The city council’s agenda for its meeting at 6:30pm on Wednesday, September 17, 2025 is out. The Council will convene at 5:30pm and adjourn into executive session to discuss personnel matters, dog leash and leafblower rules, and 2025/2026 tax levy/rate. The meeting will also be aired on Cablevision Channel 1310 (formerly 75) and Verizon Channel 39. We’ll also see you on the Internet (live and archive).
Formal office hours of the Mayor and other officials have been suspended.
Let’s check the batting order and highlights from the 15 agenda items.
- Open Mic. Members of the public may be heard on matters for Council consideration that do not appear on the agenda.
- Brian’s Bran. Report of the City Manager.
- Fertilizer Follies. Presentation by Caden Powers, Miles Dinger, and Keaton Greenberg of Rye Country Day School on nitrogen pollution from lawn fertilizers.
- Table Talk. Discussion of customer outdoor seating.
- Up in the Air. Report from Martha Monserrate and Nick Everett and consideration of a “Resolution in Support of the Intermunicipal Airport Master Plan Task Force Recommendations” relating to the County Airport.
- Law and Order. Consideration of the proposed Rules and Regulations of the City of Rye Police Department.
- Policy 337 – Public Safety Video Surveillance System
- Policy 339 – Service Animals
- Policy 340 – Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation
- Policy 343 – Extreme Risk Protection Orders
- Policy 401 – Prohibition Against Bias-Based Policing
- By the Numbers. Presentation of the 2024 City Financial results by Jonathan Gibbs of the auditing firm BST & Co, LLP.
- Cents and sensibility. Consideration of the preliminary 2024 financial summary from the City Comptroller, Joe Fazzino.
- Midyear Checkup. Presentation of the City’s 6-month financial results by City Comptroller, Joe Fazzino.
- Taking it Down a Notch. Open a public hearing on a local law to amend Chapter 197 (Zoning) of the Code of the City of Rye, New York, to reduce the maximum permitted building height in the B-2 Central Business District from 40 feet to 35 feet.
- All Clear. Award bid for Sanitary Sewer Cleaning and CCTV Project (Contract # 2025-01).
- Par for the Course. Consideration to authorize the City Manager to transfer $1,000,000 from Rye Golf Club’s Unrestricted Net Assets to Rye Golf Club Project Accounts.
- Out with the Old. Resolution to declare certain City equipment as surplus.
- From Acorns to Oaks (a Keystone Species!). Consideration of a request by the Rye Sustainability Committee to use the Highland Lot from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm on October 18th for their 250 Acorns to Oaks Giveaway.
- This and That. Old Business/New Business.
The next regular meeting of the City Council will be held on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 6:30pm.
Thx 4 the note about R.T. Bird, my uncle. It includes info unknown to me: his father was a Methodist pastor and was busy with clerical affairs. Both are suspect – sources? HIS 9th grade report is among the Bird papers at 600 Milton Rd. Also, his book, “Bones for Barnum” is great reading. His siblings also interesting: Junius, archaeologist, several books, Alice, illustrator of “Trees of the Countryside”, and Doris, librarian at Rye Reading for all life.