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OKAY, LET'S, UM, YOU KNOW, START THE MEETING.
UM, UM, IT'S ONLY 22 MINUTES LATE.
UM, I, UH, THE FIRST, UH, UH, WE, WE, WE, WE APOLOGIZE.
SO FIRST WE'LL, UH, HEAR FROM LESLIE DAVIS.
AND LESLIE'S TALKING ABOUT THE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY.
AND THEN JUST MAKE SURE THE, THE MICROPHONES TOO.
I JUST WANNA GIVE THIS OUT TO YOU AS SORT OF A, UM, I'M SORRY, I ONLY GOT LIKE FIVE.
WE COULD SHARE IN RIGHT MIDDLE.
SUPER TOWN SUPERVISOR AND THE TOWN BOARD FOR HAVING ME.
I THINK WE'VE, UM, SORT OF DISCUSSED THIS A LITTLE BIT IN THE PAST, BUT, UH, AS A MEMBER OF THE PLANNING BOARD, IT CAME TO MY ATTENTION AND IT WAS DISCUSSED DURING THE PLANNING BOARD THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO LOOK AT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND RULES AND REGULATIONS AS THEY APPLY TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY AS THEY APPLY TO SUSTAINABILITY.
SO WE REALLY DIDN'T HAVE, WE DON'T HAVE A BASE MARK SOMETIMES FOR THESE NEW DEVELOPMENTS WHEN THEY COME IN TO SAY YES OR NO.
UM, I WORK IN THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY FIELD.
UH, SO THERE'S THINGS THAT I SEE THAT MAY NOT BE NECESSARILY UNDER THE PURVIEW OF THE PLANNING BOARD.
SO WE DON'T SIT THERE AND WRITE THE RULES.
SO THE DISCUSSION WAS WHETHER OR NOT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG CAN UTILIZE A SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE.
UH, THE FIRST PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE SUSTAINABILITY COMMITTEE WOULD TO BE, TO RESEARCH AND WRITE THOSE CODES.
NOW, I'M NOT GONNA BORE YOU WITH ALL OF THE, OH, YOU KNOW, ENERGY EFFICIENCY IS GOOD IN THE PLANET.
YOU CAN LOOK AT ANY NUMBER OF YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND, AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE'VE ALL BEEN HERE LONG ENOUGH.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I REALIZED, UM, IN MY PROFESSION IS THAT IT TAKES A LOT OF RESEARCH BECAUSE THESE THINGS CHANGE ALMOST, WELL, DEFINITELY EVERY YEAR, SOMETIMES EVERY MONTH IN TERMS OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT'S OUT, WHAT'S CURRENT, WHAT'S NOT CURRENT.
AND WE ARE A TOWN THAT I THINK THAT PEOPLE WILL TRY TO, I WOULD SAY MARKET THEMSELVES, RIGHT? SO THEY'RE GONNA COME AND SAY, OH, I WANNA PUT A BATTERY STORAGE.
OH, I WANT TO DO, UM, FUEL CELLS.
AND US JUST BEING VERY WELL INFORMED ABOUT WHAT THOSE RULES AND REGULATIONS, HOW THEY CAN HURT THE TOWN EITHER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE.
AND I THINK THAT A COMMITTEE, UM, WOULD BE ABLE TO RESEARCH THAT A LOT BETTER AND BE SORT OF REALLY HELP YOU STRETCH YOUR BANDWIDTH.
RIGHT? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO SIT HERE AND, AND LOOK AT ALL OF THAT.
CAN I ASK YOU JUST A QUESTION? YEAH.
WE HAVE THE CONSERVATION ADVISOR, WE A COMMITTEE.
AND MOST OF THE PEOPLE ON THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY, YOU KNOW, COMMITTEE ARE LIKE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY.
WOULD IT MAKE SENSE IN YOUR OPINION, UH, TO, UM, TO POSSIBLY, UM, YOU KNOW, ASK THAT COM THAT COMMITTEE TO, YOU KNOW, WORK, YOU KNOW, WITH TOWN STAFF AND, AND YOU KNOW, AND, AND DO AND DO THE WORK? UH, MIKE SIEGEL UNFORTUNATELY JUST, UH, RESIGNED BECAUSE IF I MAY, YEAH.
UM, SO THE IDEA OF THIS COMMITTEE WAS THAT IT WOULD NOT BE MADE UP OF THE PLANNING BOARD, RIGHT? SO IT WOULD BE, SO I I, MYSELF, AND THERE WERE TWO OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD WHO WOULD DEDICATE THEIR TIME, BUT WE ALSO, UH, ASKED US THE, UH, CONSERVATION COMMITTEE TO SEND US TWO PEOPLE TO BE ON THAT BOARD OF TWO PEOPLE THAT WERE INTERESTED IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN BEING ON THE SUSTAINABILITY.
SO NOW THE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE COVERS A LOT OF THINGS WE WANNA TARGET ON THIS PARTICULAR COMMITTEE.
ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH ENERGY EFFICIENCY, ESPECIALLY AS IT PERTAINS TO DEVELOPMENT.
UM, WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT WET LANDS OR, OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THOSE NEW RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT HAVE TO DO WITH SUSTAINABILITY, WHETHER IT'S SOLAR, WHETHER IT'S JUST PLAIN OLD EFFICIENCY.
AND THE OTHER PART IS ALSO LOOKING FOR THE MONEY.
UH, THAT NEW YORK STATE, I THINK, YOU KNOW, OR YOU MIGHT'VE HEARD THAT THEY'VE RELEASED MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS VERY, VERY SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
UM, I COME FROM WORKING A LOT IN NEW YORK CITY.
WE DON'T NEED THE TYPE OF RULES AND LOCAL LAWS THAT NEW YORK CITY HAS.
WE DON'T NEED THOSE TYPE OF RULES AND REGULATIONS.
UM, BUT JUST TO BE ABLE TO SORT OF IMPLEMENT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE SEEN, OR I'VE SEEN WORK IN OTHER TOWNS THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR.
SO THE IDEA WAS NOT THAT THIS WOULD BE STRICTLY A PLANNING BOARD THING, THAT THIS WOULD BE A, A, UH, A GROUP OF US WHO ARE IN THE TOWN WHO HAVE THOSE EXPERIENCES COMING TOGETHER TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STUDY AND WE PROVIDE YOU, UH, THE TOWN BOARD WITH THE BEST INFORMATION POSSIBLE TO MAKE DECISIONS.
SO IT COULD BE LIKE ELECTRIC STATION ELECTRIC, ALL OF THAT, ALL CHARGER, ALL OF IT.
UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT WHETHER IT'S WHERE, WHERE THEY SHOULD BE, WHAT THE SAFETY RULES AND REGULATIONS ARE.
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HONESTLY STUDYING OTHER TOWNS THAT ARE SIMILAR.I REALLY CAN'T NECESSARILY BRING THE NEW YORK CITY EXPERIENCE TO, TO GREENBURG BECAUSE THEY GOT A LOT OF OTHER PROBLEMS AND THAT WE DON'T HAVE, RIGHT? SO THEY HAVE A LOT OF LARGE BUILDINGS, BUT SOME OF THE, UM, THINGS THAT THEY'VE IMPLEMENTED, WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO, AND THERE'S OTHER TOWNS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT.
BUT REALLY GETTING THAT INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE AND SEEING WHAT WORKS FOR BEST FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND I'M REALLY CONCERNED THAT I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO COME UP HERE, DEVELOPERS TO COME UP HERE AND THINK THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.
NOT TO SAY THAT THEY DO, BUT I WANT THEM TO SEE GREENBERG AS GREEN FRIENDLY.
BUT THEY NEED TO KNOW THAT WHEN THEY COME UP HERE, WE HAVE CERTAIN RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT THEY NEED TO ADHERE BEFORE THEY EVEN COME TO US.
SO WOULD YOU SUGGEST LIKE TWO MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD, TWO MEMBERS OF THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE, AND THEN IF THERE'S ANY, UH, A COUPLE CITIZENS? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING.
THEY, I KNOW THAT THIS TOWN HAS SO MANY, I MEAN, HONESTLY, EXTREMELY SMART PEOPLE, PEOPLE, I KNOW THAT FROM VARIOUS MEETINGS THAT YOU'VE HAD, AND I'VE HEARD THE CALL-INS THAT WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO, WHO CAN BRING A LOT OF GREAT EXPERIENCE TO THIS AND WHO WOULD BE WILLING TO, TO WORK THIS OUT.
UM, AND THAT, THAT'S THE CODE AND REGULATIONS PART.
THE SECOND PART OF IT, UM, WELL, IT SORT OF FALLS INTO IT.
UM, JUST LOOKING AT THE TOWN AS A WHOLE, LOOKING AT THE LAND THAT WE HAVE, IF THERE'S ANY POSSIBILITY FOR TOWN, TOWN PROJECTS, RIGHT.
WHERE WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET SOME LEASE MONEY FROM A DEVELOPER IF THEY WANT TO DEVELOP SOMETHING, UM, LOOKING WHETHER OR NOT THIS TOWN NEEDS ANY TYPE OF RESILIENCE.
RESILIENCE, MEANING IF WE HAVE A SUPERSTORE IN SANDY, DO WE HAVE A PLACE THAT MIGHT HAVE, OH, REMEMBER THE NEW YORK PRIZE? OKAY, SO GARY KNOWS ME.
SO DID WE SIGN UP FOR NEW YORK PRIZE? NEW YORK PRIZE IS WHAT NYSERDA WAS DOING.
UM, WHEN THEY SAID, OKAY, WHICH, WHICH TOWN CAN, UH, BE RESILIENT? DO YOU HAVE A, UH, A AREA THAT PEOPLE CAN GO THROUGH THAT CAN BE OFF GRID, RIGHT, IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, WELL, HOW WOULD WE DO THAT? HOW MUCH MONEY? WHERE CAN WE GET THE MONEY FROM TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT? SO JUST REALLY BEING ABLE TO GET TO, AGAIN, EXPAND THE REACH OF THE TOWN BOARD, UM, AND JUST BE YOUR EYES AND EARS IN THAT AREA.
IF WE FORMED IT, WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN LIKE CHAIRING IT? I DON'T KNOW IF CHAIR, UH, WELL, WE CAN TALK, TALK ABOUT THE FORMATION OF IT.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF CHAIR WOULD NECESSARILY BE THE, THE RIGHT WORD.
AND, AND I GUESS HONESTLY, UNFORTUNATELY, I COME HERE SAYING, OH, I WANNA FORM A COMMITTEE.
I KNOW THAT THERE, IF WE DO A COMMITTEE UNDER THE TOWN, THERE HAS TO BE CERTAIN RULES AND REGULATIONS IN TERMS OF OUR REPORTING TO YOU, WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT FROM US.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.
BUT IT'S REALLY JUST TO SEE IF THIS CAN BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO.
I THINK IT'S A GREAT CONCEPT RATHER THAN WORK OUT ALL THE DETAILS, RIGHT? YES.
UM, SO YEAH, SO YOU CAN VOTE MAYBE.
YOU KNOW, LIKE, IT'S INTERESTING, I WAS READING, THERE'S A NEWSPAPER CALLED THE EXAMINER, AND I THINK ONE OF THE UP NORTHERN WESTCHESTER, UH, COMMUNITIES WERE LOOKING AT, UH, THE ELECTRIC STATIONS AND SOMEBODY WAS GONNA LIKE, DONATE THEM CHARGING STATIONS.
THEY, THEY WERE GONNA DONATE IT, BUT THEY WANTED TO ADVERTISE AND THE COMMUNITY REJECTED IT.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, COULD HAPPEN.
PEOPLE ARE COMING IN WITH ALL THESE AND THEY, THEY'RE GONNA TOGETHER.
IT'S GONNA BE MORE AND MORE AND MORE.
AND, UM, WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PREPARED, UM, BECAUSE THIS TECHNOLOGY CONTINUALLY CHANGE.
SO A LOT OF, I WANTED TO COME TO YOU BEFORE, BUT THROUGH MY WHOLE CAREER WITH THIS, I KEPT STUDYING, OH, I WANNA BE THIS.
AND I REALIZED I WILL NEVER KNOW EVERYTHING, RIGHT? BUT NOW I'VE DEVELOPED ENOUGH CONTACT SO THAT I'VE EVEN SPOKEN TO PEOPLE THAT I KNOW AT CONED, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE MUCH MORE SENIOR PEOPLE.
IF WE NEEDED ADVICE, IF WE NEEDED ADVICE FROM PEOPLE FROM NYSERDA, YOU KNOW, I CAN TAP INTO THAT.
UM, BUT IN TERMS OF CHAIRING, I DON'T.
SO YES, I WOULD DO IT IF THAT'S THE CASE.
AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, CHANGING OVER IN THE TIMES PASSED.
BUT TO GET THIS OFF THE GROUND, YES, I WOULD DEDICATE THE TIME TO DO THAT.
YOU KNOW, MAY MAYBE, CAN I MAKE US THIS? OF COURSE.
AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THE BOARD, MAYBE YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, SPEAK TO OBVIOUSLY THE, THE PLANNING BOARD, YOU KNOW, UH, AND THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AND MAYBE YOU COULD COME UP SINCE YOU'RE WITH LIKE A, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE BASIS FOR, YOU KNOW, COMMITTEE AND MAYBE SOME, MAYBE YOU COULD EVEN CHAT WITH PEOPLE WHO YOU THINK WOULD BE GOOD, YOU KNOW, INITIALLY TO, TO SERVE ON.
SO YOU, SO YOU ALREADY, BEFORE WE EVEN CAME, SO YOU RARELY HAVE THE COMMITTEE IN PLACE.
I JUST WANTED TO KNOW THAT WE WOULD HAVE THE SUPPORT FROM THE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE AS WELL AS, UM, YOU KNOW, THE SUPPORT FROM MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD AND AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, SOME OF MY EXTERNAL, UH, SOURCES TO MAKE SURE THAT IF I DID COME TO YOU WITH THIS, THAT WE WOULD BE SUPPORTED.
UM, AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, JUST FOR THE COMMUNITY, WE CAN DO, YOU KNOW, AND THIS CAN BE, THIS IS NOT THE MAIN PURPOSE OF IT, BUT JUST FOR THE RESIDENTS, UM, THERE'S A LOT OF MONEY OUT THERE THAT CAN HELP SOME OF THE RESIDENTS.
SO IF WE CAN MAYBE AT SOME FUTURE POINT HOLD WORKSHOPS FOR THEM, GREAT.
AND I WILL BOTHER GARRETT ALL THE TIME.
AND THANKS FOR YOUR, ALL YOUR EFFORTS.
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THAT YOU HAVE, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN MEETING A COUPLE OF TIMES AND YOU HAD SOME, JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU COVER EVERYTHING TODAY.WELL, I THINK I'M, I'M, MY ASK WOULD BE IN TERMS OF HOW THIS IS GOING TO BE FORMED, UM, I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE, YOU'RE SHAKING YOUR HEAD, YOU'RE SAYING YES.
UM, WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STEP FOR, FOR THE TOWN BOARD? CAN YOU BEF I, I, I'M SURE EVERYONE COULD ANSWER THAT, BUT BEFORE YOU JUST MOVE ON, I JUST WANNA KNOW THE MAKEUP.
I MEAN, I MEANT YOU MENTIONED, UM, YOU HAD A COUPLE OF PEOPLE FROM THE PLANNING BOARD, CAC C, BUT WHAT OTHER MAKE, WHAT OTHER, WHAT OTHER PERSONS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? SO I'M LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL, I WOULD SAY IN TERMS OF AND HOW MANY, THE COMMITTEE, THE, THE, THE BASIC COMMITTEE, WE WANT IT SEVEN PEOPLE.
SO IF IT'S MYSELF AND TWO FROM THE PLANNING BOARD, THAT'S THREE, TWO FROM A C, THAT'S FIVE.
WE WANT TWO ADDITIONAL PEOPLE FROM THE TOWN TO, UM, TO SUPPORT US AND BE PART OF THIS COMMITTEE.
UM, AND THEN IN TERMS OF ADVISORY, WE'RE LOOKING, UH, AS I SAID, I, I KIND OF PUT FEELERS OUT THERE TO THE PEOPLE THAT I KNOW WHO ARE VERY SENIOR IN, IN THE FIELD IN NEW YORK TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE ON THE ADVISORY.
THIS IS NOT THAT THEY'RE SITTING IN HERE TELLING THE TOWN OF GREENBERG WHAT TO DO, BUT IF I NEED TO TAP INTO THEM FOR SOME OF THE RESOURCES OR UNDERSTANDING, LIKE THERE'S THE NEW YORK STRETCH CODE, RIGHT? SO YOU'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THAT.
UM, WHERE WE ARE BASICALLY AND, AND WHAT WE CAN ADD TO THAT IN THE TOWN.
AND JUST GETTING UNDERSTANDING AND HONESTLY, UM, SENDING ME A TEXT EVERY TIME SOMETHING NEW COMES UP SO THAT I CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ON TOP OF IT.
YOU KNOW, THE NATURE CENTER IS, UM, REALLY VERY INTERESTED IN, UH, YOU KNOW, SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES.
SO YOU MAY WANT TO HAVE, UH, SOMEBODY FROM THE BOARD OF THE NATURE CENTER DOES AS, AS YOU KNOW, AS REPRESENTATIVE.
AND THEN I'M ALSO THINKING THAT, UM, SINCE WE HAVE A AGREEMENT WITH SUSTAINABLE WESTCHESTER, NINA, ORVILLE LIVES IN, UM, YOU KNOW, DO YOU KNOW, I'M SORT OF THINKING THAT IT WOULD MAKE SENSE, SENSE TO MAYBE A SUSTAINABLE WESTCHESTER, UM, IF THEY COULD AT LEAST BE PART OF IT BECAUSE, UH, WE ACTUALLY, PAUL, THANK YOU.
UM, I WANTED THIS TO BE INDEPENDENT OF ANY ORGANIZATION.
THE ONLY REASON, THE ONLY REASON I WAS SAYING SUSTAIN, WE DON'T HAVE TO.
WELL, BUT THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR THIS.
I JUST, I WANTED IT WAS ABOUT, BUT, AND THEN THIS, WE HAVE ANOTHER TIME TO DO A MEETING AGAIN AND WE COULD TALK ABOUT, OKAY.
WHO SHOULD BE PART OF THE THING.
BUT I, I THINK I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, LESLIE DID, SORRY, I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED.
UM, THAT YOU GOT OUT EVERYTHING THAT YOU WANTED TO PRESENT TO THE BOARD AND ALL QUESTION, AND I JUST WANTED TO KNOW THE MAKEUP OF IT, HOW I REALLY WANTED KNOW THE NUMBERS SO PEOPLE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT MAYBE YOU DO A ONE PAGER, UM, AND UTILIZE ON GARRETT THE WEBPAGE.
UM, THE GREENBERG, WHAT, I'M DRAWING A BLANK.
UH, A PAGE THAT WE PRESENT, RIGHT? WHAT'S THE NAME OF E GREEN? E D O? THANK YOU.
I THINK WE WANNA UTILIZE THAT PAGE TOO.
AND YOU COULD WRITE A ONE PAGE OF WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR AND WHAT THIS COMMITTEE IS ALL ABOUT AND WHAT, AND WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING TO DO.
I THINK THAT WILL BE, SO RESIDENTS CAN COME AND SEE EXACTLY WHAT'S HAPPENING AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE UTILIZE THAT PLATFORM IS THE MAKE UP THE, AND, AND I THINK IN ORDER TO THE, THE SEVEN PERSON I THINK IS A GOOD NUMBER IN ORDER FOR US TO SORT OF STAY LEAN AND BE ABLE TO MOVE AHEAD AND GET WHAT YOU NEED DONE.
LOVING ME ON, ON YOUR PROPOSAL.
DEVELOP WAYS TO BECOME INDEPENDENT FROM THE GRID.
DO YOU THINK THAT'S A REASONABLE EXPECTATION? NO.
IN TERMS OF ENTIRELY, UM, I DON'T THINK THAT THEY, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF IT'S NOT BECAUSE THE TECHNOLOGY IS THERE.
I THINK IT'S JUST THAT THEY JUST WON'T ALLOW US TO, RIGHT.
AND WHEN I SAY INTERNALLY, UH, INDEPENDENT, THAT SORT OF REALLY HAS TO DO WITH THAT MICRO GRID AND THAT RESILIENCE.
AND ANY WAY THAT WE CAN BECOME INDEPENDENT OR ANY WAY WE CAN ACTUALLY REDUCE THE, THE PULL ON THE GRID, THEN WE CAN ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT.
RIGHT? SO CONED, FOR INSTANCE, WHERE I WORK NOW, CONED COMES THROUGH AND SAYS, YOU GOT ALL THIS LAND, CAN WE PUT UP SOME BATTERY STORAGE AND WE'LL PAY YOU A LEASE PAYMENT BECAUSE WE NEED TO REDUCE THE, THE, THE PULL ON THE GRID SO WE GET A LEASE PAYMENT.
YOU KNOW, SO, BUT THAT IS HELPING THEM.
AND ALSO IF WE STAY ON TOP OF IT, MAYBE WE CAN, YOU KNOW, GET OUR OWN BATTERIES.
BUT WE DON'T KNOW THAT THAT TECHNOLOGY OR I THINK SOME OF IT HAS TO DO, THEY'RE NOT GONNA ALLOW US.
SO WORDS HAVE MEANING AND WORDS HAVE MEANING.
AND THEN I READ THAT WE'RE GOING TO DEVELOP WAYS TO BECOME INDEPENDENT FROM THE GRID.
AND I SAY, THIS IS PIE IN THE SKY, IT'S NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.
WHY BOTHER? AND I, I DON'T WANT TO PUT SOMETHING ON THERE THAT SOUNDS GOOD.
IF WE CAN'T ACHIEVE IT, BECAUSE WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS IF WE ADOPTED IT WITH THAT IN THERE, THE PROPOSALS WOULD BE ASTRONOMICAL AS TO WHAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO, WHICH THE PUBLIC WOULD NEVER ACCEPT.
YOU KNOW, TAKE EVERY PIECE OF LAND THAT WE HAVE AND CONVERT IT OVER TO SOMETHING SUSTAINABLE.
BECAUSE OUR GOAL IS TO BECOME INDEPENDENT IN THE GRID, AND THE ONLY WAY TO GET THERE WOULD BE DOING WHATEVER.
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YEAH.AND, AND US BEING LIKE THIS LITTLE SPACESHIP.
SO I THINK, UM, AS I WRITE, I WILL BE MORE SPECIFIC BECAUSE UNDERSTANDING, UM, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW, UH, THAT WHAT I UNDERSTAND SOMETHING TO MEAN DOES NOT MEAN THAT IT'S TRANSLATING THAT WAY TO OTHER PEOPLE.
AND ALSO AS TOWN OFFICIALS, UH, I UNDERSTAND IF YOU PUT SOMETHING OUT THERE, PEOPLE ARE GONNA HOLD YOU TO THAT.
SO I WILL BE MUCH MORE CAREFUL IN THE FUTURE JUST A LITTLE BIT.
THERE IS THAT I'LL BE MUCH MORE CAREFUL.
UM, AND, AND, AND WON'T, I WILL DEFINITELY NOT LEAVE THIS MEETING.
IT IS, IT IS PUBLIC, BUT THERE WILL BE NO, UH, CORRESPONDENT TO THE PUBLIC WITHOUT IT, YOU KNOW? OKAY.
I JUST WANNA MENTION, UH, BEFORE WE GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, THAT AND ANDREA STEWART COUSINS, UH, WE HAD A PRESS CONFERENCE, UH, YOU KNOW, TODAY, UM, UH, FOR MANY YEARS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING IF SOME RIVER ROAD BE, UH, REP PAVED.
AND UM, WHEN WAS THIS PRESS CONFERENCE? WHEN WAS THIS? IT WAS TODAY.
I SENT, I SENT THE BOARD, UH, UH, WITHOUT ANY INDICATION OF A DATE OR TIME.
IT WAS ALL, YOU DID NOT HAVE A DATE OR TIME.
WELL, I THOUGHT THAT I SENT IT TO EVERYBODY YESTERDAY, LAST NIGHT.
BUT I, SO BASICALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I SENT, I THINK I SENT EVERYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY SENT ME.
UM, BUT BASICALLY THEY HAVE SOMETHING TODAY.
UM, ANDREA, STILL COUSIN, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR A SW RIVER ROAD IN ELMSFORD, FROM BABBITT COURT TO, UH, AFTER WAREHOUSE LANE TO BE, UM, YOU KNOW, REPAVED, UH, JENNIFER GLENN, UH, WHO GREW UP IN ELMSFORD, UH, ORGANIZED AN ONLINE PETITION, GOT 1400 SIGNATURES, AND, UH, THE WORK IS GONNA START TODAY, UM, TONIGHT, AND IT'S GONNA BE DONE, UH, BY THE END OF OCTOBER.
IT'S GONNA BE A TWO WEEK PROJECT.
AND IT'S, SO IT'S PROBABLY A TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLAR, UH, PROJECT FROM, UH, FROM THE STATE SENATOR COUSINS WAS ABLE TO, UH, SECURE, UH, YOU KNOW, THE MONEY AND, YOU KNOW, AND EXPEDITED, UH, THE SAME THING.
BUT I THOUGHT THAT I, I, I SENT EVERYBODY AN E-BLAST E OR EVERYBODY ON THE BOARD AN EMAIL LAST NIGHT, UM, SAYING THAT THERE WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE.
I, YOU KNOW, UH, SUSAN TOLD YOU THAT IS CORRECT.
YOU SAID THERE WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE AND YOU SAID IT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT THAT, THAT CONSTRUCTION.
YEAH, I THOUGHT THAT I, I THEN HAD NO DATE, NO TIME.
WELL, I, I THOUGHT THAT, AND I THOUGHT ANDREA, UM, STEWART COUSINS'S OFFICE, UH, HAD INVITED EVERYBODY.
SO THAT, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY WAS INVITED.
BUT I, I, I DID THINK THAT I SENT NOTIFIED EVERYBODY.
LET ME CHECK THEN IT WAS A MISTAKE ON MY PART.
BEFORE YOU GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, I JUST WANT TO, UH, I JUST WANT TO, UM, BRING UP A, A MATTER REGARDING THE, UH, CLERK'S OFFICE.
UH, IT IS A MATTER REGARDING, UM, A REQUEST FOR THE RESTORATION OF PART-TIME FUNDS.
UM, FOR OVER 30 YEARS, THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE HAS HAD A SEASONAL PART-TIME POSITION.
AND, UM, LAST YEAR MYSTERIOUSLY, UM, ROBERTO ROMANO COMPTROLLER SAYS IT WAS A MISTAKE THAT, UM, THE PART-TIME SEASONAL POSITION WAS ELIMINATED FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
EVERY DEPARTMENT IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG HAS A PART-TIME SEASONAL POSITION.
AND AS AGAIN, THE CLERK'S OFFICE HAS HAD ONE FOR 30 YEARS, UM, IT'S, IT'S A POSITION THAT WE GREATLY NEED, UM, PARTICULARLY AS WE'RE GOING TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND SO I, I REALLY NEED FOR A PORTION OF THE, THE, THE ENTIRE LINE TO BE, UM, FUNDED.
UM, THE LAST THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, I'M LOOKING AT MAYBE $6,000.
THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT IN THAT LINE WAS 18,000.
BUT I REALLY DO NEED, UM, A PART-TIME SEASONAL PERSON TO HELP OUT WITH THE END OF THE YEAR.
UM, WE, WE HAVE A, A LOT GOING ON.
WE HAVE THE SMALLEST DEPARTMENT IN THE TOWN, AND, UM, WE NEED OUR PART-TIME SEASONAL POSITION.
ARE THERE ANY PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT SICK OR NOT GONNA BE AROUND WHERE THIS IS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION FOR YOU? WELL, WE HAVE SOMEONE RIGHT NOW WHO IS, UM, WHO LOST A, UH, A CLOSE FAMILY MEMBER WILL BE OUT OF, OUT OF THE COUNTRY, UM, FOR, UH, SEVERAL DAYS.
AND WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER STAFF PERSON WHO HAS TO TAKE, UM, VACATION TIME OR, OR ELSE WHO LOSES IT BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR.
SO THOSE ARE JUST TWO, UM, UH, UM, INTERRUPTIONS THAT WILL INVOLVE, UH, UH, A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME.
AND AS WE ALL KNOW, AS WE GET TOWARDS THE HOLIDAY SEASON, THERE ARE, UM, JUST REGULAR, I MEAN, EXPECTED, UH, INTERRUPTIONS IN STAFF.
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AND YOUR OFFICE BASICALLY HAD THAT LINE AND YOUR BUDGET FOR, FOR 30 YEARS.AND BA BASICALLY IT WAS A MISTAKE.
UH, IT WAS AN ERROR THAT EVERYBODY ADMITS THAT, THAT, THAT IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED, BUT IT WASN'T INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET.
SO WHO'S EVERYBODY? I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE.
WELL, ROBERTA AGREED THAT IT WAS, SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS AN ERROR THAT WAS A, IT WAS AN ERROR BECAUSE IT WAS SORT OF LIKE AN OVERSIGHT IN THE BUDGET.
IT JUST, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED, BUT IT WASN'T.
AND I FEEL LIKE $6,000, IF WE ALLOCATE $6,000 OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, YEAH.
I DON'T THINK, WE'LL THEN, AND THEN I WOULD INCLUDE THE REST IN THE BUDGET FOR, UH, FOR 2020 23.
YOU KNOW, I, I WOULD INCLUDE WHAT WE'VE INCLUDED IN, UM, IN PREVIOUS BUDGETS.
SO IT'S NOT, THIS IS NOT A ADDITIONAL EXPENSES, NO, IT'S NOT BASICALLY, UM, A CORRECTION OF ERRORS.
AND YOU KNOW, I JUST SORT OF FEEL THAT THERE'S A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE ARE OUT, I MEAN WE'VE DONE THIS FOR OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS, YOU KNOW, IT'S AN EMERGENCY SITUATION.
EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS AT LEAST ONE PART-TIME SEASONAL POSITION.
SO HOW ABOUT I SUGGEST WE DISCUSS WITH ROBERTA AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, IF THAT'S OKAY? OKAY.
AND I WOULD WOULD LIKE TO ALSO BE A PART OF THAT DISCUSSION.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION.
WE HAVE A MOTION FOR EXECUTIVE SESSION, DISCUSS PERSONAL ITEMS AND LEGAL ISSUES.
WHERE ARE WE GONNA MEET? SECOND PAUL, ARE YOU MAKING THAT MOTION? YEAH.
SO WE'RE GOING IN THIS ROOM? YEAH.