Good evening and welcome to the January 2026 regular legislative meeting.

Madam City Clerk, please call the roll.

Mayor Raymond Herbert?

Here.

Councilmember Lopez.

Yeah.

Councilmember Tarantino.

Here.

Councilmember Peters.

Here.

Councilmember Austin Layay.

Here.

Councilmember K here.

And Councilmember Stern.

Here.

Thank you so very much.

And again, good evening on this frigid day.

Big thanks to our DPW team for all of the hard work they put in over the weekend to keep us all safe and keep the roads clear.

Before we start the agenda, I'm going to turn it over to our city manager who would like to make an introduction.

He'll be leading our finance department.

And I just wanted to quickly just introduce him so that you see him, you can say hello, and he's our new finance commissioner.

I also want to thank Edward Ritter for his service and for agreeing to staying on to help us with the transition with Alice there.

So I just want to take this opportunity to introduce Alice there.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

As uh Will mentioned, my name is Alistair Featherstone.

I have approximately 20 years of a municipal finance experience, primarily as an investment banker, assisting issuers raise capital through bonds and uh bond anticipation notes and assisting issuers uh with structuring their capital program and implementing their capital program or working with them in terms of uh working with the rating agencies.

So I'm uh very much looking forward to this opportunity and thank you guys very much.

And yeah, I'm just ready to uh hit the ground running and help you implement your uh basic goals.

So thank you.

Amazing.

Welcome aboard.

Yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Save yourself the next time won't be so nice.

Now that'll be happening.

Enjoy this now.

Yeah, I was gonna say hope and process.

Excellent.

Thank you so much, City Manager Manager for putting a face to the name.

Uh all right, the first item on our agenda is the approval of minutes that were submitted for the regular legislative meeting of Tuesday, November 18th, 2025, and the committee of the whole session for Tuesday, December 2nd of 2025.

May I have a motion and a second adopting the minutes as listed, please.

Stern and Kay, all in favor say aye.

Any opposed.

And I'd like to note the submission of minutes for the regular legislative meeting, which took place on Tuesday, December 9th, 2025, and the committee of the whole session, which took place on Tuesday, January 13th, 2026.

Moving on to our consent agenda, we're going to deviate a little bit um from the process.

Um 9, 10, and 11 will take separately.

So may I have a motion to end a second adopting items one through eight on the consent agenda, please.

Peters and Oshan Loye.

All in favor say aye.

Aye, any opposed.

Moving on to item number nine, which is a proposed resolution declaring leave agency and issuing a positive declaration relative to amendments to Article 22, Chapter 33175 of the downtown overlay zones of the city of New Rochelle.

Councilman Tarantino was asked for a moment.

Yes, I I just wanted to make sorry about that.

Okay.

What I would like to say for the record, that I voted on DOZ and downtown issues for my entire 10 entire tenure on City Council.

Um I've been on city council uh for this is my fifth term, uh, 18 years on council, and at no time uh was I ever asked to recuse myself or I'm not vote on something.

Uh during that time, and each prior corporation council, including um Dawn Warren, allowed me to vote in several specifically open that I not have to accuse myself.

I voted on the creation of DOZ in 2050 2015, 2015, and several amendments since then, including the creations of DOZ 7 and 8.

And if I'm not mistaken, Corporation Council Warren, uh you were involved in the DO8 when it was created.

The legal opinion that I got um covers some of the concerns that we had.

And based upon what I have there, what I am going to do is this is they're breaking out the different um legislation so that for now until I can get a better understanding about my role as far as being allowed to vote or recuse myself based upon ownership of property in downtown, which by the way I've owned from 1970s, 1980s.

So you know the properties that are bought uh when nobody wanted to invest in their shell.

So what I'm going to do on item nine I believe it is I'm going to step away from the table, recuse myself, and then come back after that vote is taken.

Thank you very much.

On item number nine are there any questions or comments from my colleagues hearing none may I have a motion and a second adopting item number nine Austin Loyer and K.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed item number 10 fast enough that was fast.

Yes.

Item number 10 is uh proposed legislation regarding 662 Main Street the EDP L the eminent domain of the Hagadoran formerly known as the Carnegie Library.

Any questions or comments on item number 10 hearing none may have a motion and a second adopting the resolution please Lopez and K all in favor say aye any opposed moving on to item number 11 proposed legislation regarding 625 North Avenue property EDPL a eminent domain as well of the property known as the former CBS right next to well pretty close to where we're sitting right now questions or comments on item number 11 hearing none may have a motion and a second adopting the resolution Peters and K all in favor say aye any opposed moving on to item number 12 which is a pin 875 this is very technical.

Pin 8758.99 the Pel Road traffic signal supplemental agreement um it's a resolution authorizing the implementation and funding as detailed in the the agenda that we received questions or comments on item number 12 hearing none may have a motion and a second adopting the resolution for item number 12 uh Tarantino and Ashanloy all in favor say aye any opposed do we have any executive sessions Madam Council hearing none may have a motion and a second to adjourn this meeting Lopez and Peters all in favor say aye any opposed good night friends good night