The Peekskill Common Council held a work session on Monday, June 15, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. in the Common Council Chamber. The meeting featured presentations and discussions on multiple agenda items including a supportive housing PILOT, a seasonal downtown shuttle pilot, capital plan updates, waterfront recreation proposals, and a major affordable housing development at 418 N. Division Street. Several items were scheduled for formal resolution at the next meeting, while the 418 N. Division project was set for a public hearing and referral to the Planning Commission.
We have a couple of presentations as well as a pretty extensive agenda. And then we will go into executive session for discussions 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 corporations. So at this time I will turn it over to our city manager. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good evening. And we'd like to start with uh Matt Rudikoff introducing I'm gonna mess this name up, Jamila. But Jamila Bookholm Roselle from Children's Village, and Matt's gonna tell us a little bit uh at the beginning, and Jamila will walk us through the rest. So Jamila has a presentation. Should we exit the one that's each there? Tony, can you come up and help Matt with uh loading the presentation? Check this and put this on it. I checked it out, it's it was great. Oh, okay. That's a whole access. So we can do a slideshow. No, we're good. I just need to get this thing to close. That's not it. Well, that's not the one you want to do. Stop sharing that tax and then we share. So share. Oh, okay. Well now one I hadn't. There you go. Um good evening, uh, Mayor and Council. Good evening. Um at your meeting last week, there was a memo, a cow memo, about 41 North Division, and that they are up for an action being taken. Uh and the council requested that the uh the matter be brought back for tonight and then for the regular meeting uh a resolution. The resolution is going to um sh uh the that the council will consider has to do with two pieces. One, it's approving the um uh IDA to approve a uh a pilot agreement, and the second part of the resolution is to approve entering into a uh impact fee agreement between the city and children's village. Uh this evening um uh Dr. Cohobin is on vacation, and so he um asked to have uh uh Jamila uh uh Bouchon, and um uh she is the uh vice president of advancement for children's village. Uh and the council is very familiar with children's village. They've been down there and see seen a lot realizer and are very familiar with the project because uh Dr. Goebbans made a variety of presentations to the council uh and uh they have to do with the project itself, which of course we we we're well aware is 22 units of assisted housing filling a particular housing gap in the city of Peaksville, as well as uh becoming a new home for the field library, uh which really multi which fulfills multiple benefits for the city, which um uh uh uh Jamila is going to go into. Uh the other things that I did want to say is one of the really unique things about the project is because it's owned and operated by a nonprofit, it was really able to gather development funds, unlike a private development. So the great majority of the funding is from grants, and the city was very fortunate in that this project also enabled the city to be eligible for a Westchester County infrastructure grant of 1.8 million dollars. And as I mentioned in the introduction, an impact fee. So between the impact fee agreement over 20 years, as well as the Westchester County uh grant, this project is resulting in revenues to the city, which are equal to or greater as if this project were going to be a full-paying uh taxable project. I had gone through the history of the project and the role of the I of the IDA, which the IDA has approved, pending your uh uh authorization to enter into a pilot and to close on the financial terms of the pilot. Uh, and those have to do with uh them being able to use the historic tax credits to generate a development fund. And so, with that, I think it would be helpful for you to see the slide deck that was uh presented to the IDA board and have uh uh Jamila make a presentation to us, and then of course we could have as many questions as the council sees fit to answer. Uh Jamila. Um we're just gonna go we're just gonna page down. Okay. Thank you so much. Um good evening, everyone. My name's Jamila Bockham Rosel. I'm the VP for advancement, as Matthew outlined, and I thank him for really laying the groundwork for a lot of my presentations. It's really good.