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Dobbs Ferry trustees approve appointments, contract renewals, holiday measures and other routine items
Summary
At the Nov. 18 meeting trustees unanimously approved multiple routine items: appointments to ad hoc committees and planning board alternates, temporary auditor and junior firefighter appointments, contract extensions (MTS, Olmstead), tax certiorari settlement, audit of claims, and holiday event/parking waivers.
The Dobbs Ferry Board of Trustees passed a series of routine resolutions and motions during its Nov. 18, 2025 meeting. Highlights of board action (all votes recorded in the meeting as unanimous unless noted):
- Added Palisade Street/Station Plaza retaining-wall item to the regular meeting agenda (action item 11). - Approved a $182,500 professional engineering services contract for Palisade Street/Station Plaza (see separate article). - Appointed Michelle Spinello to the ad hoc downtown committee (one-year term); Justin Bush, Larry Katzenstein, and Shamari Rollins to the ad hoc sustainable committee (one-year terms). - Appointed Shamari Rollins as second alternate member of the Planning Board for a three-year term (temporary until state approval for an exempt appointment). - Temporarily appointed Leslie Tilliston to the office of auditor (pending state approval) and appointed John Mertens as a junior volunteer firefighter. - Reopened and then adjourned the public hearing on the cable franchise renewal agreement with Verizon to a future meeting date to allow additional information gathering. - Adopted the village’s first vehicle replacement policy and procedures. - Waived parking fees in the Cedar Street parking lot for a holiday period stated in the transcript (see clarifying_details for a transcript inconsistency on dates) and authorized street closure for the holiday light parade and tree lighting on 12/06/2025. - Declared a 2016 Ford Escape and a 2018 Ford Escape as surplus equipment. - Authorized a one-year extension of the annual infrastructure bid contract with MTS Infrastructure and renewed an intermunicipal agreement with Westchester County for firing-range use. - Authorized a one-year extension of annual arborist services with Olmstead Tree, Shrub and Lawn Care. - Authorized a tax certiorari settlement with a petitioner identified in the record for property at 250 South Broadway for a total stated in meeting as $3,232.35 (years in the record are inconsistent). - Approved the audit of claims as submitted by the village treasurer. - Added and approved a waiver of vending fees and sidewalk-permit filings for the "Mary Festa" downtown event.
Several votes were procedural and passed unanimously. Where the transcript contained unclear or inconsistent numeric or date details (for example, the holiday-parking date text), this summary flags those items for clarification. The board asked staff to follow up on outstanding items such as franchise-agreement answers and court data requested by the judge.
