All right.

Uh welcome all.

Sorry to be starting a little bit late.

We had an executive session that ran a little bit long.

Uh, but we are beginning the work session for the village of Pleasantville Board of Trustees.

Today is Monday, July 27.

Uh, first item on our list here in the work session is a conversation about the draft speed hump policy that has been uh impressively assembled by village engineer Anthony Carr, who is present here in the room.

Um I could share my screen, and maybe Anthony, you could give us the thumbnail sketch, the executive summary of what you have.

Good evening, mayor,

board, Eric and Alyssa and audience, especially a big shout out to the pedestrian committee.

Uh figure out as well independently, but uh to keep it uh focused, yeah, the speed hump policy.

Uh

you

know, just give some background since 2017 to present day, between 2017 to 2025, excuse me, eight years, we've had six speed hump requests, at least on record, that I've that I was able to go back and fit through from email prior from my predecessor, and thus all from since I joined the village since 2022, September 2022.

So I'm coming up on four years,

which

has flew by.

Um, the request won Ashland and Nanny Hagen, and those were in 2025.

Uh Grand Street was 2023, Orchard Street was 2023.

So those those were with me.

Um, and then suddenly side was 2021 and Ron Row was 2017.

So not saying there wasn't more, but between between the last eight years or from that period of 72 to 2025, there was eight requests.

So they're not coming in uh in leaps and bounds, but

um

I would say that they're coming in enough when I say they the the speed hump request to at least rather than just say, no, no, it's not gonna

work.

There should be, and at the request I know the board administrator giving the firing order, say, hey, come up with a policy, or at least let's look into developing policy.

We've talked about it as we're doing it tonight, um, what we're gonna do, um, and determine if the the village wants to move forward with such a policy or revise this as proposed or or change it completely.

So I use the village of Tyree Townshump policy, which we're developed in 2021, and City of Yonkers, which was developed in 2017, and looked at that, said okay, well, we have to make it towards village of pleasantville, right?

Because we're not city of Yonkers, and we're also not Tyre Town either.

We have every every misbalance on identity, right?

So me being here now four years, I know what that identity is, at least I think I do for the most part, still learning every day.

Uh, but the policy gives an outlet to an interested party to say, hey, we notice some problems down our street.

We'd like to request speed hump.

And rather it be just an email, you know, then I have to respond back with the with a cut and paste template.

It would be a formalized policy, right?

So not not codify or code, but it'd be a policy, a departmental policy, where we look at it, we would we get the request, and basically there is uh several steps, but just to condense the steps would be individual or parties see, okay.

Let's just say make it results.

Or

just read comes back.

So now I want to speed up.

Well, they have to submit the request and write it, right?

So the initial request comes to the DPW, and if you go through, there's there's a number of steps, but just to kind of I want to figure out any number.

The interested party submits an initial request.

We look at the we being DPW evaluates the initial eligibility, right?

So there's criteria in this policy from letters A to uh J, K.

There's a number of, I'd say about 20, maybe a little bit less, where you know, no dead ends, no cold attacks.

Um they can't be placed, speed hump's proposed before intersections at or near intersections, uh, road grades steeper than five percent, and that's measured along the the gutter, right?

So it's not it's not the cross slope as you walking from left to right on a row, right?

Of course, the the short distance, it's that running slope kind of parallel to the per that can't be more than five percent.

Five percent is a five-foot rise over 100 feet with a little bit.

Five percent is also uh an ADA minimum compliance or maximum compliance for a lot of pitches and other things on the municipalities.

So that's why five percent was used.

John Cruise and Tyre Town six percent.

Um they submit the request, DVW looks at it, and if it meets the initial eligibility request or not, the request still gets notified from Dirty A, basically saying, hey, it's denied because of these reasons.

It failed the initial test, or hey, it's gonna move forward.

And what that looks like is from the following step, DPW then says, okay, it's past the initial criteria test.

Please come back with a petition signed by 67% of the neighborhood that'll be impacted with two-thirds

of

the neighborhood, and that's consistent with Tyree Town and Yonkers as well.