Aug 12, 2026 Town Board - Regular

AND NOW WE'LL DO THE ROLL CALL.

[ ROLL CALL: Town Clerk Lisa Maria Nero]

ROLL CALL.

OH, WELL, LET'S START WITH THE ROLL CALL AND THEN WE'LL DO GOOD EVENING, SUPERVISOR FINER HERE.

COUNCILMAN SHAN.

PRESENT, COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON.

PRESENT.

COUNCILWOMAN HABER.

PRESENT, COUNCILWOMAN HENDRICKS, PRESENT TOWN ATTORNEY IN PARLIAMENTARIAN.

MR. JOE DANKO PRESENT.

AND, UH, THE OLDEST, UH, DEMOCRACY, I THINK IN THE WORLD IS FROM INDIA, OR ONE OF THE OLDEST.

UM, UH, WE LIVE IN A DEMOCRACY

[ PRESENTATIONS (Maximum only 10 minutes each) Proclamation Honoring Kevin Tian & Stavros Mose as Eagle Scouts Proclamation Honoring Lynn Goodman]

AND TODAY TO CELEBRATE, UM, INDIANS, UM, INDEPENDENCE AND DEMOCRATIC TRADITIONS.

WE HAVE GGI, UM, ERIKA BHI AND ALKA SHUKLA.

AND, UH, THEY'RE GONNA BE MAKING A BRIEF PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, SUPERVISOR FINER AND TOWN BOARD, AND I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE GINA JACKSON LOOKING SO BEAUTIFUL, BECAUSE YOU SEE SAFFRON WHITE AND GREEN, SO YOU LOOK SO MUCH INDIAN TODAY.

, THANK YOU.

AND ALSO, THANK YOU SO MUCH, LISA NERO.

LISA MARIA NERO, FOR LETTING US TO DO THIS, UH, THING.

YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I MORE THAN APPRECIATE THE TOWN.

SO WE ARE GOING TO SING TWO ANTHEMS BACK TO BACK.

FIRST GOES THE USS NATIONAL ANTHEM, FOLLOWED BY INDIA'S, AND MY DAUGHTER IS GOING TO READ A SHORT SCRIPT.

PLEASE RISE SO PROUDLY.

AND WHO'S BROUGHT STRIPES AND BRIGHT STARS THROUGH THE, THE, WE, WE SO PLEASE.

THE

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THROUGH THE NIGHT.

THAT FLAG WAS STILL THERE.

NOW GOES.

THANK YOU, HONORABLE GREENBURG, TOWN SUPERVISOR, BOARD MEMBERS, AND AUDIENCE.

TODAY AS WE GATHER TO CELEBRATE THE INDIAN DAY OF THE INDEPENDENCE DAY OF INDIA, WE HONOR A MOMENT THAT RESHAPED HISTORY.

ON THE 15TH OF AUGUST, 1947, INDIA AWAKEN TO FREEDOM AFTER CENTURIES OF STRUGGLE, SACRIFICE, AND UNWAVERING COURAGE THIS DAY REMINDS US THAT INDEPENDENCE WAS NOT A GIFT.

IT WAS EARNED THROUGH RESILIENCE, UNITY, AND THE RELENTLESS SPIRIT OF COUNTLESS FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

INDEPENDENCE IS NOT JUST A DATE ON THE CALENDAR, IT IS A RESPONSIBILITY, A CALL TO UPHOLD THE VALUES OF DEMOCRACY, DIVERSITY, AND DIGNITY THAT DEFINE OUR NATION AS CITIZENS, ESPECIALLY AS YOUNG LEARNERS.

WE MUST CARRY FORWARD THE LEGACY OF THE INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS WHO HAD FOUGHT FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.

TODAY'S INDIA STANDS AT THE CROSSROADS OF INNOVATION AND TRADITION.

FROM A SPACE EXPLORATION TO DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, FROM CULTURAL RICHNESS TO GLOBAL LEADERSHIP, THE NATION CONTINUES TO RISE.

BUT TRUE PROGRESS LIES IN ENSURING THAT EVERY CITIZEN ENJOYS FREEDOM IN ITS FULLEST SENSE, FREEDOM TO LEARN, TO DREAM, TO SPEAK, AND TO THRIVE.

LET US PLEDGE TO CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER INDIA, AN INDIA THAT IS INCLUSIVE, COMPASSIONATE, AND FORWARD-LOOKING.

LET US CELEBRATE NOT ONLY OUR PAST, BUT ALSO THE PROMISE OF OUR FUTURE.

AS AN AMERICAN WITH AN INDIAN BACKGROUND, I TI BCI LOVE, RESPECT, AND ADMIRE THE RICH CULTURAL, HERITAGE, MUSIC CUISINE, LANDMARKS, AND THE GREAT AL, BEING ONE OF THE SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD.

LONG LIVE INDIA, J HIN, J HIN.

JAY, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR, UH, UH, HIGHLIGHTING THIS IMPORTANT, UH, DAY.

AND, UM, UH, UH, ROS MOSES ALSO FULFILLED THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT AND, UM, IS AN EXCEPTIONAL, UM, MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY.

UM, NEXT, UH, WE'RE GONNA BE HONORING, UH, TWO, UH, EAGLE SCOUTS, UM, WHO, UM, LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

UH, THE FIRST IS, UH, KEVIN TIAN, UH, WHO SUCCESSFULLY FULFILLED ALL REQUIREMENTS OF, UH, BECOMING A, AN EAGLE SCOUT.

HE, UM, DEMONSTRATED EXCEPTIONAL PATRIOTISM AND CIVIC DEDICATION BY CREATING A NEW PERMANENT FLAG RETIREMENT BOX FOR THE COMMUNITY.

UM, AND IT'S BEEN INSTALLED AT THE LEY, UM, UH, MUNICIPAL BUILDING PROVIDING, UH, LOCAL CITIZENS, UH, WITH A DIGNIFIED, RESPECTFUL AND ACCESSIBLE LOCATION TO DEPOSIT, UH, WARREN AMERICAN, UH, FLAGS.

IN ADDITION TO CONSTRUCTING THE COLLECTION BOX, KEVIN TIANNE, UH, ORGANIZED AND LED A FORMAL FLAG RETIREMENT CEREMONY DURING WHICH HE THOUGHTFULLY INSTRUCTED COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON THE HISTORY, SIGNIFICANCE AND PROPER PROCEDURES FOR THE RESPECTFUL DISPOSAL OF THE NATIONAL COLORS.

UM, AND, UM, WE WANNA EXPRESS OUR ADMIRATION, UM, ON THIS MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT.

UM, AND THERE'S ANOTHER EAGLE SCOUT, AND THEN WE COULD PRESENT, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF THEM, UM, AND THE TOWN BOARD COULD, UH, GO DOWN AND SHAKE YOUR HANDS.

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HE PARTNERED WITH A MEXICAN CHURCH TO SUPPORT VULNERABLE CHILDREN.

HE ORGANIZED COMMUNITY WIDE, UH, CAMPAIGNS TO ACQUIRE CRITICAL FOOD DONATIONS FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN IN NEED.

AND HIS DEDICATED LEADERSHIP ENSURE THAT THESE LIFE SUSTAINING FOOD DONATIONS WERE SECURED, PACKAGED, AND SHIPPED DIRECTLY TO THE CHO CHURCH'S ORPHANAGE IN MEXICO, PROVIDING VITAL, UM, NUTRITION AND HOPE.

UM, SO WE'RE ALSO CONGRATULATING HIM.

UH, I THINK ABOUT 98% OF ALL SCOUTS NEVER ACHIEVE THE RANK OF EAGLE SCOUT, AND I KNOW THAT BECAUSE I WAS PART OF THE 98% .

ME TOO.

BUT, UM, UM, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF MY BIGGEST REGRETS THAT I DIDN'T, UH, STICK IT OUT AND DIDN'T HAVE THE DISCIPLINE OR THE QUALITIES TO, UH, NOT TO PURSUE BEING AN AN EAGLE SCOUT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS TO GET TO THIS RANK AND HOW PRESTIGIOUS IT IS.

I'VE ALWAYS TOLD PEOPLE THAT IF SOMEBODY IS HIRING, IF THEY'RE INTERVIEWING TWO PEOPLE AND ONE'S AN EAGLE SCOUT AND ONE'S NOT AN EAGLE SCOUT, THE EAGLE SCOUT WILL ALWAYS GET THE JOB.

AND THIS IS THE ONLY, I WOULD THINK, LIKE 99.9% OF THE TIME WOULD GET THE JOB.

UH, BECAUSE YOU SHOW LEADERSHIP, YOU'RE, YOU SHOWED PERSISTENCE, HARD WORK, YOU'RE, YOU SHOW THAT YOU HAVE THE QUALITIES OF TEAMWORK, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE EVERY GREAT QUALITY THAT IS REALLY NEEDED THAT ANY, UH, ANYONE WOULD ALWAYS WANT TO WANNA HIRE, SOMEBODY WOULD.

SO THIS IS SOMETHING YOU COULD PUT ON YOUR RESUME FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.

AND, UM, I'D JUST LIKE TO PRESENT, UH, BOTH OF YOU WITH THESE.

UM, YOU MAY, YOU MAY WANNA SIGN IT FIRST.

OH, I HAVE TO SIGN IT.

THAT'S A, LET'S SEE, I THOUGHT I DID SIGN IT.

OOPS, YOU DIDN'T.

LET'S SEE.

SO, AS THE, AS THE FATHER OF AN EAGLE SCOUT AND THE FATHER OF A DAUGHTER WHO IS A GOLD AWARD WINNER, UM, I KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO BECOME AN EAGLE SCOUT.

AND WHENEVER I HAVE HIRING DECISIONS AND I SEE SOMEBODY WHO'S AN EAGLE SCOUT OR A GOLD AWARD WINNER, WHAT IT TELLS ME IS THEY'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THE TASK IS DONE.

AND THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY AS AN EMPLOYEE.

AND YOU ARE FOREVER AN EAGLE SCOUT.

YOU'RE NOT AN EAGLE SCOUT TODAY AND NOT TOMORROW.

YOU ARE FOREVER AN EAGLE'S SCOUT AND YOU DESERVE THE HONOR.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING? YEAH, I SHOULD.

OH, COME ON.

COME ON, COME ON.

YOU MEAN, NONE OF THOSE BADGES ARE PUBLIC SPEAKING , JUST, JUST SAY THANK YOU.

THERE NEEDS TO BE A PUBLIC SPEAKING BADGE.

RIGHT? THE TOWN BOARD MEMBERS, YOU COULD PULL THE MIC UP HIGHER TOO, AS WELL.

MOM THEY'RE GROOMING FROM YEAR TO YEAR, .

YOU HAPPEN TO GO.

SO YEAH, YOU COULD HEARD FROM BEFORE.

I'M KEVIN IAN AND I HAD A LOT OF HELP, LIKE ON MY JOURNEY HERE.

THANKS TO MY WONDERFUL COMMITTEE CHAIR, SHERRY MARCIE, AS WELL AS MY WONDERFUL, UH, TROOP LEADER JACKIE ROBERTS.

UH, THEY WERE PRETTY MUCH THE REASONS LIKE I GOT TO THIS RANK IN THE FIRST PLACE.

I COULD HAVE NOT GONE SECOND CLASS THANKS TO SHERRY.

MARCIE BECAUSE SHE'S MY NEIGHBOR, ONE AND TWO, SHE ALSO HELPED ME WITH ALL MY REQUIREMENTS.

SO SHOUT OUT TO SHERRY FOR ALL HER HELP.

HOWEVER, A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE LIKE THE FRIENDS, THE COMMUNITY, LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE ALONG THE WAY, LIKE I WENT TO NYLT LEARNING LEADERSHIP SKILLS.

LIKE, I DIDN'T KNOW ALL THIS AT THE TIME, BUT COMMUNITY IS LIKE THE BIGGEST THING.

BEING LIKE AN EAGLE SCOUT, YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH TALK TO ANYONE AND PRETTY MUCH IMPROVE MY PUBLIC SPEAKING IN GENERAL.

AND ALSO MY PUBLIC SPEAKING IN THE BEGINNING WAS KIND OF LIKE BAD.

SO IT KIND OF GOT A LITTLE BIT BETTER OVER TIME.

SO THANKS TO NYLT, THE PROGRAM, THANKS TO OUR COUNCIL FOR GIVING US A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES.

JACKIE SPECIFICALLY GAVE US A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES EARNING ALL THESE BADGES WE HAVE ON OUR SHOULDERS.

BUT COMPARED TO HER SON, HE HURT, LIKE, EARNED WAY MORE THAN US, BUT .

BUT LIKE, THANK YOU TO LIKE EVERYONE WHO MADE ME AND SABRAS THE PEOPLE.

WE ARE.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED US OVER THE JOURNEY.

OUR PARENTS, MY MOM IS OVER THERE, AND S DAD AND PARENTS ARE OVER THERE THANKS TO OUR PARENTS.

THEY'LL TAKE US TO EVERY GROUP MEETING TO .

WE COULD ALWAYS TELL THE

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BUT YEAH, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED US ALONG THIS JOURNEY, AND WE'LL MAKE YOU PROUD FOR ALL THE SUPPORT YOU PUT INTO US.

COULD I ASK, IS JACKIE HERE? JACKIE'S NOT HERE.

NOT HERE.

STARRO, YOU GONNA SAY ANYTHING? YOU GOTTA SAY SOMETHING NOW.

ALRIGHT.

SO THIS WAS A TEACHABLE MOMENT FOR, FOR ME, BECAUSE NOW I REALIZE THAT IT'S IMPORTANT ANYTIME YOU ACCOMPLISH SOMETHING TO GIVE CREDIT TO OTHER PEOPLE.

SO THIS IS A LIFE CHANGER FOR ME, UH, AND I WILL REMEMBER YOUR COMMENTS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WHO ARE SUCCESSFUL DON'T BRAG ABOUT IT.

THEY GIVE CREDIT TO PEOPLE WHO LAY THE FOUNDATION.

SO YOUR, YOUR SPEECH IS SOMETHING THAT I'LL NEVER FORGET.

SO THANK YOU.

UH, NOW THAT YOU'VE SAT DOWN, YOU CAN GET BACK UP AGAIN BECAUSE I'D LIKE TO TAKE A PICTURE WITH YOU.

HOW QUICKLY YOU TOSS THE, UH, JOE, YOU FALLING DOWN ON THE JOB HERE? YES, I AM.

YEAH, HE'S GOT A LOT GOING ON .

[ SUPERVISOR & TOWN COUNCIL REPORTS/ANNOUNCEMENTS Liaison Reports (Supervisor Paul Feiner, Councilwoman Joy Haber, Councilwoman Ellen Hendrickx, Councilwoman Gina Jackson, Councilman Francis Sheehan) GOOD NEWS...From 2010-2025 the Town earned the highest possible rating from Moody's (Aaa), most recently on 9/9/2025. Less than 1% of communities in the nation have this record of financial stability. From 2008-2024 the Town also earned the highest possible bond rating from Standard & Poors (AAA). To reduce costs, the Town did not seek a rating from Standard & Poors in 2025. Anyone interested in serving on a board or commission should send a resume to the Town Board via Lisa Maria Nero, Town Clerk, 177 Hillside Avenue, Greenburgh, NY 10607. TownClerk@GreenburghNY.com]

ON, UH, THE LIST.

UM, WE'RE ALSO, UM, UH, HONORING, UH, LYNN GOODMAN, UH, WHO HAS SERVED AS, UH, THE LEADER OF THE GREENBERG, UH, HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE SINCE JANUARY, 2017.

UM, SHE WAS FORMALLY APPOINTED TO THE COMMITTEE IN FEBRUARY OF 2019.

AND ASSUME LEADERSHIP, PAUL, WE WERE, WE WERE GONNA BRING ALL THESE DATES ARE WRONG, APPARENTLY.

NO, NO, NO, NO.

DATES ARE FINE.

WE WERE JUST GONNA, I WAS JUST GONNA BRING IT UP AND DO THIS WITH LANE TO GIVE IT TO, SO IF YOU WANT HER, THAT'S FINE.

NO, AND, AND YOU TOO.

OKAY, THAT'S FINE.

WHATEVER.

BUT WE'LL COME TO IT UP THERE.

BUT THE DATES ARE WRONG.

NO, THE DATES ARE FINE.

NO, UH, WHAT NOT ACCORDING TO LYNN.

AND SHE SHOULD KNOW LISA.

WHAT'S THE DATE? WELL, WHY DON'T WE PRESENT AND THEN WE CAN, WE CAN ALWAYS EDIT.

WE CAN ALWAYS EDIT STAFF.

WE'LL, WE CAN ALWAYS EDIT.

COME ON UP.

WELL, I STARTED PARTICIPATING IN THE COMMITTEE, UH, AROUND 2017.

I JOINED THE COMMITTEE AROUND 20 18, 20 19.

OH, THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.

THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.

UM, YEAH, WE DIDN'T GET TO THAT.

AND ELAINE, PLEASE COME UP AS WELL.

IN SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF GREENBURG.

SO AS THE LIAISON TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE, IT HAS BEEN, COME, ACTUALLY COME OVER HERE.

I'M SUPPOSED TO FACE THIS WAY, BUT , UM, IT'S HARD TO TALK TO YOU AND WITH YOU AT THE SAME TIME.

UM, SO I'VE GOTTEN TO KNOW LYNN GOODMAN, UH, OVER THE COURSE OF THE THREE YEARS THAT I'VE BEEN THE LIAISON.

AND, UM, WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE ON EVERYTHING, BUT WE'VE REALLY COME TO A MEETING OF THE MINDS, I THINK, AND WE, THE, THE WORK THAT LYNN HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN HER TIME IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE, AND HER COMMITMENT IS UNIMPEACHABLE.

SO WORKING TOGETHER WITH, WITH HER, WITH HER NOW CO-CHAIR LANE TOGETHER, THEY ARE A DYNAMIC DUO.

THEY'VE BEEN KNOW, JUST MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS, DOING WHATEVER THEY CAN IN SPITE OF, YOU KNOW, PERSONAL, UH, ODDS AND OBSTACLES.

THEY HAVE STUCK TO IT.

AND I THINK OUR COMMITTEE IS MUCH MORE REVITALIZED, RE-ENERGIZED NOW BECAUSE OF YOUR WORK.

SO I'M JUST GONNA READ SO OF THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, BUT WE'RE SO HAPPY TO HAVE HAD YOU.

UM, SO I'M NOT GONNA READ THE DATES .

SO, WHEREAS LYNN GOODMAN THROUGHOUT NEARLY A DECADE OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE HAS MASTERFULLY GUIDED THE, THE GREENBERG, UH, THE GREENBERG HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE THROUGH A DAUNTING MANDATE WITH LIMITED RESOURCES, STEERING A DEDICATED CORE OF VOLUNTEERS TO ACHIEVE IMPORTANT STRIDES

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UM, HER EMPATHIC LEADERSHIP PROVIDED CRITICAL SUPPORT THROUGH THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC BY PIVOTING THE COMMITTEE TO VIRTUAL OPERATIONS, ORGANIZING VITAL FOOD DRIVES, LEADING LOCALIZED PANELS ON RACISM AND ANTISEMITISM, DEFENDING TARGETED COMMUNITY SYMBOLS LIKE THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ENTRY SIGN, AND PARTNERING WITH THE GREENBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY TO DELIVER ESSENTIAL EDUCATION ON RENTERS AND IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS.

SO THAT'S SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE ACCOMPLISHED DURING THAT TIME.

LYNN ALSO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ESTABLISHING THE TOWN'S FIRST EVER GREENBURG PRIDE RALLY, WHICH CONTINUES TO THIS TIME TO THIS DAY, ENSURING A LASTING LEGACY OF CELEBRATION AND DIVERSITY FOR THE LGBTQ PLUS COMMUNITY FOR YEARS TO COME.

SO, ALTHOUGH WE WILL NOT, UM, SORRY.

ONE MORE VERY IMPORTANT THING, WHEREAS LYNN GOODMAN'S PURSUIT OF EQUITY EXTENDED TO HER PIVOTAL ROLE ON THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S ANTI SYSTEMIC RACISM AND POLICE, THAT'S NOT OKAY.

GASSER COMMITTEE , WHERE SHE HELPED CONDUCT A THOROUGH EQUITY REVIEW OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO RECOMMEND MEANINGFUL POLICY CHANGES.

SO THAT WAS A CRITICAL THING THAT SHE WORKED ON AS WELL.

SO WE WILL BE SAD TO SEE YOU GO.

WE WISH YOU ALL THE BEST ON YOUR I KNOW.

CONTINUING JOURNEYS AND YOUR CONTINUING EFFORTS ON BEHALF OF ALL THE PEOPLE OF GREENBERG, THANK, SO THANK YOU MUCH.

I'LL, I'LL TAKE IT.

YOU WANNA TAKE IT LATER? OH, NOW YOU WANNA TALK YES, ? YEAH.

TRY NOT TO BE SHY, BUT JUST TRY NOT TO BE SHY.

JUST, JUST BEFORE YOU, JUST BEFORE YOU SPEAK, LYNN, I JUST WANNA SAY, I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR YOUR TIME ON GREENBERG AGAINST SYSTEMIC RACISM, GAER, UM, YOU CHALLENGED ME, YOU CHALLENGED THE GROUP.

SO I DO THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT TO THE COMMITTEE.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WELL, UM, TAKING A PAGE FROM THE EAGLE SCOUTS, UM, I WANT TO THANK THE ENTIRE TOWN OF GREENBERG, UH, BOARD, ESPECIALLY COUNCILPERSON HABER FOR, UH, WORKING WITH ME FOR BEING OUR LIAISON ON THE COMMITTEE FOR EVERYBODY HERE.

I'D LIKE TO THANK PAUL FINER FOR SAYING TO ME 10 YEARS AGO, I THINK YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN THIS COMMITTEE.

WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT A SHOT? UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL OF THE PAST AND PRESENT MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE.

THEY HAVE BROUGHT EXPERIENCE, HUMAN EXPERIENCE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS EXPERIENCE TO THE COMMITTEE, COMPASSION, RESPECT FOR OTHERS, AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THEIR WORK WILL LIVE ON WITH OUR NEW MEMBERS.

A BIG SHOUT OUT TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO JOINED US OVER THE YEARS, WHO JOINED OUR MEETINGS, WHO PARTICIPATED IN OUR SEMINARS.

A SHOUT OUT TO CLIFF, AJ, MICHELLE, JUNE, JUDITH BEVILLE, UM, TO THE RENEE.

UM, THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT HELPED US ACHIEVE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DID, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY WORKING WITH US, UM, TO THE GREENBERG PUBLIC LIBRARY, WHO HAS BEEN A FREQUENT PARTNER IN OUR EVENTS.

AND TO A, A BIG HUG TO MY CO-CHAIR, LANE COBB, WHO HAS A HEART OF GOLD, A KEEN SENSE OF HUMANITY, GREAT MORAL INTEGRITY.

I HAVE ENJOYED BEING YOUR PARTNER.

I EXPECT TO HAVE SOME FUN AND DRINKS WITH YOU AS WE PROCEED.

UM, IT'S TIME FOR ME TO LET GO OF THIS COMMITTEE TO BRING NEW VOICES.

I THINK CHANGE IS GOOD, ACTUALLY.

UM, AND IT MAKES SPACE FOR THE COMMITTEE, AND IT MAKES SPACE FOR ME IN MY OWN LIFE TO PURSUE NEW THINGS.

I'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR NEW PROJECTS, SO IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING JUICY, FIND ME.

UM, ANYWAY, THANK YOU EVERYBODY.

THIS IS A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL TOWN.

I'M HONORED TO LIVE HERE, AND I'M HONORED TO SERVE EVERYBODY.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS HONOR.

SO DO THE PICTURE WITH EVERYBODY ON THE COMMITTEE, WOULD THAT ALL OF THE, UH, JOY WANTS JOY.

JOY WANTS ME TO SAY HOW GRATEFUL I AM TO HAVE BEEN YOUR CO-CHAIR.

JOY WANTS YOU TO SAY THAT SHE WANTS ME TO SAY THAT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES AND ALSO FOR MAKING SURE THAT GREENBERG IS A MORE WELCOMING, INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY.

LYNN, FOR REAL.

UH, THE TOWN CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? YES, I TERRANCE.

TALKING TO AMY.

SHE'S AMY'S OVER THERE.

YOU WANT DO A PICTURE? YEAH, THAT'S GOOD.

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OH, CAMERA LOVES YOU GUYS ACROSS THE ROOM.

YOUNGER PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.

YEAH, COURSE.

SO,

[ TOWN CLERK COMMENTS AND PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS ]

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

TAN GREENBERG WILL HAVE THE RECYCLING DAY ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 2026 FROM 9:00 AM TO 2:00 PM THAT WILL OCCUR AT THE DPW YARD, LOCATED AT 100 SPRAIN ROAD, ARLEY, NEW YORK, 1 0 5 0 2.

PHOTO ID IS REQUIRED.

UM, THIS IS FREE FOR ALL UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG RESIDENTS.

NEXT SLIDE.

THE FAIRVIEW EMPOWERMENT GROUP, GREENBURG PARKS AND RECREATION, PARKWAY GARDENS AND PARKWAY HOME CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS, ALONG WITH, UH, THE GREENBURG BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM INITIATIVE, GREENBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY, AND THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST.

WE'LL BE HAVING A COMMUNITY PICNIC AND MOVIE NIGHT AT THE PARK, AND THEY ARE SHOWING DISNEY'S ZOOTOPIA TWO.

IT'S GONNA START AT 4:00 PM UNTIL 7:00 PM THERE WILL BE A COMMUNITY PICNIC FEATURING A LIVE DJ, AND, UH, DISCOVER THE STORIES OF PARKWAY GARDENS AND THEN IN, AND ALSO INDIVIDUALS WHO HELPED US SHAPE OUR COMMUNITY.

AND AT 7:45 PM OR DUSK, UH, THAT'S WHERE THEY WILL BE SHOWING THE, UH, MOVIE ZOOTOPIA.

AND THIS IS GOING TO BE AT TRAVIS HILL PARK, LOCATED AT 200 LINCOLN PLACE, GREENBURG, NEW YORK SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH.

AGAIN, IT STARTS AT FOUR 30 AND THE MOVIE WILL START ANYWHERE BETWEEN SEVEN 30 AND 7 45.

UH, NEXT MY OFFICE HAS, HAS PARTNERED WITH NEW BALANCE, AND WE HAVE MRS. MAJ ANDERSON, WHO IS THE RECRUITING COORDINATOR FOR NEW BALANCE.

AND WE ARE PARTNERING WITH THE FALCONS NEST BOOSTER CLUB.

AND WE WILL BE DOING A BACK TO SCHOOL, UH, BOOK BAG GIVEAWAY, UM, FILLED WITH, UH, SUB SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR THE 2027 SCHOOL YEAR.

THIS IS GOING TO BE AT THE GREENBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST, 2026 FROM 3:00 PM UNTIL 5:00 PM AND, UH, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE.

THE NAACP WHITE PLAINS GREENBURG BRANCH INVITES YOU TO THEIR GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING.

UM, IT WILL BE ON MONDAY, AUGUST 24TH, 2026, THE 7:00 PM AND THE MERCH VIRTUAL MEETING, UH, WILL BE, UM, HIGHLIGHTED WITH BRANCH UPDATES, COMMITTEE REPORTS, COMMUNITY ADVOCACY, UPCOMING PROGRAMS, AND MEMBER ENGAGEMENT.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS EMAIL WHITE PLAINS GB NAACP@GMAIL.COM, THE FAIRVIEW GREENBURG KIWANIS, UM, THE KIWANIS IS MY SUPERPOWER.

AND YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS SUPERHEROES, AND EVERYONE IS WELCOME.

UH, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY, JOIN THE FAIRVIEW GREENBURG KIWANIS CLUB MEETINGS ARE HELD EVERY TUESDAY OF THE MONTH, UH, AT 7:00 PM LOCATED AT THE EL DORADO DINER, FOUR 60 SAW MOVE RIVER ROAD, ELMSFORD, NEW YORK.

WHY JOIN KIWANIS? YOU SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY, SUPPORTS CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, BUILDS LASTING FRIENDSHIPS, DEVELOPS LEADERSHIP SKILLS, AND MAKES A POSITIVE IMPACT.

DO YOU HAVE YOUR DOG LICENSE? WE HAVE, UH, DOG DAYS OF SUMMER.

THAT'S GOING TO BE HAPPENING ON SEPTEMBER 13TH.

UH, FIRST SESSION IS, UH,

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10:00 AM TO 12:00 PM UM, AND THE SECOND SESSION IS FROM 12:30 PM TO, I'M SORRY, 10:00 AM TO 12:00 PM AND THEN 12:30 PM TO 2:30 PM AND, UM, AGAIN, THIS IS A ONE STOP SHOP FUND FOR YOUR DOG.

AND, UH, THE ONLY REQUIREMENT IS THAT YOUR DOG MUST BE OVER FOUR MONTHS.

MUST HAVE YOUR LICENSE, AND, UH, YOU CAN APPLY, UH, APPLY FOR YOUR DOG LICENSE AT MY OFFICE.

UM, AND IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, YOU CAN CALL, UH, ANTHONY VETERANS PARK AT 9 1 4 9 8 9 1 8 2 2.

UH, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THE DOG SWIM.

BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT, UH, THEY PUT IT ON FOR SEPTEMBER 20TH BECAUSE OF, UH, UH, HANAH, UH, JEWISH HOLIDAY IS, UH, SEPTEMBER 11TH.

WELL, IT'S 11TH AT NINTH.

IT'S 12TH AND 13TH.

SO THEY HAD TOLD ME, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, UM, THAT IT WAS GONNA BE SEPTEMBER 20TH, THE DOG SWIM.

SO COULD WE JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, CHECK ON THAT.

I'LL CIRCLE BACK BECAUSE BOTH DATES, I'M ALMOST POSITIVE DATES ARE IN THE, UH, GREENBURG REC, PARKS AND RECREATION BOOK, BOTH DATES.

YEAH, I'M, I'M ALMOST POSITIVE IT'S SEPTEMBER 20TH.

IT'S THE 20TH.

YOU CAN CALL 9 1 4 9 8 9 1 5 4 1 5 4 0.

THANK YOU FOR THE CORRECTION.

UM, ALSO, UH, ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, UH, WE WILL HAVE OUR VETERANS RECOGNITION BARBECUE.

UM, THAT'S GONNA BE FROM 4:30 PM TO 7:30 PM RAIN OR SHINE.

AND OF COURSE, THIS WILL BE AT THE ANTHONY VETERANS ANTHONY F VETERANS PARK AT THE GERARD BURNS CENTER, 11 OLYMPIC LANE LEY, NEW YORK, 1 0 5 0 2.

UM, AND IF YOU WANT ANY, IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, RSVP IS REQUIRED.

THAT CONCLUDES THE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

WE ARE GONNA HAVE TWO MINUTE PUBLIC COMMENTS.

OKAY, NEXT, UM,

[ TWO MINUTE PUBLIC COMMENT LIGHTNING ROUND (for anyone who can’t stay for the regular Public Comment session)]

IT'S CALLED LIGHTNING ROD.

SO IF YOU DON'T WANNA WAIT AROUND FOR THE ENTIRE MEETING AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARINGS, YOU COULD SPEAK FOR, YOU HAVE A CHOICE.

YOU COULD SPEAK FOR TWO MINUTES NOW, OR YOU COULD SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES LATER, ONE OR THE OTHER.

AND THE TOWN BOARD HAS, UH, WE'VE ALL AGREED THAT THERE WON'T BE ANY COMMENTS FROM TOWN BOARD MEMBERS UNTIL AFTER EVERYBODY, UM, YOU KNOW, SPEAK.

SO, SO IF SOMEBODY GOES UP AND HAS A QUESTION, THERE'S GONNA BE SILENCE FROM THE BOARD.

BUT AT THE END OF, UM, UH, EACH, UH, ROUND OF PUBLIC COMMENTS, ANY BOARD MEMBER, IF THEY WANT TO SAY ANYTHING, THEY CAN FIRST STOP.

I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY.

UH, JUST BEFORE WE, UM, MOVE FORWARD, AND I DIDN'T REALIZE WE WEREN'T DOING THE REPORTS, UM, I REGRETFULLY ANNOUNCED THAT WE WILL BE CANCELING TOMORROW'S SUMMER JAZZ CONCERT, OUR LAST CONCERT OF THE SERIES DUE TO FUNDING.

UM, BUT, UM, I DO WANNA THANK, UH, A SE ARTISTICALLY SERVING COMMUNITIES FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK IN BRINGING THE ARTISTS THAT THEY DID TO OUR COMMUNITY.

I ALSO WANT TO THANK, UM, THE STAFF WHO HELPED PUT THIS TOGETHER, WHO HELPED COME TOGE CAME TOGETHER AND REALLY MADE THIS HAPPEN.

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, UM, I WANT TO THANK THE COMMUNITY FOR COMING OUT BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR THE SUMMER SERIES TO CONTINUE.

UM, WE TRIED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, UM, BUT UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, UM, THE FUNDING IS, IS NOT THERE.

UM, I ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR, UH, REALLY SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES WHO CAME OUT AND WHO COME OUT EVERY TIME WE DO HAVE AN EVENT TO VENDOR, WHICH IS MOST IMPORTANT, THAT WE REALLY, UM, SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, OUR ENTREPRENEURS.

UM, BUT YES, WITH THE HEAVY, HEAVY HEART THAT, UM, I DO HAVE TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE DO HAVE TO CANCEL, UH, TOMORROW'S CONCERT, BUT TRULY APPRECIATIVE FOR EVERYONE COMING OUT AND REALLY SUPPORTING.

AND HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY WE WILL, UM, BE ABLE TO CONTINUE NEXT YEAR.

SO THANK YOU.

YEAH, I, I HAD SPOKEN TO THE PRODUCER LIKE LAST WEEK, AND HE WAS ALL EXCITED ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, ABOUT TOMORROW'S CONCERT.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT WAYS OF PUBLICIZING AND ALL THAT.

SO WHAT DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE, WHEN THEY DECIDED TO CANCEL? BECAUSE NOBODY HAD TOLD ME YES, NO, FIVE MINUTES AGO, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING, WHICH IS WHAT WE, WHICH WAS WHAT? THE TOWN ATTORNEY.

I, I JUST THINK I, I FELT, I FIND THIS, PAUL, THIS IS SOMETHING, AND AGAIN, NOT TO KEEP THIS IN THE PUBLIC, BUT THIS CONVERSATION WITH REGARDS TO FUNDING AND EVERYTHING, I THINK THAT CONVERSATION COULD BE HAD OFFLINE, UM, BECAUSE IT HAS TO DEAL WITH CONTRACTS.

BUT WE SIGNED A CONTRACT.

PAUL, PAUL.

PAUL, WE SIGNED A CONTRACT.

PAUL, I PROMISE YOU, I PROMISE YOU, EVERYONE, WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING, OKAY? WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING.

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I'M SITTING HERE, I PROMISE YOU, NOT WANTING TO HAVE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT.

I'VE BEEN WORKING, YOU KNOW, WE, WE TRIED OUR BEST.

UM, SO WE HOPE THAT, AND THOSE WHO ARE LISTENING, WE HOPE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WILL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE NEXT YEAR.

UM, BUT AGAIN, I'M FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR, UM, THE PRODUCERS WHO'S REALLY CAME, WHO REALLY CAME UP AND REALLY CAME BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AGAIN TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN FOR US.

YOU HONOR, I JUST WANNA MENTION, I THINK THAT THESE CONCERTS WERE EXCEPTIONAL.

I KNOW THEY WERE, WE HAD, WE HAD THE, I I'VE GONE TO, I WENT TO ALL THE CONCERTS AND THE MUSICIANS WERE TOP OF THE LINE.

UH, SOME OF THE MUSICIANS GET 10, 15,000 PEOPLE PAYING, UM, UH, TO, TO, TO HEAR, HEAR THEM PLAY.

UM, THEY'RE WORLDCLASS, YOU KNOW, GRAMMY AWARD WINNERS.

UM, AND, YOU KNOW, HERE, PEOPLE COULD SEE IT FOR FREE.

I'M GONNA RUN, STARTING, YOU KNOW, TOMORROW.

I'M GONNA REACH OUT TO VARIOUS NOT-FOR-PROFITS AND FOUNDATIONS, BECAUSE I, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS SO IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY.

THE GS CONCERTS, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR DECADES HERE FOR, FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO WHEN HAVING GS CONCERTS EVERY, UH, THURSDAY DURING THE SUMMER, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE, UH, PLAYING SPORTS.

THE LITTLE CHILDREN ARE PLAYING IN THE PLAYGROUND.

UH, THEY'RE HEARING MUSIC.

THERE'S A LOT OF VENDORS.

IT IS SUCH AN OUTSTANDING, YOU KNOW, PROGRAM.

SO I'M SO DISAPPOINTED THAT, UM, UM, THAT IT WAS CANCELED.

WE EVEN HAD, YOU KNOW, THE KIWANIS CLUB, UH, GREENBURG, THEY DONATED $4,000, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THE EVENT.

AND WE DID SIGN A CONTRACT.

AND LAST THURSDAY WHEN I WAS THERE, I SPOKE TO THEM.

I SAID, OH, I WANT TO WORK WITH YOU TO GET AN EVEN GREATER TURNOUT.

AND THEY WERE REALLY EXCITED.

SO I'M LIKE STUNNED THAT IT'S BEEN CANCELED, AND NOBODY TOLD ME THE MUSIC WAS FIRST CLASS TURNOUT.

IT HAS TO DO WITH FUNDING.

EVERYONE.

YES, THE SUPERVISOR IS CORRECT.

THERE IS A CONTRACT.

HOWEVER, THE AMOUNT OF THE CONTRACT THAT WE SIGNED DOES NOT COVER THE, ALL THE EXPENSES THAT IT COSTS TO BRING THESE ARTISTS TO THE TOWN.

THE, UM, AND THIS IS WHY I AM DEEPLY, DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR WHAT, UH, THE PRODUCERS HAVE DONE, BECAUSE THIS IS WHEN YOU LEVERAGE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS.

AND YES, UM, WE LISTEN, IT'S, IT'S, THIS IS VERY UPSETTING, RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S VERY UPSETTING BECAUSE WE HAD A GREAT SERIES.

IT WAS, IT WAS AMAZING.

UM, I WOULD LOVE TO CONTINUE IT.

UM, IF SOMEONE WANTS TO, TO SEND SOME MONEY TONIGHT, , SO WANTS THEY WANT DONATE TONIGHT, I DON'T WANNA GET IN TROUBLE FOR SOLICITING POINTS FOR THE DAYS.

BUT, UM, SO I, I SAY THAT WITH MY TOWN ATTORNEY PRESENT.

UM, BUT YES TO EVERYTHING THAT THE SUPERVISOR HAS SAID, THE COMMUNITY CAME OUT, THEY ASKED FOR IT.

WE DIDN'T HAVE IT.

UM, THE SERIES THAT WE HAD, WE WERE ONLY ABLE TO DO THE ONE DAY A WEEK, AND WHEN, ONE DAY A MONTH LAST YEAR, A COUPLE OF YEARS.

UM, BUT I ASKED THE PRODUCERS TO COME BACK, AND THEY DID.

AND THEY WERE HOPING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN DO IT.

BUT THIS IS NOT CHEAP TO BRING ARTISTS IN TO COME IN AND TO, TO NEGOTIATE SCHEDULES AND TIME.

YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT EASY.

SO YES, YES, WE HOPE THAT NEXT YEAR THAT EVERYBODY CAN PARTICIPATE.

WHEN YOU SEE THE FLYERS GO OUT, PLEASE SEND IT OUT TO YOUR, TO YOUR OUTLETS.

UM, OH, BIG SHOUT OUT TO OUR, UM, OUR, WHAT DO I CALL HER, HER, OUR ANNOUNCER LYRIC, WHO HAS BEEN SENDING VIDEOS OUT, YOU KNOW, ASKING EVERYONE TO COME IN.

I WANNA MAKE SURE I HIGHLIGHT HER.

BUT EVERYONE, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S HEAVY, RIGHT? BECAUSE THIS WAS REALLY GOOD MUSIC, MUSIC, YOU KNOW, REALLY, UH, HEALS THE SOUL SOMETIMES.

AND, AND WE NEED SOME HEALING HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY.

SO IT WAS REALLY GOOD TO REALLY COME OUT, ENJOY, YOU KNOW, REALLY SEE EVERYONE JUST TALK AND ENJOY AND, AND LISTEN TO SOME REALLY, REALLY AMAZING MUSIC.

UM, BUT I DON'T WANNA BELABOR THIS.

I KNOW WE HAVE A LONG AGENDA TONIGHT.

UM, AGAIN, VERY DIS, VERY UPSETTING.

BUT AGAIN, JOE, IF Y'ALL WANNA DONATE LIKE IN A FEW MINUTES, PLEASE FEEL FREE.

BUT, UM, BUT I'M SORRY, EVERYONE, BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU TO OUR, AGAIN, OUR SMALL VENDORS WHO CAME OUT, WHO ALWAYS CONTINUES TO COME OUT.

UM, AND THANK YOU COMMUNITY.

UM, IF I MAY, MAY, PLEASE.

SURE.

UM, I WOULD LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY SAD BECAUSE THE, THE MUSIC WAS FIRST CLASS, AND I WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND COUNCILWOMAN GINA JACKSON FOR ALL THE HARD WORK SHE PUT INTO THIS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN IN COLLABORATION WITH THE PRODUCERS, WITH T-D-Y-C-C, WITH DPW, AND WITH THE TOWN POLICE FORCE.

SO ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU.

AND AS WITH A SPECIAL THANKS

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TO GINA.

AND ONE, ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS THAT, UM, I MADE, UM, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER, UH, IS, UM, I THINK THAT ONE OF THE THINGS WE COULD DO FOR NEXT YEAR IS, UM, TRY INVOLVING, UM, EXCEPTIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, UM, MUSICIANS, JAZZ MUSICIANS.

AND, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I'D LIKE TO DO IS, UM, ENCOURAGE THE BANDS, BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING LIKE LINCOLN SCENT TO QUALITY, YOU KNOW, BANDS, UH, UH, TO PERFORM.

MAYBE WE COULD GET AN EXCEPTIONAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO PLAY, UH, A PIECE WITH THEM.

UH, SO THIS WAY THEY COULD, UH, GET TO KNOW SOME TOP-NOTCH, UH, UH, MUSICIANS, PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS, UM, AND, AND PERFORM.

UM, WE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE, UM, LESSER EXPENSIVE GS CONCERTS.

UM, IF MONEY IS AN ISSUE, UH, AND, UH, TRY HAVING COMPETITIONS AND HAVING, UM, STUDENTS, STUDENT JAZZ MUSICIANS PERFORM.

LET'S MOVE ON.

PLEASE PERFORM.

WHO ARE, WHO ARE, WHO ARE EXCEPTIONAL.

I JUST THINK THAT I, I JUST THINK THAT WE COULD USE THIS AS, UM, AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOMETHING, DO SOMETHING REALLY SPECIAL.

UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN, UH, ATLANTIC STAR, THEY WERE HIGH SCHOOL AND STUDENTS, AND THEY BECAME THE TOP MUSICIANS IN THE WORLD, NUMBER ONE IN THE WORLD.

AND YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S PROBABLY MUSICIANS AT WOODLANDS AND AT ELMSFORD AND EDGEMONT AND OTHER SCHOOLS WHO ARE REALLY TALENTED, LET'S SHOW THEM OFF, UH, AND LET, LET THEM, UH, LET'S BUILD UP THEIR RESUME AND, AND INTRODUCE THEM TO THE TOP MUSICIANS.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I'D LIKE TO DO FOR NEXT YEAR.

WHAT'S NEXT ON THE AGENDA? OKAY, NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS TWO MINUTE COMMENTS.

FIRST, WE HAVE RICHARD STRASSLER, AND I'D JUST LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT YOU COULD EITHER CHOOSE THE TWO MINUTE COMMENT NOW OR AT A FIVE MINUTE COMMENT LATER TODAY.

NOT BOTH.

AND I RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO STOP WHEN THE BUZZER GOES OFF.

THERE ARE CLOCKS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROOM.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

HI, GOOD EVENING, UH, SUPERVISOR FINER AND TOWN BOARD.

UH, MY NAME IS RICHARD STRASSLER.

THIS IS MY NEIGHBOR AARON.

WE LIVE ON A STREET IN GREENBURG, BY THE WAY, I'VE LIVED WITH MY FAMILY HAPPILY IN GREENBURG FOR 21 YEARS.

OUR CURRENT STREET CALLED FARM WAY DRIVE.

WE DON'T GET THE PLOWING FROM THE TOWN.

I'VE MADE A BUNCH OF EMAIL INQUIRIES AND REALLY HAVE NOT GOTTEN ANY RESPONSE AS TO WHY THAT IS, EXCEPT THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN TOLD IT'S A PRIVATE ROAD.

UH, WHEN I FIRST MOVED IN 11 YEARS AGO, I WAS TOLD BY THE BUILDER AND BY THE, UH, TOWN, UM, BUILDING DEPARTMENT THAT IT WOULD BE A PUBLIC ROAD, AND WE WOULD GET FULL SERVICES.

AND SO I'D LIKE TO REQUEST A MEETING, UH, WITH ANY PERTINENT GOVERNMENT, UH, OFFICIALS WHO COULD COMMENT ON THIS MATTER.

WE'D LIKE SOME ANSWERS, UH, AND, UM, AND THAT'S IT.

HOPEFULLY, UH, SUPERVISOR FINER AND MAYBE THE TOWN ATTORNEY COULD ATTEND.

AND ANYONE ELSE, MAYBE THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WHY DID THE BOARD VOTE FOR GREENBERG TO RETURN, I'M SORRY, A ASSESS, UH, MUNICIPALITY ANNUALLY, 10 YEARS AGO, TAXPAYERS WANT A PREDICTABLE AND, UH, TRANSPARENT TAX STRUCTURE SIMILAR TO THE REST OF WESTCHESTER.

RIGHT THERE.

NEXT WE HAVE LORI DUFF.

GOOD EVENING, SUPERVISOR, FINER AND THE TOWN BOARD.

I STATED LAST MONTH.

AND I JUST WANNA STATE AGAIN THAT WITHOUT TAXPAYERS HARD EARNED DOLLARS, CAN YOU PLEASE NO OVERSPENDING OR INEFFICIENT, UH, MANAGEMENT OF TOWN OPERATIONS WOULD BE POSSIBLE.

AND MAYBE JUST WHAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT, WE'D BE ABLE TO HAVE NICER THINGS.

AND THESE JAZZ, UH, FESTIVALS CONTINUE.

UM, LAST MONTH YOU WENT AHEAD WITH A NO BID CONTRACT FOR THE 100 EAST HARTSDALE SEWER REPAIR.

AND SINCE THEN, UH, LAWSUIT HAS BEEN BROUGHT THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDABLE, AND LIKELY THAT IT WILL COST TAXPAYER FUNDS TO, UH, PAY FOR OUTSIDE COUNSEL.

UM, BUT THIS OVERSPENDING BRINGS ME BACK TO THE CONVERSATION OF GREENBERG RETURNING TO BE A NON, UM, ASSESSING MUNICIPALITY.

I DO HAVE, ACCORDING TO THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, IS A LIST OF THE 19 OF 25 WESTCHESTER MUNICIPALITIES.

ALMOST 80% THAT DO NOT REASSESS ANNUALLY MOVING TO A STRAIGHT TAX RATE, UH, WOULD BE MUCH MORE EQUITABLE.

I CAN DROP THIS OFF ON MY WAY OUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IT.

UM, SO

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UM, A MORE EFFICIENT TOWN GOVERNMENT, UM, WOULD POSSIBLY LOWER THE TAX RATE.

WE NEED MORE AFFORDABILITY HERE.

WE WANNA REMAIN IN OUR HOMES, WE WANT OUR, EXCUSE ME, SENIORS TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES AND YOUNG COUPLES TO COME HERE AND RAISE THEIR FAMILIES.

BUT TAX, UH, WE, WE ALREADY PAID THOSE TAXES TO THOSE SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

NEXT WE HAVE WALTER SIMON.

MA'AM, MA'AM, I'M SORRY.

CAN YOU EMAIL THAT TO ME AT TOWN CLERK@GREENBURGNY.COM? YES.

OKAY, GO.

GOOD EVENING, TOWN SUPERVISOR MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD.

MY NAME IS WALTER SIMON.

I RESIDE IN DALE.

IT HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT ON THE EVENING OF AUGUST 4TH, AN INCIDENT OCCURRED IN THE TOWN HALL PARKING LOT, INVOLVING A TOWN STAFF MEMBER AND A MEMBER OF THE TOWN COUNCIL.

IT EVIDENTLY OCCURRED AT THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT CELEBRATION WAS CONCLUDING FROM THE LIMITED INFORMATION WE HAVE.

IT APPEARS THAT THIS INCIDENT MAY HAVE HAD SERIOUS IN NATURE WARRANTING FUTURE REVIEW BY THE TOWN AND POSSIBLY INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR.

IT IS ALSO OUR UNDERSTANDING THAT THE PARKING LOT IS MONITORED BY CAMERAS, AND THERE MAY BE VIDEO FOOTAGE OF WHAT OCCURRED.

WE BELIEVE THE PUBLIC HAS THE RIGHT TO KNOW THE DETAILS OF THIS OCCURRENCE, WHAT ACTION THE TOWN HAS TAKEN TO INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT, AND AT AN APPROPRIATE TIME.

WHAT ACTION, IF ANY, WILL BE TAKEN TO DISCIPLINE, OFFENDED, OFFENDING PARTY OR PARTIES? A, A FULL REQUEST TO GAIN COPY OF THE VIDEO HAS ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE TOWN CLERK.

WE WOULD ASK THAT THE VIDEO BE RELEASED ON A TIMELY BASIS RATHER THAN THE TYPICAL FOUR TO SIX MONTHS.

IT TAKES SIX MONTHS IT TAKES FOR THE TOWN TO FULFILL.

FOUR REGULARLY TAKES RECOGNIZING THAT WE MAKE MISTAKES, AND IT IS A SITUATION ACCEPTING, RECOGNIZING WE ALL MAKE MISTAKE.

AND IT, THIS IS THE SITUATION.

ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY OF A PUBLIC AND A PUBLIC APOLOGY FOR THE INCIDENTS MAY PUT THIS MATTER BEHIND US AND ALLOW US TO FOCUS ON THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY.

ARTICLE 78 LAWSUIT THAT WAS INDEPENDENTLY DRIVEN BY THE ORGANIZATION TWOS MEMBERS, AND THE TB THREE AND ETHICS PROPOSED DECISION THAT IS NOT ONLY TONE DEAF TO THE PUBLIC INPUT, BUT IRONICALLY, THE ONCE AGAIN, INCONSISTENT AND UNETHICAL LOGIC IS BEING USED TO DECIDE AN ISSUE OF AN ETHICS COMPLAINT.

NEXT WE HAVE ANDREA REED.

WHAT? GOOD EVENING SUPERVISOR, FINER TOWN BOARD, TOWN CLERK AND TOWN ATTORNEY.

DID I TURN YOU ON? IT'S ON.

THE CONDITION FOR POSSIBLE WEAR AND TEAR.

UH, WE ARE THE FAIRVIEW AREA DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT LEADERS, AND MY NAME IS ANDREA REED.

WE STAND BEFORE YOU TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF THE SCAFFOLD IN FRONT OF THE MANHATTAN AVENUE MURAL.

UPON INCEPTION OF THE WORK ON THE MURAL, THE TOWN OF GREENBURG CONSTRUCTED THE SCAFFOLD TO PROVIDE TEMPORARY AND SAFE AND STABLE ELEVATED PLATFORM FOR THE ARTISTS TO WORK AND TO STORE THEIR MATERIALS.

IT'S BEEN APPROXIMATELY FOUR TO FIVE YEARS SINCE THE COMPLETION OF THAT ONE SIDE.

ALTHOUGH THE MATTER LAGS ON IN LITIGATION, THERE SHOULD BE SOME REASON.

THERE SHOULD BE NO REASON WHY THE SCAFFOLD REMAINS AS IT POSES SEVERAL PROBLEMS. FIRST, IT'S CLEAR THAT NO WORK HAS BEEN DONE FOR YEARS.

IT STANDS TO REASON THAT THE TOWN HAS NOT MONITORED

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SECOND, IT PRESENTS A SAFETY HAZARD FOR RESIDENTS WHO WALK BY AND CHILDREN WHO MAY PLAY ON OR NEAR THE SCAFFOLD.

FINALLY, IT'S BECOME AN UNWANTED HANGOUT SPOT.

IGNORING ANY OF THESE CONDITIONS IS A RECIPE FOR DISASTER.

THE MURAL WAS DESIGNED TO BE AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL AND BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER TO HONOR, TO LEARN, HONOR, AND CELEBRATE THOSE WHO MAKE UP A RICH HISTORY.

THIS BEAUTIFUL BODY OF WORK DEMONSTRATES THE COMPLEXITY, RESILIENCY, AND POWER OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY.

IT'S VITALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO SEE THEIR OWN REPRESENTATION DISPLAYED BY KEEPING THE SCAFFOLD UP, YOU'RE SENDING A CLEAR MESSAGE TO THE RESIDENTS OF FAIRVIEW THAT THE COMMUNITY THAT HELPED TO ELECT YOU IS NOT WORTH THEIR ATTENTION.

FOR THE MATTERS THAT ARE GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM, WE IMPLORE YOU TO TAKE THE NECESSARY ACTION TO HAVE THE SCAFFOLD TAKEN DOWN.

THAT THE ONLY MEMBER OF THIS BOARD WHO EMBRACES THE LAW, ENSURING TRANSPARENCY, FAIRNESS, AND COST EFFICIENCY, IS OUR TOWN SUPERVISOR? IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEN WE HAVE 80% OF THIS OF TOWN BOARD REPRESENTING THE TOWN THAT DOES NOT EMBRACE THE LAW.

THE FAIRVIEW AREA DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT LEADERS, ERICA, BCI.

HELLO EVERYONE.

MY NAME IS ERICA BCI.

TODAY I HAVE BEEN IN A PRETTY GOOD MOOD AFTER THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION.

SO WHAT WE LEARNED FROM USS 250TH ANNIVERSARY OR INDIA, 79 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE OR ANY NATION, UH, NATION'S INDEPENDENCE THAT, UH, WE LEARN ARE PROGRESS, PROSPERITY, AND DEVELOPMENT.

IT COMES ONLY WHEN WE KEEP OUR CALM ATTACK, COUNTER ATTACK.

SUE, COUNTER SUE CHALLENGE AND COUNTER CHALLENGE DON'T REALLY HELP MUCH.

WHAT HELPS THE MOST ARE AMICABLE NEGOTIATIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

PAUL IS KNOWN AS THE PROBLEM SOLVER, AND I APPEAL TO THE GREENBERG TOWN BOARD TO KINDLY COOPERATE WITH HIM AND GET THE JOBS DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

AS FAR THE HARSDALE, UH, SWITCH PROBLEM NOW FOR THE TOWN'S DIFFERENCES.

IN HUNDRED EAST HARSDALE RESIDENTS ARE SUFFERING, PEDESTRIANS ARE SUFFERING, AND WE TAXPAYERS ARE SUFFERING.

SO THIS IS UNFAIR AND UNJUST.

AND WHEN THERE ARE UNDERSTANDING OR NEGOTIATION, THE JOB GETS DONE FASTER.

AND WE WANT GREENBERG TO SHINE AND TO DEVELOP IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS.

WE WANT TO MAKE GREENBERG EVEN MORE GREENER.

AND FOR THAT, WE NEED A COMPLETE TEAM WORK.

SINCE THERE ARE DIFFERENCES INSIDE PEOPLE, THOSE WHO ARE NON DEMOCRATS, I MEAN FROM OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES, THEY OFTEN TALK ABOUT, UH, THE DEMOCRATS.

UH, BECAUSE WE HAVE CRACKS AND RIFS WITHIN THE BODY, WE SHOULD WORK AS A PERFECT TEAM AND WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO HAVE A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING, NEGOTIATION COOPERATION.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, FORMER TOWN CLERK, JUDITH ABBEVILLE.

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

UH, THE PROPER WAY TO ADDRESS ME, UH, LISA IS HONORABLE JUDITH, AND THE PROPER WAY TO ADDRESS ME IS DR.

MIRO.

OKAY, SO, SO, UM, HONORABLE JUDITH AIL IS MY NAME.

PLEASE LEARN IT.

DEAR EVERYONE.

I'M HERE TO THIS EVENING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES OF HONOR, INTEGRITY, AND RESPECT FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS.

WITH REGARDS TO THE HARTSDALE, UM, UH, AVENUE SEWER PROJECT, NEW YORK STATE HAS COMPETITIVE BIDDING LAWS TO ENSURE TRANSPARENCY, FAIRNESS, AND COST EFFICIENCY.

WHEN SPENDING PUBLIC TAX DOLLARS ON GOODS, SERVICES AND CONSTRUCTION, THIS GREENBERG TOWN BOARD, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TOWN SUPERVISOR, PAUL FINER, VOTED TO IGNORE THE LAW, CLAIMING AN EMERGENCY, UH, ACTION.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, JUSTIFIES, UH, IGNORING OR AVOIDING THE COMPETITIVE BID, ARE WE AS THE RESIDENTS OF THIS TOWN TO BELIEVE

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THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY COUNCIL OF WESTCHESTER HAS REGISTERED A CONCERN WITH THIS, WITH THE FOUR MEMBERS OF THIS COUNCIL WHO HAVE VOTED TO CIRCUMVENT THE COMPETITIVE BID.

ARE WE TO BELIEVE THAT PAUL FINER IS THE ONLY ONE WHO EMBRACES THE LAW? THAT IS A MATTER OF CONCERN.

OKAY, WE HAVE THE NEXT SPEAKER.

THANK YOU, ELLEN.

HELEN AURA, DID YOU WANT TWO MINUTES OR FIVE MINUTES? FIVE MINUTES PLEASE.

YOU ARE INCREDIBLY DYSFUNCTIONAL PEOPLE.

DAVID SLOAN, BEFORE I GO INTO MY PREPARED SPEECH, CAN YOU LIFT THE MIC UP PLEASE? THANK YOU.

BEFORE I GO INTO MY PREPARED SPEECH, I JUST WANTED TO CONDEMN THIS COUNCIL.

HOW THEY TREAT MR. FINER IS LIKE YOU JUST, EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SNIDE COMMENTS, THERE'S, UH, JUST IF YOU FACE IT FREEZE, YOU SHOULD SEE ON A VIDEO.

I'M LOOKING AT YOU SPECIFICALLY JOY, THE HATRED YOU FOLKS HAVE, COUNCIL TO ANOTHER COUNCIL PERSON, PERSON ON YOUR COUNCIL, IT'S JUST TOTALLY DISRESPECTFUL.

THAT'S MY OPINION.

I JUST GET THAT RIGHT NOW.

AND TO LET YOUR BIAS HURT THE TOWN OF GREENBERG IS JUST RIDICULOUS.

BACK TO MY SPEECH, AND I HAVE LESS TIME FOR THAT NOW.

UM, LAST MONTH I STOOD UP HERE IN FRONT OF THE TOWN COUNCIL ASKING IF THEY'LL SANCTION COUNCILPERSON SHEHAN FOR HIS INAPPROPRIATE AND PROBABLY LEGAL USE OF THE GREENBERG EMAIL LIST TO CONTINUE HIS CAMPAIGN ON SEAT SUPERVISOR FINER.

THE RESPONSE I WAS GIVEN IS THAT WE WILL LOOK INTO LIMITING WHO CAN ACCESS THE GREENBERG EMAIL LIST.

TO ME THAT SHOUTS, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE MR. FINER NOT HAVE ACCESS TO IT, AND THAT'S INAPPROPRIATE.

WHEN THERE'S A DPW ISSUE, OF COURSE, MS. JACKSON SHOULD HAVE ACCESS.

AND WHEN MR. FINER WAS, UM, OUT FOR A WEEK, SOMEBODY SHOULD HAVE STEPPED UP.

WHEN WE HAD STORMS COMING AND ALL THAT, NOTHING EVER HAPPENED.

LET ME GET BACK TO THIS, PLEASE.

UM, I'M ASKING NOW IF ANY ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN BY THE COUNCIL TO SANCTION MR. SHEEHAN AND TO PREVENT HIM AS WELL AS ANY OTHER COUNCILPERSON FOR MALICIOUS USE OF THE GREENBERG CITIZEN EMAIL LIST.

SECONDLY, I'M HERE TO CONDEMN COUNCIL PERSONS WHO AGREED TO THE NO BID CONTRACT ON THE EAST HARTSDALE STEWART DISTRICT WORK.

AFTER TWO YEARS OF INCOMPETENT SUPERVISION BY THE TOWN COUNCIL, ESPECIALLY THE LIAISON TO DPW COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON, UH, NOW YOU DECIDE THAT THIS IS AN EMERGENCY.

SIX MONTHS AGO, NINE MONTHS AGO, A YEAR AGO, IT WASN'T AN EMERGENCY.

THIS IS JUST OKAY.

UH, THANK YOU.

LEAVE FOR NEXT, NEXT MONTH.

COLBY JENKINS.

HELLO EVERYONE.

GOOD EVENING.

I'M TOWN SUPERVISOR, TOWN BOARD MEMBERS, TOWN ATTORNEY, AND TOM CLERK.

UM, I JUST WANT TO, FIRST AND FOREMOST, UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR THE RESOLUTION THAT WILL BE PASSED TONIGHT ON BEHALF OF THE GREENBERG FARMERS MARKET, WHERE WE ARE FEEDING FAMILIES, GROWING OUR COMMUNITY, IT'S BEEN A VERY IMPORTANT INITIATIVE THAT DARE TO B DIFFERENT WESTCHESTER HAS BROUGHT TO THIS TOWN.

UM, BECAUSE I'VE LIVED HERE AND BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE ASSIGNMENT THAT IS IN FRONT OF ME, UM, LAST YEAR AHEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWNS AHEAD OF THE FOOD STAMP CRISIS, WE CHOSE TO MAKE THE FARMER'S

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MARKET FREE.

AND GUESS WHAT? IT WORKED BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE IN DESPERATE NEED AT THAT TIME.

WE ARE BRINGING THE FARMER'S MARKET BACK AGAIN THIS YEAR.

WE ARE STARTING THIS SATURDAY.

WE'RE VERY HAPPY AND EXCITED TO DO SO, AND I JUST WANTED TO INFORM THE COMMUNITY.

UM, IF YOU'D LIKE TO BECOME A VENDOR, BE A PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, WHERE WE ARE FEEDING FAMILIES, GROWING OUR COMMUNITY, UM, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO REACH OUT TO ONE OF THE MEMBERS OF OUR BOARD OR ONE OF THE MEMBERS AT THE GREENBERG FARMER'S MARKET.

I ALSO WANT TO, UH, HAIL THIS TIME TO REALLY, UM, THANK OUR TOWN SUPERVISOR.

MY BIRTHDAY WAS, UM, A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO AND THEY GAVE ME A 50TH SURPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY DOWN IN THE BRONX WHERE I WAS BORN.

UM, IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED, OVER 167 PEOPLE.

UM, MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THIS ROOM, UM, WERE THERE, BUT THE TOWN SUPERVISOR PRESSED HIS WAY TO THE BRONX.

AND FOR ME, THAT WAS BEYOND THE POLLS FOR ME.

THAT WAS BEYOND ELECTION DAY FOR ME.

THAT WAS BEYOND ANYTHING THAT IS GOING ON HERE AND ANY DYSFUNCTION BECAUSE HE SHOWED UP.

AND I JUST REALLY WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE THAT AND I NEEDED TO JUST SAY THAT I THANK THE BOARD FOR THE PROCLAMATION THAT YOU ALL GAVE TO ME THAT NIGHT, AND I JUST REALLY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.

THANKS FOR COMING TO THE BRONX, PAUL , NEIL BARRY, WHO IS APPEARING VIRTUALLY.

UH, HI EVERYONE.

I'M, I'M NEIL STEIN.

I AM, UH, ON THE EAST IRVINGTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

UM, I, I JUST WANTED TO DO A QUICK FOLLOW UP.

WE HAD A, A MEETING WITH PAUL AND, UH, AARON AND FRANK, AND A NUMBER OF OTHER ENGINEERS TODAY ON TAXI ROAD TO LOOK AT THE, UH, INSTALLATION OF THE TAX ROAD SIDEWALKS.

WE THANK THE BOARD FOR, UM, ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS IN, IN, IN, AFTER MANY, MANY YEARS GETTING THE SIDEWALK IN THERE.

SO WE HAVE A LOT OF, WE HAVE A LOT OF RESIDENTS THAT ARE VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT.

WE ALSO HAVE A NUMBER OF RESIDENTS WHO ARE IMPACTED DIRECTLY BY THIS, UM, SIDEWALK GOING IN.

AND WE'VE HAD A NUMBER OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BOARD AND PAUL AND GARRETT AND ANYBODY ELSE THAT'LL LISTEN, UM, REGARDING SNOW REMOVAL AND, AND FINDING A WAY TO GET THAT COVERED, BECAUSE MANY OF THE HOMES THAT SIT ALONG TAX TO ROAD ARE OCCUPIED BY ELDERLY, UM, SENIOR CITIZENS WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO DO THIS.

I KNOW WE'VE KIND OF KICKED THIS BUCKET DOWN THE ROAD QUITE A FEW TIMES, BUT I'M, I'M BEGGING THAT WE GET A PLAN PUT TOGETHER BEFORE THIS WINTER COMES ALONG.

I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME EASY SOLUTIONS I'D BE HAPPY TO ATTEND.

I KNOW MANY OF OUR RESIDENTS WOULD BE HAPPY TO ATTEND THERE AS WELL TOO.

SO NUMBER ONE IS I'D LOVE TO, TO SCHEDULE THAT MEETING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

TWO, WE PROMISED ALL OF THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE IMPACTED BY THE SIDEWALK THAT THEY WOULD HAVE SOME INPUT, UM, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THE AESTHETICS OF THE FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE ARE NOT DESTROYED.

UM, I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN SOME CONVERSATIONS, BUT I WANNA REITERATE THAT THAT WAS ALWAYS PROMISED AS PART OF THE DEAL.

AND WE EXPECT, UM, THE TOWN TO, TO MANAGE THAT ALONG WITH US, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY IS HAPPY WITH THE WAY THE FRONT OF THEIR HOUSE LOOKS AFTER THE SIDEWALK GOES IN.

AND NUMBER THREE, UM, WHILE WE HAVE STARTED TO ADDRESS WITH THE TOWN THE FLOODING ISSUES THAT ARE HAPPENING ALONG TAXTER ROAD, THERE'S A DIRE NEED FOR A MEETING WITH THE TOWN OF IRVINGTON TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM DOWN AT THE CORNER OF MOUNTAIN ROAD, TAXTER AND SUNNYSIDE, WHERE, UM, RESIDENTS THAT LIVE THERE ARE, ARE JUST HAVING THEIR HOUSES DESTROYED BY FLOODING AND DEBUT TO PLEASE ADDRESS THAT QUICKLY.

THAT'S ALL THE SPEAKERS.

EVERYONE ELSE HAS FIVE MINUTES.

DOES ANYBODY ON THE BOARD WANNA SAY ANYTHING? YES.

UH, I'D JUST LIKE TO ADDRESS THIS GENTLEMAN'S COMMENTS.

I, SORRY, I FOR, FORGOT YOUR NAME.

DAVID SLOAN.

DAVID, MR. SLOAN.

UM, SO I THINK, UH, YOU'RE PRESUMING, UH, AN INTENT OR AN AGENDA THAT I HAVE THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH WHY YOU SAW THAT LOOK ON MY FACE AND NOTHING TO DO WITH MR. FINER.

I'VE BEEN PERFECTLY RESPECTFUL TO HIM ALL NIGHT.

MY, MY CONSTERNATION TONIGHT, NOT LESS, NOT THE TIME.

WELL, YOU, YOU WERE, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T INTERRUPT ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE.

NO, SHE'S NOT TALKING TO YOU.

SHE'S JUST SPEAKING FROM THE DAY OF NOW.

I WAS EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED REGARDING THE CANCELLATION OF THE CONCERT.

THAT WAS WHAT I LOOKED UPSET ABOUT.

IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MR. FINER, SO JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.

I ALSO WANNA MENTION, UH, DAVID SLOAN AT THE LAST MEETING SAID, HOW DISRESPECTFUL.

I JUST DID IT.

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UH, DAVID SLOAN AT THE LAST MEETING MENTIONED HOW I MISUSED THE WEBSITE IN ADVANCE OF THE PRIMARY.

AND I TOLD HIM, I THINK AFTER THE MEETING AFTERWARDS, THAT I, EVERY TIME I PUT SOMETHING UP ON THE WEBSITE, IT WAS IN RESPONSE TO THE SUPERVISOR WHO WAS ON THE BALLOT.

I WAS NOT SUPERVISOR WAS ON THE BALLOT.

HE PUT OUT SOMETHING THAT WAS FACTUALLY INCORRECT BUT IS MISLEADING TO THE VOTERS OR JUST FALSE, SUCH AS WHEN HE PUT OUT THAT EVERYTHING IN THE FORENSIC AUDIT HAD BEEN ADDRESSED.

AND HE DID THAT DURING EARLY VOTING.

NOT TO MENTION THAT HE MAILED OUT TO THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DURING THE ELECTION PERIOD WITH TAXPAYER MONEY WITH TOWN MAIL TO ONLY VOTERS INFORMATION ABOUT THE TOWN.

YOU COULD SAY IT'S NONPOLITICAL, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE SUPERVISOR PUTS OUT, BUT WE NOW KNOW WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY PASS A LAW TO PREVENT HIM FROM DOING THAT IN THE FUTURE.

SO WE WILL.

BUT THAT WAS ALL DONE LEADING UP, LEADING UP TO THE PRIMARY.

WHEN HE PUT OUT THAT EVERYTHING IN THE FORENSIC REPORT WAS ADDRESSED, I RESPONDED WITH AN EMAIL, A, UH, DISTRIBUTION LIST POSTING, SHOWING THAT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE $39.4 MILLION OF UNCOLLECTED TAXES THAT WAS IN THE FORENSIC REPORT HAD GROWN TO 34.2.

SO CLEARLY HIS POST WAS MISLEADING AND INAPPROPRIATE TO PUT OUT.

IF HE DID NOT DO THAT, I WOULD NOT HAVE RESPONDED.

HE THEN RESPONDED, AND THEN I RESPONDED TO THAT.

HE POSTED ON THE DAY BEFORE THE PRI PRIMARY, SOMETHING THAT IS FACTUALLY NOT CORRECT, AND I POSTED AS WELL.

SO I KNOW YOU, I KNOW YOU'RE SINGLING OUT ME, BUT THIS WAS INITIATED BY THE SUPERVISOR WHO WAS ON THE BALLOT AND WAS USING TOWN RESOURCES EITHER BY THE POSTAL MAIL OR BY THE WEBSITE FOR A POLITICAL ADVANTAGE.

AND THAT'S ILLEGAL.

IT'S ILLEGAL.

UH, EXCUSE ME, CAN WE HAVE THE NEXT TOWN BOARD SPEAK PLEASE? AND STATE LAW YOU WANNA SAY SO? YEAH.

I, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, ASK LORI TO PLEASE, UH, LETS KNOW, OF THE, ALL THE OTHER 45 MUNICIPALITIES, HOW MUCH, UH, HOW MANY ARE, UH, ASSESSED AT A HUNDRED PERCENT? I'M SORRY, OF WHAT? 45.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

OF ALL THE COMMUNITIES IN WESTCHESTER THAT YOU CITED FROM THE NEW YORK STATE.

OH, WAS IT NEW YORK STATE, NEW YORK.

I TOOK IT.

I, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY ASSESS IT A HUNDRED PERCENT.

YOU, YOU DID A LOT OF RESEARCH.

I ASSUME THAT YOU DID THAT RESEARCH TOO.

CAN YOU ANSWER THAT? UM, I CAN, I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YOU.

YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M NOT, THAT'S RHETORICAL BECAUSE THIS IS NOT A CONVERSATION.

SO EXCUSE ME.

THIS IS, THIS IS SOMETHING FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT AND TO LOOK AT.

SO, UM, THIS, WHAT WAS THIS? I'M SORRY, DAVID.

I'M SORRY, DAVID.

UM, SO YOU MENTIONED THAT, UM, ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW WE DETERMINED THAT IT WAS EMERGENCY.

WE NEVER SAID IT WAS AN EMERGENCY.

UM, WHAT WE LOOKED TO DETERMINE IS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE CAN DO AND THINGS HAD CHANGED.

SHIFTING OF THE POLICY, TWO YEARS SHIFTING OF THE POLICY HAS CHANGED.

AND WE ALSO HAD NEW EQUIPMENT, WHICH IS WHAT YOU MISSPOKE, YOU SAID.

WE NEVER SAID IT WAS AN EMERGENCY.

OH, I'M SORRY.

WE IS AN EMERGENCY.

PLEASE LET ME, LET ME MAKE SURE.

YES, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT.

IT WAS AN EMERGENCY.

UM, AND THEN WE ALSO RESPONDED TO THAT, THE CAMERA THAT WAS USED TO DETERMINE WHERE THAT BREAK WAS JUST CAME ON THE MARKET ABOUT THREE MONTHS, THREE MONTHS AGO.

NO, IT WASN'T ON THE TWO, TWO YEARS.

IT WASN'T NOT TWO YEARS AGO.

BUT AGAIN, WE CAN'T GO BACK AND FORTH.

BUT, AND THEN ALSO TO YOUR OTHER COMMENT, YOU MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, MISS, THE SUPERVISOR WAS OUT AND NOBODY WAS AROUND.

I WAS IN THE RAIN.

I WAS OUTSIDE DURING THE STORMS, I WAS AT ALL THE FLOODING EVENTS.

SO I'M ALWAYS OUT OUTSIDE FOR THESE EVENTS.

SO I'M NOT SURE WHICH, I'M NOT SURE.

CAN WE PLEASE, I'M NOT SURE.

FORTH.

I'M NOT SURE SURE WHICH NEIGHBORHOOD YOU'RE REFERRING TO, BUT I HAVE, BUT I HAVE BEEN OUT DURING ALL THESE DIFFERENT STORMS AND FEELING CALLS.

EVEN WHEN I WAS OUTTA THE COUNTRY, I WAS STILL FEELING CALLS WITH REGARDS TO THE STORMS. SO I'M NOT SURE WHERE YOU MADE A, YOU MADE A ME YOU MADE A MENTION THAT I WASN'T PRESENT OR I, I, I WAS.

UM, AND, AND YOU STOP.

CAN YOU SEE US? SO, BUT I JUST WANT, I WOULD JUST WANT TO CLAIM THAT, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, I'LL JUST LEAVE IT THERE.

I I COULD GO ON, BUT I'LL, I'LL LEAVE IT THERE.

I'LL TURN IT OVER TO, OKAY.

UH, UH, I JUST WANT TO RESPOND TO A COUPLE, UH, YOU KNOW, POINTS

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OF THE FARMER'S MARKET.

I JUST WANT TO, UH, THANK COLBY.

UM, I THINK IT'S THE BEST FARMER'S MARKET ANYWHERE ONLY, UH, MARKET IN THE REGION THAT GIVES A FREE OO AND I THINK YOU'VE SET THE STANDARDS, UH, FOR EVERY FARMER'S MARKET AND, UH, IN, IN THE REGION.

UH, THIS, YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME I GO THERE AND I WENT TO PRACTICALLY EVERYONE, UM, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, TO SEE THE SMILES ON PEOPLE'S FACES IS, IS JUST AMAZING.

IT SERVES A REALLY GREAT NEED.

AND, UM, YOU'VE OVERCOME A LOT OF OBSTACLES, UM, BUT YOU MADE IT, YOU KNOW, SUCCESSFUL.

UM, IN TERMS OF, UM, THE SIDEWALK CONCERNS THAT PEOPLE, UM, YOU KNOW, RAISED.

UM, YOU KNOW, I BASICALLY FEEL THAT PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IS IMPORTANT AND THE NEW SIDEWALKS ARE, YOU KNOW, CRUCIAL TO REDUCING, UH, PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES AND INJURIES.

UM, IN GREENBURG, ONE YEAR NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, WE HAD I THINK NINE, UH, ACCIDENTS ON ONE YEAR, UH, ON OLD TARRYTOWN ROAD.

THERE WERE, THERE'S SOME, UH, SOME MARKERS, UH, IN MEMORY OF, UH, TWO PEOPLE WHO, WHO DIED.

SO ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS I HAD, BECAUSE I MET WITH, UM, UH, RESIDENTS OF EAST IRVINGTON, UM, YOU KNOW, TODAY, UM, WITH FRANK MODO AND, UM, AND OUR ENGINEERS, UM, UM, UM, AND THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF, UM, OF PLANNING, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THOUGHTS I HAD THAT THE TOWN BOARD SHOULD CONSIDER IS ONE OPTION IS THE TOWN COULD DO WHAT WE DO ON OTHER, UH, SIDEWALKS, UH, THAT CONNECT TO, UH, DOWNTOWN AREAS OR BUS STOPS, UM, AND CLEAR THE SNOW.

UH, IF WE DON'T HAVE, AND WE'VE DONE THAT ON A BUNCH OF, UH, SIDEWALKS ALL OVER, ANOTHER SUGGESTION I HAVE TOWN IS SAYING, OH, WE DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES.

WE DON'T HAVE THE, UM, ABILITY TO DO IT BECAUSE OF STAFFING, UH, ISSUES.

WE COULD, UM, DISCUSS LEGISLATION THAT WOULD, UM, WOULD CLOSE THE SIDEWALKS RIGHT AFTER A SNOW FOR A FEW DAYS.

UM, AND THE TOWN COULD, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE, WE HAVE TOWN STAFF THAT ARE CL THAT, THAT CLEAR SIDEWALKS OF SNOW ELSEWHERE.

SO WHEN THEY FINISH, UH, CLEARING THE SIDEWALKS ON THOSE STREETS, THEN THEY COULD DO, UH, SECONDARY, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALKS THAT ARE ALSO IMPORTANT BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF ADDITIONAL SIDEWALKS THAT WE, THAT ARE NEEDED AROUND THE TOWN.

UM, AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND RESIDENTS WHO LIVE NEAR A SIDEWALK TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF IT.

AND IF WE BASICALLY WOULD ASSUME WOULD NOT, UH, THREATEN TO FIND EVERYBODY, IF THEY DON'T SHOVEL THE, THE SIDEWALKS, WE'LL GET MORE SUPPORT.

UH, THERE WON'T BE AS MUCH OPPOSITION, AND WE COULD REALLY MAKE GREENBERG A MUCH MORE PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY COMMUNITY.

SO I THINK THAT THE TOWN BOARD SHOULD, UM, SHOULD DISCUSS, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, THESE SUGGESTIONS.

THEY MAY BE, YOU KNOW, OTHER THOUGHTS.

WE COULD HAVE A SIDEWALK DISTRICT.

WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT FOR YEARS, AND NOTHING'S HAPPENED, BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY OF, UM, OF DOING IT.

UM, ANOTHER, UM, CONCERN THAT WAS RAISED, UM, UH, TODAY WAS, UM, ABOUT THE PRIVATE ROADS.

I'M HAPPY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, MEET WITH YOU.

WE SPOKE EARLIER, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, TONIGHT AND MAYBE, UH, THE TOWN ATTORNEY, WE COULD SET UP A TIME, UH, TO MEET, BECAUSE THERE ARE PROVISIONS IN THE STATE LAW THAT ENABLE, UM, PRIVATE ROADS TO BE TURNED OVER, UH, TO THE TOWN, PROVIDED THEY MEET THE TOWN STANDARDS AND ARE, UH, GIVEN TO US IN, IN THE SHAPE THAT COMPLIES WITH THE CODE.

SO I'M HAPPY IF, UH, YOU OR JOE TO, UM, SET UP A MEETING.

SURE, NO PROBLEM.

AND THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

UH, ANOTHER ISSUE, UM, UH, THAT WAS RAISED WAS, UH, THE MURAL AND THE SCAFFOLDING AND IPS THE MANHATTAN AVENUE PRACTICALLY EVERY SINGLE DAY.

AND I, AND I'VE SAID THIS, YOU KNOW, TO THE BOARD, YOU KNOW, MONTHS AGO, I FEEL IT'S AN ATTRACTIVE NUISANCE.

YOU KNOW, I'VE SEEN KIDS HANGING OUT THERE.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, PEOPLE ARE, YOU KNOW, CLIMBING, UH, THEY'RE, THEY'RE HANGING OUT.

IT COULD BE DANGEROUS.

AND I FEEL THAT WHETHER YOU LIKE THE MURAL OR YOU DON'T LIKE THE MURAL, THE ISSUE IS SAFETY.

AND WE'VE ALWAYS, WHETHER IT'S WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SIDEWALKS, WHEN WE TALKING ABOUT EVERYTHING, IT'S SAFETY.

I DON'T WANT TO SEE SOMEBODY HURT BECAUSE OF THE SCAFFOLDING, AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA SAY, WHY DID THE TOWN LOOK THE OTHER WAY? SO I, SO I AM SUPPORTIVE OF THE COMMENTS OF THE FEAR VIEW, UH, DEMOCRATIC, UM, UH, DISTRICT LEADERS ON THIS AND THINK THE SCAFFOLDING SHOULD BE REMOVED.

AND AGAIN, THAT DOESN'T MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE, WE COULD REMOVE IT EVEN IF WE DISAGREE WITH, WITH THE IMAGES, BUT, BUT IT, IT, IT DEFINITELY IS A SAFETY ISSUE, AND WE'VE ALL BEEN PUT ON NOTICE

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ABOUT IT.

SO WE SHOULD BASICALLY, UH, ADDRESS IT.

SO THAT'S, UM, UM, THAT, AND FINALLY, I'M, I'VE DECIDED, UM, I'M NOT GONNA GO BACK AND FORTH EVERY TIME ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL CRITICIZES ME.

I'M JUST NOT GONNA RESPOND ANYMORE BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK PEOPLE ARE SICK OF IT, AND, UH, THEY REALLY DON'T WANT TO HAVE, UH, THE, THE BICKERING, UM, AND THE PERSONAL ATTACKS.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S BECOMING LIKE A BROKEN RECORD.

UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WE COULD, IT'S THE SAME PLAYBOOK EVERY SINGLE MEETING, SO I'M NOT RESPONDING ANYMORE TO ANYTHING.

WE HAVE, UH, THE PUBLIC HEARINGS, UM, FIRST HEARING TO CONSIDER AN APPLICATION BY GUY COHEN AND DEBORAH COHEN TO EXTEND THE FA 17 SEWER DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

SO NOW

[ To consider an application by Guy Kohn and Debra Kohn to extend the F.A. # 17 Sewer District in the Town of Greenburgh]

SORRY, DID WE HAVE A SECOND AND A VOTE ON, ON THAT? NO, NO, NO.

COULD DO SECOND, PLEASE.

DO YOU WANNA MAKE THAT MOTION TO OPEN THE MEETING, PAUL? YEAH.

UH, I MOVE THAT WE OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING, UH, TO CONSIDER AN APPLICATION BY GUY COHEN AND DEBRA COHEN TO EXTEND THE FA 17TH SEWER DISTRICT IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

GOOD EVENING SUPERVISOR.

FINER AND BOARD MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS GUY COHN.

I'M THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY, ALONG WITH MY WIFE DEBORAH, AS WELL AS THE ARCHITECT FOR THE PROJECT.

WE'RE REQUESTING THAT THE TOWN ALLOW US TO INCLUDE THE PROPERTY INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT.

LISA, THERE'S NO TIMER.

NO, HE'S A PRESIDENT.

HE'S A PRESENTOR.

, I LIKE, NO, NO.

YOU CAN GET TO THAT.

I'LL TAKE A CLUE FROM THE, THE BOY SCOUTS AND THANK ALL THE PEOPLE FROM THE TOWN WHO HAVE HELPED ME, UH, GET THIS TO THIS POINT.

IT'S A FAIRLY SIMPLE APPLICATION.

THE PROJECT IS FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.

THE PLANS WERE REVIEWED BY THE TOWN ENGINEER.

UH, THEY FOUND THAT THERE'S SUFFICIENT CAPACITY IN THE DISTRICT.

UH, THE HOUSE WASTE WILL CONNECT TO AN E ONE GRINDER PUMP STATION THAT DISCHARGES INTO A ONE AND A QUARTER INCH MAIN TO THE EXISTING SEWER MANHOLE IN THE DRIVEWAY ADJACENT TO THE SIRI PROPERTY, WHICH THEN DRAINS BY GRAVITY TO THE SEWER MANHOLE IN THE CUL-DE-SAC ON BLUEBERRY HILL ROAD.

AND IF WE COULD GO BACK REALLY QUICK, QUICK, WHAT WAY YOU GET TOO FAR.

COULD I JUST ASK WHO'S GONNA MAINTAIN THOSE? UH, I AM THE HOMEOWNER MYSELF.

YES, WE WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR THAT AND MAINTAIN IT.

JUST WANNA GET INTO THE RECORD.

WELL, I GUESS WE COULD PUT IN A SEPTIC SYSTEM, ACCEPT, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO .

SO, UH, IF YOU LOOK ON THE, UH, THE SCREEN, YOU'LL SEE WHERE THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED.

UH, IT'S AT THE END OF BLUEBERRY HILL ROAD.

THERE'S A CUL-DE-SAC THERE.

UH, THE HOUSES, UH, ALONG BLUEBERRY HILL ROAD HAVE BEEN THERE SINCE 1963.

THE PROPERTY THAT WE BOUGHT TWO YEARS AGO, UH, WAS ORIGINALLY A GIRL SCOUT CAMP IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES.

THEY SOLD IT TO THE DEVELOPER.

THE DEVELOPER SAT ON IT FOR ANY NUMBER OF YEARS.

THEY TRIED TO DEVELOP IT, BUT KIND OF, UH, ABANDONED IT.

AND WHEN WE BOUGHT IT, UH, WE DECIDED THAT WE WANTED TO DEVELOP IT FOR OUR OWN HOUSE.

I'M DESIGNING IT.

UM, WE ALREADY HAVE THE TOWN PLANNING BOARD APPROVALS FOR THE STEEP SLOPES, WETLANDS, WET COURSE TREE REMOVAL.

WE ALSO HAVE ZONING BOARD APPROVAL, THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL APPROVAL, A DRIVEWAY EASEMENT, UH, AND ALL THE ARCHITECTURAL MEP STRUCTURAL PLUMBING SPRINKLER ELECTRICAL PLANS HAVE BEEN REVIEWED BY THE BILLING DEPARTMENT AND ARE READY TO BE APPROVED PENDING THE SELECTION OF THE CONTRACTOR.

IF WE CAN GO TO, YES, THAT SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THAT, UM, THERE'S A MANHOLE IN THE CUL-DE-SAC.

UH, THERE'S ANOTHER MANHOLE FURTHER ALONG IN THE DRIVEWAY, THE SHARED DRIVEWAY.

UM, AND THAT RIGHT THERE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR POINTING THAT OUT.

SO THE FORCE, THE MAIN WASTE FROM THE HOUSE WILL GO TO THIS E PUMP, WHICH WILL THEN BE A FORCE MAIN TO THE MANHOLE, AND THEN IT'LL BE, UM, IT'LL GO INTO THE CUL-DE-SAC, UH, SEWER BY GRAVITY.

UH, SO THAT'S BASICALLY THE ENTIRE REQUEST.

UM, AND PRETTY MUCH THE DISTRICT HAS THE CAPACITY.

SO I REQUEST THAT YOU ALLOW US TO, UH, PUT THIS INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT.

AND WHAT ALTERNATIVE, IF ANY, IS THERE, OTHER THAN TO DO THIS?

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AND BECAUSE THE SEPTIC SYSTEM REQUIRE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT A CLEAN SYSTEM.

IT REQUIRES CONSTANT MAINTENANCE.

UH, IT'S EASY TO CONNECT INTO THE EXISTING UTILITIES.

WELL, THE COUNTY ALLOW YOU TO PUT IN A SEPTIC SYSTEM.

I GUESS IF WE WANTED TO, WE COULD REQUEST, I THINK WHEN WE HAVE, YOU HAVE ACCESS TO SANITARY SEWER, YOU CAN DO THAT ANYMORE.

UH, YOU THINK THEY CAN THE, THE, THE DISTANCE? I'M SORRY, CAN YOU, YOU'D HAVE TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF.

MY, I'M GOOD.

GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY.

EMILIO ESCALADAS.

I'M AN ENGINEER AND AN ARCHITECT, AND I'M COMING FORTH WITH THE SAME PROPOSAL.

AND, UH, THERE IS A DISTANCE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT THAT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, UH, DEMANDS, I BELIEVE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S 200 OR 500, IF, IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU ARE WITHIN, UH, THAT DISTANCE TO A PUBLIC SEWER, I'M GONNA STICK MY NECK OUT AND SAYS, YOU MUST CONNECT.

I'M NOT SURE.

BUT THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, I WAY BACK IN THE PAST THAT WAS QUOTED TO ME BY THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND I THINK STILL, STILL HOLDS, I THINK SO.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS GETTING AT.

YOU DON'T HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE? UH, I, I RAISED ALTERNA CLEAR ON THAT, BUT THANK YOU FOR, YOU OWE ME .

GIMME YOUR CARD.

WE'RE GONNA END UP PARTNER.

I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.

WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO COMMENT THEN? OH, ARE YOU? I'M DONE.

ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO SIGN? I DO NOT SEE ANYONE SIGNED UP FOR THE, UM, PUBLIC HEARING FOR THIS, UM, ITEM.

NO.

THEN I MOVE THAT WE CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR, I WOULD DO THREE WEEKS SINCE WE DON'T MEET FOR A MONTH, BUT WE MIGHT AS WELL GIVE PEOPLE THREE WEEKS.

YOU SAID THREE WEEKS? FINE.

FOR THREE WEEKS.

I, IF I MAY JUST COMMENT.

I BELIEVE I WAS SPEAKING TO, UH, AMANDA, UH, MAGANA, UM, THE TOWN ATTORNEY.

AND I BELIEVE SHE HAD SAID THAT SHE WAS GOING TO PUT A RESOLUTION ON THE DOCKET TO APPROVE IT IN THE SEPTEMBER MEETING.

AND WAS THAT THE SEPTEMBER MEETING? I THOUGHT IT WAS THIS MEETING.

THAT'S OUR MEETING, THAT'S OUR NEXT MEETING.

THAT'S THE FASTEST SHE COULD DO IT.

YEAH, THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING THREE WEEKS BECAUSE, YEAH.

BECAUSE IT'S AUGUST.

SHE HAD MENTIONED THAT TO ME AND I WASN'T SURE WHAT THE DATE WAS.

YEAH, AND WE, WE GENERALLY HAVE OUR, DURING THE REGULAR SEASON, EXCEPT FOR THE JULY TO AUGUST, UM, WE HAVE TWO MEETINGS A MONTH, BUT IN JULY AND AUGUST WE HAVE ONE MEETING A MONTH, UHHUH.

SO THAT'S WHY THE DELAY IS SO LONG.

BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE COULD GO INTO THE AGENDA WE LIVE ON.

WE'VE GONE ON THIS LONG.

WE CAN WAIT ANOTHER THREE WEEKS.

SO JUST SO YOU KNOW, SEPTEMBER 9TH IS THE MEETING THAT THAT RESOLUTION WILL BE ON FOR APPROVAL.

DO I NEED TO BE THERE? WHAT'S THAT? DO I NEED TO BE THERE ALSO, , YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE, NO, YOU MIGHT WANNA, HOPEFULLY EVERYTHING GETS WORKED OUT.

IF THERE IS ANYTHING TO WORK OUT IN THE THREE WEEKS THAT WE HAVE THE, THE RECORD OPEN.

VERY GOOD.

YOU COULD ALSO WATCH ON ZOOM.

YEP.

AND, AND PARTICIPATE IN ZOOM.

SO, UH, DID WE VOTE ON THAT? I FORGOT.

NO, WE DIDN'T.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE, UH, THE HEARING, CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR THREE WEEKS.

SECOND IN FAVOR A AYE.

UH, TO CONSIDER AN APPLICATION BY KINDRED MASON TO EXTEND THE FA NUMBER EIGHT.

UH, NEXT,

[ To consider an application by Kindred Maison, LLC, to extend the F.A. # 8 Sewer District in the Town of Greenburgh]

SO WE'RE DISTRICTING THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE OPEN THE HEARING.

IT'S ALL OF THEM SAYING HI.

ALRIGHT, WELL, GINA WILL, WHEN SHE GETS BACK.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

UH, EMILIO ESCALADAS ESCALADAS ASSOCIATES, UH, HIS PRESENTATION REALLY SUMMARIZES MINE.

IT'S AN EQUAL ISOLATED, SEMI ISOLATED LOT THAT HASN'T BEEN DEVELOPED FOR WHATEVER REASON IN HISTORY.

UM, WE ARE PROPOSING TO BUILD ONE HOUSE.

WHAT YOU SEE, THE DRAWING THAT YOU SEE THERE SHOWS IN RED, THE PROPERTY LINE.

AND NEXT TO IT IS THE ROAD, UM, THAT IT'S ROUTE NINE.

WE CANNOT, UH, UH, THERE IS NO, THERE ARE NO UTILITIES ON ROUTE NINE ON US.

UH, NINE.

SO WE CAME UP WITH AN EASEMENT THROUGH DOT, WHICH HAS APPROVED THIS PATH.

UH, THIS EASEMENT TO, I BELIEVE IS BRADLEY.

YEAH, BRADLEY AVENUE.

YOU SEE IN GREEN THE PATH THAT I, THE TRAJECTORY FROM THE RED LOT TO, UH, UH, TO BRADLEY, WHERE THE UTILITIES ARE, THE SEWER AND THE WATER.

SO BOTH WATER AND SEWER WILL BE USING THAT UTILITY.

WE HAVE APPROVED.

WE HAVE, WE HAVE AN APPROVED, UH, UM, SUBMISSION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DOT AS WELL AS FOR THE ENTRANCE

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FROM ROUTE NINE.

UH, IT'S A GRINDER PUMP, UH, AS THE OTHER GENTLEMAN EXPLAINED, UH, SO THAT IT PUSHES, UM, THE, THE, THE SEWAGE UP TO BRADLEY.

AND AT THAT POINT, BRADLEY WILL OF COURSE CARRY THE REST OF THE SEWAGE, UH, UH, BY GRAVITY.

THERE IS PLENTY OF, UH, CAPACITY.

WE RE ALREADY, UH, HAVE APPROVALS FROM THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.

AND THERE'S A, A SUBMISSION TO YOUR BOARD TO BE INCLUDED INTO THE SEWER DISTRICT IS PART OF WHAT WE HAVE TO, UH, I THINK WE'RE PAYING TAXES FOR THE SEWER DISTRICT ALREADY.

I THINK, I'M NOT SURE.

I DIDN'T RESEARCH THAT.

JUST TO BE FAIR, TO BOTH PARTIES.

UM, WHO IS GONNA MAINTAIN THE GRINDER PUMP? THAT'S OURS.

IT'S OUR, UH, WHENEVER, MOST OF THE TIME, WHENEVER YOUR BOARD HEARS THAT THE, UH, IT'S, IT'S A PRIVATELY AGREED UPON, UH, UM, UH, UH, COMMITMENT.

THE, THE OWNER IS BEING ALLOWED TO REACH THE PUBLIC SEWER, BUT THE ENERGY TO, TO PUSH THAT SEWAGE HAS TO BE BORNE BY THE OWNER.

SO IT'S DONE WITH A GRINDER PUMP, AND WE HAVE TO SECURE THE EASEMENT RIGHTS THROUGH WHICH THAT PIPE HAS TO TRAVEL.

IN THIS CASE, IT WAS THE DOT LAND, AND WE ALREADY SECURED THAT, BUT YES, IT IS OUR, IT IS OUR PUMP.

IF IT FAILS, WE FIX IT.

THAT'S WHY THE PUMPS COME WITH DUAL PUMPS.

IT'S, IT'S TWO PUMPS BUILT INTO THE CHAMBER.

SO IF ONE FAILS, THE OTHER ONE KICKS ON.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO DESIGN IT THAT WAY, BUT THAT'S WHAT I RECOMMEND ANYWAY.

THE HOUSE LOOKS LIKE THIS.

AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT WILL BE BUILT THERE.

IT'S A, IT'S A PRETTY DIFFICULT LOT.

UH, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF SECURING AN E UH, UH, APPROVALS FROM THE PLANNING BOARD.

UH, THEY'RE WAITING IN TURN TO OBTAIN, UH, A VARIANCE, UH, RE A RESULT FOR A VARIANCE FOR THAT POOL.

THAT POOL IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE, RATHER THAN IN THE REAR.

THERE WAS A REQUIREMENT IN GREENBERG IN THAT ZONING THAT THE POOL MUST BE IN THE REAR BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THE GEOMETRY OF THE LOT IS.

AND BECAUSE OF THE, THE DIFFICULTY OF PUTTING IT IN THE BACK, IT'S VERY SEVERELY, MUCH, MUCH, MUCH HIGHER THAN THE FRONT.

IT, IT MADE MORE SENSE TO DESIGN A HOUSE AND TO HAVE THE, THE POOL ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

SO YOU COULD SEE THAT DRAWING BREAST SHOWN.

I GUESS I DIDN'T BRING SITE.

YES, I DID.

THERE IS, WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT, I JUST WANNA PUT ON THE RECORD WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE BUILDING A CODE COMPLIANT HOUSE, OR YOU NEED VARIANCES OR OTHER APPROVALS, YOU STILL NEED TO CONNECT TO THE SEWER SYSTEM.

AND THAT'S WHAT'S BEFORE US.

NOT WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHOULD BE GRANTED A VARIANCE.

SO YOU CAN SEE, THANK YOU.

THAT'S CORRECT.

THIS DRIVEWAY COMES IN, THE DRAWING SHOWS THE HOUSE HERE, THE POOL IS ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

THERE'S NO ROOM IN THE BACK.

IT'S IS VERY STEEP.

SO THAT'S ONE VARIANCE.

AND THE OTHER VARIANCE IS THE, THE NEEDED AMOUNT OF DRIVEWAY THAT IS NEEDED, THAT THE TOWN, FOR WHATEVER REASON, THERE'S A MAGICAL NUMBER OF 30 FEET, UM, OF MAXIMUM PAVEMENT, FRONT OF THE HOUSE SERVICE SERVICING THE, THE, UH, THE, THE GARAGE.

MM-HMM .

I THINK IT'S THE ONLY TOWN IN WESTCHESTER WHERE I HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THAT RULE.

THERE MUST BE A REASON FOR IT WAY BACK.

UM, BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR LOT, IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO ACCESS THE DR THE, UH, THE GARAGE FROM THE ACCESS POINT THAT WE ARE, UH, WE ARE FORCED TO HAVE AT MORE THAN 30 FEET.

I COULD INTERRUPT THAT WITH A GARDEN, WITH A, WITH AN AREA THAT'S GREEN AND SURVIVE THE PROCESS.

BUT I WANNA BE HONEST WITH EVERYBODY AND SAY THAT'S EVENTUALLY GONNA BE FILLED IN ANYWAY BY THE OWNER.

SO I WANNA BE, UH, UH, HONEST WITH EVERYONE AND SAY, NO, THIS IS THE WAY IT SHOULD BE.

UH, ALTHOUGH I COULD BEAT THE SYSTEM BY PUTTING A GARDEN AND ELIMINATE THE DISTANCE OF 30 AND TURN IT INTO 20.

UM, BUT THAT'S NOT GONNA BE, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S AN, THAT'S NOT AN HONEST PRESENTATION.

SO WE HAVE TWO VARIANCES.

WE WILL DEAL WITH THE BOARD.

THE GENTLEMAN THAT HAS THE POWER OVER US IS RIGHT HERE, .

UM, AND, UH, BUT, BUT THEY'VE BEEN VERY FAIR IN THEIR, IN THEIR ANALYSIS.

AND THEY, THEY SENT US, UH, TO THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS, AND THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE, UH, ZONING, UH, BOARD OF APPEALS RESULTS BEFORE THEY, UH, MAKE THEIR JUDGMENT.

AND THAT'S IT.

AND LET'S JUST POINT OUT FOR THE RECORD, SINCE THIS, THERE IS A TRANSCRIPT.

THE GENTLEMAN SITTING IN THE FRONT IS THE CHAIR OF THE PLANNING BOARD.

HE DOES NOT CONTROL YOUR DESTINY.

HE'S JUST ONE MEMBER OF A BOARD.

I JUST WANTED TO RECOGNIZE HIM.

HE'S A NICE, STRONG, INTELLIGENT, AND HE DOESN'T, AND IF YOU NEED VARIANCES, UH, FROM THE ZONING BOARD, HE'S NOT THE ZONING BOARD.

NO.

I I JUST, I JUST WANNA KEEP THIS CLEAN.

WHAT YOU'RE ASKING US FOR IS AN EXTENSION OF A SEWER DISTRICT.

CORRECT.

NO ONE'S LISTED TO SPEAK FOR THIS TOPIC.

ANYTHING ELSE FOR US? THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE, UH, ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SPEAK?

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THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE, UH, CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR THREE WEEKS.

[ To consider a Local Law, entitled “Battery Energy Storage System PILOT Program]

UH, UH, PROPOSED, UH, THAT WE OPEN, UH, THE HEARING FOR, UH, LOCAL LAW ENTITLED BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM PILOT PROGRAM.

SO THIS PROPOSED LAW WOULD ALLOW THE TOWN TO TAX BETTER BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS WITHIN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

AND RECENTLY, REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW WAS PASSED.

THAT SAID IT MUST OCCUR VIA A PILOT.

SO IF WE DO NOT GET THIS, CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT A PILOT IS? SURE.

IT'S PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES.

SO IT'S A PROCEDURE OF, UM, FILING.

YOU COULD THINK OF IT LIKE A, A CONTRACT, BUT IT'S AN AGREEMENT WITH THE MUNICIPALITY TO PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE OF TAXES.

IT'S TYPICALLY NEGOTIATED WITH THE ASSESSOR AND THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT AS A TEAM, THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT WORKING ON THE AGREEMENT, THE ASSESSOR, KNOWING THE VALUATION OF THE PROPERTY, AND ASSURING THAT IT'S FAIR AND EQUITABLE.

UM, THE RAIL PROPERTY TAX LAW HAS NOW PUT AN OPT-IN PROVISION THAT IF YOU DO NOT OPT INTO THIS, YOU CANNOT TAX THOSE BEST SYSTEMS. WE HAD A LOT OF GREAT FEEDBACK AT THE LAST MEETING ABOUT BEST SYSTEMS IN THEIR ENTIRETY, HOW MANY THERE SHOULD BE, ARE THEY, ARE THEY SAFE? WHAT SORT OF COMPLIANCE WE SHOULD ENACT IN THE TOWN LAW? THE LEGAL STAFF GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED THAT WE SHOULD PUT SOME LAW TOGETHER TO HAVE CRITERIA ON ALL THOSE MEASURES.

HOWEVER, IT SHOULDN'T BE IN THIS LAW ITSELF.

THIS LAW ITSELF SHOULD BE ABOUT THE PILOT AND THE TAXES ONLY.

WE HAVE A GREAT WORKING DRAFT RIGHT NOW.

WE'LL BE PRESENTING IT TO THE TOWN BOARD SOON.

WE APPRECIATE ALL THOSE COMMENTS, AND I'LL PROBABLY BE REACHING OUT TO SOME PEOPLE WHO MADE THOSE COMMENTS FOR FURTHER INPUT ONCE THAT DRAFT IS PUT TOGETHER.

UH, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT NOW AFTER WE HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC TO TRY TO, UH, GET SOMETHING ON THE BOOK SO THAT WE ARE, ENSURE THAT THE BEST SYSTEMS ARE PROPERLY TAXED INSTEAD OF THEM BEING PUT IN AND BEING FREE FROM EXEMPTION.

IF YOU OWN A HOME, YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON YOUR HOME.

WE WANNA ENSURE THAT IF SOMEONE HAS A BEST SYSTEM, THEY'RE PAYING THE PROPER AND FAIR AND EQUITABLE TAXES ON THE BEST SYSTEM AS WELL.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

UH, ANYBODY WANT TO COMMENT? WE HAVE, DO WE HAVE A LIST? YEAH, BUT, UM, SORRY YOU DIDN'T SIGN UP.

UM, BUT, UM, MR. SIMON, I HAVE A QUICK NO, GO AHEAD.

UM, FOR, WELL, I, I, I APPRECIATE THE, THE DIRECTION THE TOWN IS GOING.

CAN YOU, SORRY, ONE SECOND.

CAN YOU JUST STATE YOUR NAME? DIRECTOR SIMON.

UH, HARTSDALE.

UH, I APPRECIATE THE DIRECTION THE TOWN IS, IS GOING.

AND I, I RECOGNIZE THERE'S LIMITATIONS IN THE STATE LAW TO MAKE THIS A VIABLE PROJECT.

SO I FULLY RECOGNIZE THAT AND I SUPPORT THAT DIRECTION.

I, MY ONLY HOPE IS THAT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BATTERY STORAGE WHO JUST, UH, ARBITRAGE IN WHERE THEY'RE JUST TAKING ELECTRICITY AT ONE TIME AND PUTTING IT BACK, HAD LITTLE OR NO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

AND, AND, UM, THE BATTERY STORAGE FACILITIES THAT'S HOOKED UP TO SOME SORT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY.

UH, I THINK WE, IN OUR COAST SOMEHOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO IT, BUT SOMEHOW, UH, UH, WE SHOULD PROVIDE SOME TYPE OF INCENTIVE FOR THOSE BATTERY STORAGE FACILITIES THAT ARE CHARGING FROM RE RENEWABLE ENERGY.

SO I HOPE THAT THIS LAW DOES NOT PREVENT US FROM DOING THAT.

SO THAT'S FINE.

BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP IN MIND AT SOME PLACE.

WE MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THESE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF BATTERY STORAGE.

MY CAMERA IS HORRIBLE.

SO, , I THINK THAT'S AFTER, UH, MR. DANKO HAD MENTIONED THE TECH.

OH, HUGH SCHWARTZ.

UH, EDGEMONT, UH, AFTER MR. DANKO HAD MENTIONED, UH, WHAT THE STATE LAW WAS THE LAST TIME I RESEARCHED IT, AND I UNDERSTOOD WHAT I FULLY UNDERSTAND WHY YOU NEED THE PILOT NOW.

UH, I'M HORRIFIED BY THE LAW, FRANKLY, BECAUSE I, I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE, UH, LAW, BUT THE, CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT SURE.

THE MICROPHONE.

THANK YOU, MS. HENDRICKS.

UM, I, I DON'T THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE REASONS I STATED THE LAST TIME, BUT WE

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HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT AND LIVE WITHIN IT.

WE DO HAVE A BATTERY STORAGE LAW ALREADY ON THE BOOKS.

I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS OF HOW YOU WOULD DO THE PILOT, THOUGH.

UM, FIRST OF ALL, UH, COULD WE PUT LANGUAGE IN THERE THAT IT WOULD BE THE PILOT WOULD BE, UH, EQUAL OR GREATER THAN FULL VALUE? IS THAT POSSIBLE? I KNOW MR. SHE, AND WE, WE TALKED ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT WE COULD TAX IT DIFFERENTLY.

IF IT'S ARBITRAGE VERSUS ATTACHED, UM, THAT'S PROBABLY SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO TALK TO THE STATE CONTROLLER ABOUT, IF THAT'S A POSSIBILITY OF HAVING A DIFFERENT TAX BASE, WHETHER IT'S ATTACHED TO A, A A, A GREEN ENERGY OR NOT.

THIRD, A QUESTION I HAVE LEGALLY IS IF IT REALLY IS FOR ARBITRAGE, ISN'T THAT A COMMERCIAL USE? JUST A QUESTION.

I WOULD HAVE, I, SOMETHING I, I WOULD LOOK INTO, IS THAT A COMMERCIAL USE? AND DOES THAT CHANGE THE WHOLE PICTURE? DOES THAT KEEP THEM OUT OF, OUT OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS, FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH I REALLY THINK WE SHOULD BE KEEPING THEM OUT UNLESS THEY'RE ATTACHED TO, TO, YOU KNOW, TO SO SOLAR THEY SHOULD BE KEPT OUT.

SO THOSE ARE QUESTIONS I, I WOULD ADD, I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE ANSWERED.

UM, AND I WOULD, I DO THINK YOU NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT YOUR PILOT AND THAT IT'S NOT A NEGOTIATION EVERY TIME.

YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME STANDARDS FOR WHAT THAT PILOT WOULD BE, WOULD BE OKAY.

IN TERM TERMS OF THAT VERY SPECIFIC STANDARDS.

AND I WOULD ANSWER THOSE OTHER QUESTIONS IN REGARDS TO A BATTERY STORAGE LAW.

WE ALREADY HAVE ONE.

WE HAVE THE MOST, I BELIEVE, COMPREHENSIVE, UH, BATTERY STORAGE LAW IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF NEW YORK.

IT'S FAR SUPERIOR TO WHATEVER WAS WRITTEN BY NYSERDA.

THE, THE TEMPLATE LAW.

IT'S MUCH MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN THAT.

AND WE, YOU GUYS, AND AND I, AND THE PLANNING BOARD SHOULD ALL BE PROUD OF THAT.

AND MR. SHEEN, YOU ACTUALLY, I THINK, PARTICIPATED ON THE, ON THAT, ON THAT, UH, COMMITTEE WITH US.

UH, I'M HAPPY AND I'M SURE MR. SIMON, I'D LOVE TO VOLUNTEER MR. SIMON'S TIME, UH, WOULD BE HAPPY TO, UH, ASSIST IF WE NEED TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THAT, TO ENSURE THAT WE DON'T PROLIFERATE THESE THINGS IN A VERY DANGEROUS WAY IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS, WHICH WOULD BE MY BIGGEST CONCERN.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I JUST WANNA POINT OUT THAT THE ASSESSOR HAD ASKED TO KEEP IT A LITTLE OPEN-ENDED TO ALLOW NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE TOWN, BECAUSE IF YOU'LL RECALL, THE FIRST DRAFT DID HAVE BLANK SPACES TO PUT A SPECIFIC AMOUNT PER KILOWATT.

AND SHE ASKED THE BOARD TO REMOVE THAT TO ALLOW, UM, HER TO NEGOTIATE.

I WILL SAY, IN TERMS OF NEGOTIATING WITH PROPERTIES, UM, SPECIFICALLY I'M TALKING ABOUT COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES.

IT, WE ARE AN AGGRESSIVE, WE ARE AGGRESSIVE.

WE, WE CANNOT NEGOTIATE BELOW FAIR MARKET VALUE.

WE WOULD NEVER DO THAT.

WE COULDN'T DO THAT.

EXCUSE ME.

PUT IT IN THE LAW CHART THAT, THAT'S JUST COMMON PRACTICE.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE LEGALLY NOT ALLOWED TO NEGOTIATE BELOW TO FAIR MARKET VALUE.

WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH A FAIR MARKET VALUE, OR ELSE WE'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE THAT, WITH THAT 100% EQUALIZATION RATE, I'VE ASKED HER IF SHE WANTS TO WEIGH IN.

OH, ANYBODY ELSE? NO ONE'S LISTED FOR THIS TOPS, ACTUALLY.

ANYBODY HEAR FROM YEAH, LET'S, LET'S BRING HER UP.

OH, HOLD ON.

DO YOU WANNA GO FIRST? COUNCIL MACHINE? I, I'LL LET THE ASSESSOR GO FIRST.

IT'S NICE OF YOU.

I, I DON'T THINK SHE'S GONNA SPEAK .

I DUNNO.

HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.

I JUST WANT TO REAFFIRM WHAT JOE HAD SAID.

I, I APOLOGIZE.

MY CAMERA'S NOT WORKING.

I, BUT I WANNA REAFFIRM WHAT JOE SAID.

ACCORDING TO THE REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, WE HAVE TO VALUE ALL PROPERTY AS OF CURRENT MARKET VALUE.

SO WE CANNOT NEGOTIATE UNDER THAT.

AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S GOOD OR BAD, ATTORNEY DANGO, BUT, UM, WE ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE WHEN IT COMES TO NEGOTIATING PROPERTIES.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.

THANKS.

UH, GOOD EVENING.

UH, I'M DYLAN PINE.

I SERVE AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE PLANNING BOARD.

UM, I JUST WANTED TO PUT A BOW ON THE RECORD AND, UH, ASK A QUESTION THAT, THAT HOPEFULLY COULD BE ANSWERED TONIGHT.

UH, REITERATING THE QUESTION THAT I'D ASKED AT THE FIRST HEARING, UH, A COUPLE MONTHS AGO, UM, THERE WAS A SPEAKER WHO, WHO TESTIFIED AND PRESENTED THAT THEY WERE THE ONLY APPROVED BESS WITHIN

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THE TOWN.

UM, SINCE THEN, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT, UH, THERE ARE THREE BUSES THAT ARE CURRENTLY, UH, APPROVED AND INSTALLED WITHIN UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG.

THERE ARE THREE BUSES THAT ARE, UM, APPROVED AND NOT INSTALLED, UH, OR TWO THAT ARE APPROVED AND NOT INSTALLED.

AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE'S A THIRD THAT'S APPROVED AND CURRENTLY IN CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW.

UM, THIS IS JUST FOR UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG.

WHAT I DON'T KNOW IS IF THERE ARE, UH, RELEVANT TO THIS LAW, IF THERE ARE BEES OUTSIDE OF THE ONE IN TERRY TOWN THAT THE SPEAKER SPOKE ON, UH, THAT ARE APPROVED AND NOT INSTALLED.

UM, I DO THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR THE RECORD, JUST TO CLARIFY, UM, IN, IN MY MIND, THERE ARE THREE SORT OF CLASSES OF BEES RIGHT NOW, BEES, UH, INSTALLED AND APPROVED AND INSTALLED, WHICH MY UNDERSTANDING IS THEY, THEY CAN'T BE PUT IN A PILOT BASED ON WHEN THEY WERE INSTALLED.

THEY MAY ALREADY BE ASSESSED.

UM, BUT THERE'S INSTALLED AND OPERATING, INSTALLED AND OPERATING, UH, THE, THE SECOND CLASS, WHICH I THINK IS THE MOST RELEVANT TO THIS DISCUSSION, WHICH IS APPROVED BY THE PLANNING BOARD.

UM, BUT, BUT NOT OPERATIONAL AND, AND, UH, PERMITS HAVE NOT BEEN SUBMITTED YET.

UH, AND THEN I, I THINK WE KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH BEES THAT COME FORWARD IN THE FUTURE, UH, THAT ARE APPLIED FOR, APPROVED BY THE PLANNING BOARD, AND THEN PERMITS ARE SUBSEQUENTLY SUBMITTED FOR.

UM, BUT IF THAT COULD JUST BE CLARIFIED FOR THE RECORD, I THINK, UH, THAT WOULD PUT A BOW ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING.

ANYBODY ELSE? IF THE ASSESSOR YEAH.

COULD SHE RESPOND TO THAT? I THINK SHE DID BY EMAIL.

BUT YOU WOULD LIKE HER TO PUT IT ON HERE? YES.

WE KNOW IT'S NOT JUST ONE.

DY YES.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES.

UH, THE, THERE ARE THREE, UH, BEST, UM, PROPERTIES THAT ARE IN OPERATION AS WE SPEAK, AND THEY WERE INSTALLED PRIOR TO THE EXEMPTION LAW TAKING PLACE.

THEY ARE, IN FACT, BEING TAXED.

THERE ARE A FEW THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED.

THERE IS NO SHOVEL IN THE GROUND.

SO I WOULD, UM, THINK THAT THIS NEW LAW THAT THE TOWN IS GETTING READY TO PASS, THEY WOULD FALL UNDER THAT, THAT A PILOT WOULD HAVE TO BE NEGOTIATED AS FAR AS THOSE, AND AS FAR AS GOING FORWARD, AS I HAD MENTIONED EARLIER, THAT THEY WOULD ALL FALL UNDER THIS NEW PILOT AGREEMENT.

GOOD.

IS THAT SATISFACTORY TO THE CHAIR OF THE PLANNING BOARD? IT'S, YEAH.

UM, TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW CREATING, UH, CHAPTER 2 39 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AS IT RELATES TO PROPERTY MAINTENANCE.

UM, ANYONE ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE? THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE, UH, CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR THREE WEEKS.

[ To consider a local law creating Chapter 239 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh as it relates to property maintenance]

YOU LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE OPEN THE HEARING.

GARBAGE, DEBRIS, OVERGROWN VEGETATION, JUNK VEHICLES, AND SIMILAR HAZARDS AND NUISANCES IN SITUATIONS IN SUCH AS HAZARDOUS STRUCTURES, FIRE HAZARDS, SEWAGE DISCHARGES, OR DANGEROUS TREES.

I'LL GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THIS.

THIS PROPOSED LOCAL LAW PROVIDES THE TOWN WITH A CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS TO ADDRESS UNSAFE AND NEGLECTED PROPERTY CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, AND NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE.

PROPERTY OWNERS WILL BE GIVEN NOTICE AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO CORRECT VIOLATIONS, AND IN MOST CASES, A PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS IS AVAILABLE BEFORE THE TOWN UNDERTAKES ANY ABATEMENT ACTION.

THE GOAL IS NOT TO CREATE UNNECESSARY REGULATION, BUT TO ENSURE THAT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS REMAIN SAFE, ATTRACTIVE, AND WELL-MAINTAINED FOR RESIDENTS, WHILE PROVIDING THE TOWN THE ABILITY TO RESPOND QUICKLY OR AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WHEN GENUINE EMERGENCIES THREATEN THE PUBLIC.

THE PROPOSED PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND NUISANCE ABATEMENT CHAPTER 2 39, ESTABLISHES CLEAR STANDARDS TO HELP KEEP PROPERTIES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN SAFE, CLEAN, AND WELL MAINTAINED.

THE LAW IS INTENDED TO ADDRESS CONDITIONS THAT CAN NEGATIVELY AFFECT PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, NEIGHBORHOOD APPEARANCE, AND PROPERTY VALUES SUCH AS EXCESSIVE OVERGROWN VEGETATION, ACCUMULATED GARBAGE AND DEBRIS, ABANDONED JUNK VEHICLES, AND OTHER NUISANCE CONDITIONS.

THIS LAW HELPS ENSURE THAT PROPERTIES ARE MAINTAINED IN A MANNER THAT SUPPORTS SAFE, ATTRACTIVE, AND HEALTHY NEIGHBORHOODS.

PROPERTY OWNERS RECEIVE WILL RECEIVE WRITTEN NOTICES OF VIOLATIONS AND WILL GENERALLY BE PROVIDED THE TIME TO CORRECT THE ISSUES BEFORE ADDITIONAL ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS ARE TAKEN.

UH, BEFORE THE TOWN CAN UNDERTAKE NON-EMERGENCY NUISANCE ABATEMENT WORK.

THE TOWN BOARD MAY HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING WHERE PROPERTY OWNERS AND INTERESTED PARTIES HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD.

IF UNSAFE OR NUISANCE CONDITIONS REMAIN UNCORRECTED, THE TOWN MAY TAKE STA STEPS TO ABATE THE PROBLEM, INCLUDING REMOVAL OF

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THIS IS NOT ALL THE CONDITIONS, THIS IS JUST A LIST OF SOME THAT MAY BE THE CASE.

UM, THE TOWN MAY ACT IMMEDIATELY TO PROTECT RESIDENTS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY COST AND CARD BY THE TOWN FOR NEW SYSTEM, BASEMENT OR EMERGENCY RESPONSE MAY BE RECOVERED FROM THE PROPERTY OWNER AND VIOLATIONS, UM, ON TOP OF THAT.

SO IT'S NOT ONLY THE COST OF FIXING THE PROBLEM, BUT ALSO ADDITIONAL FINES IMPOSED ON TOP OF THAT.

AND THIS WAS CREATED BECAUSE A LOT OF RESIDENTS REACH OUT TO THE TOWN BOARD AND STATE THEIR NEIGHBOR'S PROPERTY HAS ISSUES, AND WE HAVEN'T HAD THE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM.

THIS WOULD FINALLY GIVE US THE ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM TO ENSURE THAT THOSE PROBLEMS DON'T LINGER FOR LONG PERIODS OF TIME, AND THAT ADDITIONAL HAZARDS AREN'T BROUGHT ABOUT TO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE AND NEIGHBORS AND ANYONE WHO MAY BE VISITING.

ANYBODY LIKE TO SPEAK ON THAT FIRST PERSON WE HAVE IS JANET LYNN, LYNN, JANET LYDEN, EDGEMONT.

UM, I, I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA IN PRINCIPLE, BUT THE LAW AS IT'S CURRENTLY DRAFTED, IS IMPOSSIBLY VAGUE AND IT HAS SIGNIFICANT CONSEQUENCES.

THE RESULT CAN BE $500 PER DAY FINE.

UM, WHEN THERE'S EMERGENCY CONDITIONS, CONDITIONS, THE TOWN CAN GO ON THE PROPERTY WITHOUT NOTICE AND THEN CHARGE THE OWNER WITH VARIOUS COSTS FOR FIXING THE CONDITION.

IT SAYS THAT THE ENFORCEMENT, WHEN THE, WHENEVER AN ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL DETERMINES, DETERMINES THERE'S A VIOLATION OF THIS CHAPTER.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THAT'S NEVER DEFINED.

IT DOES SAY YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO MAINTAIN YOUR PROPERTY IN A SAFE, SANITARY, AND ORDERLY CONDITION.

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF EMERGENCY CONDITIONS IN THIS LAW.

AND WHEN THERE IS AN EMERGENCY CONDITION, THAT IS WHEN THE TOWN CAN GO ON THE PROPERTY WITHOUT ANY NOTICE, UH, THE LAW HAS TO BE FIXED.

SO IT'S MORE SPECIFIC THE WAY IT'S WRITTEN.

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE, WHAT THE VIOLATION MEANS.

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT EMERGENCY CONDITION MEANS.

THANK YOU HUGH SCHWARTZ.

I THINK THE, UH, LEGISLATIVE INTENT OF THIS LAW IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

I DO THINK, HOWEVER, YOU'RE OPENING A HUGE CAN OF WORMS AND ALSO PUTTING, UH, THE TOWN BOARD IN A PLACE I'M NOT SURE IT EVER WANTS TO BE, WHICH IS DISPUTES BETWEEN NEIGHBORS.

UH, IT HAS BEEN FOR YEARS, UH, THE TRADITION OF THIS TOWN TO STAY OUT OF THOSE DISPUTES, WHETHER THEY BE BORDER DISPUTES, DISPUTES OVER TREES, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

I MEAN, I HAVE A NEIGHBOR RIGHT UP THE HILL WHO HAS TREES THAT I, I LOVE TO HAVE THE TOWN TAKE DOWN BECAUSE I'VE ALREADY HAD ONE FALL IN MY HOUSE MANY YEARS AGO.

UM, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA CREATE CONFLICT BETWEEN NEIGHBORS.

I THINK HAVING A PUB THIS OUT IN A PUBLIC HEARING IS A MISTAKE.

I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE AN OFFICER THAT, THAT ADJUDICATES THIS, THAT MAYBE THEY COULD BE AN APPEAL TO THE TOWN BOARD OR OR ANOTHER BOARD IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT.

UM, AND YOUR, THE EMERGENCY THING SPECIFICALLY, WITHOUT ANY NOTICE, WHAT IS AN EMERGENCY? I CAN TELL YOU, I HAVE A TREE THAT'S THREATENING MY HOUSE.

IS IT GONNA COME DOWN IN THE NEXT EIGHT HOURS? PROBABLY NOT.

IS IT GONNA COME DOWN TO THE NEXT STORM? MAYBE.

IS THAT AN EMERGENCY OR ISN'T IT THAT AN EMERGENCY AND YOU'RE NOT GIVING ANY NOTICE WHATSOEVER BEFORE YOU GO ON THEIR PROPERTY? I DON'T THINK THAT'S RIGHT.

THE ONLY TIME THAT SHOULD HAPPEN IS IF THERE'S A GAS LEAK OR SOMETHING TRULY THAT, THAT THAT THREATENS LIFE, RIGHT? IMMEDIATELY.

JUST LIKE THE EMERGENCY LAW IN, IN 1 0 3, SAME THING, BASICALLY.

THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD DEFINITION OF EMERGENCY IN THERE.

SO I THINK ABOUT THIS REALLY HARD BEFORE YOU DO IT AGAIN.

THE INTENT IS ABSOLUTELY A HUNDRED PERCENT RIGHT.

I UNDERSTAND IT, I UNDERSTAND THE OBJECTIVE OF IT, BUT THE IMPACT OF IT, UH, I AM VERY, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I, I'VE BEEN

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INVOLVED IN DEVELOPING A LOT OF THE LEGISLATION IN TOWN CODE OVER THE YEARS, AND, UH, I ACTUALLY, UH, WROTE THE ONE FOR THE HORSE AND BUGGY.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT, BUT I DID.

UM, SERIOUSLY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS WHEN WE WRITE THESE CODES IS WE DON'T THINK ABOUT WHAT THE IMPACT IS AFTERWARDS.

WE FOCUSED ON THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT AND NOT WHAT THE IMPACT IS.

THIS ONE YOU REALLY GOTTA THINK ABOUT.

SERIOUSLY, I WOULD NOT RUSH, RUSH TO JUDGMENT ON THIS AND LOOK AT WHAT THE IMPACTS ARE OF IT AND WHAT THE POTENTIAL LIABILITY OF THE TOWN IS, BY THE WAY, OF WALKING ON SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY AND TAKING DOWN SOMETHING AND IT GOES, GOES AWRY AND HITS THEIR HOUSE INSTEAD, FOR EXAMPLE.

YOU GOTTA THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE THINGS.

I WOULD NOT PASS IT AS IT IS.

I I WOULD, I WOULD SEND IT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, BUT IT'S IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

JUST NEEDS A LOT OF WORK.

ANYONE ELSE? UM, CAN YOU HOLD TRANSCRIPTION PLEASE? MS. SHERRY? DID YOU WANNA SPEAK ON THIS? OKAY.

AND THIS IS ABOUT THE PROPOSED LAW, RIGHT? THIS IS ABOUT THE PROPOSED LAW.

THIS IS RIGHT AT THE HEART OF IT.

IT'S OKAY.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.

I GOT IT.

IS THIS SEPARATE FROM YOUR HUSBAND'S LETTER? UM, SO GOOD EVENING.

SHERI UJI THREE STEVENS LANE.

AND I JUST WANNA SAY THAT THE SPEAKERS BEFORE ME BROUGHT UP SOME IMPORTANT POINTS.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO SPELL YOUR LAST NAME FOR THE SONOGRAPHER.

E-U-G-U-I.

DO WE REALLY THINK, BASED ON THE TRACK RECORD HERE THAT I HAVE HANDED TO YOU, THAT THEY WILL EXECUTE A PLAN LIKE THAT AND WITHOUT THIS LAW, WHICH SHOULD EVEN BE STRONGER THAN IT'S WRITTEN, IT SEEMS YOUR HANDS ARE TIED TO REALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.

I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE TOWN ADOPTING A MEANINGFUL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND, AND NUISANCE ABATEMENT LAW.

BUT BEFORE YOU PASS IT, I ASK YOU TO GIVE IT MORE TEETH.

SEE THE SLIDE UP HERE? UH, THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ALL FROM THE PROPERTY OWNED BY BETHEL KNOLLS AT 55 GRASSLANDS ROAD.

ON THE LEFT IS THE BEAUTIFUL, METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED PUBLIC FACING.

NOEL'S PROPERTY CREWS ARE THERE WEEKLY AS SHOWN IN THE MIDDLE.

I'M SORRY, YOU MEAN UPPER LEFT, RIGHT? PARDON? UPPER LEFT.

YOU HAVE TWO LEFT.

THE, THE WHOLE SIDE OR THE WHOLE LEFT SIDE IS OKAY.

IS, UM, THE, THE BEAUTIFUL METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED PUBLIC FACING KNOWLES PROPERTY CREWS ARE THERE WEEKLY MOWING MULCHING, PLANTING FLOWERS, BUT ON THE RIGHT IS THE ABANDONED HOUSE.

BETHEL K KNOWLES ALSO OWNS IMMEDIATELY NEXT TO MY HOME, LARGELY HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC VIEW FOR EVERYONE EXCEPT ME AND MY NEIGHBORS.

PLEASE LOOK AT IT.

THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE LIVED, HAVE TO LIVE NEXT TO.

I HAVE LIVED ON THIS STREET FOR 23 YEARS.

THIS HOUSE HAS BEEN ABANDONED THAT ENTIRE TIME, BUT CONDITIONS BECAME INTOLERABLE ONLY AFTER THE K KNOWLES ACQUIRED THE PROPERTY IN 2016.

TONIGHT, I HAVE HANDED YOU A RECENT VIOLATION HISTORY SHOWING MORE THAN 25 VIOLATIONS SINCE 2016.

THIS IS NOT ONE BAD SUMMER.

THIS IS YEARS OF NEGLECT.

FOR YEARS, ENORMOUS QUANTITIES OF LEAVES AND YARD DEBRIS HAVE BLOWN FROM THIS PROPERTY DOWN OUR STREET.

ON MORE THAN THREE OCCASIONS, SQUATTERS HAVE OCCUPIED THIS HOUSE AND WE HAVE HAD TO CALL GREENBERG POLICE.

AND THIS ONE GETS ME AND BRINGS OUT THE MAMA BEAR IN ME.

DURING ONE INCIDENT, MY CHILDREN WERE EXPOSED TO A PERSON IN A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS, SCREAMING TO POLICE FOR OVER AN HOUR.

THEN THERE IS THE DANGEROUS TREE CONDITION NEXT TO HILLSIDE AVENUE, MULTIPLE VIOLATIONS BY BETHEL KNOWLES.

AND ALL THE WHILE A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY, THE MULCH WAS FRESH, THE FLOWERS WERE PLANTED, AND THE PUBLIC ENTRANCE LOOKED BEAUTIFUL.

THAT CONTRAST IS WHY THIS LAW MATTERS.

IT SHOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE TO METICULOUSLY MAINTAIN THE PART OF A PROPERTY THE PUBLIC SEES WHILE ALLOWING THE PART AFFECTING, AFFECTING RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORS TO DETERIORATE YEAR AFTER YEAR.

NOW, WE ARE TOLD THIS ABANDONED HOUSE WILL BE DEMOLISHED ONLY IF THE KNOLLS EXPANSION IS APPROVED AS PART OF THAT PROJECT.

SERIOUSLY, DEALING WITH A DILAPIDATED BUILDING SHOULD NOT BECOME A BARGAINING CHIP FOR APPROVAL OF A FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.

AND WHEN I RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT MAINTENANCE OF THE PROPOSED STORMWATER SYSTEM FOR THAT PROJECT, I AM TOLD THERE WILL BE A DOCUMENTED PLAN, MAINTENANCE PLAN ENFORCEABLE BY THE TOWN.

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I AM NOT INTERESTED IN A FEW MORE VIOLATIONS BEING ADDED TO THEIR RAP SHEET THAT THE TOWN CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT.

I WANT TO SLEEP AT NIGHT NOT WORRYING THAT I'LL BE FLOODED OR MY NEIGHBORS ON HILLSIDE WILL BE INJURED FROM A LANDSLIDE BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, BETHEL KNOWS FAILED TO MAINTAIN THEIR PROPERTY.

ONE BROADER POINT.

NEGLECT IS NOT ALWAYS CAUSED BY AN OVERWHELMED PRIVATE HOMEOWNER.

SOMETIMES THE OWNER IS A CORPORATION, A LARGE INSTITUTION, OR AS HERE A NONPROFIT.

FOR AN OWNER WITH SUBSTANTIAL RESOURCES, REPEATED VIOLATIONS CAN JUST BE A COST OF DOING BUSINESS.

IF VIOLATING THE LAW IS CHEAPER THAN MAINTAINING THE PROPERTY, THE LAW DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH TEETH.

SO I ASK YOU TO MAKE THREE CHANGES.

FIRST, SPECIFICALLY INCLUDE ACCUMULATED LEAVES AN UNCONTROLLED LEAF DEBRIS.

YOU CAN SEE FROM DOWN HERE ALL OVER THE STREET, EVERYWHERE EVERY YEAR.

SECOND, CREATE EXPEDITED ENFORCEMENT FOR CHRONIC REPEATED OR EGREGIOUS VIOLATIONS.

THIRD, ALLOW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TO CONSIDER DISPARATE MAINTENANCE WITHIN THE SAME PROPERTY OR BETWEEN PROP, MULTIPLE PROPERTIES OWNED BY THE SAME PERSON IN THE TOWN WHERE ONE PORTION IS METICULOUSLY MAINTAINED WHILE ANOTHER PORTION AFFECTING NEIGHBORS IS ALLOWED TO BECOME A NUISANCE.

THIS PROPERTY IS EXACTLY WHY YOU NEED THIS LAW.

PLEASE PASS IT, MAKE SOME CHANGES FIRST, BUT STRENGTHEN IT SO ANOTHER FAMILY DOES NOT HAVE TO SPEND OVER A DECADE LIVING WITH WHAT MY FAMILY AND MY NEIGHBORS HAVE ENDURED.

THANK YOU MR. MR. GIVING THIS A LOT OF, UH, THOUGHT AND FOR YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS.

MR. HOUSE, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE OCCASIONS WHEN I AGREE 100% WITH MR. SCHWARTZ, AND IT'S BETTER HALF VERY RARE, RIGHT? TONIGHT.

MR. FINER, YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT SIDEWALKS SAFETY AND DISTRICTS, SIDEWALK DISTRICTS, AND YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS.

SO HERE YOU HAVE A LAW WHERE YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE IN THIS LAW HOW THE TOWN DEALS WITH SIDEWALKS, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT THE TOWN OR THE STATE PUTS IN.

SIDEWALKS CAN BE DANGEROUS, THEY CAN BE IN DISREPAIR, THEY CAN BE COVERED WITH SNOW AND ICE AND, AND THEY CAN BE COVERED WITH OBSTACLES.

SO IS THE TOWN GOING TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN ALL THE SIDEWALKS THAT IT'S ADVOCATING AND IN FACT PUTTING OFTEN WITHOUT ITS CONSENT OF THE NEIGHBORS, MAKING THE NEIGHBORS RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT GOES ON ON THE SIDEWALKS? THIS IS A LAW WHICH CAN INCORPORATE THE THINGS YOU'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR YEARS AND NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT ERICA BHI.

HELLO.

GOOD EVENING.

THIS IS ERICA BAGCHI, MY SINCERE THANKFULNESS TO THE HONORABLE SUPERVISOR AND THE TOWN BOARD.

CAN YOU GO A LITTLE SLOWER FOR THE STENOGRAPHER PLEASE? BECAUSE HE'S DETAILING EVERY SINGLE WORD YOU SAY.

MY NAME IS ERICA BAGCHI.

SO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE PROBLEMS THAT WE ARE FACING IN VAL MAR.

I'M HERE FOR 26 PLUS YEARS.

IS THIS IN REGARD TO THE LOCAL LAW, PROPOSED LOCAL LAW AND ABATEMENT? I'M JUST MAKING SURE.

TO WHAT SHE SAID.

YOU KNOW ABOUT PROPERTY ABATEMENTS, THE NALLS AND THE BETHEL ENGINEERS AND STUFF.

THIS IS SPECIFICALLY IN REGARDS TO PROPOSED CHAPTER 2 39 OF THE TOWN GO PROPERTY ABATEMENT.

SO IF THERE ARE ISSUES WITH OTHER PROPERTIES YEAH, WITH THE HILLSIDE AVENUE ALSO, YOU KNOW, WITH THE FLOODING AND STUFF.

OKAY, I'M JUST MAKING SURE , CAN I GET SOME EXTRA TIME? YEAH, SO I'LL GIVE YOU THE TIME BACK.

YEAH, NO, I'LL GIVE YOU THE TIME BACK.

SORRY .

TO SEE THAT NOT WHAT IT COLLECTS IN 24 HOURS, BUT WHAT IT COLLECTS IN TWO TO THREE HOURS.

OKAY, SO I WAS JUST CLARIFYING.

YEAH, YEAH, NO PROBLEM.

YEAH, YEAH, SURE.

SO OUR BIGGEST ISSUE IS BASEMENT FLOODING.

AND UH, RECENTLY THERE WAS A HUGE STORM IN WHICH PORTION OF THE HILLSIDE AVENUE GOT COLLAPSED.

AND IT IS NEAR THE GAS STATION NEAR, UM, THE STEVENS, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, OUR BASEMENTS, SO MANY OF OUR BASEMENTS GOT, UH, MASSIVELY FLOODED BECAUSE OF THE, UH, FLASH FLOODING.

AND WHEN FLASH FLOODING HAPPENS, UH, WE HAVE

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AND SOME PUMPS, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T HELP MUCH.

THIS IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TWO SUM PUMPS TO PULL THE WATER TO DRAIN THE WATER OUT OF THE BASEMENTS, BUT IT IS NOT HAPPENING.

SO THIS IS THE SITUATION BEFORE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BETH HILLS.

AND I HAVE STUDIED, YOU KNOW, VERY CLOSELY WHERE, UH, SHE'S LOCATED ON STEVENS.

SO IT IS REALLY WORSE THAN THE VALLEY MAR COMPLEX.

UH, THIS IS BECAUSE THE, UH, SLOPE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE SLOPE, YOU KNOW, UH, WE ALL GET A LOT OF, UH, FLOODING.

SO I APPEAL, I REQUEST, AND I, UM, WANT YOU GUYS TO KINDLY CONSIDER THE FLASH FLOODING.

I KNOW THE BETHEL ENGINEERS, THEY HAVE SHOWN THAT THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE A POND TO COLLECT THE WATER, YOU KNOW, IN 24 HOURS ACCUMULATION.

BUT FLASH FLOODING WHEN IT HAPPENS, AS I SAID, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN ON THE BASIS OF 24 HOURS.

IT HAPPENS VERY RAPIDLY, UH, WITH THE BASIS OF TWO TO THREE HOURS, OR YES.

I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE THIS RELATES TO THE PROPOSED LAW, HOWEVER, OKAY.

IT PERTAINS MAYBE TO SOME OF WHAT THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER SPOKE OF, BUT IT DOESN'T PERTAIN TO THE LOT, SO, OKAY, NO PROBLEM.

UH, WALTER SIMON FROM HARTSDALE.

NO OTHER SPEAKERS ON THIS SUBJECT.

UH, MR. WALTER SIMON, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THE COMMENTS TO, UH, TONIGHT ON, UH, REGARDING THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION, UM, RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS GOOD INTENTION, BUT THE MORE WE TALK ABOUT IT, THE MORE WE REALIZE IT'S EXTREMELY COMPLICATED.

IT, IT, IT IT, TO PUT THIS GOOD INTENTION INTO LAW.

'CAUSE I'M HERE LISTENING.

I'M LISTENING TO, UH, THE, THE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE AND YOU SEE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT.

NOW WE FULLY RECOGNIZE THAT, THAT, UH, AS MR. SCHWARTZ SAID, THAT THE NORMAL, UM, UH, RESIDENTS HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A TREE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THAT ARGUMENT.

BUT THERE ARE OTHER ARGUMENTS.

A CLASSIC POINT IS THAT HOUSE RIGHT BY STADIUM ROAD WAS COMPLETELY OVERRUN WITH BAMBOO.

AND IN THAT CASE, THE TOWN NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING, GETTING ON THAT PROPERTY AND TAKING CARE OF THAT BAMBOO.

NOW THE TRICK IS TO DO IT AND WITHIN THE LAW AND MAKING SURE WE ARE NOT OVERSTEPPING THE LAW LIKE, LIKE JANET LYNN TALKED ABOUT.

SO THIS IS A VERY COMPLICATED CASE.

WE ALL HERE WITH GOOD INTENTION TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM, BUT THE MORE WE TALK ABOUT IT, IT REALLY, REALLY NEED TO RETHINK EXACTLY HOW THIS GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED, BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE TOWN NEEDS.

WE COULD ALL AGREE IT IS NEEDED, THIS LAW IS NEEDED, BUT WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE DO IT IN A WELL THOUGHT OUT WAY THAT DOESN'T CREATE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.

SO I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO PURSUE, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S RIPE FOR THE DECISION NOW.

IT NEEDS MORE WORK.

UH, MS. EUGENE, DO YOU WANNA PICK UP YOUR NOT YET, SORRY.

NO OTHER SPEAKERS.

UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE CLOSE THE HEARING.

I, I WOULD ACTUALLY RECOMMEND WE HOLD IT OVER TO THE SEPTEMBER MEETING SO WE CAN REVIEW ALL THE STATEMENTS MADE.

ADJOURN FOR ALL PURPOSES.

WHAT, SORRY IF WE COULD ADJOURN FOR ALL PURPOSES TO SEPTEMBER 9TH MEETING, PLEASE.

THAT'S WHAT I RECOMMEND.

THAT'S FINE.

ALRIGHT, MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.

[ To consider a local law amending Chapter 325 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh as it related to bamboo]

NEXT, UM, UH, BAMBOO TO CONSU, UH, CONSIDER SPEEDY BAMBOO, UH, LOCAL LAW AMENDING CHAPTER 3 25 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AS IT RELATES TO BAMBOO.

AMENDMENT IS INTENDED TO UPDATE THE TOWN'S EXISTING BAMBOO REGULATIONS.

SO I'LL GIVE A BRIEF PRESENTATION ON THIS ONE AS WELL.

THANKS FOR THE SEGUE, WALTER.

UM, THIS PROPOSED

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WHILE THE CURRENT CODE PRIMARILY FOCUSES ON RUNNING BAMBOO AND ITS SPREAD, THE REVISED LAW INTRODUCES MORE COMPREHENSIVE DEFINITIONS, CLARIFIES PROPERTY OWNER RESPONSIBILITIES, ESTABLISHES NEW SETBACK REQUIREMENTS, AND PROVIDES MORE DETAILED ENFORCEMENT AND REMEDIATION PROCEDURES.

AMONG THE NOTABLE CHANGES, THE AMENDMENT EXPANDS THE DEFINITIONS OF BAMBOO AND BAMBOO OWNERSHIP, DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN CLUMPING AND RUNNING BAMBOO, AND ESTABLISHING WHEN A PROPERTY OWNER MAY BE CONSIDERED RESPONSIBLE FOR BAMBOO LOCATED ON THEIR PROPERTY.

IT ALSO CREATES THE CONCEPT OF A LIMITING DISTANCE END, ESTABLISHING RESTRICTED AREAS NEAR ROADS, UTILITIES, AND STORM WATER INFRASTRUCTURE WHERE A BAMBOO MAY NOT BE PERMITTED TO GROW.

THE PROPOSAL FURTHER CLARIFIES THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF PROPERTY OWNERS TO CONTAIN BAMBOO AND PREVENTED SPREAD ONTO TOWN PROPERTY OR INTO DESIGNATED SETBACK AREAS.

IT ESTABLISHES PROCEDURES FOR NOTICES OF VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS, TOWN BOARD HEARINGS, AND RECOVERY OF COSTS INCURRED BY THE TOWN WHEN REMEDIATION BECOMES NECESSARY.

IN ADDITION, THE AMENDMENT ADDS A NEW SECTION DETAILING APPROVED METHODS FOR BAMBOO REMOVAL, DISPOSAL SITE RESTORATION, AND ONGOING MONITORING FOLLOWING THE REMOVAL.

IT ALSO ESTABLISHES PERMIT REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN WORK OCCURRING WITHIN THE TOWN'S RIGHT OF WAY AND CLARIFIES HOW VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES CAN MAY BE ADMINISTERED.

OVERALL, THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT CREATES A MORE COMPREHENSIVE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK GOVERNING BAMBOO CONTAINMENT, REMOVAL, ENFORCEMENT, AND PROTECTION OF PUBLIC PROPERTY AND INFRASTRUCTURE.

THIS IS WHY WE HAVE PUBLIC HEARING 'CAUSE WE IMPROVE ON WHAT WE'VE ALREADY SUBMITTED.

ABSOLUTELY.

SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR FEEDBACK.

EVERYBODY.

ANYBODY LIKE TO COMMENT ON THIS? NO ONE'S SIGNED UP FOR THIS SUBJECT.

UM, GOOD.

SO I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR SEVEN DAYS, NOT SEVEN DAYS, THREE WEEKS.

THREE WEEKS.

SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE.

UH, TO CONSIDER AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE VILLAGE OF ORLEY TO PROVIDE FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES TO UNINCORPORATED AREA RESIDENTS IN THE TRUANCY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FOR THE YEARS 2026 AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 12,294.

UM, NEXT,

[ To consider an agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the Village of Ardsley to provide Fire Protection Services to Unincorporated area residents of the Chauncey Fire Protection District for the year 2026, for an amount not to exceed $12,294]

ANYBODY LIKES TO COMMENT? SO THIS IS A, THIS IS A, AN AGREEMENT THAT TOWN OF GREENBURG HAS WITH THE VILLAGE OF LEY TO, TO PROVIDE FIRE, UH, SERVICE, FIRE, UH, PREVENTION SERVICES, UH, TO THE AREA OF CHAUNCEY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

IT ONLY AFFECTS THE PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

AND THIS IS FOR THE YEAR 2026.

UH, THE COST OF THAT BASED ON A COMPUTATION IS, IS $12,294.

WE ARE PUTTING, UH, FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $12,294.

UM, BECAUSE THERE MAY BE AN ISSUE WITH, UH, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE IN, UH, IN THE CHART OF ACCOUNTS, BUT THAT CAN CERTAINLY GET WORKED OUT BY THE TIME WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THIS.

UM, THIS IS AN AREA THAT'S NOT COVERED BY EITHER GREENVILLE, HARTSDALE OR FAIRVIEW FIRE DISTRICTS.

AND SO PEOPLE IN THE TOWN, THE INCORPORATE AREA OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG NEED FIRE PROTECTION.

AND WHEN THOSE THREE DISTRICTS CAN'T COVER IT, UH, WE SEEK OUT THE VILLAGES TO PROVIDE THAT PROTECTION.

AND THAT'S, UM, WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT.

ANYBODY LIKE TO SPEAK ON THAT? UM, I'M JUST, UH, PLEASED THAT, UM, THIS IS, UH, FOR 2026 BECAUSE WE HAVE OUTSTANDING FIRE DISTRICT, UH, CONTRACTS, SAY IN TARRYTOWN.

WE HAVEN'T SETTLED CONTRACTS FROM 2000, UH, 23 FROM 2024, 2025 AND 2026.

AND I REALLY FEEL THAT WE SHOULD BE, UM, SETTLING ALL CONTRACTS THE SAME YEAR, UH, OR BEFORE THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED, RATHER THAN WAIT A COUPLE YEARS AFTER THE SERVICES, UH, YOU KNOW, WERE PROVIDED I WE ARE GONNA BE MEETING WITH, UH, TERRYTOWN NEXT WEEK.

AND HOPEFULLY WE COULD, HOPEFULLY IT COULD BE RESOLVED.

AND THAT'S THE GOAL OF THE TOWN AS WELL.

WE DON'T WANNA SPEND TIME NEGOTIATING THESE CONTRACTS FOR SO LONG, SO HOPEFULLY WE COULD WORK OUT ALL ITEMS WE HAVE AND WE CAN PROCEED IN A QUICKER MANNER MOVING FORWARD.

THAT'S THE GOAL OF EVERYBODY.

YOU KNOW, AND THEY PROVIDE THE SERVICE A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN PAID.

I JUST FIND IT LIKE VERY OFFENSIVE TO GET SERVICE AND, UH, NOT TO HAVE A CONTRACT FOR,

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AND, AND WE CAN AT LEAST PAY WHEN WE HAVE THE CORRECT BILLS TO ACTUALLY PAY OUT, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON GETTING.

AND WHEN AND, AND REITERATED MANY TIMES TOWN, TOWN ATTORNEY, WHEN DID WE GET THE BILL FOR THE 2024, UH, TERRYTOWN CONTRACT? THE FIRST DRAFT, WHICH WE FOUND UNACCEPTABLE WAS THIS YEAR, I DON'T RECALL WHAT EXACT MONTH, RIGHT.

POSSIBLY FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR.

I WOULD HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK.

SO THE SUPERVISOR LIKES TO SAY IT'S TERRIBLE THAT WE HAVEN'T PAID A BILL, WE DIDN'T GET, BUT FRANKLY WE WAIT TO GET THE BILL.

UH, I WAS TALKING TO THE MAYOR FOR OVER AN HOUR TODAY ON THE PHONE, ABOUT AN HOUR, UM, TO DISCUSS THIS ISSUE.

THERE IS A MEETING NEXT WEEK TO WORK THESE ISSUES OUT.

UM, SINCE IT IS A 2024 CONTRACT, IT SHOULD BE EASY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE COSTS ARE BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY SPENT THE MONEY, SO THEY SHOULD KNOW HOW MUCH WAS ACTUALLY SPENT.

SO I ENVISION THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT OUT, BUT TO KEEP SAYING THAT SOMEHOW THIS BOARD WAS NOT DOING THEIR JOB BECAUSE WE DIDN'T PAY A BILL, WE DIDN'T GET, UH, IS, IS NOT APPROPRIATE.

AND IT LEADS TO VERY MUCH ANGST, PARTICULARLY AMONG THE FIREFIGHTERS, THE VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS WHO DO A GREAT JOB IN TARRYTOWN, AS IF WE ARE DRAGGING OUR FEET WHEN ALL WE NEEDED TO DO IS TO HAVE A BUILD, THEN WE COULD CREATE A CONTRACT.

AND FROM THAT CONTRACT, UH, WE CAN MOVE FORWARD, WHICH IS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THESE OTHERS.

WE ARE LOOKING AT ALSO STANDARDIZING WHAT WE REQUIRE FROM EACH OF THE FIRE DISTRICTS BECAUSE OF THIS.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M GONNA SUGGEST THAT WE ALSO DO HOLD THIS OVER FOR THREE WEEK, NO, UH, SORRY, ADJOURN THIS FOR THREE WEEKS BECAUSE WE MAY LEARN A LOT FROM WHAT WE LEARN NEXT WEEK MEETING WITH TERRYTOWN.

AND JUST TO ADD ONE POINT ALSO, WE WERE NOT WAITING, WE WERE PROACTIVE IN REQUESTING THE INFORMATION.

MANY TIMES WE WERE ALL ON THOSE EMAILS.

UM, SO WE WERE NOT JUST SITTING, WAITING TO RECEIVE A BILL, WE REQUEST THE INFORMATION.

THERE WAS A LOT OF CONFUSION AS TO WHY WE COULDN'T GET IT.

IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY NOT ON THE FAULT OF THE TOWN.

I, I THINK I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, BECAUSE THIS IS A RECORD ON ARDSLEY.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ARDSLEY.

THIS IS THE SUPERVISOR RAISED A TARRYTOWN, WHICH IS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, THE GLENVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

TONIGHT IS THANK YOU, IS TO, UH, CONSIDER AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE VILLAGE OF LEY TO PROVIDE FIRE PROTECTION SERVICES TO UNINCORPORATED AREA RESIDENCE OF THE SOUTH ORLEY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT FOR THE YEAR 2026 FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 3 92 8 6 6.

SO WE MOTIONS, ARE WE ALL VOTED ON? NO, YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE I'D TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UM, I MEAN I KEEPING THE RECORD OPEN FOR THREE WEEKS.

THE LAST PUBLIC HEARING FOR

[ To consider an agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the Village of Ardsley to provide Fire Protection Services to Unincorporated area residents of the South Ardsley Fire Protection District for the year 2026, for an amount not to exceed $392,866]

I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

ALL RIGHT.

SO THIS IS AGAIN, A FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT CONTRACT, WHICH WE HAVE WITH THE VILLAGE OF ALEY BECAUSE IT'S AN AREA THAT IS CLOSE TO THE VILLAGE OF ALEY THAT ONE OF THEIR FIRE COMPANIES CAN ACTUALLY HANDLE.

IT'S CALLED THE SOUTH ALEY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

IT ONLY APPLIES TO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA IN THE SOUTH, UH, SOUTH ALEY FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

THIS IS FOR THE YEAR 2026.

AND AS WE'RE LISTING IT HERE, IT'S FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $392,866.

ANYBODY LIKE TO COMMENT? NO ONE'S LISTED.

ALL RIGHT.

YOU WANT ME MAKE A MOTION TO MAKE, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UH, CLOSE THE HEARING.

UH, KEEP THE RECORD OPEN.

LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR, UH, THREE, THREE, UH, THREE WEEKS.

I THINK I'M GONNA WRITE TO, UH, ALL THE, UH, VIL VILLAGES THAT WE HAVE, UH, CONTRACTS.

AND I'LL JUST MENTION THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE STARTED, UM, TO APPROVE CONTRACTS THE SAME YEAR AND HOPEFULLY WE COULD, UM, RESOLVE ALL THE OTHER CONTRACTS, UM, IN 2026 FOR, NO, WE DIDN'T.

NO, I'M, I'M, I'M SAID, I'M GONNA WRITE A LETTER, UM, UH, TO THE OTHER DISTRICTS AND JUST SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY IF THEY COULD GET US INFORMATION, UH, WE COULD HOPEFULLY BE UP TO DATE, NOT, SHE WRITTEN A LETTER.

I'M GONNA, I, I'LL MENTION THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MAKING, WE'RE TAKING ACTION WITH ARDSLEY AND MAYBE THEY'LL BE INSPIRED BY THIS EXAMPLE.

AND, AND JUST, JUST AGAIN, FOR CLARITY, I'M PREDICATED UPON THE SUBMISSION BY THE MUNICIPALITIES OF THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION OUTLINING THE EXPENSES SO THAT WE CAN GENERATE IT.

AND IN THE PAST, THE, THAT THE PRACTICE HAD BEEN TO SUBMIT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, AND THAT'S WHY WE

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WERE ALWAYS YEAR BEHIND.

AM I CORRECT FRANCIS, OR DO YOU WANNA ELABORATE? A LITTLE BIT? DIFFERENT FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTS, BECAUSE OF DIFFERENT VILLAGES WANTED TO BE TREATED DIFFERENTLY BASED ON THEIR SPECIFICAL CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THAT'S WHAT WE FOLLOWED.

SO SOME WERE, YOU KNOW, THAT YEAR, SOME WERE PRIOR YEAR 'CAUSE THEY WANTED TO HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION AS OPPOSED TO JUST GO BY BUDGETS.

UH, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS IN DISCUSSION TODAY IS TO GO BACK TO WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY PROPOSED AND IMPLEMENTED, AT LEAST IN LEY, I THINK IT WAS, IS THAT WE APPROVED THIS BASED ON A BUDGET, PROJECTED BUDGET BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE GONNA SPEND.

FOR EXAMPLE, IN 2026, WE'RE, WE'RE APPROVING 2026, AND IF IT TURNS OUT THEY HAD TO SPEND MORE FOR LEGITIMATE PURPOSES, THEN WE WOULD REIMBURSE THEM AT THE END OF THE YEAR.

BUT IF THEY SPENT LESS, THEN THAT WOULD COME OFF OF NEXT YEAR'S SO THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY COMPENSATING THEM FOR EXACTLY WHAT THEY SPEND.

AND THAT MIGHT BE THE EASIEST WAY TO DO IT SO THAT IT, NO ONE GETS, NO ONE GETS HURT IN THAT SITUATION.

AND SO WE CAN GO FROM EXISTING YEAR BUDGETS BECAUSE EVERYONE WILL BE MAKE MADE WHOLE THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

AND IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING WORTH CONSIDERING.

BUT AGAIN, I DON'T WANT THIS RECORD TO BE MESSY BECAUSE IT, AGAIN, IS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LEYS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT.

IN THIS CASE IT'S THE SOUTH LEY FI FIRE, FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT, AND THERE HAS NOT BEEN AN ISSUE WITH THEM SUBMITTING DATA.

WE HAVE A MOTION, MAKE THE MOTION TO LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN FOR, UH, THREE WEEKS.

ARE WE, ARE WE CLOSING THE HEARING? YEAH, WE'RE DOING BOTH.

WE'RE CLOSING BOTH HEARINGS AND LEAVING THE RECORD OPEN.

YOU CAN DO THAT BRIEF AS WELL.

SECOND IN FAVOR.

WE MAY NEED TO CLARIFY THE PREVIOUS YEAH, THAT'S WHY I JUST JUST THANK YOU.

OKAY, NEXT, UH, NOW WE HAVE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.

UH, NO.

OH, YEAH, THIS WAS HELD OVER.

ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SPEAK? I JUST WANNA MENTION PAUL, SINCE IT WAS ON THE AGENDA THAT'S BEING HELD OVER THE LAST PUBLIC HEARING.

BEST HEARING IS BEING HELD OVER.

LET'S SEE.

SOMEBODY MAY HAVE SEEN ON THE AGENDA, THE

[ To consider a Zoning Map amendment petition and amended site plan application by Bethel Communities Management (“Bethel”) as it relates to a proposed expansion of an existing Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) located at 55 Grasslands Road, PO Valhalla [TB 25-05] (held over to Town Board Meeting of September 9, 2026)]

THAT'S THE HEARING ON, UH, ZONING MAP AMENDMENT PETITION, AND AMENDED SITE PLAN APPLICATION BY BETHEL COMMUNITIES MANAGEMENT AS IT RELATES TO PROPOSED EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY LOCATED AT 55 GRASSLANDS ROAD AND VALHALLA.

THAT'S GONNA BE HELD SEPTEMBER 9TH.

COMMENTS? NOW THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.

PUBLIC

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WE HAVE, HELENE, WE HAVE A FIVE MINUTE ROUND.

WE HAVE HELENE ORRIS, AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE FIVE MINUTE ROUND.

CLOCKS ARE ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROOM.

NO, I KNOW , AND, UH, AND IT'S FOR THE PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T SPEAK AT THE TWO MINUTE ROUND, BUT IF YOU DID SPEAK DURING PUBLIC HEARINGS, YOU MAY SPEAK DURING THIS ROUND AS WELL.

MY NAME IS LEAN ORS.

I'M A 55 YEAR RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

I'VE BEEN VERY DISTURBED ABOUT WHAT I'VE BEEN READING ABOUT THE, UH, PIPING ON HARTSDALE AVENUE.

I, I AM DISTURBED THAT IT HASN'T BEEN PUT OUT TO BID, THAT, UH, THE BID HAS JUST BEEN ACCEPTED AND THEY'RE GOING ON WITH THE WORK.

UM, I THINK THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW.

I THINK, AND, AND I MAY BE TOTALLY WRONG, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT THE TOWN IS GOING TO BE SUED, WHICH IS GOING TO BE ANOTHER COST FOR US, FOR LAWYERS.

I THINK IT'S DISGRACEFUL.

I THINK THAT THE BOARD SHOULD SIT DOWN AND FIGURE THIS OUT AND, UH, IT'S NOT AN EMERGENCY.

THERE WAS EMERGENCY A YEAR AGO AND EVERYBODY SAT ON IT.

UH, I THINK IT SHOULD BE SETTLED, AND I THINK WE SHOULD NOT BE SUED FOR IT, EVEN THOUGH I THINK IT'S A LEGITIMATE REASON.

BUT I THINK THE BOARD SHOULD DO SOMETHING TO AVOID THIS.

NEXT WE HAVE SHERRY.

THANKS, MIKE.

YOU NEED, YOU NEED A MOMENT TO MAKE A GRACEFUL EXIT.

IT'S NOT GONNA TAKE ME TOO LONG.

THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.

NOT TOO BAD FOR SEVEN HEARINGS, AND SEVEN HEARINGS.

SHERRY JI.

HERE I AM AGAIN TO TALK ABOUT THE KNOLLS.

I'M SICK OF COMING HERE.

I'M SURE YOU'RE SICK OF HEARING FROM ME ABOUT THE KNOLLS APPLICATION.

UH, TONIGHT I AM NOT GOING TO PRESENT ANOTHER

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TECHNICAL ISSUE.

I WANT TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT WHAT THIS PROCESS HAS REQUIRED OF ME.

AN ADJOINING HOMEOWNER.

MY HUSBAND AND I BOTH HAVE ENGINEERING DEGREES.

WE ARE COMFORTABLE READING TECHNICAL PLANS AND DRAWINGS.

YET EVEN WITH THAT BACKGROUND, WE HAVE SPENT MORE THAN A YEAR COMPARING CHANGING PLANS, REVIEWING ZONING PROVISIONS, OBTAINING RECORDS, AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THIS PROJECT IS PERMITTED TO BUILD.

THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT HAS NOW CONDUCTED FIVE VARIANCE REVIEWS.

I NOW HAVE A LIST LONGER THAN A PAGE, IDENTIFYING PLACES WHERE APPLICATION MATERIALS OR PLANS APPEAR INCONSISTENT WITH THE CODE, INCONSISTENT WITH EARLIER SUBMISSIONS REQUIRE FURTHER EXPLANATION, OR IN SOME CASES APPEAR SIMPLY INACCURATE.

I SHOULD NOT HAVE THIS LIST BECAUSE I SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD TO CREATE IT.

A NEIGHBOR'S ROLE IS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PUBLIC PROCESS.

A NEIGHBOR SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BECOME THE APPLICANT'S UNOFFICIAL COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT.

OVER THE COURSE OF THIS APPLICATION, I HAVE HAD TO FILE MORE THAN 15 FOIL REQUESTS SIMPLY TO OBTAIN RECORDS NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND DECISIONS AFFECTING MY PROPERTY.

THIS INCLUDES RECENT REQUESTS FOR THE RECORDS UNDERLYING THE MULTIPLE VARIANCE REVIEWS.

I AM STILL WAITING FOR SOME OF THAT INFORMATION.

I HAVE ALSO NOW FILED A FORMAL APPEAL WITH THE ZONING BOARD.

TELL ME WHAT ELSE WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? AND DOING SO IMPOSED A SUBSTANTIAL COST SIMPLY TO OBTAIN REVIEW OF ISSUES THAT DIRECTLY OFFEND MY, UH, AFFECT MY HOME AND OFFEND MY HOME.

THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY FOR DIRECTLY AFFECTED NEIGHBORS TO PARTICIPATE IN MAJOR LAND USE APPLICATIONS.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION SHOULD NOT MEAN THAT A NEIGHBOR HAS TO IDENTIFY THE ZONING ISSUES, ASSEMBLE THE RECORD HIGHER COUNSEL, AND THEN FILE A FORMAL ZPA APPEAL ON THEIR OWN, JUST TO ENSURE THAT THOSE ISSUES ARE FULLY REVIEWED.

MANY HOMEOWNERS WILL NOT HAVE THE TRAINING, THE TIME OR THE RESOURCE RESOURCES TO DO THAT.

THE PROCESS HAS TO WORK FOR THEM TOO.

NEIGHBORS DESERVE A PROCESS THAT SUPPORTS MEANINGFUL PARTICIPATION RATHER THAN REQUIRING THEM TO POLICE THE APPLICATION THEMSELVES.

MS. UJI.

IS YOUR HUSBAND HERE OR DO YOU WISH TO READ HIS LETTER? THAT THAT GOES AGAINST THE RULES? ACTUALLY, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.

THE DATES COULD ONLY BE READ IF HE'S IN ATTENDANCE.

OH, NO PROBLEM.

WHAT'S NEXT? OH YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.

WE RECEIVED IT.

LISA, YOU HAVE ANOTHER SPEAKER? YES.

UH, CLIFF ABRAMS. WELL, YOU HAD TWO.

DO YOU HAVE NOTES? YOU HAD TWO MINUTES AND 13 SECONDS.

OH, BUT YOU CAN'T READ SOMEBODY ELSE.

YEAH, I CARRY, YEAH, I THINK YOU MADE, I THINK YOU MADE YOUR POINT.

GOTCHA.

YOU CLIFF ABRAMS. MS. MCGEE, YOU WANNA SPEAK? YES.

COME, COME SIGN UP WITH LISA.

CAN YOU ADD MS. MCGEE PLEASE? SURE.

I JUST ADDED TO NAME BEFORE CLIFF OR AFTER, AFTER SHE GONE.

SHE JUST ADDED TO THE LIST ABOUT THAT.

RESIDENTS AND IT CAME IN HANDY BECAUSE THEY WASN'T EXPECTING IT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS MY PLEASURE.

BECAUSE IT WAS CLIFFS SUPERVISOR TOWN BOARD, DR.

DELL, UM, .

I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION THAT YOU GAVE ME, UM, ABOUT WHEN HULU CAME TO THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AND MADE 39 RESIDENTS IN CONVENIENCE, THEY HAD CAMERAS.

THEY HAD TRUCKS ALL OVER THE GRASS, ALL OVER PEOPLE FRONT.

AND DR.

NERO INFORMED ME THAT, UM, THAT THE RESIDENT COULD GET A STIPEND BECAUSE OF, UM, INCONVENIENCE.

AND AS A COMMISSION OF HOUSING.

I, UM, CAUGHT UP HULU, THE, THE MANAGER, AND THEY GAVE 39 RESIDENTS, UM, $400 EACH FOR INCONVENIENCE.

AND TWO YEARS AGO WHEN THEY CAME AND CALLED HAVOC AND DIDN'T CARE AND NOBODY GOT NOTHING.

SO I APPRECIATE LISA FOR INFORMING ME ABOUT THAT.

WHO DID THAT? YOU WERE, YOU WERE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THE HOUSING, ABOUT THE STIPENDS.

WE GOT THE, UM,

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UM, SECONDLY, UM, PAUL, CONGRATULATIONS.

I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE THE FIRST TIME, CLEVERLY I'M ABLE TO CONGRATULATE YOU ON YOUR WIN.

YOU KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU BEAT THE WHOLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? THEY ALL WENT AGAINST YOU, ALL RIGHT? THEY WENT AGAINST YOU AND YOU PREVAIL, MAN, AND YOU PREVAIL.

AND PAUL, ME, YOU BUMP ASS SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW? BUT I LIKE HOW YOU RESPECTFUL ALL THE TIME THAT WE COULD AGREE TO DISAGREE AND WHY YOU, THE PEOPLE SPOKE BECAUSE YOU FAIR, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? AND YOU GOT INTEGRITY AND YOU DON'T HOLD GRUDGES.

AND PEOPLE RESPECT THAT.

AND YOU TRY YOUR BEST TO HELP.

UM, THE PLATFORM FOUR YEARS, THE MERRILL, MY MIGHT BE IN COURT, BUT THE PLATFORM'S NOT, IT'S NOT.

PAUL SPOKE UP, SAID HE'S AGREED THAT IT SHOULD COME DOWN.

KIDS BE HANGING UP ON THE PLATFORM, YOU KNOW, AND Y'ALL GOING WAIT TILL SOMEBODY FALL OR SOMEBODY GET HURT.

AND THEN THAT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER LAWSUIT ON THE TOWN WHEN YOU JUST COULD TAKE IT DOWN AND WHATEVER.

THIS IS FOUR YEARS NOW, WHENEVER WE DECIDE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, I MEAN, IT IS WOOD.

YOU TAKE THE WOOD DOWN AND YOU BUILD IT BACK UP IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, IF THE COURT DECIDES SOMETHING DIFFERENT.

SO, UM, I THINK THAT THAT IS MAJOR, THAT THAT SHOULD COME DOWN.

AND JOY, YOU ARE THE LIAISON OF FAIRVIEW.

YOU KNOW, WHEN IT, WHEN IT, WHEN YOU DO THE RIGHT THING, I LET YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK YOU'VE BEEN VERY GOOD WHEN IT COMES TO THE HOUSING PIECE, BUT THAT'S A PART OF FAIRVIEW TOO.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT YOU NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND HELP SUPPORT PAUL ON THAT ONE.

UM, THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE, .

NOW THIS IS FUNNY, RIGHT NOW.

I CAME LATE, I HEARD, UM, LYNN SAID, GAVE ME SOME RECOGNITION OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WORKED IT HARD WHEN I WAS ON THAT COMMITTEE.

HUMAN RIGHTS, I MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE PERSON ON THERE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY ELSE WAS CONSERVATIVE.

AND THIS BOARD HERE KICKED ME OFF.

, THEY KICKED ME OFF.

THEY KICKED.

I NEVER HEARD OF.

YEAH, YOU KICKED ME OFF.

YOU KNOW, THEY VOTED.

THEY SAID THAT, UM, LYNN AND LYNN CAME HERE ADVOCATING SAYING, HEY, BECAUSE THE CLIFF, WE DID THIS, WE DID THAT, WE DID THIS, AND YOU WASN'T HERE, BUT KEN WAS IN THAT SEAT THERE, AND Y'ALL VOTED THAT, UM, Y'ALL DIDN'T VOTE.

I SAID, OH, NOW OR SOMETHING.

IT'S A VOTING THAT SOMEBODY VOLUNTEERING THEIR TIME, YOU KNOW, TO HELP OUT WITH HUMAN RIGHTS.

Y'ALL TAKING A VOTE, Y'ALL TOOK A VOTE AND I GOT PUT OFF.

AND LYNN COULD COME SPEAK ON THAT.

YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK IT'S UNFAIR THAT WHETHER Y'ALL LIKE ME OR I AIN'T HERE TO BE LIKE, I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR MY COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT I DO.

AND, AND, AND WE COULD AGREE TO DISAGREE, BUT, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S WHY I SAID, PAUL, YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE NOT VICIOUS MAN.

YOU KNOW THAT YOU, YOU, YOU COULD AGREE TO DISAGREE.

IF SOMEBODY DON'T AGREE WITH YOU, YOU WON'T HOLD THINGS PERSONAL AGAINST STILL.

A PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION IS SOUGHT, WHICH IF THE PETITIONER GETS THESE, WOULD DELAY THE WORK LONGER THEN IF THE TOWN BOARD HAD SENT THIS OUT FOR A BID WHEN THE WORK WAS FIRST OUTLINED, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS IN MAY, 2026.

I APOLOGIZE MS. LYNN, IF YOU CAN COME FORWARD AND THAT WAS MY ERROR.

I HAD YOU SPEAKING AT THE TWO MINUTES.

MY APOLOGIES.

YEAH, NO, I DIDN'T SPEAK TO MINUTES.

I CAN'T TALK THAT QUICK.

COPY THAT JANET LYNN FROM EDGEMONT.

UM, LAST TIME I SPOKE AT A TOWN BOARD MEETING, I DISCUSSED THE RISK OF LITIGATION SHOULD THE TOWN BOARD APPROVE THE NO CONTRACT FOR EAST HARTSDALE CONSTRUCTION IN VIOLATION OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW 1 0 3 AND TOWN LAW 1 22.

AS I PREDICTED, A LITIGATION WAS BROUGHT AGAINST THE TOWN BASED ON ITS VIOLATION OF THESE STATUTES.

AND THE TOWN IS APPARENTLY ABOUT TO DEFEND THAT ACTION WITH A TOWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE THAT IS NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE THAT LITIGATION AND POTENTIALLY OTHER FOLLOW ON LITIGATION DEPENDING ON THE OUTCOME.

RIGHT NOW, ON MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THE PETITIONER IS STILL SEEKING A TRO,

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THIS MESS IS THE RESULT OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL AND ARROGANT TOWN COUNSEL AND TOWN ATTORNEY THAT SEEMS TO MAKE DECISIONS WITHOUT REGARD TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE TOWN.

THE TOWN SUPERVISOR OR THE GOVERNING LAWS.

ON JUNE 24TH, SUPERVISOR FINER WAS CHOSEN BY THE GREENBERG RESIDENTS IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.

DESPITE THE BEST EFFORTS OF THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BOSSES, PAUL FINER WAS CHOSEN BY THE RESIDENTS BECAUSE HE LISTENS TO THEM.

AND BECAUSE THE RESIDENTS WERE UNHAPPY IN THE WAY THE TOWN COUNCIL CONDUCTED THEMSELVES AT TOWN BOARD MEETINGS, INSTEAD OF TAKING A LESSON FROM THE ELECTION, THE TOWN COUNCIL HAS APPARENTLY DECIDED TO ACT AS IF PAUL FINE WAS DEFEATED AND TO CONTINUE TO IGNORE HIM, THE RESIDENTS AND THE LAW.

AND SO THE TOWN COUNCIL APPROVED THE NO BID CONTRACT RETROACTIVELY, IT SEEMS 'CAUSE BARBIDO FRANK BARBIDO HAD POSTED THE WORK WAS APPROVED BEFORE THE VOTE WAS TAKEN.

AND THE LEGAL ANALYSIS THAT WAS OUTLINED IN THE RESOLUTION READ AT THE MEETING BY MR. DANKO, WHO ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE HAD NOT AUTHORED IT, UM, RELYING ON THE APPARENT ANALYSIS OF FRANCIS SHEAN AND OR OTHER TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE NOT LAWYERS.

THE TOWN COUNCIL VOTED FOR A NO BID CONTRACT BASED ON A TWO YEAR EMERGENCY AND WHAT WAS PIGGYBACKING ON EXTENSION OF THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT.

AND THE LAW DOES NOT ALLOW PIGGYBACKING FOR PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACT AND THE VOICES OF HARTSDALE RESIDENTS DESPERATE FOR WORK TO BEGIN.

THERE IS NO A PENDING FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION, AN APPEAL OF THE TRO PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION PAPERS WE DO NEXT WEEK.

THE PETITIONERS ARE REPRESENTED BY LITIGATION COUNCIL WITH SPECIFIC EXPERTISE IN THIS AREA.

BUT APPARENTLY THE TOWN COUNCIL HAS DECIDED NOT TO HIRE OUTSIDE LITIGATION COUNSEL WITH THIS EXPERTISE.

WHY IS IT TO AVOID THE COST OF LITIGATION THAT THEY BROUGHT ON THEMSELVES AND OR TO HIDE THE HISTORY OF THE MISSTEPS FROM THE TWO PLUS YEARS AND VARIOUS EXTENSIONS AND EXPANSIONS OF THE CONTRACT? MRS. LYNN, DO YOU NEED A BREAK? DO YOU NEED SOME WATER? ARE YOU OKAY? NO, I'M FINE.

SO NOW THE LITIGATION WILL BE HANDLED BY A TOWN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, TWO ATTORNEYS AND ONE PART-TIME ATTORNEY, WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE, EXPERTISE, SKILLSET, OR CAPACITY TO DO SO.

AND WHO, UH, WITH THEIR OWN BIAS AND ARROGANCE WILL NOT, WILL, WILL PREVENT THE ATTORNEY TO SEE THE WEAKNESSES IN THEIR OWN DEFENSE.

NOW, MR. DANKO, AS YOU ARE REPRESENTING THE TOWN AND ITS RESIDENCE, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW THIS IS BEING HANDLED.

HAVE YOU DISCUSSED STRATEGY WITH THE TOWN BOARD AND AND EXPERIENCED LITIGATION COUNSEL KNOWLEDGEABLE IN THIS AREA? ARE YOU REPRESENTING MURANO AND ATLANTIC? IF NOT, IF SO, IF NOT, DO YOU HAVE A JOINT DEFENSE AGREEMENT WITH THEM? WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL DAMAGES IF THE PETITIONERS PREVAIL? HAVE YOU TRIED TO SETTLE THIS? WHAT IS YOUR STRATEGY? HOW ARE YOU GONNA ARGUE AN EMERGENCY WHEN YOU HAD INFORMATION ABOUT THIS IN MAY, IF NOT BEFORE, AND THE WORK IS NOW WAITING FOR CON ED ANYWAY.

HOW ARE YOU GONNA ARGUE THAT IT'S WITHIN THE CONTRACT WHEN PIGGYBACKING DOES NOT APPLY TO PUBLIC WORKS CONTRACT? AND FINALLY, IF YOU, WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR THIS? THANK YOU.

UH, MR. HUGHES SCHWARTZ.

AGAIN, MY APOLOGIES.

I HAD YOU, UH, SPEAKING DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.

THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE OR EXPERTISE YOU DON'T HAVE.

THE PURPOSE OF THANK YOU FOR LEAVING ELLEN, THE PUR, THE PURPOSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOT TO, UH, MAKE PEOPLE FEEL GOOD.

THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT IS TO INFORM THE TOWN BOARD OF PERSPECTIVES

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AND THIS WAS A PER THIS ONE A HUNDRED EAST HEARTS.

THERE WAS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT.

WE, THERE WAS A WHOLE HOST OF PEOPLE THAT CLEARLY OUTLINED WHAT THE RISK WAS.

YOU HAD RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE CIC THE DAY BEFORE THE HEARING, UH, WARNING THAT SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN.

YOU RECEIVED A LETTER THE DAY AFTER THE HEARING THAT THEY WERE GOING TO SUE.

YET YOU DIDN'T LISTEN TO ANYBODY.

INSTEAD, MS. HENDRICKS, WHO CONVENIENTLY JUST LEFT THE ROOM, YOU KNOW, SAID IT WAS AN INSULT BECAUSE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER AND GAVE YOU CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM.

THAT'S NOT A PERSONAL ATTACK.

IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PERSONALITIES.

IT HAS TO DO WITH CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM AND ADVICE FROM SOME PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY RESEARCHED THE LAW AND UNDERSTOOD THE LAW.

THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS ON HARTSDALE AVENUE ARE THE FIVE OF YOU.

NO, THEY'RE FIVE OF YOU BECAUSE IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR OVER TWO YEARS.

YOU FINALLY FOUND AN ENGINEER WHO HAPPENED TO BE THE FORMER TOWN ENGINEER OF, OF THIS TOWN WHO CAME UP WITH A SOLUTION WITH A CAMERA.

BY THE WAY, THAT HAD BEEN OUT FOR TWO YEARS, NOT THREE MONTHS.

SO THAT'S THE ONLY THING.

YOU KNOW, YOU TRY TO THROW RICH FAWN UNDER THE BUS.

THIS ISN'T RICH F'S PROBLEM.

YOU WERE HERE, FRANK, FRANK LIBIDO WAS HERE.

FRANK WAS BUILDING INSPECTOR AND DEPUTY TOWN COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS AT THE TIME.

BUT YOU ARE THROWING RICH JUAN UNDER THE BUS AT THE END OF THE DAY.

IT ENDS WITH YOU FOLKS AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN.

AND NOW YOU'RE BEING SUED.

THERE ARE LOTS OF QUESTIONS I I COULD ASK HAD RUN OUT OF TIME.

I MEAN, I WANNA KNOW WHAT MEETINGS OCCURRED FROM THE TIME YOU RECEIVED THAT SECOND LETTER FROM THE CIC AND AND WERE THESE MEETINGS WITH THE TOWN BOARD OR THE TOWN COUNCIL? YOU SEEM TO MEET AS A TOWN COUNCIL OR HAVE AN ENTITY AS A TOWN COUNCIL.

THAT CONCEPT IS DISGUSTING.

WHAT MEETINGS OTHER THAN THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED WORK SESSIONS OCCURRED SINCE THE CIC FILED THE LAWSUIT LAST FRIDAY? WERE WERE A TOWN BOARD MEETING.

WERE THEY TOWN COUNCIL MEETINGS? DID ANY HAPPEN OVER THE WEEKEND? IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT OUTSIDE COUNCIL HAS NOT BEEN ENGAGED FOR WHAT COULD BE A SIGNIFICANT LIABILITY FOR A TOWN.

WHAT'S THE RATIONALE FOR THIS? HAS THE TOWN CONSIDERED REACHING OUT TO THE CIC TO TRY TO SETTLE THIS? IF NOT, WHY NOT? I WANNA SWITCH SUBJECTS THOUGH.

'CAUSE ONE GOT GOT KIND OF BRUSHED UNDER THE RUG.

INTERESTING.

NONE OF YOU COMMENTED ON MR. SIMON'S COMMENTS.

NONE OF YOU.

AN INCIDENT DID HAPPEN.

ONE OF THE TOWN BOARD MEMBERS WAS A WITNESS TO THAT.

TO THAT I, WE KNOW THAT.

WE DON'T KNOW WITH THAT MUCH.

WE KNOW, WE KNOW THERE'S A VIDEO OF IT YET YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO COMMENT ON IT.

NO ONE'S ASKING YOU TO MAKE IT PUBLIC.

I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE PUBLIC.

IT'S A PERSONNEL ISSUE THAT NEEDS TO BE DEALT WITH.

AND WHAT THE TA WHAT WHAT THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW IS THAT IT HAS BEEN DEALT WITH AND WHAT, WHAT THE ACTION TAKEN WAS.

YOU KNOW, I I'M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER RICHARD NIXON, RIGHT? SORRY GUYS, BUT I AM ALRIGHT.

WATERGATE WAS BAD.

THE WORST THING ABOUT WATERGATE WAS THE COVERUP.

IT MAKES IT WORSE.

IF SOMEONE MADE A MISTAKE BY DOING SOMETHING WRONG, IT HAPPENS.

OKAY? IT HAPPENS.

AND THERE ARE ALL REMEDIES FOR IT THAT ARE NOT DRACONIAN, BUT THEY NEED TO BE TAKEN.

AND IT SHOULD NOT, SHOULD NOT BE THROWN UNDER THE RUG.

IT WILL COME OUT EVENTUALLY.

DEAL WITH IT, BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT IT, AND THEN MOVE ON.

WHY HAVEN'T ANY OF YOU OWNED UP TO THE FACT THAT THERE WAS AN EVENT? WE KNOW THERE WAS.

YOU CAN'T SAY THERE WASN'T.

THERE WAS.

THERE MAY BE TWO OR THREE ACCOUNTS OF IT.

I DON'T KNOW.

THERE MAY NOT BE DEFINITIVE EVIDENCE IN THE VIDEO.

WE'LL FIND OUT WHEN WE SEE THE VIDEO, BUT YOU NEED TO ADDRESS IT AND ADDRESS IT PUBLICLY.

THANK YOU LORRAINE CANTOR.

GOOD EVENING

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SUPERVISOR.

FINER TOWN BOARD.

I MOVED HERE IN 93.

MY NAME'S LORRAINE CANTO.

UH, IT'S ACTUALLY 33 YEARS IN ONE DAY.

UM, I AM, I'M UP HERE FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.

I AM VERY CONCERNED, EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN VERY HOT AND NO ONE'S THINKING OF THE WINTER.

SIDEWALKS ARE SCHEDULED TO GO IN.

THE SURVEYING TOOK PLACE A MONTH AGO.

UM, THE SNOW, WHEN IT'S REMOVED BY THE TRUCKS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT ALL OVER, IT'S PUSHED UP AGAINST THE RETAINING WALL.

IT'S PUSHED UP AGAINST PEOPLE'S DRIVEWAYS.

AND, UH, THE SITUATION WITH NOWHERE FOR THE SNOW TO GO IS REALLY A PROBLEM.

AND I'M MENTIONING THIS EARLIER THEN, YOU KNOW, UH, MOST PEOPLE WOULD BECAUSE AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS ALWAYS WORTH A POUND OF CURE.

I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SNOW WAS GONNA GO.

I REMEMBER A SITUATION LAST YEAR WHERE I WAS, UM, AT FOUR CORNERS AND A WOMAN LITERALLY FELL OVER SNOWBANK TRYING TO CROSS, UH, TO THE DELI.

SO, UM, I DO WANT TO THANK, I WANNA THANK GINA AND FRANCIS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO GO TO FULTON PARK.

I KNOW THE LAST TOWN BOARD MEETING, I CAME EXPLAINING THAT I, YOU KNOW, I HELPED OUT IN, IN, IN, YOU KNOW, HELPING MY FRIEND WHO HAD WATER IN THE BASEMENT AND EVERYTHING.

AND, UM, IT'S JUST A VERY DIFFICULT SITUATION.

BUT NOT ONLY DID YOU GO THERE, THERE WAS ACTION TAKING PLACE.

THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE CLEANING UP THE MESS, ASSESSING WHAT'S GOING ON AND ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN SOLVING THE PROBLEM.

AND THAT IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, THAT THIS IS, UM, SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN GOING ON A WHILE.

AND YOU TOOK THE TIME BECAUSE YOU FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO, TO SEE IT THROUGH.

AND THAT I TRULY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT THE BOTH OF YOU SHOWED UP ON TUESDAY THE FOURTH.

I KNOW IT WAS THE DAY AFTER THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION MEETING, SO I THANK YOU FOR THAT.

UM, ALSO, I DID WANNA SAY SOMETHING ABOUT NON-NATIVE PLANTS.

UM, IT WOULD BE GREAT FOR, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE BOOKLET THAT COMES OUT TO MAYBE HAVE A LIST OF NON-NATIVE PLANTS, WHETHER ACCIDENTALLY INTRODUCED OR INTENTIONALLY INTRODUCED.

UM, I AM SPORTING POISON IVY 'CAUSE IT JUST IS INVASIVE AND IT'S ALL OVER IVY'S INVASIVE.

THERE'S INVASIVE INSECTS, THERE'S INVASIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, PLANTS AND VINES.

AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT PEOPLE ARE NOT TRULY AWARE OF, UH, YOU KNOW, THE HAZARDS AS THEY CREEP ACROSS A NEIGHBOR'S PROPERTY OR THEY, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY TAKE OVER AND STRANGLE THINGS.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, INSECTS CAN BE HELPFUL, PLANTS CAN BE HELPFUL.

UH, BUT WHEN THEY, YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN NON-NATIVES ARE INTRODUCED, THEY CAN PROLIFERATE BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE COLD WINTERS AND THEY GO UNDERGROUND, THEY, THEY HAVE A RUNNING START BECAUSE OF VERY STRONG ROOT SYSTEM OR AN ABILITY TO THRIVE.

I DON'T WANNA GIVE A LECTURE ON SHAKESPEARE'S BIRDS, BUT THAT'S WHY THE STARLING DOMINATES.

UM, THAT'S IT.

I DON'T WANNA TAKE ANY MORE TIME.

UH, THANK YOU AGAIN.

WHAT A SAGA.

UM, I JUST WANNA JUST LET YOU KNOW REALLY QUICK, IS THAT THE END OF ALL PUBLIC COMMENT? OH, I'M SORRY, BUT THAT'S, I KNOW I GOT INTO TROUBLE FOR THAT.

OKAY, I'LL TELL YOU ELSE, I'LL TELL YOU SOME GOOD NEWS IN A MINUTE.

THANK YOU HOUSE, SAM.

THAT'S WHAT I DID.

I THOUGHT EVERYBODY ELSE DID.

I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS THE CONTRACTOR, BY THE WAY.

I WANT FOLLOW THE RULES.

BY THE WAY.

HOW IS KIMBERLY, UM, WHAT DID YOU SAY? HOW KIMBERLY? I LIKE TO EXPLAIN THAT PUBLIC COMMENT.

WE GET FIVE MINUTES AND THEN THE TOWN BOARD WHEN IT'S OVER CAN RESPOND.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 PEOPLE EACH CAN HAVE FIVE MINUTES, YOU KNOW, EVEN PUT IT UP ON THE CLOCK THEIR TIME.

WE HAVE THE TOWN ATTORNEY BEING THE TIMEKEEPER.

WE'D LIKE TO SEE HOW MUCH TIME THE PUB THE TOWN BOARD IS TAKING UP WHEN THEY SPEAK.

SO PUT IT UP ON THE CLOCK SO WE CAN SEE IT AS WELL.

NOW THAT'S FAIR.

THAT'S FINE.

AGAIN, YOU, I CAME HERE FOR ANOTHER PURPOSE OF WHICH THEY KNOW.

BUT I WANNA MAKE ONE COMMENT.

THE MORE BETO MURANO CONNECTION, THAT'S KIND OF DISTURBING.

YOU REMEMBER LITTLE LEAGUE PARK MURANO? ALTHOUGH THE LITTLE PROBLEMS GOING ON THERE.

WELL, IT, IT WASN'T THE TOWN'S PROBLEM, WAS IT? IT WAS THE CONTRACTOR, RIGHT? MM-HMM .

ANYONE FROM THE TOWN SUING THE CONTRACTOR.

WE PAID MOREO BROTHERS FOR THEIR EFFORTS.

ARE WE GETTING THE MONEY BACK?

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I BELIEVE IT WAS THE TOWN WHICH WAS AT FAULT.

BUT THAT'S ANOTHER WAY YOU COVER UP THINGS AS YOU DO TODAY.

ON THE AGENDA THAT I'M HERE FOR, IT READS RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF GREENBURG ISSUING AN ADVISORY OPINION REGARDING A CODE OF ETHICS COMPLAINT RECEIVED MAY 20TH, 2026 IN THE CAPACITY OF THE ETHICS BOARD.

YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM ON THE, ON THE PAGE.

WHY DOES IT END THERE? KIND OF VAGUE AS IT IS.

SO LET'S READ WHAT YOU ONLY KNOW ABOUT IF YOU ARE HOME AND CAN GO ONLINE AND LOOK AT THE BACKUP FOR THE RESOLUTION.

SO THIS RESOLUTION ACTUALLY SAYS, WHEREAS A CODE OF ETHICS CITIZEN COMPLAINT DATED MAY 20TH, 2026 WAS FILED WITH THE TOWN CLERK ALLEGING A POTENTIAL VIOLATION OF THE CODE OF ETHICS OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG COMPLAINT.

AND WHEREAS PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 18 IN NEW YORK GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, IN THE CODE OF ETHICS, THE TOWN OF GREENBERG, THE TOWN BOARD IS AUTHORIZED TO ACT IN THE CAPACITY OF THE BOARD OF, OF THE BOARD OF ETHICS TO REVIEW ETHICS COMPLAINTS AND ISSUE DETERMINATIONS CONCERNING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ETHICS.

NOW, THAT'S VERY CLEAR, ISN'T IT? EVERYONE UNDERSTANDS IT.

WE, WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, DON'T WE? WELL, BUT LET'S EVEN USE THE LANGUAGE THAT MR. DANKO WAS THROWN HERE IN THE CAPACITY OF THE BOARD OF ETHICS.

WELL, WE HAVE A CODE OF ETHICS THANKS TO MR. CHIAN, AND IT HAS SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT HOW COMPLAINTS ARE BEING FILED AND HANDLED AND PROCESSED.

THE TOWN BOARD IS NOT EVEN FOLLOWING FOR PRESCRIBED PROCEDURES THAT THE BOARD OF ETHICS WOULD FOLLOW.

WHAT WAS THOSE LITTLE CHARADE THAT YOU PUT ON AT A WORK SESSION? THERE WERE NO RULES.

THERE WAS NOTHING TO GO BY.

NEITHER MR. HAYES OR MYSELF HAD ANY IDEA WHAT THEY WOULD TO EXPECT.

AND YET YOU'VE REACHED A DECISION AND A DECISION NOW WHICH ENDS, AND I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO TELL EVERYONE WHAT'S GOING ON HERE.

BUT THE REALITY IS THEY KNOW AND THEY KNOW WHAT'S COMING DOWN THE ROAD.

IF YOU WERE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ARTICLE 78, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE COMING OUT OF ALL THESE ETHICS COMPLAINTS, WHICH I'M GONNA BE FILING AGAINST TIM HAYES BECAUSE THEY'RE SO HAPPY AND CONTENT WITH HOW THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE TONIGHT AS A DECISION.

THE TOWN BOARD REMAINS CONFIDENT THAT MR. HAYES WILL TIMELY FILE FUTURE REPORTS AND THANKS HIM FOR HIS SERVICE.

WELL, HIS SERVICE WAS TO VIOLATE THE CODE OF ETHICS JUST TO P**S ALL OVER IT.

AND YOU WERE GONNA GO ALONG AND ALLOW HIM TO DO SO.

IN FACT, WHAT YOU REFER TO HERE IS SECTION 5 79 C, WHICH IS THE WAY YOU, YOU'LL LOOK ABOUT FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEM.

BUT WHAT YOU IGNORE IS 5 70 11 K, WHICH IS QUITE SPECIFIC, THAT IT ALREADY AUTHORIZES YOU HOW TO ACT.

IN FACT, 5 70 11 K SAYS THE TOWN BOARD, IT SHALL PROMPTLY TRANSMIT A COPY OF THE COMPLAINT TO THE TOWN BOARD, WHICH SHALL INVESTIGATE THE ALLEGATIONS OF THE COMPLAINT AND IF THE RESULTS OF ITS INVESTIGATION.

SO WARRANT, REMOVE THE MEMBER FROM THE BOARD OF ETHICS AND MAY IMPOSE ONE OR MORE OF THE PENALTIES PROVIDED FOR IN 5 79.

THAT'S WHAT MR. DANKO IS REFERRING TO.

BUT HE'S IGNORED THE FACT THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE THE POWER UNDER THE CODE OF ETHICS TO REMOVE MR. HAYES FROM THE BOARD OF ETHICS.

SO HE'S LEADING YOU IN A DIRECTION WHICH YOU NEEDN'T FOLLOW IF YOU TRULY BELIEVED THE ALLEGATIONS THAT WERE MADE AND AGREED TO BY MR IN THE COMPLAINT ITSELF.

ANYTHING ELSE YOU NEED? I WAS JUST GONNA SAY IT HAPPENS.

DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.

ALRIGHT.

I SHOULD HAVE CAME UP SOONER.

PUT MY NAME UP 'CAUSE I HAVE FOUR THINGS I WANT TO JUST MENTION.

ONE, WE ARE STILL GETTING, WHENEVER RAIN'S HEAVY, WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF FLOODING IN THE FAIRVIEW MANHATTAN AREA.

THE STREETS ARE STILL FLOODED.

IT'S ANYTHING BEING DONE.

DO WE HAVE THE ENGINEERS OR ANYBODY LOOKING OVER THERE EVERY TIME IT RAINS HEAVY, WHAT IS BEING DONE? OKAY, WE'RE STILL GETTING FLOODING.

MY CAR WAS DESTROYED IN 71.

I HAD, AND, UH, GOOD THING I HAD INSURANCE, IT

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WAS TAKEN CARE OF.

FOUR TO, THERE ARE FOUR TO SIX TOWNHOUSES BEING BUILT OVER THERE SINCE COVID LET THE, THE BUILDER DEVELOPER, I DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS, HAS STOPPED, IT'S DEPLORABLE OVER THERE, BUT THE HIGH, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH, WITH THE GRASS, THE TREES AND EVERYTHING, AND THE BUILDING IS NOT EVEN FILLED IN OR ANYTHING.

JUST YOU GOT THE STRUCTURE AND THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SEE.

I THINK THE TOWN NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.

ALSO ON DOPPS FERRY ROAD, I JUST HAVE, I HAVE A GOOD FRIEND THAT LIVES OVER THERE AND, UH, THERE'S A HOUSE THAT'S VACANT AND, UH, IT SEEMS, WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT? THOSE TREES THAT ARE BAMBOO, BAMBOO BAMBOO'S TAKEN OVER OVER THERE ACROSS FROM, UH, THE MEDICAL CENTER BUILDING THERE.

YOU NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT AS WELL.

AND WITH THE FLOODING AND EVERYTHING GOING ON AND ALL OF THAT GOING ON TO ALL THOSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE HOUSES OVER THERE, PEOPLE, PROPERTY ASSESSMENT TAXES ARE STILL GOING UP.

SO I KNOW THAT.

THANK YOU PAUL, FOR BRINGING UP, TRYING TO DO, WANTING TO DO SOMETHING.

I JUST WANNA KNOW, IS THERE ANYTHING STILL GOING ON REGARDING THE ASSESSMENT OF TAXES? ANYTHING? THAT'S WHY I WANTED, IF I'M ASKING THE BOARD, IF YOU ALL CAN LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE THE HOMEOWNERS ARE SUFFERING.

WE'VE GOT A LOT OF ELDERS AND SENIORS WHO REALLY NEEDS OUR HELP.

YOU GOT PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THEIR HOMES BY THEMSELVES.

THEY, AND, UH, YOU HAVE ALSO PEOPLE OF ALL OF DIFFERENT AGES WHO ARE NOT GETTING, UH, THE STAR BREAKS OR ANYTHING THAT THEY'RE ENTITLED TO.

UH, MAYBE SOME DON'T KNOW.

MAYBE SOME ARE JUST NOT TAKING, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

SO I, I KNOW YOU PUT IT ON YOUR CARDS, YOUR, WHEN YOU SENT OUT YOUR TAX BILLS AND EVERYTHING ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, ABOUT STAR BREAKS AND THINGS.

BUT I THINK SOMETHING MORE HAS TO BE DONE THERE TO HELP THE PEOPLE.

NO, AT THE SPEAKERS.

ANYBODY ON THE BOARD WANNA RESPOND TO ANYTHING? YES, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, I'D LIKE TO RESPOND TO CLIFF'S, UM, REMARKS AND THE, UH, FAIRVIEW DEMOCRATIC, UH, DISTRICT LEADERS REGARDING THE SCAFFOLDING.

UM, I I AGREE.

IT'S A DANGEROUS SITUATION.

IT IS AN EYESORE.

UM, DO WE HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING AS THE LEGALITY, SORRY, MR. DANKO, UH, WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN, CAN WE GET A RULING ON THAT ASPECT OF IT OR CAN WE NOT? I'D LIKE TO PROVIDE THAT ANSWER IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.

THERE'S SOMETHING, YES, THERE'S SOMETHING.

BUT WE DID DO NEED TO GIVE A DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT THAT.

SO WE HEAR YOU.

THANKS.

ANYBODY ELSE ON THE BOARD? YES.

SO, UM, MS. , WITH REGARDS TO THE TOWNHOUSE MICROPHONE, OH, SORRY, SORRY.

WITH REGARDS, WITH REGARDS TO THE TOWNHOUSE, UM, THERE'S APPROVALS BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD.

SO THERE ARE, BEFORE THE BOARD, BOARD, THE TWO BOARDS RIGHT NOW, THAT TOWNHOUSES THAT'S BEING, UM, WORKED ON, THAT'S BEING BUILT THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED.

SO THEY ARE SOMETHING ? YES.

THERE'S SOMETHING, YES.

THEY'RE BEFORE THE BOARD.

UH, WHAT'S RELATES TO, WHAT'S RELATED TO THE, UH, THE FLOODING? UM, LORD, THERE YOU GO.

I JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW THAT, UM, I EVEN GOT PICTURES TODAY.

WE CONTINUOUSLY ARE CLEANING OUT THAT AREA OVER BY, UM, I WAS GONNA SAY RIDGE ROAD, BUT IT'S NOT RIDGE ROAD.

IT'S, UM, KENSICO ROAD.

UM, SO WE CONTINUOUSLY CLEAN THAT AREA OUT.

AND TO YOUR POINT, AND TO YOUR POINT, MS. MCGEE, WE HAVE TO DO THAT BECAUSE THAT PARTICULAR AREA IS WHAT WE CALL A CHOKE POINT.

SO AS WE ARE CLEANING OUT THE DIFFERENT AREAS, AND THIS IS WHY WE KEEP GOING AROUND THE DIFFERENT NE NEIGHBORHOODS TO CLEAN IT OUT.

WE ARE HOPING OUR WORK IN WHAT WE'RE DOING, AND WE'VE SEEN SOME, WE'VE SEEN SOME RELIEF THAT WILL HOPEFULLY AFFECT, UM, THE FLOODING.

BUT WE CAN'T CONTROL, WE CAN'T CONTROL, UNFORTUNATELY, MOTHER NATURE, BUT STAFF IS OUT GOING BACK.

IT'S WORSE, IT'S WORSE.

IT CAN'T BE A BACK AND FORTH.

SO, AND, AND UNDERSTAND, COMPLAIN, UNDERSTAND.

SO, UM, BUT I DO, I AM EXCITED, YOU KNOW, I RECEIVED PICTURES TODAY OF ALL THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AND NOT THE PARTICULAR AREA, AND THAT IS THE AREA WHERE WE'RE HAVING A LOT OF ISSUES AT.

SO, UM, WORK IS CONTINUOUSLY BEING DONE.

SO THANK YOU TO, UM, PUBLIC WORKS.

UM, AND, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO THAT, LOOKING AT THE BRIDGE THAT WAS CLOGGED, TAKE A LOOK NOW.

'CAUSE AFTER WE LEFT AND WE WERE DRENCHED AND I WAS ACTUALLY TAKING PICTURES, HOLDING ONTO TO PO POISON IVY, UM, FOR HOURS TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WORK CONTINUED AND THERE WAS A PROGRESSION, BUT THEN IT GOT TOO

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DANGEROUS FOR THEM TO BE DOWN BECAUSE THE WATER STARTED TO RISE, NOT ENOUGH TO FLOOD ANYBODY.

AND WE DIDN'T HEAR ANYBODY BEING FLOODED BECAUSE THEY HAD OPENED UP TWO OF THE THREE PASSAGEWAYS AFTER WE LEFT.

THERE WAS STILL DISCUSSIONS GOING ON AND THE COUNTY CAME BACK AND NOW THE THIRD ONE IS OPEN AND IT'S, I DON'T KNOW THE LAST TIME THAT THAT HAPPENED.

APPRECIATE IT.

ANYBODY ELSE WANNA COMMENT? UH, I HAVE, UM, UH, YES, UH, TWO COMMENTS.

I, I'D LIKE, UH, MS. CLE, UH, YOU MENTIONED SENIORS NOT UNDERSTANDING THE STAR EXEMPTIONS, UM, AND SOME OTHER THINGS.

SO MAYBE, UM, WE, WE'LL TALK, WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT HOW WE CAN, UH, HAVE SOME KIND OF, UM, MAYBE A WORKSHOP OR A TOWN HALL TO PRESENT THE, THE DETAILS JUST AS A REFRESHER OR AT LEAST GIVE THEM A HANDOUT WITH SOME INFORMATION.

SO, YOU KNOW, JUST SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW WE, WE HANDLE THAT.

UM, AND AS, AS, UH, COUNCILWOMAN JACKSON REFERENCED, UM, AND THIS, THIS SPEAKS TO FLOODING AND TO SNOW.

THEY DO FOR THIS TOWN AND HOW MUCH THEY CARE.

IT'S, IT'S, IT'S THE WEATHER CONDITIONS, UH, CLIMATE CONDITIONS HAVE GOTTEN SO FAR WORSE.

AND WE HAD SO MUCH SNOW LAST YEAR.

WE HAD A LOT OF, UH, RAINFALL OVER THE LAST COUPLE, FEW YEARS WHERE WE'VE HAD TWO AND THREE INCHES IN AN HOUR'S TIME.

AND EVEN WITH THE BEST, BEST REMEDIATION, UH, WE CAN'T, THE, THE, THE GROUND AND THE, AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE CANNOT ABSORB THAT AMOUNT OF WATER COMING ALL AT ONCE.

AND IT'S REALLY CREATES TREMENDOUS SUFFERING.

AND, AND I THINK WE, WE ALL ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT IT.

UM, WITH CUTBACKS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, WHICH TRICKLE DOWN TO CUTBACKS, TO THE MUNICIPAL, TO THE STATE GOVERNMENT, AND MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTS, IT BECOMES VERY PROBLEMATIC.

SO WE'RE ALL, UM, WE'RE ALL HAVING TO WORK TOGETHER TO ALLEVIATE THE BEST WE CAN.

UM, CERTAINLY SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE PROBLEMS VIS-A-VIS, UH, DEBRIS IS DEBRIS THAT PEOPLE THROW INTO THE WHAT'S AMAZING, THE THINGS THAT THEY'VE FOUND, UH, WHETHER IT'S IT'S TIRES OR DISHWASHERS OR ANY KIND OF, SO WE JUST ASK AS A GENERAL RULE TO PLEASE, UH, NOT MAKE A BAD SITUATION WORSE.

SHOPPING CART.

UM, I JUST, I HAVE A LOT OF NOTES HERE, A LOT OF THINGS THAT I WANTED TO SAY, BUT, UM, WE'VE SAT HERE AND WE'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF PEOPLE, UM, CRITICIZE EVERYTHING WE'VE DONE.

UM, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THERE WAS REFERENCE, FOR INSTANCE, TO, UH, TO, TO COUNCILMAN SHEEN WHO WORKED VERY HARD IN CRAFTING THE ETHICS RULES.

THERE'S REFERENCE, AND HE SPOKE ABOUT ALL THE TIME HE SPENT WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND TRYING VERY HARD TO MAKE EVERYTHING RIGHT, MAKE FIRE DEPARTMENTS ACCOUNTABLE, AND MAKE SURE THAT THE, THE BILLING IS IN SO THAT THE TOWN, THE TOWN BEING YOU AND US AS TAXPAYERS, AREN'T PAYING FOR THINGS THAT ARE NOT JUSTIFIED.

THERE'S SO MUCH MORE THAT HE HAS DONE THAT, UH, FRANCIS SHEEN AND GINA JACKSON JUST TALKED ABOUT BEING DOWN FOR HOURS TO WATCH AND TO HELP CLEAR THE DEBRIS THERE.

I I, I'VE SPOKEN TO SO MANY OTHER MEMBERS OF OTHER BOARDS WHO ARE AMAZED AT HOW MUCH MORE WORK WE PUT INTO THIS TOWN.

I HAVE TO COMMEND MY FELLOW, FELLOW TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT THEY DO.

AND, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY I, IM NOT LOOKING FOR ANY APPROPRIATION FOR MYSELF, BUT I JUST THINK THAT IT IS REALLY UNRECOGNIZED AT HOW MUCH

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AND I, I, I WISH THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE MORE RESPECTFUL AND UNDERSTANDING OF THAT INSTEAD OF, OF, OF, OF BELIEVING, UM, SOMETHING THAT IS CRAFTED TO MAKE US LOOK AS IF WE ARE NOT DOING WHAT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE TOWN.

YOUR HONOR, I JUST HAVE, UM, UM, A FEW COMMENTS.

FIRST.

UM, UH, WE WERE TALKING, UM, ABOUT THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE AND YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT LYNN DID A, A VERY, UH, GOOD JOB HEADING IT UP, BUT I ALSO FEEL THAT THE COMMITTEE SHOULD BE MORE INCLUSIVE.

ERICA, UM, UM, UH, BHE AND CLIFF ABRAMS HAD EXPRESSED INTEREST IN BEING ON, UM, YOU KNOW, ON, UH, THIS COMMITTEE.

AND EVEN IF MEMBERS, SOME MEMBERS OF THE BOARD DISAGREE, UM, WITH WITH THEM ON ISSUES OR DON'T LIKE THEIR APPROACH, THEY BOTH ARE VERY DEDICATED TO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES.

AND THEY BOTH HAVE AS MUCH EXPERIENCE AND AS MUCH PASSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AS ANYBODY ELSE ON THE COMMITTEE.

AND I CAN CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHY, UM, ERICA, WHO HAS HER OWN CABLE TV SHOW FOCUSING ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND IS, YOU KNOW, IS TREATING IT LIKE A JOB AND WORKING SO HARD, INTERVIEWING PEOPLE ALL OVER THE COUNTY AND IS RESPECTED ALL OVER THE COUNTY.

WHY WE WON'T EVEN INTERVIEW HER WASTE TO TIME IT.

UM, BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, SO, SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RESPECT, SHE'S, AND WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR TRANSPARENCY AND INCLUSIVENESS, MADAM CLERK, ARE YOU TIMING? WE, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T, I THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO, WE DIDN'T.

WE JUST, THAT'S UNACCEPTABLE, ESPECIALLY SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BE MEMBER.

YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT WE SHOULD BE, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD BE, YOU KNOW, INCLUSIVE AND NOT, AND NOT, NOT, UH, TRY DIS UH, STOPPING ME FROM EXPRESSING MYSELF BECAUSE THIS IS A DEMOCRACY.

I WAS ELECTED TOWN SUPERVISOR.

I DON'T, I HAVE NEVER TOLD ANYBODY ELSE THAT THEY CAN'T TALK.

AND I DON'T EXPECT ANYBODY TO EVER TRY TO SHUT ME UP BECAUSE I'M NOT GONNA BE SHUT UP AT, AT WORK SESSIONS OR AT TOWN BOARD MEETINGS.

I'M GONNA SPEAK MY MIND.

UM, AND YOU KNOW, EVEN THE AGENDA THAT WE HAVE TODAY WHERE WE'RE BASICALLY HAVING RULES AND REGULATIONS, YOU WANNA SAY IF THREE BOARD MEMBERS DON'T WANNA PUT SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA, CAN'T BE DISCUSSED.

YOU KNOW, IF GEORGE LATIMER IS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, HE HAS A PROPOSAL, HE COULD INTRODUCE LEGISLATION, UM, ANY MEMBER OF THE STATE ASSEMBLY, WHETHER IN THE MINORITY OR MAJORITY THEY COULD INTRODUCE LEGISLATION, NOBODY IS GONNA SHUT ME UP AND TELL ME THAT I CAN'T SPEAK AT A WORK SESSION.

AND, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST, I'M, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M GONNA INSIST ON.

AND IN TERMS OF THE ISSUE WITH ASSESSMENTS, UM, YOU KNOW, I HAD, UM, DURING THE CAMPAIGN, UM, I MENTIONED, OH, IT SHOULD BE, MAYBE WE SHOULD LOOK AT FIVE YEAR, UH, NOT DOING IT.

AND IT TURNED OUT THAT THE ASSESSOR MENTIONED THAT, YOU KNOW, THE ASSESSMENTS COULD, UM, INCREASE 50, 60% IN ONE YEAR.

SO THAT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA.

BUT ONE OF THE THOUGHTS I HAD, UM, IS THAT PERHAPS IF SOMEBODY IS, AND YOU KNOW, WE WOULD NEED STATE LEGISLATION FOR THIS, BUT IF SOMEBODY IS HOUSE RICH AND CASH POOR, MAYBE A SENIOR CITIZEN OR LIVING ON A, A FIXED INCOME, MAYBE, UM, UH, WE COULD, UM, ASK FOR STATE LEGISLATION THAT WOULD ENABLE THEM TO DEFER THAT ONLY THE ASSESSMENT INCREASES WITH INTEREST UNTIL, UM, UNTIL THEY, UM, YOU KNOW, MOVE, UH, FROM THEIR HOUSE.

BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO AT SOME POINT.

NO, I'M, THIS IS JUST LIKE AN IDEA, BUT I THINK THAT WE, THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON.

SHOULD THE TWO OF THEM ARE, ARE TALKING ACROSS YOU AND IT'S REALLY RUDE.

I, I STOPPED THE CLOCK.

CAN WE CONTINUE? OKAY.

WELL, ALL, ALL I'M SAYING IS THAT I THINK THAT WE SHOULD HAVE, THAT THERE ARE ISSUES THAT PEOPLE ARE HAVING.

AND MY IDEA MAY NOT BE THE BEST IDEA, BUT I THINK THAT THERE SHOULD BE DIALOGUE AND WE SHOULD KEEP THINKING OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES THAT COULD HELP PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, STRUGGLING WITH ANY, YOU KNOW, INCREASES.

AND THERE MAY BE WAYS THAT WILL NOT, UH, HURT THE TOWN, BUT COULD PROVIDE SOME RELIEF TO PEOPLE WHO, ESPECIALLY SENIORS AND PEOPLE ON FIXED COMES WHO NEED IT.

SO I'M GONNA BE MEETING WITH, UM, THE ASSESSOR AND DISCUSSING THAT.

AND, UH, THAT'S BASICALLY ALL I WAS GONNA SAY.

I JUST, I JUST WANNA JUST INTERVENE REALLY QUICKLY.

WHAT WE WERE DOING WAS TAKING THE SUGGESTION OF, I THINK IT WAS HAL MENTIONED TO TIME,

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THAT'S ALL IT WAS.

EXACTLY.

WE WERE NOT SHUTTING YOU DOWN.

WE WERE NOT TRYING TO SILENCE YOU.

WHY DID YOU DO IT AGAIN? WAIT, EXCUSE ME.

WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT WITH, WITH BEFORE? THERE'S NO YELLING OUT FOR THE, OKAY.

SO I'M GOING TO EX, LIKE I SAID, AS I MENTIONED, THERE WAS NO SHUTTING DOWN OF THE SUPERVISOR.

WE WERE TRYING, AS PEOPLE SAY, THAT WE DON'T LISTEN, IMPLEMENT A SUGGESTION OF ONE OF THE RESIDENTS.

SO, NO, IT WASN'T HIDDEN.

SO IT WASN'T, AND THATS ALL THAT WAS CLOCK.

THAT'S, THATS, THAT'S ALL.

ALRIGHT, THAT'S, THAT'S THE END OF IT.

LET'S MOVE THE AGENDA.

I WAS KEEPING TRACK OF IT ON MY PHONE.

NO ONE WENT OVER TIME.

DON'T.

I'M TREATING EVERYONE FAIRLY.

LET'S MOVE THE AGENDA.

APPOINTMENT OF BRIAN LAVA.

CAN I, CAN I JUST MAKE ONE QUICK STATEMENT PLEASE? SURE.

UM, I THINK MY OFFICE WAS UNFAIRLY DISRESPECTED TONIGHT AND IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS PRETTY OFTEN.

SO I'M GONNA SAY THIS ON BEHALF OF AMANDA MAGNA, PEGGY TAGLIA, ED LIEBERMAN, LIZ GARRITY, AND MY STAFF WHO WORK HARD ON A DAILY BASIS AS MUNICIPAL ATTORNEYS, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DEAL WITH A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES.

AND OUR JOB IS TO GATHER THE FACTS, PERFORM A LEGAL ANALYSIS AND GUIDE OUR CLIENTS.

THE PAST FEW YEARS, I'VE NOTICED WHEN WE HIRE SPECIAL COUNSEL, WE'RE AUTOMATICALLY WASTING THE TOWN'S RESOURCES.

AND WHEN WE DON'T HIRE SPECIAL COUNSEL, WE'RE CALLED INCOMPETENT AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THE JOB.

, I DON'T APPRECIATE IT.

UM, WE HAVE DISCUSSED LEGAL STRATEGY WITH THE TOWN BOARD.

WE KNEW WE WERE GOING TO GET SUED.

THERE WERE RISKS FOR PASSING TB FIVE.

THERE WERE EVEN GREATER RISKS FOR NOT PASSING TB FIVE.

AND NOW WE LIVE IN THIS SCENARIO THAT YES, I WILL BE DEFENDING THE TOWN IN COURT.

UM, THAT LEGAL DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD IS SUBJECT TO THE ATTORNEY CLIENT PRIVILEGE.

I WILL NOT BE TELLING THE AUDIENCE ABOUT THE LEGAL ADVICE I GAVE ON THIS MATTER OR ANY OTHER MATTERS.

I WILL NOT BE DEFENDING MURANO.

HOWEVER, I AM IN TOUCH WITH THEIR ATTORNEY.

DID WE TRY TO SETTLE? UNFORTUNATELY THE OPPOSING PARTY REFUSED TO CALL.

I OFFERED ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

THERE WAS NO CHANCE TO EVEN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION.

AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT ONE FINAL TIME THAT THE REASON WHY TB FIVE WAS PASSED IS BECAUSE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE AT THAT BUILDING ARE INHALING TOXIC SEWAGE FUMES.

THOSE BYPASS PUMPS CANNOT REMAIN OPERATIONAL.

THEY WILL CONTINUE TO FAIL NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY'RE CHECKED UP ON.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE.

THE TOWN BOARD HAD TO MAKE A DECISION.

DO WE RISK GETTING SUED TO TRY TO HELP THE RESIDENTS? SO I COMMEND YOU FOR THAT DECISION.

AM I GUARANTEEING A WIN? ABSOLUTELY NOT.

IT'LL BE UP TO THE JUDGE.

WE'LL GO IN WITH THE BEST DEFENSE POSSIBLE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE RESULTS AND WHERE WE MOVE ON FROM HERE.

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THE PROBLEMS FAILED? MONDAY? I THINK TWO DAYS.

ALRIGHT, CAN WE MOVE ON? FREQUENT OCCURRENCE NEXT, UM,

[ Appointment of Bryan Lavetan to the Antenna Review Board, for a term to expire December 31, 2029]

10 TO THE ANTENNA REVIEW BOARD FOR A TERM TO EXPIRE DECEMBER 31ST, 2029.

I'D JUST LIKE TO, UM, COMMEND, UH, BRIAN FOR BEING AN EXCEPTIONAL, UM, UH, CITIZEN, UH, IN THE TOWN.

HE'S SHOWN UP AT, UH, UH, MANY TOWN BOARD MEETINGS.

UM, MANY CIVIC ACTIVITIES.

UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT HE'S GONNA BE EXCEPT AN OUTSTANDING MEMBER.

AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE HIM WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY DON'T ALWAYS AGREE ON ISSUES OR ON POLITICS.

BUT YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT, UM, YOUR HEART'S IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND I KNOW YOU'RE VERY DEDICATED.

AND THIS IS THE, YOU ARE THE TYPE OF PERSON, UH, WE NEED IN PUBLIC SERVICE BECAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.

AND THAT'S WHY I'M, I'M PROUD TO SUPPORT YOUR, UH, YOUR NOMINATION.

YOUR APPOINTMENT.

BUT I RECRUITED HIM AND HE'S ACTUALLY ATTENDED NOT JUST ONE ATTEND BOARD MEETING, BUT ANOTHER ONE.

AND HE HAS ANOTHER ONE TOMORROW.

BUT TOMORROW HE'S ACTUALLY GONNA GET THE BIG BINDERS AND, UH, AND I, I KNOW HE IS GONNA BE FINE AND IT IS THE ATTEND, ATTEND REVIEW BOARD AND HE'S ATTENDANCE SOME MEETINGS AND HE STILL WANTS MORE.

HE'S GLU FOR PUNISHMENT.

THAT'S RIGHT.

SO DID YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING? UH, WANNA SAY THANK YOU? ALRIGHT.

LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

IN CASE THAT DIDN'T GET PICK UP.

HE SAID THANK YOU.

LET'S, UM, THAT WAS LIKE THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS.

YOU MADE THAT MOTION.

I'LL SECOND ALMOST SAYS GREATEST SPEECH.

I ASSUME THAT WAS A MOTION.

SO I SECOND IT.

UH, WELL IN FAVOR, AYE.

I SECOND RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD.

DID TB ONE

[ TB 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh Authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into an agreement with Dare To Be Different Westchester Incorporated (“Dare”) to operate a Farmer's Market on Elm Street and to close a section of Elm Street to vehicular traffic at its intersection with Manhattan Avenue, on the following Saturdays: August 15, August 29, September 12, September 26, October 10, October 24, November 7, November 14, November 21, from 10:00am to 2:00pm ]

OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

AUTHORIZING WE HAVE THE INSURANCE NOW WHAT WE DO? YES.

THAT YES, WE ARE LISTED AS AN ADDITIONAL INSURANCE.

TERRIFIC.

LET'S GO.

AUTHORIZING, UH, THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH DEER TO BE DIFFERENT.

WESTCHESTER INCORPORATED DEER TO OPERATE A FARMER'S MARKET IN ELM STREET AND TO CLOSE THE SECTION OF ELM STREET TO, UH, TRAFFIC

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AT ITS INTERSECTION WITH MANHATTAN AVENUE ON THE FOLLOWING.

SATURDAY IS AUGUST 15TH.

NOVEMBER 7TH, NOVEMBER 14TH, NOVEMBER 21.

AND, UM, NOVEMBER, UH, FROM 10 TO TWO.

AND I'D LIKE TO UH, MOVE THAT SECOND.

SO COLBY, I'LL SEE YOU ON SATURDAY AND I REALLY WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE TOWN.

YOU DO REALLY AN EXCEPTIONAL JOB AND DESERVE A LOT OF, A LOT OF CREDIT.

IT WAS REALLY VERY DIFFICULT.

YOU WENT THROUGH A LOT OF OBSTACLES AND A LOT OF IT WAS, IT WAS A, IT WAS TOUGHER TO GET IT STARTED, BUT YOU NEVER GAVE UP AND IT'S NOW ONE OF THE BEST MARKETS AROUND, YOU KNOW? SO THANK YOU.

UM, WHEN, WHEN WILL, UH, I BE ABLE TO SIGN IT, WOULD YOU THINK? ONCE I HAVE A STAMPED RESOLUTION, WHICH MAYBE TOMORROW THAT YEAH, I MEAN IT'S WHENEVER WE GET IT.

WHAT'S THAT? CAN WE, AS LONG AS THERE'S INSURANCE, IT'S READY TO GO.

WE HAVE THE INSURANCE INSURANCE SO I COULD SIGN IT TOMORROW.

THE ADJOURNS UPLOADED.

WHAT? NO, JUST GIVE IT TO HOLLY.

WE, WE GOT IT AT PAST EIGHT O'CLOCK.

SO THIS MEETING HAD ALREADY STARTED WHEN RIGHT.

WE RECEIVED IT.

SO GET IT TO HOLLY AS LONG AS WE HAVE.

'CAUSE THAT'S THE REMAINING HOLDOUT ON THAT ISSUE.

RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN, TBT RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AUTHORIZING THE SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO A PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAX AGREEMENT BY AND AMONG THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORP AND FRANKLIN COURTS PARTNERS, UM, UH, PROPERTY COMMONLY REFERRED AS FRANKLIN COURTS.

OTHER THAN THAT, IT'S READY TO GO.

SO WE'LL SIGN IT TOMORROW.

[ TB 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing the Supervisor to enter into a Payment-In-Lieu-Of Tax Agreement by and among the Town of Greenburgh (The “Town”), A [To Be Formed] Housing Development Fund Corp (The “HDFC”), And Franklin Courts JV Partners L.P. (The “Partnership”) for property Commonly Referred to as “Franklin Courts” in the Village of Tarrytown]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT IN THE VILLAGE OF TARRYTOWN, RIGHT? I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR?

[ TB 3 - 8/12/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh issuing a decision regarding a Code of Ethics Complaint, received May 20, 2026, in the capacity of the Ethics Board]

TB THREE RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG ISSUING A DECISION REGARDING CODE OF ETHICS COMPLAINT RECEIVED MAY 20TH IN THE CAPACITY OF ETHICS BOARD.

TB FOUR RESOLUTION.

I JUST WANNA POINT OUT HOW MUST HAVE PRINTED OUT A MUCH EARLIER VERSION OF THE AGENDA.

'CAUSE THIS IS NOT ADVISORY.

WE DON'T GIVE ADVISORY OPINIONS.

RESOLUTION OF THE, THE TB FOUR RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN.

[ TB 4 - 08/12/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh authorizing a moderator to regulate the Town's Social Media Policy, Public Use Policy for Town Sponsored (or gives the appearance of being Town Sponsored) Media and Digital Platforms, and Employee Personal Use of Social Media Policy]

UM, I'M, I'M NOT ON, UM, I'M GONNA ABSTAIN FROM THAT BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE ALL THE NEGATIVE, UH, INFORMATION ABOUT THE ON THE TOWN WEBSITE TO BE REMOVED, UH, FROM THE EXISTING, YOU KNOW, WEBSITE.

AND I FEEL THAT THIS IS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT, UM, MOTION THAT WE HAVE TO SEND A MESSAGE, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY THAT, UH, THIS WEBSITE IS NOT GONNA BE, UH, POLITICIZED AND WE'RE NOT GONNA BE, UH, ENGAGING IN NEGATIVITY ABOUT THE TOWN BECAUSE OF THE, THE, THE WEBSITE IS A, A BIG EMBARRASSMENT TO, UH, TO THE TOWN OF GREENBURG TB FOUR.

RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD, OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AUTHORIZING A MODERATOR TO REGULATE THE TOWN'S SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY, PUBLIC USE POLICY FOR THE TOWN SPONSORED OR GIVES THE APPEARANCE OF BEING CHILD SPONSORED MEDIA AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS AND EMPLOYEE PERSONAL USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY.

UH, UH, FIVE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN SUPERVISOR TO EXECUTE A STORMWATER MANAGEMENT FACILITY MAINTENANCE AGREEMENT BETWEEN GREENBURG 20, UH, TARRYTOWN ROAD REALTY AND CITY OF WHITE PLAINS.

UH, I'M, IT WOULD'VE STAYED UNDERSTOOD.

UH, CCB,

[ TB 5 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to execute a Stormwater Management Facility Maintenance Agreement between the Town of Greenburgh, 20 TT Road Realty, LLC, and the City of White Plains]

SIX RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES AND PROCEDURES? UH, ACTUALLY, UH, I'M, I'M NOT, I'M VOTING NO ON THAT, UH, BECAUSE I'M VOTING NO BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.

UM, TB

[ TB 6 - 08/12/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh adopting amendments to the rules and procedures adopted on February 11, 2026, with regard to Town Rules of Order]

UM, MOTION PLEASE.

ANY, UH, THAT AS SOON AS HE GIVES HIS EXPRESSION, THREE BOARD MEMBERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHAT'S GONNA BE PUT ON, UM, ON ANY AGENDA.

I THINK THAT ALL OF US AS ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS OURSELVES ON ANYTHING THAT WE THINK IS IMPORTANT.

SO I'M VOTING NO.

I ACTUALLY HAVE AN AMEND AN AMENDMENT TO THAT AS WELL.

YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD? YEAH, SO I WOULD JUST, WOULD, I, I DIDN'T ACTUALLY REALIZE, AND THAT'S ON ME FOR NOT SEEING THAT THIS DETAIL, BUT IN, UH, SECTION SECTION THREE, ITEM UNDER RULES B, WHERE IT SAYS, AND THIS IS REPEATED LATER IN THE, UM, IN THE RULES IN BOARD MEMBER SHALL BE ENTITLED TO A RESPONSE PERIOD OF FIVE MINUTES PER TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.

NOW I THINK THAT'S EXCESSIVE.

I THINK IT SHOULD BE FIVE MINUTES AND A THREE MINUTE REBUTTAL PERIOD.

I THINK PER TOPIC OF DISCUSSION IS, IS AS I SAID, EXCESSIVE AND I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER THAT BEING IN ORIGINALLY, BUT IT ALSO, UH, IS REPEATED, UH, IN SECTION

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13.

UH OH, SAME THING.

SO THAT'S MY PROPOSED AMENDMENT, RIGHT? I THINK THAT'S GOOD.

SO I'LL WE MOVE.

SO I HAD MENTIONED THIS TO JOE THIS AFTERNOON.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU MENTIONED TO ANYBODY, BUT I JUST SAW IT NOW.

BUT IF WE HAD, LIKE WE HAD LAST WEEK WHERE WE HAD SO MANY PEOPLE, I THINK THERE WERE 20 PEOPLE SPEAKING AND WE HAVE TO, AND IT COULD BE ALL DIFFERENT TOPICS AND WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES TO ADDRESS EVERY ONE OF THOSE TOPICS.

I'M NOT, I'M NOT VOTING FOR THIS BECAUSE I KNOW THE SUPERVISORS ALREADY SAID HE'S NOT FOLLOWING THESE RULES.

HE'S NOT GONNA STOP AT FIVE MINUTES.

HE DOES.

HE'S GONNA SAY THAT IT'S A DEPRIVATION OF HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS TO SPEAK.

AND SO WHY WOULD I LIVE IN MYSELF IF HE'S NOT GONNA LIMIT HIMSELF? I THINK THERE ARE SOME VERY GOOD POINTS IN THIS RULE AND THESE RULES THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE, BUT I CAN'T IMPOSE SOMETHING ON THE REST OF US THAT HE WILL THEN USE AGAINST US WHEN HE HAS ALREADY SAID, AND HE SAID IT PUBLICLY, HE'S NOT GONNA FOLLOW HIM.

SO I'M NOT SUPPORTING THIS EITHER.

BUT NOW WE GET TO A POINT WHERE NO MATTER HOW MANY DIFFERENT TOPICS, WHETHER IT BE FLOODING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, OR THE, THE, UM, THE, UM, BACKYARD PICKUP OR YOU NAMED THE MYRIAD OF TOPICS THAT GET TALKED ABOUT, SOMEHOW WE CAN RESPOND.

SO TERSELY THAT IT'S BASICALLY MEANINGLESS IN FIVE MINUTES BEFORE I I, THAT THAT BY TOPIC IS IN THERE SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING, WHOEVER WROTE THE RULES.

UM, BUT NOW IT'S EVEN MORE LIMITED AND I, I, I THINK THE MAIN RULE WE NEED IS TO NOT SPEAK OVER EACH OTHER.

AND IF WE IMPOSED THAT RULE AND EVERYBODY AGREED TO IT, NOT SPEAK OVER SOMEBODY ELSE OR TRYING TO SHOUT SOMEBODY DOWN, I THINK THIS WOULD BE A MUCH BETTER DISCUSSION.

UM, BUT I'M VOTING THOUGH.

OKAY, WELL, SO WE MOVE IT.

ARE WE GONNA MOVE? WAIT, I, I JUST WANNA REBUT THAT FOR A SECOND.

, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT, FRANCIS, HOWEVER, THE PUBLIC HAS SPOKEN OUT QUITE STRONGLY THAT THEY FEEL WE SPEND TOO MUCH TIME SPEAKING IN BETWEEN US, EVEN WHEN WE DON'T TALK OVER EACH OTHER, THAT WE TAKE UP TOO MUCH TIME.

SO THIS WAS AN EFFORT FOR US TO BE RESPECTFUL OF THEIR TIME AND TO LIMIT OURSELVES TO FIVE MINUTES BEFORE THAT THERE WAS, WE HAD NO RULES WHATSOEVER.

I MEAN, WE CAN'T RESPOND TO EVERYTHING, OBVIOUSLY NOT.

WE TAKE, WE, WE PICK AND CHOOSE WHETHER IS OUR PRIORITY AND WE RESPOND ABOUT THAT.

THAT'S HOW I LOOK AT HOW WE WOULD DO THIS.

UM, BUT IF YOU PUT OUT SOMETHING THAT SAYS PRIORITY, IT GIVES THE IMPRESSION THAT IF WE DON'T RESPOND TO ANY OTHER OF SOMEONE ELSE'S CONCERN THAT WE ONLY CHOOSE, WE DON'T CARE.

WHAT WE DETERMINE IS OUR TOP THREE OR OUR PRIORITY, AS YOU JUST SAID, I USED YOUR WORD.

SO I THINK WE JUST, I THINK, I'M SORRY I USED THE WRONG WORD.

I SHOULD SAY URGENCY THEN.

URGENCY STILL.

I THINK STILL, I THINK, UH, WE, IT GETS TO A POINT WHERE WE ARE, WE ARE DETERMINING WHAT'S URGENT AS WELL.

SO THAT'S OUR JOB.

WE JUST NEED TO, YEAH, BUT IF SOMEONE HAS COME UP WITH CONCERNS, I UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR JOB IS SINCE I'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR SIX YEARS.

UM, BUT I THINK, I THINK AT THIS POINT THAT HOW DO WE DETERMINE WHAT'S IMPORTANT? 'CAUSE SOMETHING THAT I'LL USE DYLAN, 'CAUSE YOU'RE SITTING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, SOMETHING THAT DYLAN MAY SAY, HE MAY HAVE HAD FOUR OR FIVE IN FOUR OR FIVE ISSUES, SOMEBODY ELSE MAY HAVE HAD SOMETHING.

BUT HOW DO WE PICK AND CHOOSE WHAT'S MORE IMPORTANT OVER THE OTHER? I JUST, I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT ASSESSMENT.

IF WE'RE GOING TO RESPOND, THEN WE SHOULD JUST RESPOND.

WE SHOULDN'T BE LIMITED BECAUSE THERE'S AN EXPECTATION THAT WE DO RESPOND AND THAT WE GIVE IT TO ALL THE TOPICS THAT ARE BROUGHT FORTH, THOSE THAT WE CAN RESPOND TO.

SO YOU WERE AWARE THAT WE HAVE FIVE MINUTES FOR EACH TOPIC OF DISCUSSION.

BEFORE I BROUGHT THIS UP, I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT AS I, AS WELL.

EXACTLY.

SO I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT AS WELL, BUT I'M JUST, I'M JUST RESPONDING TO THE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DETERMINING WHAT'S URGENT AND WHAT'S PRIORITY, I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD DETERMINE THAT.

I THINK WE SHOULD JUST RESPOND.

I THINK IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT OBVIOUSLY THERE IS NOT A CLEAR, CONCISE DETERMINATION THAT WE CAN ALL AGREE TO AT THIS POINT.

SO I THINK THAT WE GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND WE LOOK AT IT AGAIN.

I'LL RETRACT MY AMENDMENT THEN LET'S JUST VOTE ON WHAT WE HAVE.

I, I THINK, BUT WE'RE GONNA VOTE ON THIS AND, AND LET'S BE REALISTIC.

EVERYONE HAS WATCHED THESE MEETINGS.

EVERYONE HAS SEEN THE, THE EVENTS THAT OCCUR AT BOTH MEETINGS HERE IN WORK SESSION.

YOU KNOW, WHAT WE STRUGGLE WITH THESE PARTICULAR RULES IS THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA PUT SOMETHING IN PLACE AND THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE FOLLOWED.

SO I PERSONALLY DON'T WANNA DO WINDOW DRESSING.

IF WE'RE REALLY GOING TO, ARE WE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT MOVING THESE RULES? THEN WE NEED TO ADHERE TO THESE RULES.

I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY WHO'S VOTED ON THIS UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE THE RULES THAT WE NEED TO FOLLOW BY FOLLOW BY, MM-HMM .

[03:20:01]

WE SHOULDN'T JUST PICK AND CHOOSE WHEN WE SAY, WELL, I DON'T WANNA BE CENSORED OR I DON'T WANNA BE THIS, I'M NOT TARGETING ANYBODY.

I'M TALKING TO THE WHOLE BOARD.

BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE, BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN BACK AND FORTH SINCE JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MAYBE, MAYBE NOT EVEN JANUARY, MAYBE LAST YEAR, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THESE RULES AND THEN THIS, AND THESE RULES AREN'T, AREN'T DIFFICULT AT ALL.

SO I JUST THINK THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO PASS THIS, THAT EVERYBODY NEEDS TO BE IN AGREEMENT ON IT IF WE'RE NOT GONNA PASS IT THEN TO ELLEN, TO COUNCILWOMAN HENDRICKS POINT, DO WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD? SORRY JOE, I THINK WE SHOULD GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD BECAUSE BASICALLY, BECAUSE BASICALLY I, I FEEL THAT, UH, UH, THE PURPOSE OF THESE TOWN BOARD MEETINGS IS FOR PEOPLE TO HEAR WHAT, UM, WHAT ELECTED OFFICIALS AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY.

AND IF SOMEBODY ON THE BOARD IS RAMBLING ON AND ON AND ON AND GOING, YOU KNOW, AND SPEAKING TOO LONG, THE PUBLIC WILL FIGURE THAT OUT.

IF SOMEBODY'S, UH, ACTING INAPPROPRIATELY, UH, OR, UM, MISUSING, UM, THEIR TIME, PUBLIC WILL FIGURE THAT OUT.

YOU KNOW, I SAID, YOU KNOW, EARLIER, I'M NOT GOING TO GET INVOLVED IN THE BACK AND FORTH BANTERING ANYMORE, SO I'M GONNA REALLY SEE IF I COULD HAVE THE DISCIPLINE.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, ALL OF US HAVE TO FIGURE OUT, UM, WHAT THE PUBLIC IS UPSET WITH.

AND WE HAVE TO LEARN FROM THE OBS FROM THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GET FROM, FROM THE COMMUNITY.

WE REALLY DON'T NEED, UH, RULES.

AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, LIKE TONIGHT THERE WERE A LOT OF GREAT COMMENTS THAT PEOPLE MADE AND QUESTIONS MAY TAKE MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES.

IT MAY TAKE A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW, LONGER.

UM, SO I DON'T THINK, I, I THINK THAT THE, THE IMPRESSION OF THIS, OF THIS, IF IT'S PASSING, IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CENSOR PEOPLE AND WE'RE TRYING TO UM, UM, UH, DISCOURAGE ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM EXPRESSING THEMSELVES AT THE MEETINGS.

AND I DEFINITELY AM NOT GONNA, THEN WE SHOULDN'T LIMIT THE PUBLIC EITHER.

LET'S ALL JUST TALK FOR AS LONG AS WE WANT.

I HAVE ALWAYS, I'VE NEVER LIMITED ANYBODY'S ABILITY TO SPEAK.

WELL, WE WE'RE TRYING, I I, I BELIEVE THAT THE PUBLIC, I, EVERY TIME I SPEAK TO SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, IT'S 11 O'CLOCK.

I DON'T, I, I'M WILLING TO STAY HERE TILL TWO IN THE MORNING.

I DON'T CARE.

YOU KNOW, THE THING IS, I'M WILLING TO STAY BECAUSE I WANNA LISTEN TO PEOPLE, MOTHER-IN-LAW IF, IF PEOPLE HAVE CONCERNS, UM, YOU KNOW, IF WE, IF WE, IF THE MEETINGS GO ON, WE COULD HAVE MORE THAN MEETINGS TWICE A MONTH.

I DON'T, I DON'T MIND, I THINK AT THE WORK SESSIONS, WE SHOULD LET ANY RESIDENT WHO WE USED TO FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, I ALWAYS USED TO LET PEOPLE SPEAK AT THE WORK SESSION, UH, MEETINGS BECAUSE, UH, AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE TELLING PEOPLE THAT THEY CAN'T, THAT THEY CAN'T SPEAK.

THAT'S NOT DEMOCRACY.

EVERY MUNICIPAL BODY HAS RULES AS TO HOW LONG PEOPLE, THE PUBLIC SPEAKS.

AND TYPICALLY THE, THE ELECTED OFFICIALS HAVE THEIR OWN, HAVE THEIR OWN SELF-DISCIPLINE TO NOT GO OVER TIME.

DO WE LISTEN TO THE LETTER THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE FAIRVIEW DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE WHO ARE HERE AGAIN TODAY EXPRESSING THEIR EXTREME DISPLEASURE AT THE WAY WE TOOK UP TOO MUCH TIME? THE REASON THAT I, THAT I WAS, UM, INITIALLY BRINGING UP THE IDEA OF HAVING THESE RULES BACK IN, IN, IN FEBRUARY WAS IN RESPONSE TO PUBLIC OPINION AND COMMENT.

AND AFTER THEY SENT THAT LETTER, I ACTUALLY WENT AND MET WITH THEM.

NO ONE EVEN GOT A RESPONSE TO THEIR, UH, NO ONE EVEN RESPONDED ON THIS BOARD TO THEIR LETTER OTHER THAN ME.

AND I WENT AND MET WITH THEM AND I HEARD THEIR CONCERNS.

SO I THINK WE'RE BEING VERY DISRESPECTFUL IF WE ARE NOT ABLE TO AT LEAST PUT SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT SHOWS THAT WE ARE BEING RESPONSIVE.

WHAT THE FAIRVIEW COMMITTEE WANTED WAS NOT, WAS FOR US NOT TO DO THE BICKERING.

THAT'S NOT TRUE.

THAT'S, THAT'S THE ISSUE.

THE BICKERING, THAT'S MY BELIEF.

AND THE POLITIC, THAT'S MY BELIEF.

AND, UH, THE NASTINESS AND THE PERSONAL ATTACKS, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE DON'T WANT.

THE PEOPLE BASE, I THINK THE, UH, THE FAIRVIEW DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE AND OKAY.

I'M GONNA CALL FOR THE VOTE THEN.

SO I'M GONNA MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE PASS A, AS IT CURRENTLY EXISTS, TB SIX.

IS THERE A SECOND? ARE WE GONNA READ IT OR WE JUST OH YEAH, WE CAN.

RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES AND PROCEDURES ADOPTED ON FEBRUARY 11TH, 2026 WITH REGARD TO TOWN RULES OF ORDER.

DO I HAVE A SEC? ACT FOR ONE.

THINK THAT THAT SHOULD BE AMENDED, NOT AS, NOT AS IS.

SO VOTE NO TO BE AS AMENDED.

WELL, WE DON'T HAVE A SECOND, SO THERE'S NO VOTE IF THERE'S NO SECOND.

SO THERE'S NO SECOND.

SO THERE'S NO, NO VOTE.

THERE'S NO MOTION.

SO THERE'S NO MOTION.

THERE'S A MOTION, BUT NO SECOND BUT NO VOTE, NO SECOND.

NO.

ALL ALRIGHT.

UM, AND WE'LL DO SOME MORE WORK ON IT.

RESOLUTION APPROVING THE RETENTION OF THE LAW FIRM, A MORRIS STUFFY ALONSO AND PITCOCK TO REPRESENT THE TOWN GREENBERG AND THE MATTER OF TER TERRELL,

EIGHT A T ONE

[ AT 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution approving the retention of the law firm of Morris Duffy Alonso Faley & Pitcoff to represent the Town of Greenburgh, et al, in the matter of Terrell K. Brock v. Town of Greenburgh/Greenburgh Police Department, and Officer J. Washington, for an amount not to exceed $25,000]

[03:25:01]

UH, BROCK VERSUS TOWN OF GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OFFICER, UH, WASHINGTON FOR AN AMOUNT, UM, NOT TO EXCEED $25,000.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

[ AT 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution approving the settlement of Claim/Litigation/Indemnification Matter related to, File No.(s) 89/19C & 53/23C by Grayrock Associates, LLC v. 529 Central Park Avenue, LLC and the Town of Greenburgh, for an amount not to exceed $7,500]

82 RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SETTLEMENT OF CLAIM LITIGATION INDEMNIFICATION MATTER RELATED TO FILE NUMBER 89 19 C AND 53 23 C BY GRAY ROCK ASSOCIATES.

UM, UH, 5 2 9 CENTRAL PARK AVENUE AND THE TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $7,500.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SETTLEMENT OF PROPERTY DAMAGES RELATED CLAIM FILE NUMBER 45 26 C BY MERCHANTS INSURANCE GROUP, UH, CHRISTOPHER ELLI FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $8,854 AND 50 CENTS.

UM, A T THREE

[ AT 3 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing settlement of property damage related Claim, File No.: 45/26C, by Merchants Insurance Group a/s/o Christopher S. Fanelli, for an amount not to exceed $8,854.50]

ALL

[ AT 4 - 08/12/2026 Resolution approving the retention of the law firm of Morris Duffy Alonso Faley & Pitcoff to represent the Town of Greenburgh, in the matter of Christopher Worthy v. Town of Greenburgh, for an amount not to exceed $25,000]

IN FAVOR? AYE.

A T FOUR, UH, RESOLUTION APPROVING, UH, THE RETENTION OF THE LAW FIRM MORRIS DUFFY, ELSO BAILEY AND PITCOCK TO REPRESENT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG IN THE MATTER OF CHRISTOPHER WORTHY VERSUS TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 25,000.

UH, A T FIVE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX TERTIARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER, UM, 61 0 4 OWNERS CORP FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 61 0 4 PINEWOOD ROAD.

UM,

[ AT 5 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner 60-104 Owners Corp. for property located at 60-104 Pinewood Rd. The Town’s share of the refund is $3,288±; the County’s share is $1,740±; the Bronx Valley Sewer District’s share is $294±; the Greenburgh Central School District’s share is $9,090±; the Hartsdale Fire District’s share is $3,210±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc. District’s share is $126±. Refunds from all sources total $17,748± ]

UM, REFUNDS FROM ALL SOURCES TOTAL $17,748.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX TERTIARY SETTLEMENT PETITIONER, SKA EQUITIES FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 3 99 ALLWOOD ROAD REFUNDS FROM WALL SOURCES TOTAL ONE $65,350.

[ AT 6 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner SKA Equities LLC for property located at 399 Knollwood Rd. The Town’s share of the refund is $32,540±; the County’s share is $15,797±; the Bronx Valley Sewer District’s share is $3,003±; the Greenburgh Central School District’s share is $87,487±; the Fairview Fire District’s share is $25,407±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc. District’s share is $1,116±. Refunds from all sources total $165,350±]

A T SEVEN, UH, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX ARY SETTLEMENT OF PETITIONER 1 11 1 19 HARTSDALE CORP FOR PROPERTY.

[ AT 7 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioner 111-119 Hartsdale Corp. for property located at 111 E. Hartsdale Ave. and 119 E. Hartsdale Ave. The Town’s share of the refund is $31,759±; the County’s share is $15,039±; the Bronx Valley Sewer District’s share is $3,131±; the Greenburgh Central School District’s share is $85,215±; the Hartsdale Fire District’s share is $29,914±; the Consolidated Sewer Mtc. District’s share is $1,053±. Refunds from all sources total $166,112±]

LOCATED AT ONE 11 EAST HARTSDALE AVENUE, ONE 19 EAST HARSDALE AVENUE REFUNDS FROM ALL SOURCES TOTAL.

1 6 6 1 1 2.

[ AT 8 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing tax certiorari settlement with petitioners Vincenzo DePaola and Pasqualina DePaola for property located at 6 Riverside Place. The Town’s share of the refund is $400 ±; the County’s share is $2,323±; the North Yonkers Sewer District’s share is $521±; the Dobbs Ferry Union Free School District share is $18,734±. Refunds from all sources total $21,978±]

UH, HT EIGHT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TAX TERTIARY SETTLEMENT WITH PETITIONER VINCENZO DIPALLO AND PASQUALE DIP, UH, FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT SIX RIVERSIDE PLACE TOTAL, UH, REFUNDS FROM, UH, ALL SOURCES 21,978.

ONE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CLOSING NORTH HAMPTON DRIVE BETWEEN SOUTH MANOR DRIVE TO THE DEAD END OF NORTH HAMPTON DRIVE ON SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 26 FROM 11 TO 6:00 PM FOR A BLOCK PARTY.

UH, C

[ CL 1 – 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing closing N. Hampton Drive between S. Manor Drive to the dead end of N. Hampton Drive on Saturday, September 26, 2026 (Rain Date: Sunday, September 27, 2026), from 11:00 AM until 6:00 PM for the residents to hold their neighborhood Block Party]

C TWO RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CLOSING WOOD ENDS LANE FROM 28 WOODS END LANE TO WOODS END ROAD ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER SIX 19TH.

[ CL 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing closing Woods End Lane from 28 Woods End Lane to Woods End Road, on Saturday, September 19, 2026 (Rain Date: September 20, 2026), from 2:00 PM until 7:00 PM for the residents to hold their neighborhood Block Party]

UM, UH, FOR RESIDENTS TO HOLD THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCK PARTY, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT ALL IN FAVOR? A SECOND.

I SECOND IT.

ALL IN FAVOR?

[ CD 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution approving, with conditions, an extension of a prior site plan approval for an application by Loop Road Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Regeneron – Loop Road”), for property located at 555 Saw Mill River Road (P.O. Tarrytown) and designated on the Tax Map of the Town of Greenburgh as Parcel ID: 7.71-6-2.2 [TB 21-14]]

UH, CD ONE RESOLUTION APPROVING WITH CONDITIONS AND EXTENSION OF A PRIOR SITE PLAN, APPROVAL FOR AN APPLICATION BY, UH, LOOP ROAD HOLDINGS, HUY OWNED SUBSIDY OF REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS, UM, AND, UM, FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 5 5 5 SOMIL RIVER ROAD.

UM, UH, CD TWO RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG APPROVING THE SERVICES A KRF RELATED TO A TRAFFIC SIGNAL INVENTORY AND CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $6,000.

[ CD 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution of the Town Board of the Town of Greenburgh approving the services of AKRF, Inc. (“AKRF”), related to a traffic signal inventory and conditions assessment, for an amount not to exceed $6,000]

[ CD 3 - 08/12/2026 Resolution awarding a contract for professional planning/engineering services related to infrastructure analysis in connection with a New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) and Housing Trust Fund Corporation (HTFC) Technical Assistance to Grow Pro-Housing Communities (TAG-PHC) grant related to the Four Corners Redevelopment Plan to BFJ Planning, for an amount not to exceed $160,000 ]

UH, CD THREE RESOLUTION AWARDING CONTRACT FOR PROFESSIONAL PLANNING ENGINEERING SERVICES RELATED TO INFRASTRUCTURE ANALYSIS, CONNECTION WITH THE NEW YORK STATE HOMES AND COMMUNITY AND HOUSING TRUST FUND CORP.

TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO GROW, UM, PRO HOUSING COMMUNITIES GRANT RELATED TO FOUR CORNERS REDEVELOPMENT PLAN TO BE JF PLANNING FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $160,000.

ONE, UH, RESOLUTION APPROVING, UH, FISCAL, UH, YEAR 2 0 2 6 CAPITAL, UH, BUDGET AMENDMENT AND THE AMOUNT OF THREE 25,000 FOR DORY ROAD SIDEWALK PROJECT.

UM, UH, CO

[ CO 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution approving Fiscal Year 2026 Capital Budget Amendment in the amount of $325,000 for Dobbs Ferry Road Sidewalk Project H2024R10]

ALL

[ CO 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authoring approval of a Budget Amendment to the Town Outside (B) Fiscal Year 2026 Fund and Capital Fund for a Fuel System Upgrade]

IN FAVOR? AYE.

CO2 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING, UM, APPROVAL OF A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO THE TOWN OUTSIDE B FISCAL YEAR 2026 FUND AND CAPITAL FUND FOR FUEL SYSTEM UPGRADE.

HOLDING OVER CO THREE PR ONE RESOLUTION.

I'M

[ CO 3 - 08/12/2026 Resolution ratifying a Supplemental Memorandum of Agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 1000 AFSCME, AFL-CIO to reassign and ratify the title of Assistant Building Inspector to Group XII in the current agreement]

AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE ANTHONY VETERAN PARK.

WOULD YOU READ WHAT YOU'RE HOLDING OVER PAUL CO THREE? I'M HOLDING NO.

READ IT.

READ THE WHOLE RESOLUTION.

RATIFYING A SUPPLEMENTAL MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATION LOCAL 1000 A-A-F-S-C-M-A-A-F-L-C-I-O TO REASSIGN AND RATIFY THE TITLE OF ASSISTANT BUILDING INSPECTOR TO GROUP, UM, X UH, 12 IN THE CURRENT AGREEMENT.

I'M, I'M HOLDING THAT OVER.

ONE, UH, RESOLUTION AWARDING THE CONTRACT FOR THE ANTHONY VETERAN PARK

UM, PR

[ PR 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution awarding the contract for the Anthony F. Veteran Park outdoor pool complex dive tower replacement to Weston & Sampson CMR INC., the lowest bidder, for an amount not to exceed $147,000]

[03:30:01]

OUTDOOR POOL COMPLEX, UH, DIVE TOWER REPLACEMENT TO WESTIN AND SAMSON TO LOWEST BIDDER FOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE 47,000.

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT.

YES I CAN.

ALL IN FAVOR A AYE.

[ PR 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh Department of Parks and Recreation permission to go out to bid for prepared meals for the Greenburgh Nutrition Program]

A PR TWO RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION.

PERMISSION TO GO OUT TO BID FOR PREPARED MEALS FOR THE GREENBURG NUTRITION PROGRAM.

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN AMENDMENT TO AN AGREEMENT FROM 2024 TO PROVIDE SITE MEALS AND HOME DELIVERY MEALS BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER TO ACCEPT ADDITIONAL FUNDING.

THREE

[ PR 3 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing execution of an amendment to an agreement from 2024 to provide site meals and home-delivered meals between the Town of Greenburgh and the County of Westchester to accept additional funding ]

PR FOUR RESOLUTION AWARDING THE CONTRACTED ME CAICO PARK UPGRADES AND PARK IMPROVEMENTS TO PAT TI THE LOWEST BIDDER IN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 377 5 1 9.

UM,

[ PR 4 - 08/12/2026 Resolution awarding the contract for the Pocantico Park upgrades and park improvements to Pat Corsetti Inc., the lowest bidder, in an amount not to exceed $377,519]

I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR.

P ONE RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENT TO MODIFY NO PARKING RESTRICTIONS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF MARION AVENUE.

[ PO 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution adopting the recommendation of the Greenburgh Police Department to modify the No Parking restrictions on the north side of Marion Avenue amending Chapter 460 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh ]

AMENDING CHAPTER FOUR 60 OF THE, THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG.

UH, PO O FIVE, UH, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SUPERVISOR TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER FOR VIRGINIA ROAD SCHOOL.

[ PO 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor, on behalf of the police department, to grant permission to allow Access and Use of Software Agreement and System with the Dobbs Ferry Police Department and CentralSquare Technologies (held over to Town Board Meeting of September 9, 2026)]

[ PO 3 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor, on behalf of the police department, to grant permission to allow Access and Use of Software Agreement and System with the Irvington Police Department and CentralSquare Technologies (held over to Town Board Meeting of September 9, 2026)]

[ PO 4 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor, on behalf of the police department, to grant permission to allow Access and Use of Software Agreement and System with the Ardsley Police Department and CentralSquare Technologies (held over to Town Board Meeting of September 9, 2026)]

UH, PO TWO PO THREE.

PO FOUR WAS HELD OVER, UM,

[ PO 5 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Supervisor to enter into an agreement with the Valhalla Union Free School District for the police department to provide a school resource officer for Virginia Road School]

UH, PW ONE RESOLUTION, RESCINDING RESOLUTION PW ONE AND AUTHORIZING STATE CERTIFICATIONS PW ONE FROM NOVEMBER 25TH, 1920 25 AND AUTHORIZING STATE CERTIFICATION TO INCLUDE ADDITIONAL TOWN ROADS ON THE STATE LOCAL HIGHWAY INVENTORY.

UM, UM, UM,

[ PW 1 - 08/12/2026 Resolution rescinding Resolution PW-1 – 11/25/2025 and authorizing state certification to include additional Town Roads on the State's Local Highway Inventory]

UM, TWO, UH, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ABSOLUTE AUCTIONS IN REALTY INCORPORATES TO CONDUCT AN ONLINE AUCTION OF SURPLUS VEHICLES.

[ PW 2 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing Absolute Auctions & Realty, Inc to conduct an online auction of surplus vehicles]

WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

[ PW 3 - 08/12/2026 Resolution Authorizing the Department of Public Works to Go Out to Bid for Emergency Tree Removal Services ]

PW THREE RESOLUTION OF AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TO GO OUT TO BID FOR EMERGENCY TREE REMOVAL SERVICES.

I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND.

PW FOUR RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TO ISSUE REQUEST PROPOSALS FOR THE LEASING OF SANITATION AND, UM, DPW VEHICLES AND EQUIP AND EQUIPMENT.

[ PW 4 - 08/12/2026 Resolution authorizing the Department of Public Works to issue a request for proposals for the leasing of sanitation and DPW vehicles and equipment]

I'D LIKE TO, UM, MOVE THAT SECOND.

AND, UM, UM,

[ PW 5 - 08/12/2026 Resolution awarding a Professional Services Agreement for the North Washington Avenue Sidewalk connection to Creighton Manning Engineering & Surveying, PLLC as the best qualified and most responsible proposer (held over to Town Board Meeting of September 9, 2026)]

THE LAST ITEM, PW FIVE, UH, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FOR THE NORTH WASHINGTON SIDEWALK CONNECTION, UM, IS BEING HELD OVER, UH, TO SEPTEMBER 9TH.

ALRIGHT, YOU HAVE A MOTION? WELL IN FAVOR.

I, I'D LET YOU GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO ADJOURN.

MAKE A MOTION.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND? FOR A MOTION TO ADJOURN? SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

WE ADJOURNING THE MEETING TO AJOUR THE, OH, ADJOURNING.

I THOUGHT EXECUTIVE SESSION.