Town May Update Parking Ticket Collection, Pub Night Celebrates Poetry

1. Castelli to give state budget update in Bedford

Assemblyman Robert Castelli (R, C, I - Goldens Bridge) will be at the town of Bedford meeting this evening, scheduled to start at 8 p.m. He'll provide an update on the state budget, passed last week. Also on the town's agenda is an announcement of the upcoming and expected approval for an array of events:

• Rummage Drop Off on April 29
• Memorial Day service on May 28 and annual parade on July 27
• May 15-20
• Week of the Young Child April 22-28

The meeting will be preceded by a work session starting at 7:15 p.m. on wastewater treatment plan options.

2. Unpaid parking tickets?

If you've got any parking tickets lying around that you haven't paid yet—and you might, given that last year—the town may be taking a more aggressive stance on uncollected tickets. It currently has a 97 percent collection rate, according to publicly available internal memos. The town board will consider at its meeting tonight whether to have Complus, the firm which manages the towns' parking ticket management, attempt to collect $114,000 from 1,200 unpaid parking tickets issued between 2006 and 2011.

Though the number of actual outstanding unpaid tickets is 7,617, over two thousand of them have court requests against them and can't be collected, and over 4,000 were written prior to 2006 and will be difficult to collect, by Complus' estimates.

Check back with Patch for important town updates.

3. April is National Poetry month

And what better way to celebrate than by going to Pub Night on Friday April 20? This "fun-raiser" for the Katonah Poetry Series is at Katonah Village Library! Live music, local brew, pub food, a British style pub quiz, darts and a few poems read by professional actors, for only $30 all included. Details here.

4. Poetry in Motion Wednesday

If you'd like to participate in poetry month sooner—or have your kids do so—plan to get your second-through-fifth graders to the Katonah Village Library at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Writing teacher and author Kim Kovach will lead a poetry writing and craft activity focusing on poems about spring, gardens, and nature.  

5. Egg Hunt Today!

We'll be at the John Jay Homestead to photograph the town's egg hunt. Stop me and say hello!