Village of Red Hook Village Green Committee Monthly Report September 2024
Trees have been ordered and we are waiting on hearing about our delivery date. If growing availability is similar to last year, we can expect to be planting the first week of November. If you are interested in Joining for planting day (many hands make work light) Please reach out.
Residents and businesses interested in having a tree(s) planted on their adjacent Village Street or NYS highway right-of-way ’ s, volunteering for planting days, or sponsoring a VGC beautification project, please contact myself, Kym Bradley-Rickard, or Jen Cavanaugh - Village Clerk.
We are actively recruiting members. If you are interested in giving back to your community but don ’ t have a lot of time to give this may be the perfect committee for you!
Village of Red Hook Sewer Department Monthly Report September 2024
We meet every other Friday and are currently going over the next steps of Phase II which, the draft IUP and reviewing the Sewer Use code, as well as connected documents for the Town ’ s Sewer district. If you have concerns about the expansion and/or are currently in the Sewer Use Area and have comments, concerns, etc. please do not hesitate to reach out. There is also the expression of interest form up on our website if you are wanting to connect into the sewer (capacity required). It will put you on our list of places to consider and puts you on our radar.
For current Sewer rates please see attached report.
As a reminder to all residents whether you are in the Sewer Use Area or not be kind to your pipes! Please put only 3 P ’ s in the toilet: Pee, Poop and (Toilet) Paper and while in “ ” the kitchen (or near other drains) no Fats, Oils, or Grease FOG – they clog up the pipes and make the system stressed. What goes down the drain matters!
If you are in the sewer use area and the emergency alarm goes off, call the Village Sewer Operator (845) 758-1081, option 8. Press the “ Silence Alarm ” button ONLY AFTER notifying the Sewer Operator. Please do not open the box or tamper with Village owned equipment.
Village of Red Hook Speed Limit Initiative
Monthly Report September 2024
We are still waiting for updated reports from the engineer who was waiting on data from the County.
Village of Red Hook Town of Red Hook Greenway and Trails Committee Monthly Report September 2024
The town has been certified as a Sustainable Community by Audubon International in which the trails is a large component of that (as well as the little art boxes around). The extension of Saw Kill trail is almost done which includes 400+ ft of bog bridging, a split rail fence entrance which connects Look out Loop and the outlet to Aspinwall Road. They worked the last week of September with many volunteers and Winnakee Land Trust on building the small footbridge.
Also the Cookingham Farm trails are almost ready – although not open yet the trail signs are in and last I checked were waiting for installment along the trail. I have yet to walk the trails myself but the committee will is planning to do so in an official capacity prior to their official opening to the public. If you are in around the trail, please respect the closed signs.
Village of Red Hook Climate Smart Communities Monthly Report September 2024
The taskforce should hear back soon from CCE about the assessment we undertook. But during the month of September, we officially joined forced with the Town and are members of ICLEI and will work with them to get our Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory done (hopefully the baseline and an update). As part of our membership with ICLEI we will have access to their library of resources and their GHG Emissions inventory Tool which will make this process much smoother. Additionally at the beginning of the month, we were involved with helping the quarterly Repair Café and are working to create a full cycle of item headed to the landfill and instead work on dismantling with tools in order to destruct it and then send it to local artists to become reinvented. If you are interested in having a small item, which has been deconstructed for an art project, please reach out and we can coordinate the process. Past items that have been deconstructed are: Vacuum cleaner, Rotary telephone, computer tower, DVD player etc. all items were headed to the landfill and instead played a crucial part in the repair café.