Meetings and Events in the Week Ahead

The biggest event this week is, of course, the solar eclipse, which here in Hudson will fall a tad short of totality--95.4 percent--and will peak at 3:26 p.m. on Monday, April 8. After that, here's what else is happening.

• On Monday, April 8, at 4:00 p.m., Mayor Kamal Johnson holds a public hearing on three laws that would provide property tax breaks to volunteer fire fighters and ambulance workers, senior citizens with annual incomes under $42,399, and to people with disabilities and limited incomes. The hearing takes place in person only at City Hall.
• Also on Monday, April 8, the Common Council holds its informal meeting at 6:00 p.m. On the agenda so far are proposed licensing agreements with the schooner Apollonia and Hudson Ferry Company for the use of dock space at the waterfront. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely. 

• Also at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, April 8, the Hudson Housing Authority is holding a public hearing. This hearing is listed on the city calendar, but no information is provided about where the hearing will take place or what the hearing is about. One can assume, however, that the hearing will take place in the Community Room at Bliss Towers, 41 North Second Street, and speculate that the topic is the redevelopment of housing authority properties.

Update: Since publishing this post early this morning, I learned from Revonda Smith, who chairs the HHA Board of Commissioners, and Jeffrey Dodson, HHA executive director, that tonight's public hearing is about mandatory updates to HHA's administrative policy required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Update on the Update: The HHA hearing is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 9, at 6:00 p.m., not today.

• On Tuesday, April 9, the Hudson Housing Authority holds a public hearing in person only at 6:00 p.m. in the Community Room at Bliss Towers, 41 North Second Street. The following information about the hearing has been made available:

• On Tuesday, April 9, the Planning Board meets at 6:30 p.m. Although the time of the meeting is different--6:30 instead of 6:00--the items on the agenda are familiar: the subdivision on Hudson Avenue, the new location for Lil' Deb's Oasis, the boutique hotel proposed for 601 Union Street, and the apartment building proposed for "the Boulevards." The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
• On Wednesday, April 10, the Housing Trust Fund Board meets at 5:30 p.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
• Also on Wednesday, April 10, the Columbia County Housing Advisory Board hosts its annual landlord and tenants' rights forum from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The forum takes place in person only at the Central Fire Station, 77 North Seventh Street in Hudson.
• On Friday, April 12, the Historic Preservation Commission meets at 10:00 a.m. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Microsoft Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.

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