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Mount Vernon council posts 17 items on agenda including grants, events and a contract extension
Summary
Council members read 17 items onto the meeting agenda, including contract extensions, grant acceptances, community events, training authorizations and an add-on resolution naming a marriage clerk; the transcript records the items being placed on the agenda but does not record final votes or outcomes.
Acting Council President Ed Poteet and Council members on the floor read 17 items onto the meeting agenda, covering a mix of ordinances, grants, contracts, community events and an add‑on personnel resolution. The council read the items aloud during the meeting; the transcript does not record votes or final outcomes for those items.
Why it matters: The agenda items include grant acceptances, training authorizations, community event co‑sponsorships and administrative authorizations that could affect departmental budgets and upcoming public events.
Items read onto the agenda (as read aloud by council members): - Item 1: City clerk’s office — ordinance authorizing extension of the contract with the National Civic League for professional services to assist the 2024 Mount Vernon Charter Review Commission (on agenda). - Item 2: Mayor’s office — ordinance authorizing mayor to attend the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative 2025 annual conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 14–16, 2025 (on agenda). - Item 3: Mayor’s office — ordinance to authorize installation of a total wellness sensory room in City Hall’s first‑floor employee women’s bathroom (on agenda). - Item 4: Public Works — ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept a $126,920 technical assistance voucher from the U.S. Department of Energy (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant) (on agenda). - Item 5: Public Works — ordinance authorizing the city to host the 2025 Arbor Day celebration in partnership with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. (on agenda). - Item 6: Public Works — ordinance authorizing a budget line transfer within Public Works for education and training related to municipal separate storm systems (on agenda). - Item 7: Public Works — ordinance authorizing internal training of qualified staff for stormwater and sewer state mandates and federal consent decree actions (on agenda). - Item 8: Public Works — ordinance authorizing attendance of two Public Works staff at basic code enforcement training (on agenda). - Item 9: Recreation and Police Department — ordinance to co‑sponsor Rolling in Peace in Hartley Park on June 14, 2025 (on agenda). - Item 10: Recreation — ordinance to co‑sponsor Cinco de Mayo celebration with Westchester Latino Unidos on May 5, 2025 (on agenda; rain date and site designated) . - Item 11: Water Department — ordinance retroactively authorizing attendance at the 2025 Mayor’s Water Council meeting (on agenda). - Item 12: Recreation — ordinance authorizing the mayor to accept funding from New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation (EFC) for South Fourth Street Park Green Infrastructure (on agenda). - Item 13: Youth Bureau — ordinance authorizing agreement with The Flying Classroom for the Mount Vernon Youth Bureau solo go‑kart summer academy (July 8–Aug. 14, 2025) for $45,000 (on agenda). - Item 14: Youth Bureau — ordinance authorizing agreement with Krishna Shah, CEO of Wellness with Krishna, to provide mental wellness sessions for the Ready for Life program (April 18–July 11, 2025) at a cost of $10,000 (on agenda). - Item 15: Department of Public Safety — ordinance authorizing the mayor to enter into agreement with Westchester County Department of Correction for reimbursement for prisoner transportation services for 2023 and 2024 (item read again for a second vote because prior meeting lacked sufficient votes) (on agenda). - Item 16: Assessor’s Office — ordinance authorizing transfer of funds within the Department of Assessment for remapping (approximately $15,000 cited) (on agenda). - Add‑on Item 17: City Clerk’s office — resolution designating Megan Blaze as a marriage clerk for the City of Mount Vernon (on agenda, add‑on).
The transcript records council members placing these items on the agenda and making procedural remarks; it does not include recorded motion language beyond the item descriptions, nor recorded vote tallies or final dispositions.
Council members did not take recorded final action on those items during the portion of the transcript provided. Several items reference external grant or training sources (U.S. Department of Energy EECBG technical assistance voucher; New York State EFC funding) and will require departmental follow‑up for implementation and reporting.
Council members moved on to other business after the agenda reading; no votes or adoptions for the listed items are contained in the provided transcript.
