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This regular meeting of the Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees convened on Wednesday, October 15, 2025 (noted as October 16 in official date field) at 8:00 PM in Village Hall. The board approved a series of resolutions, including a five-year cable franchise renewal with Verizon, creation of capital accounts, budget amendments, personnel actions, and settlement of two tax certiorari cases. A public hearing on the Verizon franchise was held and closed. The meeting concluded with a brief discussion on public safety concerns regarding scooters and electric bikes before entering executive session.
Note: The meeting date on the agenda and transcript is Wednesday, October 15, 2025, but the official date field provided for this summary is October 16, 2025. The meeting was held two days later than usual due to the Columbus Day holiday.
I'm not sure you need to wait because we're certainly going to forward it to the Planning Commission. But I can okay. All right, moving away from the work session. Uh we begin our regular session. Good evening. Welcome to the regular session for the village board of Pleasantville. Today is Wednesday, October 15. Meeting a couple of days later than our usual because of the holiday, which took place on Monday. As is always the case, you can pick up a Zoom link to follow our meetings online at Pleasantville-NY.gov with uh within a short period of time. You can also find the uh video recordings for our meetings and those of uh some other boards at Pleasantville.gov. Our next uh regular meeting is back to our normal schedule on Monday, the 27th of October, work session at seven, regular meeting at eight. Um we have someone here uh regarding our resolution number 314, a right-of-way request uh on 85 Nana Hagen Road. What's on our agenda tonight is simply to approve forwarding it to the planning commission for their review. Um the site plan, the drawings, and your cover letter are here. I thank you for coming. Um you're welcome to stay, but we're gonna approve that, sending it to the planning commission. And honestly, I think perhaps you don't need to stay. Don't need to burn it. Okay, to make sure that everything was in order. Thank you. Uh okay. Um, a very thorough presentation. We have it all. All right, great. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right, then let's back uh bounce back um uh to uh our session. First item on the agenda is a public hearing. Is there a motion to open a public hearing? Hold on a minute. I'm gonna share my screen. Or I guess maybe I will just share my screen to get to the resolution so there's not much to see. Is there a motion to open a public hearing regarding the cable and franchise renewal agreement by and between the village of Pleasantville and Verizon New York? So we'll second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion approved. Um attached to the agenda is the franchise renewal agreement, uh, which is required. We uh engaged the services of an attorney in Pennsylvania, actually, who specializes in this stuff for a variety of reasons. Uh uh the flexibility communities have uh to negotiate these agreements have been substantially reduced based on the both the evolution of the industry and the evolution of the FCC rules. Any comment you want to make about that, Eric Morrissey, who is on Zoom but uh protecting us from the cold he has. Yes.