5 November Join Cornwall's Climate Smart Communities Task Force November 5, 2025 By Meghan Kelly General 0 Join Cornwall's CSC Task Force. Send your interest to csc.cornwallnycac@gmail.com by November 30, 2025. Related Articles Public Workshop - Climate Trends, Risks, Extreme Events, & Planning for Adaptation - 1/31/24 Dr. Radley Horton, a climate professor at Columbia University’s Climate School, will be the keynote speaker at an educational presentation about the science of climate change, including emerging findings about recent trends and priorities for adaptation to more extreme rain events and longer and more intense heat waves. This program will be held at Munger Cottage Senior Center in in Cornwall, NY on Wednesday, January 31 at 7:00 pm. This talk is free and open to the public, and it will include time for questions and discussion. This program is sponsored by the Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN), which is supported by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Adaptation Partnerships program. Dr. Horton is the Lead Principal Investigator for CCRUN, which is focused on the corridor running from Philadelphia to New York City and up to Boston. CCRUN’s network of scientists conducts stakeholder-driven research to support assessing and managing risks from climate variability and change, and advance opportunities for adaptation in the urban Northeast. Dr. Radley Horton will be speaking on Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at Munger Cottage Senior Center, 40 Munger Drive, Cornwall NY 12518. For more information, contact Simon Gruber, the local coordinator for this program, at sgruber100@verizon.net Notice of Joint Special Meeting - Water Services, Rescheduled to 2/29 at 7 PM See attached files to review the proposed Intermunicipal Agreement. NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING Notice is hereby given that the Town Board of Cornwall and Village of Cornwall on Hudson Board of Trustees will hold a joint Special Meeting on Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at Village Hall, 325 Hudson Street, Cornwall on Hudson 12520 to discuss an Intermunicipal Agreement for Water Services and any other business that may come before the Boards. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VILLAGE OF CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON Doris Wickiser, Village Clerk January 23, 2024 Mayor’s Message [Postponement of Joint Special Meeting with Town Related to Water System]: Dear Residents and Friends of the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, I am making the difficult decision to cancel Thursday’s scheduled Joint Special Meeting that was to conjoin the Village Board and Town Council and was related to water system matters that impact both municipalities. We will reschedule the meeting for Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 7:00 p.m., again to be held at Village Hall, 325 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520. This office will ensure we post the notice across all platforms well in advance of new date. After careful consideration and discussions with a number of residents who all get their news from different sources, I simply want to ensure we are making a solid effort to publicly notice this meeting on all the appropriate sites. I sincerely apologize for any confusion this may have caused. But far better to take a step back and ensure we have a well-informed community. On behalf of your Village Board, James A. “Jimmy” Gagliano Mayor Joint Public Statement from the Town of Cornwall & Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Boards For Immediate Release May 19, 2022 Subject: Proposed 3-Year Contract Between Cornwall and the New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps (NWVAC) for Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support Services As most residents understand, individual municipalities are responsible for providing and maintaining an effective and sustainable ambulatory service to their communities. Of recent, it has become more difficult to provide this critical volunteer service due to soaring costs and the dwindling number of available volunteers. This issue has been a topic of debate within the New York State legislature recently, with legislation introduced to establish EMS (the provision of urgent pre-hospital treatment and transport for medical care) as an “essential service.” Long overdue, this effort could potentially reconfigure how ambulatory services are administered across New York State. Unless and until the County and/or State elect to make certain changes, municipalities must seek effective methods to sustain and improve services. Experts contend that the paradigm is evolving and that mergers, or consolidation, exist as an intermediate solution. For over a year, New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps (NWVAC) has contracted with the Town and Village to provide Advanced Life Support (ALS) services to Cornwall residents for a fee, while Cornwall Volunteer Ambulance Corps (COVAC) provides Basic Life Support (BLS) coverage for a fee, as well. ALS includes the highest level of emergency medicine – paramedic-level treatment – and NWVAC (or another EMS provider with ALS capabilities) has long answered calls within Cornwall for mutual aid, bereft of a contract. COVAC, staffed with Emergency Medical Technicians, or EMTs, has remained a fixture in our community since 1955. A number of years ago, COVAC made the request to bill patients directly and a decision was subsequently reached to dissolve the “ambulance district” overseen by the Town. By billing insurance providers directly, this was to be a more efficient process that allowed for the Corps to remain solvent without monies allocated from Cornwall. The global pandemic and an attendant paucity of available volunteers has made staffing across the past several years a concern. This, coupled with significant debt accrual resulted in COVAC’s appeal for subsistence from the taxpayers – which the Town and Village jointly agreed to support. Despite the provided financial support, there continue to exist a number of issues that have not been resolved, as relates to the professional administration of ambulatory services to our residents. Public safety is of paramount concern. Both the Town Supervisor and Village Mayor have met privately with COVAC leadership and members of COVAC’s elected board and operational membership appeared before a joint boards’ special meeting on January 11, 2022. While COVAC maintains they have mitigated their insolvency issues and improved their first-call response rates, it is the consensus of both boards that NWVAC – widely regarded as the “gold standard” for local ambulatory care – will be contracted to cover both BLS and ALS responsibilities for Cornwall residents. This assumption of responsibilities can be considered a consolidation. Current COVAC members who wish to continue to serve Cornwall residents may interview with NWVAC, and be afforded opportunity to operate out of 1 Clinton Street location, be attired in Cornwall EMS uniforms, and respond to Cornwall service calls in a Cornwall-branded ambulance. This serves both professionalization and training standardization efforts. On balance, we believe that this decision for establishment of a contemporary public/private partnership model -- created and supported by multiple municipalities, including Town of New Windsor, Town of Cornwall and Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson -- will ensure our residents receive the high-quality emergency medical care they deserve. NWVAC enables Cornwall leadership to remain confident in the model’s financial viability and sustainability, administrative transparency, leader oversight, and accountability while serving as an example for the region. This was not an easy decision. Careful consideration was given to all impacted equities. Town and Village elected officials reflected deeply on the many decades of selfless service that COVAC and its volunteers have provided to our community; indeed, it is an honored local institution. But the primary responsibility of public officials is ensuring their constituents are afforded best available services for their hard-earned tax dollars. In our estimation, the proposed three-year contract with NWVAC ensures this. Know that we have explored innumerable options to guarantee confidence in the provision of EMS. And we have reviewed a number of similar municipal consolidated-services agreements. This is the best path forward for Cornwall. On Thursday, May 26, 2022, at 7:00 p.m., inside the Edward C. Moulton, Jr. Village Board Room, located at Village Hall, 325 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York 12520, the Town and Village boards will convene a joint special meeting to address this matter publicly. Meeting will be publicly-noticed and contract provisions will be disclosed. The public will be afforded an opportunity to speak and boards will address some factors that led to this decision. On behalf of the Town and Village Boards, Joshua Thomas Wojehowski Supervisor James A. Gagliano Mayor Notice of Special Joint Meeting 5-26-22 YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/2FufId3TbWI Notice is hereby given that the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Board of Trustees and Town of Cornwall Council Members will hold a Special Joint Meeting on Thursday, May 26, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., in the Edward C. Moulton, Jr. Board Room at 325 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY in order to discuss Town and Village contractual matters with Cornwall Volunteer Ambulance Corp (COVAC) and New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corps (NWVAC) for Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support Services and to address any other business that might come before the Boards. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES VILLAGE OF CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON Jeanne Mahoney Village Clerk Special Joint VCOH/TOC Board Meeting - 9/21/23 Notice is hereby given that the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Board of Trustees and the Town of Cornwall Board will hold a Special Joint Meeting on Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 7:00 p.m., at 325 Hudson Street, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY 12520 to discuss the master plan put forth by Pitingaro & Doetsch Consulting Engineers, P.C. for the water system and to address any other business that might come before the Board. BY ORDER OF THE BOARDS OF THE TOWN OF CORNWALL AND VILLAGE OF CORNWALL ON HUDSON Doris Wickiser Village Clerk Notice of Special Joint Meeting - 6/23/22 Notice is hereby given that the Town of Cornwall Council Members and the Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson Board of Trustees will hold a Special Public Information Session on Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 7:00 p.m., at Munger Cottage, 40 Munger Drive, Cornwall, NY in order to discuss Ambulance Services and to address any other business that might come before the Boards. BY ORDER OF THE CORNWALL TOWN COUNCIL JENNIFER MCCORMICK TOWN CLERK Comments are closed.