{"municipality_id":"albany-county/bethlehem","meeting_id":"granicus-2411","meeting_date":"2026-01-28","text":"board members trapped in traffic but traffic isn't bad so just a couple more minutes sorry good evening everyone michael if you could take a seat i'd appreciate it thank you so we're going to get started. Thank you all for coming out tonight. It is such a pleasure to see so many friends and neighbors and hardworking folks in town all together to talk about what a great town we have tonight. So just to get us started, I want to recognize the many elected officials that we have with us tonight. We have our receiver of taxes, Alicia Roney. She is the highest vote getter of all Bethlehem elected officials. And I love that we love the Sheriff of Nottingham. We also have with us tonight in the booth our town clerk, Kim Whitsitt, who's doing a fantastic job taking over for former town clerk Nancy Moquin. We have our two town justices, Aaron Lynch and Judge Kirby and Andy Kirby. Thank you for coming tonight. We have two of our county legislators. A lot of folks had conflicting meetings, but we've got Matt Miller and Jeff Kuhn. Thank you for coming. And representing County Executive Dan McCoy, we have Deputy County Executive Mike McLaughlin, I think I saw come in. And we have our town board members, Joyce Becker and David DeCancio. Tom Schnur is on his way, and Maureen Cunningham sends her regrets, but she is testifying in the legislature right now. So thank you guys for coming tonight and for all you do for us. At the state level, I'm happy that we have a great partner to the town, Assemblymember Scott Vendette. And then representing our federal electeds, we have Colleen Williams, who's representing Congressmember Tonko, and Colleen lives in town. And we have Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's Capital Region Assistant, Katie Van Leeuwen, who happens to be my daughter. So let me begin by saying that I am pleased to report that the state of our town remains, thankfully, strong. We are a safe, vibrant, and creative town, one that is admired throughout the capital region and beyond. It is always an honor to deliver the State of the Town Address. It is gratifying to look back and see how much we have accomplished as a community. It's also inspiring to me because this address gives me the opportunity to highlight the great work of the people who work for this town, to celebrate their passion, their measured patience, and their unwavering dedication to supporting our residents and businesses. Now, before I dive in, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the exceptional work of our highway department during the storm earlier this week. This was the largest snowfall that we've seen in years, and it was relentless. Fortunately, our highway crews were also relentless, working from midday on Sunday straight through the end of Monday. Some folks worked 24-hour shifts. One plow run through our town is 360 miles. And just during the storm, our plow crews made four runs through town. That's the equivalent of plowing a road from Del Mar to Miami, Florida. up. In addition to their routes, our plow drivers were also on call to support emergency services. In the heart of the storm, our plows led Delmar Bethlehem EMS ambulances to several calls for help and then cleared the way to get them to the hospital. So emergency services working together to keep us safe no matter what the conditions are. So my state of the town address tonight will be about action, service, hope, and community. But as much as I hate to include it, I have to acknowledge the federal context in which your town government's positive work is taking place. Some of the most shocking images and actions that we are seeing nationally today involve masked ice agents, pepper spraying peaceful demonstrators, breaking into homes without proper warrants, separating young children from their families, and even taking lives. I am one of our community's most relentless optimists, but I'm finding it hard to find hope in the face of this uncontrolled hate. But I am finding it. I find hope in the way that Minnesota residents are standing together against illegal and immoral actions. And I find hope here in Bethlehem with our police department because they show us every day what law enforcement and service are supposed to be. The Bethlehem Police Department is a model of community policing, setting the standard that other communities only strive for. Our officers proudly show their faces. Our officers identify themselves. Our officers follow the law. And our officers diligently protect all of our community members with restraint and professionalism, because everyone deserves the privilege of asking for help without fear. In 2025, our police department patrols covered more than 286,000 miles. That is driving twice around the earth and then to the moon. They responded to more than 40,000 calls for support, and they upheld the primary tenets of policing, which are to protect and serve their community. It is worth remembering that our officers are also members of our community. Their kids are in school beside ours. They coach local teams. Their families work in local businesses. The list goes on. So if you have concerns about something, if you need help, or if you see someone in need of help, don't ever hesitate to call the Bethlehem Police Department because they are here for everyone. Another challenge that I'm seeing here in Bethlehem is food insecurity. While we are a relatively affluent community, we have always had families in need. Over the last year, we have seen the need for support grow, particularly in the last few months as access to federal programs like SNAP and Medicare have been restricted, leading to ever tighter budgets, slamming into ever rising food prices. Our senior services department has run the town hall food pantry, which is right behind me, for more than 20 years. It is a vital service to our community and it is heavily used. In 2024, 17,000 meals were provided. In 2025, that number grew to more than 27,000 meals. And this does not include all of the food and supplies that are distributed to community members through the Bethlehem Reform Church Pantry in Selkirk and Patty's Place in South Bethlehem. Each day when I come to work, I see this increased demand for food and basic supplies in the small food pantry beside the town hall playground that was installed by Girl Scout Troop 1737. This little outdoor pantry is stocked by generous residents, and it's always open. Sadly, the daily flow out of the pantry jumped dramatically starting last November. Happily, the flow of food into the little and main food pantries surged as well. Starting in November, so much food had been donated that we had to partner with the First United Methodist Church to store all the overflow. But the need isn't abating. So if you can, please continue donating to local food pantries. It really does help. Now, let's also remember that affordability challenges all households in Bethlehem. Food prices remain high. Consumer good prices remain high. Housing costs remain high. Medical costs are astronomical. We take affordability very seriously here in Town Hall. Our departments operate on razor-thin budgets, and any fat in our town budget was cut out many years ago. Because of this, our town has consistently remained within the state-mandated property tax cap while still finding ways to deliver exceptional services and to strategically invest in important infrastructure. I'll review and highlight some of these successes in a few minutes, but I first want to remind everyone where your property taxes go. And you all know the line here, 12 cents of your property tax dollar. Because as you know, we pay our property taxes in two installments, one bill in January, the second in September. Most of these property tax dollars never come to the town. Instead, our property taxes are distributed to five completely independent taxation districts. In 2026, 67% of your property tax payments will go to your school district. 4% will go to your fire department. 4% will go to your library. 13% will go to Albany County, leaving just 12% for the town of Bethlehem. So for every property tax dollar that you pay in 2026, the town of Bethlehem will only see 12 cents. The remaining 88 cents go elsewhere. Now the vast majority of our town budget pays for staff because as I have repeatedly said, the town doesn't deliver services, hardworking people do. People plow our roads. People patrol our neighborhoods and protect our well-being. People fix broken water mains and run the plant that cleans our sewage. People mow our parks, paint our fire hydrants, help businesses grow, support our older residents, guide development, and so much more. Now, as our town has grown, the number of staff to support us has shrunk. Over the last 17 years, our town workforce has dropped from 241 in 2009 to 228 in 2026. That's 13 fewer people getting work done in a town with more physical infrastructure than ever before, along with ever-growing expectations for the types of services our town government should be delivering or is mandated to deliver, regardless of new challenges, inflation, or budgets. Fortunately, Bethlehem has dedicated town employees who have adapted to their work and shown great resiliency as they have continued to deliver services that are essential to our quality of life. Now, there are some who say that government should do the bare minimum and avoid difficult, large initiatives. I could not disagree more. I believe that the role of government is to provide key services and to tackle hard challenges. And we're doing this because, as you'll see tonight and every day, our town government gets things done. To give you a sense of this, I'm going to present a quick tour of the incredible work your town is doing on six major issues. Water quality, traffic safety, parks infrastructure, growth, economic development, and sustainability. So we'll start with water quality. As we recall, as we all recall, unusual warmth and extended drought in the fall of 2024 created conditions that allowed an algae bloom in our Vlei Creek Reservoir. Our New Salem Water Treatment Plant was able to easily clear the algae from the water it sent into the town, but it was not designed to eliminate a harmless chemical released by the algae that created an odor. The result was that our water remained perfectly safe to drink, as confirmed repeatedly by both New York State and the Albany County Departments of Health, but it had a musty smell, and it took us several months to fully flush it out of our 227-mile highly interconnected water system. Algae blooms are not uncommon in communities south of New York, and these municipalities have systems in place to manage them. Now that climate change is bringing the warm conditions that favor algae blooms north into our region, we are doing the same. In the reservoir, our Innovative Public Works Department has instituted new algae control protocols to keep blooms from happening. In the water treatment plant, they have added a new filter system that specifically targets taste and odor issues should they come in from the reservoir. In the distribution system, they have made modifications that will allow us to take the reservoir fully offline if a bloom somehow happens again. The success of these efforts was shown by us not having a repeat of the musty water problem last fall. Now, delivering 1.6 billion gallons of safe drinking water to nearly 12,000 customers is one of the most important services the town of Bethlehem provides. But our public works department's responsibilities go beyond getting safe water to our homes. They also maintain 1,877 fire hydrants across town. And in 2025, they cleaned 1.5 billion gallons of sewage so effectively that the outflow from our wastewater treatment plant continued to be cleaner than the Hudson River it flowed into. Shifting gears, traffic safety. The most common concerns that I heard in 2025 centered on traffic safety. These concerns took many forms, but they all pretty much fell into two categories, people driving too quickly and people not respecting the safety of pedestrians, cyclists, or even other motorists. Our multifaceted work to address these concerns continued strong in 2025 and will continue strong again in 2026. One principal front has been sidewalk improvements. In 2025, our highway department restored another 3,625 feet of sidewalks, bringing the total length of sidewalks restored or built to more than eight miles over the last eight years. Our 47-mile sidewalk network was neglected for decades, but our highway superintendent, the town board, and I remain fully committed to strategically investing in improvements to this vital network. We still have a lot of work to do, but we are on the right track for success. Many of the sidewalks that still are most in need of restoration run beside state roads. Thanks to a $5 million grant that we landed from the New York State Department of Transportation in 2024, we are now on track to restore them. Engineering and design work on this critical project began in 2025 and will continue through 2026, with construction slated to begin in 2027. When completed, we will have fixed almost six more miles of heavily used sidewalks. Thank you, DOT, for supporting pedestrians in Bethlehem. In addition to this planned restoration work, in 2025 we completed the mile-long Cherry Avenue Extension multi-use path, which connects Kenwood Avenue and the Rail Trail with the growing Slingerlands Commercial District. This important project was sparked by an interested resident years ago and was made possible by a $1,832,000 grant, again from the New York State Department of Transportation. Again, thank you, DOT, for supporting pedestrians and cyclists in Bethlehem. On a related front, design work and easements for the Delaware Avenue Complete Streets project in Ellesmere wrapped up in 2025, so we are on track for construction to move forward this year. Driven by a $5,307,000 grant from DOT, the road will still have four lanes, but they will be narrower to slow drivers and to create a bit more space between cars and pedestrians. The project will also improve sidewalks and curb cuts to make it easier to walk between neighborhoods and businesses and add a much-needed crosswalk with rapid flashing beacons near Salisbury Road. We are structuring the daily construction schedule to minimize delays for drivers and to ensure that local businesses are still easily accessible throughout the construction period. But we as residents must continue to patronize these great businesses during construction so that we can continue enjoying their services after the project is completed. Now, given the importance of slowing down traffic, in 2026, I will be working with the town board to enact the legislation necessary to lower the speed limits on our neighborhood streets to 25 miles per hour. Over the last two years... over the last two years our planning department and engineering division have undertaken the detailed analyses that the state requires municipalities to conduct before lowering speed limits with these dunes we are now poised to move forward with the change while lowering the speed limit may sound like a simple thing it's actually very difficult because the objective is to have people drive more slowly not just to change the speed limit so this year we will begin installing hundreds of new speed limit signs in neighborhoods, launch an education campaign, and adapt our traffic enforcement to make sure that every driver on every street knows that 25 miles per hour is the new rule of our residential neighborhood roads. On-the-ground work is critical, but traffic safety is ultimately up to drivers because the problem is us. According to our police department, the people driving too quickly near elementary schools are parents picking up and dropping off their kids. People driving too fast in neighborhoods are people who live in those neighborhoods. It's easy to complain about how other people are driving. It is harder to practice what we demand of others, but we all need to take a breath, slow down and drive the way that we want everyone else to drive, because ultimately it is up to us, to all of us, to make our streets even safer. Shifting topics again, Bethlehem has the best parks network and best parks programs in the capital region. In 2025, our Parks and Recreation Department welcomed 39,000 visitors to the pool complex, taught 500 kids how to swim, and hosted more than 9,500 guests at 25 special events. Infrastructure is an important component of our parks, and we have been strategically investing in improving it. In 2025, we fully restored the Olympic Pool, which means that the three pools at Elm Avenue Park are now in the best shape that they have been in since they were first built in the 1970s. We restored the tennis courts at Elm Avenue Park thanks to an almost $100,000 grant from the U.S. Tennis Association and a very generous grant from Assemblymember Scott Bendett. Thank you, Assemblymember Bendett. We are currently working with Senator Pat Fahey this year to put an ADA accessible playground in the North Bethlehem Park because we want our parks to be welcoming for everyone. And last year we built three new bridges in the Norman Skull ravines to make this gorgeous nature park easier to explore. The bridges were possible because of a generous grant from Senator Pat Fahey. Thank you, Senator Fahey. But that's not all for Normanskill Ravines. We are in the final stages of a purchase agreement with the owners of 133 acres adjacent to the park, which would enlarge the park to just about 300 acres, which is almost twice the size of Elm Avenue Park. If we are able to close on this project, and we're not done yet, it will only be possible thanks to generous financial support from the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy, but especially from Albany County. Thank you, County Executive Dan McCoy and County Legislature Chair Joanne Cunningham for your steadfast support of green spaces and for Bethlehem. Parks are one of the many reasons that people want to live and work in Bethlehem. And because people want to live and work here, Bethlehem is growing and will continue to grow. In 2022, the town board adopted the Bethlehem Forward Comprehensive Plan update, which laid out our community's priorities for guiding how we grow over the next decade and beyond. For the last two and a half years, our planning board has been working with town staff, consultants, and community members to translate these priorities into clear zoning code changes to support implementation. It has been a long and thorough process, and in the coming weeks, the Planning Board will turn that update over to the Town Board to finalize it. The process to date has involved extensive public participation, and I very much hope that residents will continue to engage and work with the Town Board as we finalize the code update. We want and welcome this input because growth in a community is hard, but it doesn't have to be bad. The zoning code update will help guide future changes in a way that maintains or even enhances the things that make Bethlehem such a desirable place to live and work. And that is something that we all want. Now, growth that we typically do like is economic, and we continue to see Bethlehem's business community succeeding. In 2025, 22 new businesses opened in town, including Trader Joe's in Glenmont, Broad Street Bagels in Slingerlands, and Aloe Vera Naturals in Del Mar. Our senior economic developer notes that Bethlehem has an extremely low vacancy rate because most of our commercial spaces are full of businesses. The town continues to support both new businesses looking to open here and existing businesses who are already part of our community. One initiative is our Microenterprise Grant Program, which in 2025 received another $200,000 from the state. Our Microenterprise Grant Committee is currently reviewing applications from small businesses and will begin dispersing the funds this year to support job creation, business development, and long-term sustainability. These successes are clear evidence that Bethlehem has been and continues to be one of the best places in the Capital Region to do business. My final major topic area is sustainability, and there are a suite of successes that I want to touch on briefly before wrapping up. In 2025, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recognized Bethlehem as a silver-certified climate-smart community. This is their highest standard for sustainability, and Bethlehem is just the 21st out of 1,600 municipalities statewide to earn this elite status over the last decade. One of the highlights in our sustainability work has been and will continue to be our recycling and composting department. Our compost facility is a statewide model, and in 2025 they produced more than 20 million pounds of compost and wood mulch and diverted more than 850,000 pounds of food scraps out of the waste stream for composting. Another highlight is our work at the Historic Heath Farm. Last year we stabilized the Historic Barn to correct years of neglect. We are now working with partner organizations like the American Farmland Trust and the Bethlehem Environmental Commons, more commonly known as BECO, to determine best future uses and funding sources for the barn, in addition to keeping the fields in active agriculture and building a new community garden. Finally, I believe that sustainability is about more than land, air, and water. It is also about our built environment. And later tonight, I am excited to have Bill Ketzer, our town historian, introduce a proposed new historic preservation law that, if approved by the town board, will create new incentives for protecting our community's historic structures. This is an important law that has been years in the making, and I am proud to have it moving forward now from concept to reality. Before I wrap up, I want to highlight a few more departments and partners whose services day in and day out touch and improve our lives. So, in 2025, the Delmar Bethlehem Emergency Medical Service, which is a nonprofit partner with the town, responded to more than 4,900 calls for help, transported more than 3,000 people to hospitals, and did so with volunteers who gave more than 15,000 hours of service. our senior services department is the envy of the capital region and with good reason in 2025 their volunteers drove more than 106 000 miles while providing while providing more than 19 000 rides to bring residents to doctors visits hair appointments grocery shopping and more We also continued our programming to try to maintain as many community connections as possible for our older residents, including knitting sessions, workshops, book discussions, and exercise classes. Isolation is one of the greatest risks to our older neighbors, and our team worked tirelessly to find new, innovative ways to keep people involved and interacting. Our excellent and respected justice court handled more than 5,500 traffic and criminal cases last year. They handled these cases with a deep understanding of the law and a strong dedication to the well-being of victims, defendants, and the community alike. Our building division conducted more than 3,100 inspections to ensure that buildings were safe, processed more than 1,100 building permits for everything from swimming pools to multi-family apartment buildings and mediated more than 230 neighbor complaints, which ranged from tenants concerned about housing conditions to neighbors having junk vehicles stored on their property and, I'm not exaggerating, everything in between. Handling neighbor complaints involves patience, knowledge of the codes, and supreme problem-solving skills. We are fortunate to have such a great team working productively and professionally to help neighbors live side by side. Our clerk's office is always busy. Last year, the two staff there issued 136 marriage licenses, registered more than 1,600 dogs, and spent hundreds of hours processing FOIL requests, which is a critical component of open, transparent government. We received 265 FOIL requests in 2025, which is an average of more than one every business day. Our assessor's office implemented 7,000 property tax exemptions to help lower property tax bills. And collectively, our town employees landed $1,828,000 in outside funding to support our critical work and strategic infrastructure investment. Over the last four years, your town employees have brought in more than $14 million. And in fiscally stressful times, I am so grateful to have our staff working so hard to find additional funding to move vital and needed capital projects forward. So in conclusion, I began tonight's address with the recognition that we need to find reasons for hope as we navigate a country dealing with daily chaos. I believe that we can find that hope in the actions, services, and community that we have here in Bethlehem. We must stand strong and we must stand together when faced with illegal and immoral actions. But we must also support and strengthen the things that are going right in our community locally. Outrage is a powerful force and it's valid and it's needed. But it is strongest when it is founded in good. Good services, good schools, good neighborhoods, good government and good people. Too often, we take these good things for granted and focus on the things we don't like. It's human nature, and it's normal, but it's not productive, and it can lead to the mistaken view that everything and everyone are terrible. We see this in road rage and social media fury every day. Where we don't see it is where we interact in person, in restaurants and shops, parks and performances, and even in town hall. we see every day that people are kind, people care, and people mostly want the same things. So, as we stand together against forces that seek to divide us, remember where you're standing and who is standing beside you. Say hello in a coffee shop. Go to a concert in the library. Check on a neighbor during a snowstorm. Shovel out a fire hydrant. Take note of the things around you that are good, and join me in being grateful that we get to live together in this wonderful community of Bethlehem. 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