This meeting is being recorded and summarized.

My sister the meeting is now being recorded.

I will call the meeting to order the charter revision commission for Tuesday May 12, 2026.

It is now 611 p.m.

Thank you.

I will entertain a motion to uh approve the minute of meeting April 28th, right?

April 28th.

Move and second it, all in favor.

Any opposed.

Okay, let me do the roll call.

I should have done that before the roll call.

Uh Linden Williams here.

Tim Warren, present.

Nancy Sellett's in here.

That's made in here.

Nancy William here.

There are more almost even Nelson here.

Hi Becker, here.

Oh permanent here.

Heather Laughman here.

Chair recognize uh the council, Mondia Jones, present.

Present.

Okay.

Sanchez here.

And on on yeah, on virtual, we have Lu Santez, right?

Okay.

All right.

The uh minutes haven't been approved.

The next area items for discussion tonight.

Uh we have a few items.

Um, and just to kind of bring you up the speed of what uh I'm gonna be talking about also is the public hearing.

I'll kind of set out the schedule as I see it for the rest of the uh the rest of other meetings we're gonna have between now and the end.

Um there are not many.

Uh but hopefully we can we can kind of meet them and kind of wrap up this thing.

Uh the there are some revisions that are going to be made.

Everyone has a copy of the draft report.

There are two copies.

One is a marked up copy, undermined at the top, and one is not on the line, which is uh clean copy.

Okay, let me ask uh Mondere to focus on let's focus on item one on the items for discussion.

Thank you, Chairman.

Uh and good evening, everyone.

The the reason that this version is slightly different from the one I've circulated by email is because uh I changed an item um for your consideration uh after discussion with the law department and the chairman.

This has to do with something you previously voted not to approve.

It was a request by the health department um to have the health code referred to as the sanitary code.

And the view at the time of the commission and voting not to approve that item is that the laws of Westchester County are clear that they shall be used interchangeably.

Um but you know, upon further consideration and and consultation with the law department, which had previously been consulted, but uh after further consultation, I should say, um decided that its view is that it would be unnecessarily confusing for the county sanitary code to be known as a health code when the state when the state law is also referred to as a sanitary code and everyone uses the language sanitary code in common parlance.

Uh and so I've drafted this language for your for you to review that begins on page 40 and goes on to page 41.

Um it's it's styled in the form of an approval to the extent you want to change the vote that you previously made.

And um, and I think the chairman, based on his experience as a judge, also has a view on this.

Yeah, the sanitary code code is the official title of the code.

In other words, it's called so in let's say in um in the board of health process when they assess fines, when they violate uh persons for um wrongdoing, they are citing their site in the sanitary code.

So it makes sense, and uh it is the official name of the code.

So we wouldn't want to use a uh or recommend that the board of legislators adopt a name that is not the official name of the code itself.

I don't think they would.

Uh so uh I think the the change is is um not substantial, but I think it's required so that we are not sending something off to the board that would be inconsistent with the uh operations of the board of health, the health department and the state.

And I would also add that um there is that there's an internal inconsistency and consistency within the laws of Westchester County because uh whereas 261.41 says that the sanitary code shall be known as a health code, there is a separate provision and part 11 of the laws of West Chester County, much later than the law of Westchester County that still refers to the sanitary code.

Right.

Which would also clear up that inconsistency.

Right, which the the law department will have to kind of synchronize all of these sections so that they are consistent when they actually write it when they actually write the language or the legislators to approve.

We'll have to go through and wherever you are checking where the improper phraseology is used.