Remarks by Ramona Monteverde
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“Jason, you might have mentioned it, but we've been drawing from the, or switching back and forth from Catskill to Brown's Pond for how many years now?”
“There's never, there was a building that was in that, a house, right, in that area?”
“So we don't have to worry about any buried oil tanks or anything? Oh, no, no, no, no, no.”
“Thank you. So Ellie, why do you, and I don't know if you have the answer, why would they assume that they would get discounts?”
“So can we commit to it? Like, who's going to be here? And just stick with the 5th?”
“You here? Are you here? I'll be here. So we have four, right? I'll be here.”
“Thank you. And thank you everybody for coming out tonight to speak about what's going on with the current soccer situation. So I believe that this is just a matter of miscommunication. I know that there have been some great improvements over at the Delano, I always have a hard time with that name, Delano Activity Center. I know that Wayne Brandenburg has been doing a fantastic job getting those fields up and running, the stadium as well, but again, I'm sure it's just a matter of someone's not communicating correctly, and when I look at this document, um i don't see a contract agreement it…”
“um so i'm not sure i know that the bid went out but if we can just get a slight update like are we getting proposals back um that would be great on the the bids a small business okay yep uh councilman”
“So I'd like to comment on that, Michelle. I think that we need to have, whether you want to call it a policy, an update, a change to the user fees because we had a young man come up here requesting that we give him a building but we can't do that unless we have some sort of an agreement because he is a non-profit correct right so let's use that as an example if we're going to do this and trust me i support youth programming, but God forbid something should happen to one of our youths on our property. We're liable. They need to make sure that they have their insurance, which I know that they…”
“Thank you, and thank you to those who stuck it out to the bitter end. So I want to just remind folks that, you know, early voting is going to be starting, I believe, on October 24th, correct? So it is extremely important that we make sure that we get our neighbors out, our friends out, our families out, because This is what we're talking about, right? We're talking about youth programming. For example, tonight, you know, this concerns our vote matters and it concerns, you know, good healthcare. It concerns good jobs, good housing. being able to afford to put food on the table. So please,…”
“I, too, agree with my colleagues. I think at this point, the last comptroller that was hired was not here for very long, and I did not have a lot of confidence that she would be here. So I am confident that with the help of MGT, we'll hopefully get some very good candidates that will be able to do this critical job.”
“Thanks, Wayne. I know that, you know, most of our buildings have cameras everywhere. It's important that, you know, you're able to eye things if there is an accident or if there's something, you know, it's always... different stories, right? So just all you have to do is look at the camera and there it is. Who's going to be viewing these cameras, though?”
“And it'll be recorded? Yep. Right. So we have documentation. All right. Thank you.”
“I thought our, not our, I thought, didn't we have an incident over the summer where somebody came in to use the restroom and they exposed themselves and a kid during summer camp? Yes. Right, so that's exactly why you need cameras.”
“Chief, if you could just clarify here in the contract, it states that YouTube uses the platform. Can you just explain? Is it because they have to just disclose that YouTube uses the cloud services to interact with YouTube? Or what does that mean?”
“Let's see. It's number nine, and it's in section page five. Or no, not page five. Page seven, number nine.”
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“Okay. And for the clerks, do they have any staff development training as well? No. They don't have to? No.”
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“Wow, okay. All right, and that's according to New York State law, right? Yeah, for our area, it's September 15th. Okay, I always thought it was October 1st.”
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“Don't they have to go out early, early before the sanitation- Sanitation runs 4 AM to 12 every day.”
“one last thing Chad so it's something to think about you I know that your background is landscape architect right yes so I know that you saw that mayor Mandani and also Kingston but mayor Mandani they planted 18,000 trees in 2026 they're closing it out right and then Kingston I've the lofty goal the on i think it's broadway kingston they're planting i i can't remember how many but you know it's their goal to just continue to plant trees if we can actually have a number in mind you know for planting trees all around the city especially you know with the information that we got from the natural…”
“So with a couple of these, I think we can combine them, like the designating Crystal Lake as a parkland, including the sanctuary agreement. Can't we combine those?”
“Well, I'd like to see the sanctuary agreement happen because I know that...”