Good evening and welcome to the June 16th, 2026 regular legislative meeting.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Sorry.

Mayor Raymond Service.

Here.

Councilmember Lopez here.

Councilmember Tarantino here.

Councilmember Peters.

Councilmember Astillay.

Here.

Council Member K here.

And Councilmember Stern.

Here.

Thank you so much, Madam Clerk.

Indeed, a beautiful June and the Nixon of the Championships.

We will now move to the approval of minutes.

May I have a motion and a second approving the minutes for the regular legislative meeting of Tuesday, April 21st, 2026.

And the committee of the whole session for Tuesday, May May 12th, 2026.

Motion a second.

K and Stern, all in favor say aye.

Any opposed.

Moving um wants to note the submission of minutes for the regular legislative meeting of Tuesday, May 19th, 2026, and the committee of the whole session of Tuesday, June 9th, 2026.

Moving on to our consent agenda, we are going to actually break it up a little bit.

Um items two and three.

May I have a motion to end a second to adopt items two and three as listed in the consents agenda?

Kay and um Peters, all in favor say aye.

Okay.

Any opposed.

Item number four, Councilman Tarantino's asked for a roll call vote.

Madam Clerk.

Councilmember Lopez.

Yes.

Councilmember Tarantino.

Uh I just want to make a brief statement.

Uh this is a proposed allocation.

Um with Westchester County Stormwater Management Program.

Uh it's in my district on Whitewood Avenue, but uh, you know, unfortunately, last week I stepped away from the cable and we voted on it, and it came to my attention that another council member basically uh attempted to represent district two, and I just want to make it clear for 18 and a half years I've represented district two.

I still do if somebody is concerned about that, and if that council member's concerned, maybe they should run for that seat next election, and I vote yes.

Councilmember Peters.

Uh yes.

Councilmember Austin Laye.

Yes.

Councilmember Kay?

Yes.

Councilmember Stern.

Yes.

Mayor Rainwell Server.

Yes.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

We'll now go back to our regular cadence, items five through 14 on the consent agenda.

May I please have a motion and a second adopting items five through fourteen.

K and I need a second.

Lopez.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Item number 15.

I'm advised we are pulling back for some amendments and then come back to us at the time that the city manager determines is appropriate.

Item number 16, Councilman Tarantino's asked for a roll call vote, Madam Clerk.

Sure.

Councilmember Lopez.

Yes, I just want to say that as I previously have said that we always voted on the sort of affordable housing in my district that is very much needed.

I think that the change is good, and I say yes.

Councilmember Tarantino.

They want to make a statement.

Um we're adding 2800 new units into the uh DOZ.

We still have over 2500 that have been approved and haven't even gone into the ground, approximately five to six projects.

Our parking plan is flawed.

Uh we have a serious parking issue in downtown, and the study that was shown.

Uh I don't think we'll alleviate it very quickly.

It'll take years.

Uh and you know, my recommendation is you know, we should wait until we build on the approved projects before we start adding uh more units.

Uh we're actually increasing the supply side and the demand side is not as great, and I think that we're putting ourselves in jeopardy financially.

Uh so I vote no.

Councilmember Peters.

Yeah, no, I just want to sort of make a uh a very brief statement.

I am uh also uh will vote and voting yes, but my statement has to do with our also for affordable housing, and I want to make sure that in because we're expanding the uh the DOA designation associated with this, that the that the planning for the DOA which I call proper also doesn't get waylaid or delayed based upon the expansion that we have.

So similar with MATLAB, I'm very much interested in affordable housing and senior housing and other kinds of housing, and at the same time, because the the we are moving into this particular era.

I don't want this to be something that gets uh uh postponed or delayed because so because of uh reasons that sometimes don't make sense to me.

So I hold yes.

Councilmember Austin Lee.

Yes, and my statement is you know, to the people of Nerashall who have felt burdened by the development, we definitely hear your concerns whether it has to do with maintenance or the overall impact that it's having on traffic, how many people are in different parts of our city.

There are a lot of mechanisms to uh amend those things and improve those things in a way that we're looking for.

We're having conversations with unions on how we can improve their participation in development.

You know, we we there are a lot of these issues also take clarity, so to be clear, we could build home ownership opportunities with these units as well, which is something that people have been demanding.

Looking at the expansion of the map, which is a part of this, is actually an effort to get development away from the places where it's been wildly dense already to get it away from those areas so that other areas have the opportunity, other areas that have not seen uh investment ever, or they haven't seen investment in decades.

So, this is actually an opportunity for us to work more with the IDA, create more policy around the maintenance that we need to do, work on our UTEP.

There are a lot of different ways to get to the end game that we want, which is a better NERACL.

And this is a part of that process, and with that I say yes.

Councilmember Kay?

Yes, Councilmember Stern.

Yes.

Mayor Savage.

Yes, thank you, Madam Clerk.

Moving on to item number 17.

Um, this is uh may have a motion and a second for a well, actually, let me take a step back.

It's a proposed amendment appointment of a new member of the civilian complaint review board and co-chairpersons.

Um we have the name of the co-chairpersons in the um agenda item in the packet.

Um and we also have an amendment to the terms of service, right?

Because the last year essentially they've been training, and so they've almost lost a year of what was originally anticipated.

Any questions or comments on item number?

I'm just trying to keep track of everything.

17.

May I have a motion and a second adopting the proposed appointment of the new member as in the resolution?

Um Peters and Ashan Loy, all in favor say aye.

Any opposed.

Uh moving on to item number 18.

I see our commissioner of police coming to the table.

It is a proposed acceptance of the 2025 bulletproof invest partnership program grant from the Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Anything no, nothing straightforward.

Excellent.

Uh questions or comments on item number 18.

A motion and a second, please to adopt the acceptance of this grant.

Uh, Kay and Ash and Lee, all in favor say aye.

Uh any opposed.

Um, moving on to item number 19, um, proposed acceptance of the statewide targeted reductions in intimate partner violence grant from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.

Anything you like to add, Commissioner?

Well, it's pretty straightforward.

We use it for uh public education and officer training.

Excellent.

Any other uh questions or comments from my colleagues?

Item number 19 motion and a second adopting this resolution, Peter's NK.

All in favor say aye or any opposed.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number 20: a proposed acceptance of temporary assistance for needy families, the tennis otherwise known grant award from Waschester Putnam Workforce Board for our summer youth employment program, Mr.

Johnson.

Thank you.

This is our annual application that we come before you to approve this evening.

That will be in support of our SYEP program.

Excellent questions or comments on this item.

Uh motion and a second, adopting the acceptance, please.

Lopez and K.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

There you go.

Number 21.

Oh, I may have I may have jumped ahead on the edits.

My apologies.

Uh, is the amendment to the C C R B with respect to the chairperson structure um and the the terms, city manager?

Yes.

Um, so there was a um recommendation that the structure of the existing chairperson be changed to a co-chairperson structure.

So we are um proposing that um two members be appointed as co-chairs for uh Natasha for Mahounda who resigned from the board uh who was originally the chairperson, so now this uh uh co-chair person structure would um the name of David Maher and Renee Barrone Barron would be acting as co-chairperson okay, and the balance of it is the the terms right we extended to account for training.

All right, sorry, I preempted that a little earlier.

Any questions of any other questions or comments that may popped up on this item?

I just was curious why did we go to a co-chair?

Because originally, in the in the original documents, it says just the chairman.

So do we have to change anything?

That's what's happening.

Okay, so that's that's literally changing the legislation.

So my question then is why are we going to a coach?

I was just curious to it was a request from some of the members to balance out the work.

Okay.

And what happens when these individuals are gone?

Would we go back to uh just a chairman or I mean I guess it would depend on who would be the next person?

I mean, like any legislation, I'm sure we can bring it back and make amendments for future.

And the other question becomes if you have co-chairs, is it required for both of them to vote?

Being that they're co-chairs, or could one vote and the other one is not when the other one's not there?

Only it could be one.

You can do it.

Okay, okay.

Just those were just some of the questions we're going to make sure you okay.

Other questions or comments on 21.

Motion and a second adopting number 21.

Uh Peters and Stern, all in favor say aye.

Any opposed.

And our last item is the proposed amendment to chapter 331 of the zoning code.

This was subject to public hearing last week.

Questions or comments on 22, rather.

May I have a motion and second adopting 22?

It's Kay and Stern.

All in favor say aye.

Any opposed?

Um I'm advised that we do not have any executive session items.

So may I have a motion and a second adjourning this meeting, please?

Kay and Lopez, all in favor say aye.

Any opposed.

All right, see you in July.