Village of Pittsford Board of Trustees Meeting — May 12, 2026

Every year the Village Board formally appoints the people who keep the Village running — from the engineer who reviews building projects to the attorneys who advise each board. This is the annual reset where all those roles are voted on for the coming fiscal year. The full list of proposed appointments and their compensation runs 28 pages in the meeting packet (pages 7-34). If you want to see how your Village government is structured and what everyone is paid, this is the agenda item to watch.

The Monroe Invitational is an amateur golf tournament that has been running since 1937 at Monroe Golf Club. The Board is being asked to approve hanging promotional banners in the Village for the week of the event. This is a routine request — the banners go up a few days before the tournament and come down when it ends.

The Village needs a law firm to advise the Planning and Zoning Board of Appeals — the board that reviews building applications, variances, and site plans. Underberg & Kessler has held this role since 2016. The Board is choosing between two billing models: a predictable flat fee ($21,600/year covers routine work, with overages at $300/hour), or a retainer-plus-hourly model ($1,800/month retainer against a lower $200/hour rate, with unused funds rolling forward). The choice comes down to whether the Village expects a heavier or lighter year of zoning activity.

The Village is looking at reviving or restructuring its Active Transportation Committee — the group responsible for the Village's plan to support walking, biking, and other non-car ways of getting around. The last Active Transportation Plan dates to 2019/2020. This agenda item is a discussion about who should be on the committee and what its goals should be going forward for walking, biking in the Village.

The Village maintains detailed maps of its infrastructure — every storm drain, streetlight, street tree, and zoning boundary. This is a routine housekeeping item to approve minor corrections and text updates to keep those maps accurate. The maps themselves are on pages 47-51 of the meeting packet if you want to check whether anything near your property has been updated.

The Village issued 8 building permits last month covering over $224,000 in improvements — a healthy sign of investment in the community. On the roads, Schoen Place is getting resurfaced and Elmbrook has some new issues that DPW is working through. If you walk or bike on South Street, you may have noticed new crosswalk signs. The new solar-powered LED stop signs at South and Maple are already slowing traffic. And if you've been waiting for that streetlight at State and Schoen Place — it's finally on.