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This summary reflects the Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees regular meeting. While the agenda listed the meeting date as Tuesday, May 27, 2025, the assigned summary date is May 31, 2025. The meeting featured extensive public comment on the proposed redevelopment of 444 Bedford Road, the village's zoning and master plan, an election date change proposal, and several community announcements. The board unanimously adopted all 19 resolutions on the agenda.
Go. Good evening all. Welcome to the Village Board meeting for the Village of Pleasantville. Today is Tuesday, May 27th, a day off from our normal schedule because Monday, yesterday was Memorial Day. Our next regular meeting is the second Monday of June, which is Monday, June 9, work session at 7, regular meeting at 8. As is always the case, you can pick up the Zoom link to watch a meeting live at Pleasantville-NY.gov. And within a short period of time, also via that source. You can pick up the Zoom video if you wish to watch this meeting or a past meeting. So a couple of announcements to make. And then I know there's some folks in the community had uh uh some issues they wanted to raise, and we'll do that very shortly. Um just wanted to have a shout out to the folks in Parks and Rec uh for two successful days, one being Pleasantville Day on Saturday the 17th, and and uh the other the Memorial Day ceremonies yesterday on May 26th. Uh parks uh, as they always do, uh, did a great job and it's very much appreciated. Um thanks also to the Fan Tranicol American Legion Post and to my colleagues on the Village Board, the school board and the Pleasantville clergy for joining us yesterday on Memorial Day, uh which was uh a special day, not only because it's Memorial Day, but because it was uh the 75th anniversary of the dedication of the World War II monuments. Uh, an auspicious occasion to be having our first ever ceremony with the monuments now facing our new civic space. So uh a good day all the way around and we thank everybody who participated. Uh this Friday, big week in Pleasantville, Friday, May 30. This coming Friday, 7 p.m., the annual fire department parade. So uh please get the word out, please uh join, support our fire department, enjoy the parade, one of the great days of the year. And then that weekend, the Rosel uh Playground Community Build Project, uh which the folks at Park and Rec had to uh postpone to this last weekend of May because of rain on the previous proposal, proposed date. If you're interested in participating, you can check in to see if volunteers are still needed via the rec department. Uh tickets are on sale for the Pleasantville Music Festival Saturday, July 12th, uh, Pleasantville Music Festival.com. Uh get the there. Uh the sooner you buy tickets, uh, the better the price is for you because the prices do edge up over time and our highest uh on site that day. And then uh we've mentioned this in the past, but uh uh our parks and rec department has uh planned some concerts in our new Memorial Plaza Civic Space, and those are going to take place on uh Saturdays, June 28th, July 26th, and August 23. Again, a Memorial Plaza from 7 to 9 p.m. So more on that later. But if you're the sort that marks your calendar, uh Memorial Plaza community concert, June 28, July 26th, and August 23. Did you want to report uh Paul about the chamber and their plans? Yes. Um, I want to make an announcement that um after some deliberation with the chamber board, uh, we decided that this year we're not going to go forward with the block party. Um there's in the board itself and members, and we've concluded that we are going to plan definitely. It's going to come back next year, but we're going to focus our attention now on some events in the fall and then in the winter when we do the holiday event. That is going to be on a Sunday. So we're going to be moving that. I think it's a decision that we wanted to make sure we put out the best possible event. And I think with some changes that we're doing, we're um kind of figuring out some better ways to go about planning this now that we also have this new uh civic space. I think it's something that we wanted to kind of work on a bit more. So we will now be going forward with the block party uh that was originally scheduled for September 29th. But we will be having some, I guess uh more events in the fall and also in the winter. Um, we have the lighting ceremony, and we'll have much more to announce on that because we'll be working with Parks Art Creation as well in that event. All right. Thank you, sir. Um, we're on track for our grand reopening of the pool, soft opening on Friday, June 13, and a grand opening ribbon cutting uh uh bright and early on the morning of Saturday, June 14. Bull is going to be free to all comers that weekend. Please encourage uh folks to come see it. I think it's gonna be a really uh great improvement over what we had before.