Town Board - Regular Meeting

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Okay, we don't have any presentations this evening, so we'll start with new business. We have a request by controller community to approve abstract of claims and paid priors in the amount of 1,641,620 dollars and 53 cents. Do we have a motion to approve motion to approve?

I. I'd like to recuse myself from this vote the. Sorry the. The claims before us include an invoice from bed for 2030 and because I'm on the town board, and I work at bed for 2030, I don't think it's appropriate to be part of the voting or the conversation. So I'm going to leave the room. Thank you.

Okay, any discussion? This is, I believe the contract that we executed for 2030 over a year ago is on the paid. Bills to be paid, and it's being paid for for their consultancy with the landlord registry and it's being paid for with a grant from the clean energy communities. program for which bedford 2030 got us that grant so um and midge is not working on that project but she recused herself because she's wants to avoid any um appearance of any and variety because she does still work for bedford from 30. just to clarify there are no actual bedford town of bedford funds it was all grant paid funds right was that is that yeah it's all grant paid funds right um so and mitch is not working on that project anymore and right and wasn't part of the vote for the contract last year because she wasn't on the board then so

I just wanted to clarify for the public that there are no bed for taxpayer funds that were paid that for 2030 under that contract. So it was all fun.

So, yeah. Any other discussion about abstract claims and paid priors. Okay, all in favor motion carries. I'll wait to Mitch.

Thanks, Mitch.

And I'll just say, you know, bed for 2030 is a public private partnership. So, even if the town were paying funds for some of the work that they do, I think it's. You know, if images are accusing yourself from those payments or any of that work that that would not be inappropriate. That's sort of how that organization was started by the town of Bedford when Lee Roberts was on the board of bed for 2020 and she. stayed on that board throughout her time as supervisor and when she was on the town board and continue to work with that organization to do education and oftentimes consulting to the town, but most often not getting paid for the work. And it's been almost 15 year relationship with lots of benefits coming to the town, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant money that they have obtained for the town. So they've given a lot more than they've certainly been paid for, but occasionally we do have contracts Um, for, you know, to user services where it's been helpful. So.

Right. Yeah, because it's a non for not for profit organization, there is an exemption from any prohibited conflict of interest in with respect to that organization. So that's correct.

Okay. Thank you. All right number 2, we have just the acceptance of monthly reports. For your review, which we don't have to vote on number 3, we have request to approve a proposal from WSP to do a feasibility style analysis for the at 321 Bedford road. That is in the packet and I'll make the motion to approve. Do you have a 2nd 2nd, and that would be pending attorney review of the terms and conditions and the appropriate insurance and terms and Kevin is here and Tom has been working on this. This has come up because of. 1, we have a grant, thanks to our somehow from February, 30 and obtaining clean energy communities funds in the amount of, I think about 430,000 dollars to be used for clean energy efforts. Um. And we also have an air conditioner that died a couple weeks ago. So we are really trying to move quickly to figure out the best way forward the most financially prudent and also smart way to go. So this proposal. Is to do a feasibility analysis for what that that. Infrastructure could look like. Kevin, you want to add anything?

Thanks, Supervisor Calabas. So basically WSP, the consulting engineer, will be looking at the existing systems, not only the chiller boilers, but all of the individual devices that deliver heat or cooling to each room or area, depending on the area and how it's configured. And we'll be looking at several options to optimize What we do, and as you said, the best and smartest option to upgrade the heating systems, which are 25 years old and kind of reaching end of life. So it's time to look at them comprehensively.

Great.

And I did want to add, and I want the public to know, this was a project that we were on the path to executing either way. What ended up happening is when the second compressor ended up going and the chiller died, it just kind of put things in motion a little faster, which is fine. And I'm happy to have WSP on board if everybody votes yes. We've had many a discussion with them. Their organization works with Our Town already. So they're a very, very reputable firm. And I look forward to working with them on a multitude of different options and with this feasibility study.

And it's my understanding to do the feasibility study would help. We have a 100-year-old part of the building. We have new parts of the building. We have different uses in the building. So this room is used differently than like the offices where people are 830 to 430 pretty consistently every day. If we do this feasibility work and understand what systems might work best with this configuration, it will cut down on costs later for. The actual design documents that we have to put out.

Okay, so this feasibility study, it's. It's almost like we're investing now to save money later, hopefully in factors of 1 to 2, 2 and a half in this particular proposal and what we were pushing for that we didn't do. We learned from some of our mistakes previously, and that's what we should be doing. Right? So, we are actually going to get load calculations from a particular program that actually is very reputable in the industry called train tracer program. So the team at WSP, with Kevin and I's help and working with them, will be able to look at each individual room, each individual system, and really optimize what we are installing, how we're operating the systems, how we can drive maintenance costs down, operation costs down, and make everybody comfortable. That's something that we maybe didn't have the grant money and other projects to do. And I'm happy to talk about 425 at the end of the meeting. That's one of the notes I'm going to make. board member announcement but this one will be a very fine-tuned approach with a very good group and a very good organization that will pay dividends when the drawings go out so that contractors come back with estimates and bids that are hopefully lower than one would expect if you don't have an analysis that that's being done here okay great thank you um other questions

I mean, importantly, we got on the agenda today, because we really would like this to move forward and have a new system installed before. Next summer, so to do to take, you know, the, I think I think they said 8 weeks or so to get this report done and then to get design and bid documents out. And then to get bidders and to schedule the work, you know, to be installed next spring so that when the heat comes back next April, May, we're ready to go.

And we want to look, one of the biggest driving factors, Ellen, is actually lead time on equipment. So we want to make sure that we have something awarded so that when that awarding contractor releases and buys that piece of equipment, they can install it in time. So that's another time constraint that we'll talk about. And one last point, WSP's team will work with what we're doing with the envelope study right now. And Mark Teelking and I and Kevin have been on the calls together. I won't mark a call actually at this meeting, but it was explicitly discussed today that we'll work together on those two ideals because you can't do one without the other. That would be fiscally irresponsible of us and professionally irresponsible. So to what degree we can't say yet, that's part of why you do these studies, and one will affect the other and vice versa. So we'll be working together with that.

That's great. Thank you. Any other questions? All in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Thank you, Kevin. And thank you, Tom, for jumping on this. Moving this forward. Thanks for coming, Kevin. Okay, we have a request from the town clerk to approve the signing the stop DWI IMA with Westchester County. And we have a motion to approve.

So moved. Second.

Madam Clerk, anything to add about this?

Yeah, just real, real quick. So Stop DWI is a patrol program. This contract will be from 2026 to 2030. It is a reimbursement of up to $8,400 every year for dedicated DWI enforcement overtime activities. It's contingent upon Westchester County receiving New York State funds for Stop DWI and county appropriations. The patrols for the stop DWI have to be additional overtime enforcement. So they do not replace normal patrol operations and the patrols occur during approved high risk hours. Sobriety checkpoints or special enforcement operations must be approved in advance and assigned a control number by the county before reimbursement will be authorized. And then there are several reports. That our police department has to provide quarterly for the efforts. So this is something we're doing already. And this is just a new contract to extend for another 5 years.

Great Thank you any questions. All in favor motion carries. We have a request to submit the NYSEG banner permit application for the veterans banner program. I guess that isn't attached here, but it is to reinstall the veterans banners again this year on the posts adjacent to the walk bike path on Route 117 and it added a few extra posts this year that extend beyond the ends of the path. Because we have a few more banners that some veterans would like to see created and hung up. So that was a great program last year and we look forward to doing it again. So, do we have a motion to approve? So moved. Second. Any questions? This year, I think we'd like to do instead of just a ceremony to kick that off. Like, a walk along the path for everyone to look at the banners and talk along the way. So I believe we're aiming for September 26 to do like. Near the end of September to do that. All in favor I motion carries. We have a request. Oh, we are with this request was withdrawn. Sorry, I forgot to move it off the agenda. So we moved to old business. We have request an update on a request to the for the no passing. So, 22 near the John J homestead. Just basically, the update is to let, you know, that our request for a no passing zone in front of the John J. homestead was granted and will be painting a double yellow line along that stretch where there seems to be a lot of people passing and going fast and it would be much better to have no passing zone. So. Good work. Congratulations. The DOT actually listened to that one. So we do also have requests in regarding them fixing 172. There is a certain stretch there that has been patched and repatched that still is very bumpy ride and we have been Really reaching out to them constantly about that and encourage residents to continue to send messages to and to 1, 800 pothole and to our state representatives as well. Just to keep banging the drum that people would like to see that area improved. It, it really does need to be like. taken down and graded and repaved, but it is not on the repaving list yet. So whatever they can do to improve the conditions there, we keep asking for. Okay. We have a request to amend the expiration date for the board of assessment review board member Frank to September 30th, 2027. I'll make the motion to approve. There was a typo in the appointment of Frank. He was to replace John Loveless on the board of assessment review. And I think the date was not transcribed as the expiration of John Loveless, which is September 30th, 2027. So do we have a 2nd 2nd. All in favor and I just want to say the board of assessment review is doing grievance day today. And so they've been here all day long hearing grievances. Regarding people's property assessments and so just, I appreciate the work that they're doing. This is their, their busy day. So, thank you to the board of assessment review. Okay, we also have. We had discussed some updates to the sign ordinance, and I just want to go through some of the things that we've been working on. We don't have the full draft at this moment, but we have just kind of an overview of where we are. And if the board is amenable to the draft, the sort of concepts of this draft, we'd like to move forward with having our town attorney review. Changes in the code, and then passing it along to the planning board for their considerations. So I'll just go through where we are with some of those changes. We wanted to update. The decades old code to reflect new and emerging uses and technologies, just concepts that weren't considered in the 80s when the code sign code was passed to provide a simplified. Language, it's kind of confusing for people to follow the current 1 to support businesses while preserving aesthetics to clarify what's permitted and what's not permitted. To clarify what, you know, permanent versus temporary use and to clarify the permitting process, make that a little simpler. You know, for example, and, you know, we need to talk to. The. the building inspector has looked at this and should look at it again. But for example, the current sign permit requires a survey. And I think for a small business owner who just wants to put a sign up on their building, getting a full property survey is very expensive and onerous. And a lot of other sign codes require a sketch. You can use Google Earth or a picture and some measurements. And when it's not close to the property line, it's just on the middle of the building, maybe a full survey isn't always required. So we can talk about that. But that would be something to help small businesses comply without having to go through that. Um, we have considered a lot of external stakeholder feedback, a bunch of business leaders and internally the code enforcement and building inspector and some other people on a working group. We have analyzed the current code as well as looked at a lot of. Um, actual field work, what the signs actually look like, where we're not sure that, you know, maybe compliance is working out where we do need enforcement or where we might need to change the code to kind of come into what people are doing in practice. And then we've done a comparative review, looked at a lot of other sign codes to see what is happening out there in other towns, similar to ours, small villages and places where. the sign aesthetic is very tasteful and minimal um where we are now is this compilation of our findings considerations and recommendations and then we will update the draft changes and um would like to move to have that reviewed by the planning board and then we would bring it back to the town board to make any further changes and set a public hearing So some of the things that we are proposing in the draft is to clarify when permits are required. Add exemptions with restrictions to simplify compliance. So where it says something is does not require a permit makes it very clear when it is allowed and what In under what circumstances and how clarifies coverage and dimensional standards, especially on windows. It's unclear how much of your window you can cover and creates more specific administrative and enforcement procedures. There's nothing in our code currently about maintenance, which would be nice to be able to enforce people keeping their signs. Well, maintained. Um, some of the recommendations that we'd like to move forward with. Include temporary signage in the commercial areas, including sandwich board signs, which currently the code is silent on. So it would be to create a permit for sandwich board signs that require the. Owner of the property to get approval for, like, an annual approval to use sandwich board sign and it would have they would have to. Affirm that they would comply with requirements that they would provide insurance. And that there would be sort of a look materials and size and things that would be allowed. So, no, you know, big plastic neon sandwich word science specifically. This also just sort of asks what else may be permitted. Some town and village codes allow you to get a permit for, say, like, a grand opening banner or balloon arch or something that you want to put up for grand opening. We don't we could specify when you could get a permit for a temporary sign, which currently we don't. Um, specify that so that's something that we could consider putting in and running by the planning board and seeing, you know, in the building inspector and seeing how that plays out 1 area where there are a lot of. Variances is for fuel tank signs. It's kind of strange, but if you only allow 2 signs on a commercial property. that identify a business and then they have these little decals on every fuel tank that has the name of the business on it, they have to get a variance. I think if, you know, if we could just say, you're allowed to have little decals on your fuel tank under a certain size and only 1 per side or something, then that avoids a lot of extra red tape where. This is the way that these companies are supposed to. I think the fuel tanks come with this on it, you know, so. this one you know in the picture has a little exxon at the bottom and an exxon at the top those would be variances currently from our current sign code um which i think if we made it reasonable no one would be too offended and also all those other little signs on the on the fuel tank um as long as they're under certain size could be reasonably exempted from having to get a permit Um, window coverage, I think what we could propose in the code is, um. There's permanent storefront signage that can be in the window and then there's sort of temporary signage that isn't the logo or branding. And right now it's unclear with the temporary signage, how much window coverage is allowed versus the permanent permits. Very clear. So the temporary needs to be clarified and then there's also question of vacant storefronts and what. So, the proposal would be to only allow a certain amount of coverage. Um, for permanent and temporary, and then, uh. Also allow some amount of graphics, or even like a for rent sign in bacon storefront. So that is proposed in the updated in the draft. Um. Also, 1 thing that we proposed in the draft, if it's a walkable area, like 1 of the Hamlet zones, um. I think the group found that there was reason to make sure you could see in the windows seeing in stores is is important unless it's a vacant storefront. Whereas on the roadside businesses where you're driving by and the. Windows are further away, it's less important to have visibility into the stores. So there's a proposal that you could cover more of the windows. Unlike 17, as opposed to in the Hamlet area. Flags are something that we have in the code as exempt from requiring permit. So that, but they're not very large in terms of what's allowed. So we would expand what size and types could be allowed. Um. We don't have anything in our code about wall art or murals. And that is something working on what the approval process would be probably would have to have a art review committee and not sure how we would. We would point to that, but it would be require additional review and where on a building you might be able to paint on the building or install some kind of art. And that would also have maintenance standards and duration and approvals of that type. There's also this would also include vacant storefront windows to have art in them. Just clarifying what's permitted and what's exempt. Neon signs are limited in size. But they're not currently limited in number, so that would be. To limit the number, I think I believe this. We could also limit.

i'm not sure eric if you could limit content if it were like a sign related to a controlled substance there were there are state regulations on um certain controlled substances i mean marijuana has certain controls by state um i'd have to look into it probably um but whenever you're I mean, there are certain things you can regulate content on very limited, but like, if there are beer signs that are lit up, could we say, no, I think there are New York state requirements for that as well. So, I think the state, there are state laws with respect to drugs and alcohol advertising. So I can find out what those are if you're interested in that.

That's I think what we proposed is to have 1, 1 neon sign under a certain size, but none lit up with respect to petrol substances.

And there's no time on the allowable neon signs to be operating correct right now.

Oh, that's interesting.

Because I've noticed in my travels overnight, there's a lot of neon signs in certain areas of town. So I'd be curious what the appetite of the board and the planner would be to maybe between, you know, limited, you know, whatever hours, something I kind of, I'm happy we're going over this or something I wanted to bring up, you know, at some point.

We can put that in the chat. Just a thought, yeah. And then there's a question of, The current code prohibits signs on awnings. But there have been a lot of variances for signs on awnings. Um, so they are all kind of around. Um, so. The, the rationale would be to allow them, but require them to stay well maintained. I think, um. Or to allow them within certain size restrictions, but require them to be well maintained. Um. And then I spoke hanging signs as a question mark, because. We have bracket signs and projecting signs. And I'm not sure if that includes the kind that are hanging from little hooks because I think that's like a sign that you see. But I'm not sure if it's a projecting sign. As we allow in the projecting signs, but anyway, it might be another category that we just need to add because it's not clear. So, permit process clarified also clarified when you have to go to a historic board as well as the building inspector when you have to go to the planning board. And enforcement is more clarified as to what gets forced. We could also clarify the appeal process because that's. Always assume people know how to do that, but it's not always. The case. And then finally, what we talked about, so most you've been looking at commercial signs that businesses have weighed in. That's where a lot of enforcement needs to happen and variances are happening. But there's also the question of residential properties. We talked about this a year ago, and there was a couple of people complaining that they wanted more regulation around what you're allowed to put on your lawn. There are first amendment considerations that you. You know, people might want to express themselves by putting something on their lawn, but we don't really have any rules around what that looks like. And if we wanted to. You know, if the public wants to see that we could limit the number and the size and the illumination on. Free residential properties. Not the content, but we could. Define what that means we also could say that you could put up a real estate sign, which we don't currently. Say that you can in our code, but people do so, maybe we just have to limit their size as well and. Decide what that looks like, so those are currently where we're holding on a draft in terms of the concepts. I don't know if there's anything the board we can. Bring the next draft to the next meeting and discuss and we could also. Send it to the planning board for their consideration. You know, it's going to take some time because they're not meeting for a month. We're not meeting for a month. So, but I wanted to put some of these concepts out there and if anyone has anything to add. Or desperately wants changed in the sign code, let us know. Um, anything they've just been working on this with me. So, thank you.

It's been interesting.

Yeah. Yes.

In the learning process. Yeah, but I think that this is. This addresses what the businesses wanted and just having spent a lot of time looking at the signs in town, you know, a lot of potential issues and. as you said in the beginning, really making the code more relevant for the world of business today.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And I mean, one, one really important thing is the, just that high quality graphics that can be produced. I think I said this in another meeting before, but in the eighties, you couldn't print sort of beautiful graphics and put them in your windows. And now, you know, I know there are some buildings that have lovely graphics, Or not so lovely, but like, they're putting graphics in their windows to show what their business is and it's very unclear what our code allows. So, I think what we've. Put in the draft is. maybe if you're on 117 and you're far from the road, you can cover your windows, but maybe it can only be a certain percentage of the whole facade. So if your building is all windows, you can't cover the whole thing. But if you have a few windows and it's not taking up the whole facade of the building, you could maybe figure out a percentage. So that's a calculation we'll have to look at and actually just go out and look and see what people are doing and whether that would work for them. But certainly just having big giant banners all over everything is not what we want, you know, all over every brick and window. Okay. Well, thank you. Sorry for talking so much, but that was an easier way than going through the draft. And we will provide it at the next opportunity.

So is the next step to share it with the planning board, do you think?

Yeah, I think Eric has to look at- Well, we'll have to prepare a local law, a proposed local law based on the draft that you have.

Yeah, we'll have to do a red line.

Yeah, so we'll revise the sign code, the existing sign code. So I have to see what format your changes are in and we'll go through it. And then once the town board is ready to submit it, to refer it, it'll probably come back to you once more to look at it, you know, and say you're ready to refer it to the planning board. Okay. That's, you know.

Right.

Okay. I would think that you'd want one more opportunity to do that and make sure you're okay with it before it goes to the planning board. Yeah. Okay.

Right. And I do think it is... The planning board may make some changes and then the public may have a lot to say. Sure. You know, there's a lot in there.

Sure. There'll be a lot for the public to say.

Yeah. Right. It's sandwich boards and and potential public art. All of that is very different than what we have now. So. Okay, I will then yes, we will move it to a state that we can see it again at our next meeting and maybe. Forward is the planning board and also maybe set a public hearing for September. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. So one final thing, you know, we have Public input session that we've announced for June 30th and reserved historical hall and invited people from bed for village to talk about. Just issues along 22172 between, like, and. Once I, you know, the South effort road, and mostly because we know that there is a large parcel of land there that has switched hands and we have not yet. We don't have any. Development applications or anything, but it is a concern that 1 might be what might be coming and we don't really know what is going to be proposed there. And so I really would like to hear from the public about. The concerns, the opportunities, the challenges in that corridor, I know people will speak of traffic and need for sidewalks and. You know, whatever else the concerns are, I think cell service is still a concern in that area. It drops off. You know, it doesn't reach all the way over there, you know, their. Water capacity issues right now and so just putting forward sort of what the zoning is there and what the issues are along the whole corridor. But then also talking about, you know, if there's an application, what. What might we do to try to get what we want and my concern is. We have a housing committee that's working on a report to. bring us proposals for, you know, how do we get the kind of housing that we know we need, but within what the comprehensive plan contemplates as the right kind of housing for Bedford. How do we use the comprehensive? The comprehensive plan said things about a variety of housing. It said things about conservation subdivision, which we also have our wildlife corridor consultant looking at changes to the conservation subdivision. if all of these applications are coming before we have a chance to update our laws to the recommendations of the comprehensive plan, the housing committee, the confirmation subdivision, what was the point? So I guess my question is, Eric, is there a way that we could put a moratorium on any new applications for subdivision or for subdivision on parcels over 20 acres now for six months so that we have a chance to look at all these things if we want to change zoning or set requirements that our comprehensive plan contemplates. We just haven't had a chance to get all these recommendations back.

Right. You could definitely implement a focused moratorium on particular types of development as long as you are currently know assessing the regulations and you know actively working to update them at that time and you know it's got to be for a reasonable period of time it's usually six months with a potential um six month extension if if needed um is typically the the amount of time that courts have determined are appropriate so okay i mean i i know that our you know the consultant for the conference conservation subdivision update is you know

Very close to having something, so we are very much working on something that may be applicable. In that area, so I would like to make motion that we, you know, whereas we are working on. Zoning changes that may affect development of parcels. Of. You know, over 20 acres that we impose a moratorium on any new applications relating to land over 20 to be developed over 20 acres. For 6 months, so that we have a chance to do that work. Make the motion we have a 2nd 2nd.

Discussion the only question that happens is that include they can include applications that already in the queue. No, I think that's illegal.

You can include applications that have not been approved at this point, but you could also exclude those from the moratorium and only include properties that have not had applications filed.

I wouldn't feel more comfortable with that.

Doing it on any existing?

No, new applications. I don't know how the rest of the board feels.

I don't know how many we have. The size that you're proposing is over 30 acres for development of any property over 30 acres. I think it's a 20. 20. I'm not sure how many I'd have to talk to the planning department about how many we have on the property size currently.

I just don't know. Like, like, you'd have to talk to planning. I don't know. Yeah, it's hard for me to vote on something. I don't know. All the information.

Oh, we'd have to, we'd have to prepare the moratorium and you'd have to pull the public hearing on it. So you'd have to schedule a public hearing at the July 13 meeting for I guess the August meeting, at which time you could adopt the resolution at the August meeting.

That's or you know, we could we couldn't set a public hearing now on a moratorium.

We don't we don't have the form of moratorium. I guess it's a local law. So we'd have to prepare the local law before July 1. I guess you could set the public hearing for July 13. And we could endeavor to get the local law drafted before the first and circulated. July 14th, the meetings on July 14th, your meetings for like, okay.

So so, yeah, I would like to propose that we set a public hearing for a 6 month moratorium on. Uh, applications related to development of over 20 acres.

For 6 months for the July 14th, and does that include properties that have already got had applications filed or only only for future applications?

I think future applications. Um.

Uh, or if they haven't been filed by a certain date, maybe by if they have an after if an application has right.

We're not going to come in tomorrow because we said we were going to do right.

So maybe if an application hasn't been filed as of this day as of this day. Yeah.

Um, right. Because I think we're.

I think because you don't want somebody to hear this and then say, all right, I'm going to come an application in before the 3rd before the 14th. Right?

Right. And if there are recommendations coming from. I don't think we're going to see the report from the housing task force until July 14th. So there may be. Right I don't know if. For now, let's put it on for any applications. That are have not been submitted as of today. Um.

Yeah, okay.

Okay. Um, we have a 2nd on the setting of public hearing 2nd. Any quick discussion all in favor? Aye. Motion carries. Okay. So we will draft a local law to that effect and. Post it so that we can have that public hearing in July. Right?

And we've the date and the time for that discussion here.

So, June 30th at 7 PM, we have set that public input session. Great. Um. I'll just be listening, you know, we'll have some information about designing there. And I just really, I want the public to be able to have an opportunity to speak about this before, you know, everyone just see. On the defensive to whatever is coming. Um, it's a 100 acre parcel. There are a lot of, I think, wetlands and layers on it. Um, right right. Deep slips and things. So, you know, I don't know what is getting proposed. There's been a lot of. Proposals there, maybe we can bring some of those that have been proposed in the past. There was 1 for a high school 1 for a. A couple of large apartment buildings, I think, um, over 55 community, you know, those neighborhoods work form is another 1. right? So, you know, I don't know what's. Coming down the pike, but we could probably guess something like we've seen before. So, um. That is what the point of that is going to be and then hopefully that will help inform if we can move to, you know, we can't. Prohibit development on a parcel that, you know, someone purchased with the, the rights, you know, we can't say no development at all on this parcel that we would get sued for that. But we can. Reasonably, um, make changes based on our current deliberations underway with respect to getting the kind of housing that, you know, we think is important, but also within. The parameters of what the comprehensive plan contemplates is appropriate for. For bedford, okay. Do we have any public comments? Comptroller. Hi, Brian.

Good evening everyone earlier when you were discussing the study in this building, I just wanted to come in, probably say, thank you to somebody that works in that building every day. Um, it's, you know, initially, of course, you know, it's not a perfect science when you do an installation. It was a little uncomfortable and, um, I know council men had donated several unpaid professional hours to kind of work with the manufacturer and work with the vendors to correct it.

um then you know this summer it's a lot more comfortable than it was then so it seems you kind of figure it out just want to thank you for your work on that thanks i appreciate that brian it was two years i'd say in the making um a couple seasons but we did get a chance to to tweak the system and get it to where most people are comfortable as you had mentioned it's not going to be perfect no system is but the number of days i think in which we ended up getting complaints this year And we've had some pretty bad days. I mean, really out of design days recently was maybe one morning and OLA and I were able to jump on a call together and on the BMS system and really kind of work things out and figure out what was going on. We had some missteps with human error, operator error, which happens. but the systems I'm very much more comfortable about with what's going on with the systems. And I'll continue to monitor them with Frank and you. You know me, I pop in every so often just to check on the humidity down there in parks and up in the county. So I appreciate the kind words. I'm not going anywhere.

It also allowed us to close out the retainage on the 2 contracts and everything. So there's the administrative aspect to it as well.

So that was going to be my 1 board member announcement was, I was happy that we actually got a chance to close the project that which sometimes in my line of work takes years. So that was great work by the whole team. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for those comments. And for that work, Tom, because. as much as I absolutely love this job and how much I've learned about wastewater, water systems, and even like the new carpeting or whatever it is that we're working on. HVAC systems are the worst. So thank you. They're the worst.

And I do them every day all day.

This will be our third, you know, like major replacement project.

And as nerdy as it sounds, Ellen, I'm excited for 321.

I'm glad you're excited. Okay. So board member announcements. Coming up this weekend. Yeah.

It is coming up, but it's sold out.

Oh, it's sold out.

It's like 100% sold out. Hopefully, thank you, Bedford. 1776, the musical. 1776, the musical, starring Bobby Pitker.

Well, you have a good role. So really, a huge shout out to everybody who's been working on 1776, the musical, including Stephanie and Bobby, who have been working on this as part of the Rev Up 250 experience. It actually was featured in I Love New York for things that are going on for the 250 throughout the state. So congratulations on that. I think it's going to bring a lot of visitors to town. It's sold out with waiting lists, I think, for all nights. And it's going to be fantastic. Looking forward to that, and there are a bunch of other things happening, including the fabulous exhibition at the museum. That'll start on the 28th with. Like, objects from the founding families, how they lived diplomacy at home it's called, but they're. redoing the Katona Museum spaces to feel like interiors of homes at the time of the revolution and some really great pieces coming from other famous, you know, presidential homes and founding father homes. So it should be great. It's so exciting to see sort of art and history and all of these organizations working together on this celebration in Bedford. Um, so congratulations to everyone and, um, you know, another. Thing coming up this Friday, we are partnering with neighboring town pound Ridge to bring the Juneteenth celebration and recognition event really thoughtfully constructed against the rev up to 50. celebration or commemoration, noting that 1776 did not mark freedom for all, and they've created an interdisciplinary performance by acclaimed dancer and choreographer Claude Johnson and drummer Orion Toure through a three-part suite involving the exploration of evolving meaning of freedom over time. I think it'll be tremendous music and dance and education, and there will be activities. And a huge thanks to Andromeda Ture for her incredible work on bringing this program to Bedford. So 5, 3 to 530, 3, 330 to 5 at the Bedford Hills Community House on Friday the 19th. Any other announcements? Okay. There being no further business, this meeting is adjourned. What? Oh, the boat program. On June 24th, there will be an info session at the Bedford Hills Community House at 6.30 p.m. For anyone interested in learning more about the boat program, which will really just help people understand what is required to use the boat. But if they're not there, we will have all that information online as well. But it should be a good opportunity to see where the locker is, how you get a code to unlock it to retrieve the oars and the Life jackets, which will be at the referrals community house, take them down to the corner of 35 and cherry street where you park at the musket reservoir and then have a code to unlock the boat. There are 2 boats to take it out for a spin. You have to be fishing. You have to have a fishing license. You have to have a area permit, which you get 1 time and then you just bring it every time you go and then you have to have a registration with town Bedford. So, there'll be kind of 3 documents that if the police stop you, you have to show that you have plus evidence that you're actually fishing and. I think there are some rules that we will be sharing with people about. you can't park the boat anywhere, but in the use area, can't go swimming, and some safety rules about boating in general. So yes, thank you, Tom. It's very exciting that we're going to be launching the boat program. And hopefully lots of people will take advantage. It's going to be a great accessibility program for all. And am I forgetting anything, Allie?

There's more executive sessions.

Oh, yeah, you're right. I mean, he's not adjourned. I would like to make a motion that we go into executive session to discuss the confidential legal matter with our town attorney. We have, I'll make the motion. Do we have a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. We can. It will just take a few minutes.

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