The policy will provide for one-year permits to display merchandise on private property sidewalk areas between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Business people will have to provide the village with proof of private property ownership. Displays will also have to conform to standards which will be set in the permit application.

Trustees Jeff Katz and Milo Stewart had wanted the permits to extend from Memorial Day to Labor Day only, but were out numbered.

Paul Kuhn, who initiated the push to tighten regulations on the outdoor displays, said that to limit it to the summer season would ignore those merchants who cater to local residents.

``It penalizes them,’’ he said.

Trustees had initially thought it should be applied throughout the village, but later agreed to scale it back to only the business district.

A public hearing on the new regulations will be held during the board’s next meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 8 p.m.

In other business, the board:

declared the village’s new outdoor wood-burning furnace surplus property and will put it up for sale.

The village had declared a moratorium on the installation of wood-burning furnaces and trustee Paul Kuhn said it appeared ``very unlikely we will come out of the moratorium with a green light on the wood furnace.’’

learned that revenue for the trolley system was down eight percent.

Ridership was down by 25 percent from 2005 and continues the downward trend since it peaked in 1993. Charter service revenue was also down by 28 percent from a high of $46,000 in 2005.

learned the next phase of the sewer line replacement project is proposed for 2008. The project will encompass all of Delaware Street, Beaver St. from Chestnut St. to Delaware St., Walnut St. from Delaware St. to Chestnut St., Chesnut St. from Walnut St. to the village line and Linden Ave from Walnut St. to the village line. The board approved having Lamont Engineering do a cost estimate for the proposal.

heard a report from the tree committee that stated 59 village trees will be cut during the next two months.

An additional 38 ``questionable’’ trees will be monitored in the 2007 inventory.

approved the designation of three loading zones _ one on Main Street and two on Pioneer St., north of the flagpole. Rod and Robin Torrence, owners of Stagecoach Coffee, had voiced their concerns about the loading zones which will be located across from each other.

The plan, they said in a letter, would create a one lane logjam, but police chief Diana Nicols said she didn’t believe it would change what is already there.

received a report from the Doubleday Field committee indicating its plan to review fees for playing on the field. Trustees Katz and Kuhn believe there are a number of for-profit indidivudal or organizations charging considerable fees to play tournaments on the field.

The two believe it may be in the best interest of the village to look into a tiered price schedule for field rentals.