May 8, 2023 Prepared by Mayor Karen Smythe
Red Hook Together :
Red Hook Together meets on the first Thursday of the month. They met last Thursday, May 4 at noon via zoom. Eli Deuker, Co-Director of the Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities was the speaker. He has been working on a community-based research project in Ulster County focusing on indoor air and water quality in emergency and subsidized housing, temporary housing, and other housing that is deteriorating with increasing soil dampness. The work is hoping to expand our work into Dutchess County (specifically vulnerable housing areas in Northern Dutchess). The June meeting will be on Thursday, June 1[st] at 5:30pm @ Mill Road Elementary 3-5 side. This will be a general networking meeting.
Red Hook Town Economic Development Committee:
The Town EDC met on Wed. April 12 and April 26[th] here at Village Hall. I was not able to attend and have not seen the meeting minutes. I will follow up and report at the next meeting.
Village of Red Hook Communications Committee:
The Communications Committee meets every first Wednesday of the month at 1:30pm in the Village Hall conference room. This month we did not meet in person due to Trustee Kjarval’s family leave and member Lauren Cunningham’s opening of her new store, The Corner Counter! I met with Bard Intern Eve Campbell to work on newsletters. The April newsletter was issued on April 20[th] . The May newsletter was issued on May 5. We have 529 email addresses that are currently receiving the newsletter. We have a 5267% open rate.
Village of Red Hook Hardscrabble/Events Committee:
The Events Committee meets every 3[rd] Monday of each month at 6pm at Village Hall. We met in April on the 17[th] . Planning continues for Hardscrabble Day – planned for September 23 this year. The music team is actively working on booking bands. We discussed the program elements for the morning and afternoon. We ordered picnic tables – three have been sponsored, the Committee is purchasing three more. If anyone is interested in sponsoring a picnic table, please email the Events committee at Events@redhooknyvillage.org. Sponsored picnic tables will have a plaque added with three lines of your choice engraved on it. The food team has already booked a couple of vendors, and actively working on more.
The postcard for the upcoming Neighbor’s Night on May 19[th] has been printed. Using a list of all registered voter households, we have created mailing labels. The postcards should go out in the mail later this week. Red Hook Responds has shared their menu for the evening, and it sounds delicious! We will have picnic tables for the event which will be in the Village parking lot. We hope you will all attend!
Village of Red Hook Human Relations Committee: The Human Relations Committee meets every first Thursday of the month at 7pm in the Village Hall Conference Room. There was no meeting of the Human Relations Committee last week.