Trustee Uku DPW Report for January 2026

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Trustee Uku DPW Report for January 2026

Feb 9, 2026

Highway Department:

Materials Management

Here are this month’s costs and expenses. Please refer to the attached Resource Recovery Data Report.

Trash & Recycling Pickup

Trash & recycling must be out before 5am on Monday mornings. 1. Cardboard bundles should be bound together with string or tape. 2. Paper recycling should be placed loose within a lidded tub or bin.

Recycling pickup alternates between Yellow (paper & cardboard) & Blue (metal, plastic & glass). Bulk Waste disposal (of mattresses, large furniture, etc.) is available to Village residents and businesses at a very affordable rate.

Please contact the Clerk to purchase tags for any Village disposal services:

(845) 758-1081 – info@redhookvillage.gov - or in person M-F, 11AM- 4PM

The Dual-Stream Recycling Calendar and Guide is available at Village Hall, and at redhookvillage.org/recycle

Food Waste Dropof

Residents are welcome to join the Village’s Food Waste Collection Program , made possible in part by a composting grant from Dutchess County. To sign up, contact the Clerk or visit redhookvillage.gov/compost

Brush / Yard Waste Pickup

Concluded for the season. See you in the spring!

Scrap Metal Program:

Revenue received (12/31/25) since the last report was	$0
Total revenue for this Fiscal Year (Jun 2025- May 2026) to date is	$3477.10
Since the Program’s inception, in Sep 2007, donations have yielded a total of
$58994.34
Proceeds from the program go towards the purchase of tools & equipment for the Public Works
Dept. Residents & businesses interested in donating metal may contact the Village Clerk’s ofce to
schedule a pickup.

Trustee Uku DPW Report for January 2026

Feb 9, 2026

Snow Removal & Seasonal Parking Rules:

No all-night street parking is permitted in the Village from November 1st - March 31st. Vehicles parked on the streets between 11 PM - 6 AM may be ticketed and towed at the owner's expense.

Property owners are reminded to remove athletic equipment, garbage receptacles and/or any other temporary obstacles from the side of streets to prevent their damage during snow removal operations. The owner and/or occupant of every building/lot in the village with an adjoining sidewalk, is required to remove snow and ice within 24 hrs of the end of a snowstorm. The Village Highway Department may remove uncleared snow/ice , at cost to the property owner.

Street Light Complaints:

If you notice a street light out in the Village: You may notify Central Hudson directly by going to: cenhud.com/en/outages, selecting ‘ Report a Street Light ’ and filling out their online form.

Potholes:

Y ou can notify the village of potholes on Village roads by calling the Village Clerk’s office or filling out the “Report a Concern” form at: redhookvillage.org/concern. Please note that the Village is not allowed to conduct repairs on State Highways. If you would like to report a pothole on a State Highway, The Village can forward your concern - or you can submit your complaint directly to the NYS DOT by calling 1.800.POTHOLE (1.800.768.4653).

Foreman Appreciation, or, “Giving Jake his Flowers” :

Eternal thanks to Jake and Team DPW for all their hard work keeping our roads clear and safe during unusually heavy snowfall in the month of January, and throughout this punishing winter. Thank you also for helping to make the Village Food Waste Kickoff Event a success. The entire Village is grateful for you.

francesuku@redhookvillage.gov

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Title changed from 'Dutchess County Composting Grant Progress Report — Q2 2025' to 'Composting Grant Progress Report Q2'

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|Municipality:|Municipality:|**Dutchess County** **Planning & Development** **Division of Solid Waste Management** **Composting Grant Progress Report** Village of Red Hook **1st quarter** 1/1/2025 3/31/2025|**Dutchess County** **Planning & Development** **Division of Solid Waste Management** **Composting Grant Progress Report** Village of Red Hook **1st quarter** 1/1/2025 3/31/2025| |---|---|---|---| |**2nd quarter** 4/1/2025 6/30/2025 **3rd quarter** 7/1/2025 9/30/2025 **4th quarter** 10/1/2025 12/31/2025 **Section A: Outcomes (insert addional rows if necessary)**|||| ||Outcome statement||Outcome Measure| |1|Canvassed residents at a local event (Red Hook Repair Café) to engage interest and assess resident's needs around accessiblity & use.||Municipality's Climate Smart Communities Task Force tabled at the quarterly Repair Café to engage interest in the program and asked if they would take part in the scrap collections program, what would help ease their entry and what are they looking for from a local food waste drop site.| |2|Developed back-end supports on website - onboarding, and program support||Website drafted with resources on composting, creation of marketing materials educating the public about compost and also the do's and don'ts.| |3|Onboarded a new internal administrative team for the grant program, due to an unexpected personnel change in our municipality.||While the personnel change created a temporary delay, we able to attract an even better team for our grant implementation. This also created an opportunity for additional civic engagement with village constituents. We discovered our residents include local experts in sustainability and food waste management - a welcome surprise.| |4 5|Advanced our outreach to and information gathering from residents.||We set up tables at 2 local public events - Apple Blossom Day (May 10) and the Red Hook Repair Café (Apr 26). This also allowed us to spread the word organically about our upcoming service. Our village website and seasonal village newsletter also continued to attract interest and signups from residents.| ||Completed crucial procurement and installation goals, engaging our Department of Public Works||We ordered and installed the shed that will host the food waste collection bins, as well as the all-weather digital lock that will secure the shed and grant access only to registered users. The shed now occupies a prominent position in our village parking lot, and will itself generate interest in the program.| ||||| |**Narrative**: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.|**Narrative**: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.|**Narrative**: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.|**Narrative**: In the space below, provide a narrative on accomplishments or outcome achievement not covered in the above chart. This may include interim accomplishments or a narrative of major work activities implemented this quarter that will lead to outcome achievement. For the final quarter, provide an analysis of your outcomes making note of any unanticipated accomplishments or obstacles.| |---|---|---|---| |**1st Quarter:** The Village's CSC Taskforce is working to development education materials, furthermore, CSC is discussing ways to engage the youth of the Village and finding ways to activate them into the Compost program. We are thinking of a call for art from local kids to submit local artwork. This is in the process but its working toward getting our residents aware of the program and educated about what goes into our compost.|||| |**2nd Quarter:** The Village built a better compost grant administration team after a setback. We continued to make progress on outreach to and data collection from constituents. We were also able to advance our time to launch by installing and securing the compost shed in the highly visible village municipal parking lot. Finally, we began the process of identifying and contracting with a food waste hauler.|||| |**3rd Quarter:**|||| |**4th Quarter:**|||| |**Section B: Expenses**|||| |Grant award total|**$7,868.00)**||| |Q1: Photocopy services|$28.10)||| |Q2: Food waste bin shed|$1,870.00)||| |Q2: All weather digital padlock for shed|$69.99)||| |Amount invoiced to-date (Sum of quarterly invoices)|$1,968.09)||| |Grant award amount remaining|**$5,899.91)**||| |**In relation to the overall grant budget, are grant funds being expended as planned and on schedule? Explain**|||| |**In relation to the overall grant budget, are grant funds being expended as planned and on schedule? Explain**|||| |Grant funds are being expended as planned and on schedule. We have been able to tap into local resources -- and relationships with our neighboring municipalities in the county -- to sidestep costs and advance operations faster than initially projected.|||| |||||

Referenced by

These other documents cite or incorporate this one:

2024-12-09Winter Storm and Snow Removal Information
2025-10-06Village of Red Hook Resource Recovery Data/Report — 2024/2025
Document B (DPW report) references and directs readers to Document A (Resource Recovery Data Report) as a separate attached artifact, rather than revising it.
2026-01-12Trustee Uku Village Food Waste Report — December 2025
2026-02-09Water Quality Lab Report — Report #80728 (January 5, 2026)
Document B is the cleaned/finalized version of Document A, removing the incomplete Food Waste Report fragment and presenting the same January 2026 DPW report as a single coherent document.

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