Warm days with temperatures rising into the 70s are expected in the week ahead. The water will be turned back on at the Hudson Dog Park. And here's what else is happening.
- On Monday, April 13, the Common Council Code and Infrastructure Committee meets at 5:30 p.m. On the agenda for the meeting, in addition to the monthly report from Department of Public Works superintendent Rob Perry, is a proposal from LaBella Associates for "preliminary investigations and concept development" for what is being called "Priority Pedestrian Safety Improvements in the City of Hudson"--pursuing Mayor Joe Ferris's oft-stated goal of improving pedestrian safety and walkability in Hudson. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
- On Tuesday, April 14, the Hudson City School District Board of Education holds a Community Budget Workshop at 6:00 p.m. It will be interesting to see if the district has managed to cut $2.5 to $4.5 million from the budget proposed for 2026-2027, as BOE chair Mark DePace requested. The meeting takes place in person in the library at Hudson High School and will be livestreamed on YouTube.
- Also on Tuesday, April 14, the Planning Board meets at 6:00 p.m. The agenda for the meeting, which can be found here, includes public hearings on the plans to build an addition to accommodate an elevator and make interior renovations to the building once known as Helsinki Hudson and to adapt the interior of the houses at 14 and 16 North Fourth Street as hotel rooms, to be part of Hudson Public Hotel. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here for the link to join the meeting remotely.
- Wednesday, April 15, is the deadline for filing income tax returns.
- Also on Wednesday, April 15, the Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners meets at 6:00 p.m. As always, the meeting offers a chance to learn about HHA's redevelopment plans, and this time we may also learn if Mayor Joe Ferris has appointed someone to replace Sara Black on the HHA board. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person in the Community Room at Bliss Towers and on Zoom. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
- At the very same time on Wednesday, April 15, the Zoning Board of Appeals holds its monthly meeting. On the agenda for the meeting are the area variances needed to construct a new house and carriage house on the site of the current house and outbuildings at 309-311 Union Street, which are being demolished. The meeting takes place in person only at City Hall.
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- On Thursday, April 16, the Common Council Finance Committee meets at 5:30 p.m. This is the meeting at which the Finance Committee will divvy up the $30,000 allocated in the 2026 city budget to support "events, event series, or other tourism-related initiatives." There is still time to submit an application. The committee will be accepting them until 4:00 p.m. on April 16, just an hour and a half before the meeting begins. Click here to submit an application. The meeting is a hybrid, taking place in person at City Hall and on Teams. Click here to join the meeting remotely.
- On Saturday, April 18, Return Brewing hosts its 1st Annual Hudson Neighborhood 5K in support of Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood. The event starts at 10:00 a.m. at Return Brewing, 725 State Street. The 5K race goes from Return Brewing to the waterfront and back again, where it finishes in the taproom with celebrating and music. For more information and to register for the race, click here.
If Labella is going to be worth the money we pay them to make our intersections safe for pedestrians (something we shouldn't need to pay someone to "investigate" for us), one of the first safety problems they ought to notice is the lack of a pair of stop signs for Front Street traffic at Warren where pedestrian traffic can be heavy with locals and visitors. Those much needed and long overdue stop signs didn't appear during the DRI because the engineer/consultant for that project didn't think they were necessary (and neither did anyone from City Hall). The city's latest engineering/consulting company might be correcting last year's glaring omission by a consultant/engineering firm that was supposed to improve things for pedestrians on the city's west end.
ReplyDeleteThere is absolutely no justification (other than laziness, dysfunction and ineptitude) that there are no stop signs on Front at Warren; there's no reason we need to pay someone to tell us there should be; and there's no reason this should be so difficult and take forever. Not in the year 2026.
Where are the funds coming from to pay LaBella? And who chose them and why?
Bill is 100% right and I mentioned this in a comment last week. It’s the easiest low hanging fruit safety wise. People come blasting up front and it’s a blind intersection coming out of Warren, especially if there are cars parked on the corner by the old Kasuri. Not only is it dangerous for pedestrians, as cars barely pay attention to the crosswalks, but for cars too. I’ve been nearly hit several times turning from Warren to Front, after stopping and looking, but then almost sucker punched by a car going 50 up the hill from the train station.
DeleteBill - what is one thing you love about Hudson?
DeleteWe love the people, the coffee, the architecture, the weather 7 months of the year, and the dogs. The ever professional Treasurer, Clerk, and HPD.To name a few.
What do you love or even just like about Hudson?