Village receives grant to support pool project work

MILLERTON — The Foundation for Community Health has awarded the Village a $23,557 grant to help cover the cost of administering the Eddie Collins Park project.

The announcement of the grant was made at a Village trustee workshop meeting held on Monday, March 10.

In December, the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation awarded the village a matching grant of up to $675,000 in support of the Eddie Collins Memorial Park Swimming Pool Project. With these monies, funding for Phase II of the project, which stems largely from a NY SWIMS capital grant, is now at $7.56 million.

The FCH grant will support the cost of a grant administrator for the project, one of the largest undertaken by the Village.

Trustees also discussed the upcoming budget, which Mayor Jenn Najdek said would be the subject of a public hearing at a date in April to be determined.

The trustees also voted to approve the purchase of a new highway truck at a cost of approximately $189,000.

In other matters, Dick Hermans of Pine Plains addressed the trustees as a member of the board of LJMN Media, Inc., which publishes The Millerton News and The Lakeville Journal.

Hermans discussed plans for a Millerton News Community Event to be held on June 28 in the Village.