Madeline Zachacz

The resolution focuses on establishing a Service Award Program for active volunteer firefighter members of the Ossining Volunteer Fire Department. Key points include directing a public referendum for eligible voters to determine the program's establishment, defining the program as a defined benefit plan, outlining eligibility criteria for active volunteer firefighters, and establishing the LOSAP Award Committee for program administration. The program aims to provide pension-like, death, and disability benefits, with specific details on monthly payments, vesting requirements, and service credit earnings through a point system. The Village Board is designated as the program sponsor and trustee, responsible for managing assets and ensuring compliance with applicable laws.

The strategic investment plan focuses on revitalizing Downtown Ossining by leveraging its assets, including public amenities, access to transit, and an entrepreneurial business community. The plan aims to improve walkability and connectivity, strengthen the local economy, encourage mixed-income housing, and enhance public amenities through various projects. These include transforming the Joseph G. Caputo Community Center, adaptively reusing the Historic Bank Building, enhancing Market Square, building a multi-modal transportation center, revitalizing the Olive Opera House, launching the Sing Sing Prison Museum Preview Center, enhancing streetscaping, improving the Sing Sing Kill Greenway, upgrading the Louis Engel Waterfront Park, and expanding ferry service.

The strategic plan focuses on comprehensive community development in the Village of Ossining, with an emphasis on housing. It involves community engagement, revitalization efforts, and addressing challenges such as housing conditions, economic development, and overcrowded schools. The plan includes recommendations for creating a Community Organizational Taskforce, updating the Comprehensive Plan, ensuring zoning consistency, streamlining development approval processes, code enforcement, securing funds for housing rehabilitation and Main Street improvement, and supporting local business and entrepreneurship.

The plan is intended to enhance the quality, transparency, and equity of law enforcement policies and practices in Ossining, while also providing the Police Department with the support and tools necessary to perform its duties and vital mission. The plan includes community listening sessions, results of the community survey, and police reform and reinvention initiatives. The key areas of focus are oversight and transparency, policies and procedures, internal operations and practices, and hiring and training.

The comprehensive plan for the Village of Ossining focuses on preserving and enhancing the downtown area, promoting economic development, and addressing zoning challenges. It aims to maintain the village's character while encouraging investment and renovation, particularly in the T-District. Key strategies include creating form-based zoning overlays, addressing code maintenance issues, and improving housing opportunities.