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Port Jervis council roundup: appointments, policy adoptions and grant authorizations
Summary
At its June meeting the Port Jervis Common Council approved multiple routine and substantive items: a police appointment, personnel and IT policy updates, formation of audit engagement, authorization to submit a DHS AFG grant for wildfire PPE, and several committee reports and nominations.
The Port Jervis Common Council approved a package of routine and substantive items at its regular meeting.
Appointments and personnel: the council appointed Jack Decker as a permanent civil‑service police employee effective May 28, 2026 after completion of his probationary period. The mayor also appointed Joseph Cole Jr. to a vacant planning board seat to expire Jan. 31, 2029. The council approved nominations and removals of active membership in local fire companies and approved a bylaw amendment clarifying representation and voting language for those companies.
Policies and audits: the council adopted updated sexual abuse and molestation prevention policies for city employees and volunteers, effective immediately, and separately adopted updated information technology policies for city departments. The council authorized an engagement letter with PKF O’Conor & Davies CPAs to prepare New York State Department of Transportation audit reports for the fiscal years ending Dec. 31, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2024.
Grants and community programs: the Port Jervis CDA was authorized to submit a Department of Homeland Security Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) application for wildfire personal protective equipment (PPE), with a submission deadline of June 22, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern; the mayor or his designee (including Valerie Majinski, identified in the transcript as CDA executive director) was authorized to execute required documents.
Finance: Councilwoman Misty Fuller presented bills to be paid totaling approximately $210,938.30 across funds (general, water, capital and trustee agency) and listed larger invoices; the council approved the bills.
Community announcements: the council heard recreation and tourism updates, including summer program schedules, park gate hours, the Food Truck and Fireworks festival on July 2 (admission $5; fireworks ~9:45 p.m.), and a farmers market at Orange Square Park. Valerie Majinski reminded applicants that attendance at a required information session is mandatory to apply to the DRRI small projects fund: "Attendance at the information session is required in order to apply." (transcript).
Public comment: a member of the public, Peter Brett, urged the council not to name the Port Jervis police training facility after a living person and alleged (citing a council member as a source) that the person for whom the facility was named may have been hired in apparent violation of law; Brett concluded: "It should not be named after anyone living." No response or rebuttal from the person named appears in the transcript.
The meeting also included routine committee reports and scheduling announcements; the transcript records that the motions for these items carried, but many items lack a recorded roll‑call tally in the meeting record.
