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EXISTING CONDITIONS Community Facilities, Parks, and Recreation

2.7 COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICES, PARKS AND to work in Headquarters at the police desk, and two officers assigned RECREATION to work on patrol.

Facilities and services provided from tax and other revenue must meet The Police Headquarters is in Village Hall at 1111 Pleasantville Road, the needs of Briarcliff Manor’s residents and property owners. Funding where the department has approximately 900 to 1,000 square feet of comes primarily from the Village budget, though many services are facility space. The existing police facility is inadequate and is in need supported by user fees, donations and other means. Volunteers also of expansion. play a crucial role in delivering services such as firefighting, emergency medical services and recreation and social programs. Figure 2.17 The Police Department covers a geographic area of approximately shows the location of various community facilities discussed in this 5.75 square miles, divided into two patrol sectors (east and west), and section. serves a population of approximately 8,000 people. The department rarely has a response time of more than five minutes, according to Chief Norman Campion, and, in a critical call for service, often gets to 2.7.1 Community Facilities and Services the location of the call within three minutes. Actual response time averages are not kept by the department. Village Hall Fire. The Briarcliff Manor Fire Briarcliff Manor’s Village Hall is located at 1111 Pleasantville Road in Department is an all-volunteer the heart of the Village. The facility houses the offices for the Village organization with two stations: Manager, Village Treasurer, Court Clerk, the Building Department, the Village Hall on Pleasantville Road, Village Clerk, the Fire Department and the Police Department. The which houses the Hook and Ladder Village government has 81 full-time employees. Company and the Briarcliff Fire Company, and Scarborough Road, Village Hall, including the Fire Department building, was built in 1963 which houses the Scarborough and has had no significant rehabilitation or upgrades since Engine Company. The department construction. Studies have suggested a need for more space to meet has approximately 150 members Scarborough Engine Compan y the requirement of municipal departments and to upgrade the in its three companies. The fire building’s infrastructure. chief and two assistant chiefs are not Village employees, although they receive a nominal stipend. The Police, Fire, EMS and Emergency Management service area of the Fire Department extends beyond Village boundaries via service contracts with the Town of Mount Ossining or Mount Police.The Briarcliff Manor Police Department has a 20-person staff, Pleasant. consisting of a Chief of Police, one lieutenant, five uniform patrol sergeants, one detective/sergeant and 12 uniform patrol officers. The The Fire Department has one tower ladder, one heavy rescue vehicle, department provides 24-hour, seven-day-per-week, patrol coverage. A two ambulances, three class-A pumpers and a utility truck. In addition, typical tour of duty has three officers working, with one officer assigned

B R I A R C L I F F M A N O R C O M P R E H E N S I V E P L A N 65 Key 1. Village Hall (Village Offices, Police, Main Fire Department) 2. Briarcliff Manor Public Library 3. Department of Public Works Building 55 4. Youth Center 5. Recreation Center 6. Todd Elementary School 7. Briarcliff Middle School/ 8. Scarborough Fire House

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it has a trailer used for safety demonstrations and a weapons-of-mass- Emergency Management. As part of the Homeland Security destruction trailer acquired through a grant from the Federal Presidential Directive, President Bush directed the development and Emergency Management Agency. administration of the National Incident Management System (NIMS). NIMS was developed so responders from different jurisdictions and Required equipment upgrading will require additional Fire Department disciplines can work together to better respond to natural disasters and space due to increased size of the new equipment. The Fire emergencies, including terrorism. NIMS benefits include a unified Department’s space at Village Hall would increase under the possible approach to incident management, standard command and expansion of the facility. The Scarborough Station building also needs management structures, and emphasis on preparedness, mutual aid upgrading and enlarging. and resource management. The Village’s administrative staff and other key point people are trained in NIMS. EMS. The Briarcliff Manor Ambulance Corps within the all-volunteer Fire Department serves the emergency medical needs of the Village. Public Works The Ambulance Corps, located at Village Hall, staffs two ambulances 24 hours a day. Also, the Police Department employs three officers that The Briarcliff Manor Department of Public Works has 37 full-time are trained and certified State Emergency Medical employees distributed among six divisions: administration, highway Technicians, and all police vehicles are equipped with defibrillators. In department, water department, sanitation, vehicle maintenance and addition, several volunteer Fire Department members have been building maintenance. The Public Works facility is located at 10 trained and certified as EMTs. The Village also participates in a fly car Buckhout Road, off Pleasantville Road in the southeastern portion of the support program as part of an agreement with Croton-on-Hudson, Village. Specific information about the department’s divisions is as Ossining Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Phelps Memorial Hospital, follows, with the number of employees in each division given in so that Briarcliff Manor, Ossining and Croton-on-Hudson are able to parentheses. The major divisions are Administration, Highway provide advanced life support. The Village contracts for daytime Department, Central Garage, and Water Department. services with a professional service due to insufficient volunteers being available during weekday daytime hours. Administration (5) provides general administrative support and oversight of department operations. In addition, staff monitors all DPW In April 2006, the Village executed an agreement with Tetra Tech EM construction/paving operations and seasonal activities, and the water Inc., of Rockaway, New Jersey, for preparation of an All Hazards and sewer systems, data collection/report filing as per county and state Mitigation Plan. This plan was later expanded to include manmade regulations. The staff develops and oversees budget, payroll, water disasters on major roadways. The plan is a response to the Disaster billing, purchasing and permits. Mitigation Act of 2000, which requires states, with support from local governmental agencies, to develop hazard mitigation plans to prepare Highway Department (15) has responsibility for street maintenance for and reduce the potential impacts of natural hazards. The act is (39.66 miles/125 roads), plus Scarborough Train Station and all intended to facilitate cooperation between state and local authorities, municipal parking lots. This entails pavement and curb repairs, and the Village’s EMS personnel would be a part of that cooperation. sweeping, pavement marking, sidewalk repair, snow and ice control, and the repaving of two to three miles of Village streets each year. For other roads, the department does preparation work and curbing while

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a contractor (awarded by bid annually) performs the paving itself. The Fire House, the Library and the Village-owned Scarborough Post department maintains roadsides, which includes tree/bush removal Office. and trimming, mowing, sign repair. Repair and replacement of approximately 200 street lights are also the department's responsibility. Central Garage (3) maintains all highway, water, sanitation, police, fire, ambulance, recreation and administration vehicles. Drainage (approximately 400 catch basins and 28 miles of drain lines) work involves the installation, repair and cleaning of drainage Water Department (6) operates the connections to various aqueducts structures. Several bridges and box culverts conveying streams under and six water pump stations, with a maximum demand of 3.4 million roadways (including Todd Lane Bridge, River Road Bridge, South State gallons of water per day and an average day demand of 1.3 million Road Bridge, Caney Brook culverts, Aspinwall culverts, etc.) are gallons of water. The department maintains the water distribution maintained and repaired by the Highway Department. system, including four storage tanks, approximately 400 fire hydrants and the reading and repairing of approximately 2,700 water meters. The Highway Department provides park maintenance for Law, The department offers contractor support for major water projects. Neighborhood and Jackson Road Parks. McCrum, Chilmark and Scarborough parks are maintained by the Recreation Department. The Future plans for the Water Department include water pump station work involves grass cutting, leaf removal, plantings and beautification. upgrades at Round Hill Road, Ridgecrest Road and Old Sleepy Hollow Road; and repairs to water mains at Sleepy Hollow Road and Within the Highway Department, there are three sub-divisions: Washburn Road.

(a) Sanitation (6) provides garbage pickup (approximately 340 tons The Village’s main source of drinking water has been from the New per month) twice a week to single-family homes and once a week to York City Department of Environmental Protection’s (NYCDEP) New condos, multi-family buildings and commercial establishments. The Croton Aqueduct, an unfiltered water supply. However, compliance department also provides drop-off recycle-service for large items and with New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) regulations hazardous materials. requires that Croton water be filtered. To address the filtration requirements, NYSDOH has approved the Village’s plan to replace the (b) Recycling. The Highway existing Croton Aqueduct water supply with a supply connected to New Department and the Sanitation York City’s Lower Catskill/Delaware Aqueduct System which does not Department, which each cover half require filtration. the Village, jointly provide curbside recycling once per week. Sanitary Sewer System. The Village sanitary sewer system is maintained jointly by the Highway and Water departments. Work (c) Building Maintenance (2) consists of rebuilding manholes and cleaning and repairing the provides maintenance for the collection system by the Highway Department, and maintaining nine Village Municipal Building, the DPW sewer pumping stations by the Water Department. Future plans in this garage and offices, Scarborough area include replacement of the sanitary sewer station and upgrades at

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Long Hill Road, and smoke testing in sanitary sewers along The library is staffed by a library director and a support staff of two and Scarborough and Old Briarcliff Roads. three-quarter full-time and eight part-time employees, including a reference librarian and a children/teen librarian, it is governed by a Future Improvements seven-member board (plus a liaison from the Village Board). In addition to traditional book borrowing, services offered include The Village has plans for a number of drainage improvement projects, computer classes, book discussion groups, young adult programs, a as determined by an engineering study completed in FY 2006-2007. children’s room and a local history collection. Library spending is Approximately $500,000 is allocated for these improvements, with approximately four percent of the total Village budget. The library is not $100,000 allocated each year of the five-year capital budget through its own taxing district. The library is a part of the Westchester Library FY 2010-2011. System, whose services are available to Village residents.

In addition, the Village is in the process of drafting a stormwater To address space and program requirements, Village voters passed in management law and an illicit discharge law, including mapping of 2006 a $4 million bond resolution to finance a two-story, 6,600- outflows. Briarcliff Manor has been performing ongoing education, square-foot addition to the existing Library. A private fundraising effort both individually as a municipality and in conjunction with a will also be undertaken by a friends group to renovate. The expansion countywide grant. The Village is also one of a number of communities is expected to be completed in late 2008. that received a grant to provide training for contractors on proper stormwater management. 2.7.2 Parks and Recreation

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The Briarcliff Manor Public Library The Village provides fields and facilities for active and passive was created in 1914, when the recreation. (See Figure 2.18). These are available to residents and non- Briarcliff Community Club began residents who are within the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District. sponsoring and housing the library Active recreation is defined as requiring some level of physical exertion, at their headquarters. The library such as team sports, cycling, jogging and similar activities. Passive was registered with New York State recreation requires little or no physical exertion, and usually needs few in 1921. In 1928, the Community support structures or facilities. Examples of passive recreation include Club property was sold. The library walking, sightseeing and picnicking. was housed in several locations over the subsequent 30 years, until The Recreation and Parks Department offers a number of programs for finding a permanent home in 1959 Public Library residents of all ages, particularly youth and seniors. These are at the former railroad station of the discussed after this section on parks. Putnam Division (“Old Put”) of the New York Central Railroad, its current location. In 1964, the library became public.

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Chilmark Park. The 11-acre park at 48 Macy Road is the site of the between two moderately steep slopes to the border of the Town of former Chilmark Country Club, purchased by the Village in 1980. The Mount Pleasant. There are no parking facilities at the trail, and no park has six courts, a half-court court, a soccer field, opportunity for parking. a / field and playground. The park also houses the Recreation Center. The center offers seasonal indoor programs and Law Memorial Park. The 6.28-acre park is located on Pleasantville accommodates the Recreation and Road in the heart of the Village, and contains the Village Pool complex, Parks Department’s administrative with a 120-foot by 75-foot main pool and a 30-foot-diameter circular offices and equipment storage. wading pool. A two-story bathhouse/pavilion was completed in 2001. Several community organizations The park also features two lighted clay tennis courts, two unlit tennis use the center for their meetings, courts and a playground. A plan to upgrade and expand court lighting and it is available for rental for to encompass all four courts was approved for 2008. Two platform private social functions. A tennis courts are just north of the renovation and development plan is park near the Atria Field complex, underway for the park, including and the Village Library is located on improvements to the athletic fields the park’s eastern edge. There is and basketball court and the ample parking available along Van addition of a restroom facility for Village Recreation and Parks Lu Van Road and adjacent to the the site. There is parking available Headquarters Library. Parking is to be expanded for park users, although parking at the Library in connection with the for administrative personnel is somewhat limited. expansion of the Library building.

Law Park Memorials Jackson Road Park. This 4.67-acre park is located along the Pocantico Lynn McCrum Field. This 6.3-acre River from Jackson Road and Ash Road, and was dedicated in 1975. It park, dedicated in 1999, is located features two basketball courts, a playground refurbished in 2005, on the corner of Chappaqua Road swings, picnic tables and benches. Approximately half of the park (two and Route 9A. The site has a youth acres) is undeveloped and consists primarily of wetlands. There is no sports playing field that can be parking available or planned at the park. used as either two youth-sized baseball/softball fields or two youth Kate Kennard Trail. The mile-long soccer fields. The park includes trail, dedicated in 1988, begins on parking for approximately 50 cars. Long Hill West, just west of the Aspinwall Road intersection. The trail, part of a permanent public McCrum Field easement connected with the Rosecliff residential development, follows an intermittent streambed

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Neighborhood Park. This 5.3-acre park was dedicated to the Village undeveloped. The eastern area has a new trail connection in the in 1954 and expanded in 1958 and 1964. The park is in a heavily Pacwater development that will allow access to pedestrians from the populated residential community area, at the corner of Whitson and North County Trail area, along the Pocantico River and into the park. Fuller Roads, and borders Schrade Road. The Whitson Road side features a youth baseball field, and at the Schrade Road entrance, a Scarborough Park. This riverside park located west of the Scarborough basketball court and playground. The park has been used to meet the train station was acquired in 1908, and is the site of the former Village field demands of organized youth sports programs since the early wastewater treatment facility. The park has one acre of land and five 1990s, but the lack of off-street parking is problematic given this use. acres of underwater land and offers picnic and fishing areas. Public Parking along the undeveloped eastern side is possible. parking is limited due to commuter use of the parking area. The Village is currently pursuing grant funding to further improve and develop the Nichols Nature Area. This 3.8-acre site, acquired in 1973 as part of a site, specifically related to stabilizing and protecting the park’s residential subdivision, is undeveloped and landlocked, only accessible shoreline and adding amenities and features to improve its usability. from Nichols Place. Steep slopes virtually assure that the land will remain in its natural state and continue to serve as home to many Aspinwall Road Open Space. This 39-acre site, located on the west regional flora and fauna. side of Aspinwall and Sleepy Hollow Roads and north and east of Cottonwood Lane, was acquired in 1963. The property has varying Pine Road Park. This 66-acre parcel, located between Pine Road and slopes and a good mix of flora, with mature species, healthy Long Hill Road East, was acquired in 1948 and expanded in 1963. The undergrowth and a mix of wildlife habitats. The site also has a small park, which is currently undeveloped, is centrally located and also pond at the Cottonwood Lane area, a stream and some evidence of accessible from Sleepy Hollow Road. The J-shaped parcel has varying former/existing stonewalls in the north and south areas. Due to the terrain, with limited parking available at the southeast corner water location of wetlands on Aspinwall and Sleepy Hollow Roads, pump station area. development of parking is restricted.

Pocantico Park. This 70.9-acre site, Larch Road Open Space. This 16.9-acre parcel is located at the end the Village’s largest park, was of Larch Road, between Route 9A/100 and the Taconic State Parkway. acquired in 1948 and expanded in The property is a mixture of wetlands and swamp in the center, with a 1963, 1964 and 1967. The passive mature tree canopy around the perimeter. The Pocantico River defines recreation park, which abuts the the western edge of the site, which contributes to the wetlands. Limited Pocantico River, is accessible from space for parking exists at the end of the cul-de-sac. Laurel Lane, off Cedar Drive East. A few hiking trails are marked in the Van Lu Van Road Open Space. park, which is home to a large Scarborough Park, on the This 16.5-acre site is located behind number of animals found in the Riverfront Village Hall on Van Lu Van Road. region, including deer. There are The property includes the Youth two additional neighborhood access points, at the end of Cedar Drive Center building and associated West and at the end of Frame Road. These areas are currently basketball court, with parking

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available along Van Lu Van Road. A large lawn behind the Youth Atria Field. The four-acre multi-use Center extends to a feeder stream of the Pocantico River to the north. ball field area is owned by Atria This parcel connects to Atria Field. (1025 Pleasantville Road). The school district has an easement for County and State Parks use. The fields are adjacent to the Van Lu Van Road marsh open North County Bike Trail (Westchester County): A 22.1-mile paved, space and the Briarcliff Manor multi-use trail is located in the former “Old Put” railroad bed and Public Library. extends from the Town of Athletic Fields located at The Atria Greenburgh north to Baldwin Place Trump National Golf Course. in Putnam County. Village access to This 147.4-acre course, located at 339 Pine Road, was originally the trail is located behind the constructed in 1923 as the Briar Hall Country Club. It reopened in Briarcliff Manor Public Library, near 2001 as Trump National Golf Club, a private, 18-hole golf course. Pleasantville Road. The trail extends Cart paths are available for Village pedestrian use from December 1 to north along Route 100 into March 1. Walking is permitted on Parcels 2 and 3 and along the Millwood, and south along Route service road adjacent to Pine Road on Parcel 1. Residents are able to 9A to Route 117. Formal parking access portions of the golf course during winter months for cross areas are located on Route 117 to country skiing and sledding. To direct people to appropriate areas, the south and on Route 100, at the Entrance to North County signs are posted at the golf course. end of North State Road. Informal Trail way in Law Park parking spaces are used near the Philips Electronics Research Center. The 78.2-acre campus is located South State Road-Long Hill Road at 345 Scarborough Road, in the northwest section of the Village, at the intersection. former Macy estate. Philips has granted permission to Village residents to walk on its trails. Old Croton Aqueduct Trail (New York State): The Westchester County section of this trail (known as OCAT) follows 26.2 miles of the 42-mile Sleepy Hollow Country Club. The aqueduct from Croton to New York City. It is operated and maintained 338-acre country club is located at by the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. 777 Albany Post Road. The club has Village access to the trail is at Scarborough Road, just north of the 259 acres in the southern part of Scarborough Fire Station. Currently, the fire station lot is used for the Village and the rest in the Town parking. These sections of the OCAT are projected to be used for the of Mount Pleasant. First opened in proposed Westchester County RiverWalk project. 1914, it has an 18-hole course and a 9-hole course, with a Renaissance Private Land and Corporate Campuses Allowing Public Access Revival mansion club house designed by Stanford White for the

Sleepy Hollow Country Club

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granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Nelson Park (Village of Ossining) is located on Route 9 at Washington Avenue and has baseball and soccer fields.

Other Parks and Dedicated Open Space Cedar Lane Park (Town of Ossining). Recreation facilities at this 39- acre park located at 235 Cedar Lane includes a fitness trail, basketball There are other parks and dedicated open spaces accessible to courts, fishing, picnic area, a soccer field and a fenced in, off leash Briarcliff Manor residents in the Town and Village of Ossining and in dog park. the Town of Mount Pleasant:

Briarcliff-Peekskill Trailway (Town of Ossining). A 12-mile linear park Planning for Parks that runs from the Town of Ossining north to Westchester County’s Blue Mountain Reservation in Peekskill. The trail is built on land originally Studies and planning efforts for Briarcliff Manor’s parks and recreation acquired in 1929 and then designated as trailway in 1977. have been undertaken over the years, though most have been small in scope and focused on particular issues or parcels. An exception is the Ryder Park (Town of Ossining) is located on Morningside Drive and “Recreation Study for the Village of Briarcliff Manor,” completed in has soccer/football fields, a fitness trail, tennis and basketball courts, 1959 by the Westchester County Recreation Commission. ballfields, playground and a picnic area. One field has customarily been designated for Briarcliff Manor Little League. This study examined Village recreational services and facilities on a community-wide basis, and gave a range of formal recommendations Ossining Nature Preserve (Town of Ossining) is located just west of that were subsequently adopted, including the creation of the current Route 100/Saw Mill River Road in the southeastern corner of the town. full-time department. Other recommendations were creation of a permanent, full-time recreation superintendent and recreation advisory Graham Hills Park (Town of Mount Pleasant). The 431-acre committee, expansion of services to residents of the school districts, Westchester County Park features approximately five miles of mountain broadening recreation programs to all ages and both sexes, biking trails geared toward experienced riders. coordinating existing programs, greater recruitment and training of volunteers, establishing a public relations program for recreation, Rockefeller State Park Preserve (Pocantico Hills). The 1,233-acre state increasing the parks and recreation budget, and recommendations for park contains part of the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills specific parks or facilities. given to the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in 1983. The park is largely located along Sleepy Hollow Road in Subsequent recreation and parks studies are: Sleepy Hollow. The Park entrance is on Route 117. Specific to Pine Road Park. “Recommendations for the Development Hardscrabble Wilderness Area (Mount Pleasant). The 225-acre of Pine Road Park as a Recreation Area” (1963) and “Master Plan for recreation area located off Dogwood Lane has three camping sites, six Pine Road Park” (1965) hiking trails and a nature study area.

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Specific to Large Parcels within the Village. “Village of Briarcliff currently undeveloped parcels and expand the recreational options Manor Large Parcels Study” (1980) currently available to Village residents.

Specific to the Shortage of Playing Fields. “Review of Village Owned The studies listed above were conducted to accomplish very specific Parcels” by Village staff (1993); “Study of Chilmark Park” for additional goals. The Park and Recreation Facility Master Plan, for example, was athletic field development (1995); and “Parkland Study” for athletic undertaken by the department and the Recreation Advisory Committee fields: options and cost estimates (1996-1997). to identify and prioritize issues that need to be addressed within the Village’s existing parks and facilities. Capital projects completed within Specific to Current Village Parks and Facilities. “Law Park and Pool the last three years have generally been driven by the information Facility Master Plan” (1998-1999); “Park and Recreation Facility Master collected from the community through this project. Major rehabilitation Plan” project (2003-2004); and“Chilmark Park Renovation and and improvement projects at Jackson Road Park, Lynn McCrum Field Development Plan” (2005). and Chilmark Park can be attributed to the “in-house” planning that began with this Facility Master Plan project.

Briarcliff Manor Trails Study. In June 2006, Cherbuliez/Munz PLLC Village Recreation Services and Programs completed the “Briarcliff Manor Trails Study,” which assessed the Youth Services. The Village of Briarcliff Manor’s Recreation and Parks suitability of the public and private Department provides youth recreational services at the Youth Center open space tracts of land in the located on Van Lu Van Road, behind the Village Hall and Briarcliff Post Village for development and Office. The Youth Center building (2,400 square feet of interior space) expansion of pedestrian trails, and was donated to the Village in 1997 and serves as a safe, supervised explored potential links to public facility for young people in middle school and high school. and private trails and Village parks. Sole Public Riverfront Access The Youth Center program is operated year-round, and the building The study identified and assessed specific locations for potential and its grounds have a lighted, outdoor basketball court, indoor game parking areas next to or near the trailway system, and recommended and lounge space and an outdoor deck and patio area. The full-time materials for trail and parking area surfaces. The Trails Study was recreation staff directs the center’s activities and oversees a part-time funded by the Greenway Conservancy for the Valley Inc. staff of adult and college-age program supervisors. The program It was based on promoting four of the five Greenway criteria: regional includes special event and activity nights, as well as evenings with no planning, natural and cultural resource protection, heritage and programmed activities. environmental education and public access to the Hudson River. Youth Center programs are available to all students in grades 6-12 The study concluded that, while a trail corridor that incorporates the who either reside within the Village or attend school in the Briarcliff entire Village is not possible, a trails system could be developed that Manor Union Free School District. Participating students are required to would create connections to existing facilities, provide access to register with the Recreation and Parks Department. The membership

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fee for all students for the 2006-2007 program year was $10, The Village also has a contract with Family Services of Westchester, a although there are potential added charges associated with certain nonprofit agency based in Port Chester, for the part-time services of a special events and activities that are offered at the center. Senior Advocate. The Senior Advocate is available to assist seniors with problems typically addressed by a social service agency: Social The Recreation Department also provides pre-school programs Security, Medicare and Medicaid information, rehabilitation services including playgroups, music and arts-and-crafts programs and field and long-term care services, prescription drug program assistance, trips. Youth sports programs include floor hockey, basketball, tennis nutrition, food pantries and Meals On Wheels programs and volunteer and softball. The department conducts an after-school program at opportunities. This program is available to all senior citizens of Briarcliff Todd Elementary School that offers a range of classes and activities for Manor. children in grades K-5 and a six-week day camp program serving over 500 resident children (grades K-8) each summer. The Town of Ossining has assembled a committee to examine the demand for and feasibility of developing a center for senior programs and services. The Town is only in the preliminary stage of planning. Adult Services. In addition to programs specifically geared toward However, the Village should remain aware of the Town’s progress and youth and senior citizens, the Village’s Recreation and Parks aim to coordinate services where appropriate. Department offers a number of paid programs for adult residents, including basketball, badminton, tennis, golf, cooking classes, driving courses, yoga, and tae kwon do. These programs, which are generally 2.7.3 Schools held either in the Recreation Center or the Youth Center, are also available for non-residents of the Village, for a higher fee. The Briarcliff The Village of Briarcliff Manor contains parts of two local school Manor Public Library also offers book discussion groups and computer districts: Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District and Ossining Union classes. Free School District. Figure 2.19 shows public schools within the two school districts and all public and parochial primary schools in Briarcliff Senior Services. The Village offers a number of programs and services Manor. Since each school district is controlled by its own legislative specifically geared toward residents aged 60 and over, including body, independent of the Village, this Plan makes no recommendations seasonal programs, special events and trips. The Village Recreation regarding school operations or facilities. This section is provided for Department also provides a senior citizen bus, which accommodates information purposes only. This is not to say that there is no 14 passengers and provides door-to-door transportation on a first- coordination between the Village and the school district: the Briarcliff come, first-served basis, available using a phone reservation system. Manor Board of Education designates liaisons to the Briarcliff Village Shopping (local and to some malls), banking and trips to local doctors’ Trustees, as well as to the Ossining and Mt. Pleasant Town Boards. appointments are scheduled. In addition, Village residents and Town of Ossining residents who are 65 years of age or over can participate in the Call-A-Cab program, which provides coupons for taxi services at Briarcliff Manor Public Schools reduced fares. These coupons are available through Ossining’s Senior Services Department. The Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District covers approximately six square miles and includes portions of the Towns of Mount Pleasant and

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the Village of Briarcliff Manor. The district has a K-5 elementary school 160 seniors are expected to graduate spring 2008, a slight decrease and a school shared by the middle school (grades 6-8) and high from the 161 that graduated in 2007. school (grades 9-12). Todd Elementary School is located on Ingham Road. Briarcliff Middle School and Briarcliff High School are located on Pleasantville Road (see Figure 2.19).

For the 2005-2006 school year, total enrollment in the Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District was 1,836 students. According to the district superintendent's projection (based on an Enrollment Projection Demographic Study, June 2006), this appears to have been the peak year. Enrollment is projected to trend slowly downward for the next decade. The Enrollment Study projects a total of 1,728 students (K-12) in 2016, a decrease of six percent from the 2006 enrollment of 1,836.

Table 2.11 shows enrollment in the district from 2000-2001 through Todd School Aandudito Highrium Schools at the Middle 2005-2006.

Table 2-11: Recent Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District Enrollment

2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 K-5 788 783 779 765 748 742 6-8 357 379 415 425 453 415 9-12 448 489 534 560 601 679 Total 1,593 1,651 1,728 1,750 1,802 1,836 Source: Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, 2006.

The actual fall 2006 kindergarten enrollment was 100 students versus the original high estimated range of 125 to 135 students. The district reports that it is planning for 101 kindergarteners for fall 2007 while

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Todd Elementary School

Briarcliff Middle and High School

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Ossining Public Schools

Approximately 30% of the Village of Briarcliff Manor is within the Ossining Union Free School District. This district had a total enrollment of 3,918 students for the 2006-2007 school year, in six schools: Roosevelt School for preschool-aged children, Park School for grades K-1, Brookside School for grades 2-3, Claremont School for grades 4- 5, Anne M. Dorner Middle School for grades 6-8 and for grades 9-12. None of these schools is located within Briarcliff Manor.

Table 2.13 shows the recent past enrollment for the Ossining District. The District experienced its most significant enrollment growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but is expected to continue to grow slowly over the next decade.

Table 2-12: Recent Ossining Union Free School District Enrollment 2000- 2001- 2002- 2003- 2004- 2005- 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Pre-K 183 204 216 216 214 252 K-1 585 617 612 618 597 647 2-3 587 568 575 607 584 600 4-5 669 618 583 568 584 580 6-8 911 921 930 902 865 822 9-12 1,125 1,224 1,300 1,279 1,313 1,251 Ungraded …. …. 33 30 36 38 Total 4,060 4,152 4,249 4,220 4,193 4,190 Source: Ossining Union Free School District, 2006.

By 2016, the Ossining enrollment is projected to be 4,356, an increase of four percent over the 2006 enrollment of 4,187 students.

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