Key Actions & Decisions

• ◆ • The Board of Trustees' Dec. 19, 2024 special-meeting agenda listed a motion allowing Karen Conn, the Planning Board chairman, to sign a letter of support for a Restore NY grant application covering a building at 132 North Main Street; the agenda records no vote outcome.
• ◆ • The letter itself, dated Dec. 20, 2024 and addressed to a commissioner at Empire State Development Corp. in Albany, states the village is designated a "Severely Distressed Community" under Restore NY guidelines and that renovation would be reviewed by "all stakeholders (including the planning board)."
• ◆ • The same agenda listed a motion to hire Shawn Diebel as auto mechanic, with a 52-week probationary period and pay based on the village's DPW employees' association contract, and a motion allowing Jay Pahura, the DPW superintendent, to proceed with purchasing an air-tow trailer and truck; neither item's vote or, for the equipment purchase, its price is recorded.
• ◆ • The agenda's first item after the pledge to the flag was a presentation from Donald Young, a Spectrum Enterprise account manager; an email he sent that morning quoted a four-location phone system running about $40 a month less than current spend and new internet service $150 to $200 a month cheaper depending on contract term.
• ◆ • Trustees also entered and exited an executive session, with no topic recorded, before a motion to adjourn.