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IN PROGRESS.UM, WELCOME TO OUR TOWN BOARD MEETING.
IT'S 8:00 PM AND, UH, JUDITH, WOULD YOU TAKE YOUR ROLE?
[ ROLL CALL: Town Clerk]
YES.COUNCILMAN FRANCIS SHEEN, PRESENT TOWN ATTORNEY JOE DANKO.
[ PLEDGE OF 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.[ MOMENT OF SILENCE In memory of Mrs. Rosemary Randall, 93, longtime resident and pillar of the Parkway Homes Community, passed on June 2. A former Banker and a retired Registered Nurse, she was very active in the Greenburgh community and instrumental in the establishment of the current home of the First Seventh-day Adventist Church on Juniper Hill Road. A matriarch with a passion for service, she diligently volunteered in the church’s food pantry. We express our most sincere condolences to her daughter Mrs. Judy Randall Bartlett, son-in-law Mr. Mayo Bartlett, grandchildren Ethan and Sara, and their family, and extended family, which includes the Greenburgh community. In memory of Frances Zupcak, loving mother of long time town employees Camille Sgaglio and Marianne Delise, and four other children, who passed at the age of 96 on Saturday, June 10, 2023. Mrs. Zupack was a longtime resident of Yorktown Heights. May she rest in peace. In memory of Norman D. Lipton, 79, a Hartsdale resident for almost 40 years, passed peacefully May 26 with his wife, Yzette, at his side. As a young man Norman was active in the Civil Rights movement, making many trips to the south to assist in getting people registered to vote. Throughout his life he worked for many organizations. Norman found love in his garden: planting and growing flowers, vegetables, fruit and herbs. There he also found love in his and Yzette’s union of 29 years. Their children, Symone and Stormjames, followed, and then grandchildren. 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, deliberating targeting utilities used by civilians to leave them without electricity and heat through the brutal winter weather, with mass graves being found after invaded areas have been retaken, all in Russia's effort to destroy Ukraine and its people, who are forced to fight for their land, their freedom, and general democratic principles. May they rest in peace and peace be restored to Ukraine]
A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN MEMORY OF ROSEMARY RELLE, LONG TIME RESIDENT PILLAR OF THE PARKWAY HOMES COMMUNITY.SHE PASSED AWAY ON JUNE 2ND, FORMER BANKER AND A RETIRED REGISTERED NURSE.
SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE GREENBURG COMMUNITY AND INSTRUMENTAL IN ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CURRENT HOME WITH THE FIRST SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ON JUNIPER HILL ROAD.
WITH A PASSION FOR SERVICE, SHE DILIGENTLY VOLUNTEERED IN THE OUS FOOD.
WE EXPRESSED EXPRESS MOST SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO HER DAUGHTER.
UM, MRS. UH, JUDY RANDALL, UM, BARTLETT SON-IN-LAW, AND MR. MAYO BARTLETT, GRANDCHILDREN, ETHAN AND SARAH AND THEIR FAMILY AND EXTENDED FAMILY, WHICH INCLUDES THE GREENBERG COMMUNITY AND IN MEMORY OF FRANCIS ZUZE, UH, LOVING MOTHER OF LONGTIME TOWN EMPLOYEES, CAMILLE, UH, UM, UH, LIO AND MARIANNE DELISE, AND FOUR OTHER CHILDREN WHO PASSED AT THE AGE OF 96 ON SATURDAY, UH, JUNE 10TH, MRS. ZOO.
UM, JACK WAS A LONG TIME RESIDENT OF YORKTOWN HEIGHTS.
MAY SHE, MAY SHE REST IN PEACE IN MEMORY OF NORMAN LIPTON.
79 YEARS OF AGE, A HARTSDALE RESIDENT FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS, HAS PEACEFULLY MAY 28TH WITH HIS WIFE.
AS A YOUNG MAN, NORMAN WAS ACTIVE IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, MAKING MANY TRIPS TO THE SOUTH TO ASSIST IN GETTING PEOPLE REGISTERED TO VOTE THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE.
HE WORKED FOR MANY ORGANIZATIONS.
NORMAN FOUND LOVE IN HIS GARDEN PLANTING AND OUT GROWING FLOWERS, VEGETABLES, FRUITS, AND HERBS.
THERE HE ALSO FELL IN LOVE IN HIS AND IS THAT'S UNION OF 28 YEARS.
SIMONEAN AND STORM JAMES FOLLOWED, AND THEN GRANDCHILDREN IN MEMORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UKRAINE KILLED DURING RUSSIA'S INVASION AND RELENTLESS INTENTIONAL TARGET BOMBING OF CIVILIANS TO DEPART BUILDINGS, HOSPITALS, TRAIN STATIONS, SCHOOLS AND CHILDREN'S CENTERS DELIBERATING TARGETING UTILITIES USED BY CIVILIANS TO LEAD THEM WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND HEAT THROUGH THE BRUTAL WINTER WEATHER WITH MS. GRAVES, UM, BEING FOUND AFTER INVADED AREAS HAVE BEEN RETAKEN OIL AND RUSSIA'S EFFORT TO DESTROY UKRAINE.
AND ITS PEOPLE WHO ARE FORCED TO FIGHT FOR THEIR LAND, THEIR FREEDOM AND GENERAL DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES.
[ PRESENTATIONS Supervisor spring interns – David Diao (present), Henry Peet, Austin Kirby, Ricky Pintado International Day of Yoga 2023 AJ Eannazzo, Westchester County Shot Put Champion -- throw 44' 9" Note: At the June 28 meeting there will be a presentation on the proposed Sportime Tennis Lease Agreement. The proposed agreement is ]
PAGE,WE HAVE, UM, A PRESENTATION, UH, FROM DAVID OUT.
UH, DAVID, UM, SERVED AS AN INTERN, UM, AND, UM, IN MY OFFICE DURING THE SPRING.
HE WAS A, A PREVIOUS SUMMER INTERN.
DURING HIS HIGH SCHOOL YEARS, HE DID AN EXCEPTIONAL, UH, MORE THAN EXCEPTIONAL JOB, OVERSEEING AN IMPORTANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE.
UM, HE, SO HE, UM, LED A SUCCESSFUL TEAM OF INTERNS WHO WENT DOOR TO DOOR OVER THE COURSE OF SEVERAL WEEKS, COVERING MOST OF THE COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES IN GREENBURG EAST HARTSDALE AVENUE, CENTRAL AVENUE ONE 19 SAW HIM OVER THE ROAD.
HIS EFFORTS HELPED DEVELOP AN UPDATED LIST OF BUSINESSES LOCATED IN GREENBURG AND FILL OUT VACANT STOREFRONT LISTINGS ON THE TOWN'S NEW GREENBURG, UM, UH, UH, ECONOMIC, UH, DEVELOPMENT SITE.
UM, HE SUPPORTED THE NEWLY FORMED GREENBURG CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BY ENCOURAGING BUSINESSES TO ATTEND THE FIRST MEETING, AND WAS ABLE TO HELP GET 50 BUSINESSES TO SHOW UP.
UM, HE SPOKE AT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UM, UH, THE FIRST MEETING HE WAS INTERVIEWED BY LOHA.COM.
UM, AND, UM, THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING A, A PROFILE ON, ON HIS EFFORTS.
UM, THEY, UH, DID AN INTERVIEW ON HIM AND HIS EFFORTS TO PRO PROFILE LOCAL JEWELRY STORE.
AND, YOU KNOW, HE'S JUST BEEN AN OUTSTANDING, UM, EXCEPTIONAL, UM, UM, ASSET
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TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THE TOWN.UH, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT HIS FUTURE IS EXTREMELY, UH, BRIGHT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I, I SAID TO MYSELF, I'M NOT SURE IF HE'S GONNA WIN A NOBEL PRIZE OR, UH, OR, UH, BECOME A US SENATOR OR A GOVERNOR OR, OR PRESIDENT AT SOME POINT.
SOMETIMES YOU MEET PEOPLE AND YOU SAY, THIS PERSON IS DEFINITELY GONNA BE A SUCCESS.
AND DAVID, WITHOUT QUESTION, IS ONE OF THOSE, UM, UH, THOSE, UH, STUDENTS.
SO DAVID, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UH, TELL EVERYBODY, UM, WHY I, UM, UNDERESTIMATED, UH, YOU WHEN I WAS PRAISING YOU? SO, SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO THANK THE BOARD SO MUCH FOR RECOGNIZING AND GIVING.
SO CAN YOU JUST BE CLOSE INTO THE MIC? IS THIS BETTER? IF PICK IT UP, PICK IT UP.
IS THIS A LITTLE BIT BETTER? IT'S MUCH BETTER.
SO FIRST AND FOREMOST, I JUST WANT TO THANK THE BOARD SO MUCH FOR RECOGNIZING ME TONIGHT AND GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT ON THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE AT THE GREENBERG TOWN HALL.
I ALSO WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO TWO OTHER OR THREE OTHER STUDENTS WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH ME, AND FORTUNATELY THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND TONIGHT.
BUT THOSE ARE RICKY PINTADO FROM IRVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL, AND AUSTIN AND HENRY FROM DOBBS FERRY HIGH SCHOOL.
AND WITH THAT, I JUST WANT TO KEEP THIS BRIEF.
SO I'LL JUST GIVE YOU THREE KEY HIGHLIGHTS FROM MY EXPERIENCES WORKING AT THE TOWN FOR THE PAST FIVE, SIX WEEKS OR SO.
AND SO THE FIRST WAS, AS MR. FINER MENTIONED, IN REGARDS TO BUSINESSES WITHIN THE TOWN SPECIFICALLY, WE'VE BEEN HARD AT WORK GOING IN PERSON AND WORKING DIGITALLY TO SURVEY LOCAL BUSINESSES AND CREATE A NEW BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR THE TOWN, UH, TO USE.
SO SPECIFICALLY, WE CREATED A DIRECTORY WITH OVER AROUND 400 BUSINESSES THAT THE TOWN WILL NOW BE ABLE TO CONTACT AND REACHED THROUGH EMAIL.
I'VE SPOKEN WITH MR. DUANE OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION WHO HAS CITED THAT THIS WILL BE INSTRUMENTAL IN ALLOWING FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION WHEN NEEDED WITH DIFFERENT BUSINESS MEMBERS.
ADDITIONALLY, WE'VE ALSO TAKEN SURVEY INFORMATION BECAUSE WE WANT TO REALLY ESTABLISH A SENSE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TOWN AND ITS BUSINESSES.
AND BY FAR, THE BIGGEST PIECE OF FEEDBACK THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED IS THAT THIS TOWN AND ITS COMMUNITY REALLY DO MAKE BUSINESS A WONDER, UH, AND, AND MAKE BUSINESS SO AMAZING WITHIN THE TOWN.
SECOND, I ALSO WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE'VE PERSONALLY BEEN DOING TO PROMOTE LOCAL BUSINESSES.
SO WE HAVE, FOR EXAMPLE, CREATED A VIDEO TO JUST HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES.
WE, I'VE WRITTEN AN ARTICLE FOR THE INQUIRER, AND THERE'S ALSO A REPORT BEING DONE IN THE LOHA JOURNAL.
AND LASTLY, I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THE VALUE THAT THIS INTERNSHIP HAS HAD IN THE IMPACT IT'S HAD ON ME.
AND I THINK THAT IN THAT REGARD, THE BIGGEST THING HAS JUST BEEN BEING ABLE TO INTERACT AND HELP OUT LOCAL CONSTITUENTS.
IT'S BEEN AN ABSOLUTE JOY AND IT REALLY DOES GIVE A GREATER APPRECIATION FOR ME TO THE SERVICE THAT FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE BOARD DOES, AND EVERYONE AT THE TOWN DOES.
AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S ALL TO HELP THE PEOPLE, THE CONSTITUENTS.
AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE SERVICE THAT YOU DO.
AND WE HAVE A, A PROCLAMATION FOR YOU THANKING IT.
AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
AND, UM, WE HAVE, UM, ALSO, UM, A CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION TO AJ DAVID, UM, SORRY, TO AJ INSO, UM, WHO WAS, UM, RECENTLY, UM, HONORED, UM, AS, UM, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, UH, CHAMPION.
AND THE SHOT PUT THROW OF 44, UH, DE
SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UM, HONESTLY WASN'T READY FOR THIS
UM, THIS IS REALLY JUST AN IMPRESSION, UH, IMPORTANT ACCOMPLISHMENT BECAUSE IT KIND OF JUST SHOWS HOW MUCH EFFORT I PUT INTO THIS.
AND AJ, WOULD YOU PICK UP THE MIC? OH, YEAH.
THIS SHOWS HOW MUCH EFFORT I PUT INTO LIKE THIS SPORT AND JUST MY DEDICATION AND IT'S JUST REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME PERSONALLY.
AND, UH, I WENT THERE COMPETING WITH OVER 30 PLUS SCHOOLS AND I CAME OUT ON TOP LUCKILY.
AND YEAH, IT'S JUST REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME AND MY FAMILY.
HOW MUCH, UH, TIME DO YOU SPEND PRACTICING AND PREPARING? UM, USUALLY WE DO LIKE NORMAL
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SCHOOL DAYS AND WHATNOT FOR ABOUT AN HOUR, HOUR AND 30.AND USUALLY OUTSIDE OF THAT, I TRY TO GO TO THE GYM AND JUST DO WHAT I CAN THERE.
SO DO YOU WANNA GO INTO SPORTS? SPORTS PROFESSIONALLY? UM, I HAVEN'T THOUGHT I'LL DO IT.
I HAVEN'T THOUGHT TOO MUCH INTO THAT YET, BUT I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY A PATH I CAN GO DOWN.
I JUST WANNA WARN YOUR PARENTS.
WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, UM, I HAD A FRIEND WHO ACTUALLY COMPETED IN THE OLYMPICS FROM IRELAND MM-HMM.
AND WE HAD A BUNCH OF PEOPLE OVER FOR DINNER, AND WE MADE A BIG POT OF SPAGHETTI BECAUSE OF COURSE WE COULDN'T AFFORD MUCH.
AND WE DISHED OUT, UM, SPAGHETTI TO ABOUT 10 PEOPLE.
AND PHILIP, THAT WAS HIS NAME.
SO, I'M SORRY, YOU JUST HAVE TO STOCK UP YOUR REFRIGERATOR.
I THINK THEY'RE PREPARED FOR THAT THOUGH.
UM, IS, UH, SVA NEAR HERE? NO.
UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO, UM, RECOGNIZE, UM, HIM, UM, HE ORGANIZES AN INTERNATIONAL DAY OF YOGA, UM, AND THEY'RE HAVING IT AT, UM, UM, RICHARD PRESSER PARK, THE WEB FIELD, UH, THIS COMING ON SATURDAY.
AND IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT EVENT.
AND IF YOU ARE A LITTLE STRESSED AND YOU WANT TO LEARN ABOUT YOGA, UH, THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, UH, LEARN YOGA IN THE PARK.
AND IT'S, THE COST IS, IS FREE.
AND THE COUNCIL GENERAL, UH, FROM INDIA, UM, HAS BEEN THERE EVERY, EVERY YEAR FOR THE PAST NINE YEARS.
SO I JUST WANNA MENTION THAT THAT'S THE END OF THE DAY, I THINK AROUND 5:00 PM UM, SO NOW, UM, WE HAVE A MOTION OF EXECUTIVE SESSION, UH, TO DISCUSS, UH, THE, UH, JUNETEENTH, UM, UH, UNIT ISSUES AND THEN WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.
PEOPLE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF THE JUNETEENTH, UH, ISSUE.
KEN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION? SO I'M GONNA MOVE, UH, TB THREE.
WELL, AS AMENDED, WE HAVE TO VOTE.
WE SHOULD HAVE PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS.
UH, IF, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO COMMENT ABOUT, DO YOU WANT TO, YOU HAVE TO READ IT OUT AS AMENDED.
UM, SO, UH, SO THE ONLY PART YOU REALLY NEED TO READ IS SINCE WE ALREADY GAVE IT OUT, IS THE PART THAT WE AMENDED.
OKAY? SO TB, TB THREE THING, READ THE WHOLE THING.
UH, UH, WE ARE PREPARING TO VOTE
[ TB 3 - 6/14/2023 Resolution regarding recognition of Juneteenth 2023 as a Town of Greenburgh Holiday]
ON TB THREE.I WILL READ IT, THEN THERE WILL BE PUBLIC COMMENT, AND THEN THERE WILL BE A VOTE.
UM, TB THREE AS AMENDED READS, AS FOLLOWS, THE RESOLUTION REGARDING THE RECOGNITION OF JUNETEENTH 2023 AS THE TOWN OF GREENBURG HOLIDAY, WHEREAS PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST, 1863.
AND WHEREAS ON JUNE 19TH, 1865, UNION GENERAL GORDON GRANGER WAS DISPATCHED TO GALVESTON, TEXAS TO ENFORCE THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE LAST ENSLAVED PEOPLE IN GALVESTON WERE FREED.
AND WHEREAS JUNE 19TH HAS SINCE BECOME KNOWN AS JUNETEENTH AND IS WIDELY RECOGNIZED AS A DAY OF CELEBRATION AND REFLECTION.
AND WHEREAS EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 14TH, 2020, NEW YORK STATE RECOGNIZED JUNETEENTH AS A HOLIDAY FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE.
AND WHEREAS EFFECTIVE JUNE 17TH, 2021, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZED JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY OR JUNE 19TH AS A UNITED STATES FEDERAL HOLIDAY.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WISHES TO RECOGNIZE JUNETEENTH AS A HOLIDAY IN 2023 FOR TOWN EMPLOYEES.
AND WHEREAS HOLIDAYS ARE A MANDATORY SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, WHICH REQUIRES NEGOTIATIONS WITH EACH OF THE TOWN'S UNIONS.
WHEREAS CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION LOCAL 1000
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A F C M E A F L C I O AND THE C SS E A TOWN TOWN OF GREENBURG UNIT 82 FIFTEENS AND THE TOWN ARE PARTIES TO A COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT, WHICH EXPIRES DECEMBER 31ST, 2023, WHICH EXPIRED, SORRY FOR THE CORRECTION, WHICH EXPIRE DECEMBER EXPIRED 31ST, 20 20 22, 20 20 22, WHICH EXPIRED DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.AND WHEREAS THE TOWN AND THE C SS E A ARE IN NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING A C B A, WHICH WILL EXTEND BEYOND DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.
AND WHEREAS LOCAL 4 56 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS, A F L, CIOS AND THE TOWN ARE PARTIES TO A C B A, WHICH EXPIRED DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.
AND WHEREAS THE TOWN AND TEAMSTERS ARE IN NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING A C B A, WHICH WILL EXTEND BEYOND DECEMBER 31ST, 2022.
AND WHEREAS THE POLICE ASSOCIATION OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IS SET TO EXPIRE ON DECEMBER 31ST, 2023.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG SHALL RECOGNIZE JUNE 19TH, 2023 AS A FLOATING JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY.
THIS YEAR FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2023, ONLY THE HOLIDAY IS FLOATING BECAUSE WE RECOGNIZE THAT NOT ALL TOWN DEPARTMENTS CAN CLOSE ON MONDAY, JUNE 19TH, 2023.
UH, THE FOREGOING IS THE RESOLUTION AS WE INTEND TO VOTE UPON IT.
UH, THE FLOOR IS NOW OPEN FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
PAT WEEMS. OH, WAIT, UH, WE, WE JUST, WE HAVE AN ORDER, UH, PRESENTATIONS, UH, A REPRESENTATIVE OF SPEAKERS, DOMINIC ELLI.
PAT LE MY ONE QUESTION IS, WHEN YOU SAY IT'S FLOATING, THAT MEANS ONCE AGAIN, NEXT YEAR, WE WILL GO THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS AGAIN.
WHAT FLOATING MEANS IS THAT PEOPLE CANNOT TAKE THE DAY OFF.
'CAUSE THEIR DEPARTMENTS CANNOT CLOSE ON MONDAY, CAN TAKE THE HOLIDAY AT ANY OTHER POINT DURING THE YEAR.
FIRST AND FOREMOST, UH, I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY AS A, UH, PROUD, UH, RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, A DISTRICT LEADER AND A, UH, TEAMSTERS LOCAL 4 56 UNION LEADER.
UH, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THIS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT, UH, AND HOPE, AND I'M HOPEFUL THAT YOU DO VOTE THIS THROUGH THIS RESOLUTION.
UH, JUNETEENTH IS A DAY THAT MARKS THE EMANCIPATION OF, UH, AFRICAN AMERICAN SLAVERY IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND IT HOLDS, UH, AN IMMENSE SIGNIFICANCE, ONE FOR OUR COMMUNITY, UH, TWO AND THREE FOR YOUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR MEMBERSHIP.
AND I THINK IT'S, UH, VERY IMPORTANT, UH, THAT THIS RESOLUTION BE PASSED.
UH, IT'S, IT'S A TIME TO REFLECT ON OUR SHARED HISTORY, UH, HONOR THE STRUGGLES ENDURED, UH, AND CELEBRATE THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE TOWARDS NOT ONLY EQUALITY, UH, QUALITY, BUT TO SOCIAL JUSTICE.
UM, RECOGNIZING JUNETEENTH FOR OUR MEMBERS AND YOUR EMPLOYEES IS NOT JUST AN ACT OF SYMBOLISM, UH, BUT IT'S AN ACT OF RESPECT AND INCLUSIVITY, UH, OF OUR MEMBERS.
UH, IT SENDS A POWERFUL MESSAGE THAT YOU, AND WE AS, UH, THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UH, ACKNOWLEDGE THE HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND, UH, ACTS OF SOCIAL HATE, UH, AND RACIAL HATE.
UM, SO WITH THAT, I JUST IMPLORE YOU TO VOTE YES.
TONIGHT, UH, RECOGNIZING THIS HOLIDAY THIS YEAR, UH, AND HOPEFUL FOR FUTURE YEARS, BUT FOR THIS YEAR ESPECIALLY.
DANIELS WE'RE TAKING COMMENT ON THIS PARTICULAR RESOLUTION.
SIDNEY COLLINS, IS IT ON THIS ISSUE? NO.
AND I ALSO DO PUBLIC, NO, JUST THIS ISSUE.
ALRIGHT, THEN WE HAVE NO FURTHER REQUESTS.
SO THEN WHY DON'T WE VOTE ON THIS SO
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OUR EMPLOYEES COULD GET SOME SLEEP BEFORE THEY WORK TOMORROW.UM, AND THEY COULD, IF THEY WANT, THEY COULD DO WHATEVER THEY'D LIKE.
BUT WE'D LIKE TO GET THIS OUT OF THE WAY JUST BECAUSE IT'S BEEN ON WEIGHING ON A LOT OF PEOPLE'S MINDS.
SO, CAN YOU MAKING THAT MOTION? MOTION? I, I, I'LL MOVE TB.
HOPE EVERYBODY WILL, UH, 10 HOUR JUNETEENTH, UH, UH, UH, SIX CEREMONY.
ANNOUNCE COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON.
SO, I HOPE TO
WE WILL HAVE OUR FLAG RAISING RIGHT OUTSIDE TOWN HALL, UM, THIS FRIDAY AT 5 45.
PLEASE COME OUT, BRING YOUR CHILDREN.
THIS WILL BE OUR FOURTH YEAR CELEBRATING HERE.
THEN WE'RE GONNA TAKE A MOTORCADE LEAVING FROM TOWN HALL, HEADING DOWN, UM, HILL, HILLSIDE, MANHATTAN AVENUE, TERRYTOWN MANHATTAN AVENUE, AND THEN COMING OUT TO TERRYTOWN ROAD, DOWN, OH, TERRYTOWN ROAD.
OH, TERRY TERRYTOWN, ROAD LIMIT M TOO LONG TO MANHATTAN AVENUE.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO HEAD OUT TOWN TO CENTRAL AVENUE WHERE WE'LL END UP AT PRESSURE PARK.
UM, I'M GONNA MAKE, I JUST WANNA MAKE A QUICK STATEMENT.
YOU KNOW, THIS WAS, THIS WAS SOMETHING OF MINE THAT, UM, I LEARNED LATER IN LIFE AND I WISH I WOULD'VE LEARNED EARLY IN LIFE.
AND I'M GLAD I'M ABLE TO TEACH MY SON AND MY NIECES AND NEPHEW.
AND THE BIG THING ABOUT ME IS EDUCATION.
AND I THINK WITH THIS HISTORIC MOMENT, THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE EDUCATE EVERYBODY, IT'S JUST NOT ONE FOR ONE SEGMENT OF PEOPLE.
IT'S FOR ALL OF US TO LEARN AND UNDERSTAND OUR AMERICAN HISTORY.
AND, UM, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT EVERYBODY BE INCLUDED IN THE CELEBRATION, EVERYBODY BE INCLUDED IN THIS MOMENT OF HISTORY AND UNDERSTAND THE SYMBOLISM OF WHAT JUNETEENTH IS.
AND THAT'S WHY IT'S IMPORTANT THAT MR. AMS, I'M GONNA ADDRESS YOUR COMMENTS AND I WANT, THAT'S FINE, BUT I'M GONNA ADDRESS YOUR COMMENTS.
AND I DO UNDERSTAND THAT, UM, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A THOUGHT THAT IT SHOULD BE HELD ONLY HERE IN SMITE, OH, SORRY, CIN, EXCUSE ME.
LONG TIME RANGER RE UH, RESIDENT.
SO SMITE TO ME, UM, AND THAT'S WHERE WE SHOULD HOLD THAT CELEBRATION.
BUT FOR ME, I THINK IT'S BIGGER THAN THAT.
I THINK IT'S BIGGER AND BROADER THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE EDUCATE EVERYONE, THAT WE DON'T NEED TO BE IN ONE PART OF TOWN BECAUSE THIS IS OUR TOWN.
WE ARE ALL GREENBURG AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO EDUCATE EVERYBODY IN EACH PART OF TOWN AND EACH AREA.
SO INSTEAD OF HAVING IT WHEN NO ONE CAN REALLY, AND EVERYONE CAN PARTICIPATE, AND NO ONE CAN SEE IT BECAUSE IT'S HIDDEN BEHIND A BUILDING, I WANT EVERYBODY TO SEE IT FROM ANYONE WHO'S TRAVELING THROUGH GREENBURG.
THEY CAN COME AND SEE ONE AND LEARN ABOUT JUNETEENTH AND WHAT GREENBURG IS CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH.
SO IT'S NOT A POINT OF ME TRYING TO TAKE IT OUT OF AN AREA THAT WE'RE ALL CONSIDERED OR IS CONSIDERED AS THE BLACK AREA, WHICH, WHICH WE ARE ALL GREENBURG IS ALL OF US.
OKAY? AND YES, WE HAVE OUR HISTORIC AREAS IN GREENBURG, AS IN FAIR VIEWERS AND PARKWOOD GARDENS AND, AND SUCH.
BUT THIS IS A TIME NOW THAT WE TAKE AND WE CELEBRATE AND WE TEACH EVERYBODY WHAT JEAN TEAM WOULD DANCE FOR.
SO THAT IS WHY I WILL CONTINUE AS LONG AS I'M IN THIS ROLE.
AND I HOPE THAT MY LEGACY AND ANYONE COME WHO COMES BEHIND ME AND THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS WHY I CHOSE WEB FIELD BECAUSE IT'S IN THE HEART.
AND WE SHOULD BE CELEBRATING WITH EVERYONE.
WE TALK ABOUT BEING INCLUSIVE.
HERE'S THE TIME TO BE INCLUSIVE AND TEACH EVERYONE HISTORY, OUR HISTORY.
AND I JUST WANT TO, UH, SAY ONE THING.
ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I FEEL SO STRONGLY ABOUT, UM, THIS, UH, HOLIDAY AND FELT SO STRONGLY THAT WE SHOULD, UM, MAKE JUNETEENTH THE HOLIDAY IS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR, UM, OUR EMPLOYEES TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE CARE ABOUT THEM AND WE ALSO APPRECIATE THEM.
GREENBERG WOULD NOT BE GREENBERG, UM, WITHOUT OUR DEDICATED EMPLOYEES TODAY.
UH, FORTUNE MAGAZINE NAMED GREENBERG THE NINTH, UM, BEST, UH, FAMILY FRIENDLY, UH, UH, MUNICIPALITY IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.
UM, THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF OTHER COMMUNITIES, AND WE WERE NUMBER NINE, THE ONLY ONE IN NEW YORK,
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UM, UH, THAT, THAT GOT THAT DESIGNATION.BUT WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE APPRECIATE LIVING IN GREENBURG OR WORKING IN GREENBURG IS BECAUSE OF OUR EMPLOYEES.
WE GET SO MANY THANK YOUS, UH, FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT THE SANITATION WORKERS, ABOUT THE HIGHWAY WORKERS, MANY WHO ARE AFRICAN AMERICAN, ABOUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ABOUT OUR CIVIL, UH, SERVANTS.
WHEN PEOPLE, UH, HAVE CONCERNS OR PROBLEMS, UH, THEY COME HERE, THEY ARE TREATED WITH RESPECT.
SO I SORT OF FEEL THAT, UM, BY, UH, CREATING A HOLIDAY, JUST LIKE MOST COMMUNITIES IN THE UNITED, IN NEW YORK AND THE UNITED STATES ARE DOING FOR JUNETEENTH, WE'RE SAYING WE CARE ABOUT YOU.
AND WE ALSO ARE THANKFUL TO OUR HARDWORKING EMPLOYEES FOR DOING AN AMAZING, YOU KNOW, AMAZING, UM, YOU KNOW, JOB.
YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN EMPLOYEES, YEAH, THEY WORK NIGHTS, WEEKENDS, THEY'RE, THEY, THEY GO THE EXTRA MILE.
THE PEOPLE HERE RIGHT NOW WHO ARE WAITING AROUND, THEY WORK THE EXTRA, THEY GO THE EXTRA MILE.
THEY DO SO MUCH MORE THAN THEY'RE BEING PAID FOR.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE MAJOR REASONS WHY I, UH, I'M VOTING, YES.
AND I ARE ARE WE HAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS OVER? I'M SORRY.
FIRST, JOE, FIRST OF ALL, WE COULD, WE COULD EXPLAIN, YOU CAN EXPLAIN YOUR VOTE.
SHE CAN, BUT, UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO RESPOND BACK TO WHAT JESUS, NO, THERE'S NO RESPONSE.
YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
CAN'T MENTION YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
THIS IS NOT, THIS PUBLIC COMMENT WAS ONLY ON THIS RESOLUTION IS CLOSED.
SHE STOLE MY, EVERYBODY KEPT CALLING MY NAME.
CAN WE JUST, CAN WE JUST COME BACK TO ORDER? YEAH, LET'S COME BACK.
MY NAME WAS ASKED IF THIS IS, WHERE ARE WE? WE'RE WHERE ARE WE? GET THE COMMENT.
WHERE ARE WE AT? I JUST WANNA IT BACK TO ORDER.
SHE SUPPOSED TO GO BACK TO THE REGULAR AGENDA.
I AIN'T SUPPOSED TO SAY REBUTTAL.
YOU'RE NOT SAYING THAT YOU, YOU CANNOT SAY THIS.
I JUST WANNA DO IT IN THE PROPER ORDER.
THAT'S ALL I'M TRYING TO DO IS ALL.
I WANT YOU TO HAVE A SEAT, PLEASE.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT OR WHOEVER'S NEXT IS GOING TO MAKE A COMMENT, PLEASE.
THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON.
UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THAT I HONOR WHAT YOU'VE SAID, COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON, AND THANK YOU.
AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WILLINGNESS TO TEACH ME AND OTHERS.
AND, UM, I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE LEARNING.
AND I DO APPRECIATE THE, THE PEOPLE WHO WORK SO HARD, BUT THIS IS ABOUT THE HOLIDAY AND, UM, WE CAN DO BOTH.
UH, SO WHAT I, WHAT I WOULD ABOUT LOVE AND KINDNESS.
SO I, I THINK WE SHOULD FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT WHAT WE JUST DID IN VOTING ON THE RESOLUTION.
WHAT WE SHOULD NOT FEEL GOOD ABOUT WAS THE PROCESS THAT LED US HERE AT THE 11TH HOUR TO PASS THIS RESOLUTION.
OBVIOUSLY THE COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWNS, BUT ALSO THIS BOARD HAS TO DO A BETTER JOB OF PRIORITIZING PRIORITIES.
I WISH I COULD GET BACK EVEN 15% OF THE TIME WE SPENT ON LEAF BLOWERS WEEK AFTER WEEK AFTER WEEK, AND NOT ADDRESSING JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY AND SOME OTHER ISSUES.
AND IT SHOULDN'T, IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WAY.
AND SO I THINK WE AS A BOARD HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB OF MANAGING OUR TIME AND OUR AGENDAS AND, UM, HAVING BETTER LINES OF COMMUNICATION ON THESE TYPES OF ISSUES.
AND, UH, I THINK THE END RESULT IS ACCEPTABLE TO ALL.
SO BASED ON THE DISCUSSIONS WE'VE HAD, UM, BUT IT DIDN'T NEED TO BE QUITE THIS WAY.
AND AS FAR AS THE JUNETEENTH ON, ON FRIDAY, WHAT TIME DOES THAT MOTORCADE START? 5 5 45.
AND WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THAT MOTORCADE IS THAT IT PROCEEDS OUT OF TOWN.
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UP OLD TARRYTOWN ROAD AND THE POLICE ARE BLOCKING THE STREETS.YOU WOULD SWEAR THAT WE WERE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GOING IN A CARAVAN BEING ESCORTED.
IT'S REALLY AMAZING HOW THEY DO IT AS WELL.
UH, ESCORTED UP, TURNING DOWN MANHATTAN AVENUE, PAUSING, GOING TO ONE 19.
POLICE WILL HAVE THAT BLOCKED OFF.
AND THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WAITING IN CARS, BECAUSE THAT LANE IS, IS, UH, BLOCKED, THEY'RE HOOTING THEIR HORNS, THEY'RE WAVING TO US.
WHAT'S THAT PARADE ABOUT? 'CAUSE IT'S NOT EVEN ON JUNETEENTH.
THEY, I THINK TO COUNCILMAN JACKSON'S POINT, THEY LEARN SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD NEVER OTHERWISE LEARN, BUT THIS PRO PROCESSION THAT MAKES IT WAY DOWN CENTRAL AVENUE, MAJOR STREET, AND THIS, THIS CARAVAN GOES DOWN AND THEN TURNS ONTO WEBB FIELD.
AND ANY PICTURES THAT YOU SEE OF WEBB FIELD AND THE CELEBRATION THAT'S THERE, IT'S AN EXTREMELY DIVERSE GROUP THAT COMES OUT.
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO COME OUT, UM, ON FRIDAY NIGHT AT WHAT TIME? 5 45.
AND, UH, AND JOIN, JOIN THE CELEBRATION.
AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
WILL WE STOP AT THE HAWK LIGHT? WHAT'S THAT? WILL WE STOP AT THE
REGRETTABLY, IT WON'T STOP YOU.
CAN WE THANK YOU SO MUCH? THANK YOU.
SO WE HAVE TO, DID WE VOTE? I DON'T THINK EVERYBODY VOTED.
WE JUST NEED TO GET BACK TO AGENDA.
GINA, DO I GET TO TALK HIM? YEAH, I PROMISE YOU.
I JUST WANNA GET BACK AN ORDER AND TO A PUBLIC COMMENT.
WILL WE FIRST HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING? THANK SO IF WE, WHERE ARE WE NOW, PLEASE? I'D LIKE TO MOVE
[ To consider an amended site plan application of Bocada Jeep Dealership for property located at 380 Saw Mill River Road (P.O. Elmsford, NY) [TB 23-04]]
THAT WE, UH, OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AN AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION OF BOADA JEEP DEALERSHIP FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT THREE 80 SOMO RIVER ROAD.FINER AND TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR THE RECORD.
GARRETT DUQUE, COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION.
THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER AN AMENDED SITE PLAN, WHICH IS A TOWN BOARD APPROVAL AND A TREE REMOVAL PERMIT APPLICATION, WHICH IS ALSO A TOWN BOARD APPROVAL BY BOCATA JEEP DEALERSHIP FOR THE PROPOSED CONVERSION OF A VACANT COMMERCIAL SPACE, FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY SPORT TIME U S A, WITH A NEW AUTOMOBILE DEALERSHIP AND SERVICE CENTER, TOGETHER WITH RELATED IMPROVEMENTS AT THREE 80 SAWMILL RIVER ROAD, PO ELMSFORD LOCATED IN THE IB INTERMEDIATE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
AND THAT'S ON PARCEL ID 7.12 DASH 19 DASH 22.
THE PROJECT ALSO REQUIRES A SPECIAL PERMIT FOR MOTOR VEHICLE SALES FROM THE PLANNING BOARD, AS WELL AS A PLANNING BOARD STEEP SLOPE PERMIT AND LANDSCAPING WAIVERS FROM THE PLANNING BOARD, DESPITE THE APPLICATION BEING A TYPE TWO ACTION UNDER CCRA, THE PROJECT HAS BEEN REFERRED TO NUMEROUS TOWN AGENCIES FOR REVIEW.
REGIONAL AGENCIES SUCH AS THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY PLANNING BOARD AND NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION HAVE ALSO BEEN INVOLVED AND PROVIDED COMMENTS.
THE AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION WAS REFERRED BY THE TOWN BOARD TO THE PLANNING BOARD, AND THE PLANNING BOARD DISCUSSED THE MATTER ON MAY 17TH, 2023, AND ISSUED A POSITIVE SITE PLAN RECOMMENDATION, FINDING THAT THE SUBMISSION SATISFIES THE APPLICABLE SITE PLAN STANDARDS SET FORTH IN SECTION 2 85 DASH 54 STANDARDS A THROUGH K.
THE PLANNING BOARD'S RECOMMENDATION ALSO INCLUDED REQUESTS TO CLEAN UP PORTIONS OF THE ADJACENT BROOK TO EXTEND THE PROPOSED SIDEWALK ACROSS THE ENTIRETY OF THE SITE'S FRONTAGE, AND TO EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL FOR ADDITIONAL SUSTAINABLE ENERGY MEASURES.
THE APPLICANT HAS INCORPORATED THESE SUGGESTIONS, WHICH WILL BE PART OF THE APPLICANT'S PRESENTATION.
MS. HALLAN MARCH ATTORNEY ON BEHALF OF THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO PRESENT THE AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION.
WE HEARD YOUR COMMENTS AT THAT WORK SESSION.
UH, WE'VE, UH, ADDRESSED THOSE COMMENTS.
UH, WE'VE HEARD COMMENTS FROM, UH, PLANNING BOARD STAFF AND OTHER STAFF WITHIN THE TOWN.
AND, UH, WE'VE ADDRESSED THOSE COMMENTS AS WELL.
SO, UM, WE DO, AS GARRETT SAID, WE HAVE A FAVORABLE RECOMMENDATION
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ON THE SITE PLAN FROM THE PLANNING BOARD.AND, UH, WE WOULD JUST LIKE TO SHOW YOU AND THE PUBLIC TONIGHT, UH, WHAT IS PLANNED FOR THIS SITE.
AGAIN, IT'S A, UM, A RENOVATION OF AN EXISTING BUILDING.
WE THINK IT'S A GREAT PROJECT FOR THE TOWN.
THERE ARE STORMWATER IMPROVEMENTS, THERE'S LANDSCAPING IMPROVEMENTS, AND THIS, THIS OLD, UH, TIRED BUILDING IS GOING TO BE COMPLETELY UPDATED AND MODERNIZED.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU, GARY.
UH, GOOD EVENING SUPERVISOR MEMBERS OF BOARD ZACH PEARSON WITH INSIGHT, AS HELEN HAD MENTIONED, UM, YOU GUYS CAN ALL SEE THE SCREEN.
THIS IS THREE 80 SALT MILL RIVER ROAD.
EXISTING, UH, COMMERCIAL BUILDING USED TO HOPE, UH, HOUSE SUPPORT TIME, UM, INDOOR RECREATIONAL FACILITY AS PROPOSED TO BE, UH, SITES PROPOSED TO BE PRE-DEVELOPED, UH, WITH A, A JEEP DEALERSHIP.
UM, AS HELEN MENTIONED, WE DID MEET WITH YOU GUYS EARLY ON AND, AND HEARD THE CONCERNS RELATIVE TO PEDESTRIAN, UH, WALKWAYS RELATIVE TO TRUCK, UM, CAR DELIVERIES AND TRUCK DELIVERIES TO THE SITE.
UM, I'M GONNA JUST PIN IT DOWN HERE.
THIS IS THE PROPOSED, UM, THE BUILDING'S GONNA STAY THE SAME, SAME AS IT IS RIGHT NOW.
IT'S GONNA BE RENOVATED, OBVIOUSLY NO, NO PROPOSED ADDITIONS TO IT.
UH, PROPOSING TO, UH, RECONFIGURE THE ONSITE PARKING.
UM, SOME OF THE PARKING IN THE, IN THE FRONT ALONG, UH, SAW MILL RIVER ROAD IS ACTUALLY OVER THE PROPERTY LINE.
SO AS PART OF THE CLEANUP WITH THE D O T, UH, WE'RE PROPOSING TO PULL SOME OF THAT BACK ON.
UM, CHANNELIZED THE PARKING, UM, RELATIVE TO THE PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN THE D O T RIGHT OF WAY.
UM, WE'RE WORKING WITH COLLIERS ENGINEERING.
WE'RE GONNA BE PERMITTING THAT WITH THE STATE.
UM, IT'S GONNA INCLUDE THE WIDENING OF THE ONE-WAY ENTRANCE.
UH, DOWN HERE YOU CAN SEE AT THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE SITE, UM, CROSSWALK ACROSS THE SIGNALIZE ENTRANCE WITH FAIRWAY, UM, EXTENSION OF A NEW SIDEWALK TO THE NORTH.
AND THEN, UH, SOME PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS ON ACTUALLY THE WEST SIDE.
UH, WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF, OF, UH, SALT MILL RIVER ROAD.
UH, THERE'S AN EXISTING LANDING HERE THAT'S GONNA BE REWORKED, UH, WITH A CROSSWALK.
AND THEN THERE'S A NEW SIDEWALK THAT KIND OF COMES DOWN FROM THE NORTH ON THE WEST SIDE.
UM, UH, RELATIVE TO THE TURNING CONCERN, WE DID STUDY THE TRUCKS, UH, COMING IN OFF OF, UH, SAWMILL RIVER ROAD.
UH, THE TRUCKS ARE GONNA BE COMING FROM THE 2 87 SIDE.
SO COMING INTO THE SITE, COMING SOUTH TO NORTH, UH, WE PROVIDED PARKING, UH, UNLOADING SPACES FOR A PARK, SHOWED TURNING MANEUVERS TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE, THE TOWN'S CONSULTANT.
UM, AND THEN THE TRUCKS WOULD EXIT AT THE SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION HEADING BACK DOWN THE SOUTH.
UH, HELENA BRIEFLY TOUCHED ON, UH, STORM WATER IMPROVEMENTS.
UM, CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW THERE'S, UH, THERE'S A COUPLE DRAINS ON THE SITE THAT JUST DUMP DIRECTLY IN THE BROOK.
WE'RE PROPOSING TO, UH, CURB THE ENTIRE, ENTIRE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE PROPERTY.
RIGHT NOW THE PROPERTY KIND OF DRAINS FROM NORTH THE SOUTH.
WE'RE GONNA CURB THAT, PUT IT INTO, UH, COLLECTION SYSTEM.
UH, THERE'S AN ONSITE DECREASE IN IMPERVIOUS SURFACE ON THE SITE.
SO THERE'S GONNA BE PRODUCTION AND RUNOFF TO THE DECREE.
AND WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING A COUPLE, UM, OMIC SEPARATORS, UH, FOR TREATMENT OF THAT STORMWATER PRIOR TO DISCHARGE.
AND GARRETT HAD MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, THE APPLICANT IS, UM, COMMITTED TO, YOU KNOW, CLEANING UP THAT BROOK, YOU KNOW, ALONG THE, THE PROPERTY LINE KIND OF MEANDERS THROUGH THAT BROOK.
BUT, UM, THEY ARE COMMITTED TO CLEANING THAT UP BECAUSE THERE'S SOME GARBAGE AND STUFF DOWN THERE.
SO WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ON THE BOARD.
I I DON'T RECALL IF IT'S THIS PROPERTY OR NOT.
AND IF I'M WRONG, I APOLOGIZE.
BUT DID YOU START DOING DEMOLITION BEFORE YOU HAD PERMITS TO DO IT? THERE WAS, YES, IT WAS.
AND WHY WAS THAT? THERE WAS A MIS WELL, I'M THE ENGINEER.
I'M NOT THE CONTRACTOR IS THE CONTRACTOR HERE.
I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF GIVING FORGIVENESS WHEN PEOPLE DON'T COME IN AND ASK FOR PERMISSION.
PARTICULARLY AT, WHEN WE MET WITH YOU ON SITE, WE HAD A, WHAT I THOUGHT TO BE A MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SITE TO HELP YOU GET STARTED.
AND THEN I GET REPORTS THAT YOU HAD DONE EXTENSIVE DEMOLITION WITHOUT GETTING PERMITS.
AND, UH, IF THIS IS NOT THE SITE, THEN I APOLOGIZE.
I, I COULD CHECK WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.
BUT SO WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED WAS, IS A, A DEMOLITION PERMIT WAS ISSUED AND THE, UH, THE, SOME OF THE WORK THAT WAS DONE, THE CONTRACTOR BELIEVED WAS BEING DONE PURSUANT TO THE DEMOLITION PERMIT.
BUT IT TURNED OUT ACCORDING TO THE BUILDING INSPECTOR, IT WENT BEYOND WHAT WAS, WHAT WAS PROVIDED FOR IN THE BUILD, IN THE DEMOLITION PERMIT.
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SO IF WE ALLOW YOU TO PROCEED, HOW WILL WORK WITH NOT, YOU KNOW, A MISUNDERSTAND AND THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, YOU NEED A PERMIT FOR DOING JUST ABOUT ANYTHING.NOW YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU HAD PERMITS, BUT THEY WENT BEYOND WHAT THE PERMIT ALLOWED.
WE HAD A DEMOLITION PERMIT, AND THE WORK THAT WAS DONE WAS DETERMINED TO BE BEYOND WHAT WAS AUTHORIZED UNDER THAT DEMOLITION PERMIT.
WAS THE STOP WORK ORDER ISSUED? YES.
AND WORK WAS STOPPED AND HAS BEEN STOPPED.
AND SO THAT HAS BEEN REMEDIED AND THE YES, THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS NOW OKAY WITH YOU PROCEEDING OR NOT, OR WHAT? WELL, WE ARE NOT PROCEEDING UNTIL WE HAVE APPROVALS AND THEN WE'LL GO TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT FOR BUILDING PERMITS.
SO WAS ALL DEMOLITION DONE NOW? NO.
AND, AND BY THE WAY, THE, THE BUILDING IS NOT BEING DEMOLISHED.
BUT DEMOLITION IS DEMOLITION, RIGHT? I'M, I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU'RE TAKING DOWN THE BUILDING THAT YOU STARTED OFF YOUR PRESENTATION SAID WE DID, WE'RE DOING NOTHING TO THE BUILDING.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, I JUST, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU GIVE, GIVE YOU APPROVALS THAT THERE'LL BE NO FURTHER MISUNDERSTANDING REGARDING WHAT'S ALLOWED UNDER A PERMIT.
AND I ASSUME OUR BUILDING INSPECTOR'S GONNA BE MONITORING THAT, BUT I THOUGHT I SHOULD RAISE IT BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY NOT THE WAY TO OPERATE, PARTICULARLY SINCE WE WERE TRYING TO HELP YOU SEE WHAT THE PITFALLS COULD BE, SUCH AS THE TRAFFIC
IT, IT WAS, IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS HAPPENED AND IT'S BEEN A, EVERYONE IS CLEAR NOW OKAY.
ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK THEN? I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE CALL PAT, YOU SIGNED UP TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC HEARING.
DO YOU, THIS IS, OH MY QUESTION, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING.
MY QUESTION IS, WE HAVE A MAP THERE AND WITH THAT MAP, I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, I WAS ASKING HER A QUESTION AND THAT, WHERE EXACTLY ARE WE WITH THE DRAINAGE? BECAUSE THE MAP IS SMALL AND YOU CAN'T REALLY GIVE IT, YOU KNOW, WITH DETAIL.
SO GARY COULD, SO MORE OR LESS, YOU KNOW, POINT OUT WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT WE'RE DISCUSSING WITH THE WATER, WITH THE DRAINAGE, BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW SELMA RIVER PARKWAY, WELL, SELMA RIVER ROAD NINE, EIGHT, AND THE PARKWAY, WITH ALL THE REMOVAL OF ALL OF THE FOLIAGE AND EVERYTHING THAT'S GONNA INCREASE THE FLOODING ON THOSE STREETS.
SO THAT'S WHY, UM, THAT WAS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS.
SO JUST TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION, UM, WE ARE, WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE SITE, WE'RE PROPOSING A DECREASE IN PERIA SURFACE WITH THAT DECREASE IN SURFACE IS A DECREASE IN RUNOFF OF THE PROPERTY.
SO RIGHT NOW THAT, THAT'S A VERY
WE'RE PUTTING BACK LANDSCAPE ISLANDS AND PLANTING AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF HARD SURFACE ON THE PROPERTY.
WHERE IT'S, WHERE IT'S DRAINING IS RIGHT CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, THIS SOUTHERN EDGE, WHICH YOU KIND OF MOVING THE HAND ACROSS, CAN YOU SEE THAT THIS WHOLE EDGE HERE? THERE'S, THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO COLLECTION SYSTEM THERE.
THE WATER JUST RUNS OFF THE PAVEMENT ONTO THE, ONTO THAT VERY STEEP STOVE AND DUMPS
SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE CURBING THAT TO KEEP THE WATER UP ON TOP, PUTTING IT INTO THE STRUCTURES WITH PIPE.
AND THEN WE'RE PUTTING IT INTO TWO, TWO HYDRODYNAMIC SEPARATORS RIGHT HERE, WHICH ARE BASICALLY, THEY'RE CHAMBERS THAT COLLECT TRASH, THEY COLLECT GRID, THEY COLLECT THOSE THINGS BEFORE IT DUMPED INTO THE RIGHT.
AND THEN THE PROPOSED, WE'RE KEEPING IT UP ON OUR PROPERTY TREE, PUTTING IT
HE'S WATCHING THE, THAT'S GOING DOWN.
SO THOSE, THOSE SEPARATORS ARE, ARE COLLECTION 27.
THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE SUPPLEMENT.
AND YOU'RE ALSO GONNA CLEAN OUT THE DEBRIS THAT EXISTS THERE.
NOW THAT'S THE OTHER THING I MENTIONED IS THERE, THERE'S DEBRIS ALONG THIS CORRIDOR ALONG THE WHOLE DOOR THERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE APPLICANT'S COMMITTED TO CLEANING UP THAT TRUCK.
AND AGAIN, THE PROPERTY LINE KIND OF MEANDERS THROUGH THE CENTER OF THAT TRUCK.
BUT, AND THEY'LL CLEAN THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS.
I MEAN, THEY'RE NOT GONNA WANT IT.
THEY'RE, IT'S A CAR DEALERSHIP.
THEY'RE GONNA BE BRINGING JUST PEOPLE THAT ARE GONNA BE SHOPPING.
THEY'RE NOT GONNA WANT IT TO LOOK RIGHT.
WE HAVE NO FURTHER REQUESTS TO SPEAK ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING.
THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN, UM, FOR SEVEN DAYS.
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YOU WANNA CLOSE THE HEARING? CLOSE THE HEARING, AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR 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.]
PUBLIC COMMENTS.DID JUDITH HAVE A LIST? WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.
CLIFF, I'M FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
WAIT, DON, I'M NOT EVEN TALKING YOU, I'M TALKING TO GINA BECAUSE HOLD ON.
LOOK, CLIFF, I'M NOT GOING NOWHERE.
THAT'S JUST KEEP, THAT'S JUST KEEPING, I'M NOT GOING.
NO, I'M GONNA BE RIGHT HERE AND WE CAN JUST HAVE A, HAVE THAT CONVERSATION CONVERSATION WITH YOU.
YOU MADE A STATEMENT WHY THIS LADY'S GRAPHER WAS TYPING.
WE START THE CLOCK ABOUT, AND YOU MENTIONED MY NAME AND I GOT THE RIGHT TO RESPOND TO WHAT YOU SAID.
YOU DIDN'T SAY YOU DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU GOT THIS PERSON COMES IN SO THEY DON'T HEAR IT.
NOW SHE'S LEAVING, SHE PACKING UP.
SO IT'S NOT GONNA BE ON RECORD WHAT YOU SAID TO ME AND WHAT MY RESPONSE IS, IT'S BEING TAKEN.
THAT'S IT'S, IT'S A PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO WHAT'S GOING ON? ANYWAY, SO GINA, FIRST OF ALL, CLIFF ABRAMS, LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE COUNTY OF GREENBURG, DISTRICT LEADER COMMISSIONER ON THE COMMUNITY OF THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
SO I DID ASK FOR IT TO BE DOWN.
THE REASON WHY THEY MARCHING ON O TERRYTOWN ROAD THEN TO MANHATTAN AVENUE BECAUSE THE FIRST, WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED, IT WENT STRAIGHT FROM HERE TO ONE 19.
AND I CAME TO THE BOARD MEETING AND I SAID TO PAUL, WHY AIN'T YOU GOING TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE THE PEOPLE'S AT? THEN YOU'RE CHANGED IT TO OLD TERRYTOWN ROAD TO MANHATTAN AVENUE.
SO THE REASON WHY I ASKED FOR IT TO BE, FIRST OF ALL, I'M ALL ABOUT DIVERSITY.
I'M A CHRISTIAN AND I HAVE BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY.
SO WHEN I SAY TO HAVE IT AT KITTY LAND OR YOSEMITE PARK, IT'S BECAUSE TO HAVE IT AT, WE FIELD A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD.
I SAY THAT, WHY CAN'T WE HAVE IT AT THE YOSEMITE PARK? SO PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY CAN EITHER WALK THERE AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE TO GET THERE BECAUSE IT'S A NEW HOLIDAY.
AND MOST PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DON'T KNOW ABOUT JUNETEENTH NEITHER.
SO EDUCATION, THEY CAN'T COME TO YOUR SOMEBODY PARK, THEY GOT CARS, THEY CAN STILL BE A PART OF IT.
NOBODY SAID TO ELIMINATE THEM.
AND WHAT KILLS ME MORE IS THAT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S ALWAYS WHEN A BLACK PERSON IS PROUD OF BEING WHO THEY ARE.
THAT WE ALWAYS GOTTA EDUCATE THEM.
BUT I NEVER HEARD OF ANY OTHER RACE ASIANS COMING INTO BLACK COMMUNITIES TO TEACH US ABOUT WHO THEY ARE.
I NEVER HEARD JEWISH PEOPLE WHEN IT COME TO THEIR HOLIDAY OR EVENT TO COME INTO BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD TO TEACH US WHO THEY ARE.
BUT IT'S ALWAYS US THAT FEEL THAT WE HAVE TO TEACH PEOPLE WHO WE ARE.
LIKE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO US.
SO YES, I DID SAY IT SHOULD BE AT YOSEMITE PARK BECAUSE HOW IS THE YOUTH AND THE SENIOR CITIZENS FROM FAIRVIEW GOING TO GET OVER TO YOSEMITE PARK IS A POPULAR COMMUNITY RESOURCE SUPPLYING HOURLY BUSES TO TRANSPORT PEOPLE THERE.
SO HOW DO PEOPLE GET OVER THERE? SO THAT'S WHY I'VE MENTIONED IT SHOULD BE IN FAIRVIEW INSTEAD OF DALE.
SO AS WE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST, WE HAVE PROVIDED BUSES THAT LEASE.
OH, THAT WAS MY PUBLIC COMMENT TIME.
YEAH, PLEASE STOP THE CLOCK FOR A MINUTE, JULIE.
SEE? SEE Y'ALL ARE SO SLICK, RIGHT? NO, CLIFF, WE OPENED PUBLIC COMMENT.
YEAH, I RESPONDED BACK TO WHAT GINA SAID TO ME.
BUT THAT THIS IS, WE SAID YOU COULD USE YOUR FIVE MINUTES.
SO DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY THEN SAY IT BECAUSE IT'S YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT, TODD.
THEY DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE THAT.
I'M JUST TELLING YOU ITS PUBLIC COMMENT THERE.
I'M TALKING, I'M JUST TELLING YOU IT'S PUBLIC COMMENT.
IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO SAY, SAY IT.
MY PHONE, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU PICK THE THREE MINUTES BACK ON FOR MY PUBLIC COMMENT? YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES LEFT.
CAN YOU PICK MY THREE MINUTES BACK ON FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? YOU, YOU USED THOSE THREE MINUTES.
WE'LL, WE'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
I WOULDN'T EVEN RUNG THAT UP IF I KNEW THAT YOUR ACCOUNT HAD PUBLIC COMMENT.
IT WAS TOLD TO YOU SEVERAL TIMES.
BECAUSE GINA SAID TO ME THAT I'D BE ABLE TO RESPOND BACK TO WHAT SHE SAID DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.
LISTEN TO THE TAPE DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO, UM, SO I JUST WANT TO, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT THAT TOWN SUPERVISOR BY NEW YORK STATE LAW PRESIDES OVER THE MEETING
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OF THE TOWN BOARD.IF IT IS, IF IT IS MR. FINE'S DECISION TO MAKE, I WHY DON'T JUST GIVE HIM TWO MINUTES EXTRA.
OH, WE'LL GET WHY DON'T YOU JUST, WHY DON'T WAIT, WHY DON'T YOU JUST, WE'RE WASTING A LOT OF TIME.
WHY DON'T YOU JUST, WHY DON'T WE JUST HAVE THE CONVERSATION AND JUST STILL TALK AND THEN I'M ASKING YOU TO GIVE TWO MORE MINUTES ON THE CLOCK.
HE SAID IF IT UP TO WE DO IT, THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO IT TO EVERYBODY ELSE'S.
YOU KNOW WHAT? WHY DON'T WE, CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? WHY DON'T WE GET, SAY TODAY PEOPLE, WHY DON'T WE SAY WE'LL GIVE EVERYBODY TWO MINUTES EXTRA TODAY.
THERE'S NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE HERE.
SO LOOK, EVERYBODY SPEAK AND WE'LL GIVE EVERYBODY WHO WANTS IT.
SO PAUL FINDER, COMMITTEE SUPERVISOR FINDER SENT ME, UH, EMAILS.
CLIFF, I HAVE RECEIVED A FOLLOWING TEXT MESSAGE FROM FRANCIS OBJECTING TO THE CERTIFICATE I GAVE YOU IN THE PAST.
I HAVE ISSUED CERTIFICATES WHERE I'VE ASKING OTHER BOARD MEMBER FOR PERMISSION TO ADD THEIR NAME TO THE CERTIFICATE.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME A BOARD MEMBER OBJECTED.
OTHER BOARD MEMBER ALSO OBJECTED TO HAVING THEIR NAME ON A CERTIFICATE.
ALTHOUGH I HAD DISAGREED WITH YOU, WITH YOUR
I CAN ASK CHRISTIE TO PREPARE A CERTIFICATE WITH MY NAME ONLY ON IT.
IF THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS DON'T WANT THEIR NAME ON THE CERTIFICATE IN THE FUTURE, I WOULD NOT GIVE OUT PROCLAMATION CERTIFICATES FOR OTHER BOARD MEMBER NAMES ON IT UNLESS THEY APPROVE.
I SUBMITTED THAT WHEN I WAS ACCOUNTED LEGISLATED.
THE SAME PROCESS FOLLOWED LEGISLATION DID NOT NEED TO APPROVE OF ANYONE ELSE TO ISSUE PROCLAMATION HONORING COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
FRANCIS CLIFF, UM, CLIFF GOING FORWARD.
HE SAID, FRANCIS, WANT ME TO GET BACK TO A CERTIFICATE WITH CLIFF'S NAME ON IT? PAUL, YOU NEED TO GET THAT CERTIFICATE BACK.
I DO NOT WANT MY NAME ON A CERTIFICATE.
I TOLD YOU I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE CLEAR.
GET IT BACK AND REISSUE IT WITH YOUR, WITH JUST YOUR NAME ON IT.
NO ONE THAT I HAVE EVER SPOKEN TO HAVE MADE ANTI-SEMITIC REMARKS AS CLIFF.
HE DID THAT, HE DID THAT IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE BOARD, INCLUDING YOU IS HYPOCRITICAL, IS HYPOCRITICAL OF YOU TO HONOR CLIFF AND THEREFORE HONOR HIS UNAPOLOGETIC ANTI ANTI-SEMITIC WHILE YOU OPPOSE AN IMAGE ON OF OTHER ANTI-SEMITIC.
TALKING ABOUT MINISTER FARON RETRACTED CERTIFICATE AND EXPOSURE HYPOCRITE ISSUE AND IT AND TO CLIFF ON YOUR OWN.
ALSO, WE ARE IN LITIGATION BECAUSE OF CLIFF.
JOSEPH NOW HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS.
AND THE HARM THIS WILL DO TO POTENTIALLY LIABILITIES.
THIS WILL HAVE ON THE TAXPAYER SENT BY THE IPHONE.
THEN ELLEN SAID, PAUL, DO YOU GET THE CERTIFICATE BACK YET FROM CLIFF? YES YOU DID.
SO THEN THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT I, WHERE DOES IT SAY THAT? YOU WANNA READ THAT TO US? THAT'S ON ANOTHER EMAIL FINISH.
WE CAN'T KEEP STOPPING THE CLOCK.
LET, WE DON'T MAKE STUFF UP, CLIFF.
AND DON'T CALL ME NAMES EITHER BECAUSE I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU.
BUT ANYWAY, UM, YEAH, YOU ARE VERY RUDE.
IT'S ONLY EMAIL IF ANYBODY WANT TO SEE IT.
WELL, ELLA, AFTER YOU RETRIEVE IT SAID THE EMAIL.
SO ANYWAY, I DID NOT, SO I GOT A AWARD FROM NOT WITH THE COMMUNITY, FROM THE COMMUNITY HONORING MY ACTIVISM AND PAUL GAVE IT TO ME.
AND IT WASN'T A, IT WASN'T A PROCLAMATION, IT WASN'T A, UM, A PLAQUE.
IT WAS A PIECE OF PAPER THAT THEY WANTED BACK BECAUSE THEY SAID I'M AN ANTI-SEMITIC.
BUT FRANCIS, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT I SAID THAT WAS ANTI-SEMITIC? AND DO YOU AND GINA AND KEN DO YOUR FILM ANTI-SEMITIC? I WANT TO KNOW.
YOU'RE STILL, STILL HAVE TIME.
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YOU KNOW, AND I KNOW YOU WASN'T GONNA ANSWER IT, BUT I JUST, ONE OF THOSE SUPPOSEDLY HYPOCRITES UP HERE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA CALL ME A ANTI-SEMITIC BECAUSE I'M UNAPOLOGETIC BLACK.NO, I THINK IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE ANTI-SEMITIC ACTUALLY.
HOW CAN YOU FALL ANTI NET? YOU KNOW? HUH? HOW CAN YOU PROVE ON, I I'M NOT GETTING INTO CONVERSATION WITH YOU.
THIS IS THIS BOARD HERE WITH JUST LIKE A PLANTATION.
YOUR, YOUR TIME IS UP CLIFF AND AFRAID TO STAND UP AND LOOK AT Y'ALL AND FIGHT FOR MY COMMUNITY.
ELLEN CLIFF, YOU HAD YOUR SEVEN MINUTES PLEASE.
SO EVERYBODY ELSE GETS SEVEN MINUTES NOW, HELEN, RIGHT? YES.
HELEN, YOU CAN PICK UP THE MIC AND MOVE IT DOWN.
WELL SHE CAN HOLD IT IN HER HAND.
UM, I'M NOT SPEAKING ON THIS TOPIC.
PUBLIC COMMENT, ANY TOPIC YOU WILL, ANYTHING YOU WANT.
I'M SPEAKING ANYTHING YOU WANT, ANYTHING.
YOU, I'M NOT SPEAKING ON THIS TOPIC, BUT I WILL SAY THIS, WHAT I CAME TO SAY THIS EVENING, MAKE CHANGE SOMEWHAT.
I AM TRULY STRESSED AT WHAT I HAVE SEEN THIS EVENING IS BEHAVIOR.
THE TYPE OF LANGUAGE THAT HAS GONE BACK AND FORTH WITH YOU.
THIS IS NOT THE COMMUNITY WHERE I THOUGHT I WAS LIVING.
THIS IS TRULY BREAKING MY HEART.
IF WE CAN'T DO ANY BETTER THAN THIS BACK AND FORTH LIKE THIS TO THE AUDIENCE, THE COUNCIL PEOPLE, WE HAVE MORE OF A PROBLEM THAN WE THINK WE HAVE ABOUT WHEN WE'RE GONNA CELEBRATE AND HOW WE'RE GONNA CELEBRATE JUNE.
WE NEED TO GET THIS TOGETHER AND WE NEED TO GET THIS TOGETHER.
NOW MY COMMENTS THIS EVENING WHEN I CAME WERE SIMPLY SAID, I'M HELEN DANIELS, A RESIDENT OF GREENBURG.
AND
AND THE FRUSTRATION WAS I COULD NOT UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS.
'CAUSE I DIDN'T SEE A PROCESS.
IT SEEMED TO ME THE PRIOR THIS BEGIN WITH ANY MEETING, THE WHOLE PROCESS WOULD BE EXPLAINED TO THOSE IN THE AUDIENCE SO THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS IS IN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
AND THAT WE WOULD ADHERE TO THE PROCESS.
I WAS, I WAS ACTUALLY PLEASED THIS EVENING WHEN I RECEIVED A WRITTEN AGENDA AS TO
WHAT I'D LIKE TO ALSO SAY, I'D LIKE TO HEAR IS TO ENSURE THAT THE MICROPHONES ARE IN SUCH A WAY THAT PEOPLE HEAR NOT JUST ONLY IN THE FRONT, BUT ALSO IN THE REAR IS SEEN TO THIS EVENING.
THERE HAS BEEN A MORE EVENNESS WITHIN THE MICROPHONES LAST MEETING IF DEFINITELY WAS NOT PEOPLE IN THE REAR COULD NOT HEAR.
MANY OF US ATTENDED THE MEETING LAST MONTH.
ONE SUPPORT OUR COLLEAGUE WHO WAS SPEAKING.
AND BECAUSE THE MICROPHONES WERE SO BLANK AND BECAUSE THE PROCESS WAS NOT EXPLAINED, WE BECAME EXTREMELY EXTREME.
SO JUST IN CONCLUSION FOR MY ORIGINAL CONFIDENCE, I WOULD HOPE IN THE FUTURE THERE'S AN ENESS IN THE MICROPHONES PROCESS IS EXPLAINED, AGENDA IS PROVIDED AND THAT WE ACTUALLY BRING FORTH TESTIMONY, NOT CONVERSATION.
AND I'LL CONCLUDE IT BY SAYING, PLEASE, LET'S NOT EVER HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC MEETING WE'VE HAD THIS EVENING.
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AND JUST A, WE'RE UM, WE JUST REPLACED OUR SYSTEM BECAUSE IT WAS INADEQUATE.SO HOPEFULLY YOUR REQUEST WILL BE FULFILLED AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO HEAR THINGS IN THE BACK.
WE, WE JUST UNDERWENT A SIX FIGURE RENOVATION, GUTTING THE STUDIO SO THAT THERE'S NO MORE LEGACY EQUIPMENT ATTACHED TO NEW EQUIPMENT ATTACHED TO LEGACY EQUIPMENT.
UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, I UNDERSTAND THE ZOOM.
I I ACTUALLY, THERE WAS NO SOUND GOING OUT AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE MEETING.
UH, THE EVENING OF THE MICROPHONES IS GOOD TO HEAR 'CAUSE WE USUALLY HEARD FROM THE BACK AS TO WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.
UH, UM, THERE ARE SOME ISSUES WITH OUR MICROPHONES THAT STILL HAVE TO BE WORKED OUT, BUT LIKE, IN ANY, ANY MAJOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, AND THAT'S WHAT WENT ON HERE FOR 10 DAYS, UH, THAT'S WHY THERE WAS NO MEETINGS BEING BROADCAST LIVE LAST WEEK.
UH, UH, THERE'S GONNA BE SOME, SOME TWEAKING THAT STILL HAS TO BE DONE.
BUT I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT THERE'S AN IMPROVEMENT OVER.
AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD TO THAT, THAT, UM, WHEN THE CABLE ACCESS STUDIO WAS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MY OFFICE FOR APPROXIMATELY 10 YEARS, I RECOMMENDED AN OVERHAUL TO THE SYSTEM.
AND SO I'M VERY GLAD TO SEE THAT IT IS TAKING PLACE.
DISTRICT LEADER AND MEMBER TYSON.
UM, FIRST THING, I JUST WANTED TO, I DID EVERYTHING HELP HAD SAID AS FAR AS HOW THIS MEETING WENT TONIGHT.
I AM JUST LIKE, I'LL SIT BACK THERE.
BUT, UM, LIKE SHE SAID, WE NEED TO DO BETTER.
BUT MY COMMENTS ARE, UM, BASICALLY, I MEANT TO BRING THIS UP BEFORE, BUT BECAUSE WE'RE ON BACK AND FORTH OF LEAF BLOWERS, I FORGOT ALL ABOUT IT.
BUT, UM, I WAS, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT, UH, THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE THAT WE DID NOT HAVE HERE IN GREENBURG.
AND I WAS UPSET 'CAUSE WE USUALLY START FROM THE FIREHOUSE AND WE WALKED TO THE POLICE STATION AND THEY DO THEIR LITTLE RINGING UP THE BELL KIND OF THING, THE LITTLE CEREMONY.
AND I WAS UPSET BECAUSE ME AND MY FAMILY AND A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE ATTENDED, ATTENDED.
SO I KIND OF INVESTIGATED A LITTLE BIT AND KIND OF FOUND OUT THAT, THAT THEY'RE GOING, THEY'RE TRYING NOT TO HAVE IT ANYMORE BECAUSE THEY'RE SAYING OF THE TRAFFIC.
BUT HOW COULD THAT BE? BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, THE TRAFFIC IS NOT STOPPED THAT LONG.
AND WHEN THEY'RE WALKING DOWN, THEY'RE WALKING ON ONE SIDE, WHICH ONE SIDE IS STOPPED AND THEY COME, GO TO POLICE HEADQUARTERS, YOU COME BACK AND YOU WALK ON THE OTHER SIDE.
SO NOT ONLY I WAS CONCERNED, BUT, UH, OTHER PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT WHY A PARADE DIDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE IS A LITTLE MOTOR CAME WITH THE PARADE AND THE POLICE DO BLOCK THE STREETS.
PEOPLE DO BE WAVING WHEN THEY, THE TRAFFIC IS STOPPED.
THEY DO WAVE, THEY BLOW THEIR HORNS AND ALL THAT KIND OF THING.
LIKE YOU SAID, WITH THE JUNETEENTH PARADE THAT'S COMING UP.
AND, UM, I THINK IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN WHAT IT HAS BEEN SO THAT WE START NOW AND START PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR.
THINGS COULD BE BETTER AND WE SHOULD HAVE IT.
SO HE WAS SAYING, I HEAR THAT, THAT WORK IN THE WORKS TO TRY NOT TO HAVE IT AT ALL.
AND I DON'T THINK THAT IS, UH, APPROPRIATE BECAUSE EVERY TOWN SHOULD ATE AND CELEBRATE MEMORIAL STATE.
SO WHY SHOULD GREENBURG BE ANY DIFFERENT? WE WANT TO STAND OUT, WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW ABOUT GREENBERG.
SO LET'S GREENBERG HAVE OUR OWN MEMORIAL DAY PARADE THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHO TOLD YOU THAT, BUT AS YOU KNOW, I GAVE THE SPEECH AT THE, AT THE PARADE.
I'M IN, UH, CLOSE CONTACT WITH THE FIRE CHIEF AND ALSO THE POLICE CHIEF.
AND WE HONOR THE DECEASED, UH, FIREFIGHTERS AND THE DECEASED, UH, POLICE OFFICERS SINCE THE LAST MEMORIAL DAY.
UH, IT'S NOT, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, THEY'RE NOT TRYING TO DO AWAY WITH IT.
THERE WERE CIRCUMSTANCES THIS, THIS YEAR THAT PREVENTED THE MOTORCADE HAVING NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TRAFFIC.
UH, IT HAD TO DO WITH STAFFING.
I I THINK THAT THE MOST, ONE OF THE MOST EM EMOTIONAL CEREMONIES IS THE SOUNDING OF THAT BELL.
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YOU KNOW, I PUT IT INTO MY SPEECHES, IF YOU'VE HEARD THEM IN THE PAST, UH, WHERE THEY SOUND THE BELL FOR EVERY FIREFIGHTER WHO HAS PASSED AT FAIRVIEW.UH, AND, UH, AS THAT, THAT BELL, YOU KNOW, IT GETS SOUNDED.
AND AS IT FADES OUT, IT, IT'S QUITE TOUCHING BECAUSE IT SYMBOLIZES THE, THE PASSING OF THAT FIREFIGHTER.
YES, I WOULD LIKE THAT TO COME BACK.
I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THAT, BUT I DON'T THINK THERE'S A MOVE TO DO AWAY WITH MEMORIAL DAY IN THERE.
AND I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS.
I'M TOTALLY, I, I'M TOTALLY UPSET WITH YOU GUYS BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE BETTER THAN THIS.
THE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT YOU GUYS, THE WORLD, WORLD.
WE BRAG, YOU KNOW, I BRAGGED ABOUT YOU GUYS.
I BRAGGED ABOUT GINA, I BRAG ABOUT ELLEN.
I BRAG ABOUT, I BRAGGED ABOUT YOU GUYS AND THE WORLD SAYING, HOW COULD Y'ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHEN YOU, YOU GUYS CAN'T DEAL WITH THE DEAL WITH OTHERS.
I, I'M TOTALLY SURPRISED BECAUSE YOU ARE BETTER THAN THAT.
WHATEVER IS GOING ON WITH THE PERSONNEL, WITH CLIFF, THAT'S Y'ALL ISSUES.
THE PUBLIC AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
THE COMMUNITY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO VOTE FOR WHOEVER THEY WANT TO VOTE FOR.
NOW, IF YOU GUYS, I, THE WHITE PLAINS VOTED FOR HIM.
THEY GAVE HIM AN OUTSTANDING, NOW, WHATEVER THE ISSUE YOU GUYS GOT, WE AIN'T GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT ISSUE.
WE WANT Y'ALL TO DO RIGHT BY US, BY EVERYBODY.
THIS IS WHY MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A SLAVE.
I CARRY HER NAME FROM BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI.
I CARRY MY NAME WHEN I WALK OUT HERE.
I WALK TALL AND I'M BRINGING SOME BIG PEOPLE.
AND Y'ALL ACTING LIKE THIS, ELLEN.
AND THAT'S WHY I APOLOGIZE, ELLEN, BECAUSE I KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOUR NAME IS ON THE TOP OF IT.
AND I GOT TEARS IN MY EYES BECAUSE ALL PEOPLE, I'M SURPRISED OF EVERY ONE OF Y'ALL.
AND I'M SURPRISED THAT YOU INSTANCE IF YOU SAID THAT, BECAUSE NUMBER ONE, ANYBODY IS WEAPON.
THAT MEANS I CAN GO AND PICK ANY THE COMMUNITY TO PICK ANYBODY THEY WANT.
WHETHER Y'ALL GOT PERSONNEL PROBLEMS. Y'ALL KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF.
BUT Y'ALL ARE Y'ALL REPRESENTING EVERYBODY.
AND WHEN YOU SPEAK LIKE THAT, EVERYBODY SEE HOW YOU SPEAK.
SO IF YOU GUYS SAID, Y'ALL, Y'ALL NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND YOU NEED TO APOLOGIZE AND YOU NEED TO CHANGE YOUR WORDS BECAUSE DON'T STAND UP IN THAT PARADE IF YOU NOT REAL, BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WE WENT THROUGH.
YOU WASN'T BEHIND WHEN MY GRANDMOTHER WAS CHANGING MISSISSIPPI
SO WHEN WE WERE, WHEN WE CAME OUT ON SATURDAY, WE CAME OUT PROUD.
AND WHEN WE COME OUT THIS TIME, WE WANNA COME OUT PROUD.
AND I'M JUST A, I'M JUST TOO UPSET TO SPEAK THE WAY I REALLY WANNA SAY BECAUSE I HAVE GOD IN MY LIFE.
BUT I REALLY WANT TO SAY SOMETHING TO EVERY ONE OF YOU GUYS, EXCEPT TO PEOPLES, AND I'M GONNA SAY THIS, FRANCIS, YOU, YOU, IF YOU, YOU OLD APOLOGY, IF CAN'T, IF YOU SAY, OH, HE THINK TO YOURSELF, YOU OLD APOLOGY BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SEE YOUR MAKEUP.
WHEN ME AND YOU WENT AT IT, YOU KNOW WHAT EVERYBODY TOLD ME TO DO.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I TOLD EVERYBODY I CARE.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMEONE, YOU KEEP IT TO YOURSELF AND YOU WORK AROUND THE COMMUNITY.
WE VOTED FOR YOU GUYS TO BE IN THE COMMUNITY TO WORK FOR US LIKE MICHELLE OBAMA,
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ROCK OBAMA, AND HILLARY CLINTON.PRESTON, DON'T BE FRIGHTENED WHEN I'M TALKING.
I I'M TELLING HER SHE HAS A MOSQUITO ON HER.
DON'T I WANT YOU TO DO RIGHT BY EVERYBODY.
ALRIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD, AND I'M NOT GOING TO ADDRESS 'CAUSE I HAVE TO DISCUSS IT WITH OUR, UM, ATTORNEY.
I'VE NEVER HEARD AS ANTI-SEMITIC COMMENTS AS I'VE HEARD FROM CLIFF.
A UH, EVERY I STAND BY EVERYTHING I SAID IN THE EMAIL THAT WENT TO PAUL, WHICH APPARENTLY WENT TO CLIFF.
I HAVE A RIGHT AND YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO NOT HAVE SOMEBODY PUT YOUR NAME ON A DOCUMENT THAT YOU DON'T AGREE TO, BUT YOU ARE.
SUPERVISOR FINER HAS BEEN OUTSPOKEN ABOUT FARRAKHAN AND HIS ANTISEMITISM.
AND THEN HE SENDS A GLOWING CERTIFICATE.
ACCORDING PAUL, IT'S JUST A CERTIFICATE.
IT MEANS SOMETHING TO ME WHEN MY NAME IS ON IT.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS WRITING TO PAUL.
I SENT TO PAUL, TO PAUL, AND THEN HE SENT IT OUT.
I SAID TO PAUL, I DON'T WANT MY NAME ON CERTIFICATES THAT I DON'T AGREE TO.
BUT DID YOU TALK, I HAVE THAT RIGHT.
WHAT HAPPENED? I, I WROTE TO PAUL AND APPARENTLY PAUL SENT IT OUT.
WELL, YOU THE RETRIEVE WHAT HE SUPPOSED TO DO.
'CAUSE I DON'T LIKE MY NAME BEING ON SOMETHING THAT I DID NOT ACTUALLY SIGN.
AND I, AND I'M NOT GONNA GONNA, I'M NOT GONNA GET INTO A DEBATE.
SO WHY I, IF YOU WANT, BECAUSE I'M RESPONDED.
COULD YOU, COULD YOU STOP INTERRUPTING ME? NO, CLIFF, YOU HAD YOUR SEVEN MINUTES.
I HAVE A RIGHT, I HAVE A REPUTATION.
MY SIGNATURE MEANS SOMETHING TO ME.
AND WHEN SOMETHING HAS MY NAME ON IT, YOU CAN TRUST THAT I AGREE WITH WHAT IT SAYS.
THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
AND THE HYPOCRISY, WHICH WAS WHY I WAS ADDRESSING IT TO PAUL, OF BEING SO OUTSPOKEN ABOUT FARRAKHAN AND THEN SENDING THIS CERTIFICATE PRAISING CLIFF.
I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY PART OF THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF US HAVING LITIGATION GOING ON.
I DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE ANY PART OF THAT.
SO IF YOU WANT AT SOME POINT, THEN IT'S CLEARED BY OUR TOWN ATTORNEY.
I'LL READ HIS WORDS IN WRITING, WHICH I BELIEVE TO BE ANTI-SEMITIC.
AND I DON'T THINK HOW YOU COULD JUDGE ANY OTHER WAY.
I DIDN'T, I DON'T STAND UP HERE AND SAY THAT.
BUT IT'S RAISED NOW IT'S PUT OUT THERE AND NOW IT'S ALL FRANCIS.
WHAT DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU DO? MY NAME MEANS SOMETHING.
AND WHEN YOU SEE MY NAME ON A DOCUMENT SOMETHING TOO, I AGREE.
YOU KNOW, I'VE OBVIOUSLY AGREED TO IT.
THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENED HERE.
I DON'T THINK ANY ONE OF YOU WOULD AGREE TO HAVE IN YOUR NAME, PUT ON A DOCUMENT YOU HAVEN'T SEEN AND YOU DON'T AGREE TO.
IT'S JUST WRONG HOW YOU SPEAK THIS, THIS IS A, THERE IS A PROCESS HERE, AND THANK YOU FOR REMINDING US.
AND YES, THERE IS AN AGENDA AND WE WERE TRYING TO KEEP TO THE AGENDA.
AND THERE WAS SOMEONE, AND AND THERE'S SOMEONE WHO'S INTERRUPTING ME NOW.
AND I GAVE HIM THE RESPECT OF LISTENING TO HIM WHEN IT WAS TURN TO SPEAK.
AND ALL WE TRIED TO TELL HIM WAS THAT HE WAS ALLOWED, CERTAINLY WELCOME TO SPEAK DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.
IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE NOW, IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS ANYTHING TO SAY IN PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE SPEAK.
AND AND PLEASE MADAM CLERK IS IS, UM, I TURN IT OVER TO YOU.
LET ME JUST SAY ONE THING BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, I WANNA SAY, I THINK THAT WE ALL HAVE TO, UH, RESPECT EACH OTHER AND WE ALL DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH EACH OTHER ON EVERYTHING.
AND CLIFF AND I HAVE HAD DIFFERENCES ON THE WALL ON THE MURAL, BUT I ALSO APPRECIATE THAT CLIFF HAS WORKED REALLY HARD FOR THE COMMUNITY.
YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER, UM, YOU KNOW, HIM, UH, CLIFF FOCUSING ON, UH, SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH WE PUT ON OLD TARRYTOWN ROAD.
UM, I KNOW THAT CLIFF CARES DEEPLY ABOUT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE NOT WORKING, UM, MORE HARDCORE UNEMPLOYED.
AND HE HAS TRIED UPLIFTING, YOU KNOW, THEIR LIVES, WHICH I REALLY APPRECIATE.
I FEEL THAT CLIFF RELATES TO PEOPLE WHO, UM, YOU KNOW, HE MAY NOT BE THE SLICKEST PERSON OR THE SMOOTHEST PERSON, BUT HE UNDERSTANDS PEOPLE WHO MAY NOT BE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SOME
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OF THE PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER.YOU KNOW, I FEEL THAT CLIFF HAS ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT HAVING MORE PROGRAMS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER THAT WOULD, UM, THAT WOULD ADDRESS THAT WOULD GET PEOPLE WHO NORMALLY DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE CENTER.
AND I STARTED OUT WHEN I WAS A POLITICAL ACTIVIST, YOU KNOW, YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
UM, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO ATTEND BOARD MEETINGS TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES.
UH, YOU KNOW, I I FEEL THAT EVERYBODY, UM, I FEEL THAT'S WHAT DEMOCRACY IS ALL ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T MIND IT WHEN PEOPLE CRITICIZE ME, YOU KNOW? AND I FEEL THAT THAT'S GOOD.
THAT'S WHY, WHY WE HAVE A MEMORIAL DAY PARADE BECAUSE WE'RE HONORING PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT AND DIED.
SO PEOPLE LIKE CLIFF COULD SPEAK OUT.
SO I'M PROUD THAT I GAVE A CERTIFICATE TO CLIFF, EVEN THOUGH I DISAGREE WITH HIM ON THE MURAL ON THINGS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD A GOOD RELATIONSHIP OVER THE YEARS.
WE'VE ALWAYS DISAGREED WITH EACH OTHER AND WE'VE AGREED WITH EACH OTHER ON, ON, ON THINGS.
BUT WOULDN'T IT BE GREAT IN A DEMOCRACY IF PEOPLE COULD, YOU KNOW, IF WE COULD BASICALLY SHOW RESPECT, SHOW APPRECIATION FOR PEOPLE WHO DIFFER AND, UM, AND YOU KNOW, AND REFLECT AND, YOU KNOW, IF HE'S RIGHT, WE LISTEN.
AND IF HE'S WRONG, WE COULD SAY HE'S WRONG.
AND GIVING A CERTIFICATE ISN'T DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE AGREE WITH EVERYTHING.
BUT I WANNA SAY THANK YOU FOR, FOR SPEAKING OUT AT THE BOARD MEETINGS.
THANK YOU FOR, UM, ADVOCATING FOR THE TENANTS AT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE, YOU KNOW, AND I, I SHOULD SAY THAT I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, CLIFF, WE, WE'VE ALWAYS HAD, WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED THINGS.
I REMEMBER HIS STRUGGLES WHEN YOU HAVE THE KIDNEY TRANSPLANT AND HOW YOU WENT FROM SUCH A DIFFICULT SITUATION IN YOUR LIFE AND NOW YOU'RE A, YOU'VE BECOME A CIVIC, A ADVOCATE AND YOU'RE A SPOKESMAN FOR PEOPLE WHO FEEL UNDERREPRESENTED.
UM, I FIRST WOULD LIKE, CAN YOU HEAR ME? I DON'T HAVE IT.
CAN EVERYBODY HEAR ME? CAN YOU HOLD IT CLOSER TO YOUR MOUTH, PAT? GOT IT.
UH, FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO STATE THAT MO UM, BODINE MARY CAME OVER TO ME BEFORE YOU LEFT, AND I'M GLAD THAT Y'ALL HAVE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS, UM, SPEAKERS AND ALSO ABOUT HEARING.
HE HAS ALWAYS STATED THAT HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME SPEAKERS.
AND WITH THE, UM, MONEY THAT WE HAVE, I DON'T SEE WHY THEY CAN'T PUT THE HEARING PROCESSES BEHIND THE CHAIRS THAT ARE STAPLED IN SO THAT THEY CAN HEAR HE LEFT EARLY BECAUSE HE FIGURED HE WASN'T GONNA BE ABLE TO HEAR ANYTHING ANYWAY.
UM, THE SECOND THING IS, UM, SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE COME TO ME AND STATED THAT, UM, THEY MISSED THE, UH, UM, MEMORIAL SERVICE.
THANK YOU SIDNEY, FOR BRINGING IT UP AT THE FIREHOUSE.
AND IT'S DIFFERENT FROM BEING AT THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS THAN AT THE FIREHOUSE.
AND THEY DID SAY THEY WISH IT WAS BACK.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU'RE GONNA PLAN TO DO IT IF THAT'S GONNA BE THE NEW MODE, BUT, UM, PEOPLE DID SPEAK OUT ABOUT NOT HAVING IT AT THE FIREHOUSE.
UM, I'M HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE I WANNA DISCUSS, OF COURSE, DOUBLE STANDARDS AND DISCRIMINATIONS IN THE TOWN THAT ARE TAKING PLACE IN THE TOWN OF, UM, GREENBURG.
IT'S ALIVE AND IT'S GROWING LARGER AND LARGER.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED TO PUT A CAP ON.
UM, THE BLACK COMMUNITY HAS A COMMUNITY CENTER, UM, BUT WE NO LONGER USE IT.
WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE LATINOS THAT ARE HERE, HISPANIC PEOPLE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO.
BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS WE ARE DISPLACING AFRICAN AMERICANS FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND FROM THE HEALTH CENTER.
I WAS ON THE ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE HEALTH CENTER.
BARBARA JEAN COOLEY STARTED IT.
WE USED THE FACILITY WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS. IT WAS GEARED TOWARDS SENIORS AND THE YOUTH.
ANDREA STEWART COUSINS CAME TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER AND DEDICATED THE LOUNGE TO THE YOUTH.
THE YOUTH DON'T GET TO USE IT.
THE COMMUNITY, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT AREN'T BLACK ARE THERE.
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TRY TO GO OUT OF OUR WAY TO SEE TO IT THAT EVERYBODY IS ACCEPTED.BUT GUESS WHAT? THE BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T, THE HISPANIC PEOPLE DON'T SPEAK.
WHEN THE COMMUNITY NO LONGER HAS A CONTROL OVER WHERE THEY CAN GO.
THEY HAVE A BRIDGE PARTY, YOU KNOW, A BRIDGE CLUB TO CANASTA, BIG WHISK, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE CARD GAMES YOU CAN THINK OF.
THEY WENT TO ANTHONY VETERANS PARK, GASOLINE'S, $5 A GALLON, NO BUS, BUT THEY ACCOMMODATED.
THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE PUT IN PLACE ARE NO LONGER THERE.
WE HAVE, UM, I WENT FROM SEVEN MINUTES TO THREE.
IS THAT, DID YOU START IT AT SEVEN? OKAY.
I BROUGHT THIS IN, BUT Y'ALL ALL HAVE A COPY OF THIS.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE, UM, THE ATTORNEY HAS ONE.
OKAY, EVERYBODY, I WANT YOU TO READ IT.
I WANNA DISCUSS BASICALLY THAT WE CANNOT EXPECT BLACK PEOPLE TO ALWAYS COMEDY.
FROM 2000 TO TWO 10, WE LOST 1700 VOTES.
FROM TWO 10 TO TWO 20, WE LOST 9% OF THE BLACK VOTE.
TAKING AWAY OUR POWER AT EVERY PLACE.
I DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN CONTINUE DOING THIS ON THIS STANDARD.
AND I WANNA SAY THAT I WANNA DISCUSS BACK TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
THERE'S GOING TO BE A, UM, WHAT IS IT? A COMMUNITY CENTER WITHOUT WALLS.
ISN'T THAT RIDICULOUS WHEN A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE WORK TO SEE TO IT THAT BLACK PEOPLE HAD SOMEPLACE TO GO OTHER THAN ANTHONY PARK, WHERE WE WEREN'T INVITED AND DIDN'T FEEL COMFORTABLE.
I OF COURSE WENT AND MADE EVERYBODY ELSE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE.
BUT I GOT THERE AND IT WAS AMAZING THAT NO BLACK PEOPLE WERE THERE.
VERY FEW, BUT YET EVERY WHITE PERSON AND ANYBODY THAT COMES TO THAT COMMUNITY CENTER FEELS AT HOME OTHER THAN THE BLACK CHILDREN WHO ARE NO LONGER THERE.
OKAY? I WENT IN TO GET SOME SIGNATURES FOR MY PETITION AT THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER.
AND THE FIRST 15 PEOPLE I ASKED TO, UH, SIGN A PETITION AND WERE THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.
AND FIRST 15 PEOPLE SAID, NO, PEEKSKILL, UM, PORTCHESTER, UM,
HISPANIC PEOPLE HAVE THE, UH, USE OF THE CENTER ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY.
AND I DID NOT SEE NOT ONE EMPLOYEE THAT WAS BLACK AT THE CENTER.
NOW, IF THEY CAN COME HERE AND NOT SPEAK ENGLISH, AND THEY NEED TO LEARN IT, YOU'RE NOT GONNA FIRE AND NOT HIRE BLACK PEOPLE.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHERE I'M COMING FROM, GINA? BECAUSE I, YOU, YOU, YOU NEED TO SPEAK OUT ABOUT THESE THINGS AT A MEETING AND YOU NEED TO LET THE PEOPLE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG RECOGNIZE THAT WE HAVE A POPULATION THAT IS NOT BEING SERVICED AND YOU'RE NOT HELPING.
SO WHAT I WANNA SAY IS BLACK LIVES DON'T MATTER.
IN, IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, YOU WANT THE COMMUNITY CENTER WITHOUT WALLS TO PAY TO PAY YOUR RENT.
WELL, I GOTTA HURRY UP AND SAY THIS, THEY DON'T NEED TO PAY RENT.
I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT BASICALLY THE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE FOLLOWING THE MISSION OF THE, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER.
YOU'RE PAYING THEM, AND YOU'RE IGNORING THE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
OKAY? NOW, BOTTOM LINE, $15,000 MATCHING FUNDS NEEDED IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THAT, IT WAS OBTAINED.
WESTCHESTER COUNTY GAVE THEM $15,000 TO RUN THIS PROGRAM.
THEY NEEDED, UH, A MILLION DOLLAR INSURANCE POLICY.
THEY NEEDED EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL ASKED FOR.
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THAT OLD GAME IS MY BALL AND I CHANGED THE RULES.
EVERYTHING HE DID, Y'ALL CHANGED THE RULES.
AND YOU'RE NOT HELPING THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
WE WILL NOT BE HERE WITHIN 10 YEARS.
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POPULATION OF BLACK PEOPLE FROM ANYWHERE WE ARE WILL NOT BE HERE.AND THAT IS THE FAULT OF BLACK PEOPLE BECAUSE WE VOTE AND WE DON'T VOTE Y OUTTA OFFICE.
ELLEN, AND I HEARD ONE COMMENT FROM, UH, MS. WEEMS, I'M SORRY, BUT I'M, SIR, I AM GOING TO FINISH MS. WEAM, BUT WE'RE WILL BE ON THE SEVEN MINUTE MARK AT THIS POINT.
UH, YOU MADE A STATEMENT TO KOBE JENKINS WHO'S GOING TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE, UM, THE, THE FARMER'S MARKET.
WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK THAT QUESTION BEFORE? BECAUSE NOBODY'S COMING THROUGH THE BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS BECAUSE THEY CAN'T CLEAN THE STREETS BECAUSE THE CARS ARE THERE.
THE CARS ARE THERE BECAUSE OF EXPLICIT IMPLICIT, UH, TOTAL DUPLICITY IN, IN, IN TELLING THE BLACK PEOPLE WHO CAME HERE AND ASK YOU TO CLEAN THE STREETS UP BY MOVING THE CARS.
Y'ALL DIDN'T DO IT, BUT YOU HAD NO PROBLEMS DOING IT TO PUT PARKING THERE IN POET'S CORNER AND IN HARTSDALE WITH THAT, RIGHT? WE WERE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE FARMER'S MARKET YES, IN TERMS OF THE FARMERS BEING RIGHT RESPONSIBLE ABOUT CLEANING UP AFTER THEMSELVES, BUT IT WAS COMPLETELY ABOUT CLEANING UP.
SO IF YOU'RE GONNA ASK THAT QUESTION ABOUT CLEANING UP AFTER THEY LEAVE, ASK WHO SHOULD BE KEEPING IT CLEAN ALL ALONG? OKAY, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT, THAT WAS TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, BUT YOU KNOW, FOR THE, WE, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD, WE CAN SPEAK ABOUT THAT OFFLINE, PAT.
YOU SPEAK TO IT WITH, UH, KOBE JENKINS.
PLEASE READ THIS TO THE BOARD MEMBERS.
ANYONE ELSE? OKAY, THEN WE'LL START THE MEETING AGENDA.
UM, FIRST, UH, UM, LET'S SEE, RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UH, AUTHORIZING THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAX AGREEMENT FOR REGENERON PARCELS, A, B, C, AND D UNDER REAL PROPERTY, UH, TAX LAW SECTION FOUR CALLED A WITH REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS.
UM, EDIE AND ED WAS SUPPOSED TO DISCUSS THAT, RIGHT? YEAH, SHE'S NOT ON ZOOM.
SHE'LL SHE WAS HERE COMING BACK.
SO SHE DID SHE DID SHE LEAVE? YOU MAY BE I'LL.
DO YOU WANNA CONTINUE CIRCLE BACK UNLESS, UH, JOE, UH, WOULD YOU WANT, WOULD YOU BE 80 PREPARED A PRESENTATION? I BELIEVE SHE'S STILL HERE.
OKAY, SO TABLE IT FOR THE, FOR THE MOMENT YOU WANNA TABLE IT.
[ TB 2 - 6/14/2023 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh adopting the 2023 Capital Budget and the 2024-2025 Capital Plan ]
TB TWO, RESOLUTION OF TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UH, ADOPTING 2023 CAPITAL BUDGET ON 2020 4 25 CAPITAL PLAN.RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TOWN SUPERVISOR TAX
OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE A CONTRACT RESOLUTION.
[ AT 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into an inter-municipal agreement with the Hartsdale Public Parking District (HPPD) to reimburse HPPD the costs of personnel and benefit expenses for a full-time parking enforcement officer and two part-time parking enforcement officers from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023, in an amount not to exceed $100,500]
UM, AUTHORIZING TOWN SUPERVISOR TO JUDGE INTO MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT WITH HARTSDALE PUBLIC, UM, YOU KNOW, PARKING DISTRICT TO REIMBURSE H P P D, THE COST OF PERSONAL AND BENEFIT EXPENSES FOR FULL-TIME PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, AND TWO PART-TIME, UH, PARKING OFFICERS.UM, FROM JANUARY 1ST, UM, UH, 2023 TO DECEMBER 31ST, 2 23, UM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED A HUNDRED THOUSAND FIVE, A HUNDRED DOLLARS.
ANY WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION ABOUT UM, UH, TB ONE? REGENERON? WHY DON'T WE GO J JUST BECAUSE OF THIS GETS INDEXED, WHY DON'T WE JUST GO THROUGH THE ONES THAT WE CAN VOTE ON AND THEN COME BACK TO OUR, IT'LL MAKE IT EASIER ON THE, WELL ON THE, UH, AGENDA, QUICK RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING
[ AT 2 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner River Glen Tenants Corporation for property located at Riverview Place and 645 North Broadway. The Town’s share of the refund is $183±; the County’s share is $1,348±; the North Yonkers Sewer District’s share is $202±; the Hastings-on-Hudson Union Free School District’s share is $8,463±. Refunds from all sources total $10,196±.]
TAX OR JURY WITH PETITIONER RIVER GLEN AT TENANT COURT FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT RIVERVIEW PLACE IN 6 45 NORTH BROADWAY.[ AT 3 – 6/14/2023 Resolution approving the continued retention of Daniel A. Seymour, Esq., to represent requested Greenburgh Police personnel in The Matter of Kristin Stein v. The Town of Greenburgh, et al., for an amount not to exceed $50,000, $100,000 in total]
APPROV CONTINUED RETENTION OF DA DANIEL SEYMOUR TO REPRESENT REQUESTED GREENBURG POLICE PERSONNEL IN THE MATTER OF KRISTEN STEIN, UM, UM, VERSUS THE TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 50,000, A HUNDRED THOUSAND IN TOTAL.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FAVOR, AYE AYE.
UM, AND THIS IS GONNA ALL BE REIMBURSED A LOT OF THIS FROM INSURANCE, RIGHT? YES, WE HAVE SURPASSED OUR INSURANCE MINIMUM SO WE EXPECT TO GET REIMBURSED FROM OUR INSURANCE BROKER.
[ AT 4 – 6/14/2023 Resolution approving the continued retention of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP to represent the Town and requested Greenburgh Police personnel in The Matter of Kristin Stein v. The Town of Greenburgh, et al., for an amount not to exceed $50,000, $400,000 in total]
UH, THE CONTINUED RETENTION OF OLSSON, UM, ELZER, MOSCOWITZ, EDELMAN AND DICKER TO REPRESENT THE TOWN AND REQUESTED GREENBURG POLICE PERSONNEL IN THE MATTER OF KRISTIN, UH, STEIN V.TOWN OF GREENBURG, FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $50,000.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR,
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AYE.THAT'S 400,000 YOUR RESOLUTION.
[ AT 5 – 6/14/2023 Resolution approving the continued retention of the firm of Piscionere & Nemarow, P.C., to represent requested Greenburgh Police personnel in The Matter of Kristin Stein v. The Town of Greenburgh, et al., for an amount not to exceed an additional $50,000, $250,000 in total]
APPROVING THE CONTINUED RETENTION OF THE FIRM OF PI O AND NERO TO REPRESENT REQUESTED GREENBURG POLICE PERSONNEL IN THE MATTER OF KRISTEN STEIN VERSUS TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED AN ADDITIONAL $50,250,000 IN TOTAL.[ CL 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing closing Bradley Avenue from the driveway located at 95 Bradley Avenue to the dead end, on Sunday, July 16, 2023, from 10:30 AM until 5:30 PM, for residents of Bradley Avenue to hold a neighborhood block party]
CLOSING BRADLEY AVENUE FROM THE DRIVEWAY LOCATED AT 95 BRADLEY AVENUE TO THE DEAD END ON SUNDAY, JULY 16TH FROM 10 30 UNTIL 5:30 PM FOR RESIDENCE OF BRADLEY AVENUE.TELL THE NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.
[ CL 2 - 6/14/2023 Resolution scheduling a public hearing for Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 7:30pm, to consider a local law creating a new chapter in the Code of the Town of Greenburgh entitled, "Bamboo."]
SCHEDULING, UM, A PUBLIC HEARING FOR WEDNESDAY JUNE 28TH AT SEVEN 30 TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW CREATING A NEW CHAPTER IN THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.ENTITLED, UH, THIS IS WITH BAMBOOS.
[ CO 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing Fiscal Year 2023 budget transfer]
FISCAL YEAR 2023.[ PR 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the removal of one (1) tree from within the Town's right-of-way along Abbott Avenue adjacent to Massaro Park, in connection with the reconstruction of a retaining wall.]
AUTHORIZING REMOVAL OF ONE TREE WITHIN THE TOWN RIGHT OF WAY ALONG AB AVENUE ADJACENT TO ERO PARK IN CONNECTION WITH THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RETAINING WALL.[ PR 2 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the execution of a $198,669 grant agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the County of Westchester comprised of 79,571 in CMC6 Funds and 119,098 in HDC6 Funds and 8,841 CMC6 and 13,234 HDC6 in contractor matching funds for the American Rescue Plan Act CMC6-HDC6 for Title III C-1 and IIIC-2 Programs April 1, 2021 through September 30, 2024]
AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF OF 198,000 6 69 GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBERG AND THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER COMPRISE OF 70 THOU 79,571 AND CMM C SIX FUNDS AND 119,000 OH NINE EIGHT AND H D C SIX FUNDS AND 8 8 4 1 CM C SIX AND 13,234.UM, H D C SIX AND CONTRACT MATCHING FUNDS FOR THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN.
UM, C M C SIX HDC SIX FOR TITLE THREE C ONE AND THREE C TWO PROGRAMS. APRIL 1ST, 2021 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2024.
ARE YOU MOVING THAT SECOND ON FAVOR? AYE.
[ PR 3 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the execution of a $9,304 grant agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and The County of Westchester for transporting seniors]
AUTHORIZING AND EXECUTION OF 9,034.GRANT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER FOR TRANSPORTING SENIORS WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT.
[ PR 4 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh's Department of Parks and Recreation to accept a $1,000 donation from the Kiwanis Club of Hartsdale to put towards the purchase of a defibrillator to be stationed at the Anthony F. Veteran Park Tennis Facility for use at the park and Secor Woods Park]
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, DEPARTMENT OF PARKS TO ACCEPT A 1000 DONATION FROM KIWANIS CLUB OF HARTSDALE TO PUT FORWARD THE PURCHASE OF DEFIBRILLATORS TO BE STATIONED AT ANTHONY VETERAN PARK TENNIS FACILITY FOR USE OF THE PARK M SEEKER WOODS PARK.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FAVOR, AYE.
[ PR 5 - 6/14/2023 Resolution accepting a $360 donation from the African American Men of Westchester, represented by James Robinson, to be used to offset costs to conduct a free Pickleball Clinic on Saturday, June 17, 2023]
DONATION FROM AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN OF WESTCHESTER, REPRESENTED BY JAMES ROBINSON TO BE USED TO OFFSET COST TO CONDUCT A FREE PICKLEBALL CLINIC ON JUNE 17TH.[ PH 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh to accept a grant in the amount of $37,500 from the Lanza Family Foundation for the Greenburgh Police Department Summer Youth Camp Program, the Police Camp]
AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, TO, UM, ACCEPT A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 37,500 FROM THE LANZA FAMILY FOUNDATION FOR THE GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT SUMMARY, UH, CAMP PROGRAM.THE POLICE CAMP WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TOWN SUPERVISOR
[ PH 2 -6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to execute and Inter Municipal Agreement (IMA) between the Town of Greenburgh and Westchester County to reimburse the Town for the Operations Crossroads Program at the Theodore D. Young Community Center for the Period of January 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023 ]
TO EXECUTE AN INTER MUNICIPAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBERG AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY TO REIMBURSE THE TOWN FOR OPERATIONS CROSSROADS PROGRAM AT THE T THEATER YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER FROM JANUARY 1ST THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH.I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FAVOR, AYE.
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN
[ PW 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to execute a change order for the Town of Greenburgh Court House Chiller and Condenser Replacement Project to Mt. Kisco Mechanical Service Corp., for an additional amount of $16,663, amending the total project amount not to exceed $115,143]
SUPERVISOR TO EXECUTE A CHANGE ORDER FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG COURTHOUSE CHILLER AND UH, CONDENSER REPLACEMENT PROJECT, UH, TO MOUNT KISKI MECHANICAL SERVICE COMPANY FOR AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF 16,663.UM, THE TOTAL AMOUNT TO 115,001, UH, 43.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.
AYE EVERYBODY WANTS A SECOND
[ PW 2 - 6/14/2023 Resolution awarding the contract for professional inspection and as-built drawing services for the repair of the Fairview Park Bridge Drive to KS Engineers, Inc., the lowest bidder, for an amount not to exceed $38,400]
CONTRACT PROFESSIONAL INSPECTION AND AS-BUILT DRAWING, UM, SERVICES FOR THE REPAIR OF THE FAIRVIEW PARK BRIDGE DRIVE TO KS ENGINEERS THE LOWEST BIDDER PRINT AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 38,400.AYE ED SO MAYBE WE SHOULD READ IT SO EVERYONE, 'CAUSE WE WENT BACK, WE SHOULD COME BACK.
[ TB 1 - 6/14/2023 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into a Payment-In-Lieu-of-Tax agreement for Regeneron Parcels A, B, C, and D under Real Property Tax Law Section 412-A with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc., BA Leasings BSC, LLC, the County of Westchester Industrial Development Agency and the Town of Greenburgh located at 735, 745, 755, 757, and 759, Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown to be known as “Regeneron Parcels A, B, C, and D”]
ONE, UH, ED'S GONNA COMMENT ON TB ONE, THE RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AUTHORIZING THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAX AGREEMENT FOR REGENERON PARCELS A, B, C, AND D UNDER REAL PROPERTY TAX LOSS SECTION FOUR 12 DASH A WITH REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC.BA, LEASINGS, B S C L L C, THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, AND THE TOWN OF GREENBERG.
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BE QUICK ONTO THIS ON, IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ON, IT'S NOT.THE GREEN THING IS THE GREEN LIGHT IS LIT AND JUST TAP IT A LOT BECAUSE THEY LIKE THAT IN THE CONTROL ROOM.
ALL RIGHT, WELL I'M JUST GONNA TALK REALLY LOUD SO YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, UH, A TWO PILOTS THAT, UM, ARE BEING PRESENTED FOR REGENERON.
THE FIRST PILOT SCHEDULE, IT'S ACTUALLY ONE PILOT WITH TWO SCHEDULES.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE IS FOR BUILDINGS A, B, AND C.
THOSE BUILDINGS, UH, WERE BUILT ABOUT 10, 12 YEARS AGO AND THEY HAD A PILOT ON THE PROJECT ORIGINALLY, WHICH HAS RECENTLY EXPIRED.
WHAT'S BEFORE YOU? TONIGHT IS AN EXTENSION OF THAT PILOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE PUT IN, UM, A COUPLE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS INTO THE EXISTING BUILDINGS.
SO DOLLAR WISE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CURRENT VALUE OF THAT PROPERTY.
FOR BUILDINGS TOTAL A, B AND C IS APPROXIMATELY $88 MILLION.
BY THE TIME THEY GET DONE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION, THE TOTAL VALUE OF THAT PROPERTY WILL BE $143 MILLION AND THAT'S WHERE THE PILOT COMES FROM FOR A BUILDINGS A, B, AND C BUILDINGS D I'M NOT SURE HOW IT'S WRITTEN IN THE RESOLUTION, IT'S ACTUALLY LOT D G L THIS, ALL OF THESE PROPERTIES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE FOR PILOTS, UM, ARE FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.
SO YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD THE TERM R AND D, THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS.
SO BUILDING LOT DG N L SORRY, I'VE BEEN HERE SINCE SEVEN O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.
UM, IS A PARKING LOT WITH APPROXIMATELY 1,150 PARKING SPACES AND SEVERAL BUILDINGS.
CURRENTLY THEY, REGENERON IS PAYING PROPERTY TAXES BASED ON 6 MILLION, UM, $6 MILLION ASSESSMENT BECAUSE THAT WAS VACANT LAND.
NOW THEY DO HAVE THE GARAGE ON THERE.
THEY HAVE JUST BROKEN GROUND ON THE BUILDINGS, WHICH WOULD BE PART OF THIS PILOT.
ONCE THE PROJECT AND THE BUILDINGS ARE COMPLETE FOR ON LOT D G L, THE VALUE OF THAT SITE WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $183 MILLION.
SO THE, I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH UM, REGENERON AND THEIR ATTORNEYS AND GEORGE POLK WHO IS THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR REAL ESTATE AND UH, FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ON WORKING ON WITH THIS PILOT, WHICH IS BEFORE YOU AND THE TWO LOTS.
NOW ONE THE A, B, AND C AND THE SECOND LOT BUILDING DG AND OR LOT DG AND L.
WHAT WILL COME BEFORE YOU, HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR ARE TWO ADDITIONAL LOTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY VACANT.
THEY ARE LOOKING AT BUILDING SEVEN OR EIGHT ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS AND RIGHT NOW THEY'RE PAYING TAXES BASED ON A $60 MILLION ASSESSMENT.
THAT'S JUST STRICTLY VACANT LAND.
SO I'M GUESSING A COUPLE HUNDRED MORE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
UM, ONCE THAT PROJECT GETS UP AND RUNNING.
SO THE PILOTS WILL BE FOR 12 YEARS AND UM, THAT WILL BE FOR TOWN, COUNTY AND SCHOOL TAXES.
THE TOWN POLICY HAS ALWAYS BEEN TO NOT APPROVE THE PILOTS BEFORE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS.
SO WE DO HAVE A RESOLUTION FROM THE SCHOOL APPROVING THE PROJECT.
AND ONE OF THE BIG REASONS THAT WE'RE HERE IS BECAUSE REGENERON HAD AN OPTION OF COMING TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG OR GOING TO MOUNT PLEASANT WHERE THEY'RE CURRENTLY LOCATED AS WELL, WHICH IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THEIR EXISTING PROPERTY.
SO THEY CHOSE TO COME HERE, WHICH I THINK IS A GREAT IDEA.
UH, GREAT MOVE ON THEIR PART AND OURS AS WELL.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, ONCE EVERYTHING IS BUILT A, B AND C, UM, AND D, G AND L WE'RE LOOKING AT APPROXIMATELY $700 MILLION.
SO ANNUALLY ASSESSMENT, ASSESSMENT, ASSESSMENT, I'D LOVE THAT TO BE TAXES.
SO JUST TO SUM IT UP, UM, AS FAR AS GREEN DOLLARS, PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS, IF NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING ELSE CHANGES.
UM, THAT WOULD BE SOMEWHERE IN THE UPWARDS OF A 2.5% TO 3% ON YOUR PROPERTY TAX RATE.
AND THIS IS FOR UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG.
THIS IS STRICTLY FOR UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG.
UM, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THE RESOLUTION SECOND IN FAVOR.
I AYE, COULD YOU JUST MENTION JUST ONE, JUST ONE QUESTION, EXCUSE ME, JUST SO THAT YOU KNOW, AGENDA QUICK, PEOPLE CAN INDEX THIS.
THIS IS RES THIS IS THEIR RESOLUTION.
SOME PEOPLE HAD ASKED ABOUT THE ASSESSMENTS.
UM, AND UH, GENERALLY IF THE ASSESSMENTS WENT UP BY,
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I'VE BEEN SAYING, AND I'M NOT SURE I'M CORRECT, BUT I'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE THAT THE AVERAGE ASSESSMENT INCREASE IN THE TOWN WAS ABOUT 6%.SO IF THE, IF IF THE ASSESSMENTS WENT UP LESS THAN 6%, THERE WOULD BE, GENERALLY IT WOULD NOT HAVE A, A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THEIR PROPERTY TAXES.
IF IT WAS MORE THAN 6%, UH, IT WOULD, WOULD THAT BE AN ACCURATE ANALYSIS? YOU'VE CHANGED THE TOPIC.
WE'RE NO LONGER TALKING ABOUT REGENERON.
UH, I JUST WANTED THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND THAT.
SO WHAT YOU'RE REFERENCING IS THE ASSESSMENT CHANGE NOTICES THAT JUST RECENTLY CAME OUT AND THE AVERAGE IN THE TOWN.
SO WITHOUT ANY BUDGETS CHANGING, NO GOVERNMENT BUDGETS, NO TOWN, NO COUNTY, NO SCHOOL, NO VILLAGES.
IF THE ASSESSMENTS GO UP BY 6%, THE TAX RATE WOULD TYPICALLY COME DOWN BY 6%.
'CAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE IS REMAINING CONSTANT.
TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS IS IF ASSESSMENTS GO UP 6% AND A PERSON'S ASSESSMENT GOES UP 8%, THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE GONNA SEE A 2% SHIFT IN THEIR PROPERTY TAXES.
IF AN ASSESSMENT APPROXIMATELY WENT APPROXIMATELY, APPROXIMATELY, PLEASE HUGE CAPITAL LETTERS, APPROXIMATELY, IF THE AS ASSESSMENTS ALL ON AVERAGE WENT UP 6% AND YOUR ASSESSMENT ONLY WENT UP 4% STILL WENT UP, BUT ONLY FOUR, YOU WOULD APPROXIMATELY SEE A 2%, UM, REDUCTION IN YOUR TAXES.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT'S, IF THERE ARE NO CHANGES IN THE BUDGETING, WHICH DON'T TYPICALLY HAPPEN, PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT DON'T OR THE PROPERTY ITSELF, I'M SORRY, OR, OR THE PROPERTY CHANGED ITSELF.
MEANING IF THERE'S BEEN ADDITIONS OR RENOVATIONS AND WE GET ABOUT 2,500 PERMITS A YEAR THAT WE CHANGE ASSESSMENTS ON.
SO I, I BELIEVE SOMEONE ASKED THE QUESTION, I'M SORRY I DON'T HAVE THAT EMAIL IN FRONT OF ME, BUT, UM, THAT IN DIFFERENT AREAS MIGHT HAVE DIFFERENT PERCENTAGES.
DO YOU WANNA EXPLAIN THAT? YES.
SO NOT ALL NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG INCREASE IN CHANGE IN PROPERTY VALUE EVERY YEAR.
AND SO WHAT HAPPENS IN THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE IS WE, THE ASSESSMENT DEPARTMENT INDEPENDENTLY RE UM, REVIEW THE SALES AND WE LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE MARKET.
IS IT GOING UP, IS IT GOING DOWN? IS IT SHIFTING? WHERE IS IT SHIFTING? AND, AND HOW WE DO THAT INDEPENDENT.
WE HIRE TYLER TECHNOLOGIES AS A CONTRACTOR AND THEY DO AN INDEPENDENT STUDY, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE SLASH OFFICE OF REAL PROPERTY TAX SERVICES.
SO WE HAVE THREE INDEPENDENT STUDIES WITH OVER 400 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE TESTING THE MARKET EVERY YEAR.
AND SO ALL THREE OF US, THE INDEPENDENTS, UM, HAVE IN THE PAST SIX YEARS COME UP WITH THE SAME TRENDS.
AND SO IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, IT MIGHT BE 6% IN, IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCILMAN SHEEN, IT MIGHT BE 8%.
UM, AND, AND THAT'S HOW IT WORKS.
SO EACH NEIGHBORHOOD IS TESTED INDEPENDENTLY OF THE ENTIRE TOWN.
SO, AND WHEN I TALK TO YOU ABOUT AVERAGES, IT'S THE AVERAGE, SOMEONE UP EIGHT, SOMEONE UP FOUR, SOMEONE UP SIX.
SO, AND THAT'S ALL INCLUSIVE BECAUSE THE ASSESSMENT DEPARTMENT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TOWN ENTIRE, ALL THE ASSESSMENTS.
AND WE WON'T BE COMING BACK THIS EVENING.