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[Note: The agenda and transcript list this meeting as Monday, September 8, 2025; the date provided for this summary is September 9, 2025.] The meeting opened with announcements about emergency notifications, and conducted two public hearings – one on a partial tax exemption for volunteer firefighters/ambulance workers, and one on renewal of the Verizon cable franchise agreement. The board also adopted several resolutions, including the local law for the tax exemption, budget amendments, personnel hires and rate changes. The meeting concluded with a motion to enter executive session on matters of real estate and personnel.
The village of Pleasantville. Today is Monday, September 8th, our first meeting of the month. We meet again in two weeks on Monday, September 22. As always, work session seven, regular session at eight. You can join our meetings either in person or via Zoom. You can click up a Zoom link at Pleasantville NY.gov. And within a few days, you can pick up the Zoom recording of both our work session and a regular session if you uh want an on-demand webcast, uh, both for the village board as well as several other boards and commission. So again, pleasantville-ny.gov. Um, a couple of shout-outs uh to remind folks. Um we're obviously coming into the possible hurricane season. I think we're already in it. Uh, and we encourage folks to sign up for code red, which is the emergency uh notification system that we subscribe to. It is a system we only use in an emergency. It's not this emails reminding you about time to pay your water bill. But what it does do is give us give you an opportunity to give us various ways to reach you, email addresses, your cell phone, even cell phones uh for uh family members who may live elsewhere. We certainly have this problem uh way back when me and Sandy when many many people were out of power. We didn't have an easy way of reaching them, and we very much encourage you to reach uh to sign up for code red, which you can do right off the main page at Pleasantville NY.gov. A couple of announcements to make, but I'm gonna hold them. We have two public hearings. Uh and I'm gonna switch the sequence of events because we have in our presence three August members of the Pleasantville Volunteer Fire Department, and the matter that is of a concern to them is public hearing 2.2 on our agenda. And rather than have them suffer through a discussion about the cable franchise renewal, which you're welcome to stay for, uh, you won't have to stay for them. So is there a motion to open a public hearing to consider in productory local law four of 2025 to consider a partial real property village tax exemption for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers? So is there a second? All in favor? Hi, and welcome to the public hearing. Eric, you want to just give the executive summary of the implications of this? Sure. So this uh local law would provide a 10% uh exemption on volunteer firefighter and EMS workers village tax bill. Uh it is aligned with what uh Westchester County County currently has in place, the town of Mount Pleasant and the Pleasantville Free School District. Um limited impacts on the tax base, uh, probably less than the senior exemption we currently offer. Um so any comments or questions from the board? No. I'm in favor of it. I can't vote tonight because I'm not with you, but I strongly support that. Uh any comments or questions from the audience. You want to go ahead, guys. This is your show, John. Do you want to put around? Maybe I do, but I'll do it. We don't get we don't get very much of you lagged in, so we don't want to miss a chance. I tell you, Mr.