Yonkers council closes hearing after no public comment on $28.1M capital budget amendment for energy efficiency

Council President Lakisha Collins Bellamy read a formal call for a public hearing Oct. 7, 2025 on a proposed amendment to Yonkers’ fiscal 2025–26 capital budget that would increase the city’s estimated total authorization by $28,100,000, from $129,985,012 to $158,085,012, to fund various energy-efficiency measures.

The hearing, held at City Hall, 40 South Broadway, was called by the council to consider the amendment for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2025 and ending June 30, 2026. “I, Lakisha Collins Bellamy, city council president of the City of Yonkers, do hereby call a public hearing on a proposed amendment to the 2025–26 capital budget as follows,” Collins Bellamy read during the session.

Council members present and noted during the hearing included Majority Whip Norman, Councilwoman Corazon Pineda Isaac, Majority Leader John Rubo and Councilman Anthony Moranti; two additional members were expected to join later. The deputy clerk reported that the notice was published in the Yonkers Rising and the Aloha Journal News and that the call was signed by Collins Bellamy on Sept. 24, 2025.

The presiding officer opened the meeting for public comment but no one in the gallery requested to speak and the deputy clerk reported there were no communications. “If we have no communications and no speakers in the gallery, we will hereby close this public hearing,” the presiding officer stated, and the hearing was closed without public comment and with no vote or other formal action taken.

Next steps: because this session was a public hearing on the proposal, the City Council may proceed at a later public meeting to consider any formal vote or amendment following the city’s rules and posted agenda; no such vote occurred at this hearing and none was recorded in the meeting transcript.