Town Board as Police Commission/ Public Hearing/ Town Board Meeting

Agenda

New Paltz Town Board

May 20, 2021 6:30 pm

This meeting will be held via teleconference via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83667234905?pwd=MVRkSDJPczREN0ZRblMxRlJ0ZldVQT09

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The meeting will also be recorded and uploaded to the New Paltz Government Meetings YouTube channel the following day: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0CrpHCjzienxeU7xDb6U823-VFbmvbCv

*PLEASE NOTE: Based on the New York State Governor’s executive order Continuing Temporary Suspension and Modification of Laws Relating to the Disaster Emergency, the Town of New Paltz will be closing in-person access to meetings and authorizing that meetings be held remotely by conference call or similar service until further notice. Persons wishing to provide public comment can either join the Zoom meeting or email clerk@townofnewpaltz.org and the comments will be entered into the minutes. If you would like to make a public comment on Zoom, you can raise your digital hand by clicking on the Reactions button at the bottom of your screen, then clicking on “raise your hand”. If you are calling in you can raise your digital hand by pressing *9

6:30 p.m. Town Board as Police Commission Meeting

Call to Order

Pledge of Allegiance

Approval of Agenda

Announcements

Public Input* (see note above)

1. Presentation: Mobile Mental Health: Trish Tuber and Allison Burch
2. Review of New Paltz Police Reform and Reinvention Committee Report Recommendations:

1. The NPPD should immediately begin aggregating data based upon race, ethnicity, and language. There is no other means by which we as a community can hold the Department accountable for bias, or laud officers for a lack thereof. This data should be reviewed regularly, no less than once each budget year.
2. The New Paltz Police Department should remove the chokehold policy from its continuum use of force policy in accordance with state law. In addition, NPPRRC recommends that carotid restraint be removed from the continuum use of force policy as well. The carotid restraint is a technique used by officers to restrict blood flow to a person’s brain by compressing the sides of the neck where the carotid arteries are located.
   It is recommended that chokeholds and carotid restraint training materials be removed from training programs in the New Paltz Police Department.
   
                                                                                                                             

1. Monthly Report
2. Executive session to discuss personnel
3. Referral to Town Board: hiring of part-time police officers Tiffany Claud, Tyler White and Michael Vespe
4. Referral to Town Board: approve hiring of part-time dispatchers Matt Gallucci, Shan Vitarius, and Alyssa Coonrod
5. Referral to Town Board: Contract with Fleet Enterprise Management to sell two NPPD vehicles: 2015 Ford Police Interceptor Utility (SUV) with 108,504 miles; 2015 Ford Police Interceptor Utility (SUV) with 134,068 miles

            Adjourn

7:00 pm  Public Hearing: Critical Environmental Areas

1.   Public Comment

Followed by Town Board Meeting

Call to Order

Pledge of Allegiance

Approval of Agenda

Announcements

Public Input* (see note above)

1. Discussion: New Paltz Rescue Squad; Matt Goodnow, Chief
2. Water bill dispute: Frank Pecora
3. Consent Agenda

1. Approval of minutes: Town Board May 6, 2021
2. Authorization for Supervisor to sign E-Verify Memorandum of Understanding for Employers
3. Authorization to hire Guillermo Olivieri as a part-time Court Officer
4. Authorization for Supervisor to sign Peak Power Systems contracts for generator maintenance
5. Authorization to hire the following employees for the 2021 Moriello Pool season:
    

4.  Resolution: In the mutual public interests of both the Village and the Town and in line with the Monroe County case and its balancing of the public interests test, motion to exempt the “New Paltz Well Water Project with Mohonk Preserve” as immune from the Town’s Zoning laws (exclusive of approval for the required lot line revision included within the definition of “subdivision” in the Town’s Code), including area and bulk requirements, site plan application and review and requirements for Steep Slope Protection and Clearing and Grading Controls

5. Authorization to hire part-time police officers Tiffany Claud, Tyler White and Michael Vespe

6. Authorization to hire part-time dispatchers Matt Gallucci, Shan Vitarius, and Alyssa Coonrod

7. Authorization for NPPD to Contract with Fleet Enterprise Management to sell two older NPPD vehicles: 2015 Ford Police Interceptor Utility (SUV) with 108,504 miles; 2015 Ford Police Interceptor Utility (SUV) with 134,068 miles

8.  May Warrant

9. Set public hearing for acquisition of County lands at auction using CPF funding

10. Put out bids for Moriello Bridge project

11. Resolution in Support of the Compassionate New York Legislative Agenda

12. EPG Grant Resolutions

13. Acceptance of donation from George and Cathy Sifre: 59 N. Putt Playground Project.

Adjourn