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The Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees held its regular meeting on April 29, 2025 (the agenda and transcript list the date as April 28, but the provided meeting date is used here). The meeting began at 8:00 PM after a work session at 7:00 PM. The meeting featured a lengthy public discussion on a proposal to move village elections from March to November, adoption of the Fiscal Year 2026 budget, and approval of multiple resolutions including free pool memberships for village and planning boards, water rate increases, and a summer camp scholarship program. Several upcoming community events were announced: Pleasantville Day (May 17), Memorial Day services (May 26), Fire Department parade (May 30), and Memorial Plaza concerts (June 28, July 26, August 23).
All right. We have just departed our work session and are beginning the regular meeting for the Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees. Today is Monday, April 28. We began with a work session at seven. Now our regular session at 8. Our next regular meeting is the second Monday of May, which is May 12th. Again, work session at seven, uh regular meeting at 8, as is always the case. We post the Zoom links at Pleasantville-NY.gov. You can also click in to the agenda in advance or uh or thereafter. And a Zoom recording will be available via the website, still through the Granicus agenda. Correct. Yes. All right. I have just a bunch of announcements, but I mean since we have a captive audience, uh, let me remind folks of a few schedule items that perhaps would be of interest. Uh Pleasantville Day is coming up Saturday, May 17. Uh our Memorial Day services. Uh, first time having Memorial Day with our uh new civic space is Monday, May 26th, uh beginning as we always do at BRS at 10, parade downtown and continuing at the World War II monuments uh in Memorial Plaza. Uh same week, Friday, May 30, starting at 7 p.m. is the annual fire department parade. And uh for those who may be interested, we now have uh the opportunity to have some events downtown at our new civic space, and uh our rec department has arranged uh concerts uh with a food truck and uh the opportunity to hang out down at Memorial Plaza. That is 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 28th, Saturday, July 12, and Saturday, July uh 26, and Saturday, August 23. Block party, chamber of commerce effort, all chime in. Yep. We're looking at the dates are set for Sunday, September 28th with a rain date of uh Sunday, October 5th, and that's both on Wheeler Avenue and Washington Avenue as it was the last uh two years. Okay. So we have a bunch of folks here, and I think the subject for everybody is a request that has come forward to consider changing the village election date from March, uh, which was the historic date enshrined in state law, which gives villages uh the right if they choose to change to a different date. Uh number of folks uh led by Francesca Hagadis have asked us to move that to the regular November election day for a variety of reasons about which we will uh soon hear. So let me invite anyone who wants to speak to speak, give us your name and address, and let us know what you think. Do I have to move this or no? You can if you want. Good evening once again. I'm Francesca Hagis Mikhail. I live at 24 Brandon Drive in Pleasantville. And um this is my third appearance before the board on this topic. I've also met with Peter in his freezing cold office there. Yes, the energy saving office. Yeah. And um what and my reason for uh being here tonight is once again. Um, first of all, I thought I was going to be on the agenda because Peter said come to speak to us. I couldn't come on the date that you were asking because this young man behind me was having surgery, so uh we had to be in New York City for the surgery the next day. And um now I'm here um at the same time. I did I didn't realize it was still going to be discussion time. I thought it was going to be on the agenda, but on the agenda to vote.