Speaker numbers apply only to this recording.
The Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees held a regular meeting on February 27, 2026 (rescheduled from February 23 due to a snowstorm). The board provided updates on budget preparations, snow removal, and local projects, heard a public comment on senior nutrition services, and unanimously approved ten resolutions covering local law amendments, budget transfers, fee schedules, and personnel matters.
You'll see that. It's so great. Yeah, that was really good. All right. Here we go. Uh we're well in military precision tonight. It's 801. Uh welcome all uh to the Village of Pleasantville Board of Trustees. Uh our regular meeting today, Wednesday, February 25, uh rescheduled because uh Monday, February 23 was a day when we were uh trying to dig out of Snow Mageddon. Um so uh we are here with our regular meeting on the 25th. We began today at 6:30 with a work session, started to work through departmental budgets with a department heads, uh, as we will be doing at various points over the next uh few weeks. Um the the draft budget will be assembled and hosted in March by March 20th, uh the tentative budget is due, um, which is essentially the the staff budget. Right. Um and then the board will have the opportunity to make any changes they'd like from that when moving forward. I will say um uh and then we spend a period of time, there'll be a public hearing. Eric will make a presentation, a summary of the budget, plenty of opportunity for folks to weigh in uh on what they think might be edited or what they think might be subtracted. So uh keep an eye on that. We're working our way through these departmental budgets, draft budget March 20th. That'll be posted on the website, uh, and then you'll see the schedule for the uh budget presentations, the public hearing, etc. All working towards the notion of approving the budget by the end of April in anticipation of the beginning of our new fiscal year, which is June 1. That's the report on the budget. I had a few announcements to make. Uh, firstly, uh if our entire parks and DPW staff were here in the room, we would all get up and go hung everyone. Yeah, we're totally um quite an undertaking, and as we all know, quite an undertaking on top of quite an undertaking a month ago. So uh that was quite uh to do. So I very much appreciate the work that uh folks did uh to help dig us out of all of this. We're not done yet. We've got teams on uh at night picking up piles of snow, taking it to various places to get it out of the way, but uh quite a gargantuan task, and a big shout out to Anthony Carr to Mike Newman, uh Parson Reputation for all the great work they have done and are continuing to do. I know people have lots of frustrations along the way dealing with snow. Uh sometimes frustrations dealing with the snow. We have uh pushed near their sidewalk or driveway. Um it's a tough environment for everybody. Um, but uh shout out again to folks who are struggling through that and trying to keep sidewalks open. Uh and uh a little bit of a uh demerit to folks who itch their snow back in the street. We spent a lot of time and money uh clearing the streets, and it does not help when people plow their driveway or their sidewalk uh right back into the street and uh leave uh a mess where previously the road was clear. So um a big request that people be careful about that. Um couple of other things uh uh worth uh making a point about. Um people have asked me recently about the uh red light camera to be installed on the Somer River Parkway at Grant Street. That long, long tortured story. It's been approved by the legislators in Albany, uh the Senate and the Assembly. It has been signed by the governor.