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BEDFORD, N.YResolutions abound this time of year, with friends and family discretely trying to figure out ways to improve themselves in the coming year. For some, resolutions can be fickle and unimportant; for others, they include meaningful goals or addendum to their lives.
Lisbeth Boo Fumagalli has been the Bedford town clerk for the last decade, seemingly already possessing the ins and outs of keeping herself organized and the towns records in check. But even she needs the calendar flip to try and improve her clerical habits.
My resolution is that after every town board meeting, I need to go through the file then and there the next day, she explained, and file everything where it has to be filed instead of waiting for six months and then doing all the filing!
While she can survive without doing the filing until much later because of her impressive acquired knowledge, she notes that the resolution is as much for her staff as it is for her.
Across the hall in the Bedford Town House sits Harold Girdlestone, who is entering his first year as the towns assessor. As any good assessor should, Girdlestone has very specific goals in mind that he can attribute to his resolution.
I have 80 appraisals to do, and my goal is to get all of them done by mid-January, he said. Being new to the town, the quicker I can get things in line, the better it is.
Van Koselka, the director of the Katonah Village Library, took the path of a broad but meaningful vow that will try and improve her and her customers times at the library.
My resolution is to help make the Katonah Village Library a more excellent place to visit for programs, meetings, and materials, she said.
Then, of course, there is the standard promise to not give yourself any added stress. My resolution is to not make a New Years resolution, says Marcy Marciano, the secretary to Bedford Supervisor Lee V.A Roberts.
But Girdlestone summarized best what resolutions represent not just to the individual, but those around them. More importantly, New Years resolutions are about making sure that the next year is great for everyone. Personally, of course, Im trying to be a little bit better than I was last year in whatever I do.
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