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Note on Date: The agenda and raw transcript record this meeting as taking place on March 9, 2026, while the official metadata specifies March 17, 2026. This conflict is noted per summary rules.
The Pleasantville Village Board of Trustees convened for a regular meeting addressing a major Campus Drive development proposal, state fiscal policy, capital infrastructure projects, and several routine resolutions. The meeting featured public comment on youth sports safety and development concerns, followed by deliberation and votes on fifteen resolutions.
The Board extensively debated Resolution 2026-48, which authorized the Village Planning Consultant to circulate a Notice of Intent to Declare Lead Agency under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). The project proposes rezoning properties at 1 and 3 Campus Drive and 8 Carey Court to a Planned Unit Development (PUD) district to accommodate 102 townhouses, including 11 affordable affirmative further fair housing units and 6 smaller, naturally more affordable units.
Board Member Positions:
Outcome: Motion approved (4-1).
Okay, we rolled eight o'clock. Good evening all. Welcome to the village board meeting for the village of Pleasantville. Today is Monday, March 9. We began our evening at 7 p.m. with the works working on the Parks and Rec budget for Mike Newman. We've been working through each departmental budget over the last uh few weeks. Eric and Naureen, the treasurer will be posting the preliminary budget March 20, is it? Yeah. That'll be available online, fulfilling the state requirement to file our tentative budget by March 20th. There will then be a public hearing and a first off a presentation, then public hearing about it. And we will continue to tinker with the budget, working towards adopting the budget by the end of April for a fiscal year that begins June 1. So anybody's interested in following along, all of those uh work sessions are available at Pleasantville NY.gov in the uh videos of our work sessions. And uh attended budgets are all attached to our agenda. And come March 20th, the entire set of them, which will reflect whatever tweaks and adjustments have been made along the way will be available at Plebville NY.gov, um, along with on demand uh webcasts of this meeting and previous meetings, as well as uh meetings for some other boards and commissions. Our next regular meeting is two weeks from today on Monday, March 23. Uh couple of announcements to make. The first one being for the first time in quite a long time, we have nothing to say about snow except that it's mostly law. So that would fall into the category of a uh of a happy development. Um two other things to report. Some of you uh have paid attention to the con Edison rate case where Connison applied uh to the public service commission for a very substantial increase in their rates and delivery fees and the like. Um the village of Pleasantville, along with 40 other municipalities. I think 41 out of 45 municipalities joined in uh and all contributed uh to the cost of uh a lawyer and uh a uh specialist in this area uh to sort of defend the represent the interests of Westchester in what is really a regional matter. One of the key issues being how Conade's costs for New York City activity and New York City storm hardening and repairs and changes get applied to Westchester as well. So um I think I can't speak for everybody, but I think uh most all of the 41 municipalities who participated in paying for that uh felt that the result was fair and reasonable given the circumstances and perhaps the best result that was reasonable uh given all that was in play. So um not everybody agreed with that, and I will say just being for myself. Uh I think uh there has been some grandstanding about con ed rates, uh, which are totally understandable that people are concerned about it, uh, but we also have to live in the real world. And I think our advisors in this case felt like uh we achieved as much as we reasonably could. That leads me to the suggestion now that uh the village, I think, uh along with quite a few of those 41 municipalities, maybe in the end all of them, are gonna hire on that same uh specialist attorney and uh and uh industry consultant to represent Westchester's interest going forward, especially as Connet's capital plans uh roll out. So I think it's honestly to my knowledge the first time Westchester has had uh uh savvy truly professional uh support at the table in in what are largely Albany uh negotiations. So that's my report on that. Um I can report that as of the moment. We still don't have an answer from the county about when the red light camera uh will appear at Grand Street on Summer Parkway. It was approved in a long, long process. Finally signed by the governor uh at the uh end of last year. We've been told by the county that they're working on getting out the RFP, not just for that, but for those that they would install on the their own parkways, the Bronx River and the Hutch, but to our knowledge, it's still not out there yet. We continue to prod. Uh so clearly the results are at minimum a couple of months off, maybe worse than that. So frustrating, I will say, and we're making that point in lots of segments. So anybody else have something to report.