On Monday, April 27, 2026, at 10:07 AM, the Budget & Appropriations Committee of the Westchester County Board of Legislators convened jointly with the Infrastructure & Housing and Public Safety & Veterans committees. Chair Tyrae Woodson-Samuels presided. The meeting lasted until 11:30 AM and covered a range of capital projects, grants, leases, and budget transfers. All items were ultimately approved or referred to the full Board.
This meeting is being recorded and summarized. All right, take two. Good morning, everyone. Legislative Woodson Samuels here, and this is the budget and appropriations committee. It's April 27th. And I'll start us off with the roll fall vote. I am present. Majority Leader Holski. Present. Definitely the Nambiar. Here, let's say the Pierce, Dimity Vice Chair Tubiolo, Majority Williams. Presence. Legislator Williams Johnson. Chairman Gosh. All right. We are open at 1009 a.m. And we're going to take an item out of order. I'm going to start out with the last item, which is actually item 187. 2026-187. Join us at the table. And just for the record. And uh you want us to move it around. That's why I'm going to just for the record. This is uh items 226-187, an act authorizing County of Leicester to grant permanent and temporary easements in YPA and Transville LLC. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us this morning. Please introduce yourselves to the record and let's dive into the item. Sure. Good morning, everybody. Happy Monday. Peter Truxagraf for a company commissioner County Parks. Good morning, David Vital, Deputy County Attorney. Good morning, Rob Bokane, Director of Park Planning, Parks Recreational Conservation. Thank you for being here. Okay, I'll start and then you can continue. Um actually Parks has really a part of this. This is uh this is Transmission Lines through New York Transco and New York Power Authority. Um very you know long distance energy lines that they are uh they are putting in known better as different programming sorry. Uh Propel New York, yeah, Propel New York. And basically um they're a forward thinking group. I'm sure you've heard about that before. We were doing some other things that are traversing some of the park parkland um about putting a clean high energy um transmission lines as well as substitutions and so forth underground, a lot of things go under the ground, some of them actually go into the water. This particular one um is on municipal property. There's a small section uh that's on the Bronx River reservation. It's about 44,000 square feet or approximately one acre, and it's in the uh sort of Bronxville, Tuckahoe area down Tuckahoe Road where they will need to go underground uh to to place some of these lines. So it's really a two-part, uh, it's a temporary easement, uh, which you know is for storage of vehicles, equipment, materials, and actually performing the work, and then of course the permanent easement for being able to service those lines throughout. Uh it will be minimal disruption to us as county parks. Um, you know, we are we have much much much larger of our own projects um that you know you know cause some closures. This is probably not gonna cause closures, it might be you know some detouring, but it's a very small area if you know Tuckahoe Road area where it's splits and goes it's it's in that area. So the parks department um you have to come to the parks department uh for these types of easements, and we are obviously very much in favor of it. We're also working on you know something larger and similar on Caprole Point part, which you've seen, and this is to really help us all in the future um to have cleaner energy and a lot of what we're trying to do in all our infrastructure is look at the different types of energy sources and what we can change them to when we do have our own capital projects.