Apr 22, 2026 Town Board- Regular

[ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]

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SO WELCOME TO OUR GREENSBURG TOWN BOARD MEETING TODAY'S APRIL 22ND AND IT'S AFTER 730 SORRY THAT WE'RE STARTING A LITTLE LATE SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE 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. >> PLEASE REMAIN STANDING. WE HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN

[ MOMENT OF SILENCE In memory of those around the world who have perished as victims of war, disease and natural disaster. Our hearts are with all who needlessly suffer.]

[ ROLL CALL: Town Clerk Lisa Maria Nero]

THANK YOU. AND NOW WE HAVE THE ROLL CALL. >> GOOD EVENING, SUPERVISOR

FEINER HERE. COUNCILMAN SHEEHAN PRESENT. >> COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON.

PRESENT. COUNCILWOMAN HENDRICKS. PRESENT TOWN ATTORNEY AND

[ PRESENTATIONS (Maximum 10 minutes each) Proclamation for Maria Regina High School's Notable STEM Learning Achievements Honoring Eagle Scout David Dierssen]

PARLIAMENTARIAN MR. JOE DANKA PRESENT. >> GREAT.

THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA. WE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE SOME EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS WHO ATTEND MARIA REGINA SCHOOL WHICH IS LOCATED IN GREENSBURG. MARIA REGINA IS THE FIRST ALL GIRLS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ESTABLISHED IN WESTCHESTER AND IT'S BEEN A PILLAR OF EDUCATION IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND HAS BEEN THE DISTINGUISHED LEADER AND PREPARING YOUNG WOMAN FOR POSTSECONDARY SUCCESSES IN COLLEGE AND IN THEIR CAREERS.

AND NEXT YEAR YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WALK FROM WITHIN A YEAR OR SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WALK ON WEST HARTSDALE AVENUE ON THE SIDEWALK FROM CENTRAL AVENUE ALL THE WAY TO THE GREENSBURG LIBRARY. SO SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

BUT MARIA REGINA HAS POSITIONED ITSELF AT THE FOREFRONT OF STEM SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH EDUCATION BY ENGAGING YOUNG WOMAN IN RESEARCH HIGHER LEVEL TECHNOLOGY AND HANDS ON PARTICIPATION AND SCIENCE PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS, COMPREHENSIVE AP PROGRAMS AND SCHOOL WIDE WIDE SCIENTIFIC COMPETITIONS. MARIA REGINA HAS ALSO MADE HISTORY AS THE FIRST HIGH SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES TO PARTICIPATE IN A EUROPEAN UNION SPONSORED ULTRA FIERCE PHYSICS ZOOM SESSIONS TO INSPIRE YOUNG WOMEN TO PURSUE CAREERS IN STEM .

THE VAST MAJORITY OF MARIA REGINA STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN THE SCHOOL'S RECENT ANNUAL SCIENCE FAIRS UNDERSCORING THEIR INCREASED INTEREST IN PURSUING STEM STUDIES AND FIELDS OR FOR OFTEN UNDER REPRESENTED BY WOMEN. AND MARIA REGINA RECENTLY HOSTED THE FIRST EVER LOWER HUDSON VALLEY SOUTH DIVISION C SCIENCE OLYMPIAD WHERE THE SCHOOL'S INSPIRING STUDENTS DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES AS A TOP PERFORMING TEAM FROM A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL PLACED IN THE TOP 50% OF ALL TEAMS ALONGSIDE TOP PRIVATE AND PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS. THEY'VE CAPTURED TWO MEDALS AND SCORED IN THE TOP TEN AND SIX ADDITIONAL EVENTS SO THEY ARE AND WE HAVE THE STUDENTS HERE THEY ARE. THEY'RE JOINING ELITE RANKS OF HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES TO EARN THE HIGHLY COVETED 2025 ADVANCED PLACEMENT HONOR ROLL PLATINUM PLATINUM DESIGNATION THE ONLY WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL WITHIN THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK AND ONE OF FIVE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTY TO ATTAIN THE COLLEGE BOARD'S HIGHEST DISTINCTION. SO WE'RE THE TOWN BOARD WE'RE DECLARING TODAY AS A DAY WHERE WE'RE HONORING THE SCHOOL. AND AS I LOOK AT YOU, I'M TRYING TO SAY TO MYSELF I

WONDER WHICH ONE OF YOU WILL WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE. >> AND SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE

JUST ONE. >> SO I'M LOOKING AND YOU KNOW, I FIGURE AT SOME POINT ALL I'LL BE ABLE TO SAY I WAS AT A TOWN BOARD MEETING AND WE PRESENTED YOU WITH A PROCLAMATION BEFORE YOU BECAME FAMOUS. SO I'M SO GREAT. SO CONTINUE GREAT SUCCESSES AND IF ANY OF THE OUR FUTURE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS WOULD LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING YOU CAN COME UP TO THE PODIUM. YOU COULD TALK ABOUT WHY MARIA REGINA IS THE RIGHT SCHOOL FOR SOMEBODY WHO WANTS TO BE VERY SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE. YOU KNOW TWO PROCLAMATIONS YOU

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>> SO LET'S GET ONE. >> I WILL BE HAPPY TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF THERE SO FOCUSED

ON GETTING READY FOR THE UPCOMING WEEKS OF APS. >> I DO HAVE TO SAY THANK YOU TO SAY THANK YOU. GREAT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF. WE'RE REALLY SO GRATEFUL THAT YOUR SCHOOL IS ON IS ONE OF THE TOP SCHOOLS AND IN OUR TOWN AND WE'RE WE'RE JUST FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU THANK YOU JUST SO ON BEHALF OF OUR ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY AND STAFF AND THESE BRILLIANT YOUNG WOMEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS SPECIAL HONOR AS YOU SAID, MARIA REGINA HAS BEEN PART OF THE COMMUNITY SINCE 1957 AND A PROCLAMATION LIKE THIS IS NOT JUST A PIECE OF PAPER.

IT'S A TESTAMENT TO THESE STUDENTS COURAGE TO BREAK BARRIERS.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THIS COULDN'T HAPPEN WITH US. SO WE HAVE THREE OF OUR STEP FACULTY HERE TO MISS LIZZO AND MISS RENA. MISS BAR EMMA EXCUSE ME THE CHAIRS OF OUR SCIENCE AND MATH DEPARTMENTS BUT ALSO THE COACHES FOR THE SCIENCE LIBYA TEAM AND MISS AMY AND LOCAL RESIDENT TWO AND HEAD OF OUR TECHNOLOGY.

SO OUR STUDENTS ARE PROVING THAT EVERY DAY THAT YOUNG WOMEN DON'T JUST BELONG IN STEM THEY'RE GOING TO BE THE LEADERS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ACKNOWLEDGING THAT AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT THROUGHOUT THE YEARS AT ALL OF

OUR PROGRAMS. >> WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU.

AND WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE FOR THAT PERSON THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE GOING TO DO.

>> OKAY. AND YOU'RE REALLY YOU'RE ACTUALLY EITHER THE BEST CHEERLEADER FOR FOR MARIA REGINA, YOU'RE SO PASSIONATE AND SO DEDICATED AND YOU DO SUCH A GREAT JOB OF HIGHLIGHTING THE GREAT WORK OF MARIA REGINA SO THEY SHOULD BE

THERE REALLY FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOU ONE ON THEIR SIDE. >> THANK YOU FOR DO ANY OF THE

STUDENTS WANT TO SPEAK? >> WE'D LOVE TO HEAR YOU. THEY WANTED TO GIVE ME THE FULL ABLE TO AS THEY WERE SHOWING NO PRESSURE, NO PRESSURE, NO PRESSURE AND THEN YEAH NO PRESSURE, NO. OKAY. HOW?

>> HI MY NAME IS GETTING HUNGRY. MISS FARMER HAS BEEN MY SCIENCE TEACHER SINCE I CAME IN SOPHOMORE YEAR FROM SOUTH AFRICA AND THEN MISS LIZZO IS MY FAVORITE MATH TEACHER AND THEN WAS AIMING TO BE MY COMPUTER SCIENCE TEACHER AND THEY ALL HELPED ME FIGURE OUT MY CAREER PATH TO BE A MECHATRONICS ENGINEER WHERE I'LL BE FOCUSING ON ROBOTICS HELP PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. SO THAT WAS REALLY THANKFUL AND I THINK THE REASON WHY AUSTIN PROGRAM IS SO STRONG BECAUSE IT'S LIKE RUN BY WOMEN THAT'S

JUST MY OPINION. >> IT'S LIKE SO YOU THINK YOU GUYS SO PICTURE I KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE YOU YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK CAN BE ROADS I HAVE TO BE IN THE BACK BECAUSE I'M ONE OF THE TALL ONES BECAUSE OTHERWISE WHEN HIGH BEHIND YOU YOU ARE GOING TO BE OKAY.

THAT'S SURE ALL HERE CAN I COUNT ON THREE SAY MARIA REGINA RICE YEAH.

>> OKAY. THANK YOU VERY FRANCIS YOU'RE GOING TO PRESENT THE EAGLE

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NOW IT'S ACTUALLY SCOUTING AMERICA. IT'S THE EAGLE SCOUT AND FOR THE GIRLS IT'S THE GOLD AWARD AND WE HAVE SOMEBODY WITH US TODAY WHO'S IN THAT SMALL 4%

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THE WAY TO EAGLE SCOUT. >> SO I'D LIKE DAVID ERICKSON TO COME UP.

>> YOU COULD PROBABLY FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE HE WAS. YEAH.

>> INSTEAD OF HERE CENTER OF YOUR I GUESS THERE'S PLENTY OF BRANDING SO YOU CAN FIGURE OUT

WHICH ONE OF THE EAGLE SCOUT HERE. >> SO ON APRIL 10TH YOU WERE ACTUALLY BESTOWED THE DISTINCTION OF BEING AN EAGLE SCOUT AND ONCE YOU'RE AN EAGLE SCOUT YOU'RE ALWAYS AN EAGLE SCOUT. IT NEVER GOES AWAY AND IT'S AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION TO HAVE AND WHEN SOME OF THE SOME OF US WHO LOOK AT RESUMES QUITE OFTEN WHEN I SEE EITHER THE GOLD AWARD OR AN EAGLE SCOUT, IT TELLS ME THAT THE PERSON TAKES ON PROJECTS AND NOT ONLY TAKES THEM ON BUT COMPLETES THEM BECAUSE IT'S QUITE A TASK, QUITE A TASK QUITE A TASK TO DO ALL OF THIS AND YOU HAVE TO DO IT BY YOUR 18TH BIRTHDAY AND IT

DOESN'T MATTER IF THERE'S COVID DOESN'T MATTER. >> YOU HAVE TO DO IT BY YOUR 18TH BIRTHDAY. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS AND HE DID THAT.

>> SO WHEN HE WAS ACTUALLY AT HIS COURT OF HONOR THE USUAL THING WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WE HAD THE MAJORITY LEADER ANDREA STEWART-COUSINS DECLARING THE STATE WELL LET ME

DO IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. >> WE HAD THE COUNTY THERE MARY JAMES TIM SKI I'M SORRY WHO IS THERE FROM THE COUNTY DAVID IN MOORE OR LAURA WAS THERE DAVID IN THANK YOU SO MUCH HE WAS THERE AND JOE WILLIAMS AND THEY DECLARED THE DAY AFTER FOR YOU IN THE COUNTY AND THEN MAJORITY

LEADER GOT UP AND DECLARED THE DAY AND THE STATE RIGHT. >> BUT WE COULD ONLY DO THE TOWN NOW NORMALLY WHAT THEY DO AS WE GO FIRST AND THEN THE COUNTY AND THEN THE STATE AND IT'S LIKE WELL WHY DID WE BOTHER SHOW UP SO SO WE HAVE DONE SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY HERE WE ARE GOING TO GIVE YOU A DAY THAT IS EXACTLY ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR CODE OF HONOR THAT THE STATE IS NOT GOING TO TRUMP THE COUNTY AND IT'S ONLY GOING TO

BE YOUR DAY. >> OKAY. ALL RIGHT.

SO LET ME LET ME JUST BRIEFLY GO THROUGH THIS JUST OVER HERE IF THERE'S YOU AND IF I SAY

ANYTHING THAT'S WRONG, YOU CAN POINT THAT OUT. >> OKAY?

>> WHEREAS THROUGHOUT ITS HISTORY GREENBERG HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH MANY OUTSTANDING MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE COMMITMENT TO THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE AND COMMUNITY SERVICE HAS GREATLY ENRICHED THE COMMUNITY. AND WE PAY TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THESE SPECIAL INDIVIDUALS TODAY AND HONOR HIM FOR EARNING THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT.

AND. WHEREAS DAVID DAWSON, A MEMBER OF SCOUTING AMERICA FORMERLY BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TROOP 67 HARTSDALE, NEW YORK CELEBRATED AS COURT OF HONOR ON APRIL 10TH, 2026 AT WHICH HE WAS BESTOWED THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT, THE HIGHEST RANK OFFERED

BY THE SCOUTS OF AMERICA. >> AND. WHEREAS, DAVID DAWSON STARTED SCOUTING AS A TIGER IN FIRST GRADE THEN EARNED THE ARROW OF LIGHT AND FIFTH GRADE AND PROGRESSED STEADILY FROM SCOUT RANK, NOW HE'S INTO THE SCOUTS TO LIFE SCOUT ADVANCING AND LEADERSHIP ROLES TO SENIOR PATROL LEADER WHILE COMPLETING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR EAGLE

SCOUT. >> AND. WHEREAS, DAVID DAWSON HAS EMPLOYED THE ORGANIZATION HAS EMPLOYED THE ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND PLANNING SKILLS HE DEVELOPED IN HIS YEARS AS A SCOUT AND COMPLETED THE REQUIREMENTS OF BECOMING AN EAGLE SCOUT INCLUDING PLANNING AND COMPLETING A COMMUNITY BASED NEEDED PROJECT.

>> AND. WHEREAS, DAVID DAWSON EXHIBITED REMARKABLE DEDICATION AND PERSEVERANCE, IT'S BRINGING HONOR TO HIMSELF, HIS FAMILY, HIS FELLOW SCOUTS, THE

COMMUNITY AND THE ENTIRE TOWN AGREEMENT. >> AND.

WHEREAS DAVID DAWSON HARD HARD WORK AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS DESERVE FORMAL RECOGNITION AND

PUBLIC ACCLAMATION. >> AND. WHEREAS DAVID DAWSON SELECTED A

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>> I DIDN'T THINK I WAS GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET HERE BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY I MADE IT

HERE. >> SO THANK YOU AND YOU MADE IT HERE FROM SCHOOL SO FROM

COLLEGE. >> SO THANK YOU. REFRESHED I'M SO I DID THE IT'S A HOME ENVIRONMENT ROOM AT PAWS CROSSED WHERE THEY GET DOGS USED TO LIVING IN ACTUAL HOMES BECAUSE MOST OF THE ANIMALS THAT HAVE BEEN RESCUED THERE HAVE LIVED ON THE STREETS OR IN SHELTERS THEIR WHOLE LIVES. SO THIS ROOM JUST HELPS THE DOGS GET USED TO LIVING IN ACTUAL HOMES. SO THEY DON'T END UP LIKE PEEING ON THE FLOOR OR CHEWING

ON THE FRIDGE. YEAH, VERY GOOD. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND YOU KNOW IF WE HAD YOU KNOW I KNOW THING THAT I'M DISAPPOINTED ABOUT IS IF WE KNEW THAT APRIL 10TH WAS A HOLIDAY WE COULD HAVE CLOSED DOWN ALL THAT TOWN HALL ON APRIL 10TH. BUT WE'RE WE DECLARED THE DAY AND WE MAY DO IT NEXT YEAR.

SO SO CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENT AND IT WAS NICE SEEING YOU AT YOUR YOUR CEREMONY AND YOU'RE A REAL INSPIRATION TO SO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE SCOUTS AND LIKE ME NEVER MADE IT TO EAGLE SCOUT. THAT'S MY BIGGEST REGRET IN LIFE THAT I.

I DIDN'T HAVE THE QUALITIES THAT YOU HAVE TO ACHIEVE THIS VERY PRESTIGIOUS RANK THAT YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT ON YOUR RESUME. AND I THINK WHEN PEOPLE APPLY FOR WHEN YOU APPLY FOR JOBS YOU KNOW ANYBODY WHO APPLIED FOR A JOB THEY'RE AN EAGLE SCOUT AND SOMEBODY IS COMPETING WITH THEM. THE EAGLE SCOUTS ARE ALWAYS GOING TO GET THE JOB. SO YOU'RE REALLY HAVE A GREAT FUTURE AHEAD OF YOU.

>> THANK YOU. LET'S TAKE A PHOTO FOR YOUR DO YOU WANT TO GET IN THE PICTURE AND YOU KNOW YOU GOT THAT RIGHT FROM A REALLY QUICK OH OH YOU JUST REMEMBER HOLLYWOOD THAT

WAS REALLY GOOD. OH MY GOODNESS. >> OKAY NOW OKAY.

MY MY GOAL WAS THANK YOU BECAUSE RIGHT YEAH. YES.

OKAY. SHE'S BEEN COOKING FOR A LONG TIME.

WOW. OH MY GOODNESS. THAT'S FUNNY.

THAT'S OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, NO PROBLEM.

OKAY, NEXT MEETING AT THAT HERE I JUST TO SLIP IN. OKAY.

[ TOWN CLERK COMMENTS AND PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS ]

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>> OKAY OKAY. NEXT ON THE LIST DOES THE TOWN CLERK HAVE ANY COMMENTS AND PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS? I'M SORRY. SO WAIT, YOU OH, I'M SORRY YOU HAD TO IN YOUR ROOM? NO. OKAY.

>> UM, TERRANCE OKAY. IT'S INDOOR. OH, NO, I THINK THAT CASE

THAT'S PEOPLE OF FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT OF OH, NO PROBLEM. >> THANK YOU.

OF COURSE STARTING OFF WE HAVE OUR 2026 SUMMER INTERNSHIP, UH, IN THE TOWN CLERK AND TOWN SUPERVISORS OFFICE. YOU CAN FIND THE APPLICATIONS ON THE WEBSITE GREENBURG IN WHITE OUT GOV AND IT'S UNDER THE TOWN CLERK SECTION AND IF YOU SEE IT IT WILL HAVE THE APPLICATION LABELED 2026 APPLICATION FOR INTERNSHIPS EVERY SATURDAY AT TDY SEC THE FAIRVIEW EMPOWERMENT GROUP IS HAVING A FINANCIAL SECURITY FINANCIAL LITERACY WORKSHOPS AND THEY ARE HAVING THEM STARTING LAST SATURDAY AND THEY WILL BE GOING ALL THE WAY UP EVERY SATURDAY FROM AT MAY UNTIL MAY 23RD AND IT'S FROM 10 TO 11 AT TDY.

CC 32 MANHATTAN AVENUE IN GREENBURG. >> NEXT WE WILL HAVE OUR CINCO

DE MAYO COMMUNITY PAPER SHREDDING DAY. >> THERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS THAT

ARE ON THE WEBSITE FOR YOU TO FOLLOW. >> AND AGAIN WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KNOW THAT THIS IS A COMMUNITY EVENT AND THE INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE ON THE WEBSITE GREENBERG AND Y.GOV. AND WE ARE JUST ASKING THAT EACH RESIDENT STAY IN THEIR VEHICLE AND THEN WE WILL HAVE STAFF COME AND TAKE THE SHREDDING AND THEN TAKE IT TO THE TO THE TRUCK SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GET YOU HAVE TO STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE AT ALL TIMES ON THURSDAY MAY 6TH WE HAVE THE VETERANS RECOGNITION BREAKFAST .

>> AND THAT'S OF COURSE FROM 9 A.M. TO 11 A.M. AND THAT'S RAIN OR SHINE.

AND THAT WILL BE HELD AT THE GERALD JAY BURN CENTER AT ANTHONY VETERANS TOWN PARK.

AND YOU CAN FIND THIS ALSO ON THE WEBSITE BECAUSE THE RSVP IS REQUIRED.

>> AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WE HAVE OUR STATE OF THE COUNTY ADDRESS ON LATER THAT DAY WEDNESDAY, MAY 6TH. THIS IS GOING TO BE AT THE MCCALLION OFFICE BUILDING AT THE BOARD OF LEGISLATORS CHAMBER. AND THAT'S GOING TO BE AT 6 P.M. AND FROM DOORS OPEN AT 6 P.M. AND THE SPEECHES BEGIN AT 630.

AND AGAIN YOU CAN ALSO CONTACT COMMUNICATIONS IS AT WESTCHESTER COUNTY NY.GOV.

[ PUBLIC COMMENT Advanced signup is required. A continuous five-minute limit per speaker will be strictly enforced. The clock will start when a speaker begins speaking or 15 seconds after reaching the podium, whichever occurs first. The clock 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. After 30 seconds of a response to a question asked, the speaker may reclaim any remaining time. The Clerk will ask for any comments from each Town Board member upon the completion of each public comment. There will not be a second five-minute round. Any written comments sent to PublicComment@GreenburghNY.gov by 3 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. ]

>> THAT CONCLUDES THE ANNOUNCEMENTS. >> OKAY.

NEXT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC. SO IF YOU ADVISE THE TOWN CLERK THAT YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SPEAKING SHE'LL CALL YOU IN THE ORDER OF THE SIGN IN.

>> BUT FIRST WE HAVE EVERYONE. >> I JUST WANT TO MENTION ONE THING.

YESTERDAY THE TOWN BOARD WAS REQUESTED BY THE TOWN. A SUGGESTION WAS MADE THAT WE NOT INTERRUPT ANYBODY OR ANSWER OR RESPOND TO COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC UNTIL AFTER EVERYBODY SPEAKS. SO IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR YOU KNOW AND WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM FROM EVERYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE YOU KNOW, WHO WANTS TO SPEAK AND THEN THE BOARD AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION COULD SAY WHATEVER THEY WANT, COULD

ANSWER OR NOT ANSWER THIS WAY WE WON'T. >> IT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE ORDERLY THAT EVERYBODY IS UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT'S CORRECT.

DAVID, YOU KEPT GETTING UP AND YOU COULD LEAVE IF YOU WANT. >> YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A LONG DRIVE. WE WON'T WE WON'T HOLD IT AGAINST YOU.

WE WON'T HOLD IT AGAINST YOU. HE HAS A DRIVE BACK. HE'S IN SCHOOL UPSTATE SO HE'S

GOT A BIT OF A DRIVE. >> YOU'VE GOT A LONG WAY TO GO. AND THANK YOU TO THE BOARD FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION WITH THAT REQUEST YESTERDAY. I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY YOU HAVE FIVE MINUTES. THERE ARE CLOCKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROOM SO PLEASE KEEP TIME APPROPRIATELY. I WILL STOP YOU AT THE FIVE MINUTE MARK.

PLEASE NO PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST THE BOARD OR ANYBODY IN ATTENDANCE AS ALWAYS AND

APPRECIATE YOUR TIME. >> ORDINARILY WE HAVE A TWO MINUTE SESSION BUT THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE A LIGHT AGENDA AND DIDN'T HAVE MANY PRESENTATIONS WE DECIDED THAT THAT THE

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WE'LL GO BACK TO THE RIGHT. >> FEEL FREE TO TAKE UP AS MUCH TIME AS THAT FIVE MINUTES AS

YOU NEED. >> ALL RIGHT. FIRST WE HAVE UP A MR. EDWARD

DWYER. >> GOOD EVENING. BOARD SUPERVISOR FIRE.

I'D LIKE TO THANK SUPERVISOR FEINER FOR A RESPONSE TO MY LETTER FROM EARLIER IN THE MONTH. I'M FOLLOWING UP ON THAT. AND AFTER SPEAKING AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING WHERE IT WAS STATED THAT COMMISSIONER FRANK MORABITO WAS WORKING FULL TIME IN BOTH PUBLIC WORKS AND AS A BUILDING INSPECTOR WITH HIS HOURS BEING WATCHED.

GIVEN THAT PUBLIC STATEMENT THAT HE'S BEEN WORKING 70 PLUS HOURS A WEEK, I THINK RESIDENTS DESERVE FULL TRANSPARENCY. IF ONE PERSON IS PERFORMING TWO FULL TIME JOBS AND POTENTIALLY RECEIVING OVERTIME ON TOP OF THAT COMBINED WITH THE 20 I'M SORRY THE $263,000 SALARY THIS WOULD MAKE AN ARRANGEMENT EVEN MORE EXPENSIVE FOR TAXPAYERS, NOT LESS.

THESE CONCERNS ARE ESPECIALLY TROUBLING IN LIGHT OF THE INDEPENDENT FORENSIC ACCOUNTING WHICH EXPOSED DECADES OF FISCAL MISMANAGEMENT INCLUDING APPROXIMATELY $29 MILLION IN

UNCOLLECTED PROPERTY TAXES SOME DATING BACK INTO THE 60S. >> OTHER UNCOLLECTED REVENUES.

IT RAISES SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE, PUBLIC SAFETY, FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY PARTICULARLY WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND ITS CHRONIC UNDERSTAFFING.

I BELIEVE THERE ARE THREE VACANCIES ONLY ONE FULL TIME INSPECTOR DOWN FROM 6 OR 7 PREVIOUSLY. I'M NOT SURE BUT I THINK IT WAS 6 OR 7.

SO I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO RESPECTFULLY REQUEST A DETAILED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING OF MR. MORE VITO'S HOURS WORKED IN HIS ROLE SINCE HIS APPOINTMENT INCLUDING OVERTIME AND ALL COSTS.

CLARIFICATION ON WHETHER THE COMBINED ROLE IS SALARY EXEMPTED OR OVERTIME PAY ON TOP OF THE SALARY OF THE 40 HOUR WORKWEEK. I WOULD LIKE A FULL PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF ALL TOWN EMPLOYEES RECEIVING COMPENSATION FOR MULTIPLE ROLES OR GETTING MULTIPLE STIPENDS AND AN IMMEDIATE PLAN TO ADDRESS THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT VACANCIES TO RESTORE ADEQUATE STAFFING AND A CLEAR EXPLANATION OF HOW THE TOWN

WILL IMPROVE REVENUE COLLECTION BEFORE RAISING TAXES. >> THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. >> NEXT WE HAVE LIZ KAUFMAN. GOOD EVENING.

>> I'D LIKE TO SPEAK BRIEFLY ABOUT GAS POWERED LEAF BLOWERS AND WHY THEY SHOULD NOT BE PERMITTED IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. FIRST THERE'S THE HEALTH IMPACT.

THESE MACHINES EMIT FINE PARTICULATE MATTER AND TOXIC FUMES THAT WE ALL END UP BREATHING WHICH IS PARTICULARLY HARMFUL TO CHILDREN, SENIORS AND ANYONE WITH ASTHMA.

>> SECOND, THE LEVEL OF POLLUTION IS DISPROPORTIONATE BECAUSE GAS LEAF BLOWERS USE

OLDER UNFILTERED ENGINE. >> THEY COULD EMIT SMOG FORMING POLLUTION AND IT'S A LOT OF

POLLUTION FOR SUCH A ROUTINE TASK. >> THIRD THERE'S THE NOISE POLLUTION. I THINK THAT'S PRETTY SELF-EXPLANATORY.

FOURTH, THERE'S THE ENVIRONMENTAL HARM. LEAF BLOWERS STIR UP DUST MOLD ,PESTICIDES AND ALLERGENS. AND IMPORTANTLY THEY DISRUPT SOIL ECOSYSTEMS, DESTROYING INSECTS, LARVAE AND POLLINATORS THAT RELY ON THE LEAF LAYER FOR SHELTER AND SURVIVAL.

THERE ARE CLEANER ALTERNATIVES . ELECTRIC AND BATTERY POWERED EQUIPMENT IS WIDELY AVAILABLE. IT'S MUCH QUIETER AND PRODUCES NO ONSITE EMISSIONS.

AS YOU ALL KNOW, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, MUCH OF GREENSBURG ITSELF ALREADY HAS RESTRICTIONS

ON GAS POWERED LEAF BLOWERS. >> I BELIEVE IT ARDSLEY, DOBBS, HASTINGS, IRVINGTON AND

TARRYTOWN. >> AND OTHERS ARE MOVING TOWARDS MORE RESTRICTIVE POLICIES. MANY COMMUNITIES ARE ALREADY AND HAVE ALREADY TAKEN ACTION.

THERE'S A PRACTICAL REASONABLE STEP TO PROTECT OUR HEALTH, REDUCE NOISE AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE. THANK. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. >> FORMER CLERK. >> FORMER TOWN CLERK JUDITH

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>> I AM JUDITH ABBEVILLE. HONORABLE JUDITH NAPERVILLE TOWN CLERK OF TOWN OF GREENSBURG 2008 TO 2023. I'D LIKE TO THANK PAUL FEINER AND OTHERS IN THE TOWN OF GREENSBURG WHO WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN CONTINUING THE GREENSBURG SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM THAT PAUL FEINER, FORMER TOWN ATTORNEY TIM LEWIS AND I CREATED.

THANK YOU FOR CONTINUING THE PROGRAM, PAUL. I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE TOWN OFFICIALS FOR CONTINUING THE SHREDDING INITIATIVE AS WELL AS THE VETERANS RECOGNITION INITIATIVE CREATED BY PAUL FEINER. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS ALAN HOCHBERG INCLUDED AND MYSELF JUDITH BELLEVILLE. IT IS JUST WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT YOU PAUL ARE CONTINUING THESE CIVIC ENGAGED AGEMENT INITIATIVES THAT WE CREATED BASED ON RELATIVELY RECENT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET REGARDING MUNICIPAL STRUCTURES IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY. SEVERAL MUNICIPALITIES HAVE COMBINED CONSOLIDATE DATA OR CLOSELY INTEGRATED THEIR DPW AND BUILDING ENGINEERING OR CODE ENFORCEMENT FUNCTIONS TO IMPROVE EFFECT EFFICIENCY. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CITY OF PEEKSKILL DPW INCLUDES WATER BUILDING AND ENGINEERING GREENSBURG. THIS IS ON THE INTERNET.

GREENBERG OPERATES A LARGE AND CENTRALIZED DPW THAT MANAGES VARIOUS SERVICES AND OFTEN COORDINATES CLOSELY WITH BUILDING CODE ENFORCEMENT. THE TOWN OF MOUNT PLEASANT BUILDING DEPARTMENT INCORPORATES PLANNING AND ZONING OFTEN WORKING DIRECTLY

WITH DPW. >> MOST MUNICIPALITIES HAVE DEDICATED DEPARTMENTS HANDLING PLANNING AND ZONING. DEDICATED DEPARTMENTS HANDLING PLANNING AND ZONING.

>> BUILDING AND PUBLIC WORKS. >> WHAT PRAY TELL I HAVE. >> I WAS TOWN CLERK FOR 15 YEARS AND I WORKED CLOSELY WITH EVERY DEPARTMENT HEAD IN THIS MUNICIPALITY SO I KNOW THE PUBLIC DEMANDS ON EACH DEPARTMENT. WHAT PRAY TELL IS THE RATIONALE FOR COMBINING DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDING IN THE TOWN OF GREENSBURG, ONE OF THE 12 LARGEST TOWNS IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK AND THE LARGEST TOWN IN WEST CHESTER.

>> IS THIS PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION PAYING NEARLY OR OVER A QUARTER OF $1 MILLION

FOR ONE POSITION TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY? >> WHAT IS THIS BASED ON?

>> WHAT IS THE EVIDENCE TO THE PUBLIC THAT THIS THIS THIS COMBINATION WILL IMPROVE EFFICIENCY? SOME STAFF HAVE RUMORED THAT IT IS TO REWARD FAVOR RATES OF THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO COUNCILMAN FRANCIS SHEEHAN. HAS THERE BEEN AN IMPACT ANALYSIS? HAVE EMPLOYEES IN BOTH DEPARTMENTS BEEN INTERVIEWED

AND GIVEN AN OPPORTUNE CITY FOR ANONYMOUS RESPONSES? >> WITH RESPECT TO THEIR THOUGHTS, THEIR THINKING, THEIR OPINION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS A SOUND LOGIC SOUND DECISION MADE WITH LOGIC AND BASED ON ANALYSIS OF EFFICIENCY IN THE TOWN OF GREENSBURG, THE LARGEST TOWN IN THE COUNTY IS PROPOSING OR HAS PROPOSED TO COMBINE TWO OF THE MAJOR

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DOES THIS MAKE SENSE? >> PEOPLE OF GREENSBURG YOU'VE GOT TO QUESTION THE ACTIONS AND

DECISIONS OF THIS BOARD. >> SEBASTIAN SAGE. >> GOOD EVENING.

BOARD. I'LL KEEP IT SHORT BUT I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME AND EFFORT YOU GUYS HAVE PUT IN ON THE TAX ROADSIDE BIKE PROJECT.

NOTHING THAT'S HAPPENED COULD HAVE BEEN DONE WITHOUT YOU GUYS.

I JUST WANTED TO NOW EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE. THANKS SO MUCH FOR.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, THOMAS, FOR THANK.

>> GOOD EVENING BOARD. MY NAME IS TOM FEAR AND I AM THE NEW STAKEHOLDER OF THE MAPLEWOOD SWIMMING TENNIS CLUB. ON TAXER I'M SORRY ON WEST HARTSDALE ROAD.

>> AND BEFORE I GET INTO THAT I WOULD JUST LIKE TO UNFORTUNATELY CONGRATULATE THE SCOUT THE SCOUT HERE I MYSELF AM A FATHER OF AN EAGLE SCOUT. SO I COMPLETELY RESPECT THAT

AND THE GIRLS ARE VERY ORIGINAL. >> A GREAT.

I'M PROUD TO HAVE BROUGHT HOME MY FIRST CHILD WHEN I LIVED IN HARTSDALE AND NOW I'M A RESIDENT OF PELHAM SORRY SORRY BUT NOW AS A NEW STAKEHOLDER OF THIS WOMAN'S TENNIS CLUB THIS IS A PROJECT THAT IS NEAR AND DEAR TO ME. I WORK IN HOMES THIRD AND I'VE BEEN PASSING BY A MARACAS PLAYER MY ENTIRE LIFE MEMBER OF MANY CLUBS MEMBER OF NEW YORK

ATHLETIC CLUB. >> AND I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT I CAN BRING THIS CALL BACK TO WHAT IT WAS ONCE. AS YOU ALL KNOW IT WAS AND IT HAS BEEN FALLOW FOR MANY YEARS.

>> I THINK IT LAST TIME AN OPERATOR WAS IN 2017. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU. THE PLANNING BOARD GARRETT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS OF THE TOWN TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO HERE WHICH IS CREATE A NEW PADDLE CLUB AND

IT'S NOT PLATFORM TENNIS. >> IT'S NOT IT'S NOT TENNIS. IT'S CALLED PADDLE PADDLE SOME WOULD CALL IT BUT IT'S A IT'S A GREAT SPORT. IF THE GIRLS WERE HERE I'D BE LIKE HEY, GREAT FREIGHT ON THE ROAD, YOU KNOW, WELCOME. YOU ALL TO COME AND COME AND

PATRONIZE IT WHEN IT'S BACK OPEN. >> IT'S GOING TO BE A LONG ROAD AND THERE'S A LOT OF WORK. AND TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN KEEPING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS, I WOULD INVITE YOU TO STOP BY. GIVE ME A CALL BECAUSE THERE ARE OVER 500 TREES ON THE PROPERTY. MANY OF THEM ARE UNFORTUNATELY DEAD AND DYING AND THERE IS I KNOW CITIZENS STAKEHOLDERS HAVE MENTIONED LIKE DARK SKY AND I DON'T INTEND TO LIGHT THE PLACE UP. I PLAN TO USE YOU KNOW, A DARK

SKY SCHEME ON THE PROPERTY AND I LOOK FORWARD TO IT. >> SO THAT'S IT.

>> THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. BRANDON SHEEHAN IT JUST ANY RELATION?

>> NOT AS FAR AS I'M AWARE, NO . WELL IF YOU GO BACK FAR ENOUGH EVERYONE IN CORK WAS RELATED TO ME AND I TRIED TO SO TO ECHO SOME OF THE COMMENTS FROM EARLIER, I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COMBINATION OF FRANK'S ROLLS. IT'S NOTHING AGAINST FRANK. HE'S A HE'S A VERY HARDWORKING

PUBLIC SERVANT. >> BUT IN THE SIX YEARS THAT I'VE LIVED IN IN HARTSDALE I'VE SEEN A DETERIORATION IN SERVICES. THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT INSPECTIONS ARE TAKING LONGER AND HARDER TO GET. I'VE PERSONALLY SPENT MANY EMAILS TO TO THE TEAM AND HAVING TO CONSTANTLY NAG THEM FOR THINGS THAT NEED TO BE DONE IN MY HOUSE MY NEIGHBORS HAVE EXPERIENCED SIMILAR PROBLEMS AND GIVEN THE DETERIORATION OF SERVICE WHICH IS PROBABLY RELATED TO UNDERSTAFFING I THINK IT'S DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY THE COMBINATION OF THAT ROLE WITH WHAT IS A VERY DEMANDING FUNCTION OF DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS WHICH HAS ALSO SEEN A DETERIORATION IN SERVICE OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THE RECENT MILLING AND RESURFACING WORK THAT WAS DONE IN HOSTILE AND OTHER PARTS OF GREENSBURG

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SO I DON'T SEE HOW THAT IS EASILY JUSTIFIED IF THE REASON FOR THAT IS SUPPOSE IT COST SAVINGS OF THE TWO ROLES BEING PUT TOGETHER I DON'T THINK THAT'S A SUFFICIENT JUSTIFYING NATION WHILE WE'RE ON THAT SAME COMBINATION OR THE REQUEST THAT'S BEEN PUT FORWARD FOR THE EXCUSE ME THE DEPUTY TO ALSO BECOME TOWN ATTORNEY WILL ALSO BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR SIMILAR REASONS APART FROM THE FACT THAT SHE ONLY GOT HER LAW DEGREE LAST YEAR AGAIN SHE SAID BE THE GREAT PUBLIC SERVANT FOR 20 PLUS YEARS FOR FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG BUT THE TOWN POSTING DID REQUIRE THREE YEARS OF LEGAL SERVICE FOR THAT ROLE AND SHE DOESN'T HAVE THAT GIVEN THAT SHE ONLY GOT HER HER LAW QUALIFICATION LAST YEAR. SO AGAIN, I THINK THAT WOULD REQUIRE SOME PUBLIC JUSTIFICATION IF IF THAT THAT ROLE WAS TO BE APPROVED.

>> I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE IF WE CAN GET AN UPDATE ON A SIDEWALK PROJECT OF WEST HARTSDALE.

THAT FUNDING WAS APPROVED FOUR YEARS AGO FOR THE GRANT AND THERE'S BEEN VERY LITTLE WORK DONE. I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME DESIGN ENGAGEMENT WITH VARIOUS ENGINEERING FIRMS BUT THERE IS NO REAL OBVIOUSLY AVAILABLE PUBLIC INFORMATION ON THAT.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT AND YEAH THAT'S NOT THE ENTIRETY OF MY COMMENTS. THANK YOU JANET LYNN GOOD EVENING. SUPERVISOR FINER MEMBERS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL AND IT'S APPARENTLY BEEN THE TOWN COUNCIL'S OBJECTIVE RECENTLY TO REDUCE THE SIZE OF TOWN ADMINISTRATION YOU'VE REDUCED THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING BOARD.

YOU'VE COMBINED TWO FULL TIME JOBS INTO ONE. AS FOR PRIOR SPEAKERS HAVE MENTIONED, I PROPOSE ANOTHER REDUCTION ELIMINATE THE BOARD OF ETHICS WHICH IS REALLY JUST

PERFORMATIVE AND REPEAL THE ETHICS CODE. >> THE BOARD OF ETHICS HAS NO

ENFORCEMENT POWER. >> ALL IT CAN DO IS MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE TOWN BOARD ON ETHICS QUESTIONS AND COMPLAINTS AND IF THE TOWN COUNCIL AND TOWN ATTORNEY DISAGREE, MR. DANKO SUMMARILY DISMISSED IS THEIR OPINION AND ADVISES THE TOWN BOARD THE BOARD OF ETHICS OPINION IS WRONG EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE BOARD'S OPINION ON THEIR OWN CODE AND HE'S DONE THAT MORE THAN ONCE AND THE TOWN COUNCIL FOLLOWS MR. DINKINS OPINION AND

IGNORES THAT OF THE BOARD OF ETHICS. >> THE ETHICS CODE IS MORE HONORED IN THE BREACH NOT ONLY BY MR. DANKO BUT BY THE BOARD OF ETHICS ITSELF.

>> THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW THE ETHICS CODE THE CPR BUT IT SEEMS TO IGNORE ONE OR BOTH ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS NOW IF THE BOARD OF ETHICS FINDS SUFFICIENT BASIS IN AN ETHICS COMPLAINT THAT IT THAT'S SOME PERSON OR PERSONS HAVE VIOLATED THE CODE, IT'S EMPOWERED TO GO TO PHASE ONE AND DO AN INVESTIGATION. IT GENERALLY JUST SUMMARILY DISMISSES COMPLAINT BUT ON RARE OCCASIONS IT ACTUALLY GOES TO AN INVESTIGATOR BUT IT'S INVESTIGATION IS APPARENTLY NOTHING MORE THAN SOME WRITTEN INTERROGATORIES WHICH ARE LEGAL QUESTIONS AND WHEN THE RESPONDENT TOWN COUNCIL CAN JUST ESSENTIALLY IGNORE THOSE INTERROGATORIES AND THEY HAVE TO EXPLORE IT WILL DO NOTHING ABOUT IT AND GET NO FURTHER INFORMATION. THE ETHICS BOARD IS NOT COMPOSED OF ATTORNEYS THERE ARE NO ATTORNEYS ON THE ETHICS FORWARD AS FAR AS I KNOW IT DOESN'T HAVE AN OUTSIDE COUNSEL DESPITE HAVING TO DEAL WITH LEGAL ARGUMENTS AND PLEADINGS. IF A COMPLAINT IS AGAINST THE TOWN BOARD OF TOWN COUNCIL, THE TOWN ATTORNEY SHOULD NOT BE INVOLVED AND THE ONLY COUNSEL THE ETHICS BOARD HAS IS A PART TIME VOLUNTEER WHO HASL TIME JOB AND A LAW FIRM.

YOU HAVE SIX BOARD IS THEREFORE TOTALLY ILL EQUIPPED TO DEAL WITH LEGAL ISSUES AND IN SOME CASES AS IN A RECENT CASE THE VARIETY OF CASE LAW THAT MAY BE INCLUDED IN A RESPONDENT'S BRIEF 80 CASES IN ONE OF THEM NOW RECENTLY THE ETHICS BOARD MADE A DECISION BASED ON A

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COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE TOWN COUNCIL. >> I PROPOSE IN PLACE OF THE ETHICS BOARD THE AND THE ETHICS CODE MR. DANKO IS GIVEN THE POSITION OF ETHICS ARE HE ONLY HAS ONE FULL TIME JOB NOW AND HE ALREADY ACTS HIS APPELLATE COURT ON THE ETHICS BOARD OPINIONS SO HE APPARENTLY HAS SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE OF THE ETHICS CODE AND THE LAW THAN THE BOARD ITSELF AND ALSO HAVING THE FACT THAT THE ETHICS BOARD REALLY HAS NO JURISDICTION ACCORDING TO THE ATTORNEY FOR THE ETHICS BOARD IN THE ETHICS BOARD THEMSELVES ,THERE WILL BE NO VIABLE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE TOWN COUNCIL THAT HE WILL HAVE TO

DEAL WITH. >> THANK YOU YOU SCHWARZ GOOD EVENING.

>> TOWN BOARD. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HEARD THE NEWS TODAY BUT OUR U.S.

CONGRESS JUST APPROPRIATED I THINK IT WAS OVER 100 BILLION DOLLARS FOR DHS.

THAT MEANS THAT ICE IS GOING FORWARD HOT AND HEAVY AGAIN WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS.

THERE WAS A PROPOSAL TO THIS BOARD SEVERAL MONTHS AGO NOW TO PROPOSALS ACTUALLY FOR RESOLUTIONS REGARDING HOW TO MANAGE ICE THAT WOULD BE A RECOMMENDATION TO BOTH THE STATE AND HOPEFULLY TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I PERSONALLY ACTUALLY PROPOSE LEGISLATION TO THE STATE TO MY ASSEMBLY PERSON AMY POLAND WHO DID BRING IT TO THE STATE.

IN FACT THERE IS SOME LEGISLATION BEING CONSIDERED NOW BY THE ASSEMBLY AS WELL AS A POLICY BY OUR GOVERNOR HOCHUL UNFORTUNATELY AND NEITHER CASE HAS THIS BOARD ACTED THREE MONTHS. YOU CAN'T WRITE A RESOLUTION WELL EVERY OTHER OTHER MUNICIPALITY IN THE AREA HAS. THAT IS VERY, VERY DISAPPOINTING.

>> ON A SECOND SUBJECT, THE SUBJECT OF COMBINING THE JOBS, THERE WAS A MISREPRESENTATION MADE BY A MEMBER OF THIS BOARD WHEN THIS WAS DISCUSSED THE NIGHT IT WAS PASSED WHICH WAS THAT MR. MIRABITO WAS ALREADY DOING THE JOB WELL IF I WERE RICH ONE WATCHING THAT ON TELEVISION IF I WERE TO JUMP THROUGH THE TV WHICH HE IS TAKING HIS THIRD JOB NOT A SECOND HE ALREADY WAS BUILDING INSPECTOR AND DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF DPW.

HE ALREADY HAD THOSE TWO JOBS AND WAS WORKING 5060 TO 75 HOURS A WEEK.

>> FRANK A VERY HARD WORKER THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT THAT IN A LOYAL EMPLOYEE OF THE TOWN AND THIS IS NOT ABOUT FRANK NOW YOU'VE ADDED WHICH FINDS JOB TO HIS JOB TO HIS RESPONSIBILITIES NOW I THINK I'M NOT SURE THERE ARE ABOUT 150 OR 160 PEOPLE UNDER DPW.

>> HE HAS TO MANAGE ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE IN ADDITION TO SPENDING HIS DAY IN THE FIELD AT THE ANSWERED LITTLE LEAGUE ASKING ANYBODY TO WORK OVER 100 HOURS A WEEK DESIGNING A JOB TO DO THAT IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'VE DONE. NOW TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY, YOU'RE THINKING OF TAKING LIZ WHO HAS BEEN TERRIFIC IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

>> SHE'S WONDERFUL AND MAKING A DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY MAYBE SHE'D PROBABLY BE GOOD AT IT.

>> SHE SURE AS HECK KNOW KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON IN TOWN IN TERMS OF LAND USE.

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>> HOWEVER, PICK A PICK A JOB. >> DON'T DO BOTH OF THEM HALFWAY AND YOU'RE AGAIN

WEAKENING A DEPARTMENT THAT'S ALREADY GROSSLY UNDERSTAFFED. >> SO THAT'S THE SECOND THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. THE THIRD THING IS ABOUT PUBLIC COMMENT.

JOE, THANK YOU. IF THAT WAS YOUR RECOMMENDATION ,IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT SOMEONE MADE A CONSTRUCTIVE RECOMMENDATION OF HOW TO IMPROVE THE PUBLIC COMMENT.

>> MY SUGGESTION HOWEVER THERE'S ONE THING I THINK MISSING WITH THAT BUT I DO THINK IT'S A REALLY GOOD STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. I REALLY DO.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT IS THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO COMMENT ON SOMEBODIES COMMENTS THEY SHOULD

HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME REBUTTAL. >> OKAY.

THEY'RE NOT GIVING IT THE LAST WORD HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE TOWN BOARD.

>> NOW LUCKILY FOR US THAT SPEAK UP HERE GENERALLY WHAT GOES ON IN THE TOWN BOARD

AFTERWARDS THANKS WON'T DO ANYMORE. >> THANKS TO JOE I DON'T THINK IS YOU KNOW 20 MINUTES OF BICKERING IT'S AMAZING TO WATCH IT'S EMBARRASSING TO WATCH FRANKLY AND HOPEFULLY THAT'LL GO AWAY GIVEN THE NEW PROCEDURE.

>> BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO COMMENT SPECIFICALLY ON SOMETHING, ANY OF US SAY WE

SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO REBUTTAL . >> THE ALTERNATIVE TO THAT IS

HAVE ONE MEETING A MONTH. >> THERE'S A TOWN HALL MEETING OR ONCE YOU EVEN DO IT ONCE A QUARTER WHERE WE ACTUALLY CAN HAVE A DIALOG WITH THE COUNCIL ,WE DON'T HAVE THAT

OPPORTUNITY ANYMORE. >> WE USED TO SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IT AT A TOWN BOARD MEETING BECAUSE NONE OF THESE MEETINGS RUN REALLY LATE I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO IN OTHER JOBS BESIDES WORKING HERE AND WOULD LIKE TO AND PROBABLY HAVE FAMILIES TO DEAL WITH TO THAT'S FINE BUT GIVE THE PUBLIC AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE DIALOG WITH YOU AND THAT

HAS GONE AWAY. >> THAT WAS WHAT THIS TOWN WAS BUILT ON SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE WHICH IS A LITTLE OVER 30 YEARS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

HAVE A GOOD EVENING AND PLEASE PLEASE NEXT MEETING PAT PASSED A NICE RESOLUTION.

>> ANDREA REED OKAY SO GOOD EVENING.

>> SUPERVISOR SUPERVISOR FINE AND THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN GREENBURG TOWN BOARD MY NAME IS ANDREA REED USUALLY WHEN I STAND UP HERE I STAND UP HERE AS A GREENBURG FAIRVIEW RESIDENT TONIGHT I HAVE TO STAND UP HERE AS THE CHAIRWOMAN OF THE FAIRVIEW AREA DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT LEADERS ON BEHALF OF THE DISTRICT LEADERS I HAVE A STATEMENT I WOULD LIKE TO READ

. >> SUPERVISOR FEINER AND MEMBERS OF THE GREENBURG TOWN BOARD THE FAIRVIEW DISTRICT LEADERS WILL LIKE TO SPEAK ON A CONCERN WE FEEL SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO ATTENTION OF OUR TOWN GOVERNING BODY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS DURING THE REGULAR PUBLIC MEETINGS OF THE GREENSBURG TOWN BOARD, THE RESIDENTS HAVE WITNESSED AN INCREASED ATMOSPHERE OF TENSION AND DISCORD BETWEEN THE TOWN SUPERVISOR AND THE MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD. THERE APPEARS TO BE A LACK OF BASIC PROFESSIONAL COURTESY BETWEEN ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO HAVE TAKEN AN OATH TO WORK ALONGSIDE EACH OTHER TO EFFECTIVELY RUN THE IMPORTANT BUSINESS OF THE TOWN. THIS BEHAVIOR BOTH INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY AS THE TOWN'S GOVERNING BODY HAS LEFT RESIDENTS WITH FEELINGS OF CONFUSION, DISAPPOINTMENT AND ANGER. AS A RESULT, RESIDENTS ARE LOSING CONFIDENCE IN THE ELECTED OFFICIALS THEY ELECTED TO REPRESENT THEM IN PUBLIC

OFFICE. >> WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE ISSUES OF GREAT CONCERN WITHIN OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT THAT REQUIRE BOTH ATTENTION AND CORRECTIVE ACTION.

HOWEVER, WE STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT OUR GOVERNING BODY CAN AND SHOULD MAKE A GREATER ATTEMPT TO WORK TOGETHER DESPITE THEIR DIFFERENCES TO EFFECTIVELY BRING FORTH SOLUTIONS THAT WILL HAVE A POSITIVE OUTPUT INPUT EXCUSE ME IMPACT ON OUR TOWN AS A WHOLE.

IN CLOSING, WE AS DISTRICT LEADERS ARE SIMPLY ASKING THAT OUR GOVERNING BODY TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK INTROSPECTIVELY AT HOW THE CURRENT CLIMATE AND OUR TOWN'S HIGHEST LEVEL IS

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>> WE HOPE THAT AS A GROUP YOU MAKE A DECISION TO CHOOSE RESPECT UNDERSTANDING AND COMPROMISE AS YOUR GUIDING COMPASS IN LEADING OUR GREAT TOWN INTO THE FUTURE.

REFLECT. REFLECT. EXCUSE ME RESPECTIVELY SUBMITTED THE FAIRVIEW GREENBURG DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT LEADERS I ANDREA C REID CHAIRPERSON AND JOYCE ARMSTRONG VICE CHAIR KISHA HOPE SECRETARY HELEN DANIELS MEMBER DR. ALVIN PULLIAM MEMBER CLIFTON ABRAMS MEMBER. CHERYL THOMPSON MEMBER MARLENE PENYA MEMBER. ROGER BREWSTER MEMBER. LINDA BRYANT MEMBER THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OH AND SIDNEY COLLINS THANK

MONICA LEVI MONICA LEVI. >> GOOD EVENING SUPERVISOR FEINER MR. ATTORNEY DANKO AND THE BOARD. I WAS HERE AS YOU MAY RECALL TWO WEEKS AGO BRINGING TO LIGHT AN INCIDENT THAT TOOK PLACE ON MY PROPERTY ON THE 25TH OF JANUARY WHEN A TOWN TRUCK

SMASHED INTO MY YARD DESTROYING PROPERTY. >> I'M HERE.

I WOULD LIKE TO READ THE FOLLOW UP LETTER THAT I WROTE AND SENT TO YOU OVER THE WEEKEND.

YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN IT BY NOW BUT THIS IS WHAT IT SAID ON THAT DATE A TOWN TRUCK CARRYING A FULL LOAD OF SALT LEFT THE DRIVEWAY DURING A SNOWSTORM CRASHED THROUGH MY FENCE, ENTERED MY BACK YARD AND IT WAS NOT A MINOR INCIDENT. IT RESULTED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF MY PROPERTY. I WAS I WAS VERY CONFIDENT THAT GIVEN THE FACT THAT IT WAS NOT MY DOING THAT I WOULD GET COMPENSATED FOR THE DAMAGES DONE BY THE TOWN TRUCK.

I WAS MISTAKEN. I GOT A LETTER WHICH INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A LAW TRAFFIC LAW 1103 AND I WOULD HAVE HAD TO PROVE THAT THE ACTIONS OF THE DRIVER WERE RECKLESS IN ORDER TO GET COMPENSATION. I WAS ALSO TOLD LAST LAST TIME I WAS HERE THAT I WOULD GET A CHANCE TO SPEAK WITH MR. DANKO AND I STILL AM OPEN TO THAT BUT I CAN'T WAIT FOREVER.

OKAY? I REALLY CAN'T. >> I WANT I WOULD LIKE RESOLVE I WOULD LIKE THIS TO BE RESOLVED AND I THINK THAT'S ONLY FAIR.

HERE IS WHAT ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO LIGHT IS THAT YES IT WAS A RECKLESS ACT AND FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS NUMBER ONE THE OPERATOR CHOSE TO PROCEED DOWN A VERY STEEP HILL WHICH I FIND VERY HARD TO EVEN PARK ON AND THE BEST OF CIRCUMSTANCES IT'S IT'S VERY DANGEROUS. THIS WAS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE SNOW STORM AND THE

CONDITIONS WERE VERY DANGEROUS AT THAT AT THAT POINT. >> NUMBER ONE, THAT WAS NUMBER ONE. NUMBER TWO IS THERE WAS THERE WAS NO EVASIVE ACTION.

I TOOK PICTURES WHICH I SHARED WITH YOU LAST TIME WHICH SHOWED THAT THE DRIVER'S WHEELS DIDN'T TURN TO THE RIGHT OR TO THE LEFT TO TURN ONTO THE STREET BUT KEPT GOING STRAIGHT WHICH

SHOWS THAT THEY WERE GOING STRAIGHT FOR MY PROPERTY. >> NUMBER THREE THERE WERE NO CHAINS ON ON THIS VEHICLE. IT WAS AN EXTREMELY HEAVY VEHICLE AND I WOULD THINK THAT YOU WOULD PUT SOME SORT OF SNOW CHAINS OR SOMETHING TO PREVENT THIS TYPE OF ACCIDENT.

BUT ACCORDING TO THE PICTURES I SHARED WITH YOU, YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF THERE WERE NO SNOW CHAINS. SO THESE ARE NOT MINOR OVERSIGHTS.

THEY REFLECT A FAILURE TO TAKE REASONABLE PRECAUTIONS IN A HAZARDOUS CONDITION AND THEY CAN CONSTITUTE COLLECTIVELY A RECKLESS OPERATION. I ALSO FURTHERMORE THINK IT'S UNACCEPTABLE FOR THE TOWN TO RELY ON A BROAD STATUTORY EXEMPTION TO DENY RESPONSIBILITY IN A SITUATION WHERE ITS OWN ACTIONS DIRECTLY CAUSED SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE TO A TAXPAYING RESIDENT MYSELF THIS COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE HERE. AS A TAXPAYER I SHOULD NOT BE FORCED TO BEAR THE COST OF DAMAGES RESULTING FROM THE TOWN'S FAILURE TO OPERATE ITS EQUIPMENT SAFELY. SO I REQUEST THAT THE TOWN BOARD REEVALUATE THIS INCIDENT IN LIGHT OF THE FACTS I OUTLINED REVERSE ITS PRIOR DETERMINATION AND ACCEPT FULL

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WE'RE NOT TALKING A LOT OF MONEY HERE. WE'RE NOT.

>> BUT TO NOT EVEN HAVE A MEETING WITH ME AFTER I DID ASK IS KIND OF UNACCEPTABLE TO ME.

SOMEONE HERE SPOKE OF DIALOG I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. COMMUNICATION IS SO IMPORTANT AND SO I REALLY REQUEST THAT THIS BE TAKEN CARE OF. I'M HAPPY TO COME IN AND SPEAK WITH YOU AGAIN I SAY THAT BUT AGAIN I'M NOT WAITING FOREVER BECAUSE I THINK THAT SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES AND I REALLY DON'T THINK I CAN, YOU KNOW, ABIDE BY THAT.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

CYNICAL OUTLOOK SIDNEY COLLINS ,SUPERVISOR FOR MINOR AND THE MEMBERS OF THE GREENSBURG TOWN

BOARD. >> MY NAME IS SIDNEY COLLINS AND I AM A RESIDENT OF THE

FAIRVIEW GREENSBURG. >> I COME BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING TO SPEAK ABOUT THE IMPACT THAT THE RECENT REGULAR BOARD MEMBERS MEETING EXCUSE ME OF THE TOWN OF GRUBER HAVE HAD

ON OUR SENIORS. >> AS SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, I WORK CLOSELY WITH THE SENIORS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER AT THE THEATER, THE YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER AND MANY OF THE SENIORS THERE HAVE EXPRESSED TO ME THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT IN THE RECENT BEHAVIOR OF OUR TOWN'S

ELECTED OFFICIALS. >> THEY VIEW THEIR CONSTANT OUTGOING AND DIVISIVE BEHAVIOR TOWARDS EACH OTHER AS VERY DISRESPECTFUL TO THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE WHO THEY ELECTED TO REPRESENT OUR TOWN. IT IS THE HOPE OF THE SENIORS THAT THE TOWN BOARD MAKE GREATER EFFORTS TO WORK TOGETHER TO HANDLE THE CHALLENGES OF THE TOWN OUTSIDE OF THE PUBLIC MEETINGS SO THE VERY RESIDENTS WHO ATTEND CAN BE FULLY HEARD AND THE BUSINESS OF OUR TOWN CAN BE HANDLED WITHOUT CONSTANT INTERRUPTION. I HOPE THAT THE TOWN BOARD TAKES THE OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT ALL THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED BEFORE THEM AND WORK TOWARDS MAKING POSITIVE CHANGES THAT WOULD HELP RESTORE THE RESIDENTS AND THE SENIORS FAITH

IN OUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES. >> THANK YOU.

>> I APOLOGIZE. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE FROM THE FAIRVIEW GREENSBURG THAT WANTED TO SPEAK THAT WAS ON THE LIST? I APOLOGIZE. I JUST THOUGHT YOUR CHAIRPERSON

WAS SPEAKING. COME COME UP. >> THANK YOU, LINDA.

YEAH. GOOD EVENING, MR. Q JUST SPEAKING TO THE MICROPHONE.

OH, I'M SORRY. THANK YOU. I'M LINDA BRYANT.

I'M DISTRICT SEVEN SIX DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT LEADER. I'M A RESIDENT OF THE TOWNSHIP

OF GREEN RIVER FOR 46 YEARS. >> FIRST AND FOREMOST I KNOW EACH OF YOU QUITE WELL BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATED COMMITMENT TO THE SERVICE OF OUR COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED LEADERSHIP TO MAKE GREENSBURG THE WONDERFUL COMMUNITY IT IS

AND WHERE I CHOOSE TO LIVE. >> WE ARE GRATEFUL AS A FIGURE OF YOU DISTRICT LEADER WE ARE REGULARS AT THESE MEETINGS EITHER SITTING IN THIS ROOM OR WATCHING FROM HOME.

WE ATTEND BOARD MEETINGS TO STAY ABREAST OF THE ISSUES AND THE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE AND DETERMINED HERE. THESE MEETINGS SHOULD HELP US BE BETTER INFORMED DISTRICT LEADERS WE CARRY YOUR PETITIONS AND THIS IS NOT ALWAYS FUN OR EASY BUT WE WE ALL DO THIS AS WE ARE VERY PROUD FAIRVIEW DISTRICT LEADERS HOWEVER LATELY ATTENDING THESE WEDNESDAY

MEETINGS HAS BEEN QUITE UNCOMFORTABLE AND AWKWARD. >> THE LEVEL OF DISTRICT IMPACT AND LACK OF CLEAR OF CIVILITY OF EACH OTHER OPINIONS HARMS AND DIMINISHES THE GOOD WORK THAT YOU ACTUALLY DO. I WORRY ABOUT A PERSON WHO MIGHT COME TO THIS MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT ANOTHER MATTER OR WHO WITNESSES THESE BACK AND FORTH DISPLAYS AND

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS. >> SO PLEASE LET'S RETURN TO THE DECORUM AS IT LEADERS AND

BEACONS OF THIS GREAT COMMUNITY. >> I THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, KEISHA HOPE AND YOU GO AND I SAID YOUR NAME RIGHT? YES, YOU DID. GOOD EVENING, SUPERVISOR FEINER AND GOOD EVENING TO THE GREENBERG TOWN BOARD TO REITERATE WHAT MY FAIRVIEW DISTRICT LEADERS HAVE ALREADY SAID, WE APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT ALL OF YOU ARE DOING AS OUR LEADERS.

WE APPRECIATE THE TIME THAT EACH OF YOU PUTS INTO YOUR SPECIALTY ON THE BOARD.

HOWEVER, AS HAS BEEN REPEATED THIS EVENING, WE SIMPLY ARE ASKING THAT THERE BE A RETURN A RETURN TO RESPECT, A RETURN TO CIVILITY AND A RETURN TO WORKING TOGETHER AS A BODY ONE BODY WHILE WE UNDERSTAND THERE ARE CHALLENGES GREAT CHALLENGES THAT ANY TOWN FACES AND ESPECIALLY THE TOWN OF GREENSBURG, WE ASK THAT YOU WORK TOGETHER TO FIND SOLUTIONS

TO MOVE US FORWARD. >> I ACTUALLY WOULD LIKE TO ASK ANOTHER QUESTION THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I HAVE TO SAY ON THAT ON RESOLUTION TB FOUR, WHICH IS A SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY, MY QUESTION TO THE BOARD IS WHY WHY WAS THERE NO SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY ESTABLISH PRIOR TO THIS? EVERY OTHER COMPANY THAT I KNOW OF AND GOVERNING BODIES HAS A SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY.

>> WHAT PROMPTED THE TOWN BOARD TO TAKE THIS RESOLUTION TO TAKE THIS ACTION AT THIS TIME?

>> THAT'S A QUESTION THAT I HAVE FOR THE BOARD. THANK YOU.

DR. PULLIAM. NOW HELEN DANIELS. GOOD EVENING ALL.

I'M HELEN DANIELS. I LIVE HERE IN THE GREENSBURG AREA.

IT'S INTERESTING THAT I GREW UP BASICALLY ON LOCAL POLITICS NEW YORK CITY POLITICS.

SO I'VE SEEN THE FIGHTING I'VE SEEN THE VICIOUS ATTITUDE. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT SURE I'VE SEEN SOME OF THE LEVEL OF DISRESPECT WHEN I'VE BEEN IN MEETINGS THAT I HAVE SEEN WITHIN THIS BOARD. IT REALLY TROUBLES ME. WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO COME IN HERE WHO THINK THEY MAY WANT TO GO INTO POLITICS BUT THEY SEE WHAT GOES ON AND THEY HAVE TO ASK THEMSELVES AM I UP FOR THIS? DON'T WANT TO BE ATTACKED THAT WAY. WHAT DO I WANT TO GIVE TO MY COMMUNITY? SHOULD I GIVE ANYTHING TO MY COMMUNITY? WE AS LEADERS AND I'M SAYING ALL OF US IN THIS ROOM NOT JUST YOU, NOT JUST US DISTRICT LEADERS WE SHOULD BE SETTING AN EXAMPLE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY. WE'RE NOT SETTING EXAMPLES WHEN WE SEE THE ARGUING BACK AND FORTH THE CLOSE TO NAME CALLING, THE ALMOST HATRED THAT

WE SEE THAT'S NOT WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IN THIS COMMUNITY. >> YOUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS DO NOT TALK ABOUT HOW YOU'RE PERFORMING YOUR JOB. IT JUST SAYS WHAT YOUR JOB IS.

>> BUT ONE THING THAT WE KNOW THAT EVERY JOB WE GO INTO BUT HAS TO BE A LEVEL OF KINDNESS AND RESPECT OTHERWISE WE DO NOT ACHIEVE OUR GOALS NOT THE REAL GOAL.

SO I ASK THIS TO MOVE FORWARD WHATEVER THE PERSONAL ISSUES YOU MAY HAVE THEY SHOULD BE LEFT OUTSIDE AND WHEN YOU COME IN HERE JUST DO THE BUSINESS OF THE TOWN.

>> THANK YOU. >> CLIF ABRAMS, OUR SUPERVISOR FIRED AROUND TOWN BOARD CLIFF

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THAT WE JUST LOVE FOR YOU ALL TO BE MORE CIVIL. >> I LIKE THE CIVIL RIGHTS HAPPY THEY WERE SO BRUTAL THEY SAY HEY, I'LL JUST ACT CIVIL. YOU KNOW, I'LL SAY BUT I CAME HERE ABOUT A MONTH AGO AND I WAS TALKING ABOUT OLD CHERRY TOWN ROAD AND I SAID IF WE SHOULD HAVE A PHYSICAL CLERK JUST SAID THE SPEED LIMIT AND OVER THERE BY COMING AWAY AND ACROSS FROM CHERRY HILL IS SAY 25MPH DOWN FROM WHERE I'M AT TO Y'ALL IT'S A 15 MILES AN HOUR.

YOU GET TO MAPLE STREET, I BRING THIS UP LIKE SIX MONTHS AGO.

I BRING IT UP LAST MONTH AND NOBODY REALLY EVER GOT BACK AND I GOT TO DO GUY NAME IS FRANK.

I CAME AND I LEFT. I TRIED TO SEE HIM LAST THURSDAY BUT I GUESS HE WAS BUSY. YOU KNOW HE GOT SO MANY JOBS YOU GOT TO WORRY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S JUST THAT I JUST THINK THAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE SAFETY OF OUR YOUTH, YOU KNOW? I MEAN AND THEY CROSS FROM MAPLE STREET TO GO OVER TO CHERRY HILL. PEOPLE FROM CHERRY HILL CROSS BACK OVER FROM DEER TO MAPLE STREET AND AND COSBY FLY IN MAYBE THE CHIEF CAN GET A COBB CARD.

THEY CAN MAKE UP FOR THE TICKETS FOR THAT MONTH. WE GOT THE CAR BE FLYING AND THEY DON'T CARE AND THERE'S A HAZARD AND THERE IS DAD I BRING UP ABOUT THE PRATFALL THAT'S ON UNDER THE BRIDGE ON THE MANHATTAN AVENUE. I KNOW THEY'RE SAYING CAUGHT THE MURROW NOT THE PLATFORM AND IT'S A HEALTH HAZARD. IT JUST IT JUST IT JUST THEY JUST LOOK SO BAD AND AND JUNE WILL BE FOUR YEARS THAT HAVE BEEN UP AND I KNOW THAT ANY OF THE VILLAGE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG WOULD NOT ALLOW A PLATFORM SCAFFOLD THEY ARE TEMPORARY THEY'RE NOT PERMANENT AND RADIO LIKE WHAT'S ON THAT WALL OR NOT WE VOTED ON IT WE AGREED ON IT. TAKE THE PLATFORM DOWN JOE ONCE YOU COULD MEET WITH TWO ARTISTS OR WHATEVER AND THEN WE GO FROM THERE. IT'S HONEY WOOD HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO PICK THAT BACK UP? SO I JUST HOPE THAT YOU KNOW WHAT A DIGITAL CLOCK AND THE SPEED AND PEOPLE AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD YOU'RE ABLE TO GET BACK AND TO SAY SOMETHING YOU KNOW PERFECTLY I'M COMING UP HERE, I'M SPEAKING ON IT AND I GET NO FEEDBACK.

>> THANK YOU, WALTER SIMON SO GOOD EVENING SUPERVISOR FINE FINER MEMBER OF THE TOWN BOARD.

MY NAME IS WALTER SIMON. I RESIDE IN HARTSDALE. FIRST OF ALL I TOTALLY AGREE WITH ALL THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS. THEY ARE RIGHT ON POINT. I SPOKE TO THIS ISSUE AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING ABOUT CIVIL CITY AND I STAND BY THOSE STATEMENTS AND I'M GLAD THEY WERE REINFORCE THIS EVENING. THE OTHER POINT I WANT TO BRING UP IS THE ONE OF THE EYES AND AT THE LAST MEETING I SAID THAT EVERY ISSUE SHOULD BE BASED UPON A CAREFUL AND OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE FACTS AND THEN YOU MAKE THE DECISION IT SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON PERSONALITIES WHETHER YOU AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH INDIVIDUALS. THIS ICE LEGISLATION BEEN AROUND AS MR. SCHWARZ SAID FOR THREE MONTHS JUST TO FIGURE OUT THE LANGUAGE JUST TOTALLY ON ACCEPTABLE. IT REMINDS ME OF WHAT HAPPENED AND FACT THE REASON WHY I'M HERE TODAY TALKING ABOUT ICE GOES BACK ABOUT 12 YEARS AGO OR MAYBE MORE WHEN SENATOR RUBIO INTRODUCED THAT BILL FOR THE REFORMING OF IMMIGRATION LAW. HE INTRODUCED THE BILL AND WHEN

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>> HE INTRODUCED THE BILL PRESIDENT OBAMA SAID OH, THIS IS A GOOD BILL.

I CAN SUPPORT IT RIGHT AWAY. THE BILL WAS OPPOSED BECAUSE PRESIDENT OBAMA SUPPORTED SO IT WASN'T BECAUSE IT WAS BAD LEGISLATION. IT WAS PURE POLITICS AND DISLIKE FOR THE PERSON WHO'S WHO SUPPORTED THE BILL AND WHAT WE HAVE NOW AND THAT AND OF THAT BILL WAS WAS PASSED WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE PROBLEM WITH THAT WE HAVE WITH ICE TODAY.

SO ACTUALLY THE PROBLEM TODAY GOES BACK 12 YEARS BECAUSE PEOPLE AT THAT TIME MADE A DECISION BASED UPON POLITICS AND A DISLIKE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL.

>> SO WE'RE HERE TODAY. SO ACTUALLY WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE ON THIS ISSUE IN THIS TOWN IS JUST SO A REPLAY OF WHAT HAPPENED 12 YEARS AGO WHERE THIS CONGRESS TOOK A POSITION NOT BASED ON THE FACTS BUT BASED UPON POLITICS, ETHICS AND PERSONAL INTEREST FOR INDIVIDUAL. IT'S TIME FOR THIS TOWN TO STOP.

JUST STOP AND FOLLOW THE ADVICE THAT YOU'RE GETTING FROM THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN BECAUSE THIS IS REALLY BAD FOR THE TOWN. YOU KNOW I REFER TO IN MY STATEMENT LAST TIME I TALKED ABOUT IT WAS BUFFOONERY. THOSE ARE HARSH WORDS. THEY ARE THEY'RE HARSH WORDS.

THEY'RE NOT WORDS THAT SHOULD BE SPOKEN IN PUBLIC IN REGARDS TO OUR GOVERNMENT.

BUT I WOULD SAY ANYBODY GO BACK AND LOOK AT THOSE PRECEDING AND GIVE ME A BETTER WORD TO DESCRIBE WHAT WENT ON. GIVE ME A BETTER WORD IS THERE A BETTER WORD TO DESCRIBE YOUR ACTIONS IF ANYBODY KNOW, GIVE IT TO ME AND I'LL USE THAT WORD .

BUT YOUR PERFORMANCE IS TOTALLY DISGRACEFUL AND THERE'S NO REASON WHY THIS TOWN CAN NOT PUT THE LEGISLATION FOR THE DISTANCE BETWEEN FOR ICE, AGAINST THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ICE AND THE POLES POLES NO REASON AND I WOULD HOPE THAT WILL COME UP AT THE NEXT BOARD

MEETING AND WILL BE VOTED UPON. >> THANK YOU, ERICA. >> HI, MY NAME IS ERICA.

I REPRESENT DISTRICT 67 DISTRICT LEADER SO I SHARE THE CONCERNS MANY PEOPLE HAVE THAT THE BUILDING INSPECTOR AND DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR SHOULD HOLD ONLY ONE JOB, NOT

TWO. >> THERE ARE THREE VACANCIES IN THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT.

THIS IS A BIG TOWN WITH MANY PROPERTIES THAT HAVE TO BE INSPECTED.

HOW CAN A BUILDING INSPECTOR AND DEPUTY WHO ARE GOING TO BE WORKING AS COMMISSIONER OF

PUBLIC WORKS AND DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY DO A GOOD JOB? >> WHAT HAPPENS IF BOTH GO ON

VACATION OR GET SICK THE SAME TIME? >> IS THERE A BACKUP?

>> HOW DO WE KNOW THAT ALL INSPECTIONS THAT ARE NEEDED ARE BEING DONE?

>> WHAT ABOUT THE WAIT TIME? >> PAY 263,000 TO 1 PERSON IS A TREMENDOUS THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY THE EXCESSIVE SALARY FOR COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS BUILDINGS INSPECTOR WILL CREATE INCOME INEQUALITY. OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS WILL NOW BE ASKING FOR HIGHER SALARIES

WHICH WILL RESULT IN HIGHER TAXES FOR ALL OF US. >> PAUL IS AN EXPERT AND IS

GOING STRONG FOR 35 YEARS NOW. >> WE NEED TO LEARN FROM HIM FIRST AND THEN CRITICIZE OR TRY TO REPLACE HIM WITH SOMEONE ELSE THAT SOMEONE ELSE HAS TO BE AN EXPERT TO.

IF A CRUCIAL PROBLEM COMES THEN HE OR SHE NEEDS TO SOLVE IT WITH PEACE AND EASE.

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>> TIME IS VALUABLE AND PAUL HAS ALREADY BEEN A GREAT PROBLEM SOLVER.

>> PAUL'S HOT SEAT IS NOT FOR LEARNING. IT'S FOR PROBLEM SOLVING AND MAKING A GREAT COMMUNITY. AS I'M LEARNING I REALIZE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO UNDERSTAND

AND GATHER EXPERIENCE. >> SO PAUL IS A GREAT MENTOR TO ALL AND I'M SO THANKFUL THAT I'M LEARNING SO MUCH FROM YOU AND LEARNING IS VERY IMPORTANT. THANK YOU.

>> THANK YOU. THANK YOU. >> WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE ZOOM MEETING. ATTENDEES MICHAEL VILLA CHRIS WILL HE LEFT AND THEN THE OTHER

PERSON IS IN PERSON SO I'VE GOT NO MORE SPEAKERS. >> I JUST WANT TO MENTION IN LIGHT OF THE OUTCRY ABOUT THE TONE OF THE BOARD MEETINGS AND THE POLITICS I HAVE A SUGGESTION RELATING TO THE WEBSITE BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE WHOLE SORRY TO CUT YOU OFF SUPERVISOR WE DO NOT HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM AT THIS POINT. IF YOU COULD JUST WAIT FOR ONE

OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS TO COME BACK. >> OKAY.

OH AND THERE WE ARE NOW WE HAVE SORRY TO CUT YOU OFF. OKAY.

SO I HAVE A SUGGESTION THAT I THINK THIS WOULD BE A REAL POSITIVE GESTURE ON THE PART OF

EVERYBODY YOU KNOW, INCLUDING ME AND THE BOARD. >> IF YOU LOOK AT THE HOME PAGE OF THE TOWN WEBSITE, THERE'S A LOT YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF BICKERING ON ON IT AND POLITICKING A LOT OF CLUTTER AND IT'S REALLY DAMAGING TO THE TOWN BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY IS LOOKING AT POSSIBLY MOVING TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, THE FIRST PLACE THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK AT IS THE WEBSITE AND IF THE FIRST THING THAT COMES UP IS FORENSIC REPORT, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY SOMEBODY'S THINKING ABOUT MOVING HERE AND SAYS FORENSIC REPORT THEN A SECOND LATER THE SECOND THING YOU LOOK AT IS I'M WRITING TO THE CONTROLLER BECAUSE THE TOWN BOARD'S WRITING TO THE CONTROLLER BECAUSE WE WANT AN INVESTIGATION THEN THERE'S A RESPONSE TO THE FORENSIC REPORT. WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO MOVE HERE? WHY WOULD ANYBODY WANT TO LIVE HERE?

>> SO WHAT I'M SUGGESTING IS THAT THE TOWN BOARD AS A RESPONSE TO THE FAIRVIEW DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT LEADERS AND THE OUTCRY FROM ALL OVER THE TOWN, WE SAY WE'RE GOING TO IMMEDIATELY REVAMP THE WEBSITE . SO I THINK THE WEBSITE BASICALLY SHOULD HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT EMERGENCIES. IT SHOULD HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT TOWN EVENTS. IF THERE'S ISSUES THAT CAME UP LIKE YESTERDAY AT THE BOARD MEETING WE HEARD FROM MOHAWK THAT THEY WANT TO MAKE SOME AND THEY WANT TO ADDRESS SOME LAND USE ISSUES RELATING TO THEIR CAMP THAT SHOULD BE ON BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD CENSOR ANYBODY ANY ELECTED OFFICIAL AND YOU KNOW, THE SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY SAYS THERE'S GOING TO BE SOMEBODY WHO WILL DETERMINE WHAT COULD GO ON AND WHAT CAN'T GO ON.

SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST IS THAT WE REMOVE EVERYTHING THAT IS OPINIONS AND WE HAVE A LINK TO A LINK THAT WOULD SAY OPINIONS AND IF ANYBODY ON THE BOARD YOU KNOW IF YOU WANT TO CALL ME NAMES OR WHATEVER YOU COULD SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT YOU KNOW I COULD RESPOND BUT IT'S ON ONE LINK SO WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT REALLY HIGHLIGHTING YOU KNOW AND YOU KNOW ANYTHING.

SO WHEN PEOPLE LOOK AT THE AND WE COULD EVEN LET THE PUBLIC HAVE A CHANCE TO WEIGH IN ON ON OPINION COMMENTS. SO YOU KNOW IF I'M SAYING SOMETHING AND SOMEBODY HERE DISAGREES WITH IT, YOU SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPRESS YOURSELF ON AN OPINION SECTION OF THE WEBSITE. NOW I SORT OF FEEL THAT IF WE COULD DO THAT WE'RE GOING TO SHOW THE PUBLIC THAT WE'RE LISTENING BECAUSE WHEN I GO AROUND THE TOWN AND I'M OUT EVERY SINGLE DAY I'M HEARING FROM PEOPLE WHO I NEVER HEARD FROM IN MY LIFE AND EVERYBODY'S PRETTY DISGUSTED WITH WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE TOWN BOARD MEETINGS.

I MEAN IT'S YOU KNOW AND THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER SPOKEN UP BOARD MEETINGS.

YEAH. I SOMETIMES GO ON THE BICYCLE AND I STOP PEOPLE WHILE THEY'RE WALKING THEIR DOGS. I'M HEARING IT FROM TWO, THREE, FIVE PEOPLE A DAY AND THESE ARE

AVERAGE RESIDENTS. >> SO PEOPLE ARE REALLY DISGUSTED AND I THINK THAT THEY

WANT CIVILITY AND THEY WANT TO BE PROUD OF THEIR GOVERNMENT. >> YOU KNOW, MOST PEOPLE THAT I

KNOW EVERYBODY'S THEY LOVE LIVING HERE. >> YOU KNOW, THE SERVICES ARE GREAT. WE HAVE EXCEPTIONAL EMPLOYEES, VERY DEDICATED PEOPLE.

>> THEY WANT TO BE PROUD OF THE COMMUNITY. SO YOU KNOW, THE THING IS IF

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WE'RE GOING TO BE MAKING IT OUR PROPERTY VALUES ARE GOING TO GO DOWN.

WE'RE IT'S DAMAGING TO THE WHOLE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THIS ISN'T POLITICAL.

>> THIS IS BASICALLY ASKING EVERYBODY HERE TO LISTEN TO OURS TODAY AND WE COULD IMMEDIATELY SAY TO OUR WEBMASTER TAKE DOWN ANYTHING THAT IS POLITICAL OR NASTY OR NAME CALLING OR CRITICAL. PUT IT ON THE OPINION PAGE OPINION, OPINION LINK WE HAVE ONE LINK AND AND THEN WHEN PEOPLE LOOK AT THE WEBSITE WE SHOULD BE HIGHLIGHTING WHAT'S FABULOUS ABOUT OUR TOWN OF GREENSBURG. SO THAT'S BASICALLY YOU KNOW MY MY STATEMENT I ASKED FOR THIS AND I THINK THAT WE NEED TO MAKE A GESTURE BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN AND YOU'RE NOT SPEAKING FOR YOURSELF. YOU'RE SPEAKING FOR, YOU KNOW, HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

>> SO THAT'S MY PROPOSAL AND YOU KNOW, I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE COULD ALL START MAKING SOME GESTURES TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT WE'RE LISTENING. AND YOU KNOW, I WILL WORK MY HARDEST TO REFLECT ON EVERYTHING YOU SAID AND I WILL ALSO YOU KNOW, NOT EVERYTHING IS ONE WAY. YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL OF US HAVE TO WORK HARDER TO MAKE PEOPLE BE PROUD OF THE TOWN, TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL THAT WE'RE BEING RESPONSIVE TO YOU KNOW, CONCERNS THAT YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE HAVE COMPLAINTS ABOUT POTHOLES, WHEN PEOPLE HAVE ANY CONSTITUENT PROBLEMS, WE WANT THEM RESOLVED QUICKLY. WE WANT CALLS RETURN FROM RESIDENTS IMMEDIATELY. THIS IS NOT OUR GOVERNMENT. IT'S YOUR GOVERNMENT.

IT'S THE PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT AND THAT'S THE PEOPLE COME FIRST.

DO YOU SUPPORT YOUR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY? >> THANK YOU FOR COMING AND I WOULD SAY WE ALL LISTENED AND WE ALL CARE. WE ALL CARE DEEPLY, DEEPLY ABOUT THIS TOWN AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT RUNS SMOOTHLY .

AND WE DO BELIEVE THAT COOPERATION IS IMPORTANT AND WE TRY WE TRY TO COOPERATE THERE.

WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE AND THERE ARE UM AND WE TRY HARD TO TO LISTEN AND TO RESPOND.

SO I PLEDGE TO DO THAT AND AND LISTEN EVEN MORE. THANK YOU.

>> SO I WILL SAY WHEN I FIRST CAME ARRIVED HERE THIS EVENING I HAD THE SAME CONVERSATION OF THE COMMENTS THAT EACH OF YOU HAVE MET EACH OF YOU HAS STATED WITH REGARDS TO THE APPEARANCE BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT GETTING ALONG. LET'S JUST CALL FOR WHAT IT IS.

YOU WANT TRANSPARENCY, YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING. WE'RE NOT GETTING ALONG RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE BEING SAID. THERE ARE THINGS THAT THEY HAD DONE THAT IS JUST NOT RIGHT. SO YES, THERE IS A WAY TO HANDLE IT.

YES, THERE IS A WAY AS AS WE ALL USE THE PHRASE GO HIGH BUT THERE IS A TIME THAT THERE ARE BREAKING POINTS WHEN THERE'S SO MUCH MISINFORMATION BEING STATED AND THEN WE TALK ABOUT WANTING TRANSPARENCY AND WE TALK ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE DEMOCRACY AND WHEN WE TRY THAT WE GET ACCUSED OF BEING BUFFOONS AND AND WE JUST DO WAS IS JUST A STATEMENT THAT SUPERVISOR FINE AND HE MADE THE SAME STATEMENT YESTERDAY I WORK SESSION AND I SAID TO HIM WE JUST MAKE SURE I MIGHT NOT HAVE MY NOTES HERE BUT HE MENTIONED ABOUT THE WEBSITE AND I THINK HE JUST SAID IT AGAIN ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE FLOWERY THINGS ON THE WEBSITE AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS BUT I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRANSPARENCY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT YES, THERE IS A CONCERN THAT THE COUNCIL HAD AND THIS IS WHAT WE DID GOING

FORWARD. >> SO SHOULD WE NOT HAVE BEEN TRANSPARENT ABOUT THAT? I YOU KNOW, THERE WERE THERE YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN IN THIS ROLE FOR SIX, SEVEN YEARS NOW

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RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT. AND AND YEAH IT'S IT'S UPSETTING.

IT'S UPSETTING BECAUSE WE'RE AT BREAKING POINTS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE WE DO WORK HARD.

WE DO GIVE A LOT OF OURSELVES. WE DO GIVE OUR TIME AND WE TAKE AWAY FROM OUR FAMILIES AND WE TAKE AWAY FROM THINGS THAT WE SHOULD DO FROM OUR OTHER JOBS AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES BECAUSE OF OUR COMMITMENT TO THIS TOWN. SO I'LL SPEAK FOR ME I'LL SPEAK I'LL SPEAK FOR GINA AND I'M PRETTY SURE THAT COUNCILMAN HENDRICKS AND COUNCILMAN SHEEHAN MAY AGREE OR WILL AGREE AND SEEN IT. I MEAN I'VE NEVER IN ALL THE YEARS THAT I HAVE BEEN A PROFESSIONAL CAREER IN HUMAN RESOURCES HAVE SOMEONE'S TITLE SALARY NAME PUT OUT THE WAY IT HAS BEEN TODAY AND THE WAY IT HAS BEEN THESE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT IS JUST I DON'T THINK IF ANYONE WAS SITTING IN THAT PERSON'S SHOES THAT YOU WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE AFTER THE COMMITMENT THAT HE GIVES AND THEN WE SIT HERE AND WE SAY WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO AND THAT THIS SHOULD BE IN THIS SHOULD BE RESPECT BUT THERE'S A RISK IT SHOULD BE RECIPROCATED AND WE TRY BUT AGAIN BUT YOU'VE SEEN THESE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS IS THE FRUSTRATION OF THE MISINFORMATION THAT HAS BEEN PUT OUT THERE OF THE MISMANAGEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DONE.

>> BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY NO ONE CARES ABOUT THAT. >> I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY THAT IS A PROBLEM FOR US TO BRING IT FORWARD TO YOU SO YOU CAN UNDERSTAND AND SEE WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING. BUT I THINK THE ONLY TIME IS THAT WAS POST THE ONLY TIME THAT MATTERS IS WHEN WE'RE SAYING YES BUT WE YES IT'S NOT EVERYTHING BECAUSE JUST COMES AT A COST AND NOW RIGHT NOW WE ARE SHOWING YOU THE COSTS THAT HAS COME.

>> SO I DO AGREE THIS SHOULD BE A WAY HOW WE PRESENT OURSELVES WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DISAGREE AND AGREE WITH ONE ANOTHER. BUT IT'S JUST SO FRUSTRATING OF EVERYTHING AND THE BEHAVIORS THAT WE HAVE TO SIT THROUGH SO WHETHER YOU AGREE WITH ME OR DISAGREE WITH ME AND I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO FIGHT AND DO WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT I DO FOR YOU BUT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND THIS IS WHAT WHAT'S ON THAT WEBSITE IS TRANSPARENCY AND I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE HIDDEN. SO I'M GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT TACT HERE.

I'M GOING TO GO FROM THE NOTES THAT I TOOK OF EACH OF THE SPEAKERS REGARDLESS OF THE TOPIC UM LIVE WITH LIZ COFFMAN IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE NOISE AND THE POLLUTION FROM LEAF

BLOWERS. >> WE ALL ARE BEFORE ME ON THE BOARD WAS SOMEBODY NAMED LES

ADLER. >> HE HE LEFT BEING A TOWN COUNCIL MEMBER AND MOVED ON TO BEING A JUDGE A VERY GOOD JUDGE AND AS HE WAS LEAVING THE TOWN COUNCIL POSITION AFTER MANY MANY YEARS BEFORE ME HE SAID THE ONE THING I'M NOT GOING TO MISS IS THE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT LEAF BLOWERS AND THERE BEING NO SOLUTION TO IT BECAUSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO 50% ARE GOING TO BE HAPPY AND 50% ARE NOT GOING TO BE HAPPY. THE SUGGESTION IS TO MOVE FROM GAS TO ELECTRIC. THAT'S WHAT HE SAID. UM THE CAC OUR CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL THINKS THEY'RE BOTH BAD AND THEY BOTH PUT THE DIRT UP INTO THE AIR AND IT'S HURRICANE FORCE WINDS NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH BANNING GAS BLOWERS BUT EVERY TIME THAT'S PROPOSED OUR STAFF TELLS US IT'S GOING TO BE VERY EXPENSIVE AND THEY WANT TO BE EXEMPTED FROM IT BECAUSE IT DOESN'T DO AS GOOD A JOB AND IT'S GOING TO TAKE LONGER AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DO NEED ME NEED MORE PERSONNEL AND I DON'T WANT TO PASS A LAW THAT WE DON'T PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH AND THAT'S AN ISSUE AND THEN THE GOLF COURSES ARE GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING AND THE CEMETERY IS GOING TO SAY THE SAME THING. SO WE HAVE TO ADDRESS THAT AND THAT'S WHY IT HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSED IN MANY YEARS EVEN THOUGH IT'S DISCUSSED EVERY 4 TO 5 YEARS FOR AS LONG AS ANYBODY CAN REMEMBER THAT'S THAT TAX ROAD PROJECT THAT IS MOVING FORWARD.

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YOU KNOW, GODSPEED. >> IT'S AN EYESORE BRENDON SAME LAST NAME NAMESAKE SHE AND NO RELATION IS TALKING ABOUT PERMIT DELAYS. I'M GOING TO MEET WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TOMORROW TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT PERMITS YOU TOOK OUT AND WHAT WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT AND WHETHER OR NOT COMPLETE APPLICATIONS WERE PUT IN AND AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. SO WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH THAT.

THE HARTSDALE SIDEWALK PROJECT IS MOVING ALONG. WE'RE TRYING TO FIND WAYS THAT WE CAN ADDRESS IT BECAUSE THE COST OF THE IF YOU TALKING ABOUT THE SEWER PROJECT WE'RE GETTING UP TO ABOUT $24 MILLION AND PROJECTED COST AND PROBABLY GOING HIGHER.

>> BUT THERE'S GOT TO BE ANOTHER WAY AND THAT'S GOING TO BE BORNE BY THE SEWER DISTRICT IN THAT AREA. THE JANET LYNN TALKED ABOUT REDUCING THE PLANNING BOARD.

WE HAVE FULL EXPECTATION OF BRINGING THAT BACK UP TO SEVEN MEMBERS BY THE END OF THE YEAR

. >> IT'S INCORRECT WE ARE NOT COMBINING DPW AND BUILDING AND BUILDING DEPARTMENT. SOMEBODY ELSE MENTIONED THAT AS WELL.

YOU MENTIONED I THINK THE TITLES AND THE OTHERS MENTION THE DEPARTMENT.

THOSE DEPARTMENT ARE NOT BEING MERGED ETHICS BOARD. I'LL LEAVE THAT I'LL LEAVE THAT FOR THE SOME OTHER TIME. DHS WAS FUNDED TODAY PROPOSAL IS WAITING FOR THREE MONTHS WE WOULD HAVE VOTED ON IT TONIGHT BUT JOY HABER IS NOT HERE AND WE WANT TO HAVE A FULL BOARD.

WE'LL BE DOING IT AT THE NEXT MEETING AND SHE DID A LOT OF WORK ON THAT RESOLUTION AND IT'S NOT FAIR THAT WE WOULD VOTE IN HER ABSENCE. SHE'S ENTITLED TO BE AWAY AND SO WHEN SHE COMES BACK WE'RE GOING TO BE VOTING ON THAT. THAT'S JUST OUT OF RESPECT TO JOY HABER, ANDREA REID COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER, COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT BETTER.

VERY, VERY DIFFICULT. VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO SIT IN THESE SEATS AND HEAR SOMEBODY MISREPRESENT AND JUST FRANKLY NOT TELL THE TRUTH. AND I HAVE A VERY LOW TOLERANCE FOR SOMEBODY WHO DOES THAT. BUT LET ME GO THROUGH THE OTHER TOPICS.

MONICA LEVY DAMAGE TO HER PROPERTY THE VERY FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED WHEN I WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER YOU KNOW YOU RUN FOR OFFICE, YOU GET ELECTED AND I THOUGHT HEY, I'M A COUNCIL

MEMBER, RIGHT? >> I CAN DO REALLY GOOD THINGS AND SOMEBODY WAS DRIVING A CAR ON SECURE ROAD AND AS THEY WERE GOING DOWN IN A STRAIGHT RUN AND A SNOWSTORM ONE OF OUR SANITATION PLOWS WENT FROM A SIDE STREET INTO HER CAR I THINK WAS HIS HIS CAR AND TOTALED THE CAR. FORTUNATELY THE PERSON WAS OKAY AND I THOUGHT FOR SURE PERSON WAS GOING STRAIGHT SANITATION TRUCK WITH THE PLOW LIGHTS GOING TOTAL THE CAR I WAS SO FRUSTRATED WE WERE NOT ABLE TO COMPENSATE THAT PERSON BECAUSE IT WAS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION AND WE WOULD BASICALLY BEING PUBLIC FUNDS TO A PRIVATE PERSON WHEN WE ARE NOT REQUIRED TO DO THAT AND THAT IS A DIFFERENT TOWN ATTORNEY NOT THIS ONE.

THEY BOTH CAME TO THE SAME CONCLUSION BASED ON TRAFFIC LAW 1103 AS FRUSTRATING AS IT IS THAT BECAME BECOMES A SLIPPERY WHEN YOU START TO SAY OKAY, IN THIS CASE, YOU KNOW THAT THAT CASE REALLY TOLD ME THAT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE LAW AND THAT'S WHAT THE LAW SAYS NOW EMERGENCY VEHICLE DOING IT NOW OF COURSE THAT THEY'RE SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW IT WAS DIFFERENT IT'S A THE ROAD WELL ONE WAY OR THE OTHER THAT THAT ROAD HAS TO GET PLOWED AND SO, YOU KNOW,

WE'LL SEE HOW THAT ONE PLAYS OUT. >> CINDY COLLINS TALKING ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE MEETINGS ON SENIORS. IT'S IT HAS AN EFFECT ON EVERYBODY. SO I JUST SORT OF YOU SEE SENIORS HAS AN EFFECT ON US, RIGHT? SOME OF US ARE BECOMING EMOTIONAL WRECKS BECAUSE WE KEEP HEARING THE SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER AGAIN FROM SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS THEY CAN'T

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SHE SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT. >> AND IF WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THINGS DOWN OFF THE WEBSITE THAT ARE OPINION I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH THAT BUT ANYTHING THAT I POST POST OR ANYTHING THAT THE COUNCIL HAS POSTED IS BACKED UP WITH DOCUMENTS AND FACTS.

WE DON'T SAY I THINK WE DON'T SAY I BELIEVE I DON'T THINK IT HAS TO BE WE DOCUMENT IT WITH

FACTS. >> SO I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE CIVIL BUT I WOULD PART OF THAT CIVILITY HAS TO BE A PERSON WHO IS PRESENTED WITH FACTS NOT JUST IGNORING THEM AND GOING WITH FEELINGS AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THESE GARRITY ADDRESS WEIRD FACTS WHAT IT MEANS WHEN SOMEBODY CONTINUALLY AND CONTINUOUSLY MALIGNS A PERSON IN PUBLIC ON FACEBOOK NOT INTERNALLY AND ACTUALLY AS SHE AS SHE MENTIONS THE SUPERVISOR HAS NEVER GOTTEN TO THE BILLING DEPARTMENT AND SAT DOWN AND HAD A DISCUSSION WITH THEM ABOUT ANY OF THESE TOPICS.

IT'S ALWAYS DONE ON FACEBOOK OR IN THE JOB LIST OR THE PATCH AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU PUSH SOMEBODY TOO FAR . WHAT I LEAVE UP HERE KEESHA

HOPE THANK YOU FOR APPRECIATING THE TIME WE HAVE ON THE BOARD. >> I HAVE TO AGREE THAT WE SHOULD RETURN TO SOME LEVEL OF CIVILITY WHEN WE CAN WHEN WE HAVE FIVE MEMBERS WILLING TO WORK TOGETHER INSTEAD OF FOUR. WHY IS THERE NO SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY PRIOR TO THIS? WHY IS IT TAKE IT NOW? AND I HEARD SOMEBODY WHISPER OH IT'S BECAUSE THERE'S AN ELECTION COMING. WE'VE BEEN PUSHING FOR THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME AND WE HIRED A COMPANY LAST YEAR TO GO THROUGH AN ATTORNEY THAT SPECIALIZES IN THIS STUFF AND THAT'S WHAT THE DOCUMENTS ARE BEFORE US TONIGHT IS SOMETHING THAT WAS PUT TOGETHER BASED ON WHAT OUR TOWN ATTORNEY HAS RECEIVED FROM AN ATTORNEY THAT WE PAID WE PAID TO HAVE THAT WRITTEN BY A PROFESSIONAL. BUT WHY WHY IS IT COMING NOW? A SUPERVISOR FINALLY HAS BEEN ASKING FOR IT AND EVEN A FEW WEEKS AGO AND NOW IT'S BEFORE US THIS EVENING HELEN DANIELS THAT LACK OF DISRESPECT HAS DONE IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT'S SEEN IN NEW YORK CITY NOW THAT'S REALLY HARD FOR ME TO ACCEPT BECAUSE I SEE IN NEW YORK CITY THE PLACARDS ARE ON

TELEPHONE POLES. >> WE'RE VERY COMPETITIVE. DISTRICT LEADER RACES, YOU KNOW AND YOU KNOW THE POLITICS THERE . YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S A PRETTY TOUGH STATEMENT TO MAKE AND I THINK THAT WE ALL WANT I THINK WE ALL WANT TO HAVE A LEVEL OF KINDNESS AND RESPECT. YOU SAID TO LEAVE OUTSIDE WHAT'S OUTSIDE AND THEN COME IN HERE AND WORK WITH RESPECT. BUT THAT'S REALLY DIFFICULT WHEN WHAT'S OUTSIDE IS FACEBOOK THE PATCH USING THE TOWN'S WEBSITE TOWN'S FACEBOOK PAGE PERSONAL WEB PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE WHAT'S OUTSIDE IS WHAT'S AFFECTING OUR EMPLOYEES WHICH WE WORK WITH ALL THE TIME.

>> WALTER SIMON ICE I MENTIONED IT'S GOING TO GET PASSED NEXT TIME AS SOON AS WE HAVE A FULL BOARD AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE IN THE NEXT MEETING. THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT'S

HOLDING IT UP AT THE MOMENT. >> ERICA TALKING ABOUT SHOULD NOT BE HELD BY THE SAME PERSON.

I THINK WE'VE ADDRESSED THAT REPEATEDLY. IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO WORK 80 HOURS AND IS REALLY GOOD AT THEIR JOB, WE'RE GOING TO AND THEY DOCUMENT IT AND THEY USE A TIME CLOCK TO DOCUMENT THAT IT'S NOT HEY, I WORK 80 HOURS WINK WINK.

IT'S NOT THAT AT ALL. IT'S DOCUMENTED. HOW DO YOU KNOW THE INSPECTIONS ARE BEING DONE BECAUSE THEY GIVE US THE DATA THAT THEY'RE BEING DONE.

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>> OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS ARE EXPECTING HIGHER SALARIES. NO, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO WANT

TO WORK 80 HOURS A WEEK. >> FRANK FRANK OR WERE A SPECIAL PERSON AND THAT'S THAT'S HIS CALLING AND THE WEBSITE THE FORENSIC REPORT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW IS RECOGNIZE WE HAVE A PROBLEM AND THEN WORK TO ADDRESS IT.

AND FOR SOME THAT'S AN ISSUE BECAUSE THE PROBLEMS ARE REALLY BAD OVER A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS SHOULD BE IN OUR COFFERS RIGHT NOW AND IT'S NOT THERE.

SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO TAKE CORRECTIVE ACTION TO FIX THAT THAT THAT CORRECTIVE ACTION WE'RE WORKING ON BUT THERE IS NO WAY WE'RE GETTING BACK ALL THAT HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS LET'S BE FACE LET'S FACE IT IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING FOR SOME OF US TO BE FACED WITH THAT AND WANT TO ADDRESS IT AND ARE ADDRESSING IT. BUT WE HEAR FROM THE SUPERVISOR LET'S NOT PUT IT ON SO PEOPLE CAN SEE IT ON THE WEB PAGE. THAT'S NOT TRANSPARENCY.

THE BEST WAY TO DO IT IS PUT IT OUT THERE AND WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING. YOU NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE'S LIKELY TAX INCREASES COMING TO MAKE UP FOR WHAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO COLLECT THAT WE SHOULD HAVE COLLECTED AND THAT'S

THAT'S TOUGH. >> BUT WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT COMPTROLLER AND WE THINK SHE CAN FIND A WAY TO ADDRESS MOST MOST OF THESE THINGS TO THE BEST ABILITY SHE HAS.

BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO BE AN EASY RIDE AND BY PUTTING OUR HEADS IN THE SAND AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT A PROBLEM, THAT'S A PROBLEM AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THERE'S A LOT OF DYSFUNCTION. YOU SEE A LOT OF JUST A FUNCTION AND DISRESPECT BUT EVERY ONE OF THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS REMEMBER THE TOWN BOARD IS MADE UP OF THE SUPERVISOR AND AND THE TOWN COUNCIL. SO IT'S NOT SUPERVISOR AND THE TOWN BOARD SUPERVISORS PART OF THE TOWN BOARD BUT EVERYONE IS WORKING THE IN THE BEST COOPERATION I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD 20 YEARS I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BETTER SYNERGY BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS AND THEN WORKING TOGETHER AND YES AT LAND USE MEETINGS WHERE ALL THE DEPARTMENT HEADS DEALING WITH LAND USE GET TOGETHER IN TAC CHAT AND WORK TOGETHER AND HELP EACH OTHER AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE GETTING THINGS DONE WITH FEWER PEOPLE BECAUSE WE HAVE DEPARTMENT HEADS THAT ARE NOT IN SILOS. THOSE DAYS ARE GONE WHEN YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO'S AN ENGINEER GOING OUT OR YOU HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE THAT'S GOING OUT IF YOU HAVE CAPABILITY OF DOING ONE MORE THAN ONE TYPE OF INSPECTION, GREAT. WHY SEND OUT TO AND SO THERE ARE TREMENDOUS EFFICIENCIES COMING DOWN THE LINE THAT WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT.

BUT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S $263,000 THAT'S 150 $7,000 LESS THAN IT WOULD OTHERWISE COST US $157,000. NOW YOU SAY IT SHOULDN'T JUST BE ABOUT THE MONEY.

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY. IT'S ABOUT THE EFFICIENCIES AND I'M NOT GOING TO GO THROUGH SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON THAT WE'RE UNCOVERING THAT WILL SAVE US A LOT OF

MONEY WHEN WE ADDRESS IT. >> BUT IT GETS VERY FRUSTRATING AND I'LL TELL YOU QUITE FRANKLY BECAUSE I KNOW I'M THE TARGET OF A LOT OF THIS STUFF I GET VERY FRUSTRATED.

I CANNOT TOLERATE SOMEBODY LYING TO ME. I JUST CANNOT TOLERATE IT WITHOUT RESPONSE. NOW I KNOW I'M SUPPOSED TO USE FALSHOOD OR MISSTATEMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THAT MAY BE THE FIRST TIME BUT AFTER THE SECOND TIME THE THIRD TIME THE FOURTH TIME AND WHEN THERE'S DOCUMENTS PATIENT TO SUPPORT WHAT I'M SAYING AND THEN I HEAR BACK WHAT MY FEELING IS AND I THINK YOU KNOW IT WHAT THIS IS WHAT IT YEAH I HAVE A VERY LOW TOLERANCE FOR THAT AND SHOULD I NOT SPEAK OUT SO THAT WE JUST HAVE CIVILITY I DON'T THINK THAT'S GOING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I AND IF YOU GO BACK AND LISTEN TO THOSE TAPES, PARTICULARLY THE WORK SESSIONS ALMOST EACH TIME THE SESSION WAS ABOUT TO END AND THEN SEE WHO STARTS THE RUCKUS, THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY.

>> I JUST WANT TO SAY VERY, VERY BRIEFLY ONE THING YOU MENTIONED THE LAND USE MEETINGS

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IT'S TOTAL DISRESPECT FOR THE TOWN SUPERVISOR, THE TOP ELECTED OFFICIAL IN THE TOWN NOT TO BE ALLOWED TO ATTEND LAND USE MEETINGS WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT ONE OF THE REASONS WHY EVERYBODY'S EVERYTHING IS GREAT IS BECAUSE YOU HAVE THESE DEPARTMENT HEAD MEETINGS WITH SOME DEPARTMENT HEADS AND YOU'RE NOT ALLOWING ME TO

ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN THAT. >> SO THAT'S IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A GESTURE, A POSITIVE GESTURE LET ME ATTEND THE MEETINGS OR AT THE MINIMUM PROVIDE THE PUBLIC WITH AN AGENDA AND MINUTES WHAT HAPPENED AT THESE MEETINGS BECAUSE THESE THE NEW YORK STATE HAS AN OPEN MEETINGS LAW AND THEY HAD AN OPEN MEETINGS FOR A PURPOSE SO THE PUBLIC WOULD KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. SO IF YOU HAVE A MEETING AND TWO MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD OR MEETING WITH KEY LAND USE DEPARTMENT HEADS EVERY FRIDAY FOR 2 OR 3 HOURS AT A TIME MAKING POLICY DECISIONS AND YOU'RE NOT LETTING ME ATTEND BECAUSE YOU SAY THAT THEN WE'RE IN VIOLATION OF THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW. YOU'RE VIOLATING THE SPIRIT OF THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW AND THAT'S THE FIRST GESTURE THAT COULD BE MADE SO ALL OF US

COULD WORK TOGETHER AND WORK FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE TOWN. >> THE SECOND THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS THAT I HAVE NEVER MALIGNED LIZ GARRITY OR FRANK MORABITO.

I DISAGREE ON THAT. ONE PERSON SHOULD NOT HAVE TWO JOBS.

I DON'T THINK IT'S HUMANLY POSSIBLE FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS TO ALSO BE A BUILDING INSPECTOR. I DON'T THINK IT'S HUMANLY POSSIBLE FOR THE DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR AND HERE WE GO TO HAVE TO HAVE WE SAID WE'RE NOT GOING TO INTERRUPT TO HAVE A SECOND JOB AS DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY. BOTH OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE MAKING CLOSE TO FRANK IS MAKING TWO 63,000. SHE IS GOING TO BE MAKING RESETS ON TOP OF HER SALARY AS A DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR. WE SAID ABOUT $65,000 I THINK YOU SAID YESTERDAY ON TOP OF THAT THAT'S SO SOMEBODY SHE SHOULD NOT BE MAKING $200,000 FOR FOUR FOR TWO JOBS WHEN BECAUSE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS OTHER EMPLOYEES ALSO ARE GOING TO BE NOW ASKING FOR THEIR SALARIES TO GO UP. SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE

TO CUT TAXES. >> WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO IT'S GOING TO RESULT IN INCREASE IN TAXES. SO I THINK LIZ GARRITY IS A TERRIFIC PUBLIC SERVANT, VERY HARD WORKING, VERY DEDICATED. I'VE SAID THAT IN EVERY STATEMENT ABOUT HER.

I THINK FRANK MORABITO IS A VERY HARDWORKING AND DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANT.

HE SOLVED A LOT OF PROBLEMS BUT HE CAN HAVE TWO JOBS AND YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK THERE'S LABOR

LAWS THAT SAY PEOPLE SHOULDN'T BE WORKING 80 HOURS A WEEK. >> YOU KNOW, THE THING IS IT'S WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PROBLEMS AND AND IT'S GOING TO COST THE TOWN IN THE LONG RUN REDUCE SERVICES AND MAYBE LIABILITY ISSUES IF THERE'S IF THERE'S A PROBLEM.

SO THOSE ARE BASICALLY YOU KNOW, THE THE COMMENTS I HAVE AND I AM GOING TO BE COMING UP WITH ANOTHER YOU KNOW, I THINK THE SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY THAT'S BEEN PROPOSED THAT WAS PROPOSED WE HIRED A LAWYER ABOUT OVER A YEAR A YEAR, ALMOST A YEAR AND A HALF AGO TO HELP US WORK ON IT. SO IT'S FINALLY COMING UP. BUT I DO THINK THAT IT NEEDS SOME TWEAKING. I ALSO THINK THAT THE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT WE SHOULD POSSIBLY HAVE CITIZENS WHO HAVE COMMUNICATION SKILLS YOU KNOW, REVIEW IT AND MAYBE EVEN HAVE LIKE A COMMITTEE THAT COULD WORK WITH THE TOWN TO IMPROVE TO WORK ON IMPROVING OUR SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE PUBLIC. SO WHEN I HOLD IT OVER TODAY, IT'S GOING TO ONLY BE HOLD OVER FOR THE PURPOSES OF GIVING THE PUBLIC A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TODAY TO DIGEST IT. AND I THINK THERE WAS ONE ISSUE THAT SAID WELL SOMEBODY IN THE TOWN COULD PREVENT COULD BE ME ,COULD PREVENT ME FROM POSTING THINGS ON THE YOU KNOW, THE WEBSITE. I DON'T WANT TO BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY THAN ANYBODY ELSE.

WE SAY THAT NOBODY COULD HAVE OPINIONS. THAT'S FINE WITH ME YOU KNOW IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT BUT WE CAN'T SAY I DON'T LIKE WHAT A FINE OR IS SAYING WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THAT WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO REMOVE THAT FROM THE WEBSITE.

SO I DON'T WANT TO BE CENSORED. I BASICALLY FEEL YOU KNOW, I RESPECT EVERYBODY ON THE TOWN BOARD WHO HAS DIFFERING OPINIONS AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S INDIVIDUALS HERE WHO HAVE TOLD ME AT TIMES THAT THEY DISAGREED WITH ME. I WOULD WELCOME THEIR OPINIONS

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I'M LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO COULD SAY NO FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN MAKE OUR TOWN BETTER.

AND AND BASICALLY I THINK WHAT PEOPLE WERE SAYING TODAY IS THEY DON'T WANT US TO YELL.

THEY DON'T WANT TO SCREAM AT EACH OTHER. THEY DON'T WANT US TO BICKER.

THEY DON'T WANT US TO START CONSTANTLY BE INSULTING EACH OTHER.

YOU KNOW, YOU COULD ON EVERY ISSUE REASONABLE PEOPLE COULD DIFFER BUT WE JUST HAVE TO

RESPECT EACH OTHER'S RIGHT TO DIFFER. >> THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING FOR.

>> ARE YOU FIERCE? YEAH. THANK YOU.

I'D JUST LIKE TO ADDRESS SOME POINTS YOU MAKE JUST JUST FOR CLARIFICATION.

THE LAND USE IS NOT A COMMITTEE THIS IN THE 34 YEARS THAT YOU WERE SUPERVISOR THERE WERE NOT MEETINGS OR PRIOR TO WHEN COUNCILMAN SHEEHAN STARTED LAND USE MEETINGS JUST TO HAVE COORDINATION OF THE VARIOUS LAND USE GROUPS. THE COUNCIL IN JACKSON THEN JOINED IN WHEN SHE BECAME LIAISON TO THE TO DPW. SO FRANCES IS THE IS LIAISON TO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT. THESE ARE THE LAND USE COMMUNITY COMMITTEES AND THIS IS WHY THEY ARE THERE JUST LISTENING TO WHAT THEY'RE WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND AND PLANNING THEY'RE NOT KEEPING THE SUPERVISOR AWAY AND OUT OF THE MEETINGS.

IT'S JUST THAT LAW DICTATES THAT WE CAN'T HAVE MORE THAN TWO PEOPLE ON THE BOARD TOGETHER IN A MEETING. SO THAT'S REALLY IT MAKES SENSE FOR THE LIAISONS.

I GO TO EVERY PARKS BOARD MEETING I GO TO THAT I LIAISE WITH I GO TO THE NATURE CENTER MEETINGS, I LIAISE WITH THEM AND YOU GET THE PICTURE YOU KNOW I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK AT DEFINITION OF MALIGN MEANT MAYBE IT'S MORE THAT YOU DEMEAN YOU QUESTION, YOU QUESTION THE THE STAFF ALL THE TIME. YOU QUESTION LIZ SHE'S DOING A GREAT JOB.

SHE'S DONE A TERRIFIC JOB FOR US AND YOU QUESTION HER AND YOU WANT PROOF OF EVERYTHING THAT SHE HAS SO ABLY DONE ALL OF A SUDDEN. WHY WHY IS THAT JUST FOR THOSE THAT DON'T KNOW LIZ AT THE SAME TIME SHE WAS WORKING FULL TIME, COMPLETED THREE YEARS OF LAW SCHOOL AND STUDIED AND PASTOR BAR FIRST SHUT OUT SO YOU KNOW THIS IS A WOMAN WHO CAN MANAGE THAT EXTRA TIME. SHE'S CLEARLY PROVEN THAT AND IT'S NOT DOING THE SAME JOB WITHIN THE DAY SHE'S DOING. SHE'S COMMITTING TO WORK ADDITIONAL TIME WHICH SHE'S USED TO DOING SO AND THEN FRANK'S HAVING TWO JOBS. WELL, HE WAS THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER FOR TWO YEARS AND THAT AS HE WAS HOLDING THE JOB OF BUILDING INSPECTOR AND THE SUPERVISOR DID NOT OBJECT TO THAT BUT THIS IS NOW SEEMS TO BE A CONCERN OF HIS AS FAR AS THE SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY IS INVOLVED. JUST YESTERDAY YOU YOUR OBJECTION THE SUPERVISORS OBJECTION TO THE SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY WAS THAT HE WAS NOT GOING TO VOTE TO BE VOTE FOR IT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO POST WHATEVER HE WANTED TO POST.

NOW THAT SEEMS TO BE NOT AND NOT CORRESPONDING TO WHAT HE'S SAYING NOW ABOUT POSTING JUST EVENTS AND CERTAIN LANDMARKS HE WANTS TO BE ABLE TO POST WHAT HE WANTS TO POST WITHOUT ANY CHECKS AND BALANCES SO THAT IS A BIT OF A PROBLEM. SO I THINK YOU KNOW THAT'S ENOUGH FOR NOW BUT THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE SOME BASIC DIFFERENCES AND THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT THAT THE SUPERVISOR HAS REPEATED OVER AND OVER AGAIN SO THAT IT MAY SEEM LIKE TRUTH BUT IT ISN'T NECESSARY. THAT'S HIS PERCEPTION AND WHAT COLLABORATION IS IS LISTENING TO EACH OTHER AND MODERATING MAYBE NOT CHANGING YOUR OPINION ENTIRELY BUT WORKING TOGETHER AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M CERTAINLY WILLING TO DO BUT I

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PERCEPTIONS ARE PERHAPS FLAWED ,HE DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR THAT. >> SO THAT'S VERY HARD TO COLLABORATE WITH AND THAT IS VERY FRUSTRATING. AND AGAIN I REALLY REITERATE

WHAT I SAID. >> I UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY AND YOUR WANT YOUR DESIRE FOR CIVILITY. I DESIRE IT TOO. I DON'T LIKE BEING CALLED A LIAR WHEN I SAID WHEN I SAY SOMETHING THAT THE SUPERVISOR DOESN'T LIKE AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HE'S DONE NOT ONLY IN PRIVATE BUT IN PUBLIC AND HE'S DONE THAT TO OTHERS NO DOUBT SO LET'S LET'S TALK ABOUT CIVILITY. OKAY.

I THINK THAT IT GOES ALL RIGHT. HE APPLAUDED WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY.

YOU KNOW, WE WERE NOT DISAGREEING. THE REST OF US WITH WANTING CIVILITY BUT BECAUSE HE APPLAUDED IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE'S THE ONE THAT'S THE MOST CIVIL AND WE ARE NOT I'VE SAID ENOUGH. THANK YOU.

I LEFT OFF YOU KNOW, AGAIN LET'S MOVE ON WHERE I LEFT OFF EDWARD DWYER'S COMMENT TO EDWARD DWYER ASKED IS FRANK GOING TO BE GETTING OVERTIME IN ADDITION TO THE 263,000 HE GETS NO OVERTIME. IT'S 263 FLAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN IT'S AN AND REGARDING ALL REGARDING MY MEETINGS THAT I HAVE I, I STARTED ON THE BOARD IN 2006.

>> I RECOGNIZED THAT THERE WAS NO REAL COORDINATION AMONG THE DEPARTMENTS DEALING WITH LAND USE AND SO IN 2007 I GOT THE THE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS TOGETHER AND DEPUTIES FOR THOSE LAND USE DEPARTMENTS AND I DID THAT FOR I GUESS SIX YEARS AND I WOULD HAVE WELCOMED THE SUPERVISOR OR ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTED TO JOIN ME ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND THEN GINA CAME ON THE BOARD AND SHE DEALS WITH LAND USE AND SHE SAID COULD I JOIN YOU? I SAID THAT'S GREAT. AND IT WAS ONLY AFTER GINA WAS ON THE ON THESE MEETINGS WITH ME AND THEY'RE NOT COMMITTEES, THEY'RE JUST MEETINGS WITH DEPARTMENT HEADS WHICH IS SOMETHING EVERYBODY SHOULD DO DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IN MY GROUP BUT I HAVE DEVELOPED A GROUP WHERE THEY WORK COOPERATIVELY AMONG THEMSELVES AND I'M FRANKLY I'M CONCERNED NOW EVEN IF IT WASN'T AN OPEN MEETINGS LAW VIOLATION THAT THE SUPERVISOR WOULD DO WHAT HAPPENED WITH HIS DEPARTMENT HAD MEETINGS HE HELD HE HAD DEPARTMENT HAD MEETINGS EVERY MONTH DUTIFULLY FOR MANY YEARS AND I ATTENDED THOSE AND WHAT THE DEPARTMENT HAD MEETINGS CONSISTED OF IS WHAT CAN YOU CUT? WHAT CAN YOU CUT? WHAT COULD YOU CUT? WHAT CAN YOU CUT? AND ONE TIME THE THE PARKS DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONER SAID OKAY, I'LL CUT A LABORER AND NOBODY ELSE CUT ANYTHING.

AND THEY WERE THEY WERE FLABBERGASTED AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY STARTED STOPPED GOING TO HIS MEETINGS. SO THE DEPARTMENT HAD MEETINGS STOPPED.

>> I THOUGHT WE WEREN'T GOING TO INSULT EACH I'M NOT INSULTING AND THIS IS THIS IS A FACT. THIS IS A FACT. THIS IS WHAT WE JUST GO ON.

DON'T ME JUST GIVE ME ONE MORE MINUTE. >> I MOVE JUST GIVE ME JUST ONE MORE MINUTE TO BE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS IN FAVOR. SAY HERE WE GO.

HERE WE GO RIGHT NOW. OKAY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO I'M GOING TO INTERRUPT THE DEPARTMENT HEAD ONE THE DEPARTMENT HEADS STARTED MEETING WITHOUT YOU.

[ Appointment of a Part-time Deputy Town Attorney on a probationary basis]

TIME DEPUTY TOWN ATTORNEY NO, NO, I'M SORRY. >> THAT'S THE WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE NOT WE CAN'T DO THAT RIGHT NOW. ONE LET'S TALK WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT'S COME ABOUT THE LIVERY NOT CONTENT DELIVERY OF VOICES JUST WALKING OUT THAT'S PLUGGABLE HERE.

THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CONTENT IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN YOU HAVE TO LEAVE IT TO THE COMMUNITY IT'S A DIFFERENT STORY HOW DELIVERY THAT'S WHAT

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. >> I UNDERSTOOD I DO HAVE TO MOVE WITH ME SO STOP AND JUST STOP. I'M SORRY. THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS IS

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INAPPROPRIATE THINGS I. >> I KNOW SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS.

SOMETIMES THE TRUTH HURTS. >> CONTEMPLATE WHAT WE SAID. HERE'S WHAT IT AND I'LL COME

BACK. >> WE WILL. THANK YOU THANK YOU.

VERY APPRECIATIVE OF IT TODAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE COULD TALK LATER WE COULD TALK LATER IT'S IT'S IT'S IT'S STUPID TO ASK ANY OF YOU FOR THOSE CHANGES YOU WERE ASKING AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS THIS CHOICE YOU CAN THIS GUY WHERE YOU JUST ASK CAN WE FILL OUT YEAH AND WE COULD AND IF YOU SAW WHAT HAPPENED JUST NOW I WAS SPEAKING AND THEN THE SUPERVISOR STARTED TO SPEAK OVER ME AND INTERRUPT ME AND I WAS ONLY HAD ANOTHER ABOUT 15 SECONDS TO GO AND THEN IT ELEVATES AND YOU KNOW THEN IT'S DON'T INTERRUPT ME AND IT JUST BUILDS AND BUILDS AND I THINK IF YOU REPLAY WHAT JUST HAPPENED THERE IT WAS A SUPERVISOR WHO DECIDED THAT HE WAS GOING TO SPEAK OVER AND SPEAK LOUDER AND THAT'S WHERE IT GOES DOWN DOWN WE WE ALREADY TOOK A VOTE APPOINTMENT HOLDING THAT OVER THE APPOINTMENT OF A

[ TB 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with Willett Public Affairs, LLC to continue providing Legislative and Strategic counsel before the Legislative, Executive and Administrative Branches of New York State Government, for a period of Twelve (12) Months, May 1, 2026, to April 30, 2027]

[ TB 2 - 04/22/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing the Terms and Conditions for the online public auction of foreclosed Town-owned properties to be conducted by Absolute Auctions and Realty, Inc. on May 18, 2026]

DASH 20 OH YEAH YEAH OKAY MOVE IT AS AMENDED. >> THANK YOU MOVE AS AMENDED ON FAVOR SECOND I RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AUTHORIZING THE CANCELLATION OF PENALTIES AND INTEREST ON CERTAIN PROPERTY. WE GET THE DOCUMENT YOU GAVE US

THE RESOLUTION? >> YES. I PUT THE SECTION BLOCK LOT

NUMBERS FOR ALL 13 PROPERTIES WHICH HAD THIS ISSUE. >> YEAH.

OKAY. >> BECAUSE YOU WERE CUTTING IT CLOSE THERE.

[ TB 3 - 04/22/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing the cancellation of penalties and interest on certain properties whose timely tax payments were fraudulently cashed by an entity other than the Town]

OKAY I DO IT AGAIN PO TV THREE RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AUTHORIZING THE CANCELLATION OF PENALTIES AND INTEREST ON CERTAIN PROPERTIES IS FINALLY TAX PAYMENTS WERE FIRMLY CASHED BY AN ENTITY OTHER THAN THE TOWN I'D LIKE TO MOVE OUT OF

[ TB 4 - 04/22/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh establishing a Social Media Policy, a Public Use Policy for Town of Greenburgh Sponsored Media and Digital Platforms, and an Employee Personal Use of Social Media Policy]

[ AT 1 – 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing settlement of property damage related Claim, File No.: 3/23C, by Britnee K. Taylor for an amount not to exceed $1,000]

BRITTANY TAYLOR FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 1000. >> I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND

[ CD 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution establishing a Climate Smart Communities (CSC) Task Force for the Town of Greenburgh]

[ CD 2 - 04/22/2026 Resolution appointing Sophia N. Johnson, PhD, to serve as the Town of Greenburgh’s Climate Smart Communities (CSC) Coordinator to guide the advancement of plans, programs, and activities that are part of the CSC Certification Program]

TOWN OF GREENSBURG. >> I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FAVOR I SEE THE TO A RESOLUTION APPOINTING SOPHIA JOHNSON TO SERVE AS THE TOWN OF GREENWORKS HOME AND SMART COMMUNITIES COORDINATOR TO GUIDE THE ADVANCEMENT OF PLANS, PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES THAT

ARE PART OF CSC CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. >> I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND

[ CD 3 - 04/22/2026 Resolution proclaiming April 24, 2026 as Arbor Day in the Town of Greenburgh]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT ON FAVOR SECOND I YEAH I SECOND JUST SECONDS AFTER THE SECOND CD FOR

[ CD 4 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh’s Department of Community Development and Conservation to accept a donation of approximately 200 tree seedlings from Con-Edison for the 2026 Arbor Day Celebration]

[ CO 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing Fiscal Year 2026 budget transfer]

[ PR 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement to provide site meals and home-delivered meals between the Town of Greenburgh and the County of Westchester]

[ PH 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the execution of a Community Development Block Grant Contract with the County of Westchester and the Town of Greenburgh for Pocantico Park Upgrades and Park Improvement Project (Held over to May 13, 2026 TB Meeting)]

[ PH 2 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the execution of a Community Development Block Grant contract with the County of Westchester and Town of Greenburgh for the Purchase of a 40-Passenger Bus, Handicap-Accessible Bus for the Seniors and Youths at Theodore D. Young Community Center (Held over to May 13, 2026 TB Meeting)]

[ PO 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution adopting the recommendation of the Greenburgh Police Department to amend the parking restrictions on Wallick Close amending chapter 460 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh]

[ PO 2 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to execute a Radio License Agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority]

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[ PO 3 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the Police Department to award the bid for the purchase of Dodge Durango unmarked administration vehicles to the lowest responsible bidder at a total cost not to exceed $175,136]

[ PO 4 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the Police Department to enter into a trial period with CentralSquare Technologies, LLC for the purposes of evaluating software, at no cost to the Town (Held over to May 13, 2026 TB Meeting)]

[ PW 1 - 04/22/2026 Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works to go to bid for the annual milling and resurfacing contract]

[ PW 2 - 04/22/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing and supporting the submission of a Hurricane Ida resilient investments through support and capital (RISC)-infrastructure grant application to the New York State Office of Resilient Homes and Communities related to flood mitigation along Babbitt Court and Saw Mill River Road in the Town of Greenburgh]

DIFFERENT. >> YOU WANT TO MOVE THE MOTION? >> I MAKE A MOTION AND THE MINISTER WHO SECONDED IN A SECOND SECOND CONFUSED CAN WE GET THE MOTION

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