January 9th, 2023 - Trustee Melkorka Kjarval’s Agenda Reports
Red Hook Together
The Red Hook Together monthly meeting was not held for the month of January.
Red Hook Town Economic Development Committee
The bi-weekly meetings were postponed for the month of December and will resume this week, on Wednesday January 11th at 8:40 am at Village Hall.
Village of Red Hook Communications Committee
The Communications committee meets every first Wednesday of the month at 1:30 pm in the Village Hall conference room. Our meeting this month was a working session where we reviewed progress on goals set at an earlier meeting.
Village of Red Hook Hardscrabble / Events Committee
The events committee would like to congratulate the Village of Red Hook’s Highway Department for winning the tree competition at the Episcopal church with their clever tree design modeled after an orange traffic cone. The monthly meeting was canceled for the month of December and since the third Monday of this month, January 16th, falls on Martin Luther King Day our monthly January meeting will be moved to the fourth Monday of the month, January 23rd.
Village of Red Hook Human Relations Committee
The committee meets every first Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm in the Village Hall conference room. This month's meeting focused on details around the Inside Out: We are Neighbors public art project. There was also a discussion on how bias and harassment incidents in the community could and should be reported and logged in order to track trends and allocate resources appropriately. Further research is underway in the goal of creating an ‘educational guide’ for community members that may experience or witness bias or harassment incidents.
Red Hook Public Library Report
The Library is pleased to announce that they launched their new fine-free policy. The Library will no longer collect late fees for most items borrowed from the library. Late fines will only apply to physical items that require pre-bookings (empire passes, canopies and portable batteries) as well as items that are owned by other libraries that still collect late fines.
Additionally, Dawn Jardine, the director of the Red Hook Public Library for the past 6 plus years, is leaving her position as of February 28th, 2023 - and the Board of the Library has officially begun a search for the new director.