The Peekkill Common Council held a work session on October 6, 2025, beginning at 6:15 p.m. The meeting featured budget presentations from the Fire Department and Section 8, followed by a full agenda covering planning initiatives, grant approvals, and community celebrations. The council concluded with an executive session on personnel and real property matters.
Clock starting point because we're doing budget presentations as well as a full agenda and then executive session. Not sure if it'll be in that order, but executive session tonight will be for discussion of matters concerning the medical financial credit or employment history of a particular person, persons, or corporation or matters leading to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotion, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of a particular person, persons, or corporation. And for discussion of matters related to proposed acquisition, sale, or lease of real property. So at this time I'll turn it over to our city manager, Mr. Alexander. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. First up tonight, we have two budget presentations, and I'd like to ask Chief Seymour if he would address the council relating to his fire department budget. And you can find that on page 48 in your third 4851. That's the only one. This is open to the fire department. Okay, forget it. If you're ready for the chief, he'll go ahead and start. Good. Yes. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Good evening. Good evening. So I have a uh brief presentation for you tonight that I'll kind of go through and please fire away, ask questions during, after, uh, whenever. Uh so I always like to start with uh either our mission statement or certainly what I have on the screen in front of you right now or on page two is just our organizational structure. Uh so you could see uh our uh organization starts at the top with myself, certainly over top of me, which is not pictured is our city manager, and you as the council, uh, my assistant fire chief, uh Jim Sniffin, our department surgeon, and then we're comprised of the four shifts, right? And each shift has a shift lieutenant. Uh we recently made two promotions, a fifth lieutenant's position, and then a newly promoted sixth lieutenant's position. Uh those two positions are uh Lieutenant Pat McGuinness, who is the relief officer for shifts one and two, uh Lieutenant Chris Rim, who is the relief officer for shifts three and four, our career firefighters are volunteer firefighters and our volunteer officers there round out the organization. So right now, currently we are at not including myself, uh 33 career staff and 33 volunteer staff. So we're pretty much split 50-50 right down the middle. Uh a little bit of a budget update for uh for this year, as you could see on the left hand side, uh our year to date, so our 100 lines, our personnel lines. We're running at uh about sixty-seven point five one percent. And I should just mention this is as of um September 30th, right? So a few days ago. Our 400 lines are at 75 percent, our 800 lines are 74 percent. Uh so what I do every month is certainly I look at okay, what month are we in? So halfway through the year I want to be at 50 percent. At this point, since we're three quarters uh through the year, that's 75 percent is is where I want to be, or certainly below. Uh, what's cut off a little bit on the right hand side is you can see our projections. So projecting out for the rest of the year. So projecting out for the rest of the year, uh we are projected at 98 percent, 97 percent, 98 percent, uh, respectively are 100 through 800s. So my goal is that the entire fire department budget be under budget um of our allocated funds for the year. So that's that's where we are as of a few days ago. Uh when we take a look at uh our responses to date, uh again uh September 30th, uh our total responses are 2,102. So we were we are up already from where we were last year. Last year we finished at 1,983. We're already at 2102, and then certainly below that you could see a breakdown of all of the categories, what we call our 100 series all the way through our 900 series. Uh what I would also say at this point, or like to point out is the picture that you see in the slide are four of our career members who attended the New York State Swiftwater training in Ariskany, New York uh a few months back. Um, and we were able to get a picture of that event, and now they are Swiftwater technicians in the eyes of New York State. Some response projections. Again, I mentioned how we finished at 1983 last year, and we look like projected based on the first three quarters, we're gonna be about two thousand six hundred and twenty-seven. So we're gonna be certainly about six hundred uh, you know, more calls than we responded to last year. Uh I would say that the biggest reason for the uptick or the increase in calls, I'll point to the 300 series, those EMS calls.