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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Larry. Supervisor, you're only doing this meeting once every four years, is that correct? That is correct, as today is Leap Day. Happy Leap Day, everybody. So whatever we do today, we have to redo four years from now in 2028. Happy birthday to anybody who celebrates birthdays on Leap Day, and apparently about five million people worldwide do, and they're called Leaplings. This is stupid trivia. I looked up this morning just to say something up here smart. Anyway, we do have a couple of announcements before we get started. A really important announcement is tomorrow, March 1st, is a deadline for all tax exemptions in the town. That means all required exemption paperwork must be submitted and time-stamped tomorrow by 4.30 in the Assessor's Office, which is located on the first floor of the Riverhead Town Hall building at 4 West 2nd Street. So make sure if you are eligible and if you have any questions, call the Assessor's Office. They will help answer the questions for you, and they've been doing a great job handling all the exemptions that have been coming in. People have been lined up out here for the past couple weeks, and our staff does a fantastic job with them in the Assessor's Office. They sit down with them. They explain things to them, and just be patient is all I've got to say, because there is a lot of, a lot of movement coming in and out of that office right now. But get in by tomorrow by 4.30 to get your exemption. It's very important. And that's all. It's not just the star enhanced. It's all exemptions. So make sure you keep that in mind. One other mention, last night we had the Black History Month celebration at the Suffolk Theater that was put on by the Anti-Bias Task Force, and the Chairman, Mark M.K., did a fantastic job. It was a sold-out house at the theater. We had a forum up on the stage. Myself, Sheriff Tulin from the Sheriff's Department, and a representative from Ray Tierney's office in the County Attorney's Office was there, and we fielded questions and talked about thoughts and ideas of what we can do. It was well attended. It was well received. And Ken, I've got to send some of the credit to you, because this revamped anti-bias task force, has hit the ground running, and you spearheaded this last year for us. Last night's venture, in my mind, was the biggest venture they've had in my years here with the town. So it's a very active task force now, and it includes so many people of color, race, creed. It just, it's really awesome, and they're doing a great job. So I appreciate what you did with that. I commend you. You spoke from the heart. It was heartfelt. It was very powerful. And it was just an incredible evening of unity and diversity, and I just can't wait for the next event that they've got planned in the future. They're going to do Unity Food Unites. There's a lot of exciting things. They are working so hard, and I'm so proud of them, and we're blessed to have all of them be leaders within our community, stepping up for events just like this. And you spoke so eloquently. The Sheriff Tulin was incredible, and the District Attorney's Office made it was great. So, wonderfully. It was. Our board members were there. It was just a wonderful night, I have to say. It was very impressive. It's moments like those that make you proud to be a resident of the town of Rivet, because we are such a diverse community, and to see people come together and be able and willing to work together and make improvements is just, it's a great thing. And I haven't clapped as much since the Toby Keith concert. Clapping all night really was a great event. Yeah, it was good. It was great to be there. Yes, it was. And support Mark and friends in the community. Very nice to be there. Absolutely was. Great evening. We'll have to do that again for sure. Yes. Okay, moving on to our discussion items. Are we ready with the copies that needed to be made, or do we? We're still working on them, but you have a set there. You can kind of share with us. You want to do that, or you want to go to the second item on the? That's your call. All right, let's go to the board and committee. We'll wait for the printouts. So, let's go to matters surrounding an update on the boards and committees. One thing I requested is that our board members, we, they, we have a meeting. We have a meeting. We have a meeting. We have a meeting. We have a meeting. We have a meeting. We have a meeting. We all meet with so many different advisory committees and such that we wanted updates so the public knows what's going on with all these committees. And sometimes it's going to be nothing. Sometimes they had a meeting, or sometimes maybe a meeting gets canceled so there's nothing to report. But if there's anything going on, we're going to take this opportunity to hear from the board members involved with the committees. And Deniso, start down at your end. Deniso Deniso Thanks. I've met with the parking committee twice, and there are issues that I'm concerned with regard to the parking lot in the back by the Beconic River behind Main Street. There's issues of whether or not we're going to fully repave or just fill potholes for this upcoming year because we do plan a lot happening downtown the next coming year. So we're discussing that with Dawn Thomas. Also, there's an issue with regard to drainage, with regard to, again, where the main area of the town square is. And it has to do with the science center, and they're trying to determine, Drew Dillingham and everyone is trying to determine what's the best course. Again, because in about a year from now, a great deal is going to change there. So we want to make sure we don't spend a lot of taxpayers' money on issues right now immediately that will only have to be changed again in the next year. I've met, have not met with the senior citizens group yet. I've met with them this March since they meet bimonthly. And I've also met with the agricultural, I've had two meetings with PARC. I've had meetings with the architectural review board twice now. They're doing a great job with regard to making sure different signs and facades on buildings look appropriate in the town. I've met with also the environmental advisory committee. We've got some exciting things happening there. We met. I met yesterday with Lynn Arthur from Southampton. She made a wonderful presentation with regard to renewable energy, with regard to our solar farms and batteries, and how the interconnection there can really possibly have a great deal of savings to our residents with regard to that. It looked very encouraging, and it's a state program. So I'm very excited about that. I know we're setting up a meeting with you to go over that supervisor. Absolutely. Very exciting. I'm trying to think of all the other ones. I'm going to youth court and giving closing remarks at their ceremony on March 6th. I know you'll be attending as well. And off the top of my head, I'm trying to remember some of my other groups right now. Oh, and as far as the outreach program with Dress for Success, we're in the process of setting that up with Sherry Christmas in the basement with regard to the clothing, the women's suits and such. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I think that's about it. I apologize if I didn't bring my list right in front of me to recall all my groups right now. Good stuff. Okay. Good stuff. Great work. Thank you. Okay. A couple things to talk about. The Veterans Advisory Committee, they have been doing amazing work all along. We have our Hometown Hero Banner, which continues to evolve each year. We basically had filled up all of the poles in downtown Riverhead on Main Street, so we've lined Main Street with all the Hometown Hero Banners. So last year we moved into Jamesport Community, so it would just give us more opportunities, more places to hang banners. It's our intention this year to seek permission to continue it and add Wading River to put around the duck ponds, so Wading River Residents Committee. And also because it's becoming more popular, we already have some applications in for banners, so we want to make sure we have places to hang them all. We want to move them into Polish Town, so perhaps along Pulaski Street inside Polish Town, and also the consideration of what. we can do along Heiding Bear Way. Just because we've gotten so many veterans, it's becoming so popular. People love seeing them up there. The response is incredible. And so we need to expand. We need more light poles to hang them up on, which is a wonderful thing. But we do try to rotate them, so if somebody is on Main Street this year, they might be on the outer skirts next year. But we'll also have people that have been on Main Street one or two years and now requesting going over to Jamesport. So we're doing the best we can to accommodate everybody, but it's really hard to keep track of where they are. Well, it's nice. It's nice to go down and look at all of them when you're looking for your loved one or your family member who might be up there, and if you don't know where it is, it makes you view all of them, which is not a bad thing. I love that program. And then walking the streets. So many compliments on having that when people drive through town and say, what a great idea. So we like to add Wading River and perhaps Heiding Bear Way and Polish Town into the mix this year. And so we're going to seek proper permission to do that. We are now in the events planning for our Memorial Day parade. It seems early. It seems like we're still in winter. But we need to begin the planning process. So we're getting our permits and we'll talk to the police department as well to do our Memorial Day parade, which is always a great event. And that also during that parade, we get to walk down Main Street and get to see some of those banners. And that's why we do try to change them up each year. So if you're not in view this year during the parade, perhaps next year we can switch them around. So they're doing great things. They are always looking for help. So we have a small committee and we're open for volunteers. So you don't have to be a veteran, but if you care about the veterans in our community and you want to come forward, please join the Veterans Advisory Committee because they're doing great work. And then we're also thinking long term where we're discussing the potential. We'd like to install a monument in town and whether it be at Veterans Memorial Park or perhaps someplace in the Newtown Square. But we want to do a formal monument to honor our veterans within our community. Awesome. And the last thing I'll leave with the Veterans Advisory Committee is that we have the Wall of Honor, which is in Riverhead High School. So if you are a graduate of Riverhead High School, if you attended Riverhead High School and you are a veteran, the Garfield Langhorne Memorial is right outside the auditorium in Riverhead High School. And you can get a nice, beautiful plaque right on the Wall of Honor there. It looks great. Each year we gather. We were just there for another Black History event at the high school last month. And the wall is slowly growing, but we know there's a lot more veterans out there. So if you've graduated Riverhead High School, you can go to the ROTC program in Riverhead High School and just they'll have an application for you to fill out. Give them your honorable discharge and they will put a plaque on the wall with your name on it. So we're still finding every way to honor our veterans within our community. Perfect. Then we'll talk about Recreation Advisory Committee. So where they've been working diligently, they've created a list of priority projects for the town. So as the park and recreation fees will begin to come in on any new development within the town, you know, I think their priority on their list is they want to work on Two Bears Park. The building of grounds has done a great job towards removing some shrubs and cleaning things up over the winter, but also they want to forge ahead on getting a new parking lot outside of our ice rink. And there's just a number of different projects. So they're creating like a priority list of how to spend those park and rec fees that come in from new development. So that's exciting. And we do need to overall we had discussions this last week. We do need as a board to kind of sit down and begin to plan for additional funding within our recreation department for all of the smaller parks. Just, you know, our picnic tables are swing sets. We, this board has done an awesome job, I feel, over the last two years towards playing catch up with our contracts, towards getting our employees, you know, more up to date and have a better cost of living to work in the town of Riverhead so we don't lose people. And we've had multiple discussions, but now I think maybe after we're finding a place that Riverhead is a great place to work and it's a great environment to work in. And now I would ask the board to consider it a little bit more in terms of the next year going forward to work on our parks and to determine more money to upgrade all of our parks. So we have Police Officers Memorial Park, which desperately needs a parking lot and things like that. And the park and rec fees help, but they come in slowly over time. And so we don't want to get too far behind the eight ball towards getting those things done. So I think we'd like to have discussions during the budget season about what items we can do and work with that priority list as well. And make sure that Ray Coyne. Has more funding available to him to do these projects as we go forward. That's always a topic of conversation is how do we get things more done? We are expanding on building ground staff, so I commend you for doing that. I know they just had interviews this week, so that's all great as well. So it's all moving forward. Good. Excellent. Thank you very much. Fire districts want to keep going? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Fire districts are doing great. We had a work session and if anybody did not hear about the follow up, so we did have a work session with our back participate as well as our fire. District waiting River was president Manneville was president. We address some of the concerns up at Veterans Memorial Park and the new water park as well. Scott's point. Uh, the immediately the following day, our back put a contract together with reading River Fire Department. So both, um, both fire departments in ambulance services, I should say, um, we were unique. They have their own ambulance in house and then you have our back. And so they put an intermissible agreement right away. They're both be responding to any high priority calls that take place. In either. So if there's a choking victim, heart attack, anything, a fall injury, they're both going to respond and basically first one on scene will begin to control the scene and then whenever is necessary to, you know, to relieve if possible. But for any of the high priority, we're gonna have double the response and we're gonna make sure that we get people there and to address that ASAP. And so that's what they're working on and they have had great talks together and it's come together. No, everybody's conscientious about changing fire boundaries lines, but the interpoll munition agreement really allows us to do that. So we're going to be doing that. We're going to be doing that. Really? Really? feel like there's a territorial gain or loss involved right so that that's worked out really well in addition our back we we allocated money out of their budget we're going to begin drawing up plans for a new facility over at the ambulance facility so that's one of our resolutions you're gonna talk about today so that's that's awesome so they're looking forward to doing that and they want to make sure that the town and the members of the board and supervisor that everybody's actively involved so we're gonna start a very preliminary designs that are just going all out we'll get continue we'll have a nice dialogue back and forth to make sure that they get their facility they need responding over to 5,000 calls a year it's just unimaginable numbers and they their ambulances are outside and so you know we'll talk more about it when you get it but that that's that's that's gonna be on the same property where they're located now that's that was their choice they wanted to stay there they think it's good and centrally located so we're willing to work with them for sure to make that the facility they can use and that they need and and they're grateful and it's it's it's all been positive so we're moving forward on something that you started and you've got going that whole rolling and we're gonna get this building built in time absolutely helicopter task force is generally quiet this time of year it generally picks up obviously when the spring when we get our summertime visitors out here we had great communications last year with Senator Schumer and redirecting the helicopter traffic so now we're kind of in that monitoring mode just to see where it goes and how it affects us over time so we'll keep an eye on that I do also want to say that we're going to be working with the city of San Francisco and the mayor of San Francisco to determine if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the management of the highway in the future if there are changes in the know he's working with MTA and the railroad to get out there and take care of those. There'll be a little traffic tie-ups and road closures, but it's all the way west. Good. That's about it. Supervisor Hubbard, I left out one group. Go right ahead. I mentioned one other committee, the CAP committee, that I've met with. They're wonderful people. And I just wanted to make sure everyone is aware that their meet and greet is going to be on April 30th. There'll be more details about that, but I want to make sure the public's aware of that. That's going to be from 3 to 5 p.m. And that's usually over at the fire department? Yes, it is. Yes. In the upper level of the fire department. But there we go. Tom? I'm still trying to figure out since I have a lot of committees. So East End Arts, we've managed to get some improvements over there thanks to B&G. They now have a good, secure ramp for the handicapped and working with them to hang art throughout Town Hall. Also working with them and B&G. And East End Arts, to me, has never been as good as it's been now. I mean, they are attracting artists from that are showing in museums around the country. So let's see. Quality of life. They've been reaching out to like Mooringshaven and with the county, especially with the and the group. So for the groups that are funding some of, I don't want to, some of the programs that are happening in Riverhead, whether it be homeless, they're dealing with that now with the state and the county. So I'll give you a further update. That's taking a little bit of time, but they're doing a really good job. The bid, unfortunately, I had to leave the meeting because we had that Wednesday night meeting, which was crazy, right? Same time, yeah. Yeah. you've got the news today yes is extremely unfortunate that it looks like Kristi birdie is going to be leaving the bid right which is shame yeah that's that's a huge hit and that's something we have to jump on immediately yeah and see what we can do to get things going I think we have a couple ideas in the works maybe but that's something we can't afford to lose them because Steve Shorga is also leaving the bid big big talk about hit that's like you know getting punch you're on the ground and somebody kicks you you know that's for the bid so and I've already started with you know conversations good about it okay okay early this morning yep me too good anti-bias and I'm gonna yeah I think Ken that was great when you change that board and you had total support by the town board me too me too me too me too you know I mean you brought it up and and you know and it was done and as a result of that things like what happened last night unfortunately I got tied up with I don't want you know it was town business but I didn't get done till 730 and I was like you know I just didn't come down but I did sit and have a hour plus long conversation over whatever the weekend there was a holiday a couple weeks ago with Mark and the food unite has has turned into a food crawl the people on that committee now are serious they're they're it's a whole different ballgame and you know very happy to be sharing that committee business advisory has been they did not meet because town hall was closed and then you know we were having a lot of discussions and then so they'll reschedule the AG committee is there they've been working on the comp plan the agricultural part of the comp plan in fact we have a meeting today with with Noah Levine from BFJ I think it's at 2 30 and they're in complete support of the agritourism they they really like that and I think there's going to be a meeting with that just to finalize some things and I'm trying to think what other committee oh so I may as well as the department head liaison just report that open gov it looks like code very shortly we're hoping for March 1st we'll go live with open gov which means that people can now you know we're going to be able to get to the next meeting and we're going to be able to get to the next meeting and we're going to be able to get to the next meeting and we're going to be able to get to the next the people that have rental applications will go online so no longer be somebody fills it out in paper we have to then put it into the computer it's going to go live you're going to be able to pay with credit card or right through your checking account which is you know that's been ongoing welcome to 2024 right did you imagine we're catching up a little bit at a time but we're catching up we really are and you know it's been it's been many months and you've got so many different proprietary programs running throughout this town so and I want to thank Jason Blizzard for his work in the IT department for their work because it's been it's been great I want to thank you for your work on it because I know you've been doing this ever since you've come on your push has been to get as much online as possible and they've come a long way in a short time and you know we got new AVGOT everything is going really really great in that respect so I honestly I don't even know how many more could we do I think I have 11 of them but I'll let Joanne go and figure out what else I got Joanne okay so I am the liaison for 11 committees I'll start with the alternative transportation committee which focuses on other means of ways to get around town primarily bicycle I had met with Steve Cole who is the lead of that committee and we discussed various bike paths around town one of our main focuses was the bike path up at EPCAL the committee feels that it needs a bit more grooming some of the the grass has grown into the path they're concerned that the path over behind where the the fighter jet that's our on 25 that that area it should be 10 feet wide it's down to maybe 3 feet they'd like to have additional asphalt brought in but mr. Cole said that that cost a million dollars a mile so I don't know we might be trying to look into seeing if there was a grant available or something you know it was our first meeting so it was just just the two of us we didn't have the full meeting there which he said was a little bit more complicated than we had said was you know not typical usually they they mostly show up so we'll see what happens the next time that we all meet together anti litter there is going to be a spring cleanup on Sunday April 28th at 9 a.m. everybody is going to meet here and they're going to be given t-shirts and garbage bags and sent out to various areas within within the city of EPCAL and we'll see what happens next. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And this group tries very hard to maintain that. And we're going to try to get help from the Boy Scouts and the ROTC. And they're also talking about maybe getting into and adopt a highway program. They are on schedule for the next work session to come in. They were unable to come today. Their chair is sick, but they'd like to come in and address the board. And just wanted to have everybody mark your calendars. Sunday, April 28th, be part of the solution, not the pollution. Come on out and help. I met with the beach committee for the first time yesterday. My favorite committee that I used to be on, by the way. Really? Great group of people. They really are. They really care about the beaches. They love the beaches. Yep, they do. And actually, I was telling them about the anti-litter and maybe getting them involved also, where they'll have their own and they'll have their team go and take care of the beaches on the same day. But we have to get them together. But we had discussed trucks being on the beach without permits. There's a suggestion that possibly they would like to, maybe it's a long shot, but I'm going to repeat it, have some kind of gate, for instance, at Reeves Park to go down. Other towns have it where there's a sensor on it. And it knows whether or not there's a beach permit for a four-wheel drive vehicle so that these trucks that are going down there without permits and they're leaving garbage behind. And there's a big concern for that. And they'd also like to speak with Drew Dillingham about the infrastructure of the bulkhead down at Reeves Park. They showed me pictures last night off to the west side, not where they were just doing the. The cleanup there from the storm. But it needs some kind of backfill. So I'm going to reach out to Drew and just see if he can look at that. And there's also concern that there are no shades on the beach playgrounds. So I guess if there's sails that possibly can be purchased that would go over the playground to have some shade for the little ones that they don't get sunburned. So that's that for the beach. Board of Assessment Review. Tuesday, March 21st is tax grievance day. On this day the board will hear complaints, take testimony and hear proof in regard to any complaint on your property's assessment. Conservation Advisory Board. We have a really light agenda. We don't have too much to report on that. Downtown Revitalization Committee. This group kind of dissipated a little bit. But they'd like to come back and really move forward. And they're very eager to work strongly and productively together. East Creek Advisory Board. They meet as needed. They, we have not met yet. Farmland Preservation Committee. We met with them and there's nothing really to report back. But my goodness, these people really love our farmland. And it's really nice. They do everything possible to try to preserve whatever they can. And it was a pleasure listening to them. Landmark Preservation Committee. The great news is that in January we had thought that the, what is it, the LIPA building on West Main Street was going to be demolished. I believe, did you write a letter requesting? We contacted LIPA directly. Okay. So that helped. And right now we have been spared the demolition, which would have been taking place in the month of February. So there are people out there that have been in contact with the Landmark Preservation that are looking to try to help and save this landmark. So, and it's always a delight to sit down with Mr. Wines and listen to his stories of, you know, hundreds and hundreds of years of history for Riverhead. So that's great. Open Space Committee. So they're very concerned with their funding because they used to receive money from the CPF tax that was collected. And that's not coming to them any longer. So there's a barn structure on the Sound Avenue. Oh, yes. The Sound Avenue Preserve that is in need of demolition. So they're trying to figure out, and I've spoken with Drew Dillingham about where the money can come from to help move that project along. But they're trying to find ways to be able to bring some money in because they're not able to do anything. And their resources are very limited. So then I have Wildlife Management Advisory Committee. I have nothing to report on that. We have not met. And as a liaison for the Assessor's Office, I just want to reiterate what the supervisor said about all exemptions must be submitted tomorrow, March 1st, by 430, no exceptions. So that is all that I have to report. Awesome. Thank you, Jo. Bob, I just want to make a quick correction. You said that CODE is looking to go live with OpenGov on March 1st. No, it's not. I think it's going to be April 1st. Oh, I'm sorry. It's going to go to April 1st, right. They weren't quite set up yet to hit March 1st. That was the initial date. Yeah, well, it was January 1st, then it went to February. Right. Yeah, so April 1st, yeah. I just want to veer off course for a second. Justin, is it possible for you to come down here a second? Can you leave what you're doing there and just walk up here real quickly?

Justin, I'm putting you on the spot here, but I just want to introduce you to our public and to everybody on Channel 22. This is Justin Fisher, who's our new AV guy that we were lucky enough to be able to hire here. And some of the new banners and things that are on Channel 22 is the creativity of the AV guy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. some more to come. We're giving you some artistic freedom to do what you do best. And I want to thank you. You're doing a fantastic job. And I just thought that the people that watch all this and see these things needed to meet and see the person behind it. Behind the glass screen back there. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you so much for coming up and we appreciate everything you do. Thank you. It's like the great Oz back there. I know of mine and then I've heard. I love what the screen looks like now. I love the screen too. It's great. It's good stuff. Supervisor, may I please add something? Sure. So for the farmland preservation I should have mentioned that the committee has discussed the potential for a preservation of 3.36 acres in Aquabog to purchase. It's agricultural use and let's see the owner of the 33.6 acre parcel preserved sale of development rights by the county of Suffolk immediately south of the subject parcel and 30.2 acre parcel preserved that would be the sale of development rights by the county of Suffolk. This would be over by Palmanock Vineyard. So this is a really good step in the right direction. It's kind of tied. Really hanging in three parcel together that would have the development rights sold on it. So it's a huge thing for for for for Aquamban James Port the corridor over there. So I'm sorry that I forgot that. Any square 40s that we can preserve. Absolutely. That steps a fistpoint. As liaises on to the idea. Really. I just want to say they did a really good job in their last meeting. The head of the school board was here who was unsure of how many people came from outside of the Riverhead town borders populating our school. One, two, did not have a final number on how many people are in the school district. In addition, he had some criticism of the IDA. What the IDA then gave to, presented to him was the fact that if none of the IDA projects were done in the town, those parcels which were blight for however many decades were paying in taxes a little over $400,000 a year. As a result now, those same properties are paying 1.4 something million dollars a year As a result now, those same properties are paying 1.4 something million dollars a year and that will grow year after year. And I thought that was really important because of all the bad press the IDA gets and people's lack of understanding of its purpose. So I just wanted to bring that up. I'm glad you did bring it up because one thing I want to do is schedule for a future work session in the very near future is to have the IDA come in and give us a presentation. It was done several years back when Laura Jens was the supervisor and they came in, there was a lot of misnomers about the IDA out in the public and I think to have them come in and explain again, I know they had a whole presentation they did and I know they had it videotaped and you can watch that but it's several years later now. Let's see what they've changed, what they've done, improvements that maybe need to be made. I know there's complaints from the public that they don't feel access, there's enough access to it that the website is not updated but I'm not talking just negative about the IDA. All the stuff they do is extremely important for the revitalization of Riverhead and it's important to realize that. I need them, we'll have them come in and do a whole presentation again for us and plus we have two new board members so it would be good and the public was always wanting to know more about the IDA and needs to know more about the IDA. I think they would welcome that in a heartbeat. So thank you. Okay, alright. I think we're going to move on to the original message. Matter number one, and this is matter surrounding an update of site plan application of 901-923 Thurman Boulevard, and I will ask Greg Bergman to come on up. I will also invite the applicant's attorney, Allison Stefani, up. Absolutely, Allison. Always great to see you. You as well. Hi, Aaron. Good morning. Good morning. All right. Thank you. So I'll just give the board a quick update because there are two new board members who were not on the board when we initially presented this application back in October. Thank you. So this is a site plan application seeking approval to construct an 84,000-square-foot warehouse on the site of 901-923 Thurman Boulevard. To the board's knowledge, this is the first site. It's got the Riley Architectural Building, the hangar, the air control tower on it. It's the first site when you pull into the Thurman subdivision. Where we last left off in October, we coerced. We coordinated seeker review. Lead agency coordination packets were sent out to all the involved agencies. We received comments back from Suffolk County Planning Commission. They considered the matter to be one for local determination. There was a little back and forth I had with the New York State Office of Historic Preservation. The existing hangar building, while it's not listed as a contributing structure, it is eligible. So they just had some concerns about the location of the building. I think there was some misconception on their part. They thought it was going to be attached. I clarified that when SHIPO sent them all the information. So we did get a letter of no effect on the site. A couple of the changes that have been made since we last came before the board. So the warehouse building will be located to the northwest of the existing warehouse building. Where we last left off, the board's familiar. As you're coming down Thurman Boulevard, the access to the site, there's currently like five or six curb cuts. Right. On the west side of Thurman Boulevard with some landscaped islands in between. I thought this was a perfect opportunity to have them formalize some access points along Thurman Boulevard, which they have done. So there's a couple of, Justin, if we could just zoom out a little bit. So here we've got as we're coming south along Thurman Boulevard, they're now going to formalize curb cuts, provide curbing. Nice native street trees, plantings all along Thurman Boulevard. As well as down to the west side of Thurman Boulevard. Down the access driveway on the internal site. So this is in front of the existing building. This is the proposed landscaping on the northern portion of the site in front of the newly proposed warehouse. Again, native street trees all along the frontage about 30 foot on center. So they'll grow out and branch very nicely into the street. This will really make a nice statement when you're driving into the subdivision. They did provide a bunch of additional foundation based plants. They did provide some additional plantings along the foundation of the newly proposed warehouse. Low shrubs around here and some additional trees. Those were done at the request of the ARB. The applicant is working with the Riverhead Water District on the map and plan. This does require the relocation of a water main. There is an easement on the property that allows for the relocation of that water main. So they're just trying to finalize that and work out the exact engineering of the relocation. Greg, for the public, this is in the PIP. This is the industrial core that, not the land that we're trying to sell. This is the industrial core of Fcow, just for the public. You read my mind. I was going to address that. So this is the planned industrial park. It was part of the Berman subdivision. This location is not subject to the Calvert and Industrial Moratorium. That's applicable to industrial A, B, and C. This is PIP. This is specifically exempt. This was identified as out parcel. This is number one on that Berman subdivision map. So as the board recalls, we had a little bit of an exercise with the planning board. I went back and looked at the original application when that Berman subdivision was completed. And although this property was studied under the comprehensive development plan, it's explicitly called out as not being part of that application. This property was not listed on any of the application documents. So we did remove, the planning board did remove this from that Berman subdivision chart, which effectively restricted it to one. So this allows it to be developed under the PIP zoning district. So I did prepare the environmental assessment forms, part two and three, on recommending the board assume a lead agency and issue a negative declaration as there's no significant negative environmental impact. We do have a resolution, which I did communicate with the board. They're okay with scheduling a public hearing on it. So that will get noticed in the paper. They'll post the property and the public hearing, I believe, will be March 9th. So I'm just going to commend, Commander Gregg and Allison, for your client to agree in terms of all the landscaping in the area. There's a lot of dilapidated area in the industrial core and it's quite sad because it was once a vibrant, you know, Grumman operated facility. And just as you drive through it, it becomes a little more depressing each year. So I think this is a project that will lead by example. So I think, you know, once this, you know, we restore the landscaping and the beauty, and I think that future developments will continue to follow that. And I think we can uplift the overall appeal throughout the whole industrial. Yes, it's industrial. And I know, but it can still be, you know, have some beauty in there and some nice, the landscape side of things, the architecture, the shrubs, just the design work, whatever. It could be a very appealing industrial area. And so I think this is a step in the right direction. And I appreciate, obviously you guys have agreed to this and Gregg for putting it forth. And I think this is just, it's taking it up to level. And I hope that the future projects within there, they're private developments, but sitting before you and Gregg to do this, you know, we'll take the industrial core to a higher level. Thank you. And the client's excited to get this moving forward as well. Awesome. Very good. I mean, I fully agree. And, you know, when we came here initially, we consistently hear from the public, you know, put it in EPCAL, put it in EPCAL, you know, this, when the Burman subdivision was completed, that was the purpose to, you know, drive economic development, job creation, manufacturing, industrial development within the core. If the board's aware, the draft chapters for the comprehensive plan are up on the website. And the Burman subdivision is something that's mentioned in there. Right now, there are some strong restrictions within the Burman subdivision because of the nature of how that map was crafted and the total floor area and how it was studied. So the new comp plan does make some recommendations that perhaps it's time to revisit the project. So we're going to have to revisit that. Again, this is not necessarily pertinent to this information, but just for the conversation at large. You know, this is where we want the development and the infrastructure to support it. So moving forward, that is something we will take a look at. So just to wrap this up, we are ready for a public hearing. If there's any other questions that the board has, I'm... Moving forward, can we make sure that we have this standard for landscaping for future projects that come in? Yes. So we are... Does require string trees. It is written in the code and it's really just a matter of us, when we review the cycling applications, just looking at it with that eye to detail. Well, the new projects coming in go through this. So it's great that we can update that. Just some of the stuff has been up there operating for so many years that it hasn't been refreshed. And again, if you lead by example, maybe if your business is next to this new beautiful business, you say, hey, why do I look so shabby? Let me go out and... Straighten my stuff up. So... And it is also an issue of when someone comes in for the site plan application, that's when we have the opportunity to make them address that. It's weird. We can't just go out and tell people you need to put in additional landscaping. So as the sites come in for updating and redevelopment, we will absolutely keep a keen eye on this. What is our teeth as far as like... And I'm not suggesting this site's going to do this by any means, but there are site plans that have come in. They built it out. They did the plantings and everything, and then they just deteriorate over the years. Do we have any teeth as a town to be able to force them to go back and refresh what they've done because they've kind of let it go on away? Or going by the wayside, I should say? So when we have an approved site plan that's approved by either the town board or the planning board, that is a document that could be enforced. There are kind of like boilerplate restrictions, boilerplate conditions on the end of all site plan approvals. So I mean, if those trees get removed, if they die, code enforcement could issue violations that they're in violation of their approved site plan. The Berman subdivision is sort of unique because a lot of these sites don't necessarily have approved site plans because they were really existing buildings when it was Grumman. So they may not necessarily have an approved site plan that either the town board or the planning board looked at. But in general, when there's an approved site plan, like on 58 or anywhere else in town, if there's an approved landscaping plan, it's a good thing. If there's an approved landscaping plan and they've deviated or they've died or they've removed it, they could be issued violations. That's very interesting because I can think of a number off the top of my head that a number of locations that could maybe use a visit by code enforcement. So that might be something we have to look into for sure. Sure. I'd like to someday we'll have a work session in the future about expanding the recreational area for Veterans Memorial Park going up maybe to the runway before that. And I think that Berman Boulevard will be a more traveled road between the two sites. I think that would be a great place to have a work session. I think that would be a great place to have a work session between River Road and over Route 25 and to get the aesthetics going and uplifting in that area would be great. Absolutely. All right. Good. Is the board have any other questions? No. All right. Forward to the public. Good project. Good to see you. Yes. And Leo's going to be bridging over to Church 94. Right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

good morning i want to say thank you for having us we don't really get to engage you know the town board or you know have some exec session whether it be a work session whether it be public or exact to kind of talk about what we do and how we you know began to reinvent ourselves you know mid 2020. yeah yeah for many many years i've been on the committee for about 16 17 years now we had a very good run and it kind of fell apart a little bit changing um changing members and we stopped doing what we were supposed to do margaret mckay came in she did a wonderful job keeping it together uh and now uh terry and i took it back over i was a chairman many years ago and we wanted to just reinvent it start it over and we got off to a great start maybe like a new membership a little bit younger um more current employees you know more active ideas you know when you do something for so many years you're just kind of like the same old thing so that's kind of working really good um we had a cancer drive a cancer screening at the senior center last year toward the end of the year the turnout wasn't so great i think if we put it out there a little bit differently or had more time it would have turned out which was a great idea to have i'm currently working on a blood drive to have in this building um tentatively they can give us the date of may 2nd with the town board's approval to have it here inside. They prefer to have it inside than in their vans and trucks. And they would, if you agree to that date or thereabouts to have it, it doesn't mess with the Riverhead community who does theirs at the firehouse and in that 40 to 56 day period, it's nobody near us. It's like Hampton Bay School District or Moriches. So we kind of can squeeze it in there and potentially have a good turnout for it. And they want to just come and do an onsite inspection. It's just a normal procedure that they do. So if the town board agrees, I'll push that forward. The woman at the blood center, Doreen, is just lovely to deal with. Steve, can we have that in the basement? Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That would be a great space. Because there's bathrooms there and they can, that was one of the things, bathrooms and the amount of space, I think they bring like some kind of chair beds or something. Just to jump on top of it, just who doesn't know what LMC is, it's a committee derived of employees and management and we're both there to force the communication between the two, to make life better between the two, management and the employees. So I just wanted to throw that in there. And we've actually been quite successful. That is a point that we were going to discuss today, like with the amount of, you know, we had 40 to 50 more members at our holiday party this year. You know, these door contests are really driving, you know, this camaraderie and this, it is fun. You're looking at the winners here. Just don't want to put that out there. You know, the Christmas tree was just won by highway. They're having our pizza party tomorrow. You know, that's some of our fun sort of things like that. But it is, you know, a lot of fun. We're actively prepping for our first quarter 2024 employee of the quarter. Our fourth quarter was just announced, not publicly yet, but that person is going to be given their, you know, labor management proclamation tomorrow at 7 a.m. And then we'll drive home, you know, the rest of it and announce it and stuff. Did you say 7 a.m.? Yeah. Yeah, she's doing that one. You're here at 7 a.m. Some people work, you know, you can't really stop. So you could play which one of those departments. You're giving it away now. You just kind of gave it away. Yeah, kind of gave it away a little bit. And then our fourth quarter of 2023, which is Greg Berkman. He didn't really want, you know, he just had a baby. You know, he'd want to share it with his family. It's just not happening. So I think Debbie and Joanne are working on the proclamation. Maybe one day we could just go into the office and present it and he's not, you know, even though he sits here publicly, I don't think he likes that giant pat on the back. He's just a lovely person. So his family obligations are just tying up the whole coming to town board meeting. I touched on, so Danielle Hurley is working on a suggestion, concern, confidential link that we can push out to the emails of all our employees, white collar, blue collar. CSEA has access to 190 of our employees' email addresses. They're personal email addresses and we're going to push that out so they can confidentially say, hey, you know, maybe this would work or maybe that would work. And then I don't know, we have a meeting on Wednesday. We may be finalizing that and I guess put it to the board just for review prior to pushing it out. Traditionally it was the boxes. I'm not sure if people have been here. Boxes were put in. You guys are leaning. Oh. You're leaning a little more to the left. I thought I speak loud enough. We had boxes. I'm not sure you've been here. So boxes in everybody's office. But people were reluctant to put anything in the box. They're afraid of, you know, being caught or whatever. So we felt this is the best way to go. It's totally anonymous and nobody will know. So just to say one of the best members we had, some lady came in, Deb Burkowski. She's been wonderful on the board. Yes, she has. Fresh ideas, new, you know, like it's, you know, it's lovely to have that energy come into the room. We also brought back the safety committee. Yeah. The safety committee. That G. Malasi used to do. So we have the committee. Dion's heading that up. So we brought that back. I have to say the morale in this building, moving into this building was great for morale. Yeah. I agree. You see it on the people's faces. You see it on the employees' faces. They're just very happy to be here. It's one of the best things we could have done as a town to get into this building. Different vibe. It is a different vibe. It is. And other employees that aren't in this building, like Justice Gord or, you know, a lot of the blue collar, they take their time on their lunch or before work or after work and they come and look around and they're like, wow, this is, so they're engaging town hall, which is quite fantastic. And the public loves it. And the public loves it, yeah. As soon as we get the signage done out here, it's going to be, it's just an awesome building. Yeah, that's great. Great job. But, you know, as we were sitting in the back and listening to the committees, you know, dress for success, you know, that's something that labor management can get involved in. Or, you know, not all of our blue collar are, you know, internet people or watch the work session or pay attention or, you know, have, you know, knowledge of any of the committees that actually go out there and do outreach things. So that would be a great thing if you gave us the information, we could bring it to our labor management, we can push it out through the CSCA as well. Absolutely. That would be great. And then same thing with the veterans wall. You know, we have 190 employees that we could push that out to and say, hey, you may not be aware of this, or your father, your brother, your uncle, your mother, your aunt, something like that would be great. That's a whole other layer of people to get in touch with. And the CAP thing, that's great too. I mean, that's always fantastic. And, you know, they always have a bowling tournament and they haven't had it in some time. I think they're kind of reinventing themselves as well right now, but that's another thing that we can push out to our membership, you know, to have assistance with. And the, we have nothing on the helicopter, I'm sorry. And then like the social media piece, you know, that's a big deal. Yeah, we don't, we can't really help you with the helicopter, but putting it out there. But like the social media aspect, you know, Debbie and your office has really taken on that. And that's things that we can share through ours. We don't actually have a social media platform. I think it's something, you know, it would only be the members. So it's kind of interesting. We'll readdress that at our meeting next week and how that can, you know, interact. Because it reaches a whole other, you know, layer of people. And then, you know, the last thing that I had was that spring cleanup too is great. So that's something that we can push out as well. And maybe give an incentive to which department is going to show up with the most people that could get a pizza party. You know, the funds that we raise on our raffles and stuff, that goes toward those, you know, little treasures. You know, they're not much, but they are something. It offsets the cost of the holiday party for the CSEA members. It pays for our picnic and other things. You know, it offsets the cost. We have bowling tournaments, corn hole tournaments. It does pick up a little bit of the funds to, you know, so the beach cleanup, that could be a great, like, and people like that, you know, that challenge to each other. Great team. That's what I feel like the doors did. They challenged each other. That was great. It was great. We got great feedback on it. So our goal is to include the town board, meet with you quarterly to update you on what we've been doing and any feedback that you have. Because I think traditionally we haven't done that in years. And I think originally it was done. So we've been trying to get back to that. And so that's why we're here today. Good. Yeah. Well, glad you came in and glad you're here. And we should make this a quarterly thing or whatever. Anytime you need it, just reach out and we'll put you on for sure. Do you have any kind of literature that sometimes you put out on it, like a pamphlet or flyers? We do put out, you know, the contest flyers and things like that. We do the advance, which is our, it's basically quarterly, but it's kind of fell by the wayside because I actually do it. And with the move and everything, it's hard to like get it done. But, and we announce the employee of the quarters. You know, we announced Justin Barry with, you know, his success with, you know, saving a life in the fire department. And other things like that, like our employee of the quarter is, if you see something nice, say something. It doesn't have to be something nasty. And it doesn't have to be just a department head. You know, if you see somebody works exceptionally, then you should say something and put their name in for that. And that's the part of the employee of the quarter that lacks. It's the, it's somebody putting somebody in. We've kind of been doing much better because we push it out there. It's been getting a lot. You know, people will engage it, but it's like you have to. It's certainly not hard to pick somebody for that because we have so many amazing employees. The challenge is then picking that person. Narrowing it down, but then that's maybe what the next quarter was for. We had six people we had a nomination for. Yeah, we had six people. So that's great. And some of them were left over from the last quarter. And now they'll be left over from two quarters into the next quarter. So it's really kind of challenging to, you know, but that's the committee's, you know, they do the voting and they all read it and, you know, it's based on, you know, sometimes we talk about it. Yeah. And why we think somebody should have it. So it does do wonders. But in the advance, we'll do like, sometimes we would highlight an office and, you know, you would be responsible to give us a recipe. Mike Riegel used to give us golf tips. I'll shoot you an email for that. I like to remember the fun facts. Did you know that Sean Walters likes anchovies on his pizza? Did you know that Bob Kern ran for president? Did you know, like just a random fact. That wasn't Bob, that was Ross Perot, but he looks a lot like him. You and I say the same exact thing every time it comes up. But there are little quirky things. So every now and again, I'll send out 12 emails and say, tell me something random about yourself. Did you know Frank Mancini likes to surf? Just random silly things that, you know, to maybe know a little bit about, people that you don't normally get to talk to. You know, luckily for me, you know, in the information technologies, I see and touch and feel everybody. Justice Court doesn't know people from here or they don't know the people that work in water. So it's interesting how the dynamic and then to find out something. So it is the advances and I am prepping it. I'm just waiting for our first quarter of 2024 just to get our first one out for this year and include our last quarter and then the advances. It's a lovely little paper. I love it. It's fun. I would like to get a little display, like a brochure display or, you know, something that we could have out in the lobby that kind of shows the, you know, what we have going on throughout all of town. I know that some of the boards have. Like our own board, that would be great. Yeah. But we used to do the little plaques on the employee of the quarter and it is overwhelming to order that little plaque. It's maybe we can kind of revamp an idea of that. I had discussed with you about an employee of the quarter parking spot, you know, which would be fun, but then it's like what if it's water sewer highway? How do you? You can have a spot here at Town Hall. They can have a spot if it's water. Somebody will be fine. We'll make a spot at each location for that. That's easy to do. Just kind of ties into what we're trying to do with videotaping each department and showcasing our employees and what they do so the public has a better idea, but also giving credit where credit is due because so many work so hard to make this town what it is. And we need to let our taxpayers know who they are, who the people behind the scenes. I brought Justin down here earlier. Justin would never be seen on TV because he's always back there making us look good. So you got it. He's a great asset and in the short time he's here, you know, 22, just everything about it. It's completely new and it's lovely. You know, not that it, you know, wasn't lovely before, but it was just there, right? Now it's, you know, the artistic part is coming out. It's just, he's just a lovely person to work with. Can I just say one thing? You know, you want, you know, the employee of the corner. I really think that, you know, the reason why we got into this building so quickly was because of B&G and because of the work that Billy and his team did with electrical because we were told when we started this that we would not be in here until right around this time, literally now. And because of B&G, what those guys did and what Billy did with electric. And IT. And IT. That's how we got here. And Bob Kern. And I'm just going to tell you that for me, and remember, I didn't know almost all of them, but they, when, they amazed me and the stuff that they did and the amount of time they did it, we got in here really six months to seven months sooner than anybody expected. And it was due to these, to these groups of people. It's very seamless too. It looks seamless. Not one, you know, not one negative thing. Everything was positive. Everybody worked together. Hey, this would work better this way. Okay, then, you know, you know your thing. Do it. And, and they did. Maybe this can bring back, I mean, this is the days of, you know, leading up into Cardinale and his staff or his, you know, elected position. That was the last time I actually saw one. And they would do a supervisor's award like. And it was, you know, whatever it be, like a project that maybe the supervisor's award went to the building department. And, you know, they got lunch or some kind of reward or recognition for something. But that was always something that was, you know, everybody enjoyed. It wasn't, didn't happen a lot. It happened on occasion. That was a deserving. Right. And, you know, I think that's the reason why, you know, the town board is a word. You know, maybe the supervisor could do a quarterly, or the town board quarterly, you know, maybe you know more than we know about somebody. Or like you have a perfect example there. Your complete interaction with those departments that you were not privy to or aware of the hard work that they produce. Well, Teresa's a great example. Like I never, I never worked with Teresa. Teresa and I started at some point working almost on a daily basis. Teresa was amazing. And, like, I'm including her in that group. And I hope I'm not leaving anybody out. Teresa's our purchasing agent. Yeah, she's our purchasing agent. But, you know, getting the right movers was instrumental. Getting, if you look at, see what was taken out of the old building department and where it is now and how it got there. I'm just, you know, phenomenal. Sure. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this room was not part of, when the hospital happened. No, this was built. This was all white. Yeah, this went from here all the way to the end. And this was loaded probably with about 60 cubicles. All wired. I mean, it was. Oh, wow. I didn't even know that. This was a biggie. This was. So, buildings and grounds built this? No, this was built. They, no, this was. No, I mean, made this happen. Renovated. Renovated. Some of it, yes. Some, yes. Some of it had to be done by contractors. Okay. But they had it. Only because of union requirements. Okay. But they tore down 60, 70, 80, 90 cubicles. And they did the hard work. Stacked them. Then put them in other locations. And if you go into the annex, I mean, in, like this. And I just asked Dave, I said, Dave, can you give me like three days? And he said, and then, you know, he went. He, you know, because they have other things to do. And I have to tell you. I was, anyway. More than perhaps. Yeah, the amount of work they do. I don't think anybody realizes. I love working with those guys. Yeah, Dave and Steve. I go to battle with them. Let's put it that way. One last thing. And you and I had a very brief conversation about yesterday. Like civil service positions. And, you know, the interest in, you know, Bob had an interest in, you know, engaging the schools and the high school to say, hey, listen, you know, not everybody goes to college. Not everybody's fortunate enough. But there are so many civil service jobs available. And we did have a brief conversation about it. And then I engaged Ray in the same conversation. And maybe the town or our labor management can put on some sort of job fair and, you know, get it on the Channel 22. And, you know, a lot of people do watch Channel 22 and have grandkids that are graduating from high school. Or, you know, civil service is a great job. I could preach it and sell it all day long just like I do about being a union employee. And maybe that's something we can look into. And kind of have our own little job fair here. And show the benefits of it. People don't understand. You know, we don't get rich now. But in the end, you know, it's that, it's the end. It's that 30-year mark that is the most important. And people, they don't kind of overlook that. So maybe that would be a great thing for us to do. I love that. In addition to doing one here, I think that would be really great because I did speak to the assistant principal yesterday. Right? And, you know, if we could put something together and participate in the job fair that the school is having. And in addition to what you're talking about. Because we have this ability to promote this, you know, because that's for high school students. You know what I was going to mention too? Internships. That's part of the job fair too with high school students. That gives them some credentials toward, you know, making application for the jobs. Right. And seeing where they might want to work in the town. Yeah, true. As long as you have your high school diploma by the date of the exam. So if the exam is in September and you graduate in June, you can apply for that. Right. And then some of them are years apart. Like the police exam is every four years. So you've got to gauge that. You know, you can take that one. I think it would be 21. You have to be 19 years and six months to take the test. Right. 21 to be hired. 19 and six months. Yeah. But those are all great, you know, these are great things. And this is what we want labor management to become again. You know, so. Well, you've done a good job at it. Good things have happened. That was evident last year up here with the Halloween. Yeah, that was great. Halloween, the Christmas, all of it. Eric won all the awards, which is . I think that we should have an Easter egg hunt. Love it. It used to be, you know what? The rec department does an Easter egg hunt. No, I meant for us. Not for us. Yeah. Oh, like scavenging hives. That would be fun watching the employees run for the eggs. Can I make a recommendation? We did it one year. I forget for what charity, but we did it at night. And I have to tell you something. 500 people, when you see 500 people with flashlights out in the field, it looks like, you know, like a Hollywood movie. It's pretty cool. It's a great season. We could do it at the park. It would be great. Yeah. Well, thank you for your time. Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anytime you feel the need, let us know. Great. Thank you. Thank you for your time. Thank you so much. Thanks, John. Supervisor, I put your name in for the supervisor's award, but you have to sign off on it. Okay. All right. That ends all of our discussion items in open session, and now we're going to move on to our resolutions. All right. To which I think we have about 25 residents today. It's a short list today. It's light, but it's after the last town board meeting. That's okay. Devin, if you'd like to... Okay, if the board's ready. Yeah. Resolution number one, ambulance district fund transfer. Balance transfer, I'm sorry. This is for drawings needed for the new ambulance barn. They were transferring some money over so they can get some drawings going. Part of the early process of doing this. Also, I want to mention their roof is being replaced. Long time coming for that. It was being done this week and they were working on an agreement with the fire department to park some of their vehicles over at the fire department while the roof was being done on the building up there. Hopefully by the end of tomorrow, end of this week, or early next week, that will be completed and they'll have a new roof on the building up there, which is a big help. Just to clarify, too, with the money for this project is Riverhead has been billing for ambulance calls. This is what that money is utilized. It doesn't go into our general fund anyway. It's used to continue to upgrade their facilities so they can purchase ambulance equipment and other things. And eventually build a new ambulance barn in itself. So when people get that bill, it's a very sensitive subject, but this is what it's needed for. We cannot build a new ambulance. We're in the process of ordering two new ambulance rigs that we've put out and they're extremely expensive. And so that's what that's for. So it allows them to be self-sufficient to keep running it. So I always say, keep in mind, it's not just going to a general fund or a payment. It's for reinvesting into the ambulance itself, the services. And just to dovetail on that, I think in addition to the new roof, Bill, I think they also, the ambulance folks got a new generator this year. The previous one, I'm told, was undersized and underpowered. They now have a new generator and I think a new hot water heater. New heaters. Or new heaters. Yeah. So over the winter. So it's good. All needed over there. Survived the crisis and P&G got up there and eventually got it all taken care of. Okay. Resolution number two, Water District Capital Project number 82123, budget adjustments. This is for the villas up at Roanoke. It's a construction process that's going on. This is a water man is busy back there all the time. And this is just another one of his projects that's going on. When he's not surfing. When he's not surfing. Right. And more for the Water District. Plant two, rehabilitation, Water Capital Project number 81855, budget adjustments. Okay. 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This was bid out. It came in higher than what we had liked, but it was also, we had to put in the requirements for an MWBE, which wasn't done in the first one. It was inadvertently left out. Right. So we're going to have to re-bid and hopefully we get a little bit lower price when we get it back and we'll see what happens. Right. Resolution number eight, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for electric motor repair and replacement. Number nine, accepts the retirement of a senior citizens center manager. This is Debbie Schwartz. Debbie's been with the senior center for decades and she's going to be missed. It's going to be hard to fill her spot down there. We're going to miss her and we appreciate all she's done for our seniors for all the time that she's worked there. It's sad to see her go, but I've talked to her and it's time. She's ready and hopefully she enjoys her retirement and does what she wants to do. And the seniors are going to miss her too. They are. They are. He's a beloved member of the team there. Resolution number 10, appoints a wastewater treatment plant operator 3A. Okay. These are employees that work for the city. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. They've taken their appropriate exams and have the appropriate time in and it's good to see that they're sticking with us and moving up the ladder. And same applies for resolution number 11, appoints a wastewater treatment plant operator 3A. Yep. Number 12, appoints a call-in food service worker. Number 13, authorizes the submission of a grant application to the Department of Energy for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, EECBG program. This is for lighting down by the water along the riverfront in the back of Heidi Bear Lane there, or Heidi Bear Way. The lighting will be redone. The costs have gone up, of course, like everything else, but it will not be affected. We put new lighting in and with the build-out of the town square, it's not like we put new lighting in and we've got to rip it down because of town square. This won't be affected by the town square, so it's just lighting up the area a little better and it's newer equipment. And this additional $76,000 hopefully will be used to build a new water system. And we'll supplement what we already have in the pot to accomplish the lighting revitalization. Correct. And hopefully it's lighting that the seagulls don't like. Right. Yeah. Number 14, approve special event chapter 255 application for Riverhead Rotary Garden Festival. This is done every year around Mother's Day weekend and it's a great, it's really a great program. The Rotary does a great job with this up there. The money raised for that goes to various locations. Often it's to Northwell Health or Peconic Forest. They're a great place to go. They're a great place to go to the North Bay Medical Center. They do a great job. And all our farmers, they donate stuff for this. And I recommend if you're looking for your flowers, your annuals, your perennials, stop up there and visit them because they really put up a nice show up there. Number 15, approve special event chapter 255 application for MDP events LLC East End Latin Festival. That's scheduled for May 19th. Oh. May 19th, I believe, up at the EpCal property. Right. Number 16, reappoints PMA Management Corp to act as the third party administrator. Okay. They work with us. PMA helps us manage claims brought against the town and they give us guidance as to what we maybe need to pay out on certain claims. They know better what certain claims are worth as opposed to us, so they work with our town attorney's office to do this. Really? Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. Really. I spoke to him recently, and with the opening of East Creek for clamming now to the Riverhead residents, that's where a lot of his seed program had gone, along with other places in the bay and the creeks. But he is really happy with the amount of clams that have been able to grow and not be affected, like our scallops have had issues, oysters a little bit of issues, but the clam program, we're very, very happy it's been successful. The number of clams that are out there are great, and they're a great filter for the water. And I happen to like to eat them, so it's good for me too. So it's a win-win. Whatever they're doing, it seems to be worth it. It's a great program, and we're glad he's still doing that. But it is disheartening that you haven't brought in big clams for all of us, as you did last year. I have, but I waited until you were off that day. I don't know why. They just told me to do that. They were good. Thank you. Resolution number 18 authorizes the supervisor to act on the following terms and conditions. Number 19 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with the Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association, Inc., regarding 2024 calendar year events. Number 19 authorizes the supervisor to execute lease renewal agreement authorizing the town to lease a vehicle from Suffolk County Office for the Aging for transportation services for elderly residents, Nunk Protunk. Number 20 authorizes execution of a license agreement with Research Foundation of State University of New York for installation of a new vehicle. Number 21 authorizes the supervisor to execute lease renewal agreement with the National Aging Commission for the Aging for Transportation of Fish Passage Camera at Grand Jebel Park. This allows them to view the, I believe it's the Elwhites, that make their way back up from saltwater into freshwater and go up into our river and go into our little estuaries and creeks off of the river. It's really a, it's an amazing process for what these fish do, going from saltwater to freshwater. And I know you can go off by the county center on the east side of the county, and you can see the fish that are in the water. And I know you can go off by the county center on the east side of the county center, and you can see the fish that are in the water. And I know you can go off by the county center on the east side of the county center, where the river branches off over there. And a certain time of the year, you can go up there, and there are just Elwhites everywhere. They're up there, and I don't know if it's for mating. I'm not that familiar with it. But it's incredible how they make that transition from salt to fresh, because they wanted a few fish that can actually do it. Useful trivia information. I just. You're on it today. We'll put that on the newsletter. Yeah. Number 21. Authorizes purchasing agent to attend NYSAMPO conference. Yep. Number 22. Grants preliminary site plan approval with conditions for the site plan application of 38 McDiarmid Avenue, 38 McDiarmid Avenue, FKA, 38 East Main Street, Riverhead, New York, Suffolk County Tax Map number 600-129-4-10.1. This is for a two-story restaurant. If you go back there now, there's an old, dilapidated-looking restaurant. They're going to build a two-story restaurant there looking right out over the river and the marina. And just more good things and excitement for downtown Riverhead. Number 23. Assumes lead agency status and issues negative declaration pursuant to SECRA for the site plan application of 901-923 Berman Boulevard, commercial warehouse 901-923 Berman Boulevard, Calvertown, New York. Suffolk County Tax Map number 600-135-903. All right. Number 25. Address the site plan application of 901-923 Berman Boulevard, Riverhead, New York. This is the project we just discussed in open session earlier. And that's what it is. Right. Also relates to the next resolution, number 24. Ratifies scheduling a public hearing for the site plan application of 901-923 Berman Boulevard. And we just covered the tax map number. Yep. Public hearing on that will be March 19th at 6.05 p.m. Right. And number 25. Adopts the site plan application of 901-923 Berman Boulevard, commercial warehouse 901-923 Berman Boulevard, Calvertown, New York. All right. And number 25. Addresses the site plan application of 901-923 Berman Boulevard, Calvertown, New York. All right.

And number 26. Adopts a local law amending chapter 301 of the Riverhead Town Code entitled chapter 301, zoning and land development part three, supplementary regulations article. I'm not sure I didn't Google it. Related to cannabis. You know I'm weak with the Roman numerals. Yes. Weak in a lot of areas, but also in that. Is that 57? I don't know. All right. What's L in Roman numerals? What's L? I don't know. I'm not the girl. 50. L is 50. L is 50. And C is 10? I think that's 100. Thank you. Thank you. I think that's 100. No. C is 100. Oh, it is? Oh, I screwed up. So it's 152. X is 10. L-I-I-C. It's a little different than that. We're the Latin majors. Come on, Larry. Latin major? No? No? We need medical people for the Latin majors. Denise? Attorney? L? I know L is 50. Okay. One, one. And C is 100. Okay. So it's 152. It's before the C, though. So it's minus. Oh. Okay. So it's minus. Oh. Oh. I think we should stop talking. I think we're making ourselves look in the eye. This is the cannabis, what we discussed at the last board meeting in length. And I'm looking forward to get this to go up and get this started. And let's see how this is going to work out. I know Bob and I talked about maybe going a little further with it. But I think in hindsight I would rather get this started, see how it works out. And if we need to adjust anything. Really, if there's a fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist fist We may not have to, though, I think, knowing that we have the possibility of three dispensaries being able to find a location and get started. I'm curious to see how it's going to be. I can't wait to get our hands on some of that tax money. That's it for resolutions. We are now going to go into executive session to discuss the following matter. The first matter, matter surrounding change in status of an employee with Merrifield, Hagen-Miller, and Prudente, has been postponed, and we will put that up for another work session in the future. So that one will not be discussed today. We will be discussing matters surrounding contractual agreements between the town of Riverhead and the Riverhead Water District, and that will be with Mancini, Prudente, Ruther, Thomas, and Mariana. And we will be discussing matters surrounding a possible sale of real property, and that will be with Bob Kern, Prudente, Hurley, and Thomas. We're selling Bob. Yes, we're selling Bob. Top dollar. We get good money because he's considered a classic. Can I hear a dollar? Right. Right? Like cars, they have to be 25 years old. They're classics. Bob's a classic. We get two dollars. The next thing we will discuss is matters. Or matters. We have matters surrounding potential contractual agreement regarding residential solid waste, Dillingham, Prudente, and Baldinucci. And then we have two matters on personnel. We have a matter surrounding a possible hiring of an employee with Drew Dillingham, and we have matters surrounding a change in status of an employee with Howard Dillingham and Striplin Teo. I would like to make a motion to close the work session and go into exec session. Seconded. Seconded. Seconded. Everybody in favor? Yes. Aye. Yes. Anybody opposed? Okay. We are closed work session, and we are going to go into executive session. Thank you, everybody, and have a great weekend. Thank you.

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