BEDFORD, N.Y. - Repairs to Katonah Memorial Park’s tennis, basketball and swim facilities are among more than $300,000 in recreation and equipment upgrades Bedford is contemplating for the town’s three parks.
Since borrowing is expected to finance the improvements, the Town Board is expected to hold public hearings at its meeting next month on both the park improvements and, separately, changes in the Katonah-Bedford Hills Sewer District allocations.
The parks, including the Bedford Hills and Bedford Village districts as well as Katonah, would share in the $301,500 specified in a bond resolution following separate hearings for each of the districts. Hearings are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. on May 6 in town hall.
Katonah would receive $100,500, with most of that money—$55,500—earmarked to pay the district’s share of Rec Department maintenance equipment. But $45,000 would be evenly divided to resurface and improve tennis courts, repair basketball courts and repair and replace swimming pool equipment.
Both Bedford Hills ($115,500 allocation) and Bedford Village ($85,500) park districts will also contribute $55,500 for equipment maintenance and apply the balance to facility improvements.
The bond hearings had been scheduled for the board’s April 15 meeting, but a correction in the language of the separate bond resolutions forced a postponement until May 6.
Rec Programs
The spring/summer brochure of the Recreation and Parks Department is now available online on the Bedford town website, bedfordny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2213/
Sewer Capacity
Commercial properties in Katonah and Bedford Hills would get another 12,000 gallons a day in sewer capacity under a proposal by Public Works Commissioner Kevin Winn.
The Bedford Hills-Katonah Business Sewer District now allocates 25,000 gallons of capacity for the two hamlets’ commercial properties. “No further opportunities . . . for either commercial or residential growth and/or development requiring increased water use are possible at this time since the allocated amounts have been used,” Winn wrote in a memo to the Town Board.
He recommended increasing daily capacity by 12,000 gallons, split equally between the hamlets. Even with the increase to 37,000 gallons a day, he noted, the district’s sewer plant will still have an unallocated capacity of 28,401 gallons.
Supervisor Ellen Calves told the Town Board’s April 15 meeting that Winn’s proposed local law would meet a need. “There are now a lot of opportunities . . . to allow some development to go in that would require additional sewer capacity,” she said, “and we have some on reserve. So, this [recommendation] is to allocate some of that reserve capacity.”
The board set a public hearing for 6:05 p.m. on May 6 in town hall.
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