Since the board approved a local law giving the village the authority to establish paid parking last week, there has been some uncertainty about the next step and whether the police committee or the trustees themselves would craft the plan for implementation.

``We have to work that out. My feeling is it would be the trustees,’’ Mayor Carol Waller said Tuesday.

Waller, who was not in favor of starting with on-street paid parking, added that any proposal would have to go to the planning board and possibly the zoning board of appeals.

``I think the trustees will come up with a proposal and go the planning board,’’ she said, adding that any proposal must be endorsed by the board.

She said she didn’t see anything happening until the trustees meet again. The board will meet twice in December _ once on Dec. 12 when the Notre Dame students make their final presentation to the community, and on Dec. 17 for its regular monthly meeting.

But Kuhn said he plans to address implementation of paid parking during the next police committee meeting Dec. 11.

``That’s my plan right now,’’ he said.

Kuhn said he doesn’t think it would be a good idea for the full board to tackle the issue, and that if not the police committee, he thinks the finance committee would be the next logical choice. Kuhn also chairs the village finance committee.

``The police committee is in charge right now,’’ he said.

The local law and its accompanying resolution adopted last Monday night came out of the police committee. All three trustee members of the committee _ Kuhn, Lynne Mebust and Grace Kull _ voted in favor of the paid parking proposal. They were joined by Jeff Katz.

Kuhn said he was going into the meeting with an open mind as to how they will roll out paid parking.

``We’ll certainly try to get back to a position of more unity on the board,’’ he said, adding that he was just one member of the police committee.

The law and resolution authorize paid parking in the Doubleday Field lot and on-street parking on Main and Pioneer streets, but do not name any particular dates for implementation,’’ he said.

``I think we would have some flexibility in rolling this out,’’ Kuhn said.

Mebust said the board has not discussed how it will proceed, but she assumes it will be on the police committee’s agenda.

All the trustees need to be at that discussion, whether it is in the police committee meeting or a full board meeting, she said.

Mebust also pointed out that the law does not commit the village to any specific timeframe or manner of implementing paid parking.

One option may be to begin with Doubleday Field and phase in on-street paid parking in coming years, she said.

The board has done a lot of preliminary research, but there are many things left to consider before establishing on street paid parking. Mebust said this may be a good time to develop an overall plan for Main Street.

Katz, too, assumes the police committee will be the venue for the next discussion about paid parking.

``It’s my intent to be there,’’ he said.

He said one of the things lost in all the discussion of the law was that it allows for flexibility in how the board proceeds with implementation.

``I would be open to having Doubleday Field go first,’’ he said. ``This can be moved forward at a pace of our choosing.’’