Editorial Note: Video recap is posted below. Scroll down after you read.

Quick meeting recap of tonight’s City Council meeting, which included the - once again - un-publicized appointments of 2 new board members to the Board of Assessment Review to an already full board.

This would have meant that 2 board members were no longer on the board for some reason. David Ross, who was appointed on October 9, 2025 but was found in the Epstein Files after the January 30th 2026 dump by ARTNews and later Hyperallergic , was one of the appointees. After his multiple emails were revealed, which included travel, David resigned from his position as chair of the MFA Art Practice Program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA). The school made a statement of this.

The City of Beacon did not make a statement about his resignation from the Board of Assessment Review. Not last week when it was hinted by a citizen during Public Comment that there was a possibility of a vacancy, and not this evening when 2 new appointees were presented and voted upon.

Not hearing who resigned, ALBB called in to the second round of Public Comment to ask who was no longer on the board. City Attorney Nick Ward-Willis quickly took over to answer, stating that David Ross did resign. The Mayor shifted in his seat a few times and added no additional words. City Administrator Chris White said the the second person who was no longer on the board due to their death was Robert Palisi, who served on the board for 10 years and passed away this February.

Had the question not been asked during the second opportunity for Public Comment, the resignation of David Ross presumably because of his correspondence in the Epstein Files, would so far, have gone unspoken on public record.

Tonight’s City Council Meeting has ended. It was in the new format that combined the regular City Council Meeting with Public Comment, with the Workshop which is discussion about topics or proposed legislation. This report covers a few Gold Nugget items that transpired during the meeting.

During Public Comment, one citizen speculated on the replacement of David Ross on the Board Of Assessment Review, after the discovery of his years long email and friendship with disgraced pedophile and sex trafficer Jeffrey Epstein from the Epstein Files, and his subsequent resignation from his position as chair of the MFA art practice program at New York’s School of Visual Arts (SVA), as reported by ARTNews after they broke the story.

Another citizen made a Public Comment demanding safety measures such as street lighting be put into place after the attack of the woman on Tioronda Avenue in January. An attack which remains unsolved.