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Thank you. Thank you. Okay, good morning, everybody. Thank you. Today is Wednesday, May 15, 2024. We're here for a work session agenda. If we could all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. And let me see. Who am I going to pick? Oh, Rich. Rich, would you lead us in the pledge? Yes. 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, Rich. You're welcome.

Okay, I have a couple of quick notes or announcements to make. This Sunday, May 19, is Community Day at Stotsky Park. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., all are invited to attend this free family-friendly event, which includes a community art sale, a fun run, musical performances throughout the day, food trucks, local vendors, a bounce house, obstacle course, and lawn games, as well as an opportunity to meet some of our Riverhead police officers and explore the Riverhead Fire Department's big ladder truck. So it sounds like it could be a lot of fun down at Stotsky Park. Today, Saturday, I'm sorry, Sunday, May 19, I just hope Mother Nature cooperates because she likes to rain on the weekends for some reason, which stops all of us from getting our yard work done. And there is no rain date for this. So it's either. Either on or it's not going to be, but hopefully it will make it through. A reminder to all residents this coming Monday, May 20th at 6 o'clock right here, there will be a special town board meeting for two public hearings related to the comprehensive plan update. Residents who wish to comment on the draft plan or the DGEIS are encouraged to attend either in person or virtually via Zoom. There will also be opportunity to submit written comments. So again, Monday. May 20th right here at 6 o'clock, the comp plan. Big ta-da. So make sure you show up if you're interested and we're tuning in via TV. All right. First item today on the open session, we're going to deal with Mattis surrounding a possible change to Chapter 301, pervious parking, and that would be with Matt Charters. Matt Charters, Chief of Staff,

Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Matt. All right. So this is a pretty straightforward clarification to our code to deal with pervious parking. So as you know, the reviewing board, either the town board or the planning board on site plans can allow someone to do pervious parking. So that's, you know, something that drains itself. Pervious asphalt, pervious papers, gravels, et cetera. What we have seen throughout our application process now is people are relying on pervious parking. Thank you. So that's something that drains itself. Thank you. Pervious parking as a way to sort of get around the code as a workaround. So as another variance they wouldn't have to seek. So if they're going way beyond their floor area that would be allowed, they're going to try and do pervious parking so they don't have to get an impervious variance. So what this does is just for the purpose of zoning, all your pervious parking has to be considered impervious. Which if you ask most engineers like gravel or something after a year or two, it compacts and becomes impervious. Okay. [transcription gap]

pretty much it. Yep. And it's the lake in front of the ice rink. Correct. Yeah, it does. So like any gravel, you just, over time, freeze, thaw cycle, driving over it, even some of this other stuff, if it's not maintained, it becomes impervious. So we want to make sure that this is not, you know, used as a tool to make it look like you're doing the right thing, where you're going beyond, like, your building wall coverage or your floor area and not having to get an impervious variance because you're way beyond what would be allowed. Because essentially there's nothing to stop you now in the town code from just making your whole site impervious parking. Right. Couldn't you make the impervious, couldn't you make the code so your pervious parking has to match impervious parking? So you're saying they're getting around. So this is what it's going to do. It's going to make your, for your purposes of your impervious coverage, the pervious parking will now count towards your impervious coverage. So there's no regulation. If you understand. I know it's a little, like, confusing. Yeah. So these are all the, like, commercial projects that are using them? So my only concern, like, always, I imagine they still have to provide at least a paved area for handy. Yeah, so it's going to always be paved, and it's always going to, we want to make sure it's functioning correctly. We just want to make sure that it's, you know, if you're going beyond your coverages, you're not using this as, like, a way to get out of a variance. So it's going to count towards your impervious and, like, your total coverage. You just have no trust in people. You think would really try to do that from experience we see some creative absolutely no doubt in my mind what about for residential though you're saying commercial so this is really the only time this would come in is uh for commercial for cyclones i mean residential if someone wants to do pervious there's not i mean we could address it but this is really just looking at commercial products i just look at from a trading standpoint right pervious is much better because yeah it is it is better if it functions correctly and we're not saying that you shouldn't do that so like the board the reviewing board will always have to give the person permission that's what the code says now in consultation with the town engineer with the consulting engineer whatever we're using for that particular project we just want to make sure the code is functioning in the relationship okay great have it on for publishing posts for the next meeting everybody's good absolutely that's all the caring in june sure hey chad sounds great thank you man thank you thank you for letting me go first no problem you owe the cheap a cup of coffee item number two we have police magic of surrounding the monthly report with chief hagenmiller good morning good morning hopefully everyone has the copy it was emailed to you there was one little correction on it and then had to do with the revenue chart the wrong chart was attached it only had april okay on it so there's the yearly totals thank you uh april was a good months calls received are down domestics were up motor vehicle actions up deer strikes were up i'm big time um summons is down arrangements are up everything else is down including criminal incidents was down quite a bit and that's due to reduced number of petal austinies for april so that's that's a good month and i think that's a good month for the community and i think that's a good month for the community and i think that's a good month for the community so next head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head This month beginning of the month not the beginning of the month, but I think it was like the 6th of May So we're on our new records management our new CAD system and so far Around I knock on it so far so we get so far so good Still up and running. There are some issues with Releasing information as far as to the press, but we're working on it We're working on it. That's the button that says give them nothing. Are they right? Well, I give them every lesson they give them nothing So it's It's a work in progress the way they designed it didn't release They released everything from CAD and not actually the return that is on the call So we're working on getting the return to be published in the water We're getting there. I think our reports Are more accurate in a sense that we're out of the going back one year ago We're out of that pandemic period Of just yeah everybody on lockdown and things like that and that when we're comparing this month and month last year We're starting to get some actual Realistic numbers back to reality and I read reality to reality I just looked at that from DMV put out some kind of report and Basically, yes from 2019 to now. We're back basically the same where we started. Yeah Doing good. There is more good news. Very good news the State or the governor has awarded us 1.4 7 million dollars for technology So we submitted last year we got 40 on that grant this year. We're getting 1.4 spotty cameras nice Nice, and that looks like she's covering the whole Body camera project is a five-year project. We're gonna pay over five years. It looks like we're getting all the money up front Oh, that's really good. Yes. Well, no officially at the end of the month report comes out. Her letter comes out at the end Of the month. Okay. Well, thank you governor His office for sure here for yes, you know So we were the second largest recipient in Suffolk County the county being the largest and involved. They got something I said, you know You got what? So awesome. Yep, that's really good news And I think that's it Good Okay Thank you, chief Item number three, we have code enforcement matters surrounding a monthly report with senior investigator downs Good morning, rich morning All right Happy to report code enforcement will be Pam also be starting on Monday a full-time clericals person she's Desperately needed so good office man I All right, excellent. So I'm happy to report that really good news. Yep cars ordered. Yep. We got a new vehicle down the road Yeah, yeah new vehicle just delivered. It's like Christmas around One more possibly coming. Yes very good For the month April we've opened up 42 new complaints Okay complaints range from animals dogs bluff restrictions bulk garbage site plan violations commercial litter Dangerous conditions we had ten illegal and lawful struck apartments. We had three Illegal signs we had three light ordinance. We had one overcrowded houses. We're working on six property maintenance five no rental permit violations we have two residential building no permits for residential little garbage we have two solid waste three streets and sidewalk violations one unsafe buildings one vacant abandoned buildings one vehicles and parking to zoning setbacks to and zoning use violations we have two we have 18 cases still open from January. They're still pending investigations We're working on We issued 70 summonses for the month of April We're up a little bit from last month Those are yeah, those range from no rental permit violations we have nine We have no building commits 14 No CEOs those are eight violations of zoning five noise ordinance one parking on front lawn violation six unregistered vehicles for litter on commercial properties we have three litter on residential we have one weeds rubbish that's getting big now because people aren't mowing their lawns and the grass is Now growing so we have six exterior lighting one clothing bins we have two violations of site plan we have three obstruction of sidewalks one Stop work order violation one and unlawful signage for last but not least dumpsters one We have a question On the no building permits. Yeah, that's really concerning what? What's the process because somebody could build a building not get electrical clothing inspections all these inspections they do So what's the what what happens then? Well, I mean routinely with the no building permit violations. We're finding a lot of we're going to places and sometimes there'll be a basement occupancy Where they have constructed walls and put in heat electric and things such and they don't have building permits or a CL for it So those are the routinely the ones that we're seeing over there? Would be but if somebody does not have a building permit there to apply for one with the building department Get an application together and apply for it and they will inspect it to make sure it conforms with the New York State Fire and Building Code Just because it's built and it's up when they do get court or when they do come forward An inspection is done the electrical the plumbing everything does get inspected Yes, whether even if they have to rip out a wall or take something apart to see it so be it but it's a It is actually inspected correct by building department. Yes. Yeah Okay, any other questions on that? No, I as you know, I gave you a copy of something that the town of Babylon has recently started And I gave it to the town attorney's office too. And I just want to mention it to the board so I was speaking with supervisor Schaefer from Babylon and They have signed on with a company that tracks all Rentals and in their town so they track All VRBOs all airbnbs they track all the rentals and then they give the information to the town to compare whether or not there is a rental permit on that property or not and There's a huge opportunity for a money grab on all the people that are illegally renting without Rental permits and I think it would help tremendously It's just a matter of finding some money to hire this company But we're going to look into it a little further because the money That we can recoup by far out Goes way way over the amount that it cost to use this program and I think it would really help them out tremendously Yeah, because it's a third party company they do a research yeah, they just lay it out for you. Yeah, absolutely So we'll look into that further savings in this department as well because he had you know, we were short-handed employees, you know, unfortunately But but there is money in the department there. So yeah 100% agree with you. Yeah Good way to crack down on it. Yeah, absolutely Great idea All right, we'll get moving on to rentals we perform the you know, the annual inspections of rental properties We have inspected approximately a hundred and nine residential type structures for the month of April We've collected approximately forty four thousand eight hundred fifty dollars in rental fees for the month of April totaling revenue from January to April right now currently is ninety thousand four hundred And that's all I got That's not all you guys. That's one of the busiest offices we have

Incredible what you've gotten done Lack of personnel that you've had so yeah Yeah We can expect so much more now getting you up to speed a little bit would there's somebody in the office is going to take So much pressure off of you anybody else who has to sit in there to the kind of guard the ship everybody's outside doing their job so we're just treading water right now yeah just bring her head above good it's a good job we raised all the fees and everything and now it's paying off yeah I'm coming in and it's gonna cover your new additional staff so absolutely great and we got another code of course so that'll happen soon yeah we did canvass the the list of the people who took the test so hopefully that'll come to fruition too good right excellent yep all right thank you rich you're welcome have a great day okay madam them item number four is justice court matters surrounding the monthly report and it will be with deputy town attorney Saru hello how are you okay as usual I'll start off in my disclaimer this is just town code ordinances nothing from the penal law but of course we have that overlap with PD for the quality of life offenses and in that same token I would like to give Riverhead PD a shout out they've done really really well with these return on warrants especially in the month of April just outside of our regular court dates we've had seven return on warrants which is you know pretty pretty big and this is not counting all the return on warrants that come through while already ethical at the court so with that being said we've had five fire marshal convictions totaling at two thousand two hundred sixty dollars for the month of April quality of life twenty four convictions five thousand four hundred sixty five neighborhood preservation 3015 so there were seven other convictions for the return on warrants and total amount for the return on warrants was thirty forty five with forty eight convictions parking calendars we set down a parking trial which I just had on Monday we've been picking up on litigation especially councilman Kern I know your concern was the illegal dumping of the household garbage those are now finally finding their way to the Justice Court and because those fines were increased and they are you know the minimum fine if a person in the town of Riverhead is not able to pay for their house or house of garbage in a Riverhead receptacle minimum fines fifteen hundred right so these are pretty much automatic trials and we're setting them all down for trial excellent so those will be I'll report on those next month of what the outcomes of those are and how's that working like you even like alongside so I can wait wherever it is this ongoing problem where people are just you know we have rentals within the area illegal renters that are just stacking their garbage next to the garbage bill down by the beach and overflowing them and so forth so right how does it work out I did it as the do you work along with the sanitation department and being jay to kind of search through some of this stuff and find so some receipts and other things with names on it yep receipts mail anything that will link the defendant to the actual garbage and I have conversations with sanitation and then he'll come in earlier next week to prep for trial and we'll get the evidence that we need to get in and then we'll get back to you and then hopefully I will give you a report on what those outcomes are thank you so that's that's what I have this month and I'm looking forward to letting you know what happens with those and a couple other trials I have on for that went on this month excellent revenues and all the mandatory all the mandatory surcharges are being adhered to I'm very happy to report that the judges are taking them seriously and and and and putting them in good because so often it's it's like Monty Hall's let's make a deal in justice court and you get a you know you softly guilty but what we've defeat or whatever and I understand there are circumstances where that is appropriate but this is this is a good dollar amount coming in after oh let's make a deal is done so I agree this is this is a good job excellent good job thank you you too right next up we have sewer we have matter surrounding biosolids reuse program with Michael Reichel

good morning Mike how are you doing that way and who do we have with you today this is Nick Bono from the H2O I think how are you yeah meet you for the rubberhead like so today we are here to discuss the biosolids reuse project we did a map and plan back in 2022 and we held a public hearing the improvements to the district to include biosolids reuse improvements the the so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so So we put together the numbers for the real numbers that came into bid and he's going to go through them real quick and explain where we're at so you guys feel comfortable with moving forward with the project and answer any questions you have. So just building off of what Mike said, essentially this biosolids reuse project is targeted to reduce the volume of solids that you otherwise have to haul from the facility that landfill apply. In doing our analysis, so the tables I guess on the handout that Mike had distributed, item number three that table is giving you an overview of what your current expenditure is relative to the operation of the sludge process that you currently have. What we did was we looked at it over a 30-year lifecycle which is typical of facilities like this and then we averaged out the 30-year cost which take into account an average of $1.5 million. So that's what we're looking at right now. So there's a lot of of solids generated and essentially reduced that annual average cost over 30 years down to about $1.5 million. $419,000, which essentially is an $860,000 a year savings, which is great, but it costs you money to put the capital improvements in place to get the systems to generate this type of outcome. So with that, if you flip over to the next page, this is a summary of the construction costs that came in, which was higher than what the estimate was from 2021, as well as all the other costs associated in terms of engineering, soft costs, permitting, and all the things necessary to complete this system. The bottom line number at the end of this table is the total dollar amount that would need to be budgeted and applied to a loan. For wastewater facilities, and I know the town's familiar with the Environmental Facilities Corporation, we would pursue a loan through them, and due to the nature of the town, you would qualify under their hardship financing program, which is a zero interest loan and zero percent admin fees on it. So essentially, you would be taking this dollar amount over a 20-year period and paying it off. That being said, the last page is just giving you what that loan amount over 20 years would accrue to, and it's just under $845,000 a year. So you're netting an $860,000. So you're not paying off your savings. You'll be increasing your loan payback or your debt that you currently don't have by $844,000. So you're still a net negative on your annual expenditure. So we went through this exercise to really reevaluate the cost impacts of the capital improvement relative to the savings compared to what you're currently spending at the district to make sure that this still made sense. And it obviously does. And I think in the long run, I don't know whether it's included in these numbers, Mike, but I think it's included in the long run. I don't know whether it's included in these numbers, Mike, but But eventually if we get the county off of our system and we make that available to other new projects that are coming eventually down in Town Square and we see the development foreseeable in the next three, four years apartment buildings start opening up, new Town Square hotel and all the other things in there, imagine your flow is going to be greater than certainly what it is now. So really the savings this may even be potentially, it's just safe to say, underestimating the overall savings of the space. Right. project once the flow really starts. And the long run. Because we're only growing. There's no way to scale back. So this is win-win all around. It's a great program. Mike, if I recall, in 2021 the cost was somewhere around $10 billion. Yes. And it's gone up like more than 50%. What's the reason that it's gone up 50% in three years? I'm just curious. Well, I think it was market adjustments. And as we did the detailed design, some of the original scope changed. And we increased the footprint of the storage building that we're putting on the property. So there were things that, it's not necessarily apples to apples, there were things that were increased during design in terms of the scope of work that's going to be done, which contributed to the increase in cost. So in the long run, and I'm glad you put the extra storage in, so do we have room to expand? I mean, if we take, get back county and all that? What's the capacity of this? It's designed for whatever the design for the building is. It's designed for whatever the design for the building is. Thank you. [transcription gap] Thank you. [transcription gap] the sewer and the scavenger waste district. At 100%. No more and all of us. So right now, the way the solids are coming into the facility, it's underloaded relative to what we could achieve. These savings right now are based on the current loading. If your loading increased, the savings will increase as well. And if we disconnect of the county and then make up that difference with development downtown, it could be a trade-off too. It's not like you're getting that much more. You're taking flow away and adding flow here. And the facility is only rated for the next amount of gallons a day. There's a large amount of reserve for the county that's not used. And it will be used when our development comes downtown. So the numbers will be significantly higher savings. No question about it. I guess the only other thing I wanted to highlight is our savings are still assuming that the material that's coming out of this process is still going to be hauled the same way that you're hauling it. That's conservative. The material and the quality of it is going to be of a quality that you have unrestricted disposal opportunities. So potentially, we could eliminate hauling costs if it's just given away. Right? Yeah. There's additional savings to be realized. We're just saying, worst case, you're just going to haul it the way you are. Where's the truck to now? Beth? LNPA. Okay. Because it's closer than Ohio. Right. That's where it used to go. That's where they fill it. Yeah. Okay. So we had to put together the MEP and plan based on what regulations we have right now. So while we're doing construction, we will make applications to DEC for permits to do land application, either on side farms, container nurseries, tree nurseries, whatever, to incorporate it into the soil as a soil amendment. But if that doesn't get approved, we're still, again, going to continue to go to the landfills. And based is all on volume reduction. And that's where the savings comes in. And a lot of places are doing studies. The state of Maine has discontinued the use of biosolids on land application because of certain chemicals that are in the sludge based on industrial users. We don't have a lot of industrial users on our system. And we think our sludge is going to be a lot more expensive. And it's going to be of good quality. And it will be used for that. But so what they needed to do is they're focusing on volume reduction. And that's going to take a while. We're already there. We've started this a long time ago to do volume reduction for cost savings. And it's finally coming to a head. So this is the right time. Talking about chemicals and the biosolids, I was at a summit of the supervisors on Long Island the other day. And they discussed that the sewer treatment plants are possibly going to be starting to be tested for PFAS and PFOAs. Any idea? We've taken part. Because this could bankrupt a town if you have to go out and filter now say the water you're pumping out onto the county golf course. Right. So they we've anticipated in that study. With USGS. And it was to collect samples from your influence and your affluent. They didn't take any sludge samples for certain chemicals. And we haven't got the results of them back. There were several different treatment plants throughout the county that participate in that program. So we're still waiting for the test results to come back. If it is found to be in there, it's the you have to go upstream and see where you're getting it from. And that's we have to isolate the problem from you're going to that. You're probably going to have always have some. But if you can eliminate your sources, then you know, that's you get out of the waste room for even hits us. So but eliminated, it means filtering it out somehow. Well, before flying to go into the root of words coming from your saying and stop that from going in and not allow them not allow them to inject into this. Okay. Find your sources. Yeah, that's it's all part of the surveillance program that they're doing. They want to start downstream and then work their way back to see. What does it look like? Where's it coming from? And then come up with a plan on how to effectively address it. Because potentially, if we had to start doing the filters like the water department uses on the wells, I mean, this is millions and millions of dollars. It really could bankrupt the town. Right. That was the concern of the tournament. And it depends on what's going to come out in those samples. Awesome. You write yes. And I'm guessing that it's not going to be in the affluent. I believe it's going to be captured in the sludge. I hope you're right. So that's all depends on. The concentrations that are coming in. So what's going to test what's coming in and what's going out? And the difference is what's in your sludge. Right. Right. So I think we don't have a lot of industrial uses on the system. We really don't have any. I mean, we have ad chem up there by Applebee's and that's that's pretty much it as far as industrial and that's just sanitary use only. There's no no industrial waste comes into the system. So I think we'll be in pretty good shape. Good. I hope so. Thank you. It's awesome. Yeah. [transcription gap] Because that would affect. Our reuse plan. Right. It would. Yeah. And enjoy because it's all comes out clean. We actually have a product that we could potentially sell. Right. Right. So we'll give away first. Well, but if it's a good clean product. Yeah. And the system that we're looking to install has been installed in Geneva, New York, and we went and visited the treatment plant up there. And they're doing land application up there without any problems. They've got permission to do that. And they've they were had outlet it to a couple of farmers and one farm said, well, I'd like to take I want to take all your product. And the other farms are now I want to take all your product. So then they ended up paying, you know, now they're paying for the product. And was all their stuff screened for PFAS or PFOS? I'm not really sure. This was this was a while back. We took a trip up there. Okay. So. Okay. All right. So with the board's permission, we'd like to put a resolution for calling a public hearing. Okay. So there's a motion to approve the bond authorization for the difference to amend the bond authorization. I hope it won't be as contentious as the first one.

I think it's way too scientific, but you did an awesome job there. I always just want to say Michael, you've been like a leader in the whole industry as a whole, like going in and touring your facility and looking at your like so far above other facilities around the area, around the around the coast. So you've always done an awesome job. You're always looking at better. environmental ways, better saving ways, and you produce every single year. It's been awesome. The downside is we're never letting you retire. I took the words right out of my mouth. I just got a clamp on my head. Go right to the chair. Do you want to see the reso authorizing the grant, Jay? Yes. Okay, so we'll have another reso authorizing the WIA application? Yes. Okay. So there's a WIA grant that is available, and it's due June 15th. I just got a notification of it the other day. So Dawn's office is going to put that application together with the help from H2M. You can do that, Resolute? Yes. All right. And some of you know what it is. What's WIA mean? Water Infrastructure Improvement Act. Okay. So some of the WIA grants are for drinking water. Some are for clean water. Some are sewer. And this would be a clean water. And Coris has been making those applications. So we just continue to do that. Good. Very good. In between all the other time you haven't had office, do grants. She's back from vacation now, so she's just going to work right through this. She's recharged, right? Yes. Ready to go. Good. All good? Great. Well, thank you so much. Awesome job. Thank you. Nice meeting you. Likewise. Take care. Okay. And the last matter we have on for open session today, before we get to resolutions, are matters surrounding possible South James ports beach boat rack, East Creek docking surveillance and capital projects, including resurfacing of the basketball court. And that will be with our Recreation Superintendent, Ray Coyne. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning, Ray. Let's start with the South James port boat rack. I don't know if you guys have the fancy seat. I have the fancy seat. Ray, can I get one of those? Yes. Do you need one? I believe I have mine. Okay. This is part of our initiation to bring in revenue to the town. So this is actually, Ashley had bought this to me. And we've had several requests over the years of people wanting to put their kayaks in a storage place or the small boats and stuff like that. So we decided to take a look at it. B&G can construct it. So generally this is what it looks like. It's a 12, there's 12 boat rack spaces to it. We're going to locate it at South James port beach. The rental agreement, and this is what modeling off South Hampton would start May 25th, October 15th. The rental rate, which is our initial rate would be 150, South Hampton's 200. We wanted to just have like initial rates so we can get people in right away. They have to be town residents or taxpayers. And they have to bring, secure it with a hole or a chain or padlock or similar means. They're responsible for themselves. And they must apply a picture of the vessel with their contract. So Okay. So applications for the town of Riverhead and overall boat rack rental season will be accepted as first come first serve basis. Cause I'm sure we're going to get a waiting list after this. A lottery if necessary will be conducted for the 2025 season. And that's, we say lottery because South Hampton has a lottery. Limit one per person, two entries per household, limit one storage spot per person. Selected applicants will be required to make a non-refundable payment of 150 on or before May 25th to secure their space. All applications must include proof of residence. And then the

proof of residency, taxpayer status, and provide a picture of the vessel. And all of the applications will be found on our website. So this is the first thing. We're hoping to put them everywhere. But this is an experimental shot. Ray, I have a question for you. Is there room, the demand is there to increase it at that particular part more? At South Jamesport? Yeah. Oh yeah. That's one. Second question is, I know, I don't know what it was a couple of months ago. What's the number? What's the name of that park on West Main? Willow something? Weeping Willow Park? Weeping Willow Park. That's a perfect spot for it too. Right. To put some there? Yeah. So they could get on the river. I can tell you, Ray, it's never been a great idea. And for years when we were in the beach club in Wading River, we always, it was like a lottery, first come first serve. You had to get that kayak racked right away. First one to send in the check, you know. And, but I'd love to see it at Wading River Beach as well. I mean, I think it's a great idea. [transcription gap] Sure. To move them around. I think it's going to be an automatic success. So there's certainly a lot of people that it's a lot easier than, than hauling it up to the beach and getting on top of the car and strapping it all down. That's the complaint we always get. I myself have it hanging out the back of the Suburban going down the street. So by all means, it's, it's, it'll be successful right away. So it's a great job, but I encourage you right away to expand it because I think it'll be needed all around. We will. No, no, no. We definitely will. [transcription gap] We just wanted to give it a shot. See what it, what kind of feedback we get. And I have a feeling too, because of all the calls we received over the years with people, Hey, can you do something with a kayak or a canoe rack? Can you do this? And credit to buildings and grounds. They, they built it for us. So, The only thing I encourage is right on the rack to write a call this number to rent a space. Yeah. And then we'll just, as long as you guys, okay with the one 50, like I said, 200 at South Hampton, we thought about it. We said, no, let's start it off at one 50. Then we'll slowly increase it just to get the people in. And one 50 times 12, that's a pretty good amount to start. And then you get four beaches, then maybe we can willow. Then we'll really start to generate revenue from it. Yeah. I'm with Ken. I would like, I think this is going to be like a grand slam, right? So 12, I would like to see at other beaches and get it started. Yeah, no, we definitely will. We definitely will. Like I said, we just really, we couldn't ask BNG to build a whole bunch of them. We said one, one to start. And so we will put in a resolution with the rate as long as the town board's okay with the rate of one 50. Then we'll go ahead and do that. And then we'll go ahead and launch it. The rack is built on intended. No pun intended. I didn't even think about it. The rack is built on intended. I didn't even think about it. The rack is built on intended. I didn't even think about it. The rack is built very simple. I think also where we can reach out to like, you know, like troop 94 and we were, we always have Eagle Scouts looking to do projects and stuff like that too. And it's a simple way to construct it that we may get some Eagle Scouts that want to participate in the program as well to build them. Yeah. I took a picture. I don't know if you guys have that. I think it's in the email. Yeah. We just, that's the one we modeled it after. It looks, just looks like a piece of wood carving, you know, it doesn't, it's not big at all. It's not big at all. [transcription gap] So, so we're going to move forward with that. If you're okay with it, go ahead. I understand the limit per household, but for there only to be two, I mean, what if you have like mom, dad and, and the kids that do this together on the weekends or, you know, after school. Limit what, two, more than more, two vessels? Yeah. That's up to, listen, we're just modeling South Hampton. We had nowhere to go but just to model the, the success that South Hampton has had. Yeah. So if you as a board would like us to, to change that rule, I'm fine with that. I really, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to sell off 12 of them out. Right. I just, I would like to see families be able to do something together and by limiting, limiting it to two, you're kind of cutting the, the kids out. I can move that out and just see what plays out. I don't know. It's up to the rest of the board or it's just something. No, that makes sense. I mean, you know, this seems to be a trial, but I, I see this as being pretty big. I, I would ask you to consider 175. I mean, I, I think that's a pretty big deal. I think that's a pretty big deal. I think that's a pretty big deal. I'll consider $500. Okay. But 175. No. Again, we just want to get, sell it out right away. We, you don't know how. It could be. Southampton, Southampton. They're going to get that money. I just want to make sure we got the money. So we said we would go a little lower. But I'll gladly pump it up to 175. Okay. So. [transcription gap] just to have like on the lower level ones okay fit okay these guys are very narrow and so forth and then you you show up with yours and they never fit okay okay then forget what I said I think it's really it's nice but maybe maybe council muskie has some families that want to donate yeah I see us down the road even with the kayaks we sit with the council McCarran I spoke about coming a lot of policies yeah yeah we can walk park I don't know that's it it's a small little park next to the old we can willow well used to be the old weeping willow motel but there's a we have a little path to the to the water and it's a perfect to launch your boats over there kayaks canoes so maybe you know we down the road we can start renting those thank you we're looking for every way we can get revenue into the system so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so the town boards okay what I was doing research you did a good savings last last was last year when Ken Testa got really involved with the but the tennis courts over at Stotsky Park and so forth like that so you yeah same approach on that as opposed to just calling out no no it's not it doesn't need to be totally redone like the tennis court because they use three different companies to rebuild the tennis court this is just pure resurfacing we did it at Horton last year there's a local company that outbid the larger companies like Land Tech by 15 20 grand it was like 15,000 so we went to them again because they really did a nice job yeah yeah like I said he's local he's from Riverhead yeah it's an independent business so we're assuming he's still gonna be the lowest quote we're gonna get a couple of the quotes Horton sold enough okay yes that's gonna be my next question and when was the last time this was done Horton sold enough okay yes that's gonna be my next question and when was the last time this was done it at Stotsky since before even I got here I was gonna say I don't remember that being done in recent time at all yeah and that's something Larry Williams always was inquiring about right and we just never had the money but they used it could choose the fair amount to every time I ride by it is at least a couple kids up there shooting around or whatever it's very popular basketball is very popular there that's why we're looking to once the I'm gonna come to you guys soon with two bears to read to put in a brand new basketball court at two bears because it's very popular very popular can they just work on a project just to beautify the end of that basketball court pulling out all that overgrown stuff that's coming down like the in Stotsky Park on the one end just so that then once it's resurfaced nobody's driving audit or whatever to cut that stuff in trim it that's asking yeah yeah we can like bollards up or something like that yeah I know you're talking about clean it up before then when you resurface it you got nobody driving on their pickup trucks trying to get it fixed. It needs to be it needs an overhaul up there. Yeah I agree with that. Landscape side of things. Yeah. I would encourage you to do that before you know this is a great project. Well no vehicles can get it anymore unless it's our vehicles we successfully surrounded the entire Stotsky Park with bollards and gates but it used to still some of our vehicles you know our B&G our own just our own department vehicle. We're not driving over the surface. Yeah. So tear everything out. No I agree 100% that's a good point. At least remove everything. Because our basement is right there so many times we bring our own truck over there. So yeah we'll make to eliminate that. Okay so the third thing I wanted to discuss and I don't know if the Chief is here. I have been asking for several years to outfit East Creek Marina with surveillance. I had asked the Chief just recently if he can help out. I don't know the first thing about surveillance. We've been having a lot of around the house. Yeah. There's a lot of robberies there believe it or not. Don't say robbery, larceny. Yeah petty larceny. Petty larceny. No it's little things. Robberies sound like somebody's got guns on people. No no not even close. Not even close. We don't want to portray that. What's happening people? Just little things. Alcohol off the boats. Yeah. Things change. Everything sounds like it's kids running around you know. And then plus we want to keep a better eye on the dock. And this is what everybody's doing. We want to get all the parks outfitted with surveillance. So I'll defer to the Chief here. He got a quote from me from A-plus. So it's basically the same camera systems we have throughout the town. So we'll apply to A-plus. They reviewed the site and they came up with a plan. It'll be the same as we have now with the wireless. They did think about hard wiring it. There's a lot of conduit down there for the slips and stuff like that. And there is Wi-Fi down there already. So B&G looked at it and they thought not using, not to use the conduit wouldn't be a good idea. So they have to do it wirelessly and that's what we'll do. So it'll be the capture of the beach, the parking lot and the slips. And using good cameras and it'll all come back to headquarters. So that's what we have now. Price? $75,000. This is the East Creek Fund. Which is a separate fund. I asked Dona Annette if they can give me a recap of the fund. So I'll let Bill take over from there. So there is money to do this. Right now there's about 51% in fund balance. This will take away about 25%. So we're down to 25%. The only thing in East Creek is we had a discussion about bulk heading a little while ago. Is that project still? Because we were looking to bulk heading. We don't have the funds for it. And then bond it. And we try to put that off for a year or so. So we can pay that once the old bond comes off. So is that still on table? We haven't even, I haven't approached that yet with engineering. The bulk head is on the other side of the creek. But we do make money each year and we're still paying off the bond. I think we have three or four years left of the bond. You've got until 27. Yeah. Yeah. So even though we're paying off the bond, we're still making a decent amount of money per year at East Creek. Yeah. It's only 500 kayak rentals paid for the cameras. So I'm just saying. There you go. So my question would be, not knowing when we have to do that, the timing of it, I know that Ray has a list of projects that needs to be done that we need to have a discussion on. So maybe we throw this into that. I know we talked about grants we may get. And we kind of have to put it together and see where we're getting that from and this from. So we potentially have money to do that bulk heading. That's a good point. Yeah. I think that's a good point. [transcription gap]

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I might get a kayak then she puts the way how long does it take to install that's probably at least eight weeks once they get the green light that would probably be max time they probably say four to six weeks then let's put the surveillance in is that what you're yeah that's great this is long overdue for there we have millions of dollars worth of boats in that marina nice that there's no push back from the users of the marina about it the camera because years back that was a bit of an issue they really didn't want cameras down there so no well it was mainly really one but the I always wondered why but yeah a lot of them do have some cameras on their boat we have the Wi-Fi there we've had that for about three years now so that does help so they can put their little doorbell on their boat we just wanted a you know we hear things and you know you just want to make sure especially at night that they're not going to be in the water so that they can just go up and up and it goes right to the police station we feel very safe then it's always up there so great okay thank you Ray thank you you have some more good news it's gonna be really good a billion yeah right I know you know you're right how the reason you didn't get a report was there was nothing to report on the no oh that's good that's real good okay okay I like that news thank you this is going on the back side on the very bottom of your file of resolutions

okay we're up to resolutions uh Deputy Supervisor Higgins if you would mind reading off the resolutions okay if everybody's ready resolution number one authorizes town clerk to publish a posting post bid for used tow truck this is a tow truck that the municipal garage located I believe online and went up and looked at it and it is in good shape and it's a pretty good price and it's about a third of what a new one would cost and considering the old tow truck that we have is a will be a current museum piece somewhere it's been well needed they've been looking for one for a long time so this was good news yeah thank you thank you thank you thank you yeah so I think pursuing to Teresa's procedures there what we're going to do is go out and publish and post for the bid and then we're transferring the money and we anticipate that that's the direction we're going to go but of course we're open to other bids as well correct right resolution number two budget transfer municipal garage tow truck for said truck number three 2023 budget transfer this is I understand it we're tying up the the last remaining loose ends from the 2023 books right number four refuse in garbage district budget adjustment they apparently want the tipping fees broken out so it's the same amount we're just breaking it out differently number five water district capital project 82408 budget adoption is that water guy needing money again yep number six wrgst project 82301 budget adjustment and award of construction bid for the water guy number seven assesses cost of labor and material for previously authorized remedial actions at premises known as 172 Michaels Lane waiting River New York Suffolk County tax map number 600-114-1-39.4 resolution number eight appoint seasonal staff to the Recreation Department number nine appoints Shannon reitz as a member of the Recreation Advisory Committee number three number 10 appoints a call-in Recreation Aid to the Recreation Department same number 11 appoints a call-in Recreation Aid to the Recreation Department number 12 appoints new seasonal Beach employees to the Recreation Department number 13 appoints a seasonal registered nurse to the Recreation Department this is all uh well the nurses for the um the uh program where the kids go all day long down there so they have to have a nurse on duty the summer uh camp camp camp geez losing my mind up here today yes that's what it's for right number 14 appoints seasonal senior Recreation leaders to the Recreation Department number 15 appoint seasonal Recreation staff to the Recreation Department it's busy season in the rec department yes it is number 16 appoints a call-in chaperone to the Recreation Department number 17 set salaries for 2024 seasonal Recreation staff number 18 ratifies a salary increase for a senior Citizens program supervisor number 19 ratifies the appointment of a temporary office assistant for the tax receiver's office so they can get a little help during their high season number 20 appoints interpreter for the police department and Justice Court number 21 appoints a provisional wastewater treatment operator trainee number 22 provisionally appoints a senior wastewater treatment plant operator 3-a number 23 appoints a part-time court officer to the police department number 24 ratifies the appointment of a custodial worker one number 25 authorizes the supervisor to execute stipulation with csca local 1000 AFS CME AFL CIO River head unit of the Suffolk 852 this has to do with our fire marshals we are as I mentioned in my early days as supervisor we wanted to increase the availability of code enforcement officers through the 4 to 12 shift and also for the overnight shift because a lot of things happen and if the code enforcement officer is available he can go right to the scene as opposed the next day if he goes to the scene they may not let them in so if police are on on the scene with and see violations I'll call code down and that led us to look at also for standby pay and standby pay also for the fire marshal so we had to adjust it both both divisions and make it accordingly so they're fairly compensated for their standby pay right and number 26 appoints Lisa mayor as a member of the senior citizen Advisory Council number 27 appoints Sarah Mayo as a member of the senior citizen Advisory Council number 28 appoints Brian Tully as a member of the senior citizen Advisory Council number 29 appoints new member to veterans Advisory Committee reits number 30 reappoints Judith Barth and Roy Sikulowski as members to the architectural review board number 31 reappoints Sid Bale and Eileen McDuffie as members to the helicopter task force number 32 reappoints John Cullen Ken deland and Connie Carlin as members to the helicopter task force number 33 reappoints Hideki Arizumi to the architectural review board number 34 accepts the retirement of a chief accountant Devin just the last ones that we appointed to the committees and boards they're just their terms are up and they either can reappoint or re-appoint members of the committee to the relieve themselves from that committee or if they wish to stay on, we renew the term. So that's what all of those things. Yeah, all those appointments or reappointments, really all just good cleanup work by the town board coordinator upstairs to kind of clean up some loose ends that she identified lingering out there. We had holdovers, we had certain things. So this kind of just tidies all that up and resets the clock for these folks. Yep. Number 34, accepts the retirement of a chief accountant. Negative. Right. Number 35, accepts the retirement of a police detective. Ed Carey. Congratulations. Wow. Number 36, ratifies the authorization for the recreation superintendent to attend the 2024 NYS RPS conference. Number 37, sets fees for the 2024 South Jamesport boat rack. We just spoke about that. Number 38, authorizes the supervisor to sign a consultant and professional services agreement with William Rothar. This is with Mr. Rothar retiring. It does leave us a bit short-handed and with a young staff. So we're going to be able to reach out to him as a consultant and on an as-needed basis. On as-needed basis, if needed. And similar, we might point out to the arrangement we had with Bob Kazakevich when he retired. We had a similar arrangement with him. It kind of just made it available. We didn't have a full head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head head into an agreement with an employee. Number 40, authorizes the supervisor to execute a license agreement with Paddle Pub, Inc. I'm just going to bring something up that was brought to my attention yesterday on that. They ordered a boat, and the boat's going to be late, so I don't know when that's going to happen. I let Karen know this morning, Eric. Okay, so we may just have to amend some of the verbiage in the agreement. No problem. That would be nice to have downtown. Absolutely. Number 41, authorizes the supervisor to execute an agreement with the County of Suffolk Office for the Aging, AAA Transportation Program 2024. This is a contract we do every year with them. Number 42, designates alcohol services vendor to service alcohol at the Polishtown Street Fair and Festival. Number 43, appoints special event Chapter 255 application for the Sergeant Robert A. Hendricks Memorial Creeper Cemetery. W.O.D. Number 44, approves special event Chapter 255 application for the New York Marine Rescue Center Paddle Battle. Number 45, approves special event Chapter 255 application BIDMA, Alive on 25. Number 46, 255 application BIDMA Cardboard Boat Race. Number 47, 255 application BIDMA Reflections Art in the Park. Number 48, 255 application for BIDMA Octoberfest Reflections. Number 49, 255 application for BIDMA Holiday Parade and Santa House. Number 50, 255 application for BIDMA Halloween Fest. Number 51, 255 application for BIDMA Job Fair. So for those who say there's nothing to do in Riverhead, I beg you to look at all these resolutions. I'm going to go ahead and read them. So number 50, 255 application for BIDMA Shakespeare in the Park. Number 53, 255 application for BIDMA Peconic Riverfront Precinct. Number 50, 255 application for BIDMA !

Number 54, Amends Resolution 367-2024 for Special Event Chapter 255 application for Riverhead Townscape Country Fest. It's just a time change. Number 55, resolution to support the Cherry Blossom Tree Program and establishing provisions and procedure for same. Number 56, ratifies supports endorsed and approved and approved by the City of San Diego. Number 57, resolution to support the Cherry Blossom Tree Program. Number 58, supports, endorses and authorizes pursuit of Suffolk County Downtown Revitalization Round 22 funding for the installation of a new splash pad in the town square. This is sort of a grant on top of a grant. We got the first grant, now we're applying for another grant for the actual splash pad components. Number 57, authorizes the town clerk to publish and post notice to bidders for police uniform items. Number 58, awards bid construction of pre-stressed ground storage tank at East Wind Drive Riverhead Water District. Number 59, authorizes settlement of legal action by Nadia Masarad against the town of Riverhead. Number 60, schedules public hearing for the special permit application of 4592 Middle Country Road to construct a two-family dwelling, 4592 Middle Country Road, Calvington, New York. Suffolk County Tax Map Number 600-97-1-79.1. Resolution 61, authorizes settlement of legal action by Nadia Masarad against the town of Riverhead. Number 60, schedules public hearing for the special permit application of clear head américans. Number 60, head américans. This is head américans. [transcription gap] If you just put Super Bowl in front of it, Tim will know it. It's 50. X is 50 now. 50, 65. 45. All right. For the public, it wasn't a requirement for anybody on this board to know Roman numerals to get elected. Just for the... Someday I'll understand why we still use them. I don't know. I'll take it. That's right. It should be... I think the accountant... 45. Okay. So, Resolution 62 authorizes the acceptance of donation of bleachers from Peconic Bay Medical Center Foundation. We thank them for those bleachers. Yes. Absolutely. And number 63. Budget transfer. Veterans Memorial Park Sanitary System. As I understand it, we're just on the cusp of obtaining the required health department approval to install the system that we'll need to actually allow all the shiny new bathrooms to function over there. And we're anxious to get that going. And get that system... Get that system installed so folks across all of Veterans Park can reap the benefit of having nice new facilities. Just to show you the length of time. This was... We discussed this and approved it back in August. And just the length of time with the county, with the health department to finally get the permits to come. And now we can move forward with this. Yep. It just takes time. It's... Everybody's like, why couldn't you just... You can't. You got to go through the process. And they've been waiting something like... Is it 10 years for bathrooms up there? Yes. So, this is a long time coming. And we're pleased to be at the point in the road here where we can actually... Absolutely. ...get the permits to come. Absolutely. And we're excited to see how that goes. This is a long time coming and we're pleased to be at the point in the road here where we can actually get this just about finished. So, all right. That's it on resolutions. Do you have one more? Oh, wait. You have one more, Devin. Oh, I'm sorry. The one you added. I gave you guys... Oh, I do have it. Yep. I got it. Sorry. We have one additional resolution. Appoints Frank Bayruda as member to the Riverhead Farmland Committee. So, I don't know. Seems very questionable. We probably need to vet the gentleman. Why wouldn't you get somebody with farm units, really? I don't know. Yeah, really. I don't know. It's actually Farmland Preservation Committee. Farmland Preservation Committee. Yeah. We'll just add that. I can't think of a better guy for that position. Absolutely. The committee is so excited to have him. And we miss him around here. So, it'll be nice to see him back in town hall. We miss everybody. Plus, he's on the board with the state ag and markets. Right. So, he's... Now, he was perfect. Nobody better for the post. He's in the loop. Well, thank you, Devin, on resolutions. That concludes our open session. We are now going to... I'll make a motion momentarily. I'll make a motion. [transcription gap] We are now going to... I'll make a motion momentarily to close open session and go into executive session to discuss under contractual matters surrounding a possible license agreement with DMS Apex Holdings. That will be with Kern and Hurley. We have matters surrounding possible contractual agreement with the YMCA with Dawn Thomas. We have matters surrounding possible sale of real property, Prudente, Thomas, Hurley. And then under personnel, we have matters surrounding a possible change in status of an employee with Hubbard and Howard. At this time, I'd like to make a motion to close open session and go into executive session. So moved. Second. All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Okay. We are closed and we will be going into executive session. Everybody have a great week, great weekend. Hope for sunshine.

Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Thank you.