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General News: Notes from the Village Board Meeting
May 14, 2009
This Saturday, May 16, the village trustees will sit down with members of the planning and zoning board, along with members of the master plan committee, to review the goals and objectives of the village’s draft comprehensive master plan. The meeting, which begins at 9:00 at Village Hall, is not a public hearing and Mayor Joseph Gross said the board is not looking for public input at this time.
Mayor Gross said that the group will work with the draft document submitted to him by the master plan committee nearly two years ago, rather than a revised version of it that was recently completed by an Orange County planner. He said that the goals and the objectives in the two document versions are the same, although some streamlining has been done to the main document.
Trustees Barbara Gosda and Rick Gioia are collaborating on the words to be inscribed on the boulder at Donahue Memorial Park that will commemorate the effort to preserve Storm King Mountain from development by Con Edison. Trustees got a look at draft versions of the wording at Monday’s board meeting but no quick agreement on the inscription emerged. Both wordings speak to the preservation of the environment and don’t mention Con Edison by name.
Trustee Gosda said that she believes it is important to mention the dates of the fight against Con Edison while Gioia stressed that he wants the words create a sense of universality and avoid further division. Gosda says that she and Gioia will have a final inscription to present to the board at its meeting on Monday, May 18.
Construction could begin as soon as late June on an expanded walkway in the village square. New York State has released $5,000 in grant money promised to the village square improvement project and the bulk of it will be used to widen to six feet the walkway between Maple Avenue Extension and Hudson Street. Part of the grant will also be used to pay for the new sign on Hudson Street that directs people to the municipal parking lot.
Trustee Rick Gioia wants to bring back a source of mulch and compost by grinding the yard waste picked up by the village Department of Public Works. He is looking into applying for a grant for a grinding machine to turn the waste into usable garden mulch. The price tag for a new brand new grinder could run as high as $130,000, according to DPW chief Dave Halvorsen, who said that a used machine could be a third of that price. Gioia said he remembers that before the DPW building was erected at the riverfront, residents could come down to the yard to get compost there.
Trustee Gioia is also behind the effort to see if the village can tap into the hydropower generated by water flowing down to Black Rock fliter plant to generate electricity. That project is currently being studied by a company under contract to the village.
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