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TODAY'S, UH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, UH, 10TH ALLEGIANCE
[ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.WOULD YOU REMAIN STANDING, PLEASE? HERE WE
[ MOMENT OF SILENCE In memory of Marty J. Thornton, retired and respected DPW Highway Department employee. Marty was a very dedicated public servant--appreciated and liked by town employees who he worked with and by residents whose lives he made better during his tenure with the town. In memory of Arnold Nagar, longtime resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, escaped with his family from Nazi Germany two months before Kristallnacht, (The “Night of Broken Glass”), when he was a young child. Most of his family perished in the Holocaust. He grew up in the Bronx and became both an educator and an attorney. He served as a Middle School Principal in the Bronx. After becoming an attorney, he served in the Navy as a Lieutenant Commander in the JAG Corps. He moved to Hastings many years ago and lived there with his wife, Ina. He was a lifelong Democrat, always committed to the United States and democracy. In memory of the people in Ukraine killed during Russia's invasion and relentless intentional targeted bombing of civilians in apartment buildings, hospitals, train stations, schools and children centers in an effort to destroy Ukraine and its people, who are forced to fight for their land, their freedom, and general democratic priniciples. May they rest in peace and peace be restored to Ukraine. In memory of the 1,023,774+ individual victims of COVID-19 who have died in the United States, 6,418,958+ deaths worldwide, each leaving family members and friends too soon]
HAVE, UM, A MO, A MOMENT OF SILENCE.STANDING PLEASE IN MEMORY OF MARTY THORNTON, A RETIRED AND RESPECTED DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYEE WAS A VERY DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT, APPRECIATED AND LIKED BY TOWN EMPLOYEES WHO HE WORKED WITH, AND BY RESIDENTS WHOSE LIVES HE MADE BETTER DURING HIS TENURE WITH THE TOWN, AND ALSO IN MEMORY OF ARNOLD NAGER.
UM, ARNOLD WAS A LONGTIME RESIDENT OF HASTINGS ON HUDSON.
HE ESCAPED WITH HIS FAMILY FROM NAZI GERMANY TWO MONTHS BEFORE CHRISTIAN, THE NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS.
WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG CHILD, MOST OF HIS FAMILY PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST.
HE GREW UP IN THE BRONX AND BECAME BOTH AN EDUCATOR AND ATTORNEY.
UM, HE SERVED AS MIDDLE SCHOOL, UM, PRINCIPAL IN THE BRONX.
AND AFTER BECOMING AN ATTORNEY, HE SERVED IN THE NAVY AS A LIEUTENANT COMMANDER IN THE JACK CORPSE.
HE MOVED TO HASTINGS MANY YEARS AGO AND LIVED THERE WITH HIS WIFE.
HE WAS A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT, ALWAYS COMMITTED TO THE UNITED STATES IN DEMOCRACY.
VERY, VERY INVOLVED IN, UM, IN, YOU KNOW, IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND BOTH MARTY THORNTON AND ARNOLD NAGER WILL BE MISSED BY EVERYONE WHO KNEW THEM.
AND COUNCILWOMAN HENDRICKS WILL NOW SPEAK.
WE, HE WAS MY VICE CHAIR WHEN I WAS CHAIR OF THE HASTINGS DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
WE WORKED TOGETHER CLOSELY FOR MANY YEARS.
A GUIDING PRINCIPLE IN HIS LIFE WAS HIS LOVE FOR HIS ADOPTED COUNTRY.
HE LOST OVER A HUNDRED FAMILY MEMBERS IN THE HOLOCAUST, AND HE REALLY BELIEVED IN DEMOCRACY, AND HE WORKED FOR IT EVERY DAY.
HE REMAINED A DISTRICT LEADER HIS WHOLE LIFE, AND I HAD GOOD FORTUNE OF WORKING WITH HIM.
SO I HAVE HERE A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FROM THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, WHICH I WILL DELIVER TO HIS WIFE TONIGHT OR TOMORROW.
AND ALSO, A MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE WHO WERE KILLED DURING RUSSIA'S INVASION AND RELENTLESS INTERNATIONAL, INTENTIONAL TARGETED BOMBINGS OF CIVILIANS AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS, HOSPITALS, TRAIN STATIONS, SCHOOLS, AND CHILDREN'S CENTERS IN AN EFFORT TO DESTROY UKRAINE.
AND ITS PEOPLE WHO ARE FORCED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LAND, THEIR FREEDOM AND GEN, GENERAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
MAY THE REST IN PEACE AND PEACE BE RESTORED TO UKRAINE.
AND FINALLY, IN MEMORY OF THE 1,023,774 INDIVIDUAL VICTIMS OF COVID WHO HAVE DIED IN THE UNITED STATES, 6,418,958 PLUS DEATHS WORLDWIDE, EACH LEAVING FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS TOO SOON.
UM, BEFORE, BEFORE WE, UM, UH, START WITH THE FLAG RAISING CEREMONY, I'D LIKE TO, UH, BEGIN THE MEETING BY TELLING EVERYBODY PAUL ROLL CALL.
[ ROLL CALL: Town Clerk]
TOWN.PRESENT COUNCILWOMAN GINA JACKSON.
PRESENT, FIRST DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY DAVID.
UM, I WANTED TO MENTION, UM, THAT ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF COMING TO A TOWN BOARD MEETING IS THAT SOMETIMES YOU GET TO, UH, FIND OUT SECRETS AND, UM, TO, UH, LATER THIS WEEK, AND THIS IS A SECRET, SO DON'T TELL ANYBODY.
LATER THIS WEEK, WE ARE GONNA HAVE A TOWN BOARD MEETING, AND THE TOWN BOARD'S GONNA BE APPOINTING KOBE POWELL AS OUR NEW POLICE CHIEF.
UM, KOBE IS, UM, SOMEBODY WHO, UH, MANY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY KNOW.
UM, HE'S, UM, HARDWORKING, SMART, EXPERIENCED.
HE'S BEEN A GREENBERG RESIDENT ALL HIS LIFE.
HE'S SOMEONE WHO LOVES THE TOWN, HE UNDERSTANDS
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THE TOWN.UM, HE'S BEEN A EXCEPTIONAL, UH, POLICE OFFICER RISING THROUGH THE RANKS AND FAMILIAR WITH ALL ASPECTS OF THE POLICE, UH, DEPARTMENT.
AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK THAT HE'S GONNA BE AN ENORMOUS, UM, UH, ASSET, ASSET TAR TOWN, AND A GREAT, UM, YOU KNOW, A GREAT CHIEF AND WITH ANYBODY ELSE, WANT TO, UH, SHARE THE SECRET WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE.
UM, TODAY OR FRIDAY, WHAT DAY IS IT GONNA BE? FRIDAY.
SO THE SECRET IS THAT HE'LL BE, UH, WE WILL MAKE THAT OFFICIAL ON FRIDAY.
UM, BUT LAST NIGHT WE WERE ABLE TO HEAR FROM THREE REALLY GOOD CANDIDATES.
AND WITH THE DECISION THAT WAS MADE, IT WAS, IT WASN'T A CHALLENGING ONE, BUT IT WAS, AND IT WAS, IT WAS A DECISION THAT IT DIDN'T TAKE MUCH THOUGHT TO IT BECAUSE WE KNEW THE CALIBER PERSON OF THIS CANDIDATE.
UM, WE'VE ALL WORKED WITH KOBE FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
I PERSONALLY KNOW KOBE FROM, UM, BEING AROUND THE TOWN.
AND HE SAID SOMETHING LAST NIGHT THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
HE SAYS HE'S NEVER HAD ANOTHER JOB ELSEWHERE.
HE'S ONLY WORKED AT THE GREENBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE GREENBURG PUBLIC IN THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT.
SO YOU CAN'T GET ANY MORE GREENBURG THAN THAT
SO THIS IS TRULY A, UM, I'M LOST FOR WORDS BECAUSE AS I MENTIONED, HE, HE, HE'S A TRULY STANDUP CALIBER, UM, PHENOMENAL PERSON.
I, I'LL HAVE, UH, MORE EXTENSIVE REMARKS ON FRIDAY, UM, WHEN THE SECRET IS REVEALED,
UM, BUT, UM, CAPTAIN POWELL, UH, UH, REPRESENTS WHAT GREENBERG IS ABOUT, SHOULD BE ABOUT, AND WITH HIS LEADERSHIP IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, IT WILL CERTAINLY BE IN THE FUTURE.
UH, IT WASN'T LOST ON US THAT HE HAS STAYED IN THE TOWN OF GREENBERG HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
AND IT'S NOT LIKE HE STAYED IN HIS LIVING ROOM WATCHING TELEVISION IN GREENBERG HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
HE HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO PUBLIC SERVICE.
WHETHER YOU WERE CHECKING OUT A LIBRARY BOOK EARLY ON, OR YOU HAD A NEED FOR POLICE ACTION INTERACTION, HIS INTERVIEW WAS REMARKABLE, BUT FRANKLY, NOT UNEXPECTED IN HOW MUCH HE TALKED ABOUT COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AND HAVING POLICE VEHICLES NOT DRIVING AROUND WITH WINDOWS UP AND PASSING BY, BUT STOPPING GETTING OUT AND INTERACTING WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHICH MORE OF THAT WILL BE HAPPENING UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP.
UH, HE'S JUST A REMARKABLE INDIVIDUAL.
HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DEALING WITH INVESTIGATIONS.
HE CALLS IT LIKE HE SEES IT NO MATTER WHO THE PERSON IS.
AND FRANKLY, THERE'S NOBODY BETTER WHO'S COMMITTED TO FOLLOWING THE LAW, INCREASING MORALE AMONG THE POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY, AND THE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE TWO.
UM, I CAN GO ON AND ON BECAUSE THIS IS JUST A ABSOLUTELY REMARKABLE PERSON WHO I THINK IS NOW GONNA BE THE NINTH AND ONLY THE NINTH POLICE CHIEF AND THE GREENBERG POLICE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND, UM, BUT I DON'T WANNA SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE SOME OF YOU MIGHT REVEAL THE SECRET, EVEN THOUGH THIS IS GOING OUT ON CABLE, IT'S GOING OUT ON THE INTERNET, AND IT'S STREAMED, AND IT'LL BE RECORDED AND PRESERVED FOREVER.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW, THAT'S HIM STANDING IN THE BACK WITH BREAST BRUISES.
ARE YOU, ARE YOU ANYMORE? NO, THAT'S IT.
IF I MAY, I JUST WANNA TELL EVERYBODY THAT WE HAVE, IN CASE YOU HADN'T NOTICED A GREAT POLICE
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DEPARTMENT, AND WE HAD FROM THAT GREAT POLICE DEPARTMENT, THREE TREMENDOUS CANDIDATES AND, AND CAPTAIN FOR NOW, POWELL WILL BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU THAT.AND SO IT JUST GOES TO THE CALIBER OF OUR CHOICE AS OUR NEW INCOMING CHIEF.
AND CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR BE BEFORE CODY SPEAKS.
UH, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WAS INCORPORATED IN 1788.
HERE WE ARE IN 2022, APPOINTING THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLICE CHIEF IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
NOT ONLY IS THIS UNPRECEDENTED, IT IS HISTORIC.
I HAVE KNOWN KOBE'S FAMILY FOR SEVERAL DECADES, AND I HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN HIM AS A PERSON WHO STOOD OUT AMONG MANY IN TERMS OF HIS ATTENTION TO DETAIL, TO ACADEMICS, AS WELL AS HIS ATTENTION TO PROFESSIONALISM.
THIS, AGAIN, IS A HISTORIC MOMENT, BUT IT SHOULD ALSO BE POINTED OUT THAT NO MATTER WHAT THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN IS, YOU STILL WOULD'VE BEEN APPOINTED BECAUSE WE ARE APPOINTING YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE COMPETENT, HARDWORKING, SMART, AND THE RIGHT PERSON FOR, UH, THE JOB AT THIS, UH, TIME QUALIFIED.
AND IN ADDITION TO ALL OF THAT, THIS IS A HISTORIC MOMENT.
AND I'M GLAD YOU'RE WEARING A MASK SO THAT IT'LL KEEP THE SECRET UNTIL FRIDAY.
FORGIVE ME FOR I INTERVIEWED LAST NIGHT.
YOU COULD, YOU COULD TAKE IT OUT OF THE HOLDER IF YOU WANT.
I JUST WANNA SAY I INTERVIEWED LAST NIGHT.
I FOUND OUT TODAY, AND I DIDN'T HAVE A SPEECH PLANNED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
I JUST WANNA EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO CHIEF LONGWORTH, THE TOWN BOARD FOR THEIR TRUST AND FAITH IN GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY.
AND, UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND, APPLAUD.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND APPLAUSE.
JUST KNOW THAT, UM, THIS TOWN IS MY HOME AND I'M GOING TO DO MY BEST TO GIVE YOU A POLICE CHIEF THAT YOU WILL ALL BE PROUD OF AND BE GLAD TO HAVE.
NEXT, NEXT, UH, UH, I'D LIKE TO, UH, BEFORE
[ 7:05 PM - JAMAICAN FLAG RAISING CEREMONY]
WE DO THE FLAG RAISING CEREMONY, I'D LIKE TO ASK PETERING TO COME UP AND MAYBE TELL US THE SIGNIFICANCE OF, UM, THE JAMAICAN, UH, FLAG RAISING, UH, CEREMONY TODAY.MY, MY FLAG NOT STANDING UP, MAN.
RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CAMERA.
UM, FIRST, UH, GREETINGS TO THE TOWN OF GREENBERG AT AL AND OTHERS.
I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY SINCEREST THANKS TO THE TOWN SUPERVISOR, PAUL FINER AND THE ENTIRE GREENBERG TOWN BOARD, ADMINISTRATION AND STAFF FOR THE RAISING OF THE FLAG.
ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 6TH, 2022, COMMER COMMEMORATING JAMAICA'S 60TH INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION, OUR DIAMOND JUBILEE AT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, MY HOMETOWN, UH, TODAY ON AUGUST 10TH, 2022, IS THE OFFICIAL RAISING OF THE JAMAICA FLAG CEREMONY AT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG JAMAICA.
OUR SMALL ISLAND COUNTRY HAS TURNED OUT SEVERAL GREAT
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WORLD RENOWNED FIGURES, SUCH AS MARCUS MIAH GARVEY, A HEROIC AND GREAT HISTORICAL FIGURE, FOUNDER OF THE U N I A UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION.PIONEER OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE 1920S, WHICH PIONEER ALL CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS TO PRESENT DAY, THE GREAT ROBERT ARI, ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS MUSICIAN THAT PUSHED UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS, JUSTICE, TRUTH, AND RIGHTS THROUGH REGGAE MUSIC.
AND GREAT ATHLETES, SUCH AS YOU SAY, IN BOTH THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE AND ELAINE THOMPSON HERO, THE FASTEST WOMAN ALIVE, AND OTHER GREAT ATHLETES SUCH AS PATRICK EWING, A GREAT BASKETBALL PLAYER FROM THE NEW YORK MIX, THE US UNITED STATES GENERAL COLIN POWELL, WHO HAS JUST RECENTLY PASSED AWAY.
AND OUR US VICE PRESIDENT, KAMALA HARRIS, WHOSE FATHER WAS A JAMAICAN.
WE ARE A PEOPLE OF GREAT COMMITMENT AND IDEALS THAT STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE AND SEE NO BARRIERS ADDED OTHER THAN THOSE THAT ARE MENTAL, WHICH IS OUR GREATEST STRUGGLE AS ALL HUMAN BEINGS FACE THIS SIMILAR PLIGHT.
WE HAVE AN INDOMITABLE SPIRIT OF NEVER GIVING UP.
ONCE THERE IS LIFE, THERE IS CHANCE AND OPPORTUNITY, A SMALL ISLAND COUNTRY.
YET WE POSSESS GREAT AMBITION AND DRIVE REGGAE MUSIC IS THE ENDING HELP TO END OF HARD GUIDE IN SOUTH AFRICA THROUGH BOB MARLEY'S MUSIC.
IT HELPED TO FREE AND LIBERATE ZIMBABWE, ISHA, AND ANGOLA, AND HAS INSPIRED COUNTLESS FREEDOM FIGHTERS IN AFRICA AND AROUND THE WORLD.
OUR MUSIC HAS GIVEN US THE ABILITY TO SPEAK TO THE WORLD ON A UNIVERSAL LEVEL BECAUSE WHAT'S HAPPENING, AS WE SAY AT HOME, HAPPENS ABROAD.
I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE OTHER MEMBERS OF OUR ORGANIZATION, UM, SAA WORLD INC.
SAA, S A S E IS STUDENTS ABOUT SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT.
AND I WILL GO INTO THAT IN A FEW.
I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY BOARD'S SECRETARY FOR SAA.
MS. MELANIE CASTELS, COULD YOU PLEASE STAND? COULD YOU PLEASE STAND? THANK YOU.
AND ALSO, UH, C F O C F O, ANDRE RA, UH, STANLEY GOLDEN, WHO IS OUR C O O.
UM, AND LAST BUT NOT, WELL, NOT LEAST I AM, HAVE THE BEST FOR LAST, UH, MAN THAT NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION IN THE TOWN OF B GREENBERG, OUR BOARD TREASURER, EMILIO ES ESCAL, P E R A, AND A TENURE PROFESSOR AT WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
UH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT ASSET TO WESTCHESTER COUNTY GREENVILLE.
HE'S A MAN WHO HAS INSPIRED MANY STUDENTS, UM, EVEN TO GRADE HEIGHTS LIKE MYSELF.
I'M THE SECOND OF THIRD, UH, OH.
UM, UM, MY VP WHO ARE JUST NEWLY ADJO, MS. NATALIE RO, SORRY, NA.
NATALIE, COULD YOU COMMENT? NATALIE'S GOING TO SAY A FEW WORDS.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN ESSAY CONTEST THAT WE'RE DOING TO PROMOTE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION.
UH, AND NATALIE WILL SAY A FEW WORDS ON THAT.
GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
I AM THE VICE PRESIDENT AND INTERNATIONAL PR LIAISON FOR SAS A WORLD INC.
I'M GOING TO READ SOMETHING THAT WAS SUBMITTED FROM A 16 YEAR OLD STUDENT IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA.
WHAT DO YOU HEAR WHEN YOU THINK OF THE WORDS CLIMATE CHANGE? IS IT THE RISING TEMPERATURES, ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMERTIME? I HAVE WITNESSED THE HUGE IMPACT THAT HUMAN ACTIONS HAVE CAUSED THE EARTH FROM HEARING ON THE NEWS THAT THE HIGHEST SUMMER TEMPERATURES INCREASED BY ABOUT TWO TO THREE DEGREES CELSIUS PER YEAR, TO TAKING A WALK ON THE LOVELY SANDY BEACH IN JAMAICA, ONLY TO FIND A FEW YEARS LATER THAT THE SANDS ARE BEING ERODED.
NO LONGER IS THERE MORE SAND TO WALK ON DUE TO THE RISE IN ITS WATER LEVELS, WITH THE IMPROPER DISPOSAL OF PLASTIC AND BURNING GARBAGES, WHICH RELEASE HARMFUL CHEMICALS INTO THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE.
MOTHER EARTH IS CRYING OUT EVERY DAY.
CAN YOU HEAR HER? WILL YOU LISTEN? THERE IS A LAYER OF PROTECTION CALLED THE OZONE, WHICH PROTECTS THE EARTH FROM THE HARMFUL UV RAYS CAUSED BY THE SUN.
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HARMFUL CHEMICALS ARE RELEASED INTO THE AIR FROM MANUFACTURING, BURNING, SMOKING, VEHICLE EMISSIONS, THE BUILDUP OF CHEMICAL WEAKENS THE OZONE LAYER, CAUSING AN INCREASE IN HIGH TEMPERATURES, WHICH ALSO AFFECTS THE HABITATS OF HUMANS AND ANIMALS.SOON ENOUGH, IF NOT STOPPED, THESE ANIMALS WILL NO LONGER HAVE A SAFE HOME.
I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK OF THE POLAR BEARS WHOSE LIVES ARE THREATENED BY HUMAN ACTIONS.
THERE HAS BEEN AN AWARENESS OF THE ICEBERG GLACIER MELTING.
POLAR BEARS WHO UTILIZE THE ICE GLACIERS IN ANTARCTICA AS THEIR PERMANENT HABITAT HAVE BEEN OBSERVED TO BE LOSING THEIR HOMES TO THE HEAVY HEAT RISE CAUSED FROM HUMAN ACTIONS.
WITH THE INCREASING DEMAND OF MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS AND THE CONSTANT USE OF FOSSIL FLOWS, GASES, AND NON BIODEGRADABLE MATERIALS, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING HAS BECOME THE MOST CONCERNING OBSTACLE FACED BY HUMANS IN THIS WORLD.
IF THIS DOES NOT SCARE YOU, NOTHING ELSE WILL.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE WILL THIS ENVIRONMENT, CRISIS IS A SITUATION THAT LITTLE ME WILL NOT TAKE LIGHTLY, AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU.
ONCE A MONTH, MY FAMILY AND I TAKE AN HOUR AND EACH NIGHT TO TURN OFF ALL THE LIGHTS IN OUR HOUSE.
WE SIT ON THE OUTSIDE VERANDA TO REFLECT AND KNOW THAT MY ACTIONS ARE SLOWLY HELPING MOTHER EARTH TO HEAL.
I ALSO ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY IT.
IT'S TIME FOR STRONGER ACTIONS.
AND I ASK YOU TO JOIN THIS CALL OF ACTION TO SAVING THE EARTH.
WE MUST START MAKING CHANGES IN OUR DAILY HABITATS BEFORE WE REALIZE IT IS TOO LATE.
WE ARE ON A RACE TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, SO MY NAME IS PETER SINGH.
I'M A SECOND GENERATION JAMAICAN.
I MIGRATED HERE TO NEW YORK IN 1969 AT AGE FIVE.
AND AFTER SEVERAL SUMMER VACATIONS TO THAT BEAUTIFUL, LUSH TROPICAL PARADISE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, A LOVE OF NATURE HAD BEEN INSTILLED IN ME THAT HAS NEVER LEFT MY CLIMATE.
ENVIRONMENTAL PASSION WAS BORN AND IT HAS ONLY DEEPENED WITH CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERILS THAT WE'RE FACING TODAY.
IT HAS MOVED ME FROM NOT ONLY PASSION BUT COMMITMENT WHILE ATTENDING WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WHILE I LIVE HERE IN MY HOMETOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, ON HILLSIDE AVENUE RIGHT DOWN THE ROAD, I RECEIVED SEVERAL HONORS, PHI THETA KAPPA DEANS LIST, PRESIDENT'S CLUB, AND THREE SCHOLARSHIP.
I WAS PRESIDENT OF THE ENERGY CLUB, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE CLUB.
I RECEIVED A WESTCHESTER PROCLAMATION, 2021 UNITED NATIONS HONOREE 2019.
I WAS THE W C C EARTH DAY STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE FROM 2017 TO 2020.
UH, ONE OF MY MENTORS IS ALSO HERE.
HE HAS SERVED OVER 40 YEARS TO THE COMMUNITY AT WESTCHESTER COLLEGE.
UM, HE WAS THERE WHEN, UH, PRESIDENT HANK WAS THERE.
SO, WHILE ATTENDING THE COLLEGE, I'VE LEARNED A LOT OF THINGS AND I'M CONTINUED MY ACADEMIC GOALS.
I'M NOW ATTENDING OREGON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, STUDYING RENEWABLE ENERGY ENGINEERING, WHERE I CAN NOT ONLY EARN A DECENT LIVING, BUT FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT OR USING ALTERNATIVE RENEWABLE ENERGY OPTIONS AS OP INSTEAD OF DIRTY FOSSIL FUEL.
IN 2018, IT WAS THE FOUNDING OF SAES ROYAL INC.
SAE SS A S E STUDENTS, ABOUT SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT.
WE ARE ENVIRONMENTAL NON-PROFIT.
AFTER REALIZING THE PLIGHT AND THE STRUGGLE THAT CLIMATE CHANGE FACE AWARENESS AND KNOWLEDGE OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS UNIVERSAL STRUGGLE TO SAVE THE PLANET HAS INSPIRED ME TO START THIS ENVIRONMENTAL NONPROFIT.
WE, AS JAMAICANS AND AS AMERICANS IN THE DIASPORA HAVE TO TAKE ON THESE ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES FACING US GLOBALLY BY DOING OUR PART, THE ANTHROPOGENIC FORCES OF HUMANS ARE NE WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BE LIKE FOR OUR YOUTHS AND OUR CHILDREN? WE HAVE DECREASED AIR QUALITY BY INCREASING C O TWO CONTENT.
IN THE AIR PRE-INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, THE AIR WAS AT 280 PARTS PER MILLION.
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THE AIR NOW IN 2022 IS AT 418 PARTS PER MILLION.IN THE ATMOSPHERE, THE OCEAN IS TAKING AN ENVIRONMENTAL VOID FOR THE EARTH BY ABSORBING HEAT ENERGY PHOTONS THAT CANNOT ESCAPE OUT INTO THE ATMOSPHERE.
THE I P C C, THE INTERGOVERNMENT PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, A BODY OF HUNDREDS OF SCIENTISTS AND OTHER RESEARCH ANALYSTS WITH THE LATEST CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY HAS OUTLINED SEVERAL R P RCPS, WHICH ARE REPRESENTATIVE CONCENTRATION PATHWAYS FROM 3.5 TO 8.5.
THAT'S 3.5 WATTS PER METER SCORE TO 8.5 WATTS PER METER SCORE IN THE YEAR 2100, A 3.5 SCENARIO.
IS THIS SOMETHING TO DO WITH RAISING FLAG? WE DO FLAG FLAG RAISING CEREMONY BEFORE.
AND THEN WE HAVE, WE HAVE A BIG AGENDA.
ALRIGHT, SO, UH, LET ME JUST CUT OFF BY SAYING WE'RE, WE'RE DOING A ENVIRONMENTAL ESSAY CONTEST HERE IN, UM, TOWN OF GREENBURG.
WE WANNA PROMOTE, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ABOVE THE, TO THE YOUTHS.
SO WE'RE GONNA PUT A $50 GIFT CERTIFICATE AND GIVE THEM A CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION FROM OUR ORGANIZATION.
AND WE'D LIKE TO START THAT IN GREENBURG.
WE ALSO, UH, PUSHING A FOUR POINT PLAN JUST TO PUSH ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION TO PRE-K TO COLLEGE.
'CAUSE WE'RE TURNING OUT, UH, PEOPLE WITH MASTERS PHDS THAT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT.
SO, UM, THANKS, UH, FOR GIVING ME THE FLOOR.
UM, SO WHY DON'T WE JUST GO OUT AND DO THE RAISING AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK WITH THE OTHER PRESENTATION, THE OTHER PRESENTATIONS WE HAVE.
SO WE COULD GO JUST, WE'LL TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK AND WE'LL JUST GO AND DO THE FLAG RAISING, AND THEN WE'LL BE DONE.
[ PRESENTATIONS Highlight Awa Nyambi, the Greenburgh resident, former Xposure student who was featured on the Times Square billboard as a Morgan Stanley intern and doctoral student Highlights of the 2022 Greenburgh Town Hall Summer Internship Program Gus Renzin - Composting <renzing23@learn.hohschools.org Jennifer Glen - Organized an online petition drive urging NYS to repave Saw Mill River Road in Elmsford (petition now has over 1,300 signatures)]
HAVE, UM, UM, SOME STUDENT INTERNS, UH, AND JUDITH, YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A PRESENTATION.HOWEVER, BEFORE WE GET TO THE STUDENT INTERNS, WE HAVE, UM, A VIDEO HIGHLIGHTING GREENBERG RESIDENT AND FORMER EXPOSURE STUDENT WHO WAS FEATURED ON THE TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARD AS A MORGAN STANLEY INTERN AND DOCTORAL STUDENT.
SO I'M GOING TO ASK RAY THOMAS, FOUNDER AND C E O OF EXPOSURE FOUNDATION TO PLEASE COME FORWARD.
EXPOSURE WAS, UM, UH, A PROGRAM HERE IN, UH, IN OUR TOWN FOR SEVERAL YEARS AT THEATER TOWN COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND, UH, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF BRINGING IT BACK BECAUSE WE REALIZE THE VALUE OF THIS PROGRAM TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND YOU, IS THIS ON? YES, IT IS.
JUST WANNA HOLD IT CLOSED, SIR.
UH, I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY THANKING THE, UH, GREENBOARD TOWN BOARD FOR ALLOWING EXPOSURE TO CUT ITS TEETH HERE BACK IN 2008.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REPRESENTS THE EXCELLENCE, UM, OF EXPOSURE AND THE PROJECT BASED LIFE SKILLS, UH, CENTERED AROUND FINANCIAL LITERACY, ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT REPRESENTS US REALLY WELL ARE THOSE TWO EMMYS THAT YOU SEE THERE THAT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IS VERY RESPONSIBLE FOR.
WE'RE NOW 12 TIME EMMY NOMINATED FOR CONTENT CREATED WITH YOUTH FOR YOUTH.
UM, THAT CONTENT CENTERS AROUND FINANCIAL LITERACY, UH, SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING, UH, CIVICS.
IT'S ABOUT ANYTHING THAT YOU COULD THINK OF BECAUSE EXPOSURE IS JUST THAT ABOUT EXPOSING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
AND ONE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE THAT YOU WILL SEE TODAY, OUR NABI NOW ATTENDS HOWARD LAW, IS A GRADUATE OF HARVARD, AND BASICALLY HIS HARVARD DEGREE IS IN ECONOMICS.
AND WHERE THAT INTEREST WAS SPURRED WAS HERE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, THE EXPOSURE GREENBERG PROGRAM.
I HAVE TO THANK, YOU KNOW, PAUL FINER, JUDITH VILLE FOR YOUR UNWAVERING SUPPORT, FRANCIS KEN.
YOU GUYS HAD BEEN THERE FOR SOME OF THE, UH, GREAT THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE HERE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, AND WE'RE EXTREMELY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT.
UM, IT'S A SPECIAL PROGRAM AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IT OPENS STUDENTS UP TO THINGS THAT MAYBE THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW, UH, SKILLS THEY POSSESSED.
AND SO THOSE TWO EMMY AWARDS IN THE 12
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EMMY NOMINATIONS REPRESENT THE EXCELLENCE THAT IS EXPOSURE.UM, THREE OF THOSE NOMINATIONS CAME JUST IN JUNE AND IN OCTOBER, WE'LL KNOW WHETHER OR NOT RECEIVE ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE.
AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS TO KEEP MOVING, KEEP MOVING IT FORWARD, AND AGAIN, CONTINUE EXPOSING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
AND WE HOPE TO AGAIN, DO THAT HERE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
SO, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, IF YOU COULD PLAY THE PRESENTATION FOR MR. AWA NABI.
I THINK THAT HE SPEAKS WELL OF THE PROGRAM AND WHY A PROGRAM LIKE EXPOSURE IS EXTREMELY VALUABLE IN ANY TOWN.
I, WHO IS OUR, I'M TALKING ABOUT WHO IS OUR, I SEE A, A YOUNG GIFTED BLACK MAN WHO IS OUR LAND.
UM, WELL, SO B DAVE, I, UH, UH, I'M PROUD OF, YOU KNOW, WOMEN HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI EXPOSURE PROGRAM.
UM, AND SO I THINK ABOUT CREATING SCHOOL CIRCLE.
UM, SO NOT A, SO, UM, UM, PART OF, YOU KNOW, ISSUES ON THE SIDE.
UM, I AM, YOU KNOW, I HAVE SO MUCH ABOUT TODAY, UH, THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE, BUT UNDERGRAD, UM, AND I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN LEARNING, I DEVELOPED TO SORT OF KIND OF SAY IT, UM, AND I, HARVARD STUDYING ECONOMICS.
UH, MY, UH, MY SECOND GRADE, MY FOUR YEAR FORMATIVE, I THINK THAT MY FOUR YEAR IN COLLEGE, I, I MEAN, I WENT, I WENT INTO COLLEGE KNOWING THAT I SORT OF HAD A, IN DOING BUSINESS, KNOWING THAT I KIND OF WANTED TO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, AT THE VERY LEAST, YOU MORE INTELLIGENT IN I WANTED ONCE I GRADUATED.
UM, AND I MEAN, LIKE, I, I MEAN ANYTHING I COULD IMAGINE.
UM, UM, AND SO UNDERSTANDING MORE MACROECONOMIC CONTEXT, SORT, UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, READING THINGS PAPER, WHAT DOES IT, THOSE, BUT I, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I
I'M JUST GLAD YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER CAME THROUGH.
OUR PROGRAM IS AN ELEMENTARY STUDENT.
YOU ACTUALLY STARRED, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR BIG FINANCIAL LITERACY 2017 INMY NOMINATED IS A CRIME, NOT TO SAY STARRING WESLEY MIAMI.
AND YOU FOLLOW YOUR FOOTSTEPS AND YOU IMPORTANTLY LEARNED A LOT OF THE CONCEPTS, UH, THAT WE TEACH AS IT RELATES TO, UH, SAVING AND EARNING INTEREST AS IT RELATES TO
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INVESTING YOUR MONEY IN STOCK MARKET AT THE EARLIEST OF AGES.AND BECOMING AN OWNER, A BOSS IN SHAREHOLDER.
SO WE'RE EXTREMELY PROUD OF THAT FAMILY REPRESENTING US AS WELL AS EVIDENCE BY YOU BEING HERE TODAY.
I MEAN, WITH THE, UM, UM, EXPOSURE YEAR, MAYBE THE YEAR BEFORE I, UM, UM, AND THAT WAS OF, WAS AFTER AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAM.
UM, AND SO EXPOSURE, UM, I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER SEEING ONE EXPERIENCES MOST, MOST VIVID.
WE WERE ALL GATHERED UP AND I, OKAY, I'M SMACKING PLACE
UM, AND IT WAS THE FIRST THAT INCLUDE LIKE, SOME KIND OF LIKE REGULAR REGIMEN OF, YOU KNOW, LIKE WORK YOU MIGHT INCLUDE LIKE, YOU KNOW, CEREBRAL ME, LIKE PUTTING MY FOOTING, YOU KNOW, APPLYING WHAT KNOWLEDGE I WAS RUNNING IN SCHOOL.
UH, TALK TO ME ABOUT THE POWER THAT YOU THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AN EXPERIENCE LIKE THAT HAS FOR YOUNG PERSON.
YEAH, I REMEMBER THAT WAS ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE
UM, AND THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT LIKE MONEY SAVING.
LIKE, BECAUSE BEFORE THAT I TO MAKE THAT OR $5 I DAY OR MAYBE ME, I'M TRYING.
UM, BUT THAT WAS MY ONLY, MY ONLY LIKE, PERSONAL FIGHTS.
BUT AGAIN, WHAT'S, WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THE EXPOSURE? EXPOSURE? WELL, PERSONAL ACTUALLY, BECAUSE HAVING A BIG ACCOUNT, SAVING MONEY, NAMING A
NOW, IF I WAS, I WAS SMARTER BACK, I PROBABLY WOULD'VE GONE MORE DUBAI, THE BEST BUY STOCK AT THE TIME.
BUT AGAIN, THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT, THAT MAKE ME LIKE PERSONAL FINDING DER.
UM, BUT OF COURSE I LIKE 10, 11, 12 YEAR OLD.
LIKE, OKAY, MAYBE THEY'RE NOT GONNA, BUT I GUESS THE QUESTION IS WHY NOT? THAT'S, THAT'S LIKE SORT OF, I MEAN, THAT'S SORT OF THE QUESTION.
WELL, WHY NOT? WHY NOT? BECAUSE, AND SO IT EVEN LIKE, AND THERE IS LIKE MEASURABLE IMPACT, WHICH IN THIS CASE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS ARE MORE AWARE, EXPOSED.
I MEAN, THE WAY, THE WAY THAT IT HAPPENED, 12, UM, FRIENDS, BANK ACCOUNT, MY KIDS, THESE ARE ALL VERY NEGATIVE TIME, BUT AT THE EARLIEST REALLY COOL GUY.
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AND I KIND WANNA KNOW, WANNA KNOW LIKE HOW WE KNOW THAT, OR I WANNA BE SEEN VERY LIKE ELEMENTARY, VERY LIKE DOC.BUT I MEAN, THOSE ARE KIND OF THINGS THAT LIKE MAKE FOR, YOU KNOW, SENIOR 14, 50 YEARS DOWN LINE.
I, NOW I'VE BEEN A PART STOCK MARKET.
UM, I MEAN THIS, THIS
SECURITY, WHICH, UM, AND SO I MEAN NOW, NOW I'M IN A POSITION WHERE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THOSE VERY LIKE EARLY QUESTIONS THAT I ASKING THAT I, YOU KNOW, COMPETI AS YOUNG PERSON, UM, HAVE NOW, I MEAN, NOT IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ANSWERED, THEY DON'T PROBE FURTHER QUESTIONS.
I MEAN, THE QUESTIONS THAT I ASKED TODAY ARE LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WOULD LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS
WELL, WHY, WELL, WHY NOT? YOU KNOW, GIVE PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY.
WHY, WHY? I MEAN, THERE'S A WHY.
LIKE WHEN I, I MEAN, IT'S FUNNY, IF I HAD TO GO BACK TO MY 11 OLD SELF AND TELL MYSELF WHY NOT DO EXPOSURE, OR WHY DON'T I HAVE EXPOSURE? LIKE, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE AN OFFENSE TO MYSELF SITTING HERE, UM, AS A BENEFICIARY OF THOSE.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT, UM, YOU NEED TO LOOK AT A SEVEN 11 YEAR OLD, YOU I'M OPPORTUNITY.
UM, I YOUNG AT THAT AND THERE WERE NO OPPORTUNITIES.
ONCE I LEFT EXPOSURE PROGRAM, MIDDLE MIDDLE SCHOOL EXPOSURE PROGRAM, THERE WAS NO OTHER, THERE WASN'T NO OTHER PROGRAM THAT I ATTENDED FOR THE REST OF MY, UM, ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES AS
AND SO WHY NOT? WHY NOT? BECAUSE I MIGHT NOT BE, I MIGHT NOT BE RIGHT.
SO THE MESSAGE TO THE MESSAGE TO OUR INTERNS WHO ARE HERE WITH US TODAY, AS WELL AS TO YOUNG PEOPLE, UM, WHO ARE POTENTIAL PARTICIPANTS IN THE EXPOSURE FINANCIAL LITERACY PROGRAM, IS THAT THIS IS WHERE YOU, THIS IS, THIS IS THE POSSIBILITY OF WHERE YOU COULD BE.
SO THIS YOUNG MAN STARTED OUT AT 10, 11, 12 YEARS OLD IN THE EXPOSURE AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM HERE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND HE IS NOW IN A MORGAN STANLEY INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
SO IT'S, IT'S ALL ABOUT POSSIBILITY.
IT'S ALL ABOUT PURSUING YOUR PASSIONS AND PURSUING OPPORTUNITIES.
WE'RE GOING TO MOVE NOW TO THE PRESENTATION ON THE HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2022 GREENBURG TOWN HALL IN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
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WE ARE AT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY COMPOST SITE.IT WAS ABOUT 95 DEGREES THAT DAY.
FUTURE LEADERS, ABOUT 95 DEGREES.
LEARNING ABOUT FROM WESTCHESTER COUNTY LEADER, LEARNING ABOUT COMPOSTING HERE, WE'RE VISITING REGENERON.
THIS IS ONE OF OUR GUEST SPEAKERS.
BARRETT SEAMAN, FOUNDER OF THE HUDSON ENTERPRISE.
BARRETT WAS ALSO A CORRESPONDENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
DURING WHICH PRESIDENT? PAUL RONALD REAGAN.
SPEAKER OFFICER XENON GREENBERG POLICE DEPARTMENT, SPEAKING ABOUT COMMUNITY POLICING.
LIEUTENANT HALL, WHO IS THE COMMANDING OFFICER OF COMMUNITY POLICING.
MY BIGGEST TAKEAWAY IS PROBABLY, UM, WHAT MAKES AN EFFECTIVE GROUP, BECAUSE IT'S VERY GROUPS ALL THE TIME.
SO HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE SPEAKING ABOUT THE VALUE AND THE BENEFIT OF WORKING IN GROUPS AND LEARNING TEAMWORK, AS WELL AS LEARNING HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.
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SOUND IS A LITTLE MUFFLED BECAUSE MASK WEARING WAS REQUIRED.I, BUT THEY'RE SPEAKING MAINLY ABOUT WHAT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT HAS MEANT TO THEM AND HOW IT HAS IMPACTED THEIR THINKING ABOUT LEADERSHIP.
I, AS YOU CAN SEE, SOME OF OUR FUTURE LEADERS ARE SOFT SPOKEN.
NEVERTHELESS, THEY CAME FORWARD THROUGHOUT THESE PAST FIVE WEEKS AND SPOKE OUT AND HAVE SPOKEN OUT ABOUT THEIR VIEWS ON LEADERSHIP.
THEY'RE SPEAKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE AND WHAT THEY LEARN FROM OUR GUEST SPEAKERS.
THE, WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS INTERNSHIP SO FAR IS THAT NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, WHETHER YOU'RE COLLEGE,
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YOU, I LEARNED IN AND DOING THAT WITH A GROUP, PEOPLE THAT I REALLY ENJOYED HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST REWARDING EXPERIENCES THUS FAR.LEADERSHIP, WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A GOOD LEADER, UM, DURING THIS, IN COLLABORATION TO HELP LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK.
THIS INTERNSHIP, I LEARNED LEADERSHIP.
THE 2022 GREENBERG TOWN HALL SUMMER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, THE ORIGIN, 14 YEARS AGO, TOWN SUPERVISOR PAUL FIRE, FORMER TOWN ATTORNEY TIM LEWIS, AND MYSELF, TOWN CLERK JUDITH BEVILLE, CREATED THIS PROGRAM TO INTRODUCE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE FROM OUR TOWN TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH AUTHENTIC EXPERIENCES RELATED TO GOVERNMENT ISSUES.
THE PROGRAM IS BASED UPON FOUR PILLARS.
INTERNS, WHAT ARE THOSE FOUR PILLARS? COMMUNICATION.
SO FROM THOSE FOUR PILLARS, WE PROVIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS AS WELL AS INVITE GUEST SPEAKERS RELATED TO THOSE FOUR PILLARS.
THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM WAS EXCEPTIONAL, TO SAY THE LEAST.
IT REPRESENTED YOUNG PEOPLE FROM SEVEN OF THE 10 SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
THAT IN AND OF ITSELF IS UNPRECEDENTED.
IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED ALSO, IN TERMS OF THE NUMBER OF INTERNS.
WHEN WE STARTED OUT 14 YEARS AGO, WE HAD MAYBE 12, 10, 12 UNDER 15 INTERNS.
THIS YEAR WE HAD AN UNPRECEDENTED 46 INTERNS WITH AN AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE OF 42.
WHAT DOES THAT SAY? IT SPEAKS TO HOW THEY RECEIVED THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM PROVIDED THROUGH GREENBERG TOWN HALL.
IT WAS UNPRECEDENTED IN TERMS OF DIVERSITY.
THE STUDENTS IN THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM LOOKED LIKE A SESSION, REPRESENTED A SESSION IN THE UNITED NATIONS.
THEY REPRESENT THE MOSAIC OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
THEY ALSO REPRESENT FUTURE LEADERS OF THIS TOWN, OF THIS COUNTY, OF THIS STATE, OF THIS COUNTRY.
I, AFTER THE FIRST TWO WEEKS, DURING THE FIRST TWO WEEKS, THEY WERE REFERRED TO AS INTERNS FROM THE THIRD WEEK GOING FORWARD, YOU WERE REFERRED TO AS FUTURE FUTURE LEADERS.
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UNPRECEDENTED IN TERMS OF THEIR UNDERSTANDING, THEIR KNOWLEDGE, THEIR GRASP, AND THEIR USE OF TECHNOLOGY.I HAVE NEVER MET OR ENCOUNTERED A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WERE SO SOPHISTICATED, SO KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY.
ALL I HAD TO DO WAS SAY, I HAVE A PROBLEM UP HERE.
AND THEY WERE LIKE, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? THEY CAME FORWARD AND THEY RE AND THEY SOLVED IT.
I MEAN, I HONESTLY, IT JUST, IT BLEW MY MIND.
THEIR, THEIR, THEIR LEVEL OF, OF KNOWLEDGE WITH REGARDS TO TECHNOLOGY.
AND THIS YEAR'S GROUP OF INTERNS WAS UNPRECEDENTED IN TERMS OF LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE.
WE HAD AMONG THE 46 LEADERS IN HIGH SCHOOL, LEADERS IN COLLEGE, ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS THIS EVENING IS A RA, A RESIDENT ASSISTANT AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL.
SHE'S A LEADER FOR A GROUP OF COLLEAGUES.
ANOTHER YOUNG MAN IN OUR GROUP TONIGHT HELPED FOUND AN ORGANIZATION, NEVAR.
YOU'LL HEAR FROM HIM, OTHER LEADERS.
THERE ARE SEVERAL LEADERS HERE WHO HAVE LED INITIATIVES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES AND IN THEIR SCHOOLS.
SO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I BRING TO YOU OUR FUTURE, A REPRESENTATIVE GROUP OF OUR FUTURE LEADERS HERE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
SO I'M JUST GOING TO LET YOU COME FORWARD IN THE ORDER IN WHICH YOU'RE SITTING.
WE'LL JUST START WITH ALEX, COME FORWARD ALEX, AND PLEASE SHARE WHO YOU ARE.
I'M FROM EDGEMONT, UM, NEW YORK.
AND I AM A RISING SOPHOMORE AT, UH, WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST.
LOUIS, STUDYING POLITICAL SCIENCE, ARABIC AND COMPUTER SCIENCE.
UM, FIRSTLY, I'D LIKE TO THANK MS. BEVILLE FOR COORDINATING THIS PROGRAM.
SHE DID A FANTASTIC JOB, UM, ON BEHALF OF ALL THE INTERNS, I CAN SAY WE DEFINITELY LEARNED A LOT FROM HER EXPERIENCES AND EVERYTHING SHE DID FOR US.
MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT THIS PROGRAM WAS THE GUEST SPEAKERS, WHETHER IT BE POLICE OFFICERS, REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE UN OR FORMER WHITE HORSE, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS, THAT EVERYONE WAS VERY INSPIRATIONAL AND THEY ENABLED US TO DO A LOT OF REALLY INTERESTING, COOL THINGS.
UM, FOR EXAMPLE, WE LED AN INITIATIVE TO, UH, GIVE STUDENTS FREE BUSING IN WESTCHESTER.
UM, AND THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT, WITH, THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE, IN, WITHOUT THE INSPIRATION THAT MS. BEVILLE AND OUR SPEAKERS PROVIDED.
UM, NOW I'M NOT SURE WHERE THAT INITIATIVE IS HEADED CURRENTLY, BUT I MEAN, THE EXPERIENCE WE GAINED FROM IT AND THE LEADERSHIP WE HAD TO USE, UM, WILL DEFINITELY HELP US DOWN THE ROAD.
UM, AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE ENTIRE COUNCIL FOR LETTING THIS PROGRAM HAPPEN, AND I HOPE IT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN IN EFFECT, UH, FUTURE STUDENTS AND INTERNS.
SO, ALEX SPOKE ABOUT THE INITIATIVE THAT THE INTERNS, THE FUTURE LEADERS, UH, HAVE INSPIRED AND LAUNCHED TO APPEAL TO THE COUNTY TO EXPAND AND EXTEND FREE RIDERSHIP IN THIS COUNTY, BUT MAINLY FOR STUDENTS ELEMENTARY THROUGH COLLEGE.
SO THAT'S THE INITIATIVE THAT THEY HAVE LAUNCHED.
AND THEY WILL BE SPEAKING WITH COUNTY LEGISLATOR MARY JANESKY TOMORROW AND NEXT WEEK THEY'LL BE SPEAKING WITH DEPUTY COUNTY EXECUTIVE KEN JENKINS.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO BE GAINING INPUT, UH, OBTAINING INPUT FROM BOTH OF THEM AS TO WHAT THOSE LEADERS HAVE DECIDED OR DETERMINED TO BE THE PROPER STRATEGIES
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TO EMPLOY OUR NEXT SPEAKER.GOOD EVENING TOWN BOARD AND RESIDENTS OF GREENBURG.
MY NAME IS FRANK RICCARDI, AND I AM A RISING JUNIOR AT IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO DO THIS INTERNSHIP.
AS I'VE IMPROVED MY LEADERSHIP DEVELOP, I MEAN, IMPROVED MY LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND DEVELOPED MY TEAMWORK.
I HAVE ALSO BUILT CONNECTIONS AT THIS INTERNSHIP THAT I OTHERWISE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.
I'M A RISING SENIOR AT IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, AND PART OF THE REASON I CAME DOWN HERE TODAY TO TALK TO ALL OF Y'ALL, UM, IS BECAUSE THIS IS ACTUALLY MY SECOND YEAR DOING THE INTERNSHIP, UH, HERE.
AND THE REASON I DECIDED TO COME BACK IS BECAUSE I REALIZED THAT THE SKILLS THAT WE DEVELOP HERE, UM, THEY'RE NOT JUST SOMETHING YOU USE IF YOU WANT TO GO INTO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, THEY'RE APPLICABLE EVERYWHERE.
UM, AND BECAUSE OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC, WE'VE MISSED OUT ON SO MANY OPPORTUNITIES AS YOUNG PEOPLE TO GET, UM, THE CHANCE TO LIKE REFINE THOSE SKILLS.
UM, AND THIS HAS BEEN A CHANCE FOR US TO REALLY WORK TOGETHER AS A GROUP IN PERSON.
ONE OF OUR, I THINK MAYBE IT WAS ALEX WHO MENTIONED THE GUEST SPEAKERS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I BELIEVE IN GIVING CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.
OUR TOWN SUPERVISOR, PAUL FINER THROUGHOUT HIS 30 SOME ODD YEARS IN OFFICE AND IN POLITICAL POSITIONS, HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, THE GOLDEN, THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET MANY PEOPLE FROM LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE.
HE HAS SAT IN HIS OFFICE OR THROUGH HIS MOVING AROUND EACH DAY, AND HE'LL SEND ME AN EMAIL AND SAY, JUDITH, THIS PERSON WANTS TO SPEAK TO THE INTERNS.
THIS PERSON WANTS TO SPEAK, THIS PERSON WANTS TO SPEAK.
WE HAVE HAD AMAZING SPEAKERS DUE TO OUR TOWN SUPERVISOR, PAUL FINER.
SO I, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DID NOT MENTION THAT OUR, MANY OF OUR SPEAKERS TO OUR INTERNS HAVE COME THROUGH PAUL FINER.
AND NEXT WEEK WE'RE HAVING MEREDITH THERA, WHO IS A FORMER HOST OF, UH, THE TODAY SHOW.
SHE'S GONNA SPEAK, SHE'S GONNA SPEAK, UH, JUDY CHANG HOPKINS WAS THE FIRST SPEAKER.
SHE WAS, THEY LOVED HER IN CHARGE OF REFUGEES.
WE HAD, UH, THE TONY AWARD, UH, UH, WINNER, UM, THE BEST PLAY.
UM, WE'VE HAD A FEW YEARS AGO.
UM, WE HAD, UH, MARK ZUCKERBERG'S SISTER SPEAK.
WE'VE HAD OVER THE YEARS, SOME OF THE TOP PEOPLE ALL OVER, UH, UM, OVER THE WORLD.
UM, UH, WE'VE HAD AMAZING SPEAKERS YEAH.
AND HAVE BEEN VERY INSPIRATIONAL, VERY MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKERS FOR OUR INTERNS.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, UH, UH, GOOD EVENING.
MY NAME IS NAVEA PUR AND I'M A RISING JUNIOR AT WOODLANDS HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE HERE THAT WORKS AT GREENBERG FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY.
'CAUSE THIS WHOLE THESE EIGHT WEEKS HAVE BEEN INCR.
EIGHT WEEKS HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLE.
I'D LIKE TO THANK, UH, MISS VILLE AND PAUL FINER TO GETTING THE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE TO COME DOWN HERE.
GIVE US, UH, EX EXCELLENT SPEECHES, UH, TEACHING US SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT IT REQUIRES TO BE A LEADER.
WE ALSO LEARNED THAT LEADERS COME IN ANY SHAPE AND SIZE.
UH, THEY CAN BE ANYWHERE AS WELL FROM JUST LIKE, FROM THE WHITE HOUSE UN ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LIKE SMALL ORGANIZATIONS HERE IN GREENBURG.
PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE THE NAME OF THE ORGANIZATION AND, UM, AND WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO, TO CREATE THAT ORGANIZATION
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HERE IN WESTCHESTER.UH, SO I'M A, UH, CO-FOUNDER OF SIX OF WESTCHESTER WITH MY PARENTS.
AND WE HAVE CREATED THIS ORGANIZATION TO LIKE, TO BASICALLY GIVE MORE TO THE WORDS THE SIKH RELIGION.
'CAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN SO MUCH DISCRIMINATION.
THERE'S NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE THAT KNOW ABOUT THE RELIGION WHEN WE WERE LIKE THE FIFTH, UH, HIGHEST POPULATED RELIGION IN THE WORLD.
SO WE WANNA GIVE OUT MORE, GIVE MORE INFORMATION JUST HOW IN APRIL WE MADE IT IN A SICK MONTH WITH PAUL FINER AND GEORGE LATIMER.
SO WE WANNA GIVE OUT MORE TO THE COMMUNITY.
WHAT, WHAT GRADE ARE YOU IN? UM, I'M RESIN JUNIOR.
RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU MAY WANT TO BE APPOINTED TO, UH, OUR HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, BECAUSE WE HAVE A HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE THAT DEALS WITH, UH, DISCRIMINATION.
AND, UH, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE, UH, STUDENT REPRESENTATION, YOU KNOW, ON, ON THAT COMMITTEE.
AND AGAIN, THE SIKH COMMUNITY HAS BEEN VICTIMIZED BY DISCRIMINATION AND WOULD LOVE TO, UH, HAVE YOU, UH, UH, PROVIDE LEADERSHIP.
SO, YOU KNOW, AFTER THE INTERNSHIP, YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, WE'LL PUT YOU IN TOUCH AND WE COULD HAVE YOU APPOINTED TO THE COMMITTEE IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.
THANK YOU, MR. THE ONLY, UH, UH, COMMITMENT THAT THE INTERNS HAVE TO MAKE IS IF THEY WIN A NOBLE PEACE PRIZE OR AN ACADEMY AWARD, UH, OR GET INAUGURATED AS GOVERNOR OR PRESIDENT, THEY HAVE TO INVITE US TO, UH, UH, THE CEREMONY.
UM, THAT'S THE ONLY, UH, ONLY COMMITMENT THAT THEY HAVE TO MAKE TO BE AN INTERN.
BUT WE, WE'VE ALWAYS ACCEPTED EVERYBODY.
WE'VE NEVER TURNED DOWN A STUDENT OVER THE YEARS.
AND, UM, WE, WE PUBLICIZE IT WIDELY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME STUDENTS WHO ARE, THE STUDENTS WHO ARE SPEAKING ARE VERY GIFTED AND TALENTED.
NOT EVERYBODY IS AS SMART OR AS GIFTED OR AS ELOQUENT AS YOU ARE.
UM, BUT AT SOME, SOMETIMES STUDENTS WHO MAY BE SHY AND NOT AS ELOQUENT WHEN THEY'RE IN SCHOOL, 10 YEARS FROM NOW, THEY COULD BE NATIONAL LEADERS.
SO WE WANNA GIVE EVERYONE WHO WANTS THE OPPORTUNITY, THE CHANCE OF LEARNING.
YOU KNOW, LISTEN, PAUL IS RIGHT.
IT'S, IT'S OUR, THE POLICY IN OUR PROGRAM.
WE RECEIVED APPROXIMATELY 60 INQUIRIES.
WE ACCEPTED ALL 60, AND WE, ON DAY ONE OF OUR PROGRAM, UM, WE, I COUNTED ABOUT 48 INTERNS.
AND THEN ON A REGULAR BASIS, ANYWHERE BETWEEN 40, 42 AND 44 HAVE, UM, HAVE COME REGULARLY.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER, A SECOND YEAR INTERN.
UM, I JOINED THIS INTERNSHIP TRYING TO UNDERSTAND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND TO MENTOR THE YOUTH.
I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT GREENBERG HAS DONE A GREAT JOB, AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MS. JU BEVILLE AND MR. PAUL FINER AND THE WHOLE BOARD.
UM, MY GOAL TO JOIN THIS INTERNSHIP WAS TO HELP OUT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND TO BRING NEW PEOPLE TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY AND BUILD IT WITH WITHIN.
UM, I LEARNED HOW TO PROBLEM SOLVE AND TO TALK WITH DIFFERENT PEOPLE OF ALL, UH, DIFFERENT DIVERSITIES TO COME TOGETHER AND, UH, START, UH, DOING LIKE PARTNERSHIPS, UM, WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND AS OF APRIL, I BELIEVE WE HAVE A FACEBOOK TASK FORCE.
UH, ALSO, UH, MY GOAL IS TO HAVE, UH, A BUSINESS LIAISON TO HELP BRING MORE LOCAL BUSINESSES TO SPEND MORE MONEY IN OUR COMMUNITY AND HELP UPGRADE OUR FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE GOING ON.
WHAT, WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO? THANK YOU.
WHAT SCHOOL? WHAT WHAT SCHOOL? COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
AND WHAT HIGH SCHOOL DID YOU GRADUATE FROM? TIM, UH, WOODLANDS, 2016.
MY NAME IS RYAN M I'M A RISING FRESHMAN AT EDGEMONT JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, THIS INTERNSHIP HAS TAUGHT ME TO BE MORE CONFIDENT
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WHEN I SHARE MY IDEAS WITH OTHERS, UM, OR AT LEAST MORE CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO BE SPEAKING TO EVERYONE HERE TODAY.UM, AND I JUST HOPE I CAN USE THIS EXPERIENCE TO GROW MYSELF AS A FUTURE LEADER AND BE MORE INVOLVED IN THE GREENBURG COMMUNITY.
UH, I'M INCREDIBLY GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE PART OF THIS INTERNSHIP, UM, TO MY FELLOW INTERNS AND TO MISS VILLE.
UM, THIS WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU, SO THANK YOU,
UM, I'M A RISING FRESHMAN AT EDGEMONT JUNIOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, AND I'M A FIRST YEAR INTERN.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO START OFF BY SAYING THANK YOU TO MS. BEVILLE.
UM, I THINK THIS EXPERIENCE WOULD'VE BEEN, WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HOW IT WAS RIGHT NOW.
IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S TAUGHT ME SO MUCH ABOUT THE FOUR PILLARS ON WHICH WE STAND ON, GUYS.
COMMUNICATION, UH, LEADERSHIP, TEAMWORK, PROBLEM SOLVING.
UM, WE'VE HAD SO MANY SPEAKERS COME TO, UM, KIND OF TEACH US AND INSPIRE US, AND IT'S BEEN SO HELPFUL TO SEE, UM, DIFFERENT CAREER PATHS AND DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE CAN, UM, PROGRESS IN THE FUTURE AND BECOME FUTURE LEADERS.
UM, AND WE'VE DONE SO MANY PROJECTS IN PSAS WHERE WE'VE LEARNED TO APPLY OURSELVES IN A REAL WORLD SCENARIO AND HELP THE PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, SO THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO BE AN INTERN THIS YEAR.
UM, AND I'M VERY EXCITED FOR WHAT COMES NEXT.
MAYA FEATURED ON, I WANNA JUST SAY MAYA WAS FEATURED ON N B C, UH, NEWS, I THINK, WHEN YOU WERE IN FIFTH GRADE.
SIXTH GRADE, UH, UH, LOBBYING FOR SIDEWALKS, UH, UH, ON FORT HILL ROAD IN EDGEMONT.
SO BEFORE YOU GRADUATE, UH, UM, COLLEGE AND BEFORE YOU BECOME A GRAND, WE, WE WILL NOT FORGET, YOU KNOW, WE DEFINITELY HAVE TO GET, UH, YOU KNOW, MORE SIDEWALKS BUILT IN EDGEMONT AND AROUND THE TOWN.
AND EVERY TIME, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M DRIVING BY, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M FORT HILL ROAD.
I ALWAYS THINK OF YOU AND I SAY, UH, OH, WE HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS, UH, YOU, THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, WHICH YOU AND YOU LED THE EFFORT YEARS AGO, IS, IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
WE'VE BEEN BUILDING A LOT OF SIDEWALKS AND WE JUST CAN'T GIVE UP.
IT JUST, SOMETIMES THERE'S LITTLE BUMPS IN THE ROAD AND, UH, SETBACKS, BUT WE DEFINITELY WON'T GIVE UP ON THIS.
OH, RIGHT, MAYA, THANK YOU ASKING AND PERSEVERING.
SO LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, LET'S, LET'S GIVE HER APPLAUSE.
UM, I'M A RISING JUNIOR AT HAMILTON COLLEGE.
UM, I'M A RISING JUNIOR AT HAMILTON COLLEGE, AND MY MAJOR IS IN GOVERNMENT, AND I'M DOUBLE MINORING IN HISPANIC STUDIES AND LITERATURE.
AND I'M COMING HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT MY EXPERIENCE, UM, AS AN INTERN FOR THE TOWN HALL OF GREENBURG.
FIRSTLY, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU, MS. BEVILLE, SO MUCH FOR GIVING US THIS OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO KIND OF GROW ALREADY FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS THAT WE'VE LEARNED JUST THROUGHOUT OUR LIFE.
BUT IT HAS JUST TAKEN SUCH A BIG STEP, UM, JUST COMING HERE AND LEARNING.
UM, BUT YEAH, AS MAYA, AND AS MS. BEVILLE SAID EARLIER, THERE'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THE FOUR PILLARS OF THIS, UM, INTERNSHIP, COMMUNICATION, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, TEAMWORK, UM, AND PROBLEM SOLVING.
AND I WOULD SAY MY BIGGEST TAKEAWAY FROM THESE PILLARS WAS KIND OF COMING TOGETHER, COALESCING FOR THE, UM, FREE STUDENT BUS, BUS INITIATIVE.
UM, LIKE ALEX SAID, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING TO GO, BUT I'M VERY HOPEFUL.
UM, AND I KNOW WE'VE PUT SO MUCH HOURS, SO MUCH TIME, UM, AND A LOT OF PASSION AND DEDICATION INTO THIS PROJECT.
SO JUST IN THAT ALONE, I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS EXPERIENCE.
BUT I THINK SOMETHING ELSE THAT I HAD LEARNED, UM, WAS HOW AMAZING IT IS TO JUST COME EVERY DAY AND SEE MY FRIENDS.
UM, I'VE MADE A WONDERFUL GROUP OF FRIENDS AND EVERYBODY WHO'S SITTING HERE TODAY, I'M SO HAPPY TO CALL YOU, UM, MY COLLEAGUES, AND NOT ONLY MY COLLEAGUES,
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BUT MY FRIENDS.AND WHAT HIGH SCHOOL DID YOU GO TO? I, I WENT TO BRIARCLIFF.
AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS SO AMAZING ABOUT THIS PROGRAM, AND I, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT, IS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SCHOOLS THAT ARE WEALTHIER THAN OTHERS.
UH, WHERE, UH, WHERE, UH, PARENTS MAY BE MULTI-MILLIONAIRES AND THERE'S SCHOOLS WHERE PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, LOWER INCOME, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, HOUSEHOLDS.
AND WHAT I REALLY LOVE ABOUT THIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IS WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM THE WEALTHY, STUDENTS FROM THE WEALTHIEST COMMUNITIES AND THE, THE POOREST COMMUNITIES WORKING TOGETHER.
AND WHEN YOU REALLY THINK, UM, ABOUT WHAT OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM SHOULD BE, WE HAVE TO HAVE, UH, PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER.
WE HAVE TO GIVE EVERY STUDENT, WHETHER THEY'RE, UH, WHETHER THEY COME FROM A WEALTHY FAMILY OR A POOR FAMILY, THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES TO, YOU KNOW, EXCEL.
AND THAT'S WHAT I REALLY LOVE ABOUT THIS INTERNSHIP, BECAUSE THERE'S NO DISCRIMINATION.
THERE'S, YOU KNOW, NOBODY'S JUDGEMENTAL.
EVERYBODY'S GIVING, EVERYBODY'S WORKING TOGETHER, WORKING AS A TEAM, AND THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD, SHOULD BE.
SO THE STUDENTS ARE REALLY ROLE MODELS FOR, FOR ALL OF US, BECAUSE IF WE ACTED LIKE THE STUDENTS DID, THE WORLD WOULD BE MUCH BETTER.
AND I JUST REALLY AM SO APPRECIATIVE TO ALL THE STUDENT INTERNS.
I'M REALLY APPRECIATIVE TO JUDITH BEVILLE.
YOU KNOW, I JUST GIVE HER NAMES OF PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA SPEAK, BUT, UM, SHE'S DONE SO MUCH WORK ON THIS, AND IT REALLY IS CHANGING LIVES.
I'VE MET STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE PROGRAMS YEARS AGO WHO, UM, WHO BASICALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, TOLD ME THEY, THEY'RE RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
UH, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S MY GOAL AND IT'S OUR GOAL THAT ONE DAY, SOMEBODY HERE, ONE OF THE INTERNS, THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE THE HEAD OF THE, THE C E O OF A MAJOR COMPANY, OR YOU'LL BE A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OR MAYBE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
AND YOU ABSOLUTELY, YOU, THERE'S NO REASON YOU CAN'T DO IT.
AND I JUST WANT TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE IN CLOSING THAT THIS, UH, THAT THE INTERNSHIP, UM, UH, PROGRAM REPRESENTS YOUNG PEOPLE FROM NINTH GRADE TO COLLEGE SENIORS.
WE HAVE A MEMBER OF OUR GROUP WHO HAS GRADUATED FROM LAW SCHOOL AND TOOK THE BAR DURING THE INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
AND I SAY THAT TO SAY THIS ABOUT, UM, 10, NOT 10%.
ABOUT 10% OF OUR INTERNS RETURNED FROM PREVIOUS YEARS.
AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UM, UH, THOSE WHO CAME BACK TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM AND TO BE A PART OF THE PROGRAM A SECOND YEAR.
VERONICA, WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND? TIM, WOULD YOU PLEASE STAND? AND JAMES, YOU ARE HERE FOR THE SECOND TIME.
AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF OTHER INTERNS WHO HAVE COME BACK.
I ALSO WANT TO THANK OUR COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO, WHEN THEY WALKED INTO THIS ROOM, THERE WERE ABOUT, OH, ANYWHERE AROUND ABOUT APPROXIMATELY 12.
AND WHEN THEY WALKED INTO THE ROOM AND THEY SAW THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE INTERNS WERE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, THEY DID NOT SAY, OH GEE, THIS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM IS NOT FOR ME.
I'M A COLLEGE STUDENT, AND THE MAJORITY ARE IN HERE, ARE NOT POLISH.
INSTEAD, THEY SERVED AS LEADERS, AS MENTORS, AS COACHES.
EVERY TIME WE BROKE INTO GROUPS, I WOULD SAY TO THE COLLEGE STUDENTS, PLEASE GO AND BE A COACH, BE A MENTOR, HELP TO EMPOWER OTHERS TO BE LEADERS.
AND SO WE HAD ACTIVITIES THAT GRANTED EVERY GRADE LEVEL AND OPPORTUNITY TO BE A LEADER.
WE HAD ACTIVITIES THAT GAVE THE COLLEGE STUDENTS OPPORTUNITY TO BE LEADERS, JUNIORS AND SENIORS TO BE LEADERS AND FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES, TO BE LEADERS.
SO THEY ALL HAVE HAD OPPORTUNITIES BEING LEADERS.
ONCE AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
MY FUTURE, OUR FUTURE LEADERS, AND THANK YOU, THOSE WHO ARE HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR COLLEAGUES WHO DID NOT SPEAK.
BUT YOU ARE HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR FUTURE COLLEAGUES.
THAT IS WHAT LEADERSHIP IS ALL ABOUT.
'CAUSE EVERY LEADER IN A PARTICULAR SETTING OR ENVIRONMENT
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DOES NOT HAVE TO SPEAK.BUT THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING THERE TO SUPPORT YOUR COLLEAGUES FAR SURPASSES THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING SOMETIMES.
WE ALSO HAVE WITH US, UH, OTHER AMAZING, UH, STUDENT GUS ZEN.
AND GUS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME UP? AND, UH, GUS IS AN AMAZING, UH, YOUNG MAN, AND, UH, I INVITED HIM TO TELL US ABOUT, UH, AN INITIATIVE THAT, YOU KNOW, HE'S DONE AND HIS, HIS ACCOMPLISHMENT.
DID YOU GUYS GET THAT SLIDESHOW? WOULD THAT BE YEAH, THAT'S FINE.
OH, DO YOU KNOW WHERE, UH, LET ME SEE.
YEAH, IF YOU, IF YOU COULD COULD, YEAH.
I SENT IT TO, UH, GEORGE MALONE.
LET ME SEE IF I COULD GET THAT.
IF NOT, OR YOU WANNA JUST START TALKING BECAUSE I, UH, UH, I GOT IT JUST AT THE END OF THE DAY.
I'M A RISING, YOUR MIC IS A ON YOUR MIC IS A ON, IT'S NOT ON.
THERE'S A RED, THERE'S A, OKAY.
I'M A RISING SENIOR AT HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, AND I'M HERE TO TALK TODAY JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, THE SCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAM AND HASTINGS AND MY WORK, UH, WITH COMPOST.
THERE'S ACTUALLY GREAT INTRODUCTION AND, UH, INTERN PROGRAM.
I SAW THAT COOL AREA STATIC PILE COMPOST.
UM, SO I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT MY PROJECT, UH, WHICH IS A BACKYARD AREA AID, SITE PILE COMPOSTING SYSTEM, UH, THAT'S DESIGNED TO DO SOME AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION.
UH, THE IDEA IS TO TAKE ALL THE HEAT AND THE CARBON DIOXIDE THAT'S GENERATED IN THE COMPOSTING PROCESS, VENT THAT INTO CONTROLLED GROWING ENVIRONMENTS, UH, WHERE YOU CAN ACTUALLY GROW TROPICAL PLANTS, UH, RIGHT HERE IN A PRETTY COLD CLIMATE.
UM, WE'RE ALSO, AND THIS EXPERIMENTING FOR THAT IS GONNA BE HAPPENING A LITTLE BIT LATER.
UM, WHEN IT'S NOT 90 DEGREES OUT EVERY DAY.
UH, IT'S GONNA BE SEEING IF WE CAN EXTEND THE GROWING SEASON TO GROW, UH, GROW REGULAR PLANTS IN LIKE OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY IN THE WINTER MONTHS, RIGHT HERE IN HASTINGS.
UM, SO I GOT INTO COMPOSTING, WORKING FOR HUDSON COMPOST SERVICES.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE HERE HAS SEEN THOSE ORANGE BUCKETS LYING AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE IN HASTINGS, UM, OR SORRY, IN HASTINGS AND IN THE REST OF GREENBURG.
UM, I KNOW BEN JUAN, WHO'S THE, UH, FOUNDERS WORK CLOSELY WITH SUPERVISOR FINER.
UM, SO BASICALLY H C S COMPANY THAT PICKS UP CURBSIDE, UH, PICKS UP FAMILIES COMPOST, UH, AND DELIVERS IT TO FACILITIES, UH, AND THAT YESTERDAY THEY CAN PROCESS IT.
UH, SO I WAS WORKING, UH, WITH BEN, UM, WITH THE OTHER FOUNDERS OF H C S, UH, BEN, WHO'S A GRADUATE OF HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL.
GRADUATED IN 2017 OR 2018, I BELIEVE, UH, CONVINCED ME TO TAKE SCIENCE RESEARCH, WHICH IS A FANTASTIC PROGRAM.
UH, IT'S TAUGHT BY MS. MALICIOUS SHANDRA, WHO'S INCREDIBLE, HAS BEEN RUNNING IT FOR YEARS AND HAS, YOU KNOW, MENTORED KIDS TO SOME REALLY AMAZING PROJECTS.
BEN CONVINCED ME TO SIGN UP AND DO THIS COMPOSTING THING.
I'M REALLY NOT MUCH OF A SCIENCE GUY MYSELF.
I'M MORE INTERESTED IN LIKE, UH, GOVERNMENT STUFF, PUBLIC POLICY.
UM, BUT I WAS LIKE, WHAT THE HECK? I'LL TRY OUT THIS COMPOSTING THING.
UH, SO I SPENT ALL YEARS STUDYING THE COMPOSTING PROCESS, UH, HOW THE MICROORGANISMS BREAK DOWN GARBAGE AND TURN INTO THIS FANTASTIC SOIL AMENDMENT, UH, THAT CAN BE USED TO GROW PLANTS.
UM, AND FOR MY SORT OF NOVEL RESEARCH, THE IDEA WAS HOW DO YOU TAKE THE BYPRODUCTS OF COMPOSTING, UM, AND USE THEM FOR SOMETHING.
UH, SO IN UH, PREVIOUS STUDIES, THEY'VE SHOWN THAT COMPOSTING CAN ACTUALLY BE USED AS A RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE, WHICH IS REALLY, REALLY COOL.
AT A FACILITY IN SCOTLAND, UH, THEY ACTUALLY TOOK THE HEAT FROM COMPOST AND USED IT TO DO HOME HEATING.
THEY PIPED HOT WATER RIGHT THROUGH, UM, A BIG PILE OF GARBAGE.
AND THEY USED IT TO HEAT HOME AND SAVE A TON OF MONEY, WHICH IS PRETTY COOL.
AND I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, IF WE USE THAT TO HEAT UP UP GREENHOUSES, I DID SOME MORE RESEARCH AND FOUND THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY A HUGE, HUGE LACK OF CARBON DIOXIDE IN A LOT OF GREENHOUSES.
UM, THERE'S A STUDY IN CHINA THAT FOUND THAT BY DOING, UH, AEROBIC FERMENTATION, BASICALLY A FANCY WORD FOR LIKE, LETTING YOUR SORT OF LITTLE BUGS AND MICROORGANISMS BREAK DOWN THE GARBAGE.
UM, IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN COMPOSTING.
PRETTY SIMILAR, UH, THAT GENERATED A TON OF C O TWO, UH, THAT BASICALLY RAISED, UH, LEVELS IN THE GREENHOUSE AND ALLOWED PLANTS TO GROW FASTER, UH, BEAR MORE FRUIT.
I WANT TO SEE IF WE COULD DO THAT ON THE BACKYARD SCALE TO SEE IF, UH, FAMILIES COULD DO IT IN THEIR BACKYARDS.
UH, BUSINESSES COULD DO IT, UM, SOMEWHERE IN THEIR FACILITY OR SCHOOLS ON THEIR ROOFS AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS.
UM, TONS OF REALLY INTERESTING APPLICATIONS, UH, FOR LIKE PUBLIC HEALTH, FOR EXAMPLE, BEING ABLE TO GROW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES USING THE POWER OF COMPOST.
UM, BUT ALSO BEING ABLE TO COMPOST AND GET RID OF YOUR GARBAGE IN A REALLY, UH, YOUR ORGANIC WASTE, AT LEAST IN A REALLY SUSTAINABLE WAY,
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UH, THAT'S WAY BETTER THAN LANDFILL, WHICH PRODUCES A TON OF METHANE.UH, SO I CAME UP WITH THIS BACKYARD SYSTEM, DID SOME THREE D MODELING.
UM, BASICALLY TAKES A BIG BUCKET OF COMPOST.
UM, THE COMPOST, YOU KNOW, YOU PUT IT IN THERE, UH, AREA IT WITH A BOUNCY HOUSE BLOWER.
UM, THE COMPOST GETS REALLY HOT DUE TO ALL THESE AEROBIC REACTIONS.
AND THEN ALL THAT HOT AIR IS VENTED UP INTO A GREENHOUSE WHERE IT, UM, FUELS GROWTH.
SO CURRENTLY I'VE GOT THAT RUNNING IN MY BACKYARD.
IT DOESN'T SMELL, WHICH IS AWESOME.
UM, AND YEAH, THE RESULTS ARE COMING IN REALLY, REALLY WELL.
THE COMPOSTING PROCESS HAS GONE THROUGH.
WE'VE BROKEN THE, UH, BAR FOR PATHOGEN CONTROL SET BY THE F D, WHICH IS SUPER EXCITING, UH, WHICH MEANS THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING, NO SALMONELLA GROWING IN THERE, WHICH IS SUPER EXCITING.
UM, BUT YEAH, THAT'S MY PROJECT.
I'M HOPING THAT, UH, THE RESULTS WILL BE USED TO, UH, PROMOTE COMPOSTING ON A LARGER SCALE.
SEE IF, UH, SIMILAR DESIGNS CAN BE INCORPORATED, UM, IN BACKYARDS, ALL APARTMENT BUILDING ROOFS, UM, IN THE LARGER FACILITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY, UH, TO PRODUCE MORE COMPOST, WHICH ARE GREAT FOR SOIL, AND THEN ALSO TO FACILITATE THE GROWTH OF MORE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, UH, ESPECIALLY LOCALLY, EVEN IF YOU LIVE IN A COLD CLIMATE, WHICH CAN HAVE SOME PRETTY AWESOME PUBLIC HEALTH IMPLICATIONS.
UM, AND SOME AWESOME IMPLICATIONS FOR LIKE, PLACES LIKE FOOD DESERTS, AS WELL AS OBVIOUSLY SAVING ALL THE CARBON EMISSIONS THAT IT TAKES TO FLY OR SHIP OR TRUCK IN, UH, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN THE WINTER MONTHS FROM PLACES LIKE CALIFORNIA OR SOUTH AMERICA.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, SUPERVISOR FINER AND THE TOWN COUNCIL FOR HAVING ME HERE.
AND WE'RE VERY LUCKY TO, UH, TO HAVE YOU, UH, HASTINGS ON HUDSON, UH, COMPOSTING INITIATIVE.
I SPOKE TO THEM TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE THERE TODAY.
AND NOW THEY'RE EXPANDING AND THEY'RE GONNA BE PICKING UP, THEY HAVE A, A BUSINESS THAT PICKS UP, UH, UH, ORGANIC, UH, WASTE, YOU KNOW, FOOD WASTE.
UM, AND NOW THEY'RE GONNA TRY EXPANDING TO APARTMENTS.
SO WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT, UH, TODAY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO COMMEND YOU AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I ALSO WANTED TO PRAISE YOU.
UH, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE, YOU REALLY ARE GONNA BE A BIG SUCCESS IN, IN LIFE.
YOU KNOW, HASTINGS, YOU'RE FROM HASTINGS.
AND HASTINGS, I THINK I ONCE READ, HAS MORE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS THAN I THINK ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD.
UM, SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AND LAST YEAR, UM, ONE OF THE SPEAKERS AT THE INTERNSHIP, UM, PROGRAM WAS, UH, PHIL WEISER, WHO'S NOW HE LIVED IN HASTINGS, WENT TO HASTINGS HIGH SCHOOL, AND NOW IS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE OF COLORADO.
SO, UH, YOU REMIND ME OF HIM BECAUSE, UH, UH, WHEN I SPEAK TO STUDENTS IN HASTINGS, THEY'RE ALL SO SMART.
UM, AND, AND THE LAST, UM, SPEAKER WE HAVE IS, UM, IS, UH, JENNIFER GLEN.
AND JENNIFER IS THE TYPE OF PERSON YOU DON'T WANT TO BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF, BECAUSE, UM, JENNIFER IS LIKE, IS IS REALLY AMAZING.
UM, UH, IF YOU GO DOWN, IF YOU DRIVE ON SAMMO RIVER ROAD, UH, IN ELMSFORD NEAR WHERE SAM'S CLUB IS, UM, CHANCES ARE YOUR TIRE WILL, UH, BLOW UP BECAUSE, UH, THE ROAD IS, IS HORRIBLE.
AND JENNIFER ORGANIZED, UM, A PETITION DRIVE, UM, AN ONLINE PETITION DRIVE.
AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS, OVER 1300 PEOPLE, UH, SIGNED THE PETITION, UH, ASKING NEW YORK STATE TO REPAVE THE ROAD THAT THEY OWN, UM, BUT HAVE NOT MAINTAINED.
SO, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, JENNIFER, MAYBE YOU COULD TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, YOURSELF AND ABOUT YOUR EFFORT.
UH, MY NAME IS JENNIFER GLENN.
I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THE VILLAGE OF ELMSFORD, NEW YORK.
UM, SO I HAVE A LOT ON THAT ROAD.
LIKE MY CHURCH IS ON THAT ROAD.
UM, MY FATHER'S BUSINESS IS ON THAT ROAD.
UM, MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY MOTHER KIND OF LIVE, UH, PARALLEL TO THAT ROAD.
SO I DRIVE THROUGH THERE A LOT.
UM, AND FROM, I HAVE THE PETITION RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME.
UM, AND WITHIN, LIKE, LITERALLY WITHIN LESS THAN A WEEK, I GARDENED, UM, LIKE ALMOST A THOUSAND SIGNATURES, AND IT STILL KEEPS GOING UP EVERY SINGLE DAY WHEN I CHECK.
UM, AND SO FOR ME, IT'S LIKE BORN AND RAISED IN THE VILLAGE OF ELMSFORD.
UM, MY FATHER WENT TO SCHOOL THERE, SO, UM, MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ONE OF THE FIRST HISPANIC FAMILIES TO BUY A HOME IN THE VILLAGE OF ELMSFORD.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF TIES TO THE VILLAGE OF ELMSFORD.
UM, AND I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THERE IN THE VILLAGE, AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, I'M LIKE, WHY HASN'T THIS ISSUE BEEN RECTIFIED AT ALL WHATSOEVER? UM, AND SOMETIMES I WONDER TO MYSELF, UM, IF THIS WAS AN AFFLUENT VILLAGE, I WONDER
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WOULD THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF THIS WAS TERRYTOWN, IRVINGTON, SCARSDALE? UM, YOU KNOW, I WONDER IF THINGS WOULD GO A DIFFERENT PATH JUST AS SPECULATION.UM, BUT I THINK FOR ME, I, SEEING ALL THE COMMENTS HERE ON THE PETITION, LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE LIVE RIGHT OFF OF THE ROAD.
UM, I HAVE CLOSE FAMILY FRIENDS THAT HAVE BUSINESSES, UM, RIGHT OFF OF ROUTE NINE A.
UM, IT HAS CRATERS LIKE, YOU KNOW, AND I, I'VE WRITTEN TO THE GOVERNOR, GOVERNOR HOEL, UM, I HAVEN'T GOTTEN A RESPONSE FROM HER YET, UM, JUST FROM HER CHIEF OF STAFF WAITING TO SEE IF I'M INVITING HER TO COME TO THE VILLAGE OF ELMSFORD AND FOR HER TO LOOK AT IT HERSELF AND SEE HOW THIS HAS BEEN DAMAGING PEOPLE'S SUSPENSIONS TIRES.
IF YOU LOOK AT ALL THESE COMMENTS HERE, UM, YOU KNOW, I DRIVE BY THIS DAILY AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IS DAMAGING PEOPLE'S CARS AT THEIR OWN EXPENSES.
UM, MANY PEOPLE ARE PAYING HIGH TAXES, AND THIS IS THE KIND OF ROAD THAT THEY'RE KEPT WITH, AND IT'S UNFAIR.
UM, SO I AM PUSHING FOR THIS, UM, TO BE RECTIFIED AND TO BE EXPEDITED BECAUSE IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY AS NEW YORK STATE TO FIX THIS.
AND IT DOESN'T ALIGN WITH THE AMOUNT OF TAXES EVERYONE'S PAYING, YOU KNOW, BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS AND EVERYONE.
AND I AM VERY THANKFUL FOR MAYOR, UH, ROBERT WILLIAMS' SUPPORT ON THIS.
EVERYBODY IN THE VILLAGE, UM, CHIEF SIGNOR, UM, TOWN SUPERVISOR PAUL FINER.
SO JUST EVERYONE KIND OF IN THE, ON THAT, UM, MAKING SURE THAT, UM, EVERYONE'S SIGNING THE PETITION AND, YOU KNOW, THE MORE SIGNATURES THAT CAN GARDNER, IT SPEAKS VOL VOLUMES IN ITSELF.
SO, UM, I ACTUALLY WAS ABLE TO SECURE, UM, AN IN-PERSON MEETING WITH OUR MAJORITY LEADER, SENATOR STEWART COUSINS ON MONDAY.
SO I WILL BE MEETING WITH HER IN PERSON AT HER DISTRICT'S OFFICE IN YONKERS, NEW YORK.
SO I'M HOPING TO EXPEDITE, EXPEDITE THIS AND JUST MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M PRESSURING OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, UM, THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, DOING THEIR JOB AND THAT THIS CAN BE EXPEDITED, UM, YOU KNOW, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AND THIS IS NOT JUST FOR SOMETHING THAT'S AESTHETIC.
THIS IS NOT LIKE, OH, WHY IS MY ROAD, UM, ON SOME OVER A ROAD, YOU KNOW, WHY DOES IT LOOK BAD? OR, YOU KNOW, I'M TIRED OF DRIVING THESE ROADS.
UM, AND I IMPLORED TO OUR GOVERNOR AND SENATOR ANDREA STEWART COUSINS ON HOW THIS IS ALSO A SAFETY ISSUE, UM, FOR, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS DELAYS RESPONSES FOR OUR FIRE, LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS, OUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS, E M S.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SP I'VE SPOKEN TO CHEAT, I SPEAKING TO DAVE, DAVE SIGNOR, UM, AND HE'S LIKE, YEAH, I DRIVE ON THIS ROAD.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE TO TRY TO AVOID ALL THESE POTHOLES, LIKE IT'S ALREADY HAZARD IN ITSELF.
AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S THE CHIEF TRYING TO GET, YOU KNOW, TO A DRUG OVERDOSE OR TRYING TO DO SOMETHING, TRYING TO GO SOMEWHERE FAST, BUT THAT'S HINDERING THEM FROM GETTING THERE AT A FASTER PACE.
SO I FEEL LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE EXPEDITED FOR SAFETY REASONS.
POSES RISKS TO OUR PEDESTRIANS, OBVIOUSLY TO OUR DRIVERS.
MOTORCYCLISTS, UH, CYCLISTS, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE THAT TRAVELS TO AND TO AND FROM THAT ROAD.
SO NOT JUST NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS, BUT IT'S A HIGHLY TRAFFICKED, UM, IT'S, I I CALL IT AN ARTERY DENOTED ROAD BECAUSE IT LEADS TO MOUNT PLEASANT, IT LEADS TO, UH, ARDSLEY, IT LEADS TO SO MANY OTHER PLACES THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE, ARE ESPECIALLY, UM, THESE TRUCKS.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SO MANY TRUCKS BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY BUSINESSES WAREHOUSES, UM, PARALLEL TO ROUTE NINE A AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND EVEN I CAN ATTEST THAT I'VE HAD, I'VE HAD CARS LITERALLY TRY TO AVOID THE POTHOLES, AND YOU FEEL LIKE THEY'RE GONNA COME RIGHT AT YOU, SO YOU KNOW, IT, YOU FEEL LIKE THERE'S GONNA BE AN ACCIDENT 'CAUSE THEY'RE TRYING TO AVOID IT, AND THEY'RE COMING TO YOUR SIDE CROSSING THE YELLOW LINE.
SO FOR ME, OVERALL, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS, IS LONG OVERDUE.
UM, SO I IMPLORE, YOU KNOW, OUR NEW YORK STATE ELECTED OFFICIALS, AND I'LL KEEP PRESSING ON THEM.
I DON'T TAKE NO FOR AN ANSWER.
UM, AND I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, I, I'M JUST GONNA KEEP PRESSING AND PRESSING AND, YOU KNOW, I, I WILL EVEN PRESS UNTIL OUR GOVERNOR, UH, KATHY HOEL, UM, COMES AND SEES IT FOR HERSELF IF I KEEP GETTING, AND I'VE
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WRITTEN PRIOR TO ME CREATING THIS PETITION, AND PAUL FINDER WAS ACTUALLY THE ONE THAT, UM, ADVISED ME, HE'S LIKE, WHY DON'T YOU TRY CHANGE.ORG? BECAUSE I KEPT EMAILING MAYOR WILLIAMS AND PAUL FINDER.I'M LIKE, WHENEVER I EMAIL, UM, REGION EIGHT, WHICH IS A REGION FOR NEW YORK STATE, D O T, EVERY TIME I REACH OUT TO, UM, TO THEM AND THE ENGINEER, THEY'RE LIKE, OH, IT DOESN'T, LIKE I WROTE HERE IT, THEY KEPT SAYING IN THE EMAIL REITERATING, OH, IT DOESN'T MAKE THE CUT FOR THEIR CAPITAL PROJECT.
UM, IT'S NOT A PRIORITY AT THIS TIME.
UM, AND THEY'RE JUST GONNA MONITOR.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE BUSINESS OWNERS THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR PROBABLY LONGER THAN MY FAMILY HAS BEEN THAT OWN PROPERTIES.
AND THEY'RE LIKE, THEY JUST KEEP PATCHING THINGS UP.
AND THEN WHEN THE WEATHER, IT JUST ERODES EVERYTHING AND IT KEEPS COMING BACK UP AND IT JUST ERODES, YOU KNOW, ONCE AGAIN, OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S THE MORE FISCALLY SMART THING TO DO TO MILL AND REPAY THIS, UM, SALT RIVER ROAD, ROUTE NINE A, UM, RATHER THAN JUST PATCHING UP HERE AND THERE, HERE AND THERE, AND, YOU KNOW, JUST HOPING THAT I CAN PUSH THIS, UM, AND GET THIS DONE, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE NEXT, WITHIN THIS YEAR OR NEXT YEAR, UH, BECAUSE I DRIVE ON THIS CONSTANTLY.
I HAVE FAMILY FRIENDS THAT HAVE WR WRITTEN COMMENTS AND MESSAGED ME PRIVATELY, AND THEY'RE LIKE, MY CAR HAS BEEN DAMAGED, YOU KNOW, AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE, HAVE TO CHANGE THEIR TIRES, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE AREA ARE NOT AFFLUENT.
THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THESE, THIS IS LOWER AND MIDDLE CLASS MINORITIES LIKE MYSELF, UM, THAT ARE HISPANIC, AFRICAN AMERICAN.
SO IT'S LIKE YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, EXTRA, YOU KNOW, DOLLARS IN THE BANK TO, OH, I'M GONNA GO CHANGE A TIRE NOW.
OR LIKE, I HAVE TO GO FIX MY SUSPENSIONS NOW BECAUSE OF A ROAD THAT NEW YORK STATE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR.
AND THIS IS WHAT, THIS IS WHAT THEY'RE KEPT WITH, AND THEY DON'T DESERVE THIS.
SO I'M JUST FIGHTING FOR OUR COMMUNITY, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR JUST EVERYONE THAT TRAVELS THROUGH THERE.
UM, AND SO MANY PEOPLE THAT I KNOW THAT LIVE IN THAT AREA, LIKE I GREW UP IN THE AREA, SO I UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM BECAUSE I DRIVE THROUGH IT ALL THE TIME.
SO I'M HOPING THAT I CAN, THE CONVERSATION GOES WELL ON MONDAY WITH SENATOR COUSINS, AND, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY THIS CAN BE EXPEDITED BECAUSE I'M NOT GONNA TAKE NO AS AN ANSWER AND I WON'T, YOU KNOW, I WON'T BE SATISFIED UNTIL I SEE, UM, THE D O T TRUCKS AND EVERYONE MILLING, EVERY PAVING.
THAT'S WHEN I'LL FINALLY SAY, OKAY, THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
UM, I'M NOT JUST GONNA TAKE A WORD, A WORD FROM, UH, YOU KNOW, COMMISSIONERS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I WANNA SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYES THAT IT'S GONNA BE MAILED AND REPAVED.
AND YOU KNOW, I THINK YOU REPRESENT THE BEST OF, UH, CITIZENS BECAUSE WHAT WE REALLY NEED ARE FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE VIEWPOINTS, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, TO SPEAK OUT AND TO BECOME AN ACTIVIST.
AND, YOU KNOW, I SORT OF FEEL THAT THIS IS YOUR EFFORT IS SORT OF A CHALLENGE TO GOVERNMENT WILL DO CITIZENS MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
AND THE THING IS, IF THIS IS SUCCESSFUL, NOT ONLY WILL WE GET A ROAD REP PAVED, BUT WE'LL ALSO HIGHLIGHT THE FACT THAT IF CITIZENS SPEAK OUT, ORGANIZE, UM, INVOLVE THE COMMUNITY IN AN EFFORT THAT MAYBE GOVERNMENT WILL LISTEN BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CONFIDENCE IN DEMOCRACY.
BUT IF YOU'RE ABLE THROUGH A PETITION DRIVE TO GET THE GOVERNMENT TO TAKE ACTION, THEN PEOPLE WILL HAVE MORE CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT.
SO NEXT, PAUL, BEFORE YOU MOVE ON, AND I'M SO SORRY THAT RAY LEFT JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO, BUT FOR THE RECORD, I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE RAY THOMAS, WHO SPOKE EARLIER, UH, C E O AND FOUNDER OF EXPOSURE, UM, AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, UH, WHEN OUR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, UM, LOST SOME OF THE RESOURCES THAT IT HAS HAD IN THE PAST, UM, RESOURCES THAT WERE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE SUPPORT OF THIS PROGRAM, RAY THOMAS CAME FORWARD AND PROVIDED THE ESSENTIAL CRITICAL SUPPORT IN THROUGH WAY, UH, THROUGH BY WAY OF, UH, MEDIA SUPPORT AND, UM, VIDEO TECHNOLOGY SUPPORT, UH, TO OUR PROGRAM.
SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I THANKED HIM, UH, AND THAT THIS STATEMENT GOES ON THE RECORD.
AND, UM, I JU AND YOU, YOU WERE MENTIONING EARLY VOTING IS SATURDAY.
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WELL WE HAVE, HAVE WE[ TOWN CLERK COMMENTS]
GOTTEN TO THAT PART OF THE YEAH.AGENDA TOWN CLERK COMMENTS? SO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS KNOW THAT EARLY VOTING WILL BEGIN THIS SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TH FROM 10:00 AM UNTIL 6:00 PM AND ON SUNDAY THE 14TH FROM 10:00 AM UNTIL 6:00 PM AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEK, MONDAY THE 15TH THROUGH SUNDAY, THE 21ST EARLY BUILDING WILL TAKE PLACE AT GREENBURG TOWN HALL AND DOBBS FURRY VILLAGE HALL.
THE TIMES WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE.
AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT AS WELL TO KNOW THAT THERE IS A DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRIMARY HERE IN OUR TOWN FOR THE 16TH AND 17TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
THERE IS ALSO A REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY PRIMARY FOR THE 17TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
AGAIN, EARLY VOTING WILL BEGIN ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TH, AND WILL BE HELD AT THE TWO LOCATIONS.
MENTIONED GREENBERG TOWN HALL IN DOBBS FERRY VILLAGE HALL THROUGH SUNDAY, AUGUST 21ST.
AT VARIOUS TIMES, THE TIMES WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEBSITE, AND PRIMARY DAY WILL BE ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 23RD.
NOW, DURING EARLY VOTING, OUR RESIDENTS MAY VOTE AT EITHER TOWN HALL OR DOBBS FER VILLAGE HALL.
HOWEVER, ON THE ACTUAL ELECTION DAY, WHICH IS AUGUST 23RD, YOU MUST VOTE AT YOUR DESIGNATED POLLING SITES AS DETERMINED.
AND, UM, AS YOU HAVE BEEN INFORMED BY THE WESTCHESTER BOARD OF ELECTIONS, ACTUALLY, I THINK ANY WESTCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
RIGHT? SO, SO IF YOU MAY ALSO VOTE, I'M SORRY, YOU MAY VOTE ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTY DURING EARLY VOTING, NOT JUST AT GREENBERG TOWN HALL OR DOBBS FAIR VILLAGE HALL, BUT ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTY.
JUST ON ACTUAL VOTING DAY ITSELF, THE ELECTION DAY, AUGUST 23RD, YOU MUST VOTE AT THE POLLING PLACES THAT YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO BY THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS.
I JUST WANTED TO, UH, MENTION, UM, THAT, UH, TODAY'S, UH, THE LAST, UH, TOWN BOARD MEETING, UM, WE'RE PUBLIC MEETING THAT DAVID FREE WILL BE ATTENDING, UM, UM, AS A TOWN EMPLOYEE.
HE MAY WANT TO ATTEND A MEETING AS A CITIZEN.
UM, UH, BUT, UM, UH, WE WANTED TO, UH, EXPRESS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR NEARLY 30 YEARS AS A DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY, UM, YOU WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR, FOR PROVIDING COUNSEL TO THE TOWN BOARD, THE PLANNING BOARD, AND TO, UM, AND THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, TO EVERY, UH, DEPARTMENT IN THE TOWN, UH, YOU'VE HAD VARIED ROLES DURING YOUR TENURE WITH THE TOWN, YOU DEFENDED AND LITIGATED CLAIMS AGAINST THE TOWN.
YOU EVALUATED AND REVIEWED CONTRACTS, YOU PROVIDED GUIDANCE ON PERSONAL MATTERS, AND EVENTUALLY TRANSITIONED INTO REPRESENTING AND PROVIDING COUNSEL TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
UM, YOU'VE, UH, HELPED WITH THE SALE AND ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY.
UM, YOU, UM, PREPARED LEGAL DOCUMENTS AND PROVIDED, UH, ADVICE RELATING TO SUBDIVISIONS AND SITE PLANS AND WORK DONE INTO MUNICIPAL AGREEMENTS WITH THE STATE, COUNTY, TOWN, AND VILLAGES.
AND, UM, YOU ALWAYS WORKED HARD.
YOU GAVE THE TOWN YOUR BEST ADVICE, YOU, YOUR KNOWLEDGE, YOUR SKILL, AND YOUR EASYGOING MANNER AND KEEN SENSITIVE HUMOR WILL BE, UH, SORELY MISSED.
AND THE TOWN BOARD WE'RE DECLARING TODAY, AUGUST 10TH, AS DAVID FREE DAY IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
UH, WHICH MEANS YOU HAVE TO STAY HERE AND ENJOY THE HOLIDAY UNTIL THE MEETING'S OVER, WHICH COULD BE ANOTHER THREE OR FOUR HOURS.
UH, SO, UH, I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK YOU.
SAY SOMETHING THAT WAS VERY ELOQUENT.
NEXT, UM, WE HAVE, UM, SOME, LET'S SEE, PUBLIC HEARINGS.
[ To consider a Local Law creating a new chapter 454 in the Code of the Town of Greenburgh entitled, “Tobacco Product and Electronic Cigarette Advertisements and Smoking Paraphernalia Display”]
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THE FIRST HEARING IS, UH, TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW CREATING A NEW CHAPTER 4 55 IN THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG ENTITLED TOBACCO PRODUCT AND ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE ADVERTISEMENTS AND SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA DISPLAY.AND PHIL, DID YOU WANNA SPEAK? UH, YES.
YOU COULD SPEAK, PAUL, YOU, ARE YOU MOVING TO OPEN? YEAH, I MOVED THAT WE OPENED THE HEARING.
THERE'S TWO LAWS, ONE THAT WAS REFERRED TO THE PLANNING BOARD, AND ONE THAT WE WERE GOING TO TRY AN ENACTING BEFORE THE SCHOOL YEAR.
I, I'M, I'M SORRY, SIR, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, PAUL MOVED TO OPEN THE HEARING G A SECOND, AND WE NEED A VOTE.
UH, I'M DYLAN HEIN, PRESIDENT OF THE E C C, UH, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD.
UH, I'M HERE TONIGHT SPEAKING AGAINST PROPOSED TOWN CODE 4 5 4.
WHILE THE EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COUNCIL APPRECIATES THE EFFORTS TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST SMOKE SHOPS IN YOUR SCHOOLS PRIOR TO THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, UH, THIS LAW FALLS SHORT OF ACCOMPLISHING ANY OF THE GOALS OF THE E C C.
UH, THIS DRAFT LAW, UH, CURRENTLY AS CURRENTLY WRITTEN, IS NOT IN ANY CONDITION TO BE PASSED, UH, TO ITERATE AND ISSUE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
UH, THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE ISSUES THE E C C HAS WITH THE PROPOSED LAW AS WRITTEN.
UH, THIS LAW WOULD ONLY REGULATE STOREFRONTS EXTERIOR WINDOWS AND ANY DOOR WHICH IS USED FOR ENTRY.
UH, IF THE INTENT OF THIS LAW IS TO MITIGATE THE MARKETING AND SALE BY REGULATING THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF PRODUCTS, ADVERTISEMENTS, AND PARAPHERNALIA, IT WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE TO REGULATE THE DISPLAY OF THESE ITEMS FROM BEING VISIBLE FROM THE SIDEWALK OR STREET.
UH, IF THIS LAW IS ADOPTED AS IS CHILDREN WALKING, OUR STREETS WILL STILL BE EASILY ABLE TO SEE PRODUCTS AND PARAPHERNALIA INSIDE BUSINESSES IF STOREFRONTS EXTERIOR WINDOWS AND ENTRY DOORS ARE REGULATED WHILE THE INTENTION, UH, WHILE THE INTENTION OF PROPOSED TOWN CODE 4 5 4.
SECTION FOUR, UH, BASED ON ITS TITLE, IS TO REGULATE BOTH THE ADVERTISING AND PHYSICAL DISPLAY OF, UH, TOBACCO PRODUCTS AND SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA.
THE LANGUAGE IS UNCLEAR AND COULD BE READ TO REGULATE ONLY NICOTINE ADVERTISEMENTS AND DOES NOT MAKE CLEAR THAT BOTH THE PHYSICAL DISPLAY AND ADVERTISING OF SUCH PRODUCTS IS PROHIBITED.
UH, THIS LAW WOULD ONLY REGULATE DISTANCE FROM SCHOOLS, NOT PUBLIC PARKS, CHILDREN, WHICH IS LAWS INTENDED TO PROTECT, SPEND CONSIDERABLE TIME AND PUBLIC PARKS.
OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE CHILDREN SPEND CONSIDERABLE TIME INCLUDE PLAYGROUNDS, DAYCARE CENTERS, AND HOUSES OF WARSHIP.
THESE LOCATIONS SHOULD BE INCLUDED AS WELL FOR THE MAXIMUM PROTECTION OF OUR COMMUNITY'S CHILDREN.
CHILDREN, UH, THIS LAW WOULD ONLY BE ENFORCEABLE BY THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT, NOT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
WHY LIMIT THE POTENTIAL ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES? WHILE THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS ONLY OPEN DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OPERATES 24 7 365 AND IS WELL POSITIONED TO TAKE ACTION ON VIOLATIONS OF THIS LAW.
UH, ADDITIONALLY, BASED ON THE ADVICE OF LINDA RICHTER, THE VICE PRESIDENT OF PREVENTION, RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS AT PARTNER TO END ADDICTION, UH, WHO IS AN EDGEMONT RESIDENT AND A MEMBER OF THE E C C WORKING GROUP, WE HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THE FOLLOWING, UH, DEFINITIONS, ADVERTISEMENT, UH, THIS DEFINITION IS PROBLEMATIC AS IT APPLIES ONLY TO PRODUCTS AUTHORIZED TO BE SOLD BY THE F D A, WHICH ARE THE ONES THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO CARRY A HEALTH WARNING.
BUT THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PRODUCTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN REGULATORY LIMBO SINCE THEY'RE AWAITING F D A REVIEW OR HAVEN'T YET APPLIED FOR F D A AUTHORIZATION THAT CAN TECHNICALLY STILL BE SOLD AND WOULD BE UNLIKELY TO VOLUNTARILY CARRY A HEALTH WARNING E-CIGARETTE.
TO BE MORE COMPREHENSIVE, THIS SHOULD BE UPDATED TO INCLUDE VAPOR AND AEROSOL.
TECHNICALLY, E-CIGARETTE SMOKE IS NOT A VAPOR, WHICH IMPLIES IT'S PRIMARILY WATER, BUT AN AEROSOL, THIS COULD BE POTENTIALLY EXPLOITED AS A LOOPHOLE, UH, TOBACCO PRODUCT TO BE MORE COMPREHENSIVE.
THIS SHOULD SPECIFICALLY INCLUDE SYNTHETIC NICOTINE BASED ORAL PRODUCTS THAT ARE BECOMING INCREASINGLY POPULAR WITH CHILDREN, GUMS, LOZENGES, GUMMIES, AND TABLETS.
THE, THE INDUSTRY HAS BEEN ARGUING THAT THESE AREN'T TOBACCO PRODUCTS BECAUSE THE NICOTINE IS SYNTHETIC AND NOT FROM THE TOBACCO PLANT FOR THESE REASONS, THE E C C RESPECTFULLY REQUESTS THAT THE TOWN BOARD ADJOURNED THIS PUBLIC HEARING, WITHDRAW THE CURRENT DRAFT AND SCHEDULE A NEW PUBLIC HEARING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AFTER THE PROPOSED TOWN CODE 4, 5 4 HAS BEEN REDRAFTED TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES AND CONCERNS, WHILE WE WERE EAGER TO HAVE THIS ADDRESSED BEFORE THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT? A SUPERVISOR FINER, HAS STATED MULTIPLE TIMES IS ADOPTING THE STRONGEST LAW POSSIBLE.
UH, THE E C C REMAINS COMMITTED TO WORKING WITH THE TOWN, UH, THE TOWN BOARD AND STAFF TO GET THIS DONE RIGHT.
UH, WE ALSO NOTE THAT THIS PROPOSED LAW DOES NOT ADDRESS ALL THE ISSUES AT THE CENTER OF THE ECCS CONCERNS, SPECIFICALLY REGULATING THE SALE, DISPLAY AND ADVERTISING OF MARIJUANA, TOBACCO PARAPHERNALIA AND GUNS, KNIVES, WEAPONS FROM WITHIN 1500 FEET OF SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC PARKS FOR
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THOSE REASONS, THE ADOPTION OF CHAPTER 4, 5 4, EVEN WHEN REVISED IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR ADDITIONAL LAWS THAT ADDRESS ALL THESE ISSUES.UH, WE STAND FIRM IN OUR COMMITMENT TO WORKING WITH THE TOWN TO HAVE ALL OF THESE ISSUES ADDRESSED.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
YEAH, I DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH THE EDWIN COMMUNITY COUNCIL.
AND, UM, YOU, THE TOWN ATTORNEY WAS OUT, UH, ON A FAMILY ISSUE, UH, EARLIER THIS WEEK.
UM, BUT SHOULD BE BACK, UH, SHORTLY.
IF WE, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, DO THE AMENDMENTS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IS BEING, UH, SUGGESTED, DOES THAT HAVE TO THEN GO BACK TO THE PLANNING? THIS IS THAT I, I, UH, IT DEPENDS WHAT AMENDMENTS I'M, IT DEPENDS WHAT THE AMENDMENTS ARE.
THE AMENDMENTS DO NOT TOUCH CHAPTER 2 85.
IT DOES NOT HAVE TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S, UH, DOWN THE ROAD, THERE IS CONSIDERATION OF COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION THAT WOULD INCLUDE AMENDMENT OF THE ZONING CODE, IN WHICH CASE THAT WOULD GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD.
THAT'S ALREADY BEFORE THE ZONING BOARD, I THINK PLANNING BOARD, PLANNING BOARD, I MEAN, UM, THERE IS SOME OF IT.
THERE'S THE MARIJUANA LEGISLATION.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT MR. PINE'S, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, ADDITIONS ARE.
SO, UH, IF, UH, THEY TOUCH THE ZONING CODE, THEN YES, THEY'LL GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD AS WELL.
CAN I JUST ASK YOU JUST ONE OTHER QUESTION? SURE.
BECAUSE I DEFINITELY AM SUPPORTIVE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS YOU'RE MAKING.
I'M JUST SORT OF WONDERING, JUST FROM A PROCEDURAL POINT, IF, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT MEETING FOR LIKE TWO WEEKS, SO WE'RE REALLY MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, IF WE CHANGE THE LAW, THEN WE ARE BASICALLY GONNA BE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, BY THE TIME WE MAKE ANY AMENDMENTS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROBABLY TALKING OCTOBER NOB, YOU KNOW, NOVEMBER OR WHATEVER.
LET'S ASSUME THAT THE BOARD WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF WORKING WITH YOU AND DRAFTING A A BETTER LAW.
WOULD IT MAKE, IS THERE, DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE? AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE ANSWER IS.
DOES IT MAKE ANY SENSE TO ADOPT, YOU KNOW, A WEAKER LAW AND JUST HAVE SOMETHING ON THE BOOK AND THEN BASICALLY PUSH FOR I'M, I'M, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE, AND I, I THINK IT'D BE WORTH TAKING A LITTLE BIT EXTRA TIME.
TO MAKE, TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DO THIS.
DOES ANYBODY ON THE BOARD, YOU KNOW, HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I I THINK THAT WE SHOULD BE WORKING WITH, UH, EVERYONE, COMMUNITY COUNCIL AND COME UP WITH THE STRONGEST LAW POSSIBLE.
IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE INITIAL, UH, COMPLAINT THAT CAME IN WAS THE, UH, DISPLAY IN THE WINDOWS.
SO OUR, UM, INTERIM TOWN ATTORNEY CAME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT DID NOT NEED TO GO TO THE PLANNING BOARD, WHICH AS SOON AS WE HAD THAT PROVISION, THERE WAS NO WAY THAT SOMETHING WAS GONNA BE IN PLACE BEFORE THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, WHICH WAS ANOTHER MAJOR ASK FROM THE MONT COMMUNITY COUNCIL.
SO, TO COMPLY WITH THAT ASK, UH, WE HAD TO, THE TOWN ATTORNEY, UM, UH, DECIDED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT'S CERTAINLY NOT ALL INCLUSIVE, NOT INTENDED TO BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR ANYTHING ELSE, BUT A STARTING POINT PRIOR TO THAT COULD BE ENFORCED, UH, PUT IN PLACE AND ENFORCED AT THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR WHILE WE SEND LEGISLATION TO THE PLANNING BOARD AND GET THAT ADOPTED.
AND, AND, AND THAT'S UNDERSTOOD.
AND ULTIMATELY WE STILL HAVE THE COUNTY LAW THAT THE COUNTY IS ACTIVELY ENFORCING.
BUT THE WAY THIS LAW IS WRITTEN, UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY SECTION, UH, 4, 5, 4, SECTION FOUR IS, IS, YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT WELL WRITTEN AND IS IS NOT CLEAR.
UH, I'M NOT SURE IF PARAPHERNALIA WOULD BE PROHIBITED IN, IN THE WAY THE LAW IS WRITTEN.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE DEFINITIONS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE THERE.
ULTIMATELY, I THINK IT'S WORTH TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME, MAKE SURE THIS GETS DONE RIGHT, AND THEN COME BACK AT THE NEXT TOWN BOARD MEETING.
AND IF THAT MEANS IT'S A, IT'S A LITTLE BIT AFTER THE START OF SCHOOL, I'D RATHER HAVE THE, THE STRONGEST, I THINK WE'D RATHER HAVE THE STRONGEST LAW POSSIBLE, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ENFORCEABLE, UH, WITH, WITH EVERYTHING THAT, THAT WE THINK IS NECESSARY.
I DON'T, YOU HAVE TO, YOU EDGEMONT.
I JUST HAVE A VERY, UH, JUST ONE QUESTION.
UM, ISN'T EDGEMONT PART OF UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG? ACTUALLY, TWO QUESTIONS.
IS EDGEMONT PART OF UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG? YES.
AND DOESN'T, UH, THIS LAW AFFECT ALL OF GREENBERG
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UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG? IS THAT A YES.THEREFORE, WORKING JUST WITH E C C AND I THINK DYLAN DOES A GREAT JOB, IS A, I'M GLAD YOU'RE WORKING WITH HIM.
HE'S A GREAT GUY AND I SUPPORT WHAT HE'S BEEN DOING.
BUT YOU SHOULD BE WORKING WITH ALL THE, THE COMMUNITIES, NOT JUST EDGEMONT ON THIS.
THE ISSUE ISN'T ONLY IN EDGEMONT, THE ISSUE IS TOWN WIDE, AND THEREFORE YOU SHOULD BE GETTING THE INPUT FROM THE OTHER COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS.
SO FOR THIS PUBLIC HEARING, HOW, SAM, YOU HAVE TO JUST FILL OUT A CARD IF YOU WANNA SPEAK.
HE, HE, UM, SIGNED UP THIS SO RARE IS IT THAT I AGREE WITH YOU, AND THIS WOULD BE SUCH AN OCCASION, UM, EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COUNCIL, MR. PINE, VERY EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE REGARDING WORDS.
AND I HAVE TO WONDER, AND I HAVE TO WONDER WHY THE GROUP IS CALLED THE EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COUNCIL SMOKE SHOP ADVOCACY WORKING GROUP.
TO ME, ADVOCACY WOULD SEEM TO BE FAVORING SMOKE SHOPS.
I SENT THE TOWN BOARD A 13 PAGE EMAIL TODAY ON MATTERS RELEVANT AND IN A RESPONSE TO WHAT MR. PINE SENT OUT.
SO I HOPE THAT THAT WILL BECOME PART OF THE WRITTEN RECORD, BUT ACTUALLY DISCUSSING ANYTHING WOULD PROBABLY BE IRRELEVANT AT THIS MOMENT, BECAUSE IT SEEMS APPARENT THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CLOSE THIS HEARING, AND IN FACT, YOU'RE GOING TO WORK FURTHER.
MY CONCERN IS NOT SO MUCH ABOUT THE TOBACCO ASPECTS, BUT I SEE THIS ENTIRE LAW AS THE FORERUNNER OF WHAT YOU REALLY INTEND TO DO WHEN MARIJUANA COMES UP, AND THE CONCESSIONS THAT YOU'RE WILLING TO MAKE HERE SEEM TO DENY THE REASONS WHY YOU IN FACT PASSED LAST FALL, CONSENT TO SELL MARIJUANA WITHIN GREENBURG.
SO WE'LL ADDRESS ALL THOSE THINGS, WHETHER YOU COME BACK WITH EITHER A ONE PIECE LAW, WHICH ADDRESSES ALL MR. PINE'S CONCERNS, OR WHAT IT IS YOU ARE GOING, YOU BRINGING UP.
SO I WILL GIVE YOU BACK YOUR EXTRA MINUTES TONIGHT.
OH, YOU, YOU, YOU HAVE YOUR HAND.
DI DYLAN PINE, YOU SPOKE ALREADY.
HE'S, HE'S SPOKE INITIALLY, DARLING.
THEN DO YOU WANT WE'LL CALL YOU ON, ON THAT MATTER.
THIS IS FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING, SO THERE'S NO, NOW THERE'S A, UH, YOU, YOU COULD COME UP AND YOU WANNA SPEAK ALSO SO THAT YOU, YOU SHOULD JUST FILL OUT A CARD FOR THE RECORDS FOR JUDITH AND BE BEF ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL INFORM AND, AND BEFORE YOU START, THE REASON WHY WE WERE WORKING WITH THE EDGEMONT GROUP IS BECAUSE THEY SENT US VERY GRAPHIC PICTURES OF, IT'S, IT'S ALMOST LIKE AS IF THE, THE BUSINESS OWNER WAS TRYING TO TEST US.
BECAUSE IF YOU COULD COME UP WITH A WORSE WINDOW DISPLAY THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN GO BY, YOU'D HAVE TO SHOW IT TO ME.
BUT EDGEMONT GROUP DID, AND SO THAT'S WHY WE WERE WORKING WITH THEM.
AND WHAT BENEFITS EDGEMONT WILL BENEFIT THE REST OF THE UNINCORPORATED ERIC? GOOD.
I SERVE AS THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COORDINATOR FOR POWER AGAINST TOBACCO.
WE'RE A GRANTEE OF THE STATE'S ADVANCING TOBACCO-FREE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM, AND WE'RE HOUSED OUT OF THE AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION.
OUR BROADER MISSION IS TO WORK TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF ALL PEOPLE THROUGH TOBACCO CONTROL, POLICY, ADVOCACY, AND EDUCATION.
AND OUR BOTTOM LINE IS WE BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BREATHE CLEAN, SMOKE-FREE AIR WHERE THEY LIVE, WORK, SHOP, AND PLAY.
SMOKING KILLS ABOUT TWO 28,000 ADULT
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NEW YORKERS EACH YEAR, AND ABOUT 750,000 NEW YORK STATE, UH, ADULTS LIVE WITH SERIOUS SMOKING RELATED ILLNESS.TOBACCO USE IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF PREVENTABLE DISEASE AND DEATH IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND NEARLY ALL TOBACCO PRODUCT USE BEGINS DURING YOUNG, UH, DURING YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTHOOD.
AND THE AVERAGE AGE OF A NEW SMOKER IS 13.
IT HAS COME TO MY TEAM'S ATTENTION THAT RESIDENTS HAVE MAJOR CONCERNS REGARDING THE RAPID INCREASE OF SMOKE SHOPS THROUGHOUT THEIR COMMUNITY.
RETAIL AVAILABILITY OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS HAS SEVERAL IMPACTS AND IMPLICATIONS.
ONE, IT PERPETUATES SOCIAL NORMS ABOUT TOBACCO USE.
TWO, IT INCREASES EXPOSURE TO INDUSTRY ADVERTISING.
THREE, IT CAN LEAD TO HIGHER SMOKING RATES FOUR CONTRIBUTES TO SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INEQU INEQUITIES.
FIVE, INCREASES BRAND RECOGNITION AND SIX, ENCOURAGES IMPULSE PURCHASES OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS, CUES, CRAVINGS, AND UNDERMINES QUIT ATTEMPTS.
I ADMIRE THE STEPS THE TOWN BOARD HAS TAKEN TO ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO PROVIDE SOME GUIDANCE ON GREENBERG'S OPTIONS TO ADDRESS TOBACCO RETAILERS IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND SHINE A LIGHT ON WHAT OTHER SOLUTIONS IN NEW YORK STATE MUNICIPALITIES HAVE FOUND.
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS MAY REGULATE TOBACCO SALES BY LIMITING HOW AND WHERE TO, UH, TOBACCO PRODUCTS ARE SOLD.
SO FIRST I'LL GO OVER THE HOW.
LICENSING GENERALLY TOBACCO RETAIL LICENSING AT THE LOCAL LEVEL REQUIRES THAT THE CITY OR COUNTY ISSUE BUSINESSES NEW AND EXISTING A LICENSE BEFORE THEY ARE ALLOWED TO SELL TOBACCO PRODUCTS.
LICENSING CAN BE A GREAT TOOL TO MONITOR THE SALE OF TOBACCO AND NICOTINE PRODUCTS BY REQUIRING A LOCAL LICENSE.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS BETTER EQUIPPED TO CONTROL WHERE AND BY WHOM TOBACCO PRODUCTS ARE BEING SOLD.
ADDITIONALLY, PERMITS LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DO JUST THAT, WHICH IS ENFORCED.
LICENSING ENABLES THE GOVERNING BODY TO MAINTAIN A CURRENT AND COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF ALL BUSINESSES THAT SELL TOBACCO, AND IT CAN REDUCE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RETAILERS BY SETTING MORATORIUMS ON THE NUMBER OF NEW LICENSES OR CAPPING THE NUMBER OF LICENSES, WHICH WAS WHAT THEY DID IN NEWBURGH IN 2015.
ALSO, YOU CAN ADDRESS THE WHERE, WHICH IS THROUGH ZONING.
THE CURRENT NEW YORK STATE LAW RESTRICTS THE PUBLIC DISPLAY OF TOBACCO AND VAPING PRODUCT ADVERTISEMENTS AND THE DISPLAY OF SMOKING PARAPHERNALIA WITHIN 1500 FEET OF A SCHOOL.
BUT THERE IS NO REASON THAT MUNICIPALITIES CANNOT GO BEYOND THIS MINIMUM REQUIREMENT.
FOR EXAMPLE, IN LOWVILLE, THEY KEPT THE MINIMUM DISTANCE, BUT EXPANDED BEYOND SCHOOL PROPERTY LINES TO INCLUDE CHILDCARE, FACILITIES, YOUTH CENTERS, COMMUNITY CENTERS, RECREATIONAL FACILITIES, PARKS, RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS, AND OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE YOUTH REGULARLY GATHER LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE NOT POWERLESS AND SHOULD BE PROMOTING POLICIES THAT ADVANCE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELLBEING.
REGULATION OF TOBACCO SALES IS NOT ONLY POSSIBLE, BUT IT'S NECESSARY.
UH, IN MY RESEARCH, I'VE ALSO NOTICED THAT THE TOWN DOES NOT HAVE ANY WRITTEN TOBACCO FREE GROUNDS POLICIES.
THESE ARE POLICIES THAT PROHIBIT THE USE OF TOBACCO AND MUNICIPAL PROPERTIES SPANNING FROM PARKS TO PLAYGROUNDS TO RECREATIONAL BUILDINGS AND BEYOND.
THERE ARE SEVERAL BENEFITS OF TOBACCO AND VAPE FREE PUBLIC SPACES, AND I'LL SAVE YOU ON THE TIME, BUT JUST IN GENERAL, THEY PROTECT VISITOR HEALTH FROM EXPOSURE TO SECONDHAND SMOKE, WHICH THERE'S NO SAFE LEVEL OF.
IT ELIMINATES TOBACCO PRODUCT LITTER, AND THERE IS SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR IT.
SUPPORT FOR A POLICY THAT PROHIBITS SMOKING IN OUTDOOR PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS BEACHES OR PARKS HAS BEEN FOUND IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
ACCORDING TO OUR ADULT COMMUNITY TOBACCO SURVEY, 53% OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY ADULTS INDICATE THEY'RE IN FAVOR OF A POLICY THAT PROHIBITS SMOKING IN OUTDOOR PUBLIC PLACES SUCH AS BEACHES OR PARKS, TOBACCO AND VAPE FREE POLICIES COMMUNICATE A POSITIVE MESSAGE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT SMOKING AND VAPING ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH AN ACTIVE AND HEALTHY LIFESTYLE.
POWER AGAINST TOBACCO IS COMMITTED TO REDUCING TOBACCO AND E-CIGARETTE USE WHERE WE LIVE, WORK AND PLAY.
AND THE RETAIL ENVIRONMENT IS A MAJOR FACTOR IN THAT WORK.
POWER AGAINST TOBACCO IS WILLING TO PROVIDE FREE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IN NAVIGATING POLICY OPTIONS.
AND WE HOPE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY AND THEIR CONCERNS ALONG THE WAY.
AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE.
IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING TODAY.
WE HAD A GUEST SPEAKER, UM, WITH THE INTERNS AND I, UM, I MADE A STATEMENT.
I SAID, WELL, I AM SURE THAT NO ONE IN HERE SMOKES ANYTHING.
AND THERE WAS A CHORUS OF LAUGHTER AND, UM, COMMENTS FROM THE GROUP SAYING, YOU ARE SURE.
THE AVERAGE AGE OF A NEW SMOKER IS 13.
AND IN, IN OUR PROGRAM WE HAVE
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YOUNG PEOPLE NINTH GRADE UP TO COLLEGE.I I CERTAINLY DON'T KNOW WHO IS A SMOKER OR IF ANY OF THEM ARE, BUT JUST BASED ON THEIR RESPONSE IS AN INDICATION THAT, UM, THE INVITATION TO SMOKING EITHER CIGARETTES OR MARIJUANA THROUGH THE LOOSENING OF LAWS AROUND MARIJUANA IS REALLY AFFECTING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE SHOULD REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THIS.
AND, AND WE'VE FOUND, WE HAVE A REALITY CHECK PROGRAM THAT'S OUR YOUTH PROGRAM.
UM, WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF FULFILLING THAT POSITION RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND IN THAT PROGRAM, THEY TEACH YOUTH ABOUT THE MARKETING STRATEGIES OF BIG TOBACCO.
UH, NOT SO MUCH FOCUSING ON THE HEALTH IMPACT BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY FOR THE MOST PART KNOWS, YOU KNOW, THE DETERMINANTS, UM, AND THE, YOU KNOW, THE NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING AND VAPING.
BUT NOT EVERYBODY IS FULLY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE WAYS THAT BIG TOBACCO, UH, MANIPULATES YOUTH.
THERE'S ONE OTHER PERSON WHO'S RAISING THEIR HAND.
SO WHEN YOU COME FORWARD, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE STENOGRAPHER.
I BELIEVE YOU MIGHT HAVE ME ON YOUR LIST.
I EMAILED YOU IN THE AFTERNOON.
GOOD EVENING SUPERVISOR FENNER AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THIS PUBLIC HEARING SESSION TO ADDRESS THE RECENT CONCERNS ABOUT THE SMOKE SHOP.
MY NAME IS KBU PADIA AND I'M THE RESIDENT OF EDGEMONT.
I HAVE LIVED HERE FOR, FOR OVER THREE YEARS, AND I HAVE TWO YOUNG KIDS WHO ARE ATTENDING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN EDGEMONT.
I'M ALSO A HEALTH PROMOTION SPECIALIST WITH AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION, WORKING ON THEIR GRANT PROGRAM CALLED CENTER FOR TOBACCO FREE HUDSON VALLEY.
UH, THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN FUNDED BY THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, BUREAU OF TOBACCO CONTROL.
MY WORK IS MAINLY WITH THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN PROVIDING EDUCATION AND RESOURCES TO HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS SO THAT THEY COULD INCLUDE TOBACCO DEPENDENT TREATMENT INTO THE ROUTINE WORKFLOW.
AS A CONCERNED PARENT OF TWO YOUNG CHILDREN AND AS A TOBACCO SPECIALIST, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE TOWN BOARD MEMBERS FOR KEENLY LOOKING AND ADDRESSING THESE CONCERNS AMONG THE RESIDENTS AND ALSO INVOLVING AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION AND MY COLLEAGUES, TREVOR SUMMERFIELD AND MOLLY FRANCO.
I'M HERE TODAY NOT TO ASK FOR ANYTHING BECAUSE I'M NOT ALLOWED TO ADVOCATE, BUT I'M HERE JUST TO SHARE INFORMATION ABOUT THE HEALTH IMPACTS OF TOBACCO AND VARIOUS CESSATION RESOURCES.
THE DATA FROM NEW YORK YOUTH TOBACCO SURVEY INDICATES THAT THE TOBACCO USE AMONG HIGH SCHOOL AGE YOUTH ACROSS ALL TOBACCO PRODUCTS IS OVER 25%.
AMONG ALL THESE PRODUCTS, E-CIGARETTE REMAINS THE HIGHEST USE, WHICH IS ABOUT 22.5%.
AND THE OTHER TOBACCO PRODUCT USAGE IS ABOUT 6.1%.
THIS INDICATES THAT E-CIGARETTES ARE THE MOST COMMON TOBACCO PRODUCTS CONSUMED BY THIS POPULATION.
E-CIGARETTES ARE RELATIVELY NEW PRODUCT THAT HAVE BEEN SOLD IN THE US FOR ABOUT A DECADE.
E-CIGARETTES ARE ALSO RAPIDLY EMERGING PRODUCTS IN THE MARKET.
THE CONTENT IN THE LIQUID THAT IS THE E-JUICE IS UNREGULATED, SO WE DO NOT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S IN THERE.
ADDITION OF FLAVORS TO THESE PRODUCTS HAVE MADE THEM SO APPEALING FOR OUR YOUNGER POPULATION.
HOWEVER, LITTLE, LITTLE DO THEY KNOW THAT THERE ARE CHEMICALS WHICH ARE HARMFUL TO THEM.
FLAVORS ARE THE ONE WHICH ATTRACTS THE YOUTH TO THESE PRODUCTS, BUT IT'S A NICOTINE CONTEND IN THESE, WHICH IS THE ADDICTIVE INGREDIENT.
SCIENCE HAS FOUND THAT THE EXPOSURE TO NICOTINE CAUSES ADDICTION AND HARMS. THE DEVELOPING BRAIN OF THE YOUNGER POPULATION USING NICOTINE.
USE OF NICOTINE IN ADOLESCENTS MAY ALSO RE LEAD TO INCREASED RISK OF FUTURE ADDICTION TO OTHER DRUGS.
WHAT MAJOR START AS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION CAN BECOME AN ADDICTION.
SCIENTISTS ARE STILL LEARNING ABOUT THE LONG-TERM HEALTH IMPACTS OF THESE E-CIGARETTES.
SOME OF THE HARMFUL CHEMICALS ARE KNOWN TO HAVE DAMAGING IMPACT ON THE LUNGS.
MOREOVER, E-CIGARETTE AEROSOLS ARE NOT JUST HARM HARMLESS WATER VAPORS, THEY'RE AEROSOLS, WHICH ARE INHALED.
AS WELL AS EXHALED ALSO EXPOSES NOT ONLY THE PERSON CONSUMING, BUT ALSO PEOPLE AROUND THEM.
OUR TEAM AT CENTER FOR TOBACCO FREE HUDSON VALLEY ENGAGES WITH THE MEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROVIDERS AND PROVIDES THEM EDUCATION AND RESOURCES SO THAT THEY COULD INCLUDE CESSATION PROGRAM INTO THEIR ROUTINE WORKFLOW.
SOME OF THESE CESSATION RESOURCES ARE NEW YORK STATE SMOKER SQUID LINE, WHICH HAS A TEXTING PROGRAM FOR THE YOUTH AND AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION, WHICH HAS PROGRAMS CATERED TOWARDS TEENAGE POPULATION
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CALLED AS NOT ON TOBACCO.I WOULD END BY REITERATING THAT ANY FORM OF TOBACCO IS VERY HARMFUL TO ANYONE, BUT ESPECIALLY TO OUR YOUNGER POPULATION.
AND AS A CONCERNED PARENT, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT THE TOWN IS TAKING A LOOK INTO THIS MATTER AND INVOLVING THE EXPERTS TO ADDRESS THE CONCERN AMONG THE TOWN OF GREENBURG RESIDENTS.
ARE YOU COME? PLEASE? HOW ARE YOU DOING BOARD? MY NAME IS TIM LEAK.
I WAS LISTENING ON THE TOBACCO CONVERSATION AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THE, UM, MARKETING ADVERTISEMENT SHOULD BE OUT OF THE WINDOWS.
HOWEVER, I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, THAT INCLUDES ACTUAL PHYSICAL, UM, PARAPHERNALIA OF LIKE BONGS OR UH, T-SHIRTS, UH, OF SORTS LIKE THAT.
ALSO, FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO DO, UH, SMOKE TOBACCO, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE MAY FOLLOW WHAT SOME AMUSEMENT PARKS DO.
THEY HAVE A REGULATION ZONE FOR TOBACCO USE, AND THEN THE REST OF, UH, GREENBURG CAN BE A TOBACCO FREE, UH, COMMUNITY.
ANYBODY ELSE? UH, SO THEN WE REALIZED SHOULD, WE REALIZED, SHOULD ADJOURN THE HEARING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD HAVE, UH, UH, JOE DANKO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE COULD SET UP A MEETING, ANOTHER MEETING WITH, UH, THE E C C AND ANYBODY ELSE WHO WOULD WANT TO PARTICIPATE FROM OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS WHO COULD, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH US ON THE LEGISLATION.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, EMAIL ME, YOU KNOW, WE COULD LET YOU KNOW WHEN WE'RE HAVING THE MEETING AS WELL.
DOES THE BOARD WISH TO ADJOURN TO A CER A DATE? CERTAIN AT THIS POINT, SINCE IT'S SUCH A SPECIFIC TOPIC, I DON'T KNOW IF IT DOES MUCH GOOD.
UM, ADJOURNING THIS ONE AS OPPOSED TO JUST CLOSING IT AND LET IT LET IT LAPSE.
WHY DON'T, UH, I WOULD THINK THAT IT WOULD BE BETTER JUST TO, UH, ADJOURN IT.
AND SO THIS WAY, YOU KNOW, IT STAYS ON THE AGENDA, FORCES US TO, UH, YOU KNOW, NOT GET DISTRACTED.
WELL, WE, WE COULD DO THAT, BUT RECOGNIZE THAT AS SOON AS WE INTRODUCE MORE COMPREHENSIVE LEGISLATION AND IT HAS TO GO TO THE, TO THE, UH, PLANNING BOARD, WE CAN'T RELY ON THIS PUBLIC NOTICE.
NO, I REALIZE THAT, THAT THAT'S WHAT THAT'S GONNA BE.
I'M JUST REALLY LOOKING AT IT AS A PLACEHOLDER.
SO WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, SO THIS WAY WE COULD SAY TO THE TOWN ATTORNEY, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A COUPLE WEEKS, LET'S SEE IF WE COULD WORK OUT, UH, YOU KNOW, A BETTER, A BETTER LAW.
AND THEN WE COULD ALWAYS, UH, YOU KNOW, CANCEL THIS HEARING AND REPLACE IT WITH THE BETTER, WITH THE BETTER ONE.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT I THINK WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE.
SO ADJOURN IT AND UH, HOLD IT OVER, UH, ADJOURN IT FOR ALL PURPOSES TO THE SEPTEMBER 14TH MEETING.
AND THEN COULD YOU MAYBE LIKE EMAIL ME SOME TIMES WHEN WE COULD SET UP, UH, YEAH, I THINK THE INTERIM ATTORNEY, I THINK HE'S GONNA BE BACK, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY TOMORROW, BUT, UH, MORE LIKELY NEXT WEEK.
SO THEN MAYBE SOMETIME LIKE THE MID TO END OF NEXT WEEK OR THE WEEK AFTER OR SOMETHING.
OKAY, SO YOU NEED TO MAKE A FORMAL MOTION.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE, UH, ADJOURN THE HEARING TO SEPTEMBER 24TH.
[ To consider two one year agreements between the Town of Greenburgh and the Village of Irvington for Fire Protection Services to Unincorporated Greenburgh residents of the East Irvington Fire Protection District, for the years 2021 and 2022, at a cost of $106, 319 for 2021 and $$110, 433 for 2022]
HEARING IS, UH, TO CONSIDER A TWO ONE YEAR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND VILLAGE OF IRVINGTON FOR FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES TO UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG RESIDENCE OF EAST IRVINGTON FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FOR A YEAR IS 2021 AND 2022 AT A COST OF 106,000, UH, THREE 19, UH, FOR 20 2021 AND 110,000 4, 3 3 FOR 2022.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE OPEN UP THE HEARING.
SO THIS IS, UH, ONE A CONTRACT THAT WE HAVE WITH THE VILLAGES.
UH, THE UNINCORPORATED AREA IS SO LARGE THAT WE CONTRACT WITH INDIVIDUAL VILLAGES THAT ARE NEAR CERTAIN AREAS OF THE, OF THE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, UH, TO PROVIDE FIRE SERVICES TO THOSE DISTRICTS.
THEY ARE VOLUNTEER FIRE, FIRE DEPARTMENTS.
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AFFILIATED WITH ANY OF THE THREE FIRE DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA, HARTSDALE, GREENVILLE, AND FAIRVIEW.UH, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WE'RE CONTRACTING WITH THE VILLAGE OF IRVINGTON, UH, TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO AN AREA THAT WE CALL THE EAST IRVINGTON FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.
ONLY RESIDENTS THAT ARE IN THE EAST URBAN AND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT WILL BE PAYING THE AMOUNTS THAT I'M ABOUT TO MENTION, UM, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THEY LIVE AND THAT'S WHERE THEY PAY THEIR, UM, WHO THEY PAY FOR THEIR FIRE SERVICES.
THIS IS FOR TWO INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTS, UH, ONE FOR 2021.
AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, THE COST OF THE FIRE PROTECTION CONTRACT WITH THE VILLAGES, UH, FOR 2021 IS $106,319.
AND THE, UH, COST FOR 2022 IS $110,433.
AND IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THESE PARTICULAR CONTRACTS, UH, NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO DO SO.
ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK? MR. UH, BOWDEN? UH, OFFICER, COULD YOU COME UP HERE PLEASE? MR. BOW HAS DECIDED TO TAKE HIS MASK OFF DELIBERATELY.
THE LAW SAYS THAT THE SPEAKER IS REQUIRED TO REMOVE HIS MASK WHEN SPEAKING.
THE SPEAKER TAKES THE MASK OFF.
MR. BOWDEN, WHEN SPEAKING RIGHT NEXT TO THE CAMERA, TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF ME.
YOU'RE SPEAKING RIGHT NEXT TO THE TAKE YOUR HANDS OFF ME.
NO, I DON'T ADJOURN THE MEETING.
OKAY, THE MEETING'S ADJOURNED.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER SPEAKERS FOR THE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT CONTRACT? DEALING WITH THE EAST IRVINGTON FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FOR THE YEARS 2021 AND 2022.
I SEE NONE IN PERSON AND I SEE NONE ON ZOOM.
OKAY, THEN, UH, UH, WE COULD CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR SEVEN DAYS.
AND, UH, NEXT, UH, WE HAVE, UH, SECOND NICOLE.
AND RECORD OPEN FOR HOW MANY DAYS? SEVEN DAYS.
[ PUBLIC COMMENT Advance signup is required. A continuous five minute limit per speaker will be strictly enforced. The clock will start when a speaker begins speaking and will not be stopped for any reason until the speaker is finished or five minutes has elapsed, whichever occurs first. Interruptions by Town Board members, the Town Clerk or the public will not be permitted. If a speaker insists on an immediate answer, should an answer be provided, it shall be part of the speaker's five minute allocation and not be interrupted. There will not be a second five minute round. Any written comments sent to PublicComment@GreenburghNY.com by 6 PM the day of the hearing will be forwarded to all Town Board members in advance of the meeting for their consideration. Written comments will not be read at the meeting unless the original author is present to do so.]
UH, THE PUB, UH, THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF THE MEETING.ANYONE LIKE TO SPEAK ABOUT ANYTHING? YES.
WE HAVE SEVERAL REQUESTS TO SPEAKER AND PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, OUR FIRST SPEAKER,
YEAH, IT'S FACING THE WRONG WAY.
UM, GOOD EVENING, UH, SUPERVISOR.
THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD, THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD.
BEFORE I SPEAK ABOUT, UH, WHY I WAS HERE THIS, UH, UH, THIS EVENING, UH, IN REFERENCE TO TWO PROPOSALS THAT THE PLANNING BOARD MADE TO THE TOWN BOARD, I JUST WOULD LIKE TO PREFACE MY REMARK, BUT WITH A SIMPLE OBSERVATION.
UM, A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ARE HAPPENING IN THE TOWN AND THEY SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AND CELEBRATED.
AND THE, AND THE THINGS THAT WE DID HERE TONIGHT ARE IMPORTANT.
UM, THE RAISING OF THE FLAG FOR D JAMAICA, THE GREAT THINGS OF BEING DONE WITH EXPOSURE PROGRAM, UH, THE SUCCESS WE ARE HAVING WITH THE INTERNSHIP, THE APPOINTMENT OF A NEW FIRE CHIEF, THESE ARE ALL IMPORTANT THINGS AND THEY SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED.
HOWEVER, THERE SHOULD BE AN ISSUE OF TIME MANAGEMENT.
UH, UM, AS WHEN AS THE FORMER CHAIR OF THE PLANNING BOARD, WE HAD MANY, MANY IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT CAME BEFORE US AND WE HAD TO PLAN THE EVENING SO WE COULD GET THROUGH MY AGENDA.
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I WOULD MAKE TO THE TOWN BOARD IS THAT YOU SET A TIME LIMIT, WHATEVER IT IS, HALF HOUR, ONE HOUR TO WHATEVER IT IS, YOU SET A TIME LIMIT FOR THIS PORTION OF YOUR PROGRAM, AND THEN EVERYTHING HAS TO FIT INTO THAT TIME SLOT.UH, AND, AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING YOU REALLY SHOULD CONSIDER BECAUSE ALTHOUGH I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE THINGS AND THE INFORMATION THAT WAS DONE THIS EVENING, IT TOOK TWO HOURS BEFORE WE COULD ACTUALLY GET TO THE BUS TO THE BUSINESS.
SO I WOULD ASK, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD THAT YOU JUST SAID IT, WHATEVER TIMELINE YOU THINK IS APPROPRIATE, AND THAT'S PART OF THE AGENDA AND YOU COVER ISSUES LIKE THAT, SO THAT'S REASONABLE.
UM, SO GETTING TO THE POINT WHEN I'M HERE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, DRAWING ON THE ATTENTION OB DRAWN ON THE HISTORY OF SUCCESSFUL, TWO SUCCESSFUL ACTIVITIES OF THE PLANNING BOARD.
ONE WAS THE BISS LAW AND THE OTHER WAS THE ADULT RESIDENT.
UH, LAW ARE, THESE WERE BOTH PRETTY DIFFICULT AND COMPLEX ISSUES, BUT THE WAY WE ADDRESSED THEM WAS TO FORM A COMMITTEE, A DIVERSIFIED COMMITTEE WITH DIFFERENT TALENTS.
PEOPLE FROM, WE HAD PEOPLE FROM THE LAND USE BOARDS, WE HAD A CONSULTANT, WE HAD PEOPLE IN THE, IN SPECIFIC INDUSTRIES, AND WE HAD A BUSINESS PERSON AND RESIDENT.
AND WE SAT DOWN AND WE DID, FIRST OF ALL THE HOMEWORK, WE GATHERED INFORMATION.
WE DIDN'T GO OFF AND SAY, I THINK THIS IS GOOD OR THIS IS BAD.
WE FIRST GATHERED INFORMATION AND ONCE WE GATHERED THE INFORMATION, THEN WE SAT DOWN LOOKING AT ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WAS GATHERED OF IT, THEN TURN THAT INTO A, A PROPOSED LAW THAT FIT THE NEED OF GREENBERG.
AND THAT'S WHAT BOTH OF THESE COMMITTEES DID.
WE DID THE RESEARCH, WE DID THE HARD WORK, AND THEN BASED UPON GOOD INFORMATION, WE PROPOSED THE LAW.
SO BASED ON, BASED UPON THAT TWO, I SAY BACK IN MAY, THE PLANNING BOARD SAW THAT THERE WERE TWO IMPORTANT ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
AND WE FIGURED, OH, WELL, LET'S NOT USE, LET'S USE A SUCCESSFUL MODEL AND APPLY IT TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND SUSTAIN, SUSTAIN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
THOSE PROPOSALS WERE SUBMITTED TO THE TOWN BOARD BACK IN MAY, AND YET, AND WE HAVE YET TO GET ANY OF THESE TO BE BEING CONSIDERED BY THE TOWN BOARD, I WOULD JUST START OFF, I WOULD JUST STICK TO THE ISSUE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
WELL, I ASKED THAT AS REPRESENTED ANOTHER BOARD OF THE TOWN.
I BE GRANTED THE COURTESY OF CONTINUING WITH MY COMMENT BECAUSE TWO OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD WHO WAS HERE TO SPEAK BECAUSE OF THE, UH, THE TIME RAN OUT FOR TWO HOURS, THEY LEFT.
SO FOUR OF US WAS PLANNING TO SPEAK, ONLY TWO OF US WOULD SPEAK.
UH, I JUST LOST MY THOUGHT FOR A MINUTE.
OH, SO TALKING ABOUT THE RESEARCH AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS THE SOUND HELLO? RIGHT.
IT HAS TO BE, I EXPLAINED THAT TO SIMON.
WE'RE NOT PICKING AND CHOOSING.
SO FINE, WE'VE ALREADY, BUT HERE AGAIN, MR. SIMON, I'M DISCUSS, NO, I WON'T CONTINUE.
BUT HERE AGAIN, WE CAN'T, THIS IS, WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T.
I KNOW MR. SIMON, BUT IF WE ALLOW YOU TO DO IT, THEN WE HAVE TO ALLOW THE OTHER.
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THERE SHOULD BE A LIST.I'M NOT SURE WHO'S NEXT IN LINE.
JOHAN SNES IS NEXT IN ORDER TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ON, I MISSED, IT'S ON, I MISS MR. SIMON'S COMMENTS, SO EXCUSE ANY REDUNDANCIES.
ADEQUATE HOUSING WAS RECOGNIZED IN ARTICLE 25 OF THE 1948 UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
IF ADEQUATE HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT, THEN THE LACK THEREOF SHOULD BE A PUBLIC CRISIS, THEREFORE NEEDING A SENSE OF URGENCY WHEN IT COMES TO ADDRESSING IT.
UH, TO MR. SIMON'S POINT, AS PART OF THE PLANNING BOARD, THERE WAS A PROPOSAL MADE TO FORM A COMMITTEE TO DELIBERATELY AND SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS THE HOUSING CRISIS IN GREENBURG AT LARGE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS.
AND TO DATE, WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET A, AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE TO BUILD THAT COMMITTEE.
UH, WE HAVE WILLING VOLUNTEERS IN THE TOWN THAT ARE QUALIFIED BOARD MEMBERS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN STANDING UP TO REMEDIATE THE ISSUE OVERALL.
AND WE'RE HOPING THAT THIS PUBLIC HEARING, THIS OPPORTUNITY WOULD GIVE, WILL INSPIRE THE BOARD TO MOVE FORWARD MORE QUICKLY THAN THEY HAVE IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS TO GET THE COMMITTEE, UM, ESTABLISHED SO THAT WE COULD MOVE FORWARD TO AS TO, TO REMEDIATE THE ISSUE OVERALL.
I WANT TO POINT OUT A FEW DETAILS THAT YOU COULD PROBABLY RESEARCH YOURSELF.
THE 10% SATIS, UH, SET ASIDE FOR THE LAST 15 YEARS HAS ONLY YIELDED ABOUT 66 UNITS IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG OVER THE PAST 15 YEARS.
OUTSIDE OF THE ELMWOOD, UH, PRESERVE DEVELOPMENT, THERE ARE NO OTHER DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE NEAR TERM.
SO IF WE'RE LOOKING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OVERALL, AND WE ARE, UH, UTILIZING THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AND THE ACTUAL DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE ON THE HORIZON, THERE'S NO CHANCE OF US ADDRESSING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS RIGHT NOW WITHIN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG UNLESS WE EXPLORE SOME CREATIVE IDEAS THAT THE COMMITTEE COULD POTENTIALLY, UH, BRING FORWARD.
SO THE UH, LARGEST SINGLE FAMILY, UH, EXCUSE ME, THE LA LARGEST SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT AS CLOSEST IS 113, UH, HOUSE DEVELOPMENT.
AND THAT WOULD YIELD EXACTLY ONE AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNIT.
UM, WE SHOULD LOOK AT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE WEALTH WITHIN TRADITIONAL MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES AS WELL.
UH, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS ESTABLISHED AS RENTALS, WHICH ESSENTIALLY CREATES A TRAP AND HA THE, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE PARTICIPANTS OF THAT SYSTEM ESSENTIALLY CONTINUE TO PAY RENT FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES AS OPPOSED TO BUILDING EQUITY AND REAL ESTATE.
NOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WEALTH GAP BETWEEN THE AVERAGE RENTER VERSUS THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER, IT'S A DIFFERENCE OF ABOUT $200,000 TODAY, 10, 15, 20 YEARS FROM NOW, THAT GAP WILL BE EVEN WIDER.
SO WITHIN THE TOWN, WE CAN ACTUALLY CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT, AN ECOSYSTEM OF MIXED USE HOUSING THAT WOULD CREATE A PATHWAY FOR WEALTH IF WE STRUCTURE THE PLAN ADEQUATELY TO SUPPORT OUR RESIDENTS.
SO I WANT TO USE THE TIME TODAY TO IMPLORE THE BOARD TO CREATE AND ACTUALLY ACT WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY BECAUSE IT'S ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL TO THE, UH, SURVIVAL AS A, AS A TOWN.
AND IF WE WANT TO CREATE AN EQUITABLE ENVIRONMENT, A DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS, IS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.
COULD WE PUT THIS ON THE NEXT WORK SESSION? UM, I THINK WE'RE NOT MEETING FOR TWO WEEKS, BUT WE WE COULD PUT IT ON THE FIRST MEETING OF SEPTEMBER.
THIS IS NO, SEPTEMBER 14TH IS THE TOWN BOARD MEETING.
THE SEPTEMBER 13TH WOULD BE THE WORK SESSION.
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THESE TALL PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BE PRETTYSORRY, I'M VERTICALLY CHALLENGING.
THAT SPARKLING RED THING IS OKAY.
UM, THANK YOU FOR HEARING US TONIGHT.
UNFORTUNATELY, LESLIE DAVIS HAD TO LEAVE AND, 'CAUSE I WANTED HER TO SPEAK ON THIS TOO.
UM, WALTER SIMON, AS HE WAS STEPPING DOWN HIS CHAIR OF THE PLANNING BOARD IDENTIFIED TWO VERY HIGH PRIORITY THINGS FOR THE TOWN.
ONE WAS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THE OTHER WAS A NEED FOR A STRATEGY ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
UM, BOTH OF US KNEW AT THE TIME THAT WE'D BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL AND FRANCIS, YOU WERE PART OF IT.
TWO, TWO COMMITTEES THAT WERE INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL IN CREATING THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE LAW FOR BATTERY STORAGE, I THINK IN THE STATE, WHICH WE ARE NOW USING.
AND A VERY GOOD AND IMPROVED LAW FOR CONTINUING CARE FACILITIES AND ASSISTED, UH, LIVING FACILITIES.
'CAUSE WE ALL, I THINK, AGREE WE NEEDED TO FIX THE OLD LAW AND WE DID.
SO WHEN I CAME ON AS CHAIR STARTED DISCUSSING HOW WE COULD HELP AS A PLANNING BOARD, AND WE WORKED ON THIS FOR OVER A MONTH, UH, LESLIE ACTUALLY WROTE THE, UH, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS FOR HER LANGUAGE IN THERE.
UH, I WROTE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING ONE AND WE RECOMMENDED TWO BOARDS, INTER INTERDISCIPLINARY BOARDS, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOARD BUILDING OFF OF WHAT GINA'S DONE, AND HOPEFULLY INCLUDING SOME OF GINA'S PEOPLE ON THAT BOARD.
AND MAYBE GINA LEADING IT, I'M NOT SURE, BUT CLEARLY WE, IT HAS TO, UH, PICK UP THE MANTLE FROM WHAT GINA'S DONE OVER THE LAST YEAR.
WE DON'T HAVE A STRATEGY IN THIS TOWN.
NOT ONLY DON'T WE HAVE A STRATEGY AS A PLANNING BOARD, WE HAVE NO WAY TO DEAL WITH WHAT'S GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
THIS IN ELECTRIC CARS ARE LIKE RABBITS.
WE HAVE A GOVERNOR AND A, A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WHO WANTS TO PUT CHARGING STATIONS EVERYWHERE.
I JUST DROVE THROUGH MOST OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK UP TO BUFFALO AND I SAW WIND, WIND FARMS RANDOMLY PLACED ALL OVER THE PLACE.
WE HAVE NO ZONING LAWS, NO STRATEGY TO DEAL WITH SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
THAT'S WHY THERE WAS AN URGENCY, FRANKLY DISAPPOINTED THAT IT'S TAKEN OVER THREE MONTHS FOR YOU GUYS TO EVEN CONSIDER IT.
I KNOW YOU'RE BUSY, WHICH IS WHY WE NEED THESE COMMITTEES.
YOU'RE SO, YOU HAVE A LOT ON YOUR PLATE.
YOU CAN'T POSSIBLY DO THIS ON YOUR OWN.
THE PLANNING BOARD CAN'T DO IT ON ITS OWN.
THE C A C CAN'T DO IT ON ITS OWN.
THE ZONING BOARD CAN'T DO IT ON ITS OWN.
AND OUR PLANNING DEPARTMENT CHAIRS, HECK, CAN'T DO IT ON ITS OWN.
WE NEED THESE DEDICATED COMMITTEES.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO PUT PIGGYBACK BOTH RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE WORK SESSION FOR THE 13TH, IF POSSIBLE.
I THINK WE'VE WAITED LONG ENOUGH FOR THAT.
THEY'RE BOTH PRIORITIES, HIGH PRIORITIES, AND WE JUST DON'T, I CAN.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE, WE JUST DEALT WITH THE FUEL CELL TECHNOLOGY.
THAT TOOK US ABOUT FOUR MONTHS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
WE DIDN'T HAVE A LAW THAT GOVERNED IT.
IN FACT, WE PUT ONE IN, BY THE WAY, WITHOUT ANY REVIEW FROM THE BOARD.
THE FIRST ONE, THE SECOND ONE.
LUCKILY THERE WAS THE SITE PLAN AMENDMENT THAT ALLOWED US TO SEE IT, IN WHICH CASE, WELL WAIT A MINUTE.
WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THE ENERGY, WHAT'S GOING ON ENVIRONMENTALLY BEFORE WE APPROVE THIS.
AND IT WAS GOING RIGHT NEXT TO RESIDENTIAL AREA, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY LAWS TO MANAGE IT.
WE HAD TO KIND OF GO ON OUR OWN.
SO AGAIN, I WOULD LOVE A COMMITMENT FROM THIS BOARD TONIGHT.
UH, I WOULD LIKE A COMMITMENT FROM THIS BOARD TONIGHT THAT BOTH GO ON THE AGENDA FOR THE 13TH OF THE WORK SESSION.
I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM'S DONE.
SO LESLIE DAVIS IS, UH, LESLIE.
AND THE NEXT PERSON WHO REQUEST TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT IS HAL SAMS. I TOO AM WAITING FOR THE TOWN BOARD.
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BOARD OF ETHICS AND THE OF ETHICS.ALL OF YOU HAVE SWORN ETHICS IS A CHAPTER, AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE CODE OF IS A FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE IMPORTANT TO, IN THAT THE PUBLIC IS CONSTANTLY MONITORING BEHAVIOR ACTIONS OF ELECTED OFFICIALS, OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE WHAT THE FINANCIAL DIS IS.
INFORMATION ON ASSETS HELD BY PEOPLE WHO ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE A FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM.
AMONG THE QUESTIONS ON THE FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE THERE, START OVER GROUND BOARD.
I WAS WATCHING MR. FREE, UH, I BELIEVE I SHOULD START OVER AGAIN.
JIM, YOU'RE PARTICULARLY ANXIOUS THAT I DON'T SPEAK TONIGHT.
IF I CAN'T COMMUNICATE WITH THE PUBLIC THAT'S WATCHING, WATCHING, THEN I SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO START OVER.
HE DESERVE, THIS IS PUBLIC COMMENT, NOT DISC TO THE TOWN BOARD, BUT TO THE PUBLIC AT LARGE TOWN BOARD.
SO WHAT IS THE TURN BOARD GONNA DO? BE WRITING THIS AND THAT.
GONNA WHILE TO START OVER? I THINK YOU SHOULD JUST SPEAK AND A COUPLE MINUTES LONGER.
WHY DON'T WE GO BACK AND FORTH? WHY DON'T YOU START? SO WE, SO EVERYONE, THE PUBLIC CAN HEAR YOU OUTSIDE AND WE CAN CONTINUE.
DO I I HAVE A TOTAL OF FIVE MINUTES ALL THE TIME.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I JUST, THAT'S WHAT, EXACTLY WHAT I JUST SAID.
SO AM I GONNA SEE THE CLOCK OR I DON'T CONTROL IT ALL? NEITHER DO I.
I'M CONCERNED THAT THE TOWN BOARD IS NOT FOLLOWING THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CODE OF ETHICS, WHICH IS A CHAPTER OF TONE CODE.
YOU HAVE ALL TAKEN OATH TO FOLLOW THE CODE.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM HELD AND PRACTICED.
NOW A VERY IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF THE CODE OF ETHICS IS A FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM, WHICH ALLOWS THE PUBLIC TO KNOW WHETHER ELECTED OFFICIALS, APPOINTED OFFICIALS OR VOLUNTEERS OR EMPLOYEES OF THE TOWN ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH CERTAIN ASPECTS OF MATTERS THAT THEY VOTE UPON THAT MAY AFFECT THEM PERSONALLY.
SO AMONG THE QUESTIONS ON A FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM IS OWNERSHIP OF REAL ESTATE.
FOR EXAMPLE, IF A MEMBER OF THE PLANNING BOARD WERE TO VOTE A CERTAIN WAY THAT WOULD AFFECT HIS PROPERTY, THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW THAT.
AND THE ONLY WAY THEY WOULD KNOW THAT IS BY LOOKING AT THE FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM.
SO A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC, ONCE UPON A TIME TWO YEARS AGO, ACTUALLY REQUESTED FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORMS FROM THE BOARD OF ETHICS.
AND THE FILE REQUEST CAME BACK WITH THE FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORMS. THE QUESTIONS REGARDING REAL ESTATE OWNED WERE REDACTED.
THAT DESTROYS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM.
BECAUSE IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT REAL ESTATE OWNED IS, WE CAN NEVER ADDRESS ANY POTENTIAL CONFLICTS AMONG THE PEOPLE WHO ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM.
IT WAS NECESSARY TO FILE A FORMAL APPEAL, WHICH WAS HEARD BY THE TOWN AND THE TOWN ATTORNEY AT THE TIME.
TIM LEWIS RULED IN FAVOR THAT THERE WAS NO REASON THAT THE REDACTED MATERIAL SHOULD BE REDACTED.
AND SUBSEQUENT FILE REQUESTS RECEIVE THAT FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORM WITH ALL THE INFORMATION INTACT.
NOW THE BOARD OF THE ETHICS MEETS ONCE A MONTH WITH MEETING IN AUGUST AND DECEMBER.
AND ON THE AGENDA OF MOST OF THESE MEETINGS IS A REPORT ON FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE FORMS RETURNED.
AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMPLETED ETHICS TRAINING, THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THIS INFORMATION IS
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DAVID FREE FIRST DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY, WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE SAME PERSON WHO REDACTED THE INFORMATION IN VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF ETHICS.AGAIN, IT'S ESSENTIAL THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED BY LAW AND THE CODE OF ETHICS BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AND THE TERM ATTORNEY RULE AGAINST MR. FREE.
SO I FILED A VERIFIED COMPLAINT VERIFIED.
FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, IT MEANS THE PUBLIC HAS TO GO THROUGH THIS OLE OF APPEARING BEFORE A NOTARY NOT TO TESTIFY TO WHAT APPEARS IN THE COMPLAINT, BUT THAT THE PERSON COMPLETING THE, THE REPORT OR THE COMPLAINT IS IN FACT WHO THEY CLAIM TO BE.
SO THEY EXAMINE YOUR LICENSE AND PUT THEIR SEAL ON.
SO YOU GO THROUGH THAT ROUTINE.
NOW I REQUESTED IN THIS COMPLAINT THAT MR. V FRIED'S ACTIONS BE REVIEWED AS A POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF ETHICS.
AND THE CODE OF ETHICS RIGHTFULLY FORWARDED IT TO THE TOWN BOARD BECAUSE JUDGING THEIR OWN WILL HARDLY SEEN RESPONSIBLE BEHAVIOR.
AND THE TOWN BOARD HAS RECEIVED THIS OVER A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, AS VERIFIED AT A TOWN BOARD MEETING ON TAPE BY THEN ATTORNEY TIM LEWIS.
SO I'M WONDERING IF MR. FREE'S REMAINING DAYS AS A TOWN EMPLOYEE, WHETHER THE TOWN BOARD EVER EXPECTS TO REVIEW MY COMPLAINT AND PASS JUDGMENT ON MR. FRIED SO THAT YOU MAY CONSIDER TO BE A QUESTION IN MY REMAINING TIME FOR THE TOWN BOARD TO ANSWER.
LOT OF MICROPHONE'S AREN'T WORKING TONIGHT, APPARENTLY.
COULD YOU ANSWER WHEN THE TALENT BOARD WILL BE MEETING TO DISCUSS MR. FEED'S AND MY COMPLAINT? MAY I ANSWER MR. SAMS? YEAH, PLEASE.
MR. SAMS, YOU ARE 100% MISTAKEN WHEN YOU SAY THAT THE BOARD OF ETHICS FORWARDED YOUR COMPLAINT TO THE TOWN BOARD.
YOU ACTUALLY HEARD THE BOARD SAY THAT THEY DISMISSED MY COMPLAINT.
IT IS IN THE MINUTES FOR THAT BOARD OF ETHICS MEETING, WHICH YOU SAW AND YOU EVEN COMMENTED ON AS YOU OFTEN DO THE FOLLOWING DAY, IT WAS DISMISSED WHAT THE BOARD OF ETHICS REFERRED TO THE TOWN BOARD WAS THE ISSUE RELATING OR REFER ACTUALLY DIDN'T REFER, SAID IT WAS UP TO THE TOWN BOARD WITH RESPECT TO YOUR FOIL APPEAL.
BUT YOU DIDN'T FILE A FOIL APPEAL.
WHAT HAPPENED IS ANOTHER GENTLEMAN, MR. RAPPAPORT, FILED A FOIL REQUEST.
THE SAME RESULT HAPPENED AND THE BOARD, NOT MR. LEWIS, THE BOARD, DECIDED THAT THEY WANTED TO RELEASE EVERYONE'S HOME ADDRESSES AND, UH, AND INF AND PERSONAL INFORMATION.
I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS RIGHT.
I THINK, UH, BUT THAT WAS THE BOARD IN ITS INFINITE WISDOM DECIDE.
SIMPLE AS THAT THERE IS NO COMPLAINT PENDING, EVEN THOUGH FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS OR SO YOU'VE BEEN SAYING IF THERE WAS, THERE'S NO COMPLAINT THAT'S PENDING IN FRONT OF THE TOWN BOARD WITH RESPECT TO ME.
AND THE ANSWER IS RUN THE ANSWER ACT TO MR. FREE IS YOUR TIME SET YOUR TIME ZONE.
I CAN MAKE AN ALLEGATION AND YOU CAN RESPOND.
YES, YOU CAN MAKE AN ALLEGATION AND I CAN'T RESPOND.
WELL, WELL THE FACT OF THE MATTER, MR. FRUIT, IS THAT YOU ARE CRUEL.
FIRST OF ALL, THE CODE OF ETHICS DOES NOT ALLOW THE BOARD OF ETHICS TO DISMISS ANY COMPLAINT BEFORE NUMBER ONE, WE'RE STICKING WITH THE RULES.
HE ASKED FOR AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, SIR.
HE HE SHOULD BE ABLE TO REBUT YOUR QUESTION.
NO, HE SAID IN THE REMAINING TIME HE WANTED THE TIME.
SO I GUESS WHO WE HAVE AN NEXT SPEAKERS, UH, JUDITH.
SO WE NOT DISMISS A COMPLAINT.
WE, WE HAVE THREE, UH, REMAINING SPEAKERS IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY REQUESTED TO SPEAK.
MARY THEN AND THEN AS I OH, OKAY.
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THERE ARE NUMBER PEOPLE LIKE ME WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND THAT SPEAKING WITHOUT SEEING IT.I BEG PARDON? I CAN'T HEAR YOU SIR.
WELL, I HAVE TO SEE YOU TO BE ABLE TO SEE YOUR VOICE.
SOME OF US CAN'T UNDERSTAND BECAUSE WE HAVE TO, WE ARE LIP BREEDERS.
WE HAVE TO SEE THE WORD, WORD MOUTH TO UNDERSTAND THE WORDS.
AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THERE AND THERE ARE PEOPLE OUTSIDE WHO CANNOT.
RIGHT? YOU, YOU, YOU JUST, YOU JUST PROVED THE TWO FACE OF THE, THE, THE WAY THE SPORT OPERATES.
AND IT WAS A WHOLE DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHOULD START ALL OVER AGAIN.
THE PEOPLE IN THE WATCHING THIS ON TV KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
YOU JUST EMBARRASS YOURSELF TO THE NTH DEGREE.
HE'S ENTITLED WITHOUT QUESTION TO THE FIVE MINUTES.
AND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING ARE ENTITLED TO SEE MY LIPS.
THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE WHO SPOKE HERE TONIGHT, DID NOT HAVE A MASK ON.
BUT YOU CHOSE TO HAVE ME REMOVED.
THAT'S IN THE RECORD, THAT'S ON THE VIDEO.
THERE WERE OTHER SPEAKERS SPOKE WITHOUT A MASK.
'CAUSE I WAS WATCHING THE MEETING ON MY PHONE.
SO YOU SELECTIVELY HAD ME REMOVED FROM THE MEETING.
YOU ARE AFTER ME 'CAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT I SAY.
OTHERS SPOKE TONIGHT WITHOUT A MASK.
WELL NOW YOU ESSENTIALLY DON'T HAVE A MASK.
OH, MY ASTHMA IS ACTING UP EVERYBODY.
DO YOU WANT WHAT A MINUTE AND WE'LL SWITCH.
YOU KNOW WHAT I JUST WANNA SAY TO EVERY ONE OF YOU? YOU, YOU, EVERY ONE OF YOU GUYS ARE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE SOME THAT IS NOT EVERYBODY'S NOT AGREED, GONNA AGREE WITH EVERYBODY.
IT JUST, SO IT'S OUT OF CONTROL HOW YOU GOT THIS.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT EVERYBODY LEAVES BECAUSE YOU GOT A LONG LINE.
AND I THINK WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS.
ANOTHER THING I WANNA SPEAK ABOUT, AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
I HEAR EVERYBODY TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS WHAT ARE Y'ALL GOING ON? INCOME.
'CAUSE YOU GOT A LOT OF ELDER PEOPLES, YOU GOT A LOT OF THINGS LIKE LEXINGTON AVENUE.
THEY JUST DID A BEAUTIFUL PLACE WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSES.
SO YOU TALKING LIKE THE LOW INCOME, WHEN YOU WORK, YOU, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSES, YOU GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY CAN AFFORD IT.
'CAUSE LOOK AT WHITE PLAIN WHITE PLAINS IS MOVING ON UP LIKE THE JEFFERSON.
I FINALLY GOT THE PIECE OF THE ROCK WHEN EVERYBODY WANT THE PIECE OF THE ROCK.
SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, YOU GOTTA GIVE A NUMBER.
AS YOU SEE ALL THE UNITS THEY BUILDING IN LEXINGTON AND ON BROADWAY AND EVERYTHING, BEAUTIFUL.
BUT THEY GONNA TAKE 10 OF THEM FOR AFFORDABLE OR 10 OR 15 FOR AFFORDABLE.
SO I'M HEARING EVERYBODY TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, BUT NOBODY AIN'T TALKING ABOUT WHAT THEY TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE.
SO ON YOUR NEXT MEETING, I HOPE THEY KNOW WHAT THEY MEAN ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSES.
SO THAT, UH, JUDY, I WANNA SAY YOU DID A, YOU DOING A REMARKABLE JOB ON THE STUDIO, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE FOR YOU TO, YOU AND PAUL TO GET SOME LOCAL PEOPLE TO COME IN AND SPEAK.
OH YEAH, WE CAN GET ALL THE BIG PEOPLES, BUT WE NEED TO GET SOME PEOPLE THAT THEY, WE, YOU KNOW, WE NEED, THEY NEED FLIGHT ATTENDERS.
THEY NEED PEOPLE THAT MIGHT WANNA RUN FOR BOARD.
BUT I FEEL THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU SHOULD GET MORE.
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REMARKABLE.BUT I FEEL THAT IT SHOULD BE MORE OF A LOCA.
YOU GOT DIFFERENT PEOPLE CAN COME IN AND SEE YES, THEY SEEING ALL THESE GREAT THINGS THAT PAUL AND PAUL, YOU'RE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
EVERY ONE OF Y'ALL DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
BUT YOU GOTTA KNOW YOU'RE STANDING, YOU GOTTA WORK FOR THE PEOPLES.
EVERYBODY SEE WHAT EVERYBODY DO.
DON'T THINK NOBODY DON'T SEE IT.
GO OUT THERE AND SHOW LOVE LIKE Y'ALL DO.
'CAUSE EVERY ONE OF Y'ALL DOING A WONDERFUL JOB.
NO, AND THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY.
AND I, EVERYBODY IS SO EXCITED ABOUT SEPTEMBER THE 21ST.
I NEVER HAD SO MUCH, I NEVER HAD SO MUCH TALKED ABOUT IT AND EVERYBODY WONDERED.
AND I HAD TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THE BOARD, THE BOARD CAME THROUGH.
SO IF Y'ALL COULD COME THROUGH FOR THAT, YOU COULD COME THROUGH FOR EVERYTHING.
BUT YOU JUST GOTTA PUT YOUR STUFF IN ORDER AND I JUST SEE YOU JUST DON'T HAVE IT IN ORDER.
THANK YOU LAN, COME HERE A SECOND.
THIS MIGHT HELP YOU FEEL A LITTLE BETTER.
I I JUST WANT TO ADD ONE MORE THING.
THE GENTLEMAN WHO SPOKE EARLIER, MR. SNAGS, I BELIEVE JUDITH, HE, UH, DIDN'T HE, UH, SPEAK TO THE INTERNS? YES, YES.
WE HAD SEVERAL LOCAL INDIVIDUALS SPEAK TO THE INTERNS.
INCLUDING YOUNG SNAGS AND LESLIE DAVIS.
OF FAIRVIEW EMPOWERMENT GROUP.
UM, WE'VE ALSO HAD, UM, OUR LOCAL POLICE OFFICERS AND JUST TODAY WE HAD A RESIDENT WHO IS THE DIRECTOR OF THE WESTCHESTER, UH,
UM, WE HAD SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING? WE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU SPEAK IF, IF YOU WERE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE INTERNS AS WELL.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT, AND I DON'T WANT TO GO OVER MY TIME THAT I JUST FEEL THAT I LOVE WHAT YOU AND PAUL DOING, BUT IT'S A LOT OF LOCAL PEOPLES, A LOT OF TEACHERS.
WE GOT GREAT POLICEMEN, SO WE GLAD TO HAVE THEM.
BUT I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE OTHER PEOPLE TO COME IN.
A LOT OF IP KIDS DON'T KNOW ABOUT HARRY OR TUCKER.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT MUHAMMAD ALI.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW NOTHING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST LOCAL THINGS.
AND YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD THINK ABOUT IT.
'CAUSE I, ONE THING I WANNA SAY TO YOU, I'M FROM MISSISSIPPI, BUT I HEAR A LOT OF TALK AND BELIEVE WHAT I TELL YOU.
I ALREADY TALKED TO A FEW AND BELIEVE WHAT I TELL YOU, I GETS A LOT OF TALK, I GETS A LOT OF FEEDBACK AND YOU'RE DOING A WONDERFUL JOB WITH THAT.
OKAY, SO WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS SIGNED UP TO, OH, SORRY.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? YOU COULD LIFT IT UP.
UM, I'M REALLY NOT COMING HERE TO COMPLAIN.
I REALLY DON'T LIKE SHOWING UP BECAUSE I WAS IN HARLEM TO JOIN A REAL NICE JAZZ CONCERT
UM, I HAVE THE COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE OUR WALLS, YOUR TOWN KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS.
I WISH I COULD REMEMBER THAT DAY.
ARE YOU LISTENING TO MR. FIREMAN? YES.
ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, MR. FUN MADE A MOTION TO UM, 15,000 ASIDE FOR THE COMMUNITY CENTER AROUND WALLS.
THAT WAS BEFORE ALLEN E BECAME ON THE BOARD.
THEN SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE IT CAME TO 5 0 1 C THREE, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS, WE WAS GONNA DO IT OUT OF THE APARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCE, WHICH IS WHICH PEOPLE CALL THE COMMUNITY CENTER, WHICH WE ALL KNOW IT'S NOT A COMMUNITY CENTER NO MORE.
IT'S A DEPART OF COMMUNITY RESOURCE.
AND IT'S FUNNY THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN GREENBURG DON'T KNOW THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCES THAT IS NOT THE COMMUNITY CENTER ANYMORE.
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MR. ER SENT ME AN EMAIL SAYING, OH, YOU HAVE TO GET THE COUNTY EXECUTIVES GEORGE LATIMER TO MATCH THE 15.AND I GOT THE EMAIL, I LEFT IT HOME.
SO I GET COUNTY EXECUTIVE GEORGE LAIR, HE MATCHED IT.
THEN I TOLD THE 5 0 1 C THREE, WHICH I GOT NO PROBLEM 'CAUSE IT GONNA BENEFIT ME BY GETTING IT.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT ELLEN, YOU KNOW, BUT I'M GOING ON WHAT THE ORIGINAL STATEMENT WAS WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THIS PROJECT.
SO ANYWAY, SO I MEET TODAY THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE, LA DEPUTY COMMISSIONER DIANE ATKINS, THE YOUTH BALL, UM, DIRECTOR, DR.
I BRING, UM, CHRISTINE RYAN, WHO IS THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR OR SHE'S DOING A PARTNERSHIP WITH US AND HER AND ONE OF HER STAFF MEMBERS AND MY PROGRAM COORDINATOR.
SO THE LIBRARY HAS GIVEN ME COMMUNITY CENTER OUT WALLS TWO DAYS OUT OF THE MONTH TO USE THE LIBRARY.
AND ALSO THEY ARE GOING TO, AND THEY'RE GONNA PICK THE MONEY UP, YOU KNOW, AND THIS IS WHAT I MEAN WHEN YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP THE YOUTH NOT HELP CLIFF ABRAMS HELP THE YOUTH OF THE UNDERSERVED.
NOT POOR PEOPLE, MR. FINDER, PEOPLE UNDERSERVED, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANNA READ THIS LETTER REAL FAST 'CAUSE MR. UM, COUNTY EXECUTIVES LAER TOLD ME THE MONEY THAT HE WAS GOING TO GIVE HERE, THAT HE GONNA ALLOW ME IF I COULD FIND SOMEBODY ELSE WHO'S WILLING TO WORK WITH ME WHILE THE 5 0 1 C THREE.
DEAR CLIFF, JUST LETTER SOME OF OUR WESTCHESTER COUNTY COM COMMITMENT REGARDING YOUR PROPOSAL.
COMMUNITY CENTER, OUR WALLS PROGRAM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDING IN FEDERAL SECTION OF GREENBURG PROGRAM ASSESSMENT.
OUR ADMINISTRATION BELIEVED THAT PROGRAM COUNCIL HAS MERIT AND DESERVE A ONE YEAR TRIAL.
IF THE PROGRAM CANNOT LAUNCH IN 2022, WE ARE COMMITTED TO LAUNCH IT IN 2023 FUNDING.
OUR ADMINISTRATION HAVE BUDGET 15,000 FOR THE PROGRAM IN OUR 2022 COUNTY BUDGET.
IF THE PROGRAM IS DELAYED TO 2023, WE WILL ALLOCATE THE SAME AMOUNT.
15,000 AND THE 2023 BUDGET JUST ALLOCATE PROCEEDING A MATCH ALLOCATION OF 15TH AVENUE FROM THE TOWN OF GREENBURG COUNTY.
FUNDS ARE NOT TRANSFERRED TO ANY OTHER SOURCE.
THEY REIMBURSED PROGRAM EXPENSE AS PROPERLY SUBMITTED THE CONTRACT ROUTINELY CONTRACT WITH EITHER A LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT AUTHORIZATION TO PROVIDE AGREE UPON SERVICE, THE ENTITLED SUMMIT NECESSARY DOCUMENT TO VERIFY ELIGIBILITY TO CONDUCT SUCH PROGRAM.
SO WHAT HE SAID TO ME IS THAT WHEN WE HAD A GOOD MEETING AND, AND, AND WHAT I APPRECIATE IS THAT THE SENATE WAS CLOSED, THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCE WAS CLOSED.
THEY HAD A BASKETBALL GAME, THE GAME WAS OVER NINE O'CLOCK, AND THEY LOCKED THE DOOR.
THEY PUT EVERYBODY OUT AT NINE O'CLOCK IN THE SUMMERTIME.
SO I LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS THE HOURS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESOURCE, AND THEN WHEN THE BASKETBALL GAMES GO ON, NOTHING ELSE GOES ON DOWN THERE BECAUSE ALL THE DOORS WAS LOCKED AND EVERYBODY WAS IN THE GYM.
SO WHAT IS THE PURPOSE IN THE SUMMERTIME FOR OUR YOUTH WON'T BE WALKING UP AND DOWN THE STREETS.
ANYONE ELSE THAT THERE ARE NO FURTHER REQUESTS TO SPEAK? PUBLIC COMMENTS? WE HAVE NOW WE HAVE, WE HAVE ZOOM, MICHELLE BROWN, AND THEN ANDERSON.
NO, IT'S JUST THE SPEAKERS ARE TURNED UP QUITE HIGH AND, UH, YOU COME IN LIKE A VOICE FROM, FROM ABOVE.
UM, BUT THEY'LL LOWER, I'M SURE THEY'LL LOWER THE VOLUME IN INSIDE THE AUDITORIUM.
UM, I, THERE WAS A FEW DISCUSSION,
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WELL, THIS EVENING, FIRST OF ALL, ONE, UM, PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE TIMING OF THE, UM, EVENTS THAT OCCUR PRIOR TO OPENING UP A MEETING ON WHAT WE TRIED TO BRING, UM, JORDAN COPELAND IN.WE WERE TOLD THAT WE HAD TO BE, UM, UH, FOR SERVED 10 MINUTES, RIGHT? AND THAT WENT ON FOR ALMOST 45 DAYS.
YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, I JUST WANT FAIR, INEVITABLE, WHATEVER THEY DO FOR ONE, YOU CAN DO FOR EVERYBODY CONSISTENTLY, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MAKES THE WORLD LOOK LIKE IT IS NOT REALLY LISTENING OR, OR HEARING THE COMMUNITY.
SECOND THING I WANTED TO SAY WAS, UM, HOW CLIFF REGARDING THE CONVENIENCE CENTER, YOU KNOW, AS THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO SPOKE EARLIER, CAN YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING? AND SO THEY'RE ON RECORDING JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO MARI THE ONE OUT THERE SPEAKING WITHOUT A MASK, YOU HAVE TO POLICE PUT YOUR HAND ON.
I MEAN, JUST UNACCEPTABLE AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
THE ONE MEETINGS THAT ARE BEING BUILT AND NONE SET ASIDE FOUR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, NINE IN THE COMMUNITY WITH DROUGHT.
YOU HEARD THE NUMBERS 66 AND HOW LONG, I MEAN, YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING, YOU DIDN'T DO SOMETHING.
UM, AND NOW YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT PUTTING A LINE AFTER.
I MEAN, HOW OFTEN YOU GET A HUNDRED PLUS ANYTHING BUILT IN GREENER.
AND I'M TELLING YOU, YOU SAY THAT YOU'RE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND, YOU KNOW, WANTING THE COMMUNITY TO WORK TOGETHER, LOOKING AT THE STUDENTS, HAVING THEM BE OUR BEACON OF HOPE OF HOW IT SHOULD BE.
BUT THEN IN THE SAME BREATH, MR. FINER TALKS ABOUT WORKING WITH ONE PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
SO I, I JUST, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S DELIBERATE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S JUST NOT, YOU'RE NOT AWARE.
I I, YOU KNOW, I, IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER BECAUSE IT CONTINUES TO HAPPEN.
AND TONIGHT YOU HAVE SEVERAL PEOPLE TELLING YOU THAT IT'S HAPPENING.
SO I REALLY HOPE YOU TAKING A LOOK AT THAT.
YOU HAVEN'T VOTED YET ON 113 UNITS, I WOULD HOPE TO CONSIDER AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THERE AS SOMEWHERE.
AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE PLANNING BOARD HAD NO PROBLEM WITH THAT WHEN HE WAS FIRST PRESENTING WITH TOWN HOMES.
AND THEN THE BOARD ALLEGEDLY THOUGHT THAT THE DEVELOPER WAS GONNA FLIP THE PROPERTY AND SOMEHOW AFFORDABLE HOUSING WAS GONNA BE REMISS.
SO THAT WAS NEVER REVEALED TO THE COMMUNITY.
THAT WAS JUST BASED ON YOU BLOWING OFF EACH AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN.
AND SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
UM, LIKE CLIFF SAID, IF YOU REALLY WANNA HELP THE UNDERSERVED, YOU CAN HELP THEM.
YOU FIGURE OUT A WAY TO HELP THEM.
AND I GOTTA SAY THIS, KEN AND TINA, YOU BOTH KNOW WHAT IT IS TO THAT UNDERSERVED COMMUNITY AND YOUR ADVOCACY FOR THEM.
WE WE'RE ON THE COMMITTEE TOGETHER WITH THE HOUSING AND THAT WAS A GREAT COMMITTEE AND WE LEARNED A LOT.
AND THAT'S EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING THAT ALL, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'S NO UNIT SET ASIDE, NOT EVEN ONE.
SO YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT, BUT YOUR ACTIONS ACTUALLY ARE SHOWING SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND IT'S VERY DISAPPOINTING.
AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY AND I DON'T NEED
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AN ANSWER.UH, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY TWO THINGS, UH, IN RESPONSE, UH, TO SOME ACTIONS THAT WERE OBSERVED BY THE PUBLIC HERE THIS EVENING.
UM, FIRST WITH REGARD TO MR. ABRAMS COMMUNITY CENTER WITHOUT WALLS, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT THE TOWN FULLY SUPPORTS, UH, THIS EFFORT TO BRING THIS PROGRAM, UH, TO, UH, UNDERSERVED INDIVIDUALS IN THE TOWN.
UH, WE'VE, WE'VE MADE, UH, TOWN RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO ASSIST, UH, MR. UH, TO, TO ASSIST THE COMMUNITY CENTER WITHOUT WALLS TO OBTAIN ITS 5 0 1 C THREE SO THAT THE MONEY CAN BE RELEASED AND THE PROGRAM CAN BE, UH, UH, UH, ADMINISTERED AND, UM, THAT EFFORT IS ONGOING.
UM, SECOND, UM, WE REALLY WOULD PREFER, UH, NOT TO ESCORT PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN BOARD MEETINGS BECAUSE THEY DON'T WEAR MASKS.
SO WE WOULD JUST ASK GOING FORWARD THAT EVERYONE WHO COMES INTO TOWN HALL, INTO A TOWN BOARD MEETING, PLEASE WEAR A MASK AND KEEP IT ON AS YOU SEE EVERYONE UP HERE AT THE DAY, IT'S DOING.
I WANNA CONGRATULATE JUDITH AT COAL ON THAT WONDERFUL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
AS A FORMER TEACHER IN THE WOODLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT, I AM SO PROUD OF WHAT YOU'RE DOING BECAUSE WE KNOW FROM WISE PROGRAM THAT INTERNSHIPS WORK.
BUT I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT THE NEW DEVELOPMENT COMING UP, THE ELEMENT DEVELOPMENT THAT MICHELLE ALLUDED TO.
AND TO REMIND YOU THAT THIS BOARD AFFIRMED A COMMITMENT TO ELIMINATE RACIST PRACTICES AND TOWN GOVERNMENT AND TOWN AFFILIATED ORGANIZATIONS TO REVIEW AND REVISE ITS POLICIES, PROCEDURES, BYLAWS, VALUES, GOALS, ADMISSION THROUGH AN ANTI-RACIST LENS TO FORM AN UNBIASED AND INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT IS FREE OF DISCRIMINATION, ET CETERA.
AND SO THE FACT THAT ELWOOD COULD POSSIBLY MOVE FORWARD WITH NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ISN'T A FRONT TO THE N A A C P.
WE PARTNERED WITH YOU THROUGH A TENABLE RESOLUTION TO BE MINDFUL OF THE VALUE OF BLACK.
AND YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU'VE HEARD FROM YOUR PLANNING BOARD, HOUSING IS A MAJOR RESERVE AS A FIRM FOUNDATION FOR A PROSPEROUS LIFE.
YOU KNOW ABOUT THE WEALTH GAP.
JORDAN EXPLAINED THE SYSTEMIC RACISM THAT HAS GONE ON IN GREENBURG AND HOUSING AND ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE TO EDUCATION.
AND ONE OF OUR OWN RESIDENTS WHO WAS SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE DEVELOPMENT, THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THINGS ON A QUOTE, STABLE COURSE.
WELL, THAT STABLE COURSE HAS TO INCLUDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND EVEN THOUGH WE'RE LOOKING AT 113 UNITS, YOU HAVE ZONING FOR CONSERVATION, UH, OVERLAY.
YOU HAVE 14 ACRES OF RECREATION, YOU HAVE INTERIOR GREEN SPACE, AND YOU NEED TO TELL ME THERE'S NO MORE ROOM.
WE THINK YOU CAN COME UP WITH 12 MORE UNITS OF
WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO GO BACK WITH THE DEVELOPER AND REINVENT THE AFFORDABLE PROPOSITION HERE INITIALLY MADE WITH TOWNHOUSES.
WE'RE SAYING YOU CAN ADD THOSE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND MAKE THEM AFFORDABLE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT, YOU'RE GOING TO IMPACT MORE THAN BLACK LIVES.
YOU'RE GOING TO IMPACT TEACHERS, POLICEMEN, FIREMEN, NURSES, PEOPLE TRYING TO RAISE UP IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND YOUR OWN YOUTH TOLD YOU THAT YOUR FOUR TENANTS, JUDITH, COMMUNICATION, LEADERSHIP, DEVELOPMENT, PROBLEM SOLVING AND TEAMWORK, THAT'S WHAT YOU ARE TEACHING.
SO NOW YOU GOTTA PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.
YOU GOTTA DEMONSTRATE THAT LEADERSHIP, THAT INITIATIVE, THAT CREATIVITY.
FIND THAT 10% FOR SINGLE FAMILY AFFORDABLE
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HOUSING.FIND IT NOW BECAUSE WHO KNOWS WHEN YOU'LL DO ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT.
ELWOOD IS NOT GONNA BE BUILT IN A DAY OR A YEAR.
IT'S GONNA TAKE TIME AND THAT'S THE TIME YOU HAVE TO MAKE IT RIGHT.
OKAY, SO THEN WE'LL GO TO THE MEETING TOWN BOARD.
UH, MS. WE, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T, THERE'S NO RAISED HAND.
PATRICIA WES, SHE HAD EMAILED AND INDICATED, I BELIEVE SHE'S ON PHONE AND SHE COULDN'T, HAD NO ABILITY TO RAISE DOWN ON MS. WILLIAMS. CAN YOU AGAIN PLEASE? UH, JUST NOW THE FUTURE? I CAN NOW.
IT JUST CAME UP JUST FOR THE FUTURE.
ANYBODY ON THE PHONE? IF YOU DO STAR NINE, IT RAISES YOUR HAND.
UM, I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS ONCE AGAIN DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES IN THE, UM, TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND IT STARTS AT THE LEADERSHIP.
I WANNA THANK DO AND ANDERSON FOR MAKING THE STATEMENT SHE SAID, AND IT IS ALSO FOR, UM, MICHELLE BROWN.
UM, I WOULDN'T COMMEND THE YOUNG ADULTS THAT WERE HERE THIS EVENING, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH COLLEGE BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTOOD SOMETHING THAT ALL YOU JUST OVERLOOKED, YOU KNOW, YOU COULDN'T FIND UNTIL THE END.
AND THEN YOU CAME UP AND YOU HAD TO SAY, WELL, WE HAVE OUR RICH PEOPLE, WE HAVE OUR POOR PEOPLE.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO POOR PEOPLE IN GREENBURG THAT OWN HOUSES.
WHAT YOU HAVE IS WHAT YOU PREFER STATING IS WE HAVE THE DISENFRANCHISED AND MARGINALIZED PEOPLE AREN'T BORN DISENFRANCHISED, MARGINALIZED, THEY'RE PUT IN A POSITION THAT THEY CAN'T GET OUT.
YOU, YOU HAVE, UM, BECAUSE IN A POSITION THEY CAN'T GET OUT.
AND, AND, AND, UM, NOT ONE OF THE YOUTH IN THAT PROGRAM SAID ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT, WELL, YOU, YOU'RE CONSIDERED POOR.
YOU'RE INTELLIGENT, YOU HAVE ALL ALL THAT.
I GREW UP IN A TOTALLY INTEGRATED SYSTEM AND RIGHT HERE WE WERE ALL THE WAY THROUGH KINDERGARTEN FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
BUT I NEED TO TELL YOU, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY BLACK TEACHERS.
ONE FOR HOME ECONOMICS AND ALL THE REST WHITE.
AND I REMEMBER CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TEACHERS, DIDN'T NOT DO ANYTHING THAT TO MRS. ELLIS IN HISTORY.
YOU NEED TO FLIP THIS STORY AROUND.
I I JUST HEARD A PHRASE FROM, UM, WHAT IS HIS NAME? UH, HE'S RUNNING FOR, UM, CONGRESS UHHER.
HE SAID, WE CANON ATTEND WRONG PRIORITIES.
ARE WE NOT TO THESE WORDS AGAIN? AND WE HAVE A GROUP OF THINGS AT STATE.
WHAT IT IS, WELL, HE SAID A PRAYER FOR THE, UM, UKRAINIANS.
WELL, UKRAINIANS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES DYING.
ALSO, I WANT THE RUSSIANS WHO ARE AMERICAN CITIZENS TO RECOGNIZE THAT YES, I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER THE BAY OF THINGS.
KENNEDY WAS AT ANY S**T GET PAST THE GULF OF MEXICO.
WE HAD
WELL NOW YOU'VE GOT THE RUSSIANS SAYING THAT UNITED STATES IS NOT GONNA PUT DRONES IN AND IN IN THE UKRAINE.
SO NOW DO I HAVE A CHOICE BETWEEN THIS POSITION ON DRONES AND UKRAINES AND, AND UH, UKRAINES THROWING BLACK PEOPLE OFF OF THE, UM, TRAIN AND THE MOTHERS WITH THEIR CHILDREN TOLD TO GET OUT OF LINE, GET AT THE END AND, AND, AND, AND, UH, AND THE RUSSIANS, NO, I'M NEVER A STEP FURTHER.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE UKRAINES WHO SET UP THEIR MISSILES IN FRONT OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
SEE, THIS IS WHAT DOES GREED, I DUNNO WHAT IT IS.
I HAD ALL MY RUSSIANS GREEDY BECAUSE THEY WANT WHAT THE, UH, UK UKRAINES HAVE.
BUT THAT SAME THING IS RIGHT HERE
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IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.NOW WE HAVE REDLINING IN MY COMMUNITY MOVING THEM OUT.
CLIFF HAPPENS TO SEE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I SEE AND I NOTICE AND I RECOGNIZE.
AND THAT IS WE DON'T HAVE WHAT WE USED TO HAVE.
WE DON'T HAVE POLITICAL CLOUT ANYMORE.
WE DON'T HAVE A COMMUNITY OF BLACK PEOPLE WHO CAN VOTE.
WE HAVE A COMMUNITY OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO CAN'T VOTE.
WE HAVE ALL THE BLACK PEOPLE WHO COULD VOTE NOT IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WE HAVE REDLINING THAT YOU CAN'T DO WITHOUT RECOGNITION FROM YOUR LOCAL PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
WE HAVE ALL OF THOSE THINGS HERE THAT ARE TELLING US THAT BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
WE'RE GONNA GET NO HOUSING WE USED TO GET, AND I HATE IT.
ID TESTED AND I'M TRYING MY BEST TO HATE THE SAME AND NOT THE PERSON.
I'M A RESIDENT OF A LIFETIME RESIDENT OF GREENBURG AND I'VE PRETTY MUCH HEARD, UH, WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SAYING TONIGHT.
AND A LOT OF IT IS IN CONTEXT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
UM, THE PIECE THAT I HAVE TO ADD TO IT IS ONCE UPON TO TIME, FAIRVIEW HAD ONE OF THE LARGEST MIDDLE CLASS BLACK POPULATIONS OR COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH SADLY NOW I'M GONE.
UM, I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE TOWN, UM, HAS DONE, UM, TO REMEDY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE DONE TOWARDS OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT THE URBAN RENEWAL.
WE HAVE THE HIGHWAY PROJECT RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE THE BUILD BACK, UM, BETTER PROGRAM WHERE TOWNS CAN APPLY FOR FUNDS TO REVENUE.
THE HARM THAT WAS DONE TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
UM, WE SAW THE EFFECTS OF IT DURING COVID.
UH, WE BUILT OUR LOW INCOME HOUSING AROUND POVERTY.
WE BUILT OUR OWN INCOME COMMUNITIES IN THE, UM, URBAN RENEWAL ZONE AROUND ECONOMIES.
AND OUR COMMUNITIES WERE POISONED BY OUR HOUSING.
SO WE SAW A LOT OF OUR PEOPLE DIE DURING THE PANDEMIC BECAUSE OF HEALTH ISSUES THAT THEY WERE BORN WITH OR AS THEY WERE, UM, SUSCEPTIBLE TO DOING THEIR LIFE.
OUR SENIOR HOMES ARE BY THE HIGHWAY.
OUR SENIORS ARE IN THE MOST UNDESIRABLE PART OF THE TOWN WHERE THEY ARE.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SUSCEPTIBLE TO ALL POISONOUS EMISSIONS FROM THE HIGHWAY.
UM, WHAT IS GREENBERG GONNA DO? WE HAVE PLENTY OF GREEN SPACE WHERE WE CAN BUILD A AFFORDABLE HOUSING OTHER THAN IN THE WORST AREAS OF THE TOWN.
UM, THE BIDEN MILL PROJECT, UM, THE TOWNS ARE ABLE TO APPLY FOR FUNDS FOR LAND TRUST THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BRING BACK WEALTH TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WERE ROBBED OF THE WEALTH FROM
UM, THE SHOPPING CENTER WAS BUILT OVER THE
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE BY GREENBERG TO REMEDY THE WRONG THAT WAS DONE TO US IN THE PAST.
OUR COMMUNITY IS BASICALLY ALMOST GONE.
WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO TO HELP REPAY THOSE BACK THAT WERE BASICALLY DISPLACED? UM, YOU, YOU KNOW, EXPOSE THE HARMFUL, HARMFUL MISSION I'M MADE TO LIVE LIKE ANIMALS BASICALLY IN THE WASH PARTS OF TOWN.
I, I REALLY WANNA SEE SOMETHING DONE.
I KNOW I HEARD PEOPLE FROM THE PLANNING BOARD TALKING ABOUT, UM, FORMING COMMITTEES TO REALLY TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
UM, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, OUR COMMUNITY IS ALL GONE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND WE HAVE A LOT OF WRONGS TO MAKE RIGHTS AND TO MAKE UP FOR.
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HAVE FOR THESE MINUTES.WE'LL RE WE DEFINITELY WILL REVIEW THAT.
[ TB 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into a one year contract commencing January 1, 2021 through December 31, 2021 with the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson for Fire Protection Services to the Donald Park Fire Protection District, at a cost not to exceed $339,084]
TB ONE REVIEW RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TOWN SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO A ONE YEAR CONTRACT COMMENCING JANUARY 1ST, 2021 THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, 2021 WITH THE VILLAGE OF HASTINGS, UM, FOR HUDSON, UM, HASTINGS AND HUDSON FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES TO DONALD PARK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT AND OF COURSE NOT TO EXCEED 3 3 9 0 8 4.[ AT 1 – 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing reimbursement of Personal Injury Protection Payments related Claim, File No.: 06/22C, by GEICO General Insurance Company a/s/o Liridona Kastrat, for an amount not to exceed $1,726.14]
A T ONE, UH, AUTHORIZED REIMBURSEMENT, UH, PERSONAL INJURY PROTECTION PAYMENTS, UM, UH, BY GEICO, UH, TO IAN L IONA CASTRO FOR $1,726 AND 14 CENTS.[ AT 2 – 8/10/2022 Resolution approving the continued retention of Thomas J. Troetti, Esq., to represent Greenburgh Police Detective Eduardo DeMele [sic] in the Matter of Michael Marom, et ano v. Town of Greenburgh, et ano, for an amount not to exceed $25,000, ($125,000 IN TOTAL)]
RESOLUTION OF PROVING THE CONTINUED RETENTION OF TOM FRATY TO REPRESENT GREENBURG POLICE DETECTIVE ED DEMILLE, UH, IN THE MATTER OF MICHAEL MARAM AND UH, THE AMOUNT DOES NOT TO EXCEED 25,000.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.
[ AT 3 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner 17-19 North Broadway, LLC, formerly Nazmi Krasniqi, originally Kabir A. Jafri d/b/a U.S. Potential Inc. for property located at 17-19 North Broadway. The Town’s share of the refund is $663±; the County’s share is $4,972±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $698±; the Tarrytown Union Free School District’s share is $31,037±. Refunds from all sources total $37,371±.]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TEXAS SETTLEMENT WITH UH, 1719 NORTH BROADWAY, UH, REFUNDS FROM, UH, ALL SOURCES 37,371.
[ AT 4 - 8//10/2022 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Jo-Ed Realty LLC for property located at 20 and 24 South Broadway. The Town’s share of the refund is $1,098±; the County’s share is $8,101±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $1,139±; the Tarrytown Union Free School District’s share is $51,322±. Refunds from all sources total $61,661±]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX TERTIARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER JOE ED REALTY, UM, AND, UH, REFUNDS FROM WALL LOCATED AT WHAT, I'M SORRY, LOCATED YOU SAY WHERE IT'S LOCATED AT 2024 SOUTH BROADWAY REFUNDS FROM WALL SOURCES TOTAL 60 1006 61.[ AT 5 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Atiganos Realty Inc. for property located at 13-15 Neperan Road. The Town’s share of the refund is $215±; the County’s share is $1,603±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $225±; the Tarrytown Union Free School District’s share is $10,130±. Refunds from all sources total $12,174±.]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER ADD ANOS REALTY FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1315 PPIN ROAD, UH, REFUNDS FROM ALL SOURCES TOTAL 12,000 1 74.
[ AT 6 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Tarry-Elm Associates, LLC for property located at 5 West Main Street. The Town’s share of the refund is $2,938±; the County’s share is $21,798±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $3,094±; the Elmsford Union Free School District’s share is $129,601±. Refunds from all sources total $157,431±.]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER TERRY M ASSOCIATES REFUNDS FROM, UH, UH, LOCATED FIVE WEST MAIN STREET TOWN SHARE REFUNDS FROM ALL SOURCES.
1 57 4 3 1 I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.
[ AT 7 - 8/10/2022 Corrected Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner Mack-Cali CW Realty Associates, LLC/Clearbrook Cross LLC f/k/a Mack-Cali CW Realty Assoc. LLC for property located at 50 Executive Blvd. The Town’s share of the refund is $61,663±; the County’s share is $51,804±; the Saw Mill Valley Sewer District’s share is $7,245±; the Pocantico Hills Central School District’s share is $137,239±; the No. Elmsford Fire Protection District’s share is $10,076± The Consolidated Sewer Mtc. District’s share is $3,167±. Refunds from all sources total $271,193± ]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX STI SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER MATT KELLY, UH, REFUNDS FROM ALL SOURCES TOTAL 2 7 1 1 93.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT, UH, MATT KELLY I SEVERAL PROPERTIES.
THIS IS AT 50 EXECUTIVE BOULEVARD.
[ BD 1 – 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing an agreement with International Code Council to provide Plan Review assistance to the Building Department for the propoed 72,267 Sq. Ft. apartment building on Dromore Road, at a cost not to exceed $15,331]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT WITH INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL TO PROVIDE PLAN REVIEW ASSISTANCE TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR THE PROPOSED 70 2002 67 SQUARE FOOT APARTMENT BUILDING ON DRUM MOORE ROAD AT ACROSS TO EXCEED 15,331 SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE
[ CL 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing permission to close Lawrence Court at its intersection with Lawrence Drive, on Saturday, September 10, 2022 (Rain Date: September 17, 2022), from 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM, for the residents of Yale Road to hold their Neighborhood Block Party]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING COERSION TO CLOSE ARMS COURT AT SECTION WITH LAUREN DRIVE ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH WITH THE RE DATE SEPTEMBER 17TH FOR RESIDENCE OF YALE ROAD TO HOLD THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FAVOR.
[ CL 2 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing street closing of Salem Road, between Normandy Road and Mayfair Way on Saturday, September 24, 2022 (Rain Date: September 25, 2022) from 12:00 PM until 5:00 PM for the Mayfair-Knollwood Civic Association to hold their Annual Block Party]
A AYE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING STREET CLOSING OF SALEM ROAD BETWEEN NORMANDY ROAD AND MAYFAIR, WYOMING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH.UH, RAIN DATE SEPTEMBER 25TH AT MAYFAIR NO PACIFIC ASSOCIATION TOLD THEIR ANNUAL BLOCK PARTY, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.
[ CD 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution approving a Findings Statement associated with a proposed action by Ridgewood, Elmwood owner, LLC for property located on Dobbs Ferry Road, designated on the Tax Map of the Town of Greenburgh as Parcel ID: 7.530-320-1..SE and 7.530-320-1..SG associated with the residential redevelopment of the former Elmwood Country Club]
AYE.RESOLUTION APPROVING A FINDING STATEMENT ASSOCIATED WITH A PROPOSED ACTION BY RIDGEWOOD ELMWOOD OWNERS L L C FOR PROPERTY LOCATED ON DO ROAD DESIGNATED ON THE TAX MAP OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
HAVE PARCELED? UH, ID 7 5 3 0 3 2 UH OH, UH, ONE SC AND 7 5 3 0 3 2 OH.
UH, ONE SG ASSOCIATED WITH RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMER ELMWOOD COUNTRY CLUB.
[ CD 2 - 8/10/2022 Resolution approving a Zoning Map amendment related to a Conservation District Overlay Petition by Ridgewood, Elmwood Owner, LLC for property located on Dobbs Ferry Road, designated on the Tax Map of the Town of Greenburgh as Parcel ID: 7.530-320-1..SE and 7.530-320-1..SG associated with the residential redevelopment of the former Elmwood Country Club]
AYE.RESOLUTION APPROVING OR ZONING MOUNTAIN AMENDMENT RELATED TO CONSERVATION DISTRICT OVERLAY PETITION BY RIDGEWOOD ELMWOOD OWNER, UM, FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED ON DO SARA ROAD DESIGNATED ON THE TAX MAP OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AS PARCEL ID 7 5 3 0 3 2 0 1 SE AND 7 5 3 0 3 2 0 1 AS SHE ASSOCIATED WITH RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE FORMER ELWOOD UH, COUNTRY CLUB.
[ CD 3 - 8/10/2022 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh (1) declaring intent to be Lead Agency for the purposes of SEQRA review for the Amended Site Plan and related actions of Metropolis Country Club located at 289 Dobbs Ferry Road (P.O. White Plains, NY); and (2) referring the Amended Site Plan Application to the Planning Board for review and recommendation]
AYE.A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG DECLARING INTENT TO BE LEAD AGENCY FOR THE PURPOSES OF SEEKER REVIEW FOR THE AMENDED SITE PLAN RELATED ACTIONS OF METROPOLIS COUNTRY CLUB LOCATED AT 2 89 DOPP STARRY ROAD.
UH, REFER THE AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION TO THE PLANNING BOARD FOR REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION.
[ CO 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing Fiscal Year 2022 budget transfers]
UM, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING FISCAL YEAR 2022 ON, UH, BUDGET TRANSFERS.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND FAVOR, AYE.
[ CO 2 - 8/10/2022 Resolution approving a budget amendment to the 2020 Adopted Capital Budget Project H2020R by $500,000 for a NYS and Municipal Facilities Grant]
RESOLUTION I APPRO THE BUDGET AMENDMENT TO THE 2020 ADOPTED CAPITAL HEAVILY BUDGET, UH, BY 500,000 FOR NEW YORK STATE AND MUNICIPAL FACILITIES.GRANT, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FEBRUARY AYE RESOLUTION
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AND THAT'S SPECIFICALLY H 2020 R.[ PR 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing the execution of a $7,521 American Rescue Plan Act - SSC6 Grant Agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the County of Westchester for Transportation Services for Seniors]
LAST ONE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF 7,521 AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT.
UM, SS S C SIX GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER FOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR SENIORS.
[ PR 2 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh Department of Parks and Recreation to name the Greenburgh Nature Center's Meadow and Butterfly Arbor "Cathy's Meadow"]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION TO NAME THE GREENBURG NATURE CENTER.
MEADOW AND BUTTERFLY, ARBOR COUNTY MEADOW.
[ PH 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing the acceptance of a Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund Grant in the amount of $72,830 from New York state Archives for the Department of Community Development and Conservation to convert large format documents for the Planning, Zoning, and Town case files to Digital Format]
AYE.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ACCEPTANCE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT FUND GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 70 2008 30 NEW YORK STATE ARCHIVES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION TO CONVERT LARGE FORMAT DOCUMENTS FOR THE PLANNING, ZONING AND TOWN CASES FILES TO DIGITAL FORMAT.
[ PO 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution promoting Police Officer Courtney Doherty to Sergeant]
POLICE OFFICER COURTNEY DOHERTY TO SERGEANT.RE WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE CEREMONY FOR THAT ON THE 14TH OF SEPTEMBER.
RESOLUTION AWARDING THE CONTRACT, UH, FOR THE PARK AND WE'RE GONNA ALSO HAVE THE SECRET CEREMONY AS WELL, RIGHT?
[ PW 1 - 8/10/2022 Resolution awarding the contract for the Parking Lot Construction at Taxter Road Park, to Tony Casale, Inc., the lowest bidder, in an amount not to exceed $92,000]
RESOLUTION, UH, AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE PARKING LOT CONSTRUCTION OF TAXI ROAD TO TONY CASSEL, UM, THE, UH, LOWEST BIDDER IN AMOUNT NOT TO, UM, EXCEED $92,000.[ PW 2 - 8/10/2022 Resolution authorizing a Security Professional Service Agreement with Universal Protection Services, LLC d/b/a Allied Universal Security Services, for Greenburgh Town Hall, at an hourly rate of $31.94, an overtime rate of $43.45, and a holiday rate of $45.75]
RESOLUTION OF ING SECURITY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH UNIVERSAL PROTECTION SERVICES.UM, UM, FOR, UM, AN HOURLY RATE OF $31 94 CENTS, AN OVERTIME RATE OF $43 45 CENTS AND A HOLIDAY RATE OF $45 75 CENTS.
WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ONE FAVOR? I'D LIKE TO MOVE ADJOURN.
UH, BEFORE WE DO THAT, UH, WE NEED TO SET A SPECIAL MEETING.
WHAT TIME WOULD YOU LIKE TO MEET TO VOTE ON, UH, THE SPECIAL APPOINTMENT? THE SECRET APPOINTMENT OF, UH, YEAH, YOUR HONOR.
IS LITTLE BETTER IT TO BE LATER? IT HAS TO BE.
CAN IT BE SOMEWHERE LIKE FOUR OR FIVE? COULD IT BE BY ZOOM? UH, NO.
WELL, DO WE KNOW WHETHER OR NOT THE GOVERNOR EXTENDED THE EVENT? UH, IT UH, IT DOES NOT LAPSE UNTIL THE 14TH OF SEPTEMBER.
UH, AUGUST OF AUGUST OF AUGUST.
SO YOU COULD CONCEIVABLY DO IT BY ZOOM, RIGHT? UM, WHAT TIME YOU COULD YOU DO IT AT FIVE FOUR? I CAN'T DO AT FIVE.
I'M NOT, I'M NOT AVAILABLE FROM FIVE 30 TO SIX 30.
YEAH, I'M NOT AVAILABLE AT FIVE.
IF WE DO IT BY ZOOM I CAN DO IT EARLY.
I I HAVE A COMMITMENT IN THE AFTERNOON.
I THINK WE SHOULD DO A ZOOM MEETING.
I MEAN, IF PEOPLE WANT TO COME HERE OR MAKE IT.
I THINK RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT TIME.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT DON'T WE DO IT FIRST THING IN THE MORNING RADIO PROGRAM? I CAN'T, I CAN'T DO WORK.
I MEANT FIRST THING, LIKE BEFORE WORK.
I'LL DO THAT FIVE IN THE MORNING.
CAN WE DO FOUR FOUR IN THE MORNING IN, WHY DON'T WE DO FOUR O'CLOCK BY ZOOM? WHY DON'T WE DO FOUR O'CLOCK? AND IF PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO COME BY ZOOM? THEY CAN COME BY ZOOM, BUT SO FOUR O'CLOCK.
EVEN THOUGH WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE REAL THING, YOU KNOW, SINCE IT'S SO MOMENTOUS, PEOPLE MIGHT WANT TO ACTUALLY SHOW UP.
WELL, YOU KNOW, WE ANNOUNCED IT TODAY, SO IT REALLY IS.
THERE'S NOT GONNA BE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE ANNOUNCED THE, WE ANNOUNCED OUR DECISION.
SO EVERYBODY, WHAT DID WE ANNOUNCE? WHAT ARE WE DOING ON FRIDAY? NO, IT'S JUST WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO MAKE THE APPOINTMENT SECRET.
WE, I MEAN, EVERYBODY KNOW WE ALREADY DID IT.
WE DIDN'T, WE HAD ANNOUNCED IT.
WE, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE, SO WE, WE CAN HAVE A CEREMONY AND EVERYTHING.
WE HAVE TO DO THE PHYSICAL PART.
WE HAVE TO DO THE PROCEDURAL PART, RIGHT? WE HAVE TO HAVE A RESOLUTION.
ARE WE GONNA DO THAT WITHOUT HAVING A CEREMONY? NO.
WHY DON'T WE DO IT ALL ON THE 14TH? WHY DON'T WE, WHY DON'T WE JUST, BECAUSE THEN HE CAN'T TAKE OFFICE.
CAN I MAKE THIS? HE'S SUPPOSED TO START WORKING ON THE 22ND.
SO CAN I MAKE THIS? JUST TRYING TO, EVERYBODY'S STILL AT THE SAME TIME.
WHY DON'T WE DO RIGHT NOW? NOW ARE WE, ARE WE GOOD? WHY DON'T WE DO IT RIGHT NOW? WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY GREEN WORK.
NO, BUT WE DON'T NEED A WRITTEN THING.
WE SAY I, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPOINT KOBE POWELL AS CHIEF OF THE GREENBURG POLICE EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER.
WHAT DAY IS, THAT'S AUGUST 22ND.
IS THIS HOW WE NORMALLY DO THESE TYPE OF DO IT COULDN'T WHAT WE WANTED DO.
THE WHOLE IDEA IS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE FROM THE COUNTY RIGHT TOMORROW THAT
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WE'RE NOT INTERFERING WITH CERTAIN RIGHTS THAT HE HAS.UH, AND WE WILL KNOW THAT TOMORROW.
SO LET ME MAKE ANOTHER, LET ME MAKE ANOTHER SUGGESTION.
I DON'T WANNA BE HASTY AT, LEMME MAKE ANOTHER SUGGESTION.
WHAT ABOUT, UH, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION, YOU KNOW, TO AVOID THE MEETING, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT, UH, THE, UH, THAT, UH, THE TOWN, SAY TOWN SUPERVISOR AUTHORIZED TO, WE JUST NEED TO MEET, TO SIGN AN AGREEMENT, UH, APPOINTING, UH, THE CHIEF, UH, COLBY POWELL AS CHIEF IF, UH, ASSUMING THAT, UH, AT ASSUMING THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN, UH, RESOURCES, UH, FINDS THAT THERE'S NO, YOU KNOW, NO PROBLEM WITH DATE TO MAKE A CONDITIONAL APPOINTMENT ON WHAT CONDITIONAL APPOINTMENTS DO YOU HAVE? FOUR O'CLOCK AS THE, AS A TIME THAT EVERYONE CAN MAKE IT BY ZOOM OR OTHERWISE.
RIGHT? SO WHY DON'T WE JUST DO A HYBRID BUT PEOPLE CAN'T MAKE IT FINE AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
YOU NEED TO MAKE THE MOTION THOUGH.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE HAVE A ZOOM MEETING AT FOUR O'CLOCK, UH, FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF APPOINT ZUMA.
WELL, NOT IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT.
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE HAVE A HYBRID MEETING AT FOUR O'CLOCK ON FRIDAY.