The Newburgh City Council will hold a special meeting Thursday, August 8 at 6 p.m., prior to the regularly-scheduled work session is to appoint a City Clerk and Deputy City Clerk.

According to the city manager’s office, City Clerk Lorene Vitek is retiring after 35 years of service. City clerk is one of the few administrative positions that is filled by the council, rather than the city manager. A request for comment from the retiring city clerk was declined by the city manager’s office.

The regularly-scheduled work session will begin immediately following the special meeting.

Monday’s regularly-scheduled City Council Meeting has been relocated to the Activity Center at 401 Washington Street and is scheduled for 7 p.m.

At the meeting on Monday night, August 12, a public hearing will be held to receive public comments concerning a proposed Local Law repealing and replacing Chapter 240 “Rental Properties”, Article III entitled “Prohibition of Eviction without Good Cause.” The motion to set the public hearing was unanimously approved by the city council at their regular meeting on July 22.

The Good Cause Eviction Law is a law that provides protections for residents from eviction without a good cause or reason from their landlord while also protecting the tenant from rent increases. A first version of the Good Cause Eviction law was approved by the city council at a meeting on October 25, 2021. On November 29, 2022, Orange County Supreme Court Justice Sandra Sciortino that version null and void.