BUT THAT'S A WHOLE NOTHER, I'M NOT SAYING WHERE DID THIS COME FROM? THE FIRST ONE SAID, HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE COMMITTEE, NO NAMES.
SO HE PUT ALL THE COMMITTEE PEOPLE NAMES ON IT.
IF YOU NEED THAT CREDIT, YOU WON.
BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, BECAUSE MY TIME IS RUNNING OUT, I'M A JUDICIAL LEADER FOR THE 46TH DISTRICT, RIGHT? MS. PAT SAID THE LOWER THE LOW TURNOUT FOR HER WAS EVEN LOWER THAN MINES.
SO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AIN'T GOT THE JUICE THEY THINK THEY GOT.
BUT I'M WITH THE 100 BLACK FATHERS FOR WESTCHESTER WHEN WE GOING DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
SO PEOPLE WILL WORRY ABOUT THE BLACK VOTE.
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OKAY.MR. S SALVINO, AM I SAYING YOUR NAME CORRECTLY? SALS? I'M SORRY.
SO I KIND OF THOUGHT ABOUT IT AND I SAID TO MYSELF, BOY, THIS HAS GOTTA BE REALLY DISCRIMINATING AND UNJUST FOR YOU TO TELL ME I CAN'T HAVE A SIDE JOB WHEN I'M WORKING PART-TIME, LET ALONE THERE MUST BE AT LEAST ONE THIRD OF THE PEOPLE IN GREENBERG WHO WORK FOR GREENBERG HAVE SIDE JOBS.
SO I THINK THAT'S UNFAIR AND UNJUST.
AND DISCRIMINATING NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER TWO IS, I CAN PROBABLY TELL YOU THAT AT LEAST ONE PERSON IN EVERY BUILDING DEPARTMENT IN THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER HAS A SIDE JOB AND PROBABLY A COM FULL RUNNING BUSINESS.
VERY COMMON BECAUSE TO LIVE IN WESTCHESTER, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE TO MAKE DOUBLE DIGITS.
AND UNFORTUNATELY THIS POSITION DOESN'T PAY DOUBLE DIGITS.
NUMBER TWO IS I HAVE TWO KIDS IN COLLEGE, SO I NEED TO WORK A SIDE JOB AND MY TAXES.
OH YES, $25,000 A YEAR, PROBABLY A LITTLE MORE AND A MORTGAGE.
SO FOR YOU TO SAY THAT, UH, ABOUT THE FACT THAT I CAN'T GET A SIDE JOB IS UNACCEPTABLE.
AND YOU COULD PROBABLY TELL ANYBODY, ANYBODY WILL TELL YOU THAT NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER TWO, I KIND OF FEEL THAT THIS DOESN'T, HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PART AND REMIND YOU I'M NOT ALLOWED TO DO WORK IN THE TOWN OF GREEN AMERICA.
AND I, AS LONG AS I'M WORKING BLOOMBERG, I NEVER WILL.
SO, AND I KNOW TOWNS WHERE A BUILDING INSPECTOR CAN ACTUALLY WORK IN THAT TOWN.
IF HE'S A PART-TIME BUILDING INSPECTOR, GO FIGURE THAT.
BUT THAT'S THAT MUNICIPALITY, THEY ALLOW THAT KIND OF INTERESTING, RIGHT? UM, THE OTHER THING IS, I FEEL THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANOTHER THING IS THE TA THE, THE, THE, THE BOARD HAD THIS INVESTIGATION WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT ABOUT, UH, HOW THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT WAS RUN A YEAR AND A HALF AGO.
AND THAT INTERVIEW WENT OUT THE DOOR BECAUSE THAT, I DON'T THINK ANYTHING EVER CAME OF IT.
UH, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHEN COVID HIT.
AND THEN WE HAD THIS OTHER INTERVIEW AND IT WASN'T REALLY ABOUT THE OPERATIONS OF THE, OF THE, UH, BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
UM, I KNOW THERE WAS A BIG DISCUSSION IN THE, IN OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT ABOUT COMP TIME.
I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH COMP TIME.
I COULDN'T EVEN GET COMP TIME.
SO I BELIEVE ALL THIS WAS ABOUT COMP TIME.
SO AGAIN, I THINK THAT THIS IS DIRECTED TO ME FOR ONE REASON AND ONE REASON ONLY IS BECAUSE I FILED A HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT COMPLAINT AGAINST AN INDIVIDUAL IN, IN MY DEPARTMENT.
AND IT'S BEEN GOING DOWNHILL EVER SINCE WITH ME.
AND IT'S A SAD, COULD I SAY IT'S A IMPROPER WAY.
THIS, THE, THE TOWN HAS HANDLED IT TO THIS DATE.
AND, AND NOW LOOK WHERE IT'S COME TO.
THEY JUST, THEY, THE, THE WAY OUT WAS TO ELIMINATE THE PART-TIME POSITION, UH, BUDGET FOR THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
I'M SORRY I HAD TO TAKE, UH, YOU GUYS ARE HERE ALL NIGHT.
THAT WAS A NICE, UH, CEREMONY THAT THEY OFFERED YOU.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICES AND THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR YOUR TIME.
AND I HOPE YOU'LL THINK HARD ABOUT THE DECISIONS YOU'RE GONNA MAKE, ABOUT THE BUDGET, ABOUT THE PART-TIME POSITION THAT I CURRENTLY HOLD FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? IS ANYBODY ON ZOOM WHO WISHES TO SPEAK? WE DO.
AND I HAVE THAT RAISED, HERS RAISED.
SO, UH, MICHELLE BROWN WOULD BE FIRST.
MICHELLE BROWN, ARE YOU THERE? IT TAKES A COUPLE OF MINUTES, JUDITH, FOR TO COME IN.
HI THIS MICHELLE, CAN YOU HEAR ME? HI, YES.
AND I'M REALLY JUST HOPE WE TALK ABOUT AND LOOK AT THIS COVID WITH THESE RESIDENTS.
I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT HOW WE LEFT OFF BECAUSE, UM, I HAD
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HEARD THAT YOU WENT, UM, COUNCILMAN JACKSON WANTED TO GET SOME KIND OF PROTOCOL FROM THEM BEFORE YOU MET WITH THEM.I WANTED JUST LET YOU KNOW THAT THESE RESIDENTS WILL BE MOVED AROUND AFTER THE FIRST OF THE YEAR.
THERE'S NOT LIKE THIS WHOLE LET'S, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT IT, WAIT ABOUT IT AND FIGURE IT OUT.
AND UM, THE FACT THAT, UM, WE HAD TO GET A PETITION AND THE FACT THAT WE HAVE TO COME TO YOU, UM, IS A PROBLEM.
SO I HOPE THAT YOU CAN MEET WITH THEM EXPEDITIOUSLY AND GET THIS DONE AND, UM, PROTECT THESE RESIDENTS ALSO, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE WE HAVE TO ASK FOR, WE AS BLACK PEOPLE HAVE TO ASK PERMISSION.
UM, CAN YOU PLEASE LET US DECIDE WHO COMES INTO OUR HOME? CAN YOU PLEASE TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT, ABOUT, ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING? LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH CLIFF? TRUE STORY IS NOT BEING TOLD, BUT YOU GOTTA COME, YOU GOTTA GIVE PERMISSION FOR THAT.
YOU KNOW? UM, THE TOWN CLERK HAS TO WAIT THREE YEARS TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO MANAGE WHAT SHE'S IN CHARGE OF.
BUT SHE'S BEHOLDEN TO YOU BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE KEY, BECAUSE YOU'RE THE GATEKEEPER.
IF YOU DON'T GIVE IT TO HER, IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
AND I'M GONNA EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO YOU.
UM, COUNCILMAN SHE HAD, WHEN YOU TALKED LAST TIME ABOUT WESTCHESTER COMING IN AND DOING AUDIT OF HER DEPARTMENT AND BEING REMOVED, YOU KNOW THIS PERSON AND YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
SHE'S THE BOSS OF HER DEPARTMENT.
SHE'S RESPONSIBLE FOR HER OFFICE.
JUST LIKE NOBODY CAN SIT IN YOUR OFFICE AND AT YOUR DESK AND TELL YOU HOW TO MANAGE YOUR TIME AND YOUR, YOU HAVE AN OUTSIDE PERSON COMING IN, AUDITING YOU.
THE FACT THAT A BLACK WOMAN, A BLACK MAN, AND A MAJORITY BLACK COMMUNITY IN THOSE COMPLEXES HAVE TO COME TO YOU ALL TO ASK FOR THESE BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS.
BUT TO YOU, IT'S VERY MUCH EXPLAINABLE.
AND THE FACT AGAIN, THAT CLIFF HAS TO COME AND ASK YOU.
AND HE READ HOW THE FIRST ONE READ HIS NAME WAS CLEARLY THERE.
AND WHAT ELSE DISTURBS ME? IS THIS PART-TIME, UM, EMPLOYEE.
AND NOBODY ELSE KNEW THAT THIS LINE ITEM WAS BURIED SOMEWHERE IN A 500 PAGE DOCUMENT, THAT HIS POSITION WOULD BE ELIMINATED OR MOVED TO A DIFFERENT LINE ITEM.
THE ONLY PERSON WHO CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD AND KNEW THAT WAS YOU, MR. SHEEN.
SO I WANNA KNOW, HOW DO YOU MOVE LINE ITEMS WITH THE CONTROLLER'S OFFICE? WHAT IS THE PROCESS? DON'T BUT DON'T YOU NEED SIGNATURES? DON'T OTHER PEOPLE HAVE TO APPROVE THAT? I MEAN, YOU ARE ACTING AS IF YOU ARE IN CHARGE.
AND I UNDERSTAND WHAT MARIE MEANS.
I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU, YOU ACT LIKE YOU ARE THE SUPERVISOR.
SO I THIS EMPLOYEE, LIKE, COME ON.
SERIOUSLY, YOU HAVE TO LISTEN BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO TODAY IS FOR THE FUTURE OF TOMORROW.
AND WHAT YOU DON'T DO TODAY IS ALSO FOR THE FUTURE OF TOMORROW.
JUST KNOW YOU'LL CATCH UP TO YOURSELF.
YOU'LL, SO I REALLY IMPLORE YOU TO CORRECT THAT RESOLUTION AND THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MURAL, AND ALSO MEET IMMEDIATELY WITH THE GREENBURG HEIGHTS L L C AND THE GREENBURG HOUSING AUTHORITY REGARDING PROTOCOLS.
AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT.
40 GRAND FOR THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE.
ALRIGHT, MS. BROWN, WE GOTTA GO
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11 QUICK, ONE MORE THING REALLY QUICK, PLEASE, SIR.WHY CAN'T THIS, WHY CAN'T THESE HOUSES AND THESE PLACES BE MADE HISTORICAL SITES? THIS IS A BLACK HISTORICAL COMMUNITY WITH HISTORY.
ALRIGHT? YOU MADE THEM HISTORICAL SITES.
THESE THINGS COULD NOT HAPPEN TO THEM.
IT'S 11 O'CLOCK HERE AND EVERYBODY'S TIRED.
SO I, I NEED TO RESPOND SINCE THERE'S AN ACCUSATION THAT SOMEHOW I'M MANIPULATING THE BUDGET.
THE BUDGET THAT WE RECEIVED WAS GIVEN TO US BY THE TOWN SUPERVISOR.
IT'S CALLED THE TENTATIVE BUDGET.
HASN'T CHANGED SINCE THE SUPERVISOR GAVE IT TO US.
AND THAT'S HOW I KNEW THAT THE LINE WAS, WAS, UH, PART-TIME LINE.
TAMBERG DID HAVE A DISCUSSION, UM, BASED ON THE INVESTIGATION THAT WAS DONE, THAT WAS DETERMINED THAT THERE'D BE NO OUTSIDE WORK DONE BY ANYBODY.
UM, AND THAT'S WHERE THE DETERMINATION WAS MADE REGARDING PART-TIME LINES.
'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SECOND JOB IF YOU HAVE A PART-TIME LINE.
AND, UM, SO I DID NOT MANIPULATE ANY LINES WHAT I WAS READING.
WHAT WAS THE, WHAT, WHAT WAS THE, WHAT WAS THE SUPERVISOR GAVE TO US? AND IT'S BEEN BEFORE US ALL THE TIME.
I'M NOT GONNA REREAD A BUDGET.
SO DO WE HAVE MS. SWAN OR MR. BODEN WHO WANTS TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME OR, OR NO, WE ALSO HAVE PAT WEEMS WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK A SECOND TIME.
I DON'T KNOW IF, IF MARY BODENS FIRST.
MR. BOWDEN'S FIRST MARY BODEN.
OKAY, WHAT HAPPENED TONIGHT IS EXACTLY WHAT NEEDS TO BE TALKED ABOUT.
I FOLLOWED THE RULES, I SENT EMAILED.
I WANT TO SPEAK TO MARY JUDITH MENTIONED MY NAME THAT I WAS GONNA SPEAK TO MARY AND FRANCIS AS HIS OWN.
THERE'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHEN FRANCIS YOUNG MAKES HIMSELF THE HOST.
AND IT'S BEEN SAID BEFORE, HE DISRESPECTED ME BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT ME TO SPEAK.
I MADE SURE THERE WERE COPIES EVERYWHERE.
BUT FRANCIS CHOSE TO SAY MURRAY DIDN'T RAISE HIS HAND.
HE CAN'T SPEAK BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT ME TO SPEAK.
YES, FRANCIS, THERE'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
NOBODY HAS BOTHERED ME ASKING, WHY ARE YOU THE HOST? THE QUESTION THAT GOES IN GETS FILTERED THROUGH YOU.
AND IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO DO IT, QUESTION DOESN'T GET ASKED.
DON'T NEED GENE WITH A CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO FILTER TO WHAT US ME.
AND NOW I SEE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT IT.
I THOUGHT YOU HAD JUST DONE WITH ME BECAUSE WHEN SAM WARE LUTHER THREW ME OUT THAT MEETING AND SAM WARE HAD SAID, YOU KNOW, BRING MURRAY BACK AGAIN BECAUSE MURRAY'S THE GUY WHO HELPED ME WAKE THE MAKE THIS OUT.
SO YOU'RE STILL ANGRY ABOUT BEING EMBARRASSED FOR THROWING ME OUT OF A MEETING THAT SAM WARE SAID YOU, I BRING HIM BACK TO HIM AGAIN.
'CAUSE HE WORKED ON DEVELOPING THIS.
AND DIANE KNOWS, AND ALL OF THE ASSESSORS KNOW, AND HE'S ASSESSOR KNOW.
I WORK WITH ALL OF THEM DEVELOPING G I S YOU DON'T LIKE IT.
YOU ARE EMBARRASSED WHILE IT'S TIME.
THE HOST'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST AND IT'S BEEN SHOWN BY A NUMBER OF PEOPLE TONIGHT.
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CONTROL HIS BLEEDING.
YOU ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF THE TOWN.
AND IT'S TIME IT STOPPED AND IT'S GONNA STOP BECAUSE SUDDENLY I FOUND OUT I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT'S GOT GET GETTING THE SHARE FROM YOU.
PAUL, FOR HIS OWN REASON CORRECTLY, DO NOT COME TO THE MEETING TONIGHT IF YOU FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE, FRANCIS SHEEN IN HERE WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IT, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN A MEETING.
HYBRID MEETINGS ARE HERE TO STAY FOREVER, PAUL.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO APOLOGIZE AND THANK HIM FOR LETTING YOU DO IT.
AT THE LAST MEETING, THEY HONORED SOMEBODY, SHE WAS AT HOME.
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THE WORLD HAS CHANGED.PEOPLE WHO WERE HANDICAPPED AND COULD NOT GET OUT AND DIDN'T HAVE THE PEOPLE TO DRIVE THEM AT NIGHT COULD PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETINGS.
THE DIRECT IS THE, I CAN'T GET THE WORDS OUT.
I SAID THE DIRECT RESULT, FIVE MINUTES HAS TO GO BACK TO THREE MINUTES AS THE GO TO THREE MINUTES.
IF YOU CAN'T SAY IN THREE MINUTES, SHOULDN'T BE SAID.
YOU CAN'T JUST REPEAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
I'VE BEEN TAUGHT BY A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE AROUND HERE.
I LEARNED THE LOT IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS.
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE THAT FEELS THAT FRANCIS SHOULD NOT BE THE ONE THAT'S IN CONTROL.
THIS IS NOT, YOU ARE NOT THE SUPERVISOR.
WHEN IT'S TIME YOU STOPPED ACTING LIKE THE SUPERVISOR.
WE HAVE AN ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO DEAL WITH THAT.
THEY WANNA HAVE A LITTLE GROUP GATHERING ON CENTRAL AVENUE.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO SAY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS TO HANDLE IT.
THEY DO ACCIDENTS ALL THE TIME.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIRECT THE POLICE CHIEF TO MEET WITH THE PEOPLE WHO WANNA HAVE THESE KIDS HAVE A LITTLE PARTY.
THAT WAS ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO.
I NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GONNA MEET THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND LET, LET ME KNOW.
PAUL, WE NEED SET UP THE NEXT YEAR, THREE MINUTES IN THE BEGINNING, THREE MINUTES IN END.
THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME IF WE CAN, CAN'T GET IT DONE THROUGH.
IF WE GO TO A LOT OF MEETINGS, THREE MINUTES IS THE MAXIMUM.
AND I WISH, UH, I NEED TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO'S HELPED ME.
SO THE LATEST MISINFORMATION THAT'S, UH, BEING SPREAD, I GUESS IT'S WHY NOT? UH, WHY NOT? UM, YOU KNOW, PICK ON FRANCIS.
THE REASON I WAS LATE LAST MEETING IS I HAVE BETTER EQUIPMENT AT HOME THAN HERE.
AND THE PERSON YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT WHO COULD UH, ATTEND WAS ACTUALLY IN FLORIDA AND SHE WAS BEING HONORED, UM, BECAUSE SHE WAS IN THE HALL OF FAME.
AND IT MEANT A LOT TO HER AND TO HER FAMILY THAT SHE'D BE ABLE TO BE ON HYBRID.
SO THE REASON I WASN'T HERE IS BECAUSE THERE WAS AN ISSUE SETTING UP THE HYBRID.
I HAD BETTER EQUIPMENT TO DO IT AT HOME.
AND SO I GOT THE HYBRID AND HER CONNECTED FROM HOME AND THEN CAME HERE.
IF I WOULD'VE COME HERE AND THEN TRIED TO CONNECT HER, IT WOULD'VE TAKEN EVEN LONGER.
SO I WASN'T HOME LATE BECAUSE I FELL ASLEEP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
I WAS TRYING TO MAKE IT SO THAT THE HYBRID WAS WORKING, THAT YOU'RE ALL, YOU'RE ALL PRAISING THE HYBRID.
YOU JUST DON'T WANNA RECOGNIZE THAT I'M THE ONE THAT BROUGHT THIS AND MADE IT WORK.
AND WHEN PAUL HAD AN ISSUE THIS AFTERNOON, HE CALLED ME TO MAKE IT WORK AND WE MADE IT WORK.
AND I THINK IT'S WORKING OUT PRETTY WELL.
BUT I DECIDE WHOSE QUESTIONS GET ASKED AND WHO'S DON'T.
I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT QUESTIONS YOU'RE GOING TO ASK OR ANSWER.
ANYBODY RAISES THEIR HAND ELECTRONICALLY ON ZOOM.
IT'S NOT HARD TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND LEAVE IT RAISED.
AND WE HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE THAT'S HAS THEIR HAND RAISED, THEY'LL BE COMING IN AS AS WELL.
THERE'S NO REASON TO LOWER YOUR HAND WHEN YOU HAVEN'T BEEN CALLED YET.
BUT AS FAR AS ME SOMEHOW READING QUESTIONS AND ONLY ALLOWING CERTAIN QUE, THAT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN.
I, YOU KNOW, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE LET PEOPLE SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S YOUR, THAT'S YOUR RIGHT.
SO, AND YOU KNOW, I ALSO WANNA JUST MENTION, OBVIOUSLY FRANCIS AND I HAVE HAD DIFFERENT DIFFERENCES, BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN, YOU KNOW, I DO APPRECIATE, UH, THE FACT THAT, UH, I THINK TODAY WHEN, UM, I INDICATED THAT SOMEBODY SAID, UH, I WAS SITTING THERE, SOMEBODY WHO TESTED POSITIVE AND WE WORKED IT OUT.
AND I THINK FRANCIS DID A FANTASTIC JOB.
YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS, UH, THE WAY, UM, WE HAVE THE ZOOM MEETING TODAY WHERE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD WHO ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND MEETINGS THAT, UM, PARTICIPATE REMOTELY.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE, UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE REALLY PARTICIPATING.
PEOPLE COULD SEE, UM, UM, SOMEBODY PARTICIPATE REMOTELY.
I I JUST THINK IT'S A, YOU KNOW, HE DID A REALLY GOOD JOB ON THIS.
AND YOU KNOW, I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS.
UM, BECAUSE I THINK AS COVID CONTINUES TO SPREAD IN THE COMING MONTHS, UM, MORE AND MORE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD WILL HAVE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS.
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YOU KNOW, HE DID THE WORK AND HE SHOULD BE COMMENDED.OH, STEPHANIE DECLINED TO BE PROMOTED TO THE MEETING.
PATRICIA WEEMS. UH, STEPHANIE SWAN'S COMING IN.
IS MS. WEAM SPEAKING? SHE CAN SPEAK.
I WAS GONNA GIVE MS. WEAM MY, UH, UH, UH, MOMENT.
MS.
UM, I JUST WANNA GO BACK ON THE, THE CANNABIS WITH, UM, MR. PAUL FINER.
UM, THE MEDICINAL ASPECT OF IT IS VERY REWARDING AND, UM, IT'S ALREADY HERE.
SO IT'S EITHER, YOU KNOW, AS THEY SAY, GO OUT YOUR FRONT DOOR OR, UH, GO TO WHITE PLAINS OR GO TO, UH, NEW ROCHELLE OR MOUNT VERNON.
AND THEN WE'LL, UH, I WANT TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT FRANCE SAID ALSO FOR THE TAX REVENUE, WHAT THE MONEY WOULD GO FOR FOR SOCIAL, SOCIAL PROGRAMS FROM.
SO FROM THAT ASPECT IS WHAT I'M LOOKING AT FROM A FORMER EDUCATOR, UM, UH, TO, TO SAY, UM, FROM THAT ASPECT.
UM, AND ALSO, UM, TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT, UM, COUNCILWOMAN GINA JACKSON, UM, HAD SAID ABOUT, UM, THE, UH, GREENBERG HEIGHTS L L C BRINGING THEIR DOCUMENTATION.
YES, THAT'S THE PROPER PROTOCOL FOR THEM TO, TO BRING IT.
UH, ANOTHER ITEM THAT I HAVE, AND THIS IS THE LAST ONE, I'M GONNA MAKE IT VERY SHORT.
THIS IS FOR COUNCILMAN KEN JONES.
ARE YOU THE LIAISON FOR, UH, GREENBERG HEIGHTS L L C? SIR? HE CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
YOU, YOU ARE BECAUSE, UM, MR. PAUL FINER, I HAD ACTUALLY SENT YOU COPIES OF, OF REPORT INCIDENTS AND, UM, THE COPIES AND YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD, YOU ACTUALLY SENT AN EMAIL TO CHIEF MCNERNEY BEFORE HE LEFT.
UH, MOST LIKELY IT GOT PUT IN THE BED WHERE PERHAPS, MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW.
UM, BUT THE, UH, RECENTLY IT IS COME TO MY KNOWLEDGE THAT GREENBURG HEIGHTS L L C IS FILING FALSE POLICE REPORTS AGAINST THE TENANTS.
I, FOR ONE, FILED A POLICE REPORT.
UM, CAN, IF POSSIBLE, SEEING THAT YOU ARE THE LIAISON.
IF YOU COULD LOOK INTO THIS, BECAUSE MY FATHER IS 89 YEARS OLD.
MY FATHER AND MY MOTHER'S, UH, FAMILY HAS LIVED IN PARKWAY GARDENS ANCESTRY CLOSE TO, UH, SINCE, UH, THE 1930S AND SO FORTH.
I WANT MY NAME SWAN SS W A N N, THAT'S MY FATHER'S SURNAME.
AND THE REPORT NUMBER ON THE, UH, INCIDENT REPORT THAT I FILED WAS 2 0 2 1 DASH ZERO SEVEN.
EXCUSE ME, MS. WAN, MS. WAN, MS, YOU HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO EMAIL ME A COPY OF THE REPORT.
YOU CAN'T JUST GIMME THE NUMBER.
LIKE FRANCIS SAID, HE DOESN'T READ HIS EMAIL.
SO I KNOW, I I, I I KNOW YOU READ YOUR EMAIL BECAUSE I, BECAUSE I SEND YOU EMAILS AND YOU RESPOND WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO.
AND I RESPECT THAT IN YOU, SIR.
ALRIGHT, SO THOSE ARE MY ISSUES RIGHT THERE FOR TONIGHT.
AND LIKE I SAID, EVERYONE GET HOME SAFELY AND MR. PAUL FINER.
I DO, I DO HAVE UNDER, UH, UH, I HAVE HEALTH ISSUES THAT, I MEAN, IF SOMEONE SNEEZES ON ME, BELIEVE ME, I CATCH EVERYTHING.
I'VE HAD MY BOOSTER SHOT, I HAD MY FLU SHOT.
I CAN'T HAVE PEOPLE COMING IN MY APARTMENT WITHOUT ANY A MASK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
I APPLAUD YOU FOR DOING WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND ANYONE ELSE WHO WON'T COME TO A MEETING.
AND ESPECIALLY MA, IT'S DANGEROUS OUT THERE.
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SOMEONE IN, INTO MY HOME WHO DOES NOT LIVE WITH ME? AND GOVERNOR CORPORAL IS, UH, ALREADY CLOSE, IS READY TO CLOSE DOWN, UH, THE GOVERNMENT.HOPEFULLY SHE DOESN'T, THESE MEN DO NOT WALK AROUND HERE WITH MASKS.
THEY DON'T WALK AROUND HERE WITH ANY, UH, TYPE OF GLOVES.
IF THEY ARE UNIFORM, THEY LOOK LIKE THEY'RE WEARING THEIR, THEIR REGULAR CLOTHES.
THEY COULD BE ANYBODY WALKING ON THE PROPERTY.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR, UH, UH, FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK AND EVERYONE GET HOME SAFELY.
AND, AND I JUST WANNA MENTION TO EVEN TONIGHT, NOT ONLY WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, I GOT REPORTS FROM RESIDENTS THAT, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S BUSINESSES, UH, IN THE TOWN, UH, THAT WHERE PEOPLE ARE NOT WEARING MASKS.
AND, UH, AND YOU KNOW, I I JUST REALLY AM VERY CONCERNED.
'CAUSE I DO KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIED FROM COVID.
I KNOW PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SICK WITH COVID AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY.
I THINK WE ALL HAVE, HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT THIS IS A VERY, VERY SERIOUS, UM, YOU KNOW, ILLNESS.
AND PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE THE BOOSTERS ARE GETTING VERY, VERY SICK.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE IMMUNE SYSTEMS ARE, UM, ARE IN VERY, UH, DANGEROUS, YOU KNOW, SITUATIONS.
SO I REALLY AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT WITH YOU THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M HOPEFUL THAT, AND I'M SURE THAT WHEN WE SPEAK TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY, THEY'LL, THEY'LL HAVE TO WORK OUT SOMETHING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY'RE, UM, ADDRESSING PEOPLE'S CONCERNS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. FINER.
PAT WEEMS. IS MS. WEAM THE LAST SPEAKER OR IS THIS SOMEWHERE? YES, I BELIEVE SHE IS THE LAST SPEAKER.
PAT, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, YES.
UM, I'M GOING RIGHT BACK TO THE REGULAR CONVERSATION ON DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES WITHIN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
UM, IT'S GOING ON ALL OVER, BUT I LIVE IN GREENBURG AND I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE ANY TYPE OF DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES, PERIOD.
WE'VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR AGES AND EVERYBODY'S BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS WRONG AND SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE CORRECTED.
YOU KNOW, I'M LIKE, FANNIE LOU HAMMER.
I'M SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED AND THESE ARE ISSUES THAT I KNOW EVERYBODY'S AWARE OF.
SO WHY SHOULD I HAVE TO COME HERE AND DISCUSS 'EM? ALRIGHT, I, I'M GONNA START WITH, UM, I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA START WITH THE BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN.
ALL LIVES CAN'T MATTER UNTIL BLACK LIVES MATTER.
WELL, BULK OF AFRICAN AMERICANS LIVING INCORPORATED GREENBURG.
NOW MY QUESTION IS, WHY IS IT THAT ALL OF THE VILLAGES HAVE SOMETHING UP AND HAVE DONE SOMETHING? THEY CAN SHOW IT AND WE HAVE SHOWN NOTHING.
WHY? WHY IS THAT? YOU'RE GONNA SIT DOWN AND DISCUSS WHOSE NAMES ARE GO ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS' NAMES ARE GONNA GO ON A SIGN.
WHY YOU JUST SAY IT'S APPROVED BY THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
THEN YOU PUT IN THE PEOPLE WHO, WHO ADVOCATED FOR IT, INITIATED AND, AND, AND REALLY WORKED FOR IT.
AND IS THAT ANYBODY ON THAT COMMITTEE THAT DID THAT? AND THEN YOU COME TO THE MEETING AND SAY YAY OR NAY, AND WE GET IT DONE.
YOU SEE TO IT THAT CERTAIN THINGS HAPPEN.
NOW, I KNOW GAR DUQUE KNOWS THAT AFRICAN AMERICANS CAN'T BE RACIST BECAUSE WE DON'T CONTROL ANY SECTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
NO INSTITUTIONS, NO ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONTROL ANYBODY.
SO WHY IS IT THAT THEY GAVE A REFERENDUM TO THE N A C P, WHICH I THOUGHT HAD AUTOMATICALLY BEEN CHANGED? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT, UM, MS. MCGILL HAD MADE A STATEMENT AND SHE SPOKE TO PEOPLE AT THE N A C P.
SO I THOUGHT THEY AUTOMATICALLY WOULD CHANGE IT, BUT I DON'T EXPECT GAR DUCAIN TO LET IT GO BY UNDER THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
IT'S AN UNTRUTH AND IT'S INCORRECT.
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I'M NOTHING WITH LAWYERS SITTING UP THERE ON OUR TOWN COUNCIL AND THEN YOU GOT, UH, UH, TIM LEWIS IS A LAWYER.WE LET LAWYERS ALL OVER THE PLACE.
I DON'T LIKE TO SEE ERRORS LIKE THAT GO THROUGH.
NOW, IF WE DIDN'T KNOW BETTER, THEN I COULD SAY, OKAY, LET IT SLIDE.
BUT I I'M NOT LETTING ANYTHING SLIDE ANYMORE.
THE GENTLEMAN THAT WAS UP THERE, YOU HAD OSCAR JONES AS AN INSPECTOR, YOU'LL KNOW THE MAN WAS MORE QUALIFIED THAN ANYBODY SITTING UP THERE IN THAT, IN THAT OFFICE.
WE KNEW THAT, BUT HE DIDN'T GET THE JOB.
I WAS GONNA WRITE A LETTER ON HIS BEHALF ASKING Y'ALL TO MAKE HIM THE DEPUTY.
WELL, I WAS READY FOR HIM, YOU KNOW.
BUT, UM, BOTTOM LINE IS WE ARE PASSED OVER, OVERLOOKED.
AND, UM, DONE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER AND IT'S GOT TO STOP.
YOU SAID THERE'S PART-TIME WORKERS
ALL THE PART-TIME WORKERS ARE, I BELIEVE, UM, COUNCIL PERSONS.
SO YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU RIGHT THERE DREW THAT ONE.
DID Y'ALL SAY, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE.
AND IF YOU THINK THAT BY MAKING AN ERROR, IT'S NOT GONNA AFFECT EVERYBODY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
ONCE AGAIN, THE MOST FAMOUS BLACK PHILOSOPHER AND I CAN TAKE HIM BACK TO K HEGEL, ALL OF 'EM, CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES.
ALL OF 'EM SHOW YOU OF COURSE PREFERENCES.
AND THE ONLY ONE THAT WE HAVE NOW IS DEAD.
MARTIN LUTHER KING READ HIS MESSES.
EVERYTHING WE NEED TO KNOW, UNDOING RACISM, IMPLICIT BIAS, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? IF YOU DO IT AND DON'T KNOW YOU ARE DOING IT AND DO IT IN KNOWING YOU WELL, GOD SAYS THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE.
SO I'M HERE TRYING TO TELL ALL THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW IT.
THAT IS WRONG AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT.
I'M MY RATHER COME HERE AND HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH THAT IS MY FIRST FIVE MINUTES.
NOW I GET MY OTHER FIVE MINUTES, WHICH I AM GOING TO, CAN I PAT? I SAID I'D LIKE TO MOVE OUT.
YOU ALWAYS DO THAT PAUL, RIGHT BEFORE, JUST LIKE A SECOND.
SECOND 22 IN FAVOR? I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE ADJOURN THE MEETING.