MAYOR'S UPDATE
April 16, 2024
Trustee Fritsche and I celebrated Thomas Camp, Jr. this past weekend to recognize his more than fifty years of exceptional volunteer service to the Ossining Fire Department.
Mr. Camp was elected to active membership of the Ossining Volunteer Fire Department in 1973 as a member of Monitor Hose Company No. 4. While there, he served as driver, 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, and Captain. He then went to Fire Police, Rescue 14 for a period of time, then on to Holla Hose Company, No. 5, where he is now a member and has held the position of 2nd Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant, and is currently serving as Captain.
Thank you, Thomas Camp, Jr., for your dedicated service! I thank all the volunteer firefighters for their service to our community.
April 20th is Volunteer Recognition Day!
Volunteer Recognition Day is the annual celebration of those who provide their time to benefit their community. Did you know that there are over 200 large and small nonprofits registered in Ossining? I want to personally thank the many volunteers in Ossining who donate their time, money, and expertise to improving our community. I especially want to thank those who volunteer to be members of the Village of Ossining's twelve Volunteer Boards and Commissions! With your insights, we can have members of this community represented at the table and move our many municipal projects forward with your public engagement.
To learn more or join as a volunteer, please CLICK HERE
The Green Ossining Committee will host its 14th annual Earth Day Festival this coming weekend at Louis Engel Waterfront Park on Saturday, April 20th, from 10 AM to 5 PM. It is the largest event of its kind in the county!
For its part, the Village will be well represented, focusing on youth and the environment. Our Ossining Youth Bureau and Youth Council members will be out in force, educating children and families about the environment. They are well prepared to do so, as they have been active in several environmental programs over the past several months. Most recently, the Ossining Youth Bureau partnered with the Town and Village Environmental Advisory Committees and Teatown. They were able to attend a six-week experiential environmental studies program at the Teatown Nature Preserve. For six weeks from February through March, Ossining’s Youth Bureau participants got up early each Saturday to meet at the Joseph G. Caputo Community Center, where they received free transportation to Teatown. During this program, they learned about the invasive species that are wreaking havoc throughout the region and worked hard to help eradicate them in Teatown’s vast preserve. Last summer, Ossining’s Youth Bureau and Youth Council members participated in the Environmental Leaders of Color’s (ELOC) summer camp program -- “Water in All its Possibilities.” This program, which also ran in Peekskill, Port Chester, Yonkers, and New Rochelle, culminated in a showcase where students from each community presented their solutions to an array of environmental problems involving water, including building water turbines, testing water for pollutants and filtering it with nanotechnology.
Please be sure to stop by the Youth Bureau booth at the Earth Day Festival this Saturday, where Ossining’s youth will share their environmental knowledge with tabletop exercises and crafts designed to help younger children learn about growing plants. They will even get to plant seeds and take home their own plant to nurture. We are exceedingly proud of Ossining's youth's leadership in supporting environmental sustainability.
And while we know that every day is Earth Day -- here are 8 ways to reduce your carbon footprint:
- Turn your lights off when you leave a room
- Invest in reusable grocery bags
- Unplug devices to save energy
- Set that washing machine to cold
- Turn the water off while you brush your teeth
- Switch to paperless billing.
- Bring your own mug
- Cut the junk mail
What are you doing for the environment? #EarthDay2024
We are excited to share that Ossining will again host Arbor Day!
Join us at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, April 24th, as we celebrate Arbor Day in Ossining by planting trees at Brookside School. Planting trees helps to remove air pollutants and cool hot streets by providing shade and releasing water vapor. They are the lungs of our planet and are especially important in densely populated areas.
On Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 10 AM - 1PM, Metro-North is hosting a Skilled Trades Open House Event at the Croton-Harmon train station. Per their invitation, qualified job seekers will be invited to speak to a recruiter and/or a subject matter expert, after which they may be invited to take part in the Metro-North interview process. The minimum education requirement for these titles is either a High School Diploma/General Equivalency Diploma (GED) or Test Assessing Secondary Completion (TASC).
Metro-North Skilled Trades Open House
Saturday, April 20, 2024; 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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The Listing of Job Vacancies on DEC's public website has been updated! Learn more about NY HELPS.
Check out the full details and find more positions on DEC’s List of Job Vacancies web page.
This week’s Legislative Meeting will be held at 7:30PM on Wednesday, April 17th, at the Court House.
Some items of note:
- We will begin with opening a Public Hearing on proposed changes to Chapter 162 (Property Maintenance) regarding the changes to driveway paving/ repaving/ resealing, and when permits will be required, and related requirements for stormwater management mitigation when additional paved area is added to a site.
- The Board will then have a series of Ossining Police Department Promotions.
- Following will be a special presentation from Police Reform Advisory Committee (PRAC) chair Rev Mary Phifer Presentation.
- Village Manager Karen D’Attore and Treasurer Dale Brennan will give a combined Q1 2024 project report.
- The Board will have resolutions to approve the agreement with Cablevision Lightpath for the installation and servicing of a new fiber network in cable in service of OPD’s radio system, a resolution calling for a Public Hearing on additional changes to Chapter 162 (Property Maintenance) related to Vacant Storefronts registry requirements, a resolution increasing the fees for On-Street and Off-Street Parking in Handicapped Parking Spaces.
- Finally, under New Business, representatives from the 30 Water Street team will join to discuss their request for an extension of their Planned Waterfront Permit.
The Passover holiday, also known as Pesach, begins at sundown on Monday, April 22nd. For those that celebrate, Chag Sameach (which translates to “happy festival” and is the Hebrew equivalent of “happy holidays”).
With Regards,
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