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On Monday, September 9, 2025, the Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees held a work session to discuss the financial status and future of the Pleasantville Music Festival. The meeting began at 7:00 PM at Village Hall, 80 Wheeler Ave, 2nd Floor. No formal decisions were made; the session served as an informational overview and discussion of challenges, including rising costs, declining ticket sales, and increased regional competition.
Monday, September. Welcome to the Village Board Work Session. Today is Monday, September 8. We begin as we always do around seven with the work session and follow up the regular session at eight. As is always the case.gov or uh pick up a recording also available at ny.gov within a few days thereafter of this meeting as well as other boards and commissions that are recorded via Zoom. So prime conversation tonight was a preliminary one about uh this year's music festival. Obviously, we'll have an in-depth conversation with Doug Pinero, who who uh was this year's executive director, and with uh lots of folks who have an interest and opinion. Um, but just for starters, I wanted the board to get a sense for the economic lay of the land and a couple of the issues that we know uh affected us and and possibly would affect us uh going forward. So, first off, you all have the spreadsheet. Um I can share my screen here. Abby Louis wrote too much echo can understand. Too much echo, Abby says. We're doing what we always do, meeting out all. Let me check the volume. Is it too loud? Okay. Um Melissa says she can hear fun at all. Um we should log her off. Mike Newman said sounds fine. Okay. All right, Abby. Let me log in. We unmuted you if you want. Uh a couple of other people who signed on say it sounds okay. So I'm wondering what's going on. Perhaps it's at your end. All right, back to what I was saying. Um, so this is by no means the meeting at which we will make a decision of any kind, just an opportunity for everybody to understand the economic lay of the land, uh, which has taken uh some weeks because the invoices straggling over time. But uh Alyssa, who I think is online has done yeoman service not only to get that all together, but also to give us these spreadsheets that compare it to previous years. Uh so there we go. Um obviously a more complicated story is this year's music festival, uh, which is in the fiscal year ending 2026, but uh obviously was for the July 2025 festival. We show a net loss of about 104,000. Uh last year's festival, the 2024 festival, as a point of comparison, uh we lost 96,500. The 2023 festival, we lost 57,600. 2022, 39,009. And then jumping backwards in time over the pandemic to the festival in 2019, we had a net positive of 40,348.