In addition to adopting the village’s 2025-26 budget at its April 21 workshop meeting, the Highland Falls Village Board handled three pieces of business.

The first was to approve the West Point-Town of Highlands Farmers Market for Sundays from June 15 to November 2, held in the municipal parking lot across from Sacred Heart School.

The second was to authorize Mayor Jim DiSalvo to sign an intermunicipal agreement with Orange County for the annual Stop DWI program.

The third was to approve Village Clerk Heidi Johnson to attend New York Association of Local Government Records Officers training in Callicoon in June.

In departmental reports at the meeting, Trustee Peter Carroll, the water commissioner, said that the village reservoir system is currently at capacity after recent rains. He added that hydrant flushing would take place the week of April 28 and told residents who receive blue Water Department notes on their doors that they need to read their water meter and call the results into Village Hall. Some meters are not currently functioning; they’ll soon be replaced.

On that topic, DiSalvo said that the village has applied for $785,000 in a New York State grant to replace all of the meters at once. The board recently approved spending enough money to replace 100 of the poorly functioning meters.

DiSalvo also said he’d recently had a good meeting with Highlands Supervisor Bob Livsey about some joint projects, and with Trustee Aleena Olivia, had a similarly good meeting with Building Inspector Phil Hannawalt.

In two other grant applications, the mayor said the village has applied for funds to purchase three Automatic External Defibrillators (for Village Hall, the police department and the Senior Center) and $150,000 in 2026 Community Development Block Grant funding for parking lot paving at the Senior Center. “That would be huge if we could get that taken care of,” DiSalvo said.

And in a final comment, the mayor reminded all of those who need a bulk garbage pickup to call 845-446-3800 to schedule that. “Don’t put anything out until you call to make sure that week is good,” he said. “We don’t want stuff sitting at curbside for weeks on end.”