The Middletown Common Council approved a long list of resolutions and transfers at its year-end meeting, voting by roll call on each item.
Key approvals included removing a handicap parking space at 9 Sunnyside Avenue (resolution sponsored by Alderman Kleiner) and amending the 2026 budget for senior trip funding. The council approved multiple transfers within 2025 budgets: $20,779.71 for desks for the Department of Public Works; $6,744 to repair/replace the boxing room carpet in Parks & Recreation; a $20,000 transfer for DPW sanitation vehicle repairs and maintenance; $13,191 for sprinkler repairs at the Paramount Theater; and $10,025 from the 2025 water budget to cover water-main-break repairs. Council members also approved transfers related to the Paramount Theater operating budget and smaller administrative transfers in the city clerk and economic development budgets.
The council authorized agreements with animal-welfare organizations: an agreement with Pets Alive Inc. for the trap-neuter-release program and an agreement to shelter stray cats and dogs. It also approved agreements with the Humane Society of Port Jervis and the Humane Society of Middletown for sheltering stray animals in Deer Park and Middletown respectively.
Public-safety and community items approved included a $50,673 transfer in the 2025 police budget to fund cameras at Wolfslayer Fields, and resolution authorizing Paramount Theater rental and related agreements. The council accepted the transfer of real property at 19–35 Robert Street and authorized a $27,000 transfer in the Department of Public Works budget to replace pedestrian crossing poles and related equipment.
The council appointed nine volunteer firefighters by resolution: Juanita McMillan, Thomas Preston Lee, Sean Williams, Nicole Everett, Talia Miller, Mackenzie Hagen, Isaiah Soto, Ashley Ortiz and Eric Rodriguez. It also authorized transfers in the fire department budget for a replacement vehicle and approved vehicle funding in the DPW budget for the commissioner.
All items on the roll-call portion of the agenda carried by voice or roll call with the members present recorded as voting 'Aye' in the transcript. Several sponsors, notably Alderman Kleiner, said the resolutions had been discussed previously at the Board of Estimate. The meeting record shows motions were made, seconded and carried for each listed resolution; no recorded votes failed at the meeting.
Votes at a glance (selected items taken from the meeting record):
- Removal of handicap parking space at 9 Sunnyside Avenue — Approved (roll call: recorded "Aye" entries for present members).
- Amendment to 2026 budget for senior trip funding — Approved.
- $20,779.71 transfer for DPW desks — Approved.
- $6,744 transfer for Parks & Rec boxing room carpet — Approved.
- $20,000 transfer for DPW sanitation vehicle repair — Approved.
- $13,191 transfer for Paramount Theater sprinkler repairs — Approved.
- $10,025 transfer (water budget) for water-main repair — Approved.
- Agreement with Pets Alive Inc. for TNR program — Approved.
- Agreement with Pets Alive Inc. to shelter stray cats and dogs — Approved.
- Agreements with the Humane Society of Port Jervis and the Humane Society of Middletown for stray-animal sheltering — Approved.
- $50,673 transfer for cameras at Wolfslayer Fields — Approved.
- Acceptance of transfer of 19–35 Robert Street — Approved.
- Appointments of nine volunteer firefighters — Approved (names listed above).
Council members who are recorded repeatedly in roll calls included Tobin, John Francois, Johnson, Ray, Kleiner, Green, Witt, Massey and President Rodriguez. The transcript records each item as carried or "Aye" in roll-call form; the meeting did not record any failed vote during new business.
Several sponsors noted the items had been vetted at the Board of Estimate prior to council action; Alderman Kleiner acknowledged that at least some of the transfers and agreements were discussed at that board before the meeting.