https://sleepyhollow.localarchives.org/files/original/1541a8acd6b1c4e03fbc071ec5aee846.pdf 23432392ab21e06c338c621eae38df5f PDF Text Text ^?^3 A Special meeting of the Board of Trustees was held on Tuesday, October 29, 1996 at 8:00 PM in Village Hall, 28 Beekman Avenue, North Tarrytown, New York regarding the proposed name change. Present: Mayor Sean Treacy Richard C. Sweet Morris Alter Mario DiFelice Patricia Ramsey John T. Hayes, Jr. Also Present: Absent: Trustees Linda E. David, Village Administrator Janet Gandolfo, Village Attorney Trustee Jose Chevere Trustee Hayes moved, second by Trustee DiFelice to open the special meeting. Mayor Treacy opened the meeting with a pledge to the flag. The Mayor read the attached legal notice and commented that the reason for this special meeting was to set a special election for Tuesday, December 10, 1996 from 7AM-9PM to vote on a proposition to change the name of the incorporated Village of North Tarrytown to the Village ofSleepy Hollow. The Mayor also explained the reason for having the special election. The meeting was then opened to public comments. Mr. & Mrs. Belanich, Mr. Galella and John Jadus were against the name change and the election being held in December. Mr. Steiner, Pat Munroe and John Edwards were in favor of the name change. A letter from Mr. Munroe was submitted as part of the record. Discussion ensued at great length for and against the change. The Mayor and the Village Attorney both explained the state law regarding petitions being received and the village's obligation after a petition is received. Mr. Galella asked the Village Attorney to write to the Attorney General's office regarding the legality of holding this election and the obligation of the Board after receiving the petition. Ms. Gandolfo will do so. 1 �There being no further comments, Trustee Ramsey moved, second by Trustee DiFelice to close the public comments, carried. RESOLUTION-Attached There being no further business, Trustee Alter moved, second by Trustee Sweet to adjourn the meeting, carried. Respectfully submitted, Angela Everett Deputy Village Clerk i • i �Meeting Date: 10-29-96 Resolution #: 10-173-96 WHEREAS, the office of the Village Clerk of North Tarrytown received a petition on October 21, 1996 containing the names of 765 signatures requesting a special election be held within the Village of North Tarrytown to vote on a proposition to change the name of the incorporated Village of North Tarrytown to the Village of Sleepy Hollow; and WHEREAS, no objections to the petitions have been filed with the office of the Village Clerk within the requisite time period for such objections to be made; -QRWIIEREAS, written objections to the petitions have boon duly filed but havo not been sustained by the Doard of Elections of Wcstohostor County; OR WHEREAS, written objections to the petitions havo boon duly filed and have been sustained by the Board of Elections of Westchester County WHEREAS, the number of legal signatures contained in the petition herein is more than 400, the number legally required to mandate a special election; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Mayor and Board of Trustees of the Village of North Tarrytown hereby calls for a special election to be held within the Village of North Tarrytown on Tuesday, the 10lh day of December, 1996. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Village Clerk is hereby directed to conduct said special election on said December 10th, 1996 pursuant to the requirements of the Election Laws of the State of New York; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the polls shall be open for said special election to be held on December 10th, 1996 from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the following polling places: 1. District 1 - Union Hose Fire House, Cortlandt Street, North Tarrytown. 2. District 2 - Union Hose Fire House, Cortlandt Street, North Tarrytown. 3. District 3 - Central Fire House, 28 Beekman Avenue, North Tarrytown. 4. District 4 - Rescue Hose Fire House, Lawrence Avenue, North Tarrytown. 5. District 5 - Sokol Hall, Beekman Avenue, North Tarrytown. 6. District 6 - Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Riverside Drive, North Tarrytown. 7. District 7 - Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Riverside Drive, North Tarrytown. 8. District 8 - Auto America, New Broadway, North Tarrytown. 9. District 9 - Holy Cross Hall, Beekman Avenue, North Tarrytown. 10. District 10-Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Riverside Drive, North Tarrytown. MOVED: Trustee Sweet SECONDED: Trustee Ramsey VOTE: 5-0 �%b \t LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Village of North Tarrytown will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, October 29, 1996 at 8:00 PM at 28 Beekman Avenue, North Tarrytown, New York 10591 to adopt a resolution calling for a special election regarding the name change of the Village of North Tarrytown. �Mayor Treacy and Members of the Board: Emotions do run deep about the place of your earliest memories. Sunlight pouring into the VT court, squirrels rustling the ivy leaves that glistened on those mighty brick walls. Holding my mother's hand across Beekman Avenue on our way to Sol's 5 & 10, looking up under that huge Strand Theater marquis. My dad taking us for a weekend walk with my sister in a stroller, all the way down to the railroad bridge where a giant silver snake might roar by right beneath our feet. No, the issue here isn't who loves this place more. It's whether reason will strike a compromise with emotion. It won't be just emotion that will determine the future of this village after a bulldozer levels the last mound of dirt on the former GM land. Reasoned discussion of different plans, weighing the arguments from different interest groups, from people of different backgrounds in various neighborhoods: that's the time-honored process that should guide the village to what's best for the majority of our residents, now and when all of us here are gone. When renaming came up in 1988,1 opposed it at first. Why change the old familiar NT that I'd known all my life? And all that talk about cost. But then a childhood friend stopped by, someone whose roots went much farther back in the village than mine. He showed me how local business owners he knew had been hurt because so many people just thought Tarrytown and didn't even know we exist. He'd noticed how commercial listings omitted us because they thought we were part of Tarrytown. (If you're on line, check the Internet. Their business listings say "North Tarrytown. See Tarrytown,") His imagination was what won me over: He said that pretty soon, the way the auto industry was'going, GM would make good on their threat to move out. And what an opportunity, to have a nice harbor down there with restaurants and maybe a local history museum. With the name Sleepy Hollow, he said, a lot more people would know about us and want to check us out, and the whole village could get an economic shot in the arm. But what about how much it would cost, I asked. He showed me figures from studies done by proponents-how little a new name had cost other places. So I voted yes, but Sleepy Hollow wasn't talked up enough. All the screaming about cost drowned it out. And it got tied in with the village board election because it was on the same ballot with the mayor and trustee candidates. People voted the way their candidates stood on the issue, and other voters really hadn't thought much about it at all. This time it's different. There's a real effort now to get the facts out so people can see which arguments make more sense. Let me urge you, too, to please consider the question dispassionately. Look at our village's economic prospects at this moment in time. Recall which name really identifies us as our own village, which name announces our cultural and historic roots in this nation's history. Imagine how that name could enhance our image, revitalize us, and awaken a new spirit of pride among all our residents. Perhaps no other village board will have had an opportunity like this: the chance to inform your constituents, to demonstrate the kind of leadership that's so rare in politics these days; to meet the task of showing the way at this crossroads that is unique in our history. Let's join together in reclaiming this beautiful little river town that we all call home. i i Respectfully, � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes & Resolutions-1996 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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