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Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Cuddy, would you mind leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance? Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Mr. Cuddy.
Okay, we have five items on for open session. Then we will do resolutions, and then we will close open session and go into executive session. Item number one on for open session is matters surrounding the update and overview of the Riverhead Community Awareness Program, or CAP, as we well know it, with Denise Merrifield. And, Denise, I'll turn it over to you. Hi. I'd like to invite the representatives from CAP to come on up and let everybody know the wonderful work that they're doing in the town. Absolutely.
Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. If you would just all state your names so the people watching at home know who you are. Sure. I'm Isabella Marcucci. I'm the Coalition Coordinator for Riverhead CAP. Nice to meet you. I'm Felicia Skakosa, the Executive Director of Riverhead CAP. And how many years now, Felicia? Twenty-five. Twenty-five. Excellent. Very good. It's an awesome program. Since the last century. Yes. Excellent. Excellent. All right, Denise, you want to go ahead and? Yes. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Well, I was actually going to let Isabella tell everybody all the great work that they do. Sure. So Riverhead CAP is a nonprofit that's based in Riverhead. We are the major prevention provider for the Riverhead School District. And we do a lot of work with the schools. So we do a few school-based programs. So this is a little bit of an overview of our programs. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So we do provide a lot of information. We do provide some prevention-based counseling in the schools. We have social workers that are based in the middle school and the high school. And they have a social worker who works at both Phillips Avenue and Roto schools. They provide brief training prevention counseling. And in the middle and high school, they also offer a team intervene for students who are caught vaping once or twice. They get that to help them. Along with our school-based programs, we also do prevention program curriculum within fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth grades. Come a little bit closer to the microphone. So there's one right over there, too, for you. So with the prevention programs within the schools, our longest-running one is the Pulaski program, which I'm sure you've heard about. I, myself, went through it when I went to Riverhead. And that one's a really unique one, because we get community volunteers, along with middle school and high schoolers, to help us teach the curriculum. And then we also have a program called the Cat March. And the Cat March is a program that's a really important one. And it's a program that's really important to the fifth and sixth graders. And then, as you know, we do our Cat March at the end of the year to really celebrate the program. So that Cat March is June 6. It's going to be June 7 on a Friday. You are all obviously going to be invited to that. So we hope you're able to attend. What was the date again? June 7. And what does that entail? The Cat March. So we have a keynote speaker who comes and speaks to all the fifth graders. And we get all these t-shirts that say, Drug Free Body. And we really celebrate being substance free. The students get to make signs and have banners. And they do a march from Pulaski to part of downtown and come back. And they get a day to celebrate. The Mousse Lodge provides food for us. And for all the students. And the students, yes. And it's really a celebration of just prevention and all the hard work they've done throughout the year. So hopefully. Yeah. You can attend. We do have special speakers for each classroom. I was honored to speak a few years ago on that. I was like, when I first came in as a town board member, and all the kids in the class made me this awesome card and everything like that. And I felt like it was really great. Yeah. You're celebrities to them. Yeah. Exactly. A lot of our other elected officials come as well. It's a really fun day, I have to say. It's a great day. And the kids appreciate somebody coming to their class. Sure. Yeah. And walking with them. Yeah. And you said that's June 7? Friday, June 7. Yes, exactly. It's in the morning.
We just need good weather. Yes. Hopefully no more smoke from the Canadian fires like last year. Oh, exactly. Right? Yes, that's right. Walking around in school. Yes. Yeah. So this year, fingers crossed, it's going to be amazing. Along with our school-based programs, we also have community-based programs. So I do the coalition, and we really work with all our sectors within the community, such as elected officials. We work with the health care sector. We also work with the New York National Guard a lot. And they help us find strategies that reduce the opportunities for substance use in the community. We do a lot of environmental strategies. Like Denise, you helped us with our environmental scan a few weeks ago, where we went into local vape shops and gas stations and just saw what they were selling. Because as we know, they are selling, you know, they are selling substances that they shouldn't be selling. So getting that information is really important for us, because then we can share it with the police department. And now they know what places to check out and do compliance checks at. Oh, they were very willing to help me and the other person I went with. I was amazed how open they were about the illegal items that they were selling in the store. Yeah. A lot of times, they keep the substances, like flavored vapes, not in view, because those are illegal. But then if you just ask someone, say, oh, do you have a flavor, they'll open up a cabinet. And then show it to you. So by doing that. That's just what they did. Exactly. Yeah. You were very good undercover. Good work, Denise. Yeah. Thanks. So that's just one of the strategies we do for getting data. But we also do focus groups in the middle school and high school. So we just performed two focus groups in the past month, where we got qualitative information from students about what are they seeing in the schools, what are they seeing in the community, what are they seeing in the community for substances. And we found out, no, they don't really think anyone's drinking at beaches anymore. Now it's more like house parties or getting an older sibling, allowing them to buy it for them. So it's really important information to help us cater our strategies to the substance use in the community. So along with that, we also have been working with some mental health first aid. So my coworker, Sandra, she runs all that section. Yeah. So she's a mental health first aid trainings, which is a six-hour training. It's seven, really. Seven-hour training. So that is a very in-depth look. We offer it for adults and people who work with youth. But then we also offer a 90-minute, 60, 90-minute option called QPR, question, persuade, refer. And that's for suicide prevention. And that's a really great option. And the great thing is, because it's with a grant, we offer all these trainings for free. So any organizations that want to be trained to see the signs of mental health issues or suicide, we do offer free training. So on that sheet, you can contact Sandra or myself if you want me to get you in contact with Sandra to get those free trainings. We also offer specialized, so people who work with veterans or people who work as first responders, because that's a specific kind of trauma that they're experiencing. So these people are now trained in how to actually speak with them and learn the signs for that specialized group. We've done several with the Riverhead Police Department. The chief has been really good in bringing in some of the other East End departments, too. And we're planning on doing some more in that area. That's great. Excellent. I wanted to ask you, just for a moment, supervisor, can we put this up on our site? 100%, yes. So we'll get this up, the cover sheet. Do you want me to sign? I'll send you a digital copy so it doesn't get to that. It makes it easier for Justin. Yeah, perfect. I didn't mean to interrupt you. Please don't take it. And then finally, we also just received the Partnership for Success grant. That was really great because we were one of the few organizations to receive this grant. We're the country. Yes. So it was really great. And it really helps us build the prevention infrastructure within Riverhead Town. So we are working with the some of our sectors, such as we've worked a lot with PBMC, Northwell Health. They are one of our bigger partners, and same with the Riverhead Police Department and the school district. Do you want to speak anything to Partnership for Success? It's a very large grant. There's a lot of moving parts. So the goal, as Bella said, is to build prevention infrastructure that's sustainable after the five years of the grant ends. So we're working on several projects. Like we've put some evidence-based programming in place in the school district that we're not actually teaching ourselves for once. But we're supplying the training and the materials for the teachers. And there was a gap in, you know, there was Pulaski in fifth and sixth. And we have a couple of people doing fourth grade programs. But there was really nothing standardized after that, as far as substance use prevention. So now they're doing the 15 sessions, Too Good for Drugs and Violence, which is also about healthy relationships and bullying in eighth grade and ninth grade. So that's a big change. We're also trying to implement an SBIRT, Screening Brief Intervention Referral for Treatment, program in some of the schools so that some of the youth don't fall through the cracks. That's great. I wanted to just ask you, you mentioned earlier something about surveys in the school. Could you just speak to that? A parent had contacted me and was concerned that if the children fill out the survey on their email that they have with the school, is that going to be somehow, I know that the surveys are anonymous. They were concerned that the school would get access to identity of the individual that fills out the survey. Could you just speak to that, just to allay people's concerns about that? Sure. So when you go into the survey, you're going to get a survey. The second you get into the survey, it becomes anonymous. And there is no way for the school to collect any information about the student or the person filling out the survey. And then furthermore, when the school gets the information back, it comes as an aggregate. So they don't get to see who actually answered a question or even who answered the survey. So it is completely anonymous, completely confidential. There is no way for the school to get the information about who's answering what or who even is answering the survey. And this helps you find out what these kids know about drugs, right? If someone in their family is using them or friends, or if they're using them, it gives you that kind of data to know what programs to start, right? Exactly. That's why taking anonymous data is so important, because someone's more likely to be honest. And that's why we want to make sure everyone knows it is completely anonymous. There's no way to trace it back, because we want to know the honest truth about what is happening in the schools and in the community, because we want to be able to direct our services to help those areas. And this is the CAP program. Right. Yeah. And we're referring to, not any other surveys. Yeah. We only did the Clyde survey. We only did the Clyde survey a few weeks ago. Also, I just want to add that survey data helps us track our outcomes. We can't just say, oh, the programs we're doing are great because the kids really like them. That's not enough. We need to track our outcomes. So as you probably are aware, in 2019, we were named Coalition of the Year nationally through Community Anti-Drug Coalition of the Nations of America. And that is because if you look in your packet under, on this page of underage drinking, we were able to show significant long-term outcomes in reducing underage drinking, as well as prescription drug abuse, actually. So we need to be able to track our outcomes, and our funders also want us to track our outcomes, because part of the Drug-Free Communities grant that we had, which is ending now, it's very powerful. If you remember Kelly Malosky, she went to the work for what's called the DFC National Evaluation Team, and that team tracks national outcomes. So we have to put in certain core measures every two years into the system, but it also shows that communities with drug-free community coalitions in them have significantly been able to reduce youth access to substances and subsequently reduce drug abuse. So we're in a phase now in which we're able to determine if there are substances that are in the system that might affect the society. So if there are substances in the system, if there are substances in the system that might affect society, if there are substances in the system that might affect society, if there are substances in the system that might affect society, if there are substances in the system that might affect society, if there are substances in the system that might affect society, if there are substances in the system that might affect society, being in the funeral homes and family members were in hospice, going back 30 years ago, we used to have to sign off and witness. The nurses would take the drugs and they would put them down the sink because they just didn't know anything was there. And then you realize later on that that was affecting potentially water supply and so forth and toxins and so forth. Now I think it's so great. We always share with all the families, like, you know, after the nurse leave, like, any other things? It's going to be a nice take-back day. My son, 24 now, so he's getting older, still loves to go and attend that and be there for him. It's a good take-back day. And that's great. Like, you know, I think one year it was, it rained. It rains every year. Like, torrential. Every time. Especially for the past year. Since you've joined us. Lastly, I've been to a spin rating. I'm noticing a pattern. Smoke. Rain. What? He runs car to car and everything and helping people. If people can't make it, we have, through our opioid grant, several other options for disposal. There's a medical. There's a medication drop box at the Rip Ed Police Department, which is 24-7. And through those take-back days and the medication drop box, we've collected over 12,000 pounds of medication since 2014, which for this size community is a lot. And it doesn't go in the water. Right. And it's not available to be abused. Right. And then we have several other disposal opportunities for people who can't make it. In fact, we're busting at the seams with this stuff. So we have Deterra. We have the activation bags. We have Dispose RX envelopes that go right into the prescription pill bottles. And we also have Safe RX lock-in pill bottles for, you know, elderly can use it. Parents can use it. Anyone who just doesn't want someone getting into their medication, either by accident or on purpose. We do offer them for free. So if anyone wanted them and can't make it out to the office to pick it up, we can ship it to them. So they can just... Contact the office and we can set it out to be shipped to them. I... We can... Oh, sorry. No, no, go ahead. I was going to say, or we can partner with any of the town organizations like the Senior Center... I was just going to say... ...to distribute them. Maybe partner with Meals on Wheels or something like that to distribute these for homebound people or veterans. We also now have lock-in bags for people to store their marijuana since it's legal. Right. We have free lock-in bags that were no questions asked. We're happy to distribute them to keep, again, what we are learning, not just from our focus groups, but in me speaking with other coalitions over the years, is that it's very easy for youth to access their parents' weed, edibles, you know. So in order to keep them safe, we have these lock-in bags that we'll send to anyone for free. Okay. That's great. Yeah. And in the years past, you've teamed up with Peconic Bay Medical Center. I know in the last two years, I got my Narcan training there. So that was always good. I don't know if that continues, but that was always just something good to have. You never know when they're driving. You know, it's, you know, I'm proud that my family is, my kids are great. I'm not naive. They're really great kids. But like, you never know, taking the training, I always have it in the back of my truck. So if you're just driving along and you see somebody collapse on the side of the road or something like that, you have the ability. Of getting the training from you and the issue of Narcan. So that's always been a good little added to the juke guys. You do great work. Very impressive. Thank you. Speaking of Narcan trainings, at our upcoming meet and greet, which you are all invited to, Northwell, the South Oaks Hospital, they will be doing free Narcan trainings and providing Narczone at the meet and greet. So hopefully you're able to attend and re-up your training if you'd like. So here is an invitation. Thank you. These were mailed. But if you could please let us know. Yes. We will be doing. We will be attending. I know Bob already said he wasn't coming. I did? Yeah. Didn't you respond that you weren't able to make it? Yes. I got a response saying that you weren't. I love this event, but it's grueling interviews sometimes. Oh, yes. It was tough questioning. That's fine. That's fine. But I would like to do it. The other thing is, can we share this with the people? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. They did receive the invitation. So it's not open to the entire community type of event. We don't have the capacity to do that. But we did invite about 200 stakeholders in the community. I'm going to see why I can't make this. Well I have to say our town board coordinator is fantastic, Diane Tucci. She already has this on my calendar for me and I will be in attendance. I go wherever Diane tells me to go. Yeah, it's every year we do something different. But there's lots of... It's on my calendar. See? Oh good. So are you coming? It's on my calendar twice. It's on my calendar twice too. To Joanne's point, Diane, we're robots for her. Great. Excellent. So and there's lots of interactive activities and our youth coalition will of course as usual be highlighted. What they've been doing in the community and we're just going to really be talking about looking forward to the future of prevention in Riverhead. That's terrific. Thank you for coming in. Thank you. I have to say that over the years the Riverhead CAP has set the standards for many organizations. The awards that you guys have received is tremendous. The work that you've done in the community is phenomenal. The number of kids that you have reached out to and have gone through the program over the years. My kids all went through it. And it's just an awesome program. Thank you. And the hard work that you put in. Nobody sees what you do behind the scenes but we know a lot goes into it and we really appreciate you here in our community and what you do. Thank you. We have a great team. So thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. I was so happy to be on the team and imagine how happy I was when Bella who was a peer leader in high school showed up for an interview one day and I was basically before I even spoke to her I was like you're hired. I was all over the CAP website from high school. There's nothing more exciting than having someone who's been through your program and through multiple programs then shows up and wants to work at your place. It's such a great feeling and makes you feel very old. Well she only went through the program last year.
Anything, any other questions? No I think it's great. Thank you so much. See you on April 30th.
Okay, item two we have. We have Joyce Novak and regarding matters surrounding the Peconic Estuary Partnership. Hello there, how are you? Hi, this is Valerie She is our outreach coordinator and she's going to be speaking today. As well, so I put together a presentation to sort of guide us through here. And I'm just going to start with, I don't know everybody here. So I'm going to start with a little bit of how and what the National Estuary Program is. Well we'll take care of that first. We have Councilwoman Joanne Roski. Hello. Good morning. Councilman Bob Kern. Hello. Tim Hubbard you've met. Councilman Ken Rothwell. Hello. And Councilwoman Denise Merrifield. Hello. Hi, how are you? And you know Drew Dilling. Drew I know well, yes. And I'm glad to have the opportunity to be here in person. So I just want to go through a little bit of the National Estuary Program. We've been here on the East End since 1993. The program was originally hosted through Suffolk County. In 2017 we left Suffolk County and we are currently hosted by Stony Brook University. And that just means that they help us as a fiscal host to assist us with contracting and financial management. I won't go through the watershed. You guys live here. You know it's here and how great it is. But why is the National Estuary Program important? We're authorized under Section 320 of the Clean Water Act. However we are non-enforcement and non-regulatory. We have no interest in doing the state or the federal government's job in that respect. We are here to build community partnerships. And quite frankly to get money on the ground for our communities. And so how do we make decisions? We're guided by a comprehensive conservation management plan which is a series of 35 actions. From community engagement to habitat work to water quality work to coastal resiliency most recently. And it is under these actions that we are able to move money around and get it on the ground. Our governance has a series of committees with our policy committee at the top and working our way down. We would really like to see Riverhead engaged in our management structure. We have two local government representatives who have a vote on our management committee. That is important because that votes on what we spend our money on, how much of it goes to the ground, and where it goes. And I will be at the East End Supervisors meeting coming up to reach out to all supervisors to see who is interested in having more engagement on our committees. We have located an individual within our town that works for us that is more than happy to do this. I know it's been a while since Riverhead had representation. I'm not really sure why we haven't had it, but we want to take care of that and we want to get some representation on it. That would be great. And again, we talked about that. I think this was one of those post-COVID everybody had a lot going on for a long time to bounce back. We're going to go through some estuary-wide program updates with Valerie and then we'll circle back to some exciting things in Riverhead. Okay, great. Thank you. So I'll just go quickly through some updates that we had over the past year. And this is just a small section of all the great work that PEP does. So you may be familiar with the Byron Young Fish Passage at Woodhull Dam right across the street from the county center where PEP works out of. This is an ongoing fish passage project that's over a decade in planning and implementation. And if you're familiar with Byron Young, he's a really amazing person. He is a retired fisheries biologist with the DEC. He spent over a decade actually bringing these fish into the water. And he's in a bucket up over the dam upstream so that they could go spawn. So to honor him, we did work with the Suffolk County Legislature to name this fish passage project after him. And we had that unveiling event last year. That fish passage project is up and running. We also have a camera at that location so we can see how many fish are using this fish passage. There's also an eel passage. Oh, I didn't know that. I knew they all were. Yeah, that's very cool. Elwhife monitoring, as I said, we do have that new Elwhife monitoring camera at Woodhull Dam. And we have the existing camera at Grangeable that we work with DEC, Town of Riverhead to put in each year. We've had consistent data from that point for a very long time. So that's up and running once again. We have our annual horseshoe crab survey. We host a site at Squires Pond in Hampton Bays. But that, of course, is an island-wide endeavor that we work with the DEC and Cornell Cooperative Extension to continue that. We have a new endeavor with SeaTuck, a river otter survey that we actually worked last year to get Stony Brook students, interns, working with SeaTuck to identify locations where we're seeing new river otters, including right here in Riverhead. Amongst a lot of the development, there's little pockets of wetland and we actually see river otters using those locations, which is really interesting. I just learned that yesterday. It was so interesting. I had no idea that they were here. I didn't either. They're slowly coming back. It's interesting because they're very elusive. So I've been with the interns to go out looking for these new locations and you're just looking for signs of them. It's really hard to actually find them, but slowly they are spreading them and we are seeing much more evidence of those otters. I think I saw one in a pond at a golf course. I thought it was a beaver. Somebody said, no, that's a goose. I said, no, it's not a goose. I said, they don't stay underwater like that and move like this. Anyway, that's great. If it was sneaking around hard to look at, it may have been an otter. Okay, so we have our annual water quality report that we put out. 2022 is up on the website and we're working to finalize 2023's water quality report. We get information from all different sources, so that's quite an endeavor to put together and finalize, but that should be up on our website soon. We have our Eastern Peconic Blue Carbon site. Joyce will go into some of these projects a little bit more granular after I'm finished. Sorry for this blank slide, but we actually did have our biannual conference last year right at Atlantis Banquets and Events here in Riverhead, bringing together a bunch of stakeholders and talking about all the great work that PEP does and our partners are also doing in the region. We have a USGS solute transport model project that's been ongoing for quite some time. We're in the final stages of the USGS finishing that project and also creating an app that's easy to use because this is very technical and this will show different scenarios for nitrogen reduction. So if we work on certain types of nitrogen reduction, what can we see projections for the future? Next we have Aquabotic Wetland Restoration. We are working in partnership with local organizations and smart teams. This is a really interesting task in that it is working to restore natural hydrology for this wetland to improve the functionality of the wetland. It also started as a mosquito mitigation technique. Working to restore the natural hydrology so there aren't those sitting pools that we see those mosquitoes coming from and also going out there and scooping mosquito larvae. A lot of great partnership and on the ground work in this task. Next we have Broad Cove, which I'm sure you are all familiar with. This is a former duck farm site. We are working with Peconic Land Trust and through our bipartisan infrastructure law funds to create public access signage and in the future work for more environmental remediation. That is an absolutely beautiful piece of property. If anybody hasn't been down there, I invite you to take a walk through there because you will be amazed. You will be able to check for ticks when you are done. It is interesting that in the last presentation you mentioned the Canadian wildfires last summer because we actually had a planned eelgrass aerial survey that was postponed due to those wildfires. There is a very short period of time during the summer that you can actually do this aerial flyover technique and it was completely smoked out the entire time that we would like to do this. Hopefully this summer. Next we have Three Mile Harbor. This is the location of a PRB, so that is a permeable reactive barrier which is a technique to remove contaminants such as nitrogen from groundwater before it flows into our surrounding waterways. We are working now to monitor the effectiveness of this to future plan where these work best, if it is working in the site at all, so that we will have more information on it. Next we have this great tool on our website. Nitrogen Load Reduction BMPs. This is a great tool that anyone from homeowners to municipalities can use when working to reduce nitrogen. It has various different techniques that you can use to reduce nitrogen input and also will go into the cost effectiveness of each of these alternatives. Our critical land protection strategy also very useful for municipalities when you are working to plan climate resiliency as well as land acquisition for preservation. You can go ahead and check out that tool. If you do want any further help using that, you can go ahead and call the PEP office and we can help you with that. Next we have Now River Broad Meadows Marsh Restoration. Is this the latest that the land use agreement is in process? No, the land use agreement is finalized. Engineering designs are underway. Okay, great. Next we have Paul Stoutenburg. You are in completion for those engineering designs as well.
Do you want to go over that one? Sure, absolutely. We are doing some work with the aquaculture industry. When Suffolk County renewed their lease program a couple of years ago, there were some communities that pushed back that aquaculture, oyster aquaculture particularly would have negative environmental impacts. So we decided to engage researchers at Stony Brook University because of the science that we were getting would disagree with that. So we've engaged the Peterson Lab at Stony Brook University, which is a research center for the Stony Brook University, and we've also engaged the University of Minnesota. We've also engaged the University of Minnesota at Stony Brook University to carry out in-water research and under-cage research, so in the sediment and the surrounding water, to look at what's happening under the water and to be able to formally document what's happening. Initial results are showing that these cages actually increase biodiversity. There is a lot of use as multi-habitats for different organisms under water. There is a lot of use as multi-habitats for different organisms under water. And water quality immediately around the cages tends to get better. So we're excited for this work as it moves forward and we move more into some of the sediment work to see what's happening. But very excited about that. ECO-SIM modeling is really just looking at the different fish assemblages in the water. As our water is warming, things are changing. So we want to know what's happening and where everybody's moving to and who's coming into the estuary. Hardened shoreline ground truthing. We did an initial desk-based assessment of bulkheads. And we are really working hard to try and have communities and municipalities preserve natural habitats. Natural shoreline habitats. And introduce other options in lieu of a bulkhead. What is a bulkhead appropriate? You know, there are some places out there, you know, there are some places where no amount of plants are going to keep back the ocean, right? Water always wins. But there are other places, up creeks and in less energy affected areas, that nature-based solutions are a possibility. So we're working really hard to come up with what those are, who are the engineers that we can get to certify different types of installations, and a map-based approach to where they are appropriate and where they are not. We're also working with our towns and DEC on streamlined permitting. So some of our towns tell us, well, we go to DEC, we get the permit. The town doesn't have power then to say no to that permit. So we're trying on the back end to work to fix that. And the Bay Scallop. So for, since 2019, we're all aware the Peconic Bay Scallop has been in a die-off. So we have been supporting some of the research at Stony Brook. We're working with the research at Stony Brook University through our funds with New York State and some of our partner programs to try and get to the bottom of it, come up with a solution to what is the decimation of the Bay Scallop. And so I will just move into on the ground where we're spending money. So under the bipartisan infrastructure law, we get about a million dollars a year to spend in the Peconics. 600,000 of that is in process here at Riverhead for Meeting House Creek. Broad Cove, over two years, we're giving the Peconic Land Trust $300,000. You know, you talked about how much of a beautiful site it is, and we want people to get there. We want to increase access. So we're helping the Land Trust to, I know they just finalized an agreement for alternative parking, to be able to get communities there to build trails, to manage some of the invasive species that are in there, with a long-term vision of using this site for a variety of purposes. If we can get some kelp growing in there, if we can get some of these nature-based solutions there so people can walk through the water, see what they are, make decisions for themselves, and are not afraid of those solutions and those things. And the Land Trust, of course, is a very good partner, and we'll continue to work with them. We're also trying to have access for, for some of our disabled residents. We're looking into signage with braille. We are looking into how we can make trails more accessible to our communities, including gardens for children with disabilities. And we're working through the Land Trust on that, and, you know, it's their property, but we're supporting them to do that. Town of South Hold, Goof Creek, they're doing a discharge elimination project, which means they're taking some of their ocean outfalls or their bay outfalls and putting them to ground. We're working through the Peconic Protection Committee to get funding for all towns to be able to do this. In Riverside and South Hampton, we're funding some wetland restoration, stormwater mitigation on the South Fork. The Peconic East Blue Carbon Shoreline Project is one that marries kelp and oysters and seagrasses with the land. We're also working with the City of West Hampton to mitigate some of the climate effects that we have. This is the project. We're investing $600,000 on the east end of the watershed, and we also want to move to invest money at the Broad Cove site and the western estuary so that we can have an end-to-end nature-based climate plan. We've engaged the team at Stony Brook University who did the Shinnecock Bay Project, which is to date the only successful project. We've been working with them for over 12 years using nature-based solutions with proven water quality reductions, more shoreline stability, and a series of other benefits. So we're excited to work with them, and we want to replicate that here in the Peconics, and we want Broad Cove to be the western site for that. And we're supporting Suffolk County's IE system for some of our low- and middle-income communities and homeowners. The county provides the grant to put these systems in, with three-year maintenance, and then people are on their own. So we are working with the county to provide another three years of maintenance for those homeowners. $50,000 of bipartisan money and another $45,000 of our annual funds are going to this. So we have $100,000 to try and get this program off the ground, and the county is working hard to do that. Again, I talked about the Broad Cove Land Trust Fund. I don't need to get into this anymore. You are, of course, familiar with the program. You are, of course, familiar with Terry's and Meeting House Creek, which are priority sites for the estuary program. And Meeting House Creek, I've been working very closely with Drew. The drainage area is about 5 1⁄2 acres, 60% impervious surface, and this will be a constructed wetland to manage stormwater in this area. I know that the town is short about $175,000, so we are going to continue to work with them to try and close that gap and get this constructed. We've been talking about it for a very long time. We really want to see it installed. And then we'll talk about next steps up into that sub-watershed if there are other stormwater management techniques that we can support and help the town to take care of there on Church Lane. Just some accomplishments. What do we do? We're bringing $3 million to the region annually. In the past 23 to 24 season, we have over 90 acres of wetland restoration being implemented or in planning. We've opened 100 acres of diadromous fish habitat. We fund annually over $500,000 in water quality monitoring. We have five sub-watershed stormwater installations in planning and implementation. We've launched two online tools, which Valerie talked a little bit about. I would encourage you to go and look at them. They are a parcel-by-parcel assessment. So they are not just a broad brush of what we think will work where. It's a parcel-by-parcel assessment. Land use categories are based on Suffolk County land use data that we used. It was the only uniform across all six towns information that we could get because some towns do things differently. But there's a lot of information there that you can benefit from. And of course, we support local organizations through our annual mini-grant. We had four organizations. We had four local organizations. We had four local organizations that we funded in 2022. In 2024, we'll release again another call for this grant for another four local organizations. How has work gone with the algae blooms? I know Stony Brook was involved pretty heavily with it and others. And are we making any leeway with them? So that's a trick question, right? And it's tricky because the algae, you know, when you may conquer one species, two more come and decide, okay, now the conditions are okay for us to come in. So we're funding Stony Brook University's work throughout the estuary here in Riverhead. It's meeting his and Terry's creeks. And what we're looking to do is identify the reduction point in nitrogen and phosphorus. That we need to achieve to stop blooms. We're looking at three of the species that were particularly bad last year and two years ago. So are we making progress? Sure. We're getting to answer that question to be able to identify the reduction point, which will help us then target, okay, we know what we need to do in these areas. Now we need to come up with funding to do it. Right. It will help. That's even over and above TMDL. Yes. Yes. That is over and above the TMDL. None of this information data is a part of that TMDL. Arguably, the EPA and PEP should be working to update that TMDL. It's very old at this point. No. I have one question concerning the algae bloom. I know it can decimate shellfish. Yes. So does kelp, is it affected or does it have an effect on algae bloom? So kelp takes up all of the nitrogen that's in the water. So if you have enough kelp, presumably, yes. Right? And where we're seeing really great benefits is that co-benefit when you have shellfish and kelp together. Right? Because it helps both of those organisms thrive. And there's great nutrient reduction with kelp. And that is what the kelp eats. So ergo, it will reduce the haves. That's the idea. Yeah. And your comment on that it's cleaning up Shinnecock Bay. I can't wait to get it off of Brunko. Sooner is better. And those women over there are doing a phenomenal job at the bay in Shinnecock. Oh, yeah. Yeah. At the nation. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. No, I agree. And that's exactly why we engaged the same team at Stony Brook. Who had that success. We want to see that at Broad Cove. We've had some preliminary assessments done by them at the Land Trust site. And they think that's the ideal site. And that kelp will grow very well there. So we are excited. And we're looking for funding now to add that on to the work that we're doing at Broad Cove. Of course, through the Land Trust. It is their property. We're not just going to come in and tell them what to do. But they're excited too. Okay. That's great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I want to go through a little bit of funding so that you guys can understand by being engaged in our committees where our money comes from. We get money from the local governments through the Community Preservation Fund. Largely some towns opt to give us direct budget lines. I'll go through that in just a second. New York State budget is not final yet. We have put in a request for more than $550,000, but that is what we traditionally have got in the past two years. We have received $1.7 million from the federal government. The Community Preservation Fund, and I go through this with every single town, looks at a contribution which is allowable by law. The Estuary Program is written into the law to receive funds for operational purposes. Because of Riverhead using CPF funds for debt services, they have always historically given us people's time to help us manage projects in the town. So that's a little bit of that. But I want to make you aware of this because I would like you to consider if the $46,000 is something that the town feels that they would be able to do as a direct budget line, I'd like you to consider that for the program. Because our goal is to increase funding. Always. Right? Not to our program office, per se, but to all of these projects that I just talked about. And so, we're going to be able to do that. And so, supporting us, you know, you're leveraging a lot of money from that initial investment. And that's it. So I will open it up to any questions that anybody might have. I know that was a lot of information. Good information. So much work you do. We do a lot of work. We do a lot of things. A lot of good things. A lot of very good things. Paul Stoutenburg. Yes. What kinds of services do they provide? Paul Stoutenburg? The Reserve? Yeah. Do they provide other than money? Services other than money? So, we funded them to do that wetland restoration work. They don't give us money. Right. That's what I mean. What kind of work did he actually do? The town of Southhold or the consultant? The consultant. So, we had the consultant come in and do a drainage assessment on the wetland. Originally, we thought that we would be able to have a more engineered solution to some of the wetland problems there. And as always, you know, it's drainage and pipe issues. So, we're in the process now of just getting some elevations and some final work done. And we have much more minor engineering solutions to look at the stormwater drainage and fixing some of those pipes. But we're in the permitting phase with the EEC on that. They're reducing the number of outfalls there, right? Oh, so that's Goose Creek. Right. Paul Stoutenburg, we're just amending the flow in and out of the wetland. We're not involved in the drainage reduction. At Goose Creek, we fund the drainage. At Goose Creek, we funded them to, I think it was seven and we funded four of the outfalls to go to ground. Yeah. That's very interesting. Because we're in the process right now of identifying which ones we can do. That is a project that our management board and our technical advisory committee really like. So, I'm happy to see that. So, I'm happy to talk to you further if you get yourself to a place of identifying those areas. How we can add Riverhead sites to, you know, like all this on the ball, we have a lot of South Pole information. So, happy to increase what we have to include Riverhead. Thank you. Sure. The more we can close up, the better, correct? Correct. We love to see alcohol elimination and rain gardens. So, keep that in mind. Right. We have rain gardens in Riverhead. And we do offer a homeowner rewards program, which we didn't really talk about, where for homes that are in the Peconic Watershed, we will give you $500 if you remove a small portion of your lawn and plant native plants. We will also provide a rain barrel. We'll reimburse you for the cost of the rain barrel. Is crabgrass a native plant? Crabgrass is native. Because I've gotten millions of dollars worth of that. It is annoying. It is native. How about moss? Oh, that I can't answer. I don't know anything about mosses. What's your take on the fact that, I have a problem with people being able to go to I won't mention the names of the stores and buy as much fertilizer as they want and drop as much as they want on the ground. Because farmers traditionally get blamed for that. However, they don't want to use more than they need because of the expense. Whereas homeowners, you know, they're putting so much down when they're cutting their grass, it's growing up two inches behind them as soon as they pass. Right? What's, anything going on to So, bad timing, but right before COVID hit us, Scott's Fertilizer released a Long Island blend that has the state recommendations of reduced nitrogen and slow release nitrogen. It is on the back shelf in Home Depot, covered under some dust and spider webs. But it's available at larger stores. And the launch of the product, you know, was overshadowed by what happened to the world. Unfortunately. But there is a Long Island blend that people can use on their lawns. We do, of course, advocate do you need that much lawn? But that's a personal preference. Most people have their lawn, love their lawn. So, you know, you have to find a way to, I have kids, they want to run around on the lawn, not plants. So, you know, I think it's about responsible use. Absolutely. There is definitely data to indicate that residential use of fertilizer is probably equal to ag. You know, that's important. That's a lot. So, it also has to do with when you fertilize. You know, if you know it's going to rain, maybe that's not a really good time. Do you need Kentucky bluegrass? You know, we're on Long Island. That's not what's supposed to be here. So, even, right, even working with, there are some slow growing grasses that you don't have to, that are lower maintenance and require lower fertilizers. And a lot of it comes down to, people just don't know. They're going to listen to what a landscaper tells them to do. And, or they're just unaware. You know, what a landscaper is doing. So, what's the state doing? I'm just curious. The state's so concerned about water. They're concerned about so many different things. You would think that they would require that you're using the slow release nitrogen fertilizer in New York State. I would love to see that on Long Island. I would agree with you. And the state stopped short of a recommendation. Not surprised. Not surprised. Yep. So, that was I want to say 2018, 2019 that was up in Albany. And it stayed as a recommendation. It did not move forward as a law. The county has a stronger policy. The county has a closed period, you know, when you cannot fertilize anymore. So, that is a legal requirement that you can lean into. But, again, they don't dictate slow release, lower nitrogen, you know, all of those things. I would encourage you to go. What I do where I live is I go to even my local garden center, because I try and support them over Home Depot. And ask for the Long Island blend. Even suppliers don't know that it's there. It's first time I'm hearing of it. Right. And it is, it's Scotts. It's a Long Island blend. And it adheres to the state recommendation that was made. So, you know, there is a product out there. What's the slow growing grass? I want that. I can get that for you. There is a slow, you have to plant it in the fall. I've heard all these things. That is not my specialty. But I can certainly get that information for you. Right. And it is, it's easy to point a finger at Ag. But for Ag, they are a business. Why would they want to spend more money that they don't have to spend? So, you know, I see that. We did also launch an Ag work group through PEP to try and bring Ag partners on board to have better outreach materials about some of the great work that some farmers are doing. And to try and shift that conversation a little to everybody loves to come out here to use the farms. So, we should be supporting them and not just pointing fingers. I think it's the overarching message. I have one question. I'm sorry. What did happen to the horseshoe crabs? Where are they? I would see them all over the beaches all the time growing up. And I never see any horseshoe crabs. I saw you have a whole bunch of programs about the horseshoe crabs. What is happening to them? So, the horseshoe crab populations are in decline. I believe DEC is considering changing the quotas in the fishing. It is still an open fishery. But I can't really speak to the ins and outs of DEC and their regulations. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. No, that's okay. The likely culprit is disappearance of habitat. In addition to, again, I'm not familiar with the fishery landing numbers. They use them for bait and the traps all the time. And the traps. But I don't know anything about what the actual numbers are for landings. But I can say we focus on habitat retention. So, that is natural shoreline. If you put up a bulkhead, there's no more horseshoe crabs. So, that is something we take into consideration. I know that Dr. Matt Sclafani at Cornell Collaborative Extension for years has been looking into this and has even been able to, or he's getting to where we're having the conversation about which natural shorelines based on even the grain size of the sand is the best breeding habitat to try and really support them. I will say I can put you in touch with the program coordinators if you are interested in going out on a night they are, like monitoring and tagging. I can find the closest site for you. We're out in Hampton Bay and it's like in the middle of the night. Sounds cool. It is. It's very fun. But if you saw them previously, you'll notice when they are mating, they're right along the shoreline where the waves are coming in. And so it's a very specific type of shoreline that you need. If you have bulkheads, there's no way that they are going to be using that location. So, that I think is a big part of the equation there. But I will say on the south shore, they seem to have more robust numbers to the point where they don't even do the normal like counting all of the horsehoe crabs on a beach. They use like a segmented type method because they're just overcrowding of them. They haven't disappeared off the base of Long Island. You can even visit one of those sites if you want to see them in abundance. But yeah, just anecdotally, we did see more at our site in Hampton Bay than we had in previous years that I had been monitoring. So, that's somewhat... I just think they're so cool. They're so prehistoric. I thought that they were extinct. I used to see them all the time. I haven't seen them in decades in the bay. Seagulls like them. Yes. They attack them and I've seen them there. Really? Oh yeah. I used to be petrified of horsehoe crabs. I love that they are scary looking when that tail goes up. You think it's going to jab you or something. Maybe there's a horror movie in there somewhere. You just get up close and personal when you're tagging them. It's pretty intense. Oh, I'm not going to do that. I'll just watch. Anybody have any more questions? Excellent presentation. I really appreciate you being here. Thank you so much. I agree. It was great meeting you the other day too. Yes. During the earthquake. Yes. We shared the earthquake. None of us knew it was an earthquake. Yes, and anytime. Please reach out with questions about anything. Thank you. I leave this here. This is yours.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. For our next item, we're going to go a little bit out of order. We're going to take matters surrounding traffic light at Fresh Pond and Middle Country Road intersection at the end of the day. Joanne Woski and Greg Berman. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning. Supervisor and town board members, I have asked Greg to come speak with us this morning with regard to concerns from the residents in Calverton about where a potential traffic light may be going on Middle Country Road. There is a lot of concern that the residents have been asking for several years for a traffic light to be placed at the intersection of Middle Country Road and Fresh Pond Avenue. This road serves as a cross access from Middle Country Road to Sound Avenue. The residents in Timber Park use this road as a way to gain entry onto Middle Country Road. You have a senior mobile home park with about 328 units. I'm thinking about the future of Calverton moving forward. If there's development, we have a lot of open space over there. If it gets developed, I need to make sure that we have some kind of plan. I'm going to turn it over to you, Greg. I will say there's always a stare down when you're leaving Tractor Supply. Yes. If somebody else crosses Gene and Fresh Pond, I wonder which one of us is going to get to go. It's a busy road. Yes. I'd like to advocate for the residents of the town and see if there's something that we can do to ensure that a light does go at Fresh Pond. Absolutely. They need a light there. Thank you. So what I did, rather than come back with three or four binders, I just kind of excerpted a couple of sections and pages from traffic reports and studies that we've done on projects in the area and the vicinity of Fresh Pond and Middle Country Road. So just going back probably about, at this point, five or six years, when the Tractor Supply application first came in, it was two applications. It was a three lot minor subdivision and then the site plan to develop the Tractor Supply site. That Tractor Supply site, just for the Board's knowledge, they do have approval for the Tractor Supply pad, and there's three additional buildings that were approved. I believe one is approximately 9,000 square feet, and then there were two smaller 4,000 square foot retail buildings that got approvals. Obviously they're not constructed yet. The landlord's trying to find tenants. So when that application came in, obviously because the project site is located on Middle Country Road, which is a state highway under the jurisdiction of the New York State DOT, when the initial referral was sent to the DOT back in, I believe it was 2018, the DOT came back and noted that only a small portion of that property at the time was slated for development. So they wanted to see a traffic impact statement that sort of analyzed a theoretical build out for the entirety of that property. So the first page of the little packet that I presented to you is from the traffic impact study in connection with that Tractor Supply development. The Build A condition, which I highlighted for you, the Build A condition was the development of that Tractor Supply site itself with the four buildings. The traffic impact study noted and found that it was unlikely that the Build A condition would warrant a traffic signal at Fresh Pond and 25. However, it did note that the RWCS, which is the reasonable worst case scenario, which was that theoretical build out, said that it would likely warrant a traffic signal. So being that the 25 isn't under the jurisdiction of the DOT, we were not in a position to say you have to install a traffic light. It was the DOT's opinion at that point that the signal was not warranted. So as we fast forward a couple of years, the next page is an excerpt from the HK Ventures draft environmental impact statement, which was submitted in May of 2021. We had the applicant at that point through the secret process and the EIS process look at several alternatives. One of the alternatives was the implementation of a roundabout at Middle Country Road and Fresh Pond Avenue. I saw that the EIS process was not in line with the EIS requirements. So I was not able to get a look at the EIS requirements. I sat in on a Zoom call with the New York State DOT. That meeting was held in December of 2020. So the next couple of pages just show that we did have them analyze the feasibility of a roundabout at Fresh Pond at 25. At that time, the DOT ultimately in the future said that they would prefer signalization of that intersection just based on geometry and the fact that the installation of a roundabout would require takings of property on all corners. They noted it would require the public eminent domain of five properties, approximately half an acre. So they ultimately sort of yielded to the point that that was highly unlikely in the DOT's opinion to ever come about. One of the other alternatives that we had the applicant look at was providing a cross-access, just for the boards to get you oriented, the HK Ventures site which is approximately 30 acres which is slated to be developed with approximately 412,000 square feet of industrial land. And the other alternative was to provide a cross-access to the West side of the development, which is located directly to the east of the tractor supply site. So early on in the review of the HK Ventures site, one of the alternatives was to provide cross-access with the neighboring property to the West, which at that time was owned by Calberton Industries. The thought being, and this would have been the optimal situation, if Fresh Pond Avenue could be, sort of act as the feeder road to a larger industrial development, both on the back where the Sky Materials site is, and as well as act as a feeder road to the HK Ventures site. At that point, we likely would not have had a traffic signal at HK Ventures. At that point, it probably could have been like a right in, right out with the main access being a signalized intersection at Fresh Pond Avenue. And would have weighed more strength to put the light at the intersection of Fresh Pond and Tractor Supply. Correct. That's a no-brainer. I mean, that... I absolutely agree with you. I see there's a letter here from the Calberton Industries. So in March of 2021, and it's in the record in the DEIS, the owner of the Calberton Industries property at the time was approached with the potential cross-access. And he essentially said, as per our prior conversation, we at Calberton Industries feel that allowing cross-access through our property to yours would be detrimental to our future plans. Unfortunately, we cannot accommodate your request. So this was in a position where you have a private landowner who was unwilling to facilitate cross-access that would be ultimately would have yielded a better result for the entire area. That's a shame. You know, it was just in a position where we couldn't compel it without going through some probably lengthy legal action. So that's where we are. So the... Has he been approached again, do we know? Since then? So he has been approached since then. The problem is since we've finished CEQA on the HK Ventures project, we had granted preliminary approval. The position that HK Ventures has taken is like, you know, that train has sailed. You know, if it was three years ago when they're so far down the road, short of Calberton Industries going and funding, essentially what at this point would be paramount with a complete redesign of the project, unless they're willing to foot the bill for that, which I completely understand from a developer standpoint, HK Ventures was, you know, we've attempted that route, we've knocked down that door, and we were shut down. So, you know, we're not going to be able to do that. We're going to... That's a shame. As a property owner that has property which fronts on a state highway, the New York State DOT, they can't restrict someone from having curb cut and access to a state highway. What's our zoning, what's our town strength in order to mandate cross-access on properties? So we are, it is a function of the site plan code, so we are in the preliminary approval for the HK Ventures site, we did require a future cross-access to the tractor supply site. What that will do, again, it doesn't immediately address the Fresh Pond Avenue and the Middle Country Road intersection, but people who are visiting the tractor supply site would be able to exit to the east through HK Ventures and access that traffic signal. So again, I understand the concerns with the residents coming off of Fresh Pond from Timber Park. Absolutely. You know, so we're in a position where right now, we have no jurisdiction over that intersection. What I can do, and I don't believe we've gotten the GEIS chapters, I'll have to double check, but I don't think we've gotten the GEIS on the impacts of traffic and infrastructure. But I can consult with LKMA, who is our traffic consultant for the comp plan, and I can work with them. They've got strong working relationships with the DOT. We can work with them to draft a letter, potentially include some of the studies we've done up until this point to sort of petition the New York State DOT to really take a hard look at that intersection. Unfortunately, what typically happens is the DOT is going to wait until this point to sort of petition the New York State DOT to really take a hard look at that intersection. It's a tragic accident, and then they'll sort of look at it proactively. I think it would be appropriate to send them a letter and sort of really petition them to strongly look at it. Absolutely. I would highly recommend that. Absolutely. We should get letters of support from our State Assemblywoman and our State Senator. Put a packet together and send it to the DOT. State Route 25, absolutely. Greg, I've got a question. And I'm very familiar with this. So between HK and Tractor Supply, there's also the ability for more commercial here, right? Well, so on the Tractor Supply site, they do have approval for three additional buildings. I believe it's approximately a 9,000 square foot building directly to the east of Tractor Supply. Basically three other pad sites. I think totaling approximately 18,000 to 20,000 square feet of additional. And I mean, the old zoning applies to that property. They retain the old zoning, which is old business CR through litigation with the town probably 20 years ago at this point. So I mean, it could permit, that's how the Tractor Supply site was developed under that old zoning. So they can have retail, they can have restaurants. There are approval for three other pad sites. That site plan is approved, so they would have to come in really for building permits, architectural review board, but that site plan in its totality was approved. So they would exit at this. This fresh pond definitely needs to run. I can't stand making a left turn over here. You can barely make a left turn. It's dangerous. So the question I have, so we can make sure that these other pad sites here exit here, can we not? Well yeah, so that's what I said. So for the HK Venture site, we're requiring future cross access. So where you've got Tractor Supply here and here's HK, there's going to be a cross access here that, so someone visiting the Tractor Supply site or any of those additional buildings when they get constructed, they would be able to go out, because there will be the New York State DOT did accept So we'll have two lights in that area. There will eventually, I foresee But wait a minute, if there's already going to be a cross access, instead of having the cross access going to HK Ventures, why can't the cross access be HK Ventures going to Tractor Supply? Why can't it just be reversed? Well so cross access is going to be I mean, the DOT accepted the signalization report for the HK Ventures site. Would they be, and I'm with Joanne on this, would they be amenable to just making the cross access so that it comes to Factory Pond so the light's already here? Well yeah, so right now there is no light, like there's never been the warrant analysis like the permitting process for the light at Fresh Pond and 25 has not been done at this point. So the study was done once the neighboring property owner shut down HK Ventures for cross access. I think the question is does a new project in any way have a right to bear onto a pre-existing project? Tractor Supply is done and completed so why do you have to ask Tractor Supply if they can? It would be great for them to work together but I think that's your problem. So that's where the traffic impact study for the Tractor Supply site Again, just the build out of the Tractor Supply site at that time they said didn't warrant any signal but any future development so there is another, you've got Tractor Supply you've got the access road off of 25 there is another 5 acre piece across that access road that could be developed in the future and then there's the remainder of the Sky Materials site which right now is acting it's a C&D material processing site. So any future development will be referred to the DOT it's likely that at that point any future development will have to put a signal in but at this point I think we're sort of limited to petitioning the DOT I mean again with HK Ventures we can make the request but going so far down the road finishing SIGRA, issuing a finding statement granting a preliminary approval I think is Even without cross access can instead of the light being in front of HK Ventures can it be a Tractor Supply and then just being a right hand turn only out of HK Ventures so when the light turns red next door you can still exit out of HK Ventures so the light is still helping the whole overall situation but it doesn't have to be across us I mean again having gone through the review, issued the finding statement, granted a preliminary approval whereby a signal was going to be approved at HK Ventures I think it's unfortunately But can we move it though is what we're saying so we like, we want the traffic light there but can we move it and then HK Ventures HK Ventures just make a right hand turn only in other words they wait for the light to turn red in front of Tractor Supply and then they make a right in other words it doesn't line up to HK Ventures but it's still going to help their entering and exiting out of the facility and it's going to help the whole intersection overall I mean so having granted a preliminary approval I think it, I think that's a a tall ask I mean I can consult HK Ventures and I mean they don't have a final approval but again that would require a essentially a complete redesign of the project Well just keep their entrance and exit in the same place but move the light down or the whole traffic is going to course right? I mean so that would in a perfect world the access would have gone behind the Tractor Supply it would have been like an essentially an industrial feeder road the level of traffic that's going to be generated by the HK Ventures site would not be appropriate to be going in front of the Tractor Supply building so at this point I'm not suggesting cross access I'm suggesting that you exit the light is still in front of Tractor Supply and HK Ventures has a right turn only so when the light turns red everybody leaving at HK Ventures is making that right hand turn on through 25 because traffic is essentially But so there is no light at Fresh Pond and that's the sort of impasse that there is no light at Fresh Pond I can't position to try to get the light at Fresh Pond What I'm saying is just reposition the light instead of it being in front of HK Ventures if it was slid down in front of Tractor Supply it takes care of the cross you know Fresh Pond Avenue and the senior traffic at the same point if you're trying to of course it helps Tractor Supply but if you're trying to exit out of HK Ventures you're looking at the light which is now going to be a couple hundred yards down when it turns red make your right hand turn and you start getting out of there I mean I understand I'm fully aware I've reviewed both of these applications Installing a traffic signal on a state highway is not just as simple as sliding it down it's not like adjusting a curb cut or widening a curb cut adjusting radiuses on curb cuts I mean that's a you're essentially trying to we'd be burdening a neighboring property owner with installing a traffic light to benefit the neighbor Tractor Supply would love a traffic light there I can't see that they would see that as a burden The problem is the state has looked at that intersection and said it doesn't deem that it needs a light But that was in 2018 Right Well I mean we did you know the DOT we reviewed all the traffic impact studies from HK Ventures I mean again I think we can draft a letter but I'll consult with Dawn I'll speak with LKMA on what they believe you know the best course of action but I think we are hard pressed to I agree with you but I think we at least owe it to try and see if for some reason maybe we could work something out here because to me that makes two lights makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever I mean one light is absolutely not a problem I mean it's a from a planning perspective the fact that you have a neighboring property owner who really in the long run would have benefited because HK Ventures if we could have designed this and he would have allowed cross access the reality is HK Ventures would have foot the bill for the light and again if they are going to install a light whether they are installing it at the access to their site or the neighboring property line it was very frustrating just from a long term planning perspective that you had a property owner who just said no unfortunately I think that was a little bit short sighted just to his own interest because now any development he would be responsible for a light at that intersection so that was just personally frustrating for me that again you can't compel you can't twist the property owners arm to work with the neighbor I just have a question what about the idea that the other alternative for these people is they have to just go on Sound Avenue and eventually get over to what Edwards to start getting into town if they can't make the left off of Fresh Pond I mean that would people from Timber Park aren't going to go all the way from there to Sound Avenue what I'm getting at is something to notify the state that we want this to be a historic corridor on Sound Avenue and you don't want the traffic to be as large as it is on Sound Avenue because people are afraid to make the left they're going to make the right and go down off on Sound Avenue maybe that's something we could add to the letter that's an unforeseen issue an unforeseen circumstance that's happening with a lot of the people that live in the town they can't get to the town they have to go on Sound Avenue I think I mean I'll I can draft a letter I'll work with LKMA I can see again the DOT if we just write a letter with no sort of studies and support probably just okay thank you but I think we've done enough a lot of common sense right going on I mean I myself pull horsetails out of tractor supply and when you finally get that moment when it's clear and I'm pulling out somebody from J&R Steakhouse has got a little sports car that goes right in front of you it's not a good situation it's a common sense years ago when I did stuff for the DOT we used to sit out there with clipboards and just send them out to do a study on the intersection and just have them watch it I fully agree I mean regardless of tractor supply and HK Ventures you have a T intersection where State Route 25 has a heavy volume of traffic I think irregardless of tractor supply or HK Ventures it was a difficult intersection before that but now you throw in the four way intersection with tractor supply it's compounded the problem and the pavement is so smooth up there I hate that it's like traveling in a coma by not having a light there I'm wrecking the alignment of my car I know I'm telling you my low profile tires I tell you they love it me too well Greg whatever you're able to do to help the residents I'll talk to LKMA I'll see what we can do to bolster a letter of support we would appreciate that for sure I know the people of the senior community up on Fresh Pond would extremely like that Greg when you talk to LKMA can you ask them they're probably familiar with the technology where you can put a tracker rather than putting rubber across the road and they can put a tracker and a light there that goes directly to an app and it counts the traffic they'll get immediate results instant reads can you let me know if they are familiar with that technology I'm sure they are let's see what that costs that would be good thanks alright so I'll work with LKMA and I'll get a letter and I'll review it to the board and we can get that sent out thank you I appreciate your time today I know how busy you are thank you ok we're going to go back up this schedule and go to matter number 4 which are matters surrounding agricultural worker housing for 422 Edwards Avenue and we'll have Matt Charters come up and Councillor Cuddy it's always good to see Councillor Cuddy good morning Mr. Cuddy how are you much simpler discussion and hopefully a quicker one you already have the light laughter laughter laughter laughter laughter trying our best laughter laughter our 14 billion dollars that goes off Long Island up to the state is not enough money for them laughter probably not we have to kill them with kindness applause applause thankfully we do have the eye in the sky so everyone can see the plan here so this is for agricultural labor housing at 422 Edwards Avenue if the board is aware this is Delalio Sad Farm so this is coming before us because sort of a consequence of a subdivision that's happening on the property they're doing a two lot subdivision here because there is a state sited solar project going on what's the northern portion of this property which is Riverhead Solar that went through the 94c process so essentially Delalio's are subdividing this area which nobody can see now but the clerk can see is going to be solar and then Delalio is going to retain this area down here that's got their barns a lot of their infrastructure and there are two existing houses on the property which they benefit from a pre-existing from an LPU essentially they've been functioning as ag labor housing but as a consequence of this subdivision you lose your my allergies are killing me today as a consequence of doing subdivision you lose your rights to pre-existing non-conforming uses because you're changing a lot of area so this was a method to essentially keep what's essentially now agricultural labor housing and to continue the use in these two houses which I just gave you guys photos other than that it's very straight forward they'll need an RPZ for the water district health department approval I included conditions of approval that are typical for agricultural labor housing which both staff and Mr. Cuddybrook have said and my attention has some language that I think is worthy of a code revision it does reference ag labor camps which as everyone knows is pretty negative connotation at this point in time so it's my recommendation to just in the code change it to just reference ag worker housing absolutely otherwise it'll look like Arizona other than that pretty straight forward they'll need rental permits they get inspected every year obviously the people who are going to be living in these units have to work on farms within Riverhead and give some people places to live so I think it's all in all pretty good and pretty straight forward the farms is sod farm staying where these houses are? their operation is staying there you want to keep housing but you're getting rid of the farm so the agricultural use is still there the production is going to be elsewhere within the town so there's no requirement that the actual growing has to happen on the property within where the ag labor house is but it'll be like employees for the sod farm correct it has to be these houses have been there and used by since 1988 and he uses one of the houses the larger house which is two stories is seasonal the other one is year round but these employees work in Riverhead some of them work in Calvaryton they've been doing that for years as long as they're working in town Riverhead they have to they have to by code to have these and while it's not going to be an ag production anymore they're going to be agricultural use so their farms are there their processing there so it's like their base camp so to speak typical it fits all I have a resolution for Tuesday for you guys Mr. Cuddy it's nice to come in with an easy one once in a while yeah really I think it works for everybody it's very helpful alright very good thank you good to see you nice to see you thank you nice meeting you thanks Mr. Cuddy very good thank you we have all of the A team here today I see we got Heather up next next matter is matter surrounding special permit application for two family dwelling at 4592 Middle Country Road and we have Heather Trojanowski from the Plain and Water Pump Tracy's still upstairs here we go let's have a party okay so I did let the applicant know that the work session was today I don't see him here I believe he's the expediter but I did provide him with a copy of my staff report I don't know if anyone has gotten a chance to really look at the plans staff reports will likely I apologize but I'm just going to open this up so we can all get a look at the site plan yeah we actually have put it on there it is you're on TV now okay alright so just a brief overview this is a special permit application seeking approval to construct a two family dwelling at a two car detached garage within the residence B40 zoning use district where two family dwelling are specially permitted use the site location is 4592 Middle Country Road in Calverton more particularly identified as Suffolk County Tax number 600-97-1 just 79.1 it's roughly a half an acre parcel and surrounding development is mainly residential with the exception of the Stony Brook incubator which is right across the street and then I'd say about 1200 feet east is the Calverton Commons shopping center the proposed action is to
consider type 2 action pursuant to because it's the construction of two family dwellings so no further environmental review is required but I did give you all a brief overview of the requirements of 301-312 all A through R the special permit considerations I mean again the surrounding development is residential and the purpose and intent of our B40 zoning is to allow for medium density residential development so I don't think it would be entirely out of character with the surrounding area given that the town board did grant a special permit in the past for two family down the road just east of the entrance to Timber Park the only thing that I noticed was that the groundwater management zone is 3 which per Suffolk County Department of Health Services standards is 300 gallons per day of sanitary flow two family dwellings require 600 gallons of sanitary flow so they will need Pine Barren credits again I provided the applicant with a copy of my staff report so they were made aware of this at this point in time we can have a resolution on to classify SECRA and then we are required to schedule a public hearing once we get past that point I would just highly recommend that as a condition of approval if granted they have to get Suffolk County Department of Health Services approval as well as water district approval they didn't note whether or not they were using one or two services so that will have to be hashed out when they make their application to the water district but I mean as far as parking is concerned town code requires one spot per dwelling unit this is a two family residence and per the site plan they are requiring four parking stalls plus they have the detached garage so I don't see an issue with parking I will note personally I am a big fan of trees the lot is wooded there are a ton of Norway Maples and those are invasive so I have no objections to those being cleared but there are a couple of nice oak trees along the middle country road frontage so I mean I would recommend that if you are looking for trees that are possible for them to save them or any large size caliper trees along the property lines just to you know avoid clear cutting the property that's something that I would recommend it's you know entirely up to the board but if there are any other questions I think it's going to dress it up because for a while it wasn't all that nice there was dumping on site the prior owner you know it's been vacant he was dumping asphalt milling I think storied equipment there and essentially it wouldn't really be larger than a lot of the newer construction single family homes that are going up and actually each unit does meet the minimum living area requirements that are currently under RB40 zoning I'd like to see them keep the trees yeah that's something that we can discuss further at the public hearing when the applicant their representative are here but I just wanted to get the ball rolling with this and if we're good we can classify SEPRA and schedule a public hearing I just have one question Heather because I'm a little I know about the Pine Barren credits but do they do they show proof that they purchased them to the health department and to us so the health yeah the health department you know again in order to get approval from the health department they'll probably dictate how many they need again this is you know it's double the density essentially and groundwater not the zone 3 make certain that the separate detached garage belongs like to the rest of the home and it's not a third entity where somebody is now renting the detached garage to somebody else's storage and parcel do we do you know what I mean I'm not like the three businesses on one pile well I was just going to question the pitch of the roof I can't read the numbers of what's written here it looks like it's proposed to be a loft and again this is something that I think the applicant would probably better address since they're you know they commissioned these plans but the town board does have the authority to impose any conditions they feel necessary so when it comes time to approval after the public hearing you know has been closed we can say that the garage is only to be you know a garage detached garage accessory use no living space and that can also once they go for building permits that can be put on the CO as well so that way you have a you know a record when someone goes to put in a foil for the property or it gets sold it's on the certificate of occupancy that this is a garage and only a garage but a sign can is there potentially a way to make it a sign to residents or whoever's renting that structure and it's not in other words I mean it's only a detached garage and then do we have a third business going in there storing vehicles trucks whatever and now it's not you know what I mean we have three entities or we have two entities it should only be accessory to the two family dwelling you know it's an accessory structure pursuant to town code and building code but again if there's any specific language I would definitely consult with council you know when it comes time to craft an approval resolution if that's what the town board is inclined to do after the public hearing we can you are allowed to impose conditions almost like it's part of the lease of the first two projects so whether you whether one house gets both or each will get a space and I can I can reach out to the applicant and you know get something in writing correspondence from him about the intent of this garage I mean I'm assuming it's a two family dwelling and the garage is a accessory to it but we want to make sure that it's going to stay that way that's the only thing I think we're all in agreement yes other than that it's a middle country road state highway so they will need a DOT approval as well other than that well maybe they can get a lay alright are we good how boring is this get Greg back here I didn't realize how much I missed the planning board until I had this back in front of me alright thank you everyone thanks Heather thanks about those Norway maples people thought it was a really great idea realtors were like yeah plant them they're great tree trees and you know they seed really easily they grow faster than they can root themselves so they're prone to falling over they're extremely prone to disease plant red maples they're native ban Norway maples Heather's big with the trees I know I love that about her I always love being in meetings with her okay next up we are to the point of doing our resolutions and Devin would you mind reading through the resolutions for us okay I'm ready if you guys are everybody ready yeah alright resolution number one authorizes the town clerk to publish in post notice to bidders for food and meat products for our senior center resolution number two authorizes the town clerk to publish in post notice to bidders for street light and traffic signal repair parts okay number three authorizes the town clerk to publish in post a public notice for a public hearing regarding an alleged unsafe structure located at 1092 Dolores Avenue Riverhead Suffolk County New York Suffolk County Tax Map number 600-102-3-16 pursuant to chapter 217 part 4 of the Riverhead Town Code this has been on the radar for a while this has been on the radar for a while this has been on the radar for a while this has been on the radar for a while this has been on the radar for a while this has been on the radar for a while this has been on the radar for a while resolution number four classifies the special permit application of 4592 middle country application of 4592 middle country road to construct a two-family dwelling as a type two action pursuant to secret and schedules pursuant to secret and schedules public hearing 4592 middle public hearing 4592 middle country river riverhead coward to country river river river coward to new york suffolk county tax map new york suffolk county tax map new york suffolk county tax map number 600 97 19 19 19 19 19
FARMS SUBDIVISION. THIS IS FOR THE SUBDIVISION I BELIEVE UP OFF OF RONALD CABINET. RESOLUTION NUMBER 6, ESTABLISHES STANDARD WORK DAY FOR ELECTED OFFICIAL. THIS IS FOR DONNA BROWN. THIS IS DONE EVERY YEAR FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM PURPOSES. RESOLUTION NUMBER 7, APPOINTS A MEMBER TO THE RIVERHEAD CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL, MICHAEL REICHEL. THANK YOU, MICHAEL, FOR STEPPING UP. WE'VE HAD THIS POSTED FOR QUITE SOME TIME. INDICATED INTEREST. I THINK IT'S A GOOD CHOICE. IT'S A GOOD WAY AS HE PUT HIS RETIREMENT TO KEEP A GRASP ON HIM. WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET HIM GET TOO FAR AWAY. HE ACTUALLY ATTENDED THE MEETING LAST NIGHT TO KIND OF GET HIS FEET INTO IT. RESOLUTION NUMBER 8, RATIFIES THE RESIGNATION OF A HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATOR. NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9. EXCEPT FOR THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM. NUMBER 9. treatment plant operator to be? Arnold Wolfrath. Arnold Wolfrath. Arnold has been an excellent employee for Frank Mancini and the water department. I'm sad to see him go, but I know he's going to be happy and still going to be around town, so best of luck to him in his retirement. And another retirement accepts the retirement of an employee, Julianne O'Neill. Another great employee we're losing to retirement. Unfortunately, age happens, but best of luck to Julie, too. She's been great in the town clerk's office. I thought that she was leaving to join Barry Manilow's new tour. Oh, it's quite possible I hadn't heard that. It's possible. She's a fan of ours. Very good. Resolution number 11 appoints a deputy town clerk. Congratulations to Vanessa Lacan, who will be joining our town clerk's office as a deputy town clerk, replacing Julie O'Neill. Resolution number 12 sets terms and conditions of employment for deputy clerks. The clerk, Vanessa Lacan. And number 13 appoints a deputy registrar of vital statistics. Go with the position. Authorizes recreation superintendent to attend the 2024 NYS RPS conference. I think that Ray has just a little bit of additional paperwork he has to file to accompany this resolution, so assuming we get that, we should be good to go. Otherwise, it may have to be delayed and come to you guys as a ratify. Okay. Thank you. Number 16 authorizes supervisor to execute a stipulation with local 1000 AFSCME AFL-CIO Riverhead Unit of the Suffolk Local 852. This is assigning one of the clerical and supervisor salary schedule. We're moving up one of the workers in the town clerk's office who was due to be moved up last year. And we waylaid it until after the start of this year. Right. Resolution number 17 authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with Parking and Mobility Consultants, Inc. This is to help us with the downtown parking area and the first street parking garage. Resolution number 18 ratifies the authorization of the town supervisor to execute a retainer agreement with S. Barshav L. P. L. L. L. L. P. L. L. C. Sorry. Can you say that again? Yeah. I got a little tripped up there. Yeah. I didn't hear that either. Yeah, I know. I'll have to work on it. This is the attorney we're hiring to assist us in legal action against the town of Southampton regarding their 10-year-old revitalization plan. Resolution number 19 ratifies application for CDS funding for Riverhead Water District proposed extensions 95 and 96. Okay. Thank you. I'll get the funding so we can finish those two projects up. That would be awesome. Resolution number 20 ratifies submission of letter of intent and authorizes public notice and application for Empire State Development Restore New York grant. Dawn, can we just get a quick description of what this is? Yes. So Restore New York grant. Yeah. IS A PROGRAM THROUGH THE STATE. WE'VE USED IT ON SEVERAL PROJECTS. THE RIVERHEAD LOFS PROJECT AND ALSO THE HYATT HOTEL PROJECT. IT ALLOWS US TO APPLY. IT'S A DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION PROGRAM. WE COULD GET UP TO $2 MILLION. IT WOULD BE FOR THE HOTEL ON THE TOWN SQUARE. WE MAKE THE APPLICATION. IT DOESN'T COST THE TOWN ANYTHING. THEY PAY THE MATCH. BUT WE'VE BEEN MEETING WITH THEM AND WE THINK IT'S A GOOD APPLICATION. WE SPOKE TO THE STATE. THEY ALSO AGREED. SO WE'RE GOING TO LET IT RIP AND SEE HOW WE DO. PERFECT. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. RESOLUTION NUMBER 21. PAVE OUR POTHOLES POP 2023 AND 2024 ROAD RESURFACING PROJECT NUMBER 52315 GRANT BUDGET ADJUSTMENT. SOME MONEY FROM THE STATE EVERY YEAR WE GET TO HELP FIX AND MAINTAIN OUR ROADS. MAYBE WE'LL JUST BUILD IT FORWARD AND JUST CLARIFY FOR US. EXACTLY. MORE SPECIFICALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE. HE CAN JUST ARTICULATE THAT BETTER THAN I THINK I CAN. GOOD MORNING. THAT WAS MONEY THE $61,000 WAS LEFT OVER MONEY IN 22 THAT WAS BUDGETED AGAIN IN 23. SO IT WAS BUDGETED TWICE. 121 149,000. LAST YEAR. INCLUDED 61,000 OF LEFTOVER MONEY DIDN'T NEED TO BE BUDGETED AGAIN. SO NOW WE'RE TAKING THAT BUDGET AWAY SO WE DON'T SPEND IT TWICE. GOT YOU. OKAY. RESOLUTION 22 CAPITAL PROJECT NUMBER 72217 ROOF REPAIR SENIOR CENTER CLOSURE. THIS IS ACTUALLY GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE. THEY CAME IN $50,000 ON THE BUDGET AND THAT'S A WINDFALL FOR US. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE LIKE THOSE. WE LIKE THOSE. WE LIKE THOSE. THAT'S RIGHT. WE'LL TAKE THEM WHERE WE CAN GET THEM. NUMBER 23 GRANTS AGRICULTURAL WORKER HOUSING PERMIT FOR 422 EDWARDS AVENUE AKA DELALIO SAAD FARM LLC 422 EDWARDS AVENUE CALVERTON NEW YORK SOUTHERN COUNTED TAX MAP NUMBER 600-117-2 8.2. 8.2. 8.2. THIS IS WHAT WE DISCUSSED EARLIER IN OPEN SESSION. RIGHT. RIGHT. RIGHT. RESOLUTION NUMBER 24 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR LONG ISLAND ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION TRACTOR POLLS AND FALL SHOW SEPTEMBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 3. NUMBER 25 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR LONG ISLAND ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION TRACTOR POLLS AND SUMMER SHOW JUNE 2 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 22-24. NUMBER 26 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR LONG ISLAND ANTIQUE POWER ASSOCIATION TRACTOR POLLS AND SUMMER SHOW JUNE 2-24. NUMBER 27 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR THE HOME DEPOT OUTDOOR PLANT SALE. SPRING IS COMING. NUMBER 28 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR RIVERHEAD TOWNSCAPE INC. RIVERHEAD COUNTRY FAIR. FALLS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY FALLS. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY FALLS. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY FALLS. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY FALLS. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY FALLS. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD SAY FALLS. NUMBER 29 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR HALLOCKVILLE MUSEUM FARM FLEECE AND FIBER FESTIVAL. NUMBER 30 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR RIVERHEAD TOWNSCAPE INC. RIVERHEAD TOWNSCAPE COUNTRY FEST. AND JUST TO CLARIFY NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE COUNTRY FAIR. THE FEST IS A MUSIC FESTIVAL. THE FAIR IS NOT. CORRECT. NUMBER 31 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR RIVERHEAD TOWNSCAPE INC. BLUES BY THE RIVER. FOR THE BLUES FEST THAT THE TOWNSCAPE IS WORKING SO HARD TO BRING BACK AGAIN. WE APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK AND EFFORT IN THE TOWN. NUMBER 32 APPROVE SPECIAL EVENT CHAPTER 255 APPLICATION FOR RIVERHEAD TOWNSCAPE INC. HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING CEREMONY. WOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS TREES. JUST THINKING THAT. I GOT TO START MY CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. RESOLUTION 33 RESCINDS RESOLUTION 2024-286 AND RESOLUTION 2024-324 SCRAMBLE ELITE. THIS IS JUST A NOTICE THAT THE SCRAMBLE EVENT HAS BEEN RESCINDED. THE GENTLEMAN RUNNING IT HAS NOTIFIED US HE'S NOT GOING TO HAVE IT AND I BELIEVE IT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE THIS WEEKEND. YEAH I THINK IT WAS SEPTEMBER 13TH AND THE 14TH ON THE RUNWAY UP AT EPCOW THAT HAS BEEN CANCELED AND HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN SO WILL NOT BE OCCURRING. RESOLUTION NUMBER 34 CORRECTS RESOLUTION 2022-278 IT WAS JUST A TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. SO THAT'S JUST A LITTLE CLEANUP ITEM. NUMBER 35 ACCEPTS PERFORMANCE SECURITY FOR OVERLOOK HOMES SUBDIVISION. AND THEN. YOU GUYS HAVE AN ADDITIONAL RESOLUTION THIS WAS IN ORIGINALLY AND SOMEHOW IT WAS INADVERTENTLY LEFT OUT. THE PRESS HAS BEEN GIVING COPIES OF IT AS WELL WE'LL ADD IT ONLINE AUTHORIZES TOWN CLERK TO PUBLISH AND POST A NOTICE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AN ALLEGED UNSAFE STRUCTURE LOCATED AT 650 ELTON STREET RIVERHEAD NEW YORK. THAT'S IT. THAT'S ALL WE HAVE FOR RESOLUTIONS. WE'VE GOT. OKAY. IN A MOMENT I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE OPEN SESSION AND GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION TO DISCUSS UNDER LEGAL ITEMS, DYLAN HARRIS ESQUIRE, MATTERS SURROUNDING POSSIBLE LITIGATION REGARDING PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENTS. THAT WILL BE WITH TENNENBERG, LAPINSKY, BROWN, HOWARD AND THOMAS. AND WE WILL BE DISCUSSING ANOTHER LEGAL MATTER WITH STEPHEN BARSHOFF, ESQUIRE, MATTERS SURROUNDING POSSIBLE LITIGATION WITH THE TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON. THAT WILL BE WITH HOWARD AND THOMAS. EXCUSE ME. WE HAVE ONE MATTER FOR CONTRACTUAL AND THAT'S MATTERS SURROUNDING PROPOSED CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT REGARDING THE TOWN OF RIVERHEAD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT. THAT WILL BE WITH KREMBORG AND BALDINUCI. DO I HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE OPEN SESSION AND GO INTO CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION? I MAKE A MOTION. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? ALL OPPOSED? OKAY. OPEN SESSION IS CLOSED. WE WILL NOW RETIRE TO EXECUTIVE SESSION.