PORT JERVIS, N.Y. — On a chilly Monday evening, as cold wind found scarce passage through the council chamber’s windows, the meeting began.
The building’s heating, whether being either not up-to-date or simply with a thermostat in the wrong person’s office, did little to make it any better.
Kristin Trovei, one of the Third Ward’s councilpeople, pulled a coat over her arms, “a Maria [Mann].”
This, the public was informed, is the room now slated to be the polling location for the Second Ward. The, perhaps only, upside to this is that because Port Jervis will not be able to recycle sooner than hoped, continued global warming could make November, hopefully a small fraction closer to melting people all over the ballot.
Since the last Common Council meeting Mayor Kelly Decker received a single piece of correspondence from the office of the governor of the state of New York, Andrew Cuomo.
The subject was presumptive release.
The high school teacher and former police officer, following Regis Foster’s report on last month’s Police Department statistics, spoke very grimly of the policy’s effect on the drug war at home, combating Representative Sean Patrick Maloney’s opioid epidemic.
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“228 tickets….16 simple assaults.”
Regis Foster
For Mayor Decker, the focus is where I left off last:
the Soap Box Derby.
Well, of course, the wooden cars used to go “thirty miles an hour” down Sussex Street!
The grade of the hill at Church Street with other changes They’re down to 24-5 miles an our with a hill which has a gradient of only
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Home of the World’s Largest Soap Box Derby.
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Coincidentally, the separate entity presented plans.
The vision for the future of the Derby was read to the council and public by mother and Derby-er, Tanya Addy, whose proposal included a summary of a new schedule and the expectations of a welcoming community on Church Street rather than its home, for the past eighteen years, on Sussex Street’s hill.
The new hill is designed to cut costs, make the event easier for everyone and help busy families in a fun way.
Stanley Siegel, Fourth Ward’s Councilperson commented that the adjacent hill, Seward Street, was a mid-50’s “sleigh riding” joy created by community.
Councilperson for the Third Ward and Recreation Committee liaison to the Common Council, Gina Fitzpatrick, stated that the presentation was not initially made to the Recreation Committee for any sort of city assistance although the Derby will be aided by DPW, the Department of Public Works. Vehicles included to be made clear.
Brienna Parsons 