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Votes at a glance: Port Jervis council approves local law, grants, MOAs and holiday schedule
Summary
At its December meeting the Port Jervis Common Council approved Local Law No. 9 (engineering fees), accepted an $8,000 juvenile aid bureau grant, approved MOAs placing positions into the CSEA union, authorized a DRI small-project contract and approved a water-quality MOU addendum, among other routine votes.
The Port Jervis Common Council approved a slate of motions and resolutions during its regular meeting, including changes to the citys building-code fees, acceptance of grant funding, and memoranda of agreement affecting municipal staffing.
Key actions approved by the council included: adoption of Local Law No. 9 of 2024 to amend engineering fees in the building code; acceptance of an $8,000 contract with Orange County to operate the Port Jervis Juvenile Aid Bureau (subject to corporation counsel review); a memorandum of agreement to place a police assistant position into the CSEA union; authorization for the Port Jervis CDA to administer a New York State DRI small-project grant via a contract with the New York State Housing Trust Fund Corporation; an MOU addendum with the Orange County Land Trust under a DEC water-quality grant to acquire land or establish conservation easements protecting the citys watershed; and an MOA creating a heavy equipment mechanic position in the Department of Public Works.
Procedural and scheduling votes included approval of bills to be paid (total read as $542,351.12), adoption of the city's 2025 holiday schedule, suspension of the Dec. 23 council meeting with authorization to pay bills until the Jan. 13, 2025 meeting, and final adjournment. Where roll-call votes were recorded, results are included; most routine approvals passed by voice vote.
Several items contained clarifying notes recorded in the meeting: the DRI small-project agreement was described as one of three awards tied to the DRI program; the OCLT land action referenced a pending closing expected "on Friday the thirteenth" and a press conference planned for Dec. 18; and union acronyms appear inconsistently in the record (the MOAs are described as involving "CSEA" in several places and "CSCA" in one instance).
