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Trustee Charlie Laing Monthly Reports — February 2025

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Village of Red Hook Trustee Charlie Laing Monthly Reports February

Materials Management

In the month of February the Village Highway Dept collected 1.89 tons of recycling (1.11 tons of comingled; 0.2 tons of cardboard; and 0.58 tons of paper). The Village also paid $211.12 in monthly fees for use of the Royal dumpster service (There were no garbage deliveries to UCRRA in February). Over the course of the month the Village collected $1,545 from sale of garbage tags, broken down as follows: $1,209 at Village Hall; $336 from the Red Hook Public Library.

Water Treatment Facilities

See attached C3ND report.

Saw Kill Watershed Community

The Saw Kill Watershed Community held three meetings in the month of February; a community meeting on February 5[th] at the Elmendorph, and two leadership committee meetings on Zoom, Agendas are reprinted below:

SKWC Leadership Team Meeting February 26, 2025 6:30 pm, Zoom Meeting

Agenda

  1. Water Quality Sampling project update: sites, volunteers, training

  2. SKWC role in year 2, Bard Data Synthesis Project 2025

    • Synthesis of water quality, eel, macroinvertebrate, and amphibian data

    • Leadership team questions (What do we want to know as a result of our water quality testing; what questions do we need to answer with the data we have (wq, macroinvertebrates, eels, amphibians)

    • Three community meetings (May, Sept., Dec.)

  3. Riverkeeper presentation at Bard, March 28, 3pm 10 yr. celebration of the SKWC

  4. Possible fiscal sponsor: Good Work Institute, Kingston

  5. Winnakee update: Ribbon cutting Apr. 26

  6. Updates: Trees for Tribs/ CAC project, Golf Course, Benner Road

  7. Newsletter- April or May?

  8. Other business

  9. Next meeting

Meeting will end by 8:00.

2/12/25 Zoom Meeting Agenda:

1. Follow up to last week’s community meeting, notes

2. Sampling project for this spring:

  • sampling dates- training and collection

  • review of map sites - we have 14 sites listed, and we can do 15. So we need to decide on a likely additional site. Possibilities include an

    • additional site on the Benner Road tributary near Smith St. and

    • along Route 9 north of Red Hook near Fraleigh St.

  • location information for each sample site

  • volunteers for sampling- email

3. Other?

Agenda Saw Kill Watershed Community 7 pm, Elmendorph Inn, Red Hook February 5, 2025

7:00

Welcome, brief SKWC update (Karen Schneller-McDonald) Revised DEC wetlands regulations- update (Jen Adams)

7:20

Amphibian Migration Project (Amy Shein)

7:50

Update on Bard Community Science Lab (Desiree Lyle)

8:00

Spring 2025 Water Quality Testing Project and sign up form (Karen Schneller-McDonald)

8:10

Community Conversations- Open discussion about local water concerns, questions about water issues

8:30 Meeting adjourns

Community Preservation Fund Committee

No meetings in the month of February.

Still unclear that they have had a meeting recently but the current balance of the CPF is around $2,982,968.51?

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Utility Billing Report

See attached.