Update from Village Hall

Mayor Miriam Flisser discussed the status of the conversations about the Scarsdale Building Department and other issues at the March 27th meeting of the Village Board. Here are her remarks: The Village Board continues to be involved in many projects: On April 16, we will hear a presentation from LI Saltzman, our consultants for Historic Preservation. If you would like to preview the report and photography produced in their recent windshield survey, please go to Scarsdale.com, and look for Historic Preservation under Hot Topics. Then join us in Rutherford Hall on April 16 at 6:30 PM.

In addition, we are working on issues raised by residents concerning the Building Department. We continue to receive input from residents about specific instances, and we welcome all community experience. I have been working on concepts for administrative review, based on this input, and have been able to categorize them in 5 main areas:

1) Planning: The role of Land Use Boards, and also how information from the Building Department affects their deliberations.

2) Notification: How notifications have limitations, and how modifications of approved projects are exempt from notifications

3) Enforcement: including inspections and actions based on them; especially current practices in inspections.

4) Recourse: Correction and other issues, especially those involving neighbors.

5) Changed environment, especially concerning water, and practices for regulation and enforcement.

Our next meeting will concern the first topic, Planning Boards, the date to be announced.

Finally, this Board's sitting term is ended, with this being our 24th meeting, and we will re-start next month with a newly elected member, Mr David Lee, who will be sworn in, along with two Trustees beginning their second term, Trustee Kay Eisenman and Trustee Jonathan Mark on Monday April 2 @ 3:30 PM in Rutherford Hall. This is a public event that you are invited to join. We bid farewell to Trustee Richard Toder, a community volunteer with a long and impressive history of service to Scarsdale, and we express our gratitude for his contribution to this, and other organizations that he has served.

In addition to saying goodbye to departing Trustee Richard Toder, the Board passed the following resolutions:

The Board of Trustees awarded contracts for segments of the Fox Meadow Stormwater Improvement Project to two firms. The portion of the work at George Field Park was awarded to NDL Associates of Yonkers for $912,500. The segment that runs from Cambridge Road to Cooper Green and south on the Post Road was awarded to Acocella Contracting of Scarsdale, for a total of $642,500.

The bids for the work at the High School parking lot and Harcourt Woods were rejected and that portion of the project will be redesigned, re-bid and re-advertised. Learn more about this project at Scarsdale.com.

Authorization of the third Ronald McDonald House Day in the Country for pediatric cancer patients and their families, to be organized by the Scarsdale Uniformed Firefighters Assocation. The event will be held on Thursday July 19 and the Crossway Firehouse and at the Scarsdale Pool.

Authorization for the Scarsdale Chamber of Commerce to utilize Village property to run the following events on the following dates:

• Westchester Festival of the Arts on Saturday May 19 and Sunday May 20 in Chase Park, on Woodlands Road and on Chase Road between Spencer and Christie Place.
• Taste of Scarsdale on Sunday June in Boniface Circle
• Scarsdale Health Fair on Saturday June 16 in the lower level parking lot of Village Hall