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Record of Proceedings

North Salem Town Board Regular Meeting and Worksession – August 11, 2026

Town Board & Boards — Tuesday, August 11, 2026

BodyNorth Salem, New York

SessionTown Board & Boards

DateTuesday, August 11, 2026

StatusFILED

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Speaker 1

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You're being recorded.

Speaker 2

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Okay, thank you, Maria.

0:03

Okay, I'm gonna call to order the regular meeting of the town board.

0:10

Um have August 11th, 2026, and we'll start by saying the pledge.

Speaker 3

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I legislation

Speaker 2

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of the United States of America.

0:24

And we just stand one nation under God, the individual with liberty and justice for all.

0:32

Thank you, guys.

0:35

And we'll start out with the approval of the reports of the building inspector's monthly report, the facilities managers monthly report, the highway department monthly report, the planning board financial report, the police department monthly report, the receiver of taxes monthly report, the recreation monthly report, the supervisor's monthly report, and the town clerk's monthly report, all from July 2026.

1:04

Um do I have a motion to approve same?

1:08

Or I can make the motion to approve same.

1:10

Do I have a second?

Speaker 3

1:12

Um I'll second it.

1:13

I just I read all the reports, and I'm just trying to remember.

1:15

Did I read did we get a rec report?

Speaker 2

1:18

I don't recall seeing a rec report.

1:22

Well, no, I don't know.

1:23

It's a it says recreation monthly

Speaker 3

1:24

report.

1:26

Did we get it?

1:28

I mean, I

Speaker 2

1:28

read

Speaker 3

1:29

it,

Speaker 2

1:29

I'm

Speaker 3

1:29

just not remembering it.

1:30

I I read all the reports we got.

1:32

Um I'm just not remembering it.

1:33

That was the one I read.

Speaker 2

1:35

Does anybody know for sure?

Speaker 4

1:38

I remember reading it, but you read it

Speaker 2

1:41

and if if if two people read it, then I see enough

Speaker 4

1:44

to check.

Speaker 2

1:45

It's probably been

Speaker 3

1:46

uh like I said, I I read them all, I'm just not remembering that one.

Speaker 2

1:50

Okay, well, okay.

1:52

Oh, wait a second, okay.

1:54

And so um take a vote on it, uh Martin.

2:01

Uh you seconded it, okay.

2:03

And I vote aye, Catherine.

Unassigned speaker

2:05

I

Speaker 4

2:06

brand I.

Speaker 2

2:08

Um any comments or objections?

2:10

No questions.

2:11

Okay.

2:12

Um in that case,

Speaker 3

2:13

thanks for uh we're approving Catherine.

Speaker 2

2:16

Okay.

2:18

The next is to uh resolutions.

2:22

Uh the first one is to pay uh town bills.

2:26

Um resolved uh that the town bills as listed on abstract number eight, totaling 170,761 dollars and seventy nine cents be ordered, approved, and ordered paid.

2:47

Um are there any comments?

Speaker 4

2:51

Um yeah, I reviewed all of these.

2:54

As you know, there were a lot of um pink stickies on there indicating that there were insufficient funds on the line that was indicated for the bill to be paid from.

3:06

Now, I mean, I I'd I'd like to see all this cleaned up, but you know, I can see from looking at the main, you know, the looking at different parts different lines.

3:18

I can see that there's sufficient money.

3:20

So I just you know, we've got to either figure out how people can be instructed to put to code things in the in the line where they're budgeted or vice versa, get the budget to match what the accounting records are showing.

3:36

We it they're just they're like this.

Speaker 2

3:38

There are there are some issues there that do have to be straightened out.

3:42

Um you'd like to make a comment on that.

Speaker 5

3:48

Yeah, I I printed something out.

Discussion Breakdown — Share of Meeting

Budget Equity Analysis██████████████████████████26%

Procedural██████████████████████22%

Engineering And Infrastructure█████████████████17%

Historic Preservation██████████████14%

Technology and Innovation████████████12%

Public Engagement████████8%

Public Safety█1%

Summary of Proceedings

North Salem Town Board Regular Meeting/Worksession – August 11, 2026

[Introductory paragraph summarizing the overall meeting.]

Consent Calendar

Approval of Reports (July 2026): The Town Board approved the following monthly reports: Building Inspector, Facilities Manager, Highway Department, Planning Board Financial, Police Department, Receiver of Taxes, Recreation, Supervisor’s, and Town Clerk’s. During discussion, a question arose over whether the Recreation monthly report had been received; after deliberation, the board confirmed it was included and approved the reports unanimously.

Discussion Items

Delancey Hall Cleaning & Floor Refinishing (Worksession): The board scheduled discussions on cleaning and refinishing the floors at Delancey Hall. No decisions were announced during this portion of the meeting; the items were carried into worksession discussion.

Resolutions & Authorizations

To Pay Town Bills – approved.
To Pay Highway Bills – approved.
To Re-appoint Members – Historic Preservation Commission – approved.
To Acknowledge Chairperson – Historic Preservation Commission – approved.
To Authorize Payment – Planning Board Chair – approved.
To Authorize Payment – Field Future Foundation – approved.
To Authorize a Tax Refund – approved.
To Acknowledge Board Resignation – Recreation Advisory Committee – approved.
To Authorize Expense – Logically (Wireless Access Point Proposal v2) – approved.

Note: The transcript records the motion and second, but the board’s vote is not explicitly read. The agenda and transcript both list a

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